skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open sourcing your code is a way of "writing a paper" -- it's a way to get it out there.

One paper rarely does anything. Likewise one repo. Certainly each can point to the other which may help someone else to understand what you were trying to accomplish, and hopefully build upon it.

Regardless of all of the above: making a public repo with an open source license is a good thing to do if the alternative is for it to be dropped. Back in the early 80s I wanted to see some code written by one of my advisor's prior students (for his PhD) back in the late 70s. I had to send him email to Sweden, where he had since gotten a faculty position, and he sent me a tape! His code was no longer on MIT backups. All this for what turned out to be me reading a few functions our of his implementation that explained something I hadn't understood in his thesis. Had I known, I could have just asked him the question. Or today, looked at the code on GitHub.

I think you may also get some satisfaction in writing up your work. You can store the paper in the repo as well, of course, in addition to submitting it to a journal or giving it at a conference.
Also ransom and extortion.
> worlds apart beyond the superficial syntax similarities

I never understood this argument. That "superficial" syntax is what I have to stare at, reading and writing, for 8 hours a day. That I actually enjoy doing so is therefore hugely important to me.

I mean, you can make the same argument against Elixir itself, and I've seen it done - Erlang old-timers arguing against the necessity of these "superficial" syntax improvements. Suffice to say that I profoundly disagree.
Only 1 side of a reversed transaction thinks it's a feature
Why the hidden internet cant be a libertarian paradise
This assumes everyone in all weather conditions, would prefer to brave the street traffic routes...and frankly how many 'reasonably fit cyclists' there are commuting, out of the superset of "people going places, including work"
There's plenty of orgs offering government workers interest free loans.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2018/12/27/usaa-...
> once you are used to applying makeup

Dropbox doesn't do anything I can't do with ftp and rsync.
I've been doing web development for around 3 years now. I probably don't know 50% of what's on this roadmap. Unless you're working as a sole developer on a project, you can get away with not knowing a whole lot of stuff.

I couldn't set up webpack for a project if my life depended on it. To be fair, I spend a lot more time doing back end development.

But even for the back end development pathway, I don't know anything about web sockets, GraphQL, message brokers, ElasticSearch et al, NoSQL, or caching with Memcached/Redis.

It's not that I couldn't learn how to use all of the above, but rather that it's just something I don't have to use at my job. Most employers don't/shouldn't require you to know these things in order to get a job, they are skills you can learn on the job.

The ability to learn is the most important skill an employee can have. The rest is just decoration.
I assume this is targeted more at companies who use GitHub for their internal code, where people collaborate at a much more systematic (and probably higher) pace, where planning time and deadlines are much more prevalent.
Ask HN: What are some ways companies spy on employees leaking data?
What are some practices that companies employ to prevent their employees from stealing/leaking sensitive company information.

I've heard methods such as
- obviously hosts contacted by the client machine
- using software to detect if information has been exported via USB

Can you name any others?
Except proponents of crypto currency are exactly the kind of libertarians who would oppose trademark protections like this so it's ironic when they get strung up by this particular petard.
Please follow the site guidelines whether someone else broke them or not. Your comment would be just fine without the attack in the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's funny, I worked for a company that was negotiating a license with improbable and they also changed the terms in the middle and left us hanging. I'm playing a very small violin right now.
Golang, how dare you handle my checks
I'd pay based on the number of views. The Van Gogh is likely to get more views than the 3rd grader.
Since the US is on extended winter vacation, maybe China or Russia can maintain the world magnetic model?
Yeah, I thought ð was voiced in old english, but it's been a very long time since I tried to learn it.

I do recall that ð was voiced in the old norse that I was taught in college. It probably doesn't matter too much since you don't have an old englishman to speak to.
I'd say LLVM is an important part of Julia's success but not the whole story: it is also a very well designed language.
Thanks for the heads up. It should be fixed now - didn't realize imgur now requires all these silly query params..what a regression.
Huh? Where the hell in SJ were you, because the Google campus is going in DTSJ and that is not remotely what you describe.
Define "in tech". About half of the physicists I know have Linux on at least one of their personal computers.

But whether scientists are "in tech" seems to depend on who you talk to. In Silicon Valley these days, a Youtube marketing influencer is in "tech", but a person who designs and builds particle accelerators is not. Go figure.
Repeated Radio Signals from Galaxy 1.5B Light Years Away Discovered
> fake-news research

Says who? A voluntarily-retracted study is not "fake news" anyway. People are allowed to make mistakes.
Huh.. thanks for the clarification. I should have googled first!
this makes no sense that for someone in redwood city bart is the solution but not caltrain. redwood city doesn’t need 2 separate train lines before you can commute to sf.

