skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I just stumbled upon this yesterday:

Special Relativity Theory and Cellular Automata: Light as a Cellular Automata Process
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9902034

Also Edward Fredkin is a big believer in cellular automata being the foundation of reality:
https://arxiv.org/find/nlin/1/au:+Fredkin_E/0/1/0/all/0/1
And a great book with him in it:
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Scientists-Their-Gods-Informati...
It should be noted that this is not a standard container that you can pick up really cheaply; it is a full-side access box designed for extra-large machinery. They have reinforced roofs and a side wall made of doors, which is more costly than a solid wall of corrugated steel; There are not a lot of used ones hanging around; the best price I could find online for one was about US$ 4,000.

That's probably without delivery, and it's a used container without thermal insulation or a good unused volume in which to place it. Generally the theory of shipping container houses, which has been hot for more than twenty years, is not born out as practical desirable solutions. I mean if you're hiring a boat builder to fit out your living space, starting with something other than a shipping container is likely to yield a higher level of livability.
To the surprise of no one, but the embarrassment of many. Adams has gotten real weird since his divorce, especially about masculinity and "persuasion," but I still read his old strips fondly.
I was in 7th grade when my teacher recommended a few search engines to our class. I had been using Alta Vista up until that time, and I noticed right away that Google's results were somehow better...

Anyway, Google's pretty snappy for me just now, and I'm on a so-so connection.
Inferring causal impact using Bayesian structural time-series models: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41854.html
"Using a human side-by-side evaluation on a set of isolated simple sentences, it reduces translation errors by an average of 60% compared to Google's phrase-based production system."

Does this mean that after checking the translation by a human it becomes 60% better than the phrase-based production system? (by which they presumably mean Google Translate...?). That seems rather disappointing.
You're taking that statement too literally. When people say something like that it's with the understanding they imply legal provisions apply.

So, in this case, if it's not legal and HP committed some commercial offence they can and should be sued for non compliance.
Those look pretty bad to someone outside London.

How much travel on top of that?
Sure, android might be good enough for most people. But that's like saying porridge is good enough for most people. I want a steak, or a burger. The problem is that I don't really have a choice right now, I don't want porridge.

Additionally, even if you trust Google today, they can turn evil tomorrow and then we'd have >75% of people who are using android without any options. Diversifying the available options in the market market is good for everyone except Google.
Sure, but the conversation is wandering now. The original comment wasn't about Compaq. (It didn't even mention it.) It was about the IBM PC and whether IBM "schematics and BIOS source code". Which they did.

And regarding the burden that IBM's choice strained Compaq with, in the overall impact on the industry, any difficulty was by far offset by the benefits. If we're going to focus on BIOSes, for example, the fact that the source code was available certainly helped Phoenix.
Thank you for writing this. This feels like this vindicates a lot of the things I like and dislike about my current job (my first developer position, in an IT department of a very large company).
Why can't you get a refund? Has HP denied refunds to customers who wanted to return their printer over this matter?
If I were thinking about bottom line of my bank account, very much so :). But I enjoy the challenge of tech.

The company was also converting from a waterfall project style to agile. So there was definitely teething issues. The professional services deal I mentioned the sales guy got around 2% of comission.
One problem seems to be that a lot of schools have a strong emphasis on group work. Usually there's a ton of non dev work to go along with projects - documentation, whatever paperwork the project requires, so someone can make a useful contribution without being able to code.

So a weak coder can get through the program as long as he can pass the exams.
>There are numerous stories of hypoallergenic people who find that their new washing machine leaves significant detergent in clothing. Some people have even tracked down old (and for that matter better made) washing machines just to get one which will rinse properly.

They most likely need to just use less detergent. You actually need a very small fraction of the detergent most people use and over soaping is a big problem. It's a combo of more concentrated detergent mixed with machines that require less detergent.

Previous models were more tolerant of over soaping.

It still feels weird to me to use so little detergent.
Simple Data Processing Pipeline with Golang
I think you're missing a word .. but yes, parts of the highlands and islands are definitely further away in time from London than Paris is. I think even Manchester may take longer, at least until HS2 is operational.

(The first link isn't very encouraging! "As a consequence I had to visit my dear friend the physiotherapist to check my displaced vertebrae and super swollen trapezius muscles that didn’t let me get off my bed after travelling nonstop for 6 months"!)
Wait, you're yelling "huge false equivalence" and then compare supporting what was a popular political viewpoint (Even Obama and the majority of California voters supported it back when Eich made the donation) to being as objectively wrong as murder?

What kind of self-reinforcing social bubble have you created that makes you think those two are equivalent? You say "crime" and "was clearly guilty" for actions that are explicitly protected under the law. Do you know what crime is?
A pretty straightforward solution is to have all your extensible options, etc., but also provide a few static objects with all options set to a working default. Use those objects for the hello world, or change the options you need to change and ONLY those options - no boilerplate.

