skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So read/write efi is needed to set what happens when the computer boots and to see what state it was/is (relating to boot stuff).

To see the state you don't need write permission, obviously.

When things are set, they are set by a few very specialized tools.

Those are the facts everybody can agree on, right ? Can we also agree that mounting and unmounting the efi filesystem is really easy ? I assume it can be mounted on multiple points.

So is there a problem in re/mounting it read/write only when needed ?

>At the time this issue was raised, nobody knew shit. We had no idea that removing certain variables might prevent a machine from booting. If we had done, I'd have written the filesystem differently.

That's the difference between systemd devs and people capable of critical thinking. You'r a good programmer, if you ask me. (edit: just to be clear, i don't see you as a systemd dev; even if you are (idk), you are not the one making high level design decisions (of which this is, kind of, one))
Even more blatant was un-verifying Milo Yiannopolous.

How can a person become not-themselves when they've been verified to be themselves already?

It made it incredibly obvious that "Verified" actually means "Morally approved by Twitter Inc."
So we just have to do their job as well as our job?
How about registration of sims for the tower that covers the prison?
> isn’t the majority of a stock's value due to speculation on what it will be worth one day in the future?

It’s more accurate to say that it’s a reflection of the value to still be generated by the productive capacity that your share represents minus the discount-rate of future money. That’s mostly a multiple of expected earnings (plus the value of capital) which is why earnings calls are so important and heavily regulated. If you buy a stock you’re saying that you think the market has undervalued it, or that it’s fairly valued and you expect it to grow with the economy as a whole.

In a pure gambling scenario like a lottery or roulette wheel all the information you have to go on is contained within the game itself. Increasingly crypto-trading is less about the fundamentals and more about the trading game itself. We’ve watched Ethereum go from one screw up to the next: TheDAO hack and rollback, the first Parity wallet hack, the “I killed it” bug, all ethereum contracts being hobbled for a weekend by a cartoon cat breeding game. Every time there is a big discussion here about the fundamentals of the tech, and how flawed the design is, how there are better approaches or projects. Yet the price is totally disconnected and responds more to being listed on a new exchange than any consideration of the viability or usefulness of the thing itself.

It’s why technical trading, which is close to reading tea leaves when it comes to usefulness on equity markets, actually seems to work in crypto-asset markets. So many people fall back on in the absence or neglect of external information that it that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Actually that would be in violation of human rights. Also prisoners have a right to see their lawyer.
Strip clubs are discriminating based on
"a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the par­ticu­lar business". That is explicitly allowed by ADEA. Most businesses don't have the same excuse.
Ask HN: What's a good, clean, public dataset with many entity relationships?
I need some data to populate a database with for stress testing.

For example: A movie/TV dataset with movies, TV shows, releases, episodes, actors, directories, companies, genres, etc., and relationships between them. I'd like at least few million entities in total, and an ordinary of magnitude more relationships between them.

I'd like JSON, or, at the very least, CSV/TSV. The dataset should also be modern, fully denormalized and cleaned up, with fields that are easy to understand. I'm not looking for a triplet dataset, as they can be difficult to untangle, but it might do.

Focusing on movies, I've found some datasets that are too minimal and/or focused on the wrong things (e.g. MovieLens), or too messy to easily consume (IMDb, Wikipedia), or hidden behind granular APIs (TheMovieDB, OMDb).

Does such a thing exist?
> How about just banning prison visits.

This is sarcasm right? Because if you just want to disregard human life, you might as well just kill everybody instead of incarcerating. No more prisons then! Problem solved?
Probably the Apollo moon lander software team, circa 1968.
Second advice. If you want to pretend that quality matters, move to aerospace, finance, or any critical systems.

Third advice. It's not enough to fix bug, everyone MUST know that you fixed that weird bug that customers were complaining about for years and noone could understand the cause.
"Letting schools handle it because the standard of evidence is lower is insane. "

Thank you for saying it properly and so concisely.
Even an app on the driver’s phone that alerts when they’re exceeding the speed limit would have prevented many of the recent crashes because the drivers weren’t incapacitated - just distracted or confused. Many recent cars also know when you’re driving over the speed limit and display an alert. Not billions of $
Those bike lanes were put in place by the previous mayor and the new mayor is trying to undo things the previous mayor did. Basically, stupid politics.

(To be fair, the bike lanes weren't perfect but they should have been improved instead of removed)
The law was changed to permit jamming in prisons. It is quite difficult to implement because you have to avoid jamming outside the prison, but a successful feasibility study was carried out. And the government decided it was too expensive to roll out nationally.
A couple of thoughts:

If you are trying to get money from people for your labor, stop using the word donations. People see that as charity, not as money for services rendered.

