skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it, have thought about it, but my one concern always is that it'll lead to a decrease in my typing skills instead of reinforcing good keying. But fuck, I just need to get stuff done sometimes.
The form factor thing is amazing. I didn't think I'd get much use out of it, but I do. I get a lot. It's so incredibly convenient.
No description of each image. Which one did you change the volume?
The job market isn't static like that. If there are lots of highly educated people, there will be new jobs created to take advantage of their skills. There might be more competition or there might not be, and it's definitely not a linear correlation.
Is it really fair to interpret the parent comment to say "you cannot appreciate or be thankful for research if you have further questions"? Or was this just super deadpan and I got wooshed :)
Wow, a new game by Zarf! Awesome, thanks for letting me know. Instant buy for me.
> If Intel can't offer more compelling improvements in watts per operation, I would be very disappointed.

There are some pretty hard physical boundaries. Businesses write off their hardware in 3 or 5 years, it's rare to see a machine older than that. But there may come a time when a 10 year old computer is just as powerful as one you buy today. The replacement market is what's driving Intel's revenues for a very large part and if that should ever stop then it probably wouldn't be a great idea to hold a lot of intel stock.
Eric Lippert, a former C# compiler developer, has a good blog post [1] discussing the reasoning and the difference between modulus and remainder.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2011/12/05/what...
Binary trees, with the operation being to join two trees at the root, form a magma which should quite clearly be non-associative (and thus not a semigroup).

There are of course other examples of sets equipped with non-associative binary operations (for example, 3-dimensional vectors with the cross product), but those typically have extra structure that you will want to exploit which "non-associative magma" cannot capture, and talking about them as magmas will probably feel somewhat artificial unless you have a good reason for ignoring all that structure.
> at what point is it expected that they use some of those profits made at the planet'*s expense

Expected? None at all. People will argue that that's not the place of companies nor the regulations imposed upon them, and they'll win that argument because they are fundamentally correct.

The lesson to be learned here is that relying on a corporatocracy to save you and "patching it" with regulations (or etc) every time something comes up will not work.

In such a system, companies will separate themselves one way or another from regulations that try and bring 'the bottom line' in line with some non-capitaist ideal. There's always some way to do so to increase "the bottom line." (And no, private companies won't save you either, because it's basically relying on a benevolent dictatorship or parliament you have no way of knowing will remain with the same ideals long-term.)
> As long as it's not an expectation I think it works quite well.

Other people have pointed out potential and real problems with tipping, but I think that a direct counter argument against what you said is that it will become an expectation.
For a somewhat apples to apples comparison, a 20 oz bottle of Coke (590 mL) cost me $1.69 in a city of 1 million people.
>"It's a market segmentation thing. Hotels that cater to business travelers can charge extra because the employer will pay for it."

What does this actually mean any more though to "cater to business travelers"? Once upon a time a hotel that catered to business travelers had a "business center" which meant there was an auxiliary room with a fax machine, a photo copier and a couple of PCs", that is largely anachronistic now though. And I think this kind of illustrates how stuck in a different era most of these hotels are.
As birth rates plummet across much of the developed world, can people really still be convinced to take on hardship just because things might supposedly be easier for their children (that they don't even have, or have but don't maintain a close relationship with)? Telling people today that their sacrifices are worth it or that the obstacles they face are not so bad, because things will be better for their kids, is cold comfort.
Would you be willing to 'sit in traffic' for your slot of bandwith, so to speak?
My understanding is that Continental, United, USAirways, American, Northwest, and Delta (the latter two also having merged) would've all ceased to operate had they not been allowed to merge. As of 2005 United, USAirways, Northwest, and Delta were all bankrupt; at that moment in time, 4 out of the top 6 U.S. carriers were operating in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. American entered bankruptcy in 2011, and Continental was reportedly in financial difficulties at the time. Had they not merged and instead entered Chapter 7, we might have gone down to 2-3 active airlines.

And we're already seeing renewed competition in domestic air travel: JetBlue and Alaska are coming up fast and threatening established carriers. JetBlue is my wife's favorite airline to fly on; she's gotten pretty good service on some very low fares.

I don't really see this as a market failure. People expect capitalism to give them great products at low prices all the time; it doesn't work like that. Capitalism just means that when things get too out-of-whack, the market adjusts and fixes it. Airlines were crazily unprofitable in 2008-2010; the market reaction was consolidation & mergers, such that airlines are now crazy profitable and give shitty service. The market reaction to that is that new competitors are springing up, saying "I can do better", and people are flying on them. Vote with your dollars and in another 5-10 years United will be bankrupt again.
What is the potential for getting stuck in BoTW?

