skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to his one day event maybe 6 years ago, with a group from grad school.

Had the same experience, while it was cool to get all of his books, the actual presentation really wasn't that great.

There was also like 200-250 people in the room at least. Way too big for "intimate" learning.
That would be a risky defense because while they may get off on the insider trading charge, they would open themselves up to a huge shareholder lawsuit.
Fuck centrists.
No. It's a soft T the way Spanish or Italian speakers say their Ts.
Dammit!! ;-)
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4bi9a4/why_is_mod_php_...
In the long run, their being tolerated by VCs (and other capitalists) tends to push the liability onto public markets via acquisitions and IPOs, which you could argue makes it Not Their Problem, but that should eventually cause markets to develop a wariness or distaste for those VCs' companies, which is a long-term liability. So I can understand why the money flows toward them, but it can create complex, long-running problems.

I'd like to live in a world where we follow the No Assholes rule a little more strictly.
I have wondered if the SEC could finesse this by saying "Ok, you can stick with your 'I didn't know' defense and we'll drop the insider trading case but we'll require that the company separate you for cause and invalidate all post separation agreements." (aka the golden parachutes).

Since the benefits of such contracts often dwarfs the value they receive from trading it should help 'remind' them of what they did and didn't know. But they should not be allowed to have it both ways.
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The funny part here is that their defense seems to be, "no really we had no idea".

Which may get them off the insider trading charge, but opens them up to one hell of a shareholder lawsuit.
> Federal officer: "Why did you sell the stock?"

> Equifax officer: "uh.."

- "To buy a vacation home...".

- "But why now?"

- "Prices are going up so seemed right to jump in"

The question can they reasonably refute that they didn't hear anything about the breach. If it has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt the lawyers might think they can convince a jury. They could say they were on vacation maybe and didn't receive any communication about. It is just that their cousin happens to be the college buddy of another exec but that might be tricky to prove.
Yeah. This is like making your whole business model centered around selling things through Fulfillment by Amazon. They handle the shipping and returns and customer service...and also deciding whether to grace your small storefront with another day of continued existence. You COULD always move to eBay, or Etsy, or Tindie, or try pitching your products to local brick & mortar stores.

But if you invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in Amazon's particular ecosystem...well, I hope you've already pulled that much out, because you are depending on the goodwill of a third party who can contractually tell you to fuck off for more or less any reason, with your only options being small claims or arbitration.

The message I'm starting to get from a handful of posts along these lines over the past couple of years is something like: "don't make anything more than a side business which depends on a 3rd-party service with no competitors that you can easily switch to."
Slack's entire UX is gamified to take your attention by any means necessary (bright colors, flashing lights, "join this channel!" notifications). It's a massive productivity sink, and it's designed to be that way.
Keep your Slack distractions under control with Emacs
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40 hours isn't done by custom, it's done because it's proven to be the most productive working week. This isn't a case of scientists discovering that "what people are used to is what they're most productive at". For most of the industrial revolution people worked 12hr+ days, and that was considered, even by the labour force, to be perfectly acceptable. Hauling that back to 8 hour days was a herculean task that no major factory owner was going to do without damn good evidence that it would improve things.

That's a relatively biased misreading of the history of the 8 hour day. You're implying that science and factory owners decided on it. Yet the labor movement, industrial action and strife played an outsized role. The 8 hour day movement is an old one (http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/workday/weekend/8hourday.html), and the call for 8 hours was echoed by the labor movement for decades after.
First congrats, this is hard-work. Second I implore people not to use a language where the designers think breaking changes are OK, while giving no real advantage over plain modern Javascript or the use of a linter. Worse, since CS has slighly different semantics than JS it will lead to so much confusion. Coffee Script served its purpose, now let it rest.
32-bit app support has been removed. I'm guessing this will allow them to remove 32-bit support from future processors. It might already be gone in the A11 chip.

High Sierra will be the last version of macOS to support 32-bit apps, so this same transition will happen next year on the desktop.
Just a friendly reminder that due process is a thing in the US. Let's allow some time for the texts, emails, testimony, etc. to come out.

Everyone seems to have reached conclusions about this on very suspicious circumstances, but almost zero facts.
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There are few C99 compliant compilers. In my opinion, TCC is a very good tool, and deserves being maintained.
Off-topic minor note to site owner: You have two shortcut icon references in your head, and one of them references the relative ico/favicon.png which 404's. Chrome falls back but many others do not and you get no favicon.
Hehe, yes, maybe my genes are superior ;P

But seriously, I never understood the craze for these clunky things. Almost all devs I know use them and most of them have issues with their arms/hands.
Interesting comparison.

