skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice - we'll keep Prague in mind. We're amid investigating visa options in Europe right now.

We're planning on staying places for 3 months at a time. Here in CDMX, that's let us get a coworking space, gym membership, and a semblance of a routine.

We're planning on spending extended time in our hometowns, too (though maybe not 3 months).
The bubbly made in ancient Italian undergrounds
> Under the covers, it's like an old "choose your own adventure" game, assembling a narrative out of parts. And it uses eye tracking to detect what you're interested in. Do you like character A? Then we'll emphasize A.

Hannu Rajaniemi (science fiction author) tried to go further, and attempted to create an "interactive" narrative that actually used some brain activity sensors to see what imagery you most responded to: http://neurofiction.net/
Meanwhile Russia has banned LinkedIn, WeChat, LINE and plans to ban Telegram as well. At least Ukraine has a very good excuse.
Yeahhh get out, it's coming to iOS only you dirtbags
A wider choice in family planning has never shown to result in overpopulation.

Overpopulation is almost always a result of the opposite.
As far as I've experienced working only with floss, none of my clients ever cared about what tools I was using. Not only that but I haven't found much community that share/support/talk about running a creative business on floss only. But now I have hone my skills and I can produce the same results for the market/product I am working with, and enjoy the stability and flexibility of linux.
If they wanted to use iframes still, they would just have that inside the component. Then, you wouldn't need any initializing code really. Admittedly, not a huge win because it's pretty small embed code as it is.
>"It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel."

This story makes the design/management of that place look really bad. In 2007 the IPCC was predicting a 0.4 C average temperature rise by 2020 and about 1.0 C by 2040[1], etc. This isn't too far off from what happened[2], so this makes it look like they did not plan ahead at all.

[1] http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm... (Figure SPM.5)

[2] http://www.woodfortrees.org/graph/wti
For me, work/life separation has been important. It's nice to have a routine to just walk down the street to a WeWork. It's also great for meeting people and events.

Because there are two of us, we're being conscious of not spending every waking moment together. A coworking space helps with that.
It's interesting how many of these 15-25 year enterprise veterans actually want to entangle their career paths with young and "hip" startups? I'm sure some do, but I'd guess a low percentage. Obviously, it would be different if some of these veterans are the ones founding the startup. I'd also guess that in some niche fields, such as security, poaching of enterprise veterans is happening much more than the more "sexy" fields.
With all the criticism of higher education not being diverse enough, why wouldn't they discriminate based on race? You can have a complete meritocracy where only the best students get in, or you can have an inclusive environment where minorities are given preference over other students, but we live in a world where different races have different levels of academic achievement, so you can't have both. Seems like a lose-lose situation regardless of what the admission officers do here.
> Ms. Braddock said: “Here, there’s no stigma attached to renting, which is not true elsewhere in the country.”

Interesting comment. Never in my life or travels have I met anoybody who attached stigma to renting a place.
It can if you use the pg_trgm extension, a good summary can be read here: https://niallburkley.com/blog/index-columns-for-like-in-post...
Sort of unrelated, but for a long time I have been curious why uracil in RNA is replaced by thymine in DNA. I was inspired by this post to do a little digging and here is what I found in case anyone else is interested.

http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=52606
I'm not sure one one can make their 'own' conclusions from reading that article it was clearly biased towards reaching the conclusion that Ayn Rand was a writer for 'juveniles' which I don't think is a fair appraisal. I mean I don't agree with her conclusions on the world but I would say the world she has created in her novels are at a higher level than juvenile reading.
Is there a way to have Tracking Protection without the DNT header nonsense?
Not that I have much to add here, but as a complete non-techie PowerShell seems amazingly powerful for this use.

I went from having no knowledge at all to having written a web scraping function and checked 7000 sites for a specific phrase in less than two hours. It was the most intuitive piece of technology I've ever used.
Agree with everything you said. Go is very active community driven project without mile long community laws/bylaws like Apache/OpenJDK stuff.
elixirlabs.org :) donate your spare time to building tech for nonprofits who could really use the assistance!
pizlonator is correct. I didn't mean the layout of individual structs (that is its fields). What I meant is the layout of large numbers of objects in memory (relative to each other) which is what the article was benchmarking.

And it's not just that I don't need the GC to help me with that in a language that has value types. It's also that the GC might get it completely wrong if I'm not accessing the objects in creation order.

