skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought a podcast was an mp3 (or other audio file) that was delivered by subscribing to an RSS feed that told your podcatcher application when there was a new file available.

In the early days of podcasting I was listening to live streaming audio in the car and on headphones via my old Palm and PocketPC phones. I'd even run a Shoutcast station for a few years before that (but it was less portable before I had a cellular device that could run streaming audio apps).

Anyway, I was mostly just commenting on the shift in terminology as "podcast" has become ubiquitous. I still think of a podcast as a syndicated feed, initially (as you said) used as a way around the limitations of iPods and such. Live streaming audio was already a thing and had only gotten more popular. I still wouldn't call a live radio-style stream a "podcast" though.
I was pretty badly turned off by Kenneth Reitz and the way he handled conflict with Pipenv. I disliked how instead of listening to feed back or being constructive he just gave off a kind of fuck you attitude. There were real and critical issues with pipenv that he would not budge on and it truly felt like he was in the minority. I know, its his project he can do what he wants but in the context it did not make sense. I especially disliked it due to how he sold Pipenv as being officially endorsed by Python (which its not and has never been) but it did trick me for a short time. Finding out it was never official endorsed is what made me never want to support any of his projects again.

Posting this here again in case anyone missed it. https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...
The moat's draining because more of this data is becoming commodity.

OpenStreetmap data is quite good. I can run a local instance with all the data and the tile server and a web server in a docker image in maybe ~10 min. Source: did this a few years ago during a particularly boring meeting.
Yeah this article really seems to confuse the monorepo and files.

The monorepo was always accessible to all. First day on the job, you can literally see all the source code. Which is crazy cool. (With a few exceptions I'm sure, but not many.) I'm assuming that's not changing?

But any time someone creates a Google Doc it defaults to private. People will then share it with other editors and then their team as necessary.

It happens all the time that you follow a link to a deck to try to understand what a team is working on, and you get a "no permission" and have to e-mail them to explain why you want to see it... and you usually get permission within a few hours but sometimes you needed to look something up quick before a meeting and missed the chance.

Most of the time it's not out of any great secrecy, just that teams don't want other teams to misunderstand info out of context, like whether a team is actually pivoting or just exploring it or just brainstorming internally.
It's surreal to see the "more women in positions == less misogyny" fallacy being championed in defense of conservatives for once.
"accept-encoding: gzip" header is request header. why it is present in unoptimized response in first place ?
I might be alone but I hate dealing with Java’s package management system.
Actually it's a fair nitpick because logarithmic density 0 does not imply natural density 0 - so the claim in the article is misleading in more than one way.

For example, the set of numbers with a perfect square number of digits has log density 0 but natural density non-existent (inf 0 and sup 0.9). I believe it holds in the other direction though - natural density 0 implies log density 0.
You wouldn't compete on the things that Google does well, but rather on the things they don't. Not saying it is easy. Price and user interaction is something I believe could be improved upon. Also maybe crowd sourcing info.
It's trivial to do. Here: https://js.do/code/383036
Scrolled down someone's random page with this extension and the browser tab froze and stopped accepting input (mouse & keyboard). Without any technical explanation I would say this is just removing the overlay and does not accomplish what it states.
The author mentioned that the conservators used bamboo spatulas a couple of times. Is there a particular reason that they use bamboo versus some other type of wood or perhaps metal?
Yes, that is what is written in the article, thanks
> ”Google Maps has a multi-layered business moat that makes competition really difficult”

OpenStreetMap is going from strength to strength. Maps startups no longer need to duplicate Google's on-the-ground mapping efforts. Now, they can make use of open data.

Mapbox is perhaps the most well-known, but there are many commercial services based on OSM data:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Commercial_OSM_Software_...
Downvote all you want. All you're going to get on Windows is inferior performance, tons of bugs and workarounds, and poor tooling.
You don't need to roll your own crypto in order to encrypt in-house.
Thanks for that list! I haven't lived in the SF Bay Area for ten years and I totally missed that Oakland has a BART station now.
i haven't used reddit for a couple years now. I remember r/all being the worst. I just checked it now to verify. Too... soft? feminine? Not to mention the small drip of political propaganda.

