skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7 Important Leadership Lessons from 5 Years in Business Pt2
14 deeply pleasing Google microinteractions (and easter eggs)
"I don't need any more guns."

Haha, that's not a phrase you often hear at a dinner table in Dublin :)
You can't have QoS in a pure version of net neutrality.

That's why the FCC's implementation makes exceptions for traffic management and deals only with business practice related net neutrality violations.

Of course, not all business practice related net neutrality violations are bad for the consumer, so the FCC makes lots of exceptions for those as well (see: zero rating).
Plenty of demand for MILFs and cougars out there.

..I just realized that I'm turning 35 this year and that ladies in their fourties are still really attractive to me.
I know. I left off the /s. Sarcasm and the internet do not go well together :)
They are working on it: http://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/gnome-fractional-and... . It might be included in the next release (maybe as experimental feature). I can't wait for fractional scaling. Currently, scaling on my 14 inch WQHD screen is a pain in the neck.
> there is this problem with all support and maintenance tasks: if you do everything perfectly, no one notices

Yet, this is also true for Ops, design, security... and also nurses, electricians, plumbers, a lot of "traditional" engineering, accounting... essentially most jobs, perhaps.
Luck favors the prepared. I've slowly woken up to this stuff over the years, I figure in your life you'll have somewhere between 1 and 10 of such opportunities, how you handle those will make all the difference in how you'll live the remainder of your life.

In my life so far:

- electronics

- digital

- computers

- the web

- cellular communications

- smartphones + app ecosystems

- crypto currencies (in progress)

- deep learning (in progress)
Puerto Rico Tax Incentives for Startups and Freelancers
Microsoft Chatbot Trolls Shoppers for Online Sex
I thought it was Brighton, SA until I read this particular article. Didn't realize Vic also had a Brighton...
A New Way to Reproduce: Creating Artificial Sperm and Egg Cells
> That's not exactly a rousing motto.

Especially since age causes everyone to be disabled somehow, and you're one accident away from being disabled in the prime of your life.

Consider it a form of insurance, if you must. You put forth a bit of effort into accessibility (in its many forms) now so you can keep using things later.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review
Perl does the same, by the way. A scalar variable can contain both a string and an integer representation.

But as always, Perl takes the joke too far, by allowing variables to have incompatible string and integer representations simultaneously ("dual variables" in Perlspeak). For example, the variable $! is equivalent to C's `errno` when evaluated as an integer, but equivalent to `strerror(errno)` when evaluated as a string.
"If you have trusted services available, you may not need a blockchain."

I would observe, though, that the word "trust" here does not mean universal trust. Two signatories to a contract may agree to trust a given oracle without affecting anyone else on the blockchain, or trust a combination of oracles, or etc. etc. If the trusted service is simply pushing "the price of tea in China" into the blockchain, then the blockchain may still be doing "real work" for your contract which involves other things.

"Decentralization" doesn't mean that every single contract won't ever use a central authority. It means there's no mandated one.
Ah, I imagined you were going to run a pipe up the side of a mountain and shoot it out at very high velocity. (Never mind that most of it would flash to steam instantly on escaping the nozzle, and that the whole thing would have to be ridiculously strong.) Fun project though!
Does anyone know of any paper that describes a reproducible method of generating above normal returns in the mature western financial markets? Nope. Me neither.
Spiked Online grew out of a now defunct magazine called Living Marxism, which was successfully sued out of existence by ITN for incorrectly claiming they'd falsified evidence of Serbian atrocities during the Bosnian civil war.

Apologism for atrocities, and apologism for apologists, seems to be part of their DNA.
"Clean toilets or starve" is, in fact, the model that one of the main sources of aid for the unemployed is built on. If you turn down a job without a damn good reason, you lose your unemployment aid. Very few people with any political power want to change that.
Without Higher Education you are in a dead end
Well, knowing first hand that some French-born nationals that were not names after saints I knew this was not true but you made me google it to see where this specific date comes from. So here is the whole thing.

