skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It need not be truly infinite or stepless as long as it has hundreds of steps. I want to dial in the ideal level, rather than pick from say... 10 options.

I'm sure I want over 5000 lumens. When I want my room well-lit to promote a sense of alertness and compensate for shorter days in winter, my best current option is a flashlight that produces about 4200 lumens bounced off the ceiling. No, that's not one of those BS marketing numbers: the light is a Jetbeam T6, which in stock form uses four Cree XP-Ls powered from four 18650 Li-ion batteries. Independent tests, including my own have found its claimed performance to be accurate. I swapped the XP-Ls for Nichia 219Cs (5000K, CRI 80+, R9 unspecified) and measured about a 2% loss of output, but increased intensity. This works as a room light, but requires an external cooling fan to run on high for longer than about 10 minutes (it has a thermal sensor and stepdown), and the batteries can only keep up with that output for a bit over an hour. 219Cs are more efficient than 219Bs and can be driven much harder, but aren't as pretty. Even the recently-released R9050 (CRI: 90+, R9: 50+) version just doesn't look as nice to me.

Four 219Bs definitely can't produce 5000 lumens. The 90+ CRI versions peak at about 600[0], but I don't want to run them at peak output; the harder they're driven, the stronger the spectral peak of the underlying blue LED. I want to run them at about 300lm/ea. 12 of them will get me that, but I'd actually rather have more than 5000 lumens.

Thanks for responding. I was hoping for an off the shelf driver, but it looks like I'm going to be improvising a bit more.

[0] http://budgetlightforum.com/node/27652
Jovenel Moise Awarded Haitian Presidency as Massive Election Fraud
Interesting! Thanks for the link!
SGTM
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Love that guy, his channel is so great.

Sometimes I think it appeals to me (and engineers in general) because spending so much time developing software... when not working on front-end/UI, it's all intangible. Just abstract bytes cast into the void. I need to make things in the physical realm more often.
Dell XPS 9360/9550/9560 and Precision M5510/M5520 Thunderbolt 3 design flaw
Given the rapid evolution of human-computer interaction in the past decades, what factors in the shifting tech landscape do you think will be decisive in accelerating the process of current tech titans losing their market dominance to new entrants?
> I think a lot of the uproar this year will subside over the next 1-2 years and the decisions Apple made will make sense.

Uh, they subside because people don't want to argue over stuff that happened 1-2 years ago... do you still argue about apple's change from it's 30-pin to lightning connector that happened in 2012? no, because you either 1: just dealt with the annoyance that you had to rebuy charging cables or 2: decide buying these cables was not worth your loyalty to apple and just stopped buying iphones.

i'm not going to argue about the new iphone only having a lightning connector and no headphone jack in 2 years. why? because i'll either be using a device that actually has a headphone jack or i'll just give in and buy lightning headphones. the difference between the "uproar" is whether this causes people to start rethinking buying an iphone.

another thing: the decisions apple made for the macbook pro will _probably_ make sense in 2 years, the problem is this laptop exists now. not 1-2 years from now when, "it will make sense"
Characters from Netflix-produced series:

Pablo Escobar - "Narcos"

Marco Polo - "Marco Polo"

Piper Chapman - "Orange is the New Black"

Mike Wheeler - "Stranger Things"
Sounds like you'd enjoy Firewatch[1].

[1]http://store.steampowered.com/app/383870/
It's not a perfect white: it's a 476-pixel square with some random (very small) splotches of light grey. As the image is called 'texturetastic-white.png', I assume the intention is to give a more natural texture feel to the background.

I'll admit that it's not the design choice I would have made, but then again, I'm not a designer!
I even saw complaints about MacBook keyboards back then. RAM from Apple was not just limited but hilariously expensive.

Even the controversial use of new ports or removal of old ones is not unfamiliar in the history of Apple.

I'm not trying to defend every decision Apple has been making, and I don't necessarily agree with them all myself. But, honestly, it mostly feels like business as usual to me.
Yeah we try to minimize the changes that would require a lock. For those cases we have a flag where we can turn off each tenant individually for maintenance.

