skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running buses more frequently has its own problems. When a bus is running slightly further from the one in front than it should, it has to stop more often for passengers, and those passengers take longer to buy their tickets, which makes the bus run even later. This is a positive feedback loop that is made worse when buses are more frequent. I have certainly seen a set of four buses coming as a convoy on a route that is meant to have them every 12 minutes.

The solution is to either run fewer bigger buses, or to inject a whole load of negative feedback into the system, either by having buses wait for a minute at a few stops until their scheduled departure time (which involves making the route slower) or by real time tracking with radioed instructions to the drivers, like they do on some underground train systems.
But how a company handles it's legal obligations is also interesting. When my father died the company that employed me at the time said, essentially, "Go away and come back when you feel ready". This despite the fact that the only other member of my direct team was the other side of the world and there was no one with domain expertise was available so it would have been infuriating for them to cover support. There was certainly no mention of statutory pay or anything.

They also let me leave on multiple occasions at short notice in the preceeding years when he was ill.

Their being incredibly generous with compassionate leave allowed me to deal with the personal stuff without worrying about money/job stuff. It also meant that I worked remotely, covered support, and generally made sure that everything ran as smoothly as possible.

These choices make business sense, as well as being the decent thing to do.
It is a tortuous but great book. I would even say that the obsession of the narrator and his close friends can look a bit like people completely involved in their startup (and their own little world).
Video: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidessf2016/bside...
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I bought some from Taobao. Luckily, my devices are still okay.
Avalon is a fantastic movie with an excellent soundtrack as well. A must watch if you loved Ghost in the Shell.
The large yum update is a symptom, not the problem:

1. The upstream base image maintainers aren’t doing their job of keeping the image up to date, so it is huge. If the upstream maintainer had this base image updated, there would be no updates. Not the developer’s fault. Also, if the developer puts it into production, it’s their responsibility to make sure there are no CVE’s in their code, and hence their responsibility to do a yum update. You touched it, you own it.

2. The Docker tools don’t have a way of flattening the image easily (without doing a save/load). This can be fixed down the road.

Telling developers not to do yum updates terrifies me as a security person….
It's early days. But ubiquitous augmented reality seems inevitable.
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That is not a problem. They probably waited your package to refund you
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>Completely unacceptable indeed.

It's the kind of thing.....if it happens once, it's no big deal. If little things keep happening like that throughout the month, then there's probably something you need to fix.
A few people DO make a living out of writing for magazines, but only a very few, and you have to be very professional and only write for the big-circulation magazines that pay a reasonable amount.
Try CPIP in Python: http://cpip.sourceforge.net/
Some of the roads in the UK have chevrons painted on them at intervals. The idea is that at a normal speed for that road, if you can see two chevrons between you and the car in front, you're leaving the right distance.

It's a good idea; the distance is always bigger than you think.
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But they know that my package will reach them. Why can't they give me the refund earlier, so that I can buy a new item again.
Not bad, but you need an element from the square of velocity (for kinetic energy/braking distance) there to be safe. 1 second is fairly okay at low speeds, but at 60 mph (~100 km/h, 27 m/s) two seconds is shortish and if you are doing 200 km/h (as on a German Autobahn) then 2 seconds (100 m) is not safe in my opinion.

(Although the penalty line in Germany is just this, half the speed in km/h to get meters, i.e. driving closer than 100 meters if going 200 km/h gives you a ticket for tailgating)
Of course, because, well, unless you know the whole story of email, down to knowing what SMTP is, there is zero reason to expect that the from address of your email client lies to you. Which is also why all web traffic should be over TLS, because the same can be said of domain names. This is one area of security where our systems really should be made to match the user's expectation, and not the other way around. This is not a "grampa doesn't understand the interwebs" sort of issue, this is clearly broken design.
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On a side note, a manga that also takes up this subject but is set more far in the future is Battle Angel Alita , that is about a cyborg with a human brain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita
Doesn't that just result in 90% of decent and up programmers illegally making €1k - €2k on freelancer.com or alike ? Then when it's enough to finance trip + 6 months emigrate to US or, well, anywhere but Greece ?
That they can do it means they have a backdoor. It doesn't matter if it takes a day to write the code and flash a build to use it — that it is significantly easier for them to access data on the device than it is for anybody else means they have a backdoor.
For anyone else, thinking hmm, that sounds easy. The TL;DR is that you don't "just need to read" Alex's blog, you need to read, think, try, fix, bug search, rinse, repeat, take on board a number of complex ideas and concepts, and/or buy ideal hardware. The arch linux topic is very long! I've read most of it as it came in, but reading that whole thing for tidbits and fixes that Google doesn't always turn up isn't quick or easygoing.
Good luck!
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It does smack a bit of "my problems are more important than yours" attitude. The same kind of judgmental tone can be seen in other parts too:

