skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operating a computer in the 1960s was arguably more high-status. Computers occupied entire rooms and were operated mainly by military, government, and academic institutions.
Similarly, Netflix randomizer sites already exist. I've had good experiences with https://netflixroulette.net/, for example.
Totally anecdotal, but... I'll rarely try new mobile apps, especially the ones that cost. I will pay for new games here and there though.

If I factor in Steam and Humble Bundle it's safe to say that I don't consume games the same way that I would "consume" a web browser or text editor.

That being said I'm also not in the high spending "hardcore gamer" segment and smaller indie games are more my flavor.
It sounds like the city and the buyers followed the correct procedures. The failure was with the HOA or with whatever entity the HOA delegated this responsibility to.

If a management company screwed up, the HOA may be able to get compensation from them. If it was the HOA itself then the residents probably have little recourse, since ultimately they are the HOA.
I live in a much smaller city where my total commute each day is maybe 10 minutes to basically anywhere I need to go. How do you justify the long commutes? Do you pass the time somehow?
Don't.
You'll spread yourself too thinly.
You'll be too tired to be at your best at your day job... and they probably wouldn't agree anyway for that reason. Part of learning requires TIME, REST, and REFLECTION. You are trying to rush this. Life isn't like university where lessons are clearly laid out for the student taking courses.
I developed a library to guard against server overload. It automatically gauges the capacity and rejects requests exceeding it.

http://iheartradio.github.io/kanaloa/docs/theories.html
He's talking out of his ass. Remember, Binney hasn't worked at the NSA since 2001. Where do you think he gets these numbers?
Anyone who thinks plumbing and electrical are easy jobs has no idea how to do them
Throughout my career 90% of my work's aim was to directly or indirectly eliminate jobs. That pushes pressure on labour and lowers / stagnates wages.

Corporations rarely use tech to fight other Corpos. When they do the best strategy is to commoditize competitor's main market [1].

Ex1. free Google maps have killed many GIS / mapping businesses.

Ex2. Free Google Docs hurts badly MS Office (office is 33% of their revenue)

[1] Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
I agree with your skepticism of the author's conclusion. For example, we only know that the location/timing of the asteroid impact was so devastating because it did in fact hit there and so we were able to study it and find the "smoking gun", in other words, it wasn't obvious. But how can you assume that if it hit somewhere else at some other time that we wouldn't have found some hidden life-ending mechanism in that event as well?
In the proposal, '$class' is actually the proposed keyword for introducing a metaclass; you won't continue to use '$' for all of the classes created from that metaclass. stephen82 is suggesting that we use the keyword 'metaclass' instead, which I probably prefer.
If that's the logic you use to indict an organization as "fake news" then you could apply that example to just about every major news publisher.

My point is that conflating Breitbart with The Onion for sake of studying propaganda trends is extremely sloppy. I not trying to be an apologist for Breitbart which is pretty blatantly right-wing propaganda and has been forced to retract stories in the past.
> I'd feel pretty uncomfortable with a random stranger and his friends showing up to my kid's daycare. I hope the apps have gotten better location filtering in place since 2015.

Wouldn't this be the onus of the daycare? To allow/disallow strangers?

If the app points them to a high-security military installation, they're not going to get in.

Other strangers not using the app can still show up at the daycare...
How does the split with the Indie devs work?

If I pay a 5 USD subscription and just play 2 games, one for an hour and the other for 10 hours; who will get what and when?

Also, being a subscription model, does this imply now all of these games are online-only? If I'm offline, a game does not know if my subscription is valid/active. How is that handled?

What happens later, when I cancel my subscription? I don't see an easy way for you to protect the games once a user has downloaded all of them and cancelled your service.
> They would not be spending it buying private roads.

Why not? They are able to raise far more than that on business ventures as long as they have a business plan that's approved by the bank. Additionally, people buy houses to flip them on credit all the time as well. If you have private investors backing you, this would be an easy sell. That's much easier than you might think as a middle class person, there's an entire section of the real estate industry devoted to private money loans for slightly riskier investments than banks will fund, but at different interest rates. Contractors and investors use them all the time for short term investments (such as building our a lot for 2-4 homes, or some property flips that a bank isn't willing to fund, but a private investor that has worked with the person on multiple loans over a decade has no problem with).
Not for some users though, usable for some requests. Users will still be annoyed when they can't complete actions, because some of their requests are failing randomly.
No, I think it's not true. But I find this very weird and in my opinion this proves that it's actually not a tech industry problem.
This extremely simple solution works nicely for us:

$load=file_get_contents('/proc/loadavg')[0];
if ($load>10) die('Server load currently too high.');

So when the load gets too high, the server will not procss the request. This will bring the server load down. An easy self regulating system.
I don't know about OP, but as long as they're rich, I still find it great.
> If women think differently than men, wouldn't a significant increase in the number of women in a profession show up as a change in the general model of the profession?

