skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope this doesn't happen. Microsoft design and services are all over the board, not in a good way. I'm sure they would add more features, or make it more enterprise-y, which could have benefits, but I would definitely move to a self hosted setup if this went through. It's nice to have diversity of brand/company personalities in the tech ecosystem.
this happened to my family as well. The amount of money you can save by being frugal is very limited. IMO you're better off living a reasonable lifestyle and focus on income rather than expenditures.
"When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day."

Freedom is what you were seeking all along.
Part of the reason for staging is the tanks but part of it is the weight of the rocket engines themselves. The original Atlas had a single tank that started off with two large and one small engines attached to it. When it had been lofted enough the two large engines dropped off and the small engine finished pushing it into orbit.
Lots of people still have macs that have DVD players. Why delete the DVD player app?
One of my most frustrating memories was Madagascar shutting their borders down at the first sign of disease in any other country. The bane of my teenage existence.
To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources.
Is it not recommended for the Part C to be done with a third, yet publicly owned, domain? Instead of widgets.local or widgets.internal, it would be widgets-internal.com or something.

Struggling to remember why, but I heard people mad about .local
Would you support the same tax bill if it was subsidizing something less hype such as... nuclear energy?

The wording "virtue signaling" is indeed not the best in this context, but what I was trying to say is that because green energy is so hyped right now, this bill is riding on that positive wave to the point where the economical hard questions that should be asked for any government subsidies are not always asked correctly (or overlooked more easily).
Impostor syndrome in programming
What part of investment firm and academic study of religions is incompatibility with reason and science? Both of those experiences suggest someone quite experienced at poring over large troves of documents to look for useful information, which is what Givewell does.

And how does salary affect reason and science?
Remote meaning international remote, not just US based.
The donors should be free to use their money in ways they see fit, and everyone else should be free to point out that there are several orders of magnitude more effective ways to help people.
> 1 Do you think China will send drones and attack US citizens?

It's not unthinkable, especially if they feel confident that they have a technological advantage that would shield them from detection or in-kind retaliation. They also have somewhat different notions of citizenship/nationality than Western countries, and they have a few diasporas they'd like to control.

> 3 If there are enough money in this there will be people going to work on the project, so I am sure the US will have good droning software

What makes you so sure of this, or that those people will have the necessary talent? Lower quality software could lead to more collateral deaths.

> 4 US brought this on itself with the way they used the drones , like you have the verb "droning"

Contemporary drone-strikes are literally just regular airstrikes: for instance, the weapons the drones use were actually developed for other military aircraft [1] [2] and adapted to drones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition

The only real difference is that there's no pilot in the plane, so less risk he dies in a crash. And I say crash because most of the drone-strikes happened in places where there were few hostile anti-aircraft weapons to actually shoot anything down. Most of the pilot risk would have been from mechanical problems and human error.
They can reverse those decisions. Yet they don't, because they benefit from it. So it's not a justification.
Anandtech: A Thought on Silicon Design: Intel’s LCC on HEDT Should Be Dead
I'd expect mostly the latter. In war to the victor go the spoils, and that would have included the women. Consider Genghis Khan - it's been estimated that he has about 16 million living descendents today.

But beyond the warfare stuff, another key selector would have been intelligence. Give two groups of people sticks and stones and I'm betting on the smarter. You don't need much strength to kill with even those weapons, and all the strength in the world isn't going to help you when you get hit. Perhaps it's the case that we still some of this today as it relates to Genghis Khan as the mongoloid group of peoples tend to have some of the highest average visual/spatial IQs on the planet.
if you didn't make it past (ie didn't read further), then you are missing some salient points. If you unexpectedly end up unemployed for more than a few months, you will find that your options for scraping together $500 will get tighter and tighter as your credit cards max out, and you have no additional income to tap.
Microsoft has been relying on Github to share all of its UWP samples for the last few years. This year, they added all their developer docs to Github so they can be directly addressed and updated by the community. They've done a good job of responding to PRs and issues. I write Hololens software and I could not have achieved such rapid development without their examples and developer outreach.

However, Github is one of my favorite services, professionally and for hobbies, and I really don't want significant changes. I also use VSTS (Microsoft's code+PM online service) and it is a beast. They don't need to be heavily intermingled.
Until Oracle starts opening up lawsuits against people/companies that have high traffic open source projects
They could fix the free disk space indicator. Mine goes up and down between 50GB and 200GB. I know this is because of local snapshots and supposedly it will clean up space as needed but I have no idea how much space is exactly available to me. Some versions ago the free space indicator was accurate. When you emptied the trash free space went up exactly by the amount of deleted files. Now it doesn't change at all.
It's expensive right now because demand is low. When everyone is buying solar, I'm sure the price will drop even further. This could still happen in parallel with any other clean energy investments as well.

