skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I beg to differ... There's still weird Safari/Android bugs from old devices that are out in the wild. Even Windows 8 + IE11 has warts and might be used by application users.

I guess it depends on what you're working on, but for us it's expressly not an option to say "we only support the latest version of [insert browser]". Some users aren't even technical enough to differentiate between a browser and the internet
Lenovo Yoga Book review
That seems straightforward enough that you could try it on your own?
That may be. Here seems to be the heart of the argument:

https://meaningness.com/meaningness

>>> Maintaining the confused stances — eternalism, nihilism, and existentialism — is actually impossible, because they are obviously wrong. At some level, we are always aware that they require extensive make-believe.

>>> We may begin by asking: What is creative, but not eternalistic? What is realistic, but not nihilistic?
Wages did not start growing until 2015, and that required social movements in the streets demanding $15/hour and a union.
This kind of shit should never happen. Period.

It is the duty of every decent human to fight this sort of tyranny by any means necessary.
Sure. In China we would use chopsticks. But my point was not that there is no viable workaround, more that the mechanical issue should be solved.

Perhaps it is playing too much Shenzhen I/O, but I feel like a basic IC and sensors could solve this by detecting the width/height of toast pieces and continuing to release until the toast was substantially ejected from the toaster.
The UK's Investigatory Powers Act Allows the State to Tell Lies in Court
It's good advice to keep up to date and in shape, and always have, but unfortunately even that is often not sufficient.

Lately potential employers have been expressing surprise that I never went into management. I enjoy developing so was never interested---until I encountered a few truly incompetent bosses in the last few years and rethought my position. So I've read all the classics, such as MMM, Peopleware, etc... but found it is too late to be hired as a manager when you've never managed anyone.
I have devoted 10 years to game content distribution, packing, compression etc. (Now not in gamedev anymore)
This is a very easy problem which usually solved by attaching fairly simple script which is aware of your file formats to any commercial installer system.

Some companies are even selling more or less standard solutions for that, but in reality from any given 1000 games 900 will have very different data formats and all have fairly good reasons to do so - using universal "patch systems" really creates more problems.
The author is a well known A.I. person, who wrote some landmark papers in the field, and played a role in the production of some others. His masters thesis Planning for conjunctive goals [1] is one. He's also written other works such as How to do research at the MIT AI Lab [2] and How to think real good [3] (don't judge this by the title, he chose the name as a deliberate ironic allusion to a badly translated book).

[1] ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AITR-802.pdf

[2] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487

[3] https://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think
Maybe a coffeemaker that uses way less power, but it gets the hot water from another source.

The coffee maker still makes coffee, but it doesn't do the expensive heating of water.
It appears that if that was the real reason, then the government of the time wasn't prepared to tell anyone that was the case, going by the General's account anyway.

Many of the things he suggest merely re-align incentives. So if the Senators and Corporate CEOs really think that Japan is a menace to be dealt with, then they should be putting their money where their mouth is, rather than having the moral hazard of benefiting selfishly from unnecessary wars.
> Even when I've not needed a cryptographic hash, I've still used one, because why not?

Performance. Take a look at djb's (non-cryptographic) hash, with a constant multiplier chosen to be implemented with a shift and an add — that's the level of performance a non-cryptographic hash (e.g. for hash tables & similar purposes) needs.

https://gist.github.com/hmic/1676398
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't seem to be able to change the title or to repost this. Do you know what to do in such cases?
All someone has to do is write a JS->brainfuck transpiler and we could have this.
What about the products that won because they released "too" early and iterated? YouTube, Twitter, Windows?

Windows phone is an interesting example for you to choose. Do you imagine that the old Windows Mobile team would have produced an iPhone if they'd just kept working quietly? Of course not. No amount of baking would turn Windows CE into an iPhone or even the current Windows Phone. On the other hand, Android released super early when it felt junky, but they iterated repeatedly and eventually beat Apple in market share.
Moral of the story: don't hit the database for brochure pages, except in an async way that won't block page loads on fail.
I second this. I've mostly used datacenter earplugs over the years, which really mangle music. These earplugs are sold to musicians and are really great for music.
So, what's the best way to learn the Nix language? Are there any tutorials that stand out, or is the official manual the way to go?
You could employ some sneaky tactics to ferret out if a customer's browser visits a competitor's website... without letting the competitors or the custom know.
Lol and assembly is more readable.
I didn't downvote you but personally I feel conflict can be justified - stopping the Holocaust and defeating the nation that committed genocide and atrocities such as the Rape of Nanking were enough justification without considering the invasion of a huge number of sovereign territories.

It disgusts me that the world has sat by during recent genocides.
I used to do this at Ska concerts in NY. I am a woodworker and always have a gigantic box of them at home, so it was easy to fill a ziplock.

