skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely right, peoples perception of Frankfurt is mostly wrong. But the size of Frankfurt largely contributes to the quality of life here. You can very easily traverse the city by bike, the public transportation is fast and quick, and the big banks attract lots of capital. By day Frankfurt grows to about 1.5 Million people who just come to the city to work here, so it feels much bigger while still having everything happen on a rather small scale.

The biggest downside would probably be that Frankfurt is at the top of nothing. We have very good theatres, very good restaurants, nice outdoor activities, but compared to other cities, you don't come here for any specific thing, you come here for the sum of things that make it a very attractive city to live in. The airport is reachable very fast from the city center, i was able to traverse between a Frankfurt Office and a London Office in about 1:20 door to door, so its geographical location makes it also very attractive when visiting or working somewhere else on the continent. As local novelties DECIX is located here and many large Data Centers have popped up all over the area, so if you are interested in Infrastructure there's a lot of jobs and know how in the city.
I suggest listening to this great talk by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World.

https://pulsemedia.org/2009/02/02/aldous-huxley-the-ultimate...

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>Perhaps next time they should consider assassination

Perhaps you should consider the possibility that this coup was staged by Erdogan himself in order to purge all critically thinking people in prominent positions.
As an EU citizen, I'm glad we didn't "compromise" with Erdogan over making him one of the most influential voice in the EU.
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Yes. I like working with them a lot.
Studying for the SATs has very limited returns. Research into SAT prep programs shows they have negligible effects. If we used something like Raven's Matrices tests I think we could reduce this dynamic greatly.
According to Wikipedia's entry on the Patriot Act, it was introduced on October 23. Over a month to produce 342 pages of double-spaced federal legalese? Probably not incredible. That said, I'm sure the TLA agencies took advantage of the crisis to "suggest" a lot of things they'd been wanting.
Being that guy again, (and sacrificing my karma) but...

This is not REST, it contains nothing about hypermedia, entities having knowledge of their URIs, or any way of discovering features of an API programmatically.

While I'm sure there's plenty of good stuff in here (it looks otherwise fairly comprehensive), APIs will continue to be a disparate system that requires custom code for every integration until we can embrace the full benefits of REST, and develop the technology and conventions/standards for integrating RESTful services.

Edit: for an example of what's possible with 'real' REST, check out this talk: https://vimeo.com/20781278 – better documentation, easy parsing, API optimisation without client changes, discovery, and the API is fully human readable/usable as well.
Are you from/living in granada by any chance? I just moved to Granada and would love to know more about the local tech/entrepreneurial scene.
ok, assume we put every cent spent into the app. How does it help?

Most people use it to figure out what their spending looks like. A common realization is "holy cow, I spend a ton of my income on [eating out|smokes|alcohol]"

You can use it to project future balances with greater accuracy, you can plan bills, etc.

I think the value goes up (rapidly) the closer your expenses are to your income. If, by chance, you spend 5% of what you make, tracking your spending is probably utterly uninteresting- it'd be smarter to worry about tracking your investments. But if you spend 90%, 100%, 120% of your take-home, you really really need to track your spending.

It can also be handy at tax time if you have more complicated taxes.

In my case it gives me a clearer picture of my loans & repayment.

As some have mentioned, it makes fraud detection easy.
If you were really married to the company, you could actually get something in the divorce.

Your employer is not like your spouse. Your employer is more like a f'buddy that is into "S" when you are not into "M", who gives you a booty call every weekday at 9AM without fail, who leaves a fat wad of cash on your nightstand every two weeks, and who all your other friends think is a colossal jerk. Also, your employer is anything but monogamous, but expects you to be.

You would dump them in a second, if it weren't for that cash, because that would make you a fool rather than a prostitute.
All of these challenges you've described are why Facebook's drone group also has a team working on 60/70/80 GHz PTP millimeter wave radio tech. Not very dissimilar from existing high-capacity 1GbE 60/70/80 GHz bridge radio products on the market now, from a radio perspective (example, one polarity in a 1500 MHz wide FDD channel in the 71-86 GHz bandplan, 256QAM modulation with ATPC+ACM), but self-aiming and motorized with stepper motors/servo mechanisms and service-channel data transfer for GPS-assisted aiming at a moving platform.
You might be surprised. In Washington he's managed to achieve "elder statesman" status, disgustingly.
It'd be harder to do traffic analysis, yes, though I really wonder why it makes so many requests to begin with. I'd like to see an analysis of the CAPTCHA.

Considering that they allow it without JS enabled, I wonder why they'd need any requests at all.
Kissinger is held in high regard only by those who share his moral compass.
> I was once interning for a chemist, and asked if he ever thought we would have desktop NMR machines. He said there was no way they would ever be small enough. I then pointed at his laptop and remarked that is what people thought about computers 50 years ago.

