skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that I am not planning to test an app I built but an app my clients are planning to use/buy. And I would have to use these methods, even though, they are subjective. One way to make it less subjective is what @Msurrow suggested, which I think is so valuable.
Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers
It seems like the product handles a few of the bureaucratic nuisances a freelancer has to deal with, but forgets about one important issue: finding actual clients!
I wrote a gameboy color emulator a few years ago https://github.com/djhworld/gomeboycolor

Probably would require some effort to get it to build again, but it was a fun, if a little intense programming project.

The architecture is very approachable, although I never got the sound working.

There's no greater feeling of toiling away for months on the CPU/GPU/MMU code where you eventually reach the point where you can successfully boot the emulator into rendering the "Nintendo" logo that scrolls down the screen.
It's much easier to trigger depression in someone who's on the edge. A couple snarky anonymous comments and it's done. This simply didn't happen in the past when anonymity wasn't so easily attained.
I think we will see a battle for DISCOVERY option. The search will be for things that you need an answer. But discovery is something bigger. Like when you click the Magnifying GlassIcon on Instagram, or you open Pinterest. They give you things that are randomly generated but is not exactly from people that you are following.

The best tool to suggest things that interest, that you need or want without collect too much personal information could kill all 3 with just one shot.
It would be even better if checked was the default, and you had to use an unchecked block to get unchecked arithmetic.
> Every iOS app already runs natively on Intel.

For simple apps this is more or less true.

More complicated cases might not behave same.

For example, ARMv8 and x86 have different memory models. So execution won't be equivalent. You can have concurrency bugs in your code that only manifest on ARMv8.

I'm sure there are a lot of other examples of differences as well.
What does that have to do with having a USB-A port on the computer?
Right; so you're bothered by the fact that there are substitutions of x which make true the proposition ∃x:not(sells(Amazon, x)). These are counterexamples to their outrageously false marketing claim ∀x:sells(Amazon, x).

To what extent would you say this eating you alive?

(BTW: that marketing claim comes from the "Everything"; a collection which is "biggest" isn't necessarily exhaustive; just bigger than others.)
Unpopular opinions: let’s not lose the forest for the trees here, macrologically the US is turning out productive and world-competitive minds and workers. The system can have flaws and gaps without it being a total racket in need of ground-up rehauling. We don’t live in a concrete world so if you end up holding opinions at the extremes, you’re probably missing nuance.
Pseudo thermal view of Gzip/Deflate compression efficiency
For me 1Password's client, not the backend, is the winning story. I'm sure someone could build a great client and browser plugins for Vault (or any other backend) that could compete with 1Password, but right now, I've seen nothing. (LastPass in some ways is close, in other ways, not so much)
I use a Herman Miller Aeron and have nothing but good things to say about it.
very helpful article, I have seen their blog but not this wiki entry. Thanks. Anyways I am gonna test other people's web app using these techniques. Wish me good luck.
I'm going to give away the secret of autodidactic learning here. I developed this technique in college. Although there was no such thing as YouTube back then, iTunes etc.

I get at least two, preferably three data sources on the same subject. Read them all in Parallel and take notes. Getting multiple perspectives is critical.

What works for me is two well-made textbooks and a Youtube series, iTunes university, etc course.

““In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand.” (K. Jacobi, Lectures on Dynamics, 1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with tradition.”

–V. I. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics [5], footnote, p. 246
While the vault backend is certainly too powerful I could also imagine this as a solution for private/family use.

Having broad UI and plugin support with good usability will likely be the key to success.
I'm pretty sure it's this + 1-way data binding + data as the driver of everything + javascript as the _only_ language to describe the ui. Because those elements make for a simpler way to build UIs and I totally agree with this point of view
I'll second the recommendation for Windows Defender, based on how well it blocks the bad stuff. But to be clear, 1) Windows Defender isn't any more secure than other AVs, e.g. [1], and 2) the risk from AVs is negligible and far outweighed by the benefit, for the average user.

1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...
Most of what they carry is not their store brands. They sell many different brands and labels of goods, so it's not a really apt comparison.
DevOps’ish 050: Healing, Move Slowly and Fix Things, Observability, and More
I use one of those kneeling chairs.
Purism laptops do.
hdl/ldl - high/low density lipoprotein
The history of Glasgow's street gangs: Violent life and death of the young teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=vice.com
Is crack still a big business, the way it was e.g. in the 90s? Cocaine and its derivatives were never especially common in my region, but all of the news, and reports I've heard from friends in law enforcement seem to center on opiods, meth, and synthetic drugs like bath salts in recent years.
This is so true. What I've realized is how hard it is to get to a place where I meet people. I'm in a place that's really only accessible by car, and I don't drive. Uber works sometimes, maybe often, but not always.
What are some uses of Pushover? I've been looking for a solution to "sync" my notifications between Linux, iOS, and macOS. Is this it?
The bytecode interpreter patents are dead now.

