skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Music Exec Is Out
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The "virtual" particles are intended to avoid the "action at a distance" issue with fields. The virtual particles are place-holders for calculations.

They came about from looking at the philosophical problem of "What is a field"? A field between two interacting electrons changes the electrons trajectory.

OK... but what does it mean for the electrons to "interact"? Saying "there's a field" is just a circular argument.

The better response is "they exchange a photon". OK, but is the photon real? No... it's just a place-holder to make calculations easier.

Do two electrons actually exchange virtual photons? No one really knows... All we can say is that the theoretical calculations match the experimental ones. What that means is a question for philosophers. :)
Author here. Yeah, I'm hoping to use rkt instead of Docker when I actually put this all together. Docker wins for familiarity though, plus is the kubelet's default hence using it for this post.
First company (1500 people): The manager said a sincere thanks and you were assigned a higher profile project / and/or simply gained an increased level of trust from others. That was enough, given the nature of the company and the extremely good people it employed (world class).

A later company (~250,000 people): Quarterly awards with small bonuses, going to 1/50 of the top performers in the office (my office was a couple thousand people). The awards were taken quite well, with staff pinning them to their desk. What mattered for some staff was the recognition, and for some the aspiration (as faster rising, through the extreme hierarchy, staff tended to get awards more often). Frankly, it never appealed, and only motivated staff at the most junior levels. Those more savvy would use these awards as negotiation tolls in performance and salary reviews.

Current company (~1500 people): The boss just promotes who makes her feel good, and lets everyone have the freedom to do what they want as long as they also do their job. She's also wise to ass-lickers (unlike the previous one mentioned). Harmony is encouraged, so no special events, just promotions and increased levels of freedom.
4chan had privacy. Just not from the law.
It depends on what you're looking for, really.

If you want mindless brain candy, to giggle at absurdity, or revel in the filth that is humanity - then the larger boards on reddit, and /b/, and /r9k/ are the place to be, and in that context, are better.

If you want curated debate and discussion, then more moderated boards and places like hn are where to go, and would be called better in this case.

I would say that the discussion quality is better on more heavily moderated boards, but the exposure to varied topics is definitely stifled. The flip side of heavier moderation is that it is much easier for dissenting opinions to be stifled. And even if it's not intentional, or not even occurring, knowing that there is heavy moderation will always lead a very vocal minority of users to claim discrimination and censorship.

It's harder to avoid being just an echo chamber, too.
Additional point: there really isn't a "center", as where ideology weakens, corruption takes over.
"After all, "everyone knows" that blacks are inferior and only useful as slaves (they even want to be, deep down); "everyone knows" that women are too temperamental to vote sensibly; "everyone knows" that people of that religion over there eat babies and we should destroy them before they destroy us..."

This is simply not true at all these days, and I don't like that HN users would push a normal conversation into one where you imply your "opponent" is racist, sexist, or a religious bigot. Might as well have called me a Nazi or brought Hitler into the conversation.

And I don't believe you need Psychologists or a peer reviewed study to discern mobile platform usage, we have other ways to getting said metrics.
Well, this looks like interesting times ahead for the D language. Hopefully this is a good thing, I've loved D since I first came across it. :)
Calling a glucose monitoring system with an insulin pump an artificial pancreas is a bit misleading, considering all the other functions the pancreas has.
It's no secret that the full UEFI spec is quite complex. Some parts are mandatory while others are optional.

It's also no secret that lots of hardware vendors are terrible at implementing software. The usual rule is that the less software they write, the better.

The result is that different vendors and OEMs have a different quality UEFI firmware implementations and different feature-set available in them. Some are clearly less proper and less complete than others.
You Could Mail Hard Drives to Google Cloud Before, You Know
"True freedom of speech" is an awful thing. It puts those who words cannot hurt in a place of immense power over those who words can hurt.
This is indeed a very courageous decision on AA's part to leave a secure job at Facebook to join D Foundation. But I am pretty sure, if at some point in future AA decides, FB will be very happy to have him back.
I've taken >35 trips with Uber in Beijing.
Ah, gotcha. No, the use of a direct quotation implies that it's not a common idiom - if it were then that wouldn't be necessary.
There's also Android development driving use of Ubuntu as a desktop OS for developers. I do a enough embedded work that I need to build Android-based embedded systems for some projects. Increasingly, mobile software projects need to be "full stack," too, with purpose built servers for app projects.
That would be awesome to have some numbers about this topic. Thanks for your interest. I guess with other systems like Paxos it could be solved by separating the notion of learners and acceptors, which are usually collapsed in the same nodes. In this case, you may have more learners than acceptors (solving the N^2 communication growth with the number of nodes) while still solving the tail latency by running quorum among the acceptors.
I agree with you to a certain extent.

