skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a factory where black and white workers bowled together on Tuesday nights, where at least two romances crossed racial lines, a subtle divide emerged: Many white men like John refused to train and shunned those who did; many black men like Mark openly volunteered.

The white workers who did agree to train tended to do so quietly, and kept it a secret as long as they could, said Jim Swain, Shannon’s supervisor.

Some white men complained that they’d watched their economic prospects decline for decades. They had shared their jobs with black men, then with women. Now that blacks and women were welcomed in every facet of factory life, the jobs were moving to Mexico. It seemed like proof that their best days were behind them.

This has to be one of the most concise, insightful summaries of the roots of things like racism and sexism that I have ever seen. And it is surprisingly evenhanded and sympathetic to the white men that are so often maligned.

I don't know how we solve this. But, I think you have to start with having compassion for the fact that many "overprivileged assholes" are scared of losing the security they have worked so hard for, that they thought would be relatively permanent if they did the right things.

How do we create a society in which all people can expect some baseline security instead of squabbling over who to leave out? This is perhaps a strange question to ask in a discussion about a factory closing in the US and moving to Mexico. Or perhaps not.

I especially appreciated the part of the article that elucidated that the Mexicans had not realized they were taking the jobs of the Americans who were training them. The ending is perhaps supposed to be a downer. The headline certainly is. But the last paragraphs indicate her daughter got scholarship money and many of the workers went on to get other jobs.

That isn't to downplay what a big problem this is for Shannon, nor to dismiss the very real issue the plant closure represents across the US.
Good otherwise is just sexist. Just because the law cares doesn’t mean we should. Let’s not prohibit female bodies
While I don't keep a software development notebook as a rigorous practice I note down interesting or useful insights, findings and patterns in Evernote. I sometimes keep code snippets as GitHub Gists but usually I find source code to be too transient and dynamic to keep it anywhere else than in the actual project it's needed in.

More importantly though I use my blog for keeping more polished, more elaborate versions of my more relevant notes. Sharing your thoughts with others not only benefits others but it also makes you think over and refine your original ideas.

Distilling your thoughts for the benefit of others will help you better understand the matter as well. While we teach, we learn.
Another problem is Houston is in Harris County and the land to the north and the west that contributes to flooding the Buffalo Bayou route to the ocean are in different counties and multiple different municipalities. This would require the different government entities to cooperate on a solution that limits each others development. The state government is fairly dysfunctional in this area and raising money to fund anything by raising taxes does not look likely for the forseeable future - their solution so far to fund public schools is to cut taxes which force them to unfund them a little bit more each year, leading to ubiquitous fund raisers by parents for their local schools.
Flooding was well over 10 feet in some areas.
Want to or have to. But I agree anyway
It isn't about having the artifact, but about the reflective activity of creating the artifact.
Ask HN: Share a brief scenario when you risked without any fallback in mind?
It's common to hear people encourage risk taking. Stories are told of some people that lost it all and started with a few dollars that they remained with. Is it possible to risk without another alternative plan of survival in case the pursued goal fails or is risking simply for people who have a fallback in place?
Wyclef was another hilarious one.
> Zealandia is unusual in being continental crust largely covered by water

Fits the name, by happy coincidence?
The inventor of Apple iOS user interfaces
Concur with #7 & #8. IDE support & support for large repos seem basic. Other features are not strictly within the scope of VCS, but things that we've come to expect in 2017. I'm for keeping them separate
I just click the google cluster or Ecs button and choose auto scale . Startups are often wasting time with code as infra.
Deploying an Asynchronous Python Microservice with Sanic and Zeit Now
No they don’t. (Source: I bought an iPhone 8 in The Netherlands)
I have a "notes" directory in dropbox. I use .md files, with a text editor that does some highlighting based upon the markdown.

95% of them go into what I call my "dev diary". Each day gets a new file. Any questions, answers, thoughts, etc. while programming or designing go in there. For searchability, I also add any reference Jira/Trello/etc ids.

Beyond that, I have cheatsheets and checklists. Cheatsheets are short, useful things (e.g. commands, undocumented gotchas, etc.) for a given piece of tech. E.g. I have a git.txt, mysql.txt, etc.

Checklists are things I should go over whenever I do X. Am I about to commit something? Well, there's a list of things I tend to forget to do. So I have a checklist for this.

Each project also gets a file (or folder if it grows large enough) in my notes directory.

I previously used Evernote. Then Onenote because it was nicer on the surface pro. But I had to abandon Onenote because they don't have a good Linux client. I decided I was going to stop throwing my notes away and just switched to regular files.
If financial executives had been investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent, it might have sent a much needed message -- and beyond just the financial sector itself.

