skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There’s a few of us who are keepers of that knowledge. It’s almost our responsibility to be able to continue that way of thinking, that way of working."

Uhmmm ... the line of thinking that has your smoke detector talking to remote servers and dealing with a social layer (logins, smart apps, etc.) ?

That line of thinking is a cancer. It's a scourge on all of us that needs to be stamped out wherever we see it.

A pox on him and his house!
Students seeking sugar daddies for tuition, rent
Bill Campbell: Maker of Silicon Valley Assholes.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but it's where I tend to go when writing something.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
I genuinely have no idea what either one of you is annoyed about.
I've seen this as well and assume it is pretty common. Complete bullshit, but common bullshit.
Some forest are meant to burn yes, the problem is that with climate change forest fire now burn further north and for much longer than before.

Drought conditions and the heat traps that are cities prevent proper rainfall which stops them and changes we've made to the landscape can prevent burn outs which also make fires last longer.

And more importantly while forest fires are natural it doesn't mean it's good, we had at least one fire related extinction event, and even considerably smaller scale fires can be disastrous to humans so while it's true that to some extent the policy is let it burn in this case it's not longer really the case.

And while I would also agree that Canada is in a political muck with Russia it doesn't make sense to deny their help, Israel accepted Turkey's help to combat forest fire when their relationship was arguably at the lowest point shortly after the flotilla incident.
Governments should know when it's a good time to put a halt to their differences and emergencies are as good as an excuse as any.

P.S.
With forests being natural carbon traps climate change is now just as important factor as threat to communities and livelihood with the amount of CO2 were putting into the atmosphere we might not be able to longer afford for forest fires to take their natural course if we actually want to start reversing some of the changes we've made.
This isn't some clear cut case, and in this case it seems that Canada does take help from certain countries but for some reason refrains taking it from others and in such cases politics should really be the last thing on your mind.
they have to work hard at the bargaining table, they're also going to work hard trying to get you to work long hours and weekends

Good! My evenings and weekends are valuable to me and I want to work with people who value my time.

If they self-filter because they're a bad place to work, all the better.
MPEG-4 ALS and SLS were standardized after ALAC was released in OS X/QuickTime/iTunes, but yes, those are two more possibilities when you have an .mp4 or .m4a file, and the pile of other extensions they can use.
Depending on the relationship you might be able to get a discount on those types of services with cash. May or may not be worth the hassle to you.
There are plenty of other fire-able offenses that even CEO's aren't immune to. Being an asshole isn't one, but you can't just say that if he was performing well, he'd never be fired.
Yeah I'm going to stick to what I said earlier, the way you phrased it almost tries to put a shield around any rebuttal.

He could have completely not mentioned the idea of gender being a crutch and it would have sounded like a gender neutral problem known to engineers.
You can use chrome plugins/the chrome webstore and the devs have actually pushed bug fixes that address compatibility with prominent plugins, i.e. Chromecast and LastPass
Finally in Sight, $1-a-Watt Solar Milestone Shows Long Road Ahead
Most of your comments in this thread have been flagged because they're not substantive and somewhat uncivil. Please don't do that.

My guess is that you know a lot about WebGL programming and don't see anything new or special in this. If so, you should use your superior knowledge to teach others, e.g. by making interesting suggestions, pointing to other work, and so on. Then we all learn something. If you don't want to, that's fine, but please don't post purely dismissive comments.

Most topics that appear here (even the ones on particle physics!) are old hat to somebody or other; HN has experts on a lot of things. If they all expressed their expertise by putting others down, this would be a much sorrier place, with many fewer opportunities to learn.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833245 and marked it off-topic.
Every client seems to request this... But sharing buttons are crap and always will be... So frustrating!
A lot of it might be capital outlay and flexibility: Looking around at leasing, commercial real estate often wants 6 months up front, and a five-year commitment. Saving up that cash can be tough no matter what size you are, especially if you don't know what your staffing will be like in a year or two.
FWIW, there is now a twitter account and website set up now dedicated entirely to completely assassinating his character. Whether there are claims made that are true or not, I'm not linking to either because I think the court of public opinion is the most fucked approach to getting justice (I personally know of one person sitting in prison now for 14 years for murder because his character was systematically assassinated in public leading up to the trial. He ended up pleading guilty to another crime that occurred while he was in solitary confinement awaiting trial in order to avoid life in prison).

For those curious, you can probably find both if you look hard enough, but there isn't anything substantiated or factual presented by either. If anything, they make the accusers look incredibly desperate and vindictive. Furthermore, the site references the "plagiarism" incident as one of the offenses which feels absurd after reading the thread with all the drama surrounding that "offense":

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.otr.devel/1546

Gregory Maxwell's comment on there seems the best considered reply:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.otr.devel/155...

