skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am somewhat biased by having been through the Australian system where cronyism is alive and well.

If you have 4 or 5 years you really only have 2 years before you have to switch to low risk if things aren't working out to give yourself time to get enough papers out before you need to apply for the next grant.

What I did when I was an academic was spend 70% of my and my students/postdocs time on low risk activities and 30% on high risk. This keeps the risk down and still allow for some dreams.
I use:

- https://www.bookstackapp.com/ for portable (Markdown), searchable (SQL), manageable (Users) documentation.

- Ansible for automation and deployment.

- Prometheus for monitoring all the Proxmox nodes and containers.
Laws are mutable, in general blockchains aren't. It is the case that the law can be modified.

> I think it is impossible

Unless they create an exemption for technologies which effectively partition transaction details from identity details. Or they could require the use of masking/ambiguation features like Ring signatures, mixer/tumblers, etc.
It has never been a good idea to run Exim.

Running your own mail server has always been a pretty rough idea. Running an S-Mail (or, for that matter, Sendmail) derivative in 2018 just seems like asking for something bad to happen. With just two exceptions, C-language MTA servers have been the Internet's "Kick Me" sign since literally the inception of Internet hacking.

For reasons I do not understand, but that go all the way back to comp.security.unix days in the 1990s, there's a widespread belief that Exim is somehow a secure mail server. Exim has never been that. The two secure C-language MTAs are qmail and Postfix, both of which were designed, from the ground up, on day 1, to mitigate the kinds of vulnerabilities Sendmail has historically been vulnerable to (and which this vulnerability is an example of).

Don't run your own mail server. But if you have to, don't run a C-language mail server. But if you have to, run Postfix.

Don't run Exim.
NeuroSAT: Learning a SAT Solver De Novo from Data
Yeah, that's the issue with these kinds of roles. You'd have to ask each company, of course.
The sort of learning and remembering that is a part of understanding something seems even further removed from Ebbinghaus' exercises with syllables. It feels that when I am doing this sort of memorization, I am building some sort of model (which also gets remembered, or perhaps it is more accurate to say the model is the memory), and the model gets used in retrieving relevant facts. It seems much easier for me to remember an arcane fact if it led to an important or surprising insight when I was first presented with it.
https://com.google :)
The author implemented\improved the shader as https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdXXz2

I copypasted the original code here -
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdtcDX - neat!
I'm not sure where your confusion is arising from. antihero included a preferred alternative:

> Don't get me wrong, progress will happen, but we need to make it socially aware and compassionate progress, not tough luck you didn't pick a the right career and now your life is fucked progress.

That alternative is not stopping technical progress. It's providing for those whose jobs have been made obsolete by that progress, so that they can rebuild themselves. And keep in mind that not doing so carries the cost of having members of society who are unable to provide value beyond their physical existence.
The title, as of the time of writing this comment is "Google ends major OS support for Nexus phones and Pixel tablet." It is not misleading.
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Well, it runs but not exactly like a charm. It works and you can work with it but you have to put up with a lot of lag.

—-
Sent from my iPhone 5s
Current technology is great but still sometimes it fails. It's comforting to know that there's an actual human being that you can talk to and ask them to fix the mistake made by software.

That's what makes technologies like Blockchain at odds with human needs: unless you can formally prove that your software does not contain any bugs and therefore does not make mistakes there always has to be the room for manual intervention (like deleting personal data from blockchain).
Yeah you're seeing the short term variation at that site, and there's plenty of it. But over a 24 hour period
- for now anyway - NERC standards require time error correction, http://www.nerc.com/files/BAL-004-0.pdf

Going forward it may not be a good idea to rely on the grid's timebase as there's talk as well as an NPRM out there to do away with the standard. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/03/29/2010-64...
Well, it's not that you're not right, but rather that you're going on a tangent and to extremes. It's also hard to be happy if you have a drug problem (alcoholism for example) or live in a place where making a living is hard or are unable to learn marketable skills. But please keep in mind that not all well paying jobs require a PhD - at least I hope that in the US you can be a carpenter without a degree and a crippling debt; but I, like you, digress...
Though I see a difference between "obsoleted to prop up sales of new gadgets" and "throttled to improve stability", Apple failed at comms here.

But it's the modern mantra to do it anyway and apologize if someone complains. Cause really, why spend time/money in advance of a possible non-issue?