Second, you can create a tip jar with Pay Pal. That has performed better for me than Pay Pal donate buttons. Info:

http://independentdigitalworkers.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-to...
Verging on the unbelievable, XVG jumped 800% in value in the past week alone
>Not sure what the answer is here, but I do feel that if you are a money making business, buying servers for thousands, a percentage of that should go to the software you use to make those servers useful.

Totally respect where you're coming from - but at some point isn't that kind of their problem? It's not your job to monetize it for them.

I respect them making this move, however I think they had better options. Part of their problem is it's TOUGH to go from giving something away to monetizing. At the same time the people like you who were making a profit off of it probably will begrudgingly pay for the upgrade.

I think they should've gone the Redhat route - where they only release source to patches between releases. If you REALLY want to apply the code and build the new binaries yourself, so be it. If you find value in them writing and providing the patches - pay for it.

There is no perfect answer, but I think the people calling for their heads are being a bit silly. I have no doubt the two options were: make this change, or kill the project entirely. ESPECIALLY in the face of Amazon moving away from Xen - I would imagine there was some back-end funding going on there.
The occluder wouldn't be in the same focal plane as the real world objects you are looking at. It'll darken a vague area around the object you want to mask.
Bitcoin’s Smaller Cousins Are Leading the Crypto Rally
Or ants.
>Yes, except that none of the tools in question have any support for doing that and so mounting the filesystem read-only rather than read/write would break them.

All 4 of the tools (that can even be wrapped in a shell script until they are, as systemd devs say, "fixed").

>And congratulations, now you've still got a window where something can still break everything while the filesystem is mounted read/write (what happens if the tool crashes during that phase?).

Better to open a window in the morning then to tear down the whole wall forever.
Verge (XVG) Price Climbs 800% in a Week
>"Are their development teams seen as cost centers, or profit centers?"

It's not a matter of opinion, but what the term means. They are cost centers unless they are closing sales (or being billed for about 3x what they cost, which is still way less than sales people will generate, being closer to 10x+ cost).

Best thing any employee can do is find out how their company actually makes money and understand how they align. Unfortunately, the highest business expense is salaries and one of the most important things for most businesses is remaining runway. So there is huge pressure to keep salaries down, particularly in cost centres, which aren't directly extending runway. If it's a service business it can get worse, as the money is typically made on billable hours - creating a perverse incentive to have cheaper and less efficient people to bill out rather than a 10xer (outside a senior business facing role). As long as they are capable and not so bad that they lose the client, it's often more efficient to have cheaper mediocre people from a business point of view.
Probably "SATA 3.0"

based on this: https://www.marvell.com/docs/embedded-processors/assets/marv...

"The Marvell® ARMADA® 3700 SoC family incorporates rich high-speed I/Os including USB 3.0, SATA
3.0, Gigabit Ethernet (1 GbE) and 2.5 GbE (NBASE-T) off ering two confi gurations: 88F3720 for
dual-core and 88F3710 for single-core, both confi gurations have industrial temperature grade
support. In addition, these devices feature a wide set of security and data acceleration engines
suitable for innovative networking, storage, and computing applications. The ARMADA 3700
supports advanced power management technologies for switching the CPU cores, as well as
per-core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. This solution off ers a signifi cant reduction in power
consumption under diff erent workloads and delivers an optimal Performance-per-Watt in the embedded markets."
Then they just rewrite it again shittily. lol
or just a faraday cage.
A REVIEW OF THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF 'HOME ALONE' ROCKWELL TABLE
It is my impression that most harassment does not rise to the level of criminal. (I could be wrong, though.)
The article is not about San Francisco, it's about Pittsburgh
How are they measuring top?

I feel like there are really too many to judge. I for one am a fan of the ODROID C2 and HC1.
AR finance stuff looks great at trade shows but never gets picked up in deals.
Trade volume isn't the same as liquidity either.
what strikes a reasonable person as “severe or pervasive” has been evolving

This is an important point, and I think it represents a tremendous victory.
Thanks for the discussion too--talking with you definitely crystallized some of my thoughts about this topic.
oVirt is great, but if you’re doing single node deployments in a homelab ESXi is my first recommendation. oVirt can’t put the only host available in a cluster in maintenance mode, just like vCenter - so it’s an exercise in frustration trying to update anything without it freaking out.

But if you’ve got multiple hosts oVirt is great.
Verge (XVG) Is the Best Buy So Far According to John McAfee
I'd think in this case that ideally what we would want was for the Uber's behavior to become normalized among non-robot drivers, and become 'predictably expect-able.' What the Uber is doing is actually correct rather than 'correct.'
How so - this is still OSS. You're free to build it yourself if you want to. Honestly how spoiled are you that you DEMAND a corporation not only give you the source to the code they built, but also build it for you, and patch it for you, while paying the bandwidth bills for you to easily download it. If you want FREE then put in the hour of work to build it from source yourself.
My favorite memory from a previous employer was the day that Oracle called back with the results of their licensing audit.

