skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time I finally get fed up with systemd there was less choice than now, I remember only Gentoo being real candidate for switching. Now we have devuan and void and gentoo, they are all very good systems. Since there was only Gentoo and I didn't want to compile stuff the only other real choice was FreeBSD.

I am surprisingly happy with FreeBSD, userland packages are very fresh, which I like being former Arch linux user. Kernel works at least on the level of linux kernel, maybe even better. Zfs is something that I didn't completely understand before I tried it out, even with all the theory I knew. Zfs is just mind blowing.

I very much love linux and it is not impossible to imagine switching back, at least for some of my machines.

It is mostly matter of sanity and nerves, I couldn't follow and understand all the systemd flaws while pretending everything is OK.
Ask HN: Should I take a job at a startup where I know one of the guys is a jerk
Hi,

I have a potential startup job offer and everything is great - doing some Node.js and React stuff and the tech team will be 4 people including the CTO.

The only hitch is that one of the guys is a jerk and I don't enjoy talking to him (I know him from previous events).

My current position is a bit of a dead end doing boring stuff - the startup would have a much higher impact and is financially sound.

Should I go for it despite the potential conflict?
I wonder this too...having grown up in a rural area I can easily envision UBI creating a near permanent class of people who live off it alone. Why bother to go to college or a trade school if you can hang with your friends spending your days in recreation at 18?

I use to be a proponent of UBI, but now I genuinely fear what it would do to society at large.
Interesting! What's the key difference between this and other "auto invoice management" tools like ReceiptBank (
https://www.receipt-bank.com/ )?
Opera?
That was the first work of his I read, and I didn't like it at all. "Horror" from the 19th century sometimes doesn't hold up too well, and the same concept's been done to death at this point, arguably more effectively. I'm not sure of the history of that conceit, but possibly The Turn of the Screw is famous more for its novelty than for being particularly good per se.

I kept reading him, though, and loved Washington Square. Hated Daisy Miller. The Aspern Papers was fun if not really very good. I'd started reading The Liar and it was very promising, but one of my kids ruined my copy before I finished and I haven't gone back to it yet.

TL;DR give him another try, TTotS isn't his best stuff, and his quality's kinda all over the place.
Interestingly, I have encountered dialog boxes so rarely in Microsoft office products that I am immediately put off by even these seemingly benign ones.

It's pretty obvious however that I am not the norm, so what is causing all these dialog boxes in Excel and Word to make users complacent?
It'd be interesting to see if you could extend this to enhance productivity, like recognizing equations and displaying the solution directly.
It also only has 4 colors - white, black, light gray and dark gray. This is a limitation of the gameboy display, although the photos look like they are dithered. It would be interesting to know what kind of quality the actual camera sensor has.
This is exactly what made me quit desktop development on Windows. MFC, ATL, COM+ learning going to waste was a bridge too far.
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My project was a little more involved than what SQL Server functionality provides. For most use cases SQL Server full text or SOLR would be sufficient but this was very researchy with writing custom analyzers and scorers (not sure if I get the terminology still right).
Wish they could selectively breed strains for this.
While I would consider myself more a Golang fan than a Rust fan, I am impressed by the speed by which the Mozilla team is changing fundamental parts of their browser and somehow I believe rust has something to do with that speed.
Accenture leaks private keys, emails and more online
I guess you're in good company since the article also has:

> I must admit that at the time I was not overly impressed by The Turn of the Screw.

So you may want to try others. I read his The American a few years ago, and liked it overall, despite also feeling that it was sort of predictable and not all that interesting. That said, I'm pretty confident it would have been much more remarkable at the time, but in part because of the influence of James' writing we have grown up with what he was doing developed over another century or so. And even then, The American definitely held some insights for me.
Visualizing Espresso Machine Data with GridDB and Bokeh
It's precisely a gish gallop. Unfortunately, in this format of debate, busting out a well known logical fallacy or poor form of argument is not necessarily penalized.
The Myth of the Non-Technical Marketer
> There are some minor caveats

One of the "minor caveats" is that the app only runs on your own device for max 1 week, after which it will have to be reinstalled via Xcode.

Which basically makes this useless even if all you wanted to do was run your own code on your own device. I have tried this for small apps I made for myself, but after re-installing 2-3 times, the annoyance was too high for me to continue.

