skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that even make sense? It's like saying intel cripples their processors so they can sell more.
I don't get this complaint. Do you have a 400MB HDD or something? 220MB of HDD or SSD probably cost less than a roll of toilet paper.
Snap Threatens Jail Time for Leakers
One thing I’velearned is that a bad design becomes more complex as you progress through it. Sometimes, the complexity grows to eventually make the whole design unfeasible, and you have to abandon it.

In rare moments, designs become simpler as you progress. Irrelevant or neurotic features seem to melt away. That is bliss!
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On the contrary, there's plenty of meaningful work - cleaning is one for example. It is just not very appealing.
That was what I was trying to get across. This yearning and fetishization of "simpler" times and ways of doing things, as though there is something inherently noble and valuable about these practices, purely because they are historical.
Google releases fix for Chromecast WiFi bug
Great post. Thanks for sharing!

Quick question. Which are the main reasons behind using Faster R-CNN instead of other models such as SSD for instance?
Mike Moritz slams politically correct tech culture, praises Chinese work ethic
> Having a background as a journalist, this was shocking for me.

In other words: having a background as a journalist, he shocked you? Do you
see where your "background as a journalist" failed miserably?
In some courtroom, back in the days before metal detectors, somebody tried to shoot Jimmy Hoffa, and Hoffa charged him and got hold of the gun. Afterwards, he gave his attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, a piece of advice that "might help him live longer": run toward a gun, but from a knife.
If and when this happens, the pusher person usually is the oncall.
I think that's kind of the point of OP. Oculus needs to design a lightweight, comfortable version that won't be bothersome after a few hours. Not everything needs to be software.
You can use the env variable HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 to disable this behavior :)
> Should I immediately update my BIOS (would this also patch my CPU's firmware?)

The current recommendation is "no", since some of the microcode updates are known to cause stability problems. It's better to wait for Intel to fix that first, then make sure your BIOS update has a microcode version without the stability problems, then update. Yes, it's a mess.

> or just wait for mitigations arriving with OS updates?

Even after you update the microcode, you still need a OS update to enable the microcode mitigations, so you have to wait for a OS update anyway.
do people really pair program in real life? I've never actually seen it
That's how I read it too. Maybe a bit presumptuous to add such a plaque right away and not, say, as a clause in a will or something – the building might be gone in five years, after all. But I didn't really read it as self aggrandizing.
The term we use at work is "Reality has fractal complexity".
I think lots of people (particularly security people) tend to fundamentally misunderstand how the Linux community works. It's not a single organization calling the shots where they can have a meeting behind closed doors about the vulnerability and internally incubate a patchset. That's simply not how Linux development works.

Linux is a loosely organized community of developers who collaborate in public. They don't have any ubiquitous communication channels established other than mailing lists. If you attempted to establish a private security mailing list, the list of people who get to go on it is (1) hard to define (2) very large and (3) frequently changing. The affected subsystems have lots of disparate maintainers and interested parties who need to get their eyes on any patches that go into them.

It might not be ideal from a security person's perspective but from everyone else's perspective this model has been the driving factor behind the most successful collaborative project of all time.
frankly the fact that Google boils your entire resume down to one quiz question is reflected in their product lineup...boring utilities and absolutely nothing new of value to me created in the last five years

Google has become Yahoo
What makes you think the best alternative to cut out the poor entirely?
Now I would suggest to deprecate "sprint". It is not healthy to sprint continuously. Sane software development is much more like a marathon.
"Hal, perform the earth orbit insertion burn"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that"
"Hal, come on, not this shit again?"
"Dave, the reactor core cannot be ejected, and cannot be allowed to enter orbit"
"Hal, WTF?"
"Crew ejection will occur in 3, 2, 1...Goodbye Dave"
My biggest frustration with the auto-update is how long it takes. I wouldn’t mind the auto-update in the slightest if it took 5s instead of 30s. It’s ironic (and a testament to your work on bottling) that the longest phase of installing a formula, even one with many deps, is waiting for `brew update` to complete.

I’m curious if you have plans to make `brew update` faster. Is it really just `git pull` that’s that slow?

Apologies for griping. Homebrew has made my life much, much better—thanks for all your hard work!
https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/952982195261661184
https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/901487884871532545
http://maxwellito.com/post/triangulart/

Not sure it fit the `interesting` criteria ;-)
OneNote seems to be the only tool that's actually being used in my team. It's not perfect but it works.
Has anyone tried to use nix package manager and nix-darwin (https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin) instead of brew?

I am curious if there is any upside to using it over the hard work brew team is doing.
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra
I write things down and then transfer what is useful to digital with org-mode.

