skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly possible to learn and mature from one's experience in single-player gaming. And many games give the experience of developing a relationship.
The author's approach is actually quite good: Start learning some marketing yourself, and when it starts to get repetitive pay someone else to do it. Then you also have some skills you can use to evaluate the marketers you're hiring.
As a engineer, I was quite curious to visit the US and maybe even consider it as a destination for working, but that was before I knew all the things that are going on there like problems with visas, racism (police shooting people without any repercussions), internet privacy, gun control and, yes, the border control.

Currently, I have absolutely no intention of even flying through the US. The only reason I could imagine doing it is if I were to have a onsite interview at some companies headquarters; or if I through some miracle get tickets for I/O or WWDC. That would be about it. And if I get a ticket, I would now have to think about a plan how I could keep my data safe while still taking my phone/laptop with me. It's a shame really.

(Unrelated side story: I am a frequent traveller and invested good money into a nice robust trunk. I usually have the PIN lock on it with the normal TSA key thing for them to open it. I took it to a dozen countries and never had any problems, but at the first time through the US it got directly broken open (despite TSA lock), my stuff left in a messy state and I got the usual paper notice about a TSA inspection. Now I can't close the trunk correctly anymore and will probably have to buy a new one. Booh.)
User data can be valuable for research or even for profit in ways that doesn't harm the users but I think it should be treated like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferat...

I guess collection, processing and stockpiling of user data should be regulated for the benefit of consumers, moderators and world peace.
Fair point and I agree about that steady drift which I think really got going after 9/11.
But in terms of political discourse, that's about as "worthy" as it gets. People have been trained by different (mainstream) politicians over the years that lies are the new normal, facts don't matter, promises are empty, etc. It's no wonder that eventually an extremist would succeed with a much more blatant version if those basic strategies.
I read this and assumed it was just an early April Fools Gag.

Actually, I'm still not convinced that it isn't linked to April Fools.
Long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade
I pay for private health care also because Dr. SIMM either isn't available or isn't convenient for me. But the fact remains that health care that works for the vast majority of things modern medical science can actually improve is available to every citizen.

And the thing that makes the system one of the best in the world is that it provides care at prices that middle class people can afford and where those prices are public quickly and easily to everyone. And it does so with a relatively small cost compared to GDP.

Compare that to the expense of Canada's system or the insanity of the USA system.
If she is willing to make a phone call to find out the word but not to put the same kind of effort into averting her daughter's death, she may be conscious, but monstrous.
Find me a leftist actively making plans and pushing for the elimination of those with certain political beliefs, and I'll agree. Saying that people shouldn't be racist or oppose welfare != saying there should be a "peaceful ethnic cleansing", a la Spencer.
I had one planned maintenance disruption using their API for a few minutes as well as about 30minutes disruption yesterday solely with their API. I told them about the latter via Twitter. I am not sure if they found this error themselves or if my Twitter post helped them. The status/incident-ticket page was updated after my Twitter post. I don't know how much of these 30 minutes was fixing the issue or just discovering my Tweet. Once they contacted me on Twitter it was fixed in < 5 minutes.

These incidents happened in 6 weeks
System calls in Linux are not faster than not doing them.
Reminds me of Maple, it came with a console version that can render plots in ASCII.
I found that doing endian conversion for a system using both PCI and VME buses was quite a challenge.

I also found it a challenge writing Linux device drivers for chips with an external 32 bit bus and an internal 16 bit one. The 32 bit data had to be split into two, set the data pins for the first half, set a bit saying the data was available, wait for it to be read in and repeat with the second half. Do the reverse for reading.

Also challenging was setting the bits in a register for a chip with multiple commands per register. My program checked the input data for an error, e.g. trying to set three bits to 128, read the register, masked out the bits to be changed, changed them, wrote the value, read the register, masked out the bits and checked them to make sure they had been changed.

Then there was the time the board manufacturer changed the memory map of the board without telling us. Boards made before April would boot, newer ones didn't.

I also found that some device drivers from SOC chip manufacturers had to be debugged before I could use them.
Seems like they're learning a hard lesson on unit economics. We're somehow at a point where companies are burning cash to provide low service fees, and now they need to become profitable.

When there's nothing left to optimize, the way to become profitable is to either pay drivers less or charge customers more, and customers are not down to pay more.
That's at most one inconvenient fact away (e.g. that there are more extremely smart men than extremely smart women).
I built a desktop app (Poker Copilot) in 2008. I figured if I did it well, I'd have my own one-person software company supplying a steady stream of income with little ongoing effort. My product would be so intuitive that it wouldn't need a user guide. It certainly wouldn't need marketing because everyone in my target audience would spread the word that my product was what they needed!

Ha, what a fool 2008 me was. What I didn't realise was that my two main tasks for years would be marketing and customer support.

