skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't a list of accolades. They are character traits heavily utilized on the way to what was accomplished. When comparing Mark to a kid who wrote a program that went viral, just see how instrumental he was. Facebook is far more than just a viral web site, and it didn't fall into place with Mark sitting back and seeing where all the pieces would land.

Yes, many of the traits are shared with average people, as is the trait of being human. This to me only attests to how similar and ordinary and close we really are to those we love to put on high pedestals. How do ordinary people accomplish extra-ordinary feats? To this I suspect combination is key. You could be perfectly capable but not have a dream. You could be a dreamer but lack self motivation... and so on and so forth. And sure, maybe you had it all except for the money to fund yourself. But either way, if we are admitting there is a combination, we're already past the luck hypothesis.
I don't quite understand the benefit of replacing the weighting with a vector. Could anyone offer additional insight?
I don't see how pointing out how someone is acting in an entitled manner is a personal attack.
python also has a pretty big standard library. I don't have much specific experience before python 2.5, but I do know that code written for python 2.5 (released in 2006) is just about 100% compatible with python 2.7 which still has support and patch releases. Backwards compatibility was broken once in the last decade, for 3.x.

Or consider gtk+. 2.x was backwards ABI (binary!) compatible for over a decade. Compatibility was broken once in the last decade, for 3.x (for applications. for themes and windowing environments is a different story unfortunately.) So programs written for 2.10 or so still work today with (still continuing) recent releases of 2.x.
One resource I've found to be a refreshing take on the nuts and bolts of insight meditation that I think may appeal to engineers is the free book by Daniel Ingram. http://integrateddaniel.info/book/
The Illuminati sure are incompetent to leave all these clues in plain sight.
https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
> The ethnic Chinese population in the US have a real problem - they appear to have no political voice. There are few ethnic Chinese political leaders

In the US on a national level, that may seem to be the case.

In San Francisco, however, that's not at all the case: the mayor and 3 of 11 members of the Board of Supervisors are ethnic Chinese, as are both of the S.F. representatives in the California State Assembly.

The Chinese community has long been a strong political force in San Francisco politics.
The liquifaction susceptibility map shows that most of Market St is red. Seeing as that's where the existing BART tunnel is, I suspect it's not much of an issue.
I love Gandi, but now I'm not an ethical edge case, either. They provide everything I need, at a more than fair price.

However-

I do use 97Cents.net for early stage projects where there isn't production traffic involved. Gandi simple hosting product works well, too. I haven't had the chance to test it w/ significant traffic tho.
Yeah, seeing the same thing on my 6+
Stupid to drive around after detonating a bomb but smart enough to prepare and detonate a bomb?

Step back a little. Pretend you don't know what the government told you about DT. Wouldn't DT's behavior, driving around for 3 days, as if he had done nothing wrong, be more in line with someone who, oh I don't know, has done nothing wrong?

How stupid, honestly, do you think anyone would have to be to think that they could detonate a bomb and be safely driving around the same location, not thinking they'll get caught?

Keeping in this thinking before you "knew" what the government told you, wouldn't the behavior of a government, who is seeking a patsy, precisely be to shoot that patsy in the throat, drug him, and make sure to send him the message that he is not to tread outside the narrative that is being given to them?

And to top it off, please explain the metal plaque on top of the backpack: http://imgur.com/a/cRA2c#0

If you're prepared to judge the pictures for yourself: http://bit.ly/1NZSYWA
I believe the old excuse is OSS never has the money to hire someone. But considering Netflix is paying oodles to a senior UX designer and has ended up with what many hate (and for good reason), maybe UX really is just a harder problem than it is made out to be? Seeing how Firefox keeps leaning closer and closer to Chrome and how Windows managed to butcher usability with a hybrid interface, money does not appear to solve this problem.

At least with OSS we are free to alter the program to our liking. Not that we always could or should, but with Netflix not even that option exists, and Netflix is the paid option.
What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_Isogeny_Key_Exch..., which seems to have reasonably small key sizes and fewer of the problems associated with lattices?
Hungarian camerawoman intentionally kicking, tripping refugees
The same thing could be said of any number of public works projects, which arguably are quite needed. How many people would buy in for sewers, for instance? Especially at the level of money you'd have to charge, and knowing that you couldn't change it based on someone's income?
5 startup taglines before they were famous
For domain validated certificates, the DNS does essentially function as a sort of distributed CA; if you control the DNS for a domain, you can get the certificate issued: this isn't insecure, it's by design.

