skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no evidence of physical torture. No fractures, no visible injuries, symmetrical damage in brain scans suggesting no direct trauma to his head, no apparent damage to his teeth, the much-discussed scar on his foot was superficial, and overt evidence of careful medical care (no bedsores, well nourished, things that are hard to do even in US hospitals).

Whether you want Warmbier to have been physically tortured or not, the evidence of his torture is not present. Which is important, because it contradicts the media story about Warmbier's experience.
Younger developers are way more naive and out to prove their skills by engaging in any fool's errand they are presented with. Older folks have a lot of heuristics and experience that pushes them away from conventional collaboration and makes them unwilling to engage in negative work or emotional labour.

There is definitely a middle ground, I believe emotional agility is at the heart of 'true' agility and the emotions have been highly overlooked by people who either master the art of bottling it up (looking at you former managers) or brooding (that's on me and many of us I believe)

The middle ground is becoming aware of the spectrum of unpleasant emotions and learning to feel in more depth while using intellect to guide your own actions.

For example, one can sense disgust at a certain codebase. That's perfectly acceptable, and it doesn't have to be anyone's fault. The disgust will drive us to want to improve it. Unfortunately, our managers tell us `bottle up your disgust and do some more disgusting things so we can ship` in which case young guys jump to the challenge and old guys tend to feel completely undervalued.

Edit: this statement is intentionally opinionated. It's alright to have an emotional reaction to it. I'd be interested to know what emotions it evokes in the reader.
I'm not being a fool. The lawsuit must have worked out in their favor or they appealed. I worked for 2 separate computer manufacturers during that time where we were explicitly told not to refer to any of the portable computers as "laptop" computers in any of our outgoing communications or marketing. I had associates at other manufacturers that were told the same thing.

If that's not the case anymore, then that's just because I haven't bothered to keep up with the industry as I no longer work in comms for PC manufacturers. As I said, I haven't put any thought into it recently. I'm neither being a fool nor am I lying, as you seem to be implying. Times change and I prefaced my statement to admit that the info might be outdated.

I can't even believe you put all that effort into collecting those links. That literally does not change the fact that there was an industry-wide aversion to using the term "laptop".
What’s the real meaning behind the words they’re using? ... Put yourself in their shoes and understand the problem you need to solve.

I've found it to my great advantage to let the customer know that I can (hold the ability), and that I will (choose to) help them. This needs to be spoken as well as using the correct tone. Nothing is more frustrating to a client than to feel like they are not being heard. Of course, you have to back this up with actions.

Sometimes I have a customer who is really a trouble maker, I tend to shut them down quickly because I've dealt with their type before. But I feel like there must be a better way. I know it'll end the same (they won't agree with my pricing, terms, support, yadda) but maybe a better parting of ways.
Idk, Maybe your version is better than than tig, I was just comparing tig to 'git log'
Can someone explain why a librarian needs to study library science,if the primary job of libraries today now is to act as a community center and a place for people in trouble to get help. Maybe they should hire people who are social workers
Yes it did. Thank you!
For most of the detail cited in the comment you replied to, we're not relying on North Korea's representations, so your reply is largely nonresponsive.
I've never had a physical reaction to reading loan terms before. That is painful, I have to wonder if they have any plan to turn it around using this money or if it's literally a Hail Mary to buy just a little more time.
ICO trends CW29: beating incumbents, becoming banks, building oracles
I've been ambivalent about this for some time, but given my personal experience and observations of others I am tending toward thinking that, yes, we are indeed overthinking this.

Eat less calories than you consume on a consistent basis and you will lose weight. And no, I don't think that's actually as hard to do as most people make it out to be.

What is hard to do is to resist the alluring promise of quick results.

Where most people seem to mess up is in getting lost in the noise and losing the signal. This causes them to pursue esoteric approaches to diet that are unlikely to work in the long-run. Part of this comes from our desire for quick results. Unfortunately, I don't think quick results work for weight loss.

I think sustainable weight loss takes so long to achieve that you're going to be unlikely to notice much difference, nor will anyone else. Maybe people who haven't seen you in the last year or two will notice, but not many others.
Where is your evidence then?
If you're recompiling, you just add code to keep track of how many guest instructions you've retired. It's similar to the kind of profiling code that multi stage JIT would use. You can also just interrupt a thread after some time has passed, but that tends to fall apart in my experience.
Mine came out really well fwiw, reading it on Kindle right now
Guido van Rossum indepth personal interview by Computer History Museum
I'll Keep Your Suggestions In Mind!
Thank You Very Much!
The bolo concept was interesting, but most of Seveneves was pretty bad technologically (or maybe I didn't get it). There is also the part where I didn't care about a single character, though I guess the cannibal leader kid was a little memorable.
Is the idea that “book boxes are replacements for libraries” widely held?

