skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very possible you'd learn something by reading this:
http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/act-c-sh-mythreality.h...
Put Instagram in that search for some context and a look at serious growth.
Lenovo W520 with Ubuntu Gnome. The performance is great, and I haven't had any major compatibility problems. The touchpad is excellent and works great out of the box. Build quality is superb.

Some issues though:

* battery only lasts around 90 minutes on full settings, and half of that if you're compiling something heavy. This is a used laptop though, so no idea how many battery cycles it had when I got it.

* switching to an external monitor is annoying. Out of the box it doesn't remember the display layout settings (mirror/extend/etc). If I switch off the on-board GPU and use the discrete one, the VGA port is unavailable. Sending sound over HDMI doesn't always work.

* wifi sometimes gets into a weird state where it can't find any networks. Resetting the driver helps though.

* the only available AC adapter weighs a couple of pounds and is huge. Haven't had any luck finding a more reasonably-sized aftermarket one.

* the speakers are too weak even on 100% volume.
This study is dumb. I grew up in upper middle class and have no problem controlling my food intake (I almost have a six pack).

However, whenever there is an abundance of snacks out for eating without any limits, I will go crazy and consume upwards of 2000 calories. I surely would have not been able to regulate my food intake during this experiment, even though I can in general at home.
First Gentleman?
Should be able to tie the lifetimes togethor with something like weak pointers/shared pointers but more task specific such that it blocks the unloading/reloading until all shared references are gone but the weak pointers can still connect to new versions. Shouldn't be brittle, but "shouldn't" may or may not be a four letter word.
What do you imagine was done with all of that oil that they sold? Do you think it wasn't put into combustion engines? Do you think that Norwegian oil that was sold somehow wasn't emitted in the form of C02 into the atmosphere?
That's not how it works, or at the very least, it's a lot less black and white than that. There are enough people who will pay money to get a picture with Bill Clinton, or to hear Clinton speak, that it's completely worth it for an organization to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on his speaking fees.

A number of years ago my Dad was involved with a healthcare non-profit organization that paid Bill Clinton $125,000 for a speech (I don't remember the exact figure). They had him speak at a big theater, where a couple thousand people paid $100+. Then they had him as the featured guest at a dinner, which cost donors thousands of dollars to attend. They also had him tour their organization with the media. So all told, the organization raised a few hundred thousand dollars and got a lot of publicity.

Private sector companies - some big financial company or the National Association of Whatever - can get similar value from a Clinton speech. Maybe they can get money directly by selling tickets to a dinner with Clinton and having having him be the keynote speaker at their paid conference, or maybe they can use it as a reward/incentive for their clients (with the most important clients getting the most access to Clinton).

[Edit: I looked up Clinton's fee, it was $125,000)
Canada geese
It isn't as much the fact that the asset will move, as the direction and the timeline that matters, as well as the availability of investment vehicles. If I'd wanted to profit on the knowledge that coal will go down, I'd have to short the stock which isn't free, so it is important for me to know on what time frame it will go down (if I knew it would go up, but not on what time frame, it would work just fine). Another example, I know lithium (the commodity) is going to go up, but 90% of the lithium market is dominated by 3 companies, each of which get less than 20% of their revenue from lithium mining, meaning I have no way of profiting from my knowledge.
> the number system changes to one you don't recognise

Man, that one's aggravating. I didn't even think it would be considered weird to want my phone's UI to be in my own language, but for phone numbers to appear with formatting appropriate to the country they're for. Shoehorning every number in "contacts" into US-style 1-XXX-XXX-XXXX just because I report that I speak US english is a usability disaster.
Before the app store model became popular, it was much more expensive and difficult to get your content published. Until 10 or so years ago, the most common channel for selling video games was retail, which meant you had to go through a publisher who -- if you could convince them to publish your software -- would take a massive chunk of the profits.

