skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The violence of an online mob is not protected by the government. So who cares? Arrest the mobsters and move on with life.

A boycott is not even violence. So, again, who cares? We're not even in physical danger in the case of a boycott. In fact, the boycott is actually free speech. (Or, more precisely, free expression).

But consider, if the government comes after you, who will you arrest? Who can you get to defend you? In this case, the Constitutional protections of our freedoms are essential.

The threat from the government is the danger that the Founders were insistent on mitigating. And they were right to do so. The government is the main entity that we need protection from vis-a-vis restriction of rights.
This is possible because CA is the biggest economy in the US (6th largest worldwide) so the manufacturers can't ignore it.
This is pretty entertaining. Congratulations.

Only problem is that it spins up my computers fans like mad. What is causing this? Moving some circles on the screen should not be a big deal computation wise, should it?
If people think that a commercial VPN provider is going to keep them safe from the NSA, GCHQ or CSE, they're deluded. Should you actually become the target of a nation state intelligence agency, your stuff will be pwned from the ROM and bootloader all the way up.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/read-for-yourself-the-f-35-...

You linked to this yourself.
I with some former HPers, they were always bummed about what HP turned into.
That is a myopic view of history.
I'm guessing that the poor students that are academically decent enough for Harvard are mostly Asian with some children of European immigrants and a few of African immigrants.

I think that Asians are even more represented in the set of poor students that can academically fit into Harvard than the set of upper middle class and above students that can academically fit into Harvard.
Stop using strncpy already (2013)
Mapbox Hacked With Anti-Semitic Vandalism, Affecting Snapchat, New York Times
Between NIMBY antics with housing development and absurd levels of gov overreach in situations like this, SF is going to end up cannibalizing its tech industry.

So many cities would kill to be the center of such a fast growing and high paying industry, and they're squandering it because their old guard is a bunch of gate-keeping snobs.

Oh well. NYC, LA, Austin, and other cities will gladly grab the fruits of tech talent.
Elon Musk has zero clue how public transport works and doesn't seem the least bit interested in figuring it out.

Put a train in there, not one car at a time.

How are these signalled? Are they all "autonomous"? Whatever it is, it sounds like it's ripe for disaster if operating at scale.

Being stuck in a subway train tunnel in a large subway car can be a miserable experience. Being stuck in a tiny pod is undoubtedly worse. It's like being stuck in an elevator you can't stand up in.
Meanwhile, on HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876476
Also, just because they are a charity, does not mean that I am, or that I can afford to be. I spend a third of my waking hours working for someone else, which makes the time I spend with my family outside the walls pretty close to non-negotiable, exceptional circumstances notwithstanding.
NICE!! Cannot wait to use it.
There really is an awful lot of street parking in SF. In the neighborhoods I'd like to see some project to turn some of the on-street parking into lawns/gardens. I believe at one point, in the 60s or 70s, most homes (at least in my neighborhood) paved over their front laws for additional parking space. There's a lot that could be done to improve land use in SF. The street parking in particular seems unnecessary, especially when you're a 10-minute walk from BART.
> This is not a war for supremacy

Tell that to generations of men that have used violence to stay on top. Hard not to consider it a war when it looks, talks, and walks like a duck.
Hmmmmm! Thanks for the bug report!

Edit: fixed. T'was a dumb copy and paste error.
Los Angeles is the 2nd biggest city in the US. Being number 9 on the list of most used railways in the US isn't exactly a huge accomplishment when much smaller cities like Boston appear above them on the list.
It's more like the "least he could do", as in "why even bother".
I presume you'd be lying with your feet pointed towards the front of the plane and the bunks would have a solid footboard.

Perhaps elderly and disabled people might have an issue during braking but most people wouldn't have any issues I don't think.
> I hope we're done with manned aircraft after the F-35, and it is all drone swarms from here on out.

