skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Phone Is Cheaper Than the Cheapest Uber Ride
Dashboards in 2006 cars are much different than today. Today most cars have at least one pixel based LCD/LED, CD player, Aux, Bluetooth, USB, etc. My 07 car was the last in its series to not have those. It has only a CD player. In 1996 they had radio and maybe cassette. In 2026 cars will be self-driving and/or SaaSS.
I think your link may be an errant copy paste :)

I guess you meant to paste: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
Some previous submissions: http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-gen... http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-gen...
I've tried to work with a number of WYSIWYG editors and they always get you part of the way before becoming a real pain. No one seems to do a very good job planning them out and maintaining them. I, for one, am really happy to see Facebook release something. Knowing Isaac I suspect this is some work related to Facebook Notes which is cool because it means they're using it in the wild.
This is because of the shift to HFT.
I agree that there's room for UX improvement in the software, and as a software guy myself, it's the first place I'm inclined to look at as a source of improvement. It's just that not all the problems have a software fix, in my opinion.

Thank you for the double-tap tip, though. It works in Marshmallow too, apparently.
Tried Minecraft:

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=minecraft+cheatsheet&ia=cheatsheet...

This could come in handy now that I know about it!
I've been type 1 for over 30 years since I was a toddler. I could stand to lose a few pounds these days, but I am not fat, nor obese. Adjusting my diet would do very little to change the increasingly high amount I spend on insulin.

The cost of insulin over the last few years and as recently as the last few months has skyrocketed. Not just the fancy fast acting insulin, but even the regular stuff that you can buy over the counter without a prescription(R and NPH) has nearly quadrupled in the last 12 years. It's not an increase in manufacturing costs. It's price fixing by the two major players(Lilly and Novo).

You'd think that with Lilly significantly raising their prices a few months ago, that Novo Nordisk could make a killing, but no, they both did it at the same time. Funny how that worked out.
> Generally speaking, the US government demands most favored pricing and gets it. No way we would pay more than France.

I though the US government, except for the VA, was "not permitted to negotiate prices of drugs with the drug companies" due to Medicare Part D. (Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D#Criticisms .) Was that prohibition removed?

If it's still there, then wouldn't that prevent the US government from demanding most favored pricing, as that would be a negotiation.
>I've never seen a physician spend more than a few minutes trying to diagnose an illness.

I have. The physician's debug loop just takes a lot longer than a programmer's. He orders tests, then waits days for them to come back before ordering more tests. This can go on for months. Then he prescribes something, and has you take it for a few weeks. Did that help? No? Try this instead. Etc.
Details on California DMV records.. surprisingly, a lot of the data is technically public record:

https://www.privacyrights.org/cradle-grave-government-record...

And here's the federal law on DMV record privacy. This would be a legal release of information, unfortunately (government agency "carrying out its functions"):

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2721
More murderous humans? Killing and enslavement? Speculation. It is known that Neanderthals would slaughter and eat their own kind during a hard winter. And that when Neanderthal encountered the more elegant and graceful arrow and spear point flakes of the modern human, they attempted to imitate them - by chipping an entire nodule down to make one point. Not the correct method which is flaking dozens of good points off of one nodule. Not so good with technology, Neanderthals.

And there were never many Neanderthal at all, at any time. Not a successful species really. It takes no fiction of murder and enslavement to explain them away. Intermarrying would do it handily, with the overwhelming population of Homo Sapiens spreading through their territory.
In Colorado, a look at life after marijuana legalization
The ESP8266 allows you to map up to 1MB of the attached SPI flash into memory and run code from it, at somewhat of a performance penalty compared to running from RAM. Some of the older modules don't have that much flash onboard though.
If you cancel, you get a check for the prorated service you didn't use.
NASA versus Katrina: August 29, 2005 (2015)
The website had a link to the headphones in one of the FAQ documents. They are called "Tooks NextGen SPORTEC BAND" ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01459BC7G)
Is there some shortcut? "cheatsheet" is a long word to type.
The EFI variables are just that. Variables not an entire firmware. I think this is where you confusion is. What is happening here is that these variables are presented to the user as a filesystem under /sys. If you run 'rm -rf /' (or even 'rm -rf /sys'), you will start "deleting" these variables (which I assume either sets them to a null-equivalent value, or somehow removes them entirely from wherever they are stored). It sounds like:

rm /sys/efivar/MyVariable

is roughly equivalent to:

var obj = {MyVariable: 1};
obj.MyVariable = null;

or:

var obj = {MyVariable: 1};
delete obj.MyVariable;

This bricks the firmware, because some of these variables end up being required. It's on the firmware maker / motherboard manufacturer to make sure that there is a way to recover from this rather than having the firmware fail to startup because some variables are missing.

