skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant bit from the paper, emphasis mine:

> Cross-sectional data with retrospective indicators of scholarly culture are affected by measurement error and indicators could reflect unmeasured influence of other confounding variables which may lead to over-optimistic estimates (de Vries and de Graaf, 2008). However, prior research using longitudinal data from Australia with corrections for measurement error showed that a substantial impact of home library size on adult education existed net of the effects of academic ability (IQ) of adults or their father's scholarly habits (i.e. employment in occupations where use of books is common) as well as family income or wealth (Evans et al., 2010). Although we have no means of correcting for these potential biases in ways available in longitudinal data, we argue that even somewhat optimistic estimates are of value as an initial step in proposing and assessing hypotheses for future, more stringent tests. To limit the potential for confounding adolescent and adult literacy-enhancing activities, we control for adult out-of-work activities related to literacy, numeracy and ICT skills that might correlate with scholarly culture experienced in adolescence but are indicators of adult scholarly culture.
Can you cite or link to properly implemented ECS solutions, in your opinion?
On many Square instances, when you choose No Tip on the screen, tapping New Sale after it says Done! in the top right will clear the “no tip” indicator. If they go into the transaction history then it’ll show there still, but that takes an admin PIN and is annoying and so no one will.

(I tip, but that’s no excuse for someone else to suffer social pressure.)
AT&T is not a company that's effectively a government arm. They may have a cozy relationship, but it's a major difference.
Also, you have some expectation that a company such as AT&T will respect intellectual property. US offers strong protections there.
In no state is the minimum wage the employee takes home lower than $7.25 an hour. The employer can pay them less only if the tips make up the difference, down to $2.13(!) an hour. Of course, most waiters and servers end up making quite a bit more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
Note this is out of 20K anagrams.

Here's my code: https://github.com/brlewis/brlewis.github.io/blob/master/201...

On my machine, Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic finished in 1.703 seconds, sorting letters in 1.954 seconds.
I suspect a legislative process not dominated by industry lobbyists would ensure that people have the right to repair everything.

I think countries that use proportional representation rather than winner-take-all elections aren't as hijacked by such lobbyists. I know there was an effort in the EU to ensure the right to repair.
Sure, but that NIC is $274, so not cheap for casual home users.

[1] https://m.newegg.com/products/9SIA4A04ZV6491
That (organizations) was in reference to state level actors, which is what GP was talking about.

EDIT: removed bit about 993/587 because you're answering that elsewhere.
They've always had to get one if they wanted the security/monitoring, this just makes an implementation of how to get around lazy security a standard.
I can't tell if this data means Utah got better at welcoming females to JS engineering or there's a point where they stop trying around five years. :) As a member of the JS community I hope it's the former.

There's also someone killing it that's only been working in JS for three years.
A lawys giving a small client a bog-standard contract form is the good kind of development -- simple off-the-shelf solution that makes minimal fuss for maximal benefit.
Thousands of Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Are Now Online
Perhaps they should notice once again... this time hold the Mcarthyism.
One of the things is we need not make the same mistakes the Romans made. Many of us know the problems that face us and how to solve them, we just lack the will and organization to take them on.
Sartorially, black suits are for formal events or funerals. They look out of place in “professional” environments. Certainly not for a wedding, unless it is specifically black tie.
That sounds interesting - got me thinking a little more about this.

I wonder if simply by making the information available on when people are in flow state, a lot of flow state interruptions could be reduced, even without reducing the number of meetings. In particular, encouraging scheduling a meeting at the beginning / end of a flow state period rather than slap bang in the middle would have a big impact. For example, assume you want to work in flow from 10:00-12:30, scheduling a 15 minute meeting at 10:00 or 12:15 is preferable to scheduling one at 11:00, because you might still be able to get into flow for a couple of hours.

I'd like to see a scheduling system which dynamically encourages people to assign other meetings to an already compromised flow period to keep other flow periods free (rather than just blocking things out).

My worry is that without this, just focussing on minimal number of meetings / cost spent in meetings might not be enough. 3 badly scheduled 30 minute meetings might write off a whole day, whereas a single meeting of 1hr30 might have a much smaller impact, but on the raw "time spent in meetings" / "salary cost spent" metric these would seem equivalent.
Are there any news on WebGL compute shaders?

I remember OpenCL for Firefox being discussed and discarded in favor of compute shaders about 7 years ago, and then when WebGL 2.0 was finally released 5 years later, compute shaders were not part of it.

