skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too interested in the snippet manager, but when I was watching the demo movie, I noticed the author doing inline shell variable expansion. It never even occurred to me that shells could do that. Wish I had known about this years ago.

On bash, it's M-C-e where the Escape key can serve as the "M" portion. Also, M-r to clear the command-line, which I could also have used many times. Bash docs: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Miscellan...
Magnetic storage reaches the atomic level
Marissa Mayer executed the goal she was brought in for which was to create positive market sentiment so they activist investors who brought her in would make significant returns.

That said, obviously it was possible to turn around Yahoo, and the investors, Mayer and the company would be better off if she succeeded. I believe she tried genuinely hard to fix it and I believe she failed harder. Obviously, Microsoft is in a much different position but Nadella has had such success there that you would expect Mayer could've at minimum kept the company from failing.
Fair enough although I suspect the military is in a better position to collect than a private company would be, any signed contracts notwithstanding. (Companies can apparently recoup training costs under some conditions but it can be a complicated area.)
There may be no single alternative to the "Amazon shopping experience" but it's easily replaceable in aggregate. Every store is online these days - Newegg, Costco/Sams/Walmart, clothing retailers, grocery & food delivery, etc. It may take marginally longer to find and get what you're looking for, but Amazon's only real moat for retail stuff is our laziness.

For pro services AWS is great, really nails the secret sauce. But for individual citizen consumers who want to vote with their wallet, odds are they can divest themselves of much of Amazon if they really want.
Walls don't impact legal immigration. They only only impact the proportion of illegal immigrants that sneak across the border.
I also use this and prefer it to DNS66 because I can use a hosts file rather than just changing the DNS server. Both work well though. Oh, and both are open source!
Under your simple scale you would exclude Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Stephen Hawking, respectively. I think they've all been supremely wasteful 'consumers of resources.'
Be careful of casting a float to a boolean.

Criticism of the government from someone who has experience running a large bureaucracy, negotiating, balancing groups with competing interests et cetera will rightly, other things equal, be taken more seriously than from someone whose experience of politics doesn't extend past ranting on Twitter.

Of course, other things may not be equal. If the latter person has sufficiently convincing arguments, can back them up with reference to sufficiently solid evidence, then these things may carry the point on their own merit.
Would you be willing to discuss your logging methods? I'm putting together a group of people doing self-tracking for autoimmune conditions in Berkeley (or remotely), and I'm trying to get the logfile format correct. (Free software project) josh@codeselfstudy.com
I watch Netflix on my Ubuntu laptop using Chrome. No user agent switching or anything. You have to use full up Chrome from Google's repo, not Chromium from the Ubuntu repo. Chromium doesn't have the DRM bits that Netflix needs.

The other caveat is that Netflix hates my Hurricane Electric tunnel, so I have to sysctl off IPv6 when watching on the laptop. This is annoying but not Ubuntu's fault.
COO yes, CEO no. She simply did not have the relevant experience.

Ironically, now she does but now any such companies would likely not hire her.
The Foilies 2017
There isn't any way to skip out that does not violate the laws of the UCMJ. Getting dishonorably discharged is the result of that process, but it's not like you can just cancel your contract, write a check, and walk out.
Aren't the "brains" the ones most suited to fix those problems in the first place?
Could you kindly email me (address in profile), this is a very interesting comment and I wish to discuss some of it with you offline.
One thing I've noticed among "hacker spaces" and the machine shop company is that they have very few ties to higher edu, but they're doing VERY similar things. Even considering the machine shop company has a deal with Arizona State University, their crossover is limited. At that location, the spaces are actually physically delineated.
Valgrind (dynamic analysis): Good but Not Enough - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0278/
I wrote in detail in 2013 about how the Hacker News algorithm works and the penalties that can drop stories from the front page. My analysis was based on reverse engineering the algorithm from observed behavior and comparing with the published Arc code. This latest analysis seems kind of reinventing the wheel.

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

Interestingly, my 2013 article also suddenly dropped off the front page. Apparently it somehow triggered "voting ring detection" and was penalized. (I'm not part of a voting ring of course.)
>Yes, tribalism is human nature, and we have done very many ugly things to one another because of it.

We have also done as many ugly things to one another in order to build cross-national entities, like empires and communist-based internationalist mega-states.

>I don't think we should sweep racism and xenophobia under the rug with the argument that "boys will be boys"

Well, first let's not call the desire to maintain one's national identity "xenophobia", the same way wanting to have your own house and family, and live as you like there, and accept whoever you like, is not "strangerophobia".
Yes.

