skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN users are just as vulnerable to branding as anything else; it's just different values. Linux in particular is a massive triumph of branding; it's success is based much more on the intangible benefits of open source and that particular "lifestyle" than utility compared to its competitors. Not a few products position to this crowd, namely the various phones for privacy geeks as one example.
This advice sounds good on the surface, but the staggering incompetence I continuously see in "medical professionals" has left me with the belief that someone who is smart and has enough time is probably better off researching things on their own in many cases.
Django self code review for dummies
Remembering Jon Postel – And the Day He Hijacked the Internet (2012)
Works buttery smooth on Chrome 53 on Android over a cell connection (90ms latency). Can't wait to review on desktop to view the WebSocket traffic!
Its too bad Apple and MS are not implementing webmidi for ios safari and edge. There is an empty placeholder for webmidi on the firefox project so at some point webmidi will find its way into firefox. Its ironic that an ipad pro is such a powerful device and yet if you use webmidi a $100 chromebook will get the job done where and ipad just can't and won't do it.
1728 = 12^3
Future cryptographic society
Can you do audio with asciinema?
Yeah, IMO this would be equivalent to a pass-through web-proxy that removed content (such as ads).
The article isn't referring to major enterprises with budgets. The customers of most of the companies that are being affected are mom and pop shops and churches who don't have big budgets.
Even though this only works in chrome its a terrific example of just how creative you can get with the webrtc data channel api.
The real estate bubble of 2007 was only able to happen because of the cheap money the fed made available. The vast amount of bitcoin is paid for from savings, not debt. Meanwhile, Yellen just warned that there is excessive amounts of debt in the economy again. Money has been made available at near 0% interest rates for a decade. There’s definitely a bubble out there, but it’s not bitcoin.
Scientists trace 2002 Sars virus to colony of cave-dwelling bats in China
I remember when Betfair seemed to be a bunch of shonky crap stitched together. I can easily imagine a load of Perl scripts before they invested in Oracle in a big way.
I think someone may have posted this already, but in case not: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not...

"T. Rex Was Likely Covered in Scales, Not Feathers"

What I don't understand is how something the size of T rex doesn't just die from heat shock whenever it breaks into a sprint. I vaguely recall reading somewhere that one of the dangers facing beached whales is that they start to overheat rapidly. Did big dinosaurs just live in cooler environments? Do they have better ways to dissipate heat? Did they like dipping in lakes and ponds? I'm sure someone would have asked these questions already, but no idea what current thinking in the field is...
The difference is that in the BSDs (especially OpenBSD) a lot of care is taken to be configurable. Consistent. Clear and transparent. OpenBSD has the most extensive suite of tools built specifically for systems administrators that exists in a base system.

SystemD has opaque behaviour and binary interfaces. It's the antithesis of the BSD model. Despite BSDs being quite coupled groupings of software.

Anecdotally we're attempting to move to BSDs instead of upgrading to RHEL7 due to SystemD.
I think that’s the key point, to learn. So many tech companies make management the only way to continue getting promoted. Then they don’t offer any way for employees to learn how to be a good manager. So they’re left to learn by doing.
I'm not sure what to take away from this article. Yes, Engineers are perhaps bad at solving insoluble problems. 'Leaders' are equally bad at solving soluble problems. However, there are a few things I do know:

Engineers can become Leaders (difficult, dicey, possible)
Leaders cannot become Engineers (ain't gonna happen)
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Uh, yea I disagree. Title II is common carrier and is exactly what ISPs are. I dont give a shit about lighter touch regulations. They are a common carrier and need to be regulated as one. You fucking antiregulation corporate shills need to wake the fuck up.
I see poverty in Japan and I have no illusion that for many people here life is hard. But where is better? I often travel to US and it is like going to a third-world country. And I only visit nice places there!
https://myrepos.branchable.com
Please do read: "# Notes

+ The diagrams were generated with [GrammKit](https://github.com/dundalek/GrammKit)."
> They emailed my Comcast.net address, which I didn't even know I had.

I recommend you add your primary email address. You can do this via the self-service portal.

Go to https://customer.xfinity.com/#/settings/account under Account / Settings / Contact Information. IIRC you are sent a confirmation email you have to act on before it takes effect.
I don’t think so. I think it’s quite interesting! Especially trying to understand Ramanujan’s thought process that produced this insight!
And I quit... This is too addicting...
There were a couple of recent article from HBR making a similar point[0][1]. They make the point that it is important for leaders to have expertise about the domain that they are leading in.

[0] https://hbr.org/2017/11/can-you-be-a-great-leader-without-te...

