skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe "working together" would be more about aesthetics than technical in this instance.
Google offers update on its human-like text-to-speech system
It's quite simple. Paper is a near-perfect technology. What replaces it has to be similarly perfect. When people look at what replaces paper, they think screens. Screens are pretty-near perfect too. But screens are not what replace paper. Files are. Screens merely display information, files store it.

And file storage and manipulation is still in the Stone Age. It's about as far from perfect as any technology can be. To kill paper you have to make it perfectly easy for people to design applications without it. Because it's already perfectly easy to design applications and systems that use paper.

We have to fix software development before we can truly kill paper.
Thailand 4-Year Smart Visa arrives next month
Probably another typo: "planet our side" -> "planet our size"?

Also, this is a beautiful piece of writing! I love it.
It's pretty insane that in our fear we have basically created a dial a murder service for anyone to make use of.
Seems like OpenAge is just a clone of the engine, not a full standalone game like 0ad.
Bookings would certainly be a key financial metric... and would certainly belong on a financial statement since the funds transit Uber's books before being distributed to 3rd parties.
Once they're there, they might as well build some fish farms, if it's possible. That would be quite a sight.
This is mentioned in the first sentence of the ReadMe.
Awesome CryptoKitties (and CryptoCopycats)
Happen to have a grown up child. Duh.
Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret
Crypto portfolio web tool
Ok, so how installing a shunt on a blocked artery can possibly not work? (Not alleviating chest pain is "understandable", not reducing the risk of heart attacks makes no sense to me)

This article makes some "hand waves" about how understanding of the disease was simplified https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/11/3/16599072/st... but the fact is blocked arteries don't let blood flow.
Seating arrangements. Be it putting people who work well together in adjacent offices, or on adjacent tables.

Giving people freedom and allowance for failure, not having a strict "I am the boss" micromanaging hierarchy on the team.

Reward people for taking initiative. Find work that people want to do, and give them time to do it on their own but only if they self organize all of it, this builds necessary skills.

Taking someone who looks like they may have leadership potential aside and asking them to take on a small feature.

Combine all these together and you'll come in one day and find your team in a huddle tackling tasks together.

Requirements: Not being an insecure manager. Knowing that your value to the team and org is not in telling people what to do, but rather in helping them do what needs to be done. Sometimes this means communicating directives from on high, other times it means getting the team the resources that they've determined they need.
> Whether you finish the next release in 1 month or 2 is of no practical importance, except that it makes the manager look good.

No, it also increases value to the customer, and therefore price. It also helps you stay ahead of the competition, also increasing price.

Can you elaborate on PUBG?
Looking at things related to Entropy I can can clearly see the company I'm working for(which is sad).Considering that I'm not at leadership position, my next action is to quit and find a better one.
You'll have to be 55+ to buy it though (I think.. it's in a 55+ park).
Constraints are criteria.
> All the components in Bootstrap kinda work together with the .container .row .col classes and that’s still a crazy useful feature.

Actually, this has come to be the part of bootstrap I like the least. Individually the components are extremely useful, but as a layout engine I've constantly struggled to get it to comply with anything but layouts that look a lot like the ones in the bootstrap examples. CSS Grid and flexbox have proven to be more flexible at composing bootstrap components.
Fair enough, but I do know some (though not many) middle-class people who could afford it.
If you expect a good explanation on the double irish thing, look elsewhere, this talk spends less than a minute on it and does a poor job. A better title would be "How do we make these greedy capitalists pay more money to our governments (so that they can waste it)"
https://github.com/raganwald/braythwayt.com/commit/981362fad...

Thank you or sharing your appreciation. I will treasure that.
I think he was correct. Channels is utm_source and Display/PPC/Organic would be utm_medium.
Blockchain on Azure
Color of the Year 2018
Will there ever be a time when MSIE won't be the limiting factor; seriously thought we'd gotten past "but what about IE".
The metaphor extends further, actually. The "war" of business ends once a market consolidates.
Protonmail isn't open source.
How long is long here?
My understanding is that they are saying that the cause is being awake. I don't understand the modeling they are doing, but they are saying that the time curve of the concentration should be different if clearance was changing at night, so they think there is little change in clearance but only in production.

They mention one alternative that would also fit the data: "In order for decreased glymphatic clearance during sleep deprivation to increase soluble CSF Aβ, a decrease in irreversible losses (e.g. to the bloodstream or lymphatics) due to prolonged overnight waking would have to be perfectly matched by an increase in Aβ clearance to CSF. This is plausible but unlikely and not identifiable from the current data."

They say "The SILK kinetics results unequivocally show that glymphatic clearance alone, without compensation from other clearance mechanisms, would be ineffective in protecting the brain from AD because overall clearance rates are not changing. Glymphatic clearance may potentially contribute to the protective effects of sleep against AD, but changes in production rate seem to be the necessary and critical factor."

