skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that a core skill is the ability to communicate clearly and prolifically about technical topics to a mix of technical and nontechnical audiences.
What I love about this example is that its the same algorithm applied in two completely different areas. This algorithm (or variants of it) can be used in place of A/B testing. The same algorithm can be applied to game playing and you get Monte Carlo Tree search, the basis of AlphaGo.
I'm worried about security though - it uses external jQuery without mentioning its integrity hash in the HTML code.
Also being from the south (Kentucky, so not as far south perhaps), I see this as well. My approach is actually the inverse. Like racism or really any form of bigotry, I call it out when I see it and make it known this is _not_ ok. Very few HR departments are ok with bigotry of this sort.

You shouldn't have to be ashamed of how you sound or where you're from. I do massively agree with you regarding people thinking southerners are stupid bigots. The way to fix that is to show them you're not, and make a strong point of showing it.

It reminds me of a trip I recently took to Belfast. The day I was there, a car bomb from the IRA killed a police officer. A cabbie asked me if I supported Donald Trump and told he we was surprised I didn't. He told me all Americans supported Trump. So I asked him if he was an IRA thug/terrorist, to which he naturally said no. So rhetorically, I asked how he was from northern ireland and not IRA. When he explained what was obvious, I said EXACTLY, this is much like people who support trump in America. The vocal minority often drown out the majority. Blindly categorizing someone in $group is bigotry plain and simple. Just because it comes from an educated person in tech doesn't make it any less so. Perhaps point out this hypocrisy.
I'm not familiar with all the details but as I understand it, the problem is not taking photos of the art, but compiling a catalog of said photos.
Hint: writing about photography is as subjective as photography itself. Sontag is the lowest hanging fruit a writer on photography can grab to prop up their writing.

I mean, look at the recent discussions Teju Cole sparked when he trashed Steve McCurry's work in the NYT Magazine.
Spot on.

The problem is being able to influence things in a creative way.

https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

I'd rather be the captain of my small pirate ship than a cog in giant battleship. But I'm in my mid 30s now, maybe that will change when I get to 40.
No, more like the >$200k range.
There's a similar sounding piece on BBC iPlayer at the moment, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b076r0sr/the-vikings-un.... Haven't seen it yet though.
Common-carrier delivery service, like UPS, DHL, or FedEx are "aware of the "`type-of-content-that-may-be-in-the-box'." They are not held responsible for the actions of their clients of which they are unaware. The same holds true for telephone companies, Internet backbone providers, Internet service providers, and more. The same should hold true of Tor exit node operators.
Money motivates in the short-term, especially when 10K is life-changing. 10K is not likely to make a job great or make someone do a much better job if they already make 150K.
Reading the article from the Swedish national radio, the court decision found that wikimedia database of photo has a "commercial value" that can compete with commercial enterprises of the copyright authors who created the public statues or paintings on buildings.

The journalist asked a lawyer if this mean that its illegal now to take a photo of public statues, and the lawyer said that it legal since the law explicitly says so, but it might not be legal to publish it" on the Internet" as that action might be considered to have a commercial value.

In my view, its a bit weird.
Random waiting-for-a-build thoughts:

I find that if you hang around long enough and pay attention, you start to see the shape and patterns of your life. Not an original or profound observation, but it can be surprisingly easy for many of us to defer thinking about such things. What you gain from this you pay for with time, though.

In a similar experience to yours, I watched The Matrix with my son recently and was shocked to discover that it was released in 1999 - but I think of it as a recent thing. Holding my niece when she was a newborn baby and showing her Christmas tree lights, and now she's making an independent life in a big city.

In my experience, and as others have commented, having children doesn't slow time down. You're so busy with them for so long, and they rush towards their future so fast.

I'm reminded of a phrase that Sam Altman used: The days are long but the decades are short [1].

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-...
I used to get the same thing playing ultimate (frisbee).

when I caught the disk, the edge would snam into my wrist. I hear volleyball players get the same thing. I made a wrist-protector from tap and bandages. Eventually though, the numbness still came, maybe even worse due to the false protection from the protector (like how boxing gloves actually harm boxers more in the long run by allowing fights to go on longer).
If you don't understand the difference between a block cipher and a secure transport you probably shouldn't be writing cryptographic software.
Updating a server and redeploying should be automated and take only minutes in the vast majority of cases.

Load isn't constant, but if you're not selling the device any more it's doubtful you'll have significant load increases after the first year.

Shutting down a tiny fraction of your servers isn't going to protect you against hacking.

Worst case scenario: Remove all PII from the server, and have a single employee spend a few hours a week checking on the server and updating anything necessary. It might go down occasionally, but it's infinitely better than no server at all, and it costs basically nothing compared to the original development effort.
We did, until 3 AM. It was well worth the price.
Back in the day when I was just learning to program, I wrote a BBcode library in JavaScript. Not knowing any better, I made very liberal use of globals throughout my code.

