skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downhill skiing isn't really dangerous although you may fall a lot. We're not talking skydiving which you probably want some instruction with. I've taken lessons for skiing but to improve technique and enjoy the sport more, never because I was concerned about safety.

Country Clubs and other places where people play sports like tennis and golf have regular lessons. It's not at all unusual for casual players.

I'd add that I'm an instructor/leader for hiking courses with a local club that gets a few hundred people in programs in a typical year.
It would help enormously if we had walkable communities with cheap rentals where a single person could reasonably support themselves on local minimum wage. The dearth of affordable housing -- by which I mean market rate cheap rentals, not government subsidized housing -- is a huge factor here in growing a permanent underclass and undermining the growth of the middle class.
A lot of work that many programmers/coders do is not maintained and no one will use it after they leave the company. Not always but often enough for me to notice it. Every company has derelict projects that once had use or are still used but in a non maintained way. Like a Jenkins installation that everyone uses but no one has any clue how to modify.
So, basically, you're saying that the supercharger network has no value for anyone because you own a Leaf?

No wonder Tesla-related threads on HN are such high value.

Next up: guy complaining that electric cars will never succeed because he lives in an apartment and can't currently charge at home.
What I've been told is that ISPs could easily stop most ddos attacks now, but simply don't give even the tiniest crap about it. Also, they tend not to like p2p, so I don't think you can sell this to ISPs.
Yeah, probably. My career started in a job that could have easily been automated, but never was (intentionally). So in a lot of ways, I feel indebted to it and the idea of entry level tech jobs, because it allowed me to build a career without a degree. From that experience, it feels kind of sad that certain automation can displace potential careers.
The wages aren't set at a "global standard of living". They are set by how skilled you are. Usually people who complain about not being able to earn enough don't have very good skills. I've been using UpWork for a little over 2 years. Last year I did about $60k, this year will be around $75k. Being able to communicate well with my clients is a huge advantage compared to overseas workers. It also helps that I actually know what I'm doing.

I rarely work a full 40 hours per week. I've been a freelancer for almost 10 years now. I've briefly done some part-time stints in-person in offices in that time and it was a good reminder of how much I hate being stuck in an office following an arbitrary schedule.
If someone you know has had bladeless laser eye surgery (with a "femtosecond" pulse laser), it probably used chirped pulse amplification.
Microsoft unveils the Cortana powered noise-cancelling Surface Headphones
definitely lot of opportunities there, but a big factor is regulation. Most people who haven't been exposed to the healthcare market are understandably cautious about funding a start-up in a highly regulated field.
As a counter to this that may make it easier for a company to adopt and reduce the learning curve. Laziness can make it harder for some to reason about performance as an example.
Show HN: An open source clone of strava. Today is the first public release
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Did you mean top ten rather than “top tenth percentile”?

Being the best 10% at something among all people on the Internet probably takes on average the same amount of talent & practice as among those in your tribe. Being the absolute top 10 is way harder as you said.

Unless you were talking about being the top 10% among aficionados who have the most exposure in the relevant Internet community.
Been working on this for about 4 months now and its at a stage where it can be used. It’s still a little buggy and needs UX work but most of the basic features are in and working currently. Would be super helpful if people could try it out and report any issues or feature requests in the issue tracker https://gitlab.com/pikatrack/pikatrack/issues

There will be federation with ActivityPub in the future but I haven’t added that yet. You can subscribe to this issue if you want updates on that feature https://gitlab.com/pikatrack/pikatrack/issues/32
Pedantically, wouldn't Δv-accessible mean it would take a long time to get here, and we'd see it coming for a very long time?

Possibly easy to address... maybe, it was small and dim, and in line with a bright star, so we'd interpreted it wrongly.
Happened to me as well. I was always curious about that because it was clearly another cell number. I did try and text that number once and give that person a heads up but no response back. I’d really like to know what that was because my thinking is that if that is indeed someone else’s cell, then your number is appearing elsewhere too. The strange thing is it wasn’t a number that I’ve ever associated with so then populating it with a “best guess” isn’t even true.
> Metaprogramming is an antipattern in C.

Yet we often see passionate arguments in its favor, as for instance from Sústrik
(http://250bpm.com/blog:56) and Tatham (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/mp/) and a person on the internet who recommends replacing LAPACK with preprocessor macros (http://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_lapack_with_c_me...). Would you care to comment on its enduring popularity?
The funny thing about coding is that every time we automate something away, we just go on to take on ever more ambitious projects. We've been automating away our own jobs for decades, and... the jobs haven't gone anywhere. If anything, there is more demand now than ever. Short of strong AI, I don't see this changing.

