skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the feeling. I'm digital marketing guy for an electronics manufacturing shop, our office environments are likely similar. Occasionally I interview at startups when I think what they're doing is actually interesting, and it always feels like I'm visiting another planet. My nights and weekends are worth more than free meals and laundry.
I've been overwhelmingly impressed with Dolphin as of late. Their progress on GameCube games has been particularly impressive; I was able to play through TimeSplitters: Future Perfect recently.

After this update, I wonder how long before Nintendo blocks Dolphin traffic.
I wanted to do this the last time I sold a house -- I was thinking something like, the commission should be 1/3 of the difference between the sale price and an agreed-on minimum price. Stupidly, I didn't stick to it when the first agent I started talking to told me she wasn't empowered to negotiate such terms.

That agent was very helpful in a lot of ways, but didn't get me a particularly good price -- another, nearly identical unit in the same condo complex sold around the same time for about $30k more.

I think the next time, I will stick to my guns on the terms. That probably means I'll have to find an independent agent. This is not necessarily a bad thing; I think the agent who sold that other unit in my complex was independent.
Burglars can easily make Google Nest security cameras stop recording
That's not how price hurdles work.

Products are segmented according to price, not features. There's a different market at each point and this determines what they will get -- not the reverse.
Does Boxhouse absorb the costs of permitting and construction for homeowners? What sort of duration is necessary?
This is a really good idea! It's been pitched inside where I work in Azure, but not yet implemented anywhere (to my knowledge). The basic idea is you have a TLA+ spec of your system, then you run the model-checker in "simulation" mode to generate random execution traces. You take these generated execution traces, and, according to some predefined correspondence between the actions in your TLA+ spec and some API call in your code (a node becoming inaccessible or a message being sent, for example), run the execution traces on your real-world system.

I'd love to see you implement this and write about your experiences.
The difference is that Google isn't pirating the book. It is being hosted on Google Docs. This is no different than if someone put the PDF on Dropbox and made it public. It isn't Google's pirate link. It is a link to a pirated file that just happens to be hosted on Google Docs. The difference here is that Amazon is actually printing the pirated book. Google is just hosting a file that happens to be made publicly viewable.
In this case the fix is adding a resistor:

"If your system does not use SERIRQ and BIOS puts SERIRQ in Quiet-Mode, then the weak external pull up resistor is not required. All other cases must implement an external pull-up resistor, 8.2k to 10k, tied to 3.3V"

https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/docum...

Depending on the motherboard, those pins may be exposed already. Here's what the fix looks like a Synology unit: https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/609u1l/c2538_cloc...
Palestinian jailed for 9 years for hacking Israeli drones
Or maybe it sees little usage inside of your own country? Even when most people use other messaging platforms, I see it used as the family/iphone-possessing-close-friends channel of choice, since it transparently replaces SMS.
Yes, I know some of us will never retire. 8000 years in the future career planning is an interesting thing to think of though. 8000 years ago the only thing that was going on was some neolithic agriculture. Domestication of the Jungle Fowl (modern day chicken) in India and the beginning of irrigated agriculture in Sumeria were probably the biggest news items of that millennium. I guess someone from 8000 years ago could have said he'd be raising chickens or doing irrigated agriculture in 8000 years and wouldn't have been wrong had he lived that long. Makes me think of F.H King's book "Farmers of Forty Centuries" about how Chinese agriculture has been farming the same fields without artificial fertilizer for 4000 years.
That exact problem was why security kernels and later separation kernels were invented. The theory was you could bulletproof 4-12Kloc of mostly static code more easily than monolithic, dynamic hypervisors. They have less nifty features, though. Really bare bones.
maybe look into some other web platforms, popular as wordpress is i dont think they have any sort of accredited course or certification, if you dont have the work history a few certifications could go a fair way to making you look a bit better on paper
Hi Andrew! Initial focus is the Bay Area, where rents are particularly absurd. Unlike other tiny homes, we can stack these to scale existing locations to meet demand (with some zoning hurdles, of course)
U.K. bans laptops, other electronic devices on some flights from Mideast
Amazing! I hadn't heard of this, thank you. I'll add it to the Wikipedia article.
I fondly remember seeing that product grid on Apple's website. And even though it isn't displayed as a grid I think the current iPad lineup fits the 2 axis concept pretty well. They still have the consumer/professional or consumption/creation axis. The Pro being the professional/creation end. And instead of laptop/desktop they have the size or portability axis. In the large professional there is the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, in the small professional there is the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. For the large consumer there is the iPad and finally the for the small consumer is the iPad mini.
That's a marketing headline. A little clickbait-y. That's fine you're a marketing hustler after all. Let's break down your numbers:

