skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most enterprises would much _rather_ a programmer than a Computer Scientist. They, by and large, want and need implementation of either existing architectures (Programmers) or existing concepts applied to a take on an explored problem domain (Software Engineers). Research into net-new patterns (Computer Science) is often the domain of large corporate R+D departments and a few niche startups, not the bulk of industry.
A tour of containerd 1.0
If by "model" you mean reproduce, why is it so hard to simulate the distortion introduced by poor FM reception? Or by the acoustics of a store?
Project Betfair, part 5 (backtesting an HFT market-making strategy for Betfair)
One of the things I look for, in recommendations like this, is a mention of ethics. As an engineer we are obligated to understand the ethical consequences of our work, both in failure and success, and not do unethical work. This list of algorithm-heavy topics left out ethics, as well as other topics.

Here are the curricula recommendations that the ACM has for a software engineer, extracted and reformatted from https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/education/curric... . The min/max expresses a weighting scheme for each of the knowledge areas

min max Knowledge Area
5 5 Programming Fundamentals
1 3 Integrative Programming
3 4 Algorithms and Complexity
2 4 Computer Architecture and Organization
3 4 Operating Systems Principles & Design
2 4 Operating Systems Configuration & Use
2 4 Net Centric Principles and Design
2 3 Net Centric Use and configuration
0 3 Platform technologies
2 4 Theory of Programming Languages
3 5 Human-Computer Interaction
1 3 Graphics and Visualization
2 5 Information Management (DB) Theory
1 4 Information Management (DB) Practice
2 5 Legal / Professional / Ethics / Society
2 4 Information Systems Development
1 3 Analysis of Business Requirements
0 3 E-business
3 5 Analysis of Technical Requirements
2 5 Engineering Foundations for SW
2 3 Engineering Economics for SW
4 5 Software Modeling and Analysis
5 5 Software Design
4 5 Software Verification and Validation
2 4 Software Evolution (maintenance)
2 5 Software Process
2 4 Software Quality
2 3 Comp Systems Engineering
0 3 Digital logic
0 4 Embedded Systems
2 4 Distributed Systems
1 3 Security: issues and principles
1 3 Security: implementation and mgt
1 2 Systems administration
1 4 Systems integration
0 1 Digital media development
0 1 Technical support

along with non-computing topics, which includes the mathematics you mentioned:

min max Knowledge Area
2 4 Risk Management (Project, safety risk)
4 5 Project Management
0 2 Digital Signal Processing
0 1 VLSI design
3 5 Mathematical foundations
3 4 Interpersonal communication

For example, the ACM explicitly recommends software engineers learn both "Analysis of Business Requirements" and "Analysis of Technical Requirements" which, unless I missed it, is only implicit in the list given here.

(I have omitted areas with min=max=0 for software engineering. The original table also includes weights for related fields. Eg, "Functional Business Areas" is an important topic for those going into Information Systems, but not for software engineering, "Scientific computing (Numerical mthds)" is weighted 0/5 for CS, but 0/0 for software engineering, and "Electronics" is weighted 5/5 for a computer engineer but 0/0 for software engineering.)
I would suggest KETOCHOW if you are looking for a lower glycemic index.

Also I laughed out loud at your typo. Please don't edit it.
As long as we call it a company, its raison d'etre is precisely to maximise the value for its shareholders. A non-profit has the freedom not to, and can focus on a core mission. As much as I'd love to believe in social entrepreneurship, if you define yourself as something which by base definition maximises value for shareholders, that's what you're gonna have to do when push comes to shove.

So sure - some kinds of organisation can and do provide social glue. The problem is, the capitalist notion of organisation doesn't support this. Not to imply I'm against capitalism - it has its benefits, but social glue is not it.
Indeed.
One of the issues with the modern economy is LACK of competition. There is significant declines in competitiveness across industries (e.g., https://www3.nd.edu/~wbrooks/BKL_merged.pdf). For UBI to not result in increased prices, and to be effective, we must also solve issues related to monopolization and price fixing of markets.
the performance of the existing indices _is_ bad in many cases.
Hacking the cryptokitties genome
> Electricity too expensive? Let's just build some electric poles in the middle of the tundra and people will move their homes there for their electricity demand.

