skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered if the high profile fallout actually causes any change. From anecdotal evidence I feel like nothing really changes. It's mostly people in some bubble that get really upset and then a week later everyone forgets what exactly they were upset about.
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I use this often. I usually enter `:%!xxd -g1` to show each byte value separately instead of showing two bytes together.

$ printf "\x00\x01\x02\x03" | xxd
0000000: 0001 0203
$ printf "\x00\x01\x02\x03" | xxd -g1
0000000: 00 01 02 03

While editing binary files in Vim, one needs to be careful about setting the binary option before editing a binary file or opening the binary file with `-b` option.

For example,

printf "\x00\x01\x02\x03" > a.bin
vim a.bin
:%!xxd -g1

would display

0000000: 00 01 02 03 0a .....

(The `printf` and `vim` commands are entered in the shell. The `:%!xxd` command is entered in Vim.)

In the above example, a newline has been added by Vim where none existed in the binary file. In fact, if you then run `%!xxd -r` followed by `:w`, this additional newline would be written back to the file. Here is the right way to preserve the binary data in a binary file.

printf "\x00\x01\x02\x03" > a.bin
vim -b a.bin
:%!xxd -g1

would display

0000000: 00 01 02 03 ....

Only the four bytes in the file appear now. Alternatively, one may enter `:set bin` in Vim before editing a binary file.
But they're all top performers.
Ebola 'super-spreaders' cause most cases
Even in WA, good pay! How many years exp (if that's ok to ask)?
I'm getting a fraction of that in Syd.
years and years, programs like itunes just kept adding more and more features I never use and getting more and more bloated, winamp really kicks the llamas ass
Google and Elon Musk open their AI platforms to researchers
Yes, mostly due to protocol backwards compatibility. If you stopped using it because of ads, check out pi-hole.
The hiring process at Uber already raises some red flags - so if you're not blind and totally ignorant you'll get the cue and glimpse of the company culture and your potential future there.
Agreed. Even a cheapish bike is a miracle of modern engineering, and a great force multiplier even for poor folks or folks too young to drive. I love my bike (a 20 year old Giant mountain bike that I bought to ride to college and have put thousands of miles on since).
I find it amusing that because I have a differing opinion and choose to remain sceptical - without ever interacting or saying anything negative about Susan - I'm labelled a "shitlord" and bombarded with downvotes.

Hivemind mentality much?
This is the third post on this topic that's made the front page:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683894

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
Which are all questions that can be answered more accurately and in more detail with better mental models of a person than "incompetent".

Are you really attempting to answer those questions or are you just making justifications for some kind of ego masturbation?
Types of AI: From Reactive to Self-Aware
I think the problem is, and all the comments here seem to pretty much infer this, is that if the institution is corrupt, then the process of it cleansing itself will also be corrupt (Who's the scapegoat?). It seems very rare to me that once a corporation loses its ambition for a greater calling and sinks into "let's play business" that it should ever recover.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for euro-based web hosts?
If you have experience with european web hosts (domiciled & physically hosted there), can you recommend one?
Many people, myself included, have supported the media long before Trump became president. It is easy to forget now, but Obama was also known at times for having an adversarial relationship with the media. Of course there are click bait articles and examples of bad journalism to look at. Just as there are examples of good and bad work in every profession. But pointing out singular incidents of questionable journalism to prove that the news media is "all hype and no substance," meanwhile ignoring the important, significant, and often times dangerous work that journalists do to keep the public informed is, at best, ill advised.

Go and read the Pulitzer prize winning journalism that has come out in the last two years. I would be shocked if you could walk away saying it is hype. Or even look at another story from the last few weeks, Michael Flynn's pre-election sanction discussions with the Russian Ambassador and subsequent firing. People might have different opinions on the issue or different feelings on the way the information was leaked, but it can't be argued that it was a serious story of national importance. Meat loaf isn't the only thing out there.

Your criticisms of some media practices are valid and have been made many times before. They will and should be made again. But finding a bad article and saying "see the media is terrible don't trust them" is not the answer. If you see an article that seems silly, look at other sources to find one that's not. If you see an article that seems biased, read about the story from several other sources to get the full picture. Or even better, do that even if you don't think the initial source seems biased. Become a savvy news consumer who stays outside of ideological bubbles by purposely popping them.

