skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s honestly pretty fantastic. How do you generally find your consulting work? Do you just use your existing network of contacts?
Agile is like dieting, simple but hard and requiring a lot of discipline. Very very few companies are any good at it but done well, it's a complete transformation.
I hope you got the lesson. Please stop working over the week ends for free.

You are devaluing yourself and you are devaluing all the developers who don't want to ruin their week end at work.
Yes, we primarily rely on MoviePy (https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/) to do the heavy lifting on the actual native video editing part of it. It's an awesome library!
They are talking about the Rickroll meme which did start in 2007 when people in /v/ would post a link to it saying it was a GTAIV trailer.
I think he was stating that "can't be worse" was a requirement, not a fact. As in, it _must not_ be worse than existing options ($1000 in monitors), ie: resolution, as easy to do everything you already do, etc.
They had another career before this which means they WANTED to go into tech. I feel like the chances they would be more passionate and dedicated are much higher.
It's all during boot or shutdown...

>I like how people somehow breathlessly say "systemd developers prove they don't know shit, of course its their fault!!!" and then immediately follow it up with a bunch of fairly basic questions and just admit "oh by the way i don't know what i'm talking about, can anyone tell me otherwise???"

I like how stating to a bunch of people who don't know anything about you that you are not all knowledgeable, and asking questions to better inform yourself and to put things into perspective (for everyone involved) is looked at as a weakness/sign of ignorance.

For the record i know a lot about how computers, and linux, work. From the basic transistors and gates, to high level programming constructs. It's just that this particular topic does not interest me, nor will knowing it help me in any way, shape, or form in my life.

As for "systemd developers prove they don't know shit, of course its their fault!!!". It is. Shit has happened and their response was "Not my problem"... numerous times. If the people that declared themselves "the grand arch-mages of.. everything", and are forcing their "arch-mag-iness" as "the standard of all and forever", then they are responsible for the problems of "everything". As they say "with great power comes great force times distance over time", or something like that.
If anyone knows of a board designed to work with power-over-ethernet, let me know.
You can temporarily ban too.
seems like a reasonable explanation to me - noone's blameless but noone's twirling mustaches either...

https://medium.com/@jeff_52578/how-a-failed-kickstarter-camp...
For what it's worth, I just had a kid and am contemplating whether I want to keep living in a cycling-hostile place. I would like my kid to be able to ride a bike without dying.
1099..problem solved
Not a chance. The implicit paradigm in all these laws is an entitled, young, male, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Think Trump or any member of the Bush clan in their younger years. By the time you're ready to enter the workforce, at whatever level, all other demographics have been beat down to some degree or another.
It's free to use but we add a watermark. It costs $2 to remove the watermark for a single video, $10 for a monthly subscription for unlimited videos without watermarks. But actually you can also remove the watermark for free too. We wrote an interesting post about that here: https://www.kapwing.com/blog/skipping-our-paywall-with-an-ap...

As for the CPU usage - it is quite intensive so we set up a Linode instance dedicated to processing the videos. It costs us $80 a month, but Linode throttles it automatically. That's nice because if a lot of videos are being created, it just means that they get created slower for everyone. But they don't fail.
This law apparently varies between states. This is in PA rather than CA. Though apparently people are complaining about it in CA as well, where it definitely is the correct behavior.
Nice. I think the idea is that by tracking and moving with the eye, you don't need a high resolution display. You just focus the resolution you have at the center of the users field of vision where most of our visual acuity is located.
Not quite yet, but we're looking into it. Any reason why you prefer having the .srt file? Is it helpful for uploading to other sites?
This would definitely not be legal in the UK. Is it a US nationwide rule?
No, because those are examples of protected classes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Knowledge Bootstrapping
> [...] sticky total # of jobs. As women further enter the workforce, the mean household income will trend towards double income, and the labor pool will be contested with more applicants, in both cases rendering a male applicant at a substantial disadvantage (comparatively to history).

Isn't this the lump of labor fallacy [1]?

I think the economic theory leads to a different description: As more women enter the workforce, the aggregate income goes up. Some of it is spent and becomes someone else's income. Some of it is saved in a bank which loans it out or invests it. The receiving business then spends it and once again the money becomes someone else's income.

IOW, as more people work, both aggregate demand and aggregate income rise. The economy shifts into a higher gear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
I agree with you, and this is a hard lesson to learn. But I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.

