skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just about to say I can't understand why police officers in the US just kill things at the first sign of inconvenience, but then I realized I understand exactly why:

When killing something solves every problem you may have and doesn't really have any downsides for you, why wouldn't you?
Best rules I ever saw: (1) Eat "food", not processed crap; (2) not too much; (3) mostly plants.
With the flatpack integration, Builder really has the potential to become the Xcode for Linux.

I hope that Ubuntu starts to support Builder. Ubuntu tried something similar with qtcreator and the Ubuntu sdk, but that was a really bad experience. Let's hope that the switch to Gnome also means that Ubuntu switch their efforts to Builder.
I'd take the opposite approach if anyone ever asked me what my business was - every interaction is an opportunity to refine and tighten the elevator pitch.

Just do it and ask forgiveness if someone moans about being OT.
Real System Failures
Sure, you can check this:

http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climat...
This is the third time I've seen this book recommended this week, time to download I think!
>where people are basically creating wealth out of thin air by doing useless computations at the cost of enormous electricity

The only way this statement is different than how the Federal Reserve works is that Bitcoin is voluntary (You only join the economic model that you desire to participate in) / non privileged (you don't have to be born into certain groups to participate in how the system works), the system parameters (inflation, etc) are not coercible (The US President can't nominate a Federal Reserve Chairperson to bitcoin to favor policy that favors one special interest group).

>creating wealth out of thin air

The Federal Reserve literally creates money out of nothing for the Treasury Department. Due to seigniorage, Fed banks make money on the inflated currency before the last man on the street can.

>doing useless computations at the cost of enormous electricity

The thousands of servers that run FedWire, ACH, VISA, MasterCard Paypal, Venmo, ApplePay and the Cash-transport Trucks, Physical banks, all waste energy preventing people from trying to steal money too.

How is the current monetary policy better?

Relevant reading:
Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work
04 Aug 2015
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
The Great Race for Manhattan Air Rights (2013)
To be honest moaning about Go idioms is like moaning that Java is object orientated or Lisp has too many braces. If you don't like the idioms of a particular language then don't use that langauge. There's plenty of others to choose from. But moaning that language x should be more like language y is just daft as it misses the point of why language x decided to do something different in the first place.

I'm not saying Go's error handling is better than Java's. But I've written some relatively large and complicated projects in Go (like the Linux $SHELL and REPL scripting language I'm currently coding this very moment) and error handling really is the least of the problems I've been having. Sure, Go's idioms do get in my way from time to time. But on balance Go's idioms save me more time than it wastes. Which is why I keep coming back to Go despite having used more than a dozen other languages in anger. But that's my workflow and my personal preference. Others will find the reverse to be true and I wouldn't be complaining that their language should be more like Go.

Frankly I think people waste too much time comparing languages. Just try something and if it doesn't work, move on. Don't assume your personal preference is a benchmark for how all languages should be designed as there will be a million other developers whose personal preference will exactly oppose you.
yep. and i think that is just a small step.

when you enter some community event (bingo, concerts, golf) the social atmosphere does a good job self regulating. there are expected standards for behavior. the internet is a different beast of course, but i wonder if we still can't do a better job encouraging people do be/do good.
It's not public in my state
they don't call it a bootcamp for nothin'. ;)
Luckily, there is a need for fresh water on the surface around Antarctica :) to be used in freezing new ice.
>It shifts the risk from the students to the school, which is IMO how it should be.

I love this idea, thank you for starting this! I think this something there should be more of.
I just looked at your site, and noticed the 3% acceptance rate for the $0 upfront cost tier. Just curious how that's changed over time as your exposure has increased. I assume you are trying to maintain some instructor/student ratio, etc?
Are you willing to share what limits you from accepting more students at the $0 upfront tier? If so I'd love hear more, lmk.
Yeah, that's pretty amazing if it's something they will stick to. Most I've seen is 10 years, which can be a bit short sited for something like a personal blog, an archive or permanent resource of some type.
Maybe you haven't used exceptions on the JVM before but you can wrap them so it's possible to still have localised error messages if you want them.

But in most cases it is unnecessary since you always have the line number and type of exception printed out as part of the stack trace.
I was always under (false?) impression Blocksize Increase opposition was due to hardcoded ASIC miners deployed by the majority of big players.
https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity/
Those supervisors don't always handle the errors the way you want and can't always be implemented without diminishing overall performance. It's a trade-off.
One of the big issues with their attempt was ~0 support or documentation for porting existing applications. Everything was focused around building an Ubuntu app from scratch using their custom qtquick-based SDK, but that's not what we needed.

edit: for more info: This guy made a beautiful summary of the issues with the dev experience around Ubuntu (Touch): http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-de... [starts from 6. "The life of an app developer was too hard."]
As I mentioned in the Reddit thread, everyone is looking at decimal but overlooking the (arguably more interesting) base-16 dates.

