skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks more like a beginning of an online IDE than a direct github competitor. It's just convenient if you're already using Google's cloud services.
I see a lot of comments about how great Alex Stamos is. I have not followed the industry long enough to know -- why is he great? What makes him different from a crappy engineer, or even Average Joe engineer?
Ask HN: I have money, but I am still very lost and unhappy
I've worked in software for the past 6 years of my life and through sound investments and savings, have managed to build a net worth of $500K. Most of it is in stocks and I take it out as I need to spend it. Not fuck-you money, but a decent amount for being in my late 20s.

But I hated writing software at the pace of larger company, and my pointless paycheck/savings lifestyle, so I quit.

That was a year ago.

Since then, I tried starting my own thing, but it failed, twice. Kind of burned out from those failures.

I did some traveling, but it all felt empty cause I would travel alone as I had no friends with the same freedom as me.

I don't want to go back to a paycheck because it's just more money saving.

I don't have enough connections or know "smart" people to try to build products with since I spent most of my life in the walls of a company, and when I go to socials, it's really a hit or miss with a lot of misses.

Lately I've been depressed. Sleeping a lot during the day, and doing nothing in my waking hours. I don't feel motivated. Any suggestions on what I should do instead of just sitting here, draining my savings?

BTW, I am in Boston/Cambridge. Any advice, or any words at all, is greatly appreciated.
> It can serve as a “remote” for Git repositories sitting elsewhere on the Internet or locally.

That's not a feature of this product, it's just how git works.
Have you checked out any of the GitHub plugins that do this, something like https://www.zenhub.io could help you add more structure to GitHub
I believe that Cloudflare does 2 and 3.
That's pretty interesting in the context of sailing. It doesn't seem to take much time at all for people to adjust between a tiller and a wheel, or standing behind or in front of a wheel. I think a lot of that has to do with sensing that force is needed to keep from rounding up into the wind. Possibly, having a rudder well forward of the mast would change that, which makes me think that it is also the immediacy of failure that makes it difficult to learn.

Anyway, if it were a useful skill, I think learning how to handle reversing handle bars could be made faster with two changes. A longer, more forward front wheel fork, would make the amount of force more apparent to the rider. Second, much larger wheels would be slower to react with failure, so the rider gets a few extra fractions of a second to learn how to react.
For the typical larger project, you'd wind up with hundreds of indexes each used by a single application query. The optimal index arrangement for a database often does not result in all columns being indexed on a query. It's normal and desirable (for index size and performance) to have fewer indexes that may only partially cover your queries. For example, a query with a WHERE of "a AND b AND c" is more often than not better handled with an index on (a) or (a, b) rather than (a, b, c). Especially if you have a second query with "a AND b AND d", you're most likely going to wind up with a single index for (a, b) rather than one for (a, b, c) and another for (a, b, d).

What could be useful would be a generated report for all your queries with possible suggestions, grouping together queries with the same partial prefix columns, and the cardinality that each index would result in. Then one could manually review to look for the most significant improvements possible. I think a fully automated attempt (even built-in heuristics that modified indexes over time) would sometimes result in a bad decision being made that could theoretically crash your application. Perhaps with a few years of perfecting a solution this could become the norm. :)
Why bother with planets when we could live in space. There are lots of asteroids filled with materials floating around. If we make it economically feasible to do asteroid mining, we could expand population 1000 times. Think of what would a constellation of self-sufficient asteroid colonies and ships do for human freedom.
Doesn't BitBucket/Stash provide more structure for code reviews? You can lock down the main branch and force code to get merged via a PR.
> 4. The status quo is pretty terrible.

I can agree with you here. One thing businesses are constantly telling me: "We are flooded by unsuitable candidates, because recruiters are playing the numbers game. Their strategy is submitting large lists of candidates in the hope that one or two are suitable."

The status quo has evolved because employees don't feel qualified, or like they have the resources, to conduct an initial candidate search. They don't think they have the networks, but they need a new hire fast. So they outsource to 'experts', but the incentive is all wrong.

Good luck to you. I'm on the other side of the Pacific thinking about what we can do to take recruiters out of the mix, focusing on better marketplaces, but you've certainly piqued my interest.
Sorry, I should have been more clear -- that sounds worse than it is (although it is still bad). The original file data in the Dropbox is not corrupted; it is only the PDF presented in the web browser (to the user with whom you shared the data) that is corrupted.

What happens is, when you share a PDF file via link, instead of presenting the actual PDF file in the browser (which would work fine) Dropbox instead presents its own PDF viewer inside the web browser and shows the file.

This "PDF view" has problems with many PDF documents containing Japanese text, and either doesn't render the Japanese, or renders bogus data instead.

Depending on the contents of the document, this can result in it looking like gibberish, but it can also result in a document that looks correct to the recipient but is actually totally wrong.

