skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not really - I have no particular opinion about what POSIX chooses to support or not.

But I'm going to go back to my original point. What I do have an opinion about is how reasonable it is for tools not to support a character that is valid in file names, when that character is straightforward to support with everyday, well known syntax.

And when that character is ' ', the standard English word separator, as straightforwardly supported by approximately ever kind of quoting or escaping syntax ever, my opinion about a lack of support is: it's crap.
Seems like an appropriate place to leave a link to this video: https://fb.com/10157136069225329
Embedded dev here.

I concur. I've heard this story a number of times, and it smells like a myth.

Well, maybe terrain recognition navigation system might need to allocate memory. Or perhaps a data link for processing commands. But probably not.

Funny, though.
Google expands snippets for better answers to multi-intent search queries
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Nvidia and AMD didn't take over supporting OpenGL when Microsoft abandoned it out of the goodness of their hearts. They did so because they were in a highly competitive marketplace and supporting OpenGL was a competitive advantage.

Meanwhile, on the Mac, the cheese grater Mac Pro is the only model you can install their graphics cards into and it exited production half a decade ago.

The problem isn't that MacOS lacks Kernel Extensions.

The question is why should Nvidia or ATI take on the expense when there is no marketplace to compete in.
Bystander effect in a situation that is not critical is a good sign that your company culture is fucked up. That's also on management.
Maybe this is a good thing.
Do all of those computer users constitute more than 10% of computer users? I don't think there's even 5% of computer users there.

Talking about 3D modelling, game programming and producers like they're the majority is a technologist-centric view.

Most computer use is by people who think the web is the internet and use 'inbox' as a verb.
Good point - hindsight is 20/20...
Yes, but look at the vote counts. Both of the major parties did this. So not only do we have an uphill battle convincing people to vote in local elections, but we then have yet another hill to climb - convincing them to vote for third parties, something that most people in USA believe to be a waste of a vote.
> The prisons want to ban gambling and currency counters (coins, chips, etc) in order to disrupt the rise of debt-based gang activity.

Well, also because in most states gambling is itself (entirely or, at least, without a whole lot of bureaucratic compliance stuff) illegal, and it would be very odd to reverse that prohibition in prisons.
> racial identity <

Many still make a big deal out of linking that to national identity today.

> Religious identity <

Back in the 17th century, many considered that it was a good idea to combine religious and national identity. There were just too many intra-national disputes, attempts to blow up Parliament, beheadings, etc. Religious freedom was seen as a good idea when it meant the right to leave a kingdom that had a religion that would not tolerate you to go to a kingdom that would.

> Corporate identity <

As corporations become more powerful than nations, it seems inevitable that international political organizations of corporations will emerge to govern the exercise of the powers that nations no longer dare to exercise. Think of these as the Corporate Security Council and Corporate General Assembly.

These systems of identity and power come and go. Given the rate of change and disruption we see, that the current system of national identity and purpose will prevail indefinitely is not certain.

At present, we justify our allegiance to states or alliances with our beliefs that to do so is moral and to do otherwise may be treasonous. But our citizenship is most often determined by the relationship between our place of birth and lines on a map, neither of which has any obvious link to moral concepts, so the current system has some features that can give us serious identity issues.

In the Western world, before the lines on the maps became so important, religions were important, and before that, for which prince one would fight determined nationality, and geographical boundaries were likely to change without notice.

Each of the many ways of dividing us up will serve some goals and restrict progress toward other goals. It is possible that we are living in an era in which a new system of nationhood will emerge. We cannot expect to get a good one by accident, so an article to stimulate a little thought about such things is welcome.
It's the amount of bitcoins currently in the network
Amazon spent $1B on smart-doorbell startup Ring
Where do these people come from, they contribute nothing of real value to the world, and they attack some of the greatest champions of the people that we've ever known.
I mean driving 500 miles per day for maybe 8 hours might require one megawatt.
Which is stupid. They have no consumer messaging application that works across devices to migrate to. If they kill off Hangouts, it will cause a bigger backlash than killing off Reader did.
Clarifying/amplifying on this:

You can't totally ignore politics. Those who don't do politics will still have politics done to them.

But don't try to "win" via politics. First, it's not your skill set, and it is other peoples' skill set. If you go head to head in politics with them, they'll wipe the floor with you.

Second, who do you want to be? A developer? Or a politician? I absolutely do not want to be a politician.

So do as little politics as possible. And when you do it, do it for defensive purposes - to keep yourself from being the victim of politics.
Do you mean like in Reptilicus when they brought back frozen soil from Lapland?

