skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, isn't that what happens in oceans already? That is why coastal cities are more temperate and experience more moderate swings than inland cities.

I'd imagine there's not enough water to do this inland..
I did a similar thing for undergrad and graduated with no debt. After working a few years went back for a grad degree which is how I accumulated some grad debt. Luckily I am doing fine and will have it paid off relatively quickly. My issue is more with the structural disadvantages we are creating for others and I think creating a system that is fair for both types of borrowers, home loan borrowers and student loan borrowers makes sense.

I would even consider allowing the write-off of discretionary interest like car loan interest. It should likely be capped at some value that allows people to buy a new, but not ridiculous car. (I don't own a car so this is especially not something I care about).

Point is, if home buyers are writing off their interest, people who are investing in themselves definitely should. I also agree with your elegant solution, and would support no write-offs, but I believe it is harder to take away write-offs than to add them.
It's not high-tech. It is low-tech. NaOH is lye. Anything in the 50% NaOH solution that is not water is there to make it viscous, but not get it wet
Day in the Life of a Health Care CIO – No Pressure
Sigh. Thanks for the reminder.
Pretty much everything I know I've learned from the internet or from books I found on the internet... but for some reason I had not found your site until just now from this post! It looks really nice so I'm going to start reading it.

Actually, now that I think about it, I probably have come across your site before but I think I may have exited out after a quick glance at the front page. Maybe I'm crazy but when I first look at your site it seems like I have to sign up for some sort of service to access the content. I hate signing up for services, free or otherwise. The first thing I see is

'Math without endless memorization.

Instead of memorizing procedures, learn why equations work. This site helps you overcome mental roadblocks and truly grasp new concepts.'

and then a box right below it asking me to give you my email. If I press pagedown I get to a section titled 'blog posts' (in my mind not the actual content I would be looking for) and then at the very top of the page I see the horizontal navigation bar, but none of the titles really read 'click here to learn cool stuff for free'. By this point I've probably left your website. Something to think about, definitely going to start reading your site and I really respect what you do.
$100 is still outrageously expensive for something that is absolutely essential for some people.

The NHS in the UK pays £52 ($90?) for a two pack of branded EpiPens. Singles of "generics" are available for £26. They are made available to anybody who needs one either for free or the £8 prescription fee.

Get it together, America.
For people who wonder why YC and pg are okay with some of Peter Thiel's more extreme behavior, this is why.

For his "weird" behavior, yeah, probably.

For some of his "other" behavior -- his support for Trump, generally; and his (very recent, and very disturbing) attemps to soft-peddle, and normalize sexual violence -- more likely it's because they lack awareness of some basic political history.
How I write/publish libraries for node/browsers with npm
Yes, I worked full-time. I'm fortunate in that I WFH, so I could allocate the time I'd have had to commute to school, figure 90 minutes a day. I'm married but have no children, so I didn't have that requiring my attention. Then I'd augment with whatever additional time was needed (at the expense of World of Warcraft).

I'd figure for a "light" class that had a fair amount of coding or was in a subject area that I had considerable experience would be 10-15 hours a week.

A semester with 2 classes of moderate difficulty would be 20-30 hours a week, depending on homework pacing, amount of videos and readings to study, etc.

The hardest class I took was my last class in December called Computability, Complexity, and Algorithms (CCA) and at the end I was doing 35+ hours a week trying to get ahead. It was hugely difficult due to my very weak math background, but I somehow got the hang of it and passed with a decent "B" and graduated.
Depends on if you want it to just look good or if you want it to be technically feasible from electrical, thermal, and manufacturing standpoints. Taking all of that into consideration would easily take 10-100x more time than just a novel visual prototype. Even look at Razer's triple-screen laptop from CES; they had one which worked, and one which looked pretty. Getting that last 10% of fit, finish, and feasibility takes a long time too.
Or there will be another AI winter.
There is no way to tell now.
I took a course that was all about the historical progression of science as a discipline since the early 1800's, and it really opened my mind to how much I didn't know about science. I really think that a course like that should be taught to students BEFORE they start taking high school science courses. This would provide a historical context for the content of science courses and, I believe, make it a lot easier to digest the material in a science class (for the reasons the author suggests).
Quality is orthogonal.
I believe you are correct. Below 6' the earth is consistently 55ish degrees. Even with perfect/fast transfer of heat that would mean the max winter temp of your house would be 55 (since it's often colder than that there.) Of course given perfect/fast transfer of heat, it would work wonderfully in the summer. But I assume there are pretty significant limitations in how quickly a body of 55 degree water can cool a 90 degree house. Which is also a common summer temp there.
One helpful factor for bicycling in Holland is the flatness. It's relatively easy to get to work or shopping without having to climb a big hill. Other parts of the world aren't so blessed, and people who do ride to work feel like they have to shower before the work day, which reduces some people's desire to do so.
SVGs are displayed whether or not they're hosted on Adobe's servers.

