skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I haven't made up my mind on this issue entirely, I am often one of the people downvoting these kinds of comments, or even flagging them if they're more extreme.

The reason for this is that I've become increasingly convinced that the health of a community, especially one that relies on a relatively poor medium (text comments), is very dependent on the civility of said community.

I'm a bit surprised to find myself believing this, as only a few years ago I would've argued that civility often gets in the way of the facts, that it obfuscates 'true' discussion and exchange of information, and 'enlightenment'.

I changed my view because I started noticing that even in 'rich' face-to-face interactions, once a certain 'detached' civility is abandoned, the more intense language almost inevitably leads at least one of the parties involved to become more emotionally invested in the conversation, and this in turn pulls a 'discussion/conversation' into the direction of an 'argument/fight'.

This is not always a problem in rich media. In the same way that a parent getting angry can sometimes be more effective than a parent logically dishing out an appropriate punishment, I've experienced plenty of situations where the visible emotions of someone I disagreed with were necessary to make me pause and reconsider my point of view (because I respected said person and/or clearly they didn't hold their beliefs lightly).

But the 'poorer' a medium, and the weaker the bonds of a community, the more important civility is. Because it's really easy to get exceptionally pissed off, misinterpret, project, or escalate things in reaction to a piece of text linked to a pseudonym.
Will MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Y Combinator, and Artificial Intelligence
I'm not a .NET guy but I played with OmniSharp for a while with Unity3D in Emacs and it's definitely really cool. Nice to have a powerful autocompletion engine for .NET that plays nice with Linux.
Japan pips China to build India’s first bullet train
out of curiosity what kind of jobs you take up that pay off so much?
Putting a line or two about why you developed a library doesn't seem unreasonable.
How We Make Sure We Hire the Best Web Developers
It's a pity they didn't normalize/baseline for dehydration, which has been demonstrated to result in brain shrinkage: http://campus.neurochirurgie.fr/IMG/pdf/changement_volume_ce...
Helpful Swift 2 extensions
I wonder how western mentality can bend morality rules to always favor the underdog.

The "immoral" practices author accuses the Intel are developing favoring compiler and offering low prices and better deals to OEMs. Let me tell you something: when you give someone one billion dollars, you don't hold them on "ransom"; they're upholding an end of the deal that they voluntarily agreed to. And to lose money, to offer better prices, to get bigger market share is not something even remotely immoral.

Now, about compilers: Intel have never pretended that Intel compiler is supposed to work just as good with Intel as with other compiler manufacturers. It says so even in the marketing benchmark picture provided with the post. It was individual developer's decision: whether he wanted to get equal performance on different platforms, or whether he preferred to sacrifice performance on AMD in order to get more on Intel. Microsoft, Borland, gcc, LLVM and other compilers exist; if a developer choses Intel compiler instead, it's his decision to make his software to run slower on AMD. How is offering such an option immoral?

However, author completely glosses over the fact that AMD reverse-engineered Intel's product and released it's clone. To me, this actually seems like something not only immoral, but quite possibly, illegal, and definitely something worse than Intel's deeds. But of course, since AMD is smaller, it doesn't have to adhere to the same moral standard.
Australia also had only 18M citizens at the time.

But the zero massacres since 1996 is still significant.

Yes, guns are still available for sports shooters, and hunting etc. But we also strengthened the laws concerning how weapons must be stored (in a safe). The police have the right to turn up at the door of any registered gun owner and demand to inspect their storage at any time.

I am not sure how often that actually happens, because my guns are all digital :P
200 years ago today Ada Lovelace was born [Wikipedia]
Let's Encrypt certificates expire after 30 days. The reason for that is to mitigate problems with old certs and to encourage automation so there's less danger of a server being left unsecured because an admin forgotten to update something. This sort of library is aimed at [sys|web|dev]ops rather than developers per se.

