skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police respond to possible explosion near Port Authority bus station
Empirical evidence is just many anecdotes.
I got curious what Service Source was all about. Apparently this is Apple's repair manual thing? Cool.

A quick google found some interesting leads, albeit _very_ old ones.

- http://www.applerepairmanuals.com/index.php

- http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html (a ton of dead links; mostly useful to know the filenames of things :<)

- http://home.earthlink.net/~strahm_s/manuals.html (more dead links, yay)

- http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/siti/apple_repair/www.who... (links that actually work! but seems obscure)

- https://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2003/02/11/apple_service_sou... - where I got the earthlink pages from; the paragraph at the bottom was an interesting dead end (seems the LJ account got killed; and it's robots.txt-ed out of existence)

--

As for spftp:

I mostly remembering it having tons of old OS update images and diagnostic tools (that were publicly released), as well as (I THINK) a few ROMs (I... think I'm misremembering that bit). Its heyday was pretty much the Classic Mac OS era; there were System 6/7 updates on here etc. I'm not sure when it finally went kaput but I remember poking it in 2008. Unfortunately I learned about it when I had absolutely no free disk space and couldn't archive it :'(

A few months ago I asked someone whose Apple ID was able to login (back in the day any .Mac ID worked, hah) and they said that it was empty. I don't clearly remember whether they said they were seeing a white page or an "Index of /" with nothing underneath, but regardless it seems pretty much gone now.

There are other nice things out there though. One fun query is "hotline kdx". (That's two separate pieces of 90s-era software that used the same P2P protocols, but googling them together is the easiest way to find KDX.) The few servers left are fun - the directories tend to be chaotic messes but patient digging finds cool stuff, like the partial NT4 and OS6 leaks. Shhh :D
[video] should we break up Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple?
If your team has more previous knowledge of desktop application development than web development, you should definitely look into Vaadin. If you mostly have JS developers who only know the front-end stuff, you are probably better of with React.

You could pose the question on vaadin.com/forum or look into the references https://vaadin.com/success-stories
> Systemd configuration files are not difficult to write and they restart the daemons if they crash.

This I have a problem with, if it crashes, I'd prefer it stay crashed, instead of crashing over and over.

At least when it crashes, a human can come and see why it's crashing, rather than doing the caveman thing and just restarting it over and over.
Building an Automated Image Captioning Application
I never understood why we do not copy paste certain ideas from nature in our infrastructure. Why cant pipe secret a protective film, to avoid clogging and fracturing?
Why cant we creat systems that self-repair decently.
One of the best things that could come from geothermal in CA would be the steam that, after going through all turbines, could condense into clouds and rain back down, hopefully somewhere it's needed. It could also power some coastal desalination plants (even though probably wind is better for that - geothermal is great for base load).

Earth doesn't have a lack of clean drinking water problem. We have a lack of cheap clean energy problem.
Sounds good. Let's do it.
Absolutely employees are often shy about it but its 95% about the $/£
True, you're exposed to the exchange at least to enter and exit the trade. But you'd expect sophisticated arbitrageurs to know how to manage their own bitcoin wallets.

Perhaps the discrepancy is there because such people don't exist yet.
164 here. I did it on and off for many many years. Personally I don't think there is much value in grinding these. It's rather a fun pastime every now and then.

That said, I believe the 100-150 easiest (i.e. solved by the most people) problems are all OK. Many of them take one hour or less. I think, it never took more than a weekend for one.

Many of the ~2006 problems can be brute forced nowadays with a low level language, which makes them quite a bit easier.
Switch isps?
Less of a big deal than they’re trying to make it out to be, it’s disabled by default and a leftover debugging tool.
Fred Hirsch's book "Social Limits to Growth" contains a very interesting exploration of the nature of positional goods, including personal time. One relevant aspect is that as material productivity increases, the relative prices of positional goods increase, because their supply remains limited. It is quite an unsettling read, and I highly recommend it.
There are no inserts into larger layers, only merges. Which are long (usually processed in background by separate thread) and that longness justifies training a new net in parallel to merge process.
There's enough suckers that will accept Uber or deliveroo vouchers over cash that it's worth trying those before more expensive options.
Funny, my socialist country ended up with a small surplus in the budget last year. Meanwhile the US has a trillion deficit.
Ask HN: Multi-Tenancy GPU Solution with GPU Quota
Several teams from different startups want to share the three GPU nodes for deep learning tasks (each with 8 GPUs), which we have locally available here.

What are the best open source tools to achieve this?

