skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Mozilla released a plan for the future of these things which it showed what they wanted to do step by step (e.g. plugins first, etc).

Flash and Media Plugins (video decoders, EME/DRM) have already been sandboxed for several releases. There is a content sandbox in the development versions of Firefox. Of course it won't ship before e10s is considered stable, because that's a hard prerequisite for it. The amount of protection also varies by operating system (Windows and Mac OS X are pretty OK, Linux is still pretty crappy) but obviously that is improving week by week.
Math, Better Explained

https://www.amazon.com/Math-Better-Explained-Unlock-Intuitio...

Check out a few articles on https://betterexplained.com/cheatsheet and see if they fit your style.
> if there are companies so desperate to hire engineers that they're turning to immigration law to try to increase the supply, why aren't they simply offering large enough compensation packages to attract the existing pool?

I don't get this argument. If there are 100 open positions and 80 eligible candidates, 20 (at least) positions will remain vacant, regardless of compensation. Not saying that this example reflects the real world, just that the argument is not sound from a logical/mathematical standpoint.
Those that still have jobs. Employers commonly reduce the number of jobs available when those jobs become more expensive.
That doesn't look that busted to me, it appears that something prevented localized strings from loading, so we're just seeing the translation tags. It's not surprising that they don't fit in the UI, cause they're kind of long -- probably much larger than the localized strings are.
This is a pretty thorough description of generation, not just the classification problem that is the usual introduction to machine learning.

I just loved the map of the generated place names [1] the illustrations are hilarious.

[1] http://colinmorris.github.io/assets/rbm/kicksville.png
Thanks Jacques :)
> They are only willing to pay $200k per year in total compensation, but they complain that they can't hire enough engineers. Obviously they aren't paying enough per engineer.

Engineers are not created from money. You might be able to fill your positions by paying more, but not all of the positions in the entire country. Not without immigration or higher graduation rates.

> Companies want to import foreign workers to depress wages so that they can save money, and your instinct is to blame the workers who don't want lower wages?

How do you justify that the location of birth should be the main determinant in whether an engineer earns $150k a year or $30k a year? That line of reasoning is a lot more disgusting to me than corporate profit-maximizing.
Sorry, but no. None of them can passed the JCK, which is a requirement to certify a Java implementation.
(J)VM Futures – John Rose (Talk, 45mn)
They could be from another part of Greece or the wider area.
I am going to guess that Go compiles at least 10 times faster than Turbo Pascal. From the numbers you gave, I think at least a factor of ten is left even after you account for the difference in hardware speeds.
GoGoGrandparent Gives Older Adults Independence and Autonomy
It can definitely be self-taught!

A promising path would be to self-teach as much as possible and then apply for an MS program in bioinformatics or something similar.

Apart from the usual advice for teaching yourself programming, you can practice bioinformatic-specific skills at the wonderful Rosalind Project [0].

[0] http://rosalind.info/about/
It's silly to point to a cohort of high-skilled non-union workers that are highly paid and claim that is an argument for the unionization of high-skilled workers.
What does :: mean in go?
So if nom takes off would you see 'download a nom dataset by clicking here'

or would it be 'use this hostname to sync the nom to your own computer'

Or would it be a dsn sort of and you just instantiate a client and your on your way?

Or, some combo?
A last minute security fix. Funny that Myspace got hacked too apparently
StationF: World's biggest startup campus
The part that is hard to "get" is the constant complaining. You could complain once and then let it go, but the favored technique seems to be to beat it to death, accompanied by mock surprise that not every person gives the same priority to things. It's boring, frankly.
Not only tear up the architecture, but also accept that a major competitive advantage (the add-on ecosystem) would be for some part collateral damage in the transition.
Built with react, node. Available on GitHub.
You're right, that does sound cruel.

Moreover, the effects of addiction, the way choices made in childhood or under duress can affect the brain well into adulthood, and the fact that unregulated drugs sold can be far more dangerous than believed (you know, what the article was about) make this a hardly tenable position. "The dangers are generally known" is only said about opiate addiction by someone who doesn't know much.
The mention of Fentanyl here is pure clickbait.

Huh? That's the exact drug that killed the person in the story. It's made quite clear:

Lucas County chief toxicologist Robert Forney and his staff meticulously screened DJ’s blood for drugs. Forney’s team didn’t find any heroin.

