skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DustyBooks – Sell and Buy textbooks with other students on Campus
http://www.dustybooksapp.xyz
DustyBooks is an app that will help students buy and sell textbooks with each other on campus. Student will be able to to create listing, communicate with each other via the app and make the transaction by themselves. The main goal of the app is to help some students make money selling books they don't use anymore and help other students save money by buying cheaper textbooks.
Yeah, but if there is only one insurer - the U.S. Government, if they deny your claim, you can't choose a new insurer next year.
That always confused me. We have an Oort cloud, whose members we cannot resolve very well/at all. Why do we assume only our star has such a thing? If all stars did, that isn't enough mass to explain dark matter?
The Proust Book Club: The View from Age 38
The Landlord space has been improved significantly in the last five years.

My brother owns a leasing company and he says that most people that list with him, do so because they are move/relocated for work related projects.

His biggest problem is finding quality subcontractors. He says that it used to be tracking (administrative) all the information, but there are all these cheap programs aimed at fixing that now.

Hope that helps.
the people behind this are no Mike Bostock..

crap visualization
The gravity waves redshift just like any other wave. So, they have estimated a distance: 1.3B light-years.
Running Jepsen with ScyllaDB
Or maybe the males are marrying anyone..

Oh, right! Now I realize the chart doesn't really show "other". It would be interesting to calculate entropy from the distribution for each profession.
I suppose if you've already memorized the arcane syntax of base R's plotting functions, along with a giant laundry list of highly customized visualizations available via libraries, then perhaps ggplot2 really is slower for exploratory plotting. But for anyone coming to R fresh, the expressiveness and coherence of ggplot2's grammar absolutely blows away base R for fast exploratory graphics.

For working data scientists in industry, there is an extremely important middle ground between exploratory plots that only I will ever see, and publication quality plots. The most important plots I make are those that I'll share with a small audience within my company. These need to be clear and aesthetically pleasing, but not polished to an extreme degree. Again, ggplot2 excels in this regime.
Clarification - my point was that a sane person prefers dependencies to be explicit and manageable. It is easier to create tools for that with static languages. As for NPM due to dynamic nature of JS the tooling is rather hard and just not there yet.
Interesting, I know about the click on 'web' link to bypass paywall. I did that as I usually do but this time clicking though the google results still put me on a paywall.

I wonder if WSJ has changed their policy on visitors from google.
Software developers (men) marry Recreation and Fitness workers (men). Maybe we should use this data to incentive gay men to become software engineers! At least would bring some diversity to my profession.
IBM has hundreds, if not thousands, of products that they own and maintain. Understand that the research for a design, designing it, and then developing it takes months to years to accomplish. IBM won't be able to update all of their products, but they will work on the ones that they can and then carry design consideration to all new products. Thats all a company can do. Same goes for Microsoft, Google, etc. IBM is a bit late to the game is their only issue.

Also consider, how are they going to get designers/people who care about design if they don't advertise it first. Yes there are products that need work, but to fix that issue they need to say Design 37 and more times just to get the attention of the right people. I am sure in your line of work as well, things don't just happen immediately because you want it to and sometimes to solve one problem you need to solve two or three others first.
https://ssl-tools.net/ is nice because it will continously retest and email you if there's a problem. Also does mail servers
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That's one way of implementing it ;)

Good point :)
The JVM startup time is very small nowadays (seriously, write a Hello World! class in Java to test it if you don't believe me). The culprit is probably JRuby's startup time (and maybe the Truffle + Graal version of JRuby is even slower to startup than regular JRuby).
That's no surprise: the event was hosted at ITP (http://tisch.nyu.edu/itp) which is a technological art program at NYU. Many of the participants were current students or researchers there.
A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products
>How can they do that when no one knows the price until after the work is done?

The sad part is that it is even more insane than that. For most things we buy, we have the ability to either walk away and say no or we have the ability to wait. For health care, there are many times when the service is an immediate need, so there is rarely an ability to even refuse it (I mean, you could opt for letting a potential problem kill you, but at that point we have basically gutted the meaning of 'need').
nekochan.net
none off hand.
The guy behind Writhem Radio is building his own service: http://wiki.writhem.com/display/radio/WritheM+Radio+Home

He's jumped from platform to platform until he just decided to do it himself.
but otoh, if you try to reinvent something instead of using a tried & true library, you might as well just add new bugs.

