skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the data has high value, then the issue is capitalization of the business rather than cost of the process. If the data is not high value, then committing programmer time might not make any more sense as a business proposition than paying mechanical turks.

All with the caveat that most data is not high value. And if the goal is to monetize the data, it is probably better to find a buyer first rather than processing the data first. It will not only address the capitalization issue, it will also help prioritize by value the many possible and various ways of capturing the data in digital form.
Maybe not, but it's irrelevant. The point I was making is that the async features are platform APIs, they have no inherent attachment to the language.

And I personally think not knowing the distinction between the language and APIs provided to it is extremely limiting and misleading for someone approaching learning programming (it was for me, I wish this had been clearer to me earlier).
NOAA has nationwide river sensor and guidance data if you are interested in a river near you.

https://water.weather.gov/ahps/forecasts.php
Please tell me Betteridge's Law of Headlines does not apply here...
> The disruption I'm expecting to happen is quality CC licensed content

Bingo! But there is still money to be made here.

Bundle a high quality open source textbook with tons of extra examples, auto-graded quizzes/assignments when possible, cheater detection, etc.

Provide regular updates so that Google doesn't know the answers to all the homework assignments/quizzes. Scrape the answers that are provided by google and incorporate them into the cheater detection.

Also provide a bit of analytics on top of the quiz/homework infrastructure. Or at least provide robust excel export so that instructors can figure out if there are clusters of students struggling with this or that concept.

And then sell the bundle and give some kick-back to the author(s) of the open source text (because it's the right thing to do, but also because the authors are thought leaders and will plug your product if they feel you're providing a valuable product at a reasonable price without screwing anyone).

Trying to write better textbooks than seasoned and altruistic professors is a losing battle.
I applied directly a few years ago (prompted from an ad at stack overflow), and response times were pretty reasonable.

The interviewing process itself was somewhat time-intensive for a Toronto company (it had a do-at-home assignment, which is fairly uncommon in TO), but other than that it was a fairly average experience.

Ultimately I turned down their offer, because their offer was low (and going from the who-is-hiring threads, it still is lower than market averages)

With that said, I got a chance to talk to some of the developers, and the work-life balance seemed reasonable (although not as good as, say, working at CGI)
If you like Alibaba then just keep holding. After the sale it is basically a tracking stock for BABA.

If you don't like BABA then you should probably sell?

Frankly, if you are asking strangers what to do with some stocks you bought, you might consider simply buying a broad market ETF like the SPY, VTI, or VT with the proceeds.
"Error establishing a database connection" - also reality I guess.
I'm having trouble pulling that map up, but I believe there's snowpack at 5500' and above right now, and there's a huge amount of land upstream of Lake Oroville that is above 5500'. My data is this: here's an Instagram tagged at Emigrant Gap (5200') taken four days ago.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQYzN3sA76u/
I've always thought that changes to receptors are how tolerance to any stimulant works.
The main dam structure isn't built to withstand the water flow.

Wikimedia has a nice picture of the area:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Oroville...

The emergency spillway is on the far left, it is lower than the rest of the dam. So if water is flowing over the main structure, it's anyway already failed.
First off, IKEv2 is IPSec. IPSec tunnels are either IKEv1 or IKEv2.

The advantages:

* It has a streamlined/faster key negotiation protocol. IKEv2 tunnels can be established in a fraction of the time it takes for IKEv1 negotiation, especially when negotiating multiple SAs.

* More robust integrity algorithms which can detect and re-establish a tunnel faster.

* It supports EAP, so in client/server mode (vs. tunnel mode) you can attach it to an AAA server to assign IP addresses and do user authentication, making L2TP and shared secrets unnecessary. (Note that when using IKEv2 for IPSec tunnels, one still must use either a shared secret or certificates for authentication.)
Impressive. I wonder how hard it has been to code something to avoid drone crashes.
A lot of research has gone into what makes people behave this way. Read about "Tragedy of Commons"[1] and "Diffusion of Responsibility" [2] for more insights.

The net-net is that people rationalize their actions using whatever means necessary.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
Reading this... I just hate sales. This is a playbook for generating all those spam messages I get all the time that I don't want to receive.
Google cache version as the blog seems to be up and down.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oh3mPHO...
Introducing Account-Based Sales into Your Process, Part 1 – Getting Started
They have models for run off. In my previous career we used tr55 analysis of watersheds, this included surface types, slopes and areas. You model for various storms once the model is built. We didn't have to deal with mountain snow packs which add another factor.

Edit: I think newer programs to model exist now. Some are here
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/nationa...

165 page PDF describes it.
https://www.hydrocad.net/pdf/TR-55%20Manual.pdf
Very true, even now. The professional market for WinForms is probably dead, though.

