skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're using them to give your argument authority and credence, and that's an incredibly disrespectful thing to do to people you know and care about. It's a flavor of this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Friend_argument

You can read my other comments in this thread for why I think even if tourism & the climbing industry is good for Nepal right now, there are still ethical dilemmas. I also encourage you to reread kaitai's last paragraph about how this debate absolutely should not stop at an individual's choice. There's a lot that can be done, like shoring up other economies within Nepal so our citizens don't have to work in incredibly dangerous fields.

Finally, I hope you've talked to your friends about the situation for average Nepali. Villages are in positions where one bad hailstorm can cripple the village for a year, and force all the men to leave for the city or the Middle East to find work. Most villages don't receive the immediate benefits of tourism. Many are very remote, which adds a huge set of challenges - disaster response, medical aid, communication, etc. The Maoist insurgency was obviously a huge deal, as is what's going on in Madesh and Terai right now, but a lot of the other political shifts aren't felt as much, and frankly, the Nepalese government doesn't have the resources to do much. The help of NGOs and charities is vital to many villages.
I assume, you are reffering to this:

https://youtu.be/QeLu_yyz3tc

Chilling insight into foreign policy of a superpower (an euphemism for "empire"). Not that he says something new (if you've read Carroll Quigley), but still... it's a fresh proof from the founder of the "Shadow CIA".
The Artist Behind the Three-Eyed Fish and Selfie Rat, and Other Hoaxes
Still not clear to me -- is this the checkin that caused the issue -- reviewed by Tim Horton? http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/186786
http://www.oil-price.net/cartoons/iran-iraq-syria-pipeline.j...
It's hard to really describe without giving away proprietary info, but some things that are public-but-not-commonly-thought-of include: how do you propagate "sticky" settings like SafeSearch, a user-defined current location, or multi-login? Is it an ad-click, in which case it needs to be tracked rigorously because real money is changing hands for it? Or is it a result click, where we want to do anything possible to avoid introducing latency in getting the user to where they need to be? Or a feature click, where the destination is our own servers? Should the browser do a full page refresh, or will it do an AJAX fetch for only part of the page? If it's an AJAX fetch, what needs to be refreshed? Does a history entry need to be pushed? Are we going to display something special if the user hits "back", like Facebook does for "More stories like this" (the feature in question was actually one of the first sites that did this, before Facebook)? What happens if we've changed the code on the server while the user has an outdated page open in their browser? What are all the browser differences in handling these?
Yes, but suspecting that every article has an unstated source of influence other than author's own opinion is the whole new level of paranoia. Articles throwing lavish praise at some particular corporation are the easiest - just dismiss them. But when there is no evident source of influence, my mind races to build a mini-conspiracy theory - who is trying to tell me this and why? As I've said, tiring.
Syria really examplifies the terrible incoherent state of Western (American, secondly EU) foreign policy.

There is really a need for change; unfortunately it is a bit hard to see where that will be coming from at the moment.
Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a burnout center?
I've been on the verge of burnout for a while now and have heard similar complaints from quite a few of my colleagues as well. For me it is because of continual part-time studies, a recent career change, and general life stresses. For my colleagues, most of whom are senior developers, this is due to their careers and work related responsibilities in general.

I'm wondering how prevalent this is and if anyone here would be interested in a kind of burnout recuperation center/getaway/retreat.

This is something I've been giving some thought to and it would involve something similar to the Vipassana Meditation retreats that get posted here at times, except it would be designed and geared to recovery from, and preventing burnout. And you'll be able to talk, of course.

It would involve a structured daily schedule(but not mandatory) of activities, researched and selected based on empirical proof of their benefit towards dealing with stress, burnout and creative blockages. These activities would be daily meditation sessions, light exercise(hiking, yoga, weight training), and a scientifically-designed diet plan to reduce stress and anxiety(in as much as that's possible).

Also, I'm playing with the idea of including a 5-day hike in one of the most beautiful natural parks in the world.

Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?
Imagine what our reaction would be if two parts of the Russian government had provided weapons to different groups, who immediately turned around and fought each other. Would we be calling them (the Russians) bumbling incompetents or talking about how it was part of their sly plan all along?
Correct. In addition, the source code used to run the demo is available on github at https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/scale-demo
+1. Thanks tsenart for the awesome load generator!
I met John a few years ago, and he's one of my favorite founders. He's smart, on top of things, personable, and effective. He's been a huge inspiration to me, and I find myself constantly thinking "what would John do?" when in a tough spot.

I'm sad he won't be in SF (and sadder I didn't take advantage of it more when he was), but excited to see what happens. John doesn't give up... this is just another step in a long journey.

