skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching this version of tech bubble unwind has been very interesting. The hedge funds pulling out, the markdowns on unicorn value. If this is a typical cycle it means that the oxygen(cash) will be depleted for a few years while the losses are absorbed. The lack of investment will recharge funds as new money comes in, and everyone will wait for some breakout hit to come out. Then cursing themselves for having "missed" it by being to hesitant they will once again start opening the money taps. Circle of life in the valley.
iOS/OS X only, but OmniFocus has worked well for me in this regard. Synchronizes across devices, and scheduled tasks are visible in my calendar, and calendar events are visible to OmniFocus.

If I could use it on my work computer I'd be set (Windows and Linux environment).
Try R and RStudio. It excels at 'poking around' data.

In addition, you can show any data frame as a spreadsheet of data, import/export CSV files, etc... Knitr, Shiny, Plotly and other technologies also make producing documents, graphs and whatnot super easy.

This Stencila also looks cool though. Spreadsheet + R....
The book Thinking, Fast and Slow suggests the answer isn't this simple.

It's often bad. Studies show human decision makers are often inferior to a prediction formula.

But it's also good. It adds value as one more row in your rubric, after a disciplined collection of objective information and disciplined scoring of separate traits.

According to the book: do not simply trust intuitive judgement - your own or than of others - but do not dismiss it either.

Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

Then there's the Einstein quote:

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The industry calls them "advantage players", usually in the context of identifying and banning them.
I would like to see Windows docker images.
Will this ever happen? Or can I do it already?
Given that he studied criminal justice and had no criminal record whatsoever, I'm sure he knew how stupid that would be. Nobody has provided a reasonable explanation for why he would've done something so stupid.
I guess its now Très chic to hate Google. Maybe they should revive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
They didn't really lose much on the motorola deals though. They got cash, partitioned the company out in chunks and got a bunch of patents. They probably got the patents cheaper than what they would have spent on just buying them.
No it does not use any virtualbox code.
Have you seen /r/SubredditSimulator?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
This explains why I don't play mobile games anymore. They are boring and it's way too obvious to me when the mechanics are designed around money and it immediately becomes pointless to play.
Its just a catch phrase. Get over it. Read the article, it makes a whole lot of sense and is a very sensible approach.
And now we just have to implement the 3 Laws of Chatbotics.
I'm not convinced that's the case. I think smoother traffic flow could make a significantly larger impact than we think. Traffic jams will cease to exist if the flow is consistent.
Anywhere I see Docker on Mac mentioned, I always point people to Dinghy. It has solved a lot of the issues the vanilla solutions had (NFS, fsevents etc) and the maintainer is incredibly responsive.

I would love to see Docker come up with something that rivals Dinghy as I would prefer not to have to use a third party tool, but considering their reputation for stability and the comments being made about xhyve, I am happy to continue using (and gushing about) Dinghy for the foreseeable future.
BART is the only transit system in North America that uses the Indian gauge. The wider gauge also contributes to the noise it generates and the wear on the track around turns.
Creating Hulu VR
Cloudera acquires data science collaboration tool Sense
Totally inappropriate, but the internet already ruined this phrase.

Some time ago the phrase "Justin Time" was used on various imageboards to derail threads. It was accompanied by pictures from an incestual homoerotic comic, called "My Wild and Raunchy Son" where Justin was the son of the main protagonist. Some of the pictures are so scenic and/or vulgar that it was never ignored: unprepared visitors were grossed out, voicing their discontent loudly, and hilarity ensured.

I was cautious to open this thread, but after finding something innocent realized that I actually miss the good old days of said imageboards.
Great feedback, thank you! Added that.
What is that bar at the top for anyway?
It really needs some polishing, but I am using a handcrafted UserScript [1] that lets me navigate comments with the keyboard (j/k as well as p/g/J/K), fold/unfold (m) and vote (a/z). Also some styling to ease reading (larger font, indentation marker). However, the "reply" (r) feature is not complete (i.e. broken), "last" (G) shortcut fails for some reason and flagged comments break the navigation.

If you look in the relevant folder, you may notice it was initially designed for Word Press (WP.user.js), more precisely SlateStarCodex, and seems to work for most such blogs. SSC.user.js is just meant to improve the styling of SlateStarCodex.

[1] http://sinon.org/userscripts/HN.user.js
Five years of Sword and Sworcery: the history of a weird and beautiful game
And not just stupid spending (ie not on r&d or infrastructure), but also loads of government friction, costing yet more.
Your "being bled dry" is the other person's "fun game I throw a few bucks at every now and then". What gives you (collective, not anexprogrammer) the moral authority to determine who should be playing what in what way?

And then advocating for government intervention on top of it?

