skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're right in the thingie you were asked to please read.

"Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle."

and

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments."
The US has banned[1] the (previously) standard low temperature (~2500k) incandescent light bulbs that have a black body radiation profile. Lots of low frequency. I really prefer these at night and could not find replacements. Eventually someone suggested that the key words are "rugged service". That and "incandescent light bulb" will get you many options on amazon, ebay, etc. Not sure if I need to stock up on these or if they will continue to be available into the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it reads like a predictable rant to me, the kind of comment that destroys thoughtful discussion rather than supports it. That goes against the kind of website we want HN to be. Of course a good paint-stripping rant can be great fun (or outraging, a variant of the same), and there are other kinds of website for that.

Plenty of kinds of critique don't have this effect, and most HN users have no trouble practicing them—it's mostly just a question of wanting to.
If it works like in Congress they will have only very limited time to understand the package. And more importantly they won't have had any input during negotiations. There is a lot of pressure so it would be much easier to add their concerns during the process instead of saying "No" at the end. They pretty much have to vote with a gun held against their head.
Wait. Everything has notch support, even if the device doesn't have a notch? That's odd, right? Given the notch is still an exception? Although they could make the status icons (top) tilt 90 degrees so they are usable from within landscape yet remain on their position
Has anyone tried the Health-e screen covers mentioned? I’m wondering how effective they are and how easy they are to use.

I currently use reduce white point and color filters at night.
Where are you seeing the results of this audit?
So that gun is... What? Besides losing the next election, of course.
No, you're right, inhibit freedom of expression.

There's no way that can go wrong after a while.
Could this be used on a local network? I have a pretty beefy PC but I like the comfort of sitting outside with my chromebook. Is there any way to host this service myself, so it doesn't have to go through any servers first?
Put under-performers on an improvement plan and then lay them off from the town?
> operationally simpler and easy to recover from instance failures than scaling per se.

I'd say architecturally making the app easier to perform this function, rather than rely on infrastructure to do it for you (and hoping doing so will make the app "easier" to code).

For example, use an append only data structure (like event sourcing), with snapshotting. Then your app recovery process is just "restart".
I thought part of the reason why sqlite was chosen was because it can run on the phone.
According to the Q&A at the end of the event, one of the main obstacles for using the regular game as output instead of the bot API is that self play would become prohibitively expensive. The AI plays thousands and thousands of games every day and you would need an enormous amount of GPU resources to render all of those.
The left really are extremely Naive. Let me guess you belong to a heavily blue state. Pure rhetoric and no argument. I wonder why you guys are losing so badly...
Managing logistics?
A series of BFR launches to station some fuel in orbit seems like a better choice than having to launch a fuel tanker BFR each time.
Or the free alternatives f.lux inspired, Redshift[1] (for desktop) and Red Moon[2] (for Android):

[1] http://jonls.dk/redshift/

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jmstudios.redmoon/
Oh. Come on now. The system is designed for misinformation and manipulation. The difference this time was who - alledged - pulled the strings.

The USA's IC has a long and not so pretty history of misinformation. The fact that you're so quick to point at Putin only proves the USA IC is as slick and effective as ever.
This is like how cellphones are forbidden in planes because their RF emissions- unsecure, unworkable and dangerous. Security theater at best.

A proper solution is technological, not social. Selective location GPS jammers, only letting through a different frequency or encryption for military GPS.
It's just as ageist to assume that a young person doesn't know anything
Any form of speech is harmful to different people. Arbitrary censorship is what authoritarian regimes do. I wish people like yourself would just go live with those types of regimes and the libertarians can actually make useful societies.
If anyone wants Amazon to take over any sort of public space they should come experience the local vitriol towards all things Amazon here in Seattle.

I was interviewing at AWS just last year and one of the interviewers(in a Virginia/remote work setup) went so far as to admit he doesn't wear any amazon branded shirts or swag when he is in town.
Ultimate maybe not but I believe there should be just fair method for each type of content or service or business.
Unfortunately users are not fair as well (sharing, multi accounts, freeloading) so yes it is in some part users fault as well.
West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting for midterm elections
I occasionally did onsite support many years ago for some weird proprietary equipment.

One military site had the rule that nothing electronic left the main gate site without being handed over to the guards, processed, and i believe destroyed before it left (not that you ever saw it again anyway). They were serious...

You drove to the site knowing it would all be gone and a strong warning not to turn around if you were near the gate because you just remembered you had your phone in your rental car.

