skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for why, 0 is false, nonzero is true

It’s not that clear cut. If you assign d[True] and then d[1] you overwrite because True hashes to 1, not because 1 is a truthy value. If you try writing to d[2] you don’t overwrite d[True].

In any case this Feels like an odd case where python is sort of doing something similar to implicit type conversion which goes against the zen of python.
I don't think irccloud does either?
Seems like every sufficiently advanced language at one time or another turns into LISP.
By the authorities, for the reason of your own physical well-being. In some places, it's even illegal: https://www.quora.com/In-California-is-it-illegal-to-ride-a-...
Any preview?
Everything they have published shows that you can delete search history, among other things. They recently released a feature which is effectively a TTL on searches, for retention purposes.
I've posted in the May 2019 thread and I've been contacted by 2 companies, no recruiter-spam; I didn't get hired, but I've slightly adjusted my search parameters since then.
It is indeed Loom, you know, because a loom is used to weave threads into cloth. It's possibly also a loony project, but who am I to judge.
Location: UK

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: (solid knowledge of) Python, R, (stronger knowledge of) SPSS, SQL, PhP, HTML, CSS. Excellent Bash/Unix skills.

Résumé: Psycholinguistics PhD graduate (computational modelling of parsing; embodied cognition; creativity) from Russell Group UK Uni; strong investigative scientist/researcher in quant and qual; excellent communicator (particularly writing; am award-winning SF novelist); experience of building full-stack solutions, and
of successively leading a 20-strong academic psychology team. Looking to develop my tech experience with interesting projects, particularly involving ML/data science.

Email: ihocking AT gmail.com
Windows 10 runs very nicely... If you only want to use the machine as an external monitor? Respectfully, this doesn't seem like a very realistic use case for most people.
>Now with iMessage in iCloud, I do not know how the E2E encryption is done

It isn't done. Apple holds the master keys. The trust is that the iCloud server is not compromised.
Software Engineer | Madrid, Spain | Fulltime, ONSITE

You would lead the POI-Acquisition team (1 Software Engineer and 2 Data Analysts), as the person to drive the strategy for how we find, obtain and maintain POIs and add them to our production database with the best possible accuracy.

Data is at the heart of all the technical challenges at Geoblink. The POI-Acquisition team is part of our Data department and is dedicated to mining, normalizing and processing Points of Interest, one of the building blocks of the Geoblink solution. This includes a set of very interesting tasks like geocoding, string normalization through machine learning, deduplicating and building data pipelines.

You can find out more about the job here: https://geoblink.workable.com/jobs/1048140

Salary is DOE, ranging from 35,000 to 50,000€

Our interview process is simple:
1 Phone interview (45mins) with HR
1 Hangouts video call (45mins) with our VP of Tech
1 Onsite interview (90 mins) with the Tech team
Offer or Rejection with a reason!

Any questions please email mrodrigues@geoblink.com
The “smart grid” we are working towards does things like scheduling your AC and dishwasher to turn on/off depending on supply and demand fluctuations. To that end, every node, both consumers and energy producers, needs to be connected. To do this completely independent from the existing internet would amount to doubling the cost of our communication infrastructure. It would also defeat your purpose, because suddenly everyone on the grid has access to the network again, and could try to attack it.

You also need some connection, somewhere, to the “regular” internet. As just one example, consumption data is the basis for billing, which needs to connect to financial infrastructure.

And, finally, even air-gapped systems are vulnerable. See Stuxnet.
Didn't realise it was a novel, but I second not watching the movie.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the UX of cassettes and vinyl encouraged an immeasurably deeper immersion and exploration of music. My walkman would keep playing as the battery died, playing the music slower and slower still for about 20-25 minutes. This was fun and made it easier to figure out how electronic drum patterns and sounds were put together. To say that had an impact on my own productions later would be an understatement. Also it didn’t matter that I had one album or mix on the tape, I would happily listen to it hundreds of times. Didn’t need infinite scrolling libraries of compositions...
Is this really true? Transportation is the top producer of GHGs according to the EPA.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
>but for an actual language comparison, you should be comparing things 1 to 1.

Not really, you should be comparing the idiomatic ways in each language.

And if Python is more of a "batteries included / easily installable" language, then that's how you should use it.

>EDIT: For example, implementing a merge sort (without using any .sort() functions) would be interesting to compare between the three languages.

Only if you want to see how each language feels in terms of primitives and syntax and so on. Not if you want to see how you'd actually use the language, and what facilities and ecosystem you can leverage, which is more important.

If I'm going to compare Python for scientific computing to Java, for example, of course I'll consider that Python has Nympy, Pandas, Anaconda, and so on, and similar for what Java offers, not just try to e.g. write my own math code in pure Python and Java. Same for most domains...
I know this is quite selfish but the more accessible youtube-dl is, the more likely Google is to see it as a business threat, and the more likely they are to add some sort of content DRM. Just something to think about
Unit Testing in PowerShell, Introduction to Pester
> Digital ads with analytics work 1000 times better.

