skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why is it such a nice round integer?

Significant Figures [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/number/round...
Especially for information technology, I don't understand the rationale why it has to be concentrated at certain places. As long as there is a good net connection, it could be anywhere in the world. Let's concentrate on the US for a moment. Why can't a successful startup not be in Dallas, Amarillo, Miami or Des Moines? Talented people already move from one coast to the other, so they could as well move to any other place. The rest of the country's infrastructure is so good that you could connect venture capitalists, founders and customers in any arbitrary way.

I also say to the main point of the articles: rents have a lot of room to grow under the current logic. City centers simply get voided of average earning people and replaced by high earning ones. As soon as they are the average earners, even more wealthy people move in. Also with the rents, salaries go up, so people have the possibility to pay for their accommodation again. While in Berlin you could easily live with 40.000 Dollar/year, you'll probably have to add another 60.000 so people are at least somehow able to move to work for your new shiny SV company.
Wow this is true?

I just heard NZ was doing a state sponsored world-wide call for workers. Is it because people are leaving? Where are they leaving to?
> Being surrounded by people who speak a different language, use a different currency and have a different culture provides a very valuable life experience.

Other than the currency part, we've got that in the US...
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Not sure why this is downvoted.

vscode works very very well for doing what it was intended for. I love using it for web and golang projects. If my work required me to edit 3GB files however I would use something else, probably not a generic text editor.
Also in Argentina.
In 2008 rents didn't drop much. I think landlords will leave places empty before they will drop rents too much.
Creating the same bug in a code tree editor would certainly not help anything.
Then you need to put that maintenance code elsewhere (and invent independent mechanisms to call it). What's the benefit?
To put it another way, the cost of real estate in a given area is proportional to the rate of money flowing through that area. Will ever larger flows go through New York and San Francisco, increasing without end? History suggests that is unlikely.
What percentage of the userland would you say was using a GNU implementation 10 years ago?
> your employer can fire you for wearing the wrong color of socks

Adding restrictions on employer's ability to fire makes employers far less likely to hire. It enriches the already employed at the expense of the unemployed. If anything it makes more sense to have at-will employment in countries with strong social safety nets because unemployment is less disruptive there.
As a Brit, the thing that bothered me most about that advert wasn't the `taking August off` line.

It was the fact they showed the awful plasticy dashboard. It looked so cheap and nasty.
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<Megacities> Hold my beer.
Hahaha, oh, buddy. No. These manufacturers are much stupider. These things hook straight up to the Internet, wide open telnet ports with hard-coded default passwords.

The quickest example I have to hand, sorry it's on Twitter. I'm sure you can find others. https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/799556482719162368
> parodied well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdu4wSBZqMM

You may enjoy Chris Morris in this Brass Eye special "Paedogheddon":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcU7FaEEzNU

(if you enjoy absurdism and black comedy -- I find absurdism to be an especially good fit for satirizing the Kafkaesque)
Such arrogance. If the US isn't the front runner of all technologies at all times you can't help lamenting?

"A group of non-American researchers funded by a non-American government program develops X"

"Woe is us, we would be leading in X if it weren't for our buffoon of a president...!!"
Hi! This is the initial release of TA.Gui. It is an open-source tool that helps automate user intentions by reproducing their web interactions. Underlying is CasperJS / PhantomJS / SlimerJS. Workflow is record using Chrome extension, fine-tune intentions and conditions using simple English, then run (visible or invisible mode).

Supports datatables for batch automation and makes 1-liner API calls. The beta was released a month ago and it now supports running out of the box for Windows, macOS, Linux and Node.js. No setup needed, just unzip and run. HN thread for the beta release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674669
There are software issues with Illustrator losing the first half second of stylus strokes on the SP4. Very frustrating if that's the program you do most of your work in.
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Thusly the tin foil hat has a use afterall
I think it's because the file handling on windows is very extension-dependent. They probably assume that a dot marks an extension, and as such treat ".foo" as a file of type "foo" with no name, which is seen as an error.

This is all a clusterfuck honestly, since they rely on extension to figure out how to treat the files, but at the same time hide the extensions from the user by default. I can understand that extensions might look a bit "noisy" but then just gray them a bit to make the rest of the file name stand out, don't hide them completely.
I think it's absurd to assume that supersonic flight will only be a 20% premium over coach class in a conventional aircraft with 3-4x the carrying capacity doing less work against physics and subjecting its more components to less physical stress.