This is actually one of my biggest reasons why I don't think we'll ever develop a true engineering discipline of software. In other engineering disciplines, there's a notion of a routine set of tasks that require skill and displine to perform. In software, whenever we discover routine anything, we automate it away. Therefore there is a relentless force moving against the routinization of our work, that is precisely what has made it so lucrative to be in software.

Who knows, maybe some day that trend will end. But at least for a good while, I suspect the more likely possibility is that we'll keep expanding the scope of our work as the tools keep taking on more of the work.
Oh, lord. Please stop the assumptions and do a little digging before you post. She was on the radio today saying that she just never bothered to go through the paperwork.

But if it makes you feel better, I'm sure it was a huge conspiracy.
I think this stuff matters.

When displays jank and bump and jump it says to ordinary users "this is hard and technical and not really easy and possibly not designed for you".
Consistent Python code with Black
Giving drivers the ability to actually talk to each other, instead of just making gestures (of mutual loneliness and longing, of course). What could go wrong?
I wonder if there is a way to show a message like "press $KEY for boot menu" or if there is a technical reason that makes this hard to do.
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as others have already said Haskell's type system is more powerful. however more powerful does not always mean superior. Java strikes a balance between flexibility and ease-of-understanding, whereas Haskell allows you to construct the most convoluted mathematical abstractions imaginable. which is probably why Java is so popular in the enterprise and why many successful newer languages essentially copy its type system.
You can write bad code in any language, C is no exception. We also see people persistently arguing in favor of simpler and less magical C. If you want reliable, maintainable code in any language, do not use magic. Metaprogramming is cool, no doubt about it, but it's unnecessary and creates bad code.
The two sports I love, rugby and open water swimming, share a common trait: I do them badly. Don't get me wrong -- I wish I did them well -- but I don't.

When I was younger I fenced, but I was ambitious, and wanted to be a better fencer, so I worked out in a gym, had regular lessons from my coach, went to competitions. And somewhere along the line it transformed from being fun to being work. And then I stopped fencing.

These days I try my best to accept not being very good.
Which may explain the apparent rise of imposter syndrome and other internal crises of confidence.
Ms. Powell smartly recognizes a truth that many in the industry elide: A lack of diversity is not just one of several issues for Silicon Valley to fix, but is instead the keystone problem — the source of much else that ails tech, from its recklessly expansionist zeal to the ways its brightest companies keep stepping in problems of their own making.

This article is working from a presumption that companies should be subject to a standard of political representation; and if they aren’t then they don’t — and can’t — function. Where did this idea come from, I wonder?

It seems at odds both with recent history (many non-representative companies have done a lot of good) and it seems to not admit of any distinction between business institutions and political ones. Even if Google had broader representation of identity-related protected classes, it would not be a representative sample of the US or the world when considering things like education or other life history factors.

What kind of diversity is the author talking about, and what relationship does it have to any legitimate standard of representativeness?
G-Mail Hacked Wtf
Hey guys.

My G-Mail got hacked, the guy changed legit everything, backup e-mail, phone number, everything. I submitted and tried to call G-Mail many times trying to recover the account with the forms and stuff, but they keep asking "When did you create this account". I have no idea, and it keeps saying they can't confirm I own the account. Wtf am I supposed to do, I want my account back...

Thanks.
My mac does that. I've not tested it on Mojave, but it did it every time without fail on High Sierra.
How to Stop the Killing of EBooks?
You can disable activity restart on screen rotation but you shouldn't because if your app can't handle that it won't be able to handle any number of other config changes (UI density, font settings, localization etc.) to say nothing of restarting gracefully when Android force stops it in the background.

Really the issue is websites and desktop programs have the expectation of being always running and in-memory until they choose not to be.

Not to say that the way Google decided to handle these issues in Android is in any way ideal. And CSS for all its warts has far better support for responsive design than the stock Android layout system.
RFC 8478 – Zstandard Compression and the Application/zstd Media Type
RMTP license is pretty interesting as it among other things prohibits circumvention of "technological measures for the protection of audio, video and/or data content"

Also things like ad injection are not features for the end user.