Free market decided long ago customers were the product, not the customer. We will be treated how they want and appear to put up with it just fine, given the stock market.
Show HN: Distajob – Remote job listing for spanish-speaking candidates
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I wish the Emirates tech team understands the gravity of this problem. None of the services they are using to optimize the websites, needs this sensitive information. It's a side-effect of their implementation.

But just a small correction, the third-parties are not on HTTP, it's the email link that it HTTP.
This is really unfortunate. I've used the IRC gateway feature over the years to lurk in multiple Slack groups and looks like this will be the end of using (social) Slack groups for me.

Their web interface has just.. not cut it for me. Too resource intensive and not enough control over how/when I am interrupted. This was why I gravitated to the IRC gateway in the first place. Oh well.
Reading your comment I immediately scoffed and thought, well what a cute marketing trick, I’m sure I’ll click over and just read more of the same....

Imagine my shock to see the top post pointing to RealClearInvestigations analyzing the role of “PROMISE” discipline policies on Cruz’s ability to pull off his attack even after over 40 run-ins with the police.

Then again, the next half dozen link to articles about; a man allegedly attacking immigrants after yelling “Get out of my country”, Gary Cohen resignation, successful teacher strike gaining a 5% raise, Stormy Daniels sues Trump, and Kellyanne Conway violating ethics rules.
I own a Nexus 5X and I'm very satisfied with it. Even the battery is holding up after 2 years of daily usage and loading from <20% to ~90%. While it's sad to see that I wont get Android 9, I'm happy with the Android updates I got for my phone. It never got slower, rather quicker with every update. At least I can count on Google giving me security updates once a month.
Not an Oculus user but I couldn't imagine using their beta software if their actual QA'ed release upgrades have brick level bugs in them...
Don’t listen to him, he’s never lived in Florida. It’s fine.

Half the people in Florida are liberals, it is in fact a swing state that can go either red or blue in any election. If you blanche at the thought of living anywhere that isn’t a liberal stronghold or you shiver at the idea of interacting with a conservative you won’t like it; if you’re a normal person you’ll be just fine.
Disagree.

I think people want to be able to believe that their news sources are neutral. But I don't think they actually want their news sources to be neutral. That's the genius of what news has become: entertainment that justifies itself by allowing you to feel like you are doing your duty as a citizen by keeping up with current events.
I don't see why that matters. They clarified that DAO tokens are securities but decided not to pursue any action for a number of reasons, one of which being (and they've stated this elsewhere) that prior to their clarification there was ambiguity on this issue.

The tl;dr is that they are clearly securities under existing law. Now that the SEC has clarified that fact companies are free to issue Tokens if they comply with the law.
GDPR is not only conflicting with some Blockchain use cases but with old-fashioned ledgers and paper-based accounting as well because the same principles apply here, too (an entry cannot be deleted, its effect can merely be reversed).

If followed to the letter GDPR would've major repercussions on tax regulations because as a company you're legally bound to keep accounting records for at least 10 years whereas according to GDPR you're required to delete any record if asked by a person whose personal data appears in that record.

The solution in that case is that GDPR only applies if it doesn't contradict other, already existing laws.

So, where Blockchain applications facilitate legal requirements or don't manage personal data this should be perfectly fine but yes, other types of Blockchain applications are pretty much ruled out by GDPR.
I see you are trying to be clever, but that comment doesn't really bring anything to the table. Sure, you can try to filter/block crypto transactions but that will be A LOT harder than blocking dissident blogs. One of the biggest selling points of many decentralized systems is to be censorship resistant.
Perfect! Then we should be able to get to work together right now. Let me tell you my history, and why the $10,000 year number makes sense to me.

I graduated from a "top ranked" university, UNC Chapel Hill, with a degree in History. Because I knew a thing or two about computers, I got a job as a sales engineer (demonstrate and configure a hw/sw product for a customer) at one of the traditional IT corporations (HP, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, etc).

After 4 years, I was laid off due to extremely political management taking ownership of my manager's organization. This is common knowledge.

I was making about $55,000 a year, with some commission and bonuses. This again is typical for the industry.

I tried quite hard to get a job right back in the same line of work, but was unable to. If you look at unemployment statistics, unemployment is actually growing in the IT industry. Perhaps I am just bad at interviewing, or don't have good connections to get around this process.

The only other work I am qualified to do is retail management at about $45,000 a year. After taxes and living expenses in the North East USA, this is not exactly a profitable undertaking.

