skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the actual reddit thread in which the map was posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5q433o/percentage_...

There were some questions about the exact question, and the choice of color to represent the answers.
> if you have a low number of followers hardly anyone interacts with you

I don't have this problem, but the only people that follow me are typically my friends who may be interested in the things I have to say.
Hmmm, I have seen an extra '%3' occasionally... it never hurt anything so I didn't bother fixing it. Thanks dude now I'm going to be totally tormented until I fix my bookmarklet.

[EDIT:] ok moving that parenthesis and avoiding the update of document.location didn't take me too long...
"You complain about being tired of hearing/seeing people talking about Donald Trump all the time, so presumably you feel unable to ignore it."

When noise drowns out signal, no amount of ignoring will help.

People being passive-aggressive about politics in a non-political venue are neither changing the political system nor contributing to the venue in which they comment.
I was disagreeing with your sentiment "I actually like private company RSUs and the lack of data around them." as if the ambiguity of pre-IPO RSU value somehow empowers you in negotiations.

Google is not naive - they won't fall for any neat trick about "a huge secondary market and lots of liquidity". You aren't getting a higher offer after a low-ball because you used your black-box RSUs to negotiate.

You could simply decline their offer and tell them it's not enough. Negotiate hard by declining repeatedly - it will take weeks, but stay strong. Eventually you'll end up at the same much-higher result.

That's what I meant by the "dance". Initial offers will always be a low-ball. They just want the non-negotiators to accept the low-ball. But they'll negotiate with the negotiators and your technique won't get you a different result - whether it's repeatedly declining, or using pre-IPO RSUs, or even lying about your other offers (which they can't verify anyway) - it's just a dance. You'll end up at the same place.
Let free speech be free?
Elodie - An EXIF-based photo, video and audio workflow automation tool

https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

I've been working on Elodie for over a year. It's organized over 15,000 of my personal photos and videos for me. It's also helped me craft a hands-free backup system.

I've written pretty extensively about it so I'll just link to those posts.

[0] (motivation) https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-auto...

[1] (solution) https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

[2] (adaptation for google photos) https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...

[3] (one year reflection) https://artplusmarketing.com/one-year-of-using-an-automated-...

[4] (protecting against bit rot) https://medium.com/vantage/how-to-protect-your-photos-from-b...
OPRF is infuriating. We lost Greenstone to Francis Parker because his year in china allegedly reset his seniority -- the real reason ofc was they just didn't like him. The dude wrote a novel that nearly got turned into a movie. And his china stories were great. Probably made the other overpaid goons feel threatened.
People here are speculating a lot about what Buffer revenue are and it's growth.

No need to speculate.

Buffer publically posts their actual revenue.

https://buffer.baremetrics.com

You can review their sales performance and come to your own conclusion.
GitHub labels and Emojis ️️
It's not globally editable, it saves your changes locally.
Understood. It wasn't provided in the example, because it is not a user-entered item and is rarely displayed on the screen. It is typically an index. In other cases (perhaps) because people who originally wrote it knew no better.

(There is a lot if "isnumeric()" stuff used around $id. I inherited this codebase.)
Every time you build a to-do list app, a puppy dies
The recommendation seems to be using an encrypted cookie, with some format other than JWT.

Which is fine and well. But how does that take revocation into account?

You can store a token on the client side, in ANY format. The problem remains that you're either storing some server-side state about that token, or you aren't. If you are, then you're not really using client-side sessions. If you aren't, then you still don't have a good way to revoke. Because you can't really control the client-side after you've issued a token, and you can't revoke it from the server-side without state.

I'm sure there are good arguments to be made against the use of JWT. But their simply aren't any to be found in this thread, and no alternative client-side proposal that solves the revocation problem.
I don't use twitter so if I'm wrong about this, I stand by to be corrected, but with twitter, I thought you can only reach people who have already chosen to listen to you.

It's powerful in that it's fast and can reach your followers quickly, and hope that they pass it on to non-followers, but it's fundamentally restricted in that you can't twitter to people who don't already follow you; the very people you need to reach most, given that followers are self-selectingly already on-message.
Sure, the investment banks form a layer of insulation between a homebuyer and the federal reserve, just like the retail banks do. But ultimately, every dollar of a home loan exists solely due to the collateral of the asset itself. (since they will ultimately pass off the loan to a bank with access to easier money). Thus an upper constraint on home prices does not come from the amounts banks are willing to lend (since the valuation relationship is circular), but only from what borrowers are willing to pay in monthly payments, divided by the interest rate.

