skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, most anti-virus software is very poorly written. They don’t practice safe coding methods themselves.

Moreover, even if it was well-written, because of the nature of what you’re asking the software to do, it will have full and complete access to everything on your system, and usually with significant privileges. So, that would make it a very juicy target for malware writers, if nothing else.

For non-savvy computer users, Bitdefender is the only anti-virus software I would trust, but for more savvy computer users, even Bitdefender might be more of a risk than it is worth.

So, are you computer savvy enough that you know the risks presented by even the best anti-virus software, and would be better off without it? If you are, then maybe you’re not part of the target audience for this page.
For clothing I don't like the online trend much. But already today a lot of stores have a much smaller choice than years ago. So sometimes customers are forced to buy online, because stores just don't have it anymore.
The submitter originally added that to the title, it was removed later.
the short answer will disappoint you: pick one you like and experiment.

the long answer: entire genres were built on not knowing music theory or disregarding it (techno, i'm looking at you). most music producers started by turning knobs without knowing what they were doing. most music producers continue to turns knobs just to see what happens, even after learning stuff about synths. the knowledge will come over time ; if you get "the bug" you will inevitably start reading stuff about all this.

of course, there may be exceptions. most "worldwide mainstream" electronic is obeying the usual codes of popular music, so if that's what you want to do, don't listen to me (and maybe produce on a computer).
IOTA vs RaiBlocks
Why not? Blockchain is a document timestamping system, which means its whole
purpose is to tell which of the two connected documents was issued earlier. As
such, it doesn't care if the document was subtracting a number from one
account and adding the same number to another account or if it was some text
telling who gets the ownership of a described plot.

In fact, this particular use is one of the few that blockchain is actually
good for (because it was designed as document timestamping), unlike stuff like
voting or databases.
Isn't this the traveling salesman problem?
> entire sackful of potatoes

if you have a kitchen to cook them, yes.
else you probably have just a sack of vegetables that nobody could eat in his raw form.
living in a box means eating pre-made food and you can buy healthy pre-made food (like the cesars salad) it's just not affordable.
Goodbye Russia: A Generation Packs Its Bags
> You’ve lost your mind if you really believe inflation has only been roughly 2% the last decade.

Do you generally find that being insulting without providing evidence for, or even explaining, your position usually brings people around to your point of view?
i think reading about people suffering misfortunes like is naturally very frightening. my instinct is to scramble for reasons why this is abnormal, or the result of avoidable mistakes, or due to a unique situation that isn't likely to be repeated. the just-world fallacy in action.

the fact is, there are lots of stories like this. maybe you're immune because you live in a more reasonable place or your strong technical skills or whatever. then again, 30 years ago being a paralegal was a good job and working people could afford to live in places like Santa Barbara.

it's a fact that you could be next. we can't predict the future, there will only be more and more upheavals and disruption in the economy, unless things change drastically. employers and investors are working very, very hard all the time to devalue and deskill engineering. maybe your RV will be self-driving though.
>UPS works closely with retailers for months to map out how many orders are expected to flow out from which hubs and into what markets. This year, it started charging extra fees for deliveries during peak shipping days.

Are they actually forecasting demand? Are orders that predictable? If it were, then would they not be able to accommodate the spikes?

Very curious to see how well the forecast demand.
B8ta is trying something like this https://b8ta.com/
Yep, and it doesn't take much to turn that rice into a full meal. If you've got a freezer and a microwave, fresh-frozen veggies are a good alternative to always buying fresh veggies for the time constrained. It's a little more expensive but you lose virtually none of the health benefits and gain ease of preparation.

Throw some veggies in with the rice and some soy or teriyaki sauce, and you've got a healthy meal that is compatible with most diets. If you're a meat eater, you can cook some chicken breast to go with it; if not, some tofu for protein will help make it more filling.
Considering the top numeric Python libraries have dependencies on Numpy, including data manipulation (pandas), machine learning (scikit-learn) and deep learning (TensorFlow), you may want to narrow down the question.
Music Memos is made by Apple so they can use private APIs.
Whether it is around your dinner table or in the back of a UPS truck, Christmas is essentially a DoS attack.

