skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have all of my ideas in excel with columns:

Time Needed, Enjoyment, Potential Income, Career Impact

I score all ideas in all categories, and then I have my own formula which tells me which idea is worth it.
Market fit isn’t the only thing that matters.

Theranos had an excellent market fit—-people hate having blood drawn—-but the technology did not work and fundamentally could not work. The whole point of being a subject matter expert is to learn about things like that.

It’s true that there are other routes to becoming an expert in something (and proving it). A masters and a stint at a well-known company certainly works for many people; bootstrapping your own company might be an option too, but you’d need to be very successful to establish your bonafides. The advantage of a PhD is that it’s a fairly well-known quantity.
Mercurial is wonderfully simple, particularly for smaller teams. Also, not being able to throw away branches ensures the project maintains a history of some wrong paths that were pursued.
This gets at the underlying truth. Once you have been successful in one situation, it becomes far easier to extend that success into other closely related areas. Linus is a celebrity in the open source world, switching his project to git effectively forced much of the core infrastructure maintainers/developers to learn/use the tool. Its the equivalent of putting a bluray drive in the playstation.
a french electronician did some repair video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lyqbo45Ygs

I hope you can enjoy beside the language "barriere"
Common is 50% or more by everyone's definition.
The problem with the political culture in Washington isn't the rhetorical war. It's politicians obsession with being reelected. The culture is that no indignity is beneath you if it's for the sake of reelection. Lindsey Graham was once known alongside John McCain as being a RINO by partisans, 'Republican in name only'. Now he acts like Trump's dog on 99& of issues.

The reason? So he can be more influential on that 1% of issues he cares most about. If he doesn't get influence on that 1% (like we saw with Syria) then he breaks with Trump, because he has a bottom line: the set of issues he wants to influence. This is true for all politicians. They have a political calculus where they are willing to sacrifice legislation or points in certain areas for the sake of being able to affect legislation in most other areas. Functionally this means that politicians do things like accept big campaign donations in exchange for going easy on a certain sector. I believe most politicians want to do what they think is best for America, but that comes with a single constraint--that they're the ones accomplishing it. And that comes with a hefty cost.
The Series 3 without cellular is $199 and you can find a cellular model on sale under $250 all the time too.
If your commits are not referenced by a branch or tag, then those are eventually committed. Having to have a branch to keep the commit around means you need to come up with a name for it if you ever want more than one name. When I go back to Mercurial, it's actually quite relieving to not have to come up with a short name to describe what the current work branch is doing, only commit messages.

And no staging area is strictly simpler than having a staging area, which is contrary to your assertion.
And it's looking like this year's Black Friday deal is that model for $199 (cellular for the price of the regular).
You can use Git on your own without anyone else being affected. It doesn't require a server to add benefit. Learn to work with it and then introduce your coworkers later.
A small correction...

`git branch [branchname]` creates a branch without switching to it.

`git checkout -b [branchname]` creates a branch and checks it out.

And `git reset --hard` will also discard changes. (Arguably, this is better than `git reset` discarding local changes, as it is more explicit.)
Fyi this is called a merkle tree. Also the data structure that blockchain uses and a couple other protocols. They’re wonderful and surprisingly easy to implement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
I agree that he didn't reject life and living, just that he was of the mind that there is no overriding meaning to it. I tend to think of a nihilist as someone like Dawkins. It's not just that there is no god, but that there's no point to life except what you make of it.

I also read Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in my youth and went through a stage of intensely studying Christianity, falling out with the local churches as basically missing the point, (the time when I most felt a kinship with Kierkegaard) before ultimately rejecting religion entirely.
Toronto’s dumb “smart city” project
+1 for FreePBX. No affiliation, just a happy user.

Fantastically easy to set up a PBX at home in under an hour, with no prior Asterisk experience.
I can still never remember the git equivalents for things like ‘hg log -r default:feature-branch’ or ‘hg diff -c <commit>’. People who haven’t used Mercurial really have no idea how pleasant a VCS interface can be.
That's up to you to decide.

But I do want to create "buzz" around the conversation. We need it. The book? That's secondary. I don't make any money of out it. That's why I'm giving it away for free.

But again, I can't answer that for you.
> more wealth creation

Back in the 90’s, my sister asked what “Linux” was and I explained it to her as a free replacement for Windows (I know, I know, but that was the right description for her). She asked why it was free while Windows was expensive enough to make Bill Gates the richest man in the world. I told her that the guy who wrote it gave it away for free. She said, “wow, I’ll bet that guy feels really stupid now.”
ASK HN: Subscription for multiple industry magazines?
Hi All,

I'm looking for a service that lets me subscribe to multiple industry magazines at once, ala apple news. These magazines often have really in depth articles with niche industry knowledge that you can't find in news like the NYT or FT, but I don't want to pay hundred of dollars for each of them.

