skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they've seen too many times when "it's for the greater good" is used to justify something that turns out to be more evil than the good that comes from it.

I'm not arguing that hard decisions aren't necessary. I'm saying that aren't as necessary as sometimes claimed, and should be viewed with some skepticism.
Dolphins are using blowfish to get high
Let users pay for the service.

I'd happily pay $10/month for a 'pro' level or whatever they want to call it. I use Twitter constantly, but have always preferred third party apps - Tweetbot is by far the best.

If the pro level killed ads, increased data privacy somehow, and fully opened up every API to third party clients that would be more than worth it IMO. For example, I'm tired of Tweetbot kicking me to the mobile site to view moments.
It would be facile to ignore the massive and frequently bloody consequences of such previous economic disruptions. People didn't just go through a period of anxiety and then drift into new jobs and feel content again during previous industrial revolutions.
OpenToonz: Making high-end animation software accessible
It seems that I am unable to change the theme back to light.

Have tried:

- https://github.com

- https://github.com/?light

Is this controlled from a setting somewhere?
Is color perception a universal human experience or not?
Yes to free speech but how do they clean up the abuse and still keep it "free".

http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-twitter-acquisition-tr...
washington, washington, six foot twenty fucking killing for fun.
Product Managers: How to Gain Influence and Be Effective
A large middle class hasn't been around all that long in the history of civilization. Maybe it's just a flash in the pan.

My guess is that computer programming will be the new blue collar manufacturing job.
This response is both sad and true.
From my understanding, they're going to go straight from 14nm to 7nm after they finish Fab 42 (however long that takes).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/08/remar...
Hidden gems of xterm
Towards Exascale Computing with Fortran 2015
Why VCs change CEOs of growth stage startups?
Here is the AppImage the Morevna folks maintain: https://gumroad.com/l/opentoonz-linux
That's fair. I've been stuck dealing with CodeIgniter people for the last year, and that's a shitshow and a half. It's likely colouring my perceptions, especially coming from the Rails community. God, I miss Rspec.
Popping the Housing Bubbles in the American Mind
So what? Is "smartness" an excuse for the unwillingless to learn productive (or at least non-destructive) social behaviour?

If anything, I'd argue it is exactly the reverse: From people describing themselves as "smart" I expect the ability to learn this even more.

They are definitely not too dumb to learn this: Internalizing some basic rules of social behaviour is not harder than learning a new programming language or familiarizing with a new framework. It's not because they are unable, but because they don't care and got away with it so far - by which I mean they didn't have to face the consequences of the damage they created in the past. That's why any reasonable manager (or community leader) needs to create an environment where they have to care early on, before anything significant happens.
I would ask the following
1)what lead him to the decision of going back to pursue his studies. I
2)What was his over all experience at your company
3)What he liked what he disliked.
4)What could you improve upon.
5)Ask about the quality of training and mentorship he received. 6)Ask about how he feels about your product or service.
7)Ask about his experience with co workers and management.

Depending on his position ensure that all his files are saved on a server for you to access after he goes. If he is working on any projects be sure to get a status update on where he is are and what needs to be done. As for his last day be sure to get any company issued property back.
We don't need AI to end the middle class.

Services like Uber are replacing what used to be a stable job by fewer drivers with a job now done by many more drivers for peanuts. It's almost a way of taking an industry and redistributing the wealth.
Typing "define:conspiracy" into Google, I get:

"conspiracy (noun): a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful"
Why not just wrest control of the means of production for themselves? The more concentrated the wealth, the easier it becomes to target it. When people see no other practical means of economic advancement revolutions tend to ensue.
Centering in CSS
Like I said,

> that brings on a whole new level of reputation-economy things you have to think about.
Greasemonkey script to revert GitHub dark navbar
Would you foresee the "pro" level to add in controls to minimize the "abuse" issue that Wall Street often points at?
MUMPS Instance
Hi Folks. Looking for information on methods, tools, utilities, etc., that facilitate establishing and maintaining a secure baseline for MUMPS instances, e.g., static code analysis tools, syntax parsers/checkers, vulnerability scanners, etc.

Respectfully.

Fergie
I have pfSense running on a hyper-v server; I haven't noticed any problems with it.
Those are two very different companies, though. It's not like the average consumer can make any sort of buying decision that will affect an aerospace company, but they can certainly patronize or boycott a department store. Plus Boeing likely does a lot of business with the federal government which Trump is now head of, while retail outlets are highly unlikely to be directly affected by anything a President does.
I'm wondering how desktop and Android Firefox compares to provided performance figures.
>People have been saying this kind of thing forever. They said it about agriculture, they said it when the Luddites attacked factories, they said it about farm automation, they said it when computers were becoming popular.

were they wrong tho?
Last Page of The Great Gatsby (1997)
Ford buys two month old self driving car company for $1B
It's important to note that none of the processes actually describe a physical size anymore.
They used too now it's just PR, a 10nm 14nm or 7nm processes don't actually have anything that is the process "size" in size.
Together with various optimization the process name is "analogous" to a hypothetical CMOS lithography with of that scale.
invite_limit_reached when I try to sign up :-/
> React-friendly one...

