skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even think that's particularly controversial. The concentration of tech startups in SF has been devastating for the city, and has distorted every aspect of early-stage tech startups for years. And frankly, YC bears a rather large proportion of the blame for this.
"In the past, ancient humans had no diabetes or cancer"

Do you have a source for this?
It only adds types to Ecmascript/Javascript, so it's not more or less OOP then ES6 is.
> Perhaps the Valley is so diseased, but it's not the only game in town.

Hear! Hear!

One of the things that bothers me a lot about HN is the near assumption that if you're a software engineer and not in SV (or have never been in an SE job in SV) - you don't count as much.

I'm biased, I will admit: I've never held a software engineering job in the Valley. That opportunity has never occurred, nor have I tried to pursue it. I live and work in Phoenix, Arizona; at my age and position in life, even if the opportunity did present itself, I'd have to think long and hard about it. It would likely be a situation of me leaving my family to go work there, as relocation would likely not be a realistic option unless the pay was over the top (I am not going to move back to an apartment; my next house better be at least as large as my current one, and include a larger yard and/or shop space before anything else).

Here, in my current position, I am not only the oldest developer on the entire team (and I am only a few years younger than the owner of the company), but I also am one of the few who doesn't have any children. My wife and I made the conscious choice not to have kids a long time ago, and we are constantly glad for it. In fact, she thanks me on a monthly basis for not "knocking her up".

Honestly, we'd probably make terrible parents, and we're pretty selfish as a couple. We know this, so why bring children into the mix, right?

That said - here in Phoenix (where it's actually difficult to find competent software engineers for any position), I've never seen or experienced there being an issue if you have kids; every employer I've worked for has been extremely flexible.

In fact, both at my current employer, and my previous one, they encouraged you to leave when your day was up. If the end of your day was at 5pm, they didn't want you stay a minute more if there wasn't a really good reason for it. Like things would have to be well and good on fire for that to happen; anything less was "go home, get some rest - it'll be here to fix tomorrow".
I'll offer up this explanation from arch-conservative James Burnham (so please don't downvote the messenger) just for consideration on the idea that the "doing something about this", as SF tries so mightily, can make the problem worse. This is from 1964:

But what exactly is Skid Row? In reality it is not, other than incidentally, a spatial concept, but a functional one. . . Skid Row is the end of the line, and there must be an end of the line somewhere. ... The whole [reform] operation has proved to be, inevitably, an ideological illusion. Since Skid Row is not a static place, it cannot be abolished or rubbed out. The most noticeable consequence of this anti-Skid Row campaign has been merely to diffuse Skid Row, for a while, throughout the City.

I've elided a lot of supporting argument, the gist of which is that the denizens of Skid Row tend to form networks of support & attract institutions that maintain them. And while that level of maintenance looks (and is) rather squalid and miserable to outsiders, breaking it up is just replacing an organic support network with an artificial one which looks at the symptoms more than the roots.

I can't speak to London except that I guarantee London has a Skid Row, even if it's not physically located in London, if that makes sense.

Final disclaimer that I don't claim to have the answer, just pointing out one point of view that seems rather pertinent to 2017 SF despite being written 53 years prior, whatever moral valence you assign to the author & his politics.
Microsoft abused its position as the dominant OS maker to shut competitors out of a different market (web browsers).

I agree the pervasiveness of Facebook is a problem (one of many). But from a legal standpoint, what have they done that can bring a viable antitrust complaint?
I bet Avast is far from the only software that will get really confused with so many magic numbers in a row like this.
I'd be interested to know what 3 times more mean. If your chance of brain damage is 0.5% normally and jumps to 1.5% with moderate drinking, that isn't too bad. If it jumps to 10% to 30% that's another story.
If there were a reverse map like for numeric enums, there'd be no way to (at runtime) distinguish a Name from a Value. With a numeric enum you can use typeof Test[x] to figure out if x was a valid Name or valid Value, but this doesn't work for string enums because they're both typeof == 'string'.
Soylent Rings in Summertime with a Refreshing New Cafe Line in Sqround Packaging
You can save one character:

-a implicitly sets -n.
"PageFair 2017 ad blocking report: Usage up 30%"

Whether or not that number is correct, it's definitely a significant portion of the population doing it.
Possible Mars-Sized Planet Detected in the Outer Solar System
The killswitch: https://twitter.com/0xAmit/status/879789734469488642
Code as Risk [video]
this was posted earlier in the month and most of the top level comments have already been made

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508201
He might not have known it was second-hand info, or could have been led to believe it was good info from a good source (we'd need the message that led him to believe that thing -- and publicly throwing a subordinate under the bus for giving you bad info will obviously not go well).

I would differentiate that from lying, and fairly, he gets to deal with the consequences either way because he is the CEO.
Why not link to the actual study?

http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353
My wife and I moved to the Midwest 23 years ago because the homelessness and - less importantly - the traffic (in SF) were getting bad back then (relative to the previous ten years).

