skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay this is off-topic and I apologize, but what's the justification for the self-proclaimed title of the "world's sole superpower?" Is it just a holdover from cold war-era terminology? How is it quantified? How long are we going to make this absurd boast as we inevitably slide towards the fall of Rome, as all great civilizations eventually do?

If it's military might, that may be surprisingly irrelevant as the next century unfolds.
GDPR is a disaster. Already I am getting overwhelmed by requests from people who don't want people to know that they are running a business at such and such an address and I can only assume they are running a criminal business.

There are two ways that "privacy" can be violated: (1) somebody exploits your data, or (2) somebody violates your space. Something like GDPR addresses (1) and might put an end to those shoes from Zappos that keep following you around, but it does not stop the disincentives that destroyed the world wide web.
Sounds like: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1399476

It's partially why there's 1001 food delivery apps meanwhile EHR/EMR software is still a joke.
“[I]f Disney’s position on fair use of the Estate’s copyrights were accepted one could create a two-hour documentary about the Star Wars franchise, by summarizing each film and using extensive clips from each film while playing the iconic Star Wars music in the background of interviews and narration, and all without permission from Disney."

Great quote
I've been waiting to see programs like this pop up for a while. Remote workers are an economic dream for whatever region they end up in. They bring in large amounts of money from outside the area, spend it locally, pay local taxes, leave local jobs available for other residents, and generally put less strain on the local infrastructure since they're not commuting.

It's basically a win from every angle, and I'm surprised more cities and states don't already have programs like this one.
If you don't know what makes text legible, and you can't really justify a particular font choice- I think there is an argument to be made that following whatever the latest best-practice is, is in fact a sensible/desirable behavior.

(Until the point where you're changing your layout every three months)
It was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle bought OO, and most of the core developers moved to LibreOffice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice
It's quite absurd to suggest either that (i) the review process is entirely fair or (ii) that it is possible to land an academic position merely by publishing papers. (If so, where are all the professors without PhDs these days?) I don't claim that the process by which hiring decisions are made in academia is notably unfair by the standards of life in general or in comparison to many other career paths. But when talking to another (ex) academic, you must know that you can't get away with those kinds of simplifications.

I don't understand your rhetorical questions. Clearly, yes, conferences choose bad speakers sometimes.
As a long term investor, I'm worried with Google. All the bills are paid by ad revenue, a single horse. Then there is this bubble of claims that they have the best engineers and work environment yet this has not produced any other business equivalent to the ad business. Then they have a reputation of creating awesome tools that then get killed in years, enterprise customers don't like this unpredictability. Microsoft on the other hand is the master of supporting old platforms, I've seen some really old apps (from the 90s) run on the latest OS's. Enterprise loves this and that is were the money is. The only clear strength I see on Google is that they are masters of advertising and I see how they sell to developers that there way is the way to go. That is a good HR strength since they will always have a pipe of engineers that want to work for them.
So why do you continue to use apps that are supported by ads, rather that patronize FLOSS apps, or apps that charge an up front price?
You can absolutely store IP addresses (and other personal information) without consent and be GDPR compliant. You just need to explain what you are storing, for what purpose, who you share it with, how long it's stored, and comply with the "rights" put forth in the legislation. GDPR merely constrains what information Google can share without your consent and requires them to be more explicit in stating what information they gather about you.
I used this feature to figure out that my wife was cheating on me! So it was useful!
The Chainlink project addresses many of these issues.
https://link.smartcontract.com/whitepaper
It could also be a 1507 versus 1803 thing? The Out-of-Box installer experience in Windows 10 has changed a lot in two-and-a-half years (for the better). Not being able to find the option to use a local account was a common complaint with the 1507 installer (it was there, it was just so de-emphasized to be almost invisible) that was addressed in following OOB versions.
>"…so it uses the VPN API, just like the apps that have been banned from the App Store/Play Store/Appstore."

Yes precisely. And that's not a problem because F-Droid doesn't ban these sort of things.
We changed the url from https://boingboing.net/2018/05/30/the-95-list.html, which points to this article as well as to http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bovard-tsa-watchl..., which itself is based on the NYT report.
This is a very very good thing. You do not want the government writing technical specifications. They WILL screw it up and we WILL be stuck with it.
The model I envy isn't lawyers, it's PEs. Their professional degree isn't exorbitantly priced and the education is very useful for the career rather than busy work (by the accounts of those I know). Once the credential is earned, it is widely respected.

Edit to add: In general, I don't think our system has to be worse than all others for it to be worthwhile to consider what might be better.
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Why that $27k Star Citizen pack makes perfect sense
Sure.

