skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VMWare violating the GPL license? No offence, but it's just mixing up FSF's PR with reality. Which is: VMWare can afford much better lawyers than FSF could, and if there really was a violation, they wouldn't give the project a green light, given that alternatives (operating systems under less restrictive licenses) are freely available.
Might be a nice article but I couldn't even read it because of the email popup that I couldn't dismiss (or missed how to do it easily).
Maybe a little hyperbolic, but I noticed a couple of people talking with the staff, and I got a dirty look or two from them, and then, apparently (since I'd left), they "wanted to address concerns", and that those people were only suffering "insufficient motivation".

I don't know, selling 8,000 people $5,000 weekend seminars seems a better way to make $40M than trying to flip $100M of houses...
I would have preferred something simple, like this:

http://output.jsbin.com/gacizibika/1

Text interspersed with img and video.
Can't you just compost it?
It's interesting to see some bounceback after the industry's mad rush to 16:9. I'm very glad that Apple stuck with 8:5, which I greatly prefer. Haven't tried 3:2.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Announces Retirement
To be fair, the original title of the submitted article (likely truncated to fit HN's 80-char limit) contains the context of NTSB:

"New NTSB Tesla fatal crash report: Model S battery reignited twice after Florida crash"
If you are forced to haul your own trash 10 miles to town as we are, you really want to separate the recycling because it significantly reduces the volume of trash (which can't be stored for long) vs recycling (which can). Also bears aren't interested in recycling material.
Then you either need to have "redefinition" checks, or an actual, full stop the world, which is also a performance nightmare and also affects unrelated code.

The proper solution is to not have unnecessary dynamics. There is no need for the ability to redefine methods on an object. If you have functions as first-class objects, you can just let users store functions and call them at the cost of indirection if they wish to have such dynamics.
Debos: A New Way to Spin Up Debian OS Images – Phoronix
Exactly - we're not a "pay to get a job" site. There's plenty of those. We just think that the insights people have inside companies are incredibly valuable and if you want to make them free, then you'll have the same pitfall every "mentorship platform" has today: it doesn't scale.

I'm a mentor who helps 5 people a month for free + everyone else in my network I already agree to help. What about when that reaches 10 or 15 people? Do you still keep doing it enthusiastically out of the goodness of your own heart?

I'm sure some would, but I'd rather they get compensated and do a good job of helping everyone. Some of our best insiders ask us for 7-10 calls a week, and before adding the monetary incentive, I couldn't get my friends to take even 2 calls in the same week because "they're busy".
You guessed wrong. I have supported large C++ codebases and while C++ is not an easy language, it gives you the tools to do what you want in millions of different situations. This diversity seems to be bad until you really need something that the language provides. That's why C++ is, and will continue to be, used in so many environments.
Depending on where you live, it might already (mostly) exist, minus the NFC part.

Grocery co-op in my area has a big back room of bulk goods, sells durable containers too, run by hippies and has been around for decades.

The real hurdles with selling bulk & having customers reuse containers is handling tare smoothly and getting customers to remember to bring their containers.
Do you mean a call center bot on the answer side? I would think that's massively harder to do in a way that's noticeably better then the phone tree systems that already exist. Everything simple is already covered by simpler automated systems, and everything that isn't simple is impossibly hard for this level of tech.

Now if Google could make a bot that can call the service line for a company, jump through whatever hoops are needed to get a person on the phone, then ring the call through to me when they got one, that I would pay money for.
Yeah your second paragraph is the problem. Though more importantly, most people who can pay won’t be paying $10-20 a month for a service that is otherwise free. And now the service has to provide this paid tier to a tiny portion of their user base.
I try to reuse some significant parts of our packaging stream, such as 1Kg yogurt containers, bringing them to the shop to use for mixing epoxy instead of buying mix cups.

Since I thought of recycling as having a high reuse rate (so having the hope that each bit of plastic might get used more than 2x), I used to think that this was a poor substitute and felt a bit bad about it.

Since reading a number of articles like this, I feel much better about it, since this material is at least getting 200% of the original use, which seems considerably greater than the actual recycling re-use rates.

So, reuse > recycling, yay!
great! do you work in finance? Are you aware of how costly it is to advance speed in HFT and how that eats away the profits you get from the advance in speed? Have you looked at virtu financials stock? Do you know anything at all about the field?
Norway and the Netherlands are successfully trialling waste-to-energy with carbon capture. If some waste cannot be economically recycled, why not use it as fuel for electricity generation?

We're still going to need some amount of fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. A yoghurt pot or a pizza box might not be recyclable using current processes, but it's perfectly good fuel.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...
http://www.vivis.de/phocadownload/Download/2017_eaa/2017_EaA...
Yes, but not in a systematic manner. The information is mostly out there, but very scattered. You have to already be aware that this is even a possibility to pursue it over the web.

