skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wat. What kind of an adult doesn't have stuff to do on lunch? I usually do some of these: work out, get my dry cleaning, run home to grab packages, make lunch, take a nap, shower real quick after a work out, go to the dentist, etc. If I was purely locked in to 45 hours a week with my coworkers id be job hunting.
He did address this by simply stating the fact there is no actual "Google Shopping", it's just a term, like "Google Hotels" or "Google Whatever".

In the end "Google Shopping" is just an Ad Block with a nomenclature of "Google Shopping. They could simply remove this term and put the same ads for Adidas shoes at the top of search results just like do for a myriad of other products and search categories; would that be a problem?

I understand that Google probably has a different engineering platform to present shopping ads/results as opposed to webpages, but is this really any different from other kinds of scraping they perform? They also show song lyrics and snippets from Wikipedia for example. They're scraping the web and collating that info for users to search for.

I think the author made a good case, good read.
I've been doing naps at work for the last year, since I started to try polyphasic sleep. Naps play an essential role in my polyphasic strategy. Those 30 minutes I spend sleeping after lunch save me some sleep hours during night. You can get some data points about naps and its importance in this book (which I recommend): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleep-Myth-Hours-Power-Recharge/dp/...
The article said that the lighter than air aircraft got blown around by the wind too much. They needed a drone that could loiter over a specific area for an extended period of time, presumably acting as a communication relay for disaster or war zones.
a great read -- almost as good as Franz de Waal's "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (where this study and others are cited) https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/1783... .
I've thought about this machine a number of times since the previous post. In that post, there was a movie showing the machine's operation, but it was operating at a slow speed, and he's mentioned multiple times that there's been speed improvements.

Does anyone know if there's a realtime movie anywhere?
One problem with that is the fact that people (at least in the west) who choose to eat raw food are usually health conscious and comparably affluent. This biases the sample. Furthermore, the issue is complicated by the effects on adults vs children.
Friends don't let friends configure Nagios...
Review of MongoDB World 2017
The problem is that you need a big heavy tank to keep all of the Hydrogen molecules from escaping, especially if you're keeping it under pressure. Hydrogen is much more problematic to work with.
You're right, it could go both ways.

I guess the question then is: do we have a way of predicting which way it will go?
> 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?

Obviously not. What would happen in that case? The Google Shopping unit would go to the CFO (or whoever is responsible) and tell them that they needed more funding for bidding on carousel spots, so as to increase their market share. They would make the very solid business case that any money spent there would end up back in the company's accounts, so it is actually free. So, they would get whatever money they would need in order to outbid everyone else.

As long as your expenses flow back to the entity that's funding you, there won't be any limit on funding.
Either that or eating there is just optional? It doesn't seem to explicitly say you have to eat their food and stay at work. Plus a lot of people do strange diets now days or have all sorts of allergies. It sounds to me from the last sentence is "we provide food, so if you want to stay here and eat at your desk you can."
The EFF wouldn't need to lobby if Comcast/Google/etc. didn't lobby
The problem from me switching to Windows from Mac is iOS development tools.

Ubuntu on Windows is really great.
Because it leads to tyranny of the majority.

The original idea was congress would be intelligent people supporting decisions for the good of the nation. That doesn't work so well anymore now that the only decisions remaining are split between party lines.
No. Also, no lobbying from RIAA or Exxon.
https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists
You'd Probably Willingly Tell This Woman Your Password
One hundred million percent yes.

Most of this content isn't covered until Terms 2 & 3, but it's surprisingly relevant.
I felt the same way reading the article. At the places I've worked there's a (sometimes informal) "personal information firewall" between production data and engineering, where employees could not correlate user accounts with actual people's personal info. Plenty of anonymized data to help make product decisions but no ability for rank-and-file employees to figure out "user 14339 is Mark Hamill". Scary!
> The point is that age isn't a barrier but that becoming a software engineer is a lot harder than just going to a bootcamp and expecting a job to appear.

I know, but that's not generally what you'd see on a "learn X in Y days" sort of site. I'm more talking about the zeitgeist.

> Why does it matter if the average plumber "can't fix your house"?

"Fix your house" is more idiomatic for the entirety of plumber work. I suspect that you are more than a one-trick pony of development, but that takes years to master. A plumber that needs to fix a house needs to use and learn a myriad of tools that take years to master.
The societal consequences of an organ market might not be so bad: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/12/or...

Lawyers, salespeople, and lobbyists are all good things when used well. I'd be in support of more transparency, but lobbyists are working for causes you believe in and would not be if there weren't some method in place for organizations to speak with their political representation.
All the titles that won the Pulitzer for general non-fiction since 1962
I guess it's already too late. Last week there was this here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14587296
http://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

As far as I understand it currently uses JS as a target, but might switch to WASM soon.