What they did discover was a lethal dose of fentanyl.
Search for iodine therapy. Even if you are not iodine deficient according to diagnostic tests, iodine can help a lot with tinnitus.
You're talking past each other. Google Fiber may well be profitable, but that doesn't mean that Google wants to become a "nationwide fiber network." Google is playing a fundamentally different game: building in cities that don't force them to build-out to neighborhoods where people can't pay $70+ per month. That might fly in Atlanta or Kansas City, but it won't fly in San Francisco. Google has shown no interest in playing that game.
> The are great advantages to individuals and society to paying less than the value of goods and services. If my daughter is ill, and a simple shot of antibiotics will cure her, should I pay $20 for that, or should I pay what saving her life is actually worth to me? I've enjoyed ever faster internet connection speed at my home (coming in two weeks -- gigabit!) I assure you I'm not paying the full value of what that speed is worth to me. The same for food, clothes, transportation, everything. If I really did have to pay the full value to me for each of those I would, by definition, be indifferent to buying any of them.

Okay, so what's the society of my boss getting paid twice as much as me while actively impeding my ability to create value?

Also, antibiotics and internet are poor examples of market economics; both are heavily subsidized and regulated. So it's disingenuous to hold these up and then in your following paragraph claim that market economics is helping humanity.

> Market economics has some serious downsides, but it has vastly increased the welfare of humanity. More people have been coming out of poverty in China in the past few decades that ever before in human history.

How do you justify attributing this to free market economics?

> If you feel it is unfair that as a developer you can create millions of dollars in value that you aren't being compensated for, then I recommend you consider ways that you could be compensated for this value. Perhaps instead of being an employee, maybe get involved in a start-up with equity (or found a company.) Having done so, I can assure you it's more nerve wracking than ever I would have expected, and harder to unleash the millions in value than one might expect, but it's still fun, challenging, rewarding, and worth giving a go! :-)

I do think it's unfair, but I actually don't care, because I'm self-aware enough to realize that the way in which our economy hurts me is nothing compared to how it hurts most people. I'm incredibly lucky to have landed in a career where things are only as unfair as they are, and I'd much rather work toward helping people in worse situations than me than in fixing the minor injustice of getting paid less than management.
This is __very__ ambiguous:

Mr. Pang states that:

> the car suddenly veered right

And later that he:

> managed to step on the break, turn the car left and
> stopped the car

So, that's __two__ steering motions (one to veer right and another to turn left and stop.)

Tesla only says:

> No steering torque was then detected until Autosteer
> was disabled with an abrupt steering action.
> Immediately following detection of the first impact,
> adaptive cruise control was also disabled, the
> vehicle began to slow, and you applied the brake
> pedal.

That's one steering motion -- no indication of direction or magnitude. Also, Tesla's language deliberately avoids ordering the events. Since the "steering action" appears first in the paragraph, it seems as though this happened before the impact. That information is not actually encoded in the article, but a reader would naturally assume this is the case (I know I did).

Short of a publicly released log file or an investigation by a third-party, I don't think we'll ever know the truth of what happened.
I could be considered one of those people and, at least in my case, it is not in opposition to the digital world (which I also love, actually) at all.

For me, the difference between a typewriter and a computer, or a slide rule and a modern calculator, for example, is like the difference between a painting and a photograph. Of course the photograph is more accurate and it is not practical to make an oleo painting to remember where I parked the car, and there are very beautiful photographs, but I will always appreciate a Vermeer and will prefer it to a photograph of the same landscape.
Yep, I got RubyJS, nice name, checked it out, turns out it's already a thing ;)
I don't disagree with that, but there's a difference between someone walking off a job after they quit and when a company terminates someone's employment.
How's the UAW doing? Is it possible that there are factors outside of unionization that affect how these workers are paid?
Browser-based timing attacks: demos
I find it interesting that many people who want to write a novel don't actually read very much, and so their writing isn't very well developed.
Radio waves are shared with everyone. High frequency waves don't travel that far. That is physics. There is only so much bandwidth available in the Air. You can high frequency point to point communication, but you might have interference when some one blocks points. Fiber and copper are much better for signal transmission. They just transmit and receive much better than air.
javalovize-2.4 will, maybe, force you to love java?
Could still be room for a win for people who are just exceptionally bad negotiators. Non-confrontationalists who can't bring themselves to ask for more and the like. Basically, a half-assed job by a professional, minus a significant cut, could still be significantly better than just taking a first offer or meekly saying 'Is that the best you can do?' and getting a token 1/2% bump.

