skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watergate was under Nixon, not Johnson or Kennedy -- I was merely pointing out that the side effect of Watergate was that presidents no longer recorded their conversations. This prevents us, for the sake of determining what is "normal", from having a record of what was actually being said by the president and his advisors while these terrible decisions were being made.

Watergate was a criminal act. The acts of Kennedy and Johnson were not criminal, just irresponsible. In particular, cronyism and requiring personal loyalty are not "not normal" as alleged, and the "not normal" argument in general wears a bit thin and lacks any historical perspective.
A little trial and error, and I think I figured it out:

- m = margin on all sides

- mt = margin top

- mb = margin bottom

- ml = margin left

- mr = margin right

- mx = margin on x axis (left & right)

- my = margin on y axis (top & bottom)
You can watch a movie at 2am on your home theatre streamed from your personal computer in your couch in your own home. You can get one of a billion computerized entertainment products. You can get one of a billion billion noncomputerized entertainment products, delivered to your home in two days. In a day. In an hour. By truck. By bike. By drone. You can fly in a plane to Jamaica Friday evening and be back by Monday morning, don't even need to take a vacation day.

We're in an age of unprecedented personal entertainment, and the upper middle classes are in an ideal position to take advantage.
What is the market cap of the largest horse buggy-whip manufacturer these days? The largest automotive manufacturer?

I don't think that term means what you think it means.
Surprisingly diverse and real set of applications.
Personal favorite "Robotic jockeys control camels".
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Assuming more than 1/3 are traitors
>Who said anything about working in an office?

You said before: "Do that many people want to retire - literally have nothing greater than themselves that requires their input on a daily basis"

What else would people be doing if they don't retire, than working? And working means having to deal with all the crap that goes along with working: the open-plan office, meetings, the daily stand-up, office politics, etc. Why would anyone sane want to put up with this crap if they can afford not to? I sure wouldn't.

>I'd put it at closer to 1%

Yeah, I was being charitable.

>If the purported goal is this mundane, hedonistic "retirement," then nobody will ever do anything lasting and useful because you can find an easy niche to fall into that lets you maximize your "leisure time."

Yeah, but I don't see any alternative. Sure, I'd like to spend some of my time working on something really useful to humanity, and in fact that's one reason I got into engineering. The reality has been entirely different; nothing I've worked on has been important at all, and very little has even gotten any use. Most stuff just goes nowhere, gets canceled, etc. It's not like I can just go pick exactly what I want to work on. Notice how many applications NASA gets for the astronaut program, and how few of them are accepted. And even if I could pick some great project to work on, I don't want to do it if I have to work in an open-plan office, and I don't see office environments ever becoming a place where I'd be really excited to go every day. (i.e. cubicles were better than today's open-plan offices, but still pretty miserable.)

So it's pretty simple: if I can afford to not work, I'd rather just do that than to put up with the annoyances that are unavoidable at work. If that means nobody ever does anything lasting or useful, then so be it.
How fair are SRW locks, particularly when there are both readers and writers?
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That's hardly all the TCP protocol though, it's just the segmentation and checksumming part.
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I'm no longer a Mac user, but LS was an essential part of my system where I was. Does anyone know of a similar product for Linux?
but fewer people also means less of a burden on infrastructure and hence less infrastructure spending thus evening things out.
If you are put on a PIP and hold out for severance, in exchange for not writing this kind of post you can at least get a pretty nice vacation out of it.
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It's an uphill battle, I know... but one we have to wage to our best abilities.

I'm also trying to avoid being an asshole, but I somehow manage to fail at it almost every day :) That doesn't mean I will stop trying tomorrow, though.

It would be foolish to believe the segregation/xenophobia etc will ever stop - it would be still nice if at least the people being attacked would stop the self-sabotage by emphasizing, rather than leaving behind, their minority status.
I had read this paper, last week and took notes. Here is my summary of the paper. It was a fun read.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/paper-summary-two-d...
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Darn, I just bought LS3 about 2 months ago and upgrading costs 25 euros.
I did a quick search for your touch screen problem. It seems you might have been able to, instead of replacing the whole unit, replace the digitizer only, if possible. The whole assembly (including screen) appears to be $200-300 before labor. How much did you end up paying?
We have fully decentralized computation, but only when we don't need consensus. When we do need consensus on our computations, what we've always done before is run the computation on a server (or centrally-managed cluster) that everybody agrees to use.

Bitcoin gave us decentralized consensus for simple ledger updates, and Ethereum does it for more general computation and statefulness.
I tried to read this book once because it's ranked #1 on Modern Library's TOp 100 Non-fiction books of all time: http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/

I got 2/3rds of the way through and couldn't make it any farther; I was not enjoying it at all. And it's rare for me to not finish a book. It simply hasn't aged well, and his weird tone and unusual focus on "education" (broadly construed) rather than simply just writing a memoir was off-putting.

Also, this site is broken. The text is quite small, but zooming in the page nukes the left margin, pushing the text right up against the left edge of the window and making it hard to read.
Unless you can build a time machine. Sci-fi is foiled again!
Says someone who's only a part of a simulation...
Heh. It's actually fun to find just the right phrase embedded in the text, that can be swapped in as an HN title—it's like mushroom hunting. There almost always is something suitable, but this time it was a perfect specimen, down to punctuation.

