skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Da...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_20?url=search-alia...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_19?url=search-alia...
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I feel the opposite. I bought a Roomba 650 almost exactly four years ago (one of the best purchases I've ever made) for about 350 dollars after a bed bath and beyond coupon. With a little bit of maintenance it still runs every day exactly as well as it did the day I bought it.

The 650 is the robovacuum Sweethome recommends and has recommended for years (http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-robot-vacuum). The newest Roombas since then have been mildly incremental, and the competitors have struggled to offer something that works better. One of my close friends bought the exact same model last week for 370 dollars.

That's not to say there isn't room for a lot of improvement, but I think it's been a super slow moving space.
What they've inferred about you: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Washington uses 100% paper mail in ballots, not online voting.
Coffee Farm Tour: a day in the life of a digital nomad
I didn't play Undertale yet, but soundtrack there sounds pretty good: https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/track/bonetrousle
Anyone has link to the new Firebase course in Udacity mentioned in the article?

EDIT: Also, if possible, link to join the realtime analytics beta, as I just checked in the Console, there's nothing new there.
If it didn't require such a huge time commitment I'd consider becoming a PA or MD, but once you already have a family and bills it's practically impossible to get through the required schooling.
You know, I might not think the same way that other white men do, so kindly take your sexist racism and shove it.
Interviewed a new YC startup recently called Scaphold they are a BaaS using GraphQL.

https://soundcloud.com/user-925097294/mike-paris-founder-of-...
Law has always interested me. Unfortunately the cover charge is such that I would only be willing to give it a go in the event of an equity lottery win or something similar.

Another thing I've been toying with is prop trading. It's not entirely separate from programming, but the industry is pretty isolated in terms of expertise so it might be considered separate.
Why chef? sounds interesting and fun
Yeah, Plex is the worst.
I already bought one. Trouble is now I have to pay an additional $20 a month for the data plan unless I turn on internet sharing from my phone every time I hop in the car.
Hey UI/UX designers, stop pushing pixels
I feel that NYTimes is the only news organization that has been able to transition to the Digital Era. Does anyone else know of any other old-school news organization that nicely transitioned to the Digital Era?
I've used Parse extensively as a backed for iOS apps before and lately started trying out Firebase as a replacement. Firebase seems like a decent alternative so far, but there's 2 important features that I'd like to see:

1. Always immediate updates for Remote Config flags - currently Firebase uses old cached flags for up to 12 hours and only allows immediate updates in the "developer mode", but in production, sometimes you need to change a config flag for all users immediately, perhaps to fix a bug, and can't afford having clients still use the old cached values.

Also, it would be nice if Remote Config supported additional data types like arrays, dicts, and dates.

2. A non-realtime key-value datastore - most apps don't require a realtime database, so it'd be great to have a simple datastore where you don't have to worry about managing the number of simultaneous connections.
There are a lot of people that are going to tell you to "never give up" and other platitudes.

I suggest you start with a goal in mind. If you want to be a developer, figure out what you can get paid to do while you learn. For example, I can work 20 hours a week as a "____" that will give me enough runway to learn to develop 20 hours a week.

I would not try to go from zero to employed as a developer in your situation. There will be 100 people who can say "I did exactly that" but there could have been 10,000 who died trying.

Get a smaller goal. Accomplish it and keep moving up. You will make it that way.
Yes but isn't FFMpeg where the real value is ? VLC itself is a bit of a mess, the UI is clunky and and isn't a great media player experience.

Would seem like the best of both worlds to use the web for UI but have FFMpeg deliver the frames.
Financial Times - http://ft.com
I agree with the general thesis of the article, but I don't buy the cop out that things are the way they are because the creatives in the industry are white men. That wouldn't be an acceptable thing to say about (insert any other gender/race combination here) so I don't think it's an acceptable excuse or reason here either. It's clear that the industry sorely needs some new thinking and new creative ideas, but I believe those new ideas can come from anyone, regardless of gender or race.
Trading options!
What's missing for me is Migration Guide from using official Facebook Login SDK to Firebase's. Also, would be great if there's a list of drawbacks of migrating (e.g. no more FB analytics).
I think you misunderstood my question. I understand that there are GMOs that have increased vitamin quantities. What I'm asking is, is it known that the newly introduced genes do absolutely nothing other than increase beta-carotene? Don't most, if not all, genes have a multitude of effects, some obvious and some subtle, and many often unknown or not understood?
My oldest son has serious social impairments. I have seen things go stupidly badly for him in ways that can lead to serious problems. I step in and can say the exact same thing he just said and get a completely different response.

He has tremendous support from me and a good relationship to his brother. Otherwise he would end up a hermit and I would completely understand at this point. There was a time I would not have.

