skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People like different things. What a shock!

For sure, I get that. I just find it pretty amusing that restaurants, of all things, constantly get brought up in these "Why do engineers move to the city" stories. Anyway, aren't we all working 60-80 hour weeks? Even if I liked restaurants and night clubs, I'd have no opportunity between work and sleep to partake, so it would make no difference whether there were good ones around!
Most expat workers in Arabian Gulf (GCC) countries live in shared accommodations to cut costs, sometimes 8 people sharing a single room. Life is tough.
Whoa! This is really impressive stuff, and will cause head-ache in my dayjob where we develop a product using this WiFi SoC.

Can this vulnerability cause content-owners and DRM vendors to no longer allow such devices to decode 4K content? I'm thinking of for example PlayReady certification that may be withdrawn/downgraded because of this issue, but I'm fuzzy on the details how this would work.
"ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS"

Ummm...welp
A moist, forested LA.
Orange County looks toward ride-hailing to replace languishing bus routes
As someone who learned Kotlin for work and then started using it in personal projects, I'm really excited for its future. I'm surprised more Java shops aren't espousing or even trying it.
> In London there are not significant numbers of people driving to work compared with public transport

Unless there have been big chances since 2013, about 60% as many people drive to work in London as take public transport [1] [2]. That's pretty significant.

According to that BBC story, as of 2013 1/3 of London workers relied on a car or van to get to work in London. 1/5 took the underground. Then came bus and train, then walking, then cycling.

According to one of the graphs in the report itself, which breaks down the categories more, about 28% of London workers get to work by car where they are the driver of the car. It looks like all public transit combined covers about 50%. Biking and walking cover about 15% (11% to walking, 4% to biking). The remaining 5% is mostly people working at home.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-25175752

[2] http://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/d...
And another thing I found quite interesting is that people were able to coordinate with each other to make it something planned.

I was feeling it would turn out to be some chaos because it's so easy to screw it up. ELI5, how people didn't screw it.
Series C @ 18 months? Is it just me or is that too much in too little time?
Interested in this due to my wife working in the space. Signup link?
Sell them what they demand with a browser-based presentation, then package the terminal-based presentation as a separate, paid add-on option for high-volume customers. Market the add-on as meant only for high-end customers who will take the time to train staff in the kind of high-speed entry that only the terminal-based presentation can keep up with. Sprinkle in some stats about some multiplier of efficiency and accuracy improvement, then let the customers implement what they prefer.

Between advances in ML-based OCR and dictation, I anticipate future data entry to get much more sophisticated, and demand extremely low-latency, quick-updating screens that might bring about more awareness of terminal-based interfaces in some situations.
Sure but the heart was there at the pleasure of the heart people, and the dragon beneath the UK flag at the pleasure of the UK people. If either of them wasn't cool with wales, they could have gotten rid of them (I'm not sure about the other one but I suspect there were conversations and agreements with surrounding art not to expand into each others' territories).

Other, larger groups that did not have alliances with others failed to gain traction - Trump fans failed to draw Trump even though there are more of them than welsh people. Their numbers were large, but they did not have the favour of the majority.

The OSU people, though nobody had an opinion on them beforehand, did a poor job of diplomacy, and as a result really struggled to stay on the canvas.

It was about who was in the good books of the larger factions more than anything else. If rainbowroad or the germans liked you, you were golden. If OSU liked you, well, that wasn't worth much.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031769 and marked it off-topic.
Hm, interesting. I suppose this is what http://scoop.sh should be using? (The per-user setting, "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths").

Oddly it appears the python2.7 installer uses this (global setting), but not the python3.x one (It would seem that python2 could register python.exe (as it currently does), and python3 could register python3.exe (as it currently does not)).

It certainly doesn't seem to make much sense for python3 to have an option to add itself to the path environment variable, and an option to change the path length limit - but apparently not an option to use this "modern" way of registering itself? (Unless, python2 and python3 installers, when fighting it out, default to only registering python2... which makes sense, but is painful).

But based on a windows hyper-v vm with only python3 installed, it looks like python3 does not use this setting.
truedat.
The answer is in "want to remove the user freedom".

Those are often freeloader companies and the decision usually lies in management.
Cities such as NYC, SF, LA, DC, Boston, London, (and region of SV)....are very special cities that are magnets of creativity and wealth creation marrying engineering and other creativity with finance. In pre-WWII, Budapest and Vienna were among these cities and outside of US & London, Tel Aviv is also one of these cities. Not only engineers and software and finance professionals but other professionals such as doctors love living in these cities for their cultural amenities. NYC is a center of Judaism and for many Jews, this is where they want to live with all of the specific Jewish cultural amenities.

