skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>An administrative assistant who can compile their weekly reports with the press of a button is far more valuable than one who spends half of every Friday mucking around in a Microsoft Word template to do the same thing.

No they aren't. Either they're making the same salary either way, or else their employer has fired them and hired someone else to push that "button" at a fraction of that salary, once it became obvious that their job could be automated.
A similar application that I'm fond of is Pen, which also does simple load balancing and has udp support:

http://siag.nu/pen/
Weekly report? You want a weekly TPS report?

No problem, I'll generate one so big you won't be able to read it in a year! And it will only take 30 seconds.
The whole incident reminds me of this amusing post about memory overcommit in Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
These type of solutions seem like the only reasonable ones to address climate change. Goals of cutting carbon emissions often tend to be misaligned with other activities that would be hard to stop en masse, such as everyone still driving a fossil fuel emitting vehicle, farms using fertilizer to grow their crops or individuals who want to use their AC because they're hot.

Sure it'd be great if we find alternatives to a majority of things that contribute to carbon emissions, but then there's the difficulty of getting everyone to use these alternatives across the board (along with the messy politics of it) and if you succeed at that, you'll still have to deal with other countries who aren't going to change their habits. It's essentially a global game of whack-a-mole. And it needs to happen soon. Some scientists claim we're already beyond the ability to reverse climate change by eliminating these activities.

Given what we're up against, it seems far more reasonable to explore ways of negating our emissions, terraforming the planet or trying to find a way to live on a far less hospital earth. I'm all for continuing our march towards a globally smaller carbon footprint, but it should be done concurrently while we try to address the sobering possibility that it might not be enough.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-e...

Has this been superseded by a new policy?
Speed differences of that magnitude are largely due to bad interactions with R's data allocation model. R for loops are not that slow if there is no allocation going on, and there are ways to organize the allocation ahead of time: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/07/efficient-accumulatio...

So my guess is: no the JIT won't help for ultra slow code as in my experience that isn't the problem in that case.
I can relate too well with the author here with knowing more than others, but I see it from a different perspective. From the perspective that there are other forms of being smart besides knowledge. There is a bigger picture of culture, which just means how we interact with the world and people around us, and intelligence is only a small part of that.

Culture is hard. I thought it was just me at first, but I've been meeting more and more people who just don't "fit in", and I think it's because they never really "got" the culture around them.

And now I'm seeing it more and more in my children, the fact that some people don't just naturally pick up the culture around them like others do. For some it's harder to learn than others and takes more effort.

As I grow older I realize more and more of this was caused by me being an arrogant kid. That arrogance stopped me from learning from around me because I would be too focused on the thoughts inside my own head, believing them to be more worthwhile than anything externally.

So I never picked up learning from the world around me during the time I was supposed to, and I was decades late to the party. Case in point, I'm 31 and only gave beer a real chance for the first time this year (conclusion: I like it!).

And I've accidentally passed that on to my own children, the arrogance and the cultural internalization. I just wish I had spent more time being quiet and listening to the world around me than thinking too much.

Half the time I wasn't actually "smarter" than anyone around me even though I thought I was, and the other half when I actually was, my intelligence did more harm than good to myself.

Some of the people I look up to the very most are "ignorant" by the standards I held myself to growing up (and maybe society did too). They're "uneducated fools". But they're kind, patient, quiet and thoughtful, good listeners, meek and humble, compassionate and understanding, forgiving. I find myself wanting to be around them just because they're them, and wishing I was more like them.
Roammate travel app has launched
> Also, at the bottom of the page "This page is owned by Service Desk." What does that mean?

It indicates what department of the USPTO manages that page of the website. All pages have a "page-owner" tag in the footer.
Regardless taking a pill masks the symptoms, it is not a cure. Pain is not like a bacteria and the pills are not like a targeted antibiotic. You do understand that, right?
Accenture does do custom software.
Did you mean to say "not mutually exclusive"?
Shaw 150Mbps package comes with 1TB of data.

I stream all my content including using iptv, hardly download anything, and hit under 500GB a month.

It has a cap, but quite generous.

I no longer hoard media downloads, and only stream what I went when I want... No pre-grabbing every download I could source.

I notice as the years pass, my ISP speeds are going up, but my demand for that extra bandwidth has gone down.
I use to do several 100 GBs on a 1.5mbps DSL connectio with Usenet running 24/7 ~20years ago (got banned by both local ISPs temporarily... Times before they started charging or not caring)
I consider my manager as an "equal". I respect his "role power", but working for a small IT department we very much have a partnership. His role is to get strategy and priorities from on high, my role is tactical - implement the best architecture and training in the way I see fit within the very broad guidelines that he sets.

