skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> React-router has gone through a lot of version churn. I used the (at the time) still-in-beta v4 router. This is good because it's clearly a better solution than prior versions. It's bad because all the tutorials and most of the online documentation refer to the old versions. Also there were no typings for v4 (since fixed).

And to think people complain about GTK changing too frequently...
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Why did you point us to unofficial clone of the Subversion repository?
"They could also avoid the classic “leave money on the table” scenario, where institutional investors and the other high net worth individuals who have access to IPOs reap all the benefits from the first day’s gains."

Main justification of IPO IMHO is greedy banks, early investors, and underwriters aiming to cash out a lot on the first day without giving a crap about the company or its employees in general.

It is a welcoming step and a step in right direction. Cut the middle man out.
Wow, you weren't kidding, this indeed looks much nicer.
Adidas is kicking off the era of 3D-printed sneaker production
> Why exactly? Sure there are some people who want legacy connectors

That's the reality distortion field. USB 3.1 Type A and HDMI 2.0 are not "legacy connectors" in any way.
I had already looked at your profile but it isn't there.
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Don't let your dreams be dreams: https://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/how-to-install-pixel-qis...

(A friend of mine is about to order this, i've seen it, it's as awesome as you'd imagine)
Cold War-Era Spy Satellite Images Reveal Possible Effects of Climate Change
Did Feds, City Ignore Red Flags About Detective?
Absoluely, there are credible threats, LE & intelligence are tasked with mitigation & prevention for just causes. However, checks & balances of power are supposed to curtail gross violations of citizens' inalienable rights and policy makers' self-interest. Those C&Bs have been underminded and eroded by legal bribery, aka lobbying, and revolving doors between industry/guv. Profit motive seems to be more of a driving force than fear when you look into policy makers' financial statements.

At first glance, Chertoff seems to be the poster child of "confict of interest", but he is the new norm, just one of the many who abuse their stations.
Now it just needs to accept "something" through the slot to trigger "something" to happen on the screen.
A duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14057568 submitted by the author xyrself.
I think it depends if it's relevant (see https://www.verdi.de/service/fragen-antworten/++co++61c52da6... for example). I guess a court would judge on a case by case basis.
What is the Tomohawk Cruise Missile in its many enhanced block flavors
America's biggest new reading trend: obsessed with multitasking via audio books
Promises enable async "stacktraces" though. With just callbacks, when an exception is thrown there is not the complete "stack", and little hope of debugging.
Inkling meant fish, as in the legal enforcement sense of using an unrelated charge to obtain a warrant which is then used to fish for evidence of a more serious crime.
And it's not exactly like they need weapons either, a determined person trained in unarmed combat will easily kill/maim someone just using their hands.
> Why do they not interact in any way?

I'm not sure if this theory is used by many-worlders, but eigenstates of the Hamiltonian don't interact with each other at all. It could be that a similar selection rule explains why many-worlds eigenstates don't seem to interact.

> What causes this creation of matter and energy?

You don't need to create energy to put a quantum system in a superposition of more states. You divide the energy of each state by its amplitude squared to get the total energy, and the amplitudes squared sum to one. So in Many Worlds, as with regular QM, the amplitudes of each state get smaller as you add more states. Total energy doesn't need to change.
I interviewed at a big phone/ISP company a few months ago in MA.

They would not make me an offer unless I shared my past W2 with them for them to make sure my past salary was what I claimed it was.

Needless to say, I laughed at them and walked away.
This is the stuff my high school girlfriend's hyper-conservative parents would spit all over the windshield while driving us places. Didn't expect those memories to surface in a HN thread.
I've had a handful of potential employers ask straight up for my current salary, and they ALL got squirrely when I refused to disclose it. Currently batting zero with companies that ask for (and I politely decline to give) that info.

EDIT: Also I kind of disagree with your assessment that it's a "seller's market" for IT talent. A lot of companies appear to be fishing for good deals, but is there really that much actual hiring going on? A lot of companies saying they're looking for talent does not a hot job market make.
36 weeks of growth
I was told a long time ago that a cluster of raspberry pis would be useless for machine learning due to processing power and I/O constraints.

This paper seems to suggest that this parallelization might actually be feasible. Would you agree?
That was a fantastic video! Thanks for sharing it.
FCC chair wants to replace net neutrality with "voluntary" commitments
The incentive to work comes from making the basic income "minimal", but also from allowing people to keep the first couple of thousand they make.

Right now if you receive welfare, and you make a dollar, you lose a dollar of welfare. That's the actual disincentive to work.
I heard on Bloomberg tv / news that Tesla has a target price for the Model 3 in the high 50's/low 60s. So they start in the high 30s and have upgrades that can double the price.

I find it unfortunate that there are this many upgrades. I wish they made an efficient model with a decent array of base features (eg, self driving stuff) without relying heavily on upgrades to get margin.