I also very much enjoyed his thoughts on privacy/anonymity and the multi-faceted nature of human personalities.

You can find some quotes here:
http://observer.com/2011/10/4chans-moot-facebook-and-google-...

Those concepts are more important in my opinion, to the gestating human identity that we will all be part of via technological evolution.
I'm struggling to understand any situation where you should ever be typing either your LUKS password or your root password into a fully operating/running system.

If you're using sudo correctly, you do not enter your root password. Frankly, the only time I can remember being prompted for a root password in years is when the system has failed to boot and offers entry to a recovery/maintenance shell.

If you're using LUKS correctly for your boot drive, you enter it only during startup before the system has booted.

If someone has access to your disk and has your LUKS key, the root password is merely a formality.
I too find that this helps when on long car rides as well.

I only drink water, and maybe have an apple after a while, but I feel like when I am hungry, I am more sharp and alert - something very handy for moving 2.5k lbs @ 75 MPH
Is it a question for philosophers, though? Or is it just a current limitation of our model that we don't understand? They are obviously "communicating" somehow. The mechanism is simply unknown.
The Art of Mastering Product Returns
I disagree. I used to run a huge population of PCs. AV isn't a silver bullet, and shouldn't be the only security measure in place. But it does catch stuff, and isn't a scourge if you're rolling it out correctly.
It would help even more if we kicked out the DEA here in the US. In fact, banishment to an abandoned island wouldn't be too harsh a punishment at all for their crimes.
The short answer is bad employers of minimum wage McJobs fuck it up for the rest of us.
> Blacklisting SourceForge in your hosts file might be up there, if they are still bundling crapware with the few legitimate downloads that haven't moved elsewhere.

ublock origin has a "Badware risks" filter list with sourceforge in it.
PaX is not a MAC framework.
thanks. It seems to have killed the ability to access larger product images, but at least the site do not freeze the browser now.
Yep, but just about everything about parenting is anecdotal -- there's such a tiny amount of actionable data out there. But then you have kids, and you have to take a lot of action... so hunches, intuition, and anecdotes play a huge role.

I think you are right, the sleep deprivation is the biggest thing -- and that is what I was forewarned about by other parents, and certainly my experience bore that out (my kids are 3 and 0.75 years old).

I am sure you could do a study of you found a cohort of people who for some other reason were similarly sleep deprived, and you would probably see similar negative net happiness.
What are the other functions?
Encoders and compactors are not good actually they usually leave too many patterns that are easy to detect.

The might work on some binaries in some cases but if you want to avoid evasion refactor the malware yourself.

Encoders and compactors are intended to modify existing binaries only :)
Pretty low signal to noise ratio in this article
I have used same strategy and is sure to work on any level because eventually it'd just converge the ball towards the box.
You should watch this before looking at the article:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jim_al_khalili_how_quantum_biology_...
> Liability. Clinical decisions are made by humans.

Pacemakers have a high risk, yet here we have an automated solution. I think liability alone cannot be the root cause.
Osmos is a really good game. Every little detail fits perfectly in the universe they have created, be it arts, music, gameplay...
Is there a place for ticketing systems in DevOps?
Off topic and old but does anyone on here know what happened to the c++ ranges implementation he promised?
Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
Intermediate Python : http://book.pythontips.com/en/latest/index.html

It will tell you about those nice things and tricks, conventions that you should know/follow during some non-beginner project.
I wonder why Frink isn't more popular:

https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/

... and why in general programmers like to think about bare numbers and love to differentiate them into floats and ints of various length (like it's the 90-ies) but don't care if they are volts or meters.
Right, so this would of been just as relevant if it was about a local trucking company.

They are dropping the wrong name if they actually want to promote the product.
An "opinionated" framework cannot – by definition – "rule them all".
That makes me think of Tokyo-3 from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
WTF is a Chief Evangelist?
yeah, this is precisely what we do in Apache BookKeeper, and we map N to ack quorums and M to write quorums.
Not mentioned in the article is how to deal with the encroachment of backdoors worldwide. If we allow the US to have a backdoor, we've allowed the principle of backdoors in general. What's stopping the UK asking for its set of keys? Still OK? They're allies after all.

Where does it get uncomfortable for people?
France? India? Israel? Saudi Arabia? China?

Once the principle is there for it to be done technologically, businesses will be faced with the choice of allowing multiple backdoors or not doing business in those countries at all.

And if you do accept all these backdoors, now you've got dozens of potential security holes. Not to mention you have absolutely no guarantee that any of these countries are genuinely going to decrypt just for "national security". Giving their native companies access to your corporate data would be a huge boon.
> Yes we designers know a lot that he doesn't, but a trip to Dribbble will tell you that there are also many of us who are victims of some of the patterns he is trying to establish an opposition against.

