skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"""Imagine if you spent that time learning a language, or reading books and essays about some of the issues they mention on the news."""

This seems like a bootstrapping problem. How do you know what issues you should study up on. As a thought experiment, let's imagine a person that is completely ignorant of the news. How would they even know that Syria is worth researching without stumbling upon it by accident or getting input from another person that consumes news?

I think the pledge here is for better news and not for no news. I strongly believe that staying informed about what's going on in the world has value. It builds empathy and curiosity about different cultures and problems other people may have.
>People want to own a car, have it always available, and don't want to share.

That's a historical accident, not some fundamental of the human condition.

Already young people buy less cars than people their age 1-2 generations ago, and car-pooling is increasingly more popular.

Heck, suddenly a sizable percentage of the population became part-time taxi-drivers with Uber and Lyft.
Clearly Keith does not play video games.
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Salary : At par to any product company
Expectations: People who love writing good and clean code, understand OOPS very well, follows TDD and agile, more importantly should be active contributor of open source projects.
Most of my projects are subscription based SaaS web apps specifically aimed for a local (non-US) market. Showing them wouldn’t do you any good because you’d need an account to view the service and it would attract unwanted attention. Contrary to the prevailing HN mentality, I prefer to fly under the radar.
Nice try playing word games.

Debian user space isn't the same thing as a kernel.

Android kernel doesn't expose the same syscalls as a standard Linux.

I am really keen in having Google replacing Linux with Magenta, then we can carry on this discussion about what Android is supposed to be.
tablib[0] is one option for Python. There are quite a few libraries that handle export. Excel files (and other Office) file formats are just zip files containing XML. For a while now, this has been an open standard[1].

[0] https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
From a grad student perspective, pretty easy, long as you live that lifestyle. You don't need a car. A bike gets you most places, and if you don't have one, the campus buses are pretty good and free. On campus housing is cheap relative to local prices and Stanford's graduate stipends are better than most other schools. We also mostly cooked ourselves, taking turns in a group, so that's pretty cheap too. If you have to eat out, the dining halls have some good options at a reasonable price. All in all, I could make ends meet and I generally had enough left over for the occasional dinner/drinks out, going skiing, life in general. I did have to dip into savings or borrow money for larger unexpected expenses from time to time though.
>In other words, because the Moto Z cheats.

If you're not cheating, you're not doing it right.
Increasing the backlog by a month is not so urgent that 6 days is a problem. It's useful to have a process in place for more urgent hotfixes in production, but I don't see why that would be needed for this particular case. And rushing changes for a mission critical system can be very dangerous.
Well, what can you expect from The Economist? It's the age of fake news, after all, right?

Do you think someone went there and bothered to actually check how things really are at that place? Way too expensive, fake news is just cheaper :)
I don't think this is suggesting that people would go back to conventional employment, more that they're not going to just kick back and relax for the rest of their lives. You're example of going to do something useful would still count as work to most people.
I worked at a place where the developers were all underpaid (due to it being a 'startup', and there being the promise of more down the line...). When annual reviews came round (after the company posted strong profits), nobody got their raises, and promptly handed in their notices. In an attempt to scramble to save the company, management agreed to bring them up to much more reasonable salaries, but could only do so with a promotion - since the payrise was too big for the board to approve without one. So everyone in the company became a senior developer at once...
That may or may not be true in the US. It's very much not true in the UK.

The far-right crazy papers, specifically the Mail and the Express, are notorious for leading with spurious non-stories and for making up post-factual "journalism" when it suits them.

You'll get a very distorted view of the world if you rely on them for accurate news reporting.

Non-political stories - major accidents, earthquakes, and so on - are more likely to be reported in a consistent way across all the outlets. But anything with even the faintest hint of a political angle - which includes a lot of news - will be mangled by each outlet's political slant.
Interesting. So you would support a private instance running a customized LB, and potentially give that person (if they were a contributor) a 20% discount?
Among all the non-tech oriented people I know, the only ones that say they don't mind, do so because they feel powerless about it but "need" Facebook.

