skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen any new functionality in iTunes or Google Maps in years. I'm sure there are new features, but the basics have been the same for going on a decade now. Seems like they are just redesigning the UI to piss people off, just like every other clueless company out there. If you can't figure out how to make a clean map or music player interface, you're not a designer.
Facebook caught an office intruder using Geofeedia
Keeping Track of Open Source Software Licenses
What is the status on T-Mobile offering unlimited data usage from select sources (Binge On program)? I can stream as much (well, I guess up to 17Gb) data as I want so long as it's from their list of approved sources which allow throttling at 480 resolution. It feels absurd that this is how they operate, rather than just allowing unlimited data at say 3G speeds (rather than the throttled data rate which is at most 2G but in practice is unusable).

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/10/28/net.neutralit...
This is completely false.

If you look at how businesses generally work, they're trying to get a certain amount of revenue in order to balance their budget and make a profit. Then they decide how to get it.

Data caps are fantastic. Because it means when they're raising their prices, they're charging the users who most use it, rather than just raising the price for everyone.

If you're being asked to pay for overage on a wired line plan, it means you're a 1%er in the Internet world. You're a burden on the system with how much you use, and you're upset you're being asked to pay a little more than everyone else.

Basically, people opposed to data caps are like Wall Street execs complaining their taxes are higher than everyone else's.
VPN hosting country, these are drones. Drones, meet the VPN host country...

Or heck, just strong-arm them into adopting think-of-the-children laws one way or another.
How are they cringe-worthy? The tech stuff especially is incredibly prescient, considering when it was written.
I bought one. Programming it online and being able drag/drop a hex file onto the device makes it super simple and approachable.

Very cool product.
We tried having a 'Men's Shed' in our town, but I think it got shut down by a bunch of harpies.

That negative experience aside I think it is fine for men and women to spend time apart if it is voluntary.

When a member of the opposite sex, even one, is in a group of the other sex then the atmosphere changes. I don't have a better way to describe it, but unsurprisingly it suppresses some activities.

I think what I hate most, and I really do mean hate, about the left is how they have damaged something which used to be much stronger, which is male friendship. They associated male friends with homoerotic implications because gay sexuality is their fixation. There is nothing wrong with being gay, I support all forms of civil liberties for gays including marriage, I voted for it in the Irish election recently even though I had to visit 4 polling stations to get it in properly. Nonetheless I believe also that platonic male friendship has suffered badly in the last few decades for no good reason. Gay sexuality does not threaten male friendship, but the politically motivated and constant insertion of it into everyday life, especially through the media has been destructive. Many many men have not evolved a deeper friendship because they were afraid of being sniggered at as homosexuals, and I think that is wrong.

If you read books about generations gone by it is obvious that many men had much deeper friendships than they do today. Today those sorts of friendships are not really possible without stupid irrelevant discussions about sexuality.
My favourite languages are from the Wirth and ML family of languages, so I really like Rust.

On my daily work I get to use JVM, .NET and C++.

Although my C++ usage is restricted to giving a little help to JVM or .NET applications, if at all required, which happens very seldom.

Here is where I still see Rust lacking, due to the language being young.

On those platforms the vendor's tooling supports mixed debugging, out of box integration with their platform libraries and a few other goodies.

For example, for UWP applications Rust tooling is still catching up with C++/CX and C++/WinRT.

Modern C++ does feel like a rejuvenated language, but the problem is that you require a team that is willing, or able, to force it across their code.

Otherwise you just get a mix of C++98, C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17, depending on which library you are looking at. Not to mention having to get your head around meta-programming tricks like SFINAE, as workaround for many of the C++17 features.

So although Modern C++ feels good, there is the question when one takes a C++ at random company X, how much they are allowed to actually use from it.

So I think a reboot into new systems programming languages is required, and Rust is one of the possible candidates.

Which will surely get its place.
Same question. I abuse the hell out of the half-dozen Apple cables in my house (2x macbook, a few ipad/phone)—roughly bunch them up and toss them in a bag or drawer all the time, yank them out of walls with little care, et c. My usual position for my Macbook at home puts the cable at an awkward, crimped angle and I really ought to stop that.

Plus I've had my kids tripping over them, folding them, playing tug of war with them. At least once a week something happens to one of my cables that probably ought to break it. Not one has broken.

WTF are people doing with their cables that's worse than what I do?
Does she have a bike? You can be from most places on campus to downtown PA in ~10 mins.
That's certainly the most common rationalization that's given for the disparity, but even if accepted as valid, the criterion of being an "avenue for social advancement" is difficult to apply to one, but not the other. What's to stop people from 'networking' in women-only cars, and what of the myriad 'women in business' networking events and clubs that exist?
It's worth reading the entire series, beginning with http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-1/ .

