skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
never needs mowing

From the link, "Mow about once a month to maintain this lawn at a height between 3 and 5 inches.".

On the flip side, I replaced all of the grass with a patterned stone garden, in the places where there is no lounging, and small pea pebbles and rubber mulch in the places where people are likely to play. So I'm 100% mowing free, and it still looks nice since the stones/pebbles have interesting patterns.

edit: Change lawn to grass for clarity. Trees, shrubs, etc all stayed or were replanted.
While we didn't report directly on this, 10 (out of >700) respondents did say that they worked as a teaching assistant after graduation (Table 14).

We'll continue to conduct this outcomes survey (as well as report on market sizing and growth) yearly; since the industry itself is 2-3 years old, we don't have 5 year out data yet, but will soon-ish!
-Liz (Co-founder, Course Report)
Survivorship Bias [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
They do have a shared subset of features defined by POSIX. It's limiting and takes discipline, but it's not really impractical.
Just because they "write all of [their] sql by hand" doesn't mean they will be vulnerable to an attack as simple as this. This is just pure and unmitigated incompetence.
> because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against

this is utterly ridiculous
As somebody who works extensively with foreign freelancers, I have to agree. There is a wealth of talent overseas. The major issue I have with these consulting firms is my inability to retain talent in the long-term. It's often the case that a good person finds another position and I'm not given the opportunity to counter it, or the consulting company itself pushes talent to move to a new position because of apparent visa issues.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10451259
Tangentially, but is there a queueing service with good and fast retrying of messages with no destination?

Basically I'd like the incoming router to send a message of a specific type and subtype to an existing listener, but if one does not exist I'd like to take back the message, spawn a new listener which will get on the queue and resend the message.

I wonder if I could use a messaging service for keeping track of this, rather than have to manage my own map of what application backends are ready to process which type of messages ( spawning that backend takes a lot of resources so I want them to be born and die based on demand).
There would still be the problem of collecting accurate data to permit the algorithm to work. This would be expensive and people could lie to their own advantage.

BUT! Most economic models assume acquiring the necessary information for decisions is free AND they assume your agents always faithfully serve your interests. So once again these modeling assumptions have made the world safe for central planning. Praise the economists!
Oh, and let the general options be collapsible, or at the bottom of the pane. Those are less often used than the point options.
In-text search engine faster than Google and Bing
This is a nod to ReactJS
Ask HN: Developers vs. machines, how long will it last?
I believe developers will soon be replaced by machines. Product people or even marketing folks will generate apps/software in one click. What would you do if you were to lose your job and become obsolete?
Good points, but not quite. The standards of living have fallen not because of nigerians coming over and stealing jerbs, but because the redistribution shifted from people doing the work to people owning the capital required to keep the operation going. Of course, it is much easier to blame a bunch of poor people who don't know their rights or might not even have them.

If you really want your kids to live better - work for it now, and work for yourself. Judging by your comment though this doesn't seem to be the plan. Just being blunt here.
Pythagorean theorem water demo
Because water is mobile and needed by humans to survive. If the state runs out of water, people will die.

Also, when land is needed for the public's need, there is Eminent Domain, which gets invoked from time to time.
was this shared to illustrate an example of bad UI?

I'm like the target audience for this.. highly movtivated to learn D3.. HOwever this UX doesn't even make my want to click play on the video.
I totally agree. The stuff I myself was doing at 15 was more sophisticated than the "security consultants" I talk to professionally even consider.

At that age you have intelligence, lack of considering consequences and importantly lots of time. That's a dangerous combination.
Eh no. It cuts the total volume of waste per gigawatt-hour by a factor of 100, and the half-life down to decades. That's why it only takes about three centuries before it's no more radioactive than the uranium ore that was there in the ground before we dug it up.

What's more, these reactors could eliminate the long-term waste we have already.
Google just partnered with General Assembly to get more Android programmers [1] which is odd given the pay is so low. Does anyone know if the Android platform is considered "untapped" compared to Apple's? That's the only explanation I can come up with.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/general-assembly-and-google...
"Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence in
humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer."

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr240_E.pdf

and here you find tobacco:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinoge...

So processed meat IS ranking next to tobacco according to IARC.
They'd probably start operating on the dry cleaning model. The shop has one employee who takes custody of your bike. That night it gets loaded on a truck and taken somewhere cheaper. It's repaired using lower cost labor and shipped back to the shop the next night.

So the bike shop is still there, but it has only one employee and nothing gets repaired while you wait.
Jacobin is explicitly socialist. It's no surprise to find "extreme left" bias in a radical left magazine. Bias != "unreliable" though. No institutions exist outside of politics or ideology and the ones that claim to are the most suspect!

