skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father did this at least once (maybe a couple of times?) in the 90s, ferrying twin engine aircraft to the newly formed Czech Republic. This was, as I understand it, to establish the first commuter airline in the country.

Long story short, halfway between the East Coast and Iceland one, and then both, engines cut out. They had just a couple of minutes to figure out what had gone wrong before they ditched. And given the temp of the water that was very likely to be a death sentence.

With less than 10k feet to go, they noticed the fuel tanks in the back were buckled inward. They weren't vented properly. A pocket knife solved the problem and a few seconds later the engines restarted.

SOP for ferrying a small plane across the Atlantic is to install "external" fuel tanks in the space normally used for passengers. Whoever installed them in Maine didn't vent them.

The punchline was that he and his copilot were (at the time) both smokers. After that ordeal, they both wanted nothing more than to light up. But the cabin was full of gas fumes, so lighting a lighter was likely to blow up the airplane.
Yeah, agreed. The overselling in the legal tech crowd is astonishing sometimes.
Industry insiders don't use their products like we do. That should worry us
Markdown doesn't compose very well, you kind of want to drop into a programming language for that

http://www.hyperfiddle.net/:docs/:cookbook!static-site-markd...

It can be abstracted into a function though, here's a different table done from only markdown (and backed by a database!)

http://www.hyperfiddle.net/:docs/:fiddle-markdown
> I work in enterprise Linux.

I don't see how you could even compare enterprise linux to home linux. Enterprise linux not only has a different userland (i.e. it's designed for LTS setups -- stability, not usability), but almost all enterprise places run 20 versions behind anyway. Not only that, but you're facing peculiarities of your setup that no sane home user is going to face in a billion years. The entire experience is different.

Go pick up Linux Mint's Cinnamon distribution, then see if you have the same complaints.
I think an even better headline would be "World's biggest contract fab shutdown by virus" but I can't change it now.

What's a better, concise way to describe TSMC? I think "World's biggest contract fab" can probably be improved on.
No. Insurance can't solve extortion.

It would be the wrong message to send (unless you like being bullied)
Legal options when Airbnb goes wrong
Cast yourself as a digital nomad searching the Earth for adventure. No one needs to know your transient state is something you want to change.

See if you can land some of the typical tools of nomads...a PO box, a mobile #, then be the person they are looking for
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So let me get this straight, a new 'free' version of Slack that sends all your companies internal communications straight to Chinese government servers. Now they don't even have to hack us, we're giving it to them voluntarily.
It's not unfair. There's nothing preventing, say, RedHat, from offering its own hardware for sale.

EDIT: Rather than downvoting, perhaps those who disagree with me could tell me why other companies aren't capable of "making conscious decisions about what goes in their machines"?

Apple is, after all, far from the only Unix vendor to do so. Whether it's HP-UX or Solaris, it's fairly common for Unix vendors to tightly couple their software to supported hardware. What is preventing Red Hat from offering a fully Red Hat compatible laptop that works near-perfectly out of the box?
American Fast Food Took Over Kuwait and Made Its People Obese [video]
It's surprising to many, but these tools run primarily on Windows, and, without anti-virus protection because it can interfere with critical timing actions that the tools need to make. The IT systems are locked down like a fortress, but tool technicians can still bring viruses in and transmit when they connect their laptops for diagnostics and maintenance. I can easily see a virus running amok.
Agreed.

In 2007/2008, I'd been doing PHP for 11ish years; started in early 96 with PHP/FI, with vb & notes in the early 90s before that. I kept doing some PHP, but moved primarily to spring/java (via grails). enjoyable, learned a lot, but it always felt clunky and convoluted (I never became as proficient as I wanted in that stack). After several years, I 'came back' to the PHP world. A lot of the early warts/problems were still there, but you could avoid them more or less entirely if you chose to build with the new crop of composer packages and psr-compatible frameworks.

