skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most steps in a single day: 72,351 (48 miles) on December 18

Nice; The Great Saunter is a 32 mile trip, and it took my friend 12 hours to complete it. Hard to imagine walking a full 48, especially in the middle of winter.
Last I checked, a 'rails new' gives you over 40 dependencies off the bat.
Extending Ambly to Windows and Linux
Is it really simpler? I have to learn a DSL to create PDFs with this, whereas I can just use HTML in the other case.
The Hidden Costs of $8 Jeans
> Update: not quite, see below

Did I miss the update? All that's mentioned below is that Google drive offers different files. There's nothing more about the download link.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9614993
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As others have said "If it's not testable it's not science".
That's what she said.

It also sounded like she showed up to job interviews with loud and gaudy clothing. Interviews are a show, you need to appeal to the audience.
> That said, my last several jobs I landed, I went in blue jeans and conference swag (startup tshirts).

That's the implicit dress code. It's just hard to notice because it's converged on standard male developer attire.

Conversely, a female interviewee is caught in the paradox of (a) appearing "too informal" by social standards for feminine attire if she dresses the way described above, or (b) appearing "too formal" if she does conform to social expectations for her gender. Never mind that women have an inordinately hard time finding non-unisex conference swag in their sizes in the first place.
Popular? --> Sort by L2 speakers.
Doubt it will happen in my lifetime.
Look man, I don't know what to tell you except that you view code fundamentally differently. My point is that yes, obviously everything gets turned into x64/x86 assembly at some point, and that yes, I'm sure seeing it is very easy. But if I need to prevent a GC pause from happening at some point in the frame my hands are tied. Debating this is like pulling teeth, and I'm inclined to say that if you can't follow at this point, just use your GC everywhere.
He's right. It's an low cost way to be mostly right. There are much worse tradeoffs to be made.

Assuming that science news corresponds to scientific results will get one in trouble though.
Yes, the Rails and Node communities are known for insanity.
If you want to be part of the top 1 percent, work for a top 1 percent firm
I agree, they should have done Distros, i.e. "Oh, you run Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself". I have never once talked to anyone about the window manager nor would I comment on it.
That's the old Photos app. This doesn't happen on the latest build.
> On my way out, she reminded me I should think about eating meat "for protein"

That one right there is such a tell about how well-educated many doctors are in nutrition. There are more than enough nutrients that pose a genuine problem for vegetarians, but still the one that's mentioned is one of the ones that generally isn't a problem.

That said, a MD or DO speaking about nutrition is technically operating outside their specialty. So maybe one shouldn't expect them to be too sure of what they're talking about. Though I don't know if most folks really understand that, and it's also true that dietitians often get overlooked.
Are Millennials WAY More Prepared for the Future Than We Think?
Rand Paul will force expiration of NSA spy program
What kind of database does crates.io use?
The only place I can see it getting info like this is a social network, and that means G+...

In all seriousness, could they cross-reference dates in G+ posts and photos to see that you mentioned being on your honeymoon when it was taken? Seems like something they'd do if G+ was actually a thing people used.
Yes, an interferometer is certainly a very common method to perform switching. What ultimately gets used will depend on the technology/material system. Silica-on-silicon and silicon photonics-based switches will likely use Mach-Zehnder interferometers. MEMS switches currently use movable mirrors or gratings.
Depending on who you're talking with, that might not be exactly true. Honestly, I've seem flamewars that were on the levels of emacs vs. vim. So I actually found this to be one of the more belivable scenes. Quite in constrast to the Tor scene at the beginning.
I don't understand all the outrage about Google compressing photos. They're offering a free service; they can do whatever they want to save space. If you don't want them to be compressed, use the fill size option and pay your share of storage.
The trash icon doesn't show up anymore. When you select multiple photos you still have to go through the menu to select "Delete local copy".

Even if it did show up, I like to review the photos full-screen and flip back and forth, then delete. Having to remember which of 5 shots was the best and select the bad ones in thumbnail view would just be painful. I think mine is a fairly common workflow too, as I've heard a few people complain about the same thing.
It's more about having less non-assholes filtered out prematurely by biased skill tests and evaluations.
Show HN: Livestreamed programming talk show: discussion with neovim developer
I loved loved loved the part about the curvature per mile.

Last weekend I was cutting the top of a door on a diagonal that had to match the sloped roof-line of a new doorway I'm putting in on my second floor.

When I calculated the slope, I incorrectly rounded up to too few decimal points ..such that over the length of the door (~ 31 inches) the error caused the slope to be off about 1/2 inch -- which, had I cut the door, would have looked horrible.

