skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, Travis, one question: have you managed to avoid selling non-free software? Everyone seems to think that eventually the way to sell free software is to sell some secret sauce on the side. Is this something you have completely eschewed?

I ask because for Octave this is a non-negotiable requirement. Partly because of the GPL, but mostly because we really do believe that the whole point of Octave is to get away from non-free software, as a matter of principle -- if you want non-free software, there's already a Matlab. Is there any way to generate enough money without a EULA?
In NYC and not only Manhattan housing is expensive. Yet in NYC is where a lot of jobs are. Taking care of very poor populations who may indeed have very high medical costs are substantially reduced by giving them stable housing which is hard to do with zoning density restrictions that makes housing expensive.
There are no rules written about novelty accounts in either the guidelines or the FAQ. I'm not a fan either and they're just downvoted anyway. But what rule are you referring to?
I too think there might be something to this (partly because both my parents were civil servants). There is a certain amount of creativity and problem-solving at the management level, but bureaucracy selects for people who adhere pretty strictly to rules and I'm not sure how the study authors could easily account for this.
> The wormhole library requires a "Rendezvous Server": a simple WebSocket-based relay that delivers messages from one client to another.
New Diagnostic Tool Awarded AMD Hot 100 Parts and Accessories Recognition
This is valuable information, though depressingly presented.

The article reminds me strongly, and for similar reasons, of Clay Johnson's The Information Diet, a book I found overall tremendously disappointing -- this review describes most of the reasons:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/254961608?book_show_ac...

In particular, Johnson keeps presenting the situation of low-quality information as a matter of choice, whilst flagrantly ignoring two of the massive elephants in the room:

1. Search-engine and social-media rankings drive much of the engagement. A slight tweak to those algorithms can ... make Upworthy downworthy:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=upworthy

2. Agnotology. Culturally-induced ignorance, or slightly less charitably, those with more money than God lying to the world loudly enough to prevent any other message from being heard. The story of corporate-financed disinformation, and the persistence of it, even to the very same individals and organisations, over numerous campaigns -- lead, asbestos, tobacco, CFCs, nuclear power, and now fossil-fuel carbon emissions -- is absolutely depressing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

And if you think the practice is new or particular to the present, it's not. There's a delightful little book, the transcript of a speech, by Hamilton Holt, Commercialism and Journalism. It's the text of an address he gave at U.C. Berkeley in 1909, on the phenomenal growth of the publishing industry, and of the advertising which fueled it. He quotes an anonymous publisher:

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation, like Othello's, would be gone. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilivy, to fawn at the foot of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools or vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/2...
Preloading money leaves a paper trail
A very unsafe python script to unescape strings.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys

def unescape(string):
print eval(string)

if __name__ == '__main__':
unescape(sys.stdin.read())
Houston has a famously liberal, in the classic sense of the word, approach to zoning that results in an endless supply of cheap housing—and an ungodly amount of sprawl. Tradeoffs in everything.
> Direct cycle nuclear engines would resemble a conventional jet engine, except that there would be no combustion chambers. The air gained from the compressor section would be sent to a plenum that directs the air into the nuclear reactor core. An exchange takes place where the reactor is cooled, but it then heats up the same air and sends it to another plenum. The second plenum directs the air into a turbine, which sends it out the exhaust. The end result is that instead of using jet fuel, an aircraft could rely on nuclear reactions for power.

A direct cycle design (which is the only one that was ever thought practical to use) passes outside air through the core for cooling purposes, then sends it through the exhaust.

> Indirect cycling involves thermal exchange outside of the core. The compressor air would be sent to a heat exchanger. The nuclear reactor core would heat up pressurized water or liquid metal and send it to the heat exchanger as well. That hot liquid would be cooled by the air; the air would be heated by the liquid and sent to the turbine. The turbine would send the air out the exhaust, providing thrust.

An indirect cycle design doesn't expose outside air to the core, but "never came anywhere near producing flight-ready hardware", presumably because the amount of water needed for cooling would have required an absurdly large plane and even more power, leading to recursive issues.
Erm, Microsoft lost it’s dominance in part because it too lost an anti-trust case. Are you saying you wish Microsoft had been powerful enough to stifle Google the way Google is now powerful enough to stifle its competitors? What’s another 15 years?
> Similarly, what's the value-add of Grubhub?

The value of grubhub is that I can send written instructions to the restaurant instead of spoken ones, which will be understood more clearly, so my order is done the way I prefer it. It also helps with discoverability, instead of having to keep an assortment of paper menus in my kitchen up to date, I can just go to the website. It's not about avoiding poor people.
Why do you need to cool the reactor? I thought the whole point was the reactor was hot - that was how you got useful energy from it. Doesn't using the heat energy dissipate it?
The question of which 50% gets even murkier the more data we have. For example, cross-channel/cross-device attribution used to be a known thing, but it was always pretty hazy because pretty much all analytics and conversion tracking was last click (or first touch if you're a direct mail company).

