skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you were wondering: SDF stands for Super Dimension Fortress, or at least that's what they tell a noob.

"a networked community of free software authors, teachers, students, researchers, hobbyists, enthusiasts and the blind. It is operated as a federally recognised non-profit 501c7 and is supported by its members."

...

"Our mission is to provide remotely accessible computing facilities for the advancement of public education, cultural enrichment, scientific research and recreation. Members can interact electronically with each other regardless of their location using passive or interactive forums. Further purposes include the recreational exchange of information concerning the Liberal and Fine Arts."

...

"Members have access to games, email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace, programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and more. The SDF community is made up of caring, highly skilled people who operate behind the scenes and in the underground to maintain a non-commercial INTERNET."
.. ask the author. He's the one that put that in the paper. Didn't you read it?
Simple phone repairs Next time your iPhone breaks, just build a new one
That is because there is no web server on that domain.

My website is at http://jacquesmattheij.com/ and my email is jacques@mattheij.com

But thanks for the warning, I'll set up a redirect.
Hmm. I didn't even get a landing page when following the link, so I'm rather confused as to the above. :-)

(Australia; ublock; Chrome).
If having Jack Nicholson in your movie guarantees at least $20 million more in box office revenue than someone nobody has ever heard of, they're creating value.

Likewise, a professional athlete plays on a sports team. That sports team generates millions of dollars a year in television contracts. Hundreds of people are employed both at the stadiums at which they play as well as at the television stations that air the games. Millions more are made from merchandising, jerseys, hats, etc from the sports team. Hundreds more are employed making and selling those products.

And yes, they also become marketing machines. Yet that marketing machine sells products and people are employed at those companies that make and sell those products.

The ripple-on effect of a super-star professional athlete like Michael Jordon or LeBron James generates wealth for tens of thousands of people.
What will happen to these malls that close? Will they be modified and turned into multi office buildings? Would/could enough workers support the food courts? I suppose they wouldn't need quite as much parking so more satellite office buildings? More co-working spaces? What does the future hold in your opinion?
Speaking of straw men, this program does more than simple typo substitution. The listed examples include prepending sudo and using git-suggested commands.
You're (not even you, your lab is) paying for niche, specialized, professional software - it's not "accounting software" or "photo software" or "chat software". Out of curiosity, how much do you expect professional "genetic engineering software" to cost? Between $270-700 for a permanent license seems like a pretty good deal to me.
Hit piece guys, released by "director of ZCash" an hour before a scheduled hard fork for Monero.
There are entire industries built around programming and IT. There are precisely zero industries built around pure management.

Any loud idiot with a smattering of charm can be a manager. Children at McDonald's get promoted to manager all the time.

Hierarchical management and bureaucracy are antique methods of communication within businesses. Now they only serve as information gatekeepers. They have delusions of being more important because they talk to people "higher up the chain"... who are doing exactly the same thing they do for more money.

The MBA exists to keep the numbers down by making it artificially expensive to get your foot in the door anywhere decent. It requires zero real thought, originality, or skill. Just parrot a few cliched profundities and buzzwords, get a cheap suit and a clean haircut, then you're golden. The HR people will be swooning.

At least programmers create something new from raw logic and math!

Sure, cheap and low skilled alternatives exist... Because the pace of IT requires making the basic tools easy to learn and free. This does make the barrier to entry low.

Just like real leaders, good programmers are in a league of their own. They take the basic tools and build completely new tools that make others more efficient in their jobs. With good IT team innovating, everyone's toolsets grow, which allows the company to do more than they could before. Meanwhile, the low skilled turn out the same precise package with a tiny change over and over. They just keep things working with no additional value while the company as a whole falls behind their competition.

There are far more genius level intellects who program than there are climbers of corporate ladders. Why waste the time? Learn enough as a programmer and build your own company.

Every business needs IT for both support and innovation in today's economy. On the other hand, management rarely ever innovates. They simply get the resources for the people who do, then try to claim the glory of their hard work.

Teams can work just fine with very little to no management. Businesses collapse without strong IT. Just look at the number of Fortune 500 companies from the 50's that have closed in the last 15 years.

Management has no bearing on positive growth at best, and at worst will actively derail a company's future for a buck. IT has the power to make meaningful contrabutions to the company's bottom line right now and contribute towards future growth by creating the tools needed for that growth.

The concept of hierarchical management and their "middle managers" is dead. The lessons taught by MBA degrees don't reflect this reality, nor do the numbers of MBA graduates. Without some careful limiting, the MBA will be the next Art or Literature degree. Basic market supply saturation effects.

Outsourcing is the balancing to IT's power over companies. Remember, most companies that did outsource suffered in the long run.
Is a co-op really best for tech work? If so why?

Don't studies show that when there's a profit motive creative people perform more poorly than when they're just paid enough to make money not a distraction?

