skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming and all of its related tools are best learnt out of necessity. I started to use Python for its original purpose: as a "better shell script". I've never succesfully learnt anything just for the sake of it. It's always been because I had a problem I wanted to solve with it.

Learning general purpose languages like Python or C would be great if she actually has any interest in computing. Has she ever expressed any interest in this? Does she do anything with a computer where a tool would help her?

If not, and she still thinks she wants to learn, then I suggest going the web route. Making your own website has a very nice learning curve. Learn about HTML and what it means to "mark up" a document. Learn CSS to make it look nice. Learn Javascript to make it interactive. Learn Python/Django to make the content database driven. It's very easy to see the appeal of each new skill and nothing seems like learning something "just because".
A site that lists the remote jobs from all the most popular remote job websites
I always wanted to work from anywhere and originally started working as a web dev getting jobs from sites like Upwork. I was always looking for a way to be the first to apply to the best job so I created a job aggregator website https://ditchtheoffice.co which automatically lists all of the remote & online jobs from all of the most popular job boards.

At the moment it lists all jobs that are listed as 100% remote from these job boards:

Part/full time boards:

FlexJobs, Simply Hired, Jobspresso, Stackoverflow, Virtual Vocations, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads, Remote.co

Also, we have an option to search freelance jobs on these sites (haven’t got Upwork yet, waiting for API access):

Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour

I’m looking to keep adding more job sites as soon as possible, if you have any favourite sites that you want listed let me know and I’ll see if I can get them added!
One more question. Whats to stop this being used for amplification DDOS? Register a stolen CC then launch x100 parrell http(s) subrequest for each incoming request to your intended target, possibly adding large random payload (well as much as you can generate in 50ms minus time to setup 100 subrequests with fetch API)
Security expert exposes multiple flaws in India's Aadhaar and UIDAI
This is one of those questions I love answering. :)

It turns out V8 is very well-optimized for loading JavaScript quickly, since that's exactly what it needs to do when loading a web site with a user waiting.

We're seeing average cold start times under 5ms.
A very clever move by Trump indeed. Something that I wasn't expecting at all. This will surely delay China's streak of Domination in the Telecom sector.
To be honest, aside from some moderate scaling issues, the technical challenges of our main application aren't all that juicy. Like a lot of SaaS, we're mostly glorified CRUD. Our biggest technical problem is generally around keeping complex business logic from breaking when we extend it.

But anyway, we try to avoid hiring prima donnas. We hire people who are focused on making the product and the business succeed, not on scratching their personal technical itches. There are plenty of engineers out there who get their satisfaction from knowing that their work is being used or helping users or the business or their co-workers, rather than from playing with algorithms. I've never heard a complaint or even a foot-drag from anyone on this team, nor the previous one I worked with (medium-high-touch B2B with a separate marketing site managed in-house).

If you have a deeply technical product, you still need someone who's going to build out dashboards and other UI. Just make sure you have at least a few people on your team who are willing to work on the stuff that maybe you don't find glamorous.
ICANN’s Whois reforms are on a path to failure
Looks very nice! Is the minimum cost ($5/m) per site or per account?
I agree with most of your points, however they can't be accomplished solely by using emacs

A lot of my automation is done in Bash, some in Python and other languages, not necessarily in the editor
My wife actually got into programming using netlogo, then processing. It's all about agents, and her work was trying to explain how aggression leads to sociality. It provided a nice clean (and fun) interface for tweaking parameters and seeing how creatures "evolve".

From there she learned some python and Ruby. It was a pretty naturual progression, she just wanted to "do stuff"
Not too drastic. If websites continue to display their malicious incompetence this will happen.
This is probably a prank, but if it isn't, I'd encourage the writer to tell us what "Damore" is, as the article discusses a pro-Damore stance, but assumes we are willing to look elsewhere for a definition.
Five ways to Slim your Docker
S. J. Gould, whose works I thoroughly enjoy, was not immune to casting a story according to his world-view, either, and these passages seem to be part of his rejection of the extreme uniformitarianism that he claims permeated geology at the start of his career. In other works, he writes approvingly of Hutton's perspicacity, while pointing out that his broader theories were speculative. The passages quoted above appear more critical of Geike than Hutton.

Hutton's dogmatic uniformitarianism must be regarded in the light of the then-prevalent, and equally dogmatic, catastrophist theories, which claimed that the Earth as we see it now was shaped by extreme events that no longer occur. In presenting contrary observations from the field, Hutton was at least as much a scientist as those holding on to the other view.
Broadcom wants to kill this part of QCOM's business allowing for Chinese companies to fill the void.
Fortunately, the US isn't the only country on the planet. We could, for instance, get inspiration from those countries that heavily invest in renewable energy.
And if you have vision problem best thing is to force APHont on every site.That font is recomended for people with low vision.https://www.google.hr/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://w...
How i judge software engineers
Spain's Amazon workers call two-day strike over wages, rights
You can use battery swapouts instead of grounding the vehicle.
SXSW 2018: The Future of AI Assistants
I think I can answer that, given we're in the business of Redshift performance.

