skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been making https://www.klubi.si/ sporadically over the past many months (it was meant to be a weekend project, but it never ends there...). It's a map of sports clubs in my country.

The idea is to help people find klubs nearby, as well as provide a basic internet presence to those klubs whore founders don't have the time or knowledge to create and maintain a website, or even a Facebook page.

The website works by volunteer revision of data, as well as twice a year email reminders to founders to review the data. This helps ensure that the data is the most up to date as possible.

Unfortunately, not all klubs even have a public working email address, so thinking of it, I could probably do something about as well.
I'm still struggling to put this number into context. Are they grossly overpaying rank-and-file engineers? Or are there just a lot of players elbow-deep in the cookie jar?
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
lack the credentials or money to pay.

'real' colleges offer better networking, but often great teachers can be found in community colleges, where profs are not selected primarily for research.

A minority of students learn better in competitive environments. Self motivated students learn better in constructive non competitive environments which are more like apprenticeships than competition for grades.
I've been using VS Code for a long time and have never seen this. Maybe they don't know about this bug?
I have to believe it’s heavily skewed with older huge grants to higher ups
We've got a C++ codebase with its own path class, which works this way. They also used unary operator* (dereference operator) in the string class to return a pointer to the underlying c-string. These are the "clever" kinds of things that the original devs used to get kind of sheepish about when I first brought them up.
Consider the concepts you are using. "skewed view of history," "mainstream historians." According to whom? Google? Amazon? The Hoover Institution? Who make this decision? If you search for "Russian Revolution," the works of Sean McMeekin will be very high, in part because the book is being heavily promoted by the New York Times, Amazon, large publishing houses, etc. And by Google. Yet McMeekin's book is based on largely discredited slanders about German gold financing the Russian Revolution. As soon as Google makes these decisions, it is in fact casting its large, well-financed, foot on the balance of historical truth--in favor of the established, "authoritative," i.e., state- and corporate-sanctioned version of events, whether historical or contemporary. As for "conspiracy theories," the problem is that history is full of conspiracies, and therefore theories based on conspiracies are often true. In any case, I don't believe you have given your "alternative explanation," unless it is the SEO explanation, which has not real factual foundation?
16 year old me wishes he'd seen this
Alright. I noticed that it was pretty easy to find the .mp3 files using the inspector but I didn't know if it was a feature or not.
If this is her takeaway,she should be fired.
I rent in El Cerrito but we've been looking at buying. It's really the best option around here IMO. Decent 3 bedrooms in a wonderful neighborhood can still be had for < $700k. Case in point: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/El-Cerrito-CA/fsba,fsb...
I think this is a great idea, and we should apply it to insurance benefits in other areas. Go to the doctor? You have to clean the gutters in a street for a few hours. Claim for stolen property? You have to help paint fences. House burns down? Get on those overalls. Car accident? Time to dig a hole.

You wouldn't have to do it, you just wouldn't get full payment unless you did.
Azure has a feature on their trial account that when you hit your free limit, you can either:

a) go into credit (so they will charge you at end of month)

b) disable services

Maybe AWS/Google also support a hard limit on spending.
When there's daylight, that's ideal. Can't code in the pitch dark, though. Even at lowest brightness, the contrast of the monitor with the lack of ambient light means instant headache.
It looks like for the UK, you have the choice of CAN/AUS/NZ, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan (pleasantly surprised to see that) and South Korea. There's also summer camp work in the US via BUNAC (which you pay for), but why bother when you can get a visa waiver for 90 days?
This is awesome! You should keep up with this - maybe develop a curriculum and host it all in one place one day?
Totally anecdotal story, but I've been trying to promote my music as a hobby. The main social channels that independent artists use are facebook/instagram and google/youtube. There's almost no reason to use snapchat for promotion. There's no straight forward way to engage a new audience and broadcast your content.

