skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of non-real problems, one interviewer asked me to draw a diamond with asterisks.

This is apparently a pretty common question. I've always wondered where it would apply in the real world in my field, maybe someone can help.

It's more of an ego/race/etc issue with some. I've had instances where luckily I read, typed & memorized the interview algorithm the night before, which I regurgitated on the white board. Only to to be "pfffft that will never work" by the interviewer.
Oracle Says It Is Killing the Java Plugin
What I am hearing is that, as long as you do "something with computers" and it does not cost any extra money, you'd be happy to exchange 4 years of your time for a Bs in CS?

What about getting - gasps, the horror - and actual job as a data entry clerk? You know... something that pays you money instead of making the dean richer with your efforts?
More than likely. Most "science" grade CCD sensors, at least in the Astronomy world, are in fact shaved down to make them even more sensitive.
That seems to be the one thanks! I think that the article had some "code samples" and this one doesn't... but I may be confusing it with another article about quantum computing.
Except our current solution has become very expensive. Perhaps we need to move out of our local maxima of education if people are willing to pay so much.
yep, the way it is setup is you create a private network in VMWare, the proxy/router box has a live IP address on one end and is running a DHCP server on the private network. The client VM's connect to the Tor daemon on the proxy/router using SOCKS or HTTP

I don't use torify or anything else - if the app doesn't support SOCKS or HTTP then I don't use it. Any browser leaks will just hit a wall against the router VM.

It's the whonix architecture - except I use my own router (wasn't comfortable with whonix's 1.6GB+ router) and client.
I thought they killed it 3 to 4 years ago. I never know with Microsoft.
The new Azure portal uses TypeScript heavily.
I think that's a really important question that shouldn't be downvoted.

However, I think the answer is through workplace safety laws (OSHA), fair labor standards act provisions for minimum wage and overtime, ERISA (which sets minimum standards for retirement and health plans), Civil Rights Act provisions, ACA, the Federal Employment Compensation Act, and others.

Unions originated in an era where you could find children working 14 hours in a sweatshop for a starving wage, with locked doors that prevented escape in case of fire, around dangerous machinery that would take off limbs in a blink with victims never compensated and unable to work again.

The case for unions in that era is different than the case for unions today. Worker concerns today, serious as they may be, are categorically different from the concerns of that time. The case for unions today also has to grapple with concerns about rent seeking, keeping dangerous/unfit employees on the job, and reducing job availability or promotion for capable newcomers.

But note that the alternative to unifying workers trade-by-trade or workplace-by-workplace is to just unify enough of the electorate to fix obviously broken labor practices through legislation. It sounds much harder, but we've done it repeatedly, and it doesn't have the same down-sides.
Easy responsive SVGs with viewBox
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Psychiatric medication does not generally target and resolve the "root cause" of an issue, but applies some very blunt instruments to make living with the effects less bad. We have the chemistry to apply some very broad levers to moods/emotions/energy levels, for example, which are helpful in the management of depression. We cannot reach in "fix" the root cause, but often when a patient is allowed to exist in a less-actively-torturous state for a while they get better on their own.
To avoid unnecessary cache writes, there's also a plugin that does implement a rudimentary LRU. Basically, you have to see some amount of traffic before being allowed to get written to the cache. This is typically done in a scenario where it's ok to hit the parent caches, or origins, once or a few times extra. It can also be a very useful way to avoid too heavy disk write load on SSD drives (which can be sensitive to excessive write wear, of course). See

https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/tree/master/plugins/...
Can I have the domain name?
A brave new post open source world
Wow you guys are awesome!
Very interesting. Do you think ipfs could be used to mimic a server to host a static website that could be loaded by a browser?
this was from April 2013
How do you do that? Isn't it true that with the way teachers are organized you pay everyone the same based on some blanket criteria like seniority? So you can't pay the good ones handsomely without also paying the bad ones well, which breaks the bank. If you try you get some combination of union/legal/government action that ties you up.
That sounds like a challenging poll to conduct.
Great idea for a project.
You're right. At the moment it's difficult to download Tails anonymously, especially with everything we know about XKeyscore targetting.

It's a problem that others can help fix by setting up mirrors on HTTPS. Ditto with hosting the website on a Tor hidden service.
I didnt see, but do they include Office365 (hosted exchange/sharepoint) in the Cloud revenue? If so, I could totally see that skyrocketing.
But the Interstates weren't specifically designed to give an advantage to the government in street fighting. Haussmann's boulevards were designed for easy access for artillery (and cavalry?), and to make barricade-construction impossible, as vonnik noted -- not to facilitate movement and redeployment like the Interstates. (I've heard the rumor that the Interstates were meant to facilitate suburbia from the start -- on the theory that if the country's population and economic activity spread out into the suburbs, we'd be harder to ruin with a small number of nuclear weapons.)