The last Zelda game I bought was Skyward Sword for my Wii. Fairly early on I ran into something in one of the dungeons that I simply could not get past. I just could not get the timing right for the necessary move. I think my reflexes have slowed down a little as I've moved firmly past "not a kid anymore" into "middle aged enough to occasionally have some stupid kid at the drive through actually try to give me a senior discount", and that was enough to get me in Skyward Sword.

Since Zelda games before BoTW have generally a linear progression where you must complete various things in order to advance, getting stuck pretty much is game over.

The reviews I've read say BoTW tosses that out and is very "open world", and there is almost no need to finish any particular thing in order to progress.

Is that actually accurate?
I understand what you're saying. And it even does play out with US transportation. But absolutely not with roads! One of the main problems with US roads is our failure to price them correctly, causing everyone to demand usage at peak times.

In US transportation, this is seen in how we lost the rail right of ways. We sold them off, and we may never get them back. And it'll be a huge problem if we ever come to our senses and pivot back to trains.
ProPublica had a good write up on the airline consolidation that occurred during the Obama administration.

https://www.propublica.org/article/airline-consolidation-dem...
> Well, anyone that's going to build their own PC in the near future is going to put Ryzen in there

I think you overstate success of Ryzen. It's only clearly better in price/performance ratio of you compare it to overpriced Intel's top monsters. There are other processors from Intel which are comparable to Ryzen, plus the question of multithreaded/singlethreaded performance, whichever you need more.
> I understand the reason why tipping exists in the restaurant industry

Why does it exist?
In the words of Monty Python: It is a silly place.
Would be nice to have some form of autocorrect directly in the shell, especially if it was aware of common programs and so could also autocorrect options. Obviously we could think of a few cases with destructive outcomes--but that doesn't make it a bad feature.

git stauts

I mean, git knows enough to ask me "Did you mean this? status".
Nightly is too unstable and beta is too late. Aurora was a more nuanced release, where it had some stability, while still had features that were long before beta appearance.
This seems like a less-polished version of 'Learn X in Y Minutes'.

Dropping phrases like "REPL" and "PEP" and only defining what they stand for doesn't really explain what they are. And the explanation of dunder methods at first seemed to suggest there are only 2.

And calling this 90% of Python is really misleading. It's not even 90% of the syntax, let alone the whole language.
I do not believe this to be true. It has always stated "Invites Sent" on April 18th.
Beyond the Whiteboard: software engineering interviews at Zymergen
How would Google Calendar know the event is at 4pm in California? Is the location field filled with enough information? If not, that seems like almost as much work as entering the timezone.

This did happen to me with daylight saving a while back so I do sympathize.
Similar results - converting to a square image at 8bit then lowering JPEG quality just gets noisy in an uninteresting way:

sox mo.wav -e unsigned -b 8 -c 1 -r 48k mo.raw
bytes=`stat -f %z mo.raw`
width=`echo sqrt\($bytes\) | bc`
square_bytes=`echo $width \* $width | bc`
dd if=mo.raw of=mo_square.raw bs=$square_bytes count=1
gm convert -depth 8 -size ${width}x${width} gray:mo_square.raw -quality 50 mo_square.jpg
gm convert mo_square.jpg gray:mo_square_jpg.raw
sox -e unsigned -b 8 -c 1 -r 48k -t raw mo_square_jpg.raw mo_jpg.wav
"As the old saying goes: "It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it". Or another take on it: "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
"

These are fine. However, there is also the belief that all people who have reached the stars have worked hard or that people who haven't reached stars just haven't worked enough. These are wrong. Success is a combination of hard work and a good portion of luck. You most likely won't be successful if you don't work hard but if you don't succeed it's not necessarily because you haven't worked hard.

To me it's a call for successful people to be more compassionate with people who aren't successful.
Of course, the drawback is that the machine doesn't really know what you intended without more context than a single command line. Often it can make a good guess, but not always and sometimes it'll guess wrong, perhaps disastrously so.
None, but I did here[1].
Also, on a related note all image names include the effect that was used.

[1] https://allg.one/1QbX
Same, 25, quit job with MSFT, in Asia now.
I see this as a good thing. Now we can finally get down to what we should have been doing in the first place: better software, rather than just more of it and of mediocre quality. Moore's law has bailed out many producers of inferior quality software and now that that free run has come to an end we're going to have to take a really hard look at how we cook this stuff up.
No, you shouldn't feel the need to preemptively move to a "tech" company. Doing software at big tech companies isn't all that different from doing software at a non-tech company. Products are so big and diverse that you're usually contributing to a tiny little subset of some far flung feature. That said, the ceiling is certainly higher for top-tier developers.

So, I wouldn't say you should take lower pay now just to get a foot in the door. But if you do get to the point where you're hitting a glass ceiling, then certainly make the jump.