The generational hypothesis will hold in general, but I don't think it is very relevant when we're talking about processing large arrays filled with small objects. They're all going to be old gen.
For us personally - we don't plan on being out of the USA enough for it to matter on income taxes. We plan on spending some time traveling through a couple US cities, too (like NYC, LA, and Chicago).
I wonder how immunologically different the proteins on an artificial testicle that had the host's DNA aside from a single close-relative donor Y chromosome would be.
Social good Ideas

* Program for charities
* Make Reddit style voting for political topics
* Invent an econmic system that saves the planet
* Work on blockchain projects for good for all
* Contribute to open source projects
How WanaCrypt Encrypts Your Files
> A lot of mediocre middleman managers in the typical company aren't capable of setting expectations and evaluating work results.

This is one of the key problems. It's not that remote work doesn't work, it's that a bunch of mediocre middle managers only have the "butts in seats" metric to fall back on to answer whether work is getting done.

If a manager is properly tracking progress and managing the pipeline, people working remotely shouldn't be a problem.
"The CIA-funded Glomar Explorer was nominally built for clathrate mining"

Manganese nodules, actually.
I turn it around from the get go, in fact, I never answer any of their questions* and let them provide guesses. It is more fun than their original questions.
I feel that that is really what they like me to do, as they don't come back around after their guesses and say, Dad, what do "you" think or what is the "right" answer?

*besides factual questions and even in that case, I still ask them to guess first
Is there a list of these symantec white papers to read?
There is pretty much no practical way to be sure you aren't actually being tracked. The amount of metadata we spew is crazy.
I've been using Human Japanese fairly consistently for the last 6 months or so. I have a few chapters left so can't speak to the Kanji sections but I've really enjoyed the app as a whole. I found hiragana/katakana to be a little rough because the sets of characters were spread out so I recommend a flashcard app for the characters instead. But the context and style of presentation the app has makes it so easy to understand what you are actually trying to accomplish. Big fan.
> I keep seeing this recently and this time I can't even imagine how it could be relevant.

In this case, it sounds like it's mocking the idea that the market-based voluntary agreements could solve this problem. Lots of people seem to think you can solve any problem by just "letting the market work."
What the heck is Android Things?
This does depend on the scenario. If the abuse it's coming from a corporate network, from an employee, the employer is getting contacted. They are legally responsible for both.

If it's somebody posting from home in their own time, dobbing them in seems a bit weird. How do they know who I work for?
I assume disconnecting the ethernet and/or wireless is too much of a rat's nest for your average office occupants. Better to cut off the appendage to stop the spread I guess.
A lot of Mankiw's work is like that
The title is odd. It makes it seem like Levandowski is some random "engineer" that is just a leaf node in this whole story. The whole suit is centered around him and Uber spent around a billion dollars (if not more) trusting him. Seeing him being referred to as "engineer" just seems odd.
I'm not really sure how else to explain it to you.

If you were given 25 million right now what would you do?

Your initial claim was you could put it in the SP500 and "make an average of 2 million per year (8%) without doing anything".

But then I showed you that market timing plays a major part in how well that average will work out for you.

So, what are you going to do with that money to live the rest of your life with no work and how much will you spend per year knowing that huge income volatility isn't a realistic life style?

My point is, it's not nearly as easy as you've expressed.
Is Your Documentation Efficient? 3 Questions to Ask
You aren't describing venture capital. By definition, venture capital is high risk and therefore must potentially have crazy big returns.
Note the claim shift from Nazi glorification.

Look, I have no skin in this game. I just know some Ukranians and some Russians, and they tell me the stuff they see on Facebook.

And it's the same story as in all sorts of other misinformation campaigns like anti-vaccination: people are out to get you, you had better watch out, be scared. Now that you're good and scared, here's a very helpful and emotional video/website to prove my point, that just happens to be highly tailored to your biases.

It's basic human tribalistic nature, and it's unfortunate. It happens in the US with rural vs. urban, coastal vs. central, etc. The US may share a language, but gets divided because people think those other people disparage and hate them. I've never run into a Ukranian that wanted to rid Ukraine of Russian culture, much less Russians. I know Ukranian-speaking Ukranians that are glad to be speaking Ukranian and wrapped up in a new national identity, with Cossacks and all that. I've met Ukranians that only speak Russian that tell me "today I found out that Americans are just like us."

I don't expect to be able to convince people over the internet, but I'm still going to try. We need to learn about people and what they really want, and not be influenced by the very biased view that the internet presents to us. So it's a bit ironic of me post this on the internet itself, or maybe even hypocritical, but please, do not rush to judgement on these serious matters. There's been enough death.

So, that's my propaganda, as an outsider.
If I choose to drive 1000km that I don't have to drive in a 35mpg Prius I am not more environmentally conscious than someone who drives 200km in a 10mpg Hummer.

Similarly if I have 10 kids instead of 2.