That said, Robert Moses was certainly a tyrant of urban planning on the same level as Haussmann. White ethnic populations of the Northeast still remember him, and have not yet forgiven him for his habit of running freeways through their neighborhoods -- ruining the neighborhoods in the process, and in many cases driving them out to the ethnically-homogenous blandness of the suburbs.

I'm also reminded of Le Corbousier. Architecture can certainly attract autocrats...
the parse server is just a couple K sloc, and not (from a cursory browse) exactly revolutionary. writing such a backend (which one would probably leverage over several projects) is qualitatively different than "writing your own compiler from scratch every time".
Am I the only one unable to click on the hyperlink in the text? It seems like some sort of weird JS intercept is happening. The HTML shows it as a plain anchor, I'm not sure why JS is involved at all.

Here's the error I get in my Chrome console:

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.stealthworker.com/blog/rewarding-pen-testers-on-... was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://www.stealthworker.com/'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
thank you for the sound advice. I'm checkout out bulletjournal and will likely at least try the medication route, assuming a doctor agrees and officially diagnoses me.

I was on Ritalin for a short time when I was around 14, I was as anti-medication then as I am now, didn't notice a difference and started refusing to take it after a month or so. I remember depression being mentioned at the time, although I don't know what the official diagnosis was.

The one medication that did seem to have great effect scared me so bad that I stopped taking it and refused to take any more -- percocet. I was prescribed some after oral surgery and threw it out after taking it for a couple of days. During that time, the house was cleaned spotless, laundry done and folded, even ironed my shirts and hung them (as opposed to my typical pattern of snatching them from the dryer and ironing them immediately before I wear them), and many other things were done that I would have normally procrastinated and waited until the very last minute. From talking to others, this doesn't appear to be a normal reaction to opioids.
Advancing Android Development with Kotlin, by Jake Wharton
Walgreens Halts Use of Theranos’ California Lab
15k steps per day is awesome! I have no idea how much 3kg is but that's awesome too ;)

And it's cool to hear you say that last bit because I feel the same way. I really need to sit down to work through through a complicated problems that requires focus. Emails and phone calls are standing and furrowed brow activities are sitting.
Seriously, any good alternatives other than Firebase?

I chose Parse because it looks better than Firebase... this latest development is beyond me. Such a promising product...
PG is so insufferable in text form. I've listened to his live speeches and it's like an entirely different person. Maybe chalk it up to the limits of tone over text, but it's a consistent pattern.
"We're not going anywhere."

I'd like another answer like. "We are thinking about providing a community version that one can deploy on its own servers, then we provide the IaaS when the customer might want to scale". If Parse had an opersource version to begin with, it would have been much much more successful and people would have been less worried about building on a third party platform.

If Firebase closes tomorrow there will be no migration strategy for people who built their infrastructure around Firebase.

> Firebase is very complementary to Google's other product offerings

Google is a big org. Tomorrow some upper executive you don't even know might decide your product doesn't add value anymore. You know that.
The dependency loading a dependency isn't exacrly new. JSPM is installed cia NPM.

I agree on the global dependencies part except when it comes to dependency managers. In most cases there're made up of more than just libs (ex dependency cache) that benefit from sharing state globally.
I spent the entire last weekend trying to figure why a Linked List is slow no matter the operation or data type, compared to a flat array.

In the end I put my Big O knowledge in the drawer and stripped linked lists from the program I was working on, and got the 100x improvement in overall performance I was looking for.
I can't provide any further evidence toward the legitimacy of this fellows claim, but I can add some (very colored)context.

I'm from Fresno, California. I went to Fresno State and my amassed collection of anecdotal experiences(never directly, the police have always been kind to me) of the police in Fresno is more Kafkaesque then anything I have ever seen or heard of from within the U.S., by miles. I could just start listing stuff about police "gangs", and cover ups, police hits and just the gruesome stuff, but I don't think that is fair, its just talk. I just want to highlight that there is so much of it(talk, I mean) in Fresno. Almost everyone has got a story, everyone has heard something, and the way people react when an officer walks in, its just different.

I don't know if its a result of long standing racism in the valley, a result the painfully serious gang problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno_Bulldogs), the sheer amount of money spent on the police in Fresno, a result of police state feel of enforcement (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/02/04/fresno-california-a..., I'd like to color that by noting Fresno its not the drunkest by consumption, but by DUI), I just don't know. But its there, people feel it.

A book has been written that touches on the subject in some seriously telling ways: http://www.amazon.com/In-Fathers-Name-Mark-Arax/dp/067101002...

