skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The collapsing comments thing is great, but what I'd really love to see is the ability to display only the top-level comments, so then I can drill down to sub-comments I'm interested in reading. Often I find that there'll be one sub-comment thread I'm not particularly interested in (e.g. discussion trails off into a completely different topic) and end up scrolling a lot to try and find the next top-level comment.
Australia has some of the best reverse engineering laws currently. Those four kids reverse the Sydney train system legally (they did responsibly disclose n such).
Have some home made dry fruits; it would be safe. Use dehydrator to make some on your own: http://www.crazysales.com.au/dehydrators/
Sometimes it is just random.
Apparently Science Channel did an episode on "MIT's work on the Apollo Guidance Computer" (episode 3):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Machines#Part_3:_the_navi...

They are available on public torrent sites.
Aside from using temp tables is there a way to assign sub-queries as a variable and refer to them later on?

completely simple and contrived for example purposes only, something like:

active_users = select * from users where user.login > 0;

select * from active_users where active_users.country is not null;

seems like that would clean up the query nesting quite a bit. Might need some kind of begin / end blocks like with transactions so the query planner would know the scope of those sub-queries.
> People here ain't gonna pay $15 to reclaim 40 minutes a month

are there no hand car washes in st. louis? a full service carwash saves about 40 minutes of labor that you can use to catch up on work or other activities, and costs about 15 bucks.

and how about a cheap lunch at the diner for 1 or 2? wouldn't that be about $15? and saves you about 40 minutes of prep, cook, and clean?

$15 in a taxi cab or uber would save you about 40 minutes of walking.
Furthermore, all companies are different. They all value different things and strengths and types of people. Getting rejected by Amazon doesn't mean you are "not the top 1%", it doesn't even mean you aren't Amazon's top 1%. It means that on that specific day, those specific people didn't think you were the specific top 1% they were looking for right then.

You might be Amazon top 1% tomorrow. You might be Facebook top 1% right now. You might have been Uber's top 1% yesterday. You might be everything a founder somewhere is looking for right this second.

Hiring is not an objective game, never read anything personal into it.
Space Is Ruining Astronauts' Eyesight
Not FUD to me. I am not going to install Pokemon Go until this is cleared up. I am glad he pointed it out, since I may have clicked through given I would have made quick judgements about them being Google-owned.
re-logging in is re-authorization
How MIT and San Francisco Are Testing a New Approach to Disaster Prep
Avast to acquire AVG for $1.3B
No idea. I get random emails from shady "meetups" and networking events too. I can't report the spam and unsub fast enough.

The recruiter spam has transcended LinkedIn too. It's mostly direct emails from recruiters. I wouldn't mind if the jobs were even slightly related to what I do. It's pretty clear I'm a designer and frontend dev, but I get spam for Java and PHP gigs all the time...
According to an update posted now on the article, the problem is only on the iOS version
"The world is full of successfully miserable people."

Up-voted so I feel less guilty stealing that phrase!
I found that basic courses on relational algebra more useful than most text books. They seem to introduce the mathematics in a more clear concise way than most SQL books.
That can't be correct. The nominal tax rate for 300K is 33%:

http://www.efile.com/tax-service/tax-calculator/tax-brackets...

California also has the highest State to Federal tax ratio which is around ~ 10% for what you describe. So your number are way off.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/state-taxes-california...
Sega wasn't losing money on the Dreamcast, but they weren't making money either. Sega's exit didn't have to do with sales; they chose to exit the console market because there was more money if they focused on games and less on hardware.
Oh yes, I remember padding the image, and Echelon, of course. I still have the tools somewhere in my backups.

You mention the read speed issues, meaning the dreamcast drive was CAV. Were all data drives of the time CAV? Are audio CD players CAV? Not some 40 second skip protection discman, but like a hifi unit from the 80s (since my naive 80s implementation would not like the data rate changing across the disc)? Does CAV vs CLV have any meaning here, or is pretty much laserdisc only terms?