Merry Christmas, by the way - I just noticed it is after midnight local time, and December 24th!
A Fish That Took a Century to Name
That’s why I’ve been wanting an iPhone Pro since about the iPhone 5. A bit thicker, maybe even kind of blocky a la iPhone 4, so you can a decent battery in there. About the size of an iPhone 5 because real pros have shit to do, not watch movies. And since we’re pros, screw playing games on it, so you can put a slower, battery-sipping CPU in there. IP67 water resistance. I’d buy one tomorrow. What I describe is almost the SE, but the SE is just going to have the same problems delayed a year.
(I’m sorry I wasn’t clearer, but I am not in any way insinuating that there isn’t a problem where iPhones shut down at > 10% as they age - the “BS” referred to are the claims that it’s an intrinsic problem with batteries that couldn’t be dealt with otherwise and not a symptom of bad design on Apple’s behalf that failed to properly handle limited power scenarios. I’ve posted a more detailed comment about what the right thing to do in this situation is earlier today, you can find it in my comment history. Additionally, there is no doubt that Apple has had this problem in their designs for some time and across a range of products but the iPhone 6S was by far the worst culprit.)
Congrats on the work though!
Sundays at the Altar of Science
Where are there open houses for 1 bedroom apartments?

Note: While I am in the bay area, I am not in the SF-specific market.
You seem to have left out the fact that Americans make much more than their Canadian, Western European, or Australian counterparts?
> For example: If a subordinate rejects a superior's advances, and there's even a whiff of unfair treatment (being passed over for promotion, for example), the subordinate has a legitimate grievance that they didn't before

The damage happens the minute the superior makes the advance. Maybe the superior is enlightened and won’t hold a rejection against the subordinate. But how is the subordinate supposed to know that? It puts the subordinate person in an incredibly stressful situation.

And even if the superior thinks they can be objective, is that true? Will the superior continue to treat the subordinate exactly the same, try to mentor and help the subordinate move up in the company? Or will the superior try to decrease contact with the subordinate in order to avoid awkwardness? That robs the subordinate of career opportunities, just because they attracted the eye of a superior. That’s incredibly fucked up.
Sued? Yes. To oblivion? No... not enough harm done, and Apple has good lawyers and deep pockets.
He just donated $1 million USD to the Internet Archive! :O

https://blockchain.info/tx/efe552239f4cfcd167a49865c52ad3185...

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7lnu9w/pineapple_fund_...
If he is giving this away for free, how worthwhile is it?

Sorry to be skeptical, but free doesn't always equal great quality.(excluding open source software)
Starting next year, I plan on living in Thailand with girlfriend and daughter. From then on I plan to work remotely. We are currently building our house there and hopefully it will be finished around March. The house is pretty cheap and therefore will be paid for in full (no mortgage or loan).

While I work remotely I will try to make savings of at least 300.000 USD in the next few years. These savings will be, for the most part, be invested in index-funds. An average profit of 7% per year should be more than enough to cover our lives expenses. In reality we should be able to live while spending much less, so the index-funds should still increase in value year-on-year.

So in some way I hope to 'retire' before I reach my 40 years of age. So there will be little concern if I will stay employable. At the same time I hope that from then on I can focus on my own projects, just for fun and hopefully some profit.
That's absolutely extortion too and the way that prosecutors rob people of their day in court by saying plea bargain or excessive punishment is similarly disgusting.

You might have guessed I have a pretty low view of the US criminal justice system.
Anything you run on your own infrastrucutre I wouldn't really call a BigQuery equivalent. As far as performance goes, if you attacked the problem with the same amount of CPU cores, I think you could get similar performance with Presto/Dremel on top of any fast data store.

What I think is different about BigQuery is just the on-demand parallelism. This means you pay per query instead of per instance which is confusing at first, but then a lot of the operational knobs simply go away (for better or for worse).
Yes, the problem is we need to educate our petty criminals better and reduce the penalities for petty crime.

We can pay for it by increasing parking tickets and car pool lane violations.
OTOH, it is a problem that can't be solved with aid. Whether you pity them or not, you have no real choice other than to watch the catastrophe happen.
This would likely be legal if they took a different approach. They can't say "pay us or we will report you to the police," because that is textbook extortion. However, that doesn't need to be said. Shoplifters know what the worst case is. They could simply say "you have the option to sign this civil agreement, which includes fees that you must pay and a non-disclosure agreement - we will not disclose the existence of this matter to anyone outside of Wal-Mart". Lawyers do this in civil negotiations all the time, with the implied threat of criminal prosecution without the actual threat.

I also find it ironic and somewhat disturbing that prosecutors are mentioned throughout the article essentially saying that the State should have a monopoly on extortion because of the legal protections afforded to criminal defendants. Legal protections in the US are only as good as the lawyer you can afford to hire, and if you're shoplifting from Wal-Mart, the odds that you can afford a decent attorney are about zero. A cynical person might say that perhaps prosecutors are making such a big deal about this because a decrease in shoplifting calls will result in less work, overtime pay, etc. for police, jail/prison guards, probation officers, prosecutors, etc. They don't want to stop feeding the monster.
Sounds like the justice system working actually.

