skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, he will stop playing Classic WoW for now, such a huge loss for Blizzard. As an ethnical Chinese he probably should just go to Hong Kong and protest against the Government instead of doing nothing and writing on Twitter about it. People are dying there and he just canceled his Vanilla WoW subscription. How cute :3
This knowledge has already resulted in products like this horse blanket:
https://www.boeren.nu/b_picture/6926/
Also read On Photography, which is one of the seminal works of American art criticism and philosophy.

I, too, before reading her encountered her as a reference more than a primary source and had a vague idea that she was some untouchable academic, but On Photography is one of the great works of art theory in the vein of Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".
>after spending more than two decades writing software I seriously doubt that a side project gets you professional advantages.

>Imho more important are soft skills that are not in the focus of most technically savvy people.

I find that this is mostly true outside of tech hubs, especially in non tech companies, but not necessarily in tech hubs.

Hard technical skills are much more valued relative to soft skills in, say, Facebook than in, say, an insurance company or HMO based in Houston.
Ask HN: What Are You Watching?
What are you watching? (shows/documentaries/talks etc.)
Diesel cars were encouraged by environmentalists as they were less CO emissions and more efficient

Now in Ireland something like 95% of new cars are diesel, diesel is still cheaper than petrol at the pump (keep in mind that due to taxation our prices are 3x the US pump prices)

Oh and theres no free/universal healthcare for everyone.

So i guess what I am trying to say is that blindly enacting "environmental" policies without the science to back things up is short sighted.
Over 90% of Japanese pr0n is about sexually assaulting someone, might have something to do with this.
Do you believe human capacity is infinitely fungible and specialization is a myth?

Because many communist regiemes already found out how they are not with command economic failures. Even if the specialization is misapplied reaiming them takes time - like how you start with training a battlefield useful longbowman's grandfather.
Are you asking why Americans don’t care about what happens to Iran?
Isn't the whole Wikipedia domain already blocked in China? I thought Baidu already had a Wikipedia equivalent.
I was a "dog only" type of person until recently (a year ago) I saw this poor cat being hit by a car and left there to die. I quickly took her to the vet and then home.

Now I own two dogs and the cat. The dogs know when it's the time to go out for a walk so I work on side projects at home (coding) between walks. Now it's over, since the cat would come over the keyboard and push her head on my mouse-hand for petting. I can't say no so it became a much needed stress-relief and natural pause from working. I wonder if that accounts into survival studies.

BTW, give dogs a chance :)
VC is Private Equity. All thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs.
Node.js Debugger in Practice
I feel like it leaked from developer software engineering culture into the mainstream.
Dark mode on text editors has been a thing for a long time,

I’m guessing a few people finally decided to do it in other places.
Okay. Not very effective then.
>Seems like he wants to have his cake and eat it too

Your premise only makes any sense in an utterly black and white world.

There are many different levels of enforcement. Blizzard could’ve sent Blitzchung a note pointing out their significant Chinese audience and asked him to refrain from such comments in the future during Blizzard events.
> images

800x600 16 bit backgrounds and 16x16 16 bit icons...

> sounds

MIDI sounds...

We're not living in 1995, anymore.
> How is it different from Katy Perry or Taylor Swift?

For many teen musicians and actresses, they are generally marketed towards fellow teens. The fact that adults focus on them is incidental (IMHO).

That is not necessarily the same with certain Japanese niches:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_idol
I know of that phenomena! I had a Scout, after 6 days on Isle Royale and we were joking about our mosquito bites and how we looked like we all had rickets, calmly said "Mosquitoes don't bite me."

We all looked at him, and he didn't have a bite/blemish on him. Nothing. Not one.

I told him, you put that in a bottle and you'll be an instant millionaire.
Super short article on how to attach various debuggers to a node process. AFAIK way more straight to the point than more official documents.
I usually try to go through the effort of looking up the citations for particularly controversial statements.

But often that ends up being some book reference I can't find a free online version for.
I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. Thank you.

Seems like my memory was reduced to "have to give you the key". I'll be more precise in the future.

I used to have my drives encrypted back when TrueCrypt was still a thing. From what I understand I'd lose a bunch of features, like de-duplication or the ability to restore individual files without having to download the entire state of the encrypted container. But maybe my knowledge is outdated... I'd love to read how to set up good local encryption that doesn't conflict with the backup.

Only having to trust Backblaze in the moment of restore is better than no encryption. But when that drive died a month ago I certainly wasn't in the state of mind to make optimal decisions. Setting myself up for such a situation doesn't seem that great, though more routine might have helped. Actually, routine would mean sending my key to Backblaze more often as well.

