skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent attempt to say what I've been saying. These Billionaires think they are John Wayne or Bruce Wayne (or worse).
If you're actually in a dysfunctional environment, it's not being triggered to call a spade a spade. People are allowed to do that while keeping their cool and it's not impossible.
But that was mandated by the British because the zeitgeist was that German products were shoddy crap.
Yes, you are correct, diversity and segregation are two different things, which is why I broke them out.

My original comment was to explain how the statement, "Knowing that the US is probably one of the most segregated countries . . . " is incorrect.
You're a counter example, but many professions are indeed hereditary. With some probability, anyway. Calling it a caste system is an exaggeration, obviously, but there's a nugget of truth.

Go survey some dentists. You'll be surprised how many of their parents were dentists.
I know what it's saying, but I don't agree that 'convincing yourself that luck isn't relevant is one such cognitive distortion that is a very helpful way of guiding your actions through life.'

We can all put our big boy pants on, accept that luck is a part of reality, and act in the best possible way with this fact in consideration.
What's inconsistent to me is how if you want to become a more masculine male - just a more enhanced version of yourself in one aspect - the consensus view is psychiatric disorder, body dysmorphia, and it's illegal for you to self-medicate whereas if you want to be the complete opposite of your gender the verdict is trapped in the wrong body, here's state funded mutilation surgery and lifelong medication to facilitate your delusion.
If anyone from this project is reading this: please just contribute to the upstream projects your are building off of.

>We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems.

No, the LineageOS team builds them, then you rebrand them. If you want to actually make a difference, contribute your changes directly to the LineageOS trees. Device support is paramount for custom ROMs and LineageOS already has an amazing amount of devices. All this will do is fragment the ecosystem.

>default email client (forked from K9-mail)

Please no. Just contribute to K9 directly. I get that you want to brand it to fit with your whole scheme, but you have the ability to actually improve the open source Android ecosystem.

>application repository: an independent alternative place where you will be able to choose from thousands of applications, including all well-known applications

FDroid. You're describing FDroid. Again, there is a good application out their already, why would you make your own? Oh, it's so you can add "an original mechanism for users to score applications". Why can't you add that to FDroid and help everyone out?

My main criticism boils down to this: why reinvent the wheel?
I don't think anyone has managed to pull this off, simply because social media is also a very effective way of broadcasting the fact that someone is trying to do so. People get pissed off when they think someone is trying to pull a fast one on them, and they feel smart when they think they've outwitted them, and both of those things make for effective viral content. This even happens when the claim isn't true; for instance, there's a perennial viral news hoax about the Washington Post running opposite headlines in Trump-supporting and Clinton-supporting areas that keeps popping up despite having a Snopes debunking.

If the social media networks clamp down on ordinary people's ability to spread political messages this might work. Which I guess could happen, given the pressure for them to do so.

(The Trump campaign seems to have sensibly not even tried this and just used micro-targetting as a way of reducing the cost of getting their message in front of the people who're interested in it. If people outside the target group saw their message organically, well, that was basically just free advertising.)
Your suspicion is well-founded. Here are some thoughts on this topic--I wrote an entire blog post on it:

http://www.davidralbrecht.com/notes/2018/06/primus-inter-par...
sha512(top story title + issue number + date)

or, put it in the blockchain! (/s)
"You've experienced 30 Academy Awards. 60 to go!" - so basically you experienced a yearly event every year and will continue to do so until you die. Pretty useless calculation.
It seems likely that autonomy will not be first adopted by the US but instead in the 'wild west' of BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India or China.

Also maybe in a country small, rich, authoritarian, and organized enough to build infrastructure around it and limit liability like Singapore or Luxembourg.

And oh look, a cheap and open source solution that gets you started in CommaAI. I think they (or a fork of them) are quite good candidates for the first system to reach one trillion miles driven. There will no doubt be carnage. But the benefits of self driving are going to be first on display outside of US markets.
Hired by Hom Tanks?
If you had an idea to improve on the telegraph that makes it 15% faster for operators, would you start a telegraph business right now? Why or why not?
Windows handles can be handles to a number of different types of objects. Generic operations which can be performed for any type of handle:

* Closing the handle: Release any kernel resources associated with the the handle

* Comparing to other handles

* Duplicating, e.g. duplicating a handle to be used by another process. This allow a process to create a less privileged process and only pass handles with certain privileges to the process.

* Get/set handle flags, e-g- flag which indicates whether the handle will be inherited by child processes.

For each object type a number of object type specific operations can be used in addition to the above, e.g. file read/write for files or send/receive for sockets.

