skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And his "Build Living Neighborhoods" site: http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm
The thing is, they need that data in order to do their business. Lenders need some way of predicting whether or not you will be able to pay back your loan
Blocking ingress traffic to Docker swarm worker machines
Pretty much identical to Shakespeare & Co in Paris. I lived above the shop for about 3 months in exchange for working at the shop. Pretty amazing time.
There is still the time loss. Private vehicles usually save time and have maximum schedule flexibility. Bicycles a scooters could help with the last mile, if they can be managed well.

Of course everyone has different thresholds. But I'd guess most people work hard to earn enough for their own time saving luxuries, even if the external costs will hurt their children later in life.
Shitty generics are a big problem and the FDA doesn't really care.

I reject specific manufacturers from my CVS and get trusted manufacturers all the time.

Hard to do these days though. Teva is killing off a bunch of generics, Puerto Rico still a mess, weird shortages of common meds, etc. Sometimes I spend an entire day going around the city trying to find the specific generic which I'm used to. And then only get partial fills, etc.
We went from 1 engineer (me) to 4 last year. So I'm in the 2-10 stage. I coded prototype and first X customers, which has become literally 20X in the past year. I still code most of the time, and the primary problem I am encountering is being willing to transition technically difficult aspects of the product. This has to happen, as I am finding myself becoming a huge bottleneck.
The fact that kids walking to school is surprising really highlights the difference. Growing up in the UK, people who got driven to school were the odd ones (depending somewhat on the area).
Content Snare: Leaving a job to build a SaaS business
Farms and businesses don’t report actual sales, earnings, probably even employees

Sure they do, and since capital controls were enforced it's even harder for businesses to evade taxes because usage of plastic money has increased a lot. The largest percentage of tax evading in Greece comes from self-employed people and not from businesses.
All modern gpus support f16.
High earners in the US almost certainly have high quality health insurance available through their business which exceeds the quality of the default+private healthcare you get in Germany.
I'm starting to think that the problem is Facebook sets the importance of politics much, much higher than the users of Facebook. It really seems like the folks doing the programming are political animals, and most of us are more concerned with the personal connections we have made. I think they are really bad at understanding our circle of people we deal with and are using a variety of factors that just aren't as important to us.
The reason why your advice is not as useful as you think is because chances are, if you google around, most of that lesson would be already out there. Don't take this the wrong way I mean no offense. I'm sure you've learned a lot of lessons and I'm sure they're all valuable lessons, just saying most of what I read online nowadays are basically rehash of what these failed entrepreneurs heard from someone else, who probably heard it from some other successful person.

My point was "why listen to failures when you can listen to people who've both failed AND succeeded, especially when most of what the former would say is a rehash of what the latter said?" Think about it. I've thought about this myself as a once-failed-entrepreneur, and come to a realization that until you actually have succeeded in life and gained enough confidence to be able to think independently AND have the confidence to share your lesson you came to independently, most of what you think you understand are basically what you heard from other more successful people. You may think otherwise, but if you think deeper, that's what you're doing.

There's nothing wrong with this on its own, but the problem is that most of the articles I'm referring to actually mislead other people into believing in some seriously wrong interpretations of why they failed, and they all stem from the fact that these people have no idea why they failed but just try to come up with their own "theory" of why they failed with their limited knowledge. There are many reasons why people fail at something. Some people make all the bad decisions yet still succeed because they made one small decision that made a huge difference. Some people make all the right decisions yet fail because they made one small decision that messed it all up. Without this COMPLETE context, your advice is not complete because it's just small tidbits that may or may not work. If this comes from someone who has succeeded at least once, you at least know this is something that has happened. But if you follow "advice" from people who have only failed, then what are you really believing?
Heh, I agree that is rather a stretch. There is no harm in repeating the whole thing. And if they misheard the "last 4" there is a chance they misheard the first few as well.
And the US Marshall Plan from which Portugal and Spain did not directly benefit.
If history is a judge, this is something with which Harlan Ellison is not happy.
Microsoft is a heavy user of git internally (e.g. Windows is now developed in a git repo) and though they do also have their own source control as part of VSTS they've also had first class support for git there for a while too so it isn't really that surprising.
Saturn Moon Enceladus Is First Alien 'Water World' with Complex Organics
This is a sort of MVP test of the rose-tinted small business dreams we all hold in our hearts. Obviously I'm not the only one who's walked into a musty bookstore and said, "this is nice, maybe it could be me," or wandered into a quaint pub and thought, "maybe I could own a place like this." How great to be able try it out for a few days and instead wistfully proclaim, "I should keep my day job."
I think you are making a few assumptions that don't hold anymore based on your own CS education (I'm obviously making an assumption there...). I got my CS degree in 98 and there was a strong emphasis on C, C++, algorithms, and systems programming at the time because that's where the jobs were. We only had a cursory overview of other programming languages and paradigms, and no assembly - there were no jobs there. Scripting languages were for unwashed systems administrators, and no real programmer would touch them. Functional programming was a weird little academic thing with no future. OO was "if it is a noun make it a class".

