skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what CNN looked like on 9/11:

http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg

All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.
While this may in fact be true the messaging most people hear is purely concern about inequality alone. Like most nuanced ideological positions as soon as they go mainstream all of the nuance is lost. This is probably a significant part of the political divide in the US today.
Which is fine because something like searching through a million strings is very much an actual problem that would be faced on-the-job -- usually the spec is already written and handed to you by your manager -- and we can all agree that being able to recall obscure syntactical knowledge or invert a binary tree are things that, while commonly asked in whiteboard interviews, aren't something an actual software engineer would ever be faced with in their daily work.
I don't think you're in their target demographic if you want to live on 11 acres but don't want to deal with the traffic to work at a corporate campus of 50,000 workers in a city of 1M+

I think there are a lot of workers who would like to live on that much land, but it's just not sustainable. If 50,000 people each lived on 10 acre plots, the amount of land they'd need to live would exceed that of a large city. That's 780 square miles, larger than the 600 mi^2 of of Houston which has a population of 2M people.
Pros and Cons of websites to learn programming and web development online
Games and 3D engines.
I hope Facebook stops using this soon...
So that we can stop having the same conversation about it every time anything happens regarding any of their open source projects.
Is that really true? How many people in a 50,000-person campus ever even make eye contact, much less work together in a way that requires physical proximity?
He seems to have said it a while back - that was a quote in a 2010 book http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191804...

Funnily enough one of my non executed ideas to make a better Facebook was to allow multiple personas so you could select work/family/party and have different content appear. Dunno if that would have got anywhere - never figured how to overcome people posting on the existing networks because that's where their friends are.
Off the top of my head, two main points for why Austin is better-suited than Houston for a tech HQ:

- UT (@Austin) means a large pool of fresh grads from a top-10 CS program they can recruit.

- Existing presence of both Amazon itself and other tech companies (Google, FB, MS, etc) means they don't have to relocate workers, and it's a lot easier to convince SDEs from other companies to jump ship.
Wow, this is bringing up some memories of my childhood.

One of my childhood friends had a father who was a licensed surveyor and civil engineer. He showed me how to write programs one one of these calculators. I was fascinated with it, and started writing simple programs to do obscure calculations. After I showed him what I had figured out, he showed me how to remove the faceplate and access a special test mode by pushing some hidden buttons near the . key at the bottom.

In retrospect, I can't figure out how some civil engineer in a rural area knew how to access and use these test functions. Probably, he had a friend from the university who worked at HP or something.

I remember that these calculators use something called RPN (Reverse Polish Notation). To do "3+4" you enter 3 <enter> 4 <enter> + <enter>. I had a university professor ask once, what's the opposite of RPN: when you enter "+ 3 4"? One other student answered "Reverse Italian notation?" And everyone in the class laughed so hard...
The difference is "progressives" or leftists still want to control it all instead letting people use their own initiative to let things happen. Whatever happens is fine as long as people play by the rules with integrety. Of course if concepts of morality, especially protestant christian ones, have been thrown out the window then it's all a crap shoot anyways.
That's Twister http://twister.net.co
Ha ha, good one. And it emphasizes the point in my last paragraph, about the meaning of words. Yes, though curries are basically dishes in some sort of sauce, the word gravy is used here for that instead of sauce. It's probably only in a few high-end restaurants that they will call it a dish in a sauce (of some kind), on the menu, and when explaining it to customers. But another difference between Western sauces and gravy in India (the kind I said, used in curries), is that (as I understand it - not familiar with the details of Western cooking) the Western sauce is poured on the dish, or used from a saucer on the side, but in curries, the dish is cooked in the gravy - so the gravy is an integral part of the dish, not an add-on or pour-on.
Kind of defeats the purpose of a "headquarters" - Even 2 is pushing it as an "HQ" is about where the primary decision makers will work on a day to day basis.
Ability to execute data as code is present in many languages. Almost all of them these days. I think you are saying that banks should only use C or C++ ??
Nice move!
Police Officer Slaps Man for Filming Him
It even has a mobile app and it is the fastest loading news app I know of and it loads even with the slowest connection. Due to restrictions of the medium, the text is short and to the point. As there are no analytics with Teletext, clickbait has never arrived there. More sites should follow that model.
I think a lot of the issues with Amazon.ca stem from NAFTA's exclusion of ecommerce. That's one thing I'm actually pretty excited for in terms of the NAFTA negotiations.
> In the US can you not order food for delivery directly from supermarket, same for restaurants?

I think it's available in larger, older cities (e.g. on the East Coast), but in the rest of the country it's a lot rarer. I think maybe it's much the same reason we no longer have bellboys, ushers or elevator attendants: minimum wage & payroll taxes rose to the point that it wasn't cost-effective for grocers or customers.
Pretty much.

