skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that our food supply is most at risk as it becomes increasingly a GMO monoculture. (And maybe the solution is as simple as taking measures to encourage genetic diversity.)

So i mean the consequences may be orders of magnitude smaller but I'd also argue the chance of something happening is orders of magnitude larger. (We're talking about small chances for either event, that's my point).
The transaction costs are not fixed (they are set by the sender). The fee depends on the number of transactions on the waiting list.
Sorry I could not find a good enough non-book reference.
Careful! Regulations are heresy to the crowd around here; they're anti-freedom and free markets fix everything anyway!
In the article it was noted that Uber and Lyft are now required to give contact information to organizers.
Unfortunately it is merely a math problem. Until the peg comes in contact there is no friction. After it is in contact there is friction, and if the geometry is just wrong enough "virtual forces" to oppose any force. Real matter (which bends) can't have this problem- it is from the rigid model. The non-reversaiblity is this flaw plus the fact there is no friction in the model prior to contact (so there is a non-reverisble feature in the model).
> Wordpress could solve a lot of security issues by using a newer version of PHP, but they are scared of breaking legacy items.

There's nothing stopping you from running it on PHP 7.1 (and we are on our client sites). There's not a great amount that could be gained by WordPress (the project) by dropping support for the older versions; the main gains would be namespacing and closures.

That said, I do think it's time to drop 5.2 support. 5.2 is down to single digit percentages: https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
'Hollyweed': Prankster alters LA's landmark sign
Examples of past work.
Passion.
Can they build things themselves or did they ride the coattails of a large team.

Regardless, hold your developers accountable to results.
Manage by output not man hours.

If within 6 months you don't feel they're a good fit, move on.
Look at the source of HN some day :)
LastPass, and I pay for it. Does the job, but the chrome plugin seems sluggish sometimes.

Happy customer.
Check out the edit mode called "parinfer" -- https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/

It integrates nicely into a number of different editors and takes the initially weird parentheses right out
Get a client willing to pay you.
Forget everything else. Contracts and all that you'll learn as you go along.
Don't be afraid to mess up.
Highlight: Your Home Is Your Canvas
Remember that "tacking"* in sailboats (going upwind, using only the force of that wind) was held to be impossible, a violation of the laws of nature until people actually witnessed it, too. Severe violations of our expectations don't always break the actual math of a physics model.

*more properly said "beating to windward"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacking_(sailing)
Anyone can organize at any time, and the employer is free to tell you to pound sand and hire someone else

This is not correct. Independent Contractors can organize but they have no right's covered by the National Labor Relations Act - which means they have little power or protections of a traditional union including collective bargaining rights. Organizing groups (who are covered by the NLRA) can not be fired by the employers for organizing.
Engineers at the big 4 get exposed to a lot more opportunities... In today's world if you stayed at the same spot (title/employer) for more than 2 years I'd be asking myself:

- Why you didn't get promoted?

- Are you not landing any job interviews? Because I know you get tones of emails from recruiters

- Are you still learning new things? Do you want to learn new things?

In terms of processes at the big companies, you're looking for smart people... Processes don't tell me if you're smart or not. It's just you dealing with rules like any other human being.
LastPass is the last thing you should use. It got hacked in 2015 and 2016:

http://lifehacker.com/lastpass-hacked-time-to-change-your-ma...

https://www.hackread.com/lastpass-hacked-this-time-for-good/
I do feel like it'd be prudent to wait until everyone I love has died, before I even publicly speak about these issues. Power is not something we as a race have learned to tame, and we currently have a bunch of very powerful actors who hate piracy (and free-spirited citizens in general). You can call my fear paranoia, but is it that if you really are constantly being watched by the invisible eyes of powerful and ruthless interest groups and government agencies?

I do wonder how much cooperation there is between the copyright lobby and intelligence agencies. Their interests and arenas are very much alligned.

Chilling effects matter a lot, and that is part of the reason I do choose to speak up, though it gives me more anxiety than I'd like to have. I can't imagine what a hell it must be to run an actual illegal pirate network.
About 10 years ago I paid $800 monthly for a nice 550 sq ft studio in midtown Atlanta and thought that was pricey. The most luxurious studios were ~$1k at the time. The rate of increase seems reasonable.
re: retargeting

Before you go off shoving fistfuls of money at display ad retargeting platforms, I'd highly suggest running placebo tests first. The platforms will tell you how you're converting people into paying customers at a $2 rate, but with retargeting, you've previously acquired their attention in some form -- that's how you're able to retarget them in the first place. The problem is that, particularly with display ads and Facebook feed ads, you tend to cookie bomb your audience and you're not getting a fair assessment of how many people actually stayed engaged with you because your ads in some part.

