skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better question is would you drive a car without a working gas gauge?

Blood tests are flagged as abnormal if they exceed the 95% confidence interval. So there is a possibility of it happening by chance. Or you may get some abnormality due to minor issues like a recent cold or injury. But then you just need to start a conversation with your doctor to get clarity.

Did you know your kidney health could be down to 10-20% of capacity and you would not even feel a thing wrong? And something happened to me in 2 intervening years of tests for that exact scenario to happen. I doubt most people have tested anything other than their cholesterol and BP in the last two years. If anything, we should be checking our body health more than our car because we can always replace our car.
All of the sibling comments have great explanations of common processes, but one is missing: a metal mesh as part of the top of the CPU silicon. It's talked about a little bit here: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/courses/1501-6150/scri... Essentially, there's a "trap" on the top of the chip that resets the memory if touched by a conductive probe of any kind. I don't know the specifics of how you'd construct such a thing, but it seems like it wouldn't be too complicated to do.
Kansas judge bars Wichita mathematician's access to voting machine tapes
a really wacky, fun, and occasionally high-brow read. I really didnt expect to like it as much as I did.
(I also immediately thought it was going to be the lamp from that book)
Well, this is explained as:

"Lampert took the myth that humans perform best when acting selfishly as gospel, pitting Sears company managers against each other in a kind of Lord of the Flies death match. This, he believed, would cause them to act rationally and boost performance."

I would be tempted to blame Ayn Rand as well, but in the end the responsibility is of those who apply what she invented, especially when they should know better.
> what will they do with this newfound implicit power?

Condone and nurture the very activities that less-radical movements of the same nature set out to destroy.
Description
This app will help you to improve your juggling skills. App is running on your Apple Watch and will count how many times you throw juggling ball into the air. It works like magic, but no, it is a technology!

In basic version you can juggle two balls in one hand. To unlock more juggling styles, counting rounds and pace you have to buy extension.

After 3 seconds of no movement app will stop counting your sequence, cause you probably stopped juggling or you dropped the ball. When you start to juggle again counter will start from zero.

So, don't be lazy and let's learn something new.

Juggle monkey, juggle!
For me something similar occurred. I have worked in a managerial position for 3 years and I really enjoyed but after sometime, if you passion is really to build things, you tend to be a little bit bored and stressed in dealing with people that sometimes don't want to be helped. Is kind of a case where beyond being a manager, you need to be a psychologist. This sometimes sucks, and in this moments you miss the days where you are a developer or engineer and only need to do your best to be updated with technology and create the best code that you can.

So, I think that this is very personal and don't have i recipe to be followed. Each one could discover your way and passion even you don't reach some cool title like C*something. The important is to be good with yourself to not get frustrated in the future.
Perhaps, but do you necessarily want to whitelist the entire site and all the accompanying JavaScript, or just the top level domain and a few components to allow it to work correctly. Depends on the granularity you desire. That's where uMatrix would come in handy.
Don't focus on nix too much, sandboxes are the most important point :)

Nix is not the only solution, there is also GNU guix for
example. Actually I agree that the nix language is just increasing the complexity, one could have used a already existing language.
nice PSA. good looking out
This may have already been stated, but in case it hasn't ...

If Apple, as a legal "person" [1], can be compelled against their will to create something that does not exist at the government's will, then what is holding the government from compelling an individual to do the same?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality#United_State...
I was hoping no two actions would occur on the same millisecond. Thanks for the feedback.
Hi! Occasional Long Now volunteer here. I've seen the prototype disks, but my hazy recollection is that production cost kept this from being a practical technology for many uses, which of course keeps the production cost high. It turns out most people don't really care about archival quality. E.g., almost all my data is on media that I replace a couple times a decade.
How is Feinstein still in office?! Between her anti-privacy & anti-gun positions I would suspect she would have been voted out a long time ago.
One item that always struck me as something these large retailers should do to leverage their physical locations is to provide same/next day delivery. With the ability to pick up the item in store same day when ordering it online what stops them from delivering it. It would require a large investment in delivery vehicles and drivers, but some of these stores have some of that already. Sears has it because they deliver appliances and Best Buy with their Geek Squad technicians.

Some businesses do this for other businesses. Staples, Napa, OfficeMax, etc. Why not extend this to the consumer. I would venture to guess they feel that there is no ROI. But if people are not going in the store, give them a reason to buy from you anyways.
No offense but "ew". The demo page is hideous and I don't see how you can easily do graphics with that. Maybe it's fine for making slides for people to look at later, but for actual presentations slides, that looks like a recipe for PowerPoint hell.
Secrets in the Ice
This is the heart of it. In 1993 they cancelled their "catalog", which was the amazon.com of it's day. If they had had the foresight they would have put that online. Same interstate tax savings, same larger selection.

