skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Inability to clean up harassment/abuse/threats

That's a feature, not a bug:

> Twitter was designed, from Day 1, to enable any random person to send messages directly to any public figure. In other words, from Day 1, it was designed to be an abuse and harassment engine. It's not a bug. It's a feature. All that abuse and controversy is how it gets clicks and money.

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-i-deal-with-haras...
or him saying “it’s ok, wait a little longer and a hearse will come help.”
4% on dining is actually the highest category rewards for restaurants right now. Next highest card is 3%. So this card definitely has a niche.
none of my private doodles have gone through design review, actual testing, user feedback, deployment, and the 500 (or 1000 or 5000) closed bugs it takes to make them representative of professional work.

neither does that 1 wk coding exercise you made me do unpaid which I'm pretty resentful of.

If you have an open source project and want me to fix a couple bugs and do some reviews to see what kind of work I do, thats pretty fair (Rethink asked me to do this, I couldn't afford the time, but I thought it was a good plan)

Otherwise, I really don't know what you expect to learn
You have a non-partisan read on what happened here, then? I mean, sorry: this is an inherently political news story and discussing it without reference to politics just isn't going to be productive.
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What Bullshit!
As long as you don't use Btrfs's RAID 5/6 features. I happened to be more lucky and my filesystem only locked up read-only on me, and I had to transfer everything off.
The Dangerous Nuclear Weapons States
"The LLDB debugger APIs are exposed as a C++ object oriented interface in a shared library. The lldb command line tool links to, and uses this public API… The entire API is also then exposed through Python script bindings which allow the API to be used within the LLDB embedded script interpreter, and also in any python script that loads the lldb.py module in standard python script files. See the Python Reference page for more details on how and where Python can be used with the LLDB API."
Killing the app doesn't mean the email service disappears.
Good catch, thanks! Will be fixed in the next release. I'm not good with Windows stuff.

I don't agree with your WOW example. The browser is downloaded only for authentication, it's not used after that. The actual app is indeed 4 MB, and it has minimal CPU/RAM usage, unlike web browsers and WOW :)

Yes, downloading 50 MB for authentication sucks, but you still get a light native app.
I also don't get the need to add additional bloat to an app just to add editing features a very small percentage will ever use. Unfortunately, the number of apps I use that are over 100MB seem to be increasing rather than decreasing.
+1, thanks for the correction. Apparently I have a skewed perspective only working on web at big corporate joints.
40,000 people in the US were killed in car accidents in 2016. Millions more were injured. Seems like a worthwhile thing to disrupt.
Thanks so much for this advice, very helpful!
Wow. That sounds like something isn't configured quite right. Or perhaps ZFS just isn't as well "integrated" on CentOS.

All of my Linux machines with ZFS are running Arch Linux (as well as a few servers running FreeBSD) and I don't have to do anything special.

For example, I'll update them every few days (or whenever I don't mind having to "re-open" all my applications, tabs, etc.) and I just run "pacaur -Syyu", have it update everything, and reboot when it's done. It starts back up, I enter in my FDE passphrase, and it boots right up.
How do we abbreviate this? Door unlocking as a service, DUaaS?

Seriously though, this leads to so many questions.

- Why would anyone give a COMPANY access to their house? And why are people ok with random strangers roaming around their house, amongst all their valuables?

- What happens when the inevitably unpatched/out-of-support IoT lock gets jacked? Will people be forced to buy another $250 lock/camera set every year or two so they can keep receiving updates?

- Is theft/break-in insurance even valid if you've given someone else the proverbial keys to your house?

- What's your recourse if the delivery driver, or the dog walker swipes your Rolex?

I will never wrap my head around why people are so eager to spend lots of money to erode what little privacy they have left, in exchange for very very little.
Why not use run an open-source IRC server then?
Ah, the Kinect... platform for the first Matterport revision. (Matt B. is so next-level ridiculously creative, Adam Savage would tip his fedora.) Matterport is a really neat mesh/texture capture and stitching platform that I only saw
rough demos run based on multiple fixed CCTVs to do forensic 3D scene reconstruction from UC Davis researchers some years before.

Also, a first-hand story for this category:

Once upon a time, next door to my grandparents house in SJ/Los Gatos region, there lived a renter... not any renter, but a corporate/PhD/engineer whom quit his job to start a startup. After some casual conversation, he mentioned he was working on then something stealth-mode involving machine vision and 3D screen interfacing (think Kinect meets Wii controllers). Many Maybachs, Merc S-series and Aston Martins came by to due-diligence and meet said entrepreneur's startup, team and tech at this rental 3-BD with a dedicated meeting room near Hwy 85. The odd thing was, I never heard what happened to him and has baby. That is until I ran into someone whom did some work for him several years later. (The Valley is a very small place; heck, yours truly toured Woz'es and coworker's homes under construction when I was like 7, but I was more interested in the steep road (Harwood IIRC) out front for high-speed skateboarding/bicycling.)

