skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also use the back side of your hand to disrupt Chris Anderson, the owner of TED, right?
They charge $8,500/person. The one in '17 has already sold out those tickets, and so they are charging $17,000/person.
At the 'standard' price- assuming the usual 1,500 people- TED takes in a minimum of $12.75 million. Then there are the revenues for TED Summit, TED Women, TEDx, etc. etc.
They also strongly suggest the fellows (speakers) give Chris Anderson a standing ovation. None of the fellows get paid, as far as I know. I am not suggesting there should be cash compensation.
Can someone explain me in a simple way the "xul prevent us to switch to multi process" argument ( when i'll naively think - just use one more dedicated process for xul. ?). Xul design & gecko
Thanks for the update. That sounds pretty awesome actually.
Yes you are right. 2 years is not enough for judging the prototyping potential. Although I have worked with java/spring and I can empirically say it really slow for prototyping. Just wanted to share my first experience with ruby on rails and it is not supposed to be comparison of frameworks.
The problem is that they keep compiling the same version of Excel, just changing a little bit the color scheme each time.
Rather than a screen accessory plugging into a laptop, this is what I got a Samsung Galaxy Tab A With S-Pen for. Retails for about $250 USD, it's an Android tablet that also comes with an integrated active pen, like the Note series of phones. You can share your drawings / writing with your laptop using Dropbox etc, at a fraction of the price of the Pencil-compatible iPads.

[I think you've been downvoted unfairly - although I think the Surface drawing capabilities are excellent & superior, they might be overkill for some use cases.]
Well, there's http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool :)
Optimizations are still on in checked builds.
What language or framework do you know well right now?
Use that.
Honestly, I think he was just trying to illustrate how inexpensive the system is by showing how cheap it is and saying it could even go lower if someone cared enough (Which I don't think he does). That was my take away, not that he needed to optimize it
Seven months? What does this have to do with Trump?
As someone completely naive about Windows (and particularly low-level development), I'm casually/idly curious if the DDK includes the debugging tools you used, or if I have to throw money at people to get at them. (I know the DDK exists, but not much more than that.)

Also, how did you remove the real-mode stub? Hex editing, or is there a tool that will do that if fed the right combination of [obscure] options?

IMHO, the best way to finish this off would be an in-depth tutorial-style blog post. You definitely get my recommendation to consider that :)
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The frontend complexity one rings very true. I know they are largely talking about CSS changes in the article, but I think sometimes experienced developers can just discount the frontend as a whole.

At my job my coworker and I did a major refactor on part of our frontend codebase. Probably 2,000 lines of code were changed and the only comment on the PR was for additional unit tests on one method we had touched on the backend. We brought it up multiple times in standup that this really needed to be reviewed properly and we got radio silence. The PR was just passed through.

Your entire platform really does matter, it's important to make sure all things work. Not just what you understand.
Instead of using unsafe code, I would use RefCell first: «a mutable memory location with dynamically checked borrow rules»

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html

Using clone() also often helps. clone() has an overhead since you copy bytes, but sometimes you need to get something working right first, then optimise.

There are other tricks if the borrow checker interferes.
Yes, the DDK used to include the needed debug version of NTLDR too. And yes, it is done by hex editing looking for the "MZ" signature and trimming everything before that. With BOOTMGR you just set some BCD options to enable the boot debugger.
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Checked HN before going to bed. Played for 2 hours till 1:30. Great game.
From the article.

> While we're waiting for the papers to be published, we need to be skeptical about the two claims. But the fact that two separate teams have used the same blueprint to make time crystals out of vastly different systems is promising.
The Indian flat bread reference?
Not sure why the other comment is being downvoted. You are looking at a talk given at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. I'd be more worried if there wasn't any math.

If I wanted a newbie intro to operating systems, I would not be looking at talks at CS conferences like SOSP or OSDI, for example, even if they were "introductory."
A cool way to fix this if Microsoft doesn't want to (although I can't see it being that hard) would be to make a small stub that simply kills the AVX flags then chainloads through to NTLDR.

It would probably be quite a simple project to work on, and a fun way to learn about bootloader-level software development. Chainloading NTLDR is well-understood (and will never change), and being booted by BOOTMGR is also fairly well understood too. If I was running Windows at the moment I'd be seriously considering playing with this myself.
Depends on the project. As a swe I got paged zero times.
Creating potable drinking water from natural sources requires a little energy. You will probably notice it in your water bill if you start showering twice as long.
Does Tarsnap backup tarsnap?... just curious :)
"The FBI recently informed us that the gag orders have been lifted and that we may notify the account holders"

How recently? Why?
Nulls exist in Scala. You can return null for an Option[T].

