skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's such a damn shame that IBM makes all of this stuff utterly inaccessible to the developer, hobbyist, and academic crowds.

In the past few years I've taken an interest in big-iron systems, and I've recently started spending time with OpenVMS in preparation for release of the x64 port. I spent a lot of time digging into System i, and z/OS, but my efforts were constantly frustrated by the inability to get my hands on real software and/or hardware, or even paid time on a machine.

Shoutout for the OpenVMS hobbyist program. Anyone interested in obscure commercial OS's with serious pedigree should give it a look. HPE's OpenVMS documentation portal is well laid out and straightforward - all the information is there.
"[comma.ai} was functionally superior and theoretically safer than the ten legacy manufacturer systems"

A journalist on record saying "theoretically safer" literally makes my hair stand up on end.
Nice! A perfect reservation for imbeciles!
Cry every night for weeks if you feel like it. Look at some old photos and cry some more. Let the pain blow through your heart but don't hold on to it as it passes through. I did this for my father.
If Satan was a web developer
"transactional emails" is a term marketers use, but in reality the email systems do not know the difference. And yes we did get stopped by various ISPs, and yes we did have to get some on the phone.
There's no indication, period, but it would be one of the safer assumptions.
I don't see how they'll have a obvious icon for something very complicated that I can't remember the hotkey for, that also fits in an icon 5mm x 5mm.

For example, I'm looking for the shortcut in Photoshop for "Send layer to bottom of stack". How will this keyboard be able to tell me that the shortcut for this is "Ctrl+Shift+["?? It's much easier to google or look through the "confusing menus" than to hunt for some bound-to-be cryptic icon on a tiny keyboard.

Basically you have to spend the effort to learn if you actually want to use a program, or indeed, a computer, efficiently.

I'm not a luddite, I'm all for useful efficiency improvements, but sacrificing actual keyboard tactile feel for useless displays on every key is not a tradeoff that I would make.

I agree with the languages thing though. Could be useful for that, but not nearly useful enough for me to offset the horrible mushy chiclet keys and in my opinion substandard layout.
4 big changes coming soon to Firefox
Everything but the House Raises $41.5MM Series C
In addition to the comment above, about sending old mainframes to deep blue pastures (so to speak), I love how your comment adds to the mystique: "I suspect ... someone is using [the platform]".

"Yes, my friend. Deep in the Dark Web, a hundred and one LANs beyond the routable Internet, there roams magnificent, ancient and magical creatures of legend - the great Zee. Quietly they tally numbers, and mete out just rewards to the poor souls trapped in this prosaic concrete reality, unable to so much as cross from our world to the Internet - let alone travel to these fabled realms of the deep, deep blue."
Well, you understood the distinction that I was making, and I think it's a useful one to make. I'm aware of soft keys and virtual keyboards (it's been hard not to be, for a big chunk of my life). Physical/soft/virtual keys all have their own use-cases and some potential for overlap when you might choose one or the other.

That's why I was making the distinction; I feel like you chose the interpretation of "key" that could be trivially dismissed, rather than what they probably meant in the context of their complaint.

Luckily, we've got two implementations that we can compare, and that it would be logical to assume we're talking about: The Touch Bar and the row of keys that it replaced. The TB adds some pros: continuous (slider-like) or discrete (key-like) behavior, display of dynamic information, and general flexibility. It has some cons too, though: Lack of tactile feedback makes it impossible to use without looking, it potentially requires extra key-presses (and glances to the keyboard) to use the old functionality, key placement isn't predictable, etc.

My point being: It's reasonable to assume that the comment you originally replied to was complaining about the difference between virtual and physical keys, but your reply basically said "that doesn't matter, because you can simulate the missing keys".
Oh, I do new things, too - but most of them are done somewhere cloud-ish, with the browser essentially simulating a thin client.

In fact, my set of normaly-user essential local software is shrinking - I expect it to become just "a browser" within a few years. (As a developer, now that's a very different story)
> I'm always surprised by folks talking about failing microUSB ports. The microUSB port on my old G2 (HTC Desire Z) still works fine as does the miniUSB port on my G1 (HTC Dream).

I'm always surprised by folks talking about their non-failing micro-USB ports, as if that somehow discounts other people's devices that have failed.
briteverify is very good at detecting bogus emails, however it's not terribly cheap.
EDIT: Forgot to mention SPF records (actually easier to add to DNS than DKIM, sorry), and saw someone mentioned TXT records too; basically anything that can prove ownership of the domain for non-free addresses.
Enormous respect for someone rolling up their sleeves, showing their back of napkin math, and ending with, "Huh, that's weird (and very possibly wrong)."
Very true - building a great product is only half the story. You also have to market it, something us geeks are normally not that good at.