If you built some electric poles in the middle of the tundra and by moving there people could pay significantly lower prices per KWh, people with high electricity consumption absolutely would show up there to consume it. There are companies that build data centers in cold climates just to save on air conditioning.

> Land (as in housing) is widely accepted as being supply-elastic, especially since in addition to scarcity it's also heavily regulated. You can't wave your hands at SF and say it's an exception because you want UBI to work.

Not all housing markets are hampered by bad regulations. Houston has much less restrictive zoning and rents are much lower there than SF. They're also lower in Tokyo despite the incredibly high demand for housing there, because Tokyo isn't afraid of density.

It doesn't say anything to say the combination of UBI and terrible zoning regulations will cause rents to be high in SF. They're already high in SF because of terrible zoning regulations even without a UBI. The only way to have reasonable rents is to fix the zoning rules, after which supply will meet demand as it ought to.
Twitch already has a flagging system for "mature" content, and they ban anything with actual nudity pretty aggressively. It sounds like this is actually a call to police the use of sex appeal by streamers, which seems like a difficult thing to judge in general and I'm not sure how they could actually achieve such a thing.
I would rather have lively discussions that sometimes attract trolls than an insipid, dry, non-discussion discussion.

The moment you need to moderate every comment, and worry that you might get sued/prosecuted by people whose discrimination is different to yours, is the moment you simply become a censor or simply drop comments altogether.
I wonder if you could build a neural network that would do that...
If you're talking about an opt-in system (like the one described in this article) then the opinion of those who'll be net contributors matters a lot - if they choose not to join, the whole system has no value; for someone to get UBI, someone else has to create and provide this value.
Exactly what I do. Aeropress for myself, moka pot if I'm doing >1. Beans ground as needed in a completely non-fancy spice grinder.

I love the taste of Aeropress, but don't expect it to be like espresso. The workflow for a single cup is great, important when I've had <1 coffee so far in the day.

I've toyed with buying an espresso machine but given I have 1 cup a day at home, it seems extravagant.
Is there any justification for DMCA Safe Harbor [1] in the US anymore? When it was enacted screening user content was considered not practical. Now is done by almost every service.

[1] http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise33.html
I am well aware! They are burning things down. "Well, things are imperfect as-is, so let's give them some extra gasoline" makes me raise both eyebrows.
Its a mis-configured WordPress multi-site installation. If the domain is not recognized it redirects to the install page to create a new site on the domain, but they probably have site creation disabled, since they aren't an open community like wordpress.com is.
> Note that even where Google are forced to use git (e.g. Android, Chrome) they use a many-repo approach.

Google uses many-repo approach for Android and Chrome because you cannot fit everything in a single git repo (well you can, but it will be a pain in the ass to work on that repo). Git is just not designed for huge repos. Google is also working on tools to make the many-repo of Android or Chrome work like a monorepo.
FWIW, I chuckled--this was a good pull!
At least they seemed pretty exited with Intel 4004.
Kleptocrat
The plant estrogens in this soy filled pseudo-nutrition are harmful for men's health. No idea why dudes drink this stuff.
Same, on Ruby and Lua I've gotten good feedback, but not other languages. I think it helps to comment on your own stuff and ask questions if you're unsure about your solution and if there's a better way.
The Couchsurfing [1] app has something similar to this! You just say you want to hang out, say what you want to do (grab drinks, etc.) and people can see you if you're nearby and message you. I used it to find friends to go out with in Romania last month.

[1]: https://couchsurfing.com
y, you're going to have problems getting viable projects on Upwork.

The best projects with reasonable pay will come from your own network, people you know. So focus on networking following up with old contacts/making new ones.