Can't in Kotlin, though.
Chancellor term limit is 4x4 years in Germany.
Do you think the government wouldn't throw Zuckerberg in jail?
In Win9x and even WinXP Luna theme everything looked the same. Even as new as Win7 with its theme or the classic UI in Win7 99% looked very consistent.

But Microsoft tipping point was Win7, everything beyond 2009 was put the former UI and UX guidelines to the trash bin and it seems color blind designers and managers with no taste and understanding are working on the Windows UI. Win8 and Win10 are now and inconsistent mess of dozens of legacy UI frameworks. The little maintained Win32 API is still the most used and best in class - like 99% of applications are coded in C/C++ with Win32API. All the small scale enterprise dotNet apps with legacy WinForm or legacy WPF in legacy dotNetFramework or the new dotNetCore mess are used rarely outside of a small niche market. (all of my hundreds of applications on Win7 are Win32, I see no dotNetFramework in ProcessExplorer - would be highlighted in yellow). And the new WinRuntime aka UniversalRuntime seems to be a trainwreck as well, with limited to to the failing WinStore - clearly a success story ;) Oh and there is the failed Silverlight and the non-public UI API from Win7+ that is used in various new UI elements like Help, Addon dialog of IE10+.

It would be so nice if they once again focus on a nice looking UI theme, and focus on an consistent UI again. In Win95 to WinXP (or Win7) days everything looked to familar and nice put together. If one knew one Windows application, he knew how to use all other applications without searching around or reading a manual. Please surprise me with a nice UI, do away with thr evil phone home features and show that you value the user as your customer and not as dump sheep products. For this to ever happen, they need a major management change and turn-around.
Yeah I watched a few of his videos on Youtube. He makes fun of feminists and sjws in his videos, so Twitter doesn't like that stuff and call it harassment or bullying or whatever.
Tarsnap saved HN's bacon when a drive catastrophically failed shortly after I started working on it some years ago. (I no longer do.)

Cannot recommend enough.

Here's my sleep deprived post shortly after: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069013
i haven't used tarsnap either, but i see it as cold storage. dropbox, onedrive, etc are all hot storage and would get rendered useless by a cryptolocker

cant say anything about arq, as ive never head of them.
For most businesses marketing is far more important than technology.
Oh of course, the XP DDK.

And MZ-hunting makes perfect sense.

Thanks for the quick reply :) and kudos for figuring out it was the bootloader, hah
Worth noting: the play button is initially off the right edge of the screen on an iPad.

I hit the bottom thinking this was a teaser for a work in progress, since the only link on the page was for art.

After reading about people playing, I went back and searched and still couldn't find a button to play the game.
FYI, 'Physical Review Letters' is probably the most prestigious physics-focused journal one can publish in. Here's a link the the actual PRL paper.
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118...

Back when I was in physics grad school, getting a paper in Nature or Science was the dream. But a paper in PRL was also considered a big deal.
Looks really interesting, I love goal 1: no JavaScript - YES! Thank you! And elixir is a very exciting language, especially to an ops person where when I read elixir code it actually makes sense to me and seems elegant. Ignoring my technical praise the objective of the product is solid, this is something I've been interested in for a while, I have a solution for usenet but not so much for torrents.
Some additional details about the project may be useful to others - you've described a fairly wide range of scope at a rather abstract level here.

I'm quite confident a number of highly knowledgeable people have looked at your question but have been unable to answer for lack of context. Narrowing things down a bit would likely get you more focused answers.

With that said, the best tech stack is the one you already have in your pocket. You could argue that this is why having a good all-around knowledge of all of the major stacks is a good idea.
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Downloading large amount of data from tarsnap archive is very slow. Any tips/tricks to speed them up?
Checkout clojure.spec - you might find it very useful. The problem with types is that they are only a static/at rest description of your data. For example, it's a String or it's a Date.

But does that String contain @ character (checking for email)? Is this Date in the future or in the past (validating a credit card form)? Types say nothing about that. I'm not saying that types have zero utility, but in the vast majority of my use cases compile-time type checking doesn't go very far.
Sound like a poorly founded rant:

* No need to use DMS, cron emails you the output of your tasks anyway. A three-line script can be used to "only email on error".

* The proposed pricing model goes against everything that tarsnap stands for, charging arbitrary amounts placing users in arbitrary ranges.

* The proposed pricing model means a 13x price increase for me (WTF!?).

* No need to be a sysadmin or anything alike to configure it. Granted, it's not for the masses, but for anyone in the tech industry, it's just a matter of RTFM.

Want something for end-users? Write a nice UI wrapper around tarsnap and overcharge that. Same backend, different product.
I wouldn't say it's unpopular, just not ready yet. Most .Net development is for corporations and they tend to be conservative about new technologies.
No, it won't do trees: https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/issues/498

But I found this: https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/issues/868

"I've been talking with the people implementing WebExtensions for a while now, and they are committed to adding the APIs necessary to support something like TabCenter (or TreeStyle Tabs, or any of the other side-tabs add-ons). I don't know their final timeline, but I would be very surprised if the new APIs weren't available before we turned off old-style extensions, and I have already started working on a new branch that implements TabCenter as a WebExtension."

