skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't cry "due process" for those people who have abused the system to deny due process to others.

The only reasonable counter to those offenders is an investigative report by a professional of the fourth estate that has a reputation for ethical practices. Which is to say an investigative journalist rakes the muck and publishes the embarrassing story. But those seem to be of a breed that is dying with the newspapers.

The amateur crowdsourced journalists/influencers the likes of which come from Anonymous and SJWs and Antifa and Black Twitter may be the only ones who care enough to even do a cursory investigation. And they are unlikely to meet any reasonable standard of fairness, due to unaligned incentives.

The only solution that preserves fairness is for those in the official legal system to police themselves and relentlessly attack the corruption occurring within their own ranks. If that does not happen, or worse, if it happens and those who fight corruption and blow whistles suffer damaging retaliation from it, then the corrupt should have no reasonable expectation that they will be treated fairly, nor those who present the appearance of corruption, or complicity with corruption. There are no good cops as long as bad cops retain their impunity. There are no good judges as long as the decisions from bad judges stand unexamined and unchallenged. There are no good lawyers as long as injustice persists.

The system we have to ensure that the innocent are protected from witch hunts, kangaroo court, and drumhead trials is as vulnerable to subversion as any other, and replicating it in parallel in order to prosecute that subversion seems inconvenient at best. And yet "we investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of all wrongdoing" is so depressingly common.
I wasn't aware of it either, but looking it up now I see that someone outside Google lost their job because of it. That might be what the parent is referring to.
I'm on a 2014 11" MB Air. I love it. Best laptop I've ever owned. Yeah, I wish it had 16 GB RAM, and a hires display. But it works, and works well for me.

I run IntelliJ on mine, the basically feature rich version of PyCharm.

You can find older Air's for around $500 used.
I've got two refurbished T430 laptops. Core i5, 8GB RAM 250 GB SSD. Both work great. Unless you need a GPU that should be fine.

Much better than a cheap new one. Build quality is worth it when you're using it all day long.

But if you're going to spend 1000 on a Mac why not spend 1000 on a new ThinkPad?
I don't believe that there's any way you can have any evidence for the statement

> But refuse rote and do everything Socratically and you get students who have better mental processes but don't have enough lifetimes to go through understanding the world.

I would even accept anecdotal evidence
This recent thinking that almost every problem or every deficiency with group(s) of humans is to be blamed on whites, it is absolute nonsense.

The real problem is IQ. Repeat that acronym with me: I, Q.

You cannot just import an Africa tribesman, put him into a lab coat and hope for the best; there exists differences. Massive differences. In fact if all races were "equal" as we say there are then there would not even be a discussion to have, since the transition would be seamless.
> "Mooch off you"?

Yes, as per my original post where I specifically said the hypothetical person in question takes the money for their own needs, not for the needs of the person whom they have power of attorney over.
Your other comment is not deleted, so please don't keep posting duplicates like this.
Since Google and co were never given the responsibility of telling anyone the truth this seems to be another naked powergrab to spread FUD and scare stories so someone can have a 'monopoly on truth'.

Diversity of opinion and widespread rumour mongering is a natural state of affairs in human society. Those who are unsettled by this and seek some sort of uniformity and control betray a troubling megalomania. Elevating yourself over others to decide somehow only 'you' are able to discern the facts confirms it.

That leads to not to Google or Facebook curating news but 'one source of truth' controlled by the government and authoritarian entities, using the exact same logic. Some people may be experts at C and Go but betray an astonishing illiteracy when it comes to history, freedom and evolution of human society.

Notions of truth have been debated for eons so there is already a large body of knowledge. You need an educated literate population and accept people will have wildly differing views and trying to protect the 'ignorant' not only turns your society into a tightly controlled cage but reflects a streak of authoritarianism and megalomania in the 'protectors,' now prevalent among many technical folks.
I second this. The T430 CPU increase is worth it. I recently went with an x230 over an x220. I quite like the x230 (T430) keyboard.
Yes, It would be a civil war. And that's exactly what governments today do. Turkey, Sudan, Bosnia, etc.
This is what it looks like when people are asked to snitch on their neighbors
Maybe we don't need a unique id at the federal level after all. Financial institutions are already required to follow KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. For this they need a way to validate the identity of the customers they do business with. I guess they already have enough ways to do this without relying on SSN or a potential national id card.

BTW, after the Equifax hack, financial institutions should be mandated to stop trusting SSN as proof of identity.
Uhhh, did they only change the logo? Did they come out with a new product, or alter Dropbox's functionality?

