skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think the US has a good reputation as peace makers, albeit the opposite.

Depends on which part of the world are you asking.

I live in Eastern Europe. US military (and NATO, but I am just repeating myself) is currently the only reason why Russian armies are not marching through our streets. Western Europe alone would gladly sacrifice us at any moment.

I understand that if you asked e.g. someone from South America, you could get a dramatically different answer. But I am speaking for myself right now.
Subject aircraft, C-FKCK, is a 1991 A320, which is only required to have a 30 minute CVR loop. (I don't know which exact CVR it was equipped with, of course.)

By the time the aircraft goes around, is resequenced, completes the second approach, lands, taxis in, and shuts down, much of the initial approach setup conversation may have already been overwritten anyway. I wouldn't jump to the assumption that there was malicious intent in the fact that the CVR was overwritten. (I also wouldn't want the crew to stop the CVR recording only to have a second, more serious incident on the same flight that would then go unrecorded.)
That kind of PR really makes me want to reach out and do business with facebook (or cofounder) /s

Don't be the guy/gal who bashes their ex, previous employer, etc. We look as ourselves being next on your vile tounge. Nothing lasts forever, I will always perfer to do business with those that treat those they see as 'beneath them' well. AKA a person is only as nice and their shittiest interaction, and people remember it. Don't sugarcoat it, but airing your dirty laundry only makes the whole place stink.
Why YC “office hours” rock
> on a clean slate

I think that's one of the keys to their success. Large banks can't just say, "well, we're not going to be supporting A, B and C so we can do a total rewrite."
Looks to me like it has a lot of the benefits of Haskell without the mind-numbing learning curve.
They are a US company, and therefore not subject to EU law. Sovereignty is a beautiful thing.
Just introduce a syntax to define immutable variables (e.g. like "val" in Scala) and to mark particular functions as pure (easy to implement manually as a decorator in Python, I've been using it a lot) and memoization becomes a seemingly easy task. Why a new language?

By the way it seems very sad to me that the majority of imperative and hybrid (functional×imperative) languages lack syntax for immutable variables: in just so many cases I introduce a variable to store an intermediate result of an operation an don't mean to re-assign it ever after, it's nice of a developer to define this intention explicitly and of a compiler to raise an error when the variable is re-assigned accidentally - this simple feature is among the reasons why Scala programs usually are comparably easy to debug and run as expected as soon as they get compiled successfully.
I guess the lesson here is to stop making a business out of burning venture capital, and start with a real business plan. There are plenty out that are building things people are willing to pay for. WhatsApp is super popular, because you're giving away the worlds 100th iteration of a chat client for free.
FWIW, https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/vollkorn, shows they have a choice of styles for numerals. But the half height I appears to be the default.
I don't use Facebook so I can't vouch based on my own usage, but based on conversations w/ her she's been dissatisfied with Facebook for quite some time. She still checks it every day (this is the power of Facebook) but feels compelled to because it's the best way to discover events. I'd bet she spends more time on Instagram but Facebook is right up there.

Other than that she uses Group Me, which is basically a big chatroom app, it can get overwhelming though and from what I know she's muted the chats.
I use Unifi AP at home and a Fritzbox router.

At work I have a two sites of Unifi with cloud keys and an edge router. All visible on one management screen and super easy to configure.

Fabulous kit. Make sure you take a backup of the cloud key btw, they can get corrupted by a power interruption, and then you have to install from scratch. You can do this from the browser.

I wanted to caution people who are choosing Mikrotik at home. A lot of network engineers find their interface a bit weird, and by default they have way too much open on their public interfaces. I have seen one in the process of being brute-forced from ssh, that was installed by a qualified Mikrotik installer. If you want to plug and play the Unifi routers are a better option. Many have packet inspection features built in too.
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> What would the point of this be? Why would FB want to shut off traffic to another one of their properties?

