skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you already know to read/know the basics, learning vocab is fine. That's why SAT prep is a lot of vocab memorization, but even then you'd have to know how the word is used in a sentence.

Learning from scratch, I think vocab is better memorized in context.
It wasn't meant to be helpful. It was just an observation of a certain kind of person.
Finally I see something posted about this.

If any of you are interested, I have been maintaining a filterlist that works for uBlock origin that attempts to pin (so they won't move when you scroll down) these sticky headers to the top and remove additional screen real estate hijacking web elements.

It may be a losing battle but I update the list almost daily with all new instances of this web plague that I come across. It also works on Firefox Mobile for Android if you have uBlock Origin installed there.

If you'd like to subscribe, enter the following link[1] into your 3rd party filters menu within uBlock Origin - just paste it into the 'Custom' URL entry at the bottom of the '3rd party filters' menu option.

The project homepage is at: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

Cheers!

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoya...
In addition to what others have said, NYC is legally mandated to, and mostly does, provide sufficient shelter beds. Some homeless people for a mix of reasons, some quite rational, avoid these shelters. However on the coldest nights of the year they are an option even for people that would usually rather avoid them. A similar story applies for Rikers Island (jail) or the public hospital system.
> Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell.

Ahem: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
> I have never once been - and know of noone else who has ever been - forced to use their search against my will

Well I've seen Google's voice search trigger against people's will on many occasions ;)

I know that wasn't your point, though.
That is rather surprising, because I don't have the same issue with a pretty large production app. I wonder if there's a deeper underlying issue.
You're either trolling or have a deep misunderstanding of what a friend is.
My note was mainly about sun ascension, not temperature.
I'm more concerned that 2B is only 1/4 of the world's population.
What's the best way to manage templates in Vue if you don't want ES6-style string literals everywhere and you don't want a build step?
If you're infected, don't pay the ransom. The email address that's used has been blocked by the email provider.

https://twitter.com/HIBC2017/status/879747282173911040
In this case I would say the lack of details is a good thing. It must work so well that they can keep it a secret from major vendors. If it wasn't near native speed or had bad x86/x64 ISA support they would be giving a heads up to the bigger software shops.
Rep. Don Beyer’s revolutionary bill could transform how we elect Congress
With tongue firmly in cheek, I wonder how long before it becomes cost effective to mine Bitcoin with raw 74xx logic?
> Why is there so much more effort put into BitTorrent clients than into something like Patreon to support those people?

People generally don't want to pay for anything. They shape their moral narrative to match that. (Obviously I'm generalizing, and there's always exceptions)
I moved to SF from New York a couple years ago. A huge difference in the homeless populations for me has been the aggressiveness of the SF homeless. I can't recall a single time in New York where a homeless person got in my face or yelled at me or anything of the like. Since being here I've had a full cup of (hopefully) soda thrown on me and been yelled at from a 3ft range multiple times. It's a surreal experience. I'm not sure what led to cultural difference.
>The nice thing about awk is that it's really only suitable for simple record processing.

Not exactly only simple processing, IMO. Record processing, yes - it is a domain specific language, and its core feature is the pattern-action thing, and it was (at least originally) meant mainly to operate on record-oriented text files (even if on lines, since a line is a record with one column). I don't have good examples off the top of my head, but can mention a few things:

The books The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike, and either Programming Pearls or More Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley, have some examples of advanced uses of awk - so it is not just for simple record processing. And I've read somewhere that just shell and awk and other Unix tools have even been used to create a DBMS of sorts. Plus, with later versions like GNU awk and so on, they've added more features to the language, including probably many more built-in functions, and also some network programming support [1].

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-complex-software-writ...

According to an answer at the above link, an nroff-subset text formatter and Lisp subset interpreter have been written in awk. Those are more complex than simple record processing.

Also:

[1] Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000707.do
As if western governments were not already looking into this, (heck they''ve probably already implemented such policies for all we know). The only difference is that China is a no BS nation, they are actually (and surprisingly) very open about it. Perhaps the most disturbing thing here is not the story itself but the sheer hypocrisy of the western press / media. I think the time has come for us to take a good look at ourselves in the mirror and accept ourselves for what we actually are.
Are chickens in the farm also customers?
I believe his point is that a company's size should be irrelevant to this discussion.
Facebook is best at f*cking people over - that is what it is best at.. Best at.. not worst at best at.. other things its good at like haveing pictures and the color blue - harvard kids - Hillary Clinton - some lady giving birth- about several susisides a day now and Facebook is there with the big blue dildo of data
I've been trying to stay on top of my technology usage. I'd like to move all my electronics out of my bedroom and buy an old fashioned alarm clock. I've heard this is good for sleep and healthy habits and what not

I've been trying to stay off my phone when I'm bored and clean/read/do something productive without technology. I'm glad I had a chance to grow up in the 90's before tech was involved from every waking moment.