For instance, one real-world case was a document with a long list of work items for a project. The items happened to be in English, and in Japanese many of them said 'CANCELED' （中止）in the right-hand column.

The Dropbox PDF viewer failed to render only the Japanese in the right hand column, so to the recipient it looked like e.g. a list of 100 work items, when in fact the point of the document was to communicate that 60 of the 100 items had been cancelled.

In this case, there was no hint at all to the recipient that there was anything amiss.

It's a bad bug, and dramatically reduced the utility of Dropbox for our company. But, to be clear, the original data stored in Dropbox was not corrupted.
Your comment is excellent and the truth. By selling a person's secrets, you control them. Spending habits, political beliefs, sexual preferences, gambling/drinking problems. You are owned when you reveal this data.

Facebook track people through IP addresses, Facebook logos, partnerships, etc. So they know what you say, what you look at, when, who you talk to etc.

If the wrong people get that data (including espionage, change of management etc), it could get VERY ugly.
The original Frizee submission from 32 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593729
I tried Microsoft OneDrive and managed to get the first file I uploaded (a 150 MB ZIP archive) to be stuck in some partially uploaded state so that it cannot be deleted or reuploaded). This was with the original OneDrive client that comes preinstalled with Windows 8.1.
Just pray you will never need any kind of support.
Steam refunds, in conjunction with the recent political mobilization of gamers, will change the gaming landscape for the better, allowing developers and consumers to stand in a relationship that begins to approach good faith. This seems to be the first AAA reaction to the new situation, but we have already witnessed the complaints of Steam crapware/shovelware producers, as well as the exit from games of some bad actors (such as Tale of Tales).
WTH does this mean?

Are they saying it is not secure?

https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-repositories/docs/

Note
Cloud Source Repositories are intended to store only the source code for your application and not user or personal data. Do not store any Core App Engine End User Data (as defined in your License Agreement) in a Cloud Source Repository. To use a hosted Git repository with a Cloud Source Repository, you must first open an account with GitHub or Bitbucket (independent companies separate from Google). If you push source code to a Cloud Source Repository, Google will make a copy of this data which will be hosted in the United States.
It might be reasonable to explain that its "free" as in "free trial" and even more clearly "CC for free trial with autobill". Being confronted with that after I allow the app to connect to my Dropbox account isn't the best imo.
Here's Google on Glassdoor, for "Senior Software Engineer".

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...

About 250k in total comp. A lot of it is in stock grants, but those are completely liquid.
Even if you believed the claims in general, wouldn't you want to test the things on live explosives just to get a feel for their behavior?
>What parts of climate change research are actually backed up by the scientific method (experiments with falsifiable hypotheses and all that) and what parts are more akin to natural history or something else?

I do not generally get involved in the climate change debate because it has multiple problems: it happens on scales (both time and space) that humans have difficulty observing, it is about a system with lots of feedback that could very well behave chaotically, direct observations of the phenomenon are limited compared to its timescale, experts of the subject are operating under perverse incentives, it is highly politicized and almost everything that's easy to read about the subject is blatant propaganda (see all the climate change denialist posted in this thread as well as the OP).

Your question is hard to answer because it assumes there is a shared and agreed upon definition of the word "science" that can be used to determine with certainty wethere something is science or not.

> Is it like a social science? I think someone told me that we know for sure that greenhouse gas emissions cause ozone depletion but I can't remember anymore. What is the actual hard science here?

I think it is in better shape than the average social science, the greenhouse effect and the ozone depletion are two separate phenomena, this [1] is the experiment that explains how the greenhouse effect works, the wikipedia page about ozone depletion explains the chemical reactions that lead to that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_ef...
But now accepted as EPSG 3857.

I always found their argument a little specious given that EPSG 4326 exists.
Maybe the reason everything runs so well for you at 1080p these days is because the creame of the crop in PC gaming now is way higher? GTA V on PC will do 4k, but you'll need a beefier computer.
Network friendly anonymous chat best for mobile,
Patrick Naughton... now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I went to Wikipedia to find out what happened to him after his arrest. No jail time, but he had to work for the FBI for free for a year.
This perfectly encapsulates my feelings as well right now, even though I'm not as old. I wanted to make games, start a business, or make cool apps. Now I spend 9 hours a day in an "enterprise" role resetting passwords and writing trivial backend code for third party apps.

I'm a night owl, but I get up every day at the crack of dawn, and I'm too exhausted almost every evening to be social or work on side project ideas. I have a project at home that I really believe in, but with my exhaustion in the evenings and life's endless distractions filling my time in one way or another, it's been over a month since I really got in the "zone" for a few hours working on it.