Still, that's a problem with incompetence, not with web design. And Dribbble it's not a good example at all - what's the ratio of pixel-pushers to designers? 10:1? 100:1?

I wouldn't say that it's a problem with "us", since it's clearly a separate group which deserves addressing. There are designers who actually "design" (meaning, they conceive a solution to "someone"), and there are pixel-pushers which mix and mash the latest fads without any particular regard for users and their context (elderly? Here, take flat design! Teens? Flat will do!).

These are two completely distinct objectives: designing vs. doing "something" which looks good. I think the "manifesto" is - or should - be aimed at the latter: gratuitous usage of UI elements/patterns/options. But that's not what design is about, so the "manifesto" is totally misguided and - to be honest - it even becomes ridiculous when the author starts to speak condescendingly to designers (as in the example in my original replies), while being completely oblivious that "design" in itself would imply that any of the options he criticizes were adequately considered (against users and their context).
Poll: Would you like a job as a “full stack growth engineer”
Yes. I am highly qualified, as you can see by the optimized list of keywords on my resume
No. And what the hell is a full stack growth engineer?
Can't wait till someone makes an AI for this.
I'd say in the UK a phrase like "What even is steak?" would be more expected of a teenager than anyone else; perhaps because they tend to over exaggerate more in conversation. However a phrase like "Even Anthony liked it." is perfectly common and wouldn't tend towards being used more by any particular segment of the population - this is an expression about the person mentioned, surprise that they liked it more than it is about the speaker using the phrase as emphasis.

A: "Why even would you do that?" [as opposed to "Why would you even do that?"
B: "Because reasons"

"Even Anthony liked it" could well be phrased "Anthony also liked it" but you lose something of the surprise - in the first phrase there is an expectation that Anthony wouldn't normally like that sort of thing.
Yes, he was from Gulbarga city, which figures prominently in the Sunderlal report.
J.R.R. Tolkien lost his father when he was 4 and mother when he was 12
No, that we felt safer operating them than having them operate themselves.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Is It Ethical to Watch Murder Caught on Tape?
Sounds like bullshit..
No, I have not actually tested it yet, but according to my research the current state of btrfs send/receive is this:

1. btrfs send streams the files (i.e. it decompresseses files that are compressed on disk)

2. The send stream (optionally) is compressed

3. btrfs receive (optionally) recompresses data into the destination

If you have a large dataset and take the time to use one of the slower compression algorithms/settings this means that you have to wait for that compression to happen all over again at the destination. (you could have different compression settings on the two btrfs filesystems, btrfs send/receive is one of the ways for migrating data between these settings)
Osmosis + Asteroids kinda

but basically it was explorative coding: start with a circle, OK, let's move the circle around, what's next? More circles, OK what happens if the intersect ... And so on.
Ouch, quite a difference between the founders... now I'm sure that C++ and Go will rule the world... unfortunately.

D would be awesome for game development, because it's a "C++ done right", but I don't think Andrei has the salesman qualities needed to sell his child to game devs, like getting a bunch of people together to write a good open-source game engine that could also serve as an example of codding patterns.

And Rust and his daddy... they are just too smart to become popular nowadays, people just don't have the will and time to sit and learn better ways of doing things when they have alternatives that "mostly work most of the time" and have an easier learning curve...
Auther here. I'm mainly working on CoffeeScript and CirruScript. I haven't read Swift code for long.
Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words. Happy hacking!
Good demo site?
great times ahead for D!

for those now interested in the D language one must recommend Ali Çehreli's free book that now is also available as print:

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
Ask HN: Who will be the first president from a tech background?
It's funny how choice of distro can be so revealing. For example, when I see RedHat, it's pretty obvious that the software is from or the person works for a Big Enterprise, with Big Serious Enterprisey Stuff, and doesn't really care about open source, let alone free software (as an aside, that's kinda sad: RedHat was the first distro I used, and I loved it for years longer than I should have).

Or when I see Debian, I know that the system or person actually is serious, is likely to have a good operations and sysadmin mindset and will probably Just Work™.

Or when I see Gentoo, I see a kindred, albeit younger, soul.

When I see 'FROM ubuntu' in a Dockerfile, my heart sinks: it's likely written in JavaScript or Ruby; it likely Greenspuns heavily. For just about any server load, vanilla Debian is going to be a superior choice: better-engineered, smaller and lighter-weight. As far as I can see, there is almost never a good reason to use Ubuntu; it's just that in the eyes of so many folks it is Linux.

Oh well, at least it's not OS X.
This article leaves us hanging; the initial motivator for developing the system is to prevent instances of overnight hypoglycemia - but we reach a conclusion talking about how it can autonomously deliver insulin to correct for hyperglycemic events. Were they ever able to make the algorithm robust enough to predict low blood sugars in the future and "shut off" or reduce delivery of basal insulin to mitigate these events?