However! If I am able to do data entry, or basic web/game programming (think things that don't require "Senior" or "MA/PHD preferred), for $10,000 a year, remotely from my rural property, then I would be more than happy to do this. If I could have a small portion of equity, then great. My expenses would be more than covered, because I wouldn't have to pay city rent or commuting or etc.
The reason why many cryptocurrencies are considered securities is because there's a certain group of people promoting them as in investment. They are claiming that their cryptocurrencies will rise in value.

If you study the definition of money, and what makes a good currency, there's no kind of money that rises in value merely because you own it. Money is meant to be spent or invested, not hoarded. (Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" gives a much better explanation in the first few chapters than I can.)

So, the point that you have to register as a security is the point that you start convincing people to own your cryptocurrency as in investment. At that point, your cryptocurrency isn't money; because money is meant to be spent.

How do you keep the SEC out of your cryptocurrency? Invent a cryptocurrency that functions as money. You will need to figure out how to keep the value stable on a day-to-day and year-to-year basis. That means that the supply needs to expand and contract quickly based on demand. "Mining" based cryptocurrencies can not do this.
I believe the response to this is that the actual increased willingness to bet is way higher than could possibly be justified by the paltry amounts won.

If e.g. your net worth is 10k, you win 500, and suddenly you're twice as willing to bet 500, something is off.
> The language and script change every five hundred miles

Huh, somebody is making a vast over-simplification, presumably in a well-intentioned attempt to package this in a way the Western mind can comprehend. Which frankly is futile. India is much more diverse than that.

In my youth I spent some time bumming around Saurashtra, a region in Gujarat state that's about 150 miles square. Nearly 50 languages are indigenous to that one region alone. Not dialects. Languages. It's wonderful, but nuts.

That was almost 20 years ago; no doubt it's more homogenous now, which is sad to think about. A century ago nearly 80 languages were spoken there, so linguistic diversity has been declining fast. Any effort to preserve it deserves applause.
The unfortunate problem is that any one of these fonts increases the amount of data your page has to load by 8 megabytes.

I don't think there's a good solution to CJK web fonts yet. If one existed, I think it would need to involve a font rendering technology where character shapes can be generated from strokes and radicals, instead of the literal shape of every character having to appear separately in the font.
JaveLLC's revolutionary compression tool: Cork
Having considered this from the start, I linked 3 different auth providers to my Stackoverflow account, and it did help me more than once.

Consider doing this if you only depend on a single Google / FB / other account.
What happened to that guy? Haven't seen anything lately.
Seems like a great idea. Congratulations on launching.

I'm not sure I'm willing to install a Chrome extension to be able to use this, though. I try to keep my extensions down to a minimum.
Help me https://postmarketos.org/, you're my only hope.

I don't really know what changed, but I used to be the guy who always wanted the new phone (or <insert really any "device" here>), but ever since I got my 5X I just haven't wanted anything more hardware-wise. I really hope that some of the long-life, open source, replacement OSs for phones take off.
Well, you are not getting the picture of an entire state by that experience alone.

I live in South Florida and the mix of culture here perhaps helps to alleviate racism. But yes, I agree with you that racism is alive an well in the US. That was very noticeable when I moved here from Brazil.
My frustration is that you used to be able to buy a used Nexus phone from craigslist, ebay or really anyone and know it was going to be ROMable. Now we have 2 different Pixel phones. The Verizon models and Google models(which have an unlocked bootloader). It has made the resell market an absolute pain. For me the disappearance of the Nexus will be the disappearance of a guaranteed flashable phone
> When the SEC says...what they mean is: we chose not to beat a dead horse, because it's already dead

The SEC charged Bernie Madoff's auditors after the scheme had been revealed [1]. In respect of the DAO, the SEC appears to be taking a "wait and see" approach. (With ICOs, on the other hand, we've seen enough.)
> This reminds me very strongly of another extraordinarily implausible denial

There are lots of coincidences like that, for example, Windows NT (WNT) being a one letter shift of VMS. I'm inclined to believe what people say they meant and put everything else in the conspiracy theory bin of plausible truth.
I think you're mixing up DHF and DHR. Design history file, device history record.
​Kubernetes graduates to full-pledged, open-source program
I don't care much about our local papers (Germany).

They all get their political and current news sections from bigger newspapers (mantle).