The law (from the early 19th century) said that names for newborns should either be chosen in the calendars (plural, no religion mentioned) or from known people in history. So from the beginning, Mohammed was an acceptable name for instance.

A law from 1966 recognized that this was vague and not really applied, as usage varied (basically it was just used to deny too harmful names to kids) and decided to give a broader definition, allowing explicitly names from mythology, regional names, composed names, variation and abbreviated versions.

In 1981 the sole interdiction was to choose a name that "would not be judged ridiculous".

The 1993 version changes even that and says (more appropriately IMO) that the officer registering the names can delay the thing, if he judges that the choice of name is contrary to "the interest of the child". A judge then has to decide or deny. I remember a case involving a «Pikachu», a «Satan» and, I think, a «Jihad».

Names like Anakin or Gandalf were likely acceptable even under the 1966 law.
> An obstacle in the pipe

How is an obstacle going to get into a vacuum sealed pipe? Unless there are parts literally falling off of the pods, I can't really see this happening.

> A misaligned tunnel wall due to shifting Earth

This would most likely break the vacuum seal and be detected immediately.

> Other pods ahead of it

Seems easy to avoid. We don't typically hear about trains crashing into each other, so I don't see why we'd expect that to happen with pods.
"Food and Beverage" should be obvious from the context, but I had to look it up. On r/entrepreneur they talk a lot about starting cleaning companies, as another example.
Can we machine-learn a programming language semantics?
Bitcoin soars to record high value
Well I didn't say I didn't "want" any more.

My grandmother lambasted that I only had 2 hands, and didn't need so many guns.

I only need more when some politician is trying to take them.
Also Gilbert Strang's lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PL49CF3715C...
> For politeness sake, i'll assume its a misunderstanding, although that is a bit hard to imagine at this point, since i'm being extremely explicit.

By all means do things for politeness sake; I'm fine with that.

It seems you've assumed my discussion of "serious people working in this field" to mean something other than scientific researchers... and I've assumed your disrespectful remarks to include researchers, rather than just "people using the phrase EQ".

> It is you taking offense that suggests there may be overlap between these two groups, which is extremely worrying.

This fresh accusation relies on the assumption that I've misunderstood you but you understood me perfectly, which is clearly not the case. Slow down; I'll do the same.

..and FYI, telling you that you're being disrepectful is not the same as "taking offense".
Political Donors Put Their Money Where the Memes Are
Games Magazine was amazing in its early years. Puzzles often were interlinked, and ranged in complexity so that an 8 year old could be completely absorbed and so could a life long puzzle solving grandparent.

I loved discovering the hidden puzzle contests
The waste heat from throwing the oceans into space would have to be dealt with.
VergeSense’s AI sensing hardware wants to reduce the usage of office space
No, the Hoge Veluwe actually is that far above sea level.

http://elevationmap.net/hoge-veluwe-national-park-netherland...

Definitely not the tree tops. That's also why it is called 'Hoge Veluwe' to begin with. (Hoge being Dutch for 'high').

The highest point is 110 m above sea level.
“Atom needs a whopping 845 megabytes to open a 6mb XML file”
Perhaps a lack of self-compassion https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/why-self-...
Show HN: Your minimal website, in less than a minute
Honestly, I think Christie's has an interest in their estimates being semi-accurate, but not _too_ accurate. They obviously want to be within an order of magnitude so they don't look stupid, but overestimating might drive up the price and make them money. Also, when things sell for double or triple the estimate, it makes the news, with Christie's name right beside.

Someone else said Sotheby's bought a database of art prices for 7 figures - why wouldn't a bunch of headlines with their name be worth a few million to them?

