skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can find the recipe I will post it , there is a great French style bread I have made in the past. It takes a lot of elapsed time but not much extra time in terms of what you have to do. And the results are sublime.
Oops, I just saw this after I post at the top level: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222691

I can't compare it but I have been using gmvault for quite a while and love it.
Show HN: New Live Asynchronous Audio Video Library
Not sure about OP; it is more of an appeal to authority here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13484146

No doubt in my mind Google has the top-tier working on this, at least now that GCE is public-facing. I was impressed to read they actively monitor/mitigate Rowhammer, something I've not seen mentioned anywhere else (could just be my ignorance).
I agree we should have a stronger military presence up north but I don't see how that changes anything. Its still Canadian territory and Canada still gets to control who goes through there.
Yeah, not going to happen because of "the national security interest of the United States". A related concept is a contract contrary to public policy.
It sounds like you could get more integrated into a startup hub — good news, there's definitely one in Chicago [1][2]. Meetups and coworking spaces are a big part. You also might check out 1871 [3] to find startup people in Chicago.

[1]: https://angel.co/chicago

[2]: https://www.meetup.com/cities/us/il/chicago/tech/

[3]: https://1871.com
Is TLA+ similar to Alloy[1]?

1. http://alloy.mit.edu/alloy/
Never mind that when he decides to sell and move out of "the valley" he's going to have multimillion dollar home to cash in. (Just don't retire to London or Tokyo and you'll be okay.)
... thinking you missed the sarcasm here ...
> I'm going to need a cite for that.

You're going to need a citation for... employers seeking lower wages? And that these lower wages are subsidized by government benefits?

The citation would be nearly every company, ever. So start with Walmart and work your way down, I guess.

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/files/Taxpayers-and-Walm...

tl;dr: Taxpayers pay $5/hr in benefits to allow the employees of Walmart to be paid a wage under the poverty line.

== EDIT ==

You would agree that rent subsidies flow to landlords, and mortgage tax deductions flow to sellers, right? Why would you not understand that wage subsidies flow to employers?
No. Collection, unlike retention, of US Persons' data is governed via court decisions, not NSA policy.

If Congress doesn't like these retention / collection interpretation of their laws, they can clarify them in statute at any time. But they haven't and probably won't, because "retain everything for judicially approved retroactive collection" is incredibly useful e.g. when a bomb goes off at a marathon and a judge OKs the suspect's communications being reviewed.
That's not quite the issue - SSI (which I didn't know about!) sounds cool, but it's a programming model that solves similar issues at a different abstraction layer. The question that remains unsolved is, regardless of what abstraction you use, whether the overhead of communication (latency, throughput) between nodes is large enough to make things annoying, and whether it's possible to work around this effectively or not. Stuff like InfiniBand along with tech like RDMA is helping a lot with this, and hardcore database installations do use this.
As someone who has used Flexible SSL, it's perfectly reasonable for some threat models. In our case, credit cards and passwords were both managed by external services and the actual data we stored was not sensitive. We really just needed to prevent account hijacking in cafes via Firesheep.
Fancy to smile when you have to do your bookkeeping?
At the end of the day, the high-minded principles of free movement etc. matter less than having food on your plate. That's what I'm arguing. Fact is that the EU and specifically the Euro have had negative impacts for millions across the EU. Why is it that the majority of service jobs in the UK seem to be filled by Poles, Spanish, Italians, etc.? I've no problem with this btw, I'm just pointing out that it's telling that the Eurosceptic UK is still a better option than the home country for millions of EU citizens.

And I'm not saying that the UK won't suffer - the point is that everyone will suffer.
It always says 100% complete when it runs /s
Explore your system deeper (through CHIPSEC) [pdf]
New to alarm systems but just put Abode into my first house. Happy with the offering so far, integrates with z-wave and IFTTT. Happy to answer any questions on it: goabode.com
I don't know, the fact that they are willing to put the Visual Studio name on it would suggest big plans.
Predicting how Barry Cottonfield would react to being asked to junior prom
I'm not sure about this article's core assumption that sharing this type of knowledge in clear and understandable forms is a good thing.

