skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of a review embargo is to prevent things from collapsing into a race to be first with the scoop, by encouraging/forcing everyone to take a reasonable amount of time to prepare their review. Cooperating with review embargoes is usually the best way to promote honest and fair coverage, which is what most professional tech journalists really want.

NDAs that try to restrict the content of a review and not just the publication date are reprehensible, but that doesn't seem to be what's going on here. Intel's just trying to soften the ground with their own misleading numbers, but still permitting the trustworthy sources to do their usual thing.
I took the course at UCL that uses that textbook and started to work afterwards at one of the big networking vendors. This course (and textbook) was so helpful and covered everything I needed to know to get started. Highly recommended, and it is free.
> I was really excited when Perl 5 came out, but ugh. I wound up writing about 10,000 lines of it at a dotcom, and it was so, so ugly. All the stuff that made 50 line Perl 4 beautiful made 10,000 line Perl 5 an unreadable mess.

I find that Perl gets a bad rap for being "unreadable". In my experience the readability of Perl is the direct result of the discipline of the person writing it. It's not hard to write readable, maintainable Perl 5, but it's _easy_ to write _crap_ Perl 5. So, you have to be disciplined in how you create things.
I built an app to help people take a digital detox ~ 3 years ago (https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/01/12/need-unplug-...)

The biggest issue we ran into was that we didn't have API access to build something effective (at least from limiting smartphone access). We had to hack something together and it didn't work out long-term.

If the tech giants cared enough about this, they would create APIs and empower devs to build stuff to help.
Yeah - shuttering Google+, and their reasoning, was a huge violation of trust. My faith in them as an institution has been impacted and i now feel forced to migrate services away.
For another perspective on this: although I totally agree with what you say, there's also the side of the story where in people love to blame others for failings. When greece plunges into crisis; people blame politions, blame the EU - even though those entitities are entirely and truly democratic. They're not blaming themselves. When northern europe decides to ignore the southern problems even though they're in a union, they blame perhaps their own politicians or the EU for mismanagement, and perhaps their southern neighbors, but certainly not themselves.

But this weird perspective also correlates with a drop not just in voter participation, but perhaps also in the care taken in voting. Seriously, protest votes are a kind of shooting yourself in the foot because the guy next door is so mean - but quite common, at least nowadays.

Almost certainly those who will suffer most from populism in italy will be the voters who voted for them; just as those who voted for e.g. trump are likely to achieve the exact opposite of what they're so angry to... prevent? achieve?

It's not just one country; almost every single modern democracy is afflicted to some extent. We may have misattributed democracies past successes to the technicalities of voting, missing the much larger, less trivial social context in which it works. But certainly whatever the cause - it's much deeper than something like the ECB mishandling the situation in Italy.
It's more like the creator and distributor of a popular opioid turning around and selling the drugs that help you wean off.

Oh wait...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/t...
What is supposed about it? There are pictures right there.
That hardware is mostly off the shelf components (SH-4 cpu, PowerVR Gpu, arm based sound dsp), the thing is basically just an “actual computer.”
They would work for sure with my LG G4.

Sadly, I can not use the phone on landscape while wearing polarized sun glasses. Something very annoying when trying to take a photo on a sunny day.
One thorny issue I think will be connecting employee engagement to LinkedIn job search "status". Will anonymity be preserved? I could see them offering hard numbers where an employee engagement score of X translates to Y workers actively seeking a new job. So you have to wonder if employees will truthfully report.
Cost of my childrens’ education will much more than $180k. Daycare is 70-80k then private school is 300k+. Public schools are in a very sad state.

Children are a true luxury in this day and age.
I also find that I can read Hacker News far better at home ;)
What was your first open source pull request or contribution?
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertold_Wiesner - 600+ offspring!

(In third place on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_c... ...)
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Really? As long as you are properly employed in any EU country you should also be covered in that country. There are some issues regarding cross-border, meaning a German is working in Spain and needs medical attention in Germany that would be invoiced to the Spanish insurance.

In Germany free-lancers face issue, they need to get their insurance somewhere. But thay have to get, there is no such thing as uninsured German resident.
"RAII" is not "Rust"; "the bracket pattern" is not "Haskell"
Dey racist
I also really liked the follow up on the three virtues, in the 2nd State of the Onion (http://www.wall.org/~larry/onion/onion.html)

> Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

> These are virtues of passion. They are not, however, virtues of community. The virtues of community sound like their opposites: diligence, patience, and humility.

