skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you consider publishing an epub format version (either of the individual stories or altogether for each issue)?
Or the target is someone teaching a class of newbies how to start with Arduino. Same device, different audience, different needs.
Thanks! I didn't know about the graycolor field.
This shows the folly of using a meaningful value when there actually isn't one. Put a null in your database, or (better) structure your database so that if there isn't a value, there isn't a corresponding entry in your database, and a query for it returns the empty set.
Of course it is. Walmart has employees who require food stamps.
Not sure I understand the negative, sensitive downvotes to my comment; I was being sincere and careful with a prefatory remark. I grew up in Brooklyn below the poverty line, within a small space, had kids, moved to rural NJ, and lived in a moderate-sized house. I now live in East Java, Indonesia, have been vegetarian for over two years, and started a way of dealing with recycling and management of trash here, as well as an informal outdoor class for 9 to 11 year olds. All of my stuff is in an 8ft x 12ft room that I share with my wife and one-year old baby girl. It's minimalism is compensated by the fact that I can just walk outside. More than half of the houses around me have dirt floors, and their combined electric usage is less than that of one of my friend and his family's household. The reply was to somebody who seemed to really want to know some options, and I gave him one, that I also live by. It's anonymous downvotes without explanation like this, or the seemingly sensitivity-policing of people on this forum that make me think first-world problems are just that.
There is a fusion place that's actually decent. Zhu Dang?

But I'm never going back because people in Capitol Hill are racist. Also parking is hard.
It's India's version of PF Chang's except maybe even less related to Chinese cuisine. Indian people love Indochinese food. Chinese people hate it. Keep that in mind when you try it.
Stores in our college had them being sent out in plain text. They wouldn't change to secure equipment and would occasionally plug the internet into the college servers where we watched them...
Notes for Distributed GraphLab paper
Here is a place that sucks the money out of the poor for no particular benefit: check cashings.

You cash your check for a good percentage of it. If they had a bank account they wouldn't need to spend that money. I don't know how it is in other states but the last time I opened a bank account in California it was a pain. The amount of information needed is certainly not possible for a huge chunk of people.
citing http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

"What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held beliefs, and anyone can have those. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to be over some threshold of expertise to post comments about that. But on religion everyone's an expert."

Prophetic counter-example.
It's affected by algorithm changes. For example, the software now downweights any story that's 18 hours or older, with the intention of flushing the front page so that the stories with largest inertia don't just sit there.

I doubt it's that users are less engaged. It appears that HN had its most active Sunday ever today in terms of unique visitors. I've been meaning to look at some graphs of number of comments over time because it feels like those have gone up lately, too. If anybody else wants to make them, the data's public...
Through the Conservation Keyhole: Piecing Abel Back Together
Lea Michele Broke Up with Matthew Paetz
That did not cheer me up at all. Life's too short when you turn it into an empty rectangle.
No. It can be assumed that people here enjoy working on projects. Projects that interest them. The deeper meaning of this statement, in my opinion, is that every day you spend doing something that you dont like is a very big deal because, as this graph illustrates, there aren't really that many days available to waste.
This article resonates a lot with me as someone that was supposed to be in devops and wound up becoming a human network monitor in the end that covered the blind spots of the network infrastructure team's monitoring while teaching some engineers how to use tools like mtr and how to disprove that the network is not responsible and how to use Chrome Developer Tools to show network latency v. infrastructure latency.

Fundamentally, the network infrastructure team had plenty of monitoring - it was just insufficiently scoped for anything anyone but the network team cared about. The granularity of the monitoring was insufficient to catch a wave of handshake failures with third parties, yet it wasn't broad enough to detect when everyone across the enterprise was experiencing so much packet loss due to asymmetric routing that throughput to third party services dropped by an order of magnitude, too. Yet somehow every rack in the DCs had perfect layout and each cable was pinpointed to the extent that if you unplugged a cable randomly someone would come directly to that rack and switch in 3 minutes... after going through the biometric scanners and everything.

The fact that I became a part-time network engineer spending half my time doing network monitoring and troubleshooting when I was supposed to lead cloud operations and develop a devops in such an immature environment with no urgency to make it better is a large part of why I quit.
Well, over here we're shooting at people's heads with a particle accelerator beam to kill brain tumors. Works pretty well if the conditions are met. Next up: Moving targets you can't bolt to the table because the person will die from not breathing. (So the beam has to be moved.)

