skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[Insert default arguments of why America is special]

1.) big and sparse. oh wait..

2.) culturally diverse. oh wait.. [1][2][3][4]

I only have one explanation for social service scarcity in the US: It seems to be dominated by a culture where you'd rather have large parts of the population suffer rather than having anyone chip in for the bill of groups of people (s)he doesn't identify with. It's the idea of self responsibility pushed to an unhealthy extreme. At the same time when talking to people in the US personally (almost) everyone seems to be helpful and nice, much more so than in most European countries actually. That dichotomy is something I'm really struggling with, i.e. I fail to find a good explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Ethnic_...

[2] http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2014/11/11/maternity-leav...

[3] https://www.angloinfo.com/brazil/how-to/page/brazil-healthca...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_Brazil#E...
No doubt that it never penetrated the desktop market as many of us had hoped it might.

It did, however, serve the needs and wants of those of us who'd experienced Unix and wanted that for ourselves. Doing a vastly superior job than the Unixes that started us off in the first place. Speaking for myself, 3.4BSD, Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, DGUX, Irix, AIX, and probably a few others. Plus some other platforms.

The rot started to show with the GNOME Project and PulseAudio. Both introduced a tremendous amount of complexity and gratuitous change with little benefit by way of utility or ease-of-management. Systemd has largely sealed the deal.

The lack of setting on a standard desktop offering has also hurt, and for fairly complex reasons. Red Hat is a commercial success (like Microsoft before it) because of its technical shortcomings, not in spite of them -- they directly feed its revenue model. This is quite unfortunate.

I think Ubutnu made missteps, but was (and may yet be) a superior option.

OTOH, building tools for the billions is hard. I'm willing to admit that. Microsoft only barely manages, as does Apple, and both have had quite notable failures.
Integrating Rails Simple Form with Semantic UI
Like Slashdot, if you remember that, +1 Insightful etc etc
Does anyone else recall Jacob Appelbaum discussing this publicly a while back?
It works by setting up a (free) pipeline which can run arbitrary code (docker-ized) that you set up in a .gitlab-ci.yml file that outputs build artifacts (static assets). These assets are then copied to gitlab's pages system.

Doesn't sound very straightforward to me.
how does debian developers independently building on their machines help? if anything it adds another point of failure. if you trust upstream enough to run their code, you implicitly trust the state of their hardware anyway (since nobody has the time to completely grasp any reasonably large codebase in its entirety); so it seems sensible to trust their builds more than some random debian maintainer
Because it's not made to accelerate training, just inference. The TPU is an 8-bit fixed point processor less power hungry than GPUs, so it won't help research, only deployment for large projects, running in the cloud.
You are very welcome! I'm glad to hear that you are may give it a try. Good luck and do your best!
I think they do. I didn't have quite the same one when I saw David, but I was completely shaken when I saw Hagia Sofia.
Thank you for writing this especially on recommending memorization. I used to do this though I never thought somebody else would be doing this to grok on to something since this would be a crazy idea for others. Was really surprised about that.

I hope you will use spaced repetition in which the reader will have a base from which to move on a deeper level of understanding. Can't wait to buy this book soon.
The two problems are solved very well by Mozilla Firefox. You only need to customize the browser to drag the feed button to the toolbar. Whenever it is not grayed out, you know there is a RSS feed available for the current website or page, and you can click on it to view the feed and click "Subscribe Now" to subscribe to it in your default feed reader.
The team I started on a year and a half ago, first out of college, has the soft requirement that the master git branch for each package be flat. Feature branches get squashed (or rebased into few commits), before being rebased onto mainline. I'm sure there are teams out there that don't like this, since you lose the history from the branches, but this is so great for just being able to _look_ at a history.