> They're not really opposites, because you can do them all at the same time. It's another matter of perspective. These are the virtues that have brought us this far. These are the virtues that will carry our community into the future, if we do not abandon them.
Maybe it doesn’t take much of a lapse in QA to let a single bad article through, when you’re dealing with hundreds of articles like Businessweek is...
Presumably, they meant that Czechia and Poland currently act individually and thus have a chance to trade with China, which they could lose otherwise.
Ask HN: Advice for a first time CTO?
I'm constantly learning and reading about technical leadership but I'm curious what experienced CTOs on Hacker News would say.

I've been CTO at E-DealerDirect for about 6 months now and so far my biggest challenge has been letting go of tasks as we scale. I'm used to hoarding work and I've had to constantly train myself to delegate.

Outside of that scenario, what else is important? What skills do I need to learn that I may not have now?

Thanks for your input,
Hunt
This is true, but the blog post uses these two as concrete examples, so the title is still accurate.
Even a commercial website that represents hundreds of billions of $ does not need to be bloated:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com
New study shows light exercise boosts memory
> all those bailouts they received

most of the bailout money went straight to Germany to buy back outstanding bonds in possession of their central bank ensuring they'd be insulated from further deterioration of the Greek economy.

https://www.esmt.org/where-did-greek-bailout-money-go
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> Once again, this is easy for Bloomberg to prove: X-Ray or it didn't happen. Fake news. Surely the factory produced more than a few of these mobos. All the world needs is an X-Ray of one board with the magical chip.

That's not true, and fundamentally misunderstands what journalists' job is. They're reporters not researchers: they report on information in testimony and documents they acquire, they don't do the research to to create that information themselves. They cross-check testimony and documents between multiple sources to verify the information, they don't replicate research.

Bloomberg doesn't have a bugged motherboard to X-ray. Per their story, all of those were owned by other entities. There's very little reason to expect that they have an example, since they weren't a target and the people they talked to were likely not authorized to hand over their employees property. Given that, it's unlikely they even asked for one since it would have been a foolish request.
Stock performance is about a lot more than individual product technical specs. That said, I see AMD is down a bit recently but it's had a significant run-up the past 6 months (~2X) and even more over the past couple of years after being basically flat for ages. And it's got quite a high PE (58) which tends to make stocks vulnerable to even middling news. (By contrast, Intel's PE is about 17.)
Ah, I think I follow.

So, it sounds to me like it's not necessarily that Rust's model is fundamentally different from "ref counting with a limit of 1", at least in terms of how you should be managing your memory, so much as that the language doesn't let you some things that you really shouldn't be doing in the first place.

Sometimes it felt like Objective C wouldn't just let you point a gun at your foot, it would actively cheer you on while you did it.
> (a shell a sizable percentage of the population would like to return to now)

That “now” has been lasting for at least as long as since 1981, according to the lyrics of “B Movie” from Gil Scott-Heron's album “Reflections” (1981):

http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron:B_Movie
My understanding is that while the sources were left anonymous, they were definitely confirmed as intelligence agents by Bloomberg... so if they were duped, it's a pretty serious (propaganda-level?) duping.
California transparency advocates celebrate new laws freeing police records
A wonderful example of what libertarianism and whole small-government conservatism movement is about, and what government communism and socialism is the opposite of. This is a community of people that freely chose to live this way, ready to sustain themselves and to implement any economical or political structure inside of their community. I doubt that anything like that would be possible in heavily regulated european socialistic countries.

Truly beautiful what people are able to create on their own.
The UK war-games cyberattacks that could black out Moscow – Quartz
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It is Turing-incomplete. Turing gave us the concept of computational completeness, which requires the complementary incompleteness in the same breath.
Because honestly, most coders are really bad at management. They are two completely different skill sets.
> And then, there’s is often nothing I can tell people to make them afraid.

You need only to send your friend an email:

"Steve,

Please remember to bring the poison and knife tonight when you meet me under the bridge at 12am at 1st and Congress. I will meet you there with the cocaine and unmarked bills. I appreciate your help in this matter, and suspect Bob will not see it coming."
Having worked on the Android library, I'll try to answer your comment.

