skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve already told my partner that, if and when we decide to start having kids, I will probably quit open source for good. I just can’t see how I’ll be able to make the time for both raising a family and doing open source. I anticipate that ultimately this will be the solution to my problem: the nuclear option. I just hope it comes in a positive form, like starting a new chapter of my life, and not in a negative form, like unceremoniously burning out.

I sometimes forget behind a lot of my favourite open source projects there are real life people with real fulltime jobs that aren't related to the projects.
I'm also not clear how this is terribly different from phage therapy, except that it uses a bateria instead of a bacteriophage. (And that there are bacteriophages that target gram-positive bacteria.)
See other side comments - I got the story wrong, the wifi wasn't secured at all.
I don't think I understand what you're saying?
If you present people with several options, they'll be biased towards selecting options in the middle of the range. This is particularly relevant to SaaS startups and pricing plans; but in the article the author was using it to steer the decision maker towards the option he had already determined to be optimal.
I just looked at the meaning of life. That's unlikely to work with many "hosted" APLs because of the use of eval, which is a security concern in an online REPL.

However, if you remove the execute you can still get a string version:

⊖⍕⊃⊂|⌊-*+○⌈×÷!⌽⍉⌹~⍴⍋⍒,⍟?⍳0

42

You can paste this into the REPL at TryAPL.org.
I can't get the rotating rays one to work. Just stays stationary. All others are fine.
Rix: The Power of C Language and the Convenience of a High Level Language
This implementation shows you where the mines are!

This will be so useful for actually helping me understand how Minesweeper works - theoretical explanations just make my eyes glaze over more often than not.
Craig Venter, Clyde Hutchison and Daniel Gibson produced a minimal genome in a relatively short period of time and even transplanted it. This was a "bottom up" approach in which all of the DNA was synthetic. This is a trivial thing for this team now. As you mentioned, when synthesis costs drop dramatically, things will get interesting!
Like we have with drugs over the last half-century?
I don't miss features I just miss refinement.

As a app developer who wanted to build an app which challenged what a mac can do with regards to productivity I had to basically leave the mac app store because they made it impossible for me to make it work in Sandbox mode.
I don't know if this helps, but reading up on backwards and forwards compatibility can get you in the right direction. The same concepts apply, but the details may very. For API interfaces read up on or think through best practices around overloading old fields, adding new fields, removing old fields, making them optional. I remember Acro had a "schema evolution" doc that talks through some of these concepts and they may apply to things you care about. For databases, I've seen updates staged as pre-commit, post-commit, and rollback patchs. Pre-commit modifies the database in a backwards compatible way -- for example adding new fields and mutating old fields into them if necessary. Code would be pushed live and could read the "old" or "new" way. After all the code is rolled out and there's high confidence the post commit would cleanup things left behind only for backwards conpatabaility reasons. Rollback only operated on pre-commit, post commit may be destructive.
Market rent would likely be established through a cap rate of assessed value. So I'm assuming it's not really that much harder to do. Works out to around 30% higher than Vancouver's tax.

The problem with Vancouver's system is they determine vacancies through a survey. If you lie, you pay a severe penalty. However, they have a track record of not enforcing anything.

For example, the city has a law preventing the use of a home for an AirBnB full-time without a B&B license. Only 56 B&B licenses have issued in the metro area, and there were more than 2,570 listings that violated that rule at last check. City's response to our article was they have no idea how to figure that out...we offered the bot that cross references it and they said no thanks.
This isn't a drafted policy proposal. Tax laws are a little more refined than "tax houses". The tax would obviously be progressive and targeted at cities, to avoid affecting the poor, retired or rural.

You're arguing against a strawman of a concept I'm not even a real fan of. There's no need to attack via the fallout of flawed implementations. If you disagree with the fundamental concept that's valid, but it needs to be disproven on a fundamental basis.
Acro == Avro
> Yet just about everyone uses local FS with cloud for backup or sharing of a small subset.

In most cases, not because they want to, but because that's how current software works. Both Dropbox and Google Drive focus on having their own special folder that gets synced; syncing the OS desktop and documents folders is possible but only with special configuration (on both Windows and macOS).

Cloud first makes perfect sense no matter how much or how little storage you have. It prevents you from losing data if your device is lost or damaged, and if you have multiple devices it allows accessing all your data from any device. If anything, its usefulness depends more on internet connection speed.

I do think Apple's specific cloud storage offerings could be improved for large devices. Currently the highest tier of iCloud storage is 2TB, which costs $20/mo; that's only twice as large as my MacBook Pro's SSD, and fairly expensive. But it's the same price/GB as both Google Drive and Dropbox, so it can't be that much of a ripoff...
Is that true? A superconductor magnet needs to be cooled down to temperature (say 4K), but does it generate heat once operating? Seems like heat would come from resistance in the coil, but this resistance is zero when at operating temperature.
I couldn't agree with you more on this statement. Said exactly as I feel.
Then comes the nightmare of getting rid of someone who pays (because got want to, for some reason, like having a friend renting your flat).

