skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 1980's, my aunt visited Romania along with some friends who were employed in the US State Dept.

On a side-trip through a rural area, they stopped and my aunt asked a woman if she could take her picture in front of her small, but very well maintained, house. She agreed, and after the picture was taken, she started crying. They asked why, and after some hesitation, the woman explained that she and her family were being forced to relocate to Bucharest, and they would have to abandon the house that her family had lived in for several generations. My aunt got her contact info, and later sent her a copy of the picture.
If you check out the test file[1] in the repository for deco, it looks like you can specify the number of cores by setting the "processes" attribute of the concurrent-decorated function [object].

1. https://github.com/alex-sherman/deco/blob/master/conc_test.p...

https://github.com/alex-sherman/deco/blob/cee63391bf4c6d66ee...
The radioisotopes are in the fuel, so it doesn't depend much on plant design. In any case, coal technology is pretty standardized by now.
An alternative voice box at $0.75 for those who have throat cancer
> I'm not sure how you tip based on experience, do you interview them on their job history?

Oh no, I didn't word that the best way. I didn't mean "experience with that person"... I mean I tip based on the experience I had while dining for that particular meal. Was it good or bad? Was my drink refilled without me having to ask? Was the server attentive and friendly, etc.
It solves the chicken-egg problem by having a critical mass of EVs to justify a critical mass of chargers.

On street parking can be done rectified (in theory) via inductive/wireless charging fed from a solar energy source.
I wasn't aware of that.

I have no problem with making use of natural gas reserves, I just figured a diesel option would make adoption easier on truck drivers.
Interesting, so when they claim it automatically scales out to all cores what they mean is it defaults to 3 unless overridden.
Ada, FreePascal, ...?
I worked at a company with a spam variable in the backend. 0 for eliminating most spam engagement actions like likes. 1 for letting all spam in.

We didn't set it to 0.

There's sometimes positive value in spam. Ex Instagram users get a boost when their pictures are liked, by someone real or not.
TensorFlow – A curated list of dedicated resources
I think your analysis is spot on...if you are looking backward.

Here are the points I would argue:

Digital ads have a totally different sales model and level of "prestige" that is unattractive to the type of advertisers who make up the bulk of the national TV advertising market

True currently. You assume however that TV is going to be the digital entertainment interface of choice for the foreseeable future. In fact it's overwhelmingly mobile already and in the next 10 years (as an AR developer) we see that moving toward AR displays with complete replacement for a significant portion of the population by 2030.

Basically, if you have a $100 million advertising budget, you're going to try to spend that in as few places as possible while getting the most bang for your buck

I suspect these TV budgets will drop, as new interfaces reduce cost to on-board, and then rise again over the longer term. So whereas you would line item 50M for TV, maybe that drops over the next 15 years to 5M as TV eyeballs go away and competition for share grows.

Digital ads aren't a limited commodity like TV ads are - you can only show so many 30 second spots during the Super Bowl.

Here is where I have the most disagreement. When you reduce the channels in which people interact, there is extremely limited quantity. The overwhelming bulk of digital advertising dollars go to Google and Facebook. We have been talking for years about who controls "virtual ad space" [1].

In the end the argument to me comes down to the actual entertainment interface. People are moving away from TVs already and trends are pointing to TVs going away all together in the not-too distant future. My company is working hard to accelerate that process and we see a lot of competition forming over the last few years that is doing the same.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/06/06/virtual-air-rights-augmented-...
This is an interesting situation. Given that most hashing power is in China, it's against miners interest to accept this hard fork.

Also, how does this kind of patent works, if chips are made in China, is it still illegal to mine with them in the US?
> Just think about the amount of resources the US spends on the "war on terror" or the "war on drugs" compared to the "war on tax evasion."

I was curious so I looked it up.

2016 IRS budget: $10.6 billion [0]

2015 DEA budget: $2.0 billion [1]

[0] http://thehill.com/policy/finance/263767-irs-scores-year-end...
[1] https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2014/...
EDIT: that should be 10-15 minutes by car.
I wonder what is keeping them from Python 3 support. I'll take a look, although I am currently stuck on Python 2.7 for my current project.
It surely is! If you have name.com/blog, now you have to buy yet another domain - name.blog. Many brands are forced to "secure" a bunch of overpriced domains! And this is what extortion is! And I said "legalized" extortion as on paper, as you say, nobody is forcing anybody, but in fact they are!
> where is the built-in Facebook plugin?

Years ago Facebook Messenger was actually built into Firefox. I remember using it myself, but have no idea what's become of that effort since then. See https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

> Where's the built-in Netflix extension?

Users demanding Netflix support is literally the reason why Mozilla was strongarmed into adding support for EME, despite trying to hold out against it for so long.

> Amazon shopping support?

