skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were probably asking so that when you pointed the "options" out explicitly it would be clear that, no, in fact, they don't "offer those options" to the majority of Windows 10 users.
Which is great for code reviews, but terrible for sensitive topics like diversity, etc.
Mexican pickpocket, fraud ring, and lessons
I'm saying the hypothetical fund managers didn't uphold their duty to the investors. I'm sure you don't mean the fund managers committed fraud.
Can you run it in a VM? Would be nice to have Android apps on a PC without that shitty BlueStacks.
I just went to Tsukiji on the opening day of this new year. As the article states, this is the last year of the 70+ year history of the Tsukiji market.

If you can read it, this document <http://www.shijou.metro.tokyo.jp/pdf/book/book_all.pdf> by the city government, who owns the market, covers the context, motivations, and efforts that had gone into the migration of the fish market from Tsukiji to Toyosu.

I was originally skeptical why it couldn't be re-developed in its current site. After all, many more ambitious redevelopment projects have been successfully done in Tokyo. For example, Shibuya station, which is used by more than two million people every day, has been going through a major redevelopment. The same with freeways in Boston aka "Big Dig." Granted, these projects take long time and is a major annoyance, nonetheless it proves that massive redevelopment projects are possible.

The document I mentioned earlier gives a nice short overview of why it is not so for Tsukiji. The main arguments are:

* Redevelopment needs a temporary on-site space but Tsukiji is so overcrowded at this point that this is not possible

* Unlike users of train stations, users of Tsukiji (food, fish, trucks, and cars) aren't very compatible with multi story buildings, yet the site is too small to have a flat single story building, which is why they feel the need to move in the first place.

* The government wants to build a closed walled building for the new market. In contrast, today the market has just the roof and no walls, and it's indeed not very clean (at least for the Japanese standard.)

In reference to the soil contamination problem mentioned in the economist article, the government apparently replaced the top 15 feet worth of soil for 40ha, which had cost whopping half a billion dollars (!)

I'd be curious to read a similar comprehensive argument from those who oppose the migration.
Let's buikd the coolest UI controls together
> it includes a proprietary technology and what the technology does is not only detect the video stream, but select the appropriate bitrate to optimize to the mobile device,

This sounds okay if you don't think about it too much.

I've seen what a piss-poor job T-Mobile does of image optimising, and so I feel sorry for the people stuck on the other end of a T-Mobile connection having their videos fiddled with.

It's not just image quality that suffers, everything about it is stupid. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4484081
Along with outspokeness, John Legere has started many things at T-Mobile the rest of the industry adopted. He is not a lose cannon, like people are portraying here.
You can always try it on their own desktop hardware, which is pretty cheap: http://www.jide.com/en/mini

I have no idea how open it is to modification in practice, though. I might consider trying it if I can get a proper shell on it (similar to the Android shell you get in an emulator when using 'adb shell'), even if I cannot fork their DE code itself.
Historically these types of outbursts when aimed at unpopular entities (e.g. other carriers) have been fairly popular and working well for him/them.

Problem is that they misunderstood the sentiment surrounding BingeOn and perhaps the EFF in general. I think he'll survive this one, and hopefully learns from it, but we'll see...

He has started to back down on Twitter already (if you look at his tweets from 30 minutes ago).
Felder's model is my go-to model, also. As opposed to the input methods classification of learning styles, he focuses on the mental-processing aspect (for example, reading and listening are in the same category of "verbal," as opposed to being separated into "verbal" and "auditory").

I'm not formally trained in education, but physics. As such I have to allow for the possibility that his ideas resonate with me partly because he speaks my language.

Nevertheless, the evidence is scanty.
The usual term I hear in university admissions contexts is "underrepresented minorities," which is generally taken to not include Asians.

There are contexts where Asians are underrepresented; political representation comes to mind. In those places "people of color" makes more sense.
Referring to core product, 'the feed.' I've had a terrible experience with Facebook. The more i curate, the more it seems to send me cruft from people i do not know. I started using Facebook back in 2004 when they opened up to all college students, and it was cool to friend everyone I've ever met, so that legacy certainly impacts my experience on FB.

With Twitter and Instagram's linear feed, I have to seasonally follow/unfollow people (whom i care about and want to follow!) based on the current sport season, they just had a baby, or whatever and they decide to binge post. Not just once, but for a literal season.

Now, I use them all, and they all have strengths and weaknesses, but Snapchat is the only one i really love to use. Its not a polar argument.
> The scariest thing about this for the global equity markets is that in 10-20 years the top 3 markets could be China, India and the US.

> Whether or not you like the US stock market, it is fairly transparent and not run by the whims of the government. The other two countries are about as opaque as you can be. Speaking as a person who actively invests money, that's a very troubling thought.

