skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With so many satellites in the sky, I think those effects will be exactly as you said, a few (<10 ms) milliseconds in the worst case, depending on how aggressive the hopping from sat to sat is.
There are fare inspectors in SF. May not be too often but checks are happening.
Stain remover for $29 and soft clothes with apple logo on it for $19.99
Yes, that part worried me a bit too. Nevertheless I published the article after making a few more changes and clearing up the plot better. You can find it here https://medium.com/@kaushik.varanasi1/point-blank-a-romantic...
He may have been far worse 25 years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Having not worked with the same person for 25 years I can only speak of the average case.
Seul. (Alone) the entree
I would be willing to guess that there may be programs at Allstate Insurance that have been running longer than that.
Lobbyists usually thwart any opportunity for someone cheap and legitimate to do the job. They've been trying to get someone to replace the humvee for decades and usually it's a 400 million dollar endeavor that results in a lesser product.

It's like these large companies take on the work, then instead of doing it they hire lawyers to figure out loopholes in the contract. Then they just pay lobbyists to get politicians to award them more contracts. All the while doing just enough to not get sued into oblivion.

All great ideas are spoiled by great bureaucrats and even greater lobbyists.
“Since when is "people don't care" a viable argument for anything, the people that don't care, don't understand this.”

So climb down from your ivory tower and make them understand without reverting the usual rhetoric as you have done here.
Reread the OP -- it is the exact opposite of that. DennisP is questioning the article's claim that the charitable organization paid taxes.
More than several intermediaries see all the packets between you and your bank. Packet-switched networks are pretty much a broadcast technology. Your information could be routed any which-way through the network, you have no idea who might be logging it as it passes by.

And the horse has already left the barn, kicked over a lantern, and set it on fire, because an incredible amount of internet is already being barfed across the EM spectrum. Anyone who can listen in to your satellite internet has already cracked your phone's LTE and your laptop's WiFi, so it's kind of moot anyway. People in rural parts of the US are already spending $$$ for mobile data plans in lieu of wired broadband.
What Is the Difference Between JavaScript and ECMAScript?
The FBI never changes, does it? I’m not even saying that they’re wrong, but stating it this way is just fodder for bin fires. It would be strange if China and others didn’t do this, and strange if the US didn’t do it to them.
Right now I'm at a place where agile is done well. But over the years as I've seen management consultants come through different organizations, I've learned how it's done: Rather than convince people that they never understood and practiced the old concepts, you instead give the old concepts new names. Then they don't have to say "we're finally doing what we talked about years ago", and instead "we're adopting this exciting new thing!"
How was this device never placed on a wooden surface before distribution? Oy vey.
There is nothing inherent in the world which declares investment banks must be subsidized by working people. Once they make that the case, and convince the public it is so, people willingly allow themselves to be robbed.
Why should we, or Apple, care about how much money these ad companies are losing?
I feel the same. I have been in the top 2 to 3% income-wise but I spend money like I am on food stamps.
I mostly agree with you, but I feel like there is benefit in the knowledge of how inputs/processes do affect performance (aka Big O) as that demonstrates just a deeper level of thinking.

It's pretty easy to get someone to understand doing stuff more than you have to is bad aka (no data calls in loops, sort at the DB not on the server, etc), but it's another type of developer to say "hey, this works good for now, but if this client has over X# of widgets we're going to run into performance problems, why don't we see if we can build a caching layer to share data across widgets".

Just that type of person in a room bringing up those issues saves close to 100 man hours by the time that bug gets found by a client, escalated through client support, pointed, moved into a sprint, retested, etc. That's saving the company a lot of money in a very concrete way and delivering a better product.
Nvidia may reveal dedicated ‘Turing’ cryptocurrency mining cards in March
Open your own consulting firm. The people you contract with, generally will not care if you're a 55 year old programmer so long as you can get the job done on time and on budget. Further, as you grow the business, you create your own security, as you can eventually turn yourself into more of a business owner/operator/manager, than only a programmer. This is one of the better ways to beat ageism in tech.
We should to teach consent to people of all genders. People erroneously think women can't be rapists, but new data shows female rapists are far more prevalent than most people suspect: http://webshare.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/bibs/stemple/Stemple-Se...
What does this mean for DTrace on FreeBSD?

