skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ExtJS got rebuilt as a bunch of react components

Is that a bad thing?
s/local economy/national economy/, and the point stands.

Though I don't see introducing/enforcing waste as a right way to ensure more money goes to the national economy.
I believe he just has an experience. Some people can identify fonts, others programming languages. Even if you aren't a pro, just search for "guess font from image."
Node.js Will Overtake Java Within a Year: Analysis
It was an Oracle Linux 6 (64 bits) with GNU Awk 3.1.7 and Perl 5.10.1.
Income-based repayments are definitely 'a thing' in the US.
> The Vivo reps couldn't provide a timeline as to when we'll start seeing this tech on their devices

I would question the use of the word "beats" in the headline then since this is just a one-off demo unit with a sensor that isn't even shipping to OEMs yet.
In my case:

* Stock price
* Attitude of employees
* Attitude of management
* Statements and sometimes rumors heard around the office
I'm building an Arduino project for a baby monitoring system. AMA
Your metaphor makes sense, but I'd argue programming is more aligned with subjects like say physics, where you need to give at least a basic understanding of the fundamentals.
I mean this in opposition to the more optional side of chess club. Sure we don't expect all participants to become outstanding engineers in either physics or programming but I'd argue it'd be a good thing to require at least some level of understanding of the underlying "sciencey" (or engineering) qualities.
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This is so handy. I pushed it to the snap store. So if you're on a snap supported Linux distro you can just run "snap install wormhole" to get it and future updates.
Hamill channels the Joker something fierce for the Trickster. But then, those two villains always did read very much alike.
I mean, really, so what? Yes, anybody coming out of a boot camp program is going to be pretty junior to start with and will only be able to do simple things without guidance. I'm not sure that makes them so different from new grads or interns (sure, let's make a few exceptions for genuinely skilled kids).
21% of Windows users plan to switch to Mac, says survey, vs. 2% Mac to Windows
Yeah these are excellent points. I think the biggest blocker is definitely the symmetric NAT case, since this would still be a problem even if both sides already knew the public IP of the other end...

I wonder if there is still some opportunity to find workarounds in this space. I did see some papers on prediction of the external ports based on local port and NAT vendor, but this is obviously not going to work for a no-bs-magic-wormhole-style solution.
I have found that the problem i have with learning programming is not the logic of it, but of memorizing and internalizing all the functionality provided by the standard lib etc.
Kudos on a useful concept. Some feedback: Alternate pronunciations seems to go a bit wonky. For example it pronounces Ribosome [1] (/ˈraɪbəˌsoʊm, -boʊ-/) as ri-bo-some-bo :). Overall quite a nifty tool as many wikipedia pages do not have native pronunciation recordings. Could also see it helping casual learners of IPA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome
Is the tool available that made these maps?
Any introductory linear algebra course will give you everything you'll need.
Tom Baker is just an extraordinary person: http://cuttingsarchive.org/images/9/9e/1978-03-19_Sunday_Tim...
When they add value, they thrive. When they stop adding value, that's when they get into problems.

Note that whether or not middlemen add value is not under their control. Local resellers add much less value than they used to now that global e-commerce works. Recording labels added value until the Internet came, and now they don't.
Hm, as far as I can tell Debian has never shipped a version which listens to something other than localhost by default. The upstream fixed this in 2007, before Debian started packaging Unbound.
Vendor specific but a lot of good tutorials http://learn.chef.io
Why can't this be used at high altitudes?
This is exactly why "core math" failed in the US. It's a fine system, but the teachers didn't understand it and don't know how to teach it. So it's widely seen as horrible instead.
Would have been $28k for me, working mostly in the Midwest.

For someone who graduated this without an internship, then worked 3 years full time at minimum wage (I used $7/hr for this), it would be around $7k.

Still seems high, but variably so.
This is a refreshingly well-reasoned article, in that it shows the actual trade-offs involved, considers both sides to be legitimate, and tries to work with each sides' strongest argument.

Compare and contrast with yesterday's discussions here, which were littered with "These EU bureaucrats are STEALING!1! from US companies" and (fewer) "Google is greatest danger since the dinosaur's extinction and needs to be broken up"
Lobbyists already have enormous power. I think one thing we've learned over the past 20 years is that career politicians are just as susceptible to bribes as everyone else.

Though I do agree, this concept is pointless beyond a thought experiment.
Perhaps it is not very know what the article 102 of the TFEU says:

> Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the internal market in so far as it may affect trade between Member States."

Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:

(a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions;
(b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers;
(c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;
(d) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.

And there is no mention of monopoly, what it is used is "dominant position".
Look, its a great story. I shared it with everyone who is a fan of SW or codes as it made me smile.

This is nothing to do with einaregilsson as it is a _very cool_ easter egg, more just the comments on marketing.

