skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have these in NL. They malfunction frequently, people don't understand what is going on and the people staffing them are unable to do much to improve throughput. It was just a cost savings measure so that fewer border guards can process more people but from the point of view of the travelers it is a net loss.

Before there would be a very short wait, you'd walk up to the border guard (one of three or four on duty typically), put your passport on their desk, they'd look at it for three seconds and swipe it, then you'd be on your merry way 10 seconds later. Now you wait for 10 or 15 minutes (if you're lucky), insert your passport into the machine, wait for the silly glass doors to close, have your passport spat back out again, repeat the whole thing, find that you were looking a bit too low, so re-do that and so on until finally the second set of silly glass doors opens and you can move on.

It's a complete failure from a usability point of view.
how could someone invest in this?
Great article. So much well researched that author even doesn't know that place where Arab Spring erupt first (Tunisia) has outlawed polygamy.
That article claims that all ills are due to polygamy which is complete nonsense.
In Daesh countries (Iraq and Syria) polygamy wasn't that common.
I have, it is hit and miss. But was enough pf a hit to stay in use for over a year back in the 802.11b days. Grounding the reflector should also help iirc.
I think that 9 of 10 figure is made up then cut and pasted.

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/Business-Survival.pd...
I don’t know why you assert that that’s where error handling should happen because I disagree. My thought was that promises were for values that are calculated asynchronously or anyways aren’t immediately available. They support errors but I don’t think this means that all code which emits errors should use promises to do error handling, that seems like a bastardization of the original idea.
He also said he has 10 years of emergency funds saved. IOW, he's saving and not touching the retirement. Good for him!
The most basic google search would show that’s not the case; rude and racist remarks sure but not actionable threats.

Section 127 of the communications act is an abomination.
Unfortunately, that 'safety' of a 'regular' income is almost entirely illusory as well. Employers stopped providing insulation from market fluctuations in the 1980s. If your market dips, your company will hemorrhage workers without a second thought. Your desire for a place you can 'settle down' will also be ruthlessly exploited, and if you don't jump to a different company every 4 or 5 years, you will rapidly end up making radically less than you could elsewhere due to your experience level. This is unfortunately the scenario companies have built. It can be dealt with so long as you understand the game as well as they do, though.

'Make game of that which makes as much of thee.'
Coding until I die? sign me up
My understanding is that there are no lead fumes. It becomes a gas at like 3200 degrees. Your soldering iron won’t make it into a gas and if you are inhaling fumes that hot you have bigger problems. My main issue with it is that I don’t want any residue on my work surfaces where my kids might play with it, or on any electronics they might touch.
Despite smoking 25 a day, I have found quitting Reddit much, much harder

I started using BBS systems in 1985 and reddit in 2006. Left reddit several times, deleting my account(s) each time. Finally left it for good about a year and a half ago and am so glad it's gone. I've replaced it with some similar things like HN but reddit is such a particularly addictive and destructive site it's worth singling out for avoidance.
This comment made my day. Thank you :-)

I should have written it after my morning coffee.
> Best idea I have is to take a couple months off and try to recover from my burnout, and hope it becomes clear what I'd like to do next -- even if it's a similar role at another company. But taking time off with nothing lined up has its own risks, and I imagine there's more to it than simply "not working."

I've been there. My advice is that "not working" probably isn't enough. You need to focus on something. For me a non-trivial part of it was regaining control of my life, but also not having too many things to stress about.

If you have a couple months my advice would be to hop on/in your favorite vehicle of choice: bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, car, truck whatever as long as it travels on the ground.

Assuming you're in the US then head south, for one month, and north for one via another route. No, it does not matter if you know Spanish. You only need a handful of phrases to get by and you can pick up the rest along the way. You should be able to make it past the southern border of Mexico. Stop at some of the amazing ruins. Eat whatever random meat is being cooked on the roadside. Smile, and laugh.