If possible, the solution should allow:

(1) Access only own data
(2) GPU Quotas per team
(3) Stats about GPU Usage
(4) Shared volume access for multiple container of one user (to share datasets)
(5) Secure, e.g. not be able to escape container through local volume mounts

We looked into Rancher 2.0 (Kubernetes, no GPU Quota support), Mesosphere (no GPU Quota support). Do you have any ideas how to achieve this with the least effort?
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What if russia and china decide to start their own global trade system based on something.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-02/russia-china-and-br...
And they don't trust eachother because well why would they.
Would they have a use for a global, distributed, trustless system to keep inventory?
It sounds like there's a big shortage of competent, trained therapists, however. Not even being snarky. Therapy is like an oil change for your brain, humans seem to need it in order to function 100% over a long period of time.
Money is certainly the baseline, but it's no motivation beyond that. Pay me $20k extra for dealing with that sucky manager? Sure, but 3 months later I'll still quit, especially if it's a pro-candidate market.
it's in the company's best interest to have people do as much as possible for as little as possible money.

If you're in an industry where hiring costs are high (eg software) then it's often cheaper to keep staff happy than to recruit new ones. 'as little as possible money' is sometimes spending more now in order to save a larger sum of money you'd have to pay out on recruitment if someone left.

That said, I strongly suspect this is not the case for delivery drivers.
In related news:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/hp-quietly-installs-syst...
Yeah, that's the problem with zombie code. You can have articles like this, especially when companies like Lenovo did spy on people with all sorts of bios->OS infecting spyware and MITM SSL tricks.

If it's a binary and potentially readable, they probably shouldn't include the code switch to enable it. Better it never be in there to begin with.

But yeah, if it's disabled by default and looks like a debugging tool, it probably is.
I really like intercooler. I’d rather sprinkle UI goodness instead of jumping neck deep into jS frontend quicksand.
A moderator should rename this "How to pay your engineers less by fooling them: A primer by First Round Capital".
> At the time, the company said the keylogger code had been mistakenly added to the software.

Glad they cleared that one up.
We paid for screenhero before they stopped charging. Last I heard, it was not as good as it once was now that it is part of slack. That aside, my work looked at going to slack and it was shot down vs staying with hipchat for a few reasons. Partly the cost of slack itself and partly the cost of chat bot rework (we have an unhealthy coupling of chat bots to hipchat that make it hard to migrate them to slack apparently). The bot(s) handle pr workflows, build jobs, internal service disruption comms, paging, and more.
He was the one that knocked down the partition.
Probably depends on your industry and implementation. I'm new to the workforce so I don't have a lot of experience with it, but I've seen some comments on reddit over the years with people getting piddly little bonuses (tens of dollars) and having management tell them they should be happy they got anything. The workers would have preferred getting nothing and it was a morale killer.

I don't know what good levels are. Maybe think of it in terms of % of salary for the median employee? $30 wouldn't feel genuine to anybody, especially if it looks like people at the top aren't cutting back. $250 for a developer making $175,000/year makes a much smaller difference than for support staff earning $40,000/year.

Another thing to consider - if things are tight and you don't already have a holiday bonus, a certificate to get a ham, turkey, or meat and cheese tray at a nearby grocery store would seem more genuine than a piddly $30 cash bonus. Of course switching from ~250/year bonus to a ham will be a morale killer.
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Healthtech startup Doctrin raises €10M to fuel further expansion
But it would be perfect for a well isolated home wouldn't it?
And many big companies now insource than outsource so as to have direct control
Preference falsification
Ideally, they won't look after the old; their robots will.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885206
Apple aims to block climate, rights proposals with quick use of SEC guidance
Not on any of my devices. And time until “fully loaded” is just one piece of the performance pie.
Not a good example (if res != exp { t.Fatal}) is almost entirely require.Equal in testify (the message is logged that you specify, and the test is immediately stopped).

https://github.com/stretchr/testify/blob/master/require/requ...

I get a lot of the rationale behind the standard way ethos. I think this is just a bad example of it. Tests and lack of good OOB patterns for passing up error information being two of my primary issues with the "Go" way (and it only intensifies over time), but that's just my feelings and I get I'm in the minority (though Cheney seems to have a lot of the same issues I have with the standard error package https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/27/dont-just-check-errors-ha...)
It's a shame that there isn't a common word in English to distinguish between positive-expected-value gambling and negative-expected-value gambling. They are fundamentally different pursuits.
a cheesy venue prompted your resignation?
Building a realtime location app with ARKit, CoreLocation and Pusher
To ask people who solved many of these questions:

Once you find "the" trick, is there still a lot of computation involved? Do you still write loops? How many orders of magnitude times do those loops run? How do you know when your code is too computationally intensive and you haven't found "the" trick yet?
Thanks, had a lot of fun! Hope you did too.
the $1000 phones are luxury goods at motog is a far cheaper smart phone
There’s two forms of money: cash now and Magic future money (stock options)
Faktory is CouchDB, Machinery is Redis/Memcache/MongoDB, Sandglass is a custom Raft on top of RocksDB…