Then we started getting attribution tools and getting different pieces of the puzzle. Now the issue has become that there's all these ways of looking at the data that can point you in the right general direction, but short of dynamic/data-driven attribution models with MASSIVE amounts of data feeding into them, it can still be difficult to say "actually this is what this channel did for us."

For orgs comfortable with data that is a bit fuzzier, that's fine, but for orgs where people are held to strict numbers based on the last click, it can hobble them when it comes to higher-funnel or view-through heavy channels like social, display, PR, etc.
> 2 drinks/night is practically getting drunk/tipsy every night

Maybe if you hammer the 2 drinks and you weigh 100 pounds. But 2 drinks with a normal drinking pace will not get most people tipsy or remotely drunk.

I would guess 2 drinks per night is moderate in many countries. When I was in Italy I observed many drinking red wine in the morning at some cafes.

It does seem, however, that in Italy as an example "The older generation drinks four times as much as the younger generation on average." [1].

A lot of people feel a societal pressure to only drink when others are drinking - special occasions or nights out on the town. Or only after certain times like 5 PM. Personally I think that leads to more binge drinking. I'll drink without worrying if anyone else around me is. I'm an adult.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-italian-wine-con...
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When mathematicians describe equations as beautiful, they are not lying. Brain scans show that their minds respond to beautiful equations in the same way other people respond to great paintings or masterful music. The finding could bring neuroscientists closer to understanding the neural basis of beauty, a concept that is surprisingly hard to define.

In the study, researchers led by Semir Zeki of University College London asked 16 mathematicians to rate 60 equations on a scale ranging from "ugly" to "beautiful." Two weeks later, the mathematicians viewed the same equations and rated them again while lying inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. The scientists found that the more beautiful an equation was to the mathematician, the more activity his or her brain showed in an area called the A1 field of the medial orbitofrontal cortex.

"""

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/equations-are-art...
Been there at the top once upon a time.

"We create our own demons."
This is a) wayyyy too big of a fine

And b) not motivated by customer protection but by greed alone.

This was not a good thing.
That's awesome :)
Use Google Posts to Post Directly the First Page of Google
It is wrong, and Japan has fixed the problem removing zoning density restrictions at the local level. The result, in 2014 there were 140,000 homes built in Tokyo compared with about 90,000 for all of California and 20,000 in NYC.

Well, there's also the fact that, unlike NYC and SF much of that city was destroyed during what Wikipedia calls "the single most destructive bombing raid in human history". So it's not like they had all that much historic architecture to protect, anyway.

Apples and oranges, in other words.

These "rent-seeking" restrictions are a regressive tax transferring income from renters to wealthy landlords including Donald Trump.

Oh please. The Trumps made their money through, first, being notorious slumlords; then through mob connections and tax loopholes; and finally, as money launderers for the post-Soviet elite.

Not through the "overuse of historic landmark status", by even the most fantastic stretch of the imagination. (As an illustration, look into the history of the building that preceded Trump Tower at the same location).
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I have no sympathy for people that vote against their own interests.

If you're living off of government assistance and vote Republican while Republicans are constantly talking about stripping away said assistance programs, you absolutely deserve whatever happens to you. I have zero sympathy for you. You made your bed, now you get to sleep in it.

The only people I will have sympathy for are the children who have parents that are too dumb to see through the bullshit spewed by Fox, InfoWars, Breitbart, etc, and people that vote Democrat because they know better, but end up getting screwed by the Republicans that don't.
I wrote to Jef in the late 90's to ask if he had one of the Cat's available for sale, to add to my MAC and Lisa collection. He quoted 10K for one, which I thought was too steep. Later learned that he had health problems and was looking to raise funds for his medical treatments. Another visionary from Apple who later succumbed to Cancer.
> but at least in the U.S., seeing any service position with obvious privilege connotations makes people uncomfortable.

It really doesn't, except for a small subgroup of people who are worried about virtue signalling.

Most people understand that people need jobs, it takes a surprisingly small amount of money to hire real help (and pay appropriately- fair pay for fair work), and everyone wins. I hired a lady to help as a caretaker when my mother was descending through the stages of Alzheimer's, and after my mother passed, she still stops by occasionally to help me with my elderly father. She is a lifesaver, and worth every penny. Neither my father nor myself are rich. My car is old enough to vote and buy beer. But the $150/week or so that I spend on help is completely worth it. And absolutely nobody that I've ever spoken with face-to-face judges. Many folks have asked me how to find similar, because they are in the same boat as me.
Are we talking your time, or wall-clock time?

