skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a passage from Jack London's The Iron Heel[1], in which the protagonist tells a man who owned the Sierra Mills about an injured worker:

"He lost his arm in the Sierra Mills, and like a broken-down horse you turned him out on the highway to die. When I say ‘you,' I mean the superintendent and the officials that you and the other stockholders pay to manage the mills for you. It was an accident. It was caused by his trying to save the company a few dollars. The toothed drum of the picker caught his arm. He might have let the small flint that he saw in the teeth go through. It would have smashed out a double row of spikes. But he reached for the flint, and his arm was picked and clawed to shreds from the finger tips to the shoulder. It was at night. The mills were working overtime. They paid a fat dividend that quarter. Jackson had been working many hours, and his muscles had lost their resiliency and snap. They made his movements a bit slow. That was why the machine caught him. He had a wife and three children."

"And what did the company do for him?" [the owner's daughter] asked.

"Nothing. Oh, yes, they did do something. They successfully fought the damage suit he brought when he came out of hospital. The company employs very efficient lawyers, you know."

The the owner's daughter doesn't believe him, and goes to the injured worker to see for herself:

"How did you happen to get your arm caught in the machine?" I asked.

He looked at me in a slow and pondering way, and shook his head. "I don't know. It just happened."

"Carelessness?" I prompted.

"No," he answered, "I ain't for callin' it that. I was workin' overtime, an' I guess I was tired out some. I worked seventeen years in them mills, an' I've took notice that most of the accidents happens just before whistle-blow. I'm willin' to bet that more accidents happens in the hour before whistle-blow than in all the rest of the day. A man ain't so quick after workin' steady for hours. I've seen too many of ‘em cut up an' gouged an' chawed not to know."

...

With the exception of the terrible details, Jackson's story of his accident was the same as that I had already heard. When I asked him if he had broken some rule of working the machinery, he shook his head.

"I chucked off the belt with my right hand," he said, "an' made a reach for the flint with my left. I didn't stop to see if the belt was off. I thought my right hand had done it--only it didn't. I reached quick, and the belt wasn't all the way off. And then my arm was chewed off."

...

His mind was rather hazy concerning the damage suit. Only one thing was clear to him, and that was that he had not got any damages. He had a feeling that the testimony of the foremen and the superintendent had brought about the adverse decision of the court. Their testimony, as he put it, "wasn't what it ought to have ben." And to them I resolved to go.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
Ask HN: How do you scale yourself?
Over the past several months, my company has started growing, and I've been getting more and more on my plate. One of the things I constantly think about now is, "How do I scale myself?" and what are the strategies to actually get there? For example: hiring an assistant, better delegation, task management through frameworks like GTD... Etc...

I'm curious: what tools and strategies do YOU use to get more done and scale yourself?
The ABI is incompatible between different versions.
Yes, you are. It seems to me that most people think in language, to the point where it's weird if you tell them you don't think in one. I used to think in language too (yes, I actually did have a voice narrating my thoughts inside my head), but I grew out of it.

I realize now that the thoughts are happening anyway, and that narrating them was just a way for my brain to be kept busy (ie the narration doesn't really matter). I was trying to explore this the other day, and managed to think complex thoughts related to solving a work problem entirely without language, while listening to an audiobook. Listening to the book probably helped, as my brain was half too busy understanding it to form its own speech.
You should check out Reddit's /r/audiodrama subreddit.

Some recommendations:

Mabel - Mysterious ghost story.

We're Alive - High quality Zombie TEOTWAWKI.

Our Fair City - Dystopian adventure with comic momments. Stay with it until Season 2, it takes a while to warm up but is one of the best.

EOS-10 - Scrubs in Space.

Wolf 359 - Space mystery adventure.

Liberty - There are two related series: I recommend starting with 'Critical Research' for the worldbuilding and then proceeding onto 'Tales from the Tower', which is extraordinary.
>The dumb part about what Schmidt said is he presumes there is nothing worthwhile about privacy

That's not at all what he's saying. Like... not at all. But alright.
Because planes don't walk around carrying guns and a head full of bias and fear? Because police officers are not multi-million-dollar engineering marvels?

What editor fell asleep and allowed this to be posted?
Not sure that I agree with the second proposition. I'm pretty sure vastly more people choose to use iOS and macOS than free systems.
More needs to be done to combat the radicalization of young white men by neo-Nazis and white supermacists.
Seems like your looking for an excuse to stop paying. I said "I don't think"....
One where we still need to work to live.
Here is a CNN report on it
http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/02/technology/kremlin-gps-signa...

They spoof no-fly zones to trick the drones that abide by them. It's hard to image building or retrofitting a surveillance or weapon drone and leaving limiters in place.

