skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus it's hard to find a major games journalism web site that isn't getting paid by the developers or publishers for good reviews, or threatened with blacklisting.
I've started trying to stick to dash syntax for shell scripts.
It's a difficult analogy to make, in particular when you forget to consider the ocean of milk underneath you from all the libraries and frameworks you are using. Then the difference between 4 small bottles or 1 big bottle seems less significant.
The first few chapters look very good, best of luck with the rest!

In case anyone here is interested in more reading material, I recently wrote a small book about Bash that could be helpful: https://gumroad.com/l/datascience

To make sure it didn't read like a manual, each chapter is an "adventure", where I show how to use only command line tools to answer questions such as: What's the average tip of a NYC cab driver? Is there a correlation between a country's GDP and life expectancy? etc
The ratio of hydrogen to hydroxide is higher than it normally is. Water naturally dissociates into hydrogen and hydroxide ever so slightly in equal amounts under neutral conditions.
>> I particularly like the comments to that article stating that only "liberals" believe the water supply is heaving with lead.

In this case it's a poor area, and IIRC children of welfare recipients are required to have certain tests every year or two. So at some point all they had to do was look at existing data to see the lead levels in the kids went up dramatically after the change. Easiest study ever.
A Practical Buying Guide for 15 Prebuilt Drones
Possibly, but bash functions can still be quite useful even in a relatively simple script.
I'm sorry but I think this is a grossly over-optimistic view. If vehicle automation requires any upgrades to road infrastructure I see it being a total non-starter.
How successful has Flattr been, compared to Patreon? There's at least dozens and possibly hundreds of people making an at-least-middle-class amount of money on the platform. (Hard to tell. I'd love to see some statistics myself.) Is Flattr that successful? I don't encounter it very often but perhaps I just don't move in the right circles.

It's hard for me to recommend something that doesn't seem to work over something that does, when we're talking cold hard cash and whether or not you get to make a living.

(Edit later: Ah, dangoor links to graphtreon, which has the data I was looking for. Using $50K/year in Patreon income as the cutoff for "middle class", trying to account for Patreon fees and the extra details of covering health care, it looks like we've got ~100 people or groups making at least one "middle-class lifestyle" amount of money on Patreon alone, quite a few more "starving artists" if they were only on Patreon, and a long list of people making good monthly supplement money to what must be another income.)
I did like Flattr, but you're right, I haven't even heard of them in years. Patreon is usable for blogs, or anything else as far as I know.
Open source layout prototype part of OpenJDK Project Panama
> Take Witcher 3 - both me and my significant other were playing it at the same time. Me on PC, while she played on PS4. She was a good 5-6 hours into the game, while I was still fucking around with my drivers, overclocking the GPU and CPU, going into bios every 5 minutes just to make sure I definitely have a locked 60 fps experience.

I've never has this issue when playing games on PC? Usually I can just buy a game, wait for the thing to download and get on with playing it within 10 minutes of it being installed. Usually I change a few settings such as resolution and I put it in windowed mode, and maybe reduce some graphics settings, but that's it. I very rarely have to mess with drivers, and I've certainly never had to overclock my CPU or GPU, nor did I have to enter the BIOS just to play a game. And if the game isn't at 60 fps? Who gives a shit, as long as it's a playable 30 fps or more then I'm happy just playing the game. PC gaming for me isn't about the superior graphics or framerate, it's the fact that I can have a game on one monitor whilst having easy access to a web browser or IRC on another so I can do something during loading screens. It's the fact that I can mod the game to add new features, especially in strategy or management games.
You have a misinformed view of what a "computer scientist" is; I have never written a Coq proof, but I think my publication record buys me the label "computer scientist".

(I recognize you were probably usually your specific examples as examples of a kind, but it's that kind which I think is misinformed. You probably think a "computer scientist" must necessarily be a theoretician, which is not the case.)
The Product-Technical Spectrum
That wouldn't make it REST either. It meets the REST constraints granted automatically through use of HTTP, and doesn't meet any more through its design.
I'm glad to see this on HN. Flint is often a forgot about place in the world. I grew up there and now live outside of Flint. My dad was murdered there.

