skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why limit who you do business with based on who agrees with you politically? That will probably hurt you more than it does anyone else.
What if in the last 20 years we've learned that browser is not the proper place for applications?
_Safety critical_? I doubt that...
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I'm always a fan of ending up back where I started.
The Verge's Deputy Editor Chris Ziegler Was Working for Apple for Two Months
Massachusetts has a new law prohibiting recruiters and employers from asking for your salary history. It is supposed to break the cycle of bad luck when a person has been underpaid in a previous job. I personally think it is a good idea.
Interesting article. I've always subscribed to the theory that nearer the horizon, people tend to use other things on the terrain as reference points for size (as the article explains).

However, I'd like to think that atmospherics has more to do with things than the article goes into - For instance, (ironically), astronauts who have stood on the moon itself have said that the lack of atmosphere and associated dust/movement around them made it impossible to judge distances. Boulders, rocks and mountains that they thought were only a few hundred feet away from them were in fact miles away, and vice versa.
An operating system which is a mix of OSX UI, Linux flexibility, FreeBSD network stack, and OpenBSD security.

It doesn't need NetBSD compatibility nor anything from Windows.

:)
I think we've reduced our disagreement to something too intractable for HN, except for this point, which I want to to clarify.

>I'm not sure if you're basing that on the situation where every schoolchild thinks they need to go to grad school? Frankly, I don't think this assumption is reasonable: I don't think the current system even encourages that. Universal undergrad is heavily encouraged, but culturally, grad school still remains very much discretionary.

My point was that grad school "overuse" is tightly coupled to undergrad "overuse" -- colleges are dominated by professors that think highly of post-grad education ("hey, it worked for me!") and will therefore overpromote that as an option. Therefore, overpromotion of college will translate to a saturation of grad school (and jobs with grad-school prerequisites), even if policy "only" encourages undergrad; this is where I think we are today.
Ok, so I guess that in absence of evidence the right thing for me to do is to simply imagine that the Brits built concentration camps.
You do realize they are launching from a military base right?
HTML+CSS+JS being the "assembly language of the web" is a terrible build target, I want a better foundation to build upon.
Because mind-share is sometimes more important than mere $. I'm not necessarily implying that buying Twitter for $10B is a good deal, but I can see why some market players would pay that money.
I submitted for the first time this Wednesday for my project https://oldgeekjobs.com. It took 4-5 hours in total.

Getting into YC is a long shot (especially for me since I'm a single founder), but I got a lot out of the application itself being forced to criticize my own business model.

I don't want to put my application online, but if anyone is curious how I answered any of the questions, I'll do my best to oblige. I'd love to know what others think--the good and especially the bad.
This can be useful. Connecting to Pop3/Imap to collect the data is not too bad.
I hope never find an article like this, talking about my favorite tech
You can switch your phone to "Device Only", to use only the actual GPS chip.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567848
A high-level editor at a top tech blog secretly worked for Apple for months
That has nothing to do with write endurance; it's a known bug in the firmware.
Good point, it's under "Contextual effects; reference cues in the field of vision" and doesn't have diagrams for it -- usually they illustrate this effect by showing a disk next to a bug, then a disk next to a skyscraper to convey the intuition.
If you're standing 100m from that fence and zoom in on it ("telephoto" in proper terms) you'll end up with a very different picture than if you're 2m away and using a normal or wide-angle lens. Kind of like holding your fingers in front of your eye and "crushing" people's heads.
It depends how fussy employers are about their employees. Employers are always saying there is a talent shortage.
Reminds me of the first episode of the west wing, after President Bartlett apparently rode his bike into a tree.

"What do you want me to tell the press? That the president, while riding his bike, came to a sudden arboreal halt?"
New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”
Yes, but in this particular case I would say that urgency is not the best thing to have. When my life is on the line, I would much rather have an autonomous driving system that was developed slowly and deliberately without time pressure instead of one that was rushed out the door to beat a competitor to market.
> poster child for the tech bubble

I don't think that they are that overvalued. To me, better examples are companies that get very high valuations in a short time that aren't justified. Twitter has had significant sustained usage and has monetized somewhat effectively.
He is in agreement
https://9to5mac.com/2011/11/11/gassee-thank-god-apple-chose-...
> exploiting the groups of gays, blacks, and women

Ok, that I can follow (I don't really agree with it). But what she said was "exploit the stories" of your out-group. Since the work is fiction it's nobody's story. Not my group's nor my out-group's. I guess the claim is your "group" retains the exclusive right to produce works of art that feature a fictional representation of someone or something related to your group.
A good bit of news to dropped out just before the weekend, heading into the first presidential debate.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...
Unfortunately, companies have literally less than zero incentive to be open about their hiring process as that can open them up to litigation regarding hiring practices. It is common, although unprofessional, to never hear back from a company regarding a role you were not a fit for.

