skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite possible for organizations to maintain two sets of "truth", one known to senior management and used for decision-making, and one known to the public and used for influence.
Who said anything about requiring. I'm just saying that Java has been an important part of the overall web technology ecosystem since pretty close to the beginning, and especially since the beginning of mass adoption of the web. Trying to shuck off Java as not being "web technology" sounds like revisionist history to me.
And a German one and from experience dealing with German companies software isn't regarded I the same light as what they would consider "proper engineering"
One of the biggest lags on wage growth for the bottom half of Americans is the fact that the rest of the world is now competing with them for jobs, and able to do so via price.

This won't last forever, because as those places get richer their wages go up, and "low wages" is their primary competitive advantage.
correct! capitalism doesn't help those without capital.
I don't see why it's an issue that he owns two rental properties. Of course he has investments of one kind or another, that's his shtick. Save money, but income-yielding investments, retire. Whether you buy properties or live off the dividends of your XOM shares (or more sensibly, do both) is immaterial.

If your point is that it doesn't scale because its literally impossible for everyone to have two investment properties -- well, yeah. Frugality doesn't scale well. If everyone else stopped buying shit they don't need and working more than they needed to, production would go down and yields of all investments would suffer. So it's not actually a good idea to persuade everyone to quit buying shit they don't need, but it's advantageous for every individual to do so.
Hey, I wrote that widget! I'm also a long-time Sentry user and would love to see VisualSearch.js integrated.
If anyone uses this, please share. As a newb, I would love to see some real use examples to learn from.
Move closer to understanding the human brain.

I'll take that over a billion-dollar flying target any day.
PSA: Beware people running Debian Unstable and possibly other rolling release distros, lightdm seems to fail with 227. Be ready to downgrade if needed.
Well, in the US, it is also considered circumvention, so it's probably liable for civil penalties.

The EFF's interpretation of the TPP makes it also seem like for any member country, it could also be liable for criminal penalties.

IANAL
Work, play and STEM: How robotics will bridge the gap
Two considerations:

1. I personally know of a large electronics chain that does not have a functional camera pointed at a register you can purchase a computer at. While the rest of the store does, I could try to think of ways around that and bring bags in my jacket that are opaque.

2. I could try to innocently go to the store on Halloween with a reasonable pretext for keeping a mask on in the store.
yes, people will.

I'm of the opposite opinion to be honest. If you need to be pushed by someone else to learn something then why would you do it?
This is pretty cool. We built something similar internally at a previous company - very handy to enforce good development practices, and ensure that no unreviewed code is deployed to production for security purposes.
The two heads who lead the R&D and engine development are not software engineers. But they would certainly require software engineers to help them carry out the deception. I highly doubt that only 2 people are involved.
Interesting. Can you give us some insights into the actual porting? What features of Go were particularly helpful and what Node.js features did you miss the most?
How to recover from ‘programmers burnout’
I see. What I don't understand is why settings need to be so granular.

For example, our company uses Slack. All notifications go to Slack. There's no need for per-project settings because it's all just one room. At some point we will probably want some projects to go to other rooms, but that's a coarse-grained exception, not something that warrants a per-project setting.

Also, if you need per-person notification settings, then surely that's part of the user's account/profile, not the project. That would be just a single dashboard page with (say) on/off sliders for each project.

In my mind, the data model used by exception trackers (including, it seems, Sentry) is wrong. There needs to be just one stream of events, tagged by things like application name that you can filter on. How those events map to things like notifications and aggregations and rules and source files and teams and so on is completely orthogonal to the stream. Those things then apply to a subset that you can modify dynamically without having to reconfigure the sender.
This is such good news for YC!
If he's running Linux, it might be that it tooks 5 months after the release of the Developer Edition (the one w/ Ubuntu preinstalled) to fix the most basic/egregious issues: http://bartongeorge.net/2015/08/28/recent-fixes-for-xps-13-d...

Also, that even now, they still ship w/ Broadcom, not Intel wifi. (drivers not in the kernel)

I'm curious about the new Skylake XPS models, but you'd have to either be foolish or a masochist to guinea pig their new models...
Reddit is not a magazine, though. (Although Upvoted is!)

EDIT: That said, I think better moderation tools and stronger firewalls between subs would be a huge improvement. The existence of /r/fph absolutely shouldn't spill over into /r/worldnews or wherever.
Have you ever used the BSD's rc? How about launchd? SMF? The biggest problem with systemd is that it goes about trying to fix the problems with traditional sysv init in a rather inelegant, inconsistent way. In your sysadmin roles, how do you now aggregate your logs for later auditing? How often do you really reboot where you'll experience that minute long delay? There are definite problems with sysv init, and systemd is a bit better, but there are a lot of other systems that have solved those problems too, often in a lot cleaner fashion.
Stop spreading FUD.