Does anything like this exist?
> Yes, and the current game AIs are completely and utterly incompetent at it. AI in video games only provides a challenge when the mechanics of the game are challenging or the AI is cheating.

I wouldn't say "incompetent", but yes, the mechanics of the game must be challenging and/or (often) the AI must cheat. I'm saying this is enough most of the time; there's really no incentive to build a better AI for videogames because (my hypothesis) most gamers don't care. The illusion of challenge is enough, most of the time. The goal of videogames is to entertain, not to really challenge (again, with the exception of tournaments and competitive gamers, who are a niche within a niche).

You mentioned Heroes of Might & Magic in another comment. I played the heck out of HoMM2, some of (I think) HoMM3 and got bored with the rest. But I wasn't bored with the AI; I got bored because it was the same formula again and again. The genre itself soon felt like a tired formula. Note that the "AI" -- cheating or not -- of HoMM felt horribly difficult to me. I lost battles more often than I won; the only trick that reliably worked was to start the fight with a lot more troops than the computer enemy, and that's not much of a trick! Not a lot of places to learn effective tactics back then either, maybe the hellpit that was GameFAQs?
She may be cool, but she didn't "reshape Mathematics". Wish such articles would come without so much hyperbole.

And as for missed geniuses, there are many missed male geniuses, too, many famously so (even Einstein didn't get a position as a professor at first). They suggest only women are overlooked, which is untrue.

There are also examples of female mathematicians even further back being fostered by famous mathematicians.
Alternatively, you could view this as a recognition that Wear OS has failed along with a plan to move to Fitbit as a software platform. If they can combine Fitbit's software and community with better hardware, they might actually have a good product here.

Or they could just end up with Wear OS on worse hardware and a disaster.
Most AV software is basically malware itself.
We definitely shouldn't take too much comfort from the fact that the global internet first evolved thanks to cooperative capitalists, not competitive socialists. Interesting article!
Maybe for military bases and such, but I was thinking more in the world of finance, where computers are pretty locked down to prevent people from taking valuable code for predicting stock prices or high frequency trading. In those cases, people most certainly have their phones with them, but the workstations have USB disabled, the network is closely monitored (with nearly all file sharing sites blocked completely), and anything suspicious will show up in logs.
I pray you actually can perceive the nuance between the swastika and the OK sign.

For the record, I've never used the OK sign for supremacist signalling.
I really liked the Netduino before they stopped making them. It was great for building prototypes.
can we all just stop using fb? Then no one will advertise there.
frankly, Microsoft deserves to be in there at this point, so that would end up being FANAMA for Facebook,Apple,Netflix,Amazon,Microsoft,Alphabet and it's easier to pronounce to boot
Stock buybacks are giving billions of dollars to bosses
Talking about minorities is an extension of the human drive to find one's place among other people, which is an extremely high priority in almost everyone's lives. As a result, far more people are interested in talking about minorities (which fulfills a basic drive) than are interested in talking about math. So much so that a very significant fraction of articles related to math or any other topic that otherwise doesn't get a lot of light in the public arena are motivated by the social desire.
I can't find this quote, or anything like it. Was it recent?
It would be nice to have a table of how many hours per day does a moderate hobbyist do for each of the activities. For biking, I can imagine 4-6 hours being moderate, and for skydiving it would be just 10 minutes. That way, we can do the above math ourselves.

Also, for some activities, how you measure time is really important. Skydiving is such a short duration activity that it really matters if you are measuring a) free fall time b) parachute time c) between plane and ground time d) between takeoff and landing zone time e) time spent at skydiving area.
Tell the mods that. I've seen mupltiple titles where they edited the original title to include "in X".
YouTube XRP Giveaway Scammers Making $50k/Day
Hasn't their entire future roadmap been a blank page for a while and the Versa 2 is a flop? If you view their roadmap as a lot of red you might see a buyout like this. (seeing as their opportunity to compete with Apple is quite poor.)
And is drug rehab a funded by the healthcare system for the poor in the US?
Let's not fall into denialism here. There's absolutely no doubt that being a Jewish woman mathematician in the 1930s was doubly difficult than being a male Jewish mathematician -- double the discrimination. Calling Geiringer's situation "example-ism" is up there with doubting the sky is blue because I said I saw blue skies in Italy one time.
>at least we would have a shot at keeping it democratic

If by democratic you mean freedom to form outrage mobs then I'd agree, but I don't think that would be a good thing. Having thousands of people in some community screaming for the head of some kid who said something dumb about his school and his dad's rifle on a Call of Duty discord is not going to end well for the kid.

I'm not sure I believe in completely open data because entire populations with access to it are not completely rational.
Sorry, I misinterpreted "for more money per month"
Computational Complexity and Program Structure – Dennis Ritchie (1967) [pdf]
GoT (gameoftrees.org) did just that.