Samtrans buses does the entire thing in one bus. it will get you into the city and back. and it’ll be 4+ hours a day commute. but the buses do run a lot of hours. chariot could probably do this in an hour each way, which would be faster than caltrain

this is pretty on par with other countries and cities. only a handful of (larger) cities have city wide metro coverage. smaller cities have better bus service. biking is huge in cities this size, including, san francisco for this reason. or ride one of the new hotness scooter apps.
This government shutdown is really ridiculous......the democrats doesn't want to give trump the victory of a wall, instead claiming that it's 'immoral'. What's so immoral for a nation to enforce its borders? besides, european countries have walls, and you don't see their politicians complain about 'immoralities'. Someone should walk into Nancy Pelosi's house and sit down and grab food from the fridge, and see if she agrees that having a 'wall' around her house is immoral.

and now it's hurting the scientists and the engineers.
For beginners I'd recommend Agadmator's channel [1] (not mentioned here yet? I can't believe it). Regular dude that reviews recent & famous games, mainly for tactics and strategies. His channel and SC Saint Luis's [2] (particulary GM Finegold videos, guy's hilarious) are what made me come back to chess after decades.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR
[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub
Summary: the Go 2 "draft design" for error handling (check/handle) has 7 significant drawbacks.
Land in the U.S. isn't available, however, to just "migrate on foot" with your family a few miles into the better school district. We have laws and property has to be bought. As a child who grew up in one of the not-good areas, I can tell you it's a lot harder than you think. :)
Linux today isn't worse, but laptops are much more prevalent now, and they're harder to support drivers for than desktops. Especially Apple laptops which I've been using for a long time now, they're notorious for not being that easy to get Linux running smoothly on. Some people can manage it but more people have trouble. I've wasted dozens and dozens of hours trying to get Linux working smoothly on this thing and I just gave up a few years ago. But when desktops were king and the internet just started to become mainstream and everyone was flooding into that new space, it was a great time for desktop Linux.
If you maintain OSS projects, this can be a useful tool to communicate that you are working on a particular, often-requested feature. Or perhaps, that you are on vacation, in hiatus, or sick.
These are called mikrolet or minibus in countries like Indonesia. Super cheap, super convenient. Haven’t seen a similar thing in the Western world.
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI (2017)
I see a lot of skepticism in this thread. That was my initial impression too, but I actually think this is a good feature now that I think about it.

As one example: it will be nice to know if a coworker is out of office or on extended PTO, like vacation. There are usually other "profiles" which display the same information in an organization, but this is a useful place for it too if you're about to e.g. tag someone in an Issue thread.
Removing the _d provides the full res image:

https://i.imgur.com/jKFFTyB.jpg
> I just can't think of a single reasonable use case for it.

MS didn't acquire GitHub because they cared at all about the technology. It was the exact same strategy as LinkedIn. It's all about tracking us, the developer community, and keeping their finger on the pulse of where things are going. Generating more click event data to further profile your tastes for future commercial use by Microsoft. What other possible reason could there be?
Wasn't it profitable when Ford acquired? Isn't there a pretty reliable userbase? How did they mess it up?

I don't mean to be the conspiracy guy, but it matches the pattern of the streetcar thing: Buy car-obviating service, shut it down.
> All these workers (except potentially contractors) get backpay

Not automatically. Everyone just assumes that whatever funding bill eventually passes will include a backpay provision.

But in a legal sense, these jobs simply don't exist any more. No plan exists in law to pay these employees ever again.
I wish there was someone at Cruise I could talk to in order to tell them to make their cars follow CVC 22100.

I frequently see their cars on Folsom street in the Mission. I've seen their cars make right hand turns without being fully in the right hand lane. There is a bike lane and a lot of bike traffic on that street. Their behavior puts cyclists at risk of getting hit with a right hook when they are going straight through an intersection.

Based on everything I've seen, I'd much rather have a human driver than Cruise so far.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Do you have any specific examples of bias?
Your post is akin to telling a depressed person to stop being depressed. You can't just tell someone to stop having anxiety. That's not how the illness works.
Unity's CTO responds: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/01/10/our-response-to-improba...

"If a game developer runs a Unity-based game server on their own servers or generic cloud instances (like GCP, AWS or Azure), they are covered by our EULA."
Unfortunately, many of the people that grew up in Calfornia/NY/etc have the view that there are a maximum of maybe 5 states worth living in.
SJ has long had a problem that while it has plenty of 'stuff' (food, drinks, galleries, events) unlike other cities, it has never been remotely good at making them obvious, sometimes even to residents.
I was very much "on topic" for my startup.

It was not clear that you were actually asking a question or wanting an "elevator pitch".

For my "abilities", your statement is patronizing and an unjustified insult. My abilities are just fine, thank you.

