skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My fantasy set up: remote FT developer, with a small float tank business in my basement, and a dog walking business with a few clients. A few hundred dollars a day from various sources, with a nice walk in the afternoon, and a chance to meet new people through the float tank business. If you lose your dev job, the main source of income, you at least have enough back up to get you through it. I have no idea if this is actually feasible or not, but it's what I'll be attempting to pull off over the next few years.

Think about what you enjoy doing and if there's some way to get paid for that. Teaching, writing, speaking, land lording, house flipping, coaching. Design, build, and manage (or some subset of that) vacation properties, and you can use them for yourself when not rented.

You could also use some labour to reduce costs rather than generate income. Grow your own food, fix your own car, ERE style.
In Defense of Java
But I've heard very good things about Japan's bullet trains, so I'd guess there's lees need for highways.

In Europe only France seems to have high speed train that actually goes at high speeds. German ICE is chugging along in first gear all the time except for short stretches but those are are very few and between.

I once took Cologne to Amsterdam with ICE and it took more than 3 hours, which defeats the point of a fast train.
I just haven't stumbled upon a lot of posts answered by Jon Skeet even though I've always heard of him as the Chuck Norris of programming through SO. Is that because I'm not a C# developer?
This is very cool. You had me at David Foster Wallace.

I'll be trying this out:

1. As a sublime plugin for my next blog post.
2. As plain old Python as part of a mass scrape-spellcheck-stylecheck of the corporate website.
Fpylll – lattice-reduction for Python
Qubit JS: A Quantum Computer in your web browser
Your comments here have been both graceful and extraordinarily polite, given the circumstances. Thank you!
Searchkit 0.9 – React UI Components for Elasticsearch
In general the US Federal government does not operate polls. The various local governments operate elections while abiding Federal and State laws and regulations. In practice, the highest level where software standards are promulgated is state governments and there only some states and with variation among them.
I'd be curious to hear what the challenges are. Is it simply that signal strength is too noisy to be used reliably? (I.e., interference, multipath, attenuation when the subject walks behind furniture, etc.)

I was attending a theatre show a few days ago, and thought that the sound system could deliver a better experience if the positions of mics on stage could be tracked as cast moves around, and the mixing adjusted accordingly. Naturally, BLE was the first thing that came to mind.
Before the Internet, if your local bookstore didn't have the book you wanted in you asked them to order it in and then waited for it to turn up and collected it from there. The Internet was a definite improvement in convenience.
Github link! http://www.github.com/searchkit/searchkit
Winmerge is Windows only. I imagine this means this strategy can't be followed at all unless you use Windows? ;)

The approach is an alternative, as in: you can do it. I used to work that way before I used version control, and I know I'm not the only one. I definitely prefer the workflow with version control, that's for sure, but some seem not to find it especially compelling when working alone and that is their prerogative.

When you're working on your own, any process is fine, if you are comfortable with it. The object of the exercise is to create useful/interesting/etc. products for people to use/enjoy/etc. - and you'd have a hard time arguing that this is a goal Dwarf Fortress has failed to meet.

(Unsurprisingly, I've yet to meet anybody that's preferred working without source control on shared code. But perhaps they do exist.)
> Bash coming to Windows

This is part of the long-standing problem for people: this loopy re-presentation of what happens that completely ignores the past and even the present. A lot of us have been using bash and other shells, and indeed vim and other things, on Windows for years. They aren't "coming to Windows". They've already been there for a long time.

We've been able to invoke "vim foo.ps1" to edit our files, and do so without any necessity for an intermediary (and entirely supernumerary) "bash -c" too. I did so myself, only yesterday. This is not the news.

