skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one time, government engineers were in equal standing with contractor engineers. As defense spending dwindled down after the Vietnam war, defense contractors began to lobby for more control of defense workloads. On a contract, the government engineers would maintain the product and defense contractors did the development. Money set aside for documentation was devoured by the contractors so that only the contractors had the knowledge base of the product. Future weapon system development is the money maker for contractors, so to have them bid on upgrading a weapon system such as this, the cost would be very inflated. So you have this situation where the government cannot organically do the job either because of loss of expertise or documentation of the system. Or it is cost prohibitive using a defense contractor. The expertise for government oversight for contracting is a major problem. As an example, the DMV database system for the state of California. When you look at all the companies today using the cloud and creating huge databases practically overnight, how can projects like this fail. Another example, the Obama Care website. The government at every level, just does not have the expertise to insure that contractors perform to the letter of the contract. And then you have all this lobbying crap by the contractors to contend with. It really comes down to ETHICS. Contractors are not out to give you the most bang for your buck, they want the most bucks for smallest bang. After spending 28 years working with defense contractor engineers, I was not impressed. Unfortunately, I was not impressed with the ethics or the adherence to security concerns of my coworkers either, so I walked away. I would not be so concern with the 8 inch floppies, but more concern with the electronics that use them.
They should rename "warm" to "nasty dingy yellow".
Clearly, I'm mistaken on the exact times.

Last time I drove it took me four days, but I only drove 8 hours a day and took a long way around.
7 hours is a good night sleep. Combine self driving cars and coffin hotels and SF to LA would be enjoyable.
I have a caveat to add to the author's assertion that discussing race becomes easier with practice. That's not always true in the short run, but I agree that it is in the long run, assuming good faith on both sides.

What I've found is that it depends on so many variables between the people wanting to have the discussion that it's entirely unpredictable how it will turn out - and often unpredictable even if it's the same two parties with discussions separated by time.

I'm a white man married to a black woman. We've known each other over 35 years. We've had discussions on many aspects of the racial divide over the years, of course. I think that I understand her point of view as a black woman much better now than I did in the '80s, or '90s, or '00s, though even today she may say that I just don't get it. (And I think she understands where I'm coming from better, too.)

But the effort has been worth it. It's just very, very difficult sometimes to have such discussions.

As far as the substance of his experience with the interviewer, sadly, I completely believe it and am not even surprised. The author handled himself with dignity at every step. It had to take a lot of courage to tell it straight when the session on interviewing brought it all back up years later. So what everyone went silent? Their discomfort isn't comparable to what I suspect his was.

Telling the truth is always worth it, especially when it's hard. Hopefully sharing his negative experience helped at least one person in that session to reconsider what they probably considered to be long-settled (and probably vague) opinions about their own rightness in this regard.

tl;dr: It's easy to learn to avoid saying what you really feel and think when you're in a work environment and you know there could be repercussions. It's hard to challenge yourself and others to go beneath the surface, but the rewards are great.
> 5000K brightness

That's color temperature, not brightness. Totally different.
> He wanted to avoid a situation where race mattered at all in his company, and was probing to see if this person was easily triggered along those lines

Of all the characteristics/dimensions that makes us human - why would he isolate race as a potential trigger and why is it important? Would you be equally ok with similar 'probes' for other start-up out-groups - women, LGBT, $RELIGION, left-leaners, right-leaners, weight, disablity? I mean, he could only be probing to make sure you being an Aspie won't matter to the company, right?
Poverty Linked to Epigenetic Changes and Mental Illness
I crushed HS. Admitted to top Polish technical uni, dropped out due to health/mental issues
I fail at uni hard.
But in part it is because how terrible the whole process is. I spend more time trying to find relevant-to-exam-information than actually learning stuff. You literally sit for hours on end, listening to someone drone on. The exams themselves aren't particularly relevant either. I usually get passing grades, maybe a B+. The hard workers get A's...but when you ask them to explain anything they just derp hard.

I will ace almost any actual project. I've signed up for a Rover Challenge team and learned so much more already...

I constantly regret that my knowledge is rather rickety/shallow
But at the same time it's rather wide-encompassing

The point is, "academic achievement" is rather moot, IMO. You pick up tools, a soldering iron and suddenly learn there is much more to it
You can browse available Nix packages here:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs

...and search here if you're looking for something in particular:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/...
I get RSI in my wrists/hands from typing/coding.
But three small changes to my desk set up keep it almost entirely at bay:

1 - Use a vertical mouse. I like Evoluent best but they are expensive. Anker is much cheaper but not quite vertical enough for my liking.

2 - Set up my keyboard so that it tilts -away- from me. Meaning the back (F-key side) is about 1-2cm lower than the front (space bar side).