I have so many questions seriously.

How do decisions get made?
What if it's really successful and people get lazy and decide to chill on a boat?
So many more... where can I find a great argument explaining the benefits and tradeoffs of starting a tech cooperative?
Might be interesting to experiment with different mappings of pixel location to audio sample number, rather than just having a row by row linear scan from corner to corner.
Haha, yup.
Find a photo you like, replicate it.

Rinse and repeat. (Eventually you'll build up enough skill to be able to do something unique, or a mashup, yourself.)
Test Pilot Containers is the best innovation in a browser for me lately. I used to create separate profiles in Chrome to have multiple logins for a single website. Now I can just create another container and have
a new profile side by side in the same window.

Containers are supported in Firefox Nightly without the Test Pilot Addon.
Bear in mind that this is someone who is considered by a significant part of the population and the government to be a traitor who aided various enemies.

Whether or not you share that view, it's hardly surprising that people who are supporting him are facing this kind of hassle.
And where can I get some?
Cows being sacred is no more funny than God killing his son to forgive humanity for the crime of some couple in ancient history eating an apple.

Religions are weird. If you find some funny but not the others, you probably have blinkers on.
This is the blind leading the blind.

Fundamental truth: bayes theorem.

P(evidence | null hypothesis) = P(null hypothesis | evidence) * P (evidence) / P (null hypothesis)

The P-value test determines:

P(evidence | null hypothesis) = 0.5%

= there is a 0.5% chance of the observed evidence given the null hypothesis

The statement "We estimate that there is a 99.5 percent chance that the observed retreat did not happen in the absence of a climate trend."

translates to P(!null hypothesis | evidence) = 99.5%

By Bayes theorem:

P(!null hypothesis | evidence) = P(evidence | !null hypothesis) * P (!null hypothesis) / P (evidence)

We know almost none of these terms. The answer is not as simple as 99.5.
Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
> Do you seriously think that anyone on this website doesn't know the term PIGS?

N≥1; I couldn't have said what it was.
Burger King's 'OK Google' sad ad saga somehow gets worse
Eh, customer testimonials and logos are a pretty standard part of the startup website equation.
Some get turned into massive offices like that. (Example: Rackspace)

Some will sit empty for decades and decay. (Example: the mall outside Chicago where they filmed Blues Brothers)

I think most will simply be bulldozed and rezoned.
Expozitia 'Mise a Nu – Povestea Mea' – Anouk Ragot
mkstemp - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mkstemp.3.html
I guess I do.
This list is ridiculous. JavaScript is not #7. I'm not sure what Tiobe's methodology is but it's clearly disconnected from the reality of 2017.
Donald Trump to overhaul H-1B visa program that admits foreign workers
I thought the disclaimer seemed out of place as it seemed obvious they had no affiliation with f.lux. Now it makes sense that they just have a disclaimer for everything so it's clearer what's sponsored content.
Meet Babel Street, the Powerful Social Media Surveillance Used by Police, Etc.
This is hilarious and very good. How do I make it say a word though? Is it possible?
Plenty of people work on their product or test the market for customers before they form the legal entity. A two month difference is not necessarily concerning.
I remember learning how to use telnet into SDF when I was in middle school, around 2001, looking for something more interesting to do in computer lab while everyone else was doing typing assignments, and I _seem_ to remember playing a MUD on their server as well. I also have a distinct memory of copying the source code of their site's index when I was learning to edit HTML, probably within a month of that, because their site was very legible and easy to tinker with. How time flies!
It is separate. You can disable searches for the Awesome Bar by setting keyword.enabled to false on about:config.
They will become Amazon Distribution centers.
> Bear in mind that this is someone who is considered by a significant part of the population and the government to be a traitor who aided various enemies.

Also known as a journalist. This view is not unique to one country either, there are lots of countries where journalists are given that treatment - or worse.
> even kids with no jobs have smartphones and data plans for no useful reason.

There are plenty of reasons to have a smartphone regardless of age or employment. If nothing else, messaging apps are an important part of socialization.
Yes, "rich" compared to India, although there is increasing wealth in India, and my SaaS product now has quite a lot of income from India right now. (Admittedly it is B2B rather than B2C, and targets online tutoring which is a very large market in India).
I'm looking for a recipe ;)

Maybe yogurt is good in French toast or pancakes.
I am curious. I do not know much about image encoding and the such. What other types are there besides linear either row by row or column by column? It seems to me that those two are the only logical ways to map pixels.
You're right that there's no easy way to pick a physician. But when I or one of my loved ones is in the hospital, my only requirement for the hospital staff is that they communicate well with me. If they don't, I politely ask that they be removed from me/our care. I make this requirement clear up front (in a non-demanding kind of way; you don't want to piss people off or make it look like you're a difficult patient/family member).

