skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately, yes. I remember some of the same feelings from 20 years ago when I dropped out of university to join my first startup. But it took leaving the whole industry behind to get here, it's sick and getting worse every day. These days I'm writing the software I want to write, the software that I feel needs to be written; the way I feel it should be written; and giving away everything for free (https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis). And as an added bonus I get a lot more quality time with my family then I ever could after having life squeezed out of me to generate awesome profits. Money can't buy that experience and comfortable is relative.
I looked into moving to Argentina recently but found some complaints on forums about the speed and reliability of the Internet. What are your experiences with the Internet in Argentina?
Not sure what that term means, but your account was rate-limited. Yes—I've turned that off.
Atlanta has these. They're roughly where the development stops. Winder (where I live), Gainesville, etc. It's probably an environment thing. Past the edge, it's all trees, hills, farms, and mansions. That makes it hard to get the big, cheap, contiguous spaces developers like.

Caterpillar did open a plant outside the edge, but it's also close to Athens with its airport and relative proximity to both a port and a major city.
Here is a horrible hack with a hidden input
https://codepen.io/bushyn/pen/pwwXXY
Thanks for your response and that does seem like a nice compromise, but it's still not perfect to me.

If the choice is <untyped>|<haskell>, it's better than just <haskell> but I'd love some <gradually typed, allows side effects>

Good luck with your project, looks pretty cool
So, your answer in this case is: you do not get involved, period. Deflect, maybe some logistical support to direct them to HR, but nothing more?

They go to HR and a week later they're let go – no real explanation given. (Hey, it's at will employment here in CA.) Or, as happens at Uber, nothing happens, and your coworker continues to complain about harrassing behavior (if they're even talking to you at this point). What do you do now?

My point is: the real world is messy, and doesn't come with cut-and-dried definitions and solutions. Processes can help some, but true neutrality comes at a cost. Corrupt and sexist agencies in your company can continue to operate with aplomb. Your relationship will be damaged with coworkers who have had this happen to them – to say nothing of how it damages them when they have this happen and all of their coworkers look nervously away. It can poison your relationship to the company and all the good people that work there.

I read "please believe women" as an invitation to get involved in a constructive way, and I fervently disagree with you that you as a coworker can only make things worse. You can offer emotional support, so your coworker knows you're there for them. If you have pertinent information, you can offer it. You can hold your company's feet to the fire to make sure they're handling it appropriately. And of course – since I didn't specify the gender in the scenario – you can do the same whether the people involved are male, female, or anything in between.
It isn't that they have no way of knowing, it just isn't worth the tech's time (in their mind) to validate the status of every connection. If they are like most other telecoms, they would have to manually cross reference date from multiple applications.
Good point. I guess I'm influenced by the ones that were good.

Make it a damned good panel, Lenovo.

How do we interact with our machines? Display, keyboard, trackpad, Touchpoint. If those are second class, our whole experience is going to be second class.

(Speakers, I can always plug in or hook up. And I don't use the webcam much; that may differ for others.)
Yeah I don't know what homes he is talking about but in most of the UK the land is virtually all of the cost.

People all want to live on the same land. That's why house prices go up, not because the physical homes are somehow getting more valuable. It's so obvious... how was this article written?
> Other cities like Chicago, LA and especially Atlanta can basically spread forever.

In the case of LA, not really. The whole city is surrounded by mountains, and there are just a few mountain passes connecting most of Los Angeles County and Orange County to the rest of California [0]. The only part of Los Angeles County that hasn't been fully developed is the Antelope Valley around Palmdale, and that's separated from the rest of the county by the San Gabriel Mountains.

I guess there's some room left to sprawl in the Inland Empire too, but that's technically not part of the LA metro area, and it still has the problem of the mountain passes bottlenecking any commute between LA and the IE, so businesses will have to embrace the edge city model and start locating their headquarters in the Inland Empire.

[0] Here's a satellite map: https://goo.gl/maps/oK9Kt3zb3vr

(Edit: Oh, and as for Chicago... they're not quite as free as landlocked cities. They've got Lake Michigan to the east, and they can't go too far north because then they'll run into Milwaukee's suburbs. That just leaves the west and south. Landlocked cities can sprawl in all four directions.)
Data shows Vancouver gets 10% less sunshine than Seattle. That's horrific.
No, it's ES6. Class hierarchies, promises, etc, were liberately left out of JavaScript. ES6 is something, but it's not JavaScript. Sadly the brand was hijacked.
super interesting... I think deep learning infrastructure still needs a lot of improvement. thanks for sharing.
Right. That's what I was pointing out. The description / concept came 10 years ago.

Point was he's been working on it for 10 years.
I make certain demands from the jobs that I take. No porn jobs. No advertising. No abusive industries. No distribution of non-free software.

