skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Some guy involved in scandal at company that provides a service that happens to be done through a computer is not "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". It at least falls under the categories of: crime that is not evidence of some interesting new phenomenon; maybe pratfalls; and, considering I saw it on The Today Show before HN, it's definitely covered on TV News. That's 3 of 7 stated off-topic categories.

I'm not usually a stickler for these kinds of rules but it has gotten to be too much as of late. I understand it comes in waves and usually goes away, but when the wave hits, the only tool we have to fight it is the "flag".

The topics don't go unnoticed, I'm sure HN isn't the only forum most people here visit. I occasionally partake in the conversations around this kind of story (not as a guideline Nazi), usually on Reddit, where it's expected.

The most I'm ever going to do about problems like this are to not be part of and discourage behavior like it in areas of my life I have actual control over, so I don't want to be angered hourly by stories I can't or won't do anything about directly. The guidelines seem to imply this site is supposed to be a place that aligns with that and, for the most part, it does, except when it doesn't, and that is what I think "flag" is for.
This is madness. How can we have secret laws? Do we take some secret court judge's word?
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The resolution of the devices have been going up. 2D assets get bigger in memory.
Here's a master list of links to most of the papers mentioned: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wS6O7-ZoFL7Cfjgt-kdh...
Please don't commit suicide. You and the world will both be worse off. If you need to talk to someone about it 1-800-273-8255 is available 24 hours a day.
Interesting. Does this scale / act responsively enough to serve data to the public, or is it restricted to bulk transfers?
I don't see value in this article. The author asks a bunch of other people in high tech positions what they believe CTO should be. Unfortunately the plural of anecdote is not data.

For example "Don't innovate in the management structure." Sure if you're an average person, then don't. But some companies have (Valve, young Google) and shown outstanding results.

I'm very skeptical of reducing the CTO title to rules like this. This is garbage conversation fodder, it appeals to our weaker human side to create a facade of self-improvement but none of us are gonna remember this article in 2 months.
The motivation of the above poster is accuracy.

based upon your post I can understand why you find it difficult identifying such a thing, but there it is.

You're so blinded by your beliefs you've lost all sense of fairness and balance and mistake moderates as the being of the opposing faction.
because some things are more important than you a few bucks on a car ride.
> It's also a good reminder that Jobs, for all the posthumous praise he gets, made some rather stupid business blunders during his tenures at Apple.

Did anyone say that Jobs never made any blunders? Does anyone think that there it any person alive that didn't make blunders?
Email is decentralised? I'm pretty sure it belongs to Google these days.
Unfortunately the big loophole that matters is essentially "allow international trade". I doubt even you want to give that one up.
Who said I'm storing anything? A handful of machines with the cheap default spinning rust HDs in them and you get to 30tB very quickly. A typically family of three probably has double digits tB just in their Costco purchased laptops.

Heck, my parents have >10tB of raw storage between their home and work computers. Even though they aren't data hoarders, between software, important documents and email and videos and pictures of grandkids and friends they probably easily sit at 4 or 5 tB of total storage that deserves backup.
If you call pensioners "the rent collection class" (which to an extent is true), then yes. But pension funds are the big owners of government bonds.
I'm a full time Fedora user. I run LTSB in the VM that I run Office 365 in and it's perfect. No fuss, no bells, gets out of my way and just works.
To expand on that: MSYS was a fork of Cygwin 1.3, and MSYS2 is a fork of Cygwin 1.7. (Babun is a distro of Cygwin, and Git-bash is a distro of MSYS2.)
No one would say 'no' to that, but at the same time people would praise jobs anyways. "See, he made firewire, which made intel make USB 2.0. He knew exactly what he was doing." etc, etc.
Remember Diaspora, the Facebook killer? I think at one point it had blockchain-level hype, I bet they wish they'd known about ICOs back then.
So what is the state of the art in turning text into speech files in Python? Especially in terms of free options? Everything I find on google seems to be a year or two out of date.
I want to say something meaningful to you, but I am not sure what. I don't disagree about the end. But... Something about being alive. The possibility. It is more than than the end. It is a small candle, but... It is still a light.

It might be our nature, but we can still decide. We have that ability.
We don't have secret laws, we have secret opinions on public laws.
I think a quick gameplay video is a great idea.

For something like a strategy game, it's nice to see if the game even appeals to you at all before you invest in a tutorial.

Check out Tag Pro's homepage: http://tagpro.koalabeast.com

As someone said upstream, as a content-creator, I feel like I should just try the game someone spent many hours of their life building. But as a content-consumer, I'm irrational with my attention span for some reason.
Still does not make you able to store apps with a combined size of 1.3GB in the cloud.
Here's a font with programming related ligatures:

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/README.md
A products table with a document per product. A user table. An order table with line items in an array of embedded objects.

