skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like Python, PyCon is always a blast. This year it's going to be in Portland.
I thought we were talking about real internet service, not a cell phone data plan crippled with such a low data cap you need a separate wifi connection.

Even at $4/month = $48/year, how is that supposed to make buying a $50 device once every five years the dominant factor in affordability?
That eliminates some of the behavior, but for someone like me who operates in both Windows and Mac and uses other programs to keep my large collection of mp3's up to date on all my machines, it doesn't work because iTunes won't simply use a directory as the basis for it's library and leave it at that, it feels the need to move everything AND as a bonus deletes it from the original location.

When I tried to set this up using BitTorrent Sync, iTunes kept removing the files BTS would copy. I had set it to read only so BTS would then copy the file over, and iTunes would add it a second time to the library. Then a third time. Then suddenly when I had 12 copies of everything and my half a terrabyte SSD was nearing capacity for no obvious reason, I finally figured out what the hell was going on and put a stop to it.

Appreciate the attempt at help though. :)
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

Warning: it's very long.
One could say that many self-described "libertarians" are really just "selfish and greedy", but that doesn't sound as nice.
Does it or will it support 24bit / True Color terminals?

This is the only feature I miss with Tmux since I've been using Neovim with 24bit colors for a while.
Armed Militia Takes Over Oregon Federal Building
You're making a case against free trade then.

If things were so good for so many Americans because we weren't trading with anyone, then why'd we start?
Datera – revolutionary container technology startup is hiring
I've heard that the "$10" CHIP has a $20 "shipping" charge. Is that still the case?
Buy an high end phone with a good mic and you can choose between GoogleNow and Siri (and more). Or if you have a SmartTV in your kitchen, you can use that too (Samsung, LG, etc),
Interview questions fordevelopers
There are multiple patches for tmux floating around. One of them is even correct, if you want 24bit tmux. My arch and nix machines are both running it.
> changes to superclass can now break your code

The same exact thing happens when using composition.
I wouldn't call it buzzwordy hand waving, mostly because it actually means something intelligible. But regardless, so what if SpaceX gets the majority of its money from the government? It's operating as a private entity and it's revolutionizing space travel, and the funding coming from the US government is not for research and development, but for actual services rendered. Similarly, do you believe that the next giant leap forward in general AI is going to come from government? It may, but it also might come from the private sector. I'd say that the same goes for the future's version of Arpanet (something the public doesn't see coming but eventually changes everything).

Because technology enables small teams to make big changes that were once only within reach for large entities like the government, the idea that markets don't have the strategic intelligence to do big, long-term thinking, just seems bunk to me. Also, look at the AI lab announced by Altman and Musk, or look at YC's new long-term research lab project. These could conceivably produce the next Arpanet, don't you think?
My list of developer best practices
* Waves
The christians are batting 1.000

but there are problems with that.

* They prefer sneak attacks at sun-rise

* They only fight against villagers

* They labeled the pagans terrorists (A religion of hippy-ism, from Norway, literally the most peaceful place on the planet)

* They labeled the American Indians as terrorists. (who are probably small asian/eskimo-esque people).

* They use false flag of late, this makes me wonder whether the norwegians really raided those wagons or it was a false flag, and whether the indians really scalped that british guy or it was just a false flag.

I struggle with that as I was born christian, and I dont believe the indians nor the pagans were terrorists.

The muslims of Iraq and afghanistan were just farmers... without the money, guns or manpower to fight the usa army... we have a saying on the west coast for people like that, "dirt farmers". I'm not sure they were any threat either, not because they didnt want to kill our government, but because they literally did not have the money, men or guns too.
Why has this been downvoted? I've heard great things about Strange Loop.
Two, I want to read between the lines.

A CV has to be perfect, with a longer CV there is more chance for it to have a mistake and weed that person out.

So many CVs are similar, picking people to interview is about removing those with flaws up front.
Academic conferences in a relevant field can be very interesting, and are often much cheaper than industry events. (You'll need to find some practical-enough conferences, and you'll need to somehow pick up the required vocabulary and concepts.)

Speaking for my own field, Real-World Cryptography should be mostly understandable (and entertaining) to a programmer and enthousiast cryptographer. (CHES and EUROCRYPT are also very interesting, but require a lot more background.)

(Also consider e.g. ACM, Usenix, and any local interest/user groups.)
TSA’s new body-scan rules are a significant policy reversal
We had issues with this at work. We're a healthcare facility that grew faster than our IT infrastructure or admin expertise did.

A couple of years ago, we started having issues with our wifi like you're describing. Connecting devices would work, but nothing new could join the network. The issue? DHCP lease times were set to 30 days in a facility where hundreds of transient devices per day could connect up to the wireless network. The IP pool unsurprisingly got exhausted.