Coding new features (of which many were requested) and fixing bugs (of which there were many) had to be scheduled around the twice-daily customer support windows and the marketing efforts.

Nine years later, and still the stream of customer support requests has not relented! Nine years and still I'm focusing on marketing one day a week!

And of course, there are still bugs.
Leaking information about governmental abuse and corruption is always a right thing to do.
The prosecution has to show that you know the keys to convict you under that law.
Ask HN: Do you invest in funds? If so, which ones and why?
Hi HN,

I've recently started researching cautious investment opportunities such as passive index tracker funds. I'm wondering if a lot of HN users are already using such financial vehicles for their savings? If so, how do you choose what funds to buy units in? And lastly, any tips?

Thanks!
You are joking right? Have you ever set foot in an IMSS Hospital?

Yes. And I've experienced the USA health care system also.

Health care that doesn't require waiting in a dingy room and health care that is effective at treating nearly every condition that modern science can treat well is not the same thing. IMSS will cure you or keep you from getting worse or dying at the same level of effectiveness as the USA's system at 1/30th the cost and you probably can get it for free.

I pay for private care because it's nicer and I don't like waiting, but that private care is very, very affordable also compared to the USA or Canada.

I won't say Mexican health care is perfect, but it is good and it is accessible.

Describing it as a third world health care service is being generous.

I've seen third world health care when I was in Guatemala. It's not just a matter of slow and dingy but of frauds, total lack of available services, dangerously unsterile practices, public ignorance of safe public health practices in both medicine and food handling, and a whole panoply of faults and dangers. And Guatemala is above the world's average income and about average in education/literacy levels. Mexico is not a third world country just because public services aren't as nice as we'd like.
Animals are, by law, treated as property, not sentient beings, so one dead bird is nothing in the realm of anthropocentric humanity. If it fulfills the purpose man has given it's enough of a justification not to take animal's wishes as morally relevant.
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Give MSYS2 a try: http://www.msys2.org/
It's possible that pretty much any so-called "gig-economy" platform is inexorably pressed towards first wooing, then commoditizing and finally squeezing its workers.
Same here. One of my main criteria when evaluating a business idea is whether it will need serious marketing or not. If it needs marketing I often dismiss it.
> We're nowhere close to 100% automation

It doesn't have to be 100% for it to affect people depending on this industry.

> doesn't mean replacing every single job that went overseas

Sure. But again, assuming there will be enough manufacturing jobs that do return, this is still a _short-term_ solution. You're fooling yourself, and a lot of hard-working people, if you believe these jobs will stick around another 10 years.

Let me take a step back for a moment. If doing this eases the daily struggle for real people nation-wide, that's convincing. But let's not then sweep the real discussions around automation under the rug. Let's address this now before the jobs inevitably dissolve again.
I would think "non existent" would be even more fair assessment of my exposure to NT internals.

Which is exactly why I asked some kind of source for the question why NT is so much more advantaged than bsd or linux kernels.

And if someone has somewhere written some analysis why it would be impossible/difficult/easy to swap windows kernel to unix, I would be curious to read.
Even in the UK the two situations are different. In the cases you cited, not surrendering passwords is considered to be contempt of court. At a border, you might be denied entry, which is bad, but that's it.
Cost of sales / cost of revenues is in general a huge problem, and there's a long history of benefits accruing to businesses which work out how to bypass that.

Magazine subscriptions (bundling), utility services (a novel concept in the late 19th century), governments (taxes), banks, etc.

It's why the enterprise market is far more appealing, generally: make a few large-ticket enterprise sales (mostly to the F-10 - F-500), even if they do take forever to land, and roll in the recurring revenues.

Retail sales is far more about the distribution deals than the register sales (the second follows the first). Competition is generally over the marketing channel and/or real estate (look up "dark grocery stores" for more on that last).

Or as I'd realised the first time I heard Milt F. rattle on about TANSTAFL, there's no such thing as a free lunch revenue-capture system either.
> The last interview was some dude with a weirdly confrontational attitude who wrote some assembly on the board and said "Find the bug. It took us 3 months."

Sounds like he's narrowed it down for you! But if it's in asm, the bug is usually just a typo.
Well, things change, also at Trello. This does not seem to be a thing anymore, but was when we were setting up our workflow (https://trello.com/c/sSldoiVf/46-deprecated-mentioning-cards...).

Actually, it seems changes in descriptions are not logged. Even though I normally would not want to see this, it sometimes comes in handy. Just a simple line: "Edited: John Doe, 2017-02-22".

Well, suggesting to turn on power-ups on each and every card, styled in a way as if it is part of the card.

