skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if true for most, it most likely is not true for every operator.
Pretty neat, but would be even nicer if display of the points could be turned off, so that you could see just the resulting shapes, especially with the motion feature.
Sales of mammoth ivory should be banned, just like the sales of elephant ivory. Distinguishing mammoth ivory from elephant ivory is pretty hard and as a result sales of mammoth ivory can act as a cover for sales of illegal elephant ivory.
> I don't, in general, trust direct feedback from someone I turned down (or hired, for that matter).

That's a problematic attitude, in my view. It reads to me that you think you have all the answers already, or at the very least that you view yourself as being superior to people you interview. That lack of humility is troublesome for a number of reasons.

As far as your interview question, do you normally not interview candidates to develop software? Your question is appropriate for a grunt who's entire responsibility is to thoughtlessly code up somebody else's design. It's not appropriate for someone expected to contribute thoughtfully to the engineering of a software product.
At about that time I knew a guy who insisted that the best web dev platform was AOLServer with application code written in C.
I would shoot myself.
He says in a reply:

Laptop, SSH, paper :). I wasn't a heavy mobile user in general and
only got interested in cellphones when they became more PC-like. So
with 3.5 years in F-Droid, I only have about 4-5 years of actual
mobile phone usage. Coming from a more old-school unix environment,
reverting back.
Does it support all of Google Form's features? Even when sign in is required?
Seems like a cool idea, but clicking on this link will immediately download a file to your computer: https://bash.rocks/KJKEk3

(it's just a snippet from /dev/urandom, but it looks like it could be any arbitrary file that's within the size limits)

For example, https://bash.rocks/jJg193 shows that it is possible to download any arbitrary data with no prompt (here it's the eicar test file)

EDIT: where can I contact the author? I found a very bad security bug; I can see what commands other users are running
They used to be charging multiple euros per MEGABYTE. You can see why regulation was needed.
Successful satire.
Just tried a whois on this domain's data. There are lots of other domains registered by "Mengzhu Wang": http://domainbigdata.com/nj/7bJvx8m5-fv11P6kSKx6vA

According to archive.org this page exists since 2015:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150701000000*/http://www.learn...
"don't run out of cash"

Don't neglect this one. A surprisingly large number of small companies that go under are profitable. They don't go under because they're making a loss; they go under because they cannot pay today's bill. Cash flow kills small businesses dead.
[The reply](https://freepo.st/post/xeipt6x9xu#comment-5l6f7qdlfk).
At this point, is GNU/Hurd just for people who like to hack around with OS kernels?

I mean, it's interesting to see the progress now and then, but I can't imagine seeing it on anyone's short-list for OS's that could be deployed in a production environment.
Also westerner and also draw them clockwise.. Mostly from the top. I also thought that most people would start "to the right" as we write in that direction.
They either grow (and change) or die. For those who liked the way they startedn, both of these.tend to look like forms of “get worse”, which is, of course, entirely subjective.
What's the life expectancy of 18650 cells found by cherry picking still working cells from dead battery packs? Ie. if you test them and find ones that seem good, will they last hundreds of cycles?
sel4 is amazing, but it is not bug free:

https://github.com/seL4/seL4/issues/36

It might be close... for miTLS I don't have access to the issues, but let's assume it's bug free now for sake of argument; it hasn't always been bug free, that is in earlier unproven releases.

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" - Edsger Dijkstra
A much more practical goal would be to colonize the bottom of the ocean. Not that colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be very practical, just more practical relative to Mars.