Click in the search box, type a query, and at the bottom of the suggestions dropdown you'll see that Amazon is one of the search engines supported out-of-the-box. I actually use this fairly regularly.

> What if Microsoft cuts a deal to build in Bing support?

Just like Amazon, Bing is already supported out-of-the-box, as is Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Mozilla has regional partnerships where they get paid to install such search engines, so you'll get Baidu as your default in China and Yandex as your default in Russia. These even vary per platform: in the US, Google is the default on Ubuntu, and Yahoo is the default on Windows. If Yahoo collapses within the next few years, I fully expect Microsoft to begin paying Mozilla to make Bing the default on Windows.

These default search engines are how Mozilla makes 95% of its income (donations are basically a drop in the bucket, and because of tax laws they aren't allowed to use donation funds to finance Firefox development anyway). Mozilla sees this as a problem and has been actively looking for ways to diversify its revenue streams in the past years (go read any of their past financial statements to see them explicitly categorize their over-reliance on search engine revenue as a potential threat to the company), which has led to things like FirefoxOS (in the hope that telecoms would toss some cash Mozilla's way) and the "suggested sites" on the New Tab page. This why I find it extremely unlikely that someone "cut a deal", because Mozilla would want people to know that they're succeeding at the task of finding alternate revenue streams.
The water is not destroyed, it ends up back in the ocean.
I tend to agree with the user who defended summary comments on the basis of the utility of top-comments to decide whether the article is worth reading. If people consider summary comments to be a non-positive addition to HN discussion threads then I would hope this can be resolved by the normal down-vote process rather then through special measures.
Oh, so consumers make a difference between name.co, name.com, name.website, name.online, name.click, name.link? Gimme a break! This is a legalized scam and ICANN is a mafia!
Don't most nuclear power plants require a water source around for cooling purposes?

Finding such a source in the middle of a desert might be a reason people don't build it there.
What often goes unmentioned in praise for code review processes is their insanely exorbitant costs -- measured in engineer hours but perhaps more costly is all of the blocking and impedance [1]. Most of the "problems" that code reviews claim to address can be solved by much more direct and optimal measures. Code reviews are damn expensive.

This post concedes that code reviews are better for the more fluffy ends -- teamwork, openness, social recognition, but given their high costs, I'd rather achieve even these soft goals in other ways than to impede my team's delivery potential.

While mission critical systems deserve the whole kitchen sink thrown at them, expensive verifications, code reviews, etc etc., most business applications would do much better optimizing for better software architectures and domain conceptualization than spend so much time dwelling on the minutiae of lines of code.

[1] Continuous integration and refactoring, pillars of agility, go out the window in typical code review environments where commits are blocked until peer review.
I've never had an employee ask for a raise... but we've always been proactive with bonuses and raises. I agree with you 100% that eliminating bias is hard.
It may be the only way, but I'm still concerned by this.

User @colinbartlett above says Google explicitly states what is sent, however. So am I right that it looks like we are trusting Google with what they say they are sending? I'm ok with that, I think.
Acura is the luxury mark of Honda; it doesn't need to operate at a scale that would make it viable as an independent business.
Like .xxx the real value will be in easier filtering.
Headful, I would think.
Telefonica and Fidor Bank launch mobile banking account in Germany
Seeing Double
FSM bless Ayn Rand. Surely she must go down in history as one of the most important and influential women in history. If somebody were to start planning a "Mount Rushmore of Great Women" I'd lobby for Ayn Rand to be the first person chosen for inclusion.

Very few people have been more active and more influential, in terms of defending the ideals of freedom and liberty, than Ayn Rand. Whether "academic" philosophers take her seriously or not is irrelevant - she Gets It and had a way of writing that communicated some very subtle and powerful ideas. I would be much diminished as a human being if I had not read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

I didn't know about this particular work prior to today, but I'm glad it got posted (even though I'm not a screenwriter or anything of that sort). It's exactly what you would expect from Rand - direct and to the point, no bullshit, and deadly accurate. Let's hope all aspiring screenwriters read this and take it to heart.
Even if it's in a box, you need to pull the thing you want back out of the box. A malicious file could put a payload into the destination file.
Automattic Purchases .blog TLD for $19M
Based on some quick research building CEF for the imx6 doesn't look trivial. Do you know of any devices (for sale) that do use Qt under the LGPL? Or in your experience does everyone get the commercial license?
Also, significantly closer to Bay Area than other tech hubs. With a gazillion flights between the region
Apple really is incapable of providing software this useful. Am I right?
Wat.

I didn't realize Uber was the Tech Capital Kingmaker.
Same here. 9yr of front-end dev/design experience and no luck. Applied for over 120 jobs (between 2015 & Today), and not 1 single interview. Nothing.

