skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opened one just now. Why is this hard?
You can use options in Keyboard preferences to default the combo-function keys to actual function keys (where you'd press fn to use them as hotkeys rather than the other way around)

The built-in mic can be set as the audio input in Audio & MIDI settings.

Hope that helps with some of that list.
That's absurd. Most other industries, people get some respect for experience. I'd understand not hiring someone who had not kept up but people of any age can stop learning. If someone's on top of things, why would their age have anything to do with the hiring decision? Not being "into" the same things is flat out childish.
I have to be honest, this is a cool idea but after reading some of the comments, it makes sense that more information and health topics/concerns need to be addressed. Although overall, I would much rather just have a cup of coffee (I'm a coffee lover).

Maybe market to an industry where it is necessary for someone to be caffeinated right away after waking up (think time sensitive, life / death) and health concerns are more gray area (ie. maybe soldiers can use this during war time). edit, spacing...
As someone that also works in Boulder, is your compensation enough to allow you to actually live in Boulder?
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Or leotard, really :)

It's amazing if you can even live as a dancer. Usually, there's a second job. (I worked in CS in parallel to the dance thing. And at some point looked at the pay checks :)
I just finished a project on Azure and am now doing a project on Google Cloud. I've been blown away by the documentation and user experience. It's by far my favorite between AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Glad to see Windows VMs are now supported. Any intention to add C# drivers for the services, namely Pub/Sub?
The paper they're citing mostly handwaves around the so-called "cure" as well, but that might really be for the best. It does have some more detail, though:

> In his early experiments in the outdoor pens, Calhoun had
witnessed a creative act by his rats that he likened to the discovery of the wheel by man: when building a new burrow they did not simply dig out the dirt as they went, as any normal rat would do, instead they packed it into a large ball which they then rolled out. This innovation had not come from the socially dominant animals but from a highly disorganized and predominantly homosexual group of subordinates, partially withdrawn from the larger social organization. As Calhoun saw it, the repression they had suffered at the hands of their superiors had resulted in deviant, creative, and thus adaptive behaviour. Inspired by this example, in his laboratory at NIMH, Calhoun attempted to design rodent universes that would both stimulate, resulting in “creative deviants,” and ameliorate: removing the worst excesses of crowding pathology.

Probably the most direct section is this:

> Through a variety of methods, such as operant conditioning and determining which of the mice and rats could eat, sleep, live, with whom, he sought to design ever more intelligent and collaborative rodent communities, capable of withstanding ever greater degrees of density. Here, then, was the hopeful agenda: if the wrong environment would drive us to destruction, perhaps the correct environment would be our remedy.

> Calhoun suggested organizing scientists into a global, intercommunicating network composed of independent but interconnected groups and sub-groups. Only then could the necessary conceptual growth to avoid a catastrophic sink be achieved. He claimed it was “toward a concern with science as a world system which must be understood if the human race is to survive.” He saw these attempts to defer social pathology as the centerpiece and real import of his work. Here was the profit, the positive signal from the noise of the behavioral sink.

> It was in through this growth in conceptual space – enabled by
the design of new buildings, new technologies, new social and
intellectual networks – that humanity was presented with a more
desirable future: what Calhoun called “Dawnsday” in opposition to von
Foerster’s “Doomsday.” All of mankind might become part of a single
“world brain,” consisting of numerous and diverse subsystems, each
interlinked to, aware of, and dependent upon, the other.

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514/1/2308Ramadams.pdf
Someone having a different point of view online isn't that radical of a concept. Especially considering how easy it is to misinterpret the tone of someone's remark online. It just shows you're going out of your way to clarify your interested in a genuine discussion.
In Angular 2 templates: (null === undefined) evaluates true
The people that are best at at, are genetically wired for it. I'm one of those people for example. It takes almost no effort for me to keep emotion out of decisions on investments. I am extremely difficult to influence and have very low susceptibility to the opinions of others. That has been the case since I was young, I didn't have to learn anything to do it and I don't have to work at keeping it that way. I watch in bewilderment as other investors routinely fret, panic, get angry, get euphoric, in frequent wild swings with their investments. They let the price and its movement dictate their emotion and confidence in their decisions; they let the behavior of other investors dictate how they calculate the value of the underlying business. One minute a stock is $30 and two weeks later it's $22; at that point most people emotionally think it's a disaster and start to panic, regardless of consideration for the underlying fundamentals of the business. I got so annoyed by the extreme emotionalism that rules most investors that I decided to write a book on the subject, which I'm working on now (optimistically hoping I can find something original to add to the numerous pre-existing writings on the subject).
This is great news all around. More flexibility for .Net developers, GCE gets access to a market segement Azure and AWS have dominated so far.

