skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to countries like Iran, which US considers 'evil', and encountered nothing but politeness and smiles all around the country, including customs.

I've been to US once, and the amount of paranoia and customs arrogance even in 2004 was staggering. I would be perfectly OK to not visit that place anymore, ever.

Fiancee is not aware of these things yet, and she keeps mentioning US as a nice place for honeymoon. Well we will vote with our feet and money and spend it somewhere where we are actually welcome. There is nothing really unique in US from touristic point of view anyway
Yeah, totally. At least that's one way to look at it. There are multiple right answers. Lowering driving rates helps, flexible work hours helps, increasing public transportation helps. Any of these would diffuse traffic jams, and no there's no one single problem and no one single solution -- unless nobody drove at all.

But that's why building tunnels doesn't seem like the best first-line defense. It's expensive, and it's fixed and inflexible, and doesn't reduce demand. It could help, but it could also hurt unless tunnels are less expensive to build & maintain than roads.

I was trying to be playfully sarcastic by saying the problem with traffic is traffic. Most larger cities in the US, there's only a traffic congestion problem during rush hour, accidents, and road construction. (The city I live in does enough road construction every year, enough that it's widely considered to be a top contributing factor to traffic congestion.)

LA traffic, which is what the article referred to, is worse than that, it's density is getting high enough that traffic congestion lasts all day in some places, rush hour is not just slow but crushing, and accidents can and do routinely prevent tens of thousands of people from working. It does seem like there must be a large economic cost to LA's traffic.
Anyone have any good pointers on the processes they use to get their error rates so low?
If _you_ weren't paying attention to this issue until now, you'd have to ask yourself why not. :) Many of us have been.
The first link to the pricing page on the FAQ points to localhost.

Everything else looks really slick!
Pure stevia als suikervervanger doet je tot 2 kilo in 1 week afvallen and Recepten
What if they told you "we're going to detain you until you do what we want?"
Imo it's all about networking and meeting new people. All the knowledge is always in front of your computer screen.
I've moved all our devices to DDG recently. It used to be goog on all our idevices. Mainly I was just to lazy. But I like DDG results and the engine and that they give back. Also they use FreeBSD which is a plus.

Seems like a great company and search engine to me.
When I attended in 2011 it was Steve Jobs last WWDC and nice to get a chance to hear him in person, the last chance to check off an almost canonical requirement for people on the tech/startup path.

As there was 100% sell out that year yet again in a matter of minutes I've wondered how closely WWDC speed of seats sold correlates to Apple's mind share. I guess we'll see over time as fortunes change hands.
I switched a few weeks ago from Google to DDG. I didn't switch because of privacy reasons but because I am now finding their search results superior.

That is helped by searching for things that are on Stackoverflow and DDG presenting the answer clearly at the top.
I totally agree. My partner just came back from a trip to SF and a lot of her colleagues (neurosci grad students) were really disdainful of her being from Pittsburgh, but we both really love it here. There's so much culture here that was hard to find in Boston for me or SF for her.
The positions you should apply for are called Front-End Developer. Maybe even junior front-end dev.

In these positions you will do a mix of design and dev, but mostly dev, and mostly dev that the "serious engineer" devs don't want to do, like CSS. But that work has to get done and demonstrating an interest across the stack will help you work better with both the backend devs and designers.
I found DistroKid through here, not Fandalism. Actually, of all the sites I follow, I can't say I actually recall visiting that one on the regular (ex: versus Billboard Biz or Complete Music Update).
The main discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645825 (191 comments)

There is another discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13659864 (22 comments)

And some more here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13659551 (4 comments)

And some more here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645798 (2 comments)

There is also another submission, but with no comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650489 (0 comments, 2 points)
My wild guess: because lobbying money says so.
Well, thanks for being willing to take a bullet for the collective good, and I wish you the best of luck with it.
Ok, good point on the streaming.
BMI is a flawed statistic. But the advantage of BMI is it is quick and easy to calculate, with simple measurements at home that are hard to screw up. This is why it hasn't gone away.

The main alternative that I would suggest possibly including, are methods that include waist and/or hip measurements. Some of which are believed to predict mortality better. (See aBSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Shape_Index or waist to hip ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist%E2%80%93hip_ratio).

This would involve tracking a couple of optional measurements, though. And not everyone knows how to measure accurately, so it does introduce a possible source of error.

If you know of a better statistic, feel free to chime in. :) From what I see, the most accurate methods for measuring true body fat (hydrostatic, DEXA, etc.) currently are impractical at home, and other current home methods (skin calipers, home BIA) aren't that great either (unless you know what you are doing with the calipers). I do see someone is coming out with a 3D scanner for home bodyfat measurements (https://naked.fit/), but it's pretty pricey at $700ish for the pre-order.
I first studied the K&R in the early 90s, and it was already terrible by then. Especially if you wanted to teach anything other than quirky systems programming.