I sat outside the door of the CIO's office. He wasn't expecting anything shocking and so left the door open during the call. Oracle had previously told us that we wouldn't have to pay for licenses for non-prod instances. When they went back on that promise, the CIO said (well, shouted) "Okay, fine! Tell me how much you're going to fuck me. As soon as you're done with that, I'll fuck you right back by throwing Oracle out of my datacenter!"
Verge is a secure and anonymous cryptocurrency, built with a focus on privacy
I'm aware of the workarounds in that thread. Just wondering if Stripe had a different workaround but I guess not.
I'm going from some old bits I wrote nearly 20 years ago about software estimation here... but some of it may be applicable to other projects.

A bit more recent on it can be read at http://www.qsm.com/blog/2016/impossible-region-revisited

Given the estimate of how long something takes, and dividing it up amongst the people who can do it, and then say... we're going to deliver it in 75% of the optimal time (based on the size of the project - increasing the speed of getting it done by adding people and having a more aggressive schedule)...

Well, for the data set of 20,000 projects there were 750 that were trying to deliver in less than 75% of the optimal time. Of those 750, none were able to be completed in that time.

Granted, that was for software projects. But I suspect that beurocratic projects have similar problems. Need it done faster? Add more people. Have more people? Need more meetings. Have more tasks going on at once? More likely that someone is going to be waiting on another task getting complete because of a bad (overly optimistic) estimate / deadline. Have more people doing nothing at any given time? Spend money faster... and run out of budget all that much faster.
Not introduced this year, but I'd add Odroid C2 to your list for consideration.
http://linuxgizmos.com/category/boards/
Those keycaps are gorgeous.

What does it feel like to type on?
The cities mentioned as being great for cyclists are Copenhagen and Amersterdam, and now Berlin is trying.

What is interesting is that the countries these cities are in Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany have fertility rates of 1.7, 1.7, 1.5 births/female [0].

In other words, people aren't having that many children. When transporting children, cars become a whole lot more convenient than bicycles. You don't have to worry about them getting too cold or hot or wet. You can easily transport 3 children in the back of a car without difficulty (try doing that on a bicycle). The car can easily carry all the diapers and baby food you need for an outing as well as changes of clothing for inevitable accidents kids make.

Bikes are awesome for adults without children, cars seem better for those with children, especially young children.

I wonder if this push to bike friendliness is driven in part by the changing demographics of more adults without children.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
Agreed on all points. In this case is there a (e:) more competent passenger carrier that could step in to replace Amtrak? My understanding of the subsidies is that there would be no passenger service without it. Is it feasible to have competitive rail service in the US, does anyone do it?
This class was half the reason why I had to withdraw from CMU :(
This so much.
Microsoft provides an example database, AdventureWorks, for SQL Server. I've used it a lot at my company; we make a product that generates Enterprise back-office applications off of existing databases, and we've created a bunch of demos using AdventureWorks.

https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/releases/tag...
*from the free edition ISOs that they provide free of charge. The code is still there on github for anyone to build for themselves.
What's accuracy of lie detector machines?
The "reasonable network management" bit is a gaping loophole carried over from previous net neutrality regulations. So far, no serious attempt has been made to determine what technological measures are actually justifiable DDoS protections and which ones are impermissible preferential treatment.
Though there's been some research recently showing that younger doctors are better, because they're aware of the latest research. I wonder if that's going to lead to some ageism in medicine because of that.
$49USD ESPRESSOBin board with 1GB DDR3

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see more:

* http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php

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well i think this is certainly the problem--ie, now "garbage" looks justified

but those aren't really the two alternatives, are they--ie, crap code or nothing?

it might be in the very short terim (ie, by this friday)

but over any other span of time, the choice is more like:

ship crap code in 30 day, followed by 50% of the team's resources spent bug fixing (which can often be cleverly disguised as new features) for the next 90 days

OR

ship high quality code in 45 days
> experienced people are a lot less shy about pointing out bullshit.

I've seen this backfire on the experienced person though. Pretty brutal to be a PhD in industry and find yourself out of a job at the age of 56 because you pointed out 'hey, this could kill people, maybe we should do an RCT before we go to market"
Since it appears that enough people are confused about this, maybe the markings on the road should clarify the correct behavior (otherwise the danger is raised for everyone). Something like a turn lane painted at the intersection, with the bike lane having a yield sign just before the turn lane.
Not offensive at all. I actually would say in the best case scenario, you can't do one without the other.

