skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something interesting about that. Websites take maintenance and tools to read them. Books do not. If you want your information to be around a long time, maybe write a book instead? Or both?
You're operating under a pretty severe cognitive bias there.

Anti-fa violence is investigated, but the levels of actual recorded violence, and threats of violence, from anti-fa groups is minuscule when compared to that from white supremacists.

They're simply not comparable.

White supremacists have already murdered people in the US, sometimes in mass killings.
How do you determine whether a price is "price gouging"?
This isn't an IoT home security camera bought by Joe Sixpack though, where that argument makes more sense. This is supposed to be installed and maintained by developers and/or IT professionals. Are there really so many who are that helpless that they can't use a config wizard? Eek.
Correct, the availability of courses is limited and there are four specializations available but its still early days in online education space and as I understand, maintaining, editing and publishing a course is a huge effort for a public university such as GaTech. They are adding courses every semester as of now and there are enough general purpose courses in core computer science like Operating systems, compiler theory, algorithms etc and current ones such as Machine Learning and various AI related topics.
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How did MechE's succeed before the Internet?
For those needing more detail on generating numbers from a specific distribution there is Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 2 Seminumerical Algorithms, see section 3.4 Other types of random quantities. Special treatment is given for many distributions: normal, exponential, gamma, chi-squared, f-distribution, binomial, Poisson, along with discussion of general methods. Although there have been more recent advances in the generation of high-quality, high-speed generation of uniformly distributed random numbers, Knuth covers a whole range of issues related to pseudorandom number generation.
> Also not a surprise when a judge orders you to restore access because your agreement is invalid.

That's not what happened here, there has been no ruling on any agreement, and the injunction order that was given only applies to HiQ, only temporarily, and nobody else. It is not a statement on the validity of EULAs or of LinkedIn's EULA, and it is not a statement on whether LinkedIn is being anti-competetive. It is an injunction and nothing else.
That only works on a single server, so it's not an option for hdfs in anything but a toy configuration. The nodes in a hdfs cluster must be able to communicate securely, and the way you do that is to set up TLS between the nodes, with Kerberos as authentication, which is quite bothersome to get running.
No i didn't. But it doesn't even matter because your argument is invalid. Two articles/texts can be based in science and oppose each other. You know why? Because scientific literature can also disagree with each other.

But again your ideoligical lense doesn't allow you to even consider this possibility and instead automatically classifies anything that opposes your beliefs and what you have read as pseudo science.
Yes, incompetence. I bet that such a defense would have trouble in court considering that your resume and interview would ideally cover the true amount of years of experience.
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"Think of the children".

What a sad way to begin a rebuttal. Quite unfitting of HN.

Speaking of empathy, can we have some for the European countries currently being invaded?
Did you read the story? He made a public request for ideas about his philanthropy strategy
What are your thoughts on pediatric cancer research in Western countries?
> Use high contrast between the background colour and text: WCAG 2.0 AA requires a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text and 3.1 for large text. Large text is considered 14 point and bold text, or 18 point or larger text.

Grey text is all the rage these days, as are gray backgrounds. Dark grey text on a light grey background is difficult for many fully-sighted people to read, yet it persists on many websites (including HN — the visited link at the top of the page is #828282 and it's presented on a background of #F6F6F0. This yields a contrast ratio of 3.54:1, well shy of the recommended 4.5:1.)

The contrast problem also manifests on websites that have scrolling background images, which move underneath text and can create tricky contrast issues. Ironically, I've even seen these problems on accessibility-focused websites.

To be honest, I'm not sure how to fully solve this problem. I think as long as scrolling background images are popular, this will continue to be an issue. The only "fix" I can think of is to only use images that are mostly light or mostly dark, so that a single color of text can comfortably be read on top of them. But most images that people like to use in this scrolling are bright and dynamic, with light regions and dark regions. This doesn't bode well for text contrast or accessibility.
Zoox is using UE4 to build a testing platform for their self-driving cars
Where did you get those numbers from please?
What's amazing is that none of his ventures were ever profitable that I know of. He made all of his cash off of acquisitions.
The Daily Stormer is not a 'debate' site. The owner/operator explicitly calls for war. I get you like the universal free speech idea but there isn't a valid form of Nazism that's A-OK once you get over the genocidal bits.
Libraries are many different books that got the same label :-)
The modern day equivalent of a public library (storing information history) is the internet archive.

I think donating to the internet archive would be a better donation which a lot more benefit to society than funding physical libraries.