You actually need some tech knowledge to be able to rationalize this endless being pushed and shoved around like cattle as some kind of worthwhile trade-off.
Trump lends credibility because of his position and the scope of his reach - his popularity isn't that relevant, the bully pulpit and access to American broadcast media is enough. Far more people know about and trust Wikileaks because of this election, and Wikileaks has proven influential enough to possibly swing a Presidential election, which wouldn't happen if people didn't take for granted that they were a reliable source.
Woah, so many people "suffer" from the same thing!

edit. As for these hearphones, would be interesting to test them, but dont think I've used them. Never seen the problem as a big thing. More like annoyance perhaps. And yes, I am cheap.
Some people don't make that over a lifetime. Problem kicks in when person switches lifestyle gear all the way up and spends it all in 5 years.
$200K * 20 years...
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The kernel maintainers can choose between continuing with reverse engineering and hacking together their own driver, or starting with the code of AMDs driver and adapting that.

And you really think continuing with the hacky reverse engineering is the better solution?
No, you don't. You only need to confirm stuff if you want an authenticated connection, which is a special type of connection. Devices may or may not allow you to change stuff regardless of whether the connection is authenticated or not. For instance, I have a cheap lost key tracker at my desk that can be made to beep loudly without an authenticated connection.

Moreover, there's no authenticated connection required to browse the services a BLE device exposes. GATT services are considered public information, so you can easily exfiltrate metadata about (discoverable) devices present without anyone noticing.

(source: I read a BLE book over the last weekend)
I discarded the idea of using a sliding divider because it cannot switch images fast enough to notice tiny compression artifacts, if any.

But thanks for your feedback. I have a couple of ideas how to make it more clear.
I haven't intentionally ingested the "news" in any considerable manner in at least 10 years, probably more. That's by design; I just don't place a premium on it. Time, energy, and attention are all limited resources and I've decided that mine are best utilized in other ways. To the best of my knowledge, I can't say that my life has been negatively impacted at all by this decision. Sure, I'm left out of some cocktail party discussions, but those aren't very attractive to me in the first place.

A guy like me turns the "news" on and at best it feels like an advertisement wrapped in a reality show. At worst, it feels like a bunch of young children yelling at each other on a playground. There's an infinite amount of noise out there and it's my job to control the tuner and volume buttons.

All that said, I presume the real problem comes into play here when the ill-informed make decisions based on their position without acknowledging the situation.
I would also guess it's a networking strategy.
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The HD20 [1] emulated here uses some Apple-specific protocol, so it can be connected to the DB19. The SCSI port can also be be used, to connect some old hard external SCSI drive or a modern solution like SCSI2SD. The floppy-emu is easier to setup, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Disk_20
[2] http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD
Considering that Elon Musk says we'll have full self-diving cars (from an engineering standpoint) in 2 or 3 years, this estimate seems very pessimistic.
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For most people I know, when they say they wish they had enough money that they didn't have to work, what they mean is that they wish they had enough money to escape the wage-labor relationship with an employer.
What kind of office lets you install a new OS on their machines?
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I suspect what happens is the developer just dumps everything in a sqlite database, which will fsync for you on commit.
"Financial incentives to maintain prison head-counts is a crime against humanity."

I'm not so sure about this.

It's the police/prosecutors that put people in there, and parole hearing folks as well - neither of which are 'private entities'.

So, the connection between 'headcount' and 'ownership' is not so direct.

It's entirely plausible that a small change in law could affect how many are actually put in prison.

Obviously - lobbying is an issue, but it's indirect.
It's not "significantly rewritten". Some details were added and clarified. Most relevant is the fact that the most recent version, and all other versions (I read them all) make it completely clear that Eichenwald has no reason to think, and does not say, that the emails as leaked by Wikileaks are fake. So Greenwald is still lying, no matter which version you are looking at.
that would be enough for me. depends on your comfortlevel.
There was a thread on dri-devel a year ago:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-Octobe...

