skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. Although for work I prefer a workstation with enough cores for compilation.

Just bought an X230, put OpenBSD in it and it is just perfect in the summer house. Put a SIM card in it and connect to the internet from everywhere. Superb keyboard, fast, small, durable, everything replaceable.

I also have a T25 at home for development and can't say anything bad from that either, albeit a bit too big for carrying around.
likely earthlights...little understood plasma/ball lightning phenomenon...they can move very fast at times...my aunt (a former bank VP) saw one in san antonio decades ago...in her kitchen...
SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer | Remote / Berlin, DE
Site: https://svilentodorov.xyz/

email: sviltodorov[at]gmail.com

CV: https://svilentodorov.xyz/SvilenTodorov.pdf

Python Developer with 5+ years of experiencing specializing in Machine Learning. I focus on Deep Learning, especially projects near the cutting edge, but not exclusively.

Computer Vision, NLP, Tabular Data, etc.

Building models, APIs, pipelines, etc. DevOps experience.

I've worked remotely for roughly 3 years and freelanced for over 2 (with full-time positions in between).
> Consider, you have a job, an apartment, dignity.

> Without taxation you would have none of these. You would be a surf or servant, or simply dead.

I do not agree with this premise, especially since you have provided no proof that it is based in reality. If you were to guess, what was the income tax in the US in 1900 and were everyone there a surf [sic], servant or dead?
> Another example is Web version of Skype which is very picky and doesn't work in many browsers, like mobile browsers, or slightly outdated Firefox.

My Firefox is up to date (60.6.1esr), and Skype Web tells me it's unsupported and refused to work.
> These stats don't help when you read the guy had two kids who will now grow up fatherless for rest of their lives.

PRwise, yes. But it could've been 7.4 kids who would grow up fatherless for the rest of their lives.
Usually, the author is spot-on with his recommendations and I really enjoy reading his website. So I was a bit surprised about this:

> When we’re using a serifed text font in ordinary body text, we don’t have the same considerations. An fi ligature always means f followed by i. In that case, ligature substitution that ignores context doesn’t change the meaning.

Maybe this is different in English typography - I'm a bit more proficient in German - but ligatures do have semantic meaning. At least in German, they should never cross a word boundary in composite words, for example Kaufleute (merchants) is Kauf-leute (buy-people), so you would not use a "fl" ligature. There are actually words where this resolves an ambiguity, I think. Historically, this is the reason sometimes ss and sometimes ß is used. I always assumed there were similar subtle rules in English.

As to the "ligatures" in programming fonts - I would not call them such, problem solved. Rather, they are substitutions in the tradition of APL or vim conceal mode - to get mathematical notation with a standard keyboard.
Games like World of Goo, Braid and Super Meat Boy really paved the way for indie games. They showed that small teams can product quality entertainment, and that there's a real demand for it.
Sorry, without reading the article, isn't that a contradiction in itself? How can it be affordable, if it isn't a good investment? That would imply the money would be better spent elsewhere?

Edit: OK having read the article: can there be such a thing as a "good investment" in the terms of the article? I mean something that is guaranteed to be a good investment? I don't think that is possible in general, not just for housing, but for anything.
Ask HN: Can we build Ironman's Jarvis with 2019 tech?
I was rewatching movies in preparation for the new Marvel movie, and I felt some nostalgia and childhood fascination when I saw the depiction of Jarvis in the Ironman movies.

I work in ML research and am currently in graduate school, and I know we're nowhere near real intelligence. But some of those features, question generation, voice commands, object detection, image reconstruction, and others are certainly doable.

