skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a ridiculous position.

My ownership of my home provides a lot of active investment activity that wouldn't happen otherwise:

Examples:

- the local nursery benefits from the plants and growing materials that we buy

- investments in home improvements generate contractor man-hours and local material purchases

- as an active participant in stakeholder in the community, I contribute to the governance of the community

- single family homes are valued at a premium to multi family, so I contribute more to local school and municipal services.
Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and...

Some of the most mildly interesting:

V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter

W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter

X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter

X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter

Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subsequent encounter
If anyone's looking for a student friendly version on microkernels and specifically Send/Receive/Reply, take a look at the resources for UWaterloo's CS452 here. [1]

That course features implementation of microkernels based on QNX from scratch to drive trains around a track, should be straightforward to implement on a Raspberri Pi or a Pandaboard/Beagleboard. The course uses a TS7200 which is an older ARM chip.

[1] http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/wmcowan/teaching/cs452/w16/notes...
or didn't know of
The Evolution of the Home User Interface
Implementing SSL/TLS for all Squarespace sites
I'll give you two reasons: performance and ease of use. When you need a copy of a large object with a small change, performing the copy with native JS is going to be slower than doing it with a specialized data structure like a hash mapped trie[0] (which is what Immutable.js uses). Also, if you're trying to keep your data truly immutable, that copy operation is going to be a pain to write with the built-in tools, whereas it's super easy to return a copy of an object with a change to a single, deeply nested property with Immutable.js. I agree that it's premature to reach for a library before you need it, but let's not pretend there aren't rather large drawbacks to using Object.freeze and Object.assign.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie
Neat! I can understand. Also like how some guitarists who sing prefer to tune to Eb. I think it's more of a sonic fit for some registers.

I've always wanted to play heavy strings, so I also explored tuning down. Imagine my surprise seeing what Dimebag Darrell was tuning to for "Floods" on 'Great Southern Trendkill' - C# F# B E G# C. I had trouble getting intonation that worked well for me, so I went ahead and got a Les Paul style Baritone. Definitely a workout, and the opposite of going lighter, but I really dig the tone it puts out. Worth the hand cramps to practice on the 27" scale.
Why would breathing pure oxygen be a bad idea?
How exactly do you encode a HTTP header into an URL?
I'd point out that this video is basically "The Dictator's Handbook" in a nutshell video form. And that book is far from universally accepted, so while the video is presented in a very assertive tone you might want to take it with a grain of salt.
Star Wars is nonsense too but it makes people happy.

Nonsense spreads not just because of apathy.
That's not really accurate, you could deduct interest and leases for a very long time. Pretty sure that went away as Vietnam war spending ramped up.
All of this http://www.bofh.net/

Bastard Operator from Hell
I have been following this for years, being both a sound engineer and a bit of a hippie who knows a lot of other hippies. The basic issue is that 432 is a numerologically interesting number compared to 440. So if it's more interesting it should be better for artistic purposes, goes the argument. However this falls flat as soon as you consider that the 432 is only interesting relative to the completely arbirtrary duration of a second. There is nothing special about the second from a human psychoacoustic point of view. We could have standardized on a longer or shorter time interval, but since we'd been using the Babylonian-originated divisions for centuries in the west the second is what we ended up with.

But unless the music also contains some 1Hz modulation (or a power-of-two multiple thereof) then the 432 base frequency isn't related to anything fundamental in musical terms. Speaking as a DJ, if you take a track and play it a little bit faster or slower it still sounds great or awful as at the default speed in most cases. 432Hz vs 440Hz is a ~2% difference, while DJ equipment commonly allows for +/-10% pitch variation so you can match the pace of different tracks smoothly while people are dancing. Only the very tiny number of people with perfect pitch find this disorienting to listen to. If there were really something special about the duration of the second and the base pitch relative to that, you'd have expected it to emerge from dancefloors years ago. In reality 432Hz is basically cargo cult numerology, something fun to think about when you are not having any success coming up with a kickass tune. And kickass tunes derive their quality from the relative rations of the note pitches, not from some absolute Magic Frequency.

Trust me on this. I really love numerology, sacred geometry and so on, and I try to integrate this into my artistic work regardless of medium. I would love for there to be some special key that would unlock the gate to cosmic/ biological/ quantum harmony and allow my artistic work to automatically echo the heartbeat of the universe. I'm a mystic by temperament and have been looking for such things my whole life. I would go so far as to say I have some religious faith in the significance of such things. But this ain't it.
Perhaps you're doing what I'm about to recommend already, but I can't be sure based on what you wrote. It's in regard to "2. Team says, "Need to ship; we'll accept the risk".