If the price point comparison is (more plausibly) between business class in one of several A380/777 flights, chartering a flight and leaving exactly when and where you want if there's a group or coach class in a Boom, I think the choice is rather less straightforward. I'm not saying there's no demand - obviously Concorde filled seats - but I am saying it might not be sufficient to make a viable commercial aircraft programme even without restrictions on where they can fly.
From my personal experience, and observations of friends and family, paid time off for the holidays in the US is typically a couple days for Thanksgiving, a couple days for Christmas, and New Years Day. So it's not a complete lack of time off.
There are certainly a lot of factors. People want to live in trendy cities. There's a lot to consider besides rent - culture, nightlife, etc. San Francisco sure does have some of the best food in the country (and with tech consuming most of spare time the way it is, eating out is really a huge part of culture). Rent definitely ends up being the deal breaker for many, but for others isn't.

It's a lot harder for a company to hire top tech talent if they're in Miami / Des Moines, because the Bay Area has a much higher concentration of tech workers. Convincing people to move is hard, especially so for more experienced tech workers who have a life/family somewhere. You need to be getting an insane deal for it to be worth abandoning your friends and family/forcing your partner to find a new job (and I've yet to see tech companies trying to compete on comp vs SF/SV outside of them). Can't run off middle-road new grads alone (Edit: Good point below that top grad talent wants to hit the big cities too).
Technology has a long way to go before it completely disrupts human evolution and the desire to be close to people with similar values.
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Have any other these same brands bailed on Facebook because of live rape, murder, or suicide streams?

http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/gangbanger-facebook-lives-his-o...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/us/facebook-live-gang-rape-chi...

Consumers create the content they consume now. Big brands that decide they need to opt out of Youtube also need to opt out of Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Upon doing so, they will be forgotten.

Ben Thompson at Stratechery has had a lot of thoughtful things to say about brands and their relationship to television. It was a virtuous cycle not just for mega brands and content producers but also retail. Internet advertising disrupted that. ( Good read: https://stratechery.com/2016/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disru... )

On another note, I've been wondering for years how long it would be until advertisers would decide maybe they don't want their brands pre-rolling in front of snuff films on Daily Mail and other curated news platforms.
No, not even close. Tuition at Sidwell Friends is approaching $40k/year [1]. The Lab School (specializes in learning disabled students) is over $40k/year [2].

DC spent about $20k/year per student in 2014. That's among the highest spending level in the nation [3]. I believe that figure is closer to $25k/year in 2016. About a third of the states spend less than half per student than DC [4].

[1] http://www.sidwell.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees/index.asp...
[2] https://www.labschool.org/page/admissions/tuition-and-fees
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/02/the-...
[4]http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa...
That would require a reorientation of the whole distribution around the requirement that packages integrate only at the level of whole files. Everything from interacting services to user and password management, from drivers to application plugins, all of it would need to be integrated solely using atomic files on disk. Anything that couldn't be packaged that way would need to be rewritten or forked. You're essentially asking for a whole new operating system.
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You're arguing what is just, from a perspective, but not an absolute.

If a factory upstream is polluting and causing a village $200 of damage a year, and if it were possible to pay the factory $100 to reduce this pollution to a $50 impact, should the village not pay? They'll net $50 in benefit.

Devil's advocate argument of sorts, but one that focuses on the absolute.

Real-life is harder. What if some of the village are employed at the factory? What if the factory produces produces the village needs but costs far more elsewhere? What if the factory employs people from another nearby poor village and your village is a comparatively rich village?

Point is: Look for win-wins and an objective framework to work in, not for multiple parties anchoring around their single issue concerns, blinkered from the bigger picture.

Talking completely in general. Not verified figures in article either.
QtMob: Qt mobile application development becomes easier
I'm guessing an electric grinder for the beans.
Levis (may) make products specifically for Target with the Levis brand, but with inferior quality and materials to get the price down to fit Target's desired profit margin.
I work in the world of enterprise consulting where offshoring and remote work are a daily part of the job.

Yet many companies don't allow remote working to their own employees, even though all contractors (including freelancers) are doing it mostly remotely.
Explain your logic?
This is not a particularly good fix.

It lacks "set -u" which is the first line of defense for this kind of bugs, much more robust than the "if [ -d ...".