Good-resolution NMR requires high frequencies and high magnetic fields. A 900 MHz NMR would use around 20 T--which is strong enough to pretty much require superconducting cryogenic magnets. Admittedly, a 100 MHz NMR requires only about 2-3T, which is close to what can be produced with a neodymium magnet, but you do get much, much noisier spectra.

With the larger field strengths, the need for magnetic field shielding pretty much restricts the ability to shrink it down to bench-scale machines.
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as i read it, not exactly evidence but rather strong hints. from the article: "evidence that would be consistent with widespread voting manipulation, not proof of it", also he makes two assumptions and adds "If any of these assumptions are violated, then the difference in last digit distributions is not informative of voting manipulation."
This submission was at the top on the front page -- what happened?
A New Service Alerts You When Someone Uses Your Social Security Number
That same thought passed through my mind while writing my comment.
Civic launches a free service that aims to stop identity theft before it happens
Show HN: A modern Manufactoria editor / interpreter / verification tool
Or they will leave.

Cuba is in the shape it's in because the industrialist, knowledge workers, business owners, all left. I honestly believe the revolution started with good intentions, then began to turn more authoritarian. And finally, stacked the ranks with incompetent loyalists.
Without reading the article, isn't the answer always supply and demand?
That's awEsome
Hillary Clinton and many in similar high circles they absolutely do. The ones actually crafting American foreign policy.
The intelligence apparatus in Turkey is all-encompassing and pervasive.

A healthy combination of SIGINT, HUMINT, and homicidal madness has brought us here.
If you have no idea what's going on, you might want to check out the original game at

http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/

To learn how to play, first. Then the app might make more sense.
fwiw I'm paying 650 euros per month for a two stories, three bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, community pool/paddle courts + garage. There are tons of cheaper things though; a friend mentioned someone's renting a cave (yes, a cave) for 150 euros in [Sacromonte][0]. Caves are supposed to be pretty nice and special places from what I've heard.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacromonte
Graal/Truffle is not a proprietary part of the JDK, i.e. it's also part of OpenJDK. The article mentions this.

Some tangential things mentioned are proprietary though.
But what about the ads?
Some benefits for the cost:

* downloadable videos for offline viewing
* working code samples
* a Slack community to ask & answer questions
* high-quality content
Ha, you should've read the article.
Can't agree more!
I don't really see that as a reasonable problem. There are many nations that are not in the EU that have citizens in the EU/UK. I know for a fact that some South African people move to the UK despite from my understanding most South African countries are not in the EU.

The same goes for many of my US friends who have moved to the UK in the past.

People move, and it isn't really hard to get into the UK from a non-EU country. Just by applying the same practices to the EU that are applied to the US will solve any problems.

The UK work visa, from the US perspective that I have, is extremely easy to get. In the US, getting a work visa is at some times an extremely daunting task even with H1B (since in my opinion you are basically 'owned' by the company).

The UK seems much more lax. You get a visa for ~1000 pounds, you stay for the 3 years, you apply to extend your visa, then you can apply for citizenship [0]. I don't see much wrong with that.

[0] - https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-entrepreneur
Taking glance at the map is exactly the wrong way to look at this. If that works, how would you explain Hawaii and Alaska? What about taking a glance at the map of Greece vs Turkey, with Greeks taking all the islands offshore Turkey? Guess what, you will probably invoke history for that. Once you do that, the Chinese claim does not sound that absurd, isn't it?
FYI, the vast majority of rental real estate is owned by investment firms who buy and sell entire buildings, not people buying units.

In general capital gains in an otherwise depreciating asset are tied to outsized increases in the revenue stream that asset produces. To put it another way, the increase in value is fundamentally driven by an increase in the number of people who want to use the building or the neighborhood - it's driven by a real utilitarian value that the asset does provide, or has the potential to provide for people.

If you think that real estate always goes up in value (above inflation) I would wager you've spent most of your life in the big cities where an increasing number of people want to live. I also have some lovely properties in Buffalo and Detroit that you might be interested in.

Of course, sometimes, in a frothy market, both professional firms and random individuals speculate on real estate, looking for capital gains disconnected from any underlying fundamental increase in utilitarian value. There are plenty of half-finished subdivisions in rural Florida that show how real this phenomenon is. However, it's an aberration, and it's fundamentally unstable so it doesn't tend to last for long.

Drawing conclusions about real estate markets in general from speculative bubble conditions is similar to drawing conclusions about technology companies from day trading on the Nasdaq in 1999.
Hello, I created this simple web app where the user can type in what he wants to calculate and the results is displayed on the right side. The app is powered by math.js, so, basically you can use the same syntax. Additionally the app can autocomplete with previous variables and it automatically saves everything on the browser´s localstore.