Additionally I think they have an interest in prices being as high as possible normally, with estimates high to encourage that. So the pattern would look like:

Antique Japanese woodcarving, $10MM predicted -> $12MM public predicted

Set of documents from Roman times, $5MM predicted -> $6MM public predicted

Van Gogh paintings (aka more headline potential), $10MM predicted -> $3MM public predicted

Then you get the headlines "Van Gogh paintings fetch more than triple the estimate at Christie's auction", which is free PR for Christie's.
Helping families relocate to Texas
Keyword there is "nearly", though. Greetings from Nevada, land of the free and home of the Mustang Ranch.
you can zoom in to individual tree level. I just did, and can confirm this data includes trees. Also make sure to adjust the colormap min and max to your area of interest. This dataset is the official height measurement of the Netherlands (of a few years ago), made with LIDAR. So it should be accurate to within a few cm.
So, I'll toss this question out there: Is Electron or React Native better in this regard? Making the assumption that JAWS is capable of reading into HTML in Chrome as a browser, I would expect that it's capable of the same in Electron.

It sounds like, from this article, Java is a workable (if not well suited for a C++ driven backend). Of course, cross-platform shims aren't that hard, just time consuming.
PyDev of the Week: Dave Forgac
Formula 1 Brake Test Nice Job
Honeydue is a money management app for couples
Minimalism is an ostentatious luxury.

Or living within your means?
1080p screen, awful headphone audio quality, limited to 16GB of RAM, and ships full of Windows crapware - I guess "Apple has made its MacBook line worse, not better" from the intro is describing reversion to the mean.
The headlines in newspapers aren't written by the people that write the columns and articles.
>while both articles I pointed to discuss women's autonomy

I suspect its because the relevance of this article goes far beyond "a discussion of women's autonomy".
What’s new in Angular 5: easier progressive web apps
How I Hired Freelancers Who Went Way Over the Deadline
Having seen the real world consequence of this I disagree. I have some friends who were the typical starving artists. They had this ignominy of shitty job centre jobs forced upon them and suffered greatly. They opted to go the hard route and reject the job and lose their unemployment benefit. Now they have well enough paying careers in their area, are tax payers etc, as they dedicated their time to their craft rather than washing dishes or some such other pointless work. This brain dead approach of any job that pays is more valuable than one that doesn't sucks the life out of society and reduces innovation, artistic endeavour and creativity across the board. It's 2017, we have the world's library in our pockets, we can talk to friends on the other side of the globe instantaneously yet somehow we're stuck in the 1700's when it comes to jobs. We have so much over-productivity that we have to create fake jobs to keep people occupied [1] yet somehow we can't afford to allow poor people the option to follow the endeavour of their choice, invest in, and figure shit out for, themselves.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fake-jobs-at-fake-compani...
A distinction without a difference, if you're trying to write accessible software. QT promised something it couldn't deliver.

Marketing at its finest. /s
Be prepared: we will impose our reasonable policies on you!
I only need more when some politician is trying to take them.

That sounds so strange from the other side of the Atlantic.
Haha, I could imagine an OSHA inspection at the brothel.
The objectification of women will be present either way, the only difference is that in one scenario, we criminalize a woman's sexual agency and in the other we don't. We know that decriminalization creates better outcomes in terms of safety and public health, so at the end of the day I feel like the hand wringing over objectification is not helpful.
Australia ain't cheap.
Who is more likely to have a better job security, a STEM graduate or a med school graduate?

That is the elephant in the corner of the room, isn't it?

Maybe it's not the women are irrationally opting out of tech. Maybe it's the men are irrationally opting in?
Interesting. Thank you
Do you consider cryptocurrency mature?
In order to bootstrap a currency you need the price factor to interest lay people and generate adoption. There is no other way. I haven't seen the argument lately, but in the early days when the price started to rise, there was a lot of complaining from people who wanted the price to be stable.

Stability is boring. It doesn't garner attention. It's the high fluctuations that generate interest and bring in new people to the ecosystem.

Without it, Bitcoin would have been basically another technology that most people would have never heard of.
Sorry could you explain what a "garden pavement tax" is? It sounds interesting but googling gave nothing.
QT promised something it couldn't (wouldn't?) deliver upon. Given that the author explicitly wrote them with questions about it and was effectively lied to, his ire is both understandable and justified IMO.

