skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost certainly none at all. Those of us who use proportional fonts simply don't try to do column alignment, because it would be a fool's errand.

In most situations, I consider column alignment to be detrimental to code maintainability. I actually stopped using it long before I switched to a proportional font.

When I later got curious about trying different fonts, I discovered to my surprise that the code looked just the same in a proportional font as it did in a monospaced font.

Regarding margins, if you mean indentation, that works the same in a proportional or monospaced font. The only thing that doesn't work well is the popular two-space indents. That ends up with very little visible indentation in a proportional font.

But to my eyes, two spaces isn't enough in a monospaced font either. It's just not enough spacing for me to see the code structure clearly. Four-space indents solve this problem; tabs solve it even better. When you use tabs, you don't have to argue about how many spaces to use.

I think these are related. Why do people want to use two-space indents? I believe it is often because their lines of code are getting too long. Why are the lines getting too long? Often that is because of the use of column alignment, especially with function arguments and the like.

If you stop using column alignment, your lines will naturally be shorter, and there is less reason to try to save horizontal space with narrow indents.
Here Are the 16 Most Innovative Countries in the World, Ranked
There's some fun analysis of the length at https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6334/how-long-was-..., including a post directly from the screenwriter.
Older female elk perfect the art of survival
when you consider that healthcare and decent maternity leave are generally included in any reasonable tech salary and that housing in toronto and vancouver is quite pricey the salary differential of 1/2 does not make up for it.

I wish it did...
Can we stop using 45's language, please? We need to separate satire, propaganda, disinformation, and plain old lying from this term. Because when we allow it all to be grouped under "Fake News", it allows him to give the weight of those things to information which he simply doesn't like. And that, more often then not, is not fake in any way.
On the Verge – Deadly E.M.P. Situation – Project A119
Yeah, you don't want to hire a dud.

In my case, my manager was particularly fearful about losing me. When I told him that I was entertaining other gigs he plainly told me that "I will black mark you across the industry if you leave." I was young, naive and scared, so I took it seriously (luckily things have improved vastly since). I now know that I would not put him on my CV; instead the myriads of other employees who have interacted with me. This is why those laws are in-place: preventing hostage situations.
Poe's Law is when extreme views seem to self-parody. That's different from someone missing the joke on mundane sarcasm.
What a EMP Attack in America Looks Like
That's Foxconn in Shenzhen, where they had to put anti-suicide nets on the employee dorms.[1] Google isn't at that level.

[1] http://www.dailytech.com/Foxconn+Installs+AntiSuicide+Nets+a...
I encountered this argument all the time when I came back to Sweden after living in the US for 15 years.

Would you rather have Putin or China run the show?
> It all seems to be driven by the billionaires who just love their city

I think it's more on the workers than anything else. The types who flock to Google, Facebook, etc. are mostly urbanites who'd sooner die than live anywhere outside of the coasts. So, you put your offices where your target demo of workers want to live.
>But that wasn't always the deal. The US up until 1900 was not the top dog.

Of course. The British Empire, for one, did the finger pointing and "white man's burden" hypocrisy back in the day.
This is an example of where it's absolutely okay to mix tabs and spaces. If it's Python, that's not going to work, but depending on one's preferences and opinions that can be seen as a defect of the language, not the formatting. In C, C++, Java, Javascript, and nearly every other language, this is a great practice.
(2999 - 2161) / 2161 = 38.8%

That's the how, but it's obviously the wrong way to calculate a decline in value.
Synthetic sensors: General purpose sensing (PDF paper by Gierad Laput et al)
Doesn't strike me as very creative. Sounds like Google should be talking with their van-dwelling employees to seek a better solution. Would be great to open up a van-dwellers Mecca to the public as well. I've thought about doing it myself but I don't have the money to bootstrap such a thing myself.
"Sinks" is a particularly strong word for a 3.4% drop on the day after a rate hike and during a 'tech selloff'.
Respecting indent preferences of others while not breaking the formatting of that line-split function call.
I've always understood it as functionality is an asset and code is a liability. The company wants and uses the functionality to make money. Code has to be maintained, has bugs, etc. Your goal should be to provide the required functionality while reducing the costs incurred by your code.
Were you born and raised in a vat of frothy callous logic or did you choose to climb into it?
Watching the fluctuations of BTC, ETH, and LTC they seem to be fairly strongly correlated with each other, at least over the last ~month or so, and increasingly so coming to the present time. It will be interesting to see if in the coming weeks and months they continue to track closely to each other or if they once again diverge.
Convolutional neural network on-a-chip promises always-on face recognition
You did the right thing by leaving the experience on your resume! It's your experience, not theirs.

