skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too early to try and sell them on anything. Call them up.

"Hello, this is cosmorocket, and I'd like to learn more about your industry. Can I stop by sometime and ask you some questions? Perhaps shadow you for a little while? I'll bring coffee and danish."

Just watch and listen. If you see them get frustrated by something, give them a moment then ask "So, what just happened?"
This is the good scenario. The mortgage and insurance industries see rising sea levels coming, reprice accordingly, and over time, people move to high ground. It's the free market in action.

Only a few areas of the US are affected. Florida has the worst problem. Florida is so flat. Look at an elevation map of Florida and the Gulf Coast.[1] The bright red areas will have to be evacuated.

The US west coast is mountainous; even where it looks flat, a few hundred feet inland is well above sea level. San Francisco and LA will build seawalls and berms as necessary.

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3047/
No. It is because the next-gen sequencers just don't do what the old sequencers (sanger) do (sequence small regions of DNA at high accuracy). The new machines can sequence a whole genome, but if you only want to look at small part of a genome then there is no replacement for Sanger sequencing.

Another surprising reason is the OEM manufacturer of the instrument (hitachi) basically over engineered the machines and built a tank. The machines just keep running and running.
Rule of "Silicone Valleys" and "Startup Centers": if it is announced in a press release that a place is becoming one of those things, chances are they won't.

A lot of these press releases come from top down incentives, tax cuts, special programs and such that. The problem is they fail to capture all the reasons and causes a startup center is a startup center.

One thing might help is to start war for example and have the Canadian defense ministry invest heavily in war technologies and hand out cash to develop radars :-) or other such non-obvious things.
Yes, they can; you register a Gmail account as crb@example.org, proving you control that e-mail address.

Then, an admin who proves they control the entire example.org domain registers it for G Suite, and creates a 'crb' user.

You now have a conflict account situation: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7062710?hl=en
I kinda think that works in my favor. There are good low budget science fiction movies. Super hero movies, less so. Especially in the post Jurassic Park era, where the bar for effects has gotten quite high.
Take for example Elm. Elm has no runtime errors, the concept just does not exist in that universe. That's a whole series of gotchas that don't exist.
I think it's important to keep the context of the question in mind when reading his response. Someone asked him what he thought the worst case scenario would be.

Honestly I'm surprised it's not worse and it seems to fall in line with a lot of worse-case predictions I've seen made in various studies.
What pisses me off is the small-government, lower my taxes, SUV driving, Tump voting, homeowners expect government bailouts for the problems they caused/ignored/actively fought against any mitigation of.
It is a Python thing, see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/. And changing the definition of `python` is just going to cause issues again once Python 4 eventually comes around.
> we should never directly challenge the request of anyone in a position of authority because we can then address it in the courts later in a fair and civilised manner...as a blanket statement that it's always better to obey, no matter what the request seems absurd.

You are arguing for the use of violent resistance to authority. If you disobey an authority what do you expect to happen? We have the right to peaceful protest, a democratic government, and a justice system. The only alternative I see is a violent confrontation with police which is not the society I want.

> To my mind the actors who created a physical altercation were the police officers and not the passenger.

You cannot disobey the police. The physical altercation was most definitely created by the passenger refusing police orders. I like US police because they get the job done. If this was Europe it would most certainly have been a different story. Plane would have been endlessly delayed, etc.

> To me their options are clear, persuade one passenger on the plane to get out, or lose whatever amount of money they were going to lose by not having that crew on their plane.

If you leave one passenger on the plane, you give reason for every other passenger to refuse. Then what do you do?

I would have given the same order to remove him from the plane with force, and I would expect this to be carried out like so. If there is some sort of mistake, it can be cleared up afterwards without inconveniencing everyone on the flight.

To argue against this is to argue that no one should ever be forcibly removed from anyone else's private property. The argument clearly does not hold across different scenarios. Follow the police's orders and leave someone else's private property when ordered to is a consistent message that makes it easy for everyone to avoid violence. Allowing everyone to live by their own interpretation of the law ends in more violence and regret.
I think there are a number of factors here, and I don't think social factors should be ruled out.

There are a number of startups here, but there are also many community/social innovation hubs[1] and organizations that draw in a lot of people who come here to start something up.

The number of jobs I have seen posted for the "Next Flipp!" the "Next Uber!!!" is outstanding. How many flyer-aggregate apps do people really need? There's an odd lack of creative capital in business for a city that prides itself on the arts.

I think some of that is due to social pressures. Many in the arts here, at least the people who would need the money, seem to think earning any real money is evil unless you earned your $10.50 an hour working on the line in a diner kitchen. As if a financially successful business is inherently a corrupt business.