We went through a lot of equipment.

But that site as far as anything I could have done, secure. I don't even know what the faculty looks like as it was blind folds and guards all the way to the equipment (well you could see the bathroom....with an MP.. there).

I feel like those kind of policies are the way of the future. There is no other way at this time.
If you read about Steve Bannon, his plan for years is really to have people lose faith in government agencies and have them thought of as garbage, and then ultimately shut down. I'm not sure this is some great conspiracy or just a bunch of scumbags at work here, but like I say there are major well financed efforts to actually make the FCC, EPA, etc look stupid, and appear to be run by idiots. Appointing incompetent people to them, is the plan by some of these folks like Bannon.
Don't fall into their trap of "look how terrible government is (when officials are actively trying to run it into the ground)".

Fix the issues with officials lying, rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
And there's totally none of this in the opposite direction. Can we now censor the fake news media also? Do you think that constitutes a just and fair society based on freedom principles? Or are you really just advocating for your far left doctrine...
Although it isn't a blog in the traditional sense - so forgive me if this doesn't hit your brief - the Software Engineering Daily Podcast (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/) is a fantastic resource that offers an immense amount of information for a lot of different people, including those setting out to build business applications.

Each episode is accompanied by super detailed show-notes that summarize the episode nicely, so you can see if the episode has what you think you may be looking for.

Cheers and good luck.
> You might want to do some investigation on your ISP

Doesn't most ISPs have to live up to certain laws about protecting the customers? I think those regulations are much more strict than what is required of CloudFlare.
This is looking awful:

Boxes look unpatched/out of date. No CISO personnel:
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026603800365330432

Good news is it doesn't seem to actually be blockchain:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/06/05/the-west-vir...
> There really is no alternative to the current crop of tech giants

This is a truth. The current laws haven't done a good job at modernising and adapting to the influence these tech giants have and how they operate.

> and are all extremely left-leaning

Here's the question worth considering: Are they extremely/abnormally left leaning, or is the world getting more left leaning? What makes them left leaning? Because they advocate for general social issues like treating humans as equals and with dignity and respect?

Banning Infowars isnt banning conservative views - its banning abhorrent hate speech. Calling Sandy Hook "completely fake" and "manufactured" and saying that the kids from Stoneman Douglas High School are crisis actors isn't "right wing" or conservative.
Cloud-Based Network Access Control for SMEs
He literally isn't.

In 100 years when people hear Disney they will think about Walt Disney.

Why? Because it literally is "The Walt Disney Company".

https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:DIS

Will they think of Jobs or Gates when they hear of Microsoft or Apple? It's far from certain.

How many CEO's from 100 years ago can you name that did not have their name in the company's name?
Prepare for alt-tech to spring forth as free utilities offered to people and don't be surprised when the social media giants drop in their stock (which they are already doing). Absolutely pathetic.
As someone mentioned below, look into the Paradox of Tolerance (and as practical example, although a bit overboard, the De-nazification of Germany post World War II, where all Nazi media/propaganda was forcibly suppressed and anyone associated with the Nazi regime removed from power by force)

The paradox of tolerance:
"Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."

- Karl Popper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance)
> If you need to add hardware to solve a software optimization problem such as this, you've failed your job as a software engineer

That's an interestingly narrow viewpoint with which I, narrowly, agree.

I suspect that the narrow viewpoint is just a form of the aphorism "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

> if you should even be called an engineer (if you should even be called an engineer, neigh, a developer)

However, in the broader context of engineering as problem solving (or developing a product), I disagree.

Not all (computer) problems are best solved with software.

As a sysadmin (who can code but doesn't love to), I routinely struggle with managers who don't have an intuitive sense of even a first approximation of what modern hardware is capable of, because their entire background is programming.

The fact that (latency) "numbers every programmer should know" exists (and has for quite some time) is fairly telling. What's more telling is that there are no dollar values attached to any of them.
Wind power and a long extension cord....
Oh gee wiz, we got a political science student who studied at a heavily left-wing biased university telling us that policing speech is great for the west...
Give me a static page with the information I want anyday please
A good example of why your experience doesn’t generalize is to compare the severe limitations of breeze linear algebra for Scala with numpy in Python.

Breeze’s type safety creates this utterly needless hierarchy of abstraction that severely handicaps you from doing advanced elementwise operations, particularly with automatic broadcasting.

With ndarrays in numpy, you can pretty do whatever crazy beoadcasted operations you want with no restriction on manually promoting things to “the right” shape or type.

