skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is completely unrelated but I have been annoyed by the screenlock...you can literally open the laptop and see things before it locks. That is crap security by gnome. There actually is a bug report but basically it ended with "meh".
I have several non-gmail email addresses and I tried to use k9mail for all of them but eventually just gave up because I'd get that 'sync disabled' error and find out I'd missed out on a week's worth of messages.

k9mail is a dumpster fire in my experience.
Amazing idea. I hope you succeed.

Are you a global network or just US? I have small properties to rent on Brazil and would like more long-term renters.
I guess I'll ask, what is your story?
It's the old joke "we've established what you are, now we are now just negotiating the price".
Sure, but the case here was "we have the IP address, we want to know who was behind it", which is certainly feasible.
If only there was some way we could control what information people were able to share. Then only the correct information would spread.

/s
Check profile.

Happy to answer specifics.
I am in Russia now. I can say that people do smile normally if they feel like the conversation warrants it. But there’s not so much “fake” tinseltown hollywood pleasantry.

Americans in the US have a saying “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.” It is a culture very much fine tuned for business, which is why you want to make sure to grease the wheels of an interaction, and there is nothing to be gained by being straightforward with what you actually think. It’s avoidance of conflict and closing of a sale.

I remember when my grandparents immigrated to the USA they would relate stories like:

1) A woman would approach and say “hi, how are you”? And they would start answering but she would just walk on by LOL

2) My grandfather would offer a seat to a woman but she just started yelling at him for doing it.

Later, they adjusted. But even the word “you” — which Russians thought is “rude” because there is no “polite You” for strangers — actually is the polite version of Thou, because (unlike the Amish) the English got so polite that they just stopped using Thou altogether!
Well, you can create a SortedList type that is only returned from sort functions, so you can write functions that only accept sorted lists.
Something something don’t attribute malice for stupidity
As someone who has packaged a lot of software for Debian, CentOS, Gentoo, NixOS, and GNU Guix, I have to agree -- it's by far the most difficult platform.

I actually believe much of the Docker hype can be attributed to this. Why bother learning packaging when you can just script something and throw it in a container.

Now I just use Guix on any distro for my up-to-date/custom software needs.
A lot of the strength of open source comes (much like in computation in general) from chopping tasks into smaller and smaller pieces. The upstream developer is unlikely to be skilled at packaging for a number of different platforms. If platform users can rely on others who are skilled at packaging, we all benefit.
WSJ reported this first, as linked to by Forbes.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-dirty-secret-the-app-deve...

Non paywall link: http://archive.is/CZFiG
This reads like a FUD hit piece. Anyone have any actual data/evidence on what's going on?
All along the Bay Area coast, you can catch surf perch, striped bass, dungeness crabs, and many more. Pacifica Pier and Half Moon Bay jetty are popular spots that doesn't require a license, but please make sure to read up on CDFW regulations.

I would highly recommend Kirk Lombard's "The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast" It details a lot of the species of fish around the bay area, and also non fish species that are foraged like clams and seaweed.

Here's a summary of regulations for the Coastal waters of the Bay Area https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Ocean/Regulations/Fishin...
Any relation to SliceLine?
No it isn't. The Practice Guidelines from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists are summarized in this PowerPoint presentation from their website.[1] It is not intended for lay consumption, but you can clearly see that there is a large emphasis on diet changes and weight loss. However, as I mentioned in another comment, the reality in practice is that many people are either unwilling or unable to change their lifestyle sufficiently to reverse the condition.

Even before being diagnosed with a disease there are huge returns to regularly exercising and staying fit. You feel better, look better, have more energy, sleep better, the list continues. A doctor saying, "you need to lose weight and exercise, it could help with your diabetes," is a relatively small motivator compared with all of the other benefits.

1. https://www.aace.com/files/aace_algorithm_slides.pptx
Dell Is Ready to Go Public Again. But Has It Really Changed?
Systemd is probably worth mentioning here.
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It has nothing to do with the "celebrate self-sufficiency, leave-no-trace-environmentalist" Burning Man.

It has a lot to do with the "spend thousands of dollars to go to the desert, sit in an airconditioned pavilion and talk about how money just, like, doesn't matter man" Burning Man.
>> Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project?

