skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, the best course website is http://www.freecodecamp.com/ to learn Modern App Development.
> it seems strange to me that we would always recommend to companies that their revenue streams are diverse, yet for individuals, the smallest and most fragile economic unit, we say: you must only do one thing all your life. What a crazy way to live; 87% of people in full-time employment are not passionate about what they do. When I look at this new way of work, I think of it as opt-in. It gives people economic agency, it puts them in charge. And it gives them flexibility. People love those things.

I don't think people love these things as much as they love security, at least in the long term.

Every generation goes through this. Journalists act like Millennials are special people who won't be held to a 9-to-5 job like everyone before them, but they've made the same mistake as journalists who covered previous generations. Before these "gig economy" Millennials, we had "hippie" Baby Boomers and "slacker" Gen-Xers.

Young people of every generation are always going to say they don't want to live a traditional life like their parents, that they're going to chase their dreams and be genuinely different, and they join whatever the latest counterculture is. But, ultimately, they come back.

The hippies of the '60s and '70s became the yuppies of the '80s and the soccer moms of the '90s. Why? They want that sweet, sweet security. A boring job with a steady paycheck and loads of benefits means you don't have to worry about anything, as long as you come to work every day and don't spectacularly fuck up at your job. If you're planning to start a family, then you need the stability for your kids. If you're not, then the stability helps fund your life so you can spend the weekend enjoying your hobbies instead of worrying where your next meal is coming from.

Mark my words, in a decade the "gig economy" rumspringa will be over, and most of those people who chose to bounce from gig to gig for "flexibility" will be working in cube farms so their kids can have health insurance and go to good schools (and those of us without kids will be doing the same thing so we can indulge in expensive hobbies on evenings and weekends).

Oh, of course there will be holdouts, just like there are still hippies who live on communes well into their 60s, but by and large the gig economy will fade away once most of the original participants are out of their 20s, and pop culture will treat the "aging Millenial hipster" as a joke just like the "aging hippie" is treated now. And, of course, we'll see the beginnings of the next rumspringa as the next generation of young people decide they don't want to be like their parents... until they do.
Zagat?
Over 9000 internet points for posting Kunstler.

His TED talk is literally how I in my early twenties realized that I hated life in my native, post-WWII Helsinki modernist, mid-rise suburbs.

Without being able to put my finger on it, I'd always despised the whole ideology of your home being a generic place to put your crap and sleep in, separated from the rest of society on the condescending premise that being surrounded by generic "nature" is good for you. I never wanted a car, and I loathe hanging out in spaces where every adult supposed to drive one.

I totally get why the Le Corbusier crowd saw 19th and 20th century inner cities as cramped, dark and unhealthy. Poor sanitation and fumes from lead mixed gasoline alone are good reasons to escape the urban core.

But technology has improved to the point where suburban sprawl is nothing but a tragedy in how it formed whole societies and middle classes around compulsory car ownership. I love how Kunstler angrily summarises thinkers like Jane Jacobs: The quality of culture and civic life is limited by the quality of the built spaces around us.

I've moved downtown to the Kallio district in Helsinki. I'm certainly building my adult life around the assumption that a significant chunk of my income will go to paying high rents. I'm not the only one who has realized that life is better in the small number of dense neighborhoods of pre-war Helsinki that were built like a real European city with services and life in mind.
Yeah. I don't live in the boonies but I also don't live in a big city. Pretty much any restaurant or small business around where I live has, at best, a handful of reviews over the past few years. It's just not very useful.

Biases baked into the platform are one problem for a review site. But you also just need critical mass.
Leo (http://leoeditor.com) pretty much blew my mind when I figured it out. Changed the way I see data.

(Full disclosure, I contribute to Leo now.)
Yes, that's exactly what bilingual (or multilingual) means. Doesn't have to be completely fluent or use it everyday, just that you literally know and can communicate in more than one language.

In Europe, it's more likely that any one person is bi- or multi-lingual just because there are more languages in contact with one another through close borders, etc.

In parts of North America, some people only know one language their entire life (whether it be Spanish or English, etc)
Yelp as a company has no way of knowing what shady practices their sales people use to try and get an ad sale. I've experienced first hand being the point of communication for my parents' small business. As soon as I declined a $300/month offer, my parents' business (which had only 2 5 star reviews) suddenly received a 1 star review from some random person that didn't even fit the store's clientele. Where did this review come from?

I understand the benefit Yelp provides to some excellent establishments but it unjustly hurts so many along the way.
Programmers Are Distracted Today
This may be the case in San Francisco. It's not the case elsewhere, however, at least for this anecdotal sample size of one. :)

Business travel takes me all over the country and Yelp is incredibly reliable. I've lost track of the number of times that someone recommends a place, Yelp says it's a 2-3 star place, we go anyway, and yup, it's average at best.