I will agree that frontend is full of churn. I have to do it, but I wouldn't specialize in front end -- most of your role is relying on explicit knowledge rather than tacit knowledge.
The management tools are not.
Well, the solution is clear: We ban employees.

/s
My impression from reading these comments is that we should bifurcate sexual assault from sexual harassment.

Both are bad, one is worse.

It may be that the former is civil while the latter is criminal.
It's very difficult to accurately locate the direction of a high pitched chirp sound. The frequency makes a ton of difference here.
It is hard to do in simple software like iMovie. The timeline UI makes it difficult to enter text and set the timings in an easy way. We like the idea of being able to subtitle a video without having to download any software too.

So yes, there are alternatives, but we believe that our product is much easier to use.
If I accurately recall, PATH is rolling out Siemens Trainguard MT; a Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system which uses trackside (between-the-tracks) beacons and in-car equipment.

Radar is used to figure out the vehicle's distance from the beacons. The system communicates using a wireless-and-wired network to a control center and keeps track of mobile blocks. Here's a brochure [1]. I'm not entirely sure, but I think GPS isn't used in Trainguard -- which makes sense; the beacons know where they are in relation to the track geometry, and locations only need to be resolved in track-space.

[1] http://www.mobility.siemens.com/mobility/global/SiteCollecti...
IIRC when I took 213 (Fall '07) a some folks somehow figured out bit of what the autograder branchmark was, and so added tricks like odd if statements to allocate extra memory for very specific sizes (which therefore, when freed and coalesced, allowed enough space for some following large allocation).

Seems like their new benchmarks might limit that sort of behavior
You can pry my 8 lane roads and acres of parking lots surrounding a mall full of chain stores from my cold, dead hands /s
Perhaps there are advertisements that work better for some age groups than others? So by targeting, they can deliver the right ad to the right user.
The previous mayor was from PT, a kinda left-wing party that a good part of the middle class loves to hate (there are a few good reasons, but the hate at this point is insane), so the actual mayor won with promises to revert the policies.

Combine that with the fact that São Paulo is a city where people seems to love cars more than their relatives and have an upper class that oppose bike lanes in front of their houses because "people that ride bikes aren't the kind of people that we want in our neighborhood" and you have a recipe for disaster.

These people (the upper class, not the middle) are also against subway expansion because it would be easier for people from the poorer regions of the city to come to their neighborhoods.

It's a mix of car loving, a party hate and prejudice that makes São Paulo a complete chaotic city when we're talking about transport.

I love São Paulo, have a lot of friends there, but almost everything that is being done right now seems to be in the opposition of the public interest.
joshshifman is right. On the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps, where tons of videos are consumed today, videos play without the sound turned on, and there's no way for creators to have the captions show up without burning them directly into the videos. There's a lot of research (https://www.facebook.com/business/news/updated-features-for-...) that shows that subtitled videos perform better for marketers and content creators.
There is a publicly visible website referenced in some of these articles that showed the trains speed moments before the crash. I believe they also have speed limit information. I wonder if it's possible to write a simple service that consumes this data, compares live train speeds to speed limits and sends an email to Amtrak. Could it be done in the time it takes to ride the train from Seattle to Portland? Quite possibly.
An AP Press reprint: http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20171219/engineer-i...

> Engineer in fatal Amtrak derailment might have been distracted by trainee in locomotive

> Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday.

> The official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said investigators want to know whether the engineer lost “situational awareness” because of the second person in the cab.

Just distracted or confused is a real possibility that is being looked into.
My understanding is that many modern Amtrak locomotives are equipped with PTC. Either way, the problem was that the track was not yet equipped with the necessary transmitters to communicate with the train (and isn't yet mandated to, since the railroad industry keeps lobbying to move the implementation date forward).

In Amtrak's defense, my understanding is that this track was actually owned by WSDOT / Sound Transit. And the mainline track (privately) owned by Union Pacific / BNSF isn't any better. Amtrak owns very little track of it's own on the west coast.

The failure to deploy PTC is a systemic issue with the entire railroad industry.
I don't disagree but I was hoping for something more compelling than "bad project management".
dotSUB is really cool, but it doesn't burn the subtitles directly into the video. This is really important for content creators on social media, because they don't get to control the player through which the video is watched. So this is an important differentiator for Kapwing!
I have a project in the planning stages that needs gpu passthrough. What alternative should I use?
PTC is a lot more than overspeed control, imagine any use case that would be enabled by electronically controlled trains connected to a highly available network.
Do they? I dont think they do.
Well, if they hadn't started service on this line they would have continued service on the old line, which also doesn't have PTC, so it's not exactly a net loss. This new line is a sort of bypass meant to replace an older one.