>I am the single mother who closed two deals with a fever during winter “break” while my co-workers took their days off for fun. I worked through and paced my time off into half days bc I knew I needed to save up my time off.

Why does she care what her coworkers use their time off for? Everyone gets the same amount of vacation and they can use it for whatever they damn well please, that's none of her business.

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it...
The recent thread on Ghost in the Shell reminded me of this. It's only a matter of time before technology can build fully functional replacement limbs. This is obviously great for people that rely on prosthetics, but when these new limbs become better than the ones we were born with, are we going to see people having their perfectly working biological parts replaced?
security guards are always doing this type of thing with complete disregard for the law. The police usually aren't much better though in this case they seem to have been ok.
I prey that in your hour of need, that the person able to help does not think like you.
In a word: margins.

There's enough slack in the timetable to account for delays. If the bus would normally take one minute to get from one stop to the next, the timetable will actually account 90 seconds, etc.

Then there are certain stops where the bus will, if it gets there early, stop and wait. They don't do this on every stop, but they're frequent enough to keep the service regulated. Intelligently, these stops are also the ones which synchronise with other transport systems. For example, when I take the train home from work I know that there'll be a bus waiting for me when I get off at my station.

It's not perfect, but the overwhelming majority of the time it Just Works.
I lost 4 teeth to my orthodontist in my teens - certainly no meth involved.
And don't forget the bad-mouthing on social media.

Just look at hacker news. Many posts have someone complaining how the site is broken only to find out they have disabled scripts or have a night mode extension, or disabled webgl but forgot about it, or they programed their router to drop all packets that were going to a url that included "google" anywhere in it (including mysite.com/google-blog-post, true story)
I'm glad to see that GiTS has inspired such a discussion and so many comments. Its a masterpiece of story telling, futurism and the challenges facing society, not just robotics/AI but also demographics (Solid State Society).

I still get goose bumps every time I watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsIQ_kA77b4
I hope websites would stop using "Raleway" for content text. I can't understand half of the letters because they're so thin.
Apart from that Docker doesn't really utilize user namespaces until recently, user namespaces are tricky. There have historically been buts and ifs involved. Don't rely on it unless you really understand it!

But why would you want to run things as root anyway? You probably didn't before Docker, so why do it now? With Docker, there's even less reason to muck about with capabilities for binding low ports etc. It's absolutely an unnecessary risk to take.
The Quantified Welp: Measuring an activity makes it less enjoyable
It's a no brainer.

It's an interesting talking point because it easily separates those who are able to think independently with insight from the sheep.

https://imgflip.com/i/102ktd
Is your issue just that you hate all advertising?

If so, shouldn't you take your ire out on the web itself rather than Google, as Google is hardly unique in using advertising to sustain itself. Many websites do.

And what is the alternative? Everyone pays for everything, thus providing bank-authenticated billing data to every company? At least with ad supported services you can use them anonymously, if you want to. Besides, Google has their Contributor product that (in some cases) lets you pay to not see adverts. So it's not like they aren't trying to find a good balance.

Is your issue that you dislike targeted ads specifically?

If so, doesn't the fact that you can opt out of ad targeting and/or edit your own profile change anything? Surely you can see that many people would prefer to see relevant ads rather than ads intended for the wrong gender, age group, regional populations etc?

It's unfortunate that you feel so strongly about something as mundane as online advertising. Google is not the military or the CIA, where the actions of the employees can result in people getting randomly drone striked. It's just a software company.

