skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the tire is vibrating at an audible frequency. The tire colliding with the road creates a burst of air, and since these 'bursts' are moving you have a doppler effect.

In theory you could create the same effect by setting off fireworks.
> When 70% of the world lives on less than $10 per day,

This too looks like optimistic number to me. More than half of Indians are living on <2 dollar a day. And this number is before automation takes away better paying labor jobs which are about 300-400 dollars a month.
this was the first video handed to me when I started in Java
You're right. I don't actually know enough about the distribution of tech careers to hold a strong opinion. I'm largely operating off my own experience, which is this. When I look for jobs in less populous, more affordable areas I tend to run into the same thing. There are mostly regional/local companies looking for very specific types of engineers and more generalized engineering opportunities are almost always looking for 10-15 years more experience than I have. As someone who is still a junior engineer of the generalist variety I've been unable to find much. I'll admit, I haven't looked on the east coast though, as that's very far from my family.
It seems that everyone is assuming that the allegations in the article are true, and are commenting based on that assumption.

But are they true? Can someone corroborate?

p.s. the reason I ask is because things are often more complex than a simple narrative would have you believe, and it's worthwhile thinking about what's actually going on rather than just taking in a narrative without questioning it.
If you think the timing of this is coincidence then I can't really help that but to me it is quite clear that this is just another salvo in the developing US/China trade war.

Yes they were guilty, no normally that would not result in a sanction of this kind, they'd be fined and life would most likely go on the way it it did before.
There are numerous examples.

Alter Ego's concept is one I've run across:

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/a-new-e-ink-phone-has-j...

https://www.behance.net/gallery/34072240/O-phone
That's the problem with the current labour market. A job sounds almost like a favor, because it's better than nothing, but workers (should) have rights too.

There will always be someone who has less and is therefore satisfied with less, and companies will capitalize on that to offer the bare minimum to get the job done. Ultimately the person who'd do the job for more gets no job, the person doing the job for less doesn't get a fair compensation, and the only party benefiting is the company.
How Civic Sold $33M Dollars in Tokens with Zero Marketing (2017)
R. Lee Ermey has passed away
I can see small services like SDF.org and Eskimo.com making a comeback. People who want to #deleteFacebook and who have woken up to the problems with FB's business model, but who don't have the tech skills to do it themselves might pay a subscription fee to get access to webmail, Diaspora, Mastodon, Riot, and other services.
The prohibitively expensive nature of any immunotherapy leaves me profoundly skeptical of its practical usefulness. $100,000/year? That's more than twice the median income in this country.

Is it simply that expensive to get mabs from animals, is drug development disgustingly expensive, or is there unbounded greed in pharmaceutical companies?
Controls: It doesn't force me to use native controls. :-) My web app today is still using the free and opened web, and all the goodness that comes with that, for UI and code.

Requiring a Mac: Now you've met one. I built a halfway decent iOS app, and I don't want to spend $7000 on a Mac and its crappy dev tools and frameworks.

I've poured nearly 7 years of work into user experience. I don't need to redo all that for Apple's closed, proprietary platform.
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Same as Walmart.
This is really bad advice:

1) This is not really a temporary table in the traditional
sense; you're creating a real table and then dropping it.
This has problems with concurrency (you can't have two
"real" tables with the same name), among other issues.
2) Temporary tables in Postgres suck because they bloat
the catalogs. Creating temporary tables regularly is
better avoided.
3) There's no real need to create a table of any kind. A
regular VALUES would do. (Though you might have to encode
some type information into the query.)
My company's vesting schedule used to have a 3-year cliff: 0% first year, 0% 2nd year, 75% third year, 25% fourth year.

It's a much more reasonable quarterly vest with a 1-year cliff now.
Declaring bankruptcy can actually help save a security clearance in certain cases because it helps resolve the security clearance holder's susceptibility to coercion or bribery.

I don't hold a clearance though, so I can't speak from first hand experience. Always be upfront with your employer and clearance sponsor if you're considering bankruptcy.
I browse the mobile reddit all the time and constant nagging to use the app was a real PITA until I discovered that I don't have to press the link to hide the "browse with the app overlay". You can simply scroll down and it will go away.
Exactly.

The addictiveness of smartphones isn't a "byproduct" of these devices. It is the product.
I think the problem started out the other way, with way too much budget. They bit off more than they could chew. The budget cuts happened later.

If you had volunteers on a shoestring budget, you'd simply create a FVWM theme. It would be pretty normal, but with thick borders to compensate for the crude touchpad. You'd patch the program launcher to prevent running more than one thing at a time, thus dealing with the memory constraint and user confusion. That's it. Ship it.

Instead, they wrote a completely experimental desktop environment in an interpreted language. This is not the sort of project you'd bite off with volunteers on a shoestring budget.