Basically, it is impossible. Strictly impossible during theft compulsory 3 years rent contract and almost impossible after if the renter does not want to leave.

If you want to sell the flat, good luck as week : not possible during the rent period (except with the renter in the package) and you have to give the renter priority in any case.
I bet the other people in that room feel equally proud of their great contributions to society.

For the rest of us they are just bureaucrats producing thousands of pages of regulations dictating how we should live. And we pay their salary.
> Take a look at Sierra: the only feature of note is Siri, which is half-baked as it is, and the things that did get ported over from iOS are half-done too.

I agree 100% with your point. If you want pointless changes to the OS that means you have to relearn a lot just to keep doing what you were doing, then yes, Microsoft is what you want.

If you want small incremental improvements that don't move around common functions for no reason, then stick with Mac OS.
Is it? If markets worked perfectly, possibly, but they don't.
Drag'n move HTML element with ClojureScript and re-frame (+ live coding set up)
> If you try to find more affordable housing by living further from the city, you start hating your life as you commute the 2+ hours in. It's like trying to live in Walnut Creek and work in SF. It can be done, but why?

The answer to this is to pressure companies to move their offices out to the suburbs.

One of the reasons why Texas still has affordable housing with good commutes is because a lot of companies have abandoned the traditional central business districts and moved into boomburbs and edge cities.

I live in the burbs, and of the four jobs I've had here, I've commuted farther out into the burbs for three of them (with a 15-20 minute commute by car). The one company I worked for that had offices downtown was the most poorly-run company I've ever worked for; them having offices in a place where no other tech company has offices was the least of my problems with them, but I did think "what tech company in Dallas makes people commute downtown?" when I was working there.

Why are people in Toronto's suburbs not just working in the suburbs? Is it because the businesses there are still stuck in the old model of having all their offices downtown? If so, let's throw huge financial incentives at them to get them to move their offices to the suburbs.

I've been mulling around an idea for a while of placing massive tax penalties on companies that hire people to work in a different county from where they live. Let's make employers pay ten times the income tax on every employee that lives outside the county where they work, and at the same time make it illegal for companies to make a current employee move or discriminate against a potential hire based on where they live. This will make them relocate to where their employees actually live. Or at least get them to switch as much of their workforce to remote as they can. I'm fine either way.
Real-World Tips for Striking a Good Work Life Balance from HubSpot
So let me get this straight - science can't currently beat flipping a coin in terms of predicting the weather more than 2 days in advance, but he can accurately simulate space weather for many years and how it will affect other planets?
Yes, .NET Micro Framework is a thing.

Also what's notable is that it was opened up in 2009--a full five years before all the hubbub about core and corefx. And it's under Apache 2.0, so if any organization has any problems swallowing the terms of MS's patent grant on .NET Core, they have a more palatable option.

http://netmf.github.io
> I felt euphoric, not from intoxication, but from serenity.

How, exactly, does one tell the difference between light intoxication and serenity?
> C# was professional even when it only supported Windows (and partially FreeBSD), before Mono came along...

As well as the decade-plus when Mono existed but wasn't owned by Microsoft, making cross-platform support merely incidental or even a negative from Microsoft's perspective.
I 'm kind of more confused at everyone's seeming aversion to learning. Friends ask me why I go through the trouble of running Windows and Linux side by side with virtualization, or why I'm bothering to write my own blog site in python when Wordpress exists; why are you going the long way?

The answer is always "Because I'm learning cool new shit and enjoying myself".
So, let's see now: a man is going free who should probably be going to jail for a long time, because the state doesn't want to disclose the methods of gathering evidence against him, which we can speculate are because they are illegal or sourced from non-law-enforcement agencies. A case with near-identical facts and the same judge _is_ going to trial and, not content with tapping your email, the state now wants to put viruses on your computer.

It's hard to point to anything in this story that resembles "How the world should be".
When I say small online business, I was thinking more along the lines of drop shipping or novelty items from china which you can resell. There's a big difference between the effort required for a startup and populating a shopify account...

If you're after no effort at all, then investment is probably the best advise you would get. But that does carry some risk. As always, the risk/reward ratio...
You want Apple to make their own CPUs?
Once Upon A Time in America should have been a trilogy, it's yet another movie that was undone by its length and the time it was released. Blade Runner is another one that should have probably been spread over two or three movies.