Just as magicians often agree not to share how a trick is done, because doing so kills the joy of the magic for many viewers, I wonder if doing so for game design weakens the power of video games as a medium.

This kind of article will change perceptions of "a hugely expansive, beautiful world" for many laymen into "well optimized frustrum culling".

In the end, I'm not sure we should assume that just because someone can learn about these things, that we should go out of our way to show people how they're done. Something is lost.
During college I did something similar to what the author did--volunteered at a local bakery to learn the secrets of bread making. That volunteer work lead to a summer job.

A few sporadic notes from the experience:

- Good bread is less about secret ingredients and more about process.

- Milling flour on site was how we made moist loaves with little to no added oil. The natural oils in the wheat go rancid quickly after the wheat is milled. Similarly, nutrient levels tank.

- Bakery hours are awful. In order to have fresh loaves for the day, the sponge person is up before 3am mixing everything for the first rise.

- Breadmaking is an art. Ingredient proportions are more like guidelines and the actual amount of flour/water/etc can vary wildly with the weather/climate.

- Random skill acquisition: I can "dual-wield" loaves of bread on the kneading table (aka knead two loaves at the same time for higher throughput). Also I can roll rolls. Which is harder than you'd think.

Zero regrets with the experience. A few days ago I realized we forgot to buy buns for the pulled pork sandwiches we were making and I was able to look up a recipe and make my own from scratch. The pulled pork was good, but people flipped out about how fantastic the buns were.
You said:

"There is legitimate wrongful sexism, but they aren't usually found in first world countries."
A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]
The dictionary gives you the terms but how do you get the rules (like S -> NP VP) to combine them? Or were the rules the same as the English language just with the verbs from the ballet dictionary? Thank you for the link also.
I enjoyed this article, but it desperately needed a map that showed current routes and planned expansion. That map needed to be in its own image, not at a 45 degree angle with people standing in front of it.
This reminds me of the recent Day[9] rant about Broodwar's mechanical difficulty being an integral part of what makes it a great "realtime" strategy game, and that the mechanics are inseparable from the strategy part of the game. [1]

His analogy of taking out mechanics from Broodwar being equivalent to taking out athleticism from Football was particularly insightful.

BW AI (in its culmination) to me is what Broodwar looks like when you take out the mechanics from the game and make it 100% about strategy and the execution of said strategy. It's really fascinating to see the differences between AI play and human bounded play.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9F-AZezCU
...avgas? I'd hope it get refilled with JP-5, unless the naval aviation field has suddenly moved back to piston aircraft when I wasn't looking.
You know that is a very good point actually. I have talked with some bioinformaticians who have trouble reproducing others work because the dataset was unavailable or the code was not provided.

Personally, all the academic code I've used has been written by EE people or Applied Math people and had nice enough style/documentation/accessibility for me to have minimal issues.
>Also, technology is not permanent. Consider what would happen if society collapsed for whatever reason.

Plus, "just because technology enables it" is never enough reason for anything.
Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China
I liked that site, and was disappointed when it got shut down.
I agree with you, with time old IT jobs are dying and new ones are created.

I like the concepts
"peak software engineering" and
"escalation jobs," where when the machine fails, the job goes to the human

In Year 2000 , I worked at a startup , we are 70 employees total out of which 50 are Engineers.
We have

- one dedicated MS Exchange Mail sever admin

- 5 employee team, for running production servers and helping employee PC boxes etc.

- one Release engineer, whose job is to make Builds and ready for 15 day production release cycle of the code base

That is 7 employees which is 10% of 70. All of it today Replaced by the Self-service Cloud Infrastructure software

a) Github

b) AWS

c) Gmail Enterprise mail hosting/others

1/ Cloud Infrastructure software

2/ Saas Applications

These are two areas where most of the Job elimination happened in the last decade.