A new "Linux" subsystem is coming to Windows NT that allows one to spawn and to run unaltered Linux binaries directly. Explaining this as "bash is coming to Windows" is to give a hugely dumbed-down explanation, one that is so markedly wrong that it (mis-)leads to the very same mistaken assumptions about the imminent death of PowerShell and so forth that you are now having to counter in several places. (I know. It's not your own explanation. Nonetheless, one should not adopt the error from someone else, especially if one then has to firefight the world leaping to the wrong conclusions based upon it. That's just making a rod for one's own back.)
Introduction to ApeScript – Noble Ape Simulator Language
A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again
Comet showers wouldn't explain things like orogeny, vulcanism, and the slow processes which also precede mass extinctions. If the super continent cycle is linked to Planet X, or merely correlated rather unfortunately in time, that would be quite astonishing but I suppose possible.
Which cat is your JavaScript Framework?
Hi Speed Transportation
Hi speed transportation should have competition. The best way is to allow public/private finance of high speed roadways. The speed could be limited to a tight range of 155 +/- 5 mph during the hours of 6am to 10 pm. 10pm to 6a could be unlimited. Cars would have to get certified for usage on these high speed roadway, by a vehicle standard and a special operator's license and special insurance policies. If folks can afford a such a vehicle (think mustang) then they could just rent said vehicle from their vendor of choice, to enjoy this new transportation adventure.

So there would be a modest cost increase to the usage of these hi speed roadways. This sort of competition will lower the cost of traditional options such as hi speed rail, simply by the metric of body-miles versus cost-safety comparisons. It would be a boon for tourism, particularly in the big states of Texas, California and Florida. Advanced navigation and control systems could also be a constituent part of these new systems. Training schools
for tourists and others could provide the infrastructure for skills enhancement necessary to use these advanced roadways.

The real killer advantage revolves around the mathematics of 'degrees of freedom'. Run the road from SF to San Diego,
and you can still use your personal transport vehicle for normal local cruising. Try that with a locomotive.
Yes! The title is misleading; it's not at all difficult to syntactically validate an email address; it's just not possible using regular expressions (HE COMES).
> there's no reason why it should be significantly cheaper than energy

According to Lockheed Martin, compact fusion has the potential to produce (modular?) 10MW reactors about the size of a semi-trailer truck. This reactor size reduction comes with a corresponding cost reduction without depending on new physics.

http://www.lockheedmartin.ca/us/products/compact-fusion.html

Note: I'm not a nuclear physicist.
There's also literal Chuck Norris style Jeff Dean jokes... Like a whole bunch of them:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
OMG, it really does look easy to use, great work!

http://tflearn.org/getting_started/#high-level-api-usage

Incredible, the Shakespearean text generator is only 42 lines long!

https://github.com/tflearn/tflearn/blob/master/examples/nlp/...
Международная академия духовных практик “Энергия света”
One would know conceptually how a measure works without knowing specific integration rules.

This would then enable a person to interpret statistical claims and conceptually understand a distribution without necessarily being able to reproduce the calculations from scratch.
> I shouldn't be expected to jump through the hoops necessary in order to allow "technically valid" email addresses that someone went out of their way to make, when I could more easily suggest they use a normal one.

I really hope you don't work on anything important if your stance is, "I shouldn't be expected to implement specifications correctly because it's easier to only implement part of it."

Why are we even having this discussion? Implement it correctly once, put it in a library and never worry about it again. You don't have to jump through any hoops, you're only making more work for yourself by implementing the standard incorrectly and then having to deal with customers that think that the ITEF standard is more valid than your personal definition of what an email address should be.

If your code is passed down the line and eventually hits someone who writes unit tests for actual valid email addresses then your name is going to come up on the git blame when it fails.
Salt Lovers, This Fork Is for You – D-brief
Yes, a feed forward neural network is a subset of machine learning.
Sure it's wide, but it also seems pretty reasonable to me
Erlang is doing exactly what you're saying here.
What does the kelp grow on? Ropes? Or does it need to grow up from the sea bed?
If certain science fiction is to believed, there is a pan-dimensional super-intelligence that feeds on all sentience once they cross a certain technological level, so it's all futile anyway.
Not sure if he will ever read this thread, but FWIW, free rsync.net account for life, if he wants one.

