skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting source. Tibetan society pre-1940s (most recent Chinese invasion) was incredibly feudal. The Dalai Lama was the top of the feudal society, both monarch and high priest. I've spent a bit of time in Tibet, and the Tibetans dearly love the current Dalai Lama. Now, maybe he's an exception for reasons of being a leader in exile, and a general scholar and nice guy.

But I wonder, in most feudal societies, do the serfs feel needed by their societies and their monarchs?
> This is why DevOps became a thing.

Huh?
They are probably cameras and phones assembled in the same factory.
You heard it here folks! HN just invented formal methods of verification and fizz testing! ;)

(But seriously, I do both of these to test/verify the distributed systems on which I work -- both are great ideas)
Hardbound – Stories for curious minds
Did YOU read the article? Dude extolls the virtues of a stable programming environment and I am simply providing examples from my own experiences boring-ifying previously exciting code.

And you're right, noone forces anyone to use anything on Show HN. But do you not see anything wrong with a lot of these projects, where a fancy CSS-and-nodeJS-atrocity slides and glimmers around the fact that it's hiding alpha-quality code? (Rehashing production-level ideas no less) Sure we on HN know it's just show-and-tell, but what about others? Just yesterday there was a Show HN that was all web site and no product -- in fact I think it used more screen space to document what their project lacked as opposed to what it had. If what was posted a zip with a readme.txt that'd be one thing, but instead we have ideas masquerading as products.

Just as bad are all these security wonks that need to give their vulnerabilities nice, marketable nicknames. It was effective the first time, but now it's just obnoxious -- file a CVE and let the community decide!
https://github.com/thestinger/playpen
I'm the exact same way I'm still very new in my career - I often hear co-workers say "The last thing I want to see/do when I go home is a computer"

I'm the exact opposite of that. I work full time as a programmer - go home - do more things on the computer or work on tech related things. Maybe since I'm younger I feel this way, but I ~really~ don't think like my mind will change.
time to move on H.265
I've seen pretty good reviews across the board, even from Walt Mossberg, who I generally think of as an Apple fanboy.
I feel the last season offers a different perspective than the others (excluding San Junipero - which is similar to the first two seasons).

The first two seasons are about a hypothetical future any person could experience (society).

The last season is from the perspective of an individual's very specific circumstances (except for San Junipero).

Society versus the individual?

I liked the ending of the first episode of Season 3 (freedom achieved), episode 2 was more horror than scifi (a la "Brainscan"), episode 3 could have been a subplot in a single episode of Mr. Robot, episode 4 was more like the first two seasons, episode 5 was some nazi-esque Verhoeven-wannabe hegemony meh, and episode 6, to me, was like episode 2, more horror scifi.
You have to be a little careful with fruit juices; some are loaded with an equivalent or greater amount of sugar than CocaCola.
That would basically be instant runoff voting. The main issue with that is that in a polarized election you can have a moderate compromise option eliminated early. For example, suppose the election is between a far-left, moderate, and far-right candidate. 40% prefer the far-left candidate, 20% prefer the moderate candidate, and 40% prefer the far-right candidate. In this case 60% of the population prefers the moderate candidate to the far-right candidate, and 60% prefer the moderate candidate to the far-left candidate and so the moderate candidate should win the election. But in an IRV-type system, the moderate candidate gets eliminated immediately and the election is then between the extreme candidates.
Can you be more specific with your second point? I haven't run across this at all.
It's not. It just helps Latinos find jobs easier. There are a ton of sites for female in tech and no one complains.
time to move on: h.265
It is a line from Doctor Strange, in which three Sanctums project a magical field that protects/hides the Earth, which would otherwise be assimilated by Dormammu into his Dark Dimension.

I find it humorous that we hear about cracks in the real Earth's magnetic field just as this movie comes out.
Understanding output of unix time(1)
Anyone who wants to call "self control" a myth needs to explain why some people are good at Go/No-Go but others aren't. Control for whatever you want, your still going to find some people perform better on impulse control then others.

I think what this article really want to say is, "'try harder' solves nothing." And I couldn't agree more strongly with that. You cannot loose weight by just telling yourself you're going to apply more "self control." Changing your environment and training habits are way way more effective.
Backslash Powered Scanning: Hunting Unknown Vulnerability Classes
Headphone Jacks, MacBook Pros, and the Legacy of Steve Jobs
Docker has been the go to solution all my python-for-web-development friends have been using as flagship to "kill php et al" and sharing this with every single one of them is making smile again. Thank you OP.
What?

