skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to this. But it's not just about lobbying, it's also about unions and votes. The American auto dealerships likewise have a lot of what's described as "lobbying power" when really it's more that they have a lot of people that want to see politicians protect them.

Many trucks in the US have a bumper sticker that says, "Without trucks, America stops." Teamster strikes, like the León Vilarín teamster strike in October 1972 in Chile, are a disaster for any country and create national emergencies.
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I pay just under $100/mo to insure a 1 of 724 (in the US) Boxster Spyder for 7,000 miles a year. For comparison, my 10-year old Mazda Miata ran me $62/mo with identical coverage, and was worth about 10% as much. However, unlike the Miata, I have declared value insurance because the car is worth 15% more than when it was new. Miata had typical depreciation insurance.

Tires more expensive? Yes, because they're bigger. ~$1500/set versus $1000/set (shipped, mounted and balanced) for the Miata, and the rears wear out about twice as fast.

Maintenance? If I went to a dealer for service, labor rate is 24% higher compared to a local Mazda dealer. I instead go to one of the best Porsche independents in the US and he's about 12% more than a local Mazda dealership, and he has way cooler stuff in his garage (last time I went, three 959s, a one-of-17 TechArt CTR3, and other craziness). Though still lots I can do myself.

Parts? I did a full brake job recently, and it cost ~10% more than something like a Subaru WRX STi. I actually used uprated brake fluid (which was +$20 over OEM), though everything else was OEM.

The only major long-term expense is engine rebuilds. Figure 25-30% more than rebuilding a mainstream V8 like a Toyota 1UR/3UR, Ford Coyote or Chevy small block. Though that's usually every 15-25 years (depending on engine hours at high RPM), so that's something you just sock money away for well in advance.
Yeah I guess that's fair. I guess my point is that when you meet that expert, your contribution to the conversation is typically going to be blurting out <pharoah-name> and <pyramid-name> because thats all you remember from that one read, then more or less passive listening until you change the subject. But probably that's more or less enough depending on your goals. What happens when your expert responds, "No I didn't work on that, I did <x>"? Yeah you can try to engage them, but at that point you may have no more context than before you read the executive-summary.

I would argue that having a more bottom-up learning would help you get more from that next conversation by having a lot more context and opinion then the handful of key-phrases you've managed to recall months/years after. That way, the next time you have access to an expert, you can are building on that knowledge, rather than growing a list relevant of words. To be blunt, its the difference between being a student and a tourist.
Another thing you can do to minimize the risk is limiting what your database user can do.

For instance, if you usually just need to view content. Don't let him truncate / delete / do other destructive operations.
I wonder where on the spectrum from metaphysical impossibility to metaphysical certainty the accurate version of this headline is.

Sure, AAPL’s enterprise value is north of $800B, and GOOGL’s market cap is ~$680B. But I bet stranger things have happened in capital markets, albeit not at this scale.

If Alphabet’s board were hell-bent on acquiring Apple, could they get the leverage to do it from anyone short of a national government? (Putting aside the obvious antitrust concerns.)
IMO they should investigate both. I do know that bundling hardware and software together allows apple to do whatever they want, but it still horrifies me that on a general purpose device, there is a gatekeeper raising arbitrary rules on what apps I can install (or sell for the other side of the equation).

While Apple's practices have been worrying me for some time, they are in no way mutually exclusive with Google's ones.
Intel created a superconducting test chip for quantum computing
I got slightly nerd-sniped on this and started optimizing (along with a few others)...we’re under 1K now (922 bytes from 1757 bytes) and still going. https://github.com/fractalwrench/ApkGolf/pull/4
There were incremental steps in between. A couple years of freelance development and open source work, then a couple years of working at a startup plus freelancing at night.

