skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same complaint. I can't explain how it has changed, but it used to be easy. Now it is difficult and error prone. I guess I just never paid attention to it when it was easy.
I think that also depends on who is actually completing/fulfilling the task, in the DMV example its AI adding context to a task that can't be automated easily.

The AI can still do the requirements/information gathering and leaving the job for a person to do. For common issues (support triage, customer service issues) even this still has significant value.

Equally from a training point of view, it may simply be the person correcting/confirming the AI is right, and leaving it to get on with the process, rather than fallover to the human completely.
The article is interesting. but the title of the phys.prg article is horrible that I'm almost crying.

The title of the research article is much better: "Quantum mechanical derivation of the Wallis formula for pi"

Can we change it? Pretty please.
Derrick Jensen: Forget Shorter Showers (2009)
> all the core team for one

Not all (Yehuda and me, Huon), although both of us have been paid by Mozilla at some point in the past.
Passing the Turing Test. Understanding consciousness.[1] Communicating human values to a computer so that it doesn't produce absurd judgments. VR simulations indistinguishable from reality.

[1] Edit: people have different standards for this, of course, but something like, "where have a global, working model of a large domain in which predictions of consciousness aren't a special case, and in which people who study it feel like it makes sense and is less mysterious".
which assumes that men tend to build professional relationships with women only when they harbor romantic interest

Small quibble: I am not suggesting that men will only work with me if they are hoping for romance. In most cases, men willing to interact with me because they want romance are of zero value to me professionally. In fact, they often represent an obstacle to my professional goals.

I am saying that heterosexual men generally have reason to be leery of getting too close to any woman at work and, if they are in a committed relationship, can have reason to avoid being close to another woman in any way for any reason. This throws up barriers to networking, collaboration, etc for women that men typically do not face.

I don't know how I can be more clear about that. It doesn't have to involve attraction from either side, though when that is there, it certainly can complicate things.

I see nothing paranoid about men being more hesitant to seriously engage women professionally to a degree they would not hesitate to engage a similarly talented man. The possibility of it leading to problems strikes me as quite reasonable.
Host Managed (or Host Aware) SMR disks are fine. You need to do your own zone management using ZAC/ZBC, and throw out your filesystem. The disks all have a conventional section near LBA 0 for metadata management (e.g. indices).

Usual tradeoff--more work in software, but far less $.
You can still use the "Basic HTML" layout for GMail. It's actually pretty great.

It doesn't look "modern", but if you ask me it's more usable.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h
You are mistaken. What existed before (and the redesign did not remove) was the ability to view cached data offline. You could specify a region to cache, then zoom and pan around that area without a data connection. It would also automatically download your route when you started navigation, and if you subsequently lost your data connection there was a limited offline ability to give directions back to the cached route.

What is new, and never existed before in any version of the app, is the ability to search and start navigation completely offline.
Go started as a niche language and worked well for that niche, but like all niche techs that become dependencies, they tend to get bigger overtime. Go success is undeniable and is reaching a critical mass where there will be no going back.

There are alternatives but most of them aren't backed by a big corp like Google, so they will have to succeed in their respective niche before getting widely adopted. I wish that wasn't the case cause languages like D,Nim or Crystal are really good and way more enjoyable to write in my opinion. Out of all of these(including Go) one will be the next big language, no question as people move from dynamic or VM backed languages (for good reasons).
This thread is about the usefulness of DNSSEC. If you have another agenda than please be explicit about it so that we can have a fruitful conversation.

You asked for a domain, any domain, and was prepared to show how Verisign could exercise their control over .com and somehow affect the validation path that DANE provides. At least that's what how I understood you. It's not always clear.

You seem to argue that susceptibility to state level actors is a counterargument to the standard, so I gave one of the few examples I know of who really need to protect against such adversaries.

Apparently my example was somehow a bad one. Take one of the big banks instead then? What could happen to swedbank.se if they signed their delegation with their TLD?

Or why don't you provide an example instead, and show in what way signing it would cede control to the NSA, or to anyone else?
I'm not seeing the "stunning precision" promised by the headline. The extrusion seems to be ~7mm thick and significantly sags the moment it leaves the extruder.

That being said, the results are aesthetically delightful.
Malicious App 'InstaAgent' Sends Instagram Passwords to Unknown Server
Why has Gmail made it so hard to delete emails? I use various imap connections to gmail, and they've all replaced the delete icon with an archive button. Only the web app still has an easy to click delete button.
The fact that you feel the need to do this is evidence of how powerful their propaganda machine is: even criticizing an objectively awful law we feel the need to go out of our way to assure our audience that we are not hate-filled antisemites as a precaution, because of how often any criticism no matter how valid is instantly written off as hateful antisemitism.
Telepresence in those situations are mostly just replacing vanilla conference calls. Now it's a telephone call with awkward video.

