skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Growing up on a farm, it wasn't uncommon to hear of explosions in grain silos from a spark in the dust or barn fires from undried hay bales.

That's right, wet hay bales can and will spontaneously combust. It sounds counter-intuitive, but wet hay bales are more dangerous than dry hay bales, because hay actually heats up as it dries. As the hay gets hotter, it starts giving off flammable gas. The heat it is generating combined with the gas it is giving off means they could light on fire at any moment if they've been stored before fully drying.

And where is hay commonly stored? In a barn, with an attached grain silo. And that grain silo is sometimes full of fine dust. Which, like flour, can easily explode at the smallest spark or flame.
Are we allowed to say why we don't like what they are doing?

Are we allowed to tell other people why?

Then what is the problem??
I'm pretty sure that when you register a Homebridge instance to your Apple device though you get a message about the accessory being in test mode.

Homebridge is presumably making use of some debug mode that you wouldn't use in a shipping product - and if you did, Apple wouldn't let you advertise it as officially compatible with HomeKit.
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Children are continuously trying to come up with new ways to hurt themselves with toys, and if they do you can expect to get in serious trouble.
The market value is 110 only if you have a job offer of 110 in hand.
An important aspect of the infosec philosophy my employer pushes is "blast radius". If you assume you will be compromised then you want to ensure as little data as possible ends up in that compromise.

Coupled with the opportunity for things like mass assignment vulnerabilities (i <3 the strong params pattern on rails) I am a little perturbed by the notion of my data being housed next to other customers. If that customer is a more attractive target, and a compromise is found, now I'm just along for the ride.

That all said, I'm not well appraised of what problem Citus Data is solving -- so maybe I've just read this wrong?
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I (withoutboats) agree. The real problem in terminals is that this goes both ways - if you let tmux or just vim/emacs split the window, you get no GUI integration - but you use the GUI to split the terminal window, you now have two disconnected shell sections, so none of the CLI integration works.

The notty screen splitting protocol should support a "GUI" interface shared by a single process, solving this problem.
Huh, you might be right. I've never run across any references to this before, all I've seen in the past is about how HomeKit has very high security standards and that's why a lot of devices don't work. Still, without access to the MFi documentation, it's not clear if this chip is actually required or if it's just the easiest way to meet the security requirements that HomeKit imposes.
Ambition isn't only related to a career. You can focus the same ambition on fatherhood and strive to continually progress as a parent.
I don't have a problem with their pricing decisions. It works for some people, it doesn't work for others.

I was just noting that the pricing mirrors what I've seen in the photo/art book world.
I'm implying that they can get the decimal module into Grumpy by implementing enough of Python to support the module (i.e. they don't need to implement the decimal module from scratch because the module isn't implemented only in C).
Photography (fashion/portrait)

I gave myself a target: to have my first paying client by end of April 2017. I have been photographing for 20 years, did some paid work here and there, but never found the cojones to move 100% to photography as a job.

I'm very comfortable doing my 8-5 job as dev/architect in a large financial institution. I have lost pretty much any interest and I want to do something I like. I hope my plan works out :)
It's also pretty exceptional to think that there are apps constantly listening for ultrasonic cues, even when not being actively used. This would be a huge battery drain, so I can't imagine any manufacturer bundling such a thing with a device.

Even if it was the case, I can't imagine such apps would give granular enough information to be enormously useful. You'd get one, maybe two people to actually get their computers to play the audio and have it picked up by a device that's actually listening for it. What then? How many advertising companies with legitimate marketing businesses actually sell the user identities? You'd get what, a UUID, maybe some aggregate demographic information, and a rough location. It seems unlikely that such a platform would actually give out specific PII for individuals.
> CQRS library

You missed the whole point of CQRS
See, the problem with this is that you haven't put it plainly. I understand how CSPRNGs work. I understand a lot about how Linux's works, and a little bit about how Solaris's works. My sense is that if there's an argument about how Solaris urandom is inferior, I should be able to understand what it is. What is it?

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that there is no difference between the urandom story on Linux and the urandom story on Solaris. Not that the generators are the same, but that the differences simply do not matter.

If you don't know the specific answer, could you get one of your friends on the team to chime in? I'm reaching a threshold at which I'm going to start noisily telling people that urandom on Solaris is fine --- incidentally, a lot of very well-regarded software already agrees with me, so I feel reasonably safe joining the chorus.
AdBlue is the same as truck DEF, which can be purchased at most auto supply stores and fuel stations. In my experience, pretty much every car that comes with an urea system can be refilled by the user. That makes sense--it's not like you can make emissions worse by filling up the tank.
its not always called river.

hckrnews.com is a river for news.ycombinator.com, but it doesnt use the term. they just describe it as "a chronologic list of items" vs the most popular/upvoted.
I guess my main question here, is if they have been banned by the FDA from doing any testing at all for two years, what exactly is remaining of the business, and why haven't they been completely shuttered?