Biology is hard though.
We definitely have an epub version, it can be downloaded right now by patrons of Compelling Science Fiction on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/compelling

We're currently discussing additional methods of distribution of e-reader formats. We would like to set up an automated system that emails subscribers .epub/.mobi versions to their address of choice, but we need to put together an in-house subscription system first.
Why does Facebook's Open Rack use a nonstandard rack size? That seems like an obvious barrier for adoption of hardware that was designed to be a commodity.
Legacy networking gear might have faced, back in the days, a chronic lack of tools when confronted with performance and/or stability issues. And most of tools/solutions developed were as a direct result of the push from the industry for concrete solutions that instrument the problem methodically. May be the challenges faced by SDN/NFV can similarly be classified as growing pains and the times may present a tangible solution to address the problems you've discussed.
The thing to realize here is that the number of humans who need to do work building/operating/maintaining the machinery that keeps everyone taken care of decreases over time. It's perfectly reasonable to expect a point in the future where most of the time, zero direct human work is required in order to provide for all humans.

The issue is getting over the mental hurdle of enabling such a society. The technology is actually pretty straightforward, but the politics of it is full of people who just can't stand the idea of that filthy leeching parasite, he doesn't work as hard as I do, why does he get anything at all! He doesn't deserve it! Which in turn is an artifact of an economic system that's already firmly in the past of many developed nations (i.e., one in which all people needed to work constantly in order to produce enough to keep themselves alive).

Of course this is a fundamentally irrational position to hold when one already lives in a society that's content to let people who never work a day in their lives have all their needs taken care of (see: inheritance). It also disregards the fact that many people who have everything literally handed to them from birth still feel a drive to try to do something meaningful with their lives. There are trust-fund parasites who don't do anything, of course, but it certainly isn't 100% of them. Plus, it's pretty well empirically established that humans do get bored and seek things to do even when they have no life-sustaining work left to perform (see: retirement).
Protecting business and legal interests with this international SJW Name blacklist
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Performance Checklists for SREs (SREcon16 Slides)
The people in the linked article are frequently moving between housing, though. If they had thirty solid years of employment lined up they wouldn't be in their situation to begin with. What you're proposing is rent-to-own, which the vast majority of people would never make any headway on.
I have received genuine reports for two cards - one I'd lost the actual card without realising it and someone was using it in Alaska, the other I don't know how it was compromised but someone bought $400 of shoes in Florida. (I live in Seattle).
I don't think we are more comfortable with it, the people I know think it sucks and would usually love to stick with the same company if they are given stuff they like to work on. It's great when I get to work with someone who has been with a company for 10 or 12 years. We do have an understanding though that the jerks that are running most of these startups don't think that way and we have to just put up with it.
This is really profound. I made a rough estimate of when I will die and ticked the box that corresponds to it. Being able to see each individual week that I have left really gave me pause. Wow. And this graph is generous. Your perception of how long a week is decreases with time. So if this were a graph of how much perceived time you have left it would be even smaller...
That's why bitcoin and alternatives are so important. Banking for everyone.
What you've just said is pretty much identical to "if there were no laws, every company would charge $1 million for every product and there wouldn't be another option".

Do you realize how utterly ridiculous that sounds?

You really think the only thing preventing a company from paying employees $0.03/hr is a law? Minimum wage in SF is $12.25. By your logic, I should expect every employer to pay no more than $12.25/hr. Why do I not see this?
Presuming, of course, that the wealthy were in fact the ones who earned that wealth initially versus receiving it generationally. You might see a different distribution on earners versus maintainers.
I wish this went into more detail about what the player sees and the types of rules put into action. The technology is cool, but the business problem they're trying to solve is always much more interesting.
Most of these schemes were cooked up in the late 60s/early 70s.

They assumed a few key things:

- Makeup of workforce. Government in 1970 was an army of clerks with higher turnover which has since shifted to professionals with automation.
- historically reasonable inflation
- economic growth
- 7-9% annual returns

