skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great explanation, thanks! I would be pretty sad if the catalan language disappeared, because I've always liked its sound (my grandfather was from Mahon, so he'd speak it every now and then).
That's the case of premature optimization.

You are not going to get even one video watched 10k times, not to mention all of those videos. 10K video views is pretty darn close to head rather than the tail.

If you did, you would be making a million a year like @BrunchBoys on IG and hiring people to build an independent platform so when Youtube/Google/FB shut you down you would still have a way to deliver your awesome videos and make money.

P.S. You can always proxy EC2 traffic through the Lightsail to have a cheap delivery.
What stage of projects are allowed/encouraged to attend? If I already have a start should I not apply?
As a positive aside from the short lunch breaks is that you get home earlier. I'd hate having an hour+ lunch break.
But if you are using someone else’s phone number then maybe, especially if it’s a widely used generic number like in the grandparent comment.
Was hoping for 0K myself.
Time to mirror and self host your channel. Check out my open source package iSpooge Live on GitHub... it’s git a script to download, HLS encode for 3 playback rates, and generate a static site that’s all tuned for a CDN. Been using it for over a year myself.
They are the same multinational firms operating in other countries and selling the same drugs.
I don't know much (no longer employed in software development) about the use cases.

But I just skimmed some of these HN comments and I'm impressed by @kdunglas engaging in conversations here.

Thanks.
It's also going to make it more likely companies that want to market to developers will pay to have a lot of 'meetups' that are really mini conferences for that company w/ lots of sales and marketing pitching the attendees
Gettogether – open-source alternative to Meetup
Thanks for clarifying, it sounds more like you're talking about Voluntaryism and Libertarian ideas.

People paying an amount that they feel is fair vs prescribed is very forward thinking and I wish you luck!

PS: I'd avoid anything that actually returns funds since its likely to end up being called a Ponzi scheme...
Hey I use your product! Thank you for making it.
What couldn't you understand? Relatively affordable, and lots of variety (that's why there are "aisle after aisle" of them). And the same places sell salads, noodles and much other stuff.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191011183634/https://www.bloom...
Not only that, you definitely guessed wrong about what the market wanted and now all your effort meticulously reviewing every line of code is voided. Not to mention the over engineering which has become an actual liability.
Just to add to the other comments to your reply.

Dealing with a nation's major provider is very different to insurance companies. As I said, if you try to price gouge then they governing body will take what they need as a matter of national security/public health safety.
So you're suggesting that 'realistic PvP violence' in video games is specific to the West? You know this is an incredibly easy claim to disprove, right?

Also, is that PvP in the conventional gaming sense, or in the sense of attacking human characters in games in general (i.e. including single-player games with human on human violence)?
Also experiencing this on Firefox 69 on Mac 10.12. Pressing back just reloads the page, with a # at the end of the URL.
The rationale for regulating ICOs has nothing to do with capping profits or maximizing distribution of benefits from lawful enterprise; it's to stop bogus pump-and-dump investment scams. And pharma is intensively regulated, far more so than the finance industry is.
From the article:
"The median price increase overall was 25.8%. Generic drugs, specifically, had higher increases, with a median rise of 37.6%"

Given that the US inflation levels are single digits, this obviously looks egregious but I'd be a lot more satisfied with the article if it gave data on/considered the following:

- Typically inflation takes into account goods. What about the R&D costs which are driven by both goods, people's salaries and other factors? Were they well above inflation?

- It might be that conditions were favourable for a big increase and the costs will stay flat for a few more years (I won't bet on this!)

- Finally, any company which prices its goods and services just above inflation is bound to be held in low esteem by its shareholders. After all, if investors wanted returns just above inflation, they'd be buying bonds! The risks associated with equity should be well compensated by the company and this might have prompted the companies to take this course of action.
Hmm... I have read 9 on the "never read" list and 4 on the "never finished" list. And never heard of most of the rest :)
Is it okay to ask for feedback about my business here?
Hi!

I've created a free platform for e-commerce, something like Facebook meets Amazon, except users pay no commissions or anything at all (it's 100% free). Is it okay to ask for feedback here?

Thanks! :)
hahahahaha stop distracting me with your wit
The expansion of f-strings is a welcome addition. The more I use them, the happier I am that they exist

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#f-strings-suppor...
Is this actually happening? Because it makes little sense when you consider that YouTube-parent Google is sponsoring security education videos. See this GCP-sponsored LiveOverflow video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P9USG6kLs

Maybe Google's killing off dodgy script kiddie vids, and leaving quality content up (and I mean the rest of LiverOverflow's videos et al, not just the paid-for stuff.)
I'm stoked about the walrus operator. Ever since I heard it was being added I've grumbled when writing code that would have been clearer with it.