Of those 3, only Canada's CBC is government-owned or government-financed. BBC is financed by a separate levy on televisions, and CNN is and has always been a private corporation funded by advertising revenue. CNN doesn't have any government contracts, and any government crossover is simply them employing a few former/washed-up politicians as talk show hosts.

Snowden's Twitter doesn't reveal that 60 Minutes is engaged in propaganda...it merely indicates that it asked about a few issues suggested by the government. This is not propaganda.
Some would argue that the two are linked... wealth from the middle classes being transferred to the extremely poor. The wealth of the rich doesn't seem to be shrinking.
This is actually really cool.

I can't tell you how many people I know whose livelihood essentially depends on their single, aging vehicle not dying. These are often folks whose university debt is, essentially, a monthly car payment.

I would guess that the greatest demand for Lyft drivers is outside or nearly outside normal working hours. If a person with no car can subsidize a long-term rental by spending their after-work hours being a Lyft driver, perhaps arranging to leave work slightly early to help with the after-work rush, that could be a huge benefit to a lot of low-income individuals and families.

It could also be a benefit to families with one car. If one partner uses the car to commute and the other can subsidize a rental, that could provide opportunities to earn something which might otherwise not exist (not every location is amenable to public transportation or cycling).

There are certainly some potential problems with this model. But looking through the eyes of an under-privileged family, I can see this being a huge opportunity too. I just hope the pay rate and the negotiated rental rate and fuel rate are enough to make more than a pittance at the end of the day.
In comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I heard (total hearsay) from a friend in Detroit that GM spent millions of dollars over several years trying to replicate VW's diesel technology. They couldn't make the numbers work. Now we know why.
Not the OP, but I'm in a phd program right now and can see the light at the end of the tunnel. My experience has been great, my advisor has given me a lot of freedom to do the things I'm interested in. He has also taught me a lot ranging from technical stuff to big picture research issues to career advice. Obviously, our relationship has seen ups and downs, but show me a 4+ year relationship without ups and downs.

I hear about people with dysfunctional phd experiences and one of my friends is experiencing one right now. To be honest, the students are to blame at least partly for this. IMO the people who get most exploited are those who are most desperate for a phd. Like someone said in the reply to the linked comment, you shouldn't tolerate abuse, you need to do your research before you sign on the dotted line and you should be prepared to walk away if things do go south.

Sure, there are jerks in academia, but I've worked for a few different tech companies and there are plenty of jerks there too. We never think twice about getting out of a shitty job situation, but somehow people don't do the same in a phd program.

I also don't know what people are talking when they mention 80 hour workweeks. I do something like 40-60 a week. Some weeks are closer to 30 than 40, and the 60 hour weeks are rare. The people who do 80 hour weeks don't seem to know when to stop working, and they don't seem to be able to accept that there are others who are way smarter than them and working harder isn't going to make up for that. I realized very quickly in my phd that there were people here who were in a different league from me in terms of ability. If I'd tried to compete with them, I would have lost both the rat race and my peace of mind, so I didn't. What I do know is that my work is interesting and important and clearly people appreciate it, I'm satisfied with that. I'm sure I could be winning more awards and publishing 4 papers a year instead of 2 if I worked 20 hours more every week, but really, I don't want to do that.
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It is a crime that Top Gear is no longer on the air during these times.
I find it strange that paying for artificial light would be more effective than using the free sunlight that is perfect for life on this planet because the life has adapted itself over millenia to this light.
It's not as if sunlight is a sparse resource (on a global scale).
People wanted a dislike button, got a series of redundant emoticons with very little space for actual disagreement.
Which is actually good, because it won't transform Facebook into a mess of flames and negativity. Wait, maybe it's already too late for that...
Yes, YouTube's audio quality is noticeable worse than a 320kbps MP3, for me the difference makes the music less enjoyable.
The author probably based it on the fact that oxycodone is a (semi-?) synthetic opiate produced from one opioid found in poppy, just like heroin is. They are of course not the same.

But heroin was synthesized in 19th century in England and oxycodone in 20th century in Germany, therefore it can't be considered "pre-" heroin, at least not globally. But maybe heroin wasn't common in Germany and therefore oxycodone was pre- in Germany?
One factor is the hot job market which US citizens have direct access to.
What kind of unix sysadmin doesn't like turning 200 lines of code into 10 lines of code :)
Other threads here are talking about "accounting tricks". Even if we could exclude that sort of thing, there are still questions of why press releases are issued, who issues them, when they are issued, etc. If politics are involved (and they are whenever taxes or donations come from one place and go to another) truth is a mirage.

