skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point re: citation scores. I like to imagine that people who think critically about data and measurement a lot don't take such things at face value. But maybe not.

Univ of St Thomas Houston & Univ of Zagreb seem to be 'reviewing' their Philosophy depts (though both cases have their nuances). Middlesex University (middle-of-the-pack Uni in UK) already closed theirs. Only couple mins of searching, I guess there's more. It's almost definitely mathiness from those who hold the purse strings. I think it's regrettable we have degrees for every job under the sun, it makes cross-pollination that much more difficult. Maybe something to do with the rise in total sum of bullshit.

It might be because I like to get an overview of things and read around, or because I find it difficult to commit attention for very long... But it seems to me like there's plenty of room for exactly the kind of thinking philosophical training is great for: fruitful interdisciplinary stuff between the humanities and sciences. Instead we seem to be getting profit-motivated consumption of the former by the latter, and filling the space with bachelors that stand in for what once was training in the workplace.
It might be because I am used to it but I find Waze interface better overall. For example, selecting alternative route is not that obvious on Google map for long distance travel, it is a single click on Waze.
I've found that balance boards (on top of a tube) require too much concentration to balance. Instead I used a skateboard deck on a cushion[0] at my standing desk. You can adjust difficulty by adjusting the inflation of the cushion.

[0]: http://indoboard.com/cushion
VDice Review
Ish.

If you use a sufficiently good hash function with a salt to stop rainbow table based attacks and key strengthening for good measure, then an attacker who has one compromised password of yours isn't going to be able to reverse the hash to find what your source password is so that they can generate new per-site passwords using it. That is assuming they even try: how would you know that an arbitrary string of characters was generated that way rather than just being randomly picked by a password manager?

Of course all your accounts are compromised if someone knows your master password, but that is little different to an attacker getting your pass-word/-phrase for an online password manager that doesn't use some form of 2FA.
Indeed! But who is the greater fool in this case? The job-hopping employee looking for money, or the new employer willing to pay more for the job-hopper?
Has anyone (started to) create(d) a FreeBSD port yet?
On Working with Black People: It was cool. We all got shit done together.
yeah right.. evolution observed in the tiny span of time that is recorded modern science?
Yup, generally speaking professional environments and thug tendencies don't mix well. That's because thug tendencies put people on edge instead of letting them concentrate on the work.

I don't bring much of my personality into my relationships with clients either. It's one thing to expose the human side a bit when starting conversations. It's another thing to fly blindly down the aggressive and self-aggrandizing tunnel of "Keepin It 100 For All My Real Software Ninjas".

To quote the author:

> "In case you’re an ignorant muhfukka and can’t grasp the significance of this or can’t see what’s so bad about it, then pay attention you bastard."
If you can afford to put good people in every position, by all means go for it, but that's not been how startups and small businesses hire, or else they wouldn't have to use the phrase "we wear a bunch of different hats here at St4rtUp". The apparent trend has been to overload the developer with additional responsibility instead of, e.g., making ops people build product features.
> The quoted text specifically refers to this being the result of a 5% monthly chance recurring over 12-months, i.e. it was a pretty unambiguous appeal to mathematics.

No it isn't. If I have some information about events that will occur over the next few months, my estimations will be different based on that knowledge, eg I know there is going to be an election in some neighboring country that will involve violence, so I think that the probability of being unable to ship overland through that country is low now, but high in a few months.
I've seen RoR jobs go from £35k to £60k in London (and even ones as low as £27k...). Might just be the ones recruiters have tried to pitch though.
My apologies; I read your comment too quickly.
If you’re seeing 2 minute connection times that’s on your network - probably the RADIUS server, not macOS. There are tons of places using macs with WPA2 and certs that don’t have any connection lag - including my employer and many of my customers.
> in preventing corrupt state apparatuses from expropriating and squandering the meager private wealth

This is one of the greatest use of cryptocurrency imo. If you go back even a few years ago, formerly stable countries like Cyprus were raiding bank accounts to make up for their shortfall. As costs rise, and there are less and less people of working age paying into the system, governments will become more coercive in order to fund healthcare and benefits for the largest voting block. Crypto is a storage of wealth and a way to protect yourself from government expropriation.
> Lately I have seen a trend where people wont even ask the salary until they have interviewed because they don't want to appear rude. I just don't get it. You should provide your salary expectations prior to reaching the interview stage otherwise you are potentially wasting your time.

I once asked an internal recruiter the salary (as to not waste each other's time) and he returned a tirade of abuse about me not clearly being a good fit if money is my only focus. The guy organises a few meetups as well, fair to say I'll avoid anything he touches at all costs.