It doesn't help that I'm a network admin and I work on my computer all day
>SF hilariously always takes the wrong approach to things.

I agree. IMO, we should have doubled down on the war on drugs approach. The free access to drugs and lax enforcement is the undeniable sole reason for SF's homelessness problem. I don't why SF has taken an opposite approach, as the war on drugs has been an unquestionable thriving success in the rest of the country.
The beginning of the end for Intel. Microsoft is clearly going to pivot win10 into the mobile market and leave Intel in the dust.
No, my premises are:

(a) Google has a better product (in search) to which they had no real competitor for 17+ years.

(b) it remains better than those non-competitors even though Google has decreased its quality over time (worse results and more ads and BS)

(c) whether it copies/embeds third party stuff or not plays little into it. Nobody would switch to Bing just for those , after comparing the respective search quality, which is still better for Google.

So my argument is:

Google doesn't bother improving its search results -- on the contrary it lets them somewhat decline over time too -- because it has all the market share and better results than the competition.

If you are 80 points (fictional unit for illustrative purposes) better than the competition, you can let it slip to 70 or even 40 points better, and people will still use you.
More likely hundreds of millions are bots.
FWIW, after > 2 years on plans like this, either my wife or I can usually cook in the amount of time specified, and together we consistently hit the low-end.

I'm not sure at what point we got this efficient, and our kitchen is also easy-to-work in. [I don't imagine that's the case for lots of apt-dwellers]

I think you're definitely right that there will be a significant amount of automation that will be able to make many cooking chores trivial, though.
Most managers would have their reports' mobile numbers. Just start with the C-suite and work down. This is a case of hierarchy actually being an advantage...
$250,000,000 a year for an industry that is at least partially responsible for importing 1 in 5 of San Francisco's homeless from the rest of the state and country and dumping them on the streets isn't compassion - it's trafficking in human misery.

I'll post my source (a SF gov census) later today, when I'm not on my phone.
Is that so different from normal interviews? At least this way you can't forget you are competing.
Our bodies are not good batteries. The original Matrix plot "had the brains of the humans being used as part of a neural network for additional computing power." https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
I'm building a space bucket atm using Arduino instead of Pi. It's a lot of fun. There are some amazing projects on spacebuckets.com. https://www.spacebuckets.com/u/POstoned has a good Pi setup with schematics etc. I think his reddit post is very detailed with sourcecode.
I remember a few years ago when they experimented with explicitly influencing their users' emotions by manipulating their feeds and home pages. They caught a lot of flack for it (as they should have), but I doubt it stopped there.
Are you on iPhone? It's easy to scroll up on iOS (tap the top bar), but hard on Android. That might be one reason why sticky headers are popular.
I can't help but wonder if 275M would be better spent by the city if they created a facility somewhere - anywhere - that is cheaper than the SF Bay.

I'm not saying ship the poor away and make them someone else's problem. I mean caring for people in a more cost-effective manner, and in a way that isn't just treating the symptoms.

There are 6,686 homeless people in SF [1]. With a budget in the hundreds of millions, it is conceivable that all of these people can be housed and treated in an inland community in perpetuity. Many homeless suffer from mental disorders that require treatment, not just housing and food.

[1]http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...
Why isn't something done about this?

Cleaning staff should remove the needles. Security or police arrest the dealers, and remove people loitering on stations or trains.

Is it a lack of funding, laws, sympathy for the homeless, or ... what?

I lived in London for ten years, and homeless people, or beggars, were extremely rare on public transport vehicles, and even rarer within stations. I don't know what combination of law and enforcement is used, and there are homeless people on the streets, but something prevents them from overtaking the transport system.
I think alot of people forget this. How many frameworks have I passed over, because I knew they were a trend, before I selected something like React to develop with?

It's a fine balance, choosing between a technology you know and "always be learning". Experience guides how much of the bandwagon you jump onto.

The funny part is, that in no other industry is there this expectation that things be plain, simple and easy. We, as developers, are blinded by our desire for instant gratification that is uncommon in other industries.

My mom, as a paralegal, never complained that the path to completing a case took 47 different filings with each page printed in triplicate, whose versions changed depending on the dates in the case. It just.. IS. Sure it can be better. But the expectation that it be, in an almost petulant way, is what I'm talking about here.
I know you’re trolling, but in case you’re not…

I’ve never had meaningful interactions over FB. It’s just recipes in GIF form, distant relatives Liking product pages in exchange for discounts or sweepstakes entries, and political bullshit.