I first heard about it on a running forum but I cannot find the link. Apparently, joggers were getting an extra 20 km on their runs because of the spoofing.
Almost like the fundamental problem is --and always has been -- the nature of the ownership of the means of production.
Comedy vid on current hot rumor in india hair cutting ghost
Kickstarting a “libre” recording of all of Bach's fugues
Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-police-killed-nearly-9000-ci...

http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrori...
Airbnb banned neo-Nazis from booking in Charlottesville
How to Negotiate: Negotiation Tips to Get the Best Bargain
There are several types of spoofing attacks and it's possible to use spoofing as type of jamming attack against military GPS units from a distance where pure jamming is not effective. Older receivers require lock into C/A code before moving to encrypted P(Y). The new M-code attempts to solve some of these issues.

The simplest form of GPS spoofing sends made up signals that misdirects the GPS receiver. Military equipment is protected against these kinds of attacks with authenticated signals. Carry-off attacks (satellite-lock takeover) start with broadcasting perfectly synced repeat of the original signal. This kind of attack can be used to make munitions and missiles to lose their signal lock in critical time.

It's also possible that there are multiple weaknesses and bugs in the military receivers that can be exploited.

Iranians were somehow able to trick RQ-170 drone to land on Iran.

When Iranians captured U.S. Navy patrol boat it was because there was mysterious navigation error.
Beating the Market: Yes, it can be done (1992)
Found it too easy to zone out into a biltz of phrases and names, not certain if I were truly grasping what was being said. Typically finding that a guest is trying to encapsulate something and then Melvin butts in to speed things along.

It is good though, but I find subjects I knew something about already were dealt with in a somewhat obscurantist manner that didn't really impart a high level understanding.
"liberated from the need to work" is an interesting way to say "unemployment"

The kind of world we have created is one where one must create value in order to have food & shelter. Automation simply funnels more and more of the value created into the pockets of fewer and fewer individuals.
Fair enough but would it not make sense doing something on the side which makes you learn new things? I guess I cannot imagine sitting still.
They won't be liberated from work, they will just be deprived of their revenue. If there is a famine and you find yourself starving, would you say that you are liberated from the need to eat?
Because by increasing divisibility you don’t change the distribution of wealth (how much people own relative to each other) whereas, if you create more currency, the recipient of the new coins is enriched on behalf of everyone else.
the world where you have no value if you dont "add value".

the market decides your worth, and unless you have something to offer, you get nothing in return.

which means work is going to be critical.
Over half of the Finnish population now supports a basic income
I respect your comments and breadth of knowledge, but wish you would take things a bit less literally and argue/reason at a higher level. I noted all of your points in the comment's [1] footnote - I'm aware of the technicalities, but am making a broader argument. But don't just take it from me, here's an ex-president of the Minneapolis Fed making the same point: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-07/maybe-cen...

Do you feel like you are adequately represented in government, and that you can trust elected officials to appoint staff those who will make decisions in the best interest of you, your family, your city, state, nation, etc.?
> Then they call you a conspiracy nut so society ostracizes you and ignores your observations

And then the party in power tries to eliminate the thing that lets middle-aged startup founders/small business owners get health insurance so they can cut taxes on the top 0.5% of income earners.
The trouble is disproving the null hypothesis. In your test, if one variant beats another, you take that as a weak signal that one may be better than the other. The data doesn't support this. Without applying a standard to your p-value, you cannot disprove the null hypothesis: that your variant is likely no better or worse.

I'm not a statistician, but I've run a lot of b-tests.
I don't, so saying it is "simple" to ban an account was mostly a lie. However, it would be simple to switch to fingerprinted plugin releases if it becomes a problem, then ban the account, which would stop any further unauthorized distribution.
It is like calling your gun a killer when you pull the trigger. Blame the bosses of the programmers. We just try to make a living like everybody else.
McAuliffe Counters Critics of Police Response to Charlottesville Violence
http://www.scout.com/Board/102743/Contents/fRee-Colts-Vs-Lio...
The info on Peter Madsen changing his story was on the Danish TV news an hour ago. http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/drabschef-ingen-personer-fu... (in Danish)
> Strings as they are today almost everywhere are simply of bad design.

I very much disagree. Eschewing a contiguous memory representation in favor of making other operations cheaper is a monumental trade off, and whether it's good or bad design depends on your use case.

