skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are in the industry, and thus affected by the issue: the most overly broad, worst case, one sided, law of this type is in your favor. Thus it is unfair to even ask that question at this time.

First we need to ask if the law was fair. What are the real concerns of the other side. Did the law address them fairly? Just because you are biased doesn't excuse you from understanding the other side and ensuring that you are fair to them.

Next, you need to ensure that you knowledgeable and involved with other issues. You boycotting alone is meaningless as you ultimately are small compared to people who are not in the industry. Everybody has concerns about their domain that nobody else knows about. Are you informed and helping in the local nurse/hospital depute? What about the retails workers issues (the types of people who enjoy working at wal-mart overall)...
Using machine learning to help people make smart decisions about solar energy
You would recognize how 00 through FF indicates more/less presence of each of rgb for every two characters, and combine from there. IE ff0000 would mean fully red no green no blue. It takes some practice to remember how the different combinations add up.
That's probably overstating the case a bit. If you're hiring remote workers from other parts of the USA, I'd say you can pay somewhat less, get roughly equivalent work, and reap the profits so long as you have the skills to manage a distributed team.
Musk’s SpaceX Joins the Military
These CSS colors consist of 3 bytes in hex, the first gives the red value, second green and the last is blue.

So:

#FF0000 = 0xFF, 0x00, 0x00, which is pure red
#0000FF = 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, which is pure blue
#FF00FF = 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, which is red and blue mixed, so it's purple (violet)
#FFFFFF = 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, all colors combined is white

etc

#C0FFEE = 0xC0, 0xFF, 0xEE, so by 'parsing' it in your head yo can see is mostly green and blue, combined that's cyan.
While we're at it, is there one that:

- Lets me store certificates and PGP keys

- Has two factor authentication (U2F)

- Has open hard and software (source-available)

Basically, a USB pen drive that allows U2F, and is can be made read only (either by a switch or only writable over a special interface). I don't really need tamper-resistance, pre-generated keys, smart cards or any other advanced features.
> A neural network isn't simpler in any sense of the word. You might as well throw a simulated annealer at the problem.

Great idea! I'm sure D-WAVE would be happy to work with you on a quantum sudoku solver.
This post doesn't mention the strategic dilemma Intel has with GPUs. GPUs are fast because they have fast local memory, the core count is secondary, and some Intel chips have 22x16 vector processing elements clocked 2x higher than NVIDIA ( around 3k CUDA core equivalent ).

Why doesn't Intel make a fast local memory GPU style device. Well, they did (Xeon Phi) but if they give it a reasonable price point it would cannibalize their existing x86 market, which is more than the GPU market.
Depends on how far along development is and whether you are coming in as a founder CTO or first-employee CTO. 1) if still very early, then 100/4 seems fair because you could be in business for a very long time with these people so it makes sense to all be equal partners. 2) if some type of money has been raised then it's a trickier proposition. Questions you want to ask: a) how much money raised if any, b) other founder's shares, c) founder CTO or employee CTO, c) how far along development is..... In case you haven't seen them, some Quora answers: https://www.quora.com/What-would-be-the-standard-equity-perc..., https://www.quora.com/What-would-a-CTO-compensation-equity-b..., google the question and see responses from a whole host of startup websites.
Amazon will be the first company worth $1 trillion, NYU’s Scott Galloway says
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And what happens when Ansible checks out the Git repository for you? Or some equivalent shell script or deployment system, or some helpful developer hand-deploying something with 'git clone' on the server?

Or what about helpful developer that checked in some secrets which are visible in the repository history but not the current checkout?

Or that stupid PHP thing where 'config.php' and its MySQL passwords are world-readable, but rely on the web server interpreting it as a PHP script due to its file extension to prevent secret leaks.. not so valid when a copy of the script if available as ".git/objects/00/cf74f2066b0c72a4c4b2a24ef116f1fd23df42".

But of course, even if these weren't problems, the original point still stands: there is no guarantee .git doesn't contain secret data (such as username:password) either now, or into the future, so exposing it is a bad idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
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Nice. Do you use the variation described in the linked post, or did you do a variation of your own? (If so, please can you explain it?)
Yeah, getting a co-working space was the best $350 / month i've spent. Effectively solved all of my complaints, met new friends, and could nap at the desk when needed ;)
Why did you even open the tab? It says English Dictionary...
Just an FYI, I use a cheap Android device with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and use Termux which is a Linux emulator with support for many packages including vim, python, jupyter, task warrior and much more
I guess it is not really that different than the parking area being really far away and you have to spend time either waiting for/taking the shuttle or walking.
if you move from washington to a state where non-competes are unenforcable, can amazon still sue you?
came here with my covfefe joke, yours is better
Maybe less so if the employee cannot securely pursue any line of work at all.
Munroe's linguistic hypothesis is interesting and may prove valid, but I think what we're seeing is likely due to deeper cultural shifts. William Gibson's circa-2010 observation that "the present is really of no width whatever" hints at a more atomized popular concept of time and the dissolution of the concept of the regular, periodic structure of decades in the 20th century.

