skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The official release announcement is now out:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2019-Februa...
I will take the money for the Yacht and buy a submarine. Enjoy the depth before we completely ruin them via climate change and pollution.
Labor is generally 50% of the CONSTRUCTION cost. But financing and land are usually more than 50% of the total cost, especially in cities.

That means Labor is less than 25% of the cost. And labor isn't really THAT much cheaper in China than, say, Poland anymore.

Further, China has 1.6B people and 33% of it is mountains -- 69% highlands. It's not insane that land is more expensive than in, say, Serbia.

Finally, the world has never seen almost 600M people migrate to cities in 28 years time. Demand is unmatched in history.

That being said, China's average income per person is about 1/4th what it is in Germany, yet the average house costs nearly double -- with higher interest rates. AND, you only get a 99 year lease on the land you buy there, you can't own it. Taxes are different, sure, but it does seem like prices are quite high.
All wide, randomly initialized deep learning models are Gaussian Processes
Not that long ago, people would migrate to another continent and literally never hear again about the people they left behind. I have a great grandfather that did that. It's really not that different from migrating to another star in that sense.
Aside from keeping the conversations going, keeping lunch on the premises makes it easier to round everyone up after and decreases the likelihood that people are disruptive by streaming in after the post-lunch talk starts. And it's pretty much expected. I would be dismayed if DConf sent me outside for lunch on my own dime.
I too like it as you. But I find when dealing with a lot of JSON data (decoding/encoding) the symbols become a hindrance.
I read that the unions, especialy SEIU, wanted a promise from Amazon against interfering with future potential unionization efforts. Amazon probably doesn't want a domino effect happening where their operations in NYC get unionized and then it spreads elsewhere. But these jobs were tech jobs, so I'm guessing there was also going to be a distribution center or something else that would unionize? Because the tech workers certainly wouldn't.
shrugs I wasn't referring specifically to HN, nor was I trying to suggest I know the exact ratio. What I know is it's extremely unlikely that this story is being upvoted because of that given that 1. A lot of people upvote on title alone (I'll die on that hill); 2. Not many people know who Paul Vixie is; 3. Those that do might not notice the name in the UI/email (I certainly didn't).
Roaming is the new normal? Citation needed.
Service Dogs Help Vets with PTSD
More like the trend of “bolting everything they’ve ever heard on to the language spec”.

This is a half-assed, syntactically ugly implementation of case statements in functional languages like Elm or Haskell - the point of which is to cover all possible executions of a branch explicitly, to prevent runtime errors.
Lycos is still running.

https://www.lycos.com
The correct answer to "how to run multiple commands in the statement" would have been "don't", instead of this abonimation. If you want to do multiple things, don't use a syntax designed for expressions, use a syntax that supports blocks (like, you know, regular if/else or switch statements).
It's actually rather cheap, given the venue.
Not disputing that they are cheap, but most buildings will be dilapidated after 5 years if they are completely ignored.
What an awful attitude.

Not seeking to benefit anyone, just prevent anyone from being fantastically well off, while endorsing those who are merely incredibly well off.
In fairness to the powers that dismantled the building, Singer itself was probably on the ropes or well on its way, at least in the sewing machine market. Postwar, the sewing machine market at the low end was flooded with import clones of the classic Singer 15 (see next paragraph), and zigzag machines from abroad were taking a bite out of the higher end of their market[0]. Combine that fact with the fact the needle work industries had left NYC at that point, and it probably made sense to demo the Singer building. All that said, I do wish it was still there to see.

I own a Singer 15. In a residential setting, it'll keep doing what it does well for another 200 years with a little care. It isn't an industrial machine, but if you can't do it once on a 15, it's even odds it can't be done at all. All that said, it's a straight-stitch only machine; they aren't technically complex (for a sewing machine). The imports I've seen are also excellent machines.

[0] Interesting thread: https://sewing.patternreview.com/SewingDiscussions/topic/561...
you are right. rent is relatively cheap, but renter do not share same right as home buyer. basically, the gov force you to buy house.
I loved the tone of this article because it's fairly relevant, and with a small facelift, could have been advice to web developers circa the early 2000s.

Data science is still a thing, and it's maturing in the way that applied sciences do when they get to the point of needing a little more engineering background. Tech. just is never that glamorous, but the dirty secret is that only people in tech. seem to really get that, so we have this hype cycle every few years.
The proposal, as currently stated, is to use fragment id processing first. If that fails to find a target, fallback to text matching.

