skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure which, but some app I had open (I simply closed everything) was trapping the keycodes somehow. Weird (and mildly disturbing)
I've tried Bekant and Galant in Ikea and by try I meant I added my laptop bag, extension cord and a 15" MacBook Pro on the table. I also put a full glass of water on it. Essentially I tried to simulate real world use.

Kinda disappointed. The ones I got try were wobbly. Not sure if there is a setting to do but I couldn't type without shaking my screen. Didn't have that experience with the more expensive electronic stand up desks in other offices. Just a heads up. Might just be some config issue or something.
Naive article. There are many other factors involved. Are your stock options about to vest? Have you accomplished something meaningful at your current job to show your value to your next employer?

"money to fill our bank account" is not a shallow reason to work. "money to fill our bank account" usually translates to "money to pay the mortgage", "money to send your kids to school", "money to pay health insurance for your family".

Yes, having a fun job that gives you a sense of fulfillment is great, but other factors have to be considered.
"The language is purely functional. There are no side-effects."

This can be interpreted very efficiently by skipping evaluation.
I'm not an experienced parent (just 1 toddler), but my best guess is that the amount of teaching can only be a positive (after all, teaching means you are spending time with them), but the methods are probably what could have a positive or negative effect. I have no evidence to support my opinion, but I personally would not be a fan of a very rigorous and structured learning program for a toddler, exploration and self-discovery are important to me and I believe they suffer in a highly structured environment.
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>> inertial, ...

A nice discussion of inertial navigation capability (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752294):

Consumer grade MEMS ...are not sufficient for intertial navigation, ...

At around the $2K-30K you get systems that can
provide accurate navigation for up to 2 minutes or so.

Aviation grade IMUs ... maximum horizontal position drift of 1.5km
in the first hour of operation. These will run 100K and up.
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Hey man, thank you very much, I was somehow able to connect to the psql database :) i created a user, a database and successfully created and dropped a table!

HN these days is full of elitist people who think the people who are struggling with things are downright dumb, hence the multiple downvotes I got on the earlier comment. It is because of people like you, my friend, that HN is still a user friendly community :)

Thank you!!
I only see monthly/annual support. Do they have a one-time listed anywhere that I'm not seeing?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

I got all the help from this thread and the above link!
That was my first thought, too. ^^
So we'll just see vertical integration of previously separate firms into well capitalized monoliths again. This might take a but of time, but I can't see why big investors would not do it.
The very page you linked to shows that HS graduates early roughly half what college graduates do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
>> I believe the Saudis are in a race to cash out everything they can before either their regime is toppled or battery technology makes oil less desirable.

They've been talking about the regime imploding for practically 30 years now. Robert Baer predicted the collapse of the regime over a decade ago:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/the-fall...
That's correct. Each time you make a new VM, instead of copying the base box's disk image it creates an new disk image that will only store the differences between your VM's disk and the base box's disk.
Fair enough, It'd be worth putting in the first line of the address at least. Not too much extra space taken up.
That's actually the most verbose k code I've ever seen (but probably also the most reasonably readable)...
arbitration offers quick dispute resolution in an insanely litigious country. the "small guy" faces extraordinary legal expenses in the public justice system.
Otto uses vagrant (as well as other hashicorp software) under the hood.
> the successor to Vagrant https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/otto.html

So it does read like it was replaced but now we have some clarification. Vagrant will still be developed alongside of Otto.
"Braces" culture is interesting. I grew up in the rural southeast of the US, and while braces weren't unheard of they were uncommon. I have friends from new england who reported the opposite - most children, even those from poorer families, had braces.
What would be David Friedman's solution to this? Arbitration, itself, doesn't seem to be the issue, only the crooked nature of its currant incentives. Some automated law firm that represents customers and employers, which reads and and signs contracts in the customers' and employers' stead may work. I find private law interesting, but it strikes me that such a thing would be hard to bootstrap. Perhaps if the service didn't have any fee and worked purely off of commission, as minimizing the pain of signing up seems key.
You have options: move. I was once burdened with traffic on the 405 every day and it was a nightmare. Had to pay an extra hundred or two in rent to live on the west side (of LA). Freeing up three hours a day of commuting (to walk in the sunshine) was definitely worth it.
If you could make a proxy to your office's printer that would be a fantastic April fools joke, actually.
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From what I've seen Google doesn't really care that much about what external devs want. I've seen multiple videos in which people ask about support for Scala, Python or even Java 8 and in each one the Google developer evangelist seems to have difficulty understanding why people would even want anything other than old versions of Java.
No; but it will be pumped as soon as it hits 80 again, preventing price from going up from there. Although 50 is probably a better number.
What companies use Rust?
My reaction: omg this is creepy!