But I always think Flint is prime for opportunity. The people need basic essentials, water, food, shelter. But the infrastructure to build factories is there. Power, train lines, the whole deal. It's really a shame. The sad part is, the people are still hell bent on supporting the companies that destroyed the town. Michigan in general is like this, its why they don't allow Tesla vehicle sales.

Growing up my family owned a junkyard and the Flint river ran behind it. It was disgusting. Some of the guys would wade through it on their way two and from work. It was a shortcut, but you had to be a true animal to go that route.
Can we have immutable datastructures in a multithreaded NodeJs please? It is simple to implement (because immutable), and would solve a lot of problems.

NodeJS works nicely with nonblocking IO, except what most people seem to forget is that the CPU is a resource too, which is still being blocked by NodeJS when handling any event. Multithreading would help alleviate this.
Redfin Names the Best Neighborhoods to See Holiday Lights in 2015
His point is that a properly built proprietary product is better than a hacked together open source project.

Active and transparent patching does not improve the code quality.
What a negative comment, to a detailed an insightful article! Just because she mentions Van Gogh, you pick on it, ignoring her later qualifiers.

Rather, this long post should be seen as a critique of the limitations of channels like YouTube. Such platforms are supposed to cater to long tail and empower them, but clearly they fall short.

Rather than criticizing the long tail artists for feeling entitled, it can also be seen as, that YouTube like platforms could solve this problem in a better way. Perhaps something like reddit tipping using bitcoin (I know this sounds a bit futuristic).

Clearly Ad based model are lacking and not paying enough.

Summary: If artists in the earlier centuries suffered and lived in misery, it does not mean that the current lot should also live the same way. Not in the age of Internet and cyber currencies.

edit: minor correction
Hmm...reading further the problem doesn't seem to be one handled well by EPA standards. The new water supply is more corrosive than the old water supply, so in poorer neighborhoods with lead piping, more lead (sometimes significantly) is being leeched from the pipes than before.
That gives the patron way too much control over your output.
> If you are on a desktop, discrete GPUs can be dedicated to a VM via VT-d, which enables 3D graphics with near-native performance.

Well this is the theory. You'd better be a Unix guru if you want to make it work, they have some questions about it on their Google group and it looks shaky.

It widens the attack surface too.
> Even fairly recently libertarian organisations like the Cato Institute have been fighting against regulation of lead and against compensation for those poisoned.

That's shocking and tragically sad.
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Steam is also a victim of its own success. I now have a huge backlog of games to play through and have not been especially motivated to add to the backlog.

On the other hand, I'm starting to appreciate games where the primary complaint was "it was too short". There's something to be said for one of those 2 hour walking simulators as a palette cleanser.
Ask HN: I'm offered interview by Google for internship that I never applied
Recently, I got an email asking me to schedule a phone interview with a Google recruiter on a position that I kind of never applied. In fact, this year, I never directly applied to Google on any positions. What I vividly remembered was just sending my resume to a Google Form from Google to their career talk in my country. So here I am, should I give it a try even if I don't really interested in the nature of work of this internship position?

Further information: I'm a CS-student that doesn't like to do marketing work and they offered "Business Intern" interview offer.
Why not run a kickstarter/indiegogo campaign?
Your experience at the end there makes me kinda glad I game on my iMac nowadays (booted into Windows, of course) instead of continuing to build PCs like I used to. It's the retina 5k model with the best GPU option. It's plenty fast if I play at half-res (2560x1440) or less.

My frame rates are Fine, Just Fine for all the AAA titles... Not always 60fps but good enough. But the fact that I can't tweak anything in the bios, there's only one good driver, and I definitely can't overclock makes it feel more like a console in that regard. And I can just concentrate on playing games.