Software should really only be measured by the value it provides. If a terribly buggy piece of poorly written code still saves hundreds of man hours a week, it's a win. (Unit tests be damned)

If that big ball of mud that's using 20 year old technology still prints a billion dollars a year - that's a win. (Microservices be damned)

If some slapdash jquery-and-duct-tape web app still solves a specific problem I have, that's a win. (React SPAs be damned)

Does crappy software flourish while beautiful software dies? Sometimes. But usually code hygiene, security, bug counts and crashes are not what makes or breaks the success of a piece of software. Developers often think their work is the most important, when in actuality it is usually not. Sometimes you really just are a cog in the machine.
Bell Labs? They viewed the development of fundamental technologies as a multi-decade process.
I have my concerns too about Facebook, but this is typical sensationalist journalism. If every statement weren’t hyperbolic I’d give it more credibility. Why are so many journalists so bad at their craft now? Read the NY Times, BBC or The Intercept and compare their professionalism to this article. They’ve become an anachronism in a sea of progressive blogger shit like HuffPo.
They do have those in San Francisco. Bike lane turns into dashed lines at the intersection and the right lane of traffic expands into the bike lane as the intersection gets closer.
The article seems like it's sensationalising a little bit and I can't quite work out the purpose.

> "Beat the BOSS" phones can be bought for £25, but are reportedly changing hands for up to £500 inside jails.

This is ostensibly an article about phones being on sale on online marketplaces and being advertised explicitly for smuggling.

So, let's search Amazon UK: "beat the BOSS phone", there's one phone that looks like it's small. Granted, it does say that it's 99.9% plastic. Nowhere in the description is it marketed as being to beat the body scanner. BOSS isn't mentioned.

The second result is a Nokia 105, which I'm fairly sure is not what the article is talking about. Ebay's not-yet-taken-down listings are a little more explicit with one of the two listings referring to a "cell" and "Boss." Arguably, "Boss" could refer to, say, the boss at work. Maybe choosing that as an acronym for the scanners wasn't such a great idea after all.

Questions a journalist might have been expected to have found answers for:

A minister has claimed this, so is it plausible? Could there be another agenda? Is it a distraction?

The claimed battery life is 5 days. How are these being charged?

Is there a legitimate use for such a small phone?

Will extending a ban to outside likely be effective given that, say, drugs are also banned outside prison? The article does not mention drugs other than as contraband.

Why are they £500 if these things are routinely changing hands and can be obtained for so little and are so easy to smuggle?

Who do the inmates pay the £500 to? How?

How are they smuggled? Visitors seems unlikely, because the risk of getting caught is high.

Why is there no analysis of the widespread claims spanning decades that prison guards have been involved in many smuggling operations?

The media has been running stories for months about drones (i.e. quadcopters) being used to smuggle stuff into prisons. Why is there no mention of drones or any synonyms in this article?
This looks very interesting. You should document your API in the readme. honestly just excerpts from the header with a little documentation would be enough. I look forward to testing it out.
I don't know what "international lawsuit" means. The plaintiff would sue the defendant local region.

It's implicitly an "international" transaction, so why would rectifying the problem be considered unfairly burdensome when they entered into the relationship.
If that were the case you'd expect that families with children in those cities wouldn't be bike users. In Amsterdam at least they very much were. I lived next to a primary school where 90+% of parents would show up on bikes to pick up their kids. You can easily transport 3 kids in a bakfiets
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying we should disregard train safety because there are other more dangerous forms of travel?

Travel by rail may be one of the safest methods of travel (citation needed) but the US has much more dangerous rail infrastructure than the rest of the developed world. There doesn't seem to be a good reason for this.

The fatal train crash in this article was on the first run of a newly expanded line. It injured more people than were on the train because it fell on the freeway.

You may be able to cherry pick train crashes that PTC would not have prevented but my understanding is that several recent (last 10 years) fatal crashes would have been prevented by PTC.
Neat, I am an IT major, but I am a sucker for CS, programming and security. Been looking for a projects to help my understanding of how things work. (maybe improve marketability also)

Thank you for giving me a new project,
-A random university student.
I have family in Germany and they have two young children. They own a car but they only use it occasionally for trips. Their daily commute involves one of the parents transporting children to or from kindergarten using a bicycle trailer that both children can sit in. They do this year round and it works out fine. It works out a lot better, in fact, because cycling is much faster than sitting in rush hour traffic.
This really needs a ranking for upstream support. I mean, just a basic keyword check yields 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8 have a Mali GPU so hopeless unless you want to run a supercomputer with the equivalent functionality of a time-sharing terminal system destined for the landfill in a near future.

It would be soo important to have a way to enable people to learn stuff like low-level graphics programming on real hardware designs. One of the big failures of the GPL, we have all the software on top of the stack but little on the bottom.
The comments here seemly to be focused on tech companies not recruiting the old. But the example in the article is actually a position of financial analysts.
This reminds me of somewhere around 1998. I was on-site technician for a market-data software company that had was complimentary (live charting) to Bloomberg terminals. That year, we were updating our software from DOS to Windows NT. I spent a LOT more time than I ever imagined I would teaching men two to three times my age how to use a mouse. Many did not enjoy the change and most were quite adamant about saying so colorfully.

