skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OnePlus 3 is underated, it is awesome. I have a Google pixel XL and the OnePlus 3 is as fast but thinner and lighter and about half the price. I wish them. More success.
This is a 2 year old article. Where's the follow up? What did they end up doing?

EDIT: AHA! Part 2: https://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/ntp-server-costing-500year...
Letter to my family on Christmas Eve
Wow, the entire article is him making a strawman of his 'younger dumber self'.
Turkey targets 10,000 social media users in 'terror' probe
You can have both. I have 0 unread emails cause the garbage goes to spam, the unimportant is marked as read and everything else is read every X hours.

The difference is probably ignore vs mass mark as read.

I find it useful cause I have a small diff for each check.

Think of it as Continuous Integration for email :)
QuickCheck in Every Language
Counterpoint: Mac Pro. An exiting new design, bold statement and technological choices. All but dead.

We just have a few more months to know what Apple really has in mind. And by the end of the year that will be clear if 2 year between updates minimum is the new best for the mac line.
Extensive discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13242620
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow analyzed by Ian McKellen (1979)
After using desktops exclusively for over a decade, I went exclusively laptop in 2012. It was alright, and while laptops were able to fill most of my needs (they were all 15" high end models), there were always times here and there where the limitations inherent to being a reasonably portable laptop reared their heads, and it was always frustrating. Just a couple months ago I built myself a new tower and now it's where I do most of my free time computing, and it's really great to not have to deal with aforementioned limits.

It's also just staggeringly more powerful than my laptop. My tower compiles projects in Xcode 2x-3x as fast as my top of the line 2015 15" rMBP, and that time saved really piles up.
Civil and environmental engineer explains why coal is dead as a power source
It's a network route, so it's invisible to applications.
It sounds like your issues should be hosted on gitlab.com. I bet you can mirror your repos to gitlab.com and just use it for issues.

Edit: GitLab even has a setting that lets you seamlessly integrate an external issue tracker. [0]

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/integration/external-issue-tracke...
I imagine if you asked Dick Cheney about the Iraq War, Wall Street executives about the 2008 financial crisis, or the heads at the NSA about the Snowden revelations, they would give you a similar response.

Even when you are caught lying, fabricating, breaking the law, or defrauding the public, you will get away with it 100% if you are in a position of wealth and power. American institutions are apparently not strong enough to deal with this kind of corruption.

Sometimes I wonder if I should give my children the advice "Be good and moral and care about other people" or "Do everything you can to be rich and powerful so you can make yourself as immune to adversity as possible."

Sometimes I feel like the latter would be more helpful.
AFAICT the author appears to be hastily overreacting to the announcement of Rocket yesterday, which is a web framework that uses unstable features.
Zero executive turnover

I just found one in 5 seconds on linkedin. You could too if you did not imagine yourself talking to an aquarium.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-mayberry-166325

Much lower employee turnover

In absolute numbers? Sure. A company with several thousands employees will have higher number of people leaving over longer time even if it's doing great than a failing company with a couple hundred total employees. I guess this is what makes you optimistic? Because relative to their workforce they churn through a huge number of people. At this time every game studio in Santa Monica has few people from there.

Steady revenue

Are there numbers for CIG? I thought it's a private company and its revenue numbers are not available. What source do you base your assertion on?
Hm, I just realized I work with some people like you, who seem to miss about half of my mails. Hah, from this point on, I will always call "you" if I need to inform "you" of something.
A German friend gave me this book almost 20 years ago; it's a children's book, but it's quite profound in spots. It's a bit dark, too. Same author as The Neverending Story. Who knew that Children's Dystopia Fiction could be a thing and that it could be good.
It's hard to go past Chopin's "Fantaisie Impromptu". I quite like Yundi Li's interpretation of the piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvm2ZsRv3C8

And one from my favourite composer, Claude Debussy, the first in his pair of Arabesques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fle2CP8gR0 . The Arabesque is really nice: it starts off synchronised and then transitions to a really beautiful syncopated flowing section.

And although this has nothing to do with syncopation or off-beat rhythms, I highly recommend this video from Valentina Lisitsa (one of the most technically brilliant pianists alive, IMHO) playing a Beethoven Sonata with a GoPro strapped to her chest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0m2RW4m8xE

Although you might want to avoid that last one if you're prone to motion sickness :)
You have that kind of backwards. People are complaining this time because everybody has tried the 2015 MacBook and everybody knows exactly how bad those butterfly keyboards are.

When the 2015 MacBook came out, nobody knew what a butterfly keyboard was. Nobody had ever tried, felt, or melded with that keyboard. But journalists who got to try it did start hating on it right after the event finished.