What more should we expect of him?
Beats me, but Yonotan Zunger's open letter in response is a much better focus, IMO.
Looks like this breaks fetching OpenGraph assets for some popular services, does anyone know which are not compatible? I went TLS 1.2 only a while ago for a personal site, but only tested with Twitter (which does work).

https://twitter.com/AliceWonder32/status/894468549720260608
Very cool. I've been thinking of a way to capture this aesthetic on the web. I love what you've done, but I don't know if it works in a browser as well as I envisioned. Great code, I will reference the globe in future projects. Thanks
Spotting Hidden Dependencies in Incremental Changes
I'm just fed up hearing about cryprocurrency. I have no interest in "better currency" and the topic keeps coming like it will change anything.
> That will do nothing for congestion within the core of the provider network. That's where qos is actually needed.

It isn't. Congestion in the core of the network shouldn't happen.

> Asking providers not to oversubscribe at all would literally increase the cost of broadband a minimum of 100x overnight.

That's conflating two different things. It's possible to oversubscribe and still have no congestion, because having 100% of customers all use 100% of their connections at the same time literally never happens.

As long as the uplink can carry the peak load in practice, there will not be any congestion. If it can't then the network is too oversubscribed, which should not happen.
Show HN: Proven by Users – Online Card Sorting for UX Professionals
In the long term isn't it economically better to get people out of this welfare culture so they can provide for themselves? Gangs aren't formed to feed starving people, they form because the culture is broken. In the long term, placating gangs with welfare money will backfire. Arguably it's the welfare money that significantly led to the culture breakdown in the first place by destroying economic and social structure.
A small note because I keep seeing sea lice written, but the culprit was sea fleas, according to the article.
I've switched to a Signo DX 0.38 as I find I'm a bit cleaner with it.
By not marketing their software as accessible; by not telling the author in an explicit email that they would solve any accessibility issues he found?

If they had been clear up front about their accessibility support, I doubt this would have been an issue in the first place.
County statistics are misleading here. Santa Clara County is a big place (almost the size of Long Island) with lots of municipalities. New York County is just 1 of 5 counties that encompass New York City!

If you look at Brooklyn (Kings County), the number is 0.499, Queens County the number is 0.433.

According to another site, the citywide number was 0.547 in 2013. ( https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/inequality-new-york-city-we... )
Announcing Yue, a new cross-platform GUI library
There's ecological disaster regardless of mining, I haven't done any math on the issue but I believe mining waste is a very small part of the overall polution in the world.

We must develop technology to clean our planet regardless of mining waste. Given this and the fact that energy is becoming cleaner by the year I think worrying about mining waste is not rational
I think this is the correct answer. HN goes to extensive efforts to avoid flame wars in comments, and in the one post on the topic I saw reach the front page (before being removed), the comments were an absolute hellhole.
Could we store it in a giant container instead?
If you don't understand CPU cycles, your application might get a teeny bit slower. If you don't understand security, your application could get hacked! It's definitely nice to have a good auth framework, but I think security is important enough that it's worth taking 1 hour to learn how to do it right.
Computational Thinking – Jeannette Wing (2006) [pdf]
You're confusing systems engineering with knowledge and skills
That's what 'MARKET' orders are for. Don't be greedy and allow for some slippage, otherwise you would give yourself out and loose even more.

Anyway, if you have enough money, why not hire someone to write you a multi-exchange execution tool, and save some more money.
> Also the far-left shared some fake stories (but not totally implausible scenario) under which legalization of prostitution could mean that unemployed women could be forced by unemployment office to accept prostitution jobs or lose their unemployment benefits.