If the Business Unit, for whom the software is being written, has a representative on your team, then make sure you explain the risk in purely business terms, not technical ones. A BU rep's ears are going to perk up with statements like "invalid posts may get written to the general ledger" or "1 in every 20 orders may get dropped" rather than "universally scoped variables are being overwritten by invalid data in some cases" or "uncommitted nested transactions may cause a core dump."

If your team doesn't include a BU rep, then you could always get friendly with one and explain the potential risks over coffee or lunch. Perhaps even suggest some questions the rep should ask the team before the mod goes live.

In my situation, a BU rep is always part of the team and I rarely have other developers on the team. The reps and I have lunch together regularly anyway, so they get my opinions and recommendations that way.
backward compatibility would be one reason.
SPA's ruined everything. All the beauty has to be handled manually.
hey - this is apoorva from instacart s12. we'd not have been in YC had it not been for Garry Tan! full story here: https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/

really happy to see this happen. i think this will be great for the community.
Not particularly, I would think, for the average user. The WSL stuff is a major improvement for me personally, I also recently bought a new workstation class system where I had the choice of 10 Pro or 7 pre-installed and, not having any legacy software issues to worry about, chose 10. I was happy with 7 and am happy with 10. All other things being equal, the newer version would seem to make more sense.

Again, unless you're concerned about the privacy issues or have special need for non-automatic updates/restarts, which really I think are a minority of users, 10 carries incremental improvements in my experience. Having said that, the free upgrade period would have likely been a good thing to take advantage of for the average 7 user... paying for the upgrade now, not so much.
Orchestras in Europe mostly use 442 pitch. This was really started because the recording industry liked a more "brilliant" sound. It also lead to some disastrous destruction of old string instruments which couldn't withstand the high pressure of steel strings being tuned to 442 to and broke.
Not to sound like an ass, but it would help us to not generalize if you have shown some counter examples.
Didn't even have to click the link to know it was Pannen.
The guy truly embodies the concept of Virtual Exploration.

If you haven't done so already, go ahead and watch his Watch For Rolling Rocks .5 A Press commentary.
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FROM THE ARTICLE

"A funny thing happened when I banned tablets in my house on weekdays and curtailed their use on weekends. My children, ages 6 and 4, became less cantankerous. They also became happier, more responsive and engaged in more imaginative play. They rediscovered their toys. Outside the home, they became less demanding and better at self-regulating.

Friday, the American Academy of Pediatrics validated my experiment, recommending that children younger than 18 months get zero screen time, and those ages 2 to 5 be limited to one hour a day—half of its prior recommendation. The group recommended that the hour be “high quality programming” that parents watch with their children.

The academy doesn’t set limits for older children, but suggests curtailing screen time before bedtime and when it conflicts with healthy activities.

Most parents haven’t been listening. Mobile devices—tablets, smartphones and the like—in the hands of children are a big business. Time spent in apps from the “family” category on the Google Play store doubled in the past year, according to app-tracker App Annie. Children ages 2 to 11 watch an average of 4 ½ hours a day of recorded programming. And more than 50% of Netflix Inc. accounts world-wide watch some form of children’s content, a spokeswoman says.

We have been conducting a social experiment on our children since the arrival of the smartphone a decade ago and the tablet soon after. A rich library links too much television for children to ill effects ranging from obesity to attention disorders. But there are few studies examining children using tablets and smartphones.

Such research is “in its infancy,” says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines. But we know that screens’ effects on young children depend on what they are looking at and how they are used..."

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btw, our team is working on a solution to help parents with this issue :)

SmartMadre helps parents manage internet addiction by directing their children to educational sites while online. Internet access to time wasting websites is blocked until measurable progress is made on over 40 educational sites. The software leverages internet addiction and uses it as a motivator for online learning.

Currently we have a working product online that supports all major operating systems. We have identified many amazing free and low-cost education websites that parents can connect to SmartMadre allowing them to see their child’s learning progress across all sites in one place.

Our mission is to provide affordable, easy to use tools to help parents reduce the time their children spend on time wasting websites and increase the time children spend on education websites.
A guy I met at a party this weekend was explaining this to me (as something he believed) and I was trying to keep the "WTF" off my face. Thanks for posting this.
Maybe if your "electronics" are vacuum tubes and relays.

In the digital domain it's not an issue at all.
I just wanted to plug Icomoon ( https://icomoon.io/ ) -- They will let you assemble your own custom font icon set using subsets of public glyphs such as FA, and your own SVG images. I Hope this helps someone.
I would have written PETSCII, EBCDIC or shift-JIS instead, but feared few users would understand it.

Not everybody writes new stuff; some software has to interface with stuff written decades ago.

