skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Metadata is Data

And in many cases metadata is just as useful as the payload, in some cases even more useful.
Ask them to write down the topics they want to discuss beforehand. Try to structure the meeting a bit so you don't waste time on pointless discussions.
Well, hurry up then :)

Seriously, this sounds like a very interesting subject. Best of luck with your thesis writing and submission (mine's still a couple of years away).
In some cases it allows the agency to operate freely regardless of the political environment and in others, there are historical reasons for the way they operate (ala NTSB and FAA).

It also allows the market to decide what risks justify the cost and which ones don't via the insurance market. These advisories are front and center in lawsuits when dealing with repeat occurrences so the pressure comes from economic forces. Thankfully, there are limitations to what the market is allowed to decide so this may eventually become a regulation through public pressure or agency review.
If all that information is available in plaintext to the relevant IT department, does it really matter that one other person is party to it?

I guess if all that is in those records I’m going to commend the Seattle IT department for their ethics at least.

It’s amazing what people think they can put in emails/messages and have stay secure...
that is because most runners use padded shoes, which enable you to run in a totally unnatural way.

>this kind of collision leads to a rapid, high impact transient about 1.5 to as much as 3 times your body weight (depending on your speed) within 50 milliseconds of striking the ground (see graph a below).

>This is equivalent to someone hitting you on the heel with a hammer using 1.5 to as much as 3 times your body weight. These impacts add up, since you strike the ground almost 1000 times per mile!

taken from:

http://barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/4BiomechanicsofFootSt...

It is impossible to run this way with undamped shoes or barefoot.

I recommend this book (not affiliated):

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greates...

is really fun to read, it is about a indigenous tribe in mexico which run in sandals cut from old tires, for 24 or 48 hours straight. In there is a reference to another study where they found a correlation between cost of the shoe and the rate of injuries: more expensive shoes with better damping had higher rates of injuries, they weren't expecting this.

Our legs evolved to store the energy in our tendons and release it to propel us forward. A QUARTER of the bones in our body is in our feet! Humans evolved to be the best endurance runners on the planet, being "naked" (without fur) is actually an advantage for running, enabling us to cool down our bodies by sweating. There are still tribes hunting their prey by running after it for prolonged periods till it collapses from overheating. There are races for horses, humans started to compete in. Initially the runners where ridiculed but someday a human won the race.
Lisp macros, focusing not just on the resultant code but also the moment of realizing a macro'd be useful.
Great idea. I have used print media sheets in the past, but found them easy to have regressions e.g. elements that are introduced but not hidden. A webpage to pdf process is also vunerable to that though.

I think ideally, because the resume renderer is a react component, I'd rather just boot up chromium with the react component and resume data and do a fully clean render of the page into pdf.

We shall see.
We have different definitions of 100%. Staying late, working (unpaid) overtime, doing your bosses jobs... This is well above and beyond your responsibilities. When you hire a plumber to unclog your drain, do you also expect them to give their 100% by also cleaning your toilet, fixing that squeaky door, and doing the dishes? No, you hired them to fix a clogged drain and fixing it is 100% of the job. The rest is thing you'd like done (for free, preferably!) but it's in no way part of the 100%.
(I'm not sure what technical book means but..)

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Dual quaternions offer a cheap projection operator by means of dual normalization (very much like quaternion normalization), which the Lie group perspective does not provide.

In fact this is probably the only reason to use dual quaternions at all.
$32M is not a cost the requestor bears, but an estimate of the cost the city bears.

IT estimated the requestor fees to be $21k/year assuming 10TB of data.

Clearly, IT were estimating the costs of releasing all email text, because FOIA mistakenly changed the words "please provide the following information:" to "including metadata:"

Once they figured out the request was for header information only, the city came back with an estimate of under $60.
There is a huge difference between releasing the information to the public and having IT workers under NDA with the ability to access it. And depending on their set-up that could be a lot harder than it might seem from the outside. Though, in truth I doubt it was set up properly, but absent evidence we can't make assumptions either way.

One citizens communications with the city should not automatically result in disclosure of the fact that that person communicated with the city to other citizens.

The fact that a communication took place in itself is information, and correlated with things like timestamps and who in the city was contacted a large amount of sensitive information will leak out.
I schedule mine for a weekly 45 minutes which effectively blocks out an hour in both of our calendars. An hour is too intimidating though. If there isn't much to talk about that week we'll end at 30 minutes which is fine, but sometimes we'll need the full hour.