Ideally, the world would have fewer assholes. But it is what it is.

If this is a thing you struggle with, I hope you find practical solutions and a deeper understanding of the root causes as that can be extremely empowering.
I'd like to do something that does not involve looking at screens all the time. As it is, I'm stuck with my one skill that's highly valued until I can finish paying off my loans.
The media is already effectively nationalized. What's needed are policies to end corporate influence.

When you have every newspaper, radio channel, and TV station owned by the same four or five companies who are running them as loss leaders to start wars and sell weapons, that's a major problem.
Really nice to know that someone shares the same sentiment as me!
Multiple ballot papers.
thanks!

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I still don't see any rationale for the theorem prover kernel re-implementation. Again, pointers appreciated.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12042613
> Video games are designed for those who enjoy them.

This doesn't make any sense. How can something be designed for the people who enjoy the thing that hasn't been made yet?
If I could earn what I do building things with my hands, I would do
It in a heartbeat
It is indeed good! (I actually have the soundtrack on my phone.) But I suggest playing the game and letting the soundtrack surprise you. It really is worth a play.
as a hobbyist, I don't think I would ever do anything else.

as an employee/employer, become a technician. everybody needs repair work, and very few can call the result maintainable and sustainable. focusing on residential areas helps, too.
The fact that the video game industry is dominated by white men is a bad thing. But you're saying that pointing that out is bad, and that seems completely backwards to me. If you don't acknowledge the current reality, things will never get better.
Human Landscapes of the American Southwest
Digital modelling amps, which are the obvious choice if you care about minimalism, often have a built in tuner. And even if they don't you probably already have a phone with a tuner app.
Samsung raided in political corruption probe
I'm biased on the matter, but I believe it would be interesting if we had more focus on open sourcing space technologies too.
Franklin and Feynman were smart but spread themselves too thinly and so didn't develop their genius, in part due to their social escapades. They didn't create as much as they should have. The test of 'getting on' with somebody would have to be something like roommates i.e. spending a significant amount of time together.

Yes it's creepy but ask yourself why. Perhaps it reveals something evil? It's not enough to like one's friends to refute this idea, which goes deep; it's about why you like them. Note that a truly good person loves his enemies while the highly sociable person will toady to some of his 'friends' and exploit others.
NPR (http://www.npr.org/) seems to be doing ok - they have a good mix of online reporting, audio from radio reporting, special features for events such as the election, and a number of successful podcasts associated with their various shows.
A solid reminder why my main browser is Firefox.

I only use Chrome for development.

Best of both worlds.
Nate's method makes sense to me (Ph.D., Economics, also taught Stats). Wang's is more like technical analysis and astrology. If Clinton wins, we can't really distinguish between the two. If she loses, the model that put 2:1 or 3:1 against that is the better one. As Nate says:

> "At the same time, it shouldn’t be hard to see how Clinton could lose. She’s up by about 3 percentage points nationally, and 3-point polling errors happen fairly often, including in the last two federal elections. Obama beat his polls by about 3 points in 2012, whereas Republicans beat their polls by 3 to 4 points in the 2014 midterms. If such an error were to favor Clinton, she could win in a borderline landslide. If the error favored Trump, however, she’d be in a dicey position, because the error is highly correlated across states."

See http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-dont-ign...
Yeah, I usually avoid listening to the soundtrack before playing some game, but I've heard Bonetrousle somewhere, and couldn't resist buying the whole OST on Bandcamp :)

The game sounds somewhat controversial with some liking it a lot, while others quite disliking it. I might give it a try at one point.
Is there any doubt? These are the guys that record every credit card transaction, phone call and airline reservation, right? And process it in realtime. That's a billion records a day. 650000 emails is a pimple on the butt of that.
Top poster may also be interested in ICASSP, which bothers itself more with the algorithms of speech/audio processing than the applications of said processing.
I'm against them and I'm not a manager. They encourage stagnation due to rewarding seniority instead of contributions.

If everyone in the union gets X% (with or without a seniority bonus), why would anyone give two shits about putting an effort in beyond the minimum.

You want a taste of what a software dev union is like in the US? Join a government organization where income has almost no correlation with performance and you'll be ready to put a gun to your head after 6 months due to the glacial pace people work at (assuming you want to get things done efficiently).
Why would there be bad blood if you decide to stay?

