skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Island became a magnet for the practice once miners figured out that the place is very cold and that electricity there -- geothermal and hydropower -- costs a lot less ...

This is the next big frontier in data center advancement, imo -- submerged/frigid data center installations. Microsoft's already been playing around with a submersible data center under a project codenamed 'Natick,' while piggybacking off of its extreme portability and flexibility in terms of resources toward R&D, and it's just getting started. Google has already announced plans to do the same. [1]

It also makes sense from a scale/growth standpoint as 50% of earth's population lives within 2 hour drive from their respective coastlines. [2]

[0] https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
[1] https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/02/microsoft-cloud-ocean-p...
[2] http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/18/how-many-people...
> Let's people check test too often and allows them to stop the test when it hits a good result

I admit to attempting to be guilty of this in the past and being stopped by our analytics team (in the sense that they took the time to patiently explain to me why what I was doing was statistically unsound). It's not obvious, IMO.
You used to be able to book rides without leaving the Maps app, now it launches the Uber app as it always has with Lyft
Modern C++ for C Programmers – Part 3
Why are people saying "this is obvious"? I'm a gmail user and I don't find it obvious. I just checked and I've never granted third-party access, but I would have make the mistaken assumption that Google would never allow an app to request permission to read my email.

They were very clear when they introduced ads based on your email that only a machine would read it. But by opening up access to third parties, they can no longer guarantee that. So this betrays their users and the expectations they have encouraged.

It would have been so easy for me to click through a permissions request, as I would have assumed any permissions were pretty weak - use OAUTH to log in, maybe get my gender or age etc.

If you've had cause to use some app that relies on email analysis then maybe you knew about this, but I'm guessing the vast majority of gmail users are like me, and have no idea an app could request the permission to read their email, and thus provide access to employees at third parties.

The fact that this is being downplayed is disappointing, because it's not dissimilar to Facebook's behaviour in allowing third parties to read messages.

I thought Google were different; I was wrong.

Guess that switch to iCloud mail I was thinking about is now a priority.
I was able to order my ThinkPad without a camera or a microphone and I saved $35.
Was interested to read, tnx. I'm fond of space exploration, hope it the next few decates we'll get more info about our Universe. I like to watch live webcame from Internationa Space Station here https://worldcams.tv/other/international-space-station with amazing views from space. There is the ISS Tracker which gives info about the current location of the ISS.
The Role of Resources in Data Analysis
HTTPS Is Easy
Single best feature: It's not an Electron app.
Is this effectively brainwashing?
Exactly. Or drastically changes their pricing model (see: Contentful).

I understand the benefits of all of these individual services, but I also miss the days of the only service I had to worry about when I handed off a client site was hosting.

Now it's often the headless CMS hosting (i.e. Contentful, GraphCMS), actual hosting (Netlify), CDN, Image CDN, Search (i.e. Algolia). So many places for things to break. So many separate charges.

I also love headless CMS's but much prefer self-hosted ones. Directus has been a favorite to experiment with so far.
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RossCreations also had a "prank" where he put a "Hit me with your bumper, I like it!" bumper sticker on a guy's truck, then followed him and intentionally ran into the back of him in his truck at a stop. Complete idiocy and he's lucky the guy just got out, looked at his bumper, and drove off.

His "sneaking hot dogs into people's pockets" is actually funny though, I'll give him that.
idk, I've always been pretty skeptical of early decision programs

what's the demo of kids that can commit to a private college before knowing what potential scholarship/aid packages are actually on the table?
Amex offers 1 extra year of warranty coverage beyond what the store/manufacturer offer. So after your warranty ends, and you're within that extra 1 year with Amex, they'll reimburse you the cost of the item. Many Amex cards, the ones with better benefits, charge you an annual fee to use. Hence, the reimbursement you get from your item can offset the fees.
previous versions are available here (part-1): https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/c++-1/ and here (part-2) https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/cpp-2/
I have taken nice walks at -20 degrees. You just need adequate clothing. At that temperature, you should avoid exposed skin.
Micron Chip Sales Banned in China on Patent Case
It's scary to think that this court is going to get more conservative for decades to come. I wonder if any consumer or environmental protections will survive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17408067
I've spent so much time tweaking Twitter notifications and ultimately just had to turn them all off. It would be nice if they had one option for notifying me for @mentions and nothing else.
>You can surround each employee

Refers to cubicles which in my experience DID solve a lot of problems. People talk less when they don't see other people around them.
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Hello,

I have a remote software job and I want to use this time to learn Spanish. I have read great things about Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, and I was wondering where in the Hacker News community you would recommend?