All things I vaguely feel like I should know (like if all optical media has pits that are the same length across the disc. I think not, again laserdisc.) I love my dreamcast. Left one in an apartment 6 years ago when I moved out. It could be still there. Still have one.
I had some fun with Mandelbrot and Julia sets.

Mandelbrot code: https://gist.github.com/antoineMoPa/50d14faa341ab78fd06b0226...

Julia (animated):
https://gist.github.com/antoineMoPa/c41e8e57e1c1824c15c84f7a...
I am so sorry that the presumed innocent lives were lost in Dallas. Those police certainly were not acting out at the time they were killed. I grieve for their families loss. However, I remember one other time that c4 was used. Again it was used after a cop was killed and against black people. That c4 was dropped on the organization Move, here in Philadelphia. That c4 Killed men, women and children when the cops dropped it on the move house. It looked like a war zone. The media keeps saying "no presidence".
That bothers because everyone should know how that young disturbed black man died. It was a horrible death. His parents are probably lucky to get even a little part of him to bury (a tooth). He did a horrible thing, but just as the officers families, his family didn't do that horrible thing. Now it's the David Brown show but the Dallas police chief can talk and twist and try to make us say "poor,poor" him till the cows come home but he will not be able to talk away the guilt of murdering that young man like that. They say he got justice, but, whose. I am pretty sure we have not seen those buildings in that area that they killed that young man because we would be appalled at the sight of distruction. That the tax payers will have to pay for to rebuild I have little doubt.
To me, their action in bombing that black man solidifies my belief that far far too many police believe they are above the law. They become judge and jury at will. Don't make them mad, now. Find the difference between Dallas not finding a less extreme means of dealing with that situation and police, policing the neighborhoods not finding a less extreme means of dealing with interactions with people of color...I just see people dead, dead, dead as a result.
I mourn the death of all innocents in this. BLACK LIVES MATTER (for whoever doesn't get it) ALSO.
0. Find a car that has a FuelVault installed?
>In seriousness, time is the most precious resource we have. Still, I wonder if it's possible to overestimate its value.

My own 2 cents on this is not that the value of the time becomes over estimated but that people fail to extract the value of the time they "saved" by paying to have a service provided. I pay somebody to mow my lawn every week, if I spend that time hacking on a side project or being with my family then I can honestly say my time is indeed valuable and was well spent; but if I spend that time just screwing around on HN or Reddit, then I would say I wasn't honest about the value of my time and accept the fact that I paid for a service just because I'm lazy.
Same here. I guess "gotta catch 'em" all means something else in this instance
I failed unvote by tapping on collapse link
Let's remember this is the company that lobbied in Tennessee to make sharing passwords illegal and succeeded. Their words mean nothing to me. Only their actions. I think their main goal is to prevent password sharing by people that would be considered separate family or living units. Friends sharing paid accounts and such.

Remember their lobbying, though, when their spokespeople give us these assurances.
Yea I know eh? And Randleman died earlier this year too :(.

Have you heard stories of Roger Mayweather wandering around and getting lost? Hes deteriorating really fast as well.
Yes, it's fascinating. For a look at how a complex system this can be handled without computers, do some reading on how signaling and train movements were handled in the 19th Century. Pretty amazing how they were able to control continent-wide rail systems with hundreds of trains in motion at any given time, using just a telegraph wire, manual signal lanterns, slips of paper, etc... without (usually) causing any collisions.
Yes, you can do this using CTEs, i.e. WITH clause, pretty much exactly how you suggest.
Nothing new. A "comfortable middle class lifestyle" 300 years ago was probably that of a craftsman, farmer or petty merchant. Their comforts extended to a roof over their heads, usually enough food to eat, and probably being warm enough in winter. "Poverty" meant literally freezing or starving to death in a gutter.

