skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy Crap that is bloody impressive!.
Ask HN: Advice for a liberal arts grad thinking of going back for STEM degree
Graduated with BA English + BA Philosophy in 2015, did Fulbright, got a job in media, but now considering going back to school to pursue a degree in STEM, most likely ME or aerospace. Is this a waste of time? Any advice from people who've done something similar? Right now I'm working through MOOCs to refresh my math + will probably enroll in some community college classes in the fall to get intro credits out of the way before applying to universities.
How to Make Sense of Cryptocurrency Valuations
I juuuust got off a catch-up call with an old college buddy who works at one of the big wireless companies. He described what I read about here on HN and in some blog posts: The company completely changed its "culture" in a desperate attempt to "attract millennials" (and be on trend). Moved to an open floor plan where nobody has an assigned desk. You literally cannot leave anything overnight or you get some sort of a citation. His words: "I spend my day with a headset covering one ear and my finger in the other ear, as I'm on calls most of the day." He also noted how they computerized the cafeteria so you don't have/get to interact with food workers anymore. "All my sandwiches have too much mayo now and I can't do anything about it."
Having a bunch of people making millions by racing to compute SHA256 collisions is very much extraordinary IMO. Drawing parallels with the server and radio markets is not very convincing.

Furthermore the way mining happens is pretty irrelevant to Bitcoin adoption and maturity at this point. Having a million miners or only 10 doesn't really change much in terms of usability or price volatility.
This is just speculation, but this looks to be in a “coming soon” state. They could be having any number of issues, including scaling, cost reduction, and the macro properties of the fabric may not have lived up to the early promises.
It is about class, and old-boy network, not skin color.
3 Bad Habits to Break on Large React Native Projects
I work for Masergy. We're a cube farm. I love it.

Give me a conservative cube farm over a hipster open office any day.
Indoor Mobile Mapping System with 6D SLAM and photo-realistic point clouds
What's the graphics driver situation like on i.MX6? Is Etnaviv decent?
>Bikes are risky in that sense. Your legs and arms can't mitigate a fall like they usually do.

The way to handle most falls if you can anticipate them is to jump straight up and off the bike.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcCGDr9f1L8
The U.S. has retarded laws.
A Simple Explanation of OOP
Popularity is too ambiguous, current popularity even more so. Any index can be considered a popularity index.

TIOBE is more like a long term impact kind of index. It's good enough if you want to understand familiarity with the language or penetration of the language. If you want to know which languages people hear about currently, check out PYPL index [1]. And of course job market is an index of languages used today. More insight can be extracted from combining metrics, like adoption speed index.

[1] http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
> The teardown photos are hilarious because the motherboard only takes up about 1/6 the internal space. The rest is empty. https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/

As mentioned in that review, the software part seems to be a problem area for Pine. That could also be why it's cheap (because it's mainly the hardware alone that one is paying for). I got the original Pine64 board through the crowdfunding campaign, and I found the distro images provided to be lacking and also not kept updated. I wanted to use it like a headless server/NAS kind of setup with VNC access to run other programs as necessary, but found that a bit too hard to get done. So it's just been gathering dust since then.
My understanding is that First Party Isolation maintains _separate_ caches per first party, but I don't know whether temporary (or multi-account- for that matter) containers also do that. It seems like it would be reasonable for them to do so but I can't find a reference.
for those wondering what's the difference between Facebook Container and Multi-Account containers:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-facebook-container-...
Yup, I have passwords and such in there.
i really don't see the point of developing anything java-related on windows.

then again, I'm probably just being oblivious.
> Turning by leaning only works at all because when you lean it causes the handlebars to countersteer.

