skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congress regularly makes rules that apply to every other government employee except themselves.

* Have to use a government email for official business? Everyone else does but Congress

* Have to keep a record of all communications? Everyone else does but Congress

At least they passed a law that banned insider trading by Congress... but then they repealed the most important parts just a year later! [0]

So, I'm sure we'll see Congress enact a law that requires that all software have a backdoor, unless that software is used by a member of Congress, in which case the penalty for having a backdoor is life imprisonment.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496...
Appreciate the sentiment but there are literally 35 things to avoid listed and the submission is the same name as the article title.
> As for cocaine - Ritalin is cocaine light really. Both increase dopamine, and reduce anxiety in low enough doses.

As the other poster said, Ritalin is a jittery, cheap experience compared to the glorious bliss of cocaine. Cocaine boosts confidence and makes it easy to talk and be social. High-quality cocaine has no "body load" and no come-down, for me. It's an incredible drug and the memories of it still stick in my mind many years onward.
I hear you... Like disappearing bulk billing GPs, specialists only agreeing to see you if you have private insurance and waiting times for public services exceeding the 1 year mark!
Treason: An Explainer
I could try to free the slave, but on the other hand, it might cause a bit of unpleasantness with my friend. So it's six of one, half a dozen of the other!
Great point and I agree with most of your sentiment, but I'm not sure you got all of my point.

What I'm saying, and a big component of what I'm thinking about is housing costs, is that we're chasing the same things with more dollars. If household incomes double, expect the price of houses to follow suit. Assuming supply doesn't change, it doesn't help to earn 2x the money when all the bidders in the marketplace also have 2x the money.
Steve Sailer in the comments suggesting the best idea for reparations in this case blew my mind.
Much of the issues in the article are solvable with basic ADA compliance and structured information architecture.

Strange how a world of tech can easily forget its ability to spread to users who need it most.
I thought this was a reasonable and strikingly good faith comment. I do not know why it is receiving such punitive downvoting. Thank you for sharing your historical perspective.
Both points are actually covered in the book, if I recall correctly. Kahneman writes something along the lines of Tversky or him remarking to the other that they were "just re-discovering things that their grandmother used to tell them."

Kahneman later writes that the only way to avoid cognitive biases that he's seen is to know them and be vigilant for them. And even that doesn't work a good deal of the time. I remember that passage being a very sobering part of the book.

I would say that the book is Kahneman's attempt to actually add to that 2500 year effort by making the observations more formalized, but available to a wider audience.
I mean, GitHub Desktop didn't exist on Linux before at all, so I guess "zero battery used" is indeed a high bar to beat.
When have you ever heard of a Microsoft patch being ready in 2 days?
Microsoft has known about this vulnerability ever since Stuxnet used it. Symantec issued its final report on it in 2010. But Microsoft let politics keep them from fixing it until this world-wide epidemic, and suddenly they have a patch ready for all of their operating systems dating back to Windows XP? It defies logic for them to blame the NSA for hoarding when it was them who left us vulnerable.
Well, men have owned slaves for ages, so it's only fair for women to catch up in this measure.
Filipino here living in the Philippines.

What I can tell you is that this kind slavery-level practice is virtually non-existent. Maids/Housekeepers/"Kasambahay"s/"Katulong"s are expected to be paid. The practice of employing kasambahays is still common among the middle class and is expected of rich families. In lower classes families that are more well off sometimes takes in relatives, of course paying them something for them to save up or paying for their tuition if they're studying. Houseworkers are mostly needed to take care of little children as it is now more common for families to have both parents working.

Here in the Philippines a LOT of television dramas are with protagonists coming from lower classes, often with plots where they are being employed as houseworkers (and you kind of get where this is going :). And television viewership is almost universal here, even in remote villages. I think this really helps a lot for people who identify with these drama characters.

We have now laws setting salary, benefits and treatment standards for houseworkers. This is the landmark law that was signed into law in 2013: https://www.dole.gov.ph/files/Q%20&%20A%20on%20Batas%20Kasam...
Agreed, I've had a couple of fun discussions with friends over what might be the "best" post apocalyptic future currency. Cigarettes were a popular suggestion, as was whisky, I thought perhaps medical supplies might make the cut, or bolts of canvas. What would you consider to be the 'best' barter currency, assuming cash had no specific value?
Actually, my girlfriend is the same. She tried working as an employee and even self-employed. But finally, she's happy being a housewife.

My mother and even friends frown upon me. Like I push her to be a housewife. Actually, I supported her working and even helped her to be self-employed. But she's most happy being a housewife.

I think people just want to have a big home, 2 cars annually 2 holidays and that costs a lot of money. Which means both have to work to support this life style. Luckily I make sufficient money to support us both.
<rumor>

Initial leaks point to a PCIe 3.0 64x interconnect

</rumor>
The biggest value in documentation to me has always been efficiency in understanding: that usually means documenting at the architecture / "components as black boxes" level.

