skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm cynical about a lot of things, like our dysfunctional mess of a government, a Fortune 500 saturated with exploitative bullshit, and the silly summer-camp that college has turned into. And people have been telling me about the decline of America for my whole life (admittedly not a long life). But I think they are just overwhelmed with worry because we have access to so much information, and I think America easily has another couple hundred years of prosperity ahead, even if it won't be smooth sailing the whole time.
I would put my things in storage when I went travelling, and leave the lease. Usually quite affordable, even with the big brand name storage firms.
Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning
But isn't that the case for all of these websites, not just IMDB?
yeah very dramatic, let's all pray

/s
Worldwide box office definitely skews to big budget action film though. Unless that's your thing, critic ratings are probably better.

Recommendations is a really tough problem even within a fairly narrow problem domain like film or music. I find Amazon and Netflix to mostly be pretty bad and you can be sure they've invested heavily.
Interestingly, just yesterday this was trending on HN: https://shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-dropbox-killer-1a9f27983d70
... you do know that hurricanes happen every year? And always have?
In my experience it's much easier to get a remote job for a company that you first do non-remote work for, if only for a trial period of a month or something. Even non-remote firms will agree to this if you're good enough, and live close enough to come over every once in a while.
I don't think it's quite the same thing, but that description reminds me of Ted Unangst's "accidentally nonblocking" post.

https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/accidentally-nonblockin...
Little Snitch 4 released
They are worsening because of climate change. You know it and I know it.
Human benefit? The trash bags full of money being thrown around the room, while we fight over the scraps?

Or we can talk about the purposeful obfuscation of the industry. How you have no way of verifying clicks, or views, or anything. How Cost Per Click is just an arbitrary number you and unknown others compete against, all for the pursuit of fake traffic and the hope of winning the advertising lottery.

It is more worth your time to play Three Card Monty on the street corner, because at least all parties agree that game is fixed.

When the online advertising bubble pops, it's going to go off like a fucking bomb, and we'll all be lucky to survive it.
That's what makes me wonder. I feel so bad after 10hr flight that I'd rather spend a day in a city like Doha (unfortunately most stopover cities are also most boring middle-eastern cities). I mean I'm jealous - it's the reason I avoid long distance flights at all cost. Maybe business class is more bearable or there are special tricks like sleeping pills, dunno.
This is a very simple, if somewhat specialized, device. I fought myself to make it that way, and I'll fight to keep it that way. Using it should feel like using a quality can opener.

Fundamentally, the software doesn't matter much. Are the forms good? Are they easy to review? Are the terms of use clear and reasonable? Does the signature mechanism work? Are the folks and systems behind it resisting the pressure to horde my data and do creepy things with it?

I think slick SaaS marketing would make me more suspicious, not less, that I wouldn't like the answers to some of those questions.
To elaborate a bit on that, exposing an AST directly means that you're tied to that version of the AST; this was considered really hard for compatibility over versions. Token streams are much easier to define an interface for, and more flexible: you're not just stuck with whatever AST representation we'd have given you.

For example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/procedural-macr...
> Get ready, because the next few decades are gonna look like this.

And this https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/90179790604643942...
By read "Deep Focus" do you mean the "Deep work" book?
I don't think there's enough context to say that. There are people who are serial job hoppers, and (depending on the task) that might be a red flag when interviewing someone. On the other hand, some people just naturally follow a consultant type of path, where they're hired on as long term contractors for specific tasks, with no commitments after those tasks are complete. The author might have that kind of career for all we know (I don't, I just know other people who have had careers like that).
Sure. But I thought everyone living in Houston was aware of this risk? How do you live there without knowing this? Most of these outer areas are full of people constantly harping on about the government staying the hell out of their business, but will now beg for federal help and financial bailouts for the uninsured.

And before anyone calls me a Yankee snob... Born and raised in Houston and our house flooded many times in the last decade. It gets worse because they keep allowing massive paving and megablock development with no regard for environmental planning. Most of the residents love this as the city hates zoning, regulations, and people love the growth from development and population growth. It's one of the most environmentally disrespectful places in the world and then they freak out when they remember Nature exists.

You should see the massive parking lots they created on what was just green fields, for so called "power centers" (HEB, Costco, etc). Instead of requiring garages to be built instead on a smaller footprint and reserving the rest for a reservoir, they allow any development because they can only compete by being as cheap as possible for everything, and that would increase development costs! So now we get more flooding in residential areas. And I haven't even started on the massive cooling costs of these ridiculously oversized buildings, the carbon from the SUVs being driven everywhere, the heat island effect of the massive concrete parking lots (which are not required to have covers or trees planted over them ...),the quarter mile wide I10. But Texans love this lifestyle! They reap what they sow. "pray for Texas y'all!" Yeah that'll do it!