I have one and that idea seems insane to me. The book box to me is a nice landscaping feature, a place to drink coffee with my neighbors, a signal about my politics, a way for us to unload books & my attempt to get rad comics to school kids. I’d never correlate it to a public lending library.
It is my personal over-10-years-old account. I merely bought a university package that is for sale on Microsoft, using this account after getting registered to my university.
Certainly interest in a migration path from HipChat to other on-prem solutions.

But there are technical challenges. Asking for help from open source community to see if we can work together to find an outstanding solution: https://medium.com/@mattermost/help-with-open-source-hipchat...
You are 100% correct, apologies. Even so, be careful to extrapolate to the rest of the world and the odds are not such that you can make it seem as though HIV is a gay/drug user condition and that the rest of the population can ignore it, anything but and such thinking would inevitably lead to the pendulum swinging the other way again.
Also known as a "Bank Run".

As soon as people think it is going bad, they go to squeeze their money out, making it even worse.
I retired about a decade ago and have been actively avoiding staying "up to date" but I suppose I can't resist asking now...

What replaced Ghost?
The author is claiming that the Trump administration "encouraged the narrative" that Otto Warmbier was beaten but it does not really explain why very precisely except to imply that Trump may have used Otto's parents to look better himself. There isn't any evidence he did this, it is just speculation by the author. I can't find any quote from the Trump administration saying this except for "intelligence reports" from before Otto's return that even officials state the reports about beatings were from third or fourth hand sources. Further, North Korea's official explanation of Otto's brain trauma, botulism and a sleeping pill reaction, are dubious medical claims and can therefore be rightly doubted. 6 days after Otto's return, a press conference was held from Otto's doctor about his condition and reports about torture could not be confirmed or denied except to state that North Korea's explanation was unlikely. This would make it very hard to perpetuate a narrative that Warmbier was, without a doubt, beaten. I think it is an extremely tedious point to suggest that Trump was deliberately misleading the public about Otto's treatment in order to make himself look better.
In the article it says:

"Matt looks at where he is today with amazement. His hepatitis C has gone and his viral loads of HIV are still undetectable – he’s never had to take anti-retrovirals. Of about 1,250 haemophiliacs infected with both hepatitis C and HIV due to the scandal, according to the campaign group Tainted Blood, fewer than 250 are still alive. “It really is, in terms of health outcomes, like winning the lottery,” he says."
Hating things that others find convenient and practical actually does the opposite.
I just tried to see if I am able to log-in using Microsoft account, and I was.
Are you suggesting we know how to extract lithium from a random mix of many minerals, but getting it out of the used battery is beyond our capabilities? That’s not very believable.

The real issue is that, just as you hint, it’s actually cheaper to get lithium from mineral rich dirt, than to set up collection, disassembly and recovery operation for existing batteries. We can do it, it’s just not most economically efficient way to get raw lithium. If lithium goes up in price, it might become viable.
Yup, it is always a good idea to research the CEO/Founders of a company you are considering joining to see as much of their history as you can. And if you see that they sold their previous company at firesale prices ('or undisclosed amount, not material to the acquiring company') you know that they missed their execution target that time. So a conversation with them is in order.

I have declined a number of offers over the years when my research into the CEO showed they were not the people who could get a company over the finish line, and have generally been pretty accurate in the eventual fate of those companies. Correlation isn't causation, but the CEO is the biggest win/lose variable in the mix.
Gotta love a bit of wealth redistribution. Let's just hope they don't turn into a horrendous monopoly and force very anti consumer behaviour.
Suggestion: Have a tour of the product that doesn't require a signup. If I don't want to give you my email address, I'm left to use my imagination based on your description.
Curious as to why you'd prefer Perl? Is it because of a technical reason or just because of familiarity? Thx
Starcraft 2 Automated Player
I just checked my own library login, and it looks like they keep 18 months of checkout history and then purge it (or at least it is no longer available to me after that point, which means it is no longer available to the librarian because we share the same interface).
Cool! Didn't know about Lynda.

You can also get free tickets to a lot of local museums: https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/arts-and-culture/m...
Then, there's stupid software (mail clients?) like this:

>> Stupid software that couldn't display indented text

> properly

>> without having to add newlines. Oh wait, we still have

> that.
There have been quite a few cases of proven resistance against HIV, starting with a population of African prostitutes that somehow managed to avoid contracting the disease despite numerous unprotected encounters with HIV positive individuals.
Windows 10 has real OpenSSH ssh installed by default now (since April). The time for PuTTY has passed. May it rest in peace.
lol if you think the government is going to be able to sue for the profits paid from then-bankrupt gas companies at any point in the future

and how would displaced Bangladeshi people even be able to sue Exxon Mobil for the environmental damages they are currently suffering from? This is a really dumb libertarian fantasy
I find it rather easy to use android without selling my soul to Google. In fact, I use android on a Google Pixel 2 on Google's own Project Fi network and yet I don't feel as if I've sold my soul to them.