The ocean is much more accessible, has life already down there, there is some oxygen, it's not radioactive, and it has a level of gravity that humans evolved to over their entire existence. You'd also be able to get internet access down there. Plus, it's probably much more interesting as there are far more things left to discover down there. Mars is just a super shitty desert. People only want to go there because no one's ever been, but once they go, they won't care anymore.
I keep hoping GNU/HURD will eventually morph into something usable and compelling... but I've been hoping that for nigh on a dozen years already. Certainly progress is being made and this release is an impressive advance in several quarters, but unless it gets traction in some manner that compels corporate sponsors to contribute to a supersonic spurt in development, it seems destined to lag increasingly far behind other open source OSes such as Linux and the *BSDs. And that's a real pity, because a usable, well-implemented micro-kernel architecture widely deployed and supported would be something very much worth everybody's while.
The last time I had a Swedish SIM card in my iPhone there was a separate "EU Internet" option
Having a hard time understanding why those candidates were even called in. No pre-screen coding practice? No pre-screen phone call?
How is it better than ssh -D, you mean? I thought I answered that above:

"Although the Shadowsocks protocol presents as a socks proxy, there are clients for iOS (e.g. Potatso 2), Android and routers (e.g. those available at koolshare's web site) which make it transparent to use (and they deal with your DNS issue as well, by tunneling DNS through the proxy)."

How would you use ssh -D to reroute your iPad traffic? How would you set up DNS? How would you help your non-technical friends who wanted to set this up?

Put more simply:

- Easy to set up the server

- Easy to set up devices (Windows, OSX, Android, iOS 9+) so that you can connect in a couple of clicks, and the right traffic goes via the tunnel

- It's reliable (in the past 1+ years I've been using it, I've experienced none of the slow-downs or blocking I experienced using other protocols, including ssh, PPTP, L2TP and OpenVPN).
Deploy your own private docker registry 2017
>Sadly I feel this deal won't last for long when the UK leaves the EU.

I wouldn't worry too much. The UK providers are quite good with this. e.g. The contract I signed a month ago was 16GB anywhere in EU for 19 quid. (voda). And the prepaid Three network cards can also roam with their data allowance in a sizable number of countries.
HEADLINE: First class ZFS install support on Live CD.

DESCRIPTION: The license conflict between the open source ZFS and open source Linux kernel mean ZFS needs to be in contrib. Unlike a lot of other packages in contrib, ZFS doesn't rely on any non-free software. It just can't be in Debian main because of the conflict of licenses.

However, it would be nice if there was a way to have a more official path to ZFS on root for Debian. The current instructions require a fairly high number of steps in the ZFS On Linux wiki.

The ZFS On Linux wiki also lists a new initramfs file that has to be included so ZFS is supported. It seems odd that Debian couldn't include that as part of initramfs. I realize Debian doesn't want to necessarily promote non-free software, but this is free software that just conflicts with the GPL. It doesn't seem like it should be a second class citizen where you have to manually include files that should already be part of the package.

By the nature of the license conflict, it will be a second class citizen in that it can't be part of the normal installation package and you'll have to compile on the fly. However, it would be nice if there was a mode in the Live CD that could handle ZFS installation rather than doing it all manually.

DISTRIBUTION: currently mixture of testing/unstable but I'd like to use day(s) old sid (see other post).
Would love to know this myself.

I'm in process of moving my company's main web app to python 3, and standardized on 3.5 to match Debian 9.

But python 3.6 has so many cpu & memory improvements (not to mention things like f'' strings), seriously considering installing custom copy of 3.6... though not sure if I want the burden of maintaining my own copy of everything that will affect.

Then again... "Debian stable" being rock solid stable is why I stick with it for production; if their caution in this is the price I pay, it's worth it.
I was suprised to see that none had commented on draining the possible genepool for Mammoth yet?

These "miners" are bound to reduce the available DNA for researchers that do work within this field, humans likely killed off the mammoth - if we brought it back it could serve to upkeep large quantities of open grounds (believe it or not but herds are important to grasslands and soilvalue).

Either there should be a larger rewards than the bones can offer and a get out of jail freecard for the offense if fresh DNA or what to is believed to be such is found (so that scientifical extraction is possible on site).

