skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No idea, I don't think cold calling people about a job meets any advertising requirement (which on further looking actually looks like it's related to sponsoring a green card application, not an H1B).

Perhaps, they're phishing for more information to target scams? I've heard the IRS scams are more effective against immigrants, for example. The caller may not realize that's the purpose for the call.

Could also just be annoy 1000 people, get one positive response, and that's good enough?
sweeeet thanks.

do people usually do this directly on their FIOS router or is it easier to get a separate wifi router?
Lying to your customers to make yourself look better is malice. "Lazy programmer" excuse is just as shitty as "rogue engineer". Who is in charge of QA and feature testing? "That sounds hard to implement correctly, let's lie instead."
No Man's Sky Delayed Until August
331/360 of the most popular repos on pypi supports py3 http://py3readiness.org/.

Also python 3 support is increasing, while python 2 support is decreasing overall https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/0...
GigiHadid.com left to expire and sells on Go Daddy
That sounds like a pain, on the other hand, I don't think it really matches any reasonable definition of 'monoculture'. And I'd guess I'm in a majority that's ok with the Department of VA (or of Agriculture or Housing and Urban Development, etc) not inventing their own crypto practices and standards.
Check out pg's (the creator of this site) own submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg

The first page alone includes articles on the migration of monarch butterflies, boardinghouses, income taxes by US counties, doodles by medieval kids, health benefits of eating nuts, and more.
There's still a pretty good distinction here. The baseline pressure actually changing vs. the pressure rising and falling every 4 seconds over and over.
No, she was just trying to get ahold of anyone, so she continued calling numbers down the list. She being my father's boss.
Out of curiosity, how do you take the modulo of an (English) argument?
> China's economic output likely will surpass the U.S.'s in the next decade.

That's not going to happen. China is replicating the Japan scenario. This is not only peak fear over China, but it's also peak China when it comes to their partially fake economic boom (fueled by the greatest debt binge in world history).

The US now has an $18 trillion economy. China is nearing $11 trillion.

It makes no sense to do this, but I'll do it for convenience - let's assume China never has a recession or depression (given their economic mismanagement since the easy growth faded, that's laughable, but anyway).

China grows at 4% for 30 years. The US grows at 2% for 30 years. The US ends up at ~$32 trillion. China ends up at ~$35 trillion. That's China's best case scenario, and it takes them three decades just to catch the US. The far more likely scenario is China has 20 years of stagnation as they struggle to claw their way out of extraordinary sums of debt, defaults, bankruptcies, vast unemployment and broad economic mismanagement under a failed central planner system - not to mention China has half a billion subsistence farmers that will never see their standard of living climb meaningfully in real terms because China has no jobs for them (and the robotic / AI revolution will guarantee they never have jobs), those people will not be very happy over the next 30 years.
oh you configure the fios router to use that as your dns:

https://pi-hole.net/faq/can-i-set-the-pi-hole-to-be-the-dns-...

good stuff
This is tricking you into staying on the page, pursuing a route that may or may not be in your best interest.
You mean the same Ether that has fallen ~ 30% in the last week?
I prefer Takachi enclosure. Some of their plastic is translucent so your LEDs will shine through the enclosure. You can see an example here: https://hackaday.io/project/6357/gallery#67d3556e38f0b46c486...
I really don't understand your comment. Is it sarcastic? And what would the new abacus do? Which kind of people?
Renames are one reason why code I write in Python have way more unit tests then code I write in Scala. I think the end result of well unit tested Python is better than lazy tested Scala...
The headline is wildly inaccurate, and the article papers over huge problems. They did not build a translation device.

For one thing, ASL has certain morphemes that are expressed through use of external objects, facial expressions, etc. Things other than hands.

Another, bigger problem is that ASL is not English. You can't just take a word, translate it into a different language and assume you have a valid sentence in the target language.

There is a very detailed explanation written in this letter [1], by the linguistics department of UW. That is in contrast to the press office of UW. Among other things: [...] Deaf signers who have viewed the demonstration video of SignAloud do not recognize what is being demonstrated as ASL: [...]

Unfortunately (IMHO) this letter[1] got mixed with a lot of politics in it, but the technical aspect is solid.