Then we got disruption ( more automation ) started at every Industry level, that created more jobs than lost

software engineer productivity doubled/tripled in the last decade as we developed more higher level Abstractions.

More than 1000 people are working on Amazon Alexa, so do at many other companies in the areas of ML and Deep learning AI . These are brand new jobs never heard of 10 years ago.

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> For example, Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, et al have reduced the number of jobs for CMS and ecommerce developers.

> Zapier and IFTTT have reduced the number of integration jobs
That's because a majority of Canadians have a visceral negative reaction to any military spending. We're happy to claim the Arctic, but not if it involves money, and definitely not if it involves money for the military. Which is, IMO, ridiculous. When it comes to territories like that it's "pay up or shut up".
I am currently 900 pages deep in the power broker and am very looking forward to the johnson volumes. :)
Yo dawg, I heard you like strawmen...
Introducing D3.express: A Reactive JavaScript Notebook for Visualization
Harper's administration, though losing focus on the issue by the end, was keen on enforcing the Canadian Internal Waters claim [1][2]. Trudeau, not at all [3].

To the detriment of Canadians, major players around the rest of the world consider these waters international waters, and on the international level, might (or the lack of response thereof) leads to facts-on-the-ground, as we've seen time and time again.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-north/myth-...
[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/franklin-find-as-much-ab...
[3] http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-obama-arctic-1.39059...
very interesting. thank you very much.
Selling to restaurants is reliable but low-profit, because you're selling in bulk. Selling direct to consumers has a much better margin. Margins are not high in baking to begin with, so it helps. The direct demand can't be scheduled as easily, though, and baking bread is always at least hours of prep.

This is something that is a balance for any bakery - front end and back end operations; I have yet to find someplace that didn't do both.
Scott approvingly reblogged an essay arguing that atheists should go back to being like outspoken and ardently anti-theist, like in the heyday of the late-2000's/early-2010's.

There's nothing wrong with that on the face of it. However, I find that too many people in the 2nd or 3rd echelon and below are actually motivated by hate and self-promotion. (A minority, but enough to poison the well.) The same goes for most anything involved with identity politics.
I've had a situation like this before.

A friend referred two commodity traders to me. They wanted to contract me for SEO purposes. Why? When you searched for their names on Google/Bing, articles about fraud charges came up. They wanted me to push them off the front page. I was able to do that kind of work, because I had done it before for more benign situations. My friend told me I could name my price, because they were outrageously rich (apparently from their fraud schemes).

I spoke with them over the phone. Their reason for wanting to do this was: "It's a real bummer when you're dating a hot chick and she looks you up and sees all these negative articles online." Bullshit. I smelled it immediately. I didn't need abetting and conspiracy charges leveled against me. Even if I had agreed to do it, I doubt they would have paid me in full. I mean, I had evidence of their alleged fraudulent behavior.

The problem is that sometimes the fraudsters are really good, and what looks like a legitimate job has a less obvious ulterior use.
Interesting, do you have any links to stimulating critiques at hand?
Data-Backup Startup Rubrik Raises Funds at $1.3B Valuation
I have just checked how much it uses on my side: doesn't go above 50%, but I do consider that pretty high and can totally understand how it could use 100% with bigger mailboxes. For me, this was never a problem since I only run it once daily for backup.

Thank you for mentioning mbsync, I will keep it in mind.
PR/Advertisement for https://jaypad.de/, which seems to combine discord/slack and strawpoll.

It's not clear what the value add is. They even feature slack in a graphic, as Jaypad vs slack/whatsapp/email, but I'm left wondering what the compelling feature distinction is.
As far as I know integration with Jenkins is only provided as part of the Enterprise version. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.
> cripples my MBPr on load

AMD E-350 laptop from 2011 loads fine. Something is terribly wrong with your computer or your config.
I have run into that before, as well, but I do not recall where. Philosophers of seem to hate this book for reasons that I'm not sure about. I thought it was an excellent read, and something I have kept a part of throughout my life after first reading it sometime in the mid 80s.
> if you control the database

That is a big if in the enterprise. It is getting better, but for most enterprise apps I have worked on, there is a db team that owns the db and you have to go through them for all changes.