The speed of PHP7+ is comparatively amazing (which, arguably, shows how 'slow' it was before!). PHP 5.6 (2014) was roughly twice as fast as PHP 5.3 (2009). PHP 7.2 (2017) is roughly 2-3x faster than PHP 5.6. In the 8+ years I 'left' PHP (was still using it, just not as primary day to day), the performance doubled, then doubled again. Still not as fast as 'pure' java/c/whatever, but incredible improvements all the same. Given that the majority of my dev work involves a lot of 'line of business' stuff with a SQL database as a central piece, db queries are almost always the biggest performance issue, the relative speed of PHP vs other stacks was even less of an issue for my real world scenarios.

Upcoming experimental JIT stuff looks to make an even bigger improvement in some areas.

Some comparisons were from memory, some from https://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/493-php-performance-evo...
This may be possible with fzf but I'm not sure of all the features it's capable of.

This type of behavior would be a great addition to the terminal or popular shells. Instead of having the command prompt always display at the end of output, have it stay in the same place at the top or bottom.

Something like you get with the Emacs mini-buffer with tools like helm but for the terminal.
Maintenance is amortizable as well. Every time you have to do a deep dive to find out what's wrong, you learn a little more about the state of the art of that particular part of the world. Then you can make a change that is more robust.
New York is also rather more expensive to live in than those other places. And perhaps those other places underpay: I'm not really sure why it's scandalous that the average* pay for someone working on a key city service allows them to comfortably raise a family in the city that they work for. Do we need to race each other to the bottom?

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*Note that it's "average", which means that there could indeed be some who are overpaid skewing the numbers for the rest.
Varies, but short version is "a lot".
Yes, my phrasing was not ideal. I don’t know if it’s particular bad in tech. But it is a general problem I’ve seen (and also noticed in tech).
> Your last comment indicates you do understand my question! so I upvote it :)

OK, cool, thanks!

> Not sure what you mean with pl and sng in "you (pl)" and "you (sng)"*

"Plural" and "Singular" - in English I can't make it clear that in some cases I'm talking about you and previous speakers, and in other cases I'm talking only about you. Other languages make it easier to make the distinction, in English it must be inferred, or made explicit.

> Most fantastic would of course be a general method so that given as inputs the transforms between problem types, and the known fixed parameter, and fixed parameter tractable algorithm, gives as output the new fixed parameter, and a new fixed parameter tractable algorithm for the new fixed parameter.

I feel like that's a lot to ask, but we are beyond my expertise.

> I assume we do not have such a general method ... With enough examples perhaps a general method can be guessed.

I have no intuition about this at all, so I'll stand aside and let others with greater knowledge comment, if they're around.
If the law were automated how would the wealthy get preferential treatment? Entering the legal system rich vs entering the legal system poor are two entirely different things. Maybe you will have to pay for compute cycles or additional law modules or something like that. ...I tend to think control over the law needs to be arrested from human hands if we want a fair system. But people don't want a fair system. They want a system that benefits them. I wonder if AI in the legal system will just be an internal revolution.
Chip makers who fabricate fabless companies' chips are called 'Foundries'.
"A 2010 analysis of autism diagnoses in California did not find that autism clustered preferentially around areas rich in IT industry. Instead, it found that clusters tended to occur in areas where parents were older and educated to a higher level than were parents in surrounding areas."
Because it highlights exactly how broad the definition of “negative” can be. I grew up in a family of blue collar workers. My uncle worked at steel mill that shut down. Perhaps with some automation it could have at least stayed open. Regardless, he eventually found a new rewarding job.

My dad is out of a job now, too, but that’s because he got hurt at work, multiple times. He has had back issues my entire life because he got hurt at work.