What they do themselves is obituaries, local sports (especially children and youths, because parents just love to read their children's name – which means that often all the players are named) and local news.

The first is for old people, the second for young parents, and the last is the only potentially interesting thing, but since they don't do real investigations (especially into the precious ad buyers) or reporting of local (social) issues, just quick "we met person x, asked ten questions, took a photo and wrote ten paragraphs", and it's very few pages, I don't see the sense in buying it.
I've scraped the adblock block layer and scroll lock, and exported the whole thing as a pdf: https://www.docdroid.net/BFTFpEC/why-people-are-leaving-san-...
(Disclaimer: Founder of another Banking Tech Company - Akouba - we have a commercial lending platform for banks).

Echoing the sentiments above - the current state of banking & security is quite appalling. Because of the outsourcing mentioned above, most bank leadership is so limited in their understanding of technology that they struggle to make decisions weighing tradeoffs of security vs functionality.

We've also seen the problem of new tech co's who are built questionable stacks with little thought given to the security aspect.

Hoya - would be great to connect and hear more about the solution and your experiences. Shoot me a message (nick@<our domain>).
One Size Fits All, probably.
Certainly, The Cooking Gene is not just a straight cookbook - it's barely a cookbook at all. Instead, it's a history book more than anything, using the evolution of a cuisine to trace the cultural history of the African diaspora in America, and its broader impact on American culture. The appearance of certain foods, of ingredients and techniques, is a map of history. Fascinating stuff! (I got it on recommendation of a friend in the State Department, who called it the best book she read in 2017.)

As for learning to cook... yeah, the more I see "recipe" books completely decontextualized, the more bizarre they seem to me. Cooking is cultural, and arises from available ingredients, available tools, and known techniques. The idea that you can just make dishes completely in isolation from their cultural context is weirdly postmodernist.
It was pretty gradual. For a while the only public-facing domain was elgoog.google which I think started as an April Fool's joke.
AllSides exists to enable easy comparison between news sources with different biases: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
Also which unchallenged facts are emphasized.

People who have a restricted media diet are pretty easy to surprise just by relaying objective information nobody really disputes that their news sources didn't deem newsworthy.

Natural news et al may not be worth paying attention to but foreign propaganda outfits (e.g. Russia today) can sometimes be quite informative if read skeptically, even if only to add context.
Wow, I had almost forgotten about that. Yeah, I never really understood it...
Of course it won't stop trade completely, but it could tank the price and cause interest to drop off as that's significantly higher effort than "sign up here, use your credit card or bank account directly".
Would you prefer earning $10 with uber where you set your hours and have freedom or earning $10 at Walmart when you still have to work when your kid is sick
It's a pity that one of the most recommended books is about the pitfalls of C++ and is by someone on his own admission has never written production C++ code.

Of course it's a very good book though.

My recommendation is for "Accelerated C++" by Koenig and Moo.
It's rooted in actual teaching experience and compared to most C++ books is pretty slim.

The only negatives these days is that it is a bit old and (still) expensive.
Thanks for posting this, I've been looking for something like spidr.today for a while.
Show HN: Build circuit boards faster with 25,000 free models
I have a Nexus 6 (Not 6P) and I'm running Android 8.1!
Although it is officially dead, but the good thing about Nexus/Pixel phones is that it is easy to port the new version of android to them (unofficially).
My phone works better with the custom ROM than with the stock android! I know the average person won't go through all the trouble to flash a custom ROM on their phone, but this was one of the reason that I bought a Nexus in the first place, the community support at XDA.

Edit: Nexus 6 came to market in 2014. I bought it in 2015 and after years of usage, it has never been faster and snappier. Android 8.1 is quick and it gave my phone a new life.
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I have to agree with you. Getting people to wear any sort of AR glasses, no matter how small and light they are, is going to be a lot higher barrier than convincing people to keep 6" screen sized high-end phablet/phones in their pockets and purses. Advancements in flash memory density, low power CPU and I/O are continuing to come rapidly for mobile phones. The near future will have phones with 8 or 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, 802.11ac wave2/802.11ax wifi, LTE radios that can sustain 500 Mbps with MU-MIMO, and so on.
I have the same view of "the truth is in the middle." I supplement my news with itar-tass, xinhua, and irna to calibrate my view globally.

It's also an exercise of learning what ways other people view the world. How can you understand someone that only gets information from one channel if you don't know what that channel is saying?