I could trace through to see how someone glued something together without having a hint what I'm looking for, or I could get the architecture gist and then generally know where the thing I should be looking at is.

To me, this delivers two benefits. (1) Reduced redundancy / potential for divergence (as you mentioned above), as you're not re-documenting code but rather documenting at a higher level. (2) Reduced churn, as architecture changes more slowly than code, and generally an arch change will have some organizational process before being made (where docs can be updated).

Disclaimer: This is coming from a place of diving into a lot of client systems with really poor or utterly lacking documentation.
I did computer science, almost all our lectures and classes were around the gorgeous castle courtyard. We pitied the architecture students... :-)
wow 16k/day is a lot. i walk home from work every day, that walk is just over 2 miles and I still only log in about 9k steps (iphone)
If you consider scale and the engineering that has to make those happen and exist then they're both exciting.

The Sears tower was at once the tallest building in the world. The design behind it was revolutionary. It's many rectangles! The Apple building is interesting in it's own right - 100% self sufficient and a new concept of what an office can be.

Not everything can or should be "La Sagrada Familia". That doesn't mean that these other constructions aren't impressive and thoughtful.

I recommend the architecture tour if you make your way to Chicago.
Cardiac and oncology care is top notch in Thai and Indian facilities where Westerners would patron, based on my medical tourism research.

Dat arbitrage!
Wow, that's quite the butchering of the quote, which is itself untrue[1] and often attributed incorrectly[2]. But I get your point. :)

1: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-therapy/200907/the-d...

2: https://www.quora.com/Did-Einstein-really-define-insanity-as...
Weev is a high functioning polydrug abusing sociopath dedicated to short term pleasure. Don't confuse yourself.
>neither men nor women really have the option of just "being a housewife." We kind of both have to work....in most marriages, both people have to work.

Says who? Sure if you take out a fat mortgage and car loans that require two incomes to repay then, sure, you need two incomes. But you can also just choose to live in a smaller house and drive cheaper cars instead. The issue is the lifestyle inflation that comes with two incomes, it is avoidable.(1)

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/11/04/raising-kids-and-r...

>The median household income for families with two full-time working parents and at least one child under 18 at home is $102,400, compared with $84,000 for households where the father works full time and the mother works part time and $55,000 for households where the father works full time and the mother is not employed.

$55,000 a year provides a good life in 99% of the United States.

BTW, the share of two-parent households in which both parents work full time is only at 46%.

My way of handling two incomes is saving and investing the vast majority of the second income, not spending it. That leaves us in a much better financial position and also a lot of leeway for one or both of us to go without employment for an extended time. The ultimate goal being to retire early. Or at least semi-retire.
SO what's the distinguishing feature that makes a car ok but not the office? Is it the proximity to you or something about the office? Does the car being in the company parking lot make a difference?

How is going going to a car around the corner fundamentally different to a sex room in the office?
I'm open to considering certain cases of specific redaction when it means protecting things like this. Also we might be able to have a delayed disclosure process that would declassify the records after a certain period of time or something.
I would totally get behind that, especially if it could be actual wattage used and not just based on the tdp of the CPU. Nothing sucks more than having to pay huge money for servers that are sub 5% utilization because you're trying to have some headroom.
6 years of this bug, and now they're fixing.
No. Businesses that generate cash export it overseas to avoid taxation.

The Fed basically makes banks maintain huge capital reserves, and allows them to borrow money for nothing. The banks don't pay for your money because the Fed is printing it for them.

Because they need to maintain these massive capital reserves, we get the benefit of printing money without circulating it.
Cash doesn't evaporate into the air when you die.
Only for a weak definition of "solved".

As mentioned above, context switching is expensive and extra L1 cache is valuable. Time-sharing can also have a huge effect on latency (because requests must wait until their server is scheduled), even when the throughput is
still good.

Even if time-sharing performs well most of the time, when it goes wrong, the performance problems can be opaque and hard to debug. In general solution that "really" does something will save engineer-days as compared to a thing that does it at the same price/performance trade-off, but virtually.
Data is giving rise to a new economy: How is it shaping up?
Wolfram: A New Kind of Science, Now Online
Magnificent story
It is very good as far disk-based databases go but relational databases have moved to the point of main memory only and NVRAM databases. And that's where the current action really is.
AWS Lambda Support for AWS X-Ray
Just read more about the article. The estate value is everything, not just liquid assets. The median liquid assets were around 10k, median estate is around 50k.
I remember watching SHRDLU being demonstrated on a NOVA TV program 30+ years ago. At the time I was program in BASIC on a microcomputer-class machine, and it completely blew my mind that someone had created a program that could parse and reason that well.
I agree it makes sense to make this configurable. I've created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32383 to discuss.
The Weighted Blanket campaign that raised over $3.5MM on Kickstarter is a scam
Mmmm, that sounds good. The first time HN has made me hungry.
Canadian firms can’t use social media to report key information, CSA rules
As a doctor I like to think I'm more of a friend to my patients than the company that sells them video games online.
The US option is full coverage for the indigent and partial coverage for the old.