Ultimately services like LE will get to the point where certificates will expire in hours rather than days, so a problem like Heartbleed will 'self-heal' because certificates can be fixed and servers will automatically get the patch within a day.
How a city saved itself from drowning by using Social Media
Nice Application
To be clear, Atlassian didn't leave Australia to avoid paying income tax, or even to avoid paying any tax. The principal reasons they left were that the Australian market doesn't have the ability to price a tech IPO of their size and to increase attractiveness to foreign investors.[1][2]

Atlassian's approach to taxation is an exemplar of one of their core company values: "Be the change you seek". They voluntarily paid millions of dollars to their employees to reimburse them for the tax that their employees were obliged to pay on their employee share options under Australian law.

Until very recently, Australian law required that employees who receive share options pay tax on the value of the shares at the time the share options are issued (before the options are even exercised by the employee). The application of the law to startups was widely criticised (including by Scott Farquhar) for obvious reasons.

Here's Scott Farquhar's description of how they chose to deal with that:

"Atlassian believes that share options are so important to attracting and retaining talent that it has covered the cost of the tax for its employees, said Farquhar. He estimated that this has so far cost the company a total of $5.4 million."[3]

Fortunately, the current Australian government introduced tax breaks for startups using employee share schemes earlier this year.[4]

I have no affiliation with Atlassian other than as an Aussie who is proud of their accomplishments.

[1] http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca... (see paragraph [25])

[2] http://www.techworld.com.au/article/535906/what_atlassian_mo...

[2] http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/557248/atlassian-ceo...

[4] https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Employee-share-schemes/In-det...
Why the Winter Flu Jab Is a Necessary Precaution This Year
EPIC - Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instructio...
That means that the compiler works out the parallelism rather than the CPU, which is meant to reduce the amount of silicon wasted on instruction decode/parallelism.

Anyone remember Transmeta?
Interesting. I guess they must have finally stopped intentionally crippling ICC for non-intel processors[0].

[0] http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49
Previous discussion of an article about work by this team:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10358072
Same in Germany. It is risky for the company, not for the "disguised employee", because the company can find that the freelancer subsequently demands back-payment of entitlements.

I've never actually heard of this happening, but I've encountered difficulties as a freelancer because a company was scared this could happen.

True ridiculous story: a German bank I did a consulting gig at for several months would not allow consultants to have their names on the office doors, unlike employees. They thought that having our names on the doors could be enough to turn us into "disguised employees".
As the article mentions, Amateur Radio Operators have been active in Amateur TV (ATV) since day one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_television

The Hams don't use the Commercial TV frequencies of course, but transmit on the Amateur bands.

See the Wikipedia article for frequencies used (including the bands that you mentioned).

And yes, years ago the Hams built their own gear using vacuum tubes. These days they are building Digital and HD TV.

Do a search on "Amateur TV", it's still a big part of the hobby.

If you hunt around, you will find many books and constructional articles on ATV.

Oh, and to build your own Amateur TV station you'll need the appropriate grade of Ham license.
Flight Simulator in Excel 97 (2010)
(1) TVs don't have strict latency requirement. I've hard latencies of 100 ms are common.

(2) Upscaling ANNs process rather small image neighborhood radius, and required processing power is on the order of O(r² * log r), and if a minimally recognizable cat is 50x50 px and for upscale you use a very large window of 16x16, that's 14 times already.
Kanye West on Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Why the Matrix Is Like the Bible
90 days.
Not, it's just not. You're misinformed. Even if the Working Time Directive was involved (which it's not, if you want to opt out), it limits work to 9.6 hours/day.
No 10 Cents Windows Store for You, Non-US Resident
Depends on context, audio quality, size of snippet, etc

But I guess Mechanical Turk workers are probably not very committed to getting every detail right (for what they're payed I guess I wouldn't worry too much).

