skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, this turned into a typical 90s flame war. I think you have a valid point that Vivaldi should provide options despite what you and I might think are the correct defaults.
Try ZDtandard. You can spend as tune compression speed vs. compression ratio. Decompressing is always fast.

It was recently released: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
Interesting story, sad.
Visual Studio with Resharper.

Anything else just does not come close for C#.
Android Studio for Android, because it's the best IDE for Android

Sublime for everything else because it's lightweight and no frills
Qualities of Engineers This CTO Loves to Hire
Yeah I feel it depends on the company you work for. It seems most companies are "butt's in chairs" and just want you there...

There are loads of people who watch Netflix all day at my company, but full time remote isn't offered to everyone.
PHPStorm - its by far the best IDE for PHP. Over the years I tried: Eclipse PDT, NetBeans, Zend Studio but PHPStorm beats the competition in every respect.
Research Mathematician. I'm going to try anyway but I doubt I'll even make it to grad school and the career prospects for an average mathematician to do research near full time are dim.
Interesting, did not know that. Just looked it up on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airband#Modulation

> Besides being simple, power-efficient and compatible with legacy equipment, AM and SSB permit stronger stations to override weaker or interfering stations. Additionally, this method does not suffer from the capture effect found in FM. Even if a pilot is transmitting, a control tower can "talk over" that transmission and other aircraft will hear a somewhat garbled mixture of both transmissions, rather than just one or the othe
Is it a legitimate security concern, beyond the unlikely case where you don't have your Dropbox credentials in 1P? What scenario does it defend against?

Full disclosure: I'm a satisfied 1P user and don't really care about what kind of Dropbox access they use, although I'm open to persuasion on the second part.
The bit about salary is huge. I do a moderately good job of keeping my needs/lifestyle pretty basic (I could do better). In the back of my mind, I'm always telling myself "you aren't saving to retire from work early. you are saving so you can retire to a different career early".
This would seem to be a solved problem for publicly traded companies.
I came here to say this, what do you like to bake?

I am a becoming a bit of a sourdough fanatic and am starting to see some results [1]. Thinking about building a wood-fired oven and baking a little for the farmers market this year to see if it could be a sideline I enjoy (in gradschool).

[1]https://imgur.com/a/skH9O
Forensic Science Technician. I'm a web developer now. If I could switch, I'd absolutely love to be one of those forensic science technicians. To use science to put away the bad guys (or exonerate the good guys) sounds so gratifying.
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I would go into filmmaking or become a doctor. Maybe...
It might give you good code, but by piecing together snippets of good code, you're somewhat more likely to wind up with a lousy architecture...
> A nuclear catastrophe, statistically, poses a much lower risk to my well being than tornado season.

The probability may be lower. But the consequences are way, way, way, way, way bigger.(I am assuming nuclear catastrophe means nuclear war.)

From a personal point of view. A heart attack or cancer it is much bigger risk. You die and the world ends for you. But from the point of view of humanity. A nuclear war it is a much higher risk, since it would jeopardize our future.
Emacs for many purposes, but largely Perl and Python.
SQL Developer for Oracle work.
SQLServer Management Studio for SQLServer work.
VisualStudio for VB.NET and C#.
Problem is that a form might be longer or wider than the viewport, which would result in "hidden" elements in genuine browsers too.
Ask HN: What are your favorite thin websites (text only or limited images)?
This is mostly an awareness article that summarizes previously deployed techniques, and illustrates a situation where those techniques can cause maximum harm.

For background, a HN submission a year ago about these kinds of ads linking to phones, from Ars Technica [1], which some choice comments being one naming such an ad company [2] while a different subthread explores another [3][4].