Citations for any of these? I have 'make' installed on my mbp without XCode (along with clang, etc), and I use my mbp with 2 24" monitors all the time (in clamshell mode), and it's no less sharp than it is with a desktop.
Wouldn't that come down to liability vs comprehensive? As it is, states only require liability insurance, which seems unlikely to be affected by my wearing of seatbelts or helmets. Helmets are optional in several states, yet I've never heard of that causing a problem for acquiring motorcycle insurance.
Yes, that's what I was implying. Industry has been repeating the mantra of developer time being worth more than machine time for so long. Indeed, it's true, but far too many people forget that it's a trade off, and that machine time is still valuable. You can't just cut developer time at any expense. That's how we end up with phones that last 4 hours between charges and a vicious cycle of throwing hardware in the trash because lazy developers made it obsolete.
As evidence of this, sometimes when an I-frame is dropped from a stream or you jump around in a stream you can see the texture of what was previously on the screen wrapped convincingly around the 3D surface of what's now supposed to be on the screen, all accomplished with 2D motion vectors.
time to make move on: h.265
voluntary Ecosystem lock-in is actually the reason I moved back to iOS. I use an iPad pro, and I don't believe there's a better tablet out there. I use Macbook Pros both at work and at home. Having all of those devices perfectly in sync is amazing for my productivity.
It's weird that this article is being downvoted. The comments sections are usually split 60-40 in the anti-diversity/pro-diversity debates.

However only the pro diversity articles ever get upvoted.
Game theory dictates that you shouldn't anticipate what your opponent is likely to do, but rather assume that they will chose the best choice available. Given that you need to move the zerglings before the tank fires the tank should be able to retarget and always hit the highest concentration. That being said organizing your lings to run in a formation to never expose any to splash shouldn't be too hard.
Article argues that diversity of ideas is what's important, rather than diversity of ethnicity/gender, describes trying to solve racial/gender diversity for its own sake as "utterly broken".

There's plenty of evidence that women and people from under-represented groups are discriminated against because of their identity. Here are a few on gender alone: [0][1][2][3][4]

Perhaps there are cases of people being discriminated against for having "diverse" opinions, but it seems like a distinctly smaller problem, as witholding a controversial opinion is an option and witholding your existence is not.

[0] Female students seen as less competent than identical male students with identical application materials, offered lower starting salaries (Moss-Racusin et al, 2012)

[1] People in gender-incongruent roles penalised more heavily for mistakes (Brescoll, Dawson, & Uhlmann, 2010).

[2] Voluble women perceived as less competent and less suitable leaders, inverse true for men (Brescoll, 2011).

[3] Women who succeed in male-dominated fields percieved as not likeable (Heilman et al, 2004).

[4] Students question the competence of female teachers who evaluate them negatively, less so than male teachers (Sinclair & Kunda 2000).
Do you have a reference on this? Last I looked into it broodwar AI bots were easily beaten by competent humans.
Who took over zmq after Hintjens' untimely death?
The number of Millenials is about the same as the number of Boomers.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/25/millennials-...

Note that the article talks about the number of living Boomers and Millenials surpassing them. I'm not making that point. The max number of Boomers was about 79 million. 75 million Millenials is quite comparable to that.
Think of the biggest task you've ever completed.

Now imagine we go back in time before you started and I asked you: will this take closer to one month or 10 years?

Can you estimate that?
>Sometimes the government needs to step in. (in no particular order:)

Let's see what you got here because I think you're being naive.

>lead paint

That causes harm to everyone both directly (health risks) and indirectly (disposal costs). So the ban on lead paint was a benefit for us all.

>DDT

Ditto.

>opioids

Nope, they're regulated. Morphine is a form of them.

>microbeads

This is the same as the DDT and lead paint items. Common risk but indirectly through how they harm fish stock which are part of the food web that makes the nitrogen cycle possible.

>antibacterial soaps

Yet again, indirect harm to all.

I've yet to discern a pattern in your argument that shows where sugary sodas are bad. Obesity sucks, I'm a big fat blob here so I know the damage it does personally (bad back and probably going to get heart disease at this rate). What you should notice that health issues like this are covered under insurance and sodas can be hit with a sin tax to cover additional costs. Trying to go out of our way to ban stuff like this is misplaced as the individual consumer won't ever be able to cover the cost. Producers of such goods can but since our tax code is a mess it's a miracle we get any taxes from them. So if you want to really hit who is doing harm it would be the producers of such goods. From sodas to cars every good comes with a part of it's risks (that harms) socialized but it's profits privatized. That means we should tax firms to cover those negative externalities and not individuals who consume them.
3D touch, like the Touch Bar, was an uninspired gimmick.
I know all this. I smoke cigars the right way. I also know cigarette smokers that cannot help themselves when smoking cigars. They inhale.
I wouldn't be surprised if a 500APM player is making closer to 100 meaningful actions per minute. It looks like most of the actions are spam that may register on the APM meter but not affect the outcome of the game.

