skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. One of the relevant information provided by the article is that this topic should be considered a mater of scientific research and that he joined the effort of UFODATA. Maybe we don't have the same information filters. I tend to filter out anything related to Clinton and US elections ;)
You're confusing UdeM with UQAM. UdeM is the more prestigious one by far, but it's also smaller than UQAM. There's at least 6 universities in Montreal, it's easy for outsiders to get lost.
Polite speech is persuasive speech. Don't Trump this one up.
Is the implication that she shouldn't write about HN on her blog?
I had calls on spxs at the start of the year. If didn't work out that well. But I have similar positions again.

Any reason you chose spy over qqq or others?
Scribe is a log aggregation system, it doesn't really do topics/streams or have a good durability/streaming performance story. Its mostly used for aggregating data into a log storage system like DL, or Kafka, or into HDFS.
I'm not sure how close you are to working with RL/ML, possibly more than me! However, I don't think you it is useful to talk about the state of the field so broadly. If you say "supervised learning is well understood", I think you have a better chance of being right. The challenges that arise in taking sequential decisions, and learning from sequential observations is a lot harder, because all your data is temporally correlated.

Yeah we have algorithms for RL, but actually there are still many theoretical things we cannot prove and in practice do not work well. I am not intimately familiar, but one example is value iteration with a non-linear value function approximation.

I still maintain that RL is not well-understood, and I think evidence for that is that we don't see many examples of RL in our phones, cameras, search engines, etc. (which is not the case for supervised learning).
aka atomic broadcast
talking on an iPhone, by yourself, especially late at night, then you're asking for trouble.

Please don't apply your standards other cities of the world. What you described does not happen in my (capital) city. In fact if you drop something, you will likely get it back.
Why? If it is Encrypted in ansible vault or something it's not a terrible way to keep your creds.
Use shadow repos just for CI and nothing else.
I've personally stuck to Bitbucket for all my private repositories exactly because Githubs pricing model made it untenable. For that price I might just sign up, even though I might keep syncing to Bitbucket anyway, just because I'm paranoid.
I fully enjoy "knowing" how to code (hacky js/html/css/sql, mostly from stackoverflow). It helps me understand and communicate problems in my day to day job, it's fun to mess around with for creative projects outside of work. I don't think I'd enjoy it as a full time job. I do think the analytical aspects, along with the ability to create something from "nothing" makes it worthwhile to learn for most people.
> If you manipulated consumption to be identical, you'd still have status - it'd just be based on good looks or other such things.

I feel like you didn't really read my comment. Have you read Harrison Bergeron? The premise is that people receive body or mind alterations to suppress natural advantages or enhance natural flaws in order to make everyone equal.

I was already accounting for consumption being generalized to something like the advantages or good looks or a quick wit in my comment before.

> I'm glad we've mutually rejected that theory.

This is a bit glib, almost antagonistic, of you. The Last Place Aversion literature I linked provides direct evidence that at least a mild form of the effect I described exists, so I certainly don't reject it. All I'm saying is that, like all simple theories, it's not perfect. There are situations where being high status among poor is better than being low status among rich. I am not saying anything more specific.

Regarding the signaling tax -- I mostly do agree. I think we should use the same governmentally forced redistributive procedures that we apply to income or wealth and also apply them to sex, good looks, loneliness/social connection wealth, etc.

It's just too ingrained in our primitive morality to view these as acceptable. And I think that stems from another hypothesis from Hanson, in his blog post "Inequality talk is about grabbing" -- basically that we focus on monetary redistribution instead of say sex experience redistribution because we believe it's easier for us to use coalition politics to take what we want in terms of money, whereas we less believe it would work for sex, and for some other things, like, say, true love redistribution, we could not really even know if we were successfully grabbing what we wanted.
I believe the problem is that it's a section of a 3d ring structure wrapped around a cylinder without the accompanying text highlighting that fact.
The repo migration functionality is also super flimsy.
As a contractor for the last 6 years in London, I have never seen a day rate prorated. The hours of various companies change which does end up with the same result in a way but the actual amount should be defined by you.
Modernize libdispatch for Swift 3 naming conventions
The problem with Electron isn't just the fact that it's browser based. It's that it's a different browser. If I run slack, spotify, atom, and an actual browser all at once, my computer is going to slow to a halt. What electron needs is some way to run in concert with my actual browser, or some kind of hub process that coordinates them to reduce the absurd memory and disk space footprint.
Being able to license them a patent provides a greater incentive to make that investment.

In theory. But that's not the only way things can play out. It's just as likely that if such an innovation is offered freely to everyone, that everyone will feel compelled to adopt it, exactly because of the fear that their competitors will. And nobody wants to get left behind.

