skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really appreciate your comment. I've put five figures away for each of my kids already in investment accounts, and I get hassled by family with questions like, "What about college? Why didn't you put it in a 529 plan?" I respond with, "What if they want to start a business?" which always gets me a blank stare, like it's Frodo taking the ring to Mordor.

Maybe college improves in the future. Maybe taxes go up a bit and college becomes free in the US (or we live somewhere developed like Europe where college costs are minimal). With that said, I have to plan for a future where college isn't the only path to success for my children.
He was supported by his family. I'm sure you understand that receiving support doesn't make mental illness disappear. And in the US, no one can force him to take meds unless it's proven in court that he is going to harm himself or others.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France
I genuinely don't think you read the linked article. The author clearly is quite good at Haskell and hasn't fallen into this "trap" you're positing. It's not a failure of the "practitioner" at all. It's a fairly insightful point about the psychology of programming and the diminishing returns of the kind of skills we're talking about here.

> you can be quite assured my production code is anything but a mess of functional paradigms inappropriately applied

The point of the article was precisely that functional paradigms appropriately (which is to say, "appropriately") applied are themselves a design smell.
Glad they rolled back the redesign.

Hopefully they will work to improve "Skype for Business" to work more like Skype.

Skype for Business is just horrible.

1) Messages appear grouped by who I send them to, but there are multiple message threads. This wouldn't be the end of the world, except if I respond on my phone or laptop the responses go to different message threads. Impossible to read back a message thread and have it make any sense.

2) Most of the time, there's a sync issue... I get messages on all devices, but if I reply I only see my responses on the device that I was on when I typed the response. Mix with point 1, and I have no meaningful history being logged.

3) Messages take different amounts of time to get to a phone or a computer.

4) Files will silently fail to send. I look at a conversation, and it looks like my file goes through... then I look back a day or so later and it says, "File failed to send." So aggravating. Can't rely on it at all.

Anyway I know it's probably more to do with the instance my work set up, but this is my first time using Skype for Business since it rebranded away from Lync. And the experience hasn't been good. Give me Slack or Discord or WhatsApp... really anything else. No shortage of options these days.
Setup a landing page and ask for money. If someone signs up, you are onto something. Try to get a few customers, preferably to offset your monthly costs and then start building. This only works on a smaller projects without physical costs.

I.e. I posted a website with a basic concept of what I could provide. After the first person signed up, I started building out the infrastructure.
I would assume/hope that the "airplane mode" would do such a thing...
Yeah I remember commenting here a few years ago with surprise that they were a "unicorn" with ~$30M ARR, and nobody seemed to find that valuation unrealistic...
Right. Linux would be an OK alternative for me if the Adobe Suite worked out of the vox.
Thanks. Hopefully this will be solved when they adopt Web Authentication?
> Most people can't afford to worry about what's "boring", they're focused on making sure they can survive

Isn't the point that kids (transitioning to adults) who can get the good jobs without college are going to be out of the "just trying to survive" category? They'll make enough money that they have time, and they are bright enough and motivated to learn enough that they are likely to get bored.

A better response would be that autodidacts are more likely to keep learning on their own, and therefore have less need of a college degree to develop the skills for self-driving car work or whatever else.
I agree--after all, security is generally unverifiable anyway, even with perfect visibility.

However, in the context of ethical security conversations, the two are anything but orthogonal. The security expectations of someone buying an open phone, and the security expectations of someone buying "private" access into a proprietary platform, will be different. Sure, my baseband could be compromised, but if I'm more worried about leaking information to ad networks, what I really need is a firewall and hosts file, not an isolated baseband unit. If we're talking about an ethical security conversation, maybe we should mention the fact that this is the security Apple has to control what code runs on your phone, not the security a user has to control the flow of their data. Though, presumably you can have both goals, Apple shows interest only in the former.

My point being the two phones are extremely different products, especially regarding ethics, so the straightforward comparison and verdict struck me as extremely narrow-minded about how people use their phones.
Excellent, thanks for the redirect :)
Today it is a bucket of water https://youtu.be/SZatuz30J3k

https://youtu.be/wd53COWMM3M
How does this relate in any way to cruel and unusual punishment?
> The U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment bars cities from prosecuting the homeless for sleeping outside on public property when they cannot obtain shelter, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday

This will get overturned.
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. It's a perfectly reasonable question.

> emission and absorption exist along the null axis

Only if the photon travels through free space. If it's reflected or refracted this is no longer true.
Two reasons I think. First, understandably by now the moderators must dread these kinds of submissions, given that they inevitably evolve along the same acrimonious lines. Supporting this submission by pinning it or unflagging it is sort of making a rod for their own back. Second, some people are fanatically pro-Musk and they downvote or flag without second thought. I don’t think it’s coordinated, I just think the result is rapid downvoting and mass flagging.

