skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do we still want to be using generations-old software in the years to come?

*BSD, vim, Emacs, Perl, C, Apache & Linux in some way, gcc, the GNU userland, Air company & banks infrastructure come to mind, and they still do the work.
Facebook is not a regulatory committee. This entire article is naive and annoying.
I've bought a few books in a physical store... well, last year at least. My go-to place to buy books is online but not Amazon: booklooker.de has a very nice no-nonsense user interface to buy used (and new, but I prefer used) books from... mostly small bookstores.

By the way, small bookstores in Germany have incredibly good logistics and had them even before Amazon: Order a book until 15:00-18:00 (not sure / may also depend on location) and it's there for pickup next morning. Faster and more reliable than Amazon. Whether it's more or less convenient than Amazon depends.
Ask HN: Someone Mucking Around with Voting System?
I saw this post stamped 1-min ago at the top of a popular thread started 17 hours ago: http://prntscr.com/kw5lj2

It seemed a bit odd being a new comment at the top so wondering if HN sees manipulated posts? It might have just been a timing thing as I saw it drop down quite quickly.

I was returning to this thread from earlier so maybe that influenced something?
right, I thought maybe it was an example of Linus being rude but couldn't find anything. Considering the original committer is 4 years old and 'needed a little help' I thought it was in bad taste if it was the OP.
When businesses decide they want to hire men, that's the kind of thing you have to deal with on a free market. This is true equality, all things considered.

What many people seem to want is forced equality, where they assume that women need an artificial advantage to be on equal terms, which is -you guessed it- discriminatory.

I don't see why anyone who seriously supports women's rights would want that and working with women who have earned their spot in the business, I certainly know that they don't want it, because it would devalue their achievements.
I wonder what an obnoxious advertisement looks like in VR ...
Ah right, I thought she was using an ipad, but I couldn't find the source so I blamed a faulty memory. Thanks.
What does it mean to be a senior developer? (2014)
Ah, that's why. It's not available in the UK.
This!

Burn the furniture pile (or move it into a warehouse or build a fence around it or something).

Hire a new COO who is the head salesman, and compensated purely by how much furniture they sell. Give them freedom to hire whoever they want so long as they are also being paid based on commission (and don't let them hire anybody already at the company).

As for the factory floor workers, optimize this later, sales is the focus so don't get distracted trying to optimize production until you forecast that it will fall behind sales. Get out and Sell! Get that furniture into stores.

Don't even fire the 300 people in the office, it's not worth the time you would put into it. Hire a consultant that specializes in downsizing to do it for you. Anyone who works in the office is considered contagious so no exceptions.
>That said, I'm pretty sure every freeway I've ever been on had a posted minimum 45mph speed limit, and bikes are not allowed.

There are exceptions, especially in the US West, where interstates may be the only path for miles and miles through some mountain ranges. Of course, they mostly have wide shoulders where people ride.
If you enjoyed this article you may enjoy this video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bc-Cv9C-E8
Revenge Hacking Is Hitting the Big Time
Linkerd 2.0: service ops for you and me
I agree so much! It's good to remember that many things seem impossible until you do them! After all, if they were easy, someone would have done them already.
It's tolerated. I'm from another island tax haven and I can tell you that it's part of our culture to act welcoming and happy to see you. It's an act; anyone in any service industry can confirm this. People do this because their choices otherwise are limited.
I think this is a step in the good direction, but I think getting rid of the time zones altogether is the right thing to do[0].

[0] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-forget-the-day...
It has a bfcache which attempts to restore page state when going backwards/forwards. My guess would be there's something wrong with the cache behaviour, leading it to restore the old heap and re-execute the JS.
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This is my ideal for VR. I'm really hanging out for the day I can create infinite amount of virtual screens, and reconfigure screen layouts on the fly.

Throw in a camera so you can toggle AR mode when needed (coffee), and you have my dream workstation.
CrimsonDB: A Self-Designing Key-Value Store
It's easy to get tons of users if you're selling $10 dollar bills for $1 dollar.
I think you meant template<class T> struct hash< T* >
You couldnt be farther from the truth. US ripping off European IP? Almost all of the IP in semiconductors in US based not european, yet EU pays nothing by means of producing satellite communication equipments. Name a thing that US ripped from EU?
Coming to work to fill the seat?
graphical os smaller than your average favicon
For the sake of the thread you could read the other comment threads and see that the "it is illegal" comment chain was already discussed. But then you'd have to use your brain and couldn't just try a "Hurty durty, you didn't read the article" snipe, right?

