skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first review we’ve seen of Tesla’s Model X
I live in a D.C. suburb and commuted two hours each way daily down to Quantico for almost 2 years. My employer didn't tell me that I would be working there even though HQ was in D.C. so I just had to deal with it.
Patent US9196008: Generating guest suggestions for events in a social network
Developing Killer Apple Watch Apps, with Wei-Meng Lee
Improving the Names Process on Facebook
So National Review didn't create this graph and is reusing it from a blog site. The author of the NR article finds nothing misleading about this graph. https://twitter.com/iptuttle/status/676542056622354432
Just got in to work about an hour late today because of single tracking. This hits close to home.
A Tale of Migrating to a Static Web Site
> It's fundamentalist opposition to welfare and social programs and universal healthcare

We have welfare and a multitude of social programs design to assist those who need help. You can walk into any emergency room in the country and receive whatever care you need even without insurance or payment on-hand. Mind you, the government provides insurance to the poor and elderly. It has been this way for a very long time.

A full 66% of our federal budget is devoted to exactly these types of programs. That's over 2 trillion dollars. Every year.

http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/budget-entitlement-pro...

Where are you getting your silly notions?

> What are you basing that on? The EU is over 50 countries with their own languages and customs and politics.

I wasn't talking about the country-level. Read what I wrote.

The US is highly diverse on a street level. Rich live with the poor, side by side. This is not the case in Europe. In Europe, the classes are highly segregated.

In the US, there is a very real attempt at having diverse neighborhoods with people of different backgrounds living side by side. Can you point to the same in the EU? And you want to talk about equality?
For people of my age, no.
There's no way to answer that question without going into the details of every specific problem you might want to solve, but since they've only demonstrated a constant speedup then yes, you can always build a normal computer which has comparable speed. Or you can improve your software; that's happened often enough already.
This is entirely correct. The article doesn't fix the original reason why the "CSS turing machine" wasn't actually a turing machine. It doesn't "crank its own tape", so to speak.

Layout in a web browser, which includes CSS styling, is implemented as just a top down + bottom up tree traversal. 2 tree traversals do not a turing machine make.

Maybe an analogy will help. I like the multiplier mentioned in the grandparent. Consider the multiplication circuit. I hope you agree that a multiplication circuit is not turing complete. However, if you apply a "pump" and feed its results into one of its inputs, you can calculate the factorial of any number!

This concept can be extended to take any sequence of steps and calculate recursive functions with them. This doesn't mean a linear sequence of instructions is turing complete! The feedback is a fundamental part of what makes the system turing complete.

The headline would better read "CSS + user input which can trigger a reflow is turing complete", but that wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

In fact, if CSS _was_ turing complete, I can solve the halting problem!

Step 1) Encode a turing machine as CSS + html.

Step 2) Run CSS and layout. This is O(size of css + size of html), since it's two tree traversals.

Step 3) It halts. CSS styling is finished.

CSS is just a tree traversal. It has a lot of rules, but the structure is simple. It is not turing complete.
The 4G Mobile Internet That's Already There
I suspect they're never going to go completely away. I still like to keep a set in my car in case my phone is dead and can't charge it from the car for whatever reason. I believe the Navy is adding celestial navigation back into their curriculum in case their electronic systems are compromised. There's still a lot of use cases where the low-tech solution is a good backup.
iOS 9 added that https://webkit.org/blog/3709/using-the-system-font-in-web-co...
This comment needs higher visibility. This paper doesn't set a lower bounds for all possible interactions.
> What?

Just ask for a citation or state a correction. No need to be rude.

> The cloud tile re-use is from the first game

That's correct, it's used in earlier games, it's not from SMB 3. The point about Nintendo doing hacks for efficiency purposes still stands.

> no part of any Mario game plays back the melody backwards to generate the victory music.

I've seen a video somewhere recently that showed how sound affects were re-used - some of the re-use went unnoticed for over 20 years. Trying to find it now.
An interesting read. One of the things publicists are good at doing is converting 'star power' into dollars. I wonder if there are any agents out there recruiting these folks.
An Introduction to Kerf
As a planet destroyer, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to just crash any hyperspace drive ship into a planet at high speed.
It'll be a great day when we can have a fully free machine (firmware-wise) with IOMMU and some auditable form of DRTM.

DRTM?
Bloc's weekly code puzzle #4 results and next puzzle released
Silicon Valley is a poorly organized network with an obvious solution
I have a decent software job where I live. My rent is cheap and look what I get to do every weekend:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPpqe2Q_o2QKV47lmQ1ijm0BJa50pr1O3IH5Nwzxk_EzOlZTYQintv9MiNS3lQwhw?key=NjZEUTB2SDFVRlBHcFdkcFNBOV9EajEtdGxURXB3 (link below)

Do you think I would trade that for living in a van in California even for twice the pay? There is plenty of talent around the world that thinks moving to California is a shit deal regardless of the wage or opportunities.

