skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am exactly the opposite. I preferred the placement on German cars.

I try to park pretty close to the pump. With the filler on the same side as the driver door I have to be careful not to bang the door into the structure around the pump. That's much easier when it is on the other side.

I don't care at all to walk around the car to pump the petrol.

After driving German cars for some years it was a disadvantage of my new Japanese car for me.

But I've never filled my car on the side of a road, so this argument didn't work for me at all.
Surely we banned it because it is highly irritating to people who don't smoke? The medical aspect was used to win the argument with selfish smokers who don't give a crap about the well being of other people.
Show error numbers and codes from the os.errno module
Why Tower Has Gone Kirby CMS?
They need to standardize many characteristics of the filler port beyond which side of the car it's located so that they can have an automatic fill station robots.

When my self driving car shows up, I'll be damned if it's going to have to drive me to the gas station so that I can fill it up.
Net profit margin	-1008.50%	-1102.47%
What was the last time you wrote something that was 10MB after compiled to native code when optimizing for space?

Linux + BusyBox is less than 2MB (I've fitted it in floppies not too long ago) if you don't include the drivers for everything. I've created a 10MB binary set that implements an entire email server, with everything statically linked, and in Haskell (that leads to inherently big binaries).
Georgia Tech Online Masters with Udacity
I wanted to gage what people thought about this program and whether or not it is worth it? I am extremely interested in it.
Google sunsets Waymo - passengers kicked out on freeway.
Building my first custom keyboard
It had a bit of the opposite effect on me as a lazy kid.

It showed me that intuition only goes so far, beyond a point one has to put in some serious hard work (memorize patterns/algos etc) to see how deep one can go in any field.
"This greatly helps the API consumer comprehend the meaning of fields at little cost"

But yes, I agree with you. "Little cost" is also quite ambiguous when one of the identified pro's was lowered overhead?
Bike-sharing startup ofo raises $450 million in D-round financing
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 835 VR dev kit, Leap Motion integration
Hence also reinventing CORBA IIOP, DCE, Apollo NCS, Xerox Courier...

Actual innovation in this area seems to be limited to JS background data sync libs. Ironically, reference-capable protocols like CORBA anticipated this whereas flattening it all REST-style was a step backwards.
A lot of criticism of how bad it will be with the outsourcing company, but clearly the real worry is local people losing their jobs to foreigners. Why blame the university? It's not a charity. If anyone really cares about the workers who lost their jobs, they can look up their address and mail them a check.
Data engineering is converging under the umbrella of DataOps. For those interested, there's a DataOps Summit in Boston this June https://www.dataopssummit.com/
I've... never thought of that. Thanks.
Man designs bionic arm for his son using Xbox Kinect and 3D printer
May I suggest matrix.org...
"Matrix is an open standard for decentralised communication...You can use Matrix for...Decentralised Group Chat (Fully distributed persistent chatrooms with no single points of control or failure)...WebRTC Signalling (Web-friendly signalling transport for interoperable VoIP and video calling)...Internet of Things (Exchanging and persisting data between devices and services)...and anywhere else you need a common data fabric to link together fragmented silos of communication."

For protocol info, see http://matrix.org

For seeing how it works, check out https://riot.im (only one of the numerous federated home servers, and only one of the chat clients). Or, better yet, host your own home (public or private) server across the matrix network! ;-)
The rest of the world helped pay for the shed, so it became all of our problems.
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My opel from 2004 doesn't have that triangle and fuel gauge is in center of cluster... Fuel cap is on right (passenger) side like in almost all opels.
REST purism is very similar to religious extremism

There are a lot of them saying that your system is not pure REST, that it would be a joke to call it REST, that most "REST" APIs out there are not real REST and only they know the true way of doing stuff

If only they shipped something or made something work given real-world constraints
CEOs aren’t gods – they can’t tell people to ‘EAT DICK’
Right. There are nonsense "administrators" who make similar salaries to junior devs, but they can't afford market rates. I'm sure whoever is in charge of this bound-to-fail offshoring makes at least that much as well.
Eclipsing the Wright Brothers
Some thoughts from the field on the causes of contract manufacturing defects. Not trying to be narcissistic, just hoping to contribute to the community in some way.
i think each of these has billion dollar potential. they address massive markets that are proven money makers.
Rare-earth means low concentrations. There is still a lot of this stuff in the darts crust an it's not destroyed with use.
Considering postgres is streets ahead of anything else on that graph (GraphQL isnt even a database just a query language, SQLite is of course amazing but useful in an entirely different context, mysql/mariadb lack many important features, and mongo...), please back your opinions up because as of right now this seems dishonest if not wrong.
Ash HN: How to become a data engineer?
What kind of skill sets should I pursue if I want to get a job as a "data engineer"?
Well, there is nothing stopping you from printing the books you bought.
I just looked up the realty listing and it says it's 2100 sq ft.
In the summer the bill was < 100. We get a lot of snow up here and I am betting that even though they added insulation the roof leaked ridiculous amounts of heat. I don't live there anymore luckily.
I thought REST didn't define much

It does, it's just at a different level. REST is not a protocol, it's a set of architectural constraints, but it's well defined. Only one of the constraints (code-on-demand) is optional. HATEOAS isn't, since you need it to achieve the Uniform Interface that allows you to decouple the clients from the services.
>Most people out there would rather blame someone else for their problems than take personal responsibility.