Anyways, I should have said "was irresponsible" since those decisions were made by their ancestors a while back and so there's not much more they can do about it now.
This might be because these are about (important) implementation details the spec quite deliberately does not specify.
IoT: do I need to use MQTT or HTTP?
The commonly cited 20-25 multiplier takes into account the half-life of methane. If the methane didn't beak down the multiplier would be 130-140.
> And now we see the scapegoat being thrown under the bus.

Yeah, in official communications, of course. I haven't been following the story that closely, but I wonder if things are actually adversarial and turning into a blame game behind the scenes at Uber, or whether they are just executing on a united defense strategy.
If the world is not the way you want, you can either get frustrated about it or adapt.
How He Used Facebook to Win
It's hard to be scientific about this. For example, you wrote of Singapore being unhappy, but in my experience in Singapore people seem really happy. A lot more than in the States, as far as I can tell (and especially far, far less anger).
I honestly think it is very difficult, if not impossible, to assess the individual value of rank-and-file work to society as a whole.

It is easy to build something and say "this helped family X, or this powered Y homes", but there are so many externalities that are simply hidden. What if family X is part of Nation Z, who is about to start thermonuclear war W?

It's just a guessing game at that point. It seems that most people ignore it under the guise of "well, I do the good that I can", but it's false comfort, IMO.
Ever seen those "here we'll be setting cookies because we're going to track you if you agree (agree/fuck off)" in Europe? A EU directive or something of the best intent mandates that when you're tracking someone beyond technical needs this boilerplate is required before setting a cookie. Guess what if you disagree there's no way to store the user's answer, so the box keeps popping up, forever nagging the privacy conscious. DNT would have solved that so nicely! Header set, no box, easy peasy. Except the difference between theory and practice is that they're the same (in theory). So boxes keep popping up even from good actors.
How Cell-Phone Plans with Unlimited Data Limited Inflation
I am paying you to solve problems not write code.

Really glad to hear this, it's something that people seem to easily lose sight off

If the problem gets solved I don't care if it is 10000 lines of code or 10. Solving problems takes creativity. And for many people, creativity is enhanced by being around other people

That may be true for some people, but it's diametrically the opposite for others. Partly just pure personality, but I'd also argue that working with others biases towards "fine grained" solutions where your contribution dovetails with other pieces. Working alone for non-trivial increments of time makes it easier to step back and think about whether there's a single piece that can solve the whole problem.

Finally, the specific case of WFH often (not always) makes it easier to step away from the computer for an hour or two when you're stuck, perhaps prepare lunch or even go for a walk. That's a far more fertile setup for inspiration to strike than sitting in front of a blank text file.
So do you dig deep into Java, Fortran, Cobol, etc?
We do penalize minor release articles, and there are software protections against abusive downvoting. What we need from you is no more comments like these. It's not criticism, they simply break the guidelines.
it was constructive in the sense that the debate waste time from the real issue. But feel free to keep adding noise and fighting for syntax sugar.
> I always suspected Mozilla pushed Do Not Track to undermine online privacy.

What motivation does Mozilla have to want to "undermine online privacy?" Of all the major browser vendors, they seem the least coupled to the privacy-invading ad ecosystem.
The variant for 7: https://github.com/gentilkiwi/wanakiwi
WSJ: Apple cracking down on WeChat tips as a digital good subject to 30% tax
Roll Call Reporter Says F.C.C. Security Pinned Him to a Wall
Why, I enjoyed this article, particularly the part about rape and the end:

I seriously doubt that Donald Trump is really a fan of Ayn Rand. Her books may be juvenile and shallow, but they’re way too deep for him.

Make your own conclusions, indeed.

Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon. She was the winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.

Um, I only hope they don't give awards for that.
Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia
Time for a backup vault on the other side of the arctic in Ellesmere Island. This time maybe they can tunnel an upward slope into a stable mountain so no moisture will be able to flow in, and moisture originating inside should (in theory) flow out.
i think what is appealing to me is the idea of playing unexpected combinations of sounds of one another. and it's the drum example in particular that really caught me.

you can certainly make weird sounds with existing synths, but interpolating rhythmic sound with a harmonic sound is different to me in that the resulting thing is more rooted in a musical context and can work with other non-neural elements more easily.

for example, once you get some sort of intuition for how sounds might meld, you could compose a "beat" made up of samples (maybe drum sounds, maybe not) in the "left" side that is tailored to interact in certain ways against the "right" (i'm referencing the UI in the abelton video).

people might trade their "seed" sounds, or they might keep them close to the vest!

probably you could use max msp
to do stuff like this already but i'm imagining that the "left" sound itself being thought of like an intuitive signal processing algorithm.

it's like second order sampling. you can find pieces of audio and, rather than use them directly, as today, you can create a third sound that probably can't be deconstructed back to the original.

might not birth a top-level genre like sampling did hip hop, but i think once someone puts it together the right way, and once processing power allows them to go beyond some the limitations described, it will really open some new avenues
Gladly, sorry for the silly question, but on which repo? Scala Lang main website? Scalakata?
> With all due respect to the "move fast, break things" evident in many startups, it leaves behind a big technical mess for the people who help transition the company out of startup phases. I'd bet most would do well to incorporate a few more stodgy enterprise devs earlier in the process to help steer the software toward a sustainable path.