This is unlikely to change. Author Richard Florida among others writes about the develop of cities.
TLDR: Comparing the speed of adiabatic quantum computers with unitary quantum computers is rather difficult, and even the physics behind the two hint that the optimum approach to increased speed is different for the two cases.

Even between different implementations of unitary quantum computers, speed comparisons are not so clear. Gate speeds can be compared, but that doesn't tell you a lot about how fast you will get a reliable result from a computation. It also doesn't offer much insight into the future.

In short, don't go betting on an architecture just yet.
aim it at SEOs if you want to make money, broken link building is a pretty big strategy in the SEO world
State Department Employee Arrested and Charged with Contacts with Foreign Agents
South Africa's Indigenous Knowledge Systems Documentation Project
I think he means you can sit around and talk about it for a long time, but will not get anything actually done.
Author here - yes! It can be used to solve symmetric PSD Systems, as the solution of Ax = b is also the minimizer of 0.5*x'Ax - b'x. Conjugate gradient can be seen as a special form of momentum with adaptive alphas and betas
> Seen from the company's perspective, a user posting a negative Amazon review BEFORE contacting the manufacturer for help is upsetting, especially when as others have noted, it's a product you've invested a lot in, and suddenly you have someone publicly advising others not to buy it. Of course this can cause even a well-meaning employee to go straight to damage control.

Nonsense. If I buy something from you and it sucks, I'm going to leave a negative review. It's not my job to help you make your product better -- pay me a salary, if you want that. Make a better product if you want better reviews.
I've recently been working on a simple-to-use birthday reminder service (simple as in: no need to open any accounts, no need to ever login anywhere, no passwords etc.):

https://ReminderExpress.com

Just finished working on v1 of this a few minutes ago, by sheer coincidence; it should now be fully functional.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I took a look at your list of links recently, actually – it was helpful.

I'm considering syntax-level support for `immutability-helper`, which seems like the best all-around solution aside from its syntax. This is for a JS Dialect I'm building called LightScript[0].

Would look something like:

store.people[0].friends[0].name~~set("Alice")

which would compile to:

update(store, {
people: {
[0]: {
friends: {
[0]: {
name: { $set: "Alice" }
}
}
}
}
})

Would love thoughts/feedback (here or on the project Gitter[1])

[0] http://lightscript.org
[1] https://gitter.im/lightscript/Lobby
Apple planning new iMac for 2017 and 'completely rethinking' Mac Pro
> The online world is not particularly horrible; we overwhelmingly use it by choice, not out of necessity, and the benefits far outstrip the risks.

Maybe this was true 20 years ago, but it increasingly is not. For example, there are many shops and other institutions in Sweden that no longer accept cash – only debit/credit cards or other forms of online payment. Whether you like it or not, dealing with the online world is often not a choice, and if it was there's a good chance it was made for you.
I'm the same way. Maybe I'm just not as competitive as the average person, but I only play co-op games with others.

Single-player and multiplayer online co-op for me.
Legalizing wouldn't stop the flow. You think they'd just throw up their arms and walk away?

Cartels would just lower their prices and keep pushing to existing addicts and creating addicts. Once the price is driven down, how are 'legal' drug manufacturers expected to compete on price with taxes, licensing, overhead?

Legalizing won't stop blackmarket drugs, it will only increase it like in Colorado. http://kdvr.com/2017/03/03/black-market-marijuana-business-b...
I could also say choosing where to live based upon where you work is unacceptable, but many people do it. In reality there are many conflicting priorities in our lives, and each person chooses how much each matter to them.

E.g. we chose where to live because of the schooling and it's close to family. But I work from home so it doesn't matter that it's a suburb. However if I ever got an office job I could be met with a daily total commute of 90 minutes. Should I sacrifice family and schooling so I can be closer to the job centers? Why is doing so any less unacceptable than a 90 minute commute?
I'm a reasonably literate native English speaker and I don't understand what the (supposed) difference is.
Even STEM can be a bad investment, depending on what you do. I graduated with a degree in Chem, wanting to do nanoscale computers and -later- optical computing. Found out 3rd year that unless I got a doctorate, I'd be a glorified lab rat. What's worse is that even if I got a doctorate, I'd still be a lab rat while trying to get one and would have a sliver of a chance to get a job anyways. My choice? I graduated, but didn't do grad school. Think of that next to you wonder why STEM jobs aren't being filled.
There were some redeeming measures of school. I got a minor in CS, some text on my resume that says I went to school and got good grades - the first step for many companies to even consider you - and learned about a number of really good books I might not have encountered by just randomly exploring the net. Still, I probably would've done better without school.
I will now take this opportunity to mention that I'm still looking for work, albeit sunny Cal is too expensive for me to consider jobs out there.
It's that time of the year when I dust off my math project of six or seven years running and have another go at it. It's a research problem in Riemannian geometry I've been tinkering with since my thesis. This time I've managed to see some interesting things I hadn't spotted before, but the general pattern they conform to doesn't permit me to prove anything attention-grabbing. For the first time I wonder if I've taken the project as far as it can go. It might be time to do a (nice, cleaned up) core dump to the arXiv and move on.

