skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only speaking as an IT professional that has spend a couple of decades working in various distribution environments. If you are a pool manager in a warehouse this is a real problem. Warehouse employees working the receiving docks seem to always find a way to empty a truck at the end of a shift, even if that means shoving pallets of product in the nearest open rack slot. Yes, the WMS will eventually catch the problem and track it back to the employee. In a warehouse working with food/consumables there are lot controls that are suppose to be adhered too. (For tracking and recall purposes). The barcodes on a 'quality' knock off is going to be the same as the original product. Warehouse workers don't care if the product in a pick location is genuine or not. They are managed/measured on their picks per hour & accuracy. (Accuracy based on where they were directed in the warehouse to pick and the correct quantity)
Most warehouse employees are through temp agencies and their work ethics can be, though certainly not always, somewhat lacking. Honestly, they typically aren't treated with respect from the start.
This article is fairly representative of what I have seen in at least 2 of the 3 warehouse environments I have been associated.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
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I don't want to get your hopes up too high, but there are positive signs that Lenovo is listening to what ThinkPad users want. There were a number of surveys started last year (and that may still be open) for feedback on a retro ThinkPad.

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-survey-4-misce...
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:)

You can probably get around swiping down then right
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When the company came out in public, there were enough physics people who said that anyone with knowledge of physics can discredit this on the back of a beermat. And a lot of them did (search Ubeam hoax etc). The due diligence on the part of the investors is shocking as they were clearly told (as was advertised everywhere when they got their millions) that this would charge your phone at quite a distance (you sitting/walking in a room and having your phone charging while doing that).
I worked for a startup where we had to take credit card payments.

The first bank we dealt with let us sign up for a merchant account, even knowing the kind of business we were in would require 'cashing out' winnings, without batting an eye.

Then in the first weekend with our shiny new merchant account [1] we racked up 5 figures in sales and they froze the account. They said they suspected fraud. It was an insane hassle to get people their money back.

I assume the guy got a commission for signing us up; no loss to him if the merchant account didn't actually work for us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Later on we found another way to pay people out, and signed up with a better merchant account that has redundancy,[2] i.e. it is backed by two merchant accounts behind the scenes, so we can switch to another one if one of them get's 'upset.'

Credit card merchant accounts can be shut down on you for any reason at any time, we've learned, leaving a complicated mess to sort out.

[1][2] After a considerable amount of development work to integrate with their API.
A lot of people think that CRTs all worked like the flickery, jittery displays from Fallout games. Compare also the default settings on cool-retro-term, and then track down a working-order VT220; odds are the picture on the actual terminal will still be rock-steady and razor-sharp.
I really miss Bump, the app to share contacts/files/photos with a gesture to a person next to you.

I have never found a similar experience again (Apple has Airdrop, NFC on Android, etc.) but nothing works platform independent.
> Example: you pass an object by value, and only read one field, can it optimize this?

Yes.

struct S { int a,b; };
void foo(int); // Some external function
void bar(S s) { foo(s.a); }
void baz() { bar(S{42, 55}); }

compiles the baz function to (-O2 on GCC 4.9)

movl $42, %edi
jmp _Z3fooi
Unlike most technology companies, IBM has been around since before Warren was born. But in general he doesn't buy into technology companies, he is well quoted in that regard.
Further adding to this it's now a blank page with awful positioning on mobile with a link to a plaintext archived copy of the page.
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Ecco Pro outliner. Technically it still runs on w10, but the various glitches forced me to onenote.

I also really miss my nt4 system: office 95, delphi 3, coreldraw 5, photoshop 5, netscape 4. Despite having only a 233 mhz cpu and 128 megs of RAM that system seemed more responsive and easier to use than my current pc's, and it did everything i needed it to.
It's not. It's based on, if you go back far enough, XMMS, which was the original *nix Winamp clone.
I agree that information (communication) is fundamental to human society. But I don't agree that information technology is a force for equality and decentralization of power. Over the course of history it's been the opposite - papyrus enabled the the expansion of the Roman empire, the nation state could not exist without paper and printing, and digitalization is creating larger multinational corporations than was possible before, and we will soon see states evolve to a version where it has even more control over citizens.
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Ask HN: How do I properly calculate category weights?
Someone will answer a series of questions and will mark each important (I), very important (V), or extremely important (E). I'll then match their answers with answers given by everyone else, compute the percent of the answers in each bucket that are the same, then combine the percentages to get a final score.