Melt butter, add lemon juice, salt and a dash of hot sauce to make a liquid. Rub liquid over chicken. Put chicken in oven at 400 until done. (How much you need and how long you take depends on whether you did this with a whole chicken or pieces of chicken. Let's call it an hour. Use an oven thermometer if you don't know how to tell.)

Put some water in the bottom of a pot, put one artichoke in the pot, cover, and put on low heat around 40 minutes before your meal.

Use a peeler to take the skin of a Daikon radish off. Peel the rest of it into a dish. Put sour cream + salt on, mix. Sprinkle chopped green onion on top.

Shortly before you're ready, melt butter, add salt. This is to dip the artichoke in.

Wall-clock over an hour because food spends time cooking. My time spent is perhaps 20 minutes. Most of which is spent peeling the radish. And now you've got a main dish with 2 side dishes and enough food to feed a family.

Now a lot of things take longer than that. For example making pancakes means spending a lot of time actually cooking the pancakes. When I make a soup from scratch I probably spend a couple of hours.
I've never used a meal-kit service, but I cook all the time and never use "what's in the kitchen"..

I cook for myself almost every day, but since I live in a large city, I am basically a "daily shopper" for groceries. I pass all kinds of markets on the way home from work so I stop and pick up what I need for dinner (with a meal already in mind but not necessarily a recipe in hand), and then cook when I get home.

Obviously I have a lot of staples (spices, oils, etc), and I typically do larger meat runs once a week or so and fill up the freezer, but fruits, veggies and specific ingredients I pick up as needed based on the overall category of meal I want to make.

Now that said, I've been cooking like this for 15 years so I have a rotating set of 15-20 recipes (with variations on each) that I can stop and get ingredients without looking at a list..

It was definitely that repetition and practice that got me to that point, and I'm grateful for it, so if you think meal-kits will get you there too, keep at it!
My father is 59 and started to learn programming half a year ago. So far I was giving him algorithmic tasks to learn basic language constructs, he is now comfortable with basic Java and is able to solve most of easy problems from programming contests.
And idea where to go from here? I don't think solving more difficult problems (like that involving algorithms or creative thinking) would make sense at this point.
I tried to give him simple GUI project (tick-tac-toe in Swing), this kind of worked with lots of my help, but of course it was badly designed with model-view mixed, and he is unable to understand design pattern concepts at this point.
So we'll just have a worse search experience here. Thanks EU..
For one, this is done on a core-by-core level. I believe Intel has the capability to monitor for this behaviour and do some dynamic throttling in certain models, which cloud vendors may have access to. I think they introduced some of this in Broadwell-E, where you can set the AVX offset per core, and the on-die PCU will throttle that core below the AVX base frequency, allowing the rest of the cores to remain at speed. These are typically controlled by BIOS, or MSRs.

We're currently trying to figure out how to do deal with this. Some ideas come from Google's CPI2 paper, and trying to dynamically schedule workloads with diversity if we think they interfere. Other thoughts have been simpler, like core pinning (knapsacking for latency, or throughput).

this is hard.

Disclaimer: These views represent my own, and not my employer's, or their vendor's views
30% from what starting base? If the number was relatively small to begin with, 30% growth doesn't really mean much.
Author of curl and libcurl denied entry to U.S. with no explanation
In addition to reasons stated: some journals (or academic disciplines) expressly reject clarifying content within papers. Listing of variables used in equations is one specific example that's been mentioned to me by Joerg Fliege, an academic himself, at G+.

(His "Academia, Schmacademia" collection is very highly recommended.)
The whole ESTA application system is horrid.

If your approval isn't immediate (mine wasn't) then you have to keep checking back to see if/when it gets approved - they don't email you.
Yet polls across the world have shown this logic to be very flawed. The citizens often disagree with the actions of their representatives. That's a flaw of representative democracy itself.

Point is, representative democracy doesn't mean the action of the representative is the one the population agrees with.
Most field engineering at universities has always been below the curve in terms of hobbyist and industry level tech. Im not sure I would call anything a scam eccept for the media coverage of what should be unnotable.
What's the difference between them? When would you need one or the other?
Like any other beef rancher, I completely support the steak-for-lunch habit. It may not be an option for everyone, however. b^)
Trump says he is going to bring back coal as a part of his program to make America great again.

But the reason America was so great is that it was at the leading edge of technological change. That is relevant because in the 19th century, coal was the hot new technology. It was used for powering factory machines, electric generators, railroads and steam boats, heating, and producing steel.

But technology continued to advance, and coal has gradually been replaced. It survives today only for steel production and part of electric generation, and even there it is being replaced by gas and renewables.