Edit: if you publish/ let me know the the range, I'm happy to interview.
Its due to SJWs taking away our pride and what it means to be a man
>sees every interaction through a racial lens

As opposed to all those non-racial interactions you have as a minority in the workplace, or life in general? It's easy to suggest that there exists this social state where race isn't important and everyone is equal, but the material reality, of peoples preconceptions and sub/conscious assumptions is different. As a minority, your experiences are defined and informed by your race - how are you meant to have interactions without a racial aspect?
I am getting a little lazy and am starting to sit down more again. Standing the whole day is also pretty hard on my knees. But it's nice to be able to mix it up.

In general I am getting more and more envious of people who have a job that allows them to move around a lot. Being in one place the whole day just plain sucks, be it sitting or standing.
Last I used it was a good four years back and it tried to make me take left turns from a small alley into a major high at during rush hour in la. Ended up costing me more time than if I just hopped on the main road to begin with.
In fairness to you, I suspect the government schools (we call them public in the US, but I recall that "public school" means something entirely different in the UK) in your country are much better funded. I may be incorrect.

In the US, public schools are funded primarily by local governments, and are therefore extremely unequal in their funding, even within a relatively small geographic area.

I graduated high school from an impoverished rural county in 1999. The school I attended had a smattering of Windows 95 machines, enough so that about a 1/3 of the classrooms had a computer in it. There were only 2 machines in the entire school with internet access, and they were in the library. This was for a student body of roughly 600.

When I went to university, students from other (wealthier) parts of my home state of Virginia had been in schools where each student had a computer, and all had access to programming courses starting in middle school. Not surprisingly, students from these schools were disproportionately represented in my uni, and my "Intro to Computer Science" course was mostly filled with kids who had been programming for years. It made it very difficult to learn when more than 80% of the students have a huge advantage going in, and give the professors a false perception of how effective the teaching is. I sure hope the UK isn't like that.
Do you remember when it was legal to smoke in bars? Every bar was filled with smoke. Sure a bar could opt in to going smoke free, but basically none did because it would drive potential customers away.

I guess my point is that market forces prevented bars from being smoke free, and what you suggest would lead to basically no SEC regulated investments.
Maybe you're not used of this way of talking and you associate it with things you disaprove, so you're reading this article from your own lens.
A lot of this can be mitigated by managers having genuine conversations with their employees. The ideal manager I would work with (I've seen some managers come close but never hit all the right notes) would first and foremost be genuinely interested in my career progress as an employee. Different employees have different ambitions and expectations and there is just no way for a manager to know all of this just by observing someone; they really need to actively communicate and find out, to have a genuine conversation about how much raise they can provide or why they can't, what future they see for the employee. Especially if the employee is performing below expectations... that conversation can be tough, but I think one of the qualities of being a good manager is to convey this information in a way which makes the employee try to remedy the situation rather than just disparage them.
The only other possible bitcoin enterprise fitting their description may be bitmixer but I don't think it started in 2011 and I am certain it has not handled $4bn in transactions, btce probably has.
Google probably forward-thought the answer to the inevitable question "OK so you're telling me to reduce data transfer, how exactly do you want me to go about it?" by giving them a practical solution envisioning a win-win.
It's not just about scaling up, but also down. In my experience most of the startups initially greatly over-estimate what they need, and end up with only small part of the resources really used. With cloud you can provision what you think you'll need for a few weeks and then, once you get actual usage data, you can scale and fine-tune the setup to fully utilize it (and optimize the costs). And it's done with a few clicks in just a minute or two, without having to manually update anything, anywhere. No need to change DNS zones, no need to copy the data, all the tedious work that's usually involved with moving to a new unmanaged dedicated machine. With EC2 I can do this as often as I wish, while your hosting company would probably go crazy if you'd ask them to provision you a new hardware every week, or change it twice a day because you've changed your mind.
Created a temperature sensor system that can generate alerts whenever temperature or humidity goes above or below a limit configured by the admin portal. Along with Elasticsearch and Kibana graphs can be generated and also data can be seen on top of the floor plan to understand hot and cold spots in a building.

The repository below contains code and instructions on how to setup the Raspberry Pi device to report temperature/humidity data along with manual alerts to the server: https://github.com/ankurp/thermostat-sensor

The server code where data is received and saved, notifications are sent, and the entire system configured via the admin portal is here: https://github.com/ankurp/thermostat
Fashion Sharing Gig Sydney – Based GlamCorner Raised $4.2
I guess it's time to finally finish watching The Handmaid's Tale...
Off the Record sessions will tackle the big topics at Disrupt SF
Ask HN: How do I get involved with HARC?
I've always been interested in computing as a medium and the idea that computers change the way we think. When I see the kinds of projects that come out of HARC, I think: this is the most important kind of work that I could be doing — exploring how we can deepen our understanding of the world through technology.

But I'm just not sure how to get started doing that. I'm a software engineer who has started a company in the near past. I have a breadth of experience (technical, product, management) from starting a company, but I've never done the kind of research that is done at HARC.

