skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that funny? I see a proposal that requires cars as something that at best maintains status quo. A walkable/bikeable city seems far better to me than one that is made for cars. Roads are for cars instead of people. All that parking is for cars.
You could just define SQL Server as legacy product and move onto something else.
I think a better argument, with the same sentiment, is allowing farmers to fix their own equipment. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/nebraska...

That we're not able to fix and maintain equipment that we, as consumers (I'm not a farmer), purchase is downright silly at best and dangerous at worst.
Then we need a 'safe' language that has the performance characteristics of C or assembly. Not there yet?
I know PLT and GOT but am unfamiliar with the acronyms FDE/CIE. Can you say what those are?
Use AWS Lambda for Custom Functions on Keen IO Event Streams
The email attachment is the matchstick, the NSA has soaked everything in gasoline, so to speak. Thanks to the zero day, you need one person opening the attachment to infect every machine on the LAN.

You're right about the point of home networks though. Some wild guesses:

- Infected machines that are moved between networks - e.g. a laptop that's used in both public and a private networks BYOD-style.

- The worm also didn't use broadcasts to spread but simply tried out all IP addresses in its subnet. So if an ISP isn't properly isolating its customers, the worm might spread from customer to customer behind the ISP's NAT.

- People are actually that stupid and clicked on the attachment a lot.
Show HN: PandwaRF Rogue – RF Hacking Tool for Advanced Wireless Brute Forcing
Maybe seeing something in person has a greater impact than photography and cinematography, yet there are many ways to see wildlife other than a traditional aquarium or zoo. Whale watching tours are certainly available in coastal communities where whales frequent. Heck, you may even be able to catch a glimpse by simply taking a walk in the right parts of Vancouver at the right time.

(Slightly off topic, but you'd be amazed at the wildlife that you come across in the highly urbanized parts of Vancouver because it is surrounded to the north and east by wilderness and has many rail corridors and parks that animals follow into the city.)
Your example is just one way of exercising, though. There's no getting around it requiring some time, but you can likely do a decent bodyweight-style workout without a gym membership, without a commute, using only implements you can find in your community. Some space to jog, do pushups, something you can hang from to do pullups, etc. People have been training themselves to have fairly large amounts of muscle and endurance in jail, in 3rd world countries, and plenty of other places besides expensive gyms.
It took a while for emoji to show up in Unicode, then for Windows to support emoji, and probably some time for Office to settle on an emoji strategy.
This is an interesting product. I like the form factor, but it would be tough to get used to the keyboard. Reaching over the pointing stick/mouse buttons for the space bar could be doable--I managed to type on a Toshiba Libretto which had a similar problem because the case was higher than the keyboard so I had to hold my thumb sideways. I also use Dvorak so the small ,.? keys would be wvz instead. The touch screen looks way nicer than the mouse.
Is this a meme or joke I'm unaware of?

Circular charging (laptop-to-laptop) does nothing except induce loss. Loss from heat, resistance, etc. It might act like you doubled the battery life, but you'd get more mileage from any USB-C power bank (no Mac to operate just to power the ports).
Games. The first computers kids will start to wonder about are the ones they're using to play games, be it a game console, tablet, or PC. Modding comes first, slightly tweaking the game to add a new item, map, or remove some annoying limitation. The truly curious and persistent kids will eventually want to learn how to make their own games. This is where you'll find the next generation of programmers.
I can solve that problem and I dropped out of high school. Simple math is something that has to be studied for at the college level?
There are plenty of PCI and PCIe cards available with an FPGA.
Have you ever looked into the mirror and maybe thought you worked hard to build your view of MS? Have you ever considered that MS of today isn't the same MS of 25 years ago?

