skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commodore VIC-20, I was in a "gifted" program in the 2nd grade. Every Wednesday I was taken out of the normal class and put on a bus, where all the other smart kids from different schools were taken to a special school. Our teacher was writing one of those text based adventures. He taught us how to write loops, conditionals, printing output, gathering input, arrays. I have to say I was immediately hooked. Soon after my parents bought a TI-994A, I would spend hours typing in code from those old magazines that had simple game programs in them. I lusted for years for a commodore 64, my friends had them though they had no interest in programming them. It wasn't until 1990 that I got a real computer a Hewlett Packard 286. It wasn't until 1992 that I got a real compiler, borland turbo c++. I had no help, no internet, just one book. And I was on my way...
Spark Core Bathroom Monitor
Swift and Command Line
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The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
Which is why any competent person that was aware that the interviewer's biases was the primary mechanism informing hiring choices...would decline.

I'm not sure why we need to talk this long about it to go back to the parent post?
Yeah I've been using git regularly for a year or so now and have never run into having to do wacky stuff like rebasing and whatnot. I just stick to the normal checkout new branch, hack on stuff, merge branch, move on. The more boring and simple my git use the better IMHO.
Best reasoning for claiming that mankind will never be the same again: claiming that mankind is being the same.
Think of the sort of things people share on Facebook, reddit and the lower end of Twitter, now put them all in one place with link-baity titles that appeal to predominantly teenaged girls, stay at home moms and bored internet users. And then plaster it with ads
You know that's a good question.

I've spent about half of my work day today working out npm dependency conflicts... The Einstein quote about insanity comes to mind.
Marketing Tests – Part 8
Using line of site communication such as laser would probably not be the best way for interstellar communications. Largly because as empty as the universe is. It's hard to shoot a straight line in any direction and not hit something, and also the high energy requirements.

Lasers are only being used in this case for bandwidth issues not latency issues. As both lasers, and radio travel at the speed of light.

SETI is using the most likely method of detecting communications as we don't know of any faster means to communicate than EMR.
For future versions, maybe you could do local position tracking and use that to make surround sound?

Or better yet, if the audience is on numbered seats, print a QR code on their ticket which gives them an URL that includes their seat number as a parameter.
I parked at a spot in the Mission where the meter rate on the weekend was $6 an hour.
"Every househould in America isn't going to own 2.2 drones."

I'd take that bet.
Try it out here: https://programming.wolframcloud.com/app/
Number Maniac
I sure hope these mythical figures have more discerning taste in board games than Settlers of Catan.
It doesn't, nor is supposed to. It is composed of small parts with as little responsibility as possible. The idea of Lotus is to not force you to use any tool or favor any kind of approach to such things, but instead give you enough "frame work" to compose with other tools that are responsible for such tasks like authorization, authentication, persistence, or really any kind of stuff you need to do.
As you folks are based in Paris, it would be nice to have proper contact details and an imprint. Can't find either. Reference: Loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (LCEN).
I get a discount on my health insurance premium from my company.
>'ParkModo was recently offering $13 an hour to drivers who would occupy parking spaces in the Mission District during peak weekend times and then sell the spot through its app, a Craigslist job posting showed.'

Wow, I remember when parking spot squatting was the province of bold homeless men near nightclubs.

This sort of rent-seeking on the commons is particularly distasteful, but simply 'cracking down' on it seems like a wasted opportunity.

If the demand and divide are such that this is a real issue it seems like time for a progressive congestion tax or similar. Collect and invest in infrastructure.
smart phone games.
At least xmonad starts with an "x". Alternatives like "ratpoison", "enlightenment", "metacity" or "sawfish" have names which are arguably even less meaningful to end users.

In my view there's really no tension between naming things after implementation details and giving them abstract unrelated names -- all that really matters in the long term is that a name is memorable, and memorable names can and do come from either approach.
Apache Spark: GraphX Programming Guide
The unfortunately necessary preface: I'm a huge soccer fan, and have followed my favorite team (Benfica) since 1992 when I was introduced by my grandfather.

