skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening to Tchaikovsky instead of metal while working, makes the whole process feel a _lot_ more epic!
That depends. I'd bet money that LIGO was not pitched on the idea that it would only confirm the existence of waves. New instruments are pitched on the expectation of novel measurements. the "new physics". The parallels to the LHC and other massively-expensive instruments are striking. They confirm something that has already been widely accepted, generate the expected prize and raft of phds, but when it is all over the universe hasn't changed. I worry that those greenlighting these projects are being too conservative, only investing in projects that have clear pathways. This trend matters. Physics needs these giant instruments to generate something truly new otherwise the billions will drift towards other disciplines.
Using a chrome extension[0] to block social media sites during work hours.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-site/eiimnmi...
More specifically for me: podcasts while I'm walking to/from transit or driving, and reading a BOOK (not HN, Reddit, etc) if I'm sitting on a bus or train.
What Hacker News readers want in a job
It sounds like maybe you included this in your calcs, but I forgot to add depreciation as another cost.

And the most magicky auto costs are the ones hidden a few layers deep, in our city design & abundance of parking for example.
Y'all should go have a drink and be social! Oh, wait...

I kid. I'm in the same boat. People exhaust me. I often tell people who ask me to come do something "I'm peopled out." After a while they get it. My better extraverted friends never stop asking, though, for which I am thankful because I occasionally do like to be social and who better to be social with than an extrovert[0].

[0] They get me and fill in all the awkward silences.
Do/did you do any marketing for it, or that $100/mo is just from being in the app store?
Yep, their focus is on C++ compatibility.

They have changed their view regarding C, but the actual work is customer driven.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/75q5wc/visual_studio_2...
Uber Driver scam, need your help asap
Hi, yesterday i took Uber in Colorado to drive me to the airport. Today i looked at the price Uber charged was about $150 instead of $45 for the trip because of cleaning fees.
The driver accused me of leaving the car super dirty even though i know for a fact this wasn't me. I'm trying to prove this wasn't done by me. I have attached the pictures Uber sent me as "evidence". I have found a few discrepancies in the pictures taken. I need your help, let me know what i could say or if you see something i did not.

Here are the pictures:

https://imgur.com/a/rOXCh

Here is what i've found so far:

1) The seat colors are not identical: One is dark grey, the other is light blue.

2) The lights and shadows are strong in the photos of the grey seats while the lights and shadows in the blue seat pictures are non-existent, showing they were not taken at the same time at all. How could this driver get them cleaned on-time if she took the pictures at different time?

3) One of the picture depicts snow, but it did not snow for more than 4 days, all the snow was gone. This picture must have been taken days earlier if not weeks.

4) The pictures do not have data associated to them. The driver phone was a Samsung Galaxy S series. If she did take the pictures, she should be able to provide the original pictures with metadata associated to them, such as date, time, and location of the pictures taken. Please ask for these, i'm sure you'll get a negative response.

Thank you all !
Right, because computer programming (unlike computer science!) does not take a genius.
It is, basically, a routine work.
Unfortunately, there is a tendency to say the same about fundamental science, for example here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... and here : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/30/we-hai...
This worries me. Without outstanding contributions from individuals, science will turn into waste of human resources. We absolutely need to protect and care about our elites !
Plotting my escape from the corporate world
THE DBDEBUNK DICTIONARY OF DATA FUNDAMENTALS
I wouldn't be quick to assign blame. Most of the lateral parking spots can only be occupied by driving backwards, and drivers don't usually leave enough room for the one in front to make the maneuver. If the car in front of you is signaling right (meaning it's looking for a place to park), please stop before the parking spot.
Spare some change?
That is a crazy high expense ratio. Schwab offers an S&P 500 index fund for 0.03%

https://investor.vanguard.com/investing/how-to-invest/impact...

http://financials.morningstar.com/fund/expense.html?t=SWPPX&...
Don't tell the parents: Saint Nicholas was considered the Patron Saint of Prostitutes, due to a story in which he gave money to a man's three daughters for their dowry, who otherwise would have been sold into prostitution.
Hayek points out that you wouldn't choose an inflationary currency. He relies on that to limit overall inflation. But you also don't have the deflationary problems of the gold standard, since it's possible to make more money at will if you need it.

Regarding payments: suppose we were starting from scratch, with two proposed systems: (1) user signs transactions that authorize transfers with specific recipients and amounts, or (2) user gives multiple parties enough information to withdraw unlimited amounts, hoping unauthorized parties don't get hold of it, and we make up for the inevitable thefts with statistical antifraud protection, manual intervention, and banks just eating the losses.

