skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived between Denver and Boulder for a couple of decades now, and my gut reaction is that Denver/Boulder is probably the type of area that Amazon is looking for to attract talent. Louisville, CO (outside Boulder) is often ranked #1 or #2 for great places to live, and Louisville has the abandoned Storagetek campus (~432 acres) and immediate access to HWY36 and the 470 Tollway. Whether or not adding a mega-campus of 50,000 to the 80027 zip code (or frankly, even one 20 minutes south to Denver proper) is good for the Corridor is another conversation entirely.
The browser still has to make a request to the CDN to get back an HTTP 304. The goal is to avoid downloading a potentially large payload, not be resilient against connectivity issues.
Sadly completely unusable on mobile.
Yes, Donald Trump is strategizing a retaliation with Jeff Bezos and other allies at GitHub as we speak.
Could someone explain this gem in the C version?

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/c/types.c#L170
Those about to die are more sedentary?
The solution? Get Real https://github.com/DeBraid/tech-notes/blob/master/basecamp-g...

37signals wrote a book on this a decade ago before they changed their name to Basecamp. It is loaded with practical advice on how to build good software and avoid technical debt.

Aside: no affiliation, just a fan of the book.
Adobe Lightroom can also merge bracketed RAW (DNG) images. That is, you take N DNG images and you get 1 DNG image out, which then preserves more image information that allows you to non-destructively edit the final image. It's available under "Photo Merge > HDR". Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a lot of settings to tweak the merging algorithm, unfortunately.
> One is image stacking

Since you seem to have experimented with this, I'd like to ask: don't you need a certain "minimum" time to capture the faintest of stars, because their signal otherwise wouldn't rise above the noise floor? I've been curious about this with stacking in atrophotography for a while.

> The other technique is dark frame subtraction, where you take an photo with the lens covered at the same ISO/shutter/aperture as the rest of the set. Digital sensors have readout noise and heat noise which tends to be very predicable. Subtracting this noise gives you a cleaner shot as well.

For long exposures this heat noise becomes more problematic: long exposures heat up the sensor quite a bit. Have you tried building your own customised electric coolbox to keep temperatures down? It can be a fun project!

I actually used this in a different context: during long Skype sessions at home with my people abroad, my phone heats up a lot and the video would start stutter. Putting it on a cooling block actually fixes that. This had more to do with the system not having to scale back CPU performance to let the phone cool down, but a side-effect according to people on the other end of the line, was that the image quality improved too
Because normal Cache-Control is only aimed at reducing the amount of data transferred. With newer immutable Cache-Control[0], a CDN going down wouldn't have an effect if you have the resources cached.

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/01/using-immutable-caching-to...
I haven't had any service disruption with Gmail or Youtube in VA.
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Seems like mailing list with a nicer UI that allows for searching etc.....
Also they didn't randomize the activity level of the subjects by putting them on different exercise programs.

I would think that people being in an end of life state at the beginning of the study would tend to be more likely to be tired and avoid exercise.

It could well be that early undiagnosed terminal illness causes people to be sedentary and not the other way around.
> That's what the damn curves are!

No, they are not. The curves are drawn at a given point in time, what you're doing here is recording supply/demand over time. You would have to assume in addition that the curves didn't change over the time period so you could say this data are the demand/supply curves.
I made my personal site (http://zekehernandez.com) using Hugo (a static site generator) and have it hosted for free on Firebase. It was mostly easy (for someone who has little to no experience making websites), and again, free.
I think static-site generators are perfect for personal sites/blogs.
Safari? :)
I think what he means is that your pay must be within 30% of the average wage. So you could likely pay yourself between 63k and 113k if the average wage was 90k.
I'm guessing whatever happened has been fixed, because all of those services are working for me.
Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift
The Bolt has DC fast charging (90 miles in 30 minutes was the tagline, but it's more complicated than that because of charging curves)
Next up - an AI that can pinpoint the region where you were raised.
Just saw this at the bottom

> Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 9.0 or later, a Mac with Safari on macOS v10.11 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Streaming via Apple TV requires an Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) with software 6.2 or later or an Apple TV (4th generation).
Colleges and universities should not be Safe Spaces. They should challenge you, give you a chance to learn, and foster growth.