Have you compared the ROI between the two? Why would anyone bother with print ads at all if this was the case?
It's like recommending a book you haven't read, and newspapers do that every day.

Basically Google finds the link in other places -> oh that must be interesting, I'm indexing it, without even reading it. So they don't have the actual content, and just use the texts from the sites that link to it.
There's an error in the presentation's slides: The type of returnIO is "a → IO a" and not "IO a → IO a".
One of the characters is actually an immortal alchemist - though that might not be obvious just from Cryptonomicon.
Literally, if someone is hurt, the city has the sovereign immunity. You cannot even start a tort here. The only option, besides voting, is to protest or ultimately remove such officials by force.

So, where does the repair budget go? Excuses that it's too low are just that, excuses, since people apparently would do it for free.
Most solutions I've seen to this require some kind of external daemon to be running that takes care of launching ytdl for you (since most web browsers don't allow extensions to run arbitrary commands.)

Firefox _does_ have support for running this daemon-like-thing for you using Native messaging[0] though.

youtube-dl-firefox-addon[1] seems to employ this, so perhaps give that one a try?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

[1] https://github.com/akhilkedia/youtube-dl-firefox-addon
What Just Happened Also Occurred Before the Last 7 U.S. Recessions
I've read some discussions and key base articles and it seems that at least the master key is encrypted using your pin code. Not much, but I guess one could use a complex password.
I am not blaming anyone, I don’t care whose fault it is. I am focusing on what an individual can do because focusing on anything else is a waste of time.
Right, thanks for correcting. That doesn’t change my point though.
While the portable CD players from Sony were branded "Discman", they later used the "Walkman" brand for a range of featurephones (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_W580i) explicitly designed as music players. So you could actually say that the _iPhone_ ultimately beat the Walkman...
I saw one in a parade. It left tread prints, but the road still worked.

Even if the road didn't work, repaving isn't that big of a deal. It's a small price to pay for seeing a massive tank roll down the street.
It’s really interesting how the lines between imperative and functional languages are becoming more and more blurred overtime as they’re borrowing features from one another.
> Whether you have any business in the Apple ecosystem or not, I think you'll agree they made some good moves on several fronts this year.

I am extremely curious whether Combine will turn out to be a good move for the ecosystem. It's not like competent Swift developers grow on trees right now, and having to grok reactive programming seems like yet another barrier to entry.

Due to all the overlapping transitions, iOS developers soon need to know some Objective-C (and by extension C), Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, XIBs/storyboards/classic MVC, Combine, the pointless code signing mess, and some web technologies for hybrid screens. I wouldn't be surprised if that's when Apple loses the mobile toolkit wars just like they've already lost on the desktop.
I'm on Github and I'm also on Facebook, but I don't work for either of them, and I don't think either of those statements is in any way confusing. I think the confusion is due to the use of the term scaling. Github has 37 million users, so 'scaling' it by another 25k is kind of meaningless.

Having said that we know Microsoft owns Github. If the same article had come out in relation to Apple we'd immediately know what it was talking about without any confusion.
Windows had something similar: WinChat. I believe it debuted in Windows 98 / Windows NT.
No. Well, sort of. The time difference has to do with how you store free neutrons. Different conditions suppress, to varying extents, the possible energy states of the vacuum field.

Just as in the Casimir experiment it was demonstrated that opposed conductive plates are attracted with a force that results from the suppression of vacuum energy states between them, so must the decay of the neutron be modulated by the vacuum field.

If you contrive the storage system to suppress the vacuum energy to a greater extent, the field will interact less with free neutrons and they will live a little longer. Likewise, the more possible energy states, the shorter they live.

This effect is apparent because the free neutron is quite unstable and short-lived. It is readily affected by the particle-antiparticle pairs that are always popping into and out of existence in the vacuum.

Protons, which are very stable and last a long time, show the same effect, but you would be long dead by the time you observed it. So not a practical experiment.

Why does a radioactive element decay at a particular time? Why is it random? Why is Schroedinger's cat a superposition of alive/dead with no way of predicting which one until you observe it and collapse the wave equation?

The answer to all of these is the same. The background state of the universe is chaotic. It visibly affects things that are unstable, while not having much effect on things that are stable.

The faster something is moving, the more mass it has. The more mass, the less it is affected by the vacuum field. This is the mechanism of time dilation. Increased mass, decreased size, increased density, surrounded by mass, all of these contrive to suppress the interaction of the vacuum field with an object by limiting the possible states it can occupy.

The outcome looks to us like order, but it's not. Everything is randomness and chaos.

