skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except Walmart has Walmart labs so they are at least a tiny bit tech :)
I was thinking 1 on 1 tutoring. There are already a lot of video resources out there. I wouldn't mind 30-50 bucks an hour for a consultation. Sort of like a fitness trainer for my electronics hobby.
The decline of the US military continues.
(You lost the exponent in the quote. It's 2^n, not 2n.)
If you take the view that object references are options, then it's plain unsound to manipulate object references as though they weren't options! `NullPointerException` is just a dynamic plug on a static type safety hole.

This blog post (I'm not the author) explains the issue (item 3) very well: http://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/language-design-deal-bre...
Ah! Gotcha. Sorry about the snark then!
As a JavaScript developer I feel the same way about Java... Unfortunately JavaScript developers are fully aware they aren't Java developers, but many Java developers don't seem to share this same realization.
Yes, compared to never marrying, maybe paying child support but not alimony, or compared to getting sterilized.
I view it as the study went looking for X, and to it's surprise didn't see X, but happened to see statistical significance in Y. However the study did not have the scope to determine why Y occurred.

I think the most likely thing that changed over time is Z: the first wave(s) of feminism began to liberate females from the traditional limitations of roles in society. However the true from of feminism is a recognition and reconstruction based around /all/ gender roles being bad for mental health, emotional health, and positive relations among individuals.

Men haven't had that liberation; a large part of society still believes in specific roles and responsibilities for men that coupled females are (at their option) exempted from. This probably leads to increased stress to both individuals and also an increased risk of negative feedback loops for the situation and everyone involved.

The inherent bias in society is even reflected in the premise of the study. It's tracking a specific type of male/female relationship and a specific correlation of role towards problems. Instead a more balanced study would look at the starting condition, determine what percentage of the population (restricting to males and females alone is OK, but including all sets of couples is better) fits different configurations, and tracking for outcomes as well as associated economic, emotional, mental, and physical health in the related intervals would be a better study design. The study might also have a follow-up for 'marriage failure' cases where isolation of the root causes is performed.
California Roll
The Rift and Vive also use AMOLED screens, so I don't think it's the pixel tech that's the issue. LEDs can turn on and off extremely fast. It's probably that the screen's electronics were made for power-sipping mobile devices running at most 60 FPS and not 90+ FPS gaming.
To quantify it, yes.
>Uber has adopted a tactic with its drivers that parents use on misbehaving children

Compare with this article from earlier: http://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/

>Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children
Watch out, the tone police are here. Any hint of hyperbole will not be tolerated.
From the second paragraph: "A Harvard University study suggests that neither financial strains [...] is typically the main reason for a split."
Why are you so confident that you can predict everything that might happen in the next 5 to 10 years?

The conservative, baseline prediction is generally "things tomorrow will be the same as today". Even if you stop their revenue growth (and there doesn't seem any good reason to think that is happening) then the parent's predictions are still basically true.

For the opposite to be true, FB doesn't just need to stop growing, it needs to shrink, and shrink very very quickly.

Can you think of a possible way Facebook could lose all their traffic in that 5 year timespan? All of FB, WhatsApp and Instagram disappearing all at once?
It's funny how Pokemon Go took away a lot of AR marketing Buzz from Magic Leap.
Don Libes' Exploring Expect[1] is a devops classic (if there is such a thing). Highly recommended for those wondering what Tcl is (still) good for! It would be nice if O'Reilly would make the text (completely) freely accessible[2], as they have done with some their other older titles[3].

See also the Caius framework[4].

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565920903.do

[&] http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/expect.cfm

[2] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/exploring-exp...

[3] http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

[4] http://caiusproject.com/
It's worst-case exponential, sure, but it's hard to find that worst-case.

It's not that hard. Just generate a boolean circuit for the multiplication of 2 64 bit prime numbers and convert the circuit to a 3-SAT formula. I doubt any current SAT solver can solve that problem. If you could do it for 1024 bit primes a lot of cryptography would be toast.

EDIT: To be a bit more clear I mean that the circuit takes two n-bit numbers, multiplies them then compares the result to some known product of 2 primes. So by solving this circuit you factor the known integer.

EDIT2: Doesn't solving MaxSAT exactly imply that you can also solve SAT ? If there's a SAT solver that can handle million variable instances "easily" that's something I'd be really interested in hearing more about.
Yeah, if the husband is emotionally unstable that could lead to both things.
It can't. We cannot distinguish between flaws and non-flaws. What is a flaw anyways? That is ill-defined - we are conjecturing about what will or will not be present in a reality that we have no indication will resemble our reality.
From personal experience I can confirm that finding. During the tech crash in 2002 I was unemployed for a year and it took several more years for me to get back to the salary and position I had had before the crash. I was frustrated and depressed by my failure to provide and my wife was frustrated with me too. This time damaged my marriage a lot and things never got back to how they had been previously.
Oh wow, I've written probably over 50 thousand of lines of Tcl from 2000 - 2009. Started out automating SNMP testing, and then the entire suite of WiFi Alliance certification tests. Blast from the past.
Fine by me. The real Gucci Mane is back out of prison, what do we need this one for.
Let's not resort to calling people names.

