skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes that the density of fulfilled employment opportunities would raise in some areas. Why would that be the case, given that on the contrary, it is assumed that there will be fewer employment opportunities globally?

Take for example the situation in Paris (but I hear the case is true also elsewhere, like in the Silicon Valley), where there are homeless employees: people who can find a job (and there's a minimum salary, so they should get enough money for a living, assummedly, a UBI wouldn't give them less than they earn), but they cannot find an affordable place to rent, and are therefore homeless (living in their car, or in tents, or just like any other homeless). If they received UBI, instead of having to stay homeless near their place of employment, they could indeed go live anywhere in France, in much nicer places. This would give less pressure on the rental market in Paris, and therefore the prices should go down!

More generally, UBI would give some more bargaining power to the would-be employees, and therefore it should result in less concentration on any dimension
So keep the comment, and replace the username with [deleted].

That seems to work just fine for plenty of other social forums.
Yes, I agree that fairness and freedom is the problem here. That's literally what the whole comment was about. A union helps take away fairness and freedom so that the employees benefit.
Two points about this.

One, why tax graduates? In other EU countries, free is free as in beer and you never need to pay anyone anything, for higher education.

Two, why double-tax the future workforce? I mean, they'll pay taxes once they start working anyway. And obviously, those who do go into higher education will end up making more money, and therefore pay more taxes. The state will get back its penny'orth alright, so what's the point of adding a cherry on top?

Full disclosure- I'm from Greece originally but graduated from a UK university, and am repaying a tuition free loan, to which I was entitled as an EU citizen; so personally I benefit from the system (because I'd probably not be eligible for free education anyway). It still doesn't make sense to me.
What do you mean you people?
> A multi-protocol solution is sorely needed. One that combines mesh networking, internet, QR, audio encoding, even USB dead drops (https://deaddrops.com/).

Add APRS and regular ham radio.

I'm only half-joking, it would be pretty cool to have something like that! :).
If you look like the people who piss on Market St, I don't think you'd make it through the door at Westfield.
Parameters aren't implementation details.

Implementation details are stuff like "It's written in framework X so you need to call that framework's init method after document load, then do frameworkX.initCarousel(document.querySelectorAll('.image-carousel')).onEnd((carousel) => carousel.cycle())".
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" It doesn't work because companies are fundamentally not social."

I really have to disagree with this. Social media can be essential in a company that is widely geographically distributed and needs to collaborate, such as a technical sales field with different offices and R&D groups. Really depends on incentives.
Cameras, ecommerce and machine learning
I think what Chomsky was saying in that particular debate was that purely statistical methods do not lead to true understanding, as opposed to more phenomenological theory.
The Seattle Subway Movement
The more I read, the more it seems as though agriculture has been at the cutting edge of technology for millennia.
Indeed. Exposure to different areas is a great way of expanding one's perspective. The mind is a great associative device, sometimes connecting ideas we wouldn't otherwise. Plays well with the "I get my best ideas in the shower"-style phenomena.
Lambda only supports up to a maximum of 1536mb of RAM right now.

I've been involved with developing lambda functions that consume roughly 1.2gb of ram each time, but the memory usage is easy to predict as the function is triggered by files in S3 that are about the same size.

They say to break your problem down into smaller chunks to fit into the memory - is that possible in your case?
I think the reason you are being downvoted is because you obviously never spent much time learning scheme (or even looked at much scheme code). Yet you still condemn the code and say the person deserves "slaps". To anyone that actually knows scheme, this comes off as pretty ignorant, and _very_ arrogant.

This is the way people write lisps, and using tools like paredit, you don't really notice (or deal with) parentheses at all. They just end up there, and that's much better than having them on a new line. They are unimportant. If the code is properly aligned, having the parens on a new line would just be line noise.
High-speed electrons so fast, they break current physics models
The funny part is that not a single reply to my comment (so far) touched on any of the points being made, which was entirely about definitions of terms, but rather continued with the same tired and emotionally fueled talking points every union discussion has.

I have to wonder if anyone actually read my comment, or just saw the word union and started replying with their stock responses.
No it doesn't. The bare minimum when you register on an anonymous website, you're asked to pick a username/password. Not all this other information.

There was a link to a definition of PII in a followup comment somewhere. Combined, the information they ask about you could be construed as PII. It would be like asking for you to give your credit card number to browse an online shop.

The app says that they answer questions about Wal-mart policies and redirect you to a human representative if they can't answer your question. Why do they need all this other information?
Tesla – Full Self Driving Demonstration
This is huge news for New Zealand, one of the challenges that we face in meeting our climate change goals is the fact that a large part of our economy is based around agriculture, it's not as easy as replacing some coal power plants for us because 80-90% of our energy generation is green as it is. And it's also not easy for us to change the type of agriculture because the world does still need food. A lot of money is being spent on solving this problem.
All good questions. What I have in mind in the short term is much more in line with the ACM doc linked below by nullc.