Few places actually find their obligations and those who do (like New York) pay dearly when the market goes south. I've been told that in the 60s the assumption in New York was 5% inflation, population of 40M in 2010, booming industry in western and central NY, etc. Also, the change in status for women changed the dynamic -- secretaries and clerks were contributing big bucks for pensions they would never receive!
The comment was not to negate the impact of plastic bags; it was to illustrate, and I think very much in line with the evidence, of how we misappropriate our attention. The suburban family who pauses at checkout to decide plastic or paper has good intentions, but misplaced intellect. They should be looking at the gas used to and from the store, imported food purchases vs. locally grown, and their own household for energy-efficiency. Yes, plastic, and paper for that matter, are a reasonable item on the list, but the others outweigh it by magnitudes, and the common person thinks 'paper or plastic?'.
The fun part of developing in scala is that it supports multiple completely different styles and paradigms, each has its own strength and weakness. You can pick the most suitable one for the functionality you are working on. On other hand it also make learning more complex. To be most effective, you need to learn these styles and paradigms and the subset of the language features you limit yourself to when in that style. Otherwise, scala is definitely one of the languages that is most capable of producing messy programs.
This doesn't really fix the problem though.
If WebUSB exists in peoples' browsers, and if a game on a web page asks to connect to your joystick, or some other peripheral, people are going to do it anyway, regardless of the risks.
And plenty of USB devices already exist that will never be maintained by their manufacturers again. There are huge quantities of USB devices in existence where software support is completely limited to the driver CD that comes in the box - those manufacturers don't care about adding their devices to a public registry, or controlling how firmware is updated.

Furthermore, this public registry idea also implies that a USB VID/PID directly correlates with a device. There are USB devices in existence that emulate another USB device in order to utilize built-in drivers (inbox drivers) and maintain compatibility with existing software. There are also different USB devices that use the same VID/PID to identify themselves, because in order to obtain a VID/PID, you have to pay a licensing fee, which is not always feasible to everyone.
If this public registry is used, it may create conflicts.
If the CORS-like public registry entries are always trusted by the browser, it could even create security concerns where remote computers are allowed to seize control of local USB devices.

It would certainly be concerning if USB devices were firmware updated without users' consent, simply by going to the website of the manufacturer. Or even a web advertisement that connects to USB devices...

In the future we may even see some kind of attack on web servers in order to gain access to the USB devices of unsuspecting users...
Racks were designed to fit telecom hardware originally. The Open Rack size is designed around common computer hardware sizes.

It isn't a barrier for adoption because swapping racks out of a datacenter is easy, and they fit on standard datacenter floor tiles.

What is a barrier is that damned 48V.

Disclaimer: I run a hosting company.
Awesome! But I think your email server is failing: "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table"
2 and 3 sound like basically section 9 housing. I like 1 - any ideas how you'd get the land for these? Would existing trailer parks be bought out?
Get another job offer, present to them and allow them to counter. Then pick.
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You might be right. I was thinking compared to HFCs (like Freon) damaging the ozone layer.

Interestingly even after the so many years of banning some HFCs, there is a healthy black market in some places. People have stored it in hopes the prices will rise. And they did rise. Some installations were reliable enough and worked using older stuff and owners never upgraded. So those owners would rather pay black market prices for it.

Last I heard, some governments were providing incentives (using the carrot approach) instead of just the stick, to upgrade older systems to safer compounds.
The best deception is self-deception.
The evidence to back your opinion comes down to dubious correlation on a graph?
Australia has another business model that is predatory on the poor: home appliance renting.

The dole payment isn't large enough to afford the price of a washing machine - but it is enough to afford the rent for one. Of course in the end you'll wind up paying much more than the outright buy price, but you can't help it, you can't afford to buy the machine.

(Of course these places rent out much more than the "needed" appliances, you can also get fitness equipment, Playstations etc.)
It does seem to require support in the PCI-E host controller, which for both modern Intel and those POWER machines, is on die on the CPU.

So, it "requires" CPU support, just not in the way usually meant.
Oh ok, makes sense. Thanks for explaining
Is there a client side encryption tool that works with Dropbox and is usable by non technical people (plus for being available on both Windows and Mac)?

I personally use encfs to create a partition within Dropbox, but I don't see that being easy to setup and manage...
Thanks! I had the impression that it could be thought of data compression. I'm more skeptical of your f(t) idea. Sure, it could be thought of that. But could you calculate that function in any less time than it would take you to run the simulation? I would guess not, but I'm not sure.
A: US states are nominally sovereign, they just don't pay what they can't pay.

Not sure about the nuance of a US Territory vs a state.
Macheath [Mac the Knife]: "If the poor are so powerful, then why do they need us?"

Peachum [The Beggar King]: "Because they don't know that we need them."

--Die Dreigroschenoper (1931 Film)
I remember the number of scammers started increasing when Jagex removed the buy limit from the grand exchange. Lost 150 mil within the span of a week from scammers around that time. I'll never forget that. Luckily it's what got me to quit.
NJ Transit is recording the conversations of thousands of its riders
> What is a barrier is that damned 48V.