They make waay more money off of facebook ads than they do from instagram ads. And they're seeing people dumping Facebook in favor of just using Instagram. They're trying to staunch the bleed.
If the offer on the table for developing countries is either take the poison pill or never develop (where the poison pill is lax IP, lax environmental laws, child labor, exploiting other countries for resources), I think you'd be hard pressed to find a country which wouldn't make that sacrifice.
Google took the tact early to align with government.

1. The hired Eric Schmidt out the shoot of infancy
2. Their early funding was tied to C1@ sand hill road v.c.
3. They aligned with NOAA out of moffett field to store their corp jets.
4. They budgeted for significant lobby in D.C.
5. Schmidt et, al,. spent much time and effort embedding himself in the apparatchik of the Obama Administration and other radical groups like D.S.A.

Google/Alphabet is in fact an enemy of the people that use it and society as a whole.
> the United States runs on what I call "Air Bud rules"

also known as common law. and most ex-UK colonies have it(USA/Canada/India/Australia/New Zealand/UK & more)

What have the "big" SV companies in common?

Exploiting customer data more than ever before with weak US lawmakers unwilling to challenge them or press for stronger user protections. Including adapting or enforcing rules more suitable for the internet age.

FB/Instagram/LinkedIn and other social media companies rely on inducing addictive behaviour in their users so as to sell more ads. That's it. All bullshit about connections and making the world a better place.. It's hollow. Gamification of users so as to sell more ads.
Europe Unveils SPV to Bypass SWIFT, Jeopardizing $ Reserve Status
Where Cars Go to Die
> I'm surprised that remote video cameras aren't used by tower controllers.

I'm surprised that forward-looking infrared cameras aren't more commonly used in civilian aircraft, especially given the availability of staring arrays with decent resolution/framerate that don't require cooling.

Even without the requisite certification for use as a for-realsies landing aid, it's nevertheless a useful tool to get situational awareness in inclement weather / at night.
What about the Apple toilet? No joke!

A toilet that analyzes specimen data and alerts you of potential issues.
A Tour of Cloud Computing: “Every Enterprise Should Run on Hybrid Cloud”
SpaceVim release v0.9.0
A straightforward comparison of the 3 major mobile app Analytics tools
whats with the recent trend of articles that have condescending headlines in this "No, X is not Y" format?
They've posted about this on their tech blog:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastr...

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/06/extending-magic-pocke...
Anyone with say ~$2M (give or take a magnitude) could easily say no to more money and be pretty happy, but humans being what they are...
For most people, pretty hard. This comment reminds me of the comments left when Dropbox first shipped saying stuff like "This won't sell, people who want this service will just use rsync and rent a VPS"
The contents of that chart are purely factual. There's very little room for bias unless you want to nitpick on trivial things like what shade of green he used for the font on the price figures.
"This is what a power law looks like!"

Exactly. That is why, now, if a VC looks at your company they think: "Will this company be worth more than all the companies we have ever funded combined". So if the idea isn't something close to that power law, they are out. My 'buy Japanese bubble gum' idea might not hit that.
This a thousand times.

The very start of a strong network is a solid Dynamic DNS + DHCP setup. The only IPs that should be static are the router's.

In a small office, using your firewall/router is not a bad choice to DNS+DHCP. For companies < 100 and WAN connections <1gig pfsense is perfect.

Segment your APs and servers etc into different VLANs with distinct IP pools, bonus point for different subdomain. This allows your to firewall it off to prevent prying eyes. It also means that if something were to get into your VPC, and then over the VPN, they can't fiddle with your APs quite so easily.

As for ethernet always buy in cables, but get good sockets and patch panels. It is worth the money to hire a wireman/woman to do that for you. Unless you've been practising its a long boring slog, time you should be spending doing your real job....

Ubiquity again is a solid choice for wifi. I've deployed ~50 to cover 1800 person office. Beware, the non "pro" versions of the APs don't use proper PoE, so you'll be stuck either using their injectors(ok for small places) or buying their switches.