Newton's laws are approximations because they apply simple math to chaos. Likewise, general relativity is a geometric theory applied to a chaotic universe. It's a good approximation of what we see, but it's only an approximation. No geometric theory can explain something that is fundamentally chaotic.

There. Is. No. Meaning.

Sleep well!
I often had to update YouTube dl in the last months.

I hope YouTube is not coming up with a solution.
At a point, the whole road will sink and break should the bottom layer give. Give it a few winters and it will be a unpassable big crack.
Sorry, but following a standard for federation is not a substitute for building a log in system, which is what most people want when building "a web app".
> Print ads are not targeted--they can only be targeted to the text they accompany. This means that the vast majority of their viewers are completely uninterested in the ad

So if I'm reading a review of a new car for example, and there's a full page ad for the new Ford Focus alongside it, I'm not going to be interested? Seems more relevant than constantly being bombarded with ads for mattresses after buying one 6 months ago.
I agree that there was a lot that was lacking about Confluence Questions; my main point was that a StackOverflow-like product is incredibly useful. SO itself would probably do a better job at fulfilling that role than Confluence Questions.
Location: Germany (NRW)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Embedded, C++ 11/14/17, QT, Yocto, Linux, Python, Networks, IPv6, willing to learn new stuff

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/syedamergilani

Email: syed.amer at gilani.eu
The TPM menu - if the legacy UX is still around, I can't find it on the latest Win10.

Looking through the deprecation notes, it looks like some language settings were de-duped in a 10 update https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning....

It's slow work. Microsoft has gotten more aggressive about change compared to ten years ago, but they are still very conservative. Users don't like it when the UX changes.
Username + Password with a cookie store is much better understood and harder to get wrong than implementing a full OIDC suite (server + client). If you're talking federated login, that's what OIDC is for. If you're talking "login", your opinion is misguided.
tasker would be the biggest thing for me (along with plugins like autoinput and autotools) but that had been mentioned a few times so ill go with some less obvious things.

syncthing (or resilio sync either) let's you sync any folder on your phone to other computers. either a two way sync or as a backup with things like photos going from your phone to your computer only. when I come home from talking photos for mapillary/openstreetmap the photos start syncing straight away and it's really fast since it's only syncing over the network and not going to the cloud.

I have another folder that syncs across osmAnd's app folder so all my gps traces are accessible from my laptop

I had an iphone for a few months but sold it because I found it to be too restrictive and wouldnt let you have this kind of a setup

swipepad. let's you swipe in from the side of the screen to launch apps. this means you don't have to go back the the home screen every time you want to open something which is really inefficient way of doing things. you can also launch shortcuts (another android only thing as far as I know) that go straight to a certain part if an app instead of the main screen. like going straight to writing an email or sms, or start sound hound listen straight away. start an audio recording without opening the app. call a certain contact. run a tasker task.
there lots of other similar launchers like swiftly switch that can be used at the same time.

I also didn't see nfc being mentioned anywhere. has iPhone added nfc yet? i have lots of them all over the house that I use to toggle lights, start timers or add things to my shopping list or start music playing. (most of these are programed with tasker as well so they can do a few things at a time instead of just one action)

you also don't need to install itunes just to do some basic things. huge plus :)
Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett.

It's actually a triology (Xenos, Malleus, Hereticus). It comes in omnibus format now but will not take a long time to get through.

Not a difficut or life changing read - just a good time, with good characters, doing things you haven't read about before.
I'm an iOS developer with close to ten years experience building apps, some of which have multiple million downloads and are used daily by hundreds of thousands of people. I've worked for large corporations such as BMW and Daimler (Mercedes Benz) as well as digital agencies and early startups. Recently, I was head of product for a sales enablement startup and worked on user interface, architecture and mobile strategy.

I also love designing things and spend a lot of time thinking about UX. Some ideas I posted up:

App Switcher for iOS: https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/422287961778970624

Convert a screenshot to a PSD: https://github.com/vpdn/MMLayershots

Clickwheel for iOS: https://dribbble.com/shots/1814927-Click-Wheel-iOS

I’ve been working on mobile apps since the dark days of j2me: When SMS were still expensive, a friend and myself developed and sold a mobile app, that would allow people to squash up to 400 characters into a single SMS, instead of the usual 160 characters.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

I'm looking for a company that welcomes remote work and has a mission I can relate to (latter is really important to me, the best ideas come in the shower). Companies that I admire from the outside include Stripe, Plangrid and YNAB. If you're also a fan, I think I'd fit right in.

