skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does hashing really provide much extra privacy when looking up phone numbers or email addresses. Especially for phone numbers the entropy is tiny, it is trivial to precompute all hashes for all phone numbers in most countries.
In a monolith, you can still separate front from back end. Its just how you setup your architecture.
ultimate worse is better ? always be second
How can I request an invite if I don't want to publicly expose my email address on a website?
Agree.

The posters talking about 500 mile journeys without a single stop strike me as being frankly bonkers.

Yeah, you can do it. Unless your concentration is fundamentally different to most human beings, you shouldn't sit in a car for 8 hours straight without a break.

On the Model S, on an infinite distance journey, supercharging increases journey time by about 20-30% maximum over driving all the way without a break (takes about 20 mins to charge 120 miles or 20-60%).

Spending 12-13 hours to do a 10 hour drive is fairly normal for me even in an ICE car unless you want to like, eat sandwiches at the wheel and piss into a bottle whilst driving.
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It is a good fundamental goal not because it itself is the end but because there is ample evidence that a very large number of quality of life measures have a dependency on sleep.
It looks interesting, but the readme nor the title doesn't make clear what is the project about. Would someone care to explain?
The craziness of developing a WYSIWYG web editor in 2019
He couldn't find a nearest neighbor searcher in Python? There are several in scikit-learn and scipy has cKDTree. Those are really not hard to find.
Use of Bitcoin causes around 22 megatons in CO2 emissions annually
For snap packages, you can use the build servers at https://snapcraft.io/build
Point to your github repository with the snapcraft.yaml file and it will create the snap package for you.
I think the publishing is very straightforward, and you can get a new package published very quickly.

Of course, you need to work a bit in creating the snapcraft.yaml configuration file in the first place.
RUC?

The non-armament of the UK police does make a huge difference though.
This is manifestly untrue in some areas, for example bioinformatics.
We use Sentry for Rails & JavaScript and we are happy with it
Haven't tried with CSP (Content Security Policy) yet but it seems great too (from reading their blog post)
Or cats playing with mice, or ants, crows or vultures eating sick animals alive, or seagulls biting bits off of whales ...

No, animals are not nice themself.

But if we claim, we are higher evolved, we can do different.
> Writing tests after the code they will test

I hate TDD, to be honest. It's not enjoyable and it's not how my mind intuitively works.

I like to quickly prototype first and then mould solutions iteratively towards the final form. Then I cover the really important bits with tests for confidence.
Can you add a brief explainer?
Tabs Outliner seems to match some of these ideas. I've had it installed some years ago, but didn't end up using it that much.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
In the US you may be correct, but there is other places on earth where this sort of corporate behaviour is not okay.
All-in-one API (on-chain, social and development data) for cryptocurrencies
No, that's not the problem. The problem is that driving tractors and producing fertilizer requires a lot of fossil fuels.
Sounds like the lambdaMOO of the present. To drop code objects into a life multiplayer community is an ancient concept.
Fun today as it was back then.
I see your point, but this ignores anxiety, sleep quality and training yourself to answer your body signals.

First, targeting a metric may create a counter productive stress that can make you sleep less.

Second, the device, and the process, may induce a sleep of lesser quality.

Last, always targeting numbers doesn't force you to listen to your body, an ability that our society is losing more and more. You don't need "8h of sleep". You need to sleep at the time and duration that your feelings indicate to you. Failing to do that result in plenty of problems, including oversleeping, sleeping at bad hours, neglecting diet related to sleep, ignoring light, not adapting to punctual overloads, etc.