One of the changes at that time was having to pay a homeless person to 'watch our car for us' when we went to get a bite or see a band south of market.

Awfully sad scenario and well-documented in this article.
On the other hand naval ships are increasingly designed around onboard distributed datacenters, where IT is grabbing the power: everything runs in virtualized, HA environments.

Just like the rest of the world, eaten by software.
While agree the Bangle Butt looks horrible, this does not refer to a chrome strip on the trunk of a car, it refers to the shape/proportions of the trunk and rear fenders/quarter panels on a specific set of BMW's:
http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/01/21/bangle-butt/
Put a metal stick in the soil and check the travel time of the reflected signal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer#TDR_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_moisture_content_usi...
Hghhhh
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I posted this before,

The best app I used to learn Hiragana, Katakana and JLPT N5/N4 Kanji was "Kanji Study"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Chase+Colbur...

Though I do agree with the other threaded replies about being out of context. You don't learn the grammar, you just learn the immediate meaning/subject of the sentence and then kinda guess what it really means.
i think the best memory yet is understanding and visualization.
The human brain is really good at visual tasks and if you have noticed understanding really goes hand in hand with visualization.
You named a few Google products to be contrarian and think that Google is far from indispensable? I'm calling bullshit because I'm willing to bet most of the non-Google products you use use Google somewhere in the chain.
trivial to prove something was done today

My focus is on the something much more so than the when. I can do my own doctoring of any data, or use some service to make something that looks real[1]. Getting some proof that this fake data existed is not what I'm after.

Instead, I want multiple, completely separate (and ideally as independent and diverse as possible) attestations that something was out there online, as proof that some person or organization intended for it to be seen by everyone as their content. Being able to prove that irrefutably seems nearly impossible today even for the present time, particularly against insider threats.

Your question regarding proving something in the past is going far beyond what I'm hoping for; it will take me quite a while to come up with anything that might be helpful for such a situation. I assume most would hit up the various archive sites, but my gut feeling is that it winds up being a probability based on how well forensics holds up / are not falsifiable.

[1] simitator.com - not linking because ads felt a bit extra-sketch!
Yeah, every open source scientific software seems to have an uphill task before it gets recognized. Sagemath more so than others because of its scale and having a huge code base. Having to integrate multiple open source projects isn't helping either.

But its a fine project and one that I use. For a collection of other projects it works better than most other individual projects.

"Every successful science library has the ashes of an academic career in the making" - Same guy
The best part about using the @F array, is you get more than 10 things you can split and dereference. $0-9 only in awk.

That and maybe because i'm an old perl die hard, its just easier to pipe to perl than remember how awk does its shenanigans.
Is it not cryptographically possible to create a transparent provably-operational decryptor on top of something like ethereum?
I'm not sure what you were suggesting before, then, when saying that a bluetooth transmitter is worse than radio... ah unless you were talking about some kind of device => bluetooth => fm => autoradio contraption?

I didn't think about that, yeah, but the OP said they had an AUX input, so quality should be good with a (even cheap) bluetooth adapter on that.
This has been feared with every technological advancement for a couple of centuries now, from textile automation in the late 1700s to the 'robots' in the 80s and more. The thing is, it has yet to come true - not even close.

Most of the jobs being done by the people reading this weren't even invented when they were born...
PHP 6 was completely scrapped and abandoned
> If the classes that Spring, Jackson, etc want to access are in the classpath, it works by default in 9 (will not in 10, you will have to use the --add-opens on the command line).

AFAIK "classpath-mode" is not affected by Jigsaw. All of classpath is one big module so "anything goes". As long as all of your code is on the classpath or a custom class loader created from the classpath anything should continue to work with 9 and even in 10. Things only start to break if you:

- reflect on JDK internals

- you put your code or frameworks or libraries in the modulepath
Losing Gloria
The competition is a click away. Remember AltaVista?
They've probably been drinking (moderately)
Yeah, it's that kind of day, isn't it?
Popular news is all clickbait now. I've just opted out.
Their update signing is surely performed using an HSM with strict procedures for getting production builds signed, due to the exceptional sensitivity.

I think you might underestimate the gravity of such a thing happening, it would not be glossed over.
Despite?
Facebook is too broad a platform to compete with generally. You can however compete and win against individual facebook products. I.E. Instagram for pictures, Whatsapp for messaging, etc.

Oh wait. Shit.
Why to brag with account or users count, when users cannot even delete they accounts ? Many people have multiple accounts due forgetting credientials or simple facebook message "thank you for sending your paperwork.." when you just want to login ..

Hard to believe facebook, corporations lie so so much and twist word to fit marketing agenda.