Like the adage goes, "This too shall pass".
Very "generous" of you. I know oil flows from there. I mean that's an old song that didn't work before. And people are also vocally trying to get away from oil based energy as much as possible (be it solar, wind, waves). Causing a proto WWIII for this ? .. Tell me more if you have data.
What is suicide if not the ultimate malfunction of a person as a system? Under what twisted definition of health can something which causes death be considered healthy when there is just a sliver less of it?

We might consider emotional pain "working as intended" when it alerts its victim to a problem and motivates them to fix it.

When they cannot identify the problem, or it is beyond their (suppressed by pain) power to fix, then the pain is no longer working as intended but is going to have some other effect, such as long-term suffering and death. At that point the alert system is itself a problem.

If Nagios wakes you up in the middle of the night to tell you a server's disk is nearly full, great, fix that server. If Nagios sends a few hundred billion alerts a second about this fact causing DoS on your entire network, yes you still need to fix that disk usage, but shut Nagios up first.
Yes, but hopefully anyone doing this for real will compare whitepapers and errata for yourself, then lab test them. The T5 ASIC is in a different class than intel's parts, it can be used as several types of offload engine if that seems like a good fit for things like iSCSI, or it can be used as a very solid stateless offload NIC with tons of VFs for things like Netmap, zones/jails, or HW virtualization. Most people don't push NICs very hard, so it doesn't matter that much. If you do, you probably already have a strong opinion (i.e. glance at Netflix OpenConnect build docs).
Can't wait 'til adblockers start blocking sponsored content.
Well, there's Pacman, Yaourt, no sudo by default, no Python-GPIO package by default, no Gui by default, no raspi-config... etc.
I have never once filtered someone for lacking confidence. I have never seen someone filtered for lack of confidence by any panel I've been on or any panel I was the hiring manager for. At this point in my career I have interviewed ~1000+ engineers.

I think you're interviewing with the wrong people, or at the wrong places. Way too many people treat interviewing as a way of demonstrating intelligence via computer science trivial pursuit. 5 minutes with Google will demolish 99% of the questions you might ask if all you care about is getting correct code on the board. The interesting part is the process and discussion the code creates, not whether or not they know the secret handshake.
IMHO, it would be fair to criticize this piece for poor editing. The writing feels a bit rough in places. There are sentences and paragraphs which can be considerably abbreviated to be more readable. Further, the article's flow is a bit off. Overall great narrative, though.
For better or worse a Trump presidency would almost certainly be a fundamental rewrite of the way the U.S. government functions in the world.
Trying but not succeeding. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/images/us__en_us__oi...

The US economy hinges on sustaining the petrodollar system. http://ftmdaily.com/preparing-for-the-collapse-of-the-petrod...
Snoopers’ Charter: Only amendment politicians have submitted to controversial bill is to stop MPs being spied on

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
> And it's the combination of both that helps.

I think that's overstating it. The chances of recovery are better on average with the combination, but I don't think anyone has really teased out the extent to which this is additive or synergistic on an individual level versus simply having better odds by betting on two lines instead of one.
The feds have resumed controversial program that lets cops take stuff and keep it
Here's what really happened: they made Apple the offer they couldn't refuse, and Apple unlocked it. The rest is just a PR move for naive people to keep thinking their Apple phones are secure.
This is referring to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378278

The same apology can be found in that post, along with several replies to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11379195
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"Junior level positions, which in Toronto translates to around $50k - $60k. I could make the same amount of money waiting tables if I really wanted to."

So the going rates in Canada are in that range. I interviewed for a remote senior position (5+ years exp) for a start-up in Toronto (that from brief research looked to be profitable, so I went ahead).

My jaw dropped when they said they were targeting $25 (CAD) an hour, with the exchange rate that's less than $19 (US) an hour. My sentiment was the same as yours, at $19 (US) an hour I could make the same amount of money teaching plain English anywhere in the world. It looks like they don't even do a cross-check for other industry rates, just fluent English can net you the same rates as an English teacher in practically any market.
FBI hacks San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone without Apple’s help
This is just to drum up iPhone 6 sales with it's secure enclave ;)
HTTP POST/PUT/GET are underlying primitives for these automation systems, which are essentially polished messaging buses.
I am from middle east and I am atheist (because so many people will accuse me of being Muslim).I want to touch on topic which is a little bit off topic. But for people who wants to see big picture it is essential.

I can only say one thing to your politician's :
Get the fuck out of middle East.

There is one way to change middle East and it is to change culture by improving your own society.

When I read news about USA domestic issuse my mind blows up, how these fuckers (politicians) can bring us democracy?when they don't even care about their own people. Looks what's going on in Flint Michigan.