I'm pushing 41.. I've been into computers since i was 8. I've been through wishing OS/2 would win, Hating on Windows for years, begrudgedly using WIn95 OSR2.. I was the first BBS in Houston to offer Linux to download on 8 floppy disk images, i was the first to mirror a larger FTP site for Linux distros (ygdddrasil), I use Linux on THOUSANDS of computers - i work for a larger internet company running 10-s THOUSANDS of servers running Linux.. sometimes i wish they were all solaris since that was what really grabbed my hart but guess what - things change - systems change - people change - companies change.

Today i sport a Surface Pro 4, an iPhone 7, a MacBook pro and a Ryzen 1700 as my primary compute/phone devices.. I use them all. Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 4 is the best mobile experience I've ever had. i have Ubuntu/Suse/Redhat as bootable native shells, i have a web browser with extension support, gesture support and great experience, i have power shell, i have hyperv if i need it, i have docker - the experience in windows 10 lately far surpasses the experience of say - docker on OSX which has always been very goofy until recently and now with docker on windows i can run windows or Linux native containers.

MS is not only providing lots of open source code but they're a HUGE sponsor of the Linux foundation - a SUPPORTING member - the biggest you can achieve.

As for update times, you can schedule your updates. If you need to upgrade your android phone, you're not going to be able to use it during the upgrade - same with your PC, if you have pending updates - just schedule them when you need them.

You're still defending everyone else for facing the same problems MS does and for some reason, still hating MS for solving problems that need to be solved.

I for one am SO FREAKING GLAD windows doesn't fester for years between "Service packs" that then took years to get released because people had it in their goofy heads that people actually tested them for them.. i'm so glad that windows finally releases iterative updates on TUESDAYS and everyone in the world knows when PATCH TUESDAY IS if they run windows.. if you KNOW patch Tuesday is coming up, reboot when you're done patching on TUESDAY.

It really isn't as hard as everyone is making it out to be.

Now that I've written all this, its laughable how hard people are making this appear to be.
You never know who's going to put their paws on that information...
> third party service is reporting

As far as I understood, Firebase didn't report it before. As mentioned, the meter "suddenly jumped" to 100GB and then 180GB (if I remember the numbers correctly).

The author decided to figure it out with support later, which makes sense if the previous number was something like 20-30GB and you guess it's simply in error.
Absolutely not. The OP linked to reddit to demonstrate their viewpoint was shared by women, and I was countering their argument by demonstrating that it is relatively unpopular among women on the site that they linked.

I definitely understand the downvotes now that the comment has been flagged and is not able to be seen.
I have! These would be good for expanding existing cave systems as well as building planned structures where lava tubes aren't naturally occurring or are exposed to the atmosphere
Black pepper helps limit cancerous compounds in meat, study shows
Like encryption, the math is necessary when you build it, not when you use it. You can go quite far by just treating it as a black box.
Most startups are not “crushing” it
not all business decisions are well-grounded in financial upside. a lot of dysfunctional outcomes are a result of organizational dysfunction and broken culture. a company can be making bad decisions for reasons related to internal dysfunction, and be losing money on it, and persist in this because of their dysfunctional culture.

as many in this thread have pointed out: Google has a dysfunctional culture w.r.t. customer service.
I love my Late 2011 17" matte MacBook Pro. I dread the day that I will have to settle for a new MBP. I will probably end up getting a refurbished 17" off of eBay or something instead.
Rescuers find you in the woods with a broken leg dying and starving. You can choose:

1) To be left to die of starvation.

2) To be rescued and spend the rest of your life fed but kept in a 6x6 ft cage.

Pick one.
I don't think this should have ever been offered.

Curious - how could FastMail ever properly close/sunset these accounts? Were they going to regularly check on all of their customers to see if they had passed away? Was there some 'we close the email if you don't log in for 5 years straight'?

Serious question - how should these type of lifetime promises ever be properly managed? (especially when the customer is an individual)
Would you please not break the guidelines by posting uncivilly like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Red Sift, a full stack, serverless, polyglot, compute platform
I think there's a major difference between say, support figuring out how to implement their product, which is a you problem, their service is working fine.