You will be in control of every decision that affects you, but there will be very few. Get up. Choose a road and a goal to attempt to reach before the day ends. You may or may not make it. It doesn't matter. Choose when to eat. Choose where to sleep. Repeat.

I spent 4 months with my wife http://www.corporaterunaways.com/trips/boston-to-ushuaia/ heading to the bottom of South America. It was completely rejuvenating and life altering (in a good way).

Want something a little easier? Head north to Prudhoe Bay Alaska then make your way back home.

If you're not in the US do the same thing over some other countries. I swear to you that the hardest part is leaving. Traveling through foreign countries where you don't speak the language is actually pretty easy. ;)

Things to note about this strategy (especially if you travel through notably different countries): It gives you lots of time to relax (many miles between places). You see amazing and beautiful things that will inspire you. You have lots of time to think (many miles between places). You meet wonderful people who will help you just because they're good humans. You will remember why life can be good. You'll be reminded just how amazing we have it in our 1st world countries.
That article is factually wrong. Tunisia had outlawed polygamy and got Arab Spring. And how many suicide bombs did Iraq had before Gulf War?
In Daesh countries (Iraq and Syria) polygamy wasn't that common.
An old man that is having trouble with the changes HE helped create. That's an important detail.
some countries mandate civil defense shelters in private dwellings, switzerland and singapore both come to mind.
I assert that naming the interface for the implementation is almost always the wrong thing to do.

(And then you ask me what would be a better name, and I don't have a perfect answer. "left" and "right" are the best I know of...)
> My "symptoms" include pretty serious social anxiety and an inability to think during conversations, inability to focus on non-interesting work, and just a general feeling of being dumber.

That hit really close to home. I've attributed my symptoms to lack of exercise and perhaps not reading enough long-form but this all conjecture at this point.
Ah, I thought it was still work in progress.

> the ringer was too high-voltage to make work

But they don't use a lot of current. It's about 90V AC iirc to make it properly ring, and 20 Hz, you could do that with a switched capacitor network or, alternatively, by using a step up transformer (will be a bit heavier). Ugly solution would be to re-wind the coil so it works on a lower voltage and drive it directly.
>Without heavy hand regulation in a developing countries, these things don't magically come at the kindness of employers.

They would "magically" appear if first world countries like the US added incremental import tariffs based on labor law adherence.
Got anything at all to back up that rather wild claim that chinese miners don't pay for power?
Firefox Sandbox
>I'm not sure why they gave me a RFID card for it.

The card is for crossing the border via car. You can use Global Entry at the NEXUS (when arriving from Canada) and SENTRI (inbound from Mexico) lanes, and the procedure there is you are to wave your RFID card across a reader as you approach the agent's booth.
As a quick off-the-top-of-my-head calculation, I take 300,000,000, the speed of light in meters/second (approximate), divide by cycles per second, you get wavelength in meters. In this case, parent calculates a quarter wavelength. A full wavelength is about 5.9cm. It’s easy to get off by an order magnitude in your head, but if through sheer repetition you know 28Mhz is about 10m, you’ll know you’re off if your 30Mhz calculation gives you 0.98m. And you can do the math from there to figure out that 14Mhz is about 20m, etc. Do it enough and you can mentally move some decimal points in your head to get a pretty good approximation for about any frequency. I learned it at some point fiddling with amateur radio, but here’s a page that I think explains it well: http://www.digitalairwireless.com/wireless-blog/t-5ghz/calcu...
Can you expand the SSC initialism? Google and Wikipedia don't seem to be very helpful.
ah no worries...just wanted to see how much we are behind the rest of the world.

so 15 pounds in CAD is ~ $25

so 15 pounds for 500mb/month in Canada...
That sucks. I’d spend more time on the Android version. But there is a really high piracy rate. Buy a Samsung Galaxy S8, it was tested on there.