Same goes for Terry A. Davis.
People are still laying copper??
Hence my uncertainty. In that case, if it is intended to refer only to writing systems, it should probably say "15 other languages' writing systems evolved from Sumerian cuneiform." or "were adapted from Sumerian cuneiform", or some other variation thereon.
Yeah.. just about anything can be declared under the umbrella of "national security" if you reach hard enough.

For a true to life example, look at the NSA.
Yes this is probably cheaper, and saves you a lot of headaches.
Top thread refers the title being "insulting", which is what set this whole thing in motion.

I am not ranting & raving. I am having a logical conversation. Stop treating me like I am out of control. I am happy to have a logical conversation, but your numerous "please, please stop" replies are non-contributory and demeaning, so... please stop. :)
How to know when your project is “Good Enough”
As of 2009, it was "moon" and "sun."

http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/moon-vs-moon-a-study...
Thanks for the link to the Elo scale. Kind of depressing though when I looked myself up, I'm much lower there than I am on SO's rank.
Happy Hacking Easter – Story of privacy violation into an eggshell
This is quite a coincidence. Last week I've been trying to track down why our Linux kernel takes so long to boot (where "so long" = about 1 second), and using "ignore_loglevel initcall_debug" has been a lot of help.

Here is a typical trace showing initcall timings. It's helpful to download it and use `less -r' to view so you can see the ANSI colours:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/min-seabios.txt
app store... write your own app, submit it, do some marketing by putting up a website (wordpress template = 10 min kick ass website), run some FB/youtube marketing for like $100 and you're set. If you end up having a great idea it'll pay off and you could make 10 times what you're making as a slave.. I mean, as an employee. It's like 1-2 month of development and the rest is passive income. You'll have 12h of free time looking at when you could quite your 9 to 5 to go full time on the app store. If you don't make a dollar with your app you'll get to learn all the process from A to Z which is gold. So you'll never lose your time.
Apche Lens 2.5.0-beta release: Unified Analytics interface
Several companies have been started by using software developed by people working in governments and it's only fair as it's all funded by the taxpayers

Because many governmental projects are politically sanctioned, done properly, this could become a great way to do R&D where the private market doesn't.
That's the usual approach and yes: I've tried it. Finding a good accountant who's up to that kind of task, responsive and not afraid of using modern software, is surprisingly difficult.

There are new entrants to the market such as Felix1 in Germany or Crunch in the UK though that promise this exact service.

Your suggestion certainly is a good one but I'm still wondering why accounting and book keeping requires so much human-machine interaction. I'm not talking about handling edge cases, exceptions or conflict resolution, things you need a human being for. You shouldn't need an accounting firm for entering incoming invoices or synchronizing your bank account statements.
If the author is reading this, the social sharing buttons on that page are very annoying. On my browser/resolution it covers up the first character of every line it touches, which makes reading the article without resizing the window nigh impossible.
I could be wrong, but in most cases the US government buys appliances from companies like Diebold and they don't develop or contract software for voting. The best that can be done is regulation to force audits of the appliances like what Nevada does with casino slots. Even that would be a huge step up.
Thanks very much for the link. I'll have a look at it.
No he needs to housekeep at some point. To me very little downside and tons of upside to what he did.
It's also a useful way of managing different experiments, and discarding the ones that didn't work and reverting to last known good, or integrating the ones that do work. That gets increasingly messier as your codebase grows.
Whose using Relay in production?
It seems like a great fit for an upcoming project (a discussion framework similar to discourse), but I'm worried about it being too immature so I'm curious to hear from others who have used it in large production apps?
This sounds like a fun read. What particular story are you thinking about?
Didn't know that screen locks were supposed to defeat keyloggers. I thought they existed to stop people walking up to an unattended computer and mess around.