And yes. People like you make me angry.
Facebook Allowed Employers to Exclude Women from Job Ads, ACLU Says
I think the commenter is referring to further back, i.e. grabbing German Engineers and all that tech maybe?
We were a spinoff of TU Eindhoven. Robovalley went up into Holland Robotics recently, AFAIK, but Netherlands is small of course.
Our company just stopped. I actually interviewed at https://www.robotcaresystems.com/ that now have an autonomous rollator on the market and I recently found out about https://mojin-robotics.de/ which seems to continue where we left off. So, yes, there is still animo for robotics in care.

I don't know any companies that focus on Alzheimers, but there is a bunch of medical robot tech companies around here, eg. http://microsure.nl/ that do micro-surgery and http://www.preceyes.nl/ that make eye-surgery robots.
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There's Health Valley (https://www.healthvalley.nl/welcome-to-health-valley), that may know some companies that do focus on Alzheimers more.
FWIW I don't disagree with Rust's choice, I was just answering the question of parent. I am reading Blandy and Orendorff's Rust book and violently agree with almost all design choices, as an experienced C++ programmer.
SBCL on some benchmarks outperforms C, and what portions of the code are not completely public domain are MIT/BSD licensed.
Bug does not trigger on "Safari Technology Preview Release 65 (Safari 12.1, WebKit 13607.1.5.2)" on macOS 10.13.6. Fixed already, or not yet introduced?
What is the point of showing a different page to a blocked user then to a logged out user?

The blocked user can simply log out or switch to a private tab to see the profile anyhow.
My favorite, probably not the best by many standards, was someone who was not versed in the tech we were working on. He listened when people talked. If there was something bothering us he got us what we needed, sometimes even spending his personal time on it.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/988332-some-people-say-give...
Thanks, it's crazy that it doesn't look that fast in the video even though she's going over 180mph.
AI Startup Sets High-Water Mark with New Inference Accelerator
A door lock doesn't actually stop a determined burglar either, but you'd still be a fool not to install a lock in your front door.
U.S. Armed Forces Invests in Additive Electronics
corndoge, it sounds like you assume that (an unnamed) we has to be in the United States.

I’m going to sorely disappoint you there…

However, if you want to talk about the United States, I would agree with you that it’s going to be expensive to shift the suburban sprawl away from personal vehicles. As much as that particular urbanisation failure is seen as typically American, it’s far from the exclusive option there. You will be surprised to learn that there are dozens of millions of Americans living in cities dense enough to justify not using cars as the default transport mode (“banning” isn’t a very accurate description of what that city did).

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-crowded-city-in...

Electric scooters or bikes, typically the dockless kind, combined with existing (but re-inforced) public transport sounds doable, especially if you invest the same order of magnitude as local authorities spend on highways. That would require little investment (most of it would be private and from people keen on giving away billions).
Snakes in a Package: combining Python and R with reticulate
> As Holbrook accelerates, the cyclist will push 700 watts for more than a minute to stay inside the draft pocket behind the dragster’s fairing. That’s about what a Tour de France sprinter produces in the final minute of a stage.

From https://www.wired.com/story/denise-mueller-korenek-bike-spee... - 700W over a minute is very physically demanding.
Myclimate study claims Skycell containers reduce carbon footprint of pharma
Thank you so much for all of that!

I'll have to look over this in the coming weekend. It's efforts such as these that keep me coming back to Racket again and again.
Generalizations are the basis of all thought and science -- it's all about abstracting the chaos into a cohesive taxonomy and laws.

Without generalization we are lost in paralyzing (and inane) case by case judging of everything. In CS terms, generalizations are basically pattern recognition.

Can they be bad? Sure. But not because they are generalizations.

I'm not even sure what you're getting at. That you can find all kinds of types in either group? I don't think anybody disagrees.

A generalization is still valid though if it recognizes larger tendencies in each group (where there's lot of overlap, but e.g. different peaks at different approaches).

Is your position that it's illogical to even consider this? Because a lot of scientific research (never mind the parent's empirical observations) disagrees.

The key is not to not make generalizations, but to try to make their as good as you can, and to not insist to apply them to some individual instance that doesn't match them. One should also improve their generalizations over time, as new data come in.
The Method Behind That Russian Poisoning Interview
It's far from _inevitable_. As the GP writes, it is the spirit and openness of the journey that is important and this can work for families and older people. Of course you adapt to suit your party.

When backpacking with kids, we only relocate every week or two, not every few days. We have rest days for schoolwork. When cycle touring, we don't go more than 50km in a day. We eat a lot more icecream. But it is still unplanned, unscheduled and intimate.
why would any website owner think it’s ok to have self playing videos pop up on mobile in 2018?
Among the differences are that the University of Colorado is right there and Boulder has been a fairly affluent town for a long time (even before the relatively recent immigration of Google, etc.)