Jan 13 19:13:30 2018 UTC will be 0x5A5A5A5A

0x66666666 will be Jun 10 2:35:18 2024 UTC

We just missed a good one:

Sep 22 2016 16:00:00
in base10 1474560000
in base16 0x57E40000
Don't most commercial buildings use white roofs? I've not spent a lot of time on commercial roofs, but the ones I've been on were always white.
So get involved. A union works for it's members.
Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't the best move forward just be supporting and tuning https://electron.atom.io to make it more performant and supported on linux? Yes it is a battery killer, but I can see it being better if everyone put their tasks to making that a non issue.

edit: why the down votes? This is a platform agnostic framework. I understand the performance is bad, but the one reason that linux doesn't have the same applications as windows and OSX is the window manager. A lot of amazing apps have been created using electron which has allowed people to even remotely think about moving over.
From the article:

"Last year, Reason dug up records showing that two Detroit police officers had killed 100 dogs between them over the course of their careers."

If you were to consider your pets as just property, that's going to amount to quite a lot of property damage alone.
I've been seeing a lot of new tools use the -go at the end to specify its a go specific package/tool. So I think what you did is perfect.
I'm not using rust yet, I am mostly writing using higher level languages (python then elixir/erlang, also lua) with a few part in C when I need to do something C is good at.

Also enjoying elm for frontend.
People with guns who demand your money and property and want people not in their clique to have property or guns.
Unless it raises the resale value of the home reliably, long-term payback is of little motivational value without job security or significant money in reserve. That's one of the uncomfortable microeconomic truths driving short-term decision making in things like cooling, solar power, and battery systems. Why would someone take out a loan or tie up a large portion of their liquid capital to see a ten-year payback on a house they might be forced to sell next month?

With 2008 not being so long ago, neither job security nor resale value are that promising. We're still rebuilding consumer confidence after nine years. The economic recovery in the US is largely in a handful of major metropolitan areas pulling up the averages, with large swathes of the country still struggling. This needs to improve or some government incentive program like you mention must take it into account if we're going to sell capital-intensive home upgrades.
I don't think it's limited to just tech, I think it's become popular because of this guy Tim Ferriss and his TED Talks.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/06/14/tim-ferriss-simple-strat...
MD5 is not that weak, it's just fast, so you have to use a few rounds of it. The preimage vulnerability reduced the search space from 128 bits to 124 [1], which is still extremely secure. People who claim it's broken are probably thinking about the collision vulnerability, which doesn't help you at all to recover the password from a hash.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Preimage_vulnerability

If you think I'm wrong, I will gladly admit so, just tell me what the $password is here:

if (md5(md5($password)) == 'c9876599e5e54aa12962ae1fe7b0f752') ...
Ofcourse, you should expect the government to talk about it. Amazon is growing at an unreal pace.
One of the best books I ever read was from a dude named Seneca (a stoic Roman philosopher).

The book is called On the Shortness of Life: Life is Long if You Know How to Use it[0].

[0]: http://amzn.to/2klxZky
fair enough, but sometimes no matter how much you spend you won't be able to double revenues from $50MM to $100MM. Will the market allow you to grow that fast? So yes, the math is funky.

As a counter example, many companies are using excess cash to buy back stock and not grow the biz.

As another example, what did Github did with their $100MM? I'd argue that the Github product and client base looks substantially similar to what it did before a16z gave them that chunk of change.
> But in case of a lot of landscape photography, the content is intrinsic to the picture itself—the photo does not get its value from anything external to it. Likewise for portraits.

Any photo is a tiny square cut out of an infinite number of 360 degree spheres taken at a single point in time. For every photograph there will always be much more outside of the frame than in it.

That doesn't even begin to touch on things like lighting for portraits - but to think that even a landscape photo is anything but subjective expression is naive at best, dangerously so at worst.
What is the selective pressure /for/ cancer-predisposing genes? And it's not as if most cancers act as a reproductive filter -- the majority of them emerge well after the onset of reproductive ability, drastically reducing, if not eliminating, their selective effect.
IBM Watson Data CTO on how data architectures and data science are evolving
Average house prices are north of 400K in "rural" Bend (which is actually closing in on 100K people - not big, but not tiny, either).

And of course people use cars a lot to get around here. That doesn't mean the government has to require it: any business that depends on car-dependent people is going to want to provide some parking. There's no reason for the government to get involved in it.