I try to do a walking 1:1 around the neighbourhood or go to a nearby cafe, never in a meeting room. The temptation to have laptops and Slack is too great. Actually my secret weapon for 1:1s was to get an analogue watch so I can keep track of time without getting out my phone and seeing a notification and pulling myself mentally out of the 1:1. I do keep an Evernote checklist for each person so if I think of something during the week that I need to discuss I'll add it there, and if they assign me something during the 1:1 I can quickly jot it down.

Most engineers' initial instincts towards 1:1s is to use them as status reports and tell me about all the great things they've done over the past week but I try and stop that habit from meeting one. I have other means of getting that info and I'd much rather get them to talk about the future than the past.
End of the blog post:

> Though we describe Orca in the context of a large service and post-deployment bugs, we believe the techniques we have used also apply generically to many Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment pipelines.

So theoretically yes. Parts of the system rely on having a good monitoring/logging infrastructure in place and also on some organizational information, and if you have that available, your project might already fall under what most people consider "large scale".
The DMV doesn't (usually) lie to you or use things like "we're a family here at the DMV" to lean on you emotionally and get you to do things they'd like that don't benefit you at best or are detrimental to your health/finances at worst. Companies regularly do.
Are our brains Bayesian? (2016)
"Fast forward to year 3..."
May I ask: are you e-commerce consulting?
Your comment suggests that you repositioned yourself purposefully, rather than the outcome simply eventuated. If so, was this based on a discovery you made in the market or client demand while you were freelancing?
Did this result in you "niching down" from a broader "catch all" offering as a freelancer? Are you clients higher ticket/larger SME's compared to freelancing (which is often outsourced agency work)?
Why do you think complying with these requests is not part of the job for Seattle IT?

I would think it’s pretty cool to retrieve this massive amount of data that I wouldn’t otherwise get to play with.
Things easier to do in a Perl one-liner than in an AWK one, and vice versa. (and maybe other languages)
Absolutely. If anyone reading this ends up in a similar situation: please involve lawyers. It's the single best move the author did in this whole mess.
A basic command line alternative using Headless Chrome[1]:

chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.chromestatus.com/

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...
What I see in those incidents is severe lack of backup sensors.

Why after switching to new pipe nobody checked/could check the pressure in it?

Why there were no other kind of speed sensors on a plane, simpler, less accurate, slower but not that vulnerable to icing?

Why in Three Miles Island incident why people couldn't double check if reactor has water in it or not?
Are there really no pressure release valves that will blow out at a certain over pressure? Like a spring release that will give way and release all of the gas outside the house.
> By querying ... and comparing

Checking crypto signature is more reliable, imho

I think best way to go is both, DNSSEC and DoT.

> People are going to assume "I am using DNSSEC so I cannot be vulnerable to DNS poisoning."

I'm one of those suckers :D
Our Android developer silently inserted cryptocurrency mining code into the new release, pushed the clean version to github, but submitted the infected version to Google Play.

After a few weeks Google caught that and banned our app. We lost thousands of customers and years of work and had to start over with a brand new app. Years later the infected app is still mining cryptocurrency because users ignore Google’s malware warning message and keep using the app.

PS: I should have said “our FORMER Android developer.”
If there’s nothing to say during my one-on-one’s the meeting just ends in a minute.
I hate to be that guy but if you can't come up with a topic of your own, or write about what interests you, you probably shouldn't blog.
... versioning with NTFS ADS?
I was quoted almost $200k for a similar request for emails. I was trying to investigate a shady real estate deal, and they made it as difficult as possible. I was never actually able to get the information I requested.

I'm completely disgusted and fed up with corruption.
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Tim May of the Cypherpunks on cryptocurrency
Great news!! Tired it on arch sometime back and a few missing i3 compatible features made me go back to i3. Will be trying to switch now and see!!
Thanks a lot @Sir_Cmpwn!
The dump includes email addresses, both government and private. That does not seem good.

There is a surprisingly little spam. Either that is about to change, or spam didn't get included in the FOIA.
Then the English would be "currency exchange".
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I know how wonderful it is to write an open source software for the benefit of humanity as a whole

I get the impression that you don't actually know that. Or you didn't mention what you wrote, anyway. I guess having ideas about "what should I program and why" involves learning about the world and what it needs. And not just learning about it at a distance, but getting involved. Good luck.
I recommend the work of John Berardy PhD. His research is focused primarily on exercise nutrition.

https://www.precisionnutrition.com/about/john-berardi

not affiliated
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> perhaps your feature request wasn’t deemed to be thought out enough?

In which case surely it should be discussed, rather than shut down with "no"?

This thread had me interested in Haxe, but reading these comments about the unfriendly, negative responses to proposals has put me right off.
Two SV locations that I used regularly (Alma Village in Palo Alto, Hacienda center in Sunnyvale) have closed this year alone.
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Ask HN: I will automate your processes for free
Share with me 1-3 processes related to the web that you do regularly, and which you find tedious and would like to automate.