So TreeStyle Tabs can be ported to the new system or an equivalent addon can be built.

I personally use TreeStyle Tabs. I have not tried this Tab Center thing and did not know about the tech behind it.
well if there's no money in the bank, how do you propose he give more?
Do you mean chromium? And it's much more than a skin, lol.

And it's not the experience for many to have a faster browsing experience, but I'm not going to argue how anyone quantities that -- really don't care what others use.

On desktop, I find the tooling much worse and sluggish. But the thread was about mobile, and there are a vanishing number of users of mobile FF.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint were all coded between 1989 and 1993. And received major update with Word 6 and Office 95 and 97. Basically Office 97 was feature complete. Very little has changed since then. The ribbon bar and all the other minor increment improvements are really minor compared to the changes up to Office 97. Office uses it's own UI library. Using Word 6 in Win95 shows floating toolbars in Win3.1 UI theme. Office 95 had an italic title bar. Using Office 97 in WinXP or Win7 shows and Win95 UI theme.
Why all of these rhetorical questions? There have been hundreds of thousands of these, with only a handful released upon completed investigation. I think a transparent judge, a transparent oversight board, a transparent congressional committee, etc is what is proposed. This is how we know these functions are even being served by authorities in society. Or not being served, such as up until recently where the gag was interminable making your "upon a completed investigation" comment misinformed at the least and your blind faith misplaced.
They they take away my TreeStyle Tabs and a few other Extensions I dont care how much faster it is, FF will be removed my all my systems

TreeStyle Tabs is the the Main reason I use FF today. I dont understand why browsers have tabs horizontally across the window, it looks stupid and is unusable once you get above 20 or 30 tabs open So you talk about have 100's of tabs open, it is pointless if I do not have TreeStyle or some kind of Vertical Tabs. And no the Stupid Dock style of doing it on Chrome and other WebExtensions based hack is neither desirable or usable

I came to say pretty much the same thing.
I use Tarsnap to back up Tarsnap servers, yes. But obviously not to back up the backups, because that wouldn't make any sense.
And bots that take twitter videos and post a streamable mirror? It seems similar enough that it would be on topic.

How do they sit with you? As videos on twitter don't seem to work at all, it's a great service, imo.
Are you really sure you need all that storage? Tarsnap has deduplication, so you might end up using a lot less.

Or not. It depends on your use-case, but I'm just suggesting you consider that factor too.
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In case anyone sees this and not your other comment (which is now at the bottom of the page), I replied to it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505465
The grandiose production readiness review, didn't hear that term for a while. In 5 years as a Google SWE, having transitioned three systems to SRE, nobody could ever tell me what it really is. In each hand over, someone just came up with a random checklist. I am really curious: is there really a disciplined/formalized/.. PRR process in some parts of Google? Has anyone ever seen it?
Comes with free erasers: your shirt, arms and backpack.
When interoperating with other libraries on the JVM you very easily can, which is a very common use case.
The thing is, do you have only 5-10 FB Friends with eerily similar sterile accounts in a little-self contained social graph? Have you added a college to your profile, but have no Friends from that college?

I've got a fake FB account for the same reason you describe, and I don't bother go to the efffort of puttiing in the sorts of fake details that these accounts have.
I know the answer is probably going to be "What the hell can't they be used for?!!?" but what the hell can they be used for? Is that maybe a question for later?

All that's coming to mind is permanent storage with the emphasis on permanent.
Fascinating. Other people has come to the same conclusion I see. Here's mine posted on reddit a few days ago : https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5q8evm/comment/d...
I thought zed Shaw did the * the hard way titles?
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You are offering an alternative that will be made obsolete by the same change:

https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/issues/868
Advice on Remote Work
I am currently an embedded software engineer with around 7 years of experience in the aerospace industry, and between my main job and contract work, I earn between 150k and 200k per year. In general, I enjoy my job and think very highly of my employer. Like most people in this salary range, though, I am stuck living in a crowded, gridlocked, high cost of living area, where most of my money goes to taxes and an small, cruddy house. With my skills and work history, I think I could easily land a job at a major tech company or hedge fund and earn in the 300s, but my situation wouldn't really improve because it would require moving to an even more expensive area and paying more taxes. The older I get, the more I realize that the secret of success isn't just earning good money, it's doing so in a low cost of living area. Therefore, I am wondering how likely it is to earn in the mid 100s doing full-time remote work in the embedded software field (specifically, real-time, high-reliability systems)? Does anyone have any advice or personal experience developing a work-from-anywhere income stream in this field? Is it easier to find a handful of customers to do contract work for or hope to find a 100% remote position? My ultimate goal is to build a beautiful house on ~100 acres in a rural part of the country and work 100% from home and have passive streams of income.

