skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes -- my rant above wasn't intended to be a value judgement, just more of an observation of the facts. On the other side, it is possible to change what you love. I used to not like tomatoes, but I got tired of taking them off a burger -- so I trained myself to like tomatoes. Also, got tired of throwing out buttermilk (that I'd buy to make biscuits), so I learned to like that too (so I'd drink it before it went to waste). On the tech side, there's been many times that I've preferred one technology, but hated another. But by working towards it, I've become fairly good with things that I previously despised (such as Oracle databases, or Windows API). The trick is to try to find something that you like about those things. Find beauty in even the ugliest of nasties. It is just an approach to life.
I'm guessing here, but considering how much value is lost just driving a car out of the show room, even a six month old repo'ed car is going to go for, what, maybe 50% it's original sale price at auction.

Whoever reposses the cars isn't interested in sitting on them for weeks to wait for the right buyer at the right price.
It would be if he wasn't a demented narcissist. His inability to ignore even the smallest trifle that casts him in negative light shows the extent of his mental illness.
> Locating the actual target of the money is also potentially difficult.

You'd almost always want it to go to appropriate foundations (501(c)3 or equivalent), not individuals, except when supporting projects that really only have a single developer and no organization behind them. That also makes it easier for companies and individuals to give, since they can deduct it from their taxes.
This could be the creepiest home security robot yet
I was being a little cheeky there implying that the moderators don't want the users to know if they're manipulating the votes.
Android feels like another world even if you know java and are used to GUI development in higher level languages. Even for java android is particularly reliant on tooling, to the point where if the IDE screws up it's easier to recreate the project and copy the files in than it is to debug the tooling.

In contrast, java with something like swing (not something that I would recommend learning BTW) would feel pretty familiar to you.
Yes, Jade and I are taking Caltrain. CF is right next to the SF station so it works. I have yet to find out if spending 1.5 to 2 hours on the train every day will drive me crazy. :)
>"And seriously unless you are a Nobel prize winner yourself there is no point in judging others."

I didn't see the OP was judging anyone but describing a type they perceived was only interested in development as a stepping stone to something else.

In fact you yourself seem to be completely judgmental and also condescending telling someone:

>" ... you haven't met a huge amount of people to make that assumption, or have interacted with people in other great places to work"

You seem to have no issue passing your own judgement however by telling someone that their opinion is "degrading this forum." That's a pretty rotten thing to say.
Android Hamcrest intro
Yeah, I got to see that first hand at my last company. Very difficult to judge someones capabilities without some technical test or something.
App-wide support for 100% native navigation with an easy cross-platform interface. For iOS, this package is a wrapper around react-native-controllers, but provides a simplified more abstract API over it. This abstract API will be unified with the Android solution which is currently work in progress. It also fully supports redux if you use it.

It sounds to me, after reading the above and googling "React Native" for <10 minutes, that this library handles the UI navigation for mobile phone apps written in React Native, and it does so in a way that allows your code to work across multiple operating systems (presumably iOS and Android). This library is also compatible with redux, a very popular state manager.
> If your final destination is Mexico or Canada, then a visa waiver might not be an option, even if you'd otherwise be eligible, because the visa rules classify some travel within North America as not leaving the United States, If you have a one way flight or stay for more than 90 days, you may need to get an actual visa; it may be easier or cheaper to just avoid the stop in the USA.

This is crazy! So if were to stay for an extended period in Mexico, and my plane happens to transit in the USA on the way, I will become an overstayer in the USA?! Despite only staying a few hours there.
I like the cut of your jib. I am wondering, though, how does one keep current without spending copious off hours, when there's no way to learn anything not relevant to work on the job?
I was interning at a pretty successful software company in The Netherlands. I have never heard anyone there discuss about whether to use Arrays or LinkedLists.

In the binary education system in The Netherlands there are two types of universities, that which prepare people for industry jobs and that which prepare people for research. I went to both, the former has only a small focus on algorithms, complexity and datastructures. The latter has specific courses about those topics.

I think in practice you can often reach good enough performance without worrying about which algorithm or datastructure to use or what the complexity of your code is. There are many exceptions where those kind of skills are actually required, but it's easy to forget that software is a huge market and that a large portion of that market is people developing fairly uncomplicated applications.

You can create an incredible amount of value in the software industry without knowing much of computer science, but you are dependent on people who actually have that knowledge to create your tools, dependent libraries, used services, etc.
I love making art. That doesn't mean that people are willing to pay me for it enough for me to afford the living that I desire.

Enough with this "do what you love" mantra. It's terrible advice that leads to perpetual career dissatisfaction. If it were so damn fun, then they probably wouldn't be paying you to do it because other people would be willing to do it for free.
Don't they just auction the place with no reserve? That's what I though happened to repossed houses. I could be wrong here.

