skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Is this the coolest and more affordable electric car you can buy and drive today?
Also, find companies that you'd like to work for that hire remotely. There are plenty these days.
At the same time, it's also incredibly tiring to hear shitty behavior by companies excused by saying "shareholder value!" as if that excuses all of it. The people running those companies are still adults, who are still fully responsible for their actions. They should not be excused by something that doesn't actually exist.
Yes, in a democracy, we allow people other than the government to make decisions, because we understand that the proper scope of what should be voted on is not "everything."
"Hitlery Channel"
No, I don't think so. Archimedes' principle tells us that the decrease in force required to support the object is equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. The force of gravity on the object itself is the same, regardless of which portion of the object is submerged.
Powerful and detailed writeup of the challenges and coming/existing solutions around them.
I don't zoom in most websites these days[0]

HN, Google, DDG and Wikipedia (the mobile version is nicer) are the ones I can't use without setting to 125%.

[0] An upside of the mobile first trend?

EDIT: Eh, scratch that. Just noticed Github (125%) and Twitter (110%) are also on the list ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whoops, that's absolutely why I misspelled it!
The >> operator indicates that moving fast, and breaking things, is much better than moving slowly with stable infrastructure.
There are two (mutually exclusive) kinds of unemployment benefits:

Alg: Calculated based on your previous salary and paid for up to two years (based on how long you worked and your age). If you quit voluntarily, the first three months nothing is paid out to you. They will (try to) offer you employment opportunities. This is an actual (mandatory) insurance and costs 3% of your income (up to a limit).

Alg II: Based on the bare minimum you need to live. Without any limits but you need to actively work on getting a job. This is financed through general taxes.
Self-promotion, but I recently wrote a blog post that deals with at least some of these issues: https://insights.isg-one.com/lens360/from-each-according-to-...
The diversity bad bank
As my understanding of the terms of service goes, it's allowed as long as I don't compare the prices to other sites.
Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game
Payment specification in package metadata
Make any terminal emulator semi-translucent using a compton custom shader (X11)
> Pensions aren't portable - in the modern labor market
> where people are expected to have multiple emplyers and
> possibly even career arcs, that's a pretty limiting.

Which is the cause and which is the effect? Do workers want to have multiple employers and career arcs?
Ask HN: Should one pursue a tech job despite internet addiction?
I'm struggling with a psychological condition best described as 'internet addiction disorder' (apparently this term and its classification are under discussion by physicians).

Since I got my first computer at 12 I was fascinated. I taught myself how to program, spent my teenage years in front of a screen and got a CS degree at university while working part time as a web/sw developer. Now I'm 26 and half way through a Master's program, but I can't stop thinking about dropping out and never touching a computer again.

As soon as I use a computer, it's become almost impossible for me to be productive. I waste nine to ten hours a day on useless websites or reading news/blogposts online. My self control completely vanishes in sight of a browser. From blocking software to therapy, nothing helped me with this condition and strict abstinence is not an option at uni or at work.
Honestly, I lost hope of ever being a productive tech worker.

Should keep pursuing a tech job or find something different?
My impression is that it really can't. Not unless we move away from flash and onto something like mram or memristors that allows tighter feature packing (if i understood things right).

The major SSD vendors seems to have decided that their niche is not bulk storage, but fast RW.
Depends on if you count the costs people incurred to prepare for it.

Though, I think you can't really say it's a "blow" overall if we don't know exactly what would have happened under the policy.
Clubbergate is well underway, I see.
Those who were elected/hired to make foreign policy and immigration law do not have the word "fair" in their job description, or at least nowhere near the top.

I have a million dollars. I hire you to manage it for me. You decide that, you know, it's kind of lopsided that one person have all this money, so you distribute it to 99 others. Do you have the moral high ground in this situation?
Thanks for the feedback! So, one thing we are doing differently this time around is updating the site incrementally instead of a big bang redesign. In the case of the article pages that means limited changes in the first phase to get them to conform to the new brand identity. The number of characters per line is an issue though. As stated in the blog post, we'll address the article page layout in the next phase. Article pages are where MDN users spend most of their time, we want to make sure we get those right, so we are setting aside time to focus on just them.
That UI looks much more usable than the chatbot itself. As a user I would probably prefer to traverse the tree and see multiple options at the same time than to pretend I'm having a chat.
Wait, what? BTC's dollar volatility is a lot higher than gold's, though there have been short intervals where it's slightly lower.

There's even a site for tracking it; can't link the specific graph, but you can go here and just turn on 30-day BTC/USD and 30-day gold/USD for the past year.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/
For this, shall we just stick to the English definition? They invented the language. African American Comedy sound more accurate for the other one.
I just don't even know what to say at this point
Man its annoying that this kind of stuff is specific to the DE not OS.

