skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You took the words right out of my mouth :)

> Why so many writers write stuff that add nothing?

I also found this amusing.
I've never tried it before, but Sony allows you to purchase third party camera apps to do such a thing. Example: https://www.playmemoriescameraapps.com/portal/usbdetail.php?...
I love the idea of an app to identify plants, I hate the idea of having to pay to use it... Definitely, I'm not in the target market.
As someone in the bay area working for a BigCo, I expect to be making making ~250k with 5 years of experience due to internal info, see also https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
I don't think Windows NT did, which is about where my Windows knowledge ends.
amusingly that's about 50% of the size of the webpage itself (2.4mb)
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I discovered this a few months ago, when I went looking for XMP metadata in the filesystem and used the magic number trick to extract it from files of all kinds.

I found it is common to find XMP inside media files embedded inside Windows EXE, as well as Linux binaries, JAR, Microsoft Word and other composite formats.

Complex media objects frequently use an encapsulation system such as ZIP. When a PNG file is incorporated into a JAR or a Word Document, the XMP content in the file may not be compressed because the archiver may not attempt to compress the png file since it assumes the data is already compressed.

XMP is very good from the viewpoint of content creators in terms of having comprehensive metadata incorporated into files so that it does not get out of sync. XMP data is RDF data using an improved version of Dublin Core, IPCC and other industry RDF vocabulary. You can write SPARQL queries right away, plus XMP specifies a way to make an XMP packet based on pre-existing metadata in common industry schemes.

The XMP packets can get big, and you sometimes see people make a tiny GIF image (say a transparent pixel GIF) that is bulked up 100x because of bulky metadata. Once you package data for delivery to consumers you want to strip all that stuff out.

The XMP spec is here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp.html

There is some brilliant thinking in there, but also things that will make your head explode such as the method for embedding an XMP packet into a GIF
I think that in cases like that you are the one being reductionist, not the other way around. Bringing up the flaws of people like Ghandi, MLK, Feynman, Hawking etc is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, even a responsible thing to do. Great men are still imperfect and their problems do not discredit them.

In a way its dangerous to not bring up their flaws; say MLK jr. defended the rights of people of color but was against gay rights. It is wrong to idolize him utterly, because then his views can legitimize views we think are wrong now.

I don't think any reasonable person tries to tear down great men and women by bringing up their flaws. I think they are just trying to recognize the real person, rather than the ideal. Their life does not reduce to one mistake just because we talk about it happening.
Honestly, if you're leaving, the amount of equity that is equitable is probably pretty low for the same reasons that what your cofounder did in the past does not deserve super-sized slice of the pie: To a first approximation all the work is still in the future and a person who leaves is not going to be contributing to it.

Or to put it another way, the time and effort each of you has spent is a sunk cost not a future value. And anyway, a passive owner who is paid a large share of future revenues is highly demotivating for those who stay -- I mean how would you feel paying 45% to your cofounder if they were the one leaving and you were the one staying.

Business partnerships are a lot like marriages with the business being the child and shared property. Splits are often messy and this looks like one and when splits are messy pretty much everyone loses.

As an aside, working at a big company is usually poor preparation for working at a small one. Nobody at a small company has to be on their good behavior. There's no HR department to handle things. And the owners have to take the trash out to the dumpster.

So years ago, when I was going through a somewhat similar business breakup, I decided that it was best to get on with life and stop fighting with my former partners. Part of the problem was all of us lacked business experience. They were being assholes. I was being an asshole right back. Then I decided to stop and just get on with my life. It's been nearly twenty years and I don't regret that decision or the dollars I left on the table. Not for a minute.
Any thoughts on why?
Yeah, absolutely do not follow that rule in Virginia. We have roads where the speed limit is 70MPH. If you're driving 80MPH or over, it's automatically a reckless driving charge, which is an actual crime, not just a moving violation. And if your attention drifts a bit and you accidentally break 90MPH, you'll probably end up in jail.