Libraries solve one of the worlds most important problem -
keeping societies important information history safe. Websites are not immune to this problem. They require maintenance. When a webpage goes down its gone forever. Without something like the internet archive, we would not have a modern day library equivalent for the web. We are losing a lot of important information. Physical libraries today are in comparison much less important than digital ones.
Yeah, you had to remember to change all the links in the html because FrontPage Express kept saving the local full path so you could keep working on and previewing your site on a browser. HTTP server software (on Windows anyway) was so obscure that you had no idea how to get a free one running on your desktop unless you had access to Windows NT with IIS. All that changed when I installed Mandrake for the first time...
Civilized, no quotes needed.
Fast inverse square root, with a mystery constant (2012)
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
This machine - a 16-bit computer from 1969 (!) - was marketed as a "kitchen computer", among other things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316

Seriously.
We already know about neo-nazi racists and gov already investigates them. However, Antifa and these Marxist Resistance groups are newly radicalized and dangerous groups that regularly entertain violence against Trump and his supporters. Remember the shooter who tried to assassinate Republican congressman anybody? They deserve to be investigated as it effects the stability of our country.
I think parser generators are generally easier to use with dynamic languages. Most of the code-generation tooling can be hidden by interpreters or JIT compilers, and dynamic typing and generics can make the action code much more concise.

I learned and used bison+flex back in the 90s. More recently, I've enjoyed the PLY package for Python. It's essentially the same algorithms and abstractions, but it turns the usual bison grammar inside-out by embedding grammar fragments in your Python action code instead of embedding action code in a grammar file.

Your grammar is a Python module. You write Python function definitions which feel almost like you are writing the interesting subset of a recursive-descent parser, i.e. the important reduction steps, while hand-waving about all the input-testing and buffering you would have to do in a bespoke recursive descent parser. The code comment on each function attaches the grammatical rule which fires that action. The PLY parser-generator function you call at the end of your grammar module uses Python introspection to find all the production rules and stitch the parser together.

My only coding style complaint is how PLY abuses the function __doc__ strings to embed the grammar rules. I think using a decorator interface would have been a more "pythonic" interface to attach the grammatical rules to each action function...
> as his employees never had a fair shot in getting a reasonable share of profits

They get paid an hourly wage or salary. Thats their share of the profits. Why are employees magically entitled to profits other than what they agreed to work for?
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Holy crap you're gonna be broke. Don't do it.

Expect to pay $3k-ish in the cheapest areas in the peninsula for an older 2 bedroom apartment. Now take all your expenses (eating out, gym, etc) and multiply by 2-3. Oh, and food is at least twice as expensive as in the Midwest (reference: when I fly home to see parents, I occasionally grocery shop for them.) My grocery bill is $700-$800/mo for 2 adults, plus $300/mo of munchery. (That said, I lift hard so I eat a lot of food. Still.)

I really need to emphasize that $3k is for a crappy apartment thrown up in the 80s for bottom dollar.

For comparison, friends rent a (small, crappy) detached 2 bedroom house with a 20x20 ft yard in Mountain View for $4700/mo.

If you want to be in eg Palo Alto Unified, expect to pay $5k-ish for a 3 bedroom. Also, a friend who moved here with a freshman daughter said she hates the school and hates how competitive all the students are.

Sales tax is 9% btw. And don't forget our high state income taxes.

And if you ever managed to buy a home (which you won't be able to do), you'll spend near $1m and pay roughly $1-$1.2k/mo in property taxes. For forever. That makes saving enough money to retire extremely hard.

btw I help manage apartments here; leave your email below if you have questions and I'm happy to answer anything directly.
I've sort of finished reading Clayton Christensen's book "How will you measure your life?" [1]

Using a series of personal anecdotes, stories, observations from sociological & psychological research, the book assisted me in developing a perspective & framework to understand what my priorities are & perhaps could / should be, helping me get a better sense of what I could / should do with my time. I found it very useful, given where I am in life.

While I normally plough through books, this was one book where I found myself iterating(?) through the book. I'd read a few chapters, put the book away, come back after a few days, read from the start, perhaps ending at a further chapter, and then back to start.

To add, I found his observations about hygiene factors (salary, well laid out work environment, etc) vs factors that can motivate you (good team, ambitious objectives, etc) very very "aha" and insightful. I'm building a team, and I now consider these at every major decision..

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425570-how-will-you-me...
Enterprise streaming solution is a very promising area. I know Steamlio has solid engineer team, looking forward to their next big step!
> I wonder whether the academic publications are growing ever less relevant to practice.

