skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's brilliant, really. A beautification movement.

You don't have to be wealthy to have clean streets, manicured gardens, etc. It starts with a lack of tolerance for substandard conditions.
> WoW is just old now, and it's still an alright game, but it's been out for too long. I believe TBC and WOTLK came out after Activision purchase and those expansions were great.

Those were my two favorite expansions. I quit when Cataclysm was released. That said, I recently resubscribed and have been enjoying playing it periodically. Unfortunately, the skill set "crunch" feels too much like the game mechanics have been dumbed down, sapping away the spirit of the game. I thought I liked the changes at first until I discovered they ripped out a ton of core class skills and pushed forward with some really bizarre decisions. (My girlfriend is playing a death knight, and she's perplexed as to why only frost spec allows her to dual wield--almost as puzzled as I was to discover that shaman totems feel more like a bolted-on mechanic than they were before.)

But, I assume this change was an attempt to pull new people into the game and not leave it with a decidedly intimidating number of talents and spells. I liked it the way it was, some people didn't, and that's just the way things are, I suppose. Nostalgic folk aren't the target demographic at this point, and while I think I can live with that, I'm still undecided if I'm going to continue my subscription after this month. MMOs seem to be in a race for the bottom, and I don't really have the time anymore to invest in new ones. C'est la vie.

One thing I wish they'd do is bring back the old expansions in a manner that would allow you to play them mostly as they were (perhaps with some improvements, such as reduced raid sizes, but keeping the spirit of the game as close to how it was when that expansion was released). I wouldn't even care if I had to re-roll, but if I could level through all the expansions as I did before--the ones I enjoyed, anyway--or lock into one and play that content at the appropriate level, I'd happily pay the subscription indefinitely. Sure, there are private servers out there (requiring one to break the EULA) that attempt to recreate older versions at various points, but the quality varies so wildly they're almost not worth it--legal issues and ethics aside.

Hey, I can dream. It won't happen. It'd be too costly to implement with very little reward, and I doubt it'd bring back many of the older players who swore off the game due to whatever recent changes drove them away (possibly alienating the new players in the process). WoW is a cash cow now, so there's unlikely to be any disruption that could threaten that income. Sadly.
>this is the only thing holding back virtual armies of tech workers from moving to the country, which would greatly relieve the cost of housing in major coastal metros (tech hubs).

What?

Aside from the fact that there are tons of instances in which remote work simply isn't as effective as showing up at the office, I suspect that most of us in the tech sector in a major city actually enjoy living in the city.
and also tagging it in such a way that it can be found. I have thought about this before too - would be a great supplement to something like wikipedia.
My guess is any cost you incur from the home office would be offset by travel cost to/from work and you could probably write off a home office.
I do run Open Source projects. I do not buy the argument that more users inherently increase costs.

Users also answer questions or contribute otherwise. And you can completely discard and ignore their questions if you wish and it still doesn't stop the software from working. You can even put out an Open Source project somewhere anonymously and provide no contact information.

Support for users has costs as there are more users. I happen to volunteer my time supporting users because I think it leads to better long-term success for the project. But regardless, each user has capacity to not ask for any support or to ask for it. I'm sure there are some Django users who never ask for support. If someone comes along and uses Django and has no questions, it is totally unlike someone coming along and eating all the coconut.
The part that grandparent is overlooking is that while luminosity decreases as to the square of the distance, the number of stars in a given angular diameter of space increases as to the square of the distance. The two effects cancel each other out and so Olbers Paradox can't be resolved by that method.
"Well, to be fair GP made a similar moral argument, so I guess they also have a crusade?
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Sure.
I don't discriminate.
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This follow-up isn't meant as a disagreement, just thinking 'out-loud':

So what do we solve this problem then? While our economy does demand increased knowledge for a good wage we also ALL know about the near pointless demand for increased credentials. We ALL know a certain chunk of top-echelon jobs are all but removed based on our university pedigree. This isn't even efficient for the economy, but that's a completely different post.

We need to get more people more education, we need to quit demanding absurd amounts of credentials for everything from a barber to a glorified desk jockey, and we need to not cut off people from a prosperous life path because of their pedigree or poor decisions made in the first 22 years of their life.