[1] https://hbr.org/2016/12/if-your-boss-could-do-your-job-youre...
I could never get hangouts to work properly across platforms/devices. Once I had to spend 15-20 minutes with an interview candidate setting it up (it messed up on both sides) at which point, I refused to do hangouts with anyone.
Cleaning Up Your Code
> you have no choice

It depends on your database.

If you imagine a simple postgres or mysql server and an "alter table G..." then you're right.

If (however) G1⊂G2 then a document store or a column-based database can usually partition the table somehow.
> the japanese as just naturally, culturally happy to serve whites

What are you talking about? The Japanese are preternaturally polite, but they aren't necessarily any "nice"er than anyone else. And they aren't there to serve "the white man". If anything, they believe that they are the most evolved race of humans (or some think 'not even the same species as normal humans') on the planet. Look - their society is rough and tough. But it has nothing to do with race. It's just a tough gig being Japanese.
You wouldn't contribute even if the locked features were unrelated to what you'd be contributing to?
I suppose it may be off-topic, but I don't live in America now and want to learn more. If you live in America, what have you seen personally day-to-day?
They did that to me a few months ago. I called up and canceled my decade old ~$90/mo acct on the spot. Tethered to 4G, works fine.
I started using Conversations in 2014 when I needed something that worked well over very low quality connections in the back country. XMPP gets a bad rep for this, but it's undeserved and most of the issues it had in the early 2000's have been fixed. I ended up hacking on Conversations a lot and have been using it ever sense (even when I'm in town and have LTE). The UI is nice, it supports lots of different services or I can run my own server, and it uses a standardized protocol instead of reinventing the wheel yet again.
The injection is currently for non-HTTPS only, but I can easily see this situation evolving for the worse as HTTPS becomes increasingly the default.

What will happen is someone at Comcast will notice that their injections aren't happening often enough anymore due to HTTPS adoption. Someone at Comcast will suggest implementing a MITM TLS proxy service to get things working again. Someone else at Comcast will note that wouldn't actually work because they can't install fake root certs on every client device...

Then Comcast will basically switch to a model where the HTTPS interception is "optional" (requiring the client-side use the proxy explicitly), but they'll start shipping some kind of "Comcast Setup" executable (or mobile app) users are supposed to run on their client laptops/phones so that they can get these important service notices, which turns on the client-side use of the proxy and installs the fake root certs. Geeks may not install it, but the bulk of their customers will, and everyone loses. I don't think broadband consumers are aware of the fact that they shouldn't trust software provided by their ISP...
Reversing the thermodynamic arrow of time using quantum correlations
The idea of global refactoring is mostly that you can decide to modify a private API, and in the process actually update all the consumers of that API, because they all live in the same repo as the component they're consuming. (This is also the argument of the BSD "base system" philosophy, vs. the Linux "distro" philosophy: with a base-system, you can do a kernel update that requires changes to system utilities, and update the relevant system utilities in the very same commit.)
What a terrible article. It's spam designed to get hits for bookmaker CTOs scouting around.

No benchmarks, no numbers, no real detail, just empty praise for Erlang from a company called "Erlang Solutions".
to be fair basically all of our non-cash money would fail to work in that scenario
When they’re talking about “engaging the brand” they’re talking about people who enjoy shopping. They’re not just going to the store to buy a replacement bird feeder. They’re going out to the shops to enjoy being in a nice space, be treated courteously, and look for products to buy that will make them feel good. Consumers like that are less and less interested in digging through a thousand brands at a department store and are getting more from a more personal boutique experience where they can get more consistent service and products.
Between 1.3 and 1.8 % plus VAT at 20% plus £400/500 for a survey. Other costs vary by what mortgage you get but I add 1 to 2K.

Plus stamp duty You can claim a discount (relief) so you don’t pay any tax up to £300,000 and 5% on the portion from £300,001 to £500,000.

seems high but property taxes are tiny when compared to the USA
> I would lose my visa and be kicked out

It has been awhile since I researched this, but is becoming a permanent resident after 10 years the way to avoid that?
I have now accidentally closed the game twice ctrl + w and bookmarked once ctrl + d but the game itself is so much fun :) +1 from me
You should not interfere with a customer's traffic they are paying for. If you need to contact them for a critical issue, then call, email, or snail mail. You risk disrupting their experience, and in some cases the customer may not even be able to receive your critical message. Does your JS injection work for customers who have JS disabled?
> some HFT trading does involve front-running in the sense that financial institutions invest in infrastructure to reduce latency for their HFT traders in order to trade on information not widely available to the public

...which is not front-running, nor is it illegal. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

These words have a very specific legal definition - this is not a case of, "I wish people still used the word 'hacker' like they did in the 80s!". There is no vernacular drift; ascribing the term "front-running" to high frequency trading is virtually always incorrect. Its continued use muddles any attempt at legitimate discussion about the subject because there are several groups of people involved who:

1. understand both HFT and front-running, and do not use the latter to describe the former.