One time I got grabbed by a bunch of bouncers and forcibly expelled from the venue - they thought the purple earplugs were drugs. Once they realized they were super apologetic and we had a good laugh about it.
But in this example Japanese Americans weren't his buddies, they were innocent people taken from their homes without trial. Going back to your example, let's ignore the issue of a lack of trial with vigilante justice. If instead you ran over him and another innocent passerby, is your example still clear-cut?
Beware of other important considerations when writing down passwords. For example, law enforcement can demand that you hand over a sheet of paper, but they cannot force you to divulge a password from memory. But each password carries its own weight, so while you may care about this for your disk encryption, you may not for your social media account.

There's also the risk of creating weak passwords so that they're easier to type. Ideally, your password would be generated randomly by a computer, or using other methods, like dice (e.g. https://www.eff.org/dice).
I'm probably bias because I've lived in two areas now where healthcare is one of a few, if not the, major industry in the area. They're always trying out new apps and services here.

I am on board with what you're saying; an escape hatch for non- or semi-adopters. Obviously, printing is a way to go, so maybe on the mobile app, the ability to check each piece of information required then export/email to your preferred destination.

It'd also be interesting to look to make money on conversion i/e replacing, or integrating with, the outdated monsters you're talking about.

Maybe we're not even talking about healthcare anymore, maybe just the ability to piece together PII (personally identifiable information) and deliver it to X.

>>>> on another note

This goes into a topic I've seen posts on recently, and something of interest to me, personal indexing; a better way to throw blobs against the wall and have it indexed for me, leading to a personal Google. I mean, that's already coming, really, between Facebook and Google (especially Google Photos) but currently I see nothing about piecing together information I'd like to share on a professional level.
Data management.

1) Cleaning the data as it comes in rather than in batches so we can use it sooner, invalid data is discarded, outlier detection, normalizing inputs etc....

2) Warehousing of the data with proper indexes so you can perform some advanced queries on unstructured data

3) Some data is sent in bulk at the end of day, some of the data is streamed in fire hose style. How can we preprocess the fire hose data so that we don't have to wait until the end of the day to parse it all.

4) Oh and all of this data is unstructured and comes from 75 different sources.

Soon the average hedge fund will have more people just cleaning and managing data than they do in quantitative research, dev ops, software development and trading.

Oh and lots of the data is considered proprietary so while AWS/Azure, etc is fine, sending it to a third party to process is not.

TL/DR
Help me, I'm drowning in data. How do I get the time from when I acquire data to when I trade based on it down to a reasonable time frame, where reasonable is closer to hours rather than days/weeks.
Hearing aids compensate for a health problem, the goal here seems to be to improve hearing even for those that don't have hearing problems.

If hearing aids are glasses, these are binoculars/telescopes/microscopes.
It's a Drupal website. 10 concurrent users probably gives it a hug of death.
Leapin: Start and manage your business in e-Estonia
Getting older in tech, most of the stuff I learned is obsolete:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/184668/readers_throw...

I'm a legacy software, retrocomputing expert now I guess?

Most of the old commercial software has released free and open source versions of itself or someone wrote a FOSS clone or whatever to do the same things.

I am 48 years old now, getting close to 50 in two years, and can apply for AARP and get better health insurance through them.

I ended up on disability, but been trying to learn new things and keep up with trends and patterns in the industry.
Making a Deep Learning Dataset in 24 hours
Yea, learned this today. Seems to be that it was of a significantly smaller percentage than of Japanese Americans though.
There's always these: https://www.qwertycards.com/

It can take a while to encode/decode each time, but it does somewhat solve the problems you mentioned.
Agreed, but that's why I like the model of 1Password (or KeePass, theoretically, although it apparently had some issues?) where the only thing stored online is an encrypted vault and the decryption only happens on local devices.
I cannot wait for longer lasting batteries because they will make it so you don't need to replace them in electric cars any more. Also it means instead of getting a new rechargeable battery in every device you can just have some standard ones and switch them from device to device as you get new ones, which would reduce costs and waste a ton.
What does HOA stand for?
This seems to happen a lot when accomplished academics from other fields discover philosophy.
I think there are two main arguments here. The first is about credit assignment, and the second is about property rights.

For the first, you're saying (if I understand correctly) that, without a stable society, without good government, without healthy civic norms, etc., nobody who's rich now would have much of anything. That's clearly true, at least in absolute terms. But as with most things, there are multiple points of dependence.

Eg., consider a new Silicon Valley web startup. The founder incorporates it, the investor puts in some capital, the backend engineer builds a great server, the frontend engineer makes the page slick and responsive, the designer creates an awesome UI, and the salesperson brings in customers. If any one of those people disappeared, the web application wouldn't exist, so in some sense they can all claim 100% credit. But going deeper, Web applications wouldn't exist at all without Kahn and Cerf's work on the Internet, Noyce's work on semiconductors, Edison's and Tesla's work to create an ubiquitous, reliable electrical grid, and so on. So they can all claim 100% credit too. But of course, everyone can't get 100% of the stock, so we divide things up based on who contributed what, using heuristics about replaceability and so on.

