skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This piece reeks of entitlement. If you love programming or speaking at conferences, sure you don't mind meshing it all together or follow necessary irregular schedule. But there are many people who just want to sell their labour and skills for money and go to their favorite hobbies - whatever they are - without money attached to them, be that woodworking or playing with your dog. Free scheduling should be an option, many people would like that, but calling the other option "barbaric" is tone deaf
I'd like to see all my friends post updates and photos to blogs where I can subscribe via rss. This would be the best social network for me.
Sure, make the call, but send the email and the letter. Don't allow unnecessary delays because "you didn't notify them properly."
I use lineage, but not microg. Things like Conversations poll effectively enough and it keeps me off the Google.

I feel like this isn't a solution for the planned obsolescence inherent in mobile devices though. Every release after Google officially drops support (and provides their own image) gets exponentially harder. The amount of things moving out of AOSP and into Play services grows every month too.
Thinking? I'm not thinking it is ok! No no, I'm just saying why people are idiotic enough to do this.

The BAC level now for Utah is .05. It isn't like all of the US states are slouching. Of course, Utah is different from the deep south.
Seoul definitely has the cyber but is a bit light on the punk. Same goes for Japanese cities, IMO. Old Kowloon had the right vibe. If you could put Akihabara on Gunkanjima, that would be a new contender.
Yes, and they automatically renew. It's fantastic. If you're using ELB/ALB, it's by far the easiest way to do SSL.

The only downside is that initial setup of a certificate requires email confirmation, so if you need to provision a lot, LE may still win.
Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library
Exactly, they are getting free publicity, it isn't bad anytime.
Yeah, this is still a problem. Trying to write a simple CLI in node and the library I'm using to prompt a user for their credentials only replaces the user's input with asterisks. There is still an open issue for properly masking the password input: https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js/issues/177
I will never understand why people hate merge commits. It's an accurate history of what happened, and can be useful in tracking down bugs.
Who pays the salaries of the Zelda Wii team? The publisher, obviously, who also published Zelda for Switch.

It's true Nintendo had to spend effort creating a port of Zelda. But they didn't do it for the sake of customers who have both consoles. They did it for the sake of customers who only have a Switch. For customers that have both consoles, the effort of porting the game was already wasted. So they are not losing value by offering those customers a new license, except the minor value gained by being able to use either console and having access to any minor improvements in the newer edition of the game. That is not worth the price of the full game.
ALB definitely does not support SNI yet.
Or you just side-step the issue by creating a "Tablet" or "Personal" version that's cheaper and never let arbitrary software run there. Just like Apple did - on iOS running arbitrary software isn't expected and they're slowly moving towards running it on more and more devices including TVs and "Pro" iPad hardware.
Ryanair to Embrace Connecting Flights in Move Toward Hub Model
> Not being able to switch nodes pushes you to try and host your own instead.

And you just use it for yourself? well, ok... but at that point you could also use a fully decent system.
This lets me do side-by-side full screen on a mac, which the full website can't do (not responsive so I can't make it narrow enough) and the mac app won't. The previous mobile site was nearly good enough, but required refreshing for new tweets. Very happy that this is available.
> Do you also oppose welfare?

Absolutely not.

The distinction is one of objectivity. Programs like welfare, and policies such as tax deductions for dependents and charitable donations are objective. A boss's empathy is almost by definition subjective.

Y should not be forced to "make a case" to the boss for the exact reason that by placing their needs at the boss's judgement, they also subject themselves to the boss's discrimination.
I know how to handle these dumb fucks. (I had a Mortgage with them, that makes me an expert)

I had a problem with them coughing up an escrow refund check, although there is much more to the story that would have most of you boiling.

I filed complaints with a total of 3 agencies and received my check via FedEx Priority overnight not long after. Suck it, BofA.

* Filed complaint with CFPB
* Filed with Texas State Attorney General's Office (Insert your state here)
* Filed complaint with Office of the Comptroller of Currency (HelpWithMyBank.gov)

Trust me. If you file a very well articulated complaint to each of these entities, they will feel the heat and resolve it.

I hope this information helps you alienchow, and many others.
Ask HN: What Happened to Obama's StartUp Visa Under Trump Admin
I sound like a tourist (Brit in NYC) and cabs will often take random detours hoping I don't notice. Ride shares are better than the yellow cabs. I've found that audibly turning on my GPS when I get into a cab seems to curb it.
Please note that I've never driven while drunk, I don't even drink that much, and I've always been the one to take people home who were drunk.