How do I become involved with HARC or work like it?
Should I start looking at HCI grad programs, which seem like the HARC's academic counterpart?
Are there other companies or opportunities for someone who is interested in this kind of work?
This can't be right there are 7 colleges in Greensboro, NC and they are ranked 106.
Totally sympathize with your comment, but, playing devils advocate,

> 26^12 = 9.542895666×10^16

You could say adding 5 special chars "cheaply" doubles (formally) the search space without affecting how many chars users have to memorize.
> He did not advocate a policy, but you took his comment as advocating an extreme policy.

That's pedantically true, and more honestly false.

Are you honestly going to claim that his description of "putting off victims" advocates for no position? That's ridiculous. He explicitly said ... which is generally thought to be not a good thing.

Are you next going to claim that he thinks putting off victims is not a good thing... but he isn't really advocating against punishing fraudsters even if it "puts off" victims?

And this is all ignoring the point that his claim was false.

Honestly, I find this nit-picking to be utterly ludicrous, to the point of irrational.
Tell that to the user.
TechCrunch: Microsoft's new container instances make containers fast and easy
Swedish court rules against free access to public art online
Incredibly low quality piece of writing. Is this an indicator of the direction of hn? I won't stick around. Aside, I'm white and went to boarding school in Africa - does the author think I should write a blog post explaining black people?
"Financial literacy" is a category - not a badge. The badges in that category for 2nd and 3rd graders were Money Management (maybe all those cookie sales?) and Philanthropy... which are things most troops do anyway.
Not sure if this study was replicated again but it could be one potential reason: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39888170
Why has regional income convergence in the U.S. declined? Housing costs
The first time I heard about DeepMind (months before it was adquired by Google) I though something similar: "winning Atari games with reinforcement learning and neural networks doesn't sound like it is worth 50 millions of pounds in investment".
So I don't want to make the same mistake again and I will read carefully the paper.

Thanks!
Only time I think one would be loyal to the company is if they own a significant stake in it (which is usually the founding execs).

Or maybe if the company has done something amazing like pay for all your college / masters tuition...
Unfortunately you need Minecraft for Mac/PC: Java Edition to use mods, so modding won't work on the education edition.
Firm hopping happens because hierarchy hopping within an organization get's obstructed. Sooner or later you can't get further up because someone has the position you want and you start looking for opportunities that allow you to move up.
Perjury is a crime against the court. Making a fraudulent claim against a person is a crime against that person.
Who said computer savvy people designed these? These rules are not designed for technical reasons but for security theater.
I built a remote controlled cat feeder with a simple servo controller loosely based on this blog: http://drstrangelove.net/2013/12/raspberry-pi-power-cat-feed...
Then I added a server instance and an iOS app so I could schedule / manually control feedings remotely. Great for short trips.
> Unfortunately my 2016 vehicle only has mirrorlink v1.1+. Which unlike mirrorlink 1.0 doesn't actually mirror your phone, instead it is a proprietary app ecosystem with ten low quality paid for apps, even assuming any smartphone still supported mirrolink (which almost none do).

Both versions of the protocol stream apps rendered by the phone. v1.1 allows to create third party applications for it. Previously apps could be only provided by phone vendor. ML was never supposed to stream the screen of the phone constantly due to potential driver distraction. The devices that did this were probably uncertified and/or buggy.

> Toyota for example is refusing to do AA/Carplay and is starting yet another "standard" called SmartDeviceLink.

Well they do have a plenty of reason to not like AA/Carplay. Both give total control of head unit experience to Apple or Google. Which is a risky decision when you are dreaming about gradually moving from selling a product to providing related services.
> ...many companies will perceive the candidate as not caring about the work, and being "only in it for the money".

The owners, the shareholders, are "only in it for the money". It makes sense therefore that all other participants interacting with the company are also. Promulgating a behavior standard under the guise of propriety that doesn't align with the owners' position is shipping out an externality to everyone at the table who follows that standard, benefiting only the shareholders.

I'm not a fan of this approach to business myself, but that's the cards we've all been dealt, and until the system is changed, we learn how to play by the right rule book.
What makes you think that these composition rules are being set by the computer-savvy folks in the room, not box-checking bureaucrats? No engineer worth his salt would propose any of the terrible password requirements (10 char max, no pasting, etc.) featured in this article.
Raspberry Pi Nintendo cartridge
http://www.dontwatchme.com/build-raspberry-pi-retropie-ninte...
You are certainly welcome to think as you like.

but grellas doesn't actually disagree with me anywhere?

FWIW: I'm also an IP attorney, and among other things, have been doing "invention assignment" work for quite a while.
I'm very familiar with the employment law situation in california, and this area in particular.

" Additionally, in California the law protects moreso than other states."