Our network engineer at the time was... not very good. It took two separate incidents with MDs complaining and me finally sniffing DHCP traffic on a spare laptop and emailing it to his boss to get it fixed.
compared with ok google and siri, echo is not much better (if not worse) in terms of intelligence. What made echo was the physical form factor.

Intelligence is hard to mimic, but physical form factor is not. All google or apple needs to do is come out with with a similar speaker/mic combo and it will totally blow echo out of the water.
I've been to a few across the US and my favorites so far have both been in Colorado:

Develop Denver - https://developdenver.org/

Rocky Mountain Ruby - http://rockymtnruby.com/
We've had unique ID technology for decades: the GUID. You can access it with uuidgen. A unique name is not the same as an enduring, universal set of directions for reaching the named content.
It doesn't matter how big my monitor is; I walk away from a lot of websites thinking I need a larger one.

I think it had to do with mobile. Things are scaled to screens, and mobile is the lowest common denominator of what can fit on a screen. Just blow that you to desktop on you have Duplo.
> since otherwise you are effectively exposing and having to maintain an extra stable API towards subclasses

How so? I override what i want at my own peril. I'm not going to complain to the author that his change broke my code.

> Apple's framework code being closed source and unmodifiable by users and developers, and also buggy according to the author.

Apple is constantly breaking things. If we can't extend classes, then we'll use composition and at the end of the day, what's the difference? I need code that sits in front of there so I can make it work correctly.
Yes, and they work but are too heavy a solution. Try approaching them and saying:
Hi! I would like to reserve two billion DOIs :)

yea, NOPE!

There are lighter schemes out there but none are household names yet.

ARCIDs https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK
TempleOS: Kernel Algorithms
Making a life-size humpback whale sculpture
Last year's React-Europe was one of the better conferences I attended (save for bad climatisation, which I hear is not a problem for this year). It's also fairly small for how interesting it is; highly recommended.

https://www.react-europe.org/
An Open Standard for Value Creation
You could say the same about screen vs tmux (or endless other software clones). Projects like these help drive innovation on both sides. Competition, if you like.

Besides, Pymux is Python while tmux is C. I'm sure you can appreciate that adding a Python API to tmux would be non-trivial, both code-wise and politically.
Absurd. Created something admittedly slower and cloned all of the rest of tmux's core functionality.

Could've spent a week groking the tmux source code base, another to add the fish features and then an extra week to drink on the beach.

Instead, there are still months ahead meanwhile 99.999% of tmux users will continue using tmux.
This is a great conference if you are okay with their insistence on no-platforming wrongthinkers.

Hopefully somebody will one day spin off a new weird/academic conference for those that can't stand to be in the same room as no-platformers.
Conf looks interesting! I'm considering submitting to it. Please note the light-blue-on-white text of the speaker bios is unreadable to me. Perhaps this could be tweaked?
Download itools iOS 9.2.1 simply using your computer
That's great from the price perspective - I still would not want another active listening device tied to a mega corp within my vicinity.

However, I would love to have an Echo like device which does the voice recognition/algo crunching/etc on premise, i.e. on a server/device I control.

Is there anything out which does this nicely?
here's some history for you.

https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader
How are real estate, hedge funds or derivatives non-productive? A hedge fund or derivative investment ultimately directs productive assets towards real world uses. If the wealthy are getting high returns from this (and Picketty claim the wealthy get the highest returns), then the wealthy are better at directing real investments to their most productive use.

Could you point me to the place in Picketty where he does more than speculate about how the wealthy gain more wealth?

These investments manipulates markets such as real estate to perpetually increase value of their investments without positive impact on society.

You seem to be confusing middle class NIMBYs (the main people manipulating real estate markets) with the very rich. Middle class homeowners are the ones preventing new construction, it's the wealthy developers who are trying (and failing) to be productive.
Hiring is very difficult. I think looking at a prospective hire with the same lens you'd use to review them is helpful.

So you're trying to understand how this perform as:

1. Employee - are they capable (motivation + skill) of doing a good job across the dimensions of quality and speed?

2. Owner - are they the kind of person who can display ownership of an area? This can be demonstrated by outside activities/projects they worked on, or ways they made their former work environment better/more efficient

3. Teammate - are they going to be a good teammate, a nice person, and collaborate well with others?

If you see red flags in any of these areas, probably not a good hire. If you see excellence in these, probably a great hire.
Scandinavia being proof of that?

In fact looking at this, they all seem pretty capitalist in nature:
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-unequal-countries-in-the...
Now, every single one of these facts seem obvious; how is combination of these facts warrant an article in one of the biggest newspapers all of a sudden?

Obvious or not, will this combination of circumstances result in what can widely be perceived as improper? Is that not worth note, just because your insight to the mechanisms means you understand the state of affairs?
By definition of unskilled labor you imply only work done by physical action.

