skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple and Google won

How can the war be over when two rivals are standing?

Unless the objective of any war in the computing arena is to be understood as: "Microsoft is not there".

Another definition of "war is over" might be that everyone has some open hardware in their hands (that they actually own), which runs a fully open source everything from the boot firmware through to the system UI and apps. In other words "Microsoft is not there; Google is not there; Apple is not there ..."
Interesting. The way it was used seemed hyperbolic & better replaced w/ something like, "banal", "vapid", "uncivil" or "derogatory". (< 140)
Turn off autofill. Takes you 2 clicks to fill things in when you need to, and you're sure that you're only providing credentials when you mean to.
Everybody thinks it's Chinese money, and sure there is some. But there are just a lot of very highly paid ppl in the bay area. Facebook, Google, &c are moving a lot more money into this region than any Chinese outflows. In all my experience here, SF is not a city of the empty pied-à-terre.
If you go the docker-machine route, you can do the following.

brew install docker-machine
docker-machine create --name myserver ...digital-ocean-options
eval $(docker-machine env myserver)
docker ps

that is:

* install docker-machine

* provision a droplet with docker on it (you can also use test.docker.com to use an RC instead of the latest release)

* set your local shell env to point docker to said machine

* use the docker client to interact with said machine

I also use docker-for-mac and a similar process to spin up swarm-mode clusters. You can also ssh into the machine if you need to by `docker-machine ssh myserver`

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/digital-ocean/
"The resolution recommended that in order to ensure the impartiality of the plebiscite Pakistan withdraw all tribesmen and nationals who entered the region for the purpose of fighting and that India leave only the minimum number of troops needed to keep civil order."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

Given that the primary condition for the plebiscite was never met i.e. withdrawal of all the Pakistani forces, it was never going to happen. And while Article 370 has frozen the demographics of Indian J&K in 1947, Pakistani Kashmir is now majority non-Kashmiri. Plebiscite is hardly gonna happen now.
Just saw your comment - you interested in Open Source software for this? :-) http://ican.openacalendar.org/
I opted for a tiny little 2.5" drive version with 4 bays so currently it's limited to 8tb for now, they do 2 - 8 bay units for 3.5" drives which is probably more suitable for massive storage requirements, and with USB3 ports you can attach additional terabytes effortlessly. They also have additional devices to put even more drives in that extend your NAS storage.

$280 with separate drives - https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS416slim-NAS-DiskStation/dp...

One very cool part is it has sync software that can automatically sync all or some of your stuff - one way or bidirectional - to dropbox, google drive, backblaze, amazon glacier etc for backups and public access.

There's a fork of their software here to install on other devices too - https://xpenology.me
That was my experience too. My guy at Wells Fargo knocked it out of the park. SOFI's service was not great. Slow to respond , often not responding to my direct questions with the info I needed, slow to move through underwriting etc. Oh and terrible rates compared to the banks I talked to. Even their technology was worse, in terms of being able to upload docs and track my loan.
Dine Market Lays Off Staff
Dine Market, a food tech start up in NYC, has run out of money and laid off virtually all its employees. Support for existing customers continues for the time being. Glassdoor reviews show issues across the board, but inability to raise money and crazy burn rate seems to have done Dine Market in.
Besides local iptables you can forward the port at the firewall level. Many people (myself included) have observed failed ssh logins going from many thousands daily to on average zero just by changing the port on a netfacing server. Of course a determined hacker who is after you can trivially portscan. But why not block all that noise and a huge percentage of shotgun attacks? If someone is out just to find servers to root with a new zero day they're liable to spray the net searching on the target port rather than portscanning all IPv4 space. Why not buy yourself some free time?

It is basically zero inconvenience to add an extra argument or shell setting.
It's less about an explicit positive for MS than a necessary rearguard against a trend negative in the form of the encroachment of Linux. If they don't do (things like) this, they'll be shut out of the server-side ecosystem altogether. MS needs to hedge its bets and ensure that if Linux achieves total domination, they still have a very good technical offering on that platform that does not rely on their arch enemy. So put as much stuff onto Linux as possible, then sell services/support etc IBM-style. And of course they also hope to bring in dev resources for free!
> Is there convincing evidence in this document that the amount of irregularities were actually sufficient to change the result?