Lots of people put lots of hard work into games people like. How many of them get a celebrity to play their game, let alone post on social media? There are plenty of games out there with thousands of users and 0 celebrities.

On top of that someone reached out to him and request they prank Mr Skywalker. Where is the initiative in that?

He was lucky to have a celeb play his game. He was lucky the celeb tweets about his game. He was lucky a friend of the celeb requested they prank him. He clearly capitalized on the opportunity and every nerd like myself loved this story because Star Wars + coding fun and now we are all checking out cardgames.io.

But to claim "this is how you do marketing" is a stretch for me.
Of course, but they had a strong theoretical background that made it a natural transition. And besides that, nobody would argue that you don't need a fancy medical degree to do medicine because the barber surgeons didn't have one (different circumstances, but I think OK for illustrating the problem with the argument).
When evaluating a risk it isn't a good idea to restrict yourself to scenarios which already have happened.
It's not truly net unless he's paying himself a market rate for the amount of work he's doing (which if he's a programmer, may very well be $0 if everything is run by staff).

10% margin seems great for a restaurant, especially if that's after paying the owner. I've worked in management in restaurants (diners, nothing fantastic but a great way to help pay for school) and profit margins in the low-to-mid single digits before paying the owner is not uncommon.
Can we get RSS feeds as well for categories :)
About identifying "The Big Question", I have a story from my days as a graduate student, where I failed to do so.

I was asked to help on a project that needed to identify humans in an audio stream. During my literature review, I came across the field of "Voice Activity Detection" or VAD, which concerns itself with identifying where in an audiosignal a human voice / speech is present (as opposed to what the speech is).

I implemented several algorithms from the literature and tested it on the primary tests sets referenced in papers and spend a few months on this until I finally asked myself "What would happen if I gave my algorithm an audiostream of a dog barking?"

The barking was identified as "voice".

As it turns out, the "Big Question" in Voice Activity Detection is not to find human voices (or any voices), but to figure out when to pass on high-fidelity signals from phone calls. So the algorithms tend to only care about audio segments that are background noise and segments that are not background noise.
This is similar to the story of the guy who pranked his roommate by buying Facebook targeted ads that only targeted him [0]. Perhaps in the future, the AIs will know us all so well that every interaction will be filled with little in-jokes.

http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
Or teach people to become leaders who can govern. What does it take to have a specialized field of studies to prepare people? The more the qualified experts compete each other in getting elected, the better.
No worries, it took me a little while to figure out, too.
Autonomous vehicles (AV's) might allow for a smaller headway, by removing reaction time, but this benefit will be minimal at higher speeds when cars requires hundreds of feet to stop after the brake has been applied. Reaction time becomes a smaller portion of the headway as speed increases.

Most human (American) drivers drive 80 MPH. That means they need 300 or 400ft to stop, without including reaction time (these distances get even higher in poor weather). Most people don't do this, as a result lots of people die, rear-end collisions are extremely common. AV's will need to leave a few hundred feet minimum between cars to operate safely at highway speeds, which is more than most human drivers on a well trafficked road where I live.

This is where you see the safety benefits of AV's: conservative driving.
Well, they can also HIRE better trained staff from their competitors.

If companies really wanted to preserve talent for the long term, however, they should look long and hard at aggressive outsourcing programs that evacuate all technical and operations expertise to offshore companies. This has been "training competitors" for decades. There will be a comeuppance for this someday.
Correct. And even the FTC found them guilty of abusing that: http://3rxg9qea18zhtl6s2u8jammft-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Opting to Visit Fish for Sale Has Its Advantages
A Web Engineer Takes on VR
> But isn't it objectively less "scummy" than charging money up front, which most universities do?

It entirely depends on the price and what you're getting for that price. I generally agree with you that the model is 1) interesting and 2) not at all scummy.

But the cost-benefit on these coding schools always confuses me.

The total cost of one of this certificate is probably something in the 30k-60k+ range assuming you're successful (location is SF -- and marketing print specifically mentions Google et al). That's just tuition, not cost of living. And that's for two 9 month project-based sessions.

For reference, the average student loan debt is 37k for four years and an accredited diploma. Which, okay, might not be the full cost. But to be fair, you can DEFINITELY pay for college in 100% debt + weekend jobs/internships, and come out in the 20k-25k range. And that's total cost, with no scholarships, assuming you go to a second-tier state school or can live at home (ok, that skews total cost, but it's a very real option for many, many students!).