Given that DTrace is now GPL'ed, does that kill DTrace on FreeBSD?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace
There's not a single "federal employee medical plan", there's a set of insurance plan choices like most large employers and you choose what level of risk/deductible and coverage you want for what you're willing to pay. Standard Flex Savings and Health Savings plans are also available. AFAIK you're eligible to sign up on day one of employment just like most employers. My wife is a fed, last year the government contributed $14k to our health insurance, which is pretty much in line with most plans from large companies. I've had developer jobs where the benefit plans were competitive or comparable to our federal benefits plan, we just stay on the federal plan because my wife doesn't plan on leaving federal service and the continuity is easier. The only advantage really is that there's a lot of federal employees on every possible plan so all the plans are pretty good compared to what you can get at smaller companies. If you work at a company of a 100 or more people, that company should be able to get you similar rates. I don't have first hand experience or much knowledge to speak to, but I have heard federal insurance plans are quite desirable for folks with expensive pre-existing conditions.

The other reply is a bit dated too, there's no longer a real pension available to new employees. There are probably still long-term employees or retirees kicking around with those older pre-1987 retirement packages, but all recent hires are on a plan that's pretty much equivalent to a 401k (Thrift Savings Plan) + a Basic Benefits plan (which is pretty basic and you still pay into. It roughly equates to getting two Social Security payments instead of one). The bulk of a federal employee's retirement funds will come from contributions to their TSP plan.
Fwiw with a couple of plugins[1], I have very nice code completion in vim with ruby/rails along with useful "go to definition". Perhaps not as challenging as punching cards - but it's not like vim is some kind of bare bones editor...

[1] for a starting point see https://github.com/tpope/gem-ctags/blob/master/README.markdo... I'm on my cell, but as far as I can rember my ruby specific part of vim rc is ~5 lines or so. Coupled with 'guard' to run ctags over changed files...

At a glance, this seems to cover the essentials:

https://chodounsky.net/2016/12/09/using-tags-to-browse-ruby-...
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The tax benefits of being an IRS programmer who writes critical code that nobody else can understand are incalculable.
That's a nice summary, with good advice on the things to watch out for, and the things to not worry about so much.
I was doing that from age 4 1/2 in the UK
> The cost of living is out of control and nobody wants to acknowledge that should reflect rising salaries.

Alternatively, we could look into reducing cost of living. US is dealing with a legacy system in the form of suburban sprawl that makes housing far more expensive than it has to be because the demand by the biggest generation far outstrips supply (simply due to area constraints and ridiculous zoning policies).

A small dilapidated house built in the 1950s with lead paint and asbestos should not cost $400,000.

Unfortunately, that is politically untenable right out of the gate.
I don't agree. The comparisons are rather disingenuous as the representative examples hand-picked for the other languages are rather crude and too much verbose. For instance, the 120-loc C++ program needlessly introduces functions that run a single loc (by adding 4 or 5 loc to the bill) and add a dozen or so lines by breaking long lines.
Yup, and it'll be interesting to see how other cryptos adapt.

Proof of Stake, though, worries me. It's a very "the rich get richer" solution trying to prevent the rich getting richer. Less electricity, sure, but it feels like it deepens the economic wedge between classes. If you stake 1 coin and I stake 100 coins and there's a 10% reward, after payout you'll have 1.1 and I'll have 110. How is that decentralizing? And you can't put tiers in the system because people will just install a thousand wallets/nodes and split their coins until they fall into the highest paying bracket.