Bloomberg seems to indicate there isn't much left for any employee to do.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-08/theranos-...
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That's the nice thing about being able to export an encrypted 1Password database for backup. They even store periodic backups for you with the Mac client at least.
How do you guys manage to do anything?

Are you even trying?
100% accurate. I did the same and also quit.
Given the current situation, is it safe to go there?
To emulate the iOS HomeKit API, meaning you can write plugins for it to provide support for non-HomeKit-enabled devices. But presumably Homebridge itself must still vend itself as a HomeKit-enabled device on the network or else you wouldn't be able to control it.
Also as far as I know you can't bypass OS X's video compositing which adds latency to the rendering, which means that for latency sensitive games you will not be as competitive as a PC.
Campground host. Camp all day every day. Be nice to everyone. Rest for years...
> I'm a VA with one long-time client who can only offer me part-time work, plus the occassional small project related to the work.

What's a VA?
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But nothing came of it, and other sites have implemented similar safeguards without being blocked.
Out of curiosity, how does the required chip/hardware help defend against this?
How do you make the transition? I can turn on the charm and getting tired of corporate IT.

I know a couple people who've done it but they always knew a former co worker who got them jobs.

I was thinking sales or sales engineer.
Amen to tangible evidence! I feel similarly about my current career, but there are two things to keep in mind: the grass is always greener, and you can do something on your own terms (hobby) that fills the same niche. Thus, woodworking, or even painting, volunteering, etc.

As for the grass being greener, it's important to keep perspective about what the former was. I think your example re: bodily fluids is a pretty good example :)
Rotation is a really interesting subject which has true security benefits. Unfortunately manual rotation is a PITA. What works better is to have an automated system rotating the credentials, and then you fetch the credentials as-needed by authenticating with an identity and access management system.

For example, in Conjur there is a suite of rotators (https://developer.conjur.net/reference/services/rotation) for rotating things like SSH keys, database passwords, and cloud credentials. In each case, the rotator changes the credential in the backend (e.g. changes the public key in the authorized_keys file), and then stores the new credential behind an access-controlled and audited API where only you (and other authorized roles) can fetch it.

Disclosure: I am CTO of Conjur.
People hate it won't buy it. Survivor bias.
Two Google Home devices hold a conversation (live)
I would become a full-time MUT runner (mountain/ultra/trail) and adventurer like Kilian Jornet (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-t...) or Karl Meltzer, who broke the fastest known time on the Appalachian Trail this past summer here in the U.S.
>The trouble with your analogy is that state-sponsored teams of children aren't working day and night to find new ways to make your toy dangerous that you could never have thought of at the time.

Human society is continually striving to build a better idiot. Manufacturers often aren't held liable or for the first instances of idiocy, but eventually they are.

For example, it was easy for engineers to believe that no one would be dumb enough to stick their hand in a running lawnmower. And for a time if you stuck your hand in a running lawnmower you would not be able to win a lawsuit over it.

But once you know about the new flavor of idiocy, it is your civic responsibility to mitigate it with safety features if possible. If you don't agree, the civil suit you lose will convince you.

If you build products that are vulnerable in well known ways, you are neglecting your civic repsonsbility as a manufacturer.
The table saw at the maker space / shared woodworking shop near me has a SawStop, which is a pretty good idea given the varied experience levels of users in a community space. If that's really what's keeping you from pursuing an activity of great interest to you, consider checking to see if the workspaces near you are equipped with SawStop. Even if they're not, you might persuade them to get one. Especially if you're willing to chip in.
In Norway (and probably elsewhere, but I only followed the debate here), the engineer's union, automobile association and just about everyone who knew the first thing about engines said 'NOOO!!!' when our parliament decided that favouring diesels was The Right Thing to do.

However, as CO2 was bad and diesels emitted less overall, diesel it was.

Result? Air quality in towns took a nosedive, and suddenly diesel cars were forbidden to drive in city centres on days with poor air quality. Much annoyance (naturally) ensued - first the public is being told (by diesels suddenly costing thousands of € less) to buy diesels; then they are being told that they cannot drive them.

I luckily live in a very rural area; otherwise I wouldn't have had the conscience to (nor need for) my daily driver - an old diesel Land Cruiser.
I believe what's really problematic is the absence of teleporters or person copiers...
notty author here. notty is basically way down a yakstack for me - I wanted better CLI/TUI tools, so I wanted to write a framework for writing CLI/TUI tools, but some of the features I wanted aren't supported by terminals, so I started writing a new terminal. But I don't know anything about graphics programming & this is really far away from what I actually wanted to be doing - so when jwilm showed me alacritty & mentioned implementing notty with it I was pretty stoked.
Glassdoor has a rating on the CEO. Could use that.
I worked on a project where in the same building a startup was going under. It was totally clear that there was no hope but they kept burning through their VC money instead of closing.
> I see a big cost if the person downvoted can downvote those of the lynch mob.

