skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about budget. My local library is in a relatively affluent town, so they've got kinda a startup space vibe they're trying to build, and obviously they've stepped up the computer lab offerings quite a bit. Another nice perk for the movie buffs among us, is that they buy 25+ copies of new movies, and checkouts are free. While the hold list means you'll wait on those titles a few months... I haven't paid to rent a movie going on ten years now.

I actually worked for four years at the library, and I absolutely appreciate the heck out of it.
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We talk about it a lot in the office and I definitely agree with you. Perhaps I'm naive, but I don't think it needs to be the case though. I sort of touched on it at the end of this [1] but it's something I want to dig deeper into.

We really feel there's a lot of power to use the profit making incentive that drives these firms to generate real-world value, and that the main driver of that has to be tying trading decisions more closely to true human value by giving the industry better real-world information (and potentially sensible regulation).

Hopefully, we can help in some small way, but I think we still need to do a lot of work to understand the incentive mechanisms of the industry better.

If you want to subscribe I'll leave a note and let you know particularly when something on that topic comes up.

[1] http://www.krzana.com/blog/the-future-of-financial-analysis
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I can vouch for Vienna. It's an amazing city and it's getting more international by the day. It's very affordable still and has a great public transport system and airport.

Main downside are the Austrians there ;) But at 40% foreign born population that is changing :D
Yes, they closed it, because that was the deal: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/information-t...

and http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/modernsequel/

"The complete working Babbage engine is on public display at the Science Museum in London. A duplicate engine and printer, a 'second original', the Babbage Difference Engine No.2 was completed for a private benefactor of the project, Nathan Myhrvold, formerly chief technology officer and Group VP at Microsoft. The Babbage Difference Engine No 2. was on displayed and demonstrated from May 2008 to January 2016."
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We are currently looking into this question as well, it does not seem that complex as we first expected. But would be great to compare notes, our current understanding below.

My current understanding for selling services if company located within EU (we are in Sweden)

- If customer is outside EU: No VAT charged ("reverse charge")

- If customer is inside EU and has VATID: Verify VATID, no VAT charged ("reverse charge")

- If customer is inside EU and do NOT have VATID: Apply VAT % for country where customer is located, charge VAT, pay VAT through MOSS system in country where your company is located
A picture is worth a thousand words. Thanks for the screenshot. My main playback interface: http://imgur.com/cUZ1HTF

Are you using iOS 9?
How does it compare with the quit rate in highly-paid but non-high-tech occupations such as legal, middle/upper management, aviation, medicine or finance?

One would assume there's a natural attrition across all industries due to women taking time off to have/raise kids as well as some common base level of quitting in general due to reasons common across all industries (better pay elsewhere, bad managers). Is 2.5x coefficient very high, very low or just about same as other industries?
Fair enough... But I still find it strange.
Happy to see Adelaide in there. It is a wonderful city.

Objectively I imagine Adelaide is actually the better city, for public transport and costs and such.

But Melbourne is just way more interesting. A much richer history, density and diversity of structures and services.
Is Motherboard' “anonymous” source really anonymous?
Two days ago, Motherboard published an article titled "Former NSA Staffers: Rogue Insider Could Be Behind NSA Data Dump".

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/former-nsa-staffers-rogue-insider-shadow-brokers-theory

Most informations were provided by an "anonymous" source, but the article includes a copy of a "Joint Service Achievement Medal" certificate, which includes a long text describing the said achievement. I guess the text is different for each recipient of the medal. I'm wondering if it doesn't make easy to identify the source?
Maybe I wasn't clear. The big idea is not components. The big idea is expressing your view hierarchy as a single snapshot in time, and when the data changes you conceptually throw out the old view hierarchy and re-render from scratch and React manages the native view updates to ensure that it's fast and doesn't adversely affect the UX by, say, resetting scrollbar position.

Contrast this with two previous approaches. The first is where you have a component hierarchy that renders the initial state of the view, but when the data changes you need to write imperative code to transition the native views to reflect the new state. The second is traditional data binding, which doesn't help when you want to change the view hierarchy itself (rather than properties of existing views) based on an underlying data change.
Does the law require taking chemistry into account for sentencing? Is Crack and Cocaine different classes of drugs?
I'm surprised Calgary didn't suffer in these rankings from its weakening economy and rising crime rate. I mean, things are still pretty good, but they're worse now than a year ago.
SolarCity laying off workers, restructuring
I thought publishing on the company's domain was reasonable disclosure, apologies if I didn't make it clear enough.

That said, we also sell to investment banks, insurance companies, PR firms etc. I'm certainly not an entirely unbiased outsider, but our book is relatively balanced, as it were!