And a wholly different one if they screw up and you can't talk to them about it without paying them.

The former is an incentive to self-serve and investigate yourself, the latter is an incentive for the company to provide shoddy service to people pay to resolve it.
This is a strawman. We care about animals because animals have nervous systems and a pain response. Plants have no analog - they cannot feel pain, and have no neurological system to indicate intelligence. Nothing feels pain when you cut off a tree branch. Something feels pain when you break off a lobsters claw or hit a dog.

Additionally, the plants we do eat often evolved to produce food for us. Apple trees and other fruiting plants all evolved to be eaten, so the consumer distributes the seeds in stool. That apple is delicious because the tree had an evolutionary bias to make it delicious so you would eat it. We eat plenty of plants like herbs and cabbages not for that purpose (albeit we did breed cabbages to be mutant and tasty) but an apple is a terrible example of a plant we hurt by eating it.
Ask HN: How do you reduce nervousness prior to an interview?
I have a huge final-round interview with my dream company soon. While I'm feeling okay now, I occasionally get these "pangs" that result in an increased heartrate. I can almost feel my heart pounding from time to time!

I realize it's somewhat normal to be nervous in an interview situation. But at the same time, I'd like to hear what some of you do to become more calm/relaxed. That will be very helpful.
This is great news. Frankly I was hoping the fact that a significant part of "alt.right" gang were behind Trump would mean the end of witch-hunts for Manning, Snowden and Assange (and no more random wars).

Alas; Trump has turned out to be the pompous idiot which many of us feared; the "alt.right" turned into a paper tiger pushing xenophobic attitudes with little expected in terms of accountability from USG.

I have to give credit to people on the alt-side for warning people about Trump; his connections, lack of ethics, and what his term would beget.
Do you think pure paradigms could be mapped, or are you skeptical of any general purpose language being able to efficiently compile to FPGAs _and_ CPUs (and GPUs)?
The court rule in Bilski case, does not agree with you. You can't patent math. It's not my political stance, it's the law. You are not supposed to patent formulas.
Curiously, the tasters were allowed to see the wine, they were not using a black tasting glass or a blindfold.
Apple doesn't do that, it has always been tight lipped, mainly so it doesn't hurt it's own sales.

Pretty sure they have little concern about the Surface Laptop with dirt collecting fabric, and windows jr. operating system.
It looks like the 2016 MBP actually sold quite well in the last quarter, according to http://www.macworld.com/article/3163463/macs/apples-q1-2017-...

Not sure whether that's because of pent-up demand and people resigning to finally buy, or because they're legitimately popular.
Notes from an Emergency
I grew up in a town with an air force training base and the students seem to have some oversight from the base housing authority to make sure they aren't doing anything to piss off the locals.
Such a cool use case. I'd love to see the results if you could build a classifier for it, though I do wonder how quickly it could identify the symptom.
Detecting moments of user frustration in web apps (ie. rage clicks, shaking mouse, refreshing the page) https://logrocket.com
> are solely meant for teenagers

Perhaps that's because the people campaigning for them are explicitly referencing protection of children as their motivation. The label on CDs says "parental advisory" and the MPAA film ratings system is explicitly indexed on age and parental guidance.

> Beyond that, if an adult doesn't want to listen to something or watch something, this helps them