I really don't understand what this is all about.
Not yet, maybe. But eventually, I'm sure they'll be used directly in some other scientific discovery.
Ask HN: Is Vagrant dead or dated? Do people still use it?
Is Vagrant a dead or dated tech now? Do the dev teams still use it?
consider a gaming laptop with a desktop CPU. High CPU freq for the fastest builds!
Seems that most of there are examples of fraud instead of a Ponzi specifically. They list a single example of using Bitcoins as part of a Ponzi scheme, but no examples of ICOs being Ponzi schemes. Based on OP's submission immediately prior I believe this is what they were trying to suggest.
Samsung to Build Odyssey VR Headset for Windows
https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-ideapad-core-i5-7th-gen-8-gb..., Has a GPU, while https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-ideapad-core-i5-7th-gen-4-gb... is too light !!
Is there anything anywhere comparing ROM and RAM usage of Rust vs. C for embedded devices? Can you write anything meaningful in Rust with say 8KB of RAM?
> If that's what people are viewing and if that's where the discussion of the news was happening then google should reflect that.

Nope. Nooooope. Nuh uh. Not at all. Could not disagree more profoundly.

Google has a responsibility to its users. Surfacing a 4Chan result in a top-results box is a fail for those users who see it. The Google search results in that case are worse than returning nothing at all.

Let me put it differently. There are some sites that should never be treated as authoritative on any subject under any circumstances. 4Chan is one of those sites. It's one thing for a user to be looking for something _on 4Chan_ but for anyone else, 4Chan results are garbage and an algorithm fail 100% of the time (at least, that's what I would argue; obviously I do not work at Google and cannot speak for them).
The T420s are great, definitely recommend. If you need more compute power, grab something suitably sized in the cloud for a couple of hours. If you need more battery, grab a spare :).
It really depends on the brand.

When I bought my Prius, I was looking at 1-3 year old used models that were only about $3-5k less than a new one, and came with a worse warranty. The two years of free maintenance that came standard with the new Prius covered a significant part of the price gap, and the new one had more life left than the used ones, which I think covers the other part of the gap.

On the other hand, it rarely makes sense to buy a new Chevrolet or Ford, or Mercedes, for example. The resale value on those is terrible.
> The argument is just that FP libraries (like Scalaz) have a bigger payoff in the investment.

It depends on the people, not everybody has the inclination to dive so deep into hard core FP and they will be more productive using a different approach.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you've found the only software silver bullet that exists and that people who don't use it "don't get it", which is another attitude I've seen a lot of hardcore FP advocates embrace.
For VNC there's https://github.com/novnc/noVNC
The codebase I inherited and now maintain is "interesting" too, but more like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...
In python you just import pyasn...
Something like,

myMemoryAddr : Longint absolute $FFFE0004;

There were Turbo Pascal compatible compilers for Amiga, and it was the most common dialect, to the point ISO Extended Pascal compatibility was mostly ignored.

There are still companies selling Turbo Pascal compatible compilers for embedded systems.

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/

Inline Assemly is not part of C, it is a common compiler extension, whose semantics are not even portable across compilers.

Back in the day when Pascal compilers were more widespread, C was hardly much more portable, with each compiler having its own little world between K&R C and ANSI C89.
The official answer to this is to use latest stable version for any new server. That means 11.1 right now.

10.4 is intended for individuals who are still running 10.x
Specific issues include:

1) you can only provide useful names (not simply hashes) for things that are in directories, so a large number of bare files (easiest to update in IPFS) absolutely requires an external index linking the hash to a friendly name. I haven't found a suitable tool for automating any of this.

2) you can't modify an existing IPFS directory in-place and just get a new hash—you need the whole thing outside of IPFS to perform a CRUD operation. Maybe you can perform some trick with links or something, IDK, but it's definitely a pain. This makes One Giant Root Directory to Rule Them All very cumbersome.

3) IPNS is kind-of a solution, but centralizes things, and you can only host one of them per node-daemon (!) and last I checked these were still prone to availability problems and general quirky behavior.

4) Most software that doesn't speak IPFS natively (so, nearly everything) expects stuff to be in ordinary directories. Nothing expects to receive as config giant list of files that's changing all the time. They all expect one directory, or maybe a few directories, often with some reasonable structure. Translating between easiest-for-IPFS (a whole bunch of bare files, or smallish sets of closely related files each in their own root directory) and easiest-for-literally-all-other-software-that-uses-the-filesystem practically requires some kind of linking—I am not aware of any existing solution for this.