This problem really perplexed me (because I'm an idiot!) ...until I saw the answer staring me right in the face on my calculator - the many values to the right of the decimal. Of course, leaving those there fixed the issue, and I got a nice accurate slope over the width of the door :)
EEVblog #746 – Sharp X68000 Retro Computer Teardown
I like that the kind of text used in this... marketing website (?) could easily fall under the new definitions of terror proposed by e.g. US and UK governments...
I just realized that this post makes me sound like an Aussie! I guess I should have thrown in that it also automatically recognizes bars, beaches, sunsets and sharks!
Note that all testing was done with the paid "Original" option.

I happily pay for things, but when I do I like to verify that it does what it says on the box.
What? Google Photos (just like before) gives you a FULL SCREEN question asking if you want to backup before it even lets you run it.

So, again, what are you talking about?
> why aren't they in a position to do anything about it?

From what I have read, most of these nations are too economically tied to China, in that they are supplying goods into the factories (sub-assemblies) or otherwise part of the chain of value between manufacturing and market. That gives China the ability to economically depress them just by changing the rules by which they can import/export goods through China.

From a foreign policy point of view the US could provide trade incentives with India, to boost manufacturing there for US and European markets which would give those APAC countries another "path" to market and blunt the economic threat of China cutting itself off.

When looking at the world as a chess board each player has three 'heads', one is ideology, one is economic force, and one is military force. Complete power over an opponent is achieved when you have and advantage in all three, but sometimes any two is enough.
Metacademy are doing something similar for Machine Learning and related areas. The code is open source too - https://github.com/metacademy/metacademy-application

Here's an example visualization: https://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/red_black_trees#f...
The security argument goes both ways though. Lets say I update my music player and through some complicated chain it ends up also updating my system libc and openssl, and lets say one of those libraries accidentally introduced a vulnerability. If those libraries were statically linked, it's just my music player that's in trouble. With dynamic linking, instead of my music player having a security issue (not a big deal, probably), my entire system is now vulnerable including my web browser, even though I didn't update my web browser. (much bigger deal)

If you consider biological ecosystems, diverse genetics are almost always more robust against infection. You could potentially make that analogy about the ecosystem of computers as well.
It helps that astronomy is a branch of physics. In a sense, astronomers do perform experiments, on different conditions but with the same theory. (By the way, that's what bothers me most about cosmology, it seems to not agree with any small scale experiment performed.)

Well, certainly, natural experiments can lead to knowledge. But that's a much slower and more dangerous path, artificial experiments are better in every sense, except that they are mostly not available for economics. Anyway, I don't think the use of natural experiments are the bottleneck currently holding economics back.
Cargo makes it trivial to add dependencies to a project (which themselves may have their own dependencies), and Rust has been designed with versioning in mind from the start so that even incompatible versions of the same dependencies can exist in your dependency tree without any problems whatsoever. 63 dependency crates isn't insanity when your tools take 100% care of them for you. To me, a large collection of dependencies represents a proper and fine-grained separation of concerns.
Seems like unification of signaling systems across European railways might help alleviate some of these problems. It would be interesting to see if they're actually legitimately dissimilar or more just similar but incompatible for historical reasons.
Thanks, I didn't realise that. Unfortunately, I wasn't looking to charge for my app, so a commercial license isn't feasible for me. As far as I know, GPL3+ is incompatible with the iOS App Store, so that's out too.
I disagree with some of the suggestions of "building up a github profile".

There is a catch-22 there, in that you will only get found "per-chance" or "if someone is actually looking".

You can build sites but you don't need to open-source them either.

Build up a portfolio of legitimate work by taking scraps is the best way and then advertise yourself far and wide with your portfolio of legitimate work.

Hiring a code-monkey is easy and plenty of $5 workers in India can probably churn out code. Being a professional and delivering high-quality work is how you will stand out and warrant a $40-$50 per-hour rate

It looks like you're American, so finding work as a contractor won't be that tough for you.

I'd aim for mid-size non-tech companies that need processes automated. Do great work for them and referrals will become your prime marketing go-to.

[1] I did all that github bullshit myself and
Anyone else in NY inspired to do this? Most work days I'm only getting in 10k steps but I frequently break 25k and am looking to do that more regularly as I've got about as much weight to lose.

The weather is nice. This would be a cool thing to do with a group.
There are copyright reciprocity agreements between specific sets of nations, but there is no universal copyright law.
I've never piloted a drone or a jet in my life, so I'm genuinely asking: is it likely that an inbound jet would be able to spot a drone and take evasive action?
Would a pre-assembled corpus of spam be ok for your needs? https://www.google.ru/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=spam+corpus
Why Not Google?
How can I legally convert a “dead-tree” library (1050 books) to eBooks?
I have a largish dead-tree library/bookcase of about 1050 books (all catalogued digitally, with titles and ISBN numbers). I’m looking for a way to legally convert them to eBooks without incurring a totally unreasonably large cost, mainly because I will be travelling an awful lot over the next few years and I need many of them for reference. I live in Italy and bought most of them from Amazon.co.uk. For a while I was quite enthusiastic because Amazon.com offered a programme whereby eBook copies of purchased books could be had for little or nothing, but (as far as I know) this was never extended overseas. I’m left wondering whether there is a manner of doing this economically and legally, or whether I will be faced with having to abandon the idea, incur a massive expense to re-purchase eBook editions of everything, or go off the beaten track.