- Regarding the aesthetics of the overlay, it is indeed an opinionated design with a colorful style. You can however customize its colors, or replace the animation altogether if it doesn't fill your needs: the aim of this library is to provide a plug-and-play voice input that you can adapt to your needs, not to force you to use any color if you find it too loud for your use-case :)

- Regarding permission prompts: the iOS version indeed asks for two permissions, but the Android permission model only requires one (`RECORD_AUDIO`). This library however helps implement the [recommended permission handling](https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...): Explain why the app needs permissions, Request the permission and Show an explanation to the user asynchronously if they deny it, including manual instructions to enable it if the user previously checked "Don't ask again".
This is also consistent with the [documentation on App permissions best practices](https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/usage-not...), which tells that `whenever possible, you should provide an explanation of your request both at the time of the request and in a follow-up dialog if the user denies the request.`
No such thing as a free lunch. Shocker. Why not push for $25/hour and watch Amazon drop health insurance?
My argument was that the "other ways" it is different in are more important than the similarities.
It comes from mathematical writing — the greek letter delta ∆ is often a variable used for the difference between two values.

So maybe you could translate it as "quantified difference".
My sister works at a large inland hatchery, raising atlantic salmon from egg to smolt, and its been neat to watch the investment, automation, and optimization going on there. For instance, they used to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of smolts by hand, and now there is a machine to do it. They used to lay the eggs out flat in trays and use a turkey baster to pick out duds, now there is a machine to do it. Now most of the human effort comes from moving fish and monitoring the processes.
Just a feedback: webapp could work, even on mobile. People can try before committing to download
Uhh, Apple and Amazon are providing very few hard facts... and have a HUGE amount to lose if the story is true.

I wouldn't take anything as certainty at this point, not even close.
They’ll also be damned disturbing if you tilt your head at all, and screens start fading in and out of existence.
I think I remember the blog you’re talking about, and now I’m wishing I could find it too. Everyone knew about the Time Cube guy, but the guy whose brain was being controlled by government electricity, that took your links page to another level.

I distinctly remember getting sucked into it and then having the realization that a percentage of the population were paranoid schizophrenics and that they could publish now. He helped me build some armor (and compassion) for the social media age.
It's really not a problem to handle any number of users on a single domain, you can load balance, serve from different geos, etc.

Case in point: google.com

The real reason they don't do this is because it's a more involved set-up from the customer's side. As people mentioned, enterprise-oriented mail services will do this kind of thing but MailChimp is a long tail solution.
Thank you for your opinion. I'm going to continue using homebrew and encouraging developers to support it.
The one that "switches off" all internet access from 08h00 to 14h00 has done wonders for my productivity (in a positive way!)
HN came up when I was searching for venues where you can announce the existence of a new programming language.
Ask HN: How to return to the old gmail?
The new gmail is too slow and ugly. I don't want to get used to it just now, nor anytime soon as I need to work.

Anyway to get back to the old gmail interface?

Under the gear I don't have the button to return to the old gmail.

thanks
As much as I've been very skeptical of Lambda School in the past, it's worth noting that their incentive structure seems aligned well. 17% of your first 2 years salary is a huge number, but it depends on you getting a good job and keeping it for 2 years. Otherwise they have to invest more time into you.
"Solving Heroin Addiction is an Underappreciated Market Opportunity."

Even for the hyper-capitalists of HN this is beyond the pale
Marks it as free, but the OS will wipe it before giving it to another process.
I run scripts from a tty all the time...
> This can be a great way to get a CLI tool loaded into a bespoke CI environment.
>>It's a shame Perl isn't still used.

Perl is still one of the most widely used languages in world today.
With regard to DHS, Apple's Congressional Letter states:

> On Saturday night, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security joined the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre in saying they have no reason to doubt the statements
we've made.
This is not a security breech or bug, it is the intentional design of Facebook. It is like complaining that if you give away your password, someone can login as you, thus Facebook ought to iasue two factor auth dongles. That is not the sort of thing to forward to facebooks abuse department. It requires a policy change for a different authentication method, and that is something that can be freely and publically discussed.
My personal and limited experience also has been low-sugar, mid-carb, high-fiber (lots of broccoli), high-protein, high-fat diet seems to make me feel better. Although, it goes without saying, feeling better isn't isomorphic to being healthy, living longer, or maximizing your bodily functions (such as muscle building, better cognition or better sex life).
+1 for typescript
> For example, why place a detectable piece of hardware onto the MoBo, instead of just installing malicious firmware?

Because the supply-chain may be verifying the integrity of the firmware? Firmware is "detectable" too. It's detection is probably easier because so much of computing is software focused nowadays.

Hardware implants have certain advantages: no one may be looking for them and they're extremely resistant to removal attempts.
The dismal science has earned the name many times over: no one wants to read a long-winded epistle on the relationship between bond yields and non-farm employment in Alabama between 1993 and 1998, and that's where a lot of the interesting parts of econ lie.
It's extremely difficult to do this and maintain even the figment of usability.

