skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the Hollywood model of bespoke teams for projects. A stable salary could be created via long term "royalties" that each project creates. (or may not be require if each project is big enough.)

This model requires projects that have long term stability upon creation but also a recognized lifespan due to attention attrition. Like movies.

A lot of bad code nowadays exists because of pressure from "creators" that don't actually create. They are middlenmanagers appeasing their boss who is appeasing their boss and so on. There is nothing tying it to reality so all sense of quality is lost.

The main things that prevent this now IMO is the friction of setting up these groups for value capture and the maintenance of the subsequent results. To me, the most exciting part of block chains is that they can create a non-human central authority that can theoretically embody any set of rules including group structure and value capture.

New photo sharing apps can end up capturing value like new superhero movies. Winner take all dynamics still exist but enduring monopolies do not.

The contracting model will also solve another huge issue which is the shitty interview process. (mostly self imposed)

After spending some time at well known large companies what I've realized is that they aren't the best of the beverythey are simply places to hide, specialize, or grow. They are like oasis' that survive due to captured value streams or large value stores or deep moats. Inside people can become specialists in service of this "city" but lack the well roundedness grittiness of a desert wanderer.

But unlike a city which is neutral provided you can generate value/pay rent, companies are like cults in the the entrances are guarded and the HOA rules are super strict and apply to everyone. So while they can generate highly specialized "trebuchets" that wanders cannot the citizens can be far from happy. The Hollywood model would greatly benefit the group of people who may currently feel too tied down.
I'd expect adversarial images to take off in captcha space. Don't try and avoid the models, exploit them.
Running FTTH to every home was always a pipe dream (excuse the pun). Some kind of technology mix was a necessary compromise however the balance is wrong - percentage of FTTH is way too low. My home town is literally (and inexplicably!), divided down the middle - one half with FTTH, the other FTTN.
Stuff like this is why I usually double check and only access disk by anything but the /dev/sdx or /dev/hdx labels; too easy to blow up in your face.
How so? The Wayland developers are pushing for open, unified standards that work across all chipsets. Nvidia is pushing for their own special snowflake implementation/interface, that no one else would or could use.

You can certainly make the swap and the sentence still makes sense and is factually correct, but the context matters.
Likewise, providing I had a connection with Telstra (I tried Optus and had nothing but issues), I regularly had D/L of 100MB/s almost all of the time but upload was never more than 2.5MB/s which... yeah. Sucked.
You kind of can do that, but it's not a Vagrant feature, so much as a Packer feature.

Most of the Packer builders (e.g. virtualbox, parallels, VMware) support building from scratch (i.e. start with ISO install media and a blank VM disk) OR building from an existing VM.

So you could have a multi-stage Packer build pipeline that iterates step by step.

But I'm still not really sure what your workflow is. My company builds a series of Debian (and for a client, Ubuntu) base boxes. When debugging issues, 99% of time required is checking/fixing inside a running box. Once a solution is found, applying that back to the base box provisioning scripts (or preseed or even the packer config) and testing a build doesn't take that long.
As good as that one is, and I do rather like the themes, it loses heavily in depth and complexity to Kittens Game. Universal Paperclips will take under a day to beat; Kittens Game will not fall so easily.

https://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/
American here, and I'm all in on the idea that we live in a society and our choices and decisions are constrained, to some extent, by the people around us.

The challenge for every generation and every society is to decide where to strike the balance between the individual and the group; it's never all one or the other, but always somewhere in between.

And I like this "your land isn't actually yours to do with whatever you please, no limits" idea. Count me in.
It's not the same people?

If there was a conspiracy it would have been a small clique (most of whom would now be dead) not the whole government or even official channels thereof. In other words it would have been a crime.

These files were slated to be released as ordered by Congress after the JFK film.

BTW TIL Trump is trying to claim credit for what is a scheduled release.
I’ve heard this many times, but I’ve never had any issues reading text at any angle.
Why not?

Housing is a human right, and lots of US cities have all kinds of regulations around affordable housing. I think we're not far at all from "you do have the right to buy a house at a particular price," we just dress it up in fancier language.
I have exactly opposite experience. All my computers used to had ATI cards. I forgot the exact issues I had, but I remember reading all those issue FAQs basically saying buy Nvidia to solve your problem. I was always jealous to Nvidia owners for their Linux support, to then point I actually bought Nvidia. I didn't experienced any problems with Linux since then. I wonder when situation reverted being ATI better? And why I always have to be on the wrong side when choosing graphic card.
Practical Data Structures Guide for Android Developers
>Running FTTH to every home was always a pipe dream (excuse the pun).