Well done.
I gotta be honest, I had no idea there was an optical output in the MBP headphone jack. Been using OS X since 10.3 with almost exclusively MBP's the whole time. Shows how much I use audio stuff. >.<
Sounds good but lacks the management that Azure provides. For example, running SQL Server in a VM means you're taking on all the responsibility for uptime, redundancy, backups, security, etc. Whereas Azure SQL abstracts all that away and you can focus on your application code instead of managing infrastructure.
I wrote a longer comment about this below, but the essential reason is: if I made fluoride a product requirement, I wouldn't have gotten to a release. It would have added a huge expense.

Additionally, fluoride is much more important for children. As enamel is forming, fluoride interacts with it and strengthens it. Adults need far less (threshold dose effect) and for most people in the United States, they likely get enough in the water. I also figure this is a toothpaste you'll use in the morning, and another fluoridated one in the evening. You can also use a fluoridated mouthwash.

At some point, I would love to introduce a fluoridated version.
A lot of those problems are quite dependent on your choice of language. Java, and similar languages, implicitly bias programmers in favour of building multi-layered abstracted monstrosities. Inheritance and interfaces can be powerful weapons for evil. Lots of the original Java libraries pushed people in the wrong direction.

I'd agree that finding the right level of abstraction is hard, easy to misjudge even for an experienced programmer with YAGNI in mind, and that you can do more damage by over-abstracting than not abstracting. Most programmers experience this the hard way sooner or later.

I'd disagree that having objects/functions do more than one thing or not be able to be pulled apart into individually testable units can be a good thing - except in very rare cases, or to compromise with existing legacy code.

Would you mind giving an example of where an object should do more than one thing?
Buy treasury notes, actually.
Unlike most engineers I want to be a manager. But it seems there is no opportunity for that. It seems that the non-engineers who are in the executive positions want non-engineers to manager engineers perpetuating the problems startups have.

There are few engineering management positions listed. The few I saw in the bay area resulted in excluding me because of my age (Stripe, I'm looking at you.)

It's frustrating to keep being pushed into individual contributor roles and then have low quality engineering managers hired in above you. (And I know I can do it because I end up leading teams all the time, they naturally form a round me. The members of the team are very happy with me- I have no authority but I end up leading them anyway.)

So I think the route for "old" folks is blocked also by the desire of non-engineers to make engineering management be done by non-engineers.
Power use is 99% of why I use safari over chrome for my daily needs.

An extra hour or more of battery is nothing to sneeze at.
I wouldn't say "strife" but perhaps "challenges". I think things like a wander-year, self-initiated long-term projects, like starting a business, writing a program, building something architecturally, making a short film, etc.

There's plenty of "strife" in day to day life, some other jerks on the road, to your co-workers, to your friends and family. Or just working on your long term goals and dreams in the face of the demands of every day life.

I don't think human conflict or violence is necessary for flourishing.

There are examples of great creative people who had come from backgrounds of violence or abuse, but I don't think that means much. If they were exposed to more violence, would they have been even more genius? What is the right amount of violence to expose people to to have genius blossom?
Clearly you are being deliberately obtuse. It is quite hard to believe you don't understand colloquial speech as it pertains to the phrase "rent seeking". You missed, entirely, the point I made. I can't imagine this is anything but deliberate on your part.
> that this problem cannot be solved in the general case.

They are not solving it for the general case. They are solving it for many specific cases. Presented with a system, there is no guarantee that this will be possible - there can't be, that's what the Halting Problem says. But there is also no guarantee that it will be impossible for the particular system under consideration - that is not what the Halting Problem says.
Means a lot! Thanks for sharing this wonderful personal experience.
"So in the course of that newly-found alone time after the divorce, I joined the gym, took up yoga and went full vegan. (OK — I needed a hard shove from my doctor to go vegan, but I did it.)"

I have a hard time believing his doctor "shoved" him to be vegan.
I like the idea, and the logo (not the video, though).

