skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer to do email suggestion rather than validation - The only validation I have is that it should contain an @. And then use something like http://getmailcheck.org/ to suggest spelling corrections for common domains. We saw a massive reduction in bad emails just by implementing this without having to annoy users with incorrectly implemented validation rules.
I am pretty excited about this as I have few cross-platform languages that I can use (due to conditions at work). I am wondering how many distros will adopt it into their repos.
Same with Docker, you can just "hyper login", then pull the images.

Yes, currently no shared volume.
I'd like to know what people are using for writing non-fiction. Mainly I'd like to know how people keep track of their research and cross referencing it from their editor.

Here's what I have:

* Many words typed up in One Note

* Highlights and annotations in iBooks, Kindle, and Instapaper (although Instapaper allows export to MD)

* Notes from PDF exported to Markdown using the Highlights app[0]

* Images

* Tons of shit to read in pinboard and other places

Here's the kicker, I travel a lot (every week) so I need most of my tools to work well offline/slow wifi and preferably on an iPad/iPhone.

What do people use for organizing notes and research (literature of all sorts), cross referencing, organization, and first draft?

0: http://highlightsapp.net/
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep an eye out.
GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen – Mind the Gap
An Open Letter to Managers of Women
There's a lot more political will for a "public option" now (largely because the people who have said it wasn't necessary in the ACA-style setup and that private insurers -- augmented by the coops that the ACA created a framework for -- would step up have increasingly been proven wrong.) Whether a public option is a step on the road to single payer depends on a number of things, including how private insurers respond.
High Performance SVGs
Thanks, this is very interesting! I added it to the article.

The only difference is that bounding boxes are still used for sprites, but he adds a sort of voxel heightmap inside of it to represent occupied volume.

> heightmap: https://youtu.be/Ssrkq6_6JYU?t=15m21s

If you imagine this heightmap as a building with multiple floors (e.g. 1st floor, 2nd floor) the algorithm takes the lowest common floor of each of these buildings and performs an intersection test between them and nothing else. This allows the sprites to interact more fluidly inside the bounding boxes! Neat.

> heightmap floors: https://youtu.be/Ssrkq6_6JYU?t=16m12s
Probably most distos that want to be available on azure. Which is why this happened really.
Microsoft is projecting that the .NET ecosystem will become a main revenue driver, regardless of the underlying operating system.
Storytelling Is Power
Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison
British concentration camps predated Nazi's
If we don't understand, acknowledge and what happened in the past, how can we be moving on with confidence that it's still not happening?

I encourage everyone to look into the Truth & Reconciliation movement in Canada. It's truly inspiring to see how important Truth is, and how important reconciliation is, only because of truth.

Really, the question can be of one's own guilt and blissful ignorance when we're reminded how clueless we really are of the plight of others. Looking in the mirror in that simple way isn't always easy.
I've had my own micro ORM before any of those other ORMs existed or the term micro ORM was a thing, so one can hardly call that NIH. In fact there weren't any ORM's in .Net at all when I wrote mine.

I love using good external libs, use them all the time. What I have is lots of experience with shitty ORM's and a fascination with the ORM problem that's led me to write several ORMs of my own just for the fun of it.

Frankly I think it's one of the great teaching programs you can write, you'll learn a ton writing an ORM if you've never done it before.

Thanks for the tip on DapperExtensions, I'll take a look.
Hi Mikael! I built Quaderno (https://quaderno.io) to deal with this issue. Most of your customers are EU SaaS. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to help :)
Supply would be /less/ limited if it were less difficult to get a project approved, so you'd see more non-luxury apartments.
Well, whenever I install a messenger (seems like I am doing this too frequently last few months, since every group of friends like to use a completely different messenger), first thing I try is a simple "ping-pong" messages, that is - "is this working?" - "yes, it is.", usually even with seeing the friend face to face.

I cannot imagine these "ping-pong" messages - to even establish if the messenger is working, that the other person has it installed correctly etc - would take about a day.
In most places in the US, you can't even get list prices. Calling up providers for quotes gets you hung up on.

Singapore, which has a significant market portion to their health care industry, mandates posting of prices.
It would be hard to detect the best time to deliver the message. Naive approaches could get it almost exactly wrong, as one of the times when I really don't want to be interrupted is when I'm just sitting and reading something, and not really interacting much. I'm sure there are better ways of determining if the user isn't focusing on anything, and maybe some of them would work well as a trigger for delivering messages. That would be pretty nifty.
You are entitled to 5 minutes per hours for toilette breaks et.c. Most white collar jobs you just take your breaks whenever you feel you need them, and the fika is very important and in most places longer than the 20 minutes you accumulate in the morning or afternoon. In blue collar it is sometimes very different with a signal at 55 minutes every hour and then a signal 3 minutes later to signal that it is time to start moving back to your station and be ready for the signal at the hour. But I have worked as a construction worker where there was fika at least once every morning and afternoon.
PowerShell is my guilty pleasure of the computing world. Once you've piped strongly-typed objects around between your shell commands, text scraping seems barbaric by comparison. The problem, of course, is that you can't use all that power for much, since the pool of PS-compatible tools and utilities is much shallower than it is for Unix shells. I'm really hoping this will help spur a new wave of PowerShell-compatible tools.