ETA: I married an immigrant. Stop the imputation of "xenophobia".
I'm pretty sure that has more to do with Trump making veiled mentions of building internment camps again. People who have either lived through that or know someone who has rightly share a "never again" attitude. Clearly Trump's campaign had no interest in even remotely cultivating the Jewish or Asian vote.
And they learn that too. Maybe they just havent needed these yet and still manage to be called some of the best engineers.
> It's not worth the money right now

money is just fictional status points. if we really decide the thing is important there will be money for it.

it's not worth the time right now and that's the larger problem. there's no way to make more time and we spent waaaaaay too much time in school.
Elsa: a lightweight proof-checker
Nah. It's a good system. I fear any alternatives.
The Author’s name was familiar and I’ve written about Toggl [0] on my person blog before, so I checked my email. While my blog post was organic, turns out I’ve corresponded with this employee, when they suggested I update my post with their revised pricing.

Here’s the message she sent, it’s obviously a mass email they sent to everyone with existing posts.

Please update the content on your website if you mention Toggl's old pricing structure.

Hey, thanks for mentioning Toggl at Mark Lyon. We just had a major update I think you should know about - we made changes in the pricing structure.

For starters, the existing pro plan now costs $10 per user per month. We have added the options to pay either annually or monthly, depending on the user’s preference.

You can see the full new pricing structure here - https://blog.toggl.com/2016/03/pro-plus-and-pricing/

NB: If you mention Toggl out-of date pricing of $5 per user anywhere on your website, please change it to $10 when billed monthly and $9 when billed annually.

You can find the latest screenshots and logos here. Please make sure Toggl's listing on your website is accurate and up to date.

Finally, let me introduce myself - I'm Dunja, I'm the Media Manager at Toggl and would love to work with you in the future! We always have something to share and would love to see how we can work together.

Please let me know after you've updated the prices, and include your postal address, I'd love to send you some Toggl swag to say thank you!

Regards,

Dunja

I replied, letting them know I appreciated the updated info and had made changes as a result. It went into a ticketing system and they thanked me for doing so. A few weeks later, a bunch of stickers and a bag arrived via air mail. That was nice.

As much as I hate spam and “content marketing”, I was actually pretty happy with this contact as it helped me provide better information. I also really like their service, which also probably contributes to my desire to interpret their actions in a positive light. Contrast with the regular parade of cold “guest post” emails all websites seem to get. [1] No “trick” or “funnel” is going to get me to write a post about something that interests only the person who gets paid to promote it.

[0] https://marklyon.org/2013/04/tools-time-tracking-with-toggl/

[1] https://www.popehat.com/tag/ponies/
Dishonesty gets easier on the brain the more you do it
You must admit this arouses your curiosity. I mean why the infections are more likely to occur if the subject is naked? What's the difference?

Is it not what HN is about?
Indeed, as a UX designer I would have loved having these types of requirements when starting a project. Especially with the "Must Have"/"Nice to Have" distinction which isn't always made clear when people are asking for an endless list of features.
The education in the form of literacy is not incidental, it is most the entire point. Imagine how US Capitalism would function with a 10% literacy rate?

Without Public education or something similar to replace it is unlikely that we would have the high levels of literacy to which we are accustomed. Public Education successfully teaches most of the population to read and write English (including the children of immigrants whose parents may not speak English). This is a historically impressive feat.

1000 years ago the world literacy rate was less than 1%, 100 years ago the world literacy rate was less than 10%. Now it is roughly 80%!

It is clear Public Education could do much better, but lets not confuse failing to do better with failing to do anything or its most important job.
Thanks for posting the article yeison_vargas :)
Does Ubuntu pack more info on a 1920x1080 screen than Windows 10? I found dead exactly the opposite and would be interested to know how to set ubuntu up to do this, Windows 10 without any scaling seems so much more crisp to me.
She took on a gargantuan (and potentially impossible) task, and put in years of her life to taking it on, when she almost certainly had other very highly paid options that were easier.

And lots of people buying iPhones and new cars absolutely shouldn't be. Lack of fiscal responsibility is a very, very large problem in the US at the moment, not some imagining of the GOP or whoever else you're comparing to the old French aristocracy.
It's possible he didn't think it needed clarification. This discussion took place within effectively a far-right echo chamber where everyone was already more or less on the same page. It's also possible he didn't even feel very strongly about this point to begin with and decided he didn't like it before even finishing his sentence. It's really impossible to say. During live, unscripted discussions it's very common for someone to begin a thought, decide they don't even personally like it while in the midst of saying it, and then cut themselves off.
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> To put it simply: it's easy to learn how how a computer works and how to program it to work for you. It's much harder and takes much longer to learn how the world works and how to make it work for you.

