skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So it's better when the media is inaccurate or incorrect?" Where did this come from? I absolutely do not support inaccuracy by the media, nor did I suggest that I did. I do recognize that most all publications and writers exhibit bias, which is why it is important to get information representing multiple points of view.

Considering you likely have little or no access to most primary sources of information, like everyone else, I don't see how you have any choice other than to rely on their coverage combined with your own critical thinking and research.

Also considering that an incredible number of Donald Trump's statements are easily verifiably false, I don't see how he could be considered a primary source of anything other than his own words.

As far as "The recent Felix Kjellberg incident", What exactly do you mean? Some publications condemning his actions while others rush to his defense?
I wish you would give Noisebridge another chance. There's a slightly different group keeping noisebridge together now. Truly unhinged people are now discouraged from participating in the space. Sometimes politely, sometimes not so politely.

Also the Rinpoche incident was almost 6 years ago!
Isn't this what the "Web of Trust" issue addresses? Sure, it's complex and would take a lot of time to understand and propagate, but it's a possible solution.
Hey, this looks very interesting. Unfortunately I won't be at that conference, but I suppose there will eventually be a video of it online?
Better smarts on discharge of the UPS can help. Most of them currently let the battery pack fully discharge, causing irreversible damage to the battery pack, especially if power isn't restored quickly. A setting for cutting out at 40% depth of charge would prevent damage to the pack.

Over provisioning the runtime on the UPS can help if you can afford the extra upfront cost.

What someone really needs to do is make a UPS that just attaches to a standard deep cycle battery, as those can be easily sourced locally pretty much anywhere and one can pick the battery to fit the application, rather than be stuck with the crap batteries the UPS manufacturer decides to use (they typically use high C batteries which do not like deep cycling).
This should be the standard, but the exception is always going to be multi switch circuits with multiple switches controlling the same light.
"You may be tempted to use JWT instead of a database of session cookies. Please don't. Here's why: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/attachments/jwt-flowchart.pn... "

source: https://twitter.com/j4cob/status/831286673644216320
table { table-layout: fixed }, otherwise you can customize the column definition to define specific widths?
Again, from what I understand, `restrict` is not enough to convey everything Rust knows.

Further, those other languages may be nothing like C, but they're even less like Rust. So because of its heritage, even given the information Rust knows, LLVM simply doesn't have the optimization passes to take full advantage of it.
There is a counterintuitive slump in quality of experience along the progression of bicycle frame materials technology. One would expect each point along the progression to be completely superior than the last: steel, aluminum, carbon fiber.

I had to learn the hard way that isn't the case. Steel is flexible (comfortable ride) but heavy. Aluminum came along and offered lighter frames, but the frames had to be made much stiffer to avoid the perils of repeated stress fatigue (steel's asymptote for strength after repeated stress is some fraction of its original strength. Aluminum's asymptote is zero -- flex it enough and it will eventually accumulate micro strew fractures and break). The progression to aluminum was a trade off: ride comfort for weight.

Carbon fiber came along and offered a no-compromise solution: the flexibility (ride comfort) of steel, and lighter than aluminum. Unfortunately, the cost is much higher with carbon fiber.

If you are on a budget, I'd agree that you're better off with steel than aluminum.
Hah, kinda. I think in Betteridge's Law the author intends to suggest the answer is "yes", but uses a question to avoid making a claim, so the real answer is usually "no".

In this case, it's the author's (me) intention to leave the reader thinking the answer is "maybe" or "probably not".
I own a Xone:32. It's a great unit, but has a few headscratches, like the gain knobs at the back. Xones sound better, but I have to say the Pioneer products are designed better and easier to use.

I'd like to add the 1200 of headphones, Sony MDR-V6.
This is what IT is like after 40.
Consider if one is unable to afford health insurance premiums and has a pre-existing condition which is expensive to treat. This person is not likely to have credit to be able to afford more than a few months of treatment. What choice do they have left other than to die (which is also not typically legal to accelerate)?
I completely agree - but hopefully if the management knows what they are doing in 2002 they don't sell a license that gives the buyer perpetual right to use the software (they can't guarantee that so long as the maintenance of license servers is required. Having a perpetual license is basically an infinite future expense even if the cost is trivial.)
It's way more complex than you're making it out to be.

Whether or not one can find a job is hugely dependent on the individual's skillset, and very importantly, social abilities. The latter being a thing that laid-off IT people tend to completely discount, IME.
"Would you want a drunk or oxy-head working on your brakes or transmission?"

I don't want someone who's inebriated (or withdrawing, or with altered priorities) attempting to do anything where they have to be safety-conscious.
Except that's for the Justice System. Not normal people. The Justice System can take care of vetting evidence. Normal people are supposed to be supportive and stand up for those who come to them with stories like this one.

