skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, last year I kicked the tires on Bloomberg's PORT suite of portfolio performance attribution and risk measurement functions to get a sense of what they offered and how programmable it was. In addition to the standard extensive help docs, they had 56 white papers totaling ~1400 pages (as of June 2017) explaining the calculations. And that's for a small star in the Bloomberg constellation.
They don't need oral approval or any approval. GEICO is only asking so that their customers won't freak out when GEICO magically knows where they are. The customer service rep probably had the data up on their screen already when they asked.
I spent a summer in Newfoundland a while back. Really wonderful place. I would not want to be there during the winter though.
Startup Wants to Replace Cars and Subways with Elevated Pods
Thou Shalt Not Kill is a pretty good start
I believe I mailed in the form with a color photocopy of my ID.
I am not the author. I was just so tired of having to manually strip crap like "?utm_term=.b1e20fe33a88" from the end of URLs before sharing them. This extension solves that problem nicely.

I wonder why Google doesn't build something into Chrome that just hides this crap from the visible URL? I guess they could get some PR pushback from paranoids if they did that though. Better to just hide behind some fictitious UTM Inc.
That's a fallacy. Just because something is harder to operate doesn't mean it can't be better. Example f1 cars vs normal cars, two propeller ships vs single propeller ones.
>I'm curious what Ghosts' bylaws are, how is it actually organized? I presume it's not a 501c(3) since it's engaged in commercial space and doesn't take charitable donations.

For one, it's not an American company, is it?
It's quite unlikely that Rust the language will get green threads, yes. We are getting stackless couroutines ("generators"), which are related but not the same thing.

There's a ton of options in this space, and they're all slightly different, with different tradeoffs, so it's really hard to make good comparisons. You have to deeply understand exactly what each language is doing.
Game mechanics remind me of Seven Cities of Gold, back in the day. Was it an inspiration?
Yes, it is legal to give contractors more benefits than industry standard (that is, no benefits). On the contractor end, they may end up losing some favourable tax status, as while they are a contractor on paper, they are working full-time for a single client and should report income as a normal salaried full-time employee (which is the case in the UK). That's not the employer's problem.
I've never heard Ѧ called Yys, normally Yus - is that a typo or just terminology from a non-Russian Slavonic language? (genuine question, not trying to be a pedant)
not that part but their header disappearing and reappearing is annoying. I'm on a smallish laptop screen, scrolling up to look at a picture immediately results in less space to read and covering the photo I just scrolled up to see.

So I have to scroll up to the photo, and then scroll down a little to make the header disappear.
Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
And what makes stellar day real, and mean solar day not real?
Having day defined in terms of the star Earth is orbiting around has a benefit of having more or less consistent time for noon. Having a day defined in terms of the mean sun instead of the real one has a benefit of having noons at exactly 24h apart instead of variable inter between noons of the real sun (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time).
yeah but as other comments explain, this isn’t some numeric “property” as such, giving insight into anything. It is by definition.

Furthermore, a day is not even a day. We need leap seconds to sync up the solar day.
Weird. On Chrome OS X the font looks properly anti-aliased.
4 hard problems in computer science
Exciting to see so many HTML5 games popping up on Steam and elsewhere the last few years. Here's another one that was built using Isogenic Engine/Electron and is also playable on the web, iOS, Android and Windows Store.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/658970/CasinoRPG/
How can it have the same owner if it's a different machine, and users aren't the same ?
Police Dog Sniffs Out School Hacker's USB Drive
It's a feature: you must be running tar as root or equivalently to restore to uids/gids other than the effective process uid. Otherwise you could happily overwrite any host system file including parts of the O/S. It's a restriction shared by all archivers.
Ask HN: Why does my new Z798BL (Tracfone) use 4.28 GB under “System Memory”?
I meant Rust should have a SIMD optimised version that assumes mostly ASCII. I'm guessing there is a trade-off involved depending on the content of the string.
The performance comparisons between gc and non-gc languages show otherwise. Also, memory consumption eventually costs cpu cycles.
What was your umask?
> Would it be possible to fool the triangulation from the device, by arbitrary (or intelligently) delaying the mobile radio signals?