Not the subpixel rendering ones ("cleartype"). In Fedora, FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING is still disabled.

Google also released metric compatible substitutes for Cambria (Caladea) and Calibri (Carlito), but Linux distributions do not install them by default.

Edit: I'm wrong. In F27, the subpixel rendering is enabled.
The unacknowledged myth of public policy is that there is no such thing as "the public good". No treatment -- drug, government policy, 'planning' -- can benefit all people. E.g. People in your country are suffering from malnutrition so you decide to subsidize certain crops. Congratulations now high fructose corn syrup has created an obesity epidemic. In the medical field this is acknowledged under the study of 'iatrogenics', that harm which results from attempting to help.

Unstudied, or unstudiable, government policy results in whole societies being forced to take metaphorical drugs in which politicians, without any supporting evidence, tell the populace that this policy will help them. And yet people who live in the real world see the exact opposite. The economic and social isolation of the political class exacerbates this effect.
I loved it. Definitely an OG reference at this point.

If you could only add in an Amy Hoy reference, then we could seriously start reminiscing about the good ol' days.

Is there a Discord, Slack channel, or something where the smart, vocal people with different opinions hang out? If so, please let me know.
Well original creative reporting doesn’t have any money in it anymore .
Minimalistic RSS reader in 12 lines of Python code
And if the end goal was to get everybody's real email addresses, this would be a calamitous failure.

This guy just needs some feedback. Even just a fraction of real emails would be better than none.
Ahh, memories -- memories of waiting in a queue to download something only to forget to enable "auto-accept DCC send" and have it time out some time around 2 AM!

Thanks for inventing XDCC :) IRC and online chat was a lot more fun 15-20 years ago.
You'll need to add more meat if you want me to take a bite.
Billionaire philanthropy has been the major source of funding for journalism for a very long time - in many ways the industry funded by classified advertising and the like is a short term blip by comparison.

Not saying that Zuckerberg funded local newspapers are a good answer, just that they aren't that atypical, historically speaking.
The arrow keys work in vim too (I don't know about plain vi).
As someone who's done some freelancing as a software dev, I don't see much value in the product.

None of the features offered by the product resonate with me.

For managing appointments, I usually do it all over email. Most major email clients support calendar invites.

Also, most freelancers already have a website and if not they can setup their own site very quickly with little effort.

I think the product is in a very competitive space. All the ideas I can think of in this space are already taken or they are impossible to monetize.

For example an invoicing app for freelancers is a great idea but already taken. Also it's hard to monetize because there are so many free alternatives available that it doesn't make sense for a freelancer to pay for it.

Another great idea is a SaaS solution to allow freelancers and their customers to sign and fill out documents/forms online. That idea is already taken and again hard to monetize because there are many free solutions already available.

I think that ultimately if the problem is simple to solve, then the market will be competitive and the amount that customers will be willing to pay for it will approach $0.

If you're not among the first people to solve a specific problem or the solution isn't able to leverage network effects, then the problem needs to be difficult to solve... Or else your profits will be eaten away by the competition once their product reaches parity with yours.
Switching Jobs
Maybe.

One of the most formative events for me as a programmer was playing with the gameshark on ps1. It had a debugger where you could press a button on the device and it would halt the system. Then you could search through the memory and alter values. Realizing that everything you saw and did, everything about the state of the entire game world was just numbers in memory was mind blowing. It instantly broke the illusion, but what it was replaced with was even more magical.

I realized that I could do things like set the health bar, or number of lives to a fixed value. I could change the height of the character and "fly" around. I could do anything, as long as I could figure out how it was represented in ram.

It was a pretty big deal to 10-year old me. A few days later I was using a computer and it dawned on me that the same thing applied to the computer I was using at school.
I dont care for either of them, but I don’t understand why we bag on Zuckerberg, who has at least realized at an almost reasonable age that there are other humans in the world. Meanwhile Bezos is what, ~fifteen~ twenty years older, and still seems to long for the return of serfdom. In 2012 Bezos was pretty much Bill Gates before Ted Turner and others took Gates to task for being Ebenezer Scrooge. Since then, Bezos has donated to his alma mater and to projects that are within walking distance of Amazon’s main campus. Big man.