For example, there are forums who talk about how to deliberately manage property valuations downwards to decrease the property tax burden, but they aren't connected to forums that talk about ditching your decorative lawn for a food forest as part of managing property taxes lower, or how to dismantle an HOA's rules against a food forest, or how to negotiate with property tax assessment jurisdiction representatives for services that really matter, etc. It is all "intertwingled" as one wit used to like to say, which is what makes the solutions in each locality highly individualized yet able to share commonalities.

Most people are overwhelmed when their currency and/or economic order fails them (those systems don't have to fail outright for alternatives to become viable actions, just fail enough for an individual). We don't necessarily need a single one-stop shop for them, just a marketing brand that raises awareness the alternative is even possible could be sufficient. Like Tiny Homes or vandwellers for millenials coping with real estate asset overvaluation, and now spreading to other generations. Just a recognition that there are nearly endless entry points, and people can start very small and iterate their way up.

If enough people reach for alternatives when capitalism in its current form doesn't serve them, then market forces will re-shape capitalism into a form that better serves those people, or capitalism will be replaced by a more efficient exchange tool that people find by iterating towards.
Unpatched WordPress flaw could allow site takeover and code execution
-snip, self-censorship for safety-
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/06/23/e...

I don't know actual details of that, but words on the internet said that it is just a bug fixed.
Not only was Tokyo destroyed in the war, the previous business and financial class was largely destroyed in the occupation. So the ones doing the rebuilding had ties to new areas of the city. Plus, having just witnessed their city being destroyed, the fear of it happening again would inspire them to limit clustering.
$117,000 Now ‘Low-Income’ in 3 Bay Area Counties
You started by claiming 1-several orders of magnitude difference in pc users to mobile "millions vs billions" which is clearly nonsense.

Now you are using sales as a proxy for users which is nearly as false.

People buy and rapidly dispose of phones for a variety of reasons.

They break, are lost, get stolen. Having a new model is a status symbol. Current models are supported by the manufacturer for only a few years on the Android side. Newer models are significantly better than last years.

PCs easily last 5-7 years. Decreasing revenue from new models annually doesn't imply that the users or the platform is no longer relevant.

Reports of the death of the pc are greatly exaggerated.
I'm pretty careful about following my city's recyling guidelines, but I don't think recycling is always the right way to handle a material. It doesn't neccessary solve the problems you mentioned.

Improperly sorted plastics are burried in a landfill. They will not fill the ocean with plastic whether recycled or trashed. Global warming is mostly a matter of energy usage, so recycling only helps that when it's more energy-efficient than the alternative.
Not just kill your program spectacularly - in memory unsafe languages, simple logic errors turn in to remote code execution.
Ask HN: What are your workstation peripherals of choice?
I am a big proponent of having high quality tools that you use to do your craft. Wood workers have high-end wood tools, welders use high-quality welders.

So what does HN use? Looking to get ideas!

My current setup:

- Work: IBM Model-M keyboard with Logitech MX Master mouse

- Home: Leopold fc660mc with Logitech MX620
It's neither funny, nor sad, it's a pretty direct reflection of the fact that GNU/FSF is pretty ineffective at achieving any of those goals over time themselves.
While the V20 seems like a nice phone, I don't want to have just a single choice of phones, the battery is not the only thing I care about in a phone.

Also the LG V30 doesn't have a removable battery, so it seems like the V20 is the last of an era.
It’s exactly the cutoff at zero that puts the "kink" into the function which makes ReLU nonlinear. :)
I know this isn't quite on topic, but this is the best possible crowd and I can't resist mentioning. I'm looking for a technical partner/CTO for The Lobby in NYC (I'm the founder/CEO of The Lobby to be clear): https://blog.usejournal.com/im-looking-for-a-technical-partn...
Composing the n! (factorial) sound
Macs seem to be pretty good in my experience. It was something I really noticed about them when I first started using about 8 years ago. The only real monitor problem I've had was with an iMac that decided it didn't want to initialize the dual displays properly if the 2nd was plugged in when it was booted. Took me about a day to figure I needed to unplug the 2nd display. Eventually some OS update fixed it.

Linux is a lot better than it used to be. I can reliably close the lid on my Lenovo X200 running Fedora. And anecdotally there seem to be fewer people going between meetings with laptops open these days so that's presumably a common experience with RHEL and Fedora on company-issued laptops.
Great idea Deepak and all the best moving forward.

I am currently considering moving away from tech. When I started out, I had dreams but absolutely no contacts. I am especially bad at bullshitting my way through recruitment agencies and nothing has changed in 10 years. I am still at the same job.

Somewhere along the line I wish a service like this existed as it would have made all the difference.
I dont think you drop half a million dollars because a news article came out. My guess is this was in the works for a while, carefully assessing impact, risks and potential reactions.
This system is a great incentive for people to put all sorts of stuff into recycling that they shouldn't.
You realize that they are likely making a profit on that millions in spend. If the product is so bad, that normally wouldn’t be possible.