$99.75 in expenses (not counting time spent getting sales or building website)

5 total sales resulting in $450 of sales

108 hours of work done by you. We don't know how much time it took your brother to create the podcasts. Let's assume he didn't do the 6 podcasts perfectly in the first go.

30 days of total case study.

$350 in "profit"

Divide your profit by the hours you worked on it. $350/108 = $3.24 per hour.

Now let's consider setting up the website was a one time cost so moving forward your operating expense is $30/month to host the website and the podcasts[edit]

Let's take the hours your took to get the sales and divide those by the number of sales you got. 90/5 that comes to 18 hours per sale. Your average sale value was $450/5 = $90. Let's say your put a bare minimum hourly rate for your time of $10/hour that's $180 spent getting a $90 sale.

Now unless you get more visibility and are super savvy in promoting your podcast your ROI just doesn't pan out.

Let's see what your $1000 budget gets you in 3 months. Might be a good post to regenerate interest in your podcast. :)
Twas worth a try.
The time decreases they are getting are very impressive. I'd love to see Cura release this type of infill. For all of makerbots fault, they seem to be doing a lot of cool things with infill. Their cat and shark infills are pretty cool even though worthless.
I think this is spot-on.
CREDO and Cloudflare NSL finally public
Introducing the Periscope Producer API
where can I find a complete list of unicorns trading on the exchange? seems like a great year to short them all.
> Four council members, however, said they’re confident the information can be kept secure

Based on what? The contract appears to be with a company that provides safety equipment, not electronics/surveillance equipment. How exactly is Mallory Safety & Supply a trusted security provider?

> and that the system will increase safety for residents and police officers.

Based on what?

> They also said it may deter criminals from breaking the law in the city.

Based on what?

> “It’s really hard to put a price on trying to fight crime,” said Mayor Matt Hall. “When it’s a violent crime, and you can prevent it, how do you put a price on that?

What about all the times when it's not a violent crime? When it's not a crime at all? The statistics cited at the beginning of the article didn't mention violent crimes at all.
I'm self taught too. No degree. I found inspiration from a booklet "The Way To Happiness". http://www.thewaytohappiness.org. I invite you to look it over and see if there's any part that is real or speaks to you. Work towards your own happiness. Good luck on your journey.
See also:

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/hearing-wednesday-nationa...
It's really too bad that no one will ever be able to see it since they totally abandoned opening their source code.
Failure to Act: America's Infrastructure Problem
Things that benefit everyone can still be worked against. Ever heard of a prisoner's dilemma? Yes, everyone would be better off if the poor did better. But each individual corporation and service provider interacting with them is individually better off if they extract as much as possible and leave people worse off. Not because they specifically want people to be worse off. But because extracting as much value as possible from the customer is in the provider's interest. And incidentally leaves the customer worse off.
I think the github repos are not relevant in hiring for most applicants, usually are good only as an info to have a card to start a conversation about some topic the applicant is expected to be somewhat proficient.