As a socialist myself I'm happy to see Jacobin referenced here. Maybe a few more tech workers will read it.
Point 5 doesn't seem to apply to self-employed people, and seems like a major difference. Self employed people can negotiate their compensation, these workers have prices set by someone else.
Please file vulcanize bugs or give feedback here on what didn't work for you.

Every componentization system will require concatting to get good performance on today's web (http2 push is close but quite here yet).
I think cma was being facetious.
Choosing a Front End Framework: Angular vs. Ember vs. React
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453803
The salaries look really, really low. I'm wondering if these people with bachelors degrees in CS are screwing themselves by paying additional for these bootcamps. It looks like prospective companies are taking advantage of fact that they know their candidate attended a bootcamp and is offering artificially low salaries.

I wonder if they would have better results by applying for jobs directly, instead of through the bootcamp recruiters.
If you'd searched for "wendelstein" only, you'd have found it. :)
Stone gardens will make your house hotter in the summer.
This is ultimately my same issue with Handy. I don't want a different person every single time. I think this makes it really hard to make it work.

That being said I have had Handy come and clean many times now and not changed it, so I think there is a slight convenience factor. It would be better if Handy just facilitated the direct communication with the same person to come every time. And instead of charging me a fee, charged the cleaner a kind of 'management' fee. I think that would better.
What is ridiculous about it? I have been coding for 30 years and am happy to pronounce that younger coders have a far more nimble mind than me. I'll destroy them on complex software engineering but I'm constantly impressed by their innovations. Anybody who finds this "ridiculous" is either a rare evergreen genius, or more likely, self-satisfyingly complacent.
I'm commenting on this post because her accusations were brash and unfounded (based on her own statements) and I think bashing your current employer on Tumblr is unprofessional. I don't see how it relates to HN other than as a chance to talk about HR issues.

I actually think the company in question handled this really well. It will be interesting to see what they do next though, I would honestly have troubles with this person if I had to go back to work with them after this.

> men readily speak up to disagree with us, rarely speak up to agree, validate, genuinely encourage, etc.

There are men in this very thread stressing the importance of speaking up for women regardless of facts in all public conversation as a political action.

Aside from that, no one should expect anyone else to go to bat for them (and they should expect to get called out on their mistakes). It's the way the world works for men and women.
Inkscape could have had the world if they just copied Adobe Illustrator, but instead they came up with their own unfamiliar UI. I'm not saying their UI is worse that Illustrator (although I feel that way personally), but it's not better enough to justify the learning curve. I have to imagine Inkscape contributors were smart enough to realize this, so I guess they were afraid of getting sued. Same goes for Gimp/Photoshop.
Hi guys, just noticed this thread on Mirador. I'm the main developer, and we are planning to release a new version soon with several improvements, particularly in the underlying statistical calculations (which are implemented in the miralib package: https://github.com/mirador/miralib). Not sure if I will have the time to prepare a version for Linux this time around, but will keep that as a feature request: https://github.com/mirador/mirador/issues/49

As for the methods manuscript focusing specifically on Mirador, it is on hold right now, as we have been busy using the tool in the Sabeti Lab to develop some prognosis models for Ebola and other infections diseases:

http://fathom.info/mirador/ebola/prognosis
http://fathom.info/mirador/ebola/datarelease

Once we publish the results on these more specific projects, we will go back to the general paper on Mirador.

Your feedback is highly appreciated, and if you have specific issues with the software please use the issues section on GitHub: https://github.com/mirador/mirador/issues
It's not just startups. The stuff I've seen at some very large companies would make you cringe.

As a colleague developer of mine says: I don't want any of my personal information on the internet because I know how developers think.

Sigh.
This is the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452550. We almost changed its URL to point to the blog post earlier. Perhaps we'll do so now.
What a non-article! tl;dr you should use run HAproxy on a known host that forwards to your services.

Why not nginx?
> Grant him genuine agency and let him take the lead.

I don't want to lead him in a sense "do what I say and that'll be good for you", but I'd like to help him open new horizons. And I really feel that he need external input here. We're living in a small village (but close to a big city), we don't have a TV, there's not too much happening around here. Without external inspirations, I'm afraid, we'd land with a local football club and Angry Birds on the iPad.

Nice story about plastic cups. :)
It was designed by university researchers.

So... I'm reading a planted advertisement? How could this be relevant?
Building a Career Beyond Tech Support
RANAM from Gemini 3 is up for auction
I think you're right. Sorry! One of those days.
What sort of maintenance would that be exactly? The whole point of xeriscaping is low maintenance.
How in the world does this raise or lower our standards?

I've heard similar arguments before. In fact, we have a long history of people arguing for exceptionalism, only to find that those views are not worth believing.

We should not grant voting rights to women because rather than elevating their position it will lower the exceptional position of men.

We should not grant freedom to black slaves because rather than elevate their position it will lower the exceptional position of white people.