Come to the dark side, we have (strongly-typed) cookies.
I was shocked because she fell into the demographic that I would expect to know.

Anyway, one thing that isn't in doubt is that it was only one data point. It's good to have some balancing opinions!
How did you get to this number? I'm familiar with a few "map the world" efforts, and this seems an order of magnitude too small. I'd love to hear about a breakthrough.
Eh, it's a leisure activity for me: I read Principles and Practice for fun. It's a question of whether I want to spend a good chunk of this month's leisure budget on this book. It's out of impulse-purchase range, so I keep putting it off. One of these days... :)
Unless the property tax is a land value tax, wouldn't the additional tax revenue from higher density construction pay for that automatically?
Great. I wonder what Steve Ballmer is thinking.
> People who raise these issues now probably and unintentionally end up generating hatred amongst individuals who might otherwise be perfectly fine with each other.

For events only 50 years ago, it's more likely that the hatred is already there and the effect of it on families gets ignored because "the past is past".

"Creating an uprising" only happens when there's already tension and unhappiness floating around and people don't feel like they have any other way for their problems to be heard.
2 words keep sick Samsung workers from data: trade secrets
Mozilla Open Design
PowerShell for every system
I wish more than the first chapter were free so I could get a sense of the "meat" of the book vs just the intro. I'd even be willing to give up my email for it to be notified of new chapters (hint hint).
No but I expect them not to make it look like they just want to help OSS
> Businesses have more customers.

And customers therefore have more choice. In the suburbs a given area might support only one McDonalds, but in the city the same area can support a McDonalds and a Burger King and a KFC.
I made a Chrome extension for Gmail which includes a timed inbox lockout feature. You could configure this so that you can only see your inbox at specific times of day.

https://inboxwhenready.org/
There is no such implication. But in any case it seems wise to spread responsibility, given that the US has already abused the system and others haven't because they couldn't.

The problem I see is that since ICANN is located within the US, the system will still be abused, because ICANN falls under US jurisdiction with all its moronic justice system and draconian, though generally ineffective, "intellectual property" law enforcement.

So nothing will change anyway.
Very clever, I love the example using the emoji lock icon to indicate SSL works well on Mac
"don't be defensive" is a great retort because no matter what anyone says, they just seem more defensive.

day to day, i deal with people like you a lot. armchair quarterbacks and real-life concern trolls. that's why owning a business is hard.
Upvoted because frankly I've seen the exact arguments used against men. The cause of Labor knows no gender.
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
Ballmer's long gone, so he's probably thinking about the LA Clippers (he's the owner).
I'm always in favor of things being open-sourced, but I do kind of wonder in what universe I would use PowerShell when Bash is readily available.
As someone who assembled, ran, and maintained high vacuum hardware and furnaces in undergraduate and graduate school, my hats off to the scope of this guy's undertaking.
SightSound versus Apple, from SightSound's perspective
I think the causality goes both ways. People want to live there because of the advantages of density, and the area becomes denser to accommodate them.
Have you tried pushbullet? I use it for texting from my desktop and it works quite well. I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy user.

https://www.pushbullet.com/
someone is (or was?) trying: https://www.vikings.net/
I've been hoping for a fully-featured Linux version of Powershell for a while, very awesome. I've used various Linux distributions for a long time and find bash very practical usually, but when I started learning Powershell when working in Windows environments I've been impressed with how easy it was to do some powerful stuff, and felt conflicted since I wanted to be able to use similar functionality and scripts across Linux/Windows.
Using GitHub Issues and Trello.
This is relatively easy to account for though, if updates are properly authenticated it shouldn't be much of a problem to host them in multiple locations.

DDoSing s3 and competition can be excessively difficult and not every update needs to be served from there.
Swedish Academy of Sciences getting final say on who wins the Nobel Peace prize?

Bad example, since they 'gave that up' (in the sense you can give up something you never had) at the prize's founding.
British concentration camps weren't created for the purpose of mass extermination.
One big challenge there is that infrastructure is expensive; replacing it moreso. To use an analogy, it's a lot cheaper to replace trains in a rail fleet than to replace track (the per-unit cost might be lower, but the logistical cost of downing a track network to switch it out can be significant, especially in last-mile areas or bottlenecks).