Do you think we could build something starting to approach Jarvis in 2019, at least in function i.e. helping your everyday work?
It sounds like you guys aren't aware of EXAPUNKS, which is Zachtronics newest game. It's my favorite of the whole bunch, you guys should check it out! You get a hacker zine to print out along with it!
You’ve got maybe three situations doctors get deployed into:

1. trauma, emergencies, car accidents, gun shots, broken limbs

2. common cold, owwie boo boo, turn your head and cough, antibiotics vending machine, flu shots

3. everything else that’s mostly an incurable mystery, with clinical research and drug peddling to match, including psychiatric brain drug nonsense that basically hastens suicide if anything

Doctors aren’t your pals. The compassion they display is every bit the same as the sexual attraction displayed during a lap dance. Push comes to shove, they recommend something you don’t agree with, they’re on the defensive, they’ll pummel you with medical authority, brace for malpractice, protect their license to practice at all costs, and find other wallets to pry open and yank the insurance cards out of.

Bedside manner is something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, and little more.
Queueco | Trading | London, UK | Full-time | Onsite | http://queueco.com
Queueco is a proprietary trading firm that engages in both conventional as well as cutting-edge alternative markets. Our strategies run 24/7 without manual intervention powered by low-latency infrastructure and the latest machine learning techniques. We're a meritocratic and lean team of highly-motivated scientists and developers and as such value technical ability more than politics: what matters is how good your code is, not how well you sell yourself. We spend no time dealing with clients, customers or investors and instead focus on growing our business by building better technology.

If this sounds interesting to you please have a look at our current Software Engineering and Machine Learning opportunities:

https://queueco.workable.com

Rights to work in the UK required, no visa sponsor.
> Save yourself some grief and route your mail through the likes of sendgrid if you expect high volumes or Gmail for low volume

What are the pain points?
Fedora 30 is now available on CloudBalkan
Introducing Udacity's Secure and Private AI Course (Free)
> What if the neural net or the system used to detect obstacles didn't see it because the precise configuration of the data fooled it? And if that's the case then what's next? How do we decide when it is okay for safety-critical systems to be opaque? How do we deal with autonomous driving if the conclusion comes out to be a "no" for this case? How should broader society deal with a yes? And who decides all of this in the first place?

All good questions, but I will note that the exact same questions apply equally well or better to human drivers, yet people don't seem to be as concerned.
That LIDAR sensor you talk about destroyed camera sensors precisely because it is safe for human eyes. Conventional lidar uses wavelenghts that can harm human eyes but the power output is restricted to a much lower value to prevent damage to humans and cameras.
When Skype decides your browser is unsupported, it means you can't use it at all: https://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1556784915.png
Yes, I know, and I completely agree. It was meant initially to be a pun, and nobody expected back then the library would eventually so much traction.
Even worse, I personally was giving a talk in Vietnam a couple of years ago, and you can probably imagine that I felt like an ass.

It has been discussed indeed, but unfortunately nobody volunteered yet to take the entire work of re-documenting everything and many other things that have to be done. But it's definitely something intended for the future.
It's a good thing I did not propose that I become Supreme Dictator Strawman.
Forgive me for asking, but what is different about this than Ubuntu 19.04? I looked through the POP!_OS (terrible name btw) promo page [1] and the majority of the things it's talking about are basic Gnome features shipped with Ubuntu?

[1] https://system76.com/pop
You should check out EXAPUNKS if you haven't. It similar to SHENZEN I/O, but I like better.
IE6 was ready to die the moment it was born. This story boils down to some influential developers saying "Fuck this shit" and doing something about it, taking most of the industry with them.

Given that IE6 was one of the worst pieces of software in all of human history, there was never likely to be a significant downside.
How to Optimize Intel Graphics/Hardware Acceleration on Fedora Linux Laptop
How to Create a Disk Partitions in Linux
You dont know this. The UI only displays when torque is applied in a direction, but you dont actually know if Tesla detects it earlier or not.
You are disregarding tourism. It can disrupt housing costs while the wages of everyone living in that country stay the same.
So in that case they might be something akin to Luke's apparition at the end of The Last Jedi.

I don't mean anything supernatural.
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: In Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany. Need VISA for US.

Technologies:

Langs: Rust, go, Elixir/Erlang/BEAM, python, clojure.

DevOps: Containers (docker + k8s).

