skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, my violin teacher used to say that there were three important stages that a musician has to go through - playing badly and being unaware of what is going on, playing well and being unaware of what is going on, and finally, playing well and being aware of what is going on. When you've reached that final stage, you don't just repeatedly play a tune and hope to get better - you play it, hear your mistakes or what you want to change, and then repeat those sections and adjust them until you are content. Blindly repeating patterns is something you should get past relatively soon if you're hoping to get anywhere with an instrument.
Yikes, kudos for enduring that. I've actually started to turn my phone off at night, and it's actually crazy the feeling of relief I get from that small action. It's like there's some invisible unbilical cord between myself and that device.
If what you are describing is an example of 'sexism in tech',then it's nonexistant.

The only problem I see is the inability to have honest discussions, without being called a 'sexist'.
Money being the reason and greed being the reason are two different things. The $5 million in question would have never benefited the decision-makers who elected to make the switchover to river water. They were attempting to be thrifty with money that belonged to the city, which is just doing their jobs (badly).
That doesn't prevent using the dealership as a showroom.
In recent years, how we buy high end electronics has changed. People go to Best Buy to look and compare TVs then go back home to do some more research and read reviews and buy online.

I am sure when you go to a dealership, to look at the product, you come home to read the reviews and do more research before you buy and then go back to the dealership to make the purchase.

What this solves is the latter part. There's no need to go back to the dealership after you look at the car in person and read reviews online.
Yes, seems like it's 8.04!
Thanks! I hate missing replies and I really am glad to see a replacement.
Oh, that's absolutely true. There are far too few people stepping forward to fill non-technical roles in OSS. And that's a shame, because I think it would really help get some projects off the group, and help others keep their communities together.

But I didn't say "surely someone can just volunteer". I said that they should "get someone to join". There are a lot of ways to do that, and many of them involve the current team members being proactive about going out and trying to recruit someone to fill that role. The OSS communities can't just rely on the "if you build it they will come" philosophy -- if you really want your project to grow, you have to be willing to put yourself forward and actively get people to help you.
Not sure what the status is now, but the https://sipsorcery.codeplex.com/ project ("C# SIP protocol stack") withered after they implemented their admin UI in Silverlight.

After a bit of digging all the pieces required for self-hosting appear to still be there.
This article was not what I expected it to be. I thought it would be about someone freezing to death in Antarctica or Siberia. Perhaps freeze was the wrong word choice.
I'd be interested in such a thing but these homes are far from affordable. In fact they're priced a bit more heavily than homes in nearby Elmhurst, IL, no bastion of cheap home prices.

I'd be up for trying this if I could get it for around 250-300k for the 4br and then that allows me to pick up the land for 150k and come out about 150k cheaper than a standard house, but you're expecting me to pony up 500k + whatever it costs for the land plot, when I can just buy a house for 550k in the same neighborhood prebuilt.

My point is, your value prop isn't real. It's a great home, and a great idea, but it's actually more expensive square foot for square foot.

My wife and I are going to be house hunting in the next two years, and we would have considered this option but it's actually more expensive.

You can give the standard Tesla "but you'll have lower (gas/electric) bills" argument but I like air conditioning, so I doubt that's true for me, and even if it was, it doesn't really sell me either. "Because you'll save so much in the long run(and we can't really prove you will), you need to pay an extra 150k up front!" doesn't ring well.

EDIT: To clarify, I basically feel like in order for this business to work at all, it has to be a much cheaper option than a normal home, because there is an accompanying huge risk in investing in one of these. It's resale value may be next to zero, and all it's fancy gadgets will be out of date by the end of next year.
I was creating computerized maps back in 1979, using Census Bureau data. I guess I should have stayed in the business.
Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data
Our company (which runs an ASF project you probably have heard of as SaaS for enterprise customers) is pretty well-separated. Separate bug trackers with dual tickets, separate mailing lists, etc. The problem is that our corporate developers make up about 80% of the developers on the upstream ASF project. We took the ASF developers and hired them.

There are people who want to get things done in the upstream project, and they try... but they just don't have the resources, because most of the people on the project are busy doing their jobs.

Excluding corporate-support-contract-of-this-project employees from having contributor rights to the upstream project might work, but then you get the opposite problem: a downstream that's increasingly diverged from the upstream (because if the customers want a feature, but upstream won't take the patch, forking is pretty much necessary) where the "free core" of the upstream begins to stagnate because (in relative terms) nobody's eyes are on that code.
If a service is free, you are the product. Don't use Hola VPN...
Most people- scientists in the areas of chemistry and molecular biology- would say that molecular biology is high up enough on the stack that reducing it to chemistry doesn't make sense. Sure, you're working with molecules. But you are working with so many of them that you have to use abstractions to think about it.