I'd entrust you to pretty much "archive" my entire digital live. Getting jailed now is less of an issue, but I do worry about two or three regime changes down the line. Especially with demagogues and dictators on the rise seemingly everywhere. People with other backgrounds likely worry less about something like that. But here in germany, especially east germany, we kind of have a messy past in that regard. Right now I do not trust US intelligence to ignore an as awesome treasure trove as countless personal backups. I also do not expect individuals at Backblaze to risk their freedom/livelihood by violating NSL's, if received. I certainly would not.

But yes, at the same time I'd highly value a company taking the extra effort to require me to only trust in what is running on my hardware. And thus I could theoretically audit. Bonus points for making an audit as easy as possible, by e.g. choosing open source or an easy to reverse engineer tech without relying on obfuscation. Though I'd understand this not fitting into / being part of Backblaze's businesses plan.

May I ask why Backblaze doesn't offer client-side decryption? Is it just the design you've chosen and a change not worth the effort? Maybe to somehow prevent abuse? Or it saves a bit of traffic, like in case the encrypted blocks contain additional data that don't need to be restored?
I tend to love the plot more than the painted picture. Also, I'm a slow reader, and digging through that kind of prose slows me down a lot, because I keep digging for a point that it's probably trying to get across to me.

This may also be why I prefer writers like Asimov and Clarke: they usually do have an actual idea they're trying to get across, rather than just fill some time with prose.
There more than a little irony about citing great writing and emphasizing the art of good memo writing in a multi-tweet thread. Briana's thread is packed with great info that would make a great blog post.

UPDATE: with a tool like ThreadReader this is easy: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1180171989979258880.html
congrats on the launch.

a small UX suggest, after I register and ready to start a new project, the form is requiring me to enter a Namespace.. but when I click to create one, I get your modal pricing roadblock.

Perhaps it's better to just allow users to go through a frictionless new project flow?
It is an interesting question.

1) I don't think "corporations" are picking and choosing, there is extensive legal history on this point.

2) Re: "kills someone through their negligence". I think you've abstracted too much for there to be a single answer. I gather you are talking about situations where no identifiable person lead to the death and so there is some sort of "collective" or "systemic" failure that "caused" the death. I think the particular facts matter in those cases and the result is a variety of punishments from fines, to external supervision and inspection, and even in some cases action against individuals that were connected to the faulty decision making. One size doesn't fit all in this case.
> Over-fitting data.

Worse: their data doesn't even fit! Just look at that https://mobile.twitter.com/benmarrow/status/1180141555044294...

How can anyone see this kind of plot and be like “Eureka!”…
This is pure comedy. Want to waste a bunch of cloud resources operationalizing a garbage model? Have engineers do it.

The most successful workflow strategy I’ve seen in practice is where the deep learning researcher is also the person operationalizing the model. The same person who is grokking the latest paper in arxiv is also studying correlations in product data to perform feature engineering and also writing Dockerfiles to make the work reproducible and optimizing containers for production deployment, latency, failure tolerance, and evaluating performance in the specific context of the business application and creating well crafted software components with adequate testing along the way.

The commodity part is the cloud engineering, kubernetes pod setup, load testing tools, and general software engineering. Machine learning engineers are typically great at these things and they are easy to learn.

Meanwhile, learning about the nuance of hyperparameter tuning, how to evaluate overfitting, model complexity tradeoffs, when to use which kind of statistical modeling tool, how to improve models based on observing error cases, and a host of other statistical modeling concerns are wildly not commoditizable at this point of history. Knowing how to copy paste some Keras tutorials will not help you.
"To bring Octopus Cloud to market quickly, we did the simplest thing possible; we took our self-hosted Octopus Server product and bundled it into an EC2 instance for each customer that signed up. We had to make changes to the product, but mostly around permissions."

I have used octopus and I could have told them that they can't lift-and-shift. The amount of requests the app makes is ridiculous, the way they wrote their database is appalling (actually crazily dumb https://octopus.com/blog/sql-as-document-store). Everything about it would mean they can't scale in the cloud without wasting a ton of money.

"Cloud stuff can be really expensive" - yes if you write dog shit, putting that in the cloud will be expensive.
Aside from the topic, which is interesting in its own right, I find it neat that the prize went to faculty at lesser known universities. Nobody is surprised to see Harvard or Oxford listed.