How about Structor: https://helmetrex.com
Scary how people can't see the technological differences between 1850 and 2017 - kinda like how climate change deniers never bring up the industrial revolution.
Niemöller's statement comes to mind.

I've seldom, if ever, been impressed by what I've seen from the Daily Mail. But does anybody honestly think that this ban (which is what it is, despite the Wikimedia Foundation's semantic games and hand-waving) ends with that publication?
Yes, let them eat cake instead.
I'm not saying it can be explained (completely) by quality improvements.

I'm saying consumption = (income - investment) / price. That's just an arithmetic identity. Investment has been between 5 and 10% since basically forever.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savin...

So if consumption went up, income must have risen faster than price. That's my only point: you can't simultaneously have stagnating income, rising prices, and rising consumption.

Now, if you're saying separately that it would be great if we could legalize lower priced options, I agree with you. That would be great. But all that would do is make (preference-adjusted) consumption go up more, or perhaps make investment go up even more.

That doesn't change the fact that this price increase + stagnating income story is false.
If you're building your own datacenter (and by this I define a serious project with a budget $20m+), you're going to be hiring a person as a full time staff member who knows where all of the actual OSI layer 1 and 2 operators have infrastructure in your local state/province. For example the persons who are employed by Sabey related to their huge datacenter operations in Quincy, WA.

Much of who actually 'owns' fiber in a region is opaque for competition reasons. You have the company that actually laid the cable, then you have companies which may have purchased a few dark strands or IRUs in the cable, then you have a myriad of companies that are leasing dark and installing their own DWDM systems.

Where you can get access to dark also depends on geography and opaque business relationships. There's a lot of places in the US where a 288-count fiber cable goes through but here's no regen hut or POP built to access it. You need you build backwards or forwards along the path to get to the nearest place with active electronic equipment.
Programming isn't the new blue collar manufacturing job because you don't employ nearly as many people as you were doing manufacturing as you would be employing as computer programmers. Look at the amount of programmers at Alphabet (Google) vs people employed by Ford.
http://ferry-bachtiar.blogspot.com/2017/02/nissan-x-trail.html
Are you happy with the article that I published in http://ferry-bachtiar.blogspot.com/2017/02/nissan-x-trail.html ?
>a shrinking market for high-performance CPUs

It is??
There's a BIG difference between transistors being developed and having sustainable manufacturing processes and good yields. Intel actually taped out an internal chip on 10nm, but then "mysteriously" scrapped it. Likely because of bad yields...

And that's not even dealing with the demon of quantum tunneling which IMO will likely kill node shrinks even harder.

Finally, the other comment is right, Dennard scaling is dead, and thermals have become the primary constraint in chip design. FinFETs have somewhat helped with this, but it's not enough.
Twitter lets you mention anybody. Unless they've blocked you, they will be notified that you mentioned them. It's like /u/username on Reddit, but on Twitter it's the standard way to address people.
consumption = Income/Cost

What about savings and/or debt? Aren't people saving less?
Which a mailing list would accomplish the same thing. In fact, I would prefer I just receive email directly from people I follow, rather than a separate stupid app.
For big movements (getting a window out of the way, viewing media, etc.), anything collaborative, and for anytime the machine is being used in an awkward position (so when not seated comfortably focused on inputting).
The real issue is a huge WYSIWYG : HTML mismatch. You want HTML that looks different on different screens, handles blind users, and gracefully degrades to still work on IE 6, early iOS, etc.

Meanwhile designers using WYSIWYG tend to build applications that work just fine in their environment and nowhere else.
So was the telegram, the telephone, automobiles, computers, but every time it's meant an astonishing increase in wealth for everyone.

Employment isn't even the end all be all, we would be much happier with 50% employment and greater levels of wealth.
The author of that tweet added a follow-up that it's not a real screenshot, just a mockup.
> it'd just make most people broke and forced to seek out multiple jobs to survive

So then change the full time number to be summed over all jobs. It's a cooperation problem where it is in nobody's individual interest to work less (since the marginal utility of surplus over your peer group is extreme), but yet everybody competing for this results in all the surplus thrown onto the bonfire of financialization.

And yes as I said, 15 hours is a drastic change from 40. Because the point is that this should have been happening gradually the whole time. I personally would have preferred it to happen through sane monetary policy rather than government diktat, but either way we should all be working much less.

> We need to move beyond the puritan work ethic to something more appropriate for the world that's coming.

I wholeheartedly agree on this point. But the implementation we're looking for is not BI.