Also, even for software 100% written today it often is impossible to stay in a world where all strings use compatible encodings.

Examples where you need conversions: when connecting systems that support different Unicode versions or when generating http headers, windows file names, or QR codes. I guess many 'older' systems will not handle ZIP or tar files that use UTF-8 for file names in the archive, either.
They're not interested in your email trail. They just want a scapegoat. You're not put on trial first before you're fired; you're just summarily shown the door. Since you're not given any chance to defend yourself, your documentation doesn't matter.

Blaming an engineer for supposedly poor engineering is a lot more politically viable than blaming management for poor management -- because they're higher on the chain of command than you are.
Find high-growth companies even when you don’t get the spelling 100% right
Squarespace's OCSP stapling implementation
I agree. The speed of development in PHP can be great, but good luck convincing developers who haven't used anything else that using the type system would cut down a number of common bugs, or that the responsibility of this or that should be elsewhere
Trump forgot to register critical domains and he’s not getting them back
True, which is why we drop any var/let/const for prototyping
Generics on iterables are super easy:

function* map(iterator, mapper) {
for (const elem of iterator) {
yield mapper(elem);
}
}

function* filter(iterator, filterer) {
for (const elem of iterator) {
if (filterer(elem)) {
yield elem;
}
}
}

function forEach(iterator, eacher) {
for (const elem of iterator) {
eacher(iterator);
}
}

function reduce(iterator, reducer, initial) {
let current = initial;
for (const elem of iterator) {
current = reducer(current, elem);
}
return current;
}
If you like this I'd recommend checking out the "The Invisible Photograph" series, part 1 features the underground Corbis Image Vault. http://www.nowseethis.org/invisiblephoto/posts/2
Go code on AWS Lambda
Native binary for testing Android phones for the Rowhammer bug
Is there a precedent for that sort of thing in the U.S.?
It also doesn't help that in Swift, 'let' is equivalent to JavaScript's 'const', so if you write code using both languages, it's easy to forget that and just use 'let' everywhere.
His feed died right around the time that half the internet (and Twitter) died due to the dyndns DDOS and he writes it off as a "coincidence" instead of the most likely cause. I'm normally a fan of Scott Adams, but it feels like he's getting a little tin foil hat as he is aging...
you must note mars G is also not 9.8 m/s^2
Pretty much like that, it gets deduced from salary and not only insurance and maintenance but also fuel expenses often (sometimes? always?) go through that black box that shields the user from full awareness of car ownership cost. The taxation aspect is complicated enough that everybody has an opinion wether it makes a difference or not, but nobody is entirely sure. Many users will claim that there is no benefit, but secretly hope there is. It might have a bigger impact on the employer side where I suspect that these costs are something entirely different than salaries in terms of bookkeeping, to the point where in some companies you might be able to negotiate a bigger total if you take a party of it as a car (big maybes, this is me trying to get a consistent mental model of why these arrangements are so crazy popular, if you ask me this is either a shameful subsidy for those who need it least our an entirely pointless overcompication of something that could be so simple).

Oh, and a fun anecdote further illustrating the craziness of it all: there's an organization now that sued for eligibility of all kinds of vehicles, so if my employer had such a programme I could get my next fancy bicycle through them! (But as an inner city renter, my bike ownership is limited by storage anyways, and pretty much maxed out already)
As someone from the Bay Area, please tell me where $2500 will get you 2 months of rent. Unless of course you mean a single room with a handful of roommates.
A relevant but brief plug for the now much neglected http://www.lancelist.com
The Invisible Photograph Part 1: Underground: The Corbis Image Vault
I'm comparing brand new Mac Pros that Apple is selling right now, today. The fact that Apple hasn't updated this product in 3 years is not my problem. I can't believe you'd think that would not be a point in my favour.
Interestingly, his argument for dismissing the conspiracy theory basically boils down to type theory.

It's not legal to "convert" Hertz to other units willy-nilly, especially because Hertz is tagged with an attribute that says "this relies on arbitrary constants", meaning you would have to multiply 432 by some conversion factor before you can compare it to pure numbers.

Thinking about things in terms of types (in a fuzzy, intuitive way) like this is a very powerful mental shortcut that is useful surprisingly often.
> you know pretty much everything that there is to know about software.

This is an interesting claim. What do you mean by this?
> it's not clear that the organization has any real liability for the security faults.

If everyone is allowed to point the finger at everyone else, nothing will get fixed.

This organization profited from the sale of opaque, unserviceable devices with known flaws. Anyone with a basic understanding of the internet knows a default password is an accident waiting to happen. When will we consider this an unacceptable product defect and mandate that manufacturers be responsible for implementing fixes?