My understanding is that firmware made to spec would not brick over the the EFI variables getting wiped. The motherboards that are encountering these issues are running firmware that is cutting corners. Unfortunately cutting corners and ignore specs is nothing new for hardware manufacturers who are more concerned with the manufacture of the physical devices and usually put only the minimum amount of effort into getting any sort of software components (firmware, OS device drivers, etc) running.
Comcast is not a tech company.
Woah! I love how little it takes to go from Swift to TypeScript in terms of context switching. That method declaration with generics is so nice looking.

I love TypeScript just wish it was easier to use with their libraries and editors. I know it's not as bad as previously but it's still a lot of work with Babel/webpack and etc.
Search and Destroy: The Knowledge Engine and the Undoing of Lila Tretikov
Agreed. It is well worth a read.
All six candidates are supported by super PACs; not all are supported by PACs. Super PACs don't coordinate with candidates and can't donate to campaigns but do spend money to influence elections, whereas PACs collect money for candidates or political campaigns.
Great to hear! Not quite, but we try to keep relevant feature requests on jira.atlassian.com (for Server) and https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues (for Cloud) as up to date with progress as we can.
how dare they.
I believe all of DDG's 'instant answer' systems are community created and maintained... https://duck.co/ia
Does insulin immediately make you think of type 1 diabetes? Think again. Between 30 and 40 percent of people with type 2 diabetes take insulin. In fact, there are more people with type 2 diabetes who take insulin than type 1 because of the much larger number of people with type 2. - http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/medication/insulin/insul...

Of course the type 1 disease which is ~10% of diabetes is different.
So the C++ way is either to write a code generator for your own DSL, or to write a library that would allow to write you grammar in an eDSL fashion. No pain, no gain ;)
It also makes sense from a business point of view. The three strong points that I've taken from business school are:

1) You can overtake an incumbent if you can offer twice the value at half the price. If you can produce a drill that works two times better than existing drills at half the price, you'll overtake the drill market.

2) You can't compete with "as good as". Winning here is more marketing than anything and this is where companies like Apple and Coco-Cola shine. You can't beat Coke with point one, since it is impossible to produce something that is better than Coke. You can measure the performance differences between drills, but you can't measure the psychological value of Coke and Apple

3) You can't compete by price, unless you are dealing with a commodity product, which brings me to my point for posting.

Turning "Git hosting" into a commodity product is not a bad situation for GitLab and I honestly think this is where it's heading. In a year or two, we'll probably see less tangible/understood things become the main selling point. Such as intelligent code reviews, better code management metrics, defect predictions and so forth.

Edit:

Forgot to mention that point 3 is also where Atlassian deserves a lot of credit. They are leveraging point 3 and trying to parlay it into point 1.
What you think is good coffee...simply it's not.
In theory it can, though you might need to downgrade to an older SDK version.
Even if it is a monopsony, the questions are 1) do they abuse its monopsony powers, and 2) what factors go ino defining 'efficient' and 'abuse'?
> I believe strongly that if we'd compared it to say, classical music or some random ambient album, it would have been an even stronger result.

Strong beliefs like that are still just hunches.

> I want a double blind study with identical-sounding placebo and more subjects. After that we can study how it compares to regular music commonly used as study-aids.

My problem is that you already decided that it "dramatically improves focus, relaxation and sleep". What if the new better study doesn't show the effect? Will you dissolve the company? Will you just change the marketing?

I'd also suggest "triple-blinding" the study, i.e. the person who does the statistical analysis on the computer should also not know which music was which.
If corporations are people, would requiring a corporation to produce work product constitute a form of slavery? Or if writing code is a form of speech, would forcing them to write code violate their constitutional right to free speech?
I actually switched back to DuckDuckGo because I've found it's a better way to use Google than google.com

The cheat sheets and the bang commands are awesome. The no tracking by default is obviously a great benefit.

When the results are not as good, or I have a feeling Google will do it better, I just prefix with !g in the search bar and with no additional hassle I have myself a Google search.

My search engine life has never been this good.
Appears to be illegal under DPPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_...
If I was the NSA, the Chinese Government or a hacker group, I would be working really hard right now to get a foothold on the internal Apple network. To be able to grab any and all data (code, emails, files, etc) from anywhere on the network to try and capture the work that would be required to fulfill the request of this court order.