Why would I want SO help for a language? Why is SO help needed for a language? Maybe it is just me, but I find SO largely overrated. Does it sound like a good business decision when starting a project: Let's use JavaScript, as there is a lot of StackOverflow help(?) about that language! I want to solve problems with a project, and for this the language is mostly irrelevant, and the help about the language is even more irrelevant. I won't have solutions for my problem, modeling it, solving it. The ecosystem is more relevant, but on SO the ecosystem related questions are usually killed off by the mods, as not being proper questions, so usually blogs with benchmarks or opinion pieces are more useful, yet those are not factored into this measurement.

When starting a project do I want to make a project to have many contributors? Personally I start projects to solve problems, not to attract people, though I work in the software industry, not in entertainment. Sarcasm apart: If the project solves a problem for lots of people, it will surely attract contributors, even if it is done in a mildly popular, but not esoteric language. If I'd find a project in perl which is useful for me, and would need to hack some on it, I might even pick up some Perl to do it, and contribute it back. If a project is not useful, it can be written in however popular language, nobody will use it.

The next point is valid, I said huh, when I saw that C is still kicking.

Discover new languages? If I have never heard of them, that is probably for a reason. There are way more than being useful. Knowing a few (practically one from every paradigm, and some popular ones) on a basic level, and 1-2 at a good, one at advanced level is enough. Missing a few esoteric languages will likely not have an impact on my career.
Not false, if you need to access the rows which changed you need to use a per-row trigger in Postgres. There is work being done to support seeing all the affected rows in a per-statement trigger like you can in Sql Server, but it's not committed yet. See: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20140616195900.GC...
They're physical retail locations zoned commercial which, by law, have to be staffed by people making 6 figures.
> Steve Jobs was brilliant at coming up with new products

By my count, Jobs shepherded the following hit products (I'm giving the Apple ][ to Woz):

- Macintosh (1984)

- iPod (2001)

- iPhone (2007)

- iPad (2010)

I think you're exaggerating how often Apple rolled out new product lines under Jobs. You could even argue that the iPod and iPhone overshadow the other two substantially in terms of cultural impact.

> Their only option now is to start creating variations of existing product lines to keep them "fresh".

Isn't this kind of what you'd expect out of a business? Refreshing and supporting their existing product lines while occasionally trying to establish new ones? The iPhone is looking more and more like a once-in-a-lifetime home run product (Ben Thompson has done a lot of good writing on this), the likes of which Apple (or anybody else, for that matter) may never be able to top. This isn't to say that Apple doesn't miss having a visionary like Jobs at the helm or that their product lineup doesn't have glaring flaws. I just think the massive success of the iPhone set expectations way too high.
> It would be a lot more representative of today's work if you were asked: given these 3 github repos with packages that all purport to do X, which one would you pick for this set of requirements and why?

I play this game with my students on the second day of class, along with "read all these people fighting on StackOverflow and tell me the answer you have the most faith in." They split 50/50 between terrified and super pumped about how much trust they'll be putting in Random Internet Code.
Thank you Github for being so smart and awesome! I have more respect for Github, now!

For those who disagree, saying but why?, how?, the company owns that time...

Programmers should get paid for their contribution to a project! Not for their time!

For the love of sanity, in software, there is no correlation between the time you put in and your output! Someone's input about how to solve a specific problem could be more powerful and important than my 40/week of programming for a year (solving it the wrong way)! And those who disagree are topically the ones who measure the progress of a project by number of lines of code!

This policy motivates the hell out of the employees and also can attract smart developers who have other projects! And, you want to hire those who have other projects!!!
Once upon a time, I was looking for a job, in straightened circumstances. I found a so-so match, and since I was in danger of missing a mortgage payment, I decided to accept their offer. Pragmatism and all that.

Well, I went in and picked up the documents, and told them I needed to read them before signing and returning them to the company. I looked at the IP clause, and it said the company owned anything and everything I created or invented while an employee, in any field of endeavor.

I called the founder to renegotiate.