My response to this is not to lie myself, or to myself... too often. b^) My response is to assume that everything I hear from everyone is bullshit, unless the source has obvious interests in telling the truth, and until I can confirm the story through other means. What choice do I have? I'm from Missouri.

Also it seems that many fans of "truth" have a hard time dealing with any truth that happens to be somewhat subtle.
I remember Linus making much the same point: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html

It generally lines up with what I've observed. Surprisingly, I've found that even arithmetic comparisons like you mentioned ran a bit faster with branches instead of conditional moves. The one case where I have seen comparisons benefit is with SSE code where the comparison results go straight to a register instead of a flag.
Maybe something like https://www.tutum.co/?
The current scandal is only about the "EA189" engine family with NOx traps for exhaust treatment. The new "EA288" engine family with urea injection was designed from scratch, and, I hope, doesn't need cheating software.

Edit: the EA288 is/was -- at least in Europe -- also sold with NOx trap, but VW still claims it's free from cheating software.
Brilliant! The design kept the primary operation to be the like. And, elegantly provides an 'advanced' secondary operation for those that want a more nuanced expression.
And not even a courtesy hat tip to Slack. Tsk tsk.
You sell bonds or near cash equivalents like t bills, gilts , consols etc
Probably all of them, to some degree or another, although not every culture considers the US libertarian ideal of limited government (much less the right to keep and bear arms) to be necessary, so any realistic answer to that question would probably be more complex than you're implying. But, where remedies within a political system exist, then the system can't be assumed to be tyrannical.

An equivalence drawn between the US and other governments would seem to suggest that civilian gun ownership doesn't deter the violence and corruption of the state, nor does its absence elsewhere appear to have led to the inevitable slaughter of those populations for whom gun control is much more strict than in the US.

Rather, it seems that when one enshrines into the culture the precept that the only free state is one cultivated by popular violence, it gives both the state and the people an excuse to justify violence as being an unavoidable cost of civilization. Political and social alternatives can't be seriously considered when, for many people, all other roads lead to slavery and death.

Instead, mass shootings in the US lead to a spike in gun sales, because they're effective advertising and recruitment tools for the NRA, even as the police and the government are becoming more militarized and surveillance more aggressive, in no small part because after 9/11 the American people wanted them to be. And if it's the case that the US is a more tyrannical state now, then I believe that's due to American democracy having worked as intended, rather than that tyranny having emerged from a vacuum, or some implicit tendency of states to creep towards totalitarianism.
Having a lot of say in design, and keeping secret an intentional violation of government regulations from your entire international company are two pretty different things.

I'm making assumptions, and I believe this story is pure, unadulterated bullshit from top to bottom.

Is it likely that the heads of R&D and engine development at VW are hands-on and writing code themselves? No, its extremely unlikely. Having worked in several large companies, there are 0 people at that level of management that perform hands-on work.

It is likely that those particular positions benefit and are motivated to cheat on regulations for the benefit of the company? No, the bottom line of the company is affected, and it is far more likely that business people are applying pressure.

Is it likely that they could make those changes in a company that size, without anyone noticing? No, not really. Software in a large organization leaves trails everywhere and requires explanation, they had to interface with other systems, and people had to interface with theirs.

Is it likely that the same narrative structure that our government attempted to use to excuse torture, is something VW is also trying? "Oh, we had no idea, it was one deranged guy who did this." Yes, it is highly likely that prominent executives are scrambling to get out of the way, and highly likely that the company is trying to come up with a story that makes it look less corrupt than it is.
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Recently this feature was added.
https://github.com/yask123/Instant-Music-Downloader/blob/mas...
You can install it from source if you wish to use it now.

I haven't updated the package as yet.
Ahh, sorry about that! I misunderstood.
Small town Scotland, sure, a bit different. But small town Scotland is, by population, a tiny fraction of the UK.
usually betas like the attention. also so seattle to not feel afraid.
> if you're thinking of it as a linear ordered sequence, you have the wrong mental model. On the other hand, systems like OpenRC do work that way.

Are you sure that OpenRC works in this way?

There may be some subtlety that I'm missing, but the documentation for systemd unit files [0] seems to describe a service dependency and ordering specification system that looks equivalent to what OpenRC provides with "need", "use", "before", and "after". (Search for "[Unit] Section Options" and read on from there.)