Now, biochemistry, that makes sense to compare to chemistry. Biochemistry is organic chemistry (plus a little bit of metal chemistry), although the complexity of an enzyme is such that we often using abstractions.
I disagree. Most people's purchase decisions are based on price and they would happily accept a device that has inconvenience of sliding smartphone VS just putting on glasses. This if, of course, given that experiences are pretty close in quality. There are technically no reason that quality would be too inferior with smartphone based devices as long as smartphones have some additional bells and whistles. The smartphone is a powerful computer already equipped with tons of sensors, CPU, GPU, batteries and a large screen. I think only the field of vision may be bit impacted but I highly suspect average people would want to shell out another $500 for bit larger FoV.
Surprisingly many comments accuse others of misogyny without pointing out any specific instances or providing any argument whatsoever.

It turns out that "sexist" is also a commonly used tactic for shutting down discussion.
> A country needs strong, highly-engaged men who act as leaders. America is losing that more each and every day, and it saddens me.

Literally every president in US history has been a man, 80.6% of Congress are men, 95.5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are men, and you're sad that it's getting marginally harder for men and that the country is lacking in strong male leaders?
It's not the intended use case for declarative macros. Procedural macros are designed for this.
...care to explain why?
It is a bit awkward, but, I kinda like it: it's not common in physics for signals to come at frequencies that are actually audible, and these ones definitely are.
> I find it really sad when projects grow enough that they start seeing user input as a burden

Low quality bug reports waste everyone's time: I don't know of any developer who would disagree (open source or not, paid work or volunteering). If the "user input" is low quality bug reports, then it is a burden. Complaining that Issues enables low-quality bug reports isn't hubris.
Isn't A the only register those ops can use anyways? Although it's been a while, 25 years...
I'd offer one riff further on all that: indeed, core languages do continue to influence speed on a scale that implementation details can only batter at the edges of.

In Ruby's case, ObjectSpace is worth taking a peek at for an example: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.0/ObjectSpace.html We have here a method that counts all objects, by type, in the entire heap. How, exactly, could one propose to parallelize that? Not Easily. Does that leak synchronization needs -- and thus performance implications -- into every layer of GC, scheduling, class/module definition loading, and so on? Yup.

Doesn't matter how much you approach the pinnacle of excellence in JIT. Some definitions of operational parameters are just going to be expensive. Other languages that simply don't allow such operations are at a permanent advantage. There is no such thing as engineering without tradeoffs.
I agree. The initial messaging is to spark some sense of play and to screen for robots/crazy people. After that's established there's really not much to be gained by further messaging.
> that is seemingly limitless in what it does and can do

With great power comes terrible debugging!

Have you checked out rBokeh? Full browser interactivity, support for many more points than D3 (and way more if you turn on webGL), support for both server-based and serverless interactivity, all straight from R. http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh/
I find it rather interesting that people advocate for such things as basic income (wherein a basic level of financial incentive is obviated), all the while steadfastly grasping at the notion that sexual/ marital incentive is essential for a thriving country.
This reminds me of Objectivist-C:

http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c

"In Objectivist-C, software engineers have eliminated the need for object-oriented principles like Dependency Inversion, Acyclic Dependencies, and Stable Dependencies. Instead, they strictly adhere to one simple principle: No Dependencies."
I really hope they give some way to export out my ratings. Is it possible to do that right now?
College freshmen haven’t been this liberal since the Vietnam War
There always seem to be pairs (as in yin and yang), so could something like anti-gravitons exist too?
How is this different from what the Credit Unions have been doing for years? Thus, apply for a car loan online or in a branch without actually picking a car, once approved for an amount they send you a blank check. You go to a dealership and once you decide on a car, you just write them a check and drive off. Penfed CU, DCU, NASA CU etc. all do this and it actually gives the buyer an upper hand to negotiate and get a better deal on a car. The rates these companies offer are also more often better than the rates the dealership offers.
>how far we are from being able to create and detect gravitons //

Surely we create gravitons whenever we move a mass just like we create photons whenever we move a body that interacts electromagnetically? Isn't the point that we're constantly exchanging gravitons with all matter as they mediate gravitational attraction.
Surely you are thinking of Sonar?
A gentle introduction to the FFT (2002)
It's in their best interest to. If the cow you milk dies through neglect, you have to find another.
Lost in the transformation was three solar masses’ worth of energy, vaporized into gravitational waves in an unseen and barely felt apocalypse. As visible light, that energy would be equivalent to the brightness of a billion trillion suns.