Prior art in this space includes the work of Boris Smus [5], who then went on to develop the guest pairing mode for Chromecast using this technique. There have been other efforts over the years, some before, but certainly after, and of course the use of sound to transmit digital information is an old trick that makes modems possible, but in those days the lines didn't have the bandwidth to carry ultrasound.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562207 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563384 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563369
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563031 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562787
I'd love to open a bookstore and a publishing house. But I also would love to be art curator, or something related to art dealing. I read a lot of books (fictions, too) about collecting, fakes, etc. I find that world quite amusing, but I think it is impossible to do a career there without money or networking.
Here the usual risks apply, but it is mostly short flights between small villages next to amazon rivers. A 15 minutes flight is equivalent to a 3 hours boat ride on the river.. Imagine the increase in coverage a vaccination nurse can do with a small ultralight seaplane. http://www.aircam.com/
What is the history of this copy-pasta? There are some valid points and it is a nice rant about the GNU/Linux naming controversy (that seems to be never ending), but AFAIK nobody said it, and it is just a hypothetical rant by Linus engineered by the Hive mind?
Okay, well then assuming it is intended to be anti-theist, why is that a problem? Is the cosmology he describes not empirical?
Spend 9 hours a day looking at an electronic display. Hands on paper, leaf scrolling. API reference books get dated pretty quickly, but more theoretical or conceptual references hold up pretty well in a collection.
Right, just like a DDoS attack is just "sending get requests to a public internet endpoint".
Technically lowpass :)
Is there an ultrasound scanner out there?
In a lot of places like this the infrastructure wouldn't exist in the first place if not for the state, so it seems natural to me that the public should retain ownership after paying to develop it.
Yes, he susbtantially built up his daddy's money and business, and upscaled it by taking it across East River to Manhattan. I would also think it fair to add "opportunist" to the list of his effective skills. I also think it fair to point out that plenty of rich kids end up skating through life, doing zip, and ultimately blowing the family fortune.

As to what constitutes effective "action" for a developer, sure he didn't lay bricks, but he made the deals, got the (opportunistic) tax breaks, and managed to fix up properties that were sitting stagnant. The Commodore Hotel, for example. And this same media that is ragging on him used to nauseate people like me who don't worship the shiny metal with its pimping of Mr. Trump.

And failures in business are par per course. If failure in a business venture makes a person a bumbler, then what to make of our current business hero's statement that "failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough"? (That was Elon Musk, btw.)
Probably a custom/bespoke leatherworker. I sell stuff as http://www.vulcancrafting.com on the side now, I'd love to do it full time.
Something in film.

I can sit for ages thinking about how movies and TV series are cut and edited, i think it is fascinating.

Surgeon would be interesting.

It is however not a big leap from the fundamental reason i am in tech.

I like to figure out how stuff works and fit together.
I don't feel it maters that much if it is a computer or a human body.
The Risch "algorithm", in this sense, is an implementation of the Risch decision procedure; in particular, the Risch-Bronstein-Trager algorithm. Axiom's version was written, in large part, by Bronstein, himself. Axiom's implementation is complete in the sense of capturing the entire Risch decision procedure for elementary functions: it either returns the antiderivative or returns a proof that no such antiderivative exists.

However, while elementary functions are extremely important, they aren't the whole story for functions; in that sense, Axiom is far weaker than, say, Mathematica.
Yoga Teacher (for developers)
> I've seen this so many times on consulting gigs and with the occasional new employer.

Same, and it's getting really fatiguing. Probably the #1 driver for me to get a side-project off the ground is to finally actually write code and not just play janitor for someone else's mess.
Which circles back to where VW Dieselgate was a fucking disaster and a lot of people at a lot of levels of government on multiple continents are just as at fault as VW is.

First rule of computer security: do not trust humans.

First rule of not trusting humans: computers lie when ordered to by computers, and cannot be trusted, and results should be checked as often and as completely as possible.
I'm not against remote work, but one thing I notice is that it's more efficient to hash out ideas with someone in person.

Why do you categorically say that something is broken if it requires personal presence?
> What am I missing?

The human element.