I.e. I'd 100% use libxml to sanitize xml rather than trying and reimplementing xml parsing myself.

As always, trade offs.
grep is syslog search ;)
Seems almost the exact same thing as Periscope:

https://www.periscope.tv/
They (Designers) marry Miscellaneous Managers.
You mean, all $0 of them?
Bug report generated automatically by the system:

BUG #4123 moving little black dots

There are occasionally, random black dots a few pixels wide, moving slowly and apparently in a brownian movement, across the screen. (This is not limited to the tested window).
is this the same as shims?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOsesi3QkXY
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You'd most definitely qualify for an O-1. You basically need 1 of 8 criteria, and the most common for software engineers coming in on O-1 are 1) High salary 2) press coverage of your transaction with Dropbox 3) being a judge at a hackathon.
So IBM just happened to target the same guy three times? Not disagreeing that IBM has had issues with hiring/firing, but three times seems like an insane coincidence.
Zooming in, doesn't chemistry become physics? Zooming in further, physics becomes quantum physics?
Hey, I'm the author here. Any feedback is welcome!
The "proving Einstein right" part would be more fitting if there was some independent evidence of the collision. As it is it seems to go in circles.

But that's the NYT I guess.
Crowdsourced Mapping of North Korea
They recently updated their design thinking process. Pretty much the same thing, but more focused on iterative approaches?
A gravity well also distorts lengths, as best I understand (which is not very well, to be honest; take everything I'm saying here with a big grain of salt).

The difference in terms of detection is that the wave does this in a time-varying, periodic fashion.

For something like LIGO, we're trying to measure length changes on the order of 1e-18 meters. We're not actually measuring the lengths of LIGO's arms to that accuracy, though. What we're measuring is the difference between the times light takes to travel down those arms. And even that's hard to measure on an absolute scale, so what we really measure is how that difference changes in time.

Or put another way, the effect of Earth's gravitational well is not really distinguishable from inaccuracies in making the two legs of the interferometer equal length to start with, and is a much smaller effect than those inaccuracies. Again, if I understand this right...
So, I've been writing a home automation system using the .NET Framework (with Visual Basic, I'll wait until you finish laughing).......... Okay.

I've made a point not to add any third parties references and packages I can avoid. I went ahead and got a third party scheduling engine, and the SQLite provider, but beyond that, I'm writing everything else myself so far.

First of all, I'm learning a lot in having to write stuff myself. At the very least, it's a great educational experience. I've worked with a lot of code samples, so I'm not going totally from scratch, but they're all at the very least tailored to my needs.

But for me, the big thing is keeping everything thin. The program loads in milliseconds. Almost all of the reference data for what it's built on is in one place (the .NET Framework Reference). And key, is that the features my program supports are the features I want and need, not the features some dependency has told me to have.

The biggest dependency I have, Quartz.NET, is actually the most confusing part. It's not structured like the rest of my program is, it's documentation leaves some things to be desired, and it does a lot more than I need it to. There's a lot of bloat I could cut out if I wrote my own scheduler, and maybe someday I will.
SamsaraJS library takes on performance issues
Most common occupation in the US, I believe.
Good points. In addition to team vs. alone the other distinction could be aerobic vs. non-aerobic (emphasis on heart/cardiovascular system vs. emphasis on muscles).
If nothing else, someone who spent 24/7 watching a person for weeks would soon find themselves facing a restraining warrant or some similar legal tool to stop stalking.
See also physical books, letters, LPs, etc.'

Until relatively recently it wasn't expected that everything would stand the test of time.
> Overall though, health care should not be tied to your employment.

Yes, I agree.

> So you're paying for most normal medical expenses out of pocket, and your insurance plan is basically a backstop for if you get cancer, have an accident, etc.

That's literally what insurance is supposed to be: a financial mechanism for smoothing risk. The actuarial price for insurance on routine events will be exactly the same as paying for those routine events directly.

Economically and financially, "insurance" is explicitly not supposed to cover predictable, routine costs, because there is no risk associated with them. It is a really terrible and unfortunate misnomer that we call this "insurance", because it's not. You wouldn't expect your collision insurance to cover your annual DMV fees.