White collar, "banker's stripes" crime has too little attendant risk, and what risk does exist, is too often a financial risk that is dwarfed by the profits and furthermore paid by the institution rather than the individual.

Imagine if you could rob a bank, and when caught, pay 5 or 10% of what you gained and walk away.

Bank robbery would be a growth sector.
Professionally - I took over the monthly payment system at my current job. There was a fair amount of technical debt and tribal knowledge about the thing - the first few months, I took extensive notes about everything from basic usage to problems encountered. As I paid off the technical debt, however, I was able to gradually turn the notes into code; now, it's almost at the point where there's nothing to write down each month (although there's usually new code to write).

Outside of that, a friend of mine has made his own semi-public wiki, and tied that into his email client; he can now easily link to pages from within the email, allowing him to communicate A LOT with very few new words. It's pretty neat.
Yes. Timeless wisdom, variations from many cultures:

* The map is not the territory.

* The finger points at the moon. One must not mistake the finger for the moon.

etc.
In my case, source transparency and fitness of open source applications to the needs of my job.

I remember that when I could switch from Windows to Ubuntu in 2009 because I ended up using exactly the same apps there (except Putty, obviously, which I swapped with Gnome Terminal). I already had an open source desktop with the exception of the OS.

I'm using GIMP because Photoshop would be an overkill for what I do. Libreoffice is more than enough. Sometimes I do something very basic with Inkscape. All my work is basically browsers (open sourced), an editor (emacs), scripting languages (all open sourced). However I must admit that I have a closed source binary blob NVIDIA driver linked to my kernel.
This is an emulator. It looks very promising... we'll see how long it takes.
>Humans evolved from immaterial matter to conscious carriers of information.

You know this how? Where is the science behind it?
Validation on the client is to catch user mistakes, validation on the server is to catch malicious actors.
It's a cycle that keeps happening. Emergent art becomes tokenized and commercialized. The challenge is to keep staying edgy and onto new things.
And there's also Power over Ethernet, which comes in multiple standards and several mutually-incompatible non-standard variants. And non-Ethernet systems that use the same 8p8c connector. It's still a matrix.
CalPERS rising costs could cause Oroville – and cities like it – to go bankrupt
> Picture with my desk, chair and station.

This would save me so much time. I can't count the number of postings I've seen on "StackOverflow Careers" that brag about their Joel Test score (quiet working conditions, check!), but when I dig deeper I find a photo of a giant open floor plan.

I've even seen hiring videos where someone bragged about what a great place it was to get work done, and right behind the interviewee is a foosball/ping-pong table, and just on the other side you can see some poor programmer with headphones trying to block it all out.

The words "quiet working conditions" must mean something else to hiring teams these days, but no matter. Show a picture of my desk, and there's no ambiguity.
Even better than rebroadcasting is Forward Error Correction[1].

It's the basis of pretty much all modern radio based telecommuncation protocols(WiFi/3G/LTE/etc).

Basic FEC can go a long way, esp if your packet sizes are large, latency is high or you have a lot of channel congestion.

[edit]

To give you an idea how awesome FEC can be quite a few ham operators do EME(Earth->Moon->Earth) contacts via JT65 with FEC[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_error_correction

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...
It's an interest thing: if the applicant doesn't even know what type of product you make, then what happens when you bring them in for an interview and it turns out they just fundamentally don't care about your product? Either (a) they'll turn you down based on that _after_ learning more about your product during the interview, which has wasted both your times or (b) this will get glossed over, they'll work for you for a few months, and then search for a new job after discovering that working on your product gives them no fulfillment.

It's not an ego-driven "only consider the candidates who put in effort specifically to satisfy me" thing. It's more "there's a 50% chance that this applicant who did zero research wouldn't actually be happy in this line of work, whereas any applicant who spends ten minutes of research and then still applies has already decided that this line of work is probably a good fit for them."

Does this justify it for you? Or do you still feel that asking candidates to know generally what your company makes beforehand is unreasonable?
From Twitter: (2017) "elonmusk: Falcon Heavy maiden launch this November".

Is that still on? Or are they announcing the next model before shipping the current model?
It’s an oxymoron.. ‘we only hire the best and stack rank the rest’.
Pascalcoin is a Unique Cryptocurrency, BLOCKCHAINS BEING REPLACED BY SAFEBOX
With no software patents, why don't more companies incorporate in Europe to avoid being sued for patent infringement in SV/elsewhere in the US?
That didn’t matter since an employer could look up your salary history on the service Equifax and others provide.

Second part of the law is brilliant!
Tone doesn't translate well in text, and HN is culturally pretty against joking/sarcasm
There is a related article on page B1 of the October 1 edition of the San Jose Mercury ("Oroville latest city to mull bankruptcy") but it is oddly invisible to searches on the main, public site.
That, and allowing OEMs to decide port, data rates, and power delivery spec individually.