Atheists and apostates reject the the behavioral code set by divine sources and think that humans are mere animals, not exceptional beings endowed by divine sources as good stewards of the Earth. They abdicate responsibility so must be punished.

We are at the center of the universe, and those who say the Earth revolves around the Sun are trying to destroy our exceptional place in the cosmos.

Your argument sounds equally as faulty as those sketches.
Url changed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6mx7cjltsI. The video is fabulous, but so is the blog, and it seems nicest to send the traffic the author's way.

Edit: plus it lured him in here :)
>> "Germans, French, African Development Bank, EU and World Bank, without any funding from the IMF necessary"

a rose by any other name...
Unexpected Interview Qs for Data Scientists
I wouldn't say that finding a house cleaner is really easy, but once you solve this problem and all goes well you just stick with the same person.
65k is not crazy low for junior devs not in SF/NYC.

Also, I was under the impression that most of these bootcamps were for people w/o a CS degree(or degree at all).
> So all protesters could be classified as terrorists under this definition?

You're heavily stramanning the definition. Nowhere near all protesters endanger human life, property, or infrastructure, and showing where voting desires are is clearly not what is meant by 'intimidation'. The vast majority of protesters do not do any of these things, hence the vast majority do not satisfy the quoted definition.
If only humankind had a discipline dedicated to the efficient allocation of scarce resources... Car washing? Absolument pas! Growing rice paddies in a desert? Sure, go ahead.
Its the other way around. The vast majority of housekeepers are not thieves however thieves pose as housekeepers very easily. Thieves (and other criminals) pose as all kinds of different occupations.

Almost no actual landlord will take your security deposit and run but there's plenty of people on Craigslist posing as landlords to do just that. So the moral of the story is try not to be taken in by a scam.
Not to take away from how cool this site is, but that is actually really easy to do in Illustrator.

- Draw a box with 4 sides.

- Use the Anchor Point Tool (shift + c) to select the top line and drag it. The adjacent points will split their anchors.

You can use the Anchor Point Tool to convert points between corner mode, mirrored anchor mode, and split anchor mode. Not sure if those are the official terms.
But in general, we have less war in the world now than 60 or even 30 years ago. So either there is no negative climate change, or this theory is far from perfect.
Skype is maddening for me. I love Skype and that's why it hurts that they are going to lose to WhatsApp at this pace.
I use Windows phone so here's my experience with both
1. Notifications - Skype doesn't notify me if I get a call or message when I was offline. WhatsApp does immediately

2. Call connection speed - with WhatsApp, it's instantaneous for me. Skype takes forever especially if the recipient is running Skype on mobile
3. In a poor imitation of WhatsApp, Skype now groups my phone contacts with my Skype contact. Obvious, can't call them without Skype credit so it just wastes my time unnecessarily
4. WhatsApp is much lighter. It seems they are trying to remedy this in Windows 10 mobile by decoupling the messaging part from the calling part
5. Notification count. Even on desktop, the notification count is always 1. Even if I get 100 messages, it'll show 1.
I'm never super happy with EFF's advocacy (I think they do good and important legal and technical work but I'm almost always unhappy with how they represent policy to the public).

I've been uniformly discouraged by FFTF's advocacy, which I find goes way past "misleading" into "straight up dishonest", such as their recent piece that strongly suggested Facebook supported CISA (a fact not in evidence, for whatever that's worth) because doing so would immunize them from privacy suits for user data so long as they dumped all that user data to the USG. No reading of CISA gets you to that.

Example from today's AMA is FFTF's claim that CISA "exempts itself from FOIA", making it impossible to challenge in court: they're referring to Sec 4 (d) (4) (b), which exempts from FOIA individual shared indicators, which of course must be the case, because indicators are things like compromised account names and passwords. That's all the law exempts from disclosure.
May. 26 2014
Microsoft has publicly announced that they're implementing Shadow Dom for Edge.

Chrome is implementing Shadow Dom v1 now, an experimental version is in Canary I believe. The currently shipping version has a different model for distributed children, but we're actively moving to the newly agreed upon spec now.
You sort of nailed it, but most 40+ somethings need to get out of 'full time employment' status in to consulting or some other more independent status to keep the money and status going up. Not everyone, of course, but that tends to be the trend. The 40+ folks I know who just want to go get a 9-5 coding job seem to have a harder time landing one than the 20 somethings I know.
"there were so many bad apples in those fields that society is rapidly losing its collective trust in authority"

Assumes facts not in evidence. I think it's fair to say that some of the tribalism currently evident in social and political argument is expressed as a broad based distrust and disregard for science, but that doesn't seem to be based on any rational analysis or actual knowledge, but more on internally propagated mythology.
The Irish Minister for Finance Says He Wants All 5 Year Olds YmTo Own iPads
I'm quite young and I'm curious about those "innovations" myself.
It seems I stand corrected. It looks like the hydrogen was a result of the dissociation of the zircalloy.
The very short tale of Unix's Tee command
I don't agree with the cheap freelancer part, but I can understand the nervousness around bootcamps. They teach for the 80% of basic cases that a Jr. Dev will encounter. This may be good in theory, however, I get very nervous about the 20% of the cases that they have not encountered which require fundamentals to be able to work through. This is just one example.