Also by standing up to these bullies in the tech industry who think having lots of brains and very little compassion for others is somehow a divine quality. Trump-like ego-maniacs everywhere I turn in this industry it makes me so sick. Kojima did good by going out on his own and not letting the empty threats of a has-been corporation like Konami shake him from his vision as a legendary creator.
Interesting article. Not really on topic but I find the title of this post rather comical. I think one could safely say that any organism that reaches old age has perfected the art of survival. No?
Is anyone expecting stability? According to the chart, it went from $1000 to $3000 in 2.5 months.
Daylighting, or "sunlight as disinfectant," is great in a world where shame works and the appearance of rectitude is valued.

But we are seeing in US politics a world emerge where shame doesn't work, where players don't even try to appear honest, and where the very idea of consensus factual external reality is under attach.

In such a world, it will take a lot more than daylight to nudge good behavior from folks. It will take actual fear of being sent to jail.
>"Get involved and tilt them back."

Kind of easy to say when you're part of a majority. I'm part of an actually-oppressed-by-law minority. By virtue of Democracy, my minority's say has very little effect unless it's shared by the majority.

>"We're allowed to involve ourselves in the politics and push to update, modify, and otherwise "improve" the regulations."

It's always a game of compromise based on who has more numbers. Until such a time as arbitrarily small groups can self-aggregate within an area and split-off from a larger governing entity, it'll never be any better for minorities.
We tend to interpret suffering as virtue. Even PG advises faced with a choice, doing what sucks more is probably the right answer.
And public prisons still have tons of private interests involved in their running (contractors, etc.). So no prison is truly public.
Oh good, it's on sale now...
Just went through this for the first time with my youngest. I used the top rated comb on Amazon. Took all the stress away. Absolutely worked: no fuss, no insecticides.
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A quick estimation [1] shows that a $130000 salary in the US is equivalent to around $105k / 139k CAD. There are some of the top companies in the SV who pays this as base salary, is is there 139k CAD companies in Montreal? What's the highest base salary for the local Netflix/Google/... of Canada?

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$130000+in+San+Francis...
I'm not blaming capitalism, just pointing out that in some industries, monopolies naturally form. If anything, I'm blaming the government for getting taken over by the rich instead of keeping the imbalances in line.
Maybe eventually, but the point is they had to start somewhere, and 7 per GB is still a substantial reduction.

The EU parliament wanted to go much further, starting at 4 and gradually reducing to 1. They'll get pushed further down eventually, but at the same time nobody wants to overdo this and cause problems for these providers by going too fast.
> a shitload of shares about to become free trading, with a declining share price, you've got to think alot of employees are going to go stampeding to the exits rather than holding

> record short interest by the street

This is double counting the same thing. The reason there's short interest is because there's a bunch of employees that would like to sell now but cannot. I suspect that much of these short positions will close out when the lock-up ends and employees sell into the market.

I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't back-channel deals along the lines of "you short it now and close when my lockup period ends, and I'll use my locked-up long position to unofficially hedge for you".
Bloomberg article on the same topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/uber-sued...
You are suffering from survivorship bias here. Most companies don't make it through such trying times, but those you cite succeeded against the odds to become these seemingly unstoppable behemoths.

It is true that all these high-growth companies go through major adversity on their way to the top, but this is where most end up failing. Just like every other high-growth company, Snap's valuation is predicated on atypical future results.

Even without adversity they have a tough road ahead. I would posit that there's a good chance the executive team & investors saw the writing on the wall and took the company public to get out before it totally collapsed.

It was a pretty strong signal that Evan & Bobby are primarily money-driven when they took $10M each off the table during the B round. Other notable companies where founders have done this sort of thing have resulted in fast spike-and-collapse results: Foursquare, Zynga, and Groupon.

Zuck didn't take an early multi-million dollar cash-out. The Instagram founders didn't either -- they were living in 1-bedroom apartments a year after the acquisition. Founders who believe in the long-term success of a company don't tend to get rich off a company that has not yet attained either their vision or produce significant wealth for itself. Obviously causation != correlation, but this is a pretty strong signal about the motivations of the founding team.

It's certainly their prerogative to cash out early. I'm not making a moral judgement here. However, as a value investor this is a useful signal for high-growth tech companies. This all sounds incredibly cliche, but I just don't see signals that lead me to believe Evan & Bobby have motivations in the same category as Bezos or Zuck or Jobs. All the signals are that they appear to be looking to get rich to live a life of luxury, not build their life around their company. As a human, I personally would prefer the former. As an investor and employee, I want to put my money and time into companies lead by the later.

[Disclosure: Former Instagram & Facebook employee. I don't currently own any Facebook shares]
How can I help my students to think algorithmically?
That is an awesome article! And this quote from it I find rings true relative to my criticism of the OP article...