In nearly all my experience, the actual value of retargeting is never what the platforms tell you it is in their ridiculously misleading CPA reporting.
> Berlin’s U55 line cost $250 million per kilometer, Paris’ Metro Line 14 cost $230 million per kilometer, and Copenhagen’s Circle Line cost $260 million per kilometer.

Are these useful comparisons? How can you possibly compare a train running the length of Manhattan to anything in Copenhagen? I want to know how much a new train line costs in Tokyo.
I love Blender, even though I don't use it. I have contributed to the project. I like to follow its progress. But I have to say, that is the worst laid out article I have ever tried to read. I don't know why there are numbers in parentheses after each of the contributor's names, and I don't know how to follow the two column format. If you had a heat map of my eye movement, it would be totally random, showing saccades in every direction all over the page.
> That's his prerogative

Sure. 100%. It's up to him for how he wants to run an OSS project.

In the same way, if people in the community have different ideas they're more than welcome to fork. If you don't want that to happen, either listen more to the community or don't open source a project.
I see a lot advice about how to answer questions, but I think that ANSWERING questions is just as critical of a skill.

If you don't have the time to answer a question properly it is always possible to at least explain why and point the person in the right direction. More importantly, deliberately becoming "super unhelpful" in response to a question you don't feel is warranted will come back to hurt you far more than taking some time to answer it.
Get Your Start in Augmented Reality Through Unity and Udacity
People are able to sue you even if you didn't cause them any harm. Regarding copyright, they'll even win (see "statutory damages", which aren't related to the actual damages).
Show HN: New Mac setup notes for developers and programmers
Given that the rule is uniform, I'm curious how younger workers are penalized? I'd expect everyone to benefit here.
For me, if a candidate doesn't know the solution right away, but can (in some reasonable time) come up with a solution on her own after some googling, it's a huge plus. Ability to improvise and apply known solutions to a completely new problem is a sign of a great engineer.
That shamanism was really corruption:

November 2016
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents
Cristin E. Kearns, DDS, MBA1,2; Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH1,3,4; Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(11):1680-1685. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394

The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor. The SRF set the review’s objective, contributed articles for inclusion, and received drafts. The SRF’s funding and role was not disclosed. Together with other recent analyses of sugar industry documents, our findings suggest the industry sponsored a research program in the 1960s and 1970s that successfully cast doubt about the hazards of sucrose while promoting fat as the dietary culprit in CHD.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article...

(PS - I've known a Shaman or two, and they were quite sensible people, for the most part, except when they started mixing in miscellaneous white people's trashy magic.)
I believe there's an unconscious fear that most programming jobs are a far cry from computer science. Most developers are gluing modules to each other without any concern for how they're implemented.

The author used the word "trivia" and I couldn't agree more since your can google the answer. Trivia interview questions are a result of our industry not having the resources to teach beginners. I'd much rather hire people who are intellectually curious and can learn on the job.
If the CHIP from Next Thing Co. is any indication of the capabilities of the R8, the built-in audio DAC and headphone amplifier are somewhat lacking in low-end frequency response (i.e. bass) compared to what one can get in a PC, smartphone, or any other consumer-level audio player. Indeed, NTC told me on an email support thread that for their upcoming product, the Dashbot, they're using a dedicated DAC to get better audio.

I'm tempted to buy one of Olimex's i.MX233 boards to find out if the audio capabilities of that chip are better. But as I said, starting any new project today with an ARMv5-based processor just seems wrong. Technology moves on, even in applications that don't require a screen. I doubt that an ARMv5-based processor could run a modern speech recognition engine, even if only to listen to a wake word for something like the Alexa Voice Service or the Dashbot.
KeePass for the important things - anything that involves money, directly or indirectly - email, banking, amazon, ebay, bitcoins.

1Password for everything else.
Must be said that the final shape looks very similar to animal feces probably because twisting intestines pose a challenge similar to that of the moving sofa problem.
True, it's but this has been replicated. It may yet be an error, but it's not a one-off by now.
Amazon's problem? It's the trademark holders that have a problem with the surfeit of counterfeit stuff out there. Amazon is just fine, thanks to suitably written Safe Harbor laws.
I do think too there should be always quality standards for construction to secure a minimum quality of housing (Most of what attracts people to suburbia besides the price is privacy).