Your argument is ironically the reductive one. I have complete respect for people who choose to believe in an organized religion. But it remains the case that whether or not you can prove a higher deity, that in of itself has no bearing on how you should live your life. You can disprove the existence of god and still choose to believe in religion. You can prove the existence and still choose to not believe in any religious system. So proving the existence is worthless.
EDA = Electronic Design Automation (probably)
Awesome. A quantitative version of Hamming's thought process seems to be 80,000 hours' Problem Framework.

https://80000hours.org/articles/problem-framework/
Military Sealift Command ships have always had naming conventions like the one discussed in the article.
These companies are targeting urban millennials who shun things that feel "corporate". The "cute" voice feels sociable without being alienating to their customer base the way a lot of alternatives might be.
This is for boosting profitability for Etisalat. The sole telecom provider in UAE. This mainly targets migrants workers in UAE. They get paid 90 or 100 dirhams/month. Etisalat charges a lot to make international calls. The migrant workers have to spent atleast 20% of their salary to call their dear ones,so the migrants make use of VOIP services. This move is to ban the low salaried workers from using VOIP. I have seen plain cloths officers randomly checking migrants mobile phones in public to see if they have installed any VOIP software.
In fact, I can think of several factors like that: alcoholism, drug addiction, anger management issues, clinical depression, chronic diseases, etc.
Implementing some dynamic data structures should give you a good understanding of how pointers work and allocating and freeing memory. Start with linked lists, then binary trees, then B-trees if you have time. Priority queues (heaps) are fun too.
DEC and Sun are both in the list above (as HP and Oracle). This isn't just a technical point - I suppose it isn't out of the question for a mega-merger/buyout of something like Facebook and Microsoft could occur.
Interesting, I couldn't find a tool like this that would give me a useful % difference between images, so I rolled my own tiny python version using PIL: https://github.com/nicolashahn/python-image-diff

which gives both a diff image and the % difference.
He didn't choose the name.

"The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206)."
Whaaaaat? The only thing I miss about the 2012 one is my 17-inch screen. Bring back my 17-inch Macbook Pro and I am happy.
Maybe the downvotes misunderstood the question? I think he means, people who ran a campaign, discovered no demand, and saved the costs of building a company / product that would have failed.

That's a real value that Kickstarter provides.
It isn't really that unusual. Military Sealift Command ships are named after notable Americans with little to no connection to the military all the time. This is the first time a class as been specifically designated to honor civil rights pioneers, though.
IMO naming a machine of death after a man of peace is an insult to all those other people fighting for human rights, freedom and peace everywhere.
Readability mode works in Firefox and Edge (and probably Safari since they share code).
Indus OS- World’s First Regional Operating System
I see Nathan Myhrvold (who published a lavish technical cookbook) isn't on that list.

It shouldn't be a big deal when someone decides to step back from working on abstract algebraic models of highly constrained physical systems (Feynman's "creativity in a straightjacket") to working on the more human task of design.

Design is fascinating, but it's all about putting yourself in someone else's shoes. What does the user want? Why should the user have to do X at this point? It's different and it exercises different parts of the mind from theoretical physics. It's a lot more natural for humans.

Cryptographic protocol design is IMO the closest thing in CS to product/service design in the corporate/engineering world. There you have formal proofs and formal breaches in security, but everything hinges on implicatures and difficult-to-formalise expectations of what the protocol is intended to achieve.

The architect Zaha Hadid apparently studied math at university before switching to architecture. She's a controversial figure (also a woman) and her architectural achievements were absolutely from an imaginative rather than a mechanical part of her personality.

As for "Seers and Craftspeople", if you replace those words with "Visionaries" and "Mechanics", you're in danger of reproducing the already widespread prejudices in Western society about intelligence and human worth. It starts to sound like normative vs positive, prescriptive vs descriptive, which is, like all binaries, a bit divisive.
I think any algorithm that could do that would count as an artificial general intelligence (AGI) and I think the current consensus is that we currently have no idea how to create one.

What relation an AGI has to NP hardness is unclear. I think that if P=NP in the sense that a practical algorithm exists for solving large (ie. 10^9 variables) NP complete problems then AGI (even super-AGI) would probably follow. However I don't necessarily think that's a necessary condition for AGI to exist.
I don't think that 2.5% is evenly distributed (as in, every year each couple pulls a ball from a lotto machine with 39 green and 1 red ball in it).