My usual rule is 5MPH over. I sometimes increase it to 10MPH, but it works almost everywhere.
Engineering isn't exactly the same, but I worked IT at an architecture firm and workers there were not legally allowed to call themselves "Architect" without being licensed.
I absolutely still use pinboard, just not it's bookmarklet.
And by "open source" they mean a proprietary product[0] with "personal" (stripped down and highly restrictive license) and "pro" versions[1], naturally.

The old version (which is on github) is GPLv3 apparently.

[0] http://xenko.com/legal/eula/

[1] https://store-dev.xenko.com/get-xenko
Why should it be a journalist job to call out a holocaust denier?

Shouldn't they just report who is holding the even and what views they hold? I think most of the problem here is conflating journalists with advocates.
I find your way of pointing their lack of competance really funny.
Mattermark Launches on Salesforce AppExchange, the Leading Sales App Marketplace
Well, outside of some extreme cases (such as professional sports), I think you see this in a "company town", where laborers could theoretically move, but usually lack the means to do so. (And increasingly can't afford the higher cost of living of the places where the jobs are.)

Anyway, when the "company town" economies were thriving, they usually coexisted with unions, to help balance the ability to negotiate wages.

...The fact that we're seeing labor's share decline within cities (where there are clearly many employers) dispels me of the concept that monopolies/oligopolies are responsible for this decline.
Yeah this confused me as well, but some other comments here clarify the situation: there's one sketch file that is the "design system" (containing the "components"), then a bunch of other sketch files for the actual pages of the site or screens of the app... it's only this "components" file that is generated from code. Sketch is used for the design of the pages/screens/etc, but they are pulling the components from the "design system" file.

As with most misunderstandings/disagreements/arguments in the programming world, this confusion arises from people in different contexts using a tool for one purpose, but not realizing that other people are in different situations trying to achieve different goals with those same tools.

(Specifically, if you are an agency or freelance designer/developer, and you are building a bunch of different sites, then this tool does not serve any useful purpose... but if you have an underlying "design system" and a large company with lots of different products all sharing the same basic design, and a large team to go with it,then this starts to make a lot more sense.)
The problem though is that humans can adapt, and the AI in general can't. A go AI can play Go perfectly, but if a player overturns a board, it can do nothing to right this situation and resume playing. It's just following a list made for it, albeit a fairly substantial list.

The worry is this, the cars will not fail like a human will. It may even be dangerous The car may not even be able to move in certain situations (like another car blocking them in front either purposefully or accidentally). Or it may not be able to even see certain conditions a human could.
A container app that depends on 100 other container apps.
Software Engineering is definitely a recognized engineering in Canada. And it's only a year of working with a P.Eng. But you're right, it's a chicken/egg problem, which is super unfortunate. I think somewhere down the line accreditation will be more important, but PEO has backed themselves in to a corner.
A (usually) synchronous one. Like rmi or corba or dcom.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#WhatAboutC...
Doesn't it makes you wonder why MS created that situation on the first place?

MS have no one to blame except themself and their 'legacy code'.
USA Nuclear Sub Arrives in Korea. Notice Seal-Team Assassination Pod on Deck
Everybody you don't agree with is "close-minded". It's the fact that they can't seem to see the sense in your own position that makes them seem like such benighted fools. But they look at you in the same way. Unless you can accept that _to those people_ opposition to vaccines or whatever _does_ make a kind of sense, then I suggest you're being equally close-minded. You may be right, but your mind is not open to the sense in other people's worldviews.

The division of our society into ideological camps that point fingers at each other and can't see the others as basically-sensible human beings drives me crazy.
The jaw fell off?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Goodbye Mr Clarke, you will be missed.
Staff engineer at Google, most likely, but possibly Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft.