Thanks!
Oh God. Yes Nokia were deep in bed with Intel on 5G. How did I miss that? And that have a $20B+ Market Cap. I don't know about some places of EU and US. But Ericsson has been winning more 5G infrastructure project then Nokia in most places I know. Of course by winning I mean that is anything left from Huawei which may be looking at 50% market share in the next few years.

Ericsson were having a hard time competing, if Nokia screwed up may be a M&A with Ericsson makes sense.

Godsh this really is a big story if this turn out to be true.

Edit: Having some more thoughts, the delay still doesn't make Nokia bankrupt, because the initial 5G roll out are small in numbers. Compared to 3G / 4G recurring infrastructure and patents revenue. So I guess it is going to make an impact on Nokia, but nothing as bad as Charles has wrote. He is likely right that his sources suggest Nokia has nothing to deliver or sell in terms of 5G, but again if you know anything about business I doubt this will bring Nokia down.
I have the opposite opinion. The press has gone on a tyrannical campaign against Elon as of late. People,
we should know why... Outrage sells and generates clicks way better than unbiased and factual news.
The annoying thing for me is that the touchscreen in an automobile doesn't preclude it form having physical controls, often the physical controls are just very poorly thought out.

My 2015 Nissan Leaf has on the face of the steering wheel two 2-way rocker switches, a 3-way rocker switch, what looks like a rocker but is actually two buttons, and five other buttons. This is in addition to the two control stalks that have a dizzying array of positions and knobs themselves.

Three of those buttons are for dedicated features of the infotainment system I will never intentionally press. The answer/drop call button could also function to invoke the voice recognition feature and eliminating the dedicated button. The cruise control utilizes a 2-way rocker and two buttons, it really could be reduced down to a single 3-way rocker.

Infuriatingly the model with the infotainment system, an upgrade, replaced the knobs for volume and temperature control with buttons?! You might think it's to reduce space for the infotainment system but when you look at the two consoles side by side they're proportional spacing is the same.

The infotainment system has two to three physical buttons dedicated to features you shouldn't be using while driving and would better hidden behind the menu button. Of the physical buttons that are arguably usable, there are two that I will again never intentionally press. They'd have been better off making the buttons color/symbol coded and function programmable like the buttons that flank the sides of ATM screens.
Don’t know about NYC, in other places (eg. Italy) cash payment is attractive to the stores because it can remain hidden to taxation.
Restaurants particularly like cash because of two reasons:
1. Food is perishable, it’s easier to justify discrepancies between food bought and revenue.
2. They often pay workers under the table.
Delegating Methods in Ruby with Forwardable
Such a great system. I don't know why it's not used more often.
8 productive hours per day is normal and expected. Are you working part-time or getting paid to browse Reddit?
If we assume that the previous constructions weren't perfect, and it wasn't pure luck (or lack thereof) that shut them down, then our 20/20 hindsight should be capable of distilling (some of) those imperfections, environmental constraints and perhaps even a root cause for failure.

Assuming this, it would be smart then, to note those imperfections and constraints, and make a point of not mimicking them when embarking on a new attempt. Instead of, say, blindly flailing about, rehashing the idea indefinitely until it accidentally works.

There might have some chance to the procedure, but its difficult to argue that we can't affect those probabilities, by thinking real damn hard on it, and maybe even working hard too. But working hard without thinking... I'm not so sure about.
The fact that people consider it 'added' rather than the bare minimum is partly why the ADA is prescriptive. Also, because it would be incredibly burdensome for someone with a disability to have to figure out how each building does their 'accommodations'.

> why does this matter on floors where wheelchair bound residents don't live?

Because residents aren't the only people who could be using that trash room. Because a resident could be injured while living there.

I think it's weird how the default experience is apparently to be exclusionary.
> China accounted for more than 50 percent of Micron’s revenue in fiscal 2017, according company data.

The stock is getting absolutely hammered, down 7% and still going down:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/mu?p=mu
The roles definitely aren't sacrosanct. Teams (& individuals) change and evolve over time, and there's plenty of work to be done. :) Having said that, I might suggest the Fellows program if someone is serious about becoming a researcher - it's a good way to leverage your existing skills while learning how to do AI research.
It's a 2.5 km (a bit less than 2 miles) underwater swim. Right now they've been without food for 10 days and are barely able to stand. At the moment they wouldn't be able to walk the distance, much less spend many hours (it was about four hours for the experienced divers, so more for the boys) swimming underwater in unpredictable currents with no visibility due to silt, so if they get confused and let go of the string for a moment in those hours then they die.