RMTP is a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe so it's a good fit when you want to screw your customer with DRM and other stuff.
It also means that instead of having to compromise Intel's signing key to gain full control, now it's also possible to use any compromised key that's been signed by Intel, which may not be as well guarded as Intel's one.
cant you just write scala as a simpler java? why is it hard?
I also work with tweezers.

Back in my postdoc, we got a sample of purified melanosomes to work with. Melanosomes are small vesicles that hold pigment in your skin. Well, when we tried to trap them, we found that they absorbed the trap light, and turned it into heat. Enough to boil the sample.

We couldn’t do the experiment, obviously, but we did have a fun day playing Death Star, shooting every melanosome we could find.
Has someone you personally know ever suffered a laser injury?
https://youtu.be/5ziInu6xglE
> Right now, for most of us, climate shocks are less a threat than many other risks in our daily lives

Right there, neatly summarised, lies the problem.

When it is a direct threat to our daily lives it's surely way past too late to do anything about it. The time to start is long before it gets to that point.

We managed it with ozone.
>then what do you do?

Give up, stop answering your phone.
Plaster is weaker, and it cracks.
And you’ll hear the popping noise when the tissue is vaporized.
Some people down on their last $100 or less don't always have the luxury of choosing. Building a Wordpress site NOW for a little money or doing something in PHP/MySQL today if you have some basic skills and next thing you know, you're a freelancer without the luxury of having planned all that up front.
Why Sioux Falls Is Booming
Yes, this is a fundamental issue if you wanted to do this at scale.

There are a few solutions to this already, using solutions like outline.com to pull the content out of the cruft, but I don't know how many of these are general purpose and how many are purpose built for each site (and maintained for the current version of the site, perhaps?)

As seen in the article, most links are to a small number of sites, so perhaps hard coding the content extraction would be feasible, especially for an initial study.

It would be interesting I think to see just how many links have identical content, but you're right in that the number will be skewed greatly if there are any ads or similar included.
> And exactly what car companies will pay for engine if it fails after 100K miles?

Hyundai/Kia will, at least up to 100k. I think Suzuki tried to promise a 10/120 warranty for a little while before they went out of the US.
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Well, you can learn actively from researching opens source projects. Or you can learn passively by watching others code.

The first is more effective but the second is easier and more entertaining.
> No democrat is getting any substantive bill through Congress and signed into law until 2020

Not sure whether you meant 2019 or 2021, but 2020 is a fairly nonsensical date given when Congressional and Presidential terms start, unless you assume that Trump would become malleable in a lame duck session after losing reelection or something of like that not tied to term starts.

Assuming a Democratic majority in at least one House of Congress resulting from the 2018 midterm election next month, 2019 would be more likely than 2020 or 2021, because necessary funding bills are a powerful lever for substantive non-appropriations legislation.
Congrats on getting this out.
What is your goal with this? With so many activity trackers around, what do you see as the benefit of having an open-source version? I'm assuming the data isn't open, just the interface?

I'm adjacent to the space at https://ayvri.com we're not an activity tracker, though some see as as such. So I'm curious about the motivation to do something like this, particularly with so many competitors.
ah, the failing new york times.

i have to imagine this story was 2 years in the making. too bad it won’t see HN.
My reaction to the rejected draft https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Donna_Stric...
is that it did not make clear Strickland's notability.

I'm fairly passionate about disproportional representation of women scientists. (E.g., Leavitt, Burnell.) In the (more distant) past I've initiated or added to several WP articles about women scientists.

Sometimes editors may be too quick to 'pull the trigger' on stuff ... there are lots of 'unnotable personages' attempts. IMO, in this case (haven't scrutinized it closely) it looks like they tried to be fair in encouraging more 'proof', according to the established standards.

Side note: WP is, if anything, overly protective of orthodox scientific viewpoints. Maybe that colored the thinking here, who knows. But it's up to the submitting editor to make notability clear.
the cleverness is in noticing when a task can be automated. Typically, the code itself is trivial.

I’d actually argue the reverse. It’s trivial, especially with a little programming background to say “we could automate X”.

The devil is in the details. Robustly automating anything of reasonable complexity involves a lot of implementation hickups, dealing with corner cases, gracefully failing, and adding structure and regularity to otherwise disparate, adhoc and unstructured components.

It takes skill, experience and a lot of effort to do this without it immediately falling over.
That said, I never really found taxes all that confusing even long before hiring an accountant. Turbo Tax was always easy. I did have the advantage of learning from my grandmother (who was a bookkeeper) and my dad who was an executive as I was doing my first business as a teenager.
Same reason we use link sharing sites like Hacker News, and Reddit... You don't need to search.
> And within the first month of breaking out on my own, I must have read like 3 or 4 books on freelancing/consulting, 10+ blog posts, and podcasts.