They managed to save København that time...
My ex was a soldier. These guys were soldiers stationed in a foreign country.

In the US, soldiers are mostly not locals and spouses have a hard time getting a job because everyone knows you will move again in two or three years. But they want your money.

At our first duty station, the landlords were raising rent every three months until a General threatened to build enough on base housing to kill the local rental market. Suddenly, they had an agreement with the local landlords and the active gouging stopped.

Another story I heard: They paid all the soldiers in cash in two dollar bills, then had a meeting with local merchants and suggested they count what percentage in their tills was in two dollar bills and rethink their approach to some things or get blacklisted by the base.

In a foreign country, the degree to which a soldier is met with open animosity while everyone wants their money is typically more bald faced than in the US, where it is bad enough. These guys could not trust that local women were really interested in dating them for any reason other than their money or a green card. Going to a bar was not a very good means to establish social contacts.

Or so I gather from what I was told.
No love for D's DUB on your list?
This seems deeply, deeply idealistic to me--but ultimately this seems political, so I'll just say my point was that it's not clear what Obama could have done differently aside from save face and keep the state department staffed.
I admire Pinker's optimism but the enlightenment was 300 years ago and the fact that humans are still lagging behind their own progress by 3 centuries is proof of something awful which it's maybe time we all acknowledge.
All of Trump’s White House communications directors, by days in office
Why not? I forget to say my net profit is very low
I think the point was that it's silly for someone who's meant to be on a team to spend possibly days trying to debug something as silly as that, instead of someone on the team just spending the few minutes to help them and give them the registry key they need.

It's not time efficient for everyone to work separately down to reverse-engineering the machine code to work out what's missing every time.
There's a distinction to be made, though. There was no requirement that it be rebooted after some period of time, though there was an expectation that this would happen by the original developers. Consequently it was not evaluated for 20 hour or 100 hour performance. That's a critical distinction in developing, testing, and fielding systems. And the way we term it in our requirements documents reflects this. We rarely say: System SHALL fail after some period. Rather we say: System SHALL perform for some period. We leave the result of longer durations undefined. The system may work, or it may not, we aren't required to test it and so we don't. If the customer wants it to run longer, we can evaluate it but they have to communicate that back to us (or to the testing facilities, which may not be the developers).

Similarly, with regards to the speed of the missiles, the requirement would not be: System SHALL fail to detect missiles above some threshold speed. But rather: System SHALL detect missiles below some threshold speed. This leaves open the possibility that it may be more or less accurate outside that range. It should be documented for the operators as a potential for failure: System may be ineffective against missiles operating above X m/s. But the requirements wouldn't include that detail.

This pushes the problem into the documentation and training. Since it was originally designed as a mobile platform with short run-times, there was no explicit operating procedure requiring reboots. It was just assumed. At the same time, the failure itself (after 20 hours) was unknown because testing hadn't been done to see what would happen.
I understand the spirit of what you are saying I think but I think you are confusing what is real with what is evolutionary useful.
They don't have to discontinue a product to massively screw with my workflow. All they need to do is change how the product is accessed, or the settings and labs features that are available.

I mean, point being I don't trust them not to mess up my workflow. Even if I trusted them to not screw with the core g-suite products, I trust Microsoft more than Google at this point.

If you had told me that I would trust Microsoft more than Google 5 years ago I would have literally thought you were insane.
Darpa Wants to Use Fish and Other Sea Life to Track Enemy Submarines
Really? My only experience with Discover Weekly (and any other suggestion algorithms, i.e. radios, etc...) has been pretty terrible... It doesn't seem to suggest songs I like at all, and recently it seized upon one single song in one of my playlist and only plays covers of that song and the other songs in the album for my discover weekly for the past several weeks...

I love Spotify, but I use Pandora sometimes _exclusively_ for music discovery, and then add to my Spotify.
> Come to think of it, why is the criminal justice system not "tested"?

I can think of a few.

1. That costs time and money. Even if it would help, I see it being very difficult to justify, essentially, "secret shoppers" for the court system. I think it also kind of underestimates how much time, money, and effort goes into trials. It's not like a quick batch of unit tests. It involves lawyers, judges, jury selection (if it's a jury trial), etc. And juries themselves are made up of people who have to take time off work, miss important events, etc. You can't just (somehow while avoiding detection) fake a trial, and then go "surprise, this was just a test!" At the very least it would just piss a lot of people off.