I didn't say it didn't?
I said it's not as good as people seem to think
So, how exactly these different ways of getting sub arguments are useful?

sub add1 {
my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_;
$arg1 + $arg2;
}

sub add2 {
my $arg1 = shift;
# possibly two screens of dense code here, then
my $arg2 = shift;
$arg1 + $arg2;
}

sub add3 {
$_[0] + $_[1]
}

# There may be some other ways to extract arguments
# that I am not aware of.
# It's possible to combine any of the methods!

And this is just argument access, one of the core language primitives.
I posted this to another commenter with back pain, maybe it can help you:

Read this about APT: http://www.anteriorpelvictilthq.com/anterior-pelvic-tilt/, not saying you have it, but it's possible. I had back pain for a long time because I thought I was "standing up straight". Really I was arching my lower back really badly and it caused all the pain. Did the same thing when driving. Once I realized what it was, I was able to correct it and now the pain is not nearly as bad.

Hanging helped a little and so did the traction machine at the sports medicine doctor, aka Chiropractor. Things like that only helped until I got to the root of the problem.

I hope this helps in some way and your back gets better.

EDIT: Also, when you go to get something off the ground, go down to one knee instead of squatting down, that one was straight from the doctor and actually helped a lot.
We use one in the office to monitor the Jenkins build status of our dev branch. https://github.com/SeanCline/build-indicator/

Hardware-wise, it's just a Pi and UnicornHat. I wanted to use off-the-shelf components since it's in an office environment with rather strict rules about what can be plugged into the wall.
I think "the argument" being referred to was the push for dynamic linking, and the consequences in question are for dynamic linking. I think there was just a somewhat unclear implicit shift in the subject.
LOL! HSBC: another convicted money launderer! (still are only alleged against this person).
That's true. I'm not used to people in the office being bitches and hos and ninjas.

I work with adults and they work with adults.
Apart from ZFS, the big draws for me (compared to Linux) are:

1) There is a clear separation between the base system and the extra software. On a typical Linux distribution, everything gets installed into /usr, /etc, /var, etc. On FreeBSD things that aren't part of the base system go into /usr/local.

2) The base system is designed as a whole cohesive system. The kernel and userland are kept in sync through the update process.

3) The documentation is fantastic.

It would be unfair to Linux if I didn't mention some downsides though:

1) Upgrades are more painful than Linux, and more painful than they need to be. On my OpenSUSE boxes, an upgrade is literally "sudo zypper dup; shutdown -r now". On FreeBSD, the same task requires multiple reboots[0]. Then you need to update any extra software as a separate step.

If you have a custom kernel (because you needed IPSEC and/or NAT-T), it's even more painful.

2) The base system is fairly sparse. You want to use bash? That's an extra package. Want sudo instead of su? That's an extra package. Don't get me wrong, the base system is very usable, but it does lack a lot of things that Linux users take for granted.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-free...
The issue with this is that the best IT jobs are in places like San Francisco / New York / London which are very expensive.

So yes you make 200k (before taxes) but you spend 35-40k per year on rent plus bills (water, electricity, council tax, internet etc).

Throw in some social life and drinks once or twice a week, car plus insurance, supporting family financially.

So let's say after all that you end up saving 40k per year net. Times 5 is 200k. That is not enough to retire.

Now do the math with 1 million salary (the lowest possible 7 figure). Same living standard. After 5 years you can save let's say 1.5-2 million (I didn't do the math so if I am way off please correct me).

Now that is an amount you can retire on:

1) Buy two properties for 500k (live in one, rent the other one)

2) Invest 1 million in blue chip equities, this will pay you around 35k per year in dividends

3) You still have a nice sum of cash left on top of that

So you can see that 90k per year is definitely not a sweet spot. There are still massive improvements if you can make 200k, 400k, 800k and so on.

Yes perhaps going from 35k to 90k will improve your living standard much more drastically than going from 90k to 200k. So you could argue that there are diminishing returns.

But you are ignoring the fact that the higher you go the sooner you gain complete financial freedom when you can retire and live completely free.
> and some would argue that software that chooses not to implement that shouldn't advertise 8BITMIME.

Which is why I wrote that email still nominally isn't 8-bit clean :-)

Yes, in practice, you won't find an MTA that doesn't leave your 8 bit data unharmed, but you do find MTAs that don't advertise 8BITMIME, and so nominally noone should send them 8 bit data ... except everyone does anyway, of course ...
If you're keeping coins on any exchange -- even Coinbase -- they are no longer your coins. You've just loaned them. And you may eventually discover why that is a very bad idea.

No one thinks "It could happen to me" until it's too late. Stop keeping coins on exchanges. Stop using third party wallets and other software. If you want to invest in coins because they might go up, that might make sense, but at least treat it like a serious investment.