[1] https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/file/download/5c706e255e89...
Trolling is a good way to induce the sort of cognitive dissonance that changes minds. Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' is an exemplar of this.
I would recommend the ESP8266, which is a much better microcontroller, with integrated wifi and a price tag of only $2. It runs Lua, C, Javascript and, most recently, MicroPython.
Same here, I got one, it broke, got it replaced, and the replacement broke. At that point I just gave up, but my spouse has gone through about five of them. To be fair they do keep replacing them, but it has to be just about the worst quality product of anything on the market.
Don't forget that people do not want to work after reaching 60-70...
I'm aware that most subdisciplines of physics and CS are sympathetic to arXiv, but that is most certainly not the case in bio and chemistry, although the rise of biorxiv may start changing things.
Don't really like the tone of this, they are resorting to psychologically tactics now? (btw, I'm all in for pushing Py3)
I think we still have some cultural inertia such that things like high-speed internet and cell service are seen as luxuries and not basic infrastructure (plus some who believe that the poor ought to be excluded from using basic infrastructure anyway). I'm also not convinced that Capitol Hill has fully realized that Comcast isn't competing with rabbit ears anymore.
Search do pictures of goats on New Zealand farms. Looks like a good life to me. Checkout the grass.
> lol... every triathlete is "pretty competitive”

I think the only uncompetitive triathlete is someone who goes for a ride, takes a tumble into a wet ditch, and has to walk their bike back onto the road.

Every single triathlete I’ve met has been fixated on gear, performance, and age-group rankings.
Admirals (ranks O-7 through O-10) are a subset of flag officers in that flag officer is generic for admirals and generals both.

As some others have mentioned, there are joint billets that don't count against these quotas. DIRNSA is one example, and one with some name recognition perhaps. Currently it's Admiral Rogers, though another recent person in this billet was General Alexander. NATO commands like SACEUR are another place where you'd find flag officers not included in these quotas.
To answer your question about the difference between "clinical grade" and "consumer grade" hardware, consider [1] - where FitBit-measured heartrates differed from actual heartrates by about 30bpm. As a doctor I looked into getting a fitbit but realised they could not live up to the ideal of heartrate tracking that I wanted.

To be fair this is a hard problem. Even the pulse oximeters we use in our hospitals have a hard time picking up certain heart rhythms. The only way to be sure is to get an ECG done!

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12086337/Fitbit-h...
What evidence is that. The evidence in my town is that the city can't walk and chew gum at the same time. I have zero confidence they could operate a broadband utility with anything approaching competence.

Municipal broadband just replaces one monopoly with another -- one that doesn't even have profit as a requirement, since it is also a taxing authority.
Hmm, I like my UP2. I have no idea how accurate it is, but it's not bad as a better quality pedometer, considering what I paid for it ( < $100 ). I mostly use it for hiking or when I'm on vacation, hoofing it around European cities.
most libertarian conservatives are

I don't quite get this.

What do you mean by "libertarian conservative", and where do you get the idea that most are racist? Libertarians and conservatives might superficially seem to be aligned in many ways, but when you look at it, libertarians align with liberals in just as many ways... so "libertarian conservative" isn't really a meaningful term in the strict sense.

I guess you could say "conservative with some libertarian tendencies", but anyone who is actually a libertarian is pretty much not racist by definition, given that libertarianism is a pretty much a radically individualistic ideology in which skin color, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, etc. play no role at all.
Versioning APIs
No problem; I'm glad it was helpful.
Another trick, which can be used in some games such as Doom 64, is to reset the neutral position such that down is neutral, so up is 2x speed.
So basically they didn't understand what was being signalled? If they did and it would actually take a new "bridge sign landuage" that would be easy to translate and the device would be easily accessible (cheap and open source), then I guess it would be worth it.

Fun fact: In Poland, there are two sign languages used: Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) [1] and Signed Polish (język migany) or System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Sign_Language
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_Polish
Yeah, I empathise with you. Once the crystal embedded in your palm starts flashing red(1), nobody in the industry even wants to acknowledge your existence, let alone your experience. I have a youthful voice and went to university for CompSci long after graduating from a technical high school, so when I show up for the in-person interview, the atmosphere often gets sucked out of the room.

The absolute worst experience was a technical phone interview that was going very well, I thought I connected with the interviewer(2). So I was shocked after being complimented on the breadth and depth of knowledge I had, near the end of a 45 minute conversation, there was a pause and he asked "so, when did you graduate from high school?" Needless to say, the tone changed somewhat and I didn't get the in-person interview for the position that "wasn't really a good fit for me," and he, "wasn't really sure [we're] going to actually fill this position," forgetting that he earlier said he wanted someone as soon as possible.

(1) See Logan's Run -- it's a documentary about the Bay area companies' solution for aging software engineers. /s
(2) And I knew him, but only in the sense I knew him from several mailing lists stretching back to the days of USENET as a knowledgeable, respectable guy with a good reputation.