Yet ironically, I use Winforms in personal code way more today than any of Microsoft's other GUI technologies. Winforms is a great way to get a Windows app up extremely quickly that needed a simple GUI. There are plenty of ways to get a quick command line style app up, but I really don't know too many solutions that allow you to drag and drop functional GUIs as quickly as Winforms (other than VB and Delphi).

For a fully fledged app, Winforms makes no sense to me these days. But Microsoft specific syntax like WPF or UWP no longer makes that much sense to me either. Might as well spend the time on HTML+CSS+Javascript and get cross-platform support...
I think this line in the article made its point well: "The less we know about the mind of another, the more we use our own to fill in the blanks."

When we form our opinions entirely based on individual quotes taken out of context (at worst) instead of actual back-and-forth conversations (at best), we're not going to have an accurate perception of reality. If we then follow-up by labeling a person as not worth talking to, or not "a real human being", then we're gating ourselves off from even the possibility of improving the accuracy of our perceptions.
This launch was to 500km, and the Doves are around 150kg/m^2 (4.5kg / 0.03m^2). This puts their lifetime at around 5 years according to that linked plot.

For reference, Planet's earlier launches were to the ISS (400km) and lasted less than a year, which your plot agrees with.
It's DNA, not DNS. Yes, this is terrible. I'm sure the police would be happy to get the DNA of everyone.
Question for jpallen if you're still reading - do you plan to support unicode fonts? I write some documents using the Sanskrit2003 font and compile them with xelatex locally. Wondering if sharelatex plans to support non-commercial unicode fonts?
It's [1] an embankment dam, so basically just a pile of dirt/rocks. When the water goes over, the material of the damn goes with it [2]:

> Even a small sustained overtopping flow can remove thousands of tons of overburden soil from the mass of the dam within hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment_dam#Safety
Oroville itself is at 900 feet altitude, but the Oroville watershed extends into the Sierra Nevadas, including alpine valleys at 5000 feet. The Sierras have record snowpack this year (150 inches in places, so I hear).

Approximate watershed is seen in the map at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_River
for sure Etherum's hard fork was not and will not be the most important thing that happened in my or our lifetimes as said in the blog post
Bleh. There is no automatic deletion. I've tested this multiple times. Also I've mentioned altcoins, bitcoin unlimited in a positive light, and everything else people say is moderated away. I've never been censored once. Downvoted - sure. Censored... nope.

The only way to guarantee censorship is to make 100 fake accounts and then upvote an article that promotes a hard fork or alt coin.

Spam, fake upvoted articles, and personal attacks are attempted to be moderated. There is, no doubt, a bias that moderators have for certain topics.

But without moderation, any forum would be overrun with spew.
Consigli di bellezza della nonna che non si sbaglia mai
I get the type of person you are. I'll just say it for you: you're right and I'm wrong. You even repeat yourself with your tangential point with no relevance to anything that you're replying to. Then proceed to shred the remainder of your credibility suggesting I go get help, in the fashion of a real clown. Good luck arguing with people online bud.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sarcasm

It's not a strawman argument if you don't mean what you say.
I've also heard "50 cups a day" estimated for Voltaire. If true, it probably means something more like 50 shots of espresso, but I'm still skeptical in both cases.
Ask HN: Did you code in the 1980s? Which language(s) did you use? What for?
Is it a debate though? It was a dredged up letter from the 1980s, and didn't the initial dredger express regret about doing it?
Titanium backup for a rooted device works great. If you have access to recovery you can also do a Nandroid backup which gives you 100% restore capability.

For non rooted this seems very tricky, that's why I asked. Most likely you will spend hours getting your phone to work again.
Agreed. The benefit of troff system is: (a) If you only need to add minimal markup (occasional .PP .B .I), (b) the fact its everywhere, (c) because of "A", no IDE / Editor needed

That is to say, for minimal jobs its great - if you need to extend effort go LaTeX
Water isn't passing over the dam, it's passing over a much shorter wall to the side of the dam with unprotected earth around and below it. Large volumes of water tend to wash away dirt and could potentially undermine this side wall. So there is a potential for release of a very large volume of water, without compromising the main dam itself, because the erosion cuts a new exit channel for the lake.
Also worth considering "NTPsec has removed lots of stuff that has zero reported bugs in them, like sntp, the ntpsnmd code, and various refclocks."

And reading this comment:

https://lwn.net/Articles/714279/

"in general all the other NTP implementations likewise lack broad support for all the various reference clock hardware and drivers. This is why ntpd is still used so heavily as stratum 1 servers."

