skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their employees contribute tons of code to the kernel and they're a premium partner in the Linux foundation paying Linus's salary....

Linus wasn't starving before MS became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation.

> They contribute to the kernel, hadoop, mesos, k8s, they contribute to gcc, heck they let you run linux on windows now with Linux subsystem...

Right, so as far as I can tell most of their contribution are likely to be things to make their linux subsystem work better. Which has very little effect on me.

> >As far as I can tell, if you want to run a legacy Windows app, you're more likely to be successful running it in Wine on Linux.

> no sane person would do that. Just run it in compatibility mode on Windows 10.

Mentioning sanity and running Windows 10 in the same breath?
Well, yes. People had developed cuneiform by 2500 BC. Kings and princes had book collections a few centuries after, and it's not surprising that in their scriptoria they developed proofreading methods.
They basically sold the patents their investors paid for when they took out the last loan and didn’t meet the requirements to keep getting funded.

It seems that the only question remaining is how long Elizabeth and Sunny go to prison for after this brazen heist they pulled off.
The speed of light time to the satellite and back is too long for them to replace courtsiders.
Outline is more optimized: https://outline.com/kRrnNH
Campaigns I have worked with are generally eager for this kind of training and would gladly accept it if it were offered. They are aware of the hacking threat and feel out of their depth.

I think a good starting point is to simply offer in-person training at key points in the campaign (on filing, after a primary win, and before the general election).
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And is also the department that famously decided to conduct a mock hostage rescue training exercise in a 5-star hotel without obtaining permission or even notifying the hotel management and staff.

When ASIS operators were refused entry into a hotel room, they broke down the door with sledgehammers. The hotel manager, Nick Rice, was notified of a disturbance on the 10th floor by a hotel guest. When he went to investigate, he was forced back into the lift by an ASIS operator who rode the lift down to the ground floor and forcibly ejected Rice into the lobby.

Believing a robbery was in progress, Rice called the police. When the lift started returning to the ground floor, ASIS operators emerged wearing masks and openly brandishing 9mm Browning pistols and Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns, two of them with silencers[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Secret_Intelligence...
Ask HN: How did you get the motivation to finish old projects to improve CV?
i.e Half-done GitHub projects and the like...
Amazon is now worth $1 tn, What comes next is even more scrutiny of its power
Create Process to Return API Info and Add Optional Password Parameter in Cloud
In my experience, most drugstores sell several different variations of foam earplugs, and the ones that work best for me are the ones with the greatest noise reduction — at least 32db NRR or better.

But the biggest single device that has helped me more than anything is my CPAP.

If you have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, it would be a very good idea to have a sleep study done to see if this isn’t a problem that could be at least partly solved with the right equipment.

The CPAP is a life-changer, at least for me.
I'm very hesitant about zoom. I use it for conference calling at my job and download the app when I had to listen in to a meeting I was off site for. The meeting ended I exited the call and thought nothing of it, then an hour or two later I got an access notification that zoom had opened my camera, while I was under the impression it had quit. Their technique of downloading an executable every time you open a meeting from the web is also strange and somewhat uncomfortable. I do agree that it works brilliantly but I have my concerns about privacy and safety regarding it.
That would be one way to do it, but it's a lot more effort than "everyone just uses their own email, we never set anything up", which is the default and also free -- and default/zero effort/free is extremely popular. Even if there is an IT setup on a campaign it's not guaranteed everyone will be onboarded onto it. People come and go, balls get dropped, etc.

There are other bonuses to this too. The first that comes to mind are that campaigns are transient; using your own email can help you with document retention requests in the event of lawsuits. But I think mostly that political professionals use their email for a lot of different things, and keeping everything in a single account is a lot more convenient than dealing with multiple campaign accounts.
I took the liberty to change the title to the poignant conclusion of the article.

There is some weight behind this; Rob Jackson is Stanford faculty: https://woods.stanford.edu/about/woods-faculty/robert-jackso....

Here a couple more of his columns on SA: https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/rob-jackson/
well i was not expecting that ending... Can you elaborate?
> It was a tough job made tougher by the responsibilities of an Indian wife.

First of all, Kudos to these people! I wish India regains its old culture of respecting the knowledgeable rather than dim-witted Bollywood bimbos whose only "talent" is being born with a fair complexion.

Second, what stuck out in the article was the patronizing tone of the BBC. The 'West' and its never-ending quest to look down on us 'Heathens', never fails to amuse me. I was under the assumption that this was a creation Christian 'othering', which secularized under colonial rape of India, but apparently even the Greeks thought of the Orient as being filled with exotic monsters! With Christianity, it becomes the work of devil,and thus everything in India becomes 'evil' and ruled by the goat-monster. Now everything in India is worth destroying by the enlightened 'church' of intellectuals.