Nowadays, "comfortable middle class lifestyle" means a 40 hour work week, and gets you a nice 4+ bedroom house with hot and cold running water, two indoor toilets, heating and air conditioning, 2+ motor vehicles, bigass television, internet, mobile phone, nice clothes, as much food as you can eat, and spare money and leisure to go on regular holidays. "Poverty" (for most of the world) is about on par with "middle class" 300 years ago. Working lots of hours, usually enough to eat, usually warm enough.

In a hundred years, "poverty" will probably mean "only has enough compute power allocated to simulate one virtual environment at a time", whereas "comfortable middle class" will be having your own actual cloud palace with stadium-sized holodeck.
I grew up reading and rereading his books in middle school. What does Orson Scott Card write about in his blogs that's so distasteful?
Not to mention a lot of the information me be lost or on archives servers/backups/tapes engineers have long forgotten about.
Why is it so difficult to measure intra-cranial pressure in space? The full spinal-tapping procedure would seem a little difficult, but not impossible on the ISS. They do send medical docs up and earth is always an hour or two away in an emergency.

There also seem a variety of more palatable methods for getting at this data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-invasive_intracranial_pres...
I got rejected at 7 final onsites before landing an offer. There is hope for you. Just keep working on projects and whiteboarding. Don't underestimate how much focused interview prep can help. Good luck!
This raises a fun question: is it possible to spoof accelerometer/gyroscope data such that it convincingly matches the corresponding movement of a spoofed GPS?
It's a form of off shoring. They create a fake shortage, lobby for more H1Bs, pay the national average for fair market, which is laughably low for the Bay Area, and there you have it. The tech shortage sponsored by Facebook...
Okay, fair. Perhaps I overreacted.

I think the general idea of adding syntax outside of declarations really rubs me the wrong way, but perhaps it shouldn't.
From jhl in the forum thread:

>I, myself, am not going to release these ROMs. This isn't the first project where I've dumped a commercial object for some other purpose and been asked to share (see: shairport, for one), and after much thought I conclude - now, as then - that it's not the right thing for me to do in any project. There are legal and professional risks which I'm just not comfortable taking. That's not negotiable.

>But that's not to say I won't help you dump it yourself. I'll have a dump feature in the cart, and I'm sure someone will rapidly archive all the available systems.
Dropbox: Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
How to Run Quake from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Because most of the cities in the US are hopeless. SF is one of the few that has anything going for it.
FWIW, having bought a bottle of the non-organic EVOO at Costco today, I can say it is labeled as if it is real.
I don't think it has much to do with genetics. You just need to develop a certain mindset. (I lean heavily on nurture) We live in a world that doesn't cherish failure... Reframe failure to mean one step closer to success. After all, not every experiment will prove your hypothesis, but if you want to make progress you have to keep trying.
> cannot put a price

is French for the demand is inelastic
I've worked at Google and Facebook and I've been rejected from almost all of the top companies at one point or another (including Google, amusingly). It really doesn't mean much other than that not all the variables lined up during that particular interview process. It happens. Don't let it get you down!
Same story here. Actually, I think all of these new features would work without JS, using just CSS, except retaining collapsed threads across page loads (although given that CSS is technically Turing complete it is probably possible if the state were persisted server-side, which you can do with an html form; personally I would just use JS and cut my hosting costs). Check out this demo of CSS-only HTML:

http://codepen.io/ekrof/pen/YqmXdQ/
I linked to that additional article as confirmation that the shooter thought that Castile looked like a robbery suspect. While the article doesn't have any direct quotes to that effect, it paraphrases him saying as much.

The claim that the shooter called in the stop before he made it is unremarkable because that's standard practice. In fact, it'd be more unusual if he hadn't called it in. Doubly so when stopping a suspected armed robber. A big reason why officers call in every stop is so that if the stop goes sideways and they are never heard from again, at least dispatch got the plate so investigators know where to begin.

I'd wager most news operations use Radio Reference these days rather than worry running all that gear and archiving all that audio themselves. Some of the relevant streams were down that night[1], probably explaining why there aren't other copies floating around.