Also, the MacBook was an addition to the existing Air + Pro product lines so you could just happily ignore its existence if you didn't like it.
You want to be running the "guest" since that's where all your work is (just having access to the disk isn't really enough, you want to run your apps/settings/etc). I think we may see a move towards docks with graphics cards, but the CPU and RAM probably want to stay on the guest computer.
MY 10TH GRADE HISTORY TEACHER DOES a RAIN DANCE
Counter-counterpoint, the 5K iMac now with wide colour gamut displays. They're still pushing the Mac forward in ways no other computer manufacturer even comes near, but not in every direction or into every market segment.

I don't know if new Mac Pros are in the roadmap. But if they're not, while that would suck for those people that depend on them, it would hardly be the end of the line for the Mac.
I got an MBP 13'' last year, and after reading many of the internet reviews and reports, I'll be sticking with it for at least a couple more generations / years, if not many more.

I have to admit, that I find the touchbar to be a gimmick - but a gimmick with lots of potential. Once Apple has ironed out the current issues, it might become a pretty neat enhancement to the rather static, traditional, physical keyboard.

The dimensions and weight of the new MBP are a huge step forward, indeed. But one can live without it, as 3.02 pounds (1.37kg) is not THAT much of a difference, as compared to 3.48 pounds (1.58kg). I mean yes, you notice the thinness and lightness of the new MBP, no question about that. But believe me, it's not even close to the previous jump (which I won't Google now).

Now for the controversial part: at most 16GB of RAM for the new MBP, really Apple? It almost sounds like a joke. And the CPU, well, I guess Apple is not the one to blame here, since Intel probably is the culprit here, but there really is pretty much no noticeable improvement over the previous generation AT ALL.

USB-C? Yeah, I like it. Don't have any devices that support it, but I can understand that it is the future. Really. But how on earth does Apple think that it is a good idea to just not have Magsafe anymore?! If there is one thing that even Apple haters have considered amazing, it is Magsafe. Now it's gone, and it doesn't look like it's coming back. This makes me sad, as I don't think there is going to be something similar anytime soon...

Now listen Apple. There is this company that you've been ahead of for many years. Yeah, I'm taking about Microsoft. They are BACK. And as much as I dislike their OS, they are improving their hardware AND software much, much faster than you are. If I was you, I would start to at least TRY to be a bit more revolutionary again. Because in 5 years from now, people might find your hardware a scam, and your software not that good anymore.

Sincerely,
a software engineer that likes his MacOS and MBP.
There's another distinction that is not made here!

I recommend the nightly toolchain for development, but to target the stable Rust platform. This is possible because Rust is that good and unbuggy. Use nightly to get the best development tools, stable for the best platform (that doesn't break builds randomly).
Does the horsepower give you any extra capability these days though? My laptop (Surface Book) is plenty powerful enough for development, even a certain amount of 3D rendering.
Which pick are you talking about? I couldn't find much with google. But regardless, Clinton isn't the president, so it doesn't really matter who she was considering. Trump is appointing people who don't understand climate change, want to abolish the departments they're in charge of, oppose minimum wage rises, don't understand what Planned Parenthood is for, have no government experience, etc. Obviously lots of people like these things, that's why he's making the appointments, but don't tell me you didn't hear these fears before the election. People were hysterical about these exact possibilities, and now they're happening.
Ditto. The compromises aren't worth it. I have no interest in "progress" for progress sake. Achieving a thinner device is not laudable at the expense of utility.

Planning to order a beefed up 15" 2015 model in the new year. Probably a refurb.
time management ;P
Price Volatility – Basic Brownian Motion
If you have trouble finding potential customers then the startup will too. I have asked the startup to help me find these people and if they can't help me then this is a massive warning sign for me.
Canada's population is highly urbanized and concentrated in cities near our southern border. More urbanized than Switzerland (GP comment). Not an explanation for our uncompetitive mobile and broadband data markets.

Canada urban population: 81.8% of total population (2015)

Switzerland urban population: 73.9% of total population (2015)

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[0] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
You could use a Go "project" that is in fact the $GOPATH, like so:

|-- projects
|-- project_0
|-- project_1
|-- project_2
|-- go
|-- src
|-- pkg
|-- bin
|-- project_4
|-- project_5

Your other projects would then not be affected at all.

Or consider using a tool like `gb` (https://github.com/constabulary/gb) that does not depend on $GOPATH. (But ensure to understand the caveats of this tool before switching to it.)
I would adopt this method. Its a really good idea that avoids spam.
Few know it hosts the single greatest artistic accomplishment by any human being on this solar system or any other: The Man Within[1] by Sean Landers, perhaps the finest human being in our time.

[1] http://ubu.com/sound/landers.html
I am of similar views. The feel of both performance and real keyboards/screens boosts my productivity significantly but I can see how others are able to get things done on a laptop.
I try to incorporate a little bit of history into my mathematics courses.

