skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We still have to figure out stuff like battery draining on mobile

"Figure out" how? If mining didn't eat lots of power and CPU cycles, it would be useless as proof-of-work and BitCoin couldn't exist. It is literally impossible to do useful amounts of mining in a way that doesn't slow down the mining device and drain its battery.
Sure. Static analysis, scaffolding, a little bit of a conversation where the AI is trained (by the developer themselves possibly) on the style.
An AI doesn't need to replace the developer, just let them think at a higher level and the AI would deal with the lower level details, just like a compiler. There's so much possibilities here, but alas, software development itself is not exactly the most amenable to be addressable with machinery since it is at the crux of both creativity and engineering when even the silliest things can be uncomputable.
Am I reading that right? S&P500 nets you on average a 10% annual return of investment? Does that mean you can "just" invest ten times your yearly living expenses and practically live off idle income? How does that not completely destroy the economy and why isn't everyone doing it?
"...the free market is a worthless answer to any of the above..."

Nit: it's not a free market if the buyer doesn't understand the transaction.

What we've seen, especially in the latter half of the 20th century and afterwards, is companies using the complexity of the law to create transactions in which the buyer thinks they're getting a good deal, but in fact they're getting screwed over by lawyers. That's not a free market. That's using government complexity as a club to beat senseless consumers when they don't do things the way you expect them to. It's a form of rent-seeking using the regulatory state.

It's important to understand what it is, otherwise you aren't able to propose any reasonable solutions. For example, throwing even more complexity at the problem in an effort to protect consumers would just make matters worse.

I'm in favor of your approach, just wanted to point out that 1) it's incomplete, and 2) without an understanding of root causes we'll still be in the same spot 20 years from now
Other fintech startups have little difficulty in attracting experienced talent. You see a lot of grey hair and a lot of very distinguished CVs in that scene. Several banks run their own accelerators and angel schemes.

If cryptocoin startups can't recruit the right talent, then I think that's a strong indicator of their fundamental business value.
> help keep track of things like surgical spouges.

A simple checklist suffices for this. No need for AI camera surgery assistants.

cf http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1871759,0...

> The study focused on six checklist items, all involving basic safety issues, [...] whether all the sponges used in surgery were accounted for after the procedure.
Who said anything about citizens getting more welfare?

China is stripping these countries bare, and the money goes straight into the pockets of the corrupt ruling class. It is staggering to see the countries with the multi-hundreds-of-billions in resources have the poorest citizens.
Remember that the prime objective of a politician is to retain power. These quotas are responses to demands from electorate to do something to win their votes... not necessarily because they want or don't want them. In fact it's probably in their best interests to play it both ways as what the GP comment implies.
Maybe, but I already block those.
Things could be more similar to what happened with US investments in South America. See for example what happened in Chile when Allende nationalized US owned copper mines...
The Chinese version: https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20170914/what-the-worlds...
This should cover guest members for you: https://slackhq.com/new-improved-ways-to-manage-guest-accoun...
Sounds like you might be unsure whether they are foreign contract workers or immigrants. Punjabis would almost certainly be immigrants
I'm going to point you to these:

https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/

https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

Which you should read, along with the multiple other things linked from them about interviewing and hiring.

I can make a very similar argument from long experience, but Dan is more HN-trendy and thus more likely to be believed.
Depending on your implementation (hard to say given the detail provided) you're quite possibly running into ABA style problems with such an such an approach. If you use cmpxchg and rely on pointer identity it could be that you see the same pointer, but in its reused form...
Acer Swift 3 for 550€/500$ on Amazon

I was looking for a really well built budget notebook, with good keyboard, good screen and good battery life, low noise emission, while willing to sacrifice performance. The Swift 3 fits the bill beautifully.

I got an i3, 4GB ram, 128GB ssd with 14 inch screen (basically the SF314-51-30W6). There are different configurations available, if you are looking for more cpu, gpu, ram, screen estate. I am not sure how they affect any of the points above though

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/laptops/swift3
>No, I mean TockOS with the Hail dev board: https://www.tockos.org/blog/2017/introducing-hail/

So more of the "Arduino like" embedded space. That also has little to do with the design constraints of a general purpose operating system.