Others have mentioned that you lose random access (which is incredibly important for some algorithms), but you also lose optimizations that rely on a contiguous memory representation. For example, SIMD optimized routines like memchr live at the heart of any substring search algorithm. If you can't make effective use of SIMD optimized routines in your substring search, then your implementation will likely be left in the dust. If you proclaim contiguous memory representations as "bad design," then users of your strings won't care about design when you tell them that only bad designs have fast substring search implementations.
Using Algolia's Hacker News Search to see popular stories that have been flagged
The one where one guy owns everything and no one at all "needs" to work... or eat.
If the automation is inevitable though, it might make sense to unionize if that allows you to maximize the your wages in the short term. The limiting factor of automation is how much capital can be put towards research and implementation and if they have to pay their workers higher wages then there would be less capital to do so and that would actually slow the march towards automation. That being said, I'm not sure modern unions are more about actually helping employees have a collective bargaining chip than they are about enriching the people leading the organizations that are in the business of unionization.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but brakes can fail while driving, and have definitely failed on people who are driving on a freeway when they go.
A century later and here we are. Lovely book by the way, I highly recommend anyone read it while keeping in mind the era it was written in. It should make you question our social policies, or lack thereof.
Yes, it's a large application that is constantly being improved, so there are always at least some changes between versions that break ABI compatibility. Even a simple change of the application that only requires a recompilation of the plugins would break ABI. Pirates would have to modify inconceivable amounts of binary code to match a 67.0 plugin to a 68.0 application or vise versa.
If that is the case he made absolutely the right decision. The podcasts he appeared on allowed him to speak and state his case.

"The news" is far from an editing unbiased reasonable discussion. They completely misrepresented his views already, there is absolutely zero reason to believe they would give him a fair chance to represent himself.
> As the war unfolded, ministers were pilloried for rewarding investors far too generously for surrendering capital which should have been sacrificed gladly as a matter of patriotic principle

Interesting how much harder it was for the government to get money back then.

Wikipedia seems to say that WW2 cost the equivalent of $4.5 trillion, while the Iraq war is about $2.4 trillion.

The Gold Standard seemed to have caused trouble with wars: WW2 had to temporarily suspend gold trading, and it was canceled entirely around Vietnam. Now we can spend trillions with it causing hardly any day-to-day trouble: A blessing when needed, and a curse when not.
> In particular, the service launcher (launchd, mentioned in the article), and various other system level things (including logs, also mentioned in the article), have so little official documentation as to be laughable.

I've filed documentation bugs against launchd. They acknowledged the issue, and then filed them for resolution in the n+2 major release in macOS, because it was too late for the next major release.

I suspect their technical documentation process to have gone pear-shaped.
The power requirements for even the most miniature RLGs is still pretty large relative to cell phone peripherals, and they are still physically pretty large. DARPA has had focus efforts in the MEMs arena for more than a decade now, including atomic clocks and optical systems but its not stuff you can put in a square mm of silicon and feed with a couple of microamps.
I wish I could figure out what the actual price is. I'm logged in and all I see is "Enroll free!". The only pricing disclosed is $49/month. Courses 1-3 are 9 weeks, so does that mean it costs about $100? (No lengths on courses 4 and 5 yet.)
This is an example, that you should consider as a possibility.
The result is both decentralization /and/ concentration.

Streets and parking are a huge waste of space, so higher concentration will be better livability (less noise, pedestrians can own the surface, and let's face it, streets full of cars are ugly)
Well if it's the top link, it's also one more (or even the first) chance to say "please buy this" before they look for a crack elsewhere.
Sync your calendar with the solar system
Yes, and it's a good reason to pause before making new free software for a nonfree system.

Sometimes it is good because it helps people use more free software- but not always. Sometimes it just helps people use the non-free software.
Inform management I am stretched thin and request additional team members. There's no secret to being able to do much more in the finite amount of work hours. If management sees that you are adapting to the extra load, they will have no incentive to hire more people.
I pay $2300/month as a small business owner for health insurance for a single employee + family. I was well into my 20's before my entire salary was that much. The cost was ~$1000/month in 2009 or so, which I considered bad at the time.

I fault both parties for the ridiculous situation we're in regarding health care. The ACA was doomed no matter who won the last election. Not because of how it was structured, but because it didn't address the core cost problems.

Not defending Trump's actions. But, at best, he's damaging an already dying system.
A world where you and your family's livelihood is tied to your ability to get a job.
https://wearehirable.com/ for adding yourself, https://remotive.io/ for searching job offers from my bookmarks. https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job for a much longer list.
It has been studied (neurolinguistic among other science fields).

Personally it's a mix. I use sentences but also some kind of bricks that fit into each other (that's also how I do basic arithmetic). It can also be a mix of both.
Phones use MEMS sensors, which are much cheaper than laser gyros. I'm not sure if google maps uses the accelerometer, or just the GPS and compass.