Thanks for reading anyway :)
This is true, and a very, very good thing I think. But it's the prosaic stuff (how do I claim this? Where do I actually look for information? What information will help me? Etc) where having a real person sit and help you is incredibly important.
Subscription boxes for very specific fetishes. The market is there, and willing to pay.
Problems are:
a) Margins don't justify time required for a worthwhile product
b) The state of payment processing for anything "adult" is offensive
And everybody remembers how Ford was forced to reintroduce a carriage with a horse a couple of decades later because nobody was really using those horseless carriages. Right?

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-o...
I can vouch for that. I've seen people riding bikes around Tokyo, alone, at 4 in the morning. It really does feel like an incredibly safe city.
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If only there was a faster way for them to get to their destination! ;)
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Strava and Human are pretty different products, where Human tracks everyday activity, and Strava focuses on specific activities like running and cycling. We became pretty close with the Strava team over the years and were honored to count their leadership to our group of advisors. Being an avid Strava user myself, I'm excited to work with Strava in my new role at Mapbox.

We're looking forward to sharing what we learned about the health & fitness space, activity tracking, and mobile with all Mapbox customers.
Here's the thing, as I understood it the Science Museum in London got to keep theirs, the second one, would go through the Computer History Museum for a year, and then on to Nathan.

Except if you read my link, the London Science Museum has taken theirs (which is not Nathan's) off display. That was what I was saying "Argh!" about.
No, the lesson is to not block recovery via laws passed to satisfy the political need to "do something, anything!".

See "Economics: Public and Private Choice" by Gwartney, Stroup, Sobel, MacPherson. The part you want is "Lessons from the Great Depression", which is Special Topic #6 in the 14th edition.

It's pretty damning. We responded by restricting trade, creating cartels, destroying food, and so many other self-destructive things.
Ask HN: Is working for a proprietary trading firm worth giving up my lifestyle?
Hi all,
I currently work at a Silicon Valley company making ~$220k/yr. The work is mostly enjoyable, but I feel like I've stopped learning quite a bit, but the work/life balance is quite good. I also have a lot of room for growth if I just continue climbing the ladder and putting my head down. The politics also get to me from time to time, but overall I enjoy it and most of my friends are in the bay area.
I've received an offer to be a developer at a high frequency trading firm in NYC for $400k/yr with an even higher ceiling depending on the bonus. I'd just be a developer working on the platform. The work is very interesting to me and the huge increase in money is difficult to give up, but I'd probably be working 60-70 hour weeks and leaving behind all my friends. It'd also be on a small team so I could work on big projects right away (both a good thing and bad thing!). I'd be leaving all my friends behind too..
Should I continue climbing the ladder at my current company and hang with my friends? Or should I head to NYC? The opportunity seems too good to pass up but I don't want to give up what I have and end up regretting it.

I should also mention I'm a dumbass and accepted the HFT offer and would have to renege.
Carsales(.com.au) apparently have a decent culture and are located in Melbourne.
It's a MOBA.

Obviously.
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I'm something of an OO zealot and I'm a C# developer so I'm familiar with PS and probably it's target audience so to speak.

PS is a fantastic product but I just find it too verbose. When everything is expressed as an object with properties you need to reference the object and the appropriate property. I know there are alias' for common Bash operations and idiomatic PSallows shortcuts but most people who use PS for short spells to automate something are unlikely to be adopting idiomatic styles.

For PS to gain traction I feel like it needs to be a superset of Bash and offer an easier, intuitive gateway. I know it has enormous potential, I know it has massive capabilities but still I only reach for it as a last resort. I don't think I'm alone in the matter :/
> Ten of these cities are in western Europe, notably Paris, which has suffered multiple terrorist attacks.

This seems incredibly misguided and really makes me question the entire ranking. It's one thing for the populace to irrationally fear terrorist attacks, it's another thing to codify that fear into an actual ranking without considering the vanishingly small chance of being affected.

The likelihood of you being a victim of a terrorist attack in any western city is negligible. It should simply not be a factor in considering where to live, full stop. The ranking doesn't include the percentage chance of an air conditioner falling on you, so it shouldn't consider terrorism.
Used to use Human a lot. Loved the app but it killed my battery, I was forced to uninstall it :(.

That was about a year ago... wonder if they've improved it at all in that area?
I find it odd they drop Sydney out of the top 10 due to terrorist threats but keep Toronto and Hamburg.
Lol, crack is much more suitable for a productive lifestyle!!