[1] http://forums.radioreference.com/broadcastify-live-audio-lis...
They pivoted to an app which lets you say more than just Yo. Yes, really.

https://www.justyo.co
Put your phone on a turntable. If they start checking for that, a really long conveyor belt.
I dont know actually. Just go and get the grain fed. You wont regret it. Also their mac and cheese is pretty amazing. Really everything is.
That's not what it says at all. Manning dumped all kinds of unredacted, classified information on an organization that's an enemy of the United States. These actions say a random, Army private doing something that foolish and damaging will get punished severely. It's obvious that his intentional leaks of all the war files and State cables were far more severe than someone just getting email working despite policy.
Just to remove all doubts--a large part of the reason the video is there and autoplayed has a lot to do with video CPMs compared to standard display CPMs.
Peter fend – “architecture from art”
Can you also tell them to read a few Reddit threads, or Twitter? There are many, many issues which will limit the lifetime of this game.
I generally agree, but there are some cases where I've found natural language actually is the right interface. And complex interfaces with lots of touch points but a simple underlying principle seems to be that sweet spot.

For example, I exclusively use Siri to set reminders for times and places, because to do so using a typical touch interface is much more painful.

Whether or not this CAP idea will meet the bar is an open question for me.
Indeed! There are mod chips, etc. He ended up aiming for something that didn't require ripping it open and soldering.
It also ended his career...
Charles Duhigg changed my life.
You're not supposed to leave a running gas pump unattended. The auto shutoff doesn't always work.
You make 200k in income, not 300k.
Crop EMF Image and Specify Font Folder While Converting EMF to Raster Img in .NET
We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Imaging for .NET 3.7.0. The major development in this release is support for Scalable Vector Graphics image. This release allows you to Crop EMF Image. Support to specify font folder while converting EMF to raster image has also been incorporated in this release. Aspose.Imaging for .Net now supports the SVG image format (.svg). SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. Using Aspose.Imaging for .Net, developers can crop EMF metafile. Aspose.Imaging for .Net provides two different approaches for cropping image: by shifts and by rectangle. Using Aspose.Imaging for .NET API, developers can specify font folder while converting EMF to raster image. Following is the code demonstrates how to specify font folder for EMF image to PNG image. This release also introduced some important enhancements, such as Process of loading DICOM image, Processing of Horizontal and Vertical resolution values of an image and process of drawing image has been greatly improved.
Seagate Expands Job Cuts to 6,500 as PC-Component Market Suffers
With an inflatable currency, a government could always just inflate its currency in order to fairly tax everyone who holds any of it.

It's also possible to build an anonymous, auditable cryptocurrency such that a government can verify that taxes on transactions have been paid, but not not know the identities of the transactors unless they don't pay. Which is pretty neat.
Are your capabilities learned or genetic? It's the growth vs fixed mindset that so munch ink has been spilled on recently.

To read way too munch from your comment. "that sounds like a genetic advantage" is a fixed mindset way of thinking.
The latter for most of them.
Usually if you learn something that builds constructively upon who you are, then you can chalk failures up as successes. Early-stage startups very much feel this way: like a process of developing an intuition for understanding how to make something the market wants and then get it to grow. A failure-resilient mindset is actually essential if you want to go into startups. So many people test the water, get scalded, and then give up entirely, which ends up being a huge waste of time.
That was wonderful. I'd never made the connection between restarting and fixing heisenbugs: bugs that are fixed by restarting are precisely the ones that are hardest to handle otherwise, and vice versa.
I'm a post-doc still waiting to earn enough to just pay my way. Keeping up with my peers just means manage to keep my apartment.
My colleague Orta is writing an open source book on the subject: https://github.com/orta/pragmatic-testing
I would say that it strongly depends on the type of requests you are handling.

Saying that you can run a 1GB lambda for 1 month nonstop for $32 does not impress me, and its kind of strange that it impresses you.