Additionaly, SIMD.js has been developed and then killed again and support for SIMD in WebAssembly has been delayed, so I don't believe that we'll be able to implement efficient numerical methods in the browser any time soon.
The demise of Angkor
But that's IMAPS and SMTP submission. Is that for random hosts on the Internet (like my phone on LTE) to read/send e-mail?
This is why antitrust legislation and enforcement is so important.
> what would you do with that mapping

Well, I could write another tool to analyse it, eg extract some statistics; I could write another tool to generate it, eg based on data.
There are often opportunities with smaller companies, but they're not formulaic. My current employer has done that (no we're not currently hiring) and my start (albeit almost 20 years ago) came at a tiny ISP, making barely above minimum wage at the time, where I started writing code and worked my way into bigger and better jobs (I did have the fortune of starting on that path before the first dot-com bubble) However, bootcamps weren't a thing, and I had no degree at the time (I've picked up a couple of associate degrees along the way, but nothing CS)
Fascinating. I didn't know that the US military budget is a third of what it was 60 years ago. Yet another example of the media / popular perception being basically uncorrelated with reality.
We did paper airplane design when I studied the Taguchi method in college.
The last sentences in the article:

> It also comes with a client implementation of the roughtime protocol in Go - initially I was not aware that there already was a Go implementation, but that also is not go-gettable. Either way, it was fun to implement it myself :)
Also, see NATO members who can avoid defense expenditure because US is their defacto defense force.
Thanks, unfortunately it didn't work (SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP on FF 63.0b10).
The water system that helped Angkor rise may have also brought its fall
There is actually nothing wrong with the scientific process, it's great and works. Also everything you're saying about the mountain of information built up by thousands of people is correct to. What I'm talking about is that the mountain is usually under extreme control from a few dictators that provide funding, and basically are the "trolls" of the community that either make vast swathes of research "laughable" or not.

None of that aspect to "science the religion" has anything to do with the scientific process.

By the way, Science, which I hope people recall, has no ability to fully describe the truth - only our best possible guess. That's also written in the scientific process.

Also many people say "because science" and note things like computers and gravity to justify anything related to science that can't possibly be wrong.

Here's a simple thought experiment to help you understand how little we actually are with science and the human body:

Dig up every article and research paper you can on coffee.

Tell me now, for sure, is Coffee Good for you or Bad for you?

That's probably a lot harder to answer than:

Is plastic in Salt Good for you or Bad for you?

And then ask yourself if you drink coffee or drink melted plastic and try to reveal your biases and realize every scientist is doing the same.
S3 is a blobject store, not a filesystem.
There is a ring design that will beat any dart for distance. Particularly when thrown gently from a height where its glide ability can be exploited.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/ring-wing-glider...
Obligatory shoutout to the Oatmeal's writeup on mantis shrimp. It's still my favorite love letter to a (non-human) species. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
One thing that seems to be missing (and wasn't given a lot of attention when I was in school) was the notion that the reals are continuous. Calculus made a lot more sense to me once I internalized how that one simple idea basically serves as the rug that really ties the room together.

I've often thought that an interesting treatment would start with differences and sums of integers as approximations, demonstrate their errors and then introduce reals and limits as a tool for making better theoretical models using the infinite "zoom button" continuity property of the reals.
No because a motor vehicle would have to establish a connection to the centralized infrastructure in order to get a green light. If it can't, it assumes a fault and acts accordingly. The problem above is that there might not be another car so how do you detect the failure?
CVS Pharmacy recently gave up on a years-long initiative to convince Americans to pay with QR codes. It seems market-appropriate, in light of that total failure, to have reservations about adding camera hardware to a cash register.
take a look at this video:
https://youtu.be/Yfsmc0b8o78
Thanks for putting the survey together. Another interesting thing to note is that these developers are (at least by association?) javascript devs. In my experience, the backend developers playing with C#, Java, SQL are usually earning another 25-50% more than the javascript devs. Have others seen the same?
Gluster/Ceph support NVMe. That matrix isn't right
The color thing maybe is an indirect test to see if you're actually imagining the scene vividly, instead of thinking of it as some abstract "sledding" activity. It's not really memorization... Though literal imagining of things is something not everyone can do, so it also seems out of place on a reading comprehension test.