I was a volunteer. I told them that stuff was nuts, but the paid staff were on a mission. Nothing could dissuade them. They wouldn't even dogfood. By that, I mean they didn't actually use the laptops. They used high-end developer workstations because the laptops were unusable. That should have been a hint.
Do you have any experience with kdb+/q? I was considering taking a job offer where I'd have the opportunity to learn kdb+/q but I don't have any experience with it and I can't find a huge amount of information about it online.
From the point of view of creating a society with least inequality all must own an equal share of production. This is straight up Marxism, and anywhere anything like it has been attempted, it made everyone equally poor.

The problem is capital owns production, and capital is not distributed equally. And if you forcefully try to change that too much, capital leaves for greener pastures or is no longer put to work.

I don't think equality is a good goal. I think a good standard of living for all citizens should be the goal. After that's been achieved, I don't care how rich the 1% are.
A big part of this problem is that the warehouse operations people de-risk the impact and accountability for these problems to the bodyshops that fulfill these roles. Companies like Amazon love temporary workforces because they have big capital investments in fulfillment centers that they cannot walk away from, and an employee workforce would attract union mobilization.

IMO, the way to attack this is to increase the cost of temporary employment by taking away tax and other privileges. There should be a cost borne by the employer for the flexibility of temporary workforces. That would discourage the practice at companies like Amazon and have a lesser impact on SMB.
I haven't kept up with the research since graduating, but there have been studies that showed damage to serotonin receptors from repeated mdma usage.
Playing around with Elasticsearch and Linux man pages
$6.18 per user per quarter in 2017 Q4, and $26.76 per user per quarter for US/Canadian users. So nearly $25 per year, and over $100 per year for US/Canadian users assuming earnings per user stays constant or continue to rise

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/facebook-earnings-q4-2017-ar...
> From minor things like “iOS Safari won’t let you play audio without first interacting with the page” to major, show-stopping things like, “iOS Safari won’t let you play the next song if your app is in the background or if your screen is off.”

I disagree that these things are purely because Apple wants your $99/year. Maybe that's part of the story, but not all.

I am glad that websites cannot play audio without the user first interacting with the page. I am also glad that websites can't play audio in the background — as a user, I would find it too "buried" behind Safari and I wouldn't appreciate the feeling that a website was running in the background. (Yes I know you can control audio via the Notifications Center and Control Center.)

I appreciate that these permissions are reserved for apps that Apple has vetted, even if this is a pain for developers and they are not a perfect institution, as a user I appreciate that they are trying to maintain quality and encourage good app behavior.

I'm glad your app had to jump through these hurdles to gain the functionality your users wanted. Like you said, it's where the users are they were asking you directly for it. These are higher-level permissions and should not be free for the taking.
Most of your arguments are subjective and anecdotal. It’s also “case in point.”
it seems likely to be the ketamine - http://ajp.amjpathol.org/article/S0002-9440(16)00073-0/fullt...
I was looking at studies earlier today, and the upper limit (assuming a 100 kg person) was 0.5 g from one of the studies.
I think there are a lot of people have posted their configurations and successful installation guides in GitHub, but they are hidden very deeply so that many newbies cannot find the configuration the same with their machine. It’s a great pity:(
So I came up an idea that why not to build a Hackintosh-installer-university which can collect the separate tutorials and successful configurations together? Maybe we can add some systematic guides and configurations in too. It’s just a new repo, but I love open source and I believe you can be a contributor too :)
Exactly. That would have at least achieved the stated goal, if this doesn't kill ZTE it will only make them stronger.
US government is not set up to A/B test the efficacy of its own agencies.

You can't set up an alternative to the FDA in order to test it, because the FDA is the supreme dictator over the regulatory domain, and you can't get around Mom saying "no" by asking Dad behind her back.

You can, however, look at the European pharmaceuticals regime, and note that an identical drug costs three times in the US the amount it costs in France.

Clearly, the FDA is not optimal. Equally clearly, we do not demand meta-studies proving that the FDA itself is safe and effective for its stated purpose.
That is a really good point. I hadn't though until now about how that language makes it all so ambiguous. The implication that autopilot is safer than you doing it yourself has to be misleading as it implies that you shouldn't have to monitor it so closely.

Ugh.
US Criminal law has a long long history of reliance on scientifically invalid forensic evidence. Bite marks, fingerprinting, fiber analysis, breathalyzers, hypnosis and others have all been legally ruled to be beyond reproach at various times/places, and all of them are on a continuum of scientific reliability ranging from laughable through potentially useful for some purposes if properly performed and evaluated.(Hypnotizing witnesses is still legally valid in Texas and some other places.)

If "beyond a reasonable doubt" is supposed to mean something, then it should mean something.