Perhaps db abstraction can be thought of as an instance of Conway's Law.
> A family of three traveling the world via sailboat

I guess on a sailboat you're on your own as far as health care goes (when making big crossings), but otherwise, living in the US, you're not going to insure a family of 3 for that amount.
As long as the US thinks the northwest passage is an international passage then no amount of bases or ships would matter. Canada simply can't win that fight.

There are just too many ways for US to exert soft pressure on Canada: softwood lumber, NAFTA repeal, extra tariff and transit charges for oil sand output. (admittedly that last one might be a good thing for Earth)
That's actually my default response when people intimate the work I do must be complex / I must be clever - it's really just hard graft. Sometimes you just have to be willing / stubborn enough to chip away at a problem that initially seems insurmountable. Sure, the more knowledge you accumulate, the faster you can figure out when to look, but often enough you just need to roll up your sleeves and bisect your search space.

I can imagine you get some pretty warty excel files. I mostly get PDF for my sins. I'm sure, like me, you've spent hours taking bits out of files until they work as expected and then figuring out what the difference is :-)
I'm pretty new to Rails, but I'm implementing something very similar to this. Is there's any open source mature Rails app that might demonstrate what your seeing/maintaining? I'd be curious to see how this pattern looks as it grows.
Hydrogen fuel cell four-seater passenger plane takes to the air
'Thought Leader', ugh, I suspect many of the people that have had most influence over the years would hate the term as much as I do.
What bearing does a private company's privacy policy have on warrants? I think I see what you're getting at but what a private company consider warrant-worthy or not is irrelevant when discussing the governments position.
Open Letter to the Paul Allen School of Computer Science
Learn it on your own first before trying to foist it on others. I'm on the cusp of seriously introducing use of TLA+/PlusCal at the startup I'm at, and having worked through (and had success with) modeling a couple real-word concurrent systems I have designed here, I have a very different perspective how to use TLA and explain it to co-workers than when I first started using it.

(For example: it's tempting to think of variables as some sort of communication channel – they're not. And fairness can be hard to conceptualize until it's put to a real-world use.)

Definitely use PlusCal. It's a little more to learn, and a little more restrictive, than straight TLA+, but most TLA+ specs you write will end up looking like the output of PlusCal anyway, and the PlusCal version will be much more compact and easy-to-follow. Just remember that PlusCal is not like any other programming language; especially the "await" statement can throw newcomers off (it's not like "await" in other languages).
What I've seen many times with ORM tools is blind interaction with the in-memory object graph abstraction over the data store which results in many un-needed queries. It's like the option of making one DB query which returns a flat result set isn't even on the radar.

As far as I can tell Factories have been replaced with DI frameworks or just hand rolled DI.

Singletons aren't so bad if you're working with an object oriented language and the singleton is just an instance of a service which holds no state and has methods that operate on a limited number of data types. At that point it's essentially just a namespace for a functional library.

Observer/Listeners ... Not sure here unless the commenter is advocating message queues or eventing.
> discovered
You can. Client side SSL is a thing, and it totally prevents phishing - pretty much any browser has supported it for ten years.

It is also a UX nightmare. The browser you are reading this with almost certainly support it, but try to see if you can find the menu option to install one.
Isn't there also a $130k salary cap on a Roth IRA?
Doesn't surprise me, but if you're handing it out, you should still be prepared to answer questions about the stuff that's on there.
Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations
Or you could 'go live' in a country with universal health care and pay taxes there? e.g. pretty much any EU country.
In that they're both modeling languages, yes. Alloy is more geared toward algorithms, while TLA+ is more geared toward concurrent systems. This paper has a good comparison: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03599
You can always outsource the work to a service like WebFlow or Cloudinary to lessen the workload.
> My taxes are of 15%, because I get paid in capital gains, through equity.