Breeze gives you “safety” at the cost of not being able to do anything with it, and requiring huge pains to refactor generic code to add functionality. I find this is exactly have it plays out with most large statically typed systems, even with fancy type class patterns in FP.
The point of jamming GPS is that these devices then do not know what their location is, so the records wouldn't show anything.
What do you like about openshift that lacks in kubernetes?
>Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle

I don't use it as such, but the post itself was political and if you don't like politics in HN, you should have removed the post itself in the first place

>Please don't comment about the voting on comments

You are right in this one and I apologize, but it wasn't the first time to get massively downvoted just because I expressed a non ultra liberal opinion, this downvoting abuse is kinda dictatorship here.
FODMAP

My father recently had a doctor point him towards this -- for a condition significantly more troublesome than many apparent symptoms with non- or non-diagnosed celiac gluten sensitivity.

He took a look at the diet's do's and don't's, and ruled it out. What would he eat? (And he and my mother have eaten pretty darned healthily, up to now -- pre FODMAP recommendations.

So, is FODMAP real? Or is this the next "gluten free"? Because it rules out a LOT of what we've considered to be a healthy and healthily diverse diet.
My HOA is currently researching LED lights for our parking structures. These are the best high-intensity not-blue (3000K) candidates we've found so far:

http://www.westgatemfg.com/lighting/led-outdoor-lighting/led...

The same company also makes streetlight-style LEDs, but they're all 5000K, so that's not very promising.
I feel like those kind of policies are the way of the future. There is no other way at this time.

For military, yes. For civil, that's going a bit too far into the dystopian realm.
Use better CGI in their videos?
It probably got missed in the who conjugate gradient mess, but I think the main point of the post was that instead of using one giant for loop that contains your logic, logging, stopping conditions, etc., you can seperate out your for loop into different parts so that you can mix, match, and reuse your logic code, loggging code, stopping conditions code, etc.
Actually, some businesses offer these [1]:

This seems like a good way to save both sleep & energy while preserving a good visibility. According to the page, the CRI (color rendition index) of their warm LEDs is better than conventional HPS lamps. This means that you can actually distinguish objects better with it.

I have also heard of someone who patented a filter for LED lamps, but I don't know how far he got with that. In my city, we have some of these filtered LEDs installed and it feels more pleasant than any white/blue LED streetlights I've seen.

[1] http://www.cree.com/news-media/news/article/next-generation-...
There's a presiding team value function that impacts and steers team play. The bots 'communicate' through this. There's nothing magical going on.

As a counter bot strategy, I'd work on how to break and trick it using multiple-stepped logic that an optimization function would be unable to see beyond. I'd also use varying tactics of chaotic/sporadic configurations. The bot isn't 'playing fair' nor should a human w/ intelligence. The advantage being that a human can think along a multitude of strategies and adapt. The bot is only optimizing some steps ahead.

Their 1v1 bot was defeated in this manner and it just goes to show what true intellect and superiority is. I've played random pub games w/ little to no communication and have had all other 4 players converge on different strategies based on a perception of what's going on. If someone decided to cheese/snowball, you simply wait it out and let them push themselves into a nightmare. I saw little to none of this in the games I watched which leads me to question the intelligence of said 'pros'.
Anywhere you'd really need to dredge, you can run power lines and dredge on tethered power electrically.

I think it's interesting from the standpoint of understanding human capacity and thinking differently about how we allocate our time and effort though. I'm not sure that typing 24/7 is the ideal way to build a life.
> Apple does not have anything resembling a monopoly in podcasting.

Really?
With a $1T valuation and a shrinking stock market as a whole that's not an unreasonable explanation.
Wonderful read, there was a lot of history there I didn't know
This is a well run plan by many powerful figures. Steve Bannon has given many presentations about how appointing "idiots" to run the government is the best way to achieve a shrunken smaller more libertarian government. Sadly I think this plan is somewhat being hijacked to distract from the various other issues with the republican party and Trump.
Have a look at f.lux, which alters your display's colour temperature as the time of day changes, shifting away from blues into the evening.
This really should be it's own blog post. It has given me some interesting perspective.
Expand this comment to pretty much any SF downtown station, frequently, and any other station in the network, less frequently.
To add to what the others have already said:

One interesting thing about Dota is that it is a slower-paced game which isn't heavily reliant on twitch reflexes. To win the bot needed to show good teamwork.