There aren't that many clean energy options available to the end consumer right now, other than solar. You could have a wind turbine which could run day/night, but they're just not as cheap per watt, and has far fewer competitors on the market making that stuff.
maybe .local was not the best example. In my opinion it's recommended to do with something that's not a public domain at all, since your DNS is entirely internal, you can set up bind9 servers to be authoritative for the root. You could have it by anything totally arbitrary of your choice for a top level domain, that is a non valid public domain or TLD, like widgets.burrito
please no! :-(
Who Really Owns Hardware? Property Rights vs. Copyrights
Certainly for conduit the laziness sort of goes away since you must sink a source and unless you do that to some observable effect the entire result disappears and no work is done at all.

But certainly iteratees as an independent went out of fashion when conduit and pipes came on scene.
Talk about first world problems.
So I don't even need that much (although I do use nesting groups for other things). The problem is that while Gmail is hipaa-compliant, groups is not. HIPAA considers any personal health information INCLUDING account ids, names, etc to be PHI. Since it's quite easy to accidentally include any of this information, we can't give operations or eng-support a group (or even customer service. To workaround this we have individual email accounts for customer service with shared credentials, with personnel taking turns to log in and triage. Super-ugly)

So right now what we have looks like
```
customerservice_for_client1@ (user account with shared credentials)
-> user1@
-> user2@
-> user3@
-> user4@
```

That groups isn't hipaa compliant, feels inane, especially since email is hipaa-compliant. There's obviously something that prevents it (probably the ease of making records public).

If you'd prefer to get on a call or meet in NYC let me know.
Plurality voting sucks hard

https://electology.org/blog/bloombergs-decision-not-run-demo...
> I don't see why a company should only collaborate preferentially with one country.

Because if they do, then they avoid the negative outcomes you describe.
Some airlines use these, such as ANA. They're much less comfortable than the traditional seats when you're trying to sleep though. On long-haul where everyone wants to sleep, it's preferable to have all the seats recline. You lose less knee space by someone reclining in front of you then sliding your seat forward.
I don't care if Microsoft is the new Apple, or anything like that. I just don't want to see more consolidation.
Last I looked, Minecraft seemed to be quite in order as well.
- Make sure you don't marry, or if you do absolutely don't have kids.

- Become a hermit

Saving money was so easy before I had kids. Once you have kids you need a car big enough to transport them. You need a house big enough to hold them. The missus insists that just going camping isn't really a vacation and they need to see some sights (real travel). And travel with kids isn't cheap. You gotta start getting the family insurance plans and the million little school fees and your bigger house has more stuff to break in it and the kids break stuff... Worst of all you multiply your chances of having some big medical problem--the death knell for any frugal living plan--the more people you have to care for.

Also, Costco doesn't really save you that much money unless you were the kind of person who always bought the top-of-the-line premium whatever. For people who typically only buy the base model widget the price is pretty similar or slightly more expensive typically.
Only per person if you are are dual or multiple income. For some asinine reason 401k limits are not only very low, but don't take into account how many people are going to depend on that 401k.
Programming, anything that involves more than sending a couple of emails frankly.
Tor Browser will exist as long as Tor feels it needs to. If the features or anti-features in FF cause them to believe Firefox does not fit their need, then we're/they're not going to discontinue it.
I assure you, "abstract nonsense" is a term of affection.
That may be a component, but IMHO, pronouncements and explanations haven't diminished employee objections to say the least.
I liked Yik Yak a lot before they destroyed it. It provided this type of information and allowed people to ask local questions like what this looks like it aims to do.
You probably don't need to do anything.
It depends on how risk averse you are.
Where are you located?
Low level knowledge is useful at times. I rewrote a small amount of code on a project at work using SIMD instruction to reduce execution time by 60%. This is on something executes in tens of minutes so the time savings are quite noticeable.
>It says that out of 100k 15-24 yr olds 74 died, and also out of 100k 85-1xx yr olds 13k died.

Yes, which is why I took the sum of those numbers for ages 25 to 50.

