skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt this is what you were looking for, but I want to see a programming language that is not text based.

For the past decades no one has been disrupting programming at a fundamental level.

We are stuck with a "program must be a bunch of ascii files edited with text editors" mindset that no one dares to challenge.

The collective of programmers suffer from an extreme case of the Stockholm syndrome.

If you are not familiar go learn about "Intentional Programming".

I recently wrote some relevant comments about it.

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384269

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14278605

Current programming languages mean we share an ASCII language with the compilers. This creates a fundamental tension and conflict of interest between humans and computers.

It creates all sorts of artificial problems that we have spent so much time trying to fix.

If you are interested checkout Charles Simonyi's work and talks on Youtube as well.
+1 to this. I got bored with IT/software, went back to school, got an aerospace engineering degree, had a very satisfying 4+ years in it, then a software job came my way that was too good to turn down. Quite a commitment of time and money but for me it was all very much worth it.
Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin
You might find this enlightening: http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm
Np. I messed around for a bit till I found it also. I'm surprised it didn't pop up on my radar previously. It's really helped me a ton with getting things working under Ubuntu.

I haven't played Rimworld yet. Might have to go check it out.

I've found TerraTech recently but I've had about as much fun as I can have with it until they fix some more things.
Been seriously been meaning to try dwarf fortress. I think these patch notes have just convinced me to download it
Ordinary people eh?
Extraordinary are you?

All I see Wall St and Silicon Valley doing is using new found speed and scale for their own benefit while concocting self deluding narratives about how this benefits everyone.
Nothing extraordinary about that.
I have a yuba mundo cargo bike with a BBSHD 750W motor and Panasonic 52V battery. The whole setup costs around 2.5K, as I did the electric setup myself. It has been great as I can carry 2 kids on it, and as I live in a urban environment I never worry about parking. The BBSHD is a powerful motor and has been trouble free.
Just go do it. I've worked all of those "jobby jobs" on the way to becoming a software engineer. Maybe just get a less aggressive front end developer job? The difference between whats expected of you at different places or different roles is amazing.
> your off to the races

my off to the races what?
What Makes a Great Product Manager
True, though the Bay Area is unique in the amount of leverage NIMBY's have in the process, through "discretionary review", CEQA lawsuits, EIR appeals, and other tactics...
Reminds me of this great video I just saw about the new Motochimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEiJHq1Izwg
I'd add that sales is quite possibly the most universal of skills. You can move anywhere in the world and get a well paying job if you have sales experience. Well, maybe not North Korea, but you get the drift.
I would add that if you can find some overlap between your daily job and any personal goals you've set, you could potentially be using your good creative energy for two things rather than one.
> 5. PUTTING AN ISO ON A USB DRIVE

dd if=myiso.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync

Be careful! :)
Probably a silly question, but since Android is OSS, what specifically prevents parties other than Google from adding "first class" language support?

Does Google not accept (major) external contributions to the build toolchains? Is it the official documentation that's getting rewritten for Kotlin? Or is Google releasing Kotlin-ified wrappers for the Android APIs? Maybe I don't fully understand what new privileges Kotlin is getting.
Can you explain to me what I am looking at here? (curl -o 1.htm... >2.htm)? And how I can use it to view an AMP page?
Silicon Valley's Hidden Identity Crisis
Timing related. Nortel over-extended themselves in the 1990s by making a bunch of acquisitions related to networking. RIM could've bailed them out or acquired the company outright since they were very strong financially until just after 2008.

Remember, when the iPhone launched RIM was at their peak strength and Nortel was a forgotten husk.
It doesn't need to be your actual strategy, whatever. I have no desire to "steal" whatever your system is.

What I am trying to demonstrate here is that your strategy can perform significantly differently if it is using data on different time resolutions. If you find an inefficiency that can be traded by analyzing snapshot data at 1 minute bars, that might turn out to be nothing at all when you look at the tick data. If your strategy is profitable but you don't have real insight into the trades versus just the quotes, you might have unrealistic expectations for fills, or hold times, etc...and if your strategy is profitable, your data is the first way in which you can try to prove it's not correlated with the broader market's regime.
Sort of. There are minimum time requirements for PMI no matter how quickly a house appreciates.
I think the claim there is more like "you can already use the huge amount libraries/your existing code with Java and, with care, you can make your Scala code work the other way" than "interop is seamless back and forth."
You got that far? Congrats.

I couldn't stand it. After the introduction, I started scrolling, saw the general structure and just closed it.

It was the most unpleasant text I looked at in a very long time.
good point, what do you think about tensorflow, openai gym, python, apache foundation, linux foundation? you gotta have some love for open source if you're a developer. i might not be as well read as you but i would like to be corrected if my thoughts are incoherent.
also i don't think it is about altruism so i agree with you, there's mutual incentive to open source things like tensorflow i.e. to speed up development.
Tone down the condescension.