I wouldn't be surprised if by the mid-2020s we've more or less abandoned the concept of decades in favor of an ad-hoc system of domain-based periods loosely defined within cultural groups - I'd say to some degree, we're doing that already.
I've lived in Finland for a few months and indeed, the cycling infrastructure wasn't what I'm used to as Dutchman. You're either on the sidewalk or in the middle of traffic, both of which are undesirable. Most of the year it doesn't freeze so a bike is perfectly usable. Not as if people work out of the city anyway, a train goes like twice a day. And within the city where I was, it's perfectly doable from one end to the other twice a day.
> >Capitalism with relatively free trade is the only mechanism in the history of the world to be able to pull massive numbers of people out of grinding poverty.

>What does this even mean?

It means that the reason there was grain for Rome to give was because of trade and capitalism (as well as some slavery and conquering which impoverish some populations to enrich others).

Capitalism (private ownership of means of production) means that I benefit if I provide things that other people want.

Trade allows individuals to make exchanges that benefit them.

Free trade ensures that exchanges benefit both parties, resulting in an increase of total well-being.

> Rome pulled massive numbers of people out of grinding poverty with the free grain dole, not at all capitalist.

And Rome periodically put them back into grinding poverty by reducing the size of the grain dole because it was too expensive? Funding consumption can't reduce long term poverty (give a fish vs teach to fish).
Why? That's just a hour and a half to two hours of highway driving.
Making Pepper Walk: Understanding Softbank’s Purchase of Boston Dynamics
Yup, incentives matter and people aren't as good as they tend to think they are or others are.
I think its actually a more substantial shift. With media being so accessible it almost feels that the generational cultural gap is blurring and narrowing. I have access within moments the entire popular culture catalog of music, films, and TV shows going back decades. There seems to be a great convergence and preservation of culture. I'm as likely to listen to 60s & 70s David Bowie as I am to listen to the new Arcade Fire album coming out later this year.

The past two decades almost seem to blur into each other culturally. People basically dress exactly as they did 20 years ago as far as I can tell. Maybe that's because these two decades and the coming decade are my prime years and so I lack perceptive as a late 20 something who is still neither quite young nor yet middle aged.
I've always found Alex St. John to be a blow-hard, having read his articles dating back to Boot (Maximum PC). No to mention the fact that he creates malware like WildTangent.
> Why care about OS:es when there is no room for anyone on that level of abstraction apart from a handful developers at MS, Apple and Google?

There is as much room as there are people frustrated with the "state of the art."

Edit: Have you seen this apple commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8. Yes it is from 1984 and you might think it doesn't apply.
> But even just charging such an EV over old wires is worrying. It may cost thirty thousand to get the house rewired.

Why would you rewire the house to run a 240V plug for your car? That's nuts. You'd add a dedicated 240 circuit. You're probably still looking at a a minimum of $1k and likely in the $3-5K range, especially if your panel needs to be updated/expanded, but there's no reason you'd need to rewire your whole house for this. As for the outdoor outlet, there are exterior rated outlets (and presumably exterior rated chargers). Code isn't the concern.
Non-competes are tricky: they essentially try to extend trade secret protections to information that people know (which is hard to track), instead of information that's written down (which is easy to track, see Waymo). It seems most people on HN are fine with protecting the latter, but not the former.

In my opinion, a non-compete is something that needs to be separately negotiated and compensated, rather than lumping it into "employment." If you agree to a non-compete, you are paid $X in exchange. If you violate the non-compete, you must pay $X back (and there could be a negotiated multiplier, e.g. $3X). In the absence of agreement, the legal default should be 1:1. If you are paid nothing for a non-compete, it is unenforceable. If you are paid $1, you must pay $1, and so on.

This gives each side an opportunity to value and agree upon the non-compete apart from the job itself. Eventually, most industries would settle on standards.
It's not just you getting old: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-2...
The bottom line says "and and"
Beyond data anchoring
Ugh, his slides from that Kotaku article are especially cringeworthy. The perception of that type of attitude from management is what causes unions to form. He's right out front with a playbook how to exploit your employees.
I've given up on yubikey at this point. I love the form factor, but it was easier in the end to build a different second factor infrastructure than it was to deal with the company.

I've been toying with the idea of building an open source replacement and fabbing it with a shuttle service but ultimately the cost is really too high to justify.
Yeah it does, but it's a corruption of the previous attempts at labeling decades and doesn't really solve the problem of labeling decades. A decade is actually meaningless in terms of what it represents culturally, and since the explosion of The Internet, culture is now smeared and has no basis in a decade anymore. We've reached a post-post-post-post modern era. Rushkoff goes into this more in his 'present shock' theory https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4131130/obsessed-with-now...
That's just their opinion though. Most people's opinion on operating system security is wrong anyway.
> what amounts to a nominal gain in mileage.

