skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with the open source project Mender.io (OTA for embedded Linux) and we think Casync is a very interesting building block and may look into this and evaluate whether it makes sense to incorporate it into our project.

We had looked into OSTree before but given the use case of embedded devices in the wild, we concluded it was too risky as OSTree relies on the filesystem to protect from power failures. And rollback was not built-in and is quite challenging to implement reliably.
> Wow, I wonder if it's location based. Mine was heavily situated in one location, whereas yours was perhaps global? So it was always prime time for someone? Here is a graph of my usage for the past week (note lows of 30-40 and highs of 650 odd):

A) I'm not sure "one location" is a city, country, or province.

B) Yes, it was global as we had offices from China to the EU.

C) Given the OP is handling 15 r/s, 150 r/s is not going to be pushing 500 mbps unless something is very poorly designed.

D) Even at spikes of 40x, it would still only be 600 r/s which is still quite doable with a commodity server.

The only serious difference is it was very large batches of requests (20 * SKUs) so people were fine with waiting a few minutes.
Funny you should post this, I am very into cohousing and have been wondering if a crypto currency could be used to kickstart new "mini" city projects. I recently threw a landing page together for some of the ideas that have been bouncing around in my head: habitatico.herokuapp.com
Natural Language Processing: A Glimpse Under the Hood
I think that racism is one of those words that have multiple meanings we are intended to confuse. My favorite example of this is "AAA" in gaming. Does it mean:

a. a high quality game

b. a popular game

c. a game that cost a lot of money to produce and, especially, market

The correct answer is c, but game-industry marketroids believe, and want you to believe, that all three are coterminous with each other.

Now back to racism. Does it mean:

a. evil intent towards another race

b. belief in racial superiority/inferiority

c. a tendency to produce effects that disadvantage people of one race

The answer is a, but people want you to believe that all three categories are coterminous. Meaning if you hold b. beliefs or take actions that fit c., you are also in category a.

The reasons for this are complex and have to do with backlash. Once we decide that X is horrible, we overcompensate in taking great care not to do anything that could be construed as X because we are afraid of how we might be judged. After World War II, the allied world (except for the USA) decided that nationalism is bad because it leads to Hitler, so you have cosmopolitan Europeans and Canadians falling all over themselves trying not to exhibit any sort of national pride and in fact telling people they have no attachment to their accidentally assigned nationality. Except when a soccer match is on or something.
It's not a 'conspiracy', Comcast really is just awful for the average person.
Wow. That's exciting. I wouldn't think it would be possible to get a programming language funded, but you found a way. I look forward to seeing where things go. Good luck!
> and hired him knowing that he had taken the files from Waymo.

Google also bought 510 Systems, which was the company he founded while still working at Google. Levandowski proved himself to be shady at Google and Google not only didn't admonish him, they rewarded him by buying his side project he created while employed by Google.

Clearly the man is talented enough that both companies decided it was worth overlooking his past actions. If what was reported today is true, Uber at the very least admonished Levandowski and told him to destroy what he had taken and that they had no interest in that material and not to bring it to Uber.

Near as I can tell, the discovery process thus far has demonstrated that none of that material made its way to Uber. The only documents found reported thus far were some documents on a single personal laptop of one engineer. If any of Levandowski's documents had made their way to Uber, the discovery process would have found at least something given the number of keywords Google requested be searched for and the number of files searched.

Right now, the only thing that appears in doubt here is if he ever actually destroyed documents. I agree he's likely culpable, but I still don't see any reason for Uber to be culpable of anything more than knowingly hiring someone with a past history of being unscrupulous, that Google also employed knowing full well he actively unscrupulous in their employ.

It would be mighty ironic if Google was now sued by shareholders for negligence in how it had previously handled Levandowski.
You've always been able to query layout information about DOM nodes that are off screen. The virtual DOM is used for other reasons.
Giant Bomb did a great interview with one of the longtime Naughty Dog devs where he talks about the old Crash and Jax engine: https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/an-uncharted-tech-retrospec...
> I'm dubious that you really need these things enough to pay ~2x to have them.

Does your business have an accountant? Why not just get a high-school grad - after all, totting up numbers is simple maths, and it's much cheaper.

> You have competitors like NewRelic and DataDog, they're pretty trivial to set up.