Your guess at what my startup is doing is not good. What I am doing is much better than anything that could be or follow from your guess.

Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, the crucial core is some original applied math based on some advanced pure math prerequisites. It really is. That's the truth. The work is from some of my studies in my Ph.D. in pure/applied math and more studies and then my original work. This is just literally true, not hype. It's TRUE. That few startups are doing such things is not my problem but some of my opportunity. But one result is that the only people with even a shot at evaluating or understanding the core technology are well trained mathematicians. That's just true, and as such I have no better way to put it.

That the startup also uses some computing does not mean that Sand Hill Road or academic computer science is qualified to evaluate or understand the technology. More generally, Sand Hill Road and academic computer science just do not cover, even significantly cover, all the technology that can use computing and be valuable for a startup. In particular, there is applied math, and that is much more broad and deep than Sand Hill Road or academic computer science; such people just have no chance of understanding the work because they don't have the prerequisites and just will not reinvent them. I've been clear on this.

With some of the other news on HN now, I should insert, as I have in my more polished descriptions, that my search engine is to be "safe for work". It should also be safe for kids and be family-friendly.

Yes, I'm going for the other 2/3rds of search, but the whole of search I'm considering has no porn, etc.

Finding content based on meaning should be one of the best contributions to culture and civilization, and I hope the site does that.

And the site stands to have some of the best protections for user privacy on the Internet: E.g., the engine does not set, read, write, or use HTTP cookies. User Internet history is not collected or used: Two users who use the site the same way at essentially the same time will get the same results.

The site has nothing to do with natural language processing, the semantic Web, the interest graph, neural nets, etc.

In no significant way is the technology accessible to the Sand Hill Road community, no more than to some unknown tribe deep in the Amazon; they have the same on the prerequisites -- nothing.
Likewise, this could be a useful feature in the context of enterprise GitHub or private repos used by organizations. Seeing the current status of a coworker without leaving GitHub is a nice plus, especially if they start integrating statuses with tag autocompletion.
What do you mean by cold comfort?
Parts of it are. A lot of it isn't.
George the Snail, Believed to Be the Last of His Species, Dies at 14
Realizing that you probably can't support the same lifestyle that you grew up with can feel like failure.
These shouldn't really be connected in a perfect society.
I had a chariot driver cut me off on my bike while i was riding down second street and he was turning left onto second across my lane. He stopped once in my lane and I didn't have enough time to stop so I hit the side of his van, somewhat damaging my bike. He looked right at me and then drove away. I tried to contact chariot about this and got absolutely nowhere. Glad to see them go.
The hard part is how to make it work politically. I don't know if any place has really done it in an environment that was mostly built out already. Manhattan used to have 700k more residents than it does now, and that was when a lot of the island was still farmland - people spread out with the trains. Once you're out of space it's very difficult to develop transit, because that would probably mean a homeowner doesn't get what they want.
That's usually what happens when Microsoft buys a market leader.
Yeah, it is probably a lot easier to get right-wing conspiracy theory enthusiasts to "invest" in something if you can convince them it's an ideological soulmate to their libertarian utopia, than it is to get them to open brokerage accounts and start buying stocks.
Reminds me of the automatic graffiti tools they have in The Expanse (show). Just upload a graphic, start dragging the gadget around on a wall, and it paints the image for you.
Our current political climate is due to their voting patterns over the last 30 years.
I think this kind of features are better served as browser extensions or maybe from the GitHub marketplace(?), as in not part of the core product but with an easy activation by the user and easy to discover. No need to pollute the product- I already use multiple browser extensions to declutter and simplify GitHubs UI
>Julia's secret sauce is LLVM

That most certainly is not true. See this for example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09868.pdf
I thought the same (bad transit, people don't use it, it becomes even worse), but after no longer being able to ride my bike, I realized that many buses and Muni trains are packed at least at rush hour. People do use public transit in SF, so its sorry state is even more of a shame.
Most of HN loves to flame systemd, yet still use it. There is no suitable alternative on Linux.
That just builds a wall, it doesn't address this problem. You can't use an emergency declaration to open the government. The theory here is that once Trump has declared victory, republicans are going to be willing to pass a bill without wall funding. It's not at all clear to me that this is how it will play out.
"Cutting down on fat" is not sound diet advice and is rooted in the "fat macro-nutrient = fat on my body" falsehood. I'm glad you are seeing success, but please don't post about things you don't know enough about.
> The only objective metrics that look good are GDP

The link I provided gave several objective metrics that indicate positive trends. More people have access to goods and services that used to be more exclusive. People without access to basic infrastructure (e.g. plumbing, electricity)s are drastically fewer.

Upper, middle, and lower class are artificial labels. They don't correspond to quality of life. A decline or increase in one does not indicate a change in hardship. The question I seek to answer is, "has life gotten better or worse for the average person?" or "how has life changed for the Americans in the X to Y income percentile?". Overall the trends are positive.