Back then the probed panel resolution (EDID retrieved by radeon) was 3840x2160, which doesn't make any sense because the panel actually has 5120x2880. It's unclear if this was because of missing/broken MST support in radeon (Multistream Transport) or if Apple used some proprietary mechanism to squeeze the panel resolution in a single stream transport. You may want to contact the person who started that thread (Andreas Tunek) and ask if the situation has improved with contemporary kernels.
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Far as I could tell running numbers for pumped heat storage is it should work well enough.

Link: http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/technologies/pumped-...

No one builds them though because there isn't a lot of need currently. Mostly I think because it's cheaper to build a natural gas fired peaking plant than time shift say electricity from coal fired plants. However as we add more wind and solar this should change.
I see. I think the two are really not the same. One is essentially total freedom, the other (conventional employment) is on a scale of 'do as you are told' - 'you 've got some say in how things are being run'.
Macs have a good hw/sw-integration, but there are other features as well; I bought my first MBP for its trackpad, which is still unparalleled, and (as l1k puts it) its form language. I'm running Linux, which doesn't offer the same hw/sw-integration quality, but it's pretty good!
> Rust: language is still evolving.

The language has been at 1.0 and hence backwards-compatibility for a year and a half. Features are being added, but existing code is stable now, with a similar (or maybe even more strict) compatibility promise to the one Go has.

> 6. Go: large and growing list of tools, both shipped as part of Go and made by community (debuggers, memory and cpu profilers, race detector, runtime tracing for debugging multi-threading).

> Rust: not so much.

This is wrong: Rust can use all the same tooling as C and C++, and they work well. This includes debuggers like gdb and lldb (and, even better, rr), as well as profilers/other things like perf and valgrind. The situation may be a little misleading because Rust doesn't have to reimplement everything like Go, and, furthermore, I don't think having to duplicate work is a good thing.

Additionally, the language itself helps mitigate a lot of bugs for which such tooling is needed. Strong assurances and more automated checking are the pay off of the steeper learning curve and "manual" memory management. (Of course, as you imply, having the compiler be more helpful may not be worth the trade-off for a domain like web apps/microservices.)
For Python, there's XlsxWriter[0] (creation of new excel files) and OpenPyXL[1] (creation of new and manipulation of existing files).

[0]:
http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/XlsxWriter

[1]:
https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl
We didn't manage just fine before TV. We had two incredibly destructive World Wars, both following a much longer but even more violent history of colonial imperialism and domestic revolution.

In the UK we didn't get voting rights for all males until 1918, and voting rights for women until 1928. The US didn't get votes for women until 1920.

Before then, news had very limited popular political influence.

With the internet, we're increasingly seeing automated and industrialised fake "news" generation used for political leverage at the expense of impartial reporting of objective fact.
It's a little thing, but it's surprising how many people don't - if you've got a lot of work on and a someone's emailing you about something that isn't a priority at the time it's far too easy not to bother replying immediately. It's much better for your client if you just take 20 seconds to shoot back an email to manage their expectations explaining that you've seen the email and you'll aim to take a look and get them a response in the next x days/hours/etc
Is that so? If americans want to live like that, why don’t american cities look like european cities already?

There seems to also be a cultural element, and I doubt that can be solved with merely technological means.
If Musk is able to help bootstrap passage to Mars, I can fully see a non-trivial percent of colonists willing to take on 5 years of indenture and hard, dangerous, labor in exchange for passage. I can even see the rich "sponsors" staying here on Earth until Mars is suitably developed for comfortable living.
I think the problem in the US is the odd way you prosecute - you can do 'one thing' and up getting charted with '10 things' and getting 10 stacked sentences which adds up to 100 years.

Also - the punishment for small amounts of weed in most states is insane.

Likewise - the drinking age is crazy high in the US.

Some minor changes in the law could really quite radically affect how many people are in jail.
It would be enough for vast majority of people, but the problem is that if you suddenly get $5M, be it through inheritance or lottery or any sort of "sudden enrichment event", most people just go and spend it all in few years. There's a huge temptation to buy your way into a higher social bracket, but it only works if you have an income matching that bracket, otherwise that pot of money is going to run out sooner or later.
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But, they are older and I have not tested them in a while. One is a full Rails book that covers setting up Ruby with RVM (on the server), Postgresql and fetching the app from a private git repo (bitbucket). The other is a smaller companion book that shows how to setup WordPress with Postgresql.