I hope we will be done with such devices entirely.
And also:

"I'm going to spend my money at a more trustworthy vendor in the future." - Theo de Raadt
The guy is correct. MY driving test was a joke, and other people have testified their tests were a joke too. Therefore the statement is correct. He never said ALL driving tests in the US are a joke.

It sounds like you're taking this personally, and have some kind of issue because you failed two driving tests.
Interesting. The Republican Party abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 and now complain of "fake news" and search engines being "unfair." Aren't they also the party always talking about the unintended consequences of public policy? Oh the irony!

Honestly though, who in 2018 is using search engines to get their news? I would wager most people visit their favorite news outlets directly to catch up on current events. Or, sadly, go to Facebook. I think this is much ado about nothing.
This is the comment i came here for. SlateStars previous 'meditations on moloch' considered the idea of complex capitalist systems, and a relentless trend towards efficiency and Survival of participants within the system that eventually snuffs out art, freedom, and results in dire consequences for both the participants and the wider environment.

This interpretation is similar to the one put forward here by Graeber, and as you point out, similarly overestimates the effectiveness of the feedback mechanisms that drive 'fit' or 'fitness' and especially overestimates the willingness or incentive of participants, including corporations as well as workers, to adapt beyond a point where survival, at least for a time, is achieved.

I entirely agree that bullshit jobs exist, and in significant number as a result of a number of factors, but i often suspect that a 'hypercapitalist' system, with greater resource allocation efficiency and price or other signalling, would just be a miserable gig-driven dystopia.

At least with a bullshit job you can condition yourself to relax and enjoy the ride...
Pissed Off by Verizon, Firefighters Join the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality
While I agree that Intel's response was far from ideal, I find it a bit rich for Linux kernel developers to be criticizing them. Remember, the completely uncoordinated disclosure happened because Linux kernel developers started discussing the vulnerability -- while under NDA -- on a public mailing list.
Been to China many times on a 14 hour flight over the years. The secret is the following:

- Do lunges & pushups every few hours to prevent butt from getting sore

- Workout/Run the day before or morning. Don't oversleep, lean on having less sleep before the flight (6-7 hours)

- Don't bother doing any work. Find that book you've wanted to read for some time, read that.

- Pick an aisle or window seat, middle seat sucks

When you get to your destination, do the following:

- Take a 1 hour nap in the middle of the day. This resets jetlag so you can sleep on a normal schedule
Its actually not quite that simple for long distance flying. Most private jets are not G650ERs which have a good long range and can fly a route that an airline might use a 777 or A350 for. The G650 sleeps 10 so you probably wouldn't want more than that for a long hall flight. And I mean if someone was going to let me fly a 650 for the same price as international business I would do it. Figure operating a long range jet runs about $5K per hour exclusive of actually buying and financing the plane. So the flight I am going to take in a couple of months would be roughly $65000 in variable costs.

Even at making 10K per hour ($20M per year) its going to get quite pricey to fly a long range private jet.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/november/1...
More data is not the same as more good data. And there certainly is such a thing as bad data. And I don't trust all doctors enough to rely on them to sift through the real versus the fake. Doctors are not scientists. Further, since drug makers can market directly to consumers, they will start asking for the fake stuff because the fake stuff will make fantastical claims.

You're also side-stepping the issue of over-the-counter drugs. With no efficacy required, we will see a proliferation of sugar pills making specific claims about pain, inflammation, fever suppression, decongestion and allergy reduction that don't require a prescription.
What I don't understand about the Boring company is that Musk's vision seems to be: Cheap tunnels so that we can throw lots and lots of cars down them thus alleviating congestion. Everyone gets mad and points out that cars driving down tunnels do nothing to alleviate congestion, because cars driving down tunnels result in tiny tiny capacity (2800 people per day in this case?) and that if you want to solve congestion just build more train tracks and run more trains on them.