Sorry fb, I have very hard to believe your agenda.
Damn it, I have about 40 users playing my game and I'm supper happy.
Ah fair enough. I was thinking stuff like this: http://doclibrary.com/MSC146/IMG/ban-home4.jpg

https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/07115505/f...

http://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/57571c84e8428148...
You make homelessness like a super awesome thing, do you think people will be tempted to quit their jobs and give up their homes for a taste of this?

But wait, since being homeless is one the worst experiences a human being can have this can only be the flippant perspective of someone who has no clue about homelessness and no interest to learn.
> Strict contravariance for callback parameters
?TypeScript has always compared parameters in a bivariant way. There are a number of reasons for this, and for the most part it didn’t appear to be a major issue until we heard more from users about the adverse effects it had with Promises and Observables…

> TypeScript 2.4 now tightens up how it checks two function types by enforcing the correct directionality on callback parameter type checks.

I understand what they mean after quite a bit of wrestling with that and the example, but I feel like that could have been far better worded for laypeople.
You and other fake test accounts by developers are still a rounding error. More interesting statistics is how many fake accounts are created for influencing discussion. Twitter has a huge problem with this, Facebook seems to handle it better but even if it is a single digits (1-5%) it is still tens of millions of accounts
Sure, but because a combi-oven can steam as well as bake and broil, you can cook things like vegetables, which would normally be dried out husks in a standard oven. Also, you can broil and get a nice crisp finish.

It's just like a TV dinner or a microwaveable dinner, but hopefully better because you have more cooking capabilities.
no, you don't need an fb account to use ig.
Many countries have these.
As a user I like AMP. it loads faster than the normal bloated websites and doesn't freeze my device while megabytes upon megabytes of scripts try to run.
I tried to quit Facebook (for the 3rd time this year) the last week but it keeps remind me of the people that will miss me by email. I guess this is one of their mental tricks to make users feel that they did the wrong choice by leaving Facebook. Any ideas, tricks on how to solve this problem ?
Halium: Hardware Abstraction Layer 4 GNU/Linux on Mobile Devices with Android
Again, the ARM benchmarks/demos recently are very impressive but there is no way they'll be able to match the higher end Xeon's, if for no other reason than you have to do x86 emulation.

I think they'll definitely be able to take some market share from Intel at the lower-end, but they won't be going anywhere any time soon.
It blows my mind that NumPy is just getting funding. How did the Eigen (used in TensorFlow, among other things) folks keep it going?
Well, to be fair, the tops of the hills are where the wealthier people live (with a few small exceptions), so the residents there would likely notify the police that homeless persons had penetrated their sanctums and should be removed, post haste.
Patients with Mental Disorders Get Half of All Opioid Prescriptions
The iPad Pro is already neck and neck with the MacBook Pro: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCV4rQtW0AAe3R2.jpg
src: http://linuxfr.org/news/naissance-du-projet-halium
iOS 11 has one-handed keyboard support
Just :) Dealing with merge conflicts is not trivial. So far I know of three different strategies:

Automatic with CRDTs, but there is a price to pay in storage and available data-structures to play with.

Manual, like Git.

Denial, aka. Last Write Wins. With is probably good enough for a cache but has been used in other context.
> Are chickens in the farm also customers?

Chickens in a farm aren't situated similarly, with respect to the farm, as users are with respect to Google services.

Chickens can't freely choose a different farm, or to use no farm at all.
skyscrapers are in SOMA. try to build one in mission/avenues
Thank you for your explanation (also, others below as well). If I had more time I would try and learn about each of these security exploits because I find it fascinating.
Take-out is definitely easier to engineer - we know that, but the food quality is never as good when food has been sitting for 30 minutes before you eat it. Hot food becomes lukewarm; cold food becomes warm. Leafy vegetables turn into mush.

I look forward to our robotic, food cooking overlords.
React hmm never. Big license problem. Riotjs and vue are your friend.
What's the pitch based on value to your customers, rather than some imagined "social value" from political causes which your customer may well perceive negatively?
A "drink" is not in line with common vernacular though. What most people would call a "drink" is usually about 1.5 or more drinks by the medical standard. A decent sized glass of red wine can easily be 3 drinks.
A lot of blanket statements in here, but there are sites out there that have tested them and found sticky headers useful in some way. We're not the only demographic.

I personally don't like them either, but I also know how to scroll. I've seen instances on long pages where there are audiences who have a hard time navigating through a lot of content without a constant point of reference.
Can't speak for elsewhere, but in the UK there are enough tech co-ops that we were able to form a network of them.

https://www.coops.tech/
A few of the Eigen core devs (Benoit Jacob, Benoit Steiner, ...) work at Google.
Maybe the government is comfortable with a company that benignly collects personal data on 1/4 of the population, just in case it ever wants to leverage that data.
I found an article saying they're working with ConsenSys, which uses Ethereum. Of course they might have an independent chain but that was my impression.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604227/blockchain-is-help...
Americans are practically teetotallers, apparently?
Winter Is Here: Game of Thrones Heating Bills
Poet in Chief – Generate a Poem from Trump's Tweets
Ok, so the problem seems to be 'lack of maintainer' or could be stretched to contributer. The article later linked to https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintain... which kind of reminded me a problem which I'm facing.