Of course we only need to do this when the original title is baity or misleading (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but we've learned that when it is necessary, it's far better to take language from the article itself than to make up one's own. If you find the right phrase, ideally you don't even to change a word. The only thing I did after pasting the above was s/a/A/.
This also happened with Netflix over captioning: https://www.nad.org/2011/06/16/nad-files-disability-civil-ri...

Netflix now does the right thing and captions everything.
A template for investor/founder sexual harassment policy
A very brief intro to rust
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What exactly is the point of having wealth if you have to put up with the same ol' rat race?
That's certainly possible. Same goes for water - I note that Bosch dishwasher have some sort of system that analyzes the water to see if it's still clean enough to use before using more. Clever, and a savings for water, but one more complicated thing to break.

Of course, I fail to see why most modern consumer products can't just be driven with a Raspberry pi or arduino. Using off-the-shelf parts like that would do wonders for serviceability.
Most of the people who claim to be "not underrepresented" - i.e. they are in an underrepresented group but they do not lay claim to the title - still benefit from some of the support that is offered to them from being in that underrepresented group.
Wasn't this mentioned here a couple weeks ago? https://opensnitch.io/
>Quality is available, people just don't want to pay for it. Those washing machines that lasted for 15 years? Back then, they cost one or two months' wages. Try to get anyone to pay $2500 for a washing machine today.

Back then people could afford to spend two months wages on a product like that. That people today don't reflects just as much (if not more) on their ability to do so as it does on their willingness.
Guaranteed employment is probably a better idea.
There is OpenSnitch ( https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch ) but I'm not sure how well it compares?
Not much in the realm of Linux, to be honest. You'd probably get more security maintaining a SELinux setup on your system and running a hardened kernel.
Have you tried J1?
This is worse, in most cases as you normally want to do something to c after you have read it, forcing you to re-check the condition

int c; //a char can't represent EOF
do {
c = getchar();
if (c != EOF) {
//do stuff
}
} while (c != EOF);
Yeah, traitors in both civilian and military leadership as well as just plain red tape were pretty common plot elements in that show.

That's a show I should watch again.
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Used it for a locomotivecms (ruby) question, got it answered in a VERY (happily) surprising manner, and proudly supported its development.

Great tool when used effectively.
> I have plenty of ideas for improving and modernizing the company...

You CAN do both. Put together a 12-to-36 month plan where you upgrade the company, groom, or find a worthy CEO successor. You can still retain family control and involvement by then moving into a chairman or board role. That will free you to pursue your other interests.

How Bill Ford recruited Alan Mulally is instructive> http://www.denniscarey.com/publications/How%20the%20Ford%20b...
Your comment reminds me of a story I heard on NPR a while back, about an effort to reclaim the word "jihad". Basically, jihad is a concept of struggling or striving for something worthwhile but most Americans only hear the word coming from the mouths of horrible people.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/268598-struggle-reclaim-word-jihad...

I think the word meritocracy is in a similar situation. It's an interesting and useful concept, but the word tends to get thrown around by people you probably don't want to get associated with or confused with, so if you want to be heard and understood maybe try a different word.
What is the most difficult part for Qt then? Translating some of its concepts in Rust?
still hoping that someday we'll see namespacing in crates/cargo.
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CSS is a stopgap until the next styling technology comes along. The idea/implementation is correct but the technology is not.

CSS is old tech based on old ideas. It still has its place but needs to be superseded.
If the rebass approach to css is interesting to you, i recommend checking out tachyons.io

It plays nicely with React as well. Sadly most of the discussion around Tachyons is hidden away from the web in a burrow of Slack channels, but it's an active community and there's a lot of help and show+tell to be found.
The article here points out that yes, the "normal" in US politics has since about the founding of the country been that the only fealty oath used by the federal government was one to the Constitution and the People. Cronyism and personal loyalty were not criminal, but were considered unethical and when such things come to light, it was the job of a free press and other parts of the government to fix them and make things better. It was never openly "normal" in any school of American government history to accept cronyism or personal loyalty. Sure it happened, but the goal was to reduce and/or eliminate it; that was the presumed "norm".
> it's probably worth many high schoolers recognizing that compensation is simply unevenly distributed.

As are large lottery jackpots, but Americans are playing them in record numbers. I'd like to think that most people are capable of seeing this kind of sales technique for what it is, but it seems to me that people are largely swayed by persuasion techniques and far less so by cold, rational calculation.
Selling bottled water, a Techstars challenge
Yes; discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245270
This is a joke, right? Screw this guy.
We are all polluting the atmosphere every day.
innovation is one benefit. as an aside, this is an understated benefit of jeff bezos' API edict. by forcing APIs throughout the company, bezos made it radically simpler for teams to experiment and innovate without permission.
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If you're curious, consider doing research on the subject rather than asking people to re-litigate the whole thing from first principles every time the topic comes up. It gets exhausting because most people operate from a position of "a belief that there is no significant bias/significant effect from bias is the correct default assumption unless/until someone demonstrates otherwise through overwhelming evidence". And each individual person expects the whole thing to be proven for them from scratch each time.