Here's my question: Why is no one talking about the idea of using what Musk is pushing as a new incredible cheap way of building tunnels to build tunnels with trains in them?
Ah yes, it’s so easy to prove a conspiracy to yourself if you just assume one to begin with.
I do find that a glass of oj gets me "moving" rather quickly in the morning
People may not be reading news via Google Search, but they will often search for a person or place that is currently in the news. News outlets do get a lot of organic traffic that way.
>not in Germany

While on parenteral leave (Elternzeit) above the mandated minimum (Mutterschutz) you don't even get paid by your employer but you get 66% of your last pay up to a maximum amount from social securities.
I worked as a salaried government employee for a long time. Time reporting is a key part of our business, as without it you cannot spend appropriately.

Attorneys do the same thing. It’s no big deal.
Your comments are still not meeting the guidelines, so we've banned this account. We'll be happy to unban you if you email hn@ycombinator.com and commit to using the site as intended.
Catalytic converters are ruined by leaded gasoline, hence the switch to unleaded gas.
...beautiful, and dangeous place...
people come up here all the time and dont realize the level of preparation that is required...
there are hundreds of people that have, simply dissappeared, and sometimes are found being spat out at the foot of a glacier years later...
...i have to chop my own wood for fuel, split logs for my own timbers and lumber and haul 500--600 lbs of meat to my cabin and, process/preserve it...how am i connecting? off grid solar and line of sight laser repeaters pilfered from defunct comstations...
I agree that this privacy/ads arms race currently favors ads, but all it takes is one law (think GDPR) to dramatically reshape the conflict. Luckily that power still resides with the users.
It is not fixed. You still cannot disable the tracking via an extension like umatrix.

And no, I do not set the 'do not track' thing. Because that is one more bit of data sent out. To every website. Not just to Mozilla.

Actually more then a computer 'bit' by the way. What percentage of users use the 'do not track' setting? Let's say 1%. Voila. Setting it is worth about 7 bits of data to identify you.
Thank you, will take a look.
How would you like me to reimburse you?

I'm being serious -- I would be willing to do something to reduce or eliminate my environmental impact. Would carbon offsetting be enough, or is there something else I can do?
You can also look to the niche travel blogs and websites. I usually browse Suitcase Magazine’s travel guides for where to eat/stay/see if I’m in a city they have covered. Have not been disappointed so far
Uhh.. Google Maps? Kayak/Travelocity/Expedia/Orbitz/etc/etc?

If I'm staying near a business client or family I ask them. If they don't know I search. Then I see what's available on the booking sites.

Tripadvisor only ever came into the picture if I was visiting a resort area where I didn't know anyone.
A few years ago I was listening to an interview with (I believe) Tim Clark, president of Emirates, and he said that just by filling up business class - which happens most of the time - alone, their A380 flights from DXB to LHR are turning a profit. So the other 400 passengers in economy are a bonus.
This is a lot of words about a simple question. The author is making it seem like there are "10x heads of sales" out there when there quite simply aren't (unless you are hiring former congressmen as lobbyists, which isn't what he's talking about).

To sum this article up:

1) Let your product "infect" an organization at the end user level because it's useful and free.

2) Hire a head of sales to schmooze/strongarm the CIO of that organization to pay for all of the "FULL FEATURES (TM)" that you sell, such as security and compliance and consulting.

3) Try to make this head of sales hire a non-engineer because the only way to extract additional money from this old-school sales process is to wine and dine and play golf and speak in weird dialects about "synergies" and "total cost of ownership".
Sprints, marathons and hikes
This is what I do. Working in IT, I'm basically on call 24/7 (if there is a major issue) anyways. The typical shift here is 9 hours (1 for lunch). I typically take an hour for lunch and I'm at my desk for 7 hours. I "make up" that other hour for all the times I answer work email on the train or fix something after hours at home.

It's important to have a good work/life balance.
> This is a uniquely American issue.

