skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? But the right wing in the UK keep insisting it's because of all that red tape from Brussels and the EU? How can the USA, being free from the yoke of Eurocrats, have such similar problems???
- Is your child spending all of their time online?

- Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?

- Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?

- Do they get an income from their online activities, do you know why and how?

- Are they resistant when asked what they do online?

- Do they use the full data allowance on the home broadband?

- Have they become more socially isolated?
They say: Based on the results presented here, one cannot claim
a quantum speedup for D-Wave 2X, as this would require
that the quantum processor in question outperforms the
best known classical algorithm. This is not the case for
the weak-strong cluster networks. This is because a va-
riety of heuristic classical algorithms can solve most in-
stances of Chimera structured problems much faster than
SA, QMC, and the D-Wave 2X.

But that in my opinion does not mean that it is not a quantum annealing computer, just that it does not bring the speed-up we are looking for.
Did You Forget Your Planes? Airport Takes Out Ad to Locate Owner
How can I get the best videos to learn php on YouTube
> Another hypothetical thought: when the original bitcoin creator mined thAnother hypothetical thought: when the original bitcoin creator mined the first bitcoins, they were worthless. They only gain value if someone else projects value onto them. They're not being used. Imagine they're a form of trading derivative (e.g. stock options): the right to trade in future. Are those taxed?

Generally yes, although I don't know about Australia. In the UK it's called capital gains tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Way more sensible than creating glorified temp agencies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701322
Study math to really understand it and have a healthy lifestyle with free time
A link to that service:

http://bemmu.github.io/hncakeday/

The day I joined (a while ago now) has a few stories about bees, home ownership, chili peppers, the Chinese central bank calling for a new reserve currency and how markets aren't failing.... 2008 I think.
But what about the street repairs card?

IIRC it is only 2-3 times the price of a house for a hotel.
"The objections against nuclear-powered ships are numerous and well-founded. It could be catastrophic if any of them sank or leaked waste into the sea. Terrorists could find few targets more enticing. They’re a nightmare to insure. There are few ports with facilities that can accept nuclear waste and offer refueling services. And it seems unlikely that the public would accept them any time soon; consider that both the Russian and the Japanese ships encountered popular opposition that wouldn’t allow them to dock."
(https://www.flexport.com/blog/nuclear-powered-cargo-ships/)

Discussed a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664819
Satoshi Nakamoto busted?
There's only one Mona Lisa Why a 10-year study got it all wrong
I get the feeling that you have some deep seated capitalistic ideals. Do you do anything that you can't make money from?

I can think of a few reasons to make a content blocker:

1. Improve privacy for users on the Internet.

2. Decrease cost and speed for people who pay for data, or have bad connections.

3. Challenge revenue streams of large corporations.

4. Fame.

5. Improve strangers lives.
I'd buy up every hotel room on the planet for the night of December 31 within 100 miles West of the International Date Line.
After 2 years with no salary, this duo got their startup idea right
Satoshi.
Eduonix magazine
I think this is somewhat visible if you look at any kind of artistic writing. Or realize that grammar is made after the fact. The language itself never follows the grammar perfectly; grammar is a scaffolding we invent to help others learn the language.

Hell, you can communicate pretty well by just dropping nouns in sequence. That we have no problems understanding information presented in such way, or maths, or music notation, or programming languages, suggests that we don't have "internal grammars".
http://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/06-m...

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Table.html

Strange that this function is called Table when what it clearly is is an iterator that outputs a list. Its output is no more tabular than Range; it outputs an ordered list as does Range. In fact Range[10] seems to be shorthand for Table[n,{n,10}] yet they have completely different names.
Deploying CSP at Dropbox: a series of four blogposts
How to make ‘Swiftception’ happen on your iOS device
This one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer incompatible with everything ahaha
How Many People Have Been Shot in Your Neighborhood This Year?
No, it needs to be Mozilla itself.
Are there charities set up that could help with something like this? I mean it would literally take less than $5k to get this guy set up. A couple suits of decent clothes, a security deposit and first months rent for an apartment, a bus ticket to wherever his job is.

That is a bargain for removing a homeless person from the system. Local governments and shelters should be jumping at the chance to do it.
excellent overview
I do not understand this comment. Can you point at an example of this?
I really don't like the fact that he is forever hinting that higher level functions, such as recognizing an image of a cheetah, are (only) possible due to the unique omnipotent nature of the mathematica language.
I made this mainly to scratch my own itch :).