Whether society will view that as good enough to replace business trips remains to be seen.

Though email and VPN do allow more telework than has ever occurred before.
After Poking Facebook, Life Ain't Easy for a Site Named Tsu
Thanks for the feedback. We heard this a little bit through twitter. Can you reference any links? Happy to make the change. It was a little tricky to put together with out interviewing someone. We want it to be accurate and useful. Please post any reference links here and we'll follow up with an edit.
Just the good ones...
Dynamic User Model
Hi,

I could need a pointer, I have the feeling I am one inch away from understanding - but still something is missing. could you provide a hint or a resource or an sample implementation?

it's about creating a dynamic user model for my CMS. I observe the user and record it's interactions with the web page. I also managed to lift those interactions in a business domain - ie. interpret interactions with certain HTML Elements as interaction with a product / article / topic.

I got the data - as stream of filtered interactions - but still the math needed to create an actionable model eludes me. :(

I am looking for ways to aggregate the data into some expressions like "user got strong interest in blue lamps" the CMS could use to make decisions about content placement.

how can I organize the interaction in a way to draw sutch conclusion? what kinds of algorithm should I look into?

thx in advance,
Merkur
Nope, that was just for this example; custom enclosures and larger disks can push quite a bit higher than this.
You are presuming that they will employ all of the people needed.

Why for example would they not turn this into a platform that easily added the AI benefits for external vendors and services, and just be the middleman collecting a cut in some way.

They are already starting to integrate vendors into Messenger directly after all.
That's a non-issue.

They're currently under investigation for violating the immigration labor laws surrounding the H1B [1].

It's a different problem than the cap or the problem in the article. You're always going to have agencies trying to abuse a system regardless of whether there is a cap or not, and they will be investigated and penalized accordingly.

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/commentary-tata-consulta...
Wow, it's crazy to see just how little CoreAudio code you actually need to get up and running - I was always intimidated by this and have always resorted to frameworks (first TheAmazingAudioEngine [1], now AudioKit [2]) in the past.

Has it been easy working this way?

[1] http://theamazingaudioengine.com/

[2] http://audiokit.io/
A bit further East on 80, Bellefonte (BELL font) is another good one.
Charges brought in largest US financial cyber-hacking
Being the only coder at my startup, you have to do everything. And the other day, I had to spend the whole day troubleshooting rendering differences between Outlook and GMail. It reminds me of the old days, back around the time of IE6, when it was all-but-impossible to get FF and IE to render the same HTML - except worse, by at least an order of magnitude. It's astounding to me that the same companies who've worked their asses off to make sure that their browsers all render HTML and CSS exactly the same, haven't given the slightest thought to making sure that their email clients can get along. This is a huge time-suck for developers. Glad to see that they're getting the public shaming they deserve.
Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you accept international payment?
Hey Freelancer around the world: what is your setup of getting paid when your client is not in your country? Is there an easy way to get paid with the lowest transaction fee? Wire transfer works but the process is long for the client, and you need to coordinate a lot (exchanging bank account info, etc).
Totally with you on the analog summing. It's kind of funny that people love the sound so much, an analog summing mixer often finds its way into the mastering process even if the original production was all digital.
Oh sorry, I read your edit backwards.
I felt very much the same way about Go's error handling; that, coupled with straight-line synchronous-style socket programming, made me feel like I was writing the same dumb C code I did when I was a teenager in the mid-90s.

I've come to believe that slicker error handling is a bit of a false economy, at least compared to other "informal" languages like Java, Ruby, and Python (all bets are off if you want to compare Go to Haskell; I concede everything in advance there).

I feel like a lot of Java and (especially) Python/Ruby code is easier to read... until it matures enough to handle errors properly, at which point its just as crudded up. It's much easier to start sketching out code in Ruby and wrapping everything in blanket try/rescue blocks. But that code always breaks and always gets trickier before it's ready to ship.

Lots of people I've talked to have had the same experience coming off C, Ruby, and Python as I have: when the Go compiler stops spitting out errors, your program tends to work --- usually not perfectly, but still far better than a first-run Ruby or C program does!

Also, when people think about Go error handling compared to Ruby and Python, they rarely factor in the density of unit tests required for the Ruby and Python code.
As someone who reads all of my email in a terminal: I don't see the problem here. I think gmail has a lot of issues, but making it harder for you to send me spam is not one of them.
for example, there was reference to the Spring framework - any reference links are appreciated.
Measure twice, cut+once: The benefits of test-driven development
1. How many years have you been working?

2. How many times in your career have you found yourself working closely with a woman who you found attractive and who made it clear she was interested in you?

