skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The salable entity in the internet era shouldn't be a subscription to a newspaper, it should be an article.

I think this is spot-on. My guess is that a browser based micropayment solution/ecosystem will emerge (a la Brave and its Basic Attention Token).
I think folding the update rule inside the MCTS loop (in alphaGO Zero) is genius.
This article was written in 2015, where it was less fashionable to poo poo Facebook.
Thanks for correcting my mistake! It's def better than most I signed up for!
> Even just considering it is bad enough

The U.S. government is, as it should be, a paranoid bureaucracy. Everything is, and should be, considered.
These days the Calibre project embeds a number of great conversion projects and adds its own valuable conversion contributions to turn PDFs to e-reader formats and still do a decent job of preserving layout (a ways to go to match Acrobat's conversion of PDF to MS-Word, but steadily getting there). Take a look at how it manages with your selection of PDFs, and see if they work better on your DX if you still have it hanging around.
I went to college for Journalism, and while my degree ended up having nothing to do with my career, I'm still glad I went, and I'm still glad I got that degree. It taught me a lot about critically thinking and communicating.

That said, I really really wish I spent more time learning about myself and what I like to do. I think I'd be much further along in my software career if I had an MS in CS.

In any case, I do not regret going to college at all.
No, the reason is the end to the milk quota system and market adapting to the new reality. At first the price of milk plunged and production went down, but then demand for milk fat (mainly) shot up. Butter was very expensive in many EU countries for a while, now returning to lower prices as production again rises. So the farmers are not throwing milk away because of EU regulation, on the contrary, currently they can sell everything they produce. And if they overproduce, it's not a failure of the EU regulation anymore.
Important to note that the Guardian is not actually financially successful at all. They have been suffering heavy losses for years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/01/heavy-losses-...
What if you pay as you consume up to a maximum? That would transition repeat users into, in effect, subscribers.
Flexbox is meant to bring responsive grids to the browsers without an extra CSS framework. Supported by the latest versions https://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
Oh, I thought that they were run because they had the output, which I didn't think would be commited to the repository. Good to know.
> If it is optimizing a compiler in assembler, correcting performance problems on a multiplatform system, or evaluating code for security holes in a sizable institution, then you better have your degree.

If you've spent 20+ years doing exactly that (because you're 40+), then what difference does a degree make?
Most medical jobs are more boring than a job as a enterprise CRUD developer. Some even pay less.

That doesn't make them blue collar, even when we consider some software to be blue collar.

Now, whether blue collar is a useful label and whether people should be considering social capital when choosing a career? Those are the more important questions.
Eh, user and employee are just labels used to communicate a narrative; there's no objective truth in either one. The point is, the hotel industry is structured such that it solves this problem. If we're allowing AirBnB to disrupt the hotel industry, we need to address the same problems. The gig economy claims to be more efficient, but it's not more efficient in the context of society if it's merely offloading parts of the problem it solves onto other parts of society.
Munich ends its long-running love affair with Linux
Thanks for the heads up!:) It's only for that report - each client has its own, customized text.
Same here, though I guess I'm now considered early millennial. Work/school nights we stayed in, but it was only solitary when there was homework. Otherwise it was cooking together, playing games together, etc.

Weekends, we went to someone's house and just hung around all day. Which house was a rotating thing, so nobody was stuck hosting all the time. Adults sat around in the kitchen drinking wine or whatever, and kids ran in feral packs through the neighborhood.
There's a fine line between tool and toy and I often find myself on the wrong side.
Seeing as you're already upset, I hate to break it to you that special purpose credit card gateways have similar regulatory requirements.

That said, your characterization of Uber and such is egregiously inaccurate. Uber does not hire individuals who do whatever they want with their time and property. They hire individuals who are willing to use only very specific property, in very specific age and condition, to make money in specific places, in an exceedingly specific manner, while following very specific rules.

As such, you're not just peddling a false dichotomy, you're doing so using grossly distorted portrayals of reality.
Missing the point.
Possibly related: some Macs render terribly blurry text when the monitor color profile is not to their liking--look for the "sRBG" toggle, and toggle it.
> platforms have been used to push political stances.

It's called a newspaper.

The British press have never had the American obsession with pretending to be impartial. This has its advantages and disadvantages, but one implication is that it's very clear which party and what politics is supported by which paper.
Yep got one too - refurb (buydig via ebay) for $799.

Plays nice with my PC and 2015 macbook pro.