Not every open source project is built the way a person thinks it should be. The only way to know if an alternate viewpoint is better is to build it and find out. Other times a person just wants to build it for themselves for their own reasons. Either way, variety can be a good thing. One day an alternative may just replace your favorite piece of software and then you might ask why the creator started from so far behind all those years ago...

There are probably as many reasons as there are developers.
So it's like burning man but the exact complete opposite.

Jesus h christ. Talk about self involved douchebaggary
Were you at Mozilla then? Just curious.

The case that is being misrepresented even now in comments on this post consists of the six Mozilla Foundation employees tweeting that I should step down. They did not work for me. It may be they spoke for some who did work for me, but many on my staff were outraged by their tweets. I had support across a broad spectrum of people inside the Mozilla Corporation.
It’s been axiomatic for a while that if you care about privacy and security, a generally paranoid outlook is helpful where telecommunications are concerned. Just assume that unless it’s e2e encrypted and you trust the recipient to be as paranoid, that someone else is reading your communications. Assume that if it has a microphone and an internet connection someone else could use it to listen in. Assume 5-Eyes partners archive absolutely everything and may someday have a smart enough system to really use the data. Assume FB and Google and your ISP are spying on you and building profiles of you.

I’m not sure what else to say, but aside from people who have a stake in Google, or take skepticism to illogical extremes, this news can’t be surprising.
No.

When in HS and college you have only one primary focus in life and that is to get good grades. Good grades show the world that you know how to study, how to work well with others, and how to put off the pleasures of today and work toward future goals. They may matter less when you're 40, but when you're 22 they count for everything and determine the opportunities tou have from the outset. And the experience you got knuckling down hard in school translates into valuable work skills right out of the starting gate.
It is literally a thing "on a recorded medium"?

How the hell do you approve that, ever?
Architect for performance
Presumably it would be validated by the destination, but that doesn't matter. The reason spoofing matters so much for volumetric DDOS attacks isn't due to spoofing the traffic sent directly to the target - it's because the target is spoofed as the source address in traffic sent to third-party amplifiers, that respond to the target.

If the third party amplifiers in this scenario can validate that the traffic is spoofed, it cuts out amplification attacks.
Indeed. And there are two calls to JSON.parse() with about a meg of text. I'm clearly much to old to understand why.
For another temporally interesting work, check out Meanwhile: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meanwhile-interactive-comic/...

Not quite the same thing, but scratches a similar itch to "Here", I think.
Amusingly, the Solid website's SSL cert isn't compatible with centos 7, either curl or Python. Which is kinda the state of web security in a nutshell, sometimes.

I wanted to run my web metadata extractor on it, but there isn't any metadata there anyway. Which is kind of fun for a project about web metadata.
The filth, stench and DANGER has forced my business down to Burlingame. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! I wish I had done it years ago
Tour of South Pole Station
I was thinking about:

Synthetic chemistry language MC search language (which does use GAMESS under the hood):
https://github.com/drmeister/cando

And this Mathematica plugin:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/698/1/01...
It has everything to do with CURRENT Burning Man.
They really took a journalistic stretch on those "Tech Elites." Not really sure what the connection is to Burning Man either.

What is someone really supposed to take away from this article?
This. It has become the norm. I suppose that it's justified by outrage over the sorts of crime involved. But with SOD and Stingrays, we're talking about widespread subversion of federal agencies, state police and prosecutors, and probably at least some judges. It has indeed been a criminal conspiracy. Not that anyone will ever be prosecuted for it.
One of the authors here. Be happy to answer questions
WSJ started this article, who is owned by News Corp. News Corp occasionally does anti Google and Facebook pieces. See:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/04/google-faceboo...

And: https://www.recode.net/2017/6/26/15878518/yelp-oracle-news-c...

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google employee, but also an avid WSJ reader)
As an American I don’t think that “ignorance is bliss” indicates that the ignorant person is a fool, per se. Ignorance might be purposefully and carefully chosen. It’s often used as a general debate on whether you wish to know something or not. For example, if you could know the exact date on which you die, would you wish to know? Choosing yes or no wouldn’t indicate foolishness.