For those that found the site, I encourage you to file an abuse complaint for libel at http://publicdomainregistry.com/report-abuse-complain/

For those that found the twitter account, I encourage you to report the account to twitter.

This is not what justice looks like.
Same place as welfare. It's not an increase in spending necessarily, just a change in the rules.
It's a thermostat with a digital display, and some learning capabilities that figure out how you usually manually adjust the temperatures based on your weekly routine. It can also detect when you're home or not, and adjust accordingly. You can also use your phone to adjust the temperature remotely. The idea is it'll dial down your energy usage better through intelligent management of your heating and cooling systems and a slick interface.
> The real problem is that the lane isn't wide enough for a cyclist and motor vehicle to travel side by side with the motor vehicle remaining in the same lane.

If that were true, it would be the real problem. As it is, even though there is space, cars frequently ride the shoulder. Most of the streets around here are pretty wide.

> Mixing unpredictable pedestrian traffic with cyclists is not safe

A problem, in theory...but not much of one with the low volume of foot+bike traffic around here. People here love their cars.
Third-Party Instagram Apps and Websites Cease to Work
Whoa, this must be relatively recent. As recently as 6 months ago, the instructions on your website explicitly said that if you had a Dropcam you had to plug into USB. I desperately tried to find another option to no avail.
We'll see in a few years if it's an unmitigated success.

When mid level bureaucrats are getting significant facetime in the media, you should be very wary. Civil servants are supposed to toil in obscurity -- they exist to glorify King and country. When you see exceptions to that, there's often a real shitshow behind the scenes.
React – New Data Grid Library Tabelify
Yeah, the Netherlands is really a cyclists paradise. I can't believe that they screwed it up by allowing motorscooters on the bike paths!
This is explored in another article, the "controlled ditch" scenario: http://www.duncansteel.com/archives/2601

It is a possible scenario, although I have yet to see a reason for anyone to do this (as the article shows, it would require quite deliberate planning).
I'm a big fan of this guide. I wish every language had such a clear best practices list. See also http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
This company's valuation makes no sense to me. The brand is strong in NYC, sure. But really.
Personal attacks will get your account banned on HN. Please don't do this, regardless of how wrong you think someone else's views are.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833297 and marked it off-topic.
How could it not be? The site culture here encourages pedantry.
2000 cuts with Binary Ninja – DEFCON quals writeup
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice
blastocysts aren't human beings so your post makes no sense.
"Collectively owned" sounds too socialist for most (uniformed) US voters unfortunately.
Did the article need to be written? Did the article need to be written by a human?

Advertising puts an upper limit on the value of content it's possible for you (or anyone) to see. With advertising, you are never shown content that is more valuable than the ads you're being sold to.

Other payment models allow you to buy more expensive content than your time is worth to advertisers.

Hence why very expensive content (like popular feature-length movies) are rarely paid entirely by advertising. Even with hundreds of product placements and an expensive ticket, movie theatres still have to overcharge for concessions to pay for the movie.
US Cricket Wireless users experiencing outage
Can't find reporting on how widespread the issue is. Appears to have begun ~5pm on Friday, June 3rd, resulting in an inability to connect to the Cricket/AT&T cellular network.

Most articles are from local news affiliates with little information beyond a copy/paste of the Cricket statement confirming issues.
I know this is just a fact of life when it comes to sentencing -- the rich and upstanding will always be given more benefit of the doubt when it comes to judging how much potential harm they'll bring to society -- but this is one of the more egregious examples. Getting drunk, getting into a car, and crippling a child in a drunken accident is one of those acts in which an otherwise sinless Stanford student could be spared a harsh sentence. But this? Drunkenly raping a stranger behind a dumpster is not just some unfortunate accident that befalls anyone who gets drunk.

From the account in the police report, the victim was so drunk and unresponsive that the cops sound as if they were handling a homicide scene: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1532973-complaint-bro...
You're missing out on Zsh ;)
My first experience working in shared offices was at co-working spaces in Tokyo, Yokohama, Sendai, and Sapporo. I really liked working at coworking spaces in Japan. Once I came back to US, I tried several coworking spaces including WeWork. None came close to my experience in Japan. I rather work at home in US and at coworking spaces in Japan. Japan coworking spaces are very cost effective, flexible, facilities are top notch (specially internet speed), quiet, and you can be as social as you want or not. There are no gimmicks like beer on tap but some spaces held weekend/after-hour drinking and gaming (poker). I found US coworking spaces to be noisy and interrupting. Most have tenant agreements that run long (UW startup hall took the cake with 24+ pages) and basically ask you to sign your life away to them but they don't take any responsibility for anything.
That little map is a link to the US map. The outages are in all Major Metropolitans
Not all population centers process energy the same way
Today I reviewed some old Python code I'd written pre-Rust and was shocked at how stupid my mutation of the list during iteration was.
There have been major outages reported on all major cell networks in the U.S. for the past few hours. But for some reason, only the Cricket outage is getting any news coverage.

http://downdetector.com/

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=cell%20outage
I'm not entirely unconvinced that this isn't the IoT equivalent of bike-shedding. So many companies are operating in the IoT data channel space and not enough in the actually getting the data space.