The idea of a professional degree has crossed my mind. There's enough of a gap in knowledge and ability required to transition from writing static web content to writing high quality (maintainable, operationally sound, scaleable) enterprise backend code that it starts to look like a paralegal/lawyer, LPN vs. RN, etc. distinction. The difference is that the public has little interest in regulating engineers, but it does have an interest in regulating lawyers and nurses.

I'm personally deeply suspicious of degrees. I'm returning to school to get a professional masters in CSCI, but the program explicitly requires work experience as a pre-requisite for entry (which seems like a no-brainer to me). It also has a high price, which is not something I would foist on the community.

I don't think "programming" should ever be tied to professional institutions as such (much less academic computer science). It has strong roots in free, open-source, decentralized, hacker-minded culture, and I don't think we should ever give that up.

So I guess I'm of two minds about the idea of a professional engineering degree. On the one hand it would help raise expectations about professionalism and accountability in software, which seem pitifully low right now, and on the other hand, it seems like a path no one in their right mind would want to go down.
> The other major blocker is that the Professional Engineer licensure process requires "four years of progressive engineering experience under a PE" (see https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe). There being few, if any, software PEs, there is something of a chicken-and-egg problem.

Agreed, this is a big issue.

Also, it requires that the school have a specific accreditation that is unusual for Computer Science. My school has it but it didn't have it until 3 years after I graduated because it was so new. Although I had to take all the same courses as the eventually accredited version. (my year was the first year to do so but it takes a few years to get the accreditation)

So I'm not sure if I'm even eligible to take it because of that.

Not just accreditation (many schools have that), it needs a specific type that is for engineering.

Either way, as someone pointed out. It is a process. It won't happen overnight.
OK, but maybe don't assume any motives on my part?

What I'm saying is that free healthcare and education (and other stuff like that) is a cost that civilised societies are prepared to pay to remain civilised, and it's weird that one such society seems to think very differently than the rest in that respect.
Gave up on cloud backups. Takes too long on onedrive. Dropbox too expensive.

For personal I now use easeus todo on Windows. Keep a backup hdd at work and at home.had

For work I let them take care of it. I connect to VM and it's all backed up.
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My hobbies are mountain biking and windsurfing but I'm not particularly interested in listening to news or stuff related to those. As for books, I find it far more enjoyable to read from paper rather than to listen to someone reading, although it also depends on who's reading... I really enjoyed a few audio books narrated by Stephen Fry.
Doesn't work on chromium-browser either.
Heh, no. ;)
We check run off, waste disposal, animal welfare, and a lot of other things on farms. It's all done with spot checks, I'd imagine this will be the same.
yada yada yada rich and poor equally free to not sleep under a bridge?
Oh hey, I actually took this class. Funny to see it linked on HN. It was easily the single most valuable class I took in undergrad.

There's definitely a lot of useful information there, but I'm not sure how well it's organized because the course website wasn't designed to stand on its own.
I wonder the exact same thing, our boy is 2 and as soon as he could hold a phone his favourite videos were of himself. Going to be interesting "do you really remember X happening or is the video something that you rewatched so much you couldn't help but recall?"
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s fake news: We’re working on it
"And this is the major reason why our politics suck IMO. We have one side of the table that is 100% more government because government is awesome, one side that is 100% less government because government sucks, and nobody is arguing that we should be making government more efficient. And so we never get nice things.
"

Well, that'll continue happening as long as you force it to be one giant pie. If you let people choose in the first place, then you can have your nice things. You just have to pay for them yourself along with those individuals that agree with your viewpoint. And the rest of us will have to choose to either join you, or do it some other way.

All arguments eventually lead to choice. Freedom and consent are fundamental properties of a libertarian belief system. We don't get to throw those out just because it'll be efficient. You could argue that it's efficient to just execute all repeat-criminals, but we don't do that because of fundamental human rights that are completely separate to the concept of pragmatism and efficiency.
I am not surprised. Just about every consumer electronic device in China can be assumed to be backdoored. Laptops are backdoored too:

http://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-...

Even the ISP provided routers are backdoored:

http://www.computersolutions.cn/blog/2014/09/hacking-shangha...

Some of the obvious backdoors are easy to circumvent. e.g. If a Linux distribution is your operating system of choice, you automatically bypass that Lenovo backdoor.
Most of advice in this thread is bad advice.

1.
Fix your mental health issues. Top Priority. If you kill yourself at some point because you can't get out of the depression spiral by yourself everyone will be at loss.