Assuming the denizens of HN to be a fairly literate lot, I assume at least somebody has faced this same problem before, and assuming the technical prowess of NH denizens, I assume at least somebody has made a reasonably proficient stab at solving this.
I've gone through this. The only difference is that I could point to what was distracting me and taking my motivation: gaming.

Playing highly competitive games was an addiction for me (though I denied it for a long time). I wanted to improve my skill, knowledge, and win rate in the games I played, which consumed my attention, and drew me away from work.

As you've said, there isn't an identifiable internal or external stimulus which is causing your distraction, so I'll have to be general and subjective with what I am about to say.

Perhaps take a look at the actions you take when you are distracted. Do you flock to a specific place or action when you lose interest? This can be the internet, eating, running, driving, etc. If you find a pattern in your distraction, analyzing the issue becomes easier.

There's always the possibility that you're doing something you don't like and haven't realized it yet; perhaps a career change or dev change is in order.

Changing my environment helps significantly when I want to maintain focus. Getting out of the house increases my productivity and inspires new ideas.

So reflect on yourself, your work, you happiness, and your interests and make sure everything is in check. If it is, and you're still losing focus then an Attention Deficit Disorder test could be an option (however many people are over diagnosed for this disorder)

I hope some of this helped.
I'm glad to know there is ongoing work on a tracing GC. Rust has many strengths aside from lifetimes and ownership (algebraic data types, sane generics, strong module support, very strong type system), so a few features to make it more usable for use in contexts where performance isn't as important as expressivity would be very nice to have.
News flash: people with similar interests tend to socialize.

Rich wall street people are still just normal people, and it would be weird if they didn't have industry social events.
Cloud services outliving my (not so fancy) NAS. So, where's my Webshots account? (since we're talking photos, let's take a photos example. It shouldn't be hard to find an example of a dead web service for any other kind of data, either)

_My_ datastore still exists and proudly provides those files from my redundantly stored, checksummed, auto-repairing local filesystem.
No, I don't have an off-site backup. But neither had Webshots once they decided to shut down.
As an aside, I think nearly any time you want a typedef, it's worth wrapping it in a struct.

typedef struct { int value; } thing_t;

That way the compiler catches it when you try to pass the wrong thing (at least, more of the time).
"Passengers ... will need to get off at Lille, go up to the customs hall and in effect start their journey again.
...
Even some of those who knew of the Lille stop were surprised to find they had to carry their luggage throughout"

Who would want to do that?

Not only that, the Marseille train leaves London at 07:19! Great for people in London, not so great if you live outside. Firstly, it might not be possible to get in that early, and secondly, mid-week, peak fares in to London are extortionate.

I checked a fare in October (Fri-Fri, before half term): £178. Sat-Sat in October: £129.

Flying: £110 return with Easyjet, including baggage. Or from Heathrow with BA: £114. At more reasonable times of day. It's a 2 hour flight.
Haha. So many downvotes? I wonder if anybody has a good solution which does not require 4-5 steps and two copies of an image to get photos on Google photos, edit them with Photoshop locally and resync that changes ;) with keeping my folder structure.
Not if you're just transiting. Sterile transit just plain doesn't exist at US airports (or at least, didn't when I last checked, which was a few years ago - maybe things are different now?), so changing planes takes bloody hours instead of minutes, and requires going through exit procedures and then coming back through security.
I don't think that syntactic ambiguity is particularly crucial to throughput. There is still plenty of semantic ambiguity possible in Lojban, and from what I have seen Lojban doesn't seem to have particularly lower throughput than natural languages.
What's wrong with bacon, cheese omelettes and milk? Of course there is nutrition found in all of those. I primarily eat a protein/fat based diet and survive on bacon and eggs.
I'd love to see a mapping service with dynamic projection functionality based on zoom and window view. The concept of one fixed projection doesn't account for the nature of digital mapping today.
I'd agree with that argument for the general case. Yet, there have been proprietary systems that resisted attacks in their attack model (with source code!) for years and all were designed with established methods for increasing assurance. There's dozens of done that way, esp in defense and smartcard markets. There's a few OSS projects with either good design or code review (medium assurance) that were done by pro's and open-sourced. Far as the actual FOSS development model, there are zero high assurance security offerings done that way. That's despite decades of examples with details published in journals, on the web, etc to draw on. So, FOSS has never done high security, NSA pentesters did give up on a few proprietary offerings, and therefore FOSS is inferior to proprietary in high security because only one has achieved it. Matter of fact, the open-source, commercial MCP OS of Burroughs was immune to pointer manipulation and code injection in 1961 via two bits of tag. FOSS systems haven't equaled its security in five decades.