I could switch to an iPhone running iOS on Verizon in the span of a few hours if I felt like it, or just chuck my phone into a river and call it a day. I can install FireFox if I don't want to use Chrome, F Droid if I don't want to use the Play Store, and a huge number of other apps from a huge number of other companies.

The idea that you have to "sell your soul" to Google to use android, even hyperbolically, is stupid.
How is that legal from a competition law point? Slack is the dominating actor in office chat how can they buy Hipchat?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
The System Administrator Song
My first encounter with a "just 10 more years" projection was while writing a paper on zinc in middle school. My reference book about mining and metallurgy discussed declining reserves and that the world would be entirely out of zinc by 1985 without careful conservation. Except I was reading the book in 1995, and it was published in 1975. It became an interesting point in my paper.

If this writer didn't work for a company that will make money off his ridiculous assertions, I would be baffled how an educated adult could write such an article.
Doing Windows, Part 6: Look and Feel
> those scanners we installed at all airports in the last decade will also cause more incidences of cancer, but you hardly ever hear anyone about that.

Right; because compared to the radiation dose you get during the flight itself, it's nothing.
Why BigQuery ML Is Such a Big Deal
>A lithium-ion car battery with a 100 kg cathode requires 6–12 kg of cobalt and 36–48 kg of nickel

The wording here is also really awkward, and shows how little the author actually knows about batteries. There is no Li-ion battery in the world with a "100kg cathode". There may be 100kg of cathode material used in within the cells of a battery pack, but to say "100kg cathode" is just flat out wrong and makes me question this entire analysis.
From the Promissory note:

> the principal amount of Six Million and Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($6,200,000)

Is this a gross mistake? Or am I missing something ?
It probably depends on what you were doing with Ghost, but for me, Clonezilla is the replacement: https://clonezilla.org/
I'm afraid of rust adding too many features for its own good like c++ did..
Why companies are switching to Kubernetes
Same in France for the kitchens
tl;dr: I’m like, way, smarter than the president, who is a big ugly stupid-head and everything he does is wrong.

If you want to be taken seriously as a journalist, don’t tie the story back to your opinion on Trump. It was an interesting story until he reveals the political motivations behind it. Have the courage to present the facts and let people come to their own conclusions.
Timing accurate: this instruction takes four cycles, so do the work, and increase master clock by four.

Cycle accurate: this instruction takes four cycles, so this push the address to the multiplexed A/D bus. Next cycle read the data. etc.

So more fast forwarding in timing vs cycle accurate. Typically timing accurate doesn't implment things like wait states injected by other peripherals accessing the main bus either.
I'm 31, my company also contracts a dev that is almost 60. He knows much more than me about architecture, old systems that we still use, I would not want to do his work. I work on the newer stuff.

As I get older I plan to shift to a different role. Maybe management, I am waiting for a position to open in a city for a dev project manager. I'm not really concerned.
I'm trying to wrap my head around what I might use this for.

I imagine the following scenario:

* I have 3 source audio/video feeds

* I need to follow a pipeline along the lines of:

-- ingest the source feeds

-- stitch segments from the sources together into an output stream following some business rules

-- extract metadata from the source (e.g. speech-to-text)

-- transmux/re-encode the output to different renditions (bitrate/resolution combinations)

-- Output the rendtions and metadata

Is that a reasonable understanding of what this framework is meant to enable?
I’m sure that if you thought of a way to help your manager spread his/her authority you’d be mentally promoted to “trusted sidekick” category rather than kept in the “dumb peon” category
I have also experienced some problems with a vps account there over the past 6 weeks. Initially they suggested that I reboot the server even though it was "online." That worked, but it seemed like every 3 or 4 days I would have to reboot the server again. Then a few days ago, rebooting the server didn't help.

Upon contacting the help personnel, they indicated that my name server wasn't pointing to my hosting server (both are services provided me by namecheap). I asked how they would have lost the connection since I hadn't made any changes to the websites in months. They didn't have an answer but redid my name server entries to get them pointing to my vps again.

So after years of good reliable service, there has been problems lately.
Comdata?
From a theoretical standpoint, virtually any source of carbon could be used, you could even make it out of the carbon already in the atmosphere:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-carbon/scie...
I totally agree.

I have come to realize that capitalism is a narrow-minded approach towards progress. It does not work in the long run.