Maybe i outgrew the typical user demographic, but i think its just corny (I'm talking about r/all).
Route53, ACM and Certbot
It’s officially recommended on packaging.python.org [1]. If that’s not enough to count as an official endorsement, what is?

[1] https://packaging.python.org/guides/tool-recommendations/
VMware are doing some work to integrate with the Windows Hypervisor platform (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/hypervis...). IIRC they have a release coming early next year that will allow VMware Workstation and Hyper-V to coexist. I suspect other tools also need to support that if they want to run side-by-side with Hyper-V.

EDIT: More info at https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2019/08/workstation-hyp... and https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Virtualization/VMware....
Google is working on self driving cars and they were planing to work for military, so I would prefer Google employees to speak up then shut up and leave.
Started to learn Go this month. Turns out if you have been programming for a while you just need to jump into coding challenges and surf the documentation. No need to read giant books or 10 hr courses to get started. I've really enjoyed the language so far. Next year I want to start learning more Go for developing web services and also more complex topics such as concurrency.
Nearly all retail and food service businesses in the west operate POS systems. Very few of those run anything more than Windows XP, and a huge number run DOS or OS/2.
A framework I wanted to trial provided VB VMs instead of containers, definitely made me stop for a bit and think if I wanted to use VB (ended up using it anyway).
This is the main reason I use conda to manage python virtual envs. It easily supports multiple python versions.
Stratoscale Crashes to Earth
I think it's because they are perceived to be focused on marketing, keeping special interest groups happy at the expense of others, and patent trolling and not so much on creating truly good products, IHMO. I can't objectively measure how much of that perception is actually true, but their subscription model for Java, their systemic underpayment of their women employees, and their frivolous lawsuit against Google didn't help.
Considering most people couldn't read, I believe it
It’s kind of ironic that Google Maps is so bad at some things then. Walking & Cycling directions are especially bad - I get much better directions from OSM than I do from Google Maps.

For driving directions GMaps is much better. I presume that’s where the majority of their userbase is.
Google’s founders easily could have run the company to be purely a force for good. They have a huge amount of equity and the company generated huge profits before it went all-in on maximizing ad revenue. They could have used share buybacks to buy out their other investors. They could have been billionaires who created something good but they choose to be $50 billionaires instead. Now the only option left is to regulate Google the way natural monopolies used to be regulated.
From what I see at my consulting clients, the main areas where Oracle competes aren’t with Azure. The Oracle Cloud isn’t about spinning up VMs or web servers (though yes they do have those features), but about running enterprise apps where Oracle is still, much to the disappointment of many, the market leader. Some examples of this would be Oracle Identity Manager (which is absolutely awful but is still actually the only IdM solution really capable of scaling with massive enterprise companies) and of course ERP. Oracle ERP Cloud alone is a several billion dollar revenue source for them and is growing extremely rapidly.
As a (part time) qemu developer, why do you think VirtualBox is preferable, eg. what are the feature gaps that qemu doesn't provide, or what could qemu do better? (And by "qemu" I include the broader free ecosystem like virt-install, virt-manager, etc)
Drug Dealers/Gangs.

https://www.kltv.com/story/27599526/police-find-over-a-milli...

https://www.al.com/live/2013/09/task_force_in_baldwin_county...
It definitely should not cost 10 cents per visitor to use the maps API to toy around with nuclear scenarios.