>People often make this statement, but I don't know exactly what it means. The type system is great for writing finite state machines, which I'm finding to be a nice quality for the toy programs I've written on Tock.

Rust gets new features daily [1]. C gets new features every decade if we're lucky.

>I wonder about this statement. I've noticed quite a large number of people in the community working with Rust in the embedded space. According to the people who responded to the Rust survey this year, https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/09/05/Rust-2017-Survey-Resul..., it was nearly 17%.

Embedded space != kernel hacking, as I've already pointed out.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/commits/master
>Due to the way GCE instances are deployed (in containers)

I'm aware that G run their stuff in containers and its likely that the supporting systems for GCP ( console, api stuff ) runs in containers.

dmesg output on an instance i'm looking at now shows kvm as the hypervisor (which can be contained )

But what evidence is there to say instances are actually in containers ?
Specs look interesting, however I fell for this a few years ago with a Lenovo IdeaPad Z510.

Build quality is the keyword, after a few years the plastics starts falling apart. Keyboard as well.
People did care and use Persona. Unfortunately, large organizations, such as Mozilla, expect that anything they launch will be mass-adopted within a short period of time, and kill promising projects that fail to quickly reach such adoption.
Google Tez has been released in India
Of course there is. Here, in India, most people are blind fans of the PM and anything he does is acceptable. that includes the AG stating in the Supreme Court that "Indian citizens have no right to privacy and they are the property of the government of India" and the "bhakts" as they are called still are able to justify that!!
Driver Errors, Overreliance on Automation, Lack of Safeguards Led to Tesla Crash
Any cheap China-based alternatives?
Are Stripe and its competitors planning to adopt these standards?
Political power is not something you can bank. It cannot be stored. It cannot be measured statically at a particular moment in time. It is rooted in networks of people and in ideas. Very rich people can exercise political power only by proxy in our culture: by effectively buying it from people who have the real thing. This is both expensive and limited. It can evaporate in a moment.
A very big difference is that EU convergence funds aren't debt you need to repay later - while those Chinese investments are. Those countries are getting into deep debt, sometimes to build things they don't need.
No disagreement there.

I'd have loved to get a more portable convertible tablet like the Surface Pro or Surface Book with comparable specs, but even if we don't consider the difference in dedicated graphics power, their lack of x4 lane Thunderbolt 3 removes the possibility of using desktop graphics, which was a deal breaker for me. Similar models from other manufacturers felt really lackluster compared to the Surface line, each for various different reasons.

So I ended up deciding to just get the most performant and cost-effective laptop I could find to last me a few more years until hopefully the convertibles market matures enough to remove all the compromises I've found unacceptable so far.
It depends.

If you are doing something that doesn't require a fast machine (I.e. server side web development), then a late 90's/early 2000's laptop will do. I currently cart around a '95 Toshiba satellite pro 440cdt to use in low security areas, with the HDD swapped for a 2gb CF card. Linux, vim, nginx, several backend stacks. I wouldn't care if it broke or was stolen (like anyone would) - I can get another for £20.

If you need a machine for client side dev, then something from '05-'10 would probably cut the mustard.
Once again, my bad habit of never upgrading in a timely manner has saved me a particular breed of egg on my face.
Last I saw was made on Lulu (letter size, hard cover). I wasn't the one paying for it, so not sure how much it was; I am sure they have pricing on the web.
Well, if you're about to use Malwarebytes / Rogue Killer / ZHP Cleaner, you will win hours by cleaning all these temporary files before a scan.
Ask HN: 3 Short questions about Startups investment opportunities
I like to read about the 1960s counterculture in Europe and North America. It was always funny to see Rolling Stone in the list of "underground newspapers" of the Sixties, because for my generation, it has always been a completely ordinary and conventional magazine that you can buy anywhere.