That's not to say that there's no way to make sure our legal system is functioning properly, it's just I don't think mock trials are the right approach. Currently, I believe, the rest of the court system is relied upon to police itself, with the help of the legislative branch. Different levels of courts, ostensibly, keep each other in check (e.g. if you disagree with a lower court ruling, you can appeal to a higher court, which then makes a decision, and if you don't like that, you can appeal to the Supreme Court, etc.) Congress also has the power to do things like create federal judgeships, so presumably they have other powers to regulate and manage the federal judiciary (state judiciaries are, I imagine, left to the individual states to oversee.)

2. Cynically, there are certain vested interests that want the legal system to function the way it does (e.g. people who own private prisons and people who profit off of minor drug offenders being put away for life). There's also good old fashioned racism and classism, helping keep the overwhelmingly poor, black prison population stuck where they are.

3. I don't think it would actually tell you much; there are too many variables: different lawyers, different judges, different jurors, different facts, etc. Even if you ran the same trial with the exact same people and circumstances, but on a different day or something, you could get wildly different results. The court system is not deterministic, not by a long shot.

The court system also doesn't deal in absolutes like that. It's not "is this person definitely guilty of a crime?", it's "are we sure, beyond a reasonable doubt, that this person committed a crime (based on all of the evidence)?" Because it's impossible to know the entire truth. Sometimes it's impossible to know much of anything at all, at least with certainty. Did OJ commit those murders? We'll never /know/ know in the sense that when I flip a coin I can see that it lands on heads, or in the sense that I know the earth is a spheroid (i.e. it's something that happened in the past and we're trying to determine exactly the series of events given limited information).
Why not? My net profit is very low with the monthly payment
How is the Sailfish ecosystem now? Do they have nice native navigation, chat and browser applications?

Is it worth the switch over from F-Droid to Sailfish + F-Droid?
This Is the USAF's “Safer” Carbon Fiber Bomb That's Extraordinarily Expensive
I'd say price it higher than that. Price it high enough that they clearly don't want it. But if they do want it, it's a price that you would be deliriously happy with.

One thing to keep in mind, though: If they have a perpetual license, they may want much more of your service. If you have to provide that, your costs may go up.
Sometimes I just want to remember stuff for years later. 222 days to listen to songs sounds like a long time, but not if you spread it over 20 years.
hard to tell. Need to see what is on the checklist.
The current projections are that the US will probably reclaim its manufacturing crown or get close to it. A big part of China's gains the last ten years are in over-production. As those excesses are eventually removed or reduced, the gap will close to practically nothing within about another 10-15 years. For example, that chart showing the manufacturing levels, if you do nothing else but remove China's current subsidized industrial over-production, the gap narrows such that China is merely ahead by 10-15%. China's manufacturing is no longer expanding meaningfully, whereas US manufacturing continues to expand slowly but surely year after year; the corp tax cuts and very inexpensive US natural gas will continue to bolster that.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/31/united-states-manufacturing-ch...
Sounds similar to what SafetyCulture[1] do. It's a great idea and good to see this space opening up.

[1] https://www.safetyculture.com.au/
Haha, this is hilarious. Can anyone keep track of all the Google chat apps? (And the only one that was pleasant to use was the original gchat, which they stupidly threw away.)

This makes for an interesting juxtaposition with the guy who quit Google because he couldn't get a promotion. I guess the the way to get promoted at Google is to make a chat app? ;-)
I'm as partisan as they come. And am only too happy to pile on. But I also remember the Clipper chip, SOPA, PIPA... My own state representative voted for internet voting along with the herd after promising me he wouldn't without checking with me first.

Fair play, rule of law, fare and impartial courts, etc. are not partisan issues.

If we bring the heat, they'll see they light.
Lightning Network seems very confusing. It's unclear to a casual user what "capacity" is and what it means to them. Or what any of this means, really.
Wholeheartedly agree with this. The hardest thing about being a solo founder is the loneliness. In times of joy, in times of grief, it's just you. Sharing your successes and your failures with a group of supportive entrepreneurs as you plod along is the next best thing (or maybe even better) to having a co-founder.
Hi, please consider reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for the future (snark and flamewar baiting is discouraged here).
Yes. As soon as it came out all of the non-computer people I know said, “wow, this is awesome”. No matter what you think about purity or other concepts of how things “should” be, the fact is it made using these programs far more accessible to the average user than they were before, and that’s really the point of computing.
So it's not a limit, it's the amount currently in the channel?
America had one overwhelming advantage - thousands of miles of ocean separating it from enemy lines. The industrial capacity of practically every other major nation was laid waste by strategic bombing. America also had domestic production of nearly every important manufacturing input, rendering it practically immune to naval blockade.