We make an application that makes use of folder on a network share. One of the developers here types up instructions each time we install a new site. If the customer has trouble or opts to have our help, they will connect remotely to create a folder and some sub folders. This takes anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour if they have trouble connecting remotely.

I mentioned in a developer meeting that we should create an install script for the network folders. It would save the company hundreds of hours or work.

One developed asked how I would do it. A generally competent developer, who has worked with files and folders for many years, asked how we could deliver a program to create folders.

I nearly walked out (and we still dont have a 4 line script to create the folders we need)
WW3 TRUMP HAS a PLACE FOR ILLEGALS WHO CLAIM NO WERE TOGO, FEMA CAMPS,
What about the fuel tanks that would be required for a hypothetical hydrogen aircraft? Unlike kerosene, hydrogen is very light, but the high-pressure tank to contain the hydrogen is quite heavy. Plus, given hydrogen's very low volumetric density, I imagine you'd have to sacrifice a lot of the cargo volume of the aircraft to fit the H2 fuel tank.
Editor: Neovim, because the vi mode is powerful and neovim is improving the vi feeling.
IDE: IntelliJ Idea IC, because it's one of the most decent IDEs out there and it's free and open source.
In case anyone here hasn't heard of Fig they are crowd funding equity investment into videogames.

More info on their site here: https://www.fig.co/
Ah, right. I think down here the problem is that the capacity for normal lanes did get reduced.
Also there's now a thing called "GNU/NT", or as Microsoft calls it, "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".
doesn't look like anything to me
Fabulous adventures in coding
This link seems to explain it in some detail: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Idea/Negative_Differen...

A typical transistor doesn't have the red part of the curve where resistance goes up with increased current. This effect might be useful for multi-level logic or for self current limiting (similar to a lamp)?
For those that want to get more strict typing there are two great options in Typescript and Flow.
Reminds of me this post/story:

https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
It's a big part of why Paris for example has become so horribly smog covered.
Creating Jira accounts and giving them access to the right projects. It's one of my jobs.
I wonder if Bernard Black, from Black Books, is inspired on him.
Design Hunt
You can use the phenomenon of negative differential resistance to improve the design of some very common circuit elements. For example you can move from a classic six transistor SRAM cell to a two transistor design. It's a bit dense reading but here is a research synopsis from one group working on this in silicon/SiGe. http://www2.ece.ohio-state.edu/~berger/summ_ritd05.html
Dell’s Canvas is a 27-inch tablet for creative professionals
You actually don't need a separate editor for most of the languages (minus C++ with CLion). It's not entirely obvious, but if you use IntelliJ IDEA, there are plugins for the other languages that provide the equivalent functionality of PyCharm, Ruby Mine, etc:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea/plugin/631-python
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea/plugin/1293-ruby
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea/plugin/6610-php
I appreciate the kind advice, since you are correct that Med Phys is a rewarding field for many. However, I'm already more than familiar with Med Phys, since that's most of the "boring day job" I use to pay the bills. I was on the design team for some of the most widely used devices in the field. Unfortunately, as a field of applied physics, it is the epitome of slow steady progress with almost no real breakthroughs. There's nothing wrong with that, especially when it helps people, but I'd prefer to work on things with the potential for big breakthroughs. So I work on the boring stuff during the day, and do mad science at night.
At human 5k speeds, on asphalt, taking corners close doesn't require speed adjustment. Traction is not really a problem. Just take a direct route.

Drag is quadratic with respect to speed, so switching between endurance and sprinting is sub-optimal. Just maintain pace.

And at these speeds and the required clearances for safety, the benefit from drafting is less than 5%. This is huge for runners pushing the limits of human performance, but if a robot has the same limits where this matters, it will probably be by design.
From my background in EE, I can tell you a bit about the why at least. While I have some background in device physics, it's as an EE not as a physicist, so I probably won't be as helpful on the how.