Obviously zoos and aquariums can do great work but there are animals in this world that do not live in captivity very well and if they were capable of properly weighing the options I'm sure many would choose death. I know many humans (myself inclused) who would make the same choice. If we can show certain species of whale can handle captivity well then by all means save them, house them, whatever but I doubt these particular whales are being let go lightly and sitting around saying 'think of the missed scientific opportunity' ignores the well-being of the whale. And maybe if it were possible to communicate to the whale the benefit of its sacrifice it might be ok but we can't and to ignore the anxiety of the whale is cruel.
It's a well known feature of transportation planning that traffic expands to fill available road space: http://www.culturechange.org/issue8/traffic%20expands.htm

The argument is, if the traffic is just going to expand to fill the new roads we build, then why not build more densely instead and help people have shorter commutes. Also some arguments around vicious cycles of building more roads, leading to more traffic, leading to demand for more, bigger roads, etc, vs. supporting biking/walking/public transit
An awful lot of US housing policy and general expectations are rooted in what happened when the soldiers came home from WW2. Modern suburbs were born of it. Then, in the 69s and 70s, massive amounts of affordable housing, like SROs, was straight up torn down because Boomers came from unprecedented wealth and mostly did not need cheap dives just starting out.

I think they kind of can be largely blamed, but probably not for the reasons most people would think of.
I'm not OP but I do ride and experienced the same.

If you're taking it seriously and respect the danger, you learn how to drive as if you are invisible. You learn to pay attention to and anticipate the movements of other drivers, to look at their wheels and not their eyes. Eyes lie, wheels do not.

You learn just how careless a shocking majority of people are behind the wheel of a two ton vehicle. You peek into every window for the glimpse of a hand reaching for a turn signal stalk, and all too often see a horrifying lack of attention paid to the road and a surplus of attention paid to a phone, eating, putting makeup on, putting contact lenses in, and smoking pot.

You learn to never hang out in a bind spot. Never!

You avoid situations where a car turning left in front of you (USA) has poor visibility. Usually due to a left turn lane and tight conditions. This exact scenario is responsible for a large percentage of moto accidents and anecdotally I have had two close calls myself, and I'm a highly cautious rider.

You avoid positions on the road which are statistically dangerous for riders.

Obviously these are things you can learn in a car, but it's just different. The stakes are higher for small accidents and you really are invisible to many people, even with hi-vis gear, motorcycles are just smaller at the end of the day and Americans are not used to them nor trained to keep them in mind on the road.
Apple Monitoring Blood Glucose
All I get is the window-menu with alt space -- the one where you get "Minimize/Maximize/Move/Resize/Always-on-top/Close" -- not the one in the Windows putty where you have the duplicate session, restart session, etc... option.

I didn't see any copy/paste options in the settings -- am I missing something?
Does it mean people prefer to be told what to do with it, instead of figuring it out based on existing features? It would assume an approach that reflects some lack of creative thinking.
I chose to live in a village in another country than my native country with one of the reasons being I could pay my house cash. This world is already there if you are more flexible about your location. Luckily I do not generally like cities at all and never did.
I highly recommend this Royal Institute talk: Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett [0].

The presenter provides a series of small steps in the way of understanding how the combined leaps of 'dumb' evolution was able to design intelligence. He contrasts the 'bottom-up' approach to the 'top-down' design in a very intelligent manner.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZX6awZq5Z0
Thomas isn't being condescending (at least not intentionally) when he uses the term, "ordinary." He would also fall into "ordinary" under his own definition, as he's not in that industry.

His point is that, contrary to the narrative of the "little guy" getting screwed by Wall St, they are actually helped by the liquidity HFT market makers contribute.

Everyone is unsophisticated at something. It's not an insult.
This is very similar to the paradigm of "jobs to be done". I.e. you don't buy a product, you hire a company to do a job for you.
More competent than the Haitian government is a bar so low the Venezuelan government flies over it. Without outside support Haiti would be a failed state within months. It's reasonably close already.
Just judging from comments here, it sounds like officially it's still running but unofficially that 20% time had better not detract any actual work hours from any of your official work. So really it's "work 20% overtime on whatever you want, and the company will own it" which doesn't sound very motivating to me.
OSGi certainly does change what needs to happen at runtime, in complicated and tricky ways.
This article does somehow make a painful read. I just can't.

It'd be nice if someone who could handle it wrote a TL;DR for us.
What kind of idiots still use Windows?
I've tried that -- it's what I would think would work, but the few times I did, it didn't work. I don't recall what I was testing with, but it was likely either a Windows OS ISO, or a VMWare ESXi ISO. I haven't tried since then, I just go boot up the Windows 7 desktop I keep just for this purpose and use Rufus.