You seem to have a very misaligned thought on why advertising occurs and why it works, especially for a relative small timer like the poster (since a couple million is a drop in the bucket for IG/FB).
You're welcome!

My apologies if I came across as combative.
He talks more about WSL near the end:

> The Bash on Windows environment is now so performant and well supported that you won’t even know the difference if you move from a MacBook, and Microsoft continues to improve it at an impressive clip.

> Unless you’re using Xcode, your workflow will almost certainly move from macOS to Windows as a non-event: it’s that good now, and I spend most of my time living in the Bash environment without any problems — even with complicated situations like Symlinks inside Bash now actually working fully.
Let's talk. I have some ideas, but I also have another vertical in mind that thrives on connections. I'm on keybase as bryant.

As for the simplest way: convey the benefits of practice runs (even if you don't want to call them "practice" -- maybe pre-screens?) not just as means for improving the odds of suitable outcomes but also for reducing the odds of adverse outcomes in an environment where character testimonials spread fast. It's not just the careers that are in demand, it's the desire to gain upside for a person's own brand.

You may benefit well from investing in strong marketing type
IO performance is atrocious. git status on a Linux tree takes a 10s of seconds.
We have the pay-as-you-throw waste model in my city in GA. I think it works very well. We also have a very liberal recycling policy. I think these things really changed my family's trash habits for the better.
Macromolecular organic compounds found on Saturn's moon Enceladus
What does any of this have to do with the how good or bad the advertised product is? Especially of the original poster?
Honestly, companies really ought to be charged for the disposal of all that packaging they choke their products with. There seems to be no back pressure stopping manufacturers from wrapping a 10g USB stick in 400g of plastic packaging/advertising.
Reaching out now!
Microsoft and other big companies are literally getting the stuff for zero dollars.

That they choose to contribute is because it is in their best interest to do so.

Free software is sort of a brain hack in that way: because Linux is successful, it is in Microsoft's best interest to contribute. But that's very different than saying, for example, that Microsoft owes dues and pays them.
Microsoft open sources IoT edge security daemon
What's obvious trash? I look at the labeling on recycling and compost cans in my area and I honestly have no clue what I can recycle and what I can't. My choices are to throw away potential recyclables or recycle trash. People aren't morons, you've just built a bad system.

And to clarify, I'm talking about recycling bins in fast food restaurants and grocery store delis. I've got a pile of used paper and plastic that I just ate off of. What of it can I recycle? The labels are usually either out of date or incomplete or both. And none of the plastics have discernible labeling to help.

It's basically the worst system I can imagine.
Mike Pall of LuaJIT fame opined on that on the luajit mailing list a few years back. Can't find the discussion right now, but only https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605225 which is somewhat relevant.
Isn't our generation the most overworked, least-amount-of-free-time one? How does this extra job fit into that major issue?
You don't need to sign your comments on HN.
The first thing I always do on a new laptop (or install) is go into Power Settings and change the Closing Lid action from putting the computer to sleep to just turning off the screen.

It's surprising how many people never change the settings on their computers. Whenever I saw someone with the taskbar icons combined, I always asked them if they liked it that way, and they would say "No." So I always offered and they always accepted me going into the settings for them and changing it to 'never combine'.
What if you’re trying to read the code in a GitHub PR diff? Now I can’t review it because I actually have to go waste time getting the code into some IDE that offers me hovering type info? And what if you use only a console-based editor? Now you gotta abandon the developer tools that work for you because of some language feature?

It sounds crazy to me to hear someone say that it’s OK to tolerate the downsides of a language feature because some other tool like an IDE might mitigate them in some cases.

Why are we contorting our tools to overcome language problems and acting like it’s OK, instead of designing better languages in the first place that don’t require tooling gymnastics to make them readable?
Can't wait to see the bot you use to make millions with in competition with Duplex
2018 docker usage report [pdf]
Huh, everywhere I've lived has specifically excluded pizza boxes.

I just checked our website again, and the flyer I remember seeing is gone, replaced with one that says pizza boxes are recyclable now. "No food residue. No liner." Accompanied by a picture of a clearly never used pizza box.

So now I'm not sure. Is oil soaked into it OK as long as you scrape every last bit of solid food out of it? Do you need no food residue (literally impossible), or is a small amount acceptable? I'm more informed than when I started, but still uncertain.

Apparently we can't recycle shredded paper, that's news to me. This list is now standardized across all of Connecticut. You can search an item and see what to do with it.

http://www.recyclect.com/

>You can put your pizza box in recycling if it does not contain food residue. The liner should go in the trash.
Japan has a similar bag system too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv68j5KQUU4
Hey Fifer82! Really appreciate your kind words. It sounds fluffy, but this is the kind of thing that inspired me to do The Lobby.

