skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photoshop was a little bit of a masterpiece back then (it arguably still is, deep down) -- it had it's own 'swap' system for large pixmaps that allowed you to work on images that were massively bigger than the onboard memory; and it wasn't even that slow (unless you were applying filters on the whole image).
> How many investors turned down Airbnb, Uber, and DropBox? A lot.

Airbnb and Uber barely generate profit domestically and operate at a loss internationally. Every investor not betting on inflated share prices has been smart not investing in those.
The article mentions that: in NL we have no separate term for it, exactly because it is considered common sense.

As for being taught: it was taught by both my driving instructors, in the sense that I was consistently told off for opening my door using the wrong hand, even if I was very careful to check my mirrors and side. I wasn't asked to perform this feat on my driving test, but they don't need to be explicit: it's fairly challenging to exit the vehicle without opening the door.
Hmmm? In the UK I'm sure the frequency changes with load on the grid and is actually a way of measuring grid load.
This article does a terrible job highlighting what you can do about this.

Vote no on prop 1 in November.
Nice. Includes the one I'd just posted as well.

I recommend submitting that to HN. Looks as if it was a couple of months ago, but definitely worth the resubmission as it didn't take:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkdeld...
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> Most people have smart phones which are much more powerful than servers from 6 years ago.

This isn't even remotely true.

The most powerful servers from 6 years ago is a xeon x7560, which has a 40% higher passmark score than even the best enthusiast consumer-level cpu on the market today (an i7 6700k), never mind even the most expensive smartphone on the market.

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X7560+%40+2....

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6700K...
I'm not sure what to think of this information. It shows maximum tax rates, but the more useful figure is effective tax rates.
BoM cost is not the only cost: the larger your processor, the more complex things like power sequencing, routing to DRAM, boot sequence and bringup, etc. are going to be. Those affect the overall design time and cost even if you're only building one item.

I spent a couple of years building a system to run in the "Sierra Wireless OpenAT" RTOS environment (like those ubiquitous SIM900 modules, but you could add your own code to them). It was pretty terrible and I'm glad they now offer modules that run Linux.
You are partly wrong. Encouraging (or even worse, enforcing) cycle helmets is known to reduce the number of people cycling. Since they presumably still need to get around, they're going to use other forms of transport, some of which add pollution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet_laws#Effects_on...
The thing I don't get about this is that it puts the entire focus on the picture representing the project, which is supposed to revolve around being "made with code".

Shouldn't the code/language/libraries used or even the title stand out more than the picture?

Other than that, pretty cool idea.
rclone is great. Thanks to its use of multi-threading you can download and upload pretty much at line speeds. It would be even better if it provided file-delta type operations, but maybe this is a limitation of OneDrive itself.

I really should put some time aside to write a script I've been thinking about:

1) Poll [somefolder] every 10 seconds (or whatever). Or watch with inotify.

2) On change, wait [5 seconds] and if change remains the same...

3) `borg create [oneDriveRepo]::[somefolder]` (does a delta backup with deduplication and lz4 compression, can be FUSE-mounted, and can be encrypted).

4) rclone -> [oneDriveRepo] -> onedrive.

And the reverse in the other direction I guess.
The meaning of the word luxury has been diluted. A lot of the "luxury flats" being built do have a nice finish, but they are they aren't exactly luxurious - "nice" would be about as high as I would classify them.

They are also built on the cheap so the nice finish doesn't even last.
Generating the transaction does seem to be very resource intensive!

"On a quad-core benchmark server, generating a private transaction consumes ~3.2 GB of memory and ~50 seconds of compute time. On a 32-core Amazon EC2 server, compute time is around ~30 seconds."

*These figures have changed during development.
Understanding that point suddenly makes half of the list much more obvious.
Have a cheap "Lumia OLED" myself. There was nothing unfortunate about thay buy. Great display, pretty good phone overall, and the money I saved went to a new tablet.

Also, I now have an excuse to not install the stupid apps friends and family and random guy at the bus stop recommend.
What? WHAT? DC does not have a "frequency".
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Do today programmers start learning a useless framework without knowing anything about the programming language? Seriously???
I think that it is really crazy if it is true.

And for the other points knowing sorting algorithms (and btw the author doesn't even mention TimSort) is completely unrelated to the software craftsmanship as others already pointed out.
And (perhaps more reliably?) Vietnam... Like others have said, I'm skeptical as to how close these numbers are to reality.
I was adamantly for Sanders, and Democrats in general until I learned that they play even dirtier thank Republicans. They kneecapped one of the most honest person I have ever seen run for president before his campaign even had a chance to get started.

