skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why I've never heard a politician go with the argument that a tax cut today will ruin your social security benefits tomorrow. Why do they not make the argument that a tax increase would be more beneficial for your future?
Aren't Mac applications supposed to have their toolbars as separate windows? Pixelmator (at least the pre-App Store version i have) does the same, as did some other apps i've tried at the past.
knowing my luck, it'll be Atlanta
> If you have heard someone whining about the nefarious "Big Government" and the need for deregulation, then you've met a Neoliberal.

That is an very inaccurate generalization, liable to be wrong at least ~50-75% of the time these days, maybe not in the 1980s or 90s and earlier, but certainly today as it's become a catchall for everything the (new?) left doesn't like.
> > we don’t use DNS internally — just configuration-managed /etc/hosts files

> This seems very odd and redundant. Does someone manually edit all servers when a new server comes online?

That's what configuration management does for you, edit the file in one place(preferable it's also in version control) and it will change it on every system for you. Some config mangement "tools" that do this for you: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, ...
Why would you visit such sites? :)
>Have you heard of logging?

So your solution is to dig through log files to find the problem instead of read the unit test name(s) that demonstrate the failure?

>This is almost exactly what I suggested.

Well, it wasn't clear from your wording. It sounded like you were advocating integration testing instead of unit testing (which is a thing that people commonly do, so that's why I reacted to it).
Perfect example of how to use 'neoliberal' as a term of abuse with a nice strawman layer on top.
Paint is a bitmap image editor. What would you like the result to be? A <rect> for every pixel placed by the pencil tool?
Thanks for the details, this should be somewhere near top.
Except for Los Angeles, that is.
Intertia from both mass and speed (larger props tend to spin more slowly, at least in part to keep the tips sub-sonic).

Traditional multi-rotors, like the one featured in this article, maneuver by quickly changing the speed of the props with respect to the other props to change the attitude of the craft. The larger the prop, and thus the greater the inertia, the harder it is to quickly change the rotational velocity of those rotors.

Which is why helicopters tend to use variable pitch props, since they can alter the lift (and rotational force) generated by the prop without having to change the velocity. Well, that and variable pitch props let you create differential lift (such as tilting the helicopter into forward flight) with a single rotor as well. :)
Germany’s central bank has decided to add the Chinese currency
My money is on Vriginia particularly Loudoun county. Amazon AWS data centers are already there. Many other data center vendors are moving in hords. Land is cheap and in abundance there. VA allows easy access to eastern and southern states. People who want to work for Amazon would move eventually. Major metro-city is not going to happen.

UPDATE: Spelling mistake
If your concern is with making Linux on the desktop more appealing, it may be worth your while to consider whether your discursive style, in the role of (presumably self-appointed) community representative, might make it more likely or less likely that people will want to participate in the community you claim to represent.

As it happens, my own experience with the Linux community suggests that you do not accurately represent it at all, at least not when you act as badly as you have here. Someone with no such prior experience, faced with your execrable behavior here and your claim to represent that community in so behaving, could not reasonably be blamed for the conclusion that attempting to engage with that community would be a terrible mistake.
Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities
Tim Cook Promises to Let iPhone Users Turn Off Throttling Soon
I like Stephen Grider's classes, but I also use them to measure when the hype for a given technology has reached its peak.
The i.MX6 CPU is, by the way, the CPU that is used in the opensource Novena laptop. Apparently it is a reasonably powerful processor, but more importantly, it doesn't require an NDA to access the datasheet.

I am not sure how things will be for the i.MX8, but I certainly hope that they will continue this practice.
Yep, it's completely impossible for businesses to exist outside of Seattle, which is why the rest of the country is such a desolate wasteland of economic strife.
If I don't want to own one now, I have to get to some place where they rent out cars, get it, do my thing and get it back there again, and then back home. For me this takes about ~30 minutes door to door each direction, even though I live "in the city".

In a self driving scenario I use an app and it shows up at my door, and likely much quicker, and then it drives itself off after I'm done.
Atlanta is right in the middle of many of the world's flight paths (there's a city outside the airport!), has lots of fiber, and the state already showed a willingness to work at all levels to get a big, logistics-dependent business with the Caterpillar plant. The latter point is probably the most important.
So the leadership in all the cities falls over themselves to bend over the most for Amazon? Amazon will play them off each other use the offers to leverage the city or cities they "really" want.

I think folks are expecting too much from Amazon.

The cities are hoping for an influx of taxpayers with big incomes, but what will really happen is that Amazon will simply build a campus, the bulk of the "tech workers" will live in a wide swath of exburbs around the city. The commuters will stress the transportation infrastructure of the city and the "tax breaks" will greatly limit the actual benefits the cities see.

