skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having majored in mathematics and music, and taken only undergraduate physics courses I would say my personal experience agrees with kafkaesq. I often thought maths was closer to English literature & composition classes or music composition classes than to my physics classes. For me, maths was definition focused like the difference between lightning and lightning bolt, big picture focused like writing a thesis argument or a composition, and detail focused similar to understanding how the structure of a sentence altered the affect of that sentence or detail focused when manipulating melodic lines or harmonies and rhythm within one measure of music (ie get through a harmonic progression to another key while still maintaining the set of rules/laws/constraints I had created for myself for a specific piece).
While technically not OEM SNES, the 8bitdo repros are of extremely high quality and if you get a matching retro receiver, you can use them with the original SNES hardware (and wirelessly): http://www.8bitdo.com/snes30-sfc30/
Keeping in mind that android uses the linux kernel. So whatever android driver exists for the 835 LTE is by definition a linux driver. It's possible there's some userspace part that could be android specific, but there's a decent chance of it working under linux.
Yeah, bots were my first thought. Run any decent sized fb group and you'll realise just how many there are, then realise you're probably only seeing a small cross section. I would say thousands new every day. I saw a friend having some fun a while back posting public statuses to bait spambots with keywords like "tupac movie" and "watch online" - they get flooded within minutes.
Also, I have at least 3-4 accounts and know plenty of people who have as many, too. Can't imagine how they'd differentiate that from say, my housemate or partner logging in from the same IP address.
Good article. It is important to point out that GWT comes with more than just a Java -> Javascript compiler. It is also a set of tools and components to make web development feel more native. Over time, emphasis on these has lessened but it's possible to write web apps in GWT in a very similar manner to building Swing apps. I think 10 years ago this was really important for easing the transition for those coming from a desktop app world.
I'm against a free market precisely because the governments of Europe have a great track record in the periods they've adhered to "true" labour/socialist values. Universal healthcare, universal access to education, help with housing, regulations on the labour market - all things that have greatly improved lives of consumers.

Centralised power generally means a departure from direct democracy, and that's one reason why I'm not a fan of the EU.

For a great view into why a regulated market might just be better than an unregulated one, have read of:

https://www.amazon.com/Gangster-Capitalism-United-Globalizat...
I'm sure they clean the Civic Center station area daily. If they didn't, it would be knee deep in filth.

That's just where they've decided to gather. I'm not entirely sure what attracts them there, other than the burger king with the huge "EBT Cards Accepted" poster.
Why would I build it? You have to model this stuff computationally before you even have a whiff of an idea whether it would work.
Trusting the baked-in rendezvous server would seem to be the most obvious security "nit," which could be addressed by compiling and running your own server. But out-of-the-box, that would seem to be a weak-point for MitM attack.
When I grew up in Germany there was this stereotype that Americans move around a lot for jobs. Industry leaders often put this up as an example for Germans who at that time didn't want to move that much.

So I think there is something to this. Moving around probably got much harder due to rising real estate prices.
Isn't the same ageism -- true or perceived -- in all industries?

Would you be feel comfortable starting med-school in your 30s? A PhD? Training to be a plumber or an architect?

If anything, because programming takes a shorter time to become productive (say 2 years), I would think it would attract older job switchers.

(edit: Before people give me counter-examples, note:I know these things do happen)
I recently read a paper whose abstract seemed to imply to me that its content was much more technical and specific than it actually turned out to be, which was disappointing. It was more useful in telling you the particular area of research than summarising its content.
This really sucks and very expensive, ridiculous
Why the downvotes? ncp is really useful for hacker space like environments.
Definitely a problem. People (incorrectly) compare vulnerability scanning with pen testing. Vuln scanning often is a component of a pen test, but we do a bad job explaining the distinction. Pen test should attempt to use the app(s), maybe test the people and process, not just profile the software versions and complain they are out of date or misconfigured.
Use pepper gel?
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Every complaint I've seen on this topic is about how repulsive or unsafe it feels for someone commuting to their job in SF. No one talks about these thousands of people who are suffering from drug addiction, mental disorders, socioeconomic injustice, and all kinds of abuse. No one's complaint is: "how can we, as society, allow these conditions to persist, why aren't we helping these people in a meaningful way?" It's the apathy of the population in general that allows this kind of situation to come about and then persist despite the best efforts of "they" who are supposed to "do something about it."
I found the article very interesting, and I thought the hook was valid - coding is one of these disciplines where the general consensus is that you need to start very young to be good, similar to Olympic athletes. I wrote my first trivial but working program aged 5 so I believe this to be true to some extent; reading an experience that contradicts this was valuable to me.

