skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. I don't mean to say that these comedians help escape the content bubble. But at the very least their longevity (along with Colbert, whose ratings have actually improved as he has become more political) shows that you can provide something reasonably informative in a funny, unconventional package. I just don't buy the argument that large swaths of the population are only satiated by 'trash' like Real Housewives or FB clickbait and would never consume something more challenging if it were presented to them.
A properly configured and well-curated collection of packages will yield an exceptional experience using emacs - if you're into that kind of thing. Add in some custom elisp and you're well on your way to a fully customizable development environment.
After I did my phone interview and study problems in Python, I was told when I got onsite for whiteboard problems that they really preferred C++ or Java. It was a little late for me to switch mindsets day-of, didn't get enough recommendations to hire.
> * JTAG is your friend, but JTAG is so low-level that it's a huge pain.

Yes, JTAG is definitely your frenemy. Hopefully you have a fast version or even better a full trace probe but those are usually vendor specific so more cost
And I always thought (and still think) that season 4 was the pinnacle.
Ask HN: Is there any successful product where virality didn't play a role?
To elaborate, virality quotient can be associated with any product where acquisition of one customer leads to another (may be multiple!). When building products, it looks like no product can become successful without a virality quotient.

Does anybody have a different outlook to this approach towards consumer traction where virality doesn't play an important part?
> Windows users would not switch simply because they didn’t need Linux.

Not really. The author identified the real reason before that. Users wouldn't switch because most users don't even think about the choice of OS, which would mean switching. I.e. they only ever use what comes on the computer pre-installed, and that's it. They don't care much what it even is.

Therefore the main blocker wasn't the bad advocacy or anything of the sort, but the old and crooked stranglehold of MS on manufacturers. The only way to seriously increase Linux desktop adoption is for availability of Linux pre-instsalled computers to significantly rise. And MS use their heavy leverage of Windows pricing to prevent that.

> and the desktop itself became irrelevant

I hear this often, but it remains as wrong as ever. Desktop usage has its place, and it's not going anywhere in the foreseeable future.

> They still just want something that plays games and checks the Internet.

And Linux is good for that already. So, as above, that's not what prevents its adoption.
Maybe with the funding TransferWise received that's all possible. But what about bootstrapped product startups?
Great approach

Did you have to "declare bankruptcy" when it came to existing items? What happens if you finally decide or really have to read a book from "before?"
And how does data get into this data center? Where is the power comming from? All those connections still must go through penetrations. It can be done, i just question the worth.
I think this is deeply, alarmingly true.

The easiest example I see is the long list of policies which were assessed via some known value like inflation, but never pegged to it. As a result, they're grounds for new fights every couple of years when it comes time to re-assess them. I'm not even thinking about minimum wage here (which still sees fights over its existence) but inside-baseball funding for various executive branch positions and agencies. Similarly, the alarming number of laws with hard cutoffs (on salary, or employee count, or whatever) that create weird anti-growth, anti-work incentives.

I think it was in a recent discussion of cost explosion (e.g. in healthcare or infrastructure) that someone pointed out that the US isn't over- or under-regulated compared to similar nations; it's just worse regulated. A disturbing amount could be gained by going through the Federal Code and just fixing the bits that every expert agrees are stupid.
NASA press release about the upcoming press conference: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-news-confere...

I find it surprising that the details are embargoed by the journal Nature until tomorrow. I haven't heard of such an embargo before - anyone know why this might be? Maybe it's related to Nature publication timing, or waiting until Nature's own press release is ready?
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Another aspect I forgot is that the Clinton's have often been unnecessarily secretive. For example, they weren't forthcoming about her pneumonia. Some thought that even the email server was driven by a desire to be secretive, even when not necessary.

This behavior tends to make people suspicious -- but on the other hand, people were also out to discredit them.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/26/cnn-host-wikileaks-showed-...
The manager must be an amazing 100x manager. I cannot imagine why his fellow managers and superiors would keep him around.
I doubt that they are scrapping airframes. My previous statement wasn't accurate, and I understand why it would be questioned. I'd been conflating the airframe construction, part storage, and transfer times with the time it takes to complete a plane.

As an aside, here's an interesting article if you're interested in the process works (or worked at the time of publication): http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing...
it would contribute less co2 into the atmosphere, at the cost of physically and directly melting the ice. All-in-all it seems like a poor trade-off.
Hmmmm. This is a bad example of APL. Source: I used APL professionally for over ten years. For one thing, real APL does not have constructs like "while". That's the whole point of the language, to remove the need for the programmer to have to think this way.

