skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how this can be practical when it generally takes at least a week of ramp-up before a new hire has gained enough familiarity with the tools and codebase to do anything that could be called "real work".
You read it wrong or you didn't even read it. The article is talking about particles far tinier than the kind in those facial scrubs.

The origin of these microplastics is likely "biodegradable" plastic material which rather than reverting to some harmless form, simply breaks up in to trillions of microscopic pieces.
Why the Pentagon is a Pentagon
Wouldn't it be more accurate to describe epsilon as an infinitesimal?
You can bite the bullet and work-for-almost-free (intern) and have a side job to pay your rent for 6 months, after which you should be able to score a full-time junior role.
It's not their fault maybe but selling not only continues but actually increases. We are learning nothing from it. Now we're being sold that if we make all that scheme taxpayer-financed and produce even more degree-holders, no matter what that degree actually does or whether the market needs it, the situation somehow would become much better because statistics looking 30 years behind says going to college back then increases potential earnings now.

It's like saying if we see that CEO earns much more than janitors, then calling janitors "CEO" would make them millionaires. Pure magical thinking.
Maybe I'm slow but am I the only one not getting the point of this at all? Users can already be owners by buying stock. And what exactly is the benefit? Random Twitter users are somehow gonna come up with plans on how to make the company profitable (heh how many "monthly fee" proposals will be submitted?)?

Are there examples of large companies converting into a credit union type model?

Why would shareolders want this?
Some seagulls are 50% plastic by weight.
Very true, but it sure is a lot easier to toss a "chip" tip to your dealer or waitress than cash. Or place a long shot bet that you don't expect to win. And I mean psychologically less painful, not logistically even though it is both.

You have the added pain of turning chips back into dollars, so your mind starts to play tricks on you making parting with the chips ever so easier than parting with cash. You discount for the hassle of getting back to cash.

In addition you get chips from any and every dealer in the casino. You get cash from one of a couple cashiers placed very inconveniently around the periphery where there are often lines or uncertainty about which windows are open. Just a touch of uncertainty.

Virtual game currencies are, amazingly, even worse. It is incredibly painful and difficult to walk away from them since you lose all that fake "value" you've built up or bought.
> I took 6x 2TB laptop drives in a 6 drive "mobile rack" that fits in one 5.24 bay in my desktop (IcyDock MB996SP-6SB)

Thanks, I didn't realise these exist.

I've been wanting to create a DIY version of Synology's "slim" model line [1] for a while, but haven't been able to find an off-the-shelf enclosure that would fit my needs. Putting six drives in a 5.25" bay is a fantastic idea.

[1] https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS416slim
Gliese 1132b, 39 light years away, may have a watery atmosphere
Hmm, it seems like it works now in 2.4. That's a reason to keep Apache but I still can't see a reason to run anything new on it.
My number are all over the place but according to WakaTime about 152 hours last month was spent in the IDE.
Yeah, all salt is sea salt. If it's up in the mountains it just means it was laid down a long time ago.

That salt should be free of microplastics, but hell, you never know what's what these days. Some of the most polluted areas in the world are off of Antarctica.
Is that sarcasm, or is the occasional email or phone call really considered a sign of strong devotion for someone we consider a friend?
İstanbul merkezli 4 ilde DEAŞ operasyonu: 6 şüpheliden 4’ü tutuklandı
California’s public pensions are breaking the bank
You're saying, working as Starbucks barrista while holding a useless degree and $50K in student loan debt is actually way better than working as Starbucks barrista straight out of high school? Not sure I see why it is so.
I think the incidence rate of that is quite low compared to the amount of 'happy customers'. I suspect there are plenty of people that would suggest that you're fear-mongering at worst, and at best seemingly letting a rather rare incident distort your message.

Consider the opposite to your 'don't downplay shit' perspective: 'overblowing shit' can cause issues too. Best to respectfully educate of the risks, and yet ultimately understand that everyone makes their own choice, complete with consequences.
I'm surprised by the responses here. I didn't think it was as prevalent as comments suggest. At the beginning of my career it was probably around 50%, though after spending two years at a consulting company, it's dropped to 5-10% maximum. I find that reducing interruption and having music going keeps me engaged.
Facebook, YouTube, Nudevista.
Richard's Paradox seems a bit shaky to me (p4): "Since all possible texts in French can be listed or enumerated"

Unless I have completely missed the point then he has simply stated a way to generate another member of the set of French texts which of course is part of that set and so on.

You can easily squint hard enough to generalize to all texts in all languages, now, earlier and possible then allow that grammar, spelling and so can be pretty slack. Now translate that lot into numbers in some way (a bunch of IT bods should be able to manage that!) To be honest French on it's own is probably more than enough.

"How very embarrassing! Here is a real number that is simultaneously nameable yet at the same time it cannot be named using any text in French."

