skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big difference in the US is that there's usually no fault for personal injury, so the liability is pooled.
This is super cool. Was there any announcement or documentation for this?

We used a Cisco Meraki router once for a client and rigged it up to know who was in the office (for fun, to be aware that it could be done). It'd be nice to know the iPhone/iPad scramble themselves if possible.
I've completed 9 days of 31 consecutive days of half marathons, everyday I take a picture of something inspirational/interesting on my run (easy on miami's south beach) but I also add a quote of the day, I'll probably use Mark Twain's quote today.
Psychology, Numeracy and Biases in Brexit
I can't speak for appaters, but for me it's not a fear of appearing weak, but a fear of the power we give government.

>...the pervasive hand of the government...

This is partially what scares me. You mention that our "pervasive" government "has a place in a healthy technologically oriented society" and I agree, but I believe that it is possible to have a government that provides the services we need while have very limited powers.

As it stands most of the gross injustices that are done to the people by large corporations only happen because they have enshrined themselves in the institutions of government so as to give themselves special privileges (local monopolies, anti-competitive practices, etc).

>But it must be a place of transparency and low-corruption in order for our institutions to be trusted.

My ideal government would be afraid of its own people, that way we would not have to trust the government at all, but rather simply get rid of the institutions that did not perform their duties.

Transparency is very important and, as I'm sure many people here understand, as the complexity of a system increases the internal workings become more and more opaque.
I am curious to see how gnome handles hidpi. In the past gnome would only accept integer values for dpi, while Unity allows floats (ex: 1.5), which is a deal breaker for me.
I guess being self compassionate when you are doing great does not bring a big benefit, but neither does it hurt. However as the article mentions, it's hard to have self esteem when you are not doing that great.

As a PhD student I have this imposter syndrome feeling whenever I hit a wall. Being self compassionate and realising that almost every PhD student hits one or more walls during their PhD has helped me to cope with this.
I challenge the author to drive a car built in 1930, 1960, 1990, and today, and say car companies do not innovate and that any improvements came from the government.
I'm with douche. If your config is so complicated you need variable substitution and regex then it's no-longer config: it's a driver program. Might as well program in a programming language.
I agree, not everybody will or can do it. I actually enjoy science, but I found out that I'm not enough good to do something meaningfull.
Not the OP but I think hacksonx might be referring to the big squares UI. They designed an interface that one could use with their feet... elbows.... etc... And it had that Pinterest/Masonry appeal to it. I think they realized quickly that that's not how desktop users interacted with their computer. Was it a failure? I can't say I've met anyone that is trying to re-enable that interface on any other device. I do know they went back to using a more Window95-esque interface for the default Windows 10 desktop.
My heart agrees with you ... it is.

But I watched a couple of episodes a few weeks ago (yikes!)
3pt14159 put it well: There are more than a dozen really useful keyboard shortcuts for UI management, and tiling your windows. I mean, it's powerful - maybe one of the most standout features of Unity. You know what is really the icing on it? Hold down the "Super" key, and you get a menu showing all the UI keyboard shortcuts. It's a quick modal - no Alt-F1 help dialogs to navigate and close; no link to a website; a handy cheatsheet instantly accessible and dismissed.

I'll give GNOME a try, but everything I hear is that it's a directionless blob that makes productivity difficult.
Persirai: New Internet of Things (IoT) Botnet Targets IP Cameras
Of course it's a fair point to say things will change... I just wouldn't write off their accomplishment of #1 as simply or only timing and place. There are many factors, and it's also accurate to say the Chinese are actually better than the rest of the world at some things.
Linux users will not pay for appstore. There is no money to be made here. Just another timesink. You need to first attract significant non-developer users to Ubuntu (which is tied to making better laptops).
In addition to what elithrar is saying, take a look at some of the stuff at https://istlsfastyet.com

Things like TLS False Start, TLS Resumption, TCP Fast Open, and more can really help reduce that pretty well.

Also, take a look at the book linked at the bottom of that page which includes a pretty comprehensive section on improving RTT and TLS speeds in general.
(https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/)
And now Ubuntu has passed Red Hat in the # of servers metric because devs like me choose their Linux server OS based on familiarity with the Ubuntu desktop OS.
Does anyone know if this invitation to re-apply include founders who got interviewed this summer and received a NO for funding?
Just wondering what kind of programming/designing skills you need for this kind of project?
Show HN: Manage Linux users with GitHub teams
That anyone still carries a laptop to the US suprises me, considering any client data you have on it they already have the right to demand an unencrypted copy of.
Summer's Automotive and Body Repairs
As soon as Canonical blows something off in Ubuntu, users can switch to whatever other Linux distribution they like (or remove/replace the misbehaving component, like it happened with the Amazon thing or early-ish versions of Unity). Apple users can't very easily switch to a better version of macOS (especially when they need to migrate their data out of the walled garden it's hosted in).
Tmux-xpanes: Ultimate terminal divider powered by tmux
This looks really handy!
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focused on the
behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive
to initial conditions.