Because, without "society as a whole", wealth wouldn't exist, you seem to be saying that society should in some sense get 100% of the credit. But this feels like the same fallacy as the backend engineer saying, hey, without me this app wouldn't exist, I should have 100% of the equity. When there are multiple contributors, each one of which was absolutely essential, you can't give 100% to everyone, and giving 100% to any particular person or group (when others were equally essential) is unfair.

For the second argument, you seem to be saying that (eg.) if a very rich person raises the rent on a poor apartment building, and many of the tenants (being unable to pay) get evicted, this is a wrong, because you make many people worse off to make one person slightly better off. In the short run, again that's true. But in the long run, it's very clear that societies which enforce strong property rights are much wealthier as a whole. The correlation between, say, Heritage's Index of Economic Freedom or the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index, and median income per person, is like the correlation between smoking and lung cancer. Philosophically, this is like the difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism: rather than judging each action individually, you can judge what overall rules, followed consistently, make everyone better off in the long run.
Why the fuck is the hiring culture in programming to test candidates on something they rarely use if ever over the course of their career?

What kind of insanity is this?

Do they ask psychiatrists how to perform surgery during hiring interviews?

Give me a break.
Greatly appreciate the author giving this topic a shot (purpose/meaning is the grand elephant in room for humanity at large), reading through the introduction I am so far positively surprised - concise and readable. Whether this holds when it comes to the meat of it.. who knows, I'm giving it try.

P.S. a compiled epub &/ pdf would be good (and once you got well formatted epub then the book can go on kdp.amazon.com as a bonus)
Some do, although this may be limited to high-end models?

I have a friend who uses hearing aids. They can tune out background noise, focus on directions, turn off hearing, and even listen to magnetic fields (while debugging circuits). I've occasionally felt a bit envious.
I think the author is a masochist
For themselves! It's also not a great system, lots of legacy. More to the point though, it's not a commercial system. Steam behaves as a distribution platform and licenses the publishing rather than the distribution.

Which is not at all interesting for self-published games (be it indies who want to avoid steam, big publishers with their own systems etc).
Same. Right now rust feels pretty isolated on the network.
There's no great RPC support. No thrift, grpc, etc.
The http libraries are good for low level, unsecured, stateless services. However they lack lots of more complex features.
Starting the UI challenge
The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality (2014)
Does it get louder when you clench your jaw? Sometimes tinnitus is due to teeth/jaw issues. Sometimes people report tinnitus getting worse or better after getting teeth removed or jaw work done. For a variety of reasons, I'm starting to think my ringing is at least partially due to pressure on my teeth and jaw. Now I need to find a TMJ specialist who will be willing to try to figure out what might help.
Privacy: an anomaly soon to be corrected
Unless you're creating [more than 20 new subdomains a week][1], you're not gonna hit that limit anyway. You can increase that figure to around 2,000 new subdomains a week if you're willing to include multiple subdomains per certificate; that should be more than enough for all but the largest of sites.

And even if you do need more:

> If you are a large hosting provider or organization working on a Let’s Encrypt integration, we have a rate limiting form that can be used to request a higher rate limit.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
This 100%. I keep a printed QR code in my wallet encoding my password manager's master password. Just in case.
As a Chinese person, I recognize the Japanese did a lot of shitty things in the war and haven't acknowledge much of it, but comparing what they did to what the U.S. did to what the German's did to what the Russian's did is a meaningless exercise in relative privation. I'd hope that a country's conviction is not solely based on what others do and instead based on the principles that they stand for.

Secondly, by your justification of Japanese Internment, we could say that we should intern all Muslims in the United States because of 9/11, declaration of war by ISIL, and domestic terrorist acts. Or that all German's and Italian's should've been interned by the United States because of American soldiers killed by Axis countries. We should be very aware of the difference between people who come to the U.S. and build a life from themselves versus those who are actively participating in a foreign country. Aside from ethnicity/religion, they are not one in the same.

Also most people recognize Afghanistan as a justified retaliation especially when you consider the number of allies who decided to join in. But Bush was wrong for the Iraq War as it was justified on the flimsiest of 'evidence' and the nation building that happened afterwards was nothing short of a disaster (and that's based on testimonies from people who worked on that project over in Iraq).
Will hedge funds take such a huge risk of using 3rd party centralized (or centrally developed) data management system?
Can't We All Just Agree (on distributed consensus) – 2015
The problem is if you find a problem and be negative about it, you'll more likely be downvoted for it. Unless you give a solution to the problem and find a way to work it out.