Chances are someome will take out a new loan with one of the big banks to finance their new purchase. The bank gets to keep all the money already paid in by the original lender anyway.
Show HN: Bulk clone GitHub repositories for a specific user/organisation or team
Undefined / don't care states also allow for simpler physical implementations. For those whom did EE/CS undergrad might remember Karnaugh maps.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/us-borrowers-are-paying-more-...

> Average monthly payment: $503 — the first time the average auto payment has gone over the $500 mark.

> Average term for an auto loan: 68 months — this is the longest average term ever seen by Experian.
The Bet (1889)
At least when you clean up shit you're boss can tell.
I try to read Godel's Proof once a year or so. You might also be interested in Gregory Chaitin's Meta Math! The Quest For Omega, which relates the halting problem (among other things) to Godel. A word of warning though, the book is rather idiosyncratic, as you might have seen from the title.
I think you're misunderstanding. The problem is not that there are very good people to be second to, it's that people are cargo-culting on their observable characteristics and thus mis-valuing people.

One doesn't become Erdős just by carrying around math books and sleeping on couches all the time, after all.
Your hostile tone is not lending any credibility to your argument.

I'm a native English speaker. In retrospect, I see how the title is supposed to read - but that is not how I initially read it - and it took me several times to actually realize that 'claims' was not the verb.
This is conjecture on my part but to your point: some have suggested that the minority fork change its proof-of-work algorithm, to prevent attacks from the majority fork.

I would also point out that miners are heavily incentivized to keep the network valuable. If 80% of the miners got together and decided that transactions need a signature from the PBoC or an output to the IRS before being valid, everyone would sell, the price would plummet, and the miners will be left with a bunch of inefficient heating equipment and no more revenue. Miners need to stay engaged with the users if they are to force any kind of change onto the network, lest the rewards they get from mining turn to dust.
Who is that Neural Network?
I didn't say nobody could talk to industry. See points 2-4.

If, e.g., the FCC believes they need input, they can ask. I expect that regulators would get in the habit of requesting quite a bit of information on a regular basis.

If trade associations would like to get Congress to attend to an important issue, they can call up a newspaper reporter and try to interest them in an article. And note that there's nothing stopping an individual citizen from calling up a representative and saying, "I'm an airline pilot, and I am concerned about urgent issue X!"

Lobbying is an arms race. The best solutions to arms races is to limit to the lowest sustainable level. And it's important to note that lobbyists are not just competing with other lobbyists. They're competing with everybody who can't hire a professional lobbyist. That is, the majority of America.
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Actually I'm not sure we are referring to the same thing here.

I'm referring to pid1 inside the docker container. systemd does not run inside the container as pid1 very easily.

Take a look at this - https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/13525

I think your presentation was about replicating docker functionality using systemd-nspawn...Which pretty cool...But it's not the same as what I'm talking about.

I'm referring more generally to production decisions with docker. Also read this https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zomb...
> I liked Leland's metaphor of calling apps like Airbnb which started out without React Native as "brown field" development and calling apps that start out as React Native "green field" development.

FWIW those are pre-existing industry terms (not React Native or mobile specific)
> If nuclear scientists goof like this, it does not inspire confidence to the public and all we will end up is projects like Shoreham.

To be fair, the claims were made by grad students. Good on them for experimenting, hoping, testing, and failing. The true calamity would have never been to test.

Their failure is not a reflection of their character, ambition, or talent. Well perhaps a little bit their talent. But they could've done like many (most, arguably) grad students and worked on some fundamentally useless but "safe" path to ongoing work in the Ivory tower.

So let's hope they keep trying to identify and test the hard problems whose resolution would improve life for humans, and do better next time.
You could pull them to the right of the main text: there's plenty of room. :)
I didn't know you could already do this for a living. Care to share what kinds of smart contracts?
It's night and day :) The MS store is always empty. It was even empty when the apple store closed for months to expand and renovate.
"Privacy? Avoiding malware?"

Neither. Those benefits are only side effects.
IPFS 0.4.7 changelog: “Add support for private IPFS networks”
I've never met this person. But he raises two interesting points:

First, that "ex-Apple is hard." Is it? The only ex-Apple people I've met have been founding their own companies, clearly resting on FU money. They don't seem to have it hard.

Second, that his friends still at Apple aren't answering him either---so maybe something else is going on?
people need to end this ridiculous obsession with fission for energy. solar and wind. thats all we need. all the nuclear stuff should be limited to research. when fusion is ready then we can do that. solar, wind and batteries are here and ready to go. they are already rolling out. anything else is a complete distraction and waste of time. im so fucking tired of this.
The pun is fine. The noun/verb confusion on 'claims' is an issue.
Help My computer thinks Samwise Gamgee is a drug trafficker
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I also am interested in this story.
Not that this applies to this case, the guy was an ex-programmer, not just poor, but you're getting downvoted for raising a good point.