Those guys could run circles around me in the DOS version with just a keyboard. Seeing them use it now reminds me of watching someone with a decade+ experience with vim or emacs.
This is how I plan on transporting my two kids by bicycle when they're a bit older (electric cargo bike): https://yubabikes.com/

Disclaimer: no affiliation/promotion/etc
if you're 35 yo in tech industry and not owning a small business, you're almost done unless you have good connections. That's how tech works, nobody just wants to admit that. tech workers are the diggers of their own graves.
>>> Also, that the product is 10% better/more stable/whatever frequently does not translate into even a 10% increase in sales.

It's quite common for things to generate or save money. Sadly, most engineers won't bother counting the results related to their work.
No one in history has designed a city for cars. People driving cars over other people perhaps, but for a subset of people regardless.

AI is nowhere near the level of needing space.
What really should happen is for humans to be taught about the correct behavior. This is a rule that should be enforced rigidly.

Turning across bike lanes instead of from them endangers the lives of cyclists. Just because most drivers don't care whether cyclists live or die doesn't mean that it is the right thing to do.
I agree, but this is essentially a tragedy of the commons problem being exploited by management.

Keeping up with new technologies is essentially a proxy question for, "How much free time do you have that I might exploit later?"
Yes, that second one. Size the battery and the electronics so that when everything is operating at 100%, it doesn't pull so much power that it would shut down on a reasonably degraded battery.

Personally I'd like to see this done by keeping the electronics the same but making the battery bigger.
Kubernetes didn't come with all of the other Google infrastructure.
Except this accident happened on tracks amtrak doesn’t own - and on the tracks amtrak owns the system is already in place.
Call options used to bet that Bitcoin will go over $50K next year
That's chic rhetoric to appeal to engineers that can see the technical value they snubbed intentionally and accidentally in a variety of acquisitions, and just comical to the layman as an extremest view of Ellison's galactic ego quest, but all Oracle really is is an average integration/systems engineering company with one of the best sales and delivery vehicles out in front. They are pretty much nonentities when it comes to new product development, yet they rake in jobs by doing the legwork to structure and execute the deals. I'd go as far as saying they have more in common with a consulting company like Accenture than any tech company despite a ton of marketing and a small amount of product development to try and convince the buyer otherwise. There's something to be learned here for the intended audience of this site, and it doesn't involve genocidal hyperbole. Sales and delivery are supreme.
China’s Selfie Obsession
Amtrak owns very little track of it's own, period.
I don't follow the logic in your first sentence.

The copy pasted quote is nothing but speculation.
It is a pretty common state level rule, although one that most drivers don't know about.
Breaking compatibility is mandatory; otherwise Haiku would be stuck with its C++98 API. Trying to interface otherwise-modern code with the vintage BeOS API is doable but does not exactly lead to rising property values in Tokyo.
or wanted a new car.

Afair https://hackaday.com/2014/03/07/soap-the-home-automation-rou... dude(or was it two guys) running this scam just bought new car with crowdfunded money and posted pictures on instagram.
C++ is the exception. You can't be senior without despising all the intricacies of the language.
Look to clojure if you want a lisp on Android
Back in the dotcom craze, there was a company trying to promote their internet currency. Think Flooz or Beenz, although it was neither one of those. Let's call it iDollars.

To promote their currency, they had a variety of games you could play to earn small amounts of currency. One was a trivia game. My friends and I wrote a perl script to play the game, guess an answer, and whenever it guessed right, remember that combination for next time.

We ran the bot 24/7. The real coup was throttling the bot so we were never the top earner in any day; we aimed to be approximately in tenth place every day. That managed to keep our gains plausible.

As the dotcom bubble exploded, there was less and less you could do with iDollars. Eventually someone at iDollar caught on and we eventually got a cease-and-desist letter telling us to stop, although the let us keep our spoils. My one friend managed to trade in his remaining iDollars for like 250 iDollar promotional golf towels, right before the company went under for good. I wonder if he still has them.
> Among the imperatives of #MeToo is that employers, and, indeed, all institutions, must take care to implement orderly processes in which reports of harassment are fairly and impartially investigated, and yield results that inspire confidence—to the benefit of victims as well as the accused.

That's the author's imperative.

#metoo has three imperatives:

1. A smoke signal to communicate across long distances and allege abuse against powerful serial abusers more quickly than those alleged serial abusers can use their power to divide and conquer the allegations.

2. It is a shared statement by victims of sexual abuse (including male victims) that investigations of people who hold power inside institutions have been anything but fair and impartial.