Like pair up a greybeard with a mentor who will help him/her learn the new technologies, there ought to be hackathons for greybeards or something.
would underestimated be a better word?
At the concerts I go to, at least 1/4 of people standing near the front will be wearing earplugs. Sometimes it's the majority.

Perhaps that's the scene (metal, northern Europe). Most venues will sell for 1EUR, or give away, free foam plugs, but most people have better ones.
The star here is not a multiplication. A bit more info on O star http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/672281/what-is-the-d...
Hitler cited the US actions against Native Americans in the same breath as the Armenian genocide - as reasons he could eliminate the Jews and suffer no ill effects.
A project I worked on suggests vibrating the bone just under the earlobe at around 50kHz with a piezoelectric stack might help. 8 years or so ago I helped make a pocket sized and rechargeable medical device that operates on this principle. Last I checked it was still in FDA hell but helping the majority of sufferers in the trials. The theory of operation is that is breaks up tiny air bubbles stuck to the hairs in the inner ear.

An interesting side note is that you could 'hear' a very high pitched sound when using the device even though 50kHz is far outside the standard human hearing range. We still are not sure but think we were hearing a lower harmonic of the tone bouncing around the skull.
De-Googleify Internet
American psyche: Michael Lewis on the triumph of irrational thinking
So did mine. And at one point, ice cream in the fridge.

Of course, it was what became the "Solutions Experience Lab", so we had a smart kitchen set up with RFID readers for medicine bottles, and an oven that would keep things cold and remote operation capabilities. And the fridge was wired up to report electricity usage: when they first installed it, they found wildly varying swings in temperature and power use. Turns out, you need to put something in it as thermal mass. Sodas are good, but ice cream doesn't work because people eat it too fast. That got replaced with plain ice.
Show HN: Easy WordPress VMs with Vagrant and Ansible
Michigan just became the First state to pass comprehensive self-driving regs
> straight C++ without objects

That is sacrilegious. I believe most people call that kind of C++ C.
As someone who transitioned to tech from finance, I can tell you that this trend (preferring young workers to old) is not limited to tech. The fact is companies in general are going to prefer younger people for labor. Younger people are cheaper, tend to have fewer obligations outside of work, and are willing to put up with more on the job.

As someone getting older and more experienced, you can take this one of two ways. (i) You can try to "learn new tech" and "stay up to date" in an effort to compete with these younger workers or (ii) you can actually listen to the market. And what is the market telling you? Yes, younger workers are more valuable for the aforementioned reasons. But it's also telling you that by the time you are 40 or 50, you should be implementing your own ideas, not someone else's.
It usually means that Drupal can't establish a lock on the database. The reason why has lots of answers, but in this case it looks like the database isn't scaling.
Are you using a non sequitur?
I've caught myself on the giving end of that. I'd think "Oh, they don't speak clear English, therefore they can't be smart." But that is obviously completely wrong. I don't know why my brain goes that direction, or what I can do to stop it.
Hacker Finds a Way to Break into Any Yahoo Mail Inbox, Gets $10,000
That's funny because I already had this patent describing:

"Combination of Brainfuck with paper mediums for transmission to location for processing, storage, distribution, and archiving of said combinations."

If you made a Brainfuck patent, you need to write me a check.
Invrea Blog: Data, Models, and AI
I've stuffed paper towels in my ears in spinning or zumba classes. The loudspeakers are in front of the students blasting right at us. The teachers are behind them and generally younger.
Ask HN: Coding retreats (similar to writer's retreats)
Does anyone know of coding retreats, similar to writer's retreats/workshops. The idea being to pick a good setting (eg: a farm), get a bunch of coders together for a couple of weeks, to primarily work on coding, without other distractions.

If not, would you be interested in such a thing?
So basically this is augmentation of the ear. Focus sounds you want to ear, block the ones you don't. Pretty cool, but at the same time its kind of the first step towards the concept shown in Black Mirror where you just block out people you don't want to hear or see. They just become a muffled background noise.
Homeowners Association - Might be US thing - but basically Condos / Townhouses / even neighborhoods form associations to take care of the 'commons' / enforce a look for the neighborhood, etc... There's usually a monthly payment. Repairs / work orders / disputes are settled through them. There's bylaws...
And they shouldn't.
The argument is the other way round, they should not be correlated, or if they are correlated they should be correlated in an obvious way, therefore it is likely random chance compared to the situation were suddenly there is a spike in violent death because of nuclear war or something.
Bottom line: Who cares?

Free soda and food? Really?
Why Startup Pioneers Have Arrows in Their Backs
Major Layoffs at Yik Yak, GitHub
Thanks for posting this. For those who are interested in other #awsreinvent sessions, here is a compiled gist from stevenringo - https://gist.github.com/stevenringo/5f0f9cc7b329dbaa76f495a6...
Startup Death Zone