skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Declaring "War on X" is a terrible idea, unless you are literally marching off to war. It's used to justify all sorts of stupid things.

War on Poverty anyone? War on Drugs? War on Terror? The list goes on.

It is clear to me that we are not going to prevent climate change. It requires too much cooperation and sacrifice to deal with a problem that is too abstract. Things will have to get much worse before we will be willing to take dramatic measures. I'm expecting we'll lose a city to rising sea levels, and then maybe things will happen. Meanwhile, we'll simply have to deal with the symptoms as they come.
Statistics collected from a racist society, can obviously reflect the outcomes of racism.
AMP would be commendable if it came about as a open standard, and won in the marketplace.

But it's come out controlled by the major search engine, that will promote and highlight pages in it's search rankings if you adhere to their new "open" standard.

It may still be good, but leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Lot of world outside SV
Until no one is left doing price discovery. The end state of the indexing craze isn't 100% passive investing, but some equilibrium between active and passive management.
Hey,

I'm taking care of it right now and let you know when it's up again. At the moment you can check our "Tour" page to learn more, and download.
Interesting little board
So, basically my constant saying to myself "I don't understand this" and digging in deeper until I do plus feeling like there's so much more to learn is... a good thing.
I've lifted pretty consistently for the past 10 years. Its gotten to the point for me that I feel like I'm lazy after a day or two off. I think people generally need to get their bodies conditioned to the point where if they dont exercise (bike, run, lift, w/e) it makes them FEEL a lack of something in their life. I feel like this can only happen overtime.
heh. 2.32m followers. following 1: NSA
Who uses Sendy? There is now an app for that
I can't think of a book that has me analyzing my own thoughts for faults, and so longer after reading it.
I have an iPhone 6S and the front camera seems to do a decent job with the eye-contact problem. I don't seem to need to do the look into the camera when taking selfies.
Thank-you; great summary / much clearer than the paper itself.
The fact that a lot of posters here don't even realize it is satire speaks more to the point than anything.
> Any major companies the size of Amazon or Google running on raft?

Google's Container Engine runs Kubernetes, which uses etcd, which uses Raft.
Nigeria Police Launch 'Eminent Persons Forum' to Tackle Crime
Google reinvented WAP/WML in 2016 because cancerous news sites gone mad with javascript. Cool hack. Waiting for return of ringtones and pagers.
Specsavers seeks to trademark 'should've'
False. Wife was a nanny in college. Never lived with anyone. At least in the US nanny means long term babysitter with more steady hours.
How to write articles that will rank high in Google?
South China Sea Conflict Could Be IT’s Black Swan
As a sysadmin at almost-Windows-only company, I am still kind of surprised at the state of updates on Windows.

On Debian, CentOS, or FreeBSD, server and desktop, I usually install all and any updates that are available, reboot if there is an update to the kernel (or libc) and move on.

The fact that there is even a need for "patch management" beyond "just ing deploy them already" is ... embarrassing for Microsoft, IMHO. But simply installing any and all updates that Microsoft publishes has shown to be a bad idea. So I really hope that at least using a WSUS will allow me to pick what updates get installed.
Duo looks like it doesn't require a Google account; just a phone number - think WhatsApp.
Windows 7 was extended to support Skylake. I'm not sure if Microsoft was backtracking after their original announcement or if limited Skylake support was part of their ultimate overlordian plan to have everyone switch to Windows 10.

Original: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3023533/microsoft-windo...

Later:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/225075-microsoft-gives-...

Whether Intel's new processor, Kaby Lake, is supported by Windows 7 I don't know. If someone does I would be interested.

Seems Microsoft's aggressive upgrade strategy has not ended even though the recent successful lawsuits.
Storming into the 1980s...
Is 20$/hr enough for frontender in LA?
Hey, working in a broad types of front-end development jobs, I am hearing a much words like starting rate is 25$/hr netto, less is for newbies who don't know what is OOP is and can only make GOTO spagetti code. Others are saying that 20$/hr is normal rate worldwide for any developer. Calculating wage with 20$/hr it is 3200 USD per month on hands which is good for most cities, maybe not for SF / LA due to rent costs. So which rate is fair for you %username%?
I mean, AMP is a bunch of custom elements and instructions not to use certain features that degrade performance. I'm not sure what part of this you want to be an "open standard", can you be more specific? AMP is more of a best practices guide than anything else.
I've always thought of this as precompiled vs interpreted; i.e. the more experience someone has the more hard-wired their response to that scenario; which makes people with more experience faster at reacting to familiar situations, but less adaptable should a different response be required or to some previously unseen variation in that initial situation.
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Not sure of the downvotes. If I am following the thread correctly, this is about KNC/KNL?