The very act of naming the number (in French) constructs the French text that adds to the set of possible French texts.

I think that the set of possible French texts is exactly as large as the set of reals. So is the set of all language texts and that the "paradox" is merely trying to use the Cantor argument backwards.
Bear App. http://www.bear-writer.com/
A big part of the point I'm trying to make is that the differing sentiments aren't all that coherent. I don't see how it is disingenuous to express my opinion on the matter.

I guess it might not be especially charitable.
The strange boom in homeless tourism
Ask HN: How do you handle 2-Factor Auth accounts while traveling abroad?
I'm planning on traveling to Indonesia in a couple weeks and I won't be able to receive text messages while I'm there. So, I'm wondering how I should go about logging in to certain accounts (Gmail, bank, etc.) that have 2FA enabled.

Do you have any advice on how I should go about this while I'm abroad?
Using Chef and Capistrano to Deploy a Rails Application on Ubuntu 16.04
> Are these signed with some sort of crypto and known-good keys, similar to package signing keys attached to a package repo, or are we taking Docker's word for it?

I'm not sure. You can find more information about them here[0].

> Is there a way to filter to "official" repositories only, or tell Docker to only fetch from a whitelist of repositories (so that private ones can be included)?

I'm not sure about this either. It looks like Rancher and OpenShift support whitelisting registries, so this may have to be handled at a higher level. I believe you can always tell whether something being pulled from Docker Hub is official because it won't have a leading path component indicating the contributor (e.g. mwpmaybe/ruby:2.4-alpine is a non-official image whereas ruby:2.4-alpine is official).

> the habit of casually importing images is still rampant

This is just my two cents, but that seems like a policy problem, not a technology problem. Enforce a rule for your project/team/organization that containers have to use an official image, or a private image based on an official image. I do agree that a simple per-registry namespace whitelist would be a nice feature to have in dockerd.

> a) still derived from some other upstream Dockerfile (must this file also be validated by Docker to qualify as an "official repo"?)

I believe official images must be based on other official images.

> b) a good example of the "brilliance" of the Dockerfile format

I don't think it was ever meant to be brilliant, just simple. I'm definitely looking forward to the next generation of Dockerfile formats that ameliorate this issue and many others.

> Is this "transparency" only the case on "official" images? As far as I can see Docker Hub just stores the pushed binary blob and not the Dockerfile required to build it, so if you're not picking your image base carefully, there may not be a way to verify its contents (short of introspecting the image).

I believe so. This is a complaint I have with Docker Hub. I personally feel that the Dockerfiles used to create public images should always be published along with the images.

0. https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/official_repos/
How do your coworkers feel about you only being a few hours at the office?
> Of course their friends who I don't know can also see my comment, and they quickly weigh in with their un-thought out vitriol. I try to keep the discussion going for a little while, but they quickly degenerate it into ad-hominem attacks (which is impressive because I am a stranger to them) and I give up.

Sounds similar to real life though when serious topics come up...some people aren't interested in their views being challenged, get overly defensive and don't care about what an ad-hominem attack is. You're best either avoiding those kinds of conversations or those kinds of people.
Agreed. There's been some disappointment in Intel's roadmap for Apple, but if you look at the facts as they stand today:

1. iMac - nothing since October 2015 (545 days since update vs. average of 317 days)
2. 12" MacBook - now coming up to a year old (April 2016)
3. MacBook Air - dead (or at least >2 years since an update)
4. Mac Mini - last updated October 2014

When Phil Schiller says that Apple as an organisation is made up of pro users, prior to the long overdue MacBook Pro update from last fall, what do you think they were using? Two year old iMacs? Years-old MacBooks Pro?
NY State ends imprisoning the young and provides free public college tuition
#MAIA
Meet Kasita: The Micro-Housing Startup
Being an old Millennial/borderline GenX, my personal answer would be the latter. I suspect younger Snapchattin' folks would view the comment as sarcasm. Then again, they view everything as sarcasm by default. :-)

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live...
Someone else responded to me in a recent Hacker News discussion that really clarified this in my head: A real number essentially has an infinite number of digits after the decimal place - the difference between a rational and an irrational number is that the digits end up in a repeating pattern in a rational number (you can think of rationals that terminate as really having an infinite number of zeros, e.g. 1.5 as 1.5000000...). Thus, to randomly pick a real number, you randomly select digits an infinite number of times after the decimal. Clearly there is no way a random process will produce an infinite number of repeating digits, thus the probability of picking a rational would be 0.
Here is why you should not smoke
You can use signal handlers if you need to, but it's not like there's a good way to handle most bus errors in userspace to begin with. Anyway neither standard C nor standard C++ even spec out interrupt handling, and SIGBUS isn't a standard signal :P
Again, there are degrees of complexity. Very simple - nginx, kinda more complex - Apache, somewhat complex but still doable without using Turning-complete language - third-party Apache modules, needs Turing-complete language or you're wasting your time - Python/PHP/Perl/pick your poison.
And that attitude gets you a kid who has missed significant cultural influences, can't share the excitement over it with other kids and who won't be able to share the nostalgia for it with friends of similar age.