[EDIT] to be clear, (4) is no less a problem if you're using an IPFS FUSE mount. In fact you'd have to for linking to be viable at all, though I'm not 100% sure it works even then.
Underrepresented groups tend to have less financial security. (That's part of why they're underrepresented in the first place; the term means that there's less of them in some particular space than their fraction in society as a whole, not that they are a minority in terms of underrepresented numbers.)

Venture capital is great for taking someone who has some amount of financial security, but not quite enough to entirely bootstrap their venture, and giving them enough more. But it's not particularly effective at helping someone who really needs a low-risk (even if low-reward) option because they have no fallback if their company fails. (To be absolutely clear, this isn't the fault of any venture capitalist, nor is it a thing I think a venture capitalist can reasonably solve in the short term, so this is not a complaint about venture capitalists, just a statement about how the world is. Perhaps in the long term, YC's experiments with UBI might help, but that's an experiment and it won't become a reliable source of financial security for anyone for many many years.)

Race doesn't line up perfectly with financial security, and it certainly does not determine financial security. But in the US, today, it's pretty strongly correlated.
Commodore 64, still have it at home under a bed :)
Mindfulness Isn’t the Answer to Everything. Here’s When It Helps
Silicon Valley isn’t just disrupting democracy–it’s replacing it
You nailed the sentiment that I think the technically inclined get wrong. I respect the position, but think it either fundamentally flawed or just too fast a social transition.

By that I mean that we need to educate the masses that a few letters and numbers are as valuable and powerful as the combination to their home safe or keys to their car. People just aren't inclined to exercise the same degree of caution over some gibberish letters as they are the cash in their sock drawer, even though the gibberish is potentially much more valuable.

I'm skeptical that such an education is possible without it being ingrained from youth and even then it may be impossible to achieve a high enough degree of understanding to make the kind of shift you envision.
From Consultant to Practitioner
75% of the lifetime for 60% of the cost (your numbers) doesn't sound like a bad deal.
IMO, in the UK the FT employment (for "senior" roles) is for suckers who don't realize their actual value. If companies can't find enough of them, they bite the bullet and supplement with contractors. Hence the two separate pays for the same job.
The cheapish $999/$1099 mid-2012 A1278 4 GiB 500 GB HDD 13” MBP non-Retina can do 16 GiB and two 2.5” SSDs if the vestigal optical drive is removed and replaced with an adapter. Mine even run with TRIM just fine.
Why is it just 93% accurate on Wikipedia? Is it that hard to identify languages?
For a tape player? I feel like my old sony radio/tape deck was like $15.
I see. I imagine that math is going to depend a lot on brand/model and one's skill at identifying and fixing problems themselves.
How do you disentangle the correlation, though?

Is it not also possible that a driven person retires because, perhaps subconsciously, they recognize symptoms that both impair their continued performance and portend their imminent demise?
Lenovo p51, as I am a glutton for back pain and ram in equal measure.
Thanks for the feedback, this request is definitely been a frequent one. :)
Actually, from an embedded perspective, almost all SD cards do not guarantee that they don't corrupt when you kill power during a write. This is because of the internal workings of SD cards and completely unrelated to shoddy engineering/programming.
It's a fair comparison to make in terms of costs. But if your income temporarily stutters, you can just stop buying lattes.
> I do know, however, that Bitcoin is undergoing a cooling of sorts on account of the block difficulty getting higher and higher. As a result, transactions now take forever to verify and fees are going up.

Completely untrue. Difficulty is proportional to the hash rate. Transaction time varies as a result of multiple factors.

Some reading and historical difficulty/confirmation time data:

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?timespa...
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Confirmation#Confirmation_Times
If you read the source code (https://etherscan.io/address/0xb5fe93ccfec708145d6278b0c71ce...), you'll see that it only stores links to images in the Ethereum blockchain. Thus it is the buyers responsibility to make sure that the image stays. The best way to do that would probably be to store it on IPFS or something else.

[Edit]
The (probable) reason why they're not storing the images on Ethereum is that that would (currently) be way too expensive. There's things like Swarm [1] which will allow storing data next to Ethereum in a much cheaper manner.

[1] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/375/what-is-swa...
I don't fear death, I fear suffering before it.

I'm less concerned with when I punch out than with how I punch out.

The thing that scares me more than physical infirmity (and I can say this with a degree of certainty since I have a serious spine condition that at one point could have meant a wheelchair) is mental infirmity.

Terry Pratchett (and others) had it right, We should be allowed to choose our end time while we are in sound mind.

That we don't have Euthanasia in most 'modern' societies I think is insane.
IRS awards $7.25M fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
> The battery is shot, but otherwise it took a beating and is still running like a champ.