Honestly, the threads underneath my original post give me more insight into how people can stomach voting for her, so it's eye opening at the very least.

"Aw comon! She's not that bad!" basically echos the sentiment my family has, as well, and it's why the status quo will never change.

Next time you convince yourself that Hillary is a great candidate, just know two things:
1. The only reason she even looks appealing as a candidate is because she is literally running against a walking dumpster fire. She is the second most disliked candidate in modern history, next to guess who? Donald Trump. Congrats.

2. Despite all of Trumps scandelous comments and bigotry, she still might actually lose. The polls don't mean anything this election, and 538 has even come out and said that, and even so, he's only down a couple points.

Truly remarkable candidate ya got there, DNC. It took underminding democracy, and the literal biggest turd nugget to run against her for to even have a shot.
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Same exact situation in Copenhagen. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only cyclist who respects red lights.
Blindspotless mirrors are not a replacement for checking your blind spot, at least I cannot reliabilily see cyclists with it.
There can be a difference between IDE choice among professionals and the role of an IDE in introducing people to the ecosystem. On ramps don't start at the target elevation.
The section on referrals was very interesting. Effectively, she states that cold emails are fine, since on balance many referrals are low quality.

Investors reading this: do you think cold emails and referrals are equivalent in terms of deal origination, or do you stick to referrals only? Please also mention your geography.
I miss falsehoods about pathnames:

* That there's never a \0 in a pathname

wchar names on MSWin UNICODE and WinCE.
Symbian uses UTF16.

* That paths are seperated by /

Yes, Windows NT accepts /, VMS, VOS, RISC OS also,
but MacOS classic had :, and VMS uses [].
And there are still \ pathseps only, like DOS, OS/2, SYMBIAN, Novell NETWARE, AmigaOS4.
Native Acorn RISC OS uses . as pathsep and : as in DOS.

Just the easiest ones.
I've been teaching myself how to build bots over the last few weeks, using Chatfuel. @joshbocanegra built SelenaBot and Christina Milian Bot - I've been saying celebs are the best use-case for bots for while and I just got what Josh was building! I wanted to dive in too, so I did.

This is one of 6 bots I have made - Keep your eyes peeled for the others! (I have a medium draft in progress)

I went with more of a light-weight app approach rather than actual text based... if Google can't get an AI convo right then I'm not interested in delivering a sub-par conversational approach to users. I'd rather users be able to tap away and glide through with ease.

I've been contacted by other Youtubers to make them a bot too :) I think this bot shows as a decent template for a good experience (IMO!) - and I'll be copying it for others too.

P.s. My favourite part is the "Ask Me Stuff" - I hadn't added it until this weekend. I felt the bot was pretty much done but something was missing...I added it and thought 'that was what was missing!' - let me know what you think
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Elon Musk's first successful exit was Zip2 that provided online city guide software to newspapers. Bill Gates sold Basic Interpreter to MITS. How successful would they have been if the first problems they had picked to solve was landing man on Mars and eliminating Polio from the world.

Sometimes, its all right to work on smaller problems until you are ready for the bigger ones.
I see a lot of HNers lamenting the loss of persona. The code's available, so what's the major issue preventing its continued use?

Is it the use of de facto addresses, like the fallback login.persona.org? Couldn't that be mitigated by either establishing a new de facto standard (either commercial or community run), or by adding a fallback field to the protocol?
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It's a good question, but that is not the same issue as the one the article is about.

The spiral arms maintain their shape not because of an anomaly in orbital velocities, but because they are density waves[1]. Kepler doesn't work because the arms themselves and the rest of the disk exerts significant gravity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory
I hate languages with single letter names. They're impossible to google.
That very same goverment invented resource scarcity to stop people from having houses even if they could afford them..
185 bike deaths is a lot less than the roughly 500 car deaths every year. Keep in mind that people bike a lot here. I ride my bike every single day. I rarely use a car. Never had a meaningful accident.

In countries where helmets are mandatory, cyclists tend to run a much bigger risk of serious injury. Whatever Netherland is doing differently is clearly working. Claiming that Netherland should adapt to countries that are doing worse is ridiculous.