Ha! Complain about the price and then say "just install NewRelic". It's pretty clear from that comment alone that you've just got an axe to grind with AWS.
Yes, but not the kind of visualization and calling stack shown by SourceTrial. Some of the code is 10 layers deep where the stuff actually happens with many complicated usage of inheritance, which I figure is where this kind of tool can shine.
Because rendering in a Node process is more complicated when async state is involved - using a browser eliminates that complexity. For simpler apps without any async state (AJAX or WebSockets), a Node process may suffice.
Wheres the print?
I suppose they think they are helping, like Hollywood actors spending an awards show spouting off. Really, they just feed into the "us vs them" mentality and help the politician they hate get a few more votes.
German engineer = Engineer on a German visa?
>> Seems to get swept under the rug. But Toronto's 'bubble' is not inside a bubble.

I live in Markham (suburb bordering the north end of Toronto) -- houses here get sold over asking within days of the listing, and most of the houses in my area are actually occupied by the owners. The demand appears to be real. Any time a house in my area has an open house, there are piles of cars on the street.

I've seen home prices in my neighborhood triple in the 12 years I've been here, and houses here are more expensive than a lot of areas inside the 416. Our property taxes are also generally higher than Toronto.
Thank you for this name! I really like the connection, it is in fact super cool. The only thing that puts me off when thinking about this name is that "Janus" is a very similar name to "Janusz", which is in polish a name used very often to describe in jokes greedy and unfair entrepreneur :D
Consider yourself lucky that priests will answer questions like that for you. In the old days, asking sensitive questions about faith was a good way to get stoned to death for blasphemy. Some parts of the world are still living in the old days.

Also just FYI your name is racist. Consider changing your account to something less Confederate.
I lived and worked there for a while and would describe it as follows. The people / lifestyle / weather is amazing, by far the best I've experienced anywhere I've been (US and most of Europe). On the other hand, the level of corruption and price inflation and instability / beaurocracy of the system as a whole is very bad compared to EU countries / US.

I'd say if you had a remote job earning dollars or euros and weren't tied to the system itself down there, then it would pretty much be a paradise. But if you have to live tied to the system then I would advise against it unless you are young and single and just want to experience cool new things and don't care about health care, owning property, starting a company, etc.

All in all though a fantastic place and I would definitely recommend it to anyone for at least a couple months or a year or so.
So I've been using the app for an hour or so now, and I like it! I don't really understand how this music has changed with the weather (mine is 'clear' at the moment, so maybe not the best representation). However, I like the fact that I can choose a genre and it'll shuffle songs, and that I can choose whether or not I want to see the video. It's kind of like Pandora, but with videos. Or like youtube, without the ads in between songs. Nice interface!
Yes. But I think this is different for different people. Since the first time I touched a computer begin 80s when I was a kid (and before reading every article and book my father brought home) I wanted to 'create stuff' on it. I had the same with electronics but a computer seemed 'more efficient electronics' for creating; no soldering, buying parts, no expensive failures etc.

I have been programming since that time and it has not disappointed; I never get enough of it. I remember the first time that I wrote something in Basic (which was shortly after the above) and the amazement when it finally worked, then the same feeling with ASM, Pascal, C and later others. I still have that when I manage to get something I thought up in my head and see working after pulling an all-nighter. I am 42 so I believe that constitutes as a good longterm fullfilment level. Money is required but secondary; one should still drive a hard bargain of course (some people seem to not do that, especially when younger).

I also get fullfilment many other aspects of working with colleagues, partners, but the drive to create new things from 'nothing' with code is the main thread through all the years/companies. And keeps me absorbing new (for me) things all the time which is another fullfilment (learning/reading I find fullfilling); because of the current hypes I got back into NNs (last used in the AI winter when I was at uni) and also blockchain (dev), and combined (working on a trading bot in Tensorflow for fun).
> being assholes to everyone you deal with can have surprising [effects]

Becoming a US president.
On a related note, Dave Baggett is also the co-founder of ITA which sold to Google for a reported 700 million.
There is. The bar is much higher than in the US though.
One of the ways to launder ISK in EVE Online works almost the same way. Make ingame contract listing something at ridiculous prize, other party buys it, game logs look like "ordinary" game scam (EVE is famous for scamming).
Shhh you may fool the guy and make him look silly, that's not nice! ;)
If you're still paying the same number of truck operators the same wage, how are costs going to go down at all? Self-driving trucks certainly aren't going to be cheaper to buy or maintain than their non-sentient counterparts... What other factors drive the cost of truck transportation?
My God, man. why?
A thousand euros for a pair of VR gloves?
It may, it may not. If not lowering prices benefits shareholders more, then that is what they have to do.

>There is absolutely nothing forcing them to pick any particular use for the money.

Except this legal precedent right here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
> Take the linux kernel, what part is the 10% that needs optimization first?

Well syscall entry/exit would be a contender, but those are already in hand-written assembly anyway, so that doesn't count.