See,

https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/the-most-dangerous-place-for-w...
Iain M Banks' Culture novels do a pretty good job of describing a tech-Utopian society that you'd actually want to live in.
Also long gone from the company: the Skitch founders.

They "sold" their company to Evernote for stock in 2011-12. Let's just say that didn't work out so well for them.

Not that it's clear they'd have been much better off had they stayed independent. They had millions of users but no revenue.

Startup life can be brutal.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/advice/skitch-c...
Yes. I meant uninhabitable of course.
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Sorry, I misunderstood. I don’t actually drive so I wasn’t aware that the speed limit on the freeway was just a recommendation.
I mean, duh.
For some reason, I'm getting a 404.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180905024656/https://rupensavo...
Everything you say about India is true, and its opposite.

For the record, i can safely say that arranged marriages without the couple even meeting were common in my parents generation upto the 60s, became unusual in my generation (I don't know of any case in my family) around the 80s/90s and now would be unimaginable in my children's generation. This is a mostly (but not completely) urban middle class experience, spanning a very large family in north and west of India.

Things are different in the North vs the South, rural vs urban, poor and rich, different religions probably and so on. We are probably the most heterogenous society on earth, so this is not surprising.
Perhaps there is even an analogy with Sony delivering a lot of the sensors, and Tesla turning into a major battery supplier?
This is a half-truth, because there isn't really an AP Computer Science anymore. From wikipedia:

"Due to low numbers of students taking the exam, AP Computer Science AB was discontinued following the May 2009 exam administration."

Today's offering is, at best, some light familiarity with Java. That one is called "AP Computer Science A". There is even a wholly useless "AP Computer Science Principles" that involves writing small essays about non-technical aspects of computing.
I'm a fan of SimpleNote, which is plain text only and therefore limits the time you spend fussing with notes so you can get back to work.
> As examined at length by Steven Pinker's Blank Slate, they regard the controversy as outdated because nature won. Definitely.

How is this supported by your link, whose second bullet point is "No traits are 100% heritable"?
There is no step 3 — because you’re already asleep!

;)
30 years ago you didn't need a passport to reenter the United States from Mexico or Canada.
China really does have a myopia epidemic, and treating it is costly for the state. Preventing it by essentially forcing children to play outside will result in large cost savings.
Hrm. I've worked at a large tech firm for more than a decade and there has never been a full day where VCS or the build farm were down all day. It's notable when it's down for more than twenty minutes.
Quite honestly, considering that most other jobs require bullshitting expertly (Humanities, Journalism)... I'm glad, Indian parents want their chidlren to do something useful with their lives.
Super agree, this would be fantastic. I'm sure there are people at the DNC and elsewhere who would happy to advocate for the (very small amount of) funding it would take -- as you wrote it should be a top priority.
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis

The Mac Is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams

Getting Real by 37 Signals
Evernote user for a bunch of years. Then switched to just using Atom + .md files. A couple months ago tried out Ulysses and fell in love. (https://ulysses.app/)

Typewriter mode, .md syntax, customizable themes, sweet tagging and filtering / organization (way better than Evernote). And you can save directly to native file structure. Haven't tried out the mobile app yet, but can highly recommend the desktop app.
Google Testing Blog: Just Say No to More End-To-End Tests (2015)
My understanding is that the European investment in electric vehicles has really been driven by the VW Emissions scandal. That has shifted expectations of the future away from diesel and toward electrification. Additionally, several cities are now pushing diesel bans and eventually banning internal combustion engines altogether.
In companies like Facebook, employees weigh principles against a paycheck
Not so, says the highest Australian court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder#Australia
It is hard to remember a time when Theranos wasn’t a byword for scamming, but if you have 15 minutes it’s worth searching HN for Theranos articles and look at comments from the very beginning.
> Honestly it's hard to imagine a good mitigation for this.

Besides the one that AWS and GCP have implemented? That is, to have at least N+1 datacenters? Actually, I think N+1 is the old Google prod regime. I suspect that GCP is at least N+1 per continental region, and I'd be surprised if AWS isn't as well.
Really? What use case? I've had the opposite experience, ff uses much less ram than chrome.
If you gloss over all the "nasty, brutish and short" bits of that lifestyle, sure.