If you need nursing care, you lose everything. Typically that means that when husbands get sick, the wife is left near indigent unless he dies quickly or the couple did estate planning with trusts.
I wish they would fix thread locks when syncing exchange accounts with slow internet. Been able to reproduce it super easily and recorded it on video but no output in system logs.
Yeah, it's interesting to see all the bad experiences mostly tie back to gitlab.com being shitty. I've run it self-hosted myself and have been extremely happy with it. Almost a totally set-and-forget experience too, assuming you don't care about those little updates all the time and keep it behind your firewall or reverse proxy.
Yeah, he's now a developer on Atom and worked on the GitHub package...
I have been thinking about the GitLab IPO for a while now, though fortunately the US SEC don't take the same position.
I'd like to see more details about edge case scenarios.

What happens if a sled gets stuck? What would be the procedure and response time for getting the right personnel down there?

What failsafes are in place for disasters? What if the power grid went offline or there was a flood?

How do you prevent human error? What if people left their gas vehicles on and there was a toxic level of carbon monoxide in the tunnels? What if people jumped or accidentally fell onto a sled while it was descending?
Great idea, I've marked it Accepting Merge Requests https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/...
> I think there might be some conflation between this story and the article posted.

Yeah. My sense is people are angry at what the OP described, and their anger has clouded their judgment. They're twisting ambiguous stories like lordnacho's into a version of the OP's, so they can play-act their sense of righteous superiority.
Step 1) Don't read a article without any empirical evidence or control group to support opinionated rules.
That didn't work for me. I was left with "WTF?". And wondering whether I'm too old to get some joke. Or maybe just not British ;)
They aren't permitted to go back home and sleep on the weekends? Why not?
You're reading it wrong.
Help Ubuntu shape Ubuntu 17.10 by taking this survey
Waymo Tests Hardware to Ease Passenger Fears of Driverless Cars
Developing the infrastructure to take moderately enriched Uranium and enrich it to something weapons grade is likely to be outside the industrial scope of any space facility for quite a while. When we've got 10,000,000 people living on the Moon we can use the same enforcement regime as we do with small countries on Earth. Until then it's not worth worrying about.
"Tuition for the Master of Science in Product Management program is charged at a flat rate of $65,000 for the 12-month program. This cost covers tuition only. It does not include university fees, summer electives or other miscellaneous expenses."

Ouch.
This does not answer the most obvious and important question: why not invest in public transport? It's boring but it will work.
Wow, I saw this thread after just reading that chapter over lunch.

My first time reading GEB and I'm absolutely captured.
The snapshot feature introduced recently makes a big difference to app start-up time.
Isn't slack videocalling in beta and still macOS only? I wish they'd finish implementing a feature [on all platforms] before moving onto other features.

As a team, we can't really use videocalling until the entire team can use it. It's really all-or-nothing.
A list of generic tools for parsing binary data structures
Yes, a lot of C++ code out there can be rewritten with GC. But for a language to replace C++, it has to cover the full spectrum, and that includes GC-less operation for low-level components. Providing primitives to manually allocate memory on unmanaged heap is not sufficient - the language must allow running without GC at all.
ZX Spectrum Next Now Equipped with a FPGA-Based SID Chip
Yeah, but that one's been repeated so often people just tune it out.
Is it just me or are seemingly random comments getting downvoted heavily as of late? I don't see anything particularly wrong with this one.
This will lower salaries in India for IT professionals. As a result outsourcing to India will become more attractive.
Indeed, strange how that's not mentioned at all. Or whether any transportation engineers have evaluated what kind of traffic reduction would occur from using all these tunnels for a subway system instead of just moving a few cars around.

Edit: The more I think about it, the worse it seems. Compare how much space is eaten out of the road above for a few cars... per minute?...to go up/down to this tunnel vs. how many a stairwell could take up/down to the subway. Even if the car's were relatively crammed close together in the tunnel, I can't imagine it would be anywhere near the density you could fit on subway trains. The economics of this make no sense.... unless you consider that this will be something that only the incredibly elite will be able to afford. The majority of people in rush hour LA traffic will remain stuck there, the rich will go down I guess.
Did you forget the /sarcasm tag, because history shows otherwise.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you forgot that intent doesn't convey well through forum posts.
This is a fantastic decision imo. I like how "consumer and developer" driven they are being with this so as to have up to date deps.

I see this as waiting 2 months for a updated product line instead of jumping the gun on buying a MacBook Pro right this minute .
Linked FTA, book about software dev based on empirical studies

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Software-Really-Works-Believe/...
OT: My recent "creepy" moment, with Signal.