>the area under the curve for 0->50 looks about 1/10 of the overall, so I'd say the op is about right

You're describing the conditional probability that, given you have died, you are under the age of 50.
Cryptonomic | Blockchain Developer / DevOps for Blockchains | New York | Full-time ONSITE

Cryptonomic is a Brooklyn-based startup dedicated to the emerging decentralization revolution. We focus primarily on Tezos, Ethereum and IPFS for building out the infrastructure needed for seamlessly creating scalable, resilient and functional applications to let people and communities gain ownership over their identities, information and finances through decentralization and disintermediation.

The blockchain developer will write code in a functional style in Scala and Ocaml to both build high-level applications that work with multiple blockchains and also directly work on blockchain code, especially on the Tezos platform. Previous experience with functional programming is highly desirable.

The DevOps engineer for blockchains will be resposible for deploying systems and infrastructure for keeping a global blockchain infrastructure running. They will be required to quickly pick up expertise in Tezos, Ethereum and IPFS for building dashboards for detecting forks and network issues, in addition to scaling out platforms and associated blockchain networks.

For both the above roles, experience with managing technical projects / teams is a plus.

Apply by sending an email to info at cryptonomic dot tech.
The Touch Bar actually gets somewhat useful if you install BetterTouchTool, at which point you can override it with custom everything (including scripted buttons, changing contents of things with Applescript, etc).

The sad part is that there's still no good way to use it as a Dock replacement, which seems to me like the really obvious thing that would actually make it a productivity boost rather than merely "nifty".
Forced updates are bad.

1. Updates can introduce breaking changes.

2. Windows will restart the computer to update, potentially interrupting processes.

3. Users should have freedom to use software in the way that they choose, and not have actions forced on them by the software.

I understand that many windows users are far from power users and the forced updates provide security updates. My point of view is anyone willing to give up liberty for security will receive neither.
As a childless American with 3 cars, 1 motorcycle, and 3 bicycles... I must say that plenty of folks would find your "don't have kids" comment equally bizarre.

And on the flipside, cars are cheaper than kids :)
Domino Data Lab | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA

Domino has an ambitious vision for data science. Our platform helps data science teams accelerate research, increase collaboration, and rapidly deploy predictive models. Our customers are the most sophisticated analytical organizations in the world, including Monsanto, Allstate, and Instacart. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Zetta Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, and In-Q-Tel, we are at the epicenter of the data science revolution, helping companies build better cars, develop more effective medicine, or simply recommend the best song to play next.

If you're a full-lifecycle, full-stack software engineer with serious tech chops, we have exciting challenges for you tackle:

Job distribution:
Cluster management and orchestration
Cybersecurity
Diverse deployments: cloud, bare-metal, and hybrid
Best-of-breed data science tools and platforms
Our stack is Scala, Play, lots of Docker, MongoDB,
ElasticSearch and JavaScript.
Ideally we'd like someone who's comfortable with these technologies, but we're always excited to meet great engineers who can quickly learn new technologies.

Responsibilities:
Ship clean, well-crafted code
Tackle the ambitious technical challenges on our roadmap
Have the technical wisdom to decompose complex projects
Balance product roadmaps and technical debt
Guide projects from conception to delivery
Serve as a mentor to others on the team
Help build a product, team, and company

Qualifications:
Demonstrated track record of solving deeply complex challenges
Egoless and mission focused
Desire to meet world-class data scientists and grok how they work
Most popular vitamin and mineral supplements provide no health benefits-study
Too bad "Samba" has been used as the name of another much more popular project for over 20 years.
Can you clarify this post? I don't understand what it's arguing.

How are fundamental human rights "implemented"? Why would a "right" need an "implementation"?

You are making some argument about government working poorly? How is that relevant to charitable spending?
FM 21-76 US Army Survival Manual [pdf]
>E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Doesn't apply to buying the competition.
First world was non-communist NATO aligned countries. Communist countries were 2nd world, non-aligned with either were 3rd world. That said, American having protectorates where citizens don't have power, drinkable running water or cities where there is no drinkable running water are poor examples for a nation with such resources as the US.
This exists in most major cities in China and it’s absolutely brilliant. Such a quality of life improvement.
A dual processor MBP would be interesting. A higher performance Intel chip along side an Apple chip. Would allow for a lot of power savings on the go. It could also take advantage of the AI chip that's included in the iPhone for various things.

