skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it depends on what you mean by quality. On Quora the discussion is meant for the general public, and terms like diophantine equations are defined in common language before delving into their mathematical details. While mathoverflow is for mathematicians, for a layman it's mostly gibberish. So imho it's unfair to even compare the two, they're different things and both have their place.
does Bash count as a mainstream language? :P (just kidding)
Previous discussion on HN, 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289
https://Nodeschool.io has free open source tutorials on a range of Node topics.
Most Android apps use a handful of native code libraries which are bundled inside the apk. It's usual nowadays to only write the UI using Java and use C for the rest.
There are plenty of very good reasons:

zero-G planes are only mostly zero-g. They fly a parabolic trajectory, so their body actually rotates about the center of mass while flying.

Also, their weightlessness is not as well controlled as a drop tower's.

The cost you've listed is for a single passenger.

You know what's more expensive to build and operate than a pressure controlled tube on the ground? A pressure controlled tube with jet engines operated by pilots.
Dilated Densenets – a new type of deep learning model
I would be more inclined to view that as a solution if it didn't seem like a restatement of an objection anticipated by Goodman in the original paper. The time-sensitive nature of 'grue' and 'bleen' arises because we take 'green' and 'blue' as basic, and define 'grue' and 'bleen' in relation to them. If we took 'grue' and 'bleen' to be basic, then our definitions of 'green' and 'blue' would be the ones with the additional time parameter.

The idea of language as a hypothesis sounds a bit fishy in general. Not least because hypotheses generally need to be expressed in a language. Which language should we use to test other languages? I am also not sure whether it makes sense to take about languages as being false. And presumably, since it appears that English and Japanese constitute different hypotheses about colour, which one is the false hypothesis, and what constitutes good evidence against it?
What kind of project is it?
I suspect, in most cases, the police will ask you which pocket your phone is in and fish it out themselves...
It maybe but not for another 10 years. Apple isn't got to have their watch compete with their iphone sales.
IG = Instagram? I'm only guessing. The Wikipedia disambiguation page has a lot of expansions for "IG".
Scilab – Open source software for numerical computation
Disco-Dancing Peacock Spiders Are Impossible to Resist
first you're silly for loving a company.

second, S. Jobs always optimised the work force for throughout put and lower cost. see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...

if expensive and entitled employees leave and cheap one remains, it's a win in their books. Just like the salary collusion crime helped them keep salaries down in place of not being able to hire the best way from their competitors.
DFS+Fanduel+NFL+9/17/2017+Week+2+Top+Picks++(+QB+/+RB+/+WR+)
The new “internet of co-computation” is the future of connected devices
Chicken farm
What does this have to do with it?
I've always suspected using "like really productive" languages creates it's own scalability problem in production. Ruby/Python/Node/PHP consuming anywhere from 2x to 15x the amount of energy and time as a language like Java/C# comes as no surprise, which likely means you'll need a corresponding increase in servers for particular use cases.

What's not a surprise is C stomping everything with a lead boot. I am surprised that Fortran is a lower than it is (considering its role in HPC/research). It's no surprise to see Java leading the virtual machine pack on speed, I thought it'd take a larger hit on energy consumption due to JIT.

But Rust, WOW. Have we finally created the perfect language? Always something I've wanted to learn, now I think I have a good reason!
s/employer/employee/
Some examples: Wanting a private and quiet space means you won't be there to provide help for the new person who has spent all day fighting with their dev environment or trying to understand an area of code that you wrote. And if two people who sit near you are trying to solve a difficult problem that you've already solved, then you won't be able to overhear and chime in with your solution.

Focus is certainly important, and can help you be super-productive if you have a well-defined task and are already comfortable with the code you're working and your tools. But I think newer people at a company are in an opposite situation; they're overwhelmed with complexity and need collaboration and guidance to be productive, and they can level-up much faster by hearing the problems people are working on around them.
BlockSci is an academic research project at Princeton, but we're committed to maintaining it as open-source software, and we hope it's more broadly useful. If you're interested in using it or contributing to it, here's a list of ideas that we'd love to see implemented.

1. Create a Block Explorer. BlockSci would make a good backend for a block explorer
website, because it would benefit from the built-in analysis library, with features like address clustering and parsing multisignature scripts.

2. Support more blockchains. BlockSci supports several blockchains, but there are limitations detailed in the paper [1]. For example, currently we don’t support any script operations not found in Bitcoin. Supporting more altcoins/blockchains would make BlockSci more useful.