Also, this isn't, strictly speaking, six lines of code. The diamond is a statement separator. This is more like 15 or 20 lines (didn't count). Not that this is an important metric at all.
i didnt even see this until now. it looks like it was well built, but extending this project to work like an excel-like grid editor looks like it might be a lot more work than using fixed-data-grid-2
This is the kind of thing that Algolia or Duck Duck Go could really benefit from.
The escape from the cave, or how Plato told me to quit my job
i contacted spotify and they were able to migrate my account - playlists, favs, etc - from facebook to my email (i was using the same email for fb). they provided me with a "free month" of premium since i had already paid for that month through the fb account.
other than having to contact the COs for a couple of accounts my FB-free life couldn't be better.
> tweak absolutely every single feature

Unfortunately, you can't. For example, let's say I want to have a different set of priorities or resolutions for a project. I have to run a whole new JIRA server.

Twelve year-old issue with 2,319 votes https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-3821
It doesn't work. Look at Obama's infamous, "cling to guns and religion." Do you know what point he was making? He was trying to explain to those of us with good jobs on the coast that middle america had been passed over and ignored by previous administrations.

Why would any politician ever extend an olive branch again when it is just used as a -- very effective -- weapon against them?
You don't know what you don't know.

This is what struck me about my formal education. While I also believe you can learn anything with enough material and dedication on your own, having the structure to ensure that you cover a set of subjects that constitute "foundational knowledge" can be invaluable.
I do believe there's research on PTSD showing this, if you could find it you might reverse being voted down.

But there's evidence in favor of the opposite of the action you propose - people who see their problems and reversals as external and don't bother too much about them are much less prone to depression, according to the data. That doesn't mean they are successful or nice, of course.
Haven't had a chance to play with it yet but clicked around and it looks interesting. I like the idea of users posting their own coding challenges. The one thing I noticed this suffers from is a lack of a community base. Just clicking through the challenges on the front page I saw no discussions. But with that said I think this could be a neat application for new programmers. I know someone who is going through freecodecamp now. I'll ask them to take a look at this and see what they think.
Okay, Malcom, let's tax private universities so nobody gets a great education. You're insane if you think those dollars should be taken from private universities and be spent on public schools!
Absolutely, but that doesn't mean that it's still easy to produce the final work. If anyone can do it, then it's obviously not valuable.

Take "Stranger Things" on Netflix, for example. I normally hate sci-fi, but this was one heck of a great season 1 for a series. Did it take a lot less in terms of technical know-how/costs to produce than it would have taken in the 80's ? Sure, no doubt. But, it still is a very unique cultural work that is definitely more valuable than something created by another group of people with access to the exact same technology, but producing something of lesser value. The secret sauce is the people involved and their life experiences, knowledge, and expertise, none of which are "free".
I agree, that was the sense of my original comment. Actually, most probably you don't even need to delete it as it's not defined with -ffreestanding
All the material exists in one form or another, but I've yet to see anyone put together a credible "DIY CS degree" online resource.

Some day most (certainly not all) aspects of university education will be supplanted by high-quality universally accessible materials. But it's not here yet.
I took a look at your blog and your HN profile. Some suggestions:

Specify in your HN profile that the link is to your blog and maybe give some general idea of what you write about. "This is my blog where I write about X, Y and Z."

Update your blog more frequently.

Engage more in public forums. You don't have much karma here and I have no idea who you are. Post good comments and good articles.

If you think someone would genuinely be interested in what you have to say on a topic, give them the direct link to a particular piece, either in public discussion or via private message. But don't be too pushy about this. You need to genuinely think it might be relevant and useful to them. There must be something in it for them, not just you.

Use your blog to respond to things and engage people. If you have a lot to say about X in a discussion and you feel you won't do it justice writing a long piece off the cuff, write something short (in the discussion itself) and then blog at length about it fairly soon after. It can help improve your writing by helping you figure out "who" you are talking "to".
The point is that the best homes(top 10%) rarely need to go on the market.

The hotter the market, the more realtors know buyers willing to pay a lot for the first home that meets all their needs. Hence more homes are sold before listed.
You might want to look at flows instead of packets. Maybe google ipfix or netflow for tools. Unless you are talking about firewall or other settings I don't think REST and packet monitoring would be a good fit.
The linked news story is exactly that.
At least it's not a software announcement, which are always late.
Not to mention, from my own perspective as a therapy goer, a lot of personal and mental problems stem from a certain lack of social skills or immaturity, as well as working through trauma or biological mental illness (I have all three). Yes, you might come back from therapy a lot more assertive and "mean" than you were before, but its important to note you were maddeningly depressive and a zombie-like 'yes man/woman' before.