I went to a shitty school, so now I try to study algorithms and other fancy whiteboard interview-esque things I need to know (and didn't get a solid foundation on) if I ever want one of those fancier developer jobs at a company with 21st century environment, policies, etc. It gets so tiring to forgo time with family and friends to study in your spare time and write cover letters to places you'll never hear back from. And I live in a small town that I want to move from, how am I supposed to take enough time off unnoticed to do any meaningful amount of phone calls and in-person interviews?

At the end of the day, it's easier to play a few games of Halo, go to bed, and say you'll get a little closer to somewhere you want to be tomorrow. And that's what I told my self a year ago. Will I be in the same situation next year? I've worked full time enough to see how easy it is to just give up on any dreams and settle for making the only focus of your life raising a few kids in a nice neighborhood house with white picket fence, and forgo efforts of reaching your full potential in favor of worrying about things like mowing the lawn and keeping beer in the fridge.
Except git is the shit right now
Somewhat related maybe? "Memory Layouts for Binary Search" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9511939

I also really liked the nice package there for testing it out yourself, creating results package and clear email instructions for contributing the results.

Is there any good way of running these kinds of experiments on a variety of hardware possibly with other people's help?
It's certainly Google Cloud branded, but it appears to have somewhat equivalent functionality to Github.

For Google to launch something purely as a "Github competitor" would be silly because those using Github would quickly dismiss it; "we already have Github!"

So Google are playing up the integration with the rest of Google Cloud, integrating with Github and Bitbucket, and offering additional features.

You have to extrapolate a bit to realize it, and Google probably won't admit it, but this is definitely intended as a Github/Bitbucket competitor.
Plain and simple the major OTA networks haven't made it easy for me to watch their content. I cut the cord 5 years ago and watch everything online.

I get poor reception where I live and I'm not in the mood to install an antenna on the roof. I was hoping Aereo wouldn't get shut down so I could actually watch that OTA content.

The networks are going to have to embrace a real digital content strategy if they want to keep up with the trend of people consuming increasingly more content on their pocket computers.
sources say it allows you to "host" your "repository" in the "cloud"
I do change my default attitude toward the message once I find it is coming from someone working for a neocon think-tank. They have a history of being intellectually dishonest to put it charitably.

For a hashing of the claims you might have a peek in the comments about this article on Reddit (spoiler: claims don't exactly get a free pass): https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/386ntm/paul_krug...
GOCR is ok, certainly much better than GNU Ocrad, but I've had much better results with Tesseract.
Corruption is the main reason of US&allies failures around the world.
Haha, this is awesome. Have you written about your program anywhere? Would love to hear more about it.
Ask HN: How do you deal with after work fatigue?
I started working in programming 3 years ago. Ever since I got into 8h/days programming, I feel really tired after I come home.

I'm not able to do the meaningless task, and sometimes I just get into bed at 7 and sleep.

I suppose that the nature of our jobs depletes our will and maybe that's why I'm like this. I tried doing some push-ups, going by bike to work, quitting smoking, but didn't solve much.

So if anyone was in the same position and found a way to get by, I would really appreciate some advices. I feel I live only during the week-ends.
I bet some kind of indecent person will complain that patent expiry is government seizure of property. I mean, it's taking property and giving it to everyone. Come to think of it, it can actually sound like internationalist communism if you put it the right way. I expect someone will.

But yeah, this particular piece of regulation seems to have outlived its purpose.
Off topic, but the image in the article is of a building in Santa Monica that Google moved out of atleast 2 years ago.
It probably wasn't actually lithium since most Priuses have a nickel-metal-hydride battery. (Apparently the plugin hybrid model has lithium-ion.)
That's a good point. I'd be more inclined to watch a network if all I had to do was go to their website (or app) to get a live feed.

I think it's CBS who charges you for such a privilege. lol
We use gerrit hosted on EC2 mirroring commits to github for backup.
Github's code review capabilities are a huge weak point for team projects, and I've seen several services spring up to attempt to capitalize on this. Mozilla's Servo project is currently trialing one called Reviewable, here's a demonstration: https://reviewable.io/reviews/servo/servo/6456
Also, the "view counts" on the website are pure BS -- the comment view counts don't grow at the same rate the thread view count does, for example. The thread view-count grows at almost a clockwork rate, etc.

I know, I know, Reddit pulled similar stunts in its early days but it still feels a bit dodgy.
Few years ago I used Cuneiform, but looks like it's dead now.
You're right not to be intersted in whether he kicks cats or not when you're thinking about whether he's honest or not.

