skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a contrary opinion, that its really not so bad, I'm old enough to remember job interviews where they use the interview as an excuse to take the whole team out to their favorite expensive restaurant for lunch, and I'm stressed and frankly not going to enjoy it because its an interview full of people I don't know well, whereas a day or two's pay at $25/hr works out very well to "date night with my wife at our favorite steakhouse". For people who don't like steakhouses, or wives, they can find a similar enough way to entertain themselves in compensation for time spent.

It feels like a relatively tasteful way to say "thanks for your time, now go out and have a nice evening to celebrate its all over".
Or more realistically, people don't want to know when they're being photographed. It's trivially easy to photograph covertly and have nobody know about it. People just don't want to know.
It's difficult to take this article seriously. There are lots of tools available and more appropriate to prepare surgeries using CT scans. Check echopixeltech for example.
I don't think it does. Remember, we're not talking about some kind of remote-operated robotic surgery rig, where the difference might actually affect the movements the surgeon uses during the surgery. This was just for looking at images in preparation for the surgery. Stereoscopic 3D can help get a feel for the depth quickly, but I don't think there's any fundamental difference between using that versus just spending a little more time working with a 3D model (moving a 3D model around gets you a feel for the depth too, just not as fast as stereoscopic imagery does).

Besides, we've had 3D monitors for years now. If there was a significant difference here, doctors would all have switched to using 3D monitors years ago to do this kind of preparation. Or at least, we'd have heard stories come out before now about individual doctors that did make the switch because it allows them to confidently perform surgeries they couldn't before.
bbPress originally was a standalone forum written by Matt over one Christmas and greatly improved by a few other folks over a few years.

It was exponentially faster than wordpress and fixed a great deal of WP legacy nightmare.

Then Matt ruined it by having them create backpress and porting it to that.

Then he destroyed it by making it into a wordpress plugin and just kept the name even though it was completely different.

(I'm somewhat of a bbpress standalone "expert" perhaps the last one for what little it is worth)
Very cool. There are a few notations, but it seems the most popular one uses rotated digits (like 6 and 9).

10 is a rotated 2 (ᘔ)

11 is a rotated 3 (Ɛ)
But that won't help if you're up to the sort of attacker disk encryption is supposed to protect from, right? Disk encryption protects data at rest, in which case you can assume the attacker has loaded the flash into his own system and don't give a cent about Android's PIN restrictions.
Given that it runs at 900 MHz, it will require new hardware.

At a minimum, it will require an antenna tuned for the new band, in addition to whatever changes to the WiFi baseband processor are needed to go along with it.
Total shock reading this article, not noticing the author, and suddenly seeing textadventures.co.uk, a site where I wasted plenty of hours in middle or high school. Really awesome to see that Alex Warren has gotten a job he loves since then.
Maybe you are unaware or treated better than I was. I left T-Mobile when I discovered their definition of 'unlimited' meant that after using 10GB, your connection becomes throttled to around 250kbps for the rest of the month.
:( Disappointed. I was expecting a story along the lines of the "Magic / More Magic button" story.

edit
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
This standard is targeted to low power consuming devices.
So the question is more like "Will the new HaLow devices be able to connect to my home router".
And looks like the answer is they won't.
During their uncarrier launch event their CTO mentioned that they share certificates with partner services so they can inspect and do their magic on HTTPS traffic. I can't actually look up the video archive right now due to traveling, but I specifically remember it during the Q&A session at the end because I was curious if there was some MITM action going on.
>the system of Capitalism is starting to fail

To paraphrase a famous quote, Capitalism is the worst system possible, except for all of the other systems that have been tried.

There are a number of possible ways to hack/change capitalism that, while they don't change the fundamental principles, do make the process more sustainable.
That's fair enough, but I guess I just don't think there's enough... commitment in that?

I appreciate the point about meta-standards vs. standards. I think I'm more looking for concrete technical standards (to obviate all others before them![1]) than meta-standards. The web has advanced significantly in the last few years, perhaps even as a result of this meta-standard, but ultimately I'm skeptical that competition between entities that don't have the same goal will "succeed"[2] in any objective sense. The point me be a a bit muddled at this point, but think "principal agent problem".

[1] Because that always works! (Find your own XKCD)

[2] Yeah, I know. Everybody has a different idea of what that means.
I think there's quite a difference between your average no-name senior developer and someone like GVR. Of course they didn't ask him to do coding exercises; the whole world knows his work. But as a member of the population of senior developers who would have his abilities tested in an interview situation, offering me $25/hour for a significant amount of my time is a bit insulting. I understand that they aren't actually attempting to value your time at $25/hr and it's more of a show of good faith than an attempt at complete compensation, but come on, last time I did a short term contract was 9 years ago and I billed $150/hr. I haven't been in the world of contracting lately but my salary has more than doubled since then, so my feeling is that $25/hr is like saying "do fizzbuzz for me. I'll give you a dollar."
> First of all: it's irrelevant to the principle whether the goal is to "eliminate" income inequality, or "reduce" it. This being HN, I won't elaborate on why. This place should be above pedantry and people coming from all viewpoints should be able to see why it's the case that if one is bad, so is the other.