Dairy is dying for various reasons, and supplemental sources of income like Maple sugaring are impacted by climate change.

Vegetable businesses are tough as well as plots are small and you cannot compete with massive agribusinesses in California and South America.
Isn't that what the (in)famous RedLetterMedia reviews of the Star Wars prequels did?
Trump wants a total ban on German luxury car imports
Why Amazon Prime should be free to everyone
Also if you run OpenWRT/Lede there is a package called 'adblock' that does roughly the same thing as pihole, without the extra hardware requirements.
GDPR doesn't do anything about all of the advertisement issues the OP highlighted.
I’m sorry but this is not really a substantive objection to what I said. Yes, people have a vague preference for privacy. I never disputed that. No, failing to respect that preference has not caused material, externally visible harm.
And do that every single time there’s an update?
Would a Pi Zero W powered by four 18650 Li-ion cells in parallel with a charging board [1], and a 4G HAT module [2], that runs a little over 24 hour continuous operation, work for your definition of "portable"? The drawback with this approach is you would own a separate SIM and plan for the 4G data. I'd also like to figure out how to cram another WiFi board on to run WiFi As WAN, but HAT stacking is hit and miss.

[1] http://www.samplerbox.org/article/howtopowerrpiwith18650

[2] https://www.pianywhere.com/product/pianywhere-4g-raspberry-p...
Imagine CE credits for things like distributed systems and machine learning as you move along in your career: wouldn't that be more useful than brushing up on that Trie algorithm you'll never implement?
He's not from Bhilai, he IS Bhilai!!! :P
Presumably Amazon wants developers to continue to support their devices. That becomes much harder to do if, given that the market already does not favor apps which charge up front, they are seen as aiding the only other (semi-?) reliable form of raising revenue.
Linux download link added.
In my experience as a non-American, non-European developer, Vultr still beats them all for accepting crypto currency payments.
This is absurd. The true power of democracy is freedom to speak. To disagree to challenge. Google does this better than any big company I've ever heard of. I literally challenged the CEO in public on the question of the housing crisis in the bay area. He responded and the conversation continued. There have been a dozen times in the last several years when healthy internal conversation at Google has changed policy. Name one time that happened at IBM.
So far have any worked out?
Hey dang, where are you with these personal attacks, or is that only for people who attack liberals?
This is true, but if you get enough people doing it, the anomalies no longer stand out and you start struggling to pick out the signals above the noise floor.
Context is here: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pony about 5 minutes in.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?visit_id=...
Why MQTT is better than REST
I didn't suggest either of those two points, which I agree are absurd.

I readily agree these selection processes are not perfect, and institutional nepotism in particular is an issue in academia.
Why would I want to put my apps in a store that is also going to aid users in bypassing my means of revenue?
I swear Linode came up with an excuse to reboot my servers at least once a month.
I don't know anything about AdGuard in particular, but the general category of "Adblocker that is a really a VPN that really just loads a DNS server to block ads" is really problematic as:

- cause lots of weird networking issues (impacting perceived stability)

- are often "Free" b/c they are swapping in their own ads and malware [1]

- are just in general a poor way of loading a hosts/dns file that in many cases they don't even own (they're just pointing to a freely available one)

1 - https://www.cloudwards.net/worst-free-vpn/
But what happens if I break my leg?

Does it identify me as someone else?
> the kernel has an easier time of single-handedly cleaning up all file descriptors, memory mappings, etc. in one fell swoop inside execve()

fork() / execve() isn't a good mechanism for launching new processes; it's one of the worst aspects of early Unix design.

A properly designed syscall should require the caller to specify the desired behavior explicitly:

1. Do I want to inherit file descriptors, etc or do I want a clean slate?
2. Do I want a separate address space or to share address space?
3. What happens to threads, mutexes, locks, etc in the new child process?
4. If a separate address space should I inherit my parent's VM mappings or should I just load and execute a new binary image?

That gives flexibility to the caller and maximum information to the kernel to optimize. Instead we have a bunch of ad-hoc patches like vfork(), clone(), and posix_spawn() (+ non-standard attributes like POSIX_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_DEFAULT, POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC, and POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK).
So its a small computer that runs Linux, for $199.
Seems like a good deal TBH but low spec for gaming, right?
The TSA should be disbanded, full-stop. It does nothing to enhance anyone's security, wastes taxpayers money, and acts as justification to accept infringement of basic human rights. The agency is a net-negative for our society and simply should not exist.
The terms are broad in GDPR, so you need the DPA just for Amazon to store it, as that's "processing". However, you don't need your users to confirm that, they agree to share the information with you (controller) and you'll have some sort of terms in your privacy policy allowing you to share personal information with 3rd parties you regularly interact with for legitimate purposes who will be bound by the terms set forth in your own privacy policy.
From the article: "Google has admitted that the headscratching questions it once used to quiz job applicants (How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?, ..."