This seems like legislating personal preference to me. Most of the moralistic arguments about game design tropes were already tried in the 80s-90s when the arcade was still a thing, and IMO, they're just as busted now because we're not talking about gambling.
Be correct or go home.
There's a J G Ballard short story where roads of the future are sponsored by tire companies and if you don't have the right tires, you get an awful, noisy resonance through your vehicle. So you have to buy the tires du jour. But then another company gets the sponsorship, and so on..
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Route53 is a wonderful service, which has never had a global outage (so far).

I've wrapped it in git, to allow very quick updates to be made in a simple fashion:

https://dns-api.com/
Bromptons are delightful. For those who aren't able (or keen) to pedal as much they can be made electric as well.

I adore mine, and get a smile any time I see another Brompton rider.
Whether or not something is a public good is a matter of technology. Trains are definitively a private good - they are rivalrous (you and I can't simultaneously occupy the same seat) and excludible (don't pay, they don't let you ride).

Roads are also rivalrous (you and I can't simultaneously occupy the same piece of pavement) and excludible (don't pay gas taxes, you get no gas, you can't ride).

If gas taxes were impractical, roads might be a public good.

We also collect plenty of taxes for transit. Our taxes just buy us 1/5-1/100 as much as every other country in the world, because our transit systems are incredibly inefficient.

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...
Oh man, I'm so going to be downvoted on this, but...

"I’m done with intangible valuations, unknown exits, unknown liquidity, and I want something that if I put my money into it now, I’m not going to hit a grand slam, but I’m going to get something that’s immediately yielding."

Since when has a combination of intangible valuations, unknown exits and unknown liquidity every been anything other than an extremely high risk proposition?
Bear in mind that Southwest Transit has bus routes to Minneapolis from a bunch of SW locations. The good thing about buses is that they can be responsive in ways a train can't: it's easier to add bus routes than train lines.

I take a bus in to downtown Minneapolis myself and it is far better than driving and dealing with traffic, parking, etc.
I don't know the details of that particular case but in France, a lot of laws have penalty clauses in them which doesn't leave much at the discretion of the judge. It's a different judicial system.
Windows images are in beta. They will be released later this year.
> Re: the conversation about walk-ability of cities. The key concept here is density. We need to value density as it allows for more compact living.

Another thing that perhaps needs to be valued more is sound insulation. I currently live in an apartment in a dense, walk-able city in Europe. However, I'm tempted to buy myself a house and a car, because I'm so sick and tired of all the noise that comes from living in an apartment in a dense area (neighbors, construction nearby, drunk people late at night etc.). Without good sound insulation, I don't think density works, although maybe it's just me who are more sensitive to this than other people.
Thanks for you thoughts. The challenge we're facing is whether the Mrs will do stay-at-home while the baby is young or not. If it is just my income, I know we'll have to stretch for a house we want. If we have both incomes, net of childcare, we should be okay. Canada has 5 year mortgage terms. That is distressing me to no end. If interest rates go to 5% in 5 years, we might have huge isues. If I had a 3.75%, 25 year US mortgage, I'd take it in a heart beat. I don't think a US lender will be willing to lend against Canadian property due to exchange rate risks (among other reasons).
What's more dangerous, someone saying (potentially tasteless) jokes, or people censoring everything they can deem offensive?
cups is only one part of the puzzle; every application has to manage its own method of rendering and talking to some printing agent.

It may also work for your particular device scenario, but there are thousands of scenarios (networks, devices, etc) in which its functionality may be limited or practically non-existent.
Those are good points. What would you use instead?
I am personally a fan of Calca, not only does it do live coding, it can also do some powerful math:

http://calca.io/
Hearthstone recently introduced planned obsolescence to its system (i.e. certain cards become "obsolete" and you can no longer use them in ranked matches).

I can see why they would want to do it, but it just makes me sad that good complete game experiences are going away in favor of infinitely evolving cash trains that will be forgotten as soon as their last server goes out of commission.
You could also have a mechanic where Casino Coins are earned automatically for your for a few days automatically, depending on your participation level. Visit the casino again and play some games to "wake" things up and get them going again.
Software architecture as a function of trust
That fits. NYC was fairly walking friendly.

San Diego was not intended to have pedestrians at all as far as I could figure. Most striking was how much space it took up when flying in compared to population. Then you'd see minor residential streets with road an pavement wide enough to be a 4 lane highway.

I don't know how zoning works in the US, but I guess that's the explanation for all the shops and bars being miles away from where people live? Or is that another car-related choice?
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Not the creator, but at a guess (from seeing a lot of apps that do this): the app doesn't strictly require Facebook in particular—but requiring a Facebook account is a popular and simple proxy-method of deduplicating your users so that people can't vote multiple times. Basically, it's a very cheap KYC solution, on about the same level as domain-verification for TLS certs.