I was under the impression (maybe untrue) that it was more intense/addictive, but maybe that's just media bias working on me.
Maybe have a look at who goes to certain meetup groups that are relevant?
Crack has a much more intense, shorter high, and is much more closely associated with negative life outcomes than powder cocaine. Powder cocaine users tend to be much more high functioning than crack users.

Many of the laws tough on crack cocaine were brought in during the 80s and 90s when crack was thought (perhaps accurately) to be tearing African American communities apart, and many of the campaigners for the tough laws were African American community leaders.
This is why it's important to draw a clear line between science and ideologies.
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Olinda is way too far out to make it into the city with any regularity.

After living in various locations all over Melbourne, I now have being within 10 mins walk of public transport as a MUST. (Now I have 2 tram stops almost on my doorstep)
Once I saw Vancouver on the list, it made me question its validity. At least the Bay Area's prices are driven by actual jobs and not just foreign housing investments.
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There are many different laws and sentencing guidelines, and many of them do differentiate between the two forms (?) of cocaine.
People who don't play multiplayer or don't have a good enough internet connection tend to go with GOG since most if not all games on GOG is DRM free.
Ah someone from my area - I commute into south bank everyday from Ferntree Gully. I actually don't mind the train trip in. It's a bit further to a train station from Olinda though (assuming that was how you travelled in).
Calgary's average December temperature is −6.8 °C. That's a challenge compared to Melbourne or even Vancouver.
Define nuclear facilities (reactors, launch silos?).

Under MAD an attack on the nuclear capabilities of a nuclear armed state or any attempt at unilateral disarmament is usually defined as a nuclear attack/first strike.
This often interpreted both indirect and indirect means which is why the ABM work the US is been doing over the years in Europe causes such a big mess with the Russians.

The US spends trillion on missile defense, trillions that Russia cannot afford, so Russia is forced to spend it on improving their nuclear delivery capabilities.
Russia restarting their investment in their nuclear arms made the US go and say "see Europe, we weren't just fear mongering, they are rearming you need our missile defense" which pushes the Russians even further.
Not if you run your own DNS server.
Can you please provide a link?
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases

Microsoft has an SSH server for Windows right now.

[Edit] Here is a guide from the WinSCP peeps on how to get it running. https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server

The native SFTP works well!
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Stores need to stop offering "credit monitoring" as if it was some kind of solution. There should be liability with regards to personal information and credit cards.
For the most common use cases there would be a standard function to get structured objects, in Python you have os.listdir() instead of ls, etc. If there is none then you can call ps and parse the result manually or call the system functions with c interop.
I believe you're looking for infowars or some other bs site where conspiracy nutjobs hang out.
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Great link. Thanks for sharing.
It seems that as far as marketing goes. "Diversity" is the new "green".

Both terms obviously describe a good thing but people seem to be willing to suspend their disbelief whenever they encounter the term and laud something just for such claims (whether they are backed up by actual numbers or not).

I wonder if we'll see green-washing style "diversity-washing" too.
All I am seeing from this is people's perception of their own cities. At Melbourne, people are going to be filled with city-spirit.

Though this correlation breaks down for a lot of cities... (And I am just guessing on Melbourne as well)

I really don't know if this chart gives any credible insight.
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This isn't the forum for memes and image replies. Tn13 may not have the best grasp of the English language, but I was able to understand what he/she said and felt they added value to the conversation. Memes do not.
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As is often the case, reality is less sinister than fantasy: no, I can confidently assert that Netflix does not influence your catalog based on the state of the content cache. The system is entirely built the other way around: the cache will fill to meet expected demand, full stop.
I imagine there's a certain level of crime/transport where there's almost no distinction between the two. The truth is Melbourne is a safe modern western city, which is to say practically 0 or min() as far as cities go.

I've only moved to Melbourne 2 years ago.

I understand the transport thing compared to Tokyo, but again, I imagine there a level where the scale tops out. Melbournians love to bitch about their transport, and the train capacity isn't keeping up with the growth in the burbs, but live within the inside of the tram network and you're basically set and timetable-less. Plus we do have the free tram zone and all night transport now.

Of course, I tell people there are two Melbournes. Zone 1: transport everywhere, compact walking city.
Zone 2: suburban sprawl, connected by single train lines into the city and free ways.

Live in Zone 1 and you generally don't go to Zone 2. Live in Zone 2, and thank god you don't have a Sydney commute our house prices :p
Floating point rounding errors are deterministic.
sadly yes.
Spelunked the site for a while, but couldn't figure out what it does. Could not find an About page, for example.
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Nice shilling. Nobody uses language like

>"MS is moving to a quick release cadence where the patches aren't just bug fixes, but they're actually pumping out feature after feature and fixing bugs"
> For example, Newtonian physics always had the goal of calculating artillery trajectories.