And why not? There are 8 billion people out there, and one of you. And tons of people who came before the person was even born and shaped the place one was born in, were responsible for their childhood, designed their education programs etc. And of course others are in power and shape policy.

Who is more likely to have created/sustain the situations affecting someone? Themselves or the tons of others?
Paying market salaries for IT would mean that the people who generate the income for the university/medical system (football coaches through merchandise, doctors through billable services, faculty through grants and teaching) would often be paid less then the personnel they hire. No board of regents will approve this.
I love the idea of this: that there is a place you could go to get a pulse on the opinions of technology professionals regarding the tools they're working with.

So I apologize for the negativity that follows; it's a cool idea, and you've put work into it and made it look very pretty. That being said: unfortunately, without it being backed up by _data_, this is just one person's opinion and ultimately not very worthwhile as is.

Furthermore the presentation of the data along a single axis 'adoption' (or sometimes 'expectation') is even more confusing. Technology comparisons are not helpful plotted on a single variable as the comparator. It also leads to some very bizzare plots where somehow 'mariadb' has more 'adoption' than 'mysql' or 'postgres'
> "It's a downgrading of services and a slap in the face for the customers," said Ho

I'd express my sympathy - but these statements tend to be incorrect and said out of frustration.
Infact, there is a higher probability for improvement in service and customer experience - provided it is maintenance work and the control point decisions are not outsourced. However, if customer-experience depends on cultural experience - the story could be different. And in this case HCL is a reputed organization (not too different from the likes of TCS, Infosys)

> as a way to save $30 million over five years.

Doesn't happen and/or highly unlikely to occur. What happens is: They start saving initially. After some time their costs start rising, but they are still saving. In parallel, the company (to whom they outsourced) starts cross-selling. This new expense doesn't affect the savings figure - afterall they are spending on "something new". Well this "something new" costs higher. Slowly - outsourcers start outsourcing decision making (and sometimes managers get themselves fired). And then the tables turn over. Later the outsourcer is so much dependent that its hard and costly to take jobs back in, because it requires a business-system overhaul. And the company would make sure (by resolving some pain points) that you are not firing them and keep tolerating them.
Nothing specific to India here, it happens with Indian consulting cos and with US-based consulting cos. The only difference is that the latter provides slightly better quality at a 50-80% higher cost.
Java's Binary Search Madness
I would think a trampoline would work even better.
[Disclaimer: I work for Composable] My team and I are working on a project that I would consider a competitor to Airflow. I'm not overly familiar with Airflow, but Composable seems to be fit for a much wider variety of use cases.

In Composable's DAG execution engine, you can pull in data from various sources (SQL, NoSQL, csv, json, restful endpoints, etc.) into our common data format. You can then easily transform, orchestrate, or analyze your data using our built-in Modules (blocks) or you can easily write your own. You can then view your resulting data all within the webapp.

Reading the comments, it seems like Composable supports a lot of the things people are asking for here that Airflow is lacking. Maybe check us out and let us know what you think!

For more information:
Composable Site - https://composableanalytics.com/
Try it yourself - https://cloud.composableanalytics.com/
Composable's Blog - http://blog.composable.ai/
That doesn't work in all cases, certainly not on my Honda.
Slowly we're being phased out of the internet
I have a MacBook Air 2011 with Lion and Safari 6. Today Google released Meet and I can't even know what's that about, their web page won't even show me a welcome page showcasing the features with some cool pics or something, instead I get a blank page saying I am not welcome.

Sadly that same experience has been happening lately in every major website I visit, like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Medium. Sometimes I go to the Develop menu and change my user agent to Safari 7 and now they let me in, WTF? Am I welcome or not?

Some people would say I should upgrade my OS, and even if I would like to do that, my laptop only has 2GB RAM so it would be almost impossible to even open notepad without making it crawl to a halt, while right now from start up to the web it takes less than five seconds. So no, that's not an option, much less buying a new computer.

I am not saying the world should stop progress to accommodate our needs, or that everybody should feel compassionate for poor, insane and plain dumb people like me, I just say it is hard to accept that a perfectly fine computer no longer has access to the modern internet.

We're being phased out, and that's definitely a sad feeling.
I don't think anyone would assume it's a news story. The title presents it as an essay, and new essays get written about historical details.
> Circumventing the Youtube's restrictions is though.