SOme of the pro APs have built in speakers (https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-edu/) which might be fun. They have proper PoE too, so you can use a real switch.
It's not unusual for things to still be getting sorted out on Linux a few months after a new laptop hits the market but to me this seems awfully late for these issues to not be sorted out yet. Didn't this laptop come out early in the spring?
Right, neither one of them are great ideas unless you can trust the source. To argue otherwise is a relative privation fallacy.
I listen while working out or while at work if I'm working on something that is not that intense.
Yes, it's really terrible. I usually give up rather than bother trying to solve it.
Does you diet suffer? Exercise? Do you get to shower? Sleep much?
Sure - Traction, a startup guide, by Weinberg. Excellent book.
Not a lot of insight knowledge but those coding practices sound worse than what I got from some talks they did.

I think they're doing only light testing for features before they push them to production because they're doing so much A/B-testing that all small "improvements" that decrease conversions or $$$ per minute are pulled again very quickly. So it sounded like a lot of small PoCs that then get rewritten properly when the idea is good.
I've been anticipating the release of this report this since I heard about the incident.

I work on an avionics product that's designed to prevent this exact scenario. We use the aircraft's position along with a database of runways and taxiways to determine if the aircraft is approaching the runway the pilot intends. If we determine the aircraft is landing, we issue a visual and aural alert to the pilot ("TAXIWAY LANDING" or "NOT A RUNWAY").
Ask HN: Does anyone wear special glasses for programming?
I'm scoping out new glasses via the regular online vendors (I have the prescription in hand). One of the vendors offers to create a pair of glasses optimized for reading and "heavy computer use".

Has anyone ever tried glasses optimzed for "heavy computer use" and if so, did it make any sort of difference?

PS - I'm nearsighted, not farsighted.
Any good resources for which grants are available for tech?
This Chinese character means "nothing, not at all" for you people who do not speak Chinese.
That's an interesting question! For $2500, I would be happy to curate a post for my 17,000 Instagram followers featuring your question in the text of a post of myself near a slightly off-trail vista at a remote yet recognizable exotic location.
I was considering buying this machine as opposed to the XPS 13 Dev edition. I'm a little disappointed to hear about this. Fast forward few years and more updates and we will see new issues which won't receive this sorta attention.
You are not the first, you won't be the last :-)
Why Airbnb Is Moving Off React Native
What implicit license, though? GPL? BSD? Something else? I feel like developers have a tendency to gloss over these things as if all FOSS licenses are the same, but they really aren't.
An Update on Gutenberg Tasks
It does become more difficult than just not shopping at a local business, but it remains easier than deciding I don't want to be under my current government.
The vast majority of peoples' houses don't have WAN connections that need the capabilities of the higher-spec mikrotik routers anyways. An RB3011 or RB4011 is overkill for a residential cablemodem or VDSL2 based last mile service, in terms of pps and Mbps capacity, and NAT pps ability. The ubnt ER-X ($48) is good for up to about 700 Mbps of traffic, and comes with sane defaults.

If you have truly symmetric 1 Gbps full duplex at home maybe you need the capabilities of an RB4011. But you should learn how to lock down its WAN facing interface.

The ubnt EdgeOS based devices are based on a fork of Vyatta. Ubiquiti hired most of the Vyatta software development team years ago when Brocade acquired Vyatta (the corporation). Ultimately they are little tiny Debian based boxes, since that's the foundation vyatta was built on.
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Edit: I'm curious - this comment has a good number of upvotes, but it's sitting right at the bottom of the page, below greyed-out downvoted comments. Do moderators have a "super downvote" option or something? To be clear, I'm not complaining about moderation (this is a low quality comment), just curious exactly how this works.
I've been listening to Robot since day 1. It's a really close conversation between friends who love tech and enjoy talking about it. I love it.
It's targeted at producing water by extracting it from the air.
US and Canada sell weapons and military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Sufficient moral outrage is hardly bandied about in the case of such deals.
>It’s been a fair trade off of benefits/drawbacks in the past - you don’t have to hold gold, you can hold a currency that is stable and reliable