Surely, you can get a good transcription from a crappy audio recording, but that's going to cost you more.
Maritime CyberSecurity: Securing the vessels, ports and sea
Anyone got a Dockerfile for this yet? I've no idea what they mean by ./configure
Wedding
what is the best place in India for honeymoon?
Thank you for the great link.
I am not paying for an Electron wrapper that can break at any time.
The directive says that working hours should not exceed 48 per week (so this by itself allows working more than 8h a day), plus it's ON AVERAGE, so if you do 60 hours one week and 36 another, it should be okay
Installing PlexConnect on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Afte Apple TV Update – Miapple.me
Not what you're asking but I noticed that the top background image is huge (over 6 MB).

https://res.cloudinary.com/hiiidvfah/image/upload/v142022488...
> And to lose money, to offer better prices, to get bigger market share is not something even remotely immoral.

I won't go into morality, but it can be illegal if it's considered predatory pricing.

If a company has an inferior product but uses its power and dominance of the market to prevent another company with a better product from being able to compete, then laws preventing this from happening are not about favouring the underdog but encouraging innovation.
I know what you're saying but it isn't true. Let's look at 2 examples, the LGBT community and Feminism.

LGBT celebrates its differences. It welcomes everyone. It is open minded and tolerant.

Feminism bullies, ridicules, excludes, creates us/them divides and is continually hypocritical.

You could not have 2 more different different approaches. You don't need to be a bully. You don't need to threaten or ridicule or divide.

A few (repeated examples) to highlight my point. Matt Taylor bullied by large numbers of feminists for wearing a shirt designed by a woman, showing women wearing bikinis. Do women wear bikinis? Yes. Yet, he was mercilessly attacked by at least 10,000 radicals.

Domestic violence. It's repeatedly reported as a man thing (note: someone close to me was stabbed by his wife while she was high on drugs - but it wasn't domestic violence.. As the media says, that's only a man thing). Also note the absence of mental abuse that goes almost ignored.

Code.org who didn't bother to put a link to encourage boys, but explicitly put one to encourage girls on their main page. This was no accident - they have a quota to meet, apparently at any cost. Mind you, this could equally be attributed to political correctness.

I greatly respect how the LGBT community has embraced most people to support their cause without alienating anyone or demanding ridiculous quotas. I am totally gay friendly. Yet, I strongly oppose feminism. I believe in equality, but not equality for one gender or skin colour or sexual orientation.

I respect movements that embrace differences rather than reject them. Bullying is not required.
It really looks like it, the line in the FAQ about unified inbox seem to indicate that this is just a wrapper around the Inbox Web app.
As other commenters has said, fundraising is never easy no matter where you are.

There's plenty of super early stage money you can get (i.e. up to $100k) from government grants etc. so that part isn't that hard.

What's lacking in Stockholm is a strong angel scene, and what's especially lacking are larger angel investors that does investments of $100k-$500k. I.e. investments that are too small for a fund, but a bit too large for someone that just does investments as a hobby.

However, one of the things I'm doing right now is helping some of the local venture funds and some UK based ones to scout for investments, and the perspective from the other side of the table is that there's currently a shortage of fundable projects that are raising $500k-$2m.
Also there's a new monster fund being announced soon. Rumours on the street (i.e. drunk people at startup events who let their mouths slip) is that it's going to be the largest first time fund globally so the competition among VCs for investments in that size will increase.

If you are doing something interesting but lack connections to VCs or angels, ping me (email in bio) and I'd be more than happy to make introductions.
Yes, I pay a 50% tax here. Additionally one has to consider that you might have some down time between two projects where you don't have any income.

But still I'd encourage anyone interested to try. You'll not just improve your tech skill set, but if you make it work you'll also learn how to sell and to negotiate, which is a generally helpful skill to have in all areas of life.
It describes the free-agent taxi model, which is not the business model in most (large) cities where they've been succesful.
Technically gun powder is accurate for black powder. But I doubt he was talking about Napoleonic firearms.
Well, composer needs to be installed and present on the system. As the author states, minimal dependencies.