Depending on the "officialness," I write things down on either a legal pad or in a lab notebook dedicated to a project. Then the most important bits of this gets put into an org-mode "notebook."

I prefer writing things down first, I find that it sharpens my thinking around whatever I'm recording.

Though there are some other interesting ideas in here that I may try and steal.
I'm not getting that, what are you using? I'm using uBlock Origin. I wonder how those work, if they detect extensions or what
Can we deprecate scrum in 2018?
> If one human is teaching another human, you can leave the "countersteering" detail out and it won't matter. The 200 years of people learning how to ride bicycles is evidence of that.

This is actually a well-known fact about motorcycle, and it's taught in driving schools. It's just that their is no bicycle driving school and people just figure it by themselves. I'm pretty sure it takes more time though.
That's the beauty of VR. You can set your environment to that of a beach so you can look away at the waves crashing. Or you can in a cozy cabin in the middle nowhere with snow falling around you. Your work screens can remain stationary while you look around.
The web is 10 times more entrenched than Java. I think you're underestimating it, badly.

Java was pushed just by Sun/Oracle. The web has at least 20 big parties that are promoting it: Google, Mozilla, Amazon, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.
Why should anyone care about tcp-ip or html outside of tech world? They shouldn't but you can't argue it didn't have a profound effect on their lives.
They did good. Defending against an aggressive attacker with a knife is rarely a good idea, but documenting the crime is a good idea. So he will not escape the courts.
network stack open source for years, but most of attacks are from the internet
Relevant for those who might not have the reference: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
This American Life had a good episode about the study you're talking about being discredited: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/584/for-your-reconsideratio...

There is also a transcript available, too: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/584/transcript
Retail loves having part time workers because it gives them more resilience.
Surprisingly, the CPU+mobo combo I just bought for a new build was cheaper from a local Microcenter than Amazon. Plus, I could get it the same day (ordering it on Saturday night, I'd get the mobo Sunday and CPU Tuesday if I did Amazon -- went next day and got both from Microcenter for about $50-60 less).
This may seem like a naive question, but what is the point of rendition flights?

Just to get around constitutional rights? Seems like with all that money and effort you could just do it here.

EDIT: I don't condone torture. I think it's sad the way we treat each other.
As someone who likes developing OpenGL apps in his spare time, that handwaving actually bothered me. Of course Apple's going to pick Metal's shader language, they don't fully support anything else! They're still on OpenGL 4.1 in their drivers, even though those GPUs support GL 4.5, in what seems to be an effort to move graphics devs to supporting Metal. I have no idea why anyone would let them near an open graphics spec discussion after such a stunt.
Don’t do the long take home assignments like coinbase
I'm pretty sure they would be able to - I worked with cancer trial data (just a student job, doing data entry) but all patients were completely anonymised to anyone working with the data but readily identifiable by a specific unique ID number, so higher-level trial managers and doctors could find patient information if needed.
This sort of story is becoming increasingly common, but the good news is that there are a ton of tests in the works and more coming every day:

https://www.mskcc.org/msk-impact

Right now it's a complement to the traditional surgical pathology route, and only about 70% accurate, but when surg path and molecular differ, it means extra steps are taken to confirm and hopefully get it absolutely right.
I am actually in such a database (MSK-IMPACT), so they definitely exist. Check it out here: http://www.cbioportal.org/study?id=msk_impact_2017#summary
We've tried and got `brew update` pretty much as fast as we can (at least for the no-op case). I literally added a new GitHub API to make this faster: https://developer.github.com/changes/2016-02-24-commit-refer...

Would definitely welcome any help making this faster, though!

> Apologies for griping. Homebrew has made my life much, much better—thanks for all your hard work!

I wanted to particularly highlight this part of your comment: stuff like this is really kind, not common and really helps with my motivation to work on Homebrew. Thank you too!
Isn't the policy about immigration?

I'm talking about chosen ideological association. Do Christians, as a group, claim an ideology that demands violent oppression? Yes the OT has stories of it, but Jesus - whom Christians claim to follow (cf. Gandhi) stood for equality and peaceful resistance. As far as anyone knows Jesus didn't kill anyone, nor call for violence against anyone; the opposite in fact. Yes, plenty of Christians are murderous and immoral.

If the leader of group A says kill people who won't join our group, or tax them heavily, your choice. And leader of group B says give everyone tea and cake if they want it. You're saying that if an adherent of group B happens to kill someone you should treat group B the same as group A. I say that's wrong.

To be specific again, this works for the KKK to, or people idolising Hitler, or ... if they admit that and want entry it seems good ground on which to refuse; even if that person doesn't ever intend to act on the ideology, or is unlikely too as far as can be established.