Also amazing is that Time Out, which will strike most people today as an unremarkable and boring listing of events, was considered a key achievement of the London counterculture when it first came out. Apparently any countercultural vibe was gradually purged from it over the course of the 1970s.
The difficulty isn't calling free, it's to know when it's safe to do so, without incurring significant overhead.
>>So if this had been a real strike, having this intelligent person disregard protocol could have ended in a disaster for the Soviet Union.

It would have been a disaster anyway, if it was a real strike Soviet Union couldn't prevent it in any feasible way. The only thing they could possibly do was level the United States, but it wouldn't change the outcome for them.
No laptop/borrowed only: $5-10 USB drive + per hour rate - just go to any internet cafe and pay the usage rate or one of many US public libraries that provide free computers.

Cloud-only, low-end, severely limited dev (if on extreme budget): $179 currently: https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/samsung-chromebook...

non-Microsoft dev who doesn't like tinkering: $999+ https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

Microsoft dev or tinkering Linux dev: $800+ XPS 13 still a good choice http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-9360-lapto...

Security-focused dev: $1199+ Librem 13/15 https://puri.sm/

Or: buy refurbished, but don't skimp on specs.
14 Step-By-Step Guides Every Beginner Entrepreneur Should Read
This is a collection of my favourite step-by-step guides covering a variety of online businesses, from Amazon FBA to YouTube.

Amazon’s FBA Program

https://selleratheart.com/how-to-start-an-amazon-fba-private-label-business/

Affiliate Marketing

http://www.viperchill.com/blog-aff-guide/

https://regpaq.com/i-made-317-per-month-from-two-amazon-niche-sites-last-year-and-heres-how-i-did-it-65f272794e59

https://neilpatel.com/what-is-affiliate-marketing/

Merch by Amazon

https://selleratheart.com/how-to-show-to-start-a-t-shirt-business-on-amazon/

Cold calls

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/43r36x/cold_calls_i_went_from_nothing_to_120kyear_solo/

Publishing an E-book

http://okdork.com/10-marketing-tactics-to-net-41000-downloads-on-amazon/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/25f6id/kindle_publishing_business_the_complete_guide_to/

Blogging/Niche Websites

http://www.nichepursuits.com/projects/buying-and-selling-websites/

http://www.nichepursuits.com/projects/best-survival-knife-guide/

http://www.viperchill.com/profitable-website-2015/

http://www.viperchill.com/private-niche-blogging/

Subscription Boxes

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/3kdmiq/subscription_box_startup_in_60_days_how_an/

Youtube

https://selleratheart.com/make-successful-youtube-channel/
Amazon Uygulaması Artık Türkçe Kullanılabiliyor
As for the cryptography available in many IDs: Those usually are a terrible idea, because it's a black box that decides who has rights and who has not. How would a court investigate the reliability of some smart card? Or does that effectively transform courts into institutions that sign orders from whoever actually controls the smart cards? If the card says you signed a contract, you signed it?
That's pretty much how it was in the USSR as well. The rules don't apply, they're applied by who deems necessary to whom is deemed necessary.
I think that's a semantic defense of the original "routes around censorship" concept.

When that statement gained currency it was about being free to finally be outside of the cage that governments and large organizations made.

Today the old guard have built new tools - mass online commenting - to combat the signal itself.

So while the network may well reroute around censorship - the good censors just use the network to change the signal.

I've been on forums long enough now, and helped moderate enough To know the old naive version of free speech doesn't lead to the exchange of ideas.

It leads to the exhchange of whichever mind virus or meme is most capable of building reactions and structures in brains.

So it's definitely the era of subverting people and mass subversive speech/propaganda.

If I can press the right buttons in a person before you reach them with your facts/truth - what will you do?

That's the question I don't have an answer for just yet.
Was on and off reader of RS.
Their non/half apology for their University of Virginia rape story really turn me off.