3 - Type with my wrists/palms raised up a bit and -not- resting on the desk or keyboard.

All of these things help keep my wrists and hands in a straight line with my forearms which seems to be the key for me.

It doesn't hurt to occasionally do some wrist stretches too.
It's quite an interesting topic. Unfortunately the article meanders slowly through some interesting examples in a long-winded style.

The conclusion of the article and the title is a bit puzzling as it briefly mentions only one dutch study that concluded that people in the north and the west (richer countries) tend to cry more. Even though the research was about _reporting_ to cry more.

Emotional people might not feel like reporting that they cry maybe?

It's just not explored.
A test of character? As in, "Are you the kind of person who can be tenacious enough to work under a manipulative bigot?" I'm trying hard to see your point of view, despite the baiting.
For anyone not reading the article, note this is about Apple stores and not Apple products. As the article says, Apple products are currently and will continue to be sold through third party distributors (eg, the Indian equivalent of Best Buy).

It is a little bit weirder a sort of protectionism than most of us think about, and a little bit harder for me to care about personally.
Everything Is a Remix: The Force Awakens
fog / rain / low visibility (potentially fooling the sensor into thinking there's an object in front of you), cars behind you?
Good article. It captures the wonder / awe of this without going full-tilt fanboy. It keeps in mind other competing technologies to help the audience stay aware of where the other competitors are.
> The LoC is a HUGE organization

That's an interesting observation. From inside the federal government, the LoC seems also embarrassingly small. I'm guessing that between 18,000 and 6,500, the 6,500 number comes from the number of actual employees, and they have gone through 2 tech refreshes without de-accessioning the old computers.

6,500 is not that big for a government org. It's problem about average, maybe a bit on the big side if they're all under one roof, but not all-caps HUGE.
> Haskell is widely acclaimed as the language that represents the functional programming ideals. But it is meant to be an academic language...

The Haskell report lists 5 goals, the first if which is

> It should be suitable for teaching, research, and applications, including building large systems.
use the `pkgin` binary to install binaries built from joyent... (https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Darwin/) No need to clone the package tree. This fixes step 1. `sudo bmake install clean` fixes step two.... (opt needs superuser permissions). see the joyent link in particular to see how easy it is to install pre-compiled binary packages with pkgin
The car doesn't automatically change the cruise speed set point. There's a shortcut (hold the cruise control stalk back for two seconds) to set it to the current speed limit plus your preconfigured offset, but it requires manual intervention for any change.
Here is a personal anecdote: Managing multiple versions of openCV on OS X. OpenCV has a long laundry list of dependencies and trying to get two versions to build can be a nightmare. (It's much easier to just update one of your projects to use the same version of OpenCV as the other one.) With Nix each of those OpenCV versions can live completely isolated from each other so their dynamically linked dependencies don't get overridden by each other.
The question is whether it does, not whether if it's possible.
That raises an interesting question: It is 2016, do we ( or do we not ) currently have economically feasible technology to place into cars that can reliably and accurately determine when you are about to hit a solid object or not?
I get connect requests from women who are the manager of Ford Motor Company in Nigeria, or the Vice President of some bank in London, or other ludicrous and unlikely occupations. Always women. Every other day or so.
The cynic in me thinks this is a ploy for Red Hat to be able to sell more RHEL subscriptions/support. It just feels like there is no incentive to make things better.
If I turn my phone off, even though I have it set to unlock with my finger, it still asks for my password twice, so good luck with that. Galaxy S5 with that selinux garbage.
oops, copied it over from my comment on the article itself. fixed now
Google vid: self drive car lasers 'saw' wheelchair woman with broom duck chase
I have keyword searches [1] set up in Firefox for the sites I want quick access to. It does the same thing, but is browser-based.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
As far as I remember that story about "vacuum tube hindsight" is from a documentary on History Channel(?) about Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko [1] defecting by landing his Mig 25 in Japan, thereby letting the west get their hands on the most advanced soviet plane at the time [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...
Wait. There are people who believe Columbus was the first person to establish as common knowledge that the world was round? Is this an American thing again?
Plus you have a car to use at your end destination (because you've brought it with you).
A thorough rant if I ever read one.
Vice Media Web Traffic Plunges 17% in February, Sunk by Risky Strategy – Variety
I almost completely ignore typos anymore, assuming that all the cool kids now connect with their space phones.
Google has more data. CPUs, GPUs are more potent. Yes society might take SDV in account now, a parallel 'iot' road information system. One thing that is to worry, IIRC, is that gCar sensors are only good for that climate and fail rapidly under other conditions. Fog, rain, snow have no good technology for now.
Ask HN: What do you watch when you're stuck (in a loop)?
When I need creative inspiration I've been watching this video over and over. It helps that it's short and loops:

http://i.imgur.com/nqOOA3G.gifv

After a few viewings I come back to programming problem and usually have a new creative solution.
But were we [past tense of still] here? Or did we come into existence in this new universe created by the above commenter?
POC is (at least for now) the correct (unoffensive) term. Of course don't use POC if individuals object to it, but it's nowadays the default descriptor and the safest choice.
"everything that is not landing on the moon isn't novel, hard or interesting".
I kid you not, it's taught in American elementary schools (at least it was to me, in the early-mid 2000s).