And I'm sorry, but if someone comes to you and says that they've experienced the things in this story, and the first thing you do is ask for evidence, then you will be branded a monster, and rightfully so. You are telling that person, "I do not believe you; I think you are a liar." If someone comes to you with a story like this, you provide support to them. You console them. You ask them what you can do to help. You do not cross examine them, and make them feel terrible for coming to you.
Iron oxide is cheap if you live near an iron or copper mine because it's a waste product.

Otherwise, lime or chalk should be easier to get.
> One of the things I found incredibly surprising in America is just how much people do not like to move;

Moving is a huge hassle, and expensive. If you confine your employment opportunities to small towns, it's likely your next job is over 200 miles away. An out of state move costs easily over $1000 and doing that every year is not financially viable for most people. If you want to stay put, your job search gets very tough.

I did the whole "work in small town" thing for a while, and managed to do it with only moving a few times. Not knowing for sure where you'll be living in a few years takes its toll. Finally threw in the towel and moved to a metro area.
I shall add it to my cannon of mistakes.
There also seem to be 'Trump-resistant' factions in various other agencies, notably including the intelligence community, and possibly including the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.
The big issue using localStorage for authentication token storage is that values are accessible by any JS from the same origin as the JS that sets the value. Example: I bundle my JS and it's dependencies into a single file (bundle.js) using webpack. One of the dependencies in the bundle has malicious JS that sends values in localStorage to a remote server, or uses the authentication token to make requests impersonating the user.
The 2011 model of Noisebridge is known as radical inclusivity.
You need to turn off the phone and take out the battery every time you use the burner phone. They will be tracking the cell towers that you use, so going back and forth to the same cell towers means they can figure out pretty closely where you work and live.
OAuth by Sakurity: significantly more secure and simpler than OAuth 2
With that evidence, the CEO should not only fire the creeps involved, but name and shame them. Incredibly damaging, not just for PR reasons, but for missing out on talented people and allowing toxicity.
My last side project was this free Tumblr Theme called Dark Side inspired by the Star Wars franchise. Got about 750 active installs in the first month, pretty happy about it: https://www.tumblr.com/theme/40329

I also released on GitHub in case people want to fork and customise it: https://github.com/edmundojr/tumblr-darkside
Become a CLEC. Or, more appropriately, I suppose: look into the benefits that being a CLEC would give you (in this regard) and consider if that's worth it for you.
Doing the same with Telegram. And slack for teammate related notes.
The wages are a part of it. Scottdale is less than 30 miles from where I live. I know Western Pennsylvania.

Experienced tradesmen can make really good money in this area but the downside is that they have to work long hours in harsh conditions. If they were paying more money, they'd be able to pull in qualified candidates from further away but they'd also attract more undesirables. They'd still have to separate the wheat from a lot of chaff.

Monetary compensation isn't all of it though. There is a surprisingly extensive problem with opiate addiction here in Western Pennsylvania. In the past 5 years, I have had four friends or acquaintances die from definite overdoses and several who are possible(likely) overdoses.

I'm from a suburban, middle-income area and we have heroin addicts all over the place. Ten years ago they were eating pills but with the crackdown on prescription pill mills, they have moved on to heroin.
>Those network effects of big cities are not intrinsically tied to oligopolic structures. They're also just bigger and more attractive to a big chunk of the population, yeah?

Well, they're certainly more attractive to young people nowadays, but at their core, they really offer a few things:

* Lots of skilled workers, all in one place.

* Lots of preexisting infrastructure, all in one place.

* Low per-capita cost of additional infrastructure.

On Hacker News there are occasional articles saying many programming jobs ought to offer remote-work as a fringe benefit. That sounds nice, but for a lot of areas of the country, it just wouldn't work. Hell, I remember living in a suburb of Boston, with commuter-rail access to the center city, which as late as 2003 did not have broadband internet in some parts of town.

To this day, there are still rural, exurban, and outer-suburban areas without the network infrastructure to make telecommuting really viable.

So while cultural attractions are nice, I think that they compete with extremely expensive housing, affordable transit, affordable network access, and job density as factors in where to live.
Rural USA - and I grew up there - is optimized for mining, farming, ranching, and logging. The bulk of the money has shifted elsewhere, and the economy has moved on.

I don't myself see a future for the rural US outside of the 4 interests above - it's collapsing inward as automation and time rolls on. I would like to see a future. But the network effect of urbanized areas is tremendous and forms a vortex of attraction for all sorts of things.

But this isn't new - WW1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Ya_Gonna_Keep_'em_Down_on_...