It's one of those cases of "you don't know what you don't know". Yes anyone could get a raspberry pi and become a web developer, but they have no idea it's a profession, let alone a relatively easy one to get in to. Even if they've heard of software developers, it's likely in the context of an entrepreneur in far off silicon valley, not in their community.
That is a somewhat reasonable answer. The reason that I don't consider it exactly correct is that the original claim was:

"Uber passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips."

What you have calculated is that Uber passengers paid 78.8% of the cost of operating the company in 1H2015.

The cost of operating the company isn't the same thing as the cost of all their trips. The company does a lot more than provide trips.
From TFA: "Uber Technologies Inc.’s app remains available in Helsinki -- there’s no law against it as is the case in other cities around the world -- but drivers are required to have a permit, which few drivers have, according to the police."

TL;DR: App is legal, most drivers are not.
Super late reply, but I just wanted to correct myself. I don't have a /64 on DO. I was confusing my DO config with something else. I'm sorry about that. You are correct.
Don't Be a Greedy Trade Chaser
Federal, state and local agencies (including DMDC and OPM) need HIPAA-like data controls to gate access, collection and processing of identifiable personnel information. Copies to mobile devices should also be expressly prohibited.
> molten salt reactors don't exist (yet), so how could they melt down?

Yes they do.

> Plus, why would a reactor be claiming that it's melting down?

Maybe they were lying before? It's definitely confusing, but the title parses correctly that way, so it's not obvious that a different word is the verb.
Although a little more business and history than theory, I really like the oral histories at the Computer History Museum...you might enjoy listening to them.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85u...

As for books, check out SICP:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Why place any weight on Trump's wiretap claim? He was one of the loudest voices in the "birther" movement.

That he's now president doesn't mean his self-serving crackpot conspiracy theories suddenly deserve credit.
> The Transportation Department is withholding $647 million in federal grants for a $1.9 billion project that would modernize and increase the capacity of Caltrain. About 65,000 people use the rail line every day to commute between San Francisco and San Jose

OK. Just thinking out loud here. $1.9 billion. 65,000 people per day. That's about $30K per person.

In other words, you can almost buy a Tesla Model 3 for each person. Yet, that would not deal with congestion. Scratch that idea.

Is this a point-to-point route? Are most of those people going from San Jose to San Francisco or are there a ton of stops in the way?

Next thought is: How many electric buses could one purchase with that money? At $400K each, 4,750 buses. That's a lot of eco-friendly buses!

OK, but, how many do we need to move 65,000 people per day? Well, if all 65,000 want to go at once, about 1,625 buses. And that would cost $650 billion, or 1/3 of the $1.9 billion set aside for this project.

How would 1,625 electric buses, for 1/3 the cost, affect the region?

Yet, it is probably reasonable to assume we don't need to move all 65,000 people at once.

In looking around it seems reasonable to assume around 2,000 riders per hour on average. If we go with 10,000 (why not?) we would need 250 buses. Now our equipment cost is down to $100 million.

BTW, if we switch to natural gas buses that cost goes down to $62.5 million. Not saying this is the best option, just providing comparative data.

I am not going to reach any conclusion here. Just exploring very, very rough numbers quickly. I think this would only work well if the bus riders are "long haul", meaning they don't have to stop at every freeway off-ramp and navigate surface streets to pick-up and drop-off people.

One could use check-in/out to optimize bus routes. Don't stop where nobody wants to get on/off.

There's a lot of space between $100 million and $1.9 billion. That's 19 times more taxpayer money spent. Is this sensible? Does it survive mathematical analysis more strict than my quick 10 minute think?

On the one side I think I'd rather spend $100 to even as high as $500 million on an electric powered bus infrastructure. Why? Because this would be a huge shot in the arm for that industry and the consequences could ripple throughout the nation. Bus prices could go down from the current $400K, new technologies could be spurred into existence and electric vehicle adoption across the board (passenger cars) is likely to see gains as well.

My numbers could be completely off the mark, I know. That said, on an admittedly very flawed first inspection, I would not be surprised if investing a few hundred million on a next-generation electric bus transport system might be better than dumping 19 times more money on rail.

I doubt this approach would make any sense at all in a place like Los Angeles, but this Caltrain case might be unique.