Reach out to the game dev community, get in contact with podcasts, write articles, get involved with the community.
It's probably blowback from American Vandal.
Oh come on, why can't we just have fun? The site already has a "no nudity allowed" policy and a per-stream "mature audiences only" warning screen.
Engaging customers online is actually easier than I thought
> From their perspective it should be setup like cable subscriptions

You are standing in the maze of twisty little options, all of which suck.
Everybody hates when a popup appears begging to complete a survey. There is a better service that helps to ask one question at the time and then adjust your website to each customer. It is Free as well.
He was a legend in NYU CS in Courant. The annual movie party at his home was also interesting.
Nextdoor raises $75M round at $1.5B valuation
It's neat to look at the two pictures:

Rob is holding up a bag of Soylent, presenting it to the reader, bag in focus Rob considerably out of focus. Background is hard to make out, maybe a lag, kitchen, or kitchen-lab?

Bryan is sitting at a table, clearly in a situation where he's "on display" (jacket, microphone, earpiece), face well-lit. The product is in front of him, almost as out of focus as Rob is in the first photo. In fact, although the bottles are branded, you can more easily make out the Soylent logo on Bryan's shirt even though it's folded than you can on the bottles.

I'm just saying, if this were a movie I know what the message the director/DP would be trying to convey is: Rob was all about being the CEO who invented Soylent and brought it to the world. He makes a bag of powder the star of the photo of himself. Now it's Bryan's time, where the focus of the CEO's office is the CEO: Bryan.

Of course, this is not a movie. They're probably saying a lot less than that with their photo choices in real life.
I wonder what the fallout will be for small websites running their own comment streams vs. Disqus vs. Facebook.

Will these websites prevent or bifurcate access from Europe?
To be fair, a lot of the UBI supporters commenting above are making similar assumptions. They think of the freedom that UBI would create for them as generally well educated, smart, creative people. In reality I'm willing to bet we would end up with Idiocracy after a generation or two, not a creative utopia.
Why do tech companies avoid the Midwest?
These are new users, whose funds are lower than $200 because they haven't been validated to buy more? "Locking Users" seem like every user new and old
Is it possible to download these? Would love to play with some Dynamic Topic Modeling stuff using them to see changes over time!
Sorry this is unreadable ~ is this meant to be a joke?
I think a quintessential modern version of this is the Scion xB. We have the original style, 2005 version. We love ours, and the current plan is to drive it until the wheels fall off, then go buy new wheels. Great mileage, great dog car, throw a rack on top to carry bikes, and it's zippy enough for what it is. I've hauled a couch in it, because my buddy's Chevy Equinox SUV couldn't. It's basically a small, 35mpg SUV. We checked every box on the options list, and it still came in at $20K If you were to ask me what could be done to improve it, meh, could use a little more power than the 110bhp it puts out now. I mean, if you have to have an answer.

And here's the problem the article addresses: yes, I said it could use more power, but not at the expense of mileage efficiency. That's the mistake that Ford and Cadillac made: yes, you did what customers asked, but at the expense of other things that the customer assumed wouldn't change when they answered the question. So what do we get a few years later for a Scion xB? A 50bhp power boost, but at the expense of its awesome fuel efficiency. Wanna know why we bought the xB and not a Honda Element or some Subaru that might be more fitting to our needs? Because the xB gets 35mpg and the Honda and Subie don't. Now that Scion's fuel efficiency is down there with the Honda and Subie, well, why don't I just buy the Forrester I'd rather have were it not for the fuel efficiency? They don't make the xB anymore, for whatever reason, and Toyota's suggested replacement is just another generic crossover that is nothing like the xB is supposedly replaces. I want my lunchbox-on-wheels back. Instead, I guess we'll buy a Subaru when the time comes.

So go ahead and customers what they want. Then feel free to go do it, as long as you can do it without screwing up the character of the model. (Which, admittedly, is exactly what the last paragraph of TFA says.)
>if you company has benefits.

By "benefits" do you mean profits?
It only helps the big ones to become stronger. Companies like Facebook have the partners, the tech, the lawyers, the lobbying power, etc to turn developments like this ultimately into a competitive advantage.