If you really don't think you cannot replace the human arm with a machine, you haven't been paying attention for two centuries. How is that even a question? We could replace all unskilled work today, if all you are doing is removing mechanical components of labor.

Remember, unskilled labor is "work to be done without training or certification". Driving a truck requires a Class C license, which is a certification. Working at Mcdonalds takes no certification. You need to have state certifications to work as a carpenter, plumber, or electrician. Your janitor doesn't need anything. So when you ask "is there any evidence unskilled labor can be completely replaced" then I would ask what unskilled job is not being replaced right now, from self checkout to vending machines to roombas to combine harvesters.
The working culture is the thing I hate the most about Japan. I've read the history. I'm interested in the culture. I've spent time learning the language. I consume lots of Japanese media. I've visited for a short time. However, I just don't think I could ever make the dive into living in Japan unless I was working remotely for an American company (and getting paid like an American) and somehow still maintained a visa to be in Japan.
I find it beneficial to answer questions on Stack Exchange sites relating to a topic that I’ve recently learned or worked on. It’s particularly useful for reinforcing knowledge of subjects that I might have learned a month ago – but which has already started to fade from memory.

I also like books that have questions at the end of each section or chapter. As the original article states, it’s easy for the reader to mislead themselves into thinking that they’re familiar with the subject area while reading – or re-reading – the text. It’s not until they’ve finished reading and attempt to answer questions that they know how well they’ve actually retained the material.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511084
How often are you talking to your smartphone from the other side of the room? Usually it's a few inches from your face.
How Paul Graham Gets It Wrong in “Economic Inequality”
Show HN: Flexible Editor – An Open Source Flex-Box Based Layout Editor
I do backups, of course, but I also have rm aliased to

echo "Bad! Use `trash` instead."; return 1

and use trash-cli [1] instead, which moves the target files and folders to the Linux equivalent of the Recycle Bin. If I mess up, my files are one restore-trash command from being recovered. Every so often I trash-empty to free up space.

[1] https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
This is great news. My understanding from when I worked at JPL was thst NASA only had enough plutonium for about one more large RTG for the Mars 2020 mission (to power Curiosity 2.0). While RTGs are essential for deep space missions, they are also useful for closer destinations.
What would really get me excited is an assembler that does more intelligent things — automatic register allocation at a minimum. I don't know why in 2015 I still have to manually track which register I'm using for what. This gets particularly problematic with MMX/SSE/AVX registers. I think the x86 assembly world would benefit from learning about features found in DSP assemblers (I'm thinking of TI C6000 tools in particular).
I wouldn't say it's the exact same problem, because at least the address gives you something to go on (you can verify whatever data against the hash to make sure it's correct and unaltered). But the problem of resolving hashes is something every content addressing system must deal with.

The most common answer is distributed hash tables. Personally, I'm fond of local resolution. One of the coolest things about content addressing is that you (or anyone) can choose how to resolve addresses, so an ecosystem is possible (sort of like the Wayback Machine today, or the coexistence of various search engines).
Exact opposite for me, does a great job at recognizing speech but a horrible job providing answers to even simple questions.
Ask HN: Pricing/marketing strategies/tactics in large, non-niche market
I'm developing a product that is a direct competitor to well-established apps (web and mobile) but offers more flexibility for pro and prosumer users, as well as:

* People that need those tools for their clients, and

* Groups that need the same (e.g., corporations, publishers, ...)

It's ambitious, and I'd settle for a small percentage of the market, especially since my main targets are the more sophisticated users and the groups.

The competitors charge regular users anywhere from $5-20/month, and don't have options for the groups. Groups can consist of anywhere between a dozen users (e.g., person managing their clients) to tens of thousands (e.g., the subscribers to a magazine).

My current thoughts are to have a freemium model with somewhat-lessened functionality (which people hate), a small-group pricing scheme, and a "OMG ALL THE PEOPLES" model.

Problem is it's not clear to me how to:

* Break up functionality between "levels", and

* Price fairly enough to bring in new users, and

* Price fairly enough to allow for massive on-boarding

Any resources--blogs, books, videos, articles, whatever would be greatly appreciated. My knowledge of large-scale marketing is limited; I know more about the small-scale guerilla-style bits (but modern resources for that are also desperately wanted) but I'm not sure how to break in to larger-scale adoption.
I did misremember the 45% vs 39% number (my notes on that report transposed two separate stats), but I'm assuming that by "factually incorrect" you mean referring to a mortgage holder as an owner.

If so, do you also consider the Census (whose terminology I used) to be making "factually incorrect claims"?
> To me - poverty isn't relative but absolute: if you live on less than $X amount a day, you're poor.

I agree that the poverty that we should be fighting against is the absolute one. The complaints about "income inequality", however, are by definition dealing with the relative type of poverty.

Indeed, if the topic was "increasing the wealth/well-being/opportunities of the poorest", the discussion would be completely different. Alas, inequality, implying rich people robbing poor ones is so much juicer of an idea.