I've been thinking for a while of creating a service that's specifically and only for this—an OAuth provider that gets your personal details the way Facebook does and enforces one-account-per-person, but then doesn't actually transmit your identiity to the site using it for OAuth. You, as an app developer, get to know each of your accounts represents a unique human, but don't get to know anything else about those humans.

Alternately, the OAuth provider could be set up so that each human can have multiple pseudonymous accounts on your service (picking at OAuth login time which one they want to use), allowing for creation of cheap "throwaway accounts"—while still giving the site the ability to ban an abusive human altogether, without knowing enough to link the accounts together. To the site, it'd simply look like they ban one account (as an OAuth provider API call), and then the other accounts just never sign on again.
Specialize. Pick a subfield of CS that you really enjoy, that really resonates with you -- machine learning, NLP, algorithms, whatever -- and become an absolute expert at it. Know your subfield inside and out.

Start thinking about what specialty you want now, today. Do some research, talk to professors and other students, etc. By the time you are a senior, you should know what you want to specialize in and be well on your way.

Then, you can get a job that actually requires deep knowledge. Since you actually care about this, you'll quickly become bored and frustrated if you take a standard startup code monkey job where you are expected to write Rails or PHP code all day, but then that's the only experience you'll have. You'll also be competing with less well educated programmers who are willing to work for less.
This reminds me of a main street somewhere in France that rewards good drivers by giving them a non-stop flow of green lights if they drive at exactly the speed limit.

Speeding down that street is pointless, because you are guaranteed to hit a red light if you do.
I don't think the general commentary is in good taste. To me the difference between a good faith joke and a bad faith joke is whether you actually like the people you are making fun of. I don't think that's the case here. My sense is that the people laughing actually think NPM and JavaScript suck. The tone I am getting is "haha, you are bad and I am a better programmer than your whole community".

Is that not how you perceive it? Am I just imagining contempt where there is none?

It's like, I can joke about you being an alcoholic if I think you're actually just a fun heavy drinker. If I think you're actually a violent alcoholic, it's not funny for me to joke about that.
<excised>

Edit: It's being suggested that the original article as posted didn't have the username, and it was added afterwards. So I've removed my snarky comment.

Apologies.
Route53 is hard not to love; simple to develop against and very very reliable.

I wrap it in git to make updates more straightforward for people unfamiliar with AWS, but even using it directly is very simple from multiple languages. (https://dns-api.com/)
Here's my testing recommendation:

1. Pick some subset of your DNS records to monitor, or all of them if you want to be extra thorough. If you are picking a subset, then I'd pick whatever records are most critical to your business.

2. Setup monitoring that queries each of your authoritative name servers for each of the records that you identified in the previous step. The monitoring should notify you if any of the name servers are unresponsive, or return a different response than what's expected.

If you'd like to dig into the details of DNS, then O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND" is highly recommended, even if you're not using BIND.

There are a number of quality hosting providers out there. A rule of thumb that I use is this: If a DNS hosting provider doesn't eat their own dog food, don't trust them to handle your DNS. Digital Ocean doesn't use their own name servers for their main website's domain. Neither does Amazon.

Shameless plug: I created a DNS monitoring service that can be used used for monitoring each of your name servers: https://www.dnscheck.co/
The difference is in motivation. What motivated me to go into tech is that I liked it. What motivated many of my Indian colleagues over the years to go into tech was, by their own admission, societal pressure. Which one do you think produces better outcomes? This is the case regardless of the occupation, lawyer, plumber, programmer or teacher - if you're passionate, chances are you're better at what you do than someone who isn't.
"Dream of Curried Named Parameters" What dream, this is a daily reality in OCaml.
Probably right, but we are talking about municipal taxes.
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One of the biggest issues is that we force businesses and housing to have ridiculous amounts of free parking, which means that instead of dense areas where buildings can be next to each other we have a sea of asphalt with a building sprinkled here and there. In central areas these minimums amount to parking welfare for suburbanites.

People say to me "but it takes 90 minutes to go 15 miles on transit!!" - the problem isn't that transit should be faster, it's that you shouldn't have to go through 15 miles of primarily asphalt hellscape to get to basic amenities!

The core of Dublin is less than two miles across. I used to live in the middle of it and never missed a car. The core of San Diego.. well it's not really a core, and even then it's routine to have to travel several miles for basic errands, even if you live fairly close to downtown. A downtown that is prevernted from growing by parking minimums. Of course, if you ask a potential employer about transit access they look at you like you're from Mars (and, of course, choose to move on to a less hippie-ish applicant)
The point is that for most things, there were no such off-the-shelf parts in software engineering until recently. You had to invent each screw and bearing yourself, because you couldn't just order a bunch of screws and bearings. Nobody sold them.

