skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an amazing savings. We are enjoying Panamá (the country, not the city) currently with a rent of $250 per month, internet included.

The challenge we are currently facing is finding a place in the US for two-three months that's actually affordable. Even the hotels are crazy expensive for short stays.

It definitely seems like picking a city, getting there in a hotel, and then finding a place is a better strategy than finding something online. I've been to countless websites that return an error when I put in our target dates: 'our reservation system doesn't allow dates longer than 30 days'!?! LOL Then, almost everything for our target duration is 'vacation rental', which means they want at least $500 per week.

Total side note: is there a way to get notified when people respond to your comment on HN?
True, but variant 2 isn't as gloomy as it sounds because there's 2 major challenges with it. The first is you need detailed knowledge of the binary you're targeting as well as it's memory layout. ASLR makes that challenging, to say the least. You then also need a side channel of some sort to observe the effects, such as shared memory.
This sounds very sensational to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.

Is there any evidence of this?
Believing that cultural cues are a major factor doesn't mean believing the natural ratio is 50/50.

The current ratio varies widely between STEM fields.

It would be helpful to understand how the culture came to accept women as lawyers and doctors, but why would that be necessary to identify cultural factors as a reason for the imbalance in CS?
Reductio ad absurdum.

"It's just a bullet obeying the laws of physics. The fact you die is of secondary importance."

See what I did there?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16383395
Stuck on creating account, iOS , it just keeps spinning
You mean like start ups should be?
(The about only thing that is supposed to matter there is time and product market fit.)
Nowadays you can do the same sort of thing (for some books) but not through the campus bookstore.

Go online, find a cheap, used copy, and get that shipped to you. (Not all books are available like this, but many are)

The prices online are so good that the online-used-book industry basically killed the 'book' part of the campus bookstore.
Book reuse is also key. I was able to use my Calculus book for three semesters. And like you say the content does not change that much.
The public university I went to had some teachers like that. It also had some who produced their own material and made you buy it from the university bookstore.

$200 for spiral bound 1/2" thick pile of black and white paper that's "totally different" from the one my roommate bought last semester? Ugh.
Extrapolating previous trends of energy consumption. Historically, technological advances have greatly increased the energy consumption per human. At an accelerating pace (exponential energy consumption growth).

According to Geoffrey West's "Scale", humans biological needs are about 90 watts at rest, 250 watts for an extremely active lifestyle. The average American uses about 11,000 watts, 2 orders of magnitude more, and more than a blue whale.

It is possible we will invent new ways to tap energy, but exponential growth will have to end somehow.

(Unless you meant to imply that our technological progress could hasten the heat death of the universe, in which case I fully agree.)

Note - I do not mean this will happen any time soon, just that there is a theoretical upper bound to innovation: how much energy exists in the universe.
Hey, science is in the name, so it must count.
I say the same about largest media company in the world.

It's shocking that people don't know it's Facebook.

And in their case not just in the world, but the largest media company in history by a very wide margin. People don't see any connection between William Randolph Hearst and Mark Zuckerberg; Facebook really has the best PR team.
That's also one of the beauties of parenting. One does everything one thinks is right, considering various limits, and accidentally makes a mistake the child will always remember. The child grows up, perhaps has his/her own children, and tries not to make what he/she thought were their parents' mistakes. Depending on what kind of mistake that happened to be, parenting should evolve from generation to generation, in a non-linear way of course.

I also really ascribe to the idea that when a person decides to be an adult, they decide to begin taking full responsibility for their actions and thoughts. This means that, even if a person were in an abusive situation as a child, it's fundamentally their responsibility to find help and take care of themselves. This is empowering and healing, for anyone, and one of the most important reasons I believe that parents who are loving have nothing to worry about. One day your child will be free, and on that day he or she will take on the responsibility of their own life. You are there for your child as a learning and growing being yourself, and you are there up to the moments you see them off as they release themselves into the world. You can instill in them your values, but in the end they get to choose. All you have to do is let them know they get to choose, and let them know they are loved for existing. How the child best understands those lessons is the grand experiment.
why? Shadowrun was garbage too. Go back and read the novels some time. There's a reason why Shadowrun consistently failed to get an audience throughout its entire lifetime, even back in FASA days.
No, not really.

Gender corresponds to the societal and cultural difference between the sexes, as opposed to the biological, and is socially constructed [4]. Gender is part of what changes how we act and think, both as normal psychological and behavioral processes, and in more inherent ways as determined by some studies [3]. It commonly is assigned based on sex, but in many cases, some people innately feel that their gender is different than the one assigned to them.