For long running / many record migration we shove those into a queue to they can be done in the background in parallel.
No, of course you can't read all of the text at 10Mbps. The problem is that when you start some task which has a lot of spew, just having all of that text scrolling past can slow everything down to the point where the task actually takes longer! Even a few percentage points of slowdown can add up to minutes just sitting there twiddling your thumb.

Just a few weeks ago I accidentally ran a command on a remote machine that generated so much spew in the few seconds it ran before I hit control-c that it took 5 minutes to scroll through before I could do anything else.

But yes, you probably want to avoid that much text spew even if your terminal is super fast.
Spike – a powerful multipurpose static site generator
Well, I'm not those 96%, but:

It's ugly.

You misspelled 'Recruit'

There's something broken about the sign-up-with buttons that makes them display unprintable characters. Actually, that's all over.

It's unclear what you're doing.

Once I understand vaguely what you're doing, I first think 'oh great, another useless job site'. Bad place to put people.
Once I understand a little better what you're doing, I think 'It's impossible for this company to be doing what they say they're doing. They have no special power to access top candidates.' The landing page fails to convince me.
Yea. Google is taking amazing steps to kill it in this market with Daydream. I have it and for the price (diff vs non high end phone) and $80 headset is it perfect.
Just code your site to do something sane with 3rd-party content blocked. E.g. handle load errors with fallbacks.

That way people with µMatrix or similar blockers can use the control tools they have instead of needing to do something site-specific.

Also, such decisions can't be remembered if cookies/localstorage are disabled. So prompting over and over again could also be annoying.

> 1. May we retrieve common libraries from third party CDNs? Doing so helps support this site by saving on our bandwidth costs, but may expose information about you to those third parties.

In an ideal world browsers would never send a cache-refresh request for resources tagged with SRI[0] because the hashes would guarantee that the content is 100% stable. Alas, it has non-trivial privacy implications, so they don't do that.

Maybe it could be implemented as a privacy addon with a whitelist for CDN domains, but then sites would still have to adopt SRI for that addon to do its work. Or maybe an addon that injects cache-control: immutable[1] to CDN could work too, but that's limited to https.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
[1] https://bitsup.blogspot.de/2016/05/cache-control-immutable.h...
standard product lifetime seems reasonable. If IE6 has a security bug, the answer is "maybe use newer windows + edge". If xbox360 has a security bug, the answer might be "use xbox one".

This could expand to a question of "what is the expected lifetime of a product"... is it when the replacement is released (dont like the security bugs? get camera 2.0!)?, is it when the new camera becomes standard (there are 1000000 camera 2.0s out there, and 100 camera 1.0... maybe you should get on board)? Or is it when the failure rate of the product is above a threshold (Your camera 1.0 is even still working? most of them had their CPUs burn out by now, dont expect an update, in fact you should be grateful/amazed its still running)

Aging hardware is one thing ("modern security practices use a new cryptography algorithm that literally wont run on this device") but aging software is another ("we just dont want to update the software, buy our new product")
This happens really often and with much renowned publications (NYTimes, Washington Post, Guardian, La Repubblica are just a few that I've seen ppl complaining about similar behaviour) so much that it made me think that if you don't have control over the final draft, sometimes is better to avoid it all together.
It's all a front set up to provide a plausible reason for building the infrastructure that our upcoming AI robotic overlords requested from Elon.
>> Nobody wants to go down in history as the one who led apple's implosion.

True, but in many ways, Tim Cook was the one who helped make Apple insanely profitable.

If Tim Cook were to be ousted today, I'd bet there'd be a lineup of companies wanting him to be their CEO.
I'd run for governor or be a lawyer. My favorite part of software engineering has been systems thinking and either of those professions give you ample opportunity to design and explore systems. (I wanted to be a lawyer in college but the Great Recession -- and an astoundingly high number of lawyers saying it's a terrible idea to become a lawyer -- scuttled that idea. Software engineering exercises the same *STJ personality type proclivity for rules and systems.)