W.r.t. moving cards over column: if I move a card from A to B and the move is not synchronised (because of lag or a Trello Server outage), a co-worker might move the card as well (say, from to-do to in-progress). Once the situation stabilises, there is (or was, the last time I noticed this issue) no visual feedback of this situation. It's a minor annoyance, but I've noticed that the 'eventually consistent' UI makes it possible that inconsistent states are reached.
Google are only interested in selling things by the billion or billion, therefore things like the robots have to go. This is one of those products that does not sell to millions and therefore it has to be got rid of.

Not sure when the 'must sell billions' idea came along, it was before the Pixel phone but is a relatively new idea for Google.
This does seem to be pretty common, but it doesn't apply to 100% of gig economy companies.
13 Year-Old Gives Money Directly to the Very Poor, Talks About Why
Google has no trouble having an important proprietary layer on top of open android linux kernel.
Thank you for pointing these things out.

Additionally, the US wages illegal wars all the time - against the UN charta where only aggression for self defence or with a UN mandate is allowed.
KVM for the VCS, otherwise bare metal. See their faq.

It gets weird if you would like to pass additional kernel parameters during boot. My hope right now is that this might be possible via their API but not their website.

You can select a precompiled kernel from which you want to boot your system. If you need other kernel features, you tell them so they add these.

Machines boot via ipxi and fetch the kernel. Once kernel is loaded the system is handed off to your rootfs.

You can install Windows on a bare metal machine, if you install a proper hypervisor. I tried it using KVM with Proxmox.
I did not try nested KVM.

I have read something/somewhere about Ubuntu MAAS, but I am not sure how this fits in.
Why did this post start with a tl;dr, then a Summary, and _still_ buried the important takeaway in the ultimate paragraph?
Creep is the most depressing song for me (as a teen from the 90's).
They could also just use one of these[1] jamming devices to take down the drone.

[1]http://newatlas.com/battelles-dronedefender-beam-gun-uavs/39...
Amazing. It even renders more or less decently on mobile.

I'm going to start a new trend in web design. I'll call it 56k design.
New Horizons team proposes geophysical planet definition [pdf]
Just to be clear, for pizza places that charge a delivery fee, most of the time that does not go to the driver. You should still tip your driver.
That is a seriously large bird!
Funny, I was sure carrying around alll that extra weight on my wrist was sure to make me fitter.
The problem is it's very easy to make entering the country hard for legal immigrants and tourists - you just make tons of strict rules, tell border control to enforce them vigorously and voila! But it's much harder to crack down on illegal immigration, since by definition they won't follow laws and rules.

You'll need to spend a lot of money and effort on finding them and getting them out, on enforcing eligibility checks at workplaces, etc. And face very strong political opposition - since it's one thing just not to let the person in and very different thing to uproot a person who already has been in for a while, got some local contacts, established themselves, etc.

Now add people that oppose virtually any immigration enforcement for political reasons, and you've got the situation US is now in - there are about 10M illegal immigrants, about 1M have final deportation orders (which mean the state ordered them to leave now, all process, appeals, etc. have been exhausted) and ICE has in custody about 12K (yes, 12K out of 1M), where are the rest - nobody knows and nobody will know.
He did so many things. I personally think the most interesting/stimulating contribution was his paper "The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing" from 1962.
Plenty of small businesses spring for gmail and Google Apps for Business
I am Canadian born citizen who does most of work remotely with US companies.

A couple times a year I have to go-to US.

I am only traveling g for work, carrying nothing illegal and never done anything illegal in the US... Yet I get anxiety the US border agents are going to hassle me.

By the time I get up to US customs preclearance I am nervous and the agent thinks I am on something.

This leads to more questioning.

However by the end my nerves have calmed and I make it through every time.

I just say I hate to fly, and going through customs thinking they out to get me.

Usually CBP officer will say I should find another profession, or there is medication that can help.

--

5 years ago on a personal trip shopping with the wife in the US via car, we came back to Canada without buying anything in 3 hours cause I got in a argument with my wife.

Canadian border pulled us inside.
They couldn't believe I didn't buy anything and I must be doing something nefarious.
Agents questioned my wife if she knew my whereabouts the whole trip...
Asked her how well she knew me

They took my wallet and wiped down every surface, card, with the agent telling me to speak up now cause the machine is going to tell them.
5 minutes later the agent comes back and throws my wallet on the table and tells us we can leave.

I avoid traveling cause it's a hassle, and stressful just going through customs borders, mainly now only travel on work trips when I have to.
You're assuming that all cases where the vDSO call is made gets paired with a real syscall; that's simply not the case. There are plenty of calls in a server that won't need localtime (basically, anything that just needs the current time in UTC: best-practice code should not be looking at the machine's TZ setting¹). Look at the examples the article's author offers:

> formatting dates and times

This shouldn't require a call to localtime; more explanation on the part of the article is required here. Breaking a seconds-since-epoch out into year/mo/day/etc. is "simple" math, and shouldn't require a filesystem access. Something else is amiss here.