In biological terms, sex may be determined by a number of factors present at birth, including the number and type of sex chromosomes, the type of gonads (ovaries or testicles), the sex hormones, the internal reproductive anatomy (such as the uterus in females), and the external genitalia. People whose characteristics are not either all typically male or all typically female at birth are intersex. [1]

There are many different conditions in which a person's sex organs may not match up with levels of hormones in their body, primary or secondary sex characteristics[2], or someone's internalized gender identity. It's important to note that these are not deformities, but simply conditions that different people are born with. Doctors around the world have for centuries actually been surgically intervening and modifying the sex organs of babies to fit the surgeon's or parents' expectations, which is now considered a human rights violation and widely condemned by the international community [5].

So some people are born with one set of chromosomes, and/or one set of genitalia that may not be typical, yet exhibit some or all of the other characteristics and thoughts of someone with a different set. Their gender may not correspond to their sex, or sex organs.

Hence, it is better to refer to gender differences than sex differences when talking about the roles of people in society. Unless we're specifically talking about making babies, and even then it's not totally simple.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virilization
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_differentiation_in_huma...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment#Controversy
Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years.

A few key differences:

- A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request.

- Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else.

- You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio)

- Efficiently add bulk audio to a course

- A super fast UI (it's an SPA)

I have a few ideas for premium which (as far as I know) would bring features that don't exist yet for any spaced repetition platform:

- Prioritized learning (learn the most pressing ones)

- In advance learning (You'll be gone for the weekend, but it's Friday and you have 1h time: You can prelearn "long term" flash cards that'd come around over the weekend).

Also for some tech background: Frontend is pure Clojurescript + Datascript. Backend is Clojure, Cassandra, Datomic, Elasticsearch. I'd use the tech stack again, hands down.

The best introduction is the video at the bottom of the landing page it show all the features. There are only few courses right now so early adopters should (hopefully) be willing to create their own courses.

Questions welcome.
> but ignore the fact that tuition is over $50,000 in many institutions

These textbook prices do matter! If you're paying 1k in textbook fees and 8k-9k in tuition, then those books are eating up a significant percentage of your total burn.

9k is not a made-up number, by the way. Public colleges and universities without active research programs have tuition in the ~9k range [1]. Which is still a lot, but a student who works a part-time job and lives at home can get out with relatively little debt (or even no debt with a modest scholarship and impressive work ethic).

You don't have to go to Harvard or even the state flagship. And you definitely don't need to go to one of the many second-rate schools that charge Harvard prices for access to a much less prestigious network and in many cases inferior education.

If a student attends a school with an active research program and chooses not to leverage that expertise in order to level up their career prospects, then that student made a bad decision. Perhaps we should be doing more to shield people from bad life choices, or at least not enable those choices with easy access to huge piles of debt. But in most states, there do exist (more) reasonable options in the current market.

IMO we should be moving to self-published open source books, with hard copies sold in the 20-50 dollar price range and with all profits going to the actual author. The online auto-graded homework assignments are an unsolved problem for some courses, but that's nothing a sabbatical or two can't solve.

[1] https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/highlights
Right, but if the company wanted to focus on quality, then it's their fault for hiring kids or otherwise setting wages at a point where only kids can really afford to work there
What's the difference between an ISP and a cell phone company?
I recommend leaving the marketing page content the same for logged in users to view pricing, etc even if they are logged in.

If they are logged in and they click signup or login most frameworks detect that and you can automatically send them to their dashboard.

I like to show dashboard instead of log in for logged in users, I leave pricing/signup the same in case they want to view what the current plan offerings are.

As far as UX I don't like seeing log in if I'm already logged in but other than that I wouldn't worry about it too much. Not a huge issue either way.

Good luck with your SaaS.
http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf

http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html

Until Amit Rathi grapples with what J.P. Lewis proves, Rathi is just guessing.

Software systems are complicated enough that it just might take longer to estimate how long it would take to develop a system, than it would to actually develop it.
Exactly. One can discuss and imagine all they want without full information and it's very normal and socially and personally productive. I'd refrain from issuing final judgements unless you have "all the info" but that's pretty obvious.
That could be relevant. Also the word "actor", with the same ending, is sometimes (by some newspapers, for example) reserved for men.