Snap as it is today seems to be for already established entities to further engage their existing audience. I don't see a big market opportunity there.
Fluent sign language is much faster than typing. I think it's about the same speed as spoken word, so you'd get the same benefits as normal speech recognition.
A look at the internals of 'boxing' in the .NET runtime
Speaking as a music creator, I like using Soundcloud (for example) to share a new mix with colleagues / clients, who can easily comment at specific times on the recording. Or to share A/B comparisons between different settings. And all of this can be on private URLs shared with only the intended parties.

I don't use it to find new music to "just" listen to, and I never have. But I would happily pay to use it for what I do get out of it. I haven't paid for it yet, because their free tier has so far covered everything I needed...
I would pay a premium price to stream in better quality and I cannot for my life figure out why no one has ever suggested this in any of the many recent SoundCloud threads or why SoundCloud hasn't thought of this themselves. But I guess that the two are connected – and that I really am the only person who would pay for this.

SoundCloud uses an encoding algorithm that is extremely bad even for the lousy 128 Kbps they are streaming in. Why should a dedicated music service feature worse audio quality than YouTube? Of course I would pay to improve this during the six hours I spend on SoundCloud each and every working day.
Ask HN: Putting BitCoin Hashrate to other uses
The Bitcoin Hashrate is over 7,000,000 TH/s. I have no concept of how large this is, but in terms of supercomputer, I am assuming its large. How large is it, (assuming all the same and modern) how many GPUs are we talking to get this large? It is a power station all to itself to power it all?

Then, imagine a world where this could be harnessed, what could this do?

i.e.:
* How long will it take to crack a SSL site
* Remember SETI from the early 2000's. I am sure NASA would love this power.
* Are there genome/DNA projects that would take moments to finish rather than years
Currently, though, APM isn't a real advantage for AIs. They're still too stupid.
>When I need to buckle down and get some 'serious developing' going on, I just put on some headphones

by "serious developing", I'm guessing you mean "actually programming".
Most late employees got generous RSU's instead of options.
Where did you move to after Beirut? Anything you miss about Beirut?
In Salt Lake City they gave their homeless peeps homes and many of them ended up going right back to work once their living situation was stabilized.
The article quite clearly suggests that the discontinuation of the chip was initiated by Microsoft because they're not going to use it any more...
The Cult of the Line: It’s Not About the Merch
Watson that won Jeopardy was a fantastic advance in information retrieval. Google introduced the knowledge graph a year later, but domain (jeopardy) specific watson was terrific. The sad thing is that they got captured by PR rather than sense; a focus on customer service and my bet is that they could have disrupted Oracle/Seibel out of 75% of accounts.

IBM would be ridin' high!

BTW. This is still on the table for IBM if they are prepared to invest 18mths and focus gung ho on Oracle. In 18mths it won't be as "other players" will have moved, like Sauron, to hit this market.
Maybe its just me, but back in the day (early 2000s) we used to have raucous (but still very civil) discussions about controversial topics, with little or no moderator interference.

Shortly after cortex joined, submissions and comments which did not conform to a very narrow set of socio-political viewpoints started getting censored, and these days there is pretty much no room for controversial content.

Sure, I can see that the site would look highly civil and somewhat interesting to a new user coming from, say, Reddit, but to me the fanatic censorship has turned the place into a boring echo chamber compared to what it used to be.
Maybe—I don't know. In the grand scheme of things, "I could have won the appeal, but I couldn't afford to continue to fight" is a lesser offense than, "I could have won the case, but I couldn't afford to start the fight." (Which itself is a lesser offense than, "I could have won the case, but I couldn't afford to defend myself." If only because this is a breeding ground for predatory lawsuits.)

And not for nothing, we don't know if Hogan could have afforded to continue the fight either.
Sorry I meant I was looking for more like documentation on the product rather than implementation. Thanks though.
> then this discussion becomes pretty abstract

You have hit the nail right on the head -- this is indeed meant to be an abstract discussion. I am discussing what ought to be and why, not debating which laws exist, which would not be very interesting. Apologies if that was not clear.