I can't imagine anyone choosing the second option.
A good DSL is just a library - or at least, there's no clear sharp line between them. Likewise, I think good programming looks a lot like creating a DSL (or rather a succession of them, with a tower of interpreters from the business logic at top level down to lower-level DSLs until you get to one that can be interpreted directly by the machine). The difference between a good DSL and a bad DSL is that a good DSL lets you reason about it the way you reason about normal, plain old code: you can factor out repeated function calls, inline constants that are only used in one place, and so on, and it will all just work the way you'd expect. A good DSL should just be plain old code, as should most of the language standard library, and then it doesn't really matter whether a given function is part of the language or a library.

I've been very happy with the Scala DSL experience; I'd suggest something like https://github.com/http4s/rho as an example.
Exercising every day as the first thing I do every day.

I used to do it when I was younger, but took a break for about 6 years. A year later still trying to catch up from that lost fitness.
Considering Python's Target Audience
As far as I can tell that’s dangerous misinformation.
After observers found the source of the collision the scientist at the Chile observatory claims to have spent 45 minutes to locate it in the sky. Do they not have some sort of coordinate system they could use to pinpoint it?
Kubernetes Needs to Ditch GitHub
Will someone please stab Zuck in the abdomen? I want that jew dead.
Working overtime without some sort of commiseration should be illegal, yet it is typically expected in a lot of salaried work. Even my local groceries makes their workers spend 10 minutes cleaning up before close, 'off the clock'. Game studios are notorious for the crunch at the end of a projects life cycle because of the random off the cuff date a publisher needs to fill up a void in their yearly lineup or quarter.

The thing is they don't explicitly say 'work over time' they say 'this feature needs to be complete and working by Monday or else' What does management think the developer will do, pull it out of our behind? Reminds me of Steve Jobs, actually.

I once had my boss explain to me if these features don't get completed before the end of the month, he will lose his house. I had already previously told him that it's impossible and had to explain we will need to compromise to reach that date. We released 1 month late but the software has a lot of issues and I'm now blamed for this as the lead developer of only two programmers. I worked 12 hour days 6 days a week for 1 month and he wanted me to work more. He still has his house.

It's a zero sum game. Developers only have so much time in a week and the more you chip at sleep and rest/play time, the more it's going to cost the developer's health and the project's cost.

It's frustrating because I'm just a developer (mostly contractor to boot) and yet I feel like I have valuable constructive criticism that would benefit management and the productivity of the project on the whole if they adapted it. You can rarely pull that off tastefully. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe these things exist for a good reason and I'm seeing this differently because I'm not in management so I have some confirmation bias. That's possible, but I've experienced the exact same scenario as you and it always seems harmful for the developer and harmful for the project.
If you don't mind me asking, what did you end up studying at grad school to break through your career ceiling?
Quit Facebook.
This wouldn't be a service that the candidate would pay for, instead, it would be companies.
Is there some factor you can share that allowed you still to enjoy your “freedom” even after having kids? I share that same fear.
I absolutely agree with everything you said. I still find it to be a valid accounting of their own internal observations; the fact that it is subjective and not subject to external validation doesn't mean it is useless, it just means you're not extracting particular results from it that you apparently desire.

There are ways of knowing things that cannot be externally validated. That doesn't mean you can't study them within the four corners of the scientific method; we study pain, depression and lots of other things that take place in the head, too, and a big part of the input is "feelings".

But even without scientific rigor, we can know things. I don't need a study to know when to eat, and I know I've undergone perceptual shifts for various reasons. Since I'm not leading a policy crusade for legalization, a PR campaign to change public perception of legalization or a company that just really wants to sell mushrooms, I don't need more certainty.

TL;DR: there are different ways of knowing things that are good for different purposes.
It mostly seems like one of those fairy tales people eat up because they want it to be real. Who doesn't love the idea of perpetually making money for nothing?

Like people who follow the stories of all the lotto winners. One day that's gonna be me!

Back in reality, I rent a property into which I sunk a month of labor and lots of money for renovation. There's also ongoing repairs, which I mostly do myself. But sure, it's "passive" most of the time.
Is there better reporting somewhere than The Verge? What's the best write-up people have seen?
The last company I worked at had officially switched to "agile" last year (even though in practice, it had been working that way since earlier). They sent some guy from the India office (halfway around the world) to discuss with the different scrum teams about "ceremonies", "retrospectives", and all kinds of similar BS. That definitely smells of a cult.
I've been practicing yoga for about 4 years now, and I'm amazed at how positively it's impacted my other sports (climbing, snowboarding) as well as my mental well being. Also excited that this is a form of exercise I won't "age out of".
Moving from the suburbs to the city. Turns out that buying you way out of an hour-long 3-segment public transit odyssey is actually a great use of discretionary income. It was also basically budget-neutral when I sold my car.
For going back to grad school, was this a masters or phd or mba or something else?
Why Employees Are Not as Aggressive for Earnings as Employers
Since employers are aggressive they keep increasing the price of fuel, food, products, services, rent etc,.