I view corporations as non-human intelligences, so while it's totally unethical for a human to manipulate the law to their own ends, it's also something I expect corporations to perceive as acceptable, in as much as that makes sense (they will not shun each other for it) and in much the way we humans generally agree it's wrong to kill but we don't shun people for amputations or appendectomies.

This is why I prefer democratic corporations, rare as they are, to pure capitalist ones — at least the metaphorical appendix has a vote.
In the Beginning was the Subroutine
That's not the only thing incorrect. After refactoring should be "Execute all test cases", as the refactoring may have introduced a bug. Sometimes, especially with "replace algorithm", the refactoring may even require new test cases.

I'll add another reason for why a new test may fail - you might not understand the system well enough.

For example, suppose you come from C to Python. You have some code which computes modulo on integers, so you use x%y. Later on you realize that you also need modulo on floats, which in C means using fmod(3).

You write the test with a float, expecting it to fail, only to find out that it passes, because you didn't know that Python supports modulo a float.

For one that affected me recently, I wanted to write a test that my output code would give an error if one of the fields was blank. I wrote a test for it, and the test passed. I had forgotten that the input system was defined to fill in a default value if nothing was specified, so there was no way to pass an empty value to the output.
I didn't say it wasn't a big deal. You're reading way too much into my post. I was just pointing out that the term "sham trial" was used in a potentially misleading way to refer to something that was not a trial within the criminal justice system.
awesome! now i can get my fake news no matter the connection.
I'd say snubbed. The Detroit-Ann Arbor corridor and metro area is 5-ish million, with a strong tech scene, quite a bit of airport capacity (DTW, and if they wanted to use it, Willow Run). Cheap (and I mean cheap) housing, active and growing downtown, etc.

This is not the Detroit I went to grad school in, (mumble) 20+ years ago. Very different place, lots of investment. Ann Arbor is a dense tech mecca. East Lansing (90 miles away) less so, but between Wayne State, UofM's, MSU, Central Mich, MTU, and some of the smaller schools, there is a very strong engineering and computing culture. One that is frequently overlooked.

One thing I will note is a paucity of investment capital in the region, and a strong reluctance on the part of costal VCs to invest in fly over country.

However ... cost to hire/retain people here is very low compared to the coasts. Given how much the percentage of cost is in people, this should be a factor in any companies calculation on where to move.

Land/facilities are cheap. Transportation is ok ... we still have to work on local transit, as decades of mismanagement if not worse, have left the public transportation options in terrible shape. However, there are strong pushes from Dan Gilbert, the Illich family, and many others for modern regional transport. There are light and heavy rail all over here.

And, not for nothing ... we have 4 real seasons. Though, in my first few weeks out here (mumble) 30 something years ago, I surprised how they could all be on the same day ...

Detroit should be in the mix. As a leading contender. All of the rust belt should be.
Depending on how it is used, my answer is "possibly".

Put yourself back in the days of Joseph McCarthy and the "red scare", but with today's laws (and hopefully we seek an outcome that is MORE friendly to free speech, not less). How would you feel about a law that required anyone supporting communism to register as a foreign agent? Or more precisely, one that allowed the government to arrest anyone who argued in favor of communism (a right protected by free speech) and force them to prove they do not have any ties to any foreign government at risk of imprisonment for 2 years.

I have little problem asking those actually employed by a foreign government to register. But if you stretch the definitions far enough ("you were eligible for a tax deduction, which counts as compensation so you are employed") then it can be abused.
According to the article, there are more than 10 people who understand and accept the proof.
or a digital signature, or a MAC. Something where we could verify against a publicly-known value safely, and without giving that secret part away to anyone else. The secret would be between the Federal Government and the citizen.
It's great that they included an easy toggle to Spanish language. If you're trying to learn Spanish and already know English or vice-versa being able to read topical news every day and switch back and forth easily for both languages is a great tool!
ah, this reminded me of some embeded oses where driver came as precompiled arrayblobs, that are included with ifdef guards set in some central config tool
Same for Switzerland: http://www.teletext.ch/
Formalize it with Isabelle / Coq / Lean. Then it counts.
I know there has been a lot of work in automated theorem proving.

I'm curious if anyone here is able to describe the state of the art in that. Is it really just a toy for basic things right now, or how realistic is it that we'd ever get to a point where the author of a paper like this could use a formal language to show that their proof is indeed valid and complete?
> People need society to be unfair, not to blame thenselves for their lack of success.

Yes, because everyone has equal capability to be successful. Of course, it's everyone's fault for the situation they were born into or with!
The research is at its very basic level now. There are many different types with different affects. Studies that generalize all strains are inheritly flawed.

It will take awhile for accurate research to produce hard truths
Dan Gilbert has created RocketFiber. 1Gb for $79/month residential and business in Detroit. 10Gb available for reasonable amounts.

