skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ADA compliance is a fair point, but at the same time, I've lived in completely legal to rent apartments in NYC that were absolutely not wheelchair accessible.

All new buildings in NYC must have elevators/general wheel chair accessibility, but the old buildings are still there, and still being used.

Further, there are numerous AirBnB rentals that existed as licensed rental properties long before AirBnB came around that are most certainly not wheelchair accessible.

I think it would at least be fair for AirBnB to require listings that are/are not wheelchair accessible to say so on their listings. Beyond that I don't think it's fair to require owners of those properties to invest a large sum of money to make it accessible.
A clear case where the "Readability counts." principle from "The Zen of Python" applies.
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Why does it always have to be "The Best"? Most people would benefit from at least doing something, no matter what. All this obsession with finding the best causes a lot of people to do nothing instead.
What's needed is tons of hard work on exactly the right thing at the right time, or some half-assed work on a different kind of right thing at the right time.
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Field Guide to Uber's PR Nightmare
I've run a ~30-user, ~1000-repo gitolite instance for a few years and while it has done its job admirably, there are a couple of things to know about:

It has a pretty clever config management system where the configuration is actually committed to a git repo. It's great if you're managing configuration by hand, but was difficult to automate via chef.

In order to let users create their own repos, we enabled "wild repos". It's as simple as a `git clone` with the desired repo name, which is great except that users often make typos and end up accidentally creating typo'd repos. The only person who can delete repos is the user who created them or the server admin deleting directories. Perhaps there are better features I should have used?
Some mod nuked/censored this off of the front page... cc @dang
There is quite a gulf between inference and training, it is not just raw FLOPS. Inference is relatively simple data/control-flow, the weights/biases can be stored read-only and the entire network dataflow can be baked into the chip in case of FPGAs. Training adds the backpropagation step, which performs memory read-update-writes all over the place, has kernels with bad arithmetic intensity and requires SP/DP for most models to converge.

I only know of Nervana's ASIC that is promising to be used for training and Google hinted at it for future work. Does anyone know of other processor, ASIC or FPGA's that are built for training?
Definitely, the plight of people put out of jobs, regions losing industries, it's not to be understated or trifled with. That's a major half of the problem.

The rock on the other side of this hard place though is that there's also no lunch at all for someone who can't afford basic foodstuffs because of tariffs and quotas block access to reasonably priced goods.

What's worse is that trade protections tend to be incredibly regressive, hitting those shopping for basic necessities hardest, far more than people who can buy yachts from whatever jurisdiction they like.

How do we confront this dilemma? How do we thread the needle? We've never really pulled it off correctly in the past... but there is a way to do it.

If you have real trade assistance programs, then you create a situation where every single person is better off under trade liberalization. The problem is we've talked a good game on trade assistance, but never done it right, and never really reevaluated what works and doesn't.

It doesn't mean three year retraining programs for people five years off from retirement. It's going to include mix of solutions, including some small taxes on goods likely to be imported and straight up wealth transfers to former employees. Relocation assistance or retraining if they want it, but some people won't.

If protectionism costs $800,000 per job, then this is easy. Just tax that good, give the worker their old $60k/yr salary for a few years, no questions asked, and let consumers pocket the difference. You could pay them $60k for life and we'd all still be better off, but some people might prefer a phase out, either way.
Custom built PC is a small slice of a shrinking market. Until AMD recaptures the server and OEM markets they won't be unseating Intel anytime soon, and they just don't have the resources to get started yet.
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I am out of my depths but I do not think you are correct.

The paper appears to create a model for a single glacier's retreat. Selects the parameters of this model by analyzing all glaciers. Then determines the retreat of this glacier is unlikely under this model.

The issue is that there is a sampling bias. This glacier is not like most glaciers [I assume]. It was not randomly sampled from all glaciers. It was selected because of a river diversion due to glacial retreat.

What did they do to compensate for this sampling bias? I don't see it.
Aliasing gs may be a bad idea, there is actually a command named like that (it's part of GhostScript)
On Paxful, you can buy a variety of ways that are essentially anonymous.
I think a better way to frame this is "Hard work barely matters when you work for someone else."

I've been in too many situations and witnessed too many friends and family members that shoot for the moon but are never able to leave Earth as all their extra efforts are usurped by their managers and business owners.

Sure hard work "matters", it can help you get places, but how much does it matter is the question? Does it make 1% difference? 5% difference? 50% difference? I'd bet the difference is <10% compared to someone who does just enough to get by.

I think kids would go furthest of all if we told them "treat yourself as an autonomous being, work hard when you are in a position to realize the benefits of your hard work, otherwise do just enough and save your energy for better days."
This seems fairly similar to the command auto-correction in Oh My Zsh.
Who's telling children hard work will get them to the TOP?