Redshift is incredibly powerful, but can be a pain to work with if you're a data engineer. To get the most out of it, you need to turn a lot of knobs - and knowing how to tune it is really complex. But if you get it right - it blows everything else out of the water. Including Snowflake and BigQuery.

The key to success is using Redshift's Workload Management, and using best practices for your schema, table and query design. Many people who start using Redshift come from a mySQL world and are not familiar with a columnar storage db. Sort / dist keys are not concepts that people are necessarily familiar with.
A new bill could finally ban predatory inmate phone costs – The Verge
When flying horizontally, I can imagine it is quite quiet.

While taking off and landing, I expect it to be very noisy and cause a lot of wind.

With work, the landing and takeoff could be very fast - maybe just a couple of seconds until it starts to get up to speed and can use the quiet wings rather than noisy tiny propellers.
I took a lesson from Richard Lloyd once. In that format, he goes much deeper into the Circle of Fifths. He finds as much spiritual meaning in it as Coltrane did in the symmetries found in the drawings of the original article.
>That all takes energy and most of that energy probably comes from coal or some other environmental nightmare resource.

Maybe, but it's easier to replace centralised pollution from something like a coal electricity plant, than decentralised pollution of every appliance generating it's own power.

A battery appliance doesn't care if the electricity that coms to it is from a hydroplant, a nuclear facility, or coal. It's decoupled from the source, and so allows you to improve things iteratively.
It actually works well enough in japan: 15-20 minutes on a local to get to the Shinkansen station, then an hour on that, then another 15-20 minutes to get where you are going. Not really in daily commute range, but definitely viable weekly.
Some immediate uses that spring to mind involve storing data as strings. An example is rendering templates from JSON or a more resource-friendly serialization protocol. What are the limits on the file size of the workers?

Also, regarding resource usage, is this memory usage exposed at all to the worker via an API? I'm thinking there may be applications where it would be useful to cache fetched resources but without hitting the memory ceiling and having the requests die with the worker.
Will you be able to share how you sandbox these scripts?
It always starts with them before it trickles down to the rest of us. Let's hope they use it and beta test it for us.
Your idea of a terminal state sounds much better than the status quo where everybody and you bank throws modals at you. It's okay if it isn't perfect, as long as it gets rid of like 95% of annoying pop-ups.
Stack Overflow in 4096 bytes
How we helped Bowery become a $6.8M company
My recollection is that the nonperformance of try/catch is something specific to the v8 JIT. Historically, the zero-cost exception model of try/catch has you do absolutely nothing with the data until someone throws an exception, at which point you work out how to map the return address to the appropriate catch handler.
They won't force you to use a particular pen, but they must take reasonable precautions that you are using permanent ink. Notaries must protect their seal, and don't want you to sign as Joe Blow, get the seal, then wash the signature off at home and re-sign as Donald Trump. Washing a signature is trivial with many FP inks, so most notaries don't want you to use them- it's too much trouble to verify which inks are safe, and much easier to ask you to use a ballpoint. Those that do allow it are risking losing their license (admittedly a small risk) if they get caught up in fraudulent signatures.

Notaries that allow FP inks are either just accepting the risk because they don't want to be a dick or they are not aware that by using FP ink you might as well be signing in pencil.
Ah, I did not know this had started happening. Thank you for the pointer!
This is an excellent interpretation, thanks for sharing.
That's only accurate if the person in question did, indeed, spend their way into success.
What are the benefits of unit testing?
Hey all! We're starting with progressive political campaigns but plan to roll out this roundup model (popularized by Acorns.com, and even Lyft late last year) to non-profits, individuals, and more later this year. Would love your feedback!
Also the hovercraft - it's just that those turned out to be pretty niche.
I wonder how many responses Google Forms scales to, you'd probably move from using Sheets as your frontend to the API to query your responses pretty quickly but I wonder if you can get a million responses there without someone shutting you down.

That'd give you security and scale, at least as long as the data store behind it scales, and a standard data entry and confirmation dialog that some users might even have seen before.
Having just finished 1.5 years working at a code school, here's my "link dump" of stuff that helped a lot of people.

Good luck!

https://beehollander.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/helping-over-3...
If you do that, it won't actually send very much traffic to the victim site, and you'll find your zone suspended pretty quickly. :)

As with any anti-abuse measures, though, it's best if we don't describe in detail what steps we've taken to prevent this sort of attack.
> Wikipedia lists energy consumption being 70% coal, I'm not sure why the large discrepancy there.

