skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying sounds more like social anxiety than shyness. There's a difference between the two and shyness is more about being bit overwhelmed of new social situations than to be afraid of them.
> Mark insecure ssl_protocols as errors

This is a nice feature. It's rather linter functionality, but I never saw this for configuration files and think it's a good idea.
Yes, the US does have an employer withholding system but there are so many more layers of taxes and complexity because the taxation system is less federalised.

In Australia there is a single federal employment tax, and a single federal sales tax. States and counties typically collect property tax and fees from services.

In the US both the federal and state governments collect income tax. The tax rates and deduction complexity varies widely between the 52 states. Then the states AND counties (districts) have different sales tax rates. California alone has over 1790 districts each with sales taxes set at a local level.

Not to mention capital gains, Medicare tax etc...

Then the comparatively high lobbying, wealth inequality and inefficiencies in the US political systems makes tax change very slow or regressive.

*I'm an Australian living in the US
Trying to give a short reply, so think about two use cases:

a) laptop as a back-end for complex measurement system. Connected to a high-voltage signal, sitting in a crowded labs full of noise and cables. Would you like to reach out to type in a command every time, if you can speak or gesture instead?

b) laptop put next to a rendering device (video, audio, whatever), close enough so a wide-band wireless becomes efficient. Would you like to have all rendering devices perform the same computation, closed-sourced, paid-licensing, full of non-addressed CVEs? Or you'd rather concentrate the same processing in one place -- your laptop -- source code open to public inspection etc?
The officers involved in this case are not Chicago Police. They are from the Chicago Department of Aviation. They cannot make arrests (they hold offenders until CPD is summoned). They are also unarmed.

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2017/3-Things-to-K...
I had the same thing, my client running out of sync (it seemed to be way behind) the "truth"; had to do a refresh to get it back up.
The original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10207-017-0369-x?...
>What made Xerox PARC special?

All expenses paid, pure but pragmatic research without having to rush to market and add buzzwords and marketing-inspired crap. Oh, and no compartmentalization between teams and narrow-focused projects either.

>Who else today is like them?

Nobody. Google research labs for example is more like a "throw something out there as a marketing gimmick to show we do 'innovation', and see if it sticks" affair.
Arizona - the state that elects McCain over and over again. Yep, must really be working well.
Latency is more important than just bandwidth, and since RAM is pretty far away from the ALU you'll quickly hit limits there.
It's not morbid, but sensible. No-one gets out of life alive.

An unexpected death in my immediate family several years ago helped me realize how underprepared most of us are for death; for all the people and living things around us to die. Rather than be caught surprised, I've tried to remember that life can end in any moment, and it's best to make the most of things (and borrowed atoms, as you say) while you can.
Memory did not go faster so much. You can cram bazillions of transistors on a chip, even do clever tricks to fix power consumption/dissipation...but no trick will feed them data fast enough.
> I think it's creating opportunities for more-focused competitors, like Wayfair.

I was just looking for something that's nigh impossible to find anywhere except on Amazon and Wayfair, and I'd almost pulled the trigger. However, as I've never used or heard of Wayfair before, I decided to do a little research first, and it appears that Wayfair is primarily a drop-ship retailer. So their products come from third-parties as well. I'm not sure this is any more trustworthy than "fulfilled by Amazon".
If governments started producing things, even as simple as websites, that had great user experiences and were actually really useful, then that could dramatically change people's perception of government. That, in turn, would lead people to support funding programs that are often deemed "wasteful."

Of course, those who are philosophically opposed to government doing anything will oppose making it useful. Just as efforts to make filing taxes automatic failed.
The documentation seems to be the source at this moment: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headle...

Its a binary that I suppose runs the Chrome in headless mode, supports some command line options like --screenshot to take screenshots, etc.

I'm having a hard time understanding why its hanging on some runs, and how --timeout and --virtual-time-budget could help me with this.
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Da Vinci's Code must be related with Python
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Overlooked in this article and comments is the influence of one man -- Grover Norquist.

He runs an extremely influential organization that administers a sort of purity pledge that, for most Republican candidates for Congress, is necessary to sign in order to avoid being primaried.

He has decided that making taxes easier to do would make people more okay with tax increases, and so he has decreed that support for the kind of systems other countries use is a violation of this pledge. His excuse is that such a system would effectively slightly increase taxation by preventing people from getting away with taking erroneous deductions. This excuse is obvious, total bullshit.