I also liked the article for a different reason; I don't aspire to be an Olympic athlete but I do want to become good at certain skillsets that I've only started exploring after my 30s, so I'm definitely hoping the author's experience generalises, and rooting for him :)
You seem to think that you wake up one day and you are a stereotypical 'high visibility homeless person'. Plenty of homeless people are struggling on the edge of normality (especially women) and are sleeping in cars, looking relatively clean and well-behaved.

Aside from the hard-core mentally ill, a lot of people might be relatively easily intercepted before they wind up looking/acting like the person you describe.
San Francisco took this thinking to its logical conclusion years ago. "We're spending tens of thousands on services for homeless people. Why don't we just give them the money and let them buy what they need?"

So the city got rid of the "subcontractors" and started handing out cash. The homeless people (as a group - I'm sure there were exceptions) pretty much treated the assistance as extra money for booze and drugs. Also, you can imagine what happened when homeless people living in other cities learned about cash benefits.

Gavin Newsom rose to prominence by changing the system back to what it had been before cash assistance. So we're back to having bureaucrats administering services, because it turns out a whole lot of homeless people are homeless for reasons that go beyond bad luck.
Akamai Edge Compute is what they are asking for.

As someone who tried building this for the unwashed masses, wait until you have something along the lines of Google Spanner. Developers see amazing gains from edge compute because ZOMG LATENCY, then actually flesh out their apps and start making uncached database calls back to AWS anyway.

EDIT: Yes they lack pricing transparency. Akamai is expensive. As I pointed out, in real world experience less than 5% of the developers I talked to actually could lower response times by moving closer to the client. It's something everyone thinks they need, but the devil is in the implementation details. Akamai hand holds you a lot for your money.
If people would like to learn more about Japanese zoning (which isn't a lack of density zoning, but rather more of an "up to this" rather than "restrict to" zoning), there's this post on my favorite urban design blog: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
This. Amazon Fresh already lets local markets sell their
raw ingredients, cooked foods, half-cooked, or just prepped stuff. Those markets could (might already) just include some instructions on the package. The familiar search/browse UI and "no subscription" factor will be a huge AF advantage IMO. (I have used AF about 5 times, all good experiences so far, but just for ingredients, not prepared foods)
"and never will" is a fairly aggressive claim and implies alcohol is super bad. Just saying I don't drink is way less aggressive.
Acid attacks are incredibly uncommon in the UK
A similar LAN or virtual network oriented tool:

https://github.com/zerotier/toss

... and another less magical one:

http://www.fefe.de/ncp/
Thanks! I figure I'm ahead on the submission, I might as well burn some valuable internet points on entertaining those of discerning tastes such as yourself. Normally the only time I get downvoted that much is when I complain about WaPo's obvious-but-never-mentioned conflicts of interest.
The latter, at least in Norway -- small settlements propped up by government spending.

http://www.idlewords.com/2010/07/mission_burfjord.htm

Search for "The social center of Burfjord" and read that paragraph and the next. Something like this might be necessary if the US government wants to keep Appalachia populated; I genuinely don't know if I'd support that goal or be indifferent to it.
Trump exclusively relies on second hand info. Lets not hold him accountable either.
It's a pretty populist statement.
There are businesses with network effects: the more people using them, the better off everyone using it is.

There are businesses with scale advantages: doing it bigger makes it much cheaper.

There are businesses with required huge capital investments: if you don't have the $25 billion silicon foundry, you don't make CPUs.

There are businesses where a national brand is a big advantage, and businesses where local is a selling point.

The meal-kit industry looks like it's halfway between grocery stores and delivery restaurants, and that means economies of scale aren't hugely important, but a reputation for quality is. Local/national can go either way, but most people are willing to experiment every so often and have strong preferences about what they like -- which means that having a lot of players in the market is to their advantage, and long-term contracts are not.
Multiply by 1.5 or 2 usually. Much like software estimates.
> I use an 11" MacBook Air, which means that I don't have much vertical screen space.

Maybe that's the problem? I use 27+ inches monitors at home and office, and never had any issues with sticky headers.

Leave them alone! :)
Square releases their own version of the popular Active Merchant gem
Any attacker only gets a single guess
Yeah, was a great article, kudos for that. To be clear I didn't mean it as a criticism just wanted to throw it out there so other people knew that it works on stable.
They do. But other countries are often not as concentrated as the US is becoming.
Has the internet gotten doper?
Nice! It might be interesting to use the magic-wormhole API to set up the piknik keys. In the long term, I'm pushing magic-wormhole to serve as a provisioning tool for other (more persistent) connections.
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How would they make money doing that?
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I think in the long run it won't matter. For the most part, the jobs they could get in the cities are starting to vanish as well. In 10-20 years, the cities will have it even worse at the lower economic end. People might as well stay where they want to live.