Interesting what is the issue with 48V, I saw equipment for it seemed to be overpriced. Remember pricing out some stuff and as soon as 48V option for power came into play then price rose quite a bit.

Or is it that voltage is not high enough to be efficient for a large data center?
Not necessarily. He should be using the HTTP Accepts header to negotiate content type including version. Using the version in the URL is considered an anti-pattern by a good many API evangelists.
Neat to see this appear here. I wrote this. Ask me anything
Maybe it worked for Israel, because it was run by politicians who cared about their people and not by those who cared for the interests of mainly the mega-corporations (e.g. USA) or the interests of mainly the party-workers (e.g. USSR).

Such schemes from government are a must.

They are much better than "welfare" which just encourages people to be lazy.
Edit: added about "welfare".
I've traveled much farther from home than that, and my card has only ever been declined once, the very first time -- and I was in China then. I had to call them and they reenabled the card.

I've received one report of misuse of my card from the bank, and I was impressed. I had been in Georgia (the US state), stayed in a motel and bought gas for a rental car. All of that happened with no problems. A while later, someone used my information to make a purchase at a convenience store in Georgia (where I no longer was). That got flagged and the bank called me about it.

So in my experience, the bank is amazingly effective at determining which uses of your card are likely to be you and which aren't.
Then it should have been referred to the police. GCHQ is a security and intelligence organisation tasked by Government to protect the nation from threats.

A leaked copy of the Harry Potter novel is not a national security threat in any way, shape or form. GCHQ are not there to enforce copyright.
I was surprised when I heard that the departure of hedge fund manager David Tepper (worth $10B) from New Jersey to Florida is causing a legitimate fiscal planning challenge for the state.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/billionaires-move-puts-je...
That website is not using specific browser features to find other devices. It is using standard JavaScript networking functions to check for known classes of devices on your internal network.

Might be splitting hairs, but it's not like the browser is providing a direct API to that data.
It'd be interesting to get a median upvote count for the top 1000 stories by year...Perhaps the algorithm change most noticeably affects the very top end of the scale (e.g. by increasing gravity)...but perhaps this is less pronounced in the middle of the pack of top posts.

The other thing to consider is that no one of Steve Jobs's stature in the tech community has died since Steve Jobs. Or at least, died tragically. I hope Bill Gates (and his philanthropy) go on for many more decades, but I imagine his passing would be on notable to the tech community on the same scale as Jobs's.

Although maybe I'm completely overlooking someone who has died since Jobs, I would think the top deaths in each year would be among the top posts (e.g. Leonard Nimoy in 2015). My second most up-voted submission is Ray Bradbury's death...my top submission being a major drop in Linkedin stock price...Linkedin/MongoDB bashing is about as timeless as death :)
So something to exhaustively generate trivial ideas in order to prevent companies patenting things like "one+click+purchase"? I have a feeling it would get a response of "that doesn't count" but I don't know how they'd back that up.
I agree that a big part of the problem is SNMP and logs/screen scraping. NETCONF is a good starting point for this but there should be an equivalent for getting XML of monitoring and metrics in a streaming manner. There are an infinite number of potential issues and the standard high level SNMP driven overviews of networks always fall short. It would be really cool if there was an open source network measurement and instrumentation movement. Facebook actually posts things along these lines such as their NANOG talks on automation.
I think that's highly unlikely.
So they're using it for some other purpose. It's just a coincidence that all growers on the flight path have been busted via "anonymous tips".
AMD would still have an AMD64 architecture though? Or are you thinking they should come up with a new competing architecture.
If you followed someone around taking photographs of them, it would be stalking. I don't understand how it's any better when the police do it.
It's a huge strain on a development and QA team to ensure that every contingency (disabled JS, blocked content, etc) has a fallback. Once you go down that rabbit hole you end up supporting a lot of outdated browsers as well.
Can you elaborate on that? If you mean that ML stuff isn't taught much in coursework, that's probably true --- but getting that stuff to work for economic questions isn't exactly trivial (e.g. we only have observational data but want to estimate the effects of hypothetical policy interventions).

If you mean something else by "modern statistical methods" I'd be curious to know what you mean.
Aggregation, yo. Police shold investigate stolen bikes because most bikes are stolen by large-scale operations that steal, and sell, hundreds of bikes. Maybe thousands in mutiple cities. Finding and taking down these operations should be simple. Anyone paying attiention to craigslist could do it. It is a typical "traveler" scam.