Why employees tend to be less aggressive in terms of income?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15483231.
Nice, that sounds pretty sweet. I'm 22 and worth < $1m. Mind if I ask some questions so I can get to where you are?

What was your role in the company? How long were you with the company for and how long after its founding did you join? Was the company ever funded or 100% bootstrapped?

After you had your exit, how did you begin investing your money and why did you decide on that mode of investment?

Do you currently work a corporate job or do you work for yourself?

Any other tips or advice?

Thank you!
Context: MIR is an intermediate representation used by the Rust compiler; it's the final stage of Rust code before being converted to LLVM IR. Miri is an interpreter for MIR; it bypasses LLVM entirely and allows for direct execution of a certain subset of Rust (specifically the subset of code that can be evaluated at compile-time). Together this greatly expands the scope of constant evaluation in Rust code, granting Rust new metaprogramming faculties without requiring any new DSL (e.g. no need for C++-like template metaprogramming); just use the `const` keyword to run code at compile-time.
Did you intend to post that reply to me? Because of course there isn't a patch for iOS yet, and when there is it will leave out hundreds of millions of devices that no longer receive patches. My point was that if one wants to stomp their feet and do the easy "Damn Android" complaint, at least wait until the basis is sound.
It does not solve 1 either. It just changes the action from coercively taking some papers to coercively taking a password/token.
I would assume it's for a similar reason to why neutrinos from a supernova arrive before the photons. Photons won't be traveling at the speed of light (in a vacuum) until the're actually in a vacuum. Neutrinos and the propagation of gravitational waves wouldn't be slowed down as much by the matter between the center of the event and open space.
> Did you actually read the article, or are you just really stretching to be able to say 'wrong'...

No, really, your assertion that Obama-era Net Neutrality rules and privacy rules are disconnected is simply wrong! See "What does that have to do with privacy?
" on https://www.epic.org/privacy/netneutrality/

When people talk about rolling back FCC rules on net neutrality, they are -- by definition! -- talking about rolling back these privacy protections. There's no debate to be had here.

More generally, you may be confused by timelines. Hopefully this will help:

pre-2014: Phone companies and ISPs begin tracking customers.

2014 - 2016: FCC begins process of cracking down on this sort of behavior (e.g., see top comment on this story).

2017: FCC reverses course on that crackdown.

Perhaps you are claiming that there wasn't a substantive change in valence on the issue of consumer privacy within the FCC and other regulatory agencies over the past six months. And perhaps "net neutrality" means something very specific do you. But that doesn't mean that late Obama-era net neutrality rules weren't aimed and strengthening privacy protections. They were.
<sarcasm>And here I thought clustered index and a OFFSET was the solution</sarcasm>
The Type-R has universal praise.
I thought skydiving was just a series of safety procedures, whereas white water rafting is something challenging even to experts, especially at category 5.
Better posture. It's really easy to dump all your weight into a rounded back with your head reaching super far forward. But if you are mindful about your posture, you can help prevent lower back injuries.
Create modular content and “stitch” it together
I am earning 10 cents pert month with pythonconverter.com
Solid advice. So glad I did this a few years ago. I was spending way too much fragmented time pulling my phone out every time I got an e-mail. Then if it wasn't something I needed to deal with right now, I often forgot about it (and never responded).

Now I only use e-mail on my laptop. I do have it installed on my phone, but it is only used when a real priority comes up.
Yes, and with a hardware wallet, opsec is trivial. In my ideal world everyone has one in their leather wallet or on a keychain, and also uses it for secure 2FA on websites.
Hatha yoga.
I suppose Facebook is picking it's government allies. This puts it at risk of being banned in countries that have strained relationships with said allies, something FB has been able to avoid till now
Lifewise: Adopting a dog (suspect next one will be quitting smoking when I finally muster the willpower to do it)

Techwise: Moving away from piles of hacked up bash scripts and fully embracing an 'infrastructure as code' mindset (and the associated tools)
Eh, no it’s not like that at all.

Again this is more like a dog that’s been abused over the years and then mauls a kid.

No ones surprised that the dog is aggressive, and the owners are obviously guilty of abusing an animal - a horrible thing for the owners to have done.

That doesn’t change that the dog’s aggressive now, though, and should be put down.
Ask HN: What Are Some Tech Related Persuasive Speech Topics?
My idea is: How social media killed society. This topic is very edgy, but I think it would be fun to talk about.
I wear earplugs when commuting in the bus. I take a city bus that drives 80 km/h on the highway and the noise is deafening. If you'd work in that environment, ear protection would be mandatory.