They didn't seem to understand (or care?) what they did wrong and thus didn't really apologize.
Getting started with Packer and immutable servers
Crystal Mimics Learning and Forgetting
CFO at 29? Kraft Heinz Move Spotlights a Pattern at Investor 3G Capital
Assuming that the C++ bit and the not having faith b/c of Chromium bit are related, would you mind expanding (briefly) on the problems you saw?
Aka, corruption.
I have downloaded it, and it's a bit clunky to work with. Hope they iterate fast on this one. But I also think, this should not have been a problem since I used Google Wallet and it was a superior experience. May be the teams were different?
Server side Javascript (which has the abovementioned dependency problems) can be boycotted just as easily as any other language, the JS monopoly effect applies only to the front end.
Really like the Mac inspired/copied design. How is the keyboard and trackpad?
Fine. Just is hyperbole. But I suppose I could just interfere with logging in if I had 2 iPhone X and pointed both at a persons face.

I'm guessing The 2 sets of dots would overlap and confuse.
Read More About Google's “Personalized Feeds”
The update to “Feed” the users is ready for both Android and iOS users on the Google app.
I appreciate the call out's intent, but I don't agree that having an OS preference is a negative, even in this case. At work I am required to use Windows even though I have a strong Linux preference. The cross platform experience makes me all the more aware of the differences in use and productivity.

Anyhow, my $0.02
Content Delivery Networks Offer More Bandwidth, but Can Hide Malware
I was at the presentation at SHA 2017.

The demo was nice, even though i did not understand any of the crypto. Although, to be fair, i didn't even try :-)

One important take away for me was that this project aims to replace paypal, not bitcoin. Its target is to establish an open source payment infrastructure that is better than paying with credit cards, paypal, etc...
The demo link does not work for me on Firefox 55.0.3 on OSX 10.12.6

Works in Chrome, Safari and Opera.
People will realize how silly privacy is and start sharing their data with AI for the benefit of everyone.
Personal Cloud Assistant/Cloud Essentials Kit
I rescued my neighbor's Mac from an adware invasion using Malwarebytes so I I would argue that not all these tools are created equal.
Depending on how far your budget will stretch, a refurbished ThinkPad from the last three or four years is an excellent option under $400. If you were after something a bit more powerful with some extra features, a 13" or 15" retina MacBook Pro from 2013-14 can be had for under $1000, I'm currently using a 2013 retina 15" with a 512GB SSD that I got for $1100. I got mine as a display unit from a major electronics retailer and then spent another $120 replacing the batteries through Apple.
So let's get to the bottom of this as english is not my mother tong and I will gladly learn new tricks. Does that mean that my sentence (with correction) is wrong because "the" is mandatory in this context?
Bulshit. The benefits of this "casual culture of pulling in hundred of dependencies" vastly outweigh the harm. I'll be assembling another $6000 job that will take me maybe 12 hours to complete while you write your compiler, from scratch, in your own assembler, made for your own cpu, that you youre gonna cook up from a bucket of sand you collected yourself, from a sandpit you trust.
Anyone else think that population count graphs would be more illuminating than percentage?
WTF, 4.4 is even growing :D
Years ago I used to use CCleaner and their disk defragmentor tool. Now I too am on Windows 10 and use neither, still it's sad to see this sort of thing happen to what I remember being decent free software.
> Would it be safe to assume it's not affected

Well, it would be many things, but it wouldn't be "safe". Not a tinfoiler, just a pedant :) I could go with "reasonable".
The node.js community sees that very different and thats one aspect i dont understand, the blinded trust in dependencies. A midsize project will need quickly a 1000+ dependencies and we have to trust them all.
> It's like the software is forcing me to upgrade my hardware.

As former gamer, and someone that did Symbian/J2ME in the past, that was always like that for me
Love science and also believe in God too. When I read about incidents like this, this quote from psalms comes to mind: "When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars."
I have an (old?) iPad 2 still running iOS6. I don't use it a lot anymore, because updating generally slows down the device and it already is pretty slow.