My advice is to email them if you feel strongly about this or other articles, and ask them to pin it or unflagging it, it understand if they err on the side of protecting their sanity rather than the submission.
Brands are typically associated with external reputations, but nobody has more exposure to a brand than the employees of the company that owns it. As a result the brand has greater power inside the company than anywhere else - however much a person will say "I'll use this because the name Skype makes me feel good," so much more will Microsoft people say, "I will approve of this because the Skype name makes me feel good."
ArXiv does physics too. At least for particle physics, it's all there.
> we foresee a delay in production until April 2019.

This is the only bit I read, the rest was blah blah. The first entirely predictable delay of many, if I might add. They are on a long road to "Sorry we tried, here are some discount coupons for purism laptops". Well, it won't be that long really, unless a badly needed funding angel swoops in.

Their delusion is in some sense laudable, as any startup should believe it's own bullshit. But when you know better than they do about their chances, it's still hard to watch folks put themselves through this.
Tesla's aren't that much less than new (although I was looking at "certified" ones through Tesla.) I decided there wasn't much reason to buy used.

The reason to buy used is that there is no waiting list so you can get it now.

Which implies as a corollary that if Tesla was able to fill current demand for new cars, then the price of used Teslas would drop substantially.
> Too sick to be helped or supported.

I disagree with that. He definitely was not too sick to be helped or supported.
Which is the thing that happens after they deny your passport, in the same way that it's the thing that happens after they arrest you for a crime. "Innocent until proven guilty" means you go free if they can't prove you're guilty, not that you don't have to go through the process.

You still have to have some type of evidence specifically linking you to a crime. The midwives never gave names of specific people.

What does that have to do with racism? Your argument can't be that no one has ever made a false claim against a white person.

We aren’t talking about any random White person. We are talking about a President of the United States who specifically helped “radical Muslims” and a President who was accused of being a “secret Muslim” before he was ever elected.

The people from Norway are going from a country with more government benefits to one with less. If they liked what they had then why did they leave?

Actually most don’t.

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/13/norway-better-than-don...

So if Trump wants them here despite their viewpoint being more in line with Democrats, that kind of puts your whole argument to rest....
Why do you make excuses for poverty being a reason to break society's rules? You suggest people who are poor get a more permissive set of rules? How about rich people?

Your individual inclination of being charitable isn't a policy for regulating or governing a society successfully.

I remember a Facebook acquaintance who decried someone charged with fare evasion on the subway, "because we're criminalizing being poor". What about the poor people who are paying their fare, obeying the law? Why are you forgiving the law breaker, and doing nothing for the law abider? Or actively showing them why following the rules is pointless?

Consistently enforcing rules benefits the least advantaged people in society the most.

And I agree with the commenter below that the reasoning on display in the court's opinion is really shady. You can be exempt from obeying law because of your circumstances or status? That's really workable? Who decides? What level of criminal act is justifiable for homeless people then? How about using the street as a public toilet? Are they exempt from that too because it's a biological imperative?

This is full of holes.
Voce:motherboard article from 2014 "God's lonely programmer":

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonel...

Discussion on hn:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658283
You could ab update using dd to write to the other partition(s)
The next revision board (v2 costs $16) has a FTDI chip and you can use its oscillator(12MHz).
The homeless aren't prosecuted for sleeping outside. They're prosecuted for public indecency (i.e., exposing their privates to passersby and children), drug use, threats, physical violence, public intoxication.

The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a day, warm and clean clothing, a clean dedicated space to sleep, and all the free health services you need.

EDIT: Former public defender here. People have this bizarre, media-fueled image of jail and prison as horrible places to live. However, Oz is the minority of facilities--Orange is the New Black is far more representative of your typical incarceration facility. In many states, and especially on the West Coast, prison and jail facilities are nicer than the local schools. The only long-term homeless I've met that didn't want to go to jail--and in LA, I've encountered thousands of homeless individuals--were the drug addicts and drunks, because behind bars you're not allowed to drink or do drugs and they might give you medication that triggers withdrawal.
Definitely the former.
I'm a materialist, but the discomfort is still there. Intellectual philosophy (moral relativism, illusion of self, etc.) is insoluble to the emotions we evolved with. (Take the fear of death.)
There is no such requirement, and I thought I was clear that I appreciated the post, and was merely trying to add the information.

Also: the headline has "now" in it. It's not the end of the world, but I've seen correction notes on NYT etc articles for far smaller matters. It's just a general principle that true information > false information.
IIRC the latest C standards adopted the union trick for type punning; it is the only correct way to access floating-point as int, or create an array of function pointers of different types.