Regardless of whether a handle is for a file, a socket, window, mutex or something else, the generic functions such as close will always work.
On your second point: you're very vocal about the need for other people not to be so vocal about the things they care about. I find myself wondering if you express that at work.
Management of Intel is accustomed to have 60% profits and need a mind change and a price drop.
I foresee that AMD will get a lot of market share: 30-50% and I use this wide range since besides price/performance there is also the factor of security. Looking at Spectre et al. AMD has a safer product.
Last but not least, a single EPYC CPU is also an I/O monster: 128 PCI lanes for AMD vs 40 PCI lanes for Intel.
There exists entire industries of market analysts to give you things like TAM and other critical information to avoid creating a solution to problems nobody has.
As I understand it there's a strong belief amongst Chinese nationalists that the Chinese diverged early from other humans. It makes me suspicious of this announcement, as it may be playing to those beliefs. However, I'm not sure it is untrue, doesn't bother me either way.
Yes, epyc will be competitive, but xeon will still dominate. Mild price drops, or Intel "discovers" (coffee lake/8086k) extra cores/ghz under a mattress. A lot of budget gets spent under the "nobody gets fired for buying xxxx" principal. 10nm changes none of this, sadly. Amd has had better hardware before.
You have an amazing story. Is there some place I could learn more about your journey?
i'm not able to answer your question, but the first thing i think of when i read "toxic" on hackernews* is this:

Iseendai's "Sick systems: How to keep someone with you forever" post: https://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html

which is about abusive and exploitative relationships / organisations / businesses / cults . probably a bit of a tangent, but perhaps a more useful one to read and think about.

* probably as a result of mentally associating hackernews ~ software jobs ~ bad software jobs ~ abusive/exploitative workplaces ~ toxic relationships ~ "toxic"
Or maybe adherence to his philosophy led to tens of millions of deaths of the 20th century…
You are given some advantages from the people around you. My father was a construction worker. He also was a hobbyist technical person, and besides the obvious of introducing me from computer to computer since a very young age, he also taught me how to think in ways that are very advantageous for thinking technically, rigorously, and logically.

Education is important and the people you have around you either compete against information or reinforce it. Construction is mechanical work. It operates in accordance to rules that are easy to observe and aren't subject to chaotic, dynamic shifts. It is a literal concrete foundation of how to build things. Don't excuse my puns, they are intentional.

Some people simply don't have enough information in the background to reinforce one way of reasoning versus another, and lots of these kinds of things can direct what path you wind up traveling in, especially when as a child, you don't have the awareness to understand how world views get constructed, because you haven't seen enough cycles of it happening, nor had the time to think about it.
The tangents themselves aren't really a problem - the threaded format encourages sub-discussions which diverge from the main topic.

A flat system could go one of two ways - all comments could be replies to the article itself, which would kill discussion, or any comment could reply to any number of other comments, or even other threads, which is how the flat layout of imageboards work. Although that also usually requires adding direct references to the ids of the comments or boards being replied to.

Hacker News could probably do more to make threads more readable and make navigation easier. One feature I've seen in webmail archives is links to sibling threads along with parent and OP - although that could get cluttered. Reddit also automatically paginates threads which go too deep, so the viewer doesn't see comments beyond a certain nesting level on any specific page.

Discovery tends to break down with long threads, regardless of the layout. I don't think there is a solution that won't require the reader to have to read a bit and possibly encounter content they find uninteresting. I liken forums to parties where you're wandering through a crowded room, listening to conversations other people are having. You can't expect to just immediately be entertained, it takes time to get context. With forums, features like karma are supposed to guarantee that the higher quality content is easiest to find (assuming some objective meaning of "quality" not defined here) but you still have to lurk and read.

In the end, though, that's supposed to be part of the fun.
That seemed very contrived. For a supposedly fatal flaw that's been lurking in chip designs for tbe better part of a decade, you'd expect real cases.
It's far from dead. The main developer is going to continue as open-source donation based. Which is great news, because Copperhead was only source-available:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8u8co8/the_pr...
New York Health Officials See Marijuana as an Alternative to Opioids
‘Downloadable Gun’ Clears a Legal Obstacle, and Activists Are Alarmed
I don't quite understand where the doubt is coming from; why would recursion depth affect security?
It must be very frustrating being Linus
>We can all put our big boy pants on, accept that luck is a part of reality, and act in the best possible way with this fact in consideration.

This is where we disagree. A cognitive distortion automatically filters the world for you. Your body does it without you being consciously aware of it. You want these distortions to be helpful, otherwise your body will automatically filter the world in an unhelpful manner to you.

