skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't mind helping out with a news site :) Im also taking a trip to Togo this summer , so could be a good way for me to learn more about what's happening in the region
Yep,the language it self became a problem.The designer and experts should(Which I hope) make the language easy to use without any mental burden.
I'm actually swinging hard against containers at the moment.

I've been playing around the runv project in docker (definitely not production ready) and running containers in optimized virtual-machines...and it just seems like the better model? Which, following the logic through, really means I just want to make my VMs fast with a nice interface for users - and I can, with runv I can spin up KVM fast enough to not notice it.

Basically...I'd really rather just have VMs, and pour effort into optimizing hypervisors (and there's been some good effort along these lines - the DAX patches and memory dedupe with the linux kernel).
> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Not saying that DistroKid is perfect, but sometimes all it takes to be the best in any given market is to be exactly what's needed and nothing more. It may seem like giving one's hand away, but what could there be to add? There's certainly not much fat to trim. How would someone else compete?
Maybe in the USA, in the UK at least plenty of people have unlimited/large data plans, and the speeds are still fine.
I claim on my CV to be an "expert" C++ programmer, but I'm quick to point out the curve that I imagine being graded on. At least in my head, there's an implied context around someone's C++ proficiency. An expert Java programmer should be able to answer most questions about Java. An expert C++ programmer should simply get to the "I have no idea" answers when the questions get interesting.
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Ah, I stand corrected.

It seems like urllib3 uses Python's socket library stuff though? I guess that part of the code isn't the trickiest part.
Its to avoid exits :)
Exactly, but the OP doesn't have this problem because they are just starting out.
My laymen's understanding (from various documentaries & articles) is that the expensive part of tunnel construction is managing the transitions between different materials. Boring through hard rock might be slow, but hitting pockets of mud, loose rock and other things (especially when unexpected) can seriously mess up the works, and cause massive delays due to machine damage or reassessment and reinforcement/collapse mitigation.

AIUI many (most?) big TBMs are heavily bespoke systems specifically built for their planned route, and it's not unusual to just scrap them after the job is done.

So, it's not immediately clear that speeding up the 'easy' part will have a huge impact on the overall outcome, if the bulk of the time & uncertainty is in the hard bits.

I wonder if there are any currently underused means of sensing some distance ahead get advanced warning of nasty transitions?
> Could it be that the distance between the top and bottom 20% is less in Canada

You're just describing the results of inequality: two things are further apart than two other things. It doesn't tell you anything about the cause of inequality, only the magnitude of one symptom.

It's like saying "a mile is longer than a kilometer". Well, yes that's an apt description but it doesn't tell you why that is the case.
Same in Baltimore, and our carsets are going on thirty years old. I live alongside both the light rail track and the interstate, which run mostly parallel here, and the latter is much noisier, especially when the crazy people on motorcycles use it for a racetrack.

There are relatively few residential areas very near our light rail, and those that are tend on the pricey side, although that may be more for other reasons than transit access. Where I live now is one of the few places you can live in easy walking distance of a station and pay less than $1k/mo in rent; on the other hand, my community has a poor reputation, mostly undeserved, for being a hive of drug dealers and "not our kind of people", by which is meant working-class black and white folks. A mile or so down in Clipper Mill, which is very much "our kind of people", one may confidently expect to pay $1600 or more a month to rent a tiny rowhouse, even if it's no closer to the Woodberry station than my current abode is to Cold Spring Lane.
Although I'd hate to work directly/closely w/ Linus, I truly love this man symbolically.
When you say such things you should also mention that they did not approve it because it is redundant to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_License

I.e. they're not saying it's bad, just superfluous.

Also, i wonder what effect approval/rejection by the OSI has in any case. Does anyone care what they say?
> More importantly, the appearance of induced demand is not a general argument against building roads! People get value out of getting to places. If we build road B intending to relieve congestion on road A, but road A stays just as congested, we nevertheless have enabled people to get places with road B that they would not otherwise have been able to reach. That increases utility.