From a KNC card:

Linux <hostname>-mic0 2.6.38.8+mpss3.4.3 #1 SMP Mon Feb 16 16:08:55 PST 2015 k1om GNU/Linux

From KNL:

Linux <hostname> 3.10.0-229.20.1.el6.x86_64.knl2 #2 SMP Tue Dec 8 22:27:38 MST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I think they wanted to move quickly to offer a substitute to Facebook Instant Articles without waiting for other players in the market (Bing? Mobile browsers?) to adopt it in their own time…
Polish Your Skills – Big Android BBQ Europe 2016
A two day (15 & 16 August, 2016) glossy programme has kicked off where Android developers can meet with professionals and improve their skills.This event is for sharing knowledge to attendees and developers on the Android platform as well as performance of an application, API awareness, app security and much more.
IMHO this comment is much better than the original blog post, well done!
We've had some similar problems with Windows Update on our Win7 systems in recent months as well. On a many-cored workstation it's an annoyance. On an older laptop with a dual core CPU, it's crippling.

Like others posting here, we see the service host process spinning an entire core at around 100%. That keeps the CPU clock speeds and power draw up all the time as a notable side effect.

This seems to be a separate issue from problems with Windows Update taking hours to check for and/or apply the updates themselves.
On my laptops, I usually run "net stop wuauserv" in a loop with a small sleep. If you're not actively choosing to update that day, it will kill battery life, heat up the machine and keep fan whirring for hours.

When I actually want to update, I start the update widget manually. Still takes many hours to update, but it's elective and can be run overnight on mains.
We already use depreciation in software when we start writing off capital allocation over time. This new metaphor maybe more confusing. I would rather stick with technical debt and give more context.
Considering the great amount of statistical research the author has done, it's surprising that he's drawn some dreadful conclusions. He seems to be saying that in the face of incomplete/ambiguous information, people should form judgements on other people on the basis of racial/gender/physical stereotypes.

The problem with stereotypes isn't that they have no basis in reality. The problem with stereotypes is that they are just as inaccurate as they are accurate. The problem with stereotypes is that they stunt the potential of tens/hundreds of millions of people.

Do we really want to live in a world where women are denied managerial/executive jobs, because of stereotypes that they can't control their emotions?

One where African Americans are rejected from job applications, because of whatever derogatory stereotypes people hold against them?

One where Jews are routinely judged as being immoral and obsessed with money?

One where Southerners are socially shunned for being uncultured racist bigots?

One where women refuse to date engineers because they're socially incompetent boring dorks?

One that bans Gays from being teachers because they're likely to be child molesters?

If you're someone who thinks that making life-changing judgements about individuals on the basis of stereotypes is perfectly fine, the early/mid 1900s are right up your alley. Thankfully, most of us have come to recognize how damaging and morally repugnant such a system is. I would hate to be judged and discriminated against on the basis of stereotypes, and hence, I refrain from doing the same to others. Ultimately, that's the courtesy that we as a society have decided we should extend to one another.
Seems so. Been doing something similar my whole life myself.

The biggest thing you can do for yourself, as best i can tell, is to admit you don't know, and then go digging for info rather than just accept that you don't know (or worse go on to pretend you do).
I mean google will show a lightning icon next to pages that follow the AMP standard (and plausibly use it as a positive signal in their ranking algorithm). A competing standard would not have these benefits.
That generally matches what I'm seeing, except that my laptop dies after 10 minutes of it.
> This is a pretty chronic Google problem that I noticed both from the inside and outside: their engineering and design talent are incredible, but the people responsible for the product and marketing side are evidently really, really bad at what they do.

The people designing Google products just do not understand human interaction. Excuse the Gawker network link, but I think this reaction to a past Google keynote hits the nail on the head.

http://gizmodo.com/5921823/does-google-have-any-social-skill...
Not for everyone, just People on Android and ios mobile devices...
If I recall correctly... add to your .bashrc

export PAGER=most

or for my fish friends, add to ~/.config/fish/config.fish

set -x PAGER most

This'll use `most` everytime a pager is needed (i.e. git log), if you want to use `most` only for man pages, replace PAGER with MANPAGER
They could have made the spec a subset of HTML, but decided that having "control" was more important. Too bad, could've been neat.
I'm following matrix.org and vector.im development, hoping they'll get good and take off. Main thing stopping me from jumping on board is that running a matrix home server is said to be very resource intensive and my home server is already overloaded. Maybe later.
> We’re used to war as metaphor: the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on cancer. Usually this is just a rhetorical device, a way of saying, “We need to focus our attention and marshal our forces to fix something we don’t like.”

None of these wars are going well. Perhaps we should rethink the whole "let's declare war on [bad thing]"

>As investigative journalists have shown over the past year, the oil giant Exxon knew all about global warming for decades—yet spent millions to spread climate-denial propaganda. The only way to overcome that concerted opposition—from the very same industrial forces that opposed America’s entry into World War II—is to adopt a wartime mentality, rewriting the old mindset that stands in the way of victory. “The first step is we have to win,” says Jonathan Koomey, an energy researcher at Stanford University. “That is, we have to have broad acceptance among the broader political community that we need urgent action, not just nibbling around the edges, which is what the D.C. crowd still thinks.”