3. Identify cold wallets and associated usage patterns. Cold wallet addresses could be identified by various patterns on the blockchain such as infrequent large withdrawals. After identifying these addresses, there are many interesting questions to ask such as studying the rate of deposits vs withdrawals.

4. Improve clustering heuristics. BlockSci’s address linking is based on the two heuristics from the Fistful of Bitcoins paper [2]. These heuristics have known limitations, leading to false positives and negatives; there’s a lot of room for improvement here.

5. Extract hidden messages. There are many messages encoded into the Bitcoin blockchain ranging from Wikileaks cables to Rickrolls [3]. We can find them if we can guess how they are encoded. But can we automatically extract and decode these hidden messages, say, by looking for address strings that look non-random?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02489.pdf

[2] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

[3] http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...
Well, to be fair if someone wanted to, they could set up a Mastodon instance specifically for people that would otherwise use Gab. It's likely that most other Mastodon instances would block them though.
Linux is just the kernel for Android, the whole userspace is not written in C, and that is what matters in the end for performance and efficiency.
Lasik is totally worth it btw.
VCs are doing that all day. Why do you believe this is going to disrupt Facebook?
Wake Up with Determination. Go to Bed with Satisfaction
OTOH, he could be the front man for one of the lottery syndicates mentioned in: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/how-mit...

There have been lots of groups that have made lots of money by intelligently playing specific MA lottery games at specific times, so those 300m tickets might be real.
As long as JNDI is a best practice in Java land, I'd say that the majority of Java app servers are directly connected to databases.
Dungeon RPG (Zork) for Google Assistant
Have you looked into custom fitted earplugs? They're expensive^, but they're so much more comfortable than the foam guys.

I got a pair of Etymotic musician's earplugs to wear to concerts last year--they have a flat 15dB reducing filter, so music still sounds good without damaging my hearing. I can swap out those filters for simple plugs, and it's done wonders for my focus at work.

^)$150 is a lot for earplugs, but if you wear them to work, it wouldn't take long to justify. If you wear them to concerts too, it's not bad at all.
Below $10k/mo bandwidth plays are irrelevant - the cost of the support infrastructure is just too high.

At $10k/mo what you do is plop a rack in one of the well connected buildings in NYC, VA, SF, SJC, CHI and get either flat rate 10Gs or 1G commits over 10Gs. You should be paying between 0.55 and 0.75 per Mbit/sec on 95th percentile on 1G commit. You put into the same cabinet your edge nodes that actually would be pushing the traffic out and use AWS or GCP for your compute workloads.
Of course. What execs love about open spaces is the money it saves on office layout and walls.
> With enough intercepts, they can correlate traffic at various relays, and connected users and servers.

Exactly. If enough ISPs cooperate and share traffic data, then you can correlate traffic. Especially if it is a low traffic. The more traffic, then more difficult it becomes but even then it is still doable.

> And you can add VPNs to the mix.

As long as the VPNs themselves are legal ( china has started to ban them ) and they aren't compromised or they aren't government created VPNs to secretly track you or the VPNs themselves are honest. Nothing prevent the VPNs from collecting your traffic data and selling it to governments.
South Park trolled Amazon Echo owners in the best way possible – TechCrunch
We've had plugins to stop automatic execution of JS for a while. I used one for about 6 months, then one day I got a new computer and didn't bother to install it... it's only when I find pages like the one I described above that I think (for like two seconds) "oh, NoScript would've stopped that." So it's only a few bad players ruining it for most of us, as you say.
To be clear, I work in a very well designed, but not perfect, open office space. If somebody needs to speak with me, I am always available and consider it a strength I do not isolate myself. While my personal velocity is affected by this (hence the use of the word selfish, a descriptive but not derogatory term), the team as a whole does better for it. We do have rooms for collaboration for all meetings and ceremonies, and the desks are in octagon arrangements to minimize visual distractions. The point is that isolation is just the most obvious, but not only way to have a good environment to solve problems in.
I believe it's hosted by https://vip.wordpress.com/
This breaks the HN guidelines egregiously and will get you banned if you do it here, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OK, let's try that ~15 days from now, when the next "Who's Hiring?" post goes live.

Edit: Here's my suggestion: In the first line of the post, insert one of the following key words:

• "OFFICEn": Replace 'n' with a number ≥ 0 and ≤ 3, this means you will be in an office with 'n' other people. So, "OFFICE0" means you'll be in an office by yourself. 'Office' means a space with floor-to-ceiling walls _and_ a door you can close, and where the door leads into another company-owned space (like a hallway, or open area).

• "CUBEn": Replace 'n' with a number > 0, this means you'll be in a cubicle where the cube walls are 'n' feet tall (measured from the floor).