Also: part of the reason people need cars to get around is because we fill land up with useless BS like that, rather than housing or businesses or commercial - empty space stretches everything else out so that more trips require a car.
I hear what you're saying. I'm gradually arriving at a model of "good book" that includes what a person's particular transgressions of suspensions of disbelief are, and what degree is required to trigger them.

For me, the biggest things are currently "must be at least this hard sci-fi" and "must have believably human characters." It sounds like one of yours is "must have book-spanning world-building." Which I get, but don't think bothers me as much.

I expect the unexplored deus ex machina will probably irk me when it shows up though! Though maybe not, I think a large part of my enjoyment of Dune is the somewhat orthagonal-to-Western world-building. Although the Islamic religious echoes are ham-fisted and shallow sometimes, it's still refreshing to even read something attempting it.

By my memory, Ender's didn't mull over consequences nearly as much as Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, & Children of the Mind. It was more "Oh my god, this was horrible" and less "We did a horrible thing, so what do we do now? And how does that inform our reactions the next time we're presented with the same choice?"

Side note: if you ever want to read something laughably bad, especially for how modern it is, read one of the Honor Harrington books from David Weber. I tapped out after 20 pages.
MongoDB removing AWS provisioning feature from their Cloud Manager :-(
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If you're interested in transitioning your deployment to Atlas, we have a live migration utility and 24/7 support to make sure your migration goes smoothly. We're even offering 3 months of free Atlas usage for migrated workloads.

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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
It's not just tech people, and stoicism (and its brethren in Buddhist philosophy) have been around for a very, very long time. I suspect it's just a right place and right time coincidence as it shares a lot of similarity with CBT, which itself is gaining traction as a psychiatric treatment.
Future Proofing: How to Model SaaS Pricing for Expansion MRR
A separate branch with debianization, so I can actually build DEB packages out
of the code.
This is bonkers logic. It's wrong to coerce someone into providing the cure, but it's right to coerce someone out of forming a monopoly?
Millions of Verizon Customer Records Exposed on AWS Server
Better to put people in the desert than in places where they displace a lot of existing biodiversity (like, say, all of our coastal cities).
Adidas API Guidelines
> the dinosaurs of finance adopting it 10 years too late

The monoliths of finance will set the legislation that will determine everything about crypto-currencies in all major economies. And if their extreme political power isn't enough, they already by far own the most patents relating to blockchain tech.

Bitcoin + Ethereum = $58 billion.

JP Morgan = $330 billion. That's one "dinosaur" with $25 billion per year in net income.

The notion that they're dinosaurs and they're ten years late, is laughable. Along with all the other banks and central banks, they'll dictate the terms by which crypto-currencies will exist (the only alternative to being controlled by the banksters that control everything related to finance, is to remain a niche that never goes big / mainstream).
I googled this, because I did find it hard to believe, and I think you're correct. According to the below source, for example, heating a home in Atlanta, Georgia throughout the winter months costs about twice as much as air conditioning it in the summer months.

[0]: http://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/30576/Heating-or-Cooling-...
The AMP is a lie
flatpack solves a deployment/distribution issue. distribution is irrelevant when you have nothing to distribute.
The Impact of Childhood Intelligence on Later Life [pdf]
If You Get Your Face Scanned the Next Time You Fly, Here’s What You Should Know
So what do you call the cube root?
Historically, rates above 200% (eg. Argentina) lead to disorderly corrections (crisis).

Michael Pettis regarding the research you cite states: "What is usually missing from such discussions, however, is an explanation of how too much debt leads to slower growth." ... "A country has too much debt when stakeholders begin behaving in ways that reduce growth. The controversy over the research by Rogoff and Reinhart should not be allowed to obscure the nature of the link between debt and economic performance."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-misleading-...

So, absent a proven behavioral line in the sand, we have only measures of debt to try to surmise at what point debt impacts growth and stability.

Its really chicken and egg.
Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work
Methods to Organize CSS
I would actually put Vegas as one of the most sustainable cities in the US out of necessity. Vegas's per capita water use is about 1/4 of the US average including all of those crazy fountains on the strip. They don't irrigate anything compared to places like Phoenix and almost all municipal water hookups use reclaimed water unlike most other cities where people have an aversion to drinking filtered piss. Vegas also gets almost all of its energy from renewable sources (hydro and a tiny amount of solar) compared to the US as a whole which is only about 10%. Colorado by comparison gets about 60% of it's electricity from coal.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14745891
Apple just needs to handle the build process themselves. Let me upload my app code and you do all the hard work. It's not like I can deploy to other app stores...
Btc noob: What's wrong with asicboost? Is it just because it's patented?
The First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Controversial Waters
I know that both Java and C++ have a lot more issues than Golang ever will. I've used all three languages. Java has mile long class hierarchies, massive try-catch blocks, indentation as thick as my neck, and runs in a JVM. It's so bad there are already other implementations that people would much rather use. I also really don't like the file/project naming conventions.