Of course I have to ask, what was your preferred syntax?
> I didn't get the sense that it is illegal from the book. Could you please elaborate what you understand by front running and why/how is it illegal.

Front running involves placing a trade based on nonpublic information. It's a type of insider trading that has been going on for at least hundreds of years and it has nothing to do with HFT. The classic example is a broker placing orders ahead of their own clients in order to profit off the market's reaction to the client orders.

An HFT system placing orders based on public data feeds is not front running.
Custom beds made for the hotels they sleep in while in other cities?
Uber has laid off hundreds of employees in its third round of cuts this year
12000 year old beech - http://oltw.blogspot.com/2011/12/12000-year-old-antarctic-be...
The outrageous distance required to make the leap from consumer vacuum cleaners to cars.

It's not unlike Parrot or DJI saying they're going to start making private jets. A certain skepticism was inevitable.

Brightly coloured plastic is not a sufficient USP for a car. And don't forget Apple failed in this space, with much bigger resources.

It's not even the product design, which was non-trivial, but not impossibly unlikely.

It's the logistics and operations - raw materials, parts sourcing and supply chain design, manufacturing and assembly, delivery, servicing, maintenance, spares, certification, dealer relationships, charging... And the testing required to get 200k miles out of the product.

My guess is the timescale didn't work. The car was probably at least a couple of years from production, and would have been overtaken by smarter and more interesting products from the established players.
> They already know electric motors and batteries. That gives them at least an edge.

I'd like to argue batteries and mass production are the issue and genuinely hard to solve. Not async motors and inverter circuits.

To my knowledge they use 3rd party batteries for applications where it is not a limiting factor that need to be pushed over but I could be wrong.
When Are Exit Strategies Viable?
Which is why I maintain that 27" 4K is the sweet spot size and resolution wise for productivity.

I've got an LG one at home, and heading into work where I have 2 27" monitors, but only 1440p always feels like a downgrade.
We are coming to the same point from different angles. For a lot of people it's easier to adhere to eye-for-an-eye than to stop and advocate for an end to violence, as it were. I was only taking issue with what seems to be cheering a step backwards ("I would be richer without income tax too").

Technically, given the way you put it, I suppose I would advocate for more and more specific industries not being subject to income taxation until no industries were paying it. Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming have realized this situation by one means or another. But I agree that, in general, consistent tax laws for everyone is a preferred outcome.
That doesn’t fix the information overload which the OP’s solution solves.
Dyson's non-vacuum products don't have a great track record. The Dyson fans are some of the noisiest fans you can buy. It seems unlikely that they'd be able to make a successful transition to EVs.
I do not know exactly what caused this, but my internal project test-suite got a much appreciated 5% speedup!
Thank you Python team!
(Email noob here) I'm writing a very low traffic web app, and I was thinking about SES, mostly because it's free for small volumes. What's wrong with it? Would you recommend sendgrid (or something else) instead?
Shared Memory is the star of this release IMHO.
Similar trick works at AMC movie theaters with their rewards program. You can use it to get discount tickets on Tuesdays and popcorn discounts.

Similarly for all these other rewards programs you see at restaurants nowadays. I will never understand the idea of using a phone number as authentication without any additional PIN or text message or anything. If I have an acquaintance that I know goes to a lot of movies, and I either know or can find their phone number, I can drain their rewards account. Or you can drain their Safeway rewards account, etc. I wonder how much longer the situation will last?
> It's hard building cars... it's hard surviving building cars ... it's hard surviving building cars while scaling.

I think you nailed it right there.
My main machine is an iMac but I recently setup a Windows desktop machine for making music and gaming because none of the curren Apple offering fit my needs.

Even in 2019 a lot of Windows software doesn't support scaling correctly. It seems like outside of the very big and popular applications everything is a win32 app from 20 years ago.
Bitcoin is the still the dark web’s favorite cryptocurrency
The Insight Podcast also has a lot of valuable stuff along those line in the archive.

https://insitome.libsyn.com
The nano-guitar string that plays itself
I was an undergrad when, in 1981(?), Bill Joy and Bob (forget his last name) had loaded the BBN mag tape that contained the TCP/IP implementation, and they were integrating it into BSD (4.1?). It was in the shared terminal room in Evans on the 5th floor. After about 30 minutes I decided not to even try to pretend I wasn't listening to them and just watch. That was fun.
I found this copy of what seems to be the source code: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/...

It has copyright notices everywhere (not that this matters). And following notice in Installation:

Please remember that Emacs is copyrighted. You are free to use Emacs
internally, but you are not free to redistribute it. If someone is
interested in obtaining a copy of Emacs, refer them to me:

So you are not allowed to redistribute it without written permission from the author. I also think back then redistributing source code was the "portable" way if redistributing programs and redistributing binaries wasn't feasible.
That 17% is only if you're making above a certain amount (I believe $50k+), and this makes a lot of sense for a lot of lower income people.