- For analog type devices, negative resistance gives you a way to easily make oscillators, and negative feedback loops. Practical applications could be things like smaller or lower power wireless chips, or more accurate filters / oscillators in those chips. Useful for everything from wireless chipsets to things like google's project soli.

- For digital type devices, the big draw is that you can make a memory cell (aka flip-flop) from one active component instead of 2. This could potentially halve the size of some of the digital logic in your microprocessor (at least the registers and all the temporary storage used in your processing pipelines!)

- Talking more pie-in-the-sky, some models of neurons include negative resistance areas...analog neural nets on a chip using these will probably support a grad student or two as a research project!

Start reading here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_resistance
> 3. Even though the React community seems to favor ES6, at least give Typescript a serious try.

Could you give some arguments? I'm a big ES6 fan and I can't think of a good reason to use Typescript over it.
And yet it managed to get monetary value. Ergo, the regression theorem is wrong.
You are correct. The market will decide these things. What's missing today is an architecture that allows seamless/automatic branching and merging. When you must manually consider whether it's time to branch or merge, you've already lost.

Funny you mention Peter Thiel. I decided to post this just after listening to a podcast featuring Peter Thiel. I agree with him regarding competition.
IMO, "breaking into the market" as a musician isn't tough... the problem is that the market pays so little.

I know (and gig with) a lot of folks who play music as their primary or only source of income, and it's doable if you are never going to retire and don't mind living out of your car. Or possibly have a spouse that makes better money.
Combination of Emacs and Visual Studio 2015. Would like to kick the tires of Visual Studio Code - especially since there is an Emacs keybindings plugin.

Am curious if they will dump the bloated VS in the near future and focus on VS Code.
Awesome record for history.

Go for it!
Same thing, maybe more machine learning.

Our jobs are amazing! Every minute we're solving a problem that probably hasn't solved before. It wasn't solved in our work context for sure. I can't imagine doing a job that is repetitive. Even teaching seems repetitive.
From some quick digging I did in a Github repo attempting to reverse-engineer the 'audio beacons', the frequencies used by at least one startup using the technique are in the 18kHz range[1].

https://github.com/MAVProxyUser/SilverPushUnmasked/commit/bc...
Show HN: Persuade, simple presenter console for PDFs, in the browser
> it just takes some careful preparation and handling, and access to some mildly expensive materials.

I'm not even sure that's necessary, if all you want to do is create terror...?

For instance, read about David Hahn (aka, the "Nuclear Boy Scout") who recently passed away (of what, they don't say):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

He managed to contaminate his neighborhood using almost nothing but smoke detector components. How difficult would it be to collect smoke detector parts? You can easily find them used for cheap or free at garage sales and thrift stores. If there were a concerted effort to acquire the parts using only cash, it wouldn't take very long to gather up enough of the material...

...at that point, you just need the delivery device, and we all know that isn't difficult to procure or produce (all the parts can be easily bought at Walmart).

TBH, I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet; as a terrorist weapon, it wouldn't matter that it didn't cause mass death via radiation poisoning (not in the near term at least), but that it has the perception to do so. At the very least, it would make people less likely to visit the "hot zone" left over afterward (in a financially important city area it might lead to economic problems).
Teach, I suppose: high school history or English, or maybe with some brush-up, math.

(Over the years, I have earned money as busboy, stock clerk, landscape worker, driver, proofreader, copy editor, tech support worker, and developer. At this point, I don't know that my back is up to some of the manual labor, and I think that I'm too much of a wool-gatherer to be a good commercial driver. I wasn't a bad editor, but it doesn't pay well: people know when their computer systems don't work, but don't know or don't care when their texts are unreadable...)
Sure, but think about b2b. An example problem is software for a port-a-potty business. I doubt many people that run a port-a-potty business are as good of software developers as I am. If everyone just scratches their own itch, who would write software for port-a-potty businesses? Do they just not get software?