Then I'd go for the read()/write() syscalls; I bet (not verified) that they're called really often in comparison to the other ones, with all the file/socket/IPC I/O that's going on.

I'm in the same camp about language choice though; there's lots of place for slower and easier languages, like Python in the role of gluing together high-performance C code, but there are still also lots of scenarios where an across-the-board performant language seems a good fit. Compilers spring to mind, but they are even an extreme example.
Path rendering by counting pixel coverage
> Actually I'd want screen to stop being "TVs" or "computer monitors", it should be just a high def big rectangle than can be used to display anything.

I would love to see this as well.

My ideal "television" has at least 8 HDMI inputs plus a couple of composite or component video inputs. There would be no cable/antenna/tuner input. There would be buttons on the remote for power, volume, input, plus menu and enter to access the settings. There would be a handful of audio outputs, and a switch to disable the internal speakers, which would allow it to feed into an audio system for those that like to have that separate. It would come in a variety of sizes, but only in 4K or 8K resolution.

This doesn't have a tuner or any TV-specific features, nor does it have any of the Smart TV stuff. People who need those are not the target market for this TV.

I wish this was a thing that existed.
Fun story! But look at the date at the bottom...
"Tinder is too casual a platform for users to feel hoodwinked by some political conversation. By and large, users surprised us with their receptiveness. Some people who received bot messages asked how they could join us."

It seems that the data contradicts your own personal view of this practice.

I don't really see what's repulsive or b.s. about it tbh. It's just automating the initiation of a dialogue. People are volunteering for it. There's nothing sinister as the intent is upfront and above board, and in terms of the content of your average Tinder conversation, politics is as fair game as any other topic surely?

I don't live in the US though, like many on here, so perhaps the perception would be different in the political climate over there.
>...crap like this really fuels the republican fire. It feels unethical. It feels like yet another attempt to jam politics down my throat at every turn.

Understatement of the year. The fact that the Clinton campaign thought that it would be a good idea to create an online astroturfing group, and then tell the world about it like it was a brilliant idea, is what made me vote third party.
Could we have an ever-so-slightly less clickbaity title?

I realise it's the source article's title, that's not the point.

I'll suggest the author's own book title as a reasonable alternative: "Brain and Culture; Neurobiology, Ideology and Social Change"

@dang?
This is eerily like a scene from Player Piano, Vonnegut's first novel. Some smart engineers find the best machinist at a factory, use some machines to record his movements and process and then use them to program the robots that replace him, and everyone else in his position at the factory.

For those that haven't read it, the book is an interesting and prescient story about what the future of America looks like when nearly all human labor has been made obsolete.
First, Quicken was sold to a private equity firm at the beginning of last year, so you can't really blame Intuit for it anymore.

Second, even before it was sold, it was like Intuit's vestigial tail. It was an important part of the evolution of the company, but it didn't fit into what Intuit was trying to do and was largely ignored inside the company. Even before they announced plans to sell it, it felt like the kitchen table they keep at headquarters...something that's there to remind people of Intuit's past but feels really out of place with its present.
Thanks! That was guess as well, since running the command you posted from cmd does work. I dug around selenium's source code a bit, but decided to take the pragmatic path and use the MOZ_HEADLESS environment variable instead.
Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory
In ‘Food Evolution,’ Scientists Strike Back
So what's next?
In a Bering Sea battle of killer whales vs. fishermen, the whales are winning
Could they not agree on which font to use?
Insurance companies are evil period
The root of all evil are insurance companies like Farmers Insurance and Bristol West.
Yeah, and frankly the deal doesn't really look that reassuring to me. HCG had already negotiated a 9.5% loan on the $2 billion CDN (around $1.5 billion USD). Buffett is letting them refinance that loan down to 9% and he's buying some stock at a 30% discount. But the general market will not look that closely at the details, and will just be reassured by the Buffett brand name.
1) it uses painters model
2) you are allowed to place in the same x/y, but we're looking for a way to indicate it to you.
3) you are able to place nodes so the edges overlap, but we also are looking for a way to indicate it to you.

Keep in mind, that point 2 and 3 does not happen during your workflow normally, so these are very rare situations. We want to support them just from the "purity" perspective, but they are very low on our priority list currently.
theyre listing it on poloniex FYI
Very cool!

This is a bit of a naive optimization, though. Thermal properties have to be considered when planning SLS builds. Very dense cross sections will result in long laser scan times, and the quality of those benchies will suffer significantly.
they're listing NMR on poloniex FYI
"Which the new FCC head just gutted."