Built another tool similar but not same, using the same storage method underneath.
Not an exact quote, I'm going from memory. I believe it was many years ago.
Unsigned extensions are also not for end-users.
Eh? I mean "in general, tariffs are bad" is not incompatible with "some industries/facilities are strategically important and must be supported". Very few people are calling for totally free markets with no tariffs or government support _at all_, but a lot of people would see them as a necessary evil that should be minimised.
Curious to hear your thoughts/experience about the 'many things today depend on having a working mobile phone'. I often do not carry a phone because I use my laptop at home/office to do most digital things.
Swearing increased pain tolerance and decreased perceived pain
Everyone who used Fitbit, now your data belongs to Google - Congratulations!!
You don't have to use a cloud server, just host it yourself.
I m on board as long as the EU governments don't have "special rights" to the data stored in those servers under all kinds of excuses. In many ways, having your data stored on the other side of the earth offers some privacy/security benefits.

The right thing to campaign for is to move data AWAY from all kinds of clouds / hoarders and back into private silos, away from all kinds of grabby governments.
> Is there any legal enforcement to prevent this in the future?

I expect these will come from TOCs.
> European Union countries are concerned about depending on technology providers that must comply with the U.S. Cloud Act, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity reported in October. The 2018 law requires American firms to provide law enforcement with customers’ personal data on request, even when the servers containing the information are abroad.

I don't blame them. What a horribly short-sighted law.
I’m quite dumbfounded by the comments on this thread. If I make a python library where I take three points as input and spit out the area of the triangle you get when you join those points with straight lines, I have to ensure that said area is correct. Even a high school kid knows that. To argue that I will always assume that the three points come from a right triangle, so I will compute three distances and return half the product of the two smaller ones, that’s just...what’s the polite thing to say in HN circles these days...retarded on my part. It means I’m completely braindead. It’s means I’m dense. Obtuse. It basically means I need more coffee.

I don’t get to argue that its a right triangle library, so I will only entertain points from a right triangle. Because once you put the library out there, anybody might and will use it. Who do you think uses Excel ? The vast majority are Secretaries, housewives, florists, dog walkers...not just the quants sitting in a bank. If some middle school kid doing his homework calls my library with three collinear points, I must throw an exception. Or atleast spit out an area of zero. Imagine how you’d feel as a parent or a teacher if your kid got a big fat zero because I assume two of the three lines are perpendicular when it’s trivial to verify that they aren’t. As the library author, I must do the right thing, simply because, hey it’s a nice planet & so let’s be nice to fellow citizens and library callers & so forth. Ethics, etc.

Let me ask you this. It’s fucking 2019. You have a+bx on your rhs. Why the fuck are you setting g(p) = log(p/(1-p)) as your link ? You say oh it has a nice interpretation, it’s log odds...ok so are you in epi ? You care about lives and deaths, cures & placebos that sort of thing ? Nope, you are doing ML for some faang. Ok then why logit ? You can pick literally any CDF. Every continuous cdf is smooth sigmoid. They are all cadlag. The finance community generally picks the gaussian cdf, so that’s called probit and all their papers are full of probit regression. Whereas the healthcare guys don’t have the analytical chops, so they just settle on logistic regression. But it’s 2019! You can stick any cdf in there !!! You know, glm used to be a graduate statistics subject. Nowadays sophomores are happily using glm with a custom link function. 16-17 year olds. They craft a nice looking smooth cdf, get it’s closed form, use that in the glm link function. Everything fits so nicely, you get tight CIs, good inference. When these kids graduate, if they know you are still debating about probit vs logit with a default l2 penalty, they are going to laugh in your face & kick you to the curb.

You guys are elite programmers. glms must be your favorite playpen. Craft some custom link functions and step up to the plate. logistic with default l2?! jesus.
A man in the UK was investigated by the police for retweeting a limerick about transwomen - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated...

>After Mr Miller questioned why the complainant was being described as a “victim” if no crime had been committed, the officer told him: “We need to check your thinking”.
"YouTube is still not profitable." Are you sure?

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/#6
As this is evidently an advert for Rescue Time and I'm a real sucker for anything productivity related, has anyone tried it out? Any interesting results to report?

I didn't like the idea of a service that sent all my visited websites to some remote server so I never got round to using it. Is that info at least encrypted so only you can see it?
"it would quickly become unsustainable" why?
I don't see any indication that youtube is losing money. That seems like a pretty bold claim, tbh.
Just south Lancaster, PA. I know a co-worker who is north of the city is waitlisted.
People in the thread below were complaining about how toxic reddit is. Politics is ten times worse.

Why would a smart, ethical and honest person ever get within a gunshot of politics?

And should by any accident that happen, how such a person would survive?
gloves are stored in table: token -> vector.
Function tokenizes text and store in another table:
texd_id, token

Then you join first and second table.