Command lines lack proper shell quoting. If $diaspora_home ends up with a trailing space somehow, this will again end in a disaster.

I don't see the point of adding a "test -e".

It seems "rm -rf /var/cache/diaspora /var/log/diaspora" got lost, so these directories are no longer cleaned up after uninstall.
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U.S. Senate could take the first step tonight to kill the FCC’s privacy rules
This device does not have the accuracy to provide you with the information you need.
Make Dragonfly BSD great again
New York Port Authority banned Concorde because it was too noisy on take off.
AMD Ryzen 16 cores 32 threads sample running at 3.1 Ghz (3.6 Ghz turbo)  180W
This is a good question - And this is a partial answer (from a link above): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939399

Not sure why you were downvoted. Seems like this community is showing signs of academic elitism
unambiguous != self-descriptive

I may not understand what Emacs is by looking at just the name, but I'll definitely not think it's a breakthrough in quantum physics or a planetary engineering project.
I use the long form so others reading script that may not be familiar with set options gets a hint of what's going on.

At the top of each file with a brief comment I add:

set -o errexit
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail
Ask HN: What tools do you use to digest news?
I am looking for new ways to get and digest news that either I can curate myself, like RSS feeds, or have great, unbiased algorithms to deliver great content that I want to read. I used to use Flipboard but I was not happy in the curation.

Thanks!
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> Especially for information technology, I don't understand the rationale why it has to be concentrated at certain places.

Startups are built on young talent. Young people are obsessed with living in "the big city" and to hear them tell it, living in a suburb and driving a car is about the worst thing imaginable.

So if you want young talent, you better set up shop in SF.
You might have to think twice about Berlin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/world/europe/berlin-rent-...
This is about the rumored Workstation CPU's of AMD and comes from a french magazine (CanardPC) which also leaked infos about the Ryzen desktop CPU's before they launched. The rumor seems reasonable to me when looking at the AMD Ryzen R7 1700 with 8 cores at 3 Ghz and a TDP of 65 Watt and the test's some user did on the forum of anandtech.com. [0]

I'm curious how much PCIe 3.0 lanes the motherboards will have. Since the CPU has half the cores of Naples maybe 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes?

[0] https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-strictly-technica...
I'm pretty sure you can emulate the absent operator with look-ahead expressions. Untested: (?=((?!exp).)*$)

That is: a zero-width assertion where at every character until the end exp doesn't match.

It's a nice idea to include this in the standard, and also illustrates how convoluted regular expression syntax has become over the years, mostly because it wasn't designed to be extensible.
I think most vegetables covered in some protective layer, they don't even smell. You have to cut them open to properly use spectrometer in that case you can just taste them.
That's where Arch Linux (pacman) is heading slowly. The code is better tested that way, and not written multiple times by many programmers/packagers of various skill.

Also, it's the difference between systemd and sysvinit - descriptive configuration vs scripting.
>Especially for information technology, I don't understand the rationale why it has to be concentrated at certain places. As long as there is a good net connection, it could be anywhere in the world. Let's concentrate on the US for a moment. Why can't a successful startup not be in Dallas, Amarillo, Miami or Des Moines?

Because the real commodity being sold with the apartments and offices isn't net access or even land. It's proximity to rich people. It's not an open market economy; it's a feudal system in which you need to stick close to your patrons.
Well, you [i]can[i] throw money at it. It won't fix anything, but that won't stop politicians from wasting money on whatever asinine idea betters their re-election odds.
> codebase of ~250k lines

In the same file? Holy crap...
So interestingly, SGD has a nice intuitive explanation for why it is better than GD.

If you compute the gradient step for all data, you're expending computational power on redundant data. You're going to get to the minimum with fewer data if you make steps as you get useful information.
I do, up to a point.

My experience with "sharing economy" taxi companies is that they really, truly, do not care about their drivers or their customers. It's a free for all where customers and drivers are basically left to sort things out themselves. IMO, this is where regulation comes in. In a city like New York, taxis are a part of our public infrastructure -- like buses, subways, etc. There should be baseline service guarantees set by transit regulators and adequate funding set aside for enforcement.
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I wouldn't have any interest in living in many of those cities you listed, and as a result wouldn't be willing to move and work there. I'm sure there are many out there who feel the same.
> The point he and Mr Graham are trying to make is simple. People are not same, and by that definition are not equal.