In particular as we have a rudimentary power spec in the 3.1 "data" spec, involving resistors in the cables(?!), and a separate power delivery spec that goes above and beyond the 3.1 power stuff to define anything up to 20V at multiple As.

Frankly to me there seems to have been a initial C port design that was a "simple" mechanical reversible implementation of the existing 3.0 wiring. And then someone decided that rather than simply have the pins being mechanically doubled (either in plug or in port) they could make each be an individual wire and run even more stuff through the port. And thus we get Alternate Mode that can carry just about anything the OEMs dream up...
The proxy is altering the JavaScript, css, and HTML to get rid of various countermeasures.

Maybe one version dynamically pulls in crucial js with subresource integrity, with obfuscated text that isn't as simple to strip out. Another version where the main obfuscated js bombs if the subresource integrity has been stripped from the HTML, etc.

The approach I described means they need to solve for X different variations of different types of countermeasures. Think things like obfuscated JS that checks location.host, or the Bitcoin address. And responds in different ways. Buried in the main js. But each variation of the site using slightly different countermeasures, div ids, ways to encode the text of the bitcoin address, etc.

Like copy protection. Yes, you can break it. But time and effort are expended.

The article already suggests some laziness from the scraper. He only substituted the hostname if it was lower case. The general idea here is lots of countermeasures, and ones that change with every request. Wearing them down.

>You can get alerted to it by checking your web server access logs

Maybe. Hard on tor, there may be nothing unique about the requests.
HN typically lets critical thought rule, which is one of the main reasons I post here. Although it is not perfect, HN is still one of the best online places to have nuanced discussions.

The problem is that the public at large seems to ignore many issues as long as their person is the one in charge.
I agree with your general argument.

However, I don't think our first priority should be trust.

Our first priority should be public availability of data and reviews. With this information, we get reproducibility and accountability for wrongdoing. In the long run, this will be worth more than trust.
Many companies used to regularly RIF their bottom 1-2%, but I'm not sure why Tesla's firings has anything to do with r/spacex.

When an AMA is held on Tesla, then I might be interested in that, but I'm interested in more technical details of upcoming SpaceX rockets.

If NASA had an AMA about the Space Shuttle, do you want the thread polluted with questions about NASA's opinion on the F-35? Or on Obamacare? Is NASA "advertising"?

Musk frequently engages people on Twitter. He's obviously a tech-nerd, and loves talking about rockets and mars, it's an obsession. No one would bet their money on an uneconomical plan to colonize Mars. He literally cried on 60 minutes when confronted with Aldrin's support of ULA.

It's a pretty cheap shop to chalk this up to some advertising campaign, rather than personal ego.

Advertising what? Buying seats on a BFR rocket?
On a marginal connection source/sink of a DP link will re-train which interrupts main link operation, causing brief lags in display. If the connection is even worse you'll get the usual black-picture-for-a-few-seconds dance.
If the benchmark is Paint maybe he means that GIMP is too complex for what he needs, so the UI is inevitably too complicated.

Pinta [1] is a simpler alternative to GIMP on Ubuntu. I never used it (and where is the source code?) but it looks similar to how I remember MS Paint. GP was asking about Macs, sorry I don't know anything about them.

[1] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
November is unlikely, but Falcon Heavy is still on. Supposedly the rocket is ready, but the launchpad is not quite.
Visa sponsorship (though I've never had to get a job in my life but afaik this and paid relocation matters a lot to all my friends)
Interesting that job postings for clojure are declining: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-clojure.html

And clojure isn't even mentioned in zdnet's most popular programming languages: http://www.zdnet.com/article/which-programming-languages-are...
Just look at China, all the local co ownership rules are there to prevent wealth drain by international corporations.
Cables that are hell bent on breaking something, because of the damned resistors everyone gets wrong.
absence of postmodernist/cultural marxism/lgbt ideology keywords, among which: gender (there's no gender, there are 2 (two) sexes), diversity (if the best candidates happen to be "white cis male", sorry, I think we can easily do the work without your "diversity"), safe space (if there will be a male colleague which because of a weird mental disorder thinks he's a woman, I want to have the right to call him a man, I don't want to be in the business of babysitting snowflakes)
Wait. Your reasoning is paradoxical in a Schrodinger-like manner. If yourself did not take into account the cover letter and assumed "research", the effective applicant suddenly becomes the one who did not waste time on that.
I guess what the parent comment was questioning was exactly this assertion. I tend to believe that the introspection is part of the reason these drugs help, but we won't really know for a fact until proper double blind experiments are done.
You could try using Turbo360's theme feature(https://www.turbo360.co/service/theme). It's a pretty simple way to make good looking websites by just using a couple simple terminal commands.
The 19% of youth in Europe who are unemployed don't have any of the cushy legally mandated benefits of employment there, and might be happy to forego a few to be employed at all.
Honestly, I think the emulator approach is a lot better -- you can do a lot more with JIT than trying to translate instructions AOT 1:1.
Checkout how to download paid apps from playstore for free
Don't most humans find most baby mammals cute? We could speculate maybe there's some evolutionary reason that mammal babies are cute to other mammals (for which they are not prey animals).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zc8bgk7
IMO, Dreamworks always seemed like Burger King to Pixar's McDonalds. They made some good films, but they always seemed a little more "gimmicky" (not quite the word I'm looking for, but it'll have to do) compared to Pixar's best films.
But we can at least try our best to minimize it, and instead try to maximize individual liberty.