Horseless carriages drive on roads that were minimally modified from what the horses used (in some parts of Pittsburgh, for example, they never swapped out the Belgian block).
Yet, the british never worked their prisoners to death or conducted mass killings on an industrial scale.
The hubbub has subsided. This article is about Koller leaving Coursera to work on machine learning for an unrelated (gerontology) company.

Every generation invents distance education and gets excited all over again. It's good every time, and each round leverages the new technology, but it quickly becomes the new normal.
Sometimes the ball bounces off the spout and rolls down towards the camera. Other times it rolls aways from the camera. Can anyone speculate on why this is apparently non-deterministic?
If they screw it up, we can always just move to an alternate system of DNS servers. We're all only on a single system by convention anyway.
Finally! I love the methodology behind PowerShell. It's more verbose than bash, and that's OK to me. The readability and _consistency_ far outweigh the extra characters. Now, I get that coupled with all the flexibility of *nix tooling.

It's going to be a long road to hook everything up, but this has the chance to finally standardize command parameters.

I'm sorry. This is truly amazing to me and I'm quite excited!
This makes me a bit nervous. I would say that the US has been a pretty great steward up until this point.
What Hundreds of Millions of Data Points Taught Us About Email List Building
Worse, the whole argument is circular: cities are growing because jobs are moving there! Why are jobs moving there? Because that's where the people are!

The whole SF housing debate -- both sides of it -- is completely irrational. One side believes that unrestricted building will solve everything, despite ample evidence to the contrary. The other believes that nothing should be built unless it's 100% affordable, despite clear evidence that this won't work, either.

Meanwhile, SF continues to encourage tech companies to relocate to the city by offering substantial tax incentives. If only we could do something to reduce the severity of the crisis...
There's a serious problem at the heart of "throw a bunch of data at it" strategy - driving has an extremely long tail that's relatively fat. You can hit the "average case" relatively quickly (you can assume that Google's done that for the SoCal environment), but being able to extend that dataset to other, less likely scenarios, like "heavy downpour in SF" or "freak snowstorm" or "sudden construction due to water main break" is really hard.
He gets his share of evilness with Windows 10 wreaking havoc in users'
privacy. Microsoft doesn't seem to have changed that much.
Where's the beef? The only "chapter" is 5 pages of fluff telling me why I should read the book.

This should be flagged as blogspam.
How to take a Selfie with friends half way across the world
Probably "<something>, <something>, developers".

I'd love to know his reaction to and thoughts surrounding this move.
At some point I'd be really interested to read a writeup on Scrivener and your writing workflow.
Pardon me to be so polemic, but what kind of progressive values do you have in mind? Political assassinations by drone strikes that kill hundreds of children and women as bystanders?
Gcc will not issue diagnostic if you return a "void expression" because doing so is valid in C++.
You should be more concerned about downpayment amounts (3% is acceptable, and some lenders will finance with 0%). This is what pushes home prices up artificially.

I had a foreclosure where I stopped making payments in 2011. My foreclosure finally completed in December of last year (4.5 years later). I already have lenders who will finance me on a new mortgage.

It's madness.
nonono it's a button
Videos Surface of a Death in Custody the LAPD Didn’t Want Released
Favelas for you and you and you...
I'm glad that Microsoft is doing stuff like this. But, I can't imagine a lot of Linux users are going to want to use it. As a former Windows developer I always found Power Shell to be lacking in nearly everything I wanted to do on the command line, in fact, I mainly did shell commands on a remote Ubuntu server.
> If companies only built Lamborghinis and Ferarris, cars would never be affordable for regular people.

The question is then /why/ would companies only build Lamborghinis and Ferraris when there is such a huge market for Hondas and Fords. To extend your analogy, if all manufacturers were collectively allowed to build only 10,000 cars a year, and each one of those were subject to neighborhood review and potential lawsuits, /of course/ they will build only luxury cars!
Ask HN: What is your ambition in life?
Personally, I hope I can say at the end of my career that I made myself obsolete. ;)
What do you know about Powershell? (The answer will depend on that)
Is that an issue in California? Plenty of cities straddle counties in Texas, and NYC is actually five counties. On the other hand, I don't think cities can generally straddle counties in Florida (at least, I know of none that did).
BeFS's metadata support was much different from usual—it was a key/value map attached to each file. NTFS supports extended attributes and alternate data streams, which you could use to do the same thing, but none of the *nix filesystems have anything like that. What sort of metadata do you mean with “almost every filesystem ‘supports metadata’”?
Cheddar and Sour Cream Ruffles
Honestly, I prefer the object based approach compared to the text wrangling approach.
Quick tutorial: Getting started with Apache Kafka for microservices
As a full-time Linux user, I have to say that bash is overrated.

For instance, on Windows I could press the up arrow through my history 20x to find a group of commands I want to run, press Enter, then press DOWN for the following command, then enter, then DOWN until I run them all. In Bash, I need to press UP 20x every single time.

