skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in France and I agree, dating apps seem to have a very bad reputation with women here.

Surprisingly, I met an American woman, who was here to study for 2 months. She landed 4 days before we met.

She was way, way out of my league, both in attractiveness and social class. My English helped a lot. I also met several South American women too.
I support more towers but agree there should be limitations. If they were private towers, requiring people to pay a fee to the park for data, then that would cut down on use. However all emergency traffic is free. Might also help in geolocating or triangulation of people who are lost.
In my free time I've been coding a TCP/IP stack in C++(14): https://github.com/ambrop72/aipstack . It uses a single-threaded event-driven architecture, is usable on embedded system (no mallocs), and is header-only.

Much work is yet to me done including docs (lots of Doxygen-based docs exist but introductory and TCP API docs are generally missing). However the TCP implementation should actually be pretty solid.
The Google Book
Yep, there are stuff that could (or sometimes even should) be done, there is available workforce, but nobody wants to pay the workers to do that stuff.
If you jam, but that's illegal.
I'm not familiar enough with the management of Silicon Graphics to say if they specifically would be likely to litigate, but I doubt CloudFlare would take the risk on an unexpired patent - management changes, and plenty of companies enforce patents that could do much more good than strengthening cryptography in the hunt for profit (see: the medical industry).
I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart.

I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering growth: We host our own servers, allowing students configure nginx and create ssl certs themselves for the apps they build. Our projects mimick existing well known companies (netflix, dropbox, gmail, google docs clones).

Our curriculum is largely project based, so students work together on projects that they would be using themselves: building their own email client, chat client, filestorage/backups, firebase, etc. From day 1 of a students journey, their code is thoroughly code reviewed by other students.

2 months ago, Calworks, a local government assistance program, offered to send students to us and pay each students $13/hr for up to 6 months. Unfortunately, to make this deal work, we needed a commercial office (my wife and I teach out of our apartment) and we did not have the financial resources.

Last month, we finally got approved as a tax exempt non-profit so I can reach out to my friends for donations (but donations take time, I have to set up a bunch of fundraising tools first). My savings ran out so I started applying for jobs and landed a full-time position at Paypal starting in January.

Moving forward into 2018, a few of the senior students are going to be leading the non profit. 100% of my salary and equity is going into the non-profit so existing students would not only continue to be paid, but we now also have the financial resources to get an office and push the Calworks deal through to help more people! 2018 is looking to be a great year.

We do not have any internet presence at the moment because this year our focus had largely been testing and iterating our curriculum as well as our financial model. 2018 will be different and if you want to help, our non-profit is called GarageScript.

https://www.facebook.com/garagescript/
This is laughable.

Technically

BTC and BCH share a near identical codebase, save for the recent junk BCH had to remove.

Larger BCH block size prevent transaction buildup that has caused the fees to go insane on the BTC side of the fence.

The new BCH difficulty adjustment protects it from would-be gaming/manipulation by miners.

Technical progress is actually happening with BCH.

Technical progress is currently vapourware with BTC.

Centralization

BCH has six distinct and separate development teams.

BTC has one gatekeeping development team aggressively blocking proposals that get in the way of selling second layer solutions.
Top Cryptocurrencies or Altcoins to have in 2018
This is typical gonzo-style new games journalism which was popularised on the Insert Credit forums, Brandon Sheffield’s pre-Gamasutra gig. The main thrust is to share the thoughts and feelings you had when experiencing some game-related event in prefence to a logocentric review.
No, the obvious lesson is to purge the app from your device and stop using services that make you feel like shit.
New Year’s Resolutions and the Science of Willpower (2015)
Man, Bloomberg's data-driven journalism just keeps getting better and better.
"When you are poor..."

When you are poor, then every DECENT and legal job is fine.

People say that there is not job and its not true. If you find then you could get. However, most jobs are crap but crap that its legal and decent. My first job was 12h x 7 days, however, i enjoyed and earned money. In my second job, i doubled my salary and so on.

There are a lot of people that simply don't want to work. Usually the first job is crap. But most people want a perfect job without having the degree, experience and expertise.

And if you can't find a job then join the army.
I looked into rust when it first came out. I dissed it but then found it to be quite interesting. However, compared to C, it is used relatively nowhere by anyone. I don't believe rust has proved to be a non-hesitant replacement for C.
Dave Barry's 2017 Year in Review
It wasn't economic bliss for 80 years there.
At my day job (dev consulting), I worked the entire year on a project that our client ultimately decided to shelve, which allowed me to level up my Ember.js, Rails, and Postgres.