Not without messing up your ability to make and receive calls. Cell towers use precise timing and power-level measurements in order to do things like decide which cell-site is best, and to hand-over your call from one tower to the next without breaking your call or glitching.

Edit: Even if you were to play around with timing of responses of the radio signal, you have no control over how it radiates in free space. The time-delta between reception of the same signal by 3 towers at known locations is enough to triangulate your position. Maybe a unidirectional antenna pointing to just one tower might work, if there are no other towers within the beam behind it and no sideway leakages.
It's not a pure coincidence. Coefficients used for time measurements (12, 24, 60) were deliberately chosen to have as many (small) integer divisors as possible.
I don't think its psychological, having dedicated keys is better for almost all applications than having to re-purpose a general purpose input device.
Doesn't hurt that much if you punch correctly (and they don't teach that in boxing classes because you always wear gloves), but very dangerous if you don't punch correctly (as in broken wrist, meaning the fight is over for you - not a good idea in a real fight - and anyway you will be handicapped for several weeks).

But then, open-palm strikes are very effective and virtually riskless for the attacker. If you are good at it, you can at the same time strike the opponent's chin and put your fingers in his eyes, but here we are obviously way out of sport's territory and way into aggressive self-defense / violent street fight.
Err, we created the "seconds in a day" metric, by picking the time span of seconds.

The earth's rotation takes a constant K time. Whether the time is 86400000 seconds or 50 seconds or 642552 seconds, is based on whatever arbitrary value we pick to mean "a second".
Is large-scale DNS over TCP practical? [pdf]
It would be interesting to benchmark the time required to write these programs as well.
What GNU politics are you referring to that makes you reconsider using guixsd?

EDIT: Also what's unsexy about GNU? I'm really curious.
Yeah, right. The problem is that if you think militaries don’t have plans for AI you’re nuts. Blanket prohibitions against killing and automated killing machines are incompatible. The civilian sector can be as moral as it wants, yet ironically it will be the AI most able to kill that will be least restrained from killing.
US Counterterrorism Spending [pdf]
> Cook: What would he do if he were Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg? His answer: “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”

Sounds like one of those situations to me...
Or, for a more reasonable description of the differences: the American right is interested in equality of opportunity, while the American left is interested in equality of outcome.

There are good points to be made for both positions, although 2018 sees both parties skewing heavily from these historic emphases, one more than the other.
It is already winning half of the battle.
There is probably a trade-off depending on the content of the string, right? So the API probably needs a general-purpose and a "this should be all ASCII" version?
I found it quite easy to switch to linux from linux-libre.

However, they package IceCat instead of Firefox, and that's a much tougher one. Note IceCat is not very well maintained.

Nonetheless, there are a few third party repos from users with non-GNU-sanctioned software. I hope it becomes a bit like Emacs, where GNU Elpa coexists in harmony with MELPA.
Not if precautions are taken, and even if someone did, such a patriotic disclosure (if done responsibly a la Snowden) would put that person is very esteemed company.
"printed guitar tabs that would turn out to be wildly incorrect"

These still exist. Plus now you can load them into Tux Guitar to figure out how incorrect they are without even bothering to learn them.
Hi HN, I created Musca to solve my own problem. It always takes me many clicks to go to the correct CI page or a GitHub Commit / PR. With Musca on the tray, if the repo tie to a CI, it receives webhook alert and provides hotlink that is easily accessible.
Yeah, it gets weird. First thing I do on every new Mac is disable Spotlight for everything except applications and system preferences, though, and that helps a lot.
Still don't understand, when your organization pays less tax, you have more money to pay yourself, thus your salary will be higher.