(The latter is not something I've seen any compiler ever exploit though)
This would never happen for numerous reasons, but imagine if you could fork a company somehow. Take the existing state, but just take it in an entirely different direction.

For companies that don't produce physical goods, this would actually be somewhat doable..
Ubuntu Unity8 on Gnome
I don't understand the hand-waving here. Does the phone have a comparably secure design to that of an iPhone or not? What other question is there to ask about the security of the phone?

I bring it up because the project makes a very big deal out of how much security their ethical approach adds. From what I can tell, their approach nets them materially less security than either flagship phone.
Having VSTS down all day meant I got exactly 0 done today. Completely crazy to me.
It reminds me of when I was in 8th grade and I discovered Visual Studio and made tons of "apps" that were glorified iframes with a menu and an about box for no reason other than I could. It's a clear case of a solution in search of a problem syndrome (not that there aren't proper use cases for complex web/desktop apps, obviously).
> because it is such a low volume car that is often (but assuredly not always) a second car that gets less use.

I always have to provide a mileage estimate to get an insurance quote -- and if I don't go to enough places that sell my mileage info, I have to send in a mileage declaration about once a year; so use shouldn't have anything to do with it.
It wasn't supposed to be subtle. Arionhardison has been aggressive and insensitive. I have engaged him in good faith. I accept that this turned in to a flamewar (and that it was a flametopic all along), but I object to that I have been name calling or attacking him. What he has written is clearly bigotry.
I have been a constructive poster here for years, but I rather take my ban now than taking a warning for talking against hate.
> but maybe it says something about the optimization pitfalls of our economy

Of the tech economy, perhaps. Or perhaps that's what you meant by "our", this being a tech site.

A huge amount of the workforce is engaged in work that doesn't change much at all. Construction workers, skilled labor like service plumbing or mechanical maintenance, engineering, retail work, etc. It's fairly optimized and if it changes, it changes in reaction to something or because new technology opened new opportunities. Really, it seems like mobile and web applications are the most stuck into this loop of having to add something new. An emacs users who used it 25 years ago could still use it today.
Any self hosted alternative to Evernote? Never used Evernote, but sounds nice.
Was this on the Mac because I didn't have this issue and I just got a new Mac in August. Just FWIW -- these days a lot of software is inconsistent.
I would like meaningful subdomain names, avoid putting data (particularly if it needs URL encoding) in query params, try to make urls somewhat parsable by non-technical humans.
If I were buying a $90k car and you told me that $50-$100 of that went into sturdy door handles, I'd be entirely okay with that. Unless I'm buying a track car, I'm expecting the high price tag to be reasonably good parts and then the "death by a thousand cuts" of small design and engineering details meant to make a better driving/riding experience. That's the 80% of the work/cost that makes 20% of a difference.
I recognize Taiwan and Tibet as independent states.
The PMs in charge of this particular design choice did not listen to external or internal feedback.

That is a mistake regardless of the product, space, etc.
El Cronicante (Un libre pensador)
I don't believe so.

People like to interact with the physical cars given it is such a large purchase. They get to bring their family, sit in it, talk through options with a salesperson. It's like telling Apple or Chanel to get rid of their stores. It's ridiculous.

For servicing most people want to take their car somewhere local to be repaired. And many types of servicing need a workshop i.e. to get under the car.
> Nothing wrong with getting more context, is there?

In principle, no. But you didn't need to add the part about cyclists breaking the law. Many if not most cyclists would find that offensive.

Over the years I've heard many drivers suggest that the reason I don't get respect on the road is that I probably break the law. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be suggesting that I might be using my air horn so frequently because I run red lights and stop signs and want to stop traffic that has the right of way. When stated that way, the suggestion seems ridiculous. If a driver said that they needed to use their horn frequently, I wouldn't suggest that they might be road raging at everyone or something similar, even if I thought that were likely or true. I'd just ask for context without any assumptions.
Isn't this kind of what Alphabet did?
He's not. It was just a neologism for him.
Why not just read the opinion? The case name is in the article, this is the very first link when you google it: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/04/15...