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Location: 🇩🇪Offenburg, Germany

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Unlikely (my wife also has a career and we both love the Black Forrest )

Technologies: iOS

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d5znls0jq71rdl/resume.pdf?dl=1
Email: vp at dinhmail·de

Tags for the CMD+F folks: [iOS, Swift, Objective-C, mobile, product, designer, UI, UX]
If I remember correctly the process is described in the README of the DeDRM plugin that can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/... (and I am talking about the README file inside the zip you download there).
When I see people reply-all to someone who mistakenly sent to something like dl-employs-all get “Remove me from this!”, as a BOFH I’d like to have HR consider it an official letter of resignation. Sadly they don’t.
Here's your receipt, and my receipt for your receipt.
>We’re not fucked. It’s just easier to believe that we are. The fact is... we don’t really know what will happen.

Yeah, let's just wait and see what happens...

>Our world will be different, some animals may be gone, some will be better off than ever, but humans will still be here.

Yeah, just a couple billions or so less, and dying / living horribly... But who cares, you give some, you get some, right?
Yes on Whiteboards, I usually carry a bunch of whiteboard markers (many colors). In special cases, I include post-it notes.

I also tend to sketch/scribble a lot during meetings. They usually end up being the meeting notes. People take pictures of them to relate back later.
Yes, companies large enough where you might not know who you'd need for help with a problem within your first week is exactly the use where SO shines, in my opinion.
The Code Book [0] by Simon Singh (1999) is another famed popular science book that offers a non-technical introduction to cryptography and its history, there's also an indie game [1] Cypher by Matthew Brown (2018) inspirited by the book.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Book

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/746710/Cypher/
Care to cite? I'm curious
Since 1970, air travel has increased by a factor of 7, while fatalities have decreased by >80%. Combine these figures and you get a safety improvement by a factor of about 70.

We are clearly doing something right, and automated systems replacing error-prone humans may well be a part of it. I don’t quite get HN’s infatuation with the mythical perfect pilot.
Or just stick them all in a global store specifically for config files, say somewhere like /etc?

This problem has been solved since the 1960s.
What's the browser extension?
Divides a big number by a huge number and now it doesn't seem so bad
"The Rediscovery of Man" by Cordwainer Smith

There's no other science fiction like this, he had a unique style. It's a collection with most of the SF he wrote, excepting the novel "Norstrilia".
Can't someone just launch A cube sat with an incendiary attached? Don't know how they would hit it, but theoretically wouldn't that get you within reach with a weapon that mortals can afford?
It's more general than generators. You can create generators using it, and also other control flow constructs.
I see that your team is also in SF, are you hiring there too?

The product looks extremely interesting!
> assuming zero regrowth.

"Regrowth" does not imply a restoration of the pristine ecosystem. Loss of biodiversity is irreversible. It might look "fine" to you to see leaves everywhere, but the thousands upon thousands of complex and intricate food webs don't just spring back overnight, or even over a century. When things go extinct, they just don't come back, ever. (reforestation always brings this image to mind: https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-08-25/amateur-restoration-b...)
People have all sorts of delusions. Cheaper housing, by and large, makes it easier for new entrants to build wealth, whilst having a place that they can call their own.
Why would anyone think the infrastructure business with extremely high marginal costs, low reproducibility (each situation is different), high labor costs, high legal costs is comparable to technology (presumably electronics), which have low marginal costs, and more one size fits all solutions.
the denial is strong today
Passage by Connie Willis

Passage follows the efforts of Joanna Lander, a research psychologist, to understand the phenomenon of near-death experiences by interviewing hospital patients after they are revived following clinical death.
Skimming the code I see main.js hasn’t got a single semicolon.

If you want to invite others to contribute, you may consider adopting a more widely employed js code-style.

This seems to be written in a very personal, opinionated and unconventional way.
Show HN: Afroic – Reddit for Africa
I think that it's important for free market advocates, myself included, to understand something. Negative third party externalities, having direct impacts on individuals that did not consent to the responsible transaction(s), are fully within the responsibility of the government to regulate and/or tax. You are not violating your principles by backing state intervention for environmental issues.
More Than Law: Is the Traditional Big Law Model Over?
Having a similar profile, I can tell there are such jobs but they are fairly rare. Most of such work is done these days via outsourcing companies, believe it or not :(
Ola Electric becomes India’s newest unicorn with $250m investment from SoftBank
Yeah. But, in OP’s defense, Brexiteers have already gone nuts as well.
Off topic but news articles that don't show dates or make it difficult to find, are really starting to get on my nerves.
Not sure of the US branch. But working in this company is shit in many ways unimaginable.
> Yes there are security concerns but I'm pretty vigilant. I haven't run a virus scanner in 15 years, I'm just extremely paranoid over what I click on and which sites I visit.

Why not simply switch to Linux? That's what I did, that way you don't have to install Windows 10 and don't have to worry about visiting web pages.
There's acres and acres of completely undeveloped land in Stanford. Why do they get a pass?

And they continue to build a disproportionate amount of square footage that is not housing, worsening the housing shortage in the area.
Horrible, just horrible ending...
Lost Connections by Johann Hari

About the sources of depression and anxiety of the current society. Interesting book backed with a lot of studies.