Why do you say this?
With any other custom domain, they can do the exact same thing only it's on a smaller web server perhaps running different software (which may or may not be up to google's particularly high security)
My thoughts on Apollo a new Reddit iOS client app
I believe the spec says arguments can be deleted in any order, so it always chooses "current directory” first, which fails, failing the whole command
But you could say the same about food. "Pay me, or starve". But in their greed, food makers have made food cheap.
Data Science; to PhD or Not to PhD?
> "a very un-intuitive interpretation of the question" is often part of the game on QI.

Hence my clarification that this was despite it being the nature of the show.

The question about “who was the first president of the United States” really annoys me, because the definition of ‘president' was so poorly explained on the show yet the (incorrect) answer has probably now become a dinner party anecdote for lots of people.

> you should take QI and their other show more as a bunch of geeks talking about fun stuff and frequently getting caught up in juggling technicalities and stuff they don't necessarily know all that much about.

Which I do, but I’m also aware that it presents itself as being a factual quiz and so I do think there should be some level of fact-checking (or clarification). Random QI Elves writing complex questions on topics they know very little about without consulting experts doesn’t make good TV.

> It's entertainment, after all, not documentaries.

I’m aware it’s for entertainment, but lots of people take everything that’s said on QI at face value and don’t try to find things out for themselves, which is sad.
something like that would really mess with the current narrative the west uses to explain Iran
Eh, everyone but the set theorists ignores the set theorists at this point. I think some exciting things happened in the 60's with forcing, but a lot of the subsequent developments seem pretty contrived.
If you don't learn history there's a huge risk you'll wind up believing republicans
They may just be "hosting" them. Providing support, space, etc. It's a bit unclear actually.

Actually, it looks like you're right that they're looking for funding. It seems like Microsoft is matching employee contributions to Dynamicland:

https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/91897777013020672...
If, not counting foreign buyers & speculators, low density housing is enough to meet demand and keep their country the way they like it, is it really NIMBY? Supply can only be considered constrained if there is excess demand.
The Spooky Programming Language
See also SCM Breeze [0], which shortens git commands even more:

git status -> gs
git add -> ga
git commit -> gc
...

[0]: https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze
Thanks to the hype and bubble around ICO and digital mining, all the AMD graphic cards are way overpriced.
>I thought he was going too hard on Turnbull (current PM).

The problem with Turnbull appears to be that either:

1) He has to balance his rather more radically right wing members of his party while keeping his further centre members happy else he loses his position. (Many peoples explanation).

or

2) He has significantly changed his opinions and position on many issues over the last 5 years.

And this is a problem because people cant really tell which it is.

Turnbull hasn't really changed many of the policies of his predecessor, he just wraps it up nicer and in a more statesman like fashion.

He was previously a more moderate right wing (by australian standards) but has since gone significantly more right wing.

Im not going into specifics because I don't want to go beyond the realms of the overall topic and end up talking about Gonski or something, but thats my take on why people are a bit bemused by Turnbull and not particularly forgiving despite his inheritance.
A friend today listed an ocean view property where the owner bought it sight unseen, never visited from overseas and is selling it at double digit gain. It was empty the entire time.
I'll usually delete comments when someone calls me a shill, because anyone that throws that lazy insult around loosely is not worth discussing or arguing with.
> I kind of sympathise with NVIDIA in all this

Nvidia are toxic arseholes whose business practises are on a par with 90s Microsoft - funding games studios to deliver crippled-on-AMD games, for example. They deserve bankruptcy, not sympathy.
I think you're forgetting that Turnbull was the communications minister under Abbott. He's square to blame for this.
Why do non-citizen buyers deserve anything? It's their country, they don't have to let us in.
I'll try to address a few of these, from memory:

1 - He didn't deny it to the police. He only denied it to the press. Just days before the assassination Kennedy was on the radio making a particularly anti-Cuba speech, which upset Oswald.

2 - The day he assassinated the president, he left all of his cash and his wedding ring in the home his wife was staying, after unexpectedly stopping by the night before to pick up his "curtain rods." When the police arrived at her home, she led them to the garage to show them that his rifle was kept in the garage and lo and behold, it was gone. She herself testified that at that moment she knew he had done it.