Personally I don't really appreciate any comprehension tests that can be answered somewhat easily by computers, which the "shirt color" thing could be. And tests that are hacked by simple human algorithms are boring. In elementary school I got really far ahead in extra credit reading packets by realizing I could skip the reading and just go straight to the questions, skim for the answer, repeat. Somehow I think that certain peers in high school never mastered this trick since they were complaining about lack of time on the ACT... The better test of comprehension was to read something and then write about it, but the writing section of the ACT was separated and made optional.
I call bullshit... They receive $100 million in tax dollars per year to subsidize blind and overseas citizens. They also get $18 billion per year in tax benefits. That is not self-funded by any stretch.

https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2013/jul/24/am...
http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/
Full disclosure: I never bothered to read anything of his written after "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", since the universal consensus seems to be that his later books are very, very strange.
That's a very different scenario. That was a settlement offer -- Weinstein effectively offered her a bribe to drop her complaint and cover for him. She could choose to refuse the settlement and press her case through the courts, which of course would be the same option as if there was no settlement offer. Weinstein would never agree to pay her a settlement that didn't limit his liability -- the value of that to him is $0.
> If these tangents came with constructive ideas about how to improve the situation, that would be fine. But the only suggestions people seem to offer are to abandon the web as a lost cause or break the web somehow.

Some of us are suggesting constructive alternatives:

- test your site in all major browsers

- make sure it works without JavaScript and is readble without styling. Thst is unless you are creating a frontend application.

We've been complaining about this since IE6 and we had it more or less nailed for a while around web 2.0 until enough devs started thinking

- it was enough to target Chrome

and

- JavaScript is available everywhere.

There's no reason why most blogs and news sites should need JavaScript.

And there is no reason why Chrome monoculture should be more acceptable than IE6 monoculture.
> Facebook said it was caused by a bug in the system that has now been fixed.

Funny how problems like these are attributed euphemistically to "bugs" that are "fixed" in reporting.

I do not often see journalism incorporating detailed descriptions of computer-related mishaps other than "glitches" [1,2]. It does not help that reporting on these circumstances to journalists may also be mediocre.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/07/2...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/07/08...
The goal is to make messaging secure for everybody who is messaging now. The most popular messaging application in the world already uses phone numbers as identifiers. I understand what a phone number is and why people find them sensitive, but I'm not the person who's out of touch in this debate.
How would that matter, since money is fungible -- wages spend as well as Nnn-compete compensation.
This is not the only reason, though. The U.S. spends a higher percentage of its GDP on defense than other countries.
While obviously hyperbole, it can be helpful to design for the common (often the lowest) denomonator. We don't and shouldn't demonize 'idiot-proofing', nor discount its utility. Sure, the 'sheeple' meme is cliche, but apropos.
> Again, I take OOP to mean what one learns in school

Don't do that, then. "OOP" is a term-of-art in an academic discipline. It means exactly what it was used to mean by the people who coined the term in the papers they coined it in.

The thing that schools teach under the name "OOP" is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children intended to introduce something vaguely like OOP, not to introduce OOP itself.

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And, before you ask: no, there is no academic jargon term for "the thing that C++ and Java are." From an academic perspective, neither language has any particular unifying semantics. They're both just C with more syntax.

OOP is a different set of semantics, based around closures (objects) with mutable free variables (encapsulated state), where an object's behavior is part of its state.

C++ and Java can simulate this—you might call this the Strategy pattern—but if you build a whole system out of these, then you've effectively built an Abstract Machine for an actually Object-Oriented language, one that ends up being rather incompatible with the runtime it's sitting on top of.
If something is "non-deterministic", then it is insufficiently understood.
New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones
Ask HN: Are daily standups any useful?
I will make a blanket statement:

I believe existence of daily standups in any organization shows lack of trust. If the timelines are clear and everyone knows what to deliver why have that distraction at all? Even if its just 15 mins.

What do you guys think?
Lol to the last one on the list
A dedicated developer is keeping it alive by maintaining support for the OMRON LUNA-88K & LUNA-88K2 Unix workstations from Japan.

https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

OpenBSD also used to run on Motorola's 88k VME boards, but the mvme88k port was discontinued after 5.5.

https://www.openbsd.org/mvme88k.html

If you have any spare parts/systems, I suspect aoyama@ would be interested in hearing from you.
Saudi journalist banned from writing after criticizing Trump (2016)
It can really depend on the roundabout layout and the pedestrian. For multi-lane entry/exits, it can be daunting to cross for some pedestrians. The refuge island between the entry/exit can help with this. For individuals with sight limitations, roundabouts can be one of the most confusing intersections. A sight impaired individual uses the sound of the cars to orient themselves with the crosswalk. At a normal intersection this generally means to listen for traffic going the same direction, align with it, and proceed. (I skipped a few steps for brevity.) At a roundabout, there is not one direction of traffic. For example say you are standing on the southwest corner of a roundabout that is oriented with the cardinal directions. A vehicle making a westbound through movement will sound the same as a southbound through movement up until the southbound through vehicle exits the circulating lane.