I think the author's mathematical assertions are correct. Soccer has an amazing amount of random noise, but is influenced in one direction or another by talent. However, my conclusion isn't that watching soccer is a waste of time, but rather that the cup format for soccer competition doesn't prove much. The season and point aggregation format makes much more sense (and it makes much more sense in any form of low scoring / high variability sport, such as baseball). Because of the variability, any sort of win-to-advance behavior can heavily skew the entire competition towards those with early luck.
How come you got the Withings scale instead of the Fitbit one?
A number of consumer scales use some form of electrical pulse timing to determine the composition of tissue in the feet, which is extrapolated for the body. For these results to be meaningful, you have to be very consistent with your hydration before you use the scale.
Rental home shortage is America's next housing crisis
This is disgusting. Parking in SF is already not easy, and now this cancer is moving in and exacerbating the problem.
Strange argument. How does modern soccer (quite attacking these days) compare to the number of goals per game in ice hockey, touchdowns per game in the NFL, or home runs in a baseball game?
> It is not evidence, in the sense that you cannot do 500, 37,100, or a 1 million card guessing attempts in this setup with this level of detail and expect it to shift belief of a rational agent. The ratio between the priors of the usual suspects is going to look the same as your ratio of posteriors between all the hypotheses after the test.

Exactly. When you suspect that the evidence is biased (or in other words, generated by a process other than genuine new physics or supernatural activity), more iterations of the process cannot give you much more evidence. What more iterations does is reduce sampling error from random variation, but it does nothing about systematic error. The idea that you can run a biased experiment 1000 times and get a much more accurate answer than if you ran it 10 times is an example of what Jaynes calls 'the Emperor of China' fallacy, which he discusses in another chapter (I excerpt it in http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#flaws-in-mainstream-science-a... ).

That this is so surprising and novel is an interesting example of a general problem with null-hypothesis testing: when a significance test 'rejects the null', the temptation is to take it as confirming the alternative hypothesis. But this is a fallacy - when you reject the null, you just reject the null. There's an entire universe of other alternative hypotheses which may fit better or worse than the null, of which your favored theory is but one vanishingly small member.

What is necessary to show ESP specifically is to take all the criticisms and alternatives, and run different experiments which will have different results based on whether the alternative or ESP is true. (The real problem comes when it looks like the best experiments showing ESP are at least as rigorous as regular science and it's starting to become difficult to think of what exactly could be driving the positive results besides something like ESP: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou... )
Not for one of the three I chose as examples, but yes for others.

One guy was very awkward socially, over confident in himself and under-appreciative of everyone else. At least that is how he appeared in the interview. My team at the time rotated three people through as a hiring board to spread out the work of finding people and I was on the board that interviewed him. He was a very weird guy, and I mean more than your typical loner/introvert with underdeveloped social skills. We were a little worried about his ability to work well with the team, but on technical merits he was fantastic. He also didn't show any red flags, just general weirdness. So we hired him, and he was a good fit. Definitely in the top half of our team as far as quality and timeliness of his output.

I'm also glad that the people managing the hiring process for the other two employees I mentioned was willing to look at their professional record and not at their "culture fit" because pug-lady and microbrewery-guy were some of our best people. When I left the company where I worked with microbrewery guy, he was the one to whom I handed all of my outstanding projects.
Don't exist street sellers? I know in USA is normal the hotdogs sellers and people that sell in special cars.

P.D: Another very easy tactic: If you are close to a location where people do sports, sell fruits, water and similars become possible. I know a women that only work 2 days each week for like 4h/day and made 3x-4x the AVG. salary of a developer here.
The vanished grandeur of accounting
"Try it for free"... nope. Languages should be free, period, not free for trial.
FYI:
http://reserve.getcruise.com/join-the-driverless-revolution

The font here is illegible. Some weird anti-aliases very-thin white-on-black. Highlighting doesn't help.
I'm a (very) novice web dev and have been poking around Forge[0]. I noticed all your time data is expressed in unix time. Do most real-time web apps express time this way? Is it a conventional best-practice?

[0] for example, https://publicdata-weather.firebaseio.com/chicago
PostCSS 1.0: Framework for CSS post-processors with full source map support
Shame that thong looks ugly on the roof if that car. Who's liable if an accident happens when Cruise is turned on?
Best challenge for dogs: indestructible toy
Get worldcup scores straight from terminal with Node.js
/var/spool/cron AND /etc/cron*

This is, the personal cron tasks, as well as, the system cron tasks (/etc/crontab, cron.d/, cron.hourly/, cron.daily/*, etc).

Depending on the distribution you may need other files from anacron or other cron implementations, but they will be mostly configuration files for cron and no tasks.

Also note that the system crontab may reference non-standard locations. I've seen things like "/etc/cron.5minutely" debugging live servers.

At the end of the day, usually you backup everything except excludes. An unix like system, uses to have so many files, that being picking one by one needed files on backup, is not practical.

Updated (for clarity).
I was, and am, mostly on the side that argues that client-side javascript support can be assumed to such a degree that it can safely be considered requirement in a lot of cases.

However, I do have some reservations of a more 'ideological' nature when it comes to requiring javascript when it isn't strictly necessary.