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyhttp://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/and...

and Hofstadter in his book Age of Reform (regarding populism/progressivism in the 1870-1925 era) remarks that the migration to the cities was taking place in the 1800s.
+1 I was thinking the same thing myself. Pie charts are for elementary school kids.
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people who work for the government still have the first amendment right to criticize it's functionings.
I really wish papers could run non-stories along with the usual stories:

"Uber Sexual Harassment Claims Story - In Progress

This story is in progress, and the following are the verified facts:

<insert facts here>

The following are claims that no media has reliable, verifiable source on yet. If they are reporting on them as fact, you might want to reconsider what media you trust:

<insert claims here>

We will publish our full story when we the picture is clearer."

As the newspaper of record, it's also helpful to differentiate the reliable and non-reliable media for us.
and a well-run government can avoid it.

Which is about as likely as the proverbial "sufficiently smart compiler".

Oligopolies and cartels exist because cooperating against the public is a better option for them than competing with one another and (as any game theorist will tell you) the first to be disloyal gains only a small edge at the cost of significantly reduced results for everybody.

But in reality, cartel members cheat all the time. Take OPEC, for example, where members are always producing more than their official limits.
The quoted levels are unimaginably small! Almost invisible. I wonder how they manage to detect them. Just calculated that if whole of the Earth's atmosphere was filled with I-131 with maximum reported concentration (0.5E-6bq/m3), it would be an amount of iodine that is produced with a nuclear explosion of 0.00024kt, i.e. 240kg TNT equivalent. That is so small that it hardly qualifies as a nuclear explosion - more like 'critical assembly accident'.

And YES, this could be explained by a disposed nuclear reactor of an old submarine suddenly going prompt critical and blowing up! In the split second when it explodes it could release that and even much larger amount of iodine. I just couldn't imagine that levels so low are detectable.

It could be also an explosion on non-disposed, fresh nuclear reactor. That can explain lack of other detectable isotopes. And that is an event too small to produce a detectable seismic signature.
Every administration draws the line as it likes. But some staff, I've worked with through five administrations. Sometimes, they could talk freely. Other times, it was more like Deep Throat ;)
I really don't see how personal attacks, or attaching pejorative labels to others (conservative, reactionary etc.) enhances your argument. It just makes it seem like you don't have a convincing counter-argument and need to resort to appeals to emotion / preaching to those who already agree with you. If you actually want to convince people who don't share your views, perhaps consider a different tactic.

And there's just something unsettling about going through someone's comment history to better 'target' your irrelevant personal attacks. I think it reveals more about you than it does about the person you're attacking.
Research shows a very strong correlation between mere height and who ends up at the very height of corporate leadership. It's an ape thing, not a competence thing.
From experience: it's not that difficult to tell from very brief interaction when someone is drunk. It's a lot harder to tell when someone is using narcotics to the point where you can't trust them with dangerous machinery and the lives of their fellow workers.

If you think this is "discrimination", I very strongly question whether you've any experience at all dealing with semi-functional narcotics abusers. Because your superficial dismissiveness does not track with the seriousness of the problem.
I would say I'm a natural leader. I am constantly scanning for order and when I see chaos, I am forced to take charge. Otherwise if I recognize competent decision-making, I am content to observe and go along. I cannot help it, as this is a compulsion, and it has been a part of my personality for as long as I can remember.

I have often been praised for my charisma and my confidence, but therein lies the problem: because I cannot allow dysfunction to perpetuate, I sometimes butt into situations where it is not my business, or I act impulsively because something must be done. But this problem can also be compounded because the people around me who cede leadership for the sake of ensuring action can sometimes get absorbed into my confidence and charisma, believing my conviction to be equivalent to the validity of my decisions, and thus enabling poor decisions that may as well turn out to be worse than no decisions.

I see where these problems with incompetent leaders arise even when they are not intentional. At best, one can hope that these leaders are capable of recognizing and humbly accepting their own limitations.
How Is The New York Times Really Doing?
Didn't Intel release new CPUs last month? they'll be running out of lakes soon to overcharge us for 10% improvements.
Wow no. Every rational person should be scrutinizing evidence. Not to do so would be insane. But the evidence here clearly points in her favor.
I'm a pencil junkie, personally. This is mainly because I'm particularly good at losing things, especially when said things cost less than $0.25/piece. They're so cheap you don't even waste time thinking about keeping track of them. When I do construction projects, I sharpen up a half-box and bring them to wherever I'm working so that when, invariably, I'm holding a piece of wood and a ruler but failed to actually grab the pencil to mark the spot, I can feel around with my free hand until I am jabbed by a sharp lead.

On that list, though, I have a box of Blackwings and three of them are sitting in my pen cup on my desk as I type this. They're exceptional pencils -- almost too good in some ways -- something about the weight/density of them feels at the same time both like you're holding something that's "better than a pencil" but also something that's almost not a pencil. The friction of the lead against the paper is smoother than I'm used to -- not bad, just different. I jokingly call them my "hipster pencils"[0].