Sometimes I wonder what film history would look like, if only movie directors, producers and distributors had accepted the serial format earlier. It took the success of Return of the Jedi to make it acceptable to spread a story over multiple features, and even then it was considered just a geek thing until Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings saga. Now Marvel keeps scoring hit after hit with the biggest shared-continuity universe in the business, auteurs have embraced serialization with high-quality TV series, and it's only a matter of time before someone starts purposefully making non-genre continuity-linked trilogies.
They were divested of this for good reasons.

http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/30739/is-there-a-... is a good starting point
UNICORN MEAT? Useless Web ||Weird or Confusing||
AnyDSL: A Framework for Rapid Development of Domain-Specific Libraries
There is no reason to ever use URL shorteners on HN... unless you are trying to misdirect people. Smart people won't even click on a shrouded URL from a stranger.
Carpenters roofers painters and plumbers are safe. This "printed house" seems to have required lots of hands. It is also so small that any reasonable team of humans could have built it in as short a time.

A better approach would be to have the robot print the concrete forms, allowing for humans to erect and fill them on the site. That might actually save on manpower.
I believe the translation of |/0(0|+)\ is ⌈/0,(0⌈+)\
Even if there were a set of VMs per customer (and all the scaling per customer overhead that goes along with that), a carefully crafted exploit would still reveal details for that customer. Then it'd be a matter of enumerating all of the customers you were interested in exploiting, which would make it easier to get data for a specific target.

The operational overhead of VM/Container isolation for the cartesian product of customer + service sounds like it'd be extremely prohibitive. It's certainly a tradeoff, but to claim it's saner is missing all of the other costs associated with such a system.
There is weather, and there is climate. The latter we have very good models for, the former is notoriously difficult to predict.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_we...
If you're looking to creates something that sounds like it came from the mid-70s, you can either try to fiddle with a bunch of different settings in your DAW of choice to simulate the distortion that a reel to reel provides, or you get a reel to reel from the 70s and not have to worry about if it sounds right for the era/emotions you're trying to catch.

A console like this? It's probably going to end up as the centerpiece of someone's collection, much like Nathan Myhrvold's Difference Engine. It'll be well loved, admired, but rarely if ever actually used. I'd love to be proven wrong though, and have it end up being used as a console for a boutique studio for its unique sound. There's a ton of studio equipment that's kept around "just in case" because sometimes what you're working on calls for something out of the ordinary.
Doubles on my Intel give correct answer too, but change the exponent used everywhere to 8 and you'll see the problem. Gustafson may have used different implementation of IEEE 754 that gave him different result.

There are problems with repeatability of float operations such as loss of precision when moving value from registers to memory and data alignment issues, but it seems that these can be avoided with proper compiler options, at the expense of speed.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/run-to-run-reprodu...
The difference is that the dumb phone can be thrown away and replaced - not many people can afford to use iphones as burners..
It is a very well known problem in France. Tenant protection absolutely bonkers here. It actually hurts people looking for apartments as well... you have to earn triple of the rent, you have to give up all of your personal information (e.g. Three years of tax returns) AND have two people to sign a contract that they will pay if you stop paying (all of this is in additions to insurances the landlords already have from banks). As somebody without a family in France to vouch for me, is has been a total hell to rent a place here every time.
A PC (yes, true, technically Macs are now PCs, but they're still special PCs, or at least Apple says that) has mainly the advantage that it's cheaper while being faster. Now, to be fair, I don't like to use laptops (they're slow, limited and annoying), so I mostly refer to desktop hardware (best bang/buck ratio, easy to make very, very silent, very fast, easily extended).

Quarrel over operating systems is pretty pointless, if it doesn't run natively, slap a hypervisor on it and run whatever you like in a VM; for me that'd be a Linux or BSD, I'm not really opinionated there (although certain things run faster in Linux due to experience).

(Obviously I don't grok the laptop lifestyle, I don't understand the "work everywhere" mentality, in fact, I don't want it at all. It's called work place for a reason - at least for me. I do have a laptop (or half a dozen, who has time to keep record?), the mainly used one is a Getac unit with a carrying handle that weights ~3 kilos or so; at least it's silent, has a superbright screen and a battery that's larger than most ultrabooks by volume ;)
A few remarks/questions

> Stop using disk-on-keys

never heard that phrase

> Buy at least 2 or 3 domain names

I don't really understand the whole paragraph - or fundamentally disagree with your reasoning. Of course there are some upsides (regarding security) of splitting stuff over a few domains but there's a lot of reason why you wouldn't do that. I think this is written too harshly as "Do as I say" without proper explanations and nuances of the details.

> Monitor your endpoint's public certificate expiration date, to detect prevent certificate expiration.

typo? missing "and"? remove "detect"?

> By default AWS users choose Oregon (us-west-2).

Highly misleading. Or is your advice only relevant for US companies? I'd also say this is false for many people who have an international market leaning towards Europe, not Asia - then us-east is often better.