The second part, about "live on less than $X amount a day" I find badly defined. It's not about money, but about having access to basic wealth (food, clothes, shelter, etc). The money (in any currency) that can buy that wealth changes not only by region, but with time as well. Money is far too fast moving of a target, and it doesn't bear an intrinsic value.

I'd wager that what a poor man has nowadays is way ahead than what a poor man got 50 years back. As somebody above pointed out, the vast majority of households below poverty level in the US have TV set, DVR, cell phone, air conditioning, etc. I don't think that a poor guy in the middle of the last century would think twice about changing places with a poor guy today.
Microsemi (the names "Actel" and "ProASIC" might be better-known) and Lattice are also mentioned as sponsors in the article itself. These are FPGA vendors, which suggests that they might be interested in shipping RISC-V soft cores in their design tools or possibly even shipping chips with RISC-V hard cores (similar to the Xilinx Zynq and Altera SoC families).

Notably, Lattice manufactures the only FPGA for which a full open source design flow currently exists (albeit unsupported by Lattice themselves) [1], and has its own set of open source soft processor cores [2] [3].

[1] http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

[2] http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/DesignSoftwareAndIP/I...

[3] http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/DesignSoftwareAndIP/I...
Dexter's Law?
Scandinavia is a democracy, not socialism
I remember hearing about lowRISC before, but haven't kept up with it. How have the last 12 months been for the project? Also, what process node are you currently targeting?
So if I show up with a kidney to sell in a cooler, all good? Does it matter where I got it? Ok, how about we say, you have to sell it yourself, at a licensed organ selling place. Then we regulate that you've got to be licensed to specifically harvest organs. But then, you might wind up with crooked harvesting facilities. Lots of legislation and resources would have to be spent on making sure the poor are really benefiting from their own organ sales.

Or, we could stop trying to justify abuse of the poor for the benefit of the wealthy.
I love the music in the game: http://play0ad.bandcamp.com/ How many free games come with something like that!
Usually it only leads to a reader reading what they already believe into the text, instead of engaging with what's actually written.
That doesn't seem relevant to the discussion at hand in the absence of a publisher claiming that the entire world should run like a publishing house with poor quality standards and telling everyone that their only sure path to success comes from writing books.

Your response does, however, nicely illustrate the problem: if someone went around telling kids that they should quit school, put everything into becoming NBA stars, hit musicians, etc. they'd rightly be mocked. When similar claims are made by Silicon Valley VCs, however, they're taken far more seriously despite not being much more realistic in practice.

Similarly, there are the costs to others from startup-style churn: people losing jobs due to VC-mandated unsound business plans or replacing many jobs with automation. To be clear, that isn't automatically wrong but definitely has a real measurable cost to society which many people prefer not to take seriously. Holly Wood might not have captured every detail of that debate but she's doing a great job of reminding us that we shouldn't forget it exists.
Yes she perfectly understands the difference. The problem she is attacking is that in Silicon Valley, people pave over the difference and act as if creating wealth is in and of itself creating both kinds of value.
How does that work? If the the queue is ultimately delivering the messages, doesn't that mean you can't have priority based queuing?
I was once asked to help a friend debug his server. Its mysql state was not loading properly, so I wrote an rsync line to back up all the mysql data as a safety step before debugging. A few seconds later, I realized I put a forward slash and a space in the wrong place and had managed to delete the entire directory.

I felt like such an idiot. At least I haven't messed up an rsync command since!
what does "no-platforming wrongthinkers" mean?
Content-addressing suffers the exact same problems, they are just a little more abstract.

Actually, content-addressing already works pretty well. If you paste the SHA hash of a widely distributed file (e.g. an OS ISO or commonly used source package), you typically find many places to download the content. It's often more reliable then URIs for such kind of data.

It is surprising that it already works well for the web, which was not built for CAS. Peer to peer CAS systems, such as IPFS make this much more usable.

but then you'll probably end up bugging a lot of hosts that don't participate in that algorithm!

??? Trackers/DHTs were invented exactly to make this efficient and doable.
I try to find people whose talks I enjoyed in the past and check their speaking schedule on lanyrd. I then cross reference that with cities I'd like to visit, topics that will get me passionate, and other good quality speakers. I find since I've been doing this, my joy vs exhaustion ratio of conferencegoing has risen dramaticaly
Where are the products being pulled in from? I started to dive into some of the files but maybe I'm missing an API connection somewhere:

Files:
- http://amazon.q1000.ro/js/start.js
- http://amazon.q1000.ro/js/code.js
- http://amazon.q1000.ro/data/amazon/config.txt
- http://amazon.q1000.ro/data/amazon/resources.txt
Thanks for that. I tried to find a better link, but my google-fu got stuck in 2015 it seems :)