And by the way, eyewitness testimony is frequently really unreliable.
I don't know, is it?
They still pee in bottles though. Check the sides of the motorways for coke bottles full of a yellow liquid.
What you want is a laptop with an e-ink display. There isn't one AFAIK. The refresh rate is one big limitation. One could design a laptop specifically for writing and reading but it would be pretty special purpose. As I recall, the CTO of OLPC went off to try to make a display with e-ink characteristics that would be more suitable for laptops but wasn't able to bring anything to market.
$7000? Your bias is showing. You can buy a Mac for <$1000 and it's perfectly capable of developing most apps.
> why aren't more people upset about that?

I guess they just don't realize it.

To be honest I didn't either before reading your comment, but I am not surprised it is a thing.
Samsung Explores Blockchain for Tracking Global Shipments
If you want to read it, you can Google its title "Industrial Society and Its Future" [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Industrial+Society+and+Its+F...
This article's tone and framing is negative and about failure, but imho this is just a weird capitalist winner-take-all notion of success. The numbers in the article show that millions of units were shipped and you can pretty clearly infer that tens of millions of children had access to a computer they otherwise wouldn't have. As someone who's childhood access to an apple2e was a massive privilege and advantage, I know damn well if I was one of those tens of millions of kids I'd be better off for it.

So this "failure" seems to have helped millions, learned a bunch and developed some OSS. I should hope to fail so hard myself someday.
Partially agree. I understand security concerns; we shouldn't allow random web apps to freely access privileged operations, for example. (Should we allow web apps to ask for permission? That is another question.)

But stopping web apps from working? For example, breaking open standards like "you can't play more than one stream of audio", or "you're not allowed to play audio if your app isn't in the fore"? Nah, that's nasty. It gets worse. iOS's new PWA support actually reloads your whole page - losing all context and execution - every time you bring it to the fore. It kills all execution when putting the app into the background.

This is beyond security; it is actually hostile to users and developers.
Puts them in a good spot to call a lie, grey truth, or incompetence.

Still biased of them of course.
This is commoditization. People "tried and reinvented" the wheel many times back in the days out of lack of time, knowledge, legal/licensing, essential features, trying to be smart or many other reasons. And then there are more libraries today that solve the same thing way better. That automatically makes all the old ones legacy. Its like inflation, why take money away from people when you can print new ones?

Today, while I love the simplicity of Go, I shudder to fathom how much copy-pasted lines of Golang code I wrote will be commoditized in next year or two, and thus automatically creating legacy. And there will be nobody to give a ring to except my past self.
Akamai will be deploying TLS 1.3 this spring
I was looking for that earlier, it's a fascinating paper, thanks! :)
I don't think this is fair. The criticism of fingerprints, as I understand it, is (a) there's actually no way to prove that "no two people have the same fingerprints," and (b) the current system of fingerprint classification (using a few points) could allow different fingerprints to be classified as identical.
That's called "happy talk": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_talk

It was invented in the late 1960s by a guy named Al Primo, who came up with it as part of a broader reinvention of the local news show format he undertook while working at KYW-TV in Philadelphia. This new format (called "Eyewitness News": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_News) replaced the traditional format of a newsreader reading stories from a desk into segments oriented around video from the scene of the story. The newsreader became the news anchor, providing the links that tied the various field segments together.

The old newsreaders had always been presented in a dour, serious way, since they were telling stories that could be very serious indeed. But in the Eyewitness News format, they weren't telling those stories directly anymore; that had been passed to the correspondents in the field, with anchors now serving as a kind of tour guide. That meant their old super-serious presentation didn't really fit them anymore; people wanted the new anchors to be more approachable, more relatable. Primo figured out that adding a bit of light, upbeat banter between them accomplished this very effectively, and "happy talk" was born.

The new format was a huge hit; KYW surged to the top of the local ratings, and Al Primo got hired to run news programming at the ABC Network's national flagship, WABC-TV in New York City. He took the Eyewitness News format with him, and within in a few years it was being copied by stations all over the country.

(Interestingly, the other big format for local news -- "Action News" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_News), which took the Eyewitness News format and tightened it into shorter, faster-moving segments fronted by younger anchors -- came out of the Philadelphia market as well. Local station WFIL-TV originated it in an effort to stay competitive with the surging success of KYW and Eyewitness News.)
Sony’s flagship smartphone pairs a 4K display with a design from 2013
> That sounds wonderful but doesn't mean anything.

Why do you think that?

I think you have to really understand a field to say that a given statement in it is meaningless. Or are you simply stating that it doesn't mean anything to you? (Which would, after all, be expected if you weren't an expert).
You deny them one thing now, and if they continue to flout the rules you deny them a second thing later. You need continued leverage.
> Do we have a word for this type of relationship between worker and company?