So does the "stop" or "off" button. That's how I deal with most modern music which is indeed in many cases grossly inappropriate for my tastes -- but I guess actually I should lobby for a labelling scheme so I can be "helped".
Replacing project managers and introducing reward/score based AI bots that keep track of progress of individuals as function of stories they are working on, and these bots send out reminders (slack chat bots perhaps). This will can help improve productivity at large firms with multiple (and sometimes unnecessary) levels of manager hierarchies such as IBM, Dell, HP, oil companies etc. Let's be honest a certain programmer has a pattern with which he/she works. Time spent on a problem, number of initial bugs, number of commits, time spent vs difficulty of a certain problem and so forth. We have all this data to quantify and train a bot. I mean why not :)
You can go through Khan Academy and I find MathematicalMonk's lectures on youtube very easy to follow.
Adaptive cards by Microsoft
you'd think that at the level of nuclear chemistry, "kitty litter" would be considered a pretty inexact term for a very serious role.
Will this also, without my permission, delete repositories & forks from my laptop that have been DMCA'd on Github?
At the time, the assumption was that the plane would be flown away, passengers held hostage for some demands, then released. The first planes had no reason to think that they were going to die when the hijackers struck. Passengers on the final plane heard by phone of the other attacks and so knew better what they were dealing with. And it was more than 2 or 3 of them that did anything once they did know that.
That explains a lot of things (my name also begins with J)
Engineered by MSM
[Firebase Founder here] I’m very sorry for the surprise and frustration experienced by the poster, especially due to problems working with Firebase support. We’re embarrassed by the level of communication on our side, and we’ll be working directly with this developer to resolve the issue.

There are a couple of things I’d like to clarify for the group, to help folks understand what happened here, and hopefully help others avoid the same problem.

1 - The Firebase Realtime Database charges for SSL overhead on all requests (we charge for all OSI Layer 5 network usage). We’ve always had a policy of charging this way. Unfortunately, we introduced a bug late last year that began undercharging for SSL, so when the bug was fixed it surprised many people who had gotten used to the lower numbers. For most people, the change was very small. For a small number of people though with exceptional use cases (ie. tons of small network requests from IoT devices without support for session tickets), this can result in a larger change. We identified and contacted developers who were significantly affected, but this customer didn’t get the email. We should have done better. (we mention this change in our FAQ -- https://firebase.google.com/support/faq/ -- under “Why was my Realtime Database reported bandwidth lower than average”)

2 - We recently started actually enforcing overages on legacy plans and our current fixed-price ($25/mo Flame) plan. This is new -- in the past, we allowed unlimited usage on every plan, since we hadn’t built the tools to control this. This meant that many of our developers were getting far more than the listed limits for free. So you may start receiving emails now warning you of bandwidth overages, not because your usage patterns changed, but because we’re now enforcing limits for your existing usage. If you upgrade to the Blaze plan, you’ll start being billed for your full usage amounts -- so double-check your database’s “Usage” tab before upgrading.

I’ll be looking into our profiling tool to see if we can improve it to give a more complete picture of costs.

Again -- I want to apologize to the poster for the poor support experience. If others on the thread have had similar problems and feel they are not getting the attention they want from support, feel free to email me directly as well: andrew@firebase.com
This is exactly how I got into writing software. First, I got bored with playing the same scenarios in Command & Conquer over and over. So I learned to make my own. Then I got tired of some of those hacking utilities crashing (all the time!) and said I could do it better myself. So I taught myself to write software.

20 years later... I see people being hired who have no clue how things work under the hood and it makes me very, very, sad.
Management practices and productivity
There are plenty of small, toy-level kernels out there for people to cut their teeth on. Linux used to be this way, now it's more grown up. There's nothing wrong with that, no reason people have to specifically target the Linux kernel.

With Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and lots of other tinkerer platforms out there, the rising generation should have more opportunity than ever to experiment and learn about hardware and make meaningful open-source contributions.

While keeping the codebase of any project simple enough that a novice can pick it up with minimal difficulty is a great ideal, the real world generally limits that and forces some ugly/unpleasant complexity into place.
Yeah, I was expecting to upgrade my personal 2014 when the 2016s were announced, but "slightly faster but worse in every other way, oh and also we raised the price a bunch" was... not a compelling sales pitch.
This is excellent advice. In general, I've personally imported lessons about accounting controls I learned running a company to personal finance. Yes, it is a pain.

But Paypal, for instance, can only empty a bank account that is used for nothing else, any service like this (open-ended liabilities with shitty/no support) is isolated to debit cards, etc. Nobody gets permission to charge open-ended amounts to credit cards, and nobody gets automation rights to the "real" bank accounts, period.