Part of the reason for Linux's failure on the desktop is that is lacks salesmen to push it.
Riot Games built their own backbone as well.

http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-t...
So it requires us to install an extra piece of software on the device that isn't just a driver to be able to use the keyboard? Sounds cumbersome, especially since you make it sound like it's not optional. Can it be disabled?
Didn't work out for Kodak, Blackberry or Microsoft. It's a very bad sign for tech companies.
What Trump Represents Is Not Crazy and Is Not Going Away -Peter Thiel Transcript
Show HN: Point and click artistic Style transfer for Desktop
How about from a marketing perspective?

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Seasonally Adjusted Shade
Evaporative Cooling
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Provides shelter for fauna
Wind resistant
Limited Lifetime Warranty

The Solar 'Sorb comes in an exciting array of styles, each specifically adapted to your particular environment. And if you have a sweet tooth, you may be interested in our food bearing models which produce tasty and nutritious food packets for you and your family.

You can purchase fully functioning Solar 'Sorb units at one of our many worldwide distributors, or the do-it-yourselfer can order our starter kit pods direct from the factory. StarterPods(R) unfold gradually after installation and provide shade generation precisely where you need it.

Solar 'Sorb is a strong advocates for the environment, and that's why all of our products are certified "Green", and carbon neutral.
Cloud development platform Nitrous.io shuts down
That looks very much like the original Honda Insight https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/HondaIns...
In theory, it's well possible to sync keystores (just like browsers sync passwords), or issue multiple certificates for a single account. There are a lot of options and scenarios well possible (no single size fits all, of course)

In practice, anything related to client certificates in browsers is not usable.
No trade-in, but you're only paying the depreciation and not the full value of the car either.

I've had friends lease recent model cars on 3year/12K terms and get about 60% residual value on their term sheet. I think 1/4 to 1/3 is an extreme case, unless you're choosing really crappy manufacturers that are known to fall in value quickly
Study says women better coders than men – but only if they hide their gender [pdf]
I have yet to see the simplest proof that comma ai work is just a cute trained NN over a camera, piped to basic controls, with some potential creative ideas (in a conf, hotz mentioned working on time based depth inference instead of the traditional stereo camera setup).

I'm biased for conservative companies, I have no idea what they're doing and how much resources. Maybe they're doing something at the same level. I believe they have more refined physics model to compute surroundings and car physics in a way to ensure sane and safe behaviour. Exception made of Tesla AP, which I always found borderline lying.

The medias and the crowd seeems to believe wild hacking and current year tech is giving you better products, but physics are physics. I'm still waiting for a proof of solid math, system and safety engineering there.

psedit; I forgot, I peaked at commaai github repo, the NN code is way above my head and what I could imagine, so I have to give hotz' team that.

Some people really have magic auras.
HTC reveals how many Vives have been sold so far
In 5 years...
> Are you suggesting that they are Pro'ing it wrong?!

If what they're doing works for them it's not wrong but in this case it's not working anymore. Now they have to switch operating systems, software and workflows just because a specific model of laptop wasn't updated at exactly the right time. Switching to PC laptops may be an option for some but they will still have to depend on Intel/AMD and PC OEMs to provide them with an option that perfectly fits their needs. That's only a slightly safer bet. It's not practical for everyone to build out a pro infrastructure for themselves but (especially in the case of developers) it's at least something they need to consider.
I doubt that has anything to do with it.. Probably due to the 15nm wavelength they're using and a <10nm wavelength being the typical cutoff for x-ray.
Not my job. There is an implicit contract between an online business and its users. That contract implies that the purpose of the relationship is to provide a specific service. It does not include preaching to them and telling them how to run their lives. If I choose to do the latter, I am breaking that contract.
Splunking Kafka at Scale
> "Yes, my friend. Deep in the Dark Web, a hundred and one LANs beyond the routable Internet, there roams magnificent, ancient and magical creatures of legend - the great Zee. Quietly they tally numbers, and mete out just rewards to the poor souls trapped in this prosaic concrete reality, unable to so much as cross from our world to the Internet - let alone travel to these fabled realms of the deep, deep blue."

I think I'll tweak this a bit and put it on a shirt.
Turn On, Tune In, Transcribe: U.N. Develops Radio-Listening Tool
Well, for an extreme outlier, Jay Leno has something like 200 cars.

Many suburban empty-nesters I know have three. I don't know why that's popular or makes any sense.

