skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can also strip off a given suffix, if it appears:

$ basename a/b/c/d/foo.php .php
foo

The complement to basename is dirname:

$ dirname a/b/c/d/foo.php
a/b/c/d
Wealth redistribution and population management are the only logical way forward
Or just use btrfs on top of software Linux raid like synology does.
> We just need a billionaire benevolent dictator to fund a distribution of Linux

I might be missing the joke here, is this a jab at Mark Shuttleworth?
Uber's location settings on iPhone are "Never" (and the app stops working) or "Always".

They removed the "when app is in use" option a few months ago because ... not really sure.
California is big, and moving costs can trap people in places they can barely afford. Fronting up the $600 to rent a U-Haul & take it to Nebraska can be a mammoth challenge. Plus, they need a job at the other end.

It's more likely that they would move to unregulated housing or live on the streets.
GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API
A really well designed article. Kudos to the web design team at NYtimes on that.
> very time intensive interviews with very few compelling companies worth the effort

You will probably think this is partonizing, but anyway: I don't really get how working for a non-IT company that hurts your body and soul is better than working at a non-hip IT company that only hurts your soul. I can guarantee you that you'll feel worse at "Starbucks, McDonalds, retail" than you have ever felt in your IT job. A vocational job or maybe construction would be more suitable in doing something for your well-being, but not the kind of customer facing jobs you describe.

I dislike the interview circus, too, but there are lots of small worthwhile companies that don't require you to jump through hoops and waste your time with interview marathons.
Thanks for your feedback! Yes there is some competition but we differentiate in terms of the technical approach. All of our competitors use a hosted middleware which means all data is transferred via their servers. We have a P2P approach and never touch the data. So no SPOF or privacy issues.
Livestream: AI learning how to drive in GTA V
You don't know many of the so-called deniers, do you?
Strange - that graph set shows Elixir on a slight growth path, but Erlang on a slight downward path? Isn't Elixir simply the framework around Erlang??

It would be a bit like showing Rails on the uptake, but Ruby going down, isn't it?
“Either he’s playing classical music at 78 RPM, or I’m still dreaming.”

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/02/01
> panel house an hour and a halfs drive outside of prague for $5000USD https://www.sreality.cz/hledani/prodej/byty/ustecky-kraj,lib....

From the photos alone I can smell the odor of alcohol and feel the depression and suicide looming in the air.
RocketCake 1.5 released (free responsive web designer)
What's wrong with underwater ice melting? Ice density is lower than waters, so water level should actually decrease from that.
I stopped using Twitter after the election. The inability to express complex, nuanced, thorough ideas and responses, combined with its popularity (or at least, mass media influence), directly lead to Trump's election. The character limit, which I had perceived as merely an inconvenience for years, is actually a fundamental flaw which enabled a demagogue like him to succeed, and I refuse to participate in that stupidity any more. If Ev really wants to make amends, he should get Twitter to immediately expand the character limit to take away Trump's excuse for short, inflammatory posts, forcing him to try to actually put together coherent, intelligent sentences that express fully thought out ideas.
We keep the interface consistent. So even if you have to update the CloudRail SDK, the API itself won't change. So no code changes required. In general APIs change from time to time, some more often others not once. But if you consider how many APIs need to be integrated in an application todays, there is always a change somewhere.
> "over a year ago, I've had no success in finding further work" --- I'm sorry to be blunt, but if this is the case then your skills are very much rock bottom

Not necessarily, I think interviewers and tech teams can 'smell' enthusiasm + interest + motivation very well which (A) after burnout is around zero regardless of skills, (B) in a fast-changing field "in boom now" aka. full of fluff and trends and wheel-reinventions is much more crucially important in the first place --- just rarely ever spelled out or recognized like that
No, Elixir is an entirely different language running on the same virtual machine as Erlang.

It's as seeing a graph with Java usage going down, while Kotlin or Scala up.
Not intended, but I do think Ubuntu was a missed opportunity by trying to innovate instead of focusing on stability, familiarity, and user-friendliness.
That's also true for baby cams. Worse than that, a lot are actually sending the video over the internet and watching it "locally" actually goes through the cloud.
Man people could have probably agreed with what you wrote until "And be honest with yourself if you think the society we live in is anything but a necessary evil: you know you've felt the desire to murder, or torture, or rape, one time or another, just as any other human being, and that you've been hurt by society because it didn't let you exercise the freedom to do these things."