I went to a school where no one really gets the "top jobs" but a select few of us figured out how to do it, and that expanded to over 50+ friends who now all mentor their own networks to do the same.

I think these things have a crazy ripple effect and I think beyond what can be measured from a few calls, the insights people get and the jobs they can land thanks to them can have really exponential (positive) effects.

Thanks again!
Most of the poison pills are someone else's convenience features, sadly.
Dear Mayor,

All your paragraphs are cut in half and impossible to read.

—- A disgruntled constituent
[1]In clojure the array type is basically a hashmap to enable high perf/low memory immutability.

So I would say "Yes[1]" ^^
>I got this feeling like I don't have any ownership of my computer and OS. Sure, Windows looks nice and is usable, but it feels like I'm renting my operating system, and honestly, MacOS sort of feels the same. It's an odd feeling.

I hadn't thought about it this way, but I feel like this too. It's weird. I don't know why. I think it's the presence of stuff I didn't add, the random updates, Microsoft Store ads, etc. I kind of want to go back to Windows 7 just so that I can feel like I really own my computer again.
Imagining a Way Out
I have the same problems as most people: it's a separate subsystem, which means you either need special integration or simply can't do what you want to do. The filesystems aren't the same, the devices aren't the same, the networking isn't the same, and all three are pretty much needed for daily work.

I suspect that most things that you can do in mingw64 will work the same in WSL, but things you need to do beyond that are basically broken in WSL and sub-optimal in mingw and almost always gets you to a point where you need a VM.

At the same time WSL has super limited benefit if you don't need any of the windows stuff, it basically means you are using linux inside windows but not using windows. When you use 'shell oriented workflows' on macOS, it just works, be it with BSD vs. GNU diffrences, which are easy to overcome by either learning or installing GNU versions of the tools you want (using a package manager like brew). In this setup, everything is the same system, what you do in the GUI also exists in the CLI, they interact directly with eachother, maintain state equally well, integrate directly with the rest of the OS, and basically has desktop functionality that isn't in the way of your development capabilities.

The only downside you can expect is if you need native windows development or windows-only tools, for everything else, windows doesn't really count anymore in almost all environments where I work (which is mostly retail, ecommerce, FOSS, infra). Only a small subset of things (large in quantity, small in configurations/versions/specific needs) that are managed by MSP's are still embedded windows or enterprise windows.

We do have a few people that actually like windows (be it the GUI, long time experience or simply brand affinity), but that's about it.
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Every Phone Interview Ever
Marketing Coordinator
Call Vlad at: 206-753-8926 AFTER you have read the entire job post.

Are you: proactive, organized, a great communicator with a positive attitude?

Then you've got the core requirements for someone we'd like to hire.

Company overview:

Logic Inbound is a digital marketing agency based out of Seattle Washington.

Our primary focus is Search Engine Optimization services.

Our core clients are local services, healthcare clinics, and ecommerce websites.

Our main activities are data analysis, content writing, making edits to client's websites.

We are looking for someone who can make the team more efficient and do minor SEO activities.

Job overview / role responsibilities:

Requirements

Positive attitude
Written and spoken communication skills
Detail oriented
Well organized
Timeliness
Ability to collaborate on a team
Basic knowledge of spreadsheets like Google Sheets or Excel
Basic computer skills
Calendar management
Email management skills
Nice to have, but not required (we will train you on these if you don't know them)

Slack experience
Teamwork.com experience
Google Sheets expertise
SEO Experience
Bonus Skills (not a core part of the job, but helps if you understand them)

Web development skills (HTML, wordpress)
Programming skills (javascript, php, etc.)
Web design skills
Photoshop Skills
Customer Service experience
Compensation

$15 to $18 per hour DOE

Start at 20 hours per week, up to 40 hours after you are trained and on-boarded

You would start as a contractor. After working with us for 90 days we can offer for health benefits (if desired).

https://www.logicinbound.com/

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mar/d/marketing-coordinator/6608100951.html
Love this - amazing ideas. Writing all this feedback down to improve our offering.
Instagram is supposed to be at around 1.75B users and triple or quadruple their current revenue by then. Of course anything can happen, but chances are the user growth and revenue growth are going to happen. At least Instagram is only potentially worth $100B right now with only $500M a month in revenue.
I would specify that you're actually a founder of The Lobby, because otherwise I thought this post was spam until I clicked into your user page.
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DynamicTyping
I generally prefer to see neural networks depicted so that the input is on the left and the output is on the right. This is probably because I think of time on an axis as flowing left to right.
I'm not sure what it's like in Vancouver, but in Niagara Falls if the garbage people see something in your recycle bins that isn't supposed to be there they don't pick up the bin and leave a note saying what was wrong.