Anyways, if i am reading the CVE right it is about how X11 can be provoked into maxing out its stack. Possibly annoying for those trying to use X11, but not something that leaks data.

The more i see "security" discussed on HN, the more i feel that there needs to be a ranking system. All to often it seems like people are operating with a binary definition of security, putting anything with a CVE in the insecure bin.
Privacy-preserving algorithm for genome assembly using cloud computing resources
I didn't accuse you of "ranting and raving".
Architects coding can be a challenge. I try to write code as often as I can, but I usually don't want to actually take ownership of dev tasks because I usually can't complete them quickly enough with all the demands on my time. Usually in the middle phase of a project when the architecture is set, we've delivered a few sprints and launch is still a little ways away is a good time to dive in for a bit.
But the "house keeping" as you call it is what it really means to run a business. Any idiot can make progress when you've got millions in the bank to throw at a problem, real progress is made when your revenue/expenses ratio keeps growing, raw revenue growth is useless.
Of course the Internet was an improvement! I'm not arguing it wasn't. It is a fantastic improvement.

We know that. But in the '90s, none of that had happened, and it was as uncertain and unproven as VR is now, or voice commands before Siri and Echo were available, etc. To pretend that uncertainty didn't exist is to deny what actually happened.
Passenger falls asleep, driver takes advantage. Who's surprised? But Uber refunds it and forces the driver to be honest. That's what Uber does, it forces a good product and ends passenger abuse. I've had Uber contact me to protectively refund fares when they think the driver could have taken a better route.
(Next step, open source the government policy, procedure, etc.)

Laws like requiring all commits to be submitted by the author. Authors must disclose potiental conflicts of interest, affiliations, etc. Submitting commits on behalf of another entity is treason; meaning if a funder wants a policy written, they post the funds, select another entity, selected entity assigns staff, staff submits policy, etc.;

All public, all real-time.
Private talks made easy, 2.22.16 released
My main disappointment is that I'm not sure it will be reasonably applied, as so many things could be interpreted as having national security implications when in reality they're only used with security-sensitive data.
You can certainly fail on the App store if you think like you do. Nothing is easy in life, people who succeed are people who start with a positive attitude and transform a failure into a learning experience. Anyone can make it on the app store with hard work and dedication. The more you fail the better you get. The 5th, 6th app might work out. Not the first ones for sure...
Indeed - http://dk./ works too.
Yeah. I found that generic flexible solutions usually end up constraining me.

YAGNI FTW!
I think the article is saying: people who are making architectural decisions (whatever their job title) should spend some time coding the system they make decisions for.

It's easy enough for me to buy.
Xscreensaver Author: “Please Remove XScreenSaver from Debian Linux”
* note I am a Googler.

Simply put it appears operations are more expensive on Google than Amazon.

I'll break out the numbers below.

Storage

Google 1000gb x $0.026 = $26
Amazon 1000gb x $0.030 = $30

Egress:
Google 200gb x $0.12 = $24
Amazon 199gb x $0.90 = $17.91

Get Operations:
Google 10m / 10k × $0.010 = $10
Amazon 10m / 10k × $0.004 = $4

Put Operations:
Google 10m / 10k x $0.100 = $100
Amazon 10m / 1k x $0.005 = $50

After breaking down the numbers you see that operations are more expensive. Google is a bit less expensive for data at rest and Amazon is a bit less expensive on egress. I'll chat with some people at Google to see if there is anything we can do.
I had doubts reading on Yann Lecun's fb feed that machine learning could be as big as the web, but all these jQuery-like libraries for ml have me second guessing.
I was thinking of Star Control, an old game series which was the inspiration for Mass Effect apparently. There's a few other stories like that I'm sure.