If you want normal, routine medical expenses to be priced below cost, then you're talking about a subsidy. But a subsidy is not insurance. Insurance pools money from at-risk parties. A subsidy is a transfer of wealth.

To be honest, it's perfectly fine to advocate that if that's what you really want, but it's misleading to call this "insurance", because it serves a completely different goal (wealth transfer vs. risk pooling).
Oh, hey, guess what

https://xkcd.com/435/
He's correct, but it wasn't something I noticed until he pointed it out. Your intent was understood.
Feale air-traffic controllers have a thing for female announcers. Guess they're into sexy voices.
I work for a large not-for-profit company. We don't get any free snacks or coffee free here either, but the other benefits outweigh that... like 10% 401a contribution, $30 per month commuter benefit, and $25k tuition reimbursement per year.

Coffee and snacks aren't everything. And honestly they're not much.
Right, I would have much wished it provided access to dropping in native Android components (even simple things, such as a ViewPager) into a webpage. Implementing a simulated ViewPager in HTML5 including swipe gestures is a horrible CSS and JavaScript mess, a waste of resources, clunky, a choppy experience on anything but the most high-end phones, and is very easy to become inconsistent if your implementation of said gestures differs slightly from someone else's.
I used to be like this until I unsub'd from basically every single unimportant email I was getting.

I created a casual email that I use with no notifications that I check every once in a while. My main email has notifications and if I get one I know it's important.
I think the real issue is that whether they are psychologists or psychiatrists, there seems to be no accountability in the field (outside of extremes like malpractice) in terms of whether or not they actually provide any value to the patient. If someone goes to a psychologist for 20 years and at the end of it they're still just as bad as when they started, there's no, "I'd like my money back from the last 20 years". Sometimes a professional might not know if they can help, but even if it becomes obvious to them that this is someone they can't help, they don't say, "I'm unable to help you. Stop being a customer." They just continue down the path. This isn't to say that most mental health professionals are taking people's money without actually doing anything (I have no idea if that's the case), but rather it's difficult for the patient to know if they are actually getting any help, it is difficult for the patient to hold the person accountable if they don't get the help they expected, and it is difficult for the patient to even know if they're right or wrong about the matter (since they are not the expert). This makes it easy for the patient to doubt and blame the mental health professional or the entire field, there's just so much grey area.
Honestly, it couldn't be easier to find listings that violate the law. This stuff isn't abstract, you can go look for yourself and see how pervasive short-term full apartment rentals are.

I just looked on the block where I live, for a one day stay starting next Monday. Six listings. One was legit, one was borderline (daytime office), three state that the guest will explicitly have the whole apartment to themselves, and with the final one you can infer that the host will not be present. Even giving the last one the benefit of the doubt, 50% illegal.

OK, let's look at somewhere that guests might not want to stay because it's far from tourist attractions, the Lower East Side. Random block, 4 listings. 2 legit (I'm giving one the benefit of the doubt), 2 illegal.

OK, let's go even further away, Fort Greene. Random block. 2 units, one of them is actually not legit. Damn, I thought I would be done here.

South Slope, harder to find blocks with units. Pick one near the park. 2 units, I'll give both of them the benefit of the doubt, because it's not listed one way or the other.

If the fines were high enough, the state of New York could make a healthy profit on paying inspectors to rent out units for one night and levying fines against violators.
Ah, neat. Did not know that!
My history may be flawed, but doesn't IBM have a strong history of working for human rights from women to disabled to whatever race?
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Maybe we will get lucky and literally see two black holes merge somewhere nearby. But I think these detectors will be the last of our concerns with all the praying and bunker building going on. Bruce Willis won't save us from that one.
One of the most interesting things I noticed when living is Singapore last year was that a lot of engineers, especially computer programmers, fall under the IT category.

There was no sense "software engineer" or "systems administrator" or "solutions engineer", etc. not in the way how it is in the US.

They all just looked at me and said, "Oh, so you work in IT?"

Then we talked about banking.
This is not only an issue for running software but also a huge issue for compiling/building software. Each dependency adds the potential to break your builds in new ways. As the software your program depends on evolves the risk increases that it will change the way your program executes or cause it to fail to build. Many devs will insist you do not reinvent the wheel by writing things like JSON parsers but you always have to weigh the cost of adding a dependency. It's not free.
>The purpose of the exclusionary rule and the "fruit of the poisonous tree" is to prevent the police from purposely violating the 4th amendment. There is no other reason why illegally obtained evidence shouldn't be used to convict a criminal.