Suave.io [0] does this very well I think. The hello world is:

open Suave

startWebServer defaultConfig (Successful.OK "Hello World!")

and as you write your application you can edit the configuration and routes as you go:

open Suave

let myConfig = { defaultConfig with logger = myCustomLogger
homeFolder = HOME_PATH }

let myRoutes = choose [ path "/helloWorld" (Successful.OK "Hello World!")
pathScan "/hello/%s" (Successful.OK << CreateCustomGreeting) ]

startWebServer myConfig myRoutes

[0] http://www.suave.io
WARNING-WW3 ISIS Kids GETTING PICKED OFF ON MOUNTAIN THE REAL HORROR OF WAR
Why a C++ package manager can't be written in C++
Facebook Told to Stop Taking Data from German WhatsApp Users
you might try to find someone who has "the same" idea as you or close enough to come to a common vision. But, I think it's important to find someone that "takes ownership of the business" regardless of how much equity is in the deal.
Plus just general water savings. Between sparging, boil off and cleanup I've felt pretty bad about brewing in drought-stricken California in the last few years. Also, I'm strictly an amateur brewer, but I thought that the boil had other useful features? (For example, eliminating chlorine.) Do you filter the water ahead of time?
Yes. It comes from the orbital kinetic energy of Io and the other moons.

The same happens in the Earth-Moon system. The Moon causes tides on Earth's oceans, which increase friction between water and land and therefore produce heat. Thermodynamically speaking, that heat comes from the Moon's orbital momentum, as it recedes from Earth and slows in its orbit.
At a major retail company, here are our published ranges:
Engineer £40-65K
Senior Engineer £60-80K
Principal £75-95k
"It can in some cases and in some cases they should be turned into infrastructure. We've done the same with power plants and highways.
"

This is precisely because there are no real alternatives.
In fact, when and if solar + batteries becomes an actual viable solution to powering you + your neighbors, ...

As for rights, yes, you do have the right, and in fact, personally, while i'm not in favor of trying to turn internet companies into regulated utilities, i am pretty much in favor of killing the LLC and going back to "officers and shareholders are liable" model that used to exist.
"native models that are extremely easy to use"

This means native code (specifically not JSON). So in Java you would be dealing with POJOs, etc...
> The TOS does need to express the desired purpose and to hold up in court if required

Why? What if the "desired purpose" (desired by the company) is illegal? Then such a ToS/contract is not, and should not be legal. What the Data Protection agency is doing here, is saying that what WhatsApp/Facebook are doing is illegal.

> The GPL is much shorter than most click-through TOSs

The GPL is a copyright licence so doesn't require consent. It's a different type of "licence" from most ToS's.
Thanks for sharing this!!

I like --> "Execution is the most critical element to success."

time and time again in high stress environments I see that there are people able to continuously execute and implement and those who tend to freeze or request help.

I think thriving under pressure is critical as well.
> So conceptually a machine like that Alto is actually something you can grasp without a lot of pain.

Have you actually looked at the Alto's microcode? It's brain-explodingly bizarre. The first thing is it has 16 tasks (yes, in the microcode) and what an instruction does depends on what task is running. Second, every micro-instruction includes a computed goto, where the hardware can OR bits into the address. And because this is task-dependent, you can't figure out the control flow - maybe this instruction will proceed linearly, or maybe it will branch 4 ways depending on the status of the Ethernet board. Next, the circuitry uses PROMs in various places. You say the microcode has four bits tied to the 74181, but no, the four bits go into a mystery PROM which generates entirely different bits that go to the 74181. And then there's the constant PROM holding all the constant values used by the microcode. And the processor bus has the property that multiple sources can write the bus at the same time, with the values ANDed together. Not to mention the ALU shifter output is modified by a microcode function literally called MAGIC. And I'm just getting started here...

My point is that even by microcode standards, Alto microcode is bizarre and painful. And if you disagree, I have some microcode that needs explaining - MADTEST (Microcode Alto Diagnostic Test) fails on our Alto and nobody understands what it is doing.
I like that this essay is basically just describing what a noun is, but the word "noun" doesn't appear in it.
Just some feedback I haven't seen yet.

Most very large enterprises have 2 tracks: IC and management. Typically most employees start out at IC and through defined and mutually agreed to career development plans train for the management track. This may take a few years. When the time comes for you to be a manager you have been operating in a management role for some time. This is the Peter Principle.

I'd be extremely wary of a surprise promotion in to management where a discussion about that possibility hasn't happened. I've seen this before and it can lead to disaster. You may be setting yourself up for failure or even worse someone is setting you up for failure.
I think you hit the nail on the head. There isn't really a need for a lot of companies to hire a CS degree.