Anyhow, it turns out, the night before the demo, the CEO made a source code change or something that broke the build. And, there weren't backups because they weren't using a (D)VCS. (Ouch.) I think it was acquired for an "undisclosed sum" for IP and wound down IIRC. What sucks is having to go back to work, kind of a tech "bar closing walk-of-shame," but there's always next time.
I think it proves AWS will be an alternative and potentially great choice for fabless chip company/startup.

They all need emulation to validate their chip design. However emulator is very very expensive, and unlikely in full use.
Everyone should check out Tandis by the same game designer - "A game where mathematical functions are used as modelling tool"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTOY1-jYro
Indeed! I always cringe every time I hear the word in our industry. I suspect (and hope) that most who say it are really meaning committed/dedicated to their work (and no, not in a committed/dedicated as code for sacrificing work/life balance). My belief is that most companies (excluding startups) should prefer dispassionate people. Why? Because it's too easy for the passionate to be emotionally attached to things (language, stack, framework, methodology), to where it can interfere with objectivity. I've worked with guys who would threaten to quit (and one Perl who did quit) if $favorite-language was not going to be used in the future.

The other worrisome thing about the passionate is that they're more likely to burn out.

What's wrong in our industry about being non-passionate? I don't get it.
NYC has topped SF when it comes to startups raising VC cash – but may not last
Getting a job is a competition. There is no absolute criteria for whether you should get a job or not. So why should an employer prefer you over someone who loves programming and problem solving so much that they do it as a hobby? If your excuse is that your previous jobs were so invigorating that you had no free time for personal software projects, then your reward is the higher pay you've received at those jobs compared to other easier ones you could have taken. If you decide to hike and paint instead of work on software for fun, that is perfectly fine, but those activities are simply less valuable to an employer. To me, this article is a textbook case of the "I do less work than my peers but should receive the same opportunities" complaint.
Sadly this is not true. There are so many excellent applications and SaaS - but they die very fast.

If the company which builds an excellent solution does not get acquired they will learn the meaning of the word "hell on earth": customer acquisition baby. Customer acquisition is not easy.

Of course, customer acquisition is easier if your product does not suck - but not so much.
LoL, you mean they found a new way to spin “financial analysis”.
I used to do a fair bit of hiking and mountaineering in Scotland and England and the only time I was ever challenged by a landowner (while eating my picnic lunch) was in Somerset where he claimed that I might spread Swine Fever to his pigs from the Pork Pie I was eating.
exactly. I work damn hard when I leave a place to make sure I have absolutely zero IP. its likely none of it would be useful to anyone anyway. But thats what I agreed to explicitly, thats what my former employer wanted, and as unlikely as it is that anything would happen I wouldn't want to taint a new company with code that can't be clearly attributed to them (which is what they paid for).

thats insane
Lost interest right here:

> We're not talking about calling out to a library here. We're talking about actually launching an instance of GDB, passing it commands, and parsing the results it prints out. And this is where we get led down a dangerous path.

That's just wrong. GDB has a reasonably well specified control protocol, which is what everything uses. Yes, it's ASCII and readable. No, it's not just "parsing gdb output".

Come on.
What do Bitcoin and Ethereum have to do with escaping capitalism? Capitalism is an economic system oriented around private ownership[0]. If anything, they epitomize the libertarian/capitalist ideal by providing an alternative to fiat currency, the latter being a statist construct.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism
Well, U-Haul's business is fucking people. There's a long story, but briefly, they promised a truck would be available, it wasn't, we found another, the manager swore he could see it on the lot... and it wasn't actually there. Meanwhile we had hired people to put stuff in the truck and they were sitting at our apartment waiting for us while we were scrambling a third time to actually get a supposedly fully reserved truck from U-Haul. It turned a stressful move into an utter nightmare.

One of the under appreciated benefits of movers is they have their own truck.
The point is that what a person is paid isn't entirely determined by their behavior at work. Much of it is, in fact, determined by their charm, network, prior history and negotiating skills: none of which necessarily have anything to do with their day to day.
The Second Mobile Cycle
Do you think all of the reviewers gushing over the Pixel 2 camera are also in on it?
Me either. It's become cool to work 60 hours a week because you like your job, and then go home and do more programming because you like programming.

Why it's cool... I don't know. I agree it helped me in the early days of my career, but at this point, as a senior developer I can pick up new technology much faster than my early days. I can come up with a working solutions much faster.

I like my job, and I like programming... But there are other things I like too.