From the software engineering point of view, almost every single code example is terrible. Abundant implicit casts depending on the OS, loops that leak buffered reading between iterations, etc etc.

Just no. Never, ever recommend K&R to anybody as a general programming book neither for C or in general. Only the intro descriptions of language characteristics and important functions of the standard library are any use, and then again even these are extremely obsolete now.
Declarative 3D data in XAML, not touching DirectX directly at all. Viewport3D at the root, then doing the right magic to get the sort order of the objects right (working around the built-in logic, in other words).
Tacking stronger legislation onto a social problem is why the War on Drugs exists, which hurts more than it helps. I'm not saying we shouldn't add stronger legislation, but maybe we should gather data on whether or not it would be more effective than an education & awareness campaign.
you forgot to put /sarc at the end.
China shifts gears to drive electric car development
I wonder if AMD drivers have the same attack surfaces as the nvidia drivers

Edit: a quick google search turns up CVEs for the old catalyst driver, but none for the newer crimson drivers.
How we built a Slack competitor by accident
For a complete beginner. What kind of applications I can work on using TensorFlow?
-You'd obviously need to be able to provide proof of your clearance* (though I suppose your passport and a database lookup would do) - but I wonder what would be the next step then; getting hold of an official with the required clearance to match the documents in your laptop? (Which, in the case of higher/compartmentalised clearances may not even be possible)

At some point you just need to start trusting people.

*) I wouldn't recommend leaving docs leaked by Ed Snowden on the laptop just to be able to rightfully claim there's classified material on it...
Oh trust me, they do tons of QA. If you can replicate what problem you have demonstrably with steps that QA can follow and you submit to the Nvforums or whatever, someone in the QA team will eventually try it out.
You're right that this is not (primarily) about catching suspected criminals or people affiliated with terrorist organizations.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had an internal profiling tool that they run similar to https://applymagicsauce.com/.

Kind of similar to what Cambridge Analytica (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-hel...) uses to target political campaigns.

You know, the Cambridge Analytica whose board of trustees includes Steve Bannon.

So the question to be asking is why does the US government want a psychological profile of every traveller passing through the border?
Easier said than done if you travel regularly. Work takes me on the road a few dozen times/year. Not all of that travel is international, but I do rely on having easy access to my personal devices to maintain sanity with that lifestyle.

Even cheap throwaway devices become expensive over time.
I just started using GCC 5.4 - I'll have to check again. Last I checked was around 4.8, and it was still generating sub optimal code with the empty literal.
It's still not a bad product. I don't need my TV guide to be revolutionary. Tiles of apps are widely used now.

Apple the TV Provider assumed Apple would be able to make iTunes like deals to get TV and Movies like they got Music. This didn't come to fruition, so we got a pretty standard media streaming device with pretty standard prices.

If you use other Apple products, AirPlay is probably the best screen sharing software out there. Try to get a Windows computer to do that with an Xbox without at least an hour of Googling and shady streaming software.

In the last 2 decades Apple has made a single revolutionary product, the iPhone. The rest have been polished version of existing products. The Apple TV falls into the latter category.
I am astonished by your entitlement. The state has no obligation to tell you about the inner workings of their selection / profiling process. All that counts is safety of its citizens.

If I'm not a citizen and representatives of the country I want to enter tell me that they think I am a risk, the systems actually works.

Of all these one-sided stories we are hearing one wonders about what kind of darknet "activism" some people are involved.
>Abandoned warehouses...renovated into office space

I can't read this and not get sad about Ghost Ship
When I'm looking at candidates repos I don't care what the project is. Music app, twitter clone, whatever. I just want to see a live project with a series of commits from 'ember new' all the way to deployment. I look at their migrations, model files, etc just to get a feel for how the person architects real world concepts.
It really breaks my heart to see posts like this. I've been there but don't give up. If you are applying to that many jobs and not seeing any changes, there's a good chance that you have a problem that can be fixed.
I don't understand it either. Instead of voting 40 times to abolish Obamacare they could have introduced changes to make it better. Or if there are problems with some regulations they could improve them instead of just getting rid of them like they want to with Dodd-Frank.
This is bummer news for me. My whole team is based out of SF so we have to dral with Caltrain or drive. :( Plus, there is just not much to do in downtown SJ.

There's only one part of Moscone that's being renovated and Apple never used that bldg anyway.