I hope Tesla comes out with a car in the 30s that is more or less feature complete (luxury upgrades like wood panels, Corinthian leather, etc are fine but tech should be there in base).

The other thing that seems unfortunate is the cost per kwh causes a lot of overlap with hybrid vehicles in terms of cost per mile. To me the holy grail is 100% battery 100% self-driving cars which will reduce smog and particulate pollution and increase air quality and reduce deaths per mile - we need to get there ASAP - but 60k cars DOES NOT HELP get us there faster and I really feel rats like PG&E are really monopolies gouging us on electricity prices terribly. .

Cost per mile kwh/price of gas / mileage:
https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf
Polish law change unleashes 'massacre' of trees
I looked into this, came to the conclusion that I was screwed, then switched back to Linux.

There are some github projects and commercial programs from various anti-virus companies that try to turn off the backported telemetry, but Microsoft repeatedly thwarted such efforts over the last few years.

You might be safe from Microsoft data slurps if you run Windows XP, but it doesn't get security updates any more. Therefore, you probably shouldn't give it network access. At that point, you may as well run air-gapped windows 10.
Being threatened is not a qualifier for being racist. You can definitely be extremely racist without threatening anyone.
This is about grid generation, so as I said: by GW/h. With solar and wind you have to store and over provision.. there are lots of studies on the cost of replacing nuclear power with solar and wind (just Google "nuclear vs solar price"), even with the current financing mechanisms that solar and wind have (against the over regulation and interest that nuclear has) nuclear is still a order of magnitude cheaper, that is why China is so heavily invested in nuclear as we speak.
Companies with limited name recognition outside of their industry--Okta comes to mind--may not be able to scare up enough liquidity in the marketplace to absorb the millions of shares on offer by the company. A true unrestricted dutch auction may end up going off close to zero. That's what the IPO roadshow is about, giving your pitch and soliciting bids for shares. The investment banks act as gatekeepers to these potential investors, and arguably getting face time with their clients is a large part of what the fees the company pays are for.
Yes, a belief which relies on logical validity and self-consistency of memory and thought, which would in turn need to be the result of a "simulation". And by "need", I really mean "much more likely than the alternative" of producing such a state otherwise.
Corona di Pasqua, sofficissima ricetta semplice
It is a real problem for the industry that people are clinging to that embarrassing anti-thesis of an operating system, no matter what is published about it, they still try to find a way to sell some kind of their religious fake believe that it is possible to trick MS in their own house.

It is also very alarming that people from "tech communities" like this one are "defending" their use of an inferior fake operating system instead of just simply shutting up and being ashamed of their technical ignorance. But I hope most of these "it is anyway a great thing" posts are just pro marketing guys, I personally have not met one respectable tech person that would burn its name to propagate that MS anti-os.

If your school or educational institute still depends on that failed OS, please help them to understand the importance of Free Software, thanks!
>making them very rich

Uber is a private company that, from everything I've read, is bleeding money and currently getting a ton of bad press.

How has it made anyone rich (yet)?
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IBM has these monthly challenges called Ponder This, and this month's challenge is to factor 3 large numbers (~100 decimal digits). Have a look:

https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/challenges/Apr...
The only real improvements in security since 9/11 in my mind are that cockpit doors are now reinforced and passengers know to fight back.

Everything else is just a show of force to make people feel better.
> No. The FCC is an independent (not executive) federal agency, and ultimately serve at the pleasure of the Congress. Congress granted FCC their statutory authority to regulate (and can revoke it).

While this is generally an important distinction, I'm not sure it really matters in this case. The point is we have a new president and thus new FCC chairman and commissioners, and thus a new FCC policy. If Obama and the democratic congress he had had passed a law mandating net neutrality, Ajit Pai would have a much harder time "fast-tracking" a repeal of net neutrality.
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I'm only using linux, and any company-provided laptop I've been using after 2010, at least a different one every year, was working without any driver issue. This included various models of HP, Dell and Lenovo. I'm currently on a brand new Lenovo Yoga X1, again with absolutely no issue whatsoever.
Why not a reverse takeover?
> I've once had a very nasty bug keeping me busy for days, where somewhere in a complex structure of multiple promises I somehow forgot to return a call to a resolve.

Promises allow, enable and encourage composition.

If you use them correctly no single promise should ever be so large that this becomes a problem.

That said, you can write spaghetti in any language and platform.

If you're the kind to write 100+ line async functions, no framework or technique will help you keep your code tight and solid.
Exactly. Whoever names a number first puts themselves at a significant disadvantage.
You should only count the people who are at our slightly above the proverty line. The rest have their basic income absorbed by their taxes.
It's not only about income but also reduced living expenses. In 30 years, my electricity bill, water bill and food costs should be substantially less.