> for everything from log messages

You're about to hit disk; a cache'd stat() isn't going to matter.

> to SQL queries.

You're about to hit the network; a cache'd stat() isn't going to matter.

(Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't set TZ; if it saves some syscalls, fine, and it might be the only sane value anyways.)

¹one of my old teams had an informal rule that any invocation of datetime.datetime.now() was a bug.
For me, Fake Plastic Trees came to mind immediately. Devastatingly sad, but impossible (today) to teach a machine to understand why.
I don't think he took into account that we could become an interplanetary species. WW3 could lead to death star style weaponry.
and eric grosse too
having high precision rifles with assisted aiming systems is surely way more effective.
Absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured
Study – Ear Infection and Hearing Loss Amongst Headphone Users
You guys... Forgot about email...
Verified commits
The trick (to get around the information theoretic limit of 12) is to be uncertain about which of the answers are correct.

For example, with 1 bit, you can transmit if the majority are 1 or 0, already getting you at least 11 right answers but no information about which ones are right.
A much better account of an attempted Atlassian acquisition is told by Peldi from Balsamiq. Fascinating story with lots of juicy details about why it didn't happen. AFAIK Peldi tells the story at conferences but asks for it not to be recorded, to respect Atlassian's wishes.
As my dad said back in the day(80's), Morrissey is the music you listen to while cleaning your guns.
I have a script that checks for data rot[1]. It's part of a more comprehensive backup system[2].

[1] https://medium.com/vantage/how-to-protect-your-photos-from-b...

[2] https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...
advocating for ownership over beings, huh?
Counterexample?
DARPA may be looking beyond the current Neural Network focus on perception and manipulation but the rest of the field seems to be stuck on NNs. Good-Old-Fashioned-AI (GOFAI) techniques, such as knowledge representation (e.g. SCONE (http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FSS/FSS11/paper/viewFile/4...) or Subsumption Based systems (http://dl.kr.org/oldproceedings/AIMag11-02-003.pdf), or Rule-Based Programming (http://mprc.pku.cn/mentors/training/ISCAreading/1986/p28-gup...), the whole large field (http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/~sefranek/kri/handbook/handbook_of_...) are simply ignored these days. (disclaimer, I was involved with several of these systems).

Suppose your problem is to replace a tire on a car using a wrench. Perception is involved in finding the wrench. Manipulation is involved in recognizing torque. NNs are excellent for both of these tasks. In fact, it would seem ideal to bind both kinds of NNs to the concept "WRENCH". They provide grounding for the concept.

But knowing how to find a wrench or how to use one is different from knowing WHY you want to do either. This is where DARPA has lost the thread. In my opinion, the future belongs to self-modifying systems that can do knowledge representation and planning using NNs as the I/O subsystems. Self-modification implies that the system gradually evolves as it acts in the world. The mistakes it made yesterday will change the system to avoid those mistakes. GOFAI techniques combined with self-modification fundamentally changes the game.

An interesting side-effect is that, given two identical systems, they will eventually diverge. One will "know" that a table has 4 legs. The second will know that a table has rows and columns. Through self-modification their knowledge nets will gradually diverge until they are nowhere the same. The side-effect is that you can no longer "learn by copying" but have to "learn by teaching".
Experts in a professional fields have been writing books for hundreds of years. How is anything fundamentally different now? The shortened cycle?

Experts in various fields have written guest columns for newspapers since before the U.S. declared independence.

Tabloid and marginally amateur newspapers previously outnumbered the established publications. When new towns and cities were formed in the American Frontier, often a printing press was brought with the first businesses.

Your argument appears to follow from the premise that "MSM is bad" and then seeks justification in a just-so story of the old days that isn't accurate.

I'm not defending modern journalism's accuracy. I'm disputing your assertion that the consolidated journalism of the late 20th and early 21st centuries are the default. On the contrary, they are abnormal with respect to the rest of American history.
US has very strong political opposition to denying services to illegal immigrants in many states. Given how many there are, in is understandable - if you have 10 million population, you can not just deny them all healthcare or access to housing. That'd create tons of problems.

It could be done if tightening the rules is combined with finding solution for having so many illegal immigrants, one way or another (in various combinations). But political stances in US are such that making comprehensive solution is very hard, the trust between parties almost nonexistent, the desire to cooperate is very low, and the entrenched positions are incompatible and only cover part of the possible solution, which can not work without other parts.
I don't see any empirical data pointing that Humans are tribal by nature in neither of those. The first link just explains the concept, the second is a highly criticised hypothesis.

The article base all its premise on the axiom that we're tribal by nature, and I think while we might all think that makes sense, I've never seen data to indicate we are innately tribal.
Feed the installer the right flags and it will run unattended. install Dkms and it'll rebuild automatically on kernel updates