That's totaly not my experience.
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Consumption per transaction will go up, actually. Bitcoin's value has to appreciate to accommodate everybody using it as a fiat replacement. And once it goes up, people will add even more energy to mine ever valuable bitcoin.
Working alone at home would be a worse option for me than working in an unfavorable office environment. More like a non-starter than worse. I get that there are people who love the idea of being isolated. But I think there are more who want to be around people instead of alone. And there should be a reasonable option for them, not open plan.
After the scandal, they added an opt-out setting (but on the privacy policy page, where the nominal user will not think to look for it).
Are changes like CSS typed objects a new web standard or Chromium independently making decisions? Can we expect safari/firefox/ie to support this soon or is this only useful if my entire userbase uses chrome?

edit: found the spec https://www.w3.org/TR/css-typed-om-1/ so I think it's reasonable to expect parity from other vendors eventually
I firmly believe that one cannot be a webmaster and ignore how search engines work.
Strong carbon fiber artificial muscles can lift 12,600 times their own weight
To that list I'd like to add documentation,as well as support. I know the cliche "code should be self documenting." But that's rare. Even so key sections should set context.

A free plugin isn't free if you have to slave through the code trying to sort somwthing out.
Generative Design in Minecraft, Settlement Generation Competition (Cornell)
Release of NeoVim 0.3 is immanet
> stupid racing bike with only hand brakes

Or cheap basic road bike.
Not the OP, but what he likely means is some plugins calling home using a unique url tied to the licence, that can then be removed to revoke the ability to use the plugin.
I like the possibility of having tons of high-end GPUs being sold for bargain basement prices on eBay.

One of my never-started projects is to build a big GPU=based cluster shaped like a Cray-2. The original machine had, IIRC, 11 lobes and, therefore, having 11 GPU cards feels right (or 10 and use one lobe for the motherboard controlling everything. A Xeon Phi (if we are going crazy with GPUs, we should go crazy with the motherboard as well) has 36 PICe lanes, so I assume it'd be a fine choice. All this would be immersed in 3M's Novec 649 to keep the bubbly looks.
Bitcoin is the single largest coordination of encryption in history, and this delivers a store of value which cannot be seized. This has incredible value to those who already utilize offshore banking havens and complex legal coordination mechanisms to protect their wealth. Within a growing number of use cases, bitcoin via the lightning network provides access to financial services to the unbanked who are able to also establish their self soverign identity. To those individuals these edge cases are incredibly valuable.
Not yet. Moreover, the head of russian regulatory says this year Facebook probably might be blocked as well if they will not receive all data they need.
I've been learning Clojure and ClojureScript in my spare time. I can honestly say that one thing that would make adoption a lot more wide-spread is a better way to include NPM modules in the project.

I know that there is a new feature for it, but the documentation was a little cryptic. Ended up just adding some CLJSJS dependencies to my project and giving up on using the NPM module I _really_ wanted to use.

In the end, that could be because i'm just lazy, though. I'd love to hear what others think on this topic.
... and ketchup counts as a vegetable in a healthy school lunch. Good luck with those "public 'health' messages".
Yup. There's probably a lot of little such things where the model deviates from reality. Might be a way to exploit the friction in the various hinges, etc. It may be easier to turn on a low-friction surface where the ground friction doesn't overwhelm these effects, etc. Fun to play with, but the end result is still that even if the real world doesn't give us a "truly" unsteerable bike, I am still surprised that this curve between "steerable bike" and "steerable trike" passes near "zero steerability" at all. I would not have guessed that.
>In choosing between learning Haskell or learning 3d programming...

This is a false dichotomy: https://wiki.haskell.org/Game_Development

As the linked response from Rich Hickey pointed out, you can do anything in any (Turing complete) language.

I agree with the notion behind your decision to focus on real results though. I think that is actually closer to the mastery part of the progression from beginner to master. I think when one can deeply realize that programming is just a tool to achieve other things, then one is leaning towards the mastery end of the scale.