But don't worry about the abstraction layers, we might even have some more :-) E.g. some kind of intermediate language between WASM and CPU assembly (like LLVM IR). Or the CPU µops which are even below the real assembly. Or Java maven plugins like annotation processors, which transform some Java code into others. Or even on top of that some interface definition languages, which are transformed into Java through code generators.
Sounds like what happens in New Zealand in regards to student loans. Basically, 8% of my pay goes to paying off my student loan (but only on earnings above ~$20,000). I can't pay less than this, it's taken from my payroll like tax.

Not really scummy at all in my opinion.
I cringe when I hear about plans for "tuition-free" 4-year college. I went to a fancy private high school, with a bunch of kids who graduated and went to fancy private universities. From what I can tell, it's done very little for them. The people who aren't working in tech or finance are literally on food stamps, extending their time in college, doing something like Teach for America, or working retail jobs. With 4-year degrees.

As if that weren't agitating enough, universities seem to relish their role in "not providing job training" and being "not a vocational school" and "producing well-rounded students". The government shouldn't be footing the bill to send people to these schools (through subsidized loans or other mechanisms), which for most students are glorified daycare centers for young adults who don't want to join the workforce yet. It's a huge waste of money, as the current levels of student loan debt attests to.

I don't know all the details here but an apprenticeship program seems like a step in the right direction. The federal government should forgive student loans (lay the cost on the universities)
Yes, but they don't make a record of your gait at the DMV and print it on your official ID card, do they?

They might be able to track John/Jane Doe #1 across a plaza, and maybe match that up across multiple cameras, but without a reference database connecting gaits to public identities, there is a possibility that without reasonable suspicion, the data for John/Jane Doe #1 would have to be purged before it could be linked to you.

Of course, a state-level actor that chooses not to obey the law could retain those data indefinitely, and eventually identify you via statistical analyses. If you don't want that to happen, you will need to get politically active and make public oversight of agencies that perform surveillance of the public an issue.

Otherwise, you might have to wear specialized clothing and shoes that change heel height and sole shape as you walk.
> There's no interest in the "17% over 3 years" model.

There isn't but it's insignificant and the potential salary increases would overshadow charging interest anyway (at least in the current low interest environment in the US)
Thanks for the response.

I use Google fairly heavily through work and my personal email, but IDK about "fully sucked into" - I have no smartphone, don't use GCal, etc.

Rather than lauding Google, I meant to criticize the idea that the public has a right to a private service.
You need to click on the overload of this method that you are interested in. This is just the top level "where do you want to go?" document.
I guess it could be argued that raw food dieters now have access to rich foods like oils, avocados, sprouted legumes and grains, nuts and seeds, etc. That makes the diet far easier than it would have been even 100 years ago, I think.

I'm not in favor or opposed to the person you're responding to. Just thinking about how humans eating a raw diet are different from other animals doing so.
I would like this, but the anti-SAT / whiteboarding group would complain about a system like this to no end.

And to be fair, there is a huge potential for a system like this to be abused or to codify massive inequality in representation across racial / socio-economic lines. So complaints would definitely not be without merit. Usually additional barriers to participate in government only end up hurting those who are most marginalized already, even if they are supposedly well-intentioned. So while a system like this might sound good to your typical hacker news browser, consider that a system like this would also mostly exclude poor and uneducated people from government even more than they are already
Site down for me: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h4AHuP...
Thanks for the response.

I disagree with Rand on many important issues.

I think your reply is tantamount to an ad hominem fallacy.
This would make a good addition to mediawiki itself. Have you considered trying to contribute it to the project?
+1 for Ubuntu on Windows.

Really solved my main issue with Windows, the horrible console prompt.
It will bring internet, but only to the US Army as it trundles across the area and needs an over the horizon repeater to get the signal back to the uplink station.

A 5 day duration manually operated drone is clearly not going to provide long term service.
I feel a little like you, but the thing that keeps me away from Windows is the insane privacy nightmare it's become. Every single MS product is now studded with telemetry that spews data about everything you do and probably leaks a lot of unintentional information and meta-data. Using a Windows box feels like having a shadow VNC server installed where MS can just watch you.

MacOS has telemetry too but it's much more limited and honestly I trust Apple's security more than Microsoft's. Mac telemetry can also be disabled relatively easily and as near as I can tell without much consequence outside iCloud stuff. On Windows as near as I can tell turning this stuff off is pulling teeth.

For those who follow the "but I have nothing to hide" line -- just replace privacy with security. Leaking that much data is also a security nightmare. My company is pretty high on the paranoia scale due to what we do, so we worry about that. So that adds a pragmatic professional reason along with the personal ones. No I do not want to spray fragments of secret keys, passwords, network I/O info, and confidential company info into the Microsoft cloud.

