skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tapping top of screen hasn't been fixed, as it likely is hard to do.

As for other work on scrolling:

Person contracted to fix some webkit issues: http://frederic-wang.fr/amp-and-igalia-working-together-to-i...

HN discussion made some news about scrolling changes made due to AMP's bug reports: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/22/scrolling-changes-comin...
A couple more interesting projects at http://www.amandaghassaei.com/
No active markets.
Seconded. Glad to see this here. They have their foibles (current webmail interface is very old school, filters are a little limited etc) but I'm a paying customer for several years now (asking side zoho's mail offering) and am happy.
Check out https://www.quantopian.com/
At least one person reportedly injured in shooting outside NSA headquarters
My question is how many cafes really make money off of people who come in and sit for an hour or two and order more than one drink.

Don't most people just stop by, grab a cup, and then go on their way? I've never seen a cafe a-la 'friends' where people hangout and constantly buy things.

In my experience the only people who DO hang out at cafes and order multiple items are those doing work for extended periods of time.
There's an industry term for this, it's called an "interstitial ad."
This was eye-opening, thank you. In my experience living in Urban Europe, the late-night market is much more fragmented between small deep-fry focused, chicken-focused, middle-eastern/grill and pizza establishments. Some global fast-food chains do run 24h locations in the denser areas, and typically some chicken chains reach a regional/municipal level of franchising. However, we don't have anything as ubiquitous as Taco Bell, such that you would find one open at 4 AM in the neighbourhood of a small rural town.
(1) Almost impossible to say at this moment. There are so many externalities: current waste of land, time wasted in traffic jams, environmental damage, ...

(2) Partially true, I guess. However, public transport would get a lot better due to higher frequencies, etc. There will also be a lot of people who would actually enjoy time for reading (instead of traffic jams) and don’t quite understand their current costs of running a car

(3) Yes. And also demand by people who can’t afford mobility today but would love to be mobile

(4) Yes, not sure if that’s a con?

Diesel tax: Nice complement to free public transport
How do you get Gmail username with 5 characters or less?
His point is fair, though. The article describes two types of approaches taken by the roaches. But only shows the "clever" variation, with the angled body.

The main finding was that even when the roaches did not angle their bodies (like the robot in the video) they still managed to transition and scale the wall at roughly the same speed. Which is interesting, because it means their physical forms are just so well adapted they just aim their bodies and run and hope for the best and it usually works out.

So ultimately, it is weird that they didn't compare the rough-and-tumble cockroach approach to the robot video... it's weird that they used the "clever cockroach" video juxtaposed with the "dumb robot" video. Didn't really make a compelling point, did it?
That’s not the conclusion of this at all...
All well and good, but have you seen the amount of plain old SPAM that gets here, as well as just weak submissions? Some filtering, even if a little harsh, adds value.

And I speak as someone whose submissions rarely gain traction, especially my own pages!

I see no cabal or conspiracy. I see a somewhat self-selecting and "focussed" group of people with a tight-ish intersection of overlapping interests.
What were the actual racist and homophobic statements? Reading this article the actual offending things are absent and not linked to.
If you don't want to teach, you're not a rockstar. The best developers I know have always been ready to show and explain what and why and how. Inventors love to talk about their inventions.
Don't take this too serious. If it would stop driving bans for diesels, this government would also consider rainbow unicorns for every school kid.

(Hello downvotes? If you are not in tune with German politics: this is the same government that is in contempt of court for failing to enforce effective measurements to stop excessive pollution levels. This is not at all a sincere suggestion.)
... and it works for FreeBSD and as of our (rsync.net) sponsorship of work done last year, has DNS support in FreeBSD with ipfw as the backend.
Fantastic news! Thank you for all of your org's efforts in this regard. The open web needs every advocate it can get.
> HFT is like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.

here's to hoping I can stay one step ahead, lol. It's risky.
Check out this podcast. Dis guy had a algo trading as a sideproject (now fulltime):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co_GYku903k
> She is clearly not racist or anything else herself. She is a casualty of the reactionary zeitgeist.

Nah she's pretty racist http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ny-times-quinn-norton-neo...
How about offering tax breaks to companies that promote telecommuting in some fashion?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ny-times-quinn-norton-n...
Ask HN: My strange pain point – is it a startup idea?
I travel pretty often. I'm not exactly a digital nomad but I like to stay in cities around in other cities and do whatever I would have done at home otherwise. Mostly working on web projects.