I later went to go port my code to PHP 4 (that was current at the time). To my surprise I was getting all these errors about how crappy of a programmer I was (both from globals and from misspellings and related problems).

I'm honestly not sure how people hate PHP so hard and yet don't mind JavaScript.
Yeah, as long as it doesn't systemically weaken the solar industry over the next decade, which I don't think it will do, then it should probably be a great thing.

There are new markets opening up as storage becomes cheaper too; lots of people in developing countries will be able to power their homes and businesses without having to wait for a grid to be built out. Having these markets leapfrog straight to solar and wind will be great for everybody.
According to their oral history, they went clear across the ocean. My source is "A History of Madagascar" by Mervyn Brown (2001) and it could be incorrect, I didn't seek out the primary sources.
You've described exactly how I feel. I've only be at this game for 4 years and I'm already looking for a way out. Programming is fun in the way that doing drugs is fun; it's addicting and provides a quick high, but at the cost of staring into a computer screen for weeks on end with little to no interaction with other people aside from meetings (which only exist so that your superiors can tell you which widget to crank out next).

I consider myself to be very introverted yet programming is still too extreme on the asocial end. A career in programming will gradually cause your social skills to atrophy. It's pretty obvious that if you spend 40+ hours a week talking to a computer that eventually you'll start to feel and act more robotic than your peers who regularly interact with real people in the real world.

Working as a programmer doesn't provide real human experiences. Everything that you do and learn as a programmer is extremely abstract (and usually convoluted). You won't have interesting stories and wise aphorisms to share your children and grandchildren, because everything you did was inside a virtual world.

Everything you build as a developer is extremely temporary. You will work extremely hard to build something over a period of months or even years, only for that software to be immediately discarded when the business pivots and decides to pursue a totally different path. If you work for a startup, you're hard work will be absolutely worthless if the business goes belly up. If you decide to contribute to open source software and build the next generation of frameworks, tools, and languages, prepare for that to work to go out of fashion within just a couple years. A construction worker can go back to a building he built 50 years ago and it will still be standing. A doctor or lawyer with 20+ years experience will be well respected, but as a developer your experience will be disregarded unless you're an expert in whatever framework/language is the flavor of the month.

Programming pays well and is a cushy office job. It doesn't provide much else.

EDIT: I fully expect people to reply with the usual "well that's just your opinion, man!". Yes. I know. This is a personal rant and not a master's thesis. If you love this career more power to you. I'm just sharing my opinion because I know other developers feel like I do, and feel trapped in a well paying but otherwise unfulfilling career.
Not a fan of WhatsApp but I think OWS has done an excellent job of actually affecting the real world by helping WhatsApp sort their stuff out, rather than trying to get the world to move to OWS Signal app directly.
Always use a schema language to spec your data interchange
Email sent. Good luck.
The Swedish Visual Copyright Society
I've been there. The people pretending to hold back the leaning tower are more entertaining than the tower itself.

The pose incidentally seems to be some sort of universal human reflex. When we visited there were at least 100 people in the same position while their friends took pictures. They all seemed to be having a good time.
I'm glad you called out the cumulative savings benefit.

I'll add that they also gain a benefit multiplier in the form of the knowledge they gained from the exercise. Something that will hopefully be carried through into their future infrastructure decision making processes.
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Mali is on the west coast of Africa, so such an ocean crossing would not require rounding the Cape. They're also well-situated to take advantage of trade winds, and are at the point of the narrowest middle Atlantic crossing. So it's not so far-fetched that they could have made these trips.
>Sorry, the GIMP doesn't replace photoshop

See my other comment and go have a look at Krita.

>Except only MEGAcorp product is competitive.

Are you denying the existence of VLC, Firefox, and other successful OSS?

>Maybe FOSS needs to try harder to compete with MEGAcorp product instead of mocking people.

Who in free software has been mocking you? Is it that trolly Linus? Darn, he just never stops.
Designing board games. But the pay is nowhere near as good as programming.
When thinking about what type of approach is best, first think about the nature of the problem. First is it a real optimization problem, IOW are you more concerned with learning an optimal controller for your marketing application? If so then ask:
1) Is the problem/information perishable - for example Perishable: picking headlines for News articles; Not Perishable: Site redesign. If Perishable then Bandit might give you real returns.
2) Complexity: Are you using covariates (contextual bandits, Reinforcement learning with function approximation) or not. If you are, then you might want your targeting model to serve up best the predicted options in subspaces (frequent user types) that it has more experiences in and for it to explore more in less frequently visited areas (less common user types).
3) Scale/Automation: You have tons of transactional decision problems, and it just doesn't scale to have people running many AB Tests.