The fact is, all these wars constitute a further denigration of individual liberties for some aims of a lofty collective goal. That's what's meant by "war". I imagine what the author is trying to say is that any kind of "climate denial" or dissent be discouraged which would amount to a restriction on speech. And like the other wars, I imagine these restrictions will last much longer than anticipated.

You can believe that global warming is real and a threat, but still be against a political solution. Nothing was ever solved by just making people poorer. Perhaps individuals should focus their efforts on a positive solution to global change such as changing where and how people live. This normally takes place through the markets. So if someone lives in a high-flood risk zone, they pay higher insurance rates or suffer the consequences when a flood does hit. This discourages them from building in these areas. No forced evacuation necessary. But in order for a peaceful restructuring of people's lives to account for a changing world, we have to let these effects play out and dispel the notion that someone is entitled to something by virtue of the past.
The term you're looking for is Anarcho-Capitalism. Or just plain old Capitalism in Thiel's case.
> the bad one, in a suit and wingtips, that jets from office to office and shuts down Google Reader

Ouch, that hit a nerve. Too early in the day, man.

I've seen more AMP pages on the web than I have the Facebook version of it for what it's worth. The article went in to detail about how the pages were designated as an AMP. it seems somewhat elegant. It's opt-in but there's definitely an advantage to adding the mark-up to your page.
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ALB seems to be missing a critical part: hostname based routing. Currently all your container services have to be under the same FQDN.

Also, the limit of 10 virtual hosts per ALB seems very artificial. Otherwise ALB could be used for virtual hosting of tens or hundreds of low-load container based web services.

I've implemented virtual hosting manually with an Nginx container, but it would be really useful to have ALB do that.
> It seems to me that reduced waste would mean reduced demand, which would either raise food prices or put some producers out of business.

No, a widespread shift to selling food which would otherwise be turned into waste would represent an increased supply of edible foodstuffs, reducing prices across the entire food-market, making it less profitable for any one farmer to produce one unit of food, and probably increasing the quantity of food consumed in worldwide markets (depending on the precise elasticities of supply and of demand involved - and it doesn't have to be the same food that was rescued, if vegetables get cheaper people can eat less vegetables than bread and grain farmers can export the grain. Or they can pickle or freeze the vegetables for future consumption. And some farmers could switch crops. There's a lot of options.)

That's Economics 150.

(No, I had it as Economics 150, not 101.)

But an individual food seller is already incentivized to reclaim and sell as much would-be food-waste as possible before it becomes unprofitable to do so: it is likely cheaper for the food owner to dump food than to turn the would-be waste into food somewhere else. (Historically, food recycling of last resort would probably have taken the form of feeding it to local hogs or turning it into compost, but shifts in population and farming patterns have moved the farms away from the food consumption centers where the waste takes place.)
Not adopt, but drive. Mozilla, for one. W3C or IETF for others.

Edit: Looks like you updated your comment. Initially it asked who could competing adopters be.
I can assure you that you will never have to reboot your laptop before it will work... as it will not work at all on your laptop. It is for Android and iOS only.
Great, looks like I have both problems.
I don't understand the somewhat negative tone. Small light laptops is a market, but big ones certainly too? E.g. LAN party.
I was told by cramforce that there's no need to use AMP if your page is already fast on its own.
But what about people who aren't average users and do know how to look after their machines properly?

Microsoft have caused a huge number of serious problems with Windows 7 updates over the past year, many of which could be avoided by not installing a bad update.
How are the offers from Google et co's Canadian offices?
Yes, its under one of the many svchost processes that Win7 likes to throw up.

And indeed, it wasn't until I loaded up Process Hacker to find out exactly what process was gobbling the CPU.
Git vs. Mercurial
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Maybe it's the change to the News Feed algorithm but I've seen way fewer of these Instant Articles over time for some reason.
You enjoy writing about yourself in a detached second-person style, but with a dull sadness you realize that it's pretentious and does little to mask your inner emptiness. A solution in search of a problem, like many other things in your life, the way you write brings out the worst tendencies in you, and does little to actually improve the way you live.

...

No, seriously, stop that. Narrate in the first or second person; those are easier to relate to rather than the not-so-abstract "you". Invent a protagonist for your story if it doesn't already have one. Character building seems to be quickly fading into obscurity as a lost art of sorts, and you can help revive it.
> they didn't find correlations with acetaminophen before and after pregnancy, so that's 3 distinct factors just there

No, it's perfectly valid for a drug to only have affect on the growing fetus but where there were not studies proving harm to the child or adult, e.g. Thalidomide.
It also highlights the risks of NSA exploiting zero-days and creating malware to conduct offensive operations, rather than reporting vulnerabilities to the vendor to make everyone safer. Now these tools have been stolen by one of their adversaries, and may make it out into the public for anyone to take advantage of.