2.
Get a lawyer. Nobody here can and should give you legal advice.

3.
Learn from your probably expensive mistake. You are an adult, whatever decision you make in life will have consequences. Man up and take responsibility for your mistakes.
Microsoft asp.net is Big Comming
Radia Perlman also wrote a great (and fun!) book on networking: https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int...
I am a Google Cloud PM, but not on Dataflow specifically.

Do you know how long the Dataflow processing will take? You may be able to estimate the length of the full-size process (assuming it's batch rather than streaming) by running on a small data sample to see how many vCPU hours it takes and estimate from there, assuming your data takes a uniform amount of time to process.

Since Dataflow is running code that you wrote, it doesn't know how complex your processing will be for any given value, so it's hard to give any reasonable estimate. In general, automatically predicting how long an arbitrary piece of code will take to run on a given input is even harder than the Halting problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem), which is already undecidable.

Details on Dataflow pricing: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/pricing

Pricing calculator to estimate cost for Dataflow and other products: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

Hope this helps!
I am a Google Cloud PM.

Sorry to hear you ran into this issue, and glad that it was resolved.

Just curious: did you try any channels of getting in touch with anyone at Google before reaching out to your friend? And if you did, and they did not work, we'd definitely like to know so that we can fix this.

We'd certainly like to make it easy for anyone to resolve issues with their GCP accounts easily, without requiring you to have a friend or acquaintance at Google to help fix this.
> Is it useful to report these potential mistakes?

The "vouch" feature was recently added exactly for the purpose of correcting those mistakes as we spot them - so I'd say it is useful. Moderators are just people and have finite time too.
Really, your phone number, email address, zip code and full name are available on your facebook profile?

I don't know which profiles you're looking at, but that information is available on the profiles of none of my friends.
Invest in a Tesla vehicle? Probably sounds like overkill but if you can afford it the autopilot feature could get you your hands/hours back
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207360
How Edwin Hubble discovered galaxies outside our own
Actually: "Philadelphia Eagles v’s Seattle Seahawks L’ive S’tream"
> Or some random guy on the internet who likes downvotes and says he's been doing it so long it now pays for him to do this every other day.

It says on your site you graduated in 2007. I'd take the experts any day.
Actually: "Miami Dolphins v’s Los Angeles Rams L’ive S’tream"
Do you think our culture is going to be uplifted somehow if we all switch to calling it "the shitter"?
At one point, Blogger was as much a social network as Tumblr is now. At least, I think I remember that; it was about a decade ago now.
> No Python doc tool produces well-linked API docs out of the box.

What's wrong with Sphinx-generated documentation?

> I'd also like to see a local, easily installed tool that can generate documentation like this from just the source code of a project in one command. My previous efforts with Python doc tools had me downloading templates, writing a build pipeline that chained multiple tools together, etc.

Ever tried Sphinx? I never needed to download any templates or write
a pipeline to generate HTML (for man pages, Sphinx has some formatting off,
so I needed to adjust it).

Granted, it's a little different from JavaDoc-style tools, as you need to a)
mark all the functions and classes to see them documented, and b) provide
a skeleton for the pages layout, but this actually gives better control over
the resulting documentation and allows to include description of non-API
things, like architecture, examples, protocol specifications, or glossary.
I highly recommend Clarke Ching's "Rolling Rocks Downhill" audiobook [1] which is a novel that teaches/refreshes agile software development in a really engaging way. I'd love to know if there are more novels like that out there - I haven't managed to find any.

I'm getting bored with podcasts these days because most of them have too much idle chat. Shows like "99% Invisible" that are well produced and low on chit chat are fine but I think audiobooks are the way forward.

[1] http://www.rolls.rocks/podcasts-video/2016/2/23/rolling-rock...
Thanks! I'll work at making my emails less AppSumo-y. ;)

You should definitely send that email. I try to reply to every one I get.

(BTW - one of the things I include with M4Devs is a secret podcast RSS feed where I read the chapters for you. Perfect if you're having a hard time getting started)
I'm not sure what you actually mean here, could you please clarify?

Do you by fairness strictly mean the initial compensation being offered, but not what the workers believe is a fair compensation after-the-fact?

Do you by freedom strictly mean individual freedom to bargain, but not the freedom to organise and bargain collectively?
> It's an illegal labor practice in the US for an employer to do that. It's interference with the right to bargain collectively.

Sounds like this particular organization is intentionally legally organized so as not to have those protections (or restrictions).

From the OP:

"OUR Walmart, which says it has thousands of paying members, isn’t a traditional union because members don’t have collective bargaining rights. It separated last year from the United Food and Commercial Workers International, which has tried unsuccessfully for years to organize workers at Wal-Mart’s U.S. stores."
> He'll find out that he can't just do what he wants as president and his days are ridiculously packed, and won't go for a second term.