I really like what the Monero folks are doing. They announced that they'll be making small changes to their PoW algorithm a few times per year in order to deter ASICs (no point to spending time and money on a super specialized machine that will be worthless in 2 months). It doesn't deter GPU mining too much, though I'd imagine that it's more of a hassle keeping a swarm or systems up to date than one rig. Ideally, they would release tweaks that reduce GPU efficiency, like highly serialized computations with lower difficulty (so the payout is similar).

And then you have Gridcoin, Curecoin, and the AI focused coins that give something back to the world, forcing a charitable donation. It's a shame that they aren't more popular/valuable. They're kneecapped by academia's schizoid relationship with computing in too many ways, but seem to have good teams and communities behind them.

My amateur opinion is that the flexibility of shown by Monero (changing their PoW algorithm) should be standard for all coins, as should the usefulness of work, like Gridcoin and Curecoin (not just 'securing the network'). Maybe something like a carbon tax, where exchanging the currency carries a contract to provide some proportional amount of work in a scientific project. Use a reverse Proof of Stake with a generational memory so that stake weight follows a coin for a while after each trade. The generational weight can be reduced by performing useful work. That useful work itself could be bought and sold, but disappears when spent maturing the traded coin.

I guess I'm trying to brainstorm a system that requires everyone to participate in useful work of unpredictable efficiency, where stability is added by punishing frequent exchanges, and holding the coin heals the wealth gap. Basically, if you're just acquiring money to 'have money' the system will deem you less important than someone acquiring money to 'use money', but forgives somewhat if you give back in computing power.

Just spitballing. I'm sure I'm missing a ton of details, but it was a fun exercise for me.
Why are you so eager to call out what you perceive as "preferential treatment" towards women that you ignore logic? It's beyond obvious that he meant half the people hired happen to be women.

Are you that misogynist that reason doesn't matter?
You could make a bodysuit, can't see why not - was there a particular application you were thinking of?

The fiber is bacteria resistant, odor resistant, and naturally cool to the touch. We have yet to find any disadvantages of this product compared to a traditional nylon. This fiber has been used in safety equipment like gloves for some time without issues like allergic reactions - and we haven't see anything like that in our own testing.
The moment uber stops subsidizing their rides a million competitors will come out of the woodwork with a comparable app. its not the app thats unbeatable its their vc money, you cannot have 10 multi-billion dollar unicorn taxi providing companies existing at once.
Same guy here:

https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

When Sun was powerful, he (they?) was on the side of Sun. When political correctness is powerful and a good way to increase sales, he (they?) is on the side of PC and throws a non English speaker under the bus.
Framework Benchmarks Round 15
Supply shocks can't cause general or sustained inflation. If farms stop producing anything, that should cause a shortage of farm-originated goods, and the prices of those things should increase. But the prices of other things should not change much; some prices will actually go down as people aren't as willing to pay as much as before.

If the farm workers all aren't getting paid anymore or a lot of loans are cancelled, that should cause deflation, not inflation.

Hyperinflation is always caused by inflationary treasury finance.
>Can you simply avoid emailing GMail users and continue?

No, but you can learn their rules and abide by them. As I mentioned in a previous comment, I tested for why my emails were not delivered, found out the problem areas and fixed them. And now they are delivered.

I have more issues with companies that run their own mail server or use smaller email companies that have overly aggressive spam filters and don't even know what a white list is. I have less issues with Gmail than them.

Try making your emails text only, and get them to deliver. Google even provides guidelines on how to get email to be delivered. I suspect you have not found these rules yet (lmgtfy.com) or have competing interests that forbid you from following them.
I agree. I can think of reasons for urgent updates - kernel security, software bugs, etc. - and this feels like it would lead their engineers to possibly support weeks-old versions of their systems. And they're running a multiple of the needed servers.
I'm not sure I understand the argument of the article. Yes my graduate classes have many Chinese students in them, but why exactly is it bad that they are furthering their education and doing research in the US? The biggest issue I see is that many of them want to live and work in the US after graduation, but basically have to leave it up to luck in the visa lottery system.
Coaster. It's called a coaster.
>Voice will be the next GUI.

