skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't readily find a citation online, but my personal experience with both my parents and grandparents' computer was that there was no free Windows 7 driver but was a for-purchase Windows 7 printer driver for the HP printers they had.

There was a workaround, which was to massage the Vista drivers to get them to install on Win7. Sorry if the details are fuzzy; it's been several years.

I'm not overly anti-HP, but this did leave a very bad taste in my mouth for the company. I still print on an HP3600 at home and think it's a great home printer; would buy again.
NoScript does wonders. Some might say this isn't easy, as it will break some sites, but in my experience you can get pretty far with it.
That’s a bad idea. Yields can’t exactly go much lower.
Dow Tumbles Over 1,100 Points in Biggest Point-Drop Ever
Can you elaborate on what we have seen? Modernization in quotes suggests that Apple wasn’t successful.
Interesting to see the volatility in all these market these days.

I wonder how much the spread of information/social media plays a role in this. it does seem like most of these swings seem to be from retail investors.
I think what you describe is similar to the notion of a light-field/plenoptic camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera
I mentioned this in another comment, but with postgres you can use jsonb_object_agg and get out a variable number of columns, you just have to pull the data out of the json blob instead of them being columns.
I believe this is why companies often go downhill after the original founders leave and “professional management” takes over - founders generally take a less short-sighted view.
To each his own.

I'm not a very family oriented person. I really enjoy solving problems, learning, etc.

The measure of your life is following your dreams / passion. For some, that's interpersonal relationships. For others, it may be work.
What is the best JavaScript course you have ever studied from?
No matter if it is free or paid.
So you agree the web is a good platform for mass global access... gotcha.
I really like this one. “So you already have your turing complete language! What else do you need?”
php does too
This looks great, depending on the nature of the "collaborative app".

E.g. perhaps the most popular collaborative app is Google Docs. This would be a terrible choice for Google Docs, as it doesn't have specialized transforms for text editing/formatting (which turn out to be rather challenging).
Many people like to believe our choices are between letting the best drug infused athlete win, or the best drug free candidate win.

But based on your comment and other readings I think that is a false choice, and the real choice is between letting the best drug infused athlete win, or letting the best athlete who can hide their drug use win.

The difference between natty and enhanced body building is not drug use, but deception.
Compared to where? The median house value in LA is nearly 50% higher than in Amsterdam. SF and NY would be worse, as would many other areas. Sure, a house in the middle of nowhere or shit areas in the US is cheap, but any desirable area is expensive.
Efficient and Compositional Higher-Order Streams (2010)
I think it's great that you don't find that Snapchat impacts your life negatively, and you're probably in good company. For many people this isn't the case.

All we have is our life. Some people feel that they waste theirs on platforms like Snapchat and they're powerless to stop. I don't think that for those people this initiative is stupid.
+2 beats -12.
It's better to hold onto your money than to lose it.
I'll take it over nothing, though.

I'm generally a fan of documenting when you do something and don't like it, though it's generally useful to use something a hair more constructive. At the very least, though, leaving a signifier to future-self or future-non-self that the decision was made as a "least worst option" or a "doesn't matter now, may matter in the future" or otherwise "I don't like this, but doing better is not my immediate problem".

Basically, having any context into why a decision was made is an extremely useful artifact.
I think one should expect at least some level of critical thought.

Wet wipes are stored wet, for weeks, months or years. They do not decompose, in fact they stand up very well to liquids without losing structural integrity.

Applying just a bit of critical thought based on those observations, makes it abundantly clear that wet wipes will not dissolve in the wet environment of a sewer, and will in fact very easily get caught and cause a blockage.
Seemingly.

My father came from the east and my mother from the west. I was born in tge west, 5 years before the wall fell.

I had a bunch of girlfriends who grew up in the east.

To me it was never much of a thing.

But I know for many other people it is :/
Anyone care to guess how this is done?

The only way to open up ADB over a wireless connection is to set the device in tcpip mode on port 5555 and then connect via adb using the device's IP and the mentioned port.

However, adb is not shipped on Android devices (though adbd is). How is it that a malicious device can install an application on another device as claimed by the article?
Thanks for the response!

It seems like one should be able to be against both: breaking up families is crappy and totally not fun. We also don't want people to think breaking the law is the best/only way to support [or be with] their family!

But these problems don't have easy solutions. You can feel bad for [deporting] a model citizen who is also in a country illegally while simultaneously wanting to limit the number of people in the country illegally.