And, additionally.. are the servers running Windows a small and obscure base?
Remove the term “whitelist”
As long as Assange is in control, absolutely. Currently, nobody beats the level of commitment that people like Assange and Snowden have proven.
There is a limit to how many receptors you can have, which limits how much "wakeup" coffee can produce. Once you hit the limit and fill them up, the only affect you get from more coffee are the negative problems. I vaguely remember it being like 400mg of caffeine or something like that.
I think you need to add a sentence giving one good reason to use anything other than a plain text file.
Relevant

http://video.newyorker.com/watch/exclusive-clip-of-le-cafe-d...
Don't forget to park the head before moving the computer!
Untappd v3.0 Live QA
More relevant: this is the theory of memes [1], which the author avoids because that word has a very different connotation because of the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 01: Why is Web Performance such a hot topic right now?
What sort of problems does it cause? I throw around Jan 1st 1900 pretty freely for entities that have no real business knowing my birthday but want it anyway, and never had any problems with it
And they also still have two people working remotely. I guess "Our company's remote work system worked for some people but not for others" doesn't make for a very good headline.
TensorFlow 1.0 Released
The only remaining solution to the callback hell http://rawgit.com/peuler/meowmeow/gh-pages/index.html
Highly suggest anyone that has not watched "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" take the time to watch it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvcc9C8SbM

RIP Aaron
MakerBot lays off 30% of its staff as company’s scope narrows
no I did not. The headline isn't misleading, the content of the article is extremely poor.
Wow very interesting indeed, same behavior for me. Definitely makes me curious about the implementation details of Github's search feature.
TensorFlow 1.0.0 released
An Enormous Exoplanet Is Having a Strange Influence on Its Star
Ask HN: Are VMWare / VSphere products any good at what they do?
I've been tasked with developing a system with some reasonably high initial requirements for infrastructure/hosting. It will be an all Linux system.

As I'm not an infrastructure person the first thing I did was hire someone who is. I've a lot of confidence in and liking for this individual.

What they have told me, is that if they use vSphere to deploy the required infrastructure then we will much more quickly and easily have:

* Failover

* Redundant Storage

* An Out-of-the-box solution for scaleability

He mentioned a host of other things in terms of monitoring and tooling that I wasn't too concerned about.

Now I'm a bit of "can't we just do it with a text file" guy and my natural reaction is: do we really need a product? But even overcoming that natural bias, my real uncertainty is whether VMWare products really work as advertised?

I'm concerned that the individual may feel, due to time pressure and perhaps safety concerns, that VMWare will take a lot of the responsbility away...but that in the medium term we will fall foul of performance problems and/or hidden licensing costs.

I'd love to hear from people that use these products heavily and have a view.
I couldn't tell you how much impact this actually has, but Vulkan/D3D12/Metal have to be conservative with pipeline state changes, and have to manage the layout of various hardware data structures for you.

They've gotten partway there with things like D3D12 descriptor heaps, but hardware-specific APIs just don't have those limitations.
Modern Delphi has a simple flag that you can set that will show you a log of every memory leak in your application when you shut it down, and there are 3rd party exception handling and profilers/analyzers that can be purchased for a few hundred dollars that will take care of finding/fixing AVs/performance bottlenecks. It's actually quite easy to create solid and reliable applications using Delphi if you follow solid software development practices.
What Does a Programmer Need to Start Coding?
I'm working on developing a web application and am about to transition personal development to an external programmer. I've never done this before and am wondering what information a programmer needs to get started? If you've been in this situation before, what do you wish you had known beforehand? Thanks!
Some of us are already talking to Garrett, who is plenty clueful on his own. :)

I think the misunderstanding (if it exists) is my fault, though; rereading, I probably shouldn't have used the word "significantly". I'll try to avoid adjectives first thing in the morning moving forward.
> Perhaps most Americans don't realize just how much of a shared culture is needed for immigrants to understand before they can communicate effectively.

I would also like to add to that: The fact that we have a culture. (That's often underplayed to seem "fair" to other cultures)
TensorFlow 1.0 was just announced during the TensorFlow Dev Summit keynote.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.0.0

You can follow the Summit live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLyrl-agOw
My university has a platform very similar to TopHat - assignments, lecture notes, text, quizzes, grades, and all- but for free (or, included).

The only reason our Quantum Mechanics prof used TopHat instead was because it gave him the opportunity to gouge an extra $100 out of us for a terrible "textbook" that in any other class would be considered lecture notes, full of errors and typos, proof-read by nobody and held to no standard, with atrocious equation rendering and a terrible interface.

He ended up uploading our assignments to TopHat as PDFs but since it doesn't support PDF-viewing we just download those as zip files anyway. Our in-house service supports PDF-viewing in browser, along with powerpoint and other formats.

Not really sure why TopHat exists besides a way to gouge more money out of us students if we want to be enrolled in a course. I could get by without my professor's poor excuse for a textbook, but I would lose 5% immediately if I couldn't participate in the silly attendance system, and more for the online quizzes (although we could use our in-house system to the same effect) so I have no choice but to fork the money over straight to my professor's pocket. As if my 15k tuition wasn't already enough.
Right. And muslims are terrorists.