For instance, in the face of this PDF, the person I first replied to said something like "the people who get stuff done got there because they're lucky". This worldview is poor because it doesn't help you get more stuff done in any way, it's just a blame game (in this case the thing that's getting blamed is luck). And it's something you'll do automatically if you're always considering luck in how you see the world.

The point is to get rid of this mechanism in your brain/body that jumps to luck (or any other harmful concept) and to substitute it with something more helpful.
We wore skates too, obviously. Weak spots were generally recognisable by there being no ice at all, and we kept a safe distance from such spots.

A quick search turned up these guidelines for ice: http://www.natuurijswijzer.nl/ijsontwikkeling/ijsdikte/

Is says:

0-4 cm: unsafe
4-8 cm: strong enough for a single skater
8-12 cm: suitable for larger numbers
12-15 cm: time for the Elfstedentocht (a 200km skate marathon; we haven't had one in 20 years)
Plastic straws really aren't a 'small problem'. They're everywhere, meant to toss after 1 use, cannot be recycled in the traditional sense, and do not break down in nature. Is it currently the largest pressing issue humans face? Not really. Is it an issue that is within our means to still address? Yes.
Wow, Linus had me all the way to the very end:

> If you can read on it, it's a file.

Um, no. If you can SEEK on it, it's a file. If you can't, it's a socket or a pipe.
Intentional bad actors are pretty much a no go for me, personally. If you are calm and collected you can often outmaneuver them politically, but as you say there can be a personal cost. I have been successful in the past in these kinds of situations. Usually bad actors have one or two ways to back stab you and they don't have a lot of patience if those one or two ways fail. The will hurt themselves more than they hurt you in the long run -- I tend to think of it as giving people enough rope to hang themselves, if they so choose. However, there are also some really canny people who are just out to screw you. If you enjoy drama, I suppose it might be an interesting challenge. I really don't, so if I find myself in that situation, I usually leave.

Bad processes on the other hand are usually totally fixable. Learning the techniques to do that is super valuable. However, this is also kind of difficult because developing software is a lot more difficult than most of us believe. We really believe that we have the answer. Usually we are wrong. There are a lot of really passionate, caring people who bent on destroying their internal processes because the honestly believe they are going in the right direction. The most difficult thing to deal with is that we may be suffering from this delusion ourselves.

The most important thing, in my experience, is to get everyone marching in the same direction. Software development is a team activity -- processes that rely on a single developer, or an attitude of "protect us from the stupid people" will almost always be better of with getting rid of everyone except a single developer. But a mediocre team working well together will crush and single developer -- no matter how good they are.

With that in mind, you often have a situation were you have 5 people and they have 5 different directions in mind. Even assuming that one of them knows the right direction to go, if they all go off in their own direction you will fail. Having only one cross the finish line is failure -- they all have to cross the finish line. It's better to go together in any direction, even if it is wrong and then adjust course later. Trust me, it's hard enough trying to get people to work together at the same thing without having to convince them what the right thing is at the same time.

But to come full circle, this is where bad actors really throw a monkey wrench into the works. Almost always they have strong personal motivation to stick to one particular process (Could be complete delusion that there's is the "one true way", could be that they don't actually want people to succeed because it threatens their position, could be a million other things). If you can't arrange a situation where those people "self select" to not interfere, then it's probably not worth pursuing in my experience.
Article mentions that eASIC replaces SRAM based routing with a scheme that uses via. What is "via"?
New PCs are needed when new employees come along.

There is an extraordinary amount of full employment at the moment in 'b*s4it jobs', those pointless jobs that don't really matter but somehow exist. Small to medium sized businesses just bloat out with these positions over time and only a harsh recession means that these jobs get systematically culled. With these jobs you need yet another PC. You can't buy fancy laptops as there is status value in those things and a PC is as glorified as a phone on the desk of someone doing one of these make-believe-jobs of inane pointlessness. Demand for stationary cupboard supplies is probably also up 1.4% with BIC taking a few sales from PaperMate in an otherwise flat market.

This is the sort of headline you get when the housing market needs a 'boost'. Anecdotally you may know that nobody has been able to buy/sell for ages and that prices are not going up, however, some survey that is independent but paid for buy a building society/bank comes out to give the impression that the market is moving again.