I think it only works that way with ISOs made in a way to support it?
Hah, touche!
I've been seeing this for a while and predicting it for a good decade or so, but I think the next political divide will be young vs old, instead of right vs left. Boomers have done a million things to fuck over everyone that comes after them, and it's gonna take a while for it to happen but the younger generations are gonna start pushing back.

Anecdotally it already happens. I attended a Bernie Sanders rally here in Seattle and it was interesting to see the hordes of millenials cheering and chanting the whole time but go completely silent when he starts talking about the importance of social security. Millenials don't care about social security and it would probably be a net benefit for the majority of them if it went away, because the system as it is structured is just a massive wealth transfer to boomers which will be completely neutered by the time they are eligible for benefits.
There's a video embedded which does a decent job: https://youtu.be/k9Rm-U9havE
Ah. I thought you meant the margin of victory, which was about 1/30 of the voters (not the electorate, as you point out).
> I can carry 2 kids on it

Are you nuts? Do you want them to die?
The Android APIs are all pretty much Java, so you need a JVM langauge to use them. The NDK requires a Java shim layer, and then you end up writing Java anyway to use most platform features.

Google obviously won't support competing first class toolkits on Android. You can already use most JVM languages on Android as is, especially since the switch to OpenJDK. Giving Kotlin first class support is just adding it to their own in house tools. You can already use Scala, for example, if you want.

Qt is a great example of how hard it is to bring a 3rd party language to Android. Qt app on Android cannot use native theme, cannot interact with most other apps, don't behave like other apps perfectly, and can be a mess to deploy because of how many Qt libraries you need to bundle in. Google doesn't actively stop you from shipping a Qt app on Android, but it took the Qt company a lot of work to get support where it is now, and its still far from seamless (if you want an example of a great Qt on Android app, try Subsurface Mobile that uses the Kirigami widget set).
Google "plantains wound healing site:nih.gov"
What about doing the physical end of IT/development? Prior to actually getting my first job on the software side of things I did the low voltage wiring for networks and related systems in commercial construction. I have installed several million linear feet of Cat5e, Cat6, RG-11, RG-6, and so on. It's definitely a differerent experience than most have.
> The first ~200k in revenue can be done manually.

What do you mean by 'done manually'? Could you elaborate for the curious? How does one handle CC transactions manually?
I use Tensorflow, but it's a fantastic example of my point. Google open sourced Tensorflow because the real strategic advantage in machine learning is data and talent. By commoditizing the software used for machine learning, they broaden the market for their expensive, high margin data, and lower the barrier for talent to enter the industry which they can hire.
Not the parent, but a fellow motorcyclist. The biggest thing for me was learning to better anticipate the actions of other motorists. A couple of other things you quickly learn are to always leave yourself an out and always be watching/scanning your surroundings.

Car drivers should be doing the same, but it's entirely too easy to get complacent.
Some legit complaints for sure.

Network manager pissed me off so much that I stopped using it. I recommend just shutting it off. All it seems to do is run the bash commands for you. Might as well just run them yourself.

Same with burning ISO's, it's easier to just use command line tools. The most dead reliable USB ISO burner I've used is the DD command. I've used it to burn all sorts of crazy stuff that windows refused to write.
Population growth used to come from rural areas, it wasn't until around the start of the 20th century that cities created a population surplus. Now we have rural areas in a steep decline world wide.
Don't forget cryptography.
There's a huge field of research here. It's shocking to me how people jump in to disparage the commenter when it takes just a few seconds to check if there's research - try Googling "plantains wound healing site:nih.gov"
Here is the course page http://online.stanford.edu/course/startup-engineering and http://startup.stanford.edu/

and

the course videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58C6Q25sEEFVyISrZc80...
No Uber in Vancouver, unfortunately. It's one of the very few cities in North America without Uber and Lyft.
First of all, I'm glad Beazley wasnt there. That dude never does talks geared towards most python programmers. Always talks about mystical and niche shit.

Second of all, The talks are getting repetitive. There were really any new fresh talks this year. Most of them were either very close to earlier talks or just exact copies. It was more like how comedians repeat their jokes in order to perfect them. But these guys are repeating the same old talks but to no end.

If you've seen earlier talks, you can easily skip this one.
That can be reduced to two as the third category is a subset of the second.
If you show up to City Council or Board of Supervisors meetings, most of the NIMBY's are in fact Baby Boomers. So I do think they share some of the blame; at least in California they've more or less pulled the economic opportunity door up behind them.
They could increase taxes. If it's really more debt than they can handle the should be declaring bankruptcy, which is probably better than decades of stagnation anyway.
Andromeda strain seems much more likely than Star Trek, considering the past. (human behavior, microorganisms)
To VC or Not VC, or When to Use Other People’s Money
I had to look that scene up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBL2Wq5YjSw

Compared to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdbWsX6h4eo
The NIMBY challenge and making life affordable
I think many people are incredibly bad at judging the speed of unfamiliar moving objects. They get lots of training judging car (large object) speed, but their brains just cant properly guesstimate bike speed or something (little practice) -- like a non-baseball-player person trying to hit a fastball or something.
I definitely am living in a bubble and so it slipped my mind (but not originally from a bubble).

