skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the idea behind the modulation, though. It's relatively easy for the receiver to lock to the modulated AC frequency in the presence of sunlight ("DC" at baseband).

Same concept as TV remotes that frequently use a 36-38 kHz carrier. If they just gated the IR LED on and off at the baseband data rate, interference from room light would be a problem.
Why You Shouldn’t Slog Through Books
I firmly believe that university is way, way overpriced in a world of free, high quality MOOCs. It just makes zero economic sense and I believe the market will correct this sooner or later. Think about how utterly inefficient it all is: you have hundreds of professors around the world, each mechanically teaching the same subject semester after semester to new students (I know, they do a bit more than that). Some will say it is about signaling but in a free market, smart companies will eventually start to pick up on better signals. People who attempt to justify the cost of university really just seem unimaginative.
Specifically, tree shaking through the venarable (and somewhat confusingly named :) Google Closure Compiler.
My dad refused promotion at CERN several times. He continued to work as a testing engineer, and would not climb the corporate ladder into management roles. That reduced his paycheck.

When the company had financial trouble though, they fired all the middle managers and kept the engineers. He learned an important lesson - working at a low level with only machines below you is a safe and stable job.

I want to do the same. I'm now 28, so I have plenty of flexibility. But I'm worried that as I get older, there will be more pressure to go into management instead of staying in engineering. Companies want fun, young engineers who know all the latest tech - they don't want experience at the technical level.
> Can you come up with a concrete scenario?

The current events cited in the article serve as examples.

There aren’t a lot of universal human “rights” that are self-evident in the context of common law, but the few that are ought to be held as absolutely sacred and inalienable. Property ownership is one of them.
Warning: a little offtopic.

It must be a lonely existence for you. Your Church is also the only faith in the United States, possibly the world, that is even attempting to push back on modern trends in ever-ratcheting-forward cultural degeneracy.

> This crap makes me mad.

It may be comforting to realize that the traditional values of Western Civilization are entirely dead, and that getting angry about it is futile. We lost, and the time for acceptance has long been here. It's much less stressful to accept the loss than to rage against it.
Yup: it's the Big Data hype train of 2013/2014 re-liveried and stopping soon at a station near you.
> VC

I think the desktop case is 5% in the US, but 0.5% in China. It is more of a "mobile first" environment, because they skipped a lot of early PC development that only happened in the US.

> translation

I have tried both the Google and Baidu camera translation apps on iOS. The Google real time one was completely useless for me. You have to hold the camera steady and try to read the translation, which is word-for-word and hilariously wrong as often as not, and constantly changing as the camera moves and it (mis)reads the characters in different ways. Furthermore the stretched and overlayed "translated" English text is difficult to read. It looks like a very nice tech demo, but it has no practical utility for me. In contrast with the Baidu app, you take a picture, select the text with your finger, wait a moment while it considers, and you get a nice textbox with the selectable, translated text, and the OCR'd original language above. It's a practical tool.

My point is not that one is better or worse. Really it is that you cannot consider the tool alone without looking at how it is used in the market it was designed for.

Really the idea that Chinese companies are behind or aren't innovative is ridiculous if you look at how well they are adapting and how quickly they are innovating in the market that exists here.
You keep putting meaning to my words where there was none. I did not say that he considered trains to be a symbol of corporate oppression or dystopia. In fact the entire point of my original comment is that you can be completely unaware of any idea of a corporate dystopia and still write a story that includes symbols of corporate dystopia because you are just using the things you see around you day to day in your stories.
The Case for Shunning the White House
Feflow: a tool aims to improve front end engineer work flow and standards
Monads for Go programmers
Come to think of it, google has pissed away so much user goodwill over the years. There was a time when they could do no wrong. I guess same as MS in early 90s. Now they are nearing a point where with every product release they have to prove they don’t suck and aren’t screwing the user. It’s a very difficult regime to operate under.
Still off of that project? Or did they actually admit it to you?
1. Speed
2. Compatibility
I seem to find many sources that Googlers spend heaps of time waiting for test runs. Apparently they're required for about everything you do with code at Google and are the but of dozens of jokes.

All of which makes me think that maybe Google's internal building of code isn't that fast. Or perhaps it's fast, but only in relative terms (as in you're still waiting a few minutes for hello world, but huge programs build "fast", as in a few dozen minutes)

I did test it on hello world, and euhm ... It's not fast. The first build of it is horribly slow (double digit minutes, wtf is it doing ?). Second build is "fast" which should be understood to still be double digit seconds. Running the same program in VSCode and just compiling it with the system-installed compiler is so fast you see the output before the VSCode has finished drawing the terminal window.