Of course if students feel excluded, they are less likely to fork over 100k in tuition fees. Maybe higher educations should focus on providing an education and not catering to hurt feelings and profits.
Ask HN: Static website on VPS Linux server
Is it possible to put a simple HTML static website on VPS Linux server (without any environment or Panel, as I don't have necessary skills to manage it)? Under a domain name of course. Thank you for advice.
Come on. This is HN. No one is telling anyone how to live their life. Well, people are but we all already know to ignore them right? We are trying to parse all this data about stand/sit/walk-desk and figure out if there is anything to it regarding overall mortality. If we can make some relatively small adjustments to our lives and gain back years that static positions may be taking from us why not? This is a quest for discovery about what the data is telling us. Yes, some of the time the data leads us on a path that is not the best (coffee/fats are bad?) -- it happens. Food and nutrition studies are worse than these types of studies, I think. There are so many more complicating factors compared to the broader strokes of these sort of lifestyle studies.
But you only get to collect social security to the extent you paid into the system

Medicare and social security payout more in benefits than you paid in:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/feb/01/...
> It is worrying they share this data with government agencies, marketing agencies etc

Facebook and Google are marketing/advertising agencies.
The OP would argue that we know myopia is chiefly caused by childhood visual experience and that Hygiene Hypothesis may explain asthma, which is definitely exacerbated by air pollution.

IMHO, however, people who talk about how happy people are in subsistence and developing societies haven't actually spent much time in them.
I ploughed through a semester of Phenomenology with other kids at Harvard and grabbed Kojeve and In the Spirit Of Hegel as guides. Very tough going for a young Anglo-American scholar. Phenomenology made more sense over years in rear view mirrors than at the time. I will add Kalkavage to the reading pile.
Huh, that sounds like a very interesting (but different) problem to tackle, given the vast differences between models.
By definition, if your site is down, you don't need your assets.
For something like jquery, you can host locally and fallback to it if the CDN fails.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1014251
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Need one from Myanmar
@dchest So you frequently use varchar for your table index?
Yeah, this is classic victim blaming. "Oh, she looked too pretty, I couldn't help myself from touching her ass."

How about not hiring assholes in the first place? If they have to be coached to not have issues with women, then they aren't worth your time.
"high sedentary time [≥12.5 h/d]"

Suppose I'm sedentary 13 hours a day, and that I walk / exercise for 2 hours, does it make me sedentary with a high-mortality risk?
Ask HN: Ubuntu on Windows: Is there a list of WSL unsupported system calls?
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been great, & allows me much more flexibility in my development workflow.

Yesterday, however, I spent hours on a bug that was not actually a bug. I finally figured out through experimentation that CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE was not yet supported by WSL (I was trying to use mq_open() for IPC). The code that I was writing compiled perfectly, but would not run on the WSL. It ran without issue on the RPi.

Is there a list of "Danger: don't waste your time on this!" unsupported system calls for the WSL that would hopfully keep me from needlessly burning several hours of development time?

I do see Microsoft's list of partial support (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/release_notes), but that doesn't help much. It even implies that inotify worked much sooner that it actually did in practice.

We have lists like this for browser support of things like CSS3 and HTML5... does it exist for the WSL?
Honestly Google is one of the few companies I know of which really considers internal threats and has taken precautions to reduce the likelihood that internal bad actors will have access, to reduce the scope of access to any bad actors that slip through, and to ensure that illegitimate accesses will be noticed, reducing the time a bad actor will have access.
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Super cool -- I don't think I've ever heard caught != cot or dawn != don.

This map seems to depict the west as much more homogenous than it actually is. Angelenos sound very different than Portlanders, for instance (moving south along the west coast seems to correlate with more modulation of pitch and more vocal fry).
Oh please, a website registered to some house in michigan.
OT: How has AWS WorkMail been?
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Correct, limiting immigration is a solution. While I personally am more favorable toward immigration, I respect people who support Trump's opinion on this. They have a point, the contract between citizens is...between citizens.

Bad economics from the point of view of maximum efficiency of human labor across all humanity.

I was not suggesting we just wait complacently, more lamenting that it seems to be the only not-actively-failing policy idea we have pursued up to this point.
Funnily enough, in one previous company I worked, which used Linux exclusively, the software was very buggy, and the servers were rebooted daily. We jokingly called that the "Windows solution".

When we proposed adding a daily reboot to cron, the tech lead (which encouraged practices which lead to this low quality software) retorted that "this in not Windows, it doesn't need constant reboots", totally missing the point that just using Linux doesn't make you a developer of reliable software.
You could make a website with vi and host it on Solaris today if you felt like it. I'm not sure why would want to though. Things have improved.

Now I use vim.
Many moons ago I worked at a consultancy that was struggling with knowledge sharing across continents and hundreds of projects. I suggested three paths: a company-wide search engine that would return results across all project files (Google used to sell such a solution, in a box); a part-time librarian role in each project team to make sure project documents were correctly named, the latest version was stored on the central file server, and they knew how to reach out to other project librarians; and finally a one-day after-action review workshop for every single project team as part of project closure. Plus a few additional activities for project teams and suggestions for long-term project staffing systems.