He has the power to guide my job but I also have the power to leave and find another job.
What is the least known World War Two fact?
I would assume that they do it because HTTPS does complicate the pipeline on several different levels. If you want to tcpdump the https traffic, for example, you need to do SSL/TLS termination at the load balancer to get something readable. Most web servers don't make it easy to inject on the other side of the decryption; I remember having to enable some very verbose debug logs in nginx to accommodate this. Third-party tooling is necessary to take a dump of encrypted traffic and decrypt it for analysis.

It's also possible that their configuration was causing them performance problems and decreasing overhead by killing HTTPS for "unnecessary" endpoints was seen as a potential solution. Requesting a public record about a patent is not something that, at first glance, seems like it should need to be transferred over a secure protocol.

Of course, none of these are really good reasons to disable HTTPS, but they're some potential explanations.

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Separately, I think some people who remember HTTPS being used to secure "true secret" pages kind of resent the "HTTPS must be used anywhere and everywhere" trend that has taken hold. It's not that there aren't good reasons to do that, but it's also silly to pretend there aren't side effects of doing it.

From some perspectives, the need to encrypt all communication can be seen as an external concern for something like a VPN tunnel to handle. End-to-end crypto is good because it, theoretically, precludes reception from anyone who can get in the middle of the server and the VPN, but it needs to be more transparent before everyone is willing to consider that a worthwhile/important tradeoff.

One side effect of HTTPS everywhere is that the site can no longer really designate some portion of traffic as "secret". If every admin in your org needs to be able to decrypt all HTTPS traffic to debug issues, you're giving some access away. Maybe some of them would've been able to get to that data anyway, but probably many of them would not.

Again, this is not to say that that HTTPS shouldn't be used, but just some musings into why someone would not necessarily be enthusiastic about it. Working to integrate HTTPS more transparently to admins and working toward the ability to mark specific information for extra "app-layer secrecy" instead of just relying on transport-layer secrecy seem like they'd be good steps.
I still credit my academic achievements to my father reading 'Dune' to me as a child, because I was fascinated by the (paraphrased) introduction to one of the chapters:
"Many comment on how quickly Paul Muad-dib learned, but they do not realize that his first lesson was in how to learn, and the first part of that lesson was believing he could learn... it is amazing how few people believe they can learn".

That book is probably the reason I treated learning as a learnable skill rather than an innate ability.
He didn't "bring the vulnerability to the attention of AT&T" he fucking told Gawker first. Furthermore, he's part of a number of black hat hacker groups, including an anti-semitic one despite the fact that he's Jewish.

There are examples of honest people getting fucked over, but this isn't one of them.
Bose sued for allegedly spying on customers via wireless headphones and app
I disagree that the reporting on Uber's crap started two months ago:

"Peter Thiel: Uber is most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley" (2 years ago)

"Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes" (4 months ago)

"Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides" (3 years ago)

"Uber Database Breach Exposed Information Of 50,000 Drivers" (2 years ago)

"Uber VP: we could spend $1M to take revenge on journalists" (2 years ago)

"Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught" (9 months ago)

"Lyft Accuses Former COO of Stealing Confidential Docs Before Joining Uber" (2 years ago)

"Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us" (2 years ago)
For a longer exposition that also covers the historical context more deeply, Jim Baggott's "The Meaning of Quantum Theory: A Guide For Students Of Chemistry and Physics" covers Bell's Theorem in Chapter 4 and also requires only basic knowledge of calculus.
I'm sorry to hear about that.

Do you take magnesium supplements? There is some evidence it can be effective at reducing pain and frequency of migraine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=magnesium+migraine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28286809

Alas, it too is a pill regimen and also not a cure.
Drupal is all over government sites. So is Wordpress. Do you expect them to be using closed source CMSs or something? (I get that Drupal is insecure, but no, it's not "illegal" to use Drupal...)
The USPTO databases have to be one of the most torturous services to their users in the whole of internet. The UI of both the patent and trademark search is archaic, but not in a HN way but in a really bad way.

In patent search, there is no "search" box. Instead, the "quick search" forces you to specify two (and exactly two) text queries on the database columns with obligatory boolean operation.[1] Even if you happen to find an interesting patent, good luck linking to it (which should be the number one service they provide - GET individual patent documents). The page showing the patent document has a dozen cryptic query parameters in the URL, some of which relate to the search query you used to find the patent! No "make shareable link" button to be seen, either.

And don't get me started on the trademark search, or Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), as they like to call it.[2] When you navigate to the front page, you get a private session identifier - in your URL of course! And when you search for a trademark ("simple search" is intuitively known as "New User" here) and select a TM to view, you would be excused of thinking that the short URL in your browser address bar is the linkable URL of this entry. But no - it's just your session identifier along with the document's index in the results of your last search query.