3. In these situations, how many times were you the woman's superior, equal or direct report?

I think answers to the above would be more beneficial to this discussion than the admission that you could theoretically be tempted by a co-worker to cheat on your wife.
I would hope in the future that more and more services are actually directly available to be interacted with over one or more messaging networks, enabling easy, asynchronous communication.

Whether Comcast would want to make it that easy for people to cancel is entirely a different issue though :)
I'm actually very, very curious to hear more about that. Both NIFI and Flink are niche choices currently... care to share more, maybe in private?
We love that integration too! Just makes so much sense for questions & answers to have schematics tied to them. That was another case where in conjunction with the team at StackExchange, we made it very low-resource-intensive integration: after a https://electronics.stackexchange.com/ user draws their schematic in a question or answer field, it's rendered to a static image and sent off to StackExchange's S3 buckets and hosted by them forever. But we still allow the same user (or a different one) to re-launch CircuitLab and edit or modify and extend an existing drawing by hitting our server again for the underlying data structure.
My beef with GMaps is its performance. The UI is for the most part fine (though there some awful blunders that were later fixed).

Loading GMaps takes forever now and brings my entire browser to a freezing stop (Chrome OSX) until it's done doing whatever it's doing. This is a modern desktop (i7, 16GB RAM, discrete graphics). Even after it's done "loading" if you try to interact with the map right away it does so at a crawl - inputs take multiple seconds to register and panning/zooming runs at about 2 frames a second.

It takes about 10-15 seconds after load for the site to be fully functional and performant. That's insane.

Ditto the Satellite view. Yeah, having 3D buildings is pretty cool and all, but the performance is atrocious on even fast, modern machines. If that's the tradeoff I'll take the 2D satellite imagery back please.

Overall interacting with GMaps is itself a chore, and it almost entirely comes down to bad performance. This is especially frustrating on mobile if you put the performance of GMaps on iOS next to competitors like Apple Maps - the rendering performance is insanely low even on the most up to date hardware like an iPhone 6s.

Beyond performance problems, one thing Google didn't fix until recently was that it was literally impossible to see information on an address/place and nearby transit at the same time. They changed Transit from a persistent overlay that can be toggled to a special view mode itself, which would disable itself the moment you clicked on any point of interest on the map. It makes me wonder if anyone on the Maps team lives in a major city.
I'm weird, I don't like all this HTML email.

What I _do_ like, is that when I get an email with things like flight details that my client can add it to the calendar.

if I have any complaint with gmail it's that they're too successful, running your own mail server that's standards compliant and runs all the DMARC/SPF/DKIM + PTR is fine, but until you have a reputation with gmail 70% of people aren't seeing email from you (and I'm not talking marketing emails).

which is self-fulfilling, because my emails go into the spam bin, which means when the spam bins get churned into the anti-spam learning engine it has, it sees that "(S)He's been marked spam before".

So it somehow centralises email, which is at it's core decentralised. :\
Huh, I was going to argue that the User-Agent string would probably leak the same data as media queries, but if it's a generic proxy fetching them, then I guess not.
But why is it difficult and error prone now? I frankly cannot see it. What steps do you take, and where do you stumble?
Rocket chutes[1] help with the altitude problem but there are lots of "dead" zones.

[1] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2010/ps_3.html
The Verge on how T-Mobile isn't really all that different:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/10/9706296/t-mobile-binge-on...
> chances of him getting hacked are basically zero

How do you know that? Your machine is probably still susceptible to POODLE.

He is on non-admin account doesn't mean the OS doesn't contain bugs that allow privilege escalation. And Apple is definitely not going to fix those bugs.
It's like most languages: if you go in hoping to write in the style of your favorite previous language, the language is going to resist you. Python does the same thing to you if you want to write in functional style. Ruby also punishes you if you want custom data structures (it's the Rails community that coined the term "golden path", right?). If you've got loads of duplicated code due to lack of generics, you may not be leaning as much on the design of the standard library as the language wants you to.

We've got a limit-order-book market with a FIX API and an HTTPS/JSON API, a bunch of market makers, an AVR emulator, a dispatcher to handle thousands of AVRs concurrently, a C compiler, HTTPS/JSON APIs to implement debug stubs for all of that, and a bunch of other random stuff --- and we have one (1) custom data structure --- the red-black tree we use for the order books themselves.

I'm a recovering C++ programmer and do not doubt for a moment that if Go had generics, I'd have availed myself of them. I'm not sure my code would be better for it, though.
1) Build site
2) Put up the 'masterbation section'
3) Create reputations
4) Don't go to the masterbation section
5) Talk to reputable people.