Other organizations like Enterprise Toronto[2] seem like great ideas to bolster people in theory, but (speaking only from my experience) it seems to attract people who want to only run their quaint one-man dev-designer gig with enough money to do what they want, and all the free time to do it. Sounds kind of nice, but the city is flooded with people who have the same dream. (Maybe there's more space for it these days, and maybe I should get in on it).

Your last paragraph raises very good questions, and the answers are probably too many: the best talent goes to California/New York/Boston(/Waterloo?), or otherwise the best talent here doesn't get into business but stays in academics. Some of the highest capital here seems to be made through selling to American companies.[3] Then of course the social factors I mentioned: it might just be that the dream is a little different for a lot of people who come here. They didn't necessarily come to strike it big with a company, but more for the culture of the place. Like you put it: having startups is not essential for a great city.

[1] https://socialinnovation.org/
[2] http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=0323...
[3] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-is-canadian-m...

edit: I should add the obligatory MaRS is an awesome resource comment. https://www.marsdd.com/
I don't know. I think there's room for a high-end niche shop that only deals in functional languages, for example. I see enough data now that 1 line of functional = 4 lines of Java/C/Go for the same amount of work done, to think that perhaps, SOME trendy technologies are actually worth their mettle.

I think the real limitation is not jumping on trends but managing cognitive load. That is your real limitation, the capability of the programmer-mind to fathom all the states their code can get in. To optimize towards that, you have to pick technologies that force the least amount of cognitive load on the developer. Functional languages such as http://elixir-lang.org/ seem to accomplish this (according to those who have switched to it and blogged about it, example http://mattscodecave.com/posts/elixir-for-pythonistas-pt1.ht...). In the javascript space, Elm seems to accomplish this. http://elm-lang.org/

But lastly, if you pick the right technology, you might naturally get access to a pool of very high quality developers, the type who are already interested in that very technology.

I don't get the point of hiring "Java people" and whatnot, anyway. Polyglots are the way to go.

The thing that made Paul Graham a thing was his use of Lisp to edge out his competitors at the time. The fact that Viaweb was later rewritten in [whatever it was rewritten in] is irrelevant. That's my final point.
> In our current code base we have more workarounds for FF bugs than any other browser, and some of them are pretty nasty. e.g. monkey patching `getComputedStyle` to get around this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548397

In that case, Blink and WebKit are changing to Firefox (and Edge)'s behavior, because it makes more sense. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1813
Whenever I see someone say "We have to do X to prevent Y because of the great potential costs of Y", I rarely see a discussion of the costs of X in comparison. Fixing the climate is going to be expensive. It's going to decrease the cost of living for everyone in similar ways that letting Miami flood will. I'm not advocating for ignoring it but this isn't just a one way street.

There is always this urge to DO SOMETHING. Pass a new law, bring in a new process, take a new pill, whatever. But those things also have costs, costs that are almost never analyzed and compared because they are "Free costs", e.g. we are protected in many ways from the costs because they are difficult to ascertain. If I don't take Lipitor and die of a heart attack, my doctor will say "see, there was a very visible cost." But if I take it for 30 years and find out that it causes memory loss and muscle problems and less efficient exercise adoption, none of that is measured (or possibly even possibly measured).

Fixing the climate is in a similar position. We need to do something because Miami will flood and people will default and the government may have to bail them out. But if we drastically reduce our carbon footprint, people will lose jobs, prices will be higher, standard of living will go down, etc. And none of that is discussed. Because it's hard and it might involve saying "It's best not to do something in this case." Which is hard for us to accept for some reason.
There is a small effect in that direction - the earth's spin makes the sea level a few feet higher at the equator than it would be if the earth were not rotating.

But the bit you quoted implies something more of a runaway effect. I'm pretty sure that won't happen - there's not enough mass in water compared to the total mass of the earth. In fact, I'm pretty sure that adding more water to the oceans will raise sea levels even at the poles, despite the rotation of the earth.

It's pretty easy to calculate the acceleration due to rotation at the equator. It's a = omega^2 x R, where omega is (2 pi) / (24 * 60 * 60) seconds = 7.27e-5 / seconds, and R is the radius of the earth = 6.371e6 meters. The acceleration due to rotation is then a = 0.0337 m/s^2. Compare with 9.8 m/s^2 for gravity. That's 0.3% of gravitational acceleration. That's... not very much.
Public transit is not socialized in Sweden. In fact it is quite expensive.
I would have said this if you hadn't, thank you.

To continue with the pit that is Dell BS, why is the "Developer Edition" of this stuck at 4GB of RAM when one of the other tablet-like versions had 8gb. My current machine has 64, my last ultrabook had 16gb, and my father's phone has 6gb (OnePlus 3t).