And I will also say this... when something important is under attack, it is possible to try and save it even if you have concerns about certain aspects of how it functions. It's hard to prune weeds from a garden that has been burned to the ground.
We would solve most of this problem if we'd get people to 1) stop buying new cars unless their previous car had died, 2) stop commuting to work, and 3) stop living in situations which require lots of driving. If we incentivized companies to transition all possible staff to remote positions, we'd eliminate a huge amount of emissions. The problem is that while everyone knows cars produce a huge amount of emissions, no one is willing to not buy that fancy new car. I mean, "it gets better gas mileage!", or "it's electric!" passifies everyone's environmental concerns. Never mind that new car production is incredibly environmentally unfriendly (in most cases driving an old car, even one with poorer emissions profile or worse gas mileage, is better on net for the environment), and that all the commuting we do is disastrous for the environment. But until the problem is owned at the personal level nothing will change. A big piece of this is that politicians aren't interested in going to bat against the auto manufacturers. No politician wants to be linked to the death of such a huge industry (and a loss of hundreds of thousands or millions of jobs). The only way this will change is if all of us start to 1) live close to work (so we can walk, cycle, or simply drive less) or require remote work options, 2) own fewer and older model cars and drive them until they die, and 3) contact our elected representatives to encourage them to support law and policy which incentivizes employers to employ remote workers. We would all do well, too, to remember the three Rs: reduce (our consumption), reuse (buy used and put off replacing our possessions until absolutely necessary), and recycle (duh).

But when even climate warriors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore show wanton disregard for the cost of their lifestyle on the environment (apparently they like to raise a ruckus, but expect others to do something magical about it), there's little hope for things to get much better any time soon. Talk is cheap, people; Let's see some real action on a personal level.
Be careful there's at least two implementations of rename in different Linux distros. I've run into one made in perl that uses regex in Debian (e.g. `rename 's/foo/bar/' * `). And another one that uses simple strings (`rename foo bar * `) in CentOS.
Please see the comment about how insecure this is[1] and do NOT add it to your list.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682682
This project seems to be making progress for WordPress: https://versionpress.net/
It's also worth noting that in MySQL, the replace command is deprecated in 5.7.18 and removed in MySQL 8. [0]

I don't know its status in MariaDB.

[0] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replace-utility.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-19/fukushima-aborts-la...
The USAF claims to have 2 WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft in inventory so the plural is correct.
http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets/Display/tabid/224/Artic...
Someone senior? Yeah right, it'll be some HR patsy or just "the person responsible has left the company before this article".
What makes you say this? The author provides an extremely persuasive case, with perf timings. Additionally updated it with compiler enhancements from GCC and Intel that remove the branch mispredictions entirely and do perform as predicted.
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pencil, paper and eraser

dell keyboard Model number: SK-8115 (felt like machine gun for the first time)
http://dellparts.us/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2...

org-mode

emacs macros

git

Qt c++ framework

unix pipes

matlab

npm install --save # dont have to edit the package.json, awesome

tmux

pm2 # npm package to make the node app as service. Just mindblowing.

ssh-copy-id user@ip # no need to type password always for ssh session
"Right, there is an equation of some kind that dictates the energy balance we can sustain"

CO2 produced/energy * energy/person * people on Earth

I know it feels like I'm oversimplifying it, but of course this equation just reduces to the total amount of CO2 produced by humans. There is a ceiling to the rate we can produce it that is compatible with life as we know it on this planet, and we are over that ceiling.

We can tune each of those. CO2/energy - solar, wind, and short term bridge of nuclear; energy/person - more remote work, car sharing, more insulation; # of people - vaccines, birth control access, and other programs to slow population growth.

You have to understand, I believe there is a very harsh reality that we have limited time to solve this problem before we are facing an irrecoverable disaster. Best regards.
Have you read the article though? Often hearing one-side isn't enough to render a verdict, but in this case it's incredibly hard to hear Susan's side and witness the poise with which she retells it and be able to imagine any version of events where the organization did nothing wrong.
I have also used this exact mirror for about five years. And I agree that its great. And it will continue to be because the hot water inside will always be the same temp as the hot water outside, and thus no fogging. That really can't be improved on.
First gen Miata was even simpler, and similarly fun to drive, though not quite as fast or comfortable as what came later. It had a certain charm that I still like a lot whenever I see a well-maintained one driving around.
Fairly easy to download uTorrent 2.x and it works fine on Windows 10 :)
It was saving different blog data on different tables prefixed by index numbers. It's a mess.
Yeah, if you look beyond the Raspberry Pi there are quite a few options, just things to keep an eye on are:

- MicroUSB for power - limits you to 2A, very bad

- Crap/slow eMMC - Look at random I/O as main method of judgment

- USB Hubs where they shouldn't be needed - OrangePi+ 2 made this mistake, get OrangePi+ 2e instead

- Poor board thermals - a good SBC will have a copper layer below the SOC to spread the heat across the PCB

- Non-mainline support - It might be great hardware, but its a dud without software