Also, for every patient and family that I meet, I explain right away that the only promise I make is that I will be honest, upfront, and clear when I'm talking to them; that I will give them my best effort. This has served me very well and I've won numerous local accolades because of it. It also softens the blow when something goes wrong, even when it's my fault. When I was a resident, I frequently had patient's demanding to speak with me instead of the attending because they trusted me more.

Keep in mind that I'm a hospitalist/intensivist, so I don't know if things will necessarily generalize to the primary care/office setting.
The interrogation in the article occurred before Snowden.
Isn't a pink trombone...
It's funny because in the lecture itself he discussed how the idea of neural networks was once on the chopping board of the course, but they decided to keep it in just to avoid people reinventing the wheel.

It's amazing how a lot of the basics were written about in textbooks from the 80's and even earlier, but how some recent works by people such as George Hinton have reinvigorated the field and actually enabled practical applications.
My definition of "city" is stricter than most so perhaps a lot of Americans would disagree with me. Even taking that into account, perhaps I was not loose enough with my definition.

Anchorage has a population density of 170 people per square mile. Portland, ME has a population density of 3,100 people per square mile. For reference, Providence, RI - not a megalopolis by any stretch of the imagination - has a density of over 9,000 people per square mile. I think it is a bit of a stretch to call either Anchorage, AK or Portland, ME "a city". They might be very nice suburban towns. They might have a high concentration of their respective state's populations. That does not mean that the voters in those places will want the same policy adjustments that voters in, say, Pittsburgh or Minneapolis will want.
Everyone is talking about the company or typos for some reason. The article here actually has some interesting ideas though. I think I'll send it to Kindle to read instead of a phone in the spirit of that.
What? Did we read the same article? The one I read didn't say "exercise is good for you".

It distinguished between 3 forms of exercise and the interesting results they had on young and old people.

That's hardly a dead horse.
It doesn't seem to mention anything about who the interviewee is. Clicking through a few other articles on the site shows the same pattern. A very odd angle for a web site. We "interview" anonymous people who may or may not be Fortune 100 execs, and further may or may not be real people.
If they'd have referenced Sally, I'd have totally have been on board.
> Deadheading crew is predictable and can be planned for.

But there can be unexpected need for crew to position due to weather, maintenance, sickness.
Context probably matters, granted. That said, I was responding to a universal condemnation of C, so it seems reasonable to respond in kind.
The euphoria comes from pushing yourself past what you believed your limits to be. One of the biggest adrenaline/testosterone rushes of my life was from a 600lb deadlift. The feeling was so intense, I felt like I could tear someone limb from limb with my bare hands for about a minute after that.
Just in case someone reads this comment and thinks it's a joke, this is a real issue i.e. I've seen it cause issues in production
The beef is that I paid for this and so should you. It is irrelevant how much, but the fact is you didn't pay for it, so you shouldn't sit there.
Pausing Wire Deposits to Bitfinex
which threats are those? have you seen much rhetorical defense of North Korea from hacker news posters?
Essence of linear algebra [1] , in 3blue1brown youtube channel totally changed my perspective on Linear Algebra. One of the best channels in YouTube I have seen so far. He makes his videos using the animation engine [2] he built himself.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

[2] https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Good. I'll probably get downvoted for this, but fuck it. The H1-B program is there to enable fulfilling positions where there are insufficient US citizens/permanent residents to fulfill positions with appropriate skills. The program has been long been abused.

H1-B is just a great way for the large sweat shops of Silicon Valley to bring in cheap labor and effectively price out domestic labor that is perfectly capable of performing the labor (i.e. We can't find labor at 1/2 the prevailing rate, thus I need an H1-B), but the companies don't want to pay the prevailing domestic rate.
Whether you're planning a worker cooperative or just open to sharing the businesses financials with the workers there's a book you should read, Jack Stack's the great game of business:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Business-Expanded-Updated/...

He practices what he preaches and hundreds visit his company every year to see how it works in practice.
The last two places I worked as a software engineer (both big American corps) had some 30 hour a week employees. I'd say less than 15%. Neither employer really advertised it though both had well defined and written corporate structure/policies/benefits in place for it.

My current employer doesn't offer it.
Chinese Brand Chuwi's Latest Budget Laptop Has Same Panel as Surface Pro
E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
Not really related, but a while back I wrote a script to visualize/hear audio generation loss with different file formats:

https://github.com/skratchdot/audio-generation-loss/tree/mas...