Unfortunately, in the classic American tradition, the east side of Houston (poorest) will get hardest by the rest of this, while the wealthier west side appears to be okay.
It is not, each block in Bitcoin Cash can only hold 8x more transactions.

Also, and more important: it is not necessary to for it to be 1000x more efficient, because no cryptocurrency currently has such a big amount of transactions per hour. It would be more wasteful to support 1GB blocks when they would go empty.

But, and this is actually my claim, if volume transaction increases enough to saturate a Bitcoin Cash block, then they will increase block size, as many times as it is needed, as that is the proposed Bitcoin Cash strategy. In stark contrast with the Bitcoin 1MB blocks forever strategy.

(I am assuming you don't think efficiency is measured in watts per transaction, because if you do, /facepalm)
http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-problems-with...
There are good things that can come from staying.

If (when, really) the productivity gains come, management
will notice and you'll be known as that person who improved things. This will give you good favour.

And if it doesn't work out, next time you get asked in interview, "What are some challenges you have faced?" you can talk about how you introduced Git and JIRA to a company that didn't have source control and bug tracking. You can talk about how you tried to change a company culture from hand-editing files in production to having deployment scripts. You can talk about the challenges you faced. It gives you a clear answer to "Why are you leaving?", you can talk honestly about your expectations in terms of what a company should provide for its developers, talk about how your current company isn't or wasn't meeting those and use that to indirectly talk about how much of the joel test the prospective company can meet.

It will give you a fresh sense of perspective too. In the future when you're struggling with a build system you can think, "well at least we're better than we were at Initrode".

And maybe it's just a really nice place to work, not all work is about being as efficient as possible at all times. Sometimes you can stand back and realise that while other teams could do what you're doing in half the time, you're still getting paid to do this job and maybe your colleagues are warm and friendly.
TIL Washington Post is tabloid and not publication with certain relation and standards.
The parent claimed there was no such thing as mainstream taste, basically.
Simpler explanation of DeepMind's paper on AI playing Atari games
Rotten tomatoes/meta-critic ratings don't change anymore after a month or so, unlike IMDB where newer movies are trending downward for at-least a year or two.
Simple Hadoop configuration me likeyy
Not to mention not everyone has the capital or viable business idea either. Ive always found the “just start a company” thing to be simplistic and loaded with assumptions.
The biggest chuck of CO2 footprint is heating and cooling. I'm pretty sure people don't want to stop using their AC.

Second biggest is cars and animal agriculture.

So, three most convenient things in the modern world, cooling, transportation and abundance of umami luxurious products and yet what, one industry to blame?

Climate change is happening because of the way society works, individuals works. It is a social problem.

What you need to fight is the ingrained greedy human nature. You need to fight the desire for convenience. Desire for luxury.

Many people will never inconvenience themselves by not eating animal products or by not driving a car, or by not cooling their rooms.

It's not the fault of the industry. It's a collective guilt shared by all and given that no one teaches you anywhere to fight against your greedy nature (well, maybe some religions somewhere do it right) I do not see how this will stop.
> Which makes me wonder where this demand came from.

My local coffee shop trialled Oatly and as someone who usually drinks soy or almond milk, it's a really nice alternative. Much easier to work with, and tastes better too.
For multitool you can not go wrong with a leatherman wave. Great warranty too, they'll fix anything you break.

Not big but not really for pocket carry though.

For fixed multiuse blade (think bushcraft, not defense) I don't buy any other than Mora. Really cheap, like 20-30$. I give them as a present to friends when I go for a walk and notice they don't have any. They are made of great steel and keep the edge well. They are great knives with the price of dispossable ones so you are not afraid of actually using them.

I'm kind of afraid of really punishing a $150 knive, so they end as box queens at home..
Echoing the user 5zBFyURxgY, I would say "don't".

The problem is not the language or even the ecosystem, but the jobs. Most JS gigs are not interesting and not technically challenging. For all the noise the community makes about us being 'engineers', the overwhelming bulk of JS jobs today are just the CSS/HTML tweaking roles of five years ago implemented in 2017 technology.

Occasionally you will get to write some Node server code. These apps will usually be thin proxies over 'real' API web services and the tickets will generally be about marshalling data, waiting for asynchronous responses and handling authentication.

I have been lucky enough to do better: first an adtech R&D role (mixed bag - I hate adtech as an industry, and I loathed our rapacious attitude to people's personal data, but I had lots of autonomy and got to manage my own feasibility studies); the second was a soujourn into web VR (not as technically deep as it sounds - you might get to write a shader or two; that's it).

JavaScript development is good if you want to make decent money doing something easy, and never worry about unemployment. It is not good if you want anything else. It is not a promising field if you want programmatic challenges; if you want to build in a niche of domain-specific knowledge; if you don't like relearning basic tools because the basics keep being reinvented; if you want to be respected as more than a pixel wrangler (you get a LOT of direct requests from senior managers to swap things around etc.); or if you want to keep your options open.