Also, let's not overstate the differences. The actual pedestrian mall on Pearl is just a few blocks long. And Fayetteville in Raleigh these days, while not car-free, is part of a very walkable area of downtown Raleigh with lots of restaurants, a few hotels, some shops, new condo construction, some major businesses, the convention center, government offices, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18020018
Perhaps a silly question but why is gender (and perhaps ethnicity) the only type of discrimination everybody worries about when it comes to Facebook? Shouldn't we extend this to all the ways people differ?

For example, why should somebody who loves horse-riding not get the same job offerings as somebody who loves computer-programming, in all cases?

And why can employers exclude people who are interested in pregnancy-related things, or people with dangerous hobbies like basejumping?

Can't we start a petition for a ban on targeted advertisement, so we can stop this madness altogether? It would also solve a lot of privacy related problems.
A good programmer is someone who can communicate with the problem domain experts and provide an a solution to fit their problem. Someone who understands the limitations of the computing environment and can engineer a solution that is adequate for the problem space problem.

Many who consider themselves programmers produce solution space solutions that just don't get to the core of the problem space problems. This is a function of the simple fact that many programmers never have the opportunity to see what the problem space experts are doing or actually need. This is a real shortcoming in the education of programmers.

We don't have to be subject matter experts in all fields, we just need to become competent in being able to understand the kinds of problems that are being faced by the various subject matter experts that we build systems for.

On the other side of that coin are those who are subject matter experts who think it is easy enough to become competent programmers. What they miss is the essential problem that programming is, itself, a field that requires a subject matter expert. I have come across too many systems that have been developed by the subject matter experts that were just wrong. Wrong in design, wrong in understanding the limitations of the tools being used, wrong in oh so many ways.

To build properly functional and functioning systems requires the cooperation, input and continual communication between those who are subject matter experts facing problem space problems and those who are subject matter experts in computing systems. This is a rare event and so we see the problems in every field with the computing systems that currently exist.
Insane Home Designs Ever
The Tao Of Programming, Book 5, Maintenance (Geoffrey James, 1987):

A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working. “It will be finished tomorrow,” the programmer promptly replied.

“I think you are being unrealistic,” said the manager, “Truthfully, how long will it take?”

The programmer thought for a moment. “I have some features that I wish to add. This will take at least two weeks,” he finally said.

“Even that is too much to expect,” insisted the manager, “I will be satisfied if you simply tell me when the program is complete.”

The programmer agreed to this.

Several years later, the manager retired. On the way to his retirement luncheon, he discovered the programmer asleep at his terminal. He had been programming all night.
MongoDB server leaks 11M user records from e-marketing service
Government tends to conduct studies prior to engaging in an effort but it's questionable how much evidence from the studies actually gets used in decision making.
Review: Ford crosses over into the mini-SUV segment with tiny EcoSport
Audi e-tron
I used to work at a multi-national and got fired.
I always wanted to try freelancing but didn't have the courage to leave a well paying full-time job and take the risk.
This gave me that opportunity and I went ahead to started a productized content-as-a-service http://contentiskey.co which offers unlimited content for $250/mo
Right now am busy searching for customers, you can join me
Heads up mate, last time I had been building an "intelligent banner system" for two months, adding a one megabyte payload to the initial site load, "because marketing".

When I feel grumpy because of popup bugs, asap tasks and really stupid marketing/seo requests I usually tell my self that hey, I still get my paycheck so if this is what makes them happy, then let's make them happy.
Simply amazing lectures
We gave up on a successful career to build a gaming company [video]
The shipping Safari is 606, the preview Safari is 607. So 'not yet introduced' seems unlikely.
Credential stuffing attacks cause heartache for the financial sector
Hackers peddle thousands of air miles on the Dark Web for pocket money
Ticketmaster knowingly lets scalpers violate its terms of service
Or is it boomer managers who are used to closely watching over their kids and want to transfer that into the workplace?
This Windows file may be secretly hoarding your passwords and emails
I love all his books - you get the know-how, not just know-that. But the complete Learning to Learn lectures are on youtube, which is even better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&list=PL2FF649D0C...
You know, once a machine is running, you can do everything else that's limited by your own imagination.

I've been trying to figure out how a powerpc machine is being booted so that I can insert my own 'hello world' OS. Sure there is a BIOS equivalent somewhere in there, but how to figure out how and when to talk to it?