I still believe one of the most powerful things about the web is the (relative) simplicity of the request/response server-side-rendering approach. There are so many ways in which a web page can be consumed (scraped, read-later-tools, etc.), within 'fair' boundaries of course. And this often falls apart because of client-side javascript.

This is fine when it concerns a web-app that is specifically made for browsers (where ideally there's also a public-facing API). But for most other things it should not be necessary, and I believe it harms the possibilities of the open web. And quite often I find that it deceases the usability in general (back-button breakage, etc.).

Of course, my ideal solution is both server- and client-side support, used appropriately, through something like React or PhantomJS.
Here's the letter (PDF):
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It's been a real bad month for Heroku.
Perhaps. But even-so, distribute the total number of "drones", and divide by the population and I bet you'd get close to that ratio.

Whether they're quad-copters, SUVs, vacuum cleaners, or some "drone" in a factory retrieving the products a consumer just ordered ... whatever ... I'd bet that society does shift in the direction of robots or drones handling an increasingly-long list of services currently handled by humans.
That's because the manufacturers tie so much stuff into them. It's been 3 years since I looked into it, but it was my understanding that if I upgraded my stereo I'd lose the nice display just below the windshield line. I think I'd also lose either the steering wheel music controls, or the bluetooth controls for my phone.
Roads are public goods and more importantly they are built with tax money. They are also specifically built for cars to use and without a place to stop they are a bit meaningless in a city.

They might just change this and start charging but that's a pretty stupid idea. Free market is not an answer to everything.
Awesome, thanks for sharing. This definitely looks like the way to go in the future, and with any luck, the abilities of the various browsers will catch up.
I'm the other VIC-20 vote so far and I don't know where my family had gotten that computer. It came with a book of BASIC programs that you could type in but we didn't have have a storage unit (tape drive), so each time I wanted to play a game I had to type the entire program in and run it. Most of the time I asked my mom to type it in for me, but I remember a couple of times that I spent the hour hunting and pecking in order to play my favorite game (Moon Rover or something, I forget the name).

Fun times!
The math is interesting, I'm not sure about the larger point he's trying to make however, as all the "bad" aspects of the sport actually arguably make it a better sport:

1. If you want to prove that its a waste of time to watch soccer, its much easier to state how nothing relies on it. Trying to compare it to other time-wasters like basketball seems like a very strange exercise in subjectivity. Especially because I can easily make the competing argument: if the other sports more predictively give the expected results, then isn't it less useful to watch them? If I could predict the result of a game with probability 1.0, then it would be 100% useless to watch the game. What fun is it to watch a coin that always comes up heads?

2. It is separately well understood that games do not necessarily correlate with "expected" skill. Case in point, many tournaments switched from a everyone-plays-everyone model (that is far fairer) to a single elimination, precisely because it is noisier and thus more exciting.
It looks like you're missing the point. As an example, I've built the adapter for DynamoDB[1] so you can throw sequel out in matter of minutes even for existing app, and most likely without any code change.

[1] https://github.com/krasnoukhov/lotus-dynamodb
There are plenty of people that care about global poverty. The issue is there are no simple solutions because the problems are societal not technical.

More than two-thirds of all agricultural land is devoted to growing feed for livestock. There are 1.4 Billion cattle right now, "simply" swapping 1/2 of that to chicken would free up enough food to easily support the poorest 2 billion people in the world. But, good luck actually changing peoples behavior on a global scale. Not to mention things like food waste etc.

http://vitalsigns.worldwatch.org/vs-trend/farm-animal-popula...

PS: War and Corruption are far more important issues when it comes to global hunger than food production.

EDIT: There is easily enough farm land right now to feed ~20 BILLION people a healthy and sustainable diet using current farming practices. Which is well behind and expected global population for the next 200 years.
This "frightens" me a lot more than the Google car does. I trust that automated cars will be safe "enough." I don't think I would necessarily trust an automated car that can find itself in a situation in which a driver needs to intervene. I barely trust other drivers on the road (maybe its the NYC driver in me...). Trusting those drivers' reaction times in a situation where the car needs to disable automation would require a lot of built up good will/trust.

That being said, I think this could be a great idea for more closed environments. Honestly, I'm not really sure where they are. Maybe huge airport parking lots (as "drop offs" at specific locations), or in large corporate parks or something of that nature.
Related technologies that sit somewhere between cruise control and self-driving cars in terms of automation (I only have personal experience with older versions of the BMW and MB systems, and the situation has clearly improved in the last few years):

- BMW active cruise control will automatically adjust if you get too close to the car in front of you

- Infiniti cars will stop themselves if they detect obstructions in the direction of motion (rear and forward)

- Ford cars can perform the motions of parallel parking

- Mercedes-Benz cars warn you when you drift into the next lane

Other car manufacturers have related technologies.
That copy may be confusing, but we have packages starting at $1000, we have the infrastructure though to visit 100 places (depending on your niche), but that is our top tier; where $1000 is our lowest tier.