On the other hand most urban twenty-something's I know don't have any, so I'd agree the 2 car average seems possibly high.
It displays them on the touch bar, but it doesn't replicate the functionality of the physical keys. That's a mix of positive and negative attributes; the balance of whether it's a net gain or net loss is completely subjective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet
I don't understand the why of this transition. Why does it need to be moved to a new account? Why can't it all just stay on the same account?
Or, you know, spend your time and money on making it easier for people to vote (like advocating for vote by mail in shitty states that don't make it universally available now) and stop wasting your time telling people like me, who aren't eligible to vote, about what self-righteous wankers you are.
Hm, well the article certainly is flattering toward Hotz, the project, and the impression (having first-hand experience with several systems does strike me as important).

Still pretty staunchly of the opinion over here that he's got something worth still working on and this isn't the last of it. AKA contrary to a good number of comments which basically say he's either a fraud, huckster, or otherwise dumb for not being interested/willing/prepared to engage with the NHTSA at this stage.

Eh time will tell, right?
I find the author's fogginess about DNS infuriating. I think if he's going to cover something this important in such a suggestive manner he does have a duty to get to grips with what it is and roughly how it works and make that plain to a lay audience.

He makes DNS sound intrinsically sinister.
I work at a hedge fund. In the front office of a smaller shop, but I am pretty sure I know both firms you interviewed with. First off, congrats on both offers, these are not easy interviews or easy jobs to get.

My 2 cents: Try to find someone doing the work you are about to do at the HF and have a conversation with them. I don't see any comment on here yet from someone who can speak from experience at a HF BO. That's a worthwhile coffee or phone call if you can find someone. Don't believe job descriptions, recruiters, or interviewers at the HF about what you will be doing day to day. Speak to someone who is a third party about the type of work in general (try Linkedin, Bloomberg, friends or whatever networks you are a part of to find someone to talk to). Ask them about the work, day to day, pros and cons, career progressions, lifestyle, etc...

Second part of the answer. NYC and Chicago, and the two firms, are VERY different culturally. Think about what city you want to live in and what firm culture you prefer.

I vote NYC over Chicago if you can. And then go for it, you have little to lose - if the work sounds interesting based on conversations with people actually doing it and the city is a place you wouldn't mind trying out living in, what are you worried about? You can always move back to SF or move to a different company, HF or startup in NYC.

As for the vested options Q. You haven't given enough info for anyone on here to answer that prudently.

Some people's sign on bonus will be negotiated to consider vested options at a previous job. Your offer looks standard and that you haven't negotiated anything on that part. Up to you if relevant, just sharing people do this. The HF is fully aware of what options are so you can bring it up with them if you choose.

Congrats again.
I think you're on to something but I would like to point out

> realtime chat

hasn't really improved over the past 25 years. Someday we'll have federated chat servers, but that seems more of a social engineering problem than a technical one.
I just don't agree. In a democracy, you have the right to hold any opinion, but not to stop participating. Everyone should vote. If all of the choices are terrible, turn in an empty ballot. It's really that simple. If people did that, at least we'd get some metrics about how dissatisfied people are.

But even if you think all of the candidates for all of the offices are too terrible to vote for, that doesn't excuse you from voting on the dozens of initiatives on the ballot.
One common technique is to use basic demographic estimates: https://www.preplounge.com/en/bootcamp.php/case-cracking-too...

In a real interview, you normally wouldn't have access to a calculator or a computer. The point is to show you can arrive within a factor of 2-3x of the actual real-life answer just by smart guesstimating and doing arithmetic in your head.

One reason is because consultants often get asked these sorts of on-the-fly questions by clients, and they need to provide reasonable answers without looking them up.
Let me state it explicitly: that "state capitalist" theory is false (and so absurd it makes me suspect you are part of some sort of Russian troll farm.) The USSR was both socialist and communist in character, and not at all capitalist.
It may be better if a person used that creative energy in a side project, if the product they work on has a large, varied user base.

I would not want to stop people being elitist, only for those who are to understand that their behaviour has a cost on at least some of those around them.
Why do we publish papers? Well, I guess for the vast majority of authors, THE reason is that the number of published papers is one of the key metrics at your job. From the lowest levels of PhD students to the PIs, the one things that you need to show is how many papers you have published and where. Even if the paper is crap (you often realise that years after you've published, of course) it increases the metrics by one point, so... And, even if your work is fantastic, small number of published papers will effectively put you behind and kill your career. Sad but true.
Same tweet id, just the username changed:

https://twitter.com/cryptoz/status/786254141182074880

Still goes to the same tweet.
Apple is stalling for time with its new Macbooks and Microsoft knows it
Their email about this says they're open sourcing some of it... we'll have to wait and see what, exactly, that is.
I don't know if it was your intention, but you're almost sounding like a CS education is a handicap to solving problems- this is at odds with my experience (I was an embedded developer before I earned my degree)
Your quote is thought-provoking, but I do not quite follow the rest of your argumentation:

> A lot of research is supposed to be new, uncertain, high-risk, high-reward. So it should fail often.