I would argue strongly that university DOES NOT teach anyone how the world works. Wet behind the ear college grads are worthless in most "blue collar" professions, for example. If you get a degree in English Lit, what do you know about the "real world" that a peer who has worked construction for 5 years doesn't know???? How much more knowledge about the "real world" does a journalism major know than a military veteran?

The first two years of "learning" at American universities are generally filled with bullshit pre-requisites that serve almost no purpose in the "real world!" The last two years are more specialized but hardly teach shit about the "real world."
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Point to any business type that has state of federal laws saying "Native Americans are not allowed to own this kind of business" or even "only white people are allowed to own this business". Can you name 10? How about 5? How about just one?

On the other hand, I can name one where the vast majority of business are only allowed by law to be owned by native americans. Yes, LV and AC have a lot of casinos, but I can count hundreds of them in my state alone, and they're exclusively Native American owned because that's what the law allows.

Point is, "casinos are the only business that can be exclusive to Native Americans" is a true statement, and calling that racist is not only offensive, but is a statement made in really (really really) poor taste. Because racism exists, and that comment isn't it.

It's not racism. Under the law, many locations restrict casino ownership to Native Americans. Fact. It's not racist to point it out. So yeah, settle it down. Let's reserve the cry for racism to places where it actually exists. Falsely calling someone a racist is far more rude than anything I've ever said.
Not kidding at all. Was my comparison with drug-speak not clear? Let me try again.

Suppose I'm a nice girl. A guy just asked me if I was free to go to dinner tonight. I don't want to offend, so I say, "I'm sorry, I'm washing my hair tonight." The guy now has a conundrum. He can interpret the statement literally and ask if I'm free for dinner tomorrow night, or he can interpret it as that I do not want to eat dinner with him. Humans speak in codes and implications regularly.

In Bannon's case, we must decide what interpretation of his thought is the most plausible cause of his speech. I can come up with two options:

1. Bannon believes there's something hindering the ethnic and cultural majority from technological entrepreneurialism and we should address that problem.

2. Bannon believes the number of ethnic minorities achieving economic success will decrease the prevalence of the historically common culture. Being of that culture, he dislikes this trend.

Are there any other interpretations? What's the most plausible to you?
It's been covered to death here. There were at least half a dozen posts on that in the last week that made over 200 points (the main one at 2697).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824032
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13844389
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811914
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840544
Depends on the bikini, probably. If the posterior portion thereof has sufficient coverage, there shouldn't be any major issue.
> You know what is actually immoral? Forcing individuals that want to make a better life for their children, into staying in a country that "needs help" and they want to get out of.

But that's also true of would be migrants who are most in need of help. In either case you are 'forcing' someone to stay in their home country. The question is, if you don't have an open border policy, which of the would be migrants will you "force" to stay in a rotten country? The sick, elderly, under-educated, or the able-bodied, educated, rich, etc.

> Let people leave and go where they want

Yes absolutely.

> if you want to prevent people from coming into your area, well then let the majority current residents decide.

The controversial question is what constitutes 'your area'. Depending on who you asks it's anywhere from your neighborhood to the entire Earth. Depending on your take on that you could conclude that you have a legitimate right to kick people out of your street or that we should adopt an open border policy worldwide.
(?) Obviously, but building a bit-by-bit identical compiler output is moderately hard.
You could also potentially do it by retaining positive tracking of non-permanent visitors and then going after them as soon as status becomes disallowed. It would be challenging to locate someone in a disallowed visa status on transition without a national ID card, but there are probably ways.

One option might be to enroll them on entry with lots of biometrics, and then do a "not on blacklist" biometric check at government-provided services. That wouldn't necessarily require identifying the US people, just validating that the US people are not the other non-US people.
Here's another different take on small-scale hydrokinetic power generation that I found interesting:

http://leadingedge.engin.brown.edu/wordpress/

...no turbines to get clogged/wrapped with debris, and potentially better for aquatic life. If nothing else, it looks pretty cool in action.
Cool.

I'm not sure that using quicklisp that way is kosher. Quicklisp doesn't allow you to pin a particular version of a dependency. The upshot is that your code that works today may not work tomorrow.

I've been looking for a best practice and all I can seem to come up with is make a bundle and include it in your repo.

https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/bundles.html
I'm running HomeAssistant from an Odroid C2 --its working perfectly.

If you haven't checked out DietPi yet, you should. It includes optimized installations for a few hundred things (including PiHole), from Mumble servers, to MAME emulators.
> essentially exploiting an undocumented state (or bug?) in the VIC chip.