Unfortunately, all decisions in this space have [sometimes surprising] consequences. One of my most brilliant colleagues will not be staying in the US for very long because he is an only child and wants to be closer to his parents as they age [there is a provision that allows naturalized citizens to obtain green cards for their parents for exactly this purpose, but it is reeeallly slow - and he has no guarantees it won't be shut down before his parents receive green cards].

On these paradoxes and contradictions, I can't help but think of Hamilton: "The Constitution's a mess" [so it needs Amendments] "It's full of contradictions" [so is independence!]
If it's your customer's language then it's not jargon to them, it's just how they normally talk.
I will address only one line from your post:

> Whereas Austria, which Russia had occupied but which did not go remilitarize and join NATO, was withdrawn from by Russia, just like Russia pulled out of Iran and a number of other places as agreed.

Russia "overstayed" their occupation in Austria (although they left without issues).

But they've definitely overstayed their forces in Persia and tried to create a separatist republic there.

It took a complaint to UN (and as rumours say, nuclear threat from US) for Persia to get rid of Russian forces.

So no, they definitely didn't "pull out of Iran and a number of other places as agreed"
No bones about it.
Virtually all phones have acceleration sensors and can/could do short term inertial navigation in tunnels or areas with poor reception anytime they want. And don't forget that phones have many different ways of getting position information: bluetooth, wifi, cellular tower triangulation, etc, etc.

I see no future world where in-car navigation could ever compete against a cell phone. For one, I replace my phone about every 2-3 years, whereas most cars have a far longer lifetime and none of the fossil burners have ever thought of having upgradability of the individual components as a selling point.
that isn't true for a year. leafs with 3+ years still sell for 7-10k. it's been a while you can't find them for a song
This is pure FUD. The fact that Cloudflare took down one site does not negate the common carrier laws that never applied to Cloudflare in the first place. No CDN is a "common carrier".

The idea that exercising some control over the content on someone's network or application removed their various liability shields is also completely false. Youtube removes pornography and terror related videos, and sites like reddit remove "abusive" (defined by their TOS, not any law) content, all the time. Never once has this broken their liability shield.
But that being said, no rational person could possibly believe that copyright exists only due to external state actor pressure from "the richest countries"

History suggests otherwise. Something that many of "the richest countries" have in common, including the US, is near-complete disregard of other countries' IP laws during their formative stages. Once these nations climb to the top on a heap of broken IP laws, they invariably set about building it even higher.
"The H.P. Touch Computer (1983)" video[1] is nice proof how HP was great. Interesting part is around 2:30 when they don't pitch new touch screen technology(in 1983), but the way how they applied it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-THdG5gVTw
I was a teenager when the wall came down, but I remember that time well enough to know it was full of positive energy and good feelings. It was a great time to be alive.
I’ve noticed some Docker image registry solutions out there billing / chargeback based upon total image size committed to the repository rather than realized disk usage. This pretty much destroys the space advantages of Docker images completely (I suspect it’s because the underlying asset storage system by such services is super naive or the folks in charge of said companies simply want to charge enterprises boatloads because that will absolutely be noticed by anyone cost-sensitive whatsoever).
So how would less regulation around data security (which is the thing that this is about) prevent another Equifax? Remember, you and I are not Equifax's customers, so we have no ability to choose anything in this scenario.
Thank you for mentioning vendoring.
That was a man who cried incessantly about the evils of government spending while wiping his tears with the money before throwing it down a black hole. One of the greatest bullshit artists in the history of American politics.
As a 16 year old male who has spent years and years hard at work, learning JavaScript and Rust, it really saddens me that people like this get the praise. There are lots of us working hard and putting in the hours, because we are intelligent enough to know that apps are a moonshot and not a key to success.
I am all for gender equality, but it's blatant that the fact that the "developer" here is female has blown the actual achievement out of proportion.
Maybe I should just get 'the change'. Maybe that's the key to success.
I'd say for 42.2% of the population, the current presidency feels pretty good.[1] Not that far off the from the lows during the Obama administration.[2]

[1]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_tru...
[2]http://news.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential...
> And because of that move they lost their common carrier argument.

> "We could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support by Cloudflare."

So common carrier status is forfeited if a company reasonably terminates a contract due to the actions of the other party?
Interesting that VIX has been at an all time low for the last year or more. So volatility has been at an all time low. These last few days have been rough, though.
The theory is that the market crashes and people flee into precious metals and crypto (for the first time). The former happened - gold and silver are up, the latter did not. To elaborate - putting money into market NOW is bad - we are in recession land, crypto should be an alternative and "should" be increasing in value because people have free money(tax returns) and no "good" conventional places to put it. Except it's not happening, and that sucks for those in crypto.
As more people flee to bonds the price rises, sending yields even lower. Also, inflation is higher than 2%, so you’re still losing money. Bitcoin is the only safehaven in times like these, the market just hasn’t realized it yet.
I use both on a weekly basis.