Grover Norquist wants taxes to be painful because he wants people to dislike government and the concept of taxation in general. Thus, Republicans in Congress must take the same opinion or risk having their purity stamp revoked. Thus, no reforms get passed.

Perhaps this is one area Trump can do some good; certainly he's much less beholden to the traditions that bind the old guard (for better or for worse).
In all seriousness,

Who cares? I don't.

It's like discussing life after death. I'm fine with just this one.
Ask HN: Medium charges $75 for pointing the blog to my existing domain?
I was under the impression that Medium lets you point to a custom domain if you already own the domain. But I contacted support and they say that a one time $75 payment is mandatory.

Same goes for Wordpress. They charge $99 per year even if you own a domain. Is this something common? I have talked to people who say they use these features for free, as the domain is already owned. Any ideas?
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I've owned cars where the ODBII port couldn't do (that) much more than the required subset of reads, and only a second port with access to the CAN network (that required disassembling part of the dash to access) was able to do things like what that link describes
>I would disagree. If you've ever requested a web page translation, done an image search, or spoken with an Alexa or google device I believe it's deep learning going on in the backend.

Web page translations (at least in Google and earlier) didn't do "deep learning" for ages.

Plus most of those things, web page translation, image search, speech assistants, are pretty much either niches or gimmicks. Even if they worked perfectly, there would not be much to write home about.

It's not like people think "my life was changed by the Alexa". GUIs, on the other hand, made lots of things possible that weren't, including whole new professions (heck, the web IS a GUI thing).
A common misconception about evolution is that follows a linear progression to higher forms. There is no ladder it's ascending, it's a spreading tree ( http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_07). It's a system that is exploring a fitness landscape with many local maxima for reproductive success. We have no prove that developing a species with self-aware intelligence is inevitable.
I'd think students listening to a teacher in a auditorium, would appreciate voice recognition, if done with sufficient quality, much more than typing. For me personally it always was either listening/understanding or taking notes.
Isn't that what GP meant? What else would "talent" mean in this context?
I'm not sure why other people in this thread think this is crazy. This is actually a widely held belief by Republicans. Many of them want paying taxes to be hard so people will be conscious of government burden. They believe making tax filing simple is a risk to our liberties.
don't data centers and the rest of our electrical infrastructure still need natural gas and other limited resources to function?
Government, almost by definition, can't do anything effectively.
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I'd go for "apply'd", "craft'd" and so on -- it has a vibrant applicant-of-sharp-tools-ian ring to it. Admirations for your honour's worthy labour.
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The Shenzhen model is really nothing anywhere close to Xerox PARC. If any place gets close, I'd say it's Microsoft Research.

But even that has changed a lot in the last few years.

Disclaimer: I work there.
Yes, it's extremely common. Pay to have your own domain and remove the wordpress/medium branding.
That's totally fair, I get the sentiment. Great job nonetheless!
Apple is already designing their own chips, including both CPU + GPU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mobile_application_proce...

I guess running a chip foundry isn't something they would benefit a lot from (they can contract for process improvements just as well as they could build them out).
Sure, introverted people are unhealthy and even depressive. What else they should be! ROFL
I am convinced the average American decides every important decision by whittling down their options to two (poor) choices their neighbors think best, and flipping a coin. "It's win/win, right guys"
I can vouch for the "fund people, not projects" aspect of ARPA funding in the early 70's.

I was a lowly undergrad but working with Tom Cheatham (who ran the grad Harvard Center for Research in Computing Technology) and others, and helping in minor ways with their annual ARPA proposal. ARPA pretty much was sending money our way, and we just had to cast the annual work in terms of what was "hot" at the time (mostly "program understanding" at Harvard) to get the funds.
Do you use Python in production? It uses setjmp for its exception handling.
Believe me, I am sympathetic. I am naturally quite introverted, and although I do not have difficulty talking with people, doing so wears me out, even if it's with people I care about. It's just how I'm wired.

I think the best advice I can give is to listen to how genuinely empathetic speakers hold the rooms' attention. Try not to think of it as a zero-sum game. If the way you are conveying your ideas is in a way that captivates, you will not be spoken over. Conversely, if the way you're relaying information is combative or confrontational, people will talk over you, even if you have the empirically best ideas in the room.
Thanks I did not know this song. Was expecting Drinking in LA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsQZvsR_QI)
> at some point I must give my atoms back to the universe for whatever purpose they find in the future

Nitpick: you're already giving back everyday a fairly high amount of atoms to the universe. Actually, it looks like a hight percentage of your original atoms have already been replaced many times [0].