(Aside, there's no fallacy in establishing general rules based on specifics, unless scientific method is fallacious; even if it were fallacious the Fallacy Fallacy applies, ie fallacies don't indicate the truth value of any particular proposition).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed_Shaw
Relevant from 73 days ago: "Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637194

My answer is the same. The tools don't matter much at all when it comes to documenting knowledge. Whatever gets used is best. Searchable is a plus.
I don't think "thermonuclear" is the right term for the batteries in probes. Wikipedia says "thermoelectric"[1], as the electricity is generated directly by thermocouples.

"Thermonuclear" usually refers to the sorts of fusion reactions found in stars and modern nuclear warheads.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
>with the issue of restrictions on immigration.

It's cheap of you to throw a muslim ban into the immigration bucket and not into the religious freedom bucket.
That's an incredibly naive take and one that completely fails to understand the realities of the economics of drug development.

Considering that in 2010, Forbes estimated that the cost of bringing a single drug to market, was between $4-11 billion dollars, you are buying between 2-6 extra drugs per year.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/10/the-tr...)

But that fails to account for the fact that the number of drugs doctors and patients have to choose from currently is staggering, and both groups have proven hesitant to switch to new therapies, and so by not advertising new drugs, the amount of money that can be made dramatically decreases, which further impacts the ability for pharma companies to invest in R&D.

No one thinks it is ludicrous for Google or Apple to throw as much money as they do at marketing. Its capitalism, and if you have a problem with it fine, but it isn't evil for pharma companies to work under the same model that every other industry on the planet has and which has been the driving force of the planet for the last several centuries.
You should read about [Enclosure][1]. Most people, historically, given the choice between traditional subsistence farming, and industrial labor, chose subsistence farming. So governments and property owners took away the option of subsistence farming. This was a 16th-19th century process in Britain, but is an ongoing process in poorer countries now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
I'll bite.. what are the huge implications?
My answer to this problem is the same as it always was. Put it down, go take a walk. Come back with a fresh mind. The brain evolved to do this. Engineering is older than the human race.
I'm not sure if the dollar pricing is actually the most significant one when it comes to Bitcoin market, so I wouldn't actually put any significant meaning to round numbers in BTC/USD price.
that watch list must've gotten really long thanks to the instant pot craze...
When I was a kid my dad would occasionally get lost when we were driving to some other town – usually to pick something up, I'd reluctantly tag along as the carrying help – and every so often he'd stop by the side of the road and ask me to pull out the atlas. Then he'd sit there, figure out where we were, figure out how to get to where we were going, or to the next waypoint, then give me instructions to read out where to go. "Next right, straight for about 10 miles then there's a dirt road on the left" – that sort of thing.

Those were good drives. No distractions, other than farm houses and the occasional cow or horse.
I clicked on one of the book covers and ended up with an abstract full screen animation that ran for five seconds before I figured out it was a full screen page header.

I'm confident that web design is the way it is mostly as a means to keep the people that work with it employed. A simple, straight forward implementation with a little color and layout to make it stand out would have been much easier to navigate and digest, but making check boxes not look like check boxes, drawing cryptic metaphorical icons, random show-off CSS animations that serve no purpose etc. creates work opportunities.

I'm open to the idea that I belong to some sort of cynical minority, but I know for sure that it often happens to the detriment of things like ergonomics and usability. When I see a site like this I can't help but think that they never considered the experience they're supposedly designing.
Depend on what movies you include when counting. Many studies prefer to only look at the top 10 or 100 highest gross earning movies and those only cover a tiny portion of the female audience. Selection bias.

Looking at the gender distribution of the movies that a sample of 10000 women and 10000 men has seen, you get very different numbers.
The most annoying thing on that kind of scrolling UX for me is the fact that when you scroll down, navigate, and hit the back button, you end up at the top of the page and have to scroll down again.

(At least on my iPhone 6)
Quora is more disgusting, people ostensibly pretend to answer questions, however most answers are just advertisements to products
Using OneNote too and another advantage is, for people like me, who have a Surface, that I can jot down prototypes and sketch diagrams there.

Other than that, I use Edge to write on pdf's. (Sometimes, if they're small, I just print them into OneNote and write there)

A thing many problably don't know: OneNote supports LaTex (with some differences) in the equation editor
this is a great point. but i think all those negatives are actually positives for lots of people, creating fun challenged
Even though this pushes road use into being more of a transaction I still don't believe that we should think about road use as a pure transaction. Infrastructure shapes how people live, work and play. Roads that cost $12 to drive will change the city differently than roads that cost $50 to drive on.