"Why have I included a frequency-response curve here? I mentioned earlier that the frequency-response curves in a sales brochure are typically meaningless in terms of providing information that's useful to an end user. Actually, though, I'd go further than that, and suggest that in many respects making any judgment about the worth or likely value of a monitor by examining its frequency-response curve is not far short of pointless."

His science-based analysis of why the NS-10 is successful and popular is very enlightening, and a much better example of how to do audio science, imho. I learned a lot. I really wonder how it compares to the Tannoys that I use? My biggest gripe with the Tannoys is that they're too nice. In particular, they have a very sweet, non-fatiguing upper midrange. I worry that nasty things are sneaking by me.
One thing I've noticed is I am actually less interested in writing software that should be open source, but isn't. The kind of stuff where we'd never sell it, no one would ever buy it, yet my current employer paid me to write it, and the next employer will pay me to write it again. Solving a problem the first time is almost always interesting. Grinding through it again is less interesting, especially if it's hard to remember how I did it the first time. I always enjoy coding, but I try not to build the same thing twice, at least not in the same language.
I installed this as I was curious. Both x64 and x86 downloaded fresh from the website crashed on boot. Shame, I wanted to try and considered buying even.

Had UAC enabled but tried both normal and run as admin.

Does it contact a server on first try? I'm behind a (corporate) proxy. Noticed your website does load but your user-guide does not behind my proxy. I disabled the proxy but still the app crashes though.

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System Information
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Time of this report: 6/15/2017, 21:14:05

Machine name: doesntreallymatter

Machine Id: neither

Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit

(10.0, Build 14393) (14393.rs1_release_sec.170427-1353)
Language: English (Regional Setting:
English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard

System Model: HP ZBook 15 G2

BIOS: Default System BIOS

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ

CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 16266MB RAM

Page File: 9946MB used, 8750MB available

Windows Dir: C:\windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 12

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)

DWM DPI Scaling: UnKnown

Miracast: Available, with HDCP

Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported

DxDiag Version: 10.00.14393.0000 64bit Unicode
America has some features that most developed counties don't, like a racial underclass and larger percentage of lower income families. There is also just something wrong with cultures in North & South America. We have really high murder rates in general.

America is sort of unique in that we have very strong rule of law but also have relatively high crime.

Also those recidivism rates you cited are apples and oranges. The US rate includes rearrest and the Norway is re-imprisonment.

This https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472929/table/p... attempt at apples to apples suggets the US is 36% compared to Norway's 20%. That's a big difference but other western nations are higher than evne ours. Canada, France, Netherlands, Germany, etc. all have similar recidivism rates.

The Scandinavian countries just have very little trouble makers it seems.
Secret chats that aren't even supported by the official desktop client? Telegram has some things going for it, but privacy and security are not among them.
Look for products that work with "super lice", the Vamousse brand for example.
I don't disagree. The risk is there. It's just that for me and others in this thread it's at an acceptable level.

Outside of that, agreed.
My dad bought one of these in 1985: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Opu... - the 256K one. Unsure of price but I think it was around £200?

I used it quite a lot when I got a bit older - the RAM disc's speed made it very useful. Good to play disc Elite (once unprotected...) from, and I remember it being much quicker to assemble stuff with ADE.

(I still have it, but the Opus EPROM erased itself long ago, so the RAM disc part has languished unused for a very long time. The 32 year old disc drive still works fine with my Master 128 though...)
Who called Bitcoin a "stable store of value" and why are you listening to them?
Like completely trashing the stereo image, for example.
Is this the new Neal Stephenson?
Yes, and there amendments etc.

But in public discourse, it's not treated as a mere law, something humans created, and they could toss if they like, but as some kind of holy scripture given by some wise old men.
Johnny actually talks a little about that (skeuomorphism) in this article from 2013. : https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/19/apple-jony-iv...
Investing time in writing your complex code in their Go dialect may leave you in shackles and at the mercy of their pricing plans.
Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00.1
Ask HN: What can I build in rust?
Rust recently caught my attention (thanks to HN) and I started writing code by following the Rust book.

Well, what next? Generally, on learning a new language/framework, I explore a library (Like Django-Python) or start building apps (ToDoList-Android/ToDoList-Angular). I can't think of anything to build. Most open source code (Servo?) looks too complex for a newbie.
Any suggestion would be welcome :)
I don't have a strong opinion, but I do think using Slack shows that a company is vulnerable to chasing hype and eager to hop on bandwagons.
15 yo here. The UI is obtuse, sure, but it is very nice when you get used to it. The learning curve is a valid argument, but I'm hesitant to say there should be change.
> you play a monster with limited IQ forced to unravel the mystery of your own existence

But surely the whole point of Fighting Fantasy books is for me to experience something different to my everyday life?
> That temporary result has been going on for a few decades now.