Yes, I'm salty that I never was allowed to have a console or watch most popular TV shows because they're too banal/grapic/sexualized/adult. It sucks only being able to experience those things at friends' houses, because you'll be terrible at it if it's games and not know the lore if it's shows, so you still can't really share the experience. It sucks to be an outsider as a kid and I wish my parents had not made me that. Its one of the few things I really regret.
The blog post doesn't say, but if you dig through their site you eventually find an explanation. Go here then click on "how it works":
https://landed.com

No idea why the direct link to that is broken.

Anyway, it looks like, they pay your down payment, then take 25% of any profit when you sell.
Thank you so so much for mentioning algolia. Prior to now, I had never heard of them but checking out the site, it sure would come in handy.

Bookmarked!
I know that phys.org is probably looking at this from physics angle but I wish they had more detail on what is being discussed. Knapping [0] as in shaping tools is nothing unique.

"explain the flint knapping technique of "fluting" the Clovis points, which could be considered the first truly American invention."

American as in North + South America [1] but it's not a universally accepted idea that the origin was there[1].

It is also more likely that the fluting was done to make it more useful for projectile use. The ones that were not fluted might have broken and hence we don't see record for it as much. Not sure if circumstantial bias is a term but we shouldn't come to drastic conclusions.

"It's amazing to think that people 12,000 years ago were flaking shock absorbers and engineering stone weapons in a way that it took 21st century modern engineering to figure out," Eren said.

They weren't designing shock absorbers, their design just happen to have that as a secondary function if the experiments done suggests it does.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapping

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_point
The purpose of a pilot program is not to alleviate the problem, it's to work out kinks, and get a preliminary measure of efficacy in a constrained environment.
According to RescueTime, I spend around 83% of my screen time on "productive" things. My total screen time averages about 25 hours / week, whereas my at-work time is roughly closer to double that. I'd say that 67% of my off-screen at-work time is "productive" meetings and the other third is things like lunch, walks, etc.

Putting this all together, I spend 37.5 hours / week productively and 12.5 hours / week at work slacking off (or doing human things like eating and pooping). So call it 75% productive time.

I generally enjoy my job. I've counted writing this post / assembling this data as "not productive" time.
Haskell is the last language i used without exceptions
Or heavy metal posters... This is just the national version of what happened in Texas with regard to Todd Willingham. The forensic review committee was disband for fear that they would publicly validate what was becoming clearer by the day. Basically, that Texas likely executed an innocent man based on gut instinct forensic evidence, and the well known fact that people into heavy metal were satanists that kill their children.

Of course SOP for a Republican in Texas in this situation is kill the messenger and deny the message.
When I am unhappy, I often feel stuck, and have a hard time imagining how to solve the problems that are making me unhappy. They start to seem insoluble. Instead of thinking about how to move away from a bad situation, it has been more productive to think about what it is I actually want. Once I have a clear picture in mind of where I would rather be, all my everyday problem-solving skills kick in and I start advancing toward that goal.
>Apple's product history is littered with failures due to design-led development

Also littered with huge successes.
Because Dartmouth is sitting on a $4.5B endowment that earns $90MM/year, while the NH Education Department is barely breaking even (and according to proposals, actually likely needs $800MM injected into it to catch up to where it should be)?
Half of your down payment.
General relativity and the standard model also produce infinite values, which to me is a pretty sure sign your model is broken. Viewing black holes as infinitely dense hasn't yet caused us problems in terms of predictions (but they're still a bit wild west area), and they fixed the standard model with renormalization (which seems like a bit of a hack). They're good enough to be useful but I'm pretty sure everyone expects them to be radically reformulated at some point.
n sentinels? What do you mean?

Do you mean characters to indicate a null child?
But, did she have Administrator permissions?
Don't know what to tell you. I was living in San Diego at the time, and talk about her was everywhere. For years. And I'm not a Tejano music fan, it's just something you couldn't avoid if you lived/worked in the area.

That being said, I was already at the end of college/entering the workforce when she died, so like you said, I was probably at the right age to hear about it.

I can tell you than the last time I visited family in SD was last year, and there were still Selena posters/pictures/etc all over the place in the little corner stores.
Housing affordability is a pervasive problem. All modestly compensated professions are at risk including all manner of repair and maintenance job. Subsidizing all low end housing is not possible, so there must be some way to make housing available to those in need.