IMO universities are the clear winner in this cost-benefit calculation. Hands down, no questions asked. You can double or triple major and have one or two very tenable backup careers if a tech bubble bursts. In addition to that, if you want, you'll have everything you would learn at a coding school. Plus some extra theory/systems knowledge that opens up the non-web-dev job market. Graduate school is an option if you want to go the research route. And, very likely, you'll have a much larger network of close-knit peers that includes not only coders but also managers, engineers, business types, doctors, lawyers, etc. Immigration becomes easier. You'll have some physics/chemistry/calculus knowledge as well as some econ knowledge if you choose the right courses. And so on.

The problem is that a lot of people don't take full advantage of university while they're there, or choose universities that don't align with their goals. I think coding schools are weird in this respect -- IMO they tend to be pretty expensive for what you're getting, but maybe the target clientele wouldn't thrive in a university environment or don't want to take 4 years to get a holistic education.

So again, not at all scummy! But also IMO definitely not a better deal than the traditional route.
I don't exactly know why it's in the same package as systemd, but why do you consider it an user-hostile decision?

Unless you have so little storage you can't afford to have an extra binary installed in the system, there is no downside of having it on the machine.

You can still disable the daemon and switch to another one (like dnsmasq), as if it was in a different package.
There's no point in considering criteria that cannot be quantified.

The point is that alcohol is unhealthy. Unhealthiness is a relative term. Relative to the default, that is, water.

Anyway, you don't seem to have any evidence that alcohol is healthy compared to its downsides other than a silly notion of fun, something that's not exclusive to alcohol.

What does alcohol give you that water cannot? Nothing.

Social activities? Doesn't require alcohol.

A buzz? Doesn't require alcohol.

Going to a bar? Doesn't require alcohol.

Etc.
Surprised nobody has posted http://course.fast.ai/ yet. I've been following along with it so far for the first 4 lessons and it has been extremely helpful in understanding how deep learning works from the perspective of someone who did not have much of any related baseline knowledge except how to program. Jeremy is an excellent practical teacher.
This is a handy pocket guide. Quite seriously, start looking around if your gut is telling you to.

http://wiki.c2.com/?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom
Shopping doesn't crawl the web in any way. Retailers submit their stock data feed to it and can then pay to have specific products show up in the embedded box in search terms.

Which is where the anti-trust issue obviously comes in. All retailers can submit their stock feeds to all comparison engines - but only Google Shopping gives you the opportunity to flow through to a pinned spot at the top of the world's largest search engine too.
Productivity Hack: Check Your Email First Thing in the Morning
Tinder’s new subscription, Tinder Gold, lets you see who already likes you
Maybe. Maaaayyyyybe this could work. Or it could spell the end of the world's largest economy as we know it.

I have in the past toyed with ideas like randomly selecting the Senate from a pool of outstanding civil service exam scores, or by instituting a third legislative house to be randomly selected, but in any case to do so is to jump headfirst into an uncertain pool of chaos.

The system set up by our founding fathers is, for the most part, a good system. A large republic was supposed to be impossible. It has lasted nearly 250 years. It has survived a bloody civil war (1864 marked the first national election conducted during a civil war in history). It has expanded liberties to abolish slavery and grant the vote for all citizens (with some exceptions).

Right now, the system has been hijacked and rigged by the rich and powerful. Change them, change their influence, by all means, but upending the system for the sake of "trying something new" or god forbid "drain the swamp," will be akin to using a sledgehammer for a problem that requires a screwdriver.
Never tell me the odds.
You're ordering one of the few things you can safely order from China, though. There's no way for them to screw up electronic components, because they're basically the single stop between you and the same factories which supply everyone else on the market.

I wouldn't try that with consumer electronics though. Anything that's actually assembled to be sold cheap will likely be close to unusable. I can name plenty of examples of crap electronics I ordered from China or saw personally on Chinese markets when I was in Shenzhen. I stick to big western brands in this market simply to avoid completely useless crap.
But does not the FreeBSD project even more focus on memory unsafe languages (C) and is more monolithic then Linux distribution in general (userspace must match kernel).
A key indicator I've seen in past companies was when "top skill" or "top manager" level people suddenly submit their resignation and then spend two weeks calmly walking around the office with an ear-to-ear grin. Not too long after that, whisperings of "Why?" start circulating. And shortly after that, I got an upbeat email from HR about "Exciting new company direction" and "Rethinking our core strategies for better customer alignment." In all seriousness, shake-ups and re-alignments are frightening and kill everyone's morale with fears of uncertainty.
Petya Ransomware Attack: Computers Worldwide Severely Hit
Where we can use Blockchain?
Yeah, let's do it. I assert water will improve your mood with no downsides when dehydrated.

http://www.menshealth.com/health/fastest-way-improve-mood
I've read that a good way to get an early indicator of future health is to pay attention to the spending on the small things.

Does your company have paid lunches?

Does it have a snack vending machine or something similar?

A coffee machine with k-cups?

Other little perks that seem insignificant but are nice to have.