I'm using a particle for a production project right now because 300$ for a cloudgate cell router and 20$ a month for 250M of which I maybe need 2M is ridiculous.

The only reason I am even using cellular is because it is such a colossal pain to get on-premises wifi access in a factory. Like 2 weeks of back and forth with plant IT.

If anyone has a good possible solution for this problem I will be your technical co-founder tomorrow.
I have the honeywell 9000 with remote sensors. While getting the internet connectivity was a little odd (you need this weird redlink device to bridge the devices for web management) They work and are remotely managed extremely easily.

They're not 'machine learning' thermostats, but they work predictably, reliably well. Cheaper than a nest, too..
Sounds like the one who doesn't get it is you.
I'm a young Senior Engineer. I'm low on the tenure side, but I've run successful teams and have deep technical knowledge.

I say $220k total comp and that I will count equity but if it's not liquid it won't be worth much.

I base that off of what I would get at Google or Facebook (including equity).

I've asked around and most companies take it seriously.

For junior engineers, I would say $160k. For mid, $180k - $200k. Again, total comp. Equity counts but at my value, not theirs.
Exactly, and this is awesome. If there is a conflict, I get an error and can decide what to do.

At their core, reader-macros are abbreviations. Obviously there are a finite number of abbreviations one can use, so any time you want to add concise syntax from more than one source, there is a chance of conflict.
Yes I did. I needed to hook a custom build step in the build process of a Windows Phone application. But interfacing with MSBuild is not only editing the XML file, it is also about creating tasks in .net that can be called by MSBuild. In the end it was not that hard but still required some days of reading docs and trial.
You can do "payouts" with Stripe Connect. Stripe doesn't have a money transmission license so they can only do a payout when it's tied directly to a charge (like marketplace). You could also take a look at Payoneer.
Amen to both of these.
>>but you can't just say that if he was performing well, he'd never be fired.

In that case (Tony being fired despite performing well), Larry (the firing knight/king) would be an asshole.
While we're on the subject: can anyone recommend a good resource on how transaction processing systems work, at as low a level and high detail as possible?
In the last few years, we've started purchasing Dells with Ubuntu pre-installed. Most of them get imaged with Windows 10, but the machines which stay in IT and a small number of faculty members teaching IT-related courses usually get configured to dual-boot.

I have been using Virtualbox to deal with everything I need to do in Windows rather than going through the hassle of rebooting the machine. I use Windows for Active Directory administration, the occasional document that doesn't look right in LibreOffice, and occasionally jumping into Adobe software. My next computer at work is going to be a MacBook Pro with a Windows 10 VM, but at that point I should have most of the Adobe and MS Office tasks covered in OS X instead of the VM.
Can you point me to it? AFAIK, It's always been there.
"The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks

Innocence is injured experience just talks

Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees

That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'

On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse

Philosophy is useless theology is worse

History boils over there's an economics freeze

Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'"

- Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease".
I know lots of criminals that are still free even with shitty OPSEC. Many do their stuff openly. Some are clearly CI's given they get busted regularly but are always free and operating. FBI says for every one they convict there's almost 10 times as many they miss due to lack of evidence or resources.

So, between all that, I think you're dramatically overestimating how effective both police and surveillance dragnets are. ;)
Not only did they turn down american help, they haven't even called on the Canadian military yet - apart from a few aerial imaging assets, they're still just on standby. It's pretty silly to call on external firefighting assets when we still haven't expended our domestic resources yet.

Apart from Fort McMurray (which is now pretty safe) it's a mostly unpopulated area, and fire is a great natural renewal process in a boreal forest. Letting it burn for a while longer and just trying to keep guiding it away from anything valuable with minimal resources is a valid strategy.
I cannot rate this site highly enough. The guy running it is doing a tireless service to weed out scam reviews and fake service descriptions.

He also has a subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vpnreviews/
That's the dialog. No profit in shutting it down with defeatism. And I admit there's a good deal of frustration behind the nitpicking about "stop blaming the victim!" because that's not follow up with "so do this instead..."
Well, the EU isn't a country.

Scale might explain it for individual countries situation
The push to separate apps for everything is so gross. I use Paper instead of the main Facebook app on my phone because though it is rarely updated and lacking many new features, it has integrated messaging. Even then, I am often relegated to the mobile site. (For instance, Paper chews up tons of LTE bandwidth if allowed, so I only use it on wifi.)

I don't understand what their endgame is. More advertising dollars? Less work for developers? Monopolizing more of users' time and storage space? It's baffling.
The Wit.nes (demo)
It'd be great to work so fluidly between machines. I get a headache switching back and forth between desktops like that - its kills the flow to stop and struggle with finding a setting or even a close button when its not where I automatically reach for.

As for VirtualBox, strange but I just yesterday spent 2 hours trying my best to use it and failing. It just wouldn't resize the window beyond some tiny vga thing. None of the online help did squat; none of the menus and settings had any affect. So I finally gave up. That thing has a ways to go before its useful for a desktop environment.
> The unemployment rate is marginally higher than in the USA. It's bad here, but it's bad over there too... the recession never ended.

That's blatantly incorrect.

- The US unemployment rate is 9.7% on the U6. The Canadian equivalent would be closer to 13%-15% [1] (the Canadian R8 is not the equivalent of the U6). That's not a marginal difference, it's a significant difference. The US U6 rate peaked at near 18%, six years ago. A 50% reduction is a very obvious signal that the recession ended a long time ago. The U6 rate before the recession in 2006 was 9%. If the recession had never ended, the U6 rate would still be extremely elevated.

- The US has gained a massive number of full-time jobs since the recession. That metric is at a record high. [2a] [2b]

- Total US employment is six million higher than the peak before the recession.

- US manufacturing output is at all-time highs and has climbed dramatically since the recession [3]. Total construction spending on manufacturing in the US is three to four times higher than it was in 2002-2006. None of that would be happening if the US were in recession.

- Real hourly earnings have been expanding since 2012-2013 [4]. While simultaneously inflation has been tame by most measures. Hourly earnings are about 7% higher than 2006. If the recession hadn't ended, that would not be the case.

- Government tax revenue, which is highly dependent on income taxes, is at record highs.

- The labor force participation rate has been stable for three years, despite millions of boomers retiring.

- In terms of income vs debt, US households have dramatically de-leveraged from the debt highs leading up to the great recession, and are in far better shape than Canadian households [5a] [5b].

- US household median disposable incomes are among the highest on earth. That metric obviously would not be doing so well if the US had spent the last ten years in a recession. US GDP per capita is ranked #5 out of all nations, 25% higher than Canada - an excellent sign of high economic productivity. [6]

So US economic productivity is extremely high, US unemployment has fallen by 50% back to a historically healthy level, full-time employment is at record highs, wage growth has been outpacing inflation for years, household income to debt ratios have improved dramatically, household balance sheets have never been higher, manufacturing output is at record highs. Uh, so what's the problem exactly?

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ec...

[2a] http://i.imgur.com/ERDhQLZ.jpg

[2b] http://i.imgur.com/zCC6ytm.png

[3] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/OUTMS

[4] http://i.imgur.com/5Q7c27x.jpg

[5a] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ca...

[5b] http://business.financialpost.com/investing/outlook-2016/can...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...
Thank you for giving me a super example of a bad requirement - "This requirement is the equivalent of adding collision avoidance to a bumper car"
I'm also a member through my company. We're in the Chinatown location but I relate to your post 100%. I could really care less about the free beer. Boozing during the day feels strange and they just switched it over to cold brew coffee; perhaps because of that.

I find it odd that people at the front desk just kind of hang out. I never got onboarding but was able to figure out everything on my own. Not that difficult.

I wish there were more tech meetups there. Instead I'm going all over DC/Northern Va. to random offices for those. Because of that I kind of feel disassociated from other people at WeWork. I go in, do my work in my fishbowl office of 6, and go home. Little interaction with others there.

I once went to a meetup at MakeOffices at Tyson's Corner which is a competing colocation workspace. It is a lot less "hip" but has things like open tables with seats and whiteboards everywhere which really appeals to me. We have to provide our own in Chinatown or rent a conference room using credits. Which we hesitate to do because you never know when you'll need it.

These spaces are expensive. If it were up to me I'd be working in a less "hip" but more functional space.
I think these people apply the same principle to many other decision making processes in their lives, not just picking clothes, which is very visible hence everyone talks about. I guess saving on clothes is small but many little things add up quickly.
The rich are the government. To limit government is to limit the source of power of the rich.
> , the component that controls a device or machine that operates in our actual physical world.

So is a an industrial factory control server embedded? It controls valves, actuators, reads sensors. It can still be a whole rack top to bottom full of high power Xeon servers.

Embedded literally means inside something. It is not a computer used on its own, say to run general purpose software, but as part of another larger system. There is no power or size requirements for that. Well and most of all it is a fuzzy term.
Reminiscent of one of Twitter's early mistakes