I'd love to see comparative stress tests, Jepsen-like, to assess the ability to survive partitions, corruption, node restart and node loss, to better estimate the probability that a job gets lost.
I am a firm believer of using processes and tools that make it hard to do stuff you should not be doing in the first place. Dependencies should be solved ala how FAKE and Paket is doing it, not in a mono repo. It's the same story for many projects in a solution vs few. With few projects you avoid wrestling with cyclic dependencies between projects, on the other hand, that is just a tell tale sign that the overall structure is starting to deteriorate.

I still do not see the appeal in mono repos since you're heavily dependent on discipline to not introduce spaghetti dependencies, where you fix one bug, but introduce 4 new in unrelated parts of the code. Now you solve that with an if statement, and thus we introduced a great deal of technical debt.
Highway speed power draw is closer to 25 kW, so a small scale up (they also discuss 10 kW) and you have a self charging battery.

But apparently the 10 kW is modeled to weigh about 1800 kg, so no need to worry about one in a car any time soon.
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WTF America continues to be an example to us all... of what not to do ;)

I shall keep up my vigilance against the telecom industry.
Just want to add for those new to btc, these are not far fetched scenarios — they have all happened in the past.
How China’s unmanned stores change the way we live
There are key loggers and Key Loggers. If you need admin rights to enable it and it saves the keystrokes locally, then you probably shouldn't care. Anyone with that level of access can install something worse.
"Went well" is in the eye of the beholder, right? If you are beholding a spreadsheet that says it saves money you might think it went well. If you are working with the outsourced firm and have to constantly clean things up, educate them on how to do their jobs, etc. then it didn't "go well".

Sometimes the large corporations are doing mutual agreements, where they outsource $10mil of work and expect that company to then market their stuff in the region.

Quality and employee satisfaction don't show up on spreadsheets and it always seemed like upper management didn't care about that, they were focused on how much money they were saving.
How SCAD sells a dream
That is an outstanding explanation of the intuition behind that formula, and in ASCII no less! :)
Yeah, one of the problems with content-addressable systems like IPFS is that they don't support the "right to be forgotten". And I've heard a lot of big supporters of content-addressable systems arguing that's a good thing, because links never break. But I don't like a world where I can't take down my own blog post[0], only unlink it from my home page.

[0]: Yes, I'm aware anyone can host a copy of my deleted page. But it will be served on a different URL, and it takes extra work to do, unlike IPFS or similar.
You have a point; my impression is that, just like Ajax, more than a new technology/s, it defines a web development model, a certain class of webs sites that result from combining certain technologies in a certain way that makes them have certain characteristics that make them distinctive.
and it’s more credible than “legitimate” news which constantly retract stories ever week now?
Money is important, but past a certain point (when you are able to live comfortably and are no longer feeling stressed about your personal/family finances), other factors come into play. Off the top of my head:

1) Respect. By that I mean professional respect - I want to feel that my contributions are valued and that people recognize my talents :)

2) Team. Working with dirtbags is miserable no matter how much you get paid. Sure, I'd do it if you threw enough money at me, but all else being equal, I'd like to work on a team full of smart, pleasant people.

3) Growth. Learning opportunities (conferences, training, etc.), promotions, stimulating projects, etc.

4) Time. As in my time. Overtime is kept to a minimum and really only happens when there is a true emergency. This kind of ties in with #1.

To an extent you can substitute cash for any or all of these. However, if your working environment and/or culture is toxic, you're going to have trouble with retention no matter what else you do.
Other people look at work as a meaningful part of one's life and take care how to spend it. Some people, once they have basic security, financial or other, look for a fulfilling role in society. That is admirable and sustainable. Your described worldview is characteristic of greed, egoism and shorttermism and generally wasted potential (or a highly hostile environment).
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This bug seemed to have turned my rMBP into sluggish blob because when I see slowdowns, I also get a bunch of these error messages.
You correctly call out "copyright" as a problem in the free market, then go on to blame Republicans for the status quo, when it was the entertainment industry and THEIR captured legislators -- the Democrats -- which gave us the DMCA, which has been used as one of the biggest hammers to prevent competition ever conceived. So please don't single out conservatives for giving us the monopolized internet we have now. Both sides are to blame, in their own ways. Unless we, as a country, stop making these sorts of issues tribal, we're never going to fix them.
This title is very misleading. It implies that it advises you to boost your closing rate by offering more money.