I have an alias that's like "git log --oneline --pretty" and a couple other options that I can't remember that gives me the flat graph of history. Digesting that is so much more comfortable, and also makes it significantly easier to understand where I'm at when I'm branching about for feature work.
And there is a threat of a #hnwatch brigading to enforce it
If you don't have any arguments, this is what you have to come up with. You show that you are just a trolling loser with no substance. Care to react to my arguments? Of course not. Maybe you should spend more time getting an education instead of browsing Internet forums, you don't seem to have anything of value to contribute if have to go for personal attacks.
I did something very similar on a 5 read cluster, but wrote custom NetScaler health checks to pull laggy replicas out of the virtual server pool.
I'll warrant the Airlander's landing patch can be significantly rougher than what you'd land a wheeled, fixed-wing, heavier-than-air craft on.

Or much softer -- snow or marsh, say.

Field size is only one property.
I totally agree, I wish there was a requirement to reply when downvoting.

But I don't think you need subcomments on comments, I think it's just overcomplicated. If the reply with downvote is nonsensical, it can be downvoted as well. Or it can be even flagged.
If you don't have any arguments you downvote, you stupid troll?

You don't have to know that tomatoes are fruit for that? Your reply makes no sense at all. I say "you don't need to know H" and your reply is "but you do need to know Y"! Not to mention that specifically your reply is something only worth knowing when when does know that tomatoes are fruit, and not when one doesn't.
Who said "nothing" but you Dick? http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-06-07

I have taken - just for fun - over 70 courses completely out of my own field of expertise (CS) on edX and Coursera. EVERYBODY knows nothing, that is unavoidable. Knowledge is infinite, your brain is very, very finite. So knowing what is actually WORTH knowing - and that is different for every single person - is extremely valuable. Simply calling "you must know this!" "you must know whist too!" and combining all those calls from all people does not work.

In the words of Sherlock Holmes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuIMmwJbnco

Trying to know everything is - as stupid as it gets. Trying to tell others they have to know everything even more so. How much do you know?

I have take several neuroscience classes and know quite a bit about the brain. I'd say that is a lot more valuable than being able to put categories on plants. Yet I would never dream of claiming "you MUST know that!" and downvote anyone who disagrees with me as you did, Dick from the Internet.

Please reflect before answering:

What do you really need the knowledge that "Tomato is not a fruit" for? What does it help you with? And don't use arguments so meta it that can be used for any knowledge. Be precise. I'm really curious what all those people who don't know that are missing in their lives.
Continuous rod warheads are pretty standard for air-to-air missiles. At least they were when I was in the business.

But I doubt they'd be more effective than straight shrapnel against an airship.
Yeah, well...certainly another feasible option for affordable housing is a huge economic crash followed by two decades of negative growth and/or deflation.

That said, I fail to see how this makes me "wrong"...I said that most residential construction in Tokyo is under five stories, and that the city sprawls. Both are true statements. Tokyo has enormous, far-flung suburbs of low-rise buildings, and most of the population lives there.

It's better than SF, in that you do see taller (i.e. 5-10 story) buildings along major roads, and the buildings have a smaller footprint, but these things are details. Tokyo is a gigantic, sprawling city. It's something like 20 times the size of SF.
Security and reproducible-build progress in Guix 0.11
Better types in C using sparse and smatch
I am missing an option for the guy who could not care less whether or not a tomato is a fruit or not, because he knows it does not matter at all for his purposes. IMHO the real expert knows what knowledge is relevant and what knowledge is for forum discussions that are just used to kill time.
Government sites have extremely poor uptime. Them doing up and down really means morning and I wouldn't read into it.
C++ Addons as AWS Lambda Functions
this is what you want: http://win10epicfail.proboards.com/thread/100/interested-par...
Yeah, that might do it. Probably have to design the guidance system specifically for that kind of target, though.

Also, I wonder what kind of radar return you get off of mylar. You might have trouble hitting it if they put some effort into minimizing the return from the gondola.
Awesome! Thanks for that link. That is pretty good too, although it ends when the die gets baked. There are testing, dicing, bondout, packaging steps after that. And not a lot of discussion about different process models (maybe they don't really have those any more)
I read this book about a month ago, it's excellent.
Temporary hire or just avoiding the single point of failure.