That last point is important. It is quite hard to move out of front end development. The field still has a poor repuation, and because the work is generally basic employers tend to be a little sceptical of your skills. Not insuperable but definitely a strike against JS as a specialism.

I really regret not getting out of JS when I could.
Oat based creme fraiche from Oatly tastes fine. I prefer cow milk, but do replace some dairy products with oat based where it doesn't have to taste 100% like it "used to".
how is this hacker news? can we report on any flood or natural disaster event outside US as well, some people really are self-centered convinced about their importance...
FWIW I did a similar test with IPFS recently and had no problems and it worked phenomenally. I know people have issues with Filecoin (IPFS's native token) and I myself am confused about some of the outstanding unsolved issues with it, but IPFS itself works really well.
That's a good question, thanks! I didn't think about that, but, surely, this functionality should be added. I will try to research what would be the best solution for accessibility.
If I were to guess, it would be the guesswork.
Maybe a 2013 tag?

Postgres 9.6 is out pl/pgsql JSON functions evolved a ton from 9.3!

I would love to have a discussion around what is possible today. But this article is a outdated start.
I live in Houston, well, just outside of it, and it's very not fun. Some friends of mine have reported flooding in their homes, and lost power. I live in a new area and the neighborhood is built up several feet higher than the surrounding plain - just enough that I've been lucky so far (no flooding in my neighborhood and still have power). I've seen pics posted by friends of the area where our office is downtown, and everything is underwater.
Please don't. Just be aware that making comments such as "that doesn't work outside of the Bay Area" like the original poster did are kind of silly.
You are welcome to do that, you are not welcome to mock the people who are losing their houses, possessions, and lives right now. Jerk.
A good place to start would be in the manually written example. [1] My current plan is to try and limit the the use of memoization such that it still guarantees linear parsing, but it doesn't memoize unless necessary.

[1]: https://github.com/pest-parser/pest/blob/master/pest/example...
This isn't the time for that.
Preventing Information Leaks with Policy-Agnostic Programming, with Jean Yang
Just a friendly word of advice... You can probably expect some downvotes for that comment. (I didn't downvote it, figured I would reply instead.)

If that happens, don't assume that it's because people disagree with you. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But any downvotes are more likely to be because the comment just doesn't add any value to the conversation. If it were something more substantive, you'd be more likely to get upvotes instead of down.
Turns out simply wishing people good luck and asserting everything is going to be fine [1] is a poor substitute for extreme weather monitoring / defence / preparation / response [2].

Who knew?

[1] http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/ar...

Trump: "Good luck to everybody. They're gonna be safe. Good luck to everybody. Good luck."

[2] https://newrepublic.com/minutes/144555/trump-says-good-luckb...)

"Over the last seven months, the president has both proposed and implemented numerous policies that surround hurricane preparedness, readiness, and response. Here are some of them:..."
> A lot of this is probably influenced by perceptions of "poor-people food" (like lobster)

Since when is lobster considered a "poor-people food"? That is the exact impression I get when it's the most expensive entree on most menus.
Yes and what I was implying is: It's easy but probably wrong to critisize coming from one side when never faced the other side. It's not easy to be employed but running a company isn't easier, rather the opposite. Such posts like OP's just focus on one side only and create a very opportunistic mindset where one is good and the other is bad.

I know business is most of the times an opportunistic game but I encountered often enough situations where people and companies didn't act 100% opportunistic. And you remember and recommend those people or companies.
Do changing the laws to make it legal count? http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9070435/Controversial...
How Not to Be Boring – Great Communication Skill
He even lives in Los Angeles where all these 3 are heavily used (maybe more than in other places?).

LA has: lots of AC and lots of cars

Not quite in LA, but there is Harris Ranch nearby.

So if he really wants people to change he needs to start at his door, I suppose.
Can confirm. The founder of this site is actually a close personal friend that started teaching me about this stuff years ago, first in a more casual way when catching up and then recently much more in-depth as he started documenting his experience.

I'm still more of a prepper lurker that's reading up on this stuff while friends are starting to take it more seriously. I personally don't know if prepping is a fad like cold war-era nuclear bunkers, a potential lifesaver like a beefed up version of the red cross emergency kits, or somewhere in between as a useful hobby like hiking and camping, but my inner research nerd is having a great time learning more.

It helps that my YC team was a product review website and there's a lot of gear junkies in the survivalist crowd, so that's been my entry point into it, not so much the angle on being freaked out about the news.
It was "solved" in some general sense but was never implemented widely or consistently. It was traditionally a really clunky and fragile system (e-mail forms) that ended up being really limited in its utility because it wasn't widely used.