This implies the previous FCC head was effectively regulating the telco and cable companies before, which is not accurate. It's gotten worse, but it's never been good. The telco/cable industry is basically a crime syndicate that operates in their own world of murky legality. Somehow, they keep getting away with atrocious behavior that hurts consumers and keeps competitors out.

So many things they do as standard practice ought to be illegal, but they're really good at lobbying. They may not be good at providing customer service or competent at providing internet but they're very good at manipulating the law to suit their interests. And, even given the incredibly favorable legal climate they exist in, they push past the law and do shit like this.

And, that's why the US is so far down the list in terms of internet speed and quality. The operators aren't in the business of providing good service, they're in the business of making it impossible for anyone to effectively compete with them via any means available (regardless of legality or ethicality).
> With the help of two software engineers, Erika Pheby and Kyle Buttner,

There is at least one.
I believe all the casinos in Vancouver BC are smoke free by law. Don't know about the rest of Canada.
Each node is a function, so if a node uses itself, you've got recursion (loop). Branching like if is just few edges going into a node and the result goes out :)
Mea culpa! Fixed with thanks.
It exists, but good luck with that defense if your armed security really attacks unarmed protesters. Self-defense is to prevent immediate danger to you if nothing else works, not "I assumed hostile intent by those protesters" (and even in legitimate self-defense situations, overuse of force remains a thing, and I would hope a court would put very high standards for that against trained professionals, which would be expected to be able to evaluate the actual threat)
All good points. Another benefit of investing in real estate (compared to investing in the stock market) is that you have significantly more leverage. You can ask a bank to give you a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars and use that to produce positive, monthly cash flow. It's a lot harder to convince a bank to give you a loan to buy dividend producing stocks.
you deserve more public shaming than him. Sure he hates javascript and has valid reasons to do so. You, on the other hand are so insecure (probably because you've spent years using this language), that you have to make personal attacks.
this is a good characterization of what causes people confusion, and i think the parallel with people going to c from js is totally right. i experienced that myself. its a great way to put it and i will probably use it, thanks!

the second point about being more understanding surely applies more to the person proudly hating a language with no constructive support about why, and little evidence of an effort to overcome the language's obstacles. sure, i dont know everything about this person, but i take the comment at face value, which seems to be the norm. maybe calling them out on it isnt helpful? i dont know, but it didn't seem that bad.
> what is FICDS?

Financial Institution something something Service. It's the internal initialism name for the service that communicates with financial institutions on behalf of the applications that need to pull transactions and other information.

> What does it mean "quickbooks online is decades old"?

The project was started in the late 90s. It's as messy a codebase as you'd expect to find when you've got close to 20 years of commits.
I still really wonder about the approach of using web tech for this editor. But I haven't tried it in a while so I will do that shortly. I have been wanting more Github integration in my editor recently, ever since I saw the Xcode demo.
Agreed: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwifs/mathnews/Nzms82/news82.htm#mo...
> For most people, it's like the TV show 'the Office'.

I'm sorry, but as a big fan of The Office, I'm really offended :)
What is striking to me is that the table of AP tests taken (2016) in the article clearly states:

Calculus AB 302,532
Calculus BC 118,707

for a total of 421,239 students taking this demanding technical subject and exam in 2016 (one year). Undoubtedly, in this day and age of cheap readily available computers with more power than a 1980's Cray supercomputer, most of these students both have computers and have undoubtedly done lots of programming whether they have taken AP Computer Science or not.

As for Microsoft, they have announced numerous layoffs of tens of thousands of highly skilled engineers in the last few years, for example:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-of-18000-empl...

Many in Finland which consistently ranks TOP in international ratings of education, math, and science.
I find simple math to be much more elegant and easier to comprehend then a jumbled visual diagram. It's much easier to understand a universal quantification in a standard notation than reasoning by visual analogies.

Programming languages tend to be a little less expressive and elegant. They're more complicated too. For reasons of course... but I don't think I'm going to be writing algorithms and data-structures in such a tedious notation as a diagram.

Graphics are good for some things but programming I don't think is one of them.
Yikes, such unbelievably strong pre-conceived biases in your post. How about the alternate and more plausible scenario where Uber employees who arguably have the most clear understanding of the culture issues internally recognize the various dynamics at play – unlike a very black and white view you seem to be extrapolating from the outside?
Andy Gavin wrote a series on the creation of Crash Bandicoot [1]. It covers some of the intricate details and compromises of developing for the Playstation. It's one of my favorite pieces of writing, definitely recommend it to anyone who likes development articles.

[1] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
Seems like such a wasted effort due to technology choice
There's so much solar in Calif that other states are sometimes paid to take it