If automation takes over, human labor is going to have to be redirected at the household and community level.
Too many technologies is a problem so teams shouldn't be able to choose anything. My wider team is 50 people made up of ~8 smaller teams. We have some flexibility to choose technology with the result of our new product:
* Core system JVM
* Python wrapper for web service API
* C# scraping calling the web service
* JS/node webserver calling the C# layer

As a result its slow, messy and difficult to maintain. Would be nice if managers prevented small teams from choosing any technical choice they felt like.
>> they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds.

> Note that this is not quite what I'm talking about.

Good point. I think I forgot to fully qualify that statement - while initially composing my reply I got completely distracted with TTS and forgot this was about altering speech to go faster. I realized and went back and edited it a couple minutes later, but didn't adjust it sufficiently.
> At 94, you don't worry about losing your job.

Which is why a strong social safety net is not necessarily anti-capitalist. It is just the realisation that there are probably millions of people that would be better at your job than you but are not at the right place at the right time.

Society cannot control everything, but by making sure that everyone receive a good level education, health, food, shelter and freedom is maximising the chances that the next Steve Jobs is not wasted flipping burgers at MacDo.
I hope to be as mentally sharp and up on tech when I'm 70 like Walt is. I always enjoyed his thoughts and opinions, even in the glory Apple-could-do-no-wrong days. Even then I thought he gave fair reviews, and good insight.
I think this law is silly.

If you don't like this question, then you can either choose not to answer it or use it to your advantage by 'rounding up' your numbers - This should actually help you with your negotiations as an employee.

In the unlikely event that they ask for proof, you can always tell them that your personal finances are a private matter between you and your accountant.
But it's not a dilemma. There's nothing wrong with saying "I don't disclose my past salary. It's personal. Let's focus on this job, and if you make me an offer, we can discuss that."
Why DevOps and the Cloud Are a Match Made in Heaven
Do we have a historical model of communism? Communist Dictatorship feels too far removed from the ideal to work.

In UK history some monasteries probably get close to being communist communities, but they're very small scale.
Agreed (smart person = smart no matter the activity), though that doesn't necessarily mean they will succeed at any given activity. I am always struck more by the connections that smart people make: The _really_ smart people often have this broad, even vast set of knowledge across many domains and can make connections across them that permit leaps of understanding that less smart people have a hard time following. Ironically, the really smart people are themselves struck by just how much they don't know.

To take an example, with a caveat because I'm only a small way in, _The Book of Martial Power_ by Steven J. Perlman looks at the underlying factors that make all martial arts function. He starts by identifying core principles they all have in common, no mean feat for martial arts ranging from tai chi to boxing and kung fu. He recognizes common elements, and does such a good job at reducing them to their core essence that it allows the reader to recognize how these could then apply to yet broader fields than martial arts, much the way people have both amusingly and annoyingly published books aplenty on _The Art of [Field Noun]_.

Could a persistent and only mildly smart person make these connections and recognize the commonality? I don't know. Maybe substantial persistence would allow someone to make huge progress, but I'm talking about mild smartness, not Einstein smartness. (Note that Einstein didn't self-identify as being brilliant, but did as being persistent. I'm not convinced about lack of brilliance, but he certainly was persistent. I'm also not sure I believe the estimates that his IQ was around 160, but that's the subject for many other conversations.)

Anyway, I think your (0xFFC's) point about being good at multiple fields doesn't conflict with this; in fact it is the recognition of the patterns across fields that allows smart people to be good at more than one/many fields.
I've blocked as many telemetry domains as I can find as well as applied Blackbird and O&OSU10 and I still get minor updates and security updates (Defender included) fine.

I've deferred major upgrades at this point though because the last two hosed a few things on my system and reset a load of stuff I'm probably still in the process of finding out about.
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This title has little to do with the content of the post, phone copying was the least of this lady's problems.
Who are the top influencers to follow entrepreneurs in 2017?
The Twentieth Anniversay Macintosh Came Out 20 Years Ago
People live in Denver. If a nuclear reactor made a sea level city have the radiation of Denver we would evacuate it.
Freudian slip, perhaps? https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/01/gay-couples-...
Umm, there are stupid people too...
They should go mutual and offer shares to their customers.
Back when I read about this stuff I had the exact opposite reaction - Occam's Razor seemed to favour Many-Worlds.

Given direct experience of one universe, I think it's more ontologically conservative to introduce multiple universes than it is to introduce a whole new unprecedented category of cats that are simultaneously dead and alive.

Very loose analogy: if I see a mouse in front of me and simultaneously hear a squeak behind me, I'd probably assume two mice rather than one mouse which has learned ventriloquism.
Why hasn't there been another AlphaGo match?
PDF metadata confirms that you are correct, it was MS Publisher 2013.
Your first point about technical skill vs creativity makes sense to me, but I'm a bit confused by your notion of "technical creativity".