A Prius is 46 combined, the Civic is only 32 combined (as per fuelly). The base Civic uses 50% more fuel than a Prius, I'd hardly consider that "nominal", that's the difference between a 6.2L V8 powered Corvette (22 combined on fuelly) and a Civic.

Another way to look at it is, $2/gallon gas in a Prius is $3/gallon in a Civic.
Do you have some further ideas fur such a system?
I think the structure and relations of this bunch of links are a kind of knowledge. And in this information-overloaded age, they are playing an increasingly significant role.

And in the age of artificial intelligence, a lot of problems require a combination of the works of machines and humans. Google can't provide a professional and insightful knowledge structure on its own. But more documents like this one maybe will help a new class of smarter production. Actually I myself am working on the similar production.

Additionally, unlike many extra-long "awesome list", I just pick one or a few links for each nested "category" which are the most mainstream and not outdated, based on the clear trends, public data, and experience. They are not trivial collections.
is there any doc for this ? for forming diff filters on request and response format.
[keep in mind I'm far from an expert on this]

The thing that bothers me personally about these examples is that there are a lot that end in 0x000000 or 0xffffff, i.e. all bits set or all bits unset in many of the trailing bits.

If you use this for a hash table, a common way that you get your index into the table is:

index = hash_result % table_size

If you use power-of-two table sizes, then you are going to get these collisions, even though the upper bits differ.

You can use a non-power-of-two table size to compensate for this (prime sizes are typically the most robust choice I think) at the cost of a more expensive modulo operation. See more here in the first section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Hashing
This is pretty cool. I wrote a program once to simulate the nonrelativistic schrodinger equation, and I noticed that if you put a periodic boundary condition in there (so the right edge wraps around to the left edge) what you appear to get is that the wavefunction runs through a fractional fourier transform to the fourier transform of the original signal, then back again to the original. Has anyone else seen this? Is the schrodinger equation just a fractional fourier transform?
> Intel keeps the PCIe bus slow and limits the number of IO lanes that an Intel CPU supports thus ensuring that GPU’s are always dependent on an Intel CPU to serve their workload

I was looking into building a multi-GPU machine for ML and was very confused as to why the latest Intel CPU has less PCIe lanes than the previous one, it didn't made any sense to me. Those sneaky Intel bastards...
6 steps to faster enterprise app development: from prototype to product launch
And if speed limits were set to what people really drive you would see a huge drop off in speeding! People ignore things that are increasingly obviously stupid. Any time a large majority of drivers are ignoring the rules it's an engineering problem, not a driver problem.
It's about 70%. If you only count the electricity specific taxes, it's around 50%.

Fresh numbers from todays elpris.dk - øre = Danish cents (yes, they are called ears).

Cost of production: 26,05 øre/kWh
Transmission: 35,19 øre/kWh
Taxes: 105,40 øre/kWh
VAT (25,00 pct.) 41,66 øre/kWh

In total: 208,31 øre/kWh
Enterprise is just an euphemism for clunky corporate IT platforms like SAP/Oracle/SharePoint/Windows, quite distant from Nvidia's field.
That money came out of someone else's pocket! It is not free. The free lunch is what doesn't exist and has never existed.
The reasons aren't so different from the reasons for writing any other software.

1. Even if the project never replaces the other software you use, you gain a better understanding of that other software by solving some of the same problems, making the same mistakes, learning the same lessons.

2. You may have special requirements that don't make sense to add to an existing project aimed at a broader audience. This is where a lot of niche microcontroller OSes come from.

3. You have a crazy idea that would be hard to explore within the architecture of an existing project. If it turns out to be crazy enough to work, then maybe people will do the work to migrate it to the mainstream.

4. Everyone has a little dream that the masses will find great value in their work and flock to it, supplanting the status quo. Like becoming a billionaire, it essentially never happens, but you can't blame people for trying.
That worked so well for the Palm Pre.
Show HN: Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books
No idea, I haven't timed it.
That seems like an actual bonus though to me, one of the downsides of 1 year leases is that if you decide to switch workplaces you are on the hook for large sums of money. I would love a clause in my housing that I am automatically evicted if I terminate my current employment.
How Smart is the
> so many people would have to move far away or resign.

I would think you could just say "No, I was hired to work <here>. If you want me to relocate and I don't want to, you can let me go (which comes with unemployment, etc)". I certainly wouldn't voluntarily resign without compensation.
Don't be lame with the Facebook tease. Tell us or don't, and for the record, I am interested.
The story of a failed side project: ABBY.io
You Say You Want a Devolution? (2012)
When was that? And how much do we know about it outside of a narrative that was written by people with statist tendencies?
How many people are working on these problems?