[0] http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
In spite of the fact that I already own and have paid for the domain with Namecheap?
You should definitely read this: http://bit.ly/2pgTpDg
I find it pretty annoying actually. I have been submitting my returns digitally for several years now and I haven't noticed any improvements?

For example, it pre-fills some data but omits obvious stuff like my first name and email address which are highly unlikely to have changed since last year?

Some non-relevant sections can be ignored but others need you to enter 0.00.

Also, if there is an error in the electronic filing, so your return is not submitted, good luck on finding what that error was because they aren't going to tell you.

And, lastly, the switch from the old style site to the new could be handled better, like all in one go instead of randomly switching you between the two.
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If you just skipped to the end of the article, you missed the fact that the last sentence is a slightly tongue-in-cheek reference to this article from 1999:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311070a.html
People Who Speak the Right Language Win
When we talk about innovation today we mostly think about computers. But Xerox PARC operated on a new domain.

I think we will see new canvases in the future, but maybe not in computing. Maybe we will see the rise of new materials, new ways to heal, ways to combine humans with animals, living computers, living tools of war, space travel, and so on.

If you want to be like Xerox PARC you are already limiting yourself when you only think about the computer domain.
Portlandia! San Francisco has some rough corners. Even thing adjacent to Market street is terrible. Went to some clubs in the Tenderloin with a bunch of friends. Always trouble.
All the numbers we have heard about causes, haven't altered the overall increase in the PPM co2 number. I don't trust that we won't discover more about this situation. My hunch is flying is one of the biggest feedback mechanisms, because of where it happens (high in the atmosphere), how it interacts with the ecosystem (contrails), and the sheer volume of fuel used daily (economic vested interests).

I see contrails every day above my head, they fill the sky on some days.

There is a problem with the sky, the coincidence seems striking to me.

Like smokers in the 1930's being prescribed cigarettes - common sense should be able to indicate a truth that is yet to properly emerge.
Well it could be that my accountants just totally lucked out and presented a proposal to someone whose motto is Charge More For Professional Services, but it's mostly "I have a number of factors which make writing my tax return complicated", many alluded to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810367
I am quite good at "corporate speak" when i need it. I tend to use when i want to be really vexing for the receiver.

In general, i begin with "what i want to say" and then i generate the smoothest way to explain it in a sentence, without anything that someone could "grasp" on.

It tends to be enough. So i don't think i ever think in corporate speak. I just try to use my imagination.
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If we keep to text encodings, then it's easier to find an encoding where it doesn't.
Losing backups is always an option.
Urban walking is a great thing. Last year I was walking Singapore and had a great time.

Please note: blog spam not intended. Only to illustrate my experience : (https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/a-day-out-in-singapore-68...)
ARM-based chips (like the A10) tend to have a much smaller thermal envelope and much less battery draw. They were built ground-up for mobile use, while x86 was built for speed & power.

I can't think of many fanless x86 laptops -- the only one that comes to mind is the current 12" Macbook, but that makes a ton of compromises and is running a CPU that's basically 5-6 years old. On the other hand, the idea of a cell phone with a big heatsink and fan assembly is laughable.
This makes Tethys and Rhea very tempting places for permanent occupation - they have abundant ice on the surface (easy to dig if you have a power source) and the delta-v's between them and the surface of Enceladus are between 1000 m/s and 3000 m/s, something chemical rockets can do easily.
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Stock owners of condom companies?
No. I didn't. I didn't say stop flying instead of stopping eating meat. Do both. Go for it.

I'd say stopping eating meat will be a lot harder for people than stopping flying.
Arguably, we'll never know that we're dead. That's a kind of immortality, I suppose.
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From the epilogue of Barry Lyndon: "It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now."
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Incumbency/change is largely an orthogonal issue, as money works well in both cases. In fact, it may be more effective in an environment of continual change, driving up the cost of participation beyond the reach of true grassroots campaigns.
me too ^^ this is really good work
The father goes around apologizing for his son's behavior? I'm pretty sure that's not helping anyone.
Why would American law be relevant?
I recently tried looking up some relatives about 5 generations back. If you average 2 kids each then in 5 generations you have 40 or so living descendants who may be curious. It was interesting because one of them wrote a family history in fairly literary form - bit Jane Austen in style. Not sure we would have bothered if it was just diaries.
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Regarding the archival quality of bits, you might find this paper interesting:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf
Our I.T. guy grabbed some desktop shelving from a local office store to help stack mine when I had devkits. Sadly I can't find the exact model online to share. Between the XB1s, XB360, PS4s, iPads, Windows Tablets, Mac, and Windows dev boxes, monitors and HDMI switches, I also needed an extra desk. I also added some nails to a plank to help make a (tiny) wall of tablets...