And it's insane, how much time I spent on AirBnB and Booking.com, looking for the right apartments. Hours and hours of work that could be replaced with a simple database query if they had structured data. But even without, it could be made much easier with the right interface.

Two of my requirements make it so hard:

1) Top floor. I don't like people running 'on my head'.

2) A view. I don't like to look out of the window and stare at another house.

So I have to look at each offer on AirBnB and Booking.com and try to figure out if it matches those. This is hard enough. I even became super good at finding the apartments on Google Earth so I can look at them from the outside. Insane.

To add insult to injury, neither of the two sites offer to tag apartments as "I don't like it". So when I look at the same city another day, I have to start over and look at all those apartments I already looked at again.

On AirBnB I abuse the 'Wishlist' feature to mark apartments as 'Dont like it'. So my 'wishlists' are really 'dont wish lists'. But at least it somewhat works. They mark apartments on one of your wishlists with a heart. So I know that the apartments with a heart are those that I don't like :) Since they only allow 50 or so apartments on a wishlist, I have multiple wishlists for every city.

Realizing how much time I spend on this, I am considering to hire somebody for it. So I will have a database with apartments with a view.

What do you guys think? Should I then put it online? Like 'Nomad list with a view'? Or am I a unique snowflake? Or does something like this already exist?
I think this is a good idea to start implementing into the system deliveries. Track where your delivery is coming is a relief to the customers in special.
> People can still run their own email server if they want, and it will work just fine,...

> I suspect you have not setup SPF, DKIM or are blacklisted on spam lists. Or if you've done all this, possibly the formats for your emails is suspect.

In what sense is this "work[ing] just fine?" "Sorry, we threw away your mail for some random reason, and we won't tell you about it" seems like poor service.
I am going to ask a slightly off topic question. I hope someone could point me some direction.

How do different industry price things? Is there a book or other resources on the subject on how to price different items? Clothes, Disk washers, Food, Software, Services.. etc. Or Phones.

Because different industry and products have different way to do cost calculation, and different margins. Or depends on companies etc. Just wondering if i could learn more on the subject.
The expensive part is building the telescopes. James Webb is going to cost something like $8.8 billion. Compared to that, launching it is easy.
I’ve helped several friends get into programming with no prior experience. A few of them did a boot camp. I told all of them that what they needed was to spend a year working hard on a personal project nights and weekends to get enough hours coding, to hit real world problems and have to deal with them, and to have a portfolio piece. The boot camp, if they took it, would be a jump start to get going, but not a guaranteed job.

This recipe worked out for all of them so far. Just being able to code “off script” without the guidance of an instructor, and having something real on Github to show for it, seems to be the difference.
Interestingly last time I was active in this area (specifically VLBI radio astronomy), I was working on a project for moving FFT computations away from existing FPGA based solutions to GPU based ones in order to save money.
Author mentions why not use Cloudflare that CDN cache is purged often. If you want to verify if it happens for your content. You can try this tool - http://cloudperf.speedchecker.xyz/cloudflare-tester.html

Side effect of this tool as you might have guessed is that using it will actually prolong the time your content stays in their cache.
In the 'old days', you had to either subscribe to the service (usually AT&T or something ran the wifi) or you got a printed code on your receipt that was valid for an hour or two.

Then a some point, most chains started offering free wifi. Which was useless because many of the places only have 2-6mbs which is useless with anyone else using it.

Starbucks at least went with 'Google wifi' and have ~ 100mbs service which is really nice. But they are empty for some reason, the local Barnes and Noble is packed with laptops and unusable wifi.
What do you suggest for those of us who believe we would be terrible at management? Add to that, I also think I would be miserable doing it.
'Time-traveller from 2030' passes lie detector test
Don't use them unless you have to. The vendor lock-in is strong.
well it has been shown to not have had much of an effect when practiced elsewhere. More services is a far better option than free.

example story https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/why-can...
>> It turns out the cautious approach wasn’t necessary. The roaches that ran headlong into the wall could make the upward shift just as quickly — in about 75 milliseconds — the researchers found.

The opposite is also true though- the dumb, headlong-crash approach isn't necessary either, since it's not faster than the cautious approach.

I think what the article is really saying is that, absent a method to make the cautious approach available, then the dumb approach is good enough.

However, the cautious approach might be evidence of a capacity for more complex behaviours when necessary, the absence of which can significantly hinder the animal's (or, indeed, the robot's) versatility in other situations, besides climbing a wall quickly.

In other words, maybe cockroaches are hard to hit not because they can run headlong at a wall without slowing down but because they have the choice of not doing so when needed.

