skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of glad i used the tor browser bundle for this, pretty funny though.
Australian landlord wins landmark Airbnb case
I always wondered how Artie made a living. I'll get downvoted for this, but it's the truth.

I think my biggest problem, in my economic life, has been underestimating what people will pay for.
What does that have to do with wifi certificates?
Not yet, couple of weeks away though
Google Reports Progress on a Shortcut to Quantum Supremacy
Wow. just wow. I feel ashamed for making up my mind too quickly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11873172
Google combines two main quantum computing ideas in one computer
So tired of bootcamps. I went. It sucked. Don't go.
Google just made a leap for quantum computing
I'm loving the 10Base2 in video #3 :) Those were some great times.
Now we've just been added to another list of people that know they're on lists.
Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer
In the antitrust sense, the standard set upthread, market power requires pricing power, which inn turn requires that there is both some market demand and inefficient competition from market substitutes (which need not be identical) to constrain the monopolists ability to set prices and extract rents.
“It’s capitalism shrouded in the fake hippie rhetoric of ‘We’re making the world a better place,’ because it’s uncool to just say ‘Hey, we’re crushing it and making money.’”

One nice thing about the financial industry is that they generally seem to operate without this sort of pretext. Or the pretext is so flimsy that it's easily ignored. Or, if you're a glass-half-empty kind of person, they've lost enough of their humanity to not give a shit anymore. :/
The hotter parts for the Middle East overlap substantially with the location of valuable resources, so I don't think that would work.
I'm a cofounder at Hack Reactor, and I also attended this meeting. (Sup Gregorio!) Here's my 2c on the 3 things he says we could not agree on:

1. "All programs must report their graduation rate and what constitutes a graduate (not only their completion rate)." I can't remember this being a topic, so I feel like I must have missed something.

2. "All programs must report how many graduates are employed as full-time software developers, and separate other tech-related jobs, and non-full-time forms of employment from this metric." Gregorio is right about this: bootcamps should be transparent about this. Reasonable people can disagree about whether a bootcamp should count eg "growth hackers" in employment figures (Hack Reactor would not, per our methodology[1]) BUT bootcamps should DEFINITELY make that data available. This was shot down.

3. "All programs must make available the raw data that they used to base their metrics." Again, I can't remember when we talked about this. It's kind of a good idea, but unless you have robust non-employment data, an anonymized data dump is a csv with like 3 columns. Ours just had salaries, outcome codes, and time-to-hire (which we already published in histogram form), so we didn't bother publishing it. (Turing's has lots of fun demographic data that would be out-of-scope for an industry standard about employment.)
If you add CA certificates for the Wifi they probably (I'm not sure if you can tell it manually to not do that) are added to the system-wide trust store. IE and Chrome check that for CAs, Firefox will soon (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265113)

(all this for Windows, I believe the same is true for OS X, Linux depends on your specific your setup)
I'd back Wagtail. I had a look at both Mezzanine and Dj CMS a while ago and was relieved when I stumbled on Wagtail. Much flatter learning curve and the then recently introduced Streamfield was super helpful.

Doesn't hurt that it looks awesome as well.
First Demonstration of 10-Photon Quantum Entanglement Sets New Record
IANAL but I suspect it would be a violation of consumer laws in some jurisdictions where Tesla does business. E.g. Australia where limited/conditional warranty clauses are overridden by statutory consumer rights.
> It's definitely not vastly more work to do statistical analysis using Python Pandas than in R anymore, perhaps it was several years ago.

Haha, what? What statistics can you do in pandas? You can do some statistics in python by cobbling together stuff from scipy and statsmodels (maybe I'm out of date, is there more?). I see a few modules for regression and stuff in pandas but they are marked as deprecated. I think perhaps you and I mean different things by "statistics". R provides a vast ecosystem covering, for example

- Gold standard implementations of simulation, PDFs, quantiles of any probability distribution you can mention (in python you can find some of this in scipy; not pandas. But scipy is a real mess compared to R and not as comprehensive.)