Netherland takes bike safety very seriously. Don't just assume that you know better than the country that has the highest bike density in the world. I have seen research about the effect of bike helmets, and while some research showed that helmets offered substantial benefit in very specific, artificial situations, other research showed that those benefit didn't translate to practical real life situations. And research that only tests how much a helmet protects your skill, tends to ignore the impact of the helmet in preventing the accident in the first place. Some research suggests that simply wearing a helmet can make people more reckless, putting more trust in their helmet than in their own carefulness.
Nobody should be travelling at a speed that is beyond their own ability to stop. Cycling at a speed beyond any individual's threshold for safely braking is putting themselves in danger. This applies equally across all levels of training, ability, age and gender.

People who cycle on roads expecting cars to take full responsibility for their safety are unlikely to last very long. A cyclist needs to operate within their own safety tolerances, rather than expect others to provide safety to them.
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Another issue is that it doesn't specify what you get back for the money.

For example a country with 20% tax and free schools could have lower "effective tax" than a country with 10% tax where you have to pay tuition.
When submitting a new link, I receive "Sorry, Unable to find any pinnable items" - what counts as a pinnable item?
"No" is almost always the safe answer. Some long shots succeed.

Colonel Sauders famously was rejected over 1,000 times with his pitch for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

http://theartofapplying.com/rejection-and-fried-chicken/
There is plenty if grunt work that would be fine for a junior developer (he says grunting away at getting our data into Salesforce).
> There are plenty of countries in the world where "ordinary people" and "political active people" are two different groups.

These "ordinary people" often end up allowing "extraordinary" things to happen to these "political active people".
At the moment - none at all, we're in the process of setting everything up. But we're going to have one scheduled for every two months, lasting an hour. These won't be purely for internal consumption however, they will be for training at partner organisations.
If it doesn't last ... buying a place that "transforms" (needs to have heavy objects moving in order to support daily functions) would be stupid. They'd break and you'd be stuck.
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В дополнение к нашему традиционному варианту размещения приоритетного участника конференции “в углу”, в новой версии мы добавили три новые раскладки. Самая интересная, на наш взгляд, раскладка “внахлёст”, которая позволяет разместить небольшие видео участников в нижней части приоритетного окна с небольшим нахлёстом, который не мешает обзору, но увеличивает площадь, что может быть полезно при работе с контентом.
Отображение статуса устройств участников
В новой версии добавлено отображение иконок отключенных микрофона и камеры в видеоокнах собеседников. Эти иконки видны всем участникам и помогают быстро диагностировать наличие проблем со звуком и видео. Также напоминаем, что начиная с версии 6.5.4 ведущему доступна возможность удаленно отключать и включать участникам камеру и микрофон.
Изображение вместо видео
В приложение также была добавлена возможность выбора изображений в качестве источника видео. Это может быть полезно для создания “заглушки” перед началом конференции. Поддерживаются файлы JPEG и PNG, а также анимированная графика в формате GIF.
Very few people shower after entering the office. That's only for the fanatical long-distance racing-bike commuters. Most people ride their bike in their work clothes. A helmet would be a tedious and useless bit of extra luggage.
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I mean, plenty of cyclists go faster than that too, 30 km/h is not uncommon.
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Ask HN: How to fill holes in my knowledge
Hi everyone,

I finished CS Uni, after that I worked at a startup as a generalist, and after that I worked as a freelancer on a couple Android projects (and now I am in between projects).

I feel like a really bad programmer (28yo atm), and no I don't think this is impostor syndrome. I never had official Android dev education, but I have had learned JAVA at Uni. On Android projects I worked I always worked alone and never have I had an opportunity to work with someone more experienced.

I think I am missing some parts of knowledge. It is like I have holes, so I am missing some basic stuff, but I know a bit of advanced, but holes are there also, I hope you understand. On projects I worked on I just googled away and created applications that worked BUT behind the scene is a Frankenstein monster code of bad programming practices (or at least I feel so even thou I don't know what a good programming practice is for android).

Is it possible to acquire a good Android dev knowledge without working in a team and/or company?
I could probably find some 'entry level' job at a company, but I don't think I could join as a freelancer on some team because of lack of skill.

I am trying with some tutorials, and books, but not sure how successful I am being.
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That is mostly due to a lack of understanding of the added safety benefits (students and such just not caring enough) and a lack of enforcement though. Most people do agree with the necessity of bicycle lights in the dark, but take their chances when they are caught outside after dusk with a broken light or empty battery for the clip-on types.
looks like something that would hurt your wrist when you type O.o
You get to have a C# like language that compiles to native code and offers today what System C# did (which will never be available outside MSR walls) for systems programming.

Plus it has lots of metaprogramming goodies, without the C++ SFINAE craziness.