I thought we tell children that hard work pays off and is more likely to get you into a better position than being a slacker.
I think that human nature biases us so strongly to inventing stories/causes (even when there are none) that it's almost impossible for us to accidentally assign too much importance to random factors.

It's a constant (and often un-examined) uphill battle against stuff like the "hot hand" fallacy or fundamental-attribution-error.

That's why I feel the default assumption should be that they got there by chance rather than that there's some kind of narrative cause we find instinctually pleasing.
What I tell my kids is that among the behaviors that contribute to success, the one the makes the most impact is working hard.

Luck matters, intelligence matters, natural skill matters, social circumstances matter, but hard work matters more.

You can be blessed with all of those behaviors and still fail, but hard work moves the odds in your favor more than the others.
It's actually a lot cheaper. Honeycomb is a lot more efficient in the way it collects and stores data than any other option available. But yeah, side by side it looks worse. At this stage we are mostly talking to good engineers though, who understand how this works.
Oh shut up.
Nope. I can underexpose a picture without playing around with the dails and without blurines or similiar things.
I remember trying so hard when I was a little kid to learn english and move on in any textbased game. I always failed. So I guess it's still easy to have dead ends in textbased games ;)
> They have different characteristics: Propagation, attenuation, power consumption, penetration through walls/building, crosstalk, bandwidth...

I mean... I'm not stupid. I realize that.

But do these differences rise to the level of constitutional distinction for the purposes of protections under the 1st amendment (and its philosophical underpinnings)? I assert that the answer is unequivocally "no."

It may be that these sorts of regulations made sense for the past 100 years, but I don't think that they do for the next.
From a domestic standpoint in the US, there is no "better accommodations", the service is roughly the same. You can get a seat with "more room" if by "more room" you mean "2-3 inches more legroom and nothing else." It's nice that I don't have to type on my laptop with the keyboard in my chest and screen on my tray table in Economy Plus (United product), but it's not really "more room". I still don't get an armrest, and it's still impossible to exit the row without making your fellow passengers get up.

True Premium Economy (such as what exists on Lufthansa, Air NZ, and now Delta international routes) does not exist for US domestic travel.
Until you click on the button and it says "the deadline to apply has passed". It looks like it was for 2016.
I've flagged it too -- after unintentionally upvoting it!
I would avoid it. Better safe than sorry.
"Anti-Mac interface" doesn't seem to be pejorative in this context.
One company was paying $35k/ month in just ec2 hardware costs to run an ELK cluster, and we were able to slash that substantially, while still making money. Not to mention the savings in core engineering time.

Just goes to show you, people have no idea how muych their shit costs. And/or don't value their own time.
> we could end up with a terrible society where the rich feel they have no responsibility to help the less fortunate (by e.g. providing universal healthcare), because they must simply have been lazy

I completely agree with you, but it's curious that you frame this as a hypothetical outcome. At least in the US, this idea has been deeply ingrained in broad swaths of the population for decades - and not just among the rich.
Quick note: what this article doesn't explicitly says is that as long as you have a shell account somewhere with a decent amount of disk space, you can host or mirror all the repository you want.

If I may make a suggestion, I'd recommend the Super Dimensional Fortress Public Access UNIX System (https://sdf.org/).

They're NetBSD-based if I remember correctly, and for a low fee (36$/lifetime ARPA membership + 9$/quarter) you can host most of the things you would like to host.

And you don't have to do system maintenance.
Sounds like you are not planning properly if you have 30 and 70 hour weeks.

I've worked at 5 companies in my career and the only time I've done more than 45h is on an intensive training course that I put my hand up for. And one or two Saturdays which were paid.

That's since 2001.

Conversely, no where I have worked would let me go home early if I got something done quickly, I'd just pick up the next task.
Haha... Yeah you're not wrong there.

nIs Downtown James Brown still around? I haven't used CB in a few years.
Really?

https://imgur.com/gallery/EuifW
Perhaps you missed the "sometimes"...
SDF – Public Access Unix System
Given the number of negative comments, I suspect many users have flagged the story. It doesn't take a mod to cause a submission to drop in rankings.
I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, miners get to use heavy equipment to do what used to be back-breaking labour, and salaries tend to start at twice the national median. Modern miners are not the poorest-of-the-poor picture of yesteryear.
Am I a bad person for creating SVN-style aliases for git?

From my .gitconfig:

[alias]
st = status
ci = "!git add -u && git commit"
di = diff

I come from an SVN background, I've since switched to Mercurial for my personal projects, and intensely dislike git, but have to use git at work, so I finally said "enough is enough" and made aliases so I can use git like svn/hg.
JD.com, China's 2nd largest ecommerce shop, chooses Hyper.sh technology
But do you really believe that by taking "a really hard look at how we cook this stuff up" software engineers can double performance (in the sense of effective work) every 18 months? We can absolutely turn the dial toward more effort on software such as algorithms/compiled languages/etc. but color me unconvinced that there's exponential growth possibilities there.
At my company we tend to use "NOTE:" just to be aware of something, "XXX:" when something's functional, but has room for improvement, "TODO:" when functionality's missing, and "FIXME:" when it's plain broken.