Exploitation of labour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour
" No significant correlations were observed between physical activity levels and MTL thickness. Though preliminary, our results suggest that more sedentary non-demented individuals have less MTL thickness. "

So, this wasn't conclusive? Just in case i may walk my dog twice as much but not much can be done with a software engineering job and sedentary hobbies.
The wreck of the Titanic is being eaten and may soon vanish
Indeed she did try to make a business out of those displays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
I believe they used Pixel Qi displays, which were transreflective. I love transreflective displays due to their ability to use ambient light to save power but since the colors don't 'pop' with these and the side-lighting creates uneven lighting, they never seem to get traction. My Sharp Zaurus SL5500 and Garmin Vivosmart HR have these displays and I love the battery life that accompanies them. Edit: Additionally, for a while Pixel Qi made their ~10" (1024x600) display available as a retrofit for netbooks, probably around 2012 or so if I recall.
I've never heard stories like this, but I have heard stories (there's a distribution center a few miles from where I live) of workers stealing sex toys from bins and using it in the bathrooms at work. This is both sexes.

Amazon treats their floor employees horribly, but (and this is good/bad) are hiring people from low rungs of society, so they probably feel they -can- take advantage of these people. They are sometimes the only job in town.
I wonder if the time has come to add user-configurable resource consumption throttles to browsers, eg. settings for max CPU, max FPS (foreground and background) for developer-triggered redraws, etc. On my laptops I’d have it ratcheted all the way down, because not needing to plug in and my lap not being cooked is more important than whatever frills the websites I visit have. And if some site can’t run properly while throttled, well, there’s probably a more lightweight alternative I should be using instead.
We are able to create tests with emulated hardware from specification, but writing emulation taking into account quirks, edge cases and speculative behaviour would be great amount of work, even for simplest devices.

I'd recommend reading Dolphin emulator release notes for a reference how much work is required to properly emulate hardware such that actual software may run without glitches and errors even for (AFAIK) 3 hardware sets.
APL came before all of those. J/K are decendants of APL. Those languages that you used are copying APL features. Some of it is not too bad, but they don't have the entire power.

In J for example, you could factor your code out. The way you factor mathematics. Their power lies in their notation.

Outside of the notation, If you have a multidimensional array, you can operate on ranks of it. You can write loopless code, you don't need for, do, while loops. The compounding and combining of verbs allows for a very functional style of programming that you can never realize in the languages you mentioned. You have to understand APL was designed for describing algorithms before it got turned into a computer language.
>If the difference between $99 and $25 is make-or-break, you're probably trying to publish a hobby/low quality app anyways.

Or maybe you live in a situation where $74 USD is a meaningful barrier to accessing a market.

>The only people who like webapps and their encroachment on good, native apps are webapp developers because it allows them to use their skillset to build something they don't know how to build.

You're excluding people and organizations who want to maintain a single codebase.

>I've never met a developer who complained about needing a Mac to develop for iOS that has put forth an even halfway decent iOS app.

My takeaway from this is that you've not met a lot of developers outside the U.S. or who have ethical concerns about mandatory hardware / software purchases as prerequisite to market access.
> to public education bodies.

Yeah, not so much. I never could get a response out of them for a tribal college with plenty of students and a young children's program. They really had their preferred people and just wouldn't talk to anyone else.
One Titanic inisght
Thank you for this link, really a nice reading.
That first one is very interesting. Thanks!
The alternative monetization schemes like Steemit are interesting. Overall, it will lead content that is, on average, better because of monetary rewards/incentives.
Basic considerations for three types of Hadoop deployments
Losing the US consumer market is presumably still on the table. "Here's one punishment. Do you want more?"
Sidekiq batch lookup
For some perspective on the other side, check out http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm.
I wonder if something similar could be employed to produce a noise canceling effect on jake brakes?

Obviously you wouldn't be able to get it spot on because of speed vs engine RPM but you could at least tune it for the popular combinations.
Thank you for putting this together. Really detailed write-up, and I learned a lot from reading it.
> NPR basically has a monopoly on public radio

NPR does not have a monopoly and it's answerable to the member stations so it's not a great example of centralization but I agree that centralization is not inherently bad.
The story behind this theory (which is quite plausible imho) would be much more interesting than the public remarks from earn and coinbase. The actual products released by the company have always seemed pretty trifling considering the massive amount of funding. Things never really added up.
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So the levels of neurotoxicity for MDMA are not known. It's almost certainly neurotoxic to some degree but not any where near the levels purported by that study that used massive amounts of meth on rats (remember alcohol is also neurotoxic).

However, over use can certainly habituate a user to it such that it "loses its magic" as in the psychoactive effect is far far far less than what it originally was.