skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree; there is some definition of 'stupid' that exists in the same shape and form in most consumers. It stems from laziness, desire for showing off and instant gratification, and lack of critical thinking when being bombarded with marketing BS like cool visuals, gimmicky features and awesome keywords. The same self-interest leads to them being stupid and, usually, staying stupid.

The stupidity of the average consumer manifests itself in not wanting to "waste time" with some "nerdy tech thingamajig" (boohoo muh computer is slow, must be the viruses and need more RAM, lemme buy myself a new one, ooh look the slimmest model, lemme get that. Soldered everything? Non-user replaceable battery? Huh, wtf are those. It's slim and pretty tho) or comparing products on the shelf to make the best, most practical choice (it has X famous brand name that's associated with cool and expensive, great to show off to friends, especially on social media because everyone on there cares. Oh there's a vocal bunch speaking about bad reliability, poor quality that falls apart 1 year and 1 day after purchase and terrible price/performance ratio? Must be lies spread by dem haters).

Yup, pre-purchase research and post-purchase diagnostics (not even asking for much, just googling a problem to see if it's unfixable/too expensive to fix) are things today's consumers would rather not 'waste time' with because they clearly have better things to do that aren't a waste of time, like taking more selfies for Snapchat, raking in likes and loves on Facebook and Instagram and surfing the internet (anyone up for more shopping and getting 'inspiration' from friends on what to buy next to one-up them?) on their $2000 Facebook/web browsing machine and $1000 phone.

The best part is very few of these people learn from others and their own mistakes. They'll continue to buy the same crappy products because they saw a cool ad or all their friends are talking about it without any thinking or research. They'll stay loyal to overpriced brands with poor reliability because 'dat brand name doe' and continue with their need to see and be seen having/doing/wanting cool things. Simple reading to make an informed buying decision? Too uncool! F-that!
Are the references to contracts in the article "contract work" i.e contract employee work for someone else in order to help subsidize your startup? If so that's an interesting approach to getting your startup of the ground and maintaining some income. Have people had success with this? I have found lining up contract work to be almost as time consuming as doing a regular FT job. Or am I reading these references wrong and it's your startup doing various short term and tangentially related contracts?
There are obviously better ways to judge a public servant's performance than a handful of decontextualized numbers — but unless you're going to force people to take a test before they can vote (which, umm…), what criteria are best doesn't matter as much as what criteria are most easily communicated.
> If you give something away to repair you always have to trust them.

I got confused about this initially too, but that's not relevant to the argument being made here. The argument isn't about repair -- that's something you can always avoid. The argument is about others (thiefs, etc.) messing with security-related components and bypassing security. He doesn't want that to be possible.
This just in: woman who has staked her career on a pro-housing political platform announces that market-rate redevelopment is good for everyone.

The question is not “will adding N market-rate units help?” because that’s trivial. Of course it will. The question is: “what if you have to knock down N affordable units to build M market-rate units?” This “simulation” doesn’t even come close to addressing that question.

Like it or not, that’s the situation in San Francisco.
I am afraid this solution could kill second-hand market with "service providers" not happy to dispose of old products to keep the prices high.

Would iPhone allow the second-hand market for their phones? Not likely, thus keeping a huge part of the less fortunate population out of the possibility to get hands-on premium products.

Your model could be an addition to the current service model, not a replacement.
Purchasable does not mean affordable. Affordable is defined as being "whether you can afford it" which in this case is the aggregate "you", meaning a large plurality of the population.

You can't say something is affordable just because someone can buy it.
Well yeah, after operation Snow White I wouldn't want to poke the hornets nest.
See "the high cost of free parking" for a complete answer

Heavily oversimplified, back when cars first became available to the middle class city politicians had a rude awakening when street parking became congested.

Minimum parking space requirements were decided on with an overly simplistic formula focusing on providing for peak demand.

And it never really got better from there
Given the prevalence of the methods discussed in the OP, that's kind of hard to do; e.g. I work for the CTO who is the co-founder, but doesn't have a strong management background.

Recommend a place to start?
What makes you certain about that?
It was an observation, not an insult. Many of us, myself included, are more than happy to pay for the software we use.

However, I would strongly consider hiring a mature developer relations manager. You're a fantastic developer, Willy, but you risk losing business by lashing out like this.
Turns out that accountability is easier on a campus than remotely.
Batteries can be consumable after a fashion, as they lose capacity with each charge cycle. The effect can be reduced via certain techniques (depending on the battery chemistry involved), but so far never completely eliminated. Just consider it entropy in action, really.
How do you compare it with PubNub?
Stati, a PHP static site generator that works on any existing Jekyll site
I've done freelancing and have worked remotely as an employee. Though the former brought in more money (which is heavily dampened by the increased tax and loss of various benefits), I so loathe the administrative hassles that I'd gladly take half the overall pay in order to avoid it.
To expand on this, NTP uses timestamps with 32 bit seconds (plus fractions of a second), so if you manually step your clock some multiple of ~136 years, the protocol inputs will be the exact same so you'd have no way of knowing you were off from the server.