To be honest, if one of the coding challenges required you to learn all of Django, clearly they were looking for someone who has experience with Django and not someone who just read the Django tutorial. This tells me that you were likely not a good fit for the role and possibly one of the reasons they didn't prioritize your callback. Id like to emphasize that this says nothing about your skills as a developer just simply how they interpreted your skill set for the role they want to fill. Its best to just move on to a company that does care rather than investing energy trying to convince those that don't that they should.
8th amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment. This isn't so unusual anymore, though, so it's only cruel. I guess that's ok...?
You're spinning what he said. I'm not voting this election, but I'm 100% against outrage culture.

'When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain.

"I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer," he told the magazine. "I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer."'[1]

1). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12...
Interesting! So is he really working for Apple? Would a contractor show up under that same directory in case he's working 1099 or something? I originally saw this story and figured "conflict of interest, lack of judgement but who cares" but now I'm curious how The Verge verified his employment with them and if he really does work there.
This is what Google does, the GPS updates are actually pretty infrequent, especially if you specify low power mode, or they detect a slow activity and or you are indoors.
Google's location API fuses all the sensors, they rely heavily on sensor data for indoor tracking and it's been getting pretty darn good since they've introduced it 2-3 years ago.
I've linked a few google talks in this thread already, and you can read about the Fused Location API.
It's this obviously poor behavior and lack of self awareness on the part of some progressives that makes me think they aren't moving us in the right direction. Rather, they're creating more division by turning society into a "zoo of diversity" where each enclosed group is sheltered from the ideas of others and judged by different standards.
fsync() is a very different thing from sync(), and it's the former that is relevant here. ext3 configured in a manner that used to be popular had a side effect of making fsync() require nearly as much io as sync, which is probably where the confusion comes from.
I was just talking about this subject a couple of days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535146

Actually a lot of my posts are related to this subject in some way.

Are you aware that contrary to popular perception, many of Silicon Valley's most influential people believe we are in a stagnation since the early 70s?

This is called the Technological Stagnation Hypothesis. The essence is that outside of computation there has been a reduction in technological progress.
To be fair, NYT op-ed has a long and storied history of middle-aged white dudes writing about kids these days. Easy mistake.
I know I'll get downvoted for this, but I'm virtually positive that Cruise was just snake oil. I expect GM to trail other automakers in this area, particularly after this acquisition. Now, to be fair, that is pretty much the null hypothesis since GM trails in a lot of areas. But, I view the Cruise acquisition as a confirmation of -- not a rebuttal to -- the notion that they are far behind and will fail.
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$ rg -uu foobar # similar to `grep -r`
$ rg -uuu foobar # similar to `grep -a -r`

I knew it. The name is absolutely ironic. I cannot just drop-it-in and make all my scripts and whatever scripts I download work immediately faster (nor is it compatible with my shell typing reflexes). New, shiny, fast tool, doomed from birth.
You really wanted to say "kids these days", didn't you?
I doubt the cpu load of session restore is responsible for the fans kicking in...
Criminals I tell you. /s

For all those that don't know about the geography of Charlotte, NC the city exists along the North Carolina/South Carolina border.

https://mecksheriffweb.mecklenburgcountync.gov/Arrest/Detail... Rock City, SC resident. Reason for arrest: FAIL TO DISPERSE ON COMMAND
You would think that, but honestly the site is broken more often than not for me. Right this very moment all pic.twitter links are just redirecting to "https//" URLs.

And that's in an incognito tab.
Word on the street (read r/SpaceX) is it was caused by a failing COPV.
Prepare for downvotes. how dare you criticize the great accomplishments of our new startup heroes?
I Peeked into My Node Modules Directory and You Won't Believe What Happened Next
Posting this to trigger HNReplies - See my first comment response to you for the full story.
The parent may have been suggesting a spectrum instead. Tools like that found at politicalcompass.org can take us away from the currently oversimplified left-right notion of politics, while still being easy to understand.
Thanks for those links - I think they frame the progress on localization really nicely. They also make clear the improvements are based on fusion of GPS + wifi + IMU/sensors. Adding IMu data to the existing mix is a clear win, but there's a major difference between that and using the IMU for dead reckoning alone. I think that's worth clarifying since the thread started out talking about localization with wifi disabled (although disabled clearly doesn't quite mean what you think it might in this context.)
I wrote third party software for BeOS for a few years, I don't remember anything being asynchronous. BeOS was quite the opposite; everything was threads. Threads were cheap so it didn't matter if you blocked one. One of the demos rendered and displayed realtime video by spawning a new thread for every frame.