One would subtract product from amout field in products table to set new inventory level. A new order document gets created with all information needed to describe an order. Fields like total, subtotal, date would sit at the root level and line items with product descriptions and prices would be embedded as an array of objects. Then a user object with user_id, name address would be embedded.

Dealing with documents is a different but being able to contain the entire dataset with some relations is nice.
I was using "cable" to mean lines in general (not very clear, my bad) - it's almost all ADSL over phone lines, with FTTC in a lot of places now. The only other big network of physical cable is Virgin who run their own cable network.

Cable for TV was never a huge thing in the UK like it is in the states - satellite TV (Sky) was the bigger thing.
Maybe it can be used as an advanced cache with persistense and secondary indexes?
You need to assume that all requirements are basically soft if you can persuade somebody that you can fill the role. Especially if you can explicitly match your real world skills and experience to compensating for specific requirements. One requirement that I think is especially useless is "n years experience"... It means so little. I treat the requirements as conversation starters, not deal breakers. Disclaimer: I work in social services, not tech, and I've hired people mostly based on their performance in actual interviews and how they treat the folks they'll work with. If you think you are a great fit and can do the work, go sell it. Can't hurt.
MIDI encodes very little information about timbre, which is a huge source of variation in modern pop music.
Back when I was depressed modal realism cured me of any suicidality. How can one possibly think the suffering, loneliness and utter pointlessness of life can be preferable to the sweet oblivion of non-existence? My answer is non-existence may indeed be preferable to life but it’s not at all clear that non-existence exists. What the Everett interpretation, Egan's Dust theory, the mere fact that the mind is finite and the universe is infinite (and finite patters recur in infinity an infinite amount of times) forces me to consider is the prospect that any attempt to commit suicide, no matter how thorough, could result in a subjective experience of the consequences of a failed suicide attempt in which "I" am unable to escape, even through suicide. The idea that the universe owes you nothing, not even nonexistence, was what killed any suicidality in me. Odd that a depressing thought would work so well when appeals to optimism did not, but makes a sort of sense considering how depressed people think.
Common problem for all major services: if you have support that actively answers the requests, you'd get flooded with all kinds of junk, and hiring people that can a) sort through the junk without quickly burning out and b) be able to distinguish "i clicked something and now internet is gone!!! help!!!" people from people reporting legit problems - it is very expensive. I'd say prohibitively expensive. And if you don't go to this expense, eventually somebody somewhere gets false negative and shames you on all social media.
I haven't found many exceptions from that rule - if you want to report something to a big company, you'll have to deal with several layers of bots or bot-like script readers, which have zero incentive of escalating your issue (they are probably trained to have very high escalation threshold, otherwise everybody would demand to speak to Twitter CEO about some dude posting offensive stuff on Twitter). So either arm yourself with a lot of patience, or give up.
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The key word is Saturday morning.

I've been able to get easily get street parking in lower Manhattan on Saturday morning. People don't work in business districts on Saturday.
External PCIe (whatever) is kind of the point of Thunderbolt
I wonder about this. I suspect people think webview apps are bad because the only apps you know are in a webview are the ones made badly. A properly integrated webview is imperceptible - I've read that Apple uses them in various parts of iOS, and I only ever found out that Instagram uses one for their activity feed when a buggy release had the CSS missing.

More broadly, I wish Apple would implement more webapps features simply because a lot of people can't afford to make native apps for every platform. Yes, they're inferior to bespoke iOS apps, but they're better than an app that doesn't exist at all.
CockroachDB reached 1.0 less than 2 months ago. I'm not sure what your domain is, but personally I would be very hesitant to go with a database which is so new
You'd prefer to send your all your digital life to some remote server?
> A good compiler might define its behavior. Just because the spec leaves things undefined doesn't mean the compiler should.

All indications are that it's not possible to eliminate undefined behavior from C and C++ without significantly regressing performance.

> Arguably a JS VM written in C++ may be vulnerable until the compiler is proven not to be.

Vulnerabilities in JS engines are enormously more likely to be the result of undefined behavior in C++ than the result of C++ compiler miscompilations. As I said, eliminating miscompilations in LLVM/clang does nothing to address the problems of C++ UB.
>The article compares Bach to Handel saying "not a single work of Bach’s is more beloved than Handel’s Messiah

Yeah, that's a very bizarro thing to say. Globally, and pretty much everywhere outside England Bach is 20 times more popular than Handel. Air, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Goldberg Variations, Brandenburg Concertos, ...