When I was running my own company, I came quite close to looking at spots there. I was in Plymouth (30 miles west), but needed lots of bandwidth at the time, and DC hosting wasnt an option.

FWIW: you could do air cooled DCs up and down the Michigan west coast. Wonderfully cool air coming off a natural chiller, Lake Michigan, cheap power, excellent transportation infrastructure, very business friendly state government ... though sometimes they lurch the other way, most of the time they don't do stupid things.

I tried gauging investor interest in this model of DCs a few years ago ... few thought DCs were a growth industry, and clouds/hosting was a fad. Go figure.
Show HN: A New Robo Advisor tailored to your personal financial plan
A while back I did a comparison of the code behind the major search engines' landing pages, and found that DuckDuckGo is by far the cleanest, simplest, and most accessible, yet they still manage to make a living on text ads in their results.

Another easy way to see the difference is to load each site up in a text-only browser like links. You'll find that DDG has the cleanest interface there, too.

I still use Startpage most of the time due to the generally better search results, but DDG is my backup and sometimes finds things Startpage (i.e. Google) doesn't.
I don't buy that parasites are needed to control the population of the species they target.

The predator/prey relationship already ensures that. E.g. if the number of zebras increases the food supply for lions also increases which leads to more lions which leads to less zebras. I see no need for a zebra or lion parasite here to maintain balance.

Back when I was at school we were taught that parasites - unlike all other organisms - have no essential ecological role and this article has not convinced me otherwise.

It's like saying human society needs people on welfare, thieves, and robbers to function.

Nah, neither we nor natural ecological systems need parasites.
Serious question: is your house insured against volcano?
Given how badly the latest Skype app performs vs the fast old one, I'd say it's more bad press than good press.
> "fairness" works out a little better for people like yourself than fairness does.

Because the CEO of a company fairly worked 100-300 times harder than the person on the packing line?
Achieve Prosperity and Success When You Do These 7 Things
IMO this is also built into the evangelical left's religion - if you don't succeed, you aren't the problem. It's a problem with the system. It's a pretty clever propaganda technique, I think. It reels in angsty teens easily enough, anyway.
Who thinks that Google would hire someone who is always an aggressive misogynist?

I see he was also wearing a dress shirt this time, unlike the "Goolag" shirt from the WSJ interview.

It's almost like people present different sides of themselves under different circumstances.
You don't put things behind Memcached. You put Memcached behind things.
I think it’s precisely this level of hubris toward biology and the natural world which has led humanity to the state we are in. You cannot possibly compare such a dynamic, complex system as the earth’s ecosystem to a simple, human scale analogy. Any loss of biodiversity is a tragedy. Once these genetics are lost, they are gone forever.
Complexity of n-Queens Completion and $1m prize
You are correct. 3DSecure add a new layer of protection provided by the card network (visa, mastercard, etc) IIRC, so not the issuing bank itself. US based e-commerce follows a different set of rules and I would rather not go into that.

I was an architect at a major PSP for 6 years.. I've actually forgot most of it by now :-)
It's not a random process. Babies aren't allocated by the stork.
I moved from the US to the UK last year. I have seen two paper cheques in that time.

It is much more common over here to pay electronically, though both Direct Debit (receiver pull) and Standing Orders (payer push) require one person giving their bank details to someone.
If you're trying to solve problems caused REST not being a protocol, why not
settle with defining -- or better yet, using an already defined -- protocol?
Really, there were plenty of good RPC protocols, starting with XML-RPC and
a little more modern incarnation of JSON-RPC 2.0.
I think Pittsburgh and Cleveland are two ideal choices, for many of the same reasons. They both have strong tech pipelines at Case and CMU, affordable prime real estate, openness to offering incentives, and are are highly under-rated in terms of livability. Both have shown they can attract tech workers with options (CLE with its hospital system, Pitt with Google and others).They are both disadvantaged by the flight availability metric, but I think this could be induced by demand from Amazon.
Honestly, it's a barren wasteland, worse than Google+.
As far as I've seen it's mainly used as a replacement for imageboards.
Most of the server topics are either a variant of /b/, or a gathering place for SJWs, furries and lolicons.
A Twitter bot that retweets popular Ruby/Rails-related tweets to rails_bot
I have a dollar. I can spend that dollar or save that dollar. If I save that dollar, I can spend it later or have someone that I care about spend it later.

My kids, by luck of birth, were born into a family that values education; we read to them every single night, do crafts, science, engineering things, and tend a garden at home. Why is it fair that they get those advantages?

In addition to being barred from passing along the money I don't spend in retirement, should I also be blocked from reading to my kids more than some community maximum; should our library or museum trips be capped? Should kids be blocked from getting grandma's wedding band just because it has an economic value?

I don't work and save/invest only for myself; I do so for my family, including those who will actuarially live longer than me.
I think there's another aspect to the fairness too. Not just the magnitude of the pay, but the way that it is decided.