Window messages were done using a MessageReceived() function with message codes that was almost exactly like WndProc on Windows. Very C-like despite being a C++ API.
Ditto, Nexus 5, Android 6.0.1. That's how I interpreted it: as a relocation and rewording of a setting.
Well, the left sure won't survive millennials in the UK. The parties on that side of the political spectrum seem to be really bad at picking good leaders and unable to win popular support for a pretty long time...

Oh, it's about the social justice thing. In which case, it probably will. Social justice warriors are an issue, but there's still a decent part of the left who utterly hate them and their obsession with 'identity politics', and I can easily see a more libertarian left party or group getting popular in the near future.
Good info, thanks.

Now what about the people starting fires and assaulting people?
Profitable forex signals
Grad students have job security, health insurance, physical security, and good job prospects upon graduation. It's not really a fair comparison to, say, a part time minimum wage job at home depot, even if the take-home pay is similar. The tax ramifications of graduate school are usually pretty good too, so the money goes further than the salary numbers would indicate.

There's also a big difference between being low paid in a generally high paid cultural group vs being in a generally low paid cultural group, in terms of social safety net and psychological climate.
I guess a better way to start a conversation would be to point at all the effort and argumentation wasted over where the line between GPLed kernel modules and non-GPLed kernel modules is in the Linux kernel, as well as runtime disadvantages in some cases. The efforts to get ZFS encryption on Linux are a good recent example of this problem: they had to port the in-kernel crypto implementation from Illumnos (basically OpenSolaris) even though the Linux kernel has a perfectly good implementation of AES-GCM that would've worked without bloating the kernel modules.

Add to that the resistance to forming stable ABIs (and sometime APIs) in part to push everyone to not only license any kernel module as GPL, but to also commit it to the one true kernel sources, and I think there's at least a discussion worth having. But definitely not one to be started with "cancerous GPL".
It's not like HK volunteered to become a subject of the Crown in the first place though:

> In 1839, Britain invaded China to crush opposition to its interference in the country’s economic and political affairs. One of Britain’s first acts of the war was to occupy Hong Kong, a sparsely inhabited island off the coast of southeast China. In 1841, China ceded the island to the British, and in 1842 the Treaty of Nanking was signed, formally ending the First Opium War.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hong-kong-ceded-t...

If Canada invaded the US and forced rohde island to become a territory of Canada, I'd probably be bitter about it, even if it became safer to live there.
Sounds pretty ridiculous to ask someone to clean your car, in your driveway, then get angry when the dirt/grime that comes off your car gets your driveway dirty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM
I disagree with that very strongly. I don't want to have to install 100+ desktop apps (and hope they're available for my OS, and up-to-date) to be able to use every service I interact with. If GMail, GCalendar, HN, GitHub, CircleCI, Google Docs, Slack, and every other web application I use every day were not in a browser, the world would be a much worse place. But all of those applications are built upon that pile of hacks, and much harder to write an maintain than they should be.
Companies typically wait until Friday afternoon to release news like this with the hopes it will flush out of the news cycle by Monday
It had printer support since at least R4. As I recall it even had some support for printing to network printers. There was an office package called Gobe Productive which was pretty nice for a BeOS application. Similar to AppleWorks or Microsoft Works.
If I remember correctly Steven Cheung' deliberately "steal" the name of the book you mentioned.

Here is link of his paper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/724823?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
Yeah sure, everything that happened in British colonies was the fault of the British Empire. Even if it was a drought or natural disaster or if the country wasn't even part of the Empire.

Let's just call it genocide because you feel like it. Legal definitions do not matter, all that matters is how you feel about it.
We can remind people that there are "sides within sides" and that we should allow people's positions to change.
I agree that it's huge, but I am reluctant to agree that it's unheard of for a lawyer to disclose confidential information inside a courtroom, especially during an argument having to do with that information.

Maybe things are different in the scenario of high powered lawyers practiced in high value civil suits, but my experience is that run-of-the-mill lawyers are not polished at all in their courtroom behaviors.
This is a fair question. I'm somewhat to blame for contributing to it over the last 10 years via SpiderOak.
There are very good reasons though, and it's probably time I made a post about it.
Yeah, Dominic Giampaolo.
He works at Apple now and is heading its new file system efforts.

For years I though he was secretly writing a BeFS like replacement to HFS.

APFS seems less ambitious however.
This is just the start. With the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised to see liberal companies and activists with all the correct political credentials organising boycotts of people who oppose bombing civilians abroad, just like the right were doing a decade or two ago. We've already seen accusations of misogyny and supporting violence against women levelled at them by people like J. K. Rowling (because apparently suggesting voters will consider politicians responsible for their votes is a call for violence now). Same has been happening to minimum wage activism, disability rights, and all the other traditional left-wing causes. The attacks on the right are getting the most attention, probably because they're in a better position to fight back, but I think it's the left that's actually being wiped out here.
Since all processors must share the mapping,

- The initial mapping of each file in any thread must halt all of the threads which are otherwise active.

