skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if it works everywere but working on site for company and then discussing, after a few months, if that would work remotely, seems to work for friends of mine. I never had an on site job in my life (I am 42) and I try to be good at things that are hard to find. As PHP webdev, most companies I know would hire you if you reliably get shit done. Reliably churn out results 6.5 hours per day for 5 days/week. Not many people can do that; actually I meet very little who can. A colleague of mine makes business dashboards in PHP: he creates and maintains enormous heaps of the most boring stuff. But he does it, day after day, year after year and that is worth a lot. Adhd coders that want to code in some new thing are more common, as are stuck coders who have the productivity of a snail and need a lot of handholding. Just sit and do it is worth a lot but you need to get your name out and that happens when you work onsite first or are able to market yourself online for that role.
Is this fundamentally a more Enterprise version from 1.0?

We're looking for something with security, control, support etc that we didn't see when we looked at 1.0.
Regardless of what gets included in the spec, I hope people think critically about what to use and what not to use before they jump in. Just because something is shiny and new in JS, it doesn't mean you have to use it or that it's some sort of "best practice."
Note that this only works for objects that don't have any flexible parts and don't interact with the water in any other way than pushing it aside (e.g. soak water).
One of my hobbies is shooting fire effects at big music festivals. We're shooting huge flames in front of 10s of thousands of people. I think that is pretty safety-critical.

We have a very rigid communication protocol that I designed based on my experience as a pilot and all the time I've spent flying with my father, who is a very experienced pilot.

The communication protocol and operational checklists are there specifically to catch human errors.

For instance: "snoop" (which is a sort of soapy water used for checking gas lines for leaks) every gas line any time it is changed. Snooping something, finding a leak, and then either reseating the gas fitting or shutting off its supply is the system working properly.

You could absolutely write an article that said "multiple gas leaks found on fire effects system", omitting the part where they were immediately found and fixed as part of the operation of the system.

I also wrote the ignition and control systems for a fire effect that we use, which has fail-safes built into every stage of its operation. That doesn't mean that failure modes don't ever occur (for instance: dead battery on the controller, out of range events, etc), it means that I designed around them so that they occur safely.

So I'm sorry that you wouldn't hire me for safety-critical systems. I'm curious what safety critical system you design or manage, because the idea that you either don't think errors will ever occur, or don't know what they are and how to design around them, is perplexing.
I generate traces of distributed applications I run (essentially logs of functions called, time taken, and other metadata). While the applications run on remote server(s), it's often nice to keep local copies of these logs for analysis. These can be on the order of tens of MB per node per run and I can easily generate many hundreds of GB if I'm not careful while debugging or tuning an application.
The program was set up with a limited number of spots to begin with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_Visa#Use_of_existing_v...
I wonder how much of a role wetting/capillary effects play in this? The liquid interface will distort as it approaches the object, and will try to meet at a certain contact angle (based on surface tensions etc). Correcting for this might help improve the resolution of the scans?
This small tool has a great (and intuitive) approach to password management. Click "What is this?" and read the description. It is much better than saving your passwords locally in plain text or on someone else's server. (e. g. LastPass, 1Password, etc.)

It won't auto-fill the password for you, but it is technically possible to develop a Chrome / FF extension to do that.
That's exactly the opposite of the way I expected things to turn out. Hard drives with their moving parts have a floor on the price, just because you can't get all those parts any cheaper; the only way to get the $/TB lower is to keep making them bigger. SSDs have no such problem, so I expected on the low end we'd see SSDs undercutting hard drives by a lot. Where are the $20 SSDs?
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

It's hard to describe. Rather, the story is easy to describe: it concerns the travel of a man from a future age. Nothing is what it seems.

There was a moment when I realized "Oh shit. This is real." The book may be fiction but almost nothing about it is fake. The Big Questions, in History, in Philosophy, in Politics, in Theology, in Technological Progress, in interpreting reality, it's all there.

Most non-fiction work of fiction I've ever read, and the best one, above Tolkien, above the Bible, it towers above all texts I have read.

It will take multiple reads to understand what it is saying, different parts will appeal to you each time.

In terms of the people you know: imagine that Stewart Brand, Peter Thiel and Christopher Nolan somehow had a lovechild - it would be The Book of the New Sun.
Honestly when comparing processors I think everyone uses their ARK app because no one can remember very well the numerical numbering system. This is a welcome improvement.
Notes on Jawbone's massive failure
Same thing as usual: Short term over long term investing.

More specifically, effort flocks to where the action is. It's not in plumbing, and local small biz.

It's easier and less time consuming to invest in tech. The models are all well developed, and understood. The human networks established.