I once worked for an online savings / coupon site that had been a catalog ordering company and transitioned the right way (ShopAtHome.com) from a printed catalog business in the early 90's, and had great respect for the founder's insight in doing so.
> It's a weird feeling to have sympathy for someone who has resources enough to bring their criminal case through appeals all the way to the Supreme Court.

Why would that matter?! Do you seriously believe that because someone has the financial ability to actually protect his rights that they're somehow beneath your ability to have sympathy?
Orientation is at least 2 dimensions (see e.g. spherical coordinates).
Do they also do a Palmer reading method? I looked at this complete example - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Palmer_M... - and, whilst very beautiful, I found it in no way easy to read. Perhaps the rigorous consistency (derived from the drilling) means you get used to it after a few pages, I don't know.
Ban the sea trade and the tea. History repeats.
Luckily it was archived with at least some of the images: https://web.archive.org/web/20150707005712/http://eurasia200...
Am I on the Daily Mail by mistake? Lots of opinions there bereft of supporting observation or the merest smidgeon of reason to go along or not with the opinion ventured.
Is Benadryl at normal doses bad for you? I occasionally take one to combat insomnia. I'd stop if I found out this wasn't a benign thing to do.

As an aside: I've heard on Reddit that taking Benadryl to hallucinate results in a guaranteed nightmare trip. You're exclusively subjected to frightening and disturbing imagery such as giant spiders and shadows monsters.

Here's the thread:
https://m.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/1fmizz/how_to_trip_saf...

Not sure I understand the appeal.
No, using a completely undocumented class that heavily relies on further undocumented parts of the standard library that might be implementation details of the regex implementation is much better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134675 (27 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments)
Given how hard both parties are hitting this particular punching bag, it's reasonable it ends up at the Supreme Court. While a 4-4 tie at the Court isn't certain, it makes estimation of how the court of appeals will decide the case more important since that decision would stand if SCOTUS splits.
The recruiting company they use for hiring people is a joke. The guy who contacted me I could barely understand, got angry when I had to ask him to repeat himself, and didn't confirm that he had set up an interview for me until the NIGHT BEFORE at 7:30pm (and I was working three hours away, so I was going to have to take a sick day at my job in order to go).
Yeah, it's a bit sensationalist. By that logic you could argue that writing on a piece of paper is 4-D: horizontal and vertical position, what letter/symbol is there, and color. You could add font and underlines/italics to encode even more data per symbol if you wanted.
How does this compare to Ox?

https://github.com/ohler55/ox
In Canada (which I believe is very similar to the US in this regard) lawyers generally can't contract out of their own negligence and the advice they give has to be at the standard of a competent lawyer (in the specific area of law). It doesn't have to be right or perfect but it does have to be the kind of advice you'd expect from someone who understands that area of the law.

Although of course, this post isn't legal advice. The actual rules are important, far more detailed than what I wrote, and jurisdiction-specific.

The reason why lawyers write "this isn't legal advice" (like I did above) is because it usually isn't and they don't want people to think it is. Although if it is, they could be liable for it and they want to reduce their effective liability by reducing the chance that someone will treat their legal advice as legal advice. Because sometimes it's not about what the law is but about what people think it is and how they react to what you've done.

Google "professional negligence" for more information.
Look at the front page of mediate.com. It's obviously trying to generate page clicks through sensationalism and outrage. The article on scaachi is the same.

Some of us are fragile so we are willing to eat up anything that hints at discrimination against men.
Fun typeface fact: Stanley Kubrick's favourite was Futura Extra Bold, it was used on the posters for Eyes Wide Shut and 2001

Source: (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend)

The Nike logo is also from the Futura family (https://www.quora.com/What-font-is-used-for-the-Nike-logo)
I always wondered how safe is it to run something in Wine? (E.g. Steam games)
All the BBC national content is blocked, you cannot see it from outside the UK, unless you proxy through the UK IP address.
555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC
That is a web service, and it costs at least $29 per month.
Ask HN: Suggested Curriculum for scaling web applications and services
There is a lot of material teaching the basics of programming and computer science. I have been hard pressed to find information that will help an experienced developer build scalable systems. Ideally, when starting a project, I want to know _how_ to start in order to make something that will actually be able to scale without pain points and/or obviously pitfalls.