It's slightly more convenient for me to get a notification than to periodically pull repositories and check them for changes, but I understand that might not be the case for everyone!
The animation makes the browser tab so jaggy I can barely scroll down to read more.
I've played chess casually for years, and my main observation is that no one actually wins if both players are reasonably well matched. The balance tips when a player makes a mistake that leads to them losing. Consequently, the only thing you really need to do to not lose is to make sure you don't make daft blunders, and to recognise when your opponent has. I'm pretty sure it's different at higher levels where people don't make those errors nearly so much, but if you're just starting out, rather than trying to win just remember to not screw up.
Not exactly, it is a task queue that allows workers to be run in the browser.

If you could break your problem up in to lots of small isolated tasks it could be used like that
> Using language, on the other hand, requires us to really think.

Not consciously, no. I mean, do you really think about what you say when you speak in your native language, or do you just say it? It's actually a milestone in learning a foreign language - switching from thinking in native and translating into foreign to just thinking in foreign. If you find yourself running your internal monologue in a foreign language then you know your brain groks it.

And generally, mastering a task means switching it to unconscious mode. A good driver doesn't consciously think about turning the steering wheels or pressing pedals; they think about car (or rather, car+themselves system) moving faster or slower, going here or there. A soldier is trained until most of his tasks are muscle memory. A programmer doing what they really knows how to do will find themselves in the state of flow, etc. Mastery of a task is mentally abstracting it into just another basic capacity, just like breathing or moving your hands.
Just because we are American doesn't mean we don't know how to make our own red tape.
Based on a quick inspection (WS opened, binary frames going over it, and CPU utilization), this appears to be the case.

A very interesting way to do distributed computing!
That sucks. I'm using d3.js to animate svg elements, runs smoothly on my machine, what browser/os are you on?
I still notice ways into building sites, where I know the site office will be unlocked and there will be a small electric heater and a kettle.

A safe place, providing I get out around 5am.
Thanks for sharing this. I didn't know that it was submitted earlier. Should I remove this or not?
No it wasn't necessary to maintain backwards compatibility. Type erasure was implemented to allow libraries to upgrade to generics without breaking compatibility with existing applications.
According to [1], 1984 was the year when Common Lisp and MATLAB were invented.

But perhaps a more causative correlation is that in 1983, C++ was born (after being called "C with classes" a few years before).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...
FF Nightly on Windows, I also checked on my laptop running Linux and the same thing happens so I guess it's related to the browser specifically.
Full time | 100% remote | Python Backend Engineer | ezhome Inc., a Silicon Valley startup.

http://www.ezhome.com/careers/

-- About ezhome Inc --

ezhome aims to become the #1 trusted provider of tech-enabled home services, starting by targeting the millions of consumers that use lawn care services. We provide an amazingly better home service experience using data science and software technology to dazzle customers and enable our service personnel to be more effective and efficient. We are pioneering the tech-enabled home services space with a full-stack approach.

-- Overview of the Role --

We are looking for a great python engineer to join our engineering team. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

-- Must have --

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* Experience with Django.

* Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.

* Strong unit test and debugging skills.

* Have a working schedule that makes you available during the morning Pacific Time.

* Comfortable working remotely.

* Good understanding of software architecture, especially RESTful design.

Full job description and apply at: https://ezhome.workable.com/jobs/169511
I would say: HN is about technology startups. Technology startups use technology to change human context. To understand new developments there, you need reports about three things: Startups, technology and human context.
But what would these technologies have to do with the decline of women in CS?
Major discussion of this whole issue/story/event:

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846 (133 comments)

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785 (104 comments)

Other submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702673

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702861
Technology Will Kill White-Collar Jobs
nergal, I totally understand your concerns... The question is that the meaning of a "hacker" in this community has changed. Now it is more of a positive than a negative word. As a person who reads "Hacker News" everyday, here I'm looking for everything that would be interesting for me as a human being, that will be original and out of the box. Here I read news about life hacking and that break the usual concepts, about discoveries in science, etc... Technical progress is changing everything so fast that now it is really easy for a normal guy like me to get into science and make some applications related to brain waves for example.

Despite from straying away from the literal meaning of the words "Hacker News" I think now this website is serving far higher goals. This also gives it great power and heavier responsibilities.
Very useful!

I write plugins for RpgMaker and a lot of the people who use them are regular users who don't know how to use GitHub. Some of them had asked for a way they could get notifications every time I update a plugin, this will be very useful for that.

Can I request a feature? Would be nice to have a way I could pass the repository and file names on the query string, so I can put a link where people only need to inform their email and submit to start receiving notifications for that.
He says the book is zero->useful, you are asking for zero->expert.

FYI here are your answers...