There are cases where this doesn't apply, though. For instance, building motorways into the centre of cities. Yes, it means more people can get to the centre, but now there are too many cars in the centre for anyone to move around, including much more efficient forms of transport like buses. In that case, the city is going to function better if the road was never built, and people adapted their behaviour, either to move out of suburbs closer to a higher density core, or to work outside of the central area, or to use public transport. Unless you can have some other form of regulation, for instance to enforce a minimum number of people per vehicle, then an influx of inefficient vehicles in terms of road space to utility, will clearly damage the efficiency of the transport system, and the ability for people to move around.
Really unfortunate that it pitches php development as a way to get started as an older developer. As if an older developer doesn't already feel antiquated and behind, let's make it worse by teaching them an established technology that is not usually the language of choice for companies on the bleeding edge of technology, which i, I imagine, where these people are hoping to be
In Denmark data caps are rising a lot. It's not unusual to have 30 or even 50 GBs of data. I don't know the reason why, but it's most likely not capacity since we are probably using the same system.
Actually you should think in 4D. In the future all those tunnels require maintenance that is much more complex and expensive than maintenance for surface roads. If the US is not able to keep its roads in good condition (and in many places it's not), how is building more expensive roads underground going to solve the problem long term?
Since it was delisted, if someone has the link maybe it was archived by Google Cache or Archive.org.
I don't know what drives others, but San Jose doesn't have any of the history, architecture, or institutions that made me fall in love with Pittsburgh and Detroit. And it certainly doesn't have any of the grit.

San Francisco has those things in abundance.
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Tossing CVs down an HR portal (to nowhere) isn't a way to find jobs. You find jobs by knowing people. I'm sure there are some developer/designer meetups in Paris. Find one (or many) and start going. That doesn't mean sit in the back silently. You need to network. This doesn't have to be cheesy. Make small talk. Get to know them and their interests. Maybe you'll have the same favorite CSS framework. Talk about that then. When people feel that you are easy to talk to and that you know what you're talking about, it becomes easier for them to feel good about introducing you as a candidate to their boss.

Why I am so confident in this answer? 1) I've gotten every one of my jobs through networking (either from meetups or from former coworkers and friends); 2) I run a meetup, and I've seen it happen; and 3) I've been in the position to recommend people to an employer, and I don't recommend people who might make me look bad.
but if they send more engineers then they would need a larger venue, wouldn't they?
Yeah, pursuing a culture shift that discourages pointlessly-standardized working hours and encourages remote work when possible might even have a tangible effect on traffic.

That said traffic is often one of those unfortunate predator-prey type dynamics, where congestion being reduced often encourages more folks to drive until the system returns to an (unfortunate) equilibrium...
What advice you would give to someone in their 20s who often find themselves at loss of motivation or drive.
I wonder how possible it would be to create a jailed environment on Android or iOS that can not access any of the data on your phone and could be entered by putting in a false password. That would allow you to enter your "password" on-demand and then only present a jailed process to those seeking to violate your privacy. It could appear to be a full experience, but not actually contain any personal data, or contain false data.

I imagine it would be illegal, but there may be a market for it.
If your tin foil hat is on tight, you wouldn't trust the phone after it's in their possession as they could have placed a rootkit on it.
He had to limit the insurance due to both a) difficulty proving the value of retro games no longer for sale, and b) legal restrictions in Germany due to Hartz IV.
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I think we'll be seeing LA's subway development as a model for the future of infrastructure.

The big problem with urban highways is that if you build the highway first and do not include higher-density transit, the neighborhood develops in a suburb-esque highway fashion, as distance of the house/apartment from the highway exit doesn't make a huge difference in commute time, whereas a train commute requires you to walk that last leg.

The issue I imagine many planners are facing is "how do we build useful, medium to high density public transit that actually serves a decent amount of people?" And it's a hard problem, because the neighborhood layouts are designed for highways. New transit projects other than highways face opposition because they don't appear useful to most of the residents.

I went to LA recently and rode the subway a bunch, into Downtown LA and back out to my friend's more suburban apartment near Universal City. Once, I took an Uber and the driver pointed out to me all of the new higher-density residential development taking place around the edges of the urban core (and noted it improved the safety of the area dramatically, "people are walking around now! no more gangs!").

Basically, the neighborhood was reshaping toward a more transit-friendly environment after some useful public transit was implemented.