The idea that he could apply for a “grant” to escape a poor pricing model is insulting and I think good for him for just dumping Google instead. I look forward to seeing how far the 2019 Google backlash goes.
When I try to view the image in a new tab, I get:

Your client does not have permission to get URL /Iw-RdHoPjbwuSAqJHK3C0Sy8m29NqzeHPtmJ7CVFuYqwr4CbwpGjwn9O4bcDNtCf_hLD4FGc75nkQYnJBgyA-CT2ikBDWQD-nAtqxXa4Lw2yDuh_-ywcsDaer6m4LyVtljwfrajO from this server. (Client IP address: [redacted])

Rate-limit exceeded That’s all we know.
Even if the use of presumably open and free VirtualBox was defensible in court, that wouldn't stop the strong potential of time consuming and expensive defense against the Oracle audit machine. I would recommend never installing anything from Oracle, period.
If you think that's a "fabricated scenario" I suggest you get out more and gain some perspective on how people actually live.
You're talking about competing as a consumer map/gps, which is not what the blog post is talking about (or the parent comment, I assume).

Rather, GMaps used to be the default choice if you wanted to build an app on top of a map (in this case, looking at the effects of nuclear bomb detonations). The blog post explains why GMaps is no longer a reasonable choice, which (as the parent notes) opens up room for competitors.
Thank you for this recommendation. Joplin didn't allow me to manage the files manually, but this gives me far more control. As a bonus, it supports todo.txt, which I was already using. Paired with Dropsync, this is my find of the month.
Ironic. Linked images failing to display due to "Rate limit exceeded"...
Good point. As a male, I was heavily socialized not to go near computers. That was nerd shit. Everyone in my peer group came to know that I was into computers, but this interest was always something that I remember bringing a sense of shame, and something I had to downplay. It was a conscious effort to present myself as a normal guy who just happened to be good at using those things.

I recall a well-meaning teacher once publicly recognizing me as a “computer expert”, and the ensuing giggles and ridicule from my friends and peers for being a computer nerd.

While I would not say I was bullied, the “computer nerd”/“spending all your time in front of a computer” was somewhat of an expedient wildcard insult to be used whenever somebody needed to take me down a peg. In terms of group identities, I think the only labels that were lower on the social status ladder were being gay or being obese (exception if you could pull off “the funny fat guy”).

Maybe the millenials had it easier, but I think most people who are well established in their career by now came out of that environment.

Along those lines, it’s no wonder that many men in the field who emerged from that did not develop adequate social skills, and frequently demonstrate their lack of experience in interacting with women. Unfortunately, the social protocol errors are often either lumped in with sexism, or the dreaded “being a creep”, and it’s now fashionable for other (likely traumatized) people to publicly shame them, get them fired, and ensure that their infraction is part of the permanent record of the internet.
> fundamentally this was an ad-tech company

Sure ads are their only real revenue source but the vast majority of engineers there are not working on ad-tech, many of them are working on transformative projects like maps, translate, android, chrome, that drastically improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Your view is quite cynical and conveniently ignores the leverage and impact that an engineer can have there.
Using protobuf or flatbuffers also reduce payload size.
Are you being sarcastic? Most projects get abandoned by the developers, or get canceled within 18 months. Search is good, maps is good. Everything else isn't industry leading or is just involuntary data collection (i.e. Android)
Dunno, one of the commonly accepted definitions of species is the largest group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring. Using this definition, Neanderthals, Sapiens, Denisovans, etc..., are definitely the same species.

And if they're not the same species, it presents an interesting problem, as it would mean many humans today aren't 100% the same 'species'...
Yeah, the drivers always tended to be a little off... I had one guy run up on the curb while he was looking at his phone, and he yelled when I told him to get off of it. That was the last one I took.

I had another one where the driver got into a shouting match with a customer he dropped off because they didn't tip - at least SS gave me a refund on that one.

I think the reality is that it was a very low-cost franchise, so you'd get people who weren't the kind that could manage normal office jobs but could scrape together 20k.
> We don't hold dogs responsible for their actions, we hold the owner who "deployed" it responsible.