I think there are two topics here. One is whether academic research and work is becoming less relevant to practice. The other is whether the formalism of academic-style publishing are becoming less relevant to the modern world where more and more venues for publishing, rating, and discovering work.

On the former, I believe that academic work is as relevant as ever. There are some areas (like systems) where I'm doubtful about relevance from the point of view of a practitioner, but other areas (like hardware and ML where work remains extremely relevant). I haven't noticed a trend there over the last decade, except in some areas of systems where the industrial practice tends to happen on cluster sizes that are often not approachable for academia.

On the latter, academic publication does indeed seem to be getting less relevant. There are other (often better) ways to discover work. There are other ways to tell whether a piece of work is relevant, or credible. There are other, definitely better, ways to publish and distribute work. In some sense I think this is a pity: as an academic-turned-practitioner I like academic-style publications. Still, I think they are going to either change substantially or die.

This article raises another very good point: sometimes the formalism of academic publication makes the work harder to understand, less approachable, or less valuable. That's clear harm, and it seems like this professor was right to avoid that.
Similarly, in czech localization it was "Tento pocitac" ("This computer") since Windows 95. Windows 7 uses just "Pocitac" and I honestly have no idea what is the translation used in 10.
Maybe Neocities should add a webring feature.
Second this. Universities are a great place to find junior dev work as competition is relatively low compared with higher paying industries.

I started off at an extremely low salary in my first job at a UC and doubled my salary in two years (though I still work in higher-ed and like it).
https://www.vpl.ca/hours-locations
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Some favorites:

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http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html

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Cycle Computing is joining Microsoft
[edited to be more civil]. Nope, not a victim when he's getting so rich doing it.
Something I ran into while building a personal website was HTML elements tied to styling elements. Some issues were fixed by using the correct semantic element and overriding every unwanted default style, but some styles and features simply aren't available for the correct semantic element. I felt I was constantly abusing the language to get the look and features I wanted.
Years.
Worse even, some cars do not allow you to stop the audio player while still accepting audio from apps such as google maps. So a playlist with actual silence looped is a neat workaround.
Rather the opposite, a very large fraction of the original pages have been preserved. Many of them were deleted long before by the owners themselves and/or rehosted elsewhere.

Original Geocities content is probably the oldest large body of internet content that will be preserved for many years to come and it will look roughly how it looked on Geocities because it wasn't relying on much of anything other than basic HTML and some images.
You should try it sometime. I think it's a lot more fun, and obviously, so do a lot of other movie-goers.
I signed up in 2009 .. never used it and forgot about it.

In 2013 or 14 or earlier Uber accounts started to get hacked because people did not use the strongest Username and Password . Uber knew about these hacks and their PR was it's the user's fault vs. sending out emails alerting all users to change their passwords to something crazy secure and utilize 2fa. No they did not do that .. they just released a statement saying it's their users faults.

The hacks happened a dozen times a day for months to years per searching twitter ... drivers in some far off country ... charging obscene amounts for a ride in London for example. The majority of these hacks/stolen money were coming from London.

Then as a user you want to immediately cut ties with Uber, but no there was no way to cancel your account and be done with these scumbags .. you had to send them an email and it took five days for them to cancel my account. All the while I was worried that it might happen again within those five days.

Then years later all this other stuff comes out about Uber.

They never cared for anyone who wasn't Kalanick's BRO ... from their drivers to their employees to their customers to whomever did business with them.

BenchMark is so right to try and rid Uber of that egomaniac... it's all about him vs. everyone else. I hope he keeps being himself ... he's just going to bring down Uber and only hold the ashes that once was Uber in hands!!!
How could I forget RHPS! NOW that is a BLAST!
Neo-nazi group moves to 'dark web' after domain registration revoked
I remain optimistic, but some potential holes are starting to show. Scott Aaronson: (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389)

"To everyone who keeps asking me about the “new” P≠NP proof: I’d again bet $200,000 that the proof won’t stand, except that the last time I tried that, it didn’t achieve its purpose, which was to get people to stop asking me about it. So: the paper claims to give an exponential circuit lower bound for Andreev’s function, but that function as defined in Section 7 of the paper seems clearly to have a polynomial-size circuit, based on polynomial interpolation (thanks to Luca Trevisan for this observation). So I don’t see how this can possibly stand. Please just stop asking, and if the thing hasn’t been fully refuted by the end of the week, you can come back and tell me I was a closed-minded fool."
Every library I've been to in every town I've been to had Sunday hours. This includes New York City and its surrounding suburbs, Buffalo and its surrounding suburbs, several towns in Conneticut and several more in Toronto Canada and its surrounding suburbs.