I will only pick a handful of projects right now to allow myself to deliver the best value to them. My preference goes to use cases that tick the most boxes of these:

- Very repetitive and/or high value to you

- Well defined processes (you can write down the rules / flowchart of what you do precisely, no human judgement should be involved)

- Low in complexity

- Realistic automations - no AI or ML involved

- No internal systems (for now)

Please express your wishes (things with the highest impact) , and besides the realistic aspect, do not feel restricted to my preferences.

Example use cases:

- Synchronize Asana to Google Calendar

- Backup data from Airtable or perform some actions based on it

- Consolidate data from several sources such as your CRM, your analytics, your Medium statistics and whatnot to a single location such as a spreadsheet or even into a Rest API

- Setting up custom alerts based on tweets (if tweet from user X or contains keyword Y and has a positive sentiment send me an email)

- Setup follow up rules for emails such as: If user didn't login for 10 days send them a reminder / survey

- Create your own push notification system, and receive custom events (I can hook you up to webhooks or other systems)

- Setup a basic slackbot that triggers some API call for example, or receive messages in slack from an arbitrary source

- Watch news sources or job boards for keywords or more complex rules, and do whatever you want (receive a notification, store it in the database ..)

- Scrape a website (you'll need to bring your own captcha service if it's required)

- Automatically post for you in several platforms using one submission

Thank you for your time, hope this will lead to great collaborations :-)
Even 17+ years ago, there were downtown intersections in both Seattle and Vancouver that had two Starbucks each on opposite corners.
Fair. Though, in my defense, the last time I tried to report a similarly large leak (completely different circumstances), it wasn't until I was very explicit in what I found that the report was taken seriously and sent to the appropriate place. Otherwise, I think reports like this are just added to a pile of other complaints.

In this case, it took about a week for them to take it seriously. Like last time, it wasn't until I was explicit that they took it seriously.
Similar functionality is packaged in wkhtmltopdf, which essentially runs Webkit headless to print to PDF.

https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
Flash might be dead for HN Flash haters crowd, for everyone else it lives on as Animate.

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
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I'm with you, I've learned that "I'm perfectly fit" is one of those lies we convince ourselves is true to feel better about ourselves.

We might have even mostly convinced ourselves that "fit" means "not obese, and doesn't get winded on two flights of stairs"

Some kind of at-home standard benchmark would be handy.
As Dilbert said: the company policy is to reward disloyalty.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-06-29
I'm not arguing that intellect doesn't vary. I'm arguing against "smart" being the sole measure of who you should spend your time with, and against the act of anonymously name-dropping "smart people" doing something as support for your proposition.
Understanding Windows Core OS and Microsoft's 'Polaris' for Modern PCs
Er, why the doubt? My internet completely died. My room mates were also affected.. Not sure how I can give proof.
>Excitingly, successful prevention of Alzheimer’s disease by use of specific anti-herpes agents has now been demonstrated in a large-scale population study in Taiwan.

So why isn't that a standard treatment now? The abstracts of both studies indicate they were looking at existing antiherpetic treatments.
Do you have a website or do you rely solely on word of mouth/referrals?
This article gives a pretty good understanding of where Windows is going in the near future and how it will compete with ChromeOS and potentially iOS on the desktop. I really don't keep up with Windows development much so this was an interesting overview of the future at Microsoft.
i hope this isn’t related to the developer portal.
Falsehoods about Garbage Collection
The vendors may be horrible, but it's still on the shoulders of the city for choosing the vendors. This is really down to the fact that most decision makers have no idea how to understand or differentiate between options. It's been like this for decades. When a secretary of state doesn't know the risks in running a private independent email server and how to ensure those risks don't become issues, how do expect much lower level city governments to make any better decisions. Honestly, the IT workers are often underappreciated, underpaid, and underskilled. I usually don't blame the IT people. If they could work at FANG, they would. If they get into a rut where they end up not caring anymore, it sucks. But let's put blame where it belongs, it's on leadership to develop a culture where people care and on leadership to invest money and resources accordingly.

Edit: though I shall add that it unfortunately is sometimes not possible to build a new culture without firing incumbents. That one is a really unfortunate situation. It's not the fault of low-skilled IT workers if they are enabled and rewarded for poor skills and attitudes. But if an organization wants to make good cultures, it sometimes requires hard decisions. Still don't blame the workers, just like I don't blame factory workers that get automated. It's just an unfortunate thing that can happen that most people don't deserve.
Sigmund Jähn, the first German to travel into space
I've had it with Google Search. It drives me up the wall these days.