Many of the visualizations of chaotic behavior in the wiki don't exhibit ergodic behavior.
The Case for DX: Why Data Experience Matters (Part 2)
I ran xc/track in college, and I must say, that is likely a bad idea. You are going to hurt yourself, unless you've slowly built up to this. You should never increase your weekly mileage by more than 10% over the previous week. But don't take my word for it, I'm sure your body will let you know in the next week.
What exactly do you find problematic about npm compared to the traditional package management systems (i.e. apt et al?)? I ask because having started using npm some months ago, I find it works better than anything I've ever previously encountered. Is there something I'm missing?
My immediate reaction was to want to say this is a little harsh, but it's actually fair.

I don't suffer. I share a 1 bed apartment with my girlfriend. Between the two of us I'd say we pull in ~$100k. Our rent is $1650 and we rent our parking space for $150. These days, it looks like a steal. I make rent, eat healthy, can afford transit and clothing and the odd night out, but doing all of that and saving any money is a good stretch right now.

But there are complications. We paid even less for a 2 bed condo we rented and were happy as hell, but condos have owners and I've experienced them visiting to have a look at the place they bought but never visited and decide to move in and kindly ask us to leave (with notice). Because of the housing market here, rents increase year-over-year by a not insignificant margin. To find a new 1bed downtown that isn't in a basement we're looking at $2k now. Next year it may be more if the bubble can't be curbed.

My salary doesn't go up at that margin. I'm also wearing a heap of student loans that are held by a bank, with a small share in OSAP (Ontario-Canada Student Loans). The bank treats student loans differently than the government, where there is no amity or relief on offer. Had to take this on to get into school because during the Harper years belts tightened and I fell into the narrow margin of my father made enough money to not warrant OSAP considering me at-need, but nowhere near enough to help me through any of the expense of higher education. I'm from a very rural area, so there were no local options.

TL;DR: much of my background of circumstance will better explain what I said, and might make me seem a little less crass and out of touch as you put it. In a vacuum, I agree. I have never lived in a vacuum, it's been a long road to where I am and longer to get where I want to go.
2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S: Four’s a Party – Ignition
No they don't have "right". Just because a government does something doesn't mean they have the right
CosmoDB Microsoft's New SQL or NoSQL Database
^ This!

Please read this before moving on: https://twitter.com/jrprice89/status/667466444355993600

Also, NVIDIA's CUDA compilers are built on clang which does have OpenCL frontend, so all they would need to do is to put some resources into making that frontend work with their current nvcc toolchain.

Many request and want this, but instead they are trying hard to hold back OpenCL just because providing OpenCL 2.0 support (and extensions for their GPUs features) may help adoption of OpenCL which in turn may end up helping other folks and companies too.
This thread is very interesting for me. I've never used Snapchat before, and I deleted my Facebook years ago. However I do use Instagram daily. The caveat there is that I've never viewed or have taken a story. Video just feels very odd and antithetical to the reason I use the platform (which is to post outdoor photos). I guess if I could upload high quality video to a story I'd be more interested in it.
Apple/ios users don't really have a choice of hardware vendor. They're locked in, so they're stuck with what apple serves up or can feel the pain of migration (I'm in that boat).

Linux users are more fickle and can and will move to different distributions if they don't like one particular one.

Canonical needs to listen its users in a way that apple doesn't.

To be fair, we haven't seen what these changes Apple has made are going to do long term. Its clear there is some worry over there (the mac pro 2018 preview is very unlike apple)
Pretty cool! We've been using Periscope Data at work and I've found the SQL -> Charts way pretty amazing, but the cost of that program makes it impossible for individuals to use. I'm psyched to try this out for my personal projects.
Honestly, I have no idea about the current status. Last time I tried, it was some two years ago and it was a major PITA. Since then, when I need newer versions, I just use either Linux or Mac.
So you're in agreement?

Yes, my comment underlines the need for "institutions", but it also emphasizes human nature and the need to make these institutions resilient to being gamed by the greedy.
Who says they need one?

Define a "libertarian" as someone who advocates for the state to play a minimal role in the lives of people.

There are a few different reasons I could be libertarian:

1> I believe that I will be better off if the scope of the state's activity is minimized.

2> I believe that most people will be better off if the scope of the state's activity is minimized.

