skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our password policy is pretty terrible. We don't even have our own user profiles. Whenever I'm on a different desk than my own, I get to experience a completely different desktop. With completely different applications installed, settings, etc. I work part-time hence my desk isn't the same permanent spot, so this does occur regularly. So apart from a security hazard, this is also a productivity loss.

I'd also swap everything to Linux (my preference is macOS, but I can see how that'd increase cost). For the kind of development we do, Linux is just as good as the other two.

I honestly don't know how to solve the issue for me easily. Perhaps just install all applications and settings on a thumb drive?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337727
The thing that just makes me throw my hands up in exasperation is that Apple could have been early to the "home hub" game with AppleTV but they just didn't see it.

Imagine if, instead of Apple Watch, they had put those folks into building the AppleTV into a home hub based on Siri. I feel like Apple Watch was to be their "always available assistant" but I just don't see it succeeding in that market for most people.

(Siri isn't as good as Alexa or Google's thing but that's a separate issue...)
My issue with tmux splits is not that it's not fast, it's that GUI stuff like scrolling / selection / etc don't integrate as smoothly.
As someone who has climbed the income ladder significantly, I'd beg to differ. My ability to laugh off chastisement has correlated very directly with my financial stability. In fact I'd say the converse seems more likely, in that for someone without financial capital, social capital is all one has, whereas financial capital can certainly supplement or purchase a lack of social capital in many domains.
In terms of speed, Alacritty to Hyper is like Sublime to Atom?
I'd love to chat with you about this; my contact info is in my profile if you're interested.
> Well, running the engine (or not to) with empty AdBlue tank has nothing to do with topping it up yourself.

Yes it does, since it affects the design of the vehicle. Remember that the context of this thread includes:

"So the tank needs to be large enough to cover a full maintenance interval...or creative solution to limit consumption."
Football(Soccer) Journalist.

Have been doing it as a hobby but would love to spend more time immersing myself into the beautiful game.
Saying that rich people who earn money from people paying rent on houses/apartments that they own or investments paying back over time, is like saying that a farmer who planted the crop earlier in the year is "getting it for free" later..
I would agree if the UBI was equated to "my dad is super rich and I don't have to worry about money...". so those rich kids with no cares in the world, how do they usually turn out?
Landscaping designer, worker/Handyman. I get such joy from it and the creating/design aspect stems from my programming ability. Also, anything weather/meteorology related, as it's a side passion.
It shouldn't surprise anyone. Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer shared a similar roll when they were under their respective CEO/Celebrities.
I've literally never seen this problem.

However, a terminal emulator + X11 and so on can eat a bit of a CPU with noisy processes, eg. the output of mpv eats maybe 5-10 %, because it updates every(?) frame, so maximum work for the whole display stack. Getting the terminal emulator out of sight can get a bit more battery life in these cases.

(Somewhat related: If you have infinite scrollback it turns out that /tmp is actually very finite and can be filled by the wrong command with a couple dozen MB/s.)
> they serve many markets (India is a major one for example)

Yup. By passenger volume, Emirates serves more Indians than any other group.

That's not that surprising when you realize that Dubai, their headquarters, is 90% Asian (which is itself mostly South Asian).
At least PowerShell is taking over as the default. Should have been changed back in Windows 7. Copy & paste with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is what made me switch to PowerShell.
Visiting a site that uses Disqus when not logged in sends URL to Facebook
Part of it's probably availability of games on the platform (which has gotten better but is still poor), but part of it's because you can buy both a lower-end Mac (an Air, say, or an entry-level MBP) and build a pretty nice gaming PC for less than the cost of just a gaming-capable mac.
EDIT: Oops, the adaptor goes the other way. I didn't really think that through. Still, not being able to use your lightning earpods with your Mac isn't a big loss.

You can. Your brand new iPhone also came with a tiny little cable that you attach to your lightning headphones and now you can plug them into your Mac. It's really not that hard.

More generally, the reasons for ditching the 3.5mm jack on the iPhone aren't really applicable to the Mac, so there's no reason to remove that jack from the Mac, which means it still has it. And the iPhone uses lightning for a lot more than just headphones, whereas if the Mac got lightning, it would literally be for just headphones. So it's really kind of a waste to add a second port on the Mac that is intended for just headphones, even though you can attempt to plug other shit into it (like a USB charger), which would be confusing, and since the Mac already has a dedicated port for headphones. Oh, and your lightning earpods came with a little adaptor that makes it work on the Mac. Also, don't forget, Apple's really trying to push wireless headphones as the future, and wireless headphones work on the Mac just like they do on the iPhone.

So it's really not that hard to see why Apple decided not to put a useless port on the Mac that would simply cause a lot of confusion down the road, seeing as there's really no reason to do that.
That wouldn't sell well. Manufacturers would end up doing more to make sure it doesn't run out. This is my point - read back up the thread.
Well, Christian Perfection is a traditionally Wesleyan idea. Although that isn't saying that Christians could be free from all sin, only that they /could/ be free from all /conscious/ sin.

