skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Seattle proper, almost 2/3rds of the city is covered by Centurylink with Gigabit fiber[1], but due to the way their cable franchise agreement is worded with the city, Centurylink has to wire the poorest neighborhoods first, and leave the richer areas as some of the last to get fiber from them.

Outside the Seattle area, upgrades happened much earlier so its a mix of VDSL2 down in Kent and surrounding areas, and ADSL to the north of Seattle proper (they got no upgrade munnies :c). Seattle has seen a ton of Capex over the past few years, and from what Clink employees tell me they are severely cutting back in Seattle this quarter, so as to wire the South end with VDSL2 and other cities with fiber. Portland also has near 100% fiber coverage by the way.

The crux of why Centurylink doesn't have a ton of customers on fiber comes down to a godawful prequal database, that they take offline starting anywhere from 3pm to 7pm and keep offline till well into the next morning. Techs will actually get orders put in for DSL, and when they go out to install it, see fiber on the pole and go "WTF?", but getting the prequal database amendment is near impossible.

Wrt static IPs on Comcast or worse yet Wave, just don't bother. A dynamic DNS entry will work just as well, while avoiding all the crazy stand on head networking antics both cable providers have to do to give you a static IP. Try portscanning the internal netblock your static IP is provisioned to, last time I did I found a (poorly protected) headend on a 10.x.x.x address.

1 - https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SeattleIT/cabl...
Being HN, you have to be careful of selection bias. I'm sure many of us know someone who left a 150k/yr job in Vancouver, say, for 400k in the valley. Or may be that someone.

But to suggest this is th norm for software jobs across both countries? The stats just don't support it.

3-4x is crazy. You make it sound like the US is crawling with tech jobs paying > 500k for mid-career jobs. It just not so.
HW British and Irish Lions vs. Highlanders Live Stream FRee
China did managed population growth, guess what happened, no one is happy. I doubt human can overcome their own nature to step ahead and regulate population effectively.
Top Uber exec Emil Michael departs the company
That's because he didn't train his endurance, not because strength training lowered his endurance.

You can train both and improve in both to a non-trivial level.
GOAI: Open, GPU-Accelerated Data Analytics (demo Walkthrough)
Can you please provide the link to the babel plugin which creates the random values from flow types?
British and Irish Lions Live @http://emostly.online/rugby/
> No, partially hydrogenated oil is not saturated, it's unsaturated.

Shortening made with partially hydrogenated oil contains saturated fat, at, IIRC, about the same levels (1/4 of the total far content) as modern, trans-racialism free shortening.

It has somewhat less saturated fat than butter or lard, but the main reason for the texture that makes it even remotely suitable as a lard replacement is the saturated fat.

> Which is exactly why it was made! Specifically to look good on food labels.

Nope, it was made first (with the intent of being a feedstock for soap production), it's ability to serve as a lard substitute identified and marketing in that role began, then it became popular industrially for cost reasons, then the health myths came later. The health myths did not motivate it's development, if anything the reverse is true.
I work on about 30 different power plants on two continents and spend only 2 months a year on the road.
> living in a society full of people that belong to my groups is a net-negative for people that don't belong to my groups

This is not a statement I would ever make, or an analysis I would find valuable to explore.

Trying to compare the overall net gains and losses that different groups in society receive from each other seems both incredibly impossible, as well as unable provide any concrete, actionable information.

> wringing your hands over being a 'privileged white male'.

Once again, I doubt the author of the linked article would agree with this characterization. To me, it seems the author is simply trying to be considerate about a touchy, complex issue.

Being disappointed that the company one works for is lacking in diversity is NOT the same thing as being wracked with guilt over one's cultural background or privilege.