Or he'll find out that he can leverage the position into making money and let his VP and cronies do the ruling work.

The former is how things seem to be shaping up, and the latter is how Kasich reported the VP pitch he got (also matches Trump's desire to keep doing big rallies, not move in the White House and keep going on twitter tiffs).
Yep! That'd be it.
Minimum Viable Technology (MVT)
"My research on successful professionals underscores that this experience is common: As you become more valuable to the marketplace, good things will find you."

If I didn't laugh so hard at this, I'd have to cry. Let's say my mileage has varied significantly. Diametrically. Exponentially. Hilariously.

No idea whether social media has any effect on anything; I don't use it. So there's that.
Is Wal-Mart actually doing anything illegal? They are not preventing their employees from downloading anything. They are simply telling the employees that the app collects personal information and that it may be used in nefarious ways. I see no evidence at all that Walmart is stopping the employees from any kind of download of the app.
For individual submissions/comments there is always the "vouch" button. And the mods have been extremely friendly when I've mailed them about what looked to me like a new user which got caught in a spam filter by accident (which was then fixed, and the user asked to resubmit their "lost" submission)
German here. I have never heard of this programm, nor does it seem that big cities like Hamburg, Frankfurt or Munich are part of it.

It looks like a nice thing, but the headline is a little misleading, its not in "all German cities", just some.
I work for an extremely large - £Billions - retail grocery operation in the U.K. We use Docker containers in production, not right across the business, but in many important and up-and-coming areas. What did you want to know?
The rich and the poor are equally free to make offers on places that prevent them from sleeping under the bridge, absolutely.

But since those with homes are just as free to say no to some (esp. the poor), they really might be left to live under a bridge. This is why freedom and fairness can be bad. If we take away freedom, we can allow those people under the bridge to have homes.
a blog is a webbed personal log with comments and the core functionality fb offers is just that, a simple to set up homepage? Blogs have a blogroll instead of a friendlist, does that make a big difference? Seriously asking, I don't use the latter.
Thanks for your reply.
I'm aware of how you price things, but I'm also aware that often amateurs (like me in the SaaS world) tend to underprice things.
That's why I thought I could see if this was possible to make sure I didn't pick too low a price.
There is a python library that uses probabilistic string parsing on addresses. You can even add labeled data to improve accuracy:
https://github.com/datamade/usaddress
What have you been reading lately?
Thanks.

I'll definitely do some research to find out how much people value the service, but I also want to make sure not to undercharge.

After how long is usually break even? 1 year?

Thanks for you help.
Responding to my own post because I wound this interest...

Based on that page I linked, the SW Engineering PE has the lowest passing rate and an average passing rate of repeat test takers of any of the exams. I presume because most schools and careers do not prepare people properly for this exam.
An even scarier trend (hasn't happened to me but a friend of mine) is that a lot of companies want you to give linkedin permissions to post on your behalf for the company's recruiters.

I don't know how prevalent that is, but there apparently was a lot of soft pressure applied. "We're a startup and we're having a hard time recruiting. Don't you want this company to succeed? We need to recruit more people, and these linked in campaigns will help."
Always wanted to spare some time to calculate how Facebook and other social distraction influence our productivity and income. Every single notification and distraction during work hours makes us less productive not only by taking time, but also by decreasing ability to focus. We achieve less during the day.

Basically, Facebook converts time of every single user life and productivity decrease into own revenue. And it's done with very very low efficiency--for the whole year it's around $40+ per US user for Facebook. As reported average user spends 50 minutes per day on Facebook. Hence, about 7.3 full 24 hour days (if we add sleep time required to compensate being awake 7.3 x 1.4 = 10.2 days) of your life make Facebook $40+.

I wonder what it means for US GDP in general should the data be run countrywide calculating distraction time and productivity decrease during the work hours.
Thanks for the explanation.

How would you improve this system? Do you think universal healthcare would help?
App store downloads, the next app and a preview of the next blog post
If you fit the curve, HN was perfect about 14 months before it was created.
Hi @tedmiston, I tought too that the Vue team was working on it, but they're clearly focusing on integrating Weex with Vue right now.

In comparison of Next.js, Nuxt.js is customizable via a nuxt.config.js file, I am actually working on the possibility to extend the root application via a pages/_app.vue file. This way, there are endless possibilities for customizing your app.

I'm actually working on an E-commerce website based on nuxt.js, it's a big enough example to know if nuxt.js is ready for making any kind of web application.

Also, for the server-side, you can use nuxt.js as a middleware of your own node.js app.

The documentation website is on its way :-)
We are using docker in production on google's cloud. Specifically google container engine which is essentially kubernetes.
Do you disagree with the content of the standards posted, or with the professional ethos of the ACM? There's a substantive distinction to be made there.