It's like some guy from Romania saying that O-Zone are bigger than the Beatles or something...
"M" - "Mega" is an official general purpose SI prefix approved in 1960 which always stood for a decimal multiplier. Its common usage as a binary multiplier was limited to counting units of computer memory, and is purely an approximation to allow convenient speaking of, e.g., a megabyte of RAM instead of 1.048576 megabytes of RAM. Because it reflects the natural scale of physical memory.

It is more properly referred to as "MeB" - "mebi", which became an ISO standard prefix in 2008.
Edge comes along with other crap, not because it needs to, but because that's the way MS arranges it. If it were just Edge-versus-IE, it wouldn't matter at all if a single use to grab another browser is the end game anyway. But if getting Edge means getting all of the other unwanted stuff, then, yes, IE is a win.
App Thinning handles that issue too.
Hello,

I'm having the same considerations and am writing about challenges CTOs of startups of different sizes face on a daily basis on http://cto.pizza

The concept is simple: we talk about your growth, team and tech challenges over a pizza. Let me know of any of you might be interested in grabbing one.

I'm based in Paris but we could figure something out over Skype or something if you have interesting stories to share!
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I think writing job descriptions for ads is crappy work that nobody wants to do and they are often rushed or out of date. Granted, selling idea that your 8-week bootcamp puts you up there with 8 years of somebody else's experience is not really possible. But turning 3 years into 8 years can be if you can show maturity in your working practices and maybe some passion for the subject. You don't have to be exact person in the requirements. You DO have to convince somebody that you are on that same level of knowledge/capability, just for different reasons.
Doesn't that have the same net result as secret law? Legal opinions lead to precedence which is basically "law" in court, no?
> I started to learn how to code in August 2014

Just a sec, let me glance at the date in the corner of the screen ...

The answer is a resounding "Yup!"

Ask me again in, oh, 2027.
I would argue that the nature of humanity is to conquer rather than seek power. They often go hand in hand, but not necessarily. Some strive to conquer each other, while some strive to conquer their differences, and some yet strive to conquer themselves (or their personal demons at the very least).
The choice of what you conquer is yours. The world may not care, but the world also cannot choose.
It's like zoning.

You can improve an area by seperating incompatible uses. When white flight was in full swing in the 1970s, cities removed pedestrian plazas, bulldozed marginal real estate and created parking lots in the name of urban renewal (and enriching speculators), etc.

In my area, a few cities have selectively closed streets for events or permanently closed streets to create pedestrian zones. It's largely been successful in attracting more visitors and creating a good environment.
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Not OT, but low-brow BS. Letters taken out of context, and in the usual form of communication of the times, from a professional musician. Like judging Miles Davis from his communication with his accountants...

And there's nothing pompous about Bach's music. If anything it's too subdued.
LTSB comes with security fixes, and therefore is not susceptible to wannacry and similar exploits.
That is an incredibly useless comment. DL is a new and poorly understood technology, it is obvious that not everything will be perfect.
Mike Koss wrote an Apple ][ terminal emulator called "The Terminal" in 1981 that displayed 70 columns by 32 rows on the 270 x 192 pixel hires screen in a 3x5 font he designed. That's how I viewed ITS, Unix and the ARPANET for many years, until I finally got an 80 column card. squint

I bet that could font could show the whole map on one page!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120206091422/http://mckoss.com...
Complaining has real costs. It gets people embroiled in intractable political battles. It makes people feel like victims and not tale control of their destiny. Anyone who gets annoyed by the complaining potentially turns from an ally to an adversary when it comes time for a real solution.

These costs may be worth paying when fighting for a tangible goal (e.g. abolition of slavery), but not worth it when the solution is still a ghost.
The court is wrong that this is not a Due Process Clause violation. Secret laws are anathema to the Anglo-American view of due process. And in a common law system legal opinions are "law" just as much as statutes. Beyond that, the court's reasoning that a litigant should trust the other side's characterization of a case turns the concept of adversarial litigation on its head. It's a laughable view.
It might have something to do with that the education for being an astronomer starts with years of postgraduate pure mathematics ...
This is a good time for a shameless plug for All of Bach [1] (Note: I have no affiliation with the site).

[1] http://allofbach.com/en/
Of course! Successful leaders in many fields don't have direct experience in that field-- although it may not be the norm.

If engineers believe they can't be led by a non-engineer it says more to me about the engineers than anything else.
> I would argue that the nature of humanity is to conquer

Followed by fighting, famine, and death?
Maybe it's just me, but as far as my experience goes, the App store and Google Play, and to a much lesser extent Steam have done much, much more killing my ability to make a profit on software than patents ever have.
In the US, cars are privileged forms of transport.