When it's many to one, each member of the mob only has to absorb 1/N of the target's downvotes. For large N, the target will be exhausted before any of their attackers feel a thing.

> I don't see that potential vicious cycle being a winning strategy for suppressing an unliked idea.

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not real.

> This change wouldn't help the "rich get richer"

That's not the point. The rich already get richer, because people with high reputation get more attention and therefore more new reputation. Thus, they have a steady inflow of new karma that they can burn on a whim without any real consequence. Even I, at my medium karma level, do this sometimes. I'll post a comment that I know will attract a few downvotes, because maybe some of the less ideologically-rigid folks here will appreciate it and I'll make up the difference on the next comment. Many of the highest-karma people here constantly do that to behave in far more egregious ways. What your proposal does is just give the bullies a new weapon.

> Also, the results speak for themselves. Slashdot has gone down in quality

Have you considered the possibility of there being other factors at play? Yes, Slashdot has gone downhill, but I think it would have gone downhill even faster with HN's system, and faster still with your proposal.
NoScript is not enabled by default in Tor Browser (in tails).

from: https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/#i...

To allow more control over JavaScript, for example to disable JavaScript completely on some websites, Tor Browser includes the NoScript extension.

By default, NoScript is disabled and some JavaScript is allowed by the Torbutton extension as explained above.

So, "Yes", this is reckless and would compromise Tor Browser from the outset.
Choice quote:

"What is your favourite season?"
"Autumn. I like the lack of warmth, rather than the cold itself."
"The lack of a god makes the world hot."
How much does urea actually cost? If your car smells like a coal plant, it's kind of a turn-off to potential passengers.
I'm pretty sure IE9 does not support CSS transitions or CSS animations in general. There is also a lack of support of most CSS gradients. Websockets and web workers aren't supported either. A lot of HTML5 form elements are also missing.
Didn't Apple recently stop developing their wireless routers?
What? Apple's shipped in March, and third party cables have been available since at least May, 2015. IIRC there was ~a month between release of the USB-C MacBook and the first such cables, but they were available for over a year before the MacBookPro shipped.
This sounds painful, but it also sounds fairly typical. Except usually such work is split between several different people/positions.

No one thinks about it, but one of the main reasons this kind of stuff stays manual is because the typical tools people are using to do it have no (good) integration points. Automating the entire process would require writing a large and complicated system. Automating parts of the process one step at a time is extremely difficult, because implementing most of the individual "steps" will require creating tons of complex integrations, and not result in any immediate productivity gains. Such incremental changes disrupt what people are currently doing and possibly create more stuff for them to do in the short run.

For example:

"Fill in all the blanks, remove brackets, etc."

This is a perfect use case for machine learning or even a simple rule-based system. If you had all the data in one place, it probably would be trivial to automate. However, getting all the data from various systems, converting it to a standard representation, then converting fixed data to target formats and putting it into target systems is orders of magnitude more difficult than the actual corrections/changes.
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Yeah I didn't understand if that was namecheap bumping the price up or a squatter trying to sell it. You may have to get a bit creative to find some good deals.
Agreed. Adding to your point: If this were NASA, memories of Apollo 1 "go fever" would be a fitting analogy of our present circumstance.

"Nothing we did had any shelf life" was one of the core problems identified by Gene Kranz in his "tough and competent" speech to his mission control team after the fire. I think it's a salient point.

When all the parts are constantly churning, fires are to be expected. Progress is messy if we're not cautious, and I'm not sure if we are being cautious in the right places. We could learn from Mission Control. (Lots of room for debate, here! And I'm being purposefully vague.)
Not sure if it still does, but I'm pretty sure omnisharp is what VS Code used for it's C# engine when it first came out
Conducting business is a First Amendment right.

That's a pretty peculiar interpretation of the First Amendment, for sure.
Obviously I can't answer for anyone but myself, and I personally wouldn't be motivated to get a second yacht given how much work keeping one up is (not that I have one).

But how about you? Do you feel better about yourself if you have more art? or more cars? a bigger house? a staff?
And if so, why does that make you feel better about yourself?
thats like how a compiler works, except for english word docs.
I'm pretty adept at Vim, and I still don't understand people who code using what's essentially a text editor with colors.