Online degrees were/are an attempt to solve this. So how do we fix them or what else do we do?
Strange. This is from the official Python docs:

"pip is the preferred installer program. Starting with Python 2.7.9, it is included by default with the Python binary installers."

https://docs.python.org/2.7/installing/
That's not quite as strong of a question, since trees (as far as I know) don't regrow the same pattern of branches and leaves repetitively, yet fingerprints remain roughly the same throughout one's life despite skin constantly shedding and regrowing.
Why not open source the dashboard code as well?

I have been looking at migrating options and would like to have something as close as possible to original Parse.com

The dashboard was such huge help in testing, debugging etc. Suggest opening that up too so other players can run that as well.
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Did you actually read the answers you linked to? They say exactly the same thing: A distant observer never sees a blackhole form, but infalling matter does. Because GR has no such concept of simultaneity the two observers can never agree on when the black hole formed.

But since we are here on Earth we care about how it looks to a distant observer, and from our point of view black holes never form. And what the infalling matter sees is irrelevant to us.

NOTE: You do not need black holes to make gravity waves, neutron stars will also make them. But time is still enormously dilated by neutron stars, and I'm wondering how that affects the gravity waves they make.
Want to run your own mail server with TLS, SPF and DKIM? Check out sovereign on github. Makes it easier and includes a lot of other useful stuff such as your own calendar and contacts server.
Good point. Perhaps better to login with OpenID?
Hell, there are probably some people here who's first programming experience was JASS for WC3 modding.
Yes, it's true that the most distant galaxies we've observed are only around 13 Gly away, but the fact that number is so close to (speed_of_light * age_of_universe) is just a coincidence. We could, in principle, see light emitted from points in space that are currently 46.5 Gly away, but all such light was emitted long before any galaxies had formed. The OP wasn't mentioning that we can see to a maximum distance of ~13 Gly as an unrelated fact with its own cause, it was saying it was because the Universe is ~13 Gy old and that's how far light can travel in that time, which isn't true.
This is something MOOCs should work on. Create a social network of students and add some competition to it. Make it possible to show off your work, and be humbled by other's work. It's not something that "can't be replicated".

Oh, and add some VR campus in the mix.
Actually, if you look at the data they published they show that the retreat was much more expensive than their rent.

Retreat: 5.2%
Office: 2.1%
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I think the commenter is suggesting that algebra skills are a reasonable heuristic for the applicant's ability to perform well in an academic context. In other words, if after four consecutive years of mathematics training centered on algebra, you still can't do algebra, you're probably not going to be able to deal with Shakespeare or Heidegger either.
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Why do we have offices to begin with? Because they provided value. Past tense. Sure they were always expensive, but without bringing people together physically, it was nearly impossible to accomplish anything. Humans have a difficulty, rooted in the fundamental structure of our brains, to hold both the benefits and the costs of a situation in mind at the same time. Once we determine that something provides greater benefit than cost, the costs just disappear. It's a pragmatic shortcut, but it falls flat when the underlying assumptions change.

The underlying assumptions have changed. The myriad costs associated with offices are no longer outweighed by the benefits they provide. That's partially due to the development of technology, and partially due to other changes, such as the adoption of productivity-poisoning 'open plan' offices. Our whole setup of how we work is based on manufacturing, and it hasn't been adapted to the very different work being done now. Even though technology has made individual workers so productive that the company can survive an open plan office and still not be able to provide most workers with enough to do to fill 40 hours a week, we still force them to have their butt in a chair for those 40 hours - more often more than that, the majority of which is done solely for appearances sake.
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Being in the same space as people you'd like to learn from is key, but I don' think we need the traditional educational institutions for it.
For instance, there are more bright highly-motivated (especially motivated) people at my local makerspace than there ever was at my engineering college (this in Norway).
> By this reasoning, the only thing completely determined by genetics is genes, since every manifestation of genotype could be called a phenotype.

But this is absolutely correct, so the fact that the sentence leads to this correct conclusion doesn't make it silly. Genotype is just genes. The manifestations are all determined by the interaction of genes with the environment and the manifestations of observable traits together make up the phenotype.

Some aspects of this are practically tightly controlled by genes because the environments which allow an organism to develop at all tend to also be ones in which the genes involved are expressed in certain ways, and some are less tightly controlled by genes, because there is more practical variation in interaction with the environment. But these are differences of degree.
Online material on this subject is scattered, but there are good books like Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell and Credit Risk Scorecards by Naeem Siddiqi.
That is the definition of "phenotype" as I understand it. Phenotype is the observed traits of an organism, while genotype is the genetic (discrete) code in the organism's DNA. Genotype obviously largely affects phenotype, but it doesn't entirely determine it.
Everyone at my company really got behind the idea of TILs too, so we created a little web app for it -- https://til.hashrocket.com/
You can use full disk encryption on your own server. Not every country has laws that force you to forfeit your crypto passwords
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> I guess I'm the flip-side of this. I work for myself, self-employed, and my office is the best $360 I spend each month.