Even if we accept this, allowing the police to claim ignorance gives a loop hole to allow for illegally obtaining evidence. That is why the evidence must be obtained legally, not 'I thought it was legal but it wasn't'.
Screengrab: automating screenshots on Android
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Not always. Dependencies were a huge problem at Google, even in C++ (perhaps especially in C++), because they mean that the linker has to do a lot of extra work. And unlike compiling, linking can't be parallelized, since it has to produce one binary. At one point the webserver for Google Search grew big enough that the linker started running out of RAM on build machines, and then we had a big problem.

There's still no substitute for good code hygiene and knowing exactly what you're using and what additional bloat you're bringing in when you add a library.
I think the crucial detail you are missing from the article is this:

"According to the equations physicists have settled on, gravitational waves would compress space in one direction and stretch it in another as they traveled outward."

LIGO is two sets of 2 L-shaped antennas spread far apart on the globe, so that we can compare the compression of space in orthogonal directions and measure the very short delay between the gravitational wave hitting the first detector followed by the second. In this case, that difference was 7 milliseconds, which is also consistent with the speed of gravitational waves (also the speed of light)
Saw some previous posts of yours as well as this one. Please email me (in my profile), will recommend the right immigration lawyer. I think you have a good shot at O1/EB1 (INAL)
Social Capital – 'Magic 8-Ball' Growth and Data Tools for Any Startup to Use
The inertia of the US government on immigration in general and particular for startup founders is astonishing. Once a place like Vancouver or Berlin gets enough traction combined with money for investments, international founders will stop trying to get into SV
Pentium 4s ten years ago could hit around 4 GHz. Running any faster than that runs into some issues with the basic physics. Some good explanations here[1].
Now we're into the era of "well, that's as fast as we can go on one core, let's chuck more cores at it". Except writing parallel code is hard, and parallelism doesn't help if what you're doing is effectively single-threaded. Great for mass processing of vertex data in a 3D mesh

The next frontier was faster caches and memory, so we could keep those processors burning at max speed more of the time, with fewer idles waiting on input or output. Then we needed faster main storage, so we could spend less time fetching data from slow spinning disks into our limited, fast memory. Voila, SSDs. Now we're down to fast CPUs, fast caches, fast memory, fast disks, and slow networking. Someday we'll get wide-spread fiber deployed, and that gate becomes less of a problem.

Through all of this, the effective speed of computers has continued to rise, although the top-line limit of CPU Hz hasn't changed much.

[1] http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/122050/what-l...
In Turkish, we have two sayings about free.
"Free vinegar is sweeter then expensive honey."
"I'm Not Rich Enough to Buy Cheap Things" (prob global)

We were lucky and got a lot credits from rackspace and azure and we used them for our services and servers.

Result:
We had insane number of bugs, weird things, unstable behaviour and things that even phone support found it weird. I checked my inbox, I had over 270 email exchange with most horrible support I have use Microsoft support ( we use around 50+ SASS services)

For over a month, we are in amazon AWS, just works, just amazing and we had zero problems..

For anyone out there,

please dont take the toxic credits from azure or rackspace, directly pay for amazon. It will save u time, sanity, and money.
But that same author approved the idea. You see the contradiction?
Maybe not yet, but as surveillance gets more advanced, we get closer and closer to that.

I know for a positive fact that at least some law agencies have the capability to put concealed cameras up that broadcast real-time video back to a data center. From there, the data is algorithmically processed by license plate readers and facial recognition tools that cross-reference their found data against databases containing persons of note (like persons of interest, but less specific to a given case) and, when results are found, notify agents or officers via messaging.

We're really just a hop, skip and a jump away from the "self-driving car of surveillance".
Wow... I haven't seen a Movable Type site in ages.
Nice. Thanks for doing this.

Do you mind open sourcing that contact form? Its really simple and nice. :)
Introducing the 8-ball and “GAAP for Startups”
This is interesting. Of all the married software developers I know, none are married to another developer.
I remember one nasty bug where someone has included one function from bootstrap.js library and someone else had included the entire library. So both functions were running causing an issue.