skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While making no judgement against lrzip, I'll point out that out-performing gzip is pretty much the baseline as far as compression goes. More interesting comparison would be against some modern compressors like zstd: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/
That's pretty harsh. I don't make that kind of money but if I did, I'd still be open to living with roommates in a house. Some of us like living with other people and saving money while at it.
> Read this article I posted on my gopher.

:D
How would Bolivar help them if it becomes worthless? They need inputs (raw materials, services), and those are only partially available locally.

They are already too oil export heavy. Without proper inputs the outputs will be inferior, unexportable and inefficient.
Other than NYC that's close to 50% more than what you can expect in any large American city. That is not reasonable in any sense of the word. 4k / month mortgage is around a $1 mil home value.
Generally speaking yes. However it can be gamed for sure, just not consistently in the long run. Not saying Stripe did this in this particular case (in fact I'd think quite the opposite), but just like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter's situation, it can be done with the right motivation.
Generally, the person whose been fooled once and made aware so they know what to look out for is better to have than firing them and replacing them with someone new whose just as likely to fall for the same thing.
A 30% hit in value only matters if you need to sell it. If it's an investment property, you could probably just hold onto it until the market recovers. As long as the value of rent payments > mortgage payment + maintenance costs, it's no skin off your back if the value drops on paper.
Global app revenue and downloads hit record levels in Q3
Automatic Calibration for Lidar-Stereo Vehicle Sensors
Same in Portland. A house down the street was purchased for 180k 2 years ago and recently sold for 520k. And that isn't some outlier. It seems all anyone wants to talk about is how quickly home prices have inflated.
I lived through the 2000 tech implosion and in 1999, people though things like this were reasonable.

Amongst people who think this is reasonable are probably

- Dual earners hoping to bite the bullet before it gets crazier

- Those with <8yrs experience who have never seen a downturn or jobs go dry

- Lawyers, VCs, etc to whom this is nothing.
"currency you don't control, do you consider Ecuador a colony? They have debt in the sucre, which is pegged to the dollar. Is most of Europe a colony of Brussels?"

You can make a powerful case that they are.

A country that doesn't control its money doesn't control its economic policy. Is there anything more important than the economy for a country?

A fair economic area need, first, a monetary and fiscal common policy, and, second, a policy choose in the interest of all the citizens in the area.

The Euroarea only have a monetary common policy and I'm not the only one that think that is not run in the interest of all the Europeans.

I can't talk about Ecuador, but historically, fixed exchange rates, as any fixed structure don't survive even small "earthquakes". It's even worse if it's not an fixed exchange rate, but a foreign currency. In the case of Ecuador, you can be sure that, at some point in the future, the economic policy run from Washington will be the opposite of what the country needs.
well, aren't we being a little melodramatic? if you get a decent job in the bay area and your rent is high, you aren't really "throwing your future away" even if your career doesn't take off.
This week in Hacker News, people in the tech industry are worried about age discrimination once they hit 40 or even 30. Here, Calico is working to extend life spans to a theoretical upper limit of 500.

Why would I want to live to be 500 if I'm going to have difficulty finding a job after 30 or 40? How the hell am I going to afford rent when I'm 200 and unemployable?
Capturing Word Meaning and Cultural Association with a Character Level Model
Ruby's Exceptional Creatures
How many sequencers has Oxford Nanopore sold? It seems like it has perennially been a “in the next few years” technology.
Slightly off-topic, but this semi-animation of DNA replication machine that is working right now in your body (in amounts of trillions of devices) blew my mind few months ago.

from TED: https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU?t=3m39s
It starts with an S and ends with an O, it's likely where tech talent will go!

Sacramento!
Great job!

