skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and I've wanted to build a dashboard like this for a while. Matching problems & people looking for building business around real problems. I'm having issues about clarity and upvotes though : how do you favor people who know the domain ?
As someone who use to have a SMALL Recording studio. We are in the best music business times for small indie bands. More people can support themselves through kickstarter like programs. Two of my bands traveled the world and were on MTV (Back when they played videos). The most one band made was $7,000 per person and they traveled to Europe and Australia/NZ. I never made a dime. They posted on Kickstarter 6 years after they stopped touring and got $50,000 in one week and $65,000 by the time it was done. Their album was awesome because they all just took breaks from their jobs and got it done.

BIG Music Business sucks and the slow death to the Pop Music Industry. http://brandsplusmusic.blogspot.com/2011/02/death-of-pop-mus...
Fractal Image Compression. Way better than JPEG in the mid-1990s but patents + expensive restrictive licenses left it pretty much dead in the water as a result.
This was a few days AFTER they revoked the employees insurance benefits without notice or explanation.

There is somewhat of a saving grace here. Under federal law, these employees automatically qualify for a special enrollment period through the health insurance marketplace since they lost their employer-provided health insurance [1]. Since this happened during November, they can have coverage beginning December 1 as long as they sign up before the end of the month.

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/have-job-based-coverage/if-you-lo...
jwz used to have that file linked as why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.au
I looked at a search result today and there were ads at the top, a few answers in the middle, and more ads on the bottom of the first page. Once Google has to start paying all the ISPs their net neutrality blood money, I imagine a single result in a sea of ads will be the norm.
These have existed before in the USA and been zoned out of existence. You may have heard of SRO hotels, single room occupancy? Otherwise known as flophouses. Basically middle class people look at how poor people live, go “I would never want to live like that.” and make it illegal. Also see tiny houses as a solution to homelessness. The problem is zoning.

The problem is zoning.

The problem is democracy.

The problem is people.
One thing though that gets very complicated about using SWIG is ownership semantics. With anything more complicated than passing scalar values, it is very easy to introduce a memory leak or double-free if you don't get the flags right. I wonder if Rust types naturally allow a much better inference of ownership semantics across the language boundary?
a lot of geeks are also not into it: it is advertised as giving you more degrees of freedom and immersion, but VR gives you half the features of these degrees (free hand movements! looking around wherever you please!) and feels limiting because it cannot offer you the other half (proper free movement, you're tied down by cables, have to set up your room for it, etc.)

Also, after a short while, you stop seeing "3D" as it is because your brain abstracts it all away anyways and will draw a similar 3D experience out of a moving 2D image and a proper stereoscopic one.

(not to mention that the price is pretty off the charts too)
>Too many people have dismissed SL foolishly. Glad it survived and proved them mostly wrong.

I dunno, ten years ago a lot of people were predicting that Second Life would be the Next Big Thing, and assuring me that I should really be buying up Second Life real estate with my hard-earned real-world money because soon it'd be worth a lot more.

Second Life has survived, but it certainly hasn't gone mainstream. It's just another weird corner of the internet with its own community, and good luck to 'em.
xhtml: it's just a good idea, IMO.
Optimizing for size is easier because you only have exactly one metric to consider: how many bytes your instructions take.

When optimizing for speed you have to consider many factors like the relative speed of each instruction, cache behavior (including size of the cachelines, associativity, number of layers, relative speed of the layers...), pipelining, branch prediction, prefetching, whether moving your data to SIMD registers could be worth it, what to inline and what not to inline, what to unroll and what not to unroll, constraint solving to optimize things that can be computed or asserted statically etc...
Our particular use case involves a few processes that are heavily serial, while yet memory-intensive; the fastest possible processor would be a boon to us (for instance, if someone would guarantee an overclocked Xeon, we'd take it in a heartbeat for almost any price).

AWS is indeed behind the curve more often than not, but they also have some amazing hosted products. That was a bigger deal in 2014 than it is now (Kubernetes will eat the world) but it's still a reliable offering, and reliability is our most important criteria.

Agreed re: being multi-cloud in the end. It's the only responsible choice above a certain scale.
The windshield is a lot more like a modern Class A RV windshield. You don't necessarily need a crane to replace, just a couple guys.

Having some tough glass though as they promoted would be really nice on an RV, I'm jealous.
There are plenty of companies hooking into private APIs within Word and Excel with their “productivity tools”. Probably an important MSFT customer was using one of these tools as a crucial part of their operations, so they convinced them not to break it.
Just like how Google had to put special cases in Android to keep compatibility with some hacks Facebook was using in their app.
There's an open support ticket, but I've reached out as well.
Minimum wage doesn’t pull anybody up. It is just barely enough to let them survive.
Ha, I am from Minneapolis and knew a few Sorens as well.
What do you get if you multiple six by nine?
No, luckily I live in a country where such insanities are regulated.