thanks!
How not to peel Boiled Eggs
Scott Wheeler wrote a tool for speeding up extracts by running multiple tarsnap processes: https://github.com/directededge/redsnapper

There's also the trivial (but often unhelpful) advice of "be closer to the server" -- the problem is one of round trip latencies since the internal design of tar (and thus tarsnap) works on the principle of "read a block; do something with it; repeat". This is what I feel to be the biggest technical pain point in tarsnap, and I know in theory how to fix it, but every time I've started focusing my energy on it other things have come up requiring more urgent attention. :-/
Not a self-hosted program. But, Skytorrents [1] was featured on HN recently [2].

[1] https://www.skytorrents.in/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13423629
Exactly. All this narrative talks as if working in a company is the worst thing that can happen to a person. Surely a lot of works are indeed like slavery, but you can't broadly dismiss everything in one single stroke. Sometimes there are indeed jobs that suit both the employer and the employee very well; sometimes striking out on your own inopportunely, oblivious to any context, can be an absolute nightmare to not only yourself, but many around you. It's more nuanced than that.
I cannot continue working on my add-ons anymore. I'm sorry, but it's time
Very much agreed. If the Dutch PP was anything like the German, Swedish, Icelandic (to name a few) ones, I'd vote for them in a heartbeat, no second thoughts. But they just keep on making blunder after (sometimes well-intentioned, sometimes plain stupid) blunder, and it's just sad and disorganised.

I admit I might still vote for them anyway if I can't find a party that better represents me. Fortunately we get quite a few to choose from! Dutch might want to take a moment and be thankful we have that :)
Absolutetly. +1 for the "no javascript" goal.
I don't understand how cats meowing proves anything about dogs. But see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...

The original sense is "No parking on sundays" proves that parking is allowed on other days.

The colloquial sense is that if something is a surprising, it shows that its opposite was a useful rule of thumb, or at least one you'd established in your head. (E.g. if you are surprised by a dog that doesn't bark, this surprise is meaningful and says something about what you think about dogs and barking.)

If palantir is shocking as a SV company, this says something interesting about what you think about SV companies.
For anything that actually receives significant traffic, runs in a lot of cells, and is under active development, Telebot will call you pretty regularly when you're oncall. But hey, congrats for finding a place you like, that's exactly how things are supposed to work there.
Farm karma, then sell the accounts to political operatives, etc.
They might, but he'd have better odds than your average Joe (and certainly a better legal team).

"With great power comes great responsibility" isn't just a line from a movie. Of course we can choose not to hold our leaders to high expectations, but that leads to a markedly worse world for the rest of us.
Am I the only one who thinks that the video app should ask for my permission before doing such a thing? Is this 1. ethical and 2. legal?
And now CRISPR technologies are being developed I trust that in addition to eliminating Huntington's disease, Tay-Sachs, Fragile X, and what have you, we will fix the GULO gene so that our bodies can recommence Vitamin C production.
Hmm, I think the projection of an ellipse in perspective is still an ellipse. Do we know if these 8 data points were enough to determine whether the planets are all orbiting roughly on the same plane, as in the Solar system?
I'll be trying this out, it could work well with Cloud Torrent. I've largely moved away from Torrents tho and switched to using NZB's and apps that automatically download tv shows and films[0]

Here is my stack:

1. NZB downloader - NZBGet - http://nzbget.net/

2. TV Shows - Sonarr - https://sonarr.tv/

3. Films - CouchPotato - https://couchpota.to/

4. NZB Search - NZBHydra - https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra (I contribute to this project)

5. Plex - https://www.plex.tv/

Add Torrent support:

6. Client - rtorrent - https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/

7. Web Interface - ruTorrent (warning: PHP) - https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent

8. Proxy private trackers to XML-RPC - Jackett - https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

9. Cloud Torrent - web interface - https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent

Additional:

10. Plex stats, analytics and user management - PlexPy - https://github.com/JonnyWong16/plexpy

11. Plex request - allow users to request content - https://github.com/ngovil21/PlexRequestChannel.bundle

Hardware is a pair of HP Proliant Gen8 microservers, Ubuntu 14, Docker, nginx and LetsEncrypt. There is no real easy way to set this all up, you have to do each part of the stack yourself (a docker-compose file would go a long way to simplifying it)

[0] I spend over $200 a month on content subscriptions so I don't feel bad about utilizing the conveniance of NZB downloads + Plex
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rubbish, will also be incompatible after this change. https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/issues/868

Furthermore, "showing tabs on the side" is not "similar to Tree Style Tabs"