skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Okay" Chromebooks seem to cost less than the equivalent Windows laptop. The CPU and memory is often fine but I agree, they are all too often limited by the size of eMMMC storage. I managed to get a HP Chromebook 13 G1 for 250$, 3200*1800 IPS display, 4GB RAM, Core m3 CPU but 32GB eMMC. Even playing around with a compressed filesystem it's limited, especially since 4GB RAM basically mandates I have some swap space. Ultimately I'm left with about 16GB free. There is a micro SD slot but that isn't very fast.
I am in the process of replacing Google services that could badly affect me if Google chooses to ban my account. Like Gmail and Google drive. Maps and such still can be used without an account.
That is a good point. Red Dragon was only feasible by adding an asymmetric sled under the capsule to provide lift, so it could spend significantly longer braking through the atmosphere. Also the ITS video and presentation shows it using it's lifting body design to maximise time up in the atmosphere. At that scale straightforward aeroshells don't cut it, but you can still get a useful effect.
I think I was expecting cutting to work with a selection (a click + drag to select a range) rather than clicking to cut at the start, then again at the desired end, and finally removing the newly segmented portion.

Appreciate the help as I learn how to properly use this tool!
Using ssh tunnel to port forward to other services
I remeber them doing this with Galileo flown in to jupiter. Mixed sadness and pure impressiveness. However there was some talk that it might have caused a nuclear explosion on Jupiter as Galileo had 2 two radioisotope thermoelectric generators. This explision then could have started a chain reaction as jupiters contains high amounts of tritium and deuterium.
For the js crowd, here's an implementation of KNN in Node I did a few years ago: https://github.com/axiomzen/Alike

And it's cousin KD-tree: https://github.com/axiomzen/look-alike
Prototyping connected user experiences for IoT
There's an direct relationship between ease of oversight and joke PCness.

Twenty dudes in the middle of nowhere turning trees into a piles of logs are gonna be way more fun to hang around with than a team who's supervisor's supervisor could easily drop by.

Follow some people who work odd hours on Snapchat/IG. Way more screwing around happens on 3rd shift than 2nd or 1st.

IMO the morale boost of allowing people to screw around (relatively speaking) during normal operations offsets the material decrease in productivity because people are more willing to work hard in cases where you need maximum productivity.
nftables – The ultimate packet classifier for GNU/Linux [video]
I actually kinda hope all the data is made public, as that would (at least hopefully) force people to stop treating knowledge of someone's SSN as valid proof of identity, and lead to a better situation overall.
The problem with that scenario is that the recipient doesn't know if those are the right files.
Maybe then enough people at the same time would pressure state and federal legislators to regulation suspicious data brokers and creditors (and/or address insufficient/broken authentication in new credit accounts).

The Target breach was the thing that finally catalyzed the move from magstripe ccs to EMV ccs. I think we are currently on the precipice of the point when we need to move towards a second factor of authentication ("something you have" or "something you are" in addition to the lots of "something you know" that the current credit bureau system uses).
No, the NLRA doesn't protect "some employee activity" in "non-unionized workforces". The core elements of the law that enable "unions" are available to enable any workplace organization of any form. It's deeply misleading to suggest that a group of employees availing themselves of the protections of the NLRA are putting themselves on a slippery slope to becoming the Teamsters.
To be an accredited investor in the United States, you need to make at least $200,000 a year or have $1,000,000 in assets. Would you rather be funded by users of your app or accredited investors? I think in a free market, the most competitive companies will prefer the second option.
i'm pretty sure they turned her away for being a child murderer
I've done that a couple of times over the years, on Debian systems. Largely as a result of moving from UML->KVM.

This is roughly the guide I followed, which has existed for a good few years.

https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit
I calculated the site owners profit, not the cost to the user.
There are alternatives.

* https://framagit.org/taca/archnosh
It would be an awful lot like the end of Fight Club. Destroy credit records, or reduce them to meaningless, either way the economy would collapse.

People can complain all they want about credit, but the reality is that it exists as a financial service because loaning things with interest is probably older than agriculture in human society. We've just gotten very good at risk assessment, and this going public would ruin our ability to assess risk for years.