Link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Ge...
>Some estimate we're currently only at Kardashev 0.8, harnessing about 80% of what energy from the Sun hits the Earth.

80% seems super high, unless by 'harnessing' you also mean things like 'the sun energy warms up the ocean allowing fish to live which we then consume for some% of the energy that sun sent'.

I'd be pretty surprised if efficiently used energy / energy hitting the earth from the sun was >20%.
This looks exactly what I had been looking for these days. None of existing solutions fit my use case.
Thanks for making this, I will give it a try soon.
Just intonation leads to giving up on key changes, though. And it gives up the flexibility of the piano and fretted instruments - if you want to play well in a different key, you have to re-tune the piano!

The dominance of equal temperament can probably be traced directly to the rise of the piano in importance.
Stand by for trans-Antarctic aviation
Conditional probability and Bayes' theorem
They said this was starting in NZ, which is quite different than the US in terms of energy sources.
"Create class for similar kind of objects" would using ECMAScript 2015 classes be acceptable?
DVDFab 10.0.8.6 Crack and Activation Code Free Download
No you don't.

AS per the GDPR I see no possible solution for the “reasonable measure to verify the identity of a data subject” against an IPv4 IP and thus to reliably act on IPv4 related data subject access/deletion requests.

Also per the GDPR, providing data to the wrong person could “affect the rights and freedoms of others” in which case you shouldn’t provide the data.
> it looked nearly identical to the stalagmites and stalacties

From casual observation, perhaps. But how about upon close scrutiny?
It is all relative on efficiency IMHO. And since it is electric which can be powered by "clean energy" how do you measure it.
New solar cell also captures energy from raindrops
What's up with Rails not being included in the Frameworks section when Django and Node.js are? According to Google Trends, Django and Rails have similar interest:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0505cl,%2F...
It's a great question!!

There are two key reasons from Hutton's era, and several others from the modern era.

The first argument is what we see being formed today. Hutton was the original proponent of the principle of uniformitarianism (a.k.a. "the present is the key to the past").

We can find environments producing similar sediments as those rocks today, and they form slowly. This is the key parts of Hutton's original argument: That cliff is made of sandstones that are similar to those forming on beaches and rivers just around the corner. However, the modern processes we see forming sandstones operate very slowly. We do see some rapid pulses of deposition, but then very long times between each pulse. It takes even longer for the sand to start hardening into rock (with the exception of calcite cementation, anyway, which can happen in a few decades). If you look at the rocks in that outcrop, you'll see that they are themselves made up of other rocks. Furthermore, they have pebbles and boulders of themselves (solidified as rock and then eroded) contained within them. To have a sandstone that has pieces of itself that have hardened into rock, been eroded away, and then re-deposited requires a long time with any of the processes we see operating today.

The next reason is scale. There are lots of processes that can locally deform things (e.g. a landslide), but very few that can consistently deform things in the same way across an entire continent. You can trace that same interval of upturned (folded) rock all the way across the UK (and North America and other parts of Europe, though that wasn't known in Hutton's day). What process could affect such a huge area in a very short time? If it did occur in a short time, why isn't the rock shattered instead of folded? (Materials deform very differently at different strain rates.) How do you fold kilometer-thick sections of rock over thousands of kilometers without it being a gradual process?

There's tons of other very clear reasons, but they weren't known in Hutton's day. The simplest answer is still to go look at the rocks. They demonstrate a clear record of environments you can see today. Coal mines played a large role in convincing people in the 1800's, as they preserve an immediately recognizable environment. You can see coal seams with stumps of trees growing through them (complete with roots). The stumps are snapped off by a river channel that cuts through. Next another coal seam with stumps in it, and then the same above. Do we have any reason to believe that trees would have grown dramatically faster in the past?
Binance Chain
Yeah, and I keep seeing ads for Maven around. But public consciousness is very high for Uber. The average user that I see doesn't know or care about its internal problems.
Our anecdotal evidence trumps your no evidence. ;)
To all entrepreneurs, because we share this dream
Yeah that'd be the link it's the first image on the page.
"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications"

Been waiting for this one.
Mozilla sends snooping Web APIs to smartphone Siberia
[1996] Brave.Net.World: disinformation superhighway
I'd go one further and suggest, "don't".