Conversely, there is little to no reason for being setup as a non-profit in Ghost's case.

[1]https://www.upcounsel.com/llc-vs-nonprofit
Anyway, an opponent necessarily runs out of time before all the rounds are over.
For those on Firefox, NeatURL[1] does this too.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
"Christianity is largely a religion for revolutionary times, more concerned with overturning a corrupt order than administering a just one"

Mostly disagree with this characterization of christianity. Christianity was first a small cultish endeavour amalgamizing judaistic and greek cultures. Then it suddenly replaced roman state religion, with church fathers taking strong political leadership within the religions domain. The roman state religion was always a part of keeping the empire in cohesion. This same political intent was laid onto christianity.

So, where Islam gained prominence as the administrative creed of an arabian trade town, christianity rose to prominence as part of the administrative structure of an empire.

Only after a millenia protestants started to question the papal authority. Martin Luther and his ideas survived because the german princes wanted to undermine catholic churches authority. While definetly NOT toppling their own. Luther was vehemently anti-revolutionary, saying rebelious peasants should be severely punished.

Most flavors of christianity are not about toppling old regimes but supporting them. The rebelious sects like the huguenots were vehemently persecuted.

The more rebellious sects only started thriving in the american colonies.
I appreciate your perspective.

Our first priority is to protect the space and be great stewards of the land. We also believe it is possible for humans to live integrated with nature and for the space to have a positive impact.

Current projects include:

Plastics clean-up and processing. Can the plastics that wash up on shore be used for anything useful?

Working to protect the native plants and animals -- there is currently a pretty sad practice where locals will try to set part of the island on fire to flush out iguanas and then shoot them. They like the pregnant ones the best. This is detrimental to the space as well as the iguanas -- we will work to establish some sort of sustainable relationship so this does not occur.

Development of electric fishing boats that can re-charged via solar.

We have a relationship with the MIT FabLab in Panama City and hope to bring students to the island for immersive experiences as well.

We will be hosting very light leave no trace events as well as building very light eco-infrastructure such as rainwater collection.

Additionally, the space will serve as a platform for inspiration, healing and leadership development. The intention is that by continuing to work with folks in this type of environment they will be exposed to new ways of living and will return with a deeper connection to themselves and nature.

We believe we can work closely with the natural environment and contribute to the increased health of the land and surrounding communities.

We haven't taken outside investment so there is no mandate to generate a financial return. Our plan is to move slowly and with intention. We will also welcome insights from folks like you to help keep us accountable.
I don't have a fiber in me that feels bad about having a Hackintosh. I'm an Apple customer. There's two MacBooks in my home. And going by the poll on tonymacx86 [1], >60% of the voters do own a Mac. Why would Apple want to come after these people, apart from legal trademark protection faffing?

I'd say I have more of an incentive to buy a Mac if I can run it on all of my computers. If I ran a Linux distribution on my desktop, I'd buy a nice Windows machine and load it with the same OS.

The problem is that Apple does not sell the hardware that I and a lot of people want to have. I think I paid around 1000 euros for my computer in raw parts. I think I could pay like 1400 euros for a same kind of machine if it had an Apple logo on the side and had guaranteed updates, which my computer doesn't. But I can't pay that. I can't even pay double to get that kind of a computer. It doesn't exist.

[1] https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/do-you-own-a-real-mac.59/
It's not just the divisibility of the day, it's the divisibility of the compass that ties into it. There are all sorts of shortcuts in the math.
Your umask affects mode during extraction. You can pass -p to tar asking tar to attempt to restore exactly the modes in the archive.

If you extract as root, it'll preserve the owner and group. Otherwise, the default is to assign the owner and group of the user running tar.
I imagine there's a difference between "managed hosting" (host handles OS/package updates and maintains your LAMP stack) and "managed WordPress hosting" (host handles all of the above AND core WordPress updates, basic security, etc).
Your valuation approach would have suggested that Facebook was ludicrously over priced at its IPO and that it was a pipsqueak compared to Google. Investors were betting the Facebook business would do what it has done: grow dramatically and more than offset the valuation having been pulled forward. Your approach collapses in the face of accounting for high rates of persistent growth.