I appreciate if you have any kind of critics or suggestions.
Also sometime back there use to be OpenJDK maxine VM project which is gone and now an option of closed source SubstrateVM appeared.

It may be unlikely but Oracle can simply remove highly paid staff from above mentioned projects and put in some closed source alternative/analogous projects. Open source project may then be left to rot. As it is almost every single developer on Graal etc is Oracle labs or Oracle funded research group at university.
Any shining examples you'd care to share?
In this case, it's supply, demand, and tax (abatements).
oooh.... all the ignorance of a "Is AirBNB the reason NYC Rent Is So High?" headline, now with more Asterisks!23$&*^%!%

you're all idiots.
> Our tests, including venous draws, require smaller samples than traditional labs.

This seems highly suspect, considering that their venous draws were processed on the same equipment as that used by "traditional labs", following the same procedures as those used by "traditional labs" - or so, at least, have run the company's claims, when they're arguing that only the Edison tests are invalid, and that the non-Edison tests are as reliable as those performed by "traditional labs". I don't see how both sets of claims can be true at once.
From http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01845743#page-1
1) Integration testing, 2)Systems testing, 3)load testing and 4) user acceptance testing. This would have been done with simulation tools alongside manual testing. Think about the way hardware testing is done and extrapolate those techniques to software.
Article blames high city taxes. I always thought it was that rent is price controlled, resulting in undersupply.
Reading is your friend. 56% of the income generated from renting in an old building goes to taxes. That's scary high.
Wow this looks interesting. Nice job team minio
https://evertpot.com/dropbox-post-api/

This discuss some option for the GET vs POST.

In Kibana, everything is done over GET as get parameters, and I find that extremely annoying and a poor design.

A lot of public APIs also don't honor or have any intentions in supporting or using PATCH. Most APIs I have worked with only use PUT for modification. Anything resembles "creation" is automatically a POST.
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Thanks @unknownhad
That presentation is talking about IR-level optimizations, not codegen-level optimizations. Remember that SPIR-V is an IR, so you are free to manually do IR-level optimizations to your heart's content just as you can on the PS4.

Where IR-level optimizations are concerned, I agree that you can often do in areas like aliasing (where you, the programmer, have more knowledge than a compiler can easily prove). I'm much less convinced that you can beat a compiler at codegen-level optimizations: instruction scheduling, isel, register allocation, etc.
I wrote an introductory Python book for No Starch, Python Crash Course. Bill Pollock, the owner of no starch, invited me to consider writing a book after I gave a lightning talk at PyCon a few years ago. Writing for no starch was a really good experience, and I'd do it again.

I feel fortunate that my first writing experience was with no starch. They take each book seriously, and work hard to craft a high-quality book. They have their own editors on staff, and they asked me to recommend a technical editor. They trust their authors to know their field well enough to identify an appropriate technical editor. I am deeply grateful to my technical editor, Kenneth Love. Kenneth has a deep knowledge of Python and a strong background in teaching. He caught many technical issues, and we had numerous conversations about how best to present certain concepts to new programmers.

The writing process was clearly defined. I drafted a chapter, got feedback from a no starch editor, and then sent the chapter off for technical review. After that it went to a copy editor, and then the chapter went through a final layout process. It was my responsibility to respond to feedback at every stage. Every so often Bill would read through the chapters and offer feedback as well. At first this process felt like a bit much; in the end I really appreciated the attention to detail, and I can't imagine writing for a publisher that doesn't have a rigorous approach like this.

I committed to this work for several reasons. Writing at the introductory level is a little different financially than writing about a niche technical topic. The market for an introductory Python book is much larger than the market for just about anything else. I think of the audience for technical books as a pyramid; introductory books target the base of that pyramid. Any topic that requires background knowledge is higher up the pyramid, and the opportunity to make a meaningful number of sales is lower.

I teach high school math and science. Writing an introductory technical book has opened many doors, and I don't feel stuck in teaching at all now. I can write more, and I can easily shift to teaching CS full time if I want to. Just the process of completing a quality book has taught me a lot about following through on the less enjoyable but necessary aspects of a long-term business project.

Here's the no starch description of Python Crash Course: https://www.nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse

Here's the Amazon page. I was terrified to read the first reviews on Amazon when the book came out, but now I really enjoy reading what people have to say about something I put so much effort and thought into: https://amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Project-Based-Introdu...
Some people just have a harder time with it, it seems. Some people routinely overestimate, or underestimate- or in my case, fail to think about it until 10PM at night, at which point I stop realize I'm 2,500 calories behind for the day.
There are degrees of completeness and this expands on the REST standard by a whole lot more.