I'd contend that holding a basket of currencies is even more stable and reliable. Basic diversification logic would suggest that a basket of USD / EUR / GBP / AUD / CAD / NOK is safer than just USD.
So you're saying it's a bunch of people trying to earn money endorsing merchandise and places?
We force corporations to do things all the time. Like the US is at a serious disadvantage in countries which use bribery to make corporate decisions, allow slave labor, or murder to coerce uncooperative locals. Conservatives are fine with this level of coercion, aka the rule of law.
>more in favor of having the unifi controller on the same premises as the APs

But when your premise is MANY sites across the country, and you are using a single controller, only ONE site gets the controller on prem, OR you have many controllers running.

>Big difference between like $700-900/year and $120/year.

At the end of the day, it comes down to what my time is worth doing other things (not how much im paid, but the opportunity cost of me managing management interface infrastructure, stability, and resources. Unifi cloud, for lack of a better phrase, just works.)
The Government Wants Airlines to Delay Your Flight So They Can Scan Your Face
> refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definitely has 100% uptime.

Except that the making-cold mechanism of fridges have nowhere near a 100% duty-cycle. You probably wouldn't notice if it didn't even meet two "nines" of uptime.

In fact, that's how frost-free freezers work, by taking advantage that fact to run a heater(!) for some number of minutes several times a day. A defrost timer that does 10 minutes every 8 hours reduces compressor uptime to 98%.
Not true, I would have stuck it out for another year for the extra $850 million.
What a hot take!
> sharing data between those actors is still a heavy duty process.

Utter nonsense. Everything is HARDER TO DO when done through a blockchain.

> Trusting the data coming to you from other actors is still a high risk area

Utter nonsense. Public / private key encryption solves this in the same way a blockchain would, because a blockchain uses public / private key encryption.

> Who's going to own that central DB and pay for everything going into and out of it?

Walmart. Or IBM. It would likely cost less than $50/month of AWS resources, including backups and redundancy.
change registrars ASAP!

Also, this is why I think DNS should be decentralized.
A bit unrelated as it's more of a physical issue than a digital one, but I'll answer anyways. In general my position on digital public policy is to promote competition and transparency and I'm usually against restrictions and punitive-only measures. Wrt net neutrality, I'd support transparency requirements to increase awareness. With that step in place, if the monopolization of the physical space for wires is not overcome by a now-more-informed citizenry, other steps can be taken. Granted, I find forced monopolization vs monopolization by citizen choice to be very different. I always want citizen choice on digital services, even if that means consciously choosing one others might not like. I could write about this forever, I'll stop here.
TLDR - due to conservative temperature levels at which to initiate CPU throttling; and the article links to a fix (as well as saying sleep is fixed with a "BIOS" update).
> But when your premise is MANY sites across the country, and you are using a single controller, only ONE site gets the controller on prem, OR you have many controllers running.

yes, totally agree, in that sort of scenario with many premises you would set up your own internal L3 management of the APs, in your own management VRF, in RFC1918 IP space.
Introducing Amazon 4-star
Steal implies a loss of the physical good: if I steal your car, I get a car and you lose your car. If I steal your money you lose that quantity of cash. If I steal your idea... what have you lost? The opportunity to make money? But it's not like I took your idea and wiped the memory from your brain.

So steal I don't think is the right word.