I've gotten an offer to do contract work in web development for the company my wife works for, so I'm considering language and/or framework options. I've only done backend stuff so far, so it might be a nice change of pace, given that I properly communicate to everyone involved what to and not to expect. Plus the extra money would be nice with the baby on the way.
> as communities within reddit that together make up a large userbase who were committed to protecting each other's art and flags.

What is this if not politics? Politics isn't a dirty word you know...
Smalltalk people have thought otherwise since the 70s. The live code part is a big reason to use Jupyter. It makes me think the ST (and Lisp) people were on to something.
Kronos: Using S3 partial reads to reduce costs by 10x
I find the window managers better in Linux, so there just isn't a replacement for me (on Windows, I have to install Alt-Drag [1], but it's super buggy), otherwise this would be super compelling.

https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/
The large debt is very evitable, in many countries higher education is free or negative cost (=everyone gets a student allowance). This doesn't mean top schools have unlimited admissions.
I've lived in Texas all my ~40 years, all of these things have been true the entire time. The influx of residents over last ~10 years is why I say TX is feeling like CA. It's the ethos. The food. The culture that comes with it. Not a bad thing, just different.

Texas is the friendly state but if I'm being honest there is a part of me that is getting old and cranky and doesn't like it / wishes it could go back to the way it was. However, I totally see the appeal of selling your small expensive CA house and moving to TX to buy a mansion for cash. I'd do the same.
> ELI5, how people didn't screw it.

In the beginning there is chaos -- then, through persistence and random chance, SOMEONE's idea gets completed without it getting screwed up. Now there's a clear image that has come out of the chaos.

Whenever someone screws up the image by adding in a "bad" pixel, they need to wait 5-10 minutes to add another. In that time, everyone who can see the image knows that it got screwed up, and they realize the biggest impact they can make is fixing it. "I did it. I fixed the image!" vs "I dropped a random pixel in a sea of blue, accomplishing nothing."

So eventually, out of chaos comes creation, and then when that creation is threatened, the biggest impact an individual can make with their limited resources of pixels is to fix and defend the creations.
FLIGHTS TO ROME FROM ZURICH
Might have more to do with criminal liability due to certain countries straight up banning the symbol, like Germany [0]. In addition to that, the German law does hold operators of websites liable for any law-breaking comments/posts/whatever made by users of the site [1].

If somebody spreads something illegal on your comments/forums/whatever, and you fail to delete it, the German state will hold you, as the operator of said site, responsible and not the person who actually posted that stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

[1] http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/06/11/meinprofde...
IIRC NESTicle was written by one guy over a weekend or something crazy like that. It was fast because he understood PC architecture and build the whole thing by hand to be fast. It didn't use fancy tricks so much as it avoided things that were unnecessarily slow on PC hardware of the time.
The whole point of why H1B exists is that yes, only specialists with expertise you cannot buy locally (because of unavailability, not price) should get H1B visas, and that's generally at the highest positions, since you definitely can get local entry-level specialists or generic good programmers.

There's value to be provided in hiring someone at a junior position and growing them from there, but H1B is explicitly not for that - unless the position literally has zero candidates locally, it doesn't/shouldn't qualify for H1B.
Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use.

Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficult skill to master, and creating a dangerous risk for new divers. I have developed a physics-based automatic buoyancy compensator for scuba divers which is a technological advance that replaces the current manual systems.

With these two innovations, you would not need a certification course to dive safely.

Finally, wetsuits are made with neoprene, an air-bubble infused rubber. These highly buoyant suits force the diver to wear extra weight during the dive. They also compress at depth so the diver must compensate for the changes in buoyancy with the buoyancy compensator device. I have developed a wetsuit material using silicone and an additive that is a better insulator than neoprene and neutrally buoyant.