Reading the site I also get the impression that Bazel's singular focus is correctness. They don't mind things being ridiculously slow if it increases the odds of being a correct build.
Create/Read HTML Documents Including CSS Styles and Render to PDF and Raster Image
> Everyone accepted to the program are f100 employees with existing MIT/Mass ties

What is your data source for this?
There is an obvious explanation that people are missing on this thread. These graduates are under employed. The salary is too low to pay back student loans. They have gotten degrees in useless disciplines. This is the danger of government giving out student loans. Since government is answerable to no one, it is like a giant pot of money that students can just borrow. As a result they end up spending the money on degrees that have very little return on investment. If it is a private entity giving out student loans, the loan officer will not give loans to someone majoring in useless liberal arts degrees. Since it is cheap to get student loans colleges have become more expensive, which means students are taking out bigger loans. This is the problem with socialism. It does not even work in theory.
> Correcting an assumption can hardly be termed as 'lashing out', maybe a 'robust' response.

'correcting an assumption' seems orthogonal to 'lashing out'.

also, it's not clear he even addressed the op's point, insofar as i understand. haproxy enterprise does seem to contain features unavailable in the 'community' version:

http://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-community-vs-enterpr...
I'm the owner.
Remember that over SSH you have to send every character over the wire. If you have a slow connection you'll probably prefer editors that avoid redrawing a lot and nano fits the bill pretty well. Although since they added syntax highlighting it's getting pretty heavy.
I'm somewhat curious about that. I suspect the Otto buyout was tied to conditions he breached, so maybe zero there.

It's unclear how much of the after tax $100m of the Google payout he spent building up Otto. They did have 90 or so employees, and probably other fairly big spending, though not for that long.

Perhaps rich, but I suspect much less so than he would have been had he stayed put.
Easy-to-exploit flaw in Linux kernel rated 'high risk'
It isn't just about CLI vs Env Vars vs Registry. You are mistaking opt-out for opt-in.
I mean the specific two funds that I had in Fidelity and transferred to vanguard mostly have a difference of 0.5 basis points. 0.04% vs 0.045
Many students aren't getting what they pay for now. Better to be debt free.
Good advice, the cooking is fun if nothing else.
It seems to be profitable. Electricity is cheap in New Orleans and we make video games so the computers all have decent gpus.

You can connect to hubs that auto switch the mining algorithm to the most profitable one at the time.
You'll enjoy this article:
"The Egg of the Phoenix: a computational time capsule",
which discusses:
"Could you build a portable computer that would still work if you buried it in the ground for a century?"

http://canonical.org/~kragen/eotf/
You can connect to hubs that auto switch the mining algorithm to the most profitable one at the time.
The value of the post is that, yes, I could understand the mathematical notation, but I never had the need to dive into how floating point numbers actually work.

Now it's on HN in an accessible format, and now I know how IEEE 754 works, and I've made an intuitive mental model of it thanks to Fabien's great teaching skills.

Math notation is a compact representation of a concept, not a way to _explain_ it.

There's no need to be condescending.
> In early 2011, that plan was to bring 510 Systems into the Googleplex. The startup’s engineers had long complained that they did not have equity in the growing company. When matters came to a head, Levandowski drew up a plan that would reserve the first $20 million of any acquisition for 510’s founders and split the remainder among the staff, according to two former 510 employees. “They said we were going to sell for hundreds of millions,” remembers one engineer. “I was pretty thrilled with the numbers.”

> Indeed, that summer, Levandowski sold 510 Systems and Anthony’s Robots to Google – for $20 million, the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared. Rank and file engineers did not see a penny, and some were even let go before the acquisition was completed.

I made a rule for myself that once I find out for sure that a person is an asshole, I will cut all my ties to that person. (Fool me once etc.) Apparently Silicon Valley does not have a similar rule.
> One agent sees a chalk mark on the street and gets a real message at his dead drop, the other two see nothing and chill.

One issue there would be that each time they go out to parks or other places to check for dead drops they are risking getting exposed.

I think by now most counter intel people expect OTP to be used so they are probably not spending an inordinate amount of resource on cracking them.

As for broadcasting, maybe have OTP pads for groups and individuals. The first part of the message is encrypted with a group OTP which then either broadcasts a message to all members or indicates a particular member to use their individual pad to read the rest of the message. Even during transmission those can be compartmentalized so for example the head of the group can send a one to one message and encode it with that recipients OTP pad, but then hand the encrypted message to the radio person in charge of transmitting general the general group message.
If you really want to save money on food, just fast frequently, saves a ton of time too.
When you put it that way, let's green light some tower blocks for the bay area right away, rack and stack...
What was it that TaskRabbit had that Zaarly didn't? It seems like a pretty obvious gap for Zaarly to fill to get lined up as bait now that they know that there's a market for acquisition. Did Zaarly focus too much on the ServiceMaster space and not enough on the "white glove" some-assembly-required space that a retailer like Amazon might be interested in?
NVIDIA for networks sounds like a good pitch.
What about my Aunt Sue? What does one have to do with the other?
Lots of people try to take credit for the ideas in Bitcoin (especially Adam Back, who you linked to), but Satoshi was its clear inventor.
Thanks for the feedback!