While large tech companies are great at attracting talent, that doesn't create a dearth of talent going into smaller startups. The driver here is Part 1: the capital requirements for any high-quality project are huge and up-front. And as entertainment is getting increasingly saturated, there's no real way for a "unicorn" franchise to be born out of an indie flick. No upstart VC will take a bet on you making the next Star Wars, even if you're already an industry insider... and in that case, per the OP, it's much more reliable for you to work within the current system. And on top of that, industry fundamentals don't look good: from one of the links in Part 4, https://redef.com/original/the-future-of-film-part-i-us-film... .

Perhaps film is truly an industry in decline, and the disruption is already happening - not from Netflix and other content producers, but in the form of interactivity and mainstream gaming. Perhaps the monetization model there is simply better. Time will tell.
For anyone finding this ruling confusing as I initially did: this isn't about T-Mobile unlimited plans that slow down from LTE to EDGE speeds after a certain amount of data; that was well-advertised, and not apparently at issue. This is about a different, entirely unadvertised process by T-Mobile on unlimited plans of de-prioritizing traffic entirely after a certain point (~17GB), making it appear as though the network is simply more congested for the user after they've used a large amount of data.
Developers cause software downtime, but they usually don't cause infrastructure downtime, which is what Chaos Monkey does. Cloud VMs have failure rates somewhere around 1-2% depending on who you ask. This is low enough that you can ignore it most of the time, but it'll come back and bite you hard later. Chaos Monkey artificially forces that failure rate high enough that you'll notice problems immediately and fix them before they become too engrained into your architecture.
How did you read the article? You signed up on the website?
Yea that sentence on rape was, in my eyes, just as diminishing to rape as I imagine they feel the impact is of false rape accusations.
I know two people to whose place police have been called by neighbors "trying to help children" when they suspected (correctly) that a 7 and a 10yo were alone at home. The parents were normal, reasonable people (not born in the US); kids were never in danger.

When I was between 7 and 9 I often came home from school and was alone for a while, warmed up food or cooked something simple (using a gas stove that required a match to light), went outside to play with friends if I wanted, etc.

It is sad the society today will jump in to protect my kids from me if it catches me letting them do anything like that.
Well doesn't apply (AFAIK) to OS vendors like Microsoft. They actively encourage, and pay for, security bug reports.

In 2013 they paid out $100k to a single researcher for a set of bug reports.

So I don't think in a comparison of OS-->OS bugs that factor would really apply
They don't type hard enough :-)

Joke aside, I was mainly thinking about wrist problems. I think any normal sized, model-m layout or possibly split-layout keyboard with non-linear quality switches is ok.

If the finger joints hurts, I suppose a lower activation force might be good - I guess one might be Cherry MX Brown, but I don't personally like anything else than buckling spring...

The main message is that in my experience, laptops in your lap is the worst, and exercise helps.
Vocore2 Lite a $4 Linux WiFi module
Three workarounds while you look for a technical cofounder
fsf.org supports HTTPS.
Suggested URL, thus:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/judge-mayer-provides-a-s...

(Very good story, btw)
One of the projects I was working on the database schema changed underneath of us, at best daily. More likely every several hours. Column names and types changed. This led to a lot of runtime errors, due to type mismatch using python.

My team did a POC in scala, with slick. Compiling the ORM against the table metadata. The code written was reduced, errors were reduced. All was wonderful, with one exception. We had just become siloed.

Our company was largely python/django/celery. We had alot of intermingling between developers. Jumping around whenever there was spare bandwidth. While this change was worth it, from a technical perspective. Not so much from management and on boarding.

We had to write alot of additional code casting types, and verifying them. If I recall 80% of our code was cleaning up this database. A static expressive language alleviated alot of this. But when other developers jumped on board it was a massive context switch. They could learn, but to management. One to two months burned writing custom code, was better spent than retraining developers. I concurred in that instance with their rapid target release cycle. Comfort and knowledge of existing languages/tooling was paramount.

Languages are tools, and often we're not flying solo. We're working in a team. While a certain lib may be nice, or syntax set. The entire team needs to be understand that. If I'm able to write code twice as fast due to additional features. But everyone else takes twice as long due to context switch, and not knowing the feature. It's not worth it. As I've gone on I'm less concerned about one library or language feature. But the composite whole from tooling, devops, backend to frontend. What is the most cohesive picture. I definitely have languages I raise an eyebrow at like why are we using that.