My friends and I keep in touch like we always have. We call and visit and do things together. SMS works just fine for group communication.
I won't. TypeScript in particular has made my code much more maintainable and pleasant to work in compared to vanilla JS, even recent versions.
I have at least two Google accounts and a very old never-really-used Youtube account (from the days before it was a Google account), so it's very appropriate that you say "profile count" rather than "user count".
And even more concerning when you consider its a single-country owned corporation.
Does anyone know why enforcement hasn't been stepped up at the Market St. BART/MUNI stations? Powell is literally the core of our tourism market (Yes, Pier 39, which everyone gets to from Powell or Embarcadero), and all of the downtown business/banking. The two things SF can't afford to lose...
Is there an overview somewhere of the key changes between the original (rejected) proposal and this (approved) one?
> "market will solve everything" american way

This got us 2008 financial crisis, deregulations were the main reason. You need to add greed to every equation you make and then you get different results.
Hey oertl, big fan of your paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.07290.pdf :D
I going to start working on "intersections" and some improvements of the large scale cardinalities based on your research. Can I hit you up an email with some of my questions (concerning the intersection work? how does it compare to https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03911.pdf)
Here's the introduction:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarklets-perform-co...

When you properly install it, instead of the link, there should be an executable code in the bookmark (if it starts with http: or something, it isn't). To activate the code, first you visit the page on which you want the code to work, then you click at the bookmarklet.
2 billion in, 5 billion to enter the botnet
One success story in homelessness has been Utah's Housing First program [1]. Is there any effort to do something similar here?

At first glance it appears very affordable. Rents in the city center appear to be about $5 per square foot per month judging from a quick perusal of craigslist listings. So to give all 7500 homeless in the city a 100 sq foot efficiency would have plausible annual expenses of about $45 million -- a small fraction of the $300M plus mentioned in the parent article. Obviously there are many problematic details, such as there are almost no appropriate apartments currently available, but ultra-small units do exist [2] and seem to be a favorable alternative to sleeping on the street.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
[2] http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/truly-tiny-4-apartments-unde...
Microsoft at it's peak was more powerful and monopolistic than Facebook, with the same public good questions popping up. Now few would feel that way. It's pretty amazing how technology can disrupt seemingly invincible entities. Facebook's dominance is quite precarious over a multi-decade timeline.
I'm glad you replied; I'm interested in this debate.

I agree that content monetization is an important problem that ought to be solved in order to maintain quality of information.

I disagree that current advertising models have elevated the quality of content. Fake news websites (literally - a made-up .coms that have BS stories, the equivalent of tabloids) exist specifically because advertising monetizes clicks/eyeballs, and so clickbait is the optimal strategy.

I disagree that moderating ads will produce better ads, because I believe ads run counter to a well-functioning information system. An example: HN is an information system that's designed to put high quality links in front of the user. A paid placement makes it possible to skip the votes mechanism, thereby skipping the system's regulatory structure. If your link deserves to be at the top, it will get there the same way all other links do.

I disagree that advertising or paywall are the only two options, though I will concede those are the only two that have happened so far.
Why not set the position to absolute instead of completely removing the element. The solution to losing the navigation is reloading the page, seems unnecessary.
Kill switch has been found: https://twitter.com/PTsecurity_UK/status/879779707075665922
That's the event I was thinking of, thanks for the link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

So yeah no.

USA on place 12, Germany 38 and China is at 55.

Better list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PxcDyfKV90
Looking online, it seems like there are around 7000 homeless in SF. 300 million is over 42k per person per year.

Housing is certainly the problem. If there was a glut of housing, the city could just hand out 30k per person, save a lot of money, and the homeless could just rent a place. With the remainder of the money, people could get back on their feet. Give people back hope.
> do not autoplay video setting.

Not to mention sound.
>Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell.

It's a platform that has algorithms to pick what news 1/4th of the world reads. And who has access to the personal data of 1/4 of the world.

>Consider Google as well, which probably reaches even more of the world's population. Or Microsoft. Apple might be getting close, too.

Yes, but Apple just makes devices. Their Cloud services are not of the type that expert influence of FB or Google kind.(Neither is Microsoft's products).
> Take me back to the static web.

I used to enjoy doing Web 1.0 development.

Nowadays I always push for native applications, unless the customer wants otherwise.

Browsers should have stayed pure HTML/CSS.
I have no sympathy for Google. They take on their hands the role of policing the world removing some kind of ads that some guys in India think are not "good enough" for people all the way into other countries (Mexico in my case), without understanding the context of the country and the product in that country. And this, for products that are not only legal in the country but are even being promoted by the government.