Beautiful.
Sorry, I didn't mean to say "bogus algorithm". What I wanted to say is that the results look equivalent as those that can be obtained by linear filtering and rescaling the input image (a standard retinex-like technique): Compute minus the laplacian of the image, smooth the result using a cauchy kernel, linearly adjust the dynamic range. You can see the interior of the light bulb and the texture of the wall at the same time.

I teach image processing, this is a standard exercice.
I have entertained the thought of working in Singapore. It appeals living somewhere with bette climate, cheap to go out eating, big city etc. I live in Oslo, Norway and have a certain fascination for Singapore, it coincidentally having almost the same GDP and population as Norway, but a completely different society.

I am not sure if anyone here could comment on some of concerns with working in Singapore.

1) What is work-life balance like? From Norway I am used to employees respecting that people have a life outside of work, needs of children and family, 5 week vacation etc.

2) What is management and company organizations like, are they very hierarchical or flat in a software company? Do they micromanage or give you a lot of trust to solve problems the best way you see fit?

3) How does health care work for expats. You get that yourself or does the company pay?

How easy is it to live there without a car? Like how well does public transport work, or how cheap/hard/easy is it to get transport services for moving, installing furniture etc.

In Norway it always cost a lot to pay somebody to help you with anything, so you are always forced to do a lot of stuff yourself. It is not without reason that IKEA originates from Scandinavia. I had the impression that in Singapore it might be much cheaper and easier to pay people for various services.
About 60 a semester.

Number that attempt to get involved is unknown.

I require 1st semester students to push final projects to Github public repositories so they learn Git.

Biggest problem is that they can't program very well yet but want to contribute. So any low-hanging fruit is welcome, really.
It's niche marketing. If they are still interested after a few weeks of messaging they are more likely to settle and less likely to bounce after the next shiny.
So "instead of" taking an annual vacation, one should limit their work hours to 48 hrs a week, organize their time better, and take up a hobby like knitting.

I've got a better idea. Keep the vacation and cut work hours down to 40.
Intermediate mass black holes are 100 to 1 million solar masses.
Performers with stage fright have been using beta blockers for year as an off-label treatment for performance anxiety.

A doctor friend of mine passed along a recent NY Times article about how beta blockers may actually be able to cure the autonomous nervous system response and re-train the brain to not panic in otherwise panic inducing situations.

It's very exciting research and it's great to see non-psychoactive drugs used to combat mental issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/a-drug-to-c...
I think it bothers me because it is focusing on the sound that some small piece of this operation creates when the amazing thing is to be able to measure gravitational waves. Who cares if you hook the output of some piece of LIGO up to a speaker or not and make a noise? Unplug that speaker and these results are just as amazing.
There is a mix of issues

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics#Extern...

Plus whatever tax based services (roads, infrastructure, regulations, etc) that Tesla would not be directly paying for by existing in this location. (That would need to be taken on by the other taxpayers)
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was waiting for this!
Great work!

I've subscribed to your RSS as I've been on a real game design binge at the moment, with YT channels like Game Maker's Toolkit [1] and game array [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIr5cIzrkBIOwMCxJVJOx7Q/fea...
Good news in the article, apparently asprintf is scheduled for the next POSIX standard. I wonder how one sees what is in the next POSIX standard, it would inform my choices of what I use. I'll use something that works on all my platforms if it is headed to a standard, but usually not if it may head to oblivion.

Also open_memstream is POSIX 2008, now if it would just get into OS X…
> There is a de facto conspiring oligopoly preventing publication of certain political views, which Correia knows about and mentioned in his post because he's experienced it firsthand.

There is not a conspiring oligopoly preventing publication of the political views at issue, which I know about and mention in this post because those views are in fact published in works that are available through major commercial channels.

There may be a group of major publishers with biases which result in them not publishing the views that Correia and Cole complain about being "banned", but it is not only not a "ban", but its not a conspiring (or even independently acting in the same interest -- which seems to be what you mean with the "de facto conspiracy" description) oligopoly with the power to prevent the views from being widely published and the works embodying the views from being readily available through major outlets. As is evidenced by the fact that the views are widely published, and the works containing them are readily available through major outlets. Including, emphatically, the work of Cole's that this thread concerns.