I haven't tried the others, but I'll take a look - thanks for the tip!

[0] When they arrived, my wife informed me that my "Yuppie pencils are here" -- I informed her that "yuppie" is about a decade dated and we settled on "hipster" but even that is a pretty inaccurate term since most of the hipsters I know have an affinity for this watered down, swill beer called PBR that we used to buy when we were underage because it was cheap. Kids these days. :P
Like how many lines you should be committing or something?

It would probably be better to use something like code coverage by tests
Nah, don't overthink this.
I very much appreciate the reply. Thank you, @dang.
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No, they love to hate powerful assholes, and we need to stop pretending that right wing libertarianism is a harmless 'alternate perspective', when it's the political platform of protofacism - in other words, the political platform of the contemporary asshole.
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He's not wrong. hueving comes across to me as rude, unwilling to google simple things, and quick to say things like "why should I care about X". I don't want to say things like "If I were a woman I wouldn't tell you about such things", maybe hueving's a great person to talk to in real life.
Hi guys, InfluencerNews is a news reader that surfaces content most widely discussed by a list of influencers we consider trustworthy. The idea is that people on our list will generally share higher quality content and effectively filter out the noise.

To build this list of 'trusted influencers' we first scraped dozens of lists like businessinsider.com/100-best-tech-people-on-twitter-2014-2014-11. We figured if a credible source says you're one of the essential people to follow for an industry, that's a good start.

Next, we look at who these experts trust and follow. Those followed by at least 15 of these influencers made our list. To re-iterate, it's not enough to make a well regarded best-people-to-follow list, that effectively only gets you a vote; the people included in our list are followed by at least 15 such people. Our newsfeed is made up of articles most shared and discussed by these influencers.

Another thing that sets us apart from other newsreaders is that it adds some relevant context. You can immediately see influencer reactions to each story as you peruse the headlines.

Anyways, I'd really love your feedback on the idea. Thanks!
That's very true. Unfortunately, if you threatened to take away their Facebook I think they'd suddenly reconsider.
yes. first hit lists a few
I am a good leader, trained by a father who--I kid you not--had his children up before dawn to listen to the same motivational/management how-to tapes he listened to. Only, perhaps because of this, I have no interest in a management gig, mainly because (money aside) I'd rather be coding/writing/producing, and doing it well, than overseeing the production of others. And I've moved to larger companies as a producer because I also had successful managment experience at smaller orgs. But now I'm topped out--and to not accept the next level is a career DNR. I'm demonstrably good, but am I 3x salary better than a replacement? Good luck making that case. Meet the new boss...
So do you believe that no one should have been punished for the holocaust, since the elected leader, Hitler, had killed himself, and everyone else was just following orders?
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2nd on this comment. Gerrymandering, leaks, torrent of dark money in our process, not to mention the popular vote really undermine the idea that Trump won "fair and square".
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I may be wrong, but I don't think JavaScripts from a CDN can access the same localStorage as some JavaScript from another origin. (Source: "Cross-origin data storage access" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...)
Of all the major operational risks our startup faces, that would basically be at the absolute top of the list. I suspect we'd have to double headcount if SO shut down! SO should be considered a national utility/treasure like DTCC, etc.
Or you could keep creating new accounts with new phones, tweeting the next account as the last tweet of the previous one. You won't get an easy to digest single thread of tweets, but you can maintain a chain of trust, insofar as the accounts are trusted to begin with.
I don't think narcotics are the issue. Nobody wants to hire an addict, yeah. The trouble is, as he said, trying to get a trained mechanical engineer to live and work in an area with few other employers, for $1/hour more than McDonalds. That's just not a very good return on the skillset investment.
"No one (okay, almost) loves russians these days"

Is this actually true? It doesn't feel that way to me (American based out of Washington DC area), but maybe I'm naive. Anybody else agree with this statement?
I hope there will be.
Couldn't you in theory calibrate this for any feasible device using a known light source and a large enough set of color swatches with known response curves? Inferring device parameters should just be solving some system of equations given enough constraints, and if you overconstrain the system you also get an estimate of how much noise is in your parameters.

In this case, you need to simultaneously estimate the LED wavelengths as well as the response curve of the camera.

Not saying it'd necessarily be worthwhile to do, but if that actually worked, all you'd need to do is send a light source + a color swatch booklet through the mail to a potential user if the device isn't in the database yet.
https://consumerist.com/2014/10/06/unhappy-customer-comcast-...

Complaining about Comcast did result in someone being fired.
You're welcome! Good to know that it's worth the effort to post these things.
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