If you can bring in more than you make they will pay - management doesn't care about another 10k. They know what the replacement cost is.
Picked up metalworking while in high school, always figured it could make a decent backup plan.
Church is a library to generate fake data. Useful to bootstrap your database
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I haven't thought about it yet. If I ever do something else, it would probably be another application of programming, like math or data science.
If I could make a much money as I do now, I still don't think I'd choose something else. If I did it would probably be, in order:

- Robotics (more on the hardware side)

- Woodworking

- Custom motorcycle/classic car building and restoration

The common theme for me is the creative problem solving, building things in general, and attention to detail/craftsmanship specifically that maintain my attention. As it is those are all hobbies of mine, so I still get to dabble while making a good living doing another thing I really love.
A few years ago, I briefly considered going back to school, getting a degree in Exercise & Sports Science, and getting into athletic training. But in the end, I could never quite convince myself to do it, and the moment passed. I also flirted with the idea of becoming a private detective a couple of times in my life. I actually still find that idea somewhat interesting, but I doubt I'd ever make the money doing that, that I make in software. And here in NC the training requirements to become licensed are somewhat onerous, so I doubt I'll ever pursue it.
WSJ?
Thought about it, and then tried it. I followed my dream and started a creative project that had been dogging me for a long time. EVERYBODY wanted me to do it. Family, friends, people on the street with whom I discussed it. I expected it to be a big moneymaker. And it didn't work out. Not only that, but it became very clear that it was a really poor fit for me on a fundamental level.

I'm glad for the experience, though.

Going back to programming, here's what I figured out:

- I was working on stuff I didn't enjoy, with people I didn't particularly care about.

- I was taking on new work projects without any particular selection criteria.

- I wasn't thinking about the kinds of work that got me excited about programming and chasing it down.

So I recently nailed the first two back into place. I'm working closer to my values system rather than paychecks. In exchange, I'm just saving more money so I have more freedom.

Anyway, burnout is real. I thought I was done for sure and that my interest in programming and computers was a thing of the past. But that was just the burnout talking.

It helped to keep a journal during this time. Not a chronicle, but a thought-dump process in which I asked if my life was actually improving daily. That made it pretty quick to pinpoint my frustrations, as you can only write about the same pains a few times before you start to really zoom in on the causes and potential solutions.

Good luck to you, however it turns out.
Left to work in equities after 5 years of software dev. I find the work much more stimulating mentally, as you learn about the world and how business works, not just abstractions.

Luckily there is still a lot of use from my old skill set, and I suspect there will be more as time goes on.
Fun reading this as I very frequently wish I was a programmer. :)
In general, when those thoughts crossed my mind it was when I was working a job I should have left already. There are good companies that value developers and/or give them a reasonably good balanced work environment. Generally the two go hand in hand. For places that don't, frustrations and poor practices tend to push us into less fulfilling lifestyles.

But if pressed... Corporate pilot comes to mind. I've spend I don't know how much money on training and aircraft rental. Most piloting jobs for corporate clients have you working only 2 weeks out of the month. That is, you only fly about ~250hr a year. The rest of the time can be spent hacking or doing whatever else you'd like to do.
Sorry but I laughed!!
The wording is exactly correct. If your devices send your location in any way, they may collect and store that sent location.

It's probably just for their Location History thing. Which I actually really enjoy using, since I can see all of my past days and where I went. It's pretty neat.
Yeah, when my eyeballs shrivel up and my brain stops working.
Any idea what are the alternatives? Dont see similar offerings from AWS or Azure.

One minus point for Firebase is its Android SDK relies on the availability of Google Play services. Most of Android phones in China has no Google Play. So apps can not run even when you do not utilize any of Google Play services. In addition, there is no official words that you can use Firebase services within the great China firewall. It's better to look elsewhere if you have China market in mind.
Politicians are the ultimate decision makers when it comes to weapons and war. You cant fix the problem by focusing only on media.
So "prosumer" is a portmanteau of "producer" and "consumer"? Just want to clarify because in most/many contexts, it's "professional" and "consumer".

Sounds like price comparison is an open question, unless there are more definitive/rigorous comparisons out there. At the very least, it sounds like there's a tradeoff between quality and selection (when you walk into a supermarket you can choose to buy whatever you want, whereas a CSA is limited to what's currently being harvested at a particular farm).

I'd certainly be open to making this tradeoff for some of my food, though when I've had CSA deliveries redirected to me by neighbors on vacation, I found that much of the food (even oranges, which I think of as moderately durable) went bad within just a few days.
I think to say that people stop doing things like skateboarding or video games because they are "growing up" condescends to these activities. I understand that people move on, but to "grow up" may imply that these activities are childish. I disagree with this sentiment; people get older and priorities change to family, work, physical health, etc.
Well the restrictions being lifted apply to both the news coverage and opinion section, don't they?
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"Alexa, tell me the news"

Cue well-polished NPR briefing
I left to get a PhD in math. Now I'm back, sort of.
So, in that Vice Motherboard piece, CEO Rob Rhinehart claims that Grocers don't scale to 7 billion, but he provides nothing to back up that claim or his other claim that engineered food is better than what a standard Grocer offers.