That's the only way we'll see sustained investment in open, vetted architectures and push back against security corner cutting for business reasons.
The US Civil War has been mine for the last couple of years. The sheer volume of history and contributing factors, decades of build up, aftermath, affects on the US today, etc. My goodness, the economics of the whole thing are just fascinating.

All the internet debates I saw when the confederate flag came down got me really interested in how so many people could know TOTALLY different things about the most historically significant event in the country.

Now I've got about 12 books covering things in different ways (and there are so many more). Thanks to the Library of Congress and Google's efforts to scan books it's really easy to check citations as you read when you're having those "There is no way that's real" moments followed by "Holy crap! That's real?!?!"

The whole thing has sparked an overzealous interest in history, which is the subject that interested me the least when I was younger. Now I give serious consideration to pursuing a doctorate one day with the aim of being a History professor when I get closer to 50 (which is still a decade or so off).
Interesting.

How do you guard against people fraudulently claiming they own images?
This is nothing but a propaganda piece with some nice graphics. How exactly has it made all our data safer?
The only difference between const and let is it flags an error on reassignment (in strict mode), so that is its primary purpose. It can also be used to conspicuously note intent not to reassign but it is not helpful to VMs or programmers to explicate whether or not each and every variable is reassignable. Maybe just get on board with those influential developers and use const to lock things down (in strict mode) or to make a point - not because let is 'not needed'. I would rather const was used somewhat sparingly, giving it narrative impact.
it also depends if you are performing in ensembles together with historical instruments that can't change their pitch, or on those instruments on their own, for example for organs you can find examples up to A=465

This said I think it's more fun to talk about temperaments than absolute pitch, after all unless you have absolute pitch I don't think you can hear much of a difference between something played at 432 or 440, but going from equal temperament to something else is a lot more noticeable and makes a lot more impact to the music if it's written taking that into account.
No idea, but I'm not going to complain. It's incredibly useful.
I am reminded of the DoD funded paper out of UCLA on using MRIs to aide in the production of Middle Eastern focused, Pentagon directed social media propaganda using "pre-suasion" [1].

The paper states that three general categories of tactic are used to "pre-suade" civilians that may be otherwise on the lookout because they think someone may be trying to influence them (in which case cognitive defense mechanisms come into play).

The paper summarizes that a few techniques can be used in an attempt to circumvent active and alert defenses:

1. "affirmation" - attaching your message to something that the target wants to affirm or reaffirm and including your new information along with old information.

2. "resource depletion" - providing so much information or stimulation or messaging that the target is 'exhausted' of trying to resist the message and relaxes into coping with it.

3. "narrative persuasion" - masking the message or information in a story with which the target self-identifies, therein allowing the message to seem like legitimate material to the target.

[1] http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf
> Has linkerd been ported over to SmartOS? (So far I haven't found anything saying one way or the other.)

linkerd is a JVM application. It should run fine under SmartOS with a JVM. I run it successfully on a Raspberry Pi, OS X, Linux etc.
https://github.com/mrdrozdov/rabbit-holes
I guarantee you no one at Twitter thinks about Scott Adams even half as much as Scott Adams does.
Sometimes, things actually are other people's fault. It's silly to take the blame for everything all the time.
I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)
Ballmer led Microsoft through years of sales and profits increases. Maybe MS isn't "cool" but he certainly left a very solid and profitable company.

Being compared to Ballmer is a compliment in my view.
It wasn't that we gave up responsibility; it was that we were told "ignore those problems and build it poorly anyway, because if you don't we'll just replace you with someone who will."
Here's a database of children's books that have won awards. http://www.dawcl.com/

It's an amazing compilation.
The ends don't meet the means. It's not ok to try and do something you think of as good by doing something we all think of as bad.

Harassing people, in the real world, is not acceptable especially sending things to unrelated people (family/employers).
I join you in applauding Hangzhou Xiongmai in doing the recall.

Still, I think liability (for either users or manufacurers) is the right answer. If your device is participating in a DDOS, then it is a bad actor and you should pay for that.

As for regulation, I am in favor of the right regulations (which I suspect will be rules about liability). The danger is that we end up with rules forcing particular engineering methods and security certifications.

That will benefit the incumbent companies who already used the official methods, without necessarily improving the software. In fact it would create "standing targets" that will benefit attackers.
> Those who saw the soft clouds were more likely to prefer soft, comfortable sofas for purchase

Oh yeah? How much more likely? And with what confidence interval?
Unfortunately the interests of the industry trumps the interest of affordable healthcare. We need someone to come in and dismantle all the middlemen in healthcare. The Healthcare Industrial Complex is just a machine to move money around.