Edit: Made a few tweaks and tried to make my points more clearly. Hopefully you weren't already replying.
more info : http://geoprisms.org/forums/topic/hw-british-and-irish-lions...
http://bullshitipsum.com/ has been around for quite awhile though. Nevertheless, buzzwordipsum does take a stab at making complete sentences.
As a backend developer living in Germany, these salaries make me want to work remotely, for a US based company. I only make 40k, with several years of experience. Does someone here have experience with with working remotely from Germany?
10 Interesting Facts about Instagram for PC
Near the end of the article, he mentions that some people say that it's more difficult to aim a weapon that has a shorter sight radius. Actually, I think it's more accurate to say that having your sights out of alignment with shorter sight radius will have a more dramatic effect on your accuracy.
Ousted Uber executive blames board and Bill Gurley
Yes I really doubt the refugees save the money in a bank account. Whatever they are given its consumed which translates to buying products it's just an endless cycle and eventually money ends up in banks once again.
Uber’s Chief Is Gaining Even More Clout in the Company
Ask HN: Speculative Multithreading- Any hope for power savings?
So I've been re-reading some material on SpMT.
I seem to recall that Soft Machines was advertising better power efficiency from SpMT prior to being bought out by Intel.
Given the very nature of SpMT being very aggressively speculative, it seems like it would be something that gives up power efficiency for more performance. In theory, I suppose that if the uthreads created consistently had a high probability of being valid, then it could potentially lead to some power savings compared to an expensive OoO engine while still providing decent (or better) performance. Still, it seems SpMT is unlikely to be power efficient compared to your traditional OoO.

Anyone have any thoughts or relevant information?
https://remoteok.io/remote-c-plus-plus-jobs - yes, but you have look for them... They won't come knocking.
It's official, my boss really is feeding off my youth.
Charter includes the modem with their plans though, so why would you not just ask for an IPv6 approved modem? Its not as though they charge an equipment rental fee like Comcast or Cox...
Has anyone been able to run Chrome (or anything Electron based) on Wayland in a virtual machine? I just a black rectangle instead of Chrome/VSCode/etc.

Disabling GPU acceleration for Chrome via command line flags or for the VM entirely seems to fix it, but that's obviously a non-solution.

I'm running Fedora 25 in a VMWare Workstation 12 with a Windows 10 host.
Ask HN: What front end framework should I choose with Rails and Vue.js?
I am currently starting a personal project with Rails 5.1 which I would like to release it in a couple of months and see if I can grow it.

I already decided to use Vue.js as the main FE framework.

(the reason for both of them is that I know them - rails for a couple of years, vuejs I am still learning but I can do basic stuff).

Currently I'm facing a decision as I dont want to create my own CSS framework:

1) Should I use Bootstrap v4 - alpha with Bootstrap Vue (https://bootstrap-vue.github.io)
Reasons: easy to find help with Bootstrap and probably a library which will last?

2) Should I just use http://vuetifyjs.com? Is it ready for being use in production?

3) Should I use a combination of Bootstrap v4 CSS styles + http://element.eleme.io for the Javascript elements?

The frontend part will be a mix of Turbolinks/Rails and Vuejs and not an independent Vuejs app.
Y10K and Beyond (1999)
> I was told once by a proficient pistol shooter that he ignored where the front sight was on the target, and paid attention only to the alignment of the two sights relative to each other. Since he did in fact hit the target,

is the "two sights" here the rear sight which has two posts, or the two sites as in front sight + rear sight?

several pages of reading and then .. an ambiguously worded conclusion.
ICS Companies Are Worried About #Cybersecurity
A gigabit switch is a heck of a lot cheaper than a 48 port router or a basic Linux box with proper VLANs and tagging on the switch. These were also likely configured in the early days of Webpass, so they prolly won't touch it unless it breaks.
Lego plans to transition entirely to plant-based plastics by 2030 - they've spent $150 million on a new sustainable materials research center, and will employ 100 people to work on the problem. Add onto that a similar R&D effort among their suppliers, it hardly qualifies as "easily".
No -- but supporting them means installing extensions, compatibility with apps when supporting over phone, etc.