In other words, even if you give an element "id='targetText=something'", this feature wouldn't break that.
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Super Micro sees strong holiday results despite chip-hack claims
If by "network operators" you mean ISP's then I don't care. They have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are malicious ones more often than not and I want them to be a dumb pipe NOT someone who is mucking around with my network. I will take being able to PICK who I trust my DNS with over being forced to use my ISP's any day of the week. One of those things I can change, one of them I cannot.
Linux Device Drivers is nice, and free.
Treat your first year of software engineering as subsidized education
A willingness to bet everything on the hope that those propositions are true, to me, seems essentially equivalent to deliberately attempting to be more certain about something than the available evidence warrants

And it does seem willfully intellectually dishonest to do that, no matter how you frame it. I say this as someone that was a believer for 20+ years and is no longer.

That said, I am not ascribing a value to whether "being intellectually dishonest" is always dangerous or bad for everyone. Overall I'd be inclined to say yes, at some deep/base level.

But, it depends on the person and the way they use it. There are plenty of caring people I know that are religious, and in some ways, they use that faith to inspire them to do good things. There is always another side to that coin, though.
If you're going for logical consistency, when it comes to rules of war, you end up with no rules.

Why is a nuclear bomb different to a full scale carpet bombing campaign. Why is mustard gas different to a fragment grenade? Why is killing ok, but torture is not? Why is a barely discriminate bombing campaign legal but a subway bombing illegal?

Rules of war always encountered these arguments. But, do we want to eliminate them, just so things are philosophically consistent?
Two then Great Britain and Ulster. Though Lord Steel appeared to imply it should be 3 on calling her Queen of Scots when the Scottish Parliament opened.

I was under the seemingly false impression that the Queen was separately Queen of England and Scotland still/again. But it does appear she is Queen "of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas" making her Queen of 2 kingdoms (Great Britain, Ulster) within the UK?
A billion-dollar empire made of mobile homes
American cities are defined by preservation because they were largely abandoned by all but the poorest for the last several decades. Plus, without public transit and the will to build it, there's no alternative to automobiles
One of the reasons we're producing so much radioactive waste is that we're too scared to reprocess spent fuel.

There's a lot of fissionable material remaining in the "spent" fuel that can be recovered, enriched, and thrown back into a reactor. The more cycles you put it through, the less waste you'll end up with. But the same process can also be used to make bombs, so we force everyone to keep the spent fuel in a bunker or something.
Because it's encrypted to the app rather than the endpoint's OS or local DNS, so it's more difficult for the system owner to override it or implement a systemic policy.

The performance characteristics are also rather unfortunate. TCP handshake + TLS handshake with multiple public key operations + TCP protocol overhead adds quite a lot of both latency and computation vs. UDP DNS. DoH is even worse. There would have been ways (e.g. DNSCurve) to get equivalent or better security with less latency and computation if it weren't for horrible middleboxes breaking everything they don't understand.

And all that complexity is attack surface.
They’re saving ADTs for 9.0, at which point they’ll beat their chests and loudly proclaim them to be the Best Thing Ever of All Time.
I wasn’t necessarily saying it doesn’t offer any benefit, more that it’s not really a benefit that seems to benefit a lot of people. Between code intelligence tools and actually running the code you write (not even in an actual QA process, but simply executing each line) that just doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.

There are also instances where, such as with Console.Write you are now formatting a string in order to pass it into... a method that formats strings. Yes, the same benefit is still provided, but with a fairly obvious decrease in clarity and increase in redundancy.
You can totally get treated for depression with ketamine already, but the problem is insurance doesn't cover it so it's expensive- several thousand dollars a go, which is not absurd but is beyond most peoples' means. Whereas the hope is an FDA-approved therapy will be covered.
I believe it's usually just a tax play. If it's a personal possession, 100% of the maintenance costs are after-tax $$. If they actively rent it out (even for only a portion of the year), then only their personal use of the yacht (maintenance and costs during that time pro-rated etc) would be paid for in after-tax $$. The rest of the costs would be business costs for the charter business. I suspect the accountants would set it up so that the charter business actually invoiced them for their own personal use of the yacht to keep that separation clear.

I suppose it's possible to claim yacht expenses as business expenses for things like entertaining clients, etc, and in some cases that might be quite legitimate. But I don't think people get away with nearly as much tax avoidance shenanigans as most people think - The tax man isn't that stupid and trying to claim that sort of use for luxury products is just asking for an audit.