And I know it's not a "career" but being a gentleman scholar would be even more fun...
Don't worry. The Rust community is sensitive to the desire to only install Rust with a package manager. There was even talk (a few days ago) of making an LTS version of the Rust compiler for use in more conservative distros that don't want to update it every 6 weeks.

On another front, Rust is working hard to get people off of nightly. This project, for example, uses 3 unstable features. Clippy can already work on stable (edit: code that is linted with Clippy can also build on stable in some setups), Custom Derive will be stable in less than a month, and inclusive ranges is a pretty minor feature.

I would expect this project to begin working on stable for Rust 1.15, but I'm not affiliated with it directly, that's just my guess.
> Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or “trolls.”

I think social media have been undermined for some time, although previously it was aggressive advertisers who were the culprits. "Astroturfing" is an old word by now. During the US election, this was simply taken to another level, and in a way that had a measurable impact on people's beliefs.
Show HN: Bulc Club Eliminates Spam with Social Networking
> How long have you been sailing? Where did you learn how to sail?

I took classes at a yacht club in March/April, so a little under a year.

> Is that what you plan on doing forever or is this a temporary excursion?

Who knows. Maybe forever? Maybe only for a few years? If you want to hear the gods laugh, tell them your plans.
They were debarred by CMS, not FDA, since CMS regulates clinical labs (mostly). They can still theoretically sell medical devices that are cleared/approved by FDA.
What group would that be if you don't mind sharing ?
I recommend making sure to avoid reading this book, it spends all its time making mountains out of molehills in the easy parts and leaves out the hard parts. How did they write so many pages about text parsing?

The books by Appel and Louden (forgot the names) are good.
Enter Google Daydream. Only need $650 phone (much cheaper ones were just announced that support it I think) and a $80 headset. And most importantly they are building it correctly so that many/most high end VR games will also run on Daydream.
Personal opinion... You can always work a few more hours/weeks/months/years when your kid is an adult and living their own life but you won't ever be able to get those childhood years back. Also 50-60 hour work weeks are not healthy for you in the long term unless you are very vigilant with how active you are and take regular (every hour) breaks.

Also anecdotally I know several people who planned/hoped to retire in their late 30s/early 40s. None of them did and are still working now in their 50s and even one in their 60s. Mixture of reasons from health problems in the family to financial issues to just not knowing wtf to do when not working now their kids are adults and living their own lives.
> Blitz went out of business because it could no longer afford liability insurance. Blitz made those ubiquitous red plastic gas containers you see on every landscaping trailer. They were constantly being sued because their gas can could explode if you poured gasoline directly from it onto a fire. They even put warnings and disclaimers directly on the cans against pouring gasoline on a fire.

This is a very one-sided read of the situation.

The typical Blitz can lawsuit went something like this:

A 3-year old toddler knocked over a blitz can in a basement[1]. Vapours from the can reached the water-heater, which then flashed-back into the can, causing the can to explode, severely burning the child. This would not have happened had the can's nozzle been built with an industry-standard 10 cent flame arrestor, which federal regulators STRONGLY advise all gas can manufacturers to include, but which Blitz had for years refused to take the simple precaution of adding to their product.

It's the "ignoring simple, industry-standard safety precautions" that will get your ass nailed to the wall by a liability judge. Engineers who had worked for the company testified at trial that they were ordered to destroy documentation showing that Blitz was aware of the problem, had done internal testing, and had designed flame-arrestors for their nozzles, and that management killed the project after a change-of-ownership.

[1] http://www.recordonline.com/article/20030919/News/309199995
I read a kuro5hin post about a programmer turned courier, "A Coder in Courierland," (http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2005_3_19_133129_548.html) and became pretty infatuated with the idea over a five or six months. The recession hit, lay offs began, and then I was a courier.