However it does have the caveat of using an old GC implementation and not much GUI related tools are available.

But for CLI or server side applications on UNIX, if you don't want to wait for CoreRT to become available or not found of Mono AOT, D might be worth a try.
> Engineers at Samsung don't have standing to tell execs something can't be done.

I feel this whole mess would have been avoided had this fact not been true.
a good developer, maybe you're right.

a great developer absolutely must know how to write a sorting algorithm, or three, and has to have a good idea how to start writing another five. great developers are building the infrastructure that good developers use to solve business problems. (not that great developers aren't doing that, too.)
They are a non technical interface that I have to deal with before I can be transferred to someone who actually understands my problem.
For what I see, the first and foremost initiating factor for a statistical package is education, and second it's available methods/packages. You have universities where you can clearly see that the predominant taught package is Stata, or R (and in the latter, the choice of UI is mostly arbitrary).

In the end though, unless you want to reimplement methods, you can count on having R packages for any method you can think of.

Few statisticians though spend the time to evaluate different IDEs than what they where taught. I've "converted" many still using Rwin.
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Nice to see people using D.

Why a Makefile instead of Dub?

Also why disabling the bounds checking? Have you proven with a profiler that it really produces a noticeable impact for the user?
This goes far beyond speech.

Fraud, misrepresentation, drug use, sexual harassment, conspiracy, aiding and abetting, stolen property, just off the top of my head.

Drawn from financial records, statements, documents, phone calls, social graphs, etc.

You're coming across as rather too narrowly focused.
In France it has taken time, and there are still some holdouts (most notably the national ski school, ESF).

I believe it's mandatory already in several Swiss resorts, I know it is in Zermatt.

I really hope the ESF will mandate helmets for all instructors, this would go a long way to normalising them.

I don't think wearing a helmet when skiing is comparable to commute cycling. I think motorcycling would be closer. In both cases you're going at relatively high speeds with quite long breaking distances.
I'm interested in both.
Fair point that Opposition Research is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_research
Same in the Netherlands, but that is because you are liable for the (civil) damages, which are handled by the insurance companies of both parties. The police nowadays only get involved if one of the parties is criminally negligent, or drives off without decently handling the aftermath. Insurance claims do reimburse you for the damage though, and will claim them (successfully) with the other party's insurer.
Care to explain? THese are areas that people (especially those with disposable income) are prepared to spend their money. Find a problem that people WANT fixing. Sure, other ideas might be cooler, or more 'fun' to work on, but you know - someone has to pay.
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> She had literally never heard of nor understood the concept of a blind spot.

I've done a good amount of driving in the undeveloped and developing world (40k miles AK->Argentina, now 10k miles in West Africa, going to do about 80k)

Blindspots are not considered here. Driving is much more fluid, and you really only need to watch what is happening in front of you. After all, the car behind/beside you can see you much better than you can he, so just move over and he'll get out of the way.

If you're going to do something really strange (stop in the middle of the road, turn where you shouldn't, back out into flowing traffic) you just tap your horn and go ahead and do it. Everyone else is paying attention and will flow around you.

It really is a different way of thinking, and it's immensely impressive that everyone is paying enough attention to make it work really well (Traffic accidents are not common, and the driving conditions are so, so much more hectic than the developed world.)
Yes, there should be some sort of RFC about programming language names. The main requirement would be to choose some combination of letters which return less than 1000 results on Google.
> (this is) against Facebook’s official “Platform Policy”, per the following quote:

>> Don’t use data obtained from Facebook to make decisions about eligibility, including whether to approve or reject an application or how much interest to charge on a loan.

Not only relevant to adult sites but all the 'social lending credit score' apps.
From the example in the Github repo I understand that the JS only compiles the Markdown to HTML. All the content is still being served on the server-side and the client only handles the way it's presented. If I'm correct, I see no reason why it should hurt SEO. All the content is still being crawled.
> not because they are ignorant, but because they are fully aware and accepting of what they're giving up.

Do they know what they are giving up?!
Hopefully now people will realize that every battery powered laptop and phone on an airplane is a potential bomb.
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Another reason we don't have 'dooring' in The Netherlands is that we don't try to invent a funny new word for every tiny event or thing everywhere ever all the time ;-) Oh, and we don't open our doors unless we are parked.
Yes ... but sometimes only hot water is available, and at all times the quality of water not marked 'drinking water' could in principle be suspect (it might come via a tank somewhere — this is certainly common in old UK domestic plumbing — and the tank might have dead rat in it, etc.).