skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are just the most obvious evidence they chose to highlight in a brief article.

If they examined dozens of sites and found physical evidence that fully supports Lawrence's accounts, and no evidence that is inconsistent with those accounts, that's pretty persuasive. After all if Lawrence made his accounts up, you'd expect it wouldn't take long to find discrepancies between his inventions and the real geography of the locations and physical evidence.

I watched a documentary about Lawrence and some journalists visiting some of the sites including the Hallat Ammar attack. In the book Lawrence describes the attack being launched from a ridge (IIRC) 100m from the railway line. They found the ridge, but the railway line was 300m away, too far to be in effective rifle range. But then examining the site more carefully, they found that while the modern railway line was 300m away, the old WW1 era line had become buried with sand and was actually about 100m from the ridge.

It's been a very long time since I read SPOW. It's not always an easy read, but full of character and wonderfully evocative. Lawrence clearly loved and appreciated Arab culture. He gave accounts of their camp fire stories and humour for example, but didn't flinch from describing and discussing some of the uncomfortable aspects of the customs and behaviour he encountered.
First off, most Americans are already in a borderline financial crisis, and you're saying that it's better they stay this way than get more money to "increase consumption"?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-handle-a-500...

Obviously if you have more money, you will increase consumption, but the more money you make, there will be diminishing consumption. It's not like people making $30 million a year spend 95% of it at Walmart. The more money you make the more you either invest or save (as a percentage of your income), even if the total consumption increases as well. In other words, having more people with more money is not a "bad thing" for the economy (or their personal lives). Quite the opposite.

Second, if there's a stronger middle class, it means the money paid to businesses will be much more distributed. When people have little money, then they can only afford to spend on "necessities", which by default shrinks the market to a handful of business categories, which means only a few will be able to get "richer".

It's also likely that only the biggest such businesses will survive thanks to better economies of scale and people's price sensitivity due to the very low incomes, which means there will be higher inequality and less competition in the market.

When more people have more money, they buy all sorts of stuff, giving life to all sorts of new businesses and because consumers aren't as price sensitive, competition will be higher as well.
It shows an example of someone who caught the "why downvotes?" bait, and enables a comment like yours.

INB4: my comment shows an example of someone going meta.
I'm guessing your gitlab instances see as many visitors as SourceForge
Before, they had to get a court order just to get into your house to turn it off – now they can turn you off remotely, and you have to go to court to contest it.
its better to use fossil locally and have a mirror sync to github to run in the background. Its sad that git being distributed and github being a central place , sort of undermines the very purpose git was built for
> I think the unfortunate truth is that they'll get harassed either way.

Are women in tech harassed more than "average" women? I wonder if this is true both in real life and online.
And my local copies of all dependencies I use.
A while back mdz blogged about difficulties confronting Ubuntu and other Linux circulations. He raises the point that runtime libraries for Python/Ruby and so on have a novel arrangement of issues since they have a tendency to have their own bundling frameworks. From that point forward the discussion appears to have dried up.Platforms, for example, antivirus scanners, node.js, Python, Clojure et cetera care an incredible arrangement about getting their product out to their clients. They think about making it to a great degree simple to get the most recent and most prominent forms of their libraries.

Visit: http://www.platooh.com/vendors
Great idea, I'll add some screens! It's made with Electron (http://electron.atom.io/), so it should be easy to make a Linux or even Windows version.
The people who still have jobs will benefit, sure. We're making some poor people (including teenagers living at home) a little better off at the expense of a smaller number of poor people who be much worse off for not having a job.
Phew, I can't develop anymore but http://left-pad.io/ is still up so my systems continue operating.
You can "vouch" the comment instead of copying it. Click on "x minute ago" on dead link. Then click on "vouch" at the top of the link.

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Meh, again, I don't know why software that's never having a bad day, never frustrated, is trained to drive defensively, and has the actual highway code programmed in to it will struggle more than Pedro will, especially given that if the other car is also autonomous then they can actually negotiate.
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I use express / node. It looks like I can map what I know to this framework quite quickly. Is it worth the investment?
What side projects are you up to?
Please discuss why are you satisfied about it?
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Rollbacks (canceling a transaction) on other systems usually take longer because it physically needs to rewrite the "undo log" back to the data pages.
"Move fast and break things." Including your own bones.

People are getting too spoiled by perceived reliability. Internet is not electricity yet. And especially third-party services on the Internet.
I nearly died last year as a result of the health problems I was facing, and my immediate reaction was relief at the thought that I wouldn't have to face another day in the dead-end Linux sysadmin job I was doing at the time.