That's exactly my point: it's not.

It may be bad for Youtube's business, but it's not morally wrong. We owe nothing to Google.
... in many places you are not even allowed to setup your own wireless network and connect reauthorized equipment on the university one.
Yeah but after the security geeks tear it apart there will be offshoots... Sandwatch and Burnberger. Better to wait for the sesame seeds to settle before biting off more than you can chew.
SuperHouse Vlog #53: Help the Internet killed my toaster
CIX and MAE-EAST ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East ) were based in Virginia, so it makes sense the first amazon servers (before AWS) would be there.
There's something about cars that leads people who write about them to adopt a wonderfully refreshing and engaging tone. It's like they all listened to Car Talk way back when and took copious notes. You don't see this with other topics.
> I see the point that REST is not perfect, but better than "awful".

:+1 and they are also better than what author advocates. One thing in author proposal that absolutely puts me off is this:

> JSON-Pure APIs (...) have only one response code to confirm proper receipt of a message - typically 200 OK for HTTP.

This is terrible. PLEASE do not design your API-s like this, this will confuse the hell out of all bots, browsers and everyone who depend on status codes (and that's all web clients). Your 404 error pages will be cached and stored in google, redirects will not be remembered, error pages not retried, etc etc.

I don't get the idea of json pure. Author claims that one benefit is:

> All errors, warnings, and data are placed in the JSON response payload.

But REST-ful API doesn't forbid you from returning informative error messages in json. Why not keep old HTTP semantics known by everyone and return json with informative error message?

I also think that author confuses HTTP semantics as defined in actual WEB STANDARDS with purely academic work of Roy Fielding. Meaning of status codes or methods has nothing to do with REST-ful this is just plain HTTP semantics as defined by RFC-s.
Discussed 2 days ago (244 points):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742911
"two principles in mind when building my own systems.

Rule #1: No external dependencies.

Rule #2: Mechanical overrides."
Work hard.
Be strong.
Don't complain.
Maybe RX460.
Which of course tells about the thinking of boards of regents.

Myself, I've often personally hired people who I have to pay more than I get paid.
Can you tell me (honest question) what improves with 4k for games? I mean, for regular stuff you can see more details on the picture, but games usually just render essentially same picture only for larger resolution. And picture with fullhd and modern capabilities is also already pretty smooth, so does 4k bring anything (I guess it can add a bit of smoothness as additional step of AA)? Is it worth the trouble?
You can make the sourcemaps refer to the TypeScript code. I set breakpoints in TypeScript files and step through it all the time.
By NoSQL.
They shut down the enterprise search box. It doesn't matter if its paid or free google isn't going to guarantee much.
Like any other architectural model, REST is good for some things, not for others. Versioning and payload weight seem like weird problems to have, though. Seems like JSON might have been a poor encoding for your use case.

By the way, do you have a link to that work by fishworks?
UCSF is one of the wealthiest medical research institutions in the world. It's stunning they can't support an in house IT staff.

Granted, in my experience University IT staffs are generally pretty awful. Usually, each individual lab will have one or two people with a lot of Linux experience who end up doing all of the actual work.
Always an option but you are still limited by what's available to you. - http://www.tvfool.com
I like it, but it is just your opinion, right? It is strange to have a website for that.
You'll find people get heated about the subject. When strangers & governments stop normal people taking a herb or whatever for their chronically painful & destructive illness it can be frustrating. His friend could end up with cancer due to increased inflammation of the intestinal tract.

Certain groups & governments ignore science for their own agenda. Or they just don't like the sound of it. I mean, when that's the case, fuck them! Really. They're disgusting.
Yes, actually there is. Internal promotions at Alphabet are based on "launching". So these teams launch their products and then Google culls the ones that don't do well in the market.
Java is still not dead and people are starting to figure that out.
Provide up-to-date information in an email sent hours ago with Elixir/Phoenix
MIT Technology Review Redesign Case Study
"University pay is usually topped by sports coaches (and not just head coaches, at many universities numerous assistant coaches make more than any executives at the school and all academic staff)."

Coaches & sports staff at the high level you are referring to, are NOT funded by the university budget. They're funded by specific athletic funds that is from sports revenue & that boosters pay into.

This is not an equivalent scenario - you're basically saying that a University should go set up an IT Booster Fund and have interested parties pay into it in order to pay these market rates - which they wouldn't (would you? I sure wouldn't).

"The other problem with the salary comparison is that Alabama taxpayers aren't paying Mr. Saban, and so his salary doesn't take any money away from professors. One of the benefits to come out of the rampant commercialism of college athletics is that media conglomerates and sneaker companies are willing to pay huge sums for the broadcast and apparel rights. Thus, Mr. Saban will be paid out of Alabama's $70 million athletic budget, with little or no impact on academic departments."[0]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160325043141/http://www.wsj.com...
It's fp16 that they neglect on the consumer cards. On the Tesla p1xx variants they now have full double-speed fp16, which is a great feature for machine/deep learning users. Leaving this out of the consumer cards is certainly annoying.
Your use of that phrase is chilling. I will never be able to view it the same way again.