Yes, you can customize it a lot, and you can script it but default bash isn't that special to me.
My understanding of a hedge fund is simply an organization that is given the freedom to make any type of investment using any type of strategy they want[0]. They raise millions, and for a set period of time the people who gave them the millions cannot pull it out, allowing them to execute strategies that may not make any money for several years, which is different from a traditional investment organization.

So all the author is saying is that giving a "black box" a lot of money, and letting it opaquely invest however it wants, will be a winning investment strategy in the future, even though right now it isn't working out so well.

[0] Of course they have documents that explain the strategy, agree to certain things, etc. I'm simplifying it a bit.
It's been such a difficult road. The consistency that PowerShell provides makes discovering things simple. There's no referencing a MAN page to see which parameter switch it is for _this_ tool. Yet, there's been no power. No ability to harness OSS tools in that way. Now, maybe I can have both.
Yes, I didn't dispute that?

I'm just saying the luxury apartments are a result of the high prices, not the other way around.
There was a similar story at one of the shipping ports in LA I believe. The port wanted to install a multi-billion dollar, mostly automated container moving system, but the workers union managed to negotiate only a partial roll out and guarantees that they would remain employed (which I guess defeats the purpose of installing automated systems).
I really hope this drives a new wave of experimentation and development in shell interaction. Text as the lowest common denominator will never go away but having more powerful constructs available will be great for a lot of use cases.
There's no relation between the two. The progressive values are things like freedom of expression and free journalism. These stand in contrast to nations like Turkey and China, and their internet policy.
Restrictions define human behavior and freedom.
Yes. Imagine a current flowing exactly as fast as you can swim and you must swim one lap with it and one against it. You cover the lap in half your normal time when it's helping you and then when it's against you you cannot _even_ cover a lap. Total time = infinity.
I feel like that is more a product of the fact that the effort put into most other languages is greatly lower at this point relative to English, rather than English is particularly easy or other languages are particularly hard. It will all come in time.
I don't know why anyone is bullish on hedge funds just based on their numbers. Bottomline, there will always be successful hedge funds, but your chance of identifying the winners before hand is challenging to say the least. Add their costs and "heads I win, tails you lose" fee structure and I'm really not interested.
Just checked your website, it looks really good. I also had an idea to create a travel itinerary site with the affiliate skyscanner and car rental addon. Looks like you have done that. I am not seeing much info on Europe and the UK? Your website has huge potential. Of all my website ideas I went with what I am doing now, which is a hobbies website, with directory - it is such a fun job! http://www.hobbyfinda.com/ - I actually run a Marketing company, which makes advertising and getting my website to page 1 of google very cheap =). love your website though, lots of potential, contact if you want to throw some ideas around. http://www.hobbymediagroup.com/
> the Rio Olympics as a whole seem to be a mess,

As a Brazilian let me ask this: because Munich 72 and Atlanta 96 where so much better ? (hint: no terrorism in Rio)
Bought it thank you. Looking forward to reading the whole book :)
People are taking these articles too seriously. Obviously, this is very tongue in cheek.
The Different Approaches to Pursuing AI
Uber will probably attempt to make it hard for new players to get in by setting up government barriers. Or by owning all the patents on the tech.
I have no issue with the anti-war aspects of what you wrote. But as an historian, I feel like I ought to write a defense of remembering past injustices. I think there are several grounds for doing so:

- I can't speak for Caroline Elkins, but I think that many historians, including myself, believe that every human life that was ever lived has some value and deserves to be remembered, as far as that's possible. As living human being we naturally have a tendency to privilege our present moment and the lives of the humans who happen to be alive alongside us, and there's nothing wrong with that. But it's humbling to realize that there are tens of billions of lives that have faded from memory, but which were every bit as vivid and profound to the people who experienced them as your own life is to you. So I think one core benefit of history is simply in preserving the memories and the experiences of all sentient beings. (This is going to get very interesting in the decades to come when we get better at digitally preserving people's personalities and memories, but that's for another discussion).

- There are a surprising number of people in the mainstream of political and cultural discussion who truly seem to believe that the British Empire should be uncritically celebrated. Niall Ferguson being probably the most famous example. This kind of work forces us to confront the fact that the good intentions of some British imperialists were counterbalanced by atrocities and acts of unthinking violence. Caroline Elkins' work is important in the same way that George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is - it documents cruelties, not to settle scores, but to help us avoid repeating them.

- Arguably, more violence and hatred could be incited by failing to remember horrible past events. In other words, if a people have a sense that they've been wronged within living memory, and that as those memories fade, the injustice done to them will be forgotten, this could generate even more distrust and hatred then an acknowledgement and apology. This is a debatable point, but one that makes sense to me from the standpoint of my own life - we tend to get angriest at unacknowledged wrongs.