skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's even less than that. I think the critical element is interest. I think even an average individual can have valuable contributions to a codebase if:
a) the requirements, what needs to be achieved and standards of quality are clear
b) they are interested in contributing.

That's it. I think the bar for software development is pretty low at the time being (but I'm not in the SF area, so maybe my outlook is myopic and limited to the local scene) and you can improve things noticeably if you just... care... and think things through. A feat quite hard in our days. Heck, some days, I can't make myself care,and sometimes I don't feel like pushing and doing things right no matter how much I wish I could. I _know_ I'm capable, I've done it before, had high focus spurts where I did stuff nobody else could. But I simply don't feel in lately. Sometimes it's hard to even push myself to do usefull things, and I'm pretty severe regarding my performance.

So, caring about the end result, in our days, I think, is in pretty short supply. Much shorter than most people think.
Any Early Adopters Willing to Check Us Out?
A quick search on DuckDuckGo for "microsoft bing fpga" turned up the following: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/microsoft-fpga/

(I have not read the article, it just happened to be first result.)
It's good to have a high bar.

But it's dumb to use someone's academic achievements alone to measure whether they meet the bar or not.
Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory
This is for data structures what rpc is for clients
> Books and printed photos have survived so well because...

They've survived so well because there's multiple copies of them. The higher the number of copies, the greater the chances that something will survive.
And we live in an era of contents reproduced millions of times in a fully automated way, without any effort and in negligible time. Even if the constant copy and distribution of material over the internet and in data centers should cease at some point in the future, just think of all the copies of books and movies and pictures that are presently sitting in dusty hard drives inside dead laptops or at the back of some drawer.
Autonomous vehicles could increase U.S. transportation energy consumption
Rural areas are not the problem. People will have to use their cars in rural areas no matter what. But that’s fine - there’s no density there. You don’t see people complaining about traffic in rural areas either. The issue is the cities, and comparing cities in the US to cities in Canada, American cities lag in having good public transit.
I really like Scott Aaronson's writing, but I find that blog post pretty impenetrable.
> But no one is arguing that a particular person was misclassified;

The article claims that each and every particular person that was classified as high risk but didn't commit a new offence was "misidentified as high risk".

The ProPublica article and analysis claim that each and every particular person that was classified as high risk but didn't commit a new offence was "misclassified" and "falsely flagged as a future criminal".
New Social Network Just Launched
That’s exactly the point. Only the biggest companies with large pools of compliance accountants and attorneys will be able to do business.
Important to note: this post follows the announcement yesterday that Bonsai will be acquired by Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/20/microsoft-to-acq...
You, sir, are exhibiting dangerous relativistic tendencies.

It's imperative that this sorry excuse of a country be wiped off the face of the earth
Some browsers allow you to have many profiles. So you can use one profile for banking and e-mail, and another profile when browsing dubious sites.
Ionic 4 Start Theme (GitHub)
Ting is very pro Net Neutrality[1]. They are a MVNO riding on the Sprint and T-Mobile networks.

[1] https://ting.com/blog/net-neutrality-repeal-statement/
Well the whole point was that if u have a problem with what ur friend is doing u should probably have a problem with ur government as a whole probably. Which is prpbably very tiring.
> Beware of casting a float to a boolean

That is a great expression and I'm stealing it!

Sometimes it feels like most of my life is spent trying to teach others to cast booleans to floats. :)
I want a high bar for my team, but a high bar that matters to what the business needs.

I want - passion, compassion, drive, curiosity, etc. That's where principles are always important for a company to show what is important as a high bar to your company. The goal is to hire the best people to accelerate your team not your ego which I think is the point of the article. In other words I agree.
We're looking for early adopters to check out our new platform. It'd be cool if you provided any feedback - positive or negative.

Cheers
Apple Is Figuring Out What's Next
You're onto something interesting there. Another thing is the issue of giving our control of the data to facebook. Sure, I could occasionally download my own archive of personal data and then it could be made available, but what typically happens when something like Facebook is shutting down for good?

I assume all data would be deleted, unless something like one of those 'crusader' archive teams helped back up everything before it went down, however here it seems unlikely to happen because I doubt everyone's data could be given to an archive team for privacy reasons. It's an interesting problem.
This is going to drive so much business OUT of states with these taxes.
Maybe this isn't targeting new users, then.

His preferences supersede your sensibilities since its his website, don't you think?
Do you have any sort of proof that this happens on any sort of statistically significant basis? It appears most of the people in this country live in urban places and that this has been an upward trend for a long time...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
> I also would fully fund grad student tuition, room, and board, with somewhat adjusted numbers depending on the program.