So, why do I need to work long hours and program outside of my job? I have good enough communication skills to convey my experience. If I'm not hired for not having an active github account, or a side project, there are five other companies that would.
Obviously they didn't invent financial analysis.

They built a system that does this at scale: 1) collects and organizes the right data and spits out analysis -- this can be painful from the many times I've done it. Investment banks hire armies of young analysts and pay them six figures to do this at scale 2) made it self-serve for entrepreneurs seeking funding -- not having to do the CRM/pipeline mgmt process associated with private investing is a massive efficiency improvement. VCs hire associates and partners and pay them handsomely to do this at small scale (hundreds of deals seen / year / professional)

As someone who has done a lot of private investing, the value here is obvious and substantial for the investors and the entrepreneurs.
> None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power.

Categorically false.

Most obviously, harassment does not require that power dynamic. It doesn't even require the white male majority. Sexual harassment is harassment of a sexual nature. Is Scoble presuming that a subordinate is incapable of of harassment?

Second, every report of harassment can make or break a career, which tragically is often that of the victim. Role power is secondary to the disruption and discomfort effect.
Nice to see a lot of improvements! I spent some time today to upgrade an app from Apollo 1.9. I ran into some issues if you use TypeScript.

The typings used in the library are not listed as dependencies, so I had to manually install them. This may get fixed soon (https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link/pull/171), though I had to install three @types packages: graphql, lodash.flowright, and zen-observable.

The ApolloProvider parameter for client is also broken: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/2212

Also, `data.loading` still gets stuck to true. See https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/1186, though this issue has repeatedly been opened and closed.
That’s a tiny fraction of total units sold.
> My encryption subkey was explicitly _not_ generated inside the Yubikey.

I figured that was the reason.

I use an offline master key and have separate [S,E,A] subkeys on my YubiKeys as well, although I generated them on a machine that is fairly well hardened and offline anyways -- mostly because I didn't want to risk losing them but also because I have multiple YubiKeys that I wanted to use them on.
How much cashback on a Lyft?
There is a lot of woo around fasting and the research, by in large, has not been done yet (if ever). So all we have is educated guesses.

My advice is just give 3 days an initial shot to see what it's like.
The inverse concept (helicopter over public land to access a private inholding) has been tried by the Sievers :

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/lawsuit-seeks-to-build...
more than a month. Best to think of it in terms of H2O2 turnovers per enzyme. Imagine if we made a new enzyme that had 10x faster turnovers but a 5x lower lifetime. Assuming we could still keep up with its oxygen demands, that is a better enzyme despite a lower lifetime.
It certainly does have a level of correlation. The less time you spend "at work" (for whatever definition you care, including work from home/the moon) the less work you get done. Now, no, that doesn't translate to a perfect linear growth rate where working 20 hours a day is twice as good as 10 hours a day, there is a limit you can push people. People need vacation and time away. However, it's a rock star who can be as/more productive in three days a week than a similar guy working 5 days a week most weeks. I'll even grant some people can cram for three days a week and be as productive as a 5d/8h guy, but in the end you still need to put in the hours.

Note, this comment doesn't allow for absurd comparisons such as "Forrest Gump coding 8 days a week will never match Donald Knuth coding 1 hour a month" or whatever. Ass comparisons should use reasonable definitions.
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/xilinx-inc/XCVU9P-...

The list price of a Vu9P is like $50,000. I'm sure that's not the real price, but still.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15551968
Rhetorical question: are republicans really alone in this?
1. Good companies won't pitch you, it's common for VCs to reach out to the top companies while they are not raising funding. So good luck running your analysis on data you don't have.

2. There are no metrics that identify a good from a bad investment. Maybe this would work in some cases for later stage investments. But even at the later stage the metrics are all over the place.

3. Companies applying to this VC fund will game the system

4. This is not a new thing, every VC firm looks at your metrics.
Every week I see more friends and local small businesses using Square Cash. Ever month I see more local shops using Square POS with the fancy iPad holders and readers, etc. The feature set for those of us who use it to send invoices continues to grow, too, making them really a great solution.
I was kind of with you up until this point. That's a line that is foolish to cross.

Any candidate who plays fast and loose with their previous employers' code is going to play fast and loose with _your_ code. Or your corporate secrets. Or lifting GPL code. Or pretty anything else they think they can make off with. Such employees are a lawsuit waiting to happen and are best avoided, as are employers who tolerate such employees.
I believe people buy all sorts of gadgets just because they are things they don't already own, or they do already have one similar but then find a new one that has slightly better styling / matches their decor better / has a new feature, or someone they know has a better one so now they have to have the best too.

And that is about as much thought that goes in to it.
CNN is in the business of orchestrating local news, though the local station is arguably 'subscribing' to those stories/policies.