In contrast, and while I am way more experienced and comfortable with the Apple SDKs/dev environment, deploying a small app that I built for my wife was ridiculously easy, and continues to run fine without me touching it for more than a year now.
I've trained myself to always use >>.
After Russian election hack, U.S. security advisers to make 2020 race unhackable
One way is by being bought for $164m + x, where X >= $0.
Info on further reduction: https://github.com/fractalwrench/ApkGolf/issues/2
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The article doesn't really go into this part, but it does mention an extensive business plan. Was it that the labor costs were not foreseen, or that the revenue was much lower than expected? To be off by half is significant. It would be interesting to hear with hindsight what could have been done differently to avoid this (even if the calculation came out to "don't open a restaurant").

If doubling your sales wouldn't make next month's payroll, my first guess without any additional info is that margins are too thin (or possibly negative). Unless no one is coming in, it's not really a revenue issue, it's a cost issue.

Whatever your business is, know your costs and the drivers of those costs. You have to know whether the prices you can charge will cover the costs and provide enough profit to keep going. It's not even specific to restaurants.
The last 5+ years the only malware found on my Windows computers were Chrome extensions. Not found by Avast, but by (my about weekly) manual scan with MBAM free. One of the extensions I remember is Zoom, other two or three I forgot.
Information Disclosure on T-Mobile site allowed hackers to access customer PII
In the interest of said discussion, I would appreciate a write-up of the rationale behind the approach chosen, when you are ready. It could help others that are in a similar situation. Perhaps inspire a better practice in the industry.
That would be two actions hover + click. I'd like to be able to just click "Issues" and have the option to make it the issue list or the issue board.
If the author is returning it, will they get reimbursed for the $99 they spent on the Developer Program? I don't see why they would, but why return it if you're not getting all the money back?
As for "Why So Many Dropped Production Databases?", you can always configure ssh with a combination of LocalCommand or use tmux to change the background of the terminal, when you are on a production server.

I did a blog post about it [1].

1: http://www.drinchev.com/blog/ssh-and-terminal-background/
Completely agree. Basic Income would not only be tremendously stimulative and probably lead to more growth and demand for labor, it would also give many the flexibility to avoid traps of poverty and engage with the economy in a more sustainable and ultimately productive way.
The funny thing is that the valley is doing everything in its power to get rid of these "biases", even when they're proven out by machine learning, empirical evidence, and profitability.

For instance, Facebook says that it will automatically stop assigning targeted ads by race, because it could get the race wrong. [1]

However, when they got the race "wrong" even though the person might have interests stereotypically associated with those races, there was a big outroar. If they had instead called the race groupings by some other name such as "urban" for rap and basketball, for instance, I think that would not be so much of a big deal.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/business/media/facebook-w...
Do you still have your replies to the speed K? I can't find them in my backfiles
Indeed, and I was not trying to suggest the punctuation was due to them intentionally trying to write an FQDN. I was just mentioning a fun fact that the notation reminded me of.
Remember all that money the various government treasuries loaned to banks to keep them afloat? Take a guess where it's being spent. There is so much currency in circulation due to quantitative easing that investors are running low on things to buy. So they are parking it in the few places they know to be safe; government bonds and real estate.
Then your experience is limited. There are people with skills and a good education who can't find work, because employers don't want them. Some of them are computer programmers.

The purpose of Basic Income is to allow people to survive while they don't have work, and to increase their incentive to find work or at least do something productive, without having to worry about losing their benefits -- not to leave a small elite in work while the rest are reduced to idleness.
I believe it's not opt-out.

IIRC, you're properly asked, the first time you try to do something, whenever you want to enable relevant tracking - e.g. share location history (e.g. when trying to set up "show my location"), or save voice data on Google servers (e.g. when setting up voice unlocking), etc etc.

I'm not exactly sure about app history and in-app search, though - just honestly don't remember about it. But it could be that user is actually asked at account setup time.