The issue is silly. A city is a network. When you have high congestion for a central resource you should find ways to push that resource to the edge of your network. The resources are Jobs. Hamfisted legislative solutions or deregulation misses the big picture. Companies are focused too much on Silicon Valley. Moving or offering jobs elsewhere is a way to both save money in wages and office space while giving your employees a better quality of life.

If people are willing to live like animals putting up with appalling conditions and subjecting themselves to insane costs and commutes, they would certainly move a few hundred miles for the same job with decent rent and a 10 min commute or short bike ride to the office, even with a pay cut. This is especially important for startups who ought to be trying to save money and attract talent.

The market can fix this problem right now if companies recognized the opportunity sitting in front of them.

People from all over the world are swarming SV because they can't get that job in Cork or Boise. The job isn't everything and many of us are unwilling buy in.

Everything doesn't need to be in SV. If someone is willing to live in their car for a job, with all the social baggage, sneaking around and unhygienic side effects that entails (while fooling themselves into thinking they've discovered a cool hack), they would be willing to move to a less crowded place like Tacoma where they can buy a house for 150k.

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There's a nice little write-up on that subject: http://davedevelopment.co.uk/2015/06/04/scheduled-tasks-with...
We have a C# WebAPI in front of R for our use. Each application can either do ad-hoc requests or register itself with the api, reserve N instances of R and a set of packages to be loaded on each and they get enacted as a queue for the app to handle incoming requests. I built the first version using rApache (http://rapache.net/) and then did some testing with OpenCPU (https://www.opencpu.org/) but we had to make it run on Windows and IIS so we built our own in the end. http://deployr.revolutionanalytics.com/ could be a ready made option and seems to be pretty solid but we deemed it to complicated for our needs when we looked at it.
I just want to pipe up that there is a small-but-growing cohort of us folks here who are specifically not taking the safe path of the government job. DC has a very friendly--albeit young and inexperienced--start up culture, and I'm pretty proud to call myself a part of it.
Wikipedia says yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Duff
Most of these are probably completely out of fuel so I wouldnt worry about this.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPpqe2Q_o2QKV47lmQ1ijm0...

If the nexus for every single tech company must remain in SV then these companies could set up satellite offices around the country or allow people to telecommute with robust teleconferencing setups we could leave on while at work. It would be like you're right there.
Seriously, you don't have to live like animals.
I like my job here in Anchorage but I'd be lying if I said there were plenty of interesting software jobs up here. There isn't enough. I can't really change that. If more places offered telecommuting I'd love to work for them. Many people like me would love to do that and spend a few months of the year at a HQ somewhere else.
Also Nintendo likes selling SNESs.
Container Manifests, Docker Labels, and the Implications on Security
"Gweilo" for anyone curious. I think literally translates to "ghost folk".

The worst the Japanese seem capable of is "white pig" (specifically towards Americans). I mean, it's more accurate than offensive...

Tone (and context) matters more than the word though. Calling someone silly in the right tone could come off as offensive.
Could you provide any recommendations on reading materials for

1. File systems (single machine)

2. Distributed file systems
No, once again, Florida's figure does not come from military spending.
A lot of newspapers in the U.S. will print the age of the subject of a story or interview as a standard part of their style.

https://www.google.com/#q=%22said+smith%2C+25%22
https://www.google.com/#q=%22said+smith%2C+26%22
https://www.google.com/#q=%22said+smith%2C+27%22
https://www.google.com/#q=%22said+smith%2C+28%22
https://www.google.com/#q=%22said+smith%2C+29%22
https://www.google.com/#q=%22said+smith%2C+30%22
it uses a huge amount of resources compared to cron, though, which is my biggest problem with this approach.
But not sizing specifically, right? It looks like I can use the system typeface but not my own typeface at system size.
B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta
Engineers can’t gauge their own interview performance
"Software is not like milk" is exactly the point: the author's observation is that (some) people treat software as though it had scaling economies like a commodity product, when in fact it does not.

Software engineering would be like civil engineering if civil engineers had teleporters, matter-replicators, and armies of construction robots capable of building anything from a set of blueprints, without supervision.

Software engineering is its own practice and the fact that it is unlike other forms of engineering is a feature, not a bug.
did you evaluate Renjin ? it seems that Java would have been a good fit for you .
Also - what do you mean by "reserving N instances of R". I'm not sure what that means (coming from a Python/Java background).
Putin signs law allowing Russia to overturn rulings of int'l rights courts
Works for me in chrome.
Most foreigners think all of the US looks like New York City or a Beverly Hills suburb because they see that version all the time in the hit movies and on popular TV shows. My relative came to Silicon Valley and was shocked it wasn't like a space-age city with gleaming buildings and futuristic roads. Like truly shocked!
> None of their dire predictions came true. "Indeed, in 1992, the FBI's Advanced Telephony Unit warned that within three years Title III wiretaps would be useless: no more than 40% would be intelligible and in the worst case all might be rendered useless. The world did not "go dark." On the contrary, law enforcement has much better and more effective surveillance capabilities now than it did then."