The problem with your product IMHO is that you need two toothpaste, because besides in the morning you also brush your teeth before going to bed, but you definitely don't want caffeine before you go to bed.
https://www.nginx.com/blog/maximizing-drupal-8-performance-n...

In the BBC’s testing, they found that with NGINX as a drop-in replacement for Varnish, they saw five times more throughput.
I love coffee too. Most of the people who have been buying Power Toothpaste and who enjoy coffee have been reporting that they still have their coffee, but tend to do so later in the morning.
Oracle delivers document signing – a big win for HelloSign
Is there any proof of your claim? I see it repeatedly repeated here on HN, but that doesn't make it true. For example, a video of a driver sleeping while driving doesn't mean that the name is an issue.
for my needs these cards are working just fine. I could post a picture of the rig if anyone wants to see it.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization." - Agent Smith
Yeah, brushing teeth at night, with some caffeine may not be a bright idea.
Another co-founder here-- definitely understand the skepticism. If you'd like to learn more about the science behind Moment, check out this page: https://wearmoment.com/learn
Alibaba fires employees for hacking their way to free mooncakes
Deep neural nets and the purpose of life
> Thus, there are fantastic lawyers working at Sierra Club or NRDC, but they're not going to have the same record of wins as similarly-good lawyers at a big New York firm.

Not a problem for the analysis of law firms. Sierra Club is a less effective law firm than the big New York firm.
The higher prices for housing are because of politically induced scarcity through zoning density restrictions. SF, NYC, LA, Boston, DC, London, and other cities suffer from these "market failures" in this case called "economic rents." The result is a regressive "tax" transferring wealth from renters to landlords. Income that should be going towards goods and services are going toward landlords such as Donald Trump instead making landlords far wealthier than they would be in an efficient market.

In NYC, there was formerly a politically induced scarcity of taxi medallions (limited to 13,000) with the result that medallions had a market value for $1.2 million and taxi riders paid higher fares to help cover the higher taxi leasing prices of drivers. Once Uber/Lyft came to town, the politically induced scarcity was no longer occurring as there were many more taxi-like vehicles. The result: taxi medallions dropped in value to $700,000 and Uber/Lyft rides have been getting cheaper (but still far higher than LA, Chicago).

See (Harvard Economist) Edward Glaeser: Build Big Bill
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

and
Financial Times columnist and BS, MS Economics Oxford Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007NIDW1Q/

Many people complain about the high cost of living, but the issue is simply political. High tech people, particularly need to get involved in politics to help make housing more affordable for all. Simply fix the "rent seeking" laws that restrict zoning density.

In the 19th century, David Ricardo wrote about the "Corn Law" which placed high tariffs on all grain imported to England with the result that landlords that owned land that grain was grown on realized far greater "economic rents" amounts of money for their land while other people paid for for basic food such as bread. Ricardo went into politics to help reverse the Corn Laws with the result that landlords no longer realized their regressive tax on consumers while food prices decreased.

The housing problem is simply another case of "Corn Laws."

In particular, Google (Alphabet) has a profit making subsidiary called Sidewalk Labs for improving cities.

https://www.sidewalklabs.com

From the website:
"Sidewalk Labs is a new type of company that works with cities to build products addressing big urban problems."

City Labs is in a position to use Google's resources to make housing more affordable. Google owns one of the largest office buildings in NYC and Sidewalk labs is located in NYC, so NYC might be a good place to start.

Like Ricardo's case of reversing the "Corn Laws" this is simply reversing unfair laws that benefit landlords over renters and make housing unaffordable. No increase in taxes are required.
For caches much larger than available memory nginx will win because it caches to static files and uses sendfile:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/17d22fb8-cea2-49...
Curious about the individuals' drive to succeed, make money, be known, and to "make it".

The west coasts trains you to be discreet about your ambitions, hard work, struggles, etc.[1] It's the cool thing to do. So you might have to look for subtle signs.

[1] grew up in SV, went to east coast Wall Street feeder school.
I got a pretty competitive offer from a San Diego startup about 3 years back. They flew me down, wined & dined & afterwards we talked a bit of technology. They even did a real-estate tour to sort of close the deal.
I turned them down after a lot of thought.
Based on the outcome of that startup now, I was right. But you never know...