What other servers are serving AMP pages, (edit: and would benefit from this "cached from <other site>" URL bar display logic) other than Google's news product?
Plaque-busting plants take on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Whats wrong with using pennies?
This article from TechCrunch does a good job explaining Key Transparency - https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/googles-key-transparency-p...
You're misreading, it was in November.
Under Google's standard lease terms a City may withdraw from the lease at any time without penalty. Google would then find another site and restore the original site.

Edit: http://atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=4&...

>>> Relocation. The City may require that the Network Equipment and/or Network Huts and all appurtenances be relocated from City property if the City determines that the applicable Network Hut Site is needed by City for a reasonable and necessary public use. The City shall use best efforts to provide sufficient property for Licensee to relocate and shall use reasonable efforts to find relocation property within close proximity to the existing Site. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City shall not be required to purchase property or use its powers of eminent domain or other police powers in connection with such relocation. Upon receipt of notification by City to Licensee that the Network Equipment and/or Network Hut must be relocated, Licensee shall proceed with such relocation within a reasonable period of time not to exceed six (6) months of notice. Licensee will vacate the Site and return the Site to its original condition. If Licensee intends to abandon any Network Huts and/or Network Equipment, then Licensee shall notify Licensor of such abandonment and shall remove such facilities within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed six (6) months after providing notice.
How Media Fuels Our Fear of Terrorism
Nice that it made it to the front page, though.
All the publishers Google copies the AMP from? Google could just redirect mobile users to that if they wanted, as can every other site linking to a page. If they then also got rid of the requirement of loading the AMP JS from a CDN Google runs, they'd actually have something resembling an open standard...
> Has there been any attempt to orchestrate an income based repayment program?

Yes, this is available for most federal student loan programs today.

[0] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
Form Art (1997)
If you know Graph theory then you know git, all that remains is just reading the man page for specific commands. Intro to Graphs/Graph Theory is generally in the curriculum at all university compsci departments

Testing ect is usually covered in all intro classes (assert libraries) or industry type testing like JUnit by a software engineering elective typically taught in Java
> Didn't we try that in the 80s, nation-wide, to ill effect?

Not exactly; Reagan's "biggest tax cut in history" on income taxes was followed very quickly by his less-frequently-remembered biggest tax increase in history (on payroll taxes), and so was really just part of the biggest tax burden shift in history from higher income to lower-income earners.

In the short-term, this didn't have bad top-line aggregate effects on the economy, but it was a key factor in the bad distributional results since that time.
Optimization done right.

After a certain point, datacenter growth (both physically and logically) gets so brutal that you need to consider running things more efficiently.
These students spent most of their time finding implementations of the algorithms and hacking at them to actually run all the experiments. They then rushed through gluing the results together through some semblance of analysis. Alumni of the class I knew said the same thing about their experience.

Ironically, this sounds quite a lot like much of industry.
Ask HN: Limitation of Firebase free plan?
Is anybody using Firebase free plan for production mobile backend? I wonder if it is suitable for building just a REST backend (no realtime) with large userbase. Supposing 1 mln users making just a couple REST calls per day. Does anybody have anyexperience with FB? Many thanks!
Sounds interesting...the use-cases are not clicking in my head just right...So I'll dive in and rummage around some more.
Open source analog dev breadboard withaudio IO jacks, power, knobs, and bypass
A fix for CVE-2016-9962 was released in Docker upstream 1.12.6 a couple of days ago.

https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.12.6
Monkeys Grieve When Their Robot Friend Dies
If we can rely on a shortage of desperate workers, we don't need to send mafia goons after them.

The ethical, nonviolent way to reject bad pay or working conditions is to quit, accepting that the employer might find someone else. That's not what unions do.
You're right, and yet this article goes on and on about CD how shows that SemVer is broken, because SemVar doesn't support CD.

The article is just bizarre. It's like ranting about how knives suck because they can't easily transport rocks.
I think it's the destiny of pretty much any device category.

If you look at laptops for instance, obviously what we have in 2016 is miles ahead of the first laptops in terms of performance, but fundamentally isn't different from a decade ago (even two). The most meaningful innovation may be touch screens and/or hybrid/detachable screens, but that's not redefining the category --more like expanding it to cannibalize others.

I'm not holding my breath for smartphone innovation either. Maybe we'll get foldable/telescopic displays (think: Nintendo DS, but better), but that's just added comfort (more real estate in as tight a package).

The fact is that with the advent of AR (or 'hybrid/mixed reality, however you want to call it), the smartphone category will simply fade away in favor of glasses/lenses, if it's more convenient.