Databases: PG, SQLite, Redis as advanced. Knowledge of MySQL, Cassandra, Scylla, Mongo.

Cloud: Mostly AWS, EC2, S3, Route53, Cloudfront.

I want to do more than coding and I am mostly interested in doing strategy work, not only building a product but help deciding what product to build, how to test it for the market, how to communicate with possible users and clients and how to balance the risk and the trade-off that these difficult decisions carry.

CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EOa3GEZTTIHPla7JrDLo-KvCVO...

Email: simone@redbeardlab.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosciattisimone/

Github: https://github.com/siscia

Website: http://redbeardlab.com
It'd be great for anyone who does Infographics.

Maybe a per country breakdown dashboard?

Prediction/forecast engine?

Use the National oil and gas reserves question and rank countries by estimate of when they'll be depleted?

I'd love if someone linked this to a forestry or carbon capture by country database to see the environmental deficit per country
Was adding the "kid" part integral to the reply? Made me cringe a bit.
>"I am willing to treat this claim more credibly"

That's a personal heuristic - a very reasonable one, but it's still an argument from authority.
> Window cleaners would have a similar chance of getting an apartment as their boss.

No they wouldn't. I lived in an european city with a socialist municipal government who enforced social housing programs which, on the brochure, meant that window cleaners would have a similar chance of getting an apartment as their boss, and when the program was put to practice... Surprise, surprise: the apartments were distributed throught the party's ranks and through minions in the local and national media.

In the end the municipality started dismantling the program due to the backlash and their solution was to sell the apartments to the current tenants at a firesale price (1/5th to 1/10th of the market value) which,again, led to some amusing anecdotes.
What Is Coming in HTTP/3 QUIC?
I wanted to say that you're wrong, but the more I think about The Netherlands, the truth seems to be a bit in your favor. I mean, I know that millionaires in The Netherlands pay taxes, but in most cases that's property/capital tax, which is about 1% (simplifying a lot here). However, that's by far not the full story. People with 1 million are also millionaires and it depends to what extent they evade tax. Let me outline some example groups and how much tax I think they pay. I'm a Dutchie myself, so I feel my guestimates are okay.

Millionaire employees:

You do have HFT companies where people make between 100,000 euro's to 250,000 euro's but pay 50% in employee tax on average. Also, top positions here are taxed around the same rate.

International millionaire employees:

The thing is: not all top managers who are also millionaires are domestic. There are quite some Dutchies who are top managers but have been an expat, which means they were paying the employee tax of another country, which is most likely cheaper. These Dutchies sometimes return to The Netherlands after decades of working abroad. I highly doubt though that tax evasion was their biggest motivator, but paying 20% less (number out of thin air, but NL is 50% so the world is 30%) employee tax year over year definitely adds up as these type of people also invest their money.

Entrepreneurs and freelancers:

A business in The Netherlands that makes 250,000 euro's in profit per year, probably has some tax tricks but my guestimate is that they still pay between 15 to 30% taxes. It really depends on how focused they are on it and how structured they are. I met this one Dutch person who's a freelancer, he makes about a 120,000 euro's per year. I'm pretty sure he pays normal income tax (and gets some deductions because he's a freelancer). Other freelancers that I know are much more focused on it and tend to be on the 15%, maybe even 10% side.

Criminals:

Criminals need to launder money, they pay their taxes, in a more karmic than bureaucratic way. This is also because most criminals that are millionaires don't seem super duper smart (source: the Dutch news regarding assinations of 15 years ago), but they are quite clever since non-clever criminals get caught, not shot.

Inherited wealth:

See my first statement, these people are most likely in real estate. There's even an episode about it by Zondag met Lubach [1]. These people evade tax.

That's all I know about it. My point is: it's a bit more nuanced than every millionaire not paying tax.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3fywTiEJgM -- Dutch spoken but has English subtitles (non-auto translated)
Just like there is a warning on cigarettes, yet we have stopped allowing smoking in enclosed public places. Kind of like driving on a freeway...
What about hanlon's stubble?