Sometimes a similar trick anecdote is told about a "German". There's a suspicion that the ending "man" in "German" primes the listener to imagine a man.
I'd say it'a a pity they aren't releasing it on GoG! Win10 and Steam are both DRM.
Sorry, which username are you trying? I have a blacklist but I didn't check every single entry in it.
Show HN: Promote your coin or ICO on 100 directories with a single click
Dynamic Skip Fire cleverly silences pistons, boosts mileage by 15%
Fortune 500 companies to repatriate their ethics
I assume it's an asset that's only going increase in value because it's rare. Why offload it now when you'll earn more later?
This sounds like marketing baloney. I would bet most of that "engineering" headcount is actually just analytical headcount. not a bad thing, but it's not what we used to call engineering.

This is part of an ongoing trend to describe everything as some form of "engineering."

Honestly, if I'm going to Goldman for M&A - I want a human relationship. That relationship may be buttressed by research and analysis using "big data" and "machine learning" - but that's not engineering, that's just good research using the latest useful tools.

I'm only addressing the actual investment banking component of GS. Sure, the consumer banking stuff requires technology and "engineering" but there's absolutely nothing new about this, it's just that consumer banking has lagged horribly behind in consumer-friendly technology.

Not much to see here.
The ridiculous part is that accounting II is a course taken by a huge number of students. This isn't a small run problem.

The actual solution to all this is to have universities pay for books. They can shop more diligently, roll their own, use out of date books, go digital... Lots of options that are open to the college, but not the student.

When the decision maker is not the user, price systems fail.
I don't have that feeling when I see online banking websites...
Let me ask you all this: Why was Hadoop written in Java and not Python? Why was Spark written in Scala and not Python? Why was Kubernetes written in Go and not Python? Why was Mesos written in C/C++ and not Python?
Thank you for doing that - I'm sure your students appreciate it.

One of my professors specifically told us to get an older version of the textbook used, presumably to save us money. I was able to get it for ~$10 used on Amazon instead of $150 and I'm pretty sure the content was identical.
Enterprise ASICs (i.e. routers) already run at these very hot (and cold) temperatures on the very latest nodes. They also demand reliability over long periods - although the consequences of failing to meet that are obviously not as severe. Ageing is much worse at 7nm but it's already accounted for during STA. Like everything else, you just assume the worst and it's another chunk of your clock period you never see. But expecting to run above 125C... not sure about that.
Here you go: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_unaj2x_NCVNUHcxwMUV... Let me know if you have any question or need something else
The New Way of Handling Java Errors Before They Hit Production
Asking would risk provoking a formal denial or getting served an exchange request from the source.
Yeah, I agree it's confusing, but it's just the format of his column. They had to pick a title and it's better than "Money Stuff #912"

Edit: There are also lots of inside jokes in the headings (and occasionally in the articles) that only make sense if you've been reading the column for a while.
Set up digital books for content.

Prohibit/censure teachers for 'requiring' books they wrote when they were never used in class.
How secure is your CICD pipeline?
While I do agree with your sentiment, switch "Banks" with "VCs" and "end-of-year bonus" with "IPO" and many people would consider your last paragraph an accurate description of the tech startup scene.
Yeah, 5,000 was a typo (meant 4,000, but even that it is a little high, I suppose)
Ask HN: Are you doing outbound phone calls today?
Are you making phone calls today at your company? Is this something you can automate or delegate?
Because a develper can keep GUI code or whatever out of the way. Because a developer can get tools for free, without having to justify the purchase to managers, directors, etc etc. Because a huge range of any given tool is available, from compilers to interpreters to text editors to testing frameworks. Because Linux distros aren't full of bad design decisions, like carriage return/linefeed end-of-line markers, drive letters, and magic device names that can shoot you in the foot very easily. Because developers can generally look at the source code of everything to figure out if the developer made a mistake or the underlying code has a mistake. Because Linux distros, unlike Microsoft, generally don't believe that they know what developers want to do/need to do, and don't prevent certain actions. Because developing on Windows puts you one patch Tuesday from your product being a DLL in Windows. Because freedom. Because good taste. Because Windows isn't very customizable. Because Microsoft does not document the real Windows system call interface/ABI.
I recently interviewed with these guys. Was not impressed.
DHH on Writing Software Well
The video battle in 2018 and beyond
I wonder how many more of this flops will it take for some security experts to stop recommending iPhone over Android...
Silicon chips age due to electromigration, which is exacerbated by small feature sizes. Chips made 20 year ago could take decades for enough migration to cause failure which is why you’ve never known or cared before. Today due to the much smaller processes we use it’s closer to a few years.
Who is advocating quotas?
Sorry to hear that. I know it's a bad excuse but: I don't own any Apple products so I haven't tested IPhone or iPad. Though I did test a MacOS VM with Safari. Can you try to use firefox for now? I'll try to borrow an iPhone soon and debug the problem in the next few days. Sorry about that.
Exactly, that one's aneutronic.
> Wikipedia-like database

Where can I download the freely-licensed data?
To the degree there is a better operating system for starting to program, the operating system a beginner uses is orders of magnitude less important than just sitting down and writing code. The best operating system for learning to code is the operating system you are using.