Also, you need vast amounts of land to maintain that lifestyle. You can argue that there are too many humans, and I'd agree with you. But to have less humans we either need to have less babies, or live a lifestyle that involves lots of infant mortality.

Modern civilisation tends to have less babies - there's a strong inverse correlation between country development and family size.

Hunter-gatherers solved it the other way.

I get the argument for living in touch with nature, etc. It's all very romantic. But arguing that watching most of your babies die is "better" than this... no, sorry, that doesn't work for me.
Well, their Android app on ChromeOS is amazing. I hope these people can pull it together.
Chrome 69 released with new UI and random password generator
Facebook’s Private Groups Offer Refuge to Fringe Figures
Amanda Palmer, does ahve a big point in her reformulating of the Question.

It's not how do we make people pay for it, how do we let people pay for it.

People want to pay for content, the current systems don't let people pay for it.
How to Use an Ansible Playbook to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04
If we assume your argument is right, how are dealers a weakness? They close shop and Mercedes adopts the Tesla sales model and increases margins if the Tesla model is superior?
Thank you for linking to at least one page on the company site. The https://tinyletter.com/ article links to it only very obscurely around an image. There are many normal links in the article, so I assume the failure to link clearly to the product under discussion was just an oversight.
I guess it just makes sense for him to handle all of WSJ's Theranos coverage.
Google UA sniffed on Gmail to exclude Firefox (and every browser that wasn't specifically Chrome).

And there shouldn't be a "migration period" that holds the entire feature hostage until browsers implement Chrome-specific stuff.
Always measure!

In a realistic application (with cache pressure) you may find an array performs even better because the CPU can trivially predict and pipeline the entire operation vs jumping around to random locations in memory.

Another approach is a B-tree with lots of nodes stored at the leaves. This can get you the array's linear performance for small datasets, while preserving other big-O benefits of sets/trees (eg insertion time).

As the side of your dataset grows, there is a performance cliff at L1, L2, and L3 cache size. For very large datasets, creating data structures with predictable access patterns often trumps Big-O entirely. If following a linked list thrashes the cache it turns out the constant factor can and does dominate.

So again, always measure with your application on your intended hardware. Be sure you measure with realistic loads and access patterns.
Yes, I am not an native speaker, but I know the difference very well.

Typing from the phone very late and feeling sleepy causes your brain to perceive things in a different way though :)
The big auction was on July 19. All the Mazaks are gone.
Here’s two examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349
Highly enjoyed Bad Blood and recommend it to anyone interested in some fine investigative journalism.

I think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.

But instead... here we are.
The context is that Dragonfly has recently been proposed to the CNCF Sandbox[0].
Checkout the HN previous thread[1].

I've worked on P2P distribution systems and found that not many people are able to reuse these systems because of assumptions about the network that are not consistent across all environments. Eager to hear if anyone besides Alibaba is using Dragonfly as a counterpoint.

[0]: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/130

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303055
Debate: Open technology and standards have widened social injustice
It just seems like a car is the wrong form factor for all of these tasks. Or more importantly, doing all of theses task atomically using cars as the atoms is awfully inefficient and cumbersome. So much capital and physical resource goes into manufacturing cars, and to then use a lumbering metal cage to pick up groceries when transporting a human is no longer a requirement seems silly.

There is also the issue that car infrastructure dominating humans living spaces and running out of space has become an increasing issue and EV/vehicle automony only embeds the issue deeper into our societies practices. We should be finding ways to replace cars.

Disclaimer, I come from rural South Australia and would have found it very difficult to live without a car due to the long distances involved and complete lack of public transportation outside of the (only) city center. So I empathize with the rural need for cars. But the majority of people who would buy an autonomous EV are not going to be rural, and probably have better alternatives.
They use the Google Benchmark library. (I would read into it to answer your actual questions)
Here I was hoping this was a reference to James Mickens: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/james-mickens-the-funniest-ma...
r/theranosdidnothingwrong

The Theranos Snap, everything disolves
http://books.pharo.org/ has a bunch of books. Pharo By Example is a nice starting point.
"Shockley, by advocating such genetic-determinist views on race and intelligence, seemed like an atavistic throwback, to a time in America’s history when immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe (particularly Jewish immigrants) were screened out because of their alleged intellectual inferiority to the superior Nordic races."

I think it shows how easy is it to misapply the idea of genetic (or natural) origin of intelligence.

Jews were regarded as inferior in intelligence despite the fact that there is an actual evidence that they are not.

I believe that some humans simply want to be xenophobes, and the actual reality doesn't matter for the categorization.