Eventually, I would like to put all three of these together into a complete recreational diving system.

www.nautosys.com
Healthcare Lessons from Recent Issues at Amazon and GitLab
How to Deploy a { Monolithic – Stateful – Huge } Web App to Cloud Foundry?
What I am saying is that politics is an externalization rather than an internalization--which is very far from meaningless. Your why doesn't matter (and it's one reason why the right wing's "but I didn't support the Republicans because of racism" is so hollow). Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people. See, for example, the useful idiots of GamerGate who provided air cover to people who sent death and rape threats to women who had the temerity to make video games. If they're the one in a figurative million, literally-few-thousand who actually cares about "ethics in games journalism", that doesn't matter in the slightest because of what they enable through their action and their inaction.

Drawing those imaginary lines to segment off Some Topics (because otherwise one might have to defend them) is nonsense. People draw these lines anywhere from religion to fandoms to allegiance to political parties--but none of them are meaningful. You are your impact on other people and every impact on everyone else is inescapably, inextricably, definitionally "political".
Tim Berners Lee did amazing work from which everybody, you, me and any billion dollar company founder like Zuckerberg has benefited many times over. He deserves all the recognition and awards he gets and more.

He deserves this award and he shouldn't have to give up to any up-and-comers. Let them figure it out.

They're already standing on the shoulders of this giant. That's Tim's contribution.
On some theoretical level the HOA contracts / rules are voluntarily entered into. So even the most hard-core libertarians (or exactly those!) should be into them.

Of course, in practice you often enter a HOA as the lesser of multiple evils.
No, it doesn't. It comes with a portion of Ubuntu tools available for install through some backwards way (or at least it was a few months ago when I installed it). The bash console is probably not as good as PuTTY for SSH management, and that was the big highlight of the functionality for me - being able to manage my servers without pulling out another computer. It's better than nothing, but it is no where near good enough for me as a dev who works in Unix from development to production. I do use the bash console for some simple server management when I am away from my work machine, but I could not imagine it ever being a worthy replacement for iTerm2 (or any console on Windows, really, not just the Bash console)
A swastika, an LGBT flag and a hammer and a sickle are all political symbols. I found it funny admins only banned one of them.
> I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with a big chunk of this article. Documentation is generally a waste of time unless you have a very static infrastructure, and run books are the devil.

I estimate there's maybe 25% of the industry that's ignorant of "best practices", 70% that follow them dogmatically, and 5% that use them as guidelines, evaluating each situation on its own merits and choosing what makes sense.

I feel like it's more frustrating to deal with the 70% than the 25%. For some people documentation can only sound like a virtuous thing. But documentation can do harm as soon as it gets out of sync with reality.
Linear regression as a service with integrations to S3 and Salesforce.
Enjoyable to see the youngsters discovering MOBs all over again. :-)

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Sprite
I always felt that Tim Berners-Lee was not respected enough in both the computer science and programming communities. I felt it especially after working for over a decade at Google, which literally built its entire business on TBL's architectural concepts.

For example, Google and other search engines would not work without the principle of least power [1], which a lot of people, including Alan Kay [2], somehow don't understand. That is, if the web language was a VM rather than HTML, there would be no Google.

It would also not have been possible for the web to make the jump from desktops to cell phones as the #1 client now. You know the handler in iOS and Android that makes <select> boxes usable? That's an example of the principle of least power.

I recommend reading his book "Weaving the Web" [2] if you want to learn more about the story behind the web.

I'm very glad that TBL is getting this recognition. He is a genius and also has a very generous personality.

People in the programming community seem to talk about Torvalds or Stallman a lot, perhaps because of their loud styles, but I don't see that much about TBL.

Ditto in the CS community. "HyperText" used to be a big research area but I guess TBL solved it and people don't talk about it anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

[2] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Weaving-Web-Original-Ultimate-Destiny...
Highly recommend that your son/daughter cross register for biz classes (negotiations, basic accounting) at Babson and a liberal arts class or 2 at Wellesley in junior/senior year.

The best class I took at Babson was a combination biz/engineering course at Olin called Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship. The lead instructor, Ben Linder, is amazing.

Wrote more about the project/experience here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13312978

Olin is a great school (can't beat the price), and every student I've worked with and learned from at Olin has been great. So congrats, you should be very proud of your kid! Definitely making a smart choice.
I think Firefox has recently had a bit of a fire lit under them, and has been going full steam at getting back into being a competitive option.
Can all future posts of this nature use the title format: Django {version} unchained ?
SSL appears to be a problem. (Heroku domain; unable to load insecure content for the schedule; etc.)

http://www.usmnt360.com works.
Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
I tried really hard to do that on Linux a few years ago with a co-worker, and based on our investigation it seemed impossible.
I have a long missive about how logs are useless and shouldn't be kept, but that's for another time. I'll summarize by saying that if you have to look at logs, then your monitoring has failed you.

How does that work?
Thanks! We're just lucky to have authors like Gabe (@gabrielgoh) come to us with incredible articles. :)