In any case, somebody who thinks this represents a significant slice of the Silicon Valley workforce is living in a bubble. For every engineer making >$500k, there are many thousands making <$200k, at the thousands of other tech companies in the Bay Area that aren't Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple. While the $500k engineer has every incentive to stay in SV, that has no bearing on the vast majority of engineers.
Seems very similar to DIGG.com's story.
Yes, but the drone won't have the satiability necessary for that resolving power. Nothing floating in the air has, even with OIS.

These are the cameras that need a sturdy tripod or powerful flashes to take advantage of.

More of a marketing tool than a reasonable photography tool.
The size of the hole is irrelevant.

What matters it the size of the shovel they are using (their expenses and subsidies) and the force of the wind that's refilling the hole with nearby dust (the customer revenues).

They can reduce their shovel without impacting the wind too much.
Can anyone give some insight that can affirm or refute the claims made in the post?

It appears that the source of KD's view is this article by Nasif Nahle:
http://www.biocab.org/carbon_dioxide_geological_timescale.ht...

In response to some of Nahle's research, I found this post here:
http://hannahlab.org/climate-skeptics-nasif-nahles-shaky-mat...

As I commented in my first submission of this post, I also want to say:

It's always troubling when my brother, the skeptic, sends me such links. I'm not a scientist (neither is he) so I don't know what to make of such articles.

I always like to explore contrarian views, but this one doesn't sit well with me. It's as if 'skeptics' use such views to roll back all the progress we've made and to slow progress that's needed. It especially boils my blood when 'skeptics' use their argument to somehow tarnish Earth Day as Earth Day is so much more than global warming.

This opinion piece from the local paper sums up my feelings about what Earth Day does represent and what the skeptics ignore: http://planetjh.com/2017/04/18/the-new-west-earth-to-trump/
Additional pedantry: while biennial does exclusively mean "once every two years", biannual is not strictly speaking wrong. However, quite inconveniently, like most "bi-[time span]" words, biannual can mean either twice a year or once every two years.
It's interesting to note that the Nexus 5, released in 2013, could take exposures up to 30 seconds, iirc. Different sensor hardware.
Ok, didn't think of another thread changing the directory. Still, there's an upper bound around 32 kilo code units, so not indefinitely. Unless UNC paths are not bounded, don't know about that right now.
There's only 496 pairings with 32 teams.

The number of pairings between teams that play infrequently will be quite a bit smaller.
The behaviour of US universities when it comes to text books is astonishing to me. When I studied physics in the UK in the mid seventies such behaviour would have caused massive student protests. Now there are courses in the UK that have no textbooks at all and are based entirely on laboratory work, lectures, and on line study.

In fact when I studied there was no real requirement to buy books at all. Of course most of us did spend a lot on books but it was nothing compared to the amounts I regularly see mentioned on line in discussions about US unis. It was simply convenient to use the recommended book so that lecturers could refer to chapters, formulas, and figures and so on and so that when you asked your fellow students for help that you would all be on the same page so to speak. In theory you could have got by with your own lecture notes and visits to the library.

I'm quite sure that my old copy of Lorrain and Corson would be just as good for EM part of a bachelor's in physics now as it was in 1975. In fact I think I'll dig it out and start to refresh my skills.
Sometimes I use a 26 word language and it sure seem capable of saying everything...
I guess that one reason bootstrapping is so tough is that it requires a lot of time, usually years, to even start to imagine one day living off of your company.

Imagine you have this nice business idea, which you have been working on for countless hours after work to make it become an awesome product. You sacrife your free time and maybe even health or friendships. You start to feel bad for every day you don't work on your product, as you know it all depends on you, and maybe a couple of co-founders. You know your product is great and it could make many customers happy. Yet what you earn from your it is peanuts and you don't see how this will change any time soon.

In that scenario, venture capital or a buy-out seem like a very appealing idea. After all, if you've come this far, it means that your product means a lot to you and you have more ideas than time. And suddenly knowing that you could get a decent amount of money to quit your "boring" daily job and make all these ideas come true gets even more interesting.