It sounds so innocuous... "Cultural fit." But wow does its meaning become sinister when used in the context of (illegal) discrimination.
To Uber: Many in Tech Have Gotten Harassment Against Women Right for Decades
Roller coasters have vibrations that trampolines don't.
We have Google Hangouts equipment in all our meeting rooms at Square, and use them for many (most?) meetings. They generally work great.
Binary Reverse Engineering Made Easy
As those like the moto360 watch straps? Or some other type of non-user replaceable straps? It would be better if they weren't with standard lugs
>essentially guaranteed any sentient biological

The evolutionary pressure toward radar or at least sonar is pretty fucking big too (huge benefit) so where's mine?
The fuel fillers are different sizes so to put diesel into a gasoline car you'd have to stand there holding the fill over the fuel port.

(Or have outdated/non standard equipment)
Extracting HTTP from PCAP in Node
That said, there are still good web sites, you can browse them:

http://gnu.org
http://fsf.org
http://stallman.org
http://gutenberg.org
http://cliki.net
http://informatimago.com

Perhaps there's a pattern in there...
Degasolv, a generic dependency resolver for build and devops engineers
> If you're also concerned about read-write SQL injection being used to forge tokens for arbitrary user accounts, you may want to worry instead about the attacker using their access to compromise the filesystem and OS.

I don't get this part. Read-write SQL injection does not imply that the attacker has access to the filesystem. The concern about RW-SQL injection is still valid. If I can somehow protect an attacker from modifying tokens via RW-SQL injection, it is still an improvement, and I may not have to worry about the filesystem being accessed because that may require a non-SQL attack vector.
Until executives of tech companies are convicted for criminal negligence, this will never improve. The current accepted business practices in tech are abominable and criminally reckless. If a company building housing was as negligent in hiring unqualified cheap talent, ignoring reports from engineers about needing more resources or time in deference to business goals, etc, they would be tried as a criminal and face time in prison.

Put some CEOs in handcuffs, lock them in a cage like an animal, and see how quickly companies actually start doing crazy things like mentioning the word 'security' in job listings for software engineers or system administrators or even doing the unthinkable, hiring experienced expensive engineers.
Ben Ryan (designer of the prosthetic arm) has an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to explore the technology further through his startup Ambionics.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/helping-the-youngest-infa...
I'm sure that's true. But it doesn't change my core argument: Every time we write something that reaches a wider audience (social-media-randoms and pseudo-randoms alike), we have an opportunity to stress to the reader that they should check these facts for themselves - either by pointing to data and examples (which my original comment accused our friend grugq of failing to do), or by simply stating to readers that they should be wary of bad travel advice and look into it.

Now that I flesh out my argument, I realise I'm scapegoating this article a bit, and my real lament is that there AREN'T enough accounts and examples of what to do in these awkward border situations. The only commentary I've seen from legal professionals is that there "hasn't been a case" yet, which would flesh out the meaning of the types of demands border agents are allowed to make.

It's a pretty tricky problem. Democracies are good at improving things inside their borders, but that stops -at- the border, and the current situation is the proof. I'm at a loss for now as to how it's going to improve.
I worked in IT at a university for 7 years. I do not see this saving money over the 5 year term. It probably would have made more sense to relocate the IT staff out of the Bay area to a less costly location, but still be in the same time zone and able to be on site if needed. Looking at the map, the university looks land-locked and unable to expand. The idea of getting more office or classroom space by eliminating onsite IT was probably enticing, in addition to the expected cost savings.
Contrast this with the Texas Medical Center (largest in the world [1]) in Houston where the cost of living is dirt cheap.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center
Show HN: Singer – Simple, Composable Open Source ETL
Just let it go.
How ultracapacitors work (and why they fall short) (2011)
Why is this clickbaity, non-technical article from 2016 on the front page of HN?
Hi, I'm the CEO of Stitch, the company behind Singer. Here's our blog post with more information: https://blog.stitchdata.com/introducing-singer-simple-compos...

Singer is an open-source standard for writing scripts that move data between databases, web APIs, files, queues, and just about anything else you can think of. Lots of companies build ETL scripts to move their data, and there's a huge amount of rework that happens from company to company. We believe that developers should spend less time moving their data and more time using it.

We're open sourcing 12 of our integrations (with more to come) so that they can be used in other applications, and we're excited to see what the community builds. Let me know if I can answer any questions.
No.

NVIDIA said the 10-series can only do dual-SLI at most (two cards), nothing more.