The person proposing a consideration of negative consequences was “inspired” by jobs being automated away. Whether a researcher has considered the negative consequences enough will be determined by peer reviewers who have their own political leanings and potential agendas. In the end, I would expect the process to become completely subverted, without accomplishing much along the way.
Taskbook Is a Board-Based Task Manager for the Command Line – OMG Ubuntu
PlantUML looks neat! Great for design docs
Same here (chromium/win10).
That's not really a fair comparison. Git changes but the version you have and are looking at is fixed. With slack the conversation changes and you can't let the user respond until they're up-to-date because if they did people would be on HN ripping Slack for causing confusion. Not only that but the messages can literally change from one moment to the next. What happens when a user deletes a message?

The equivalent with git would be having each directory be a submodule and someone is rewriting the history out from under you every few seconds.

For technical people it’s easy to assume we understand the problem especially when we see what looks like a questionable design choice but when we do this to applications we don’t have experience with it only hurts us collectively.
You can do "ignore spaces" in your diff of choice to fix this shortcoming.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/28/homeless-man-hands-out-resumes...

Have you tried doing what David did? Anything that could help you stand out would attract employer's attention.
Of course many citizens of the United States don't subscribe to that notion or actively reject it. You're right that it seems to be a common human tendency!
At the very least all those mini UIs are cornered into a more standardized system just from the limitations presented by the chat environment. On the other end, most of the functionality can be driven from textual commands the way SMS "apps" used to be.

Of course the elephant in the room to this entire thread is advertising and analytics, which IMO is the biggest reason the web has devolved so badly. I mean it's much harder to generate revenue if you're just serving me textual content that I'm interested in.
It might've been, but I agree with the core point: make window tiling an option. For the amount of time that it would take to implement, and the non-zero number of people that would benefit from it, it seems a glaring omission. Every OS should let you line up two windows side-by-side out of the box: this should be a minimum requirement of any window manager that lets you have windows at all.
At least 25 people were killed in a suicide bombing in a mosque in Afghanistan
You can't have interlocking rings in 2D without having some kind of intersection. You have a similar problem with moebius rings and klein bottles: moebius rings are 2D objects but you have to represent them in a 3D world if you don't want them to be self-intersecting. If you attempt to represent a moebius ring in 2D it'll necessarily self-intersect.

Klein bottles are the same thing but with an added dimensions: any representation of a klein bottle in 3D makes it look like it's going through itself, even though in 4D it wouldn't: http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/06/klein-bottle-0...

It's also true if you remove a dimension: a 1D moebius strip would simply be a circle, but if you try to draw it in 1D you end up with a segment where both halves of the circle are overlapped. So every time we have a N-dimensional object that can only be properly represented in N+1 dimensions.

That's also the same reason you can't solve the problem of connected three objects to three other objects on a 2D planes without intersecting:

A B C

X Y Z

You can't distribute a, b and c to x, y and z on a 2D plane without intersection.

Topology is fun.
Everything about this app I want to build is going to be completely unique on the UX/UI interface, I had 15 pages of hand drawn sketches dedicated in just wireframing the UX. I lack some backend knowledge and some frontend technology as well, so its a long work in progress.

I think, whenever we think of elevator pitches, people always say "Its Whatsapp with security(telegram)". Or its "Facebook for professionals (linkedin)". Its "Youtube for media professionals (vimeo)". Or its "Adobe Illustrator merged with Adobe Photoshop (Affinity Designer)". Or "Slack with VoIP and gaming (Discord)". Or "A chrome browser for Developers(Blisk)". Or "Pinterest for media professionals (Dribbble)". Everything derives from something else, but I agree with you everything needs to be unique.

But at the end of the day everything is a CRUD app anyhow
Professor Develop Plan to Re-Engineer Internet to Give People the Life They Want
why are random strangers picking up and hugging children? that sounds odd even for laid back European, unless we talk about babies accompanied by mother and older people wanting to touch cute baby, but child able to walk?
How I make $500 monthly as a micro-influencer (with only 5,000 followers)
Why the concern about fences?