I agree to a point, and tried to address it above. It's a tradeoff -- do it right now for a big payoff later. However, you have to survive to the payoff. So maybe you spend a bunch of time doing it right, and then die when you haven't actually sold anything yet.

I'd rather have a company that made it to the "we have to clean up our technical debt" phase then building something beautiful that never sees the light of day.
That and saving the seeds of flowering plants without preserving eggs of pollinating insects isn't very useful.
A subcellular map of the human proteome
Wasn't scala supposed to do that?
Great tips! We should do the refactor work to switch to lazy-loading everything, but that will take some time. I can certainly get the Rubygems savings today though.
> The amount of metadata we spew is crazy.

Could someone build a privacy-respecting browser that "spews" super-generic metadata that doesn't vary from installation to installation? It's probably have fewer "features," but I'd honestly kinda welcome a simpler browser experience.
Front lines aren't in Crimea. At least learn a little before making definitely statements
Do senders and receivers inherit? Suppose I'm under surveillance. Instead of sending something to C, I send it to B with instructions to relay to C. Is B --> C collected? What if I don't explicitly tell B to pass it along to C?
Well, the "why not" of that scenario is that Levandowski would have to abandon his 5th Amendment protection in order to do so, and almost guarantee criminal prosecution.

I don't really agree with the characterization of Uber throwing Levandowski under the bus: they've been very scrupulous with him, and basically they're only threatening firing because Alsup twisted their arm. But let's say that Levandowski feels betrayed.

First: Note that Levandowski is super rich (Google paid him north of $100M). It's not like losing his job is going to prevent him from living a life of luxury forever.

Second: If he maintains his 5th Amendment protections, even if he does get prosecuted, what's going to happen? It seems like there's pretty good evidence that he stole the files, but without something more, how much in the way of damages will the prosecution be able to prove? Is this something that the US Attorney even wants to bother with?
I wish I only got interrupted 6 times a day. I usually get interrupted that often by lunchtime. I don't think it takes a full 23 minutes to recover from that, but 5-10 isn't uncommon.
So if I set the DNT flag on my browser, your advertising network will neither set any cookies nor serve me any beacons or tracking pixels nor collect any other analytics data from me whatsoever?

Can I or a neutral third party audit your internal database to verify that my browsing history is not being recorded by you? Do you provide a list of all third parties with which you share information with so I can attempt to audit them as well?

What dispute resolution procedures do you support if I have reason to believe that you do, in fact, hold some of my personal information despite my express request? How would you respond to a request to purge an individual's records from your logs?

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I don't mean to put you, personally, on the spot. I'm sure your firm is perfectly ethical, and that you do listen for and take some action to honor DNT requests as far as you see fit. I'm also sure that were I at an advertising firm I wouldn't have any better policies. It's not your fault this is a stupid feature.

That said, to almost anyone outside the webdev community "Do Not Track" doesn't mean, "Track, but Anonymize" or "Track, but Don't Personalize", it means "Don't Create A Record I Was Here". I've yet to run across a single company, advertising or otherwise, that interprets it that way, though.
Flow is definitely not a Linter. It is a language, like TypeScript. It also has a typechecker, like TypeScript. Unlike TS, which bundles in its own compiler, Flow relies on projects like Babel to provide a compiler. In either case, compilation is mostly as simple as first linking modules, then typechecking, then stripping away types.

You can use TS on a JS codebase as well (with the --allowJs option), or you can leave JS files to a separate build step if you don't want type inference for them. I have used both approaches in the past.
I had no idea. I love this cheese, occasionally we get a gift of it from a WSU alum.
Not really, because every one of them gives an audiovisual prompt that speech is now being recorded. Nobody mutes those prompts because it makes the devices harder to use.

You can own every single smarthome device in existence today and quite rightly assume that you are not being passively recorded. These concerns amount to overblown FUD.
I thought “Don't feed the trolls” was the idea?
I think "plenty" is debatable. Most people are good at IGNORING animal cruelty (ie: where did my veal dinner come from?), but it is the exception that people actively think it's fine (dog fighting, etc). Once animal abuse is public knowledge (especially against certain more-beloved animals) it is hard for society to forgive. Sea World, the circus, puppy mills, etc. Those things are all going away now.
It is 98% scaffolding and ceremony. The exposed android API is just red tape, that is exposed for no good reason. Good API only expose what matters.