skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relational DB's are very useful. So are nosql DB's, just for different tasks. We use memcached, redis and mysql and couldn't live without any of them.
> Clearly you have a lot catching up to do.

TBH, I'm not planning on catching up. I skim through the Perl6 articles that get posted here to see how things are evolving, and AFAICT Perl6 doubled down on all the Perl5 features I liked the least. More "magic"; more arcane symbols and operators; more context aware variables, syntax and semantics; etc.
BBC's style guide is to quote whatever literal statements, even in the title
This is nonsense. By that logic every country should continuously weaken it's currency in order to gain an advantage. So we would get caught in a descending spiral of every country constantly trying to have a weaker currency relative to its trading partners. If the USD weakened, which other currencies would strengthen and how do you think those other central banks would react?
No, and you wouldn't want the overhead. You can turn on warnings though if you want to make sure all your code is typed on compile. After compiling all type definitions are stripped and you're left with plain javascript.
Walter Penney also invented a binary game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney%27s_game

> Penney's game, named after its inventor Walter Penney, is a binary (head/tail) sequence generating game between two players. At the start of the game, the two players agree on the length of the sequences to be generated.

> This length is usually taken to be three, but can be any larger number.

> Player A then selects a sequence of heads and tails of the required length, and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length. Subsequently, a fair coin is tossed until either player A's or player B's sequence appears as a consecutive subsequence of the coin toss outcomes. The player whose sequence appears first wins.

> Provided sequences of at least length three are used, the second player (B) has an edge over the starting player (A). This is because the game is nontransitive such that for any given sequence of length three or longer one can find another sequence that has higher probability of occurring first.
The recording, performance, and production industry isn't throwing away wired headphone jacks any time soon and is not swayed by apple trends

Yeah, Apple is not an influential company in this field at all, and not a trend setter in general.

…and neither are audiophiles…

I'm sure audiophiles would hate the demise of an analog format in favor of a purely digital one.
The problem is the keyboards. I fancy the concept of having a small ARM laptop, but I'm too accustomed to Thinkpad's and mechanical keyboards.

Something like a Thinkpad 701C or the Zeos Pocket PC would be my dream for a portable note taking device.
The govt is a structure which answers to the people and is supposedly for the betterment of the people. The government exists only because you consent to be governed. At any given moment you can revoke that consent. This govt hasnt been looking out for the peoples interests in a long time.
When I was going to college I worked at McDonald's part time. I lasted maybe a few months and they hired me for the Christmas season and promised they'd keep me on after it, but let me go anyway.

I worked at McDonald's for Christmas and Thanksgiving, I worked for breakfast and lunch. I worked all of the stations for cooking food as I waited for coworkers to be woken up by an assistant manager who drove to their addresses and rang their doorbells because maybe didn't show up for work.

I tried to show up early for work, used a bus, lived in an apartment with two friends from high school. Along the way there was a children's hospital and one day a helicopter landed in the street and delayed the bus 15 minutes and I was late and got chewed out that I should have planned for the helicopter and gotten out 15 minutes earlier to catch an earlier bus.

I was studying Calc II and Chemistry at the time and kept my backpack with me with a change of shirt so I could take the bus to my classes after my shift was over. I was picked on for being in college by other coworkers and management. But I did my job, even cleaning rest rooms and the parking lot.

I feel empathy for people who work at McDonald's I got an Aunt who works for them and can't find a job elsewhere, and most of what she does is clean the tables after someone is finished eating.

I'm the sort of type of employee that they use temporarily because I am qualified for other work due to my college degrees. I hoped I'd have a job for four years, but it didn't work out that way. It would have paid the 1/3rd of the rent and kept me in college. But I lost the job at McDonald's and Captain D's as well, and after not finding a job moved back with my parents and attended a community college near their house.

I see fast food as a service industry, and people who work it serve the community. My own son taught me that, so we must never look down on them. McDonald's hires a lot of diverse people as well and other companies need to learn from that.
I can sympathize with companies that face the very difficult challenge of policing user-submitted content, but Udemy has always seemed really sketchy to me.

Earlier this year, I got inundated with Twitter spam from bots that were written to abuse Udemy's affiliate linking program. I made several attempts to bring the issue to Udemy's attention, but the company was totally ambivalent and didn't really care. I eventually configured my Twitter client to completely filter out any message that contains "Udemy" so that I wouldn't have to see a dozen or so obnoxious mentions directed at me every time I post a tweet with a programming-related keyword.

It doesn't surprise me much that their approach to addressing piracy is similarly lackadaisical. I doubt that they would have done anything at all beyond the bare minimum required by the DMCA if the issue hadn't escalated and produced widespread criticism.
3 A's to Hiring the Right Person
Oh, I agree with you. For tech, Raleigh and Austin have a lot of activity. Massachusetts of course--Boston/Cambridge housing costs are expensive but suburbs/exurbs are a lot cheaper than the Valley. Colorado.