In any case, I find the characters like Shockley to be very interesting. Apparently, they want to change society for the better but somehow "forget" that people have agency; the reason why to change society should always come from the wishes of individuals.

There is an element of psychopath here, regarding people as things, trying to arrange them (the society) so that it follows certain pattern that is pleasant to the eye of the person who wants to arrange it. And this is not tied to any particular ideology. Plato, Ayn Rand, Lenin, Shockley.. they all wanted a very similar thing.
Isn't the concept of trade not being valuable sort of contradictory? Even without the concept of individual ownership, the precondition would seem to merely be that something is valued. Trade is not (remotely) unique to humans, and I don't think it's possible that human society would ever have been without it.
Check my https://notes.sciter.com/ - it is not using external storage but your own hard drive.

Just in case: I am one of three initial Evernote developers who implemented the idea of Stepan Pachikov : https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/11/motivation-and-a-bit-of-...
Google is fairly near MS (Azure did $1.9B in Q1, and GCP+Google Apps did $1.7B). But AWS is ~2.5x the other two.
It's a hardware key that provides 2 factor authentication for GMail.
Google End Support Chrome Apps (2016)
I don't know what information Apple collects, but Google is definitely the opposite of ethical. If you have Google Play Services, then they continuosly ask you to enable track your location, track what cell towers and WiFi networks are around and so on.
The OneNote web clipper is a disgrace compared to Evernote's. How do you get around this problem?
Well, in fairness, the technology wasn't there or possible (given current understanding of microfluidics), so it couldn't have revolutionized testing even if it was run more honestly. It could have harmed fewer people though if it never existed.
Forgive this noob, but I was wondering what use cases infrastructure like this is used for. I have only read a little about containers and have seen plenty of projects working with them, but then I see that this project is also related. Can anyone point me to where I can read about the use cases of all of these and how they fit in real world applications? Thank you!
Previous discussion (269 points, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303055
Google Scholar is a service to humanity. However, I do wonder: how comprehensive is it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the thesis of Bad Blood just that Theranos simply had no groundbreaking new technology? (and of course that Holmes and Balwani lied and bullied their way into an insane valuation for blood-testing tech that didn't exist and was propped up by third-party commercial testing machines)
Can it be that they just allow modem to use the same RAM and ROM that CPU uses, so that they don't have to install another RAM chip?
Part of me is disappointed that the tech Theranos had promised never amounted to anything game-changing; but the other especially enjoys Carreyrou's in-depth investigative reporting of the subject.
Probably `M-x eww`.
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https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32
Yes!

I always wonder about how far this goes... Humans from 100,000 years ago were basically like us. Our oldest history goes back maybe 15,000 of those years. Australian Aboriginal history, the longest I'm aware of, goes back less than half of that.

We know that humans travelled over the Pacific, traded between South America And North Africa, for example. But because we don't have any artifacts from those periods we assume that this was haphazard and random rather than deliberate and organised. But artifacts just don't survive this long. So we have no idea what kind of societies were around 75,000 years ago.

They could have discovered iron and made iron tools or weapons. But iron tools will completely disintegrate in 75,000 year, while stone ones won't. So we only see the stone tools, and assume they only had stone tools.

It's interesting to speculate, but as there's no evidence (nor can there be) it'll remain an interesting speculation until we invest time travel.
That photo of Holmes suddenly makes me want to go check on my pet rabbit, BRB.
Dropbox Paper is a good Evernote replacement- cutover one year ago, very satisfied. Great note taking tool, markdown engine has very efficient keyboard shortcuts to generate inline blocks and other useful formatting (incl code blocks), easy to drop photos or files inline, good search, good sharing, reliable sync, and a “Save to Dropbox” icon on IOS (send to from Safari) to use as a replacement for Evernote webclipping ( clip as pdf, then insert pdf into Dropbox paper doc).
VM and container image distribution for clusters.
Kinda hard like the lawers are still after years trying to figure out the issue between Oracle and Google, Apple and Samsung... It's a really hard legal issue, expecting it to be easy for a computer to solve. It's naive.
It seems from those comments there that a lot of people on here were quite sceptical to their methods from the start.

There are a lump of people who appear excited in general, sure, but the people who appear to have know-how in the area are more subdued and questioning, even then. There are a fair few comments calling it garbage.

Many people seem to have called it.
The difference I see is that AWS didn't seem to have suffered a non-region specific service outage yet.
Whether or not it's related to the South Central US region outage, today Azure Active Directory was down for ~4h. Because it's not running in a particular region, no HA or DR strategy, other than having your services be deployed to multiple cloud providers, would have mitigated the outage.