Last year, I helped someone out, including dealing with their manipulative friend. Whose name and number ended up in my Android contacts db.

The other week, Signal pops a message: X has joined Signal. Be the first to send [them] a message.

Um...
Guns, ammo, and whiskey. I don't expect humanity to stay civilized or play by the same rules.

The whiskey gives you something to trade. Guns & ammo make sure the trade isn't a robbery.
This is a rather rose-tinted view — old cars (c. >25 years) broke down very frequently (by modern standards), rusted easily, and very rarely lasted to 100,000 miles. By a substantial margin, new cars have never been so reliable or required so little maintenance.

Conversely, this doesn't mean that cars were made poorly in the past, it's just that the technologies and methods used in their manufacture have improved over time.
You've a few choices:
1. F11/Fullscreen
2. /usr/bin/chromium --app="https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/shiftgig.com?authuser...

The latter opens a chrome-less hangouts window. 100% hangouts.
Does that matter? Is the policy to not change clickbait titles when they are technically correct?
> If I had a friend doing even the above, I'd at LEAST ask "explain to me how this isn't you being a dick."

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it sounds like the "master of the house" (the one calling in the morning) wasn't the friend, but the friend's father?
> I agree, what's up with all these Electron apps.

The common theme seems to be developer convenience. What's best for users is no longer something developers consider when choosing tools.
For the same reason Ted Dzubia no longer writes blog posts--the internet can't handle cutting the crap and being blunt.
You can have the sleds equipped with oxygen and a mask, similar to what airplanes have for cabin depressurization.

As for point B you can have doors or what not around the sled. But if people really want to commit suicide by sled there's nothing stopping them. What stops someone from jumping off a bridge with a highway below?
Tesla Rejected Uber Partnership on Self-Driving Cars
It's also possible to run marathons, do spinning + yoga classes, eat only raw vegan foods, and die in a car crash. I personally aim for a balance which prioritizes personal enjoyment over absolute longevity-seeking. I don't want to live to be >120, but I also really don't want to spend the 2nd 50% of my life unable to participate in relatively demanding physical activities, like kiteboarding / surfing / mountain biking / >10 mile hikes. I like coffee and tea, and I stay away from soda (diet or otherwise), almost anything with artificial sweeteners, fast food, potato chips, burgers, most things sold at 7-11, more than 2 drinks in a night, etc.
One of my dads friends made a comment about New Jersey politicians having 'ties to the Mafia' Not hard to have Mafia ties if you have anything to do with in real estate in New Jersey. Almost impossible not to actually.

Trump deals in New York commercial real estate. Of course there are Russians.
Colloquially, the call girl principle.
The worst part is this even affects non-linux users. My team is about 80% macOS and 20% linux. We can't have meeting without 20% of the team, so Slack is useless.

You need to support everyone, or it all becomes pointless.
The value engineering he just described. Read his comment again
Show HN: Download and format NLP corpus data by 1 line of code
> "In recent years, talking to twitter employees you get this amnesia over the company's culture and history. People don't know where things came from, they don't know the story of how the came to be. The myth's are complicated and messy. And eventually go so messy the company stopped telling the story of how twitter came to be where it is now all together."

That always happens, the raison d'être gets lost after the initial cohort moves on.

Twitter is just another big corporation now, like any big corp employees will pay lip service to vague corporate values (with a few true believers).

Rolling out a heavily decorated old timer in 1870 will not inspire the troops to fight anew for the glory of the French empire.
I am not being facetious when I say "it won't help establish humanity on Mars".
That's some website, forcing me to enable javascript so I can use their "totally necessary" custom scrollbar </getoffmylawn>

Anyway, that's interesting. Thanks!
I currently use a self hosted GitLab instance at work. I also have a collection of personal repositories on GitLab.com. I chose to put my personal work on GitLab.com because of free private repositories.

Over the last few weeks I've started to trial Phabricator, using the hosted Phacility.com service. I haven't actively migrated any code yet, but just using Phabricator to manage some workflow elements is a much enhanced experience. Phabricator's Maniphest (tasks, issues) and Project Workboards feel much more intuitive than GitLab's. The Kanban board on GitLab drives me insane with the amount of clicks I need to do things, small glitches with tags and lack of a single unified multi-project view. Perhaps I haven't used Phabricator enough yet to hit such little frustrations.

The point is, I'm probably going to migrate all my personal work over to Phacility.com and if things continue to move smoothly recommend using Phabricator at work, mostly for their workflow and project management tools.

I should make it clear that as a developer, I'm just messing about for my own interest. Professionally, I'm a project/product manager with a small team of developers and scientists. I wanted to try and standardise on a single tool to manage workflow, while still staying out of the developers' way while they did the important stuff of building the product.