The pipeline for tech investment is a well oiled machine. And we'd rather get in and out easy. Shorter turn arounds than figure out the pipeline for other areas.

Path of least resistance. Leads to the economy as a whole being saddled with issues that look a lot like Buffet's institutional imperative, or Goodhart's law, IMO.

No political will to change. This is what unfettered free markets look like. Pool it all wherever the owner class makes the most easy money. Fuck everything else.
Everyone is praising GNOME here. Am I the only one who thinks that it's not polished enough? I'm using it on my laptop and it kind of works most of the time. But there are occasional bugs arising here and there. I even sometimes think that I'm the first user otherwise how come nobody noticed those (sometimes very obvious) bugs. If 26 isn't fixing them, apparently I'll have to move back to the Cinnamon spin.
Node.js-sec – Security updates for all active release lines
The syntax sure is much closer to Java than Scheme or Self. So was the obscuring of prototypal inheritance with the new keyword along with the Math object.
1) Did New Math actually try to do those things, or did you just bring it up to poison the well against any alternative pedagogies?

2) Did New Math fail because of poor results or because of popular revolt? (Would New Coke have failed if there was never any such thing as the original Coke?)

2a) If New Math did actually have poor results, was it because it hewed too closely to the goals I brought up, or because of other issues?

3) Memorizing times tables clearly didn't work, or we wouldn't be having this discussion

4) I never said that drilling times tables isn't important, so I'm not sure what your last sentence is in response to
How do you "learn to think" without numbers?

Depressing.
I disagree with you. Design 101 says: use the logo font only for the logo.
Companies managed to survive a few last decades without having subscriptions and suddenly they need it to survive? Upgrades exist on iOS, you just release a new app. It is not different from times before App Store.

Stop tolerating this subscription model or you will regret it one day once everyone switches to it and you will be paying 200 bucks each month to use your software and if you stop you will have nothing.
figures. that's a damn good deal though; too bad its limited to 1 per customer.
Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000
School is not about learning but learning how to think. The way it is now it's more about showing off than it is about anything actually useful. They don't reward effort, they reward talent.
I think when you boil it down, "don't hate the player, hate the game" is a plea for regulatory action.
I'm not so sure. If the sensor was able to take a 2D measurement of the weight, the rotations could be used to calculate the 3rd dimension of density.
There is an RDP backend for Wayland: https://241931348f64b1d1.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/waylands-r...

There is a SPICE backend:
https://github.com/ein-shved/compositor-spice

There is the Samsung effort Wayland Over Wire (WOW): https://blogs.s-osg.org/wow-wayland-over-wire/

Apparantly, the Pipewire effort to make a high performance, low latency audio/video server will address remote display somehow too: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/06/20/fedora-workstation...
Why do you phrase it "2 manufacturers + Toshiba"? Why not just "3 manufacturers"?
Yes, but the certificate comes with a limitation (color signal landing daytime only proscription; or night and color signal landing proscription).

The requirements vary depending on class of medical certificate but in this context it's a class I medical for airline transport pilots (not commercial pilots) so it's complicated.

Also, full on dichromats or monochromats are rare. Usually people are one of three anomalous trichomats. Hence testing is required to determine if it's a problem. The initial test is designed to have a high failure rate, and the exception tests to get the restrictions lifted take more effort.

https://www.aopa.org/go-fly/medical-resources/health-conditi...
Oh, dear lord.
For now but who knows what will happen next year? Once they make enough money with subscription they will stop caring.
"The versions of Unix are numbered in a logical sequence: 5, 6, 6PWB, 7, 4.1, III, 4.3, V, and V.3." -- quoted from memory from The Unix-Haters Handbook

So you see, they're following long-standing industry practice :-)
I believe it was an additional $500k of funding to renew, which is a notable difference.
That logo in the upper left needs some padding love. It looks like someone just found out about CSS background-color. A few pixels of padding would go a long way.
Leukemia
>Tying students' progress through the curriculum to their age is silly. If you think about it for a single second, the whole thing is totally absurd.

Sounds quite logical to me. If we assume a gaussian distribution (which tests seem to verify), most kids of the same age will have the same skills/level.

So at worse you mismatch what's taught to some kids towards the edges, whose level there are ways to accommodate anyway in most school systems (skipping a class or two for extra smart kids, or staying behind/supplementary teaching for less than average smarts).