I just watched an excellent documentary called "Zero Days" (https://weshare.me/823adb83b8e98628) this morning about the whole Stuxnet (aka Olympic Games) debacle. They really are playing with fire.
that is a major problem too, particularly in Asia and discrimination (race, sex, age, disabled) target groups.
audio-only is also impacted (language, stutter, accent, pitch, etc) but to a lesser degree.

but then we developers would be lost without problems.
Would you get the lightning icon without AMP?
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It's not just about being typed or not. I know huge, successful Ruby codebases which is not typed. Ruby ecosystem is just much more consistent and convenient than JS.
Good work, dang! Don't let any of those contrary opinions hurt your feelings!!
There was a time, at one point, when MSFT qualified that CALs were not needed for WSUS if the underlying Windows Server version did not require CALS: http://www.wsus.info/index.php?showtopic=5592

Getting definitive licensing answers out of MSFT has proven difficult for me. I've gotten varying answers from different people in the past (not necessarily about this topic). MSFT definitely keeps things vague, IMO, to keep their options open.
Could you tip your fedora any harder if you tried?
It's an interesting experiment, it worth reading, but the title is not clear.

* It's not a real black hole, it's a analogous sonic black hole.

* The entanglement is not between the black hole and whatever, it's between the pair of particles in the analogous Hawking's radiation.

(The nice thing is that they can see the particle that goes inside the sonic black hole using light, because it's only a sonic black hole.)

Anyway, I don't have a better alternative. ("Sonic black hole made in lab shows quantum entanglement in Hacking particle pairs"???)
Wow. Amazing that someone would dare publish this in today's PC world.

That said, when stereotypes are wrong - they are very wrong, right from the article:

"2. Older people are generally more __________ and less __________ than adolescents.
A. Conscientious; open to new experiences
B. Neurotic; agreeable"

Old people are WAY more 'conscientious' than young people.

Old people vote, they plan, they don't overspend, they're rarely loud and unruly, their finances are predictable, their homes are often more clean and orderly, they usually are responsible for caring for others - kids and grandkids.

Young people are 'virtue signallers' and ostensibly have 'big hearts' and 'thumbs up' upworthy rubbish - but old people are far more tangibly conscientious. My elderly uncles and aunts are boring and a little curmudgeon, but the spend several weeks a year in Guatemala helping to build homes for poor people. The don't post it on social media. A young person who did this once would put that on their resume forever.

You know how deals with reality: 'insurers'. They have the real data. And it's the reason if you're under 25 it's sometimes impossible to rent a car.
I started reading it in Christian Bale's voice at some point there.
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Glancing at the stack traces with symbol server downloads enabled, it looks like there's a n^2 or potentially even exponential algorithm being run during the checking phase - checks are run both passively and when actively applying. There's something very wrong with the design of the algorithm - it obviously doesn't scale. Bigger, fewer patches may simply be reducing the size of n.

IMO a better approach would be to offload the work to MS: upload a list of applied updates and let the cloud do the crunching. Much higher chance of memoizing and reusing work that way too. It's a sign of MS's client oriented culture still sticking around.
Why do you think black people aren't hired at well paying jobs? Isn't racism also in a way based on stereotypes that are often true? A business owner has no legal obligation to interview every applicant.
https://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/LSSmotto.asp

Basically, you can't know for sure that the sea is too rough to do the rescue until you are already out at sea.
The brew script itself is bootstrapped over an HTTPS gist.

My understanding is that one then gets formulas from github over TLS (e.g. git remote -v shows https:// ...), and that both source and "bottle" (binary) downloads are identified by SHA256, SHA1 or MD5 in the formula for the package.

The formulas themselves can of course execute code, but in theory that is auditable.

On the other hand, I haven't looked at the code, so I'd be interested in hearing more about what bugs you about it.

EDIT: I do see that brew.sh site itself doesn't have a valid cert, apparently because they want to keep it on github pages, which is not ideal in terms of bootstrapping...
All these articles are fine and dandy but I would like to see more pragmatic articles on how to reduce technical debt. A lot of books have been written aroumd software patterns, service orientation, micro services, etc but none of them really address how to minimize technical debt over the life of software. Also not covered properly is what accounts for texhnical debt? For example, I have fee classes that have good unit tests, interfaces, proper seperation of concerns but performs really bad with 1000 concurrent users. So this goes back to how do we accurately define technical debt?
Maybe that'll make Amazon update their Kindle's experimental browser. It has an underestimated potential.

Will keep an eye on this, even if am now using a Kobo H20.
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