It's no mistake that the "golden age" of indie gaming has coincided with the availability of platforms like Steam and the mobile app stores. 30% might seem like a lot, but for many developers, it's probably much less than what the channel is worth.
the better question is why we're not using pgp for everything.

I wish I could register for services with nothing but a public key. No email address. No username. When I want to login, generate a login token and I'll sign it and give it back.
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on this.

This is no different than Method One adherents claiming Scrum and Agile project management would never work or that pair programming was a waste of resources, or that managed code would never compete with compiled C, or that front-end development couldn't be separated from back-end development, or app services would ever perform will enough to work, and the list goes on.

Given the right people, the right management skills and ideas, art can be made in a commercial business environment on a schedule.

There certainly are adherents to the old ways. Of pushing people beyond measure. Just go look inside a digital ad agency.

But even those places are learning new ways and getting pushed back by employees that have no interest in work for a penny less than they're worth.

(taking a breath)

That said, I do believe that success comes from giving of one's self. You can't expect to get anywhere or make any money without effort and without some level of "paying your dues".

The people that are successful without paying their dues are an anomaly, and are no different than people that win the lottery. You can't use that subset to make any point.

(breathing out)

If the only way you can make art is with freedom, then that is your way.

But you're simply wrong if you think people can't structure a business around game development that balances life and makes a profit.
Use the seek method:

http://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/partial-results/fetch-next...

edit: more on this via a slideshare presentation or pdf:

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2013-07/pagination-done-t...
Your second paragraph is a valid criticism, but the first is illogical.

> The groups who pay for these speeches are not selling tickets to them and pocketing the difference.

It seems that in some cases they are doing exactly that, if you count private fundraisers (not Clinton's own campaign fundraisers):

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-what-225000-and-p...

In other cases, attending the speech is presumably a perk of being in a high position at the companies in question, and like any other perk it can be priced despite individuals not directly paying for it.

(I suspect that a significant part of the demand is neither bribery nor related to the content of the speeches, but based on the attendee's desire to feel prestigious by being at an exclusive event. To this extent, it makes sense to hide the cost for the individual attendees behind indirections such as perks or fundraising for charity, because a more direct quid pro quo would cheapen the prestige by assigning it explicit monetary value. This is not to say that influence is not also a factor, which it surely is.)
I heard Bill Clinton speak at a fundraiser for a healthcare non-profit (see my comment above for a more detailed description). The organization paid Clinton $100,000+ to speak (this was 10 years ago at least) and then sold tickets for $100+ for the speech and for thousands of dollars to a private dinner. IIRC it was a very successful fundraiser for them and they netted several hundred thousand dollars.
How to Kick Off a Project
LyX and TeXMacs can do that kind of thing through Maxima plugins. The Maxima frontend itself has some prettifying capabilities. Of course, if you aren't doing symbolic math that is going to be less useful to you.

- http://www.texmacs.org/
- http://www.lyx.org/
- http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Does anyone want to bet on how many years it will take for Apple App Store to attract antitrust attention from the government? Eventually they will get pressured on this fee.
Facebook executed very well on mobile after their post-IPO slump, while Twitter failed to create an easy onboarding experience that would enable them to move beyond their early adopters (the tech industry, the media industry, and celebrities). The Twitter executives were too busy squabbling to move the product forward (see the book Hatching Twitter).

How Facebook Squashed Twitter: https://stratechery.com/2016/how-facebook-squashed-twitter/

The Reality of Missing Out: https://stratechery.com/2016/the-reality-of-missing-out/
Ask HN: Know any existing frameworks specifically for review sites?
I've been tasked with setting up an invite-only review website. I came across Telescope (http://www.telescopeapp.org/), which sets up an HN-style site. Are there any frameworks (of a similar kind) that allow setting up a Yelp(ish)-style site?
At this point in time, it feels like a national addiction.

We know it will be over some days, we know it does all kinds of harm, but we seem incapable of stopping.

The nation is as we "speak" grinding to a slow halt thanks to the oil slump.