When I led that team from the prior example. We alternated our Friday's. We had a two hour meeting. Two weeks of the month we did code katas. We picked a random esoteric language, everything from java to racket. We did basic exercises. Then stand up a quick API and web page. We reviewed the tooling, artifacting, was it more functional or object orientated. We looked at the language and tools. Said this is a pain point. But this is a really good point. How can we incorporate it into our workflow. Just working with an additional tool set, shows you how to use your current tools in new ways. Some people didn't have time to search outside of work. These code katas allowed a minimal amount of time, and vast exposure.
Scripting Layer 4 Android provides a reasonable facade for a lot of APIs that are available to a ton of languages via a socket. It has out of the box support for perl and python as well as some other languages.

[1] https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a
I'll defend Amazon on this one: UPS will pick up the order and the delivery person will have the sticker to put on the box. Last month I ordered some Nest Protects from Amazon and one was defective. I filed for a return and the next day had a replacement, plus the UPS guy picked up the box for my return. Couldn't be easier.
That assumes that the needs of retired coaches are the same as the needs of coaches today.
Not really. The supreme court has repeatedly said there are constitutional limits on punitive damage.

In fact, for federal common law, it's about a 1:1 ratio, and for everything else, it's supposed to be "single digit multipliers".

See exxon shipping v. baker and following cases.

So, of course, agencies keep their fines within precedent because they actually want to be able to defend them in court.

Ignorance is bliss though, blame lobbying.

(since some have privately asked: no, i think this kind of restriction is pretty much BS, but it is the law of the land, and it is one of the main reasons agency fines are so low in cases like this. The amount t-mobile gained by throttling unlimited data is pretty small, at least if their percent of users going over x amount of data numbers are correct)
Huh. Thanks for this. How are the speeds in major cities?
> women-only spaces (e.g. a train car[1] or taxi[2])

I'm sure that an equivalent men-only train car or taxi could be established if necessary. At least I haven't heard about any resistance to making that kind of safe space. I don't think anybody is trying to justify gender biased transportation; the difference is simply due to lack of demand.
What about bootstrapped, self-funded, youtube channels that became huge?
I didn't say anything about silence or bullying. Some people can't be won over with empathy and reasoned appeals. That's why I listed other options, including ignore. And yes, an army of policemen is required to stay power regardless of ideology. See every society.
I'm really surprised this hasn't caused more of a Net Neutrality uproar, since it's essentially the worst case scenario. If you don't pay T-Mobile to be one of their approved partners, your service is punished by costing customers more money for the same amount of data.
I learnt how memory works on a machine with a Z80. You don't need power for education, you need immediacy and tangibility.
Very good point. I just hope that the penalties considerably outweigh the risks.
> We're in the world together and where possessible should share that responsibility.

No, I have no obligation or responsibility to your child. You can ask me for my voluntary help, but that's it.

I generally don't believe in limiting freedoms because people abuse and/or misuse something. There are exceptions of course, but this is clearly not one of them. Should we limit the amount of chocolate sold in stores because obese people lack self-discipline or because parents cannot control their children?

Take responsibility for your family or don't have one at all.
ARMv6 core, Fedora (and a lot of other distros) only support ARMv7 and newer.
Simple Isolated Networks for Secure Virtual Data Centers with Palo Alto Networks
Approval voting is fabulous. Why have I never seen this discussed before?
On the contrary, the TOS limitations are often an issue. They often regulate what you can use the data or hosting for. For instance, unlimited hosting plans often prohibit running download sites or being used as backup storage for yourself, to avoid you from using a lot of space or a lot of bandwidth. They also usually prohibit you from running cron jobs or game servers or chat bots which can be higher on other server resources.

"Unlimited" hosting plans are effectively geared for basic personal or small business websites only. And if you go over some soft limits they're almost certainly monitoring, they'll find an excuse in the TOS to disable your account.
I would. 75% of Chicago is very safe. Stay out of the bad areas and it is fine.
Is it really so unusual for someone with relatively marketable skills to have a standard 8 hour work day with a proper lunch break?
> I don't understand the appeal of getting my stuff in 2 days vs say 4days or whatever. If it was an immediate need I'd either buy locally or pay the upgraded shipping when I need it.

It's killer for me and my family. Everything we get online instead of going to a store means one fewer trip out in traffic either 1) with the kids or 2) at night after they've gone to bed but we're tired.
> sing untrained, un-uninformed randos to deliver packages in their personal vehicles means my deliveries get screwed up much, much more frequently

Lasersh*t strikes again
While I wouldn't go full MTGOW, I guess I see where these guys are coming from as a collegiate 20-something; the economics of serious long-term romantic relationships are kind of unfavorable right now. Men lose a lot of autonomy in most relationships in my peer group (e.g. no more wild parties, more limited free time, many feel obligated to bring their partner to social events even if their partner is not in the relevant social group, etc.). On the other hand, there is not much to gain; sex is easily accessible even without being in a long-term relationship, and with much lower cost and effort. Emotional fulfillment, to whatever degree that applies, usually isn't a sufficient incentive.