Capitalism and democracy are incompatible.
I remember working at a company several years ago where they used HipChat. Slack was just up-and-coming and I remember wondering why it even bothered to compete since HipChat did a fine enough job. Interesting to see how Slack has evolved and that Slack is absorbing HipChat.
Show HN: P2P File Transfer CLI in Go
Are you dense? You ignored all of their points.

A homeless person won't have an internet connection or a computer.

A poor person won't necessarily have a computer.

Internet in some rural areas is not just slow, but also spotty.
Oh well, we live in a world where people willingly and happily give all their privacy to a private entity just for the privilege to take a cab. So the future is grim.
If you haven't checked out the Living Computer Museum down in SoDo, it's an absolute MUST. SPL provides free tickets to it :)
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-lithium-ion...

Not really there yet, but it's ultimately a very solvable problem: the elements are right there and in high concentrations.
Having not started on learning rust yet, I am worried about the complexity increasing as well. However, I think the idea of editions is that you can stick with one if you like, for as long as you like.
That's not necessarily how it works. If those who are trying to "disrupt" things have more money or more influence, which many times they do, then they get their way, despite what most people would want.
That was a downside of the angle this article took. It makes the case for libraries on the grounds that they offer a place for addicts and homeless to be safe and sheltered and get basic support in accessing services. That's valuable, but it makes a library sound like a place where social workers deal with poverty and other social ills and field questions about how and where to get help. And while many people would support this, they'd support it in the same way they'd support a homeless shelter or government program to provide assistance for low income immigrants who speak limited English. I really don't want to come off as knocking the value a library adds here, those are worthy contributions. But overall, I think it does give a very limited impression of how libraries are valuable to the community overall.

I'm encouraged by the stores people have left about the role the library functions in their own community. I bring my kids to the branch libraries in San Francisco regularly, and I'd like to reassure people that they are generally safe and clean places for kids and other members of the community.
Yeah, if they did, we’d know the had already lost
Even then,

10^3 = thousand
10^6 = million
10^9 = billion
10^12 = trillion
10^15 = quadrillion, or thousand trillion
10^18 = quintillion, or million trillion
10^21 = sextillion, or billion trillion
10^24 = heptillion, or trillion trillion
10^27 = octillion, or thousand trillion trillion
10^30 = nonillion, or million trillion trillion
10^33 = decillion, or billion trillion trillion
10^36 = undecillion, or trillion trillion trillion

One of those numbering conventions is not tremendously useful, and the other is very very very stupid. It compounds with the knowledge that some people call 10^9 "a milliard" rather than "a billion". This is why we have SI unit prefixes, and write numbers ending with an exponent of 10.

And here I was, assuming each "pack of butter" was one of those 10g single-serving packs (although some are only 7.65g). I didn't check it against the "tonnes" number in the article. In the US, a "pack of butter" could also be a box containing 4 sticks 113 g each, totaling 454 grams, because butter in the US is sold by the pound. Apparently, they are 250g elsewhere.

And a (metric) tonne is already 1000 kg, or 1 Mg. There is also the long ton, which is 1016 kg, and the short ton, which is 907 kg.

The obfuscated number is therefore 1x10^40 g, which is even larger than standard metric prefixes can express, so we'd probably write it as 1x10^37 kg, for some reason.

So my previous math was wrong. That's 5 million butter-stars the size of our sun, or enough butter to form a slippery, spreadable black hole as massive as the one at the heart of our galaxy. I guess from this, we can calculate the size of Audthumbla the giant space-cow?
What if social media services started offering different versions of reality depending on your political position? So you would pick a faction and you would not see the same suggestions and have completely different search results from if you were in the other faction.

Instead of pointlessly sending traffic to outside websites, you could just offer completely fictional news articles geared towards whichever faction you were a part of. Granted, this isn't that different from the situation that exists now but why not just take it all the way? If anything, the news would become more compelling and competitive vis-a-vis other more imaginative content without the need for any grounding whatsoever in fact.
Archivists. Nobody is talking about archivists. Many public libraries has physical archives that can't be digitized (clothes, memorabilia, etc) that needs to be preserved and taken care of. They serve to supplement and support museums and universities with these materials.

Every anti-library piece that comes out generally boils down to "I don't use a library, and have little to no idea what services many of them provide outside of books. Therefor, someone who's better at books could take their place, and the free market is better than the state being in charge of this sort of stuff!" Not everything can, or should, be run like a business.
just a synthetic sugar

'syntactic[al] sugar' is the term used for this sort of thing and JS classes in particular, just about everywhere.
I was under the impression they were trying to have a big enough block of customers to take to the studios and try to get a percentage. As if their service would have sufficient numbers to sway debuts and over all movie numbers.
I didn't use the word feminist.