Often it is a mix - you might use a bandit approach with your predictive targeting, but you also should A/B tests the impact of your targeting model approach vs a current default and/or a random draw. see slides 59-65: http://www.slideshare.net/mgershoff/predictive-analytics-bro...

For a quick bandit overview check out:
http://www.slideshare.net/mgershoff/conductrics-bandit-basic...
Why not reimplement lua in lua?
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Why is embedding Javascript inappropriate? Duktape has a similar codesize to Lua 5.3

http://duktape.org/index.html
Usually after using the mouse or my hands for a couple of hours or so while. If it started happening, anything that compressed my wrist (or something) could begin to set it off.

Do you have anything on or around you arms when you sleep (or lie on them?).
VersionPress goes open source
Kudos to your dad. That's what I try to do, but my skills to say no are not very polished yet..
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>You will be worthless if Western civilization ever fails and drops out of the Technological Age.

Who cares?
I have a BQ Aquaris 4.5 (for almost a year now I think). I have had no reception problems whatsoever. Are you sure you don't have a dud?

Disclosure: I work for Canonical, though not on the phone side.
"The Panama leak is shocking not for the illegal acts; but the extent of what they have made legal." - Greenwald

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/04/a-key-similarity-between...
This is actually something that is attempted every now and then; architects claiming that they own the (commercial) visual rights to something that exists in public space.

In 2004 the architect of a bridge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, tried to claim that photographs and reproductions of 'his' bridge were unlawful, and that a fee would have to paid for any sold reproduction of that bridge (such as a postcard). Luckily this was prevented by an EU directive that states clearly that any art or architecture located in a public area may be photographed, provided that it is reproduced as-is.

I wonder if this EU directive is applicable to this situation in Sweden?
> slightly more likely to get pulled over

I don't know why you make this assumption. If the percentage of black people were low, and the number of cops high, that ratio could make the odds of being pulled over arbitrarily high - making certain locations "no-go" areas for black people. I assume as the probability approached 100%, they would just install a checkpoint, or start whitelisting the cars of confirmed good blacks with some sort of sticker or radio ID (just to save on resources.)
The water gets recycled, eventually.
Unfortunately, in the vast majority of places, you can't have both. You're either making the decisions about content or you're implementing other people's decisions. In my experience, very few companies have engineering roles where you get to say, "This is best for the product" AND go off and implement it.
Hopefully an oversupply of solar panels will make grid-tied battery storage even more attractive. This could in turn cause a positive feedback loop, propping up the solar market as storage takes off.
Were the issues way back in 2012/2013?
Use a bank that doesn't have tellers? You don't stand at First Republic Bank. The bankers have desks. You sit down with them for any transaction you need personal help with. Sorry if that sounds like an ad for my bank but so far, 9 years, I'm a happy customer
THE VIDEO OF THE LATEST BLUE ORIGIN MISSION IS SCI-FI MOVIE MATERIAL
I don't get why one would pick this over Chrome Ultron? It's used by NASA and major enterprises. It's super fast and virus free. What makes Vivaldi better than Chrome Ultron?
/bin/ls do the trick to avoid all options on the alias.
Hey Krita is a great case to make but I would characterize it as the "exception to the rule" not the rule of open source software.

Photoshop is a bit of a leviathan and it's odd how no one has ever really competed with it strongly and the software has certainly suffered from its lack of real competition.

There's also the reality that its primary users -- designers, photographers, digital artists and the likes, aren't usually programmers or techie people who use a large variety of complicated software, and so for its primary users, they know Photoshop like they know their Canon, they know the details of the brand and setup and change is hard for them as well.

EDIT: To corroborate this last paragraph with an anecdote, I asked a digital artist friend of mine if she'd used Krita, and her reply was: "I'm leery of open source though. like great for devianart and stuff but often find saving problems, glitches etc", so that helps demonstrate how ingrained artists can be to their tools.

Krita seems great -- but that doesn't make Ubuntu better than W10 or OSX, and it doesn't mean that LibreOffice is in the same decade as Word and/or 360 or Google Docs, etc etc.
For an interesting insight into Samuel Hearne, I can recommend the book "Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece".

I bought it on a whim and found it brilliant.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Mariner-Adventures-Coleridges-...
People read about Google testing different shades of blue on their home page and want to do the same on their website.

They tend to forget that Google has a billion unique users per day, and their website a few hundreds.
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One resource is Sam Altman's Startup Playbook. It is free and Altman is a purported to have some expertise in entrepreneurship.

http://playbook.samaltman.com/

It will not go into details about adwords and growth hacking. It will suggest talking with people directly; customers and potential customers.

