skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
population of philadelphia: 1.56 million

supposed HQ2 employees: 50,000

I suspect that the sewers won't overflow, new crime waves, extra fires, etc. There may be impact on transit in a few specific areas, but in terms of total population impact it's difficult to believe that it would noticeably impact the budget in any particular city service. Except for transit.
At the fundamental layer, start with cgroups and namespaces. If you're looking for practical knowledge, start with making and running a Docker image - usually a basic "hello world" web server (nginx) is a good one to start on :)
There is an all called LowRes that implements a BASIC-like language. The sample games are really nice, the editor meh (no syntax coloring).
Learning multiple tasks with gradient descent
Awesome thanks, I had no idea!
Awesome presentation.

To me the most magical part is not the manufacturing process, although that is very special, but how a team of engineers designed something which is made up of hundreds of millions of transistors, each in a specific location for a specific reason. How is all of that done? How do they keep track of things? Is there special software?
It taught me so many things as well. One that comes to mind is after they introduced the Grand Exchange, “merch clans” became popular running pump and dump schemes on random items. Unsurprisingly the only people to actually get rich were the people who bought before the next item was announced, i.e. the insiders who actually decided the items. This has many parallels in the real world!
The economics of those OAS filters don't motivate me much, since two adults taking 15 minute showers a day each would result in $40/month for filters alone. 15 minute showers per day per person in a normal shower would cost me less than $15/month in water bills.

Obviously there are use cases that need that more than I do, since I live in a wet, temperate area with plentiful water tables, but I think it demonstrates that our problems with water, and pollution, and other environmental issues have come from taking the cheapest/easiest options, so we need to work hard to make more attractive sustainable solutions for the average person.
Same. It wouldn't even accept mailinator.
Good point. OCR powered web scraping is even available out of the box nowadays.

https://a9t9.com/kantu/docs/scraping#ocr
> optional yet pre-installed service

Most of these apps are system and not-deletable unless you root your phone, there are maybe free but not optional for most of them...
Does OpenAI train w/ GPUs on k8s clusters?
No.."Chaos theory has taught us" that it would take an infinite amount of information to precisely-enough specify 'state'.
> The most natural follow-up to currencies on a blockchain are assets

Natural for marketing-team maybe but not for developers. They only seem natural because they both look like 'value' transfer. But there is a huge difference. The value in-case of currency-use is inherently generated using proof-of-work whereas there is no decentralised way to map a real asset to virtual token.

So NO, none of these 'assets on the blockchain' are decentralized or even need blockchain non-trivially.
I wish he would cite more examples of what SaaS services he might be referring to. As a developer I am not aware of what mistakes competitors might be making.
There is a "professional office" in a storefront two blocks from my office that I believe is just a guy's house. In my exploration of doing the same I found the following problems:

- no lease protections due to the lies you need to tell in order to get the commercial lease

- vermin issues in ground floor units (not bad until you need to store food and have bedding or clothes around)

- lease terms that are usually much longer than a residential lease

- lack of a shower in many commercial units (fixable but adds to the cost and may tip off a landlord)

- generally undesirable living situation (poor ventilation, light, loud businesses next door, layout)

- expense - these units are cheaper than similarly sized apartments, but they aren't usually cheap enough for one person alone, and the floorplans usually don't make for great roommate situations

I think it would work really well as a pied a terre though, if you have another place close to the city and can afford the commercial unit. Sleeping in your office is totally legal and does not run afoul of most commercial leases. Using it as a residence violates the lease.
> But sure, that makes the content wrong, or something.

If your own Nginx server cannot serve up a proper and protected session, why should I consider what you've written on the website? Actually how can I know that what I'm reading is what you wrote if the session is already compromised from the start?

> but you hadn't paid your protection money to the CA racket in a while.

Yes, you sometimes have to pay for that cert from a CA but that's not why certificates expire.

Besides, your CA is Let's Encrypt so this point is completely useless but it does make an easy excuse.

Enough with the drama please.
Apache MXNet in the Wolfram Language – O'Reilly Media
Puritan’s Pride Super Snooze with Melatonin– great product for lack of sleep
How does api play with e2e encryption?
This looks like the start of slockit conversation proposing a DAO
Yeah - I was bummed/surprised about this. Untapped pools of well educated (and loyal) tech workers, low cost of living, no significant infrastructure issues, easy driving access to major cities - there is a lot Amazon could have taken advantage of here...
I know plenty well about Southern politics, having worked as a staffer on multiple Southern campaigns.

As an alternative, Amazon can choose states that don't currently discriminate against potential employees.