Sorry :-/
Division of labor. Instead of updating every programming language, VCS, IDE, etc, for a feature nobody else cares about, scratch your itch and write a script to do it.
>You weren't displaying critical thought, you were engaging in a trite dismissal

I read the paper and researched its claims before attacking it.

Did you do that before accusing me of trite dismissal?
> were not profitable under $50/barrel.

It's important to distinguish marginal cost vs profitability. A company can be operating at a loss for years (if not decades) as long as marginal cost of the product doesn't exceed their marginal revenue. To bring this in the context of oil prices: cost of extraction of conventional oil is around $3-5 dollars. This is how much it costs to operate a well with some minimum maintenance. However, this dismisses the cost of development of the well, i.e. of R&D. If you count that in you get closer to $15-$30 depending on the oil field. Higher for offshore, and higher for shale still. Cost of extraction for fracking is around $15 a barrel, but the R&D costs are much higher, to the tune of $40-60 total. Companies can sustain sunk R&D costs for a long time as long as they are maintaining healthy marginal profit. They will naturally not invest into new fields but that cushion can take years to have effect on the prices.
The first 30 lines of this file are a 'joy'

https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie/blob/master/src/js.co...

I'm sure js could be nice, but it never seems to be.
How are speed limits and licensing requirements working? It's illegal to speed and illegal to drive without a license, yet there are tens of thousands of traffic deaths every year. How is gun control working? It's illegal to own high-powered weapons, but there are tens of thousands of gun-related murders each year. Does that mean we should get rid of traffic laws and gun control laws?

And while prescription drug abuse constitutes about half of overdose deaths,[1] that leaves over 20,000 deaths a year from non-prescription drugs, and many of those deaths from prescription drugs would not have happened if those drugs were used as prescribed.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html.
> and not outright malicious.

That ship may have already sailed. They could've pulled a decent "honestly, we had no idea!" excuse pre-2013, when only most of the cryptography community assumed the Dual EC was both backdoored and useless for its intended purpose, but not after it was confirmed by Snowden's documents that the NSA backdoored Dual EC, and yet they continued to use it.

And now, when they found out a(nother) nation state was using it, their "fix" is to change the parameters again instead of burning it with fire. That's strike three.
Badass! This would have saved me about a week of my life if it had come a few years ago!
I actually find this one to be quite sturdy, even at full height it doesn't wobble. Maybe more to do with the way they have them setup at IKEA stores? As you can see on my setup I have a monitor, and 2 laptops on top of the table.
I'm not sure any of us are. In the US, summer is colloquially from the last Monday of May to the first Monday of September (Memorial-Labor Days). Many seasonal businesses use this definition for opening or extending hours. And it's within a week or two of what most schools do, too.

Calling the astronomical seasons illogical is quite a stretch. Sure, it's ~18 days off from the average weather patterns, but those can vary substantially from year to year, too. But everyone knows that. And folks are doing just fine.
A lot of the cost comes from CAPEX at the front end of the life cycle of the well. There are a lot of wells out there that can produce a marginal barrel of oil for <$20. Once the companies get recapitalized or go through bankruptcy that is the new cost that will need to be looked at.
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Agreed. For those who didn't read to the end of the post they tacked this on the end:

"Vagrant 1.8 is our first major Vagrant release since releasing Otto. There was a lot of concern around the future of Vagrant since announcing Otto as the "successor to Vagrant". Many of the features of Vagrant 1.8 are the result of Otto needing them to reach that goal. Vagrant 1.8 is an example of how Vagrant will continue to improve – in major ways – alongside Otto."
So, this is basically VNC?
No, but it means that the Saudis can't raise prices much past $80/bbl. And I'm not sure that $80 is the right number for a lot of the fracking wells - the number that I seem to recall is $50. (I freely admit that I'm working from vague memory here, and could easily be wrong...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECgQjZYAGqs#t=9m49s
Is this any different to "Save as PDF"?
Yes. It's a known issue that appears to be on the roadmap for 1.8.1: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/6708

You can call `vagrant up --no-install-provider` for the old behaviour. See also: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/up.html
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That's such a bad comparison. Stone is way more common and was being used by far fewer people.

I sincerely hope it's true, but it's one of those snide comments that attempts to make legitimate concerns look stupid.
> but I don't think we'll ever see $100+ per barrel oil again.