That's just the financial/career perspective. As far as how much you like the job / how much you contribute, well per my experience, the grass is always greener on the other side. When you're working on something small, you have greater influence on the product but the scope of the product itself isn't so great, and vice versa with big things (though of course there are some jobs that fail on both influence and scope). But ultimately your goals there are something you have to establish for yourself.
> ...but actually getting one has so far proved to be impossible.

Where/when did you try buying? I didn't think it was difficult to get the 1st-gen Phi cards while they were selling them --
especially as it seemed like nobody wanted them. Admittedly I never bought any myself, my employer picked up some 31S1P from a local server OEM for testing when they were massively discounted.

Note that the Knights Landing, the current generation is released socketed only for now, so you'd need to buy a server or the ninja dev platforms Intel sells through Colfax.
Cut them down when mature and use them as building material.
You must complete the first 4 trials in the opening area - after that you can go directly to Ganon, explore the world, complete one of the 4 main dungeons, do more temples, or whatever you want in basically whatever order you want.

Some things may be easier with prerequisites met but are still 100% possible if they aren't.
I remember seeing legroom on Orbitz/Kayak/whoever in the past, but I don't see it now.
From my personal experience, Airbnb's tend to be a minimum of 15-20% cheaper than 3 star hotel prices. Often times those Airbnb's will offer a 5 star experience.

I enjoy hotels, and the convenience, but I prefer nice Airbnb's for the following reasons:

1) full kitchen
2) more privacy
3) much cheaper
4) often times helped by host
5) get a taste of actually living in a neighborhood at your destination
I mean, is there any reason to believe this is actually true? There's no law that just because something is super useful its price will continue to drop forever.

The entire computer industry, well, the entire technology industry is founded on compute power becoming cheaper each year.

What happens to these billion-dollar companies when that is no longer the case? Will Intel's investors be OK with it when they announce that they won't be coming out with anything much better than what they've currently got? Or will they be punished (severely) in the stock market after such an announcement? [1]

The board of directors will respond to pressure from the investors (or get replaced), and will replace company leadership if needed to continue advancement in technology.

And so they (or someone else) will invest in new technologies to move beyond CMOS lithography, such as molecular nanotechnology. Which will disrupt everything else related to technology and biology as well.

[1] I read articles about gamers buying 5-year old Xeon processors for their game machines for $70 USD which are competitive with current-generation i7 desktop processors that cost much more. If Intel can't sell new processors that are effectively better than older ones, that's going to be a real problem for them, and the stock market will eventually notice.
The TSA restrictions on carry-on luggage caused me to quit checking my main bag even though I use a bag that is designed for the typical domestic overhead bin.

Relevant to what seems to be your local optimization, if you are trying to get your bag checked for free, you are combining all the possible inconveniences: carry the bag to the gate, have its contents qualify as carry-on contents, and wait for it at the carousel when you land.

It does seem like a better idea to waive the fee at times, in order to streamline operations. But I pay the fee 24 hours in advance (when online checkin opens). How would they implement a waiver fairly?
A laptop will work fine. Even a Android / Win10 tablet with HDMI out will emulate N64/PS1 decently.
Yes everyone is a shill /s
One of the key takeaways, and one that was really obvious in the last interview is that you should do things that don't scale. It's hard to distinguish between actual roadblocks to your business as compared to itches that you just need to scratch, especially when you are a developer and your itch can be solved through a technical solution. Developing a solution for that non-critical problem allows you to feel like you are making progress when, in fact, you aren't actually moving your business forward at the pace you should be. Having someone question your roadmap with an external viewpoint really makes it clear when you are going down a rabbit hole and that is where the value of these office hours seem to lie.
>What's the harm

I think the issue is the opposite outcome of your scenario:
"As long as it's not an expectation"

It will become an expectation. Many people find tipping a hassle and they don't want drivers using a new social standard to guilt them into it.

Also, any discretionary tip amounts become another datapoint for drivers to give bad ratings to riders. ("Oh she only gave me a 15% tip instead of a 30% tip so I rate her 1 star!")
How to raise $170M for a crazy idea
Unicorns Watch in Horror as Uber Careens Towards a Down Round
LFS is a tool to use to avoid checking in 7 gb files. If you want to weigh down your repo with binary bloat, don't configure your repo to use LFS.
(off topic but I felt a word of advice might prove useful).

If you find yourself downvoted and wonder why - please consider two things that don't go down well on Hacker News:

1. Arbitrary capitalization for emphasis and multiple exclamation marks makes you sound a little breathless and over-excited.

2. Your post was pretty much content-free.
Ask HN: What SaaS do you or your business use?
I would also take that. I just don't want to see a situation where drivers can effectively hold a users ratings hostage to make sure they get a tip.
Doc2Vec to Assess Semantic Similarity in Source Code
People said similar things when we reached the wavelength of visible light.
You certainly protest a great deal over something you claim to find boring and pointless.
I think there might be a subtext here that's not explicitly mentioned (it would have been understood at the time): the emergence of the electric telegraph.