All of this is easy when they're on the same browser as you.
Flexibility That A.C.A. Lent to Work Force Is Threatened by G.O.P. Plan
Great walk through of Packer + Ansible. Very useful.
Or put another way, a shorter sight radius by a factor of X makes it X times harder to visually confirm your iron sights are correctly aligned. This makes the visual-mental-physical feedback loop of keeping them aligned as precisely as you possibly can, much more difficult.

Shooting accurately is much more than just physically holding the barrel steady; it's a whole "symphony" of coordination, involving physical, visual and mental components.
Another solution was to set the prefix for 2-digit years on a sliding scale, so they are interpreted as a date within a specific 100-year period (date windowing). For example, see the 2029 rule: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/214391/how-excel-wo...

This turned out to be one of the most cost-effective methods of fixing the problem, and was probably one of the most likely to be implemented. This was especially the case in situations involving software which ran closer to the hardware (for example, BIOS or firmware) or on systems where RAM or storage couldn't be increased and/or the change might increase the software's requirements beyond the system's capabilities.

32-bit Unix timestamps have the 2038 problem.

Despite how common these problems have been in the history of computers, we keep making them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu...
Gravity != Mass

Gravity isn't the same as mass. It's related, but not equivalent.
Openstack vs. Cloudstack
FYI they are owned by Wave Broadband now, and Centurylink covers quite a bit of the city with fiber. Not that you'll know, cause their fiber prequal database is shut off in the afternoons/evenings/early morning cause screw you :(

My comment above gives a bunch more detail if you wanna give it a look.
Try the Epic Privacy Browser..its ad blocker worked great for me ;-)
Maybe the expression "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," discussed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence.
I'm a big fan of design by contract - at least how it's implement in racket (blame at module boundaries and higher order contracts). I wonder how quickcheck type testing slots into the picture.
Also of interest in the same vein:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea#Political_issues
He means the sights. Like you said, the rear site is composed of two posts, the front sight has one post.
And if you are making 150k + RSUs + bonus in Canada do you really think you'll get a 3-4x larger offer in the US?

Again, I'm not denying that vastly more of these opportunities exist in the US, particularly in a few locations. But that doesn't factor into the majority of tech jobs on either side of the border.
Shitty solutions are usually the right answer. At least in the areas I work in (mostly startups). I would estimate 99% of the code I write gets thrown away. Most of it is trying something out. Even for code that was intended to hit production, the company/project often gets cancelled before it ever hits production.

I'm not saying this is true in your case. But there are so many different classes and types of programmers and projects that it's hard to generalize.
She longed to be the kind of person who was confident enough in her own sense of goodness that she would know definitively that she could never commit murder.
I edited the page. Now there's a download button and a preview button. If you click the preview button, the javascript document viewer embedding the pdf will be loaded, otherwise it won't be loaded.
Pakistan, in a First, Sentences Man to Death Over Blasphemy on Social Media
Author here. Feel free to ask me any questions.

By the way, the 10 million number in the title is outdated. It's now about 30 million indexes.

Also, I've been publishing one blog post a weekday on my personal blog about one Postgres feature or component. If you liked this post, you should check it out: http://malisper.me
True. Initial hurdle to setup all the projects was the speed breaker, which is getting resolved as we progress.

Apache Cloudstack is also a good choice if one is looking for just the IaaS component. Just fit it. Battle tested.
If you visualize nested scopes as indent levels, the labelXYZ: sits in an indent level above where it is visible. Not only that, but labelXYZ: does not come before the statement that it transfers control to, but two statements before. If all that was not bad enough, most people format the labeled statement to sit at the same indentation level. The combination of these three things is pretty much the worst possible when it comes to reading code. Compare this to block/tagbody/prog and their indentation conventions in Common Lisp.
If you're interested in the science behind this, you may be even more interested in learning how peephole style rear iron sights almost eliminate the dual sight alignment problem of goal-post style rear sights (as commonly found on pistols).