(Apple took a while to come out with Windows 10 drivers though, but that was my only negative experience.)
H2a is a debugging reverse proxy for HTTP/2 developers
"Talk of a split was rekindled earlier this year by activist investor Jana Partners LLC, which bought up stock in the company. Jana signed off on the strategic review, which was initiated in July and included a 15 percent employee reduction and a shakeup of the board."

Once these activist investors gain a toehold, nothing but bad things happen to employees of the company.

I suspect the layoff which occurred in November won't be the last. The investors will want to move the design and engineering arm of the company overseas, and keep the licensing arm in the states. This will mean no more design engineering at Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego. Maybe this is what's required to remain competitive against the Chinese company Mediatek, but the trend I'm seeing in US companies is to keep the HQ in the states with the CEO, Legal, MBA's, and marketing types, and outsource the R&D and design and manufacturing overseas. This type of company is what I call a "Toga Company".
Yeah, that's what I couldn't get. If they're not paying you, those 100,000 people aren't customers, they're just strangers. They do absolutely nothing for you.
It's useful to be able to write functions for your shell. For example, I have a function up, which moves up n dirs.
They actually OK'd Super Mario Special, which is even worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HQOKmAPRA. However, this was 1986, so I'm assuming that they felt burned by the PC platform after that trainwreck and so didn't really entertain id's offer.
Lokka – A Simple JavaScript Client for GraphQL
Basic idea: Spread out the release of feature functionality over many "patches" (i.e. M.m.patch) rather than releasing all of feature set all at once.

This is, to my experience, a pretty common way to do things. But it is a different mentality then "a feature set has to be entirely complete and have full functionality", which seemed to be the author's prior mentality.
I am amazed by the Nonoperational/Operational ratio.
Hmm, so in addition to their existing problems with acute lead poisoning, they now have to deal with chronic lead poisoning.
Another community radio from Berlin (with a real FM frequency): http://www.88vier.de/
Similarities between Bitcoin and Linux
Deep dive into ES6 Classes
I know, and I'm not arguing with this. It's just the philosophy of Flattr is what should have emerged.

I think Flattr was there too early, before the need for it emerged.
Show HN: Elodie – A Personal EXIF-Based Photo and Video Assistant
Given that this uses a FreeBSD kernel vulnerability, what is the impact of this upon general FreeBSD usage? It sounds like an arbitrary process can read and write to the memory of another process. I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but this is something I'm not really familiar with!
Dantzig solved two open problems which he had mistaken for homework
Construction alone is going to make it extremely difficult, unless there is a system such that the cars know where construction is taking place and actively avoid those routes, but that is not always known.
Google's Shell Style Guide
They know why it happened. That was the first step. They failed to put an anti-corrosive agent in the water, and it released lead from old pipes into the water supply.
What big businesses are you talking about? Water in almost every U.S. city is provided by a municipal utility. E.g. in Flint, it's the Utilities Department: https://www.cityofflint.com/public-works/water-service-cente.... Water rates are set by the city, and are just too low to cover modernization of the systems. Both the ASCE and the EPA have reported that investment in water systems is a fraction of what is required: http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/12/asce-report-o....
Did the Utopian Pirate Nation of Libertatia Ever Really Exist?
This is a silly and basically irrelevant question, but is there a reason that "sextillion", "billion", "quintillion", etc., are consistently written in all caps? I've never seen this practice before.
Designing graphs with missing data
A more sophisticated (but expensive) radar sensor could do the job without the camera. A sensor capable of Doppler processing, sweeping, and tied to some sort of platform telemetry (GPS, INS, etc.) could maintain a large and fairly comprehensive situational picture. Add moving target indication to the signal processing and it could form tracks on all other vehicles on the road, which would provide the motion vectors for them without the need for another sensor. You could even use track behavior to detect anomalies in the road, assuming you have multiple tracks.