Both Michael and I appreciate the hat tip you gave us by buying it. Email me and I’ll glady refund your $0.99.
I feel that I want a border guard more than this. This isn't going to catch someone doing something funny. (Like smuggling drugs out of the country, or smuggling other people out)
Sounds like SF.
What’s Happening in JavaScript – December 2017
How did they fail to cope with it?
Why not just sign a message?
Swift vs. OCaml – Does reference counting use less memory than tracing GC?
Double-blind tests are necessary but not sufficient. Without the double-blind tests, the process simply has no credibility at all. The double-blind tests establish that credibility.

However, the 6th amendment also guarantees defendants the right to confront their accusers. Without the source code, they are unable to do this.
I've always wondered how re-entering the US is without a passport. You should be able to do it, and you should be scrutinized about it heavily.(Sounds suspicious)
Yes, you can do POST requests. I usually use a protocol called MQTT, originally developed for industrial pipeline telemetry and controls that's now getting a lot of use in the IoT world. Good luck, this stuff is super fun.
Rethinking how the US grows beef
This appears to be an organisation devoted to swinging elections for a specific political party and the content consists of well-worn ideological and political talking points.

> "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One Bite at a Time: Partitioning Complexity by Kent Beck
+1. This guy took a huge risk and is an idiot. He got stupid lucky.
I provide my own insulation by spending much less than I make, and saving the rest. I have decades of savings at my current rate of spending. I'm about as safe as a person can be in this world.

My company has been paying me very competitively for more than a decade. I'm not worried about settling down here, but nobody else will make me a higher offer, at least not without requiring much more of my time than where I am at.
I'm going to let this one slide, because most of us are not working today for various reasons, but I must note, I've never seen this side of GitHub. I probably spend too much time cloistered in work projects to notice.
> This isn't going to catch someone doing something funny. (Like smuggling drugs out of the country, or smuggling other people out)

That's not what it is for.

It's simply to verify that what your passport says about you picture wise matches your face, and to be able to detain you in case you have an outstanding arrest warrant or open traffic fines.
You can have your rights to leave the country stripped away by being accused of felonies, a judge can take away your PP, and even renewals can be rejected if you owe the government money.
Not courageous. Really stupid.
IUNGO is a blockchain based project to do exactly this:

https://medium.com/@iungo/iungo-global-wifi-networks-is-abou...
The Birth and Growth of the Digital Computer
What your life is missing is meaning. Meaning is action. If a word means anything at all it is because it is in reference to some kind of actual experience.

Blogs, books, and media of all kind are basically meaningless. Vanity of vanities and all that jazz.

You need to experience life. You need to find meaning through action. You need to become a poet by becoming the poem.

Help your neighbor with his hobbies. Cook dinner for your family. Sing a song for a friend. Do something, anything, for someone else.

Realize the inaction and the meaningless nature of sitting in one place and searching for answers on screen or in print.

If you must read, read all text as a poem, or at least read poetry itself!

The darkness that you see is just a fiction. How could it be anything else? The magic spells are just words on a page. Belief is what makes them seem real.

Go outside. Go for a walk. There is no darkness. It is boring and peaceful and that should put your mind to rest.
> Size often correlates with complexity.

It can correlate with complexity positively and negatively.

Which one explanation below is easier to understand?

Photosynthesis? Or 'process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities'?

You could argue that Photo+Synthesis might be enough to imply the essential underlying mechanism of the process itself, but I think more people would prefer the latter just for clarity.
Has anyone actually tried to mesh a large number of ESP8266 chips in practice? I tried it, hooked a 7-seg display to each 8266 and started adding nodes 1 at a time. Each node would display the number of additional nodes available in the mesh (on the 7-seg). I found the mesh became unstable around 12+ nodes and would auto arrange into 2+ separate meshed networks. This was a while ago and maybe it's more stable today. I'm interested in anyone actually getting 20+ nodes working reliably.
so not very difficult and not far off either it seems. It must've been an existential crisis for Uber to go as far as try and steal it from Waymo, allegedly. It seems they underestimated just how difficult and expensive it can be....perhaps that $2 billion dollar burn rate could've been allocated better.
Exactly, leveraging his ability to damage fb into more money is certainly more consistent with his past activities than the idea that he now has an angelic conscience and cares about the world’s minds.
Doctor Who’s “Twice Upon a Time” is a true sentimental journey
There is a huge difference, you're also discounting GC. Haskell's GC for example is tuned to the aspects of the language, meaning it's pretty efficient at allocating and cleaning up lots of memory; it has to be, everything is immutable.