But for me, a person who has never had a real run in with the law. I will share an interaction I had with a retired Fresno officer at a rather nice bar in town. I was minding my own business waiting for food, when the former office sat down next to me in one of the few open spot available. After some unconformable silence, he said hi and we talked for a bit about nothing at all; what we did, how we liked Fresno,the most banal conversation you can imagine. Nevertheless, it was clear we were getting along, his food arrived before mine. Eventually, after another moment of silence, we ended up speaking about a recent police shooting in a parking lot, about how dangerous it was to be a cop in Fresno, the gangs, etc etc. Again just conversation for its own sake. Now, I don't know if it was because we had been drinking or the fact that we were friendly, but I asked him something like, "I don't know how to ask this, but is there any truth to what they say about the police force, about Dyer. People say a lot, and just don't know?"(http://fresnopeoplesmedia.com/2015/04/fresno-chief-of-police...).

And honestly, I expected him to say that there wasn't, and that some cops are of course corrupt, but that is just the way things are. You know a canned response. What he said, I'll never forget, in paraphrase, "In Fresno, more than anywhere else... well lets just say the police officers here don't ever have your best interest in mind." He then smiles, shook my hand and went on his way.
Now that's an interesting idea, i'll check that out thanks.
Do you think this is a problem of too many willing candidates? For a subject like film, and indeed for English, you have a lot of people passionate about the field, but not many jobs available in industry. So many graduates will bounce back to academia and try to join the faculty, which is their only other option to pursue their subject in a professional capacity. The universities know this, but keep collecting fees from students while tendering the staffing requirements to the lowest bidding graduates. My undergraduate was English at a Russel group university... at one point I was encouraged to pursue a post-graduate degree in literature, after which I'd probably try to double down and get a faculty job. Thank god I didn't.
Eliezer Yudkowsky on AlphaGo
that seems orthogonal.
This really seems like a limitation of nosql/mongodb, would it be worthwhile to reconsider sql/nosql trade offs?
Manhattan owes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Downing
This is probably what China should do, but like any other nation in the world they will not do because of the high political cost. The most likely scenario for China is that they will maintain this debt forever, by constantly devaluing the currency just to let the state-owned companies survive.
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What happens when you find out that what most people think they "like" is to hang up with friends, drink beer, play games and have as much sex as you possibly can?

What happens when said group of people finds out there's such horrible things as bankrupcy, or debt collection, or evictions?

What happens when they figure out that the things everybody expects them to do to pull themselves out of the mess is complex stuff that cannot be learned on the fly, and that requires years of practice before results can be obtained by investing a reasonable amount of effort?

It is good and proper to enjoy ourselves in life, but sometimes you need to force yourself to do stuff that either you must do right now in order to avoid extremely unpleasant outcomes, or that you should do in order to position yourself for more good things to come your way in the future.
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All the lectures as transcripts, not videos:
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

Playlist of Feynman lectures on video at Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLzGzdSNup63lMYeOpU9H...
The sensors used are Kodak KAF8300, which are a stand-alone sensor that you hook up to a laptop. They are designed specifically for astronomy, and perform better in some ways than typical consumer cameras. DSLRs that are marketed as tuned for astrophotography often have better sensitivity to certain key wavelengths than their standard counterparts (especially hydrogen-alpha at 656nm), but are missing other benefits of 'science-grade sensors'.

"Astronomical CCD cameras are a whole different world from DSLR cameras. These are cameras designed exclusively for AP, and most offer active cooling. The nature of a CCD vs a CMOS sensor in a DSLR results in a camera that is higher sensitivity, but also higher noise. Many Astro CCD cameras have mono sensors (no bayer color layer) which means they are used with filter wheels with different colored filters to capture a natural color image. They can also be used with various narrow-band filters to capture light outside the visible spectrum."

from http://soggyastronomer.com/the-best-dslr-cameras-for-astroph...
I'm not sure which of the two cases you're addressing; I'll respond with one comment assuming each.

If we are talking about case 1 (a fixed BI tax rate with all proceeds distributed), then when one individual stops working the basic income goes down by 1% as you say.

> So, a rational actor would stop working.

I don't see how this follows. A rational actor weighs the 1% decrease in BI plus the 100% decrease in earned income, and whatever that means for quality of life, against their preference not to work.

> Similarly, if 95 out of 100 stop working, then the other 5 have little incentive to work, because their income is basically funding everyone else.

This is not case 1 anymore. In this scenario, one of the other 5 quitting reduces the BI by 20%... of the remaining 5% of the original level. It has no effect on how much any individual is paying in. Meanwhile, with the BI amount being 1/20th its original level, some of the other potential workers are probably getting interested in working again.

This is exactly a negative feedback loop.
A lot of taxpayers are already of negative value to the system. They cost money.