That's not a hard rule though, I think part of the problem we all have discussing this sort of thing is that we have a hard time consistently measuring where a person is on that progression.
For an app or service though, sending out newsletters about new features or related articles is pretty common and 3K users isn't that many.
> You should really not cater to recruiters only looking for x years of experience in keywords y and z

Well, I don't think anybody wants to, but after a point, it becomes a sad reality.
I'm with you, I love working from home. I find I'm much more productive and am interrupted less even if that means the occasional cat on keyboard. I sometimes find myself missing being in an office for the camaraderie but I think it's mostly FOMO. It's the same thing as -- excuse the metaphor -- wanting to be in a high-end raiding guild in wow. Once you're in it you kinda wish you werent in a high-end raiding guild in wow.
>Replace "black men from rich families" with "second-generation Italian-Americans from rich families" and you get the same result.

I highly doubt it.

There has been racism against lots of minority groups in the US, but few rise to the hundreds of years long legacy that exists to this day that is racism against African Americans.
Because wilful violation of a patent can make you liable for triple the damages. It's much harder to claim it wasn't wilful if you've read the patent.
If your goal is to maximize your own benefit, then you're not really doing charity, so this comment is rather irrelevant.
Funny behaviors from an open office plan I experienced:

- tribes claiming spaces: there was a couch area where a natural affinity group formed based on common personality types typical of urban/suburban tribal divide. developed an in-group/out-group mentality. a counter group formed in a lunch area.

- posturing: top tech individual contributor used main boardroom for "really important video conference meetings," and it became his de facto office unless you had it booked.

- tragedy of the commons: with no private space other than common spaces, meeting rooms were booked up with standing meetings so that it became impossible to get one when you needed it.

- Callout/performative drama: challenging people would use the availability of earshot to try to draw others into their conflicts. Callout culture, where instead of addressing issues, people would call out others to demand explanations in front of teams, managers, or in main slack channels.

- lack of personal boundaries: technical managers with low charisma routinely embarrassed in open meetings where everyone felt they could table complaints and make others accountable in front of a group, further wrecking morale as result of perceived weak leadership.

Interior design wouldn't solve all these problems, but the aesthetic of a kindergarten or hipster daycare certainly exacerbated them. I may long form this post into something, as the anti-patterns in that org were an effect of its culture, which was expressed by aesthetics rooted in beliefs that would have benefited from more insight.
I'd argue that this is generally useful blog-writing advice, rather than specific to founders.
Created with A.I., 'New' Grimm's Fairy Tale Is Strange but Magical
It'd be easier to compromise an engineer with data they have already gathered than to force Apple to comply with such an order from the top down.

Anarchy is in Apple's DNA, and I have to believe there are still a few of the old guard hanging around that word would get out in such an event.
Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is, that it is not the mining itself which creates the bitcoin, but an arbitrary challenge set up to earn the bitcoins. So by definition, any energy used is completely wasted.
They already supported HTTPS, just not for custom domains.
Can we stop the "bitcoin has no use" game? It might not be the most efficient, it's absolutely not the most scalable in its current state, and it isn't a physical product, but it has value, and it has uses.

Every single thread about bitcoin like clockwork people will say stupid one-liners like "but at least X has value" or "but X is useful" and like clockwork someone will bring up that Bitcoin has use and value, and then the whole discussion will derail into insults and what-ifs on what-ifs.

Bitcoin has value, Bitcoin is useful. You may not think it is that useful, or has that much value, but it has some. Many feel that it's value is a way to transact without trust, others feel its value is a way to store money outside of any single government controlled currency, others find its value is in the pseudonymity that it can provide, others find that being able to put small amounts of data on a globally immutable ledger is immensely valuable, and many people find its value as a way of gambling on the price.
Why did they do it?

Could they charge?

Was it to look like their phones had more reception they they did?

Or just a dumb decision?
In a dev shop social benefits are synonymous to distractions. I don't care to talk to bizops people every time they walk by me. I don't want to hear females stomping on the floor with their heels like fucking mech warriors. I also tend to work in sprints that do not conform to 9-5 work days because DevOps/SRE people are typically coding/R&D during the day, and releasing/unfucking defects at night depending on intrusive maintenance windows. I can do it all from the comfort of wherever I choose and have working internet.