For instance, why do we rationalize denominators? That is, why is 1/sqrt(2) traditionally considered bad form? There is a historical reason for this that few students today know about. I think understanding this history puts things in context and makes the subject less about arbitrary rules.

Here's something that puts basic algebra into perspective. Every equation that we teach you to solve by hand is reducible to either a quadratic or linear equation. The rules we teach are all about transforming expressions/equations into quadratic or linear form. There is a purpose. It's not random.

Does it help? I don't know.
I have a question. In string theory, what is the nature of time? Is it universal and absolute, like QM, or dynamic like relativity, or yet something else?
Advice to Ignore
Feds agree to give Seattle $2B in low-interest loans for light rail
I ran an NTP server on a Raspberry Pi for some time.

The bottleneck I kept hitting was the 65535 NAT translation limit on my Cisco router, at which point, load was quite manageable on the Pi.

It's extraordinary how much traffic one cheap device could service.
Apple doesn't change anything: "They've stopped innovating and become boring."

Apple does change stuff: "Why did they ruin a good thing?"

Apple's whole thing is simple products that work really well, and they're now suffering from it. Android or Windows can add 20 new bells and whistles, whereas that's not Apple's thing. Their initial versions are freakishly well-done (the current iPhone isn't that different from what was released a decade ago, and the MBP hasn't really changed either), and subsequent models suffer from that early level of polish and perfection. They need people to continue buying (they are a company), but really don't have many ways to entice people to.
That's not a scientific proposal. There is absolutely no reason to think that anything should cease existing simply because the first thought occurred.
Advanced property-based (QuickCheck-like) testing for Python
Some thoughts on time management:

- Understanding that you will probably not accomplish everything on your to-do list was an important insight that I discovered a few years into my career. Some things will fall off the list, and that's OK. It's best to make explicit decisions in this regard: I will NOT work on that task / project because it just doesn't have the priority. You may be asked for this sort of reasoning later.

- The company always wins. If you're a salaried employee, the company will almost always demand more time than you want to provide. If you're lucky, they will be flexible, but don't expect them to value your time in any meaningful sense. Protect it for yourself in the most graceful and diplomatic way possible.

- If you are an individual contributor on a tech / engineering team: Keep in mind that you are only partially credited for being responsive to email and other requests. Your technical and intellectual contributions are often far more important than keeping your inbox at "zero".

- The best manager I knew had a very light touch with time management. He didn't keep his inbox at zero, he often said no to requests, and he didn't employ any real time management framework at all. He always kept in the forefront of his mind whatever the most important task were for the business. If his team were barraged with corporate bureaucratic junk (useless training classes, etc), he would stand in front of management and say "no, fuck that, that's useless". He was quite successful and could "get away" with this behavior, though I suspect it was this very behavior which had something to do with his success.
> Think of it as a scaling problem. Scaling is all about software.

Interesting. But to me, solar feels like a utility (water, sewer, power, gas), which scaled before digital computers or software.
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Please provoke souls somewhere else.
If you expect to derive encyclopaedic results from explicitly anecdotal observations then you might be suffering from pedantry and should schedule a consultation with a licensed epistemologist ASAP.
Policy makers have a habit of underestimating the intelligence and savvy of young people. Millennials, who grew up on Amazon and data visualizations, want the facts and to decide based on the preponderance of evidence, not be swayed by gimmicks, threats, and toys.
There are companies that can help you removing your `digital shadow` - https://www.digitalshadows.com/the-digital-shadow/

disclaimer - I happen to know digital shadow from event I once attended. I'm not associated with them and for that matter I had not used their product, however I find the idea pretty interesting and kinda cool :-)
> GP probably means that while these pioneers might be aware of, might have tinkered with the nuances of processor design and syscalls and nitty-gritty details of TLB's and interrupts and stuff that, say, a kernel-level or SSD firmware guy might deal with regularly, it's highly unlikely that they would know their way around these like they know their way around the algorithms that they deal with on a regular basis, which exist at a much higher level of abstraction.

I think you missed my point. What I'm saying is there's a world of difference between "X knows B better than A" and "X doesn't know A [very well]". When you're talking about world-class experts who are at the forefront of research in their fields, if you work in the same discipline, there's a pretty damn good chance they're more of an expert at your work area than you are. (I'm obviously assuming "you" here are not the world-class expert in your area. "You" are just a generic but respectable engineer in your area of work.)