Given that it's basically impossible to know how a given scenario will play out ahead of time, I don't buy this whole "grant patents on government sponsored developments and then sell them" based on some hypothetical scenario that lacks any real justification.
Or LISP.
Yes, men can be harassed by women. That doesn't mean that sexism isn't still a major problem, even in 2016.
The show must go on.
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good point. what do people do for themes and styles in QML?
Looks good, though no category for .NET? Would've thought that would be an in-demand skill in London.
> given how well most poeple think they recognize "native" widgets in mobile

Every time I've opened a Cordova app I haven't known it was done in Cordova, but immediately thought the app was acting very oddly. Checked the source and yeah, there it is. Cordova.

That's not to say that every Cordova app is bad, I'm sure there some that work well, and if I had a need for any of the example apps in their showcase[0] I would have already tested some. HTML5 performance isn't so much the issue as the implementation of the wrapper. Electron stands as a testimonial to the capability of web technologies as an application platform, it's the history of Cordova applications, even in the last month I have tested an up to date Cordova app, and it just doesn't hold up to the hype. And I'm someone who really wants cross-platform web-based development on mobiles to be great.
> Not all of these people are capable of being even minimally productive

IQ is a horrible indicator, and while influenced by genes, it is also biased by a number of factors, including upbringing environment.

As the son of a teacher, I refuse to accept the notion that our "dumbest" folks aren't capable of learning great things. It's attitudes like the one you're presenting that keep these folks down in the dirt. "They just aren't capable of complicated things!"... what hogwash. Even a person with diagnosed learning disabilities can accomplish great tasks given the proper guidance and training. You would have us just give up on them!

The devil in me questions the point of life if you just sit around and exist... nothing more.

I think we need to agree to disagree here.
The fad when I was taking CS 101 in 1985 was "program verification", so the first thing they taught all the freshmen was "programming calculus" [1], to write code in a stripped down "CF Pascal" dialect, along with proofs of its correctness.

I suspect the real reason was to weed out as many people as possible from perusing a degree in CS, because at the time everybody was signing up for CS because they thought it was the ticket to make lots of money.

If you didn't already have practical programming experience, you were fucked, because you had no frame of reference for what the proofs they wanted you to write were about.

If you already knew how to program, it was frustrating and useless, because you already had an intuitive understanding of the concepts they were trying to teach, but you'd never actually use those "programming calculus" proof techniques in real life -- the scope of the proofs was microscopically small, and couldn't scale to real-world non-trivial problems.

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/proceedings/P39....
As someone paid to do such looking for the past decade I can assure you that both econometric and market series' are subject to periodic, as well as quasiperiodic, chaotic, and exogenous forcing functions. Everything looks like white noise when your eyes are closed.
> similarly why shouldn't everyone learn basic science, economics, or civics

We already teach those things to every child in the US. Whether or not they pay attention is something we have less control over. The vast majority of students do not have any opportunity to learn to program.
Some trivia. "Ñ" is/was a shorthand for "nn" or "nh". Basically some lazy monks didn't want to write out a full extra letter.
Most of those config errors are router configurations, it's hard to disrupt that because it is tied to the hardware. As a networking guy, I'm not surprised either. Cisco's interface is really awful and they have no interest in making it better. They make tons of money selling expensive courses and certifications. There is very little sanity checking in the interface which makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
Imagine the potential global financial impact of all of the visitors (and athletes) contracting Zika and bring that home with them to spread.

Tough call...
The world's top university? Thanks for the memo.
As someone with zero previous experience who attended an 8-month "Software Developer" program (not at a bootcamp but at a locally well-known public school in Vancouver) 2 years ago, for the hyped-up reasons the author mentions in the article (job availability, the "cool dynamic startup" factor, flexibility), I certainly agree with the premise that coding is simply not as easy as some people advertise it to be, and is not for everyone.

Now in a Junior Dev role working on complex ETL applications for the last year and half, I certainly feel like I am running on thin ice in my role due to my lack of knowledge about data structures, algorithms, and general computer science basics.

Certainly, the internet offers many resources for the right learner, but for those like myself who are not particularly gifted individuals, it would take another number of years to think about calling myself a "software developer" instead of a "coding technician".
It is created with 0666 as the mode. https://github.com/allwinner-zh/linux-3.4-sunxi/blob/A83T/ar...
He said in a dodgy area.

Pray tell what is this magical city you live in that does not have a single dodgy area.
Sorry it's too late, I already migrated to bitbucket 6 months ago.
Interesting. I'll ask around about that.