But I'm glad we can agree on how dangerous these discrimination laws are. Although I'm not sure if you are applying the logic consistently:

> Which is why these prosecutions are not based on thoughts, but on actions.

These actions are not inherently illegal, not crimes, not aggressions. No one is entitled to your service. However, in our current legal system, unfortunately that is not always the case. Your action could all of a sudden become a crime if a jury suspects your thoughts went a certain way in carrying out the action. That's a thought crime.
I wouldn't mind dying of old age inside a space ship. As long as I have internet connection / computer / private room, I am all good.
>I think that they owe it to the country to put together a Manhattan Project for AI.

I hope we can come up with a better primary goal for AI than mass murder
Before Travis got booted some Techcrunch article or other was submitted here on an almost daily basis about him and other issues Uber were having, some days two! I thought to myself: 'Boy! Techcrunch really have it in for Uber and Travis' (mit einen kleine schadenfreude, me being no fan of either). Once he left though, the posts seemed to me to end rather abruptly even though there were still newsworthy shenanigans at Uber. Has anyone else noticed this? Why? Cui bono?
> It moves the trust to the code rather than the entity. Code analysis does not need to be done by all, either.

For everyone who doesn't do it on their own, they either have to trust the originator or trust someone who has done it, so for most users you aren't eliminating the need for a trusted third party.

> I'm not saying it's the entirety of kickstarter

That was the upthread claim.
Google DeepMind AI Declares Galactic War on StarCraft
Only to employees hired post IPO though, correct?
Snap founders won’t sell shares despite plummeting price
You can mitigate the security concerns through other sandboxing techniques (e.g. Qubes, VMs). It's not like up-to-date Firefox is really that secure either.

Web developers stand the most to lose from people opting to run old browsers. Back in the IE6 days, it was justified, but by now, web APIs are already about as powerful as they're going to get, and we're reaching (or are long past) the point of decadence, churn, and bloat.

If you want to run old Firefox, take reasonable precautions, and you'll be fine.

Edit: down to -4. FWIW you can also securely run IE6 or literal malware.
It might be true that "most government programs don't work" (at least to achieve their stated purpose), with social programs being a subset of that...
And the 60 or 100m OLT will likely still be built over the next decades.

ESO is not going to give up, and they don't have to fight with science-deniers for funding, so there's not much to worry about yet.
JavaScript Online: http://javascript.onl

A few JavaScript problems that you can solve and grade online (it's a static website). I haven't done any work on it recently. Added a few Amazon affiliate links originally, but they didn't make any money and Amazon has closed that account now.
Thanks! This is definitely useful
Gnome is relatively easy to customize with CSS (at least in recent versions, I think after 3.20).

I wrote some quick notes about it here: https://www.bidon.ca/fr/random/2017-02-25-customizing-gnome-...

It also has an inspector, so you can find the right class name as you would when doing CSS in a browser.

I have to admit that I also tried developing an extension (https://github.com/mlutfy/hidetopbar), which I found hard, but someone else took over maintenance and he's been doing a really good job. Has a few active contributors too.

(after 10 years on fvwm, I re-tested every w-m out there, before giving up and adopting Gnome3.. happy since)
Wow, I got it right to a percentage point? I didn't realize it was 40-44, so maybe it moves teensy bit with IVF past 44. Thanks a lot for the cite.
Interesting, that's really useful. But, assuming I have MagTek connected via USB to the computer, how does this code "listen" for the swipe? It looks like it can handle parsing the data just fine, but my question is how to get the data from the swipe into the javascript for parsing
You are a ...pedant!
No brands in 'Blade Runner 2049' outside the 80s universe timeline
http://heyokapp.co It was fun to code and it makes organizing with friends a breeze