That said, the point isn't that this is a technically difficult problem (it isn't) but rather one of human scale: altering the behavior of tens of thousands of more-or-less autonomous networks spanning the globe is non-trivial.
Could you please stop spamming the thread with off-topic complaints? If you aren't going to comment civilly and substantively just don't.
Why we think so much about our hair
I agree. I guess I was trying hard to suggest the fact that it can be used _with_ Rust and not the fact that it is written _in_ Rust.
Yes, but given that Travis & his supporters have board seats + many full-time employees are fans of Travis, a new CEO who is in sync with Travis for aggressive business decisions while at the same is grounded, displays "CEO-style" behavior in public, would be a perfect fit.
Ha ha ha,

Which account registered the "fraudulent * " clicks? That account receives $X per click, which we've determined, and no you can't see our math. Proprietary information, don't'cha'kno.

*Advertising host admits no wrong-doing, has investigated itself, and found itself not at fault. Offer subject to limitations. See Attorney General for details.
Question: How much impact would Harvey levels of rainfall have had on 2013-2016 California drought?
It has been tried, and on the whole, it wasn't a success at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006

Only an extraordinarily confident and popular government would have another go (and it's not what the UK has now).

As for the voting scheme you describe, it's entirely voluntary, for 2018, and no council has signed up yet.

Things may move in that direction slowly, but to suggest that the UK is particularly close to requiring ID for internet accounts is downright silly I'm afraid.
Elon says a lot of things!
This really doesn't have anything to do with him. This is a once in a lifetime event. Could we wait to make it political until after it is over?
Why the Gender Pay Gap in Your Tech Firm Turns Women Off
I sympathize with how you feel about that (and with the people in Texas, of course). But the personal insult really isn't helpful.
Nope, it's a pure coincidence as I've made the button style just to record the GIF. As for the tooltip itself, it uses a generic style, but thanks for the link to your project, looks nice :)
Obviously most of the right is against Nazis, but the modern conservative faction seems to draw a much higher ratio of violence and fascist rhetoric than the left.

When something happens, the media gives right-wing fascists the benefit of the doubt; "we don't know who he is", "he doesn't represent the movement", "he was scared", "he was attacked", "he's crazy", and once the proof is out they tend to draw false equivalencies with left.

That doesn't happen as much on the left - it's stigmatized full stop, no excuses. CNN's clickbait news will drag it out
Only clean with carbon tetrachloride, um, thanks, I'll pass.
Honest question: is there a better option for non-rechargeable batteries for portable electronics? Where "better" means some combination of lower cost, higher energy density, more recyclability, more safety, or similar.
There is enormous demand to relocate into more temperate and less car-dependent parts of the country. Indeed we will not abstain from cooling and motor transportation where they're required, but we can move to where they aren't required.
German government announces new self-driving car guidelines
I don't put milk in coffee but oat milk is just great with cereal.
> changing the world, have passion for what you do every day…

I have worked at a company that literally revolutionized modern tech. Luckily, I was also quite well compensated, but the qualities listed above were an essential component to the success of the project I was with. It can mean the difference between a half-baked product and a mind-blowing product.

Everyone I worked with was excited about what we were doing because we knew we were changing the world (it sounds hyperbolic, but history has validated our thinking).

Money is essential. Indoctrination is soul-sucking. There does exist a realm in between.
You don't need own capital to start a company. It sounds harder without capital but actually it is easier. The less capital you have the more creative you get and the better you business model will be. And if you still need money there are tons of investors out there. Getting their funds is not easy but having no capital shouldn't be an excuse to not start a business.
This is the best time for it. We are online and not in Houston so not like I can help them anyways. People need to live in tune with nature, not ignore it for short term monetary gain. Eventually places like Phoenix, Vegas, Miami, etc will face reckoning too.
Hurricanes (or natural disasters) are one in a lifetime event?
Whoa, is pig's feet supposed to be an example of an "inedible" food? Some people in my family love that stuff.
The most useful multitool I've owned is my Victorinox Cybertool M, mostly due to the incredibly convenient miniature socket set and functional toothpick and tweezers. I have a couple dedicated folding knives that I keep in my car or carry with me while camping that I'd use to actually cut things. For most other tool uses I find myself getting fed up with multitools. I tried carrying a leatherman for awhile but found I barely used it for how bulky it was.
Is it possible to use oat milk (and other vegetables based milks) to make derivatives like cheese or yogurt?
NSTIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Strategy_for_Trusted_...
Yes sure, "Deep Work". My bad...
What do you do with your rental?
Too much rain at once is bad. Even in a drought. Actually, it's pretty bad. Dried out grounds cannot absorb water very fast (in that quantity), so it usually results in a lot of issues and mud slides.