Both of those states have positive trajectories (as well as Georgia!) But one bird in the hand is worth... Well, one bird in the bush.
I wasn't bothered about it, your comment was new still, adding that was the laziest way of making the sentence still make sense.
Georgia has some of, if not the most, employer-friendly right-to-work laws in the country.

you can essentially hire and fire anyone you like for no cause with no notice.
Metacontrarianism! I'm always delighted when I get a chance to link to this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...
I think one of the more fundamental issues is the programmers access to that conversation itself. I’ve seen this scenario be far more common when developers try to get business context :

Management: “I want an app that does A.”

Programmer: “Alrighty. Can you give me more details on why you want that app and what you’re hoping to achieve?”

Management: “No. Now how long will it take to get App A out the door? Executive Foo said he wanted app A, so we need to give it to him ASAP.”

Programmer feels satisfies they’ve at least tried, and any screwups are managements fault. Scrambles to get App A out the door. Management comes back with feedback

Manager: “What is this? This isn’t what we asked for. It doesn’t even remotely address Business Problem B and now Executive Foo is on the warpath after championing this project and looking like a fool!”

Management finds a way to convince Executive Foo it was all the overpaid, useless developers that screwed up and reinforces the stereotype of IT being an untrustworthy and frustrating blackhole of a cost center. Management saves face and they pay a consultant to do it. The programmer is left dizzied by the sudden political flak they were just blindsided by.
You misunderstood the comment. Parent was talking about public musings of Airbus.
Not sure about the outskirts, but the urban cores are definitely not desolate and with no amenities. But I agree, ex-USSR urban planning is getting worse. Still not bad, compared to NYC.
Your implication is that anything that isn't "forward" is "backward". That is not how people feel about the places they would like to remain the way the are.
Look at any computer algebra system, for exaple sympy (https://sympy.org) and see how they implement it (it's open source).
Stadiums generate a lot of construction jobs, a lot of billable attorney hours, operational revenue to the locality and state/federal dollars for infrastructure.

At worst, political people and relatives are members of LLCs that are owning real estate.

Basically, it lets politicians be gold-givers. That means political capital, which is as important as cash is to a billionaire.
20 "finalists" are there to make the legitimate candidates become hyper-competitive. It's the way to extract the most incentives from the levels of government involved.
GWB was certainly not a dummy or an idiot if we mean cognitive ability like IQ. Becoming even mediocre pilot for F-102 Delta Dagger requires quick learning ability.

GWB started as a young, affluent and connected person who didn't have to exhort himself intellectually and he continued that way. Him being dummy was him being ignorant and never developing required skills.
Diamonds’ flaws hold promise for new technologies
Ugh your response reminds me so much of Google PR speak at TGIFs and such that it's hard for me to believe you don't work for Google. This is exactly the picture Google PR has been trying to create for years - years, by now! - and all evidence suggests that

a) No, it's not what people want. It seems convenient in concept and even in practice, until the moment they encounter something that makes clear to them just how much a third-party companies knows (and can divulge) about their life, and they immediately start trying to turn this stuff off.

b) It's not what people need. The fact is most of these services are problems looking for solutions, and offer an overabundance of data for a user who simply does not need it and can't use it. Traffic jam ahead? Thanks for the heads up but not like I could modify my plans or route, so that's useless. Can't remember someone's name? What, am I going to take a picture of them and then whisper 'hey google who is that person' discretely into my phone? Need to remember the name of that great (elided) last time you were in the area? Chances are you could just look it up and in the process discover other interesting things - and I'm not even sure what you mean here, like, is Google going to show me a list of everyplace I went when I was there?

Why do you think so many so-called personal assistants just keep getting used for the same thing? How many things need to tell me the weather today, or traffic conditions?

c) These things don't work and what you're essentialy are advocating for is that we give up our privacy and personal data in exchange for broken systems (sorry, "growing pains" - nevermind Google's been pitching these things for years and they're still mostly used to set timers and answer silly trivia questions - poorly) that may someday offer something we don't need (see a and b). That's a garbage deal if ever I heard one.

I think you want people to want these features because they comport with your idea of the future. But the fact is reality is not playing out like that.
Would you be so kind and do a more in-depth write-up of your current setup? It really sounds awesome!
I think charisma isn't a signal for intellectual weakness, but it does suggest that the person isn't speaking intellectually to you. Most people aren't at a place to understand policy implications, so charisma is a better proxy.
Efficiency of thermoelectric devices could be boosted by topological materials
Here’s how Hawaii’s emergency alert design led to a false alarm
CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens
Also, http://www.lissaexplains.com/ was really big at the time. Taught me everything I needed to know to code up petpages and the like.
No, you misunderstood; you can defeat the detection using JS. You don't need C at all.
3.90? Are you going like half a mile or what? Most of the city people usually have bus passes, because jobs are often far away.
There's also an LLL (Low-level Lisp-like Language) introduction here: https://media.consensys.net/an-introduction-to-lll-for-ether... with links to examples.
Making the web harder to crawl would make it harder to create a Google competitor. I doubt that that's their intention, though.
Deriving preferences is not inherently bad. It's immoral to undermine people's will for profit. This is the same reason the gambling industry is immoral, and making manipulative free-to-play mobile games is immoral. You're basically hacking people's subconscious for your own gain at their loss.
A friend who is building an Linux appliance is using Yocto: https://www.yoctoproject.org/. He also talked about Mender, mentioned in the other comment. I don't know how much overlap there is between these projects.
> he's been far more effective at getting things done than most.