There was a fairly good chance you would end up needing to write your own data structures, algorithms, sockets code and come up with a network protocol. You would run compilers, linkers, etc. Basically systems programming lined up with the job market.

Naturally after that I thought that was the "proper" way to teach CS. It worked for me. I got a jobs doing things I learned.

20 years later, I literally haven't run a compiler in years. I use libraries for data structures. I don't need to worry about allocating memory, billion dollar industries run on scripting languages. People are passing functions to functions that return functions like that's how it's always been.

I guess my point is "generalist" education needs to evolve with the industry. That means spending less time on low level details so you can spend more time on the tools, techniques and concepts used today. It isn't a "dumbing down" - it is changing the mix. You can only do so much in 4 years. What was "generalist" 20 years ago is "specialist" today, and it should be.
> In the UK you could afford a car on minimum wage.

Parent said easily afford, not afford.
Ask HN: What should Product Managers spend most of their time doing?
I'm a new Product Manager at a FinTech and spend most of my time either writing process documents or putting together models in Excel. I feel more like a Business Analyst, but was wondering what PMs out there spend most of their time on? Or if you employ a PM, what is the most valuable work they do for you?
That depends a lot on the implementation of the database and the communication protocol. In our case, that made no difference
Yup. Insurance companies like to pretend all generics are the same, but they are not. Getting them to pay for the brand because all of a sudden your pharmacy switches generic brands is almost impossible.
Please include in the title a very brief description of who this person was. Leaving it out pretentiously implies that if one doesn’t already know who the person is then they don’t belong on HN.
It's not so much fact checking as just not understanding data, and as a result ask the right questions and then gather more data.

Imho stuff like this doesn't even qualify as journalism, and shouldn't been such credit even to discredit it.
I disagree. I think a lot of people not familiar with the term micro aggression think it’s all stupid. But I have been feeling as though I understand better what people mean when they use the term micro aggression. They’re talking about people being rude, inconsiderate, or mean and not even realizing it. And the term micro aggression is used to communicate that they feel uncomfortable and they want the other to recognize that and change their behavior.

I think if someone is making you feel uncomfortable you have every right to tell them. Now if they decide not to change that’s up to them, and you two may choose not to have a relationship moving forward, but it’s okay to share how you feel and ask for change.

However some people decide they are the victim of aggression and they then yell at the other person, and that’s obviously absurd. If you don’t want people to be aggressive at you, don’t be aggressive at them.

But what you’re proposing is that, when someone is feeling uncomfortable, we should make them more uncomfortable. I think that’s shitty behavior and I don’t believe it is helpful. Do you?
For cash flow purposes, a charge card lets you smooth out disbursements out of your bank account to one single point in time (your payment due date). Predictability is useful when managing finances in general, and ostensibly more so when running a small business. You also get fraud protection, which is certainly helpful.
GNAA? Seriously? They were old news when I was active on Wikipedia and that's over 12 years ago.
I reboot once a month, never have an issue.

I do research the laptop that I buy though, but can't think of anything else, except my laptops are about 1000€, not 500 :)
I met him once, when I was a student at RPI, around 1980 (I don't remember exactly which year he visited). He was full of fire and anger, and told great stories. I only wish I had been smart enough then to seize some of his passion and irreverence and make it my own.
So who is going to register f*kdcoin.com :-)

(its a dot com joke)
What do you mean? Also I haven’t noticed a tech board on 4chan...
Oh, you mean like

1) Skype: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/17/12951996/skype-london-off...

2) Nokia: cruelly killed-off for no particular reason.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/install-gentoo
I'm not sure if you or albertzeyer asked first, but what I meant by that is that MATLAB is similar to any other C-like language, except uses the vector as its primitive instead of something like integer or float. That's really all there is to it. Other than a few details about notation, every major concept of MATLAB stems from that and is easily understood and predictable. MATLAB (or non-proprietary analogs like GNU Octave) let you write C-like code and then its runtime deals with architecture and optimization details internally (so there are no limitations on vector size or number of samplers or anything like that).

Whereas things like TensorFlow, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL etc seem to deal more with DSP processing of buffer(s). They all have their own abstractions and lingo which work extremely well for certain use cases, kind of like domain-specific languages (DSLs).