- Gold standard implementations of any classical hypothesis test you can mention

- Gold standard implementations of computational methods for fitting generalized linear models, mixed models, frameworks for MCMC samplers, graphical models, HMMs, and a vast amount of other stuff I'm not clever enough to name right now let alone understand.

Really any statistical procedure -- whether "classical" or "modern"/"computational statistics" -- in R you will find it, and furthermore it will be basically the reference implementation / gold standard.

That's not mentioning the plotting tools and the numerical computing and clean linear algebra syntax. But that's it, no more: the people who go further and suggest using R for building a web server or web scraping or something mostly haven't used real programming languages.

You're missing the point. The python ecosystem can't compete with R on the statistics front -- it would be crazy to try. That's certainly not the aim of pandas.

> you definitely don't need to use intermediary csv files anymore to move data back and forth between R and Python.

Perhaps not, but doesn't it please you to have a well-defined interface (a serialization format) between the two languages? I haven't tried Rpy2 for years. I don't like to have two different languages get their tentacles into each other like that if I can avoid it, but I'm sure it's a good project which has its use cases.

EDIT: thanks, I hadn't seen feather. That looks like the thing to use.
Misko Hevery did a Google Tech Talk about this some years ago, he also use a very similar example with switching on the birds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F72VULWFvc
Denver and Boulder Based Tech Companies That Are Hiring
I'm rusty but, como votar por Trump si __seas__ Mexicano? Or is the eres Mexican, too?
This is part of the negative characterization of Jews, and reflects some historical truth. While German Jews were wealthier than their Polish and Russian counterparts, the majority did not fair better than their Gentile German neighbors. But the most important thing to understand for the Nazi version of jew-hate is the twinned concepts of the "Stab in the Back" Myth and "Volksgeimenschaft", the "People's Community".

Many Germans believed (wrongly) that they were winning WW1, and should have continued to fight– that they were betrayed by their (allegedly socialist, allegedly anti-German) leaders in accepting the Treaty of Versailles. This is the Stab in the Back myth.

This was blamed on the "others" in society the above poster mentioned. In particular, the Jews– in part for their perceived connection with Bolshevism and with international finance, as you mentioned. They were thus the "other" on which the very exclusionary German conception of a "People's Community" was based!

So you're on to something, but as you suggested, the above poster is pretty right. Thanks for reading!
Technically if given the choice and broad availability almost any Linux DE is less resource intensive than Windows (and uses much less disk space) so you can shave multiple kinds of bucks off the hardware costs.

There is also a real benefit to users (the kind that don't care about ethics / privacy / control of the hardware and who think they can download more ram) that Linux desktops maintain their UX very consistently. Gnome 3 changed a lot, but MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE, and LXDE all cropped up to maintain the Gnome 2 metaphor. KDE gives you the option to do almost any metaphor, but has traditionally kept the defaults the same for some ~15 years. Windows changes their task bar, start menu, system settings, browser, and file manager every other release at least.
We do the same - each of our Android and iOS developers can complete a medium complexity app in 2 months flat without any issues - Web - not so much - while initial work is done much faster - it takes ages to tackle responsiveness issues even with Bootstrap. So although our web apps are responsive - we still provide native Android and iOS apps to clients. I don't see web apps replacing native apps anytime soon.
> A moat is the trench around the outside of a castle that is often, but not always filled with s/water/alligators/.

Joking aside, that's a great way to describe the do-hard-things concept. I think the gp was more asking if that was a metaphor derived from some pg (or whoever) blog post.
The existence of classified programs that remain classified and unknown for years is evidence against this oft-used argument.
That's awesome! My school is small and doesn't have the same resources that some of the other schools do, but I'm going to push really hard to get a team started there.

I'm considering applying for the DNA Padawan internship after I graduate. Gingko Bioworks seems like a great place to work, and I bet I would learn techniques that are closer to the cutting edge than what I would learn in grad school.