That burning desire to make your "baby" succeed should not be underestimated. That's why so many startups try hard to get a decent funding. I can't blame them, because I've been there. Heck, if a "big player" came to my little startup and offered a good deal, I would probably more than consider taking it. In the end, life is short and you can only build so many valuable things in your life that might have an impact and make a difference.

Still, I'm happy to have a fully bootstrapped startup that is not yet bringing enough money to quit my job. It is tough, it takes a lot of patience, and even more sacrifice every day. But also the prospect of making it profitable enough to have a small team that can work on your idea has a special kind of appeal. Not wanting to be the next Google or Facebook is a good thing in my opinion, but I understand that there is a lot of people who just burn with desire to push their ideas forward faster. Can't blame them for that.
> Everything they did to Flickr since Mayer's takeover has been half baked

Did you have a specific act in mind when you linked this to Mayer? They bought Flickr in 2005 and it's hard to think of anything positive which happened in the 5 years before she was involved.
I added a paragraph to the introduction to clarify.
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> The first community problems became evident when Yahoo decided all existing Flickr users would need a Yahoo account to log in. That switchover occurred in 2007, and was part of the CorpDev integration process to establish a single sign on. Flickr set it to go live on the Ides of March.

That was it for me. After this I couldn't login because of a combination of Yahoo's convoluted username+password requirements and their broken password recovery process. I gave up after multiple attempts over a couple of years. I mentally filed 'Yahoo' under 'corporate dysfunction'.
Why Hyperconverged Infrastructure Is Gaining in Popularity
Agreed, mostly worthless fluff. I'd challenge the authors to remove any reference to a study that has insufficient power or that has not been replicated.
readlink(2) takes a buffer and the buffer's size, so it's safe. You just enter a race-controlled loop, as always.
I am a lawyer and you are practicing law without a license. Fine is $500. Send me yer moneys plz kthxbai

--skittles the kitten
>6) I doubt you're going to find a 1500 sq ft. 3 bedroom town home for $1k per month (1/4 of what I pay 20 miles south of SF), and you're leaving out other costs, hidden costs, including commute and items related to the lack of public services and much higher utilities costs; the cost of living is lower, but not 75% lower

Are we talking town homes for rent?

* 3 beds; 2.5 baths; 1,528 sqft; $1,000/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Crooked-Pine-Trl-Crestvie...

* 3 beds; 2 baths; 1,863 sqft; $900/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1006-Villaway-W-Sebring-F...

...or maybe you'd like to rent a house:

* 3 beds; 2 baths; 1,821 sqft; $975/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5693-Highway-4-Baker-FL-3...

* 4 beds; 4 baths; 1,700 sqft; $975/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/351-Pine-Ave-Cocoa-FL-329...

...or maybe buy a house:

* 3 beds; 2 baths; 1,564 sqft; EST. MORTGAGE $705/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/FL/fsba,fsbo,fore,new_...

* 3 beds; 2 baths; 1,661 sqft; $464/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2579-Dogwood-Dr-Cottondal...

* 4 beds; 2 baths; 1,541 sqft; EST. MORTGAGE $261/mo

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/362-Palm-Ave-Cocoa-FL-329...
This reminds me of the MEGA65 project (http://mega65.org/). They're making a beefed-up version of the Commodore 64, and here we have a ZX Spectrum on steroids.

It's really cool to see that FPGAs are used to "enhance" old hardware. Check also FPGA Gaming reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fpgagaming/
Silicon Valley Tech Giants Must Help Fight Bay Area Traffic
Fabulous health merits of consuming Star Apple
I don't think Pearson has such materials for upper level courses. They could probably figure out a way to be contractors for the courses no on wants to teach though, if they can find a way to work for less than lecturers do.
There are several facts that affect whether the consequence of claiming to have a professional qualification is regulatory or criminal (being two branches of "illegal"), including (but not limited to), in no particular order:

1. Who you send it to
2. The purpose of the communication
3. The consequences of the communication
4. Whether it is inter- or intra-state
5. What profession it is

There are other questions that can factor in, but the general rule is: don't lie.

