skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't lived in one nearly as long, but I find them okay for the most part. I'm a US expat so it took me a bit to get used to the rather compact nature of the apartments in St. Petersburg, but while the outsides of these buildings look like they're begging to be torn down, most people have done some amazing modern renovations with the actual apartments themselves. My partner's mother has a very lovely multi-room apartment, and my only complaint with it is just that the shower room is far smaller than I'm used to.

In SPB at least, new construction is going up as fast as they can do it, and while a lot of it is done in more remote areas (end of Metro lines), there is plenty to support people who live in those areas. Dozens of full grocery stores within walking distance at the base of every complex, bus transit is plentiful and relatively frequent (compared to US bus schedules anyways), and the developers/city do seem to try to create good public places for families, such as playgrounds and parks. I have to echo what a lot of others have said, it's nice to be able to walk through the complexes and not have to worry too much about cars. The complexes closer to the city proper have some difficulty though with cleanliness just because a lot of the gardens and embankments aren't well tended to or the infrastructure built to contain the dirt has finally given out after 60 some years, and no one has bothered to fix it. The city tearing up roads and grass embankments to replace ancient plumbing doesn't help much either.

It's not perfect, obviously - the newer buildings are mostly small one or two room apartments, but they have modern amenities, are wired up with modern network and electrical, and overall look nice.

Don't think they'd ever fly in the US though...just not "personal" enough.
Usually raw. I sometimes steam kale and always blanch broccoli.
Who would have thought building on proprietary standards would lead to vendor lock in?
https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
Website is unusable on mobile. Text falls off right side, horizontal scrolling disabled. How is this still a thing?
> I do have Windows 10 Pro, which other users mention does not show ads.

Pro does show adds (like app suggestions in the start menu or add on the lock screen). Enterprise is the one that doesn't (if you configure it properly).
This sounds like something that could have a potential use for non-hearing-impaired people who have sensory overload issues (e.g. autism).
I find it interesting that ZeniMax wins 500M from Facebook where Carmack works, and then Carmack sues Zenimax and if he wins gets $22M which one would presume they would use some of the $500M for. It is kind of like getting $22M from your own employer the long way around.
Elon Musk has offered to fix South Australia's energy crisis
This.

The UI in Windows 10 is inconsistent and ever changing. Do you have to do something in the flat design portion or in the older Win7 style? It's akin to having to attempt to plug a USB2.0 cable into your computer three times.

I'm so sick of the inconsistency of the GUI that I just pop open PowerShell and gwmi things I want to manipulate.

One example is networking. I have a Windows 8 based tablet that I upgraded to 10. The networking is very iffy when rebooting and I often have to disable it and then re-enable the device in "Network and Sharing Center-->Change Adapter Settings". Trying to do this in the flat design way never works. Now what if I want to manage the list of WiFi networks or prioritize them? There use to be a link in the Network and Sharing Center in the bottom left. Once upon a time you could also click on the icon on your current active network which would then give you an option to manage.) That doesn't work for me anymore. I now have to do that in the flat design "Settings".

I also had to go into the registry to get a full pop-up keyboard. The option to enable it was just greyed out. And upgrading to the Anniversary edition on this 32GB tablet required a full reinstall and very carefully timed insertions/removals of a USB hub. Upgrading to Win10 from Win8 actually shortened the OS support lifetime for many of the 32GB tablets. Continued Win10 support requires updating of Win10...

Combine that with the Metro apps that I've paid money for just disappearing for good from my library, and I wonder why anyone puts up with this?

It was actually easier to do the 32 bit Linux UEFI workaround than reinstalling the Win10 Anniversary update.
Yeah. Trial employment better be paid! :) Even with pay, unfortunately, folks with an existing job often can't take the time off. And when people have the option between one company making an offer and another with a trial period, they often go for the offer (which makes sense). The other issue is that a company can't do a trial period with every person who applies (too much cost for the team), so there has to be screening step in front, which sort of just moves the problem to an earlier level.