It might be different for super-yachts with really high yearly costs, but for the under 100 ft category of pleasure yachts that cost 10-30k per year upkeep I don't think the net benefit would be worth the complexity. At least for those _trying_ to play honestly. I'm pretty sure every lawyer/dentist/doctor etc that owns one asks their accountant the same type of question, but I don't believe most bother setting it up like that.

source: I own a pleasure craft/yacht big enough to charter regularly to offset the ownership costs, but don't do it on the advice of my accountant.
Case in point, I was getting NXDOMAIN for mailarchive.ietf.org until I switched to 8.8.8.8 from my work's DNS.
Airtables is a good example, though -- I'm seriously thinking of creating an OSS version of Airtables, that has more field types -- like being able to edit using Markdown... or join across bases, not just tables.. There's SO much more you could do w/ their tech, and blocks should be free - just they should have a marketplace and take a cut of sales--something like shopify... if I OSS'd it, I'd do some hybrid like wordpress does, but require a % on anything in the 'app store' -- but all core features would be free / foss.
The magical thinking of guys who love logic
Allowing the government to regulate Facebook and Twitter is opening a door for the government to claim it has the legal right to regulate anything on the Internet. While Facebook and Twitter indeed might be used for nefarious things, dissidents and social activists depend on the unruly nature of the Internet for a lot of their operation. You can have both or none.
The Harvard Classics [0] (or Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf[1]), is a 51-volume anthology of 'the classics' compiled by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and published in 1909. It is the WASP collection of literature and gives a very interesting eye towards the first Gilded Age and into the minds of US leaders during the first half of the 20th century.

If it were to be updated, nearly 110 years later, many works would be left out (like, nearly all of the middle French plays) and MUCH would be included. Without a doubt, one of the books to be included would be The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer[2]. This book goes from start to finish on how the A-bomb was made, the major and minor players, and their thoughts about the bomb all along the way. Rhodes takes us into the heads of the physicists and clears out all the calculus and gets to the human parts of the endeavor.

All the players in the race for the nuke knew the bomb was unavoidable for mankind. Leo Szilard was the first person to really conceive of the bomb while waiting for the stoplight to change where Southampton Row passes Russell Square, across from the British Museum in Bloomsbury[3].

There were thoughts, groups, and people that entertained the thought that they could form a group of 'priest-scientists' that would keep the uranium safe from politicians and warlords. Keep the power flowing but stop the chain reaction from going critical and taking out billions of people. But as the race progressed, all the real players for the nuke knew that such a utopia was impossible. That this particular genie was out of the bottle the second that Leo, or any other physicist, had made it across Southampton Row.

These robots are a microcosm of the same issues that the atomic physicists faced nearly 100 years ago. They know the damage that the ideas will have upon us all, they know that the semi-bucolic world we now live in will fall away to violence, and they know that they can't stop it. But, bless them, they are trying to sound the alarms and maybe, just maybe, change the minds of some of the politicians and warlords.

Looking back at the first Gilded age, with all their knowledge, they had no templates for the power of The Bomb and finally facing the mortality of all humans. Fortunately, we do have the templates, at least in terms of the use of lethal robots. We know how this plays out, we know how to make an atomic bomb, and we programmers need to learn from the physicists of the '30s and '40s.

[0] https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120212

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb

[3] https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2617750W/The_making_of_the_a...
That is true, but I've still occasionally seen people misunderstand it. Some feel like the company is more obligated to respond in a lease deal.

To be clear, I don't think that is true and I really don't think very many people should actually agree to lease deals. They are almost always bad for the consumer.
Of course, I'll add you on LinkedIn
Currently, rents are affordable when compared to the purchase price of properties.

It's not likely consumer taste shifts; it's deeply embeded in Chinese culture that men need wealth (real estate primarily) and a dowry to a woman's family in order to propose marriage. Combined with far fewer women than men due to China's one child policy [1], it's created two classes of men: those who will continue to attempt to amass wealth to woo a mate, and those who have given up or have looked outside of China for a companion ("lost men"). The wrinkle is that more Chinese women are also opting out of marriage entirely, further increasing competitive forces.

It is hard to ignore cultural norms when you operate in a culture, and these norms are creating inelastic demand for housing. The prospect of being alone for the rest of your life is a powerful motivator.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...
The identity checking sounds like it would have the same long-unsolved problems the USA has regarding registration. Capturing votes in an immutable store is hardly the difficult part of the puzzle. At least it's "unhackable," "completely anonymous," and "completely secure."
One reason to care is that https://pi-hole.net is DNS-based.
Dogpile!

Makes you wonder about stuff like Kayak today in the travel space. Is there some better way out there waiting to be found?
And I love Lazarus/FreePascal for those very reasons. A simple and very performant tool set that I use quite extensively for a set of mission critical quantitative financial analysis applications.
They aren't real guarantees in TypeScript, because the type system doesn't guarantee anything about the actual values that are flowing through the system. i.e. you have to code everything in TypeScript and make sure everyone follows the best practices.
What are your plans now? How are you going to get started? Any direction you want to take or will you first take a few weeks/months off to re-direct?
I'm always amazed by how open they are. Its great to see people like this succeed.