Amazon is the new Walmart. When humans have a moment of clarity and learn to go outside instead of going on FB, all the shops will be gone or called Amazon, and Bezos will be swimming in his bank vault.
No obligation.
I'm not a freelancer, but I'd assume the biggest problem getting started with freelancing isn't the NDAs etc. It's getting clients. Maybe your marketing should be geared to people who are already freelancing and who want to upsell/become more professional?
Why is the whole virus needed? Not just the docking mechanism?
A Profile of Tesla's Car Designer
> Twenty-five years later, Megison is now president and CEO of Solutions for Change, a nonprofit transitional housing program for homeless families in North County San Diego. Key to Solutions’ success is its requirement that families stay sober and go through an intensive, structured 1,000-day residential program that includes classes on parenting, servant leadership, job training, and financial literacy. Ninety-three percent of families who have graduated from the program are still housed, employed, and self-sustaining.

Housing First has undergone randomized assessments. Has Solutions for Change? Touting a 93% (!!!) 'success rate' reminds me of the bogus AA claims, where they report similar literally unbelievable success rates (and note the overlap of alcoholism with homelessness) by a variety of mechanisms like screening out the hard cases, excluding anyone who doesn't complete the program, ultra-small samples, using weak endpoints like very short-term followups of self-reports or additional attrition, publication bias, p-hacking various outcomes and adding new ones on the fly etc. As a rule, there are no interventions with 93% success rates for such intractable problems as schizophrenia, alcoholism and drug addictions, homelessness, or poverty - the experiment has died and the statistician can only do a post-mortem.
If you really want some comments, why not start a new thread that is more likely to be seen?

(After looking at your front page, I have NFI what your company is, does, or why I should give you money.)
Can't be used on Android (Password Store app uses jgit which doesn't support remote helpers[1]; libgit2 is also not an option at the moment[1][2])

[1] https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store/issues/344

[2] https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/9458
Playbook of a viral social media campaign
You're right about the lack of intersection between ML and FPGAs. I should have used stronger language.
You can get out of 11/12 grade in Washington state. Community college is really what hs should be though.
http://www.k12.wa.us/SecondaryEducation/CareerCollegeReadine...
Not that I think they should be required to carry everything, but it's stupid from a consumer perspective. All the home streaming and "smart speaker" devices have important differences in what they can do and what they're compatible with. They're not interchangeable.

It'd be more like Safeway refusing to sell Mission brand tortillas because they have Safeway brand tortilla chips and that's basically the same thing, right? It's made from flour into thin layers and you eat it.
Windows Defender is at least unobtrusive. Got hit with a cryptolocker last year, and then mandated usage of some garbage WebRoot product that brings a quad-core i7, 32gb RAM and SSD workstation to its knees. Not sure which was worse...
Awful lot of filler and dramatic crescendos. Probably could have cut the word count in half. I also don't see the point in this trend of public character assassination in lieu of criminal charges. If someone raped you in the ass, and you're willing to publicize it on Twitter and Facebook and The Verge, file a criminal charge instead. But no, the real justice is getting their Twitter account stripped of it's verified status! Social media justice is just a bad joke.
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
If Apple wants to eavesdrop on you I don’t see how Siri changes the situation. You already have a networked device with a microphone, turning or not turning on an additional service hardly makes a difference.
Not everyone if the world is trying to create a computer model of music. The minimum a person with this interest can do is to contact a specialist in music theory (of whom there are thousands as I mentioned).
Why use Google?
It seems you're conflating a couple of our surveillance programs. PRISM operates in coordination and active cooperation with a relatively small number of US companies, including Apple. There is a rubber stamp warrant, of our secret court approves over 99%. The type and amount of information accessed here is extensive and includes encrypted and personal information - as well as even real time access to user accounts. You can see the NSA slides on PRISM here: https://archive.org/details/NSA-PRISM-Slides As an example of this, the NSA has real-time access to encrypted Skype conversations: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s... The breadth of information being collected was increasing quite rapidly, and everything I'm basing this this one is from 3-4 years ago.

Another surveillance program, that you seem to be conflating with PRISM, is MUSCULAR. That program is not as well known as PRISM. And it does what you're suggesting in directly tapping communication lines grabbing data from everywhere and archiving everything. Naturally anything that was sent on those lines unencrypted (or is otherwise able to be exploited) is then openly available. One significant difference from PRISM is that this is done without even a rubber stamping of warrants. Your post seemed to be describing the less 'cooperative' capacities of MUSCULAR with the token oversight of PRISM.

The problem that I see here is that most people are incredibly poorly informed on our surveillance programs, which include extensive domestic surveillance. And that is a shame, because in order for there to be progressive change people need to understand the current state of the situation. It's like discussing a budget when you think you have a billion dollars in the bank, but in reality you're already in the red - the sense of urgency, which should be there, has been artificially removed.
That doesn't really matter, this complaint about "this" predates the use of classes.
Shot heard round the world

Implies exactly that. If it had nothing to do with activism then 1) activism effort to influence investments failed and 2) this lends no momentum to the movement as it was a coincidence and could be changed tomorrow regardless of environmental impact.