Tesla is growing radically faster than GM, which hasn't increased its sales or global market share meaningfully in 15 years.

Tesla, 2016 -> 2017 sales growth: 67%

GM, 2016 -> 2017 sales growth: Negative

That kind of growth by Tesla universally gets you a huge valuation adjustment vs a company with zero or negative growth.

Investors are betting that GM's future is not particularly bright, that there is no growth in the business. It is discounted accordingly, which is why it has such a hilariously low PE ratio (six times earnings in real terms).

When Amazon passed Walmart in market value, it had minimal profit profit and 1/6th the retail sales of Walmart.

The market isn't primarily valuing Tesla based on what it's doing today. It's a bet that Tesla will continue to produce considerable growth for many years to come.
I'm fine with the classic PS/2 layout on desktops.

But I do have a problem with laptops that have numeric keypads. Manufacturers seem to add them to their higher-spec products (the ones that are developer-worthy) in order to signal their higher value. When I really would rather have the option to not have it and let my hands center themselves under the screen.
Google has a history of policing their extensions to favor themselves, example being YouTube downloading extensions.
Of course it is - unless we’re going by the relevant RFC, in which case we can simply define it as traffic with the evil bit set ;) But net neutrality is, in its essence, a subjective term. At the end of the day, it would be down to the courts as the final arbiters of what is malicious or not, should it come to that.
Show HN: Whootstrap – Easily create custom Bootstrap themes
that's only the low end. app gps usage shows up on the UI.

the article discusses when the ISP/telco sells the data that you have zero visibility on. there's no way to get around this.

btw, apple and google ad spyware process (google play service) will collect gps and wifi data without any user visible UI, not to mention download ads in the background.
Some minor Obfuscation should be okay "mail at example dot com" => "mail@example.com" and similar.

Plus I'm fairly certain providing temporary mail addresses (with decent lifetime) would also be okay.

Specialised Lawyer isn't quite right, a business that competes with you needs to file a complaint (IIRC from law course).
Please, can we move to an archive format that isn't so sprawlingly massive ?
If you don't want to read the whole thing, here's what I found to be the main point:

> Stimson’s research suggests that total spending
that has been characterized as CT-related – including expenditures for government wide homeland security efforts,
international programs, and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria – totaled $2.8 trillion during fiscal years 2002
through 2017. According to the group’s research, annual CT spending peaked at $260 billion in 2008 at the height of the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This represents a 16-fold increase over the 2001 total. In 2017, as war funding declined, total CT spending amounted to $175 billion, nearly an 11-fold increase from the 2001 level.

This comes out to about $1478 per year per US household.
Sound is already a permission: chrome://settings/content/sound

Video is, oddly enough, not, even though "images" are.

"Any sort of animation" seems kinda tough to implement without completely breaking just about every modern site. Enforcing it would require, at the very least, disabling JavaScript and crippling CSS.
We use hosted Ghost for our blog. For the most part, it's been great.

My biggest complaint is that Ghost doesn't yet have a built in SSL/TLS option (e.g. Let's Encrypt). Their recommendation is to use Cloudflare. It's fine for hobbyist or personal blogs, but as a corporation it's basically prevented us from using SSL.

We're in a regulated industry and need to do appropriate vetting of vendors. Onboarding a blog platform is very, very easy because of the relatively low risk nature of a blog. Onboarding an infrastructure vendor, like Cloudflare, is very complicated. Making it more complicated is we'd have no interest in actually paying for a Cloudflare service so it's impossible to get resources to complete the vetting process. On top of all of that, last year's Cloudbleed incident cast some real doubt on Cloudflare's security practices and ability to properly protect potentially sensitive data.