Not sure if that would pan out, or that's a large enough target audience. Just a thought.
why? i could change it
That's a sensible rationale as well, but if you are already familiar with the bounds of compensation, may it not be preferable to throw out a number that's slightly higher than the upper bounds of that yourself?

Since employers know the bounds as well, letting them name the first price would seem likely to result in a number that's near the mid range and not take into consideration you as an individual (skills & personality), it would be irresponsible for them not to try to mid-ball you even if they really like you, no?
Truly a legend, will be sorely missed
But this was built in 2008
I understand Latin America has produced a number of intellectuals --granted, however the majority of their mestizo population during the time of united fruit etc, were not attending school past the 6th grade, if that. That's a lot of intellectual capital left on the table and contributed to weak economies. The stronger economies had some semblance of compulsory education beyond elementary school. Even today, in Mexico itself, you have indigenous people for whom Spanish is a second language and due to that suffer discrimination in their own country --and this repeats in many south American countries.

You forget most of their intellectuals come from their elite families, it's not like the average person there has much of a chance in the elite circles.

Pointing out the poor educational infrastructure as well as a culture which does not make it a priority is not being racist.
Keep in mind (if this wasn't clear) that the chunks are only probabilistically 4K: https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/go/types/roll.... I.e. the thing that's "fixed" here is the chunk size we're aiming for. The chunks themselves could be of any size.

In any case, that's a good question - we might want to do something about that down the line. But, if we did change that constant, the structure of the trees will change, and all[1] the hashes will change.

[1] a small number will stay the same
That would be illegal according to this law, I think.
Indian Court Rules Whole Site Blocking Justifiable in Piracy Fight
What changed since your last Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10866996 (207 days ago)?
Are you saying opiate addiction dangers are not known? Sounds like you're the one who doesn't know much. Even kids know drugs are bad for you.

And the article is about the adults.
the youtu.be link contains nothing but the video's identifier, so I don't see how they could store a mapping
How can that be a meaningful statistic when "principal" means vastly different things at different companies?
Your friend and the others who died that weekend didn't "lose the battle". They were poisoned, murdered by an unscrupulous and/or clueless dealer.
This is essentially exactly what happened. I work in this field. Because of the complexities of the trial and the overlap in subject matter/patents, the judge felt that the jurors could have been confused and vacated the verdict. It doesn't really have many applications for this area of law outside of this case.
Oh Kalid it's you! I haven't bought your book (and I'll remediate to that right now), but I've followed all your posts, they're fantastic.

Go buy this guy's book :)
Opiate addiction is a serious problem that affects people from all walks of life. My mother has had rheumatoid arthritis for decades. She was prescribed Fentanyl patches for the pain at one point, but the strength was too high. One day she wound up passing out in her kitchen after applying a patch. After that she stuck the patches in a drawer, intending for them to never to be used again.

She was fine after this incident, but my sister happened to mention the story to an acquaintance of my mother's from church. Upon learning that there was a box of unused Fentanyl patches in my mother's house, she suddenly became her best friend and volunteered to begin taking her to doctor's appointments. She would take her to doctor's appointments, then while my mother was there, would go back to my mother's house to "clean up" - do dishes, vacuum etc. This wasn't a mere act of charity; she also "cleaned up" not only the patches, but a significant percentage of my mom's other opioid pain medications.

At first my mother thought she was going crazy when pills began going missing. She finally told me about it, and while I was inclined to believe that she was simply starting to lose her mental acuity, I bought her a lockbox for her pills. It was only after this woman (an upper middle class mother of three young children) brought tools with her during a visit and actually destroyed the electronic lock on the box that I realized that her trusted "friend" from church was stealing her pain medications. When my mother told one of the leaders of her church what happened, the woman denied it, and three weeks later moved her entire family several states away.

You really can't make this stuff up. Addicts come in all shapes and sizes and will do anything to quench their addiction.
I've always wanted to write a novel, and I hope to some time before I die (or afterward, I guess.. but who knows what's possible then).