However, you could imagine an NTP implementation which hardcodes the approximate starting time to get the right era. You'd only have to recompile every lifetime or so to keep it up to date.
I've not worked anywhere where product development was the only group to come up with an idea that made it into the final product.

My last gig was terribly silo'd as far as responsibilities go. But people go to lunch and happy hour together. Product dev would call out anyone that contributed, even though their team got the kudos because of process (despite the teams being cool, I left because management was shite).

These things bleed into each other constantly.
They are starting to. GaTech's OSMCS program cost (~$8k total) a fraction of the on campus (~$30k year in-state). With any entrenched system it takes a while to see change. Especially something like Education that is afraid of change and is very slow to change existing ways.

I even wonder if much will change with colleges and higher education by the time I have kids and they then are college age. A lot will change from now until ~20 years when my potential kids will be college bound. However, I'll definitely be looking at biggest potential on ROI for tuition costs etc.
Welcome to the wonder world of the Oxford Comma...a source of debate perhaps rivaled only by the great Emacs vs Vim wars...

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/what-is-the-oxford-comma-and-...
AI for cybersecurity: Promises and limitations
Which industries hire for English majors? Are there good opportunities to be had, and are future prospects looking stable,upwards or down?
onboarding an engineer - even a great one - is notoriously expensive, because they need to understand the product in extreme detail that a salesperson never will - not even close.

there are many good engineers, but they are very difficult to replace. in addition, more engineers does not always translate to faster delivery, so there is a natural limit to how many should exist to build out a specific product.

there are also many good salespeople and they can be trained in much less time and there can be many more of them.
The schools would undoubtedly respond that in doing so, they would necessarily have to stop educating people from anything less than the most privileged (and thus low-risk) backgrounds.

You'd need to cook up some sort of risk-pooling scheme if you wanted schools to extend that credit to anyone coming from a background that made payment statistically less-likely. And once you started doing that you'd have to be careful not to distort the market so much that the original intent -- to allow market forces to have more say on what majors college students go into, and who (and how many people) colleges admit -- would be totally lost.

It's a difficult problem and I don't know if it's better to have the schools/colleges trying to underwrite the loans. It might be better to leave that to specialists rather than force it onto schools (though forcing schools to release the data that an underwriter would need to rationally price loans for students to go there would be good).

If you didn't have the government backstopping student loans, and in some cases making them non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, that would probably have much the same effect. The government backing and unique legal treatment are what makes a "student loan" different than a giant personal loan. The justification has always been that without this treatment and guarantee, nobody would make a $100k+ personal loan to an 18-year-old, which is probably true. But I think we're starting to see the other side of the coin, which is that maybe there are some good reasons why that's the case.
This is only news to someone who has never watched Thomas. It took me until the second or third Thomas book and I was pretty surprised how authoritarian it all was - and that was circa 2000. But the books are from the 40's and like a lot of things people keep buying them not knowing exactly what they're getting.

Also kids love talking trains.
Haha.

I originally wanted to name it unity-hivemind after I had watched Rick and Morty that weekend, but I figured the name was both a collision and a confusing due to the Unity graphics engine.
FalconSAT-3 Now Open for Amateur Radio Use
I am one of these researchers (see https://twitter.com/sTeamTraen/status/913546338842939393 for a crude attempt to establish my authenticity, which doubtless would have zero validity for actual spies). Let me assure you that none of us is in league with the food industry. In fact since Dr. Wansink's work seems to go down pretty well with the food industry (cf. his various consulting gigs), I'm not sure what they would have to gain from us.
That assumes he knows how close to the line he can get without it actually causing the war. He may not.
I don't understand what you mean here. Consul is not a load balancer. It's functionality is almost entirely orthogonal to Haproxy.

If anything, a lot of people pair the two, but have so far often had to resort to cumbersome solutions for rewriting the Haproxy config to keep the set of backends in Haproxy updated.

If anything, this will make Haproxy and Consul work much better together, given that Consul serves up SRV records for the services you register with it.
Apple: don't use Face ID on an iPhone X if you're under 13 or have a twin
EDIT:
After finally reading the text, I realized that my little rant below has little to do with the topic.

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The first thing I learned in my Physics undergraduate studies was Maths. Calculus. Scalar fields and vector fields, their derivatives and integrals, and differential equations of all kinds and flavours. Non-cartesian coordinate systems, transformations between them, fourier transformations. And a nice toolbox for beating the not-so friendly integrals.

Even for classical mechanics, that's the foundation.

If you want to talk about Quantum Physics you also need linear algebra, in particular Hilbert spaces and operators. And distributions.