It should be understood that current circumstances have no precedent in history and show signs of market dysfunction. Just as most famines are complicated if not caused by market failures so the current lack of housing appears to be related to systemic failures. It is no coincidence that we are seeing rapid increases not only in people without homes but also homes without people at the same time as high end luxury estates intended as financial gambling chips go for decades without any residents moving in.
> It actually implements a generalized 3D cellular automaton framework in which each cube in the world is driven by a small Lua program

That doesn't seem scalable at all.
Here I am teetering on the edge of vegetarianism, and people are talking about blowing meat chunks off spines to extract that last bit of cash, and workers inhaling aerosolized pig brains.

Might be the push I needed!
> A large portion of the cost of the Mac Pro goes towards the design of the thing. Having a small, arguably aesthetically pleasing object on a desk vs even a Mini-ITX case is a no-brainer for a lot of creative folks

That's not really fair. They also came up with a cooling design that was pretty quiet with just heat sinks and a fan.

There was no reason they couldn't have made more of the components user replaceable and updated the specs regularly.

Had they kept up a lot more people would have trash cans on their desks. Probably the same for the Mini.

Desktops are probably not very profitable for them anymore, but it seems like making a competitive offering would be good just to lock in their customers.
Only for sed/perl. Not if you are using vim (although in that case it's missing the leading `:`).
Being this emotionally invested in a feature, really is unprofessional...
Depends what you mean by work?
I'm reading an article on Async with C#, that's not coding but is work.

I watch some videos on latest tech, thats work too....

Only thing that matters is if have I completed tasks in my sprint or are there any critical issues
I hadn't considered this before but it seems to make sense. If I have nginx configured with ssl and sendfile (X-Accel-Redirect) and my app sends an X-Accel-Redirect response to nginx, you're saying that it's not actually using sendfile under the hood?
We're talking XML rather than HTML (and omitting certain closing tags isn't compliant HTML5 anyway).

In XML there's also the concept of using self-closing tags only for "empty tags". Meaning, <tagname val="123"/> isn't "correct" and <tagname>123</tagname> should be used instead; while s-expressions simplify this.
Unfortunately I'm paid hourly and remotely, so while getting settled, checking an email or two, getting coffee, etc are all things I would do as part of a normal workday, I don't tend to log those hours or get paid for any of it
Yes, but living off-campus isn't free either. That may get one out of hiked room/board/meal plan fees, but not out of the basic obstacle of affordability that stops many low-income people from going to college. Total cost of attendance can be prohibitive with or without tuition.

Yeah, there are more ways around it. One can work part-time. But my experience is that this is all a bit mythologised and represents a kind of superhuman best-case scenario.

Admittedly, I'm biased as a native Russian (in US since early childhood). In our part of the world, making school and university-age children work is still often regarded as a kind of violation of their human rights. "They need to learn financial responsibility" doesn't resonate strongly in cultures without this national folklore of individual self-reliance.

However, as far as I can tell, "working through college" isn't as easy as it's made out to be. In the real world, a good chunk of the kids that have to work enough alongside school to actually _support_ themselves (housing, food, necessities), rather than just earn some discretionary "spending money", don't end up doing well in school, for obvious reasons of nonlinear tradeoffs in human activities. After a 6-hour shift on my feet at the pizza joint, I'm probably going to want to come home and veg, not soar to the snow-capped summits of my survey of Western intellectual history until 2 AM ...

Being in tech, I got so engrossed in my work I dropped out to pursue my (at the time) meteorically ascendant career! :-) But that's a different — and decidedly luxurious — problem.
It's hard to be "invulnerable" these days. I guess you could avoid the majority of infections by using some "weird" software configuration: such as linux with some nightly built of chromium. I heard that Macs are also quite resistant (still). But these things are very dynamic and change fast. What was good yesterday ("educate" users), may not be relevant any more today.
A couple of grains of salt to take with something like this:

- Much older machines will naturally be slower hardware.

- While “costs more the day you bought it” is certainly relevant, it is not an indicator of what you will spend over the life of the machine. The last Mac Pro I had lasted EIGHT YEARS and it still functioned when I replaced it. The PC statistically will probably be replaced at least once in that time, meaning that a simple price comparison is iffy at best.
Haskell has exceptions. So does Rust. People just prefer to use Either / Result (with good reason).
There are those of us that also think asking people to 'cut back' voluntarily like this is a fucked solution out of the gate.

I continue to fly across the country for work because refusing only hurts my career and gives me a slight sense of smug superiority. Someone else on standby would just take my seat anyway and my refusal would have had no impact (other than a negligible reduction in revenue for the airline).

Instead I actually do something that might have an impact and I donate to organizations researching alternative energy or just straight up planting trees.

I would rather just have the price of carbon emissions priced into the airline tickets than stupidly trying to shame anyone who travels.