The idea of BI deprecates the idea of having an economy (ie p2p transactions), and replaces it with widespread monthly funding from the government. This will necessarily come with strings attached, inevitably becoming a highly politicized way of dictating individuals' life choices. We already have something quite similar to BI, called welfare/medicaid, which brings no end to hassling its recipients. I believe that BI proponents would say that the aim of BI is to simplify these systems, but this is not a stable state. It is trying to reverse up the gradient of why politicians generate complexity (finding divisive bikeshed issues so people can be led).
> How are you going to attract young users if you don't keep on trying new, fun, cool stuff?

This is definitely true. They don't at all try to get the young demographic while FB always makes small changes to keep it fun(video profile pics, reactions etc).
Overland links to Europe are most of it. If you look at the number of major Russian ISPs that are members of the DE-CIX in Frankfurt, that's a good indicator of traffic flows.

edit: for example, here's the v4/v6 peering locations for a major russian telecom: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1265
> Services like Uber are replacing what used to be a stable job by fewer drivers with a job now done by many more drivers for peanuts.

Right idea, wrong complaint.

GPS is the automated tool that killed the Taxi. There was a time when it took specialized knowledge to know the layout of a city. GPS took away the one edge the Taxi-industry had... experience in driving and roads.

Uber is just the first major company to take advantage of cheap GPS technology. As soon as GPS-systems were so cheap that they are in literally everybody's pockets... the Taxicab industry became an endangered species.
This video echos what you said : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16TJUp4SVA
Agriculture is controlled by a relatively small sliver of people. If you can't convince some of them to be on your side and give you food, then your movement is going to starve.
A Quarrel Over the Letter K Breaks Out in Kazakhstan
Source? The screenshot in that one tweet was fake ("a mock-up"), as the author themself stated.
They don't make the games you want (or I want, i.e., Half Life), but they clearly are still making games, and games they have made in the last decade are currently #1 and #2 in concurrent players:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Also in the last decade: Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2.
Making GitHub header light again
Locked-In and Losing (Mesosphere on Snap's S-1)
Animatrix: The Second Renaissance: Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0K6Cb1ZoG4

So yes, human revolution may come first.
I'm working on a machine learning product for conversion optimization, https://improve.ai.

Despite my initial fears, I'm noticing that, like any tool, it simply allows the user to do more with less. My product isn't going to replace conversion rate optimization consultants - it's just another tool they use to provide more value to their clients.

If the barrier to using machine learning were high, then I would be concerned that the benefits would only go to few. But since very powerful APIs will be increasingly cheap and democratized, the barriers will be quite low to reap the benefits of these technologies.

We often get caught up in the technical minutiae of machine learning, but you already don't need to be a deep learning expert to take advantage of, for example, cheap speech recognition APIs. This lowered barrier to entry will only accelerate.

But, then again, I'm an optimist. :-)
Peculiar how author dodges this question, the answer is presumably no.

It's so disruptive even the creators choose to use the old "outdated" way it claims to be solving.

If you don't eat your own dog food it means you don't have confidence in it. So why push the garbage on to somebody else who will take all the risks?

How the heck does this make frontpage?
Yeah but what if a DAO doesn't have a physical office that can be shut down? It's very difficult to stop the spread of something people want to use, and will only become more so.
its really surprising that he forgot that because he nailed the other main ways to force change:

Be thankful and only talk to people who represent you (no one).
Not trying to upset you, just trying to help you see that the story is not crazy. I'm not sure if you've tried trading futures or options before.

I've never traded futures, but I've seen with the amount of leverage that options provide makes the story quite believable (easy was probably not what the prior commenter meant).
a geostationary satellite that weighs 6000 kilograms and costs $185 million to build and launch has less aggregate data throughput capacity than two strands of singlemode fiber in a cable with a diameter thinner than a pencil. And that is before you get into the fact that medium/long distance fiber these days is generally built with a cable that has a minimum of 144 strands in it, if not 288 or 864.

It's not even close when you're talking about 40 or 80-channel x 100 Gbps DWDM systems vs. satellite, whether it's geostationary or o3b.

Satellite is best used to reach very difficult to reach locations (example: Skardu Pakistan) or for maritime purposes.
In retail this creates an effect of employment driven only by high margins. Shopping center consisting of Whole Foods, Neiman Marcus and organic pour-over coffee shop will survive, small corner bodega selling food and various odds-and-ends will not.

This does create additional employment for economists studying origins and dynamics of "food deserts", though.
I'm working on a tool to do just this - makes frontend development straight-forward and visual. If you'd like, I can ping you an email when I have something to show - my email address is in my profile if you're interested :)
Gently Advise HN: Flexport hiring posts need this chance to go meta
Either all the Flexport hiring posts that hit HN are working great, they are hiring like gangbusters, and all is rosy (if this is true, write and share [another? date-less?] blog post about how great this process is on their blog!)...