If an athlete is caught doping, do we question whether they would have won anyway?
I really wish they had included SREs and Operations as a category.
I can't find these people using google.
I agree. The entirety of the linked article is self-righteous and vapid. In fact, it probably could have been summarized in 140 characters.
One addition in regard to the perpetrator: Do not trust this person - these persons (always assume its more than one person). Don't commit to anything. Since they cannot be trusted, don't waste time and money on them.
Very cool, I'll give this a shot!
The whole Thinkpad rootkit debacle has ruined all prospects for Lenovo in my home.
Where Are We Going with Tessel? Rust, Reach, and Fractal
It's probably just a 10 years+ out-of-date figure. Although there probably are a lot more systems running legacy Windows outside of the tech industry and also outside the US.
The point is that people went to a lot of trouble to study bias in a process that in the past was widely just assumed to be biased. In this case, it's unlikely that the bias affected the overall outcome---Sanders lost by a large margin in the biggest states, a deficit that would be hard to overcome---but I think it does indicate a shift in how people view the parties.

The criticisms of hypocrisy are fair, but only go so far. If they violated rules, they were rules of their own making, and not rights granted by the Constitution. Voting for a party nominee is a privilege, and if the party chose to limit the voting pool to party officials only, they could do so without violating anyone's rights. Bernie is free to run as an independent, and his supporters are free to vote for him. If the DNC somehow interfered with that, they would be doing what Republicans are accused of doing with the Voter ID laws.
I'm curious about the reasons women (especially in Denver aparently) are so unhappy with the balance. Is it due to women being more likely to have jobs that are less balanced or something else?
Interestingly, I only learned about proton gradients and the relation to the vents a few days ago - in the documentary series "Wonders of Life" [1]. As a non-biologist, I've been enjoying the show a lot. It's on Netflix (at least in the UK).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_Life_%28TV_series%2...
Because it came to mind and I wanted to know if it came to anyone else's mind . . .

it's pertinent.
Why are they more deserving of empathy, compassion and humanity than Mohamed Bashmilah?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/us/politics/amid-details-o...

Take careful note, my point is that they are equally deserving of those things.
I do not like how the author jokes that women in workout shorts make him sweaty, nor the call out to "Be the bro tank you want to see in the world.".

If you want to get rid of dress codes then you must also accept whatever anyone else wears. Otherwise, dress codes will continue to exist so that, for example, women at the office who want to workout shorts to work don't have to deal with sweaty co-workers who objectify them on the internet.

Urban Dictionary kindly informs me that "bro tank" is a tank top intended to show of muscles on a male. One of the more negative descriptions includes:

> A normal non-douche will refer to these garments as "douche tanks", but the tank wearing "bro" will deny the quality of doucheness that comes with the product. If the user admits that the tank is in fact, a douche tank, he is most likely not a douche. A "bro tank" has no class, and anyone with any qualities of a gentleman, will not wear a "bro tank".

Bearing in mind the mish-mash that is Urban Dictionary, that term sounds like part of an identity culture that I don't want to associate with.
Running out of money ?

Give $10,000-$25,000 to The Clinton Foundation

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundati...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164694

Other submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171329

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163681

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12162704
Awesome I will take a look!
Last time I looked at Dashlane, they didn't support Linux or ChromeOS, both of which are dealbreakers for me. Has that changed?
Additionally, ChakraCore exposes a C API instead of a C++ API, which is interesting because of the relative ease of embedding C APIs in other languages (in my interest, Rust). V8's C++ API is underdocumented and relatively painful.
Could you elaborate on Southern NH? Does this apply to Nashua / Manchester? Been considering moving to that area.
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12174635
This is how the system treats most human beings, as labor commodities to be consumed and discarded. This is one of the dangers of capitalism, compounded by 7.5 billion people who are increasingly unable to find a productive role within the system.
> Most of them talk about how you should avoid try/catch in
> performant code, even though it's only one engine that doesn't
> optimize it

That still sounds like great advice even though it's "only" slow on
one engine. Very few performant JS applications have the luxury of not
worrying about how Chrome performs, as opposed to only IE, Firefox &
Safari.
And the author of the article disagrees.
Not necessarily. It's being changed in some places because studies show that there are safer (and less annoying) noises that can be utilized:

Tom Scott - Why Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8

As someone with construction taking place next door to me I really wish they would start getting rid of the beeping in more places. I'm pessimistic that it will happen in my area anytime soon though.
The Financial Industry's Theranos?
I'm in the middle of Chaos Monkeys, and am enjoying the author's excellent prose, while walking through the sausage factory of startups. There's also some interesting YC insights, as the author's startup went through it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure...
On the other hand of the scale, EHS and TI groups. Which, probably not the most healthy.

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

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-ta...
23andMe has contributed to the science described in several dozen articles published in the top journals: https://www.23andme.com/for/scientists/. Is all of that useless garbage?
I really enjoyed it myself. It was a big nostalgia fest. I wonder -- are you significantly older or younger than the audience that would've spent time enjoying these games?
Or fixing it up in order to sell it at a reasonable price (not in SF area).
143 000 tweets/second. Not 140 millions.
I'm surprised that many areas in Seattle don't ban cars during business hours.