Setting aside the question of whether or not science ought to be the way you describe it, what do you mean by research "failing"?

IMO, there are two levels on which research can fail. The first (and I get the impression that you are describing this type) is the failure of some new theory to be corroborated by the facts, or the failure of a new approach to fulfill its promises, or a later experiment contradicting an earlier one. But this is part and parcel of the scientific method. In fact, this leads to an advancement of science, as we then know which explanation is not correct, or which observations need more detailed scrutiny. And so, such a failure of research is actually a success of science.

However, this scientific process is based on scientists exchanging their findings freely so that they can cross-check each other. Thus, the second and much greater failing of research would be to fail to communicate itself. And that is exactly what (appears) to be happening. If scientists aren't reading what their colleagues publish, that is not a failure of research - the research itself might be fantastic, but if nobody reads it, who is going to know? This is not a failure of research, this is a failure of science. And that is a much more serious issue altogether.
The best thing about POSIX at this point is back compatibility, nothing to be sneered at!

But it carries a lot of (in retrospect) bad habits and decisions from the 60s and 70s as well as a tendency to redundancy due to some competing standards that were unified and need for some back compatibility.

Now not everyone agrees on what is good and what is bad, so some experimentation in this area is good for everyone. Examples of what bother me include the ludicrousness of ioctl(), messed up / redundant semaphore semantics, ditto for IPC, primitive memory mgmt semantics, fork() -- a great hack for its time but since it's 99.9999% of the time followed by exec() should be split into separate address space and thread management), outdated and simultaneously simplistic and baroque security model(s), and various IO issues to many to go into in a HN comment.

But my loathed feature is undoubtably someone else's sacred cow. As I said, letting more flowers bloom is in everybody's interest.
A big part is how gov't money is doled out. It forces the gov't to pick winners and losers. And since politics always seems to permeate everything the gov't does, people start to question the decisions.

Even if it's something as straightforward as "green credits", the process can always be perverted to advantage one business over another.
A idea, propably a bad one- what if, not by accident, but by intention, there was a flaw in every paper, and a reader was only allowed to cite, if he could state the line and type of flaw?
The right to choose not to vote is not really hurt by people reminding you to vote.
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of cited papers have not been read by the people who cite them.
Microsoft reimagines open source cloud hardware
Hi Khash :)
Yeah but they changed focus a while back. Stated they are no no longer a Cloud IDE.
Some women certainly have a source of power unique to their times. But Chinese women obviously don't have "all" the power, or even most of the power, otherwise they wouldn't be making less than 2/3rds of the income of men (less than 1/2 in rural areas), and more women would be in political and economic leadership positions. (To be fair, Communism deserves some credit as communist countries historically were ahead of their Capitalist counterparts wrt gender equality. And I'd be the shift back to market economics--and traditional social mores--partially reversed some of that change.)

Also, the female population in China is 48.6%. The average marrying age for women is now about 25 years. The one child policy was loosened up long enough ago that the gender imbalance bubble is passing or has already passed for young couples.

Though I suppose the social effect will probably last longer, like the way the effect the Cultural Revolution and One Child Policy changed the way seniors behaved toward young people. (When I visited Shanghai the elderly would still give up their seat for teenagers and twenty-somethings. The post hoc rationalization these days is because the young person is presumably tired from working so hard, but that's obviously a cultural version of the "polite lie" people tell themselves to hide the real reasons something is happening.)
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'big reason' being apple made them?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841489.
Another developer tool maker here (crudzilla.com). Quite shocking though,they "appeared" to be doing quite ok.
Very much in that same vein, shouldn't we treat the existing animals of the world far better before bringing whole species back into it?
I am sighted, but I am a developer (primarily web) and I'd like to help. Is there room for people like me?
https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-Aluminum-Multi-Port-Adapter-E...
Lol! one more: "if web developers run a grocery store" http://ithipster.com/19.html
For those not familiar with 18th century literature, a little context might be in order.

The Spectator that Franklin made a model of is no relation of the modern magazine. This Spectator was an "essay series", a peculiarly 18th century genre, something like an editorial column without a magazine -- or a blog, for that matter.

At the time, the Spectator essays were considered the high-water mark of good style and clear expression in English.

You can read them for yourself on Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12030
Nobody expects the spanish tiled roof inquisition!