So, mp3s add a bunch of silence to the beginning of the file, and ogg files start to "chirp". I never got around to putting this info in a consumable, easy to understand format though. The videos in these folders just continuously re-encode a source file w/ a given lossy format.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss
How to Convert DVD to iPad/iPad 2 with DVD to iPad/iPad 2 Ripper
If you are fine with PHP there is also the option of OctoberCMS built on top of the Laravel framework, have to say I really enjoy it so far.

http://octobercms.com/

https://www.atlantic.net/blog/october-cms/

http://www.archybold.com/blog/post/laravel-vs-october-cms-di...
If you are fine with PHP there is also the option of OctoberCMS built on top of the Laravel framework, have to say I really enjoy it so far.

http://octobercms.com/
https://www.atlantic.net/blog/october-cms/
http://www.archybold.com/blog/post/laravel-vs-october-cms-di...
Now make gifv with a script that changes the audio effects over time.
Any permutation could be used, but I suppose you'd want to use ones that form some sort of visually recognisable pattern. For example, a spiral emerging from the centre of the image, or all the even numbered pixels from a linear scan followed by all those indexed by an odd number.
Berliners/sufganiyot/yogurt donuts?
Coalescing Minds [pdf]
An IQ of 60 isn't difference, it's indicative of either malnutrition, severe neglect, or some form of developmental disorder. In fact, I'd be surprised if there are many people of below average intelligence that don't suffer from one of those things. I'd even wager that if you took any random infant that didn't have a developmental problem and raised them in a loving affluent western family with good food and an enriched environment odds are good their IQ would measure >110 after a few years.
As one content creator to another: thank you for the material, especially at a reasonable price of $10. Purchased.
I am talking about realistic scenarios, that person can renounce US citizenship, changing the US tax code is not in his hands, is it?
Anyone use AWS's CodeCommit as a mirror for your GitHub repository?
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EEVblog's new YouTube channel inexplicably banned
The site's marketing is deceptive if you're not vigilant.

> We've helped members from these firms

Could mean anyone anywhere up the food chain. From "execs" to unpaid interns.

Looking at the customer testimonials portions, they only include first names and their name-brand firm. No position or anything else to help identify their qualifications.

If we assume youexec is aligning their marketing towards people who are -- or want to be -- in executive roles, and look at some context clues, the testimonials become nearly worthless.

Brian from McK doesn't have front-office dress, so we can rule him out.

Oluyemi from Google refers to himself as only a "software developer" (if we assume he's not being modest).

Olga from CN, I have no idea. But that only makes it 1 for 3.

But, it looks more likely that YE is following the footsteps of "Think and Grow Rich" -- and the infinite spinoffs of which it'll most likely be joining if its current state is to be used as a predictor. The crowd who wants what the other guy's having. Not because of said thing's inherent value, but because someone important is doing it.
I definitely feel my family helps a lot in that regard. If not for those interactions, I'd want an office job.
So, what is cryptograffiti? Is it just decoding all the non-monetary transaction stuff that people are tossing into the blockchain?
The level of invitation, the level of harm, it's not that I don't see them, it's that they look exactly the same as you get with a Betamax machine. Insisting that a possibility of harm exists does not affect my point at all. And it's not a big risk, there's really no need to lock things down. Home taping never killed anything. If I had my way DRM on videos would be banned. It's not like it prevents piracy.
Drag over the circle, and while still dragging, move your mouse over the square. Now you can control both at once.
Sigh.

In Russia there are 11 time zones. When somebody moves from Irkutsk to Chelyabinsk by train, the arrival and departure times for trains on all stations are _always_ stated in Moscow time zone.

Scott Aaronson haven't visited International Space Station yet. Do you guys know what time system is used on board of ISS? And how they arrange time of the meetings with somebody on Earth?..
It's the TIOBE index.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

> The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.

According to the index Java is 6x more popular than JavaScript.

You are right that doesn't reflect the # of GitHub protects. It's mostly limited to professional avenues.
Interesting thesis.

It was a similar situation during the Terry Semel days at Yahoo! Too much focus on becoming a media company and selling ads.
These guys are doing something along those lines:

https://ico.iconomi.net/login
Because it's making fun of Facebook adding stories into to all of their apps.
Some other factors:

- Many malls chased out the teenagers, sometimes indirectly by forcing out arcades and such that might be hangouts, and sometimes directly with bans. When they grew up, "going to the mall" was no longer even on their radar.

- Some malls went crazy with outbuildings, to the point you'd hardly realize there was a mall amid the clutter.

- Along that same line, a lot of people want to just dash into one store, get what they're looking for, and get out. Smaller stores in malls are generally not visible from the street.
You can use Audacity to open and edit images using musical effects too (and sometime destroy image metadata)
For those interested, Panix in NY offers Unix shell access (and much more).

http://www.panix.com/
This is the first "why the Dick Costolo move was the problem" take I've ever read that made any sense to me. This is excellent.

(And it should go without saying that Dick did his job, as assigned, unbelievably well. It just seems to me he was assigned the wrong job at the wrong time and this makes sense of why in a way that makes sense to me finally).