If we're talking really sophisticated interfaces like in "Her"[0] I agree. If the interface is working so flawlessly, it's difficult to see why you'd still want to occupy your hands with querying some knowledge base, composing blog posts/letters, etc.

However, I don't think we'll get there with current technology. When I think of the often awkward and cumbersome interactions I have with Siri, I find it really hard to imagine how this will evolve to a 'I don't need to worry about this at all anymore'-level in the next 5, 10, maybe even 20 years.

I suspect the giants of today won't be around anymore when truly voice-controlled interfaces come around.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Its unreasonable. You walk into a place with "no laptops please" posted with a laptop and settle in for the afternoon, get asked to finish up, and somehow that's their fault? You want to tank a coffee shop for enforcing rules of etiquette? Sounds spiteful and childish to me.
Given how quickly Apple has admitted to the issue, and the existence of their “recommended cleaning” method, I wonder if they did.
Check out OKRs for tying back longer-term planning into shorter-term deliverables: https://blog.realkinetic.com/okr-process-489891e6b6a8
Ben Horowitz on Andy Grove
How would you prefer them to state it, then? I mean, with the very next breath you admit that it's almost certainly true.

You need to balance reasonable skepticism and dislike of three-letter agencies with the fact that they also do real work in addressing threats from other state actors.

EDIT: If you want a take on this from a less law enforcement-y source, try https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/16/how-china.... Politico can hardly be described as paranoid war-hawks.
What's changed is that while there are groups advocating for pretty much every group, poor white men are lumped into the same category as rich white men, and are seen as "not needing help" or being a part of the "ruling hierarchy" even though they are poor. I think that is what OP was getting at, that is, by looking first at race/gender, before class, you're alienating a whole group of poor white males that don't see themselves as part of the dominant "white male" narrative. They're struggling just like all the other poor people, but told they "have it good" because they're white, and this is contrary to what they experience day-in and day-out.
Few things worth pointing out that is missing from the article.

1. Direct X, and arguably Microsoft, trying to dethrone Glide, made a huge impact. Although that was later in the time line when 3Dfx was going downhill anyway.

2. Too late to the "Graphics" Card market. After Voodoo 2 it took them too long ( Long in that state of time, when everything was moving fast ) to release a 2D/3D Graphics Card. Voodoo Banshee wasn't good enough compared to RivaTNT.

3. Prices, Voodoo was quite a bit more expensive then others.

God, reading this article makes me feel old. Lots of memories coming back. Reading about benchmarks between all these Graphics Card. Internet was still in its early days back then. Most of the information were from Monthly magazine I got from WH Smith, PC Gamers used to do these test. Lot of cool games coming from those CD Demo disk. There is S3 Savage 3D, ATI Rage, Matrox, 3D Labs which was the Semi Professional Graphics Card company back then, which is now under Creative, aka Sound Blaster's company. Even Intel has i740. And PowerVR. Nvidia went from the underdog, and Geforce changes everything. I remember the early days how every new product from different company would hype their spec, like S3 is going to change the world etc. Then we soon learn all the paper spec didn't matter, if the drivers wasn't giving it the full potential. One of the reason why PowerVR didn't do well on desktop. ( Actually this is still the case in Mobile Phones.... )

GPU today isn't exciting anymore, at least in terms of Grpahics, not compute. We are limited by Technology node, and lots of drivers optimization to get AAA games to work better.

Gaming at the time was very geeky. Who would have thought today we have something called E-Sport, and it seems everyone is a gamer. Somewhere along the line I ditched PC gaming and went to console. I miss PC gaming, mainly because I bought a Mac, and despite what Apple say, they really don't gave a crap about gaming on Mac. Sigh

I miss 3Dfx, I miss Voodoo.

Good Old Times.

P.S - And somehow this song pops up in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swVoXHVW-jI
They aren't / shouldn't be. This is something you need to opt into specifically because it changes behaviour. For example if you have done resource still open, calling gc.freeze will prevent it from ever cleaning up.