There are many places in Europe that do that, except that they make just enough exceptions for this or that car that it still makes it hard to be a pedestrian.
In a life long ago, I was responsible for an office full of Thinkpads, not long after Lenovo spun off from IBM. These were machines that "just worked", and if there was a problem, their on-site service was legendary. I never had to worry about them.

I now own a 3rd-gen X1 Carbon for personal use. After my experience with it, I'll never buy or recommend Lenovo again. Months of waiting on backordered parts (for their flagship laptop), repeat visits from their service center, and the end result is finally a laptop that mostly works, but is starting a slow death very early because of cheap plastic construction and tight tolerances that aren't so tight after a few months of use. I've had it a year and a half (I bought it the week it came out); I'll be lucky if it makes it to two years without another significant problem.

Terrible experience all the way around. It looks pretty on the website, but it's not built to last like their older products were, and their service is a shadow of its former self.
True - I am considering the 3.7 to 4GHz i7 processors as well because of higher clock speed.

Some things that are enticing towards the Phi, are
1) 16GB on chip MCDRAM - that is a lot of cache!
2) I can get a copy of Intel Parallel Studio XE compiler and compile Lua and Torch from source code, thus making them use more cores on Phi.

I have reached out to Intel AI developers and NVidia cuDNN team to ask their take on it. Let's see what they advise.
You're absolutely right, above a certain ratio of surface area to mass it becomes downright hard to keep a structure on the ground.

I'm experimenting with kites and the Magnus effect to eventually build exactly what you describe: infrastructure in the sky. (Note the absence of "cloud" puns, that is deliberate.) With computer control I see no reason why we couldn't have flying buildings.

My concern is that we will need to be able to fly to pass through the current mass extinction. I was looking at birds one day and realized that the dinosaurs that made it could fly. One way or another we are going to need to move lots of people and things rapidly over great distances.

I want to make swarms of cellular kite robots that can reconfigure themselves and combine to create vast lifting bodies.

----

Should mention Bucky Fuller's discovery: An aluminium geodesic sphere of one-half mile or greater diameter will float.

Sunlight reflecting internally from the metal heats the air which expands. Above the critical size the mass of the air displaced from the sphere by thermal expansion exceeds the mass of the aluminium shell. If you sealed the sphere (even if it leaked a bit) it would remain aloft overnight.

Bucky called them "Cloud Nine" and wanted to build cities in them.
To clarify, this is why no graph has been published for Node.js on Linux and MacOS, or chakraCore on Linux and MacOS. But as a sibling post to the parent mentions, they have published performance statistics for Node.js on ChakraCore on Windows, where the JIT is implemented.
Hey, thanks for sharing! As one of the founders, happy to answer any questions.

How'd you find this?
You're absolutely right, it is fed 12,000 calories of alfalfa. Even if alfalfa were less energy intensive to grow than leafy green vegetables, it will never be 12 times less intensive. Almonds or blueberries requiring 2x more energy per calorie than alfalfa? Mabye. Never gonna be 12 times.
A lot of the price of homes is the land, which means that (barring local regulation) homes will begin to be built up a lot more.

It might seem that way, but I've come to believe it's the other way around. When land is cheap, people build lavish houses (see the midwest). When land is unholy expensive, people are devoting every dime just to get the plot, they can't afford to build a nice house.

Similar to how (this is hearsay) new development is more lavish in times when mortgage interest rates are low, and more spartan when rates are high. Buyers who must devote more of their payment to interest, have proportionally less to spend on the property.
Donald Trump irresponsibly asks Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails
> If it's a dll that's not loaded through a require, but from one dll to another - like the lua ssl library loads the openSSL ones (libssl32.dll)

In this manual the task is to create standalone distro so everything what normally goes to OS PATH goes in Lua's \bin directory in this case. This means if you copy this c:\work\lua folder on the freshly installed Windows it will run out of the box. And that's cool.
Actually it was always quick, just the indexing sometimes would be a little resource intensive.

I’m not going to claim KDE didn’t deserve that reputation in the past. The architectural changes are to blame, but they weren’t frivolous. You can’t build on shaky foundation.

I also think it’s not fair to criticize it based on some snapshot from the past. You’ve seen the beta. It’s really good now!
I found hashicorp hcl after starting to think about what we wanted internally at PayWithMyBank.

The concepts are similar but we needed a language to change the composition and configuration of our screens that had the same kind of flexibility as the CSS language.

It is used as a replacement to XML/HTML to define visual components of the page, having a better structure, and to easily change the screen to different merchants, and to easily implement variations for A/B tests using CSS like rules.

Ex:

B { value = "1"; }

Defines B as having value = "1".

A > B { value = "2"; }

Define B as having value = "2" if direct child of A.

So the definition:

C [
B,
A [
B
]
]

The first B will have value = "1" and the second value = "2".