The only way this is positive news for EA is if they spin and misrepresent it as is done here.
Nothing wrong with a device like that - put a keyboard and mouse on the iPad and go at it. But please don't take away the option of having a real computer Macbook for the rest of us.
How Israel became Gentiles
We're not taking donations, and there's no requirement the recipient be a charity. This is a user-driven contribution system, users decide to opt in, hold custody of tokens, and let browsing automation + any manual pinning or adjusting the like drive the tokens to creators.

If creators don't register after a decently long interval, the tokens flow back to the user growth pool. Users may choose to support only verified creators/publishers. As we scale up this user growth pool "powerball" effect goes away, and the BAT becomes more dear vs. fiat, so the pool lasts longer as grants and matching scale down in token quantity per user.
Good answer, but you forgot legal. One reason you would definitely choose an American programmer over one in another country is the ability to pull them into the legal system should they reuse or release your code , or do anything else inappropriate with it.

With just a simple 1 hour Court session an American programmer can be blocked from using Code or even blocked from programming if the Court decides that there is significant risk to the plaintiff. Taking someone in Hyderabad to court when you live in California is near impossible, and there's no way you're going to get them put in jail if they violate the court order.

In America, a 'work for hire' is owned by the customer and not the programmer and therefore the code can't be reused or recycled without explicit consent from the customer. That sentiment isn't the same in other countries.
if you spent an hour each day, 40 mins is taking notes on a legal pad, reading, trying stuff, etc. The remaining 20 mins is writing in a notepad the key concepts, summarizing from the other 40
> I'm in a place that's really only accessible by car, and I don't drive.

Then relocate. Or learn to drive. Or invite people over to your place. Anything will be more effective than complaining about your plight on HN.
That is possible, but in smaller communities where everyone knows each other, I see teachers and parents working together to help their kids succeed. I don't want to discount the value of a good teacher, but I think it is very unfair measure someone's teaching ability based on their ability to overcome poor parenting.

As far as the important piece of paper, I think that is something of a myth as far as college admissions go. I've heard a lot of parents say that they need their kids to graduate from a public school so they can go to college.

All the college admission requirements I've seen are the same for public school graduates and kids who graduated from a non-accredited program. It mostly comes down to your ACT and SAT score.
How do you trigger loading the projects if there isn’t a pointer to them showing up in the file system?
> He memorized pictures and bios of all 90 students in the first year class at Olin College of Engineering.

Do you know if he was using spaced repetition to do that? I know some teachers have tried that to speed up learning their students.
Amazon kicked this off, delisting Chromecast and Apple TVs, and lying about it.
The title would benefit from the word javascript :-)
Regarding the 'Opioid Crisis' ... while very real, the pain and suffering it is responsible for being very large - as a 'talking point' in a political context, it is very much a construct that has emerged only very recently (especially in the context of how long these drugs have been available and detrimental to communities)

In Canada for example, CBC radio which i listen to - covers the issue extensively and it is clear that the government is pushing it as an issue, directly and with long-form podcast type pieces about related issues.

It is clear that this is propaganda at the State level.

Reasoning for this approach is clear: One having citizens nodding off across the socio-economic spectrum is costly. Two: It is very easy to build consensus that addressing this is 'A good thing', in the same vein - prior recurrent talking points in the Canadian context are issues regarding native peoples. Three: The need to build consensus is a correction(carrot) for the failed 'the war on drugs'(stick) - itself a piece of political theater. Four: A successful approach to this problem will make the government look good.

Essentially, a solid 'problem' for 'government' to 'solve'. But perhaps other more systemic issues are being ignored ... and we are being distracted by the State's shallow performance of magnanimous and utilitarian care.

Examples of tackling more substantive and more divisive issues would be penalizing the pharma companies, doctors or the profit-driven market they operate in. In terms of the endless hand-wringing over the plight of native-peoples - addressing systemic racism with reparations...

So to re-iterate - the recent injection of the 'Opioid Crisis' in Zuckerberg's PR narrative is an action that is rooted in the State's performance of a 'duty-of-care' at the level of propaganda. It is hardly likely to have come from his cursory tour, and rather from careful study of Facebook's omnipotent data feed and its close relationship with the secret services and those responsible for Propaganda in this country. Basically it represents the capitulation of a very powerful private organization to the forces of state-hood. Something that Zuckerberg's clear ambition for political power might address. At the very least it represents how the State and Facebook are assimilating have already assimilated.

In terms of the substantive issues that would represent a non-capitulation, or non-assimilation, I have written about that here:
https://iainmait.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.htm...
Why Amazon DynamoDB isn’t for everyone