This reminds me a bit of the movie Awakenings, where one of the patients who came out of his coma was upsetting his mother. His mother was so used to him being this passive and lovable manchild that she couldn't handle him when he became assertive, spoke back to her, and wanted to spend time with young ladies and not with his mother. She never saw him go through a proper teenage rebellion stage and he wanted to live life immediately and really had no time for mother anymore because he just wanted to pursue his crush. To his mother, the therapy was a failure because she was no longer happy with him.

I also think there's an element of becoming jaded as one gets older, generally. The more experience you have with people, life, etc the more you realize we really are not good creatures and a lot of the wonderful optimism we've been taught be in a spiritual, social, or familial environment are often wrong, if not entirely false and people are just simply predictable animals fighting for resources. Therapy and other methods of self-discovery often lead to these self-discoveries and can really lead to a certain level of 'depressive realism.'

I read somewhere the happiest people are the ultra-religious and cult members. Everything is explained and everything is simple to them as a singular and unquestionable authority gives them all the answers. Therapy in the western tradition is pretty much the opposite of that. I guess you have to ask yourself if you want to be delusional and happy or realistic and perhaps have a good chance at being content with life and with occasional happiness and accepting of negative situations when they come.

I suspect most people's idea of a mentally healthy person don't fit in with what its actually like to be mentally healthy. Its not all smiles and laughter. Its also toughness and resiliency and the ability to say 'no' to you. If your friend came back from therapy like this, you'd think it was a failure, but I suspect he feels much more validated in life and much more autonomous.
(about alternatives) "Juvia, written in Ruby (on Rails). No threaded comments, nice administration webinterface, but... yeah... Ruby."

coming from a Python project...
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Putty used to be the go-to tool for Windows SSH, but nowadays I'm using Bitvise SSH client. It's worth a try.
Oxygen i think is the missing piece. If that's the announcement, that's freaking huge. Oxygen is reactive, it does not exist in any sort of quantity without something regularly replenishing it. It wouldn't be unquestionable proof, but very very strong evidence for photosynthesis, so, you know. Life.
They aren't equivalent. While both may give identical cash-flows, one has a financial outlay in the beginning while the other has a political outlay.

I just don't think it is likely that the current political class in America will raise taxes to the levels necessary to subsidize UBI.
Nothing is safe. The platforms can atleast do a better job to provide feedback or display on the UI, whether the current environment is safe, for monetary txns etc.

Secureboot [0] creates trust between hardware and software, but here you have to trust the hardware. An interesting question is how can software audit its hardware that is driving it ?

ARM TrustZone [1] is another way to offload all the sensitive computation onto another embedded SoC. But, its hard to know what the application is using. You sort of have to trust the banks to do the best job.

[0] https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone
for me, its that the hardware doesn't always work or at least not as you expect. if you write workstation or server code, 99.99999% of your problems will be software bugs. But on an embedded system, especially something custom, you can have weird, intermittent hardware behavior that takes a lot of work to pin down. and sometimes you can't fix it so you workaround. It's both rewarding to get this stuff to work while at the same time extremely frustrating.

I've worked embedded systems for years but every year I tell my colleagues that I'm switching to IT so if my hardware doesn't work I can just throw it away and buy a new workstation.
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The military has put me up in some rather nice on-base hotels a few times. And they send a driver to pick me up in the morning. Id take a free meal at the chow hall over the breakfast buffet at most 5-stars.
No EV bar at twitter site in Firefox in my case, nor at google.com, Facebook, etc., but thawte.com is displayed properly (Thawte, Inc. (US)). :-/
It sounds like a very dramatic series of events on all accounts. The Guy, Amélie, Kelly, they were all up to weird and bad behaviour. I would say the way she handled things wasn't anywhere near ideal, but that doesn't justify her improper treatment at all. The chair incident is just bizarre.

I would say what went wrong here is that the others weren't fired as well - not that she shouldn't have been. That sounds shitty, but I think the most egregious inequality here is that the others got to stay employed. No one did anything right.

Unfortunately I think this is just tech for you. I've witnessed so much sexism in this industry, I just don't know what to do anymore (besides ask people to stop it).
Perhaps if you look at third-party products sold by business to customers as strictly B2B, then virility doesn't matter.