I agree with this "I mostly like our current set of rules, but let's not delude ourselves into seeing them as anything other than a local average optimization!".
It doesn't matter. Belittling people never turns them your side.
Here is Brisbane, Australia, the property market for low-lying areas is still running hot. This is despite the flood of 2011 (which was so great it caused sea levels to drop by as much as 7mm) which destroyed many of them, and the insurance companies have either refused to insure them or at very high premiums with low coverage. No one cares, they still vote for politicians who promise the coal jobs will come back and still burn coal for most of the electricity.
Tips on social media marketing from Facebook’s Rahul Gupta
Can you share more details about how you handle/charge for retainers?
Elixir is not a framework around Erlang. It's a language running on the Erlang VM (BEAM) with painless erlang interoperability. It's the most popular alternative language to erlang on BEAM.
Are you running special hardware? Ever since Vista I have at most had to install a graphics driver, and that is it. Windows networking failures seems to be driver issues when I debug them, just as they are on Linux, but I haven't had any myself on either system.

To me, and without exception, every single person I talk with about this, have less issues with Windows or OSX, than Linux. This is primarily CS majors that are required to run it to get their degree.
Cortisol levels can deplete for anyone, the rates and levels vary per person.
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal...

But in the president's formulation and in the formulation of smug stylists who have embraced some material account of uncool attitudes, the downturn, the jobs lost and the opportunities narrowed, are a force of nature — something that has "been happening" in the passive voice.

...

This, I suspect, will one day become the Republican Party's rationale for addressing climate change: Look, we don't know how the dead hooker wound up in the hotel room. But she's here now, that's undeniable, so we've gotta get rid of the body.
It's not the only flaw in the article. Also it chooses to ignore the fact that unlike the Arctic, the Antartic does actually not have any net ice loss at all; in some parts the ice is melting, but this loss is offset by other parts which are gaining in volume.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...
I think you're response is quite inappropriate. I am not sure how you were able to deduce that the person's skills lack in someway. I don't think there is enough information in the post to make that judgement.

"IT is in boom now"

Are you by any chance living in the 80-90s? :p. Apologies but I beg to differ. My personal opinion is that the field has peaked, which is why you are finding people writing up a webpage and calling themselves a startup. Of course there are exceptions but I am referring to the majority here. There is also large amount of redundant work happening.

IT is and will always be a complimentary field and cannot stand on its own. We are now going through a transitional phase where what was once classified as a white collar job is shifting on the gradient towards blue, so it lies somewhere in between. Maybe Cyan? :).
Which brings this mandatory Star Trek passage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPBzj90Su8A
I was awaiting that comment :). Short answer to your question: Yes, my desk looks like I will to fly to Mars any moment. Long answer: I rather not type or I will give myself more pain.
Really clunky, jittery scroll with a load of blank space for me. Would much rather a clean, simple HTML+CSS layout without all the fancy javascript. (IE 10)
Off-topic: I'm surely not alone in utterly despising this kind of website design?

On-topic: If we think the immigration crisis is 'bad' now... It's like comparing a dispute over garden fences to WWII.
Leaks 'expose peculiar Facebook moderation policy'
The article is about ice on land melting. But actually when floating ice melts it increases sea levels a little bit as well, as explained here: https://www.quora.com/If-water-is-denser-than-ice-why-do-sea...
Note, especially the first answer, which says that the effect from melting floating ice is quite small and that the primary drivers of rising sea levels from global warming are melting ice on land and thermal expansion of sea water.
This one by any chance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s
Surely it depends on the business? It takes 30 seconds to raise and email an invoice and many big businesses will only work this way. CC processing is only generally necessary for B2C.
Soviet leaders understood it. You move to new city to work: here is your new flat. You are working: here is your bread (and cinema, clothes…).

The thing is, supply and demand for all of them is quite unpredictable. Removing market forces leads to imbalances, improper resources allocation, and in the end deficit and even more suffering. So centralized system is clerly not an answer.
Drone Registration Begins with New Procedure Requiring Login After Update
Kotlin is getting Google's blessing. Mentioned in Google's Android development docs and tutorials. That's the magic sauce. Since Kotlin is veeery close to Java, it was already working well on Android. It targets the JVM of Java6, so if you compile your Kotlin android app, it looks like a regular thing compiled from Android Studio. Regular bytecode, that then gets recompiled by dx (dalvik compiler into .dex bytecode - see also https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2852... )

And yes, adding new things to Android is ... problematic, because Google doesn't accept pull requests. (It accepts bug reports, and sometimes patches of bugs.) And of course you can propose a big patch adding [see https://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch ] .. let's say Swift to the Android Platform, but the project owners are Google employees, and the community cannot really influence what gets accepted. [ https://source.android.com/source/roles ]
I am failing to see an actual "weight" in the matter.

I mean:
>Millennials also make up 42% of all homebuyers overall, first-time or not.
And while baby boomers make up a much smaller portion of homebuyers, the two generations may end up competing for the same type of home, despite being in completely different phases of their lives.