At the otherhand when people go and see what is going on in countries like Norway/Finland(which didn't invade any country in middle East in recent years.didn't intervene and overthrow government in middle East) then they really start to think there is something wrong about us culturally (middle East) and we should start to change , and bring to ourselves what these country's have already, like democracy, freedom of speech.(this is when real change start to happen, not when some moron like bush spend billions and billions without achieving single goal and for just making enemy's)

At the other hand by USA presense in middle East they (usa)are basically undermine our (liberal people in middle East) argument for common people in middle East.Believe it or not hardliners will say we are traitor and West's puppets, and believe me people believe it when West's does actually occupy or intervene in their country politics.

I can't understand, what is hard to get?
Get the fuck out of middle East.

Overthrowing Mossadegh(democratically elected).

Backing Saudi Arabia (one of the worst human rights record, maybe a little bit better than ISIS itself) for many years.

Backing Egyptian dictator (mobarak) for many years.

Backing Saddam against Iran , while Saddam did use chemical weapon.

Backing mujahedeen (basically Tliban) against Soviet Union.

And list goes on.

You cannot keep snake in your backyard and expect them to only bite your neighbor.

honestly asking ? What the fuck do you want from us?
They just want perpetual conflict.
Because perpetual conflict means perpetual war, and perpetual war means cash supply for the military industrial complex.
I am not a lawyer, but not showing up is not a good idea, you could then be fired for cause and lose your stock. Being fired is different from being laid off.
That's great advice on tone. I wrote this more for family and friends back home who were going to wonder why we were back. If I was writing it for HN it would have been very different :)
This follow up article by the same author (linked at the bottom) seems important to understand his position in my opinion - it answers many of the points raised here in various comments: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201603...
That figure has to be heavily skewed by the sizable HR department which tends to use a lot of contractors as well as the rapid expansion over the last few years. Engineering doesn't have anywhere near that kind of turnover.
Its actually a bit above 20% (excluding Yahoo).

http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/15/comscore-bing-steals-from-...

http://searchengineland.com/google-controls-65-percent-of-se...

And 30%+ with Yahoo.
> Were personal computers replacing mainframes nuts?

Personal computers never replaced mainframes. Personal computers replaced minicomputers and workstations.

The difference is meaningful, even in this context: Minicomputers and workstations were high-end systems dedicated to things like relatively small-scale file storage, graphics processing, network tasks (servers, routers), and other workloads which required neither high throughput nor long up-times. They mainly required more RAM, CPU, and, sometimes, specialized hardware than it was feasible to put on a home system of the era.

Mainframes, on the other hand, had become specialized as high-throughput high-availability systems, running large databases and supporting dozens to hundreds of users at a time, for years on end. They'd grown entire specialized architectures dedicated to handling that kind of workload, and were only getting moreso as time went on.

My point is, if Theranos is the PC, it's only going to replace some aspects of the market it's moving into, and, from this article, it might not even do that. It's just too difficult to play catch-up with the extremely specialized realms, even if you have technology which is an 80% solution for 90% of the problems.
Unless it's either (a) a crazy person stalking some specific people he already has some information on, or (b) a campaign against specific people who are targeted for a hack. (I guess in either case the police should be able to connect the dots between them, but to paraphrase that Lebowski movie, I'm sure they're working in shifts.)
Yes.

That may be true.

However; I do (still) find it unlikely that Trump will be the next president. And I am also not quite sure what his foreign policies will be.

Another big change may come from Britain's exit from the EU (also something I find unlikely). This will be the end of EU as it is today. And will probably lead to a more protectionist and less interventionalist foreign policy regime across the board.
Atom Reaches One Million Active Users
If you've been made aware at how little evidence is necessary for the authorities to seize your cash and then the near impossibility of getting it back once its taken even if never convicted you may ask yourself who is the thief?

Interesting to see over $5 Billion a Year in Assets are now lost to forfeiture while total assets lost to Burglary have fallen below $4 Billion.

The Washington Post has been one of the few media outlets to give this issue any attention, here is a link to the past articles they've done the last few years on Asset Forfeiture. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/collection/st...
>we know they will lead to a better Pinboard Channel on IFTTT in the long term

Well, reading Maciej writing it sounds like you will no longer be connecting to his backend while Botize will. These things happen. Sometimes it's best just to move on.
Is Lua the new in vogue programming language?
That is not what "digressing" means. When someone talks on topic, that is not "digressing". Why not check an online dictionary, they are free and super helpful.
The trekking part of my Nepal trip I found a lot easier (and interesting) than my Kilimanjaro hike. The trek to EBC lends itself to a lot of flex days being built into itineraries (delays of flights between Kathmandu and Lobuche are normal) and some nice side trips that help with the "climb high, sleep low" pattern that helps prevent AMS. Kilimanjaro, on the other hand, is a straight shot up and down, tends to be a much shorter trek, and doesn't have as interesting terrain for side hikes.