SPOILERS AHEAD

In SC, there's a race of beings that wakes up once in a while whenever technology levels in the galaxy reach saturation, and basically eats up all sentient species. One highly-advanced species manages to escape the last cycle by devolving themselves into dumber creatures like cattle. Of course they get stuck in that state and it's up to the next generation of spacefaring civilizations (including us) to collect their relics and revive them and learn how to survive the next cycle.
I always thought a statement of someone's ignorance was more or less a statement of fact, vs questioning someone's abilities or intelligence, which are considered insults.

Whether the implication was intended to be negative... I dunno.

Sorry about my sub-par manners today.
It's funny you say that because that's the one NSA did voluntarily:

http://www.informationweek.com/applications/nsa-submits-open...

https://accumulo.apache.org/

;)
”Seven years ago Steve Way weighed 16 1/2 stone and had high-blood pressure, a 20-a-day habit and an addiction to takeaways and chocolate. So, like many other people, he began running to get fit. Only he didn’t stop. And 26,000 miles later – more than the circumference of the globe – and at the grand age of 40, he has been selected to run the marathon for England at next month’s Commonwealth Games.”

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/may/31/great-britain-c...
Might be a reason to long-term require all software used be open source and for that matter make it easy for a user to confirm that the system in use real-time is the system that's open-sourced too.
In my opinion it's much more likely that sentient beings apathy themselves into extinction.

Humans already show a tendency towards addiction to technology that exploits dopamine triggers, as social networks like Facebook do.

Now imagine a world in which matrix style neural implants give you all the dopamine fulfillment that you want with no need for any effort. And combine this neural implant replacement for reality with extensive automation and AI that replaces the need for physical and mental effort. With an ever decreasing amount of stuff to do in the real world more people start hooking up to the matrix.

It's quite likely a massive portion of the population will dream itself to death without accomplishing anything or giving birth to a new generation of offspring because work, invention, and sex in the real world could never compete with the feeling of something that is tied directly into your brain making you feel like you just solved the world's hardest scientific problem, or ate the best meal ever, or had the best sex ever.

It seems probable that such neural implant tech and automation could be created long before a practical interstellar travel solution is created, which would also be a depressing, but realistic explanation for the Fermi paradox.
Chrome SafeBrowsing engineer here.

Google has published the protocol that clients need to follow to fetch updates from the SafeBrowsing servers here:
https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/developers_guide...

Both Chrome and Firefox implement that protocol. I believe Edge uses Microsoft's own service. Not sure about Opera.
Bookkeeping is tactical and low-level while accounting is strategic and higher-level. A lot of the strategic possibilities come about because of the many ambiguities and options in tax areas, and because the "best" decision for a given question has to do with so many variables.
It could be that people tend to upvote names they recognize too.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Launches and Lands Private Rocket for Third Time
From where i sit, what seems to block most distributors from upgrading is the rigidity of their tradition package managers when dealing with multiple versions.

Thus they are reluctant to adopt new version of something, because the dependency chain may force a update of a large part of a installed system.

A package manager that can handle multiple version frees them from this worry, without the admin of a system having to trawl every "container" if a lib is found to be vulnerable (a very real possibility with the likes of xdg-app, and somewhat akin to Windows "dll hell").
Machine Learning and Bot Community
This is what I came to ask. We won't have an exact year but I wonder how accurate of a range we could get.

Within the next ~100-200 years?
I was quite surprise to see that the numpy version is only about a hundred lines.
Like you I agree with the grandfather post, but "Why would humans have a stress response that generates somatic mutation?" could easily be answered with "because it tends to work" because that is what drives evolution.

I can make up a (at least at first sight) plausible explanation, too. Assume a constant energy budget and increased demand when under stress. Then, when running out of reserves, some other energy consumer must be cut down on.

Things that only have real value in the long term such as protections against mutations may be prime candidates for this (just as your intestines shut down during exhaustive exercise such as when running a marathon, not because you can do without them, but because they aren't priority one _now_)
An important part of a manager's job is helping keep self-centered self-unaware primadonnas contributing productivity to the team, despite their short-sighted immature attitude. It's rather like parenting in that respect.