This year will definitely not have the same after conference vibe as years before.
If you can't trust your ISP, use a VPN. If you're working with trusted peers, there's no need to trust other parties. Otherwise, you can run your own VPN server on a VPS, or use a commercial VPN service. But then you need to trust the provider, and their ISP. Still, you can choose providers with good reputations, and those that are less likely to pwn you. And you can distribute trust by using nested VPN chains, so that compromise requires collaboration.
Twitter’s New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language
Ah! Late night coding error :) It is fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out.
-->3 - You're applying to a million jobs, which likely means you are sending out rather anonymous letters instead of something even remotely targeted.

I think this is important, in a sense personalizing it for the company, and also the specific position you are aiming for. rather than aim for the entire goal net aim for a specific cross stitch within the net.

on a side note, all of the comments of others offering help I find absolutely beautiful and it makes me happy to have found this community of incredible people!
Amazon Video Direct is a worthwhile enterprise to explore. It takes effort. Quite a bit of legwork to fill out forms. Also, the content MUST have a subtitle file...but those things considered, it's highly competitive and gets things on Amazon Prime and pays out real $USD.
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Then you shouldn't expect to be let into any country. Take the flight back and return when you can actually unlock your phone.
--> The current best practice for border crossings --- really anywhere in the world --- is simply not to carry anything you're unwilling to unlock for Customs.

How do password managers play into this? I'm likely going to be traveling to the US on business. I'll be bringing a travel phone rather than a normal phone (This is my standard travel practice for any country). I could do the same with a computer.

I don't mind unlocking that. But passwords are a thornier issue. All of my passwords are stored in a password manager. On my computer, these are actually stored in a physical file, so if CBP cloned my hard drive they'd potentially have all my passwords. That would amount to ~400 passwords I'd need to change.

I could make a travel profile for my password manager and only bring in a limited, strictly necessary set of passwords.

But then this raises a further issue: do I keep social media passwords on that list, or leave them off? If I kept them off, I could honestly say "I can't login. I didn't want distracting social media on a business trip". But it might be safer just to have them? I could change the passwords after. I'm not sure of the risks of having CBP log into Facebook.

This is probably not a likely case I have to worry about, but I'd still like to figure out the best practice.
I've heard that too (and the associated joke—someone: "Don't you know it's a slow poison?", Voltaire: "It must be very slow.") but have never been able to authenticate either. Anybody have sources?
I considered an apple tv at one point. My fiancee is all in on apple otherwise, and the roku/blu ray/smart tv for various services was getting a little cluttered.

Then I went to a friends house, and used his xbox one. It does everything all of these systems do, streams every major provider, and uh, it's also an xbox. Since then we've ditched every other device in the living room.
that's commendable, especially since a grocery manager can make a very good living in an affluent area (it is a pretty demanding management position after all, with P&L, scheduling, logistics, distributor and vendor, payroll, 'up-management', probably even real estate related responsibilities). i'm sure it was pretty good experience for his current job.
10 k hours is 4 years working full time.
Such false equivalence is harmful if you're a proponent of strict privacy laws.

Even if Democrats were exactly as bad as Republicans in every regard, you could actually choose to randomly thank them for their dedication to privacy. Do that often enough, you'll soon see Democratic politicians adopting pro-privacy positions.

In reality, it seems quite obvious that despite all, there is at least a marginal difference between the parties with regards to not only privacy, but many other closely-linked issues, i.e. net neutrality.

If you get frustrated because these measures don't go far enough and buy into the "they're-all-corrupt-each-worse-than-the-other"-narrative, you're removing all incentives for them to act in your interest.
Teaching kids geometry
I have shared my experience of teaching kids geometry in spare time, in this post. Would love to hear from others who have tried this and have learnt things that work vs things that don't
Cosmic JavaScript Debuts Business Plans for Content Management
Eloquent Javascript - http://eloquentjavascript.net/

You build 5 projects through the book - a programming language, paint program, a dom game and a skill sharing website using node js.
MLDB.ai joins Element AI
We have tunnels that are a century old which are in danger of complete failure. Underground structures tends to exacerbate issues with water intrusion and drainage, not to mention persistent problems with air quality (air can only diffuse effectively in 1 dimension, not 3).
oh, some laws definitely still apply! try lying to the border agent if you doubt it!
Honestly -- do not lie to border agents. Do not do anything illegal or even with a smell of dishonesty while talking to agents on foreign soil, or even to agents of your own country.

Travel with a safe, clean device, if you travel with a device at all. If it is your employer's device, cooperate and then tell your employer's lawyers what happened.

Stay safe, especially if you're a minority of any kind.
I suspect that part of the reason here is a tit-for-tat.

The USA has a long history of being nasty to Canadians on the suspicion of them going there to work. Similar things happening to US visitors to Brazil and several other places.