It makes sense but I think the problem is that women do not get leadership roles very often, so they cannot change things. The two theories about why this happen is, first, the oppression of the women and the glass ceiling [1]; second, the women avoid confrontation and stress which are typical in leadership roles.

I like the idea of changing things to include more diversity. I don't know if it can apply to everything but I think it should be an option to explore. Pair programming is a good idea, another good idea is to have more meetings to discuss the processes and getting feedback from projects. Definitely a more emphatic mind will help a lot for this. I don't think this is economically viable in small companies, but Google could give it a try.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling
Nobody is subsidizing your car: as a car owner, you already paid 1) sales tax; 2) yearly registration; 3) yearly property tax; 4) taxes included in gas. Why car owners should be double-triple taxed?
> How about, leave that up to them to determine?

Up to whom? Yes, you get to decide what improves your own life. But you don't get to decide what improves someone else's life.
MoMA has the nerve to mention Frank Lloyd Wright?

Wasn't it MoMA's very own Nazi loving Philip Johnson [1] that lead the way to relegate (hah) FLW as a has been and push the "International Style" via the cultural propaganda organ of MoMA?

[1]: https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/one-of-americas-most-famous-...
A non-general solution that might work for most of us is often goes by the name "shopper prioritization".

Basically if you have a site that does lots of processing (search, orders, etc) then a pretty effective strategy is often to show a generic static "down for maintenance, try again" page. This requires vastly fewer resources to serve since the page can be sitting in web server ram and doesn't result in rpc calls throughout the whole stack.

You can also do something like prioritize logged in users over casual browsers.

Since most http clients are smart clients you can even do some stuff with rngs and timeouts to selectively let people who are willing to wait around back into the site.

Of course if you're an ad-tech company it's likely that serving an error is about as fast as serving something successfully.
Check users' main behavioral scenarios and patterns on your webpage/product
I don't think that quite fits into the security model of many of the purposes for which people use localhost, as they often want to avoid all external dependencies (including Internet access!) and all external trust.

If they do use your domain name then they have to trust that nobody has subsequently seized the name in court, nobody has hacked or DDOSed your nameservers, there's not an interruption of network connectivity between them and your servers, and that the ISPs forwarding the DNS queries didn't substitute a different response for the one you intended to return (since currently your leaf records aren't DNSSEC-signed).
You're right, I misspoke I should have been more precise and said that out way of finding primes isn't based on a specific theorem or algorithm in that we still have to take a number and demonstrate its primeness.
I agree, this kind of "it's all so simple" approach is often less helpful than folks think it is.

I always try to explain it thusly: Recursion makes big, complicated problems easier to solve. But it's a bit like using a cannon to swat a fly if you have no big, complicated problems to wrestle.

Explanations like this do not deny the complexity present in the scene, but reframe it so that were using a technique to tackle said complexity.
I think most people on Facebook are that way because they don't want to be reached. That would be a tough sell to us privacy-conscious people.
Hi, no one is arguing that men and women are identical, but here is a ref to some research on the topic

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/slideshow/embed_code/key/3...

See slide 20 and 21 for the citation. Perhaps you feel this is the product of 'an insane ideology', personally I find it more convincing than the huge jumps in your argument and the original one, which jump from the assertion that men and women are different (I think most agree), to there are less women than men in IT, ergo there are far less women who enjoy or are capable of engineering.

In academic studies even tiny variations between genders are interesting, in real life not so much, the gap between genders would have to be very large to matter given the variation in individuals and experience levels.

In case you're not feeling convinced here is a graph which I find hard to square with a biological difference incapacitating women when near technology:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

Early computing science had a lot of women; a woman helped land men on the moon, but the declined dranaticallly till recently over just a few decades. I find your argument that women just don't like tech for biological reasons unconvincing.
I'm not required to take any physics in my degree actually.
Would have liked to have seen a concrete example of where it worked and walked the reader through a simple demonstration. At some point in the article you realize it's all just a bunch of hand-waving.
I don't think (?) I've ever made this typo. How many hits do you get?

(I feel like "ocalhost", "locahost", or "localhos" would be more common typos.)
Always be Knolling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-CTkbHnpNQ)
I've been using Thinkpads and Macbooks on and off for the last 15 years, and this gen-5 Thinkpad is easily the best laptop I've ever owned.