What I'm questioning is not whether people's merits are unequal, but the tool used to measure them. My point is that a measure is inherently relative.

The thought experiment I offer is another way of measuring someone's utility. It is inherenthy flawed and unfit to the needs of our society. But again, the person I responded to didn't establish that his measuring tool is an optimization function for our society either.

Also this is not related to whether two people are compared on their job, but to whether two people good at different jobs are compared.
Having sex was also a major reason. Socially acceptable pre and extra marital sex is still a newish thing in our societies.
Unfortunately, the only thing you learn from using a framework is using that framework. Best practice has very little to do with the best solution for any problem, it's a backup for when there isn't enough experience to make a better choice. Learning to be a better software engineer means writing your own code, there is just no way around that.
This is what I'm most excited about:

"LOOPY lets you have a conversation with simulations! You can go from thinking in systems, to talking in systems."

Thread: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/808399253928218624
Looks like that script could benefit from a couple of rounds of ShellCheck. http://www.shellcheck.net/
That's assuming they keep that $2000. I haven't seen any proposal where that would be the case. More likely is a voucher for $3000 and the $2000 is redirected elsewhere.
Well, the tyre will almost instantly go soft as the inflating gas reduces in volume due to the cold. Then the tyre will go flat as the gas escapes (try driving for a couple of years without pumping your car tyres up). And the rubber will freeze and crack, and get UV perishment and low-pressure outgassing of its own.

The balloon-like tyre of choice is a springy basket mesh, as seen on the Lunar rover. But that's only needed because we wanted to drive around at human-acceptable speeds (to get to interesting places before the humans had to go home). With a teleoperated robot, we can take our time, and that means we don't need bouncy suspension. Which is good, because big wire tyres are quite heavy.
That's a bit silly to say, considering SF and SV are about as suburbanized as can be. If you wanted "the big city", you'd go to New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, or some other place with actual urban density.
I have no trouble understanding the strategic goal nerds have of trying to use standards body formalities and browser vendors to retard the development of DRM software they disfavor. There's nothing wrong with that (at least, nothing more wrong with it than all the other things that are wrong with standards groups).

Where you lose me is the notion that there's an intrinsic ethical imperative not to provide attachment points in standards for DRM. That doesn't ring true.
I was talking about multi-GPU parallelization. Multi GPU SGD parallelization is not easy. Single GPU parallelization is trivial of course.
Also relevant: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/
Yeah, the limit only applies to single junction solar panels which I believe most consumer level solar panels and solar farms are this type [something I heard during graduate school, I have no source for this on top of my head]. I'm pretty sure the solar panel in the article is a single junction solar panel since they use PECVD (which is just CVD with a plasma generated above the wafer to improve uniformity) which allows them to get better results.

Most double junctions require either MOCVD or even ALD but both technologies require longer fab time, have a higher reject rate, and the machines are almost 2X as expensive. Even then, the highest I've seen for solar panel efficiency product that you can purchase is around 32% and that is "state of the art" for today.
To be fair the T&LC, the investigators assigned to my case were very easy to work with and eager to help. Ultimately, the decision was up to a T&LC judge.

The process was pretty opaque. From what I gathered, every complainant is assigned an internal investigator/advocate. If the department determines that the complaint has merit, the complaint goes before a regulatory judge who has limited authority to issue fines, revoke licenses, etc.

The system almost worked.
Correct. This is how Solaris IPS works.
Second this. My experience is that your typical businesses will either follow the federal holiday schedule[0] or modify it by adding the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve while removing 2-4 of the following: MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day.

So, you'll typically get 8-10 PTO days, independent from vacation policy. That'll be different in the service industry - it's lucrative for some restaurants, gas stations, hotels, etc. to be open - but a lot of times hourly workers will get time-and-a-half for their troubles.

[0]: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/snow-dismissal-pro...
A thousand miles from Moscow: how Putin forged his Russian heartland
I didn't see where javascript was bashed?
You are right. But still I don't quite understand why there are not more smaller dynamic centers popping up. Of course it is NOT only SV and NYC any more. But there would be many other places that are nice enough to attract IT in a substantial way.
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I think more than anything else, this problem is caused by a old mindset. Some managers really believe that "if he ain't in the office, he ain't working". Especially when working with external consultants, even if that means paying them to commute a total of 5+ hours daily.