Understanding why people do shit is quite different from condoning shit.
Maybe RISC-V will save us at some point?
Highlights:

while most people like the notion of free time, actually having to deal with it is horrible. It’s a deal with the devil. At least when they’re employed they don’t have to deal with the freefall; the nothingness of free time. (Sounds Heiddegerian - the dread that comes with freedom)

...This constant influx of news and data means we’ve come to perceive time differently. The future used to be a far-off thing, but now we experience it at the same time as the present, he contends...

Obvious: “The winners in this labour force will be the people who have an actual skill,” he says. “Always have an actual skill as a back-up, that’s very good advice.”
Without wanting to sound too snarky - no kidding, Sherlock.

Anyone who drives at rush hour in the summer months, when (UK, at least) schools are on holiday, will know how much quieter the roads are. Come September, and it's back to the jams.
Robert Caro's first LBJ book has a great (harrowing) passage on how hard it was in rural Texas for mothers, who often didn't have electricity up until the 30's. It was backbreaking, constant labor to keep everything in working order and preserve enough food for winter.
Exactly this, we let they have full administrative power before because each team had their own little collection of plugins they needed and we couldn't manage the migration out of the "big" old master while also having to curate their plugin collections.

Our current discussion internally is about where to set their boundaries, remove administrative access and curate a set of plugins we are comfortable with maintaining (and that makes sense for most of the teams).
It's different precisely because most social/cloud networks abstract away backups.

Very few people have considered whether or not they should attempt to back up their Facebook account. Same's true for Flickr, Twitter, and Gmail.
I serve many, many millions of rows, collect real-time statistics, push real-time updates, and maintain data integrity and consistency... all from a single database server. If our workloads require it we're prepared to scale out horizontally. I'm really looking forward to PostgreSQL 10's new parallel query features for some of our analytics work.

Stack Overflow runs everything across what, 4 MS SQL Servers in total?

How has that "failed the web?"
It seems pretty fitting to me. Work or don't eat. Technically you could decide to starve of course, but it's at the very least coercive.
It might also be possible to call the judge that handled the case and ask for help.

Based on jury duty selection it is more or less the judge's job to babysit lawyers of varying degrees of competence. The judge's office should at least be able to get you on the line with the right person.
This isn't doing much to dispel my feeling that the entire field of Human Resources is a farce.
> But it doesn't matter because this issue is already solved. We already have globally unique usernames. They're called email addresses, they are unique by their very nature, and they are (for all intents and purposes) already decentralized.

No, they're not: billg@microsoft.com depends on microsoft.com, which depends on com, which depends on the root nameservers, which are … a central nameservice.

That's the whole point of Zooko's Triangle: of secure, decentralised and human-readable, you can have at most two. Global-singleton approaches are still centralised (the singleton is the centre), although they may build the singleton in a decentralised fashion.
I wouldn't go to work if I didn't have to. It can feel like prison some days. Forced is the right word.
I can't think of Hayek without being reminded of his claim that personal freedom in Pinochet's torture state was greater than that under the previous government where people were not getting their eyeballs pulled out and genitals shocked for disagreeing with the State.
I clicked on the actual site. Took 5 seconds to load and a bunch of things wiggling on the page. Navigation was like snapchat style with full page ads. Lots or chrome reducing actual readable area. Contrast for text isn't that great for readability.

Definitely classifies as "looks like shit" in my book.
I've been thinking about this very thing the past few days!

Forgive the rambling, this is the first time I've written any of this down...

My idea is to use email as a transport for 'social attachments' that would be read using a custom mail client (it remains to be seen if it should be your regular email client or have it be just your 'social mail' client. But... if using another client as regular email, users would have to ignore or filter out social mails). It could also be done as a mimetype handler/viewer for social attachments.

Advantages of using email:
- Decentralized (can move providers)
- email address as rendezvous point (simple for users to grasp)
- Works behind firewalls
- Can work with local (ie Maildir) or remote (imap) mailstores. If using imap, helps to address the multiple devices issue. Could also use replication to handle it too (Syncthing, dropbox, etc)

Scuttlebutt looks like a nice alternative though. Will be following closely.
That only works if trips are originating from nearby. I've been to some shady Louisiana bars out in the middle of nowhere, I'm not sure how even Uber would work out there.
All Indians must watch
"Yamaha YZ250 Dirt Bike sound effects library"

I came here thinking, well what's news about this? Dirt bikes are really loud and libraries are meant to be pretty quiet places..
I really like his train of thought. The future of social networking will be very different from how it is structured today. That's a very safe bet.
And every weekend. And evenings and mornings. And the kids are at school anyway.