New pumps by Medtronic are equipped with an auto-off feature that suspends insulin delivery if the user's blood sugar is below a certain threshold [1], however this is a rear-facing indicator and the patient will still experience a hypoglycemic event.

I assume the next logical steps towards making these systems fully autonomous is to remove the idealogical separation of basal and bolus insulin; instead, the system would register increases and decreases of blood sugar and take systematic steps towards bringing them back into a healthy range - much like a healthy pancreas does, either by increasing or decreasing the amount of insulin being delivered at a given time. That way a patient can eat, exercise, and live a "normal" lifestyle while the pump takes care of delivering the correct amount of insulin.

[1] http://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/products/minimed-530g-diabe...
> That said, I am very frightened about the closed-source software that will be running in these cars.

That is perfectly valid, but currently we have humans who vary widely in skills and reaction times who are controlling cars. I'll take closed-source software over a random person any day.
All the shitty things we do to websites is to make money. We stuff them full of ads because ads make money. We load 10 megabytes of JS trackers because it helps the ads make money. We paginate articles in order to show more ads, to make money. We add unnecessary columns of social media streams, related articles, and share widgets to trap people in an endless cycle of clicks (to see more ads. To make more money.)
Underflow Bug
Well, the market is about re-distribution of wealth. So ya, I am sure there were tons of losers ... and this guy must have had days that he lost much more than $30 mil. and was not featured.

I think this is him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-WIYNjgoY

Can you imagine being a day trader and having built a portfolio that allows you to do such giant trades ? That is crazy.
A does leave out a couple of things. The same time the gamergate / fappening controversy began, he had an activist feminist girlfriend around the time.

Gamergate discovered that the press uncritically reported the allegations of a lot of frauds and charlatans. It never focused on how gamergaters themselves are on the receiving end of threats.

As for the fappening, nothing too special there. Find and arrest the hacker - that's pretty much all you can do, it was never a 4chan thing.

4chan risked reaching the tipping point of becoming reddit. People are happy to have a place to express themselves without a bunch of moral police hypocrites pushing them around. When Poole, in chan terms, went full cuck, he gave up his publicly displayed value just so he could have sex with his feminist girlfriend.

So yeah, I'm not surprised a total hypocrite like that gets disrespect. It's sad to how a girl gets in the way of guys greatness.
I'm glad you've made this post because all too often there's an odd streak of this good-whatever-you-want-even-if-it-harms-someone mentality on the Internet. It's like some people think the use of an electronic broadcast medium some how mitigates or eliminates the actual harm that comes from their actions.

But if we remove the notion of "it's only the Internet" from the equation the same behavior comes under harassment and anti-stalking laws in the US. So, how it is any different if you stalked a person online from that doing it in person? How it is less of a threat because the Internet makes it easier to do? The possession of a firearm makes murder easier to do but it doesn't make murder less of a crime either. I just think some people are looking for an excuse to break the core values of civil society for the sake of some sadistic pleasure of harming another human being.

/rant
Intel SGX could be this backdoor. Just have Intel hand over the key for each device to the Government and job done.
You are confusing the "the internet" with "the web".

The internet has been around for about as long as it's been sensible to describe an online culture. While in the early days (e.g. 70's, 80's) the internet certainly wasn't the only network to be influencing culture (c.f. FidoNet) it was a primary source, particularly via university campuses.
Lennart Poettering merged “su” command replacement into systemd
> atomic tests, meaning tests that don't depend on global state or the state of other tests

We normally call this "hermetic", not "atomic".
A cloud provider who supports Ubuntu and not Debian almost certainly doesn't know what he's doing; I'd consider it a warning sign, although not an outright disqualifier.
PayPal Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Steal All Your Money
It's been widely assumed for years that 4chan is a honeypot.
Did you guys ever return to Ontario, or did the SF nab you like all the rest?
> Why is it "systemctl list-unit-files"? What the hell are unit files? How is this in any way logical?

I suggest you read systemd.unit(5), which begins as follows:

"A unit configuration file encodes information about a service, a socket, a device, a mount point, an automount point, a swap file or partition, a start-up target, a watched file system path, a timer controlled and supervised by systemd(1), a temporary system state snapshot, a resource management slice or a group of externally created processes."

> Why is this an argument and not a flag?

Multi-use programs with a good CLI accept the argument(s) determining what they do positionally rather than as flags. Flags should be used for options that somehow modify the behaviour of the command.

> Why is it that I can use a systemctl command, and it tells me to use the -l flag to view non-ellipsized output, but then when I use the flag, it gives me an arcane error that tells me nothing about what happened?

I don't know what you mean. For me, 'systemctl list-units -l' works fine.
Handling salary negotiations means being able to say 'yes we accept your offer' or 'no, we don't think we can make that work'. That is making a decision.