> Using git would allow you to add outsource/freelance developers for a limited time, by giving and then revoking commit permissions.

Non-sequitur unless you insert "easily". Maybe. I don't disagree that git is the way to go, but your reasoning is nonsensical here. We did exactly that with CVS and SVN 15 years ago.

> Every service you use requires a 2nd authentication factor (2FA).

This is under "your first customer". Was this meant to be "should require"? Are you talking about the XaaS you (the company) are using? Are you advocating that your users use 2FA with your product?

> Antivirus

No, don't.

All in all some good points, but could use some clean up. You're lumping things together from varying degrees of technical expertise - also some paragraphs are highly detailed (and thus, sometimes miss to convey the bigger point) and others are pretty sparse.

Sorry if this sounded like complaining, there were (very) few points where I strongly disagree, but overall a good overview. I probably would've split it in at least 2 parts - e.g. for a CEO (overviews, less details, but more fields) and CTO level (technical stuff, with details).
So we should just trust you?
I'm definitely biased!

Criticism is welcome but it should be substantive and you should try to understand what you're criticizing. All you've done so far is repeat the leading generic objection without apparently realizing how common it is, or that the current thread originated as a (highly) substantive answer to it.
Someone would be dismissed if they said Manhattan, London, Paris, and Rome are in a bubble. It's just accepted that only the rich can buy there.

Toronto's housing situation is called a "bubble" because it's transitioning to a similar, global city status, and a lot of people are having a hard time facing that owning a house there is not meant for them.

I live in High Park. In a one bedroom apartment. I see for sale signs everywhere plastered with 'sold above asking!' labels.

The cold reality in Toronto is that it's just supply and demand. There are a handful of houses, and a handful of people with the resources to buy them and live in this beautiful place.

For the rest, take the GO train.
I mean part of that is what kind of tech CEO wants to live in Kansas? They want to live in NYC or SF or maybe Seattle. The companies are sometimes built where they want to live, sometimes relocated but in the end people like cities.
I have seen the 4hr cut a few times. I still regard it as one of the best movies I have seen. The move stays with you.
K does a thing (like J I think?) where it's scan/reduce returns each subsequence/intermediate-value as it goes which is what makes that problem so trivial in K.
You don't really have to expand it for typical day-to-day operations - everything of interest is in the context menu.
It seems they do include wiring.
Sure, that's a valid question to ask. But imagine you have 1,000,000 customers. Now you have to calculate and manage scaling groups for 1,000,000 customers * number of services. The resourcing costs alone would be outlandish, not to mention trying to independently scale each customer. Perhaps container systems would make this easier, but do they have better memory isolation? Is it possible for a container process to overrun into another containers memory without an exploit in the container system?
> And the two teams I worked on that use slack killed productivity by chatting all day and sending animated gifs.

That sounds much more like a people problem than a technology problem, if that's how they chose to spend the majority of their time on the job.
The Economics of Status (2006)
> You'd probably do better if you spent more time in learn mode instead of in angry mode.

And you'd probably do better if you weren't condescending towards other people's experiences and preferences.

You say the Settings app is great, yet it's not great enough to replace the control panel? Redundant settings abound between the two?

There are many reasons to want to disable Cortana-not just turn it off, because it doesn't actually turn it off.
My casual observation: most commuters don't use a laptop in the train. Those who do, mostly Windows. Apples seem fairly rare, as in, every 20th unit or so.
The technology originated from web. It uses javascript, React, babel, flexbox, etc.
I don't think this is true for DigitalOcean. I believe you have to destroy your VM ("droplet") in order to stop being charged. If it's just powered off, you're still billed for it. You can take a snapshot, destroy the droplet, and restore the snapshot later, but there is a small monthly charge for storing snapshot images as well.

edit: The DO FAQ (https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/genera...) says:

"Am I charged while my Droplet is in a powered-off state?

Yes. Your diskspace, CPU, RAM, and IP address are all reserved while your Droplet is powered off. If you want to save a Droplet for future use take a snapshot of it and then destroy it. You'll be able to create a new Droplet from the snapshot image anytime to bring it back online."
It's actually astonishing how much good concrete costs. You can barely fling $20 bills off a stack as fast as the truck is pouring $20 worth of concrete into your foundation.
There's no good evidence that many of these supplements make it past the blood brain barrier (besides caffeine obviously). Even if you could just eat GABA, there's no reason to think it would make you calmer, since there are cells in every part of the brain that use GABA. It's like saying you can make your computer better by adding more electricity.
A good scientist would not believe results with an N of 1, especially when the subject is also the experimenter and very much wants positive evidence for their hypothesis. The context from other commenters makes me even more doubtful. You might have the best of intentions but it seems like your supplements have inhibited the skeptical regions of your cortex, including the self doubt area of the inferior parietal sulcus (look it up)