It would just take a small scale war in the Persian Gulf (KSA vs Iran) for the crude oil barrel to pierce through the $100 dollar level and soar even further.

Never say never.
Universal apps have different UIs for different categories. You can put a phone UI, a tablet UI, and a desktop UI into one app.
You're right. It appears they're doing things right. I overlooked that part of their site when I first viewed the link. I apologize to the Cocoon team for my oversight, and appreciate a company that looks like they're tackling the concerns I expressed head-on.
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Camera Zapping, I saw this on an episode from Burn Notice and I thought it was more like science fiction. Guess that was pretty accurate!
badass at business maybe but WaPo is a sh rag now and probably not getting better any time soon. Liberal slanted crap. I recommend avoiding until they start telling the whole story on topics and actually putting some levelheadedness behind their opinion columns, not sjws calling everyone immoral.
Just for sake of some humor and perspective, compare the clickbaity stories you dislike to a police blotter story from print. One of my favorites from Baltimore is this one, in its entirety:

"Someone entered the rear yard of a house in the 5900 block of Johnson St. on Saturday morning and removed a tomato from a tomato plant. The tomato was valued at $3, police said."
> Now people complain that it's a weakly typed language replacing strongly-typed languages they prefer...

The first step would be to understand the difference between weak/strong and dynamic/static typing.
The new built-in snapshot support looks nice. You could do snapshot/rollback already with https://github.com/jedi4ever/sahara , but that only supported one level of snapshots, whereas this supports many.
Yep. Nailed it. I think I've bought 3 upgrades already...
This is great news! Especially the part where Web Extensions are going work in Chrome without any changes!
Playing the Devil's Advocate here a little, but Garfield isn't journalism either and we get that in newspapers.
The third or fourth sample program in "The C Programming Language" is the beginnings of a wc clone.
slightly sluggish but still very cool
It's much worse over here in the US. Employers in the US have most people over a barrel. Most employees put the shackles on themselves by running up too much debt due to advertising and a materialistic culture.

A lot of people don't realise how powerful a position of strength is when dealing with unreasonable employers. If your skills are in demand you are in a position to quit (i.e. you have F.U. money), you can create a better work environment by letting the employer know ahead of time that there are certain things you won't tolerate. If they choose to sever the relationship because of this (Shitty American employment-at-will practise), you can find a job elsewhere, and they are stuck having to recruit a new person for the job.
Android and iOS are already trying to be better desktop OSes, and Ubuntu and Windows are trying to be better phone OSes. I don't think it's going to take that long to bridge the gap.
It takes bad parenting to give a kid that age the impression that asking questions could ever not be okay. As long as that mistake isn't made, the rest follows organically.
So wait, were the cartels sitting around ignoring heroin/coke/meth as long as marijuana was illegal? That makes no sense.

Not every cartel will go out of business immediately, but if you cut off a big source of illegal funds it absolutely will mean less illegal activity.
Note that Iranian Oil Sanctions have only been recently lifted. The current oil prices is WITHOUT Iran in the market.

Come next year, Iranian Oil will join the world market and drive prices lower.
Actually, according to your comment above, we're talking about "the politicians supporting drug control". Those same politicians support treating drug addiction as a crime, rather than a disease, thereby placing a stigma on addicts who want to get help. Some addicts that go without the help they need due to this unnecessary stigma are the ones that end up contributing to the overdose statistic that you mentioned.

The politicians supporting prohibition are the bad guys, for this and other reasons, such as continuing to waste taxpayer dollars on a failed drug war. The same drug war that feeds the pockets of the drug traffickers. The same drug traffickers that require militarized police forces to fight against. The same militarized police forces that require tax payer dollars to pay for. The same tax payer dollars that could be used to treat addicts and reduce the overdose statistics.
Otto replaces Vagrant for the common use case: if you're just a person who wants to run a personal dev server, they'd like you to move onto Otto.

However, Otto is just a layer on top of Vagrant that automates a lot of the decisions that a dev would usually make. Vagrant is still relevant for other use cases, so they'll continue to develop it as a standalone product, too.
Companies that insert mandatory arbitration clauses that get to pick and choose arbitrators. Why should an arbitrator rule against the company that is employing them, especially as it virtually ensures the company will not do so in the future?

Arbitration is really only fair and effective between equal peers that can choose to split the costs of the arbitration, and agree upon an arbitrator together.