When I write a book (people have been encouraging me for a while now) I'll post it to HN. Thanks for your interest. My abilities are not extraordinary and I believe anybody can accomplish greatness with enough passion, perseverance, and unglamorous work
A macbook pro 15" has a ~15000 score on geekbench, and Apple's A11 has a score that is almost at 10000. We are a generation or two away from ARM having the same power as top of the line laptop processors, which can free us from intel and the ME.
Although the article's claim that he represented part of Los Angeles in Congress is kind of a stretch (unless they're being snidely metaphorical and it went over my head)
There is no way to learn without actually doing it.

If you want to experince it, sign up as a dish washer, evening shifts. They start after day shift work hours, and while you will get wet and sweaty, you will see what goes on in a kitchen.

It wont give you the experience to purchase a restaurant, but it will give you an inside.

If you want to go further, after a few weeks, tell the chef's you want to learn to cook. Ask about prep specificly, you will hopefully get a few shifts to prep vegetables before the dish shift.

Why prep and not cooking? Because you can't cook without knowing the basics of the produce. Give it a few months and you will hopefully be able to cook on quiet days.

Now this may all sound dismissive, but I don't mean it to be. I have trained up one of my kitchen hands (fancy for dish washer), from there to the point where I took him on as an apprentice and he was able to proove competency to finish his first two years in as many months.
I'd be happy to pay more taxes to get, at the very least,
better social services for those who can't support themselves. I want to live in a world that cares for those people. If you prefer a selfish motivation, I also want those services to be available for me and my loved ones, should they be needed in the future.

The blocker is that I don't have the time, expertise, bargaining power, or economies of scale to efficiently turn my money into social services. Governments are much better suited to that task, and some do so reasonably effectively. (e.g. universal health care, in countries that provide it.)
You could use Guided Access to allow them to use the calculator without leaving the app.
Just tried it on iMac 27" late 2015, High Sierra, latest nightly with WebRender enabled. Went to https://codepen.io. Froze the screen for 30-40 seconds, then just black. Had to hard reset.
"We have lots of users that identify as male."

this was the comment I was referring to.
>What is the DOJ going to say when China, Russia, and every other country wants access to phones

Trump's admin will give you and everyone you love up to keep the piss tapes or some other form of blackmail hidden away. Delightful times.

edit: Or cement a deal for another shitty hotel.
From observing users, it seems that just clicking OK without even reading dialog prompts seems quite common..
Insurance can be weird. For a while I was paying less for insurance on my 2008 Dodge Viper than I was on my 2001 Ford Mustang GT. It's all risk tables.
Computer science at a small liberal arts college
Let's clarify, WebRender doesn't do anything at all if nothing changed. If the content of the window is static then webrender won't wake your gpu up until it really needs to. There seem to be a confusion about video games needing to render at constant frame rate, but that is only the case in games where there is always something changing on screen. It isn't that uncommon for other types of games with more static graphics to not render if nothing has changed.
The Australian startup scene is very small. So much so I get approached frequently about searchcode which appears on top of Australia startup lists somehow. Nice to see that startmate is starting to get some coverage though as it should encourage more growth.
Their argument is that because tech companies are already listening to censorship requests from these sorts of countries, they should listen to technical requests from the US government. We've lost American exceptionalism in the worst possible way: "If you'll listen to all these other oppressive governments, you should listen to us too."

"Companies are willing to make accommodations when required by the government. Recent media reports suggest that a major American technology company developed a tool to suppress online posts in certain geographic areas in order to embrace a foreign government’s censorship policies. Another major American tech company recently acquiesced to a foreign partner’s request that local customers stop using software to circumvent a foreign government’s censorship restrictions. A third major American corporation recently stopped supporting virtual private network apps at the behest of a foreign government, to prevent internet users from overcoming censorship policies."
"Of course if you actually practice martial arts, play in a rock band, or enjoy coding and going to the gym, you are welcome here."

I don't think you'd be, though...
Judge orders identities removed in website data turnover
I'd like to blame the system too, but that's just bot reality.

Restaurants are hard, not only are you competiting with every other restaurant, you are also competiting with your last service.