Wordpress management? You can hire a Jr PHP developer and be fine. They don't teach PHP in school.

Need someone to manage your non e-commerce website? Web Developer. Again, not something they seem to teach CS majors but the title could say Web Developer or Front End Engineer

When I took a glance at the job market, most jobs didn't really need anyone who studied Boolean algebra, discrete math, how digital and analog interfaces work, big O notation etc etc

With the advent of companies like Weebly, Shopify and others you don't need to have an engineer with backend experience(which most CS teach) so you end up hiring a "developer" but the same title exists at Google and they want people who understand computer science.

So we're left with this fractured market where it's not clear from job posting to job posting what is actually wanted.
The last thing Facebook wants to do is appear to be a monopoly, if it bought Twitter it would pretty much own the entire social space so it'll never do it.
Your Company Needs a Podcast: How to Decide What Your Podcast Is About
Looks like it does support raster tiles: https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/map-tiles/
Ask HN: What to do with 3K visitors a month?
I created a chat site with an open chat. Very basic. Additionally I added a profile system. Also very basic. Now I have about 3K visitors a month, make about $30 dollar a month through adsense, but I dont have any clue on how to make it more profitable.
MDL is pretty decent as long as you follow their logic of building material designish principles. I used it only once, but would go back again if it fits the use-case.
And oddly, Germany requires to to declare your religion to the government. So I guess the question would be: what is considered necessary? If Facebook needs data to offer a free service, that seems necessary unless Facebook employees are volunteers and servers run on kitten sneezes and rainbows.
It sounds as though you are speaking from the standpoint that genes mutate at random in all and any "directions" (net). However, non-successful genes are eliminated, so in the effective sense it is (gross). The direction of evolution is towards being "more suitable" for a particular environment.
because it is. don't you know any bankers, lawyers, or doctors? discussing how much they get paid is a big part of the culture.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices
Xerox Alto Restoration Part 8: Will it boot? [video]
47,208 a year if you lease your car out 30 days a month on Turo.
Can you give examples of the natural monopolies you are referring to?
It tried to make web dev look like Winform devs, which Winform devs liked. It's no different from JSF and all that stuff and make sense in the enterprise context. If you are writing APIs, then no it doesn't. Ironically ASP.NET MVC is kind a going back to XML like declarative syntax, because it's actually useful. And Angular 2 is close to JSF/Webforms in spirit... the irony, things that looked obnoxious to JS hipsters and now hip again ...
At least it's possible. I'm stuck on an old version of ArcGIS JS, and the docs just no longer exist.
A sub-category I find is the "scientist" programmer vs the "engineer" programmer. With the scientist programmer being these category-three people. An engineer will use existing frameworks, technology, standards, etc. to solve a problem. And a scientist wants to develop new frameworks, technology, standards, etc. to solve a problem.

On larger teams, you want some commonality with your code. You want to be able to look at code written by others and at least have common style, strategy, and idioms. Engineering style devs tend to follow this nicely and it all works fairly well in a team dynamic. Whereas, scientist developers are often looking for new ways to do everything. When they see things done in a common and consistent way, they tend to look for unique solutions and tend to do more of "research" style development.

Don't get me wrong, both styles have their benefits. But on a typical largish development team, the scientist are often a more negatively-impacting developer to the overall productivity of the team.

The really scary thing happens when these scientist type developers become architects. And then you end up with what is often called an "architecture astronaut".
Web OS is now with LG.
The first Adidas shoe made almost entirely by robots
I just hope this does not go the way of the go.com acquisition. Almost as good as the AOL-Netscape tie-up.
They would probably attract unwanted regulatory interest if they even twitched in that direction.
It’s unfortunately a good example of how easy it is for products to change: in our current system, any nice thing is just one buyout away from becoming something entirely different.

It’s a bit like when a restaurant starts out good or bad, and changes under new management: it’s “the same” restaurant and yet it’s really not the same anymore, and consumers may or may not have gotten the memo. And it almost doesn’t matter if it goes through 3 managers, from good to bad and back to good, as the brand has already been tarnished and the damage is done.

I believe strongly that the hard work of hundreds of people shouldn’t be easy to screw up just because the wrong people bought you out, and yet this happens frequently: good projects are killed, and excellent work may end up going nowhere. This is why open-source projects have so much value: they are very difficult to screw up because there is always the option to fork it from a good spot and keep all the good work alive.
I agree that's not great. But I've seen much worse - where the docs weren't checked into the repo, and you're stuck with wayback-machine and a doc file that's only a few versions off of what you need.
If you haven't already, please consider the Pyra. It's a full Linux desktop in a phone-ish format and supports SIM cards for voice calling and text.