WHO (which "group" they belong to) are the remaining 58% buyers?
HOW MUCH is "a much smaller portion"?
Let's say that the much smaller portion is 25%.

The amount of houses where there is (supposedly) competition between the two groups is then - at the most - 25%.

And since:
>"Millennials buy a 1,800-square-foot home on average, and a baby boomer buys a 1,950-square-foot home. The other generations are away from those."

Any home smaller than 1,750-square-foot and any home bigger than 2,000-square-foot should then not be something these two groups compete for.

How many of these "suitabe size" homes are on the market?
Do they represent 25% (or less than 25%) of the total amount of homes?
So, what happens to the other 75% (or more)?
Elon Musk's CV is actually full of failures and set-backs
it's not "underwater ice", it's "ice sitting on soil that is below sea level". The ice sheet is thick enough to be significantly above water level, but it's especially vulnerable to temperature increases in the ocean, since ocean water can start flowing under the ice and melt it from below.
He's paying for a retirement pension, but not __his__ retirement pension.
I'll reiterate: you don't know these people. I do.

They will claim it's the wrath of God, that $(PERCEIVED_SOCIAL_ILL) is to blame, and that the evangelical version of Protestant Christianity is the only remedy. They will not see it as "belittling" to point this out. They'll tell you this themselves.

These people are in charge of the Presidency, both houses of Congress, and both legislative chambers in 32 states, including 17 with veto-proof majorities. They hold 33 governorships. They will probably control the Supreme Court soon, regardless of what happens with the Trump/Pence administration in the near term.

Dismiss this at your peril.
The good news is that wealth inequality will go down: Rich people all own expensive property near the coast, so it'll get flooded and they'll have to pay the poor to move them closer inward.
How to help ? mass only responds to politics but they get to elect their own idiot ... sad loop.
That flood was from being a river valley, not from being low lying and coastal, coastal areas weren't affected.

Toowoomba also flooded during that event, and that's on top of the great dividing range.
for index funds the core problems are estimating risk and return, minimizing effect of uncertainty and std err on portfolio tracking, and fast optimization for large portfolios (>1000 assets).

these are fairly long term problems so stochastic calculus not too useful here. portfolio risk is a very classic stats field.
Good catch, the article typoed it. I hadn't noticed at all, and that city's name is very familiar to me. By the way of curiosity, the name means "fortress".
That is true, now that you mention this, I remember there were other similar cases in France.

Thanks for the information.
One invaluable thing, especially for first time founders, is to have a mentor who's "been there and done that", to help with direction and important decision making in the young startup company.

You can't win them all, yet there's a lot you learn from failing and the lessons will stick with you.
Europe is not a country. I'd wager less prosperous countries do not cover such devices.
> Man people could have probably agreed with what you wrote until "And be honest with yourself

...yeah, that's the bigger problem imho, most people are far from honest with themselves :) And then some people, instead of doing some "harmless rape & murder" bending "slightly" some rules of society to let off some steam (like medieval warlords did, chopping some heads off doing a big party "for the lulz", and moving on, maybe even building some churches later to "atone their sins"), choose instead to be "civilized", and go sign some orders to deport millions to concentration camps, or order the stockpiling of nuclear weapons, or some other shit "civilized" people do.
Amomgst other things, that ice is acting like a plug for a lot of ice on land.
Zeno Ventures Backs Y Combinator Alumni to Extend Unlimited Wi-Fi Beyond Nigeria
Average tech salary for Barcelona is $45k/yearly

and for Madrid is around $60k/yearly:

https://jobsquery.it/map;bounds=%7B%22south%22%3A35.70766603...

Barcelona is really nice place to live and many developers live there and works remotely for UK or US startups where salaries are higher.
@ronomon/mime
The wealthy also own all the expensive property inlands. In general, the poor don't own a lot of property at all, one of the reasons of the widening wealth gap (property prices rising only benefits the people that own property).
The 2011 floods were in areas next to rivers; indeed some of the worst hit towns are nowhere near the coast, no?

When it comes to ocean rise, no-one is predicting a "Day After Tomorrow"-style flood wave. The scientific paper linked in TFA has 6 feet over the next 80 years as the worst case scenario. This is in line with most other estimates (e.g. from the IPCC).

I'm as afraid of climate change as the next person, but sea level rise affecting rich coastal cities is so slow, so easily measured, so easy to engineer our way out of, and so obviously a net profitable endeavour to protect against, as compared to many of the other climate change threats like ocean acidification, large ecosystem collapses, food shortages etc. I don't understand how any sensible person can worry about sea level rise affecting western cities.
Kotlin is heavily used internally at JetBrains for development of their IDEs. For years now - those aren't small or easy projects.
Thank you, now that makes sense.
I would hope that Type 1 diabetics wouldn't get this and being relying on it 100% without consulting their doctor and reading appropriate literature. Apple is also way too visible to be misleading on this.
As an avid Elixir user, your comment got me thinking about how and where I look for help. I realized that it wouldn't even really occur to me to use Stack Overflow for answers regarding Elixir, as the other platforms you mentioned tend to be so active and well suited for that purpose.