On the volunteer front, I ran a computer club at my daughter's middle school for 20 sessions of 2 hours each, teaching kids some basic JavaScript, and taking them on a tour of things like turtle graphics, L-systems, rotoscoping, and a wrote them a simple "get the coins, don't touch the lava" game engine and a text-based level designer for it.

I also took a two week gig for Girls Who Code to run one of their campus summer programs at the University of Minnesota. We used Scratch to cover basic programming concepts, and in the second week they split into teams, each team working on a socially progressive game. One of the teams wrote a two player platformer that had a male and female character. The man had fewer hazards, and picked up money, and the woman had more hazards and picked up hearts. The levels were passed by the man and woman both flipping gender-specific switches. On the last level, the woman character doesn't appear, and the man can't complete all the tasks. Genius, and from a group of middle school kids.
It's not just well written, it's actually quite ballsy too as I am currently acknowledging to myself how I would never ever have the courage to come clean and come up with a blog post explaining how I bought the Atari Jaguar in the 90s, and ended up basically in the same situation.
I worked on https://wakatime.com, which measures your work.
“Feminism as a movement for political
and social equity is important, but
feminism as an academic clique
committed to eccentric doctrines
about human nature is not. Eliminating
discrimination against women is
important, but believing that women
and men are born with
indistinguishable minds is not.
Freedom of choice is important, but
ensuring that women make up exactly
50 percent of all professions is not.
And eliminating sexual assaults is
important, but advancing the theory
that rapists are doing their part in a
vast male conspiracy is not.”

~ STEVEN PINKER
Compared to Bell Labs or PARC, these are purely applied labs.
For pupillary distance, optometrist typically do it for an extra 5$, but an easy way to do it is to hold a ruler with clear mm marks on it beside your head level with your eyes and have somebody take a picture, then measure the distance with a compass.
I never get this, why would you use it for prototype if you will not run on it? Why are we prototyping in the cloud? What happened to localhost?
In Hotmail's early days -- before the Microsoft acquisition -- that email tagline was the VC Tim Draper's idea:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/ps-i-love-you-get-your-fre...
If the military situation were reversed, there would be no jews on this land. That tells you a bit who really wants to exterminate the other in that conflict.
Anecdotally, this already seems to represent a thing at the municipal level, at least in Sacramento, where police seem to arbitrarily enforce it to detain people they deem undesirable (e.g., homeless, by the downtown arena).
There is a place in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
tptacek is right. It's a cool art installation, but for practical purposes this is utterly useless. A modern hardware RNG (which is entirely silicon based) generates random bits at a vastly higher rate, and with better reliability, like built-in continuous statistical tests, than something rigged together with lava lamps, Geiger counters or the like.

I've built those kinds of science projects, and they are great for fun and for learning, but they are not practical or necessary in any production environment.
Different business models and different focus.

In the US, billboards are banned in four American states (Vermont, Maine, Alaska and Hawaii) and various other counties or cities. Generally speaking, these are places that put high value on tourism driven by natural beauty (which, of course, roadside billboards tend to undermine).

In photo sharing communities where there is less focus on the "social" aspects, ads are often less of a problem. From what I see, for instance, Instagram is not used as a primary resource by a lot by professional / semi-pro photographers. Many of them build online portfolios to catalog their work, and I imagine most photographers would not be terribly thrilled to see bra ads or any other ads being inserted into their portfolio of works. So these people more go to sites like Smugmug and Zenfolio. Which as far as I know is ad-free, but also isn't zero cost to set up either.

Intrusive, often creepily-targeted advertising seems to be the norm now for any large social-focused Internet business. It's what keeps things "free". The question, I guess, is what is a good alternative model? Something has to pay for the server / bandwidth costs and upkeep. Coming up with a better business model (or at least one that focuses on different values, such as the atypical billboard bans) is the only real way to "get rid of the ads".
They don't seem to be meaningfully different

... because you keep confusing the two.