Don't we though? At least in the past, if a dog bit someone, they were sometimes euthanized.
Quantum Entanglement Explained
>You can also emit some shitty stack machine bytecode with a single AST pass

This is what the earliest C compilers did, right?
People focus on the investment losses more because a loss is more than twice as negative to them as a gain is positive. You can gain an edge on the market if you view gains and losses for exactly what they are. The beautiful part about investing is that the downside is limited (because a stock can't go below 0) but the upside is unlimited.

The multi-baggers in the portfolio such as: 4x gains in Netflix, 4x gains in Amazon, 3x gains in Microsoft, and 11x gains in Shopify over the last 5 years will have outweighed GE dropping 50%, GM dropping 1x*, Seers dropping 1x, and Kodak dropping 85%.

I'm not as familiar with the Nifty 50 probably because I'm younger. Investopedia says it was the popular large-cap NYSE stocks of the 1960s and 1970s without an official list. but could also mean one of at least 6 indexes on the indian stock exchange[2]. Gurufocus claims they were Large Cap Growth Stocks with an average P/E Ratio of 42x.[3] Large caps are known to underperform overall in the long run but outperform more frequently in shorter 1 year time frames.[1] The same is true with growth stocks vs value stocks.

It seems to me that the reason the Nifty 50 "lost 80% to 90%" [3] is because it was overweight in large cap and growth stocks while neglecting value stocks and small cap stocks.[1] This is evidenced by the S&P 500 growing 6.78% per year annualized from 1960 to 1979 and showing a positive return over every 15 year period in recorded stock market history.[4]

[1] http://www.moneychimp.com/articles/index_funds/why_sv.htm

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/nifty-fifty-50.a...

[3] https://www.gurufocus.com/news/594692/faang-plus-m-and-the-s...

[4] http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm
This may have been true at the beginning, but nowadays I use “pip install” extensively in conda-created environments. Are there particular packages that you have trouble with?
Also Falcon which is off by 1 letter, is a WSGI web library for Python, they both have a similar logo.

https://falcon.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
I've found MapBox (if you're using MapBox GL) to have pretty decent pricing on my own hobby projects, albeit higher than I'd prefer

I have to assume the fact that nobody is just cheap-hosting opentiles mapsets for a tenth of the price indicates that the underlying infrastructure (bandwidth?) is pretty pricey.

Anyway, I'm glad Nukemap found a way to stay up. I've had fun playing with it, and have used it as a reference before.
agreed. I have voted Democrat for a long time, but I can't stand how partisan it's become. The comments are always so low-effort too. The top voted comment in almost any thread will be something like, "fuck trump".
r/the_donald has many many posts advocating for violence against certain groups in clear violation of policy. These posts would stay up for days or weeks. In my opinion quarantining them was basically a slap on the wrist.
Hey! It's the submitter here. I actually don't know how to code so I promise I have no script. I just go and share the stuff I publish here because I think that some people may find it interesting and useful as it happened with this interview.

From now on, I will be more careful with the amount and frequency of posts I share. Sorry for the inconvenience.
However, over here [0] I see pipenv, but not those:

> Use Pipenv to manage library dependencies when developing Python applications. See Managing Application Dependencies for more details on using pipenv.

> Consider other tools such as pip when pipenv does not meet your use case.

That recommendation is absolutely unambiguous.

[0] https://packaging.python.org/guides/tool-recommendations/
Maps has gotten progressively worse in most ways over the past decade, and it drives me crazy. I asked a google employee about this who told me a lot of the changes I hate stem from a refactor around 2014-2015. Obviously there was some big culture shift on the team though...

Google maps is

* Much, much slower than it used to be. My machine in 2012 was able to drag the map around and everything would load just fine.

* Harder to read/understand, especially street names. A lot of the time I have to zoom in 100% and scroll up and down a street to see what the name of the street I'm looking at is.

* Much worse at text parsing e.g. I can no longer loosely type something like "10th and grove to Jim's Hardware" and get directions. In fact most of the time I can't even type in a major intersection and get what I'm looking for.