Sainthood of the Believer is something that's generally held by all Protestants and is basically another way of saying sola fide (by faith alone). It's just using the more traditional definition of saint (anyone that's in Heaven).
> True, though even "totally-by-the-book", Islam allows the consumption of alcohol for non-Muslims

And, depending on who you ask, for Muslims too. The prohibition is against rice wine, which most Muslims generalize to include all alcohol, but some interpret that to mean only rice wine, or only wine.
I have high hopes for JetBrains, and possibly MS, making their IDE
"engines" available for integration with third-party editors, ...

I am not sure if the project is backed in any official capacity by Microsoft, but isn't Omnisharp[0] more or less the same idea?

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[0]: http://www.omnisharp.net
Things like Apple TV/Chromecast are serving ads and are hooked up to audio systems that are usually quite capable. And this could easily just shift to being done within the range of computer speaker production/human hearing and it would sound like a glitch at best (if audible at all).
It's somewhat of a stretch to compare capital income and UBI. The people receiving capital income today are reaping the benefits of their prior income that they had paid taxes for, and chosen to save instead of spend. This is qualitatively different from someone getting a no-strings-attached payment from the government.

I'm all in favor of UBI, but this doesn't sound like a valid argument.
Good idea.

I'm an IT contractor. My last contract was at a defence company, so I understand needing to be on their network and it was only 25 minutes away.

The current one is anything from 70 to 90 minutes each way and they have nothing on site, it's all in the cloud. But they insist we turn up in the office. It's utterly ridiculous. I would happily split the difference on travelling and work an extra hour per day (i'm on a day rate) but both parties lose for no reason at all.

FWIW my day is spent on Slack, Github and their cloud provider. I need to see if Gitlab are hiring for devops / sysadmins as they've got the right idea.
"The universal basic income — a cash payment made to every individual in the country — has been critiqued recently by some commentators. Among other things, these writers dislike the fact that a UBI would deliver individuals income in a way that is divorced from working. Such an income arrangement would, it is argued, lead to meaninglessness, social dysfunction, and resentment.
One obvious problem with this analysis is that passive income — income divorced from work — already exists. It is called capital income. It flows out to various individuals in society in the form of interest, rents, and dividends. According to Piketty, Saez, and Zucman (PSZ), around 30% of all the income produced in the nation is paid out as capital income.
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the condom doesnt stop the spread of all stds or diseases.

but it is still better than nothing.
As resistors start to heat, their resistance tends to increase, yielding a non-linear relationship between voltage and current.

An extreme example of this is the incandescent light-bulb filament.
Yeah, and those people's wrongness was pretty well-established by Apple's ever-increasing sales, revenues, and establishing new market categories. All of which have ended.

I have, I think, a pretty nuanced view of Apple. It's looking increasingly like 2015 was the best year ever for Apple. 2016 was worse, and there's very little sign that 2017 will be better than 2016. That said, 2015 was the high water mark for a uniquely valuable company with a uniquely valuable product. There's a lot of value in Apple that doesn't require being literally the single most successful year in, like, the history of capitalism.

And I think that most of Apple's decline is due to secular, external forces -- basically, the maturation of the smartphone market -- not because Cook is fucking up. Probably any CEO Apple had would have had pretty similar results -- or worse ones.

But that said, all the people who are like, "What? No, there are no problems with Apple" are obviously wrong on the face of it. iPhone sales are falling. iPad sales fell off a cliff more than a year ago. The Apple Watch has not been successful enough for Apple to even tell us how many units were sold. This is not the picture of the company in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014.
You obviously never used Opera 12 :) power user in a browser has the same meaning as everywhere else - someone who is more skilled at using a tool than the average user. For example a regular user will go back to the previous page by pressing the 'back' button, or 'backspace' if they're keyboard inclined. A power user would use the "hold right click - press left click" mouse gesture (or a different variant that involves holding right click down and moving the mouse), which shaves some time off from the whole operation. Same for switching tabs (hold right click + scroll mouse wheel), opening new tabs (mouse gesture), customizing tabs (e.g. on the left side if you have the screen space) and generally knowing what options and features your browser offers. This basically means that as a power user you can do whatever a regular user can do, but more efficiently.

It's not a thing to be proud of, or some sort of weird imagined superiority as you put it, it's a fact that in a browser I can do stuff much more efficiently than most of my peers. Of course, this doesn't really matter unless your job revolves around a browser, in which case you could probably shave 10 or more minutes per day (relevant when juggling with tabs a lot, for managers/P.O.s/Scrum masters and such).