We will likely eventually self-host so we can get proper SSL support. I'm really disappointed by this since it will be more expensive than paying our Ghost subscription for several years.
>There is really no benefit to going cynical about the process besides some cheap satisfaction in a bar after work and avoiding introspection. That doesn't mean it's not pragmatic to make a plan B, however!

First, the two are not exclusive. One can introspect and go straight for plan B without bothering with the PIP. Why go along with the PIP even if you accept you are at fault, if you do not know if the company will keep you? You can always improve at a new job.

To me, it does seem like a prisoner's dilemma.

You have to weigh the probabilities of each outcome and decide. In the few cases I've seen, the real issue was a disagreement between the manager and the employee on whether their was underperformance at all. As a clear example I've seen in my company: The employee is more productive than a coworker, yet he was put on a PIP and the other wasn't. He also did not work long hours, choosing instead to be efficient. He was in the habit of disagreeing with his manager and the customer on many issues. However, the PIP did not mention any of the last part - it just said he was slow to meet his goals and was often not at his cube. Yet when he went to the manager, HR, etc and asked what "slow" means and how it is being measured (because he likely was ahead of some of his coworkers on those metrics), etc, he really did not get anything concrete - just phrases like "well if your peers and manager think you are being slow, that is enough".

This kind of example is not unusual where I'm at. And this is an example of no transparency. The employee literally was excused of something but had no way to defend himself: No evidence presented by the management that he could question. Just that his manager and customer were not happy with his speed, and some of his coworkers saying he would leave work before the others.

When you see that happen at your company, you lose faith in HR. If I get a PIP that I disagree with, I'm not going to bother. Plan B will become Plan A. Heck, even if I agree with the PIP, I don't see a point in following it through, because given the company's policy, I have no way of knowing if they are sincerely trying to help me or trying to get rid of me. I can always introspect and go for plan B.
A cautionary tale for founders looking to launch a startup with an MVP
Hmm. I remember tasting a nicer higher end balsamic vinegar and you're right it didn't taste tannic or acidic. But that wine did taste different, in other words it still tasted like wine more than good balsamic vinegar.
Usually, they find you ;-) I’m only slightly kidding here.

This is a very crowded market and if you can avoid working with them it’s probably best to do so (for pretty much the same reasons as is avoiding working with Upwork).

There are a few really good ones but most of them just try to sell developer hours as a commodity.

Where you can find the good ones depends a lot on where you’re located. There are freelancer forums (on LinkedIn, for example) where recruiters usually advertise new projects.
Another EFNet #unix veteran from the same time period. Ahoy!
It’s sort of weird that they have weight classes but not IQ classes.
Yes, but Snowden is currently living in exile, and there's no end to that in sight.

Few have the stomach for that sort of thing...
So it's like, not just keycap? It's gone for good now?

I guess there's no incentive to make them more durable. You know this better than me, but I doubt corpos care about the cost of replacing those keyboards.
> I've had files that had 666 user:group permissions/owner that I tar into a backup file, then untar, only to find that the file is now 664 with me:me ownership.

It was PEBKAC, not tar's fault (GNU tar, anyway). Tar does store the original
owner and permissions. But the ownership of the unpacked files -- do you
really expect your process to set ownership of the files to another user?

The permissions would also be restored to 666 if you ran the tar as root;
there are several options whose defaults depend on whether EUID is 0 or not.
That may be the case, but if you have ever trained a classifier you know that expecting a model to generalize when given data that it's never seen before is not something you should usually expect. It doesn't mean that there is no discernible difference between the two classes, just that the model has overfit to the narrow subset of data and things that were previously immutable (e.g. the color of the wine) were not actually immutable.
The story seems to suggest he was "comfortable" with him after he saw his work history, which suggested to me that an honest resume may have ended up in the trash can without any interview.
JS timers and element modifications could be rate limited. Far far far cry from the halting problem.