I'm afraid you're going to have to elaborate a bit for me to see it. (And no, I'm not just trying to be a pedant.)

(Unless you're saying that PG's argument is that reducing inequality is bad, not just that eliminating it is bad. Then I'd have to agree with you.)

One could both believe that inequality should not be eliminated because it actually benefits society (PG's point in the essay) and believe that too much inequality harms society. One could even believe that we are on the "too much inequality" side of the optimum.
Will this year's Academy Awards see a repeat of #OscarsSoWhite backlash?
It's not clear that reducing income inequality is bad, please explain. The arguments against eliminating income inequality rest on the idea that people won't do a hard or bad job if it didn't pay more than other easier or nicer jobs. While there are very likely jobs that people wouldn't do for a small multiplier on some ideal base pay for some ideal good job. Increasing marginal tax rates, which is the actual way that actual people suggest we handle income inequality, doesn't actually put a cap on pay.
None of this will work against a normal consumer device, since you cannot flash recovery until you do "fastboot oem unlock", which purposefully erases ALL user data. And most consumers do not walk around with unlocked bootloaders.
I use Sphinx style because it gives me better auto-completion via Jedi[1][2]. Otherwise I really like the look of Google style docstrings[3]. There's some ongoing work[4][5] to get support for that in Jedi as well.

[1] https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi
[2] https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim
[3] http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org
[4] https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi/issues/504
[5] https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi/pull/617
Agreed, but I'd like to point out that you can write in functional style in pretty much any language. Most of my professional life involves VB.net which is mostly object oriented (for some value of object oriented) and procedural but I try to write as much of the code as possible as functions with no side effects. The biggest problem is convincing my colleagues to do the same.
What about X and E? (pronounced deck and ell) There are other symbols you could use instead of ASCII if you really wanted to distinguish them (like chi & epsilon).

You can count to 10 with 5 fingers with not much practice (look up Chisanbop); I think most kids could pick up counting to 12 on their finger joints pretty quickly.
I grew up in the Bay Area in California. We only memorized up to 9x9. Though 12 is used often in measurements, I can't say as that I've missed having rote knowledge of the multiples of 12.
> This being HN, I won't elaborate on why. This place should be above pedantry and people coming from all viewpoints should be able to see why it's the case that if one is bad, so is the other.

no, actually you do need to elaborate on why. this is not pedantry. you should accept that reasonable people might disagree with you for good reasons and that your position is not "obviously correct" to the point of needing no explanation or support from its proponents.
maybe a long time ago this was a sensible function to have... but i wonder why this is here at all? myself from the 1990s would wonder as well. file i/o functions in the c standard library make this a pointless exercise today...

emacs. an anachronism made of other anachronisms...
I often write small bits in C because it's simply fun. And I tend to get bogged down over-abstracting when I'm working in something more modern. The simplicity of C is a boon, allowing me to focus on one small problem and easilly study the performance. (I have spend the last 2 days making a thread-pool and BLAS system in C for fun, initially results are quite good. My 4x4 matrix-matrix multiplication algorithm beats Intel's own example :D).

I wouldn't be quick to use it for a large scale project which does not require 110% performance but for anything were performance is your nr. 1 goal I've found it quite refereshing.
Why would you leave old code commented out when you can easily look at earlier versions of code with you source code manager?
> how many times do you calculate "X per year" in your head? i do it multiple times per day, and not just at work.

Seldom enough that I 'calculate it in my head' (as your comment suggests you do too) rather than memorise the 12x table.

But then again I grew up in metric country that only bothered with drilling kids up to the 10x table at school. Never had to worry about feet to inches conversions very often either.
Thanks for the clarifications; You're right that I am mixing up eras and nomenclature. 'The Age of Enlightenment' would be the correct name, yes? This was all during the first french republic and ended by the end of Napoleon's reign.
The comment itself addresses that: it says people will forget that it exists.
It's true that it will be accessible from the repository, but a few years from deletion, people will forget it is there.

I think that they should've put this right there in the comment, really.
This doesn't seem all that awful. If the old code is significantly more readable, then perhaps it serves as good documentation about the new code.

It is somewhat surprising that this would last 30 years though. In our huge codebase, barely any lines have survived 8 years. Even less so the comments.
The page answers that:

> Will there be a desktop app for the new YNAB?