I have the education (Bachelors in Digital Design & Masters in HCI)...I have the experience & diversity of project work..... yet, I can't seem to land an interview out of 120 applications. What gives?

Perhaps it's my resume, perhaps it's my skill set, or the places I am applying, or maybe the market it flooded with dudes like you & me...I'm not sure.

It is very frustrating. I don't know what to do about it. Maybe get another degree....?
So how is this better than Lambda or Iron.io Push Queues?
I think most commercial nuclear reactors require craptons of cooling water because they aren't that efficient in fact. (When you use water to regulate fission, the temperature can't get much higher than ~100C.)

So, putting them in the middle of a desert might be problematic.

I wonder if there's any current commercial ones that are more efficient? Theoretically we can greatly improve efficiency by using high-temperature designs, but good luck building an unproven new design of reactor these days...
Working at a Gov't IT contractor, I really wish we had the organizational skills/incentive to do code reviews. Very rarely does the code I write get glanced at, much less examined.

My instinct, of course, is to solicit code reviews from my peers, but the organizational structure and support tooling are all woefully inadequate. Plenty of projects, even greenfield ones, aren't checked into source control. And of course if I spent time contacting those in my org that have similar skills and could thus review, not only would I have to justify it to my 3-4 managers, but so would the person I solicited for review to their own.

Nobody cares about the code quality, and thus it has been a nightmare for me trying to improve my skills right out of school. Here's to hoping I get out soon.
It's not arrogance. You don't have to write perfect code to realize that the insane cost of code review is not worth the problems it is supposed to solve. Especially when code reviews are notoriously not very good anyway at excising bugs.

The goal isn't perfect code. It's optimal delivery of business value. Code reviews are expensive, and not very optimal.
When thinking about if we've improved or not, I like to point out stuff like this, from 1976:

"My name is Marian Goldeen. I'm an eight grade student at Jordan Junior High School in Palo Alto, California, and I would like to tell you about how I got started working with computers at Xerox, and the class I taught.

It all started in Dcember, 1973, when I was in the seventh grade. (...)"

(My emphasis)
http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=61

Now, after reading that, are you proud at how far we've come in 40 years? I think we're doing rather poorly, and I believe the VPRI folks (and now this new project) is part of how we might do better.

I just wish these people would/could be more generous with throwing code out there for people to run and play with. I'm not sure if it's a culture thing, a funding thing, or a bit of both -- I understand that a presenting a coherent whole can be more powerful than small ideas, but whenever I read the VPRI articles, I always feel there's too little code to play with. I want more! :-)

By the way, there's lots of interesting stuff in that archive[a], like:

"Is Breaking Into A Timesharing System A Crime?"
http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=4

And in fairness, we have seen some improvements:

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue1/3159_1_THREE_WO...

[a] http://www.atarimagazines.com/
> Regression to the mean

Well, firstly racial studies demonstrating the need to protect the white race was kind of this guy's specialty... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Philippe_Rushton

But onto the topic at hand, the original theory was based on an incorrect understanding of genetics, where a child's genes were based on both the parent and the "ancestors". The reality is that children inherit directly from parents, including some genes that were unexpressed, which can cause changes. But they're still more likely to be smart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean#His...

If regression to the mean dominated 100% of the time, evolution would not be possible. http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/41982/regression-...

Over time if you keep breeding smart people, you can expect to see smart children. If you did this and ignored ethnicity, you'd overtime breed yourself a new "race".. after all how do ethnicities form in the first place but by separation, drift, and natural selection? Also if you did this long enough you might breed superhumans, but I suspect that genetic engineering would come first and beat you to the punch ;)

>
I brought race because that was the topic at hand and because we are talking biology here (reproduction)

I keep bringing it back to America since that's all I know, but race in America is more social construct than biology, and keeps changing over time. For instance the Irish, Italians, or eastern europeans were at some point not considered white. In other countries, race is seen differently as well (though this has changed due to western media)

White today includes a lot of people who have historically not been considered white, and IQs will vary by those subgroups. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence is measured to be especially high. (Also randomly, I find it especially strange that the stormfront crowd seems so eagar to separate themselves from jews. I never understood that)

Anyways, the desire for protectionism seems like a never ending quest to me, since we will always find ways to divide ourselves. Even when america was mostly european, this sentiment still existed, and was directed at the Irish, italians, jews, etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=anti+jewish&source=lnms&tbm=...

What we call race has formed mostly for social reasons: we look similar enough, share enough cultural similarity, and we're under attack by the "other" so let's band together. Asians in asia all hate each other. They all get along in the US. Pakistanis and Indians don't get along in their home countries. They're best friends in the US. Same story: you arrive in the US, you band together with people most like yourself to help you when faced with pressure.