I find XFCE to be perfect for my workflow but would love this utility.
> Edit: fixed KCD's name.

No you didn't.
Once more i get the impression that computer security people are off in a different universe where a computer at the bottom of the ocean is a "reasonable" way to do computing.
Born, raised, and living in Illinois and I'm seriously looking at leaving the land of Lincoln. Chicago is ruining this state.
This paper is talking about placing one at the L1 Lagrange point. It's not on the Earth's orbit, it inside of it. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/La...
Works for me.

I guess because I have been to the site before, Matthew has just an irrational disdain for HN readers.

So the poster probably didn't even know about this redirection.
Correct URL - https://github.com/PadamSethia/shorty
My wife is a PhD in applied cognition (field of psychology), wrote her thesis on improvements in working memory and attention, and is working on an early-stage business around better brain coaching[1]. (More of a 1:1 model than a tech stack.)

She has long stated that Lumosity is crap. For two three main reasons:

1. The "improvement" you see in playing Lumosity games is due to getting good at the game, not actually underlying improvements.

2. The games you do want to pursue need to to be strategic and challenge the mind. They need to be different, and involve complex scenarios. She likes Rise of Nations, by way of example. Flash minigames don't cut it (and neither do crosswords).

3. Brain games are 20% of a total set of activities that have an impact on brain health, the other 80% including physical exercise, diet, socialization, and lack of stress (mindfulness training helps here).

Anyway, fascinating stuff, and glad Lumosity's "bad science" and false claims are coming to the fore.

[1] http://brainevolved.com
Show HN All US doctors ordered by their opioid prescription count
Even though we can't know what the result would have been? Many mergers and acquisitions turn out to be huge mistakes.
My "work" laptop has ~600GB used out of a 1TB ssd. Big chunks are eaten up by VM's and cloned source tree's with build artifacts. That said, I also have another 1-2TB on a build machine I connect to.
So in general is there any thing that does help improve cognitive performance?
How deeplearning can help understand physician specialties from insurance claims
Yes! I work on building AR applications and I would find any best practice you have very helpful!
"dying" in the way the article put it. No they are not empty shells of cities-once-been, but they are becoming less desirable.
Yeah. At 1:18 that's clearly HIRL enabled. There's no ambiguity that's for a runway rather than taxiway. And it's not possible to visually misalign yourself with the taxiway, the whole point of HIRL is a visual aid for precision instrument landings in bad weather for Cat I and II ILS landings. On an instrument landing, it's not legal to go below decision height (200 and 100 feet respectively) unless you meet the visual reference requirement in 91.175 c3, ergo the HIRL lighting is simply unambiguous for a night VFR landing, and makes me wonder if it was even on.
looks like the one thats the cheapest on your site @ $0.022 (Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) ) is actually on sale and works out to $0.0186 right now. I may jump on that quickly....
I was a proponent of "New Math" types of philosophies before I had a kid. It was only when I tried to teach concepts did I realize how important it was to be able to be able to arithmetic quickly off the top of your head. Its hard to explain, or even to grasp, how fundamental basic arithmetic is to almost everything in math. For us arithmetic is as simple as thinking a thought -- but only when I tried to actually explain concepts to a young kid did I realize how difficult it is for them to understand these concepts when arithmetic isn't ingrained in their brain.

I hate to admit it, but I am now a believer that strong arithmetic skills are important, and drills get you there. I don't like to call it memorization, since I'm not sure it necessarily is simply memorization. But you do need the answers at a moments thought. It should be as natural as saying a word.

And its not to say that you don't teach concepts concurrently... but that the arithmetic is fundamental.

That said, I still believe that the long division algorithm taught isn't so useful. :-)
This article helped me get up and running with Qubes:

https://medium.com/@securitystreak/living-with-qubes-os-r3-2...
Try this PDF (page 9):

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
If students aren’t engaged, they aren’t going to become star pupils once you take away their distractions. Perhaps kids attend more lectures than before knowing that they can always listen in while futzing with other things (and otherwise, they may skip some of the classes entirely).

The lecture format is what needs changing. You need a reason to go to class, and there was nothing worse than a professor showing slides from the pages of his own book (say) or droning through anything that could be Googled and read in less time. If there isn’t some live demonstration, or lecture-only material, regular quizzes or other hook, you can’t expect students to fully engage.
There are other reasons than money one might live in Canada. It's a country with different values than those of the US. Welcoming to immigrants, relatively safer in terms of violent crime and universal healthcare are high on the list.
I guess this may be not popular opinion here, but I don't see anything wrong with legally avoiding taxes. It might be wrong that the whole system is convoluted enough that this would be very hard for your average honest citizen, but easy enough for resourceful corporation, if anything. But avoiding taxes seems only logical, if you think you can manage and allocate resources better than your government. And rest assured: somebody always does.