> What you're engaging in is part of the second way Correia predicted that Cole would be attacked and dismissed, namely, by quibbling over the exact definitions of "censorship" and "banned."

I absolutely agree that this is censorship. The right to censor works one publishes is central the right of freedom of the press. No quibbling there.

But when it comes to "ban", yes, I certainly disagree that with any description that this is a ban -- not only by a strict definition, but even by a loose analogy. I certainly agree that were there an alignment (conspiratorial or not) of publishers collectively wielding enough power over the market that could and did prevent certain political views from receiving wide circulation, that would be a lot like a ban. And, I'm open to the idea that, for some views, such an alignment does exist. But what happened to Cole is not evidence of anything that is even remotely similar to a ban. Because the book is being published, in a manner which makes it available through the single most significant outlet for retailing books, one which has a majority of the market for books.

> Oh, and we have Cole's own words about why the publisher rejected the book.

Cole is, obviously, not a neutral source of information on the matter.
There's always going to be a balance between reusing code someone else has wrote, and writing new code. They both have their pros and cons.
Story time.

In college, I was called on at the very last minute to host a roundtable sports discussion on the university radio station. Likely listening audience: a million or so. I was freaked out, knew not a thing about sports, and just as we were getting started I asked if we should kick off talking about football - only to be told it was the off-season. I then tried introducing the panel, but blanked on one of their last names. He was my roommate. This is how I felt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no

In my 20s I had a phone interview for a fellowship that would send me to South America, teach me a foreign language, and put me in the company of my idols for two years. During the call, I was struck with such debilitating anxiety I went totally off the rails. It went a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PUrNwvvBk

I spent 10+ years taking meds for anxiety. And I was super lucky that they worked a charm. I'm off meds, and in very good shape, but I know better than to write anxiety off. I'm seasoned at dealing with it, but expect to deal with it for the rest of my life.
> No building style better represented America’s industriousness, monomaniacal greed, disregard of tradition, and eagerness to attempt feats that more established cultures considered obscene. And while those indelicate traits prompted Americans to develop the skyscraper, it was our openness and multiculturalism that brought us our greatest skyscraper builder: a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant named Fazlur Rahman Khan.

What an offensive article. Highlight the characteristic ("Muslim immigrant") that have nothing to do with why Khan is famous, while ragging on what was his life's work. There is a great, possibly apocryphal, story about Khan. He was in Bangladesh and someone asked him "why don't you come back here now that you're successful?" He replied: "I build skyscrapers for a living, what am I going to do here?"

That aside, taking the Chicago architecture tour and visiting the Sears Tower is a quasi-religious experience for an engineer. This guy built a skyscraper that was the tallest in the world for more than two decades. He practiced architecture in a city where people just did stuff like that: reverse the course of a river, raise all of downtown a couple of stories, build skyscrapers with floating foundations in soft soil, hang a building from a truss because they only bought the air rights over some rail tracks, etc. You leave with the overwhelming sense that these are people who built a high-density skyscraper city in a midwestern state with cheap land as far as the eye can see just because they could.
Well if we just want to pick majorities than we can do the exact same thing in JS.

Build => npm + Gulp (optional) + Webpack

Unit-Test => Karma + Jasmine or Karma + Mocha + Sinon

Framework => React+Redux+Data (modular) or Angular (all batteries included)

Same deal. High quality tools. You are pretending that there aren't hundreds of frameworks for Ruby (Cuba, Brooklyn, Scorched, Hobbit). The only people overwhelmed by choices are people afraid to make one.
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
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In marriage intelligence is more important than status. Men normally don't want to marry a smarter woman then them and the opposite on women. 1600 karma gives you some relationship potential and places you above trash..
Absolutely. Singapore is great, and I've always been interested in living there, but the pay for software developers is too low. The cost of living is about the same for (non-PR, non-Malaysian) foreigners as it is in NYC.

From my casual/infrequent research, salaries seem to be about half of what a developer in NYC would make. The income tax rate is lower, but that doesn't help much when you're still paying NYC prices for an apartment.
I am not sure I see the value here. I guess it is the interaction with others that are on the trip too.

If I wanted to work remotely from around the world, can't I do this myself for less than $16,450? ($5,200 deposit + $2,250/mo * 5). [As described by the site: The experience requires a down payment of $5,200 USD to hold your spot, plus $2,250 USD a month for the first five months. This is comparable to the cost of living in many major metropolitan cities and covers premium lodging, dedicated workspace, social and professional events, and flights between locations. ]