> When people took them, they thought that they could convert them into this use at least, and that so long as letters had to go by mail they would have some value, and might therefore be safely regarded as currency.

The 1860s were right around the time that the electric telegraph was reaching worldwide popularity. So here in midst of the Civil War they have a fiat currency based on a commodity that is vulnerable to collapse in value, due to a disruptive technology.

The immediate threat to the currency is the USPS discontinuing acceptance of non-pristine stamps. And I think that's all the Times was intentionally referencing here. But I wonder if there was some understanding that stamps would make a terrible currency for this reason as well.
If there are equal outcomes, then we have succeeded at creating equal opportunity. Not as individuals; but statistically.

Individually preferences, choices, dumb luck, etc. of course would lead to unequal outcomes -- as it should be. But when taken as a whole, those differences should disappear.

It is an ideal, but I like it because it is a measurable ideal.
The Hacker Dictionary – Hacker terms, lingo, slang, and acronyms
Does Xcode and/or the iPhone simulator work?
Yeah, vs Go, Oberon's could be used for OS's, modified for web in Juice, were simpler, and so on. I like the first chart in the Quora article as it shows modern, imperative programmer things were more complex than just ASM, C language, VB6, "application" languages, and "scripting" languages. ;) The second is somewhat irking because it doesn't have Ada. Although I might have overlooked it given all the text and it's easier to read than the first. Maybe just add Ada in there. While we're at it, I think these maybe should include SPARK as it's own entry given it was first language that let you automatically prove absence of errors without formal verification. Used to great effect in IRONSIDES DNS, SPARKSkein, and Muen.
It's not that hard. You don't need to dig into the implemetnation, just look at the interface: when you book a ticket, you are presented with the option of purchasing upgraded seating (economy plus, bulkhead, exit row -- not just on United, it's on most airliens). If you don't like the options available, cancel your purchase (within 24h of purchase)
So do you propose we give free scholarships, jobs, and tax breaks to those who end up unlucky?

I was unlucky and had medical problems in college. I deserve some relief. But I'm also a co-founder of a decent startup. Am I lucky or unlucky?
Becoming a startup founder – advice from the Crowdsourceress
There's no royal road.
"The harder I work the luckier I get." comes to mind.
I dunno, I don't think that would really happen. I'm always trying to type the same word (I don't say "pish" in my head, after all, I think "push"), so it doesn't seem to be a random walk away from correctness, just some wavering around it. And it's not like I have that many commands I need to type commonly enough to make an alias for-- maybe a couple dozen? And for most of them, I don't make typos so I don't feel the need to make an alias.
iOS supports plaintext fine. You can even press Safati's reader view button if you need your text to be beautiful.
Watch World’s First Live 360 Degree Video of Rocket Launch April 18
Well, it's guessing the intent of a user on command line and trying to fix their problem automatically. I don't expect perfection so much as it working well enough in common situations.
They might have just been bragging to the TSA, who couldn't even catch a boot: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-u...
Workplace by Facebook – Facebook for companies
Is the standard that every time someone shares an opinion their entire history is judged?

To some degree (I won't say 'entire'), this is the very definition of "credibility."
Yes the boss has to take responsibility for putting a person into a job they are unsuitable for - I have done this thinking I could put smart and hard working older people into jobs that required a lot of context switching. I take full responsibility for the result.

My only defence is I was young and inexperienced. I thought I was being smart by hiring the people other businesses discriminate against. I did at least learn.
> the state does a dis-service by claiming dominion over the entire electromagnetic spectrum

The alternative is the guy with the loudest transmitter wins.
I don't think it will matter much though. Whether you have to remove input power as heat or expend power to cool likely won't make a whole lot of difference. Just that the delta-t will be a lot larger and so it may actually cost more to keep that ultra-cool machine ultra-cool.

Maybe future data-centers will be used to pre-heat the water that goes into the turbines that power the electricity plant, in some kind of perverse version of a perpetuum mobile.

You'd need to make up for the difference lost on each cycle with extra fuel.
Shamefully I can't remember which wahwah I used - I was treating the audio with both Audacity and Pro Tools as well as sox though...
Indeed. Firefox is the only major browser that where the rendering engine isn't owned by a large manufacturer, ie Apple, Google or Microsoft. It's also genuinely open source.
There's a (good, rather surreal at times) webcomic along these lines, PowerNap. Cyberpunk-ish future, just about everybody takes a drug to eliminate the need for sleep, protagonist is someone who's allergic to the stuff and is navigating life in a world where sleep itself is a disorder. (Plus strange dreamscape things)
http://www.powernapcomic.com/d/20110617.html
Another response below correctly answers your question. In business hotels, rates are set to be eligible for corporate booking. Expensing the internet separately is a non-issue for these customers.