Now, yes, Goodhart's law is more about cheating a system. But it's kinda what you do: you try to bypass your natural way of calibrating with sleep and only see a metric. We do that for a lot of things: food, sport, work, etc. And because of that, we behave erratically.
Parrots are fucking smart, man. You have to be smart to do weird useless shit to amuse yourself.
> History seems to be recorded as A C E D B

I'd expect it to be recorded as A B C D B - if it's recorded like you wrote, it becomes completely illogical. I think I'd prefer your A B C D E D B.
FYI, this comment would’ve been completely fine without “HTML 101”.
Yes, people who sleep well and feel restful after sleeping have no need for sleep tracking devices.
Well, I'd say you're on a machine learning limb there, and "data science" is - at least IMHO - much more than that. As the article says, statisticians usually much prefer R over Python.
Pretty much.
Maybe OpenAI will try to throw transformers at it.
But that's not the IE6 days. That was when other browsers were already well established and IE6 was that zombie feeding off corporations never upgrading that you just couldn't kill.

But in the early 2000s, you only ever targeted IE6 and maybe 5. Opera was that weird European thing, Netscape disappeared by 2003 and Firefox was that silly open source stuff used by people without friends or any sort of social skills. That was the IE days.
Does that makes C the 1st or the 3rd ?
The "snap for servers" was an issue so long time ago.
I do not think it is worth repeating.

Both snaps and flatpaks require a core image (a rootfs), and each package sits on top of that rootfs.

For snaps, there is the core16 (and core18) images, which have quite a lot of shared libraries. Your snap package simply contains your program and any other extra libraries that are missing from the core image.
Plotly is pretty good in python.

https://plot.ly/python/
There is a VB6-like tool for the web! I know, because I co-founded it: https://anvil.works

I have ranted at length before on the reason that the Web is not amenable to RAD tooling. The short answer is that you have five different programming languages (HTML+JS+CSS+Python+SQL), with each component generating source code in another language, and that's impossible for a single development tool to manage sensibly.

To take one example: One of the best things about VB6 was autocomplete. But there's no sensible way to autocomplete what keys are in a JSON value that's been generated by a REST endpoint written in Python serving data from generated SQL, all with about 4-5 different frameworks in the way.

So for Anvil, we dispensed with that and did everything in one language (Python). Python on the front end, Python on the back-end, a Python-native database, a drag-and-drop designer producing UI components that are Python objects...and all of a sudden, it's all one representation and you can autocomplete it!

(I gave a talk about how the autocompleter works at PyCon UK a couple of years back: https://anvil.works/blog/python-autocompleter-pycon17)
Perhaps keep them clear of the idea. And stick to Windows. Assuming they can do Window management...

I've an 84 year old family member, who still doesn't get tabs. Heck they don't really get the Web. And are kind of stuck in their Web Email client. I got an alarming call one day saying they'd hosed all their emails. But it turned out they'd failed to log into their email account, ended up creating a new one, and then wondered why their inbox was empty.
>women [...] are under-represented in management positions

They are hugely under-represented in blue-collar jobs, as well. And over-represented in the health sciences, many fields of academia, and social work. Would all that be unfair to men?
Arguably there already is a global dollar-denominated credit market, it's just highly intermediated. And the risk history of p2p credit shows why the intermediaries are useful.

> in order to earn a low-risk return on their money

How does the economics of this work - you're claiming lower risk and higher return, but cryptocurrency does nothing to help with default risk?
> UK railways

The keyword being "UK". We can include the US and a bit of Western Europe plus Japan.

For much of the world a train was exotic even far into the 20th century.
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Hmm I got the feeling that in genomics things were moving towards python too e.g https://github.com/hail-is/hail.
Oh I can't wait to try this one out. The trailer makes it look good. Most importantly, it has workshop support! https://steamcommunity.com/app/929860/workshop/
Browsing HN instead of working during work-time.
> Facebook-bucks

Missed opportunity to call them "Marks", although maybe only German speakers will get the joke.
Apple has been trying to pull people away from writing kernel extensions for a while, so I don't see why the introduction of Hypervisor.framework (and with it, another user-space way to do something which previously required working in the kernel) is noteworthy as anything other than this.
People would invent spoon anyway to eat soups.