If I'm on a mobile device, sometimes the entire page will be adverts styled to look like results. Sometimes it will just perform an alternate search (if there's no matches, show me an empty page!)

The final straw for me is that it now "helpfully" drops search terms on my behalf. I was already using DDG for a third of my searches. I'm going all-in now. For people who don't spend much time online, maybe what Google is doing works for them.

At this point, there are too many gotchas for me. I would gladly revert to Google the [+"way it was" +years +ago] I already know the terms that will show me what I want. Yes, I know about "Verbatim search" to which I constantly have to toggle and inexplicably breaks other features. Google just makes me jump through hoops now.
Generate ASCII RFC-like header diagrams for your own custom protocols
"Talking a lot" = distracting a lot.

Only interrupt developers if it is urgent. For a developer, resuming a task after an interruption can take time and effort.

Using an issue trackers and building discipline around keeping it updated is preferable to polling people for updates constantly.

"How is this task going?" -> go to the ticket for that task in your issue tracker and read the status field.

If you feel like "talking a lot", don't do it in the areas where developers do their work. It is distracting for developers.
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Quaternions are more efficient yes, but I would prefer the more general Screw theory.
Forget about the Ghost Ship tragedy. I'm offering more than ideas - what I've done successfully since '92 - developing products / services etc. for my clients. Point being here to avoid the pitfalls of cashflow issues beforehand and working yourself to death and not enjoying what you've started. And yes, once you have these problems it may be hard to convince anyone else to put their name behind it. Operationally there's something to be said stakeholders having "skin in the game". I like that Acequias idea.
> What about employee perks like doing your laundry for you, cooking your meals, cleaning your house, and giving you a ride to work every day? Do those infantilize grown adults?

None of those services are anything like the government managing a bank account for you. Anyone can decide they don't want those employee perks, someone on food stamps does not have much of a choice.
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]
Not exercising worse for your health than smoking
That's confusing. "Air cooled" usually means exactly that there is no "intermediary coolant". At the end of the day almost all equipment cools to the atmosphere after all. The difference between liquid cooled and air cooled cars/bikes is exactly that extra equipment of coolant lines and radiators versus just having airflow directly over the things you want to cool.
Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006
I recently redescovered the keynote video in which Looking Glass was announced and realized it’s now 12 years old.
I remember watching this video in awe and still today I findit quite remarkable although a bit gimmicky.

https://youtu.be/JXv8VlpoK_g

I wonder what was the motivation behind this project and why it never really took off. Also what are the people behind it up to nowadays - does anyone here know the backstory to this?
Most companies in my part of the world opt to hire a new employee on higher salary than given raise to existing person. Can't fathom the logic.
I'm not a manager, I'm a victim of 1:1s. 1 on 1 are a waste of time. Maybe ask your reports if they want them at all. If you have information for them you can always just email them.
How a Garden for the Poor Became a Playground for the Rich
As mentioned already by a lot of people in other comments:

1) It's about them, not me. No agenda. If there is nothing to say or discuss, fine everybidy gained 30 minutes.

2) Make it quality time, if you have to many directs reduce frequency to bi-weekly.

3) Keep it confidential.

For me, scheduled 1-on-1s served as a reminder to talk at least once per week (or every two weeks) with people. I tried to have multiple conversations any how as often as possible. But at least once.

I also realized that I was horrible in the begining with keeping them, I simply rescheduled too often. So my message to my directs was "force me to stick to them, if one had to be cancelled force mw to get one by end of the week".

Sometimes they became project / work related discussions, sometimes general ranting (also necessary sometimes), sometimes personal and sometimes we were done within less than a minute.

Ehat I aslo tried to do was to be open about myself, always a little bit more than my dorects. Trust is important, and for me trusting my directs first (being open about myself goes a long way) helped a lot in gaining that trust. Doesn't mean I couldn't be a no-no-sense guy when needed.
Reasonably good notes & it syncs nicely with the desktop OneNote app.
Because it is just the timing that makes you say this, and I highly doubt the city of Seattle can - on a moments notice, no less - pull the plug on any residential internet connection.

If true, that would be a far bigger news item than the rest of your story.
Supposedly, old lines like these are low pressure lines to the house. Thus nobody has a pressure regulator in their home. It seems crazy today but these lines are antique, from the days when electrical wire was run by knob-and-tube.
What would be considered surprisingly low? A level 3 software engineer making $100K? Genuinely curious.
>> They also roasted a few and ate them. Rathore says they taste like chickpeas.

The vegetarian equivalent of tastes like chicken
Things move slowly in medicine, and this is bleeding edge research.
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