I.e. something which Hanlon's razor should remove, but actually still exists.
When doing a SaaS chose something that will let you iterate faster. If you are solo and already experienced with C#/>NET stack, going with it makes a lot of sense.
But no media article will be able to identify the poster through their IP address. So unless you re-use your username, Tor or not shouldn't make any difference.
An angry programmer could find a gesture or two to name the most hated variables...
I love these kind of posts
o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o

SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance UX/UI Web Designer/Front End Developer based in London(UK)

Previous work includes Google, Nestle, Fox's, Glenfiddich etc Can design and build full proof of concepts from UX to design to front end functional code as well as conversion optimisation / split AB testing.

Work: http://dribbble.com/roy or visit https://roybarber.com

Location: United Kingdom

Remote: Yes

Hourly: $70

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: UX/UI Web Designer/Front End Developer. HTML/CSS/JS Sketch branding and mobile design/dev

Résumé/CV: https://roybarber.com

Email: hi@roybarber.com

o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o
Isn't this a good description of stuff like Pharo?
Once I got used to the look of the 0, I started to love Hack: https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

Ligatures always confused me...
You're right, I used to know a few vegetarians who often supplement their diets with Vitamin B-12 which theoretically could help boosting and balance their cognitive ability vs. meat eaters. I personally did not notice any cognitive problems in those people at least.

Our DNA contains the sequence of folding steps instruction for each protein to fold. So for a protein to misfold itself, could this mean it must have received an incorrect instruction from the source? As we know, damages to DNA are often a result of foreign agents or coming from external environmental factors. Prevention is always better than a cure so it is probably a lot easier to figure out the source and eliminate that rather than trying to change the structure of these molecules which is extremely difficult.
SEEKING FREELANCER | RemoteLeads | Part-Time Contract Email Writer | 100% Remote

Are you looking for a 100% remote writing position where you can set your own hours, work in any timezone, and no micromanagement?

I'm Derick, the founder of RemoteLeads, and I'm looking for a freelance writer to join my team on a part-time, contract basis.

About you:
We're looking for someone with an advanced command of written English who can do the following:

· Respond to email support requests in a timely manner that come in for all products (see below).

· Write enticing summaries of job posts intended for consumption via email that make readers want to know more.

· Write a weekly status email with updates on what you accomplished during the week.

About the company:
RemoteLeads, LLC is a bootstrapped, independent company that serves freelancers who want to work remotely and have a location-independent lifestyle working remotely. We run three products (RemoteLeads, RemoteFreelancers, and Gigbox).

You'll be helping us write emails for all three products.

If you've read this far and you want to help freelancers go remote and live life on their own terms, apply with the instructions below.

Application Instructions:

1. Send an email to writer@remoteleads.io with "email writer" somewhere in the email subject line.

2. Attach your resume. Also, include a short cover letter.

3. In cover letter include previous experience you have doing freelance writing (blog posts, emails, etc.)

If everything looks good, you'll hear back from us soon.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you,
Derick from RemoteLeads
Educated guess: Very much like the old ones. That would be my conclusion at least by looking back the last 20 years.

Sure, there are exotics like languages for code golfing and domain specific languages, but overall things stayed pretty familiar.
Looks like sensors failed to see concrete divider in nice sunny weather and car slammed in to it at 70mph. Driver was obviously over confident on system's ability to self-drive, probably busy looking at phone and ignored warnings to put his hands on steering.

Why would you trust the "hands-on-steer" sensors?
There was a sensor problem, after all. No reason to trust the manufacturer when they claim these other sensors did work properly.
Yes there are not that many good people in CS. Nothing new here.

But still we can't find enough good people in munich at all. And it is not just munich.
So many people here have hardons for tesla hate.

The guy fucked up, bad. Tesla is not at fault here.