Even my university library has sunday hours.
> I'm fairly certain that the aggregation of jobs described as "tech industry" in this statistic are a rather different collection of jobs pre-mid 80s and post-mid 80s. Not necessarily because of people massaging a statistic(but many people no doubt would be happy to overlook the previous supposition in making a case,) but because the nature of most jobs in computing has changed with the advent of personal computers. In the punch card era many "tech jobs" were more secretarial/office management/accountancy roles, nowadays with the explosion of computing devices there are many more software development and hardware engineering roles.

That's an interesting supposition but I'm not necessarily sure it's true. If you consider the number of women graduating with computer science degrees between then and now[1], the trend is the still there: growth until the mid 80s and then reversal. If the trend were merely explained by the fact that tech jobs have transitioned from "secretarial" jobs to engineering roles, why is it also present in the ratio of women studying actual computer science in college?

> What about other industries with even more skewed sex ratios but fewer or no high-profile articles about sexual harassment, what's the cause in those industries?

Since my point is that the gender ratio itself is a red herring, I'm not sure what the purpose would be in speculating about its cause in other industries.

> Has anyone put to an analysis that these sort of events occur more frequently in the tech industry, rather than the tech industry is high profile and thus these events get more attention?

That's your argument? That the level of sexual harassment in the tech industry is at a "normal" level relative to other industries and is simply over-reported?

It sounds like you're bending over backwards trying to justify the status quo here. But okay, for the sake of argument, let's assume it is simply over-reported. Does that make it any less problematic? Should we simply accept the situation as "well, that's just the way things are", instead of actively trying to improve it?

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/pdf/tab33.pdf
One problem that can't probably solved by simply "focusing on the UX and better service" is that the service provider (medical professional) is both responsible for evaluating what's wrong with you (and what services you need) and the administering the treatment.

Judging the quality of the medical service is also often difficult. The true quality and the utility of the service you receive will often be apparent only years or decades later. Did a patient need for antibiotics for a basic viral infection? Probably not but it feels like a better service.
Agree, that's why I said its "for a US Masters". There have been other traditional offerings from CMU, Stanford and JHU etc which are all in the 40k USD range. Most of the international students would normally get more out of a residential MS in the US but 100k+ investment is sometimes out of the question. The other view is that the coursework lets say in a country like India will leave a lot to be desired and even an online MS such as from GaTech is a window to the outside world where they can interact with a wide variety of students and immerse themselves in a nearly international study experience. So the cost factor is just right. Also admissions to the Gatech cohorts are very competitive now, so its not also a cake walk to get in these days :)
Come on, book is just a medium, now we have a different form already, why put money into old-school stuff? For nostalgia reasons?
You are totally correct, but it violates the intuition of many people.
another reason to use archive.is
Seems kind of pedantic. By this reasoning, almost all power sources are really fusion power, right? But we don't label solar, wind, fossil fuels, etc. as fusion.

The thing about human power is that exercise is also good for us, and in our current times most people (at least in developed countries) don't really get enough of it. So it doesn't necessarily have to be the most efficient to be useful.
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I'm only sort-of aware of the background on this one, so bear with me:

Avon is a brand of cosmetics being sold door-to-door, so it became a favorite of many transvestites in the UK, many becoming Avon salespeople themselves.

So "Yer da sells Avon" could also be meant to imply "your dad is a transvestite".
For anyone curious, you can help fix dead reference links on Wikipedia in just a few seconds. If you find a page that has a dead link (or several), click the "View History" tab at the top, then click "Fix Dead Links" to run the InternetArchiveBot on the page.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot
I will concur with the others who are suggesting you explore remote options first. Besides the quality of life hit you would take in moving to SV, you are also increasing your risk if things don't work out. Start-ups, even well connected ones that seem like a sure thing, fail all the time. While your path to savings and local support network sounds like it will provide you with a nice cushion in Ohio, you would not have this in the bay area. With only one income in the family a six-month or more stretch of unemployment might be devastating.

Look for remote work, and see about building a network both in SV and NYC. The latter is a bit closer to you and you might find it easier to land a remote job with a NYC firm.
i love libraries but i never go cause i'm not allowed to sip a coffee. i mean come on, where's the fun factor! Wouldn't you take the risk of spilling drinks on books rather than preventing people from coming?
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I do not need your empathy. foreign invasion?! Are you proposing «let them die of malaria» as a solution to increased immigration?
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thats a cool idea actually
Meandering through the stacks with a pint in hand.

That's either the best idea ever, or the worst idea ever. I'm not sure that it'd be very quiet, either.