For that matter, despite paying taxes and operating legally, some dubious companies are obviously a drain on the system overall.
Scheduled Auto Scaling Now Available in the AWS Management Console
Really cool project. This project simplify the canvas programming. Awesome!
Mithril was too big?
Let's Use Behavioral Economics to Design Technology That Doesn’t Kill Us
Mecanum wheel
There was pressure to ignore warnings because President Reagan was scheduled to be present for the launch.
In higher levels of management, things get more political. Looking good and getting exposure count for a lot. No one wants to be the guy that made nasa look bad by slipping the launch date.
In tech, most managers tend to be rated by how well their projects meet schedules and how much operating expense they can minimize, since that's the only thing their managers have any sense of control over. Your boss doesn't want to take the heat for delaying project "glitter unicorn" by a week so you can fix 2 major security holes in the service, one which allows customers to login without a password. And this is why your company won't spend $500 for a data backup system or why it takes 4 months to get your broken keyboard replaced.
It's turtles all the way up.
The author of this has been a long time contributor to D and brought these ideas (and many other things) to the language. He's probably the biggest reason D's CTFE (compile time function evaluation) is as powerful as it is, having done most of the implementation.
Oh, nice.
What being a PM is really like
Pretty much that, except Zapier works in the background, basically a script and no monitoring. I'm sure there are other, easier solutions, but somebody told me about this, so testing it out. But it depends on what you want to use the CRM/e-mail solution for I guess. I for the most part like Mailchimp as a CRM for managing different lists that we have...it's just the e-mail format that I find impersonal. Generally I've just been doing the e-mails manually, but automation is always ideal :)
Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives?
Any recommendations on Parse alternatives? Firebase is very limited (just data) and I can't find anything that would match Parse in terms of ease of use and features.
Some people are just never happy...
The point was to show that compression works at the level of bits, not characters. Realistic JSON is mostly content, which means your compression ratio depends more on content redundancies than braces or quotes. So too for binary serialization formats.
Definitely kudos to Parse for open sourcing what is essentially their platform.

Nonetheless, this speaks to the difficulty many of us in the startup world face when choosing our technology stacks.

Parse, Firebase, and other similar BAAS platforms are very attractive for a variety of reasons. But in the end, many of them get acquired and eventually wind down, or run out of money because it's so difficult to run profitably.

Selling to developers is oftentimes a difficult thing to do. I've seen multiple products aimed at developers that look great and get me excited, but when I sit down and really analyze it -- each of them have yet to make even a single dollar from me. I'm sure many of us are in similar positions.
Founders of Science?
Looks like the Parse dev team is going to continue development of the SDKs for now: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/ParseUI-iOS/issues/189#issu...
Nice! And in this case the perfect is not the enemy of the good!
I'm not sure what you expect the school to do in these situations.

On a school trip, the school is legally responsible for the kids. Trying to keep up with everyone - who came on the bus but is leaving early with their parents, who came with their parents but is riding back on the bus - especially with a large group. And it's even worse today, since most of the kids have cell phones and will be begging their parents for an early pick up, so whatever the kid originally said they were going to do will change mid trip.

As far as the homework, what would you have them do? They already have do much material to cover for standardized tests that they can't thoroughly cover any topics they way they need to. They know it and they don't have a choice. They can't really slow down and take things slower for your kid because you think they're overworked.

Teachers in the US are in a terrible place right now. On one side you have parents, both bad parents who aren't involved and overly demanding ultra involved parents, and on the other side state and federal officials breathing down their necks about testing. Teachers are literally the meat in the middle of the vice. My mom is a retired teacher, and keeps in touch with a group of friends, almost all of whom she mentored. These are all very good teachers, and all of them are veterans with 10+ years experience. They're all demoralized and every single one of them is counting the days until hit 20 years, so they qualify for retirement and can get out.
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Only about 12,000 in the CPD according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department
You understand they use dollars to keep their currency afloat, right? If they sell all their dollars, there will nothing to stabilize their currency.
Show HN: Docker image for parse-server
I love your product, thanks for releasing a "community server". I liked it because it contained enough business logic to get started with most projects. Built that with it among other things :

https://github.com/Mparaiso/playground ( a jsfiddle lite directly available on github , the UI is angularjs : https://mparaiso.github.io/playground )

So thanks. You were the best BaaS feature wise IMHO.

EDIT: however just one point : you took 1 year to rewrite your API in Go, which yielded performances but the product didn't evolve that much in the meantime because of the rewrite, was the experience positive or negative?
Abbreviations can be annoying, but mainly because you don't know what they mean. I'd be less bothered by them if APIs using them would clearly document the meaning. Alas, that never happens.