The rear peep sight on rifles take advantage of actual "optical effects", without any glass -- much like a pinhole camera can actually magnify images without any lenses or mirrors at all.

By simply providing an arbitrarily small "aperature" you're looking through in the rear, the front-rear sight alignment problem is not only capped at an upper bound of error (defined by the peephole size and sight radius), but the actual error from front-rear sight misalignment is visually magnified and centered through a fixed viewing point, making it vastly easier to keep the actual error near zero.

So generally, to achieve precision within the (small) upper bound of error with a peephole sight, all you need to do is place the front sight post on the target when looking through the rear peep sight. Even better precision is made much easier via a sort of "peephole camera" effect through the aperature of the rear sight.
WWDC 2017 – Some Thoughts
Lyft capitalizes on Uber scandals
Keybase.io
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/plomk; my proof: https://keybase.io/plomk/sigs/mioAjdcsBT71F9cYUJpcyWuCtU7oOY2h6RkLCkA0BWo ]
I tried out the first version and really didn't like working with it.. but @next really addressed all my concerns.

If you've used material-ui, you should really check out @next.
I do very long trips across multiple borders on a motorcycle, and on my way I try to meet as many people as I can. Counterintuitively, something about that really teaches you to trust people in a profound way. It may be that the motorcycle is making you come across less threatening, since you're obviously much less comfortable and in a more dangerous position than others, so perhaps it brings out the instinct to be kind and compassionate where normally people are cautious, competitive, and defensive. But it's a good exercise of experiencing how good the vast majority of humans are deep inside.
That's the point, there's no such thing as a fixed amount of dollars of value per customer. You may have found a segment willing to pay X-Y, but you may be leaving a lot of money on the table by not selling to the potentially much larger segment that only gets X/2 dollars of value from your product.
> a diff-friendly format ... it's easy for patches to update the database without exploding the git repo size due to giant binary diffs

Interesting - I understood that Git stores whole files, not diffs, so I'm surprised this is a significant feature.
U.S. Tech Companies Are Now Copying Chinese Peers
The U.S. Is Ahead of China in AI Innovation–for Now
I'm pretty sure some of your users will be interested in that question around 90 days from now. :-)
"By this logic, all free apps are worthless."

That's largely my experience, there are one or two exceptions but if I look at the stuff that I use for years, software that has been continuously maintained and is functionally rich and stable it's nearly all commercial.
There are a number of problems with nuclear power.

1. The world's uranium supply won't actually go that far [1].

2. A lot of places aren't suitable for nuclear reactors (eg they're seismically active).

3. We have to trust either corporations or governments to run such plants. Corporations will tend to maximize short term profits at the cost of long term safety. Governments will tend to do the same for budgetary reasons.

4. We'd create a whole bunch of radioactive slag that we honestly have no good way of dealing with.

So far it seems the best power source we have is hydroelectric. Of course it's only possible in some places. This can devastate certain species (eg salmon) but in terms of cost, risks, environmental impact and power output, hydro is hard to beat if it's an option.

Solar has been on a stellar (pardon the pun) rise for some years simply because the cost of cells has decreased by way more than I ever would've predicted.

Widespread electric vehicles are still hindered by the relative expense and scalability issue of batteries, notably how much lithium we have available as well as the environmental impact of mining the necessary materials. It does seem like we're one big battery breakthrough away from completely changing this landscape however.

Wind has a place but I think will remain a niche energy source.

I increasingly have the view the the economic production of electricity from nuclear fusion is a pipe dream. The temperatures are too high, magnetic containment seems too problematic and, worse, the neutron emissions are a big problem (yes, yes, I know about He3).