If you don't understand the Maths, you are left with talking about interpretations. Especially in Quantum Physics, that means you are left with basically nothing.

Without Maths, you are not doing Physics. You are doing Metaphysics.
It is non official Boost library like an other libraries:
http://blincubator.com/alphabetically/

Mentioned examples demonstrates integration with other Boost libraries.

Yes, goal is to be added to Boost.

Boost.UI application eventually uses native widgets.
Cross-platform elements can't be native by definition.

Boost.UI is about interface, but not implementation. And I would like to omit stereotypes about wxWidgets.
Speaking of which, any possibility of open sourcing this? We are looking to get into FPGAs and would rather not reinvent a bicycle.
Forgotten Notebooks Chronicled the Lives of Congolese Trees for 20 Years
Be that as it may. The USA, China, UK, India, etc. are all far more rational actors than NK. So your assertion is irrelevant as even if it is true the US is far more likely to be rational on the geopolitical stage.

Personally I would trust the USA on its word far more than I would NK. I don't know about you.
What is your own stack written in?
If you're interested in this topic, you might also like the recent Econtalk episode, "Philip Auerswald on the Rise of Populism," http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/09/philip_auerswal.htm.... The spread of housing restrictions via zoning has had much larger impacts than is commonly appreciated. I find it interesting especially that Piketty's famous results are really a result of capital accumulation to landlords: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r... who benefit from supply restrictions.

I've been writing about (and to some extent working in) these issues for a while and come at them from another angle here: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut...
Sure, if you have more of a kitty than many countries to play with, an army of lawyers and an IT department... have fun.
seems pretty easy. Why not make rent free too? And put price controls on food? seems like that would make everything a lot easier.
I can confirm dental and vision is offered to grad students at the school I went to. It wasn't included in the stipend but it is cheap.
The interesting bit for me is that safety razors are nearly impossible to find in normal shops probably because they would be less profitable for the shops too.
Direct link to github repo: https://github.com/jfoucher/stati
I think pad reuse would disqualify it from the "properly-arranged one-time-pad scheme" club :)
You get more bulky and expensive device for the right to repair. Would not want that.
" He doesn't want that to be possible."

But it is and allways will be. You can make it harder, yes, but in my opinion the benefits are way smaller than the disadvantages.
I have all the computers in our office mining crypto when we leave for the day. It is pretty easy to setup.
Restored as new and not from backup?
C-style strcpy in Swift is a little verbose:

func strcpySwift(_ d:UnsafeMutablePointer<CChar>,
_ s:UnsafeMutablePointer<CChar>) {
for i in 0... {
d[i] = s[i]
if s[i] == 0 {
return
}
}
}

Haskell-style sort in Swift is pretty nice:

func qsort<T:Comparable>(_ arr:[T]) -> [T] {
var xs = arr[...]
guard let x = xs.popFirst() else {
return []
}
return (qsort(xs.filter{$0 <= x})) + [x] +
(qsort(xs.filter{$0 > x}))
}
those countries typically also have entrance requirements to college that would not sit well with the US, which values the perception of egalitarianism.
Thomas & Friends is gold.

The show is dignified and wholesome. It is always about respect, diligence, and humility.

It isn't there for stupid antics and wacky laughs. It doesn't blast color explosions and ADHD-fueled off-the-charts mind-numbing exuburance to capture kids attention. And it's been doing that for decades (pretty much eternity, as far as kids TV goes).

Not since Mr. Rogers has there been a better kids TV show.

> Fat Controller

Better known as Sir Topham Hatt since the 1950s.

> Henry must be punished—for life

Even in the old non-US version (modern one makes it explicit), it was still evident that he wasn't left in their forever, as he showed up again next time.

Blue Mountain Mystery [1] A little green engine hides in the blue hills. Thomas learns that long ago, the engine accidentally caused another engine to roll overboard into the sea. He has been hiding ever since, in guilt and fear and shame. Thomas convinces him to return, and the story shows how silly the little engine's worries were. It's a moral of forgiveness and redemption. (Also, there's a great surprise about who that overboard engine actually is.)

This crap makes me mad. I have to stop reading stuff on the internet. Go back to watching Sponge Bob or Family Guy or whatever crap you watch with your kids.

[1] http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Mountain_Mystery
This shows the difference between writing with a fountain pen and writing with a ballpoint; the former requires and demands no vertical pressure, while the latter demands that the user push hard down on the paper. So penmanship in fountain pens focused on using the arm to write and using minimal vertical pressure.
I'm not an Ikea consumer but wasn't one of their big break throughs flat packing of furniture so that it was cheaper to ship?
Even if that's true, does it matter? Whether a dollar saved is spent locally, or saved in the bank and loaned locally, or saved in the bank and loaned to some other community, or wire transferred to family in Mexico ,or invested in a factory in Indonesia, some local community benefits.
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Everyone leaves after a while. I don't see paying someone too much as an issue, to be honest.