So far, I have been able to get jobs that fulfill that. My last two jobs have been somewhat important, medical imaging for one (make humans healthier), and greenhouse gas assessments/environmental mapping for the other (make the planet less sick). I sometimes am tempted by bigger salaries, but I do not want to work at a company that produces bad or useless things. Sometimes when I browse the monthly Who Is Hiring threads, I think wow, there's a lot of money being poured into bullshit that ranges from useless to harmful for society.

So, yes. We do exist, those of us mostly happy with our jobs, doing good things. Keep looking and you won't have to sell your soul. :-)
Yes. It was a very deliberate, conscious decision to not care about the benchmarks, marketing be damned; some of that was a belief the V8 had historically become overfit to them.
Hell, you can (efficiently) solve a lot of problems with KNN that people are throwing dedicated hardware + Tensorflow. But that's not cool. I've learned that doing the "cool stuff" in the face of practicality is rampant because it's part of the self-fulfilling cycle of hiring people who do the cool stuff and people doing the cool stuff to get hired.

There's a whole world beyond neural networks and it seems like it's mostly all on the backburner now. Which I understand, the resurgence in NN algorithms, approaches and hardware in the last 10 years has been exciting but it does feel like tunnel vision sometimes.
To be fair, there are some professional slot players, and many more professional video poker players. In this [1] podcast episode of Gambling With an Edge, they interview a guy that has been beating slots professionally for 22 years. One of the hosts of the show is a celebrated professional video poker player, and the other is a professional table games player. There are as many ways to beat casinos as there are games on their floors.

[1] http://slot-machine-resource.com/podcasts/liston2.mp3
Writing and coding have a lot in common. I really enjoyed this article.
That's a great point. I hadn't considered that. What about paper homes? Highly compressed cardboard, sprayed with a clearcoat afterward to make it waterproof.
I didn't say the constitution protects me from private assholes. My point was privacy was important to our founders and remains important today. Had our founders known corporations would be a thing and grow as powerful as the government, I would argue they would be included.

We need laws to protect us from them. Much more and better laws. The fact that the constitution does protect us from gov. is a good argument that our gov. should be active in protecting us from corps. Anyway that is my conjecture.
You asked a pretty important question (we agree that this isn't simple) and I replied with what I thought to be the best solution.

And yes, the government. The funny thing about a democracy is that if enough people want the govt. to provide something, it will.
“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.”

— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Though mind that there's a bit more nuance to that scene, and the character saying that mostly seems put out that the novel's lead character isn't enlightened enough to realize he's complaining about/apologizing for choices that he made, his (the lead character's) fundamental struggle being with choices having necessary trade-offs, i.e. you can't have everything, and also with failing to work towards or make the necessary sacrifices to achieve the things he agonizes over not having/being. Basically he's talented enough to easily live a good, ordinary life, but is constantly frustrated that he's not living the life of his dreams (while also being afraid to actually try) and sees his current situation as both temporary and contemptible.
You assumed that the trucking volume will stay the same when the cost goes down significantly.
No it isn't. There are always going to be violent nutjobs that want to prove something by taking out the leader. Doesn't matter how "free" (whatever your definition of that is) the country is.
BLAKE2b mentioned above would be more than twice faster on 64-bit CPUs. But I think we'll soon see SHA-256 CPU instructions on most processors (ARM and lower-cost Intel and latest AMD already ship them -https://neosmart.net/blog/2017/will-amds-ryzen-finally-bring...), so I guess it's not important. For numbers, see blake2.net or bench.cr.yp.to.

For IoT devices, hashes that work on 32-bit words, like SHA-256, actually make more sense and will be faster, so BLAKE2s would work well.

What I'd like to hear from the above commenter is about a faster replacement for buzhash, which I'm also interested in.
I guess it isn't exactly bin packing or knapsack. Usually knapsack doesn't deal with dimensions but just a cost/weight. Consider it a variant.
Building Modern Web Applications in 2017
> ST:TNG and Babylon 5 both suffered badly from loss of the original VFX.

Yeah, Star Trek (VOY/DS9) suffers really on Netflix - I wonder what they chose as source - straight DVD rips? The intro of VOY, for example, has weird color artefacts when the deflector dish of Voyager flies by the camera.
Well depends on how big and how fast.

This worked for me https://github.com/time4tea/glossary/blob/master/README.md

Its a very simple Aho-Corasick text search with replacement.

A similar thing in Java using Ropes rather than Strings was also ok, for some value of ok.
What baffles me is that communications companies routinely complain that rolling a van and tech to anywhere is "expensive". They are willfully wasting money if what you say is true. I doubt that this is worth finding out who is their customer and who isn't.
Australia and New Zealand are in the same boat as Canada, and Sydney and Auckland as Vancouver. The countries have high immigration, especially Chinese. Those cities are bounded and the land already developed, but climate doesn't seem to be a factor for their popularity because there's other places in those countries with better climate.
Or there could be legitimate discontent with how horribly things are going.
1000+ out of 12000 is like 10%.