Of course I hear rumors out of Apple that they're experimenting with ARM Macs that are app store only. I could care less if they swap X64 for ARM as long as it's an ARM64 core that performs well enough, but if they also turn MacOS into iOS with a big screen I will be forced to switch. Note that these rumors are unsubstantiated and refer to test hardware. It's entirely possible that internal test hardware and test OS images are locked to an internal app store but that the final product will be different. They might do this just for trade secret security-- every app could have embedded stuff to try to catch leakers etc.
> Salary is non negotiable for entry level jobs

I can assure you that our students (Holberton) do negotiate their entry-level jobs. The majority successfully do so :)

> the only things that matters is your study programme and your degree

When we started we had no track record whatsoever. Our first students found internships but also jobs everywhere including both completely unknown and super cool startup and very high-profile companies such as NASA, Apple etc... they were all selected on what they could do and not on a degree (we are not accredited) nor the school itself (we had no track record)

Today we atart to have a very good reputation so the problem is different, our atudents don't have to fight anymore, companies come to them. But for the first students it was very clear that ppl didn't care about degrees or "where do you come from".
From your source:

So the answer is NO; 24 is a rather gross exaggeration of the number of homes available for sale/rent.

Gotta read the source, not just cite it.
You have a clear definition for "bad people" as part of your religion. Whether or not that process works, adding a rigid morality does not improve simple plurality voting for most populations.
* You can just rewrite systemd-resolved (and similar networked services), not the entire systemd, for a start. E.g. Firefox, which has even more LOC, started rewriting a ton of stuff in javascript and now rust (e.g. mp4 parsers was the first rust code in Firefox IIRC)

* If your project lacks people with the required skill set, then reach out to programmers who got what you need and educate yourself.

* Distro codebases are not just C since forever, they are a mix of all kinds of stuff, in particular but not limited to C, C++, perl, shell, python.
It's absolutely laughable that Apple forces people to buy a Mac in order to compile iOS applications. My company recently started using Xamarin, and to our surprise we can't run automated builds for iOS on our Linux servers. It's really weird. We don't have any macs anywhere, so it looks like we're going to have to get an overpriced mac just for this single build.
> teach elementary thinking skills

I couldn't agree more.

The curriculum for our kids should be based around building the mental machinary that will enable intuitive, creative and analytic problem solving. Learning a specific language, or some specific design pattern / method seems a little backward to me; this knowledge can be layered on top of this way of thinking in later years.

Focus on building the right hardware (brain) before writing the software for it (knowledge).
NumPy joined NumFOCUS as a fiscally sponsored project in 2015, so it's been eligible to receive donations as a non-profit (because of NumFOCUS' nonprofit status) since then.
I think sortition would work better if the legislators would first learn a bit about the issue they are assigned to (assuming the random selection is repeated for each individual law). It could be done as a short course where the instructors would also be selected by random from a pool of experts (people holding degrees in the field). Legislators could be tested to see if they have a grasp of the basic concepts. Only after that, they would deliberate and vote. This would make the process slower, but fortunately it can be parallelized on multiple unrelated issues. Each legislative group could act for a short period and disband.
But the subject isn't risk evaluation, it's the idea of a "score" where using NatSec state zero days get positive points for saving lives and saving money, and negative points for when terrorists use leaked zerodays or take advantage of unfixed holes.

The claim was "any terrorist attack using these proves it's a net loss"

My response was "the classified nature of positive points doesn't invalidate positive points, and you cannot call it a net loss without a full accounting"

Now it's just devolved into a game of hypotheticals where people try to disprove the idea of a full accounting by creating even sillier terrorist scenarios?
I dream of cities without cars!

longer distance travel via electric cars is fine, just give me a city without the cacophony, polution and general obnoxiousness of traffic.
> With the new Windows Ubuntu subsystem, I've been really tempted to get a Surface.

In my experience, it is far, far away from substituting the UNIX experience you get from macOS/Linux/*BSD
The problem is those empty homes aren't located where you want to live. Among cities in the US, Flint, Michigan has the highest home vacancy rate. Coinciding with that surplus, the median rent is more than a couple of hundred dollars per month below the national median.

If someone is feeling like there is a housing crisis in some part of the country, the obvious solution is to move to Flint, or another community with a similar surplus of housing and cheap rent. However, there is probably a good reason why they haven't already done so.

They've done the math and have realized that while rent may be higher, that higher rent has much greater value (access to better jobs, lifestyle, environment, etc.) and is actually worth every penny.
There are websites that'll tell you if it's down for just you, or everybody.
Interesting. I naturally gravitated towards both of those methods!