That's not the flip side, that's what the article says they're doing: converting office staff to a co-working space (via their "perks"):

"Those in San Francisco who worked in the office now have
moved into coworking spaces, which Buffer pays for as
part of our team perks."
It's not the end user that would suffer, but the programmer. Who want's to program around a process that blocks all other threads? Not me. I hate boiler plate.

Swift's ARC is basically automatic boilerplate for resource management that's applied at compile time. It's extremely flexible in that you can also use raw pointers and manage memory manually if you want to. A native language with ARC as a passive option is a way better tool for making games than a garbage collected one on the VM, IMO.

> ;-)

I'll never understand why people think winking online is a socially competent thing to do.
It's a good step, but a very small step. It's been a long time since the Snowden leaks. You're pretty much naked to state surveillance without:

a) An open source client that encrypts your mail
b) A public key resource with a web-of-trust

All the major Web portals/ecosystems could lock the spooks out of email payloads very effectively. That would still leave other issues to solve, but securing payload in flight and at rest seems like the first real milestone that makes a difference.
Maybe. But that's far from "without warning."
Stack Exchange sites would love you to ask the question and then answer it yourself. It's not exactly primary use-case though so I suppose it's not obviously acceptable behaviour.
How can you do that? There is no way to block gravity, so you can not make directional observations, the waves you see are the linear sum of all the waves in the universe.

Although I do wonder if an array of detectors might be able to use time differences in the arrival of the waves to differently located detectors, and some math to get some directional hints.
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Someone should research the statistics, what percentage of orgasms are remotely induced.
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> But I don't see how a random token is any worse than an incrementing one if you're just going to straight up reject requests where the token doesn't match.

No, random tokens are not worse per se, they just have no place in the algorithm Martin described. It's a completely different system. In that system incremental tokens presume a mechanism that gives you a way to have some order of events. And one can rely on that order to decide which requests with which tokens to reject.
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I do agree with the cookie blocking on those Google APIs and Gravatar pages.
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https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/

No. It is more than 9 people.
For anyone wishing to run their own mail server, check out Mail-in-a-Box[0]. It's relatively easy to set up, comes with a nice Web GUI and they recently added support for automatic provisioning of TLS certificates with Let's Encrypt.

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> For now they will just warn on it. In a few months they will send it to spam

As a recipient of all kinds of mail, I'm okay with that. I'd rather not see that unencrypted email than have it QUANTUM INSERT'd or whatever the Chinese equivalent is.
Um, I feel like this will have repercussions in terms of staff churn rate. Office spaces are one of the definers of culture, and culture is one of the main motivators for staff. I'm certain that remote working suits many people, but I doubt that it will allow a sense of 'loyalty' to arise in the worker.
i didn't say every one would, i said a virtual army of us would.
I did not know we could have ip=dhcp option, but I will need to create a network manager now or later, but for trying out some stuff, I can use that flag. Also, I will not bundle services to init, it will be just forking, signaling and waiting. All the other utitilies will be small independent code exercises for me.
I'll be using this in future conversations, thanks!
There's no substantive point of difference between my post and yours. I'm simply suggesting that perhaps the "big reveal" for this question is a bit trivial, even for the general public. Everyone knows that no matter a boy's genome, he isn't going to grow as tall as Yao Ming if he only gets 1200 calories per day in his diet.
I disagree. I would call this a proof but not a derivation. In other words, each step follows logically from the previous ones, even if there's no way that you would discover the final equations this way if you didn't already know or guess them.

In general, this is part of what makes reading mathematical papers so difficult; the steps of the proofs are almost never written down in the order they were discovered. All of the false starts and a lot of the intuition is discarded to yield a shorter but sometimes totally mysterious path from the assumptions to the conclusion.
affordable metros aren't the country.
Surely you have seen equation 1 (but perhaps with a slightly different notation). Each dot above an x represent a time derivative. So, the left-hand side is the second derivative of the position with respect to time aka the acceleration, times the mass. So, the first equation is simply F = ma (but, yeah... the notation can easily throw one off if one has not see it before.)
It makes him anarchist in the context of those ideas. Are people defined by a single label? Rarely so.
>the storage layer can provide a CAS operation, in which case your lock is not required and the workers read, mutate, CAS

Yeah, so Optimistic Concurrency Control. Possibly a Redlock-like lease scheme could be used to improve performance in the high-contention case.
I had no reasons to use this package, but now I have one to not use it. I only wanted to see what it was because the name suggested something fun.