I remember being taught to cross roads both at school and by my dad aged 4ish. IIRC they would teach you first, then they would start to ask me 'how do we going to cross then?' and make me lead the way. I had to stop, look both ways to check for traffic, then walk not run. And I had to talk out each step to my dad. After a few months he trusted me to not talk it out but if I missed a step, say not looking right, he'd point it out and make me do it again. Then a while later he let me cross roads myself but would watch. For example let me go to the park but watch from the front door. By 7/8 I was trusted to go to the supermarket and shop alone via some occasionally busy roads - the only really busy road had a lollipop lady to help you cross.

So yeah, make sure they know what they are doing. Make them prove it to you. Then give them a bit more freedom step by step.
Holy crap...this might actually be the solution. I'll have to request a demo and play around with it next week.
oh sorry, missed the useful part.
http://kamalatta.ddnss.de or
gopher://kamalatta.ddnss.de
There's been an irrational fear of child kidnappings in the US for decades now, fueled by sensationalist fearmongering news reports. When I was young, a young girl went missing in the area (still unsolved, 25 years later) and it was huge news for years, and justification in many parents' minds (though not my own) for never letting their children do anything unsupervised.

But...while that was a scary and tragic case, the reason it made so much news is that it was, and remains, very rare. The notion that some kidnapper or pedophile is going to make off with your child, targeted at random on the street, has always been an almost absurdly unlikely one. And yet many places in the US would see a parent arrested for negligence for allowing their child to walk a block or two on their own.

So, yes, something gives parents the idea they need to be overprotective. It's a sensationalist media and a culture of fear spread by people with a poor understanding of risk.
The problem in the US is that there was a period of time, still somewhat ongoing, where politicians could score a few points by promising to be "tough on crime." George H. W. Bush once went on TV to say that if longer sentences and mandatory minimum sentences meant paying for more prisons, we would pay for more prisons. One of the worst things about tough on crime politics is the feedback loop it creates -- if your opponent is tough on crime, you would have to be even more tough on crime, so the concept spread across the political spectrum (Charles Schumer is a proud "law enforcement hawk").
Justified margins?
Exactly. And it is still out there if you want to download it (and the source!), burn an EPROM, and relive some memories. The code, along with some cool hardware designs, can be found here:.

http://www.dos4ever.com/8031board/8031board.html#dialects
I think that AI/Machine learning has made a big impact on the Ediscovery part of the legal industry.
The use of ML commonly known as Predictive Coding does appear to reduce the number of hours required to find relevant documents in a large corpus.

There is a lot of noise about the use of AI in other areas of law, but I suspect (in common with other industries) this is just part of the hype cycle.
That is not to say that the use of AI is not on the rise, but the article likely overstates its use.
"Effective or not...". That's the problem. The sentence is vengeance. When he comes out of prison at 27, expect him to go back. But, I guess people are happy to spend billions of dollars to keep people in prisons than trying to reform them that would help society.
What about freehand drawn diagrams? It seems pretty fast and intuitive, and would deal with your problem* . Are there any tools for making freehand diagrams look professional? It would be analogous to how Markdown makes "crude" text look "professional".

* As long as you have good coordination.
Subverting the Intended Use of Objects
I haven’t heard from OP yet, but I’ve gotten messages from several others. Still hoping to hear from him/her.
I started using Linux around '97ish and agree with the parent too. The problem for me wasn't investing the time in tweaking a new installation, but apt-get dist upgrade (whatever it's called these days) would eventually break my system...in very bad ways.
While I like the idea of a distributed search engine, I wonder how would it work with mobile devices.

With a desktop, and even laptop when plugged in, you have relatively easy time to run something like a search node of such a network that scans spiders some pages in the background. On a mobile phone, it's not really possible.
Eheh, we tried for some time to come up with a good webpage. At the end of the day, this is a library for developers, and as such we decided that the Github page is the most meaningful place to start. We put a lot of work in the main README, with revisions after each release, and we have a readthedocs for detailed documentation. Nevertheless, the github page gives you also other insights on what is the development status of the library (currently active but not daily), and areas of targeted improvement.