For example, I answer 10 questions, marking 3 as extremely important, 5 as very important, and 2 as important. I then match my answers with someone else's, and they answer the same to 2/3 extremely important questions, 4/5 very important questions, and 2/2 important questions. This results in percentages of 66.66 (extremely important), 80.00 (very important), and 100.00 (important). I then combine these 3 percentages to get a final score, but I first weigh each percentage to reflect the importance of each bucket. So the result would be something like: $score = E * 66.66 + V * 80.00 + I * 100.00$. The values of E, V, and I (the weights) are what I'm trying to figure out how to calculate.

The following are the constraints present:

$1 + X + X^2 = X^3$

$E >= X * V >= X^2 * I > 0$

$E + V + I = 1$

$E + 0.9 * V >= 0.9$

$0.9 > 0.9 * E + 0.75 * V >= 0.75$

$E + I < 0.75$

When combining the percentages, I could give important a weight of 0.0749, very important a weight of .2501, and extremely important a weight of 0.675, but this seems arbitrary, so I'm wondering how to go about calculating the optimal value for each weight. Also, how do I calculate the optimal weights if I ignore all constraints?

As far as what I mean by optimal: while adhering to the last 4 constraints, I want the weight of each bucket to be the maximum possible value, while having the weights be as far apart as possible (extremely important questions weighted maximally more than very important questions, and very important questions weighted maximally more than important questions).
Could it be incognito browsing? Or you just use an alternative browser, eg I use Chrome normally but Safari when trying to view Apple WWDC videos.
One thing I find surprising is how most people will have completely relaxed privacy controls on LinkedIn vs FB&others

Better make my instagram private so no one can see my cat and food photos but hey let me put my entire CV and educational history along with contact info on the internet for anyone to look up
I know nothing about ZFS, so sorry if these are dumb questions.

Can you have an array that contains a single disk? And if you can, then

* Can you add as many single drive arrays to a pool as you like?

* Can you migrate data off of a given single-drive array on to other single-drive arrays in the pool and then permanently remove the array from the pool?
I strongly suspect the NX will be based on a game streaming service like OnLive. If you look at most of the rumours with that in mind, they make more sense.
I believe this is the PR in question: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16260
Why augmented reality isn't relevant and everywhere?
Actually I'm playing with AR in the browser, targeting Chrome and Firefox on mobile Android.
With a small effort I think that I can have something interesting.
AR was something some years ago, right?
If Apple puts WebRTC in iOS Safari I think that could be again something very cool: I see thousands of applications.
I can't read this anything other than 18/female.
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Is this a common practice in Europe /US? It seems ridiculous that the WiFi provider would be held liable for such a thing. Why stop there, should make the ISP liable too!
XML or JSON, and that is not the question
What would you consider a "less obscure platform" than Windows and XBox One?
Shamir's approach is just one option for secret sharing, so you are being overly specific.

The Wikipedia page for secret sharing links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine

Apparently the word has been use to refer to secret sharing. It hints at the problem with using this strategy to preserve access to encrypted data: all the sharing parties will die eventually.
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You have been downvoted but you do make a good point although it's a cliche obviously (you could've used things like; people said planes and even trains were not possible which would push that cliche). However some things are actually outside the realm of what is possible at the moment and in the foreseeable future and if science agrees on that with solid proof and foundation it is just silly to try imho.

I am curious if investors think you like when they invest in the impossible or they just are not really interested in fact and just want portfolio or another reason?

I was close to the Jan Sloot[0] who invented impossible compression. And got invested into by prominent investors who believed him. And some of them not ignorant of the math behind it either and yet they invested. My company got asked by a 'friend' of Sloot who also lived in Nieuwegein (my company was there too) to recreate the algorithm based on discussions this guy had with Sloot and notes he wrote down during those discussions. I presented, to my colleagues and this guy, a proof based on (Kolmogorov) complexity that we cannot do that and that his writings were gibberish; some of my friends and colleagues told me I was insane in not pursuing something revolutionary like this and, as you said; a lot of great technology was perceived as 'impossible' and yet we have that as well. No-one became a billionaire on this tech yet as was promised so I'm going to say it was a good call.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot
> I'd buy a retro Thinkpad, like you link, in a second.

I'm not sure if the Libreboot would fit your needs? https://minifree.org/
No. That's a Germany thing and it resulted in the conplete lack of public wifi hotspots.
> people tend to think it's also OK to block the little guys who self-publish, or even places that have amazing or great content who deserve the ad impressions.