Also worth noting that they were unable to test if changes in slow wave sleep made a difference because sodium oxybate didn't actually increase slow wave sleep in that group vs normal sleepers.

It does sound like this contradicts previous research, at least:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880190/

They do cite that paper but do not have a detailed analysis of how their results could be consistant or are contradictory to what that study found. In that study radioactive amyloid beta was directly injected into mice and then how much of it was left was observed after varying amounts of time later and in sleeping vs. awake vs anesthetized. Maybe newly produced amyloid beta could be cleared instead of the radiolabeled amyloid beta or maybe the injected amyloid beta had different clearanace properties than naturally generated amyloid beta, but I don't know if either of those are plausable. Maybe they are just contradictory results.

If it is correct that the production changes are what makes the difference, I wonder why that is the case considering the much larger fluid exchange that happens at night. Also I wonder if some of the other similar substances that cause problems if they accumulate too much have a similar issue. Maybe stuff that can be cleared at high rate is easier to get rid of with relatively little sleep and stuff that can't is more likely to cause trouble over time.
I was going to post a comment that may or may not be along the same lines as what you're getting at.

My impression, after working in the biomedical field, in clinical settings as well as in research settings, is that a lot of what happens is arrogant hubris, in part related to identification with the physical sciences in a biomedical context. I'm not saying those in the physical sciences are arrogant, what I mean is that there is a certain arrogance that people afforded to themselves by virtue of their privilege and monopoly, and it justifies itself along the lines of "I'm an expert in the physical sciences, which means that whatever reasoning I employ to justify something is sound, because it is based in what I perceive to be sound biological, chemical, physical theory."

I guess what I mean is that, although I agree with you that most of what is published is nonsense, to put it politely, the problems start much earlier, in conflating "science" with "physical objects of study." Often they don't even get to the stage of systematically collecting data, because they don't see reason to question the truth of their hypotheses. It sounds reasonable, because they are smart, therefore it must be correct.

When you get to the stage of shoddy data supporting these biases, it makes things even worse.

It's survivorship bias at its worst. People assume that because they get into medical school, or in some cases, grad school in the biomedical sciences, that they got there because they're geniuses (rather than because of who they know, luck, etc.), and that means they're somehow above the need to empirically verify their hypotheses.

People just don't understand that there are lots of good ideas that are just wrong.
Data Breach Potentially Struck Tallahassee Utility Customers
Do you at all remember any market abuse, or do you only remember the good stuff?

(Is this an attack? I can't tell any longer.)
Considering my own age, it might happen that I just mentioned this because I am rather close to that generation myself.

I seriously doubt people will be comfortable with this stuff unless they have a history with engineering/IT.
If money comes first in your life, join us
"Being overworked is not a good reason to hire."

Because the world certainly needs more sociopathic management advice.
A new era in IT architectures – SD Times
>>Who foots the cost for an indefinite time until technology becomes available to rectify the situation?

Do you have any idea what the costs are, and how they compare to the rent-cost of the land occupied by cemeteries? I'm assuming these frozen heads could be stored with less pomp and decorum than dead bodies are today, so could be housed in multistory buildings.

>>Also, what about people that don't want to come back?

Couldn't people decide beforehand whether their brains are cryogenically preserved in the event of clinical death?

>>If not, this seems like a personal decision for each person, and a complaint such as yours seems to be missing the forest for the trees.

I don't think the parent comment is suggesting making this mandatory or done without explicit consent. Only that we would have benefited from having a cultural shift which makes this the primary response to death.
Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off
Here's a simple approach: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/06/building-production...

"Rather than using fallbacks and shims to ensure a design and layout look the same across all browsers, we’d provide the mobile vertical single-column layout to all browsers and then serve up advanced functionality to those browsers and viewport widths that can take advantage of them."
World War II's Best Codebreaker Was a Woman
Goodbye to Twitter (and all that)
Losses credibility when it claims a wolf can run 10 times faster than Usain Bolt when it is running at 38 miles per hour. Usain runs at a rate of 22.5 miles per hour in a 100 meter dash. But a nice story.
http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2017/h264-hd/

grep for "switch"
What innovations in file storage and manipulation would characterize a progression to the Bronze Age?
1) User namespaces don't magically protect you from a vulnerability that allows writing to kernel memory. Neither would AppArmor. seccomp could theoretically, but waitid is a pretty fundamental Unix syscall and blocking it would break a lot of basic software.

The author devised a particular exploit, but his example was hardly the only way to leverage the vulnerability. Being able to write to kernel memory is about as huge a vulnerability as you can get. Just because you can't think of a way to leverage a vulnerability doesn't mean an attacker can't; your failure of imagination is not evidence that it cannot be done.