Unless, of course, you're implying it's very haskellish to implement libraries with huge usability gotchas (of which ResourceT was one until the Ghosts of Departed Proofs paper reminded us we can reuse the machinery of ST), then I totally agree.
>> pooped out

technically isn’t the ambergris “vomited up”?
Likely because there aren't too many Economics majors on this forum (I am, BTW). From what I've seen on previous HN posts on economics topics, the discussion veers towards "Economics isn't a real science" variety, with the majority of the posts going back on forth on that comment, rather than the actual topic of the article.
Yep, the privacy and sending specific things to specific circles and all was spot-on in G+. Or even specific people, groups, even non-G+ emails.
Hmm, when "English-speaking" actually just refers to the United States.
Oh come on this looks like it was written by corporate shareholder activists from the mid-1990s.

When did the New York Times become so conservative?
Europe is filled with communes. There's a huge one right in Copenhagen. Brussels also has plenty of squats and coops run in a similar fashion.
The pitch black comedy in retrospect is the US was dashing eggs all over other people's counters while the USSR had a heart attack while frantically trying to pretend it was an almighty chef who would render them obsolete. All of its sins were completely unnecessary and created problems for the future.
I can't upvote this enough.

There is precedence for this kind of UX change and Google. It used to be that chrome extensions could optionally add icons to the Chrome menu (the icons to the right of the address bar). Now all Chrome extensions appear in the Chrome menu, both reminding the user that it is there and also giving an easy way to remove the extension should they no longer need it.
There goes unroll/slice intelligence
'Delta' has connotations of being quantitative that 'difference' doesn't have.
Checking for the tty is discussed in TFA and in sibling comments.
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As someone pointed out at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17976934 Google's efforts can be seen as motivated by an interest in security.

If you were designing DNS and URLs from scratch to minimize phishing, you would treat "www.example.com" and "example.com" identically.
>He got his name in all the papers.

That's really great for up and coming artist.. Banksy..
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Ask HN: Why don't Google or Apple make complete password Managers?
By complete password managers I mean ones that work across all their devices and are synced ~in the cloud~. It seems like they would get a big chance to lock more people into their platforms.
You'll actually see a fair amount of footballers, British royalty, and Bollywood stars... it's according to popularity on en.wikipedia.org, so it not's just the US.
I wasn't funded by him. I was on a scholarship and then on a TA, and was funded by the department.
No, but I agree that it would be a nice feature. Not so much as a tagging system, but this strikes me as something good they could finally do with all their ML/AI stuff.

I have friends who will post photos, and I'll love for FB to detect that they often post single photos, and allow me to subscribe to just those. Even if it means relying on FB's algorithms deciding what posts make the cut.

The same goes for friends who will occasionally post blog-style stuff. While I'd prefer it if they actually blogged, being able to go to their profile and getting a FB-suggested 'type' of post to subscribe to would be peachy.

Other algorithmic suggestions I can imagine:
- the friend who consistently posts great links to longer-form journalistic articles
- the friend who posts mostly 'funny comics/pics', but actually funny ones
- the friend who seems to know half the town and diligently clicks 'interested/going' for events that I am also interested in.
- and the above possibly with an option to drill down and get more specific suggestions (I'm sure FB could segment the events at least by a crude party/political dimension.
- the family member who posts all sorts of weird crap, but also the interesting family-related updates. It can't be that difficult to detect which of their posts are the family updates (and perhaps there could be a 'suggest category/tag/whatever' feature so that my dad can diligently mark these updates (which I know he would!).

With the above, or even a crude version of it, I could see myself browsing FB quite a bit, and I wouldn't mind the occasional sponsored post (which could be targeted specifically to the feed/mood I'm in).

I'm sure there's a lot I'm missing about all this, but I feel moderately confident that FB is not doing this, not because of particularly good reasons, but because they're stuck in a particular 'mode' and a bit too conservative about it (shortsighted advertising). I can't tell if this is just because they're a big corporation at this point, or because of 'SV incentives', or going public, or whatever else.
Did you just say "code golf" and Mathematica in the same sentence?

Then you will love these. I own like 10 copies, which I give to people for their birthdays: http://adereth.github.io/blog/2017/11/02/playing-with-wolfra...
"The score is the total benchmark time. The lower the score, the better."
And if this ever takes off, someone is going to start a kickstarter, selling depolarizing sheets to put in front of LCD screens.