[0] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit...
Well he didn't pass the buck; he resigned.
I did enjoy that the mention of it being policy to avoid unnecessary abbreviations was immediately followed by two unnecessary abbreviations of the word "compatibility". I suspect that to have been deliberate. (-:
The "vast majority" aren't even CLOSE to being INFORMED, so saying they don't care is complete bull-shit.

The "internet noise" is everyone who actually understands what's going on, and is rightfully upset.
Thanks! We started it for the same reason -- internal use. Felt like we might as well turn it into a service so other people wouldn't have to build it too!

Is there anything you learned by building your tool that would be worth us building into PullApprove?
Netflix increasing prices again
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I'd take it you've actually studied the Unit object, the internal graph engine, the transaction manager, the seven different job queuing modes, the contextual relationships between services, jobs and units, the semantics of the dependency and relationship model, how execution state is composed, etc.?

Those are seldom talked about, but are some of the primary reasons I object to systemd. Are you neutral on those aspects, or do you see them as definitively positive?
Never heard of MUBI before this post. Browsing some lists, it makes a ton of sense. I'd probably sign up right now if it were available on AppleTV.

I don't really want to add another device to my entertainment center and not interested in watching anywhere but the TV (except on the iPad when traveling). We've got AppleTVs and a PS4. Tossed the Rokus.

Not expecting you guys are hurting all that bad for my $40. But figured another vote/story couldn't hurt.
Yes, that's correct. Only codeine can be considered a preform (of morphine), because it is metabolized in human livers into morphine. Having said that it's worth to remember that opiates are really very similar one to each other.
Huge win for YC. Congrats snowmaker!
Don't forget Audi, Porche, Bentley, and others that VW owns :)
Yes. I grew up in Seattle and people rarely make eye contact. It's terrible. It wasn't until I visited other areas that I realized that it wasn't just me.

People here do want to be forced out of their shell though. If you don't require the slightest bit of affirmation in your personality, you'll do fine in Seattle. If not you'll most certainly get the blues. I do fine on some days and then sometimes it's just a chore.
The third reich seems to have developed a relationship with Ephedra and Poppy (plus tobacco of course).
And we saw the consequences of that.

I've always been fascinated by the impact of various drug-containing plants on humanity and it's history.
Plants, because most drugs are extracted or synthesised from them.

Shamans say that it is the 'essence' or 'spirit' of the plant that is psychoactive - you're 'inviting' another 'being' into your consciousness.

Those who smoked pot have probably noticed the alternative or alien 'voice' which appears in your head and makes you think and say funny things or think paranoid thoughts.
This happens with all drugs - the drug (or, in shamanic terms - the spirit of the plant) becomes one's invisible councillor - an interlocutor in the user's internal dialogue.

Take tobacco - the act of smoking a cigarette is an act of 'conversing' with the plant, an act of thinking and taking decisions.
Notice the impact that tobacco has had on the development of the human race - it's impossible to claim that it was responsible for all our progress, but somehow it was present in the pipes of Einstein and Oppenheimer and in the cigars smoked after a successful space mission.

It was also present in the trenches of wars.

Today our world is more drugged than it has ever been. Besides all the classes of illegal drugs, we also have people eating tens of thousands of various synthetic chemicals - prescription drugs - and of course making all sorts of combinations between them.

What will the consequence of this chemical experimentation end up being ?

Time will tell. Clearly we're doing some radical changes to how our minds and bodies work and this has a direct impact on how our society looks and behaves and what decisions are being made.
In addition to being one of our most helpful and thoughtful angels, Jared's just a genuinely nice guy.

When I read this, I immediately thought of Jared: http://paulgraham.com/safe.html

Big win for YC.
> those couple of software engineers would have to have a major say over the entire engine design. I call bullshit.

I agree. Developers wouldn't take that amount of corporate risk on for such a hack without having significant backing from management.

Even if they were completely on their own, which is impossible for me to believe, at some point another developer would have noticed and said something. Developers are smart enough to know anything that can go wrong will go wrong and that such a hack would be exposed, taking a lot of people down with it.
There's a link on the same page:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
The piece and ars technica video show both the good and the bad of this new MSFT attempt:

Some good ideas, but let's be real - ultimately a total niche product at $1500. Compare that the surface pro 3 has been selling about 3-4 million units in the last year ( q3/2014 - q2/2015 revenue was estimated around $3b, on devices costing about $800 + $130 keyboard), while Apple sells about 20m Mac units in the same timeframe, which is in itself STILL a niche!
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I just don't see how this is going to make any sort of real dent.