My one BB question is how many data centers do they have? I know they have great sharing tech to keep data online if a pod or two goes down, but how many physical locations do they run?
Except there was a time before this class of exploitation.

And so, now, there cannot be a time after? Doubtful.
Came here to say exactly this. Why even make a fuss about it? Bro, do you even NAT?

The argument is Google can record what you're sending your Chromecast. Well, (sorry for the crudeness) no shit... You're using Google hardware. If you're going to act like the DoD and not use Huawei switches, then don't use Huawei switches.

If you so choose, you must look at Google as malevolent as the US DoD would see an attacking nation state, and actively do things about it (like not buy their hardware). Otherwise, shut yo trap.
For those wondering MD5 by itself is a terrible hash for passwords. It’s really fast and without salting you can build rainbow tables against it with reasonable speed.

If the passwords were salted it still means that a determined adversary can find your password relatively quickly.

Other better hash functions for passwords include things like bcrypt. Though I do understand it is a pain to migrate users over since you can only do it when they login.
The break keyword in switch statements makes sense only if the programmer considers switch as a syntax sugar for goto, which are the semantics in C. Once you have a language that doesn't use goto but that still requires breaking each switch case, the only rationale is inertia for people familiar with C. (That said, C# does have goto, right?)
Why Should You Use Rust in WebAssembly? – Opensource.com
Is it because of speculative investment?

Basically. Here's some helpful audiovisual material:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcyYyyaPz84

Around the 9:00 mark the get to the meat of the whole thing.
Here's a reference for "Skip to content" for those who have never bothered to make their web sites usable for people who aren't 20-somethings in perfect health (Google):

https://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/
The Plan 9 fans keep forgetting that the end of the road was Inferno not Plan 9, developed by the same devs, with all Limbo packages being dynamically loaded.
I suppose that depends upon where you’re coming from. Many, many languages have an sprintf-style construct of one form or another, so I think it’s actually much more familiar to most people to have a placeholder with an optional formatter. To each their own, though.
If you're interested in this, you might also like Neil Postman's "5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change":
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/pos...
Very well spotted! I've just fixed that.

One of my test cases was binding that paramter as 'numeric' rather than 'interger'. The other DBs didn't care about that.
Words in quotes aren't always present IME, nor even if you click the "must include" link below the individual result (which rewrites the search statement by adding quotes).
DLL hell happened because Windows used to lack a package manager, leaving apps to bundle their dependencies and overwrite other versions (without semver names!) in common directories.
Modal structuralism[1] is a tragically underappreciated interpretation of mathematics that leaves nothing mysterious about the correspondence of math and nature.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/#M...
> Java is a bad example for static typing because of all its issues,

So are C and golang, even more so arguably.
Your second sentence doesn't necessarily support the first paragraph. Houses that aren't lived in, by my observation, rapidly deteriorate no matter the build quality. Old widow dies, and house is tied up in estate arguing for a few years: no one wants it now. Critters get in, it's all closed up with no circulation, all that little shit that niggles at you as a homeowner each weekend starts to add up after a while if you don't take care of it.
What UX Will Play Best on Oculus Quest?
I feel like we should probably simulate violence using VR, etc. for our children in the future. You can't really understand the danger of violence until you see just the extent of consequences it can bring. Otherwise we will be forever cyclical as our collective memories about the consequences fade.

That being said, I have no idea what the fine line would be between education and desensitization/traumatizing. We still have a lot to learn.
I hate the Guardian so much. Such a useless rag. The article assumes that these "costs" are giving a company a huge check, not tax deductions and the like.
Actually it was OWL and VCL, until Borland lost their way and we were forced to migrate to MFC.
> fairly obvious decrease in clarity

You feel that "{0} {1} {2}" provides better clarity than $"{FirstName} {MiddleInitial} {LastName}"?
Simple, it doesn't depend on requiring the content to have lots of identifiers. While you may convince some web developers to just add more identifiers, you can't convince everyone. And for largely unstructured plain text like mailing list archives, there's not really a logical way to do that anyways.

Re: making people upset. I mean, nearly anything will upset people. One way a search engine could incentivize people to add more usable fragment identifiers is by ranking pages with them higher, but I am certain many wouldn't be thrilled by that.

If this is implemented I don't think it will actually raise serious compatibility issues, and it's not a huge deal to remove it later, it should degrade softly.
Anyone know why it was raining inside the reactor?
Lots of people work hard and work long hours all their life; where's their big payday?
Looks like it’s mainly due to unemployment rising: the supply of jobs in major cities in western China, including Chongqing, fell by 77 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the same period in 2017 https://m.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2185176/cho...
> He does stuff when you ask for it.

Is the name a homage to the Luc Besson movie starring Jean Reno? If so, he'd better be able to kill a process (if not a real person) when the user asks for it ;)