Frankly I would prefer adhering to this standard.
> If you like the thrill of gunshots on your way to work, Chicago’s tax rate is 1.86%.

For the record I live in NYC and there were gunshots Sunday morning a block from my house
The JSON API spec is pretty good: http://jsonapi.org/
That's a really old myth. Only if you intertwine your code with GPL code, use a GPL library, or modify GPL code do you need to release anything you write yourself. It is very very easy not to do any of those things.

One gray area (gray because two camps both think it's black and white in opposite directions) is writing any code that runs in kernel.
It's the same all over. In what capital city of a major democracy are there jobs and affordable apartments?

I initially meant that rhetorically, but now I'm actually interested to know. Maybe there are good non-govt jobs and low prices in smaller capital cities like Ottawa (<0.8M) and Canberra (<0.4M)? Educate me!
China appears to be testing if they can push this far. It's not just a matter of military power; China's economy depends on their exports to Europe and Northern America (so sanctions can really hit hard), and shipping through the South China Sea is a big deal to Europe, Northern America, South Korea, and Japan.

China is actively trying to influence the situation with soft power as well. The Chinese ambassador in The Netherlands paid for a full page advert in a national newspaper to publish a letter condemning the 'illegitimate' court that ruled on this dispute with The Philippines. The fact that he couldn't get his letter published normally (and for free) in the op/ed sections of any Dutch newspaper is telling though.

I suspect they are going for an absurd claim in order to 'graciously' come to a compromise of about half of that (certainly including the Paracel Islands) after a while, but the situation is certainly unique. They are more than likely strengthened in their confidence by the lack of consequences of the Crimean annexation by Russia (although the economic sanctions hurt Russia quite bad).
I'm fine with APIs continuing to be disparate systems if they have a simple, sensible design and have comprehensive documentation. Let's just stop calling them "REST" since they're not as you've pointed out.
Doing DevOps
Web programming is getting unnecessarily complicated
Ask HN: What type of job did you get after going through a coding bootcamp?
As someone who's looking for a career change, I've been reading bootcamps reviews trying to find some that would fit my short/long term goals, but I haven't found a good information source about job roles after the camp. A lot of the reviews I read mention getting a job as a "software/fullstack developer", but what's the focus? What tech do you use now and how much of that came from the camp itself?
I don't want to rely only on what the camps publish/say for obvious reasons and I imagine I'm not the only one wondering where people go after the camp, so I'm starting this in the hopes of getting more relevant, unfiltered info.

If you've been through a cohort, please state:
• school and course;
• job you landed;
• startup? big company? started your own thing?
• tech you're working with now. How much did it come from the camp?
• how long did it take you to land the job after the camp;
• how long have you been working/worked there for;
• any personal notes about the camp/job you'd like to add?
• if you know the above for someone else, please share too!

If you want to share the salary too, be my guest. You can get a pretty good idea on salary range if you search for it anyway. I'm more interested in the program-job role relation.

Disclaimer: I don't work for a bootcamp or for a company looking to hire or for anyone else. I simply want to get a feeling of what type of career people start after the camp.
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Note California Property Taxes are abnormally low due to Prop 13.

More importantly there seems to be a disconnect on the rate here and the way assessesd taxable values get calculated here

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/property-calculating...

In general it looks like a standard Class 1 home gets an assessed value of 6% of market value, some classes end up at 45% market value. My quick read says anything higher then 3 stories would be at the 45% rate which seems like most of Manhattan living?

According to that page a home with a value of $450,000 ends up with a tax of $4,705.88 which is about %1.

That being said the calculation is complex and I don't completely grok it.
Only a fool would think otherwise. But I don't see how that's significant here; opening diplomatic relations with China in the midst of the Cold War was very much in the interests of the United States.
I am still amazed that the Cold War didn't go full global thermonuclear over the many regional conflicts, accidents, or mistakes.
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> It's pretty clear what is it for if you actually wrote real-time graphics. JFYI - it's "index shader" essentially. Having control over indices you can implement much faster culling.

This sounds like indirect draw, which has been standard for years and is supported by Vulkan.
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It would be great to know which algorithms are being used. Hard to know how to evaluate AI claims without that...
Or, conversely, its better that the city is extracting those taxes for services instead of it being straight profit for landlords. Lowering taxes would not lower rent charged, it'd just be more money in the pocket of landlords.
While it confusingly uses the "ferro" prefix, the ferroelectric effect isn't related to magnetism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectricity
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888926.
The funny thing is it's not just "NASA way back when". Even now, the most critical code (e.g. implantable heart defibrillators) likely has less "unit test" than advert code that posts junk to your facebook wall.

Waterfall is still the more sensible approach in some industries.