Dota2 also has a developer-friendly "bot API" and replay system. I'm certain these affected their choice of game as well :)
>says total costs for the 18 completed studies averaged about $60,000, including two high-priced

that seems really cheap to me based on my brief experience with lab research. replicating 18 studies is a great achievement.
In fact, yes. The illumination spectrum of sodium vapor lamps is very specific -- they emit almost all of their light around 589nm (amber) [1]. You could easily replace the light from a sodium vapor lamp with an LED lamp outfitted with LEDs manufactured to emit that particular frequency of light.

The LEDs themselves are not particularly expensive either. Linked a digikey page with a potential part you could use.[2]

1:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low-pressure_sodium_...
2:https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=XPEBAM-L1-0000-...
Using Kotlin coroutines to reduce latency
Could you speculate on what they did? That sounds like some seriously extreme security.
I personally have a Goal Zero setup with the Lithium-based Yeti 3000 (3000W), and a pair of the Boulder 200 solar panel briefcases, totaling 400W. Albeit expensive, went with this option for the ease of installation - 1 wire per solar panel plugged into the Yeti, and It Just Works. No complaints besides from my wallet.
HUD, DoE (both of them), etc... ;-(
I agree. The back button in Android almost always seems to do what I would expect. I'm not an iOS user so my perspective probably doesn't mean a lot, but the occasional times I try to use someone else's iOS phone I have no idea what's going on. Nothing seems intuitive.
Uh. I'm a professional artist and my handwriting looks about like the bottom half of the sample most of the time, unless I am explicitly focusing on making each letter look pretty.
For a military operational area? Quite frankly I'm surprised that GPS signals aren't jammed today. At the very least, with the advent of cheap drones, and the dangerous payloads they can carry, I've got to believe that it will be forthcoming soon, regardless of the loss of intel that can be occurring.
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It was almost as if PG and Jessica set out to prove the Boston/NYC status quo of VC wrong. If you wanted funding around here pre-2005, you had to be an experienced exec w/ a strong team of MBA's and senior engineers. Once YC + FB left and saw huge success, there was a scramble to figure out what went wrong.

Check out this meetup that a local VC set up back in 2005 [1]. Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, and Reddit's co-founders (Along with many other notables!) attended. All of them left for the West Coast.

[1]http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/2005/11/boston_web_inn...
TrueCar | Santa Monica, CA | Full Time

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* Software Engineers (Rails)

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* Data Engineers (Java/Hadoop)

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* Sr. React Engineers

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We acquired the talent of quite a few Carwoo (YCS09) alums a few years ago. We've been around for over 10 years and went public 3+ years ago. The company has big plans for the coming years and is looking for good developers to help us grow. See www.truecar.com/careers/ for the full scoop.

* We prefer you work with us in-person in our Santa Monica HQ. We'll handle most visa situations.

* Benefits are exceptional: Your health premiums are 100% paid for, we match your 401k (up to 3% of your contributions), and give stock packages. We also pay for your gym membership (up to $50/month) and have catered lunches every Wednesday.

* Our Santa Monica HQ is right by the beach and Third Street Promenade, so expect fresh air, amazing views, and plenty of food options.
We just completed our first TrueCar Hackathon which our CTO, Tommy McClung, just wrote a blog post about. You can read about it on our technology blog: https://www.drivenbycode.com/hack-a-thon-winners/
Here is a video that documented the hackathon as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlfEvPMNxuc&list=PL4s6FxzGb8...

VISAS are handled under the right circumstances.

Send an email to me (Brett) (bemma AT truecar.com) with your resume and/or GitHub profile. Even if you're not applying but just have questions, drop me a line
Why? I don’t see the advantage. It would make sense if one BFR tanker could launch enough fuel for multiple missions, which you’d then want to store somewhere, but that’s not the case.
How can GEDs from these schools possibly be recognized in the rest of the country?
How do you propose we fix the government when the government is trying to run the government into the ground and the only way to fix it is through the government?

> Fix the issues with officials lying

The only way to do that is by either 1: prosecuting them or 2: disbanding the FCC and forming a new regulatory body that is elected by the people (either directly or by elected representation). I was advocating for #2. #1 is largely a joke when targeting high ranking officials.
You said that instance variables were just as bad as module globals. I was pointing out cases (w.r.t. software engineering, obviously, since that is what this thread is about) where module globals are worse.

Yes, programmers have to be aware of what they're doing, but that's true of any programming construct. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't identify the dangers.