When you leave the trademark site or just click "Logout" (since you're a kind person - they after all ask you "logout when you are done to release system resources allocated for you"), that URL is gone in the wind. If you shared a link to that trademark to your friend, they only get this very helpful page:

<H1>This search session has expired. Please start a search session again by clicking on the TRADEMARK icon, if you wish to continue</H1>

So no way to link to individual TM registrations here either.

1: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

2: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/
I dealt with those kinds of limitations a few years back when I lived in a rural area, and if faced with the same limitations today, I recommend the following, as this is my current operating mode when on overseas trips and on limited connections while still needing to work. It still sucks, but I've done what I can to make it suck less. It still blows my mind when I observe while traveling that much of the "fly-over" communities in the US have worse or similar broadband terms, at more expensive rates (in both absolute and local PPP terms) than Nepal, or many other developing nations. The US post-industrial revolution is seemingly rotting out from within.

Basically, the high level solution is live in the CLI as much as possible, and remote into your "main driver" as much as feasible. I had to accept that I won't ever be working with my daily processes transparently. I had to make conscious decisions all the time, for example: do I work with this customer-sent Word file on the remote Windows box or download and work on my laptop?

Mostly I live in SSH and screen to various Unix boxes. Will add Mosh and tmux this year to try them out over unreliable connections. Windows RDP was okay on bandwidth caps, a license of NX was used for those few times I could not escape X11 (ship it to a remote Windows box to maintain state). ESXi for those times I had to work through a VPN and view the remote display via the VM video because the VPN cuts off all other remote access.

If you are in this for the long-haul, then your own Supermicro Mini-1U with up to 128GB RAM colo'd will probably be cheaper than even an OVH annual dedicated server.

Hope this helps.

There should be a public list of politicians who voted for blocking municipal broadband, to give tech-oriented voting blocs an easy way to inform single-issue voters how to vote against them.
Is it somehow controversial that selling more tickets for flights will tend to lower costs per ticket?

The particular incident isn't really a good one to base discussions on, it was so egregious that the discussions are boring. It shouldn't have happened.

There is a more interesting discussion to have about overbooking, whether to allow it and how to deal with the situation where they get it wrong and don't have enough seats. Maybe the minimum payout for denied boarding should be higher. Maybe the airline should have to start their offers for voluntarily taking a later flight at that price. Maybe the sale process for all tickets should include an option to actually reserve the seat (for a fee).

But there isn't a discussion to have about whether a business should call the police to beat up a customer that they just don't want to serve.
Probably because he paid the lowest fare for that segment and had no frequent flyer status. When involuntarily denying boarding to a passenger, an airline in the US has to provide 4x the fare paid for that segment, up to a maximum of $1350. Some articles incorrectly reported this as "the computer randomly picked" vs "the computer picked".

The insidious part of it is that on more complex itineraries, the regional jet segments are priced rather low. I've flown from Montreal to Dallas-Fort Worth to Tokyo multiple times on American Airlines, and each time the ticket shows the cost of the business class YUL-DFW segment to be $232. If I was IDB'd from that segment (which also wouldn't happen to business class passengers without some major extenuating circumstances), all I would be legally required to be paid would be $232 * 4 = $928. I've seen economy fares on regional jet flights on complex itineraries of about $50, so the legal requirement to deny boarding to that passenger would be $200 cash.
REP MOVS has a fixed setup cost which needs to be amortized; so its slower for small sizes that for example SIMD. Though is faster for larger sizes (> 512 - 1024 bytes?)
Sure, and "taxation is theft" is an opinion.
Thanks. Looks like the kind of books I'm looking for.
I think context matters here. In a small startup everyone on the team is expected to be able to contribute their skills to make the startup grow. There is no time for training and teaching. So either convince founders or management that they need to bring the right skills in house or leave knowing you tried to help the company but they have different priorities.
In general though you should try to help people not look down on them.
Software developers are not physicists. Software developers aren't even mathematicians, although many are enamoured with related concepts.

To grasp the difference between the hard academic sciences and software development community, consider the differences between a telephone company and an astronomical observatory with a large telescope on a mountain top.

Many people here might be amateur enthusiasts, mixed with a handful of professional academic participants. Any award winning physicists hanging out here would be surprising.

That said, feel free to distinguish yourself by outshining everyone else. It would be a welcome addition.
Cool, guy, I must be imagining the whole thing. Every day.
> If A closes, close B. If B closes, close A.