> As one economic nobel prize winner put it... "China and India haven't put out a credible macroeconomic number in the past 10 years".

This was one of the reasons cited for renowned hedge fund Nevsky Capital closing its doors. They are up 1212% since 2000. [1]

"Data releases have become much less transparent and truthful at both a macro and a micro level. At a macro level the key issue is the ever increasing importance of China and India. China is the world’s second largest economy, but already much larger than the US in a broad swathe of sectors. India will be the world’s third largest economy within a decade. Unfortunately their rise is increasing the global cost of capital because an ever growing share of the most important data they produce is simply not credible. Currently stated Chinese real GDP growth is 7.1% and India’s is 7.4%. Both are substantially over stated. This obfuscation and distortion of data, whether deliberate or inadvertent, makes it increasingly difficult to forecast macro and hence micro as well, for an ever growing share of our investment universe."

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-05/why-15-billion-nevs...
Actually, piping data between standard Unix tools can be extremely efficient. This example is working on gigabytes rather than terabytes of data, but memory utilization is basically limited to just buffers, so you could definitely scale that to terabytes without a problem.

http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...
Seems like a startup worthy idea.
Bill Gross: It's a Xanax World [pdf]
Why? A little more technical backstory and I might do that, or at the very least learn something new.
As far as I know, civilians and police officers in the US do have the same rights, as far as firearms are concerned.
I'm torn. I support the EFF with donations, and I'm a 14 year customer of T-Mobile, but I have no problem with what T-Mobile is doing.

The EFF has done some great work, but T-Mobile has done far more in bringing sanity back to the US mobile market.
But after all, what is HN without HNers? It's like the sound of one hand clapping.
For small trades on the public market yes, you can trade for cash at approximately the price listed on the exchange at that moment in time.

If Bill Gates wanted to liquidate his Microsoft stock, though, it's unlikely that his sale price would match the exchange. Once you get into trades of a significant portion of the company, there's not enough guaranteed to be enough liquidity at price listed on the exchanges.
> It's not a great solution, but it's the one that I've stuck with best.

Far and away the most important part of any such strategy...
"The SUV driver is responsible for his/her actions."

Hey, that is what ford said about the Bronco II.

Anyway, I agree with you in principle that if presented with the clear evidence in court it would be as you say. My contention is it would take many years and a whistle-blower before anything like that would ever come to light. And there is much greater likelihood of deaths occurring accidentally due to the code, than by design.

Depth of herd is an issue, to be sure, and this even assumes the car could tell the difference between zombies and humans.. perhaps we need a waze for herd avoidance.
Understandable but you could do that on twitter, just go directly to that users profile and see everything they've posted.
Deep Brain Stimulation in the Basolateral Amygdala Improves Symptoms of Autism
Things like G-sync really are specifically for gaming and they inflate the price significantly. A very high refresh rate is also not useful for most users outside of gaming. In other words, a lot of the value of these monitors really is in features that are only useful in gaming and not general purpose use.
The fun part is standing for an hour in a queue that leads to the small street so you can queue some more to the actual place :)

But the other restaurants (if you can call them that) in the same street are amazing too. I doubt I'd be able tell a difference between them.

Edit: for people who haven't seen this great establishment, here's the queue and the view on the restaurants: https://tinyurl.com/j8efukr
There's some really interesting research out there on schizophrenia.

"Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful."
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrm...
Well I mean okay it's not rocket science or anything but my schnauzer is a certified cosmetologist. What's your baby got?
This article is useless.
I want regular Linux on my phone, not Java Linux on my desktop.
sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but i still don't understand how its different from going to a users profile directly on instagram or twitter, to see only what they posted.
How did you make the decision to go part time instead of full time? Did you have a sizable amount of cash saved up before choosing to do so, or did you do the math, figure "I only need $X to live each month so I'll only work enough hours to make that"? If that's the case, how are you saving money for retirement? Or do you just want to live out your retirement as a ski bum, or a monk?
How and Why We Moved to a Faster Release Schedule
If programming languages were weapons
There is an attitude of entitlement here.

Students spend their money and time to learn something and frequently they get worked like a racehorse and nobody cares about if what they learn is transferable after the academic system no longer needs them.

If you are not going to be relevant to society the only thing I can do is vote for somebody who is going to cut your research budget.
The Chicago Tribune is hiring a news applications developer
pglogical (http://2ndquadrant.com/en-us/resources/pglogical/) claims to allow cross version upgrades from 9.4 to 9.5 with minimal downtime, but the documentation seems fairly light-on.

Has anyone come across a guide to using it for upgrades?
Is there a worldwide equivalent of Smile? I use it for the occasional purchases I make from Amazon US (supporting the EFF), but AFAICT there isn't a similar program for Amazon UK or Amazon JP.
I think you're right. I'm 28 and have noticed a lot of people my age complain about the UI/UX. Obviously this is anecdotal but people 25yo and under seem to 'get it'.