TL;DR ageism is a thing everywhere.
Of course any exercise is better than nothing, but I think the current thinking is that getting the heart rate up is what matters most.

So doing less steps that get your heart rate up would have more effect than more steps without elevated heart rate.
Getting tired of this topic. Most scientists do their best. Considering that most make 50K or less and toil for years on individual projects hoping for a single publication I think the public should realize they are getting a pretty good deal for their relatively insignificant investment. Contrast this with how else money is spent in the world, $300B on some military plane that never makes it out of the hangar, or the top 0.1% who regularly steal your money in one form or another, I'd say we are spending too much fighting the (minor) battle, but losing the war.

Also, look at the figures. Pretty ironic that the headlines speak to crisis, but figure 2 shows that for most fields, scientists think the majority of published research is reproducible. So yeah. If you have ever done research, and I have ~20 years and am now a professor at a top US university, you will see that there is good faith effort by the vast majority of scientists. In fact, most scientists I've come across are pathologically concerned by being right. Remember, the people who do science are those who cared to get those pesky arbitrary things called "good grades" in their classes. They care, ALOT.
I know someone with 4TB of textbooks and course lectures.

Heh, is your friend me? :-) OK, not sure if I have 4TB of stuff or not, but if I totalled up all the books, videos, etc. I have downloaded and stored here and there, I'm pretty sure it's in the TB range. The most frustrating part, to me, is the lack of time to read/study everything I want to study. I think that's one reason the Coursera classes work so well for me - they force me to pick something and focus on it to (near) exclusion for a defined period of time. Otherwise, I tend to wander around a bit too much. :-(
You're right about everything except the demographic crisis.

There is no crisis, and there is not going to be a crisis. That premise is identical in concept, funny enough, to why the malthusians were wrong.

Robotics / greater automation + basic AI will more than dramatically take the place of the lost productivity from declining populations. Declining populations are not going to be a threat over the next century, not at all.

Japan and Germany should be cheering peak population. The inbound robotic boom is going to provide an extraordinary bounty for the remaining population, as productivity and GDP per capita soars in advanced nations. The absolute last thing any nation should want at this inflection point is more people.
This again? Python 2.7 is never going away, no matter how much people wish it did. Python is the Cobol/Java of dynamic languages. There is way too much volume of code written in it. This means there is a golden consulting opportunity for those willing to take it: support 2.7 code/libraries for money.
There are several reasons for the dying popularity of Persian carpets

1.Changes in tastes: beautiful though they are, they do not go with much of what passes for modern decor

2.The availability of substitutes: many other alternatives are available, including Finnish, Swedish, Danish,German, Indian, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chinese carpets.

3.Concerns about authenticity. Was that "Persian carpet" made in Iran or in Turkey or in China ?

4. Transaction costs: carpet dealers in local shopping malls vary from dodgy to very dodgy. Some of them have had "going out of business sale" signs up for years. I know that they will try and rip me off. I do not want to waste time bargaining with them and trying to spot the genuine items in their stock.As for learning about knot-per-inch and all the terminology that goes with it, heck it is just something to put on my floor.

5. Here is a typical ad:
"Retail Price: $7836
Online Discount Price: $3134
Price After Extra 50% Off: $1567"

What is a fair price for this ? 1567 ? 567 ? 67 ?
What does this even mean ?
Sure sounds dodgy.
The Microsoft Band 2 is actually extremely nice. It isn't tied down by being forced to run Android Wear or Apple Watch OS or Samsung Gear, and instead runs "Microsoft Wearables" which is closer in design and lightness to the kind of realtime OS design you see in Pebbles.

It has decent battery life (48h claimed, meets the requirement of >24h real world, but not >7 days real world), it is physically small and light, but is also a typical smartwatch.

It has the right blend of both being an activity tracker and a smartwatch, but the only reason I won't buy one is it is insufficiently water proof. The only devices that will survive true day to day wear are currently being made by Garmin. Nothing that Fitbit or Jawbone makes is beyond IPX7, and all of Garmin's stuff (coming from the professional competition device pedigree that they do) has actual water rating marks (at least 50 meters, some models exceed that).

