skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link to the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/patmorin/arraylayout
If any country ever has problems with relationship to China going way south, they can go the Chavez route and nationalize it.
Relevant & cogent discussion from 1981 Nightline I found on Obscure Media sub-reddit just yesterday. Jobs makes some spot on predictions but managed to avoid speaking too directly on privacy. The author is not nearly as charismatic nor accustomed to speaking on camera/in public... and makes some validated predictions, too.

Intro is a good watch for nostalgia and perspective; relevant Jobs interview starts @ 4:20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-Y-D3-j-M
NRC: Glossary of Security Terms for Nuclear Power Reactors
I must admit I agree with the publisher's review as a whole. What's the point in publishing a fiction hacked together so quickly that it can't withstand any artistic criticism?

Or was it an experiment aiming to show that fiction and documentary are two very different genres? Well than it was successful.
Adding this domain to various adblocker list might also have interesting effects.
Using "poaching" to describe a company hiring someone from another company, needs to die. Companies do not own people. It is strictly a business relationship.

I think that the US as a whole should follow California in outlawing non-competes. It definitely has been shown to be workable.
Thankfully, that is not the default for cell phones, which most people have instead of landlines.
Thank you for the link; Harvard Kennedy School talks and guest lectures are almost always a fascinating watch.

Shameless plug: the former president of Tunisia (my country) was invited for a talk there around a month ago[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aviBRogZY
I would like to see a reference to Hillary promising to add dental coverage to Obamacare. Thanks in advance.

I would also like to see a reference to Trump making the same promise as anigbrowl has claimed. Thanks in advance.

It's interesting that several people in the thread are suggesting that adult dental coverage was going to be part of the ACA insurance overhaul proposals by both Hillary and Trump. I can find no reference to either candidate making such a proposal. Those claiming they did make these promises should provide references showing so.
Many sandbox environments resolve whatever they're queried for with the same IP address. This is addressed in the article.
This is really damaging to the UK tech scene.

I don't blame you and I feel the same way.
Worth remembering, especially for those just entering the software field: by the time a potential employer gives you an employment agreement to sign, they've already decided they want you. At that point, it's on them to give you a palatable offer. They may include a noncompete clause for one of two reasons: 1) to prevent you from working somewhere else at the same time, which can create all sorts of conflicts of interest, or 2) because it'll keep you from looking for a new job, and they think you're too naive to argue.

Here's my suggestion. When you receive the document, read it and see if there's a noncompete clause. If so, you're going to want to send a redlined version back to them, changing the noncompete duration from "during and for 2 years following employment at the company" (or whatever they gave you) to "for the duration of employment at the company." By doing so, you show your willingness not to do any kind of work for a competitor while employed, while very clearly pointing out that you do have the right to get a new job. It may be important not to offend the person who wrote up the agreement and included something so ridiculous, so the minor nature of your modification will allow them to save face.

In the end, most employers won't bother to argue the second point, and the ones that do are probably shadily taking advantage of you in other ways.

Additional note: in California and several other states, these clauses are not legally enforceable anyway, and you should mention that when you give them the "fixed" agreement.
Hows that an improvement over downloading the days lab from a web server?
No DNS huh? NTP? Outgoing ssh? Http{s} to​ high number ports? Outgoing RDP?

...see the problem?
Solar-Powered MP3 Player to Educate Women Who Can't Read About Health Issues
There's this seemingly unspoken assumption that fluoridated drinking water has dental properties worthy of whatever other risks it could have. I don't know either way, in fact I'm very curious for a trustworthy source, not of water but of evidence.

Anecdotally, I always drank bottled water growing up in the US. I also never had a cavity. Is it genetic? Both of my parents have terrifying teeth issues. Is it diet? Partly - thanks to my mom, I was never obsessed about sweets.

Anecdotes aside, why does fluoride belong in drinking water?
I can think of one particular early adopter - PR folks over at Uber. Also, good job on 'Last eternity'.
I Don’t Believe in Blockchain
Have had a lot of fun with TIS-100. It's a very weird architecture, but it does teach the fundamentals of low-level coding, like using a single working register, manipulating data in a simple way and using goto statements and branches for loops.

A lot of the problems are problems due to the architecture though, not necessarily hard to implement in more conventional architectures.

The article quickly goes over it, but for those who still wanna know more about the architecture, the TIS-100 is composed of nodes that can store a small number of lines of instruction code, have a working register, and have 4 I/O ports, UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT. If asking for input, they will block until input is received from the specified adjacent node, and if passing output, they will block until the specified adjacent node asks for input. There are also memory nodes, introduced later in the game, to store more data.

These nodes are on a grid. Some of them are disabled, and the memory nodes' placement differs from program/puzzle to program/puzzle. Thus, careful selection of nodes and I/O ports is required for completion. I don't know if anything similar exists in actual hardware.