This is such a first-world sad-sack complaint.
Buy House, Get Free Car?
I've seen a 'banner' command in some Unix versions. Often used to print the motd (message of the day) that you got when you logged in, and also by sysadmins to write a banner message to everyone's terminal like "System going down in 10 minutes" etc.
There are a few good things about IEX, especially the fact that you can get their real-time feed for free. The downside is that it isn't really free as you need to have servers that IEX auditors can visit at any given time, which means you need to have a co-location at the minimum, which isn't cheap. Which brings me back to the point that I have no clue how one can offer supposed real-time data on options for free.
Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card
It isn't that "everybody emulates the VT-100 for some reason" but that the VT-100 was the first terminal to support the ANSI standard for control codes and that that standard has been evolving ever since.
>Ulysses pact

I knew a guy in college who often got totally hammered when he went out. He would always give his bus money home to one of his companions he was out with to hold onto so that he wouldn't accidentally spend it or lose it.
No, Apple make their own SOC and corresponding drivers.
Either way, BofA should still have given the customer sufficient notification to enable them to object before taking the money.
Hi! I looked around trying to find a roadmap, and it was a bit difficult (didn't find it).

Do you plan on supporting Bitbucket Server like you are with Github Enterprise?
Cal Newport's essays are great. PG's essays are also great. It is no coincidence seeing Cal quoting and dialoguing with PG's ideas.
The original article at archive.org...a good place to spend one's money: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20100315132832/http://measu...
I wonder if he still uses it?
Rather than going down the barbaric tone. When it comes to 9-5 jobs, I keep going back to city infrastructures.

Where I live in Toronto, all the highways and subways get clogged as everyone needs to make it to the office for 9-5. Everyone then complains about poor infrastructure, but then all cities keep building for a short burst peak traffic. Infrastructure is overbuilt for other times.

I can understand a lot of it is due to having kids (schools let out around 4pm) so everyone tries to streamline dropping kids off and picking them up from work.

I really wish everyone can try for a staggered approach to deal with congestion. I don't have a hard sync like picking up kids or anything like that yet so I avoid the normal envelopes around 9-5.

Many initiatives like Smart Cities are being rolled out but yea... I'm not a huge fan of the common 9-5 pattern.
There are many problems with the plugin ecosystem.

The big ones:
* Many don't work with pipelines (scm sync config plugin for example). And you don't know this until you try
* Upgrading a plugin can and often does have unintended, and hard to detect problems (only way to know is to run every job and find the failures)
* It's hard to automate plugin installation
Thanks. Do you know of any other resources describing Watson's inner workings? ...cause just googling for it leads to one of the zillions of marketing bullshit pages or whitepapers devoid of any real infos that IBM's marketing drones have flooded the web with.
Then I have yet another device permanently plugged in and running, at a time where I and frankly all of us should try to reduce our energy consumption.
I implemented the Wumpus World form Peter Norvig's AIMA using different techniques. I found that Bayesian Logic was much more powerful than Logic programming. Perhaps that explains why Prolog has flourished.

Logic programming is limited to values of true or false. 0 or 1. Bayesian logic can deal with uncertainty values like .2 or .3. It almost seems like a superset. It is also more intuitive IMHO.

I keep the wumpus implementation here if anyone is interested.
https://github.com/huherto/aima3/tree/master/src/wumpus
Meant charles i think, the serial killer, and my point stands
Chained to a desk from 9-5 is inhuman if the work is not intrinsically motivating. From quality of life perspective I'm not sure if it's much better than generic hunter gathering.

The fact that it's materialistically much better than scraping living by in some hellhole does not validate the concept.

The fact that it's a safer and a healthier work environment than some other does not mean it could not be better.

Sadly, it's the status quo. Yes, calling it barbaric is hyperbolic - but the end is not to find out the specific philosophic understanding of the condition but to create propaganda and motivation to find something better.
You can follow and reply to any one on any node from your own system. Your feed is populated from people on any node you follow.
It was in a classroom setting on the first day... Of course you don't go around on the street asking people to call you "doctor"!
This is an interesting article.

And he gets a lot of things right – having a way to do queries against a database directly, being able to get changes directly is useful.

And GraphQL, for example, offers exactly that – there’s even a plugin to directly build a GraphQL API from your postgresql database. Although this still can’t send changes over the net, so you can’t have an always up-to-date view of the database.

But while this and Firebase¹ solve the problem of offering an API directly for a database, he’s missing to address the other task frontend servers do: They can render stuff on the server, in case you actually do have just a dumb terminal.

And that’s something that’s very useful for websites, as usually servers are more powerful than smartphones, and you need to do your computations somewhere. A web service applying deep dream to an image can’t run it in the phone, nor in the database – it has to run it on a specialized server

But it’s indeed a good question why there’s little academic research into changing the way web applications work. We’re already making databases directly open via GraphQL APIs, we’re separating statically hosted content into CDNs, so how can we combine this, and work truly "serverless"²?