If you try to tell a decentralized group that you have them figured out based on the data you've collected from your personal surroundings, you're gonna get eye rolls.

I'm a feminist. Care to tell me what my flaws are?
Translation from French, as others have pointed out. The original text is longer, and covers stimulants other than coffee, such as tobacco and sugar:

http://www.bmlisieux.com/curiosa/excitant.htm

The French is slightly dated in some ways, but definitely could have been written today (albeit by an old school literary type, of which we have plenty).
Do you have numbers on your active users?
May I ask where you chose to go instead? I don't see much which is exciting in Toronto (bad money, uninteresting tech).
You're correct. In addition, it's important to note that conjunction (collision) risk is proportional to spacecraft cross-sectional area. Thus, even with 100 of these small 10cm x 30cm spacecraft, they still pose less debris risk than a single satellite with a few square meters of solar panels (of which there are plenty already in orbit).
He is also the incarnation of the god Pan [1] and a sexual tyrannosaurus (and relationship advice columnist)[2].

As get as I remember, his philosophical contributions primarily involve being in the right place at the right time, when people were searching for the reason that Linux was taking over the world, and having something to do with convincing Netscape to go open source.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html

[2] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/
>Why write about this rather than basically anything else?

Why not? If it's true, and you offered absolutely no refutation to his claim whatsoever, why shouldn't we discuss facts? Do they stop being true if we stop talking about them? Do their ramifications stop existing if we just refuse to accept them?
Do the instructions at https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2013/04/02/using-your-favour... work for you? We've supported unicode and XeLaTeX for a while now, so what you've described should work, but it's hard to say without specifics (LaTeX can be difficult with these sort of edge cases, but if something is broken, please send us a small example to support@sharelatex.com and we can take a look).
Show HN: The Missing AWS OpsWorks CLI
Cape: Fly a Real Drone Online
As a foreign student, thank you. Among close American friends, some of them were acquired through my class projects. Although it might not be the most effective channel, it definitely makes a difference.

I think the best the school could do is to make the students stay in dorms with shared rooms when they come to study. Roommates, in my anecdotal experience, are among the best channels to acquire friends. If the school doesn't have the policy in the first place, then perhaps there is little that anyone could do to help, if the students don't make it a priority.
No traction because it's a mess. No git, no markdown, no clear organization, dated look in almost everything. Very unuserfriedly to just 'hop in'. No money unfortunately and most (all?) devs do it in their sparetime. Splitted between different attempts, FreePascal, MSE, Oxygene, Smartpascal, Newpascal, maybe more?

Nevertheless, Lazarus and Free Pascal is very good and important work. Wish they would modernize to the 21 century though (but whatever works for them is fine - only it's difficult regarding the traction then).
Sometimes it's about bringing comfort and convenience to people who aren't rich. Rich people don't need Uber.

Also, poor people generally would rather be "exploited" and employed than on the dole.
when you've got game theorists and all sorts of mathematicians staffing the NSA/other think tanks you're going to wind up with all sorts of first-bluff odd tactics
+1 Upvote for credstash
Around 200,000 monthly active users.
I don't know anything about TopHat.

But I'm a professor and I've offered material for free for twenty years. I can think of some very good reasons to prefer this marketplace-thingy from an author's perspective.

1) Exposure. If you want to sell you want to be on the shelves at the local mart.

(And some authors don't want to support the download traffic.)

2) Platform. If what you are offering is guaranteed to work because you produced it according to this vendor's standards then you don't have to field queries about platforms you don't understand. (I offer a straight PDF of a math text. The only twist is that if you click on the question it bounces you to the answer and if you click on the answer it bounces you to the question. I get queries about that.)

In particular, I'm concerned about standards for interactivity. I don't want to code that stuff, I want to write a text. If a vendor provides the widgets and takes a cut of sales, for instance, I'd read their pitch further.

3) Integration. If it all works with some online gradebook that'd be great.

4) Version control. When version 3 comes out, you'd like version 2 to go away.
400mg is about 3-5 cups of coffee a day depending on the roast.
That's how the 1997 flood of Reno happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bisSuBAvaQ
A lot of VHS pricing for a long time followed a price to rent at first release (i.e. video rental stores would pay a high price during the prime new release rental period) with the price dropping after some period so that individuals would buy it. Pricing was higher overall but it wasn't that high in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6EpfCzdMoY
I'm definitely not disabling ASLR over this post, that would be utterly silly. I've been disabling ASLR for many years in the context of specific performance-sensitive applications (mostly computational science stuff) in environments where the security concerns aren't relevant. ASLR does have a very real, measurable performance cost, but you're right in saying that it's fairly small and in most (though not all) cases you won't notice it.

I am, however, very adamant that it should remain easy to disable. Any security-performance compromise must remain under developer control, because there is no globally optimal decision on when to make which tradeoff.