I think in this case the execs are going down. I will be shocked if we don't see some jail time after this is all done.
>>> I am currently a member on seven Slacks

There's your problem.

I'm pretty surprised that you think Adium and Skype are better products than Slack - neither are the same and they are pretty clearly much worse at team communication, if you can call it that.
Still, such threads get the same priority as other threads, instead of running in pure idle time.
Are those special rocks or can I just pick some up from my garden? I guess any garden that doesn't have tigers in it should work right?
Oh they are? I thought it was just released all at once? Like on the Apple site is says that iOS 11 will be released on the 19th. I always get updates on the release date.
> Running both C side-by-side cannot work if C is incompatible

I've honestly never encountered an NPM package which couldn't be run side-by-side with another version of itself. This is due to the nature of how Node's module system (CommonJS) works; packages are isolated from each other and only share resources with each other via explicit exports and imports.

I suppose a conflict might be possible if the package was using native extensions or connecting to some external service or something, but for the most part NPM's module system makes conflicts very unlikely.
Thanks for the informed reply!
Governments turn tables by suing public records requesters
I know I going to get downvoted but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgoB2JMEowc
It was my understanding that CoreOS was started as a minimal Linux distro tooled for hosting and orchestrating Docker containers. IMHO, Docker still has a long way to go to impress the security community.
True, but from what we do know, a full investigation is warranted.
>They (hopefully) like their work, and can determine their own schedule.

Ehhhh. They’re not really as “in control” of their schedules as you would think. Their time is being boxed by financial pressures, generally imposed by insurance and Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement rates, and all the administrative requirements of both complying with burdensome regulations surrounding both their medical practice AND running what amounts to a small business.

They don’t even really necessarily like their work either. Running your own medical practice has a really high burnout rate and many of the people who do it now tend to be older and/or not fully dependent on the practice for their income (e.g. independently wealthy, willing to retire but just wants supplemental income, married and can rely on spousal support financially, etc.).
I had a B average at school, no need to study except the day before.

This has caused some issues later in life...
Thats probably the most important differential in their drive and success.
I don't think the rules actually say you can't edit titles. At best, they ask that you please use the original title unless misleading or linkbait.

You could argue that the original title is misleading, because you would've thought that it was some advertisement (though isn't anything touting large numbers a form of advertising?).
Matt Levine has already stated that this won't result in a new rule; that there is nothing new here and everything falls under rule #1: "don't insider trade"
"It's called subscribing to your local newspaper"

This won't support, or get you access to, the overwhelming majority of articles, though. It's as if each musician required their own, independent monthly subscription.

"The NY Times costs something like 33 cents a day, for example."

Newspapers can, and will, quietly double their prices without telling you and then make it very hard for you to cancel. See my article on the Boston Globe, for example: https://rationalconspiracy.com/2016/04/24/dark-patterns-by-t....
More than before. Sure, some manufacturers will prefer to update only their flagships, but that won't be a problem for long. Treble doesn't force OEMs to update - it simply makes updating take less time and resources of the OEM. Now that its cheap, some OEMs have the capability to update their entire stable of devices, incentivizing the other OEMs to follow suit. Of course, it'll take some time for this to materialize, but in the meanwhile, installing ROMs becomes much easier.
Hey, I'm working on a template language that compiles into Redux + IncrementalDOM. Part of it involves a pipeline syntax similar to underscore or lodash. I'm wondering what you would consider a modern equivalent of those two libraries using native methods, iterators, etc. or if vanillajs is sufficient now.

If anyone wants to take a look it's at tmzt.github.io/isymtope and github.com/tmzt/isymtope

The #cleanup-symbols branch is much further along and has a mostly working TodoMvc.
When Google does the same with Open Markets they are denounced as evil. Amazon? The response is comparatively muted.

Just another example of "the power of Jeff Bezos," or hypocrisy and inconsistent standards?
Right. Sadly I think they are very likely going to get away with it.

They are almost certainly the kind of folks who planned this out and if there isn't any proof of knowledge, then there just isn't any. But it does seem inconceivable that they would have no knowledge of the event.
I went earlier this year and I thought it was a good experience. The key is to arrive on time and sit there and do the silent reading that he assigns before the lecture starts.

I sat in the front and he approached me. He was friendly, asked me what I did, made some suggestions on books and articles to explore. He also signed my book, which was cool.

I'd take the class again for sure.

I think it's important to just go in with an open mind and not treat everything he says as gospel. I think he presents some ideas that very much cut against the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley and that was nice to hear.