It also sounds different from the several translations the Russians provided here.
Your mix of past and present tense makes me wonder if the bike share is still in Cardiff or not.
Yep. I think the site is in a tragic place, but it's not for a lack of technical articles (or I'd submit them) but instead for cultural reasons (the majority of the userbase doesn't want HN to be a purely technical forum). Changing the culture has to be done via concerted effort in that direction, not by simply voting for the things I want to see in the end. Second-order effects and so on.
That's like saying we can't design a fighter jet so we're going to melt a ball of steel into some shape, put an engine on it, and try to fly it, and only then start optimizing. That's not engineering, that's trial and error.

You can absolutely aim for both correctness and performance in your design. In fact performance is (can be) part of correctness, if it doesn't perform to spec then it's most likely not useful. If you don't care about performance, fine, don't design for it and don't optimize.

Your starting point for optimization has to be a solid design with specific performance goals in mind. If you have a solid design maybe you won't need to do any optimization, if you do it's going to be optimizing on top of the design.
I've been playing the game of Go for 15 years. I barely know how to play Chess beyond moving the pieces. They are both board games played on a grid. I should be a pro at Chess based on my Go experience?

Haskell isn't completely different from your standard imperative programming language (functions, variables, etc), but it is definitely a different enough paradigm that you can't just pick it up in a day or two based on your existing experience. My biggest struggle when I picked it up 4 years ago was unlearning my imperative knowledge. Once I was able to throw away my initial preconceptions things got easier.

On the other hand, software engineering is still software engineering. Regardless of what tools you use, you usually have to solve them in a similar way. Your 15 years are still useful :)
If you see a piece in the NYT that's making fun of those weird tech nerds, odds are high it's in the styles section. Choire Sicha, formerly of Gawker, took over the section last year, and since then there's been a rash of pieces akin to this one. Not exactly hit pieces but it's hard to miss the wry condescension throughout.
Our positions are open to US remote workers. We changed that requirement several weeks ago. Maybe double check the current postings next time, before you become "that guy." ;)
No other activity settles my mind quite like fly fishing. Contrary to popular belief, fly fishing’s primary objective is to catch fish, but I have to admit that perfecting the cast sometimes takes most of my focus. If I’m catching fish, great! If not, no matter, I’ll be enthralled with trying to gracefully land a caddis imitation 40 feet away over and over and over again. Once I picked up a fly rod I never looked back. The casting is pure poetry.
Is there anything to this comment beyond hollow, off-target sarcasm? The comment you're responding to seems like a legitimate question: The OP describes his horror at the increasingly common manipulation and misinformation campaigns on the Web as being part of Berners-Lee's motivation, but this solution seems to make them easier if anything, and certainly doesn't appear to make them harder.
My point is that the iPhone is almost completely trivial compared to the invention of stone tools. People here maybe could use the perspective, but maybe not.
Well, here's a rebuttal. First off you stated Google News, which algorithmically selected these headlines/articles. Let's put aside the fact that they may be even somewhat personalized (it doesn't need to be for the purposes of the discussion). Quite simply most Americans don't get their news online from Google News. You have Facebook in large part, as well as an array of other ways in which information is fed. I get headlines popping up on the sides of articles, for example.

Another commenter pointed out the generation of headlines [edit: emphasis on generation, not just selection]. Well, that is one of the main tickets here, particularly to our legitimate criticisms of media. This article does a fantastic job of explaining the process of headline generation, citing examples and backing up the claims: https://medium.com/@tobiasrose/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511...
Your problem is not that you lack confidence. Your problem is that you aren't interested in B.S. contests.

Unfortunately these contests are often how managers discern the natural leaders of a team and you are probably feeling the urge to prove yourself in some way.

The good thing is that there are a million ways to earn some kind of distinction on a technical team. In an argument or competition, there can only be one winner. But engineering is a business and business is cooperative. If you show clear superiority in an area, then others on your team must follow your lead in that area.
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The filth, stench and danger were my reasons for relocating my business to Burlingame. Wish I had done it YEARS ago. What a remarkable difference!!!
Who cares what these people do in their own living rooms as diversion? Also, Burning Man doesn't seem to have anything to do with what they're doing, other than music and (likely) drugs.
Can you recommend where I can see such data? It would be a very useful reference.
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While I think that writing simple code is preferred to writing optimized code given a choice, I just hate writing obviously non-optimal code, it leaves bad taste in my mouth. I'm trying to find some land in between, even if I'm sure that those optimization efforts won't yield any observable gains.
These journals are becoming less and less relevant
Dividends are a flat 15% for earners under ~425k income, and a flat 20% for those over.