Just as we have shopping malls with outlying parking surrounding a pedestrian only area, you can engineer urban cores with appropriate pedestrian infrastructure, that are served with a network of transport modes outside of the core, including transit and garages.
But it also does convolution! I totally wasn't doing that in Max/MSP in 2003.

Snark aside, there's a lot of really awesome creative potential stemming from WaveNet. This just seems like the least novel application I've seen.
I've mentioned this in a few comments, but Kratom is a substance that has given me a taste of what it's like to turn-off all the clutter in my head and see the world the way people without anxiety see it. It can be dangerous to do too much but it has given me a glimmer as to how "normal" people see things - and something to strive toward through meditation or exercise. You will never be able to turn off the anxious or depressed parts of your neurology and to be honest they really do dumb you/us (people like me) down but trying the substance has given me the contrast to realize life doesn't have to feel that way. The truth is there is no known "nature to humanity", you are simply assigning one. We live and then die. I have thought a lot about what "power" even "is" and when you break it down it's really just the ability to do something unique that others are willing to confer their attention or some other currency to and much of it is based on deeply ingrained assumptions, some of these assumptions are fluctuating and some are constant. If you are worried that humans just want to control everything and will eventually destroy the world you are probably right - but even if we didn't, the earth still won't last forever. One of the ways to deal with anxiety and depression is just to learn to let it go and be fascinated by the moment.
It looks powerful but the landing page is overwhelming and hard to read.

I can't understand what The Daily Project does from the top texts. The screenshot says it's sort of Trello alternative (btw I would recommend picking more trendy pastel colors, now the design looks a bit dated).

The introductions texts are too vague and promotional [1]: "It's more flexible and has the missing features, but keeps the simplicity that we all love." – how does it solve my problems? [2]

Then I finally scrolled to the feature grid (most of the visitors will not bother) and it's still not clear how the app works and helps me ("Focus on what's important", "Built for simplicity").

The video tour comes too late, a visitor has already left.

[1]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/blah-blah-text-keep-cut-or-...

[2]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/user-centric-language/
Nukes don't work very well on ships much to the dismay of military planners.

There's a new generation of ballistic missile which might work, but they're extremely expensive, have limited range, and are rare. This idea of sinking the entire US fleet in one strike is utterly absurd.
I grew up in Queens. My mom would drag the three of us up hills and across Queens Blvd to run daily errands.

It wasn't that bad.
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Other traffic is no reason to wake the captain, but when you're closing from 4000 yards to 3000 to 2000, well, you might want to give them a poke.
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You've never noticed how presentation, perception and appearance focused many C-level positions are?

The audience is other C-level executives, the board, important customers, and of course the company employees themselves.
Not just medieval - Hindu philosophy has definitely had that concept for the few thousand years it's been in existence. The concept of "koti koti brahmanda" literally millions of universes is a pretty central concept.
The review times have gotten better and overall the process of going from "New Project..." to "Ready for Sale" is much smoother than it was 10 years ago when I made my first iPhone OS app.

But the market is pretty hard to get into. You can add real value with a well-executed unique idea (like we did with Bubble Maker, look it up) but unless you're a big name or an established player, there just seems to be no chance of getting your foot in the door.
I think some people make the assumption they are targeted for products that might be beneficial for them. But why would that mostly be the case ? Someone with an online shopping problem would be a perfect target for a flurry of ads, and getting better targeted ads would just be screwing that person more and more.

Even in a saner scenario, the most informative ad you can imagine will still isolate you from the information you would have got by doing your own research. But since you have most of the information you wanted to have, you won't bother checking that much more.

IMO even in the best case scenario, helping people to be lazy on things they are interested in is counterproductive in the long term.
Sounds like a problem to solve. Reach out at r/Catallax subredit if you want to talk about this more.
Interestingly, now that SpaceX has the X-37 contract, there is the possibility of launching and recovering a re-used first stage and payload, but not the second stage! I guess this almost happened with the Dragon that contained a re-used pressure vessel, but not-quite.
> (Correction: apparently Intel made some claims but Apple owns it.)

This doesn't seem to be correct. While I can't find anything with a simple search, the thunderbolt technology website is copyrighted by Intel, and Wikipedia directly attributes the development to Intel.

Iirc apple was mostly a first adapter to thunderbolt.
Most of my best bosses were non-engineers or people with no technical expertise in my domain. In my experience bosses who were recently engineers or technical experience in what I was hired to do to be generally micromanagers.

It sort of became a qualifying criteria. During interviews if an interviewer asked me technical questions and s/he was going to be my reporting manager, I knew we will not be a good fit.

Edit: When I was young and inexperienced, I preferred bosses with technical chops and mentoring mindset. Later in my career, I preferred non-technical bosses and senior technical team members with mentoring mindset.