Post-war, America didn't spend a single cent on rebuilding infrastructure lost to bombing, while the other major powers needed a decade of austerity just to get back to where they started. Britain was still repaying the Anglo-American war loan in 2006.

America did an excellent job of scaling up manufacturing capacity during WWII, but the factors that made it such a dominant force were largely accidents of geography.
This is one of the things I want to avoid, I don't want to be out off business and generate a problem for my current client, the service is critical for them
Throwaway, because I'm well-known on HN.

I ran the TripleByte course once, and it was 100% not worth my time as a professional.

The "coding test" was criminally simple, but got me in the door quickly for an interview. I spent a number of hours building out projects with a paired interviewer, as well as answering questions. This part I enjoyed, it felt like a nice back and forth while building an interesting bit of software. It was like an open discussion, and getting to tap away on my laptop was such an enjoyable time.

Then came the technical questions. The interviewer asked if I knew anything about a specific Technology X. I'd list the tech here by name, but it's so specific I'm afraid of it being linked back to me. It's not something most engineers would run into.

I responded with "I have not worked with that, I've heard of it" as well as it never being listed on my resume or professional work. The interviewer went ahead and simplified it down for us to discuss, much like "Ok well it works like this, so let's chat abstractly". I went along with the discussion since I figured it would be fine to chat abstractly about a technology I never worked with.

The interview concluded, we parted ways and I thought things went very well.

The following days later I received an e-mail from Triplebyte. They praised my clean code and thought process, but specifically said my weakness in said Technology X, which I would like to call out again I never worked with professional nor had it listed as a skill or on my resume, was too much to consider me for the next round.

TripleByte literally evaluated, and discounted me, on not knowing an uncommon bit of technology. Just what the hell.

I was shocked at the levels of failures that occurred to reach this point. It was unfair to use that as any benchmark, and unfair to waste a day of my time doing that. It was a smack in the face to an industry vet like myself.

I tell all job seekers to stay far, far away from TripleByte for this reason. They're not really changing the game at all, but like to pretend they are the magic answer.

One footnote: I'm an engineer at one of the giants (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc) who was and is way more qualified than anything TripleByte was or is pushing out.
New Apple patent imagines an OLED screen as a keyboard for MacBooks – The Verge
>if jails/prisons could ban books...

They sorta have. If you want to send a book to an inmate, it must be paperback, must be brand new, and shipped from the retailer.

The books cannot have "controversial" material. I've heard of some tech books getting rejected because of "hacking".

I know all of this because I have participated in my local Anarchist Black Cross events which is a prison abolition group. Often times, we would hear about some of the prisoners we wrote to having to undergo solitary confinement for some amount of time for minor rule violations.

The US prison system as a form of rehabilitation is a cruel joke. Prisoners are treated as scum the moment they enter with no rights. Worse, when prisoners leave, they expect the inmates to adjust back to life normally while employers can discriminate against the former inmates, and the government still treats them like scum. Often times, former inmates can't even rent housing anymore and political/social elites act so surprised that homelessness is on the rise.
What are the regulatory hurdles to operating a lightning node in the US? It makes you a money transmitter, right?
Seconded. It's easier to not get in than it is to get out once you're in.

My last two jobs, I've told them during interviewing that my explicit career goal is to never become a manager. They hired me anyway.
does the huge number of phd increases show a symptom of the bar being too low to receive a phd, or the number of qualified candidates actually receiving the phd? Same question for the compsci degree.

I know a ton of people who have comp sci degrees, but, cant write my mysql query or write a block of code, or solve some rudimentary problems, or talk through problem solving questions like rational human beings.

Same goes for other faculties. Hell, I once hired a finance major with a business degree who couldn't handle doing the books for our startup.

Just because they are graduates, it doesn't make them candidates
ACHE: Focused crawler for acquiring domain knowledge from the web
The value is having all the factories so close together. So there is no waiting around for part A which will take a week to get here from B.
better upgrade again, the site is looking broken atm
I definitely miss the very old version of the app too. That one was written by the uTorrent creators - it was incredibly fast, felt great.
Feels like those people defending the Solar Road Way...
I’m still wary when they switched from free to pay for small businesses. I think in general it’s not a good idea to use free services for businesses, but in my mind it means that Google makes pretty big changes and don’t care if it disrupts you. Microsoft doesn’t do this or rarely does. If anything they start high and drop. Starting free and climbing is not good.

But I don’t think they’ve ever dropped products entirely. Although hangouts has been titled a bunch of different things.