Very happy.
This is not what I would call "in-a-box". That'd be for something like Vimeo OTT.
Scarce minerals from the asteroid belt? Already in R&D (google "Planetary Resources"). Shipping anything in bulk from another star system? Unlikely even with the fabled "teleportation" tech.
Old guy here who disagrees. My neck/eyes get tired moving over that much real estate. For me, work spaces work better. I find it helps to use the same number and place stuff the same way. I use 5.

mail

work

work

slack

firefox

Been doing that for years and I can find stuff fast.
Thanks Ben, it's been a while since we last spoke :) Yeah it's probably ok, I've extended the language parsing engine so that users can write automation scripts in their 21 different native languages. The language definitions can be easily improved or added by users.

Here's the current set - Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese.
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The Fashion App Founder with a Pocket Full of Visas
Agree except for the 'This post, indirectly leads to stupid requirements at interviews' part. She did not decribe anything a decent developer should not know
Imgur Security Breach Hit 1.7M Accounts
> Wow, so you are complaining about, and asking questions to the author of, an article based purely on your perception of its title?

He's talking about The Guardian and how he doesn't read it anymore. He didn't attribute the author specifically. It doesn't matter whether it was the original author or Guardian's editors guilty of publishing the offensive content.
What do software developers of age 30 and over know
I said “cool”
This. Thank you very much for pointing that out!

We don't know which percentage of said individuals' success was due to sheer luck and which due to outright competence. For all we know, the former may very well be beyond 99%.
We should expect that hiring science improves over time if, in fact, the difference between the top talent and 2nd-tier talent really matters that much to firm success.

And if tests, school performance, college aspirations are interesting things, then we should continue to improve our pedagogical craft, and we should continue encouraging youth to pursue college, as opposed to dropout. Not everyone can benefit from the Peter Thiel method. Examination has its bad parts, such as deviance from ground facts, but the lack of examination is even less grounded in empiricism. That is surely where dishonest thrives best, where wishy washy arguments dominate.

We discuss competency because meritocracy is a counterbalance to nepotism, and meritocracy has a really nasty edge to it even if performed ideally. We often talk about how meritocracy could be done better, as implied when we criticize instruments such as tests, but even an ideal meritocracy retains a very harsh edge to it -- it bears moral judgment on the incompetent.

Also buried underneath in implication is the idea that there's a sizable group of intellectuals who are stomped on by school, and they have Facebook in the garage potential (but not Elon Musk potential).

I might suggest that processes that produce Elon Musks and Steve Jobs are mysterious, and criticizing education in favor of throwing thousands of kids into a black box creative process, hoping that Elon Musks and Steve Jobs come out, is a thinking even more cruel than unrestrained meritocracy.

Our system would have been elite in a historical perspective, basically offering calculus in high school to just about any child in the US if they could take it. In today's terms, it's not so obvious why the American employee is that much better than a British or German engineer. Or at the university level, why an American student would be that much better. If anything, Americans have been routinely trounced on international math competitions.

Rather than diminishing our education system in favor of black box hopes for more Steve Jobs (How many thousands of kids does it take to make a Steve Jobs? How many Steve Jobs are there per Apples?), I would hope we identify and improve gaps in education, and not throw out the art of examination.
Of course it's large enough, but it's also widely used. If you use 10.11.0.0/16, then you can be sure that you'll run into a company that also uses it. And when there's a conflit between your VPN device space and your custommer's IP space, … well, it's really annoying.

Sure, you could use 192.168/24, or 172.16/12 but you'll run into the same problem. Once it'll be a hotel that uses this space, and another time it'll be an industry.

So that's why I use 11.0.0.0/16. Yes it's allocated, but my devices will (never) need to talk to it (they only talk with me, and I'll never install devices in the DoD, so there won't be a conflict).
These policies server two purposes:
1) form an easy-to-adjudicate test for filtering (yes/no)
2) reinforce the hierarchy advancement => reward structure
McAfee acquires cloud security startup Skyhigh Networks, last valued at $400M
> since the status quo is Trump

Why would a British newspaper think that?
This would have to be stupid-easy to detect. Just look for repeat copy from guests to hosts regarding their stay, and high cost stays at places.

If AirBnB ever wants to be legal, they're going to have to be spotless. This may not be their problem, but it landed in their lap, and they can't be part of it.
I'm not OP, but in my experience, university nowadays is less about learning how to think and more about memorizing for tests. The bar for passing tests is low too, and it selects more for persistence in study than competence in study. They don't even teach to be competitive anymore, because they don't want to hurt feelings.
This is a fairly well represented technique in bayesian hyperparameter optimization, where you train a meta-classifier that keeps track of the parameter space. Kind of like a manager model, if you will, that learns to intelligently optimize exploration vs exploitation so that a team of workers will arrive at the global optimum.

Back when Yahoo! was a real company they used a technique called "multi-armed bandits" to learn what ads to show. [1]

More recently, there's a number of off-the-shelf packages available that you can trivially integrate into your ML pipeline to optimize hyperparameters of your models, I'll include the links below.