I say these things because I used to work for Google and the people there are usually very happy. It seems a shame to rule out a company that's always tried so hard to find the right moral balances in things on grounds as flimsy as "advertising sucks".
Raspberry Pi Zero production getting on track
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I spent about a year writing technical documentation for clients as an add on service to consulting. It was a really nice experience. It was the main source of income for some months. People would try and hire me for writing but I wanted to focus on code. One trick I learned is to find not well documented projects or APIS and write tutorials about them. Then turn those tutorials into cookbooks. That sold well directly to companies. I would sell them the cookbook for their own project. It was easy and fun money.
"“This isn’t quite the same as the other Pis, because the other Pis are made by RS and Farnell. We make these Pis, so you’re actually looking at a small company trying to scale.” “We’ve got good resources and good engineers, but you’re looking at a small company trying to scale production," -- Eben Upton

Explanation as to why the PiZero is hard to get.
“Slack, I'm breaking up with you”
Die Blendung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-F%C3%A9_(novel)) is also worth reading, if you like that kind of thing.
I think the price is acceptable for a developing product. There is a high cost in R&D.
Unfortunately, asking people to install something and keep it updated is a huge deterrent for casual users.
>Because every piece software, and social/collaboration software doubly so, affords and encourages certain ways in which it can be used.

Well, yes, but no forses you to do so. There are people who can't get away from facebook page once they've opened it and there are people who use it just as an address book with photo's. Blaming software for not knowing where "dnd" button is - is kind of strange.

>Either that or you can't faithfully assess the level to which you've been distracted.

I don't spend more than half an hour a day viewing those or posting replyies. I'm pretty sure I do can assess the said level.
Their selection "process"[1] was.. not what I'd choose to use, especially since they changed the priorities as they evaluated. But then they abandoned that process[2] so I wouldn't read too much into the evaluation.

Basically as far as I can see, the main reason BlazeGraph was chosen was this: [they] had me out to their office (a house an hour and half from mine)[3]

I'm sure BlazeGraph is fine. We were doing a very similar evaluation at the same time, and the Titan situation screwed us over too. But we took a look at BlazeGraph after Wikidata chose it, and found it pretty rudimentary at that time.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90101

[2] "As you can also see we didn't finish filling them all out. But we've still pretty much settled on BlazeGraph anyway. Let me first explain what
BlazeGraph is and then defend our decision to stop spreadsheet work" https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-Mar...

[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-Mar...
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AHA! Interesting.

This explains why my computer has a bunch of USB3 ports that work... sometimes. (It also very sporadically has a massive wibble and hard-crashes with an error relating to USB.)
I do this in my bash scripts, if anyone wants to see how.

https://github.com/ehartsuyker/node-deb/blob/ede596b2c8a07f1...
Simple, organized and beautiful frontpage.Seed and see your information growing
A slave can't chose to work somewhere else though. She could chose to work somewhere else with cheaper conditions.
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Is there a way to use hook.io with websockets? I want to hook on incoming websocket events from external service, process it and send data via HTTP. How can I do this?
Stop Brainwashing App Goes on Indiegogo
A team of Ukrainian and American specialists has just launched their brainwashing detecting software campaign on Indiegogo (http://igg.me/at/leegle/). The app named
Leegle can analyze any written text or pronounced speech and alert users on the degree and direction of brainwashing.
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Should I watch the films or the series first?
>You start with a background in English or professional writing and learn the technology, or you can start with a computer science degree or something similar and learn how to write.

Could you please recommend some good resources for learning to write, in the context of technical writing or more generally?
May be they have good know-how how do this in good level of cost and price. Or may be this is completely unnecessary for them (the china government). Normally if you have pharmaceutical generics comapnies they have big portfolio of many generics drugs ("they do not keep eggs in one basket and diversification also). Create company which have only one product and sell only to China market in my opinion is pointless.
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Looking at the data rates of just the ATLAS detector [1] the data rate of about 10 GB/s for all experiments sounds about right (with higher event rates in the current run and detector upgrades).
And that's after throwing away 99.99% of all events!
The raw data rate is >64 TB/s (with about 1.6 MB per event)!

[1] http://www.atlas.ch/pdf/atlas_factsheet_4.pdf
Huge difference.