Of course, the term "power user" doesn't make sense when talking about barebones browsers (like the old IE), just like it doesn't make sense in Git (where everywhere needs to be a power user, you can't just casually use it like in Hg, without spending lots of time learning it).
I'm SO glad NIST put out that new recommendation. I really hate the whole 90 day thing. Argued for days (friendly argument) with one of my co-workers who was partly responsible for our implementation of the 90 day rule on how it wasn't necessarily better, and often lead to stupid passwords with very dumb/simple patterns.

Even with the new NIST rec, I can't get him to back off on it, so sadly we'll be stuck on that for a while.
One way to solve the problem is to have read return a buffer instead of providing the buffer, so that the internal read multiplexing code can do the buffer-pool trick under the hood. As long as all your readers ask for the same maximum size for the read, the pool can be shared. Under the hood, the implementation makes a select and request a buffer from the pool of the requested size.
Quit development, became a voice actor. A lot like a freelance developer or designer is a hustle, but damn do I love being behind a mic. If you need a voice for your explainer I'm still pretty comfortable with tech lingo terms, although I could not tell you what a tensor is!
Sounds like an option to slow down output rendering to e.g. one 1 frame/s might be an interesting feature for a terminal emulator. Still enough to keep an eye on a long-running process, but less overhead?
Very cool, how are you handling glyphs? Do you have an LRU font cache or something simpler?
This is planned once Alacritty reaches an alpha release. Today's release is considered pre-alpha and is source-only.
3ms sounds pretty dire, if you weren't writing very much. Out of curiosity, was this with or without `std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);` ?

I've found syncing makes a huge difference to IO perf in Windows, e.g. `_getc_nolock` is much faster than `getc`. (Assuming of course that you can get away with it.)
Python/Selenium is your friend. I did something similar in past ;)
This.

I've upgraded bootstrap styles using "Less" which is being replaced by "Sass". It takes a little bit to get set up (the jet brains phpstorm app builds it), but once its done its pretty great.

You can also customize your download leaving out the parts of bootstrap you don't want. (I originally did that for and older version bootstrap, while keeping some of my page styles). The customizer seems to now give you a json file, so you can download updates with the same settings as your original download, I have not tried this though.

http://getbootstrap.com/customize/
This could definitely be tagged as a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).
I've done that (we all did), but "can't reproduce". So this seems to depend a lot on the emulator, eg. I'm using Konsole, which is superb, and don't see that problem there.
Re:2, I've know people who work for the police in the Uk, and from the stories I've heard, the police have absolutely no respect for any civilian's opinion.

Statistician telling cops they're spending all their resources on the wrong thing? Got facts and figures to show that throwing more uniforms at a problem won't help?

They won't listen and then will tell you that you don't understand policing.
InDesign itself is scriptable, but you may also want to look into automating it on the server using iText, which is available in Java and .NET flavours.
Actually it is a superior design; hardware that can adapt to the needs of the software can optimise at will, enhancing the performance to ridiculously fast levels.
I would love to do this too. Congratulations, sounds like a lot of fun.
Totally, by association with the GNU Project, you'll certainly come across FSF and their work to promote free software, which is the ultimate goal.
Estimating when we'll have something done by modelling the department like some people model the weather.
Bought a restaurant with family in hopes of staving off then-impending tech burnout - nothing fancy, so it's been a fun and mildly profitable side project. Was just about to hop on the med school path but I got pregnant at the worst time. Thinking I'll take a year to parent and maybe do some contracting while thinking about what to do for the future. Tech definitely pays well but I lost much of my interest in the past few years, so it's a bit of a dilemma. I am partially waiting it out and doing other things in hopes that taking a break will make me feel better about going back.
The hockey puck mouse and the iPod HiFi might deserve places on that list.
How long is the company that provides the product on the hook for for post-sale support and security updates? If I sell an internet-connected device which has a flaw discovered 5 years after the sale, am I still liable for patching that? Nowhere in this article nor in the complaint do I find any guidelines as to what they consider to be reasonable after-sale support. They list similar action taken against Asus and TRENDnet, which are all large international companies. I'm a dude in my workshop and placing an after-sale support and warranty requirement on anything I make for a period of n-years is onerous.
Is there somewhere I can find full pricing information for every spec configuration? I dislike how difficult this is to find on new non-Apple laptop announcements.
Run a dog sanctuary.

The more I read about how people in the US treat each other, the more I want to work with innocents.

Screw the money. I've got enough saved to live simply but well. And yes, I'm married.
The problem is not the book, the problem is the pricing for the book which he had nothing to do with.

At 30$ or 300$ the company is not going to get meaningful revenue, or likely enough to pay the cost of production back. So, the pricing needs to relate to something else.
Yes, STD, but I came up with my own pinout.
Quit voice acting, became a developer. Your voice is good for commercial and promos and that's where all the well paying work is, so good move on your part!