So yeah, I think it'd be worth your time to go. Plus, just because someone else didn't like it doesn't mean you won't get a lot out of it. Unless you go and see for yourself, you can't really know.
You're not thinking probabilistically nor in terms of risk. There's no way to know for sure that an exchange is insolvent or at risk of becoming insolvent, but there are signs that increase the probability. Being run by amateurs is one such sign. Other signs are lack of insurance, persistent withdrawal issues, persistent arbitrage opportunities, lack of security reviews, poor technological practices (there are posts about the original Mt Gox codebase's poor handling of passwords for example, before Mark took it on), and misleading public statements.

If you bought the line that traditional banks were simply unable to process more than 10 wires a day, rather than it being that Mt Gox was so risky that they refused to process 10 wires a day, then you need to work on critical thinking. Likewise, exhortations that banks were placing restrictions on exchanges because "they were scared of Bitcoin" rather than being because these partners were shady and didn't have sufficient controls should have been met with suspicion.

And yes, Coinbase was also risky. The fact that things worked out doesn't mean it wasn't risky to begin with. I didn't give them any money for the first several years they were in business specifically because I saw them as high risk.
In hindsight, Coinbase had the benefit of having backing by VCs with real business experience and subsequently hiring people with experience in the space, which reduced risk.
> ... its president of U.S. information solutions, Joseph Loughran;...

> ... discovered a security breach on July 29...

> ... sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in early August...

> ... didn’t know of the breach at the time

You're the president of U.S. information solutions and you didn't know about the largest information breach in your company's history a week later?

If that's true, that speaks more to the problems in this company than the actual breach itself.
I've been hearing a lot about people not wanting to upgrade. My question is, putting aside the overhead of submitting to the App Store, writing release notes, etc. I thought that the only step that would actually be involved would be to recompile the app? Unless you have something like hand rolled modules of Assembly or inline functions, would it really be that difficult?
More importantly, it means you don't need to ship 32-bit copies of system frameworks, and those 32-bit versions don't take up RAM just because 1 app needs to load them into the cache.
Indeed. Time for industry disruption in the 'Credit Reporting' sector. I hear ol Bill Clinton saying 'it's time for a change..'
Maybe TechCrunch or PandoDaily could hire a couple of muckrakers to run a column, instead of devoting an entire site or periodical to gossip.
Continuous integration for iOS with Nix and Buildkite
No amount of effort, without guidance, will lead to anything either.

It's a combo. And guidance is required for learning.

In the extreme edge cases all the guidance required may be written though, I won't argue against that.
My first thought would be a little process running on a server not on your network that pulls the download every so often, say once a day, and texts you if it is different. You'd expect a text after you push your new version, but if you get one out of the blue, then you'd know something was up.
Can someone own a set of numbers? I assumed that they were assigned and not owned, however that could just be semantics.
I joined a team where everyone had been there for a while and were friends. They had jokes and banter constantly and I didn't understand the in-jokes, the references to jokes that referenced their past history and I felt isolated and did not enjoy being part of the 'team'. I reacted by looking to move teams.
It's sad that the only place to get a HiDPI 4:3 screen today is from ... Apple on the iPad Pro 2 12.9". They have no problem getting that aspect ratio from their panel suppliers. Now we need a Thinkpad Retro keyboard case for the iPP2. Until then, the Logitech Create Pro case has the best iPP2 keyboard.
Awesome. It's hard to imagine that only a couple years ago we had dark skies everywhere. As an off and on hobby astronomer I'm very happy to see this trend of dark sky consciousness and preservation.
Safari is going to prevent ad tracking by not allowing cross domain cookies.

That's been an option in Firefox for years.[1]

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cook...
3br with a yard will probably cost >€500k even in the remote suburbs around here. I think your case is particularly low priced for a city with a reasonable amount of jobs.
I bought my current laptop from Overstock.com. It worked out because they sent me a better model than what was listed. It is a Haswell quad-core i7 with AMD Bonaire, a 17.3" screen and a 750 GB hard drive (not SSD). I paid about $400 for it and just spent $65 more to put in more memory and will have 24GB of memory in it.
Robo-Boats Are Setting Sail in Boston
If by staged you mean that some people download the beta a couple months before the release date then yes. But on the release date iOS is released to all consumers with supported devices.
That is a good point. The NYT is responsible for other awesome tools: d3.js, ai2html, etc.

I'm sure if the company has a person who creates a tool that is used all over the world under its watch, they would allow that person to take as much time off as he or she needs.

Still, I know people who are --- no pun intended -- the backbone of codebases at their company, and taking a year off and being rehired is out of the question.