So the reward inequality of the people who make wealth seems a larger concern here. But then, if everybody makes lots of money in capitalistic system -- nobody really does.

So, no, I'm pretty sure that system is corrupt in its essence, but is working just as intended too.
Which linter rule is that?
PhD physicist here. Struggled through the 'normal' public education math program, and didn't get good traction on stuff until college when my instructors starting focusing on more 'evidence based' math and physics.

Also I never completely learned my multiplication tables to the point where they were reflexive, such was my loathing for rote memorization. To this day I sometimes need to pause to mentally crunch something. This sucks for small numbers but it means I have the mental tools to grind out bigger ones that other people would need calculators for.
What's (also not?) shocking is that huge swath of America and the rest of the world doesn't know this and just thinks... those nice people at XXX installed that wonderful virus checker for free on my new PC.

Remember the crap you remove from your uncle's computer over Christmas... and that he's was a full bird colonel with links to all of his old buddies on FB who think spear fishing involves flippers.
Same as some others, in jobs where I needed VM's yes, otherwise no.
I think that's already a thing, right? They use that for corneal deformation at a minimum.
Beating the Future of Tech Job Automation with “Re-Skilling”
It seems like certain code points (like '\u{1F4A9}' aka the poop emoji) are a single character but the string report a length of 2. That is the root of all of those problems. One of your "problems", the length of an array with a single string element, isn't a problem.
No such constraint exists for the Radon transform. There are limitations associated with limited data, but mathematically if you had perfect knowledge of the slices you could obtain a perfect reconstruction for any compactly supported generalized function (I'd usually say distribution but I don't mean the statistical object).
Compared to NYC? anywhere that isn't LA, SF, or BOS.
lol!!!

You get one from me because it wouldn't be any fun at all if no one read what we post here!
This isn't a product announcement FYI.

This is Intel letting us know they're changing their naming scheme.

Xeon E7-XXXX = Xeon Platnium

Xeon E5-XXXX > $1k = Xeon Gold

Xeon E5-XXXX < $1k = Xeon Silver

Xeon E3 = Xeon Copper

Saved you a click. Their making this change for the new Skylake-EP lines which have been rolling out _slowly_ as their preferred partners (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) get first pickings.

If your interested in benchmarks the Skylake-X consumer CPU's are the same micro architecture and there are Gamer/Work station oriented reviews.
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Yes, a lot of older appliances actually had a little toggle switch to change between these.

The problem still exists but many of newer machines have its own inverters so it's less of the issues...
Simply put, they are trying to hit every gap in the market because their products are what economists like to call fungible. There is simply not enough to distinguish between them.

This is why Apple can sit with just a few models year after year, because they are the sole vendor of OSX/MacOS.
Why I Hired a CEO
The
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fits https://pageshot.net/1pwSmFUZ4hnNcHlJ/developer.mozilla.org
What do you mean with ">>"? "much greater than" or "becomes"?
Gboard Arrives on Android, Replacing Google Keyboard
well, since time is money, then

time + money == more money

money + money == more money

2 x money == more money
Does not seem so (checked with a new droplet), which makes sense. The high CPU droplets have only 20GB of storage which would make any standard droplet, except the $5, inconvenient to resize automatically (if not impossible or very dangerous).
∆ - delta - d as in difference

∑ - sigma - s as in sum

∫ - long s - s as in sum

It's not totally arbitrary.
In my experience, a lack of process or roadblocks in the way of developers is mostly orthogonal to how willing you are to break things in the pursuit of speed / agility. I've worked in process heavy places where people were content to throw things over the wall, and shipping a feature with less than 200 known bugs was considered a good thing.

I've also worked in places with near absolute freedom, right down to the level of individual engineers building out new products without approval where a single crash meant all hands on deck.
I think it can't go on forever but these things need leaders in order to evolve. How quickly did Occupy last? What is the agenda? What is the solution? The women's march was great but... just a one time thing to say we don't like what's happening. Until you have these things everywhere and everyday, you don't have enough momentum.

Was everyone back on their couch watching Netflix the day after? The problem is that life could be better and it could be worse. I would argue that things would have to significantly worse for people to stand up.
Live in Silicon Valley. Noticing a lot of startups closing shop and friends finding new jobs.

I'd mention though that the risk was well known. About 1 year ago most people started to realize that startup options are basically worthless, and similar to buying a lotto ticket.
Ok, if you guys pursue something like this again definitely check out something like storage gateway. It can help reduce the load in a live migration scenario like this.
Pwman
> In fact, in some parts of the Bay Area — including Santa Clara, San Mateo and Marin counties — already more people are leaving than arriving, according to the estimates released Thursday, which cover the period from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016. The same would be true in San Francisco if it weren’t for the high number moving in from abroad.

source: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-population-gr...
I had the exact opposite reaction. I have been long hoping that they would move to a recurring revenue model.