Unless we're talking about removing domain validated certificates, I don't see why explicitly treating DNS as a CA, when it's a de facto CA is a problem. I'm not sure how we can get to HTTPS everywhere without domain validated certificates?
How Fortune Rewards the Brave
Safe Dynamic Linking in an Extensible Operating System (1995) [pdf]
ECMAScript 7 has brought true async/await into the language, which currently works in Babel on top of Promises. As far as a regular user is concerned, define a function as "async" and then "await" on the result you're after inside of it. Hardly difficult, in my opinion!
I kinda like the homage to the original Mac OS. It's so faithful you can tell the creators were fans.
Admit It, You Love Uber
I could not help but gravitate towards the comment on that article where nervous chauvinists wring their fingers over the fact that perhaps, perhaps, people are giving a woman too much credit for what could have been her accomplishments in a time when married women in Austria could not even own property separate from their husbands. How can such men be presumed to converse in good faith when they refuse to budge an inch on the idea that women in the 18th century were given a terrible deal?

I wonder, when do they peg the date that men and women became treated equally and henceforth all difference in autonomy, liberty, and respect were due to the inherent superiority of men? It seems they still circle about pounding their hands on the good books lamenting the lost wisdom of the iron age.
Try bluebird's Promise.coroutine, I use it everywhere and it works great.

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md#...
I can't stand articles with pagination that lack a "single page" view, defeating convenient read-it-later offline saving.
> Your argument against using const comes down to ...

You did an absolutely horrible job of summarizing even remotely what my argument was, so I guess "I won't even try to respond to" this, since you either can't critically read or didn't care to this time. jeez.
HN uses the article title for the most part. And the article itself is very clearly talking about the Soviet era, where "Russia" meant both the specific country Russia and the USSR as a whole. Just as how in the 19th century, "England" meant the specific country England and also Great Britain/British Empire.

Neither the photos nor the copy suggest the topic is modern Russia.
This is the main paper on factorization machines, which discusses some of the advantages:

http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de/pub/pdfs/Rendle2010FM.pdf

In particular they're nice for recommendation algorithms.
Rocker breaks the limits of Dockerfile
Technology to protect hospitals?
Funny, I was just watching the Computer Chronicles about Windows 3.0 release, where they mentioned GEOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewNEAIkbG4
I was a fan of the "Death" diplomacy in D3 /sarc. At least for the barbarian role, the solution to all problems was to murder the current antagonist, even when it seemed like the antagonizer's goal was effectively the same as the hero's; they just weren't the hero.

The hero him/herself was responsible for as much or more death than any of the enemies.
Congestion pricing is a non-starter, as it's a very regressive tax, most usually paid by those who are least able to afford it, and least able to change the time they go to/from work.
See also:
https://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/public...
> If 1 million people live in a city, and you add 10 million more apartments, would that lower the price of each apartment? Of course, because you increased the supply.

Short term, sure.

Long term, less clear. More people living in the city = more demand for various goods and services = more businesses competing for space with residences and more jobs and, thus, housing demand = higher market clearing prices for housing.

> Adding housing absolutely decreases the average price of housing. This is supply and demand.

You are assuming that the you can increase the supply without affecting demand. This is naïve.
Outstanding. I sort-of knew these things from living here, but rarely have I seen such a succinct summary of historical trends. Thanks for taking the time to explain it so well.
Are you getting things like modeling "banner blindness" and the reduction (or increase) in value of a given creative/channel based on increasing or decreasing the frequency cap?

I haven't seen anything really that handles the reporting of that specifically. Typically modeling ideal frequency caps is left as an exercise to the user, and banner blindness is typically looked at by CTR as certain channels like FB can see a steep drop in that pretty quickly after as little as 2 weeks if you have a relatively small audience you are saturating.

This gets more interesting on the retargeting side as people often complain about constantly seeing ads for a company--yet the reality is higher frequency caps often work because it keeps the brand top of mind or reminds them they needed to do something.

But again, not familiar with any specific technical solutions with features built around modeling that and providing recommendations. That is still largely a human effort that requires analysis of touch point data on the frequency cap side, and other directional metrics on the banner blindness side.

Would love to know if you or others know of any solutions that handle that better. I'm sure DSPs/networks like Criteo and others have their own in-house solutions, but part of the challenge is that there's no great way to set global frequency caps across DSPs/networks if you use multiple platforms.
But my post did actually conclude the cases where it's useful. It seems like a lot of people here only read the first half of the post and stopped.

I don't think `const` should be removed. I just don't think we should lead with it. I'm not sure why that's not coming across except for the fact that the post isn't being read.
I didn't lay blame at all. I just asked: "Do you wind up with plaintext emails that look gross when opened in Outlook?"