This does seem like it's a problem we're going to have to solve this century.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium
IIRC the whole "Gandhi is gonna nuke the rest of the world" meme came from such a bug occuring in the world-domination strategy game Civilization 2.
angelList.
A Break in Green and Blue
How much time would it have taken using Torch instead of Caffe2? (I still don't understand which I should use...)
Seeing a noticeable bump in discretionary income after tax is very realistic - on average taxes are a bit lower, salaries are a bit higher. Seeing an 8-fold increase is unlikely.

You are right that there are many more top tier opportunities (although they do cost in Canada in small numbers) - but by definition nearly, this doesn't apply to most developers.
The difference is the rock bottom price, you can't (I don't think) put a time limited app in the app store. I use the 'shareware' model for my software and trials outnumber purchases 50-1. Put that number into an environment where $3 is seen as expensive and the economics don't look very good.
The point is - would you do better off on these with a more applicable problem domain? Do the things you learn transfer there well?

It's not obvious.
In a similar fashion, a coffee from Starbucks isn't the same as an app download. For instance, though Netflix is about 2 Starbucks orders, it's subscribers attribute greater value to it. However, a $1 monthly increase brings out the pitch forks in them. It's all very confusing
Thanks, reading this gives me a better feeling about my 40k salary in Germany. Reading about 120k+ somewhere else is weird.
Corollary to this: if neither Google nor Stack Overflow have the answer, you may be trying to solve the wrong problem. This is often how I realize that my approach to something is wrong, especially when exploring a new problem domain or language/tool.
Test-Driven Development: Does It Really Matter to Test-First or to Test-Last?
I got a similar set of stories from a friend who's parents were nearby. She translated them here: https://whatisnuclear.com/chernobyl/memories.html
Bangalore has a drinking-and-cabbing problem
A CS degree isn't a must if you can understand time-space complexities and how they are at play in a problem. basic knowledge of trees will help.
I can make a classical analogy.

The Higgs explains why fundamental particles have mass in the "F=ma" Newton's-Laws-Of-Motion sense. But you can formulate classical mechanics without gravity at all. The m in this equation is sometimes referred to as the inertial mass.

F_gravity = G M m / r^2 on its face looks like it is talking about the same inertial mass (or, by adjusting G, something proportional to the inertial mass). But, this is an assumption---a body could equally well have a gravitational mass independent of its inertial mass.

If inertial and gravitational masses are proportional to one another then when you calculate the acceleration due to gravity you can cancel the m from both sides, and you find that all bodies fall the same way (even light, which has m=0 and might cause concern that the cancellation isn't valid). This is a repercussion of inertial = gravitational mass. Einstein promoted this observation to the Equivalence Principle (and people do experimental searches for violations of this assumption).

The Higgs gives particles inertial mass. But the Higgs doesn't cause things to fall "down" (assuming you can define "down" without a gravitational field). You need the gravitons to communicate the gravitational attraction, which is independent of the existence of mass.
Why not simply full indexes?
It would be interesting to test this on Windows too
Hey, can I get one as well? Email is in my profile

Thanks
> _may_ be less drying than detergent
(Emphasis mine)
Did you miss the part where GP asked people to stop spreading pseudo scientific falsehoods?
IT still hasn't made it into higher management, especially in the public sector which even privatized utilities resemble. Unfortunately this means things like security comes last, when they really ought to be part of your architectural design.

We recently bought a manegement software for our translators, which somehow made it through all the business and management layers revolving public contracts without anyone questioning the fact that none of it was encrypted. Meaning anyone snooping on our network could get anything from private data to system logins with absolutely no effort.

Things are getting better, but IT is still a subsection of the economy department in a lot of places, and a lot of execs still think it's magic. Couple this with most developers and entrepreneurs being hackers who want to toy around with cool world changing features, and, no one is left to worry about security.
The messenger – Delta Chat
Palma competitors routinely hit out to 1000 yards with iron sights (in reality, aperture sights). They are extremely effective.
It's an abuse of HN to use it for ideological battle like this. Since you've done it repeatedly in a particularly inflammatory way, we've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and promise not to do this in the future.