Which in turn means that robots that can only scale a wall by running blindly at it will still not be as good as cockroaches in tasks other than climbing walls.
Awesome, I'll watch it later today.
While I can see your point, I am of the mindset that Computer Science is too vast to expect someone to memorize it all. Furthermore, it's not even a memory test its a form of hazing, to be honest. It has little indication of how well someone will do in a role as dynamic as software engineering. Im certain I could make you look like a fool in front of a whiteboard and im sure you could do the same to me. But have we actually proven anything about who is smarter or more capable? No. I look for people who know where to find the answer even if they don't know it off the top of their heads. At least that way I know I won't spend half my day answering their questions if I hirer them. The kids who spend their time in college depending on the book and the professor to hold their hands aren't the ones who succeed in the long term. It takes ingenuity and creativity for that. That's who I want on my team.
1. Read Flashboys

2. a) Realize how CRAZILY far many HFT firms have gone to inch out literally every single microsecond and achieve economies of scale with billions in assets

2. b) individual user-scale tools like ETrade won't get your trades in fast enough/any cost per transaction fees will erase any gains

3. Invest said capital in something like Betterment

If your model has been truly beating the market for a sustainable amount of time, I apologize for my comment and go all out :)
All the time.

My complaint would be people yapping on their cell phone for work. That's a big distraction, you blend in with a laptop, but nothing says "I'm important" yelling into your bluetooth for an hour.
seriously! jeez
I think the first step would be to use the automatic configuration generation tool [1]. You give few inputs (like the amount of server memory and number of connections), and get the config.

[1] https://www.pgconfig.org/#/tuning
They don't get the benefit of markup, but they do have the benefit of inventory flying off the shelves. I'm not going to guess at nVidia or AMD's margins, but I'm sure they are quite happy with the additional income from GPU sales. This turns into more R&D, which AMD needs.
Here's the link to the iOS client:

https://github.com/carrot-ar/carrot-ios/
I should have made a case for reporting to the CEO myself. None of the three managers could figure out how to do it, and I spent more time than I should have trying to coach them on how to handle him. But I wanted to be comfortable and reporting to the CEO would have been the opposite of that.
Thank you 'British couple'! If I had it my way, Google would be split up (or banned as in China).
Google raises price of YouTube TV, adds sports, Turner
While I'm sure there are lots of politically progressive places that are problems, I can't imagine having a community similar to ours without it. We're an island of progressive surrounded by numerous similar sized towns that are decidedly conservative and have more community problems and are less attractive academically. But they're less expensive to live in, too.
I think it should be clarified that "destination" refers to an IP address, not an individual host. My understanding is that anycasting means a single address corresponds to multiple hosts achieved by simply advertising it from several sources with BGP, and you will often still have multiple redundant routes to any of the individual hosts behind the anycast IP because most locations will have redundant internet links.

Depending on how the routing is set up, it doesn't matter if the route changes so long as you end up on the same host consistently (or one that can at least pretend it's the same host if you do some kind of fancy session mirroring, perhaps)
Agreed, it's such a strange decision unless for some reason they requested but didn't receive the "crash into a wall" cockroach video. It's confusing others too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16373846
The attitude that I need to devote myself to the company and forego any outside interests until the company is profitable is really unhealthy. The company I am leaving now wanted me to do that for 5 years. Imagine doing nothing but being at work for 5 years. Or imagine not dating anyone for 5 years because you're spending all your time at the office.

The product is finished now, so I'm leaving, and frankly the only reason I stuck around was because finishing products looks good on a resume.
This all rings very true to me.
> I used to LOVE google back in the early gmail/android days. They were the good guys. What happened?

By then they were already a very large company with lots of forces pulling them in different directions. Google were 'the good guys' right up until they became an advertising company, and it's been downhill from there.
HN guidelines, in their infinite wisdom, ask:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An Organiser’s Postmortem: Malta Global Game Jam
I've been ahead for 2 months in just testing my models.

Edit: granted not FY ahead.
Perhaps a bit over generalized but I do feel that there’s an unusual large gap in salary between suits and devs even when comparing to countries like Germany.

It doesn’t need to be a huge tech hub at all. Luckily English resembles Dutch so most Dutch speak it well enough to survive a job abroad.
Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize
>There's a huge difference between the endless hours I spent, typing in programs from magazines on my 8-bit systems in the 80's, and just downloading the latest pixel-blah on the No-friend-o.