You say this as we're on the brink of a government shutdown (a government controlled entirely by the President's party), which has been exacerbated by the President. The Senate Majority Leader (again, of the President's own party) said just yesterday the President is the primary impediment to keeping the government open, because no one knows what exactly he will sign, since he changes his mind by the hour.
Software that predicts criminal recidivism is no better than humans
If you look at their pricing model, which is 4 free... sign up for paid plan to get more then the aggressive email validation makes a bit more sense. I'm not connected to them in any way, just trying to give the benefit of the doubt.
Do you think you could become president of the US if you just wanted to? Probably not. Trump is smart. I would be in literal, not figurative, disbelief if any president in the history of modern US weren't. The competition for that position is very sharp and only the best make it. There are many problems with Trump, but IQ isn't one of them. Hitler wasn't dumb either. Being a good demagogue is hard. The strategy and skillset is somewhat different to ordinary politics, but don't mistake that for ease. While we're at it: Youtubers and fashion bloggers aren't dumb either.

Trump is narcissistic, insecure, mean, ignorant and has no honor, but dumb he ain't. Underestimating the guy is unwise.
I agree and this is what I consider to be brutalist web design, but that site(the top search result for 'brutalist websites', 'brutalist design', 'brutalist web' and so on) has a bunch of weird designs(such as http://www.xtragear.services/ ), which is the source of my confusion.
Swift in a playground is as immediately accessible as basic.

My 5th grade son has been out of school sick this week, and he wanted to "learn to code" while he was out. Monday he started with scratch on RPi. He quickly hit the wall there; dragging blocks around was tedious and (from my perspective) the event model isn't obvious enough or rich enough to what he wanted (a simple space shooter).

He asked if he could try something where he could type his code. I decided to let him try swift playgrounds. As of this morning he's worked through the chapters on commands, composition, functions, for loops, and conditionals. He's completely baffled by the logic chapter -- he was in tears trying to understand the concept of NOT, and so I asked him to take a break from it. (I don't get it... he understand booleans fine, but the idea of negating the boolean is clearly throwing him.) He skipped ! and did fine with && so shrug. Fifth graders aren't going to get everything.

I have quibbles with the content progression in the Swift Playground lessons but overall it's working as intended. It's pretty buggy though -- sometimes the animated character is clearly on the wrong squares due to an apple bug and that really hurts learning comprehension.

The real carrot for him, though, is that he's learning the language that iOS apps are made in. That's really motivating him.

With his older siblings I helped them learn Codea and while Lua is great for learning, they got hung up on the concept of per-frame update functions, which is not a Lua thing but a Codea thing. I think an OOP model is a better metaphor for learners. They had fun in Codea but none of it stuck with them.

My six year old daughter is also working (slowly) through swift playgrounds. She asked me for help and when I did she berated me for not using camel case. God help me when she learns about tabs versus spaces.

Anyway: screw BASIC.
I'm yet to find a service that allows you to configure two email addresses - one for accounts related notification (your credit card is about to expire/your card declined etc) and one solely for sending a copy of invoices.

We use reciptbank (that has an inbound email address for forwarding invoicss to) for invoice processing into our accounting system.

Currently invoics go to our accounts@ email address (along with all other accounts related stuff) and the invoice specific emails are forwarded onto receiptbank manually.

Would love to be to tell the saas platform to split that out into two different email addresses.
I still have the old Nook Simple Touch with a mini-SD card slot. You can load your ebooks via the SD card, either through connecting it via USB or loading the SD card manually. It doesn't require WiFi and I doubt there is any sort of tracking. It's an old and discontinued version and I am hoping that it keeps going. It also has physical page buttons and great interface.
Google's forgetting the early web
Boeing contemplated it but decided on Chicago instead. I think it's a cultural thing, the cities have very different and not particularly compatible personalities. Anecdotally in I've never known anyone choose to leave Seattle for Dallas, and Amazon is going to have to convince hundreds if not thousands to do just that.
I think that attitude is exactly what I was talking about.

