skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who runs libraries? People with Masters in Library Science. I expect severe budget and certification crises would come to any library that won't put a certified librarian in a head position.

And you would be wrong. My local library is considered one of the best small-town libraries in the nation (I believe at one point it literally won an award for being the best) -- and does not have a certified librarian in a head position.

Also, to compare MLS librarians with MBAs in regards to the workings of what's under them is exceptionally unfair. Most librarians I know (a set which includes my father in law, who is a county library director, and two close friends, who hold MLS degrees) are extremely academically curious about new things they can do to make their libraries more accessible and attractive.
>a simple glance

Show the damned transactions.

> with knowledge of notable events

The claim was very specific, show the damned transactions.

>i don't really care that i can't convince you

Because you can't show what the "spam" is let alone show who is "spamming."
Coherent, Not Consistent – Consistency in UI Design Is Overvalued
> large issues that governments don't want to touch

Health care for all? Affordable housing? Food security?
Link for more info?
Sounds like a fantastic shop space!

Mortising machines are not that uncommon in shops, we had one in my school and also a school I went to take woodworking classes as an adult a year or two back. Those machines tend to be high maintenance (requires skill to sharpen the bits!) and at least where I took classes they were out of order.

> with the Turtle guy in a GI helmet, telling you what to do in the event a nuclear bombing!

Hah! I know that guy. I was visiting the US recently and the San Francisco public library (best library I've ever been to!) had a cold war exhibit and some videos of that GI Turtle!

> I don't know if any of it still exists, if kids there are taught that stuff any more

I've heard that shop classes are in a decline (sad), but I there are regularly students showing off their high school shop class projects over at reddit's /r/woodworking, so at least some places have that as an option.
I'm sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me. Optimizing mathematical expressions is not a very useful thing to do, and whenever you need it, you'll likely have a derivable function, for which gradient based optimization is much faster.

But most importantly, this can't be applied to arbitrary computer functions that you can't have a closed formula for.

Also finding a library that does optimization where I can pass a function pointer is usually easy to find in any language.

Maybe I'm wrong, but as far as I'm concerned, I'll never use that service.
You're completely missing one of the main points of the whole gender discrimination discourse: that there are strong social influences that prevent women from going to tech long before your 'before college', as well as during college and after college. There are many turning points at which girls are influenced the way that discourages them from tech instead of helping them to develop interest in it. So yes, discrimination is definitely the reason why women are underrepresented in tech, even if there would not be 50/50 women/men ratio without discrimination. You can claim discrimination if the environment subtly discourages you with constantly signalling that you shouldn't pursue a certain path. And yes, men who'd like to pursue 'non-male' careers also often choose not to because of the social pressure. And no, the diversity debate doesn't 'get too much attention'. It gets significantly less attention than it should, given the scale of this problem and devastating effects the lack of diversity has on societies, working environments, women, men, children - basically, any social group.
I create a cooking script that unintentionally that burns my house down. June now has a PR disaster.
15 is my estimate. It could be more, I never counted. I just know one jar lasts me over three months and I make an average of one pizza a week.
Show HN: A torrent search engine to search various public indexes
+100 this! Menhir is really awesome and super usable parser generators. We used it to for JSJS [0], and you can see for yourself that the rules are quite easy to understand for a non-trivial grammar.

[0] http://jsjs-lang.org

[1] https://github.com/prakhar1989/JSJS/blob/master/src/parser.m...
This Coding School Wants Graduates to Share Their Income
If this catches on, you won't really be able to use it weekends or evenings without arriving quite early. Teens and those with more free time will benefit. That leaves weekday matinees available for most of us. Moviepass is probably banking on the fact that few working adults will go to more than one or two weekday matinees in a month.

Like the gym membership, you'll keep paying because you might go, but in most cases you won't actually go.
This article focuses on inventive ways to replace mechanical plants typical to large multi-story structures. It overlooks the mechanized power that would still be needed to grow and deliver food necessary to sustain that population density. Vertical gardening on the scale required is not at the same level of maturity as the human-power techniques the article describes.
1. Download the internets.
2. git the diffs.

Privacy comes because if everyone has the internet in their local cache (lol), then external servers can't say what YOU are REALLY looking at.
Not really, not necessarily.

Pakistan can build the bomb, and the reactors for high grade Pu. That doesn't mean they can make a thermal reactor which has many different and difficult challenges. The metallurgy to make a high pressure reactor vessel for 500 MW is quite different from making a quickly refueled open pool reactor.

In fact, most western countries' reactor designs are derived from US licenses.
I see.

As someone living in the U.S. with children, I neither feel nor observe indications of this as an imminent danger. If anything I'd posit we've faulted much the opposite direction. A history of stubborn individualism, regardless of the harm it may inflict on others or society at-large, and fear-mongering against anything that resembles socialism—however irrational and countered by existing programs which are rooted in its very concepts—all but insures against it any time soon.