"What if," I posited, "I write a blog post. The way I read this, the company owns the copyright on my blog post."

> Yes.

"Or if I take a video of a climbing trip, the company owns that video."

> We'd never exercise that right. But we reserve the right.

"Well, I'm not sure I want to agree that anything I create, even on my own time and property and with my own equipment, belongs to you."

> Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I want to employ
> someone who uses their creative energy for anything except
> the company's business.

"Thanks for the clarification!"

My next call was to a realtor, I put my house up for sale. There was no way I wanted to be in a position where I would feel like I had no choice but to accept an offer like this.

I went through some hard times, but as it turned out, that blog that I did end up writing on-and-off over the years turned out to be valuable. Not directly in money, but in satisfaction. It lead to some work, but even more importantly, it led to communities like Hacker News and meeting programmers around the world.

If I'd agreed to that contract, there might not be a "raganwald" today.
Honest question for those more legally-versed than me.

CA labor code protects inventions developed on one's own time without using the employer's "equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information." [1]

Would "supplies" cover incidental food/drink provided by the employer? e.g. I grab a bottled water on my way out of the office, and drink it at home while I hack on my app after-hours on personal equipment. Does that mean my app is developed with my employer's supplies?

That would seem pretty crazy, however on the extreme end if I was subsisting entirely on work snacks while developing my app then maybe that's different?

[1] http://codes.findlaw.com/ca/labor-code/lab-sect-2870.html
SimpleTax.ca is great. I think they were initially run by just 4 people (Accountant, Designer, Programmer, and Sales).
Both those apps have some tools in their camera that make it easy to do text/scribbles/filters on photos and video. Some stuff like timestamps and speed are even proof-like because "everyone" knows how the app works so it isn't something you could easily fake without photoshopping.

If you've been on reddit lately you'll know how popular pictures of text are.
Those type of systems use various date representations instead of datetime/timestamp fields, they should be mostly immune. Well, until 2038 arrives and some of these dates start being compared with the current datetime.
So a more serious Y2K?
Did you fail at the buying end or the selling end? (i.e. did you have to pay a higher price compared to these people, or were you unable to sell at a high price compared to these people?)
So you're says no we need a good reaper for the industries riddled with monopolies?
Sure. I cry at movies and shows pretty often, too. (The finale of "Six Feet Under"? OMFG.) But that presumes those tears aren't somehow subtly different from personal grief tears.

I really doubt they are, but if we're going to ask the question, it behooves us to get the most accurate answer possible.
It's google's platform and they can do what they want, and I have little issue blocking actual racists. But, banning hate speech (correctly) stopped any ad revenue from going to Tommy Sotomayor, a black man who grew up in the poor south and who talks about black issues. The problem: He's very critical of black people/culture, issues he personally faced growing up.

The algorithm works in this instance. His speech is hate speech by most definitions of the word. But that's the main problem. Hate speech includes reasonable hate!

If I had it my way, reasonable discussion about a culture should never be blocked. Even if it's hateful. Hate should not be banned, otherwise people will vent their hate in worse ways.

Here's his channel if you're curious:
https://www.youtube.com/user/sotomayortv2

Example video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycYDUCGi7no1
Apple's quiet iPad launch proves no one cares about tablets
Good luck! May your weekly growth be 10% or larger :)
My prediction: within a year, Mallory Safety & Supply will file a Firefox bug report requesting that no "login security threat" be shown on their super secure data portal login.
I think the original hwbot posting is the better article.

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=167605

The original post has been updated as more facts came along. It verified that the bug was reproducible on other machines. And then it said:

Update 3/16/2017:

As much as I had least expected this to be the case, this appears to have been confirmed as an errata in the AMD Zen processor.

And then it goes on to say:

Fortunately, it's one that is fixable with a microcode update and will not result in something catastrophic like a recall or the disabling of features.