Or the regulation should be strengthened, both the governement and the criminal networks should realise what a potential goldmine living and breeding mammothherds could be for russia...
You can now play PS4 games on your iPhone or iPad
It also used to cost proportionally more of your disposable income; You'd probably be more inclined to borrow an item if it would cost the next month's cash to acquire.
What do you mean "faithfully"?

For sure we can all agree that this encoding is irreversible - i.e. we can't reconstruct the past state from the present.

And due to the combination of chaos in macroscopic systems and quantum uncertainty, I think it's highly likely that we can conceive of two slightly different past states that give present states indistinguishable even to $deity_of_unlimited_power.

So how is it "faithful"?
In this age of cheap storage and intelligent search, digital hoarding shouldn't be a liability. I use the Evernote Web Clipper.
Then when did we start going forwards again?
I'd expect most packages to be EOL from the perspective of upstream by then. It's a normal thing for distributions to backport fixes, sometimes even develop them themselves when required.
I suggest Reddit spend the first $1,000 in funding to fix the official Reddit app, so it properly displays Reddit markdown: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_16loHXUAAaVlK.jpg:large
This is such an obvious joke. Chill my friends.
What's a good use-case for this?
Perhaps in some cases a broad consensus mechanism (like hard fork) is preferable to putting it in the hands of 12 random people.
"The past ..." — If there is only one.
FWIW, I struggle with the same thing and this thread has prompted me to try and do something about it.

Considering that it seems that quite a few other people have the same problem, perhaps it's an idea for those of us who feel troubled about our 'digital hoarding' to collectively try and detox (at least for a while to see how it feels)? Perhaps a 'Junkless July' and a follow-up Ask HN at the end of that?
In the end we went with a different candidate. He doesn't speak the specific language we need, but he has experience with similar words in a different language and he's a lot cheaper.

And also, http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
It's interesting, at the very local level I think most humans wouldn't think two adjacent bird sounds are all that similar. But if you drag along a long line and listen to a series of different birds you can "hear" a definite organized progression that seems to be organizing rhythm and major tones into groups.
Timesheet cheatery is an extreme problem - often enough timesheets are... adjusted afterwards to hide violations of labor law or simply to dock pay.
Where are the women in Tech?
OpenSSL doesn't follow semantic versioning. This is not a simple version upgrade. They knowingly broke the API between 1.0 and 1.1 and it can require substantial changes. They also refused to provide a compatibility shim to make it easier for developers to migrate.

This is not a Debian problem. This is an OpenSSL problem where they forced each upstream program author to make changes in order to upgrade. You'll have to wait for each upstream program author to update.
indeed, outside of luxury items, things have become very cheap. real estate, health care, and education have become very expensive. As an aside, one can pin the persistence of ZIRP on the Fed measuring the wrong things.

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/5/4/15547364/baumol-cost-...
The past state of the universe is encoded in the present state only in the same way, and to the same extent, that the future is.
The whole point of computers is that they're perfect rule-following systems.
I don't understand the reluctance to ask people to pay for something of value.

This honor system stuff won't work.

If you want to sell your book, sell it. If it's worth the price, people will buy it.

I just paid $25 for a book sight unseen, based only on reviews. I do that often.
Best gaming laptop on a budget
Do you know your developer tools?
What about OS itself? Is it fully reproducible build?
The wikipedia page mentions the "Right to use other operators' networks in other Member States at regulated wholesale prices" so I assume all networks have to offer themselves up to roaming to any other EU network.
Show HN: Minimal Git pairing script written in bash
Facebook – Google destroying bad online ads – great until they own the world
Thanks, I didn't know that.

Does Fedora also have transactional rollbacks?
Alioth moving toward pagure
I started my first on the side, I was 33 and building a family, so I couldn't quit my day job. I hired an intern to handle marketing. Amazingly, he also did support. After a year the company made enough money so I could quit.

My advice: in general, do not invest your buffer in your company. You will be tempted to, but think of it as a buffer for when your life goes sideways, not your company.