- Bad Power Supply - A phone charger is not a SBC power supply

- Slow MicroSD - Buy Samsung Evo 32GB cards, test immediately. Even with a good brand like these, 2 out of every 5 won't even do 10MB/s of write, or 2MB/s of random I/O, making them not a class 10 card. Exchange the bad ones, buy used if your on a budget.
The Uber CEO did withdraw from the U.S. President's economic council after widespread outcry from a vocal portion of customers and a high proportion of employees. This is not an example of a major change, but it did demonstrate that Uber is responsive to public opinion.
Must be nice to be a woke young webdev able to ignore how Uber mistreats the poor, and the POC. How Uber breaks laws. How Uber uses VC money to undermine taxi drivers who are paid a living wage, how Uber uses VC money to undermine public transit that serves the poor, blind and disabled.

Dude you are so woke you are blinding.
Sounds like someone hasn't heard of the American Federation of Musicians.
If you read the original blog post, you'll see your comments have nothing to do with what actually happened.
Ask HN: Is there a way to distinguish a sunset from a sunrise?
I drove an ex-girlfriend's Miata... was an automatic so I don't think I got the real experience. It was OK, handled fine. Just didn't have the same zip -- 170 HP vs 240 HP (not an ideal metric, but just an easy one to cite).

* Mazda MX-5 Miata vs Honda S2000 || http://twinrev.com/cars/Mazda-MX-5-Miata-vs-Honda-S2000

I think the BMW Z4, Jaguar F-Type, and Porsche Boxster are probably all fine replacements (that's what all the S2000 forum nerds say anyway) -- if you have 2-3x to spend. I drove an F-Type and it felt very busy inside. Like... fundamentally a different audience than the S2000. I drove a used Z4 too, but only an automatic since that was all they had on the lot.

Nissan 370z looks promising, but I haven't tried it. I don't love the look.

It's a bit of a sore spot... I don't feel like there is a true replacement for the S2000 on the market at present and it's getting very hard to find a used one that wasn't modified or doesn't have a ton of miles.
Go back and read Tyler Rogoway's earlier articles. He has never beat the drum for war with Russia. Do you have specific evidence that anything he wrote is wrong?
I think one senior person isn't enough in a case like this. What is described here is an entire malfunctioning department, which in my opinion, couldn't be attributed to anywhere below the C-level. Sure perhaps there is somebody who can be fingered "VP of HR" or whatever, but anybody who has so little visibility into their department that this type of scenario could evolve is clearly not auditing what's happening levels beneath them.
Or you know, the USSR's collapse literally left a lot of nuclear material odd places.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/world/asia/a-secret-race-f...

Not everything is a realpolitik double blind.
we do. about a handful right now. it's still manageable, though automation of server resources may be another reason to use k8s?!
Redbox. Concept and kiosk. I like the app for finding and reserving movies; my mom, who has never used a smartphone, uses the kiosks easily. They took a familiar business, modernized it a little bit, slashed the overhead, and people seem to like it.
You should check out 18f.

https://18f.gsa.gov

They seem to have taken a totally different approach of bringing agile and startup culture into government software engineering. This podcast about cloud.gov on SoftwareEngineeringDaily has very interesting insights about how they work:
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/06/26/cloud-gov-wi...

Totally changed my opinion about software development and the government.
Yes! I think some of the changes they made ~2007/2008 in their interior design were huge leaps in front of most other cars IMHO.
> HR serves to protect the company, you have to think in HR's shoes. If the complainant goes away and finds another job the problem is solved.

Not if they go on to write a blog post that reaches the top of HN.
Not the same link, but the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667934
Nice find there, I think I can safely say I like just about everything that studio has done.
I wonder how much impact this will have. If they will discipline and fire people and put processes in place to keep the problem fixed, or if they will make a lot of noise about investigation and saying how terrible they feel and not have anything change.

Someone here once asked me how I differentiated between a corporation run by people and a corporation structured as an institution. In the latter there are processes put in place that bind the people in the corporation to specific rules and constraints, and the consequences of not following the rules is well defined and not up to interpretation.

An example of that would be a sexual harassment protocol that would be activated by making a claim to the protocol director. That position would typically report to the general counsel or the CEO. That director would have 30 days from the time of the report to capture statements from all of the named parties, copies of all company email from all named parties, and any chat session transcripts. The protocol director would then have another 30 days to seek out any corroborating information from people likely to be affected and then would provide the CEO (or General Counsel) with a report on whether or not harassment was deemed to occur. If it had, they would be required to remove from management responsibility the perpetrator on a first offense, and to separate from the company on a second offense. There would be no consideration for their "performance" against their goals.

Its all very mechanical, there isn't a lot of leeway for misinterpretation and the punishment is fixed without recourse. Of course there are similar punishments doled out to protocol enforcers should they attempt to mitigate the protocol.