In that context the XXX's are kinda nice to have... we can mark there's something to work on; but only search for TODO/FIXME when looking for things that will actually impact currently needed operations.
Oh, thanks. I don't know why but I didn't find it.
I use Facebook once a year. Just when it is my birthday because last year I forgot to close the account and it is rude not to answer happy birthday messages.

I simply don't get the Facebook stuff... I really find interesting Facebook ads and all targeting options, but FB is definitely not for me.
It's modeled after the way Facebook does their own internal analytics, with Scuba.

Go ask them how they like it.
Well, there are plenty of ways to build something interesting in the world. This is just one opinion... many ways to get it done... and sounds like you found one! Congrats!
Why is this the scariest one? I've never heard of app.com, any real new or fake news (in the literal sense) coming from that site wouldn't register as legitimate one way or the other.

However apple.com with a CC reset form could be a mighty easy way to scam a lot of people into giving up the personal details which could easily lead to full blown identify theft.

Thankfully FF/Chrome are patching this
JPEG transforms 2D images into 1D arrays using a "zigzag" ordering of 8x8 blocks.

No. The zigzag ordering is applied to the frequency components, not to the image pixels.
> So, I'd venture as far as "this should scale to adventure games that humans enjoy playing".

I'm really not sure about this one. Consider for example a savefile in an Angband-variant and whether a character can leave the dungeon alive (that's easy to define formally '@' on tile '>' with at 1 free turn seq and hp > 0), but I imagine the backtracking is going to be a very expensive computation...
Yes, if you don't mind contributing your usage data to Qihoo's new "Big Data Analytics" platform, which will be "leveraging [Qihoo's] large user base, which consists of 514 million PC users and nearly 800 million mobile users to gather a tremendous amount of demographic and geographic data as well as search and behavioral patterns for data mining purpose"[1]. And surely they won't use it for anything nefarious, like their subsidiary's emission of backdated certificates[2].

[1] http://www.marketing-interactive.com/qihoo-360-expands-its-b...

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBG...
Agent-based simulation of users posting to a forum
Hehe, I just found out that I am using gitolite since about six and a half years by now. It exists primarily for my personal endeavors, but at the moment it hosts about (small) 50 projects and 10 users.

While the hardware below had some major failures (2 SSDs died during that period) the gitolite always survived. I like it :-)
If you are in Australia go to seek.com.au and 99% of jobs (let alone IT jobs) will meet this criteria.
RhodeCode is a good option for hosting, it has an advanced permission system, streaming push support and it scales well.
I'm not remotely clear what you're confused about. Economy Plus is a simple purchase-time option on United flights. When you choose your seat, they have all of the options right there.

I otherwise agree with the sentiment that the data should be more available (I spend way too much time on SeatGuru trying to find plane/seat info before booking), and I desperately wish we had an option to pay for a few more inches of leg and elbow room (NOT just legroom), but Economy Plus is about as straightforward a program as it gets in the airline industry.
And it's more expensive than borrowing from other banks anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised to if this was largely accounted for in supply side contamination issues. It appears that Amazon treats all SKUs identically, sourcing the closest one to fulfill and order, regardless of how that SKU arrived at Amazon.

A concrete example: No Starch Press customers are receiving counterfeit books when ordered from No Starch Press' Amazon store.

Even if this scam is caught, it's still cost Amazon money in dealing with the issue. (And cost legitimate vendors no end of frustration with legitimate customers receiving fake books.)
Optane + NVME + 1080 Ti +++++ = Heaven
I was slightly confused by one of the last remarks:

> Take a specific example such as 0.6 - also known as "Officers."

After reading carefully, it was clear that it is the notation/name for an octal game. Perhaps it would be nice to add the word "octal" somewhere in that sentence or a link to an explanation of the game.

--

If I understand correctly, in the 0.6 game:

* The isolated tokens are immortal, so you must ignore them.

* You can remove one token from the extreme of a row that has at least 2 tokens.

* You can remove one token from any place inside a row and spit it in two parts (that may have a different number of tokens).

* (If you remove the second or next to last token in a row of length N, you get a row of length N-2 and an isolated token that is not useful for any further move. So this is equivalent to removing the first or last two tokens.)
What's weird to me is you seem to keep trying to play this off as you being the reasonable one here, as if i'm being frustratingly obtuse.