The current problem is convincing cities to fund transit lines when they seem to "go to nowhere useful". If LA continues to be successful at building subways, they'll provide a great piece of evidence and support for building new higher-density transit in other cities throughout the country.
Linus literally talks about Edison and that quote in the article
We have one of those dynamic price roads around here. It starts out overpriced and goes up from there. It's basically the road for the 1%. Usage has been a quite a bit lower than the estimates so the taxpayers have been on the hook for lost profits.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/17/not-so-fast-...
I don't think people stick around long after graduating - it's a pretty tiny town and Edinburgh's close enough and not that much more expensive that it'd be easy to move and get set up there instead (not to mention Dundee being even closer).

Remember that startup funding is pretty lean in the UK in general compared to the US, and this far north of London in a quiet town I'd imagine it's near enough nonexistent no matter how prestigious the university is
If you have 2FA then some of those accounts may not be accessible without your phone. For instance, if I didn't bring my phone with me (which I use to authenticate) I wouldn't even be able to log in to my email.

Or, taken a little further, I don't even know my email password anyways. Its locked in a password manager which requires 2FA. I would myself be locked out of almost all of my accounts if I didn't bring my phone.
Roads need maintenance almost exclusively because of the weather - sun and rain, heat and cold. Underground, none of those things. We have tunnels today that are a century old with only minimal maintenance, right?
You can always claim that you don't know the password because you use an offline password manager that you don't have with you. Also, use 2 factor authentication of course.
I have a software team of around 100 people. I approve the comp planning for the org and I don't see what you describe in the dataset that I have in front of me. (I know that's only an N or 1 [or 100].)

Our squad leads make more than junior engineers. Our senior engineers make more than junior engineers. It's not a factor of 3 like in some other industries, but it's also on a much higher initial base.

If "making 3x more than the new college hire" is your primary goal, software engineering might not be for you.

If "making a crapload of money at a job that's so good I'd do it for free anyway, and having little to worry about financial security" is your primary goal, software engineering is gig that's tough to beat, IMO.

20 or 40 years of experience? I'll pay those two people the exact same (on average). Tech changes quickly enough that general software experience matters, but no one has 40 years of experience in .Net, JVM, or Javascript. I think that general software experience plateaus around 15 years or so, so I don't see much of a reason to think the employee with 20 or 40 years of experience is in any way more valuable than the employee with 15 years of experience. If they aren't any more valuable, they haven't earned the right to any greater comp, IMO. They drift upwards with inflation and the general market, just like everyone else.
Kudos to DuckDuckGo for supporting these organizations which are trying to keep everyone a little safer. HN readers who agree should donate to the organization(s) with which they resonate. Even small donations can make important differences.
It's odd to see all the hate for USPS in these threads. My own experience is that USPS is by far the best carrier out there. Part of it is the unfair advantage of actually having a mailbox to deliver to. Smaller packages are placed in the mailbox rather than left in front of my garage to be stolen by random passersby. But part of it is just that they're reliable and cheap.

With Amazon, around here they like to use a craptastic local shipper called LaserShip. Now those folks are the epitome of incompetency. Tracking is useless, they like to mark packages as delivered well before they actually arrive, and sometimes they just plain give the stuff to the wrong address. Once they gave my package to a random house thirty miles away!

I don't mean to say that you and the others are wrong, of course! I wonder what the difference is. Maybe I'm just lucky in this respect due to where I live or something.
What exactly is "the grit"? The homeless people and crackheads?
Err, yeah, good luck with that.

Sad thing is that is is USA that is the problem child in all this. Being largely isolated from Eurasia, and having just a few big neighbors that are easy to convince to play along, they can basically define the spectrum within their broadcast reach as they see fit.

It is basically the same reasoning behind it as why metric is still not the default over there.
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"and difficulty when migrating from RDS with minimum downtime"

They're simply uninformed then. AWS database migration service makes zero downtime migrations trivial between just about any major databases (mysql, oracle, postgres, aurora, sqlserver, etc.)
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You could say that if an invention is any good it speaks for itself, in which case you've saved yourself the effort of bragging and people still get to know about it
In my experience the American version really isn't the same thing at all.
Nice! You summarized everything that I spent 20 days on StackOverflow learning piece by piece :)

I had tried to comment this code in my own branch
(https://github.com/ajchili/ChosunTruck/commit/61f184521ac4fb...)

but this actually summarizes a lot better!

And yes, the gnarly trig function is on point.
No the core network uses IPSec. Of course there is support for "lawful interception" though.
We could even fill those pods with burritos [1] ! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

[1] http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
Also, federal offence to interfere with the US mail. UPS? a tort I think?
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
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My commute takes an hour over 20 minutes by car, and my organization hasn't shown enough interest in making me able to work remotely to issue a device approved for secure VPN access, so I can't really make that argument go. But it works well for those who can.