I'd rather invest in the future whenever possible.
This is not a physics engine. It's a springy/ease-friendly ui engine.
I'm just saying I don't think the "There is no right answer" statement works here because there seems to be one right answer to me.
Nuclear has many benefits over solar and wind. I'm not a nuclear proponent, but in certain scenarios (especially ones outside our atmosphere), nuclear makes sense.
I don't know what ADA is in this context (misspelling of NDA maybe?), but hopefully this means that the next time they run the course -- in 2018 -- they will avoid those violations and be able to distribute video recordings.
I actually didn't read the section "Why Learn Computer Science" because my own bias saw this as a rhetorical question :)

Now I feel silly. Thanks.
In my experience so far, there seems to be a line which demarcates the strong performers from the weak ones: an awareness - a basic, bare-bones understanding, if you will - of relevant theory.

A sysadmin or someone in devops, for example, obviously there's minimal benefit for them to understand the ECDSA protocol, and to an extent you don't even need to know how SSH key exchange works. But being aware of them: the role of the private key and the public key, what purpose they serve and the generic high-level overview of their role in SSH - that is information someone in that position would benefit from.

For a systems/app developer, yeah, you probably don't need to understand the theory behind how GC works in Java/Python/Go or the intricacies of DNS records, but when you start seeing heap size errors, weird pause times, or network connectivity issues, simply being aware of all of those things means that you know where to start looking.

I'm 100% with you - there's a limit, and as with all things, you have to prioritize. But every time I see this discussion come up, there's always this push back: "street skills over book smarts!" And there's always this undercurrent that the book smarts matter but ugh why do people care so much and there's never any talk of a balance: knowing what book smarts you might one day need to supplement those street skills.
I've seen "it's the 3DS OS, but maybe rewritten" several times now.

I'm interested to learn more about this. Not for any practical use (well, maybe hacked Pokémon), but just to understand the choice. I naively figured this would be locked-down Android, but it's neat to see that it's FreeBSD + something.
I think they are talking specifically about the rules regarding the visa waiver program. If you stay within North America for greater than 90 days you require a visa to enter the USA even if you'd otherwise be exempt.
theres a really cool dude on youtube who makes programming videos -- he will implement a raycasting engine or crack old games or do whatever. one very common comment is "why are you not a programmer when you can program so well" and his answer is really interesting. he used to to write web apps but the deadlines were so stressful that he decided to be a bus driver instead. where he lives the government will retrain you and find you a job if you decide to switch (i think he lives in scandanavia) so he did it. apparently hes way happier now.
I used the Canadian Express entry system and migrated to Canada within months. I hope & encourage every talented immigrants in the US who are being discriminated based on the country of birth (rather than their skills) to follow suit.

Do not trust an immigration system based on lottery. Trust an immigration system like the Canadian Express Entry based on points which do not discriminate a person for his/her country of birth.

Its absurd and plain stupid that the green card quotas are country based for skilled immigrants in the US ! In Canada, even a temporary worker's spouse can work
right from the day they land.

Express Entry is humane & values your skills period.
Perhaps it wasn't clear, bit I was kidding :)
Well, it's definitely not FreeBSD -- that much I can say for certain. As far as any of us can tell, that's solely the network stack. I honestly expected Linux with a custom userspace on top of it, and was quite surprised to see them continue with the custom kernel thing.

We're not talking much about details of the lower levels yet (frankly, we just don't know enough to confidently do so, even if we wanted to put it all out there), but it's almost certainly a fork or (partial?) rewrite.
What you love can change as you move through your life. Sometimes significantly. Investing a couple of decades in something and then finding you're no longer very motivated by it, can be profoundly discouraging.
Thanks for the detailed questions.

1: I'm flexible. Corporate donations are the most problematic, in that they create a feedback loop. If I can lobby for a thing that gets me money, I can use some of the profits to buy more favorable legislation. But I'd be happy with pure public funding of elections, no donations allowed. Or an individuals-only model, where each person has a strong limit, like $250.

2: I left out for-profit corporations on purpose, but I'm sure there's a reasonable case for including them.

3: The same way we police campaign finance, lobbying, public records, and elected official ethics. That is, a variety of groups with investigative power who do their best to root out offenders. You couldn't eliminate everything, but as long as we got the bulk of it and reduced the financial incentives for elected officials to favor donors, I expect we'd do pretty well.

4: In this case by neutral I mean "paid by the government to serve the legislators". Sure, there are risks. But giving legislators their own well-funded research groups means they'll have to lean less on industry-created "facts".

Everything is of course corruptible, but perfection isn't my goal. We're already much less corrupt than most other countries [1], and I'm suggesting that we could do better by limiting or strictly controlling channels of information and money. Those old channels made more sense when we didn't all carry around all the world's opinions and information in our pockets.

[1] http://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percepti...
The organization would in charge of it would be making the claims. What a strange question for someone implying expertise in the language to ask.