> Yes. It’s on our roadmap as one of our first major initiatives.
From the linked article:

Don't remove this code: it's true that it will be accessible from the repository, but a few years from deletion, people will forget it is there.
I just created a JIRA ticket tracking this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12635

Thanks for the reminder!
> Exactly what was Apple negotiating for if they had lost ownership of their catalog?

There was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Songs

and then there was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records

The former company "owns" the older songs and the later the later songs (that is, the "publishing rights"). As far as I understand only the former company and songs (but that was a significant part of all Beatles songs) ended up by Jackson. The article from the Daily Mail you link to is wrong (now who would expect that) saying "Payday: Sir Paul will be able to receive royalties from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road albums" because as far as I understand Abbey Road is an Apple Records album, never owned either by Northern Songs or later Jackson.

Now how I know that, which were the Apple Records records? I'm just old enough to have had the vinyl records, and holding them it was immediately obvious which is which:

http://thebeatles-collection.com/wordpress/wp-content/upload...

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jude#/media/File:Hey_Jude_...

Paul apparently has to pay to Northern Songs when he plays his older songs, according to his own words, but is it true?

I guess the "LP vs CD rights" story you mention comes from the fact that the newer remixes were made specially for the CD's. But who owns what when remixing the song "owned" by Northern Songs, I don't know. Anybody knows?
That source code looks HORRIBLE. Is it just because of the language or because the person who wrote had no other choice?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=488759...

It must have been done for a reason right, emacs is incredibly old in tech years and solid as a rock.
> "But I think with this technology it wouldn't be possible to convey the behavior of materials (e.g. metal feels cold to the touch, wood not)..."

Perhaps, though consider what makes metal cold to the touch, is it not just due to the way our brains interpret a certain set of electrical impulses received by our skin?

If that's the case, perhaps we could combine the haptic holograms with sensory gloves, e.g. the holograms provide the physical resistance of the virtual item, and the gloves mimic the electrical signals that convey the other physical properties of the item.
This is very similar to work done by J. Alex Halderman et al. in 2008 [1]. If you find this interesting, check out their paper. They give an example of a bitmap image in memory and its degradation over a number of seconds without power. It's a fantastic visual aid and you might be surprised by how well the data survives; if you're fast (5 seconds) it's nearly lossless.

[1] https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/
thats only true in some cases. in general it is not true.
Would you say then that you don't have any x10 memorized and just consider it trivially easy to compute any number?
I'd hope no one's phone is running in 900MHz - what does DECT use in North America?
Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version
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Same in New Zealand. The only times I ever saw anything with 12x tables it had escaped from the US education market and had exercises involving nickels, dimes and quarters etc.
It looks neat, but it's hard not to be cynical about yet another competing standard for low-power "smart home" / IoT-type devices, just to muddy the ZigBee vs. Z-Wave vs. BT LE Longrange vs. conventional WiFi waters a bit more.

Not saying there's anything wrong with the protocol per se; it's probably perfectly fine. But the lack of widespread standardization in the 900MHz ISM low power space is really crippling what could otherwise be a robust market for smart devices. That's the key problem, rather than anything technical, and adding yet another option for hardware designers to choose from seems unlikely to improve things in the near future.
depends. If you're running a simulation in physics, e.g. n-body problem, you can choose your parameters to be exact to start off with, and rescale your units to be exact. Moreover, even if you start with measurement error, the error moves in generally a predictable fashion, so it tends to be O(1). A floating point roundoff error is a martingale, with O(sqrt(N)) - unless you "always round up" or "always round down" which is O(N). In the initial domain, the measurement error dominates, but over time fp roundoff gets bigger.
utorrent did this quite well actually... i'm not sure if the installer came to put users at ease, or install malware, but i do miss that quality.
There used to be a good wikipedia article about LoraWan, which is better than this (for IoT) in just about every way, but it has been replaced with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRaWAN

LoraWan consumes power at a similar rate that BLE does, except it has a 20km range. You're talking about months (or even years, depending on your interval) of usefulness out of a CR2032 coincell battery.

Sidenote: the removal of the wikipedia page on this irks me more than it probably should. They're claiming a copyright problem because some of the text of the page was taken from the Lora Alliance's official website.

https://www.lora-alliance.org/What-Is-LoRa/Technology
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The solution is to have mandatory terms/keyword for internet-but-less. Something like 'partial internet access', which must appear in any promotional material and take up x% of total area a la mandatory cigarette packaging.
i run a business so basically i'm calculating "X per year" all day long.
Yes, cold boot attacks only work if they can get to the machine before it is turned off. If it has been turned off while warm, the RAM contents very very quickly degrade. This is pretty interesting since most people don't get to turn their phone off when it is stolen. In the case of the TSA you're safe, though.

