skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as user-hostile as I originally assumed (I thought it was built and enabled with no option to turn it off). As long as it can be completely disabled so that nothing will ever touch it, then it's fine. And that does indeed appear to be the case here.

Regardless, I'm sure there are some people who would love to claim a few KiB back without having to compile things for themselves.
> That's roughly the same as my 4-year degrees at the state university

Tuition or total cost of attendance? Notice that the 17% for 3 years is equivalent to tuition, not full cost.

> double major: BS in Computer Information Science, BA in German

The way I think about this is that you got a free BA in German, some free theory/systems CS courses, and some free gen eds out of the deal.
ordered, thanks. I needed a cheap parabolic to start fires.
If they were booed and egged any time they showed their faces in public, perhaps. But regulation and breakup of (near) monopolies should definitely also be applied, yes.
Nice!

A feature ive been missing on hackernews, that perhaps you'd be willing to add, is a community written tldr for each link.

I.e apart from title and link, a short (200chars or so) description anf tldr.
The construction industry is short on human workers, ripe for a robotic takeover
Why don't you do it anymore?
Did you read the article? A number of people who have very expensive medical bills when given a home the bills went down substantially. Read the article.
How does that work? What does "Independent" mean in this context?
Show HN: PondJS – Evolution in your Browser
If you're moving to a new open space office that looks for a visitor to be fantastic but is a pain to actually work in; if your company hires like crazy without a good idea of what new people will actually be working on; if a CTO that has been on-hands becomes distant and hires a level of middle technical managers — all that means that the company is trying to inflate it's value and be bought. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you can count on the culture shift pretty soon.
How are your teeth/gums? From what I understand, one of the major factors in tooth decay is frequency of eating, since teeth remineralize between meals, and frequent eating gives them less chance to do so.
How often do salary reviews generally occur for someone working as a developer (or IT I suppose?)
Senior Back-End Engineer at Quovo
> In the old days you expected to be at the same company until you retired. These days you're lucky if you are there for five.

It sounds like you want to shift the onus of training from the organization that benefits from the training to taxpayers and workers. Why is that? Why not try to shift the employer/employee leverage balance to incentivize employers to again train its labor force, provide long-term employment, and give an improving quality of life to its workers? It's not like people stopped being long-term employees for no reason. Employers stopped showing loyalty because they didn't need to anymore. Given the fact that wages have been stagnant since the 70's when trickle-down economics were enacted, yet large corporations have seen massive gains, wouldn't you say it's time for a different approach to the direction of our economy?

This is all also assuming that Americans need a combination of experience and education to get ahead, which is just false. Education does help, but only pockets of highly populated areas of the country are experiencing growth at the moment. The rest is stagnating or on the decline... But that is a different issue that involves the dissolution of anti-trust laws more than an employer/employee leverage shift[1].

[1] http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-...
> Imagine needing to pull that much data every time you visited a new site.

Did you ever profile websites? Loading a NYT article without adblockers and script blockers loads up around that much data
This is such and outstanding idea and I would love to see it implemented for some seats in the UK House of Lords - a low risk way to trial it.
where is your link?
Why not though? It's faster & easier being sent a (limited) list of curated events in chat than having to search for them on Facebook or other sites. Plus the weekly broadcast is a nice touch.
Tax software blamed for cyber-attack spread
I haven't visited the US since 2000. Guess why?
And indeed, there are plenty of other nice countries to visit.
re: the product line - also, is it sticky/easy to migrate away? I've worked for places with products that were not great but had institutional customers who required acts of god to change vendors. We were okay.
Be careful about ratings though. Power supply from China can claim a higher rating that it supports. Go near the rating and it starts to overheat or cut in and out. Weather-resistance of devices (outdoor cameras etc) can claim the highest rating, have a rubber seal to 'deserve' that rating, but then have screw holes in the case that freely admit water. Strings of LED lights may claim 'water resistant' but have no sealant where the wire enters the bulb base - which corrodes in a few months. And so on.
I'm 1.5 years out of a coding bootcamp I paid about $12,000 for.

At a 17% rate, I would have paid $11,500 already, and would be on track to pay $22,950 more if I stay at my current job for 1.5 more years with no salary increases (I expect salary increases).

There were some students in my cohort who reverted back to their previous careers after bootcamp, but most became developers. I would bet the Holberton plan is far, far, far more lucrative than an upfront fee, as long as they are discerning in who they accept.
>So you did learn programming, because you wanted a great paycheck 13 years later?

I don't know, I did something similar and didn't care about how much I would get paid. I learned because I loved it.