I do think trial employment can be a great thing. But it's not a universal replacement.
And the problem is not just to cover everything (I set up a script for that). But also to actively maintain the list for all the new intrusions on every "security" update. This is an absolute waste of my time by Microsoft.
You say you don't want the go tool to be more complex -- but gopkg.in just moves dependency management elsewhere. You have to have it somewhere.

gopkg.in only works properly if everyone uses it. The second you have a non-gopkg.in package, you have no way to manage that dependency.

Does gopkg.in work for non-public libraries?
Why? I could easily imagine a site you could go to to test if your own site works on IE6 or something, it would be useful for some people
So I went looking for any studies about peoples ability to estimate calories, since any under/over estimation compounds either way in terms of results.

It turns out like everything, that's a tricky thing to study. When people are aware that their meals are going to be scrutinised they change what they eat for the duration of the study.

I wasn't able to find a recent study that investigates people's ability to estimate calories and the variance in their estimations.

> You seem to believe that any kind of "back of the envelope" / "ballpark" calculation is useless.

I do think that anything above a "good, bad, not sure" estimate is probably going to be so inaccurate as to not be worth the effort. However the act of trying to count calories itself promotes a mindfulness of what we're eating and that can induce change.
Yea, sure. A country where not so long ago women couldn't vote or own property, no patriarchy there.. Suddenly things have drastically changed and women have complete parity with men in society. /s

She didn't say this was the case everywhere, but I wish it was surprising at all that she would have her experiences dismissed or excused. Seems like it would be easier to criticize that situation and wish it didn't happen again, but so many would rather insist it never did in the first place.
I probably need a hearing aid but I am very reluctant to go for a testing because the last time I had one (very long ago and very far away from Canada, I admit) I thought it was incredibly imprecise: they asked me to press a button when I could hear a sound and I was absolutely unsure whether I heard really something already or just imagined. Is it still so very subjective?
This is just great, the two things missing from Firebase that we kept hacking around were its very limited database querying abilities, and simple hooks around database events. Now one is part of Firebase and the other is more easily hackable than before, closing that little gap would make this the ultimate platform tool.
This was the illusory hope of many of us in the beginning of the IT revolution. Work from anywhere, connected with everybody and the equal distribution of wealth.
OneDrive is free if you have very little data. Microsoft is not pushing OneDrive so proactively just in a spirit of sacrifice to its customers.
How to Simplify Your Prototype?
Web version of same podcast https://changelog.com/gotime/36
SRE Talks from SREcon '16
Another company that shouldn't be allowed to exist.
You're right. Good thing Lou Gehrig owns ALS, and Duff owns Duff's device then.
I'm a Canadian who lived and worked in the US for six years, and my impression on returning home is that Canada is the country you'd get if you took the U.S. and removed the extremes of wealth and poverty.
Rice is way better than processed carbs, no question. I was referring to the parent's point about these meals in India -- the sheer amount of rice in the typical serving size there is okay if one was really physically active (say a farm laborer), but it's completely inappropriate for desk workers these days.

Note: white rice is actually pretty processed as well. You'd be better off sticking to brown rice (less processed, more fiber, lower glycemic index).
Everyone Is Falling for This Frighteningly Effective Gmail Scam
EDIT: I should mention one of my biggest pain points for the way I currently use GCP (as a way to quickly prototype ideas and projects). Databases. There's no free tier on Cloud SQL.

This was my first thought. I'm currently trying to encourage our developers to start thinking cloud-first, and hosted SQL is integral for a lot. The absence of some tiny hosted SQL means that you can't build learning projects on GCP free tier in the same design that you'd use for commercial projects.
Thought this was going to be "problems in STL data structures" not "solving problems using with STL". A better title might be "Solving algorithm problems in C++" as STL isn't really important to the solutions.
> It is probably the fastest pure-Ruby Markdown converter available (September 2014), being about 3x faster than Maruku and about 4.5x faster than BlueFeather.