The article continues:

'“We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time,” Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, told the New York Times. “They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”'

This question is called a Fermi problem, in fact the prototypical problem is, "How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?"

Mr. Bock has not engineering or science background and it is unclear how he would know about hiring engineers and scientists.

While the article may have misquoted Mr. Bock, but it seems as if Mr. Bock is not aware of Fermi problems and they are are certainly not "a brainteaser and a complete waste of time."

The ability to come up with approximations before solving problems is truly useful in engineering and the sciences (my undergrad is BS EE/CS from top ranked school) and I have work experience in hardware and software.

I would say for life in general it helps to be able to estimate quantities and being able to do Fermi problems may undoubtedly correlate with one's abilities to problem solve.

Another important issue to consider is that Fermi problems are useful but that outcomes by ethnic group may have interfered with diversity hiring goals and therefore the questions were dropped.

In summary, I believe that people in charge of hiring scientists and engineers have the education and work experience to understand science and engineering. Would you want nuclear power plant designers and Boeing airliner designer hired by people with a BA degree?
That's not a list of what the Government is prohibited from doing. It's a list of personal freedoms and rights. That's an important distinction.
Do you have a new chart?
Would be interesting with the actual letters and responses
The difficult part is being able to inspire the kids to be interested in the subject; the subject matter is fairly boilerplate. Wanting to learn a subject is much better than being forced to learn a subject.

In other words, it's much more about soft skills than hard skills. Think of a good speaker. Two people can talk about the same subject, but one leaves you with the inspiration and curiosity to learn more, the other makes you want to break for lunch.

Of course, you have to get rid of the disruptive kids. US schools are so scared of getting sued, the principles just bounce them back to the classrooms. When I was growing up, they had a school for bad kids so they wouldn't disrupt the ones that were there to learn. They closed that program down. My state is in the lower half of the school system.

Money also matters. You can't each in a classroom full of 30-40 kids at the high school level. Teachers can't be spending their money on school supplies the state won't budget for. Earning a college degree for a profession that doesn't pay very well isn't a great option, so fewer people do it.

For something so critical to our civilization, it seems many states treat education as a cost center.

Disclaimer: Both my parents were teachers as were many in the family. I am not, but if things were better, I certainly would consider it. I'm a programmer by trade.
Fairly hard, especially for people without technical experience or expertise.
This drone will follow your car
Doesn't that mean that the reproduction is "subsidised" more:

If you're wealthy but less fecund you have more wealth to support each child than someone who is either more fecund or less wealthy.
> That being said, the government keeping a secret list of a certain subset of its citizens certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth even if I can't perfectly express why.

http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/10/14/documents-that-cha...
This is old article from 2016.
Isn't the more practical and impactful option not patronizing services/apps that rely on advertising to raise revenue?
I want this, but with more of a focus on running arbitrary commands and formatting the output nicely.
Why would there be a correlation here? Ferrari could disappear tomorrow, and it would have zero effect on the automotive market.
by doing so the content is now blocked from eu-based users because some gdpr shittery at la times
They appear to act on it every day, using it to make decisions about which citizens to harass.
> Already I am getting overwhelmed by requests from people who don't want people to know that they are running a business at such and such an address

Huh? What does this mean? I've been getting the usual "Please consent to let us continue spamming you" emails, but I have no idea what your sentence above means. Can you elaborate as it's not clear what you're talking about.
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Mine still works, just the bare key press that opens the start menu.
>The equivalent to acing a code interview for an academic is submitting a terrific paper.

You can get a coding job just by acing a coding interview (and having basic social/professional skills). So this part of your comment did appear to suggest that merely publishing papers can be sufficient to obtain an academic position.
Microsoft's killing of products and services is actually more prolific than Google. In fact, two more products were just killed today (Groove iOS and Groove Android).
I completely agree there is a big demand and a big market. The issue is whether providing these services is so profitable that MS deserves to be in the top few companies in the US. Is there really enough pricing power in Azure? Windows used to be strategically important. Outsourced hardware isn't.
Right? I suppose any stupendously powerful technology that isn't yet adequately understood or controlled will tend towards dark uses.

AI might be significantly composed of hype today, and there may indeed be an AI winter on the horizon as people start to trade in insane optimism for realistic expectations, but if a little of the hype is true then we have likely completed the equivalent of a Manhattan project to develop something truly nuclear in its potential to disrupt human civilization.

