skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Metro hit bottom a couple years ago and is on the way back up. Dedicated funding (finally!) will enable steady improvement. If Amazon comes to town and uses their clout to push for better transportation, that will on accelerate things.
Actually I think the 'ace' in Paper/Hackpad/Etherpad is a different thing called ace.
>what confidence should I have that it is accurate?

They provide no example accounts either, so you will never know if it's accurate. It's entirely possible they deleted legitimate accounts of real individuals at the behest of the DCCC.
Metro ui dates back to Windows 8, though that is still later than 2011, as it was released in 2012.
That sounds like a good way to go from "block $x" to a new judgment that says "pay $y".
The EFF improved on Reinhold's original Diceware wordlist which included unmemorable and short words such as "wq", "ll" and "zf" by replacing them with longer, actual words. The same technique still applies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-p...
After co-founder breakup, who can claim the name of the startup?
I just broke up with my co-founders because they declined to work full-time for our startup, something that I've been doing since the start. We haven't incorporated yet, and the domain was registered under my name (I also came up with the name--if that's important). After the breakup, I told my co-founders that I still wanted to run the startup, but they said I need to use different business name. It feels unfair to me because they don't even seem to care for the name; they just don't want me to get the advantage of the brand that was built together. What do you think? I will really appreciate your views on this issue.
That's a $2000 camera, almost three times as expensive as the Pixel 3, not counting the cost of the cheaper phone.
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The big difference is that all planets we’ve discovered so far are lifeless.

You can’t really ruin a barren planet. There’s no one to ruin it for.
What is Fileless Malware? How does it work?
Might consider a revisit. Seattle traffic is now in the top 10 (9th) of horrible. [1]

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2018/seattle-traffic-congestion-nin...
Phil Greenspun wrote about "software engineering professionalism", and it's still the best thing I've ever read on the subject:

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/writeup

I would say "Surgeon 3" exemplifies the world-class professional, quite literally.
No it's not. Languages most commonly used in finance are:
C/C++, Python, Java, Scala, Julia, Matlab, R, and KDB.
Huh? The Cold War was not a conspiracy in the way you're implying at all. It was very publicly out there as you had kids under desks to avoid nuclear war and both countries saying how awful the other is. Westerners know plenty about China... you seem to be referring to a time hundreds of years ago where China was this far-away place and no one knew about it or understood it because we primarily traveled by trains and boats that took weeks to get anywhere and didn't have an internet connection with them. Times are a little different and have been for a long while.

Today people from the West travel to and live in China constantly. Tons of Chinese kids come to America and go to universities (some where they're like 20% of the school's incoming class). How do you think all of the west's stuff is made in China? From communicating with Chinese people and traveling to China. It didn't just magically happen. It's also pretty well known to the West and other parts of the world that China has been stealing state and corporate secrets for a very long time.

I really don't get this argument. The West (and world) knows China inside and out.
I guess it depends then. Having been taught Racket in my intro programming class by Olin Shivers I can say I adored it and his class turns people into computer science majors using functional programming
That works until someone has a few beers at lunch and proceeds to come back and start smashing things (been there :)
Ive had quite a few of their laptops, still have two Gazelles. The physicality of these cleo oem boxes is really really bad.

But the value of the compute power for the buck was top notch. Also, their support was always stellar. Ill certainly buy form them going forward, just wish the gazelles had more physically sound chassis.

So, i would just want to get my hands on a thelio to test out. If System76 is listening, how bout getting a base model to me to review here on HN. :-)
This country isn't just carbon neutral – it's carbon negative (2016) [video]
Growth is coming to the region, regardless of what Amazon does. HQ2 is just an accelerant. Embrace growth or resign your community to irrelevance.
This sounds like a good critique of naive incentive schemes.

I don't think there is any doubt that humans follow incentives.

But working out what the core incentive problems are, and actually changing them might be both (1) intellectually difficult, and (2) challenge some sacred beliefs and strong power structures, thus making it practically impossible.
I knew the USPTO had moved out. Those buildings are half a century old. Does Amazon plan to tear down and rebuild?
Dialog: "Are you sure you would like to invite x?" - This solution has existed for a very long time. Not difficult.
>literal Sieg Heil Nazis are people deserving respect

I respectfully disagree.

ETA:
Sunlight isn't actually a disinfectant here. If it was, moderation-lite platforms wouldn't be full of fascist trash.