Tracking of where/when/how long on site, who they visited etc, is all handled via an app. The customer has literal access to the route driven by a particular rep, how long they were on site etc.
Its disingenuous to say that Dropbox has a file size limit of 10GB, when the first thing written on that page you cited says otherwise... The 10GB limit only applies to files uploaded through the web interface. Files uploaded through the OS/mobile client have no file size restriction. [0]

[0]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/5/en
Thanks for your reply. That fills me with a little more confidence. However, elsewhere in this thread someone else raised a valid question:

How do you handle child porn filtering?

I have three children and take photos of them. I am worried about false positivies.
Sounds like you're already neck-deep in "parking for the rich only".

I'd be seriously reconsidering plans to do anything where the parking was that expensive.
Hi folks, this is Matt from 303 Software, the dev shop in the article. Rexreed, you're right. Thing is, I don't even mind paying the tax going forward. We'll just add the 3.62% to our invoices. What I object to is having to pay back taxes, penalties, and interest on this obscure tax while the City gives tax breaks to out of state companies.
There's some very old entrepreneurial wisdom that says if your business can make it past year 4, it has staying power. I thought that was bullshit until I made it past year 4 and right about that time we discovered efficiencies, lucrative markets, a kick-ass business model and what we are really good at.

And yeah, not having money is really really awful, especially when it goes on for years with no certainty that it will ever change. But as entrepreneurs, that's how we do.
>you can't follow every city and country on earth's laws and stay in business.

If you are unable to follow a city or county's laws, then you either need to go about trying to change those laws in that city or country, or not operate there. They released an app specifically to do something that is not legal in a specific city - look at that twitter post.

You can't do something illegal in one city just because it's legal elsewhere - why should an app be allowed to?
CloudFlare WWW developer here: since that thread we fixed our GA inserts on our web properties and turned off the usual CDN cookies for CDNJS.
A ubiquitous, world changing, radically different innovation (like computers) in which hundreds or thousands of companies can simultaneously participate.

Is there such a thing on the horizon?

I don't think drones are it. Sorry Marc. You were in the right time at the right place and had the right skills. Don't expect this combination of timing, luck and effort to be easily duplicated elsewhere.
I hate the term "funemployment."

Look, it's great that you are financially secure enough that you can take half a year off. Seriously! I am happy for you. But most people aren't in that position. Most people are barely getting by, and for those folks, unemployment is terrifying, because unlike you they have no guarantees that a new gig will be available for them the moment they decide to start looking for one.

Part of the reason "funemployment" grates so much is because of an assumption buried inside it -- namely, that you will only be unemployed as long as you choose to be. It's fun in the same way a roller coaster is fun -- it's a simulation of risk presented inside an environment you know to be controlled. The sensation you get when a roller coaster crests a hill and starts downward is the same one you would get if an airplane you were on suddenly lurched into a steep dive. What makes the coaster fun is that you know it's going to pull out of the dive before you hit the ground and die. What makes the airliner plunge frightening is that you don't.

Unemployment is only fun if you know it's temporary. Programmers and other tech folks are among the very few in this job market who have that luxury. For everyone else, losing their job is an airliner plunge -- a sudden "oh shit" moment with no guarantees that it will end happily. So glib terms like "funemployment" kind of rub your good fortune in the faces of those who get a pink slip and wonder how they're going to make their next rent payment.
I had a big failure years ago. It was horrible, and in retrospect there were a lot of really screwed up things going on from day one. This included a business partner who turned out to be a delusional sociopath, etc.

Nevertheless I learned a tremendous amount. You learn things by going through it in the trenches that cannot be taught in school.

Currently working toward attempt two, which is probably much more likely to be successful.
I'm not certain what you're trying to say. When you talk about "the function," I'm assuming you're referring to the nearest unused colour function, which, while it is a one-to-one mapping is also a) a function from colour 3space to colour 3space (input is a targeted RGB point, output is a valid, unused RGB point) and b) it is also dependent on the state of the colour space i.e. the function is of the form (r0, g0, b0, colourspace) -> (r, g, b) + the colour space is modified to indicate that (r, g, b) has been used.

All of the dealings with the X, Y space (the image) are separate from the colour searching algorithm. There is a function to approximate the target colour of an unfilled pixel in X, Y by averaging the values of its neighbours, but that value is then used as input to the above-described search function.

I could simply be misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
It was 600Mb