As far as technology, software is relatively IP lax and innovative, which lets us mix and remix from a common knowledge pool. Imagine how much slower software development would be if we all had to pay royalties to knuth for using an if statement, royalties for using any encryption, or any algorithm which was, after all, non-obvious before it was invented.
I agree that this is typically the case and generally is totally OK! I was assuming that the issue has been fixed because BIOS version 1.28 said something about "power issues" that were fixed, but didn't go into detail. However, it's obviously still an issue - and I know of people who asked support weeks ago and haven't heard back, yet. So it's good to have a reminder out. The fix is rather easy to apply and it's worth it - considering the gains(;

The 6th gen came out in January '18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_X1_Carbon#2018_%E2%80...
Hmm, what's worse, a single populist regulation, punishable by a moderate fine or total information control? Very hard to draw a line indeed...
add a strdup()

That is still far fewer layers of gunk, not even counting whatever may underlie the non-C strings.
Don't forget the "less than a weekend" part, either. You know what normals can do in a weekend? Build a backyard fence. Install solar panels on an RV. Drop the engine in that VW and freshen up the top end. Put new tires on three motorcycles, by hand, and balance them; with enough time to ride on Sunday. (All of which I personally have done in less than a weekend.)

And you're saying other people can see pictures of my kids with "only" a weekend's worth of work (assuming one is an experienced developer)? Yeah, thanks, I'll stick with Wordpress.
A Japanese company has announced a long-term plan to develop the Moon
I think the comment you're replying to meant more that they should be obliging businesses to do things but not specific businesses.

E.g. make laws that apply to all companies as opposed to picking on one company or another.

So I think you're actually agreeing since gravity applies to all things vs arbitrarily deciding which things to pull down.
Ask HN: Hiring managers, what do you look for in a junior dev?
What does 0-3 years of experience mean to you? Are you hoping to retain them for a long time? Do you prefer exposure to certain technology? How do you measure "willingness to learn" during the hiring process?
The USG is doing too little of something. Namely of protecting citizens from predatory businesses.
>There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I might be getting £1 or 10p a month "value" from.

A "tip jar" or micropayment model to supplement subscriptions would be a great option. Unfortunately I think processing fees eat up a significant chunk of your take to the point where it's not really profitable to build a business model around it. Even if you get a great solution going, getting buy-in from the number of vendors you'd need on board would be prohibitively difficult. The only ones with the reach would either be inclined to lock it down and stick with the ad centric model (Facebook, Google) or just don't have the organizational culture to give it the attention or support it would deserve (Apple, Amazon).

In the old days you could go to a corner newsstand and pick up a newspaper, even from one of those little boxes on the street. This let you just buy if there was something interesting that you needed to look at that day without committing and, importantly, without handing personal financial information to who-the-hell-even-knows. A payment infrastructure that makes this quick, easy, and cheap enough to where cost isn't a concern would be incredible.
Meanwhile, I use both pi-hole + ublock origin for my browsing experience contrary to Troy's initial statement.
Same here. Was working on some research projects and the future employer's recruiter said my new manager loves giving back and while I would have to reduce my hours on the project it should be fine. Legal did not agree, minor he-said-she-said spat and I reneged on the offer. I hate feeling like I'm an indentured servant for a company that wasn't even willing to match my existing pay.
The old HTML only version still works. I just refreshed mine and got 19.11 KB transfered with cache disabled. (about half that with cache)
Right. I have been in a disturbing number of these fucking companies.

The value attached to "I am going to absolutely lose my shit if I have to put up with this for another second" is underrated IMO.

He had FU money already. They tried to put more on him. He balked. QED. Mental health is a thing.
I didn't get the sense that the parent poster was referring to this specific case, rather a more general case of "copying information". The closest thing to steal in an information era would be "copy and then delete".
Harms night vision adaptation of other pilots.

My SOP is beacon (red, top and bottom) on with aircraft battery bus on, strobes on only when on an open runway, landing lights on when cleared for takeoff (or lined-up and waiting in position for takeoff). That seems to be a fairly common SOP for aircraft with separate control of beacon vs strobe.

It communicates a small amount of additional information, but more relevantly, it doesn't leave you sitting next to another airplane with blinding strobes on, killing your night vision adaptation. (Cirrus drives me crazy with their single switch anti-collision lights which light the strobes and beacon together.)

Here's the FAA (recommended, but not regulatory) guidance on the topic: (See "Use of Aircraft Lights") http://www.faraim.org/aim/aim-4-03-14-209.html