And it's not just about learning and who can cram more into one's head (akin to e.g. preparation for the Olympics), but also about sharing the same teenager and adult-making experiences as other kids of your age, which is probably even more important that what's actually taught (the majority of which most people will forget anyway).
>Which they violated whenever the script required it :-)

Pretty sure it only ever came up when it was being violated. A rule literally made to be broken, lol.
I live in the Bay Area, although I work for a big tech company at the moment not a startup. It does feel a bit like we're coming down from a high, but not really like a bursting bubble. I've noticed a couple of anecdotal symptoms that make this impression:

- Rent seems to be holding steady or even dropping slightly over the last year, as opposed to the huge run up over the previous 3-4 years.

- There doesn't seem to be much poaching going on from my BigCo to startups -- less of a "gold rush" mentality among employees than at other times.
AMD just packages several dies. Threadripper will have 2.
1 reads like general guidance for dealing with insomnia. If you only, for instance, sleep and have sex in your bed, then when you go to bed it'll tend to put your mind into those states. If you also read and do mentally stimulating things, then it'll be harder to relax the mind for sleep.

2 is sleep apnea.

3 is hypothyroidism (a common enough condition with symptoms of lethargy, apathy, depression among others).

4 I don't know.
Is it way too early, or has it produced a generation or two (or three!) of mathphobic Americans? How many generations of avoiding rote memorization would it take to judge an alternative, in your view?

Many problems that people have with math seem to stem from not having internalized the most basic facts about addition and multiplication. If you don't know at least to 10 by 10, each tiny step of working through a problem will tend to be interrupted by counting. Fluency requires memorization.
> That means that 1) wages are too low, and 2) taxes are too low.

No, it does not. There is no correlation there at all.

Not one person I know who has ever run a business would make that connection. Why? Because they understand business reality vs. the fantasies floating around out there.

I'll give you just one easy-to-assimilate example:

Economic collapse Q4 of 2008. I was able to keep about 20 people employed because we were profitable enough prior to this event to, as many like to say, hoard cash. I hoarded cash like there was no tomorrow. Why? Because I had played that game and learned a few valuable lessons.

Without this war chest I would have been forced to lay off all twenty of them and probably even a few more people. Instead I made the decision to keep everyone employed and, yes, lose money for over a year (2009 and 2010 were horrible). We used that money to pay people's salaries and even more hoarded money to actually make the decisions to devote that time to develop new products. In fact, it got so bad that I actually paid a few salaries with credit card money for a few weeks. It was awful, but I was committed to keeping everyone working.

We came out of the recession drained of cash but with new products and a team that was as loyal to the company and the mission as I was to them.

Higher taxes or ridiculous wages (like $15/hr minimum wage) would have certainly put a bunch of people on the street despite my best intentions.

My standard recommendation to anyone who thinks they understand the economy is to write down their ideas/ideology today. Then mortgage the house, take out a loan or do whatever you need to do to self-fund a business (no playing with other people's money here). Work your ass off to grow it to a non-trivial business. Check what you wrote every year for ten years. Somewhere between five and ten years you are almost guaranteed to ask "What the fuck was I thinking?". And that's when you'll understand.

"A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" --Mark Twain
What is your country of origin? That determines how much shit you get at the border and your likelihood of getting visas.
How many people were buying Fujitsu, Samsung and HGST drives before the acquisitions?

My impression was that most people were buying Seagate and WD drives for a long time, and the rest were bit players. So I'm not sure how much the aquisition actually changed in the market. It effectively wasn't very competitive to begin with. Much like the CPU market, where Intel and AMD are the only two big players. Or the desktop operating system market, divided mainly between Microsoft and Apple.
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I didn't see any science in this article. I was disappointed.
The War for Your TV
You can be into understanding the media around you without actually wanting to produce it yourself. However, if you are interested in adopting some of the takeaways, the strategies can be used tastefully and ethically.

If you don't like the harmful ways that media manipulation is used, you might actually like that the book explicitly warns the industry how vulnerable it is to this practice, which can be used by anybody for any purpose. This warning came four years before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
While this new design looks good for documentation, it's also used on Firefox homepage where it makes it look like one of those domain squatter sites.
Having a recurring revenue model does not mean you have a stable company. You might love it but many others don't and if they don't have enough customers on subscription it will be worse for you because you depend on their servers to operate and if they shut down your software stops working.
>What could one do to make it possible to have ME-less x86 in the future?

One could lock all the devices that can store data: https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.p...