Point is, for many things Google actually properly asks for permission. Guess, it works for them, because timing's relevant. (They probably have ton of invisible tracking as well.)
Because race is intrinsic to how many people interact with the world around them?
I wonder what that guy has done to get and keep such an elite tech job, complete with year-long vacations, and doesn't even have to 'pretend' to use his own products.
This keeps annoying me whenever I go looking for .NET classes reference. The documentation at docs.microsoft.com is severely lacking compared to msdn.microsoft.com. It lacks the detailed samples and insights usually present in the "Remarks" section on MSDN. The information it does have I can usually discover using IntelliSense and by navigating to the assembly metadata.
This already exists on Windows (via require Ctrl-Alt-Del) and to a lesser degree on Android (by always being able to show the action bar in fullscreen).
It's not your fingerprint that's the issue, it's the data that represents your fingerprint. If that data gets compromised then it's nigh impossible to change your fingerprint. However, I believe there are ways to make this very significantly difficult, and I believe Apple has achieved this level of difficulty by placing the fingerprint data in the secure enclave.
This is the exact opposite of my (now two decade old) experience. We had a team (honestly, one guy) who did the most ridiculous meta Ks and the LDers were almost scornful of it. Their debates were ideological and drew from a much wider range of sources, but there was virtually no meta involved.
Addgene is a great service. My lab has ordered a couple vectors from them. I do wish the material transfer agreements were less painful, though.

It's great to see more open science. Now we just need to fix publishing, and we're golden...
Hello, another developer here. We thought it would be interesting to build something that didn’t depend on winning a technology war against distractions online. We’ll never be able to fully block sites (my fav example: the fb mobile apps are bundled with an ever-changing list of IPs), and we’re not sure we’d even want to, so instead we focus on the user and work to build a healthier relationship with the online world.[1]

It’s not going to work as quickly as blocking seems to, but we think it will be more effective over the long term. Hope folks like it!

(Personal anecdote: in building this I have completely changed my news consumption habits. I used to hit up the New Yorker/NYTimes/WaPo when boredom struck -- when I woke up, at lunch, in between tasks, etc. Working on this helped me realize that the return wasn’t worth the time investment, so now I set larger time chunks to read the physical New Yorker magazine and books. Much better!)

[1] Cal Newport calls this ‘controlled use’ -- http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/10/02/are-you-using-social-m...
Who the biased algorithms are written by are pretty irrelevant. The argument is they are biased against anyone who is not a white male, and that we should be aware of that.
> periodically dies for no _good_ reason

You must be doing something wrong then. I run a Jenkins cluster with hundreds of automated pipeline build/deploy jobs and the master node never dies. (It's also the only node up and running 24/7) You should be offloading your work to build agents.
Not trusting apple with keeping their promise they won't share the finger print in the future is a good reason.
I greatly enjoyed Poe, Hawthorne, and Mary Shelley, so I don't accept that 19th century horror doesn't "hold up" too well, but you've convinced me to give him another try. I will put Washington Square on my reading list.
The Attic Greeks prized debate – rhetoric – but seemed not to suffer from these problems to quite the same degree. (Their problems were different and retained their interest, I suspect, rather longer than those of North America will. Read Plato's Phaedrus for a contemporary critique.)

We're a long way from vanished Hellas, but we do know a few tricks they didn't. For instance, we know that the elderly, while suffering a certain decline in the fluid intelligence necessary to react rapidly to novelty, can do well in crystallized intelligence – that factor which employs skills, knowledge, life experience, and, in short, wisdom.

I therefore propose a "Legacy" debate category, to be judged only by those above the age of, say, 70. A pace of 300 words per minute, while impressive, will not be much good when assessed by those whose brains are no longer physically capable of processing that hypersyllabification.
We were group debugging a crash that happened while using our API for a network device for NetWare under heavy load. We weren’t sure if the problem was our code or the IPX driver we had written for the particular NIC, so we were swapping in every NIC we had in the lab, and running some samples. Actually, I was doing the swapping. Turns out, the one time I forgot to power down was removing an NE-1000 (cheapest NIC available) and swapping in a 3Com 3C505, worth about $900 in 1988 dollars. The NE-1000 was fine, but the 3C505 was toasted. The PC was fine. The boss totally clowned me with some mean mugging, then smiled and said it was ok.
Looking for a similar library that works with Python 3? Checkout NetworkX. It's awesome! http://networkx.github.io
Yeah, AWS has five regions that are classified as carbon neutral, listed near the bottom of this page: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
Netlify: Replacing our gulp-generated search with Algolia
There are multiple thriving app stores in the global android market
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwapi
I'm of the opinion they should just bolden the hours. That's really the only thing I go to a real-world location representing website for that I usually don't want to take a long time looking for. Not to say I don't enjoy a really well done website, because I do.
Actually it's a little more in-depth(well it useto be, I'll explain that lower).

When I started out it was:

cook: two years training(while on the job), basics of most styles of cooking.