You could run a t2.micro with the same RAM for $6/mo if you reserve it for a year. And if you want to give that t2.micro a workload where it only has to respond to 1 request at a time, the same terms we are affording the lambda system, then it's no comparison.

Now, for responding to disparate requests every once in a while? Lambda is ideal. You can spin it up and you don't have to pay when it is isn't processing requests. But continuous requests? Hard no.

We can argue that the cost overhead at full load is worth it for the ability to "infinitely" scale with no effort. Alright, that's fine. But let's not pretend that it is "cheaper".
i replied above because reply here wasn't an option after i got downvoted
https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_car...

He wrote some pretty hateful thing about queer people and gay marriage in general. But I think the worst was this, which wasn't on his blog (in the same vein, tho):

> In 2008, Card published his most controversial anti-gay screed yet, in the Mormon Times, where he argued that gay marriage “marks the end of democracy in America,” that homosexuality was a “tragic genetic mixup,” and that allowing courts to redefine marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual political rule and the classifying of anyone who disagreed as “mentally ill"
Honestly, inserting compression doesn't sound impossible. Difficult, but a few months and a team of people and it sounds achievable. Warez folks do some crazy stuff.

However, I read some forums from the time, it sounds like the results weren't great. Mainly folks notice sound triggering noticably late. So uh, Maybe instead of downsampling they built a MP3 decoder, but to use the existing system, it couldn't stream the audio, so they had to decompress the clip completely into a buffer before playback?
I think it's consistent with a reasonably just world that not all people will exercise all possible workplace benefits.
The Stress Test: Rivalries, intrigue, and fraud in the world of stem-cell research
Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
Precise genetic modifications in human embryos by CRISPR [pdf]
"Paul argues that the right name for what many are calling “Universal Basic Income” should be “the citizen’s dividend.” This concept traces back to ancient Athens, and in America to the writings of Thomas Paine. In Paine’s conception, the dividend was based on shared ownership of natural resources — and this is just what we’ve already seen done in a country like Norway, in Alaska, and in a notable experiment during the 1970s, in a small town in Manitoba."

I often describe basic income to my friends here in America as a National Inheritance earned by our forefathers for building a great and rich nation. This is to help people realize that this isn't charity..It the dividends from the stock of being an American.
I use Pinboard. FWIW, I also write one of the more popular iOS apps for it. :P

http://lionheartsw.com/software/pushpin/
The Fukushima Exclusion Zone and the town untouched since 2011
I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, but I'd like to point out that micro instances also have diminished networking (besides processing/memory). Depending on what you're doing, this could be a factor.
That sounds like it might be testable by looking at the CMB for evidence of interference with the antimatter universe. It lso looks a bit like a solution to the whole "why is there more matter than antimatter" question. That's a very interesting hypothesis you've got there. :)
Police unfortunately don't get to decide what laws to enforce. If the government decides to ban selling loose cigarettes, then police have a duty to the people to defend the laws that our democracy produces. Police are not elected legislators.

Every law ultimately rests on the police arresting you for not complying, at some point. Otherwise, the law is meaningless.

It turns out that people don't like having their freedom taken away and often fight back against the police. It's a very dangerous job.
> Poor eyesight has no adaptive benefit. Yet many, many people need glasses.

Many people... in particular industrializing countries. Our genes have a great sharp eye focusing system. You won't find much myopia in a random tribe.
Absolutely. The PSP is still my favorite way to go and play the classic PS1 games like FF7, Metal Gear Solid, etc. It really is a wonderful device, but the DRM Sony has repeatedly strengthened over the years has made using it somewhat of a gamble.

It'd be a shame if we suddenly couldn't play these classics anymore just because Sony wants us to repurchase it on Console XYZ.
The extremes values occur at Clark County, Idaho, with a normalized Gini Index of -3.056 (Gini 0.33), and Randolph County, Georgia, with a normalized Gini Index of 6.13 (Gini 0.65). I didn't try hard to see if any other counties tie those.
Exactly. Go work on your productivity. The rentiers are waiting.