Good luck.
Taking that a step further imagine if the architects of iconic buildings like the Burj Al Arab etc would start requiring people to ask permission before posting photos of it on the internet or using it in maps.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Similar threads with this question have been successful before and wondering if we can have this conversation in 2016 again.
FWIW, the Wounded Warrior Project is a sham of an organization, see:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

59% of the money goes to actually helping vets, which is pretty crap. Here are a few more credible alternatives:

http://bearingarms.com/four-charities-better-than-wounded-wa...

I entirely agree with your observation however.

Disclaimer: I'm a combat vet of OIF II from 03-04
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RSN saved my life, i was in a custody battle situation with my three year old daughter and my alcoholic ex-husband. He continues to defy safety restrictions and court orders, and I never able to catch him in the act. I was referred to remoteServersNework@Gmail.com. She totally understand my situation and guided me every step of the way to put a tracker on my ex-husband phone where i could track him from his phone, knew exaxtly what he was up to directly from my phone. Tell her from amy, she can hack anything
Who exactly can't admit social classes exist? Karl Marx was very aware of the existence of status classes running counter to economic classes (the status of wealthy jewish people of low-status in Europe was fascinating to proto-sociologists, many of them jewish), he just theorized that economic class was "the big one" from which the others stemmed. Jews as a social class weren't sprung from the ether, though.

Max Weber, another leftist considered one of the fathers of sociology, named the "Status Class", related to prestige, one of the three main ones along economic and political allegiance ones.

Modern intersectionalists routinely bring up how arbitrary many of our social predilections seem to be, such as "tan white > white > black", or "pink is for girls", and look at these chicken-and-egg situations trying to figure out where they started. Where does the impetus for this bloggers' parents verbally check[ing] us in a heartbeat if the vowel in our "to" started getting too schwa-like come from?

The big mistake made by the author of that piece is the idea that they can isolate class and talk about it as its own thing. It's a very scientist-like analytic-approach (kinda like Marx isolating economic factors in spite of the others), but seeing as the author is openly against abolishing classes, it seems to be in service of discrediting the efforts of the economically-conscious-left ("even if you abolish economic classes social classes will prevail, so don't bother") rather than as an honest intellectual inquiry.

With this line:

> Please note: for purposes of this discussion, the topics of race, ethnicity, gender, immigration status, and native language are all derails of the topic, which is class.

The author seems more concerned with prevailing than with being correct.
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It's quite a bit less practical than other color spaces, because it's far less reliable. For instance, try their gradient tool with #9C0A0A and #AA2AB5. Every other space produces good looking results, HCL fails completely.
I have been using the browser for about 3 months now. It is by far my favorite browser for all the flexibility it affords and options. Love that I can use Chrome Extensions.
The current headline is ambiguous. The blog is about copyright law around the map website.
Members of the mac team used a mouse in 1971, already had mouse working before going to xerox PARC...

https://youtu.be/jOl-gIh-QCA?t=7m47s
I don't think Scandinavians have any desire to claim Columbus. Now the Portuguese conspiracy to claim Eiriksson on the other hand...
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The tradeoff for CPU stealing is that now you have multiple services running on the same machine so if the machine goes down you lose them all. On AWS it is very unlikely that two of your VMs end up on the same physical machine.

Also, I actually can't recall (in 8 years of AWS) a time where I saw CPU being stolen. Perhaps I've been lucky. I also don't watch for it constantly.

We actually did this with our dev servers. Although switch VSphere for VirtualBox on Linux and colo for a server room in our office. It worked great and saved a TON of cost. But we don't need pesky things like 24hr uptime and dedicated bandwidth for dev servers.
Same in Canada (Québec at least).

I even had Amazon US agree to it.
Now I'm curious to see photos of said mapped artwork..
It is immoral for them to collect enough infos about me to be able to tell who I am from a picture, and then use it, while I do not use their service.
I think since this is a Wikimedia project, that the images themselves were freely licensed, but Sweden has weak or no Freedom of Panorama, which is where the "public" part would factor in. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama)

edit: I found more details here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom...
Don't we just love these such discussions and don't such fork roads in life go back to the core philosophy of an individual's values of her or his life.

I know friends who have always loved programming and will continue till last breath living happily in their world of programming (which is huge these days).

I also know dear friends who have got the most advanced degree's irrelevant to computer science and yet are dreaming to be a programmer.

All said, what can one conclude from Mr Andrew Wulf's judgement of his life? I'm thinking about the answer as I'm writing this... hmm what does this tell me... perhaps not much else that there exist another person who regret his past decision, true or false, the chances are that it is applicable to anyone including me is as much as how much Mr Andrew Wulf's complexity of life and his state of mind are similar to others reading it.