I wonder what the other 90% think.
AMD’s Epyc is a major advance in security
This is only good if the rest of the world is in a similar state to America. If we were talking about just the West and Japan, sure. "Anybody from India who wants to move here we can make it work". Great, now salaries for software engineers in SV are going to drop in half because there are a ton of developers who can fill jobs here, yet Americans don't want to move to India. (Just using India as an example).

There has to be equilibrium or it's a policy that will drive down worker wages, increase the wealth of the 1%, and leave the United States crowded and poor.
While I think your business plan needs a lot of work, I am very sympathetic to your goals and inspiration. I have often thought that the California hills would benefit from "borgo" style development.
That Time Cleveland Released 1.5M Balloons
No. I have to be an adult and deal with a lot of people, some of whose personalities will get on my very last nerve, and do a lot of reactive (as opposed to proactive) things. A lot of investigation and fixing as opposed to greenfielding. Sometimes this isn't the case, but it never lasts.

But 'fulfilling' is a pretty tall order. Sometimes people just pay your price and you shut up about it.

I haven't commuted in 14 years, not that I'd mind because the German luxury car they gave me is amazing and comfortable, but I'd miss the extra time with the wife and furry children. Eventually I'll retire on some island and crank out vintage computer software between naps. That will be plenty fulfilling.
AWS Bill Simplification – Consolidated CloudWatch Charges
Yup that's what I meant; thanks.
Inferring Tweet Quality from Retweets
Your ideas aren't exactly creative either. Snark isn't going to find applications for this technology.
If you can make it eat less memory, go make it 2x slower im fine with it.
New SVEs: Vulnerabilities Never Die – Traversal Attacks and Insecure Protocols
culture doesn't change over night.

there is no surprise that there is a big group supporting TK, but that doesn't mean much at this stage.

founders set the culture in an organisation, and hire people that gel well with their views of the world / values. so it's a logical consequence that a big part of the workforce will support him. But that also might be the real problem for Uber's future...
Show HN: ML for house valuation in Amsterdam
I've had contractors come in vans with official Comcast insignia on the side.
Like I've said before. At the end of the day only $$$ matters. Fulfilment doesn't pay rent or buy food unfortunately.
Agreed. Before this I could arguably say that management was rotting away, but the rank and file should be excluded from judgment because they have no control.

But to hear this and read posts on social media lamenting the loss of Travis, and then contrasting it to the silence from Uber employees regarding Susan Fowler is stark and deafening.

If this is the type of people they select for, the ones who prioritize success by any means necessary, then Uber should maybe be a black mark.
They absolutely could not put this plan into effect without his consent. Uber has plenty of sources for capital. The current board consists mainly of individuals who do not have funds to capitalize Uber anyways. Take a look at their funding history and you will realize that the lead in each round is a new investor.
Stopping a safe, automated vehicle would be trivial. Just dress up as a road worker, and hold up a stop sign. Do it above a manhole cover, and you have easy access to the bottom of the vehicle. A remote human supervisor might not even notice what was going on.
The Evolution of VNFs Within the SD-WAN Ecosystem
well it depends on what you want.
High Availability comes with a cost.

well it's good that more and more vm providers like DO allow you to create your own network. But many still do, so you need some kind of vpn to securly create a network on top.
Moonlighting Genes Evolve for a Venomous Job
If the cost of electricity halves, will you start using twice as much electricity?

Halving the cost of transporting goods will not double the demand for transporting goods. Consumer budgets are fixed, and transportation is a very small fraction of the price of goods that consumers buy.

Dropping the cost of transport by 30%, because you only need to employ half the truckers, will not double demand. Unlike the before-after world of trucking, air travel, container shipping, etc, there isn't a mountain of businesses that suddenly become viable when long-haul costs get slashed by a third.
cool, i didnt want to hurt your feelings, just point out that you are a baseless snob
All because everyone needs a job

"The markets don't create waste!"
It’s not front and center. This kind of activity should be part of another app
“Bit Bucket” on Wikipedia: Mysterious place on a computer where lost data goes
A small nitpick on the game scoring:

I assume once the "computer" reaches a new local maximum score (i.e. each time they find a way to get a new high score) you're storing the time it took for the algorithm to reach that score, even if it goes off and looks for other less-high-scoring combinations after.

However, the "player's" score is dependent entirely on when they submit their solution. If I click the bubbles to reach a maximum score of 11 early on, and then spend a significant amount of time trying other combinations to make sure it's the best I can do, my score is based on how long I took trying all combinations instead of how long it took me to first reach 11 (like how it scores the computer).