Some subtle features of this gen-5 laptop that may not be apparent:

- The audio jack creates no hiss. If you used Thinkpads in the past with sensitive headphones, you'd hear a buzzing noise. The Macbooks never did that and this is the first Thinkpad that is a silent audio jack.

- You can spill water on the keyboard and it'll just flow though.

- Seriously best keyboard in class compared to all other ultrabooks. I really don't like the Macbook keyboard design... the depth on keypress is too shallow and it doesn't have the nice bounceback effect of the Thinkpads.

- Battery life is around 6-7 hours, which is long lasting ThinkPad finally.

I think the build quality of Thinkpads is way more functional and utlitarian than Macbooks. I like the matt screen of Thinkpads more. The touchpoint to use your index finger to move the mouse lets you keep your hand in the typing position. Fingerprint sensor is fast and works well.
The correction will happen immediately following the moment the tape prints it. It always has, it currently is, and will continue to do so in the future.

The problem is people aren't watching the tape. It's thought of "too hard"(by those who fail), which is another way of saying their net ability is inadequate for a career in trading.

The market has always told us what it is going to do, seconds before it happens. You have to be willing to watch those seconds though, and capable of interpreting the tape during them... 1 day candles? too late. 30m candles? too late. 1m candles? maybe, but overall too late. The timeframe you are looking for is "real time", which is present in time and sales(and nowhere else). Anything else is inadequate for consistent profitability, but there is no shortage of people failing to be the exception.
I've heard and read a lot of grad school horror stories, and I've seen some unfold before my eyes, but this one takes the cake. I'm impressed she escaped with her sanity.
I understand that with transportation in general. For example, roads are difficult to charge for and it's hard to draw a direct line between use and costs, so it often makes sense to subsidize those. Public transportation is worth subsidizing to free up space on the (subsidized) roads, help poor people get around, and other such things.

But parking at home? There's a straight line connection between the car owner who uses the space and the cost of the space. I shouldn't expect the government to pay for my parking any more than I should expect the government to pay for my house. In fact, paying for people's houses would be a lot more reasonable, since people need housing, but don't need parking.
>To me, a for loop is an imperative construct, and map and reduce are functional constructs, regardless of how any of them are implemented.

Well if the map is implemented using muteable variables then it is not a functional construct is it? If your entire program utilizes maps and filters and folds but is muteable then it is not a functional construct. Here is the definition of a functional language according to Wikipedia:

"In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data. It is a declarative programming paradigm, which means programming is done with expressions[1] or declarations[2] instead of statements."
Much less secure though.
What is the feminist position on this? It is my body vs Objectification of women ?
Even though trains are scheduled through the night, they shut lines down pretty frequently during overnight and weekend hours and replace them with bus service.
Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full
The issue they are trying to solve is that the DNS request might be sent somewhere at all (and thus manipulated). So your solution doesn't address that (as it guarantees a request is sent)
But by this point the request has already been accepted and processed. It's also using a rolling average, which means you'll be "killing" connections that otherwise wouldn't need to be killed.
If those are your criteria, you aren't listening to audio from the headphone jack on your phone anyway.
> But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors.

What about all the women through the 40s up until the 80s who worked as computer programmers? For a while it was a seriously female dominated field. A woman wrote the first compiler. A woman wrote the code to help get us to the moon. A woman taught my CS courses in high school and i had two female CS professors in college (and just about half my graduating class in that major was female).

Did biology change? Where's the science that says women as a whole don't enjoy IT as much? You crow on and on about science but provide no citations, no logical coherent argument.

When I see posts like this on HN, it makes me think you haven't worked closely with women. Or even know any lol
Ask HN: Is there an engineering specific version of Klout?
Specifically, a service that focuses on developer social networks such as Github and Stack Overflow as well as Twitter.
I actually made an automatically updating chart for this using FRED data: http://financial-charts.effingapp.com

TLDR: The correlation did go down a bit since publishing but still seems alright.
I wrote a book about Unix which has never been published, and in that book I suggested that the command line's benefits are

1. Remote administration and remote command execution

2. Scriptability and automation

3. Low ambiguity and high information rate

4. Extensibility, generality, and reuse

5. Low technical requirements for supporting user interface

6. Ease in reproducing and documenting problem solutions

7. Ability to work “close to the machine”

I'm happy to clarify any of these if you'd like.

I use the command line every day both on my own machine and on remote servers.
There have been private streets and alleys up for sale like this before in San Francisco.

https://sf.curbed.com/2015/10/14/9911570/unicorn-alert-san-francisco-driveway-for-sale-asks-50k

Monetizing these things can be very difficult because the adjacent property owners often have very strong arguments for an easement.