My aim, long-term, was always to lead a simple and frugal life rather than to try and amass as much wealth as possible. A small home, a place to grow food, a modest income from various bits-and-bobs of work.

But to do that, you need some money to start you out and that's where I'm failing. I'm out of the running for any professional jobs because of the break in employment and the competition for entry-level jobs is such that any slight gap in your employment history means you just get a "we'll call you back".

Having had health issues and a gap in employment history seems to mean I am no longer a useful or valid member of society. I wish I had died last year, so I wouldn't be wasting everyone's time and space.
What if it is unintended e.g. autism spectrum?
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: [git pull][resend] Input updates for 2.6.22-rc7
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:11:27 UTC
Message-ID: <fa.IgmANxZoEvqGUWkoZEe414vIYlQ@ifi.uio.no>

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > I'm constantly surprised by just how _many_ ways MUA's find to screw up.
>
> 'pine' actually seems to work pretty damn well once you disable the
> flowed-text "feature".

Yes. And 'alpine', it's modern version, does even better, but you also
need to make sure to disable "downgrade-multipart-to-text".

I've been using alpine for a while now, and it's nice to see it be utf-8
capable and able to handle other charsets well.

So as a former pine user, I can recommend upgrading.

Linus
With enough copies you can push the probability of all of them going down simultaneously to arbitrarily low levels.

Or at least down to "fuck, the power grid went out" levels.
Elassandra = Cassandra and Elasticsearch
True privacy is (probably) coming to Bitcoin in the form of Confidential Transactions [1], a new construction of Pedersen Commitments and Range Proofs, as combined with some number of other mechanisms (such as CoinJoin).

[1]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transa...
ME is a huge net negative for security though
This is the reason I give to republicans for raising the minimum wage? Why are your taxes paying for that low wage workers salary?
Ask the http://shieldheadwear.com/ guys. They actually managed to kickstart stylish tinfoil hats...
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Lots of developer forget that in the heat of the code battle :-)

I've opened https://github.com/vizflow/vizflow/issues/2 and asked for a license.
>Why should Apple get special treatment that others don't get in India? What is so magical about Apple that they should get this preferential treatment?

If the law changes to allow it, then it won't be "special treatment".

What's so special about a random law that much be preserved for eternity?

>It's funny, HN seems to be against corporate sweetheart deals, and loves stories about exposing corruption.

Wanting / Asking to sell second-hand phones is corruption how?
Because people aren't DDOSing Facebook by telling their CI servers to constantly refetch all the dependencies every goddamn build.
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Wikimedia breaks copyright laws with pics of public art
final status - https://twitter.com/Insping/status/717271742964568065
VIA CPUs do have a crypto engine called Padlock (with all the usual goodies plus a randomness generator) which is not 'open' so be careful with that.

I recall that some independent company was contracted to audit the entropy generator in VIA C7 but I can't find it now.
Smart home hubs should be local and open source
That's why I call it private.
> You know, git is a distributed system, unlike github.

Thanks for the snark. I know git is a distributed system. My question was about everything else being down (your issue tracker, CI server, wiki/documentation), not about git itself.
Yes. Fully anonymous digital currency and and widespread, legal usage is hard to imagine together. There's simply no way governments would allow that, so regulations of digital currencies is only a matter of time. Yes, I know that argument that "physical money is anonymous too", but that's not the same, physical money has physical constraint and you can't transfer huge amount of them around the world in a matter of seconds. Furthermore, a crackdown on real money has already started(1, 2 etc)..

1. http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/16/cash-losing-its-currency-...

2. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/german-plan-pro...
> There are a great many total dickheads on the internet.

I really hate this line of thought. The internet is not a different place to the real world, and the truth is that there are a great many people in your town/city/country/world etc who are kinda obnoxious.
Thanks for that, I didn't have access to a device to allow me to log in to Github at the time.
> the best brains have overestimated our ability to write useful rules

Nah, we (all humans, not just the brightest) can come up with useful rules just fine. What we can't do is write useful rules that describe systems we don't understand. This is the crucial part: understanding. Somehow people ended up buying a false promise that computing power can replace human insight as a tool for taming complexity. The art of making models, of coming up with the right simplifying assumptions, of getting the biggest explanatory bang for your complexity buck, has largely been lost.
Keep in mind that a wage increase affects not only one business's profit margins and pricing, but also the prices of all of their goods from suppliers too. Consider that fast food needs to pay 30% to labor, mostly at minimum wage. Another 30% or so usually goes to food costs. Those food supplies are the product of farm labor and food processing plant labor, both of which pay close to minimum wage as well. If minimum wage doubles, that means the fast food business now has a labor cost of 60% of his original pricing, plus the increases in food costs he is going to see as well. Those food cost increases could be 30-40%, meaning he will likely need to raise prices significantly to keep the lights on. For a company like McDonald's, who do you think is their target market when they try to keep prices as low as possible? The rich? They're trying to make food affordable for everyone, including minimum wage earners. When McDonald's costs nearly double, what do you think is going to happen to their prices?
You could have separate centralized servers for each project, though, instead of one big point of failure for all the projects.
You're one of the first ones who reported it, it's also a terrible error message that you said yourself was not googlable at the time. You provided as much information as you could. I see nothing wrong with your question and don't think it's in the same category as the list I posted.
> Is it safe enough though?