However, I think it's fair to say that a rudimentary system like this one is scripted, and is not tuned to the informal and complicated contexts you describe. You can argue that it's fair game to pre-program the device to emit "Lemelson" for #L, just as you might prepare an interpreter with proper nouns before a gig, but I think it goes against the spirit of the claims made in the video.
YunoJuno does this.
No, the implication is that if the rules of community are no personal attacks, making those personal attacks in another venue where it's still clearly and identifiably about the community/member is still a violation of the rules of community.
Also PHP still powers much of the web and has taken a step forward with PHP 7 which seems to run a good bit faster than Ruby and the like.
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Just as you interpret it a certain way, I'm willing to bet a lot of people are interpreting it as "learn software, make millions!" as well.
The author of this article is as much as admitting he was expecting strong reactions from the post title. I believe we should remove this click-bait headlined article from this (mostly) non-polarized place.
> Right now even whiff of support for Trump is toxic

This is why he's winning. People are fed up with the PC police and their purging of anyone with "toxic" ideas.
If by dodgy you mean areas where people regularly steal and harass, then no, we don't.
Well, the fair outcome would be that Tokyo was cancelled altogether, if the allegations of corruptions [1] are true.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/11/tokyo-olympics...
I'm not directly comparing, only highlighting the step issue.

To me, give a per user or private repo cost. Allow the customer to choose between user or repo model, each addition costs a single fixed unit. Simple!
His money speaks louder and boosts his credibility more than do your misinterpretations.
Communication overhead (which could be reduced with some additional caching client-side) is not the only source of the lag. User interface is a problem too. Sure, with enough work you may be able to overcome the problem in this (and similar) cases - but web apps are usually developed around a particular style, which involves AJAXing around way too much data way too often.
Sanders believers are the new Rand Paul believers of this election cycle.
I wrote (C#) desktop apps for several years that did manufacturing QA analytics. We went the desktop route because 1) UI development was faster for us (C# vs. jQuery) and 2) Users wanted to interact with Excel in real time (e.g. export).

My experience when I went to look for a job was that I got about 10 interviews and was turned down for all of them because I didn't know about JavaScript, Distributed systems (e.g. load balancers, HTTP caching), WebSockets, deployment pipelines, web services, etc. Don't get my wrong I spent a lot of time reading about all these types of things but until I built an actual API/website it was hard to answer questions about them.
That's a tautology because it's the only language that runs in a browser.
Oh? Which "them" were you referring to when you said "stop using language like 'SJW' that is designed to turn them off completely" then?
I've used Bitbucket in the past. They charge per-user[1], and their pricing is significantly better free for 5 users and then once you eclipse 5 users it's $1/user up to 100 users and then $200 for unlimited users.

[1] - https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing
At the macro-level, sure. That's one effect. At the micro (?) level, there's an interesting effect where stands of trees (and rain forests) will emit cooling aerosols directly into their canopy. Pretty cool!
Trends in Educational Attainment in the U.S. Labor Force
What is up with this Reddit-like trend towards drama and immature posts on HN? I don't come on here to see this kind of junk, I come on here to find informative posts on topics surrounding tech. I don't care about your beef with patio11. Hell, I don't even care who you two are. Please stop polluting this site with meta posts that reference each other, which encourages less useful information and more clutter on here.
I am mixed about this whole episode, at one level there is bias against developing countries. On the other end, Brazil did not do any favors for itself, with zika, political turmoil etc. But they did pull of a FIFA world cup, so I am a bit more optimistic.
No, I'm saying that plastic hammers shouldn't be sold in hardware stores, and also that trying to push plastic hammers on normal users and $10 hammers on power users is a very bad trend.
In the example you provide, you are trusting google in the same way you are trusting every SSL cert authority. What you are responding to is a reference to the signing of the APK, which is not (and cannot be) done by google even if the security of the transport layer is compromised.
It is reverse engineering. It's just easy reverse engineering.
A daily rate is usually for a "professional day" and not prorated. If they're paying £600 and up, you're going to be going 60+ hour weeks.
Thank you all for your feedback this was great!
Wikipedia lists the only previously cancelled Olympics as 1916 (WWI) and 1940 and 1944 (WWII).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cancelled_Olympic_Gam...
I'm in the same boat. I've tried it out a few times and it's always a crashy mess. I want to like it, but the project seems to have been abandoned in a barely usable state.
Did a teen discover a lost Mayan city? Not exactly
You are doing it wrong. Every hedge should have positive carry.
You might want to look into https://github.com/etsy/hound if you ever want to search. I found this superior to Github as well if I want to find all repos that reference something.
How often have online Journalists exposed as in first reported corruption among powerful well connected people in the US?

That's the single most important function of the free press and they more or less stopped.