Mutable language GC's like JS or Java's aren't necessarily built for this compared to GHC. And even discounting all that, things like stack memory, cache, etc all make a huge difference in real world performance. GC's have come a long way, but there is still a gap in performance.
Would you kindly post link to that video?
Actually, the battery life thing is correct. Shady lenders in other countries also use that metric.

If you're the sort of person who keeps their battery topped off, it's a signal that you're responsible or perhaps have a steady job where you can plug in.

If you're the sort of person who's always scrounging for a plug to juice up a few percent here and there, it indicates a more risky lifestyle.
External factors (such as age, cost, or economy) may prevent you from reaching the 10th time.
Doesn't the grid already use capacitor banks and reactors for power factor correction?
1) Related to how the EEG is more a subsidy of energy-intense industry rather than regenerative energy, at the expense of the consumer.

2) "Die meisten Stromanbieter halten an ihren aktuellen Preisen fest, und 78 Versorger senken ihre Preise sogar im Schnitt um 2,2 Prozent. Zugleich aber heben 64 Versorger ihre Grundtarife im Schnitt um knapp drei Prozent an" --> Most utilities keep their prices fixed, 78 reduce prices by ~2.2%, 64 increase by ~3%.

3) More than France (nuclear), Spain (nuclear, wind), Sweden (nuclear, hydro) and Norway (hydro). It is unsurprising that countries heavily invested in nuclear and hydro produce less CO2.

Germany's energy policy is far from perfect, but probably one of the most future-proof in Europe (which costs money).
France will have huge issues with decommissioning in the next decade; nuclear is not a silver bullet.
NPS is a great tool if you want to understand your word of mouth growth.
The issues described in the article are issues of Data Interpretation and not of the actual tool.
EG "I gave a 0, because I dont know anyone to recommend the product to" is a typical word of mouth problem to Work on
I don't think I have NEXUS or SENTRI endorsements. Also, I haven't gotten my car inspected for it either. (Another caveat to those, everyone in the car has to have a GE if you're going to do a land border crossing in a car with that)
Why not make it an add on, then?
Hardware Acceleration of Hamming Code – Runtime Reconfigurable FPGA Prototype
>Changing it to 1 way binding resolved the rendering time and made it on par with the other 2,

You have to explicitly enable 2 way data binding in Angular 2.x +. Angular 2.x+ is 1 way data binding by default. This is a key differentiation between AngularJS 1.x and Angular 2.x+

The fact that you imply you had 2 way data binding initially means you were using angularJS 1.x (not Angular 2.x +) Or if the latter, you had some very poor design decisions to settle on a 2 way data binding solution. Vue and React both are by default 1 way data binding.
Given that NK has totalitarian surveillance software that keeps track of USB devices being plugged into phones/tablets/computers -- what is a (relatively) safe method that the intended recipients are expected to use to access the contents of these USB devices?
In other news, IBM welcomes the generation of management that scooted through college on the Dummy series. OMFH.
Currently, it seems like thermal storage is likely to achieve widespread grid-scale capacity before battery storage.

But there are battery storage systems that have capacities over 100MW, so even today it's not just in the 10-20 MW range.
On the other hand, if he had put in $8 at $8, he'd have $16,000 today.
That's fine as far as it goes, but it's a bit of a straw man. Sure, you can't teach a horse calculus, but I'm deeply skeptical of the implicit assumption in this interview that contemporary psychology has sufficiently precise tools to even measure intelligence effectively, let alone query its genetic foundations.
Delivering to your deadlines and estimates as much as possible
A sonar device that could replace canes for blind people
Thanks I look forward to it.
All energy costs a positive amount of dollars to produce. Thus, in the long run, the price of electricity must be such that generators recoup their fixed costs, recoup their variable costs, and make some profit that makes the whole endeavor worthwhile.