Personally, I hate seeing cheaters win; and I hate even more seeing people suffer for no good reason.
>"As developers, we are builders, and so it is in our self interest, and not just moral interest, to fight corruption. And personally, I'd much rather live in a world ruled by innovators and builders than by thugs and thieves."

Fighting corruption is in society's best interest period. It's no more important to one specific profession than it is another. That's really an odd thing to say.

Also you realize that Wall Street Banks and Aerospace companies either are or were innovators and builders and thats how they got to where they are correct? Also the technology sector is no way impervious to corruption.
Wasn't also the Obama campaign helped (in 2008 and 2012) by massive social media/web presence? I remember articles of newspapers writing fondly of how "innovative" it was and "transformative".

It's amusing how quickly and easily tables and narratives turn.
Those aren't exactly the questions I'm raising; I have no doubt that there exists some way to produce AGI. My concern is that it doesn't seem like the right question to ask, since history suggests that humans are much better at first building specialized devices, and when it comes to AI risk the only one that really matters is the first one built.

I might have misunderstood your post, though.
There were an exception clause specifically for the likes of Apple. As long as the proprietary plug was removable from the charger (either by having the other end plug into an A socket on the charger, or by being a proprietary-to-micro converter) the EU would accept it.

The main point was to facilitate that chargers could be reused, rather than fill up drawers and landfills.
Ironically, linked to from the very same page: "Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/skin-color-race.h...
> For values with compiler-visible scoped lifetime, the compiler will automatically promote them to stack variables. There is currently no way to enforce this happening, but it would be perfectly possible to add such an annotation.

Other languages such as Java have that optimization too. But it is quite limited because it can only be applied to data whose size is known at compile-time. There is also the problem that if some data allocated in a procedure is passed to another procedure, it can't be allocated on the stack because it can escape.

A programmer working in a low-level language can be smart and choose the best locations (stack or heap) for each piece of data. A language that does not allow explicit stack access (like C does), can never make as optimal decisions.
Paying for a more product produced by more expensive labor makes more sense to me.
I've seen the claim that Julia has offest-arrays at essentially no additional cost a few times now, and I'm just not buying it.

As in, I don't see how its possible without stretching the meaning of "no additional cost". I'm familiar with displaced arrays and the like in Common Lisp, so i get that you can do offsets and things without using much additional memory, and i feel its a small jump from that to arbitrary indexing.

I mean, sure, if you're programming with constants or common patterns or things like that, a compiler could theoretically figure out and adjust the references itself. Or you can use macrology (I presume, since julia is so close to being lisp in matlab clothing, there's no issues with this in theory). Or you can come up with some kind of functional wrapper to adjust offset indexes back to the base case...

But if you're actually using run-time calculations using returned numbers from a calculation to index N-quadrillion times into various arrays and you're swapping between a standard and arbitrary/offset index measure, which is about the only time I can see you'd actually care about the relative efficiency of repeated arbitrary indexing, then it can't be a pre-compiled thing. The offsets between the actual numbers you're getting back and the actual index into the arrays have to be calculated in an additional step at run time.

Now its true that's likely to be only an addition or multiplication operation for each one, (and if it isn't, the run time application of another transformation just cements my point) but perhaps my notion of "essentially no additional cost" is more strict...
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>you may have gotten a bad dongle

I think that's the point. With off-the-shelf aftermarket parts, it's not always clear if you're getting something that can provide clean pass-through power or not. Or even if that's something you should be worried about.
We're talking about a country's influence, and per cap stats are completely unrelated to the total sum of influence

Stats like the one you posted do offer some psychological relief though
They ship with a lightningstrike/thunderport/whatever-was-that-name to usb cable though which can be used to charge it with pretty much any USB charger out there.

Not perfect by far, but better than it used to be before EU started to tell phone manufacturers to wisen up.

It’s easy to forget how crazy bad things used to be before the EU mandated a standardization.
There is overlap, as you admit it. They should make it 2 completely different companies, with different owners etc.

At the moment it is clear the Boeing receives state funds.