As one of the rescuers said, "When it starts raining the flow is so hard you can barely swim against it." - and that's a pro diver, imagine how would it be for a boy who didn't even know how to swim and thus doesn't have the relevant muscles trained. It's also narrow enough so that only one person can fit through, so you can't have the divers guide them by hand, only accompany them behind them.
I think you misunderstood the above poster who was talking about the case without SQM (or I'm misunderstanding things because I've never heard any of these terms before now).
When I visited Greece in 1995, I didn't notice any unfinished roofs. I did notice that almost every single newer building had multiple options for future expansion. This included exposed steel rebar sticking up from the tops of concrete columns, for building additional stories, and some concrete foundations that extended beyond the roof cover. Those would likely follow the usage pattern: patio, roofed patio, interior room.

Our Greek-American family-friend (who owns a Greek restaurant in the US, and an American restaurant in Greece) explained that Greeks couldn't easily finance home construction or home improvements, so they build what they can afford at the time, and add on to it whenever they saved enough money (or collected enough stolen/black-market building materials). So everything has to be built for future expansion. And if that two-story building is taxed as a one-story building for a while, before it gets reassessed....

But this was before EU economic changes, so my information is likely out of date.
Off track answer still worth focusing on modern web applications. I see some companies use pre built common services (for example identity service, notification service). Product companies now using micro service architecture to achieve product development seamlessly and in time. This helps developers to focus on pure business logic. Try to evaluate this approach as well if you think single company sells multiple product under same umbrella.
For reasons I do not recall now, you should use uBlock Origin instead of uBlock as well. The former is often what people are referring to anyway, but worth mentioning.
Curious: is it possible already in Linux to give the highest bandwidth to the currently active application? And will routers play along?
GraphCMS is the only CMS that exclusively offers GraphQL. Other CMSs have since entered the space to offer GraphQL technology, but they still try to maintain both REST and GraphQL APIs which will lead to some maintenance issues in the future. An example of this is that the other CMSs aren’t able to offer a “mutation” API for their CMS through GraphQL. With our CMS you can query the data and change it through the same powerful interface. This opens the door to a wide range of tooling and custom workflow enhancements. Additionally, because we only offer GraphQL, we are able to be more agile with changes to the technology.

In the future, our focus will shift even more to content based BaaS as we will support end user authentication. We are also preparing a new suite of workflow tools that will make managing large datasets a breeze.
Right, I think some people honestly think that software just magically leaps from developers’ fingertips onto store shelves. Product management, project management, operations, marketing, legal, sales, BD? They just sit in meetings and play Candy Crush all day...
Commuting by bike is still doable in the 90s. You need a rack/basket on your bike so you don't have anything on your back, and you can't ride hard so you don't sweat as much.
That's why i also charge clients for my "thinking" hours.
I wonder how much of a pay cut the average programmer would accept for different working conditions?

I suspect cubicles effectively cost more than $200/year because they eat more space than open-plan desks, which forms the real cost. But even so, I suspect you could find a lot of people who would give up $1000/year of salary for that benefit.

And even closed offices could probably be offset on a salary level. I think a lot of mid-career or later devs would probably give up an annual raise in return for a private office if they were offered an explicit choice.

I could be wrong about specifics, maybe it's not cost effective to offer. But I seriously doubt that's how the choice is being made - I think a lot of people really do believe the hype about 'better collaboration', or just want to look like other companies.
> I am guessing they are counting cable as fiber. The Swedish competition authority is saying 1 300 000 fiber, 670 000 cable and 960 000 dsl

The numbers in the report you linked are from 2014 and 2016 and are based on statistics from PTS. PTS' most recent report [0] says that in 2017 there were 2.4 million fiber subscriptions, or 62% of all fixed broadband subscriptions, with a big increase over the last few years.

I do agree that Com Hem was a terrible thing, convincing way too many people (or apartment building associations) to sign up for very-long-term contracts. Well, they're still a terrible thing, but plenty of people have seen the light now :)

[0] http://www.statistik.pts.se/media/1315/svensk-telekommarknad... (p. 30)
I don't understand your second example at all. If you own a house during a bubble it seems like the ideal time to move. Sell your house to get the equity, move to a rental, then buy a house after the bubble pops.
"The rich always get things cheaper, you know."