There is a fantastic passage in William Goldman's books where he talks about why all successful screenplays have basically been written out of crummy motels in Hollywood Blvd and tiny apartments in theatre district in NYC. Most successful screenwriters like Goldman for example are millionaires and film companies can easily afford to put them up in some exotic hotel in Vail or other foreign locales etc. Why pick crummy hovels to do your best work ?
The same goes for Kurosawa ( Seven Samurai etc.) who did all his best work in some tiny hotel room even though his palatial house was much better furnished. Essentially, there is something called work-culture that happens best in work-cities, and when you think about tech work, the work-cities are basically crammed rows of desks in mountain view, Palo alto, soma SF,....
You don't think of jira tickets and Tahiti in the same breath. And those were the vibes I got out of San Diego - it was so nice and relaxing and I didn't see myself or my other colleagues getting any serious work done. You just felt like kicking back and watching the clouds or going surfing and lying on the beach. It's too holidayish. I would go there for a vacation, but not to actually get work done.

Like it or not, most tech work isn't particularly pleasant, and that matches the crummy efficient silicon valley vibes...rows of laptops, hardly any space, minutes away from pools of urine and filth on Market Street...I mean, it is what it is. I love Silicon Valley and I don't see work moving away from here given the nature of this work-city.
Professors at school used to say the same thing about why the top math journals and papers come out of Minnesota and Chicago and Boston, as opposed to universities in more pleasant climes - because the weather in those places is so awful you have no choice but to stay cooped up in the library working on your papers :)
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Indeed it is a flawed utopia. Give them a planet to explore, problems to solve, predators to avoid, kin to protect, goals that must be met to survive...

>NEETs may be caused by poor life prospects, not the presence of food, shelter, and internet.

I am intimately familiar with NEETs, having spent years interacting with them. The pattern I have noticed is of above average intelligence, many even brilliant, who would have thrived if the world had only given them a push, but left to their own devices commit slow, masturbatory suicides.

Some people can invent purpose from thin air. This is especially common amongst the kinds of elites and academics that most eloquently advocate basic income. But the vast majority of us cannot any more than a mouse. Most insidious is that even those for whom purpose is closest to grasp lose their drive. The artists lose the joy of painting and the programmers never begin their projects.

The true utopia is the harsh, cruel world of nature that provides purpose to every living thing.
What every developer needs to know about GitHub’s new API
https://nccd.cdc.gov/DOH_MWF/Default/Default.aspx will tell you whether or not your water source should/shouldn't be flouridated if you live in the US.
Getting a good RNG on 1970s hardware is almost impossible without some kind of custom device. There is no end to examples of horrible RNGs from that era, sometimes manifesting in amusing ways. There was an implementation of Minesweeper that naively used the rand() call from C's standard library and generated utterly predictable boards.

I am rather impressed at how the author of the article actually tracked down the appropriate RNG function to verify exactly what happened. This is only possible because the PARC community was so small there would only be a couple of ways something like this could have possibly happened?
They looked like that on the Gameboy.
> I thought that we are now over 1 billion websites according to some stats.

Accounting for the last 3 quarters, 363m seems accurate[1]. Even if it's not 100% accurate, it's still a good gist.

> wordpress runs over 15 million sites.

Keep in mind that Wordpress is a CMS, and it's older than jQuery. You can also use Wordpress and Angular in parallel, so it's not as if people choose it INSTEAD of angular.

[1] https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=96...

EDIT: I was also referring more towards the top-10k/100k, given that those are ACTUAL websites. I try to avoid stats that include "hello, world. This is my angular2 todo".
Ripple raises $55M from big banks
> It's still hard to get good Internet in many rural-ish areas, which makes this really hard. I tried, multiple times.

Depends, REI has better internet for ND than anything I've seen elsewhere. Some of the rural telephone companies do quite well. Its really luck of the draw.

> We were supposed to get a modern "rural electrification project" in the 90s for broadband, but cable companies stole the money, aided and abetted by Congress.

The key part of the last bill that killed it was the requirement that "broadband speeds" were not available in an area. The bill didn't specify a minimum price or that its was universal to the area. So, it pretty much killed a lot of attempts because broadband is available for $1,000 a month.
Only available in the US.

95% of people do not live in the US.
I do not live in the US.
No-one I know lives in the US.
Milk: MIT Programmers Attack Big Data Memory Gap
It's really interesting to me that platforms traditionally dominated by linux-based workloads are all now courting the 'presumed' enterprise windows based workloads.

As I .NET dev, I very much approve
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