Personally, I prefer the PDF versions, but this could be very useful on a phone.
Doesn't take much to realize that "Bitcoin" itself will implode. Crytpocurrency in general will not. Which currency remains only time will tell.
The article mentions compress but states that pack is it's predecessor. It even gives a comparison of their compression ratios on a kernel release, showing compress is significantly better:

compress: 302 MiB (-61%)
pack: 548 MiB (-30%)
From my own experience, I didn't have the slightest bit of trust for any book recommended by the school, mostly due to the generally horrible treatment they give in class discussion.

I didn't even realize the picked books might have any value until I accidentally read 1984 on a friend's recommendation, not realizing I'd have it for class the following semester.

And I still couldn't stand the class discussion of it.

So if I was going to do any reading, I had more incentive than not to avoid anything the school recommended: they'd kill anything I liked about the book anyways.

I think my worst experience was being assigned voltaire (candide iirc), and realizing no else one was laughing, not even the teacher
Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis goes online for first time
Holy crap, I just spent I don't know how much time reading this and, you're right... that truly is amazing. Thank you!
I live in Austin as well. I'm optimistic but not nearly as much as you. Traffic is strangling the city and slowing growth, especially of the downtown core. And the city is wasting time and money expanding highways (something proven to be useless in the long run) instead of investing in public transport like most successful cities have.

I'm looking into buying a house but anything that is affordable is out in the suburbs or neighboring cities. And I say that as someone who makes $100k.
Well...the guy in question is fairly widely disliked in the state (I've met him a few times -- seemed ok but he believes the earth is 4k years old which is .... just weird). He was elected I think because a) many people vote Republican regardless (see Trump) and b) mail in votes had already been counted at the time and this is a state with a high proportion of mail in ballots. I really wouldn't take his actions as any example of the vibe in the state. He isn't from Montana fwiw. If you want an example of bad political vibe from Montana you'd be more on the mark with Zinke.
Our old friend spiralganglion! Good to see you here. And thanks for the tip.
what does this have to do with everyone in the bay area? this is hacker news and I am responding to a specific comment by a person that, in the context of the conversation, is in tech industry or is planning to be. "everyone in the bay area" includes your local barista.

downvoters: "If everyone in the bay area "made so much that rent doesn't matter anymore" the rent would go up until it did matter" is a red herring. we are not discussing everyone in the bay area. We are discussing specific types of people that are trying to maximize their career outcomes in the tech industry.
What makes you think it's hyperbole? It's not hyperbole; it was my experience, as a female attempting to make a living while working in technology, living there.
That could not be further from the truth. There are lots of cheap places to live in the US that are still very nice, you just don't want to live there.
Must read in the subject: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
It's seldom for a debtor in need to choose the currency. If Greece kept drachma, they'd still need to borrow in euro or dollar as few would have drachmas to loan.

US can take loan in dollars because everyone has dollars to park, which is because everyone else has dollars too.
"although the East Bay eked out a gain of 500 tech jobs"

This is the good news. Home prices in the East Bay are 50%-70% of SF prices, and the infrastructure for employers is comparable to SF (public transit, internet, hospitals, restaurants, culture).
Again, you're conflating indoor and outdoor air pollution, and if you look closely, even the WHO's own "facts" for estimates of outdoor/ambient air pollution deaths are full of weasel words and misleading claims.

Instead of merely reading the conclusions of these studies, I'd encourage you to look at the underlying data with a healthy dose of skepticism. Only then will you start to see all the holes in the research.
I loved Hypercritical. It didn’t occur to me that would be the podcast. Thanks.

The asking the right questions thing doesn’t apply but the quality of research that he showed in his biography of Jobs makes me doubt the level of work/research in other biographies he writes.
Yeah I looked at a few Wikipedia entries and decided to use a number at the higher end in an effort to not appear to be cherry picking.
Sidenote:

If anyone wants to make a new-school 64 bit DOS-alike,
that would be really kool. thx.
> In SF, a lot of the streets reeked of weed

What? Where did you live? I never once had that problem. It's not like the entirety of SF smells like weed 24/7, I think that's a pretty absurd strike to give a city (especially since it's legalized in WA).
I feel like 'living in squalor' is an exaggeration, or at least a separate category from what a lot of young engineers are doing in the Bay Area. Maybe if they were living in SF, sure, they could be living in dinghy studios.