Losing celebrity gossip, reworded press releases, and vastly misinterpreted scientific research is not a sacrifice we should care about.
Se also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_resuscitate
Yes they are trying to create more cheap labor and yes they are trying to eliminate well paying programming jobs. This has been the goal of business from the start not just for programming.
I would love to see more cheap labor domestically. I'm tired of work being shipped offshore to come back broken and barely functional simply because it is cheaper. At least maybe we could ship it around the country.
Business will continue to try and assembly line all processes including programming. I've had to learn to live with that and I think we all will have to as well.
Never heard os spike. Most certainly looking that up. That's k you.
I think if the guy in question had been a long time or otherwise indispensable employee, this would be the right course of action. However, OP said he was just hired. In that case, it's probably easier just to fire him.
Local man who claims he invented e-mail sues Gawker, which says he didn't
Under USSR rule, many cities like St Petersburg were extremely safe and children would roam the streets even at night.
I like Elixir quite a bit, and it doesn't have a strong type system. The pattern matching removes a lot of the pain of weak types.
Just dive into it. After wanting to be a bit more descriptive and assertive about the input and output of certain functions in some code I was writing, I must have spent all of half an hour reading documentation and successfully adding Schema to my code. Might be a bit of a rose-tinted memory here in respect to the pastimate :) But it certainly is both easy to understand and use.
Why is the FINANCIAL impact the biggest one to be considered?
Brazilian here, Ive been in Rio a couple of times (living in Sao Paulo right now, who also has problems w/Aedes Aegypti):

Come to Brazil if you wish, but take care. The Aedes Aegypti mosquito is all around and can spread not only Zika, but Chikungunya (kindly named "chico cunha") and Dengue.

Make good use of insect repellent, watch your stuff when walking on beaches (don't forget robbers and thieves) and think twice about trusting someone.

As someone said before, every city in the world has its problems and brazilian cities have them also.

Personally, I will not go to Olympics just because hotel prices on Rio skyrocketed and are almost impractical.
Ask HN: Are you still using AWS SimpleDB for the project you are starting newly?
Amazon stopped the further improvement of SimpleDB few years back. It is advised to use to use DynamoDB going forward.

Still I am using SimpleDB over DynamoDB for some of the projects due one (or few) of the following reason(s)
1) Only a few users are needed to access the developed app. The total database size is not expected to grow more than few GB and small transactions per day
2) It is a hobby (or personal/side) project and not interested in spend time on configuring DynamoDB and also paying for read/write capacity

Do you still prefer SimpleDB for the projects you are starting newly? If so why you preferred it over DynamoDB?

Also, I remember reading somewhere that SimpleDB is cost-effective for storing logs? Do you think so?
> At CoreOS Fest, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel, declares that almost all bugs can be security issues.

That sounds like the opposite of Linus' thinking, which is "security bugs are no worse than any other type of bug."

They may sound similar, but one implies that most bugs can be dangerous, while the other implies that security bugs are not dangerous.
The demographic cycle compels a bottom in person ratios around 2024, but markets are front-running machines, so, no, not much longer.
Ugh, sorry, accidentally down voted your comment. Stupid tiny interface on iPad.
Somebody should talk to the OP's mother about cryonics.
I just looked it up again, they changed the name to Visual Studio Team Services which makes much more sense.

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-team-ser...
I think most people would have a hard time accepting active euthanasia one the basis of documents prepared in the past, particularly when you consider the significant possibility of duress, forgery, etc.
I'm not sure about the tone of that message, but I have lived in several cities where this was the case: Oslo, Singapore, Helsinki, Stockholm come to mind as places where even “dodgy” areas have had until recently very little instances of systematic robberies.
Summer intern for highschoolers == spend your commitment free life doing tutorials online and learning how to code!!
So does "fold" just mean "times"? I always thought it meant 2^x times.
A day in the life of a startup (time-tracking)
The one thing that holds me back is the pull nature of Prometheus. We are pushing metrics already, so moving to a pull model feels like a return to the 20th century.
No. That would be illegal manipulation, and he is not that dumb.
Serious question: Has anyone seen an article or study about the microcephaly effects on pregnancy where the main population studied was not in brazil?

I have yet to see a study that links it to microcephaly for anyone who has not been in brazil for a long time.
I realize the mosquito isn't common, but brazil also does things like: "secretly spray tons and tons of pesticide on their populus", etc.

Given these are all correlative studies, i'd love to see something from a country where there aren't a ton of possible other variables.

(especially given zika has been around and even common forever and it's only now that this seems to be an issue)

You know, before the tourism economies of all of these other countries are completely destroyed.
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I suspect no one will post any jobs targeting high school students. If you want to get something, I suggest finding a list of startups in the area and email them individually, listing the things you've built.
I'm curious how you came up with these years.