SUNY at Binghamton however is an outlier. Congrats to SUNY.
This happens way more often with many other pages as well. It just doesn't get the spotlight of media attention all the time.
No matter how much you diversify your long-only strategies, you will still not even be close to market neutral, which is probably what you really want at that scale.
Digital Transformation Should Start with Customers
that's not nearly fast enough though. go stand outside the Kings Cross taxi rank and you're nearly floored from the fumes.
The impact of the shiny toy syndrome
Perhaps the decision wasn't taken in a meeting, it might have been a single exec high enough in the food chain to apply such a decision, with perhaps either a panicked or knee-jerk action.
It's censorship demanded by the U.S. government though.
It means that is in favor of keeping a game's content apolitical, while he supports free speech and calling out corruption in the gaming scene. The former is a long standing debate point in the gaming community sparked by developers of many high profile games with clear political messages saying that their games are not political. The other is the current situation with Blizzard and NBA.
From the "sql-as-document-store" post, I re-read it every now and then to realise how actually terrible it is:

"For a many-to-many, we do something a bit naughty: we store the values with | characters between each value:"

Not naughty, stupid.
Oh yeah, tell me about it. I used Linux for many years on the desktop, until I changed career into iOS development. I really missed it.

One redeeming grace is that macOS does support virtual desktops quite well. That, combined with a nice 32" monitor, means I no longer need it as often. But it's a miss, to be sure.

Edit: if the "popout video" button isn't there for a video on a website, then it's in the right-click menu. Of course, some (most?) websites including Youtube have a custom right-click menu. To get it back, there is an extension, but boy what a hassle.
Can you elaborate why you believe smartcards are less secure than your mobile phone?
The Healthcare Apps’ Usage Will End in Years, If Not Armed with These 3 Features
Navigating the Contested Rise of Fintech
More, and more interesting air quality data:

http://aqicn.org/city/united-kingdom/city-of-london-sir-john...
Seems like a large number of flaws in this post. Usually it's helpful to read a study before pointing out flaws in it.
I don't mean that the code is merely published.

Full access to the device you own, signing keys and all.
This just shows how poorly software that captures the images and adds geolocation without user knowing is made.
Sounds good on paper. Reality is GDPR isn't going to stop an "error" from happening.
Apple bows to China by censoring Taiwan flag emoji
A friend of mine build a solution like this:

https://laraform.io/

If I have a form anything more complex than a login page, then I usually use some kind of generator based on a schema.
The problem is that the escrowed key (when it is inevitably leaked) can be used just as easily by people who aren't the government. So even if you trust your government (which, by the way, changes hands every couple of years) the mere existence of an escrow key means that by definition your cryptosystem is not secure against attackers. Personally, if I were an attacker, the first thing I would target is the government's key escrow -- because you can bet your life that will be the weakest point of any cryptosystem with key escrow.
Photoshop and Lightroom users should wait before updating to macOS Catalina
A study of genetic contributions to changes in prehistoric human stature
And lots of hardware drivers, for lots of potential hardware I assume as well. I bet Gentoo could be setup to be entirely minimal by removing uneeded things from the distro, not sure if it's known for that.
Pollen could definitely be a key part of it, but I doubt it's the whole story. Checking the PM 2.5 count for yesterday for the Bloomsbury sensor in central London, it's actually about 70% of that at any of the sensors in the East Bay (Berkeley, Oakland, etc) or San Francisco.

http://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/...

You need to convert units, because the US readings are given on the AQI scale, whereas the London ones are raw measurements:

https://aqicn.org/calculator/
Political activity isn't protected against workplace discrimination federally, and I would think that, were one an absolutist about freedom of politics speech, one would have to view state establishment of political activity as protected against private discrimination (in employment and in public accommodations) as California has established to be a violation of the absolute freedom of political expression otherwise enjoyed by employers and operators of privately-provided public accommodations.
Or (remembering older tweets from him), keeping out political content/messages that might appear too blatant, preachy or out-of-place in the context of the game.
Does Medium not have a code block formatting feature? The code in this article is made difficult to read due to the lack of indentation.
well , they still could use vpn or access it from overseas
Why would you bother with a relational database at that point? That sounds like it’s not normalized.

I haven’t read the post... maybe I’m missing something.
"Saitama Man", not "Florida Man".

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/saitama-man-used-eye-ref...
This is about LBO, not VC. It’s mentioned in the subtitle of the article and in the first paragraph.
No, this is actually a real thing that happens when the news covers driver pedestrian interactions.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/03/28/how-coverage-of-pedes...
Addressing the value (and limits) of sampling:

Yes, statistical sampling is a hugely useful practice, and is frequently used, at least by those who are familiar with its power and capabilities.

Depending on what you can see, it may or may not be particularly useful. For activity logs, you are getting a bunch of relevant information, though if you stick to just sampling log records, you may miss useful information, such as paths through a site, session data, and the like.

In doing analysis of the scale and scope of usage and activity of the late and unlamented Google+, I had the opportunity to sample based on profile IDs, which Google had helpfully stashed in a set of robots.txt sitemap files, back in 2015. More recently, when seeking information on the number, size, and activity of G+ Communities (effectively: groups), I could perform a similar sampling based on the group IDs, also provided via sitemaps.