Otherwise they should probably stop posting hiring posts (especially abusing to post links to random articles about Flexport instead of actual job listings?!!)

Keep up the good work rogue squadron!
To me, this principles of this style are best described in the Economist's Style Guide: http://www.economist.com/styleguide/introduction

"Clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought. So think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible."

"Pomposity and long-windedness tend to obscure meaning, or reveal the lack of it: strip them away in favour of plain words."

"Do your best to be lucid (“I see but one rule: to be clear”, Stendhal). Simple sentences help. Keep complicated constructions and gimmicks to a minimum"

"Long paragraphs, like long sentences, can confuse the reader. “The paragraph”, according to Fowler, “is essentially a unit of thought, not of length; it must be homogeneous in subject matter and sequential in treatment.”"

"Get: Get is an adaptable verb, but it has its limits. A man does not get sacked or promoted, he is sacked or promoted. Nor does a prize-winner get to shake hands with the president, or spend the money all at once; he gets the chance to, or is able to, or is allowed to.
Yeah, exactly. If your stuff "just works" there's a danger that the manager will assume that what you're doing is easy. I, though, regard people who's stuff "just works" as solid gold.
> Why don't we just stop accepting visa applications from Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys

It's not practical to do that. You can call them "Indian outsourcing firms", but on paper they are American companies too. Compiling such a black list of companies purely based on how many H-1B applications they've filed in the past is not a good idea. Because it'll just give unfair advantage to the other "outsourcing" companies like Tech Mahindra, who probably should have been on that list, but escaped the radar because of these other giants. So these companies will now top the list and they'll hire aggressively to replace TCS, Infosys and co.

So what is the solution? Hard to say. Raising the minimum wage is a good start, but the exact amount will have to vary state by state. Because, for example, $80000 per year is too small for the bay area, but a good salary in Texas, NC etc.

Another approach is provide an easier way to permanent residency for those who complete Masters or above in US. That will eliminate to some extent the mixing up the "Elon Musks and Sergey Brins" along with those abusing the system.

And for God's sake, allow H-4 dependents to work. It's hypocritical to expect high skilled people to work in your country, but they shouldn't be married to someone who wants to work. You are destroying livelihoods, careers and relationships by doing this.
The New Role of the Data Scientist at Nonprofits
If video games have real world financial stakes(say, for professional eSports players like Dota/LoL), should cheating be punishable by jail time?
You can actually evaluate work you've delivered, but only for a very small subset of "work" - basically, things that can be represented and evaluated entirely with software. Here's an example: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/26/zero-knowledge-conting...

Of course, this is entirely insufficient to do something like "put your corporation on the blockchain".
Yeah, this is pretty much what I was thinking. I've already applied for a few internships for this summer but I don't know. If I don't find anything else I'll stick with this at least until the fall semester. I enjoy this job but it's stuck in the past.

Would be nice to hear from others who have been in a similar place
re: #3, not exatcly, an underseas cable is actually relatively few strands compared to a terrestrial cable. Many older ones are only two strands. Modern ones 4 or 6 strands. It's the DWDM terminals on each end of the cable that enable fun things like 80 channels x 100 Gbps full duplex coherent QPSK per channel.
the formatting is often off.

its sometimes not clear right away, but if you look at the same file with each program, there are almost some differences.

side-bars with contact information are, in my experience especially prone to errors and even prefill macros for names and similar often fail.
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Best of luck for yours
I don't think the intention matters if the result is the same.
Ask HN: Why is GitHub's header background color dark all of a sudden?
It shouldn't be overlooked that to be at risk to this vulnerability requires a non-default option to be enabled. Said another way, by default the option that would put you at risk is disabled, only if you have manually enabled it would you be at risk.
I think that's tricky. If Twitter is perceived to be charging users to not be abused, that's obviously crappy. Paid accounts or not I think there should be better first-party options for controlling who you see and who sees you.

At the same time, if the APIs are fully open, third party clients would be able to build more powerful filtering features. In effect that would allow anyone to build entire sub communities on top of Twitter. This is starting to sound more and more like app.net...
>That just confirms the OPs first point, that TCS, Wipro and Infosys, with their 30,000 Visas avg. ~$70k, are massively abusing the system.

>Its about time these companies were prosecuted for lying to the government:

while they obviously abuse the system, i doubt they do it in immediately clear criminal ways - instead i suppose they use various loopholes like bringing people into some cattle grazing mid-states where $70K is prevailing wage (and where is real shortage of programmers, at least if you try to hire couple hundred or thousand of them in a short time, so technically these companies do follow the law here to the letter) and "bodyshopping" the people from there.
If government revenues are collected mainly from personal income taxes, such retreat would signal a lower UBI check next month.