Of course even that is contingent on the whims of Amazon. They're soliciting solemn proposals that fork over a lot of benefits and promises. Whereas on the Amazon side, they could change their minds before even building the facility-- or just build a much smaller facility, or build several much much smaller facilities in several cities, all of which leverage the "highest bidder" benefits.

I don't believe them and I don't believe the "50000" jobs number. It is too round a number that seems like it was dreamed up by a PR goon. And what is the point of an HQ2 anyway? Isn't ONE HQ enough? How many HQ's does a company need in one country?
Homebrew Enabler released for PS4 4.05
Took me a while to figure out how it was supposed to work, when you click something you can't drill down anymore, you have to hover to drill down.

Due to the tiny comment box, the lack of context and being unable to quickly scan the discussion it is a lot less intuitive than just having the tree-based comments. In a normal comment thread I can quickly scan the text, with this I have to hover over several very small targets to be able to read a tiny portion of each comment.

Not sure what problem this is trying to solve.
Such an easy statement to make. The false assumption indeed is that if the US had not engaged in these polices people would now be better off.

Saying 'its not perfect' is easy, showing that your alternative path would have been better is hard, and there is little evidence for it. Thus most economist don't believe it.
Just visited Pittsburgh. There is indeed a renaissance happing in that town. The restaurant scene alone is phenomenal. And the addition of a FANG level HQ could cement its burgeoning international reputation as a destination.

The idea is that CMU spits out about 200+ world class CS grads a year. If even 5% decide to stay in the area to start their own ventures. There would be potential for massive growth.

the other data points that shocked me is that the population of Greater Austin, Texas is now 2.5M souls! I still think of it as a sleepy southern college town like Athens, GA ;) And that Denver is experiencing a net influx of 10K people per day!
Whilst I understand the need to make some bespoke UI components, I hope they don't get too much not-invented-here syndrome.

OpenMoko went down that route: the Freerunner shipped with a bespoke GTK UI (with support from Gnome; I seem to remember them being at GUADEC) but they'd already deprecated it in favour of a bespoke EFL UI. This meant a huge amount of churn, resulting in multiple half-finished projects, rather than a single reasonably-decent UI.

For the last 10 years my Freerunner has been running on 'qtmoko', which is just Debian with the QtMobile UI (which AFAIK was a Trolltech demo).

These days there are even more FOSS mobile UIs floating around (Maemo, Meego, Plasma, Unity, FirefoxOS, Android, QtMobile, etc.) so hopefully Librem will just pick a stable OS (Debian?); pick one of these UIs, or interoperable components from a few; add on their Matrix messenger thingy, and ship.
Are these dev jobs? If so, time zone coverage = less hours on call
Can someone describe a few applications of blockchains in real world applications that cannot be implemented without a blockchain? I'm really struggling to come up with even a single case. I thought some sort of secure voting mechanism would be a good candidate, but that too could be done with an immutable database.

EDIT: Besides crytocurrencies, I mean.
I think Miami would be good strategically for Amazons future warm-water port.

Joking aside, What sort of hoops do they expect these city and state governments jump through?
Americans do plenty of so-called "crappy jobs" for the paycheck, if the received amount justifies the crap they have to do. There's work to be done and we can't have 300+ million engineers in one country. Maybe should take a look around at the world you live in.
Utilizing javascript on browser, the server can detect it's headless.

The server can then block, redirect or feed the browser erroneous data.
I'm not sure we're there, yet, today.

Yes, I've seen the video where Casey Neistat hangs off a drone in ski gear. But to attempt a rescue, the drone is pulling against somebody who isn't trained (more movement means harder to stabilize). You're also fighting against the ocean, so you're going to need extra power to pull the person against the waves, at least until you get them plucked out.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the drone will need to operate quite a bit higher up to stay safely clear of water and heavy spray, so the person would be at the end of a much longer rope, and a longer rope means the system is a longer "pendulum", which again means it'll take more energy to stabilize it.

An ocean rescue is going to happen on a warm day, whereas the Casey Neistat video was done in cold, dense air where drones are more efficient.

I would not be surprised if it takes an order of magnitude more energy, at the drone, to pull a person out of the ocean that it takes to lift a calm person on dry land. That's a big hill to climb.
Break even does not enable them to pay for massive investments. A 20% increase would cost them significant ridership, but is more or less required to have any significant profit.
Oooh... the cringe is strong. (EDIT: this refers to Mayor Sly's actions in your link, not to your comment!) Realistically, KC doesn't have an international airport. It's a fine national airport, because it's easy to get close to your gate really quickly, and there's a pretty complete set of connections to the West and many parts of the East. To fly internationally, however, requires a layover at O'Hare. One doesn't see KC competing for something like this without being a bit more connected to the world.
Misread that for a moment as "just drone it over to your house" and pictured a DJI Mavic with a thumb drive taped to it.
The market's pretty saturated with bootcamp grads right now. I get literally hundreds of responses every time I post an opening.
Any candidate acquisitions for Waymo to buy the manufacturing capacity that it needs? I don't know the car industry well, but looking at the market cap of companies[1] it looks like you're talking at least $40-50B for an established manufacturer (Nissan, Tesla are in that range). That is affordable for Alphabet (~$80B cash on hand), but I'd be surprised if they went all-in like that.