I could go on all day about this (having actually worked on MTI radar for several years), but I have actual work to do. :P
Drip Email Mastery
> via a Debian chroot inside Crouton

Try a native install on the Flip, it is nice: http://kmkeen.com/c100p-tweaks/
Good to see a community project like this. Many community radio stations in the US are struggling (especially with a plague of cutbacks from the National Corp for Public Broadcasting in recent years). Some are taking the plunge to stop broadcasting terrestrially and only stream online. The IT staff needs in this regard increase dramatically, while in many cases the station's user base is more and more gray haired and young people often don't know of the station's existence. This process is laying many community stations to rest.

Am enjoying the music at the moment. Excited to see Blackest Ever Black's show is coming up in 15 mins on this Berlin site!
Seems like everyone here is getting hung up on the author rather than discussing the specifics of being famous AND poor.

That's got to be very strange feeling, one that Aaron Swartz most likely felt.
Yeah ... the key here is the qualifier "local".
Yeesh. So dramatic. Can't take it seriously. But on a side note I wish more people would realize that their connection to this type of medium upsets, influences, and even impedes them and their goals. To me it just feels like narcissism in an accepted form. Can't stand it don't want it.
i always read it as a 'generalized' personal pronoun implying no particular subject (like 'man' in german or 'on' in french) which is nicer than writing everything in a passive voice.
I thought the videogame crash was largely the result of mismanagement and companies really not knowing what the heck they were doing.

The effect of shitty shovelware is a little hard to describe when even the best games of the time are a blocky mess and can support only a handful of game mechanics before running out of space in the cart. The Atari 2600 was insanely limited and even relatively simple games like Space Invaders required near god level hacks to implement.
LA schools shut over 'threat'
Why Gilt Groupe Is Forced to Sell
Depends what you need them for... In statistics, factorials appear in normalizing constants for various distributions (e.g., Poisson) and often you're working with floating point log-probabilities, in which case you can use the log-gamma function (built into most math libraries) to replace the log factorial. And that's a 64-bit float, no bignums needed.
"It's just the philosophy of Flattr is what should have emerged."

How so? Tone note: Honest question. I like Patreon and like what I understand of its philosophy just fine, but I'm happy to learn about competition and alternatives.
> Create something great for the sake of the greatness.

I strongly recommend ViHart's discussion[1] of Edmund Snow Carpenter's[2] "They Became What The Beheld". It is very easy to focus on the medium, when you should be focusing on the message.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

[2] Marshall McLuhan may have written the initial version of that book.
As RyanZAG says, all production has diseconomies of scale in unit complexity. The production process has economies of scale, meaning that churning out more units of equivalent complexity reduces the marginal cost of churning out the next unit of equivalent complexity.

Software exhibits this same economy of scale in production. Take Google's machine learning platform. They allow multiple functional teams to churn out roughly-equivalently-complex machine learning-powered widgets in less and less time. Contrast that with a startup building a single machine learning-powered widget and the marginal cost to Google is significantly lower.
Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana as a IIS Log Analyzer
The user interface is a separate concern from the serialisation format.
They won't have to; they don't live in Flint.

Flint is the 10th most liberal city in America by election results, according to https://alt.coxnewsweb.com/statesman/metro/081205libs.pdf.
I've used a similar technique for base-2 logarithms, when I knew the context in which it was used would only require handling powers-of-2 up to 16384: https://github.com/scotts/streamflow/blob/master/streamflow....
Really? I was just thinking the other day that I hear about Flint, Michigan all the time. Relatively speaking at least. It's not even in the top 300 for city size yet I hear about it relatively often. Certainly more than Las Cruces, New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Also grew up there and live just outside of it. My favorite Flint River joke I heard when I was young, was that you didn't need to wade across it, you walked across the dead bodies.

Dark, but when you're a kid, funny enough.
Flint is often a forgot about place in the world.