...Yeah. Thankfully my middle school general science textbook mentioned this shit's been known forever and the Greeks even estimated the circumference of the thing.
No. If words and sentences about race push your buttons then you're one of those whiny people who I wouldn't want to hire.

If I were asked the same questions as OP I would have dismissed them with a "fuck knows, ask them, lets talk tech" and that would have been it.

You dont owe anything to a group of people because they share your skin color. Understand this.
http://i.imgur.com/8vvobek.jpg
The human or the machine?
It's unrelated. AKAIK !g is the equivalent of:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=web%20search%20a...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-encrypted-google-com
Came across a nice paper by OpenAI's Ian Goodfellow and Google Brain on using video prediction to model a robot's "after-effects":

Unsupervised Learning for Physical Interaction
through Video Prediction

http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07157
Anyone giving interviews should completely understand that there are questions that you're not allowed to ask.

Technology is now hip and cool so we break the rules is no excuse for being ignorant of how to treat another human being.
In europe we have this already. It is called railway.
I don't remember: they don't ask your race on LI, do they? And let's hope, hope hope that they aren't doing facial analysis of photos for something that is absolutely irrelevant.
Yeah, that was the behavior i was talking about, primarily for cars in the carpool lanes.
Functional CSS for humans
Slack passes 3M daily active users, 930K paid seats
> In that case I see no difference between a solder and a civilian.

Surely even when you're drafted, being trained and armed sets you apart from civilians? This WWII vet[1] is of the opinion that even unarmed soldiers (AKA ejected pilots who no longer have access to arms) are not legitimate targets, let alone civilians.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LVlYJ5eJU
An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges
There's tools like zypper-docker that make this possible.
Well explained, thank you for that.

This is off topic but, would you mind changing your username? I get that it's mostly harmless but it's against the usual HN guidelines.
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
It's not offensive, but it is archaic. It makes you sound like you grew up in the 1950s.
Some comments (I don't mean to be mean or anything, take this as constructive criticism/feedback):

There are no company information (SIRET/VAT-Number/address/etc).

Your page autoplays sound from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJF5NXygL4k which seems irrelevant? You should probably also make your own youtube video if you want a video background instead of this one which has giant "SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YT CHANNEL" every time it loops - http://i.imgur.com/tWTvlQv.jpg

I have no idea what this product or service does, who is maintaining it, or why I would want to enter personal information into a box. The only thing you can do is enter your personal information into a box. There is also no HTTPS/SSL/TLS for entering your personal information into a box.

I have to end up googling it to see "The BFreeCard is a multi-currency card that allows you to spend your money
worldwide" - okay, so financial. No HTTPS, no company registration information, and no disclosure of who your issuing providers are (ex: the bfree card is issued by ____ bank puruant to a licence from visa, ____ is member fdic)

your social media has some pretty insane quote misattributions like https://scontent-sfo.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s526x395/12993618...

Something like this can be rather offensive to a number of people: https://scontent-oak.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s526x395/1936365_... (really...)
IIRC, the Higgs field is a scalar field (same field strength at all points of space/time), whereas the other fundamental forces are vector fields (field strength varies with space/time).

Is this correct? And if so, does this fact matter in deciding whether to say Higgs == fundamental force?
Seeing a lot of neo-liberal economics dogma here in the comments, and so would like to recommend this excellent book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Asia-Works-Success-Failure/dp/1....

It has an excellent account of how manufacturing (supported by heavy protectionism from the state) was a crucial component of the Asian miracle in nearly all countries. IMO India really needs to go through a round of manufacturing expansion, preferably in the high-tech sectors.
How Can We Make You Happy Today, Peter Thiel?
> I read that HOWTO, actually, and the stuff you're describing isn't really explained in it.

Did you read this part? It explains a solution to your first gripe: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux#head-0f6390ddacfab39e...

I find audit2why helpful, as well as semanage boolean -l, semanage user -l, semanage fcontext -l. Often times more than not, these tools either help me fix an 'audit' issue or point me in the right direction. Check them out sometime, if you don't want to go digging through docs or serverfault - the labels tend to be generally straight forward IMO :-)
none, which is why this article is so vague.

like i needed another folder in root, as if `/opt/`, `/usr/local/` or `~/.local/share` weren't good enough and this is somehow a feature. another package manager that has less features than homebrew? oh, like fink and macports - no thanks.
Selfkits for diy in Belgium
And I have to pick one of those two options?