In the twentieth century we found a way to leverage physical energies greater than we'd ever imagined humans could wield. Now we might be developing something more subtle, yet also insanely powerful: a way to leverage data manipulation in a way that will slowly transpose democracy and individual thought through brute analytical power.

Or so the doomsaying goes. It may be baseless paranoia, but it's credible enough to deserve some very strong caution. From what we've seen in our universe we're probably due to run into a great filter very damn soon. It's probably something we already know about today, in some form at least.
I love living in Vermont. People are friendly, nature is preserved, the mountains are gorgeous, and there are an abundance of small communities/groups you can join based on your interests (produce co-op, hiking, fishing, skiing, meditation, 3D printing, etc). The music scene is colorful and varied if you are into that. In general, things move slower and people are kinder (I come from Boston). Great place to lead a nice quiet introverted life among the trees or immerse yourself in local activities.

As for rent, a nice 3BR goes for around 2-3k/mo in Burlington and gets substantially cheaper the farther south you look. It's not the cheapest nor most expensive state to live in, but the price:quality of life ratio is excellent.
It does a lot to curtail the invasive tracking that is one of the worst parts of some of these ads.
I don't know it. Laws get written and enforced for lots of reasons, enforcing morality and protecting the population are among them.
Click on the time of the comment (right after the poster's name). On the new window, click on the "flag" link. I think that calls it to dang's attention.

And yes, dang responds to this kind of garbage, no matter which side it's aimed at...
Ask HN: How many years of experience does the median Software Engineer have?
I've lately been trying to figure out how my pay package fits in with the market. It's easy enough to find data about how Software Engineers are paid by location. You just have to look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and look through their occupational data. Here's their data for Software Engineers, Applications (most modern web apps fit this category): https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm

It gives a really clear breakdown of the national and local markets for devs. If you work remotely you kind of have to do a best guess averaging of your company's location, your location, and the national.

But this is only one piece of figuring out where I fit in. I've got a decent amount of experience, I would guess more than average. But I've been unable to find data about how engineers are experienced. With out knowing what the market for experience looks like it's hard to know how I fit in. Does my experience put me in the 50th percentile? The 75th?

Obviously there's a lot more that goes into negotiating pay packages either way, including my company's subjective assessments of my abilities. But knowing these things would give me a good baseline of what is reasonable to argue for, and to help recognize when I'm being under-compensated.

Does anyone know of any data source that would allow one to place themselves into a percentile by experience?
I was fortunate enough to pass through Brattleboro once and I have to agree, it is a beautiful charming little town. I would love to go back sometime.
At home, I just block ads and the DNS level. Run dnsmasq, send all known ad serving domains to 0.0.0.0, and have DHCP point clients’ DNS to your dnsmasq server. Done! Site-wide ad blocking that works on all clients and platforms, without a VPN and without permission from any vendor.
Very interesting article.

I recently visited New York and spent a day at the Met. As a tech-employed American who can afford to do things like fly to New York for a week, $25 dollars seemed like an amazing deal. An unbelievable deal, really. $25 there and $25 at MOMA didn't really register against the overall expense of the trip.

They still have pay-what-you-can for people who live in New York or within a certain distance thereof.
That's a rebranding of the Impossible Project. It's not actually a Polaroid product.

Not long ago, Fuji discontinued the pack films that worked in a lot of older Polaroid cameras.
Think of all the abuse prevented. It's a tradeoff.

Of course, if you're someone who profits off of abusing users, you may see the GDPR as wholly negative.
Url changed from https://interestingengineering.com/fda-approves-ai-tool-that..., which unless I'm missing something is cribbed entirely from this press release.
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Came here to say exactly that.
Spotify’s CEO says company botched ‘hateful conduct’ policy roll out
Imagine how profitable Google (as in the division of Alphabet) would be if they eliminated all the distractions other than the cash cow ad business.
Mapping Israel’s Machine Learning Startups
Should I use Subdomains and Subdirectories?
Six-pack beer rings that feed sea turtles rather than kill them
What if your laptop had no internet connection? Is an internet connection now a requirement to get a computer setup?
Interesting. I think, Chrome doesn't do sandboxing when you run it as administrator (because it'd be pointless security-wise), so maybe it specifically crashes when trying to spawn those sandbox processes.

Or it's a simple matter of it not having file access permission to a file that it needs and running it as administrator obviously grants it access to that file.

Not that this information is likely to help you fix that issue...
No one will ever know because those products were killed off...