Having a Dutch passport this never was a problem for me when returning to Canada, even though I was actually working there.
In economics terms, demand is a relationship between price and quantity demanded.

Increasing the supply doesn't affect demand; it just changes the realized price and quantity to another place in the same demand relationship.
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It doesn't seem like anyone has mentioned location and work authorization yet. This can be an immediate red flag on your resume. Many companies just won't consider a non-US-based person, or someone who isn't already authorized to work in the US.

If you can do this honestly, remove any mention of France from your resume, and put in New York, NY instead. Or indicate that you're planning to move at a specific future date:

Olivier Cestlavie
New York, NY (relocating from Paris in March 2017; Authorized to work in US since January 2015)
The math is tough to grok, but it appears they are using some set constructions to show that given a certain cycle size (4 or more) within a graph, those cycles are stable (Irreducible) based on some previous work. Thus, network stability is contingent on those cycles and you can extend this to say that the reason social networks don't dissolve is because these subsets give stability to the graph?
San Jose has everything you describe. Literally next door to the train station is a block of almond factories converted into modern apartments. I wouldn't describe a place I've never been to...

Edit: you aren't the GP, sorry.
Maybe its for the best. This gives me a reason to buy a Nokia 3310 or its new version http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/13/hmd-global-will-launch-the...
We used to have to call[1] several people to organize a gathering/outing, in the distant past of 15 years ago. If someone wasn't home you just had to try again later and/or leave a message, which they would only hear when they got home. Maybe every now and then someone would miss something because of this, though not often. Shockingly, it worked just fine.

[1] from our homes, obviously, since that's where the phone is, unless you were one of the rare high school students carrying a cellphone that had a usable amount of minutes on it, and even then cell call quality was (is...) so crap that you'd prefer your home phone.
In Finland 4G data contracts tend to be limitless. I pay 30 € per month for a package of 2 SIM cards which both have unlimited 4G data (no voice or SMS services packed in). The other one for a pad, the other one is my home's fixed network with appliances and WLAN connected.

I'm not entirely happy with current operator, though; I used to get 15 Mbit/s downlink but now it's often 3 Mbit/s at home, which is not enough. I might switch operator.

(At work I get 25 Mbit/s with the pad so the limit is clearly in poor coverage of operator DNA in my residential area, at work it is OK.)
Read "Discrete Mathematics" by Epp. Probably the easiest Discrete Math intro I came across.
Comments in Clean Code? Think Documentation
It seems the fastest way to spread privacy is to bring a sudden stop to its erosion. My suggestion: ban all acquisitions by the top software companies for the next 5 years :-)

As a bonus, you will foist some competition on the market as companies which thought they were on an acquisition path will now be forced to show real profits.
Automate the boring stuff - Al Sweigart.

This book teaches you python through a series of example projects. You can get it online or order a physical copy and help support the author here:

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
Not only that, but the more hyperloops we have, the more overburdened they will be.
Yes, I can't say that there's much I love more than forcing myself use a tool that's "not really too bad." DDG seems like they're really providing a stellar product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
Needs a (2011) in the title. Still a very good session, though.
I'm sincerely confused by people saying that DuckDuckGo has vastly inferior search results. Mind you, I search mainly programing related things so maybe DDG better services that niche? What types of searches are people doing that DDG doesn't provide suitable results?
If you're a citizen they cannot. A citizen cannot be refused entry.

They can keep your stuff, however. And if you're merely a permanent resident you can be refused entry.
Actually, I have had US business law thrown at me. It didn't stick, of course, but that was much to the throwers surprise, apparently.

But then, I'm not in Norway. I'm in Denmark :)
"Our devices"? I don't understand. Do you mean your company's devices? Your family's devices? Your household's devices?
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Why would you continue if you know you have to convert units all the time? Makes sense to cancel since you're not a target audience.

Why cancel ordering a programming course in Hungarian if there is Google translate?
US railroad regulations don't apply to rail systems that don't carry freight and don't share rails with freight.
I find this very relatable. We currently lease space from a startup that is a little bit ahead of us, but our revenue are catching up quickly. My co-founder is an aggressive salesman, so much so I have to push hard to keep up product. Which is good, we are moving quickly.

But the company we work next to is having trouble with sales. None of the founders have sales experience and then they hired a sales person straight out of college. That kid is an excellent guy, he tries as hard as he can, but he has no idea what he's doing. The number one thing holding this company back is the founders being willing to look outside their bubble and hire an experienced salesman who is going to make them uncomfortable, tell them they are wrong and move their business forward. But at the same time, I know it's hard. We hired a head of Operations totally different than us, but still fit our core values. And she pushes us all the time. And we do the same. And while it's been hard, it's definitely made us better.