I know my own chance isn't 0%, but I'm confident that it's lower than average. I choose to be married to my wife and to raise our kids in that framework. It's not easy every day, but it's absolutely an acceptable risk, IMO.
Maybe people in unhappy marriages find the strain leaks into their professional lives?
"Someone has to have root" is not entirely true - you can easily have root accounts on key systems accessible only by requiring two separate authentication tokens, and have them be held by separate people. Sure, it's inconvenient, makes changes slower and requires more people and thus is more expensive, but that does prevent any single person from doing too much damage.
Well, it is an attempt to treat us like kids; the comment is more about how that can be a useful social function or at least an effective marketing message.
Might I recommend some fine CC-BY (vapor|synth|retro)wave music to accompany it?

* https://stratfordct.bandcamp.com/album/airglow-memory-bank

* http://stratfordct.bandcamp.com/album/stratford-ct-melior

* http://stratfordct.bandcamp.com/album/stratford-ct-lux-aesti...

* http://stratfordct.bandcamp.com/album/stratford-ct-secret-se...

* http://stratfordct.bandcamp.com/album/stratford-ct-1-yr-anni...

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Six years ago Microsoft held a funeral for the iPhone, saying that they would have 80% market share and iPhone would have 2%. The main problem is arrogance.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-iphone-funeral-2010...
Below are a couple of articles on the subject. It sounds like there were more bits of evidence than just the VPN. But of course, none of this is definitive proof.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/need-official-attribution-russia...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/is-dnc-email-h...
Sacrifices those other people made in the name of things like civil rights, liberty, and equality?
> But we must also allow that the netfilter people have the right to decide who is and who isn't one of their core developers, and publish their philosophical positions on their own mailing lists.

It's also perfectly reasonable for a project to refuse to accept contributions from someone they feel might tarnish their reputation, whether they are right or not. And it is entirely reasonable that the project might think that GPL enforcement that is done more harshly than the SFC's principles might have a negative effect on the project.

If they're wrong, and the refused contributions are worthwhile, then forking is of course possible. So it's nice that Free Software can continue to thrive in whatever way developers and users at large consider "best" in their collective, subjective judgement.

I think this is what you're saying too, but regardless I thought it's worth calling this out specifically.
The best part is, facebook already has dev blogs:

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/

https://code.facebook.com/posts/

No popups, sane column widths. Yet John is still cramming blog posts into Facebook user posts.
An oil tanker?
Ah, brasilians !
Oh no! The Gay Agenda is attacking you from all sides!
@pluma @res0nat0r thanks for that, I did not know that there was an entire genre. I'll definitely look into it!
The couples income and wife's economic independence did not correlate to divorce (post 1970s). Which implies that the lack of a full time job is not a proxy for "money worries" but instead seems to be a proxy for something else - potential the husbands behaviour, wife / social perceptions of husband etc.

Basically I infer that couoles pull together when faced with external financial stress, but if the husbands a dick about his job it's a different matter
I agree, gravity does create its most beautiful artwork at the cosmic scale.
Excellent idea in theory. Translating a formally verified system to actual application code is possibly the next frontier of system critical programming. A verified system along with a memory safe concurrent language should be able to avoid a significant set of common bugs. I hope to see some industry adoption.
that should be fixed now, thanks
Why the JS hate? sure, === is annoying, and prototypes confuse some people, but there's plenty good about it, and it's sure as hell better than COBOL.
It is used in the semiconductor industry that I'm now part of. But it's actually pretty nice. Doesn't come as easily as Ruby does to me, still pretty handy
Sometimes I click ads just to make advertisers pay.
Definitely get a lawyer . . .

y agree with smt88, C corp is prob. overkill and could introduce tax issues go LLC first.

I would just have each of you track what you invest as expenses for the LLC, then get reimbursed once you are profitable and keep your 50/50 ownership split.

The two of you should be able to make decisions together, I expect one of you are handling marketing and one technical anyway so you can probably defer decisions in those areas to each other.

Good luck.
Probably more about the state of Yahoo. Mayer really was quite talented, by all accounts. But Yahoo's problems really were quite fundamental - down to the fundamental questions of what its line if business could have, or should have been - beyond simply issues of morale and revenue.

So another spin on the whole sage might well be, "If Marissa Mayer couldn't turn Yahoo around -- maybe no one could."
Yep. Ironically, the next generation will likely find this sort of saccharine cuteness to be hopelessly old-fashioned and conservative, the same way the 60s/70s counterculture rejected the aesthetic of the cutesy cartoon corporate mascots that were common in the 50s and early 60s.
Another example: bootstrap
I like that this phrase can be used to condescendingly dismiss two opposite viewpoints.