As for pasta, I never understood the whole spoon & fork thing. I tried it, it's not helpful. I do fine with just a fork, thank you.
> managable package management

Your joking right? Eggs, wheels, virtualenv, venv, pyenv, poetry, conda, python2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 (yes, we have all 4 versions installed in my current company's "production environment", not to mention 3 different versions of python 2.7 but no 3.7)...
Your hobbies are, in the grand scheme of things, unimportant.

Having a next generation growing up well-educated and well-fed is, in the grand scheme of things, important.

Raising children is not a hobby, it's a social necessity.
Who cares? You should. Bitcoin offers a public audit trail less commonly known as triple-entry bookkeeping or momentum accounting. Chase still uses double entry.

What's more Chase charges $25 per month to keep an open checking account, keeps only a small portion of your funds on hand and may both lock you out of your account and freeze your funds on a whim whereas Bitcoin won't.
-- lucid dreaming

I've had over 100 lucid dreams, although none recently. My crowning achievement was summoning Socrates that would teach me things using the socratic method (only asking questions). The thing that blows my mind today is I was able to take away real value from these conversations even though I supplied both the questions and the answers.

Why didn't I use it as a personal holodeck to escape reality? Reality is a bigger, more interesting, and more exciting place than inside my own head.
Can any Facebook employee give me a tour at HQ in Menlo Park
I'm a Grand Prize Winner of Google Code-in 2018-2019 and one of the rewards for GCI GPW is a Trip to San Francisco and Google HQ in Mountain View for 4 Nights. In those days we visit the Google HQ, visit different parts of San Francisco and do other fun activities. I decided to extend those 4 nights and stay actually 3 more days because I really want to visit more on my own(and my dad) different parts of Silicon Valley. It is my biggest dream to go there so now it actually happens. I would really like to visit Facebook HQ in Menlo Park in one of the free days but I don't know who I could contact so there I am writing to you. Do you think is it possible somehow to arrange a visit for me and my dad in any of the days (28 June - 30 June)?

I would really appreciate if you could help me somehow or get me in contact with other people that may be able to help me. :)

Thanks!
One fundamental problem we have with weather forecasts is that our input data for the starting point is fairly sparse. GFS calculates the forecast on a grid with 13 km horizontal resolution and 64 vertical layers. We don't have accurate weather information at that resolution from all over the globe, so the starting point for the forecasts is a combination of previous simulations and interpolated observational data.

So even if we had a forecast engine that would perfectly simulate everything given some start state, we wouldn't have enough input data to have an accurate start state.
Solar Fuel
After reading this paragraph, I started seriously questioning the objectiveness of the comparison.

>By contrast, just now I tried to find nearest-neighbor code for Python and at least with my cursory search, came up empty-handed; there was just one implementation that described itself as simple and straightforward, nothing fast.

> The following searches in PyPI turned up nothing: log-linear model; Poisson regression; instrumental variables; spatial data; familywise error rate; etc.

This is not how you search for things. Usually I search on google for "poisson regression scipy" if I'm looking for poisson regression.
I like the cautious approach to this stuff

> The retiring version of the model will no longer be used in operations but will continue to run in parallel through September 2019 to provide model users with data access and additional time to compare performance.
I was hoping this would happen when tablets were introduced. But apparently, for some reason, the idea of infinite, zoomable canvas for interactive objects and annotable documents is alien to most software developers. All the products I've ever seen either a) allow viewing and/or annotating single documents, and/or b) use a very limited canvas with a zoom limit, and/or c) don't allow to put documents in it in other ways than rendered images.
probably I know I'm the outsider here, but Maven can do everything any other tool can, but then also a ton of stuff more that none other can, Gradle et al. included: Namely, enabling you to do proper dependency & version management with parent projects (POMs). Massively useful if you have gigantic projects with hundreds+ of dependencies.
You should try Spine by Esoteric software.
This smells of identity verification. They offer a payment mechanism which needs to be legally compliant.

Bingo! Social credit system with verified ID.