An AI limited to even 200 decision-driven actions per minute would probably have a significant advantage over a "500APM" player.
I used to hear ultrasounds fairly well. It goes away unfortunately.
I personally don't care how thick my professional laptop is. I'd rather have a 12-hour battery, 32GB RAM, two DisplayPorts, a few TB3 ports, serial, network, audio in/out (+toslink), and 4-6 USB ports. I guess I want the Thinkpad P70, but I want it to run macOS, and not have a terrible track pad. There is currently no option for this. The Mac Pro used to be cool, and they could update it to make it great again. I'm not sure why they don't invest at all into the pro market. People have been saying this now for about 5 years, and Apple would obviously rather sell luxury consumer "lifestyle" laptops than serious professional tools.

It's not that I'm against thin-and-light, I just see that as fitting the needs of e.g. PMs and managers, and the MacBook / Air filled that need nicely. Now they've gone and made the mbp into the air, thinking that's what everyone wants and needs.
That US economic boom was followed pretty spectacularly by a bust caused mainly by the rampant speculation that fueled the boom being based largely on bullshit.

You're clamoring for a soap bubble that didn't withstand a tiny pinprick.
Same as with the Samsung Note pen.
I had an issue with the Chariot App. I signed up as a user using facebook connect and the Android app doesn't allow you to login with Facebook...which led to some problems.
Surely 1.44 Mbps is enough bandwidth to access Twitter in a timely manner unless that bandwidth is heavily over-subscribed.
"The Pixel needs charging once a day, which is a little bit of a disappointment, but it charges really quickly."

I'm not sure I understand this negative. I'd think any problems caused by this would be easily remedied by just charging your phone while you're sleeping, when you can't use it anyway.

Or is he saying that it needs to be charged once a day, even if you charge it overnight?
"UCSF didn't ban soda, they made a decision, as an institution, not to stock it on campus."

This calls to mind "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness"[0]. It discusses, in part, setting up decisions and choices so that the default choice is in the best interest of the decider. (It's been a while since I read it. Improvements on my sentence-long summary welcome :) They also discuss what they term "liberal paternalism".[1] Good, interesting stuff if this are interests you.

This seems in line with the decision UCSF made. You still have the choice to drink sugary soda. They're just not going to make it as easily available.

Where this line is drawn is often going to be contentious. That said, there's always going to be some sort of line, right? Why this is being called into question now is that something is changing. At some point in the past, soda machines weren't on campus. Putting them on campus likely didn't have this same issue. But it did change the environment, and opened up more choice. What choices should be made available? All legal ones? All healthy ones? I think it's an interesting and valid question, one that needs to take into account both the individual and the community as a whole.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_paternalism

If you choose to down vote, I'd appreciate it if you'd also take the time to reply in a comment. I'm interested in hearing what you think!
Ask HN: Best practices for transferring ownership of Google Drive files?
I work for a small company and am curious about best practices for transferring ownership of Google Drive files after an employee leaves. The options I have found are:

1 - Do nothing and don't delete the employee's email address. Only downside to this is continuing to pay for an unused email address.

2 - Change the old employee's sign in name and email address (username) to the new employee's. This should maintain ownership of all of those drive files? Are there any unforeseen issues with this?

3 - Transfer ownership of all the old employee's Google Drive Files & Folders to an employee who isn't leaving. There are lots of horror stories about this-- losing file structure, lost data, etc.

How have other people handled this? What's the best solution and what drawbacks are there?
We have been running Docker in production for around six months now, with a moderate IO load. We are also using persistent storage, but our persistent storage is NFS-mounted inside the container, so 99.5% of the filesystem IO in the container does not touch AUFS. (We are stuck on an old kernel at the moment, but evaluating upgrading to either 3.x or 4.x.)

So far, this has been stable for us, and based on your post it sounds like it will continue to be a viable strategy as we move to kernel 3.x or 4.x.
Overcoming Conway’s Law: Protecting Design from Organization
He is not one of the few.

People have pushed this "You are paranoid, no one is out to get you" narrative since the 90s. Everyone has something to hide, even if its just their sex life or beliefs that aren't politically favored that might affect your employment.
They could start with voting for witch flavor to remove.
Can U.S. Elections Really Be Stolen? Yes
Sounds like a cool reaction.
The Orange Pi Zero single-board computer ships for $6.99
You know, the term "junior developer" is rather new, actually. If anything it used to just be "entry-level".

In any case, I find it most distasteful. No one should accept it as a part of their job title for any length of time, other than out of pure, survival-driven necessity.
> Do you feel an onus to actually propose a mechanism by which these fraudulent voters can predict the future?

Actually, yes. It's called voter registration fraud, and it works by registering people who don't actually exist or are not eligible voters.

If you'll accept that we have no way of verifying if someone votes as someone else, and no way of even noticing if that impersonated voter doesn't vote, then any fraudulent voter registration is essentially open season for anyone with the knowledge of it. We wouldn't know about it, and we couldn't know about it unless we actually verified people are who they say they are.