Here's the facebook page - facebook.com/heyokapp
About video -
https://www.facebook.com/heyokapp/videos/460327694335849
Fired Google engineer compares high-paid tech job to Soviet forced labor
Interesting, I never thought about that. For some reason, I don't mind the contrast.
Medicine - the biggest prize, the biggest trap. Every complication, huge, mind blowing rewards. Maybe, if Google were to go 100% they could break the beast... but it's a 100bn bet.
Only launched recently, and the prospects of it making money one day are slim: https://engineered.at

Still fun to keep up to date with Rails with, and to just code in general (as a product manager now, don't get to code much).
Tmux with modality is something I use alot.

https://github.com/mtl/tmux-modality

I need to iron my workflow out a little bit though as all the modes (especially when you have vim within tmux modality ) can be a little confusing.
No, it's for the year.

And the way I understand it, they took a one time charge during this year for all stock based compensation ever. So it's really all stock based compensation ever.

They did not hand out $2.2bn in stock in 6 months.
This statement does not necessarily reflect widely-held views of the active MetaFilter community.
Snap still has some of the best user engagement metrics in the industry which continues to attract top advertisement dollars. Whats worrying is the apathetic attitude of management to reduce cost and boost revenues rather than being blinded by the superiority of their product.
When Facebook investors complained about poor revenues from mobile users, it took them no more than 2 quarters to show a remarkable increase in their ad revenue from mobile traffic. Snap would need this kind of aggressive revenue focus to stand a chance against the might of Facebook.
Actually, it does not. Musk announced recently that the ITS would be a lot smaller, actually being slightly smaller than the Saturn V, as he couldn't get as many subsidies as he expected to.
Hope I don't get flagged or anything. I am astounded by the generosity of the amazing people on this page and have been upvoting like a madman. I probably look like a bot at this point
How much do you think a home like this would list for in the bay area?

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Gig-Harbor/2403-20th-Avenue-Ct-NW-...
I don't really care what the aliens taste like when I'll be bringing pigs, cows, and chickens on whatever ship I use to go visit them.

It is clear to me that the purpose of Earth-life is to spread and assimilate all matter that it may encounter, and the purpose of humanity is to build and launch Earth's reproductive spores.

If we are not alone, those other guys had better have some good antibiotics, because we're coming. Right now, it seems like we'll be moving at just a small fraction of c, but slow and steady can still win a race with only one contestant.

The important question is therefore "Once we're all dressed up and ready to go, whats our heading?"

So with respect to telescopes, would it be better to invest that in the ships, and simply launch toward any random nearby star, to be surveyed by the breeding population en route over the next few centuries, or would it be better to sacrifice a ship or two in order to send the ones we do build toward more promising stars?
adaptive optics on earthbound telescopes have allowed them to easily surpass hubble's resolution nearly a decade ago. it's also a lot easier to service telescopes on the planet than something orbiting at the ideal L2 point, some 1.5 million km from earth.
Why we need a ‘space race’ approach to saving the planet
Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It's impossible to get a terminal. They also have a huge DVD collection that rivals the old blockbusters. Not sure who's checking out books anymore.
No joke, a big thing I noticed the first time I went outside America was, "Holy shit, the food is real." No matter where I go, I find cheap food that's simply better quality than anything that's even mid-range in the US. It's especially noticeable with snacks/junk food, where everything in America is some odd artificial flavor that tastes nothing like what it claims to be, while (particularly in Japan) things taste exactly like what they claim to be and often are made from those exact ingredients.
Does this means they'll be arsed to reply to customer support queries more rapidly in future? Say a 1-2 month turnaround instead of 2-4?
There isn't much of a point. Later in the story it says

> Amazon is a hugely successful business but makes slim margins on the products its sells – the company recently warned it may report a loss in the third quarter – and with low profits comes a low tax bill.