I did it for a little over three years. It had its ups and downs. I returned to software development and have found a cosier community in the Javascript realm (pre-courier, .NET).

Takeaways that stick with me till this day:

- You can develop an incredible amount of strength from just cycling.

- Air quality is a long term concern.

- (More sun + more exercise) - LEDs = great sleep

- Excessive amounts of exercise != great health

- Learn your machine, and do your own work.

- Fixed gears are extremely useful in dense traffic.

- The type of work you do affects your outlook on life.

- There is a substantial amount of pride amongst messengers who show up, especially on the worst of days. Most people tend to avoid the harsh realities of life, and everyone can learn something from just taking life one delivery or line of code at a time.

- There is something to be said for sitting on a park bench and admiring the beauty around - people, man-made, or nature.

I miss it, but don't recommend it to anyone, as it's a job that requires a lot of grit and is low paying. I wouldn't change my experience at all, though. It aged my mind and soul in a really positive way.

I will say, returning to software development raises some eyebrows. Some will scrutinize the hole in your resume, others will congratulate you on being different.
1) It's looks horrible - the main photo is all washed out, the search animation GIF is really low res.

2) Most of the call-to-action stuff is way below the fold, even when you view it at 1080p.
http://imgur.com/a/OLK3o
That's much nicer than mine at http://fiane.mooo.com:8080/graphviz/ , I was using another online graphviz service a while ago, that suddenly went offline - my google foo didn't find any other that worked - so I decided it was a nice starting project for learning some web development and Go.
But Siri wasn't voice activated at the start. It actually got that feature after Google Now had it. So again, I don't see anything that was innovative about Siri at its release.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment.

There's been a lot more pushback on the scrolling decision than I had anticipated. It's not something I want in my terminal, but it seems that a simple feature like this is essential for others. Perhaps I should reconsider.

I worry that a "simple" feature like this may be overly complex internally. Performance with large amounts of output is also a concern. At least if we were to add support, it could be designed as a build feature and be removed completely if it were undesired.
interview for open positions. ask your friends if their companies are hiring. be honest, tell them you want to transition.

but ... i mean, if you can't sell yourself into a job, you're not going to be doing much sales.
Great comment[0] by nando4 yesterday summarizes the issue nicely:

I entirely understand your discontent. The XPS 13/15 was aimed as a Macbook killer. Indeed 2015 Macbooks ran 16Gbps-TB2 whereas these XPS systems outwardly surpassed them as 32Gbs-TB3. Unbeknown by their owners, until TB3 PCIe peripherals were released, they actually ran 16Gbps-TB3 via a neutered x2 3.0 link from the TB controller to the root bridge.

Yes, Dell did cheap out, using 2014 DSL5110 controllers rather than the newer DSL6xxx ones. There would have been a tiny increase in TDP running 4 lanes rather than 2, however, it shows a bias towards DP rather than PCIe traffic down the 40Gbps TB3 channel.

I wish it wasn't so. Finding an argument against Dell in that mix will be difficult. Intel are more at fault outwardly advertising TB3 as 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0, then in the details saying it can be between 2-4 lanes of PCIe 3.0. Good luck if pursuing Intel.

[0] https://egpu.io/forums/pc-setup/xps-15-9550-not-able-to-reac...
Good time to go and flag/report the RT YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday/about

It is easy to choose some videos that are clear propaganda when going through the flagging process.
Apparently, they hit a rough patch -

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2016/12/19.html
but Cortana works only 80% of the time and so slowly we usually pick up a controller, even just to pause Netflix

That's why I unhooked the Kinect that was forced upon me when I bought a launch day box, and put it in the garage. That pile of garbage worked just often enough to trick me into trying to rely on it. But 80% isn't anywhere near good enough, IMO.
> So the customer throws away every networked device in their home (because they have no idea which one got them banned)

If a breaker in your kitchen trips do you throw out every single appliance? If your water bill is high do you replace every single sink and toilet?