Small players can be more nimble and work out much much better monetization strategies than display ads. Also ad blockers are only really capable of blocking the big networks. Plenty of small sites run their own platforms, evading the blocks. It's not a very well-known solution, but it's there.
Seeing an accurate valuation of your product is a bitter pill to swallow if you are accustomed to an inflated market. I don't think it is a business model problem and changing your monetization strategy won't help you much unless you can convince your customers about the (perceived) quality of your content. I don't think adblock shaming is very effective here. There are many many sites without adverts doing just fine, even receiving donations and volunteer work.
Yes, yes, no. Plus a single disk array has no redundancy.
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I had no idea that this was from 2013, and it's faintly amusing that so little has changed about LinkedIn since.
Another good reason to have your blog be static pages compiled and served from FS. Worse is better.
Going way back, the easy answer for me is the Paradox desktop database from Borland. I used it in DOS in 1990; Windows kind of killed it. It was amazingly easy to build apps in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_%28database%29

Although reading that page I see that it still exists!? So maybe it doesn't qualify for this question.

[Edit: I see the dBase/FoxPro family mentioned down below. Same idea, roughly. Also great.]
> If people just wanted a reliable compiler they would use the oldest compiler they could find which is able to compile their code.

True, but not really possible. For a while, the Linux Kernel keep some support to be compiled with older versions of GCC (2.95 IIRC) because it was faster

However you need modern compilers to be able to support things like: support for modern processors, support for intrinsics, etc
There were still be patches and online services involved. You can also bet that they won't eschew online purchases and digital downloads. I know I won't buy it if I have to go back to physical media.
You might also argue that people are buying a license and thus "buy" is appropriate.
If by FS you mean File System then the truth is that keeping static files in RAM to never touch hard drive beyond first load is much better
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The combination of populist/sensationalist/clickbait articles with subtle marketing seems to have some merit - see the Daily Mail with their "buy a dress like this for less" panels on the celeb articles - but that forces the content into a certain direction and is not sustainable without massive traffic volumes
Give AOL Reader a try (I know) http://reader.aol.com/
When reading that, it's important to recognize it was compiled by Computershare, a transfer agent, who in some ways compete with DTC. Computershare has virtual monopolies in that business globally.

I don't think they are wrong, but they aren't a disinterested party.
I have one here, still fully working! No way up uplink it to anything anymore sadly, long time since phones had IrDA, let alone dialup for the other end.
This is a good point. In my youth, I did not pursue the opportunities (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) I had for various reasons. Turned out, this was a bad idea. However, the "take home" coding interview has turned out to put me heads and shoulders above the rest. There has only been one take home interview that I have not done well on, and that is because I was pressured for time - they told me I could take 8 hours, but I only had 1 to spare.

Because of this, I have had opportunities open to me that people would kill for and received an offer or interview almost every time.

My personal opinion is that these things do have their place, but they will likely find that only a few types of people will give this the time of day:

1. People who are bored

2. People who need a shortcut to a job interview

3. People who are diamonds in the rough

Out of these, only one type of person (3) will be greatly valued.
Good luck, "forest brother".

Where should I leave stashes with food and ammo? :-) :-(
You get to a border with a bunch of gold and I promise there will be more than questions.
No, it's just Germany that has this stupid rule. Yes, it's ridiculous but has that ever kept politicians from implementing legislation?

Germany is particularly notorious when it comes to useless, ridiculous and downright detrimental laws regarding anything that has to do with the Internet, notable examples being the so-called 'Leistungsschutzrecht' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leistungsschutzrecht ) and the 'Impressumspflicht' (legal notice requirements for websites)
But btrfs RAID-5 still suffers from the 'write hole' problem where data can be permanently lost. We looked at RAID-5 performance for both ZFS and btrfs, and btrfs is about twice the throughput. One of the reasons for the performance difference is the following:
when ZFS writes a stripe, it waits for all blocks and the parity block to confirm they have been written before atomically updating the metadata for that stripe;
when btrfs writes a stripe, it just updates the metadata and all blocks in parallel.
Hence if btrfs crashes, metadata may say a stripe is written but not all blocks are written.
It will be interesting to see the performance hit on btrfs when they finally fix the write hole problem. My prediction is that it will perform similarly to ZFS for RAID5.
Currently, for writes, we can get about 400MB/s for btrfs RAID5, but only 220MB/s for ZFS with five 5400 rpm 2.5" disks.
that was some powerful tool...
VAX/VMS. A joy both to program on and to administer.
I think that stating CT scans have a dose of 150 times as much as an xray has means almost nothing to anybody who is in the target audience and can be considered a harmful statement. It is analogous to stating that with a 5 gig data cap you shoul download a plain text version of book instead of a pdf version, because that is 150 times bigger (nevermind the fact that you are losing images and readability enhancing features such as formatting)
I think there should be a law that would disallow passwords for public wifi.

passwords are soooo annoying (is that a 1, l, or I?) & if everyone had open wifi, then it could be utilized much more, lowering everyone's wireless carrier usage. also, you wouldn't need to worry about someone using too much bandwidth -- it would happen, but i doubt more frequently than with the passwords. Well, wifi could be throttled if it were really a problem.
I still remember my 8-digit ICQ# by heart.
What if I offered you $5,000 to fix it?
Tap water varies greatly even over a small area. New York City, for example, is extremely proud of the quality of its water, which comes from reservoirs upstate. I noticed it was good before I ever found out that it's something they like to boast about.