This essentially means the argument that in-person voter fraud doesn't exist needs a big asterisk next to it that says, "assuming no fraudulent voter registration, but if there is some, we have no way at all of measuring how much in-person voter fraud is occurring."
I agree with your notion of the importance of balance in a developer's life. I think work-life balance is important, no matter what your profession is.

However, behind every successful, well-crafted software project are still business needs and decisions. And a lot of the time, these businesses' success can rely on being faster than competitors. Obviously it is ideal to have attainable deadlines, but it is not always possible. Inevitably, there will be times of stressful, tight deadlines. With your firm attitude, I'd be curious to see how you might handle those situations.
It’s All for Your Own Good (2014)
The I/O with the hardest part.

How would you scale for games with different inputs and outputs?
A lot of smart folks just have enough other things to deal with in their life to allow them to make informed decisions on every single topic. At the same time, marketing machines use side-channels to put unhealthy choices at the front of their minds. I don't see a problem with countering that bias. It doesn't mean they are dumb.

Public health is also a big factor in society, even economically, so your argument below about vaccines does apply to healthy eating as well.
And really, Fifteen Million Merits wasn't all that great either --- it was kind of all over the place narratively, and once you get the intrusive ranking trope, there's really not much more interesting about it. It felt sort of like badly plotted Vonnegut.

Again: if you haven't seen the MeowMeowBeenz episode of Community: it's a pretty good chaser to either of those episodes.
Everyone complains. If you're a white or asian male you get absolutely no help with getting hired in tech, getting trained for tech jobs, etc etc.

And by starting a list of companies that hire Latinos, you're implying all other companies don't hire Latinos. I cannot think of a single company who openly discriminates against Latinos, so it's a false premise. It's not like Jim Crow days, where you'd maintain lists of restaurants who would serve black customers.

And the statement "If you are excited working with Latinos" is horrible. I'm excited working with anybody who is competent, easy to get along with, and can teach me things. Why would you be specifically excited about working with Latinos?
Demonstrable skills? Of course, here you are the results of my 100 exams, that I passed sucessfully. In an officially certified document, easy to authenticate.

Its called curriculum, and is comfortably standardized for all students so you can find the best easily. Otherwise you would need to compare among random arbitrary sets of skills, different for each one of your candidates and this would be for companies basically like playing blind chicken to hire a candidate.

You need still to show demonstrable skills is often a way to say "I expect you to work for free until you realize that this is the real game here. I will replace you with the next hungry guy in the queue". Is just a mean to obtain the same cheaper, or free.
Go figure that it's not retroactive. Gotta get that early adopter/purchaser tax somehow...
The Functional Reactive Architecture Pattern and Its Application to Android Apps
Tax negative externalities of firms that produce such goods without reservation or exemption. It sucks but it's the most logical thing to do in this context. Most importantly, it doesn't levy the tax on a single issue but on all goods which have them (cars, phones, medicines, etc all have some negative externality on society). I doubt it'll ever come to be since it seems the modern liberal mind set is to ban rather than properly levy a tax to cover the costs of current damage done by given producers.
Docker Is Actively Harmful to Engineering Organizations
I was challenged on this after repeating the misleading account of Brochet's experiment, and I, and everyone else with me, could easily tell the difference blindfolded. However, none of us was an "expert" wine taster, we knew that one glass was white and the other red, and our eyes were covered. It transpires that colour does affect your perception of flavour, the subjects in Brochet's experiment were deliberately deceived, and "experts" would have more to lose if they described a wine as white if it really was red.
We have the same in France, called "alternance" degrees. It's either like you describe 6 months studying, 6 months working or something more short term. You can get into something like that from your third year to your masters, and you get paid an increasing amount depending on the company and which year you are, starting with very little (just enough to survive, something like 500€/month) and ending with a reasonable stipend (around 1200€/month on average among my friends).

For fields like software engineering I believe it is the best way to get a proper education.
6.5 Ounces! or 0.4 lbs. Thanks for the feedback! I added the final weight into the conclusion.
I can't speak for SilverPush, but Google Tone definitely has an Ultrasonic component [1] as does a version of Chirp [2]. Both work through consumer grade speakers/DACs/devices.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/374876/lets_t...
[2] https://vimeo.com/177586203
Good to know. I'm obviously a bit out of date on my iOS UI knowledge. Will experiment with this now.

After playing with the home screen on iOS for a minute I remember what was annoying. I can control how many apps appear on the home screen, but they always float up and to the left. If I want to use my phone one-handed most of the time, it's really critical that I be able to keep two rows of apps at the bottom of the screen. Currently impossible on iOS.
Well, if they can somehow make Cordova less awfully terrible from a UX perspective, more power to them. I'm not holding my breath, though.