But I think the biggest inflater usually is height-restrictions, parking-lot-requirements and a general uncertainty of what an ownership title actually means: in every municipality you'll find different possibilities of NIMBY-interference and likelihoods thereof.
"the bottom of the barrel for any plugin that does kind of what you need,"

Many of those "bottom of the barrel" solutions are someone else's attempt at building "whatever they wanted" with custom post types, theme options, etc.
Its more then that. People who drive for Uber rarely or are new to it don't want to pay union dues and are likely going to vote against the union.

The city didn't want a bunch of part-time or brand new drivers killing a union for the larger "full-time" group over union dues. Its a smart and relatively fair play by the authors of the law. The reason Uber/Lyft want these folks to vote is that they're likely to opt out just because of the dues.
Ahhh gogs. This project has always rubbed me the wrong way with how much of a blatant steal of Github it is.

Sure, 'copy' the features, and take inspiration from the UI and layout, but so much of gogs looks identical to GitHub that it's nothing but stealing.
I wrote this on another thread a few months ago. It's in the context of paywalled science, but it applies more generally:

Copyright law is ridiculous.
Nonfiction and scientific work should be treated differently than fictional works. I don't really care if Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain. But it's crazy that 100 year old scientific works can still be under copyright and illegal to distribute. These objectively have value to society, and the argument for the existence of the public domain is much stronger.

And why on Earth should copyright last last so long to begin with? How many works are worth anything after 10 or 15 years? I believe 99% of all works make 99%+ of their revenue in the first few years. Having copyright last a lifetime, let alone much longer, is just crazy. Creators benefit exponentially less for every additional year of protection. And only the very successful ones even benefit to begin with - the vast vast majority of works are just forgotten by that time.

Put a cost on renewing copyright. This is actually how it used to be. Half way through, you could pay a fee to have copyright extended. Very few people paid this fee (because most works aren't economically valuable), so most works went into public domain much sooner. Journals charge $30 to access obscure ancient papers. But I bet they wouldn't pay even $30 to keep the rights to those same papers.

Don't put everything into copyright by default. And again especially works of nonfiction or scientific papers. If the authors want that, then sure. This wouldn't fix the issues with big journals that demand it. But it still seems like a sensible idea to have copyright opt-in, not opt-out.
The answer to your Tokyo question is in the "compendium of international subway projects", linked in the article (which also contains those numbers you quoted)
Even if leaving the emperor in power wasn't just going to lead to a new war in the future.

Japan had four conditions for surrender.

1: The imperial government stays in power.

2: The imperial government handles disarmament and demobilizing the military.

3: No occupation of Japan or it's territories.

4: The imperial government handles trial and punishment of their war criminals.
I wonder if Uber will just leave, like they did in Austin. Its hard to imagine the impact this would have, uber has a huge presence in seattle. I would imagine this would be political suicide for the council, certainly the impact it would have on my life would turn me into a full time shill for whoever opposes it politically
You might enjoy Peter Norvig teaching you this technique which he uses to solve the Zebra Puzzle in lesson 2 of CS212:

https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/cs212/lessons/48632874...
Lets get something straight. He did not avoid sugar. And no one should.

Food falls into 3 main categories: Carbs, proteins, fats.

Carbs fall into 2 categories, Sugars and Starches (which are just a chain of sugar molecules).

Yes, it is possible to survive for awhile on just protein and fat, but NO ONE should be doing that. Sugar is necessary and good for you.
You're right:

60 watts x 24 hrs/day = 1440 watt hrs = 1.44 kwh/day, @ $.10/kwh = $.15 / day
$5/LED bulb / $.15/day = 33 days to pay off
I've been leaning towards learning Japanese as a 2017 goal, so this or any other tips would be very much appreciated!
The spreadsheet model is the SQL table model.

You should separate spreadsheet computation (which for these languages is written in the language) from the spreadsheet data.

Spreadsheets slightly generalize the SQL table by allowing cells to have varying data type, but without loss of generality any spreadsheet can be broken down into a set of SQL tables.
For a lot of people, that essentially means "don't invest at all." The problem is that if you think it's 100% a sure thing, it's not really speculation, so it doesn't matter whether you can afford to lose the money.
Practice and persistence. It's as simple as that. You won't learn much unless you make time for it. Don't focus too much on learning perfectly the right way, just get started and keep at it.
I bet if you went second time, you would have even more fun.
I think it boils down to the culture of those kinds of sites, which reportedly encourage an elitist secret club type of mindset over one which encourages preservation or dissemination of information.
Sitting below C is exactly what you want in this case. It's not about tail calls as an automatic optimization - it's about having a tailcall opcode of some sort, that guarantees a tail call when used (but you're responsible for lifetimes etc). That is inherently a low-level facility - lower than what the C standard provides. C implementations can do tail calls, but because this behavior isn't actually guaranteed and is purely a quality-of-implementation issue, a language that needs tail calls for its idiomatic code to not blow up the stack cannot target portable C, unless it redoes the stack itself.
Do you have a good guide for setting up a bunch of WP sites securely/properly? The ones I've found all just have a few tips here/there and many conflict each other. Haven't found anything "complete".
I was under the impression that it is legally required of presidents but not candidates.