You just described most of the new effects in C64 demos over the last 30+ years...

But, yes, this is one of the nuttier.

When I was a kid and trying to do demos, the "simple" stuff like tricking the VIC to keep the borders open was still amongst the more exciting things you could do (opening the top and bottom border is trivial once you know how; opening the left/right border was harder - especially if moving sprites in the Y-direction as it affects the number of bus cycles available to the CPU).

That was quite literally childs play compared to this one.
That link didn't work for me but this did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HXkEnA48g
Yes,all the immigrants I know are hard-working people, more so on average than people born and raised here. "Are you willing to go through the current immigration process?" Seems to do a pretty good job of selecting productive individuals already.

As an aside, this is probably my last post on HN, reading the xenophobic and likely astro-turfed replies to this and other threads has really reduced the value of HN comments to me. Seems to be as an increasing problem in all online venues :(
Not to mention the proles.
Spain is already claiming Gibraltar as its own.

Is just that not the UK neither the people in Gibraltar want that. But yes, Gibraltar could face some problems when the UK leave the UE.
The government needs to change education to a protected status, like gender, religion, etc. Make it illegal for employers to ask for candidates educational background and degrees. The core issue here is that companies use degrees and education status as a filter and proxy for perseverance, intelligence, and skill, which forces everyone who wants to be employed to obtain a degree. As more job seekers obtain degrees, companies shift minimum educational requirements higher. Higher requirements cause job seekers to obtain yet more education, and neither companies nor job seekers can break this cycle. This is a market breakdown and vicious cycle which needs intervention by the government. (I fully expect libertarians to complain that the government created this mess as a result of too much easy credit in the form of student loans, and they may be right, but undoing that now is a lost cause and moot point) If the government protects educational status, then degrees can't be used to signal educational virtue, and they will cease to be obtained by everyone. University education will revert back to those who desire education for its merits and not its status.
Yes, we really should put a stop to all those Americans sneaking across the border to work illegally in Mexico.

/s

> Walls don't impact legal immigration.

Yes, they do. But not in a way that you would immediately recognize as linked so I'll forgive you.

> They only only impact the proportion of illegal immigrants that sneak across the border.

Yes, so they will cross legally and then disappear into illegality. Same thing really, only this time you'll be able to put an exact figure on it.

You know what will really change illegal immigration from Mexico?

Making Mexico wealthy. And if anything that was already happening leading to a decline in people moving to the US and even a reversal (people moving back to Mexico).

But now with the border wall and companies being strong-armed to move their production back to the US how long will it take for that trend to reverse again?

Because the people will follow the work.
sounds like a problem for them and their governments
Snarky misconstrued labelling aside: Yes. Targeted countries chosen (and approved by prior President!) due to previously-acknowledged problems with the vetting process. Timeframe for the "ban" was limited & short. "Muslim" was not specified in any way.
Sundar is just an employee who worked his way up through the ranks...he was not involved in founding Google.
Seems like one could block google's DNS servers -or perhaps even all DNS requests not destined for your pi-hole server in this example- on the router side and the Chromecast will fallback to what DHCP is providing.
Agree.

Teams like strats or any quantitive developer roles may not be good either. There may be some interesting jobs in systems require ultra low latency if you get to build them from scratch or rewrite them.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, the bank interviews are way easier than interviews with google/facebook.

The sad reality is, in London there are very few employers pay as much as the financial service sector, if you can't get into google/facebook, and don't want to migrate to another country, you either work for a financial service company, or take a massive pay cut.
A 3.5" floppy copier concealed as a "day planner" and using systemd? Such spycraft in 2013 is hilarious to think about.

Especially thinking about some random corporate/government worker who got recruited as a source by the CIA and has 'unsupervised' access to some floppies.
Any ah… evidence for that first claim (or any of them really…)? It seems obvious that she would have netted more money if she had just stayed anywhere near the top tier of Google.

Yahoo was a capsized ship before Marissa came aboard. The fact that she got it into harbor at all is impressive enough for me. I always assumed there was a near-zero chance that she would save it from complete collapse.

Making bets that don't pay off is par for the course for a CEO (Bezos & Satya are both great at this), some just have the luxury of huge profit centers to point at when investors come knocking. Marissa made her bets — some worked, others didn't. She managed to get an asset that, for a time, was negatively valued in the market[1] sold for parts. How she is compensated for the feat is, I assume, based on her employer's evaluation of that result.

1. http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/070215/why-yahoos...
> Walls broken down are days of joy.

Not if you're a cell.