There is no way to upload a patch to fix your last service, there certainly isnt a way to delete the stress from your staff.

It's one of the most cutthroat businesses in the world, and there isn't anything that will ever change that.
Yes.

And I know it's not an easy thing. But if e.g. the resources that went into Windows Mobile were spent there instead, I think the ecosystem would have been much further ahead, and we'd actually see more useful UWP apps.
that's how autopilot landed on current Tesla cars.
Why I’m Leaving a Research I University for a Liberal Arts College
It's yours is also pretty much the blue print for ll's Rock the Bells.
That is definitely, definitely not what the author was suggesting.
I think I'm gonna order the hardware and finally do this on my T420 and W530.
They describe what they do here: https://puri.sm/learn/avoiding-intel-amt/

If I read it right they do the same as described in the gentoo wiki page (get rid of every module except the bring up).
So it's useful in the narrow-ish case of AD privilege escalation.
Not enough customers, prices a bit high, undercapitalized.
I think, if your goal is fully free laptop, you should consider Libreboot https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/. The IME has been fully removed from it.
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Why the downvotes? This is basic accounting, not judging. Having a gross of $13K/week is a tough tough nut especially if you have any debt to service (SBA loans etc), or an equity partner expecting more than a free meal once in a while.
We're aware that there seems to be a problem, but we can't reproduce it yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
Any additional data points, test cases etc. are appreciated.
What does it matter? Debate is just another extreme sport, like kayak cliff-diving or memorizing lots of numbers. By taking human capabilities to their limit, we've gone post-human and started failing the Turing test.

Debate has become a worthless life skill. Members of the USA national legislature rarely give speeches to try to convince their fellow legislators of something; mostly the room is occupied by nobody but a couple of clerks and some automated CSPAN TV cameras.

Aristotle might say we've abandoned pathos (understanding our audience) and ethos (personal integrity) in favor of logos (the bs that gets spewed at 300 words per minute).

I'm glad this elite debater is calling bs.
Yes, the civic and educational goals of debate are often at odds.

I'm comfortable emphasizing the educational goals over the civic goals because I've yet to see a high school debate round weigh in on the balance of national (or even state) policy...
Chrome extension malware is very common

* https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/6fotke/the_great_su...

* https://threatpost.com/seven-more-chrome-extensions-compromi...

* http://chrispederick.com/blog/web-developer-for-chrome-compr...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6hvzzt/psa_my_ch...

* https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/chrome-extention-hacking-a...

* https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/ciscos-webex-chrome...

* https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinhive-is-r...

* https://lifehacker.com/many-browser-extensions-have-become-a...
My monthly Chargify bill is going up 264%
IIRC Circle needs to tell Github whether the build succeeded or failed.

It would be nice if Github offered more granular permissions.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) needs a React/Redux engineer to lead front-end
> Why not hand new hires a blank laptop and a USB key with the latest Ubuntu?

That's what I got at my last two jobs (minus Ubuntu), and I loved it.
Odd, I just read about this on imgur (I know).

MitM was such a brilliant show ..
This might be interesting if there’s no long-term commitment. While leasing and financing would obviously be much cheaper, those involve three to five year terms. If I could pay $3000/month and drive a 911 for a summer I might be very tempted to do that.
Google’s Home Mini needed software patch to stop them from recording everything
I.T Admins Are Nazis
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I don't agree though.

No matter how much he invested, it wouldn't change the fact that he wasn't profiting. You can't just throw money at restsurants, and expect a return.

For example: say he had paid off his bills then upgraded all the plates, cutlery, glasses etc, to make it seem more upmarket. Notw throw more cash to hire a trained high end manager, and build up his existing staff.

That doesn't change the fact that people were not spending what he needed to profit.

From the whole bullshit confit chicken, that he either a)had a bad head chef or b) was dictating what he wanted, based off of what he had seen, despite any actual hospitality sense (this I think is more likely, from the articles tone).