My presumption, based on your defensiveness/evasiveness, is that the answer is "yes."
It's still subject to traffic because there are still lots of people who do not have choice as to when they go. And taking Lyft/Uber isn't going to help, as those drivers are going to have to make enough to cover the congestion charge as well as profit, or they're not going to drive.
If you read that John Deere article, their specific quote is actually that you don't own the vehicle itself:

... an implied license for the life of the
vehicle to operate the vehicle

And fundamentally then, I think that I disagree with that particular view of ownership. I think my views align well with those declared by the EFF, in that I believe you should be allowed to tinker with your stuff.
It's not the core argument. It was a tangential side note in the blog post.
I don't think it's a big pain in python. I imagine ruby wouldn't be terrible either:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, os, subprocess, glob

os.chdir(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
for test in glob.glob("*.in"):
test = os.path.splitext(test)[0]
infile = test + ".in"
outfile = test + ".out"
output = subprocess.check_output(["./whofrom", infile], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
expected = open(outfile, 'r').read()
if output != expected:
print("Failed test", test)
try:
devnull = open(os.devnull, 'w')
subprocess.check_call(["valgrind", "--error-exitcode=1", "--leak-check=full", "./whofrom", infile], stderr=devnull, stdout=devnull)
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
print("Failed test", test)
subprocess.check_call(["valgrind", "-q", "--leak-check=full", "./whofrom", infile])

(since it's a quick script, I'm ignoring stuff like closing files - they'll get GCd on each iteration anyway)

Apart from the header, the whole script is pretty much the same when comparing line-by-line.
The secrecy following the attempt led to creation of the now widely known and used Glomar Response: "We can neither confirm nor deny..."

http://www.radiolab.org/story/confirm-nor-deny/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
kind a cynical outlook. sailors have respect for each other, just as all warriors do.
> If you pass a reference to the x array to a function

This notion (concern) is meaningless in JS, since when you pass any reference, it's always a reference-copy, so there's no value nor assistance that `const` provides.
On the liberal side, many people are against public transit expansion because better public transit coverage in outlying areas makes housing more valuable, pricing people out of their apartments.

I live in a dead spot on the South Side of Chicago where, ~80 years ago, the neighborhood association actually had the El demolished over gentrification concerns.

There is little liberal objection to improving public transit in already expensive downtown areas, but plans to improve commute times from the south and west sides of San Francisco will almost certainly be met with vigorous opposition. Even if they wouldn't cost anything.
When avuserow says "upgraded" he means we "replaced it with a not-much-newer HP desktop running Ubuntu", so it's still a random x86, running Linux, on a full-sized motherboard. It lives outside the case these days, though.
If you are in the US, yes.

For me, it works like this:

I want to watch a movie. I look in Netflix, which has less than a few dozen movies. Can’t find it. So I turn on the VPN, for which I pay also money. Ah, there it is. Now, let’s Chromecast it... Oh, fuck, forgot Chromecast doesn’t have the VPN. Let’s set up the VPN on the router...

(by now the person with which I wanted to watch the movie turned on Popcorn Time and has already started the movie, while I try to read the documentation of my router).

In the US, Popcorn Time is not really useful.

But especially in english-speaking european countries with bad coverage from US services, like the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Scandinavia, parts of Germany, etc, Popcorn Time is often the simplest way to watch a movie.

Before Popcorn Time, German online streaming portals like Movie4k.to, Kinox.to, which are built around hosters like streamcloud.eu or megaupload.com (RIP), were so popular that 80% of the German population has used them at least once.
In that case "Node" is 20 years old, and "Ruby" (for web development) is 11 years old.
Show him salaries for similar jobs, and say, "this is what the market is for people who are talented at this, and it's probably only going to go up. You get what you pay for, just like you would if you hired an oil field engineer, or a civil engineer for building a bridge."

Qualify your initial estimates as having been initial, and ask if he wants more accurate revisions of them, based on current market prices and a need forflexibility if there are issues or problems that lead to overruns. Then overestimate, and use savvy business skills to "save" the difference, if possible.
> Generally, in CA, unless a property changes hands, its annual property tax increase is capped at 2% per year.

I think you are referring to the maximum increase in tax basis value (which is only equal to the maximum property tax increase if it is taxed at the maximum value already, though that's probably the case, given the low cap on property tax rates also in Prop 13.)

And you are oversimplifying in a way which is misleading in this discussion: new construction triggers full cash value assessment not limited to the annual 2% increase.

> AIUI, SF could waive any property tax increases for residential properties that would have been triggered by flattening the existing structures in order to build much more rental housing.