I WANT my password manager to be backed by a financially stable, healthy company who invests in updates and maintenance. This is an area I am happy to pay a premium for and I am thrilled that 1Password is moving this direction.
Another former (although more recent) Microsoftie here...

It's a lot better than it used to be, because the switch from Source Depot to Git means that you can use branches instead of having multiple copies of the repo if you want to work on multiple things at once (which to me was always the one huge PITA about Source Depot, which was otherwise pretty good as far as non-distributed VCS's go). Combined with the build caching, you could probably get away with building Windows on a 256 GB drive now, even if most devs have more.
Massachusetts revokes proposed internet sales tax due to legal defect
The ‘Minimum Viable Apology,’ Defined
No API, but mapillary is doing that with machine learning:

http://blog.mapillary.com/product/2017/02/06/towards-global-...

It seems likely that Google is doing something similar.
WPF is clean. QML is clean. React is not.
Show HN: TensorForce: A TensorFlow library for applied reinforcement learning
Yeah, the Prime Day promotion isn't exposed through their API so I can't account for that easily.
Anything they do FB will steal and put in their products
Maybe! After all, those "smart people" may turn to solving or changing the underlying limiting economic or business issues. Either as a focus of their efforts or by necessity of running a business. Or by contributing to innovation in more "traditional" channels.
I was born and raised in Illinois too, but live in California now. Mind explaining how the third-largest metro economy in the country is ruining our state?
I just left a place where nobody writes design documentation. I requested that several teams write documentation for their tasks and they refused.

As your company grows from small-sized to medium-sized, your technical processes need to grow, too.
Oddly, just yesterday I published an article about multicore CPU performance of some providers (including DigitalOcean) and they now have made my tests almost obsolete. Luckily, my tests were with $20 VPSes so the still have some credibility.

But I'm curious how oversold would the new droplets be. DO had the most deviation in the providers that I checked. Would think that at least for a while, there should not be much overselling on CPU.
Obligatory link whenever this discussion appears: https://m.signalvnoise.com/ruby-has-been-fast-enough-for-13-...
Gencove – make genomic data accessible and interpretable
Does anyone here know if there is an original paper or where this technique originated? It has to be pretty old and I can't imagine nobody thought of it before, but I'm somehow unable to find anything else than the posts on instructable, hackaday and youtube.
This should be fixed now (shift + refresh)! The links went out missing the "modules" in the path. I think we're going to write a quick lambda function to test for broken links in any post. Anyway, I want to apologize for the poor user experience. We should have caught this!
So how do YC companies with foreign founders live in the US? I know a few Canadian ones that do.
It's web scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Which they violated whenever the script required it :-)

It's the 'figure out there are others' bit that made something like the Prime Directive problematic. Given our advances in sensing and observing technology we are much more likely to 'see' an advanced civilization before we can actually fly out to meet them. If you know that there is intelligent star faring people living on a 'nearby' star, and they happen to have been observing your progress, do they introduce themselves or wait for you to figure out how to reach them?
I believe the string padding proposal predated the "leftpad" incident by a year or so.
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Interesting how AMD differentiates over only raw performance (eg: clock rate, cache size, core count, etc) whereas Intel still differentiates on hard-hitting features (ie: HyperThreading and OmniPath both cost extra).

I think this will definitely hurt them as it strictly enforces market segmentation, however it's probably not that big of a deal for those that consistently buy Intel in bulk. They're clearly not that concerned about AMD flanking them.
The government stopping an entirely consensual act between two people or organizations is a blow to those people, because they aren't being allowed to do whatever it is that they otherwise wanted. Whether it would have been a mistake or not is their problem and part of doing business.

You wouldn't use this same logic for actual people, would you? Two people may have sexual intercourse; many acts of intercourse lead to unwanted pregnancy and AIDS, so we should deem these people "unharmed" if the government denies them the opportunity to have sex?
First, lets establish that drinking is bad for your health:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

Even moderate drinking can be addictive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869046

Hangovers is a way for our bodies say, 'okay buddy, that was a little too much. Please don't do it again'. Taking this pill is like telling your mom to shut up when she is giving you meaningful advice.

Instead of a pill to get rid of hangovers, how about a pill that puts you in a good mood (provigil/modvigil?).
This was due to a procedural defect — they didn't use the appropriate notice and comment process — so it doesn't mean that Massachusetts tax is dead for good. However, the article notes that the Internet Tax Freedom Act may preclude local internet taxes like this one.

I'd expect MA to try again, and for companies to push back strongly during the comment period and continue challenging on substantive grounds.
0.087, but that still seems high.