They need to catch up really quick because they could be the best thing for high assurance. The mere fact that there's tons of labor, they're free, and not motivated by commercial success avoids the main obstacles to high assurance, commercial development: that the processes are labor-intensive, difficult to integrate with their shoddy legacy stuff, and hard to sell. If FOSS ever groks it, they could run circles around the other projects and products in terms of assurance. Closest thing is the OpenBSD community but they use low-assurance methods that lead to many bugs they fix. Their dedication and numbers combined with clean-slate architecture, coding, and tools would produce a thing of beauty (and security).

And, yet, the wait for FOSS high assurance continues. If you know anyone wanting to try, Wheeler has a page full of FOSS tools for them to use:

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/high-assurance-floss.html
Bugginess of one particular implementation (and let's be fair here -- most of the stuff in glibc is quite ugly and hacky, a direct consequence of the bazaar model) has nothing to do with dynamic linking. Both PAM and NSS have been used successfully in a dozen of other operating systems for decades, and that's dynamic linking that facilitated these technologies.

Are you arguing that glibc code quality will magically go up if they abandon dynamic linking?
Maybe the point was to make the scene awkward?
The homophobic jokes suggests they are not normal people, but rather terrible ones.
Its become even more of a farce with Global Entry/TSA Precheck. While $100 (per 5 years) isn't unaffordable to those that fly regularly, the entire program contradicts a lot of the security claims made between 2001 and today.
I have been using this for a while and one day I realized it is skipping some pictures when backing up. I went through all of my pictures and noticed ~5% is missing. This was the last day when I trusted Google with picture backups. On the other hand Flickr offers similar solution that actually does what it is supposed to.
Postgres: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io

It also stores the index via git and S3...
Symbol versioning came from Solaris, originally, and the actual de-facto standard was specified by Sun.
I'd love something similar to be part of Cargo, maybe as an option in the manifest. Like the author, I've learned to guess when the codegen starts, but having this information displayed would be useful.
DRY is good, but making the structure of your code reflect the actual semantics you want is better. What you want is to allocate space for foo. So write that.
Could not agree more. This is exactly how I backup my pictures too.
Computerized statistics and online journals/digitized libraries are ENORMOUS advancements in the scientific process.
Default checked is still illegal. Even if it gives you a full screen of info. As someone who doesn’t read it and just clicks through the options should never lose any private data.

Everything that touches your private data has to be opt-in. Or it does not count as "explicit permission", meaning the upload, processing, etc is illegal.
I don't see how prototype-based programming solves the fragile base-class problem. Instead you just have the fragile "base-object" problem.
There's a clue in your formulation that guides you to the right answer - no useful library should ever remain in stasis.

Or as it's generally said, the only software that never changes is software no one uses.
I agree. And theater is the right word. I just don't believe that all those procedures, such as taking out your laptop, bagging liquids, and removing your shoes, are actually useful in improving safety.

It's also incredibly stressful for the staff. I was in line in the US once and one lady had a meltdown. She saw the queue of people going around the corner and basically just threw her hands up and quit. The face on her only colleague was priceless.

Add to that the fact that there seem to be some shortcuts taken. I was told if you miss a connection, they take your bag off for obvious reasons. Well, I actually missed a connection once, and the bag went on the plane and I got to pick it up when I caught up.
It' only a matter of time before someone gets killed. The person responsible will be sorry and explain that he (it will be a he) didn't realize the repercussions.

This little parade accident happened last week in Boston: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/26/drone-crashes-d...
I guess he's saying the box can't be checked by default. It has to be opt-in and not opt-out.

Whether or not this is true in Germany is something I don't know.
Now that would be unrealistic.

You can't really guess which distro someone is using just by glancing over their screen for a second.

You can tell which DE they are using but not distro, except in the case of Unity and Pantheon, those are mostly used with their respective distros. People don't usually have output of cat /etc/os-release on the screen easily visible for people passing by to see.

There isn't that much visible difference between distros if you aren't working as root.
There's the Google Search looking for good place to stay on a honeymoon, the email or hangout message sent to the SO mentioning it, the calendar event, etc.

Even just seeing that you're on an irregular stay in Thailand (which it got from your Android) right after your marriage can be telling.
I remember learning quite a bit of Lojban back in 1989 using a flashcard program on my PC. I even subscribed to Bob LeChevalier's newsletter for a while. I drifted away from it probably because it wasn't solving a problem that I had, cool as it was in theory. It was probably more interesting to construct the language than to use it.