Apple will replace that battery for $120 (still on the same MBA as you!). I bought two cheap refurbs as spares, and plan on using them for the rest of my tech career (<10 years).
I disagree so much with this, the stupid TouchBar gets in the way 99% of the time.
Regardless of age, that should never happen. People who abuse power of attorney (and especially if family) are horrible people (and yet, I am aware, there are many).

My tax lawyer told me a story about how some guy, who was appointed by the courts to handle the affairs of older people who were unable to, abused said privilege and went ahead and purchased himself a new luxury car, furniture etc using funds from the people he was supposed to protect. I don't get how people end up doing things like that..
What You Should Know About the Impending Real Estate Downfall
> pressing CTRL-W will definitely generate a "wtf" moment a few times

FYI, a fix for that is coming soon: https://w3c.github.io/keyboard-lock/
The key paragraph:

>The Cagots were not an ethnic group, nor a religious group. They spoke the same language as the people in an area and generally kept the same religion as well. Their only distinguishing feature was their descent from families identified as Cagots. Few consistent reasons were given as to why they should be hated; accusations varied from Cagots being cretins, lepers, heretics, cannibals, to simply being intrinsically evil.

My take is that people generally enjoy having "punching bags". Based off this article and other instances of man's inhumanity to man, "punching bags" are people who are:

1) Outlets for existing grievances and resentments, a.k.a. scapegoats.

2) Powerless, weak, and unable to retaliate against abuse, a.k.a. victims.

3) Designed, in the minds of the abusers, for the purpose of being abused, a.k.a. inferior, subhuman etc.

Through this lens, the aforementioned "reasons" are rationalizations, a facade over our collective sadism. Sure, a single tragic event may start the cycles of violence, but the reactor that powers it over generations is our built-in desire to hurt "other" people, to take pleasure in "their" misery, and, most significantly, to pretend that "we" are doing so in the interests of morality, society, etc.

It feels good therefore, it must be good!

Such a twisted sentiment isn't always at the forefront of our minds, but given how often we as a species and as individuals have sought to make "punching bags" out of each other, I would say shared-sadism is more sublimated than staged.
>> It's for architectural reasons.

> No, it's for architectural reasons.

You win, I guess?
I develop on a macbook and the good thing is that it forces you to develop efficient software, so when it runs on a desktop it runs oh so nice :)
Thanks! I figured if Postman users are willing to pay $8/month for pro, they can probably justify a one-time $3 purchase as well.

I haven't approached them yet, but I have considered it. I thought maybe I'd wait to gauge the response from users in regard to the Postman integration. I also love their paid offering!
Making use of Docker build arguments
An environmental health professor once told me that the chemical engineering folks have a term: "regrettable substitution."

That is, if legally forced to stop using a poisonous chemical, the company is regrettably forced to substitute its most chemically similar (but still legal) cousin compound.

The differences are usually so slight as to make no difference in its harms. It's the designer drugs of manufacturing.
It depends. If you can’t manage contracts well, you can’t run IT either.

This is why SaaS and other productized services are so valuable. Buying O365 or Salesforce by the drink is dramatically more efficient due to the fixed deliverable and scale.
I understand that and if someone took 4 years to get a 2-year degree, maybe it would make sense. Keep in mind somehow she had enough resources (loans, financial aid, etc.) she should have been able to complete three 2-year associates degrees from scratch. Even if she was feeling her way toward a major, took some classes that she didn't end up needing, and had to take some remedial classes, there is no way someone who was trying (and it sounds like she is) shouldn't have been able to graduate in 6 years. The article said she talked to an advisor and implies she was trying to follow the advice she was given. If that is the case, this really should be considered educational malpractice on the part of the college.
Thanks. :( That's life I guess -- you play the hand you're dealt.
Happiness was simply a proxy for whatever your intrinsic goals in life are; unless risk itself is your intrinsic goal, the goal itself doesn't change my argument.
I have an older ThinkPad, and can't get over the Ctrl and Fn keys being in the wrong place. I think you can swap this in the BIOS in the newer ones, but not on mine. Even if you do though, your Ctrl key is now smaller than your Fn key. I hate to say it, but it's a deal-breaker for me. It ruined an otherwise near-perfect laptop keyboard.
"No minimum investor qualifications. Most legitimate
private investment opportunities require you to
be an accredited investor. You should be highly skeptical
of investment opportunities that do not ask about
your salary or net worth."

This is a ridiculous regulation that prohibits class mobility as software eats the world. Apparently being middle class means you are too stupid to realize you are being scammed, but if you are rich you get first pick.
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