How do you do debugging? Conditional breakpoints? Call stack/view stack? Watch? Step/Continue? Meaningful autocompletion? Meaningful project management and navigation? Syntax highlighting isn't even important to me and I prefer either semantic highlighting or no highlighting at all.

I understand people who use something like a Vim plugin for a JetBrains IDE, sure -- Vim in my opinion is a superior editor compared to the usual thing, but when you skip the IDE altogether, how do you do the tasks I mentioned above? Do you just do print debugging and use the filesystem as a project manager, and just not take advantage of IDE's semantic insight into your code? That seems quite inefficient -- you're losing a lot. Do you add third party addons to make some of these things happen? Because I'm yet to find addons for Vim that don't destabilize it and also solve their problem as well as they're solved in full-blown IDEs.

Please illuminate me, considering the number of people who do this, I must be missing something!
> Larger engines are almost always more efficient, compare for example a gas boiler in a house vs a CCGT in a powerplant.

Not necessarily true--gas boilers can be up to 97% efficient, whereas CCGTs top out at the mid-60s. CCGTs can be more efficient as part of a district heating system.
Sure 30-pin and Lightning to USB-A cables are both "special." But in the past users have been able to connect the phone to the current MacBook lineup out of the box. Now users of the current MacBook lineup have to buy a new Lightning to USB Type-C cable as it is not included. It is certainly an example of disunity among their product lineup.
Dammit, you're right. Gah.

Well, yeah, in any case, even a defunct subsidiary (of GM, not Ford) is getting recalls decades later.

High-tech has different standards than the rest of the world.
I thought it was pretty obvious it was using Cleverbot. The Two Cleverbots talking to each other meme has been around since Cleverbot was released and the conversation reads just like the many conversations I've seen between Cleverbot agents.
You do seem overly excited. :)

Your last paragraph suggests what you really want is a notebook style interface (in the style of mathematica) rather than a terminal.
Briefly, and without an intent to shame or embarrass you - I think it's worth thinking more carefully about using (presumably male-centered) sexual language here, especially since the bookstore is named after a pioneering woman engineer.
I think one can do this with current keyboard with individual-key backlighting.

I have a Logitech G710 (with a community-made Linux driver) and I can control the backlighting on some of the keys by passing a bitmask to something in /sys/bus/hid. A simple daemonized python script linked to this would replicate such behavior.
Meh, I have exactly the same problem with Nexus 6p. I need one USB-C/USB-A cable for data transfer, another USB-C/USB-C for fast charging from the power brick that came with the phone, but back again to USB-C/USB-A to charge from the car. And don't get me started about the lack of good car charges that that support USB 3.1 PD.

It seem some friction to be inevitable when new physical connector is introduced.
I think ultimately this is the correct answer for me.
All fair points. Thanks for taking the time to expand.
I'd automate startup idea creation.
Why do you only focus on UT-Austin? Could you expand to different universities or colleges?
Why go long on artificial intelligence?
a lot of the other ones are almost purposely ugly. this one I really like though. minimalism and utility dont also need to be deliberately disjointed.

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ and http://http2.info/ are simple yet feel carefully crafted.
Oregon is a full-service state. Washington is not.

I strongly doubt that there is a significant cultural difference between the two, in terms of car culture.
The current state is not free either - the attacks cost money too, although it's paid by the targets and not the manufacturers. But ultimately it's paid by consumers.
The problem is that it's almost impossible to hire a Steve Jobs-level visionary. Those people won't usually work for anyone but themselves (note that working for themselves may or may not result in actual success -- that's an orthogonal axis).
My wife and I both use our Xbox One with Kinect and Amazon Echo daily. Alexa works extremely well, but Cortana works only 80% of the time and so slowly we usually pick up a controller, even just to pause Netflix.
Visit the Land of a thousand hills(Rwanda) while on the trip.
It's hard to describe how good this machine was in its time.

I had the pleasure of being an IRIX admin and adept product design software user. A 200 Mhz R10K came with a big, fast cache and the FPU was quick. These machines would perform on that software on par with a PC running 3 to 4x the clock speed.

As the review says, you paid hard, but you also got in very early too.

IRIX itself, the desktop, is lean and mean. A joy to use.

I can say my best computing experience by a good margin.

Thanks for the seriously good times SGI.
Interesting, but I don't think I've ever felt the pain of not having that. It's pretty damn easy for me to use the global 1Password hotkey to bring up 1Password Mini, type a few characters to identify the login I want, hit → to expand the login, ↓ to select the password, and ↩ to then copy that password, which I can now paste into the terminal. It's not that hard.
This is an unfair lawsuit targeting a foreign corporation. If the FTC were consistent, they'd go after a majority of American tech companies (Cisco, juniper, MSFT..) with publicly known back doors into their technology.
Thank you, this is exactly what I meant.