Honestly, the credit industry ought to be the ones raging against Equifax's fuck up. If only all the other credit bureaus weren't on eggshells hoping they're not next.
Add athletes to the list. The unions in the various professional sports leagues also provide an interesting model that still allows individual negotiation within the scope of the collective bargaining agreements. I could imagine a tech workers union negotiating a collective bargaining agreement covering non-competes, intellectual property concerns, working conditions and other such universal concerns while protecting our ability to differentiate ourselves from our coworkers.
I guess I'm just overly sensitive (and maybe English is not the poster's first language), but I cringe at "the Linux shell"... I have used ksh, bash, (a little) csh, and zsh over the years, and love the architecture that makes "the shell" just another non-special binary that's not unique to the OS.

And yes, a lot of the things mentioned work in a lot of shells, but some don't, or act differently.
If this moves you, you will certainly enjoy the documentary "The Farthest" about the Voyager missions. You can stream it on PBS.
I would pay for this as well.

Especially because GV was left for dead for so long. I'd like a company, that I can give money to, whose only motivation is to make a great GV-type product.
Resilio Sync is peer-to-peer, so if you believe their marketing copy, you're not handing your data over to anyone -- it only syncs between your authorized devices. Since Sync is proprietary software, it's a valid concern that Resilio could be making copies of your data without your knowledge.

I use Resilio myself, but I'd rather use free software for this sort of thing. Syncthing looks great aside from the lack of iOS support.
Kafka Everywhere: New Plans and Pricing for Apache Kafka on Heroku – Heroku
I honestly can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or not.
>How does one conclude that media doesn't like something?

If an outlet shows a consistent pattern disparaging something.

>If you put yourself in media's shoes, their whole agenda is - news and advertisements.

Most big media outlets are part of larger corporate conglomerates. So it is in their interest to push a narrative that is helpful to the larger investment portfolio.
Kaleidoscope Thinking: How to Think Faster and More Clearly
I thought the same thing when that rocket slowly tipped over and still completely self-destructed. I understand rocket fuel is volatile, but wow.
9 Software Engineering Career Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
Similar perhaps because he inspired them. :-)
For a high pressure situation like an interview, I think it's quite good code to produce. Post fact we could separate concerns.
I get that this is supposed to be basic but why wouldn't you at least observe that the sqrt call is unnecessary?
Format > Font > Advanced > Use Contextual Alternates

https://github.com/aftertheflood/spark#using-atf-spark-in-ms...
Show HN: See the tech behind any website
Don't forget to update all those places you did a social auth "Sign in with Google!" For me personally, that include Stack Overflow with 7+ years of history.

That's one of the things that concerns me about losing my Google or Twitter accounts.
This. Shorter battery life than in Windows is a frequent complaint about Linux on laptops, and for handheld computers battery life really needs to be a top priority.
This would make for a fun scifi plot, from the perspective of Jupiter natives. "These assholes from Earth dropped a nuke from orbit. They appear to be preparing to do the same to our cousins on Saturn. What do we do now?"
Funny you should mention Mint. For many years they have required that you do a re-install instead of a dist-upgrade. Even just this past year, that was the officially recommended course of action for going from Mint 17 to Mint 18.
Industrial espionage in Finland – sometimes crime does pay
You might want to brush up on your history, mainly the part where the Ukraine has been part of Russian territory for most of the last 350 years, and while you're reading maybe you'll discover the reason Russia had to act with regards to Crimea.
You can't complete with a country like Singapore, which literally asked foreign hedge fund managers to help write their tax laws. You can setup a company in Singapore for 1000$ per year and you pay no tax on all income outside Singapore.
The Urbit model (open source, funded by a one-time cost for each new identity) is an elegant solution which has the side effect of discouraging spam.
Under the presumption that he means `bash` when he says "the Linux shell", does the Ctrl-v trick work in both emacs and vi modes?
1. This is going to depend a lot on the app; doing an actual DAW is going to require some pretty heavy processing. It also depends on the performance goal. Truly pro audio would be a 10ms end-to-end latency, which is extremely unforgiving.