I know it's structured as a "race", but this little discrepancy in scoring makes it feel a lot more like it's testing heuristics of how well you can reason "this is probably the maximum score" instead of actually tackling it in the same way a computer would.
Yes, for now. There is code existing to set the Suborigin header, but browser support is limited, and I'm not even sure if that code is merged into mainline IPFS yet.
Periscope vows fix for broadcasters mad that they forfeit tips by deleting repla
> Really? I don't see any tangible reason why a low framerate would be superior to a higher one.

Bandwidth and data transfer, for example - also many devices eat through battery like nothing else when you feed them with high-framerate stuff, and old-ish TVs may not support high-framerate material properly.
How so? There's an entire film and television distribution industry that (currently) dwarfs Netflix in scale. They all have their own requirements, though usually not written out with such clarity.

And, these are not onerous requirements. They ensure good quality but don't impose significant costs. There are several cameras here for under $10k, which was unheard of even a decade or two ago; when I worked in television in college (20 years ago), the cameras in the studio cost ~$80,000 each, and the decks we edited on cost ~$25,000 each.

If you're making a show specifically for Netflix, you follow these guidelines; if not, you can make it however you want, but these aren't terrible or adding significantly to the cost of a production. I mean, there are several line items on most productions that'll be more than the camera. And, in post-production, resolution and file size barely matters today; a computer can chew through 4k almost as easily as 1080p, and multi-terabyte hard disks are cheap-as-free.
I spoke to a director friend of mine a few years back about shooting in 4K. He says that when he works (whenever budget allows), he would always shoot in 5K, not because he wanted the extra resolution for the full frame but because he wanted the ability to crop the shot down without losing resolution. Some shots would be scaled down from 5K to 4K, but others would be cropped to 'zoom in', or allow for minor panning that wasn't present in the original camera work.

8K presumably provides the same benefits but to a greater scale; you can scale it down to 4K, you can 'zoom in' on parts of the shot (such as a subtle detail, a pickpocket stealing a wallet for example) without having to use a second camera or record the shot twice, and so on.
And then people wonder why PayPal is such a pain in the ass to do business with...
>To me it seems like the paper isn't really offering a fundamentally new explanation of how these traits arise, it's just providing a sophisticated analysis of the dynamics.

MIT Tech Review has often news about fascinating research, but one has to adjust for some amount of unnecessary hype.
There are so many Uber stories is because it is so big, it is so well known, and, above all, because it does so many different things that are flagrantly wrong. So we get a flurry of stories on one topic, then something else wrong is uncovered and we get stories on that, and so on.
How to structure UX research
Some people I've known and grown up among would make a precisely parallel distinction between sinning and being a sinner. I'm not seeing how, except in a purely reflexive sense, this is any more useful - I never saw it help anything for one person to call another a sinner, either. Perhaps your experience differs from mine.
This page does not show Chrome being 59 being slower. Rather, it shows a contrived bench running 38% slower. Interestingly, it also shows their site running 32% faster.

Given the V8 team has explicitly stated the plan to optimize for real websites rather than synthetic benchmarks [1] these results look completely appropriate and desirable. Good work V8 team!

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/04/real-world-javascript-perf...
NVidia started to use tiled rendering recently, EDIT: maybe after relevant Imagination patents expired.
Here is a tutorial on the easiest way to run Tensorflow: https://dcos.io/blog/2017/tutorial-deep-learning-with-tensor...
the_cat_kittles I think you don't get the point of my answer or simply my answer was confusing, sorry for that. I did not wanted to start a big discussion here and just throw a controversial, stupid example. But it very clearly shows my main point. The point is that it is easily to write a code in Javascript that looks ok, but is not. The lack of good type system, legacy of how it was implemented on the beginning and everything connected to lack of general safety leads to this conclusion.
I wonder why these guys are using Chrome for this? I've had no problem pre-rendering React using a simple node process and ReactDOMServer.renderToString();
House lawmakers endorse reusable rockets for military purposes
that's fair. But my understanding was the only reason JS !== to ES6, is because of deliberations and therefore lagging browser adoption. Its a relatively safe bet that many ES6 features will be adopted. And those features that don't see adoption will likely eventually be dropped from node, eventually.
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson

It's a history of where all this - startup culture, silicon valley, computers, internet, hackers - came from. Should be essential reading for anyone working in IT.
There can be problems with state management, which I've only seen with our web application. Sometimes a hard stop / start is what you need unless you designed the application for reload-ability. We're working towards that for our web application. Frameworks especially seem to exacerbate this problem, since you have limited control over the execution of your program.
Perhaps the title changed? It now says chrome is sometimes slower.
How I obtained publish access to 13% of npm packages (including popular ones)
As much as the devs probably hate riding with truckers it's good for them