2) Plenty of containers need more than 255 threads. Like, pretty much any Java server. In any event, this particular exploit doesn't necessarily require hundreds or thousands of simultaneous processes.

3) Blocking getuid is even worse than blocking waitid. Block getuid and you'll break glibc and god knows what. In any event, it would be futile as the real and effective UIDs are passed to the process through the auxiliary process vector when the kernel executes the process.

4) You're missing the forest for the trees. The real moral of the story is this: "In 2017 alone, 434 linux kernel exploits where found". Unless you're prepared to pour over every published exploit, 24/7, meticulously devise countermeasures, and be prepared to run effectively crippled software, you really shouldn't be relying on containers to isolate high-value assets. I wouldn't rely on VMs, either, as the driver infrastructure of hypervisors has also proven fertile ground for exploits.
Microsoft “AI for Earth” Project Will Democratize Access to Climate Change Data
I'm talking about gun deaths in total, not mass shootings as in your link. Yes, the number of guns is far below the US (every country on Earth is) but looking at the number in isolation is disingenuous.

As to legal restrictions in Switzerland, that is absolutely true but orthogonal to the point I've made. The issue lies in the number of guns per person (and I'd personally argue the culture surrounding guns which spurs it), not the legal framework. South Africa has tighter gun laws than the US but still suffers from greater gun deaths (again, in total not mass shootings).
Who understood English at birth?
See, e.g., https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/907720250501844994

It's mostly not functionality missing to pass the CTS, but just broken untested AOSP-only code (that is replaced by Google closed source code in Google builds).
Being able to run Android Studio on a container would be really nice.
In Google Maps for Android, press the menu icon. Settings. Notifications. Your Contributions.

You can switch off all the nags in there.
Oh of course, I agree with you. My point is purely statistical i.e. those are the numbers open for interpretation. The gun cultures in Canada and Switzerland are completely different to the US, but it's disingenuous to simply say more guns == more deaths.
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;" - Ecclesiastes 3:11
Some takeaways:

* Close to $10B in gross bookings, which in a back of the envelope guess means 5-10 million rides per day (assuming $10-$20 per ride) If anything maybe more as 'pool' options get more popular.

* Slower growth for Uber means they are still increasing topline bookings by 10+% per quarter

* Uber's reported R&D spending is around 15% of revenue. The proportion is comparable to companies like google & microsoft, but uber is still 10x smaller overall
There's no affiliate link in that shortened URL, unless AWS has changed the parameter lately. ref= in an Amazon URL isn't a referral, it's something internal - referrals are all done via a tag= URL param.
Isn't sdl2 a lot smaller than qt5?
The minimum memory that IBM offered in the original PC was the 16KB my first PC came with. I upgraded it to 64K right away, but DOS certainly ran in the 16K configuration.
Wow - whataboutism, a Gish gallop, and cherry-picking all at once. Quite the rhetorical cocktail, but I'd have preferred a responsive answer in your own words.
Records of Computer Giant Digital Equipment Corporation Open for Research at CHM
>>Construction work is not a good metaphor for software/product development. Factory work neither.

I like this, really fed up with everyone comparing software development with construction work and/or building a house. Don't compare those, apples to oranges. Sure, borrow the best, most appropriate things, techniques, methodologies, approaches and not just from construction. Just don't compare.
Do you mean management consulting vs software engineering?

Or do you mean working in software development as a consultant (contractor) rather than a full-time employee?
That’s true, but if the product is big enough, with enough varying constituencies, then delivering something to a large chunk of those people on time is a lot better than delivering nothing to everybody on time.
Disclaimer: not a Bolshevik.

You raise a very valid point. Also often disregarded are social advances from the movement.

I mean, my understanding of pre-communist Russia was that it was still basically medieval in many ways with serf/noble type relationships and very not advanced. I'm not sure it would be were it is now, nor have become a major 20'th century super power without what happened.

Not saying the end justifies the means at all, just we have to take progress into account when weighing relative merit.
Considering that ST continues to ignore the Eastside Rail Corridor, I'm not sympathetic to their ROW purchase costs.
Betting on the New Year Address – The Perfect Mix of Data and Traditions
Any time a cop shoots someone for any reason, they are automatically put on administrative leave. (This varies by department but it seems to be how it works in Wichita.) After the investigation, it will be determined whether they should be punished.
Ten mph faster, not ten times.
> the potential to need to kill somebody isn't part of their job duties

This is true. However, I interpret it as yet another reason why police should be systemically held to a stricter standard for unjustified killings: they know they are far more likely to get away with it, so the process of investigation should be a deterrent in itself to counteract the low likelihood of punishment.

Think about this case for a second. The chief gave no information about whether the victim was carrying a weapon or threatened the officers. The victim was surrounded by cops and yet there is no immediate clarity about precisely what happened.