Small players, like startups with innovative ideas, will have more and more difficulties to survive.
I don't have firsthand knowledge of online CS programs, but I have spent time pursuing an online BS (in Environmental Resource Management). So, this is some of what I know:

Sacramento State, which I personally visited (in meatspace) while investigating online/distance learning Master's, has some excellent programs. I dug around and their site points to what is supposedly an entirely online CS program from a California university here:

https://csumb.edu/scd/cs-online-degree-completion-bs

A good resource for anyone interested in taking either online classes or getting a degree in California is California Virtual Campus:

https://cvc.edu/

You can search the database for classes you need. I have taken classes from several California colleges in the process of trying to complete my online Bachelor's, some in person and some online.

Penn State was the other thing I researched years ago that looked good to me, but I recall it being spendy. I am just going to point you to their home page and you can dig around and see if they have a program that interests you:

https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/

I was mostly looking for either GIS programs or Urban Planning programs to further my education after my bachelor's (or looking for classes to fill in the holes in my undergrad education, because I have an AA in Humanities and needed more science classes to complete the requirements of my BS). But my recollection is that Sacremento State and Penn State were two well established online and distance learning programs more than 10 years ago when this was not common. So I think they likely know what they are doing and are not fly-by-night deals.
Microsoft launches Edge browser for Android
Considering the article is from two years ago it's not such a shock now.
Shock? This has been like this since forever.
The title of the post was changed. @sctb (or any other moderator), can you please update it in this thread?
These are people trying to increase their buy or withdrawal limits, not locking them out.
It's already patched, if you update to the latest ios.
The tape recorders still work.
I largely judge the design based on my device. It’s an iPhone and fairly common. If the design still makes me nauseous, I blame the designer. Perhaps it was designed for a tv or tablet or whatever, but they showed it to me.
I see what they did there.
I wish I could click this upvote triangle a million times.
(for 20 minutes, 2 hours ago)
You could argue that government help in wiping out the natives and stealing their land and giving it to the white settlers is an agricultural subsidy. It's true that we've never had persistent hunger in the US. But that's cause we stole all the natives land. The natives however suffered tremendous hunger/starvation though.
It's only $200/class for grad students. OP is looking for a bachelor's degree.
So what is the scalable solution to allow discussion without causing automated censorship, inflicting astroturfing vulnerability, or hiring significant staff overhead that allows things like reddit to start up, or are you happy with the ecosystem we have?
TLDR: Transitioning from lovable nerd as CEO to oddly-similar-to-Tony-Robbins CEO.

On the surface, about as appealing as the thought of drinking Soylent.
I got estonian e-residence and wrote about it here (for those interested).

https://impossiblehq.com/estonian-eresidency/
They aren’t even books published in 2017. Just books the respondents read in 2017.

Sapiens is great and I was late and read it this year. But it was published in 2015.

I prefer this kind of list, but the title should be accurate.
The wasm binary itself may be using a separate engine, but heavily sandboxed: it can only communicate with JS, and nothing else. The (newly added) attack surface is minimal when compared with Flash, Java, etc (each with its own APIs). Almost any flaw must be in the JS side, and that's already battle-proven for years.

ActiveX didn't even have a sandbox, so not even related.
Exactly. This sort of thing is why nobody who owns or uses guns has much interest in so-called "smart guns". A real security audit on what they're supposed to accomplish and how they would physically work will show that it's not a very effective idea.
Most people who use ID card every day have updated certs remotely or went to police office. I would say government handled it pretty well.

Problematic was communication with card maker Gemalto, who didn't inform Estonia about security flaws properly. Gemalto was informed by researchers in March. These researchers informed Estonian government in August. Few days after that prime minister announced security problems.

Things would have been a lot of easier if Gemalto didn't hide the problem from the government.
Facebook, the New York Times and Cloudflare are all free to police or not police their platforms against hate speech as they want to be. (Thankfully they've all come around to realizing hate speech is not good).