I can't disagree with the possibility since history supports that—and the general tendency for humanity to demonstrate such a low regard for itself would unfortunately be also—the probability seems low.
Controlling costs is section 5 of the article.
Amway is the American equivalent
San Francisco has insane loopholes for rent control too. If he were really paying 300/mo he'd have been kicked out for an OMI 10 years ago.
There's plenty of divergence within the UK. This particular insult is only known outside of Scotland because of Twitter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/scottishpeopletwitter/comments/5m7i...
It's not necessarily a Twitter bot - it's any project on any platform that broadcasts user-generated content out without vetting.
Check the past and see how long it usually took Trump to make incredibly strong statements when it suited him politically. Including the denouncing of events that never actually happened...
If you consider all entry level engineering jobs I agree 100k is good. But I don't think GS is targeting all entry level engineers. They are targeting those that are considering Google, Facebook, Uber, AirBnB, etc. For that segment of the market, 100k is the minimum bar, plus you'll probably have to through in a nice signing bonus.
Ultimately it's still driving a predetermined static path through a field with static obstacles with positioning provided by a modified GPS system that improved accuracy by providing additional information about the satellites positions. They've done really good work in their own space but very little of it can really be applied to self driving cars.
Taking Apart a Hitachi (IBM) Microdrive [video]
Are your UIs made from scratch or you use templates?
Steel can be pretty difficult to drill with a hand drill, but with a sharp bit, a proper pilot divot, and some cutting fluid of some sort (old timers used bacon grease - still a great cutting fluid, even when it goes rancid).

The main key with metals (and heck, even with wood and certain plastics) is to have in place the pilot divot, so the bit doesn't wander. People seem to have the most trouble when they don't do this part first. Sharp drill bits are also very important. You usually only need a cutting fluid on steel.

Also - aluminum is almost as easy to drill as wood. Just add a good divot of course, and go for it. Some light 3-in-1 oil can serve as a mild cutting fluid. It isn't really needed, but it can be useful to keep the chips from flying everywhere (not as big a deal though when hand drilling).

Another easy to drill material is HDPE (cutting board plastic). Cuts and drills like soft wood, just don't get too aggressive with speed (especially when cutting - as it can heat up, melt, bind the blade, or self-weld behind the cut).
Older trees are still growing, for example you can still count rings to estimate how old a tree is.
On the other hand, PostgreSQL had some notion of partitioning essentially since it's inception. Ten years ago PostgreSQL's rules and table inheritance based partitioning was probably only DBMS-integrated solution that was actually usable.
We have been collectively programmed to trust the grocery store product over what we can reach out and grab.
It's a trade off for my poor planning. The recipe I put actually comes out well, still better than fast food pizza and pretty close to the mom & pop pizza places.

But yeah, if I had better planning and time management I would let it rise :)
Although I don't like the government taking my money to subsidize stuff, I'd rather see them make basic Internet "free" than build and maintain libraries.
I don't think it's homophobic but it's definitely sexist.
For context, I'm pretty sure all of Princeton's grad students are funded (including masters of public administration).

Still cool, just wanted to put it out there in case anyone was wondering what their CS dept is up to.
Should is a pretty insulting verb: who is to presume the wisdom to tell another what to do?
Was it a Carnegie library?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
> At some point the question of whether Trump is an amoral, dangerous idiot or an evil, dangerous idiot starts to feel a little academic.

That's precisely it. There is a line where incompetence becomes malice but once you're far enough across the line it no longer matters where the line itself is.
Wow, as if student loans weren't burden enough. This seems like an even worse sort of indentured servitude.
FrontRow – Reinventing the Camera
Yes, ebooks are important and English law changed recently to make it easier, although libraries are still limited by licensing terms:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/part/4/enacted
That makes the assumption that the "disruption to the neighboring continent" is going to be worse as a result of overpopulation than it already is dealing with neighbors who are poor and impoverished and disease ridden.

In both cases I don't think the "civilized" neighbor continent is enjoying the benefits of its poorer neighbor. There is an equal argument to be said that by eradicating these diseases that the poorer neighbor is able to pull itself out of that poverty.

Regardless, history is filled with population surges and mass societal disruption -- I am sure we can resolve it over time.
Show HN: Trillo – Assemble UIs in the Cloud
The existence of bittorrent means that anyone that gets their hands on your software can give it away for free, effectively making it impossible to sell it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/alphabet-...
Anybody who is interested in the numbers on this should checkout the work being done at drawdown.org. Afforestation is ranked #15 out of a list of solutions to reduce the carbon content of our atmosphere and reduce global warming. They have models and data if you want.