I cannot easily determine the exact adjustment the article is applying for "inflation adjusted dollars", but most every time I see such an adjustment it is based on estimates of purchasing power, not monetary supply.
The translation has over 200 comments attached for those interested
> quantum

irrelevant to symmetric crypto
Blinking light permiting it when it is considered safe to turn (with caution).
And how deep should that go? Pretty soon you will need arbitration for the arbiters.

Has no one addressed the basic need of a justice system with these crypto currencies?
This podcast contains a horrifying story about how life-supporting services and resources were managed when one hospital in New Orleans lost power during Katrina: http://www.radiolab.org/story/playing-god/
Middle class is not some fundamental type of entity. New class types might arise for future AI supported life.
Or maybe population would reduce to a level sufficient to maintain new type of living which would be comfortable/luxurious in terms of what we think today.
Why does pfSense use FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD?
Show HN: NX, the modular front-end framework enters beta 2
So, like Brave New World?
You were already scheming, slacking off and feeling bad about it. Now you get some useful work done on the side.
How should the Alexa results be interpreted?

Similar situation where China has a large share of traffic:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/guardian.co.uk (not the .com)

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/washingtonpost.com

Whereas these media outlets don't see this:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/huffingtonpost.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailymail.co.uk

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/usatoday.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/drudgereport.com
> They rely a lot more on their technical leads to tell them how the other devs are doing at a technical level.

So the leads are de facto managers in that they're assisting the manager in managing the other developers. I think this can work, but I don't think it contradicts what I said. It just means the leads wind up doing some managing even though that's not what their titles say.
I really dislike the trend of carriages centralizing around gasoline engine. It's slowly becoming a single point of failure in the ecosystem, and it's dead and mechanical. One day it's going to fail. And we'll be left with a plethora of people who don't know how to brush down a horse or feed them. Sad. Is it really that hard to hitch up a horse?
Things are not always properly maintained, human error happens, back-up equipment fails, etc. In hospitals I am sure it's very rare but I'll bet it happens. But not all people on life support are in hospitals...

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Nursing-home-death-d...
I go to a good college in california. Im currently in the dining hall and the peraon across the table from me was using his laptop. He just walked away, presumably to get more food, leaving his open and unlocked laptop completely unattended. This is why there are still printers connected to the internet and why it wont change for a long time.
Is this job a deadend?
I'm currently a student in Computer Science with around 2 semesters left. Last October I found and part time job doing some web development for a small company. It pays well enough and the hours are good, but I'm wondering if it's taking me down a useless path due to the technologies used.

I work on the internal website which was originally written in 2005 or so. It's all written in Classic ASP (JScript) and is the biggest mess (spaghetti code, no design considerations). The db that powers the site is SQL Server 2005 and the server is IIS 5.0

Many times I've considered asking to rewrite it in something more modern that is receiving updates. The problem with that is this site might be phased out entirely if the company decides its time to implement a real ERP system. They are growing and I feel like this is a good possibility. If that were to happen my job would most likely transition into implementing some open source ERP. I'm the only developer at this place and am supervised by the IT guy who does everything else (db admin, external site admin etc..)

I'm just wondering how beneficial this is to my future career and if I should get out. I like this job because it's laid back and eliminates some stress looking for an internship this summer. The problem is the future. I feel like I'm not gaining valuable industry experience here (aside from having a job in general). I'm not learning anything that is still being used.

Am I wasting my time here?
So the unemployed would need to find a way to support themselves by their own work, by cooperation and by using automation as well. A combination of solar technology, robotics, AI and classic engineering could be a formula for self reliance.
Tragically, Lincoln made a liberal democracy out of a democratic republic. More tragically, Washington made a democratic republic out of a constitutional monarchy.
People like stories. They don't like details. This is why we have HN ;-)
Too difficult. That means competing ideas must be compared on their merits.

Far easier to ban or throttle them. The extra time can then be spent congratulating oneself on being a platform of expression.
That's odd, as Google Maps optimizes on duration, not distance: It takes speed into account.

Maybe it's not taking into account how fast can cars make each of the turns?
Library for creating interactive cli applications in Go
AI will eliminate a lot of jobs, sure. So have many other advances in the past. It seems like the decline of organized labor unions would be a bigger threat to the Middle Class than technology.
Lets hope the Ryzen is the real deal.I mean the i7-3610 is just as good as my i7-6700hq which was like 3 or 4 years ago. Without competition we are in trouble. I remember when Athlon64 came it made Intel come up with core2duo which was a quantum leap from p4.
No need to wait and wonder. There are already wars raging over Pepe the Frog memes.
The problem with parental wealth transfer is when your parents may not be in the position to help you. Which is why this is most certainly not a good trend.
Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems
I wonder what they mean by "recoupable" fee, though. Will it count towards per-purchase fees?
Please not this again... This trope is like a full Bingo card of guideline violations but with an impressive lack of information. Please don't usher us into generic flamewar territory—we're here to have civil, thoughtful discussions.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13614827 and marked it off-topic.
Top visa recipients are these Indian companions. Just start browsing from year 2017 and backwards. This is very interesting. Numbers do not lie.