Lying of any form for personal gain is generally a species of fraud, but pretending to have a professional qualification – even without gain – can also incur consequences.

It's not limited to professional qualifications; some places still observe the crime of jactitation, which is pretending to be married.
I would go with the guy who _purports_ to be an electrician, over the guy who specifically states that he is not an electrician. That is the comparison when you say "I am going to trust Slim Fast as a meal replacement over Soylent." I used purport because that was the word originally used, but the "falsely" part doesn't apply here, there is no evidence that Soylent isn't healthy, and lots of evidence that it is.
I feel the same way about current practice research, but find that industry standards are even more abysmal in terms of fishing. What field are you in now that you find an acceptable level of rigor?
"Notice Seal-Team Assassination Pod on Deck (presstv.com)"

citation needed!
https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe
Why video games have so many endings and so few conclusions
Delivering on the Promise of the Modern Sales Organization
New England Lost Ski Areas Project
> In which he was the villain.

See the interesting thing there is, he was viewed as the bad guy by the older viewers that watched the movie, but not by the younger viewers.
I went through an ABET accredited software engineering program, they pointed us to the NSPE.

I'm not a PE but I still call myself a software engineer on everything except government forms. As far as the government's concerned I'm a programmer.
As usual, the answer to the headline is "no." Probably most freeway speed limits are too low, and many others, but lots of smaller streets have appropriate limits, or even ones which are too high.

It's a fun (and annoying) game to observe how people's speed varies compared to the limit. I almost always go at the limit plus 5MPH unless that would make me dangerously slow. Sometimes this makes me the fastest car on the road, and other times the slowest.

There's a road I drive about twice a day where the first half has a 25MPH limit and the second half is 35MPH. I'm usually a slowpoke on the first half, building up a queue of cars behind me, and then end up the fastest car around on the second half. (And to preempt any haters, the 25MPH segment is less than a mile long, so I'm not severely inconveniencing people.)

Rural interstates here have a 70MPH limit, so I go 75MPH. Most people go 65-70MPH. As you get into the city where I live, the limit drops progressively to 55MPH, and most people go... 65-70MPH.
You apply the principles to the principals.
My layman's understanding is that in US you're correct, that there isn't an accreditation for SEs.

Heck, you can have a job title of Software Engineer without even having graduated college.
Windows Updates getting even more complex, a little more controllable
Potent health advantages of consuming Banana Peels
There are 598 Software Professional Engineers in Ontario alone. You can see their names by selecting 'Software Engineering' as dicipline and leaving the rest of the form empty here: http://forum.peo.on.ca/cgi-bin/EPIM_Search/EPIM_Form_Search....

Furthurmore, there are 1316 Computer Engineers. These are not huge numbers, but it is wrong to say that there is no such thing as software engineering in Canada.
We think both personal fit and meaningfulness matter a lot for job satisfaction, so it would just come down to exactly how bad you are at the work, or how little you care about it :)

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/job-satisfaction/

If I had to choose though I'd go for being good at the job you don't believe in. At least that way you have a better chance to build career capital and go into something better later.

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/personal-fit/
I was hoping there would be a novel reason to stop comparing Nordic countries to the rest of the world. Sadly the main points the article makes are: (1) they are welfare states and that would never be welcome anywhere else and (2) they have small populations.

So... (1) maybe a welfare state isn't that bad? and (2) that's akin to not believing in small-scale trials/pilots because they're small.
Do they hire non-citizens?
Tiny module and Nano-ITX dev board open up Qualcomm's wearables SoC
This is how I'm starting to understand it as well but it took a lot of reading comments here and in Designer News to get there.
Got it, good that you are on top of it.

As for protein, it depends on your activity level and so forth. There is good evidence to suggest that everyone should strive for roughly 120 grams/day. If you are involved with eg a strength sport, say Olympic lifting, then at least 1 gram/lb of lean body mass is a good idea.

There are some great protein powders available these days that are sweetened with stevia too.