2. understand neither HFT nor front-running, and conflate the two liberally,

3. understand HFT but not front-running, and use the latter to describe the former,

4. understand front-running but not HFT, and "borrow" the former term to describe the latter (inappropriately).

...etc. Throw in ideological bias and you get a debate in which everyone talks past each other and no one learns anything.
Show HN: JavaScript abstraction layer for building database-agnostic queries
They are for engineering just as the BMA or AMA are for doctors - just because you ain't a CE /PE doesn't mean you should not follow the same precepts.
But he explicitly says this!: "As a writer, I’ve come to feel that the best thing I can share with readers is ... those moments we all know when we sit, helpless, before ravenous flames, or sense that we can only bow before those turns along the road, harrowing and uplifting, we will never begin to understand." He's not just advising folks to cultivate some mental state, he's arguing for a way of attaining that mental state through the consumption of art. My point is that (1) anecdotally, this has not been successful for me, and, more importantly, (2) the proponents of mindfulness or related mental states are not convincingly pursuing a strategy for helping others to achieve it.

And I think the explanation is clear: proponents of mindfulness are generally not willing to apply analytical thinking even in the service of greater mindfulness. Attempts in this direction have been made, but I have not been impressed.

https://www.amazon.ca/Buddhism-without-Beliefs-Contemporary-...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/20/meditative-states-as-me...

(The particular examples I have are from the Buddhism-specific conception of mindfulness, but I don't think the more general conceptions you allude to have been more successful. I'd be happy to see links to the contrary.)
> it squanders societal resources to exempt able-bodies people from work simply because they’re old.

That sounds like the kind of a decision a paperclip maximizer would make to me.

"Societal resources" not being squandered is a perverse thing to optimize for.

Consider two worlds:
1) A world that automatically makes N widgets, and people could add an additional N widgets but choose not to
2) A world that automatically makes 0 widgets, and people add an additional N widgets because they choose to

If you're going for "not squandering societal resources" as the main metric of a society's value, world 2) is strictly superior, because people waste less time on frivolities like leisure and pleasure.

I'm open to arguments, though, that we should spread more leisure and pleasure around the age distribution instead of backloading it. I expect I'd be convinced, even.
Do people really romanticize it, outside of certain delusional anime fans?

Pretty much everything I hear about Japan - whether it be news, or talking to Japanese friends - makes it seem like the country isn't doing so hot as far as the top 10 or 15 countries in the world go. Authoritarian government with poor freedom of press, social and mental health issues out the wazoo, aging population combined with xenophobia/refusal to open up or otherwise encourage mass immigration, poor gender equality, salaryman issues, etc.

It feels like they peaked in the early to mid 90s and have just sorta been stumbling around since then.
Is there any technical difference between the two?
>They're more buying the vendor lock-in. When I have invested 4-digit sums into Apple Music, Apple Movies and games, I can't port that all over to Android

You very easily can, the lock-in argument is tired.

For one, Apple Music exists for Android:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205365

And even if it didn't, it's a subscription service. Nobody invests much in it, except your monthly subscription. One can cancel at anytime and go to Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, etc.

As for the music download (paid songs), from the major vendors it was Apple who famously spearheaded the "kill music DRM" thing, and has been offering DRM-free music for a decade or so. Which, one can easily play on Android, etc. No lock-in there either.

Games? As if mobile games or even computer games are not casual and replaced by new ones every so often? Plus, with Steam et al, aren't those transferable as well?

Same with movies. Who even buys those? It's the era of Netflix, subscriptions and at least renting.

>there are games like Real Racing where you can sync progress across platforms but they're rare.

As if that's what's holding people from moving away the Mac...
Yes. And further, Ditzel was a co-founder of Transmeta.
It's all good and what not but how do you buy bitcoin without either giving away all sorts of private information about you to a website or having to meet strangers?
It's about preparing you for living.

If you're interested in the study of how to communicate about these things, phenomenology is a strong starting point (Dermot Moran's Intro. to Phenomenology is kinda dense unless you've studied much philosophy, but I like it.)