In DC, however, the chlorine is over the top, especially at times when they're flushing the lines.

I find that most places are somewhere in between these two extremes, even just outside the cities, where different municipalities have their own reservoirs and sources.

As for paper bags, why not just use a reusable bag. In many places in the US, plastic bags are taxed (5¢ or so), with the funds going to clean up rivers. It's led to a major change in behavior.
If a primary player, like Google, created a micropayments mechanism for content - that worked like Google Voice - where users can make a $10 payment and automatically topup - it would solve a lot of the issues

This would allow Forbes etc. to use Google Micropayments for payment and visitors would pay 0.5¢ or something for every page viewed

A popup would show the first time you visit the domain to ask if you're okay with paying for content in future

I wouldn't have to pay specific subscriptions then, I could choose not to view sites I don't think are worth the value, sites I only ever visit infrequently could get something back for my visit
Google Chrome 51 disables HTTP/2 on most Linux distros due to old OpenSSL
was there a mac version?
The way I look at it, that internet still exists. The stuff worth reading is still found on blogs. The rest - twitter, facebook, reddit, et al - is mostly noise. The biggest change is finding the good blogs is even easier these days, thanks to the many many link aggregators. I was surprised how quickly the signal to noise tightened up when I filtered out any link from social networks and "professional" news sites.
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I second that, I signed up for a year and will likely sign up for lifetime at the end of it.
See also

https://twitter.com/DynResearch/status/731462134027177984
Cool story:

Psions outperformed so-called enterprise HP-UX machines in Java microbenchmarks when they were released.
In that case, it should seem like a fix is as easy as keeping an IJulia kernel running in the background all day.
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You're pretty much the equivalent of the Japanese soldier who got stranded in the Philippines and kept fighting WWII until the 1970s.

HTML mail won. If you work in an office they will use either Exchange or Google Apps; Exchange's default configuration is a fuck you to text-based mail clients.

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The war is over, friend. Come on home.
There's Google Contributor but it sucks. They replace all banner ads with...placeholder banners that say "Thanks for using Google Contributor". What a waste.
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If it's got a password, it's not really public wifi. Isn't it usually complementary wifi for patrons of a particular business?
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Ulead Photoimpact was very good like this too.

Eventually Corel bought it and now they sold it off again to some other company.
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Google Page Speed score of 90+?

That's a pretty hard difficult to reach for a lot of websites. I mean, I don't think I've ever seen a single popular or large site out there actually reach it. Only site I entered that passed that test was Hacker News! And that was just barely.

A lot of the other checks seem like no one ever bothers with them either. Is that a good thing? Probably not, but 90+% of the internet would fail HTML or CSS validation.
Most people (even many programmers) have no idea how much software costs. This minor feature you want? It'll take a couple of hours to design, a few more hours to implement, you need to test it, write docs for it, and all of a sudden the better part of a week is gone.

Even at a very cheap rate that quickly adds up to way more than most people are willing to give...
It won't be better, that's not how it works.

At the point that they filled you at 10.299, the market is set at 10.30. 1 of 2 things can happen. Either there is enough volume to fill you at 10.30 that your order is fully filled at 10.30 (worse than the wholesaler gave you) or there isn't and some of your order fills at 10.30 (worse than the wholesaler gave you) and you have now set the new market level and rest your order. Once your order rests, it will not be improved and will either fill at 10.30 (worse than the wholesaler gave you) or it will be cancelled (you didn't get what you wanted).

Most people placing a limit order like that would prefer the outcome that the internalizer provides, if you don't, great use a broker that allows you to route direct. But its certainly not front-running because the internalizer acted directly in your stated interests, not against them.
That's conceivable, but this kind of pyramid scheme rarely seem to be very successful. It's the same argument some pirates use for sharing their latest movie rips with other pirates, but it only works if it's not pirates all the way down.
I would think OS would keep the static files in RAM after first load. Saying "FS" would imply "use RAM if available" even if not stated.