I know plenty of new grads in the South Bay/Peninsula living in apartments or rented houses that would be considered decent or nice in the rest of the country with plenty of money to spare. Mostly at bigger, established companies though. Anecdotal, I know, but it definitely seems like there's a portion of new grads living comfortably in the bay area.

Living somewhere and owning property are very different though.
Plenty of space, too many NIMBYs.

Just heard a lady in my neighborhood in L.A. complaining about the development of a parking lot and crackhouse into a modern apartment building. Didn’t even bother to argue, sometimes the divide is too great.
'Neopets': Inside Look at Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture
A lot of things. LaTeX and its packages have so much surface area. Our approach so far is to just make the papers that we read readable. That probably covers the 20% of LaTeX features that 80% of people use.

Here is the broken stuff we are keeping track of: https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues (feel free to add to it!)
China speeds ahead of U.S. as quantum race escalates, worrying scientists
Montana does not have a lot of people http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gL59uIJScr8/Ts1J_D6q1KI/AAAAAAAABE...
Money20/20: Wozniak Thinks Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold
Ah ha! So, looking at the issue, at that time, Rust did have a runtime, and green threads. Today, we don't, and just have OS threads. So that's where the miscommunication lies :)
Lego Flying Drone Kit – Gift on Point
> Patrick has built four software companies that did business internationally.

Is this in reference to Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder? Or was there something equally notable in Patrick's international business track record?
You probably mean well, but you are basically arguing against progress. The US might have ill intent, but even assuming ill intent, that intent is still better for the people of Venezuela than the current government which has left them starving and represses them.
You realize that’s a world wide event, right?
I am from Denmark, so I am mostly used to dealing with 24 hour clocks, I know it is simple for others but AM/PM gets me so confused, we do not use the 25:00 format as you.

Now I live in the UK, and I still have to convert my friends to be using 24 hour clocks, maybe it will help if I start showing up at their houses at 05:00 instead of 17:00 :D
regardless of what you think of Trump, this is the correct action. The maduro govt is not just full of issues, they are murdering and starving their own population and any funds are used to prop up the privileged few elite in the aristocracy. El mercosur is about to expulse venezuela so this is not just some yankee only EEUU foreign agression bs. If you support the Maduro government, you're against humanity at this point.

https://elhem.co/2017/07/27/nicolas-maduro-accused-of-crimes...
Hi! Can you detail some of the problems you have with SOAP? I'm superficially familiar with Swagger, but probably below the level of dilettante when it comes knowing about SOAs in general.
Cynically, the complaint about SF isn't that it's unacceptable, it's that it's only acceptable if you got in early and bought property. Assuming these people are buying up houses or condos in Denver, voting to make it like the Bay is a profitable move.

(More realistically, I'll be most of them just hated a few specific aspects of the Bay.)
If you have kids, the difference between middle-class and "suboptimal" neighborhoods is stark. It's the difference between your kids having a normal, if not bland, suburban walk/drive to a decent school vs. them dodging bullets and stepping over junkies on their way to a gang-controlled school that's 95% English learners.
Difference between smart and dumb components in React
Sweating blood: bizarre disorder baffles doctors
"Forced to leave" is a bit strong, evoking images of someone thrust into debtors prison.

What would actually happen is they'd sell their house for 5x the price of the same house in a more reasonable housing market, and 10x what they paid for it, and move to a different location with a nicely multiplied bank account.

I'll acknowledge that some stability is good. But it has a cost, and that cost is currently much higher than the benefits it provides.
There are also a lot more steps between 'genomic dna' -> 'protein' than was previously appreciated or thought to be of importance. There are a lot of ways to regulate and produce new protiens and variation that is not itself a genomic change.