My brother is enrolled in Lambda School, and so far is enjoying it. They do move fairly fast and the curriculum is challenging but they are learning a lot of modern architectures and skills like React and NodeJs, skills that will actually help them get a job after graduating.

I went the traditional CS major in undergrad route and most of what I learned in school was not applicable to my day to day work.

Different things work for different people, nothing wrong with options. And Lambda does have the option of paying upfront and then not having to give them any of your paycheck.
Also Firth of Forth - home of the famous bridge that needs constant painting (or at least, did, until they developed a special paint).

Flying into Edinburgh on a clear day when circling over the Forth is spectacular.
Wait, I thought the efficient market position was that the "rotten" companies were all priced correctly. But you seem to be saying there aren't any.

Some recent research showed that the market doesn't even take into account the contents of SEC filings which seems like the minimum for a semblance of efficiency. I have to say, if you are going to take the position that there are no worthless public companies out there, you ought to take a sizeable sample of 10-Ks and just glance at the business description of each.

Also...I'm not an economist or expert, but what I think you are saying is that the EMH only applies even in principle to things you can sell short and that sounds wrong to me.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

According to it, Old Tjikko is "the oldest known Norway spruce"
What then do the upvotes signify?
I worked in the Netherlands on and off for several years, and the thing I never got used to was how appalling the lunches were. I did a presentation at KLM corporate headquarters, and at lunch asked the people I was presenting to - "How do you put up with this, day after day?" They all looked glum, and said "There is no alternative". And don't get me started on what passes as Chinese food in the Netherlands.
I'll nitpick.

15-20 years ago the battery tech wasn't there to make a decent and affordable electric car.

Well the 18650 cells that Tesla used have been around since the 1990s, although price has obviously come down massively (NB around 2 years ago Tesla switched to a slightly different cell). They've tinkered with the cell chemistry a bit but the main Tesla innovation is in the area of "how to combine thousands of cells into a battery pack with cooling, monitoring and safety systems"

Tesla is filling a huge market vacuum which is how they're able to grow so quickly. Every other car manufacturer was so married to the ICE that they never seriously considered a fully electric vehicle.

This really isn't how it happened. Before Tesla we had the Nissan Leaf and the BMW i3 which were pretty serious attempts at EVs, the problem is they were aiming for the middle market. Tesla's bright idea was to make expensive cars with huge batteries and make them desirable, and make them kick arse. No-one had gone there before. Then, as per the well known 'master plan', work down from the expensive vehicles to less expensive ones via economies of scale. On their way they transformed peoples view of EVs and helped created the market vacuum that they are now enjoying.
Take this with a pinch of salt, but there are some rumors here in Greece that US will move nuclear bombs from Incirlik, Turkey to Araxos, Greece.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araxos :
”From 1978 to 2001 Araxos Air Base was also home of the NATO 345 Air Munitions Company. This unit was responsible for U.S. B61 nuclear bombs”
As my sibling poster indicates, the SO survey is a convenience sample not a census of coders. If you look at the 2016 survey, the 0-5 years experience cohort is larger (50.3%) than than it is in 2019, so I am not sure we can make those kinds of conclusions about the wider industry.
> I have no doubt Dyson could have made a decent one, but to make it affordable they would have needed huge economies of scale, or huge risk-taking balls a la Tesla.

Not so much these days. You can license Volkswagen's MEB and future PPE platforms and use it in your car:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/vw-in-tal...

Volkswagen are even interested in doing contract manufacturing. It allows small, low-volume car companies to produce cars without needing the scale or taking on as many risks:

https://electrek.co/2019/03/07/e-go-electric-car-vw-meb-plat...

It would have made sense for Dyson to start with Volkswagen's platforms for their first cars as they learnt the car business. But Dyson may have been too far along with a bespoke design already.
From the Linux Wacom project

>Our drivers are pre-installed in many major distribution... Oftentimes, you can simply plug in your tablet and start working.

I understand it's just an example though. Yes you can sometimes buy some strange hardware that won't automatically work. This happens in Windows too, and installing a package does not require more technical capability than installing something on Windows.

>them but that's a very liberal definition of "just works", imo.

Anyone that's managing to install Linux on their computer has the knowledge necessary to make it " just work." Anybody that buys a computer with Linux on it should expect it to just work.
The only people it irritates are the overenthusiastic fanboys and slightly too gullible investors. Everyone else can just sit back and watch innovation happen at a pretty decent pace.
Visionati releases world's most powerful image recognition API, accepts crypto
I've never tried the PAO system, due to the startup costs of pre-memorizing 100 person-action-objects.

But a simpler alternative which requires less work up front is the Major System (sometimes called the Phonetic system) [0].