Even if we could trust the US government, we shouldn't be forcing Apple to create this 'master key' anyway. The problem is that anything that has been created digitally cannot be destroyed after it is used. Once the tool is created, we cannot put that genie back in the bottle.
In the "Ultralight" backpacking community, I don't see something like this taking off.

I remember watching a video the other day of a guy talking about his gear for the AT and he went so far as to cut his toothbrush down and even talked about drilling holes in the remaining handle to further cut down on weight.
I'm not sure I see what you're arguing. Implementing a more secure system is never convenient, but that obviously has nothing to do with whether it's justified.

As for my quoted statement, how can you really disagree? Having a system where "only the good guys" (i.e. Apple, right?) can break the security of any device is precisely what law enforcement has been asking for for years, and what HN users and the tech-savvy in general have been railing against. Now that Apple has completely admitted that this system exists, users are downvoted here for pointing it out?
The sqrt implementation is probably known to be side-effect free by the compiler.
Stories you can make evolve, adapt, learn, and breed
This is the second time Atlassian have pushed out a SourceTree update that's completely unusable from the get-go (i.e. testing the application simply by opening it would reveal the issue).

In the last just-open-it-and-its-broken update Git was inoperable because SourceTree got confused asking for credentials.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4187 (this one's my favourite: "New UI is a huge clusterfuck")

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4188

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4196

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4240

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4249

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4258

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4273

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4276

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4278

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4286

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4288

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-4297

This one seems to be the most heavily commented one: https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/SRCTREEWIN/issues/SRCTRE...

And lots of opposition outside the issue tracker too: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36182163/did-anyone-...
This is a great question. DDG is open source, so someone should be able to figure that out.

EDIT: based on other answers, this is unnecessary. These are community contributions. Pretty cool!
Does this count, just curious. It is a large single machine not cluster. https://www.sgi.com/pdfs/4555.pdf
What tech changes will create the most opportunities over the next 2-3 years?
I am not sure how to approach this. I have worked in a variety of conditions and I have some idea of which things are merely just not my favorite, but easy to deal with, vs. which things are outright dealbreakers.

For example, I remember the joy I felt when I first read the passage of Paul Graham's essay "Great Hackers" in which he describes the notion of placing software developers in a noisy open area as similar to making painters work in a factory where the air is full of soot. For me personally, working in a noisy, non-private space is simply not possible. I'd like to compromise, but it's borderline physical pathology with me. Wearing headphones doesn't work. The most significant thing I need in order to provide the business with the productivity they hired me to give them is privacy.

But at the same time, I don't like working from home. I love collaborating and having an "open door policy" to talk with and assist coworkers with anything I can. I just need a door that shuts so I can protect some of my time to use for the more thought-intensive and creativity-focused aspects of my work.

For me, there's no way to compromise on this. I've worked in cubicle banks, open-plan shared desks, shared bullpens, etc. etc. Even though I still get high marks from my boss, it drives me mad and causes me to inescapably resent showing up at work every day. Almost to the point where I'm starting to wonder if I have misophonia.

Anyway, this singular issue (finding a private office) seems like it is the single hardest thing in the software industry. I speculate this is because businesses want to confer lowered status on the activities of engineers, but whatever it is, it makes the process of interviewing pretty maddening.

I've had several places get to the point of making me a job offer, and then tell me that it is impossible for them to negotiate a private office for me. They have offered to raise the pay, add more vacation, and many other things. But I have to turn them down, for my own health. But it really begs the question... why from a business point of view is it so hard to provide some employees (who plausibly need it) with privacy. Why is employment for our field so overwhelmingly dominated by open-plan spaces, that people are willing to offer more money to attract someone but not at all willing to compromise on the type of physical space you can inhabit while working?

Anyway, for me is suggests that it's not so easy as "just compromise." There's a lot that I'd be happy to compromise on. I'll work in a wide range of languages. I can work in Windows. I can work long hours. I'm willing to live pretty much anywhere. But what I can't compromise is the need for private space ... which seems to be the one thing that essentially no one provides.
My understanding is that the amount of software that wants/needs to write to efivarfs is fairly small[1] compared to the amount of software that is normally run with root privileges.

The fact is that 'rm -rf /' is a common mistake, both at the command line (i.e. manually typing) and in scripts that don't adequately protect against things like missing variables. E.g.:

MY_DIR=
rm -rf "$MY_DIR/"

The fact that this could brick a system is a big deal. Pushing blame around doesn't do anybody any good.