I'm not so sure about that. I've only used it once, an only to test its functionality, I didn't do any in-depth testing. Well I wouln't use it in production, but in a non-critical, small-scale project it could be worth a try...
>Well you are entitled to that opinion

And you're entitled to believe in the coming androidjobpocalypse.

>The Chinese are loosing jobs to the robots

Would love to see what sort of anecdotes you come up with for this gem.

It's a convenient fairy tale - pretending that reversing the trade deals that sent 5-10 million jobs overseas wouldn't matter anyway because strong AI is going to steal those returning jobs. Just a little light on evidence.
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It doesn't matter that the assignments were in Scheme.

If students have extensive previous programming experience, they have had a chance to develop a mental model of computing that complete beginners simply don't have. They know how to debug. There are broad skills which aren't specific to a language or even a paradigm.

Putting all students in CS 101 together makes about as much sense as including Cantonese speakers in an introductory Mandarin course.
Refining and delivering gas requires labor too. While many in that industry may earn more, I'm sure there are minimum wage workers employed by that industry that will affect their costs. It doesn't help right now that oil and gas are at rock bottom prices either.
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until the new shiny thing comes and replaces that. I still don't understand what's wrong with grunt (or whats better with gulp).
Sounds like a very personal story generalised to advice. Perhap it should be never ever let that asshole Tim shape your career. For example.
I think he was joking, he was referring to stackoverflow.com :D
go-hn, a command line client for hacker news
I'm aware :] But my question remains.
That would make the downtime less correlated, but if it was higher in aggregate, would it be a net benefit?
The only side projects I've started, finished and continued to develop|maintain are project I made for myself out of some form of need. On the bonus side they all make some money as well - although I probably would have made them regardless.
> Replying here because the stupid max comment depth was reached on your deeper comment

Note that there is no "max comment depth" on HN, and I don't know where this thought keeps coming from. There are a few reasons the "reply" link may not be shown:

- The comment was posted too recently, and you need to wait for the cooldown to expire. This is proportional to comment depth. It's said this is a flamewar prevention mechanism.

- The comment is too old.
I wish the FSF was a bit more nuanced. For example, if DRM causes ordinary computers to come with proprietary code that is impossible to remove, then that is bad indeed. Then you no longer control your own computer. The same computer that you might use for political activities, for example.

On the other hand, if entertainment computers, such as blu-ray players or gaming consoles are locked-down and full of DRM, then I don't see a big problem. Sure, the government could potentially ban some movies in the future, and require the manufacturers to update the firmware on your machine so that it will no longer play those movies. But movies and games are expensive to produce, and without DRM most of them probably wouldn't get produced in the first place. In any case, movies and games aren't really that important, compared to say books and articles.

The FSF seems to be against DRM EVERYWHERE! They don't seem to realize that DRM might actually be a good thing for some things. Are there any organizations out there that I could donate to, that fight/work for open hardware for general purpose computers, without trying to prevent locked-down entertainment computers?
People at minimum wage probably buy the least amount of stuff. This is probably the largest potential audience, by increasing their wages the market should directly expand.
Maybe it'd be a good place to put logistical details of where the grave is, address of last place of residence, childhood home, and contact details of nearest family members.

I always have to hit my parents up for details on where relatives' remains are, so I can visit them.

If family members get annoyed by everyone asking about the same person they could just send a link instead of having to dig it all up again from their files and get depressed.
Yeah "first post on medium" should actually read "first pr piece".
They remotely disabled the port? I can't see anything in the article to suggest that…where did you read this?
It's true that you can't get 100% uptime. And yes 99.999% is more of an SLA agreement/goal than a generally achievable metric. But Github aren't even managing two nines - they only have 98% uptime over the past month. That's bad for any service.
Does it affect my work if I am using Waffle?
My company is planning to use a kanban service.
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The advantage of Gulp, in my opinion, is that it's driven by code rather than config - that is to say, in order to define your tasks you write JS code instead of JSON. That gives you a considerable advantage in cases where you want to do something outside of the scope of what the plugin developer was thinking.