Frankly, I don't understand what your argument is, because "I believe in consent of the governed, and making progress through reaching agreement on items that both sides can accept" doesn't mean anything.

I mean, consent of the governed usually means representative democracy, which is what we have. So, if that's what you're for, then all the regulations we have are perfectly reasonably determined. If that's not what you mean, I don't know what you mean. How would the system specifically change to be more "consent of the governed"?

We also have a system where we "reach agreement on items that both sides can accept". That's the problem with regulatory capture. We have lobbyists on one side and politicians on the other, and they both agree on things and then we get regulations. Ostensibly, politicians are acting on behalf of their constituents. If they are not, then you have a problem with our structure of government, not the regulatory system.

So far, your only concrete suggestion is that we replace 5000 lines of regulations with two sentences of regulation, which I've already explained why I think is a bad idea. Everything else you said is just feel good words that could mean anything to anyone.

You also seem to be assuming what my position is. My position is that in order to justify a regulation, we have to find a true and significant market failure. In such case, the first option should be investigating ways that the market failure could be addressed without regulation. And before a regulation is promulgated, we should require a cost-benefit analysis that results in the calculation that the regulation will create more benefit for society than it costs.

Your regulation suggestion would fail both of my tests. First, because the problem you're trying to fix is already fixed. Second because your proposed solution would cost much more than we are actually paying in inconvenience right now.

I have a lot of experience working in complex systems, and I have some government experience, and I know that systems are always much more complex than we think they are. I have an extreme amount of modesty toward thinking that I can introduce easy solutions to problems in complex systems. Government workers, most of the time are ill-equipped to step into a market and make it better.
Eight Books to help explain Trump's election
Yes. There's no new info there. I thought this was going to reflect Uber going for a round of financing on bad terms. But it's just blithering.

The numbers are clear. Here are Uber's financing rounds so far.[1] The $1.1 billion in loans in 2016 from Morgan Staley [2] wasn't on favorable terms for Uber. What's keeping them alive right now is a $3.5 billion equity investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. That was made before Uber pulled out of China, and may have been made for political reasons involving Saudi Arabia's relationship with China. They also got some undisclosed amount of money from Victor Orlovski, but the biggest investment to date from that source is $27 million, so it's probably not that big compred to Uber's burn rate. So Uber raised about $4.1 billion in 2016, $1.1 billion of which is debt which must be repaid.

Uber lost about $3 billion in 2016. There's been no new capital in 2017. Unless they can find a bigger sucker than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they go broke in 2018.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/07/new-reports-confirm-1-15b-...
NVIDIA makes the 1080Ti
This has been said before by another commenter, but I'll say it again because I think it really is true: Most likely you will never regret taking the year off, but in a few years you probably WILL regret never taking that year off.

> I am worried that I will seem less attractive to future employers when I return

That's not my experience at all. Me and many people I now have huge gaps in their work history, either from travel or startups, and it hasn't hurt anyone.

Also, it's not a black and white decision. Start taking time off and go travel. If you decide it's not for you after a few months just go back early.
>Airline service is crappy for the same reason pop music and fast food are crappy. People are willing to give up almost everything in the way of amenities in return for saving a few bucks on the ticket price. It's not the government's place to tell them they shouldn't do that.

The decline in quality has two major causes - people not willing to pay for it, and people comparison shopping by headline ticket-price. If it was just the first, the airlines wouldn't offer the option on flights, since nobody would pay for the extras. Airfare is heavily commoditized by comparison shopping, in that many levels of service get lumped into the same bucket and are considered equivalent.

I suspect that if airlines were allowed to offer a discount for not checking a bag, that amount would be smaller than existing checked-bag fees.

It is the government's place to regulate how prices get advertised. Standardizing service levels and requiring airlines to provide something like a "one checked bag + in-flight meal" price would likely ameliorate these issues.

In short, I'm arguing that discovering how much you can be expected to be charged for the in-flight extras you want is too difficult under the current system. This is a market design failure.
Just an observation...

These comments seem to be taken over by a pro-Hotel Lobby.

Does the average developer really care that much?

So many comments? 318 comments and climbing?

Why are there so-many down-voted comments?

Why are the ones down-voted almost entirely the ones saying they like AirBnB or questioning the Hotel industry?
University System of Maryland gives grants to promote open-source textbook use
Oh right, babies are stateful. I forget these things sometimes.
I'm an old geezer who grew up with text terminals and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Saving a scarce resource (mental real estate) to save a near free resource (bandwidth / processor cycles) is poor tradeoff.
"Basic Economy" is United's new bargain-basement fare class, meant to compete with similar offerings from other airlines. I don't think it even existed a month or two ago, which might be why this ineligibility to choose Economy Plus confusion comes from. At least historically, you could always pay for an Economy Plus seat no matter when or how or where you bought your seat.