They do happen, but if you don't report the company to the authorities, it is your problem then.
My 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport has regenerative braking. Seems to work ok but I'm not sure how much it actually helps.
It takes more power to accelerate faster but the total change in kinetic energy is the same either way. Any energy consumption that doesn't go into the final kinetic energy is going into waste heat, and there can't be too much of that without melting things.
Just read that last week. Postman's critique of TV and media largly holds up. He would be glad about the iminent demise of TV, but apalled by what its successor technologies are doing to a still largely uncritical populace.
E-ink isn't good enough for any of those yet.

I don't know how much research is ongoing into it, and I do think it's underutilized (I can't understand why smart watches use LCDs), but there are many breakthroughs before we can get those things you mention.

I still expect it to get all over the world, eventually.
I salute and respect the guy who did this while hoping I never have to do anything like this.
Don't get me started. The BBC used to be a flagship for balanced, meaningful and insightful news. I've been reading the BBC news website for at least 15 years.

In the last couple of years I've noticed a stark movement towards clickbait titles and imagery and a movement away from emphasis on balanced news reporting.

Looking now, the home page is in fact littered with click bait titles:

- The degrees that make you rich... and the ones that don't

- How one abuse victim found foster help for her dog Dusty

- The deadly problem with US fraternities

- What you may not have realised about acid attacks

Back in the day, that first headline would have been something much more specific. For example "Computer, maths and science degrees lead to highest paid jobs".

Sadly, I guess just reporting the facts does not bring the visitors, which is a shame.
I met my wife on ICQ after using the same search method you described. :)
> Having upper middle class people be able to afford lots of labor intensive services is a sign of an unhealthy society with too large an income gap.

Getting well off people to spend is a great way to spread that wealth around. Especially when the money is going to sole proprietors and small businesses, as is typically the case for housekeeping, landscaping, etc.
Artificial Intelligence: Future of Mobile App Development
You say "credentials and insurance" I hear "red tape and rent-seeking".

UPD: But yes, they do have some paperwork. Its relevance is open to the debate. However, same applies to any paper coming out of public bus system.
Think of jupyter notebooks as turbo charged Live Scripts. The document part supports proper Markdown, proper latex math, arbitrary HTML, and interactive widgets. Export options are much more comprehensive as well, including export to blogs, presentations, or code modules.

Code blocks can contain arbitrary source code of course (including function definitions and class definitions), but they can also contain "magics", which are special commands that act on a cell or line, for example for debugging, profiling, reading/writing files, and much, much more.

This is the true magic of jupyter notebooks. There are magics for interacting with the shell, for visualizing data, for running code in other programming languages... The possibilities are endless.

And of course jupyter notebooks are just text documents (JSON), so you can put them under source control, manipulate them programmatically, or view them online without having python installed.
If the thing is 17 years old an a replacement has existed since forever, what purpose does this file have today (Assuming I'm on a modern windows, I run either no ms office or a modern office version).
Thanks for sharing that link, I didn't know about it.

OpenBSD releases a song with artwork & lyrics with every release (ie. every 6 months) [1]. I pretty much lost track of it around 4.x or so. Back then they were on-topic about something which happened through those 6 months in relation to OpenBSD or their Open* projects (which may or may not be relevant to non-OpenBSD users). Sometimes they were parodies. Not sure how it is these days e.g. if quality has gone up or down but back then I thoroughly enjoyed them. I hope you will enjoy them as well.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
> Market size would be a challenge.

Possibly, but I am not sure about this. When I was looking (about 5-7 yrs ago, US, Boston area) there were two types: cheap and nonfunctional beyond toys or "we run your jobs for you". First type, as they are cheap, have no interest in new members building things; in fact, as the membership is so cheap they try to sell all sorts of overpriced classes as memberships do not cover costs.

At the other end there are those who take your design and ship you the product, as you said. This is OK for many cases, but gets pretty expensive and inefficient for prototyping. And there was nothing in between to fill this wide gap.

In fact, when I was looking for such a shop and asked friends if they know a place that would let me pay membership to use a decent quality 3+ axis CNC mill and a laser cutter no one knew of a place but several said if I found one, would I please let them know. So I suspect the market is there.

The situation is much better with 3D printing -- there are small shops everywhere and some could even let you come inside and iterate if you chat with owners. However, inexpensive 3D printing is nowhere near the accuracy, reliability and robustness of the end product you get with inexpensive milling.
Segway! I'm surprised no one else mentioned this. The hype equaled the excitement it triggered on people. Personally, it signaled the arrival of the future at the time. Fast forward to today and they are just niche transportation devices used by tourists and to a lesser degree by some security officials.
Totally agree that AP is designed as interest free financing in most companies, large and small. Though I don't know if a squeaky wheel solves that, even with AI or social engineering, etc., precisely because delay is explicitly incentivized.