Porting things has it's perks :D

EDIT: "Shelves" were probably actually monitor stands, roughly like these - stacked a little percariously but it did the trick (tm): https://www.amazon.com/Allsop-Monitor-18-Inch-platform-keybo...
> In my perspective, the opposite of being shy is being

> socially confident. That is, if one wants, for example,

> talk to a stranger without fear, he/she can do it, if

> he/she wants - which is different from being a chat

> machine. Abstractly, it's a capacity.

Yes and you have to choose wisely who you talk to or maybe even want to become friends with. Evaluating people quickly is crucial to not get mugged, fooled or just to keep a happy mood. So the confidence requires developing some skills in understanding people and also learning in which ways other people read you.

At some point I very boldly neglected a lot of anxieties I have or had myself, for instance being more direct with women or talking openly about "inconvenient truths", especially at work. This worked for me pretty well for some time but at some point not any more. Being someone that really thinks things through, it may be overwhelming for someone else hearing the results of a long thinking process without context. If you do that too often the other person may choose stop listening to you or just get angry. Also on several occasions I ended up being angry myself, ignoring the fact that there are people who just might be interested in using you. It's important to understand why shyness or anxiety is there.

On the other hand, when you are not shy at all, talk about every little thing, it may get very difficult to become proficient in an engineering discipline. Memorizing things is tough, the best known methods to do that involve being on your own. Asking questions all the time may distract or even annoy your colleagues that work concentrated by themselves.

> That's a false dichotomy; the above example, which opposes narcissism (or similar) to shyness,

> is a very typical rationalization of the disadvantages of shyness.

I knew a guy who basically had this engineering background and I bet when he was younger, he was likely quite shy. So he was super open, talking to literally everyone and often making jokes. When I met him the first time he seemed really charismatic, fun and basically also someone I could learn something from. But at some point I realized that he virtually had no friends and also failed to truly listen and understand other people and their perspective. It was quite sad because he is an alcoholic. He might lead a happier life being more shy.

I think the topic is more than "shyness is good/problematic/bad" or "extroversion is great/not so important". It's basically a rabbit hole to the inner workings of society and work places.
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Not sure what the case is with Medium but with Wordpress you are better off hosting it yourself so you have full control of everything.

$99 a year seems excessive but, I guess, for those uncomfortable with self-hosting it may be worth it?
Supposedly his last reelection was his most difficult yet? Of course, that could be because he's fairly old.
Not necessarily. If a shy person does speak up, you know that they've put a lot of effort into doing so. Therefore what they have to say is important, at least to them.

Although shyness and introversion are not the same thing, I think they are closely linked. I am introverted and shy. Because I am introverted, I do not often seek out the company of others, and conversation does not come naturally to me. I am painfully aware that I am not good at conversation, and that becomes foremost in my mind when I anticipate engaging in one. It's like joining a hockey game when you are not a good skater. You just know that all the other players are going to notice how good you are not, and that you being there is making it less fun for everybody else. This anxiety causes you to avoid playing hockey, which just makes the situation worse because you never practice.
In many countries, cemeteries aren't managed so well as this one in Sweden. I've toured my share, and recall seeing graves that were hundreds of years old. In some places, thousands.

Not that it matters, of course.
That was not what the parent was saying. US Government spends large amount of money every year. They are bound to make some things work. Private sector makes some things work also. So, the question is : 'which should be preferred' ? If you agree that government spending is less efficient in making things work, you should prefer private spending. Unless you believe there are things private spending cannot do which is a reasonable case to demand public funding for research. For example, some argue that the quarter-to-quarter nature of how private companies operate precludes them from making investment in long running research. But companies like Google do run multi-year research projects.
You've mentioned two companies - Microsoft and Google. Both of these are American companies so they're subject to US competition law in at least their home markets. No other country would have the power to do anything fundamental about their monopoly such as breaking them up. They could only fine them, require them to support competitors, or lesser things like that.

If you want to talk about some other countries, a monopoly is also not illegal in the UK. Again, only abusing the monopoly may be considered illegal.

https://www.gov.uk/cartels-price-fixing/overview

If you were thinking of a different country's law (which would be odd since you mentioned two US companies) can you name one where a monopoly is by definition illegal?
Yes. You want to use your own domain and brand, you pay for it.
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