Institutions are interlocking processes and regulations which insure the proper functioning and survival of the institution in the face of imperfect people being in charge of executing the institution's mission.

Corporations of people run on loyalty, friendship, and leverage. In such a corporation, justice is only found the exercise of friendship or leverage. And greater friendship or greater leverage can steer the result regardless of its merits.
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Ah!

The other day I was trying to remember the brand of computer speakers that I had from the 90's that were so, so, so solid. Great sound (for computer speakers), and extremely robust. Dropped off the desk all the time and never had a problem.

Now to eBay to see if I can't find them.
Definitely. Alcohol is a social grease. Facilitates having fun, kills off stress temporarily. All conductive to bonding, even if not strictly necessary.
From mass market brand road bikes I'm quite partial to Giant. I just bought a Defy Advanced 2. Truly an excellently designed and engineered machine.

From custom builders my bros Black Sheep Bikes Road Rage Downhill custom was and is the best bicycle I've ever had the pleasure of riding.

Link for the curious: http://www.spoke.ie/2011/10/red-bull-road-rage-janos-kohler-...
On a photo or out there? Out there you could wait for a short while and see if the Sun has risen/set further.
> The "urgent investigation" is likely to be focused on "can we force employees to sign NDAs when they leave?"

Seems like it'd be easier to have them sign the NDA when they arrive. True, that doesn't solve the problem of current employees.
I agree, I'd love to see another BB OS phone or two but I think the Passport was their last stand. The Android phones are good and the BB apps work well even on other phones, but it's just not the same. I'll still follow the Mercury very closely because it looks promising, but I'm not sure I really trust Android to begin with.
FWIW if you're not collector you can find some with a repaired handle for cheap! They'll pop up on eBay every once in a while.
Zojirushi fuzzy logic rice cooker. I've owned it for more than a decade and made maybe hundreds of pounds of rice. Always perfect.

Cast iron skillet. Lodge makes cheap, very high quality, pans that just work, forever (there are many brands, several are great).
Actual news: "The two companies have agreed to a new code of conduct designed to ensure that websites that stream or host pirated material are scrubbed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing search engine..."
I'm not sure the comment you're replying to has that issue. They said:

> Without my partners support I couldn't handle my 60+ hours of high stress work each week.

So within the marriage, they're perfectly happy with the split (or at least that's a reasonable read of their comment).

They're saying that if a divorce happened, alimony laws would require them to continue working long hours to keep up their income, even though they lost the partnership benefits of the marriage that make such a workweek possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
Don't we all wish HackerNews had that capability! I certainly wish I had the ability to at least mute people. Yourself for example. I'd mute you if I could, because you're only here to stir up trouble. So funny how HackerNews has about as much functionality as notepad.exe, and yet people flock here.
XKCD would probably love this.
Design experience with human intelligence
One thing that every employee needs to understand is that HR is not your friend. No matter how friendly or helpful they seem, their job is not to protect you. It's to protect the company.
I would posit that you haven't looked very hard...

http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/206
The problem is that there seems to be a terrible, unbelievably toxic culture pervading nearly every department at Uber.

Also, "I know that sounds sexist" is a fucking terrible caveat.
PewDiePie and his anti-Semitic “jokes,” explained
Not being able to integrate with Epic well is, at this point in healthcare IT, a pretty big problem IBM will need to fix.
Counterpoint: I'd consider the Wii one of the worst designed consoles around.

1) Way less portable than its predecessor (Gamecube, famously portable) and, for that matter, most other consoles ever made, aside from a handful of famously-giant ones (e.g. Atari 7800, 1st gen X-Box) due to all the accessories, "light bar", et c. Sure, you could take it with no nunchuck accessories and maybe pay extra for a wireless "light bar" if you really love buying batteries, but that's extra money and less stuff you can do with it when you get where you're going.

2) "Ugh, the light bar fell behind the TV again and all the wiimotes' batteries are dead anyway. Oh well, I just want to play gamecube... oh, I can't navigate the menu with the GC controller. And I need to click on the game I want to play to start it. Guess I'll just play PS3 instead. Oh, its controller's dead too. No big deal, can just plug it in."

3) Have to leave ugly GC ports/memory door open if there's anything plunged into it, even if it's just a memory card. If anyone or anything moves anywhere near your Wii on a regular basis while it's in this state, the door will break off eventually.

However, the Classic Pro controller accessor for the waggle 'motes is awesome. I wish someone would make a nicer to-USB adapter for them than the ones from Mayflash, because I've had both revisions of those go bad on me now and I'd like a solid, reliable one.
Uber is taking action: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/uber-sexual-hara...