I personally like the UI/UX, and think it's advanced. I'm incorporating some of its elements in my own work. I for one am pretty tired of lists, lists, and more lists. I've read somewhere that the UI/UX was built in a 'Japanese style'. I dont know if that's true but it's interesting.

I think where there's room for improvement is just introducing the features and explaining how the unconventional navigation works.
Ask HN: Would you hire a blind software engineer?
This question might sound strange at first. Who wouldn't hire a software engineer who was skilled regardless of their disability, right?

But it's a little more tricky than that. Or so it seems, as I'm a blind software engineer.

Some quick background...I've been working as a software engineer for ten years now. I'm blind in my right eye and only have central vision in my left eye. I was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa when I was 16, I'm now 33.

It hasn't been easy to find work as a software engineer. I started noticing a trend a few years ago. As my sight got worse, the fewer job interviews resulted in a hire. Prior to this trend I was very good at job interviews, for a while I got a job offer for every one I interviewed for. So when it started to become more difficult to turn a job interview into a job I started to get a bit self-conscious. For a while I tried to hide my blindness from the interviewer -- the fake it until you make it approach. Which didn't work very well to say the least. Then I would only bring up my blindness in person, so at least if they gave me a chance I could prove myself. But even that is starting to wear thin.

I now find myself looking for work again. And it's as daunting as ever. So I'm here looking for advice. Are there any blind engineers out there that have found a way to break through the stigma? If you're in a position to hire software engineers/developers, what would you expect from a candidate who happens to be blind? What would help or hurt their chances?

Thanks in advance.
Great idea. And if anyone is confused, this thread is already the #1 result when you Google "Wm;djr".
Not everyone in Japan has to become a salaryman, you know. There are other career options available.
I'm more likely to stop contributing to the EFF than paying T-Mobile for cellular service, in the grand scheme of things.
Clojure SQL library showdown
Nope, I actually said those (predominantly) Linux programmes are not substitutes - it's right there in the comment.

I'm not hating on Linux, I have just used it totally as my daily driver for the last year, I prefer it and would go back to it as I said but I actually need the speed and quality that Lightroom and Photoshop afford.

They cannot currently be replicated by FOSS alternatives unfortunately.

Partly I think the UNIX philosophy gets in the way slightly, as Lightroom offers both catalogue, RAW development, printing, book creating and galleries in one place. This is important as when you manage multi terrabyte catalogues and hundreds of thousands of photos, having a single tool to keep track of everything is a real speed boost.

There are some pretty awesome options in Darktable and RawTherapee but it takes longer to get to the same place as Lightroom and neither tool offered the same ease of noise control.

GIMP on the other hand isn't Photoshop, doesn't aspire to be and is no substitute for the full power Photoshop gives you. It's just got non-destructive layers in the latest release hasn't it? Maybe it'll start to be a bit more of a contender if that's in place now.

I wish Adobe would just bite the bullet and release on Linux, there are tens of thousands of votes/comments for it on the various forum and feedback sites calling for it stretching back probably 10 years.
Details of usage tracking? What details? All I see are some vague statistics and some rhetoric about Microsoft "really really caring about your privacy, guys."
I cannot help but wonder if "apps" aren't going to eventually replace package managers. That's certainly what Docker-like containers try to do.

It might sound crazy when you consider some of the services typically installed with a package manager but ultimately there's no reason why an "app" cannot run in root, many root packages aren't actually installing drivers, they're only root for historical reasons (e.g. being able to read/write to /etc).

Why, for example, couldn't a web server be an app? Or a DNS client? Or a DNS server? Sure, there are certain system services which cannot (anything installing drivers/filter drivers/core UI/sound subsystem/graphics subsystem) but MOST things can.
Is this guy an alumni of the John McAfee school of management?
Never heard of him before but now I've watched some of his other stuff on YouTube some of it is pure gold....
A response like this is exactly what the article is about.
relevant?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_la...
I worked in industry research for a long time and almost every intern or new hire came in with laughably wrong assumptions, but it wasn't due to mediocracy, gaming, or dishonesty. They just didn't have anywhere to learn from. Their assumptions were copied from earlier "best paper" winners in the field whose assumptions were copied from a random previous paper whose assumptions were probably mostly speculation.
Most Linux distros have a mothership in the form of the package repositories and the signing keys thereof. Doing without would require a more decentralized system that would be harder to engineer, unless you want to go back to the days when all software updates were piecemeal and manual.