Even life expectancy has a overall upwards trend. It has gone from about 70 to close to 80 over the past 40 years, which was the time frame that the previous commenter referred to.
Right, but if priced appropriately this could really penetrate the men's market more than foundation or concealer ever could.
That approach is great for uninitialized pointers, but not so hot for numeric code.
Are you user friendly? (old)
Dear GutHub,

Please stop mucking about with pointless stuff like this and make your search functionality not totally suck.

Yours faithfully,

All devs everywhere.
I've taken the Web and Native out of react and the result was totally awesome
"How did they mess it up?"

All I know is once I was driving down Cesar Chavez in San Francisco and I looked over and there was a massive lot filled with Chariot commuter vans. It was the daytime on Saturday.

I thought dang they must be wasting a ton of money just having a whole fleet of commuter vans parked in a lot, unused simply because it was the weekend. I imagine this same mentality transferred to non-peak hours during the week as well.
There are some basics you need to know: css/html/sql/php (or python)

Depending on your goal, the thing is that none of these you need to know as an expert, but need to know the knowledge to collaborate with other people on it.

But yes, the times that you could make “top notch” websites on your own: doing a photoshop design, doing the css/html and code it in bare php are over :)

This diagram is scrary and gives a feeling of overkill.
Indeed I can see that they are quite close to Slack's own default statuses.
“We are warming the planet but the ocean is not warming evenly, so different places warm more than others,” said Dr. Zanna. “And so the first consequence will be that sea level will be different in different places depending on the warming.”

I don't understand this statement. To me the statement means that some places in the ocean will warm faster than others and those local places will have local sea level rises bigger than elsewhere due to the local warming causing water expansion. Sea level is determined by many things, mostly gravity, but I don't see how a local volume increase will last very long at all (ie it will dissipate at the speed of sound in water. Like a tsunami but really small and continuous). Misquoted perhaps?

Truly, only Gell-Mann amnesia allows me to keep reading the news. Probably worth stopping.
Under normal circumstances that is't bad. When looking at data statistically it could be very cold hearted. It only becomes a problem when the population begins to worship the state.
The quote is actually from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which receives funding from NASA but is not directly part of it and therefore is not immediately affected by the shutdown.

However, as the Nature article discusses, parts of NASA that work with Hubble are affected.

The general impact of the shutdown on NASA has been widely reported:

https://amp.space.com/42823-nasa-government-shutdown-plan-20...

> Most NASA personnel will be furloughed until such an agreement is reached, agency officials explained recently in a [shutdown FAQ](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/shutdow...). "Most" is something of an understatement, in fact; about 95 percent of NASA employees won't be able to go to work.
Does that really matter? Source Engine was never really open source and never really on a continuous update schedule. Anyone with a vested interest in using source would have obtained a license for it anyway as it's always been non-free, and that license would presumably have terms for what you do and don't get access to.

But you can apparently hack around with Source 2 by using The Lab's Robot Repair (Source 2) as a mod base and use the Hammer 2 tools from DOTA 2. So... technically yes, you could play with it. Just maybe not easily, and maybe not entirely intentionally.
It's a status update for your profile page, what's with the slippery slope arguments here? It's not like they implemented a social feed where you can post updates, making it more like a legitimate social network.
My first 'windowing system' was actually AT & T UNIX. So I was already in the Unix/Linux windowing space before MSFT Windows 3.0 was released.

My first reaction to Windows 3.0 and 3.1 was horror. It was so primitive and so far behind the X11 Windowing System that I was never able to accept Windows as a personal system, but only used it when forced to at various work-places.

I used UNIX with X11 (AT&T, USL, then Solaris) solely as my personal system until 2001 when I changed to using Linux.

I could be considered as a techy, but was never a true computing/programming professional.
They can, but it requires laser surgery, skin resurfacing or chemical peels. There are a lot of solutions in the plastic surgery field.
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Block all outbound communications and force all traffic through a MITM proxy. Disable USB on all company owned devices. Restrict network access to company devices (802.1x, etc..)
Gitter-like web ui with xmpp or irc options would be a welcome addition indeed. the ability to join a #org or #org/project channel would be epic.
Running WriteFreely 0.7 on ARM
There is a good reason. An adjustable compass like that would be much more prone to user-error. Someone may rotate it too much causing very large discrepancies and land on the wrong runway.
Doesn't the clipper card allow you to use one payment system for caltrain, bart, and muni? I'm not sure if SamTrans busses are included.
The No.1 job billionaires and multimillionaires held before they got filthy rich
It's far worse than that. Amazon literally has hundreds of store brands. Most of them are shockingly high quality as well.