Maybe a little bit of a stupid example, but there are many unsexy b2b software opportunities out there. There is no need for it to be an itch for someone to come in and make a lot of money making their life better.

If you can scratch your own itch and make something awesome, great! If not, it doesn't really matter as long as you scratch someone's itch.

In my opinion - The top reason to pick a product is where can you provide the most value. If you can solve your own problem of unorganized MP3 files but there is no value (i.e. no one will pay you $20 for it) - then don't do it. If you can solve something unsexy (i.e. save a port-a-potty company $2,000 a month), you can very likely make real money on it.
We know that AlphaGo uses a Monte Carlo tree search, and presumably contains innovations and refinements to techniques applicable to turn based board games with perfect information and a clear binary win condition.

We also know it uses a Deep Learning algorithm to imitate play from the best humans. And presumably, being stronger than any human now, it could also recursively refine and train on its own games.

Do we know how important the Deep Learning component is? Would AlphaGo be just as strong or nearly so without that part?

I know that over the last few years chess engines have become dramatically more powerful, even on the same hardware, to the tune of hundreds of Elo points. They still stick to the classical techniques though (Alpha-Beta pruning, minimax is still the core). This is not to understate the refinements, but the general ideas are (I think?) only applicable to turn based games with finite moves and a binary mathematical criterion for victory.

Is it possible that the improvements AlphaGo has made are mostly of this type, and the Deep Learning parts are not that important to its actual play strength? Or can we totally rule this out? Is there an in depth discussion of this question somewhere?
I think it was more that they didn't want customers to have to fill it, as it's just one more annoying maintenance item to take care of it.

I've never seen any warning or notice stating that it should not be filled by owners. I have a diesel VW and refilling the tank is pretty easy. The dealer didn't have any qualms selling it to me.
Hour long video chat helps, always on chat. Then another video chat with whiteboard
and yet it also gives us this mess:

import defaultMember from "module-name";
import * as name from "module-name";
import { member } from "module-name";
import { member as alias } from "module-name";
import { member1 , member2 } from "module-name";
import { member1 , member2 as alias2 , [...] } from "module-name";
import defaultMember, { member [ , [...] ] } from "module-name";
import defaultMember, * as name from "module-name";
import "module-name";

don't get me wrong, i think ES6 is much better than what we had before, but it still has a lot of warts
I would be a dolphin.
That's a good point; I guess it wouldn't really help much in the startup phase, but if the company does get established and IPO'd, then it would make a difference with the looming threat of minority shareholder lawsuits.
Here are my recent stats. I don't know really that the 1:100 ratio is real at all:
https://www.quora.com/profile/Tony-Stubblebine

I do know though that specific to The Ringer that their page views are completely decoupled from what you can see in engagement. I have no idea where that's coming from or even what's required for them to be a media success. But I do know that they are getting heavy traffic.

Re: game changers. I wrote in one of the other threads that my analysis of the market is that there is has been a non-stop demand for personal publishing products since 2000: blogger, MovableType, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Twitter, Tumblr.

And we're in a moment now where many of those seem institutionally unable to modernize. This word "game-changer" is so loaded. Is changing the game the goal? Or just serving a huge market?

From the start, I've seen Medium as at minimum a modern version of an evergreen class of software. Obviously, they've done that by simplifying out features that end up not mattering a lot (customizable themes) and making a beautiful text editor.

On top of that, none of those other platforms ever did anything to boost my page views. I think that's a real benefit of the platform that goes well beyond whatever audience you bring with you.

I see my own stats (based on 20k Twitter followers) and the stats of people in my publication (Better Humans). It really seems like the pairing of a strong title with strong content is the primary driver of traffic. Publications will take those articles and then recommends will drive a ton of traffic.

Many of the people who write on BetterHumans are starting with no audience to speak of. It's certainly a huge ego boost to experience a few thousand page views for the first time.
Camera repairman.

edit: Film camera repairman