I would actually say that Linux distributions pioneered the app store concept via "yum install" and "apt-get" and such. Linux is certainly the first OS where I can remember seeing a centralized app repository you could pull from with a single command.
T-Mobile customers, feel free to write to them at:

T-Mobile Customer Relations
P.O. Box 37380
Albuquerque, NM 87176-7380

I couldn't find an email address.
You are confusing possession with ownership.

The buyer owns the tickets from the moment the purchase is complete, whether or not he has received them.

If the tickets went down in value in the interim time, then the most expedient thing for the seller to do to cure the problem would be to buy new tickets at the now-reduced price and hand them over to the buyer. You are absolutely right, the buyer can't demand his money back if the tickets go down in value -- he has to accept tickets that are fundamentally the same in value as the ones he was supposed to get.

Now, if for whatever reason the seller couldn't replace the tickets even though the price has dropped (unlikely -- that's pretty much the definition of a price, is that the item is available in exchange for money), then he might be able to ask for his money back instead.
Maybe self-selection going on?
You can "configure how the software works" to some extent even if you only get the free version. As a rule, more expensive licenses give you more features. If you don't think windows 10 pro is a good enough value, that's fine. But characterizing it as some kind of immoral violation of your rights makes me not take you seriously.

I use VS Pro and wish it had the testing tools that Enterprise did. Not enough to pay that much, though. Should I be mad about a violation of my right to IDE test suite integration?
It all depends what your aims are. We have a well-defined set of data we need to keep, including intermediate processing steps. We don't need headers, structured arrays, or any weird esoteric object types. (The author is my colleague.)

We can get by just fine with:
- N-dimensional arrays stored on disk
- Key-value metadata associated with those arrays
- A hierarchical data structure.

We've been very happy so far replacing HDF5 groups with folders (on the filesystem), HDF5 datasets with flat binary files stored on disk (just as HDF5/pretty much any other format stores them - each value takes up 1 or 2 or 4 bytes, and your filesize is just n_bytes_per_value * n_values), and attributes by JSON/XML/INI files. If I sent you one of our datasets, zipped up, you'd be able to make sense of it in a matter of minutes, even with no prior knowledge of how it was organised.

It is very tricky to build something that works reliably across all systems, but, thankfully, filesystem designers have done that job for us. And filesystems are now at a point where they're very good at storing arbitrary blobs of data (which wasn't the case when HDF was founded). Filesystem manipulation tools (Windows Explorer / Finder / cd/cat/ls/mkdir/mv/cp/[...]) are also very good and user-friendly.

There isn't really anything we miss about HDF5 at all. Perhaps if your project has spectacularly complex data storage requirements (as to your examples: metadata/headers are easily stored in JSON), but there's no other project I know of that actually relies on an HDF5-only feature and couldn't trivially use the filesystem instead.
Okay, I'm curious now.

Why is isolating an entire star system particularly difficult? How about "here be dragons" on a map? It's not like a fence is required; the area simply has to be avoided.

While I appreciate that this requires ensuring everyone uses the same map, is it unreasonable to suppose there is only one map? A self-propagating peer-to-peer map, something akin to DNS perhaps. By the time you're near a danger zone, your map is updated with all relevant information. Similarly, you update the local map nodes with information about the region you've traveled through. A pan-galactic openstreetmap.

Beyond human capability, sure, but we are talking about interstellar aliens.

And FTL travel? How about near light speed instead?
How do you decide where to move next? Do you follow work? Or do you work remotely?

I would love to do this but find moving to be incredibly stressful, and moving every six months I would feel like I don't have a real "home".
Hm, can you explain how you see Moore's Law as relevant? It talks about the number of transistors on a chip, or at least most generally about the technical performance of a computer system; it does not address the actual contribution to the economy / to productivity / to society by transistors.

In fact, by the markets-are-generally-good-at-things hypothesis, and the generalization of Moore's Law that computing power that can be obtained at equal price is growing exponentially, we have a good reason to believe that the exponential growth of technical performance is not contributing at all to productivity.

An uncharitable interpretation would be that most of the gains in technical progress have been lost to rent-seeking by the developers of ever-more-complicated frameworks and operating systems and UIs; while the ability to be productive on Google Docs today is higher than the ability to be productive on Office 95, it does not seem to be 2^(20 years/18 months) = 10,000 times higher. But nobody would put up with Office 95 today, for entirely artificial reasons.
Firefox: DevTools now always opens debugger, here's why
The licensing seems to make this a non-starter. But let's suppose they must fix that. (This is pretty clearly a derived product...?)

We'll need a proper ARM desktop... How about one based on AMD's A1100? :)
It also makes it clear that they do have quite a few options and the reason they don't have the rest is because they don't pay for them.
PlayStation VR has over 100 titles in the works
I don't think so, but the usage details from Telstra can take a while to show up.
Be careful not to get run over by those fish carrying mini-truck things while queueing in that small street! :)