Fun fact: This is why during raids against cyber criminals reports claim they often dive for their computer to try and turn it off before being restrained. Police can do the same thing with liquid nitrogen and a desktop machine.
Hey, wheaties, I work on engineering hiring at Automattic. For the purposes of the trial project we’re very flexible and always account for the applicant’s situation. It’s fine if their employer must retain copyright, we can always choose an open-source project for the trial :-)
It is worth noting that while extremely rare, it is possible that we could encounter an issue during packaging which might necessitate a change, in which case that commit stamp might not be the same. Unless folks are comfortable working directly from git, it is probably best to wait for the official release.
We're overthinking. Think, instead, as a school marm with real chalk and a switch in hand, or even when kids used slate tablets: 10x is easy. 11x is easy up to 10x. 12x requires a little work and pulls all the multiples together, but 13x just screws with everything we've learned so far. So, stop at 12.
Or is a calculator in hand the default these days? As one who was proud to finally get to 12 x 12 = 144, I say make 'em suffer.
If the comment says where to find it in the repository, when you change repositories you have to remember to change the comment. If enough time has passed since you changed repositories, that becomes a problem.

Emacs is an old codebase. It predates modern repositories, or close to it, and it certainly predates the repository it currently uses.
> They're claiming a copyright problem because some of the text of the page was taken from the Lora Alliance's official website.

Stolen content (i.e. content not explicitly licensed as GFDL/CC by the author) is stolen content.
Run Express server in your browser's Service Worker
Don't know what's wrong with my previous comment, but one can assume NV970 will be more or less main stream at the time the rift goes main stream. And since it's the recommended config (not _minimal_), most game will still be _enjoyable_ with maybe a 960.

No need for a Titan.

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Not sure if someone already has pointed this out, but one small caveat I'd add is that learning the table of 11 is not that difficult. I think the extra effort required to learn 11 and 12 tables are, therefore, a bit overestimated.
The problem is that a max data rate usually doesn't some with an SLA. ISP's obviously don't have enough bandwidth for all customers to fully utilize 10 gbps 24/7, for example.

Paying based on usage solves that tragedy of the commons problem and works for utilities.
As convenient as a personal locker that follows you is, I don't think the average person is willing to spend 20k for one.
Seeing as time is a universally applicable measurement (more so than distance, volume, or mass). I hardly see that as a "minor use case". Is there a field which doesn't use time? Quantum computing?
IoT devices are already using protocols other than IP to connect to hubs through low-power radio links.
>But economic inequality per se is not bad.

This is the controversial assertion, and it's not argued for here. So I'm not sure how this can help.

edit: As others have clarified, of course there are few people who would object to any degree of economic inequality whatsoever. In the context of this discussion, 'economic inequality' refers to economic inequality on (at least) the scale that we see at present in the US and other wealthy countries, since this is what pg is defending.
> They are productive because they are scared.

that and its context very heavily implies that this is the case, otherwise it explains nothing.
Well, I have yet another reason to migrate from 2 to 3 now.
Not very unlikely. Silicon Valley is catching up to Colorado and Washington now. Hell, MIT is catching up to Colorado and Washington now.

Canada is expected (hush-hush still) to legalize very soon. like, very soon. Like, sooner than anyone realizes.

I launched my business[0] recently, because it's so close.

(consider this a quiet release announcement.)

0. http://medicalcannab.is
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I've made numerous posts in this discussion, so not going to copy them again here. The previous named-based syntax comes with significant redundancy and noise.

As a ruby dev posted here, it is obviously better in most respects in most common cases.
How long is "long range" going to be ?
It's true that cardboard may have viable reasons for being mentioned in this context, but the onus is on the writer to prove that this isn't a sensational piece. As the article is right now, we can only speculate on good faith that they had good reasoning to use cardboard vs existing methods that others have mentioned.
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Making a self-reply here, I think I know how to show binary is "worse" when it comes to un-representable rational numbers. I'm not a math major, so this is probably some incredibly obvious textbook stuff to somebody else, but...

In base-N, you can accurately write any fraction of (1/y) provided that y can be expressed using the same prime-factors found in N.

For example, 10 has the prime factors of 2 and 5, leading to the requirement that y=(2^a × 5^b) .

This means base-10 can accurately represent (1/80), because 80 = (2^4 × 5^1). In base-2, you're limited to stuff in the form (2^a).

Finally, the, uh, infinity-of-integers that matches (2^a) is always going to be "smaller" than the infinity which can be matched by (2^a × 5^b), since the latter "contains" the former when b=0.
Probably true of most open source projects, whether they have a foundation or not.
Because you'd have to manually go through maybe > 39 scenes spread across 10 storyboards manually keep track of what's changed and find the next outlet you want to modify.
There is this http://funscript.info/