WordCloud[StringTake[WordList[], 1], WordSpacings -> 10] (* spaced out * )

WordCloud[StringTake[WordList[], 1], Binarize[CurrentImage[]]] (* shaped like your face * )

twitter = ServiceConnect["Twitter"];
ServiceExecute[twitter, "ImageTweet", Image ->WordCloud[StringTake[WordList[], 1]]]
( * Tweet a wordcloud *)

For that kind of detail, you will always want the documentation
http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordCloud.html
I agree. With many stories posted on hacker news, in particular economical ones, I first read the headline, then have a look at the comments, then the actual article. Usually the top commenters easily outsmart the original idea of the article and get fast to the bottom of the topic. It's very helpful context.
The R&D Tax scheme is a mix of law, tax and accounting. Like representing yourself in a legal matter or doing your own tax return, if its simple and straightforward you might be ok to claim yourself.

However add a little complexity here or there and it helps to have someone who knows what they're doing to guide you through it. Its a self assessment scheme, like tax, anyone can lodge their own return and the ATO will pay out with only cursory checks.

The real danger lies when you get audited, it can be especially dangerous for startups who have been claiming a few years, ignorant that they have not been claiming properly and are faced with an Audit by the ATO for multiple years of tax refunds. Generally once you add penalties to the tax refunds they must now pay back, the amount will end most startups.

There are many reputable consultants in this space who are capable and cheaper than the big 4. I would suggest sticking to the big 4, Tier 2 Accounting firms and Boutique R&D Tax Firms. They should be registered tax agents and generally you would want to know if they have successfully navigated Ausindustry Reviews and ATO audits before. Avoid suburban accountants like the plague for these things.
No longer applicable. From Wiki[1]:

On March 23, 2015, the NFL's owners voted to
suspend the blackout rules for the 2015 NFL
season, meaning that all games will be
televised in their home markets, regardless
of ticket sales

It's not coming back. There was a lot of political pressure for this to happen, and the NFL isn't totally tone deaf.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_telev...
Probably nothing.

More likely marketing computer as boy/nerd toy is what caused a shift.
He probably got an offer along the lines of "your record is cleared if you waive all rights to sue us over this".
Thanks for the link. I'll take a read :-)
I spent two years trying to get a homeless person off the street, and made a movie about it:

http://graceofgodmovie.com/
Yep, I can reproduce it on OS X with FF 42.0 as well. Going to see if i can find what's causing the low framerate.
North Face Founder Dies in Kayaking Accident at age 72
Will you provide a template-based or design from scratch landing page? or you will be using an already available service like leadpages?
Police raid home of likely Bitcoin creator
That's pretty clever.
Transcript or tl;dr available?

I assume it has to do with computers becoming a mass-market commodity and marketing strategies involving "traditional" gender roles.
I have daughters and was not able to get them interested in any computer unless it involves games or social media.

But the boys they hang out with are the same way- games only, for the most part.

While I played a lot of games on my computer as a youth, I also spent a lot of time trying to program games. Today, I'm a developer.

Because of kids' fascination with their phones and tablets, and because programming isn't a "normal" thing on computers, I really don't have high hopes for the future of the development community at all, much less for the future of women in this field.

But, getting back to the topic of my daughters, my experience has been that:

1. If given the choice, they would not choose the constructive, mechanical toys I grew up with where they might get into robotics or mechanical engineering (e.g. Thames & Kosmos or Mindstorms) although one enjoyed putting a tin can robot together.

2. They also would not choose the electrical kits to put things together and get into electrical engineering, although I did get a kit and my daughters played with them a few times. It just took too much time and attention to have anything happen, and when it did, it wasn't exciting the way it was for me as a kid- it was boring compared to their phones and tablets.

3. As for development, I was able to show one of my daughters how they could play music by programming in emulator of an old computer, but they had little interest. I was able to get that daughter to work with me to use Scratch to program something for about an hour and she really liked it, but she's not asked about it since.

Today's environment is just not the same. As much as parents who are developers try to get their kids into development, I just see it as a losing battle.

What the world needs is an operating system (or systems) or even an application or set of applications that almost everyone would want to use that require programming in some form or fashion to accomplish everyday tasks better.

But, iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, Linux and most applications that people use and games people play- they don't really work like that so much. You can get by without learning to code as a casual user, and the bar is so high now to create anything that a casual user would actually want to use or play. The closest thing to it really is a spreadsheet application or rules in an email application, and most users barely use those.
I think he meant "manly consideration" in the sense of "It would not be fitting of a man (read: gentleman) to make disparaging remarks about his wife in public". Perhaps I'm totally wrong though.
Even better if it would show a different gif if the keyword is used again...
The field was rapidly changing, far more so than other fields, maybe it changed into something that women were less interested in? There are fields that arguably men have reduced interest in that are over-represented with females, for example health care, clinical psychology, fashion etc. I'm pretty sure that's not a bad thing, as long as those men and women with more divergent interests compared to the average are free to move laterally.
Most of the cost of deploying fiber is labor, and that costs 5-10x more in the U.S. Also, eastern European countries see fast Internet as a competitive advantage. American cities don't see the need.