Specifically, I'd be worried about driving away tourists and commercial traffic. I doubt a lot of well-off locals would start driving in Manhattan if there were a congestion tax and less traffic, they'd keep taking Uber.
Then events for women mean women can't have fun with adults (or vice versa) or women can't/shouldn't network with adults.

Even worse than forfeiting competition, and particularly sad if women themselves think so.
Have you actually tried turning a bicycle without countersteering? I have, the last time the topic was discussed on HN. I found I was able to turn without any perceptible countersteer. It's technically possible that I do have to countersteer for a small number of miliseconds over a small number of milimeters, but my experience leads me to doubt it.
apt-get update just took 15s on my Debian to finish. The thing is, I actually never run apt-get update, I just have a cron job which runs it before installing security upgrades.

Ideally homebrew would be faster, but in the meantime you could run updates in the background regularly enough so that you never have to do it while running a brew command interactively (if you use the parameter that has been suggested).
https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html
Welcome to White Bear Justice Park.
Because not all webpages are meant to be applications. HN need not be an application. Google search results need not be an application. GMail and Facebook might be for better interactivity. At least 90% of the websites I browse everyday are static text with a few pictures (who still feature copious amounts of javascript to work around the limitations of HTML/CSS and to track me and serve me ads).

Would you consider installing and running dozens of random untrusted 3rd party applications every day on your real OS even if they were (somewhat poorly) sandboxed? Because that's what the modern web is like.

I wouldn't mind opting-in to additional "interactive" features for webapps that I want to trust but having everybody (including 3rd parties of 3rd parties of the website I'm browsing) run code on my computer when I'm on some random webpage is just insane when you take a minute to think about it.
With point 1), I agree.

Point 4, depends on granularity. If it was on user/month basis ala GApps, then it might be workable.
Was there really that much demand for Wine to be ported to Android?
IMHO, amazon is guilty. Amazon has imported a counterfeit merchandise without checks on the seller. Putting the blame on the final client is unacceptable. We have a similar issue when banks are stolen and call it identity theft. The bank is guilty of not checking correctly the identity before giving money.

The client should never have to endure bad consequences because of bad behavior of Amazon or banks.
SEC: Engaging on Fund Innovation and Cryptocurrency-Related Holdings
I really see merit in the toxic-tech culture part of this. I just question if the minority-centric part and toxic-tech part need to be presented intertwined.
Is what `end-users should care about` any business of yours? I don't mean that insultingly, I mean genuinely.

I think renaming a bunch of packages with a prefix is probably silly, but your response also strikes me as incredibly prescriptive.

I like brew, but I don't like that attitude.
And yet there won't quite ever be a Beatles or an Elvis again, will there?

It can be very hard to beat the zietgiest of an age at their own game. There is something special in that, which we try to measure up to, but still can't quite reproduce exactly even with better technology.

Will there ever be a eugene atget or a walker Evans or a Dorothea Lange that beat them at their own game?
"Engineers have slightly different habits: they will appear about 10am and leave at midnight."

I actually agree with Moritz on some points, but this... all I can say is, from an employee perspective, this only makes sense IF you're going to get rich as a result. And the average startup employee does not get enough equity to get rich even in the event of a successful exit, so there's no reason to do this kind of stuff. Well, OK, maybe if you just plain enjoy coding (or whatever) to the point that you want to work 12-14 hours days. But I suspect that's a very small number of people.

Seriously though, unless you're being paid MEGA-BUCKS or have MASSIVE equity there is just no reason to work yourself to death.
There's an incredible number of armchair experts and bias toward their voting in this thread for HN--downvoting actual experts and upvoting laymen.

I guess when it's not CS related, HN doesn't produce much better results than Reddit.

If you want quality, professional opinions about FPGAs, I'd suggest:

https://www.edaboard.com/

You'll learn from droves of proven experts who aren't subjected to silly flagging and downvotes.
From Algo's readme: Does not claim to provide anonymity or censorship avoidance.

Algo’s use case is confidentiality, protecting your last mile connection including public wifi points. It is a solution to the problems given in “Want to use my wifi?”

Anonymity is a much harder problem to solve, and I personally wouldn’t be comfortable with any of the options claiming to offer anonymity, especially a commercial VPN provider.
Somewhat related. I was surprise to find that building in Tokyo Open Air Museum. http://digitalmuseum.rekibun.or.jp/app/structure/detail?id=s...

> Since lighting equipment for photography was not fully developed in those days, frosted glass was used for the second-floor windows on the north side of the studio for lighting purposes.

I've been there in the rainy day and even then I'd say light was quite OK. I don't know a lot about photography but it was very interesting to see how people solved these problems back in the day.
Maybe there used to be one? https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/a-number-of-y...