Alternative splicing, readthrough regulaton, multiple kinds of ribosomes, post-translational regulation, etc. all produce significant variation outside of the dna itself.
Snap hit with more layoffs, plans to slow hiring in 2018
It's also hyperbole. It's closer to ~5K per month for a $1M mortgage with insurance and taxes in the bay today.

By the rule of thirds, that's $60K/yr meaning $180K+/yr salary is necessary. This is for suburban living in a remodeled 70's ranch home, not in an urban area.
we are just a material to them.

they don't know we are humans and what we are capable of?

they don't know what we are.
Holy cow! I thought my $1400/month mortgage was steep, that's insane.
interesting reading for me as a "retail" person
Bioconda: A sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for life science
Another category I'd add are those employees who choose to work in the bay area so that on the side they can be part of the startup scene to find co-founders or investors as they plan on pursuing their next big idea.
Target market is Japan, take a look at contemporary Japanese web design -- very different.
Well there you nailed it on the head. There's a valid reason the NIMBYs don't want more housing: US city governments are traditionally very very poor at housing planning and companies use that as an excuse to avoid taking into account all the externalities.

I mean, you increase housing but don't increase retail units or parks in the same area, thereby creating a cultural/food desert. Even if you do, if you don't increase road capacity or install better public transit (which since it's usually at county level requires a lot of coordination), then you're simply increasing problems.

NIMBY is the simplest solution - often folks who end up in that camp have tried advocating other solutions and have failed at them because no-one wants to foot the bill for all the planning bits that make a decent (or even livable) neighborhood.
Absolutely insane. Going to buy a house with a 15 minute commute by train downtown. I’m looking to spend less than ~350k for a house with around 1500sq feet and fenced in yard.

I will be spending less than $2k total a month. West coast is crazy.
Reeking of weed is like ambulance and police sirens. You only notice it the first two weeks of moving to a crowded city
Didn't conservatives do this with global warming? Except they took the hottest year 1998 as a starting point to say warming isn't happening

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/three-ways-climat...
How about a super EMP that wipes out millions of Americans and brings it down to Russia's level?

Russia started helping North Korea with ICBM and super EMP technology after Bush pulled out of the anti ballistic missile treaty unilaterally.

Putin realized there was no way to catch up to US technology. The only solution is to damage the US enough that Russia can catch up.

Trump is the fool and Kim Jung Un is the patsy. Putin is the puppet master.
Since you mentioned MarketWatch and river of news, I think these folks do a good job:

http://seekingalpha.com/market-news/all

However, it does seem unnecessarily javascript-heavy when we are talking text, and it aggressively auto-reloads (sometimes when I'm in the midst of reading!). There seems to be a usability mismatch among people that use 1 browser with one tab open vs. people that utilize multiple browsers and/or multiple tabs.

edit: I, personally, use multiple browsers, some with multiple windows, and some of those windows with 5-60 tabs (i.e. HN). Graceful degradation used to be a concept highly regarded among developers that addressed these usage scenarios, but now we cater to the lowest common denominator only.
I was making that much on Wall St back in the day and had roommates, because it was fun and we could share costs for a place we barely used since we were working.

As a married person with children now, having roommates is absolutely out of the question. I know people suggest it as a "solution" to the housing crisis but in no way is it acceptable in my mind to have strangers living in the house with my wife and children.
Someone must have set him up the bomb.
Exactly, money can move places faster than housing markets can respond. Some areas are unwilling to increase density, and some areas will be willing. I suspect that there is a practical physical and economic limit to the increase of density that many cities will be willing or able to scale to - and some may scale to destroy that quality that made them desirable places to live in the first place. There is a reason that not all cities make it to New York City level density.
> 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

The measurements took place in protected areas in Germany. Have there been similar studies for other locations?

Edit: It appears that almost all the measurements took place at locations in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany's most populous state ...

> S1 Fig. Map of study area.