(I don't mind not having remote capability all that much, honestly. I've done the on-call 24/7 thing for enough years not to want to do it any more.)
Very cool thanks. So something like PyPy would probably very quickly optimize it, since it has a deterministic result. I think I'm going to experiment with that one.
Yeah that letter is basically blaming me, the recipient, for them damaging the sender's package in transit. Truly there is no end to USPS' classiness.
I don't see it working without a substantial increase in (more affordable) housing stock. Last I looked, San Jose had the highest median home price in the country.
I would think it is even more extreme with Erasmus students.

My thoughts about this are:
Erasmus students stay for a very limited time- 1 or two semesters and leave then. Forming real friendships take longer.

I have only so much time to meet and catch up with friends. Taking away from that time to invest in short term relations is a problem.

Erasmus student have other priorities than "natives". First is partying, second is partying and maybe third is university. From my experience regular students do not have the time to go out partying that much resulting in different peer groups.
San Jose definitely decreases the appeal for me as someone that would have to fly in, pay for a hotel, etc. (would be good to also get a trip to a first-class metropolitan city) but I suppose they're not exactly short on demand... and the SF one didn't really appeal to me either given the cost (could go to Europe for vacation instead...).
The eBay-listing apparently was for non-PAL carts, so no luck. :(
And if the tunnel was limited to electric cars (likely), then that would boost Tesla.
Beer and chocolate in there somewhere?
If I can agree that building tunnels for public transport may be a good idea, building tunnels to encourage people to use their car doesn't sounds like it's taking humanity in the right direction.

I'd rather see disruption to encourage people to use their bicycle and walking. Granted American cities aren't build for that but it's never too late.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_4_ways_to_make_a_city_mo...
The US can easily afford to maintain it's infrastructure. It would make money in doing so.

Expense is not the reason the US has infrastructure problems.
The way Rails does this is with timestamped migrations. I assume Django has something similar.
You couldn't make efficient pods while complying with US railroad regulations (the US high speed trains are the heaviest in the world because the laws basically require trains to be armoured. Comparison to the US love of SUVs left as an exercise to the reader). If you can find a way around those regulations that would work, but seems overcomplicated compared to just applying your way around those regulations to ordinary high-speed rail.
The vast majority of people that may buy this product might speak imperial. How do you know who the target audience is? How many recipe sites have ingredients in grams and cups/oz.?

Betty Crocker doesn't! Alton Brown? NOPE. Food Network, NAH!
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Marco Rubio.

As per my last point, I don't know if Musk's "moonshots" will actually pan out. His businesses certainly are taking credit for just about everything that happens in tech, but I'm not convinced they're the ones leading the revolution.
Certainly people get value out of getting to places. If you walk a mile in Paris, there are like 50 places worth going to. If you walk a mile somewhere around the middle ring road surrounding Houston, there's nowhere worth going to. Scale back car use to something reasonable, make the places smaller, move them closer together, and that way we can have nice things again.
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Here in Munich, Germany, public transport in the city center is based on a very small number of tunnels for underground trains. There is one main tunnel for city traversal, and about 5 or so underground tunnels. Together they bear a large part of the commuters traffic. Currently, the construction for another large train tunnel is about to begin. From that perspective, one wouldn't need an extremely large number of tunnels to vastly enhance traffic across a dense populated area. So when Musk is building tunnels, they aren't direct replacements for highways. They are either train tunnels, or hyperloop tunnels, or if they are car tunnels, they are for autonomous electric cars, which are driving literally bumper to bumper across the tunnels. So they would carry much more traffic in a more organized way than the normal highway. So it all comes down to whether he manages to improve the boring process to a point where people would want to digg more tunnels as with current methods.
Can you give more information? From your description, it sounds like "Let's limit possible DDOS targets for hacked things to just factories.", which doesn't strike me as a solution.
I seem to recall that when you install Ubuntu you have to specifically check a box to say you want the proprietary and patent encumbered stuff.

Likely Dell leave that up to the user to install after unboxing.

And that is one reason that Mint got popular, because they took Ubuntu and bundled that stuff right on the ISO.
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Is there a fix?