The only certain thing Linux is the best operating system for is learning Linux. Learning Linux is not learning to code. It is not a step on the path to learning to code. Mostly, it is a distraction from getting started. There is time to learn Linux later...http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Good luck.
We shouldn't be comparing Netflix to Cable TV, but comparing Netflix to Youtube, Twitch, Prime Video, Hulu, etc.

Cable TV has such a high price because it includes both a network and content. Netflix should only be compared to entities that do not own networks.
https://monzo.com/ - not in the US, but in the UK some start ups have started overcoming the regulatory hurdles.
Namecheap now supports .ai registrations
Wouldn’t that also pick someone up who had indiscreetly pull up their phone to check a text message?
Do you think this means streaming high end games like OnLive tried to do will become a reality?
Checking Postgres availability with pure Ruby
That's a realistic compensation package for a normal Sr engineer role at a big bank ime. No, it's not Goog/FB pay but a lot of the jobs are available in LCOL areas like Delaware and the Triangle fwiw.
The fundamental problem is that the people selecting the books aren't the ones paying for them in US colleges. There isn't much incentive to choose cheaper books.

But that seems to be mostly because courses require very specific books, which certainly could be changed. My experience in Germany was very different, for almost all courses there were no required textbooks, only recommended ones. You were free to buy them, don't buy them, buy different ones or rent books from the library. And the prices are much lower, the most expensive textbook I bought was 80 EUR.
Remind me not to invite you to parties ;)
Love it! Going to play w/ this some more...

Care to share your stack/toolchain?
front-end/back-end/API's?
You can allow/block permissions from any app, no matter what Android version it targets. If the app targets a version below 6.0 (Marshmallow) then the app won't ask at runtime and Android will warn you that block a permission for that app may break it.
The fundamental issue w/ college prices probably comes down to 1) lack of state/federal funding for institutions, 2) availability of student loans, and 3) lack of good jobs for people without degrees. What is being done to address the fundamental problems?
Splunk Cloud Incident
I’ve read about tin whiskers extensively, and the consensus seems to be that while conformal coatings will stop tin whiskers from falling accross two leads, they won’t stop a whisker that’s growing from one lead toward another - they will just pierce right through it.
I've found a lot like that one but they're all pretty low quality - that one's two megapixel. Far cry from the iPhone's 12, despite being physically larger.
Here is the original report:

https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=4987859723354112

Edit: Saw that link two days ago already, but just noticed that it's also mentioned in the article.
You can run an emulated iOS device on a Mac if you have one.
What exactly does the company do and how do they do it? It is kind of unclear and the "Our Mission" section of the website is one of those generic PR sentences that doesn't actually explain anything about the business...
Triggers are pretty much like stored procedures. They have their place.

One of the major use cases of serverless functions is as triggers.
Haha, and we'll get to relearn everything that didn't already have sufficient documentation.
The US is not Sweden. In the US, you die or your kids starve if you don’t have enough money. So when you see a statistic that women have the altitude to go into a high paying career disproportionately to their actual representation, it’s harder to dismiss that just by saying “oh they must prefer to do something else.”

Beyond that, I’m not inclined to believe that Sweden really is more gender equal. It seems based on little more than assumption.
> Political science is interesting and important, but it's not science in the same sense as physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, and so forth.

Yes, it is (well, not like mathematics, which is absolutely not a science though it is a tool frequently needed by science; political science is more like biology than it is like physics or chemistry, though.)

That said, a bachelor's in political science (which, hey, I have too) with no research background and no work history in any kind of scientific practice or, more to the point, administrative/policy work with a focus in the sciences (e.g., its not like he had a polisci degree and then spent a decade working on, and eventually taking a senior role in, the staff of one of the science-focussed committees in Congress) is hardly a qualification for a significant role, much less the lead role, in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

But the bigger story is...

> The President needs a team of skilled people advising him on issues related to science and technology

Right, and this is where the article not only buries but actually misses what should be the lede. The real issue is not that the OSTP has a poorly-qualified de facto lead because of a vacancy in the actual lead position; the real issue is that the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, who are intended to be the broad, interdisciplinary "team of skilled people advising [the President] on issues related to science and technology" that interface with the rest of the White House through the OSTP, is empty because Trump hasn't appointed anyone to the council.