I haven't tried my hand at SB yet (though I will soon!) but I suppose if I could synthesize any DNA sequence I wanted quickly and cheaply I would rely more heavily on computational intelligence approaches to come up with many solutions. Then I suppose you could print the DNA and test those solutions quickly, feed the data back to the algorithm and it would get better at designing future systems. (Computer science isn't my background, so I may have used some of those terms improperly).

Thanks for the reply randomscientist, you've made one (hopefully) future iGEMer really happy.
No, it sounds like a means to prevent them from becoming obligated to perform out of warranty repairs for free.

Suppressing reports to federal regulators was almost certainly not the intent, since the vast majority of cars will be under warranty (meaning they can't use NDAs).

This article seems incredibly biased, selling NDAs on people who are out of warranty as NDAs on people who have some specific problem. Adding in a shield to make their already really low occurrences of fires even lower, while implying (falsely as far as I know) that this was required. Etc.
> It's unconscionable to require a NDA as a condition to performing warranty work.

It isn't warranty work. It's out of warranty work. Any other company would tell you to get lost and wouldn't repair squat.

> I don't understand why you would want to be an apologist for Tesla.

Because of mis-information found in posts like yours. Tesla does plenty of shitty things, but the amount of lies out there about Tesla is incredible.
Show HN: I started to redesign Pied Piper
In a first, Iceland power plant turns carbon emissions to stone
>Major League Baseball's drug investigation that saw New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez suspended in 2014

I looked this up. Seems to be in the US, and also, it's just some guy using personal drugs, albeit for profit. Shouldn't even be an offense, let alone something for police to "kick ass" in.
Nah. Maker, hacker, geek, sure. But nerd is still nerd. I may well go so far as to say that geek was "introduced" so as to allow people to be interested in computers (or more correctly, web/game design) without being boxed in with "the nerds" in the computer lab.

Or it may be that it is cool to "nerd out" about fashion, sports, or anything not historically associated with the term nerd.
Veterans who have spoken out about brashness, him being socially clumsy, him being an asshole.

There are as of yet unsubstantiated, uncorroborated & unverified stories.
When Pigs Fly: Factory farms and air travel form a viral expressway to pandemics
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.0.3 released
Medium’s engineering interview process Engineering
A Power Plant in Iceland Has Turned Its CO2 into Stone
Command and Conquer, followed by Starcraft here.

Also, one of the early GTAs had networked multiplayer, and I remember doing a fair bit of that when I was younger.
I used to play Warcraft II in LAN parties during college.

But now I play Euro board games... JUST AS GOOD! Agricola anyone?
Yeah i think games with integrated voip kinda killed the need to share a room to coordinate.

That said, i think the jocks were more into the "reflex" games like shooters and real time strategy. Sit them down with a slower paced game and they would riot.

Likely why we are seeing more and more online games that used to be somewhat slower paced introduce more and more "twitch" mechanics to placate the jocks.
Thankfully, with the exception of PR, I loathe all the things in #2. I'll do them when I have to, but that's it.

Of course, it's REALLY hard to do PR when you don't have a product people love, really easy once you've got that. Keeping it fresh and top of mind is a challenge for many founders though.
I think the reliability of the current Model S could be a major problem - there's a good reason Consumer Reports took away their recommended rating on it even after their testers absolutely loved the car. Sure, they're fixing everything for free right now, but wait and see what happens with the Model 3, it'll be more mass market and we'll get a good sense of what they can really produce.
We're mis-communicating, sorry. I agree with you. I really like Uber, hate old taxis for the reasons you say, and don't like Lyft because they force me to think about tipping and I think tipping is a nasty way to give everyone people a little moment of power where they can judge someone else's monetary worth.