After getting through basic of "Introduction to Computer Science Using Python" and forever pending goal to become a "Python Developer", is anyone here who is experience in Python willing to be my mentor? In return, free Python labor. :)
Ask HN: What's your process for building a community around your product?
it would be interesting to see if its possible to make a closed system. a black box that gives tomatos ...
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Behold the wonder that is wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_moisture_content_usi...
But the point has been made several times in this thread, it's not much cheaper. Unless you're referring to some Michelin-starred restaurant, it's quite possible to eat fast-casual for the same price of many of these kits (especially if you live in a suburb where restaurants tend to be much cheaper than in e.g. SF)
So just for reference, 14 units of alcohol (the low-end correlated to atrophy) is approximately:

7-9 (US) shots of hard alcohol (assumed 37.5% ABV)
7 pints of Lager (assumed 4% ABV)
9.3 125 ml glasses of average strength wine (assumed 12% ABV)

Looks like my 2-5 bottles of beer a week habit is fine. :)

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
So a mere 1.5 billion then? :)
It's closer to the machine, in this case a virtual machine.
I wonder what the editorial reasoning is behind publishing a story spurred by a recent homeless count, and omitting the number of homeless counted.

Instead, we get numbers about how expensive programs are, how many needles have been cleaned up, and how many complaints made about the homeless on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis with a map, with a special highlight of human excrement complaints.

If I were cynical, I'd say that this is an anti-homeless piece with the summary: "Our spending is going up 10% a year, and homelessness is barely going down (take our word for it.)"

My cynical take on why the number of homeless was omitted: it's 7,499. $275MM/7,499 = $36,700 for each homeless person. This is obviously more than enough to house every homeless person directly, but the money is being drained away by subcontractors and salaries. Instead, the paper is implying that more money isn't the answer, policing is (notably not implying that spending be reduced, either.) Shifting emphasis to more policing of the poor will create a material benefit for the people who've decided to live in a gated community but forgot to put up a gate, while maintaining spending will keep up the flow of money that is going to a network of graft that results in little material gain for the supposed object of that spending.
Being a professional programmer is not an entirely stress-free job.

Sure -- it's just the tenor (and for some people, sheer intensity) of the psychological stress experienced during interviews is, for many people, basically orthogonal to the stress of real-life work situations -- or even genuinely dangerous (even physically threatening) situations in life, otherwise.

With the latter, it's like "Oh shit - the client's gonna get real pissed if I don't figure something out real quick".† Or even: "That guy looks like he's about to lunge at me - I better think of something!" For which your brain and your glands have benefitted from millions of years of evolution in support of mechanisms for pumping just the right kind and amount of juice into your system to "figure something out".

But with interviews it's more like: "This person's evaluating me, using some hidden criteria. Given that the problem is slightly tricky, I literally don't know if they're expecting to power on at all costs, or, secretly, that I simply admit that I don't know where to start just yet. Not only that, something tells me he's not stating the problem quite correctly -- they do that, no all the time, but way too often in these kinds of interviews. And on top of that he's just being plain overbearing... and now he's starting to fiddle with his phone. On top of starting 15 minutes late. Like he never really wanted to talk to me in the first place. If I ask too many questions -- or even just one instance of the wrong kind of question -- I'm screwed, and gonna have to hit my inbox for leads again. Oh great, now he's starting to offer 'hints', completely derailing my flow of thought and whatever self confidence I thought I had. Fuck it -- I just should bail and go work on my personal projects. No one will be paying me $150k but at least I'll be learning something."

† Where "the client is gonna get real pissed" is roughly equivalent to "if I can't get these rocks to flake in just the right way, we aren't gonna have any more arrowheads and were' all gonna starve!", to a first order approximation.
Self driving policy varies by state. There are currently no federal level laws. You'll have to check any state you are interested in.
not really sure about the negative doom-and-gloom reactions, this has existed since time immemorial and will for as long humans as a species exist. Our brains are wired to react to such content, not sure you can draw a line between social media and a purported dumbing down of humanity. We live in a time where for the first time 50% of humanity has access to information that was restricted to a tiny elite. Sure cat videos and celeb pics might be predominant, but with that comes access to wikipedia, mit ocw etc.
If spotify is the only app used by 97% of all users, then yes. At that point, spotify also couldn’t refuse to list an interprets album.
Was this comment actually downvoted? It is important to recognize that survival is a full time endeavor to many people and will directly impact their ability to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps".