skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This goes back to the recent findings that are leading to how to motivate employees better now instead of the tradition of compensation (staying under inflation for most workers while management bonuses trend upward, anyway) and stability / loyalty (which nobody has anymore culturally besides small companies perhaps). The new drivers to motivate modern workers is around three of their core desires: autonomy, mastery, purpose. With most corporations, workers get mostly none of these and so you get decreased engagement, lower productivity, etc. which translate into just plain worse outcomes despite the old fashioned idea that spending more money on people will correlate with better results. Start-ups are a clear antithesis to the usual corporate model, but I have almost no faith that managers at large corporations really look carefully at how small companies succeed because they tend to be suffering from being beaten down by the same cultural problems that led to them giving up on changing anything - even managers have little autonomy, mastery, and purpose relatively, after all.

I know we hate anecdotes here, but I left my last position despite feeling like I was respected (my opinions were taken into account somewhere) and provided certain tools and some recognition. The problem was that I was given responsibility with no authority to enact sufficient changes to improve conditions for those that did not feel the same.
I've been watching this project with interest, they make pretty huge claims about being a more responsive server than nginx. Also seem to have to some big money backing them so it could be that nginx has some real competition now.
> I think you are taking it as
> self-evident that Leave is a
> bad idea

Yeah. Me, every economist, the markets, almost all centrist politicians, Obama, people who are highly educated, etc

It's funny to watch Leavers complain that people think they're racist, with all their great arguments about common fisheries, not being able to depot Abu-bin-whoever, and whatever other weird non-issue is flavour of the day, not to mention the supreme irony of a people with an unelected upper chamber claiming they're booting out a directly elected upstream parliament for "democracy".
This gives a rough estimate.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110915000000*/https://stallman...
I've had a license for Charles Proxy for the last 9 years and it's been a seriously useful tool, not just for introspecting http/https traffic (and recording those sessions to attach to tickets), but for dynamically modifying requests and responses.

couple of examples that come to mind:

* Want to test your production/deployed app against a dev/local api server? Have it redirect traffic to a different host and rewrite any headers required (production vs dev api keys for example) - That includes DNS spoofing and re-mapping host names as required.

* Found a bug on a web site and want to test a fix to the javascript without setting up a whole environment? Copy the javascript file in question to your hdd, modify it as desired and have Charles serve that file up when the browser/app requests the original

I don't have any connection to the author; just been well worth its price for me.
But how do you know who to pass around to? Email works by looking up an IP address from the DNS. Sure DNS is distributed, but it all is "centralized" around the 7 root DNS servers.

As I said in my original post, it sounds similar to how Bittorrent's DHT works; you'd still need a "kickstart" server to send you a list of peers. Sure, you can hardcode a list of peers, but hardcoded stuff isn't decentralized. Someone has to maintain that list.
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini; All Electric, Agile and a Capable Face-Arm
The author is apparently proud of the fact that they have “literally never seen or heard of [the OS X document revision system] until researching this post”. The dismissive tone of the entire article is hard to stomach. Ars has really gone downhill since the departure of John Siracusa.
Tourism still incurs some costs, and a common solution to this is hotel taxes to pay for those costs. AirBNB dodges those taxes. Also, since AirBNB converts housing constructed for residents into tourist housing regardless of legality, it doesn't matter much which cities value more.
Strictly, an amendment to the US Constitution requires 50% +1 of the voting population, spread sufficiently widely.
Similar design decision as IPv6, which doesn't have CRC at the IP level, unlike IPv4, for the same reason.
2011, but it has been constantly updated since: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://stallman.org/facebook....
If you use it to talk with 98% of the nontechnical world, and plan events, then there is nothing else.

If you eat your toenails during panel discussions and refuse even to have a phone, then this is a reasonable position.
And the first person to be charged is the driver. If you cause an "accident" because you were listening to radio, you are driving reckless.
Looking at the links mentioned in the article, they span from 2011 to 2016 as is evident from the URLs. Seems it's being updated regularly.
So, I'm always paranoid about finding these, and whenever I enter a keypad I cover my hands so as to hide my entries from any cameras, and then wiggle any keyplate or credit card slot to find things like you found.

Would you say that grabbing the receptacle and trying to move it briefly would have made it obvious it was a cover? Or did you really need to put some force behind it and pry it off?

I'm curious how effective my efforts may be from the standpoint of "general ATM security" and whether they would actually protect me from anything.
Not sure about NYC Chinatown, but in Philly Chinatown there are a lot of recent immigrants who work for minimum wage or lower, which keeps costs down.
I don't understand how this works out:

> Because the wholesalers are in Chinatown, they can deliver fresh produce several times a day, eliminating the need for retailers to maintain storage space or refrigeration

Somebody has to store the inventory someplace, incurring those storage costs, whether it's the retailer, wholesaler, or someone further upstream. And regardless of who stores it, I'd expect those costs to have the same effect on the consumer's price.

Unless the farmers literally harvest multiple times per day, wash/clean/prep the merchandise, and deliver it to the wholesaler. That seems unlikely.

Also, what about the lost economy of scale of selling and delivering to a bunch of small wholesalers, and in a physically hard-to-access location (Chinatown in Manhattan)?
They don't get a say in it, so who the hell cares? Merkel has explicitly supported taking time over it, and she calls the shots
> 1) Have "tracker" servers set up around the world. The App needs to know at least one of the IPs, preferably all, in order to get a list of Peers it can connect to. This is still considered "decentralized" so long as none of the "trackers" is considered a "master" over the others.

How is that not decentralized? I really don't see how. You'd need /someone/ to maintain that list of tracker serves.
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If only the paragraph width was set to something reasonable (say, 33em) it would be great.
For what it's worth, there's NTFS drivers for Linux and OS X (ntfs-3g). NTFS often gets a mixed reception, but regardless of your opinion of it, it's still massively better than FAT32.

Another option is ext3. The only caveat there is the Windows ext drivers don't fully support ext3 (unless I've missed an announcement). However they do fully support ext2 and ext3 is backwards compatible so you can effective get ext3 support in Windows.

Sadly though, all the good stuff requires 3rd party libraries. It's a real pity everyone can't agree on a standard to replace FAT32. :(
John Siracusa's departure was after Ars already had gone downhill significantly. Also he was not an editor or regular contributor outside of his OS X reviews, so his departure doesn't have much effect on the day to day. It's more of a symptom rather than a cause.

The cause is the change in editorial standards for the site which has been decreasing for years, and so every year is at a new all time low. Not to mention the really invasive ads and even sponsored content.
>but Stallman has people constantly update and add new stuff.

As can be seen by the latest links on the page, one of them from early June [1], others from May and March 2016

But, indeed, it was first created circa 2011

[1]
<p>Facebook's app has started <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160605165148/http://www.thereg... photos</a> people take with their phones.
"Chinatown is way cheaper... I figured the prices were cheap because the selection is all C-grade bok choy and yesterday’s bananas.

Wrong again! Chinatown’s 80-plus produce markets are cheap because they are connected to a web of small farms and wholesalers that operate independently of the network supplying most mainstream supermarkets."

So what's stopping the mainstream supermarkets from doing the same thing, undercutting their competition while simultaneously increasing their profit margins? Somehow, this sounds too good to be true.
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> extreme and uncompromising.

There is no middle ground with freedom. Either you're free, or you're not.
Silicon Valley firms are increasingly hiring chiefs of staff
Interesting that something like DTN is being hosted in SourceForge:

Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) Software Distribution (DTN)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/

I'm interested in DTN but given SF's reputation in the last few years I'm not sure what to think of it :/
People use D, and it is a pretty decent language.

I'm not an avid D user, but I have a guess as to why it is not so widely used.

To me, D is somewhat of a "I like C++s features and ergonomics and want a similar languages with all the features built in from the ground up" (+awesome metaprogramming). One of C++s drawbacks is that features have been bolted on in hacky ways due to backwards compatibility issues. D is like C++, but without this. It is a good goal, and from my limited experience with D I think they have achieved it well.

Thing is, such a language will largely be adopted by people who use C++. And the problem with these folks is that they already know C++. Once you are used to it it doesn't feel so bad. Despite its drawbacks, C++ has lots of tooling, a large ecosystem, and familiarity.

Rust is less affected by this for two reasons. One is that it gets a lot of production users from non-C++ shops who want to use a systems language to speed up their Python/etc tight loops. They would rather not worry about segfaults and stuff. The other is that for C++ users, Rust scratches a large itch. The learning curve for Rust is a lot worse than D, but for many the benefits might overcome this. You can't get used to segfaults the way you get used to template metaprogramming.

I would give D time. These issues just slow adoption, not stop it. That is fine.
Here's the thee volume collection that was discussed in the article:

http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Bibliotheque-de-...

At more than 4000 pages (in French), it's rather daunting.

There was an exhibit at the BnF several years ago celebrating the acquisition of the manuscript:

http://www.bnf.fr/en/cultural_events/anx_exhibitions/f.casan...

You can see some of it here:

http://expositions.bnf.fr/casanova/
Abstracted further and further, up to the point where someone without programming experience can tell a computer to do the thing it should do, making "coding" (or at least how we know it now) redundant. Have you thought about it this way?
He's not wrong.

edit: Per emsy's suggestion: I mean that he is just articulating that if something is free, you are the product, except he(stallman) articulates it by changing the noun to reflect his viewpoint.

also, I just deleted facebook.
Uh, yet another lecture on how to live my life by his omniscience
This does give it a kind of bearded-conspiracy-theorist-ish vibe that puts me off too. But the underlying point in using the word makes sense and hey, maybe it'll deter some people from using Facebook without knowing exactly what they're subjecting themselves to. I can see such a thing sticking in people's minds.
That's not the only reason, though. There's other factors going into that decision that make it totally rational:

APFS isn't designed as a server file system. It's meant for laptops, desktop and most importantly (to Apple) mobile devices. Note that most of the devices are battery powered. That means "redundant" error checking by the FS is a meaningful waste.

That's not to say they might not add error checking capability in the future, but it makes total sense to prioritize other things when this file system is mostly going to be used on battery powered clients basically never on servers.
I do the same thing, unapologetically. In an emergency, I'll get a voicemail immediately after the call, tap once to play it, and call back. I'm not an EMT: if that extra 30 seconds matters, the number to call is 911.
I'm sorry! I misread you. I thought "Try harder next time" was a swipe at another user, which it wasn't.

(But https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11979795 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11963888, the other comments I had in mind, did break the site guidelines, so I still need to ask you not to do that.)

That title is indeed bad, but I've explained why we haven't banned the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11981664. Also, if we had, people would accuse us of trying to suppress criticism of a YC-funded startup, which is something we err on the side of not doing.
This is true(ish) but what happens in much of the USG is that they have contractors write the code and there is a big hole cut in the law to allow contractors to retain copyright and monetize code written for the government. The idea was that by allowing contractors to retain copyright, the costs would go down for government procurers and it allowed them to consider 'commercial off the shelf' (COTS) software.

In practice, the government can and has been locked into contractors for ongoing, unending and expensive maintenance.
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I'm not being funny, but I thought the Feynman technique was:
- Write down the problem.
- Think very hard.
- Write down the answer.

Still, this is a useful update to my understanding of his techniques :)
What are different visas an Indian person can apply for to work in U.S. and what are the prerequisites for that?
As NPR falls increasingly under the spell of "it must be live" -- even the hourly news summaries now start with "Live, from NPR News in Washington", rather than the former "From NPR News in Washington", a gratuitous change that grates -- the segments are far more frequently not edited.

Among the problems this presents is what I call "the chase", which are the final 30 seconds or so of an interview in which the host or interviewer is quite clearly trying to wrap up with a guest, who either isn't aware of, or doesn't want, to meet that time schedule. It is always awkward, and occurs at the end of EVERY live interview.

(The BBC also exhibits this, the worse when it's over some long-distance line.)

A pre-recorded, edited interview can go for full feel and length, and then be cut to fit the timeslot. One thing I recall (and miss) from those was a far more gracious interview wrap. I'm sure that far less of what had been said hit the air, but what there was was better for it.
State to Detroit man: Pay for child that isn't yours or go to jail
Crazy isn't it.. again, I'm just ashamed my country can come to this point. The leave side didn't even have a plan as to what to do.
Johnson doesn't look like he wants to go through with it. He looks like he just woke up and found that he got some girl pregnant that he doesn't even like.
Instead of arguing against the merit of his points, you choose to insult the person.
> three letters from one's password to log in

Could you explain how this works? I've never ran into this and I'm curious as to what it solves / they claim it solves.
> Where is this modern C++ culture that has resulted in large-scale codebases free of memory safety vulnerabilities?

In any large scale C++ conference like CppCon.

In tooling from Microsoft and Apple.

> I haven't seen any evidence for this. A lot of vulnerabilities are found in modern C++11.

Using C++11 idioms, or C with classes?

> I don't see any way that the C++ Core Guidelines are going to be able to succeed in creating a usable language that is memory-safe. Robert O'Callahan and I have elaborated why in other posts.

Rust will become a sound alternative to C++ when:

- Libraries stop using nightly

- Rust developers can call OS APIs like COM on Windows without gymnastics. I mean with the same ease that Delphi, C++ Builder and Visual C++ integrate with COM.

- Rust developers can call OS X and iOS APIs with the same ease than Swift and Objective-C

- Has IDE support that can match what QtCreator, Clion, XCode, Visual Studio, C++ Builder, Keil MDK, ...

I really would like to see Rust one day supersede C++, but in what concerns C family of the languages, C++ is the safest option we currently have.

I have been part of the C++ community since the early days as Turbo Pascal and strong type refugee, and have followed how hard it has been for a language that is almost copy-paste compatible with C to earn the position it holds in the industry.

So until Rust gets some OS SDK love, bashing C++ community efforts to improve security won't get many adopters.

I keep on playing with Rust, but I get to write production code it still is JVM, .NET languages, Swift or C++.
Nobody's telling anyone how to live their life here, much less you specifically.
If you really want to quibble about the fraction, I can revise it to 2/7.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutions_of_the_European...

Of those, only the parliament is directly elected. The council consists of elected officials who are automatically appointed and the presidency rotates. While that isn't necessarily a bad scheme, it isn't exactly democratic ... more like sequential?
Just don't include emergency broadcast system[1] tones in your message[2].

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

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/document/enforcement-advisory-misuse-eas...
Well one big one is that you don't have to risk several orders of magnitude more money every time you move by buying property..?
Who are you people that think you need to be an expert in everything in order to do something? Nowadays you can work with 50 different languages/libraries/frameworks etc at any given time. You think, unless if you have no life outside of work, that everyone can be an expert in everything? Do you like to stroke your own ego that maybe you know more than someone else? I just don't get it. We just completed a SPA without anyone being a JavaScript expert; we are all back-end developers. However, we asked questions, researched, etc and we put together a damn good product.
I was ready to ask you about details and then my Firefox on i7 froze as well. What a horrible website, it makes gazillions requests to github simultaneously. Perfect example of Javascript abuse worthy a simple static page to me.
EU legislation will push them to stop doing some of this (privacy section). Hopefully, the US will follow.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/01/eu-privacy-rules-may-hit-inte...
> Another thing for engineers or anybody at a station to do is to go into the studio, turn the microphone on, crank it to 11. Don’t talk — so you don’t blow your ears out — and listen to the sounds of all the fans that you have in the room. This is one challenge that we’ve had for decades here. You’re never going to get it to zero. You’re never going to get it completely silent. Nor do you really want to, because in order to get it silent you’ve got to move a lot of equipment out, and there’s a lot of cost with that.

Makes me wonder why they don't record the sound of the fans and then invert that audio track and mix it with the mic channel before broadcasting the master channel so that the relatively periodic noise of the fan cancels itself out.
You forgot to sign your post:

Written from a computer running a bunch of software written by his omniscience
Looks like 2011 or earlier: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://stallman.org/facebook.h...
> It will, because nothing stays static

I agree with you here, but the insinuation was that it would evolve toward something better. Things don't always get better. History has borne this out.

> They're effectively the same thing

Disagree. You're playing broken telephone. After inserting enough people in between the original vote and the final appointee... you get a completely different message.
Has anyone used their network simulator? I'm wondering if it's higher-level than the tools that are available in Linux. It's always useful to be able to simulate different classes of network failure without actually having a crappy network.

https://github.com/nasa/channel-emulator
In Finland there are several banks which restrict passwords to 6-8 digits. Is that worse than disabling paste?
Just looking at the delivery/cooking truck, I'm suddenly reminded of the opening chapter in Snow Crash:

"""

The analysts at CosaNostra Pizza University concluded that it was just human nature and you couldn't fix it, and so they went for a quick cheap technical fix: smart boxes. The pizza box is a plastic carapace now, corrugated for stiffness, a little LED readout glowing on the side, telling the Deliverator how many trade imbalanceproducing minutes have ticked away since the fateful phone call. There are chips and stuff in there. The pizzas rest, a short stack of them, in slots behind the Deliverator's head. Each pizza glides into a slot like a circuit board into a computer, clicks into place as the smart box interfaces with the onboard system of the Deliverator's car. The address of the caller has already been inferred from his phone number and poured into the smart box's builtin RAM. From there it is communicated to the car, which computes and projects the optimal route on a heads-up display, a glowing colored map traced out against the windshield so that the Deliverator does not even have to glance down.

"""

https://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/120f02/victory/snowcras...
Stop using Google trends
If I remember correctly it's actually the opposite and it was reasoned that checksumming should be done higher up.
It's not even free software!

NASA Open Source Agreement license is not approved by the Free Software Foundation because its "original creation" clause bars derivatives combining third-party code.

The fact that this non-copyleft license is approved by the Open Source Initiative is as far as I know, the only thing that makes free software a proper subset of open source software.
Muslims have a long history of accepting homosexuality
Your original post mentioned that you thought the author was inappropriately associating low prices with low quality ... that's not prejudice, though, right? That's a bog-standard standard heuristic people in my culture use to establish value (see: putting weights in electronics to make them feel more 'premium'). IMHO, it is genuinely terrifying that melamine made it into so many chinese dairy products. Perhaps the media sensationalized it too much, making the event stand out in my memory over similar local events? Who knows.

I guess what I'm getting at is rushing to the conclusion that xenophobia is the only deciding factor here seems a bit premature, and that the problem itself is likely multifaceted.
I think it's going to take someone with greater...ahem...social intelligence than rms to convey the dire reality of facebook's omniscience.
College-educated boomers, in significant part.

Though there are other audience segments.

If you listen to the NPR humour programmes and segments, they'll often allude to the whiteness of their audience, and it pretty much always draws a laugh.

(Edit: to clarify: CEB are the demographic, though it's not necessarily who NPR are pandering to. See followup.)