Not since Michael Moore immortalized it. I wouldn't be surprised if many people upvoting this story were making an association with Roger & Me.
Jaywalking is a crime because automakers wanted it to be. It had more to do with increasing the speed and utility of cars than it did with pedestrian safety (nobody gives a shit, and nobody gets in trouble for killing pedestrians with automobiles) [1].

I hope autonomous cars can help re-enable the peaceful co-existence of multiple modes of transportation on our streets.

[1]: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/04/invention-jaywalking/...
I've got some friends who do medical research, and from what they say, "translational research" (getting the latest research into the hands of the doctors actually practicing medicine) is a HUGE problem.

I have been advised that if I (or a family member) ever gets some medical condition, that if I do a few hours of reading up on the latest research on that condition, chances are that I will be better informed on that condition than my GP.
Learning Simple Algorithms from Examples
And the purpose of the down jumps is to move you away from a local maxima. For example, if you were wanting to climb [any large mountain] and could only gain elevation, then you would fairly easily get stuck in the stairwell of the hotel in the valley.
We use Novenas as build slaves in GNU Guix's build farm and they work well. Is that not serious work?
I'm a lot like you. Thanks for your response.
Are those the same rate hikes that triggered such a rebellion in the Detroit metropolitan area that people started filling the water shutoff valves with concrete instead of paying their water bills?

Damage from Detroit's economic implosion keeps rolling downhill.
There's more than enough shovelware on all of those consoles to make this argument for lockdown rather silly.
Measure Resource Loading Times
> hydrogen-heavy/acidic water, but it's certainly far better than consuming lead.

Yeah, but why would a water with slightly acidic pH be a major problem for health anyway? Numerous mineral waters sold on the market at not at pH 7 in the first place.
I keep buying stuff from aliexpress and it all comes smaller than advertised. e.g. socks. So I guess it's a lot of stuff not done right.
Famous ones though? It doesn't take 100,000 fans for a musician to make a living.
Decades of decay of American industrial towns is the standard... Flint seems to have gotten unlucky with a double whammy from pollution.
After I read your other comments I deleted the first post because I realized you are knowledgable about many issues I brought up and it was non-contributory, apologies. I wish you the best in keeping healthy!
Sure, but it's fun to speculate and try to pin down consistent rules!

(I'm a happy reader of r/asksciencefiction, if you can't tell.)
KISS has been a cherished principle for most of the past century and for good reason.
Love the idea; signed up. Do I have to wait until tomorrow for my first story? You got me in the mood, now I'm off to find something to read on my own...
Testosterone Boost Tuesday (Beautiful Girls) – December 15th 2015
I posted above stat as response to someone telling the link is posted in HN while the project is still in its early stage. (work-in-progress).
Ask HN: How do you keep sane while developing for Android?
There's something wrong with the ecosystem..

1). Android Studio is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had to code with. The cursor randomly disappears while editing files. When a physical device is connected to the machine, it will sometimes screw up the sound and start playing out of the speakers even though your headphones are connected.

2). Every time you post a question in-regards to the IDE, there's usually a flurry of down-votes. But sometimes there'll be a person who says it's a known bug. Contrast that to questions critiquing xCode on SO, people will be generally happier to help out..

3). You can't organize your XML files in folders. Again, when I asked this on SO, people were arguing that what's the point of having subfolders.. Seriously?

4). It's fragmented as fuck. I feel like each question I ask, I have to always contain 2+ additional files to give context to a very simple problem.

5). It's tough discovering useful 3rd party libraries.. There's no gradle equivalent of cocoadocs.

I actually enjoyed programming with the Spring Framework, but this has just been disappointing all-around..
Oh yes. The history of the Ethyl Corporation and Dr. Clair Patterson is fascinating, right up there with Rachel Carson and "Silent Spring."

There's a very disturbing correlative graph between the banning of anti-knock lead additives from gasoline and the drop in violent crime rates in the United States. Correlation does not imply causation, but in this case it points feverishly at causation while wiggling its eyebrows and nodding its head suggestively.