Basically, this is an awesome bug report. HN should link to it rather than the techpowerup article.
"I hope your biggest takeaway is not that I made any money or that you like the concept, but that my results are held up by a massive pillar of failure."

This part stood out for me.

There are so many moments in a new venture like this, where you're just feeling your way forward, and it feels like nothing is working. But you keep chipping and one day the rock cracks.

Nice read, thanks for sharing.
Amazon does indeed print books through its Createspace print-on-demand division. It’s been used by hundreds of thousands of self-publishers but also indie presses seeking to sell additional copies without investing in a big offset print run.

If the pirate attempted to use an existing ISBN (required to match up the listings) I am pretty sure Createspace would automatically flag it [ETA: Not so sure anymore. See http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,248831.msg3466774.htm...]. There is no Amazon or Createspace branding applied to the book; the only clue that it’s POD is a barcode on the last blank page with “Made In USA” (digital short run and offset do not have to do this).

Another POD service, Ingramspark, also feeds into Amazon via third-party sellers but there will definitely be a block if an existing ISBN is used.

Another possibility is the pirates are using the POD services and a different ISBN, then make the Amazon listing using the original ISBN and ship the copy themselves (that is, not using fulfillment by Amazon). They could sticker over the bogus ISBN or not; nobody except for victims bothers to check.

Or, perhaps the pirates are using a cheap independent digital short run service and put whatever they want on the cover (printers don’t care) and then sell it on Amazon as the real thing.
With any luck I'll be dead by then.
Note that this issue references another (not yet public) issue which is apparently for LastPass on firefox. I expect we'll see a LastPass + Firefox issue in the near future.

> (Please note, issue 1188 which affects LastPass on firefox is not fixed, and still works)
It doesn't really matter. After knowing a few, you pick one up in a few months, and the rest will come with use. Looking out for trends won't help, as you can get only limited experience without using a language for solving real problems.

Solving Project Euler or HackerRank in a different language is fun, but does not really teach you a language. Languages are more than languages, they have ecosystems and conventions around them, and many of those come up only when doing larger scale problems to solve real problems. Few people do it for themselves as a hobby, most do fun stull as hobby, and do these as work.
I came very close to replacing my Mac Air with a Surface Pro 4 this past year, mostly didn't because of compatibility issues with Adobe Illustrator, my favorite drawing app.

MS claims 4h battery life at best, which I did find was true... after you dig deep into legacy control panels that look like it's still 1995. Out of the box the Pro 4 loves to wake up in your bag, look for wifi, then stay awake for a while doing absolutely nothing but burning through power, and you maybe get like 1h of actual use when you get to wherever you were going. I'm currently using a Wacom Mobile Studio^1, which also gets 4h. I'm constantly AWARE of and WORRIED ABOUT the thing's power levels in a way I'm not on the iPads. (Or the Mac Air for that matter.)

Apple lists like 9-10h for all current iPad models.

I may have my experience colored by mostly running a couple of desktop apps on my Win10 tablets, but I really find that Windows is not a very good tablet OS. Even in "tablet mode", which I keep it in pretty much all the time. It's just clunky and weird and maybe some of that's because this is the first Windows machine I've ever owned in my life, I dunno.

In general I don't think I'd recommend getting a Win10 tablet to replace an iPad. Get one if you have a Windows app you want to run, if you just wanna read stuff then buy a new iPad and don't worry about finding new apps to do the same stuff.

1: heavy, expensive, no kickstand, doesn't fit in most 13" bags. But it's stylus talks to Adobe Illustrator and that's my medium of choice.
> I don't think people realize how many options you lose as you get poorer

What is poverty if not a lack of options? Who do you think misunderstands this, and what do you think the misunderstanding is? What sort of misunderstanding would cause nearly everyone to spend the majority of their time avoiding or escaping poverty?

In my experience, the people who are typically accused of "misunderstanding the relationship between poverty and options" are simply wary of schemes which seem to incentivize behaviors that lead to poverty.