I concede that you are in the "squeaky wheel" business, so you probably have data showing me it does solve that!

But I would argue in some/many cases, not your cases naturally, I think the squeaky wheel is a counterproductive social norm that actually signals I am OK not being paid. It tells the deadbeat customer, that 1) you haven't gone out of business yet so they can still delay and 2) when things get serious you will not be so subtle, and will start threatening real punitive action. Until then continue delaying.

That's why most companies insulate the AR from the actual people involved in negotiations and selling. You can always blame those "people in accounting" and over drinks promise to "look into it" when all the while you are telling that poor chap in accounting to sit on the invoice. Bad form I know, but happens all the time.

I agree that if you have a special "insider" relationship curated with the 1 person in accounting that cuts the checks, you can sometimes circumvent the accidental delays.

No one ever got a larger bonus for showing FASTER cash outflows in a given quarter. So as long as that is true, line managers with PO authority will not be squeaked into submission.

I think the trick to getting companies comfortable with "smart"-er autopay is to show them a compelling reason why it works for them on the other side of the equation. But since you are actually out there working hard in this space I'll definitely defer to your experience. Maybe it is impossible, at least in the short term. Being married to a PhD in psych, I know that changing human behavior is SUPER DUPER HARD...of course she'd say the same about my domestic behavior ;)
Here’s what we learned from ordering 213 curries at Wetherspoons
> My friggin circa 1984 Mac Plus felt faster on most stuff than the generic desktop PC

See how fast it felt.

https://youtu.be/XwbrCYJcrKQ?t=4m34s

No way and NO HOW! That statement is 100% false. The issue is you remember that it felt fast. My Amiga felt like lightening to me in 1985 and I still boot it up from time to time. The delays in everything is over the top and Mac 128k were horribly slow.
That's because the actual ones can't make that time.
Not in countries where it is forbidden by law to work more than 10 hours a day, unless a specific work permit has been signed off for that specific purpose.

Of course, one can do them illegally and be subject to the possible consequences.
It will have to happen sometime in our life time.
You have been reading too many finance blogs. Their finances are far from a mess, they are just not what finance people like to see. They have cash on hand and a roadmap to execute on. If they don't execute they will go out of business, and they will take my money as an investor with them. I'm OK with that and as long as they continue to have a path to profitability I am all on board. I want to see them burning money to get market share, especially as they do something new. The idea that companies must always operate within a specific set of financial metrics is why GE is going out of business
To be fair the US system has advantages. Hiring and firing people is a lot easier and faster.

I do think that in the long run making your employees happy and loyal is worthwhile. But treating your workers as disposable trash is also a viable strategy in some sectors.
>People are citizens. People can exercise their rights. Both of those statements are true whether they do so as individuals or whether they do so as a group. In other words, a group of people has the same legal rights collectively that they do as individuals.

I in turn detest this meme. It is symptomatic of everything I think is wrong with corporatism.

Size and power distort incentives and moral accountability. Each individual in a group should continue to have the rights they have as individuals, but these rights should not aggregate with a "simple sum", so to speak. There must be some cost to aggregating your "rights" in this way, because there is a clear dampening factor for aggregate blame and accountability, which counterbalance "rights". People behave differently in groups (worse), and with more power (worse), and it is impossible to pin moral blame on a corporation.

People perpetrate violence on other people. People can perpetrate said violence as a group. People and groups with more means (money, power, influence) can perpetrate and get away with more violence, as the scale and degrees of removal from the effects of the violence become incomprehensible. Hence I can't blow smoke in the face of my neighbor because I will feel bad, and I will have to deal with the repercussions. But BP can spill 4.9 million gallons of oil in the gulf because not a single person will go to jail, the fees are a negligible cost of doing business, and nobody feels bad because everyone was "just doing their job". No, I don't believe corporations deserve any rights whatsoever.
I got mine a few weeks ago. It's true there's no browser but the note-taking capabilities are great. It's running Linux so I can only assuming it's a matter of time before someone starts releasing some custom updates.
Off-topic but, what printer do you recommend for starting out?
Nobody is mandating minimum wage here. And housekeeper is not a dead end job. People can small businesses or use good references and clean records (i.e., proven to be trustworthy) to move into all kinds of jobs.