Also, I think typical scenario is to resolve embeddings in your model code or data input pipeline.
IMO, you get NPM when you get venture capital pouring money at script kiddies and tech evangelists. No worries, it will all burn down eventually.
Ask HN: How to avoid frontend development complexity?
I've tried React, Vue and Svelte. I understand their goals and why they exist. However, my app seems to always fall into pieces. My CSS files are always out of sync. Is there any way to make this all work? No matter how mature React is, I feel this is really not solved at all.

Thank you for all your knowledge!
> Years of successful project management are many small hits, not just one big hit.

It sounds like maybe "one trick pony" might be closer to what Linus was getting at. Being a one trick pony is better than being a one-hit wonder, but Linus has shown he's got at least a couple of tricks. :-)
> YouTube is hemorraging red ink

Citation please. Everything I've seen is a mix of "breaking even", "still unprofitable", and "adding billions to their bottom line". I.e. nobody really knows because Google doesn't break out YouTube financials.

In any case, I still think calling the largest, most successful video serving site on the web "not successful" is laughable.
I tend to agree, but it has also improved Google Maps, so maybe it is still a plus for the business overall?
Precisely yes.
I know people like to complain about git's interface, but is it so lacking to the point that it justifies the time spent on learning multiple version control systems?
Not so loyal, also based on personal anecdotes: wife and me both had to have our fitbits replaced and with mine dead again, I'm looking at everything except Fitbit.

Scouring forums full of people with bizarre problems with their devices (usually connection related tho that might be only a symptom), I get the impression I'm not an outlier.

Fitbit built up a huge fan base but looks to me like it is now in the process of shedding it at alarming speed.
I'm in the middle of deleting my Fitbit account. It takes 90 days, so hopefully this deal doesn't close quickly...
It was better next year.
Wait, AngularJS is going to die?
But nothing in the real world ever works perfectly. And past experience with giving governments power indicates that, before giving the government any power, you should imagine it being exercised by your worst enemy.
Will BlizzCon become the latest battleground for the Hong Kong protests?
A quick google search confirms that it is.

https://www.addictioncenter.com/rehab-questions/medicaid-and...
The latter is 'git show <revision>', show being one of those fun commands that does a bazillion different things depending on what the argument is. My fun example of what's-the-git-command is 'hg cat -r <commit> <path>', whose git commit equivalent is another variant of 'git show'
>I'm [ethic group] and I [love social media].
I have never seen any evidence that women were discriminated against in 1930s mathematics other than specific stories about women being treated coldly by the establishment. I have certainly never seen anyone compare their cold treatment to the ambient coldness.

Look at it this way. If I told you every time a coin came up heads, how many reports would it take for you to conclude that it was biased? The right answer is "the conclusion may never be reached," because I'm not allowing you to tally up the number of times it came up tails. Likewise, despite the huge number of stories about women being denied appointments despite having made significant contributions, no conclusion can be drawn until there is some indication that the effect is unique to women.

Another important point is that even if the 1930s were awful and sexist, there may have been islands of relatively fair people. So in the interest of remembing them as they deserve, it is best to check each social group individually for evidence of their bad behavior, so that you don't end up remembering the one admissions committee that wasn't sexist as just another bias enforcement team.
Taste the freedom with spacers choice!
Everyones getting so upset, but we knew they bought FitBit just to keep their pipeline of projects to sunset full. I mean theres enough here alone to be at least half of their 2021 sunsets.
‘MyColorado’ Digital ID Stores Driver’s License, ID Card
> why doesn't it have a proper package manager?

You should have a look at the release notes of the last three Go releases.
FYI: this is just a PoC and is very early in the stage :)
The article makes the case that if an interoperable model (one we can explain) isn't used, then the user of the black box model should have the burden of proof to prove that no interoperable model exists that does the job, and some level of responsibility for trying to develop one.
An Ethical Design Experiment: The Impact Canvas
> but we also have the technical capacities to descentralize it

We have the technology but I think it's still very specialist, we need a more generalised framework for the average developer.

> interestingly enough, it is getting more centralized. Is this due to economic incentives?

Decentralised has the ability to scale better and work out cheaper in the long run. However it's current state of being so specialised means the real cost is in hiring people to build and maintain it.

Hopefully as the tools to decentralise become more generalised to the point where every developer can use them properly the initial cost vs long term cost will tilt into decentralised favour.
I was waiting for someone to do this. Heck of an idea.
Any chance you could do custom domains/links as a mid tier ?
Working on a way to let people monetize things they work on together.
Might be because the big names are from their first decade, and in the last decade they focussed more on integrating companies, or are still working on making aquisations a success.

Google Maps and Earth started from an aquisation. Youtube was right out bought by them. Google Groups, Picassa, Blogger, Google Docs are more, though a bit less successfull.