You can't just demand the highest quality ingredients, throw money as your staff, and expect patrons to flock in.
See 5eyes

The important EU states certainly have the same back door access or a 'trusted' means of disabling it.

Freedom is for the powerful and important, not the pish posh tax slaves these Grace's fatten themselves upon.
Maybe you'll enjoy this:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/5-reasons-waiting-tables-is-a-...
I didn't think the lame was was conductive in the back for foil?
Just be sure to dig about jaydee - jay dilla, and pete rock. Real music.

ps: for the pro web digger around, I read once that before jaydee was introduced to proper audio hardware by amp fiddler, he used single tape deck and a pencil to overlay samples by hand. Maybe it's just a legend.. could never find neither the original article nor any other sources.
So you are the one I see arguing with the poor teenage cashier that the milk is $.50 too expensive?
The thing is, though, PHP like that is still the norm, rather than the exception. And it gets worse out there, much worse.

And yes, it would be nice if everyone using PHP used Twig and Composer and ran tests and all that but businesses tend not to want to change things if they work (and the code your employers have now clearly does_, when that change will mean an investment in time and money without clear benefit over the status quo.

You're gonna need to take that chip off your shoulder or you're gonna have a bad time.
UnMarkDocs: Markdown with superpowers
You would think so, but people are dumb. I've seen tab-delimited files that are .CSV instead of .tsv, and I've also seen the semicolon delimiter a few times though I can't recall where. I think Excel actually pops up a prompt when importing to confirm the delimiter in some cases?

From your link, it's quite clear that you should not assume any particular CSV file to follow any particular rules.

> Interoperability considerations:
> Due to lack of a single specification, there are considerable differences among implementations. Implementors should "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" (RFC 793 [8]) when processing CSV files. An attempt at a common definition can be found in Section 2....

> Published specification:
> While numerous private specifications exist for various programs and systems, there is no single "master" specification for this format. An attempt at a common definition can be found in Section 2.

Section 2 states:

> This section documents the format that seems to be followed by most implementations:
The Economics of AI. (Conference)
But that's not caused by SCARCITY. Scarcity means there isn't enough food. That's not the problem we have. There is enough food to feed everyone. It's just owned by the wrong people.
Right, so they select HW so the remote access isn't available. Good, but this doesn't remove IME.
The bios and uefi obviously can also access the hard disk, otherwise you can’t boot. The OS still has its own driver though. That’s because (at least the BIOS version) is optimized for a small code size and a limited environment, while in the OS you want speed and features.
I'm a long-time Java programmer, but I have to admit that .NET Core development is fun.

I like it best on RHEL, or better yet on OpenShift for instant Kubernetes goodness.

The Java guys better up their game, pronto. .NET Core 2.0 is capable, miles ahead of 1.0. If 3.0 jumps that much, it'll be a compelling platform.
With my grapheme→colour and word→colour synaesthesia, it’s definitely in my mind—when I look at the letter A, for example, my brain has the same reaction as if I were looking at a yellow object, even though I can see that it’s not actually yellow.

An upside of synaesthesia is that I have very good clerical accuracy, which is helpful for programming—typographical errors “stick out” because things appear the wrong colour. A downside is that I can’t really use syntax highlighting, because I find it distracting. This is what my terminal Emacs looks like: https://imgur.com/m76W8eF (with soft wrapping because there’s not really a line length limit in this codebase).
Russia reneges on cryptocurrency legalisation
Great Explanation! I wonder how much this will impact my gaming experience while browsing websites.
>original: Your code will be exercised by 125,000 events every second,

>revised: your contributions will be exercised by more than fifty billion events per day

Why does 125 * 10^3 vs 50 * 10^9 influence diversity hiring?

The scientific study the blog references does not mention anything about altering numerical figures (such as altering a numerator from 3 zeroes to 9 zeroes) to be more inclusive.