"The general idea is to remove the SPI flash chip from the motherboard, and route
the wiring to one of the external ports, such as either a standard SD or a USB
port, or perhaps even to a custom connector. A Trusted Stick (discussed in the
next chapter) would be then plugged into this port before the platform boots,
and would be delivering all the required firmware requested by the processor, as
well as other firmware and, optionally, all the software for the platform."
For anyone who didn't read the entire article, this is the part that these comments are complaining about:

> Since all new creativity is held hostage in the hands of insensitive investors who promote the development of White business leaders to the exclusion of any other forms of creativity. Seventy five percent of all investment dollars are placed into the hands of White men. In the tech industry, most companies are run by, lead by, and pay the bulk of their company’s value to White men, the primary beneficiaries of such investment effort.

1. This certainly doesn't posit that all white people live perfect lives.

2. This is 74 words out of a 2600 word long essay, for crying out loud.

3. He's not wrong. If you're concerned with "wealthy vs not wealthy" it's entirely relevant that one particular cohort is far more likely to be in the wealthy group rather than other cohorts.

I get so tired of people looking to get offended by things like this.
Then maybe instead of calling math fancy arithmetic, we should call arithmetic "hard math"? :P

Seems like you agree more than disagree; math and arithmetic aren't easily separable, if you're being serious instead of cheeky?
Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice (2015)
Look for keywords like “lean” and “agile” to find tech companies with remote work options. And keep in mind that if a posting makes no mention of being remote, chances are that it isn’t.
I can't say I'm tremendously enthusiastic about this visa. My objection to it is the same as my objection to almost all specialized, employer sponsored visas - I don't think employers, universities, or investors should be empowered to decide who is allowed to live in the US. If you grant them this power, they will abuse it.

Think about it this way - you're a startup founder with US citizenship. You go to an investor who offers you 100K in seed funding in exchange for X% of your business. You say no deal. Ok, says the employer, but that does mean I won't give you my money.

Now imagine you don't have citizenship. Same scenario. Ok, says the employer, but that does mean I won't give you the right to live in the United States.

One point I've emphasized over and over here on HN is that you can be very pro-immigration and still be very opposed to programs that put private citizens (employers, investors) or corporations in a position of government sanctioned power over would-be immigrants. I think employers and investors should be allowed to decide who gets a job or money, but the power ends there. They absolutely should not be empowered to run the US immigration system for their personal benefit.

These visas are often described as "allows foreign engineers/entrepreneurs/etc to live in the US." That's misleading. It should be described as "allows corporations and investors to decide who is and isn't allowed to live in the US."

So, the tech industry is in favor of a regulatory regime that allows tech corporations to be gatekeepers for who is and isn't allowed to immigrate? What a surprise.

Think of it this way - I can accept that google is allowed to no-hire someone who contributed to open source but can't reverse a binary tree on the spot at a whiteboard. Google's call.

But should google be making decisions about who is allowed to live in the US based on these interviews? That changes the question dramatically for me.
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The half a page Nobel Prize paper about the existence of the Neutron (1932)
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With a lot of FEC, you can sort of approach it, but still not quite. Human brain is a lot better at picking out voice out of noise than any algorithm currently known. That is , for example, why your Alexa cannot take your commands in the middle of a 100-person party, but your interlocutor can hear you and respond.
Facebooks Tough-On-Terror Talk Overlooks White Extremists
I'm stunned at how readable this is, especially the 80COLUMNS font. The 'm', 'n', and 'w' seems like they shouldn't be readable, yet my brain is tricked into recognizing them.

Had this been standard, or at least more easily accessible, it would have made the C64 a lot more useful to me.

OT: Is there a 4x8 latin1 font anywhere?
> One of your "problems", the length of an array with a single string element

That's not what it is. Look again, and pay attention to the ... part.
Yes, this is one of the most annoying things about people who don't know anything about math.

- They see a shopping bill or a phone number and ask you if you can add them.

- They see random equations, often in the background, and ask you if you understand what it means.
> I saved some money and got unemployment benefits (60% of my previous salary) so I had 1 year to do nothing.

Well thanks, I'm out. In most of the world after quitting job one has literally nothing but savings, and even registering as an unemployed (to get the mere public health insurance) is not trivial.
I think you're close to the mark, but it's less about profitability specifically, and more about growth. A company that is focused on growing as fast as possible, dominating a market, and generating a favourable outcome for investors is only going to get there through big audacious bets in terms of product strategy. If you need to get 3x as large as you are a year from now, no amount of small tweaks for better user experience from individual developers is going to get you there. Instead, you'll find large numbers of developers (or maybe even the entire team at smaller shops) all working towards big, flashy advancements.

There's a relationship here with profitability, for sure - companies that are profitable are likely not prioritizing growth over profit, and aren't beholden to investors who want a big exit, but the profitability is more of an indicator than the cause.
even KY-97A from decades ago handles this for you
ahem...
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2521809/government-it/n...