This already happens for PhD students.
The problem with Python is the default is untyped. I want gradual static typing for the code I write but that should be on top of a base of already well typed libraries. It's one reason I like Groovy - it's a language that lets you optionally and incrementally type
your code, but it sits within an ecosystem of mostly statically typed languages so you aren't fighting a massive legacy of culture and code that just doesn't care about declaring types.
Is there a reason for the recent china bashing? Seemingly every article about china is finding some new way to criticise it.
If someone does not have any domain knowledge they default to looking for: A) an authority or B) a demonstration/display.

authority = school, newspaper, official, parent, etc...

demonstration = performance, app, book, video, etc...
I've never understood the point of this

Because the point is about economics, not aesthetics or utility. There are many homeowner NIMBYs in the United States, who work hard to protect the value of their houses by limiting the growth of the housing supply: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8109437/how-nimbyism-is-holdin....

One commonly-cited specious argument is regarding "neighborhood character" and the supposed ugliness or sterility of modern buildings. So facadism is a way of addressing that argument. The argument itself is somewhat bogus. So we get a bogus solution to a bogus argument.

The logical thing to do is let landowners build what they want to on their land: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-.... If an owner wants to build a bunch of new housing or offices, great.
While this may be true, I'd like to see some unrented apartments in major cities that can't be filled before we decry this solution. Rents have been skyrocketing - so it appears there's a lot of people who WOULD like this trade, but can't do it.
"JSON didn't exist because Us and We"?

YAML is an invented serialization format, JSON is a discovered one. As CrOCKford points out, JSON existed as long as JS existed, he just called it out and put a name on it.

Anyway, XML is a strong anti-pattern (too much security, even if you get it right on your end, the other party likely screwed something up). YAML seems to be going down that path too.

TOML seems to be "the JSON of *.ini" (ie: discovering old conventions, rather than inventing new ones), and I'm glad to have been exposed to it.
Do you think may candidates would accept such a blatant bait and switch?

>dropped the offer salary for a new candidate
What if they just standardised on say 10 form factors for reusable bottles? Just replace the label and you can refill it at the factory.
You have the wrong attitude here. Twice, actually.

The fact that you haven't found a good way to get Google to fix things for you isn't an excuse to just charge forward with the best way that you have found.

Suppose you're stuck in traffic. The most effective way to move forward might really be to just lay on your horn. The people in front of you will probably eventually yield (most just eager to put distance between themselves & you, others generously assuming that you have some kind of emergency). That doesn't make it okay for you to do that.

The second time you had the wrong attitude is when you demanded that people teach you a better way. Maybe somebody on HN will generously extend that favor to you, but if they do then realize that they've done you a favor -- they didn't owe it to you.
WinUAE 4.0.0 (20.06.2018) released
>For example, the 50 starting players who entered this year’s North American League of Legends Championship Series were guaranteed a minimum salary of $75,000, with the average player earning about $320,000.

I don't buy it. Where the money is coming from? Tournament prizes? Ok, and where is THAT coming from? Game developers and publishing companies?

How can there be an ROI if the top 50 league of legends players make that money in just the North American event? Something seems off if sixteen million dollars can be dropped as just prize money for just 50 players. I'm guessing they didn't generate sixteen million in new sales for a 2011 game...
Ask HN: What stack to migrate
Currently I’m working at a growing Startup where we use Ruby on rails as the main stack for huge monolithic app, even the front-end is server side rendering.
We are thinking adding new features, front-end will probably be React communicating with new API. We are still deciding about the best approach to add this feature and try to split this feature and future features from the monolithic part while keep sharing data and communication.

Also we are discussing about using another language other than Ruby, some co-workers suggested Elixir (with Phoenix), personally I would like to go with Go ...

Any advices on how to add new features to big monolithic app ?!, any tech/stack/lang/framework you recommend ?!, any experiences to share ?
Unity ECS principles and vision
That’s disgusting. It also feels a little bit sabotage-y, especially as you need the help.

I’d be questioning why I still want to work for a company/people who would make those kinds of decisions...
At least if you tear them down you can still preserve the original facade and try again :)
No agreements have been made.
Do you know what you are talking about?

I am far from an expert, but here in germany glas gets recycled in 3 bins, brown, green, white - and get usually smashed by people throwing those bottles in.
So not much air.
And cleaned they still can get (and should)
> The trouble is - that historical data is the data so far as we know.

The trouble is, that the XKCD cartoon is not the data. It is a picture representation of some data. It still falls under the category of "meta" report. This is, of course, as the GP pointed out, "fine", but it does not subsitute for the data itself, nor for the methodology (which is discussed elsewhere in the thread.

> I don't see anyone claiming the historical data is incorrect or fabricated

I don't personally know enough about the topic to know if that's true, but, given the history of (arguably manufactured) controversy around the topic, nothing would surprise me.