Hell why doesn't everyone follow this? Instead I see projects with five or more build tools needed to deploy a website.

A single small website depending on... PHP/MySQL (obviously), Symfony, composer, npm, grunt, bower, ant, vagrant, docker. And well, language dependencies not needed by the website itself, just for the buildtools: python, nodejs, ruby, java plus virtualbox for vagrant!

All of this for a setup that can be (with proper documentation) replicated by hand and from scratch in <10 minutes (Debian, not RPM-based crap). The fuck are you smoking, people? Took me even WITH documentation about all those build tools 30min to get running where a simple git clone should be all that's needed. Bonus side effect: if you need to hack stuff in your deps, it's easier to ship them in your repo than if you use composer and friends.

I'd coin a new term for this: tool-sturbation.
If the target audience are those developers manually including everything, then it's not a package for me. Using composer is completely unrelated to having (or rather not) dependencies. It's actually pretty much the opposite: a way of distributing your package to projects who wish to use it. So again: please use composer.

Completely agree with the namespace. You HAVE to namespace it :) Hope it helps
Users shouldn't need to know HTML to be able to write a blog post.
About an hour in, near the end, Ng addressing the stupid digression that the industry recently had about evil AI destroying the world.
Good call. Didn't want to make it too pixelated, but since it's a background image we can probably reduce. Any other thoughts here?
> you realize that immutable data structures are indeed the right way

Well, that's false. Rust has mutable data structures but also statically prevents data races.
Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 released in OpenSSL 1.1.0
Doesn't use of the Google Apps stuff mean your content is not scanned for ads? Certainly you don't get ads when you're using the mail.

Google is an advertising company. This Apps thing is a side business. They're going to focus on bringing features to the users they are selling ads against. Users who aren't generating ads are going to be an afterthought.

You can argue that they should pay you more attention if you are paying for the Google services but as a practical matter this company is focused on ads, not on satisfying paying customers.
Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Craig Wright (maybe)
Why was this down-voted? The parent makes an excellent point that self-interest relies on a moral judgement about who the "self" is.
“Serial” Season Two Is Here
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Full-Stack and Back-End Engineer
Only in so far as the same can be said about "computer enthusiasts" being pedantic about people calling programs "codes" or calling hash algorithms "encryption".

But at least "bullet" is not entirely wrong as it is merely labelling the whole by one of its parts ("pars pro toto" is even a stylistic device).
As regards selling at a loss: if you do this with the aim of destroying or damaging your competition, so that in the future you may enjoy greater profits e.g. due to having a monopoly, then it is bad for society - the word immoral is not unreasonable. There exist laws that try to prevent this type of behaviour, because of the public harm it causes.
This place is not a place of honor
I would assume they didn't renumber because TV was becoming popular at this point and it would be a hassle.
You just don't get it :)

Whoever wish to include manually this package and use it like if it was 1993 will still be able to do by cloning this repo and including the file by hand. On the other side, 99% of the sane PHP that has been written in the last few years including fairly large projects, WILL use composer to manage external dependencies as it's probably the single project who made PHP a modern language.

So, what are the cons of releasing this as a package?

I'm not even starting the conversation where I'm trying to convince you that using a dependencies manager is always a good thing to keep the codebase sane and clean - even for small scripts. That "<10 mins thing" is an empty claim as you have to do a boilerplate once and can use it all the time (unless you are the kind of programmer who is not 'good-lazy' but rather 'bad-lazy' and love to re-do its job by hand over and over)
Convert-YouTube-videos-mp3-mp4
I have a gay friend activist that claims that there are no bisexual people and that gay republicans are in perpetual state of self hatred. LGBT has ita hardline factions too.
No is not ridiculous at all: having your name on a door means that you are "forced" to work there, thus rendering you in a employee since you cannot determine for yourself the place and location of work, the cornerstones of beeing a freelancer.