2. Some form of WebWorker is obviously where we're going. But does postMessage() have the potential to cause delay in the worker that receives it? (There are ways to solve this but it requires some pretty heavy engineering)
Well, if I choose CS, I'll really want to do the cool stuff (AI/data science). Our university offers something like AI Master's, so the required Math background will be (hopefully) provided. I skimmed the study-plan for the General CS bachelor's, and there's bunch of linear algebra, discrete mathematics and combinatorics classes.
(KDE dev here)

It is still an issue, but it's getting better. As far as I am concerned, Ring-KDE (a phone and Skype alternative app) is still eating too much power. It is a work in progress and is already much better than it was a couple months ago. Some of the dependencies my app use are also power hungry. This needs to be fixed. However it's nothing that can't be fixed. Enough profiling and powertop work will get us there.
I think we're trying to extrapolate too much from too little information. However, I do believe in some minimum level of culpability for your actions. Serial killers aren't excused for their often terrible childhoods. I think child killers belong in the same box. The idea that anyone in modern society "didn't know better" than to beat their small child then leave them for days strikes me as farcical.
Write your mobile app once and run it anywhere with Ionic Framework
Did anyone else expect the article to go into more detail? I had been expecting it to use examples and commentary to talk about how to identify reinvention in Silicon Valley.
i bet you're fun at parties.
Exactly.

Going by his theory... If you say, "I am paying you to produce 1,000 cars per month" then that's what you'll get. If instead you rely on intrinsic motivation, and improve the system, you will get more than 1,000, and they'll be higher quality.

This doesn't work everywhere. (Certainly not with Sales commission!) But it is worth thinking through the logical implications of it.
I probably should be embarrassed to admit I didn't know about much of the stuff on this page about parameter expansion:

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/pe

Bash is insane.
Smart Transportation Is All About the Data
why not just drill down once we get there and put a roof on the hole?
Does LineageOS integrate google apps/services by default?
Why fall back to this level of abstraction? We know the facts of this case. Do you think this particular decision was a good one or not?
Nobody's disputing the rights of private institutions but everybody has a right to express their distaste over their actions, especially when it is arrived at in a manner which runs against what such institutions claim to stand for.
But this is exactly about what punishment should be. She was judged and punished by the laws that we have created. Extrajudicial punishment is arbitrary and unstandardized. Furthermore, this social exclusion after prison drives increased rates of recidivism. Reformation would be a benefit for society and the individual.
Also, her son could have been the next Hitler as much as the next Jesus. I have never been convinced by that type of argument.
astura is correct. This is not a vague idea but how credit scoring works.
ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers – How to Use Them
Not unlike the Terminator being lowered into a vat of molten steel and using his last moment to make a thumbs up.
organizations are very different from labor unions. I think software engineering would be well served by a professional association, but they have the problem of having deep connections to higher education institutions and licensing boards. I don't think our industry would be well served by the same kind of educational gate keeping that limits the availability of Doctors and Lawyers ( like what the NSPE, or IEEE try to push )
> It's deeply misleading to suggest that a group of employees availing themselves of the protections of the NLRA are putting themselves on a slippery slope to becoming the Teamsters.

That's not what I said.

What I said: It's misleading to suggest that professional associations require the NLRA to operate.
I'm sure it's not 100%, but I'd bet it's close. Certainly by young adulthood the identical twins I've been around have been relatively easy to distinguish.
Even as someone who wasn't intimately involved in everything, and was only around to see some of those things from a distance, that book is still FASCINATING. I also highly recommend it.
Stop making excuses for her. Many of us grew up in abusive households and/or have suffered emotional and mental breakdowns.