Booting x86 might seem like nothing, but booting some old SPARC for instance seems like black magic to me.
Ask HN: Experiences with Quickbooks, Xero and Quaderno for Saas in EU?
Things are getting a bit more serious with my bootstrapped SaaS and I'm prepping for proper tax filing. My initial customers are from the US, South Africa, Czech Republic: all over the place. I'm looking for a tight integration for invoicing, VAT calculation and tax reporting. I collect payments via Stripe. Would love to hear experiences from SaaS founders on what worked for them. I'm EU based (Germany/Netherlands).
It's a SpeakerDeck embed; your adblocker might be a bit overzealous? https://speakerdeck.com/jvns/build-impossible-programs
Are you sure you are talking about Linux? Those pages mention mostly Windows and say nothing about video at all.

When I go to about:support I see "AzureCanvasAccelerated: 0" and "HW_COMPOSITING: Acceleration blocked by platform".

Setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true and restarting FF does not change that.

I tried it on 3 different machines with different graphic cards and different drivers and see the same behaviour on all 3.
“Lawful intercept” Pegasus spyware found deployed in 45 countries
I had this at a healthcare job I had. Even within IT, every silo was obstructing the others at almost every step.
I read the book when I was 20 and it was one of the books of that time of my life that got me right in to reading. It was great!
If you don't have identity as part of the process, the result doesn't do anything. TOFU is broken completely, there are studies showing SSH key rotations in a computer science department triggered no attempts to verify the key change at all.

And the whole point of encryption is you think there's a MITM, so if you are using a scheme that doesn't stop MITM, why bother encrypt at all? Just bank the simplicity and performance savings and don't do it.
I mean, it's okay. I wouldn't do it like that.

You need a client with a nice UI/UX, you need a standardised format for updates and you need a nice way to manage `read` permissions for other users or to open a communication channel (which in itself should be a node with read write controls.
Then you can create imaginary clusters to publish those updates to because you don't want to publish everything to everyone.
We did this before we had kids; those were the best vacations. South Africa, Iceland, New York and New Zealand. We booked a room for the first day or three (Australia is a 24h flight, you wanna do that) and from there planned our vacation.

There is no way I'd do it again with the kids in tow. Sure, it goes well 95% of the time. That 5% time when you can't find anywhere to sleep except a trailer park from hell or a disgustingly dirty backpackers ran by drunk/high perverts is something I'd never risk with young kids.

One of our best vacations was one of the few package tours we did, this time to Egypt. It was via a company who do backpacker-style vacations. It was fantastic because our guide was excellent and we had contact with the locals. They used public transport wherever it was possible too, which although uncomfortable it felt better. We did a package in this case because it's also a country which simply isn't safe to be driving around in as westerners..
Look at the heights of the two blue piers.

On the far pier, the diagonal braces are a meter above the water, while on the near pier they're 20cm below the water.

My bet is when it was constructed the two piers were at the same height, and the center span was supported on both ends - then the near pier sank, allowing the center span to slip off.
"should"? Men and women have different strengths on average, not on an individual level, so your conclusion that some things should be done by men only is unsound.
> Its one of those things that the more money you put in, the less rewarding and more bland experience you are getting back

I was lucky enough to do a trip a while back with a relative that gets travel discounts and comps, and we combined budget backpacking with stays at some of the finest hotels in Thailand, including this place: https://www.sixsenses.com/resorts/yao-noi/destination

I recall that the breakfasts were sublime - they had something like 20 different varieties of ice cream, and fantastic pastries. The chef was originally from California and would talk you through the various delights on offer that morning. A fantastically peaceful, beautiful place, and an experience that's difficult to get on a budget.
UK watchdog has not issued any GDPR data breach-related fines yet
What I ask myself is: why do corps allow to become places where shit is being thrown around, instead of productive work and cooperation.
In the economics 101 fantasy land, sure.

In reality profiteers attract a criminal element, both in terms of street criminals hawking $100 bottles of water and corruption of government and commercial officials.

IMO controlling the demand side via rationing is the most ethical approach.
I wonder if `splice`, `shift`, `unshift` and other methods that modify arrays in-place are also affected.
If you want to play around with fonts and font spacing you may as well simply use LaTeX.

Alternatively, maybe ask the professor to simply invert the page requirement. In undergraduate school a writing assignment that required at least 10 pages meant a tortuous uphill battle to put words on the page. In graduate school a writing assignment that limited the page count to 10 pages or less resulted in a 20-page paper pouring out and then many hours spent paring it back. Funny how framing can have that effect.
The SEC is evaluating the Bitcoin ETF incorrectly
Funny thing is, if an employer sets out an advertisement targeted at X, then when you show up at the interview the employer knows X about you, without you being aware of it.

(Except of course if X is something obvious like gender).
I have this problem too with Chrome on macOS. Refreshing the page makes it appear, but this happens frequently enough to be annoying.