And during the peak people were all set about starting extraction in the middle of one of the nations biggest fishing areas.
HN doesn't seem US centric, there are people from all over the planet here.
Well.... from the King's point of view, he is right to have this expectation given that he is spending billions of dollars a year buying outdated arms and technology from the US, it's war machine and it's allies.

There is an implicit quid pro quo in there, weather anybody likes it or not.
And you will see the likes of China pull that card whenever there is some kind of international talk about something that will affect their industries.
Even better!

ifThen(1 === 0, 5)

No need to calculate 2 + 3!
The top story on the page is about an AirBnb clone raising money from NY rich people.

You've pretty much answered the question - "if everyone did this", we probably wouldn't even have that German company at the top of the eu-startups.com marketing page.
Granted special Numba class syntax, and nowhere near as elegant or integrated as Julia.

Dask distributed interfaces directly with HDFS...no need for serialization.

Dynd is specifically designed to deal with arrays of custom types...criticism sounds like it would be more aptly directly towards numpy.

once it gains Numba binding it will lose the Python overhead.

Re Dask...is 1ms per task too much? It has a threading scheduler that can work with numpy arrays to release the GIL....so not bound by that with numerical code.

Regarding regular list and text processing... Julia's poor performance with heterogenous data actually makes it slower than python for cleaning the corresponding dirty and text datasets.
Google Cloud Platform HTTP Load Balancers Explained via the CLI
Top tip: if you're willing to forgo the timeframe, it's possible to become a super-genius stock picker. I GUARANTEE you that the US stock market will crash!*

* Sometime, one day, in the future
JavaScript compilers _ought_ to do that too. The example of generating a billion numbers is more relevant, but I didn’t want to use that until I was ready to introduce a lazy version of it.
Because the parent was the one I was clarifying for.
There's also Volume Mixer for Mac : http://volumemixer-app.com
I could be wrong, but without a real explanation, it seems more likely Uber is still convinced analyzing customer behavior in the most personally invasive ways is worth the risk, and were testing the waters, hoping a response like the OP's wouldn't gain traction the way it did.

In a company with thousands of employees, already scrutinized for privacy violations, it's hard to believe that a single engineer could ask for the most sensitive of permissions without anyone else reviewing or bumping up the chain first.
Dilma Rousseff Is Impeached by Brazil’s Lower House of Congress
Slightly off topic... How does Prolog compare to Erlang, which was written in Prolog (at least the initial implementation was).
1. Thanks and good on Uber for correcting this, and communicating this publicly. That's excellent goodwill, and something the company could use more of. Now make sure this doesn't happen again.

2. The change likely would not have been made had people not complained.

This is why I am reporting excessive Android permissions requests, both to developers and publicly. I've succeeded in having several other instances of expansive permissions requests rolled back. Others not so much (e.g., Wikipedia).

3. I'd argue that this only further highlights how broken the Android permissions systems are if applications can request unnecessary and highly dangerous and invasive permissions without the awareness of the authors. I love a few things about my Android device, but few of them specifically pertain to Android.

4. As I've mentioned already: Google need to reintroduce their applications permissions blocking tool which was released AND WITHDRAWN in 2013. For all prior versions of Android.

5. Someone really needs to kick Google's ass with a a) Free Software b) user-first c) privacy-respecting d) security conscious operating system for small mobile devices. Maybe Microsoft can be talked into funding Ubuntu Mobile or FirefoxOS.﻿
I see nothing and hear weird music and sounds. No keys have any effect.
To clarify, I would not call this a typical enterprise deal or typical enterprise customer. I agree completely with you--closing a big deal is one thing, getting paid for it is quite another.
Social media and the finest court transcript you will ever read
But then you have a second that doesn't belong to a minute.
I think it has more to do with the switch from the web (where people search rather than type the address) to apps (where people arrive via notification or app icon)
1. It can't be easily grokked. How many options does it have. Dozens? Hundreds? Compare to FTP.