This economic transition will eventually effect everyone. Everyone. These people are just at the front end of it.
Sortition. Rule by random citizen.
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So, ummm, you use Instagram? -- the company owned by Facebook to provide an alternate brand to appeal to those tech savvy kids?

Same database, different name.
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I wonder if you've considered that, in some respects, for some people, it was better, or would be and is better?

Or, assuming a couple could choose their roles, or even have the option of a stay-at-home mom, they wouldn't jump at the chance?

Is it that hard to believe that not being required to have to full time wage earners and no-one to handle at home duties vs. having a more complete division of labor, might actually work out well overall for both people's happiness?
What's wrong with S/MIME? Email doesn't have to be unencrypted.

Also, you only need to send the public part of an SSH key to the remote end to set up future keyed connections to that system.

This seems like a solution with very narrow problems to solve.
Cool stuff, thanks.
It does. People migrated there when there was opportunity and migrated elsewhere when there were better opportunities elsewhere.
Akamai Edge Compute appears to be a "talk to us for pricing, and we'll then attempt to extract the maximum amount of money that we think you'll be able to pay" kind of deal. No thanks.
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The version control semantics of the system are pretty crucial for some of the features you describe wanting. Pachyderm supports incremental operations on stream-like datasets. But what's going on under the hood is that the dataset is being version controlled and thus the system can tell which data has changed and only process the new data. Hope that helps, I'd be happy to chat more about your specific use case. Shoot me an email at jdoliner@pachyderm.io
You assume the East Bay wants tech companies, and that we shouldn't be building the New York of the West. Trying to resist becoming what it could become is (finally) killing San Francisco, and the gentrification of Oakland is already even more intense. New York is extremely productive, effective and has low environmental impact per person. There are enormous advantages of living in a city, which is why people want to live in one. The problem is landowners who benefit from soaring prices, don't have any pressure to move thanks to frozen property taxes, and have a disproportionate impact on zoning.

The best thing tech could do is get involved in local politics, show up reliably to local meetings, and advocate for zoning and taxation policies that would support building enough housing so anyone who wants to live in these places can live there. Not just in SF either: it's even more important that Palo Alto, Mountain View and Cupertino start being willing to build housing for the people employed there. The suburbs could be significantly more dense than they are, which could support better public transit options.

The solution isn't to try to convince people not to live where they want to live; it's to stop letting Boomers decide where housing should get built, which requires Millennials to start showing up for ourselves.
Google went years without knowing their backhaul had been compromised.

If you think your cooperation stands in the way of the NSA using you for bulk collection, I've got a bridge to sell you.
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Making welfare/SSI contingent on moving could work, but will be absolutely terrible for those with all their wealth tied up in their house. It's a hard problem to solve, especially since a lot of these people are okay with / used to just making enough to get by.

Most of these people probably need to move if they've still working age. Maybe one way to reduce friction would be to have government buy out homes in economically distressed areas at the old valuation. Sure, that's "not fair" to people who faced similar dilemmas in the past and didn't get that sort of help. But I'd prefer that the government be inconsistently helpful over consistently unhelpful.
Yes this is a favourite bit of reddit for me. Highly recommended :)
>I read an 1 meter [high stack] of books about the subject.

Sounds like a good hook for website. Instead of learn X in 21 days: http://www.1meterofbooks/programming
Type `PDFViewerApplication.preferences.set('renderer', 'svg');` in the console, and reload the page/viewer:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/8564
> Anyways, I'm not surprised that most of the comments here are either outright defensive or are just proposing ways to undermine the content of the study

To be fair, alcohol is one of those topics where research is frequently contradictory: Studies sometimes show moderate consumption is healthy (or has no effect on mortality rate, at least), and others show no amount of consumption is healthy. Even meta-studies frequently contradict each other.

Given that, I think it's fair for people to be extremely skeptical of studies involving alcohol (and coffee, our other favorite drug that no one's quite clear on).
This was actually modeled! See here: https://github.com/hoburg/gas_solar_trade
My own thought process on this is the following: Some parts of antivirus software do good work. Understanding that antivirus software is no substitute for real security, but more like a helpful layer to try to catch things that otherwise might sneak in, helps a lot in using it successfully. On that level, software which scans downloaded files before opening them, and periodically scans the filesystem passively for any known threats, is not bad. I agree that patching the software of its bugs in the first place is a better goal, but it doesn't hurt to have an in-between option that helps out a little bit. Of course, such software rarely needs to be a third-party suite, as Microsoft's own Windows Defender software performs this task decently.