This means that a stock grant with a generous dividend is a loophole for high earners...in addition to simply adding complexity and magic thresholds to the tax code. It seems to me to be just bad policy.
When I lived in England I was very confused by this, because in the beginning I thought they were worried about me when they said “are you alright?”
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And then they do what, exactly?
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Agreed, but calling the blue black indicates a seriously misconfigured monitor.
The result of liberal Democratic policies. Failed politics
The article mentions both Musk and Thiel attending one of these songversations. I don’t like either of them, but I think “Tech Elite” fits them well enough.
> For ages I couldn't figure out how exactly I would be able to use Quicklisp libraries to create something, and then create an executable from the source code.

If you use SBCL, which is by far the best CL implementation, it's in the manual under "Generating Executables" [1].

It directs you to this [2] which is basically a single function that you call:

Function: save-lisp-and-die [sb-ext] core-file-name &key
toplevel executable save-runtime-options purify root-
structures environment-name compression

Save a "core image", i.e. enough information to restart a
Lisp process later in the same state, in the file of the
specified name. Only global state is preserved: the stack
is unwound in the process.
<more, detailed, documentation snipped>

What is hard about this? It's literally 10 seconds of work.

I am not picking on you, since others run into similar issues, that are completely and utterly trivial, which makes me wonder if they have been conditioned not to bother looking things up in a manual anymore and want things to simply fall in line with their expectations.

I am also a Smalltalk user and I frequently observe the same behavior in that domain. New users run into trivial problems that take less than a minute to solve (for the absolute beginner) and give up immediately. I'm almost convinced that there is some sort of psychological effect that comes into play when the task at hand is very dissimilar to what one is used to.

Image-based languages like Common Lisp and Smalltalk offer tremendous productivity gains but they're also totally unlike anything else out there in many ways. So they require upfront effort, before one truly "gets it", that includes someone willing to suspend their preconceptions and look at things with 'zen mind, beginners mind'. I think it's fair to say that most programmers today are incapable of doing that. Maybe they're just wired for immediate rewards and/or the overall dumbing down of the domain is also making them dumber. Cybernetic feedback loops are like that ..

[1] http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Generating-Executables

[2] http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Function-sb_002dext_003asave_002...
I'm in the opposite of this situation, I'm among the 10% of the youngest employees in the company, when around 60% of the company will be retiring within a decade. We're also in one of those high cost housing markets, and while I'm very well paid comparatively to others in my particular part of the technology sector - its still not enough to buy a house, or settle down - but they're somewhat unsympathetic when I talk about things like, working from home, remote working, etc, I generally get a blank stare.

So, there is a corollary here, make sure that pay and benefits are attractive to employees of all ages, not just one group.
I use tumbleweed of my work laptop and leap on my home server. Both are solid.
>There is much weight to the argument that the requirements to be a successful student have gone down, I'm inclined to believe that the requirements have skyrocketed.

As someone who has been in academia for several decades I can tell you, without a doubt, the opposite is true. Academic standards are vastly lower than they were just a couple of decades ago. Many incoming freshman lack even basic literacy skills. Much of the "core" curriculum is now comprised of remedial work that should have been mastered in high school (or middle school!). Basic reading comprehension, the ability to write papers and express complex thoughts coherently and the capability to think critically and engage in substantive debate are all severely lacking - virtually across the board. Society may be growing more complex, but the educational system in this country, on every level, is decaying rapidly.

While my statement will be rejected by many young people who view it as an attack on their intelligence, it is beyond dispute. I welcome anyone interested in disputing my assertions to look at the reading list and curriculum of any college class offered before 1990, and compare that to the reading list and curriculum of the same class today. I challenge you to read papers written by students from 30 years ago (before they had easy access to information from the internet, no less), and compare them to the papers written by students of the same year today. There is no comparison - none.