However, Safari can't even load newspaper sites anymore, because Webkit is out of date so much. Hurray! Time to buy a new one I guess?
Correct, it's actually likely that a good AI would also conclude, just like Petrov did, that this is not an attack, given everything that was expected from a real attack at the time. If they simply wired a launch detector to the button that launches nukes, then that's not AI.
You can enable AppLocker and have explicit control on what executes and what not by creating rules. I know quite a few companies that enforce its use in their employees' PCs.
Etymology is a great hobby of mine. Another mind-blowing one is the Indian name/attribute 'Deva' and Latin 'divine' both had the same root. Funny to think that Indians and Europeans were once the same people, and probably mixed with the Dravidians to make the modern Indian.
Honestly, the site has somewhat of a crackpot-vibe. Only major feature I understand from the site is "visible links", i.e. links displayed as actual lines on the screen. This seems more like a gimmick than a ground-breaking fundamental difference from the Web.

Some of the features you mention could perhaps be useful if implemented in a browser extension, e.g. the ability to see/preview linked documents inline. It is useful in IDE's for code navigation, so perhaps also in a browser.
It's also worth noting that it's pretty easy to do JavaScript development and just not use NPM, so no-one needs to boycott JavaScript, just that particular installation approach.
> "Innovation is path dependent"

Citation needed.

Kidding aside, is this paper [0] the source for your quote? Thanks

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/~reddings/pubpapers/PathDepIER2002...
I really liked the style of this article, it explained things that are very technical in a way that someone with moderate knowledge of the concepts can grasp.
Hats off to the author!
Final Gang Wars in City
Enter the most dangerous world where gangs face off in Final Gang Wars in City to gain control over the hood. Lead your gang to defeats other dangerous gangs and conquer the grand city. Build your crime empire by rising up in the ranks of the underworld mafia and be king of the street fighters. The streets of big city are tough to live; there is a lot of heat on brutal gang leaders
Wait, so THAT's what M&A do? I thought they simply facilitate transactions once management has decided who to acquire. Which firm does M&A for Apple? That would be a great job.
The fact that intelligence services employing armies of people exist worldwide should be sufficient to disabuse you of that meme.
Everyone has an agenda. People in power will generally (ab)use it at some point, e.g. to help a friend.
The solution would be code review + reproducable builds. This is how Debian tries to prevent these kinds of attacks.
And also runs very stable. It's not perfect, but I've certainly run into fewer bugs than when I was trying to get Kubernetes set up.
I'd say disgusting. Like someone digging a swimming pool with a spoon, inside a sewer tunnel.
Given that you work for SUSE and I kinda like you guys, I really hope that it's different from SLES licensing model.

I work at a german govt. institution which uses SLES and we've recently decided to move away from SLES for a simple reason. If you want to use something like immutable infrastructure SLES is painful to use, because you need to do everything through the SMT admin.

You won't even know which packages are available in SLES until you signup for it. Sure you can use openSUSE, but it's not the same packages, it's not the same package versions, and the open repo, while nice, is imho not as comfortable to use as ubuntu packages. IMHO it's not very user friendly.

And yes yast2 is great, but I'm not talking about graphical user interfaces when I say user friendly.

By the way, there are a few more "ContainerOSs" than just CoreOS nowadays.

- There's project atomic [1] which became atomic host [2]

- There's RancherOS, which I find interesting because it seems to have first class zfs support [3]

[1]: http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/kubernetes/

[2]: https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/enterprise-linux-atomic-...

[3]: http://rancher.com/docs/os/v1.0/en/storage/using-zfs/
TOP 5 of Serial to Ethernet converters/adapters
Perhaps they were just market making back then as well? See this link: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/is-renaissance-techno...
This is definitely a point of concern for me as well, but after doing _a lot_ of searching on Reddit, I couldn't really find any systematic patterns of failures popping up, and many of the reviews I've read actually commended the build quality as one of the best among gaming laptops (low bar, I know). And this is a fairly popular laptop that Dell has been refreshing in a similar chassis for quite a few years now, so I'm hoping most of the obvious kinks have been ironed out throughout the generations, and that it won't just spontaneously fall apart on me.
LuLu
What are Insight Platforms-as-a-Service and why do they matter?