Regardless, even as recently as 1,000 years ago, we would not have had reliable, direct temperature measurement across the globe.

That means that all but a minute portion of the time period covered by the referenced picture uses synthesized temperature data. Despite being potentially synonymous, I recognize that's not the same as frabricated. However, it does make the methodology that much more important.

The data (raw and synthesized) also have other characteristics significant to their eventual interpretation/analysis, besides correctness (or certainty), such as sample frequency. (The concept of overfitted models, for example, was recently discussed on HN).

> unless there's a really good reason to doubt it, we should accept it.

I posit this stance is incompatible with the scientific method and has contributed to the "reproducibility crisis" in modern science.

Although I certainly agree that attempting to reproduce (i.e. gather) raw data should be left as a last resort, I don't feel even it deserves any special treatment.

Sadly, the raw data is generally simply not publically available (for science in general, no ideal about climate, specifically).

To me, that's the difference between science and religion, with the former, it's actually helpful to "doubt" (i.e. skeptically verify) even if you "believe" (in the conclusion and how it was reached).
GitHub Coders to Microsoft: Cut Ties with ICE or We'll Move Our Projects
Could you provide an explanation for your proposal? Why the west wing? Why repeat the episode? What is it about Sorkin's dialog that drew you in?
My resumes usually don't say "References provided upon request", because if the company wants them, they'll ask me anyways.

I'm the same as you with colleagues, btw. I don't really burn bridges... but I do have trouble propping them up. I would just contact them anyways. I have done this with people I worked with 7 years ago and they could still reply with an "okay" for a reference.
Rocket is fast and high quality. I’ve gotten impressive latency numbers in my benchmarks. http://rocket.rs/
Ha ha, see my comment, currently right above yours:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368895

I'm a native English speaker but I've had enough education in French that I really miss the cedille, and find it distracting that it's not there. Likewise with the accents aigus on résumé. Without them, some part of my brain always reads it as resume (i.e. rə ZOOM). But in the latter case, I wouldn't actually do it, because in America at least, it seems to really call attention to itself and mark you as someone trying to signal "Oh look you heathens and plebes how European and cultured I am!" Whereas the ç, I feel like you kind of need it, and I would use it if I were the one writing façade or façadism.
The market might not be fit to decide what education is worthwhile, but it will certainly figure out what degrees are lucrative.

It would be nice if we could all go to college to chase our childhood dreams, but the reality is that most of us need to prepare to support ourselves and, someday, a family. That's why I'm a software engineer and not a novelist, and that's why I got a CS degree and not a BFA in English.

Are the humanities "worthwhile?" Certainly. But should the average person drop $100,000 on a humanities degree? Absolutely not. And the fact that we're willing to bury children under that kind of debt so that they can get a Master's in French Opera or whatever is a crime.
Maybe these guys are related to the offering? https://www.mobitv.com
How did catalogue/mail-order retailers handle this (presumably in business since before the Internet)?
Digital data is actually more sensitive and difficult to preserve than analog data. Data rot is a thing and there’s no storage available that’s as durable as plain paper. There are books that have survived a millennium or more, yet my CDs from 15 years ago no longer work and the CD is almost dead.

That we can keep our data stored on Dropbox for a couple of years is nothing when you zoom out to millennia.
That's probably because "doing it right" is expensive.

There should be an 'express' bypass (which actually does this) that hops only among key points (such as the airport to a downtown hub, and maybe the next hub out on the other side).

There should also be /frequent/ service - which probably means you need fully automated routes (it might be best to move the humans to supervising the actual concourses, where human interactions are highest). I also like the idea of a couple days of subservience that's automatically deleted if not expressly copied out for legal proceedings.

Finally, everything should be enclosed and on it's own isolated layer. Subways sound great, above-surface enclosures might work too.

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Why enclosed? Security, noise abatement, weather isolation. The middle point lets you run the trains faster and with less disruption.
Have you ever seen the ship-breaking in Bangladesh? It'll all likely go there with absolutely catastrophic consequences.
I am curious though: how many people hosting projects at GitHub were totally fine with Microsoft buying GitHub but now that the news of working with ICE has come out THAT is a reason to move elsewhere?
Agreed. Watching the video, I don't see a single surface that looks like it meets the NSF code for handling.

There's a reason most kitchens are full of stainless steel with smooth edges and nothing that can capture soil.

There's wood in this appliance.
I'd be interested to see evidence of that. It seems to me that there is a clear downward trend in building aesthetics, i.e. that it's not just a case of "no one likes new things until they are old." To stay on the subject of train stations, I don't think anyone has built a building as beautiful as, say, Saint Pancras in London or Gare de Lyon in Paris in many decades.
> It's easy to compromise and take public transit instead of a car when the public transit saves you time.