Last I was regularly programming in Ruby, the yardstick seemed to be RedCarpet. Has this changed?

https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet
This Isn't an Operating System, It's an RPG
Do you have some links? Curious to try it out myself
Deploy with Pulse and deploybot
Schengen Visa for Indians: How to Apply and Get It Yourself
Exactly. But the point is that is a luxury for most people. Having recruiters chase you and being irritated by it lacks some awareness of how hard it is for some people to earn a living. It is hard to sympathize with people for having to ignore a few emails every day.
Always Free Usage Limits
I really would not recommend Azure unless you are going for an all-Microsoft, all-the-time strategy. Their hosted SQL Server offerings have actually been really good, and IMO is one of the best parts of the platform.
Yup - it's still done by that method. Although they do run through multiple frequencies multiple times to try and get consistency.

I know what you mean though ... especially if you suffer a bit from tinnitus, it's sometimes really difficult to distinguish if you are hearing a high freq test tone, or just the tinnitus 'noise'.
Trial employment immediately screens out candidates who do not have the time or patience to spend an entire day working very hard with a prospect. It also introduces an NDA, a need for a sandbox, etc.
Isn't that what they are offering though? How else would you be able to focus at different lengths?
Adversarial infill – generating flowers with deep learning
Aldi has $1 humus
This series of blog posts is also great:

https://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/internals/

I spent a lot of time reading it while working on the mixed-mode Python debugger for Visual Studio (which, coincidentally, supports both Python 2 and Python 3 - they do really share a lot of things). Much of that work involved parsing and writing internal Python data structures directly, since Python interpreter may be unusable when the current instruction pointer is inside native code (GIL not held, various system locks held etc).
Hopefully a certain other President is next.
I believe it is for interoperability with code in these languages, not just familiarity. That said, the BCL also use out parameters in a few places (the TryParse methods) which arguable set a bad precedent.
Fundamental challenge with star rating system is your perception of what counts as 5 star & my perception of what counts as 5 can be very different. It basically comes down to what your personal standards of something 5 star are. I am generally a very adjusting person, so minor glitches might not lead me to move from 5 to 2 star but someone could be more particular than me in which case his 5 star will move to 1 star at slightest issue.
Any good university teaches FP.

That was true in Portuguese universities in the early 90's and it is still true nowadays.

Back then we had introduction to Lisp, Caml Light, SML and Prolog (LP).
It's not wise to start a over a language. Perl6.
Another way of saying that is that journalists are people who have questions.
What's annoying for me--and I'm a Microsoft fan-girl--is that I already pay for OneDrive! So seeing an ad for something I've already bought is double strange.

Overall, I like Windows 10.
I prefer the theory that he lost his wallet and is too embarrassed to come forward.
Any thoughts on Cisco spark? I have yet to see it mentioned in the few threads about hangouts alternatives... any reason for that? Just curious what HN users have against it.
Öğenciler sınav sonrası stres atmanın en güzel yolu
Actually I thank you very much for your comment and criticism. I really appreciate it.

The differentiators are many actually.

- For promoters:

1. They can place the Ad on Facebook or Twitter. Yes I know that it is against their terms and conditions, but I am happy to challenge that. They use the user's content in order to display ads next to it and earn huge profits by it. I don't see why the users should be allowed to earn money as well by advertising what they want.

2. For non social media users: They have 100% control of what is displayed on their blog/webpage. No trackers, not cookies, no third-party javascript, nothing.

3. Much better payouts. HotLinkx keeps only 10% what the advertiser pays. The rest, 90%, go straight to the promoter.

- For advertisers:

1. 100% transparency. They can visit the specific blog/social media account and decide if they want their ad there or not. They can see who is visiting them and exactly from where. They also have the ability dispute clicks. Also no automatic bidding/bidding wars. They have complete control.

2. The ads appear as something coming straight from, and endorsed by, the promoter. Not some automatic ad on the side of the page, that users have learned to ignore.