I've seen guys with good fundamentals grab onto new languages and theories very, very quickly because they had a solid foundation. I'm not completely against giving bootcampers an opportunity, but I do have my reservations regarding what I mentioned above and a few others.
"The laws are malleable. Caught drunk driving out of a nightclub in the capital Managua with a beer in your hand? Pay the security guard $1. Caught by the police on the highway with no driving license? Pay the cop $4. It’s as simple as that. The problem is that this malleability stretches through all strata of society and often leads to corruption."

No, that is corruption.
I don't mean to trivialize the risk; merely to point out that there are things which, while carcinogens, should not be avoided absolutely. The key is risk management, not risk avoidance; just as avoiding sunlight entirely would tend to greatly increase the risk of obesity and related metabolic conditions, someone who eats bacon is likely to be at lower risk than someone who eschews bacon but instead eats lots of carbohydrates.
Thank you. I absolutely don't think the question about baseball at the speed of light is silly.
I see a lot wrong with what you are saying. But I don't see a lot of value in arguing it. If I argue with men here about sexism, I get told that I am "combative" and therefore I am at fault for whatever problems I feel exist (that I experience firsthand). I have flagged this piece. I dislike this entire conversation. And when I submit things that do propose other points of view and are trying to find real solutions, they mostly get ignored.

This is what I submitted today (yes, I wrote it -- not really relevant to why I am aggravated): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453412

It has one upvote and no comments. Meanwhile, plenty of people are happy to piss and moan about how this woman is Doing It Wrong, upvote this and fill it up with ugly comments.

I would like to see a great deal more focus on how to solve this. This is not it.

Having flagged this piece, I plan to move on. I think this does not help anyone.
Or use a language with good tooling: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename
A complexity here is that Switzerland is a small country heavily integrated with the Eurozone, but with its own currency that has recently risen strongly in value. In CHF terms, yes, Swiss prices are currently deflating. But this isn't really a domestic deflation phenomenon in the sense that a similar decline in prices would be in a bigger economy like the USA: the role of CHF in Switzerland isn't nearly as canonical/exclusive as the role of USD in the USA, since so much Swiss business, even individual business, takes place in EUR-priced marketplaces.

As the article briefly mentions, the Swiss Franc is now worth about 10% more vis-a-vis the Euro than it was a year ago. Many things in Switzerland are actually inflating if you care about EUR value, which many Swiss people and businesses do: prices and wages have decreased 2% in nominal CHF values, while the CHF has simultaneously appreciated 10%. Many Swiss employees therefore in practice have a salary that represents more European buying power than it did a year ago. That could be expected to have some effects more similar to inflation rather than deflation, in this context.

I think the same would probably happen with any small European country. If Denmark broke the DKK/EUR peg and let the DKK appreciate by ~10%, many things would deflate in DKK terms to compensate.
That doesn't excuse the commenters who made it so.
You're right. I saw a non-root app on Android that provided per-app network permissions, but on second look it's just using a VPN. Thanks for the correction.
What exactly am I looking at? A javascript REPL? Doesn't seem to be node.js (no require())? Some introduction text or a help-object with useful context would be nice.
This argument is insidious, because it's extremely difficult to document a pattern, particularly when folk come out of the woodwork to undermine each and every individual anecdote claiming sexism (as in this and every other thread like this on HN. Even, I would point out, in cases where the sexism is undeniable to any rational observer).

Do you have to believe every anecdote? Of course not. Should you let those women have a voice to air their perceived grievances, without stifling them in the name of "fairness" or "defaults"? To do any less is the very definition of institutional sexism.
> But. But. Consider an alternative hypothesis; that the author really did experience a bit of nasty, petty sexism.

Actually, I'd say GPs advice is the right course of action, in part precisely because real sexism might be involved. In addition to providing a productive way forward if that is not the case, it also avoids an overreaction which provides an excuse for (and thus masks the sexism of) any adverse action in the future.

It doesn't sweep anything under the rug, in fact, it is the best approach for bringing what is actually happening out in the open (rather than escalating the one clear, undebatable problem in the situation under discussion, which is that people are acting based on unsubstantiated assumptions about others motivations.)
The article is behind a paywall, unless you access it via a Google search.
NASA and GM’s joint space robot is halfway to human-level flexibility