I hear and see the complaints of restauranteurs about Yelp. Yet my experiences at places usually match what's seen in reviews. There's a restaurant in my hometown where the owner, a friend of mine, constantly complained about Yelp reviews where the the sentiment was that his food was too expensive and not of consistent quality (I agreed with the reviews). A few weeks ago he decided to close the place because of declining revenues. Had he listened to the reviews, settled for a bit less margin, and worked with his staff to produce a consistent product he'd still be in business.

Edit: I neglected to add that it's really important to read reviews for context. Sometimes you just have people bitching because they're a gluten-sensitive nut-allergic vegan and the place didn't cater to their highly specific needs.
> the text of the C standard isn't actually enough to unambiguously determine what the committee (and compiler vendors) intend for the language to mean in practice.

Interesting! If the standard is under-specified, then presumably this student must have had to fill in some of the holes themselves, or found a way to represent multiple interpretations simultaneously.

> issues regarding inconsistencies in the ISO standards

If the standards are inconsistent (in a logical sense), and this formalization is sufficiently complete, it should uncover those inconsistencies since they would amount to type errors in Coq. I wonder if the author had any of those difficulties.

> trying a code sample in multiple major compilers to decide what it's "supposed to do" when the standard is unclear

One of the effects a project like this could have is to make this (at least theoretically) unnecessary to do.

> implementing a toy C++ compiler by following the text of the standard literally and it became impossible pretty quickly

Fortunately C is a much smaller and simpler language than C++. Isn't the C++ standard almost 1000 pages? I'm not sure what the C standard is but it must be quite a bit smaller.

Regardless, it's a PhD thesis so the difficulty of the task isn't a reason not to attempt it :)
Ridiculous for them to close the exhibit. Lest we can't have people learn and understand how different animals behave within their groupings.
They don't keep it proprietary because they want money, but because they want the companies producing the batteries to be local ones.
There is a two-week span every couple months where a Yelp rep tries to contact me daily, sometimes even multiple times per day. I rarely take unsolicited calls since I tend to get a lot of them, so I'm not really sure what they want. What do they have to sell you on? The company I work for doesn't have a strong "untrusted" Yelp rating, but it's largely because it's not a local business and people predominantly give us bad reviews when something negative happens, even when it's outside of our control. There are better review sites in the niche we operate in and there are no parallels between those reviews and what ends up on Yelp. You get some of the same complaints, but there are also far more positive reviews and the reviews are higher quality and more informative than what's on Yelp. For trusted reviews on Yelp, we rate much better.
I'm missing how this story reflects poorly on Yelp. You did exactly what they want Yelpers to do: Review a series of places so they can (after a few months, apparently) calibrate your ratings and have some algorithmic confidence you're not a drive-by or paid reviewer.
I think the biggest things working against Yelp are the reports from businesses that Yelp offered to censor bad reviews and/or promote/shill positive reviews in exchange for money.

I've heard about it all N-th hand, so I'd imagine that Yelp's team is very careful about wording it such that it's some sort of legit promotion that they're offering.
> I am assuming direct front-end collisions between the black hole and matter, so the speed doesn't make much difference.

Ah, ok; yes, in this approximation (which I agree is a pretty good one--there is another subthread on this that I've been posting in), the number of particles eaten is basically the number of atoms that can be lined up end to end across the diameter of the Earth (in the worst case scenario where the hole flies straight down through the Earth). That number is about 10^17, which is many, many orders of magnitude less than the number of atoms in Mount Everest (the very rough back-of-the envelope number I come up with for that is 10^40).

> I suspect the cross section (event horizon radius) of a proton massed black hole would be smaller than a neutrino.

I thought the hole's mass was assumed to be about that of Mount Everest, at least for this discussion. The horizon radius of such a hole would be about 1.5 x 10^-14 meters, or about the size of a large atomic nucleus. I'm not sure we have a good number for the "size" of a neutrino.
The problem in Germany is transporting power from wind to the south, and not transporting power from PV. And Germany didn't use more energy from coal since the shut down of nuclear. (renewables replaced nuclear)

Cheap batteries would allow every country to move to renewables.
I'm aware most people in tech don't care about their appearance

In my experience, that's not true. Many do care, but a significant part of it is caring about giving the impression that they don't care, coupled with the need to not stray outside the uniform. many places say they don't have a dress code, but that's usually short-hand for "you need to look like us to work here".
I think that statement is referring to simply defining "undefined behavior", not actually determining whether a given program has undefined behavior.
VWO adds visitor behaviour analysis, moving towards a complete CRO platform
Hm, it should probably first recur then remove permissions, right?

At any rate, removing list permissions from directories is probably not what you want to do.
The standards for adequately pleading a securities fraud lawsuit -- which this was -- are incredibly high, and the plaintiff has to meet that standard without access to any discovery from the Defendant (here, Yelp). Which is all a way of saying that it is extremely difficult to read too much into the dismissal of a securities fraud lawsuit.

The judge in this case was basically concluding that plaintiff -- a Yelp investor -- could not adequately allege in his complaint that Yelp or its executives made a false statement of material fact in connection with the sale of a security. And plaintiff had an extremely high burden to survive such a motion to dismiss because of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Securities_Litigation_...).

So, in short, there is very little that one can conclude about Yelp's actual practices (for better or for worse) from learning that a securities lawsuit like this was dismissed.
It's not uncommon for big community websites like Yelp to distrust brand new accounts. It sounds like Yelp could improve their "trust" algorithm, but this doesn't really surprise me.
Wake up one hour early, and immediately start working on your project. Remove all distraction: don't open email, don't log into social media - just start work on the idea. When you have five minutes left, leave yourself notes on what the next day's work should be.

When you devote one solid hour of absolute focus to a project, you get an incredible amount done. When I use this process for side projects, that first hour of side project work is by far the most productive hour of the day.
Sodium is a bit less inflammable than lithium, not much. You still can not throw water over it.
You missed the point.It is not about firing me.It is about say what you mean and mean what you say.Various start-ups say they want diversity but the reality is they are just rhetoric.
Just talk.They say one thing and do another.I have seen a situation where someone whose name sounds like minority was not called for an interview as a software engineer even though,he has all the other requirements.
So,it is a systemic alienation as far as i am concerned.
1 hour a week, 52 hours a year.

The goal though isn't just 52 hours, its a way of testing your desire to work on something against the call of other things.

People, like the author, feel they have no time to do anything else. But they also generally feel that they can spend an hour doing something like watch a TV show or attend some event. So you commit to 1 hour to work on your project a week. And if you are really interested in it and motivated you will find you spend more than that on it. However if you find you can't keep a commitment even to just a single hour, then that is a good indication that it isn't a priority and you should probably accept that and move on.
>I mean, it's generally agreed that murder is unethical; but when you look deeply, this is largely a meaningless tautology, because it's only murder if it's wrong; two people can look at the same act of killing and one can call it murder, while the other can call it something just.

That's a really poor example that only applies because you chose to use the term "murder" rather than "killing." Killing is not wrong because it's killing, it's wrong for more subtle and practical reasons -- something that is easier to show if you don't go around wantonly calling killing 'murder.'

>You can claim that all people share a instinctual belief in a set of core ethics [..]

I wouldn't claim that people share an instinctual belief, but I would claim that there is a minimally-consistent rational belief-structure that applies to all decision-making entities, whether people actually believe it or not. There are things that are true for all decision-makers, given that "decision-making" is a coherent concept. For instance, you can't make decisions without valuing the mechanisms that make those decisions. This is essentially a tautology that mean "If you're going to use your brain to do anything, you're going to use it to value your own brain first."

Add a couple layers of complexity and you're going to end up valuing life simply because you need it to do just about anything. And killing becomes wrong when it is destroying valuable resources.

This doesn't require you to have beliefs tied to some specific culture, it only requires you to be a rational generalist -- someone who's morality actually encompasses real goals.
The “Not Yet” Fallacy of Startups
TripAdvisor's reviews have the same problem, but usually they've been faked all the way up to five stars. It's ridiculous.

And these days, it seems average restaurants are sporting the "TripAdvisor Certificate Of Excellence", so now that's meaningless too. I've seen it on one genuinely top-class Indian restaurant, but recently saw it on some distinctly mediocre places in Singapore.
Show HN: Create smart invoices
The commit on GitHub, for anyone interested: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/commit/ac468f3fab9f7092a...
check out http://wipy.io/ . Best of both worlds and draws 850uA in suspend mode.
I have 2 OS X machines (a Macbook & iMac), an iPad, and 2 iPhones. My photos, keychains, bookmarks, iCloud drive, etc. do sync reliably & predictably, though the iOS devices need to be on WiFi to sync their photos.

The only area I've had some problems lately with are Contacts. I'll update a contact in one space and not see it updated on another device consistently. Not sure why.
Admittedly, its all off record hearsay as it's not to smart to talk badly about your C-levels in public discussion. Though I must say, as a user its hard to sincerely distinguish the business motives of Firefox from other parts of the org. Especially in the recent push of the browser.
Alphabet’s Nest Hires VP for Security, Services from Microsoft, AmEx
How Cocaine Changes the Brain
Pointers are fixed size (either 32 or 64bits). When a project got bigger, it's sometimes useful to "shrink" the number of pointers you're passing around.

Nicholas Nethercote has a blog about his work on this on Firefox : https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/ (e.g. https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2011/11/01/spidermonkey...)
"even after taking into account other factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and age"
But not IQ and social status,bilingual people are more likely to score higher on both and this could be an aspect of healthier cognitive functions rather than how many languages you know.
Zagat is (still) pretty decent if you're interested in restaurants in one of the metropolitan areas that it covers and you're in their foddie-ish demographic. However, I don't think Zagat, which had a pretty long pre-Web history in what we now call crowdsourced restaurant reviews, offers a lot of insight for how we might do a small business review site today.
From what I understood from the article, they closed the exhibit because they didn't want the visitors to see the (potentially unsettling/traumatizing) injuries on the baboons. Which actually sounds reasonable to me.
The quote is missing important context. Just want to clarify that author is speaking about microservices specifically. The whole point of microservices is that one could be rewritten in a matter of days without involving substantial risks and expenses.

The cost of managing microservices and whether multilingual environment pays off is a separate question. Rewriting a now much better understood solution using an appropriate technology could have dramatic effect.
When I interview, one of the factors for selection I have is "put some effort into preparing for this interview". One of the indicators for that is how they dress. Clean is better than dirty, presentable is better than slobby, ironed is better than spent the last week crumpled into a ball, shirt with buttons is better than t-shirt, and so on. Basically, show me that you actually want this job enough to put some thought and preparation into how you look.
It's all relative, as they say.
What would it take for Apple to manufacture iPhones in America?
It's not completely meaningless, I interpret "Uber for x" to mean a technology company that is the middleman in furtherance of skirting laws/regulations.

Do you know how many Uber drivers have been charged criminally?

Just think of controversial or antiquated laws and build Uber on top to facilitate the transaction. Uber of drug dealing...Uber of prostitution...unlike Uber of banking I bet you know exactly what those mean.
French is little-endian. English is big-endian.
>"For many years, the consensus was that the human brain couldn’t generate new cells once it reached adulthood. Once you were grown, you entered a state of neural decline. This was a view perhaps most famously expressed by the so-called founder of modern neuroscience Santiago Ramon y Cajal. After an early interest in plasticity, he became sceptical, writing in 1928, “In adult centres the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. It is for the science of the future to change, if possible, this harsh decree.” Cajal’s gloomy prognosis was to rumble through the 20th Century."

Can anyone point out what evidence is cited that conflicts with Cajal's claim? I don't see it. They mention functional reorganization (a change in the weights between neuronal connections as opposed to structure), but don't address why this is an inadequate explanation:

"Neuroplasticity can refer to structural changes, such as when neurons are created or die off or when synaptic connections are created, strengthened or pruned. It can also refer to functional reorganisations, such as those experienced by the blind patients of Paul Bach-y-Rita, whose contraptions triggered their brains to start using their visual cortices."
Learn to Program: The Fundamentals by U of T on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1

Did not see any other mentions. It was excellent.
+1 for The Guardian article and this discussion thread. I see the automation and replacement of jobs as one of the central problems.

I am mostly retired now so I spend more time mentoring (mostly) young people on CS tech, job market, choosing a career path, etc. Two common lines of dialog are what tech they have a passion for and the other is what tech is least likely to be automated. I may be optimistic in that I hope that a life process/system of continuous education and keeping in mind what types of work help society the most will see the younger generations through some 'interesting' times.
I'd love some good monthly, quarterly, or even annual digests on the topics of foreign affairs and certain academic disciplines that I'd like to follow but don't have a great enough interest in to pay for and follow several major journals to find the interesting or important bits. I'd definitely pay for such things—though not nearly as much as the cost of the services the article mentions as I don't need my news to be that fresh or comprehensive, though actual good coverage would be appreciated.
Four fundamentals of workplace automation
Varnish and Microservices: Introducing Zipnish
It's probably the wrong question was my real point.
Reading the history of circumnavigation makes this seem like a bit of an overestimate -- Around the World in 80 Days was written in the 1870s, in the 1880s someone actually did the trip in 72 days, and in the early 1900s someone replicated it in 54 days.
>open source is not about politics

This is a quite naive point of view that even very smart people hold. Open source software makes and breaks whole industries in software, of course it's political.