When I feel lots of anxiety that can't go away, I'll take a nap - there's a good chance it'll reset my "anxiety counter", letting me deal with whatever issue that was stressing me out. When I'm low on mood / even more anxious, I'll stay awake for one night - the extreme tiredness attenuates the anxiety, and at the end of the next day, I get a good sleep and wake up in a better mood.
It's not. There's a content about 11 screens down, not that you'd find it easily.
https://conemu.github.io/ + bash worked pretty well
Except that he also doesn't have that information. All he has is the picture that the user posted himself, that isn't linked to a user account since there aren't any.
That is not exactly what I said :)
Obviously. But each official decision by a particular randomly selected jury within the justice system that carries legal weight affects one person, usually.

Each official decision by Congress that carries legal weight affects millions to billions of people.

Which is exactly I said that before more succinctly for those that cared to think about it.
There have been at least three attempts to change the syntax of Lisp, so that it looks more like Algol: Lisp 2, CGOL, and Dylan. None of these gained much traction. Lisp programmers prefer the parentheses.

When you autoindent, the indentation of the code makes its underlying structure (AST) clear without having to count either parentheses in Lisp or braces in C. By the 1970s, autoindenting editors (EMACS) and structure editors had been developed for Lisp. In the C/Unix world, until recently, indentation and parenthesis/brace counting had to be done by hand. Among C programmers (but not, to their credit, Java programmers) there are still arguments about code layout, a problem solved decades ago for Lisp.
I've gone the Lenovo X + OpenBSD route.
"I get funny looks, and my coworkers sometimes ask me "where have you been?""

You may be over analyzing it. Are you sure its not just small talk, like "where did you go for lunch, was it any good?" Talking about restaurants and food is one of the most popular conversation topics at my office.
Why would a representative leave so much influence in the hands of a girl in her middle twenties who's dumb enough to doll out influence to bringers of chocolate?
I think this is slightly different than what the article (and by extension my comment) were discussing.

For some products and items, the difference between the chinese produced items and the actual items is a world of difference (e.g., electronics batteries, power adapters), but that isn't really the business that the article was talking about the cut into - the issue was resellers who would buy up a warehouse stock from chinese producers and sell it at mark-up; with modern postal agreements and websites, there really isn't a need for this particular service.

It's not a matter of meeting shipping times or any other value propositions, it's "do we need someone to resell a toy boat at twice the price when we can buy the same stock directly"
Ubuntu on Windows really works nicely for me.
This is the function of the fiscal sponsorship program at NumFOCUS. All fiscally sponsored projects basically come under the umbrella of NumFOCUS' nonprofit status, so that the projects can receive tax-deductible contributions, etc.
Yeah, this is one of the downsides of modern graphics.

Taking for example OpenGL, in the old days you could just download a NeHe project to use as a framework to learn from. To render basics you just specified triangles by their vertices with e.g. glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES) as Jacob says. In a small number of days you could have been close to the front tier of graphics development.

But then it became far more complicated as graphics cards added tons of optimisations to improve speed. Instead of just specifying triangles you then had to create lists, indirect lists, bindings etc. Now as per his example, you have to add a ton of extra boilerplate to just render a simple triangle. And if it doesn't just work it's very hard to figure out why.

What you can also do is use an engine like Unity, then just set it up so that you add some direct OpenGL calls in to create and render objects (I use it in this manner for some dynamics things, when I don't want to create GameObjects for Unity to manage). But that's not a very "pure" way of learning graphics development. I guess it also comes down to what you want to do with the knowledge in the end.
After 15y with only Macs I've bought a very expensive Dell (maxed out XPS13) last year.

The quality is unbelievable terrible I'll never buy another Dell, so my next computer will be again a MBP/iMac.
Imported it as a temporary add-on and it worked without any configuration.

I'm not going to reupload this work to the AMO for it to be signed for distribution though. Limitation sucks also
Early access program for Kotlin 1.2 has been started
Considering the used a 'smart poll' or internet poll I think would be the correct term, there might be a very high bias toward the 'already wanting to use osx' group by selection bias (educated, more heavily internet using).

Also, the summary says nothing about numbers (I don't think they got a lot of 150k+ responders considering the exact 20%, e.g. 1/5) so basically this is a 'look at us, we have new "data" ' poll for marketing purposes without statistical significance.

Opinion wise: As a forced osx user (other machine uses debian and xmonad so you can guess the type of user) I would rather switch to Windows than the other way around. But my sample size is just one.
How about the NSA? EFF needs to lobby.
Because it doesn't come with an Xserver and getting one on is just evil.
I find Ubuntu and windows much easier to use than Mac...