In cases of arbitration between a large entity and a single small customer, the large entity wins virtually every single time. The top 10 arbitration firms in the USA only rule in the favor of the consumer/employee 1.6% of the time [1]

There's not a single health plan available in many states that does not require agreeing to binding arbitration for coverage. None of them allow you to opt out, even if you're willing to pay more. Sign away your right to sue, or no coverage for you. Consider that under health care reform, one is required to purchase one of these plans. There are dozens of industries that are like this, where it is virtually impossible to receive a service or a good of that class without agreeing to mandatory binding arbitration, such as residential ISPs.

Add into the fact there is almost no way to appeal decisions, make no mistake, Companies are not doing this for your benefit.

The term "kangaroo court" comes to mind.

[1]http://consumerist.com/2007/07/26/support-the-arbitration-fa...
I think this is probably the best case to point out the reason for avoiding backdoors in the system. The author put it more eloquently...

The problem with cryptographic backdoors is not that they're the only way that
an attacker can break intro our cryptographic systems. It's merely that _they're
one of the best_. They take care of the hard work, the laying of plumbing and
electrical wiring, so attackers can simply walk in and change the drapes.
Russia has also been increasing production and Iran's oil is just waiting to hit the market...
How are they going to 'switch over to some other industry'? They can't just turn on the scientist brigade the way you turn on an oil well.
An old one, but also be weary of private meetings with your boss on Friday.
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Well, it also fixes the other backdoor, which is accessible to parties A, B, and everyone else.
> Now that we're here, is peak demand less scary than peak supply ?

Yes, much, because the world's economies don't grind to a halt. They become more efficient and keep running. That's a much better outcome.
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This is fascinating! I wanted to know more about the history of that function at id, which lead me to this beyond3d post (which was the topic of the reddit post that BetterExplained listed as a source):

https://web.archive.org/web/20070208003255/http://www.beyond...
> Stone is way more common

Stone is literally more expensive than oil. Note that at $2.00 / gallon, gasoline (refined oil) is twice as cheap as bottled water. At $35 / barrel (ie: $35 per 55-gallon drum), crude oil is literally cheaper than a huge number of commodities.

Crude Oil is roughly $0.65 per gallon. Definitely cheaper than stone by every measurement.
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If a private arbitration court was not biased towards the employer, then what would be the point of its existence? Why would the employer prefer it over a public court?
When the Director of HR and VP of Legal send a meeting request to you.
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Can you explain why the need for the desk to be electric type? There are much cheaper standing desk that's manually adjustable, like this MultiTable one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006269Y4E

They've been around for several years and always been cheap for less than 600$, I've seen 300-500$ that works as well.

I have this table for more than 2 years now and it has never failed for me. It's also very quiet, no motor running the desk.
With minimal changes, I think. IIRC Firefox has a slightly different packaging format.
True but the effect is likely to be fairly small. It's probably better to compare legalization of most drugs to the end of prohibition. That saw a collapse in crime and incarceration rates back towards (although admittedly not all the way down to) pre-prohibition levels which only picked up again with the war on drugs.

If you don't trust that comparison, how about looking at the actual real world effects seen recently in Western countries such as Holland and Portugal that have tried this.
A lot of this rage is coming from moral righteousness, mobbing is happening over perceived racism/sexism/killing of cuddly lions. The ostracizing in real life you're expecting to see correct this is exactly the process that is going haywire. Normal people are doing this mobbing, I have seen it with my own eyes. They are people with a desire to punish, looking for a socially acceptable victim.
Doesn't this simply remove some of the symptoms instead of working with the root cause?
When you make a hotel reservation to go to a conference in three weeks (Nintendo conference in Los Angeles in my case) and the parent company calls and tells your boss "Wait! Don't make any travel plans! Also, we're going to visit in two weeks!"

....yeah, we basically twiddled our thumbs for two weeks until they came by to pack up our servers and fire everyone.
One-on-one meetings suddenly scheduled after management themselves have been in meetings for an unusually long time.
I'm not cocksure. That's why I hedged with "seems to me", i.e. this is my opinion.

However, to substantiate my claim, at least for C, I only have to point back to the original article.

It's possible that things have improved with C++11, I don't know. However, I would think that if C++11 were suitable for writing secure code, that DJB would be aware of this and just say so instead of advocating for a new C compiler.
>Now people complain that it's a weakly typed language replacing strongly-typed languages they prefer

Firstly, that's a strawman. I prefer strongly-typed dynamic languages and I still think JavaScript sucks.

Secondly, I think you're confusing strong vs. weak with dynamic vs. static. JavaScript's weak typing is unequivocally one of the worst things about the language.
That is even more insane from a security perspective than the whole accessibility api in general.
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