One of Conan's recurring bits is anchors reading prepackaged scripts.[0]. They're all packages by CNN for local affiliates,[1] one of several similar services (including Fox).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA

[1] http://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/2013/12/heres-how-conan-obrie...
This is very complicated and varies from State to State. Incorporation requires meeting some base criteria, such as sufficient population size in the proposed incorporated area (usually a few hundred people), and often requires an official act of an elected body. How responsibilities can get allocated technically (i.e. what is legally possible which includes some unusual arrangements in some States) and how those responsibilities get allocated in practice is equally complicated. Generally though, for Federal land, the State has limited authority. They do have indirect authority by virtue of the resources that they do control, such as water, that gives the States practical leverage. Federal land cannot be taxed by the State, so the Federal government subsidizes State property taxes in those States where most of the land is Federal because it is nearly impossible to build a property tax base when 90+% of land in a county is Federal. Not only is there not much property, the fragmentation of the land prevents it from achieving an economically productive critical mass.

Federal land has one important difference from private land or even State land: the regulations regarding management and use are pretty disconnected from the realities of the lands under management or the population that lives there, aggravated by the fact that these decisions are primarily made by people that have live very far away from where most Federal land is located and have no experience with those regions.
Code Review Etiquette
"Farmed"? No.

But attacking the supply side has only made the remaining poaching more profitable.

A better approach would be a certification program for ivory collected from elephants experiencing death by natural causes, including posting of DNA markers so that any given piece of ivory would be DNA-checked against the roster of legally-harvested "donors". Other ivory sales should be discouraged like with conflict diamonds. The proceeds of the legal trade could be used for habitat and protection of wild elephants and for rescue/rehabilitation of orphaned elephants.
Same. Clojure is very, very good at expressing data and data transformations in a simple, concise way. Once I learned to reason in Clojure, it quickly became the language I prefer for playing with a fuzzy problem.
Saying that people are ok with someone "being arrested for a tweet" is pushing it.

Saying that people think the most trivially "bad for society" behaviors should be in some way criminal is by no means pushing it. Have you been on Reddit lately?
Amazing work, and presentation. Thanks for writing.
It seems really weird to suggest that no big companies would make software if they knew that competing software could be developed. Regulations on drugs require extensive and time-consuming trials, and that's the strongest argument for drug patents. There isn't anything remotely similar in software, and that kind of incentive is definitely not needed.
Office is a super giant set of products with a million function, years of versions each their own set of bugs, and decades of files of every kind and subset of features produced by users. I personally have almost never seen another word processing app, for example, 100% successfully load in a non-trivial document from a competitor. It’s just really hard, especially if the features don’t map 1:1, let alone fonts, model of layout, etc. Just the shear number of rendering quirks, subtle differences in math formula implementations, etc would be mind boggling. It’s hard to imagine a more insane (and boring) job.

Kudos to Google for getting such impressive compatibility. Must have been insane amounts of man-hours to achieve. They at least have the ability to crawl the web, download docs and xls, and automate comparison. I’m not sure it’s even feasible otherwise.
im going to dig into every source of information i can on the subject of houses and their materials. my plan for the house has already evolved dramatically and will probably continue to, terminating in a design that stands a very high probability of satisfying my requirements. i very much hope that it works because unlike some people here, my prospects are not bright -- they are unsure at best. this is probably the only way that i will be able to retire in a house of my own without waiting until im 70.
As often six-hourly but I imagine more frequently than that at certain ports and airports.

Doesn't matter though; the radar images are available continuously.
Relativity Fest 2017 Review – Part I the Popsicle Moment
Neat. I've been fasting for an average of 6 days at a time, once-a-month. It's hell for the first 3 days but it gets better.

Related but different, perhaps someone with a bio/med background knows: Regarding the metformin FDA Phase 4 clinical trial for life extension and a conflicting recommendation from my PCP that metformin (1500 mg) has a significant risk of injury from acute hypoglycemia in those (like yours truly) without type-2 diabetes but being overweight (about 20%). I didn't see anything in the literature or box warnings about common hypoglycemia risks, especially in good liver & kidney functional patients, and the body can regulate glucose with a panoply of pathways. Seems to me, metformin looks like it has massive potential to benefit many people to up-regulate healthy pathways, but only if doctors understood its limitations and capabilities in settings outside of diabetes. Or am I missing or wrong about something?

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432287

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-11285-7061/metformin-oral...

https://www.drugs.com/sfx/metformin-side-effects.html
Filipinos on the Mississipi?

I don't buy it. They would still have to pay Illinois prices for food and coffee every time they docked. They could only take so much of a pay cut.

Not that there isn't a place for the Jones Act. But it really needs, at minimum, to have an exemption for Puerto Rico and the USVI
Pretty much. Democrats do identity politics. The GOP needs flood media in cheap places with pivot issues (guns, abortion, etc).