* Obnoxiously spammy: they push new "features" on me all the time that I don't want to use (including a recent popup mid-directions when I turned on location tracking because I was lost on a busy, complicated highway intersection. It felt pretty dangerous, getting confused by a popup in the map like that mid-intersection), and the phone version asks me to turn on location tracking EVERY SINGLE TIME I OPEN THE APP.

* Addresses seem to be getting replaced by some weird google maps-designed address format in Colombia (maybe other countries?) that are useless to humans

* While every good review site seems to fail for whatever reason (tough to monetize, and fighting spam/fraud is also hard?), Maps seems to have become the de facto review site in many places. But the UX is so godawful I can't even wrap my head around it. For example, search for a restaurant, and you get one (ONE) possible filter in browsers: star rating. There's also a "more filters" button which brings you to a separate view where star rating is the only available filter. On the phone app, sometimes I can select "open now," and a few other things about 20% of the time I use the app, and it's not clear why those options are gone the rest of the time...

I think it's a real shame, because I remember in, e.g. 2012 I thought Google Maps was an incredible revelation. It was so much better than MapQuest, it was free, fast, and just worked. If only they had open-sourced the old version before the refactor...

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Anyway, I hope someone writes a nice open-source view layer that sits on top of OpenStreetMaps someday. Like a wikipedia for maps
The title of this article is "How McKinsey infiltrated the world of Global Public Health" and the straight answer is: "The WHO hired them, and sometimes the Gates foundation prefers their money is used to hire consultancies" Because management consultancy = conspiracy is the new fad I guess? Hell, they even mention Accenture as one of these "secretive" orgs. Clearly they don't understand the business.

The article continues to talk about how WHO hires consultants to do jobs that consultants are typically hired to do, and then states "how these secretive businesses, which mostly profit from serving corporate interests, are shaping global public health is an open question — and one that’s hard to answer."

Next breaking story on Vox: "How are these shadowy, secretive [insert private held company in any industry] typically profiting from corporations impacting [other big thing they also do work in]." Hard pass.

EDIT: None of the above is saying that consultancies are the best use of this money to achieve impact, of course, or that this model yields out-sized results, or an endorsement. It's on the person that hires them as to what they do with the advice and let them do within your org. My comments are rather an indictment of the tone of the argument for click bait and distraction from the main issues that are really important, like how to effectively eradicate disease with a pile of money.
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Does anyone give Discord as a serious answer to that question? I'm really struggling to figure out how a glorified IRC replacement is going to fill the same niche as Reddit.
Here is a SO answer that expands a bit more on kevstev excellent comment:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22644735/816478
If you work in software development you ought to know that "just use X" is often not an acceptable solution for many reasons. Quick example: maybe you develop a windows heavy client with a linux backend and want to test it locally. Then you have a choice to have either (relatively) poorly performing Windows VM or linux VM. As backend is usually way lighter and your IDE is probably Windows native too, you should run this on Windows.
> fobbed me off onto a non-Google “valued partner” who was licensed to deal with corporations on volume pricing.

Haha what? Who managed to set that up with Google, and how does it even work? Do they transfer gcloud credits to you? Do you use their gcloud account to make a maps app?
That's just utter nonsense.

It's almost tautologically obvious that the more you know about someone, the more likely you can predict what might be of interest to them. If you don't believe me, try selling something with ads sometime. Even with all the tools Google and Facebook offer, it's hard.

There is no magic universe where you can get perfectly tailored ads along with perfect anonymity.
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I wish I could but several clients only use Windows computers so I have to use the Linux subsystem to make my dev environment a bit more bearable.
What does happen with the 5th request.
Fair point! I’m not much aware of the container space, which explains the overlap. I’ll consider finding another name (which is quite hard since I got used to Falco by now).
I think part of it is that it is a complex ecosystem to understand. What is qemu, what is KVM, what is virt-manager, how does it all fit together. It is actually not hard to use but it is confusing to understand at first, what is used for what etc.