She murdered her 4 year old child. And not manslaughter or crime of passion or whatever murder - but cold blooded beat him to death then hide the body murder.
Yes but a cryptocurrency only makes sense for certain use cases. In this case, the token would have to serve some sort of useful function related to the social network.
s/Raspberry Pi/EC2 instance/

A world where it's common for people to run their own server opens up exciting possibilities (just as a world where everyone carries a computer in their pocket has), but I don't think actual physical servers is going to get us there.
New details deepen mystery of US diplomats' illness in Cuba
First, let's establish some basic points. Governments don't have money, people do. Companies don't have money, people do. In the case of government, it taxes the money to get funds to spend in its activities. In the case of companies, the investors and employees are the ones who own that money.

If you hold those basic tenets true, then why deal with taxing moneyless companies? If you're to look at the breakdown of stock ownership in a large public company you would find that it's large funds comprised millions of people's savings which really own Apple and Google.

If an Italian man owns Google stock then yeah he should be taxed according to the rules of the society he lives in. But why should the working grandmother in Idaho have to pay EU taxes as she owns a 0.000001% ownership or whatever in Google? In what rational world is that "fair"?

If you were to remove corporate taxes, more money would flow directly back to those who own the public company(in the form of dividends) or be invested back into R&D or more employees.

If we assume that our Idaho grandmother would get an extra $400 bucks in the form of a cheque from Google paying dividends, then maybe she could travel to Europe and spend more money directly than would have been possible had EU taxed Google.

Or, Grandma's investments would grow along with the funds of institutional investors who would have more capital and would love to invest elsewhere. So there would be more capital looking to be placed and you come up with a smart idea and get funded. Suddenly you create a new giant company in the heat of Europe(I'm guessing you're European?) and employ thousands of people which would otherwise be home with parents working temp jobs and being stifled by a deep bureaucracy in Brussels that keeps getting bigger and fatter every year!
> “When I hear about Soylent, it’s almost as though SlimFast never existed, like Soylent emerged from the ether. Because it’s made by and for men, now we call it tech.”

What the hell?
Mark Twain: Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism
Cynically: 'sense of community' gets destroyed in the search for profit when you're profiting from something else. If you're getting your profits from the community, you'll build it up just fine. Not necessarily in a healthy way, but at least in a persistent one.

Hell, I think you could convincingly argue that opening a new pub counts as founding a startup aimed at increasing people's sense of community. It doesn't have the unlimited scale of a tech startup, but it is a company that profits from offering a 'third place'. For that matter, plenty of churches have been run more like businesses than non-profits while still creating strong communities.

As long as the sense of community is profitable, it might do well with startups. That just hasn't been a common state of affairs lately.
The Contractor’s Life: Overlooked, Ground Down and Stuck
Here's another person looking for an open source OS on mobile phones. Is 1%/30 million users(?) really not enough? All I would like is the ability to make calls, write texts, and perhaps use data occasionally without a multinational corp logging my every packet for eternity/when AI can use it.
I hope this is fake and some would-be scammers get scammed by a scammer.
The Economic Case for Letting Teenagers Sleep a Little Later
The hunt for dinosaur proteins
I wonder as well. I think we all forget how important credit reports are in giving banks comfort to lend (not that this is the only way to do it, but it seems that this is the current way). If people can default on a uncollateralized loan with no ramifications, no bank would lend and the credit engine would shut down.
You put it well in another thread with "it absolutely isn't [...] a good distro for people who just want to get on with life."

If you're looking for your computer to Just Work(tm) look elsewhere. However I stand by my comment about it being an outstanding learning tool for the curious & future sysadmins.
Monetise with Your User’s CPU Power
That's the first five minutes. Then the market for new consumer credit would seize up, banking share prices would flip out, and talking heads on cable would have something new to hyperventilate over.

Overall, many thousands of folks would have their home plans/vacation/card-flipping/whatever plans screwed up, some thousands would have a more severe financial problem, the banks would muddle through, "we'd" rebuild the financial-surveillance system over again, and it would probably be less stupid in some ways at the cost of being more uniformly intrusive.
Based on the number of incredibly clever scams that exist, extreme paranoia is correct. If something looks too good to be true, it is VERY likely to be a scam. (e.g.: there are scams built around selling an item for a price that is lower than a buy order somewhere, seemingly promising free money, but when you attempt to sell the expensive item, it'll get rejected due to some quirks in how some systems interact)
> But in court, Apple argues that it is only responsible for ensuring the iPhone lasts one year, the default warranty you get when you buy an iPhone

The headline makes it seem like the phones are designed to fail after a year.
the bit you quote above does say "what she called", which seems to indicate it's an indirect quote.
This is priceless

> What it “invented”: Lyft, but for people who are cool with traveling on a set path in a shared vehicle for a lower rate.