Filmmaker Willard Moss, speaking with Studs Terkel, likely in the 1970s. At about 00:02:00

https://s3.amazonaws.com/wfmt-studs-terkel/published/7546.mp...
100% Agree.
At this point, with a sufficient fortune, the simplest, most drastic thing would be to buy all new infrastructure, hire 10,000 workers, and install it all over a couple months. The current system includes just over 6,000 trains, on 36 lines, traveling through 472 stations, on 245 miles of route track (not counting the other 597 miles of track), though the upgrade only requires a small percentage of those. A total shutdown would interrupt over 135 Million rides per month.
Really? This is getting out of hand. I found to be using at least several of the extensions mentioned here that I wasn't aware were stealing user data.
Actually it has many cool features:

* Syntax highlighting
* Interactive rebase
* Merge conflict resolver
* Side-by-side diff
* Code mini-map on scrollbars
* Light and Dark themes
* GitHub notifications
* Image diff
* Tabbed interface
* Ability to star/pin important branches
* GPG support
* Commit templates

And yeah, it's native, not an Electron app
Wow the manual test is very convincing: running fast.com's speedtest while pinging google makes the time increase from <30ms to over 1000ms! It's taking 1.5 seconds to ping google? I had no idea this could be happening.
The title is misleading relative to the article's content. Surely, as the author points out, sometimes A/B tests can be misleading especially if you ignore longer term cohort analysis, etc.

But often times, if you fix an obviously broken part of your funnel, particularly in the early acquisition stages, you're fixing things that are universally lifting the amount of people who ultimately are able to engage with your brand and product to the point where they can even form intent. The reality is most people are only willing to give you a tiny bit of their time during their first one or two engagements with your brand, so at that stage you're trying to sell them on your product, and build intent. A/B testing helps reduce the friction needed to get them through the core of your sales pitch.

It's easy to come up with a thought experiment that shows A/B testing can sometimes be as simple as you'd imagine: just break the site. Your conversion drops to 0%, now split test the fix. Like magic, your control stays at 0% and your variant returns to normal. Nothing about "intent" in this scenario, this is pure friction resolution. Just a thought experiment, but shows that surely there are plenty of places where pure A/B testing and removing friction is a net positive without any fretting over this "conservation of intent" issue.
If the job is interesting, i don't care 8-14 hours a day. Its all about focus and dedication, well for me it is.
Antigua Guatemala is a good homebase
IOTA Hits Two Week Peak as Volkswagen Doctor Joins Team
Who's more obnoxious, the streamer or the viewers? I really can't decide.
> despite losing so many seats she needed a coalition afterwards, which in a democracy ought to be pause for thought

Worth pointing out that the Labour opposition in that election had also pledged to respect the referendum result. Over 89% of votes went to parties with "leave the Single Market and Customs Union" in their manifesto.

Given her current trajectory and staffing picks, I think it's at least plausible that May's objective was to get enough of a majority that she could pursue a "Brexit In Name Only" strategy without being blocked by the Tories' Brexiteer wing, and that the collapse of her vote was a reaction to this by the UKIP-inclined. I certainly saw conspiracy theories along these lines bandied about in the run-up to the election.

If anything, I suspect you'd have more luck arguing from the latest Tory poll bump that the population had gone off the idea.
Top quality video. Thanks for sharing, man.
It'd probably be smaller because they'd have no domestic tech industry and be on Google Apple FB like everywhere else
They tried that route and gave up on 2016.
Indeed, feel to be 1-to-1 parallel to property bubble in 200x Russia, except scaled to the size of China: Russian law effectively prevents people who can't pay for a personal financial lawyer to invest abroad, and for the short period of time the fun lasted people were investing in even crazier vanities than Chinese do now.

I believe that "you can't invest abroad unless you have money for a legal counsel" applies to a lot of countries.

Adding to you point on property taxes: Russian provinces with regional property taxes only saw, i think, 1/10th of the bubble in comparison to the rest of the country. At the time when an average private individual could buy 5 flats in 3 years in hopes of bubble growing faster than than interest on his loan, it will be pretty expensive to pay even 0.75% property tax, as it can easily be bigger than guy's annual income.
Any references on the insurance risk?
Suggest that you actually look at privately run transit infrastructure that exists today. Tokyo subway systems (JR, Tokyo Metro, Keisei) - all private. Or Hong Kong - MTR is private.

The real problem is putting operations and verification in the same hat - public or private. Private transit systems work well when government regulators have the power to set and enforce a strict SLA. They fail without oversight. Same with public systems. When the operational and regulatory agency are the same, it becomes hard to penalize failures.