>"According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location. The crash happened on a clear day with several hundred feet of visibility ahead, which means that the only way for this accident to have occurred is if Mr. Huang was not paying attention to the road, despite the car providing multiple warnings to do so."
> > When the market goes up, your rent will increase, but the price to stay in the house you own is still zero.

> doesn't ur property tax go up with the market value?

The market value of a property is typically not assessed yearly, at least where I live.
The autopilot failed to detect a stationary obstacle.
> No-one would move, ever. People wouldn't be able to change jobs even for much higher salaries or better conditions. Children would live with their parents forever. Many people would live precariously in illegal sublets with inadequate fire exits etc.

Why?
Buy Flight Tickets: Book Cheap Flights and Airline Tickets – Upto $150 Off
Right, but Uber doesn't have to pay for that fleet. And even though each individual "contractor" effectively pays a premium over what a volume purchaser could do, because each driver (1) would need and can use the car personally, anyhow, (2) can either leverage their own personal assets or otherwise benefit from our car centric culture that makes individual financing relatively cheap, and (3) is willing to eat the premium because of labor economics which favor employers, it doesn't actually put Uber at much of a disadvantage, if at all. Arguably it puts them at an advantage to competitors, even if the sum of vehicle acquisition costs is greater than a hypothetical competitor at that scale.

Emphasis on hypothetical, which alone should be a huge clue about the underlying dynamics relating to capital financing, firm size, and transactional costs. Uber exists and their ride-hailing business is clearly a success. It couldn't possibly cost $10 billion/year to maintain their smartphone app and backend IT services, not in a sustaining mode. Economics 101 doesn't suffice to explain the situation. Uber's business exists past the threshold where the transactional costs (regulation, financing, firm size) of non-perfect markets result in outcomes that contradict classic economic models.
I once drove a backhoe where the clutch action was reversed from that of a car. I nearly wrecked it.
Have you tried Devise? It’s not default but it’s one of the best Auth tools I’ve seen in any stack. I love it and use it in tons of apps.
Take your idea to your local public library. They might be able to help or give suggestions of paths you could follow.
What Happened to Jai Alai?
Diff tools might actually be able to work better on graphical/flowchart code.

It could theoretically be easier for the tools to identify exactly what changed and present that information rather than superfluous stuff like whitespace changes.
Well if she's a former bank VP...
Android's Effect on the Mobile Industry
Surely the devil us in the detail?

inflation + 3% is an investment that I'd make.

I don't think you could just set the cap and say job done, there's enough money there to ensure everyone benefits though.
They found world's biggest fish
Even you can't believe how big fish is this
That's unbelievable
http://bit.ly/2FHl4pM

A cute dog is dancing in video
Just watch this video and try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2ZK1XVs

See how a Turkey saved the life of his friends
Even those birds also have love in their hearts
http://bit.ly/2WhAiZS

Guy made world record
He drive car on two wheels
See his video how he is driving
http://bit.ly/2ZOYaWX

See the video of this man he is catching balls and he is wearing blindfold
http://bit.ly/2Vx4Mdl
There was a fantastic post on this subject by an architect in the Los Angeles subreddit last year.

The general gist is that building requirements (parking in particular) make anything other than luxury condos financially infeasible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar...
The statistics argument is one the worst thing about Tesla. It's borderline immoral and most probably a PR blunder.
https://www.meetup.com/ makes it very easy to start a group -- you can then promote it and get people to attend and tell others

I've started a group over a decade ago, there are 500 members on the meetup.com site and we have anywhere from half a dozen to 20-30 people show up at any given meeting.
They found world's biggest fish
Even you can't believe how big fish is this
That's unbelievable
http://bit.ly/2FHl4pM

A cute dog is dancing in video
Just watch this video and try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2ZK1XVs

See how a Turkey saved the life of his friends
Even those birds also have love in their hearts
http://bit.ly/2WhAiZS

Guy made world record
He drive car on two wheels
See his video how he is driving
http://bit.ly/2ZOYaWX

See the video of this man he is catching balls and he is wearing blindfold
http://bit.ly/2Vx4Mdl
.