[1]: http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/usmarkets/ind...
But whoever you're scraping can suddenly break your scraping tool too.
This is a major throwback, and definitely one of the main reasons why I'm where I'm at today.
Radare2: An Introduction to Visual Mode
Direct connection from RDU to SEA as of 2015:
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2015/10/01/alaska-...

For Amazon's decision, NC politics probably take points away, but right to work probably adds points in favor.
If GM is really only 2-3 years away from having a fully automated taxi service, I don't see the strategic value in making such a move.

A whole bunch of time and money sunk into launching a rideshare service and recruiting drivers, only to almost immediately transmute the entire thing into a giant PR disaster full of news stories to the effect of, "A year ago I mortgaged my house to buy a car and drive for GM, and already they've kicked me to the curb."
The bonds have to be paid back eventually, so it's just delaying the inevitable.
Matt also posted a YouTube video explaining Meltdown/Spectre, with slides to make the explanation easier to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhvL3A-e6E
I think this was posted to HN a few years back: http://spotthedrowningchild.com/
To be fair, this is about classical electromagnetism.

What is annoying though, it is the pervasive practice according to which some authors completely ignore H ("intensity of the magnetic field") while others pretend to know nothing (and nor should their students) about B ("magnetic induction").

Somewhat less annoyingly, the teachers of electromagnetism rarely introduce the students to the formulation in terms of differential forms, which many consider a better, more intuitive way of doing electrodynamics compared to vector analysis (which student still should learn, of course).
Maybe, but none of the ~dozen definitions that I have found have this 'they had it coming' qualification. This, may, however, be the way the meaning is going in English.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-American-dictionaries-prov...
I think you might be misunderstanding. Someone's scripted use of a Web site can burn more resources, he's saying, but it's not "for nothing" -- they're deriving some benefit from the scripting.
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Are what dev jobs? HQ2 should have a pretty large mix of roles, similar to HQ1.
Interesting, I would have still guessed Massachusetts due to the education system. If there goal is to make high paying jobs an educated population makes it much easier to find talent.
Possible does not mean probable. Bayesian Regret figures show Bucklin performing quite well.

http://ScoreVoting.net/StratHonMix.html
The headline should include the word Apple somewhere.

And it's also not a surprise that the era of conferences ends around an environment of a single company. This is one of the things why some people go through the troubles one has outside of walled gardens. All the funding in the garden comes from one central source, at least indirectly.

I think the general purpose conference world is still growing though. It's a better environment than the traditional fairs, at least for things that include a lot of software.
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> Usually imperative UI code tends to be a thing only among developers that dislike RAD tooling, or game devs using immediate mode UIs.

Actually I think that most game UIs (the menus, settings, inventories - not the actual game) are done quite well - maybe immediate mode GUIs have a place outside of gamedev?
> It's there a "pocket-sized" buoyancy aid that locks into a small canister you can strap to your wrist/ankle?

Yes, yes there is. It straps to your wrist and uses a CO2 canister like the ones used to inflate bicycle tyres: https://www.amazon.com/Kingii-Lightweight-Wearable-Portable-...
Anything that can't be loaded over 2400 baud is probably not worth the effort.
And Jeff Bezos recently bought a $23M home in DC.

CEO residence location is a strong predictor of where businesses set up shop.

I also think it's telling that 3 of the 20 listed cities are DC + DC suburbs.
Great story telling
Please, not Austin. Austin is full. Not enough water for the current population. At least one local park requires a waiting list to get in, and you can only spend a half day there. Mass transit is a joke. Commutes are terrible. Go away.
Lots of pages have the content you'd want to scrape injected with JS; headless Chrome would seem to solve that problem.
With how bad traffic/congestion is right now (in spite of our light rail/bus infrastructure) I'm surprised Denver is in the top 20. Especially since last by my understanding the city was offering a less rich incentive package than a lot of the other cities.
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Probably won't personally buy either one, but I think it's going to be a home run for Nintendo.
Yeah I think you covered all the bases here. /s
As a Colorado resident, I'd love for them to pick anywhere BUT Denver. We already have major issues with homelessness, and rapidly rising cost of living. Our highways and infrastructure are beyond congested already, and our public transit is pretty half assed. If Amazon is going to build HQ2 here, they better help contribute to improving public transit, creating affordable housing, and help improve the highways to handle the influx of more new people, which I doubt they'll do. So please, pick somewhere else.
26% of organizations haven't yet received Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches
20 cities shortlisted for Amazon HQ2
Intel Meltdown and Spectre Patches Causing Reboots on PCs with Newer Processors
To me conferences are more like concerts.