RMN is exactly what you are arguing for. I've been using it for over a year.
Hah that happened at the startup I worked at. Between Sales and CEO they were promising the moon. At one point the CEO said our product used block chain in his slide deck. Not a single Dev has ever discussed block chain it was just out of nowhere.
IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability
Running the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which hosts projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus, has been a very full time job, as we've expanded to include nearly every cloud company, enterprise software provider and startup in our industry. But I have gotten to contribute to a few cool open source projects:

Cloud Native Landscape (now over 350 projects and products)
https://github.com/cncf/landscape#current-version

DevStats provides detailed visualizations of Kubernetes contributions
https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/

Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge
https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/
Stop using that app. Stop using ecosystems that allow for it to take it a step further.
Yeah, that's what got me. His 3DO still worked fine, he could still play the games. He was just outraged that society valued his shiny toy so little.
I started a company, Argonomo (https://argonomo.com) and we founded and soft launched two ventures:

- SafeWhistle: An anonymous, encrypted, privacy-focused whistleblowing and incident management application companies and institutions can implement to help cut down on lack of reporting and increase transparency. (https://safewhistle.com)

- Sidepitch: A venture management system targeting private equity groups and venture capitalists. Streamlining the application process for startups and giving investors a central management solution for their investments, instead of a collection of emails, paper documents, and in-face communications. (https://sidepitch.com)
True about diversifying risk, but most brokers simply guard against the risk of a payout by… taking out an insurance policy from another broker.
This article is full of problems, but the biggest one is failing to look at the global perspective:

While it is true that an individual miner/validator will be indifferent to spending money on electricity and mining equipment vs. purchasing coin to stake with, the difference between the two is a meaningful to non-miners/non-validators.

In the mining case, the miner is purchasing equipment and electricity that divert real resources away from the production of other goods and services.

In the validating case, the validator purchases coin, which causes prices of that coin to adjust upward. The economy keeps producing the exact same goods and services as if the validation activity did not exist (after a short dislocation, which would be very short in this case because few contracts are denominated in cryptocurrency).

So "nothing is cheaper than proof of work" is a true statement if you are a miner/validator. However, it is a false statement if you are cryptocurrency designer.

Obviously, it is easy to design a coin which is MORE wasteful globally than BTC. Instead of running on electricity and hashing, make it run on proof of extinction (verified in major newspapers) of critically endangered animals. The miners will spend time and energy doing terrible things to the planet, but they will spend no more money time or energy on it than they would have spent on electricity and ASICs. Why should it be impossible to design a currency that is LESS wasteful than proof of work?

I recommend against reading the truthcoin.info blog in general. This kind of wooly headedness is widespread, and the writing style is obtuse enough to make it hard to figure out exactly why the author is correct or incorrect.

Edited for grammar/clarity.
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I've managed ok for 20 years, thanks. I'm asking for one checkbox, just one, it's hardly asking others to bend over backwards.
Music was my passion before I went to college for CS and pursued software engineering and eventually product management. For some reason I all but completely abandoned music while focussing on becoming a software developer...

this year I decided to launch my own solo music project, recording and producing a 5 song EP on Logic Pro. It was fun blending my 'engineering' chops with my music as i dusted off my songwriting/piano/guitar skills.

https://MusicFromJohn.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/29faobre3yzdnIDjcZHCkj
I don't know where it gets ordered from, but a place in my town has pizzas that are about $30-$40 and they're worth it. For one, they're just amazing pizza, made by an amazing local entrepreneur, with a cool little pizza shop. For two, it's a meal out for 3 or 4 (they don't actually deliver), which isn't a bad price to eat out.

If it's Dominos, then I feel your pain.
Well, like I said I met about 1.5 women a year and most of them for >1 years so it was okay.
Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Neo-Geo, and WebOS and other assorted platform failures along with the successes of OSX, Android, iOS, Xbox, psx, and nintendo left a strong imprint on why and how I develop software platforms. I learned you can’t just promise radical new opportunities, you have to have them ready and usable on launch day. This allows users to buy in on day one and be generally happy. Then this motivates third party developers which then snowballs into more users and then the platform achieves takeoff velocity.

Ultimately all successful platforms are a collective ecosystem experience, but they start just between the user and the first party developer.

Teams like Occulus are falling down the same trap as 3DO, promising lots of new expertise’s but demonstrating little to no day-one practicality.
I launched a farm management software tool in Dec 2016 and spent 2017 iterating on it. Hired two developers in the last 5 months and made a big hire last week, myself. I'm going to transition out of my consulting business into this full time. Bootstrapped with $300k of revenue in '17. https://www.harvestprofit.com
But there is no free tier in flexible as far as I know.
> because Gnome3 refuses to merge changes that fix problems, but only really benefit non-Gnome3 desktops (completely against the spirit of open source and GNU + FDO)

This is actually what I most like about Google's OS initiative. The fact we'll have ONE and ONLY ONE desktop environment and all the political infighting of the last 30 years won't matter any more.
From the abstract of the paper:

> The decline was not linked to longer working hours
You should read the book.
This is interesting and novel, but what is a practical application of this?