See: Ice cream cones.
I graduated with a degree in operations management. I've probably done over 100 personal projects to gain experience, with maybe 15 being worth talking about. I've read quite a few books, actually a lot if you count the PAKT ones. When I lived in Seattle I went to the meetups and found a couple groups there I enjoyed hanging out with. I've had a really hard time getting interviews except from a couple of small teams, and I mostly feel ignored. At this point I'm taking a computer systems class and discrete structures at a CC. The systems class is helping my debugging skills in ways that I wouldn't have put myself through but the price tag for this knowledge is high, and it's beyond just money. I still learn a magnitude more on my own than directly from the coursework.

Do I think a degree is necessary? No. I do think you'll have a hard time getting a job without one so you might as well start your own company.

These last few years have made me salty.
> Does anyone else find it kind of odd that Google, a company famous for having no human support at all anywhere

While a number of people push that false meme repeatedly, everything I've heard from people who've used it (or worked on it, but the latter comes with obvious bias) is that the paid human support on GCP is good.

Heck, on the consumer side, I've gotten good (quality and speed) human support on Google Express, too.
fear mongering
It still blows my mind that we can detect planets orbiting an entirely different stars. And more so - that these tiny pixels that we can just barely detect, are full-fledged planets that may have atmospheres, water cycles, and who knows what else.
On Windows 10, with Windows Subsystem for Linux installed, I don't find myself using Putty anymore.
I guess my main concern is that I, daily, see that a lot of software is just about working when it is shipped. I would love to be able to program my car, but I do wonder about the people who are running the hypothetical dev version which still pulls to the right. Or just download something from Github and run it.
I'm glad I could help! I'd actually be really curious to hear how well it works for you.
That may be the rule for particularized searches (I don't know one way or the other), but "papers please" road checkpoints are common[1]. U.S. citizens are theoretically not required to show papers. In practice, theory and practice diverge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_in...
[Update] I've missed the upspin.io link, which wasn't in article. Now I see (unless I'm misunderstanding it) it's something similar to to Keybase Filesystem, except distributed. That's a good thing, then. My apologies for not getting this before writing the original comment.

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So... they had reinvented HTTP, and had thrown in some email-based authentication module, and formalized aeons-old /~username/ spec into /user@email.address.tld/?

Anyone with the HTTP server can host files. Traditionally, .htpasswd or similar measures were used for access controls. This seems to be different only in a sense that it uses emails (found no docs and too lazy to read the code).

I've glanced over the repo and I don't get what all that code is for. A re-implementation of webdavfs that maps first-level directories (emails) to hosts? Or... what? Can anyone link to some docs?
1. Remove the like button or limit the number of times it appears per week person post count.

2. Maintain a public bug list not on software issues but social issues being created by social networks. These cannot be solved by software developers and need expertise from many other domains.

3. Look at Wikipedia, Stackoverflow/Stackexchange, Apache , Linux etc where contributing members of the community all have agendas. Yet they are kept in check. There is huge institutional experience here baked into these platforms on how to deal with competing (unconstructive/damaging) agendas. Bring people on board from these kind of orgs and experts in sociology, ecology, behavioral psycology that oversee fixes to "society effecting" bugs.

4. There needs to be a long term plan for media so they arent just pandering to the lowest common denominator. Journalists must be certified and ranked on quality every year.
I don't see ODP.NET on that list.

As for SQL Server, it is better than last time I checked. Do you have data about production loads on GNU/Linux?
> "velvet-gloved menace"

What does that mean? Sounds interesting.
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I do not see anything wrong with that. Some companies work hard to keep a simple and fun work culture. Not all companies solve hard problems. Some of the entertainment focused tech companies cannot attract right talent by putting a serious face.
Apple is different than Stanford. Stanford's fund is not an IRA - there is no tax either when they withdraw from the fund. Apple has all that money stashed because they can't repatriate it to the United States and their shareholders, without realizing corporate income tax on it in the US. So as long as they keep it overseas, the value of their stock goes up because they control the cash, but they can't award it back to their shareholders as dividends without biting the dividend tax bullet.
democrats have given up on gun control. you'll notice Obama didn't really grab any of them
I don't think it is so much staying married as it is actively enabling him by working to discredit his accusers. She was an active participant in formulating the strategies to discredit them:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435941/hillary-clinton...
By 'repo that comes in binary', are you referring to some preexisting trusted system, or the desired OS?

If the former, then as I said, it's theoretically possible to build the entire desired OS from source on the existing system, but that's often not supported by OS build systems, and very uncommon in practice as an installation method.

If the latter, with reproducible builds you don't have to trust the repo - even for the initial install. You only have to trust that at least one of the people who signed the packages in the repo, ideally after verifying using entirely separate infrastructure, is honest. There's no single point of failure.

Well, you also have to trust that the source isn't backdoored, of course, but that's at least somewhat easier to detect than backdoors in binaries.