3. Not proven, but theoretically much lower bouncer rate, since the ad is place in a hand-picked location.

4. Much simpler.

- For end users:

1. By nature the ads are text-only and non-obtrusive. No java-script, no annoying animations.

Do you think these are not enough differences?(Honestly asking)
It doesn't take all or even most of society to make things difficult or worse for some, it only takes a determined few combined with others being ambivalent.
There is one, it's called the anti-commandeering doctrine (no idea what this site is but it covers the background) http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/12/28/states-dont-have-...
Well, nix looks awfully complicated. I've had trouble deploying applications using pip. Npm hasn't given me any trouble.

Bundler is lovely.
I have a paid-for, properly licensed Windows 10 Pro --and I pay for OneDrive--and I saw the ad today!
> However, according to the Wayback Machine, the online version of the story has had a different headline since it was first posted

So... you're saying they didn't change it?

It's common for NYT articles to have different titles in different places; if you go to the homepage and click one of the headlines, the article title will generally be different from the headline. This makes some sense, since there's more space on the article page and it's less important to summarize the entire article when the full text is right below.

For context, Trump fans are alleging some kind of media coverup of the fact that wiretaps recorded certain Trump associates, which supposedly conflicts with denials of Trump's claim that Obama had ordered him or Trump Tower to be wiretapped. It does not; the main difference is between wiretaps recording X and wiretaps targeting X, as apparently at least some of the wiretaps were targeted at the Russian ambassador himself (and happened to record, e.g., Flynn). I also haven't seen reports that Trump himself was recorded in such a way, though for all I know it's possible.
I'd consider Google Cloud because the documentation, tutorials and verbose config (on most services) on AWS are a fairly substantial barrier. Has you ever gone through trying to wire up a Lambda function to talk to a S3 bucket and API getway endpoint? It's not fun.

Strongly agree. I think that using an orchestration tool like Ansible or Cloud Formation is basically essential for AWS, because so many of the services have these interdependencies.

> Even getting ElasticBeanstalk running with Docker isn't really easy.

Yeah, we tried it. Not a great experience, and using an AWS proprietary container hosting system when everyone else is standardising on Kubernetes is not remotely attractive. I'm really looking forward to trying App Engine Flexible and GKE. If we can get really good application container hosting from GCP, then that will be a strong pull to migrating whole stacks.
I've seen heated keypads at ATMs.
MVP vs. MVVM
Why thank you {{recruiter_name}}, I realize that {{spammy_recruiting_company}} is great and that you really go the extra mile for your prospects, I'd love to hear more, but I'm really happy where I am, and as I just started am not actively looking.
This is just the print headline and the online headline not matching. That's normal, because the print headline has tight space constraints. Newspaper headlines are rewritten during page makeup.

The New York Times' own image of their own front page says "Wiretapping".[1] On the same page, there is the story "Trump Arrives, Set to Assume Power". The online version of that story has the longer title "Trump Nominees Make Clear Plans to Sweep Away Obama Policies"[2] Stories may also be cut for length in the print edition, but not online.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/01/20/nytfrontpage/scan.p...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-cabinet...
Yeah... getting called from a resume/profile over a decade old isn't much fun.
There are a lot of housing blocks just like this across the USSR. I've visited a number of them in former East Berlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau). They aren't pretty on the outside, but some have been modernized into higher-end apartments on the inside.

As for the units that haven't been modernized, they're still better quality housing than what you find in lower income neighborhoods in the United States. I wouldn't be thrilled to live in one, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
My experience tells me Airbnb is in big trouble.

Last year around Nov, I tried to book a Lake Tahoe cabin for 2 families (1 is mine, another is a friend's) for a simple trip for our young children.

I booked via Airbnb few days in advanced. The day before driving to Tahoe, we even called Airbnb to confirm that the listing is OK. The host accepted, but didn't answer to any of our questions.