It's part of the cost of doing business and companies plan for it.
> Then again, sometimes your state changes not only don't need to be transactional; it can be disadvantageous to think of them that way.

I'm curious; in what kinds of situation would this apply?

> Depends, depends, depends.

Flexibility is usually an important requirement. Often you cannot freeze your architecture and be done with it. I think a transactional approach could better fit with this.
I see a little computer icon on the top left of explorer windows in Windows 8.1. Double clicking that seems to close the window as well.
Mobile app in stages
I loved my Pre3 and used it until the apps got too old, eventually switching to a iPhone 5S.

It was a great UX but suffered from a variety of under the hood issues. Palm was the only other company that offered a (relatively) seamless upgrade experience. iOS has its faults but I much prefer the upgrade experience compared to Android.
Scroll down to the bottom of the email. The bottom of all mailchimp emails tell you how the sender got your email.
At the bottom of the email it reads:
"Copyright © 2016 YIMBY Party, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you included your email address with your voter registration."
Tensorflow has a mode that lets it run on CPUs. I'm sure other frameworks are the same. Isn't the whole point of Xeon Phi that it looks basically like an x86 CPU with a ton of cores? If so there is almost nothing to port, just the kernel launching.

Granted, you do have to bother to make a fast x86 / AVX-512 port of your code. But because the shape of GPUs is so different than CPUs -- GPUs have a more complicated memory hierarchy for one thing -- I kind of doubt that "just run your CUDA code in the Phi" is going to work well for nontrivial examples.

(Disclaimer, I work at Google on CUDA support in clang. Which is awesome, you should try it out. :) Google "cuda clang" for instructions.)
Ummm... there are some things which are just good for society. Having children is one of them. "Everyone else paying for it" is a reasonable thing, especially in this day and age when people don't want the hassle of having kids.

You're presenting an extremely selfish point of view.
You still don't need to write your own implementation. DapperExtensions got you covered, see predicates. They're not visually pleasing, but so do your implementation.

By the way, you got a nasty NIH syndrome to tackle, just saying.
...well actually... representing an n-dimensional shape as a 2-dimensional line is precisely what the mathematical term "projection" means. My apologies. Accurate phrasing had less punch.
Guide on how companies their Performance Reviews
Time-lapse videos segmented by circular sectors (And a small question.)
The lotto, reimagined
Power users find ways around that (O&O ShutUp10, Windows10ReTweaker, etc), MS is mostly pissing off semi competent lazy users
Cisco Cut Up to 5,500 Jobs
Same with Windows 10! Even works in all other programs using the Windows chrome.
> Scratch that. Code up a brand new implementation, test it and deploy it to an air gapped network

Don't take chances with an unprotected computer. Only write your code on paper until it's production-ready. :)
Europe is also full of Italian Super-managers working in other countries. Actually, I wished there were more highly skilled people coming to work in Italy (currently there are many more highly skilled Italians going abroad).
Sum Types Are Coming: What You Should Know
This also exists in e.g. Chrome, if you manage to click the corner on the left of the first tab[1]

The way Chrome's UI is handled on Windows seems quite interesting in general. You can see glimpses of it when it breaks or some other program tries to make sense of it, such as screen recording of Chrome windows.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/mJSc2lR.png
'Zeno effect' verified–atoms won't move while you watch (2015)
Only losing 10% of the helium per year is a big improvement over the Zeppelin NT. Airship Ventures, which used to fly sightseeing trips from Moffett Field, had to quit when the price of helium doubled.
Yes, it is a leftist idea. Definition of left is that they care about social and economic equality. (The understanding - IMHO wrong - of left as proposing big state ultimately comes from Communist Manifesto, where Marx used "the State" in a certain sense as a shorthand.)