C++ is a whole other animal. The whole system of a Go program is typically very penetrable. You can trace the code down to the bottom of the stdlib or even the compiler builtins in seconds with ease (thanks to the excellent Guru and vim-go). In my experiences of C++, I doubt how many C++ programmers have ever had a look to the implementation of STL or iostream, which is hard to do ergonomically. Although some people occasionally call the opaqueness encapsulation and see it a good practice (which I don't agree). There are lots of cross compilation and static linking problems that don't arise with Go. There is the problem that one C++ code base will look completely different from others because no one in the C++ world follows conventions the way people in the golang world do.

Compared to them Go is a very well thought out and elegant language.
Central HVAC can be zoned somewhat with thermocouple-adjustable or computer-controlled baffles. If you have a consistent over-cooling of one area and under-cooling of another there are magnetic strips made to partially cover the registers, or registers with adjustable baffles built in.
Why not just use Stellar or Ripple at this point? That's exactly what it was designed to solve. And it has the benefit of being able to use, you know, real currencies. So you can go to your coffee shop, instantly spend $5, and be done without having to worry about what the price of a bitcoin (or in this case, lumen) is.
(I'm founder and CEO of coding bootcamp, We Can Code IT)

Dev Bootcamp pioneered an industry that has changed lives. It's not an easy business to compete against the "We've always done it that way" mentality, and they did it well for 5 years. They were well-respected and will be missed. Hats off to them for maintaining their principles, passion, and giving it their all! I always appreciated that they focused on inclusion and diversity in technology. I'm sad about that loss, but We Can Code IT promises to continue carrying that torch.
At the moment, however, that's less workable due to the way that benefits and health insurance are tied to employment.
Red Hat have been sponsoring Christian Hergert (https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/) to work on Builder full-time for a while now, with a specific focus on Flatpak integration, and there are other contributors, including GSoC students working on specific features.

The missing piece is public server infrastructure for accepting Flatpak packages from GNOME Builder and distributing them to GNOME Software clients, and that is currently in development as https://flathub.org/
Which still proves the parent's point: it's not necessary. The question is what absolutely can't be done without them (probably nothing) so a better question is how much design/engineering/test time could be saved with them?

On the latter part I'm fairly cynical these days, since I'm presently on a team where the lead embraced a Scala-DSL heavy, functional design and the net result has been a total loss of project velocity because when we need to prototype a new requirement, the push back has been paraphrasing "oh, could you not do that in <core product> and handle it somewhere else?" - so we end up with a bunch of shell scripts cobbled together to do so.
Not necessarily. These cities have a huge appetite for fresh water and can starve entire ecosystems of it.
In colder climates where heating is as much an expense as cooling, no. Most just put black tar up there because it is cheap. That said, when you need to pay to heat in summer and pay to cool in winter, the 3% savings in cooling doesn't help you when you also increase your heating bill in the winter by 3%.
Nope, they're always in the same order. Not sure why you'd guess otherwise and state it as fact.
Who says you need a syntax tree? You just store a byte of metadata next to each variable with the type. There should be more than enough data from that to recover the parts that you can't store like that and do type inference on them.
In case this isn't just a joke, they later concluded it was a measurement error caused by a fiber-optical cable that wasn't properly plugged in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
that requires you to have a server to ssh to, and doesn't give you free https.
Simple indeed.
It'd be really interesting to see some renderings of what the sky would look like from the surface of a planet in this system.
My system has separate "heat if below" and "cool if above" settings for its program, variable by user-defined portions of the day and by the (pre-set of course) days of the week.
Technically it is.
> they were probably struggling (like the rest of our sector) with growing past the bootcamp industry's early days, when starry-eyed optimism clashed with the operational realities of a highly-regulated industry

What kinds of challenges does the sector as a whole face? HackReactor?

I am curious because I may still apply to HR but I don't know if I can afford it. I am an Indian-American college dropout from Atlanta, I was below the poverty line last year. I don't know if the scholarship would be granted to me since I am not technically 'underrepresented' in the industry. I've gotten past the basics of front-end web development, I get stuck with algorithms. I've worked at Bluehost before getting laid off, so I've learned a lot about how DNS, back-end, and servers connect together.