To the extent that they could, where would the sense be in that? Accommodating more people, but reducing the public available to provide services needed by those people?
I did not say no IP is necessarily better than some IP, or even that it's better than the insane copyright system we have today (though personally I believe strongly that the latter is true). I'm just saying that this is a debate worth having, and that it is not happening.

The invention of IP is one possible explanation of why we have so much content nowadays. Other possible contributing factors include the population explosion of the previous century, the fundamental improvement of communication technologies, and the overall increase in the material conditions of the majority of the population.
Presumably, this means Ubuntu will always be one release behind...
No, take a moment to re-read what I wrote. I am talking specifically about:

"the relaxation of copyright and especially patent laws in the software industry"
What cellphone (smartphone?) has a 7" 800x480 TFT with such a thick metal bezel...?
The C-Level Mindset
Chef is not Open Source
We had the physical buttons wired up and replaced the touchscreen with a larger (non-touch) LCD panel circa late 2011. We wanted to get some LCD modules to replace the empty panels next to the buttons, but I don't know if they were ever wired up (I know we built them, but I recall there being a major blocking problem).

I'm amazed the thing kept tweeting a year after I graduated.
Where to find great hosting?
Does anyone know where I can find great hosting that can handle a site like hacker news?
looks cool!
Apple Will Support Microsoft's Edge (Win10) at Tomorrow's Event
Awesome stuff!

Here's a pet peeve of mine though: why isn't the entire surface area of the tasks clickable? I'm horrible at precisely targeting checkboxes.
I would partner with an existing NGO, one big enough that it has a legal department, and sell them on the idea as a way to free up people by helping individuals and communities self organize, thus better utilizing funds to actually support refugees. In aggregate, there will always be bad behavior, and you want to protect your personal finances, and the NGO will have domain knowledge that you most likely lack and can tell you how to do better. Don't do it for the money, do it for the feels, and the project on your resume.
In my experience, Ruby (particularly rubygems) is quite a pain in the ass with regard to package upgrades, especially when the previous developer/ops has leveraged rvm to install multiple combinations of ruby/gem versions. I can't tell you how many times I've had to trace down problems in a project because a single gem fails to upgrade/pull/compile/resolve on 2 out of 4 machines even though the project has an identical gemfile and available ruby version on every server.

I contrast this with node/npm where my projects seem to behave identically across deployments (and in some cases, when in a bind, I've even been able to simply tar & scp the project src and have it run without further effort beyond installing node, something I've never been able to do with ruby).
I don't think control of data, user or otherwise, is an inherent part of decentralisation. If fact it may be the opposite.

So as a principle for a Decentralised Web its a contradiction. Maybe it works as a part of a more broad set of principles (eg. a Healthy Web).
Good news for you: ES2016 will support optional type annotations, clearly inspired by TypeScript. The idea is we shouldn't need a damn transpiler just to get the features most people want out of a language...
When was the last time you actually read a science textbook? When you learn a big idea you're usually also taught when it was figured out, who did it and what it replaced. If you think back to chemistry when you were taught about the Bohr model of the atom you were probably also taught about the plum pudding model, that "atom" means indivisible and so on all the way back to the Greek system of four elements.

A quick visit to wikipedia shows modern geology dates itself back to the 17th century. You can view the field since then as successive additions and modifications to what was started by Nicholas Sterno in 1669 when he stated the law of superposition, the principle of original horizontality and the principle of lateral continuity. Those are 3 of the 7 principles of modern stratigraphy that wikipedia lists, but according to you and Kuhn the "modern paradigm" of geology starts in 1965 and everything before that's been erased?
It used to be on tea towels that you could buy for a dollar when you were on vacation in Foster-Tuncurry.
A tangentially related story: Seattle's public school teachers are threatening to strike. One of their demands (in addition to pay and such) is that children get at least 30 minutes of recess per day for elementary school students.
My apologies, I noticed a JS folder and comments on the page and assume it was part of the solution. (Seems the timeframe to edit my original comment has expired).
5 reasons why small teams blow large teams out of the water
A mindmap showing TeX projects supported by DANTE e.V
shhhhh.
Macromedia Flash  – A New  Hope for Web Applications (2002) [pdf]
Hey Y'all if you are looking for a job at a SynthBio startup in the bay area let's talk. I work for Synthego, we have been around for about 3 years and are funder by the Founders Fund. Reach me at josh@synthego.com
the special snowflake parent wanted her special snowflake child to be a little genius and forgot that all animals need physical activity

might as well run straight into the ocean