I don't think that there is. Only a few years ago, I learned by typing in programs from YouTube videos and online forums. This doesn't mean YouTube and forums have eroded our culture; I think they are the new media and serve the same purpose as magazines. My success was because of my access to video games and the internet, not in spite of it, and in a different era it would've been through computer magazines and access to "toys" like the C64.
Unit tests are there to make the code less fragile, so that it can be modified with confidence. But if you need tests to make your code robust, it's likely a mess underneath; probably better to spend the time refactoring.

Personally, I say write tests when it makes development quicker or serves as a good example / spec.
I feel this contradicts with the ideas about Positive Thinking and Law of Attraction.

https://greatist.com/connect/law-of-attraction

Many successful people use positive thinking to help them succeed in challenging situations. If you lower your expectation, then you will never become successful.

I think having expectation oftentimes create psychological disorders what Logotherapy identifies as anticipatory anxiety and hyper-intention...

I think key is to actually NOT to have expectation. Expectation are result focused. What's important is to be process focused. And process is more about thinking positively on each step. Or better yet... use Paradoxical intention to face our worst fears.
There's alot of fear around the possibilities of flapping routes, but alot of real world data seems to show it doesn't happen seem to impact web traffic that often.

People often mix and match anycast/Geo DNS and anycast/unicast http.

Some even go a step further and, for video files, anycast to a node that 302s to it's own unicast address.
Conversations, Not Debates
Peter Thiel vs. Reid Hoffman
To other folks in this thread - your warnings are justified but please stop conflating “algo” and “HFT”.
I live outside of one of the large cities. Apart from Berlin and maybe Hamburg people tend to live more in the outskirts. That's where the service is bad.

I've been in Japan last year for vacation. Public transportation was a breeze compared to Germany (5 min stepover time was no problem; try this in Germany).

Anecdotal: We returned from (another) vacation by plane and took the train back home from the airport. We had to stepover once. Not only was the first train late, but also time schedule of the catching train was at odds. When we left the train station there was (in the train!) an announcement that the train will not stop at some of the advertised stops in order to catch up with time. We had to leave the train at an earlier station and where left to sort out the problem ourselves.
Nvidia's profit margin seems to be swelling.

https://ycharts.com/companies/NVDA/profit_margin

I would kind of expect that to be the case as each card they issue has a very high initial cost to design, test, promote, etc. and now cards that were getting "old" have suddenly shot up in demand.
Apple in talks for first order from a Chinese chipmaker
I'm torn by this move from Google. On one hand its almost certain to make my browsing a better experience.

On the other hand, this move just seems to have the stink of antitrust violation on it. I'm by no means a lawyer, but it doesn't seem right for Google to leverage its position in the browser market to advance the interests of AdSense. I'd love to hear a lawyers opinion on this.
then a bunch of companies who already do telecommuting (call centers come to mind) all relocate there, causing a net impact of 0 on pollution.
Cool! Pretty cool to see some alpha generated by a single IC. I still recommend Flash Boys as a book though about HFT, very interesting and a good read
If you want to use a communication system that will work if the Cell towers, local internet, and the phone system are offline get an Amateur Radio Licence.

If you want to talk to some random person in Australia using a system which routes your radio through the internet get an Amateur radio Licence.

If you want to help out in a disaster then get an Amateur radio licence.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make myself available for mentoring over the internet? I'm sure there's many possibilities, but has anyone had actual success with any?

Preferably I could get paid doing it, but if that's not really feasible then I wouldn't mind pro bono.
Privacy Policy for VS code makes me glad that Google doesn't own it. With so many people mentioning it here, I decided to look it up, looks nice. The privacy policy links to an actually nice and extra thoughtful, 'opens your eyes to all kinds of different scenarios where microsoft gets your data" kind of thing, which was surprising and pleasant.

However broad the policy shows people various things with different products, it basically doesn't say much of anything about vs code, and starts discussing enterprise environments are situations in which you need to talk to your enterprise admin about privacy stuff, yada yada.

Going back to the vs code page, it says they use telemetry and crash dump reporting. It does say that users can follow a link for info about turning off crash reporting.

I am not sure what the exact definition of telemetry is, and if it varies from company to company. After seeing that MSoft was sucking in every keystroke typed on a windows machine, and having a terrible experience with UN-removable one-drive with an office 201X install, I've lost faith in what Msoft has become, and trust them less than free products from google.

Maybe there is some way to run vscode in a VM that is 100% blocked from the internet and that would prevent it from sending tons of data?

Maybe I am missing something this early and no coffee yet.