Why would a phone that costs half as much have an extra 2gb of RAM and twice as much storage? The phone has 128gb internal and we added a 128gb card.
Somehow I don't trust your own judgment of your ability as a child, especially when it is in contrast with the experience of most people and the findings of researchers.
Ask HN: Is there a directory of charities /Non-profits?
This place hardly seems like an appropriate venue for debating the suitability of C++, given that a large chunk of the audience here seems to have a financial interest in competing technologies.

The FUD is strong...
LogStash vs. Fluentd: a feature comparison
This is a good paper, but not quite how I think about it. I use the terms data-parallel (for SIMD), task-parallel (for fork-join; kinda) and message passing. GPUs are basically data-parallel machines, but over the years, GPUs have been getting more and more capable, so I imagine some people out there are using them for task-parallel workloads.
I had the same thought. Disable the flash. Use a copystand. Or, just use a scanner (the last three personal printers I've owned double as scanner/copier).
Is that assistance conditional on the property being torn down and reclaimed as a suitable use for a flood plain area (EG a park)?
source: https://github.com/turbobytes/kubemr
> "Cason, the Coral Gables mayor, said Congress ought to create what he called a “resilience fund” for homes threatened by the water—but he doesn’t think it will."

No. No no no no no. Absolutely not.

Mr. Cason made a crap ton of money, spent millions of dollars "investing" in property which would soon become worthless and now he's blaming CONGRESS?

Mr. Cason. Sea rise isn't your fault, but buying a gorgeous, lavish beach house where it will no longer exist is your responsibility.

Congress should create a resilience fund for kids at school who have no food. Congress should make a resilience fund for veterans who can't work. Congress should make a resilience fund for folks bankrupt because of medical debt. But Congress need not send a bucket to the millionaires of Miami.

Postscript: not everyone who lives in Miami is a millionaire. I've hung out with very poor folks in Miami. That said, The first homes to go are going to be the ones owned by the elites on the water.
I think, and I'm not convinced here, that they're considering the distribution of mass to be the key factor not total mass as that is (as far as we're concerned here) fixed. Again, just speculating.
No you can't - at least not with a voucher.

I found the flight you're looking at:

"
Chicago to Louisville
O'Hare Intl. (ORD) to Louisville Intl. (SDF)
American Airlines 3520 operated by Envoy Air As American Eagle
Economy / Coach (V)
Canadian Regional Jet 700 "

V class is "Discount Coach". (http://www.cwsi.net/united.htm)

Only full-fare refundable ticket classes are eligible for voucher use. In essence, "Y" class: "1st Tier Economy. Full Fare unrestricted coach class".

In fact you couldn't fly ORD to SDF at all on a voucher because every seat on the "dba Express" carrier flights are "Discount Coach" or "Deep Discount Coach".

If anything, this proves my point. Because an $800 voucher sounds great, until you realize this.

Your other example?

https://www.expedia.com/Flights-Search?trip=roundtrip&leg1=f...

No, you're looking at $2,600+ for BOS-KOA return that's eligible for voucher use (not sure if you can use a voucher as part payment).
Show HN: Interview with ex-Google engineers, get feedback and land a job
You're talking about the demographic who believes in Santa Claus, right?
The U.S. health care system is much superior. When I was in Sweden, I asked my vet if she would take me on as a patient because vet care is better than people care. But at least the funerals are free.
Man finds missing cat after 11 years
> the relationship between flood insurance, climate change and housing values

This is a really interesting perspective on the problem.
If one of these three variables change dramatically it will feed back into the others. The average person may not try to predict their future home value 5-10 years out or have enough scientific background to understand climate science but an insurance company covering the area will have to consider both. It will be increasingly difficult for people to deny climate science as large number of homes and business properties lose value while at the same time their insurance rates dramatically increase.
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Those seem too low, both US and Canada. Is anyone really paying a ML specialist $53k?
Vancouver: where senior developers would be genuinely lucky to top out at $90k, a single bedroom on a transit line is $800k, a teardown in a distant suburb is $1.5M, and bottom shelf cheese costs $40/lb.

I don't think a startup scene in a city is ever going to really blow up when sticking around in that city is giving up the possibility of building any kind of future for yourself.

Everybody I know who's worth half a damn moved to Seattle.

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Toronto: maybe.

Montreal: sure.

The prairies: "Is Fargo the next up-and-coming startup center?"
C was my first "real" language (BASIC was the one before it). I learned using the great C for Dummies by Dan Gookin[1], which at the time consisted of two massive volumes comprising over 1000 pages. Good times.

Nowadays most of my work is PHP and Node.js, but if you know C, you will have no problems learning PHP.

1. https://www.amazon.com/All-One-Desk-Reference-Dummies/dp/076...
It seems that much of this article is about how little the author knew about this person and then extrapolates an odd intimacy in the mysteriousness of it because this eccentric guy remembered him and sent him gifts.