I know this is satire, but out of curiosity is it really possible to be paid 100% in stock (and then just sell however much you need to live immediately)?
Easy, now they just get it from the rest of 5 eyes then store it :)
I feel like this is just performance tuning. Serving a single image is fine for most cases and it's not harder than it used to be. If you want a huge image for hi-res desktops and a smaller one for phones, you only need one of those CSS tricks (the "srcset" one).
There are a couple online stores that requires verified by visa.

Just means I don't care to shop there, its a pain.
AWS Storage Gateway – Hybrid Cloud Storage
There's very little space in the "NOT competing with Google" set.
http://www.webmhs.com/2017/04/prediksi-sunderland-vs-bournem...
I don't get it. Much of the USA is faced with crumbling infrastructure and a lack of money for maintaining that infrastructure. How is creating a network of powered tunnels - which are much more expensive to maintain than surface roads - going to interact with this economic reality?

This seems like technology that addresses mostly fun, theoretical problems - like traffic optimization, not ugly, practical ones like tight municipal budgets and urban sprawl.
just to be clear this is not for a competition but rather just an intense large block of working time, correct?

In that case my recommendations are:

- have your supplies stocked and ready before hand. You dont want to have to think about what you'll drink or eat or listen to.

- you will need breaks so the key is to make them meaningful. (either productive or recharging) You can either go walk outside for 10 minutes, do some form of exercise for 5 minutes, watch a quick video of a code tutorial or other relevant content, etc.

- Plan what you're going to work on. Having an outline of the things you're going to accomplish and the order in which you'll tackle them removes a lot of guess work helps keep you productive.

- Get a buddy. For most everyone, having a partner (even if they're working on something else) will help keep you focused.
I see your point, CSS and HTML seems very easy and childish after you played with RTL and FPGA.

but finding a job in FPGA is very hard, the entry level job position doesn't exist! I with a MS in Computer Engineering and a very complex project (image processing on FPGA) couldn't find a job in industry and switched to web!
This is also basically the plot to Home Alone
I'm slowly trying to develop a human programming language with mathematical foundations in categorical neuroscience. It's meant to be a standardized way to create personalized scripts for people to follow to achieve whatever changes in their brain/mind/body they want. Think of it as a strict subset of natural language.

Toki Pona or something like it seems like a useful tool in that context, though I'm not sure how it might fit in yet.
Can you retire on respect? :)
Gatekeeper won't stop OS X/Dok, the first 'major scale' Mac malware
It's the rote, cliche questions that show an interviewer doesn't really know what he's talking about. Questions about personality and culture are very important, but if someone asked "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?", it would point toward their not being a skilled interviewer. It's better to phrase the same question in any other way that's not associated with corporate ineptitude, like "What are your long-term career goals?"
Here's the comparison I found:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/tlaplus/C7Rmka3iSG...

Alloy is a nice tool. I've seen it in my field used to verify transaction handling in simple databases and part of a high-assurance VPN. Another person here said they check data structures with it.
this solves the "last mile" problem since your car will be at your destination
I'm 30% through writing a 10-20K word blog series about something that I've been working on for the last 6-8 years. I've probably written ~5K words already on blogs unrelated to my series where I'm kicking around the ideas that went into my project. Finally, the project probably isn't that interesting unless you've encountered a very specific type of problem before. Which means I probably should put in another 5-10K words to market it.

Sometimes it's not about confidence. Sometimes it's about complex social dynamics and how people react to suddenly being thrown into the deep end of a domain that's completely new to them.

"Tell me about a technical challenge that won't make me feel inadequate or be difficult to follow. Don't make it too simple though because then I'll think you're an idiot."

Ah yes, just be confident. That's the ticket.