There's also a built-in "debugger" which simply allows you to run the program step by step and view all values, blocked nodes, and current instructions, which really helps, and possibly teaches players how to generally debug actual machine code. The programs run on a set of unit tests, and you can see which ones fail and why.

In classic Zachtronics fashion, there's graphs explaining your performance in the end, in terms of time, and space. Users not familiar with actual hardware architecture principles won't probably be able to figure out themselves how to get the best time, because most problems require use of pipeline-like instructions, due to the blocking nature of the nodes. So while it teaches tricks and fundamentals, I don't think it teaches more advanced and important stuff. And that's not a bad thing, it's a great game.

Would recommend to anyone.
This is a fun simulation that I see pop up here on HN periodically. Even this post from 2 years ago was marked as as a [dupe] :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9672219
Do you know anyone with an actual landline? My parents and my parents-in-law both have VoIP over DSL, and they're the only ones I know with "home" phones at all.
Sorry, but after the past years you can’t honestly believe this is pure altruism.

Of course it's not. That doesn't mean all parties can't benefit.
If the employee was terminated the non-compete should be terminated as well.
I think it's fine. Dirtier the connotation, the greater the company must feel to fight against it to keep you.
Read this as "Global Adult Films are Lobbying to Dilute Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms"

I need more coffee and a shower.
When hardware vendors leave their customers in the lurch to force them to replace perfectly good equipment, we call it "planned obsolescence" and deplore it. When software vendors do it, it's business as usual.
The title of this post is what the title of the article should be. The article is presuming that a feature as designed is a flaw. When articles throw FUD like that they lose credibility. Tell it like it is, and let people decide if they want to use it. And if people don't then it'll be up to the developers to give people something they will use.
"Oh--Yea, here's are land. Just make a phone call when you get home!"

Is it any wonder why people fell into Trump's blather?

I do give China credit. The government literally subsidizes (I believe) part of business shipping. The only reason Alibaba, or the the cousin something express hasen't decimated many of our markets is it takes over a month to ship.
What helps you think medical internships and early real-world training//experience is easy, or at least easier than getting into medical school?
Health insurance is also part of the rigged labor market.

The only reason big companies offer health insurance is because it limits employees's freedom. It would be easy for the Fortune 100 or 200 in unison agree to eliminate health care and provide a higher salaries. It would make the companies more competitive globally and it would free them from a whole lot of other nonsense, but they don't drop healthcare. The reason they don't droop healthcare is because healthcare and pre-existing conditions limit employee options and it suppresses wages. Also if there was universal healthcare it would be easier to start small companies and attract employees, those small business would be competing for employees against big companies on equal footing.

Healthcare is a racket limiting not just healthcare but freedom.
I want windows 10 on ARM because I want a full windows OS on a phone that I can attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse to and run Visual Studio for development. I would also take a Linux phone that did this and run VS Code
That's exactly why you need to teach a broad range of subjects, including basic math like simple calculus and arithmetic, so kids can actually make a choice about what they want to do. If they never get taught any of that, then they don't have the option available.

And just to be clear, quadratic equation is basic math, and not anywhere close to 'prepping a kid to be a neurosurgeon'.
> I was particularly excited for the feeling of a “home phone” ... every contact that also has the Alexa app is now in my Alexa Calling contacts. Among my contacts were old landlords, many co-workers, random vendor account managers, city councilmen, and of course, crazy ex-boyfriends. And each one now has a direct line into my home.

This is of course how the old "home phone" worked, and there was even a book sent to every house that listed the "direct line into the home" of everybody else.
The computers that store patient records (which were compromised) are not medical devices under any regulatory regime I know of.

And in any case the compromises were in the UK, which may have different rules on this subject than the FDA.
All Bitcoin Addresses used in the WanneCry attack so far
> You need two things for nice, straight teeth: Either good genetics, or parents with good dental insurance.

Dental insurance doesn't help much with braces. Every dental plan I've seen maxes yearly dental coverage at $1500 or less. And at least one of those is known for having one of the best benefits packages. So while it helps, most of the cost will be out of pocket. So really either way you need $$$.
It's shocking that it's almost as inefficient as a 30 year old 747 on a per seat basis. If it's % load factor is lower than other airliners that's a double whammy.
> Minimum wage is just saying "if you can't produce at least $X of value per hour, you're not allowed to work at all". That's not fair.

Employees don't get paid the full value they generate, so that's not a reasonable way to interpret minimum wage.
UoP the Bay Area's local dental school costs 160k a year...that means dentists are paying back 600k (120k undergrad) in very high interest loans for a long time. This is higher than medical school. College cost increases in every discipline and the government backing of all loans equally has been one of the biggest scams in this country.
I'm British and yes - I have what you over the pond like to call "British teeth". I do wonder if it's fairly healthy from a social mobility standpoint that we haven't taken quite so passionately to US views on the value of cosmetic dental procedures.