I don't get this at all. Between parking and traffic I almost always save time by taking the bus or riding a bike for trips less than 5 miles long.
I believe the Pantheon's floor is still the original - it's my favorite building in the world.
Uf da, that's still some good speedups.

BTW as a happy daily user of rg thanks for all the work you put into it, definitely shows.
Ah yes, the "Just following orders" defense
But in an Airbnb, not only can I sue, but someone will go to jail. https://nypost.com/2017/12/04/people-keep-finding-hidden-cam...
By monkeys I meant literal monkeys, animations and videos and games and generally “frivolous” features.
Introducing SteamVR Skeletal Input
Every survey of whom? Did it include people married for over 40 years? Most of the "surveys" you find are conclusion-driven to target an audience for an article, something like "how are people finding their SO's today"?

It's going to be hard to come to consensus on a number because it changes over time. Are we talking about all married people today, people of a certain demographic (18-34, etc)? During what period?

My source for the ~50% number is "common knowledge in the 80's and 90's". Anything you find by googling right now is going to have definitional problems. I'm not aware of something like a US Census that would be definitive.
> But even seasoned students of Civil War politics and history will likely be impressed by the range of attacks on the president. And, lest we think our own age has a monopoly on partisan nastiness

This is true, and something personal I discovered when reading about Lincoln. He was despised by a lot of people, but truly it was a sign he was far ahead in his thinking.

Now he’s probably one of the most universally loved presidents, a unifying feature I think he would be proud to be known for.
This ruling overturned previous rulings that allowed mail-order businesses to avoid collecting sales tax outside of their state.
Like it or not, economy needs ads.
We've been waiting for Keybase, it doesn't mean we've been waiting with no solution meanwhile. We want to use Keybase because many of its other features.
It's not only increased performance. Since you can precompute a dictionary with zstd, you'll (most likely) get much better compression. Or you can at least stick to smaller block sizes.
Lenovo Yoga 730 15"
Yeah no kidding. How can something about humor be so dry?
I mean, Microsoft is not a charity so if they deem okay to do business with ICE, good for them. And if it is so shocking to X, Y, or Z (the signees and others), then they should totally move elsewhere.

Threatening a company is a good weapon for consumers but leaving the company to go elsewhere would be a tad more impactful.
Buy this business and earn $600 per month
Well, it has been for me, so far. But then, it's my main hobby these days, and I take extreme care.

If you're interested, I explore that and related issues in one of my series on the IVPN website.[0] There's also an old guide on nesting VPNs and Tor with VMs.[1] And a tribute to Kevin Mitnick, featuring onion SSH hosts for chaining.[2]

The tl;dr is that compartmentalization is the key. At all levels. At physical levels such as hosts and VMs, LANs and vLANs, and uplinks and proxy chains. And at behavioral levels, such as interests, forums and social media, projects, and language and writing style.

Mirimir is my only main persona that writes about privacy issues. He has temporarily had a few secondary personas for particular projects, just for casual deniability. But none of my other personas have written at length in English.

0) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-o...

1) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/advanced-privacy-and-ano...

2) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/onion-ssh-hosts-for-logi...
> I will always wish that Python weren't the lingua franca of sorts for machine learning.

Absolutely ... I feel like the ML world is caught in a strong local minima with Python: it gets people on board due to the exploratory ease, but then the effort of learning a different system once they already understand things in that ecosystem is just too great. Unfortunately it is highly suboptimal for writing highly structured, complex code.

You should have a look at DL4J and ND4J if these things frustrate you. Particularly with a dynamic JVM language like Groovy they give you something close to the best of both worlds.
I mean, do you have a landing page explaining what it is that people would be joining?
What would keep someone from getting an economically valuable degree, declaring bankruptcy on graduating, and then just waiting until that had expired from their credit record?
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

I've also played Duelyst, which is a hybrid card and board game. I like it, but I wish they would release it for mobile already. I'd usually pick another game if I'm sitting at a PC.
Agree lots of people here are overly sensational. In the most basic terms it simply consists of getting somethig like avalara, configuring it correcrtly and then avalara does the rest. No different than setting up quickbooks. Yet people here make it sound like it is the end of the world.

Truth be told most here are just mad that their online sales tax loophole is getting closed.
Bingo. This is precisely how big companies leverage big government to prevent challenges from threatening their business model. Amazon is investing its money into lobbying for "Main-street Fairness" ... https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-amazon-lobbying-idUSL1N1...
Your "should" would be different than mine. It's what you want to make of this life.

Jim Carrey had a good quote on this:

"You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love"

This was after he saw his dad lose his accounting job.
A demonstration is often a very very good indicator even if you have a lot of domain knowledge. When a candidate shows me something they've built I can gain a lot of perspective into how they think and work by asking questions about it.