The sad reality is that most software engineers want to work on these problems, but instead have to work on pumping out CRUD apps and proprietary APIs of questionable social value to pay the bills.
I don't feel that "stalled" this is correct at all. They had a massive feature update via 1.5 in Oct. and 1.6 entered customer beta in May.

They just haven't shipped your preferred feature.
Except AMD own ATI which is their own GPU brand. So no, they're doing that because they want to move GPUs and they'll want those GPUs to be AMD ones.
Absolutely. But if you accept that culture, rather than material privilege, is the key to human thriving, then you come to very different conclusions about how to lift people up.
The New Breed of Activist Investors Trying to Give Silicon Valley a Conscience
Why care for computers when there's a worldwide market for maybe five, tops?
Doesn't solve the issue of the data being available on a public server, though. Any piece of code run by the web server would most likely have access to those directories, as well as any other static content in the web root...
The alternative to a donor organ market is additional financial incentives to develop and improve implantable artificial organs.

Currently, you need a bulky external machine for hemodialysis. At first, they were available only in hospitals, then in outpatient clinics. Now people can keep such machines at home, and use them as they sleep. I would predict that these machines would first become cheaper, until hitting a cost threshold, then become smaller, until hitting the size of a large suitcase. Then they would have an implantable component, and an external satchel-sized wearable component. Then development would stall until the patents run out.

As dialysis treatment runs about 6% (!) of the Medicare budget, one might think that the US would have a significant incentive to fund research into reducing the cost of treatment for kidney disease. Sadly, this does not appear to be the case.

Most of that money is now going to private dialysis companies that have optimized their business models around the Medicare payment rules. Their incentives are not to improve patient care, but to suck as much federal money out of the trough as possible.
it's the lyrics from a rage against the machine's song…

an american band
I was offered a DevOps gig in Amazon's AI division several months ago, and asked their recruiter to never call me again (workplace treatment anecdotes, draconian employment contract requirements, etc).
There is a reason this partnership/cartel has been called "Wintel." Both knew it's in their best interest not to screw each other over by adopting other platforms more aggressively.

I think they've been increasingly more dissatisfied with that arrangement since Intel was trying to get into iPads/iPhones, and then Microsoft built Windows RT and Windows Phone for ARM-only.

Similarly, Google has been pushing Intel chips in Chromebooks (even though Chrome OS is architecture-agnostic, as you were hoping Microsoft to do with Windows), because they get those sweet discounts and early-access to Intel server chips. Plus, I think Intel is still on Google's board.
Thanks for a great response.

A) No money raised, but the three existing founders are all committing personal money to it (I may be asked to do the same).
B) I can find out other founders equity stakes.
C) Pretty sure it's a founder CTO role, but can double check this.
D) No code developed so far, except an initial demo that I wrote for them, which bagged me the offer for the position.
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I highly recommend William Gibson's "Blue Ant" trilogy (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History) if you're into this sort of topic.
Bad actors are a problem in any system, which is why the system should be pluralist; but it's entirely possible for bad right-wing actors to get elected. Argentina, rather than Venezuela.
Don’t defer Close() on writable files
'A Day in the Life' Is a Landmark in Sound Engineering 50 Years On
Putting your events on a diet
One should do both. Scripts and their dependencies have bugs, potentially leading to another sequence of games. At the very least one should specify a couple of the games, so one can check against them.
It's probably a law of nature that prices won't stabilize somewhere where you could triple the price and sell 1/3 the quantity. At the higher price, revenue would be the same, but you only had to produce 1/3 of the goods, so profit is higher.

So if you were ever in this situation, you would probably expect price to rise until the slope of the demand curve changes.
That actually happened a long time ago.
Google is effectively aliasing RE to regular expression. None of the links use "RE" as an acronym. Regex/Regexp has always been the accepted acronym.
AFL automates this to a large degree. It doesn't do it with the type of machine control and monitoring you are asking for, but if you can instrument it with AFL, this is a perfect use case for it. It will do the hard work for you.

If you want to control the computer, you have options. Qemu can give you fine grained CPU level logging you want: http://moyix.blogspot.jp/2014/07/breaking-spotify-drm-with-p... -- this is an article that walks through logging them instructions. (https://github.com/panda-re/panda)

Finally there are RE frameworks where you can instrument (hook) function calls (Frida being a good cross platform option).

I would try AFL first. But playing with Panda can be really fun too.

(edit: and a colleague just pointed out -- https://github.com/angr, which will also let you work right at the level you want to, I think).
Ask HN: How to find best airfare from US to Africa?
How would you find the best airfare from the US to Africa? Which websites would you use? Or would a travel agent actually be the best answer?

If it matters, the actual destination is Lilongwe, Malawi.