3. It is a day of reckoning for the people who have enabled the serial abusers, in a desperate attempt to create a minimally workable environment where people can try to have careers without having their genitals grabbed, their spirit broken, and their faith in institutions shaken.

The imperative the author erroneously attributes to #metoo is certainly important, and related. But it's different, and it seems like #metoo is merely shoe-horned to make the article more relevant. (Does anyone think the definition of sexual harassment wasn't already being broadened before #metoo?)

It's unfortunate, too, because I'd love to know how both Title IX and Title VII are impacted by students' growing ability and proclivity to accumulate allegations over social media against serial abusers. What does a college's "honor court" or whatever do when it's not victim vs. accused but instead multiple victims across different classes and campus locations vs. one accused?
20? try 200
That this is a problem is just ridiculous. It's on freaking rails! There is absolutely no excuse for this. GPS, Inertial Nav, simply integrating speed over time, it should be absolutely dead simple to calculate exactly where the train is at all times.

The article mentioned crap like differential GPS. Completely unnecessary. You don't need to be that accurate, I mean good grief, +/- 100 feet would be just fine for dealing with such gross overspeed detection.

I can't believe this is actually a problem. Pure politics/bureaucracy. It's certainly not a technical problem.
The course itself is great too - CMU actually posts the video lectures on their website, and the labs are available as well:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-s16/www/sc...

http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html
Stinking is actually a consequence of a sedentary lifestyle. With the right kind of cycling infrastructure, riding a bike in flat terrain is a low intensity exercise to which the body soon adapts. It can become quite relaxing and meditative.
Exemplary video of cycling in the netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0QjASuuqI
With stocks, you can more easily separate out the actual performance of the company from speculation (profits vs. stock price), and in the worst case they have assets that provide some intrinsic value. They also operate in a more stable legal environment - it's unlikely that new regulations would instantaneously devalue companies (which could happen with crypocurrencies as they still aren't a settled part of the legal world), and statements made by the company (projected revenues etc.) are regulated.

You can certainly draw parallels between stocks and crypocurrency speculation, but I'd say the differences between the two are fairly fundamental.
Read channel
https://anonfile.com/AeU6ocdab4/Read_Channel_Overview_Part_1.pdf
https://anonfile.com/98U1obdcb7/Read_Channel_Overview_Part_2.pdf
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First? [Infographic]
Apparently about a year ago they were getting complaints about exactly the opposite behavior: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/19/uber_selfdriving_ca...

They can't seem to win with this one.
It's a state law. Threw me for a loop when I moved from Boston (where this behavior is illegal) to California (where not doing this is illegal), but it's in the CA driving handbook and on the driving test to get your CA license.
I doubt it could be that cheap. The naked replacement battery costs more than that when purchased from a third party.

I don't see why this is shortsighted. It doesn't make sense to me to optimize for something you might do once every two years.

Let's be realistic: even if iPhones had batteries like you describe, 99% of owners still would not replace them this quickly, and still would suffer from mysterious performance degradation as the electronics throttled to avoid overstressing the old batteries. The long term consequences are the same either way. The only difference is that it costs a bit more and takes a bit longer to replace the battery.
> learn ... low-level graphics programming on real hardware designs

Why not program an NES game? You can develop against any number of cycle-accurate emulators, and then test your completed program on any random $10 "Famiclone" device that has an SD card slot. (The only annoying part to using the NES to learn graphics programming is the time you waste wrapping your brain around the "mappers" concept, because it has no applicability to any other system.)

Alternatively, for around $30, you can get an original Nintendo DS + an R4i flash-cart, which is a pretty extensive and interesting graphics platform to target: it has tile-mode graphics, bitmap-mode graphics, sprites with hardware scaling/rotation/shearing, and a fixed-function 3D pipeline with UV mapping and lighting, all able to be active as different hardware-composited layers of the framebuffer—but all still directly addressed using pokes to MMIO registers, rather than there being any hardware abstraction layer. Pretty great for learning graphics, honestly.
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I'd be surprised if the average 50yo applicant seeking a development job was a second-career "washout" (whatever the word washout means for someone who actually has managed to stay working in any career for a decade). In fact, I'd guess that among 50yo applicants, more of them were teen hackers and have 30+ years of software development experience than have <10 years of experience, though perhaps the median might be more like 20+.
There is only so far you can go competing with teenagers in node/js space - pick a different tech stack for the future.
Reasons why the courts don't handle all these cases include lack of capacity, and because nobody has a right to an education at a particular school or a job with a particular company.

As long as they follow a defined process in each case, private organizations can generally adjudicate disputes internally. Because the limit of what they can do is expell or fire you, the stakes are lower and so is the burden of proof compared to what is needed for a criminal conviction.