Some days I work from the park, or work from a bar until I'm buzzed and need to go home.

Also the monetary value of not having to spend money on daily transportation, don't need a huge clothing allowance so you have something decent to wear every day so you don't look like a slob, don't have to waste money on food if your employer doesn't feed you and don't have to waste time preparing meals if you don't want to eat out.

If you need that much socializing time you probably don't have enough work to do, or need a hug.
When I worked in academia (working for a high throughout computing research group at a large state university) we all had our own offices. I don't know if individual offices are all that common any more due to space issues at universities, but I think they're almost all shared offices or cubes at worst. I've never seen an open office plan at a University.

I work in healthcare now and share a "large" office with 3 other developers. It feels tight at times, but I still prefer it to the hot-seat style open office that was our other choice.
I wonder if there's a mass download of all these sounds?

I'm just lazy. These are epic!

EDIT: Working on a one liner :)

EDIT: I'm sure it's like some curl and xargs and sed, it's been a while...

EDIT: Oh yeah, I win at internet:

curl http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv | grep -Eow "[0-9]+.wav" | xargs -I % curl http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/%>%

EDIT: Wait I suck that doesn't work. This does:

curl http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv | grep -Eow "[0-9]+.wav" | xargs -I % curl -O http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/%

-O for dOwnlOad
It doesn't work for me with GitHub.

1. https://chat.zulip.org/register/
2. "Sign up with GitHub"
3. "Authorize zulip"
4. Got redirected to "Sign up for Zulip" (https://chat.zulip.org/complete/github/?redirect_state=...)
5. Went to https://chat.zulip.org/ and
6. got redirected to https://chat.zulip.org/login/
7. "Login with GitHub"
8. "Zulip account not found."
Could be a play on the WP coding standard which I believe is generous with spacing and parens :)

Probably not, but it sounds like good spin.
> if you try to turn left by steering left

Well, if you're leaning left when steering left, I don't see how you'll fall to the right
I think most of these companies are missing the exponential increase in value for users. And most seem to bundle a lot of other crap with their network effected product which probably dilutes its value even more.
The Pilot Who Saved That Southwest Flight Is a Badass
Data storage and transfer using human muscle contractions (2018)
Its a social hierarchy thing; its baked into the cake of the architecture of the office.

Something like: We don't care about the message it sends that "concentration workers" are prevented from working by the very architecture of the office yet we support "distraction workers". I guess "concentration workers" are a lower caste at that company and they find it amusing to enforce that value judgement.

It is exactly like making certain races sit in the back of the bus. No matter how many times you claim it doesn't matter or everyone does it and its really trendy, the people subjected to it none the less understand exactly what message it is sending and are insulted. The point of open offices is literally insulting knowledge workers and not caring that they know their noses are being rubbed in it. Sort of an adult version of revenge of the nerds pranks and bullying.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Orders the Throttling of All Stormy Daniels Videos
I believe the gap at the bottom of the door was indeed wider at Microsoft . . .
Heck yeah, I've been dreaming of this for a while. Or really, something that can work on _any_ website you configure it to work on, not just fb.

Or specifically, I'd love one that worked for google search (not neccesarily all google products, which would be hard, but one which let me search without being able to tie me to my other internet use including other google products).
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If this happens to too great an extreme, it’s a major security problem. If at any point there is enough old-and-not-quite-profitable mining hardware around to mount a 50% attack, then a 50% attack becomes reasonably cheap.
Ask HN: How to open a crypto startup in Malta?
Since Malta recently announced a number of bills regulating the emerging blockchain industry: MDIA (Malta Digital Innovation Authority) Bill, Technology Arrangements and Service Providers (TAS) Bill, Virtual Currencies (VC) Bill, We are very keen to start our CRYPTO related startup in Malta.