But it's actually about how to save money by finding people who aren't motivated by money.
Every other sentence in this article reads like something from /r/iam14andthisisdeep
What? 2GB of RAM and 15GB of decently fast storage (preferably SSD) are the only hard requirements. That's not state of the art by any means.
He/she mentioned offensive behavior from both male and female colleagues. Why not call out both?
Yes, and even those can be detected, triaged, and then summarily killed. Even those with heavy crypto and intentional hiding schemes.

I'm speaking of Intel's management engine. Hacked.

I'm also speaking of Apple's secure enclave processor. Hacked and unencrypted.

Yeah, it'll by you some time. But when the target's nice and fat and juicy, well do I have a story for you...
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You're right.

For instance, take the garment industry: the big gains in productivity were made a long time ago. It now takes about as many people to make a pair of jeans as it did 30 years ago. But those jeans are very easy to transport. Consequently, the industry is constantly searching the globe for the cheapest possible hour of human labor.

If the garment industry where still seeing big productivity gains then they'd have less pressure to seek low labor costs and there'd be less interest in outsourcing. If jeans went bad when packed into a container then there'd be less ability for them to outsource (goods less tradable) but tradability is orthogonal to automatability.
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I've turned down greater pay for better working conditions. Money is important, but after a given level and within given margins, other concerns start taking priority.
You would be very surprised, actually. How many notable people have had serious run ins with the law, especially in their youth.

My first year of college was as a frequent flyer through the justice system, but nothing super serious, mostly just abject disrespect for the social hierarchy and legal order. A bit of anarchism combined with rebellion against the machine sprinkled with a dash of "doing it for the lulz" type pranks and all kinds of bad things grew from there. I got kicked out of school, and much like the author "narrowly avoided jail." 26 years later, I have a PhD, have made millions of dollars, and haven't had so much as a jaywalking ticket since then. Almost everyone deserves a second chance. Almost.

I still think most of what our federal government does is WRONG WRONG WRONG and that people who wield power should be brought to justice for their crimes, along with all the other filth who inhabit leadership roles and then do nothing but produce kickbacks, corruption, and murderous misdeeds in our names. And hey, some things you never grow out of--if anarchy can help build back a better system, then maybe we need a little anarchy.
Maybe that's because the Swedish unions did not historically unionize as much in the M&P area.
Did any of you interview and having a good Project Euler account was positively recognized?

This never happened to me.
No one seems to know the site.
They seem to be mostly interested in Top Coder and similar platforms.
Deep Learning with Python
>Outside-in and promiscuous mocking has several advantages -- especially when you are less experienced. It provides a framework for reasoning about how to do design.

I find that any additional couplings to your code makes the couplings you do have more painful to work with.

Some people think that by adding this kind of 'tight coupling' - low level mocks / unit tests - you feel that pain earlier on in the design process and that pain drives you to make a better, more loosely coupled code design.

Personally, I think that this approach is rather like forcing kids to smoke cigarettes every day to show them how much of a filthy dirty habit it is.
Vietnamese hacker stole security details plans from an #Australian #airport
This is the exact point of view they are rejecting. You want spectacular average-case performance at the cost of a slow but not catastrophic worst-case.
Why Sinon.js Is Perfect for JavaScript Unit Test Mocking
Twice in the same year?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool...

How many of these "debugging tools" has HP left enabled, I wonder?
If you write it and it doesn't finish in a minute, I'm sure it's not that trick.
> There is one motivation that should raise a red flag, though.
> “The candidates that I don't usually want to spend much time
> on are folks who are basically just looking for the next big check.

This is a red flag to me.

What if engineers want to buy houses or support families? What if they have elite backgrounds and want a similarly high level of living as their friends?

Offering bread-and-circuses and work-as-lifestyle to software engineers when they're fresh and naive or wishing to prioritise other things over money is fine. But eventually people start wanting to be able to get a pay-off for their investment in "learning". If all you're offering is warm-fuzzies, they'll go somewhere in which the remuneration is able to support investment outside from themselves.
It was the cherry on the cake of terrible culture.
There is only one thing that people who have not been dropped on a head interested in. It is called money.

That's not true for everyone. I've taken $20k less salary to work on technologies that were more interesting. Money is just one dimension and one can be strategic about it.

People can have other priorities besides money. Salary is important but it's not the only priority nor is it always the most important priority.

Someone previously said that the best programmers are "coin-operated". Well, I guess I'm a substandard programmer because I'm definitely not coin-operated. I may prefer a $150k job that utilizes machine learning to analyze cancer cells instead of $175k to trick people into clicking ads.

If job salary is the most important factor for a candidate, that's absolutely fine. This essay really isn't intended for candidates with that mindset.
Can't use this where I work because of information being sent to their servers. Even if it is just absolute paths.