But web frameworks should implement it.
Finally getting that diversity they wanted!
Can you pick a bedbug out of a lineup?
Yes, of course, but it would also be strange if the FBI didn't warn about it when they identify it happening so that they can decrease the chance of intelligence gatherers getting what they want.
But you should take good care of your cattle otherwise you have nothing to sell to your customers.
TXR Lisp, using standard awk macro:

(awk (:inputs *stdin*)
(:set fs "," ofs ",")
(:let pos (name [*args* 0]) (rplc [*args* 1]))
((= nr 1) (set pos (pos name f)))
((> nr 1) (set [f pos] rplc))
(t (prn)))

Missing args -> pass through:

$ txr solve.tl < data
name,surname,city,country
Adam,Jones,Manchester,UK
Joe,Doe,Cracow,Poland
Michael,Smith,Paris,France
Alex,McNeil,Gdynia,Poland

With args:

$ txr solve.tl city London < data
name,surname,city,country
Adam,Jones,London,UK
Joe,Doe,London,Poland
Michael,Smith,London,France
Alex,McNeil,London,Poland

We need (:inputs stdin) so that awk takes its input from standard input rather than processing the city London arguments as input sources.
I really hope that this works well.

Being able to break the comcast/att/verizon effective monopolies across the USA would (hopefully) have great positive effects. At least competition would bring prices down for low-latency land-based connections.

Of course, you're swapping control of your internet connection from a "mostly evil" to a "not yet known if evil" corporation.
What a fossil revolution reveals about the history of ‘big data’
Wow, this seems like straight-up racist fearmongering. The Chinese have "infliltrated" our schools by attending and starting culturally oriented studies? What's wrong with setting up classes for studying Mandarin, the #1 most popular language on the planet?
Maybe don’t state it? It’s their job to do something about it, not create diffuse bogeymen for ideologues to play with. What does telling us about a drop in an ocean do for us other than sow suspicion? Unless the danger is real and present, requiring public wariness and intervention, keep intelligence matters within the intelligence community.

Edit: That article describes educational institutions run by the Chinese government, rather than the infiltration of US institutions. These strike me as very different topics, especially since one is overt and the other covert.
Nobody really knows why the London Tube is getting less and less crowded
I was speaking specifically to the perceived anti-male bias that was so strong that teachers wanted males to fail. That's an incredibly broad statement to make and one that goes further than yours here about general disfavor towards groups.
It seems to be related to oiled porous wood surfaces and the HomePod's silicone base. Still odd that this would be missed.

https://www.imore.com/how-to-stop-homepod-from-leaving-white...
> From their tidy, white-brick home in the suburban village of Crowthorne, Berkshire, the Raffs pursued the most valuable company in the world all the way to Brussels and the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC – and won.

Since when was Google the most valuable company in the world?
If you're a high earner, your kids may well pay full sticker price. The whole point of price discrimination is to let poor kids in for less while soaking as much as possible from rich kids.
A Tor plugin for Caddy would be cool. Or some other way to make it as easy to setup a Tor hidden service as easily as a TLS site.
They're not talking about students from China, but rather Chinese intelligence agents posing as students, professors, researchers, etc.
Huh? This article is talking about an FBI determination that China has installed operatives within US universities, not that all Chinese at US universities are operatives.
Added London to the title to make clearer for international reader.
great project! would also be fun to have an editor and fold your own origami from a flat 2d plane, like an origami CAD engine :)
So, 30% a year is just business as usual?
Yes, oil hit then hard. But they already had pretty high inflation before.
Not sure what counts as "hyper". Certainly having my salary go down 10% a year automatically is not a reasonable proposition.
> Yes my graduate classes have many Chinese students in them

From the article:

> warned U.S. universities about Chinese intelligence operatives active on their campuses
Why? Think about the root of the word "graphics" and why GPUs are well suited to processing ...graphs.

Why would high demand for GPUs signal the death of PC gaming? I would expect the opposite.