But when they are abusing their power for greed reasons and the government punishes them, then they whine. Hypocrites.
Passively detect SMBv1 use and reduce the risk of Petya infections
Do you actually use the real well-known FizzBuzz problem, or some other exercise that you think is comparably trivial?
Please share all your FB entries to block
In fact this is exactly what early JS build systems looked like. When I worked at Bing this was exactly what the production deployment script looked like (at a simple level).

It no longer does. The tools move on because the uses get more complex. See the sibling reply here for a good reason why.
yes, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Snapchat, Picasa, WordPress.com, Blogspot, Blogger, Flickr, SoundCloud, Google+, Google Hangouts, Hootsuite are all blocked according to [1]
1. http://www.saporedicina.com/english/list-of-blocked-websites...
I'm not thinking of anything like a subway. Having each person's food prepared individually is ridiculously inefficient. I'm envisioning a facility tied to an Amazon warehouse or something similar that might be preparing food for >10000 people every day, not a huge kitchen with hundreds of chefs running around to fill maybe a couple thousand or so individual orders per day. There's no reason the production of something like a sandwich, soup, or really anything else needs to be done by a human.

The problem is that to get the kind of economies of scale that an Amazon-style digital cafeteria could offer, you need to concentrate a lot of equipment in one place (and rent/build a huge place capable of processing large amounts of food coming and going). This is where distribution models fail, because the only place you can build places like this is in suburbs, where you can't efficiently deliver to the well-earning young people in the cities that form your target dmeo.

And I highly disagree with saying that "the market isn't waiting for it, people are waiting for it". People, or rather consumers, are the market. Yes, I agree that basically every would of course want a product that is faster, higher quality, and cheaper. But $5 for one meal really is quite a lot when compared to the cost of food, especially when bought in bulk, and automated delivery/preparation could indeed make this food both faster and higher quality (or rather, give near-professional quality at a much lower cost).
I admit the price is steep, but it's worth it for me. They're more for a professional application than the hobby side of things.

I have found them to be reliable and accurate. No failures yet in about a year and a half.

I usually adhere to the old "you get what you pay for" mindset, so I have no problem spending more on something I can rely on.
Pictures of infrastructures taken down by Petya ransomware
I think they have plenty of influence just using the power of showing/not showing people specific things.
it's not hard for me for any of these. But then, I build telescopes and microscopes in my spare time and so I'm quite familiar with getting a good focus.
It's not easy (I presume) to create such software. So why do they rely on some random e-mail provider? They could have done it so that computers unlock automatically after the address receives the payment. It's not that hard, the software could use multiple ways to get the private key (DNS, IRC, twitter, DHT) and it would be really hard to shut down.
“Create file in c:\windows called perfc with no extension and #petya won't run”
Also, something I've thought about a lot since listening to this 99pi episode [2] is that technology is best when it enhances useful skills. [or at least doesn't atrophy them]

I think that services like Blue Apron are actually kind of ingenious in that they trivialize an annoying part of cooking [the shopping] while developing the "skill" part.

On top of that, I think just using good ingredients helps you identify what to look for in stores - making you better at that aspect, too [without having to practice the "standing in line" bit]

It's a little tidbit I've always liked about Blue Apron.

[2]: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent... -- it's two parts.
ISTM that's a group that already have more than enough power to screw us over... Has this app been audited?
Don't forget that these are enforced by continual lawsuits. Neighbors sue each other for violating HOA regulations in my neighborhood. Don't even try to change the roofline on your crappy-looking 50s stucco house.

If what everyone actually fights for is a conservation approach to the legacy housing market, is it really any surprise that we get a conservation approach to it? The sad thing is that the city otherwise has good policies, but housing is a morass of entrenched self interest.
How to Capitalize on the Dropshipping Trend Going Mainstream in 2017
There's a quote from _Transaction Processing_ by Gray and Reuter about ACID transactions that is quite relevant to eventual consistency:

"Without transactions, distributed systems cannot be made to work for typical real-life applications."

This is as true now as it was 25 years ago, for exactly the reasons cited by Google. The book is incidentally still a good read.
I disagree. I think there are certainly people who need mental health/drug counseling but for those that seek it is has to be impossible to get on your feet. I can see a spiral where you seek help, get better, but then you can't afford a place to live. You can't find a job since you don't have an address or you do find a job but can't save fast enough to afford an apartment. So, you go back to living on the streets and you slide back down.
They do not: http://www.adweek.com/digital/monthly-active-users-definitio...