There is a stereotype on HN that 20-somethings are all moving into a city without cars. There is a slight increase in college-educated millennials living in a handful of particularly dense urban areas but the overall trend is much exaggerated.
You'd be amazed at the number of companies in the Midwest that balk at paying devs above 65K, even for senior level work.

As for your company--if you fail and it wipes out your savings, that was your choice as a founder. There is no golden rule saying you need spend anything more than what is necessary to file bankruptcy. There's a reason it's called a limited-liability corporation.

And yes, being a founder isn't easy (did that, flamed out, f--- would not recommend on amazon), but at the same time the sort of stress is quite different than the ongoing exploitation and powerlessness that you can find as an early employee faced with misbehaving founders. At least as a founder you have some degree of control.
I use my Gmail account via IMAP with the native email clients on OS X and iOS. I use an S/MIME certificate from startssl.com.

All my email is signed. So far, I am not sure how to get people to send me encrypted email, so I never got any.

I do all this for no reason whatsoever.
+1 for Wiha. No experience with Wiha's competitors like Wera but I can't see myself ever going back to cheap precision screwdrivers.

Also, I'm not a fan of removable bits.. I always end up losing the bits, spending time trying to figure out what size the bit is..

I have this set and also bought a magnetizer/demagnetizer
http://www.amazon.com/Wiha-26199-Slotted-Phillips-Screwdrive...
How can you steal something that is neither rivalrous nor excludable?
Likely 'Rakudo Star', which was advertized as a a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 back in 2010 (and has had regular releases ever since[1]).

[1] http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/
@swiley so all YOU do is 1) something on your phone, 2) compile something to send to 3) a cloud super computer...

And you completely ignore all the other reasons for power given: Photoshop, Video Editing, Gaming (not Farmville), CAD, etc... all using various shades of gray between "Internet browsing" and "Super Computer Number Crunching"

That willful? ignorance is why you are getting downvoted into oblivion.
Just for kicks I ran this on a few devices
http://browserbench.org/JetStream/

An iphone 6 gets ~65

iphone 6s gets ~120

ipad pro ~130

new Macbook Pro (safari, haswell i7) ~210

Not scientific, but last years phone was half as powerful, in two years the 7s will also have a jump in performance. I don't think an intel system will have anywhere near as large as a jump since we're bumping against the limit of how fast a single core can be.
The Biggest Buyers of Software Companies
I'm still not buying it. That may be true for you, but it certainly isn't true for me, at least not yet.

Plus, there are many people interested in Mr. Money Mustache (who espouses financial independence through low cost-of-living), rural activities (rock climbing, hunting, etc.), or any number of other things you can't find in NYC or SF.
Image editing is one of those great examples of the workflows being so diverse that no generalized interface solution will be very good for all of them.

What's tickling my brain at the moment is the idea that these complex apps might be better as languages first, just shipping with thousands of well-organized example scripts that cover all the bread and butter - in the same way that synthesizers moved towards being preset-centric over time, to the point where one of the big features of new VST plugins is the content they ship with and the ease of browsing it.
Is an electron a particle or a wave? From a trading standpoint gold sometimes acts like a currency and sometimes like a commodity. Does the distinction even matter?
Sure, but that would require every subtype to override every method of the base type with a narrower return type, and do nothing except delegate to the base type in the body. It would be tedious boilerplate.

Since the base type's implementation already returns `this`, it makes sense to be able to annotate the method as returning `this` and get the benefit automatically.
I upvoted the GP because I think it's important for content publishers to disclose who is advertising on their sites.

I'm glad to know Intel advertises there. It doesn't mean the article is wrong, but it's a data point.

Edit after downvotes: First, I use an adblocker, so I wouldn't have seen the ad. So I treat it like a potential hidden conflict-of-interest.

Second, I think media sites should make explicit as much as possible--who advertises for them, and what influence the companies have on the media site. I'm sure they'll claim zero. Still I want it in writing.

I don't see any incentive for media sites to do that. But it'd be nice.
If you like hearing science from "the horses mouth" (vs/ TV), you may enjoy their YouTube channel with weekly lectures on a variety of topics and generally very cutting-edge: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQdkHKOTVT_chwgDcau4sg
Fun project. The output would be easier to understand as small multiples instead on animated gifs.
Most public peering IX's have route servers which have "most" of the routes available on the exchange. Peer with that and you have almost all of the routes available on the exchange. Of course, some entities might not advertise everything to the route server, but most do in my experience.
browsing the web used to be "viewing HTML documents", now it's more like a virtual machine being used to host applications.
Aside from the manueverability problem mentioned in other comments, the tether has a materials problem: it needs to hold the combined ship and couter weights at approx 1g.
Lots of alternatives discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10618506
You haven't been in one of our department faculty meetings.
Isn't supposed to happen. It would be a break of AES if it were to be shown to be possible. However it would mean that such a break would be instantly exploitable, rather than having defense in depth by requiring multiple independent failures. Our crypto systems should not be so fragile...
I just get spam directly from Udemy in my inbox, saying things like "Last chance to get these courses, prices so low it's a STEAL!".
When surveying people if they'd use a service, you should say how much it would cost.
> Why does this group of Muslims kill people while the vast majority do not?

Pareto?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
I built something similar for my girlfriend recently. When she's at work, she misses our dog so I built her a device that, when activated, dispenses a few treats, takes a video of Pickles enjoying the treats and sends it back to the sender. She can activate it by either sending an email or, better, picking up a picture frame that I customized. Inside the frame is a sensor that detects her touching the photo and that triggers the process, with the video ending up on her phone.

The main components are a Raspberry Pi to listen and control things plus an Amazon Dash button that I reconfigured as an on/off switch located next to my front door.

Overall, the software itself was relatively easy. The tricky part was building a machine that dispenses a few treats consistently, not 3 treats then 15 then 0.

I've been thinking of writing this up in more detail. If there is interest, that may provide the motivation.
1. How exactly is labor, land, power, or dark fiber lower quality in east Germany (if we ignore the fact that Nuremberg doesn't really qualify for being cheap nor for being in east Germany)? If anything, the subsidies might suggest that operating a business is actually more expensive, which is why it's being subsidised.

5. You are also aware that they operate some 170 Gbit/s of private peering?

6. Which costs exactly are they externalizing with regards to peering in your opinion? So far, your argument seems to be "they don't pay as much as DTAG would like them to, therefore, they are externalizing the difference between DTAG's wishes and what they are willing to pay" - which isn't exactly how you determine externalities.
> By that logic every country should continuously weaken it's currency in order to gain an advantage.

It might be an advantage for most people in the country (at least in the short term), but it would be a disadvantage (even in the short term) for the people with the most wealth, and, perhaps more specifically, for the people with the most power over monetary policy.

The advantages (particularly in the near term) that countries get from weakening currency is why the people who loan them money have come to insist than monetary policy should generally handled by independent central banks that are, while generally accountable in some way to government, also somewhat insulated from political pressure from the rest of government (and, often, with direct influence from the financial industry.)
I've been wondering, what procedures are used by SETI researchers to avoid announcing false positives? Since there would seem to be ample opportunity for generating media hype surrounding what they find, I am surprised we don't hear about more possible discoveries.

That suggests to me a detailed description of their protocols may help researchers in other areas. For example, I doubt they use p<0.05 to decide a discovery has occurred.
Knowing stuff like grammar helps one avoid run-on sentences, at least.
Browse the archived web the old way: 13 emulated browsers in your browser
I'm confused. I can follow the logic for O(sqrt n) searching. yeah, that's cool. But how to maintain the structure when inserting or deleting?

Insertion for example, if I want to insert a value which is smaller than the smallest element in the last heap, then it'll have to be inserted into some heap in the middle, right? And since the heap is in the middle, say heap K, its size already reaches its upper limitation K^2. Then where should the new value go? If I insist on pushing it into heap K, then the heap will violate the size limitation. Should I split the oversized heap into several heaps some time? If it does split, will the O(sqrt n) searching time still holds?

Or maybe I just have not caught the author's idea yet. :-(

BTW, why not BST, for everything is O(log n)?

Update: @nikic solved my questions. Thanks!
You're thinking of mjpt777.
> What moral right does he have to claim that Apple SHOULD make their products fixable?

I don't understand what you mean, exactly. I would say that he has no moral right to demand that a law be passed forcing Apple to make their products fixable, or to include a manual, or whatever. But he has every moral right to tell Apple what he thinks they SHOULD do — just as they have the moral right to listen or not.
Future of Web Design Is Automation [Ideas Daily]
oldweb.today connects to various web archives and allows users to browse old websites in old browsers, each running in a Docker container. Emulators such as Basilisk, Sheepshaver and Wine are used to run old MacOS and Windows browsers, alongside Linux versions of Mosaic and Netscape. The Memento protocol is used to talk to multiple web archives and combine results. The project is fully open-source and available at https://github.com/ikreymer/netcapsule Suggestions and contributions for other browsers, or other web archives sources are definitely welcome! Any other feedback also appreciated.

Here is a more thorough blog post from my collaborators at rhizome.org http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/nov/30/oldweb-today/
Somehow, I imagine that Udemy is going to get a ton of emails from original content creators in the next few days.

I can already picture someone scraping, crawling, and contacting the owners of the original content.
Isn't the whole point of advertising to disclose it? If Intel was advertising but you couldn't tell, then Intel is getting ripped off.
"...disclose who is advertising..."

Because the ads themselves don't? If you don't know who's advertising, then it's not a very effective ad.
Stand Out in a Sea of Marketers with These Design Tools
In one day we will wake up with a horrible hangover and all the events of recent past would be wiped out from our collective memory.
For some, the video games might not even be games they particularly enjoy—just grindy/addictive games that have a superior numbing effect or sense of progress.
It's ridiculous because how hard you worked doesn't mean jack shit. All that matters are the results.
Step 1: Avoid unnecessary pedantry.
Point taken. On the other hand OP is talking as if Apple is doing a capital crime instead of a business/feature decision which is at least misleading.
The degradation of service from some areas (particularly France and the Iberian peninsula) between the second and third maps is interesting. I guess that it was a consequence of deteriorating political relations (the War of the Austrian Succession, perhaps?)
Some discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626123
Fair enough, I won't try and convince you, FWIW I hope you are right, it's my home city and I want it to be a great place again.
Wonderful site! Includes a comprehensive open-access encyclopedia of photonics and links to suppliers.

As to the actual question of storing light, article admits the impracticality of any sort of "box o' mirrors" approach. Although truthfully it would make a fun experiment. I think nature provides a much more elegant solution in the form of crystals that can absorb and re-emit photons when excited, of which modern tech has made ample use thereof.
Well obviously if everyone races to weaken their currency as fast as possible, that causes a lot of instability. A weaker currency hurts lenders and the wealthy, and drives up consumer prices, so it’s not some infinitely applicable strategy that can be endlessly pursued by everyone.

But the point is, the US dollar has been kept “artificially” strong for a good while now, which goes along with a structural trade deficit, current account deficit, low domestic savings rate, unemployment, rising prices of non-tradeable goods, and struggling US export industries. On the other side, countries with artificially weak currencies like Germany or China have had high domestic savings rates, trade surpluses, current account surplus, etc. This kind of imbalance builds up pressure over time, and isn’t stable in the long term.
Seems to me like their answer was completely appropriate. They took down the illicit content as soon as they were notified (and on Thanksgiving day).

Case closed.
> I'm playing with the idea of creating a startup that lets parents share their un-used kids toys with other kids.

By "share" do you mean "rent" the way most services that use the description "sharing" do (as suggested by the reference to AirBNB, a rental intermediary, as well)? Because your description of the operation doesn't sound like sharing or even the rental that often goes by the name of "sharing", but like a matchmaking services that replaces donating/selling (or buying) used/secondhand toys with a more involved process than typical donation scenarios (for the person giving the toy), but possibly less involved that typical sales scenarios.

I can see how, if the payments received were right, that might be attractive as opposed to existing options. If you really do mean AirBnB style rental, I think that would be less attractive -- part of the reason to get rid of no-longer-used toys is to reclaim the space.
Sorry what's the point of using super encrypted email service when none of your addressees are using one?
Isn't it bland and homogenous enough already?

(And then there's the risk of suicide bombers with access to teleportation pads...)
Given the large number of bogus DMCA requests that fly around, it doesn't seem that large to me. Nobody is required to act as the copyright police, nor can anyone other than the copyright holder reasonably be expected to.

Copyright relies on permission and the copyright holder is, in fact, the only entity which can determine who has and does not have their permission for a given work. And sometimes even they get it wrong. For example, in Viacom v. YouTube they listed videos Viacom itself had uploaded as "infringing" and were forced to withdraw those from their complaint. And they did that twice because even after hundreds of hours spent on lawyers and legal research, they still couldn't get it right.
Of course the comparison was very far. Suppose though that I'm a contractor selling my work and as a result the software is my employer's. Even if he owns all of it usually I'm not required to provide such a manual. Even if I did that would come as a (big in this case) extra.
Ah, yes, that's a problem. In PHP, there's been some debate as to whether or not to support `static` (similar in function to TypeScript's `this`) as a return type, and that's one of the arguments in favour.
Because copyright infringement is not the same as theft and they are quoting the accusers.
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When you have to implement things in a "large" language after writing a similar one in Go you'll find yourself coding with a very minimalistic set of objectives. It's a Go-flavored pythonism of sorts. Things like explicit error handling, concurrency, maybe even memory management, will make their way deeper into your work flow and thought processes then they did before, especially if the language you are now using doesn't emphasize them to begin with.

It's this reason why I think learning as many languages as possible is a good thing. I can't imagine what'd I'd be missing out on if I was stuck programming Java 6 for a decade.
I remember using this list-making site _years_ ago, but somehow stopped using it. It reminds me of the modern day Pinboard, but for actual generic lists.

http://listography.com/