I think what you (& the OP) need to realize is that there's a HUGE and crucial difference between being, say, "rusty" on something (e.g. because you're not doing it on a day-to-day basis, or because it's someone else's system and obviously you can't magically know how it was designed a priori), and not having enough prior expertise such that your ramp-up time would be low enough to be negligible, should you ever need to touch that thing at some point. You need to realize, these folks have done so much work that they even get rusty on their own research topics after a few years. That doesn't mean they stop being experts on their topics. On top of that, they still keep up with their colleagues' research in other related areas... which, mind you, are likely to be more advanced than what you're doing. Chances are if they spent a day or two reviewing other stuff, they'd be as good (or even better) experts on them than they were originally, quite likely better than you (again, generic "you" here, as above).
The article has a right to its opinion. I don't agree with all in the article. In the real life, most of the time, the truth isn't black or white.
Is improving my organization/time-management system really kind of procrastination? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Again, it depends.
NORAD Tracks Santa
What's worse is how many Canadians seem to defend these awful companies and the lack of competition.
WikiLeaks Denied Russia Source for Leaks 5 TIMES – Media Still Refuses to Report
Will it fit in ram? Python + pandas. Pandas is really amazing.

Otherwise, try postgresql or SQLite.
The most comprehensive source about this kind of thing is Cajori’s History of Mathematical Notations. You should be able to find a used copy of both volumes for a reasonable price.
Mob is the main development branch, open to all. Master is the release branch, and as no release has been cut for a couple of years, it is indeed rather stale.

edit: If you want to get an idea about what happens in TCC-land, you should check out the mailing list archives [1], eg a recent-ish status update [2].

[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/

[2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2016-11/ms...
Most admins would consider having network infrastructure's firmware change outside of their control a bug/misfeature. Not to mention most devices would require reboot to apply change.

And to be able to remotely change the code running a HUGE security issue.
Probably true. The extra requirements on durability probably make it rediculous. But I still prefer my reporting to at least attempt to give pros and cons and reasoned arguments.

It's too easy to quote a number on infrastructure projects without context and have it sound huge.
Lol, every other tweet is about harambe, his supposed upcoming rap album or hillary having parkinsons.
The author fails to realize Diamond-Square is called such because a diamond inscribed in a square touch all the midpoints with each corner....very intuitive.
I don't understand why you say "Having containers with local volumes is counter productive." I would agree it's probably not a good architecture if you're running a huge single-node Oracle database, but it's an excellent way to run data stores like Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, etcd, Zookeeper, and so on. Many people are already doing this, and as one large-scale real-world example, all of Google's storage systems run in containers. The first containerized applications (both at Google and in the "real world") were indeed stateless, but there's nothing fundamental about containers that makes them fundamentally ill-suited for stateful applications.
Windows Hallo will usr FIDO 2.0 but this is just a normal HMAC ChallengeResponse, not FIDO.
The new FIDO UAF standard solves exactly this problem, all biometrics are only unlocking a local identifier preferable on Secure Element or in a Trust Zone.
Injection II, the App – Swift Runtime Code Injection
Adding jargon and concern trolling isn't helping your argument.
> So, words from a person you trust (like a close friend or relative), are "social gossip" to you?

Yes. Is that a serious question?

I also don't have any reason trust you or whichever random people you're citing as authoritative sources on large-scale socioeconomic phenomena.

> "I saw that road A on the way to your work is being repaired"

This is a straightforward factual claim that's not subject to misinterpretation or invalid inference. My criteria for evidence is therefore much lower.

Instead of getting mad that I called you out on making economic/sociological claims without any sort of non-anecdotal evidence, you could actually try to provide evidence. Maybe you tried that and gave up. But whatever, it's up to you.

> People believed the earth was flat and/or that the sun revolved around the earth

Probably because people they trusted told them as much. You should consider this when you accept "trusted" hearsay as evidence.

> I was trying to clarify a misconception you had

Thank you, but this typically involves introducing new information. I'm aware of the opinion of the average underqualified member of the Indian public. More anecdotes along the same lines doesn't clarify much.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it.
This was made into a German film released in 1986 — you can watch it on YouTube with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_JYYcBP2Q
People have beliefs and goal functions (religious - obey God; love / protect spouse and family; acquire money and power; maintain health and increase status, and positive image of self.)

A powerful brain is like an engine with more horsepower and torque - like a fast car, if you're going the wrong way it will just get you there even faster.

It's very human to be unwilling to admit error or change your mind. The smarter you are, the more tools you have at your disposal to reason out complicated methods by which you may be correct. Of course, if your position is untenable enough, even these methods will appear ludicrous from the outside.

You can, therefore, be an excellent doctor and even develop new methods for brain surgery while being simultaneously unwilling to drop absurd beliefs inculcated into you during childhood. Yes, you sound stupid to everyone else, but if you've extended and reinforced these beliefs over your entire lifetime you may be so unwilling to drop them that ridicule isn't enough of a push.
Thanks, that makes sense! Sorry if this sounds autistic, but what kind of moves did you make and how did you know you weren't jumping the gun too soon?
TL;DR: People tend to refer buddies from the same gender/race. To alleviate this problem instead of ditching referrals altogether add a referral cash bonus (only?) for diversity referrals.