Voice acting is one of the super rare meritocracies left. You can't sleep your way to the top or bullshit your way to the objective. Networking really helps (especially at the upper echelon of agent representation) but on your way there, you can either do it or you can't.
The most productive teams I work with are using Slack bots to automate several tasks/notify the team.

Many bots are admittedly experimental, but individuals are empowered to optimize or unsubscribe from a channel.
> and scrollback are unnecessary

Um... that's kind of a deal breaker to me. Really no scrollback at all?
A friend worked in software dev for a city in the area, for a few years. He left that job to become a professional photographer. I think he's been doing that on and off for at least the last 5 years. He's doing that, but also some software work.

He seems happy. He bought a house for his wife and son. At least from the outside, he seems to be doing well.
How is that not how fraud works. The extension practically bills itself as a form of protest intended to devalue an ad for an advertiser by acting in an intentionally deceptive manner.

It is generally understood and indeed reasonable to assume that in order for most users to click an ad they must first see it. This extension intentionally violates that in order to deceive that same advertiser.
That's fair, but I still think he would have loved the book and quite well may have known about it or even approved it.
One thing I'd recommend is to try to find some 5V erasable EEPROMs, so you can reprogram it in-system wthout having to transfer it over to a dedicated (and expensive) programmer.

I went with a 12V-EEPROM at the time, so I had to write my own emulator to speed up my development cycles :)
All I know is that I have Philips Hue lights, Belkin Wemo switches, and a Nest thermostat and none of them connect to HomeKit. For the Hue I have to buy a new bridge, Belkin says that they can't support it without completely new hardware[1], and Nest is completely mum on the issue but presumably there's no hope of support in the near future.

These devices all have active developer communities and good API/interaction. I plugged my Amazon Echo in and it immediately detected all three and allowed me to control them seamlessly. I don't know what the specific issue is but it sure seems like Apple is the problem.

[1]: http://www.belkin.com/us/support-article?articleNum=187953
Glyphs are rasterized once and stored in a texture atlas. When rendering a glyph, the fragment shader pulls from that texture. Once loaded, the glyph stays loaded for the duration of the program.
bpicolo has provided the proper link, though the quick answer is "someone who plays the game Kerbal Space Program".

The less serious answer is "somebody who routinely experiences the joy of rapid unscheduled disassembly in their virtual creations".
I work at a gov't organization and was going to say the same thing. It recently took me two months to get an $11/month pingdom account. There is some office somewhere that has to read the TOS and put the vendor on an "approved" list. They never use credit cards, and have to call the vendor (even for small webapps) to get bank routing numbers. Also, no recurring payments are allowed, they must be able to pay one lump sum. By the time I get an account the vendor already hates me.
Instead of "Facebook Security" type in "Facebook".
Lightning came out pretty long after Steve Jobs died. And I thought it was generally agreed — not right at the time, but not long afterward — that Apple made the right call getting rid of floppy drives on their Internet-focused consumer machines.
Same here. My undergrad & grad degree was Computer Engineering (Hardware focus) and Electrical Engineering. I made things (circuit boards), and programmed things that moved (robotics). But lots of money in web apps...
Planning to go, first time to Brussels. Any advice from regulars about making the most of the experience?
This is all excellent advice. I especially love that the OP uses a spreadsheet to systematically track his pitches and their status. I think using a spreadsheet for such structured list keeping is the best way to get comfortable with spreadsheets (if you're "just" a writer) while being the optimal way to improve your own work and note-taking. I do it for public records requests and searching for Craigslist apartments.
This is great AND its a poor substitute for tort reform that permits private companies and individuals to collect damages for hardware/software that is negligently or fraudulently insecure. Products liability lawyers are very effective at changing industry behaviors towards safety to the lawyer's financial benefit but, ultimately, for end-user's security and safety. IANL.
Up until recently Apple was sort of in a league all of its own, it had an aura about it of what I would perhaps describe as "justified hubris", before Apple perhaps only Microsoft has had that same kind of aura when it was firing on all cylinders. I think people are sensing that Apple has passed the top of its curve and is now losing momentum, the hubris isn't really justified anymore.

Apple will still be a hugely profitable and influential company, but it's no longer in a league all of its own.
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It's one of the countless historic houses in the UK and Europe. Similar age as and nearer Downton Abbey than mere house! Elizabethan (late 1500s) and numerous alterations since, so plenty is in need of care and restoration.

There's gardens, stables, barns, and a number of outbuildings and estate houses for staff in older times. They still have some tenants and lettings, managed by the estate. The lettings are maintained by local firms usually. Then there's all the amenities associated with being open to the public, putting on various events. There's a charitable trust, but I work for the estate company.

I like the informality of it compared to the large company feel of say the National Trust (national preservation charity) who are more defined with roles. Of course they have hundreds of properties, thousands of staff along with countless volunteers.