3 - I don't think he was in jeopardy of losing his job, but he suddenly had an opportunity to do something "great."

4 - He asked for the ACLU attorney because he knew that attorney also represented the communist party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abt
Well, the wait is over. Aurora PostgreSQL was added to the BAA today (10/26/17). You can see it on the list of HIPAA-eligible services here: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...
>> It may be biased, but the alternative, having no formal history lessons, is far worse.

110%. In America, I would say we ought to be teaching history as fast as possible: We are a Republic of immigrants, fighting for the preservation of an idea - The Constitution of the United States of America. By the way, that constitution happens to make us all equal by default. That's a pretty important lesson for us here to remember in these divisive political times.
Show HN: Rate the security and resilience of your DNS setup
Low-controversy, but visible. Wich will introduce people to the idea gently. They can add features to the robots later with less resistance.
Or make possibility of remote work mandatory, where applicable, so that people don't have to move to the big cities.
Good news! Aurora PostgreSQL was added to the BAA today (10/26/17). You can see it on the list of HIPAA-eligible services here: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...
>Imagine that job.

I don't believe it's a job. Isn't this the thing where captchas on target sites are simply mirrored on other sites like sketchy filehosts? Real human users are solving captchas to access some content hosted by this service, and the solution they enter is passed through to the target site.
Tesla’s solar vision gets its first big test in Puerto Rico
That’s true.
Last time I checked it didn't work with virtualenv. Does it now?
> There are of course some very expensive locations to service, but thats a USO problem.

I don't know what the acronym USO means. But I do know that the expensive locations are politically important because there is pressure for the government to build various things out in just those locations. They political lobbying arises precisely because those locations are so expensive that the locals wouldn't pay for it themselves.
An Entrepreneur Aims to Peer Inside the Body with a Small, Simple, Cheap Device
Ancient Skull May Be History’s Earliest Known Tsunami Victim
Lively.next: A personal programming kit
It ships with intel MKL optimizations for e.g numpy/sciy. That’s a lot of hassle to get working in a virtualenv, not to mention maintaining several!

MKL is also multicore parallelized out of the box.
These robots are from Bossa Nova Robotics
This isn't a stretch to believe. I'm British too.

We did something similar with India. We also allowed the Irish famine to happen too.

History does say we were not a very kind empire - causing famine was not beyond us.
Ask HN: Are there any programmable 'feature' phones?
The big attraction for me with smartphones was the ability to write my own programs on them. While this is still true (less true for iOS, but that's my opinion) there are issues with smartphones that I don't want to deal with (privacy, software bloat etc.). Admittedly, the term 'feature phone' is a little vague but I'm referring to a device with minimal internet and multimedia capabilities but not to the to the extent of smartphones - a poor man's smartphone, if you will.

Is there a programmable feature phone which has smartphone level programmability (hopefully more) and an open OS to hack on?
Some packages you install might break if you have spaces in their path. Better to fail loud, fail early. I don’t think it’s «anaconda’s fault».
Very excited for this. My go-to is still regular old pip and virtualenv, but
I love anaconda for /not/ having to compile MKL / BLAS on my own in every new environment I use.

Also check out the JupyterLab alpha which comes with this, which is very neat:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PyData/Seattle2017/BRK11 (demo starts around 15:00)
Why did you sell or stop hosting?
> you can also use a form of Secure Multiparty Computation to hide the outcome from the counters until the last ballot is cast

That sounds like a terrible idea. What happens when somebody tries to hold the election process hostage by not casting a vote?
Was that before or after Visual Studio became a bloated pig?
> Nvidia users are shitty consumers and I don’t even want them in my userbase.

Watch out, we have a wannabe Linus over here!
> claiming jet fuel can't melt steel beams

Just note: Jet Fuel probably can't melt steel beams, because steel has a significantly higher melting point than the temperature of jet fuel.

Of course, Steel Beams are about as strong as a wet-noodle at Jet-fuel temperatures: https://youtu.be/FzF1KySHmUA?t=1m55s

Which of course, would cause the towers to collapse.

But seriously, Jet Fuel doesn't "melt" steel beams. It just weakens them tot he point where they break easily. You can't make ANY mistakes when talking to a conspiracy theorist. They are right about the melting point of steel, but that doesn't help their argument at all.
It is one of the steps towards singularity, which have immediate positive effects on the people currently alive.
That page was interesting. Yet, I keep seeing conflicting reports stating that the removal of thimerosal from vaccines to be exaggerated, etc.
> What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc...