Russia is similar. Aerospace Forces, Airborne Forces, Navy, National Guards, Border Services operate aircrafts. Army used to have own aviation, but it was recently merged under Aerospace Forces.
My understanding is that they've gotten better. FreeBSD has had advance notice of some issues. Last I heard they offered to let OpenBSD in too, but hadn't found anyone willing to sign an NDA.
Because Elon Musk doesn't build trains?
I might have to take you up on that offer. It's been too long since I visited Texas.
Both, if I understood what you mean: The GDPR regulation ((EU) 2016/679) contains provisions for legal enforcement, and describes which process and agencies are responsible for that.

Whether this actually works, only time can tell. But the fact that similar previous legislations went unenforced was a specific concern that the designers of the GDPR intended to address.
Whatever happened to bringing back the Concorde?
It might whistle, perhaps ultrasonically.

It might produce a tiny little thrust.
Another tool I use religiously: `autojump` (aliased to `j`) rather than `cd`. It learns where you go and lets you fuzzy-jump there.

https://github.com/wting/autojump

I also use `loop`, my own Rust-based replacement to bash's native loops:

https://github.com/Miserlou/Loop
My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb
You can reduce the problem by turning off CSS animation and blocking elements with Stylus[1][2]. Also turn off all CSS and JS by default and enable resources on a site-by-site basis with umatrix[3][4]. If a page isn't readable, you can turn on Firefox reader mode to format it with one click. The system works well for me.

I put this in my global Stylus rules:

/* Remove CSS animation on all websites */
*, *:before, *:after {
transition-property: none !important;
transform: none !important;
animation: none !important;
}

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...
Fs-verity: filesystem-level integrity protection (linux)
>My phone screen technique is more old school but I think works well. I pick their top language or domain (web or mobile or whatever) and ask 10 trivia questions. Medium difficulty questions I'd expect a programmer with any experience to answer. I look for maybe 70% correct and I look for quick answers. You know it or you don't. And I set that expectation up front so they can give me a few "I don't know"s with no penalty.

This is basically what I've found all Triplebyte challenges to be like. It's a bit off-putting at first to be asked to do a "quiz" before anyone will even speak to you, but honestly I've realized it's better for everyone involved than doing the traditional "recruiter runaround" which can introduce bias and be highly inefficient.
I had a case where tar was too slow for my needs. Rust did let me cobble the right syscalls and threads together to make it more HDD-friendly and faster while forcing me to handle all the gritty filesystem error cases from the start. Lo and behold, about 4 times faster on an idle system and orders of magnitude faster on a busy system. It just would not have been possible to do it by combining shell utilities and too finicky in C.
> It is hard for airlines to cater for that last 5% without a negative economic impact.

If this were any other industry, doing things that obviously cause harm to 5% of customers would be considered unlawful discrimination or assault.
That works when you can pump oil to pay for everything and don't need to be competitive on cost. The rest of the world can't pay for overhead like that.
The hike is my favorite metaphor for sustainable product development:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880953
6 Ideas Your Business Can Use Right Now to Increase Sales
They knew how to go to the moon in 1961, at least in principle. It was "just" engineering. They don't know how to get to 100% renewables, not even in principle. (The 100% plans need a storage technology that doesn't exist, yet.)
A very few powerful men have been abusing other men for generations too. Women in such powerful families were no less abusive. Why are we ignoring the suffering of men?
This is not true. AIUI the SFMTA told these companies that they were working on regulations governing these scooters and that they couldn't deploy them yet. Then one of the companies (I forget who) jumped the gun and deployed them anyway, so the others rushed out to deploy them too.

I don't know if this was strictly illegal, but it was certainly flaunting explicit instructions from the SFMTA.
Will a computer fix a broken door? Wash out glassware? Cook 5,000 meals every lunch hour? Knock on a dorm door, when there's a 3 am party going on? Trim the hedges? Roll the AV projector out to the lecture hall that needs it? Ticket someone for parking without a permit? Wash the windows?