Deep down it's all just computers in various formfactors. We adapt the apps and ecosystem to suit these interfaces, technology only being as good as its ease of use (philosophy: "tool", starting with the silex). The real question is what computing can do tomorrow that it cannot today (AI probably being the next paradigm in that regard), regardless of the formfactor. Basically function VS form.

This is precisely where I think Apple has been stagnating, compared to Google and MS and Amazon for instance. They improve the form (and that's debatable, thinner with shorter battery life may not be much of a "form improvement"), but the functions are disappointingly the same (e.g. Siri is the worst of all personal assistants, it seems like Apple doesn't really know how to do deep learning to a meaningful degree for the user).

It's not about smartphone or laptop or whatever. It's about what you can do with, nevermind the physical shape of devices. In this regard, I agree with Thiel. Hopefully the richest company on earth can prove innovative again, but #2 (Google) is so much better positionned in this regard (from Quantum computing to AI passing by real-world apps and services quality). Microsoft and Amazon as well, especially considering Jeff Bezos ventures in space etc.
I have free speech rights too, but YC is under no more obligation to keep him around than it is to keep me around.
I'm Australian but even I can tell the accents are fake for the most part. Also, the terrible VoIP quality is a dead giveaway.

edit: I should mention they use "American" accents for Australian customers too.
"Don't deploy on Fridays, FULL STOP." - Fixed it for you
Ask HN: Tools/methods/techniques for making large life decisions?
There are a couple parts of my life that require large decisions:

1) Winding down a successful 3 years with a company, not sure what do to next.
2) SO is moving out of the midwest. Either I follow now, or in a couple of years, possibly after my next gig or grad school.
3) I love development, but I could also imagine being happy doing a dozen other things. I also have a small but successful second career as an actor.

How do you make huge life decisions like this? The usual pro-con list is good for tackling small, binary decisions, but this is a bit too difficult for that!

I know the prevailing wisdom is "life is hard, you gotta think about this for yourself" but that doesn't mean I can't ask people how it turned out for them. :)

What techniques, methods, tools, or thought experiments have you used to make huge decisions like this?
Yeah, I was thinking PCI-E extenders or daughter boards too. You could also use MXMs, possibly doing 4-way SLI or something crazy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module

But then you're back to the same problem of needing custom coolers which work with the modules AND the case, where we've seen Apple never release an upgrade part since launch.
the first paragraph is a description of a youtube video, but doesn't include a link to it. what was the author thinking?

anyways, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pkVVJuBfgo
Thanks, this makes me want to give Plex another try.
I've been a Mac user through and through, since 2004. Switched from Linux back then. I've been using Linux but only on servers and VMs since then, as well. Just not as my daily driver.

I got the 2016 MBP w/Touchbar. I've been plagued with the GPU issues, and the crappy battery life. Add to that issues with PDF corruption, because of Apple's screwing with the frameworks.

It's starting to feel like Apple doesn't care about anything other than iOS devices.

When I buy  stuff for myself, I get the highest-spec model, every time. I never want to come up short, if I need the power/storage. $4300 and change on the latest one.

I just ordered one of the new Dell XPS 15" laptops. Again, same thing. The high-end model. More powerful CPU, twice the RAM, better graphices, but half the storage. $1600 less for the Dell.

Starting to think Dell makes a better "Macbook" than Apple. We'll see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was about to repeat the old story that (in the US) pennies are not legal tender in amounts over 25 cents, but it turns out that since 1965, pennies are legal tender in any quantity. However, payees are not obliged to accept them; for instance, municipal bus lines can refuse to accept fare payments in pennies. [1][2]

[1] http://www.snopes.com/business/money/pennies.asp

[2] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...
On his essay tab, PG's "Risk of Discovery" is loading at the bottom, instead of the top near the more recent ones - is this happening for anyone else?
No worries! <3

I didn't even take it as negative, to be honest.
MIT creates 3D printed graphene that’s lighter than air, 10X stronger than steel
Wow, yes. Point taken.
I just backed these guys. Although it may not seem like it is worth $150, the nice thing it presents a clean breadboard for designing circuit so you don't have to worry about wiring the audio i/o jacks, the power supply, the control knobs, or the bypass. So can focus only on what you care about.
/r/selfhosted - it contains several selfhosted gems of applications, a very interesting sub.

/r/netsec - to feel a bit paranoid

/r/homelab - for the homelab needs

/r/golang - overall friendly community and lots to learn

/r/programming - good sub for all needs

/r/polandball - I cannot come up with a good justification why this subreddit is one of my favorites.
Yeah, this has been slowly reducing, but is still somewhat an issue. Not an excuse to rely on a two year old closed issue, though.
"Legal tender, for all debts, public and private."
This is what Microsoft Edge should be doing (innovating) and not just trying to cram in Microsoft services like OneNote. Honestly Edge is still such an awful browser and it is the default browser in Windows 10 which has been out for 18+ months now. Shocking.
Stanford offers an online MS in CS using videos of the same courses that are offered on campus. So does Columbia, though their online course offerings seem to have decreased significantly in the past few years. Both programs cost about $5k/course.