Also cleaning houses is great work for responsible teenagers. They don't have to pay mortgages or anything.
I don't get it. What's wrong with that statement?
The guardian is notoriously left wing newspaper and it will always find a reason to blame all the problems in society for people who are better off.
Twice burned – How Mt. Gox's Bitcoin customers could lose again
Because you don't have financial security concerns?
I don't think (although it's complicated), Fiat still owns Ferrari?
That’s a lot of fearmongering with no evidence. Do you have profiler data showing that the microseconds needed to pass a message between a process is a significant limiting factor in a program which is rate-limited by human text entry?

I mean, taking your argument seriously would mean everything should be hand-tuned assembly. Obviously we figured out that other factors like time to write, security, portability, flexibility, etc. matter as well and engineering is all about finding acceptable balances between them. Microsoft has been writing developer tools since the 1970s and in the absence of actual evidence I’m going to assume they made a well-reasoned decision.
What If You Knew Alzheimer’s Was Coming for You?
Would Apple have been resurgent without Steve Jobs? That is a huge what if.
Because it would be nigh impossible to learn every tech/language for every job you are considering interviewing for.

Would you spend a week learning a new tech stack for an upcoming interview, with the knowledge that they might not hire you? Only to restart the learning process again next week when you interview at another shop?
Hi, can you send a Pull Request including your numpy implementation? https://github.com/rochacbruno/rust-python-example I would like to add it there just for the record and then I will update the article.
A technical video about eink, reprogramming the firmware etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw
Good thing that there isn't an ML bubble then ;)
The entire site exists solely to distribute affiliate links. The content may as well be machine-generated (and probably would be if poor-quality English sentences weren’t so cheap to buy).
The drunk driver simulation mode is on point, I see.
I wonder if that is some parody fair use or how else would they be able to use it?
There are dollar vans in NY, that supposedly regulated and still profitable. It's really weird how developed world mostly ignores third-world model of private mini-buses.
I thought videocalls and live video-shopping would be ubiquitous (and I put my money where my mouth was).

I still think we're due more interactive shopping experiences.
Interestingly it does send a different message than the mailing list post. While not factually wrong, the press release sounds like the browsers are to blame for the decision (which they definitely are not, see the mailing list posting).
Locker Room Genre
Met my first love but didn't get married. Congratulations!
Halfway down that piece:

A study this year by Stone Temple, a prominent analyst of the industry, showed Google’s search engine answered 74.3% of 5,000 questions, and on those answers it had a 97.4% accuracy rate. Both percentages are higher than services from Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Alternative WSJ:

Let's bury that tidbit under the fold while we nitpick and highlight edge cases in a constantly improving system.

We should also emphasising how integral google's search is to the health of society and civilization because we are mandated by management and ownership to produce anti-google PR and provide a steady supply of ammunition to its critics.
"For the first time, researchers have infused a person’s blood with gene-editing tools, aiming to treat his severe inherited disease.." http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/human-has-been-inject...

We are on the cups of this being an actual treatment. My niece and mife's MS might be next.
No doubt victim to the success of LetsEncrypt and good riddance, too. Before LE, Starcom was the only way to get a free and recognized SSL certificate, only it was a pain to use (client certificates) and only worked with specific browsers.
A plea for stability in the SciPy ecosystem
If you search in German Google (does not need to be in Germany) and Google mainly for English search terms... you won't see any of those. Google is still in many ways a "US English first" company :/
And how are they supposed to pay for it?
What is a multi-tenant system?
> , but there are a lot of good reasons to not share with family/friends/coworkers about your mental illness.

The main reason for not sharing is because of the stigma involved. As for coworkers holding you to a different standard, well after any period of time, most coworkers know what you are like, despite any labels that are used.
My thought on the matter is to use the words Neuro-typical and ! neuro-typical.
I feel that a fair amount of what is called mental illness is actually just part of the spectrum of how a human mind can work. I think we lose a lot of human potential because most large organizations try to get all their "resources" to function together in pretty much the same way.
If the time was taken to understand the optimum conditions for individual types of mental functioning there would be a large increase of productivity and satisfaction in the workplace.
That's not entirely true. It's perhaps a far cry from the original goal but Schema.org markup has definitely caught on mostly thanks to use by Google for rich snippets.
You have three options:

1. Fork every dependency in the chain. Which typically isn't more than two or three dependencies.

2. Fork the distant dependency, and specify it as a direct dependency.

3. Fork the distant dependency, and only update your lock file.

Option 1 is probably the "correct" approach, and sometimes necessary anyway, if you've made contract/API changes to a dependency of a dependency. It will also make it easier to contribute your changes upstream - which presumably you're wanting to do to avoid the maintenance burden of maintaining forks.

Option 2 is the "easiest", but probably least correct as you're adding a hard dependency where one shouldn't exist.

Option 3 works fine until you try regenerate your lock file.

Quickfix doesn't seem to take itself too seriously, which is nice, but I'd happily argue that any one of the 3 approaches given above is better than the approach Quickfix is taking.