Each definition act as a template (like XSLT) to create the elements.

Also there is a main difference that element composition is separated from element definition. So:

A {
B { value = 4}
}

Do not define the element A as having the element B. It define that if there is an element B having a parent A the value will be 4.

The language do not hard define the elements but define how to create the elements. You ask the language to create an specific element and all the rules will be evaluated to return the desired element.

Edited: Clicked enter before finishing the message.
A fascinating article. There was extensive discussion when it was first submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380110

Of course, comments there are closed, so if you have anything to add, you'll have to do it here.

Other submissions of this story don't seem to have created any further discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10836366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9596444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387682
The next shopify but for local businesses
LucasArts’ Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix Design Docs
Why wonder, "Our Community Standards prohibit content that praises or supports terrorists, terrorist organizations or terrorism, and we remove it as soon as we’re made aware of it".
Oh, I see you already have us covered :D Looks great, will be awesome!
Reddit lets companies sponsor user posts
I would imagine at least some of the additional cost comes from putting in the work to create the original product in the first place. If Xiaomi can just come along and clone an already successful air filter with a proven market, it doesn't surprise me that they could sell it for less. And we do lose when companies stop taking risks in innovating new products for fear of the copycats.
I can't speak towards the efficacy of his staff, but that testimonial is generally true of any engagement with most security teams.
As it turns out, Math.js doesn't support arbitrary precision calculations with complex numbers. This is because it is using libraries complex-js [1] and bignumber.js [2], which in turn also don't support arbitrary precision calculations with complex numbers.

This situation will improve in the future. See the Math.js issue [3].

[1] https://github.com/patrickroberts/complex-js

[2] https://github.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/

[3] https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs/issues/694
I imagine it depends heavily on whether you actually work in Southern New Hampshire, or you live there and commute to Boston. There isn't a huge tech scene in Manchester/Nashua/Portsmouth, but there is a healthy number of jobs - more in the 9-5 corporate or lifestylish vein, than in the nose-to-the-grindstone startup type scene.

Lots of people do head down to the greater Boston area, though, and that commute is pretty brutal.
MS is using Electron for Visual Studio Code, so I can see them using NodeChakraCore instead down the road. They might push it as the way to develop cross platform app, with WebAssembly coming, making it the preferred platform is probably what MS wants. They are planning for Web 4.0.
I heard about it at Fantasia Film Festival. I am hoping to see some feedback on it. I think it sounds very interesting but kind of sounds too good to be true ...
There are plenty of managers with the "why are we paying them when everything just works?" mentality.
You should definitely ask for raise and explore other opportunities etc but bear in mind that stories and discussions about salaries on HN is mostly about high end of S/w industry. For lot of us salaries are quite a bit lower than what is discussed here. Also cracking interviews and showing above ordinary skills to get job at top end firms is beyond capabilities of most of generic software developers.
Step one: Enable Linux Subsystem for Windows

Step two: Install "Bash for Windows aka Ubuntu root"

Step three: compile as normal
I mean don't pay someone for breaking into your system and not telling you how they did it. Pay them only if they provide you with some useful information that can help you fix the problem.
In Brazil, for instance, you can hire a lawyer and, if you prove you are right, the other part will pay for it (until a reasonable limit).
Now if there was an Upthere overlay on my Synology, that could be a very interesting use case. Seamless HSM.
All of what you're saying is reasonable, but I think the premise is wrong -- what you can do doesn't determine how much you are paid, at the very least it's not the most important factor.

You could be the greatest COBOL programmer with the best people skills, but if there are no COBOL jobs, the rubric is 100% wrong (assuming your salary is 0 because you're unemployed). In the same vein, you could be a completely average developer (even a bad one, however you measure that), but if the market is absolutely starved for developers, you should (and likely will) be paid a lot. I think SO's appraoch obscures that fact.

There's no way they can update it enough to keep up with market (and it's arguably in the company's best interest in the short term to do this), and I'm worried that how this is being presented is lulling developers into a false sense of safety when they need to be on their guard.

But it's also likely that I'm being overly pessimistic/exaggerating the danger here. SO seems like a company that has enough breathing room to truly care about it's employees, and as such I think they will do their best to revise the calculator to benefit their employees. However, I really do think that the logic you're using equally applies to all the usual grade/level yearly review based systems... That's exactly how it works in larger companies (not that it's a bad thing) now, I don't think the rubric is a differentiator.

My point is that if you're one of the people that isn't a new hire, but aren't thinking critically about your salary where it is in relation to the market for people with your skills (whatever they are), please do. Don't leave it up to any company, however well-intentioned, to pay you what you should be making.
He's a celebrity on Reddit, his name is Harold.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youdontsurf/search?q=harold&restric...