It's one less way to spot at a glance whether someone has a large disposable income.
My last company's noncompete had a really nice twist: Instead of banning me from seeking employment at a competitor altogether, it instead granted my employer the right, to, at their discretion, compel me to delay starting at a competitor for a certain amount of time. However, in order to do so they would also have to pay my salary over that period.
Won't play in desktop Safari, either.
LLVM is much more compartimentalized, so we can make changes to the backend without touching/breaking other parts. The GCC loader was miles ahead of the LLVM loader up until the past few releases, and we were originally using a modified version of the GCC loader before switching.

LLVM also has a bunch of awesome projects like Poly for polyhedral compilation that we are able to use that don't exist at all for GCC, or are very difficult to integrate. LLVMs lego block like architecture (it was originally designed as a tool to help build toolchains) plus things like Tablegen enabled our single "real" software engineer/CTO to do initial bring up of a backend in under a month.
The other thing is, and i don't disagree it limits freedom btw, but if you're not in a pool of other people shopping for healthcare you have no bargaining power.
> But since he took office, Trump has focused on so many other things... that Matello has begun to wonder about his promises to the working class: “Was he just out to get our votes?”

This is truly sad. So many people put their faith in that con artist.
Seriously? I mean the implication is that men are screened for wealth and women for attractiveness. The relative weights between wealth and attractiveness differ along gender lines. As in: rich men buy their way in to a club where they can sleep with, or at least look at, attractive women. As in: there is a hooker/john power dynamic at play here.

I don't mean to be insulting, I honestly thought I was being subtle in a fun, snide and understandable way but apparently I was not.
At the same time, I think some amount of repetition is important. You don't get a true understanding of something by just studying it, you need to apply it "on a couple dozen data sets" to get a feel for it, at least in my opinion. "Understanding" can initially be a bit transient.
You must not be that old. Telephones best feature was it put everyone on an equal footing. Anyone could call anyone else.
The government levied a fee on all phones to make sure that everyone would have equal access to them. And we do. It's why it worked so well for so long. It stopped working well, when we added caller ID, and blocking. If you want to block someone it should be hard, and you should have a reason beyond being annoyed. We're becoming into a selfish society who are turning against each other. When we need to start turning towards each other and remembering the golden rule.
When I visited a firm we had contracted out with in India they also had machines running xp right next to machines running Windows 10 for our project
With that timetable,compared to sea shipping we're talking about 3-5x faster time, but the cost will be about double - $8K-10K/container. But of course that saves money in warehousing and financing. So financially, today it makes sense for the more expensive goods, at $1.5M per container. And it's best because there's not a lot of capacity vs sea routes.

But i wonder: could those prices, with more/better trains etc, become close to sea shipping, such that aliexpress, which is extremely cheap but uses very slow sea shipping, start using rail ?

Because at those timelines, even if using a local fulfillment center, the storage period is very short, so the cost becomes quite low, and without lots of trouble, suddenly aliexpress can offer much cheaper goods than Amazon, all across Europe, with fast shipping. Heck, they may not even need to build warehouses, using uber like warehouse model(i.e. flexe).
I wouldn't say it's the only reason. I'd argue the only they reason they offer it is because employees expect it. Private insurance is super expensive, and the government doesn't offer healthcare to most working professionals.
There is nothing that stops them to relaunch attack with modified version. Initial wave will use spam, then worm-like part of the ransomware will penetrate internal networks.
I feel like there needs to be a serious and public debate over the bill of rights and the power of government moving forwards into the future.
It's not excellent because they stop paying you if they terminate the noncompete, but you also can't look for a new job until the very end of your noncompete period.
Talk about burying the lede:

> In today’s complex integrated supply chains, stories of failed configuration management during the design process are a sadly all too common.

This is a good way to kill a lean and virtual startup, and surely has.

Also fascinating: the manager who raised the problem in the first place was blocked by upper management and then fired because the problem occurred.
Microsoft has done this before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
True, but, to be fair, a parking lot filled with cars for sale is only marginally worse than a giant parking lot filled with cars sitting there unused most hours of the day — and we have far more of the latter wasting our valuable land.
or just check against a handful of www.{{UUID}}.com domains instead of hard coding anything
>They purchase our movie studios and then force on them Chinese propaganda and nothing negative on China ever.

They are free to do what they want with what they have bought and paid for.

>if not the least

Lol is right.
Ask HN: How to find a tech job in china?
Like it or not, China is a superpower developing at exponential speed. It would be nice to find a well paid job (as DevOps, in my case) in a rampant company, remote or there.