So yeah, I've been recommending Garmin gizmos lately. Vivofit 3, $99 without heart rate tracking, battery life of a year with a standard coin battery, or Vivosmart HR, $149, battery life of 5 days, has heart rate tracking, both support Garmin Connect, thus every major app and ecosystem.
Someone I know in Chicago with 2 years post-school experience has entertained several offers in the 90k range for front-end dev positions this past year, and this is with a 2-year degree. I assumed back-end/compsci grads were pulling much higher than that, am I missing something?
Opting out in your reddit preferences would be ok if it was possible...
"That we don't know what the hell we're talking about."
Might this not simply have been made by someone who is tired of having to deal with Python 2?
You must be new to crypto currencies
The EU telecom market is just as horrible, most countries have only 1-2 "true" ISP's with actual infrastructure to their subscribers and 2-3 cell providers the rest are ISP's that rent fibers/coax access and MVNOs.

Setting up infrastructure is extremely expensive especially in cities where allot of the European population lives.
The US has a different problem where only 4% of the population lives in a major cities so ISP's have to lay allot of infrastructure and historically the more or less remain around their original starting zones and creep out very slowly.

Fiber/Coax infrastructure in the US should be done on a state and municipal levels and then offered to ISP's at a fixed price to recoup the costs via a tender based on the cost to the end consumer
The fact that I didn't immediately see the skip link on the screenshot says something, though.
Map of decentralized transaction ledgers (Cryptocurrency 2.0)
What is the proper function of government?
This makes no sense. A "tide" just happens, it doesn't get "created" or "caused" by anyone, which is the case for public scientific research.

It's an analogy, and all analogies are somewhat flawed. The point is, increasing the overall pool of scientific knowledge throughout the world makes life better for everybody in the long run. I mean, if somebody in Botswana invents the first viable fusion reactor, and publishes a paper for free, maybe Botswana as a country won't get "oil country rich" off of it. But as cheap, plentiful electricity spreads around the world, everybody, everywhere, will have a better life as a result. That's what I mean by "a rising tide lifts all boats".

It's the same reason we have things such as patents. So as to reward individuals and groups that create something new. They then get exclusive rights to the profits/benefits that such an invention creates. Yet somehow if it applies to nation states, that no longer holds?

You're asking the wrong person, because I am opposed to patents in general. shrug
It's almost like there can be different reasons for behaviors that seem parallel on the micro level...
I understand what you're saying but it's not the case in my specific situation. We're all developers within the same field of expertise and know what we're working with. Some of the code does require clever solutions, but we try to make it as understandable as possible and document the obscure things. This guy however would just disregard all that, implement clever but convoluted solutions to problems and all he would offer as an explanation was "trust me guys, this is how it's done." And that would be all.
Seconded. If this guy really wrote good stuff then this is a great learning opportunity. If you have some way to contact him even moreso. He may not be the type of person who can easily summarize or teach someone new to the codebase, but I bet if you read through it, got to know the problem and had specific questions about details of his approach, he would be more than able to discuss it with you. Often this kind of personality enjoys sharing their thoughts, they just don't enjoy spending lots of time getting someone up to speed from ground zero. But putting in the hours to grok the code might put you in a good position to have productive conversations.
Goat curry, yum :)
urlfilter.ini is even better, less resources
> I can’t overbuild another cable company, because then I could never buy it, because you always block those

I'll buy that. For a dollar.
I'm assuming the conditions currently occurring at Reddit would make any investor dissatisfied. Stemming from a mix of seemingly negative public opinion, seemingly rushed or short-sighted monetization strategies, and technical challenges.

Articles like this [1] seem to indicate tension between the board and leadership. I assume when any such tensions become public that they are larger in reality then they first appear, because normally such tensions remain private. Though in this case it may just be Wong's and Reddit's board's personality to be more open about such things.

It's pretty liberal for me to make these assumptions, granted. And I've made like a dozen comments on this thread mostly because:

A) my procrastination is terrible today and

B) I'm a rabid Reddit user and usually speak up whenever it comes up on Hacker News, I'm not be trying to gun down the company's throat I promise, just trying to engage in a critical discussion.

I would change extremely dissatisfied to dissatisfied though, but the edit option isn't appearing to me right now (time limit or "tree-weight" I guess).

[1]:http://gawker.com/former-reddit-ceo-youre-all-screwed-171790...
Sanders: 'Terrible idea' to turn to Biden if Clinton is indicted
This also takes a stab at explaining why cable companies do not compete with one another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso
I personally shrug it off, but I'm one of the newest guys in the team so I don't have a lot of clout to push for changes yet. Everyone else though seems to be caught into some sort of mysticism around the genius guy. Even our architect and our manager have this attitude of "we can't change this; it might look strange and we don't know why it's there, but he said that was how it had to be." It's very upsetting.
If you live in the United States it's to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Whether or not our government actually tries to achieve those goals is another question.
Ask HN: What do you strive for when you are programming?