Are there any suggested material that can get me started on learning about how to think about scaling and project starting?
On Friday I went to Walmart to pick up a site to store online order. Well, lets start with the fact they told me it would be there by Monday (I ordered it on Sat). I went to the site to store counter which was in the back. There was shelves behind the counter that were empty (shouldn't those shelves contain site to store orders for easy access?). Pressed the "call employee" button. Sat down and waited, waited, waited. Some employee on their way to the bathroom asked me if I needed assistance, "I pressed the button." He radioed in that he needed someone at site to store. Nobody. So he went to go get the person. They come back eventually guy says "sorry about the wait I was helping another customer at the front of the store." Apparently only one employee is capable of operating site to store. He looks up my order says "this may take a minute to find." and goes to the back. 10 minutes later (no exaggeration) he comes back and says "this will take a little longer." Someone else comes to site to store and presses the button. Same guy comes out and says hes looking for my order so he'll be with them in a while. Once again... apparently only one person can operate site to store and if they are busy oh well. Another employee walks by and asks if we need help. Other person was like "I haven't been helped, he's looking for this other persons order." She goes to the back to get him (apparently she can't operate site to store either). She comes out and says hes moving boxes because someone buried my order behind boxes and that's all she knows. Guy comes back out eventually with my order. Checks me out and he doesn't have a pen for me to sign that I got my order. I just took one out of my pocket, signed the paper, and gave him the pen (it was a free pen). Took at least 30 minutes altogether.

I don't get it. The whole point of site to store is for convenience but they seem to make it as inconvenient as possible.
The phone "may" wipe the keys after 10 failed attempts.

That is a configuration option. Can't that be changed by the remote configuration management software?
pet peeve: you have to say that you're invoking your right to silence, mere silence is not enough!

see berghuis (2010) and salinas (2013)
I can only imagine what this must feel like for @scaachi. She tries to hire writers that are underrepresented, and lots of people who have nothing to do with it start yelling at her. Yeah, she might not have used the most politically language -- but I think that intent is more important than what exactly upset people tweet when the situation escalates.

I think that it is extremely important to hire people from diverse backgrounds, especially when hiring journalists. That's what I believe she was trying to do, and that's something that we should be supportive of.
I assume IPFS will be able to handle live streaming video / WebRTC too?
One of the standard perks of being a policeman in most jurisdictions is that you're allowed to take paid gigs off-hours as a security guard and use your gun and uniform, and in some cases your patrol car if it's assigned to you permanently as it is for many state police officers.
Most of us are smart and logical. It's fun to believe buzzfeed only hires white-hating feminists, but that requires us to have a strong persecution complex. I think her impolite and unprofessional tweets are in response to the ones she received. I'm not saying this excuse her behavior, but at least we understand is a reaction.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086 (92 points, 16 hours ago, 38 comments)
Use PureScript and node in production instead. Great performance, interop with JS, and it's eagerly evaluated so runtime semantics are easy to understand. PureScript does not have Haskell's record problem.
When I was in High School I wanted to like her books so badly. At the time, I was very much a libertarian and I had heard so many good things about them from that crowd.

Her writing style just isn't very good. It seems like hours and hours of fictional context to set up a big political rant that is supposed to be self-evidently correct within said context.

I only finished Anthem for required reading. I really didn't like it. The Rush album based on it (2112) is sooo much better.
It stands to reason not only the federal government will ask for this capability again, seeing as it's the only way around FDE at the moment; but many state, and local governments will ask for this capability, as will foreign governments, national and local.

If the government's position is accepted by the court, I think Apple will have to weigh a future iOS version that requires a passcode to do any software or firmware upgrades, vs an iOS version that requires more complex passcodes. Either of these things would substantially narrow the hole they're being ordered to create.

A future law to inhibit the former (passcode require to update firmware) may withstand scrutiny over the later (longer passcode), so longer passcodes may be in iOS and Android's near future.
Triveneto
If you live near an Asian grocery store, it's likely they'll have various kinds of high quality charcoal.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/korea-oak-charcoal.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeontan
People talk about the "Sports Illustrated cover jinx", and even a similar EA video game cover jinx, where making the cover precedes a period of underperformance.

I think a similar effect could be claimed for being called the next Buffett. There is a long list of investor casualties after such a comparison (including the ones you mentioned).

Most recently I'm thinking of Bill Ackman, who was on the cover of Fortune last year with the title "Baby Buffett"... right before a painful 20% tumble.
You assume the person needing help knows what to look for, and how to express the problem in such a way they can find it on google. Stack Overflow can also be intimidating for many. There are those who don't want to appear ignorant in public or get a condescending reply.
Investigating a Compromised Server with Rootcheck
Sure, but then you're paying an attorney, not a bot.
Basic income may be needed to combat robot-induced unemployment
Actually, it had video calls for ages.
This seems consistent with the "never let a tragedy go to waste" mindset.
In the UK we have a retailer trying this. They are somewhat unique though as their physical stores are already more of a warehouse than a regular shop.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/05/amazon-and...