3> I believe the world will be more just if the scope of the state's activity is minimized, whether or not that leads to anyone being better off.

Libertarians in groups [1] & [3] need not offer a strategy for mitigating any economic phenomenon, even if that phenomenon is to the detriment of the majority.

I've heard people argue the validity of belief [2], saying that the amount of value in the economy will grow faster than than it is absorbed by the "winners" who are amassing it. I'm not convinced, though.
How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout
Reading this stuff is always eye opening for me. but actually making it a part of your thinking and perspective is a whole other ball of wax. Often, I end up just forgetting entirely as the days pass - not the content, because I can often recite that upon demand. But the actual adoption of it into ones own mindset.

Very often, I've found myself going "oh yeah, i'm trying to do that!". Along with several other things as well. this is largely what drove me to build my project to adopt such changes in perspective (http://willyoudidyou.com).

And in addition to yourself, it's good to show compassion to others. But it's definitely easier to do this for others once you have done it for yourself.
There are differences in audio low pass filters between different Amiga models. It can't be ever entirely disabled. I think Amiga 1200 filter affects the sound the least.

IIRC, AGA chipset (Amiga 1200, 4000) is also capable of up to ~56 kHz sample rate.

OCS/ECS is just up to 28 kHz.
That came from Nibble Magazine.
New study finds the best time to book a flight
Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO
Maybe unpopular and not true for all software, but in general, I would say the idea to base a business on support for software is in contradiction with the idea that this software should solve problems in a mostly automatic way.

Because good software doesn't need support, or at least a lot less support than bad software, so there might be some conflict of interest?
Indeed. Look at Microsoft. While the home desktop is not their primary focus, they still defend their position there as it is a pitch point when selling their products to corporations.

This with the argument that as potential employees are already familiar with Microsoft products from home use, they do not require as much up front training.
The answer is obviously no. .net core is mainly about web apps and console apps. There is no support for desktop applications.
How does it compare to metabase ?
Or if you're lazy, read what I copy/pasted below:

In February 2003, a bunch of the outstanding bugs I'd reported against various GNOME programs over the previous couple of years were all closed as follows:

"Because of the release of GNOME 2.0 and 2.2, and the lack of interest in maintainership of GNOME 1.4, the gnome-core product is being closed. If you feel your bug is still of relevance to GNOME 2, please reopen it and refile it against a more appropriate component. Thanks...
This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version."

I'm so totally impressed at this Way New Development Paradigm. Let's call it the "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short.

It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?

But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again.

© 2003 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>

Never heard of CADT before, but I have to admit that I've had experiences like this for sure (as the bug-reporter, not as the developer thank goodness).
Are you talking about the geforce 500 series[0]? They are still supported. Assuming the HW is still good, all drivers should still work. You can try with the NVIDIA driver included with the distribution (Ubuntu, Mint, etc), or download the one from nvidia.com

If it doesn't work, you can file a bug (see/use nvidia-bug-report.sh).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_500_series
Best friends are the ones with who you can have a transparent discussion. Including a reality check, which can be harsh. If they don't do it, who will ?
Can confirm. One of my first programming jobs was with a company doing a lot of .NET work. They had the gold-tier support, or whatever it's called, but we never managed to get anything useful out of it.
I live in Memphis, TN... Never been to Alabama. I'm inclined to believe certain parts of Tennessee and Alabama are exactly the same.
TLDR:
For internal flights - 3 weeks to 3.5 months before flight
For international flights - 2 months before flight

Interestingly, it's often cheaper to order a ticket 2 months in advance than 10 months in advance.
There seems to be either a problem with your randomisation script or else (with all power to you for shipping) lauched with you a really small data set. Well not really small, just books i have had suggested >3 and a few more >2 times, which surprises me having taken the app title as an achievement rather than an aim.
I just don't think that's going to happen. Bell Labs was never profitable, was it? Look at Xerox PARC--all the stuff they invented there that Xerox never profited from, although many others did. It's just not in company DNA anymore. They would rather buy out startups.
Yes – Implementation of simple and dangerous yes command in various languages
Thanks - I didn't know that - anything else apart from TIFF?
Ah, I apologize. My intention was not to mock or patronize. I'd edit the post to make that more clear, but unfortunately I'm no longer able to edit.
I've always meant to visit! I had family out there in Halifax and Newfoundland, but all have moved back this way to Ontario.
Snap Tumbles After Trailing Estimates for New Users and Sales
Umm..

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX

and HP is usually one of the best rather than worst here,
though definitely more so in the pre-carly days.

though i get the general sentiment,
esp when applied to consumer products..
These days it is damn hard to tell where Gnome ends and Freedesktop, never mind Fedora, begins.