That said... if we aren't talking about legislation, yeah, that makes it much more reasonable.
And you forget to quote:
> Based on the LLVM compiler platform, designed for server workloads, and optimized for recent Intel and AMD architectures

Server and mobile application have vastly different assumption of workload and metrics to take a look at. However, this announcement definitely better than OP's vague performance claim, which I agree. But as I said, there is no proof at this point, that LLVM based implementation on Android improve the the performance.

Quite on the contrary, Google include LLVM in 5.0 then remove it later:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-technical-details-of-the-...

And it was never used as the primary option anyway. So there is definitely not enough confidence to claim the superiority, until somehow make it work in the first place.
Tokyo is the best.
A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All
If you consider the fact that developers have been building at near peak-Dubai paces in Seattle for salable prices that are much lower than the bay area, I'd say you're worried about nothing of consequence. If you merely let them, they'll build until they can't cover their costs.
There's actually a lot of research behind what you're talking about -- you'll find more looking for plantain or "Plantago Major L" and search NIH (restrict the search using site:nih.gov if you're using Google or DuckDuckGo).
In the scenario described, you're not giving back your private key, you're returning the decrypted key the victim needs to decrypt their data.

That key won't work for other victims.
Even if your excuse is needing MSO, I've heard that WPS Office (http://wps-community.org/download.html) works really really well for people migrating, even in cases where LO was insufficient.
Doubtful, because compaction requires updating the pointers to the new locations. In manual memory management, the compactor would have to stop the world, know enough about each structures' internal layouts to know where the pointers are, and then update all of them.

That would be impossible when trying to interoperate among different languages.

Manual memory management has its place, but if you need compaction, you should use a garbage collector. Manual memory management, (and reference counting,) aren't always faster than GC. (Malloc has overhead too, and can run slower than GC.)
You can do front end developer contract gigs on one of the freelancer sites. You won't make a ton but you can make 2 or 3 times minimum wage (based on Vancouver minimum wage) without trying very hard. You can make a good bit more than that if you get good at contracting. Plus contracting lets you build skills you won't get working as an employee.

Work 4 months out of the year full time, or 10-15 hours a week year round and you'll make as much as you would working at McDonald's. Spend the rest of your time learning whatever you want.
There's probably somebody building e-bikes that are also good bicycles; if not, do your own conversion.

A friend told me to look into Currie-powered bikes: http://www.currietech.com/brands.html. Many of those look promising, though I can't speak directly to riding them.
How to Rip and Convert DVD to ZUNE with DVD to ZUNE Ripper
It's probably helpful to read the paper for which this code was written:

Journal publication:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6325/602

ArXiv copy:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02318
A Unified Theory of Layout?
A Unified Theory of Layout?

This grid eschews Flexbox-based sizing in favor of percentage-based sizing while at the same time relying on Flexbox for alignment. It delivers the predictability of the percentage-based model with the more sophisticated alignment capasbility of the Flexbox model.

The grid construct is extended beyond its archetypal form as a Rectilinear 2D Grid and generalized as a cross-nestable pair of components, namely, Row and Column, that can be combined in an alternating pattern to build a tree of Views of any shape and depth. That is to say, a Row View (Row for short) may contain one or more Column Views (Column for short), each of which may contain one or more Rows, which in turn may contain one or more Columns, and so on. Both Rows and Columns can be styled using predictable, percentage-based width, height, padding and margins. Rows can be aligned vertically (along main axis) and horizontally (along cross axis) inside Columns, and Columns can be aligned horizontally (along main axis) and vertically (along cross axis) inside Rows. [Additionally, the multiple lines created by wrapped Row content may be aligned vertically relative to the parent Column.] And with this, we can build the entire UI component tree (or an individual component's subtree) using a consistent, repeatable and nestable pattern, one that has predictable and dynamic --not only static-- responsiveness and the ability to trigger specific adaptive behavior, both built into it.

The tree nodes are represented by Rows and their children are represented by Columns. Tree leaves are Columns that have no Row as a child.

See More (for discussion):

https://github.com/idibidiart/react-native-responsive-grid
No idea what his business model is. That said, my b2b saas company ran our first 5 customers with old skool paper invoices and checks, doing 6/12 month pre-pay. CC processing fee's can really eat into early revenue like this even.
They don't do car accidents in Japan? Astonishing.
Maybe that was a bad example but I'm pretty sure that the white earbuds started being a status symbol and a sign that you were cool.