Some of it was done, very satisfyingly; some of it we didn't get around to trying. Then the dotcom meltdown happened.
What is the point of the service? Who gets paid and by who? There is already a Q and A site built on ethereum where people can answer questions and the highest upvoted answer gets a ETH reward.

Sounds like quora or stack overflow with cryptocurrencies
I'm not much of a desk-stander my self, but it's nice to have the option. To clarify, I was advocating encouraging more options for desk workers - not strictly standing at work.

It would also be nice to have a longer standard lunch period. I would love to be able to work out and eat in the middle of my day, but 30 mins just isn't enough.
Interesting map, it makes me want to make a poster out of it.

Since the map is (as far as I could see) a raster, does anyone have any recommendations on engines that can overlay information on maps (preferably open, ranging from svg + inkscape to a custom osm visualizer). I am just asking for curiosity's sake, nothing professional in mind here.
If you think about it, the poorest 10 percent of society consume 100% (or more) of their income, and would pay tax on all of it. The wealthiest 1 percent might only consume 20% of their income, and would therefore be taxed at a much lower rate vs. their income.
If you're asking whether I was the director of my agency or the CEO of Google then the answer is no. I have also not worked for the Government in about 6 years or Google in 4 years so maybe everything changed the moment I left.

However, I was an Assistant Director (which is a senior tech / middle management kind of level) at first an intelligence agency, and then at a similar grade in a law enforcement organization and then later a security engineer at Google.

The idea that an intelligence agency (or law enforcement agency) would ask Google for help isn't far fetched, in fact when I was in law enforcement we'd ask private companies for help all the time. Some of the time they'd help, the rest of the time they tell us to come back with a warrant.

Google was famously in the second category, to the point where we'd not even bother asking. Even if we had a warrant we'd hesitate because we'd expect Google to challenge the warrant in court and it'd be a huge expensive hassle.

When I worked at Google it was the same, the idea of sharing private information with anyone was anathema. Engineers even being able to see private information without an audit trail and alarms going off was next to impossible.

The idea of a secret extra-legal conduit of information from Google to the US Government seems so far fetched to me that I have trouble even considering it. If there is a conduit for information it's there because the US Government has some legal instrument to compel Google to create it and that Google grudgingly has accepted the instrument as valid.

But what do I know, like I said, I wasn't the CEO of Google or DIRNSA. Maybe I just was never in the right rooms or policy meetings? Maybe everything I saw was staged for my benefit.
The totalitarian nature of contemporary leftism is both its greatest strength and its greatest irony.
> If you're still using HTTP 1.x

Not sure why it was phrased that way but...isn't everybody?

I know that HTTP/2 is released and browsers support it, but I'm fairly certain that next to nobody is actually doing anything with it.
W for У is natural because that's how it works in Arabic.
9 months a year of employment, which is a gross oversimplification of how many weeks/yr a teacher is working.
I do the same, because as a general security practice, if I don't need it, I disable it.

I can't recall the last time I used bluetooth for anything.
damn, never thought to do this. thanks for the heads up.
What do you mean by "peer-to-peer" search platform. Are the people asking each other questions, instead of using a search engine? Or is it just a platform to chat with random people?
Can't we just have Sales tax only. People who buy more will pay more taxes. You can exempt certain items like food, education, healthcare. Why do we need complicated income tax model?
In the Sales Tax Only model, wealthy investors can invest as much money as they like but they will only be taxed if they liquidate their stocks and buy a fancy car or a yacht. I am trying to understand why we need Income tax at all?
What service do you use? 5/mo is really cheap for 10+sites/apps
"Daddy Bridge builder" sounds odd in English, too. Two thousand years, and we don't give "pope" or "pontifex" a second thought.
How would temp agency workers having collective bargaining with the temp agency (their employer) prevent Fiera from switching to a non-unionized temp agency?
The hiring process deck is thoroughly stacked against the job seeker, allowing companies to get away with all kinds of abuse, flakiness and lack of follow-up/courtesy. The trick as a candidate is to simply not take anything personally, and not get focused on That One Employer. Someone else mentioned "professional detachment" and that's really important as it's an employer's market (and it usually is).

Just a rough napkin-estimate, but I'd guess that out of the recruiters that URGENTLY REACH OUT WITH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY PLEASE RESPOND, 75% won't even get back to you after your polite "Thanks for getting in touch, I'm interested!" response.

Of those that get back to you and do a brief phone chat, you will never hear back from 75% of them about going forward with a phone screen with the company.

After the phone screen(s) with the company, 75% won't get back to you about going on-site for the "whiteboard hazing" interviews.