The laws of easements and adverse possession are highly fact based so it's not worth opining on this case without more facts. But the takeaway is that you _always_ want to have an explicit agreement with people who are using your land, and ideally you want them to pay an annual rent that you enforce, even if it's a token sum of $1.[1] Once you allow people to use your property without an explicit agreement, you open the door to either outright losing your property or losing the ability to control your property.

This is a good thing because, on balance, if somebody willingly sits on their rights for a long period of time it's better that he lose out rather than permit him to, out of the blue, disrupt the settled expectations of everybody else. But it does mean that as a property owner you have to remain at least minimally vigilant.

That's why these streets sell for such little money. If the ability to monetize ownership of these private streets were clear cut, you can bet that they would sell for much more at auction. I doubt this couple were the only speculators who saw this opportunity.

[1] Don't think of paying a token sum as a pointless ritual. In the eyes the law, the regular exchange is objective evidence of the existence of the contract and its continuation.
Wiping the datacenters every night
> Shouldn't the safety regulations be the same no matter what?

No. Hotels are denser (in terms of people sleeping in a building) than typical apartment buildings, because apartment buildings need to devote the square footage to copies of kitchens etc. per apartment, which unnecessarily would drive up the cost of hotel rooms. But leaving that aside (after all, the argument is about apartment buildings being used in place of hotels, not hotel buildings) - there's a bigger picture than just safety regulations.

How about taxes? Cities which attract tourism often like to establish high taxes on tourists, because municipalities need to draw their budget from somewhere, and tourists don't vote (well, they do, because they could decide to vacation somewhere else, but barring a very steep price increase, tourism tends to be somewhat immune from these higher taxes, by the very nature of most tourists saving up money to travel to some specific fantasy location), so municipalities will levy high taxes on hotels, knowing full well that those taxes are passed on to tourists. When hotels start to be threatened by unregulated competitors, that competition threatens that tax revenue stream.

> As for zoning laws - those are arbitrary lines drawn by the city planners

So what? As many objectors have pointed out, city residents have an inherent interest in developing a sense of community, which requires people to commit to living in apartments over the long-term. Ghost ownership threatens that social good, and seasonal tourism threatens local mom-and-pop shops serving local neighborhoods, which no longer get foot traffic in the off-season. That's not to say hotels are evil - it's to say that one of the central tenets of urban planning is to attempt to balance competing, mutually-exclusive interests forced to live together by inherent urban density, for the common harmony and benefit of all, and zoning is an integral tool for that purpose.

> As a property owner, you have to make the best use of the property, and if airbnb brings in more money, you _have_ to do it, otherwise, you'd be losing value.

This is a farcical argument. The highest return for urban property is turning it into illegal drug factory. By your logic, investment apartments should always be turned into illegal drug factories, because their investors have to do it, otherwise they'd be losing value. After all, what's the qualitative difference between breaking zoning laws and breaking drug enforcement laws? If you're OK with operating an illegal hotel, to the detriment of the people in the surrounding neighborhood, then why not be OK with operating an illegal drug factory, also to the detriment of the people in the surrounding neighborhood?
This exhibit is a must see if you get the chance to visit it at the Museum of Modern Art in New York - it runs until October.

The large drawings of the Illinois/Mile High Skyscraper are certainly worth seeing in person, as are models of the Monona Terrace and the Guggenheim.
Since most of these threads are pretty content free, and you asked for it, here's a rebuttal, by a woman who's good at math.

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/slideshow/embed_code/key/3...

Of course men and women are different on average, but are they different enough to justify the massive disparity in tech? No.
I'd be less worried about a few guys showing up because a randomness app told them to than a guy showing up because he wanted to.
What if the exams and job interviews are designed by people who are bad at team work? During my studies and also in my various jobs I observed that there is little team work, that many people even openly don't want to do it. (Managed to do it for some things, e.g. Functional Analysis) Maybe there are more ways to approach problems and at least for "real work" it seems that working in a team leads to better results. (Think all this agile thing with pair programming, retros etc etc...)

Don't forget Correlation isn't equivalent with Causation, actually there is neither a <= nor a =>.
Can we please do useful things with software?
Hi! I sent an email last week about the front-end engineer position. Hoping to hear back soon!
Nothing inherent - the CCC is a great organization.

But it's already come out that searching for Tails or Tor can set off NSA flags, so I was pointing out that reading Chaos Computer Club accounts of NSA surveillance practices sounds like another likely way to be flagged.
This is from our (Edgemesh.com) blog about our use of Docker and how we wipe and reload every datacenter each and every night. Happy to answer any questions!