I like the way this article describes architect vs gardener writers. I've always felt this internal conflict of modes when trying to write. I actually think there is a similar spectrum for coders. As a programmer, I definitely architect-first (within whatever scope I'm in) as opposed to feel-it-out-as-I-go. Yet great programmers I know just get started and sort of see where they land. (Iterative refinement is key in both styles, in my experience, and I'm sure the same is true of writing.)

In writing, I always think I should architect the story and setting, so as to validate whether it will be interesting or not at a high-level. But when I try to do this, I seem to end up with uninteresting, low quality results and the process itself feels contrived and burdensome. When I free flow, I seem to do a lot better. But I'm not sure if that's because I just don't have practice in trying to hold all the bits of a story in my head and craft it into a good outline which I can then flow from, and/or if it's because I only write short bits of material (ie the free flow might become unwieldy at length).

Curious what others think about the architect vs gardener coder bit, and also how those who write relate their writing approach to their coding approach.
Agreed that the car data is more reliable than the human.

But since we don't have the logs themselves, every conclusion we come to is pure conjecture and obscured by cloudy language.
The popular kind is still a boring, awkward black gamp. To counter the effeminate charge I assume.
Then maybe we should have a reverse auction for jobs? I can pretty much guarantee you'll need to pay more for someone to work in a mine than to push pencils in an office, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics#Balanc...
I believe the logic behind Google Fiber is to just push the competitors to a direction that is beneficial for Google.

A little bit like what they did with Chrome. To my understanding the point in Chrome was not to dominate the browser market, but affect the direction of browsers in general (fast Javascript execution, standards compliance, just a chrome for the content and not big-fat-portal-style experience).
Glad you like it! So far I am liking the issues you raised and will likely implement them when I have some time. cheers!
> Now the law actually encourages it.

do you know for a fact that a shitty law didn't incentivize it back then? we're talking about ancient greece here.

etymonline link for bureaucracy:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...

1818, from French bureaucratie, coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) on model of democratie, aristocratie, from bureau "office," literally "desk" (see bureau) + Greek suffix -kratia denoting "power of" (see -cracy).
You didn't qualify your claim as only pertaining to small sites. You simply said surveillance is not the big problem for static content. Given that most static content is served by large sites and the article is about Youtube, you haven't really supported that claim.
In the case of alcohol, there was a period of prohibition that did not decrease the death count nor reduce harm to individuals or the society.
Granted it was a long time ago.

Better data about drug policy and harm reduction can be found by looking at results from Portugal or other countries with permissive policies. None of them supports the claim that prohibition reduces use or harm caused.
Yeah the increase from heroin to fent would be like drinking a wine cooler (2%) that's actually everclear (95%).

I don't know any user of any substance that would say "well 1 unit is likely to get me off a bit, so I think I'll take 20 just to be sure".
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A classic from 1997: http://www.isen.com/stupid.html [original release May 1997, by David S. Isenberg of AT&T Labs Research that explains several dumb network concepts]
Netflix is on board, as is Hulu. But the platform makes more sense than average for them, since they want to be on Xbox.

http://www.windowscentral.com/netflix-looks-be-readying-its-...

I really liked the idea MS had with phones that could scale up to full screen devices if you docked them, but I'm more skeptical of this. Aside from media providers, who else is going to put in the effort to make their UI controller-friendly?

Game engines are just about the only other example I can think of.
Oh, more disposable junk is exactly what we needed!
I think that's the sound of your Eustachian tubes being open.
Already legal in NL and UK.
>In India
And Bruce Hauman:
http://rigsomelight.com/2013/09/09/frameless-geodesic-dome.h...

I believe he said that he built it on a friend's property.
$1k for other 'expenses' is huge. You can drive that down at least by half with wiser spending.
Chatanooga makes a small operating profit, but not enough to pay the interest on the bonds used to build the network: http://www.nyls.edu/advanced-communications-law-and-policy-i.... The system is only possible because the EPB is using its electricity monopoly to subsidize internet.
Is that even a valid syntax for a URL? Probably not.

Should have thought about compatibility before making up a naming scheme.
A Messenger bot that's a tool for journalists, not just a link aggregator