What's to stop the company from finding a replacement who can be up to speed with the code in a short amount of time?
I think it is just about time for all apps to be distributed only by APPX package; now that the Project Centennial bridge has been available for several Windows builds, and what with the Anniversary Update making sideloading on by default, and the UX Upgrades for sideloading in the AU and Creators Update (and now with all of that several months to a year old).

Office itself is in Preview on the Windows Store, and when that comes out of Preview, other developers are especially going to be on notice to get applications into APPX packages, if not the Store, because for most applications if Office can do it, so can you.
To be fair, lots of these sociopaths that are rewarded by society with vast sums of money turn around and spend that money on political leverage.

And their political leverage often works to make life even harder for the poor and middle classes.

I don't have an answer, but it is wrong for a society to structure itself in a way that empowers these types of people. We can do better...if enough of us want to.
The end of Framework Churn
Agreed, it's almost like they're telling you that you won't succeed unless you're "one of them."
Those interested in patching their local machines, while 2.4.28 is being buttoned-up, review the following link: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1807754
So great to see a good release after all these years. Congratulations to all!

I'm curious though about what happened to the Kickstarter project that took a few grand to write what was to be "CoffeeScript 2" at the time - did any of that code end up in this release?
Proper key management is a hard problem. This is a fact that the cryptocurrency scene has been relearning for years now.
I experienced sort of the reverse of this situation and it wasn't bad. I guess I'd have the same negative expectation (as do most of the commenters), but it may work out.

My entire team was fired save for me. We brought in some friends of another employee who had worked with these new hires at his previous company. I managed to fit in fine and things are going well.
It's quite bizarre to me that they would accept a reduction in working hours but not an increase in salary.
I'm considering the x62 as well. I'm not sure if the motherboard supports non-intel wireless chips and if the CPU requires firmware blobs to run the GPU. If either of those are the case then it isn't a good fit for me because right now my hacked x220 is usable without any proprietary software in the OS.
Same here, and the procedure is pretty straightforward.
There are also checks for that kind of thing.
I often think about Arthur Rubenstein, the phenom mid-century pianist, for whom a lot has been written about his mission in early life to "practice as little as possible." There's a lot of hyped up romanticism in these quotes and anyone who plays at his level has spent a lifetime playing piano, period. Regardless, his guidance about spontaneity, creativity, and the relationship to practicing too much, which I equate to the current discussion on overworking, is highly interesting.

"I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long, but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary—and the audience feels it." Of his own practice methods, he said, "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew."

Not all work benefits from risk, the drop of blood, the unexpected, that are all baked into the right amount of effort, but a great deal of valuable and innovative work does.
PostgreSQL monitoring without code instrumentation
Yea. It's quite different when you are doing something you love vs something you were told to do.
"many of us routinely work and study 70+ hours a week."

The use of "study" suggests to me that the job posting is not as slavish as it sounds. "Late into the evening" could mean 6pm.

I recently read an MIT career guide that recommended aiming for a 60 hour week - 40 hours for your current employer, and 20 hours for your career.
> Why doesn't MS Windows do the maintenance - CCleaner does things like clean up ancient cache files, remove Windows update files,

Windows 10 can already do this by default.

> remove registry entries for software that's no longer installed.

Uninstalling old style Windows software is a hard problem that generally can't be done in a foolproof way, without potentially breaking stuff, due to bad legacy design decisions like giving programs free reign to install stuff wherever they want, without a proper application model nor dependency tracking. Therefore, registry cleaners are also prone to break things.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2563254/microsoft-s...

> That sort of maintenance seems like it's the result of poor design in an OS that has the hood welded shut.

That's what UWP solves.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/6ifyxq/spotify_for_...

> It also let me simply check and disable startup programs

This is already in the Windows 10 UI.
"all the problems" are really old, old news, long ago addressed and resolved. In fact, such statements are more FUD than anything else. Certainly you MUST know that Apache httpd supports PHP-FPM, for example.
The idea of an extension-free browsing experience is horrific, to me. I couldn't live without uBlock Origin.

Browsing without extensions is fine if you're okay with being tracked and bombarded with advertisements ad nauseam.

I could cope with using few extensions — and I do try to use as few as possible — but I would not enjoy using none.
The only reason most people used CS was short hand function declaration and classes, It really made writing javascript easier as dealing explicitly with prototypes is a pain in the ass AND it also eliminated differences between browsers when it came to JS implementation (yes IE8 was still a thing back then).

All these things are irrelevant today.

1/ Most of CS features are supported by javascript

2/ ECMASCRIPT spec is big and complex. Learning another syntax on top of something every front end developer should know is a wasted effort in my opinion.