I hope if you ever get caught up in something that you have a bleeding heart lawyer who works to ensure your rights are protected and you get a fair chance.
I was responding to the comment by tfha. The situation could be far worse.
I worked at UPS for a season loading their delivery trucks. Each shift was like a really intense game of 3D Tetris, trying to use the space efficiently as more heavy packages of various shapes rapidly arrived from the conveyor belt. So you're not just optimizing the path-finding. You've also got to do optimal bin-packing at the same time.
The "inlined" record can only be accessed locally and can not be returned as a single value (See manual here: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/extn.html#sec271). In general, multiple types can have the same record fields/constructor names. The typechecker uses type information to figure things out in case of conflicts.

For example:

type t1 = { foo : int ; bar : int }
type t2 = { foo : string ; baz : int }

let x = { foo = 2 ; bar = 2 }
let y = { foo = "foo" ; baz = 3 }

let f x = x.foo ^ "x" (* In case of doubt, uses the last one defined *)
let g (x : t1) = x.foo + 1 (* Uses the types to find the right one *)
let h { foo ; bar } = foo + bar (* Figure things out using the fields *)

(Of course this is an extreme example, good code should be clearer than that :p)

When a field "foo" comes from a type t in a module M (M.t), you can either use type disambiguation as above or qualify accesses : x.M.foo. All this also works with ADTs.
Paraphrasing, but it doesn't matter. I'd applied because I admired it as a company that could help you find answers for pretty much anything. I wanted to be a part of that.

Yet clearly was it the intent of the email to inform me in a very specific way that they had scrutinized and deemed my skill set useless for "all" jobs at Google. They went out of their way to tell me that no jobs at Google would be a fit for my "experience and qualifications".

This was 2006 and it had IPO'd not long before. I'd been out of grad school for about two years at that point, and I knew that "growing" companies are supposed to need all kinds of people. It was baffling.

Long story short: this (and other) rejections rendered my self esteem pretty wrecked. This one though I look back to as the cruelest one and what more or less launched me into a pretty severe downward spiral that lasted about four years.

That Google is still (condescendingly) rejecting creative and intelligent people like Mr Howell for not fitting into their mold ... that is still baffling.
> "Depends on how high up the ladder the management is you're talking to."

Depends on the individual, not on the job title. In my experience, managers of any level value information as simply put as possible. If they ask questions, then you answer them, but otherwise just tell them what they need to know.
That's what it looks like to me. This is not a best of "Tech Books", when there's less technical than there is political in the list.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is an excellent start, but where's the other obvious ones:

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-technolo...

We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

etc etc
They don’t compete since you could reimplement your compute kernels in Rust and use them directly or as (g)ufuncs with the numpy container, used by the whole science and data stacks (visualization stats etc). Numpy compute APIs are for prototyping or compute which isn’t CPU bottleneck.

So for the majority of numpy users Rust competes with the likes of Numba, Cython, etc, which are hard to beat if you’re already coding in Python.
>Digital Pokemon cards, 2nd hand ebooks market, 2nd hand digital assets market

Are you kidding? So the big use of the blockchain is to take things that have zero marginal cost of production, and enforce a completely artificial cost of production, to make non-scarce goods scarce?
Are you prepared or capable of making that transition?
Yeah that GPU passthrough sounds pretty awesome.

As for the environment reload solution, your solution sounds like the best one for most people, and probably the best one for me in practice, to be honest. But there is some value the scripted solution serves which snapshots cannot.

Updates to the snapshots require some planning. If a wacky software is tried and uninstalled, it is no longer safe to run updates to the snapshot until implementing another refresh. My scripting solution is just a code mod and git push and I can freely test wacky software and update my configuration in any order I like.

I guess you could say image snapshots have an accumulation cost. A refresh is not a refresh to new but a refresh to old on a certain date.

When I have a failure, I want to isolate issues as soon as possible. Determining whether it's a hardware issue or software issue can cost a lot of time and distraction. The fastest and surest way I know to do this is with an OS reinstall from the distributed source (Original Windows ISO). Image snapshots only theoretically isolate from system changes made since original OS install, and that level of isolation is getting harder to confirm as software deliveries get more common. These probably qualify as edge cases, but edge cases are most of what this is about. Edge cases are notorious for undermining production deadlines in an environment not prepared for them. A funny thing about that is they are also one of the hardest for people to admit or understand. Telling a non-technical client the job won't be done in time because of a software bug carries a burden of understanding hard to put into words. Of course, studios are prepared. But freelancers are generally not.

A particular pain point with GPU rendering has been depending depending on driver/hardware/OS compatibility which has different needs than the priorities of gamers.
That is changing, thankfully. But, the value of isolating software issues from the hardware is big to me.