"Automation and globalization are going to destroy the world." -> "We've been saying that for a hundred years." rolls eyes "This time, it's different."

"Current tech companies might actually have a legitimate sustainable business that won't be totally obliterated in an imminent market crash" -> "Remember 1999?" rolls eyes "This time, it's different."

In all seriousness, though, we had one dot-com bubble; I am not sure it's wise to extrapolate that all tech companies now and for all time are doomed to fail after a few years. Particularly since the companies listed are actually profitable.
Yes, of course. But they're products in a similar area, with the main difference being that one is a brand-new, from-scratch codebase, while another one is ~20 years old, and in places, might be based on code going even further back. Which reinforces my point that it's much easier to open source new stuff.
Rijs 0.6: Cleaner Sync
People stay silent on correcting things like this because they're afraid of being labeled as Trump supporters and don't want to deal with the social penalties of that association.
The parade included an impromptu marching band of Windows Phone team members, roller skaters, a unicycle, costumes, and a few home-made floats, including a hearse for competitors.
Tcl shares a little with the lisp family.

Not just being mostly homoiconic, but also the feelings one gets when learning it.

I went from "this syntax is a mess" in my junior developer days to "aha! it is so powerful" once I grokked it, for both languages.

Few other languages really gave me that stark contrast in perspective once I had that moment.
You have to do such things to improve moral of your people. There is a good chance we will be saying exact same thing about SolarCity, Tesla, Uber and many others.
> a lot of men tie their identity to their employment so strongly

I wonder if the other side of the coin isn't that wives tend to respect their husbands less when these earn less than they do. It could be because it violates a social norm caused by society's gender role expectations.

Research found that even employed men who earn a bit less than their wives are affected by higher divorce rate.

So we can cast these men as insecure and emasculated, or it could be a mix of both men and women's reaction to the situation, along with many other variables that you've hinted at.
That doesn't seem like arrogance to me. "It’s a great way for teams that have worked overtime to create a kick-ass product blow off steam and have a little fun." It's a lighthearted morale booster. What's the big deal?
I think the other clouds are actually rather undersubscribed since most people run their stuff on AWS.

At least you can leverage Digital Ocean, Linode, etc to run varnish caches to offload bandwidth for things like static assets while keeping your main workloads on AWS. You can build this sorta thing in a couple days I'd say.
That the average for all marriages, but certain groups account for a disproportionate amount of divorces. The rate is a lot lower if you take out groups like that: under 20 when married, shotgun weddings, the already divorced, poorly educated, etc. IIRC, latinos who marry under the age 18 have an 80% 5-year divorce rate.

I'd heard people say a 20% lifetime chance of divorce if you are a middle class, educated, non-divorcee, and over 25. But I can't vouch.
Hijacking...

BTW I'm trying to get in touch about ct_advisor but don't see an email listed...
you can use an exercise ball part of the day, I'm 6'1" and use a 75cm one . . . you can pick one up at Target.

Ikea has some decent chairs, go in and test them out. The one I liked best was one of their least expensive ones.
A long time coming. Microsoft failed to capitalize on smartphones before Apple and Google and now they're paying the price.

That's their perennial problem. They had an app market, smartphones, tablets... before the above, but they couldn't figure out how to sell them.

They could have been Apple.
NNTP is transport protocol, orthogonal to moderation - like HN or Reddit or any other site moderation to HTTP.
As a Google shareholder this is great news, but now I'm starting to feel that the market is underestimating the chance that someone simply builds a better search engine.

For example, here are 3 search queries I recently performed where I found Google's results lacking:

1. What is the best Thai restaurant within 10 kilometres?

2. What companies have a market cap greater than Microsoft?

3. Does Android track my location by default?

In each case I don't want to see a list of web pages - I want a single one-sentence answer (like I would get for "what is the height of the Eiffel Tower?"). Something like Wolfram Alpha on steroids.

No doubt Google is working on this problem, but what is the chance someone else beats them to it? And how much damage would it cause Google if they do?
Have a few people at a single computer perform the following ritual:

1. deploy the system

2. create new admin account with a long random password and/or 2FA physical token

3. print the password out, seal it in an envelope and put it in a safe not accessible to any IT person; place the 2FA token in a separate safe controlled by different person than the first safe;

4. remove all other admin accounts - with the other present technicians checking that no other account will have access

5. if needed, with proper authorisation you can retrieve the password, and implement the required changes (again, with a second person controlling what exactly is being done).

If the systems require changes rarely, then this cost isn't that high.
It can go the other way as well. It would be interesting to study any change in the percentage of divorces in households where incomes/assets increased. In my case, I sold a business for a tidy sum, which then allowed us to divorce without financial difficulties. It is true that a lot of marriages unhappily continue because either party is unable to financially support themselves alone, especially when kids are involved.