We recently introduced the "hybrid reverse proxy" wording in order to hammer home our architectural differentiation. We could do a better job explaining why that's important, though.

The free plan is mainly designed to cover trial usage, as opposed to minimal/personal production workloads. Lots of SaaS/IaaS have time-limited trials so it could be worse. :) But we'll reconsider the current limits.
It’s all good, I got what you meant :)

LDAP and Kerberos of all implementation are probably the most common use case for SRV records, most people probably don’t even know it. Real shame, in many ways I wish A/AAAA records weren’t even a thing for the vast majority of services (HTTP, I’m looking at you!)
EDIT: I was wrong. Please ignore the below incorrect content.

>In most cases, it wouldn't make sense to switch existing funds to another provider in a taxable account if switching would result in a large capital gain.

As long as the the funds track the same index then it's a Section 1031 like-kind exchange which does not trigger capital gains.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/like-kind-exchanges-under-irc-c...
For juveniles, IMO, nothing they say before meeting with their lawyer should be admissible in court. It’s as simple as that. These Miranda rights should just point blank tell them to shut up before they talk to a lawyer. Juveniles are just too easy for an adult to coerce a false confession from.
> But, this also handles dialing to make Skype calls so it's not just a radio.

Wrong. This communicates with a base station that made skype calls. This is a radio.

You sound as if you have a vested interest in continuing to mislabel this device.
South Korea bans raising money through initial coin offerings
You don't even need sshfs. Both VIM and Emacs support network transparent file editing.

:e scp://user@remote.tld/path/to/file

C-x C-f /scp:user@remote.tld:/path/to/file

But the real magic on Emacs is using dired remotely.
>So?

Loss leaders are by their nature unprofitable and thus will go away as soon as they're not required.

Suppose if Vanguard disappears, then Fidelity will hike their rates up.

On the other hand, if Fidelity disappears, Vanguard won't hike their rates up because they won't bite the hand that feeds them since it's their own hand.
there are separate 'community' and 'enterprise' versions, and there's even a comparison chart on the website.
Have a look at Telstar logistics

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/09...
> If your product is software, literally it is impossible that sales add more value than the engineering organization that builds the product. Without engineering organization, you don't have anything to sell.

Anecdote as counter-example: a previous employer was approached by a vendor which offered a solution developed by "former NASA specialists" (I think it was to manage inventory). The total cost of deploying it was around a million.

We tried hard to stop the executives from going ahead with it, but around $400k had been paid by the time we managed to kill the project when it became clear that a. the vendor did not actually have a product and was using us as the R&D guinea pig, taking advantage of the data from millions of our customers and b. the "NASA" part referred to one of their developers who had briefly interned with a NASA contractor.

So, the sales organisation managed to "create" $400k of "value" (in the sense of hard revenue in their bank account) without engineering being involved.
Hackerspaces / makerspaces are full of this already even if it's not their primary focus. For example, I know two people at hackerspaces who make large interactive art pieces for concerts and festivals.
Yay fanboys!! :)
Former Microsoft CEO's Passion for Basketball Coaching 3rd Graders
I think lttng has kernel tracing. I don't know why the fragmentation you describe is "bad", though; it really depends on the tools themselves.

If there's just a variety of tools for the same task, then that's healthy competition and how you get better software.

If no single tool can fulfill all your tracing needs, that's still not necessarily a condemnation of the tools. It's entirely possible that each tool can complete a subset of tasks, but is significantly simpler to use as a result, so SUM(effort to learn tools you need) may still be comparable to the effort of a theoretical omni-tool.
The material in the Feynman lectures is deceptively deep. When he originally gave the lectures at Caltech, they were not all that well received. They were aimed at undergraduates, but the undergraduates -- some of the brightest in the country -- would end up stumbling out of the lecture hall looking like they'd been hit by a bus.

On the other hand, the lectures were quite popular among grad students and faculty members, if that tells you anything.
Sexist drivel has no place here. The logout button is at the right hand side of the navbar.
After China, South Korea Will Ban ICOs Too
You're describing the traditional cell phone financing model in the US. It's not good because it costs more and locks you into the provider.
Politics aside, and I have great sympathy for anti-globalist / libertarian viewpoints (NK wouldn't need nukes if the US hadn't been so hell bent on regime changing Iraq and Libya), the truth is the rhetoric coming out of the WH is insidious and evil.

Sure, politics are not for HN, but seriously at some point we have to speak up. This goes beyond politics.

Evil is done when good men do nothing.
I don't like how taskrabbit refers to their workers as "rabbits." This is demeaning.
Anyone in this thread know or should know THE GUY who tackles these considerations from the orthogonal position — AvE ("Arduinio vs Evil").