2. Only specialists appear to understand the PKI infrastructure which underpins this security enough to properly manage the keys; possibly with expensive appliances. Compare to FTP; it's easy to grok managing and securing a string.

3. It's leaky. When you connect by FTP you present only the creds you desire. When you connect over SSH you expose all of your identities / keys to the other server. Pretty dumb.
Poor Transportation Options Have More of an Impact Than You May Think – ParqEx
That paper was the first thing I thought of when I read this, too. It really is a fascinating solution to this problem. Any ideas why external synchrony didn't catch on?

I suppose one could argue that the implementation would add a decent amount of conceptual overhead to the kernel, for comparatively little reward (application authors can fsync now, etc.).
this was posted here before, and is a really great read.
Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 4: It's Dynamic
Evennia (Python, Twisted + Django) is one of the most (the most?) popular Python MUD servers and features SSH/SSL support: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/evennia/4blKxTGQ3CE

More on Evennia itself: http://evennia.com
Worksnaps Integration with Basecamp
Interesting. 500 ms would would probably not be enough time to save everything (although maybe on an SSD based system it would be...), but it would probably be enough time to save select information that would allow ensuring that the disk is in a consistent state.

The 10 F capacitor has an ESR of 0.075 ohm, but that's at 1 A. They have a 100 F model that is 0.015 ohm at 10 A, and a 150 F that is 0.015 at 15 A. Based on your calculations, these look like they would have a good chance of giving enough time to save everything (especially on an SSD system).

Those are physically bigger but should still fit in a normal desktop or server.

(There is another manufacturer that has up to 630 F!)
Banning the account will have no effect. In the future people will just use throwaway or sockpuppet accounts, so who cares?

Also, I don't see who benefits from this hoax. Who is going to use him as a hosting provider whether the problem was real or fake. Both indicate that he's not a reliable provider.
Who are these clowns flying drones near airports, anyways?
Jimmy Carter was also an engineer, and as much as people hated him at the time, he was a very honest and responsible leader in hindsight.
here are some images for you to meditate on

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HrtQUEgYjKs

http://media.mlive.com/saginawnews_impact/photo/12375884-lar...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ECqpbqbT3UA
How to Rip and Convert DVD to MP3
Give Your CLI a ReSTful API
Peter Watts, Author of Blindsight: “Adaptive Management and the Walking Dead”
Interesting. I feel like you get Google search results for Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter when you accidentally type in one of those as a search term instead of a URL. (Happens to the best of us, pretty sure I've searched for "Google" before.)

Google+ is different in that the URL is plus.google.com, so I think "plus" would be the misfire in that case.
Good points. Maybe just clean slate one in a similar style.
He's a full stack hacker, from the browser all the way down to ruby.
A large drone hitting the engine of a jumbojet during takeoff or landing would be very bad news. Not only would it cost maybe millions of dollars of damage it might down the plane.
My complaint is the word "drone". It's designed to sound scarier than it is. The previous generation called them "model airplanes".

Language evolves and all that, but also introduces bias. The "done scare" would never be a popular thing if someone hadn't come up with a scary word for model airplanes. (But I agree that "model airplane" isn't that great of a term for some of the higher-end photography drones. It's more than just a toy, it's an interesting tool for filmmaking. I'm still not all that afraid of them, however.)
I'm trying to think which gender i'd guess if I read: CONGRESSWOMAN CAUGHT WITH PROSTITUTE.

I honestly think i'd guess male prostitute.
Convince me to read it please.
What Happens When Bots Learn to Lie?
I feel the same way; Spacemacs is neat and all, but its core philosophy just rubs me the wrong way. I want my installation of Emacs to have the packages needed to fulfil my own personal needs, no more. I also want to know that if I do nothing to my Emacs configuration, in 10 years my experience will be exactly as it is today.

Spacemacs takes the opposite approach and supplies you with more gadgets than you need and the "crowd-configured" aspect of the project means that what you have today and what you have six months from now could be very different. It might be a product of my age (I'm not that old, 32), but I've noticed that I've become more reticent to change in the past few years, especially when it's change that modifies daily habits of mine.