Later, he goes on to claim that no one is lacking clean water around the 12:30 mark, seems like this CEO is just aimlessly spewing bullshit with no facts to back up what he claims.
Wikileaks revealed that the NYT was in coordination with HRC's campaign to publish flattering stories. I think the credibility of the news organization is over.
This speaks to me. Career curation; making sure it means something. Burnouts can sometimes afford to be selective in their work. Illness is very expensive.
If you want a (in my opinion) really good alternative to flynn, I 100% reccomend Deis. Since v2 it's built ontop of Kubernetes so it has a strong infrastructure base.
Couldn't agree more. Minecraft comes to mind. I haven't personally played it a lot, but obviously there is some magic in that game that kids can't get enough of. And although it was certainly experimental in nature, it wasn't "artsy"
It's not about "data transparency", it's just a sort of quantified life thing. Like if you googled that one particular thing and it's not showing up in your history, you can check your activity log and you'll have a good chance at finding it.
> the wording made it sounds creepy, like they can keep
> track of where I am whenever they have it, not just the
> destinations I ask for navigation to

This is actually the case, as far as I can tell. Check it out for yourself by going to Google Maps (doesn't matter if it's the web client or the app), open the hamburger menu from the button in the search box, then click "My Timeline". From there enter any date (in the app, first click the calendar icon) and it'll show you where Google knows your phone was at on that date.
I mean from Google's perspective this sorta makes sense. It's a lot safer to turn literally any tracking/storage off than to get people accusing you of violating your user agreement.
What it all boils down to is the kind of war you expect to fight. Over a prolonged shore engagement the Zumwalt guns will be far cheaper than Tomahawks, for a lot of reasons. But they're a pretty specialized tool - at shorter ranges the old 5"/62s would have done the job, and missiles will still be required for longer ranges.
Plain terms doesn't mean meanless terms. Having meaningless marketing buzzwords is not useful. You can explain things simply and clearly without resorting to vagueness.
I got kind of burned out after I got laid off at the tail end of the first dotcom implosion—I'd stayed in a really toxic environment for a couple of years too long because things were rough for a junior/early-mid-level developer back then, at least in my market. So I spent several months depressed and unemployed before deciding to go back to school which ultimately led me to preparations to go to med school.

Ironically, I took a semester off and took a contract gig for a few months to pay off some bills and save up some cash, and that turned into a full time job writing software in the public health sector. I never did return to finish the undergrad, and have doubts I ever will, as my career in software has been about as good as medicine would have been when you balance the ten extra years of earnings against a slightly higher salary. The only reason I'd do it now would be to pursue a masters in something interesting.

I think if I had it to do over again I'd have probably just stayed in the market a little longer and skipped out on the student loans. I loved biology and medicine but i'd love to not be paying off the student loans too.
Park Ranger in Alaska or Siberia. Will probably be enjoying more than my current engineering career
A good book has exactly the same effect; the primary difference is that all books are finite. As a child, I would read books under the bedcovers by torchlight. I'd stay up all night playing chess against my little Saitek. Is Fallout 4 or Hearthstone an objectively worse use of time?
And here I am, acting in reverse. I loved multiplayer games much more than single player when I was in my teens, but since graduating college a couple years ago I've only been drawn toward single player experiences.

I don't care about beating other players or grinding out at some arbitrary mechanic that's going to get patched in two months just to be "better" than my friends. I'd rather sit back and enjoy a well made game for 40-100 hours and talk about my experiences playing it later.
Donald Trump last campaign add. Must see
Think of all the lives to be saved by increasing grain yields by 1%.
> I'd say the last good game in the series was Morrowind.

Which why people still play it, and there was even work in bringing Morrowing to the Skyrim engine[0].

[0] https://tesrenewal.com/skywind-faq
NPR is a non-profit that offers all of it's reporting for free. (Their income mostly comes from donors.) Their a bit of a special case since they're happy to lose money on their online offerings.
> 6. Uber seem useful but I'd never used it.
> 7. AirBnb just plain creepy...

AirBnB is at least as useful as Uber if you travel. I've used it for multiple trips in five countries now and always had a good experience - the accommodation is always what was advertised, the user interface is easy to use (especially when in a country with a foreign language), and the pricing has always been competitive. I do have concerns about the impact of it on locals but I'm also not sure that AirBnB is exerting more pressure than many places have always had from other factors (tourist towns always have a balance between tourist prices and locals trying to make a living - more often than not that balance tips in favour of the tourists).
One of my friends had an interesting remark about the "privacy opt outs". It's that google always tracks you, no matter what checkbox you check or uncheck. Why not use the data they are already collecting about you to improve your daily life then.