Example: Infosys 25k visas vs Google 4k, Apple 1.6k etc.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2016-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx
Hm, it might have to do with the way CSS works.. When I'm developing gtk+ Applications, I always do the UI in glade. It works wonderfully, even if I still have to do some stuff in code (UI elements that are added in response to the user doing something). And even for that there seems to be an alternative, namely GtkBuilder templates – haven't tried that yet and Glade doesn't seem to be able to create them, but might be able to edit them once you have manually written the first few lines of XML.
Skynet probably wasn't built for its own sake. It was probably built to protect the people who owned Skynet from the people that didn't.
That was a bug. You should see a "Submit" button on the stories subheader now. Thanks!
Study: people don't actually like looking at selfies
Procrastination is often caused by wanting to do something but not knowing exactly what to do. The solution is to cut it up into bite-sized pieces and start doing them one at a time.
People have been saying this kind of thing forever. They said it about agriculture, they said it when the Luddites attacked factories, they said it about farm automation, they said it when computers were becoming popular.

I'm not so sure that this time is different - despite all the insistence, I'm sure it seemed just as serious every other time before too.
> I think some people are wired that way

How is this attitude different from perpetuating stereotypes?
Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem with Artificial Neural Networks - Giuseppe Carleo, Matthias Troyer (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02318
"It may take a while to load – beware of the bugs and glitches. Chrome-only for now"

Says so much with so little.
John Nimmo, Internet Troll, Jailed Again
Strangely, he forgot to mention:

9. Donate lots of money.

A study found members of Congress are way more likely to meet with you if you've paid them [0].

> "The offices who just thought they were being asked to meet with normal constituents, we almost never got a meeting with a member of Congress, or a chief of staff or a legislative director — the most powerful people in congressional offices," says Broockman. "On the other hand, when we reveal that the attendees were donors, they were more than three times as likely to get those meetings."

[0] http://www.npr.org/2014/03/26/294361018/how-to-meet-your-con...
They also do other things, such as mobile advertising.
I read it as a fable of simple but effective solutions. Your reminder of starch actually underlines that point.
The answer here is 'Yes'. TSO and routing / packet filtering are incompatible.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/10gFreeBSD/Router#Disabling_LRO_and...
AWS now lets you change machines' IAM roles after they're created
Mostly because m0n0wall was written on top of FreeBSD.
>You're failing to see that mechanics behind the evolution of consumer markets that lead to prices being driven down.

How so? If anything, I succinctly recognized these so-called mechanics are really just symptoms of other underlying actions and motivations. The PDF wants to pretend like it's looking at market forces, while completely ignoring some fundamental economic theories.

>Combined with your rude and arrogant dismissal of the link, your attitude embodies everything that is wrong with our political system and that prevents solutions from being found and implemented.

Your personal appeals to however insulted you feel or however blunt my response was isn't going to make anything that was stated in your comment or in the link any more substantive than it already is not.

Upon further investigation, the NCPA is a completely biased think-tank whose explicit goals are apparently "to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control." I've never even heard of the NCPA, but the whole contrived tone of the PDF immediately spiked my bullshit meter.

I'm sorry you think you can get away with espousing complete drivel that needs to cherry-pick information to push forward a narrative, contrary to the experiences of the rest of the world. I have a feeling the more and more I'm going to look into this perspective, the less friendly this conversation is going to become. At this point, I have zero tolerance for intellectual dishonesty.
Ford invests $1B in Argo AI for self-driving cars
I think you've just described Agile.
Some fear that after squeezing immigration—which would put a brake on the kind of entrepreneurship McAfee calls for—the White House will move to bottle up automation and artificial intelligence.

Sounds bizarre but totally possible. If you haven't heard of Aleksandr Dugin then it's time to play catch-up, because even if you think he's batshit insane he's quite influential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin

People in the developed world have come to take technological progress for granted because of the inexorable economic logic. But with automation, adherence to default axioms about basic concepts like property ownership inevitably leads to most of the capital being concentrated in very few hands, resulting in some sort of modern serfdom. Nationalist programs implicitly depend on autarky, and the goal of nationalism is not maximum collective utility but rather vitalism - continuous improvement through the struggle for survival. Conflict, even defeat, is preferable for nationalists to ennui.
DC is now used for undersea and long distance cables too, making sort of a comeback. Large scale wind power generation facilitates it. Also connecting grids which are not frequency locked.
For various reasons, it's not uncommon these days for people to only stay 2-5 years at each employer. If you think of it that way, then the best purpose that your job can serve ( in addition to paying your bills and maybe giving you exposure to a positive equity event ) is to help you get the next job.