Further more, even though this guy acted completely different than every other Japanese person he met, it somehow gives him greater insight into the culture?
FWIW that reply appears to be someone who's serious about this proposal: https://github.com/pdfernhout/Twirlip2
Not sure it's come up too often, but it's something we can think about going forward.
I was a little bummed to see no mention of `slimux`. It's a fantastic way to execute commands in a real shell (another tmux pane) from the comfort of your ViM session. By combining this with say IPython running in the shell, it's a powerful way to do data analysis. I wrote an ebook on this kind of workflow at http://dvbuntu.github.io/compute/
They've mentioned in past interviews some things too ridiculous to include. This might be one.

> Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-va...
While I generally agree with your gut feelings, my logic says otherwise.

* some people bought their homes 30+ years ago, when the timeline and exact impact wasn't known (and there was reporting of a potential Ice Age coming, despite that not accurately reflecting the science of the time)

* other people have bought since then, but have seen their own politicians telling them it's "in dispute", and the general media just says some people say it's in dispute and others say it isn't.

* our school systems do a terrible job of teaching fundamentals, like "what is a theory" to science.

Heck, while I believe in climate change and human-caused climate change, including the unprecedented scale, when I've tried to find good answers to skeptical questions...it's hard for the lay person to find. Things like "volcanos put out more CO2 in a year than mankind ever" are apparently false, but it's a lot easier to find that claim than the reverse (and much easier to find the refutation now than even 5 years ago). "Satellite data shows no global warming" is one I still don't quite follow - I get that they tend to pick a range from the last El Nino peak, but I don't know how to reconcile how they can say each successive year has been "the hottest on record" (including beating the previous year) but "satellite temperature measurements have been flat in recent years". If I - a reasonably well-educated person familiar with online research and with ample time on my hands - can't find decisive answers, how can I expect that everyone has?

Ultimately, I decide to trust in the overall body of scientists, but that's pretty subjective, and I can't fault the average person that understands science only from mass media for deciding NOT to trust the body of scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_Shelled_Regios
I can't believe it's so low. I hope Canadians aren't asked to put in overtime at those wages.
Canada's telecom regulator rules online data be treated equally
Nice story. But I don't want to be on that plane or live in that society, and I am happy that the US police still have the guts to enforce the law and follow orders.
Seems disrespectful to poor, starving people.
How is an argument that C++ is a bad foundation not relevant to the proposal that we should define the Web to be a big pile of C++?
At my first startup, we sold exactly one license of our software. A famous news channel bought it for $120,000, the VP responsible for the purchase left for a new job a few months later, and our product was never installed nor used.
That isn't what the word idiot savant means it would be helpful in future discussions if you would learn the terms and idioms you intend to use. Idiot savants is a term for those who possess some interesting intellectual talent despite profound mental disability.

The individuals you are disparaging are merely talented developers working on useful projects they possess neither a surprising intellectual talent nor profound disability.

Despite your very superior opinion of yourself disagreeing with you doesn't imply mental disability.
CRTC says: ISPs can't pick which apps and services count against your data cap
This isn't entirely true. Photogrammetric methods that measure depth from stereo-imagery can and often are more "certain, redundant" and precise when the network is structured correctly. What LiDAR offers here is an easy way to get 3D data quickly without a large computational overhead, and no dependency on camera position. It also means we don't have to solve the correspondence problem, that is, finding the same point on two objects between two images.

But LiDAR isn't necessarily enough either. A lot of scanners end up being very noisy, or have a limited range, whereas cameras are good as long as there's line of sight. Using the two technologies together makes a whole lot more sense than just using one or the other.

Disclaimer: I am a graduate student who works with LiDAR, photogrammetry, and 3D imaging technologies.
32cm is a foot. Many parts of Florida are a foot above sea level. The rule of thumb in the flat parts of Florida is that for each foot of sea level rise the shoreline moves inland 300 feet. One foot could be a mile inland on tidal rivers. Drainage and other water systems are already being affected at current levels.
AppAuth for JavaScript
While this is true, it is extremely hard to do in practice. You have to get good information, make sure it is good information, convince a market that it is good information, and then prevent your competitors and your clients from simply replicating your process.
That sounds interesting, can you tell us more a about the system?
> there is a lot of analysis

Yes, finally. Airlines should not be allowed to overbook. Period. I'm pretty sure most of the people would be more than happy to pay a little bit extra to have guaranteed seat.
Professionally, I program on my desktop running Ubuntu, and I interact with servers using Ubuntu LTS. On the rare occasion that I need test something in Windows, I boot up the Windows partition on my laptop. If I needed to use Windows more frequently, I'd look into buying or using a spare license to run Windows in either Virtual Box or VM Ware.