> Insect trap locations (yellow points) in Nordrhein-Westfalen (n = 57), Rheinland-Pfalz (n = 1) and Brandenburg (n = 5)
Larry Wall's quest for a 100-year programming language
I'm in the middle of getting rid of the last SOAP dependency for my app now. might throw a little party when it's done.
That is as crazy as it sounds. I am also early in my career and no one in my social circles could scrounge up 100k for a down payment or dish out 4k a month just for house payments. For reference I live in Chicago.
i think this is the best possible outcome for Flatiron and frankly a scoop for them versus some of the other bootcamps out there (i went to another). so congrats are due to them and whoever wrangled that deal.

There's a broader question of whether the industry is consolidating after the high profile closures this year. Can and should bootcamps survive long term as independent entities? Is the influence of VC money forcing bootcamps to have bigger ambitions than they "naturally" should have (vis a vis other trade schools which are typically small and local?)
What is Algolia's underlying architecture like? Are there any papers or code?
- lack of affordable housing with a garden where my kid can play

- traffic

- airport traffic is flying above residential areas, so even when you find something affordable you have to check

- affordable creche for my kid

- SFO is one of the worst airports to arrive from abroad
Right, so what you actually mean is there's no evidence that fits your worldview. Got it.
take my word for it, do it for your kids and stay in california. figure out a way to make the money. just figure it out dude. rent forever if you have to, and don't tell anyone. do whatever it takes.

being harassed and ridiculed endlessly for being non-white (i'm guessing asian or indian) somewhere inexpensive and 90% homogenous (white or hispanic or black) will produce extremely negative results, to put it mildly. dealing with racism on TV and in movies is one thing, dealing with it in real life is an entirely different proposition.
Sure thing. My office is in town. We live about 10 miles to the west. Let me know when you're in the area.
Thank you for your candor, and for giving us a glimpse of the other side of the story.

And -- I can assure you -- you're younger and prettier than me. It's currency in this business, far more than any of us would like to admit.
There are absolutely people (many of them) who use GMail because of its brand. They most commonly will say "GSuite" though.
Kind of taken https://about.riot.im/
It hasn't been tied to MySQL in the last 10 years, so I'm wondering if it ever was.

You can connect to Sphinx using a MySQL client, use it as a MySQL storage engine or using MySQL as a data source. But it's not specifically tied to MySQL.
Slightly off topic (sorry), but if Google can't manage YouTube and its users, how is Sidewalk Labs going to fare any better trying to run whole cities?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-ur...

What is it about providing a reasonable level of human-based customer service so many SV firms don't understand?
I agree that's a huge issue which is only slowly getting better. It's also rather normal for people to travel/work remote/move between the top cities. From Helena I drive to Missoula or Bozeman at least once a month to see friends / socialize.

Regarding job movement, MT actually has a number of high tech companies per city, but it's a much smaller handful. Using Helena as an example (valley population ~80k), we have: Northrup Grumman, the State Agencies, SoFi, TSI&T, Boeing, Tempest (they work on KOA.com), Blue Cross Blue Shield, etc. Layoffs are not as usual here as we have a significant talent shortage. For instance I believe SoFi has ~200 devs in Helena when they would like 400 devs -- hiring being the biggest barrier.
See links about Algolia arch (and other related material) here: https://github.com/phaistos-networks/Trinity/wiki/IR-Search-...
While I wouldn't want to say these people are representative of the state as a whole, it gets worse:

Gallatin GOP Women official says she 'would have shot' reporter Gianforte assaulted

http://helenair.com/news/politics/state/gallatin-gop-women-o...
Certainly a cunning / savvy way to take advantage of such platforms, but when overused, sites like Quora become notorious and their effectiveness would decrease over time.
The Right Path to Autonomy–and the Wrong One
God willing they'll do what I did -- move far away from the bay area and big cities in general. Working remotely, spreading the wealth outside of the few disproportionately wealthy cities. The technology to pull off decentralized organizations of remote employees has matured, and looks like it will become even better with the help of blockchains.