Do anyone have any idea?
Caloriearm eten dat je snel verzadigd en toch niet dik maakt
Turn off images, visit this site, and see what happens.
Mostly because the end network isn't large enough to attract enough capital to get it over the critical mass.
Yeah, it’s definitely a toss up, but because I can’t/won’t read a patent, but might read a discussion about it, in this case the techjunk article is counterintuitively preferable
I don't think it has so much to do with reCAPTCHA as much as it has to do with Cloudflare and website owners themselves. Most reCAPTCHA challenges come in the form of Cloudflare challenge passage pages. Website owners have 5 options to choose from regarding challenges:[1]

— Essentially off: Challenges only the most grievous offenders

— Low: Challenges only the most threatening visitors

— Medium: Challenges both moderate threat visitors and the most threatening visitors

— High: Challenges all visitors that have exhibited threatening behavior within the last 14 days

— I’m Under Attack!: Should only be used if your website is under a DDoS attack (Visitors will receive an interstitial page while we analyze their traffic and behavior to make sure they are a legitimate human visitor trying to access your website)

I think a lot of companies set it to "High" and forget about it, not realizing that it's ruining the experience for a lot of users.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/a/firewall/ebelinski.com#security...
I see that they fixed the URL. Original URL ended with "npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-XX-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air", I assume because NPR of course knew of his condition and had an obituary prepared and ready-to-go in a celebrity file; they updated the headline but forgot to update the URL.

... Oddly, that makes me smile. I had the privilege and pleasure of volunteering with public broadcasters in my hometown as a kid; it was an amazing bunch of people. Talented, smart, and always finding ways to do more with less and skin-of-their-teeth their way into quality productions (live and pre-taped) with a dozen SNAFUs the public almost never saw. I like to imagine Carl would have smiled to see that error sneak through in his sendoff story.
It's timing dependent. Turning right and momentum 'pushes' your body to the left, but with the correct timing you end up countering that force while keeping the bike absolutely vertical.

PS: Picture how a car turns, the wheels are vertical and you can you can turn without counter steering just fine but the weight externally offset. The difference with a bike / motorcycle is just how difficult it is to balance.
Just because the challenge is arbitrary doesn't mean the effort is wasted.

By that logic all of human sports and entertainment is completely wasted effort/power.
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Reading this article makes me want to speed up on a project where I am migrating an application away from Oracle DB and Forms.
How is it even possible? 2-tier working tables?
We built the internet to be insecure
> Does that actually hold up if defending IP?

Yes. You are subject to triple damages if you read the patent, so it's foolish to read patents unless you have to. It's impossible to read all patents, and patents in almost all cases are useless, so "I didn't read the patent" is the normal case for software developers.

Patents make no sense for software, and should be abolished for software.
It's just another metric for targeted advertising.
How we built a big data platform on AWS for 100 users for under $2 a month
I wish patents/trademark fees were tied to a companies, or individual's income.

A poor guy with a good idea gets a few patents at reduced costs.

A big company should be charged an exponential sum of their gross sales.

For instance, my patent fees, because I'm poor, would be no more than $100.

Facebook would be charged, say three 3 million at this stage in the game.

It just might prevent frivolous patents? Plus, it would level out the playing field for newcommers?

(I looked into patent fees a few years ago, and was shocked over the fees. I contacted the Patent Office, and they were kind. They didn't offer much in discounts. While I'm on my box, I would like to see America tie all fees/fines to income.)
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Bitcoin bandit makes prison break, flees Iceland on PM’s plane
I am primarily a JavaScript developer by trade and I literally didn't know it even originated at Oracle. And I'm sure I'm not alone. The trademark should be invalidated.
The network effects could be on the business user side too. Word, javascript, photoshop, etc. Are you trained in XYZ skill? You need to be to work in this industry.