The end result is that it's trivial (at least in theory) to go from a TensorFlow implementation to a MATLAB implementation. But it's very difficult to go the other direction. Another way to think of this is that any solution written in TensorFlow can be run by MATLAB, but the reverse is not necessarily true. Trying to run MATLAB code within TensorFlow might encounter hardware limitations or other restrictions that makes the code run thousands of times slower.

Now I could be wrong about this - maybe they truly are equivalent. But until I'm able to transpile MATLAB code directly to TensorFlow or OpenCL or whatever and have it be performant, I'm going to continue working under this assumption.
Congrats on the success! Yes definitely replace yourself sooner than later or you will regret it when you're dealing with company stuff and you need to fix a bug at the same time!
> "X isn't about Y" is almost always false: rather it should be "X isn't (only|mostly) about Y".

That's literally almost the first sentence of the article:

> When I say “X is not about Y,” I mean that while Y is the function commonly said to drive most X behavior, in fact some other function Z drives X behavior more.
Like so many things, it's useful to roll your own, not so you can use it, but so you can understand the complexities and trade-offs inherent in the problem space.

I've written a few ORMs before, and I can do it with fairly succinct and concise codenquickly if needed. I still reach for the full ORM from the beginning, because swapping out layer is painful, and you always want to do it sooner than later.
California data privacy bill heads to Gov. Jerry Brown
Who is opal?
Hacking noise cancelling techniques for interactive audio
I wasn't sure who was first, so see my reply to bmer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420821
If you manage to develop a drone swarm system that drops things, the last thing it will be used for is fighting fires.

I'm waiting for someone to develop drones that swarm like starlings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY). You could take down an entire battlegroup with a couple thousand suicide drones.
> I wonder if some drone system that flies swarms of drones and drops nitrogen pellets that suck out oxygen could fight fires.

You'd need way too much nitrogen for this. Basically it would heat up and change into gas form seconds after the pellet is anywhere near the fire. Fires, especially large ones, create massive amounts of hot air.
Also https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/protonmail-dd...

CTO Bart Butler responded to Apophis Squad on Twitter:

> We're back you clowns.

So they came back. All day, today. Harder. I'd say that they've made their point.
4chan has many boards, including /g/, the technology board. Sarcastically (and sometimes non-sarcastically) recommending new users to install Gentoo is a longstanding tradition on the board, alongside other gentoo-related memes. For instance: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Main_Page

I sincerely hope 4chan users aren't responsible for this, though.
I miss you guys a lot. Where on irc are you now? d2j
Cloning Dark Mode List Using React Native and AWS AppSync
> As someone who's not deep into AV1, but watching interested from outside, I can say that communication is not ideal.

That former announcement was PR/Marketing only. The devs (all the ones I saw) didn't know it was coming.

Yes, the bitstream is frozen. I can't find an HTML version for some reason, but this page links to the finalized 1.0 version of the spec: https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/
Famous IRC artist.
Because Valley culture has promoted that people basically work and live in the same place, actually being professional means missing out on a necessary component for progressing within organizations.

As these companies grow and populations become less homogenous and there's a higher certainty of meeting immature people or people with non-mainstream ideas, the probability of conflict increases.

Honestly, I'm glad that these companies are realizing that part of being a professional adult means knowing when's the right time to keep distance between your personal views and your job. It's also a big barrier that prevents diversity.
> not just for absolute correctness, but perhaps even for consistency with past versions (a novel concept)

Sorry, can you explain what you mean by this further?
I think AP is super cool, what are those instagram-likes?
Lib Dems are the most pro-business of all political parties. They are basically Europe's 'Libertarians' or 'Classical Liberals'.

They are ideologically for 'freedom', but pragmatically they are the party of business.

The EU is, at least on the books 'good for business'. Open borders, free trade, free movement of people and labour - it's all theoretically very good for business.

Lib Dems tend to be leftish on the social front, i.e. things like gay marriage because it's mostly a freedom/personal issue.

They tend to have an educated, business oriented backing, and are inherently globalist.
The Weird, Ever-Evolving Story of Your DNA
It's possible that the poster above isn't talking about legal precedents and instead talking about practical precedents. After spending about a month building a GDPR consent tool and now seeing many other "compliance" efforts on various sits around the web, it's become clear to me that most businesses are taking a wait-and-see approach.

They're doing the minimum necessary to claim they tried to comply while changing absolutely nothing about the way they do business. They're waiting to see how serious enforcement of the law is before making changes that negatively impact their business. It's not about whether they'd lose in court or have a regulatory judgment against them, it's about the likelihood that non-compliance will get them in trouble.

If EU regulators show a willingness to do the legwork to fine smaller companies, you'll start to see a lot of these site become much more compliant. But those companies are not going to spend all that time and money proactively only to see that the EU doesn't have the teeth to enforce the rules, so they need practical precedents of companies being hit with huge non-compliance fines to scare them into making the necessary changes.
The La Reconquista?
Wow, the amount facebook knows about me is staggering little.