Re the licensing, pySMT is open-source and distributed under APACHE 2.0 .
I'd agree with you when you're talking about websites that are, for the most part static and just conveying information. But when you're talking about actual web applications designed to get work done I think things are wildly disjointed.

If I were to show you the web apps I interact with regularly, both personally and professionally, you'd see what I'm talking about.
I would shamelessly suggest to try my web based reader - https://bazqux.com - simple business model, no ads/tracking, just read your feeds effectively.

But in general that's bad. Having feeds support in a browser is a good way to get more people to know about RSS. And the more people know about RSS the better for humanity.

People must know that there are another ways to get content than liking something in a silo. And more importantly - the medium is the message - content that you get in RSS feeds is different from social media. It's not oriented to be likeable or shareable or to make money in any way. It's more about ideas, opinions and utilitarian (not emotional) news. Yes, you could still get junk in RSS feed, but there are much less chances to get it.
An AMP document is required to contain:

<link rel="canonical" href="...">

pointing to the regular HTML document.
What machine are you SSHing from? My laptop does 200 RSA 4096 signatures per second. 5ms vs 1ms doesn’t seem like a perceptible added latency.
We've seen this before many times. It's an inherent weakness of proprietary software solutions: you're at the mercy of the vendor as far as porting it to a new platform. The weakness becomes more urgent as the platform grows old/unsupported/insecure/etc. It may have been Windows this time, but it could have been DEC or Solaris or what have you.

Open Source Software may or may not be easy or economically realistic to port, but at least the users have a say.
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That's because with generic python code the values in a numpy array need to be boxed into python objects leading to extra memory allocations (whereas they would already be boxed in the built-in list case).
I'm assuming this works because the Thinkpad X220 and the early Macbooks had a very similar chipset.

Coincidentally, this is also why the first and second generation Macbooks, along with a handful of Thinkpads, are among the few laptops that can install Libreboot:

https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/
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1. Introduce yourself, your background, your values

2. Announce your intentions (see below)

3. As robertcope suggests, start off by observing and building relationships. If you have experience in what the team does, pitch in and get your hands dirty and learn the [codebase, processes, etc.]

4. A couple months of step 3 will accomplish 2 things: it will give you insight into what really is and isn’t working well for the team; and it will build you the political capital you need to get people onboard with changes. At this point you can start making suggestions. You should also by now be making yourself an advocate for your team’s needs with upper management.
My solution is connecting the best of three worlds. I am running ChromeOS on Macbook Pro 13 so I am having Mac's touchpad, Pro keyboard, Retina screen and Mac's durability. It get's little hotter with ChromeOS but battery life is generally as good as under macOS.

Graphical enviroment is ChromeOS which is basically just Chrome and extensions. Yes - HBOGo, Spotify, Inbox, Photos could be used as apps but they are still working in a browser.

And with crouton I have Debian stretch CLI which is just that - Debian - solid, stable and there is solution to most problems.

This setup is amazingly portable. I make regular backups with crouton and keep USB stick with ChromeOS installer on my keychain. Now I am spending summer vacation and I have left my Mac at home. So I have just installed ChromeOS on 10-year old Acer laptop, Google downloaded all documents and extensions in 15 minutes and I have installed crouton and recreated Debian from backup.

In 15 minutes I had been up and running in my home environment. Of course - touchpad on Acer sucks compared to Mac, laptop gets hot and screen estate is 1/4 of Mac's Retina but every single setting in environment is 1:1 with my Macbook.

I have never been heavy user of macOS native apps and I have slowly moved from Apple/iCloud walled garden to Google (Photos, Drive etc.) so jumping ships had been painless for me. My memories of macOS is of never fixed annoying glitches, heavy 'obligatory' updates and tons of unnecessary files cluttering my drive.