A stream of charged particles of ions and electrons.

* Can this be used to charge a battery?

* Or feed in electrons into a DC power system?

* Can something like this output more energy than it takes in?
I must be missing a few things, though:

1. What if there simply isn't a quorum of the selected signers for a given block, due to people being on vacation, DoS, network failure, etc? Does the whole chain grind to a halt?

2. PoS relies on punishing anyone who signs a block that's not on the main chain. But who defines what the main chain is? If I'm a selected blockmaker or, worse, I control a quorum once, can't I forfeit my deposit to fake someone else out so they sign a block on my bad chain? Then I report both them and myself, bankrupting them and recovering some of my own losses?

3. This whole scheme penalizes cold wallet users. If you don't use your cold wallet funds as mining collateral, you lose the reward. If you do, then anyone who compromises your deposit signing key (which needs to be hot) can wipe you out and steal 1/3 of your deposit.
Human computation! Not to be too #hailcorporate, but my job's pretty fun. It's using machine learning and humans together to solve problems. The fields pretty focused on labelling tasks, but there's much more to it. Having a large human workforce backed by a bunch of engineers and data scientists is like a fast-forward button on machine learning. You use humans and computers together to do things we really can't automate yet (or even ever, without general AI). ML meets cog-sci meets HCI meets crowdsourcing.
For me AWS is still a king of serverless. In particular, recent AWS step functions really help with connecting microservices (and other tasks) for more complex flows, and does so in a nice visual manner: https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/

p.s. it is pricey, but probably this will improve soon.
As a owner of a dice I don't see a great need for this even if it was available at my location. The dice solution also has a lot more features such as covering allergies, absolutely-not-toppings or just adding drinks.

I guess if saving the surprise until you actually open the box is important you could either have a friend roll for you or give your local pizza place a dice (or url) and promise a tip if they roll for you. Who knows, maybe they would even like the idea of adding that to their menu.

If you want to complicate things a bit it should not be very difficult to just make a user script that makes a random order for you on your favorite pizza site.
If you sign an NDA with Google, you'll get more up to date info about future features/roadmap etc. I think you'll be happy to know those plans.

Disclaimer I work on GAE.
The one you write.
> I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all

Yes.... like a game of roulette where you sometimes lose it all and get nothing out of it at all.
how about other PaaS?
"I've found that the simplest solution is usually the most efficient."

If this was true, we'd all be using bubble sort and searching databases without indexes, row by row. I can think of very few algorithms or even situations where this is true.
Real world RNGs get randomness from two sources: (1) the timings of random events on the machine (primarily network traffic), or (2) a hardware device that runs several oscillators on different clocks and detects coincidence in the derived square waves. Even #1 alone is normally sufficient in the real world. While you're right that there are attacks against RNGs, it's never going to be because an attacker gets control of every little bit of stray RF in your data center such that he can control the exact timing of packet arrival, packet retransmits, etc.
Is it a golden age, or do games get generally better as technology improves? They are bigger, smoother, more complex, better connected, and so on. That's why I don't quite follow this article either. Games are objectively better. Perhaps he doesn't find them as fun or as engaging, but that's less to do with the games and more to do with the person.

That and the DS/3DS is probably the richest game console to date in terms of sheer volume of quality content. If you can't find a game you like on the DS, you might not like games.
Maybe 0 designates a quantum pizza, whose toppings change every time you take a slice.
Subreddit Gender Ratios
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7n99kt/subreddit_gender_ratios_revisited_oc/

http://bburky.com/subredditgenderratios/

This is really cool tool. It shows gender ratios of many subreddits. I personally find it useful because it allows quantification of gender interest in different topics. Currently there is a big social/media movement to pick various areas, highlight a gender difference in that area, and then attribute it to barriers being placed to stop one gender entering that area. This data can be used to help show that there are intrinsic variations in interests between men and women, and those should be considered in addition to the role of those entry barriers.

For instance:
Psychology: 65.0% male / 35.0% female
Economics: 89.6% male / 10.4% female
Austrian Economics: 97.8% male / 2.2% female
Physics: 89.2% male / 10.8% female
Relationships: 48.4% male / 51.6% female