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If you 30 and get 5million you would have more than 5k per month even if you get 100 years old and didn't invest it somewhere. How is this not comfortable?
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During rush hours, most of the cars only have one person in it. Cheap self driving taxis could reduce quite a bit the number of cars during rush hour by pooling rides.
That's interesting, I didn't know that. I didn't have yellow press (aka "boulevard journalism) in mind, though, to which I would definitely count Dailymail, Express or the German Bild. They tick differently and I wouldn't recommend any of them as a source of any information.
very nicely put, I'll steal that if you don't mind.
Greenwald is claiming that Eichenwald is reporting that the emails leaked by Wikileaks are fake. In repititions of this claim he either refers to Eichenwald's article directly[0] or indirectly by linking to a tweet that
mentions it. Greenwald's claim is a lie. Eichenwald never says that the emails are fake. Read the article. Greenwald certainly did. If you actually read the article in Newsweek you will learn that "manipulates" means that the Russians distorted the meaning and content of the documents in their propaganda, and Trump repeated the identical distortions nearly simultaneously. In fact, Eichenwald's story only makes sense if the Wikileaks version is unaltered, and this is implicit in his reporting.

[0]http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hil...
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I'm pretty happy with Firefox for Android with the AdBlock Plus add-on. What makes you want to switch?
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I don't have UT99, so I can't compare. I've heard it's like UT4, which I didn't really enjoy all that much. So put me on the Quake side of the Quake/UT fight, I guess.

And I could never get into CS.
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People don't understand time and age. You are right that 5k is more than enough money to live off of, if you are wise with how you spend it. It sounds to me like Keith has problems being creative and creating meaning in his life outside of work. No one wants deadlines reviews or any of that. People want to work, but on their own terms. That's what people want. Especially creative people.
So, I'm only six months in the wilderness, and hindsight may well prove me naive, but I never want to sit behind a desk again.

I left the business I founded 11 years ago 6 months ago - not because it was failing - they go from strength to strength - but rather because it was making me miserable - the fun freewheeling startup completely metamorphosed into a serious organisation complete with office politics and all the rest.

I cashed out for a relatively meagre sum - halved my net worth in the process, which now sits at about £1m 40:60 cash:assets. I'm 33. I plan to see every nook and cranny of the world and to take my time about it - bought an old Land Rover, driving everywhere.

A big part of the reason I left was identity. I had come to realise that my company was my identity, my life, my entire existence, and that I had remoulded myself continually to embody the company as it morphed and grew. Eventually I could no longer identify myself within the layers of inherited identity, and had lost all passion for the things that once drove me. I was CTO, not human, not alive.

Since leaving I'm slowly remembering life - despite having had time off over the last decade, there was only one one month period five years ago when I was uncontactable - other holidays were consumed by me staring at my phone and muttering curses as I'd hammer out emails.

It's going to take years to shed the burden, but already after six months I find myself slowly becoming less neurotic, less anxious, although I still have nightmares every night like clockwork.

The capital I have is not enough to retire on in the uk, but it is enough to retire in many other parts of the world.

Then again, I've always been pathologicallly lazy, and status has always been no more than a game to me, and I derive my identity (well, I did before I drowned it) very idiopathically, so perhaps I am an oddity rather than the norm.

This has ended up a ramble. I suppose my gist is that I currently believe it better to derive identity from something other than a manufactured corporate persona, or a job role. I just smile and say I'm unemployed.
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Hmm. This seems like a pretty textbook case of Stockholm syndrome, if applied to society and expectations.

Do they have to work? Nope. If they live leaner, they needen't work another day in the rest of their lives. If they have hobbies, they can master those instead. They could be the best at them.

But instead, "society" says they have to work to have a worth. That's puritanical garbage that we need to nip at the bud. We're coming of an age, where machines can increasingly provide more and more, and we are still addicted to human labor and that connection of self-worth.