But, when thinking about whether he's honest or not being given examples of previous dishonesty is relevant.
Why we speak?
Tesseract with ccv for SWT works but is a bit of a slow dog. Anyone used deep learning (caffe maybe?) for OCR?
Yeah. One consequence is that stacktraces in the appengine log viewer are clickable and take you to actual code. Modest but useful.
Are you sure the fatigue is related to work? Have you seen a doctor?
Does Google provide any "OCR as a service" API that takes advantage of their closed-source advances? I know something OCR-ish happens when you upload an image-PDF to Google Docs, but I don't remember if there's any way to get the resulting text out.
Some of the asides are, well, take a look:

It’s worth nothing that PayPal’s only value is in decrementing values on one side and incrementing them on the other, a preschool exercise it nonetheless somehow routinely fails to carry out. 180 days to do some adding and subtracting is asinine.
Location? SF only? California only? US only? Further afield?
This is true for totally isolated unit tests but false for tests that require stubbing. You can theoretically use the same tests for a map implemented with one version of a hash table or the other. But once you start testing classes with dependencies, your tests inevitably touch implementation details. For example, unit testing a hash map that is backed by a memcached server would require some form of stubbing.

The metatesting reason for this confusion is that in the example you used, the scope of unit testing is the same as the scope of integration testing. If a class has 0 dependencies, a unit test is also an integration test, because it tests all the dependencies of the class, of which there are none.

So going back to your original point, your affirmation is true for full integration tests, i.e. tests that do not stub any dependency. If you do not stub your network connection to the memcached server, the same test - albeit with a different setup - can be used for a local hash table implementation.
Is that trainable for new alphabets? API use policy?
If you like APL, you might like one of its cousins, K.

I've written a (buggy, incomplete!) K interpreter I call oK which similarly runs in your browser: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok

Here's a nice little program which calculates terms of the "look-and-say" number sequence:

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html?run=%2010%7B%2C%2...

And another rather infamous example program:

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html?run=%20%7B(x%3B%2...
There are about 1.5 million apps in Google's and Apple's app stores. People can only install on the order of 100 apps on a phone. Even if the devs would implement techniques to capture users in their first days, on average, apps can't possibly get much use.
The article says they'll open one up later this year.
One competitor that has excellent support for Linux is Wuala by LaCie, the hard drive manufacturer. Although no longer free they take security seriously and in my experience of using it for about 2 years I have never had a problem. In fact I didn't begrudge paying for storage when it went non-free as I was by this time happy with it. I use it almost daily on Win, Linux and OS X.
Awesome. Great to see the "control the inputs, control the outputs; gain repeatability, gain control" mantra finally moving into the package management and dependency world. If Haskell's next generation of tooling lands hashes and built-in end-to-end integrity as a first class citizen, afaict that'll make Haskell be one of the first communities to really permanently address the "it built on tuesday" problem... and hopefully far from the last :)
But which is preferable 0 or 1? Maybe something in between, or maybe even something surprising like -1/12? Which choice will lead to the least error in the long run?

NARS2000 comes with a pretty IDE.
For one thing, as far as bribes have been payed, I'd like to see this guy being charged to the full extent.

Also there are charlatans selling magic stones or other nonsense to the mentally weak, and I think that humans susceptible to this kind of fraud should be protected from it, so I'd say if he had sold this to private persons I'd love to see him convicted of fraud.

That being said, apparently many of his loyal satisfied customers have been the military or police, and seriously that's pretty disturbing: These are the people trusted by their citizens (well... in theory...) to keep up the peace and safety in their country. And in exchange they get to arrest people, and run around with guns. At the sam time these are the people who were not able to distinguish the equivalent of a dead rock from a scientific device to detect miniscule traces of chemical compounds used in explosives. Sure, there's some blame to put on the guy selling the disfunctional device, but quite an insignificant amount of blame, given how gullible his highly decorated customers were.
So, essentially they changed the names of various meetings and then gave a budget to managers because stack ranking with mandatory firing causes political infighting.

Now let's see how they deal with deadwood in a few years... I imagine there will be a pendulum.
Amazon Prime and Flickr are both better for storing photos, and I expect imgur is as well (I've not used it for that).

I'm already far too dependent on Google to willingly give them anything I don't have to, especially when there are better alternatives.
Nvidia's 980ti and AMD's R9 390 and 390X (and some 290X) have 6 or 8 GB.
Ask HN: Anyone looking for a new lab/business partner?
I have a lab, looking to move it soon but - I want to collab with some smart person(s) who are extreely motivated. I have had a hard time finding people who have the extreme motivation that matches mine. I like coding (scala is my first choice), quantu topics/science, battery development, hardware, etc. I also like machine learnign but I'm more of a noob with ML so that would be a nic skill to complement mine.

I like AWS, like to try new things too. I am into pilosophy, discussions, linuz, new operatin systems, ASICS, new microarchitectures, lasers, aerodynamics, optics, etc. Anything fun.

my twitter is @newmycf

Post here if you're down or want to hassle me - would be down for a ground of 3, possibly 4. I am also in Soutern california BTW, and am willing to move to northern california but probably not anywhere else
I use uBlock and didn't see any popups.