> and buys new ones from different vendors... which are also insecure

Maybe after getting burned by purchasing insecure unsupported devices they find out what vendors support their products and don't ship devices with unfixable backdoors before buying new ones?

> And ISP bills go up to cover the massive security scanning infrastructure needed?

A bunch of $30 cameras can scan and infect the entire internet, what makes you think the infrastructure needed to find these devices is massive?

ISPs already have everything they need to find out which of their customers are compromised, they just don't give a shit.
This New Optical Chip Could Be the Answer to an Age Old Problem
i'd bet that isn't his policy, he's just the mouthpiece.

but that's just like, my opinion, man.
Maybe you do, but it's not outrageous to want to know. If my posts are getting 0 visitors, I'd rather know and spend the time on something else!
Write plays, fairytales, poems and novels.
How would you know if it's encrypted?

If outbound traffic levels are the same when you're using it as when you're not, it's probably bugging you? Of course a smarter arrangement would reschedule traffic to coincide with use...
That's the plan! Most components of Alacritty are platform agnostic aside from font loading, font rasterization and setting up a pty.
So would ignoring industry-standard security best practices be the equivalent in this case?
The problem is that a huge number of the big wins in investment are quasi-legal in ways that indiegogo/etc won't permit. That's why I can't run my company raise there. Neither could have Uber, AirBNB, any of the marijuana wave that's coming, et cetera.

The purpose of VC and angel investing is to be risk tolerant, and this is extremely risk intolerant.
Sure. But nohup doesn't work for shells or anything interactive. You can't attach to it.
I think the difference is protecting something against mistakes vs malice.

In other words, a better safety analogy might be the prompt when you do "rm -rf".

I'm not opposed to introducing standards here; I am just saying that it's adofferent problem.
> simple, elegant mechanics.
Have you ever looked inside a watch!

Well, I'd grant the "elegant mechanics", getting all those teensy cogs and wheels and levers and bits to work together like, er, clockwork…

But "simple"? It's telling that the term for each feature on a watchface is "complication" :-D
Heise now uses a new tool they developed called Shariff. Looks better imho and is easy to use. It also shows a like counter if you proxy requests to FB's Graph API through your server.

https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff

Would recommend this over their old two click social share. Your link is a fork of the old Heise tool. It looks dated on mobile.
Well.... did they say anything untrue?

Our media stations are propaganda outlets as well. I get my 'news' from many different propaganda sources because I've found that it is very easy to tell when they are outright lying so I can just ignore that, but typically they say something that is close to the truth. The thing is that there is so much truth out there so each propaganda outlet will tell some portion of the truth that fits their narrative the best. If you grab all these different portions of the truth you can begin to piece it all together and have the biggest piece of the truth possible.
That is not how Copyleft software licenses work at all. All the AGPL gurantees is that 'Bigco' must contribute back to the community any modifications they make to the software.
Does "political propaganda" videos violate YouTube's policy?
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"We assess Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the US
presidential election to future influence efforts worldwide, including against US allies and their
election processes."
> it becomes folly to think that CQRS can be distilled into a library

Sincerely curious about this statement. I understand that CQRS is an architectural pattern, but couldn't a library implement that architecture and then provide ways for you to implement into that architecture? You don't get to pick the architecture nuances at that point, though.
Ever considered moving to a more wine friendly country?
Clojurescript and generally clojure.
How much unsafe code was needed to make this work?
Well, here's the next best thing you can do:

http://www.firewatchgame.com/

Play a game about a Forest Ranger. I played this game through and it's fairly enjoyable (even if my usual cup of tea is Battlefield/GTA style FPS).
Give it a try!
yep: cmd &> /dev/null maybe? :) or ctlr-z; disown; exit...
at any rate we're optimizing for edge cases
> Were people who made things from lead and asbestos decades earlier held liable for not knowing they would be found bad decades later?

My knowledge of this is really fuzzy now (I had to learn about it for a college ethics course) but I believe that for asbestos manufacturers knew about the health hazards for years and covered it up.
You know, sometimes I could use one of those hearts at my job.