By fantastic experience I meant bottled water and stuff. It seems that we agree that the main things are: reliable, easy to book, no messing about with money or tips.
When I was a senior in high school, Cisco offered their NetAcademy program to a few high schools around the nation. It was a pretty sweet deal: for a relatively small price, you could earn your CCNA as an optional elective. You had to get approval to take the class; basically, the 10 of us were the most technically minded and computer literate students in the school.

So, of course within a few weeks many of us were staying after school to use the top-of-the-line (circa 1999) computer equipment to play games. :) Half Life and the various mods (particular Action Half Life [0]) were favorites. Even the teacher eventually got in on the fun.

"You shot me! If you shoot me again I'll fail you!"

A lot of times a few folks would come over to my house in the evenings because we had a blazing fast (again, circa 1999) 128k ISDN line in the house, supposedly to do "homework" but really gaming, surfing the web, playing MUDs. Sometimes we'd kick on a movie like Army of Darkness while gaming.

Such great memories and an awesome time to be alive. I still keep up with a few folks from back then but I'd love to know what happened to everyone else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Half-Life
Cannabis delivery by a third party, i.e. not employed the by dispensary.
I loved lan parties. I hated moving my 17" CTX crt monitor to them. It was as deep as it was wide and must have weighed damn near 40 pounds.

The future ain't all bad.
My advisor occasionally kept snakes.

He asked the question "What is a random variable?" in an EE qualifying exam (not mine). The correct incantation ("A measurable function into the reals") was not heard from the candidate. A lot of other stuff was heard, at length.

The cure for this particular case of snake bite was a remedial class in measure theory.
Like the author's group of friends, mine has stopped throwing LAN parties. I think our last ones were around early WoW time.

However, large LAN parties are far from being dead. There's Dreamhack and the like, and my alma mater runs a huge 2000+ players LAN event every year (https://lanets.ca/). It seems like it's become more of a grand event, as opposed to the couple times a year gathering with a handful of friends.

As a guy in his late 20s, it's really interesting to see how gaming has evolved and democratized itself during the past couple decades.
Thanks for letting us know.
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/suspension-problem-o...
As other comments here have pointed out, that may be a faulty assumption. If nothing else, an NDA could be construed as an action to prevent an act of goodwill from being presented publicly as a tacit admission of fault. If so, it's fairly ironic that the NDA itself can be presented publicly as a tacit admission of guilt to good effect.
You think it's bad now.... wait until they're old enough to start rusting.
So do the colder parts of Canada and Russia. It's an interesting coincidence. :)

But do imagine if we had had the sense to abandon all those places a good thousand years or so before we figured that out. We'd probably be treating such land as the treaty equivalent of "international waters"—not anyone's in particular, because nobody has the resources to live there to defend it. So oil there would be treated roughly like (an easier-to-access version of) oil in the middle of the Pacific ocean, or oil in Antarctica: the subject of fraught international negotiations, perhaps able to be steamrolled by a treaty-organization like OPEC, but otherwise politically inaccessible.
Jerry Lettvin used to tell a story, to support his contention that students were no longer being taught how to think. He said there was a grad student at whose orals Jerry was one of the professors. Before the student arrived, Jerry noticed a beverage bottle sitting in a window, with the sun shining on it. He went to the window and rotated the bottle 180°, and sat down. The student came in, and Jerry asked him to examine the bottle. "Which side is warmer?" Jerry asked. The student replied that the side facing away from the window was warmer. Jerry said, "Explain this."

To my recollection, Jerry didn't relate the student's response, but from the way he told the story I gather it was unsatisfactory.
Has that ever happened in SF?
BlackBerry is a ship that can't sink fast enough. I only feel for the people who will lose their jobs (those not in upper management at least).
Sure, if by "too thin" you mean it fails under impacts from objects like concrete blocks and receiver hitches that would puncture the passenger compartment, gas tank, or probably even the oil pan of a gasoline engine.