Cops are a fraternity, and they deal extensively with the justice system. There are systemic benefits that they enjoy due to this. Many cops have gotten away with murders that were documented on video, and witnessed by other cops.

To counter this, you have to construct parts of the system as a deterrent to killing nonthreatening people. That may make the job more dangerous, but it's better to put a trained officer in danger of being attacked, than to put an innocent and clueless civilian in danger of being gunned down by a careless SWAT team.
See also: attempts to replace whiteboards/blackboards.
How do you know you aren't already just a frozen brain in a liquid N2 canister, whose scan was uploaded to a simulation server with severely restricted outside communication?

Just a word of caution, however: if things around you seem to be reverting to an earlier era, get some Ubik, quick.
Wow that's so weird, what's going on? Did that guy just copy and paste my comment there?

I don't really care about getting credits for this comment (which by the way got downvoted tons) but it's still really weird that someone would copy and paste the same comment on the same thread.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Is Vertical on the Launchpad for the First Time
As long as you completely ignore the cost of technical debt and bug fixes, sure.
> It's the only natural incentive for good practice.

What about the whole hypocratic oath thing? Or isn't that natural?
This techie is using blockchain to monetize his time
[Hi from Argentina too!]

I think it will be interesting, in particular if you discuss the additional problems that appear in Spanish. For example: non ascii characters, declination of adjectives by gender, more declination of verbs, ??? These problems may appear in other languages as German, French, ... so the material may be interesting for anyone trying to do a localized version of a tool in other languages.
Perhaps try Lawnchair (https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/Lawnchair - available on Play Store) which is closely modeled on Googles Pixel launcher but offers customization.
> Edit2: Additionally this CVE relies on the getuid syscall being available

This exploit relies on it. The vulnerability does not. The exploit happens to use getuid() along the way to using heap spraying, but the writeup is pretty clear that neither getuid() nor heap spraying is required.
>These are all capitalist economies. Communism for a technological society doesn’t work in any capacity because of the basic tenants of communism. //

Work for the betterment of the community in preference to selfish ambition; from each according to there abilities, to each according to their needs; ...

These are what I think of as basic tenets of communism ... What about this is not consistent with technological progress of society?

Communism seems, to me, to be our last great hope for a long future for the human race.

I suppose some would prefer technological advancement over sustainability.
Theoretically, it might not be a good reason to hire. Maybe the problem is bad planning or project management. Hiring more people won't really solve that.

But, in general, I agree with you.
Embedded Controllers Using C and Arduino [pdf]
I wasn't aware that people without college education in US suffer from mass starvation and getting it is a matter of life and death.
Sorry, this is just to easy. Bolshevism was not a religion. Not at all. It was a political party modeled on the German SPD, modified to fit the political conditions of Tsarist Russia.

No serious scholar or historian would treat Bolshevism as a religion. It was always about politics.
We don't know if mosselman is exceptional or typical of Dutch fathers.

That is, if only 10% take time off, and you only know 5 middle-class people who could afford it, then odds are that even at the Dutch level you wouldn't know anyone who does that.

I suppose it's possi ... okay, that was too easy. A search for "how many Dutch fathers parental leave" comes up with http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/06/just-one-in-fo... which says "Just one in four Dutch fathers takes parental leave".
My company is in the position of having to upgrade soon, because of the abysmally broken SMB stack on everything since Mavericks. It's fine when you are doing SMB between Macs. But against Windows servers with decent sized directories (upwards of 10K folders), it's a nightmare. Unbearably slow, beachball city, missing files and folders that show up just fine on Windows.

We use Acronis Connect (formerly ExtremeZIP) for AFP connectivity at present, but that only helps with the missing files problem. It's still painfully slow.

SMB on 10.13.2 is blazingly fast, almost as fast as Windows, and the missing files/folders problem is gone.
Filesystem IO through DOS APIs does not have bounded execution time by design (it can even cause user interaction, ie. the infamous "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"). On the other hand the timing is pretty consistent in non-error situations.

Also synchronous (and also often non-preemptible) disk/FS IO was for the long time the only way it was done. For example the reason that on Linux process that got stuck accessing NFS or removable drive that got removed was unkillable (in 'D' state) was to preserve illusion of such semantics to user processes (ie. that IO to filesystem and block devices will never fail with EINTR). And I would not be surprised if many deeply-embedded RTOSes do the same to this day.
You misread. Go back and reread.

"they can do bursts of 38 miles per hour, ten faster than Usain Bolt"

And that's not how you spell looses, you ignorant twat.
I upgraded a couple days ago to get React Native to work (shouldn't be required but I needed to update Xcode). So far works well.
It might help them to better understand the tradeoffs airlines make when designing their cabins. There are always exit row seats, which not only have longer seat pitch but also have rows ahead which cannot recline. Maybe airlines could waive the modest upgrade fee for passengers of extreme height.