In an ideal grid, the price of electricity would be a stable amount that hovered around this long-run price.[1] If battery technology was up to par, generators would place batteries between their plants and the grid, and deliver electricity at a predictable rate, which would keep the price stable. Negative rates that deviate dramatically from this price are the sign of a grid in distress. Even though individual consumers might be able to take advantage of these periods of negative rates, that doesn't mean its good news for consumers as a class.

It's like when the power company pays electricity users to shut down during demand spikes. Yes, consumers that can throttle demand during spikes can make money from such events. But if you're seeing the price of electricity spike frequently, that's a sign of something wrong with the grid, not a positive thing for consumers.

[1] This is a simplification, because there's actually more than one energy market involved that generators use to recoup their costs: https://www.bateswhite.com/media/publication/55_media.741.pd.... But it's easier to explain assuming one market and one price.
I would always worry that if I permanently deleted (not deactivated -- deleted) my Facebook account something would be lost, but this just wasn't the case in practice. Once it was gone it felt like nothing was ever there to begin with, and I feel _so much better_. I highly recommend that others take a leap of faith and do the same.
Webm is not supported out of the box for ios. Neither is WEBP (sure about webp, not sure about webm).
It is calculated asynchronously. Response body is lazy and calling .json() on it consumes it and returns promise. That is API of WHATWG fetch and many other JS HTTP clients
https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#body-mixin
> Is it really that difficult to work on side projects on your nights/weekends while working at these places?

I only have internship experience to speak of, but I've noticed that when I'm writing code from 9-5 -- even though I thoroughly enjoy programming and creating stuff with it -- I end up uninterested in doing more of that in the free time I have left. I think it's a psychological thing more than a time thing.
>questionable decisions

That’s an understatement.

>His only hit was porting someone else’s game

Yep. He’s a hack job for sure. There is no way he’ll be successful in future stuff tbh.
Silly title.
While this is true, Tech Solidarity often gets a free exemption due to its strong support from tptacek and idlewords.
Phone Phreaks: The Fascinating Story of the World's First Hackers
Dunno, depends on the kinds of startups you're trying to create. For example, I don't think you're "bad at startups" just because you create more ambitious ones with a higher chance of failure. Some people are at a place where they can take more risks, it doesn't make them an abject failure.
Yeah, it's definitely doable on battery, it was just harder than not doing it/out of my league back then. I think I'll actually give it a shot on the next phone, as I think the PCB can easily fit now (it's only 5x5cm, as opposed to an Arduino Uno with shield on the first prototype).

I loved your LEGO sorter, by the way, it was very large-scale and a very interesting project, well done. I greatly enjoyed reading the writeup. Do you still use it?
That doesn't account for external scale, though. Let's say I go and check in to the Holiday Inn. The bed is clean, the receptionist smiles. They met my expectations, but if I call that a 9 or a 10, what do I call the experience at a proper 5 star hotel?
Which e paper did you get? I was planning to order some soon
It crashes during scandals like Mt Gox, and the big crash will come when a major nation-state decides to crack down on it.

Full disclosure: I don't own any Bitcoin, but I own other cryptocurrencies.
Papers I Like by Fabian Giesen – The Ryg Blog
Brit here. I think the UN should seriously consider relocating it's offices from New York. It's really not acceptable to have the organisation held to ransom like this. I'd support Berlin, Rome or Paris as good options if one of those nations was willing to take it on. With the new high speed rail links between London and Paris coming on line soon maybe we could split the burden. I can see some good coming of this, clearly the organisation and it's members can't take funding or independence for granted and need to take them seriously.

Maybe we in Britain could contribute a bit more from the massive savings we're supposed to reap from Brexit - ho, ho.
There is a paper for the index structure part; several authors.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208