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/land-use/afforestation
Amazon's 2016 Annual Report lists $16.167B of "shipping costs" and $17.619B of "fulfillment costs", on a total of $135.987B of sales. Since shipping costs are included in fulfillment, this suggests to me that they paid at most $1.452B in payment processing fees, i.e., 1.06%.

But it's entirely possible that I'm reading the report wrong.
Re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson, because it's so god damn good.

The Mandibles recently. It was okay. The economic ideas were interesting, but the story dragged.

The Accusation by Bandi was good if you like North Korea stuff.

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O - Was decent for a Stephenson novel, but definitely niche sci-fi/fantasy.

The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse. Didn't like it. Really didn't like the ending.
Analyzing Post-WannaCry SMB Exposure
> -Go uses a very small stack for GoRoutines to make them dirt cheap. When you exceed this stack, Go maps in more stack for you transparently. Rust generated ASM is running on the Go Stack, but it is expecting when it exceeds its stack to explode, like a C program. As that should be the OS Stack. Larger problem then you think, Rust likes to put a ton of stuff on the stack. This is one of the nice things about Rust is putting _a ton_ of data on the stack is cheap, and makes ownership simpler.

This point confuses me; if Rust expects to run on a limited stack, why would it expect to put a ton of data on the stack?

> Currently just stating Go has a runtime is controversial

I've never heard any controversy... The Go community certainly call it a runtime, and there's even a "runtime" package. Do folks from VM languages get grumpy because Go's runtime is statically linked?
Holy crap that is a solid set of articles! I don't know how I never thought to check paul graham's site.
You might be interested in this plugin framework for Go that communicates over stdin/stdout: https://github.com/natefinch/pie
I am convinced from my experiences doing DIY auto repair that the jobs themselves are all fairly simple, it is dealing with stuck bolts and bolts that are hard to get to which turn the job into hours of work and frustration.
This is the crux imo, higher degrees somehow justifying higher salary and positions to normal business types. I often tell people I can tell when someone can do this job by talking to them for a few minutes and asking a few questions, formal education or not. This career is very unique in that regard. But typical large company HR will use the lack of degree or lower degree like an AS as justification to pay less or deny promotion.

I've found advanced degrees are not an indicator of programming ability, and maybe even negative correlation.
Yeah BlockCypher have made some useful tools. Especially for Bitcoin. We're going to focus just on Ethereum because there's a lot of developer tools/infrastructure missing right now. Think infrastructure as a service, webhooks, data transport etc.

In the case of ETHEREST - it's just about being able to grab a contract address and call any method on it quickly and easily. Having to hook into a a node & provide an ABI gets frustrating really quickly, especially when you're testing.

On stability - it's definitely an MVP right now. Our plan is to open source the innards soon to a) make submitting transactions trustless and b) share some of the innovations we've made to make this scale well.
Show HN: FSPT – Path tracing complex scenes in WebGL2
Yep, I worked on a website for a very popular British girl band almost ten years ago. The target demographic was teenage girls, and one of the requested features was to embed a Twitter feed showing a particular hashtag on the homepage to promote their album launch.

The client thought it would be quick and simple because Twitter supplies that kind of thing as one line of code, however since it was pulling directly from Twitter in the browser, there was no opportunity to moderate if we did it that way. We pointed this out, with the consequences, several times, and strongly recommended that we pull it server-side so we could provide moderation, but this took extra time and money, so the client ignored us.

Fast forward to the site / album launch, and sure enough, right in the middle of the big publicity campaign, some bright spark decided to tweet altered obscene song lyrics describing in graphic detail what he wanted to do to the girl band members, using the hashtag so it would show up on the website viewed by all those teenage girls.

This kind of thing is entirely predictable, but the people in charge of these things are often inexperienced, overworked, and inattentive. Couple that with somebody telling them that it's going to cost more and take longer to do it properly, and they are going to go with the quicker, cheaper option unless they've been burnt by this before.
Avon is quite prevalent in the US as well.
I actually see the value of lobbying, and think that would be an excellent idea. But lobbying has such a nasty connotation, I doubt it would pad the ego of a philanthropist (call me a cynic, but I'd wager 90% of philanthropy is just a way for people to garner attention and praise).

I don't think lobbying would be nearly as bad if a) we had publicly funded elections, which takes away the incentive for politicians to be beholden to the interests of donors, and b) we had a mechanism (possibly through a branch of judicial review?) to repeal or amend laws that don't achieve their stated goals.
You are talking about children dying...

And you are also making the assumption that only Europe can contribute to innovation, and Africans can only be a burden on their neighbors and will never become contributors.

I would agree that if the solving of a crisis like Malaria results in population growth, we need to plan on success and also focus on supporting infrastructure for those people.