PM me if you want, Google my username.
I use debian mainly for servers. Tried Debian 9 this morning for desktop, do not like the hidden-by-default-activities UI, also D9 does not recognize my dual LCDs(Ubuntu has no issues with that), so it will be the same for me: All servers will be upgraded to Debian 9, Ubuntu LTS for the desktop, and ArchWiki for documentations. Good for now and Thanks for the new release.
For things that might be useful in the future, I'll just rely on Chrome's history and my own memory (and ability to search for it in Google) to find it if/when needed. That's worked pretty well. Sometimes the search takes a little longer than expected because I'll have to recall the context of where I originally read about it. Remembering that context will often help me find a way to locate the site again.

Alternatively, for articles and content that looks interesting and I want to read, I'm using Pocket on my browser, phone and tablet. Everything I want to read gets saved to Pocket. When I find myself with 15 minutes and looking for something to do, I pull out Pocket, read an article or two and delete them. I do fear that I'll never get through the entire Pocket list though. Maybe I need to take some more long flights to get through this backlog. Pocket is just a different method of digital hoarding though.

I'm not a fan of saving 1000s of bookmarks because that's not really building a collection that I'll consume. I see some people constantly opening new browser tabs with the intent of coming back to read it, which is really just a more ephemeral version of the bookmarking solution.
Those mosquito feet. That's like a photograph of pure misery.
Yep. Dumbphones often let you view or even manually edit this list as well.
i.e. I engage with what you've said, admit your point that I mispoke, and point out errors in your position.

Your counter-argument is then "No YOU'RE a bad man! I'm taking my toys and going home".

That's... not convincing. And pretty much proves my point that I've hit an emotional position. One which can't be addressed rationally. And which provokes an irrational response.
There are a few models that don't need a firmware blob or where the manufacturer provided source code for it (mostly pre ac Atheros chips).
I don't think so, but some addons support per container settings. For example Cookie AutoDelete where each defined container can have its own whitelist:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Alpine Linux v3.6.2 Released
More about point 1 here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6153129

The argument with the most weight right now is probably that everyone uses dashes and there are no significant advantages to using underscores. So, to help the web a little more consistent, just use dashes (unless you have some unusually good reason not to).
Packaging with jbuilder and topkg
This looks like a really cool work for a beginner and I do not mean to diminish his effort in any way.

But face recognition is a sensitive/politically-charged topic, I know several grad students (including me) who inspite of having ready-to-deploy scalable software and datasets (~10M instagram images) stay away from doing this type of a demo because reputational risks are enormous. Consider the controversy around geofeedia etc. The last thing you want as a PhD student is press interpreting your research incorrectly and blaming you for causing widespread harm. It happened to a student/professor in my department and even then the infamous study in question was in collaboration with the social network.

There are several cool alternatives, apply it to movies, video game faces etc.
Sheldon Axler, Linear Algebra Done Right.

There are now videos! http://www.linear.axler.net/LADRvideos.html
What do you mean re: lisp / smalltalk?
I always thought the various email-related RFC's pretty much destroyed Ayyadurai claim.

For example, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc561 is from 1973.
Why is this true? Can someone explain it to me?
Do the subsidized plans actually cover anything? I'm on an Obamacare plan that basically covers catastrophic health care and everything else I pay for.

If it's a subsidized catastrophic plan that's not helpful. I'd be surprised if they subsidized one of the regular plans in full.
That's because the US doesn't have world class healthcare either.
> I think this is a good question, because it is an abstract version of the kind of problems that any non trivial code has to address. It is easy to describe, and easy to solve if you know what you are doing. I don't use it anymore because it's too common to be useful.

This is precisely the problem the OP is talking about. When's the last time you ever did anything as low level as reversing a linked list? It's a solved problem, and something an employee would NEVER do in your company, let alone search for the optimal solution in 10 stressful minutes while you breathe down his neck.