The crypto part is just to make sound hip.
Thank you for your work! It is definitely personal and as I mentioned, completely subjective. That is a great idea.

Well done for shipping!
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Weight density is better. Nothing else comes really close.
The volumetric missmatch could be right.
> Same deal with blackout blinds unless they're positioned millimetre perfect.

Double layering usually fixes this issue e.g. blackout blinds + blackout curtains, or shutters (non-louvered) + blackout curtains.
>All of that after I explicitly asked for any and all paperwork that would require my signature up front before becoming an employee.

This reminds me of the Feynman story where he agrees to do a talk - but only if he doesn't have to sign his name more than 13 times.

They almost make it.

https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/71262/43/Feynman_-_Su...
Stata and SPSS are so much easier and fast...
RTS games are potentially one of the simplest cases for online multiplayer - a deterministic lockstep approach is possible, and you don’t send state over the network, just actions (e.g. ‘move group 1 to x,y’). And as unit control is indirect, an RTS can tolerate a few tenths of a second of latency much better that many game genres
10 minutes from a hacker news comment to a github commit. Respect
You'd have those QoL measures as fundamental goals then, not sleep.
Haven't tried it yet. I think it will be a great prototyping tool too.
Correction: it seems they simply failed to raise that argument, so the court didn't take sovereign immunity into account.
Major releases are disasters, and should be avoided whenever possible
For AppImage packages, follow AppImageKit instructions.[0]

You can use Travis CI servers (.travis.yml file in your repo on GitHub) with linking linuxdeployqt tool.[1]

For deployment built files back to GitHub as assets also use uploadtool Shell-script.[2]

[0] https://github.com/appimage/AppImageKit

[1] https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt

[2] https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool
The surprising benefits of talking to strangers
> This is missing the most important difference - deployability.

I've deployed both R and Python for completely junior datascientists team, on top of a poorly managed infrastructure. I'd say they both have pros and cons and are actually both pretty bad. But R's packrat makes it slightly better than python. Python is a mess when you want to reproduce a working environment. Conda and pip both have huge issues. R's package management is pretty poor too with completely misleading errors, but at least it's unique and once you know your way around the most common errors you can build and run different projects quite consistently.

I've managed both RStudio+Shiny for R and Jupyter for python and overall my experience is better with the R stuff too. Things look a bit standardized while Jupyter needs tons of dependancies and (I felt) lacks a clear opinionated way of doing things.

I have 0 opinion on the actual languages though, as I'm not a developer.
How about religion? A perfect way to enforce/incentivize non-kin cooperation, instruct and transmit first principles across large groups and inter-generationally, organize and lead to cooperative behavior. Religion is the foundation of human civilization.
Can you not? Like as in you have aphantasia and can't picture things, or you just don't readily imagine stuff? Because if it's the first one I'm sorry for you, but in the second case it is something you can practise.
Is this a joke about fiat currencies and their tendency to suddenly become valueless and cryptocurrencies tendency to suddenly become valueless by making a cross language pun connecting the owner of a new cryptocurrency and the name of a currency most famously known for a hyperinflation.
> The thing that blows my mind today is I was able to take away real value from these conversations even though I supplied both the questions and the answers.

Not surprising - whenever we think, we supply both inputs and outputs ourselves :).

If I had that level of vividness of dreams and I could make them lucid, I'd definitely want to sleep more than I do now, to push experiments such as yours to sleep time. I mean, from what I read about lucid dreams, in best cases you have enough control over it that you could essentially use it as a sandbox prototyping environment!
Thanks; I was led astray by another case (Cambridge University Press v. Patton) in which a State University was found guilty, but it seems they simply failed to raise the immunity argument and therefore the court didn't apply it.
Deployability is more complex with R indeed but at the same time it is far from the pyenv or virtualenv complexity associated with Python. Both have their quirks and I dont think Python has peaked in how it deals with dependencies and reproducible environments.
Will tabs still work the same way in new ChromEdge?
That's subjective. I maintain R where I work and more and more people are coming to me wanting to use it. I also maintain Python and the uptake isn't even 1% of what the want and need for R is. And that's with me not advertising either.
[I'm also Icelandic] when people say they eat "cod heads" they usually don't mean you eat the head whole, although it's also boiled for e.g. broth or stew. They usually mean that they eat the cheeks and tongue of the fish, and sometimes the eyes.