Edit: I'm sorry you're receiving downvotes even though you're being civil. I suspect that this is the type of "under attack" that I mentioned in my last paragraph that gives rise to strong same-race stickiness to begin with.
Parsey McParseface is a great name.
Instead you can just swipe the spacebar left or right. It works much better than the iOS 3D touch cursor movement, which seems to false-negative on my force touch very frequently (at least half the time, for me).
What is Bayesian statistics and why everything else is wrong [pdf]
IIRC, 7-zip does tell you if the actual format is different. At least it does when I extract some DMGs; it tells me it's actually an HFS "file".
Funny you ask this -- I'm working on a project that solves this exact use case:

http://www.curabase.com

We were just on Show HN [1] and Product Hunt earlier this week.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11629489

[2] - https://www.producthunt.com/tech/curabase

Wow, there must be something in the ether as there have been a string of Ask HN/Show HN questions around links and bookmarks...
I believe the poster was specifically referring to pre-commit code reviews, not all code reviews in general. I think it's a stretch and not particularly fair to jump on him/her as being arrogant.
"There are also leveraged inverse ETFs like SDS, which I have used at times. You don't want to hold them for more than a few weeks at a time because they decay, but for short-term trading they work fine."

Yes, that's the point - the idea is, instead of buying the short ETF, you short the long ETF.

They both decay, as you would expect an ETF to do, but by shorting the long, the decay works in your favor...
CocoaPods 1.0
I don't necessarily dispute this, but it's a hard sell if you can't identify some sort of institutional reason these ideas are ignored. There are thousands of young philosophy researchers, and they could make a name for themselves applying this stuff if it was well received. And it's not clear to why it would be unjustly discriminated against.
You can make use of clojure.typed or schema.

Yes, they aren't the same as static typing, but they help nonetheless.
There are hand-held grenade launchers, crew served grenade launchers, etc. None of which means it's a "backronym."
What are you talking about? $9 is the minimum wage. That's $37k per year combined for two people. I assure you minimum wage workers are not living good lifestyles here, even in The Bronx (where most of them live).
The idea that two entangled particles share a wave function seems at least problematic. The ontological state of the wave function is an open problem but I think you can't get away with thinking of them as independent entities that can associate with and unassociate from particles. It is probably more like there is one very complex wave function for the entire universe and we can only sometimes get away with thinking of it as the product of the wave function of a system we are interested in and the wave function of all the rest, the environment.

But even disregarding this, there seems to be a need to propagate something through space. The wave function of the entangled pair could be spread out in space and when Alice performs a measurement on her particle you have to notify the wave function at Bob's place that it should also change.

You could also try to imagine that the entire wave function for the two entangled particles is not spread out in space and located next to Alice which makes it easier to imagine how the entire wave function could change at once. But now how does Bob's particle know that the far away wave function changed in order to behave appropriately? We still have to propagate that notification over to Bob. And what if Bob decides to perform the measurement instead of Alice but the wave function is sitting around at Alice's place?

There is some inherent nonlocality in quantum mechanics and the effects of measurements have to propagate through space even when they can not be used to exchange classical information. One idea that I find really interesting is ER = EPR [1] by Susskind. The idea is vaguely that entanglement determines locality, i.e. two things are close together if they are entangled, especially two entangled and spatially separated particles are connected by a wormhole and therefore actually remain close together all the time. This would make spooky actions at a distance a lot less spooky because it would mean that you can never really separate entangled particles. It would probably also mean that the topology of space is actually extremely complex and only superficially looks like Euclidean three dimensional space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER%3DEPR
It would be nice if OS X got around to hardware accelerating Quartz too. So much of my app's time is spent in memcpy in the depths of Quartz while resizing windows.
Yes, our peer review mostly consists of looking through the diff to make sure nothing seems crazy or out of place, stray print statements, etc. Every single pull request can't go through a gauntlet of close examination, we wouldn't get anything done.
You can be appalled, but it's not like anyone's paying them for the work that they do.

If you want to help them, I'm sure you could contribute some additions to their build process or something that would help them tighten up security. But I think it's funny that you're so shocked that a popular free software project isn't perfect.

Be the change you want to see.

PS: who cares if the devs are using unsigned software downloaded over HTTP? I care about using signed software (and then I suppose the transport doesn't really matter), but that's totally unrelated to what the devs do on their own computers.
Unfortunately, no OO languages save Scala implement the higher kinded types needed to truly exploit object algebras.
Don't look for a job, look instead for people you can help.

Get out of your bubble-- start attending meet-ups, conferences, industry trade events. Make new friends and contacts. Ask around who's doing interesting work? Who's struggling with technologies in your area of expertise? Who might need dev help?

That's the Old School informal search approach where you uncover those famous 'hidden jobs'. And it still works!