Excuse me? Principia Mathematica' real purpose is to compute artillery trajectories? Sorry, this claim is absurd and the burden of evidence just shifted to you.

> Nuclear physics had the goals of energy/weapons.

That's entirely false. What we now call nuclear physics originated in particle physics. Weapon research is a recent spinoff of this field, and is not a source of new insights into nature.

When Leo Szilard realized that a chain reaction was possible, he wasn't trying to solve a practical problem, he was simply brainstorming a pure-research idea (and it is said, while waiting to cross a street).

When Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission, they were engaged in pure research, they were not trying to solve any specific problem.

The Manhattan Project and all that followed from it were applied-research spinoffs of basic breakthroughs in pure research.

> But there are also a huge number of anecdotes of pure research being directly motivated by providing theoretical justification for/analysis of applied work.

Your claim is self-contradicting. If the goal of a research program is the solution of a practical problem, then it's not pure research.

> So I don't see any compelling reason to believe your unsupported assertions.

I don't have unsupported assertions, instead the history of science has copious examples in support of the idea that most of our insight into nature arises in pure research.
I live in Graz and prefer it over Vienna... though doubtless a portion of that preference is enabled by the fact that Vienna exists :-)
Great way to read the article and discuss with friends on topics while reading some useful information.
Not legal in the EU.
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Indeed, even late to the party.
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1. the data is encrypted with the established TLS session key for the current downloading session, i.e. it is indeed a per instance key. Therefore, there is no choice but to encrypt on the go.

2. the CDN cache in fact is the place where this encryption (for the purpose of TLS) takes place. It therefore does not interfere with the CDN function.
Kinda like flash games?
>> When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest

> As someone who prefers giving and receiving terse feedback... I would suggest that there's nothing wrong with brutal honesty for type of people who appreciate receiving it.

It seems to me that you cited the fragment of donw's comment about "brutally honest", but ineffective feedback ("The module you wrote is crap because your code sucks and is hard to maintain.") and then started arguing that some people like receiving terse feedback.

But won't you agree that the example of "brutally honest" feedback wasn't in any way terse and that "brutally honest" doesn't necessarily mean terse?

I find the second part of the "kind" feedback much more terse: "Breaking those big methods and classes into smaller separate objects and functions would help a lot".
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Nice way to prove the point that object based is far more reliable than text based.
Aren't most subways unsupervised? I mean, they have a driver, but as far as I know they can't usually even see what's happening inside the train.
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> First of all, quantum mechanics was motivated by the thought of semiconductors.

Excuse me? Quantum mechanics was developed in the 1920s, long before any thought of applying it to any practical problems. Semiconductor research came much later, and that was also largely pure research into material properties carried out at Bell Labs, a facility noted for its isolation from any commercial application of its work.

So, entirely false.

> One of the primary use cases of it was explaining the photoelectric effect [1].

You're confused. Einstein explained the photoelectric effect in 1905, then spent the remainder of his career objecting to the quantum theories that developed from this starting point, all without any practical applications in mind by any of the participants.

> Interestingly, the classical belief that the photoelectric effect proves the quantization of light is wrong.

There is no such belief, so discussing it is pointless.

> Probability and statistics are perhaps the worst possible example of pure research that - purely by chance - happens to be useful later.

They're examples of pure research into mathematical ideas that --purely by chance -- happen to have practical applications. How is that a bad example of the point that pure research is the source of most insights into nature?
I'm surprised Hamburg is the highest rated German city. I haven't spent much time in the country, so maybe some natives can educate me. Köln, Stuttgart, Dresden, and München were far more enjoyable.
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I'd like to modify that claim:

One person can be enough to create an outstanding product.

There are stories of solo developers creating awesome products on their own, but there are far more stories of solo developers failing to ever come close to a finished product at all. Betting on a solo developer is high-risk, high-reward. Even if the developer is unreasonably talented in every aspect (i.e. great programmer, great designer, great marketer, etc) it can still be a matter of how far they can go without exhausting themself.

A larger team of less skilled developers OTOH may still be good enough to deliver a finished product. Plus, even if each developer is less skilled at most aspects individually, their strengths can add up and easily surpass that of an extraordinarily talented individual.

The reason you hear about excellent solo devs winning all the time is that you don't hear about the millions of solo devs failing. It's plain old survivor bias.

Teams may hold back extreme outliers but they empower everybody else and drastically increase the chance of actually delivering.