I can't imagine how awful it feels to wear cheap earbud headphones in that noise, yet most passengers do.
Crowdsourcing a killer AI
Then the two implementations would probably be incompatible (different signatures, different implementation / return values) and would cause unexpected errors down the chain. So, essentially, breaking the web and making it difficult to fix it.
Perceptually uniform color spaces
TERES-I Do It Yourself Open Source Laptop Update
Christ, what a mess of an accident. You'd think there would be a practical solution to this that didn't involve operators having to worry about each other behaving correctly. Like moving the airport or shipping lane somewhere else so they don't interfere. Or the tower handling this via automation like a laser bouncing across the waterline and triggering an alert if a boat is too close to the shore.

Have you developed a fear of flying over this? Curious about the long term aspects at play here. Who was found at fault here? I'm assuming the boat captain.
Same here. I thought budgeting was only for when money is tight, but it is amazing how much clarity and overview a budget gives you over your financial situation, and how it helps in attaining even larger goals.

It’s just a shame that desktop YNAB isn’t developed anymore. I will hold onto YNAB4 until it falls apart.
Exercising. I run 3x/week now, and I sleep better, I feel better, I'm thinner, and I snagged a wife. Should have started running back in high school instead of spending my days playing MUDs. (Not really. I don't regret anything... but I could have made more time for exercising.)

Also, playing guitar. I'm hearing impaired, and my audiologist told my parents I could never be in the band at school, so they never pressed me to take guitar or piano lessons. I wish I had learned piano as a kid, because I love music so, so much (despite my hearing loss). That said, playing guitar is one of my favorite things ever. It's so cathartic. I'm really bad at it, but just playing helps melt away the stress of my life.

Also, when I was in college, I dated this gym rat for awhile. She told me one day, "On days when I don't feel like going to the gym, I tell myself to do it for five minutes. If I do it for five minutes and still am not feeling it, then I give myself permission to leave." Then a few seconds later, she said, "I never leave after five minutes."

I've adopted that outlook for almost everything. I don't want to go for a run? I'll run for five minutes. If I still don't want to run, I can stop. I never stop and always run the whole route. If I'd rather stay home and watch TV than accept an invitation to happy hour with coworkers, I'll do happy hour for five minutes. If I don't like it, I can make up an excuse and leave. I usually wind up staying the whole time. This outlook has gotten me to do dozens of things I'd never do: get certified as a scuba diver, take a trip to Peru, run a half marathon, audition for a play, and so on. It's a game-changer, for me.
So basically I'm pretty sure now that we need a new kind of SQL INDEX, as in, pagination index.

To do that aforedescribed accounting for us, and more.
2 bedroom condo rented out on AirBNB. Don't have a full year's worth of income yet, but I expect around 12k in profit plus 12k in principal paid down plus any rise in market value.
There is an effort to update the standard with the language extensions https://prime.haskell.org/
False dichotomy. Improving mass transit would be much easier with the funding raised by having a congestion charge.
Cleaning. It sounds sort of childish, I know, but cleaning was always such a secondary thing to me. I wasn't dirty, but I was messy. I would constantly buy things from Amazon, toss the box in the garage.

One weekend, a friend and I flattened and recycled every box in that garage. I bagged up every messy bit of trash, bought new furniture to help organize my things, and I feel like I can relax again in my own home. It was a problem I never knew was harming me, but since that weekend, I've been happier than I have been for several years.
I make $3000 a month committing cybercrime
One thing to consider is that the sooner you have kids, the longer you get to have them in your life.
If you want government contracts, employees of the contractor also have to have the same level of clearance necessary as the government employee.

This is non-news.
Are you intentionally picking dividend-focused stocks though? That is a key aspect of it if you want dividends. Most stocks are not focused as much on dividends (presumably, people buy them for the potential increased value of the stock over time instead of potential dividend payments).
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
The professor's writing style makes the guide enjoyable. It's an interesting topic across the board, but in the wrong hands this PDF could be an awfully dry read. Not so in this case!
National Security Clearance is hyperbole. Security clearance is more accurate.

A security clearance is somewhat difficult to get and not especially hard to keep (Snowden). However, having a clearance then opens you up to an entire industry. During tough times (2008) that means jobs will be available:

https://www.clearancejobs.com/

The background checks are thorough. We've had many in the family (definitely not me), my dad, two of my brothers, two uncles, my ex-girlfriend, brother in law, .... And then we get listed as personal references which is a real pain. A drug conviction will not blackball you but then you have to be completely honest as they will find out and that will blackball you. Debt is a biggie.

https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm

As for the article, I think the inferences people are making are reasonable. Also, given Facebook's scope that they need people with clearances seems reasonable.
You don't need 100k to open one.
It has the option to block HTTP traffic, making sites that don't support HTTPS unusable.

You could create a separate "secure" profile and feel safe that all traffic is secured, while still being able to browse HTTP in another profile, for instance.
Seems this particular extension is very upfront about the fact that they gather quite a lot of data from your tab history/usage/habits and then pass that to 3rd parties.

https://yourblocksite.com/privacy.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893