The four groups I’m in are
all related to using a mobile device or wi-fi.

I’m pleasantly surprised but it appears deleting all of my content, unfollowing every person on my feed, not logging in except on incognito windows and very infrequently at best, and using ad blockers has effectively stymied facebook’s ability to establish a good notion of who I am beyond the most extreme basics.

I still use messenger although I try to use encrypted messages when I can, but they don’t mine that for advertising information according to their user policy. Not sure if they mine it for anything else.

Either way, good.
Probably More Than You Ever Wanted to Know: Manipulating Flat Arrays in JS
The EU has a budget about the size of the Romanian one, a country with a GDP of €200bn. Their budget is minuscule by country standards.
Something that is safe at 60mph is not really a bike anymore.
California Unanimously Passes Historic Privacy Bill
The situation with Spain is quite interesting.

Usually engineers aren't that well regarded in Spain, people tend to aim to get into management.

Other than that, salaries are pretty low and work culture is quite intense at most places, with people usually working ~10 hours a day. This is aided by the general lack of options in the market and a quite high degree of conformity which is a byproduct of the rigid educational system in Spain and which most graduates are embued with.

Innovation, aside from a couple startups is lacking as most of the ecosystem is made of big consulting companies which have agreed to set cap on salaries to protect their shrinking margins resulting from years of cranking poor code by replaceable coders working in bad conditions.

However, things are getting better with the arrival of some international companies like Xing or local successes like Cabify.

Spain is a really attractive place for high tech, with most of the Mediterranean coast boasting Californian climate with Richmond house prices, great cuisine, high level of services comparable to Northern Europe and quite open culture. So it's logically pretty undervalued in my eyes.
Doesn't the person on the other end of the short sue Amazon for having insider information material to the value of CVS+Walgreens? Or if not "insider trading", then "market manipulation"?
How do define success? I get there are a lot of clueless Dunning-Kruger cases writing Medium posts who are so far from competence that their ideas are worthless to anyone else, but those cases are straw men. What about the people who have some modest success but haven’t created a household name? There’s a lot more of those out there and yet they seem to get less credibility than some middle manager at Google who really had nothing to do with their success but just still gets to ride the coat tails of their success.
The History of the Secret NSA-AT&T Buildings Across the Country
Infinite scrolls are some time exhausting, because there is never an end ...

Pagination is good because you know how many pages do you have ...

Maybe what is needed is a very good search engine!
Take some time and play around with these commands and read about them. They’re great... there’s nothing “fancy” or “advanced” about them. They just help you express your thoughts with Git more and better than if you don’t use them. Trust me, no one wants to read your free form Git history.
They nabbed one of mine too, lol.
It has nothing like the django admin and no forms handling is built into it. Creating a project from scratch is a bit cumbersome (like flask), but good cookiecutters exist (e.g. the pyramid-sqlalchemy one).
Wow! What an extraordinarily unhelpful and bad attitude you have
Seed Factory: scalable and self-replicating manufacturing systems
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
> it refuses to be installed as root so it refuses to run in containers

Not sure what you are speaking about. I'm using opam as root in containers everyday. It prints a warning, but apart from that works OK.
What version are you using?
Sure thing. Going from relative to absolute took my startup time down from holy crap to a couple of seconds and eliminated a bunch of pause/stutter after code changes, especially with large files. Started right when I moved to Fira Code, and took me forever to find the footnote in a random GH issue (think in the IdeaVIM repo, but might have been the Nerd Fonts repo) that mentioned the behavior.
Being able to store 2 weeks of groceries in the fridge is a feature for people with > 2 children. It's not a bug.
yeah you don't want opal on your IRC network
"Sold & shipped by Zoro"

https://www.walmart.com/reviews/seller/1122?offerId=B80929A4...
An MD is a medical degree. It's possible to have an MD but not practice medicine professionally in the same way someone can earn a law degree (a JD) but choose to not be a practicing lawyer. "Professor" is a academic title for people at a university or advanced teaching institution. Most professors do have terminal degrees in their respective fields like PhDs, MDs, or JDs, so you could also call a Professor with a PhD "Dr. X" instead of "Prof. X". But, "Professor" is generally considered a more prestigious title since its much rarer and harder to get a professorship than get an advanced degree.
I think after he did that boob grab in public the latter wasn't too far off.
Ah I got the original (12 coins, one is lighter or heavier) mixed up with 3 coins (one is lighter).
Because God forbid that us Europeans would actually want a law like this, it’s just the Bruxelles bureaucrats that are pushing an anti-US agenda.

I’m being ironic, a decent chunk of Europeans want this (I’d say a majority but I don’t have hard numbers).