[1] I realize that boot loaders like grub are everywhere and probably need to write to efivarfs, but that's still a data point of 1. Would it be that difficult for grub and it's related scripts to upgrade to remount the filesystem readwrite when it needs to perform an operation? I'm sure it's only been a couple of years since efivarfs functionality was even added to grub.
I've been there. Now that I'm back to normal, I love my thinking time, but during the anxiety times I never wanted to be alone.
This is a very good question and something I'm always concerned about when it comes to open core products.
> for older phones

To my knowledge, all keys are still wrapped with the UID, and the UID is still a factory-burned SoC key (not accessible to any firmware). Possible to extract, but not easy to do at scale.
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I also just learned people can make their own IA (Instant Answers) and contribute to DuckDuckGo:

http://duckduckhack.com/

This is their page to aid in DuckDuckGo's improvement.
How the Future of Storytelling Will Change
RICH: The Most Exclusive Domain Name on the Internet
On my Turkish Q keyboard, double quotes are the one keystroke and single quote is shift+2. Since I'm lazy I keep using double quotes when writing JavaScript.
That would be an interesting exercises. Of course, the whole thing is only interesting if it comes with a proof of justification. Otherwise it's too easy for real world C programs: they are all undefined.
If these objections that you are raising were wrong, then we would live in a utopia. You're right that people fall short, but I think the point still stands that checks and balances can help overcome human unreliability, even if every human involved is unreliable. Just look at democratic institutions without checks and balances.
That's it! Thanks, the picture was on my gf's phone and I couldn't reference it.
In Ruby, at least, there's a functional difference. Using single-quotes is a good way to indicate that a thing is just a string and not a template.
After reading that I better understand what my own opinion is but what I was having trouble articulating.

Quality of life is important, and different people will value different things as different weights in their quality of life.

However one area that the governments we elect are failing us is improving quality of life by creating a more fair playing field for all (as well as generally using the bonuses from that to enrich the playing field for all).
So...60-70% of Type II patients don't take insulin? Sounds like "most" to me.
Seems like a solid plan to address issues with disparity in compensation / upside between different tiers of employees. It spreads the reward but still allows the founders to maintain larger ownership chunks, which is the important part. Since equity is such a critical part of compensation [1], I’d love to see this implemented more, but I have a feeling it will mostly get lip service with people hiding behind “this is the standard.” Founders shouldn’t accept the “it’s standard” argument from VCs when negotiating terms, and employees shouldn’t accept the same argument from founders. You can’t have your circular logic and eat it too. Standards change and just because something is a standard doesn’t justify it’s existence. Slavery was pretty standard for awhile and I’m glad we got rid of that one.

[1] https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/in-his-essay-on-income-in...
>We already spend 16% of GDP, about double what almost all other countries spend on health care and have worse outcomes.

The medical system is not the primary influence on a population's health. It's probably about third behind public health systems (sewage, water, and food inspection) and the health habits of the population. You're never going to have a health system that can compensate for four hundred pound diabetics who didn't realize they were pregnant for six months.
The bug bounty boom
To use it as evidence, they will need to obtain it lawfully.

That doesn't prevent them from acting upon information received from Apple outside of the court system.

There is a reason parallel construction is a thing.
The mantra is learn once, write everywhere.
Cool article. It also shows the abundance of problems potentially awaiting Mars settlers.

The whole thing sort of re-inforces by stereotype about Russians and Russian equipment. Though guys who build sturdy, robust and uncomfortable stuff with lots of small glitches. Russians seem very good at making practical, simple and cheap stuff that lasts a long time.

Americans always seem very good at making stuff comfy and sophisticated but American solutions often seem overly complicated and expensive. I like to think SpaceX took a lot of inspiration from the Russian way of doing things and combining it with American Silicon Valley spirit.
That final quote just sums it all up: "The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards of the struggle; and the blindness would be induced not by some accident of nature or history but by hatred and vainglory.”
I do some embedded development in C++11 with exceptions disabled (for size/compatibility) and using RAII to the fullest. It's all very smooth and works very well.
Right, bro? That's what I'm saying. Misinformation is no bueno
Looks like rational choice theory is correct.
> In any case, you would end up needing a way to mount it RW to accommodate legit uses of the non-broken EFI vars, at which point you're back where you started.

Not necessarily. Leaving it "wide open" for anything to accidentally write to it all of the time vs. just mounting it readwrite when you actually need to write to it are two different risk profiles.