The way it works it by assigning each digit a sound-value (or family of sounds). To remember a number, you then convert the digits to the letter-sounds, and fill in vowels that don't have a digit value to create words.

E.g. to remember Boltzmann's constant, I do this:

1.38 x 10^-23

1 has the letter value "t" or "d". So I use the word "tea" ("e" and "a" have no digit value), to remember the digit 1.

The 38 is converted to "m" and "v", which becomes "movie".

23 becomes "n" and "m", or "nemo", the fish from Finding Nemo.

Putting it all together it becomes: Ludvig [1] walking on bolts (= Ludwig Boltzmann), and in his right hand he's holding a old VHS movie on top of which balances a cup of hot tea. In his left hand he holds a frozen (to indicate the negative sign in the exponent) Nemo.

To make it memorable you can make this scene as vivid as possible: Ludvig is a cautious character who sniffles a lot; walking on bolts would hurt and make it difficult to balance the cup of tea on top of the movie; the frozen fish would be cold and slippery in the hand; the tea would smell nice; etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system
[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/525793520662380544/w9GJ... A character in an iconic Norwegian film.
> modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent

Good news. There is. It's called autokey. Its a bit clunkier and crashes occasionally, but it allows you to rebind you application shortcuts.

Finding this made migrating back to linux possible for me.

https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki/API-Examples
The problem I think is more that you're looking for full stack. Try a front end developer. These have deeper Javascript, html, css and web/browser specific knowledge then a lot of so called full stack people have. The former are the fundamental skills you're looking for. React itself I would consider less important as long as they have experience in one framework or another, or unless you have very simple needs and no time for a even a short ramping up period.

If you follow this advice, you will tap into a HUGE resource of developers who have ridden the tide of front end for a long time but haven't crossed over into full stack because it was never expected until recent times. Of course it would be ideal to find one person who can do it all. But from my experience it is orders of magnitude harder to find a good traditional software engineer who can also rock the front end. Depending on your process and desire for good UI/UX this will especially hold true...
There's no meaningful moat in the last mile, no economies of scale that you gain by being in more cities. You will always be subject to a race to the bottom in every location, as soon as you stop pouring in capital the competition you drove out will drive right back in.

It's a mug's game.
“This hackathon is for projects you're just starting.”

From the more details page after you click through the link
My experience has just been that SES is a little less user friendly to setup and debug. It's not a huge deal, you'll probably be fine.
Beneath the Replication Crisis
Sure! Submit a “Show HN”: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Interesting idea, I assumed a lot of websites would do this via A/B testing in different locations, to determine the highest price a customer will pay in a region. But this is kind of a step further in predicting the price they'll pay.

How much of the persons browser are you capturing? Just the user-agent? I would think screen size would be a helpful metric to segment users... small screen laptops vs massive displays, latest iPhone vs older Android...
> But history tells us that literally everything will be used for fingerprinting

I don't think you realize how right you are. Fingerprinting is eventually going to be a lost cause. In 10 years or so, we will have the tech to fingerprint anyone just by their writing style (some companies even claim to be able to do this already today). What do you do then? Ban posting stuff online?
> It's not a boring or bad game, but the fundamental principle is "me and my friends murder your face with our amazing tactical teamwork for no special reason while our grunts carry on fighting like robots."

You could easily make the same sort of criticism about Contra. You're moving down endless waves of mooks with your badass weapons without a thought or care about the morality of it. Mario sure does kill a lot of animals, etc.
I don't think I wrote more than 20 lines of code in Emacs, and all my previous attempts to learn it properly have died off boredom. So, I'm not even the kind to stick to it, but I know some who do and you won't find many of them on StackOverflow taking surveys.
> I hope at least firefox has a setting to permanently disable this feature.

I'd like to see all the sensors permissions lumped together behind a sufficiently scary name ("Permission to spy on you"?), off by default, and for the browser to enforce strict security requirements before it's even willing to prompt the user for the permissions the site's requested.

Web apps aren't going away, but we could have a better UI to enforce a separation between full-fat web apps with similar capabilities to native apps, and the rest of the web that's just trying to abuse those features for spying.
Okay, but instead of the popup asking to immediately log in, say "Congratulations on solving the puzzle. To keep your score, create an account (or log in with Facebook, etc). Otherwise, you can continue to play ... "
I think the difference is that he swam 1 kilometer in the -3 water. I don't think the old ladies do that.
Regarding Bloom's accuser,

> In 2004, Wolf wrote an article for New York magazine accusing literary scholar Harold Bloom of a "sexual encroachment" more than two decades earlier by touching her thigh. She said that what she alleged Bloom did was not harassment, either legally or emotionally, and she did not think herself a "victim", but that she had harbored this secret for 21 years. [0]

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