Children are extremely difficult for both men and women; they are a huge expense, and raising one without a dedicated caretaker is practically very difficult. Most of my peer group in serious long-term relationships, even those married and around traditional child-rearing ages, seem to be quite confident that they won't have children.

I think we will see a serious social restructuring around family life, but it's not yet clear to me how that will look.
The article's Part 1 refers to an old HN thread and buried in there is a good comment from
anactofgod about "disrupting Hollywood":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3491584

His analysis has similar to themes to the misunderstanding of "gatekeepers" like Netflix / Amazon Video / HBO and why they exist.

Gatekeepers are an emergent property of artists not having money to self-finance their projects -- and -- also not wanting to mess around with tasks that are unrelated to creativity such as managing a web server farm to distribute their videos to their fans.

There was a recent HN thread where people were frustrated that they had to pay for multiple streaming services (Netflix/Hulu/Amazon) to get all the shows they wanted. Several suggested that we need to move towards a decentralized P2P distribution platform. Unfortunately, as techies and programmers, we don't consider the underlying economic forces that created the centralized gatekeepers in the first place. For example... if director/producer David Fincher wants the highest payment for his project, he can go to Netflix execs and convince them give him $100 million[1]. How would he get that kind of payday from decentralized systems such as IPFS / Sandstorm / DECENT[2]?

[1]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-outbids-hbo-da...

[2]https://decent.ch/
Where else would a self.reddit link go? Also, the comments link always goes to the same place.
This rings incredibly true for me. I'm certainly the type of parent that lets my kids wander farther than normal (by today's ridiculous standard of normal anyway, which means within 5 feet) and I see constant looks of concern from all sorts of adults. My 4 year old is perfectly capable of being a half block ahead of me as we walk down the street and doesn't need an adult stopping him to check in. My last walk through the airport with two kids, both always well within eyesight, resulted in multiple concerned adults stopping in their tracks, ready to leap into action.

If a kid is clearly lost, crying, or distressed then please, by all means try to help. But if a kid is confidently walking without a parent within 5 feet don't jump to the conclusion that something's wrong.
I meant precisely what I stated. A child doesn't have a choice about where it is brought in to being. Unstated: all children should have a good education/etc.

Now, the /parents/. They do have a choice. The general system outlined in Larry Nivin's science fiction universe where exponentially higher costs were associated with children past the first free one (there were also lotteries to fairly distribute most of the rest of the population sustenance quota, as well as the option of emigrating off of earth to unrestricted colonies).

Mostly, however, is the issue that today there are many who do not /have/ children because the imbalances in today's society make them feel unworthy or simply unable to do so.
Unless I've misunderstood you, you seem to have a weirdly different view of the Gamergate fracas than I had.

I thought the whole thing was a rejection of the attempt by members of the gaming media to paint "gaming" as some exclusively male (and explicitly anti-woman) subculture. There was no shortage of women speaking out as "members" of gg.
Protonmail has the ability to send a password-encrypted message to anyone. They just get a link and you have to give them the password through other means.

All encryption is handled client-side in js (they recently became maintainers of that library as well, iirc). The message can also expire after x days and the recipient can reply.

I'm not sure if I like how they're basically inventing their own encryption scheme for emails instead of supporting pgp, but for these use-cases it's quite slick.
I would name it a "self fulfilling contradiction" but nothing really comes up when I search that.
You'd be better off using a BeagleBone, the SoC is much better designed for that purpose.
How's the weather in Indianapolis this time of year?
Yep, that is exactly it.

Infinite Jest is a look into the sick self-doubting mindset that has infected the US(and other parts of the world).

I read while I was severely over-weight and 'depressed' and it was extremely validating to see the mindset so accurately reflected. I've never had a book where I can't read it without stopping if desired before(unless it's purely technical).

I couldn't get through more than 50pages/sitting for Infinite Jest.

It was pretty good.
صورلرؤساء أركان 5+5في قمتهم المستمرة في الجزائر
For reference, FIT: http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/10/fit-failure-injection-te...
Why Disgust Matters
There's a lot of non-US devs on here; you might want to set up a mailing list for them to sign up with. I'd like to hear again when you open up for the rest of the world! (NL here)
For how long is the ID valid? I mean if you do it only for voting, how often do you need to renew it?

The whole process sounds regular bureaucracy like in every other country. You need ID everywhere (at least in developed countries) to vote.

Having ID is common sense. It all sounds political pseudo-problem.