If these things start to go away, the company is experiencing financial stress.
A very good example of this is Google Maps vs. Here Maps.

I live in a city where Google Maps has, until one month ago, had basically no traffic data, satellite imagery was from 2004, and even today still supports no transit.

Here maps has up-to-date imagery of highest quality, has traffic and transit data.

Yet, many people use Google Maps, even if that provides worse results, sends them on roads that don’t exist anymore, etc.

When one recommends they switch, they say "but Google Maps is preinstalled, installing Here Maps would be so much effort, and it doesn’t work with Ok Google".

This is literally the effect shown IRL.
Tony Fadell Talks Apple's Pre-IPhone Days of Failed Motorola Rokr and Touchscree
this seems like something we could test... selective breeding for smarter dogs. Mind you, we'd have to establish a metric for smarter first.

Sheepdogs and their ability to control a mob of sheep always seemed to me to be pretty damned smart...
I've never been a fan, but if people are getting use out of the grids or w/e more power to them.

Ext was absolutely HUGE though - multiple MBs huge.
Suunto’s MoveSense makes developing your own fitness tracker way easier
I meant more specifically people like Mark Hamill. I'm sure celebrities feel under constant surveillance from fans. Feels like this might be taking it to another level.

But obviously he chose to tweet about it in the first place, so it presumably doesn't bother him much.
I don't think so. Others are subsidizing the inefficiency of sending something over from the other side of the world instead of using a local seller. That's the opposite of the broken window fallacy. Like breaking windows, subsidizing the international postal service is the economic harm.

Take that subsidy away. If the intermediate seller can still survive, then he is still providing some economic benefit.
I chatted to a guy from Chicago who'd opened a successful rib place in Saigon. Apparently it would cost over $1m, which he couldn't afford, to do in Chicago but cost $30k in Saigon. Not that operating in Vietnam is without it's difficulties.
Status of accounts payable - is the company stretching out payments to vendors? Are vendors getting angry or lawyering up?
No wonder it's so popular as a binding agent for fake cheese.
Treat it as a learning opportunity. Three buckets to triage employees into: (o) the oblivious employees, (i) employees who step up and show initiative, and (ii) employees who decide to goof off and do nothing since some of the management chain is likely missing and not being replaced.

Companies that are successful are often unwilling to risk any element of their success and can be rigid/inflexible.
There is a New York Times article today (6/28/17) about the idea of skills vs. degrees.

> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/technology/tech-jobs-skil...
Steve Blank does a good job summarizing this and other related phenomena: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

(and its corresponding HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5751329)
Creating discomfort
Flawed reporting about WhatsApp
UC Berkeley Releases Massive Dex-Net 2.0 Dataset
Woman delays flight by throwing coins into jet engine for good luck
I can't recommend Scratchapixel enough for diving deep into the concepts behind CG (although it seems to be down for me at the moment ironically). I can't remember how much it goes into libraries or if it sticks to implementing things from scratch, but I find knowing the concepts behind something makes learning the libraries much easier anyway.

https://www.scratchapixel.com
There's something there, indeed. But I feel it's really hard to define it exhaustively.

The product carousel shows only paid ads, so it doesn't really matter that it's part of Google shopping. Would it be ok if the actual "Google shopping" didn't exist, and it were officially just a carousel of ads?

I'm also quite certain that they internally charge a business unit such as Google Shopping for the placement. Would it be ok if they allowed other comparison shopping sites to bid for the carousel spot?

It's complicated by the fact that for most products, Google does actually provide a much better experience than competitors. Take flight search, where the Google interface is just so much better than any competitor. I get that it can be in the consumers' long-term interest to preserve competition even if it means hobbling the best product, but the magnitudes involved here currently make it a really difficult decision.
> If so, we need to raise the average significantly.

Bingo.
The less fuel is left, the lighter the drone.
marketing team slices its customers pool into : customer-we'll-soon-contact, potential customers, potential leads, short-list-customers, customers with who we have very good relationships, customers who'll introduces to even bigger customers. You get it, many types of customers except the paying-type...
"The United States and European Union have, at least since the Reagan Administration, differed on this point: the U.S. is primarily concerned with consumer welfare, and the primary proxy is price. In other words, as long as prices do not increase — or even better, decrease — there is, by definition, no illegal behavior."

Giving it away for free was precisely the definition of illegal behavior last time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
How America’s Aircraft Carriers Could Become Obsolete
I've also had good luck with small bluetooth speakers, with LED/PIR closet lights, with landscape lighting, with RGB LED light bulbs, LED lighting kits, charging cables, and a bunch of other things, even including a network tracing/mapping tool (that one I was sweating a little bit as it was expensive).

It's literally better than 95% (probably more like 99%) good stuff and I'm willing to eat the small amount of slippage/breakage/fraud/poor design.