He cracks gear open before he's ever turned it on to look for build quality and/or any janky crap, then reassembles and runs it after. (No, he's not batting 1.000, but he's good.)

Classic teardown here of some sweet gear from the <hint> fourth smallest country (area) in Europe (0m37s, 1m06s & 1m21s are +1 moments, btw.)

URL,
https://youtu.be/Yt2z6hEnQBs

I'm behind on the comments but I hope someone linked back to the "It Should Last Fifty Years" thread from the past ~12 mo or so: highly relevant to the topic at hand.
But large states cannot do it in a legit manner as they have to follow some constitutional rights of their citizens. Most constitutions of these countries have enough freedom rights paved into them to avoid such blatant action by the government. Besides, the backlash in the media would be unbelievable, the party that does this kind of thing may not find many voters in the next election due to the negative press (at least in technologically advanced nations like USA and Sweden where people are generally aware of online rights).
is there official confirmation of this? it would seem like a change of pace given how the community vs enterprise feature lists play out:

http://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-community-vs-enterpr...
>the one that actually creates value

What value is value if it can't be sold? Yes, there's intrinsic value in doing things because they need to be done but most of the work done in offices around the world derives its meaning from its worth to a buyer.

This being so(?), is the employee necessarily worth more, as you seem to imply, just because they are mashing away on tools rather than engaging with buyers or regulators, strategizing, and scheming?
This analysis, while novel and interesting to me, is not supported by the bulk of events in the early Old Testament. I will name some examples of God personally meting out the death sentence en masse as punishment for sin in various books of the Old Testament.

1. The Great Flood (Genesis),

2. Sodom (Genesis),

3. The Plagues of Egypt (Exodus),

4. The Exile of the Israelites from the Promised Land (Exodus).

Redemption, mercy, and forgiveness are primary themes in the Gospels, and further continue as major themes in the rest of the New Testament. Aside from the Lake of Fire (Hell), which is worse than being killed for being a first-born Egyptian child, references to punishment are secondary.

As for Paul's opinion of the Old Testament, that is fine, he wrote that opinion. There is no shortage of contradictory and conflicting opinions and facts in the Bible since it is a work compiled, edited, and written by humans.

That said, the mainstream Christian opinion that the Old Testament is vengeful and the New Testament is merciful is prevalent for a reason. Paul cannot retcon, try as he might, the events of the Old Testament.
I'm not him, but I have the same opinion.

Emacs doesn't play super well with others. You can do a lot of things in emacs, but you can't do emacs in other things.

On the occasions that I'm writing Java, I find IntelliJ to be super awesome. But I get annoyed because the editor in IntelliJ is not emacs. I'd like to be able to do things I can do in emacs in IntelliJ. Realistically, that means replacing the IntelliJ editor with emacs, but at the moment that isn't really possible.

Some things you can use emacs for, like editing web forms (I used to do that with an extension in Firefox), but emacs is really not so great at being used in other programs.

As far as emacs itself, the somewhat crappy GUI rendering precludes creating an IntelliJ like experience.
According to Gartner, blockchain has just passed the "Peak of Inflated Expectations". Next phase is "Trough of Disillusionnment".

http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-trends-in-the-...
Micro also has zero drpendencies after it's compiled. And Go makes cross compiling easy as childsplay: just set two env vars, type go build and you're done.

I'd love a working replacement for Sublime Text written in Go rather than all of these Electron based editors. Lime Text is kind of alpha quality.
We're called 'colleagues' at work (US company). Always reminds me of the so-called communism propaganda I used to live in.
Yep, but I think "architectural differentiation" etc. often doesn't matter to customers directly. More important is what that architecture allows them to do, or how that architecture makes you better/faster/cheaper than your competitors.
>I have zero sympathy for junior who goes to some 150,000 a year liberal arts college and gets a degree that makes no money or requires another 2-4 years of school.

Then you're an asshole. Young people with zero real world life experience make poor choices often. Sometimes critically poor choices. It's a part of growing up to fail and the fact that you can't squeeze together an ounce of sympathy for these folks suggest you have a lot of growing up to do yourself.
And more: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23843

> Small business lending by the four largest banks fell sharply relative to others in 2008 and remained depressed through 2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties where the largest banks had a high market share, the aggregate flow of small business credit fell, interest rates rose, fewer businesses expanded, unemployment rose, and wages fell from 2006 to 2010. While the flow of credit recovered after 2010 as other lenders slowly filled the void, interest rates remain elevated. Although unemployment returns to normal by 2014, the effect on wages persists in these areas.
YouTube Wants Content Creators to Appeal Demonetization, but It's Not Easy
TLDR: Barefoot’s Tofino is a 6.5Tb/s (65 x 100GE or 260 x 25GE) fully user-programmable switch.