But, although the channels to access tech job in EU/US are pretty well known and standard, I don't have a clue about channels to gain contact with tech Chinese companies.

What would you suggest?
Thanks
The cost per seat-mile is being driven by the fact that Airbus sold the seat-mile efficiencies assuming a larger number of seats then the airlines have actually outfitted.

The 747 and the 707 are _the_ airframes that changed the world. Boeing is still releasing planes that are directly derived from the 707s (the 737-MAX) while the 747s where not only the first double deck jet, they were the first widebody.

Their times are coming to a end though..
> Really interesting! ... I take it as a high priority for all software packages, from dev to test to prod, all be on the exact same version. Python 3.4 on one box and 3.6 on another? Let's not.

The canonical way to get around this is unit test and CI.

This article shows that airbus did that...and still got screwed.

Which shows that your approach is a good one!
> I'm interested in tools that document behavior (both desired & observed) and integrate it back to codebases.

> Configuration is particularly difficult to document in 2017 -- if you solve that problem you fix a lot of migraines.

Could you expand on those points a bit more? As for the first one, it sounds vaguely like https://deckard.ai, but I feel you could also mean something entirely different. (Disclamier: I know the founders of Deckard very well.)
But modern phones don't work that way - if I don't want my boss or my crazy ex to call me, I can set their number not to ring my phone. There is apparently no way to do that with the Alexa app.

There are very few people that I actually want to get calls from.
> I would like to see a reference to Hillary promising to add dental coverage to Obamacare. Thanks in advance.

Can't give that, sorry. I wanted to specifically provide the high-level claims Hillary was making, as GP couldn't recall her promises. My source is the campaign promise book, Stronger Together. Dental is not mentioned in the area I surveyed.

A more policy oriented remark by HRC is found here:

> We need to address the lack of access to primary health care, dental care, and mental health care by catalyzing partnerships between public health departments, health care systems, and community-based organizations. As we do, we must promote integrated mental health care, and enforce insurance coverage parity requirements to ensure that mental health care is not siloed.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1612292

Clearly dental was not a headline coverage promise, unfortunately. I'm not sure it would have mattered....

With respect to Trump's promise:

> DAVID MUIR: Let me ask you, Mr. President, about another promise involving Obamacare to repeal it. And you told The Washington Post that your plan to replace Obamacare will include insurance for everybody. That sounds an awful lot like universal coverage.

> PRESIDENT TRUMP: It's going to be -- what my plan is is that I wanna take care of everybody. I'm not gonna leave the lower 20 percent that can't afford insurance. Just so you understand people talk about Obamacare. And I told the Republicans this, the best thing we could do is nothing for two years, let it explode. And then we'll go in and we'll do a new plan and -- and the Democrats will vote for it. Believe me.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-anchor-da...
This is a gross mischaracterization. I lived in Seattle at the time. The green line project was born, and only lived as long as it did, due to public support in four consecutive ballot initiatives. Let's review:

* The first in 1997 basically blessed the project and created the corporate entity to build it, got 53% of the vote.

* A second in 2000 approved public funds to plan it and passed with 56%.

* A third in 2002 approved a motor vehicle excise tax to fund it, and was more controversial (since real money was at stake) and only squeaked through with 50.2% of the vote.

* A fourth initiative in 2004 was intended to kill the project by directing the city to deny air rights above public streets to the project, and was thumped with 64% voting no.

* It was the fifth initiative in 2005 that killed the project, demanded by the city after a disastrous financing plan was announced (The excise tax approved in the 2002 referendum did not deliver the expected revenue, and a ridiculous financing scheme was proposed to cover the shortfall that would result in $9 billion in interest being paid on $2 billion in construction.) And on top of that, the line was significantly shortened, dropping desperately needed service to Ballard.

The fate of this project is more an object lesson in what it takes to actually accomplish a project with popular support in the face of sustained opposition. The whole project was hated from the get-go by some big money in town who had de-facto control over the city council and the mayoralty. That's why there were so many ballot initiatives - the city government was dragged kicking and screaming by the public, through votes to build the damn thing, in the face of well-financed campaigns against the enabling referendums.

In the end, it took self-inflicted injury by the project staff (bad financing plan on top of a scaled-back green line) to get the public to pull the plug. I don't think it's fair to pin the failure of this particular project on "hating public transport for silly reasons."
Can't install stuff on my wife's company Mac. But a browser is everywhere. Yes, I begrudgingly use Google Docs. One big challenge to alternative offerings is compatibility. There is usually little resistance to asking someone to accept a Google Doc or an MS Doc. I wish there were a widely accepted open source alternative.
I think you are being deliberately vague because you haven't anything except handwaving.