Since they're freelancers you're just going to be one of many clients. They will charge you only for the hours worked. This means that whatever their social security cost is, it's going to be spread out among their different clients. Also when you're a freelancer the social security cost is much lower anyway.
So, you want to learn bookkeeping
> at the seed stage, the strike price is small and the valuation increase won't be substantial. You're maybe out of pocket $X00~$X000

That's a bad assumption. Valuation increases can be substantial 1 year post seed funding at companies with traction.
Dan: I did not mean to offend, truly. As someone who has been working in this field for only ~ 2 years, it's just still kinda surprising to see such a thing. I wasn't sure at first if it was serious.

But I also understand the reality of our field, where such things are very serious, and yet always verging on self-parody. I'm getting used to it.
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Why then does MS work on Bing? Bing is more likely to infringe on Google's patents than a Windows clone is likely to infringe on MS's patents, not? And Bing is certainly lots of work.
It's just an extended strawman of conspiracy theory. None of the major characters is sympathetic. It felt very misanthropic. And it's bloated by Stephenson-esque digressions, but they're somehow much less interesting than Stephenson's - partly because the primary plot is too weak to sustain you through them.
So, she was selling $19k worth of stuff, and claimed she was doing a good job (let's assume she's correct). Her income was $2k.

So that means ~10% of Yelp's revenue is going to salespeople. Is that normal? Do salespeople normally take 10% of every sale?
That was 3 years ago. Right now the process is more streamlined.

Of course I assume that people that frequent hacker news are geeks and tinkerers.
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OK, you're right. damn those implementations :)
There are pluses and minuses to working for Google. On the plus side, they pay well, your colleagues will be uncommonly capable, and you'll get a chance to work on a vast scale. It's cool.

On the minus side, the company is very, very strict, particularly around its codebase. For each language, there is an extensive set of coding guidelines (actually rules) covering even minute issues like spacing. And it's actually enforced. If you're looking for a high-trust environment, or just some elbow room to do things your way, stay the heck away.

The company is also very bureaucratic, particularly around hiring and promotion. Promotions are done by independent boards, based on extensive documentation (the "perf packet") provided by the candidate and his manager/lead. At this point, these packets are hefty enough to beat a man to death with. To submit code, you'll also need to get certified for "readability" in each language you will be working in, a process that takes months.

Finally, I'd say Google has a bit of false consciousness around what sort of culture they actually have. They want to think of themselves as a free, loose sort of place where people are empowered to look for problems and go fix them. That's why they still have 20% time, for example. In truth, what you'll be rewarded for is doing what your boss wants, to his satisfaction; everything else is at best marginal. And you know, I think the employees know that, since 20% time is taken by less than 5% of the engineering staff. A culture of
"do what your boss tells you" isn't bad of course; what it is, is ordinary.

So, some big pluses, oh yeah, but some big minuses too.
> Options have been this way since the 80s. What's changed? Nobody is examining that as closely as they should. ... we should all possess a certain conservatism, a healthy skepticism to changing systems that have been stable for a long time.

The same argument could be applied to the way VCs used to do business with founders (with respect to tactics, terms sheets, etc). Arguably, that was stable for a long time too (but seems to have changed in recent years). It's just a reformulation of "We've always done it this way".
Why is Google allowing this app to break many Google Play developer policies?
That's $12 million in 10 minutes. Impressive!

I wonder how many headsets they will sell in the first year, but seeing how much interest there is, I won't be surprised if they sell more than 1 million.
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Agreed, the Gmail web UI is another example, and I've never been able to understand this...
Genuinely interested, so if you do have any links it would be great.
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I guess we should thank the owners for beta testing for late adopters.

If Tesla covers them under warranty I guess the only problem is inconvenience and hassle for the owners. If not, Tesla is going to probably have a much bigger problem.
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As soon as that subscribe overlay goes up I close the browser tab, every time.
I hope they can sell more but the technology is still too new for ordinary consumer. Developers may need to find out more possibilities and functions for it first.
This man is very brave for taking a stance with which some of his wife's coworkers may not agree. He already had to be brave to be there for his kids and now he is opposing the DOJ. Full letter:

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2729428/KondokerLetter...
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The real question for me is are you really that lazy? I'm not being cheeky.
As opposed to... what we do?
The TV series almost human.

Its near future cop series about the effects of technology. Got a slight cyberpunk feal. I liked it a lot but unfortunately it was canceled after one season.
Two weeks ago during the announcement of his death I saw a lot of negativity on this site against what you call here "pure intellectualism".

I don't understand that.