Other than that, it's a big jump from the A series chips to something like an Intel i9. Maybe if they can make a 10-20 core version of their chip but I don't know how well high core count ARM chips work.
RadiaSoft | Research Software Engineer | Boulder, CO | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | http://rsl.link/rse

RadiaSoft is an open-source software company dedicated to improving scientific workflows through our state-of-the-art Science-as-a-Service platform, Sirepo. We are seeking a Research Software Engineer for our Boulder, Colorado office. Our small software team develops innovative solutions using modern technologies for legacy physics codes. Programmers also assist our physicists to optimize codes for HPC, to improve computational science workflows, to support reproducible research, and to present our innovative results to the scientific community at conferences and in publications.

Desired skills and experience

The successful applicant will have a BS or higher in computer science or physics or a closely related field, strong programming skills, and significant experience with Javascript and/or Python. Other desirable skills and experience include: parallel computing, CAD, and devops.

About the employer

RadiaSoft conducts contract R&D for academic, corporate and federal customers, specializing in the use and development of parallel scientific software. We have particular expertise in modeling relativistic charged particle beams, intense radiation pulses, and the interaction of both with plasmas and dielectric structures. We are developing open source browser-based interfaces for cloud-based scientific computing.

RadiaSoft offers a challenging, team-oriented work environment, competitive salaries and an excellent benefit package, including health insurance and a 401k with employer matching. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. RadiaSoft is an equal opportunity employer.
I still miss Sunrise.am

They also killed Danger Mobile.
> An option could be to provide a webRTC-based node, but I am not sure how feasible that would be, after reading some comments here.

I'll point you at FlashProxy (https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/) and Snowflake (https://github.com/keroserene/snowflake) the latter of which is in active development. =)
YouTube is a constant grind. As a YouTuber with 15 million views and 100k subs, I can attest to this being a real thing.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston OCI is Oracle's bare metal cloud / next-gen IaaS offering; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston area. My team is looking for senior developers to help build services and tools for OCI's Operations group. This is a new team in a relatively new org, so it's a good chance to make an impact and the vast majority of the work will be greenfield.

Minimum Qualifications:

- BS CS or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Five years of software development experience
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals
- Mastery of one or more of: Java/C*/Python or similar
- Proficiency working in a Linux environment

Preferred Qualifications:

- Graduate work in CS, especially in the fields of Systems or Machine Learning
- Prior experience architecting and operating large scale systems/services
- Some familiarity with systems administration or DevOps/SRE experience
- 10+ years of software development experience

Resumes / questions to: mike.o.jackson@oracle.com (Sorry, can't do internships or new grad hires!)
Turkish startups
Airport security was nationalized after 9/11.

During the 2008 financial crises, the government did not nationalize the banks but it did "nationalize" how some of the banks did fail. Banks that could/would survive, were told to absorb banks that could not/would not survive with money that the government provided and dictated how much it would be paid back. Technically, not nationalization but pretty close.
Let's also not forget this only runs on Windows.
Golden comment for me tbh.

The real nightmare is we'll hand it all to Nadella. Microsoft reaches market capture/coercive monopoly. Nadella leaves, a new frontman comes to exploit according to tried-and-true strategies. (Nadella as a response to loss of monopoly, aimed at regaining market dominance)

Acquiring Github fits /perfectly/ into Ballmer-Microsoft's "developers, developers, developers", and the current Visual Studio strategy. This would establish a market-capture-synergy between Internet Explorer / Chakra / Nodejs / Github / Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code / .net / ~Microsoft.

OTOH Github's commitment to maintaining code that competes with Microsoft's products creates an incredible amount of conflict of interest. If Microsoft can pull it off without rejecting the Open Source incumbents, this would benefit their image tremendously.

Github won't be eager to sell, but how's near a gigaM$ sound?
This could be a major takeover.
> No More iTunes!

(Desktop) iTunes is the way it is in order to present a unified, familiar experience between the macOS and Windows iTunes desktop apps.

In Windows, iTunes is essentially "just enough macOS to manage an iOS device"—with every disparate responsibility that management entails all smushed together. (It's been this way since it was iPods that were being managed.) And macOS iTunes is the same codebase(!) as Windows iTunes, so it's not like that codebase is somehow going to compile as eight apps with their own UIs on macOS, vs. one on Windows. It's going to look, and work, on macOS as it does on Windows.
From your job listing:

> You’ll work on our native mobile apps such as Fleetio Go and Fleetio Parts. Both apps are built on Ionic but many features use native iOS and Android code as well.

This is just my opinion, but it seems rather misleading to call your mobile applications "native" when you're using web-based UI frameworks.
They used to have a neighborhood feature, but I am guessing it just fizzled. Also I don’t really want my neighbors to have a view into my Facebook profile