Any recommendations?
9th and Western aren't parking protected; parking is on the inside of the bike lane, between the curb and the bike lane. Parking protected lanes have parked cars between the roadway and the bike lane. https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/mayor/news...

Parking protected would be something like 2nd, where the parking is on the outside of the curb; similar configurations can be found on part of Broadway, and Dexter south of Mercer St.
So then the people who aren't skilled enough will have to either improve their skills or go find something else that better fits their skills. Competition is good.
Ask HN: Getting to onsites, but consistently failing
I've been on the job hunt for a while now, and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I'm getting attention from recruiters, passed every phone screen, and getting to onsites, but then consistently failing onsite. It is not because I can't write code; I've written running code in a majority of these interviews (the rest were design/nontechnical, or whiteboard interviews where the code may or may not run).

Feedback I keep getting is more of the nature "we didn't feel like you had enough experience with X." That doesn't really jibe to me because that should be obvious from my resume. It seems like if "experience" is the problem, then I shouldn't have been invited to the interview in the first place, based on the resume. A couple of times, I have gotten "It was close, but...," however, I'm not sure if I should believe that.

Assuming I can actually write code, and can do a somewhat credible job in system design interviews, what might be the problem?

Background: I have 5 years experience in software engineering, mostly web programming. For the past 3.5 years, I've worked at companies here in the Bay Area. I'm interviewing for positions that match these requirements.

I am currently 0/6 in onsite interviews, and 7/7 in phone screens.
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Middle class isn't working two jobs. If anything, it is a couple working one job and the partner doing their own thing: raising kids, personal project, community work.
AWS Route53 defaults to 300 seconds (which is probably why so many articles see that as the median ttl), and I've never encountered problems leaving that at the default. I suspect the performance problems are real if you're running your own dns servers - but if you're piggybacking on something like AWS I seriously doubt you'll see issues (apart from monthly bills, if you suddenly go viral to the moon...)

"Back in the day", Internet Explorer was a problem with TTLs, from memory IE6 was when they stopped caching all dns lookups for 24hrs no matter what the til was, and IE6 still coached for 4hrs. (This was a drama for me back in the early 2000's when I was trying to do dns based load balancing...)

My opinion these days is don't try to go much below 1 minute if you want other peoples resolvers or software to honour your ttls, but I do see people using 1 sec ttls occasionally, so presumably if your application doesn't mind too much if not everybody h9onours your ttl - it's still worth doing for some people...
I am sure German has some 30+ character long word exactly for that ;-)
> MS Excel from back then won't run on anymore, 16-bit apps aren't recognized by modern Windows, etc.

They certainly will run, even if only through emulation or API conversion. In fact, that's probably what modern MS Excel does to old XLS docs, which is convert them to an in memory format that probably more closely resembles The Office Open XML format than the Excel Binary File Format (the extension may or may not change, but the format did).

> I posit that .XLS is a more stable platform than Windows itself.

Well, ignoring that we've drifted quite far from hardware, I would say that Excel (which would be the actual platform, not the container format) is not a general purpose computing platform (at least not a feasible one), not something that necessarily defined what architecture is being used, except tangentially.
The beauty of public key cryptography is that a x5 increase in security researchers is nowhere near a x2^128 increase in difficulty. What's pitiful is coming up with O(1) schemes and hoping for security through obscurity to keep them safe.
It surprised me how many different services it wants to connect to at first launch (thanks, Little Snitch!), not to mention access to System Events.

Do you document all the services you're connecting to, and what data is being collected?
Her first ever scientific paper. All politics aside, let me just say: holy crap, that's awesome.
> And exactly what car companies will pay for engine if it fails after 100K miles?

Chrysler (incl. Jeep and Dodge) has a standard lifetime powertrain warranty.
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I met one person who took a hit from a pulsed laser (the -other- Nobel from today). Pulsed lasers can be even worse. Fortunately, it was in his peripheral vision. But he described hearing and feeling the pop.
I've always disliked intense cynicism in Show HN and Launch HN, but...

It's a web browser, but instead of being open source (Chromium) or a non-profit (Mozilla Foundation), it's run completely by a single for-profit company. Seems pretty backwards to me, but maybe I'm missing something?