For you to even pose this question, the answer is probably "yes". I'd recommend starting today and working on your resume. Focus on your accomplishments at this job - when you go into the next job interview you'll want to be able to talk about your successes that you're proud of! Good luck!

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Censored on Imzy /Politics for defending Trump supporters against violence
This is sarcasm, no?
It almost sounds like you're saying that people who don't like living urban aren't worth hiring. Everyone I know has been contacted by a recruiter for one of the major employers of software professionals, and for all but one of them, the requirement to relocate to the west coast has been an instant deal-breaker. We like living where home is, or at least the places that vaguely resemble home.

I'm suggesting that the people they can hire don't need to move to those places. They are already living there. As it is, people are moving away from there--wherever it may be, exactly--often to their own disadvantage, just because the local companies are not expanding their workforces, and the companies that are expanding are not moving in.

That's exactly why I have also had to move around between multiple metropolitan areas. If you can catch me before I leave a city, you can hire me much more cheaply than if I'm pulling up every last root to go to the employer that can offer me the best net savings rate in the state, or the region, or the country, or the world. I have already had to move several times to find adequately remunerative work, and it bounced me right out of the Rust Belt. I'd still move back for the right job.

Network effects are a bitch when you're out in the periphery. I'm not certain that the industry needs to have a nucleus at all. I am certainly bitter and salty that the nucleus that exists isn't anywhere near me.
I want to put this delicately: your definition of happiness might not be shared by a lot of people in society today, and neither should it be. While I am glad that you have found happiness in your simple lifestyle, a lot of people would be thoroughly depressed with it (and I'm trying to say this in the nicest way possible, no judgement intended whatsoever on your choices).
Not sure I agree with you. Suppose I want to fix this problem, and I decide I need political power to do it. Which of the following strategies would you recommend? Option A: get elected, spend first few years of my time in office trying to understand what's going on. By the time I achieve enlightenment, my term is over and I will not be reelected because I have nothing to show for my time in office. Option B: study the problem first. It may take longer this way, because politicians have access to resources that not everyone has. Eventually understand the problem well enough to propose a solution I think will help, and then run on a platform advocating that solution.

(There is also option C: make up a plausible sounding solution without even caring whether it works or not; but then you're just seeking power and don't care about the problem at all. Let's ignore that for now, despite the fact that I sometimes worry that this may account for a large fraction of politicians.)
Obvious, however, for a militant revolutionary.
More than half of all the businesses have no employees (i.e. It's just the founder) and most of the rest have less than 50 employees. For most companies is social one of many things that they need to do, setup a website, pay taxes, answer the phone, emails etc. because they're is no one else. Whilst for big companies, they perhaps have full time social media or at least communications staff, most companies do not.

Ultimately this is a tool that saves time for, mostly, small companies.
> Incorporating turn costs into route planning is actually not that easy! [I]t doesn't play well with many speed-up techniques.

+

> Since you need turn restrictions if you want to compute routes that users can actually follow, adding different costs for different kinds of turns (left, right, U-turn) is easy.

Does this mean all those speed-up techniques don't produce routes that are actually allowed? What's the point of developing them?
Is it reasonable for us to suggest that teachers working long hours (grading doesn't do itself) who are professionals get a crappy summer job? When you divide the salary into 190 days the tacit implication is that their pay should be cut and they'll be able to make up the difference. No one is going to pay someone a professional wage seasonally.

I'm not opposed to requiring that they put in the same number of hours over the course of a year that everyone else does but it's not like they're programmers who can go freelance for a few multiples of their standard salary hourly rate.
cringe I used to do this so often. I've now set my laptop to ask for a password after 5s (on Macs it's really easy to turn off the screen with Ctrl+Shift+Power). And the disk encryption from Apple puts my mind at rest somewhat, even in busy coffee shops.

edit: I feel like in small startup offices not locking your computer is a subtle sign that you trust your team, but this might be just my weird interpretation
A coworker once described to me how he thought people misinterpreted Jobs' success.

Jobs didn't succeed because he was an asshole, he succeeded despite being an asshole.

You sometimes see people trying to emulate Jobs and thinking they need to be an asshole. His take was that they completely missed the reasons for Jobs' success.

He was definitely an asshole though, especially early on.