If you're interested maybe in a somewhat less philosophically oriented text, The Feeling of What Happens (Antonio Damasio) is a phenomenal take grounded in neurobiology.
I briefly considered FI/RE but like you said, couldn't handle eating shit for so long. Life is for living on your own terms.
OT question: Do you roll your own tunnel or use a service?
When I was a kid (in the 1960's), milk bottles were re-used.
We left the empty bottles on the front porch. The milkman (from Alexandria Dairy, if you lived in NoVa like me) came around very early in the morning and exchanged the empty bottles for filled ones. There was a little ice box (literally) by the front door that kept the milk cold.
This service stopped in the mid 70s.
Management is an engineering problem whether we want to admit it or not. It's about maximizing the potential of the people who are working for you. Designing a team is just as much of an engineering problem as building a large scale web service. People will argue and say, but humans are emotional, greedy etc. That to me just sounds like inputs to the optimization problem at hand. How do I get team member x, to produce y for me given that x1,x2,x3 factors? Some of the best executives were formerly great engineers. Engineering is as much a people discipline as it is a technical discipline. This author's article is all over the place and I think that they miss this point entirely. This author doesn't do a good job of actually defining what they think a "good" engineer is to begin with.
Would be nice to know what you use for hit detection and interpolation, it seems very smooth!
I run Debian with sysv too and had the same issue early on. Fortunately, that one is easily fixed - if you drop the following into a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d, it will stop that from happening:

Package: systemd
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: systemd:i386
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: systemd-sysv:i386
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

The i386 parts are only needed if you have it setup with multi-architecture.

Unfortunately, I have also had to recompile some packages to remove systemd dependencies as well. Fortunately that hasn't been too much effort so far but eventually I may have to switch to Devuan. The most ridiculous one was policykit and neatly illustrates the creeping "infection" of systemd into Debian - policykit-1 hard-depends on libpam-systemd which hard-depends on systemd. Why neither was marked as "Recommends" instead of "Depends" I can't understand (policykit-1 -> libpam-systemd or libpam-systemd -> systemd) - either would have been fine and allowed both options to work perfectly well as far as I can tell.
It is still an amazing tool if you want to build classic desktop applications or games. Blazingly fast, easy to use. Not fancy in the Visual Studio/Jetbrains way, but it always feels rock solid to work with.
Offering it a cheaper price for one of the most common uses where people need > 1 cables (one for home/office etc)?

Or the fact that's very easy to just buy another one for data/video etc?

I guess the standard could do with some color coding, but it's not like its the end of the world. Or worth it to have N different connector technologies just so we can differentiate what does what.
It usually means you are about to get a speed upgrade that will go beyond what your modem is capable of delivering. In that case it is possible you could have a 1st generation 4x4 modem (so it can bond 4 downstream and 4 upstream channels).
It boggles my mind so many great engineers are willing to work for leadership teams that contains nobody who has built organizational structures at scale. It's almost like going in for surgery by the person who made the scalpel.
jlivingood seems to be a Comcast employee, and he/she is saying that the leased one is no longer compatible.
Is it just me or is this becoming a more popular Internet game format. The reason I ask is because Slither.io uses this same idea.
I know people who live like that in San Francisco - programmers. So yeah, it is done. Moreover, if you live with parents you typically have own room too.

I read up quite a lot on German society prior/between wars and nope. Huge amount of very poor people. UK a bit less so, but undreclass definitelt existing. Where lack of privacy was least of their problems. Not sure if Poland count as west, but they had poverty too. So did Italian which counts definitely. Don't have such detailed books for America, but unions sis not happened to be real because of massive prosperity for everyone.

Also, America had huge black population at the time that was very poor and unable to get good living even if they had jobs - and class of poor whites júst a bit better off then them.

But yes, there was period of better prosperity in after WWII. That is when factory work was good. It still is better job then situation of poor prior and between those wars.
FWIW, the paper, with more details than the slides, is https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318
Not true for everyone though, is it? There are people that get the privilege of existing without working anything. Besides, I say that the term you mentioned for solving this issue, "until we invent replicators" makes it sound like we are bound this way and could not solve this problem were that we wanted to. No, I think that is not true, we simply don't want to and some of us are rather concerned of the side effects of doing so. But I don't think that this issue would be insurmountable, if we would want to fix it.
Our Scala based servers handling thousands of RPS only deal with JSON via Jackson and JSON encode/decode doesn’t even register in profiles.
You can use a Bitcoin ATM: https://coinatmradar.com/

Warning, the exchange rates and/or fees tend to be exorbitant.
bitcoin can work over satelite too, and sms even.
And that an engineer can't be interested in humanities - there are plenty of engineers who have hobbies outside engineering.
I’m white. One of my former colleagues is black. He was getting pulled over for various traffic violations every 6-8 weeks on average.

Last time we were on a business trip together, about 5 years ago, we waited about 15 minutes to be seated at a chain diner type place. Nobody acknowledged the three of us. A group of 4 college kids walked in and a waitress appeared and seated them ahead of us within 2 minutes.

Lots of casual bullshit. It’s sad.