Also, why is "code" a taboo word for inclusiveness? Here's female Ginni Rometty using the phrase "lines of code".[1] Another female (also a non-programmer) Mary Barra using the phrase "lines of code".[2]

[1] "New cars today have 100 million lines of code": https://www.ibm.com/ibm/ginni/01_06_2016.html

[2] “A car today has hundreds of millions of lines of code,” : http://www.triplepundit.com/2017/07/gm-boosts-stem-education...
Particularly the deposit/down payment.
There's a pretty good chart here, near the bottom: http://pedalfortcollins.com/greatest-demand-on-tax-dollars/
Cletus, you are 100% on the ball there.

This should be top comment not mine, he didn't control anything by the sounds of it, and insisted on top quality items when the customer base didn't support it.
Because nobody games on a Mac.
Belief that Craig Wright is Satoshi is not merited by any evidence we have so far.
I have it enabled on one of my Firefox profiles. Would not yet recommend for normal browsing, there's still rendering errors and sometimes seemingly random performance drops, but you can definitely see it working.

That is, I have to be lucky for this benchmark [1] to not crash my "regular" Firefox Nightly.
With WebRender on the other hand, the benchmark becomes entirely unimpressive, as if you were just playing a pre-rendered video.

My system has an Intel i5-3220M with HD Graphics 4000 (was midrange for a laptop in 2012) and 4GiB RAM. OS is openSUSE Tumbleweed with a KDE Plasma + bspwm combination as desktop environment, so no desktop compositor (no idea if that makes a difference).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hYIRQRiws
Ah, that was my mistake. Thanks!
I remember seeing these at the San Diego Wild Animal Park (now called the Zoo Safari) in the 80's. Thought they were pretty cool, and I'm glad they've prospered.
Yes I think that reaching consensus is great if it is reached through individual critical thinking.

Unfortunately, people have a tendency to accept ideas via mere osmosis; if something is repeated often and with a loud enough voice, eventually most people will accept it as fact.

Most people tend to blindly trust things that are popular (loud voice). It's flock behavior.
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I believe the pressure requirements were increased to combat the prevalence of this move. Watching Olympic fencing you don't see that many flicks anymore.
Interesting... How do you feel about this?
Yes, just like TouchID.
Exactly! That's the 25%.

When. I was an apprentice Gordon Ramsay was the man I looked too, his TV series (sans kitchen nightmare), was so informative, especially his UK series. It reinforced so much that I hadn't really paid attention to in college, and I don't think I would have ever gotten anywhere near as high as I did without his knowledge.
The linked page puts leasing a 718 Boxster at ~$1400 a month on a 24 month lease. There is no way that the additional taxes, title, license, insurance and maintenance will cost more than $600 a month.

Yes, there is a long-term commitment, but you can get a a lot of car for $2000 a month, all-in.

So it would be cheaper to lease a boxster as the primary vehicle, and, when you need one, just rent a truck over a weekend or whatever.
This is a really thorough demonstration of a really interesting idea. I can't think of many practical uses that require Tor here, but still very interesting.
It depends. For a lot of web pages, the things webrender do are actually very simple and can be faster than Firefox's compositor even if there was no painting required. The expensive stuff like rasterizing glyphs are cached.
The idea is that if we can render everything at a cost that is equivalent to that of the compositor, then the benefits of the compositing infrastructure aren't clear anymore. For sure there will be pages where the compositor would have been faster for frames where no painting was required, at the end of the day it's a new architecture with new tradeoffs, but the goal is to be overall (much) faster.
ELB Application Load Balancers Add Support for SNI
Doesn’t RDP use Ctrl+Alt+End for bringing up the password screen?
That'll probably be around the time they announce a management engine that is built into every ARM CPU.
As far as I understand this, that demo will have no benefit whatsoever from the changes described in the article. Since it uses <canvas> with WebGL, it has always done all its rendering on the GPU in a videogame style way – in any version of any browser.
Frankly, insanely hard work, stupid hours and sweat.

That's why I left, I love cooking, but now I do a bi-monthly cook up for friends and family. I make more money and I actually get to see my wife