There's something you don't hear every day.
What makes ScalaFiddle so fast
Two questions: is this a fraud? That is, is this a way to misrepresent the intention of the provider? And if it is, is it punishable as such?
Xamarin ECommerce App Development, USA- Synsoft Global
On the other hand, not everyone wants to live in or look at apartment buildings concrete jungle.
The point, it's what you miss.
Even though flying throughout the US is much easier and cheaper than to India and back? Tons of companies already use talent from other countries to create products, the lack of remote work hasn't stopped them.
If there is no other way then perhaps you should stop claiming it only takes up 4MB.
I was under the impression that British schools still teach that colonies actually benefited from British occupation. Looks like you went out of the way to learn the reality. Kudos!
You're correct, but missing one major factor. The price of land. If you have a look the countries with housing market bubbles have high regulation with zoning and release of land to build houses on.

Take for example Australia. We have one of the most highly regulated land zoning regulations in the world. That and the high price of land where you can build a house on. If you track construction cost vs land prices you will find that land is one of the major contributing factor's to the price of houses.

For example, the house I recently purchase I purchased for $330,000 AUD, but the land is worth valuation is $315,000.
Unless they wanted to move abroad. So they did not only lock foreigners out, but also their population in, to some extent.
What is the most inspiring aspect of successful people?
They were called "polacos" because during the civil war people said that Catalonia was a province of Russia.
I beg to differ. I find UI programming (and by extension any kind of graphics programming) interesting and rewarding. I can see the results of my work immediately. The visual confirmation after each code-compile-debug cycle is satisfactory. I believe many UI programmers share this view.

Personal taste aside, UIs tend to be slow for different reasons:

I think the major reason is the mindset of "oh, it's just UI", thinking that UI is not really 'that' important [part of a bigger system] or that anyone can do it. Not enough attention and expertise then goes to UI.

On the other hand, if UI gets enough attention, the effort tends to go to design mostly. You end up with a design department producing beautiful artwork and one poor overworked programmer putting it together. Management tend to overlook the fact, that UI is not just Photoshop or Aftereffects work, but someone needs to actually write the code that uses those pretty graphics assets. This programming part is often misjudged as a trivial step.

Don't even get me started on motion design. This whole discipline can be summed up as "how can we use up more CPU/GPU cycles and make things less responsive".

Then the market became saturated with UI frameworks built on top of web browsers which by itself is a thick, slow and bloated layer - a far cry from native UI performance. Unfortunately this is becoming the norm due to obvious commercial advantages - it's cross platform and it's easier to hire JS UI programmers. I mean good luck finding a programmer with experience in several native UI kits (say Cocoa, MFC and Android) at once. Even finding someone with adequate experience in one of them is hard enough nowadays.

Doing UI properly is expensive.
Slack SAML authentication bypass
> Under your logic all those who eat fast food for lunch everyday and don't exercise should have to pay extra for medical insurance for not taking care of themselves.

Err, that's exactly what happens. Your premiums would definitely be higher if you live a riskier and less healthy lifestyle because you would require more costly health care at a younger age.

And as another poster pointed out, we're now also coming around to the idea of disincentivizing poor food choices for the same reasons, like taxes on sugary drinks.

So this is not "my logic", but in fact the prevailing logic of most people.
Please tell more about how you find the Apple Pencil useful. It seems like the exact opposite end of the spectrum from a tmux toolset.
Which has the added benefit of reducing supply, driving up prices and raising the future resale value!
So now they get expensive tiny houses and bigotry!
Your idea has precedent. "Babylonian hours" or greek hours (don't know if there is a common english name for them, "Babylonische Stunden".
Thanks. For 1, yes, it was mainly about pricing changes. Once you're embedded in software it's pretty much a commitment for the lifetime of that version of the product, at least. If upgrade cycle is, say, 6 months, then month-by-month pricing has potential to turn into a hostage situation. EG, plan can change from $200 to $2000 per month and vendors are forced to either accept it until their customers upgrade, break installs, or come up with some other solution.

But, I think from the other responses, this is an avoidable scenario. Thanks for the information.
Coming from Vancouver I can tell you with certainty that Chinese will gobble up ALL apartment space if it's available and drive their prices to the insane levels too. This will result in a construction boom leaving behind fields of unoccupied residential towers.

Apartments are not the remedy and Chinese money is not a scapegoat, it's a hurricane-level force of real-estate.