[1]: Firebase is a great tool for prototyping your app, but if you want to run it it’s usually too expensive, and relying on proprietary Backend-as-a-Service technology has proven to be a bad idea already when parse.io shut down.

[2]: Serverless here meaning that you have no specialized application server – you have a general database able to handle all your applications, a general CDN, and all special code for the app is handled within the database, or triggers of it.
> I know if I were Bezos I would sell when I thought the stock was overpriced.

You're thinking of the stock as an investment. To Bezos, though, it's an asset - something that can be sold when he needs liquid funds to finance an operation like Blue Origin. Perhaps he thinks it will be more profitable, or more fulfilling, or more fun. What's the point of having investments if you can't sell them unless they're overpriced?
I'm all ears.
How is asking your students to call you Dr. X on your first day of teaching "acting like a buffoon"? What a strange conclusion man.
I see the topology as very USENet like.

Not that this is a bad thing. There's still life in USENet, and a fair few people still sit and discuss things in various groups (if you know where to look)[1]. The backbone concept of USENet is still great from a decentralised point of view - someone just needs to add some crypto layers to it (as a standard), and I reckon it could rise again like a phoenix.

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[1] I'm deliberately and totally ignoring the large elephant in the room with HDDs full of pirate software, media, and porn.
> they do what's needed to make it easy to hire maintainers by sticking to popular languages and frameworks instead)

And completely miss the moment where the new maintainer comes in and says:

"!@#$ why didn't they just write this in prolog? freaking PHB's"
Where do you think that JS in a web page comes from? Not from the network?

Service workers are a cache (and background process), and you still have to consider cache misses. Even if you have a giant JS app and cache it, users still have to download all the JS to actually work offline no matter what.
Hell yeah at least he used a bike old enough to be a two stroke. Four stroke dirt bikes are just wrong.
Maybe they should?
How's about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD15ncn7KQw

Note: this video is 100% real, but I trimmed out some frames here and there (during keypresses and Shopify auth) to make for a seamless pitch.
I lived in Beijing for 9 years and never had to worry about a DUI since I didn't even own a car. Some bad nights (no taxis available) I walked home for an hour or so, no big deal.

Population densities in the US suck, and everything is oriented around personal cars. Totally different things.
Mobile Testing of Location Powered Android Apps
The same principle technically applies, but when the SoC developers, kernel developers, and OS developers are all in the same company they don't really have the same problem.

With Android you have the Linux kernel team providing the mainline kernel, the SoC team providing the drivers, and Google providing the rest of the OS.

If the SoC team don't care about mainlining their drivers then those devices will only ever support the kernels that the SoC vendor releases packages for.

If Google wants to move Android along to a newer kernel and the SoC vendor isn't playing ball it comes down to hacks that may be acceptable in a community ROM but I wouldn't want to support in a commercial device.
Different strokes for different folks. I imagine some people enjoy the structure. Other people don't. That's why some people enjoy life in the office while others enjoy writing objectively crappy novels like "JPod."
He's been a successful author for over 25 years. I wonder if he really has much experience in a 9-5 career. When he was in that career, was he unhappy because it's an objectively bad experience? Or had he not found good jobs? Or was he never committed to that career because he dreamed of being a writer?

I enjoy my 9-5 career. I realize I'm lucky because I have a better experience than most, but I'm not singularly lucky or gifted to be in my position. I don't think I'm one of the few who doesn't consider it "barbaric."

I don't think it's necessarily universal to place a high value on "freeform scheduling" like he says and having structure to the day does have benefits.

> "Most people who work in tech – 99% – don’t want to look at the implications of what they are doing"

My work boils down to the difference between someone seeing one ad vs. another. I need money to live and this is what I'm good at. I don't pretend I'm making the world a better place but it's equally overdramatic to say the implications make the world worse. For better or worse or society is about the freedom to sell things and all the propserity and inequality that comes along with that. For all their flaws, a shift away from those fundamentals would take generations and people don't agree what they should be replaced with and there's no guarantee the replacement would be better.
File it anyway. Get it on their radar.
Scala vs. Java: Which Should You Learn
Indeed, that's what I find exciting about the idea. I'm not keen on the implementation, which is built on npm & JavaScript, nor the protocol, which is built on JSON, but those might be worth it if we can restore some of the glory which was mid-90s Usenet, with security, privacy and accountability.
Well.. I've been on there for quite some time, granted it's been not mega active but here is a rundown of how much it took until now: there is the main sigchain database, which stores all the messages (following, posts, ....) which is now 150megs in size and there is the blobs (binary attachments like images) which is about 500megs in size. YMMV depending on how many catpictures your friend share ofc.

The flipside to your remark is, that it is fully offline capable and I'm perfectly happy with that. Also: contrast it with how much space a thunderbird profile takes up.