I don't see it as so illogical. Judicial ideas of what constitutes "cruel" have for obvious reasons changed a lot over the centuries.
I wonder if that's one of their facilities down here in San Antonio. Was getting flash flood alerts on my phone all night and morning.
I might just know the wrong people and read the wrong press but I do not see proof of this anywhere. People generally copy and improve, including almost all success stories. Everything they did was done, they just did it better and/or bigger. There are surely counter examples, but, as far as I can find, those are a minority.
can’t anyone rent an apartment in any college town and accomplish living near 18-22 year olds ?
In fact if you are 18-22 yourself, it wouldn’t even be weird. You don’t need to pay college tuition to do this.
I installed Windows 10 on my machine a couple of weeks ago, and downloaded the latest version of Skype. I could still log in with my 10 year old account, but I couldn't recover my chat history (even though I have the actual appdata dir that contains the chat data)
Moreover, there were no jobs for theoretical physics professors back then either. ;-)
I think you're understating how long IOMMUs have been in common use on SoCs. It's not new tech.

(And I think tptacek's "essentially a USB peripheral" might be intended to be read as "metaphorically a USB peripheral" -- i.e. with only the capabilities you'd expect a USB peripheral to have, even when hooked up over PCIe, because of the IOMMU.)
I still don't get it, why they didn't pick Plasma Mobile as their primary UX.
> Sad to think that skilled engineers are being underpaid because they lost the geographic birthplace lottery.

How do you know they were underpaid?

It's cheaper for me to have boards made in Colorado than in Santa Clara, and I'm certain the Colorado workers are paid less (the parts come from Digit-Key either way). Would you consider your statement true in that case too?

They amount paid (whatever it was) might have been enough for a nice lifestyle in Sri Lanka -- perhaps more so than the Colorado case.
Its interesting to think back when Saudi Arabia and the UAE tried to force Blackberry to fall in line there was global outrage including here about the 'backwardness' of these countries and values of democracy and freedom.

Now just a decade later this 'backward' behavior is now 'normalized'.

This is evidence things are moving too fast for us to fully comprehend or contemplate how far down the slippery slope we may be at the current time and how 'values' and definitions change in just a decade.
Until recently, MacOS was the only OS with all of the following available natively: a Unix shell, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite. The fact that they made great hardware also helped.

I guess at this point it's just inertia, but if there were a comparable alternative I'd love to move.
I found Kubernetes to be easier to learn than the docs would suggest, and I wrote up a short article as a high-level overview. I hope it helps someone, and that it saves you a lot of time:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/kubernetes-101/

You may want to spend two minutes reading this before going into the post's website, as an overview.
I'd select 10 random users who abandoned the app and offered them $10 in Amazon ecards for 10 minutes on the phone with me. Then, I'd ask them what they had hoped for when they signed up, and what went wrong.
This is just nationalistic jingoism...

As but one (or, actually: thousands) of data points in evidence: If your idea was workable, there'd be some among the tech companies both large and small would have implemented it.
The overwhelming majority of appellate decisions never reach the supreme court (because if they did, there'd be no point to having an appellate level at all if the high court needed to review everything). It's true that the 9th circuit is the most reversed. It's not true that any given decision is likely to be overturned.
Arresting them, charging them with a crime, and putting them in jail... for sleeping in the only place they can. That is cruel punishment because the "crime" is unavoidable.
This is a tough one because as a homeowner I really don't like that an army of homeless people can setup encampment by my home on public property (in part maintained by my tax dollars) and then bring crime, aggressive panhandling, trash (lots of it) and lowered property values to my neighborhood.

I'd really not like to see that expanded and we should be in search of better alternatives that don't punish productive members of society.
First Hire to First Fire
"blue-collar" generally means people who do physical, non-office work; and the jobs that they do. "white-collar" generally means office workers and management, and their jobs.

AFAIK it originates in the color shirts normally worn, i.e. if you're out working on engines you can't afford white shirt collars as they'll get stained.

The difference is a lot less clear in tech, where we're all "white-collar" in old-school terms but there is still a very wide scale of job-pleasantness and pay and everything else. I think when these terms originated, an entire productive industry of only white-collar folks was unimaginable.

("Productive" as opposed to, say, banking.)
> No one scrolls to the end of a long form article to get a recipe.

I highly doubt this is true. Scrolling to the bottom of a page is a very low cost to pay for a recipe.
What happens when we hit sperm count zero?
"You disagree with the notion, that people that produce content should be paid for it?"

Is that really that value that governments should be optimizing for? What about people who's content isn't all that good? Should they be ensuring payments for anyone who creates a new viral meme?

I'd propose a different value:
"How do we best incentivize people to produce content?" (or perhaps "quality content")

Trying to make sure people can get paid is one strategy to incentivize the creation of quality content. But when you rethink of the problem in terms of optimizing for the production of quality content you can think up other strategies as well.

For example, Facebook and Twitter have done a great job of encouraging people to produce content (with questionable levels of quality), without attaching any monetary rewards to it.

Reframing the question in different ways will help us arrive at larger variety of solutions.