So when Trump wants to revive coal, he is going backwards technologically, and that would mean losing out in the global economy, too.

Any Trump defenders want to disagree?
I like this one but it becomes truly ardous to copy a magnet from one computer to the other. file.pizza at least uses easily pronounceable hashes.

What I would to see from this is a JS which serves every asset on a site via webtorrent so visitors are sharing the bandwidth costs.
This is really cool, but I'm surprised they didn't try to make a CPLD. You would at least have a shot at matching an IC for amount of logic gates.
if I were you, I wouldn't apply for funding. I would just go ahead and scale it.

For our startup funding is life or death situation. The number of users is overloading our CPU and if we don't scale up, everyone leaves.

I would love to avoid approaching VC's and spending months talking to them, demoing them products etc. I would rather be working and scaling up my own product
Redesigning Google News
Quite often. For one thing, it's the primary way I stay in touch with most of my non-immediate family, including my father and my half-brothers who live on the other side of the world. For another, it provides a higher density of humor and
"awww!" than anything else in my life. Those are things I sorely need during/after a long day of work and housework and others' online negativity.

Facebook, and every other social media platform, is largely what you make of it. If you friend or follow garbage people, you'll have a garbage feed. If you carefully curate those lists, you can have a feed that's funny or touching or thought-provoking. "The common element of all your unsatisfying relationships is you" is not (just) a joke on a poster. It's good advice too, but not everyone's smart enough to take it.
I think it's more accurate to say that the comment is explicitly stating that Windows was insecure prior to that date, the implication from which is that it was not as insecure after (else why make the distinction of the date at all).
Soylent kickstarts the summer with new Cafe line flavors
OK I will try to remember this one, it's neat, "dba9q" is not too horrible, a plane ticket PNR is worse.
What are you taking about? Any Google Search competitor needs to be seriously better than google in order to stand a chance, ‘not 100% there’ is equivalent to not there at all.

Moreover Qwant is just bing search results repackaged.
They probably did cigarettes on the company tab back in the day. The difference is, cigarettes don't make a company event more fun and most places have laws or bans on smoking indoors.

Cigarette smoke is also very obnoxious, gets on and lingers on everything (clothes, drapes, etc), can trigger asthma attacks, etc. It stopped being cool a long time ago too.

Almost everyone would vote for alcohol at events and nobody would vote for cigarettes.
Okay.

Step 1. Open ports on your router. It's your job to figure out which ports those may be.

Step 2. Redirect said ports to the box in question, hopefully you'll know the ip address that was assigned by your home router's DHCP

Step 3. Make sure rssh is installed.

Step 4. If rssh is not installed, please simply follow the simple instructions to get it installed for your system.

Step 4a. If it's a mac, use brew. Type brew install rssh

Step 4b. If it'a a redhat system, type yum install rssh

Step 4c. If it's an ubuntu system, type apt-get install rssh

Step 4d. If step 4b and step 4c fail, use sudo.

Step 5. Get the external facing ip address, and give it to your friend. Note that this is different than the internal address that you used in step 2.

Step 6. Create an account on your system, using rssh, and allowing sftp

Step 7. Give him the username/password

Step 8. Copy the file into his account

Step 8a. Don't forget to chmod it so he can read it.

Step 9. Tell him to get the file

Step 10. Remove the account from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and remove him from /etc/groups. Also delete his home directory

Step 11. Rejoice in the simplicity.
So shall it be!

1 Pruteanus (1 Prt) is measured as the amount of learning from a 1m high stack of any books given.

obv /s
I really want to get a Farm Bot to mess around with. Appears to be open source and you just order the parts to assemble for your space.

Looks like a cool project.
I started to learn to code last November at 37yo.

About 30 hours a week for two months I finished the Front End Certificate from freeCodeCamp (highly recommend the site for starters). Then I decided it was better to build my own projects with the tech I wanted to learn (mostly React) using official documentation and tutorials. This is what I accomplished in around 3 months: www.rodrigo-pontes.glitch.me

Then I started to apply to jobs. After around 4 rejections, last week I started as Front End Junior Developer (using Ember actually) at a funded fintech startup with a great learning environment for the tech team.

Very proud of my accomplishment so far, but I know the rough part is only starting.
Sounds nice but pretty much guarantees that anything of any serious complexity will get contracted out (or hired in) to an increasingly entrenched oligarchy.
Transactions are related to atomicity, not consistency. There are atomic AP systems with transactions but without consistency.
I personally didn't have much use of Facebook until I started using it to connect with those who suffer the same illness as me. Then I realized I had a worldwide support group to tap into. That's pretty important to me and to the billions who use this platform.
that makes SO much more sense now, thanks.