Chef: 4 years training (most of the time, on the job), with a day of University each week. Learnt basic cooking skills. Plus how and why of ingredients, how to cost and manage a kitchen, basic logistics(to understand how distance effects produce and the best ways to minimise the effects to ensure top quality ingredients), and a whole assortment of similarly unthought of information (put it in way most techs would understand: backend coding).

Recently most chef's qualifications have been reduced to 2 years, But that's a whole 'nother story :-p

To sum up, a chef isn't an experienced cook who can manage a kitchen - they are someone with the training to manage the staff, costings, health and safety checks, menus, discover and cater to local and new tastes, research upcoming trends, minimise risk(be it personnel, upcoming laws, basic food and hygene, ingury management and mitigation etc), as well as prepare and cook every dish on the menu (in a timely and cost controlled fashion).

While some cooks can manage and run a kitchen, (and I have met some amazing ones over the years), to say they are eanywhere near chef's in general, is akin to saying a student programmer is a full stack dev
Samsung hardware has blown Apple out of the water for the last 3-4 years. I want Samsung screens and form factors with iOS. iOS is what makes iPhones great!

Android is a giant tracking/ad/malware machine. It’s far too permissive to applications you install on it. My most recent negative experience were pop up ads that the Peel Remote started showing on my home screen. Peel remote is one of the force installed applications that Samsung’s touchwiz installs. It’s like Windows 95 with OEM bloatware, but worse.
The Carlyle Group Reportedly Values Supreme at $1B
Yeah, nice!
Games eat a lot of power by rendering this way. So, definitely a concern, and I'd want to see benchmarks before switching from Safari on my macbook.

That said, GPUs are pretty clever about this. A big chunk of power consumption comes from IO. i.e., moving data from the GPU to the off-chip DRAM. Mobile GPUs optimize for static scenes where nothing is changing by keeping hashes of small blocks (say 32x32 pixels) of the frambuffer in on-chip memory. If the hash of a block hasn't changed, they don't bother re-writing that block into the framebuffer. But the GPU is still ends up running the shaders every frame.
The meshes are all resolution independent, so they are only sent once.
Yes, I think there is a real trade-off between an objective scoring system and making it resemble a real activity.

Something similar seems to have happened in sport fencing. The style of fencing in the 19th and early 20th century is now known as "classical fencing". It was practiced as a sport but also as a preparation for duels, so the techniques had to be useful in a fight with sharp weapons. Wikipedia[1] says

> Scoring was done by means of four judges who determined if a hit was made. Two side judges stood behind and to the side of each fencer, and watched for hits made by that fencer on the opponent's target. ... There also were problems with bias: well-known fencers were often given the benefit of mistakes (so-called "reputation touches"), and in some cases there was outright cheating.

Then in the 1930s, electrical scoring was introduced. This is objective, but it led a big change in style, because now you could score by just touching your opponent, even if such a light attack would be ineffective in a real fight.

By contrast, kendo never introduced electrical scoring, and still uses human judges. A judge can refuse to award a point if an attack connected but didn't have enough force behind it---this avoids rewarding techniques that would not work in combat. So kendo is maybe closer to actual sword fighting, but on the other hand e.g. Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash makes fun of the subjectivity:

> As in fencing, you're not allowed to kick your opponent in the kneecaps or break a chair over his head. And the judging is totally subjective. In kendo, you can get a good solid hit on your opponent and still not get credit for it, because the judges feel you didn't possess the right amount of zanshin.

I guess the corresponding thing in debate club would be to give more discretion to the judges, so they wouldn't award a point if there was insufficient follow-through...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_fencing
Your post averages 1.69 syllables per word; this one is 1.86. There's no way the conversational average is higher than two.
> Since it's hard to find normal people willing to spend their Saturdays sitting in a high school classroom listening to teenagers role-play as politicians

Basically, this. Everyone's got an opinion on what should win a debate round. Until you ask them to spend Friday evening - late Saturday evening in high school classrooms listening to the 5+ debates on the same topic. Then suddenly their opinion doesn't seem so important to them anymore.

Very frustrating.
Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
> I bet they have. Especially insurers.

Externalize the cost: call the cops when the truck surveillance detects something and have them clean up the mess.
i dont think so. tech companies somehow get off the hook by claiming all their profits occurred in places like ireland.

However; I would say this is a hard goods / software thing, but apple somehow does it with iphones.