Or would you prefer tenured professors doing all that work, instead of teaching, or research?
One of the things I really like about this article is the story of Tuft & Needle. One of the biggest reasons (imo) why there are relatively few minority founders is because of the lack of access to inter-generational wealth. If you are poor or come from a poor background it's hard to build the requisite capital necessary from a friends and family round because often times they just don't have it. Now as a founder you find a way, but still it's nice seeing a success story of a company that started with only $6k. That's money that most engineers could save up relatively easily.
AI Enables Markerless Animal Tracking
I think it is worth noting that Singapore Airlines used to have a 19-hour flight from Singapore to NYC, which it flew for 9 years. Having been on this flight, the experience wasn't terrible and there was plenty of space to walk around and spread your legs, despite it being a non-A380 or anything fancy back in 2008. There were always spaces in the back of the plane with snacks and drinks where passengers could relax and look out the window and talk to the stewardesses.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/02/singapore-airlines-is-bringi...
ExpoIT Joins Mushroom Networks Partnership Program to Offer Next-Gen Networking
The higher cabin pressure of the 787 is amazing, though. I suppose if you're extra-tall it makes sense to avoid (or at least to check the seat configuration), but otherwise they're lovely aircraft.
Really glad to see openrisc getting some well deserved traction.
My world is a great place right now, largely because it is what I make it.
How Donut Count's hole works
NATO Phonetic Alphabet Poster
On Virgin Atlantic's flights they have a class called "Upper Class." It is essentially business class with some first class perks (like airport lounge access). Anyway, they have these unique seats that let you lay literally flat[0]. It is the only time I've ever slept on a flight, even most business class don't go flat they just tip back.

So sign me on for bunk beds.

[0] https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E87ARA/upper-class-on-a-virgin-atl...
In China, the largest high speed train network in the world, current technology's realistic speeds for realistic routes work out to around 200km/hr against an 'as the crow flies' distance (reference: recent 6 hour journey). This is actually very competitive with flying by the time you've done the 'get out of town' and 'security theater' parts, then the 'get back in to town' part for sort of 1000-2000km distances. After that, it's better to fly.
Here's another that I use daily:
https://github.com/clvv/fasd

You can even combine that with the aforementioned `fzf`:
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#with-fasd-1
Do any of you still get reams of paper junkmail on your doorstep or a mailbox crammed so full of kruft that the real post office complains about not being able to deliver mail

Yes.
Correct – their business model is around providing 2FA security for your entire organization.
Our Bosch washer on ECO setting takes a long time but washes very well. Not a problem if you are setting it going at bed time.
People have been ignoring info for almost exactly as long as the FSF has been trying to supersede man with it.
I had a company want to do a full day interview, but I had to cut it short and beg off at 1 PM, because they had already blasted past my hotel check-out time, and were in danger of encroaching on the departure time of my return flight--that they booked for me. It was the worst interview experience I have ever had. They declined to arrange for a rental vehicle, so someone from the company had to drive me to and from the hotel, with airport ground transport handled by a shuttle van. Later, they ghosted me, and even tried to stick me with the hotel bill.

The one benefit was the lesson on how to recognize some early warning signs when interviewing.

To name and shame: Tyler Technologies, Eagle Division.
Deep Learning Approach for Speech Animation – Disney Research
Rent is also tied to bad housing policy that prevents building.
How should ls coloring work in your view? ls just does the file system reading and then some other tool parses the ls output matches some expressions and adds color? Or something like that?

I suppose it's just a generic colorizer tool that takes a configuration file of expressions and arbitrarily colors data feed through it?
Yes, and it's included in your paycheck

But most of the times one could take advantage of it by living closer to the job and reducing commute time

I always wonder why people decide to leave faraway from work which isn't in any way cheaper if you include commute cost and time, for a room more

A room you don't use because you don't have time to use it

Best thing my parents taught me is living at walking distance from work
There are types of work where you may deliver nothing for months. I think the sprint idea mainly works for well understood tasks where there are no surprises. I often work on stuff where I can only report failure for weeks or months until it hopefully works.