I bet in Kiev, a fiber provider wanting to lay fiber wouldn't be turned down for not agreeing to wife up the poor neighborhoods that couldn't afford it any way. That's what happens here.
America’s secret arsenal: The most powerful cyberweapons
Btw, if anyone is wondering why the workers run so slow when in a background tab, it is because most browsers throttle setTimeout's to run max once a second when the browser window looses focus. (web workers does not have this problem but for the demo i figured it would be fun to watch the workers do their thing)
I don't think it's about absolute numbers, women did not stop coding. It's just more men starting to code, which makes the share of women smaller.
Over the course of the next century programming will become a blue collar profession. Children who develop an interest in programming will become about as common as children who are interested in tablesaws or cutting torches.
Any links about the negative ion-thing? (Google only gives a bunch of new-agey nonsense)
And it's on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701981
> I think in general adults should be able to make up their minds about ingesting chemicals that might hurt them. However, it makes sense to make an exception -- if the chemical has addictive properties and empirically is likely to have network effects (i.e. in practice it tends to spread through the community), it seems reasonable for the government to step in and regulate the substance in more substantial ways than enforcing disclosure.

Does it? What result are you trying to produce by this legislation?

If you're trying to produce the result that fewer people use X harmful substance, then it absolutely does not make sense to regulate the substance itself. Evidence suggests that regulation merely makes selling the substance more profitable and buying the substance more "edgy", making the substance more dangerous. Instead, it makes sense to provide better programs for treatment and education around the substance, which results in lower usage, higher recovery rates when someone does use it, and less incentives for people to traffic the substance.

But if you're trying to produce profits for prison corporations and further militarize law enforcement, by all means, let's make all substances illegal.
The actual article is here: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
I see that there is already a Heroku buildpack for Swift, based on the package manager[1] and it was ported to Cloud Foundry[2].

Speaking of my own experience in working on Cloud Foundry buildpacks, a feature I'd be keen on having is true "vendoring" of dependencies. Bundler does this correctly with a common corner case -- gems that include C/C++ code. It will keep that source code, as well as ruby. Turns out to be a very important feature when deploying to a disconnected environment.

[1] https://github.com/kylef/heroku-buildpack-swift

[2] https://blog.starkandwayne.com/2015/12/08/apple-swift-buildp...
Ha, this is a great idea! I've added this now :). Just reload.
Google Research Blog: When Can Quantum Annealing Win?
Ada Lovelace Symposium [9-10 Dec 2015]
Parliament now has to consider debate to Block Donald Trump from UK entry
Yup that's what it means.
>>China’s domestic mining output grew by an incredible 2,964 % from 1976 until 2014

interesting reading
If that sort of things appeal to you, you should definitely stay at this hotel: http://www.jumbostay.com/media/
next time you are in Stockholm.
May I ask: What would have helped? And what would help now?

Homeless people and people who are vulnerably housed in the UK have pretty lousy treatment from "services", a lot of which is provided by faith and voluntary groups.

There are huge amounts of stigma, and a lot of misunderstanding of alcoholism and drug use and mental illness.
1200-1300 is about the rating where players stop making blunders to such a grand scale. Also, at that rating, blunders start to get punished much more heavily. Before 1200, it really is all about learning to stop blundering. At GM level though, they're gaining advantages at minuscule levels, until it leads to some "big" breakthrough, which they can continue to exploit.
Right, that's why Netherlands, Sweden and South Korea have similarly slow data transfer rates and high prices as US. /s

Also most high speed connections in Kiev are not fiber but ethernet cables.
I think you're right. Back in the 70s/80s/90s kids had to work at using their computers. In order to play a game in the early 80s I had to hook up a tape recorder, fiddle with the volume, tape a 1kb RAM upgrade to the back of the computer and write some code to start playing a game. In the 90s I had to wrestle with AUTOEXEC.BAT and COMMAND.COM for hours to make DOS recognise my sound card. Technical effort and perseverance was rewarded with gaming pleasure. Or rather technical effort and hard thinking were the only way to make that magical screen light up. These days no effort at all is required, games and media on screens is just ambient. It's a very different situation, it'll be interesting to see how it changes the industry ...
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