[1] multi-armed bandits https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/23/yahoo_core_personal...

[2] tree of parzen estimators https://jaberg.github.io/hyperopt/

[3] hyperband - what google uses in their internal ML toolkits AFAIK https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06560.pdf

[4] (shameless plug) gaussian process based hyperparameter optimization service https://github.com/avantoss/loop
We recognize that people can cross a line where their inability to control violent behavior becomes a medical issue.
If a series of stupid policy decisions are made that constricts jail cell supply so much that even dangerous suspects are not detained, then yeah.

But there is a lot of social benefit to not having people sit in jail awaiting trial if they don't need to. People on limited income can't afford to miss work or not be around to take care of their kids or other love ones. People who turn out to be innocent still end up experiencing difficult life consequences as a result of unnecessary jail time.

I think the public interest is served by reducing the number of people in jail in a more fair and transparent manner. It will take sensible policy-making to make sure that it doesn't result in unintended consequences (as some others have pointed out) down the road, but it's worth starting down the road in the first place.
What is interesting is those safe doctor professions will be hit hard by automation. I see the beginning of automation already. Perhaps gp will be a thing of the past while all doctors become more specialists.
Subdivision like that usually happens when you go from a less complex organic system to something more engineered. Compare this to just running programs, to having 27 different VMs running on a baremetal hypervisor. That serves to subdivide complexity to make it more manageable.
Hurray for American Culture Export!

I find the recent (actually not that recent) trend in SV to enforce culture by ignorance rather worrying, other countries exist too and things are different there!
Personally I would call it the 3rd coming, VRML in 1995, Virtual Worlds in 2005, and now VR/AR in 2015. Just might stick this time, but it will be slower than they predict.
I use a 40". If the middle of my monitor is just about eye level, I don't find myself moving my neck vertically very much -- eye movement suffices for vertical travel.

If you have the opportunity, though, monitor arms are one of the best ergonomic investments you can make. Being able to reposition the monitor with a touch for whatever position or attitude you want helps reduce fatigue enormously.
Awesome...same as me. I'd love to hear how they did things in more resource constrained times.

I also have a hobby interest in HP calcs (own a 15-c), so double interest here. Not sure if you're a blogger, but that is some legitimate history with the early usage of handheld computing to aid science & engineering. A blog post would be great, but I'd settle on a reply here.
The problem with this course is that it is quite boring if you're not interested in given subjects - e.g. Poker lectures make me sleepy.
Yeah I get that. It’s not crazy. It’s just a world away from the kind of thing I can engage with. If that means I’m on my way out in terms of relevance I’d accept that. I’m not cross about it...I just can’t take it seriously.
When a CAPTCHA is too tricky, just ask for another one with the "repeat" symbol (bottom left on this example)
The WordPress.com user interface is all done in React. It's a complete reimplementation of the WordPress admin area as a single-page React app. Might be on the larger side, as far as React codebases. https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso
Or ChromeOS. The web have indeed taken on some semblance of this over the years.
Seems like this could be fun, but I feel like a really need an example URL that I could copy and paste in to see how it works. Right now I don't even know what subreddit I'd head into to grab as a sample.
The newspapers haven't but some of their journalists certainly have, through (now defunct) platforms like spot.us or even just Kickstarter. The way I see it, working as a data journalist, the problem is that you never know beforehand what will turn up and "we will spend three months investigating this thing and who knows, maybe something interesting will turn up or maybe nothing at all" is not something you can easily get people excited about.
The Teredo protocol (implemented by miredo-client on GNU/Linux) provides a simple way to get a public dynamic IPv6 address on a host behind NAT. Combined with dynamic DNS this solves the problem of accessing my devices from anywhere I need to.
Thanks for the explanation! Neither of the two linked articles mention the term "non-recursive" by the way, so it's thanks to your response I know it's a synonym of super-recursive, not thanks to wikipedia.
> France doesn't "protect" Champagne

They sure do. They bake regulations on the naming into foreign trade agreements
> Okay, I think I see what you mean now. It's a bit hard to see

I must admit to not understanding how it's difficult to see the correlation. If bail is set on factors X, Y, and Z, AND those factors are shown to be biased, then by definition, bail is also biased.

> since you're so focused on gender bias.

That's just a weird statement to make. The research shows bias and I quoted the research... how does that make me "so focused" on gender bias?

> it's not adding new bias.