I agree that these are both edge cases and vehicle drivers need to be away of the possible other users. However, as we all know from experience, there are a lot of inattentive (for whatever reason) drivers on the roads. I think roundabouts have their place and can be a great solution in the right situation. But like any intersection design, they are not a silver bullet for all problems.

[EDIT] To give some context to my response, I am a traffic engineer in a semi-rural part of the US. In my area we have around 12 roundabouts of various sizes and configurations serving a large range of traffic volumes and user mixes.
One trick I always used but never understood why it worked:

When you add a crease to the paper airplane, (say, folding a square corner in on itself at the nose or the tail), it weighs down that part of the plane. So if your plane is pointing up too much, you add a crease in the nose and it flies more level.

But why should adding a crease increase the weight of one section of a plane? You're not adding any more paper.
Sadly, I don’t know of too many rural tech companies. Which is sad, because I would take a fairly ridiculous pay cut to not live in a city.
Many people on these forums train directly from S3 and know how to get that kind of throughput. Like any blobject store, the key is to use multithreaded readers and high concurrency and set up your storage properly.
Do you value your free time at $0?
> not only were the Romans well-aware of lead poisoning, they also understood that lead piping is (generally) safe

Would you mind citing that, please? Contemporary works on Roman culinary practices (e.g. Cool’s Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain) continue to underline that Romans were exposed to troublingly high levels of lead through consumption of defrutum boiled in lead pots.
AFAIK Starbucks' own app represents a sizable percentage of mobile payments in the U.S. and is QR-code based. I don't think Square should take cues from one random merchant's failure with QR-code payments to decide whether or not it will take off in the future. Also I assume Square has ambitions to expand globally and in doing needs to shake off a western bias when it comes to payments.
I'm not 100% sure but I think so. There's a fiber coming into a wall-mounted non-wireless router. I think I could replace it with any fiber-to-ethernet converter and then hook up my wireless router to the ethernet port.
I've used Himalayan salt for decades, no iodine deficiency. Unless you only eat at home, and no processed foods, you're likely getting plenty of iodine elsewhere.
Sure, Linux doesn't have a total monopoly in every domain. Sony used FreeBSD as the basis of the OSs of the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4, for instance, and the work they did will never be contributed back.

I don't see any proprietary Unix seriously competing with Linux any time soon though.
A really tiny minority? Today I navigated some maps in an unfamiliar city in a web browser. I also edited some images. I streamed some video too. These are incredibly useful features.

Pretty much the only "raw document" websites I ever visit are wikipedia, hn, and stack overflow.
> Even in a regime mandating DSRC transceivers for all cars and trucks

...which will never happen...
Yeah, I've been testing 1.3 and my experience lines up.

All of the comparisons are amazing, but I'm most impressed by the SILK improvements at 9kb/s. The sample is just barely noticeably worse than the reference with 1.3, and artifact-ridden with 1.2 and prior.

Opus 1.3 at 9kb/s and above is perfectly readable, and unnoticeable aside from some sibilants for voice, that's spectacular.
> the number of package mgmt options to consider is vast and confusing

Part of the issue is due to the success of Python in very different niches. The likes of Rails or Node can concentrate on specific ecosystems, which account for the bulk of their users and have a limited set of scenarios they have to support; whereas Python users come from sysadmin to data-crunching to web to desktop development to games to to to...

So each packaging tool comes with certain ideas, usually a result of the author's experience; maybe they work very well in this or that scenario, but then they break badly on others and sizeable chunks of the community revolt. So a new tool comes around and the cycle starts again, but now people also want compatibility with the old tool.

I suspect part of the solution will require splits between niches. It already happened with Anaconda, which has basically become the standard in a particular group of users (academia / datascience). Since that came around, lamentations around building C libraries have substantially reduced (to be fair, the arrival of precompiled wheels on PyPI also helped). Some similarly-specialized tool might eventually emerge as standard for other niches.

Python developers are cats and they are pretty hard to herd at the best of times, which is unsurprising -- who would stick around a language that is almost 30 years old and was never promoted by any major vendor? Only hard-headed fools like myself.
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