Basic income would mean that part of GDP is redistributed in purely democratic manner - everybody gets the same piece of pie, whether they deserve it or not. It's very similar to democracy, but on economic level. And democracy is in fact very leftist idea (if you look at history of the left), because again, it proposes that all people should the exact same political power (one person, one vote), regardless what they are or what they do or contribute.

The fact that today's right (at least partially) accepts some of these ideas, such as democracy or UBI, is actually a success of left, or manifestation of the reality having a liberal bias. :-)
I think the clever bit is when a user sees their email in the file browser[1] they can mentally connect with that and start using their file system as the database that it is, building their own dynamic todo list[2] that isn't managed by any application!

Almost every filesystem "supports metadata", and while I agree that application support could be better, I think the real key is getting users to use that space themselves.

[1]: https://birdhouse.org/beos/refugee/bemail.jpg

[2]: https://birdhouse.org/beos/refugee/trackerbase.gif
I do, but I'm an outlier. I have a CS degree and 20 years of software experience, so I'll actually look at your code and if I know that language, take a look at your style. I've seen someone check all her Emacs autosave (~) files into Github. And unnecessarily jam multiple classes into one file. That was a bad sign.

All but a handful of recruiters will not because they simply don't understand any of that. They don't understand whats on the resume or job description. Better ones will take note of those things and pass them along to the hiring manager, who should take a look. But it's best if you link them in your resume.

Here's my comprehensive write-up on resumes, I think this is what you are looking for:

http://www.madeupname.com/optimize-developer-career/resume-t...
For a little historical context, this craft is 92m (301ft) long, the Graff zeppelin was 236.53m (776ft) and maxed out at 128km/h with 60 people on board.

Obviously these very different beasts with different goals, but the sheer scale of the old zeppelins never fails to make me happy.
There already is a law[1] that prevents downzoning: the Housing Element law. Every 7 years, local governments are required to create a document (the Housing Element) that demonstrates that they have zoned enough housing for their share of the estimated regional population growth (Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA)). But almost every locality (especially San Francisco) routinely falls short of the allocated housing production[2]. The housing by-right bill is the Governor’s attempt to fix the perceived flaw with the Housing Element law that localities promise that they will allow a certain number of housing units but break their word by rejecting the actual projects during discretionary review.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x....

[2] http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#report...
Zerodha's Rainmatter invests Rs 2.5 crore in e-signing platform Digio
Love to see the all the steps they made! Those nixie tube clocks have always intrigued me
To me it screams "shrewd business person wants the easy money and wants to easily cherry pick their customers."

The thing is, you can say "We can't afford to offer babysitters that are qualified to take care of people with mental disabilities." Say it apologetically on your website or in a questionnaire for new users or something. Don't go bragging about how shrewd you are because you only target the easy, cheap customers.
Bandwidth Costs Around the World
I've written software to help me create QR codes for my business card, including PGP, address, web site etc. There are many gotchas, some apps ignore some VCard fields, hence it puts copies into generic comment fields, too. Seems to work OK now. Maybe I should turn this into a web service.

https://github.com/pflanze/vcard-scm
>When I use a typed list... I don't go

>>someList.Add<Thing>(aThing)

Implicitly you do.
If critical automation failure is treated as a serious bug in LE, then it should really just be a matter of time before 99.9% of them are fixed and LE can enter a state of maintenance rather than development. LE (the client) don't need to expand until it can read mail.
I found one today in Go source code: https://golang.org/src/net/fd_windows.go
variable name: hasLoadSetFileCompletionNotificationModes
> there's a big difference between what people can afford to pay for hotel stays and what they can afford to pay to live somewhere

... which means that the capital associated with "people living somewhere" is poorly allocated, and would be more profitable utilized as a nice hotel space. Capital utilization isn't just about the raw duty cycle of someone using that capital. You don't markedly improve your organization's capital utilization by running SETI@Home on idle computers, because SETI@Home is a worthless waste of cycles of little or no benefit to you or society at large.