But I think you are saying something much more horrific. Maybe work with your therapist on empathy.

We need someone as smart as you to focus on making the world a better place for everyone, not using your intellect to make scientific justifications for genocide.
Thanks! After reading all comments I more inclined to follow your advice and invest my time in first becoming a full stack developer/architect.

The consensus is that it is very time-consuming. As a junior web developer I would have a lot of catch-up to do in Programming (some comments mention the need of intermediate level at C, Java, and Python, I have none of neither). As an Economics graduate, I have a fairly shallow knowledge of Math, some catch-up would be needed in Calculus and Linear Algebra also. This would make the program even more time-consuming for me (and I need to stay my full-time job).

I will focus this ernergy on becoming a better software developer and think again about this program in a couple of years.
Meanwhile Russia is resurrecting the Wooly Mammoth to knock down trees in an effort to slow global warming.

http://a16z.com/2017/07/17/pleistocenepark-geoengineering-re...
The stock trading value of gold is a pyramid scheme, of course. Gold, the metal, is not.

Since bitcoin is just the currency, it has no intrinsic value besides its pyramid scheme.

Fiat money isn't a pyramid scheme. You don't buy in on the assumption of future market growth that will drive up the value of what you have. You expect your fiat to become worth less, not more, over time.

And Bitcoin is more "pyramidy" than other things because of how its coin creation algorithm worked. It halves every four years, so 16.5m of 21m bitcoin total ever to be made already exist. Early adopters got huge sums of cheap coin, while later entrants find the coin creation rates are slower and the price is magnitudes higher.

Nothing precludes us having "breakout" means to increase the total market supply of things thought scarce right now. We could discover a way to synthesize gold cheaply that crashes the market, or we find space mining is a really lucrative source of gold. Suddenly the world gold supply gets a lot larger, and the price drops a lot in response.

Bitcoin would require a major breaking and forking change to the algorithm to change the coin payout algorithm. And that kind of change hurts the people who have the bitcoin now, whose voice is what determines the canonical blockchain. They would never accept it unless the pyramid behavior of the current algorithm crashes the bitcoin economy.
Google already isn't the only frontend to their search. Look at Startpage, for example.
Or not?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a...
I remember Geocities pages would always be trying to read from my floppy drive. People would not realize you had to upload your pictures before other people could see them and just would put D:\pictures\goatse.jpg as the src of the img tag because they didn't really understand the web (not that I blame them.) Of course, the browser had no problem trying to load local images from untrusted code on a remote host, security policies were, uh, extremely permissive at the time.

(Of course, there would be plenty of attempting to read from the C:\ drive too, but that didn't make a loud, unexpected sound like reading from the floppy drive did)

Simple times.
I totally think you're making the right decision.
1. Your discounting that some people (myself included) enjoy cooking so it is a liesure activity.

2. The whole "my time is worth X at work so it is worth paying X to not spend time doing something myself" is a fallacy. That only applies if there is opportunity cost involved.

3. Unless you pay even more for delivery or the pizza place is right next door, it will take you 15+ minutes to drive there, pick up the pizza, and come back.
How about reducing their size, removing redundant jobs, reducing regulation that does harm, cutting costs...
You don't think the peer review process ever produces false negatives?
> commercial RDBMS comes packaged with a lot more than just the db engine

It may be strength of psql and not weakness, they are focused on one specific niche, which actually covers 95% of business use cases, and trying to do it very well.

For all other cases, there are other products as well. Most of the data science world talks R and SQL now days, and not mdx.
So normally the idea of doing an ICO isn't really an issue for me. I care more about the product and the tech behind it. If it's something I believe in then I could care less about whether or not they decide to do an ICO.

However in this case, the phrasing of:

> considering implementing part of the product using blockchain tech just to get potential of rising founds with ICO

would have me worried. The idea of trying to go for a cash grab just because they can doesn't sound like a good idea. If the product isn't directly related to blockchain tech/decentralization then trying to incorporate it just for an ICO is a bad move, imo.
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Collars in the options market

Futures

or plain old fx swaps solve all of these problems
So, there is an app to control the oven with an interesting FAQ:

Can I use the June Oven without the iOS mobile app?

The June Oven will still be functional and does not require the iOS app to work. However, the app is designed to enhance your cooking experience. With the June app, you can adjust cook settings, view a live-steam video of your food cooking and view details of previous cook sessions.

I'm a bit curious what details are available from my previous "cook sessions". I am not convinced that having my oven hooked to an app for basic operations is a security positive thing for my home.
When it's not warming up my food it can go to the mines...

I just have to first install more power lines for my house, brb
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I'm glad he decided to do this, though. It's a great piece. Maybe it's not what the "bullies" would've wanted, but it's something they should read anyway.
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