This is a delicacy in Iceland (gellur & kinnar) and I'm surprised you haven't heard of it., you've been missing out. Here's a video of a fishmonger (in Icelandic, but it mostly speaks for itself) extracting the two. Gellur (tounge) at around 1m30s, kinnar (cheeks) at 3m50s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcmHCoMQ01c

The cheek or other head tissue on the fish is usually the most delicious. On cods the cheeks are particularly big, but on most fish there's a small and tender cheek muscle you can easily get to.

Fun story: I was once at a wedding in Singapore where they served fish, and all the ethnic Chinese there were getting the whole fish including the head, but the waiters were serving all the foreigners (mostly Europeans) fillets. The natives were shocked and impressed when I asked for what they were having, and proceeded to eat edible parts of the head, including e.g. the eyes.

I had to explain that Iceland was a bit unusual as European cuisine goes, and much closer to the Chinese tradition of not needlessly throwing away useful food just because it looks odd.
Even better : Develop for Firefox / Gecko in mind, and ignore Chrome / Chromium / Blink / V8 / Node.js
That's good for the other places (and I'm happy to live in one), but here we're talking strictly about the United States, as the article pertains to US federal government matters.
The drying season is the first winter months of the year, e.g. February, March, April. Before the flies are back.
That's cool! I can imagine that could be an excellent secondary data source for rainfall monitoring.
Well it only took 10 years for the others to catch up to that idea so perhaps ‘Turtleneck Steve’ was right all along.
No, that would be AWK.
At least in my experience it has been pretty simple to deploy Python software.
I would say in the academic field it is far from being a clear cut at this stage and the growth of R packages is pretty stunning considering it is a very niche language.
"In 1914: 38% of all the cars on the road were electric; 22% gasoline, 40% steam powered."[0] "by 1917, only 50,000 electrics were registered compared to 3.5 million IC cars. Steamers were all but gone"[1]

Assuming both sets of stats are correct, it sounds like something happened between 1914 and 1917 that led to the switch from electric (or steam) cars to ones powered by internal combustion engines. Perhaps the First World War?

[0] Parent comment reference, i.e. http://www.edisonmuckers.org/edisons-cars/

[1] Main story link, i.e. https://longreads.com/2019/06/13/we-could-have-had-electric-...
I submit that people with a sleep disorder dont have a need for a speep tracker either. Just because there is technology to do something doesn't mean it is the best choice to use it.
They are calling it decentralised but it really isn't. Transactions with physical cash are fully decentralised, anonymous (save for finger prints etc.) and asynchronous. In terms of convenience credit cards, apple pay and PayPal are hard to beat. I do not know of a single use case for consumer facing crypto currencies that is compelling to me.
How the First World War Changed Combat Forever
My feeling is that the statistician's preference of R is an historic artifact from when Python lacked clear ways to do things R documents nicely. And it seems to be changing.
I got put right off python years ago when I ran into egg dependency hell, I'm glad it's not just me.
For what it's worth, I think GNU Octave could put up a good fight here as well.

I'd be interested in seeing it included in the comparison, though (I'm afraid it would lose on multiple points if only due to lack of funding, but it is very usable).

I currently have a fairly big project written in Octave, but will likely rewrite it in python for maintainability (and would rewrite it again in something else if it grew too much for Python).

there's also Sage, which is an interesting contender, but I do not know enough about it to know how it compares.
Arguably, though, Sage and Octave are more geared towards numerical computing than data science, and I think that's where they shine. So, depending on your data and the processing you need, those could be more adequate.