The next morning when we woke up, we packed everything, then out of bad habit, I opened up the app and checked again. I was caught on surprised that the host cancelled, just 4 hrs before our suppose arrival time. We were very shocked and pissed. I was booking for a friend's family and it was very embarrassed. I immediately contacted Airbnb support, and all they call do for me was to give me $100 back for my NEXT reservation. And they couldn't do anything about my existing. I thought they would put a penalty on Airbnb's host who cancelled on us in less than 24 hrs, but they said they don't have such policy. I was upset because I knew they had such policy for the renter. They also mentioned the best they can do is to find me the next 10 houses to book in the similar location, but cost 3x more as it is bit last minute. They did not anything else to help me.

I was very upset and went to Homeaway.com and found something immediately, even cheaper than the original reservation I had with Airbnb.

My story was a clear first-hand witness on how I believed Airbnb failed at customer service, and will be very difficult to become a successfully company.
Aha, that would explain my confusion then >.<
Having done C and C++ across UNIX and Windows, during the late 90's throughout mid-2000's, using the OS vendor's compiler tooling, it was a bit more than just configuration.

For example, back then aCC wasn't even fully C89 compliant.

Of course when one uses the famous trio (gcc, clang, msvc) the world gets simplified a lot.
Elon Musk promises Australia a huge new battery farm in less than 100 days
Mozilla – Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #1
Why's it impossible? You just need the water level in the pool to be lower than sea level to generate bouyancy.
That sounds leisurely.
It's not unusual for newspapers to fiddle with headlines. This one was modified around the time it was published. https://web.archive.org/web/20170120230201/https://www.nytim... (way before Trump's new allegations).
Perfect example of fake news....
Archiving emails was a true game changer.

I often email documents to myself for future reference, even though I'm also uploading them to jira, or a wiki, or a shared drive or whatever.

The one place I know I can always search all the way back is Gmail.
With $1BN Run Rate, Postmates Aims for Profits
Oh for the love of God, adults are trying to have a conversation here. Get out of here with that /r/politics, "there are only two sides and every conversation is about which is worse!!" bullshit. I don't follow the non-policy part of politics closely and don't remember those remarks of Obama's: if they were substantively similar to Chaffetz's, then yes, they were idiotic.

Grow up.
How does WebAssembly become x86?
Articles like this make me miss the old nyt. It was so comforting to have a publication you could trust, a paper of record. Those days are long gone. Nowadays, the constant, desperate obsession with controlling and manipulating the narrative is just so icky.
If you care about privacy you wouldn't use Windows, so spending time trying to disable privacy related features is bizarre to me.
Many AirBnB hosts rent out their primary residence. We rented one for our wedding where the family that lived there just decided to go camping that weekend; if you're income-poor but house-rich, getting paid a couple grand for a camping trip ain't a bad deal. Similarly, we stayed at an AirBnB for our honeymoon in Sarajevo; the place was our host's actual apartment, hand-decorated by her. She stayed with her parents for the weekend; we were paying her about 2 weeks salary in Bosnia for 2 nights there, so it was well worth her time.
Interesting. What is driving you towards Elixir?
Is there something similar that's language agnostic or in Python?
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> Machines are not people, and there’s no persuasive evidence that they are on a path toward sentience.
Chronix: store time series highly compressed and for fast access times
No idea, they don't detail what they send.

The difference is that I don't have a freeing of privacy on a cloud (and especially here it's an automated computer program that's doing the reading, it's not that engineers are reading my emails).
Ubuntu did and got heavily criticised for it by the wider community. So Canonical reversed their decision on opt-out in-OS ads.

For what it's worth, it's easier to switch between Linux distributions than it is to switch from Windows to something else. Ubuntu is only one of literally thousands of desktop Linux's - many of which are forks / reskins of Debian or Ubuntu to begin with, so it was pretty trivial for users to dump Ubuntu in favour of an ad-free Linux. So Canonical didn't really have much choice other than to listen to the complaints.