This seems like a silly argument as the goal of publicly available strong end-to-end encryption is to make exactly this prediction come true. Strong privacy advocates are rarely concerned with their friends or even some corporations having their data, it's precisely the vague yet menacing government agencies monitoring everyone's online activities that are the targets of these 'encryption for everyone' projects.

I absolutely agree with the author in general but there's no sense pretending that protection against mass surveillance and state level actors isn't the end goal.

It seems like the tech community is stuck on encryption because they belive their government is evil, corrupt, and if they can just win this one fight then they will be able to shield themselves from the rights violations they can't hope to change. It's noble but incredibly defeatist. State level actors will always have smarter people and unlimited resources to break whatever walls you try to put up. This won't end until surveillance is made impossible via legislation (or I suppose revolution if that's your thing).
I resubmitted this because I think it got flagged due to using a URL shortener for my google images link.

Unfortunately resubmitting it appears to have tripped another spam prevention mechanism.
> On an out-of-the-box Linux machine, you generally can't do a lot of things either.

Minimal distros aside, you must be kidding.
That's just how I'd word it.

Trek is about how science affects society. Quite often there's some dilemma thrown up by by technology, and the characters have to deal with it. The characters are ordinary people who happen to have some training and some intelligence, working in groups.

Star Wars is an opera. You have heroes, with heroic skills, fighting epic battles of historical significance. It's very much about individuals, and not terribly much about groups. Technology is purely incidental in Star Wars. We have light sabres, so let's have a duel where we can investigate some emotions.

If Lucas hadn't thought of light sabres, but just given them samurai swords, not much would change in your assessment of the world. You'd think the same of the characters, and it would be just as entertaining.

If Trek didn't have FTL travel, it would be a very different show.
Holy shit, we have a lot of junk out there. It seems like we're building a multi-layered defense shield against alien invasion - the outer band will damage the enemy staging their attack from the Moon, and the inner band shall make it impossible to keep their motherships in low-orbit for continued planetary assault.
Heck, it means that theoretically you can't verify a CSS3 stylesheet for correctness because you don't know the stylesheet will ever finish rendering.

In practice it's probably not a problem since you don't have infinite HTML, but it is theoretically slightly disturbing.

I'm an advocate of provably-correct, non-Turing-complete languages, which really should include CSS....
That's what I would say if I found a nazi gold train.
alias '..=cd ..'
alias '~=cd "$HOME"'
Only 1.8% of the top 100 grossing films of 2013/2014 were directed by a woman
This is actually my problem with Jenkins. It's great for running arbitrary jobs when triggered to do so. But it's super frustrating for managing many permutations of of the same class of jobs, with component tasks, permutations of different input, and orderly storage/display of output categorized on input. Or in other words: it sucks at building and testing software.

I'm almost to the point of using it just to manage generic "do X sort of stuff" tasks across many nodes, but the jobs that rely on an external system to run parameterized builds, and then the job then stores the results into the external system.
I live within walking distance of the Burke VRE and my girlfriend still uses a combination of Commuter bus + Orange Line metro. Perhaps we'll look into that. I'm getting mighty tired of having to pick her up every night from Vienna.
Yes, sometimes it is quite surprising how sheltered people can be. I wonder how much of a role the asymmetry of TV and other media plays. People who live less affluent lifestyles can get any amount of exposure to extravagant living through TV, etc.. But the reverse doesn't seem to be true. Maybe the BBC will do a show about those strange "fly-over" people someday...
I'm not saying it doesn't show signs of a neglected area, I just think you're reading too much into certain aspects which may be explained through the area in which the picture was taken.

I'm not sure how long the building has been in that state, but I would imagine less than a year from the vegetation, but that's hard to judge if it all dies in winter. Then again, vegetation usually grows very quickly in those areas. That said, small municipalities move slower, they have less leeway in the budget to deal with unforeseen circumstances.

A lot of what you're stated seems to indicate that you see the open areas here as a sign of neglect or failure. Often in rural areas, building are much more spread out unless they are are towards the town center. There's no reason to build next to someone if you can have a lot or two between you and them. As a city expands, these are naturally filled in as sparse building pushes farther out from the town center and some people don't want to be that far out.

As for the sidewalks and concrete, areas with wet winters that continually fluctuate between freezing and non-freezing temperatures are particularly bad on brick and concrete buildings. The continual expansion of the water when it turns into ice and back into water quickly destroys concrete in these areas. Michigan is known to be particularly bad.