Moreover, the difference is that today's technician-programmers don't know how screws and bearings work at all. The engineer who uses prefab screws and bearings still understands them in detail and knows when to deploy them and when not to. Rather than understanding what bearings are for, the technician-programmer has a problem X, reads a blog post that says, "I solved Y by adding some bearings," and thinks, "gee, X is similar enough to Y that adding some bearings may work."

They add some random bearings, some screws, some cams and driveshafts here and there, without any deep understanding at all of why you ought to use these things in a design... and over time build a Rube Goldberg monolith with 10,000 moving parts sticking out randomly that nobody actually understands at all, so as a result everyone is terrified to work on any part of it for fear of inadvertently breaking the other 60 hidden dependencies of that piece.
This sounds like complete bullshit to me, and I find the the entire idea pretty reprehensible. But on the off chance that this helps someone whom is a survivor of sexual assault and buys into the idea of trigger warnings, there perhaps ought to be a differentiation between "sex" and "sexual violence" or "rape"
Are there some tools that make it easy to make these filters? It would be nice to have something built-in (as a plugin?) to mpv or VLC.

I've created several filters for personal use with EDL. mplayer has a decent UI way of doing that while watching the film by pressing 'i' to start a cut and 'i' again to end the cut. It's nowhere near perfect though because you still have to edit the edl file to decide whether to cut video or mute audio.

One nice feature you could add to this editing UI would be to use the subtitle file to allow jumping to the locations of certain language in order to edit them (times in subtitles aren't enough to edit a single word).
Agreed for the ability to change vote. This is most likely due to the way the buttons work (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11307758), so as to keep the code as tight as possible.
The Numbers app on OSX does something quite like this. It's highly underrated, but having a number of smaller, floating spread sheets in one big sandbox is waaaaay better for many things than a single sheet. I think the concept should be pushed even further.
Surely it's possible that the post was edited to include the username, considering this isn't the only comment here asking about it.
There is a mode that should work, which is likely to become the default soon. We do want feedback on this as it is hard to test all VPN setups.
San Francisco has a few of these, but they're keyed to bicycle speeds (13 mph or so).

On the other hand, there was an article here about something Portugal did about speeding. Basically, they would put a useless stoplight in the middle of nowhere. Normally it's green all the time, since it's not actually an intersection. If you approach it while speeding, however, it turns red.
Not everybody gets drunk within walking distance of their house and many (most?) cities have laws against public intoxication (eg walking drunk). Public transportation is one of those things that people shouldn't have to think about, it should just be available all the time (with varying service intervals).

Mixed-use amazing and the US is incredibly backwards in that sense. I think we have a stigma against mixed-use because apartments used to have shitty sound insulation. That's not really a problem anymore...
Interesting idea. However there is nothing for racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia, so I added a pull request for it[1]. It does seem like a weirdly specific list of categories. Why not let people filter whatever they want?

[1] https://github.com/delight-im/MovieContentFilter/pull/2
I live in Nadi near the international airport.

If you last visited a few decades ago, then a lot has changed since then (and probably not in a good way)
Or you could be mildly charitable here and assume that the username was added afterwards, as an edit to the original post.
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It seems, perhaps, Resolver One's time has finally come. Alas, Resolver One (and Resolver Systems) died a slow death and ceased to be in 2012. Perhaps this will fare better.

I always thought Resolver was a brilliant idea, but they never gained any traction against the heavy weights (Excel).

Edit- Add link to Resolver One wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolver_One
>> the amount of people that can drive will dramatically increase

Maybe it would double. But a self-driving van could easily(between many passengers/more efficient driving) could increase traffic capacity by 10x,
We do not currently have nested virtualization support.
> there perhaps ought to be a differentiation between "sex" and "sexual violence" or "rape"

I suspect the "sex", like "nudity", is really for prudes who don't like seeing any hint of anything.
1. Yes, that was just an example of potential beneficial effects of public transit. My point was that some things in the "public good" just cost money, and should not be expected to monetize themselves.

2. True. Upvote for Jane Jacobs. Properly diverse density.
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A number are keyed to car speeds (eg westbound on Fell from Octavia to Stanyan and on Oak in the other direction).
Teleport: SSH infrastructure built for server clusters
That seems terribly inefficient to add a delay to the letter matching.

I could see it being incredibly useful given a third "done with letter" button.
I'm still looking for someone who can run my jobs...
Seems like the problem is mobile games discovery.

I play 10-20 hours of games a week, all of them on consoles or handhelds that are >10 yrs old.

Do I want to be playing only old games? No, but it's easier to find a Game Boy game that I love than having to poke through a hundred awful mobile games on the various app stores first.

It seems to me that there's a good market for an App that simply curates excellent games and sells them to you.

Anyone know of anything like that? I'd be all over it.