As I know it, the concept of creativity is much more than "copying existing techniques with a minor twist".
Since they call it a Pro, I assume professionals use it to connect devices they already own. Audio/Video professionals need to connect several audio interfaces, external HDDs, SD Card readers, external monitors/projectors, headphones, maybe ethernet if the wifi in a hotel is spotty, etc. Asking someone to spend hundreds of dollars on adapters on TOP of the already expensive hardware and calling all these usecases "legacy" is insulting.
Good point. I personally support a basic income, but I also accept that it would require massive tax increases. It seems like a lot of the pro-BI rhetoric out there just waves away any serious fiscal concerns.
Ask HN: Is it easier to get into certain Techstars locations?
I am currently finishing up my Techstars application and I have a really hard time deciding which cities to give as my preference. I live in Europe but want to target the US market so moving to the US would be great in any case and I don't have a lot of connections in any of the cities.

I love NYC as a city but so do others so I am thinking it might be much harder to get in than, for example, Chicago. My feeling is also the "Alexa" one might be easiest because it is special but I have no idea.

Do you think there is a difference between the different locations? Is it a small or big difference? Does it make sense to make a "strategic" decision?

Thanks!
~26 years old is really just the beginning, since the brain isn't even fully developed until that age. The hardware is now complete, so then it becomes more about regularly updating your software(i.e. challenging your knowledge and skills with new information, and not believing you are past your peak). The great thing about having fairly fixed hardware, and hardware that is pretty much like everyone else's, is that you are left with the choice of either maintaining the learning attitude of a child or settling into a role you think you are destined for, effectively closing all sorts of doors willingly. I choose to not think about my age or think of myself as an "adult". I sometimes forget how old I am. I kind of like it.
No, maybe some day.
I would be extremely interested in how they maintain HIPAA compliance in insurance shops.

Having worked with universal logging in that context, it was eventually decided to be too much of a risk and we specifically neutered any features that would trigger HIPAA issues out of our product.

Customers are going to screw up configs. And when HIPAA charges you with $damages x number of releases, inadvertent logging can add up fast.

EDIT: Unless MS got their logging center HIPAA certified and has a special contract they sign with insurance shops. Not impossible, but seems improbable.
You can absolutely analyze the data yourself, a genetic counselor is a value-add that can provide an ethical medical recommendation based on the data.
I'm trying to start a conversation, but a less vague one(although to be sincere, I'm doubtful about basic income - I think the same goals(which are great) , if possible to reach, would require something far more complex, both on the giving money side, but also on structuring the economy in certain ways that would reduce the cost of living)

But could you please share some numbers for those offers you proposed - they'll be interesting to hear.
Before MagSafe, this was actually a common thing. And broken charger cord tips, or worse, the sockets.

Of course, we also had shorter battery life, so working without being plugged in was a joke.
why isn't this big news?
I totally lie any time a recruiter asks for my current/past salary. How much I lie depends on what I think I should be getting for the role, and how likely it is that they can and will confirm the numbers I gave.

At my most recent past job, I was working for some guys at a small startup for next to nothing in salary (~$40k). I had a 10% stake in equity, but it was worth nothing, since the company was in debt. When I left I told the CEO and CTO "Can you say I made $160k salary?" Response - "Sure!" Next job was a $120k salary raise, + bonus, and I was able to work in RSUs.

At my current company, if I plan to leave, I'll fib by adding in my bonus % into base salary. I can't get away with much since I'm at a large corporation now. If they check and find a discrepancy I can blame it on a simple error.

With fibs, you can get a decent bump. But if you have complicit conspirators, then the sky's the limit.

Something I would not suggest is giving the number of a friend who will pose as HR/a past employer. This is pretty risky if you aren't attentive to detail.
Does anyone have experience with Linux certified laptops?

I was looking at a Linux-friendly ultrabook at the Microsoft store, and the win 10 trackpad drivers did not support scrolling on the display model. facepalm

I guess my question is whether windows laptops are actually less troublesome than preloaded/known-good linux laptops, in practice.
Which is a good thing right, preferring the species over the individual's career.
Agreed! There is a handy package called `denodeify` which converts the callback pattern (with err) to promises.

It works for every async function in node, except for `fs.exists` which inexplicably does not provide an error in the callback.

Speaking of which, when is node going to actually start supporting promises natively? I've been using this denodeify hack for years!
That starts out strong, with the accounts of various on-the-ground drug warriors saying "the problem has to be solved on the other end, because it sure can't be solved here!" He kind of lost the thread as the talk went on. It would have been more effective to really dig in on examples of destroyed lives, both north and south of the border. Statistics by themselves are less compelling.

Also I was distracted by trying to figure out whether that was a really small mustache or some sort of birthmark.