> What already existed: A bus.

Some of these seems to be about "exploring" problems that don't exist for people outside of the SF bubble. Squeezing oranges is good
I never said anything about physicalism or that consciousness requires anything immaterial.

I suggest you acquaint yourself with the subject matter. You've only offered us a few uninformed claims and bizarre reactions.
Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
This looks like B.S. to me.
- Who would store date of birth as a string?
- If we are stringifying dob why is address still seperated?
- Why are the credit report reasource Ids in the thousands not 1M +?
- Why is the file size null but the file is listed with it's mimeType?

I know equifuckingsucks at security but this is a setup that would actually just be difficult to interact with from a data stand point
Are we sure those are not intentionally/automatically triggered explosions?
Equifax Fail – What to do next
I'm definitely not a historian so I could very well be wrong.

What were the technologies that made public education possible exactly?

Reading about USA during 1870-1916, USA was quite busy ruthlessly exploiting it's own people (what else is new), the thought of educating them was not a concern - making millions off the broken backs of your own people and building mansions was much more appealing.

"The lives of the people in the cities contrasted sharply.

A small percentage of them had enormous wealth and enjoyed lives of luxury. Below them economically, the larger middle class lived comfortably. But at the bottom of the economic ladder, a huge mass of city people lived in extreme poverty." [0]

Goes perfectly in line with what I've been saying before - capitalists are busy making profits - the British Empire from it's colonies, the USA from it's own people and the floods of immigrants. You know, you exploit what/who you can, it's a hard world out there.

Technology preventing public education? I've heard you need to not live in extreme poverty before public education is even an option for you.

Extreme poverty ended due to technological advancements too I suppose?

[0] http://www.theusaonline.com/history/industrialization.htm
Alternatively, you could use an alias:

# .bashrc
alias bc='bc --mathlib'

and a .bcrc file:

# .bcrc
scale = 4

Actually, this is what my .bcrc looks like:

scale = 39

k_c = 299792458 # Speed of Light
k_g = 6.67384 * 10^-11 # Gravitation
k_atm = 100325 # Atmospheric pressure
k_h = 6.62606957 * 10^-34 # Planck's constant
k_hbar = 1.054571726 * 10^-34 # H Bar
k_mu = 1.256637061 * 10^-6 # Vacuum permeability
k_ep = 8.854187817 * 10^-12 # Vacuum permittivity
k_epsilon = 8.854187817 * 10^-12 # Vacuum permittivity
k_e = 1.602176565 * 10^-19 # Elementary charge
k_coulomb = 8.987551787 * 10^9 # Coulomb's constant
k_me = 9.10938294 * 10^-31 # Rest mass of an electron
k_mp = 1.672621777 * 10^-27 # Rest mass of a proton
k_n = 6.02214129 * 10^23 # Avogadro's number
k_b = 1.3806488 * 10^-23 # Boltzmann's constant
k_r = 8.3144621 # Ideal gas constant
k_si = 5.670373 * 10^-8 # Stefan-Boltzmann constant
k_sigma = 5.670373 * 10^-8 # Stefan-Boltzmann constant
k_mt = 5.97219^24 # Mass of Earth (Tierra)
k_rt = 6.371 * 10^6 # Mean radius of Earth (Tierra)

pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841968

# requires --mathlib
define t(x) { return s(x)/c(x); }
define as(x) { return 2*a(x/(1+sqrt(1-x^2))); }
define ac(x) { return 2*a(sqrt(1-x^2)/(1+x)); }
define at(x) { return a(x); }
define csc(x) { return 1/s(x); }
define sec(x) { return 1/c(x); }
define cot(x) { return c(x)/s(x); }