That really was not the case before the Netscape IPO or for about 5-6 years after the dot-com bust.
Slack was known for that, but they compromised very quickly with threaded conversations and the mess that is "slack enterprise grid"
There may not be a measurable criteria that drives price in all cases. Headphones are manufactured and priced for wildly different reasons. For instance, Beats are expensive because they're a status symbol. It has little to do with sound quality.
The M40fs headphones are great. The M40x headphones that replaced them are terrible.

I love the M40fs headphones so much I bought 10 from eBay when I learned they'd been discontinued. Should be a lifetime supply, I hope.
How are you building out multi-turn/goal based approaches? hardcoding a rule engine, or something clever?
I'd really like to see some comparative historical coverage of the development (and fall) of US technology hubs. There's been some recent discussion, but I can think of a few:

* New England, 19th century. Early manufacturing and milltown works, first water-powered, later steam.

* Late 19th century industrialisation. Edison (New Jersey), Bethlehem and U.S. Steel (Bethlehem and Pittsburgh, PA)

* Early 20th century: Detroit

* Mid-20th century: Rochester & Buffalo, NY, Boston / Route 128, Research Triangle Park / NC, Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Santa Monica (RAND).

* Late 20th / early 21st: Seattle, Boulder, CO, Austin, TX, and of course, Silicon Valley / SF-SJ corridor.

If anyone has some solid recommended reading, I'm all ears. Or eyes.
Ugh, "fake news" is probably the worst term to come out of 2017. Blanket statements like this are usually more dangerous than the actual content that is being described whether or not it's "fake".
Does this kill them with one application? How can it possibly work, dry them out or something?
I've become increasingly risk-averse after realizing how devastating a 50% decline really is. Independent of asset class, you will need a 100% gain to get back to where you were. And that will take a while.

Regardless, and apologies for the dumb BTC meme, I am HODLING!
Hooray! Still, it's not exactly transparent in a way that you could get with lazy array evaluation.
I can't say I think this has ever been really true:
"Performance speed is no longer the primary worry. Time to market speed is."

Performance has been a concern but programatic loadbalancing has been around for decades. When I worked at MSN/Linkexchange back in the late 90's we never really worried heavily about the performance of the language we used (Perl) because we could scale out servers. Perl isn't that speedy but it sure was easy to develop in. We served a billion and a half clicks per month with 8-10 machines from a single datacenter before I left, with Perl.
None of the above are FOSS though.

Instead, I would suggest org-mode or maybe cherrytree.
DBC is where I currently have my membership, but I didn't know Wit's End was there! Might have to check that out sometime! Thanks :)
Design thinking: Set your business apart and enhance your customer experience
ACM CHI 2017 presentation (with live demo) at https://youtu.be/hpxUrvTltJI
Indeed, a big trend in lab equipment right now is moving to capacitive touch screens, so this issue is being addressed by the equipment makers.
Underflow. The price money of $42,949,672.76 is 20 cents short from 2^32 cents.

The Iowa case apparently (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-iowa-c...) was also close to that ($41,797,550.16), but quite a bit further off. I still would guess underflow to be the problem, though.
I wonder if there is some survivor bias there. I'm sure there must be cases where everything went wrong but nobody writes about it.
What's the battery life like? I'm using some $15 no-brand phones and they have quite a surprising capacity, but they're over-ears. I can't imagine those things packing much of a battery.
I've been happy wearing safety glasses with tint. Unlike fashion glasses, safety glasses must adhere to ANSI z87.1 standards that test things like impact and UV protection.

Safety Works (used to be MSA) on Amazon are my go-to.

http://blog.safetyglassesusa.com/what-does-ansi-z87-1-2010-c...
Blackhole Networks an Underestimated Source for Information Leaks [pdf]
great idea! ill put it on the list
I was trying to think of what will stabilize the price, and the best I could come up with is that on a long timeline it should be approximately equal to the amount of money it costs to mine a new one, or get one out of transaction fees. Anyone have a better idea?
You said you can't imagine being a black man going through the judicial system, and then pointed at your wealth as the source of your "win," rather than your race.
Good advice, even though in this case it's totally wrong, because I am absolutely right and not to be questioned. :)

To generalize more, those critical/sensational top comments are often written by experts with a very different perspective on the subject (as was mine), and most of the child comments are ignorant, angry howling about someone's sacred cow getting gored. On the other hand, a good child comment (and there are several here) can be really enlightening.
Speculation is that this is primarily due to Bitmain's announcement yesterday to hard fork if the UASF soft fork gets any momentum. Jimmy Song has a good analysis on this.

https://medium.com/@jimmysong/examining-bitmains-press-relea...

This forking of Bitcoin is a required trial that the chain must go through to prove how resilient it is to this type of attack. It is unknown which chain will win in the event of a fork, maybe Ethereum will win, probably not PotCoin.