Instead you could do some research on your own and find the information that's out there.
1. Currently the programmer needs to delineate code into tasks.
A couple of points to note:
-- Often the programmer can start with the serial code, and determine how to delineate tasks. In our experience this is often easier than writing more complex parallelized versions of the same algorithm. Compared to the serial code, our programs are just a few percent longer.
-- We have implemented high-level interfaces along the lines of OpenMP or OpenTM to make it easier for the programmer to break straight-line serial code into fine-grain tasks. For example, if you have a for loop to parallelize, you can use the fractal::forall(...) construct. Table 1 of the Fractal paper lists some of these high-level interface functions.

We are currently working on a compiler that can take serial code and automatically annotate tasks and domains. Keep watching our webpage for updates on that.

2. Our execution model subsumes both Transactional Memory (TM) and Thread-Level Speculation (TLS). Any program that can be expressed in those paradigms can be expressed in Fractal. And as we show in the paper, Fractal can express parallelism that was not possible in TLS or TM. So we believe it is general purpose. Further. as indicated above, we have seen these ideas to be applicable to applications in a wide range of domains.

That being said, we are always on the lookout for applications that reveal deficiencies in our execution model, to help improve it :)
There is a huge 'monolith' on Phobos, one of Mars's moons
Please don't be mean on HN.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14705626 and marked it off-topic.
From TFA: "if a repair takes longer than a month, the guarantee should be extended to match the repair time,"

Uh, no. That will insure that repairs always take 29 days, except in february where they will take 27 daze.

Simply always extend the guarantee by the amount of any repair time.
I totally expected this to be a subtle viral marketing piece for Crusader Kings II, haha ;)
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The fact the the CIA has assets at a US broadcasting company is a scary thought.
Do you have any reference material that goes more in depth?
He disclosed it to the Russian government, which is not necessarily improper. The US and Russian government share classified info all the time; they tried to warn us about the Boston Marathon bomber after all. Some #resist idiot who thinks he's a hero then leaked it all to various news outlets, doing way more damage. It thankfully seems that these agencies heeded the warnings of the US government that publishing the full details would be highly damaging, but I doubt that news agencies are equipped with SCIF-equivalents that would adequately protect the information from other prying eyes.
> For most back pain, you can't even prove that person is actually suffering from it.

Why does this matter? You ask the patient to report on their subjective experience the same way you would in studies about cures for depression and headaches.

My point is that 1) only when no surefire scientifically backed cure exists will most people take alternative therapies seriously and 2) problems that can resolve on their own (self-limiting) are very susceptible to generating unreliable anecdotes about cures. Back pain fits these two so generates many unreliable anecdotes which you should be highly skeptical about.
This app is a decent reason to add signature checking to distros. Though until we're off of X11 the application doing the connecting can just press the button on OpenSnitch itself!

Unless you're on Wayland, OpenSnitch is totally vulnerable. One workaround would be to have OpenSnitch stop the requesting process before displaying the prompt, but if there's a configuration panel any application can just add the exception ahead of time anyway.
This story has several examples! Anything that lets and attacker work around security precautions is that kind of information. Right now the list of airports and countries is a physical security vulnerability because an attacker can just go to a different airport than one on the list.

I wish physical security were like digital security. When securing a server I can publish exactly how I did it and if it is good then the server is secure unless some gets physical access...

With physical access the description of the system is a weakness. Unlike packets against a firewall any real wall can be beaten down with enough force, so letting your enemy know how thick your wall is or how many men guard it is a security vulnerability all on its because then they know what goal they need to reach. Uncertainty is poor computer security tool because most attacks are free, physical attacks have a cost. So attackers won't do them unless they think the odds of success justify the costs. If they don't know if they can beat down the wall they probably won't try unless they are desperate.

Physical security is all about economics or manpower, either way it is about making attacks too expensive to be worthwhile. Just describing the boundaries to be secured makes it easier, and therefor cheaper to plan an attack. This is very unlike computer which is about finding and fixing flaws. A computer system without flaws cannot be attacked over a network, it must be attacked physically (or socially engineered which can be considered a physical attack here). For any physical attack there is some amount of money or manpower that can take the objective.
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Quantitative easing was an act of monetary policy. Monetary policy helps stabilize the value of a currency and the output of a country. Bitcoin has no mechanisms to stabilize aggregate supply & demand, and therefore is inherently subject to higher volatility.

I think that if there was any mistake of QE, the mistake was that it didn't go far enough. Looking back, the recession ended up being deeper and longer than initially expected, and worries over inflation ended up not proving true. With the benefit of this hindsight, it seems clear to me that more QE would have helped the country.
...screen readers just need to get better.

TFA doesn't relate any tweets about screen readers, and identifies many easier tasks as being more important than screen reader compliance.

It would be nice if web authors had a tool for that compliance that wasn't expensive and obscure like the readers themselves. (If they weren't obscure, we'd just file some PRs and be done with this.)
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