The wife's 2016 Acura RDX (was mine) has the navigation / technology package. It's 2 screens (no idea why) where 1 controls the radio, phone, settings and the other is full time dedicated to navigation. It's often gotten confused where we actually live (there is another street with the same name a few towns over), it's slow; it often wants to take us on a less then ideal route and who knows the last time it was updated - probably never because I'm not paying the $400 / year for the service.

VS on my 2016 Mustang which Ford was kind enough to send out an update for Sync 3 + an $80 USB module upgrade to allow the car to have Carplay. I get in the car, plug my iPhone in, turn on the car, the center console immediately flips to Carplay, begins to play whatever music I left off on and Apple Maps is 1 touch away. I can tell Siri to route to where I need to go or look it up quickly. The map is always up to date; shows traffic and is quick to the touch.

I'll take Carplay over anything on the market right now. BMW charging monthly / yearly for it is bull but if I had one, I'd probably pay. I like it that much.

Naively, this is the 2nd Acura we've had back to back without Carplay and now that I use it daily on the Mustang, there will not be a third. The next car has it, or we don't purchase / lease it.
"The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury debt hit a four-year high of 2.885 percent, having jumped almost 7 basis points on Friday."

https://www.nasdaq.com/article/wall-st-opens-lower-on-rising...

Tax cut stimulus + already stimulated economy = inflation.

Inflation concerns = higher bond yields.

Higher bond yields = people dumping stocks for bonds.
Is doing something like the author suggests

SELECT submission_id
, MAX(CASE WHEN attribute='name' THEN value END) name
, MAX(CASE WHEN attribute='email' THEN value END) email
, MAX(CASE WHEN attribute='website' THEN value END) website
FROM form_submissions
GROUP BY submission_id

actually faster than doing the equivalent using joins? I would think the opposite, since you are going to have a unique key on entity and name for sure, and you can't really use the name part of the key in the group by syntax. Or can you?
Then what do you tell them? Employers will expect that an adult has some kind of work history.

Also, discrimination against overqualified applicants is now illegal in California, but I imagine it still happens.
Nope, Nov through January are historically great months for stocks with February usually being one of the worst. One cause of this may be fiscal tax years not necessarily aligning with calendar tax years.

Edit: One of the more interesting and notable causes is that many fund managers and investment advisors will actually rebalance portfolios so that at years end it appears they were holding the biggest winner stocks/assets. Basically a marketing trick.
Is it that time of the month already?
i think people are interested in the lessons learned in the past. are you sceptical or hopeful? how did apple's stab at this work out in the past? is it fundamentally flawed or deeply overdue.
Yeah, it pisses me off to no end when I was getting letters saying 'Act now to get a discounted price for your latest map updates! Only $99 if you order before March!'

What? I need to pay every year to have map updates, when there are so many other services that give you instant updates for free, and include way more services than you have?

Not to mention that the time estimates are horrible, the traffic routing usually makes my trip worse, and the interface is clunky.
The Complete JavaScript Course: Build a Real-World Project is an absolutely must course for any aspiring web developer. The course is very well structured, it starts from very basics and then goes to the very advanced level with a good pace. Projects in this course are extremely useful and fun to code too!

http://www.udemy.cc/the-complete-javascript-course
I don't think any of those companies -- all luxury, high-cost/high-profit, consumer brands -- can be compared to a multinational, high volume, consumer- and business-facing IT company.

Perhaps there are better examples?
Wait until the 14th
Surprised no one has made the cryptocurrency equivalent of VIX that moves in the opposite direction of a basket of cryptocurrencies.
My car costs me about the same as my groceries over the same period of time; they are very comparable in price. As for sales - buying in season and buying in bulk saves huge amounts of money, a larger %age than I expect to get off a special deal on a car.
Automates workflows in health care provider offices.
Where in the pdf does the author trash Ultima IV? In the first paragraph "Regardless, the achievements of
Ultima IV are astonishing" and in the conclusion "Ultima IV is still one-of-a-kind, even after all these years."
> You may notice that Android KTX uses package names that begin with androidx. This is a new package name prefix that we will be using in future versions of Android Support Library. We hope the division between android.* and androidx.* makes it more obvious which APIs are bundled with the platform, and which are static libraries for app developers that work across different versions of Android.