For a basic assessment of how many active users and groups there were, a small sample, as few as 100 or so IDs, selected at random, were sufficient to give a general feel. But there's a lot of variance hidden in 2 billion registered users (as of 2015), or the 8 million Communities existing as of January 2019. And for detailed measurement of the most active users and groups, a very small fraction of the total (0.1% of users, and the top 50 or so of 8 million communities, or 0.000625%), the releative sampling population wasn't the total user or group count, but that small subset, randomly distributed throughout the whole, comprising that sample of interest.

To find the very most active users and groups, in other words, you have to sample a lot of datapoints.

(Mind: if I'd had log data, they'd have fallen straight out of that. I didn't. Which is itself another lesson: in most cases you're interested in activity and not population as a primary analysis variable.)

Given my tools and methods -- requesting URLs and scraping, from a desktop system over residential broadband -- there were limits to the amount of sampling I could do. 50,000 profiles were doable in a couple of days, but a larger pull would have scaled linearlly in time. For Communities, I did a largish pull based on a minimum level of resolution I thought would be useful, based on 12,000 (again, randomly selected) Communities.

In the end I lucked out as a third party was able to provide a comprehensive dataset of all 8 million communities and summary metadata, from which I could validate my earlier sample-based methods.

But yes, working with hundreds or thousands of records, rather than millions or billions, often makes sense, is useful, and requires vastly fewer resources (compute, time, bandwidth).

For getting a rough idea of just
It is a very long, tedious, and expensive process to get licensed as a commercial pilot to carry passengers. I don't have pay numbers on hand, but it would have to be very high to make all that worthwhile. And, when those pilots' employment options are between an airplane with just a few people or a jumbo-jet full of paying customers, it's no wonder these private jet owners are being priced out of the pilot market.
Legal Analyst sexually harassed via on-board Virgin Atlantic chat system
Anyone using Guix in production? (Anyone using Guix?)
Why do the lenders that lend $1B to a pizza company deserve their money back? Didn't they see the scammy nature of the operation?
Always happy to find out new understandings of physiology and biochemistry so I dove back into some research this morning after seeing your comment.

The brain does use ketones in starvation sitautions, but it always needs to use some glucose, so over time the available glucose ends up redirected there.

From what I can find it appears that the heart does utilize ketone bodies for fuel, contrary to what you are asserting. There is correlation to heart failure, possibly from stress in utilizing an energy source with less efficient bioavailability.

For simplicity here's the wiki link as a summary
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies

I'd love to see the research that shows your point in more detail.
That's terrible. Good luck to you, hope you get your money back.
I work in the industry and whilst the article does make some good points, it largely feels like a hit piece focused predominately on the negatives. In a way there is a clear lack of nuance....for instance: "the PE firm and its investors can put in a comparatively small amount of cash". PE deals are typically funded with ~40% to 50% equity with the rest in debt. They are putting substaintial equity into these companies. Secondly, the PE ecosystem is large with a significant number of places with a range of different investment strategies. I don't have the time to make all my points...PE is a lot more gray than the article paints and it's easy to point to the big, evil capitalist who make money and say they are ruining the world...

As an example, I've seen private equity save companies. One group acquired a company that was losing millions with a plan to return it to profitability and keep jobs....these kind of deals are never discussed in articles like this because all we hear about are the bankrupticies because they go through court...
In 2014, in Chegdu, China, there were converted electrical scooters (the bike scooter, not the standing roller) everywhere. Quiet, efficient, no smell. It was miraculous.

I'd really like to see that happen in the West, but there are some rather idiotic people around who thinks the sound - like grinding metal with a chainsaw - is part of the fun.
Just threw it up here if you want to poke around https://github.com/michaelforrest/live-visuals-explainer
No, it was an unemotional reply.
Build robust AutoML pipelines with the MLBox Python package
I've been working remotely for 10 years. 10 years ago, it was very difficult to find remote work. Now, it's much easier.

For anyone that wants to start a business while working, it's great.
I applaud Harvard's decision. However, I think HN might add (April 2019) to the title here.
I don’t know; I think it is a small business. Ask @jumpingmice.
I wonder if you could then remove the stripes and start the confused fly cycle over again?
yes however it goes without saying taking a stand to not believe is also a belief position
Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
He is even still supervising a PhD student! [1]

I have enormous admiration for those who know they have more to contribute and just keep pushing, rather than retiring.

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-john-goodenough...
Had the same experience. On the flip side we learned a lot from our mistakes and the dev team cohesion is stronger than ever.