> Uber cars can operate at much lower hours and mileage

Uber's more of the damage-cartels case, admittedly.
Check the username.
MCO (Orlando International) charges taxi drivers a $50 application to apply to be able to pick up fares in their airport. Then they charge $3.15/30 minutes to wait for a fare and $2.65 per passenger pickup.

This info is available through MCO and Mears (the big Orlando taxi company) and is cited in some articles about Uber & Mears competition there.

A fare for a family of four going to Disney will cost nearly $15 in airport surcharge. After you've paid the $50 application. If they accept it.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-airport...
A Dangerous Proposal from U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The addressing modes in x86 are much less CISCy than the VAX or 68040 - no multiple indirections or increments in one instruction. John Mashey explained well the difference http://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html
And the US, host of malicious entities like the CIA and NSA, has several root CA's under their control.
Cisco, Fortinet issue fixes against Equation Group exploits
In a similar vein, is it using python specific libraries or would the examples be easily portable to other languages?
This also existed in Windows Vista and Windows XP. Like the author, I don't know if it still exists in Windows 8 or 10. I haven't regularly used Windows since I left Microsoft in 2007 ;)
The reality is that no one is going to adbandon Windows, no matter what Microsoft do. Windows 8 is proof of that.
Jury is not out, shutup10 turns off "official' telemetry services. Problem is MS build in telemetry into everything now, explorer, cortana, edge, crypto service or dnscache, _everything_ calls home regularly ~once per hour during ordinary use.

Only way to 99.9% block telemetry is to switch blocking all outgoing by default in firewall and whitelist what you use. This still leaves DNS exfiltration route :(
Nice project! Is there a snap to grid functionality? Being able to easily align a diagram is a must have for me.
No. A magnet link contains a hash of the torrent file, which is an extensible format[1]. One can simply add data to malicious torrent file until it collides with the target[2].

[1]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html

[2]: https://malicioussha1.github.io/
Ask HN: How do you like to Archive web pages?
I like to archive web pages that I think I'm going to need in the future or that I need to keep as a reference, given how unreliable web pages can be years down the line [1].

The browser 'save page' button does the job usually, but only if it is text heavy. If the page is interesting to me for it's javascripts or other such implementations (like flash objects) the browser doesn't help much. I used to use httrack[2] to archive websites, but it doesn't work with everything and the results aren't always great.

What is HN's preferred method of saving web pages and archiving websites?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
[2]http://www.httrack.com/
dont know if thats a global thing or switzerland specific but i also think its good to know that you can open laptops without voiding the warranty if you can not easily access the battery or hard disc.
Oh yes, the Alt+Space button, which I still use for windows restores (Alt+Space+R) instead of Win+Down for some reason. And for the occasional rescue of windows that have entirely escaped by screens.
>write once and run anywhere

so you would expect your apps to _play for sure_? Gee I wonder why developers are worried about it.
As I've pointed out before, RSS feeds are still widely available for hard news. Reuters, AP, and VOA have them. Even Al Jazeera [1] and China Daily[2] have RSS feeds. The New York Times has an RSS feed.[3] The Hill has RSS feeds with details of what's happening in Congress. The European Union has many RSS feeds.[4] The Hollywood Reporter has RSS feeds.[5] The Times of London has RSS feeds.[6] The South China Morning Post has RSS feeds.[7] The NASDAQ has an RSS feed for every ticker symbol.[8] Platts has RSS feeds for oil industry news.[9]

Those who need to know what's going on choose RSS.

[1] http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles.rss
[2] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/rss/china_rss.xml
[3] http://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
[4] http://europa.eu/rapid/rss.htm
[5] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rss
[6] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/feedindex/
[7] http://www.scmp.com/rss
[8] http://www.nasdaq.com/services/rss.aspx
[9] http://www.platts.com/rss-feed
and hopefully as successful.
That would be dangerous in events that use laps.
Snowden: Release of NSA Tools May Be Russian Warning to US