> And yet, through the years I've gotten the feedback[0] that it is "far detached from real work", "tests how good I did in school rather than how good I am" and various other comments -- and almost always from candidates who did poorly; I've never gotten this feedback from anyone I would consider competent.

Major red flag. I don't mean to be rude, but this sentence comes off as very arrogant.

> I don't, in general, trust direct feedback from someone I turned down (or hired, for that matter).

Why? Because they're in a lower caste? If you can't handle direct feedback, you're a terrible manager.
I understand it's popular to heap abuse on any and all JS features, but please don't jump on that bandwagon.

There's nothing whatsoever illogical about two mutable objects that are not identical being reported as unequal, and it's hard to think of any language that has mutable values at all where there isn't an equivalent feature.
They would if they could, but there would be a cost, and they consider the price too high to pay.

Nation states are not the problem. The use of physical (including military) and economic violence between competing interest blocs is the problem.

Eliminating nation states won't solve the problem of competition.

If it did we would all be a lot better off, because the cost of the perpetual proxy war between the different interest blocs does unbelievable harm to the planet's collective intelligence, and to our economic and scientific potential.
- HEADLINE: Simplify contributing to Debian.

- DESCRIPTION:
TL;DR: Debian's web pages are hard to navigate and use and it's very hard to see what's happening.

I contribute to FOSS projects whenever I have time and have been wanting to contribute to Debian, but the difficulty is offputting. I'm used to searching for the program name and arriving at a portal page from which I can easily browse the source, see the current problems and instantly start interacting with the community. Unfortunately, contributing to Debian seems to require in-depth knowledge about many systems and arcane email commands. As a would-be contributor this completely alienates me.

One reason is that Debian has many independent services: lintian, mailing lists, manpages (which btw are fantastic and give me hope), Wiki, CI, alioth, the package listing, BTS, etc. To contribute, you need to learn most of them and For example, searching a package name gives me a page at packages.debian.org, but it's very hard to navigate or even discover the other services from there. I can't easily see if there are any lintian issues, critical bugs or current discussions. Additionally, I find most of the systems very hard to use (I still can't figure out the mailing list archives). Ideally, these services would be more tightly integrated.

Another big reason Debian is very hard to contribute to is the main discussion takes place via mailing lists. I understand that many people enjoy working with them, but for light usage they are a big pain. Submitting and history are in completely different programs, there seems to be no real threading, volume is often high and reading large amounts of emails is a chore to me. A solution here would be an improved mailing list archive with options for replying directly integrated to the site.

- DISTRIBUTION: unstable

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Student
Hence my suggestion that the Debian project distribute a script that I can run to get the firmware myself & trivially build my own install CD, and that this be prominently advertised on debian.org.

The Debian project already ships that sort of script in the current non-free firmware CD, so clearly it's not a legal issue. What it doesn't ship is the ability to run that on another machine as part of preparing an ISO to install on a fresh machine that needs the proprietary firmware.
There are a lot of people who have more credentials than skill, which isn't easily detected by looking at a resume.
Anybody have an update? This is from a year ago.
AI will make sharing like this easier, but at the same time it will make things cheaper.

People go camping in Hawaii, buy gear and give it way when they leave.
One of the few existing projects that used a similar concept have..

> a ratio of payload to dead-weight of about 1:1, which is up to three times better than conventional alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_railway#Aeromovel
It is so easy and fun to write web apps in C. Just remember to test them with tsan/asan/valgrind and run through 2-4 static analyzers + check with couple of fuzzers too!

Well I think I'll pass this one and hopefully don't need to maintain such apps in the future.
Isn't this what the "shared economy" is about?

Still, I find it interesting that he managed to raise $30k on IndieGoGo. It signals that people care about those ideas/ideals.
Maybe it's really because there are so many different people doing open source, people cannot keep track of those contributions?
You're not alone: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/04/four-hours-of-conc...