Of course, that brings with it the disadvantage of needing to be able to write JS in order to configure it, and an additional point of failure (eg your own code).
<3 Fossil. I wish it were more popular so I could use it on non-personal projects and still have a hope of attracting collaborators...
I never got what's so great about Grunt in the first place, and instead stuck to makefiles. Something like `cat src/*.js | uglify > build.js` would take me a lot more effort to do with Grunt (or Gulp).
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Is this the road to massively parallel systems?
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I think you vastly overestimate how much Walmart pays its employees. Google "Walmart food stamps" and you'll lots of reading such as http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
I don't see how that's different from Grunt, which is also driven by code.
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Laptops are not exactly heavy these days anymore
Read this: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/reasons-to-stay-alive/id914...
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or to the new black death...
I think talking about the issues is a good thing.

Tech is scary for women. I've seen all kinds of casual sexism on the workplace that, while generally not intended as hurtful, men simply don't have to go through.

As a man, I'm pretty sure I've never had people talk about how hot I was after I left an interview or meeting. I've never been singled out to go fetch coffee, or told to "calm down, love".
>Apple Recycling in India
...

Whatever Apple equipment you wish to recycle, we will collect and recycle it responsibly for free.

http://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/europe.html#...
> Why do women in CS constantly seem to feel the need to tell everybody else they're a woman? Nobody cares.

Because there is a fair amount of inherent sexism in many companies when it comes to female programmers.

My ex was the brightest (by a long way) on our undergraduate CompSci course. She topped the class of 250 students and got a 1st with honours. She received one of the highest grades in the department's history.

She was invited to start a Phd directly after the BSc. No masters was required. The university could see her potential and decided to embrace it. She published a number of papers related to script and language identification from document images, primarily focused on Asian writing systems.

After her Phd she went to work for a large US automotive company. It was a nightmare for her. Shitty sexist comments on a daily basis. A real toxic work environment and after 1.5 years she quit. She had no desire to go back into job in computer science.

To me that is a huge waste of talent and resource.
I have large project built with Grunt and at one point I have tried to move it to Gulp. Gulp, as far as I can tell, requires much less code to do the same stuff. However, two things forced me to stick with Grunt. 1) The build scripts were working just fine. Why fix something it ain't broken? :) 2) When Sass or Coffee fails, gulp watch fails entirely. It's something I wasn't able to solve. Grunt will just pick up from it was before the error. Dunno!
That sucks. You need a vpn then.
We do provide PostgreSQL support/DBA for a lot of customers, and while I don't have any detailed stats I probably can make some general conclusions ...

I'd say that for most deployments bloat it's not a big issue. But of course, once in a while a customer gets bitten by it and we have to intervene.

There's a variety of reasons for that:

1. disabled autovacuum

Hey, we've disabled autovacuum because we can't risk it affecting production! Hey, we do know our workload patterns much better! Hey!

2. default autovacuum configuration (or bad tuning)

The defaults are very conservative, and generally require tuning (cranking up) on large databases. But people tend to do exactly the opposite, driven by the misconception that it will make autovacuum less intrusive.

3. doing things that are known to break things

Like, keeping transactions open for a long time.

4. pathological workload patterns

There are a few workload patterns that result in bloat (particularly in indexes), and autovacuum can't really fix that. For example large bulk deletes may cause this.

This is probably the one thing that can't be fixed by configuration changes, etc.
Neatly sidestepping the gender issue (not understanding is non-gender specific)

Publicly saying I don't understand, in a room full of people that appear to understand is incredibly difficult. However clearly knowing your limits, and crucially being honest about them makes you a much better programmer.

There is nothing worse than someone who bullshits or FUDs they way through things. Most arguments on t'internet/programming office can be summed up as:

Person 1: I don't think this is a good idea
Person 2: This is an attack on my knowledge LIES YOU ARE RUBBISH, HERE IS SOME FACTS, SOME OF WHICH ARE MADE UP/OVERHEARD
etc etc etc.

More people need to say "I don't understand" women or not.
If you are reading this, we might be in the same news bubble
Learn to qualify your "I don't know"s with details of how you're going to find out. "I don't know, but here's a guess" is far less useful than "I don't know, but I can do an hour or two of research and then get back to you with a decent estimate".
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Perhaps we need a system which exposes people only if they own more than a certain percentage of total capital.
They shouldn't even know that he plugged anything into the ethernet port, let alone have a problem with that and ask him to stop... It's his car!
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