• "OPEN": You'll be in a space where there are no walls separating you from your immediate co-workers. It is possible for you to stare straight ahead, rotate your chair 90° (in either direction, relative to your normal work position), and be looking at one of your co-workers.

In addition to one of the three words, the following word can be prefixed:

• "HOT": The space you'll work in is not specifically assigned to you. Instead, you will simply find an open space of this type, possibly working in a different location each day.
On my previous job I sat right next to VP of product but she would often use the office of the SVP who is not around most of the time.

Open space office with more than 50 people on each floor, it was very interesting for a while(as you can see how $2B business is run in one picture) but it was one of the primary reasons I quit.

Beyond the ongoing noice and distractions, it doesn't allow you to have cycles of work and thought. Well, I actually would have them but it feels weird to be the guy who stares at random things and people for prolonged time :)
Please don't respond to a bad comment (like a personal attack) by adding one of your own. That also breaks the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and does no one any good.
How? https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/content-delivery... (which is linked to from http://www.softlayer.com/) says $0.12/GB.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ says $0.085/GB.
Hi, what's the crime rate there? Does it snow a lot?
Ohhhh, I see. I always wondered what the point was. Thanks for the clarification!
The "mainline" protestants made a bit of a Faustian bargain on abortion. Like most religionists, their doctrine is determined primarily by what will generate the fullest collection plate. In attempting not to alienate women who've had abortions, they instead alienated judgmental old people, which latter group has got to be any religion's primary customer. Nowadays they're much quieter with their "abortion is OK" dogma.
> Looking forward to the inheritance/prototype section, something that's never quite stuck for me.

I glanced through the section and I don't know how much it's going to help.

What helped me was to stop thinking that JS had inheritance at all. Inheritance implies some sort of copying and combining of object behavior. In a language with classical inheritance, a child class has all the methods of a parent class. A instance object of a class has all its methods plus all of its parent's methods directly on it.

JS doesn't do that. When you create an object that has a parent, you're creating two objects (the parent and the new child). When you call a method on the child that comes from the parent, the child doesn't hold that method, the parent does, so it delegates to the parent.

So, I think when people ask you in an interview whether JS has classical inheritance or prototypal inheritance, you should say neither--it has behavior delegation.

Please let me know if that makes sense.
What a waste of a billion.
Your username happens to be your real name.
This is not really relevant either, though — people can feel offended or threatened for many reasons, it doesn’t mean those things can’t be part of the work environment.

For example, if someone has questions about the quality of their work, a person might feel threatened — they might be afraid of getting fired — or they might be offended — they might be proud of their work. But we accept reviewing other people’s work as part of the work place, whether or not it offends or threatens.

Emotional response is not enough to establish that something (a) is illegal or (b) should be. With regards to feeling threatened, for example, we have to ask: Was the threat of something unlawful? Being fired for doing bad work is not unlawful; being fired for not putting out is.
These U.S. cities have the best chance of being Amazon’s second headquarters
I once was placed with my back to the entrance doors of the office, which frequently had people coming and going. HR and IT were both in arms when I rotated my desk around.
Heavily trained on SQuAD questions. There are lots of models out there that are very good at recognizing SQuAD questions, and reverse-engineering the predictable ways that the Turkers who wrote the questions pulled the information out of the paragraph -- allowing them to answer the question without ever understanding it. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07328
Maybe now Apple will be a successful company!
Greyball + Hell + Lobby + Aquihire = win
Beat me to it
Once you work remotely (and you have your own office, in your own house) you feel bad, terribly sorry for anyone that stays in an open office "cultured" tech company making 200k+ per year.

The quality of life and lack of freedom you exchange for the "next 100k" above and beyond a 100k base Salary is never worth it.

Time and health is your most precious resource and asset. And many are deluded into thinking it's ok to trade that for (what they mistakingly) thing is a lot of money (hint: it's not when taking taxes, commute and accomodation into account)
You're basically confirming my supposition that I'll need to spend time reviewing the new C++ standards. ;)
Are you considering adding sentiment analysis/clustering as one feature? You know, to let people read about different opinions, most often, they only need to read one post in each cluster.
One might, One might also wonder how the government feels about teaching children to be creative (a skill required in current and future economies) without breaking the rule following.

Most governments are happy with rule-following drones who do as they are told and pay their taxes.
Show HN: Example Machine Learning Projects
What this does is ensure any intellectual property from Montreal talent (mostly from academia) will directly go to an American company rather than staying within Canadian labs and start ups
> The Apple watch will dominate all health and fitness based use cases though.