In my experience, phone maps work well if the device has a good GPS signal. It's just the compass that gives a shitty experience. I wish google would ignore the compass and just use GPS direction when you're moving. They used to do this, but now they seem to rely in the inherently crappy compass for direction.
It reminds me of this article: http://www.theonion.com/article/ibm-emancipates-8000-wage-sl...
There's already "people walking" services for getting social time - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/los-angeles-...
Oh heck yeah - it just wasn't clear to me if that's what oneplane was talking about.
That makes 0 sense to me. Presumably an author can pick a publisher that does or doesn't distribute to libraries. Even then a library is still buying at least one book if not multiple.

If a creator stopped making software you pirated because it wasn't sustainable would you feel guilt?
Ask HN: How do you become a better solver of life's problems?
IMHO, part of becoming a better problem-solver lies in one's 1) understanding, 2) approach and 3) execution.

Are there best practices for becoming skilled in one, two or even all three?
It actually seemed really low to me. My understanding is that accessibility software that's trying to make a profit usually needs to charge a much higher price, since it's focused on a much smaller set of users. (And people are willing to pay the higher price because it's so important to them.)

For example, the base version of the JAWS screen reader is $900:

https://store.freedomscientific.com/collections/software-pro...
The word "toxins" induces guilt by association because most who use it are quacks. However, there definitely are substances that are toxic and get stored e.g. in adipose tissue and only removed under specific circumstances. But we have to find new names for those substances and processes because of that guilt by association.
There were people in the 50s/60s who though that by 2000 we'd be working 30 hour work weeks and retiring by 45. The dream was that automation would help us work less and live more.

Today work is tied to our identity in many countries. "What do you do?" is a question asking about career. If you don't work, you must be lazy.

The solution isn't more jobs to make more things to keep us in the production cycle. Things should last longer. Cellphones should last six years, not two. When Intel posts a loss, it should be taken as a sign they produced chips so well that replacements aren't necessary.

This gets into a much much bigger problem of money, value, debt, consumerism and planned obsolescence. Ultimately if humanity is to survive another 10,000 years, we're going to need some pretty big paradigm shifts.
Besides Donald Trump, there isn't and hasn't been even the slightest possibility of a meaningful [word used neutrally] political upheaval, and if Mueller gets him like he should, there never will be again.

The prime differences between European and American police are:

1) structural differences in that American police forces are semi-atonomous entities with poor command-control response down the chain (federal, state, county, city, town) whereas European police are basically all federal employees subject directly to central command and monitored as such, and

2) American police have a much longer history of dealing with, and adapting their policies to the governance of, high-violence subpopulations like (southern) Italians, the Irish, and Africans.
This is misleading. UTF-16 doesn't actually provide random access, because codepoints outside the basic multilingual plane are encoded with two UTF-16 code units (4 bytes). UTF-32 guarantees 4 bytes for every codepoint, which is quite wasteful, but even then, random access by codepoint is generally a bad idea because codepoints and graphemes aren't synonymous.

> but you can barely perform random access on a utf8 string.

This really isn't true, or at least, isn't a problem in practice. If you need indices into UTF-8 strings, then you can record them by decoding the string. This is sufficient for most string related algorithms except for the "give me the first N characters" variety, which actually turns out to be a relative good thing since "give me the first N characters" should require applying Unicode's grapheme algorithm, which is never amenable to random access in UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.
Keep in mind Elon is in favor of basic minimum income. My guess would be he would favor Tesla paying a large percentage of any savings achieved through automation to employees who are displaced.

A major benefit of automation is predictability, much higher throughput, and quality - cost savings is icing on the cake.
> there is work being done integrating other sensors

Integrated navigation systems GPS/INS are already default in many critical civilian systems. They sell these systems as a single package.

These systems are still vulnerable against satellite-lock takeover where the spoofer who starts with repeating the correct signal and diverges from it gradually.
There's an entire type of Chinese comedy which is roughly translatable as homophone puns (相声). Few non native speakers ever get good enough to do it.

In fact when I was watching the CCTV New year broadcast in English 7 or so years back, the translation and subtitles basically just gave up for all of the crosstalk segments. They just put a banner underneath saying basically "this is crosstalk now, sorry we can't translate it because it's too hard".
# man pdftohtml

This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
Tell us about the job.
This is the inevitable and unwinnable argument in any thread that dares to question the value of Scrum.
Agreed. This completely ignores the massive economies of scale OS's realize.
The problem is that in our economic system, there is no such thing as "we".
Well, Asia does not seem to suffer yet soy is a significant part of their caloric intake.
Agreed. In my case the side project was preparing 4 months to interview at the big 4 companies, and I interviewed with 3 of them and luckily got 3 offers :)
same for telomeres, a senescence panel at a public talk did agree that telomere weren't a silver "button"