This isn't to say that I wouldn't use SO for other purposes, as I actively visit the site for JS/PHP content. Anecdotal evidence to support your insight by all means, of course.
ZenHub Is Now Available on GitHub Marketplace
Fun with pure C# and monads
Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Plenty of visitors download a Barcode Scanner app to log onto my home WiFi because they don't like to punch in a 30-letter code by hand.
We have picked ourselves up, precisely, by using fossil energies, the ones that are causing the current troubles, and the ones that are getting less and less available. What will happen in the future can not be inferred by how we managed in the past to get where we are ; I have no doubt that humanity will survive the collapse of our societies, but there is no possible way to know where the equilibrium will be restored in terms of number of individuals on the planet once the stress on fossil fuels is too big. It may be anywhere between where we are now and the hundred millions, combined to a dramatic lowering of the life expectancy.
This is an awesome read.

The throwaway line that richard the lionheart was ransomed for 100,000 pounds of silver, 5 times his annual income, is brilliant.
Quantum emitters could enable hybrid photonic chips
Agreed. I don't know what the OP's situation is, and he might need some counseling to deal with an underlying issue, but his intended career move I cannot in good conscience recommend to anyone. It sounds like he's burnt out, a little scared, and needs to do some soul searching. Maybe swallow his pride and go back to basics to get some help.

If he had said he wanted to do something like become a teacher or tech tradesman of a different kind, that would be a different story, but legions of people in the low-paying, low status, dead-end entry level jobs he is describing can only dream of rising into IT employment, and there are plenty of "coding bootcamps" to "help" them get there. This guy already has an opportunity that millions dream of, and though his grip on it may be tenuous, he needs help in firming it up.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. We use .net core together with SQL Server on Linux boxes in production, no issues whatsoever and we can finally use a programming language which is actually pleasurable to code in.
If you did do math, and you did make a lot of money - wouldn't it have only been possible because

> the vast majority of research physicists are....all too busy teaching bored undergrads,

?
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You can come up with "long term" (hold times of weeks I guess) trading ideas with nothing more than close prices right? On the assumption that you only ever trade the auction you'd be getting a reasonable approximation of your actual experience.

I mean, I'm not sure I accept the premise that there's enough information there to find significant alpha - but if you assume that he's using a different data source for that, he can test the trading performance on close prices alone.
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yeh but in this case you can't recreate the culture or advantages of silicon valley anywhere, you can go be overqualified somewhere else where people don't know anything about code and will pay you to do magic, but that's not a rewarding career and the amount of places like that relative to everywhere else, means it will take 100 yrs or so before the rest of the country rises to that equilibrium...
A lot of soccer goals are uploaded and they are mirrored, often scoreboard and broadcasters logo blurred out. This seems to do the trick.
How a 64k intro is made
As someone who works a lot on the computer, producing what is essentially sequence of bits, I had the same thoughts a few years back.

What helped me alleviate this feeling of consumerism was to pick up DIY projects at home. I resolved to fix everything at home, even if I failed at it or ended up costing me more than if I'd just called professional help the first time. But, over time, I became good at it and the sense of satisfaction you get from building/fixing things with hand is wonderful at alleviating the overbearing sense of uselessness that I'd otherwise feel, clicking on 'never-ending reddit' or refreshing Facebook endlessly.

A few sample projects (fixes really), if it's of any help, that I've worked on:

1. Completely dismantle my bicycle and fix it back. I can now fix any problem that it has on my own without having to take it to a bike shop.

2. Fix a flat tire on my motorbike.

3. Leaking taps and pipes are a forte now.

4. Compost pit to convert organic kitchen waste to organic fertiliser for my garden.

5. Gardening; this takes a lot of time and I'm really not into it but when I get around to it, it gives me the most joy.

6. Fixed a DIY rack for my DTH + Playstation console
Nextcloud releases 12 with claim to scale to hundreds of millions of users
Up front - climate change occurs - I and my forebears have been observing it for generations.

However, if we ever get to have flooding in coastal cities due to land-based ice melt, we will have long gone from here. The conditions required for the amount of land-based ice to melt will have meant that the extinction of most (if not all) life on this planet would have occurred long ago.

It is simple enough to do the calculations, but I have rarely ever come across anyone (who promulgates the anthropogenic climate change agenda) to do them for themselves.
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"These people".