Ugh, okay. It's going to be a blast refactoring all my existing code and custom tools to reference this new package.
I've literally just looked at the packet I have at home - it says "flushable and biodegradable". If these are not, in fact, true, then the manufacturer is pushing some impressive bs on people.
As other comments have pointed out, the book ends at 2014. D:OS2 is a milestone that came after that. Give it a decade and it can be in volume two of this history tome :)
This manifesto makes the same mistake as the partisan left/right political parties. It lumps a whole bunch of issues together and says, "if you don't believe all of these to be true, you're not one of us."

From the article:

Veer rightward instead, and you’ll be similarly disappointed. There, truth isn’t much different, although they wouldn’t call it “situated” (but it is). It is the kind of capital-T “Truth” that’s both “obvious” to everyone and too simplistic to be true,

Funny, but this whole article is just as "truthy" as what it complains about.
> So you would have to built an alternative payment system that doesn't interface very often with banks / credit cards etc

Why could it not interface very often with banks / credit cards?
"We have no clue what we are talking about. We just want to look smart for clients who have no clue what we are talking about either, and hopefully get some business."
Better source

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/uob-rdr02011...

with link to the paper

https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.196
The Congress has the Constitutional Responsibility to act as a check on the Executive Branch, through several means, up to and including impeachment of the Executive. Trump has done several things this past year alone that would have led to censure or impeachment had they been done by past Presidents. If Congress refuses to fulfill its duty, then they deserve the anger they are receiving.
Canadian universities, colleges expand course offerings for careers in marijuana
I really like these kinds of opinionated discussions.

I also liked the structure: Present the questions first, preparing the reader for what he can expect. Then answer them quickly, then explain the answer.
Apple Overtakes Xiaomi in Smartphone Sales in China in Q4
To the people upset with CloudFlare: please explain why it is better for random startups and multinational corporations to set and enforce policy, than for elected officials and governments and courts

Lately, I'm not impressed with our government or the people who elected it. I think both groups -- meaning corrupt people in the first instance and stupid people in the second -- have far too much power over the rest of us.

Subversion and disobedience on the part of everyone from multinational corporations to individual Internet users may, unfortunately, be the only remaining way forward. I don't pretend that this state of affairs is good for society, but it is what it is.
The interface is very friendly -- it's so simple that I find it compelling to use. A button press doesn't take any time out of my day or any data I wouldn't want to share. (Hopefully there are no strings attached e.g. video monitoring.)

When they started appearing near my local pharmacy, it was placed next to a stand of toys with giant cute eyes, which drew my attention to the "matching" happy face. Nice job on strategic placement, I thought.
The measure of life is happiness. For many this involves parenting (probably, one imagines, biology drives this, no?).

Some people will choose to be stay-at-home parents. There is nothing wrong with that. That is a career. The household income... is the household income, not the wage earner's, because for a couple with children the family is their life project, and the stay-at-home parent's "service" is "paid for" by the wage earner.

If we really want to compare apples to apples then we have to allocate a fraction (say, half) of the wage earner's income to the stay-at-home parent for the purpose of analysis. Alternatively compare singles' income to singles and childless couples' individuals, and separately analyze married-with-children-and-both-working couples, and then separately analyze married-with-children-and-one-stay-at-home-parent couples.
I don’t find this piece compelling. Go does offer performance benefits. However, most web applications do not reach a state of maturity that justifies a rewrite. The acknowledged initial development time advantage Ruby offers is compounded into successive development cycles. SOA is not necessarily a good architecture objective, and API structure arguably benefits more from Rails’ defaults than Go’s constrained syntax. Finally, more Rails developers interested in improved concurrency programming would adopt Phoenix than would adopt Go.
> C and C++ could literally become the downfall of Western civilization.

Rust coming to the rescue!

Seriously, I think peak insecure C/C++ has already passed, so if civilization hasn't fallen yet, it's not likely to fall for this reason.
Bitcoin dropped from a $19k all time high to around 6.5k recently. Most other cryptocurrency are doing about the same.
I put modernization in quotes because in most cases it was really a shim placed ontop of the existing Objective-C API that changed some names or parameter types; so, in this case it wasn't quite as extensive as a Java->Kotlin transition would be since Objective-C already supports many "modern" features such as closures.
Thank you for the explanation! I had figured that laser light was indeed different than normal light rays, but couldn't remember my undergrad optics to explain why.