That is a good point, but continuing existing bias is a serious problem.
Wealth is relative. People in poverty in America are rich compared to global standards, but when they struggle with buying food, paying rent, or having a mode of transportation, that relatively high wealth globally doesn't really matter much.
In school, I never got anything out of looking at my notes, but I had much better retention when I took notes. Now I take a lot of notes and actually use them, because I take down tons of information that isn't very interesting and can't be learned by connecting it to a conceptual framework but which I will definitely need later.
Good luck getting your first job where you work in assambler without a degree
My biggest concern is that TVs generally don't have a good refresh-rate relative to monitors. Have you noticed any lag/annoyances in that department? Do you have a link to the TV you use?
The UHD, HDR and Movie Modes for most of these tv/monitors seem to modify the picture a little too much. These are usually the first to get disabled when I'm using them for desktop use.
It really depends on how the notes were taken. Jotting down thoughts when you study on your own is helpful. But it's extremely common for your brain to just copy words from the board / screen to the notebook without any cognitive involvement.
My company did a lot of experimentation with VR shopping. While the idea seems cool, 2D is generally faster and easier than 3D.
I would like to know what scale invariance is. The abstract doesn’t describe it, can anyone point to a good summary?
but local ads on local content are legitimately useful and the only type of display ad i’ve ever clicked on.
It's an international newspaper, which has significantly invested in their US presence [1] in the past decade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_US
The Guardian is catering to its own specific echo chamber demographic and everyone else is retreating to theirs. My personal level of exasperation with the guardians CIF section got me to the point where I just stopped going to the site at all, it's now right up there with Facebook with me as a pointless waste of time and source of annoyance.
Maintainer here. You are free to use the C++ or Go or Rust client. Use a binary all you want.

Npm is just one client.
Slight tangent:

I remember the indie game renaissance, maybe a decade ago or so. For what ever reason indie games really hit their stride and we saw a surge of small game development teams making it big. World of Goo, Braid, etc. I think it was caused by digital distribution finally coming into its own.

Back then I would frequent a video game development forum. Mostly just hobbyists. But even some of them started making commercial games and trying to take their swing at big, indie success.

It was an incredible time. A time that seemed to fizzle out. We saw less and less big indie hits, and more and more coverage of AAA titles. It's hard to say why. My guess is video games, around that time, started to become more mainstream. The Wii was making big head way in bringing the casual family to games, and XBox was bringing your average high school and college aged kids to the gaming scene. That tidal wave of gamers, hungry for high production, popular games, I think eventually crashed into and drowned out the indie industry. Not that indie games died; we are still getting great titles. But it lost its spot in the lime light.

But now we're starting to see what I think is another resurgence in a different form. The rise of crowd funding, early access, Patreon, and live streaming have all provided new avenues for independent artists to gain visibility and funding for the development of really interesting, original games. Games like OP's. They might not all make it; most won't. But the possibility of fame and fortune always spurs the indie crowd to create incredible things, and I'm excited to see what the next wave will give us. If seeing itch.io games linked on Hacker News isn't a possible sign of a new era, I don't know what is.
Well I would consider any puzzle type problems technically "unnecessary" but I thought the adventofcode puzzles in 2016 were fun, well designed and tapped into some good CS algorithm and theory stuff.
>it is like a McDonalds that has successfully lobbied for a ban on the sale of home cookware

They've successfully lobbied to ban my personal website?
It's been a long time since I've sat in classrooms on a regular basis but I do attend a lot of conference events. For the most part, I find presentations that get into a lot of very detailed step by steps and the like cause me to zone out. I'm far more interested in learning enough to cause me to check out something later and to understand some of the motivations, thinking, etc. It's also a reason I think that conference presentations are generally longer than is optimal.

Having said that, people do differ. And with a smaller and more interactive group, getting into the nuts and volts can make a lot of sense. But it should IMO be done sparingly in more of a lecture format.
You're late. Amazon is testing this with grocery stores now.
Maintainer here. iptables and ffmpeg are already there. You are most welcome to send a PR for tc :)
The US market presents a bit of a challenge in that the country is so large with distinctly different cultures. Some parts may as well be called Puritanical while others are more to the Western European mindset.

The parents around my area have no problem with children seeing breasts or other body parts. Scenes involving intimacy on shows and in movies provide a good segue into conversations about sexuality. But, we have a major problem with characters slaughtering one another in gun violence.

The reality is that we simply watch more Amazon and Netflix original series/movies, in which body parts and sexuality are more likely, and avoid shoot-em-up blockbusters.
I'm reminded of this piece from the Onion:

https://entertainment.theonion.com/time-announces-new-versio...

Sadly, it's video-only. Couldn't find an article.
Oh, we eat the oink too! ;)
I am English. Aged 18 could I or my parents have afforded for me to fly to America and drop $20k on an unaccredited course + more for living expenses? Not a chance. I don't want to come across as envious or anything (since I went to a good college here, before Bliar's government introduced tuition fees) but let's call a spade a spade shall we? This is someone who is highly privileged pretending that they earned it like a regular person.
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