Compared to GPS sports watches? How do you figure?
> I'm sorry but I just don't think anyone has the right to be free from verbal harassment.

Is it the verbal nature of it, that leads you to believe people have no right to be free of it?

As a counter example, consider that verbal intimidation is just as illegal as any other kind.
Please don't post snarky, unsubstantive comments regardless of how wrong other people are about programming languages.

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The Quora post is _much_ better written than this Math Overflow thread.
I used to work at a bank service center. It was a cube farm filled with mostly 30 to 60-year-old women. There was occasional chatter, but it was so perfectly quiet all the time. And that's with people talking to bankers on phones.

Now I work with a bunch of 20 and 30-something men and it's like I'm back in college. Sorry, but I don't needn't to hear you not be able to control the volume of your voice for two hours on Google Hangouts. Sorry, I don't need to hear you sing to yourself while I try to desperately glue back together the thoughts in my head after you shattered them with your noise.

It's not about wringing every last drop of productivity out for your employer, it's about getting anything productive done at all. And I don't think it's asking too much for a quiet, peaceful office environment to be the default. If you want to screw around and talk at a volume that is inappropriately high, take it to the pub.
That desk situation sounds like my worst nightmare.
I'm going to guess that persons who buy the AW3 w/ LTE are more likely to travel internationally.

Combine this with persons (like myself) who live in countries that are unlikely to ever get official support, and it is a bit frustrating to say the least.

Perhaps roaming, etc. will be a "feature" of the AW4...
I disagree. I expect the median middle class American to have an iPhone X or other phone that costs within 15% of that. I ride the public transportation in a not-so-well-off area and new, high end phones are ubiquitous. I think the miscalculation that you're making is underestimating how important phones are for people, both in their usefulness and in their status. People will absolutely save money for an iPhone that won't/can't save money for emergency costs. The only question is whether the iPhone 8 will be enough to keep people from buying the X.
Now you just need to retrofit a zero-gravity environment into the disused mineshaft..
Not for those of us who have dreams of going into space someday.

(This isn't a joke, by the way.)
That Atari had literally zero security holes.
I agree.

The fight for really small frameworks is most relevant for consumer apps, especially ones consumed on mobile.

But even on mobile, it's primarily relevant because customers get minimal value from your app or are bad at accurately assessing the value they get.

In my day job, I work on a system where business users spend several hours a day using it. Loading a MB of minified JS has such a limited effect on the overall time it takes users to get their work done, it's almost irrelevant. Though, per the point about accuracy above, I wonder how it affects our demos.
I can still imagine it. The team that mines Bitcoins to pay for their social event would probably not be part of the division that pays the electricity bills.
Ask HN: App for writing notes in the margins
I am looking for an app that will allow me to read books, take notes, and reference the notes at the page I took them. I would like to be able to do this from my computer or phone.

Is there an obvious app I've missed that will allow me to do this? I've tried Evernote and Mendeley previously. Both seemed to work for simple papers but were missing common book reading tools.

Thanks.
Seems like if he had been using Joe Blow's unsecured wifi rather than the army's, there could have been another defendant in that case?
The crime rate is so low that the town closed the police department a few years ago. (Now we contract with the sheriff.) I think I've locked my house twice in four years.

We do usually get a couple of good snows each winter.
> To target just one user because of a word that he said non maliciously is wrong.

Not only that, pewdiepie didn't even say the word in a firewatch stream. He said it in a PUBG game.

This incident had nothing to do with firewatch. I'll boycott anything by steve vanaman until he apologizes to pewdiepie and the youtube streaming community.

Pewdiepie apologized for his gaff. It's time for vanaman to do the same.
For next time: consider sharing a link to a release notes/announcement/update page with all of that information, instead of reposting the main project page URL.

(Great project, BTW!)
Maybe their research should have also included a Google search of the statistical unusual winners name in quotes plus the state name plus Lottery winner:

For example, the most winning lottery winner in America was covered by the Boston Globe in 2011:
http://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2011/11/05/frequ...

[1] He's been on the radar as a ticket cashier since at least 1999 and has been getting an IRS refund for his gambling losses since 1988.
Here's a YouTube playlist where a guy made a self-driving vehicle in GTA V using Python.

https://youtu.be/ks4MPfMq8aQ
I didn't say anything about classes, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from. There is, obviously, a long history of men oppressing women. Men used to own their wives and have the legal right to beat and rape them. Not every claim about one group having done something to another group rests on some kind of Marxist ideology. There are any number of uncontroversial historical statements along the lines "group X did Y to group Z" which would be assented to by people of all ideological stripes.