edit: It looks like it's not a legal requirement, just a tradition. I suppose time will tell.
I think he is being realistic and i think he did a good job, you wouldn't write this if you asked him or if you knew things like worst-case, average-case, and best-case performance.
why? do you consider Vipassana to be "hocus pocus"?
Trademark doesn't have time limits like Copyright. There is no real threat to Disney's control over the Mickey character in commerce.
Yes, and why random data? Possibly he needed 'real' data because the store used compression/RLE.

But certainly they should have got an estimate first - given a probability and size.
> Independent Contractors can organize but they have no right's covered by the National Labor Relations Act - which means they have little power or protections of a traditional union including collective bargaining rights.

Well, they don't have the normal protections that employees have, either, because they're independent contractors and not employees. That has nothing to do with the NLRA or collective bargaining rights.

Part of the point of independent contracting is that the relationship isn't an employment relationship, so the same rights aren't relevant. If you're saying that this is something that should be protected for Uber drivers, the real answer is that they should be classified as employees, not to blur the responsibilities of an independent contracting relationship.
Yes and no. Hume's dictum that miracles must have a shit-ton of evidence (extraordinary claims, blah, blah) helped science dismiss the reality of meteorites for a very long time, for example. Rocks falling from the sky? Go on! Epigenetics is a vital field now - but one that was discovered, rediscovered and buried and ignored for many, many decades. "Methodological Conservatism" shouldn't be generalized into a dismissal of anomalies.
This sounds good, I'm going to look out for it.
The problem with 'referral hiring'
Well, first excuse me if I don't use the bookbinder-english correct words as I'm not a native speaker.

How did i build docking stations? Well, the way you create the back of a book (not of course the "inlay" or "pages") is usually by working on a thick board (you may call it "paperboard") and covering it with some sort of leather (my literal translation would be "leather paper"). With the same technique you can create other objects as well. Boxes would be the most obvious ones but any form that comes to your mind and you consider doable. I basically did that "around" a cable ;-)
It's really annoying when somebody gives examples of difficult unsolvable problems when in fact they're pretty damn solvable.

For example, instead of an "indexable skip list" (whatever that is) I'd have said a red-black tree (or whatever) where each node keeps track of how many elements are in its subtree. At least if a simple log(n) solution is tolerable. And you know, I've never seen this problem before. I didn't "memorize the answer." You have to put together general background knowledge and find a solution. Putting summary information on the nodes of a tree is a general-purpose data structures trick.

Also, take, for example, the cycle finding problem. I came across that question once in a low-pressure situation and invented Brent's algorithm. Today, that is a bad interview question because it's too famous. But generally speaking it's very easy to solve if you've never seen it before: maintain a hash table of the pointers you've seen. Does that take up too much space? You can adapt that solution to use less space.

Granted, there are developers that can get some kinds of useful stuff done that can't figure out math problems or algorithms problems on the spot, but it's wrong to conclude that other people are memorizing answers to these questions. After all, interviewers at some companies are trying to come up with questions and tasks people haven't heard before and keep their questions secret.
Those are the reasons why we need not-sharing illegal libraries. For everything. For when the times get better...or worse...
WordPress out-of-the-box is pretty secure, and there's a team who actively work on security, including a specific security lead. The main issues most people run into are with security of plugins and themes.

This is basically a result of plugins and themes being run as part of the main process (they're just regular PHP code), which is practically-speaking unavoidable.

That's not to say that WP is 100% impenetrable, and any large and mature software is going to have bugs, some of which may turn out to be security-related. The best defence against that is regular updates (inc. auto-updates, which are built in).

(I work at an enterprise WordPress agency where we build large sites for large clients (media orgs, banks, etc). I'm also a committer to WP core, and hence on the WP security team. I'm also one of the leads on the WP REST API project, and was running the HackerOne project until the API was merged into WP.)
* earlier last year ;)
Could have almost been relevant if it were Larks' Tongues in Aspic.