I think both schools offer a track that emphasizes AI/ML, though I'm not sure more than a couple of their available courses are in those topics.
"GOAL never had a source-line debugger, as far as I know, although there's no reason it couldn't given some effort to write one."

Actually, it did. IIRC, the debug state required for converting run-time addresses to source lines was persisted in the compiler (which was a REPL, not a one-shot process like C), rather than exported in the form of symbols. The interface was pretty sketchy, but I'd say it was about as usable as GDB. You could set breakpoints, inspect registers, etc...

A lot of debugging was "live" though - since all the code was hot-loadable, you could just insert a debug print in the middle of a function on the fly. It was a really nice, iterative way to work.
Gradual Collapse of Microsoft’s Extensive Patent Trolling Operations
The Hermit Who Inadvertently Shaped Climate-Change Science
Egads - these are the kinds of things you think up when you take a "frameworks-first" approach to things, I guess.

(By which I don't mean anything snarky, or anti-framework. But rather more simply: (1) Why the hell would you do these kinds of computations in such an environment? (2) There are much better ways of speeding up Fibonacci besides memoization).
Well it wasn't really "supernatural" at the time. It was literally a theory about the natural world. It just wasn't correct, and have since been replaced with different theories and models.
> All the publishers Google copies the AMP from?

But all of those URLs display correctly.

We're talking about having browsers add special-case logic in which some URLs on one particular special domain (news.google.com) belonging to one private company (Google) are treated and displayed differently than everything else on the internet.

> If they then also got rid of the requirement of loading the AMP JS from a CDN Google runs, they'd actually have something resembling an open standard

Sure, if this turned into an actual Open standard, and we were talking about extending browser display logic to any server on the internet that served an AMP page belonging to some other site, that would make sense.

But having browsers bless one company's subdomain with special rules that apply only to it is about as anti-open web as you can get.
Yeah, you'd need to get into 7-series Xeons or whatever AMDs new Zen server chips are (not sure if they do 4-way or how many PCI-E lanes they have).
This. And I hate doing this. I've talked myself out of the performance gains, because it just makes everything feel verbose and hard-to-read.

I still wish they would've added a keyword for this. i.e. await-nocontext
How does Google do this legally at all? Can I just download and redistribute any and all content I find on the net, and then present it as if it's the original?

More specifically, how do they not get sued into oblivion for copyright infringement? They are after all redistributing content they are not licensed to redistribute.
This is fascinating stuff. I would love to see what the Google Photos team is doing in detail (but that will likely never happen).
the question is a bit open ended, but for one: a penny costs more to make than it's worth (at least in terms of face value).
They are worth less than they cost?

Imagine using coins worth $0.001 or $0.0001. You could use them, but why?
As you say dismissing alchemy is probably a bad thing too.

Alchemy was the search for the ability to transform matter (particularly Pb->Au). I rather think that nuclear fusion/fission are still consider worthy fields and that creation/discovery of an alchemist's stone - a way to convert readily between different forms of matter - would still be considered a worthy development.

I agree too with your synopsis. Physics is like the part of reality we've tamed, everything that is yet to be discovered, that's of interest to physicists, likely lies outside our laws, corollaries, and axioms as they now stand.

To me such ideas as the naive assumption that we know the limits of knowledge go hand in hand with the faith of atheism. But I digress.
Oh cool, I wondered if ND ever went to the trouble to write one or not. Thanks :)
Everyone needs to hit 100,000 LOC this week to hit our target from marketing
US Army Wants Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants
So Indians are not "actual humans"?! Wow...
This makes me want to go fire up Peggle for old time's sake.
I always wondered if YouTube hates people who put lots of unlisted family videos for friends that get say 10 or so views. It's costing in them storage but with virtually no ad revenue.
Sure. Mine was macOS Sierra.

If your <stdio> is comparable to mine, that's still about 30 times more bytes that the compiler sees for C++ compared to C.
Thanks for the detailed and honest feedback!

The newsletter is fully optional, basically to get alerted to new articles & other site news. The homepage should be fully scrollable with a big list of articles, you can also check out:

https://betterexplained.com/cheatsheet/

for a visual guide. That said, I'll definitely think about rewording things, and I've long wanted to make a "Getting started" section for students, teachers, parents, etc. Really appreciate the feedback!
With that attitude we would never see any progress with software though.
This seems to be the right idea but even so the result from Thought Economics does not contain one of the keywords.