We have dept stores such as John Lewis that have done well integrating their business online but delivering goods to the home same day is something they would struggle to do economically.

They have already had problems with click and collect
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/01/john-lewis-t...
Walmart service declined when Sam Walton died and the family took over.

It's an especially awful and unpleasant store in the northeast, but generally speaking you get a higher level of service and competence in the south where they are more established and have a cadre of competent management.
The same games they've been playing for a LONG time. ;)
So we ended on Microsoft Azure in Fresno. In hindsight, they would not be my preferred choice of a non-AWS provider to replace Linode. However, with the situation we were in they were the best choice.

We operate all of our datacenters in a multi-master configuration across the WAN, so latency is something we need to be mindful of. We were also in the middle of an emergency situation that required a migration, so we needed a solution that would allow us to evacuate quickly.

In the end we decided that we wanted a provider who supported a VPC-like network configuration, and was roughly within the same latency profile as Linode in respect to US-WEST-1 and US-WEST-2.

If timing hadn't been a concern, we may have chosen differently. We felt we didn't have the luxury of time.
"Sure, here it is compiled to assembly and stripped of all comments." is sort of what I'd expect
What do you mean by safe?
Wtf?!

https://github.com/egladman/herodotus/blob/master/server.js#...

How can a developer be that stupid?

file.write is atomic (guaranteed to "work") for PIPE_BUF (posix) octects ~ 16ko at most.

JSON is guaranteed to be unparsable if the file is truncated of the last chars (it is not very resilient).

Hence the write may corrupt your WHOLE log if a non recuperable failure happens or the code is interrupted.

The code DOES not use fixed size allocation ... thus is can crash randomly because of SEGFAULT in the middle of the writing.
The history will take cumulative size in memory.

This coding attitude highers the probability of this failure to happen BY DESIGN.

Is it that complex to FIRST write the file, and THEN atomically rename the new file to the old file at worst (resulting only in losing the current session, but not the whole history).

If your log are that precious, why would you not take extra care about protecting them?

This code makes me want to puke.

On the other hand, it is representative of the reason why I am disenchanted by modern coding standards.
San Francisco Becomes First City to Ban the Sale of Plastic Bottles
Home Assistant Community Highlights
> zero to do with Rand and everything to do with the personal failings...

Ah, and so now it all becomes clear. This is what you get, when you try to give Ayn Rand credit for anything.

She only takes responsibility for success, because failures, quite simply, have nothing to do with her.

The almighty Ayn Rand just never makes mistakes.
Sell and upload your photos daily
I think this is quite true. They are cooperating in the disinformation campaign.
There wouldn't really be a big advantage to that I think. The whole point of Vulkan is to give more control to the application developer (submit work from multiple threads, etc).
CoolBurst case study
Well, in Windows if you have an Antivirus you will get at least some notification that something is suspicious. But in Wine you don't have an Antivirus.

I am just not sure about the worst case scenario.
If you read my rant above, you'll see that there's more than one side to this. It's a little patronizing to the people she thinks she's helping.
Staples is primarily a delivery business. The stores exist to drive and sell the B2B services.

They don't deliver to consumers because consumers don't need enough office supplies to make it worthwhile.
When the Public Defender Says, ‘I Can’t Help’
Is it really worth spending time to get a nicer handwritting? I mean the only thing I write by hand is todo-lists and my signature.

Am I an exception?
It's perfect to read them one right after the other.
Snap-on is good stuff, but it can be a little tricky finding a place that honors their warranty if you break something. I just give whatever it is to my Dad, who works in a plant that has a Snap-on sales rep swing by once a week, but without that connection, I wouldn't know where to go with it. Craftsman, at least you could find a Sears store to trade it in just about anywhere.
As my first lawyer explained to me, the important question isn't whether you are in the right and will eventually win the lawsuit. It's whether you can afford to go the distance.

Lawsuits are painful, expensive, and enormously stress-inducing. And if you can't afford to fight one, then you get all that plus a loss.

If you'd like developers to feel bold about this, one way to encourage that would be to put together a legal defense fund with deep enough pockets that developers aren't too worried. Because from the individual developer perspective, there's a big difference between the rest of the planet telling Canonical no and it just being them on their own.
To play devils advocate, if a company were this honest in their recruitment ads it would save a lot of people the trouble of interviewing there to see if they think it's a culture fit. Are you racist too? No? Keep looking!
A mini history lesson about the concentration camps on American soil