It's shutdown() writes on EOFs, not close, with refcounting to also do close() when EOFs were detected on both directions (I also have written a TCP proxy). But yeah, TCP proxies are trivial, would be more interesting to see something like a tunneling proxy that sends data over multiple connections to maximize performance.
As mentioned in other comments, I don't have this issue of not being able to use `class` in Vue. So it can be done better.
Nope! They aren't mutually exclusive, of course, but a lot of folk believe that they are, hence my comment.
I meant the hardware with audio codec, though technically it would be the audio controller which has the buffers and control registers (which may/may not be the same chip, depending on the exact make, e.g. in HD Audio the controller is in the chipset, and the codec is a separate chip). Sorry for the confusion.
I'd much rather have 300 Mbps than 25 Mbps, and I've never went over 50 GB of downloads in a month.

I wouldn't download more data if I had 300 Mbps than if I had 25 Mbps. I would just not wait as long for it to download.
This would be interesting for patent research; you could legitimately say "I looked for a patent that already covers X but since you cannot guarantee the data was not modified in transit, I cannot be certain that I saw what was actually in the patents I reviewed".
If they shared the data, they could get caught doing so. By simply removing HTTPS someone could intercept the requests on their own without any wrongdoing on the part of USPTO (aside from dropping HTTPS).
> the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet.

I took the "still looks like a socialist museum" to be referring to the second part of the sentence: "the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago".
The number of "books" being published is growing exponentially. So, a significant fraction of all books ever would have been published in the recent past (which also means that they would probably be "electronic natives" that don't need scanning and digitization). I imagine that the uptick in self-publication opportunity is already (or will become) and important factor in that growth. For these reasons, I don't find it shocking that some online repository has a few percent of all books ever written.

PS: I couldn't find numbers regarding my statements. It would be great if someone can provide sources buttressing or refuting my claims.
This is not a good take, and poorly written besides. I think it's apparent that the good pilot hasn't been a paying passenger in quite some time.

Nothing in this distinguishes the facts as we know them so far, and doesn't even mention the changes in legality incurred once a paying passenger sits in their purchased seat. For me, the contract of carriage is an important aspect of this story. Heck, I don't even think I've read anything that implicates the pilots on the Dao flight at all.

It reads more as submarine PR to take the heat off the airline and square it on the police, who essentially have zero oversight in Chicago, and which would put the matter into a territory of blamelessness. Further extrapolating, in the inevitable civil case(s), I wonder if the pilot's reasoning could work to reduce punitive damages.
Are there good groups in Louisville, KY, for adults wanting to learn how to do software development (or more generally, enter the tech industry)? Does anyone know of any good online resources for adults along these lines?

I know about a number of resources for kids learning to code, but those are maybe not appropriate for a motivated adult wanting to investigate switching careers.
What sort of chronic pain do you have and how do you manage it?

Pills are often necessary for chronic pain patients, as are opioids which are inappropriately demonized due to some recreational drug abusers.
I'm just learning pandas as well but I think it is the right tool for the job. I am using django-pandas so I can do easy ORM stuff. If I were to sketch out your use case:

Create a object/class called

AuctionResult
- some datetime
- value

Then you'd query it qs = AuctionResult.objects.all()

then you load it into a pandas dataframe:

df = read_frame(qs)

After that you can do all sorts of the fun stuff I imagine.
Plausible deniability? Shifting blame?

I'm just playing Devil's advocate here.
It's a good solution, but webpack can be overwhelming to newcomers, and it sometimes can lock you into working with associated dev tools like webpack-dev-server and all the various loaders.
Anyone looking at creating an IPFS or BitTorrent mirror yet?

Edit: the PDF attachment URL's are very predictable, they're the number of the patent in a weird order + a page number, e.g.: http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/10/292/096/2.pdf

Back of the envelope calculations say all PDF's should only take 1 - 6 TB's (assuming 100kb to 600kb in PDF's on average). Seriously, why hasn't anyone mirrored this?
I was a landlord for over a decade. I worked with tenants to a point because the alternative - eviction was not an easy process. To evict someone you have to (it's been awhile so I've forgotten all of the legal terms):

1. Give them a 7 day notice

2. File an eviction notice with the court

3. The tenant then has 7 days to respond.

4. The tenant can respond with almost anything and then you have to wait for your court date - that can be two weeks to a month.

5. Then you show up to court and then you have to wait a week (?) to file another request from the court to schedule a policeman for a two hour window to evict them.

You must have a crew of 5 and must have all of their belongings on the street within 2 hours.

This whole process can take up to two months and each step costs time and money.

I would never become a landlord again unless it was part of an LLC with multiple tenants - at least 20 - where I would expect to make a profit with 75% occupancy and had a dedicated staff.
IQ and the Job Market (Jordan Peterson) [video]