In truth, looking down GlenWood Ave from that picture looks fairly pleasant to me. This could easily be a few hundred feet in either of the towns my parents are from in rural Wisconsin, and much of those towns looks fairly pleasant, if extremely spread out, to my eyes.

For comparison, here's another random spot I found by just choosing a place in google maps and zooming in[1]. Every town has some run-down areas if it's old enough, but having a run-down area doesn't necessarily mean the economy is dead (but I'm not disputing that the economy is likely bad, just that the picture is more indicative of an area than a situation).

1: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0188356,-83.6795166,3a,75y,1...
He might not even heard about this at all. Such news are heavily editorialized there or outright censored. You dont hear about a group of monkeys raping women on a train, at best you will read about Swedes committing crimes, crossing Swedish border apparently automagically makes you a Swede, or Asian.
50 cent supposedly recently had a similar problem. If you try to act rich people will think you are rich.

I am aware that his situation is still confusing as to the actual facts but I am speaking more in an analogy here confirming your sentiment.
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Founder of Google’s Stealthy Surgical Robotics Project (Verb Surgical) Speaks
>It was completely hijacked by a union who turned themselves into a "good old boys club" for people from the poor neighborhoods who were born and raised in DC and educated in it's horrifically bad public school system.

That is so true. I hate to say it and it is solely based on behaviors and actions, but the mentality of the people with Metro is atrocious, at absolute best. They move like sloths, if you can get them to acknowledge you, yell and scream while talking to each other and totally ignoring things they should be doing ... let alone could be doing, know essentially nothing but giving you information to go somewhere else, and have absolutely no care to assist anyone with anything without being compelled to ... it's abysmal! The worst part about it is that it is an absolutely horrific image for both DC, the USA in general, and especially the black American community of our whole country.

If you want to see one of the sources of bad impressions of black people in America go observe Metro staff or interact with them through their customer service line. I don't even think people quite grasp the damage to the global impression of black Americans the Metro does. There are millions of tourists from all over the globe that come to DC and ride the Metro and I can tell you from first hand experience hearing from many of them; the rude, lazy, unfriendly, boorish mentality of Metro staff sticks with people and they take it home and tell tales of how disgustingly crude American black people are base on their Metro experience.

I mean it's so bad if I didn't know any better I would have thought the Metro system was a plot by some racist group to spread hatred for black people by hiring the worst people imaginable to make black people look bad.
I'd flag this question on StacKOverflow. There's no code and too much opinion in the possible answers and no objectively correct one. It might be ok on Programmers. StackExchange though it would perhaps benefit from more detail. My general feeling is that it's an XY problem...an assumption about the solution is driving the requirement.
If you are a employer spending billable time looking up people on wikipedia and facebook, would you not also have the budget to purchase a e-book, pay access to a registry with public data or get credit/police records? The age of the person is very likely to be included somewhere, especially if include it in the book.
An empty <a> link will also likely fail accessibility tests and while the presentation is works for visual keyboard-only users, screen reader users will probably have problems.
That's true, but if you architect it well you should still be able to have an overview with every program as a functional block and inside the programs the scope should be limited enough that they are easy to understand. It's all a matter of balance. Good examples of such systems: message switches, telephone installations, routers, large scale web applications and so on. These are all very suitable to such decomposition into communicating processes.
> "And since typical human nature is to not think of the "what can go wrong" scenarios before they actually go wrong, those same planners likely never considered the "how do we fix track in tunnel 2 without having to half shut the system down to do so?" aspects of their decisions at the time."

Having met transit planners before, I think you're probably not giving them enough credit.

The sort of hellish clusterfuck that happens when things go wrong in a 2-track system is well understood and not new even during Metro's planning and construction. More likely it was decided that a 2-track system that went straight to hell the moment something went wrong is a better choice than nothing at all, which is the alternative.

It's not that they were trying to save money, but rather trying to fit the system within a budget that simply couldn't get any larger.

Same deal here in NYC - the new Second Avenue Subway is 2-track even though everyone, the MTA included, knows the problems inherent in it. The problem is that there is literally no way to cough up enough money to make it a 3- or 4-track subway.

Public transit has been a dirty word in American politics for over half a century, and the willingness to invest isn't much different. These weren't short-sighted decisions, they were entirely cognizant of the shortcomings, but there wasn't any other choice.
Creating additional demand for other goods is not valuable; quite the opposite: it's a cost that needs to be balanced against whatever ongoing value is being provided.
Note: This relates to Physicians (Psychiatry) but I think it's helpful in a general sense and a good read.
These old factories are sometimes also designated as "historical", which limits the modifications that new tenants can make and greatly increases TI costs.