The Update in the story cites another report where the numbers for HP and Lenovo are different, so the headline 1.4% is margin of error, not a genuine sign of a market on the move.
Funny though, I remember hearing that their were rumours a while back about female junior doctors drawing their own blood as a way to control their weight.
Is there an audiobook of the full book? I was only able to find the abridged version.
By this logic any large company can guarantee the success of any product it launches by throwing money at analysts. It should be obvious this is not the case.
If a person was to go round your office saying subtly different things to everyone in the hope of making friends and ending up in charge, would you think that was fair or would it make them a creep?
Very neat work. I understand about ext-family and those fs that have a clear boundary of the data/metadata block -- they can be annotated and identified later. Then how about NTFS where metadata and data can mix in one block? Is there any potential challenge or same approach can still apply?
Drone strike smart contracts might be a thing soon enough if we ever privatize armies at a large scale.
Disposable Online Phone Numbers
Donald Trump actually says contradictory things every 5 minutes in order to appeal as broadly as possible (and if you think the Super PACs aren’t running ads that are contradictory you’re plain wrong) and the article is about successfully conning a microtargeted group to believe something that wasn’t true. Facepalm.
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ESL (English as a Second Language). Give the parent a break. Give us a break.
That said, it doesn’t break anything important, either, and it does bring the numbering in line with a major newspaper’s understandable insistence on accurate representation of the facts wherever possible. The numbers could quite reasonably be construed as arbitrary identifiers, as you have. But to the Times, they are a statement of fact — i.e., a statement of how many issues have been published. You’re right that it was silly to correct the numbering, but it was corrected as part of adherence to a journalistic culture that exists for un-silly reasons. So I appreciate the correction and find it pretty amusing.
> > But users now have access to a privacy dashboard that allows you to easily regulate or opt out of any data collection.

> How about microsoft does not collect user data by default and lets them opt in?

A) Not all users are technical enough to understand how telemetry helps developers find faults and better understand crashes/bug reports.

B) "Most" users don't care if data is collected about the software and not the data they put in that software.

C) If you work in tech, I'm sure you know how many people pick options other than default.
I’m interested...I recommend that you need to show some of these ‘beautiful’ dashboards right on your home page otherwise I’m not going to bite.
Google Maps does let you save offline areas. And while search is not as capable when offline, I find if you have an address it works, and often it works if you only have a business name. What doesn't work are the walking or public transit navigation options. However, if you can find free public Wi-Fi (which is easier and easier) you can plot the directions while online, and then it will continue to work when you go offline.

Yes it's a little less convenient than live data, but it works great for me. I have an Android phone with no mobile data plan. So whenever I'm in an area that I'm not familiar with, I just download to offline maps and I'm good to go.

For the first 25 years I drove a car, I had only paper maps and/or written directions whenever I needed to go anywhere. So Google Maps even in offline mode is still like magic to me.
Well, yes, a government that doesn't actually do anything for its citizens is likely to have less corruption. It's not much of a government, though.
Back in the days, I rode hundreds of kilometres on my bike to map empty areas of OSM, but I never really used OSM.

Google Maps is not perfect but is there an OSS alternative to :

- a map

- a strong search engine

- POI synced on the cloud

- powerful transport/traffic route calculation

I can't use a map service without these features.
Let there be a gas particle in a box. Now cut the box in half and if the gas particle can exist in all remaining space in the box, the box has had an ergodic transformation.

Non ergodic:
Let there be a car on a major highway in a city. Now cut the roads on the highway in half (say for construction). Congestion results and consequently the cars never again move as fast as before. (equivalent to your house of cards)

def ergodic(f(),x):
return f(avg(x)) == avg(f(x))
I never got the psycho active effects - how ever later on I was told that a well known uk author was on pred and wrote a book very quickly whilst under the influence - not one of there best I am told :-)
Rejecting luck as an explanation for people's failure has the side effect of radically increasing the potential of luck to affect people's outcomes.

Once you decide that everything is intrinsic, any instance bad luck is enough to declare people "untouchable".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_(electronics)#In_IC

Connection between layers in a chip. Presumably they have everything in the chip standardized except one/a few layers, where vias are added to connect parts per customer specification.
Wow, I always thought the Byzantine Generals Problem was just a metaphor.
TFA is about abusing micro targeting to convince a group (in this case the Labour Leadership) of something that wasn’t true. I don’t see how you could have a more direct example of something you’re saying doesn’t exist.
The lack of parking may be an effort to solve a chicken and the egg problem. While some zoning restrictions call for parking per unit, some high traffic areas are calling for less parking per unit.

If everybody is expected to have a car then pedestrians never develop, local businesses don't thrive, class mobility is it's highest.

By limiting parking, or at least making it ala carte, residents and businesses consider their location proximity to eachother.
> It's not like TV, it's like mail advertising

Exactly. Targeted advertising is the junk mail that stuffs your mailbox and the spam that stuffs your inbox (or would, without massive technical mitigations). It's not the ads you see in a magazine or while watching TV.