That said, the people Google was after probably didn't (really) want to work at Google, and needed convincing. Plenty of people prefer working on their own projects and couldn't care less about being employed by Google, but will forgo that for a "sure thing" payday (and there is nothing wrong with that). Business transaction like any other.
If it's for public safety, don't cell phones already have a feature designed specifically for that purpose (Cell Broadcast), which works even when the user doesn't have a wired headphone plugged into the device?
More details would help.
Because universities are mostly about class signaling. Peter Thiel talks about it at length.
Possible != practical. His threat model most likely doesn't include the NSA, and for normal adversaries hardware security can be plenty sufficient.
The schools could decide to take that as justification for jacking up course rates and only taking on students who can bring some assets as collateral for the loan.

Or are they in any way incentivized to take on financially less-well-off students?
I'm pretty sure they'd always find some way to outsource any costs/risks like that straight back to the students.

Also: It's not that much of an open market, schools work very much on prestige, certain fields are de-facto monopolized by certain schools, it isn't an "open market" where some startup can just start a school and hope to have a meaningful impact in any short time.
Why Apple Can't Help Hurricane Victims with iPhones Tune to FM Radio
Do they actually ship two button mice? They've had the ability to read both buttons for ages, but from my recollection, they still never shipped a two button mouse, and even when they started shipping mice that had the functionality of the two button mouse, they reduced it to no buttons in doing so.[1]

A person could be forgiven for thinking there might have been a powerful person at the top that didn't want to be seen as having been wrong: [2]

Eventually I said, ‘Well, this was asked for by the marketing division. It’s a multi-button mouse. It’s been approved through Apple’s process channels, and so we’ve been working on it.”

Jobs stared at him.

“I’m Marketing,” he said. “It’s a marketing team of one. And we’re not doing that product.” With that, he turned and stalked off.

1: https://512pixels.net/2012/11/mouse/

2: https://www.macrumors.com/2014/03/11/steve-jobs-displeasure-...
> My real wish is that one day, computer or smartphone hardware might last at least 5 or even 10 years. I know software is evolving quickly, but there comes a point where I don't think you need to upgrade your hardware, the hardware is just fast enough to do certain things with today's software. At one point, software should stop changing so often. Then maybe we won't need to toss hardware anymore.

I just sold a 4.5 year old 15" MacBook Pro for A$1550, it was originally A$3500. That makes the TCO equation look very nice indeed. And we only replaced it because my wife got a 12" for travel.

I have the next model along 15" MBP (still 2013) and I'll keep it until it is a year out of macOS updates, then sell it. It's done pro-level photo and video editing, still plays Starcraft etc just fine, and is a great dev machine.

I just repaired a 2009 iMac (hard drive failure), and it's also still supported by the latest macOS.

Just got a 4 year old iPad repaired for $A90. It's stuck on iOS 9, and slow for web browsing, but still works fine as a PDF reader, note taker, and a few games for the kids.

I can see a day coming where the same will be true of phones. But I get new iPhones now: to play with the newest tech, it's my primary camera for documenting family life. The "newest hardware" in iOS devices is supporting stuff like running neural net image recognition over entire photo libraries, doing 4K video capture and editing, and of course running whatever latest web monstrosity is out. People who don't want those features are fine to stick with older phones; I know quite a few family members still on iPhones 4S and 5.
Simple web interface to control wifi and hostapd on the Raspberry Pi
You are thinking of applying for SBIR or something like that?

Click on my profile link and I'd be glad to talk about it.
No one ever got fired for buying IBM, nor for prosecuting someone. They have been fired though, for buying a cheaper solution, or for exercising discretion. Look at what happened to Dukakis...
Updated White Paper. Generated more evaluations and back tests. https://s3.amazonaws.com/karlcdn/Dutchess.ai+White+Paper.pdf
wouldnt people be paying higher taxes in order to pay for others to go to college?
On Usage of the Phrase “Open Source”
Startbootstrap-sb-admin-2: A free, open source, Bootstrap admin theme
Go > Java > Rust > C++
I'm not talking about anything as ambitious as making all software be formally verified.

All I want is for the people in this industry to take it seriously, for us to have standards as an industry, and some kind of professional certification to exclude those that don't know the basics. Software is rife with cowboys and it harms the image of those of us who actually care.
Is it 2(1/2^23)(window size)?
Also doing random not sequential training and evaluation. The proper way to eval time-series models.
From what I hear people who sell virtual goods have awful problems with chargebacks.
All fine things, but probably not worth putting yourself into a lot of debt for.
Extremely good text editor. Highly recommend. Other people think it's vim and then they think I'm a better programmer than I actually am.
"Mo money mo problems"
-Notorious B.I.G.