Essentially, the title is clickbait. There is a good discussion in there about tax avoidance, but tying it to revenue doesn't illuminate the topic.
This is why I use hacker news. What other communities are still like this? Reddit comments are a joke now (in popular subreddits).
this is a pretty cool idea actually... if we just spent some time manipulating their chemical reward systems such that their amoeboid population densities opened and closed circuits on a piano key we could make them produce music. and i think the transference of this pattern would be enough to imbue them with the fire of thought! they would seek to control their collective amoeboid destiny! their will to be would drive them to express themselves, they would form an amoeboid super structure, spelling in english letters: "s e n d n u d e s". And AI is born.
Fuck this.

Sorry, but that about sums it up, for me.

Firefox's extensions are a good part of what has kept the browser "the client", for me -- as in, software that works on the client's behalf as well as being the requesting functionality in the interaction.

I have no interest in moving to a client who is, more or less, working for the other end. Already had that in the past with Microsoft, and seem to be experiencing it again, more and more, with Google. No thanks.
Ethical Machine Learning and Distributed Systems Presentations in Seattle
I did a double-take, as one of the article co-authors is named Yuji Nakamura. Not to be confused with Yuji Naka.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Naka
> What I find more irritating is that I cannot focus well on different planes.

You might be interested in this Oculus VR research then:

https://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-research-to-present-focal...
invest in the high profit margin exchange or invest in one of the high volatility assets the exchange is selling? I would invest in both as a hedge.
The relatively low barrier to learn just a tiny bit of following a Linode or DO vps hardening & stack setup guide to get an ubuntu server going can go a very long way for development and prototyping environments.

It's gotten much, much easier, and is just another form of command line management, similar to the CLI framework tools with your preferred stack.

Once that first setup is done, similar to setting up a serverless environment, you are generally restoring backups of your base image and beginning projects from there.

It also immensely helps to learn about how to build something to scale that isn't completely reliant on the PaaS layer.
Oh, what? This is great
I agree with your bottom line. I was going to say they have talked about wind farms at sea since 2008, but that fits well with what you say. I see I seem too cynical, but i still think they are very late to the game. Especially considering how far denmark have come, given this project probably is inspired by the danish focus on wind power, and the competency of Statoil on offshore constructions.
I didnt get this news. First when it broke he and board explained its due to his morher passing. Now im confused as of what really transpired.
Uber's biggest shareholder, Benchmark, is suing ex-CEO Travis Kalanick
> I guess you would lose some of your remaining market share to chrome

So, you're saying that:

- some people kept using Firefox because it had more powerful extensions than Google Chrome.

- these people are upset because mozilla is breaking the old extensions in favor of a less powerful alternative (still better than Chrome's, that the main point of the OP)

- then people are going to move to Google Chrome which still is the worst browser for extensions

Who reasons this way ? There are legitimate reasons for being upset (my favorite addon disapeared and that makes me sad / I need to rewrite all my addons, depending if you're a user or an addon dev), but I don't think anyone will shoot himself in the foot and use a worse (addon-wise at least) alternative just because mozilla's people are mean !
But you can be pretty sure that the Scott Walker will benefit quite a bit over the next decade. If you ever look at who benefits when a city gets a new sporting stadium you will see the same sort of payoff. Seldom does the public win.
Website Engagement Tracking with Elasticsearch
https://gaiaeternal.itch.io/gaia-eternal

It's a big procedural crafting game. The long-term goal is to make a Civilization-like game set in a Minecraft-like world, with really good AI. It's also a testbed for a bunch of ideas I've developed about massive, virtualized simulation. What that means is that you could in principle have thousands of cities with millions of individual inhabitants going about their business. But it's sort of analogous to lazy evaluation in that things are only computed if they would be perceived by the player, or need to be consistent with past information the player already knows.
Yeah, I don't recall where I saw something that suggested fair use. https://lop.parl.ca/ImportantNotices-e.html#Copyrights doesn't speak directly to that issue, but it's probably easier to just cite my sources and not bother with the revenue side of things. It's more important to me that this data be freely and easily available than it is for me to turn any kind of meagre profit.