All too often it feels like Gnome and Freedesktop is out to fix "problems" that only exist within Fedora, in the process turning every other distro they touch into a Fedora clone.
28 Questions You Wish You Asked the Manager During the Job Interview (2009)
OT, but, I wonder when the Trap get knocked off the top spot?
I volunteer at the Boston Museum of Science on Sundays and we also track how many people we interact with at the various activities. We log by group, so log might read "1 man, 1 woman, 2 boys, 1 girl (family)" or "3 women, 10 girls, 12 boys (school group)"

It's really handy to see how many people the activities attract, and who they appeal to most. You're tracked everywhere!
I'm a little surprised about the HN reaction on this one. You guys didn't seem to care about collection of passive biometrics a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172652 . What's changed?
Show HN: A beginner's guide to Internet Security
Flip cards are broken
"Things that speak IP" is the definition of the internet.

So...I don't get your argument.
Your question makes the assumption that our current system qualifies as "small government".

The filibuster is gone.. Trump is able to by executive order deport people and change America's course on the world stage.. Net Neutrality is being destroyed and new laws are being made to promote the big players in the market...

That's not small government. That's big government.
I'm pretty sure I referred to open systems and CUDA in their commonly understood meanings. Here are some links that may help to clarify the concepts:

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/48478/open-system

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9792/amd-sc15-boltzmann-initia...

Aside: I have no position on whether is CUDA's Fortran and C++ dialects constitute their own languages, nor did I refer to CUDA as a programming language.
Not sure I understand your point. Kubernetes is a service for managing containers. If you want kubernetes, of course you'll need containers of some sort. But not all apps need multi-host orchestration.
Another reason to distrust compositing without a fallback route for "low power" environments...
Sure. It was an interesting experiment (and certainly not one that I enjoyed -- I'm on Win7 Pro on the few VM's that I have to run MS on).

My point was that MS hasn't suffered massive failure despite this ludicrous attempt at promulgating a feet/elbows interface on devices with actual keyboards and mouses.

Yes, lots of people (especially relatively technically aware people that I know) have resisted the upgrade to MS Windows 8 / 10 -- but they're still running Microsoft Windows.

Compare and contrast the Canonical Unity experiment.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-compliance-docu...
I was in academia for years. I didn't see all that much innovation coming out of there, either. Too much politics and rent-seeking (gotta get that next grant) and you have to publish, and there's committees and conferences. And then whenever we did invent something cool, the university patent office wouldn't take it and do anything with it! I should have 2-3 patents now and instead I have none. Not that I'm a fan of patents, anyways, but it was the late 90s and my adviser and I were breaking new ground at the time.
Adventures in JIT Compilation: Part 4 – In Python
TL;DR: clickbait
This is the sort of thing nobody needs or wants at this point in time.
Ask HN: Lost job offer. What now?
So I had accepted a job offer and this week i was informed that due to some reshuffling in the org they can't go ahead with new hires. I've checked with a few people and surprising it's not illegal for them to do this...

But now this puts me in a dilemma because I'm graduating from UC soon and almost all tech companies are done with their new-grad hires. What options do you think are open to someone in my position?
Its ridiculous here in Florida because it doesn't understand "waterfront". You may as well read tea leaves.
Ask HN: Freelance Management Services/Apps
What services are freelance developers using to manage time logging, expense tracking, invoice generation, and reporting for multiple clients?

Preferably a service that offers both a web and native app.
I am not talking about the app I am talking about the environment the app is running in. Of course there are crappy apps (I've made a bunch of them!) I remember IIS doing funky things with non-200 return codes. 5xx codes would have some default handler. I am certain this was an issue with configuration and a dysfunctional development process. In the shop I was in, in the mid 2000's, we the devs didn't have direct access to the web server and having the IT guys make any update took on the order of weeks. Instead of fixing the IIS config we just returned 2xx and handled the error in the app layer. We also had a couple SOAP(shudder) services that always returned code 200 with error codes in the response XML body. Much of our app code used this pattern for consistency. We also would deploy our services on various other web servers we didn't have full control over so it was just easier to use this pattern.
In which a new set of overconfident, simplistic solutions harshly criticize the previous set of overconfident, simplistic solutions. If only we had known what we were doing when we unleashed the dark force of self esteem we could have stopped bullying!

I'm sure being patient and understanding with yourself (and with everyone else) is an approach to life that has a lot of benefits, but these articles are nothing more than pornography for our narcissistic idea that we have this huge power to shape who our kids are by simply embracing a new outlook from a paperback or using new words.
http://www.foxebook.net/search/akka