Where things get hairy are antivirus suites in particular. It's one thing to passively scan files, but AV suites have a bad habit of hooking into the operating system and making other changes, usually in the name of real-time monitoring. This is where I feel their supposed benefits fall flat. It would be one thing if these hooks were also passive, but Windows and most other operating systems make it difficult to access the kernel's data on purpose, and I don't trust an antivirus suite to do so in a safe manner. It's one thing for an exploit to compromise passive scanner running with userland permissions, and another thing entirely to exploit an AV suite with direct kernel access. The latter can cause the security features to backfire pretty hard.
That would presumably raise rents in surrounding counties, which might actually make things worse. A big hunk of the homeless come from other counties, and went to SF after the fact:

"Ten percent (10%) of respondents reported they were living out of state at the time they lost their housing.
Nineteen percent (19%) reported they were living in another county in California. Six percent (6%) reported
they were living in Alameda County at the time, 3% San Mateo, 2% Marin, 2% Contra Costa and 1% Santa Clara
County."

https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran...
Basically all food production is "technological in nature".
You can always synthesize gas (or use hydrogen as replacement, if your system can deal with the associated problems). Liquid fossil-based stuff is where the problem lies.
Speculative answer: battery life and cost
Ditto. This would be very useful if it were available on all platforms (Android, OIS, Rpi)!
None.

When was the last time you consider 20 minutes spent on facebook browsing a well spent time?
Nifty.. I'll look at the network side of that, maybe we can steal some ideas. At the moment magic-wormhole depends upon one of:

* at least one side has a public IP address
* both sides are on the same (private) LAN
* a TURN-like "Transit Relay" server that I run

That transit server hasn't gotten a worrysome amount of traffic yet, but it's a potential scaling problem. (Fortunately the two sides can offer their own transit servers, and they negotiate the one to use, so it's also not a difficult scaling problem to address).

In the long run I'm hoping to get some NAT-hole-punching tools, maybe WebRTC, to reduce the need for the transit relay somewhat. Also in the long run, if both sides are using Tor, then one of then can run an onion service, which gets you the NAT-punching for free.
I see SF cops interacting with the homeless regularly. And, what I've personally seen has been overwhelmingly positive. I see friendly conversations on street corners. I see cops checking up on people who in especially bad shape. Lately, I've several times seen cops driving by sidewalk-sitters where both yell back and forth to each other. It looks angry if you don't pay close attention. All parties are smiling.
What need for alcohol when he's constantly drunk on power? ;-)
Whoops, yeah you are right. I blame lack of caffeine!
Holy double angle formula, Batman. Awk has command line trig functions? Riddle me this. Is the Google search bar just an Awk script and they won't tell you? That's just the sneaky kind of trick L+S would try.
Don't make novelty accounts. It is against the rules...
OIS?
In my case, the Qualcomm 835 SoC Kryo cores, for tuning code for a 3-way OooE ARM-v8 ISA CPU.
I would use this just to cut and paste text from my host machine to my VMs, because I've never been able to get that seemingly simple concept to work reliably.
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I like using https://file.pizza/ for this.
> The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords...

Nice.
Many of the kinds of clients we have - charities, tech for good companies, third-sector organisations, unions, local government, lobbying groups etc - are pleased to work with someone whose profits are used to further aims proximate to their own organisations. But in pitches to clients I don't think we make it the main selling point, but part of the overall package.
That would break the most common method of centering the main content (margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto)
It's the responsibility of the writer to connect the dots on why it's wrong, not the reader. Throwing out a blanket statement like "it's wrong" and expecting your audience to figure out why (or not and simply agree, since that would be more convenient) is poor communication at best, and intellectually lazy at worst.
Also check out his Youtube channel[1], it's filled with videos just like this. Many hackers will enjoy it!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzOc0EEdwWAlnwrWV-7sDbg
I get shamed occasionally for never having a Facebook account. It's amazing how mindshare drives market share really and gets people to react like this.

Genuinely I couldn't work out how it improved my life in any way. Everyone I know who uses it shows signs of addiction. It's like a cigarette. Perhaps that's it!
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Is there anything we can learn from 'daily-deal' pivots that were successful, and apply them to meal-box ideas in order to beat the curve?
> The wormhole library requires a "Rendezvous Server": a simple WebSocket-based relay that delivers messages from one client to another. This allows the wormhole codes to omit IP addresses and port numbers. The URL of a public server is baked into the library for use as a default, and will be freely available until volume or abuse makes it infeasible to support.

why not make use of https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html ? lots of servers http://relays.syncthing.net/