The media loves to portray new things as dangerous. Perhaps it actually was too thin because these completely reasonable failures were able to happen, causing bad press that they ought to have guarded against with total overkill undercarriage shielding.
Yamaha does the exact thing with cracked frames. They present an NDA but if you refuse they replace it anyway, which of course is the right thing to do.
I think it is not true in this case. The thing that does telemetry in Windows is called SQM AFAIK. I think it might use ETW sometimes, but this is only one thing ETW can be used for.
> and their eyes widen as then they exclaim "Finally!"

I think you mean:

> and their eyes widen as then they exclaim "Oh my god I am such a fucking idiot."
Matrix is the protocol that Vector uses. Matrix itself is being marketed to developers to build their apps using it. Vector is aimed at end users who want a chat system, and they don't really have to know or care what Matrix is. A good analogy is Matrix : Vector :: Email : Gmail
I met a guy who was looking into a bootcamp. He was over forty.

I immediately thought, I don't care if he's the best student in the class; he probally will have a horrid time getting a job.

I don't think I've ever seen an industry that's so guilty--actually I won't say the word, but if I was offering a bootcamp, I would just mention the game is geared for youth.

I'm not saying you can't take the courses.

Actually, does anyone know anyone who has taken one one of these bootcamps, who's over forty, who got, and kept a job in tech?

(The older guys I know, interested in programming/web developement all had to work for themselfs. I know one guy who made a killing. The rest are barely supporting themselfs. None went to a bootcamp. They couldn't justify the cost. I don't know if they did the right thing, by not going to a bootcamp.)
Statutory rights are also superior to warranty disclaimers in every state of the USA, although such rights vary from state to state, and there are federal statutes as well.
Mathematics and water use in shower
Not officially, although people have started reverse-engineering the website ;).

We can get an actually supported one up officially if there's interest. Email me at xavier@whirlscape.com!
As far as I can tell, it's not an NDA to have your car fixed. The New York Times article omits some details from the original Daily Kanban article, giving a slightly different impression. Based on the original article, the NDA appears to be attached to a discount on out-of-warranty repairs.
I do this. There can be entertainment value in superstition.
I did contact their tech support people. After going through a few different contacts, they've told me to upload one of the site files so they can examine it. I'm still waiting for a response on it. I guess I'm a little confused about why I need to upload a file... It surprises me that they can't just hit the site and diagnose what is happening on their end.
In what context would his comparison of the rich 1% and the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany make sense?

You're making my point for me. If you take that statement literally, it is clearly over-the-top. There are other over-the-top statements in common use today that when taken literally would evoke extremely emotional reactions. Example: "I just went in there to talk to her and she bit my head off". If you took that literally, you might respond with horror or outrage that someone had bitten your friend's head off, and confusion over how they had their head bitten off just moments ago and yet somehow had it sewed back on in time to relay their horrific experience to you. When it came to light that your friend was referring to being yelled at and did not actually have their head bitten off, family members of individuals that have died from decapitation might organize protests against your friend for comparing being yelled at to the terrible deaths that their loved ones experienced. There would be calls for him to be fired from whatever job he had. How far should we carry this?

Tom Perkins didn't literally mean that rich people are being rounded up and killed. The PC crowd, however, apparently had nothing else to be outraged about that week, and jumped all over it, saying that he somehow considered his plight to be similar to that of Jews in Nazi Germany. His point was that the general public has an irrational hatred of the rich, just as the Nazi hatred of Jews was irrational.
Wow, excellent talk. I'm generally wary of these kinds of cosmetic changes, but the game really did look and feel so much better at the end.
I think the dichotomy is

A. Go to customer/user conferences? YES YES YES!

B. Go to startup or generic conferences? Not more than once or twice a year.

Everyone in this thread seems to be mixing up the two.

Now unless you're selling to other startups, her advice is crystal clear.
IMO, programming is learned through repeated banging your head against hard problems for a long period of time. 3 months cannot achieve this. My exp has shown me that bootcampers are well-versed in hype and have built applications under perfect conditions, which as a practice, has little value.
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