However once the government gets involved, that's when we've lost free speech. Free speech protections have always been in place to ensure you can't go to jail for what you're saying. What they aren't for, is making private individuals and corporations harbor any kind of speech on their property. It'll be truly scary if the government starts forcing corporations to censor speech. Let's leave the pressure we put on these firms to consumers, activists and shareholders.
Welcome to the free market, where private companies are free to hire or not hire at will based on criteria that works for them. Writing OSS doesn’t entitle you to any job.

Also “inverting” a binary tree is a trivial computation exercise. There’s a difference between engineering and scripting. Homebrew is very much a scripting problem.
This is the best headline I've ever read.
Yeah, this is incredibly misleading.
ES2015 rolled up around five/six years worth of changes since ES5 (which we could call ES2009, I suppose), so of course it's going to feel like it standardized a bunch more stuff.

The new system is faster as annual releases, even if it seems like ES2016, and ES2017, seem "light" relative to previous standards.
Python libraries for building great command-line user interfaces
Can you explain "post on Freelancer Seeking Freelance every month" -- are you referring to freelancer.com? Is there a general "seeking freelance" feature to that website? In my experience, you have to apply to specific jobs. And the chances of getting any of them are extremely low, at least in my experience; it seems to be dominated by Indian and other 3rd world folks eager to build up their skills while working for pennies.
Reading texts is great, but it's only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to becoming educated in these topics. In the classroom, students read, discuss with their peers and professors, read and write essays, and are lectured by very smart people. You can only get so much out of the literature without the right tutelage.
I searched for a random keyword and found this file: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-101...

1 July 1947

Enclosed herewith are translations from the official gestapo files of a list of persons connected with the work of the Third International in China. These files are in possession of Turin, NY and he is combing through them extracting this type of information which will be forwarded to you as it is obtained.

I guess it's not super surprising that US intelligence was interested in the results of Gestapo intelligence on communists in other countries, but it does make me incredibly, incredibly uncomfortable.

Some of the Gestapo notes identify various people as "US citizen, Jew," "German citizen, Jewess," etc.

(On the technical side - is the OCR'd text available, or only searchable?)
Sure, there are recommendations for the obvious popular bands, but I've also gotten ones for bands I'd never heard of before, like Heptaedium, Mist of Misery, Ashbringer, Vector of Underground and Kyy. Not all of it is good, but it is definitely interesting.

I think it's important to take an active role and explore related artists, instead of only seeing the recommendation playlists.

Outside of Spotify, I follow Toilet ov Hell and my friends' recommendations.
Join Amazon CamperForce for a seasonal job and Amazon will pay for your campsite
Perhaps the people using it and the people responding to your requests are unaware of each other?
Perhaps a pay-to-post scheme. If it takes $1 to make a post people will comment a lot less, and hopefully when they do comment it'll be saying something meaningful. This will also help reduce automated span.
I was off to a rocky start but thanks to a blog post on gamasutra that ended up on HN I managed to reach my sales goal and I'm in the clear for the next 6 months.

I guess the shrewd commenters who said this piece https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ConstantinBacioiu/20171121/3... was actually something of a subtle sales technique were pretty much spot on!
>Also, for an international business a company based in Estonia looks more reliable and “techie” than other countries.

Not sure what you mean. Singapore seems quite international, reliable and techie, based on what I've read, as well as heard from friends and clients who work there. (There are tons of enterprises that have a base or regional office there, and many startups there too).

Interested to know if I got you wrong, or am wrong.
Push comments off your site and onto Twitter/Reddit.
This is a loaded question.

1. I believe that the Department of State's obsession with maintaining the American empire through globe-spanning military dominance is insane.

2. If I did not believe that #1 is insane, yes, I would say that NASA is playing an important role in the US offense industry. (Maybe? Who knows, it's all classified.)

3. Most of the people on HN who strongly support more funding for NASA do so out of either their scientific work, Star Trek romanticism, or both. Military applications rank a distant third.