There is a perception that a small group can apparently give themselves pay rises without being constrained by the same controls as others, thanks to the 'old boys' network.

I think this is a root problem.
Parent post is saying that that should constitute a failed audit. And it should be repeated as long as a 2 week effort by a pentesting team yields results.
I'd pay $5/month for a reputable news site to provide this all year long.
Snackis: Postmodern communication
Back when I was at school we were taught that parasites - unlike all other organisms - have no essential ecological role and this article has not convinced me otherwise.

The article has a bunch of scientists talking about recent science that questions this assumption.
Our entire credit bureau system is broken
Turn On, Tune In, Drop by the Office
For your more critical passwords, enable the setting where lastpass prompts you to re-enter your master password. This ensures that:

1) you are less vulnerable to leaving your laptop unlocked.

2) you have to enter your master password frequently, preventing you from forgetting it.
I am not an expert, but I recently took a course on formal systems, which included theorem proving. It was more focused on proving properties for code since this is the focus of my professor, but I was really surprised how well it was working. I also recently tried out Liquid-Haskell, which adds an SMT solver (i think...) to Haskell. In my opinion, theorem proving has come a long way and I think the challenge is now equal in theorem-proving and programming language. We have to get the ergonomics right, deriving properties for imperative code is awful. We need a super elegant, easy to use and not too restrictive language that can be verified automatically. The overhead of using it must be minimal.
RSS is still available on a lot of websites ... and for the ones that aren't available using RSS, you can use a third party service that will create a feed.
Per the IRS, the total income of the top 5% of households is $1685472000000, which, when divided among the 139,960,580 households submitting tax returns, comes out at $12,000 per household. That sounds like it's in the ballpark of what you'd need for healthcare, US idiosyncrasies notwithstanding.

Now, of course nobody is realistically suggesting taking all that money. That would be neither fair nor useful. Because everybody agrees that some reward is necessary to motivate people, and that they should get to enjoy the spoils.
Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding what you are saying. Are you concerned by the way that's Aspergers has been rolled into the autistic spectrum?
It is, but it is still a good example.
Actually, to do "3+4" you enter 3 <enter> 4 +

That's it. Note that this is one keystroke less than the regular calculators used by mere mortals, and that is why RPN rules.

Source: my daily driver HP-15C that I've had since around 1985. Works perfectly and has only gone through two or three sets of batteries. I'd swear it was solar powered.
I'm still using Gulp ;-)

I meant more as the webdev community, everyone seems to love to throw a ridiculous amount of time and money away by switching to a completely new stack—for apparently no reason—every 6 months.

About 80% of the devs I know spend hours on tooling and force users to download a ridiculous amount of JavaScript to use React with projects where the dashboard is a list of messages sent via a contact form, where the only functionality is to mark as read.

I React cool? Sure, and I use it. Do I have to use the same tech as the biggest site in the world for my super-small projects—like most people do because that's what you do? Probably not.

Am I stuck in the 90s and force a page refresh every time? Nope, but I spend days learning something—and of course part of my job is learning new things—but not 80% of the time, and it's not cool to make existing projects obsolete after 6 months.

I just think the whole thing is getting a little big ridiculous.

It was probably more ranting than not about your project, I apologize :-)

BTW, if you work at Facebook, can you explain why creating Yarn vs. improving NPM..? They seem to do the same exact thing in the same exact way from the user point of view, with Yarn being a lot faster and with better command naming.
The FBI Advises Companies to Drop Kaspersky Lab
>Under Napoleon in France, marijuana was banned because it reduced the soldiers' initiative to fight.

Not really-really.

https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/the-real-his...
If you want to implement Lenny yourself with FreePBX and copies of the Lenny audio files: https://www.crosstalksolutions.com/howto-pwn-telemarketers-w...
I think Ottawa, Canada would fit the bill too.
In the UK we have higher minimum wage, and higher petrol duties, and yet we manage to have extensive supermarket delivery.

And it's been happening for many years - the first "online" shopping from home happened in the UK, from Tesco, in 1984.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24091393
Maybe gp worked really hard on that comment; should you really criticize it?
Or use other statically compiled languages instead.

Or at least use Java or O/S sandboxing features.

At least in the web-facing parts of their apps.

In any case, this requires some planning ahead, and a mindset different from "agile".

Maybe Java 9's AOT compilation can help in the process, but even if it could produce stand-alone programs, I think the dynamisms in Java code (reflection, annotations, dynamic class loaders) will make this infeasible for most code bases.
That's also really all specific to American culture. Look at black crime in other high income nations like Australia or Western European nations and you don't see anywhere near the same numbers.

It's more of a problem with American culture in general, possibly simply a problem with the poor .. and systematic racism has pushed/kept black people in the poor and lower classes.
Bucklescript is from Bloomberg, not Facebook.