Like I mentioned, there are different UUID/GUID schemes using more than 128 bits publicly available already. You don't have to invent one.
They may simply be using one of those with additional bytes reserved for future algorithmic changes (using first few bytes as a header to specify the algorithm).
The Internet of Every Single Thing Must Be Stopped
No, I don't handle the whole server, but I think I do more than many. I write all of the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL, including the DDL. Further, I must customize all of the config files for Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL from stock.

There are other teams that handle: installation and upkeep of the Linux OS, back-ups, virtual host, physical host, and of course, the network.

I work at a large company whose official standards are Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS, and even Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control. I get away with using an open-source stack because it was established long ago, it supports several important web applications, and my stuff is down much less often than other teams' stuff, keeping me out of sight, out of mind, most of the time.
My sense is that he was making sure that Makinde wouldn't be too politically assertive about race issues.

Strange. My sense is that the interviewer was fishing to see if he would be politically assertive enough.
> I bet this 'product' has a whole Product team behind it

I bet this product was done by an intern who's no longer there, and lots of people at LI don't even know it exists until someone complains about it.
The lack of discoverability of certain features of Firefox is disappointing. They got rid of Tab Groups due to lack of popularity/usage and I'm sure Keyword Searches are just as unpopular and just as unused. It makes me wonder when they'll get the ax too.

The benefit of setting it up from within your browser is you can control the keyword/"bang". While plenty of mine are the same as the ones that exist on DDG! plenty are also different.

I feel a lot of time and effort is wasted re-implementing things that already exist in a browser without significantly altering/changing the functionality.

ps to Chrome users: Chrome also has the same functionality if you right click most any search bar, you can add keywords to search.
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!gis (google image) and !gri (reverse image) are both quite useful.
SELinux worked and worked well when you knew how to use it. (Learning how to use it was also reasonably hard.) Its primary problem was that its default behavior was stuff mysteriously failing on your system. This made it very hard for the uninitiated to get into it when stuff all over the web just recommended "turn off SELinux" as the first thing to do when something wasn't working right.

It got a bad reputation as that quirky security thing that keeps stuff from working all the time.
English version : http://www.ledenboek.be/EN
Cambly (YC W14) is hiring a customer success manager in SF
Think of it like a blanket for the filament. The IR radiation helps keep the filament at the appropriate temperature, so the amount of ohmic heating from electricity can be less.
most electric water heaters work the same way, just further from the tap
> I was under the impression that anti-protectionism was one of the least controversial positions among economics.

It is, but I think this says more about the sorry state of economics than it does about whether protectionism is ever a good idea.
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Seattle Rents Went Up by 11 Percent Last Month, Biggest Surge in Country
Ah I see the document now, thanks. Based on this it seems like Zing is only a good solution for vertically scaling software.

Now it makes sense why it's priced at 3500 per machine.
And very limited thinking sigh HN sigh
Because (a) it's a thing they can do easily, and (b) the response is usually neutral or positive. Plus, with the disclaimer it would be middling difficult to sue them.

Remember that the business model here is "do the 80% that's easy and let the punters sort the rest out."

Anyone familiar with their subscription numbers? I suspect almost all of their accounts are products, not customers .
I'm not responsible for the email settings, but could you point out exactly what is terrible about LinkedIn's email settings? I'll link it to you directly: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/email-controls.

I've had no problem unsubscribing (even as an employee, I'll admit a lot of these emails are not useful to me). The volume of email I receive from LinkedIn, even before I unsubscribed, was much less compared to what I get from Hipmunk or Airbnb. But I don't complain about that in a public forum, because I realize I can unsubscribe, and it's a minor nuisance. (Also, not to bash Airbnb, but I'm a host and I really want to unsubscribe from receiving emails when a guest messsages me, but I can't find the option anywhere!)

It's not my job to convince you to like LinkedIn, but I want to make it clear that our engineers are not in the market of "dark patterns" or whatever you want to spin it as. I will eagerly forward any feedback you have to the engineers who work on email/privacy settings.
Yep, I actually support this viewpoint. Judge us by our work, not by what we say about ourselves or whom we hire.

Fortunately, we'll have our first batch of papers coming out soon. (We also released OpenAI Gym a few weeks ago, but that's supporting infrastructure rather than novel research.) Hopefully we'll be able to earn our way out of the basket afterwards :).
Marketplace Integration: Making Easy Communication Between Seller and Customers
FenSens turns the average license plate holder into a parking sensor array
Why It's Okay to Make Tech Gimmicks
I would hope my tax dollars aren't spent embedding digital markers in public roads so that rich Tesla owners can sleep while being transported.