But almost no one warned me about what I was missing out on because they kept saying that I was spending my time well based on the whole money thing. (in fact, there where many people who said I was spending my time better than most of my peers because of this.)
Many answers are negative assuming decline, or provide an extremely complicated answer to a simple problem. I'd propose based on decades of observation that you model the behavior and personality of all of management as if it was one person. Now is that imaginary merged individual person a lunatic deep in cocaine addiction psychosis? That might be a bad sign. Is that imaginary merged person a reasonable good leader? Sounds like a good sign. Is that one merged person in a civil war with its large number of multiple personalities? Run like hell.

This is what "real" culture fit actually is, whereas what culture fit means in 2017 as currently deployed is "we only hire young white ivy-league(-ish) males" which is a totally different concept or problem.
But is this time paid? Because I can see the downside to this, but I'm also thinking, well, at least I can go home an hour earlier.
"I don't want to load machine instructions for libboost every time I run a native C++ application".
The change to the regime for bulky letters and parcels is not the same as the group mergers. I was referring mostly to the former, which will increase the dues for bulky letters and small parcels to a higher per-kg-rate than the current rate that applies to all mail.

The latter change merges some groups but will, to my understanding, not affect China. Groups 1.2 and 2 (countries which joined the terminal dues target system in 2010 and 2012, respectively) will get merged; as will the countries in groups 4 and 5, which are currently transition into the target system. China appears to remain in group 3. [1]

[1] http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/listCountryClassi...
Companies that ship a lot of stuff get much lower prices from DHL, UPS etc.
Under sortition individuals would serve a short term before returning to their original role, making them less susceptible to 'revolving door' type bribery and mutual back scratching.

It would also make sense to treat them like a jury - while you are working lobbyists would be asked not to meet with you.
Here is a redesign that does not increase efficiency, my opinion of course. Now more of my page has less information and in my opinion my goal is to consume more information in less space. this is terrible.

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
You can manage calories in.
Well you won't find any argument from me with respect to public transportation. It needs a massive improvement nationwide.

I just don't like the knee-jerk reaction from others (not you necessarily) who just call everything NIMBYism as if people who own property have 0 rights or concerns. I own and live in a small condo. Like under 100k in value. I have a cool little view of the city, nothing special. I bought it because of that and other factor. You're damn right I would be upset if somebody wanted to build a skyscraper blocking my view, it literally affects the quality of my life. Now, that certainly isn't justification in itself to block construction, but on the other end it very much seems as though, from the other end of the discussion, that my concerns would be deemed irrelevant.

How would you (not you specifically) if people started tearing down trees in your neighborhood to turn it into a strip mall so cars could get through? How bullshit is that?

Overall I just want to see a more balanced discussion, so I call out what I see.
I wish I could cook at work!
No [0], and no in the other direction [1] (disclaimer, I'm the author of the latter)

0 - https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm

1 - https://github.com/cretz/asmble
DO YOU WANT a GUEST POST ON THE NEXT WEB?
I absolutely had a lot of the same concerns, and I was just as confused as you as to why Vue wouldn't support remote url templates.

That said, once I decided to roll with it, it took about a week* to get it configured how I have it now and have a decent understanding of how/why it was configured.
*not a straight week of banging my head into webpack, but some bits of time here and there as I did development

The one other thing that kind of pushed me over the fence into going down the build step route was that I get a minifier, a LINTer and get to use ES2015 (or typescript, or whatever) syntax.

>"do we really want all of this magic? What if the build just doesn't work one day or we need to reconfigure? Now we're troubleshooting and figuring out the linkages that were created and the other magic.

Totally valid concern and I see where you're coming from. Once I got into it, though, I realized the only webpack specific syntax is the configuration; how you link your JS files together is just through import/export statements (ES2015 and beyond module system).
Yes: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/A-death-blow-for-P...
Usually once or twice a year for a seasoned developer, more frequent for jrs. That's been my experience.
I dunno about for these Keen maps, but I wrote a level dumper for the classic NES game M.C. Kids if you want to see what that looks like:

https://gitlab.com/mcmapper/mcmapper/blob/master/main.c

Output:

https://tcrf.net/Proto:M.C._Kids

I'm contemplating turning it into a full level editor for the ROM hacking community, but I don't know how much use it would actually get.
As far as I can see, they advocate for a Randomly Selected Congress that still operates on a term basis (i.e. new members are randomly chosen at fixed time intervals, e.g. every two years).

An alternative approach that I've found quite interesting is to assemble a new Randomly Selected Congress for every single bill. The idea is that certain parties (e.g. government offices or public petitions with a sufficient amount of backers) gain the right to identify problems. For each problem thusly identified, a Randomly Selected Congress is formed, who can either vote that no action is required, or who can enact a bill with the intention of solving that problem.