Is this how the system really works in France? If a programmer is unemployed and some manager at McDonald's offers them a job flipping burgers, they have to either take the McDonald's job or they lose their benefits? Do the unemployed really have to accept the first job offer anyone gives them, no matter what?
How the NSA tracks people [video]
Reidentification ban is not a solution
It sounds strange on this side of the Atlantic as well, and I own a few firearms myself.
Acquired Podcast on the Acquisition of Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen's Opsware
I think it's just a bad example. Unless you mishandle them these things never break and are basically free at the next good-will or fleamarket.

Maybe shoes are a better example? Though identifying good quality is a lot of work in itself and may signal status I guess.
If you cannot, I would be shocked. Price estimates at auction houses are not their best faith effort at estimating sales prices. They are much more complex, and involve to some degree, an attempt to manipulate the price as high as possible.
>It's a good read but... I don't see the whole point about "From a Dutch mind-set, climate change is not a hypothetical or a drag on the economy, " is a bit weird. Climate doesn't matter here. 1/3rd of the country is already under sea level TODAY. The billions we spend on engineering and developing water defense structures have no relation to our believes about climate change. We are ALREADY beneath sea level!

It's quite simple.

The argument is not that the Dutch believe more on climate change because they have already dealt with it in the past.

Rather it is that for the Dutch the climate change is not a hypothetical, but a very real danger, being as they are already under sea level, that they are more inclined to believe in it and see precautions taken against it as necessary and not as a "drag on the economy".
Did they promise JAWS support?
My only gripe when they originally enacted act 20 and 22. Was that it required the founder not to have lived in Puerto Rico in the past 15 years or long period of time before arriving here.

Unless they changed it this would forbid founders that are trying to make a company in Puerto Rico able to qualify.
> "And no other Free Software toolkit for that matter, because they basically all dont give a shit about accessibility on non-Linux platforms."

Whereas a big majority of proprietary software vendors don't care about users on non-mainstream platforms, whether or not those users have 20/20 vision or are completely blind.

> "If Free Software ever takes over, the blind will be unable to use their computers."

Does not follow from the observation that free software applications and libraries don't quite meet all of their functionality on Windows and haven't made it a priority to support accessibility. (For one thing, as long as we're using Windows, free software hasn't taken over.)

> "While other screen readers seemed to work (NVDA) it is simply not feasable to ask my future users to switch to a different screen reader just for a single program."

A screen reader should handle anything, even a program that implements its own font and pixel-pushes it to a canvas (there is OCR for that).

Anyway, what is this NVDA which can read from text fields in GUI widgets that the 'leading brand' reader doesn't handle?

NVDA is open source software, which means the code is accessible to anyone. This enables translators and developers around the world to continually contribute to its expansion and improvement.

https://www.nvaccess.org/about/our-story/

Thus the argument appears to be: "free software libraries don't support accessibility on Windows, other than through the use of a screen reader that is free software, translated into 43 languages, used by people in 120 countries, and a winner of multiple awards. Free software are just hipsters who don't give a damn are in it for self promotion and to just address their own requirements (and none of them are visually impaired)."
The article uses the word "Louchest" to describe the times. I had to look it up:

> Disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way
To answer the question, what good does discussing this do?

The issue with "Tech + Workplace + Women" is a discussion topic flameworthy of abortion, gun rights, and the like. To the opposition, you are evil. Nothing good came come of this.

There will be people who bulletpoint everything wrong. There'll be others that call for fallacious statements. There will be others that claim that they're not getting proper discussion because of being screamed out. There'll be others that just will be blatantly sexist (and removed/hellbanned).

What good does discussing this do? Ive seen various combinations of these same discussions, and devolve to a textural screaming match.

Tl;Dr. Boring, no answers, everyone's "wrong" some way and some how. How about nice mathematics or programming puzzles?

edit: seriously, modded down? I'd much prefer why you think I'm wrong. I've seen 300+ comment threads about "sexism in the tech workplace" more than a few times. They devolve to screaming matches and dry commentary nobody responds to.
Wal-Mart testing food tracking blockchain to fight fake food