I mean, how do you choose who to talk to IRL? I don't make you login to FB in order to chat with me.
You used to be able to just click the directions tab and fill in the from and to in the textually-labelled boxes on the left. Now you have to provide it the incantation in the order it wants; in particular you must put the destination in first and then go back and put the start point after. I don't even know if you can do "via" any more, never mind how. And it seems incapable of remembering what mode of transport I want any more.
https://www.google.com/maps/lite
> arms-length transaction: so wait, within arms length, or beyond arms length? (The term is used for the latter.)

Actually, its usually used to mean at arms-length, neither closer nor farther: maintaining a distance that is close enough for the contact necessary to perform the transaction, but no closer.
No worries. I haven't been the best communicator this week.
> The MBTI and Big 5 are simply rotations of one another. They explain most of the same variance.

They are not and do no such thing.

> This was demonstrated by McCrae & Costa, who created the Big 5, in the 80s.

You're seizing on the same single article every single MBTI booster seizes on: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2709300

Particularly the abstract, in which the magic words "However, correlational analyses showed that the four MBTI indices did measure aspects of four of the five major dimensions of normal personality." appear.

The thing is that of the correlations found, the strongest is between the 5-factor introversion-extraversion and the MBTI introversion-extraversion (.74 for men, .69 for women). This is hardly ground-breaking stuff. The next best is intuition and openness (.72 for men, .69 for women).

So on two axes, MBTI stumbles into something. Jung was a pretty smart guy who interview a lot of folk, so it figures he'd have noticed the surface features that anyone can notice (some people are introverted! some people are more conscientious!)

But all of this is by the by. It doesn't matter that MBTI is sometimes right. It matters that it is more wrong than right. If it is demonstrably wrong, most of the time, on most of its types, then it is dangerous and foolish to use it.

You might as well argue that "some people get better from eating bread with mould". Sure, that's true, but I'd rather take antibiotics.
Sounds like an incredibly niche feature.
10 gallons of kerosene = 68.2 LBS
I think to answer this question you should look at your experience with the team so far. You can be a leader without being a manager. Pick one of the issues you'd like to fix, like no tests. Can you educate/persuade/mentor your teammates now, as a tech lead, and improve the test coverage? If you can successfully do that as a tech lead, you will probably have success doing it as their manager. And if you can get folks interested in writing tests, they probably will see you as a natural choice for manager.

The other thing to think about is if you want to be a manager day-to-day. Management is a completely different JOB. Remember, you are not rowing the boat, you are the captain of the team calling out the rhythm.
> In particular, Mac OS X don't even run well with only 4GB of RAM anymore

It actually runs great. I'm using a 2011 Air w/2GB (cheapest back then) and El Capitan and it's almost as fast as my 24GB Mac Pro.

I push it a bit with Logic Pro X + drum samples (for my V-Drums), but it handles that without complaints. But for web, videos and programming there isn't much of a difference.
Top+5+computer+mistakes+beginners+make+|+School+BIX+NG
I really like those!
Kudos!
> Sustained B-level performance, despite "A for effort", generates a generous severance package, with respect.

You've got to love these startups who basically say "if you're not giving us everything beyond what we expect... go screw yourself. I'm not sure how Netflix grades things... but in school B is "Above average".

Is Netflix looking to employee and develop people or are they looking to extract life from people?
Try Lite Mode: https://www.google.com/maps/?force=lite
As I've said before, H1B approval requires that employers pay more than the average wage of U.S. citizens working the same job in the same area.
A better excerpt:

> Agency officials did not complete the basic plans for the computer system until nearly three years after the initial $500 million contract had been awarded to IBM

Nothing wrong with a company bidding on a project of undefined scope. They likely properly laid out what that money bought -- hours, months, years of consulting / implementation. If the client did not have the interested in getting to implementation in short order, that is the client's issue. The company (IBM's) clock starts immediately and the dollars start disappearing.
In USA future, backpack carries you!

I was a skeptic, but this looks unbelievably cool (even though they could have done a lot more cinematically).

However, jetpacks seem fundamentally limited to me because of the energy required. Perhaps a nuclear powered one would solve this? Or, the mythical massively higher density battery.

An alternative for personal flight is the powered parasail (aka parapont). There's a local guy who cruises around the bay shoreline at about 20-30feet, for a couple of hours. It's not capable of jetpack acrobatics, but more like seagulls soaring along a ridge.
Whoaaa! Thanks, worked great here. That is terrific to see it running like that. :)
And so it took 21 years to get to this point with DNSSEC because...
You don't have to put the destination first: in the search box, there's a directions button, just press it and it'll show both boxes!

I'm with you on the "it forgets the transportation mode" complaint, by the way; even Google Now seems incapable of using it, despite being able to parrot back the setting in the config panel.