I juggle hard drives like nobody's business as it is, so I'm not opposed to that. And while it's nice, source control might be overkill for something I might not even need for months on end.
That’s a good point, true.
I don't know how this matters.
This sounds like bliss to me.
How did you get the citizenship of Thailand?
Exactly what I was thinking but I didn't want to drag in an outside subject without.
In The Netherlands this is really quite common.
Was this before 11? I regularly did 10+ table joins on Sybase, and the execution was stellar as long as you had the right indices set up.
> How is it not extortion that a government prosecutor can exercise discretion and power over people based on their political leanings?

If a prosecutor demands money in exchange for not prosecuting you, that is extortion. Prosecutors having discretion does not make it extortion unless something is demanded in return for not prosecuting. (One might make a case that the current practice of soliciting plea deals are a form of extortion, but that is a whole other discussion.)

> In this case, funding the system as they do also has a deterrent and educational use.

Funding the system as they do creates incentives for abuse. While non-profits can be abused like for profits, there are more legal protections to limit their behavior and ability to generate profit from shady behavior.

> That government prosecutor is also part of an economic system. That system uses coercion. If you don't pay your taxes - guess what? That same prosecutor may be involved in
incarcerating you.

I don't get your point. Yes, only the government is allowed to extort you and coerce your actions with force and there are strong legal limits to the ways in which we allow government to do that.
So, are you a developer who’s good at sales or a sales guy who’s good at programming? Nothing wrong with either but one has to take priority.
Generally, I find ageism wrong and a genuine form of discrimination. Regardless, I couldn't help but chuckle at this.

I think the point is no age is too old to start something new if you still have control of your faculties.
Memory quirks – a memorable name, combining with internet search.
On Android there's a bunch of apps which will register as a share target and let you configure a bunch of HTTP endpoints of your choosing to send it to, I would be surprised if there isn't an iOS equivalent?
It's not just manpower they're scrambling for this time of year. Around here, they're using Budget and Ryder rent-a-trucks for deliveries to (and pickups from) shipping stores (UPS stores, places that offer mailbox service, etc). Uniformed UPS drivers, rented box trucks.

Talking to the owners of one such place, they said UPS has done that the last few years, freeing up more of their recognizable brown trucks for residential delivery.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15483267

Every once in awhile /r/rust will get a numerics post & discussion will mostly concede that there's still a ways to go to make this field ergonomic
License received: Edgeless becomes first legal blockchain casino
>Not really. Beware you can be easily replaced in your new company without any compensation. Risk is often not accounted for.

My perception is that the sort of people who stick around too long have a much harder time getting their next gig when their current job ends (as nearly all jobs do, sooner or later.)

Now, certainly, this has something to do with the fact that people who do badly in interviews tend to stick around longer once they do score a decent job, but I think it also has to do with the fact that interviewing and starting a new job is a skill, and improves with practice, like any other skill, and if you don't have any practice, and then suddenly have to interview in 'hard mode' [1] you are going to have a hard time.

I am one of those people who interviews better than their job performance would suggest, but even so, I personally would much rather swing for a better job while the economy is hot and get fired after a few months (and have to find a new job while unemployed in a hot economy) than ride a company all the way down during a downturn and then try to find a job while unemployed in a bad economy. Of course, that's not really a fair either/or; it's super hard to predict what companies will do well in the downturn while the economy is still doing well. I'm just saying that as long as the economy is hot, the consequences to losing your job tend to be small (unless you have a really serious problem with interviewing; I know some people that are actually really good programmers, but who are... disabled in that regard.) - when the economy is not hot, the consequences of losing your job are much greater.

[1]It's so much easier to get a better job while you have a job than it is to get a job after you've been laid off, both because the new employer will think less of you if you are currently unemployed and because you are dramatically more likely to get laid off when demand for your job role in the economy as a whole is reduced. Getting a programming job in 1999? super easy. getting a programming job in 2002? extremely difficult.
Dumb question — you bill for this “non-programming value-added” work, right? Even jumping into a truck for a few hours?

I fully understand the value in “doing more” but still occasionally have to fight the feeling that I need to be coding as much as possible.
> we're looking to convert some of our funds to Bitcoin Cash

He's not "switching" to bcash
While there are a few minor examples of Plurality Voting countries escaping duoploy, they are by far the exception. America's duopoly seems clearly a result of using it.

I wrote something about this.
https://asitoughttobe.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/
Can you describe why? Curious for a second opinion.
For the hard drive, I think you can use the USB dongle to connect a hard drive. But you are right in that the multitasking probably doesn’t allow for multi day upload. Haven’t tried it yet though.
Are there any databases successfully in production in high-value transactional environments other than oracle or DB2?

Teradata!

And IMS, but that's not relational.