- Every page fault in any mapping must also halt all of the threads.

Worse, since the page tables are getting munged, some or all of the TLB cache is getting flushed every time, again, on every processor.

I'm not sure of the details, but this hypothesis should be directly testable. IIRC, there are some hardware performance counters for time spent waiting on TLB lookups.

Addendum: One other possibility is that the mere act of extending the working set size (of the address space) is blowing the TLB cache.
No kidding:

"Unfortunately for Google, those two numbers can be readily found via a website known as Google dot com:"

...followed by two screenshots of searchs for the numbers, both of which only show results with snippets like "according to a transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp.'s copyright lawsuit against Google.", "....said in court while disclosing figures Google says shouldn't have been made public", and "Thanks to a lawyer, we know now that Google has made..."
Sounds like this capcom.sys should be added to AV signature lists...
That's just reality. In general the GPL is perceived extremely negatively. Almost every company I've worked for has had strict audits to ensure nothing we do or even previously worked on has touched anything potentially GPL.

If you're writing software for fun, enjoy seeing it being used, and still want attribution you licence it under the MIT or BSD, not the GPL. Many people get polarized on the topic and there are many discussion on stackoverflow and around where people seek or design MIT-like, GPL-incompatible licence specifically. Likewise, the GPL has its own cult following.

Regardless of personal opinions, few if any commercial entities willing want to work with the GPL.
Yeah, I'm sure the client was happy to have the world learn about how much Android actually makes for Google and what Google paid Apple. Unfortunately, it came at the cost of her ever litigating a high profile case again. People who "accidentally" leak confidential corporate information about their competitor usually don't get a second chance. She's a seasoned IP lawyer so this wasn't accidental. It was premeditated and what's worse is that she's still refusing to accept responsibility for it. This is reckless behavior and someone you don't want litigating your case.
I had about ~250 tabs and i closed them now. Bookmarked before. This "feature" of FF is rly cucking. I have tons of GB written to my SSD without any benefit (i not a "safety critical user"). And the worst thing is, all of this data was written into 40 GB of SSD space.

this session restore feature, lets just save the urls in a list. that data structure cant be GB of GB right! ;) I think thats enough for the, lets say, typical FF user.

Now, that i know about this issue, i will bring down my tab usage to no more than 10 tabs.
Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
African-America men are incarcerated at a much higher rate than white men. Does that mean black men are more likely than white men to commit crimes?

The answer is no, because there are confounding issues I left out. This should sound familiar, you just did it yourself.
Neat. Using chainpad for the basis of my next project :-)
Then that is a pretty poor precedent, however I've not seen people (who actually understand cryptography or security) reference "zero knowledge" as the fact that the provider can't access your data.
This is about the left, not about millennials. In the past it was the right condemning behaviors, but now it's the left. The left has taken on the motto of "intolerance for intolerance"; what that really means though is, if I don't agree with it it shouldn't be allowed. The left aren't advocating for free speech, but for specifically allowed speech. And that's more dangerous than the alleged bigotry they think they're stopping.
Also http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/23/ziegler-verge-ap...
Definitely worth filing a bug in bugzilla if they are not on the right virtual desktop... it might take years to get fixed, but they do generally get round to it.
How YouTube recommendations work [pdf]
I notice that subsequent runs in the same (non changing) directory get different results. These runs are all within 20 seconds, what gives?

$ rg each | md5sum
670b544e15f9430d9934334a11a87b7e -
$ rg each | md5sum
4d13be6b4531ad52b1b476314fe98fb7 -
rg each | md5sum
88e15dbb943665ea54482cb499741938 -
rg each | md5sum
eec6d6d5c9a592cec25aa8b0c19aae15 -
rg each | md5sum
ad74b78ef8f0d21450f8f87415555af0 -

And:

$ date
Sat Sep 24 01:42:27 EEST 2016
$ rg each > foo1
$ rg each > foo2
$ rg each > foo3
$ rg each > foo4
$ ls -la foo*
-rw-r--r-- 1 coldtea staff 1429646 Sep 24 01:42 foo1
-rw-r--r-- 1 coldtea staff 2250868 Sep 24 01:42 foo2
-rw-r--r-- 1 coldtea staff 4536031 Sep 24 01:42 foo3
-rw-r--r-- 1 coldtea staff 9140652 Sep 24 01:42 foo4
$ date
Sat Sep 24 01:42:44 EEST 2016

OS X 10.12, installed with brew.
That opinion piece in The Guardian was quite a read - a real view into how some progressives think. It was also mercilessly slammed in the comments section, which gives me hope that the dogmatic excesses of the left will not prevail.
and it wasn't to _Be_