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
I don't think Adams has ever seriously endorsed Clinton, so not really a "switch" IMO :)

I got to admit, the "persuasion" part in closing seems pretty on point to me. It's easy to see how a lot of Obama's initiatives were killed because he couldn't get support from other branches of the government. Everybody knows what is the right thing to do, the tough part is persuading the other guy that your right thing really is the right thing.
I firmly believe that the best use of those printers is disassembling them and taking their stepper motors for use in DIY 3D printers and other CNC machines.
My main concern is, like others below, the opaque beer. I've always known that to be the undesirable effect of "pulverizing" I think of it as maybe twice ground beef can be cooked more evenly than a steak, but the crust and raw elements are what make a steak better. That's an unscientific way to say it, but as a homebrewer I know that efficiency is NOT quality. "Cold brewing" or brewing with CHC may have advantages in releasing/ preserving flavor in hops, but the study doesn't support this claim. I don't care if I get 30% efficiency based on original alphas to extracted alphas if something else is lost. (Like taste, sensory effect or mouth feel) I'm thinking this may be more comparable to "dry hopping", which can be used to give hop forward bitterness instead of the dregs that hops boiled for an hour provide. (Like the difference between the aromatic taste of fresh salsa versus the nearly coppery taste of cooked all day tomato sauce. I love fresh salsa, but you can't replace that "dregs" almost umami flavor brought out in Marinara. Compare Bell's Two Hearted to 3F Zombie Dust. IBU's don't tell the whole story. I'm not discounting these methods, but I don't think that the research is comprehensive enough or takes into account taste enough to talk about completely converting a brewery to these methods.
A bit OT, but I have to compliment the person who wrote the docs[1] for PouchDB. They're quite entertaining and easy to understand. Well done!

[1]: https://pouchdb.com/guides/
Bit more to it than that though yeah? 80k doesn't give you the same means to cap 401k pretax
I interpret this to mean "new system delivers 60% improvement. 'How did we measure this improvement?' you ask? Well, we asked humans to evaluate the old system and the new one."
Did you know that one of the schools that I went to disbursed financial aid a week after tuition was due, meaning that many students were dropped from their classes and had to re-register at the last minute with a late registration "fee?" This is one example of a constant parade of such bullshit. You had a pile of money that you earned, but it was predicated on an exceptionally privileged childhood education and a stratospherically privileged after-school-job opportunity, plus whatever else you needed, plus the knowledge that you could take risks because your family had the means to catch you if you stumbled. Did you know that many schools subtract the value of any grants or fellowships from what students receive in Pell grants and Stafford loans? Winning scholarships can be a Pyrrhic victory, but clearly you know all about that, because you are someone who received Pell or Stafford loans and actually understands the policy arena surrounding higher education financial assistance. Oh wait, you don't know what you are talking about and are instead trying to feed the meritocratic delusion upon which your self esteem rests.
This is a very good basic A/B test, and while it is certainly way better than nothing and something that a lot of websites should try, I think there are some important caveats that I'm thinking of that aren't mentioned in the article:

1. How were the experiment groups chosen? You have to be really careful with SEO tests because some pages might get 100x the traffic of another page, so saying you split up 20,000 pages randomly isn't enough for a test like this. It is only meaningful if you split up 20,000 pages that had similar traffic profiles and were getting enough aggregate traffic to be able to notice an increase.

2. SEO tests take a long time so if you are doing it, I'd recommend more than 2 variations. You need to put the test up, wait for Google to index it, then wait a few weeks to see how the traffic changes. So since your turn-around time is at least a few weeks and maybe longer, try 4 or 8 variations if your traffic can support it.

3. I prefer my A/B tests to be a little more crazy, or at least try a crazy variation among more normal ones. In my experience the biggest gainers (and also the biggest losers) are ideas that seem crazy. Getting your feet wet with adding "(Example)" to the title is fine, but also try a crazy variation that is completely different and seeing how that does. Give yourself a chance to be surprised by your audience so you can learn more about them. And if the crazy variation loses by a lot, you have learned something important even if it isn't a winner.

4. The facts are a little dubious here. Traffic is up 50% over a timespan... there is no control. Traffic generally goes up for growing websites even if you don't do anything. You should also show your work on the 14.8% increase and give us some error bars. You say it is significant, how did you calculate this? It does seem like the test was better, but it is also important to make valid claims about it. Intellectual honesty when running A/B tests is really really important [1].

1: http://danbirken.com/ab/testing/2014/04/08/pitfalls-of-bias-...
Metafont produces bitmap fonts, but the description is in vectors. You have to remember that generating bitmaps from outlines takes a decent amount of computing power, especially pre-1990, and caching the bitmaps is a reasonable default.
The fact that you are proposing this lien instead of simply removing the 2%/year restriction altogether is evidence enough that you agree the additional tax burden is significant.