There's a business model here somewhere for someone to automate all of this. It involves substantially more time to keep organized than my prior two-banks/two-credit cards model. Personal finance apps just aren't designed to treat, for instance, debit cards as transient.

As others note, sure, services that do something like this can still come after you. But who has the money in their pocket right now matters a lot when resolving disputes like this.
I taught myself C when I was 14.
This was back in the late 80's.

It would be a lot easier to do now.
Fortran, Ada, Rust, D, and more.
Rust is at least attempting to provide this. I haven't checked the benchmarks, but my understanding is that it's reasonably close for many applications.
Ah yes and the Gameboy clearly wasn't a bad Photoshop.

He prefaced it saying "and for those of you sick of wannacry"
How is expended computational power (to encrypt) relevant for the bandwidth bill though? I understand it's an expense for them, but (1) 7500% is not a correction in measurements (they must have noticed that over 2 years if it actually costs that much) and (2) it's a completely new expense category (if your plans are bandwidth-based, you can't just force someone into a larger plan when bandwidth stayed the same, you should announce and explain the change in plans).
This sounds more promising than getting a "decorated" MBA degree from an overrated "top league" school. It makes sense to hire a person whose managerial skills are forged in technical training.
If I'm understanding things, that only has two focal planes. They mention the approach of just having several focal planes in the video.
The term in the medical literature you are looking for is 'Simulator Sickness'. There are 2 main theories on it's occurrence, one of which is the issues with the vestibular system. Wikipedia has a good introduction here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulator_sickness

To note, simulator sickness is not that new, we have been grappling with this for ~65 years since the first flight simulators. Despite the massive funding that the DoD has at it's fingertips, we have not found a cure for it OR there has not been a lot of work done to find a cure. However, it seems that more time in the simulator does help, thought it may then hinder actual flight performance. Also, the more experienced pilots had a higher occurrence of it. Again, it's not that well understood.
Thanks, we've reverted the submitted title “Oculus Research Presents Focal Surface Display. Will Eliminate Nausea in VR” to that of the article.
I keep hearing that protectionism doesn't benefit the people of a country, but China and now this feel like counterexamples. Am I misreading?
From my memory bank:

Melissa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus)

ILOVEYOU - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

Anna Kournikova - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_(computer_viru...

Slammer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer

And of course, the fastest spreading virus of all time, Sammy (which only effected Myspace profiles but still meets the definition of a computer worm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)

I don't think the media covers malware/viruses like the used to around the turn of the century.
Ballpark 1,000 people filling up per day at 40$ each. 40,000 / 24 hours = 1,666$ per hour 4 people are not even in the ballpark of 1,666$ per hour and even that's high as you don't need 4 people 24/7.

Again, it's not free, but operating pumps is far from the expensive bit.
I almost bought one of those the other day. Well technically I was looking at the matte 15 in MCP. It is a shame how much Apple has gottan rid of. According to past OS updates wouldn't you run into the issue that it wouldn't run the lasted OS?
I find this from Bezos to be a good tldr for programmers about ML/AI:

"Over the past decades computers have broadly automated tasks that programmers could describe with clear rules and algorithms. Modern machine learning techniques now allow us to do the same for tasks where describing the precise rules is much harder."
Too bad Pontiac is out of business. I suppose we could use a Camaro, as long as it's black, with T-Tops, and has a "screaming chicken" decal on the hood.

Sadly, Burt Reynolds isn't available to drive (he needs assistance to get around these days)
I think he meant that the newest 15" MBP with a 2880x1800 retina display is configured by default to show a scaled 1680x1050 desktop instead of the "native" 1440x900@2x you are thinking about.
Yes - the first year of University was designed as a catch-up to those who hadn't previously had exposure to this sort of thing and weed out the coasters.

I must stress this was a single question on a single first-year exam. Not representative of the whole course in the slightest.