The appeal is that every legislator will only be involved in exactly one law over their lifetime (maybe two or three, but the chance of one person being selected multiple times is excessively slim). So horse trades cannot work anymore, and every legislator knows that whatever they sign into law will be the single one impact they can ever have on the political system. Like: "This may only be a zoning law for small villages, and I don't care because I live in the city. But everyone will judge me by this law forever, so I better make sure it's the best fucking zoning law ever."
Well Hamill is a better man than I.

I would hate this. If I imagine being him, this is like having to turn up to the office at 7am on a Saturday for a meeting. It's work. In analogy we're watching Mark Hamill get out of bed on a weekend, groan, drink some Pepto-Bismol and get his best shit-eating grin on his face.
> - a status page (can't give you a decent example; you can build your own, but host it somewhere else than your main "app")

Does statuspage.io have free trial accounts? Integrate with them for your demo/trial using API calls. Bonus points if you pull in applications metrics to your status page (response time, etc).
The diet didn't fail. The person failed. There's a pretty big difference. If someone's diet plan consists of "don't each a cheesecake every week," and they continue doing that, you don't say "this no cheesecake thing is nonsense, that doesn't work!" You wonder why that person doesn't just stop eating the cheesecake.
Glassdoor reviews
Glassdoor reviews.
Studying how to write your own back propagation algorithm could be useful if you're a deep learning researcher. But for most people it would be like studying semiconductor physics if you only want to write software.
C++17 in details: Templates
Yup - that's an ENPS survey (more info-> https://www.fridayfeedback.com/enps-employee-net-promoter-sc...) and is modeled after the NPS survey organizations send to customers.
> As an aside, what I think will be really interesting, will be compiling normal non-web apps WASM, as a deployment target for systems. Hypothetically, it could be the new "native" and vastly easier to deploy to for all OSs. Not intended to run on web, but still WASM. Talk about cool, Imo

Yup, WASM ports to non-web archs quite well. The abstraction overhead in most cases is very minimal.
EBL: a block list of spam reply-to email addresses
I didn't speak to misogyny.

Did make a status argument.

Your point on attraction has merit. I am not sure low attraction is the same as looking down on others.
genius idea
This is how democracy was orginally designed in ancient Athen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
The problem with good decision making here is not that it's too cognitively demanding, it's that there are perverse incentives.

Also, it is simply impossible for someone successful - like a politician - to understand the world view of those less well off.

So even if the mental abilities go down, the quality of decision making could easily go up - indeed it would be likely to.

James Fishkin is a Stanford professor who has pioneered this type of work. His approach gives decisions makers structured access to experts to help improve the quality of decision.
I work at Susquehanna and I believe you may have incorrectly understood this to imply there is a pressure to stay at one's desk over lunch. In my experience, this is not at all the case and I head out over lunch fairly frequently.
I am laughing so hard right now.
My dad used to say: "Son, when assessing the company's health, look for two things: coffee, and toilet paper. If the coffee is not refilled, it means nobody cares, and the company soon will start having serious trouble. If the toilet paper is not refilled, it means there's no money whatsoever, and you should nope out". Worked for me ever since.
95% of New Blog Posts Die ( I Can Help )
Plenty of companies with great leaders fail, and some companies with terrible leaders succeed. The question is how you assess the health of the company regardless of leadership ability.
This is backwards.

There should be regular class periods where the students must work together and figure out some way to teach the technologically illiterate adult in the room.

Each project could start with the technologically illiterate adult crying and venting about their mortal fear of being replaced by a robot. In one project, the adult would let it slip that they get insecure when the students just go on their own to Wikipedia to find out information. The students must then put together a workshop with lesson plans and demos that teaches the illiterate adult how to apply their esoteric knowledge of the late 18th century textile industry to the relevant Wikipedia articles.

Repeat as necessary. By the time the kids graduate, the teachers should have a decent grounding in digital technology.
The only thing that will fix the "software developer shortage" is for companies to stop being unrealistic and fickle in their demands.
> I think this is because to them, that's 'advanced computing' so that's what children need to know.

I don't think anyone would suggest something they believe to be 'advanced computing' as part of elementary school education. Rather, I think they see these practical skills of interacting with computers and the internet as something useful directly related to their day-to-day lives, so that's why they think they are important.

I do think that everyone who goes through the school system should take away at least some basic understanding of these directly applicable aspects of computing.

And computational thinking? Compare it to mathematics: If I had to sum up mathematical thinking, I'd say that it's all about logical deduction, working your way from assumptions to the conclusion.