With that said, I think that Spacemacs does have good things going for it that I'd like to see trinkle into Emacs eventually. For example, the idea of having keybindings "namespaced" (e.g. 'f' for file manipulations, 'p' for project, etc.) is a great approach to make sense of the dizzying number of commands available in Emacs, and it'd certainly be cool if something like that was introduced into Emacs (in addition to the existing bindings).
I had the same thought: try pressing enter to respawn. Your snake is orange-brown.
It's so that a few days after you download the PDF, someone can contact you and ask what you thought.

Yeah, that scales really well for both of us.
I think the point of the article was that mammals are the closest thing to us that are still (almost) completely foreign.

If we can't talk to dolphins then how would we communicate with octopi? If not even octopi then how aliens?

I think that was more the point rather than trying to find the most alien intelligent animal to attempt to communicate with.
Do this. Directives – part 1
I first used lazy sequences in Scheme for a similar purpose, to find successive approximations. I recall lazy sequences like 0, 1, .5, .25, .75, ... and diagonalizations for these purposes.
What is the fastest hash function for pointers?
Taking LAX for an example... It has a perimeter of 4ish miles. Assume one sentry with a shotgun, loaded with birdshot every 300ft to give decent coverage of the perimeter, that gives us about 60 sentries. At 15 $/hr, 24/7, that gives a minimum cost of about $7M/year, ignoring any overhead for management, training, firearms, secure storage, etc.

All that achieves is to secure the airport, poorly, against a very unlikely threat, and one that is unlikely to down a plane even if an intrusion occurs.
The Codist: How Many People Does It Take to Ship Software?
I think you can find the article for free, hosted by one of the authors, at this link: http://personal.tcu.edu/sehill/Hill_Prokosch_PsySci_2016.pdf

A version with the paper which seems to have supplemental information at the end is available at this link: http://personal.tcu.edu/sehill/SES_Hunger_4_Nov_15.pdf
Sorry that this isn't an answer but I would also like some resources.

I'm learning C++
I'd suggest giving Elixir a try if you're trying to build things for extremely high-concurrency and will handle M:N scheduling across multiple CPUs for you automatically (and across multiple machines slightly less automatically).
>> 10-20% is a good benchmark, if you can do it. 5% is still good.

I would say even if 10-20% is acceptably good by most people, don't limit yourself to 10-20%. If you can be comfortable saving 75%[1], and invest your savings into real estate or stocks, then do that.

[1] $30000 is a liveable wage, and if that's what you were living on before you got your $140k software engineering job, there's no reason to increase your living expenses, just because people say "10-20%" savings is enough.
How payment frequency affects user behavior
Can you add a free software license to your project?
30MB is on the small side. I've seen Electron apps go above 100 megabytes, and Android Studio is about 1.1 gigabytes. I feel sorry for anyone developing on less than 10 megabit down/up.

I've been throwing around an idea for a site called "Church of the Byte Savers" or some other silly name based around saving hard drive space and bandwidth. e.g. Dropbox is good because it has LAN sync, whereas OneDrive will send your data around the world just to get it to a second PC on your network.
You may be interested in the following articles:

"So you want to abolish time zones" https://qntm.org/abolish

>We already do have a global standard time zone, and everybody who cares already uses it: UTC. There are also more accurate time standards in use for more specialist purposes.

"You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform" https://qntm.org/calendar

These links helped convince me that while time zones and calendar systems are very messy, there are some inherent reasons why they are messy.
Wow, I was about to stop reading at the beginning of the third line only to realize that I was about to commit the same type of behavior.

Thank you, this is very good advice.
Shirro's probably in Australia, with terrible copper infrastructure. The fastest upstream ADSL connection is 1 to 2 megabits and SHDSL is rare.
Oracle Steps with Moore's Law to Rev Exadata Database Machines
Hyperscalers and Clouds on the Xeon Bleeding Edge