Why whould someone who can't add $HOME/bin to $PATH be using git?
What does "linearizable" means in this context?
Have a look at opensmtpd. Easiest-to-configure mail server I've ever used.

https://www.opensmtpd.org/
I also worked solo -- at home for one year and in a private office at a coworking space alone, and then with an officemate, and now finally working at a company in an office. Each incremental step has been better than the next and I do not want to go back. Working solo at home was especially horrible (and I'm an introvert). I would like to have flexibility, i.e. Fridays at home (or off totally) would be ideal.
It means that at this point, ground based detectors probably won't work due to the massive amount of background noise (activities from people, geological activity, etc). There are plans for detectors in space that would not suffer the same problems.

There's little reason, almost none at all, to think they don't exist. The standard model clearly predicts they should exist, and non-direct evidence has been seen already.
That is in the works. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/issues/3
Has the FPGA base system been built yet? I seem to sense it is only simulation at the end of the talk.

I love to see the latency, through put info on the fabric interface. I used to work on some AMP/SMP x86 xeon base server 15 years ago and dreamed about big massive parallel system interconnect with infinit band and/or PCIe/PCI fabric.

But SW for interconnect almost infinite number of CPU via standard network HW/protocol are just so much easier.
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It's pretty clear any market Google Fiber moves into they are taking a major hit.
> HOTS is good. Just hasn't taken off.

It's good but it's not great. League of Legends and Dota2 are both superior games in just about every way. Honestly Blizzard is just really late to the table with this one, which is surprising seeing as how MOBAs started in War3.

> Hearthstone is an amazing success and very fun.

Hearthstone is Magic: The Gathering with most of the pain points removed. I'm not saying it isn't fun or commercially successful, but there's nothing innovative about it. MtG never produced a viable online game, so Blizzard did.

> Starcraft 2 is okay.
> Diablo 3 kind of missed the mark

I agree with both statements. SC2 will never be as popular as Brood Wars, and they seem to be struggling with game balance a lot more. D3 completely missed the mark with the auction house.

What I see happening to Blizzard is a focus on micro transactions, with gameplay coming second. I think this article accurately summarizes their history, but ignores recent changes to their company that paint a different picture going forward. I'm not expecting SC3 (should it ever happen) to be as amazing as SC1, and I certainly won't be happy to pay $1 each time I run out of pylons.
"but most advertisers, sponsors, etc will only trust third party analytics in determining advertising rates, sponsorship levels, etc."

Then you are losing at the negotiation table and trying to blame "the users". Those advertisers are simply wrong. No 3rd party analytics service can provide more accurate data than server logs. None.

"I'd wager we'll have some sites start to block those users at some point in the future."

And I would wager that it won't help their business increase revenue or decrease expenses.
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I think this is a problem that will be solved in time. The social contact one, I mean. One of the advantages of being self employed is that advancements in productivity are things you can actually take advantage of. It's not like in an office environment where no matter how long it takes you to accomplish your work, you still have to have your butt warming a chair for 40+ hours a week.

But even if you do maintain a schedule with 40+ hours of work a week, working from home still leaves you with more time, since the time eaten up by commuting disappears. Now, imagine that everyone in your neighborhood is doing this. Instead of the vast majority of your local community spending the vast majority of their time outside of the community, they will actually be present. And they will all desire the natural human need for social contact. I expect that this will result in a rebirth of the local community. Long commutes, ever-growing work weeks, ever-shrinking vacation time has pretty much decimated the whole concept of a local community. But when those things disappear, you're going to end up with a lot of people wanting to get together and I'm sure they will eventually figure it out and block parties, back-yard barbecues, etc will become a regular occurrence.

Transitions are always fraught with difficulties, and I think the social contact issue with working from home is just one of the temporary ones as our society moves toward people working from home, most being self-employed.
And importantly.. add servers brought this on themselves. If they had catered to users and given them the tools they needed to tailor their experience, they wouldn't be in the situation they are now. Salty tears...