I do consulting for a big technology company in Munich and they have special freelancer areas where you can have any place you want, since there is no concept of "office" for a freelancers like. Some colleagues always have to chase me, since I can choose to take another place than they are used to :).

Also, you have to bring your own coffee machine, water, you are not allowed to use the ones from the kitchen, since they are only for employees. But I just don't care :), and use them anyway.

PS. i had some other crazy contract where I had to show them proof I am working also for another client, otherwise not able to take the gig. Germany is quite special :)
Indeed, if you're in the UK and you set up a new analogue TV (a few years ago when the transmitters still ran) or a new digital TV (still possible now obviously), the first thing it does is scan the entire UHF and VHF bands detecting channels, assigning them channel numbers in the order it finds them (analogue) or by some other algorithm I don't know (digital - it's not as simple as just a fixed number).
> The question is can they still say that when D-Wave reaches say 4,000 qubits?

Yes. See the 4-item list near the end of the post. It's not about the number of qubits. It might be possible to make the D-Wave approach effective. But that's going to involve either being lucky on an open research problem (whether it's even possible to get a quantum speedup using stoquastic Hamiltonians only), or fundamental improvements to their approach. It's not simply a case of scaling up what they already have.
Eclectic software developers | Florence, Italy | Italian language proficiency needed

Develer is a not so small company that develops software for third parties; our team is composed of passionate people who enjoy coding and learn new technologies. We are looking for software engineers to grow one of our teams working on embedded products.
The technologies we use are very varied, ranging from C++/Qt to React Native, from Go to Python because we work on very different projects: home automation software, medical equipment, mobile apps to control industrial machines.

We offer a developer-centric environment with the following benefits:

* 24/7 office access: work any time of the day you are more productive.

* Large desks in quiet offices, with large or multi monitors and powerful PCs

* Symmetric 100Mb internet

* Informal environment: free coffee, drinks and snacks, relax room with fussball, retrogaming, consoles, music instruments...

We require at least 2 weeks per month onsite and proficiency in Italian language.

Send us your CV and some code examples at https://www.develer.com/jobs/
Find-Facebook-friends-windows-10-xbox-app
Native mobile development for big businesses like banks or telcos. No startups as they often have lower budgets.

But I know much more self employed professionals working on Java Web backends for big companies that earn equal or much more than I do.
Hell, no!

A single PHP file is the perfect solution to this. Call it from /etc/crontab and you are done.

I hate overladen projects on GitHub with all kinds of fluff. A single source file and a readme is just awesome.
Correct, although it is argued, that given "enough" time Simulated Annealing will have search the entire solution space and thus return the global optimum.

Simulated Annealing is a great tool for optimization problems, because it is almost trivial to implement -- If you have a combinatorial problem, that you evaluate the objective function on (preferable evaluate changes easily), then SA is a good starting point. It is a meta-heuristic that can be applied to almost any problem.

However, Simulated Annealing is almost never the best way. Better methods (more efficient/better results) are often either based on complex meta heuristics or custom heuristics for approximate results, or branch and bound or dynamic programming for guaranteed optimum.

If quantum computing enables us to perform a massive speed-up with a simple SA-like meta-heuristic, then that would make "solving" NP-hard problems a much more common task.

You could just insert your problem into this "black box", and a few seconds later you'll get the result.
Well, normally one makes the thesis concrete by saying that lambda calculus and Turing machines yield an equivalent notion of computability.
The paid plan of Play Music is an ad-free product.

Play Music for Families is paid for, and advert free.

Your argument does not apply to this product.
Isn't chalking LGBT as "tolerant" and feminism as "intolerant" (whatever these labels mean) yet another example of the us/them duality?
As an American I don't care if you understand.
Not proven. The best currently known algorithms for factoring on a classical computer take asymptotically longer than the best known quantum ones. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a fundamental limit of the universe. More generally we have no proof that BQP =/= P.