After you know all the albums and songs, you go there just so see the artist live
Yes, but as an ancient user of IRC I can tell you that the problem he's addressing is that anyone can join an IRC, and often they do. Have you ever joined a large tech-oriented channel? Low signal-to-noise ratio, with lots of noobish questions or off-topic chat.
Unless they create immigration issues.
Mmmm, you might be surprised. Much like there's a romantic view of the US from other countries, there's a romantic view of India for some Americans. India is an absolutely massive, diverse country with a lot to offer.

The Beatles spent a lot of time in India and came back very different people. That's enough to draw some level of interest from folks looking for a spiritual journey, not to mention the history of their (to many Americans) mysterious, exotic, and ancient religions.

But from that guy's post history, I'm guessing he's from Central or Eastern Europe, which does hold a far more massive draw for many Americans.
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Well for whatever is worth, ChromeOS is a gentoo based system.
I was happy to see that Denver pitched Amazon with talent and not tax incentives [1]. I think most in Colorado would be perfectly happy if Denver didn't win and would be very unhappy if Denver won by giving tax breaks.

- [1] https://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/18/amazon-headquarters-co...
Have they announced anything about a physical version?
It's not mandatory, you're free to move to Somalia and renounce your citizenship if you don't like having a government.
Cool!

Nearly all my comments so far are about books but Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics provided a turning point in my understanding of E&M.... and took over a year (of pain) to get through.

On the other end of the 'spectrum', Griffiths Intro to Electrodynamics is extremely readable and just as good.
If they’re strategically trying to eat IBM’s and Oracle’s lunch, then a DC presence would be a good choice.
The bottom quintile had a mean household income of just $12,000 in 2016 (https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2017/09/1...). I'm struggling to understand how such a household could afford to pay rent on $1,000 a month, let alone afford "luxuries" such as doctor visits. And, yes, they would qualify for SNAP assistance, but in my (second hand) experience it's not much and decreases faster than income increases (i.e., and increase in monthly salary of $x/mo results in a loss of food assistance greater than $x/mo).
In Canada, more than 60 percent of permanent residents are admitted via the economic class, most of them via the point-based system. Only one-quarter of permanent residents
are admitted based on family ties.

vs

In the United States, about two-thirds of permanent residents are admitted because they
are closely related to a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. Less than 15 percent of
permanent residents, including accompanying dependents, are admitted on the basis of
employment.

Immigrants in the United States are three times as likely as natives to have not completed high school; in Canada, immigrants and natives are equally likely to have not completed high school.

So depends on type of workers they are looking for hq2. If they need mostly high skilled then canada might be better option.
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The kernel patches are for Meltdown (aka Variant 3).

There are also Spectre fixes landing in kernels. E.g. Linux 4.14.14 added initial retpoline support:

https://lwn.net/Articles/744621/

The current LWN has very good coverage on the latest work on Spectre/Meltdown mitigation in the kernel:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/744287/d868ef1ac3f68d70/

(Posting a subscriber link in good faith. If you like such content, please subscribe to LWN.net, they are excellent!)
Doesn't seem like anyone is attributing this to the fact that while Apple seems to be touting the record profits of the App Store, it seems like I know less and less people who make a genuinely OK living by working on iOS apps.

Could it be that iOS conferences are going away because less iOS developers have the money to spend on conferences?
+1. Proximity to Duke/UNC/NCSU/WFU means there are plenty of local new grads, MBAs, and Ph.D's. Already a pipeline of foreign talent immigrating to the Research Triangle. Good weather. Beach is three hours one way and the mountains are three hours the other. Local government will throw themselves at Amazon.
You ever used tor lately?
I remember this from what feels like a long time ago! Cool to see the new features like high scores and ships.
Then they publish a new site format update with no notice. Doesn't sound very reliable to me.
Plus Audible is in Newark as well
Temporarily until you work around what they're doing. API key revocation leaves you dead in the water until you rewrite your app to do scraping.
Does Wallaroo have Apache Kafka support?
On the other hand one of my childhood memories is waiting ahead of an African American family to view an apartment. The landlord said can you please "just say you are going to take the apartment on your way out". And this was in Jackson Heights, NY, historically known for its diversity.

I now own two rental properties and I have them both under management. I would like to think that I wouldn't discriminate against someone with a minor mental illness, or single mother with kids, or an immigrant that isn't from my parent's country, etc. and I am glad I will never find out.
Would love to have Amazon here but Austin badly needs infrastructure.
Conferences can be a great way to meet world renowned experts in your field, ask them questions, and network with them.
Depends on if they're building a tech headquarters or a distribution center. For an office building, freight isn't nearly as much of a concern.