It's not just about safety, it's also about frequently not even needing it. I've achieved some pretty tidy code simplifications without harming the performance of the overall application by removing unnecessary multithreading. I've even sometimes achieved some pretty tidy performance increases while simultaneously simplifying the code by removing unnecessary multithreading.
Thanks for pointing this out. I updated the article.
Kickstarting free software: one week later
It's something we're iterating on, and the results are so far looking promising; but there are a few scenarios in which they may not work (yet). If you reach out to your SE they should be able to get into specifics.
You're probably right, presumably the 50ms of compute time, is that of reasonable 1.6ghz xeon+, and compute time is accounted as actual real compute time - not inclusive of waiting on some virtual CPU to be multiplexed onto a real core.
No data transfer fees from CloudFlare is their big competitive advantage. $0.5-0.7 GB / egress on major public clouds can be brutal. Transferring one object out of S3 cost same as storing it for 2.5 months.
Mozilla should also be focusing on RAM utilization. If they are doing that on the back end they should explicitly mention it in the update details.
Agreed, I read it and just got the feelig of some dude judging his friends.
Digital Advertising Growth Contributes to Print Media Struggles
The fundamental difference is that MOOCs are recorded rather than performed live. This makes both the distribution and access patterns more similar to books than to college courses.

Of course any particular MOOC can be made more or less like a normal class by putting the content behind a hefty paywall, enforcing strict due dates, and adding perverse performance incentives.
That's weird. Also, can Node.js even be considered a framework? Isn't it just a run-time system?
Hong Kong Cryptocurrency Exchange Offers $250,000 for Tips on Hacking Attempt
It was about 10 years ago that I read Norvig's "10 years" post: https://michaelwhatcott.com/10-years/
Yes! That is really being abused. I don't need notifications from recipe sites!
> [Personally, if a parachute was onboard I wouldn't mind jumping into one.]

The cabin opens in a clamshell fashion and that appears to be the only way in or out. Opening the canopy mid-flight would probably result in shearing it off once it catches even a small amount of air. From there, you're left with exit point that's ahead of the wing, ahead of the main propeller, and ahead of the rather wide tail section.

Maybe you'd be clear if you hugged the bottom of the door and kind of… rolled underneath at exit?

As a skydiver who's exited all sorts of planes in all sorts of ways, I would rather take my chances landing with that plane.

--

Edit: on further review, I believe you mean "if the aircraft were equipped with CAPS, I wouldn't mind flying in one" as opposed to "if the aircraft came with a bail-out rig, I wouldn't mind strapping it on". Nevermind :-)
Post is talking about lossy gif->gif conversion. MP4/H264 do the same but get you 10x gains, while maintaining much better quality. One tradeoff is the loss of transparency.

Yes, I assumed everyone here knows about mp4/h264/etc. Nokia also released a more formal container spec using HEIF, that supports transparency (most folks will complain about patent encumbered issues). However it will be a while before browsers support it.
> Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access your device’s camera, microphone, and location, while still allowing trusted websites to use these features

Good. I get so tired of having to click that little [x] on the location prompt.

However it's really just covering up a bigger issue, which is that the permissions prompts in Firefox and Chrome should be redesigned. It would be good if they were designed so that they were still noticeable, but they:

* don't cover part of the webpage

* don't cover other parts of the browser's UI

* and don't take focus away from the webpage
Peloton: The “SaaS Plus a Box” Business Case
Severe Security Advisory on AMD Processors
But why consult reviews when you can rely on anecdotes?
All manufactured goods needs to be produced, and that production invariably requires energy and raw materials.

There is no alternative method of production that requires no energy or resources. Instead, the distinction is made between things that cannot be used without creating harmful emissions (ICE for example) and things that can be used without creating those emissions (like battery power).

But you are correct that it takes energy to "manufacture, ship, assemble, design, test" etc. This is true for literally everything, from pencils to houses to flying cars, and it always has been.
Instead of obtruding modal, there should be just a little icon in address bar notifying that notifications are available, like some browsers used to notify about available RSS feed.
I don't use Mac, so not sure what resolution qualifies as "Retina", but my Dell monitor resolution is 2560 x 1440.
The image/graph you're referencing illustrates "United States total primary energy consumption by fuel in 2015". Total, not electric.

You were discussing production of electricity, which is shown in the table I linked on that page to be 32%.
"By default, Git uses whatever you’ve set as your default text editor via one of the shell environment variables VISUAL or EDITOR, or else falls back to the vi editor" --git config guide https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Confi...
Mountain West Is Experiencing a Second Gold Rush Mining Bitcoin
You're right, looks like Chrome added it last year, only 9 years after Firefox. h264 is efficient to decode but it's always lossy and gif->h264 conversions have the worst of both worlds qualities of h264 video compression artifacts and being limited to a 256 color palette.
UK Government delays new pornography regulation as it works out kinks
Thanks, I knew it doesn't work but I didn't dig down enough to reply to the previous comment.

My use case was to contact Redis and I wasn't able to maintain a connection open.
How to Balance Your Media Diet
I stopped reading at “Those of us who grew up loving Golden Age Simpsons didn’t love it because of the characters... We loved it because it was funny and that was it.”

I got into the simpsons as a kid because it was funny. But I stayed because of the characters and the relationships they have with each other.

That is audience retention 101.

For a more astute analysis, I recommend reading https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/ which comprehensively describes the history surrounding and storycrafting of the Simpsons