But the maths curriculum is not directly focused on teaching that, the topics covered are more like simplified versions of applied maths problems, roughly ordered by decreasing probability of usefulness (most people will find some use for basic arithmetic, but even solving linear equations is quite unlikely). If the kids pick up mathematical thinking along the way, great, and they will have an easy time with the problems, but even those who get through by memorizing formulae will take away something useful.

I think something similar will happen to computational thinking. Although teaching it to everyone is certainly a noble goal, I doubt that everyone will be able to fully generalize what they are taught. Lessons will have to be tangibly applicable for the students, so that even those who can only memorize the specific and not abstract into the general will have learned something useful, even if it is just a "menial" skill.

Examples of such lessons might involve navigating the menu structure of some program, but then this is essentially tree-traversal, so you can talk about different ways to explore all available options, and "breaking down a task into small subtasks" could be practiced by describing how to move through the menu to perform some action and so on. The point being, you can do a lot of stuff that is related to some aspect of computational thinking, but even if the kids don't generalize what they learned, at least they can find specific items in a menu, and maybe even use hotkeys if they aren't doing it on a touchscreen.
Happy to see that there's Linux support for B2. [0]

Backblaze support Linux-based NAS devices (Synology is mentioned specifically), so my next question is does anyone know of a Linux backup tool which supports B2?

I could roll my own using their python library, but I assume someone else has already gone to the trouble of this.

It would be great to have a daemon running which encrypts and then uploads files to B2 while running on bog standard Linux (e.g. Fedora, Debian)

Anyone written such a tool, or already know of one?

[0] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217989128-Can-I...
Yeah, I feel sorry for the guy. He still is expected to do work for free promoting a movie he was in forty years ago. He must be incredibly sick of Star Wars by now.
>Limits the likelihood of Congress being dominated by rich white guys

>There is no downside to this

I guess that whoever wrote this piece didn't consider that it also increases the likelihood that some poor white guys whose political positions are way farther to the right from the author's own than Ted Cruz's positions are get into Congress.
Advanced Git aliases and custom Git commands
I'm inclined to agree, at least a bit. They might be reasonably different markets now, but they should not be in the future.

I think all the following searches:

- web search for "location X"
- map search for "location X"
- current weather in location X
- businesses of type Y near location X
- cheapest offers for item Z near location X

are all examples of something conceptually the same. I want to be able to make those queries over one interface, and with minimum (i.e. zero) steps between query results and actual information I'm looking for.

As it is, when I search for "cheapest item Z near X", getting links to price comparison services makes about as much sense as if I googled for something and the results were links to search results of Bing, Yahoo and DDG.

--

I appreciate how today those markets may seem different, and I also don't want to see one company dominating most on-line activity, but I also want more integration and interoperability. There needs to be a balance here.
I do something similar with Perl, since I know the syntax a bit better. It allows me to (from memory) scrub out non-unique things like timestamps.

So, without the scrubbing:

tail -f somefile | perl -ne '!$SEEN{$_}++ and print'

Scrubbing off leading timestamps:

tail -f somefile | perl -ne 's/^[0-9:]//;!$SEEN{$_}++ and print'
This sounds a lot like jury duty. I'm not sure what to make of that similarity.
Very fond memories indeed of playing this DOS game on old Celeron and Pentium II.

The game is honestly much better than the Marios and Sonics that it was trying to mimic (at least part 5 and 6 were IMO)
Get some information on the internal democracy of the Bahai faith. They have candidateless elections - essentially you vote for any member of the faith you personally think is very capable and the ones who have the most votes is elected. And to avoid any cult of person, you elect councils of 9 people that have to decide with absolute majority about their topics. This Bahai system is almost impossible to game - in case you do bad as an elected person, they will not vote for you the next time. This system also is multilevel: the elected persons of a city do the same candidateless approach on the national level, then those elected in all countries come together and vote for the international "House of Justice" as they call it, which is located in Haifa, Israel. This election process serves really as the perfect sieve for bad people.
This could also be sign of the opposite depending on the circumstances. For startups, founders want an exit when the company is at its healthiest.
Do you need any permission to add your client's company logo to your website?
Hi there! I’m working for a young startup and we already have some bigger brands among our trial users, but I’m not sure if we can already add their logos to our webpage as our client or not. What is the legislation in this situation? Shall we have their permission first to add their logo to the website or it’s not necessary? What is the best-practice in this case?

I see many companies (even younger startups) who show their clients’ logos on their websites and I just can’t imagine they asked every company and each of them approved to use their logo basically as a reference. We’re an American company if its help.

Thank you very much for your help!