I paid Google directly; I am their customer. But they don't know what to do with user-customers, so they treat me like the kind of user-product that they're more familiar with.
Ask HN: What IIoT apps are most useful in the wild?
What are your favorite examples of IIoT apps creating a new art of the possible, or providing value to businesses? I don't mean killer app type IIoT value; just value for specific niches or use cases.
A friend and I wrote a paper about techniques for doing this a while back (never formally published; it was just a class project). My favorite technique for avoiding automated scan environments was to show goatse.cx and then run your code in the onUnload handler when the human frantically tries to close the tab.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~brendan/honeymonkey.pdf
Hidden exoplanets could be revealed by echoing light
ah but then the commute is dramatically worse for people living in LI or CT, cutting you off from that labor pool.
The pattern of bytes above 0x7F isn't anything to do with x86 architecture. It's UTF-8, the most common way to encode Unicode in bytes.

You'll have more success understanding what it's doing if you decode it from UTF-8 first.
Silicon Beach is used to refer to Los Angeles.
I do not agree. Nothing wrong with a person who sees the glass half full if that person knows that 50% of the glass is occupied. Optimists can still keep it real.
DNA of man who died in 1827 recreated from his living relatives
Surely there are entry level technician jobs though?
Bacteria on your skin could speed healing
The fact of the matter is that cities in the U.S., with respect to each other, are in a race to the bottom. There is nothing they can do about it: the Constitution mandates an unrestricted internal market with no barriers to the free flow of goods and capital between states. That means that companies will go wherever they can get the best deal, and there is no way for state and local governments to restrict that movement.

Cities that aren't named New York or San Francisco can either get with the program, as the southern states have been doing, and benefit from the growth, or they can resign themselves to moribund economies and irrelevancy. If they're smart, they'll do what places like Ireland and Switzerland have done, which is offer low corporate taxes and recover the difference with higher taxes on individuals.
Release notes for Office 2016 for Mac
FWIW I tried it out on a small screenshot of an old grayscale portrait and was very happy with the results. Feels like the future.
Thank you for sharing this story. My son was tested with an IQ of 160. This puts him in the top 99.98%+ in terms of population. I do NOT want what you went through to be what he goes through. But it's hard because no one caters as much for high IQ as they do for lower IQ, it's a form of learning disability relative to his peers. He is 1-2 standard deviations away from "gifted" children, who score at 130. It's hard finding schools flexible enough to cater to his educational needs but homeschooling him robs him over the social aspect of school, and a "regular" childhood.
When you reach a certain level of experience, you gain the wisdom that your parents where actually very smart and hard-working and had set a great example for you. That might happen when you hit 20 or 50 or it may never happen. For me it happened when I had teenage kids.
The universe still seems to be expanding faster than it ought to
Interesting. I’m giving a go at building a SaaS product on top of erpnext. Many of his requests are covered by default functionality.

And, while the documentation for erpnext isn’t the greatest, it largely just runs WSGI apps with an interface to the underlying ERP.

I’m attempting this route, because information management becomes a nightmare across 20 applications and 5 users at a 20 person company.
Don't know if Outlook works. That part was the one part of Office that always caused me issues in Wine (but, frankly, I haven't tried it in years). Word, Excel, PPT -- all worked great otherwise. (small tip: if I disabled compositing in my window manager, then the translucent selection drag box in PPT turned black, making it impossible to see what I was selecting.)

Also, there's a very simple extension for OWA in the chrome app store; it just tricks OWA into thinking you're running Chrome on Windows instead of Linux (where microsoft subjects you to the ancient version instead). I know the author pretty well ;) However, I haven't been forced into running OWA or connecting to Exchange at all, so it might have bitrotted or not be needed anymore:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/owa-user-agent/bbc...
You do realize that plenty of applications were handling events and files "serverless" was even a thing, right? Even in a cloud context, SNS and S3 long pre-date Lambda. Neither of those "pitfalls" are serverless specific.

In fact, Lambdas (and every other serverless platform I'm aware of) execute with the same isolation as EC2 instances in AWS. There are effectively no differences security-wise between code executing on an EC2 and code executing in Lambda. Any vulnerability in a Lambda function is also going to be a vulnerability in a traditional application hosted on EC2 and vice versa.
Microsoft Office for Mac updated with real-time collaboration, auto cloud saving
Interesting, then, that the growth of inequality in the US in recent decades has occurred alongside a marked and ongoing fall in crime. Is it just that the rich can now afford electronic locks and security cameras?
Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes
The key really is self driving only. No human drivers. Communication between cars and road systems. At that point, collision avoidance becomes only about pedestrians, animals, and other random objects that enter the street unexpectedly. The self driving car will be able to see, predict, and respond to that, and communicate the need to stop to the cars behind far faster than a human driver.

With inter-car communication, there won't be any confusion about where each car intends to go. No long waits for an opening.

Car design will push towards passenger comfort, and no longer towards "power" and "handling". This could mean smaller cars overall. 1-2 passenger vehicles could be common.

Yeah, it's definitely far down the road, and there will be a lot of forces that'll make it difficult to reach, but I think self driving cars are a chance to make things better.