Climbing Lobuche East and glacier traverse+rescue training on Cho La glacier were both harder than hiking Kilimanjaro, but were my favorite parts of the trip.

As far as ill effects… there were some injuries, sickness, and minor AMS symptoms among my group on both trips (headache, cough, shortage of breath… nothing serious). We were careful about acclimatization, though.

Of the two, I'd really recommend trekking in Nepal. It's one of those places I find myself missing, and I'd love to go back.
Speaking of distributed systems, are there any good articles that go over some of the common problems that normally occur as your infrastructure grows?
Comparing AR to VR is comparing apples to oranges; they don't compete in the same space and are not competing with each other.
Lua has been the standard extension language in gamedev and adtech for years and years.
> I have never ever had bugs in my code from somehow having invalid Unicode code-points in my paths. 99% of the time, replacing '/' with '\' and handling drive letters gets you there. I realize certain classes of bugs could happen, but I'd rather take that risk, have a bug, and fix it, than burden the type system and libraries.

Lucky for you. I will think about you next time I have to fix one of these 1% pathname bugs you do not seem to be concerned about, which tend to happen all the time when your program is used by many people with many files (i.e. the case every developer hopes for)
>Where will the money come from?

This is the $99gajillion question.

People won't pay for actual journalism while sponsored content is free and looks enough like the real thing.

Ad revenues are tanking across the board for everyone except the platforms. Ad expenditures are rising, though, so there's a suggestion that this will not continue forever and that one day ad-supported business models will become viable again.

But probably not soon enough, or at high enough levels, to support journalism as it used to be. That's dead and gone. All we're talking about now is what comes after.

The real sadness is investigative journalism, especially as a democratic tool. Without someone poking their nose where it's not wanted (and a mechanism for paying them to do that) our society is at a much greater danger of corruption.

I'm not a dystopian. There is a public appetite for actual journalism, so eventually there will be a business model to cater to that. What that looks like though... no idea
> It is clear that the United States in particular is, especially in recent years, churning out unprecedented numbers of severely psychologically ill individuals.

Is it clear? Or have we gotten better at diagnosing conditions that people have been experiencing all along? (Not to mention reducing stigma and making people more likely to admit to having these conditions.) In any case, citation needed.
New app to help children with autism keep up in class
> just replicate the ASIC you want to attack in your own silicon.

That doesn't get you the key stored in the target device.

It's not the same as attacking any other integrated circuit, because this one is rigged to blow away its secrets if you try to get instruments/debugging tools inside its enclosure in a way its designers thought of.
The Guardian Weekly, for basically the same reasons as people have mentioned regarding the economist.

Weekly issues on long form without to much of the "news flash" of daily news.
That's nice, but I have literally read interview feedback from very smart interviewers at multiple companies that vetoed candidates because "they didn't appear confident". This isn't something I'm making up: it's a real problem.
In Rust, moving isn't a trait. It's the default, non-overridable behavior of assignment and argument passing. And everything is movable.
It's not always the student body who do the robing, but outsiders; on the other hand, drunk students do occasionally make very poor choices when it comes to showing romantic interest.

Multiple video (with anti-vandalism hardening) lenses as well as two way radio (and speaker) should be able to handle most troubling cases with some central office dispatching campus police if things go downhill quick.
HN meta: I'm sort of disappointed that this has been getting downvoted.

Obviously, what Linden is saying in this case is probably not helping his business case. It's clear to me that he either does not understand why Maciej doesn't want to implement a private API, or does not wish to understand it.

On the other hand, neither of those things are grounds for a downvote, I think. A downvote says "this content shouldn't be on HN" -- that there's something about a comment that detracts from how the community operates. Linden has been completely respectful in what he says and how he says it. Maybe that's not the case in what he's asking his users to do, but we may as well let him ask.
What are the particular problems in Norway, Finland and Flint, Michigan you are referring to?
I like how they slip in "Oh, all you have to do is parse HTML with regex" on the last problem.
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the USA. They don't care." --Nelson Mandela
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/nelson-mandela-i...
>Instead when people go and see what is going on in countries like Norway/Finland then they really start to think there is something wrong about us culturally (middle East) and we should start to change.

it doesn't always work this way. Russia ventured out this way in 199x and crawled back scared (in particular by the number and size of things what are wrong with Russians individually and at a whole society level) into the old cage. It is very hard to overcome mentality developed over centuries.