Of those, 75% will ghost you. So you should expect around a 0.4% hit rate.
HN is always conservative with blockchain. It surprises me because yes this is the tech industry but something radical is considered alien.
East coast, been on YouTube all day. Didn't notice anything. /shrug
There is no replacing C. The world can't even move on from Python 2 to Python 3.
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GSuite has status reports for things like this, and it tends to be a good way to confirm a Google service outage[0]. Direct link to the issue[1].

[0] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

[1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=d4...
There was a quiz in the NYT a year or two ago that did an astounding job of this without any AI -- it suggested two places for my upbringing based on what words I used "pop" vs "soda", whether I pronounced "pin" and "pen" the same or not, etc -- and the two suggested places happened to be where I grew up and where my parents grew up (which probably influenced my speaking by copying them as well as my peers).
I used to have a service that was like that, it was third party and only handled a specific function so I had a cron job that would reboot it at 4am every day.

Sometimes the hammer approach is the only solution.
Love it, perfect way to enjoy these again on a tablet.
> If poll where to return non-ready (and remember that poll has no idea which pages you are interested in), what action, within posix, would you take to change it?

readahead(2) ? posix_fadvise(2) ?
Except that's not always been the case, either. SSNs have always been a terrible way to disambiguate people. There are weird, crazy edge cases in SSN history. Cases exactly such as JS Jr getting the same SSN as JS III in a podunk town because the local SSA administrator was feeling lazy that day and JS III was already deceased. The federal SSA website claims that that never happened, but if you have a big enough database (say, Equifax) you can spot all kinds of simple dumb human errors like that. For many, many years the SSA left local administrators in charge: the first 5 digits and the weird way they are hyphenated were local district numbers. For people born before 2011 (!), when the new randomization scheme was switched to, there is a 90% chance you can guess their first five numbers if you know their birth date and birth city (which is why it is so ridiculous that PII rules to keep SSNs safe ever considered it fine to show only the last four, those are only meaningful digits for still the majority of SSNs in the wild).

SSNs were never designed for what the credit bureaus and banks and insurance companies (and everybody else) use them for, and there are too many cracks and failure cases. Companies need to admit their failures and come up with a real solution; but companies have so much sunk cost in SSN-keyed databases they aren't likely to ever actually do that. (Maybe this Equifax breach pushes more companies to try. Cynicism says companies remain cheap and invested in their sunk costs.)
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I think the people have not yet realized the full potential danger of the US gov abusing our data.
As the article points out we don't need to encourage money to be invested.
Impressive demo!
Ask HN: What to do when code review slows process down?
At work, code review is given a low priority for junior devs and PRs can age in the queue as more senior devs' PRs go through. This incurs a lot of overhead managing merge conflicts and is really annoying. What's a constructive way to approach requests for changing this?
It's objectively not true that salespeople in general get paid more than software developers. Maybe the very top salespeople get paid more than the very top software developers, but that is just because of how easily the top salespeople can prove that they are at the top.
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That's a tax-neutral investment. You would pay for the equipment with after-tax dollars, and your returns would be in lower utility bills, which you pay with after-tax dollars. So, your returns are effectively tax-free!
> The histogram tells much more of the story (if not the whole truth).

I feel that this is worth expanding on.

Because a raw file isn't actually image data and instead just straight readouts from the sensor, it doesn't make sense to show the histogram of raw data; the data has to be manipulated into a jpeg first. The histogram in the camera will show the lightness values for what the in-camera image processing computer does to convert the raw file into a jpeg, but the in-camera image processor is usually not as advanced as a desktop image processor. It's probably running older image processing algorithms and has to worry about battery life among other things.

So generally what this means is that if your camera is telling you that parts of your image are over or under exposed and therefore clipped, it might still be possible to recover those parts of the image in a more powerful image processor. It's also worthwhile, if you've got really old raw files, to go back and reprocess them with modern software. Raw file processing has come quite a long way in the past decade!
You can still use messenger, and I still do because I don't want to stonewall people who only have me on there. I have to say though, it's a god awful UX. The other day I even had an advertisement for Spotify pop up in my messages with a close friend. What the fuck is that?
I think it has a nice UI, and presumably it's also a hosted solution.

But fundamentally it seems to have many of the same features that Mailman et al have had for decades.

Good on them if they can make mailinglist archives great again, though. I think they're an underappreciated resource, and maybe a slick interface and some rebranding is just what they need.
We were discussing Google devices and Apple devices. All Google phones have an unlockable bootloader.
There are generative forces of new statements not "predictable" prior to statements like Euclid's or Newton's Laws that newly rendered features of both past and future suddenly known to be determinate upon measured examinations. What generates any hypothesis? Do we imagine exhaustive search of every generated hypothesis like monkeys banging on typewriters. Software developers should have a keen sense for evolving composition and syntheses against conundrums.