What actually happens is this:
1. Someone makes a moderation-lite platform in response to censorship on mainstream platforms
2. Thousands of awful people flock to the platform, along with two or three principled free speech advocates. Most normal people avoid it because they don't realistically need to worry about being banned from mainstream platforms and they don't want to deal with fascists. (Besides, the racist trolls aren't actually interested in open and respectful discourse. That's a lie.)
About 7 hours on an oldish ThinkPad (T530) on a full charge:

$ apm
Battery state: high, 99% remaining, 430 minutes life estimate
A/C adapter state: not connected
Performance adjustment mode: auto (1200 MHz)
MicroG supports all Android devices, but requires manual installation.

LineageOS for microG (which is a pre-built ROM) supports all phones that are supported by LineageOS. A full list of these phones can be found here:

Sorted by device age, with pictures and specifications: https://piotr-yuxuan.github.io/choose-a-new-phone/

Sorted by model, with LineageOS version and build day (view on desktop for all columns): https://www.lineageoslog.com/build/scheduler
Looking forward to Windows support and parallelism. After that a stable v1.0 and I am more than happy to use Crystal for my productive projects.

Great work so far, thanks! Absolutely in love with the language.
It's been possible to turn off notifications on an app-by-app basis for at least 2 years. The settings are pretty granular in the newer versions of Android, you can set it so that an app does not interrupt you in any way, and you'll only see the notification once you unlock your phone.

However, if a single app is mixing in, say, 5 frivolous notifications with 2 critical ones, I don't think there is any OS-level way to deal with that.

https://www.howtogeek.com/204187/how-to-disable-app-notifica...
There's also a fourth related mistake they make too:

Focusing on building instead of selling.

It's not just that you need to start selling your product before you make it to gauge demand, you also need to continue to sell your product and market it after it goes up too.

But that's not fun for many software engineers. It's not enjoyable setting up ads and deals with influencers and meeting with clients and working on SEO and what not. It's fun to sit in front of a computer writing code.

So we get a bunch of technically fancy projects with nice looking GitHub profiles and Hacker News showcase posts, all of which barely anyone actually uses. It doesn't help that for a certain percentage of developers (read, many people here), they seem to think selling or marketing something is inherently immoral in some way or another.
Google Cloud Security Whitepaper [pdf]
The onus is on you to provide examples. Most of what I know of, and what I can find documented, was government sanctioned or under (implied) threat of government retaliation.

Please cite examples of these widespread small scale, grassroots anti-leftist incidents.
You might be interested in https://www.akalin.com/intro-erasure-codes
Odd. Did you load the GPU driver? Start powerd?
The Haskell style comma before the next element is soooo nice for adding and removing elements over time. I wish more languages used that style.
This isn't true if you are an actual property investor - cheap housing has a better rental yield. If you want to live in a house and have the price shoot up while you do so then fair enough, that only works if prices shoot up.
I trust in god alone, all others must bring benchmarks.
I'm a night person but I never write code by night, mostly in the morning. Because when the day starts I simply have a lot more urgency of doing something creative. Later in the day I start to be less interested and tired and want to do less stressful activities.
Bezos for president 2020?

Running mate Zuckerberg?
My understanding is that any participant action requires proof-of-work.

Social networks like Secure Scuttlebutt prevents this type of attack by syncing only data within social trust circles. So spammers and bots can vote up each other all they want, but their actions will not be visible outside of their little island unless someone explicitly "friends" one of them. Aether, being a global view of unpartitioned data, has a more difficult time tackling this type of attack, and its proof-of-work minting of user actions seem like a reasonable approach.
I think I understand what 'ProAm' meant. Elon Musk is irresistible to nerds and geeks. He's the ultimate expression of the technical mind. And one wants Elon to be right all the time. He's like an addiction. You want to stop but it's not easy.
What I'd like to see in addition to raw stats is stacking up service and warranty.

What's kept me an Apple user for high-end laptops and phones is being able to go to a brick and mortar store and walk-out with a replacement device.
Because you're stepping down on the spectrum of "vault with a mantrap, several factors of authentication and 24/7 posted security" down toward "fence and a padlock"?
Your comment about "nobody lives near a metro line" though - I mean, come on! With the orange line and silver line extension there are lots of places in NoVa near the metro. Yes, the car traffic is horrible, but the car traffic is horrible in SF, LA, Boston, NY, Austin...

As another commenter pointed out, there is actually a ton of empty real estate in Crystal City itself and no doubt a ton of it will be built up as apartments/condos now.
This is true. There are so many high rises being built along the Wilson-Clarendon corridor, and Arlington and Alexandria actually have a big presence of the so-called missing middle of housing development [1]. This location seems like it's pretty well equipped to absorb HQ2

[1] http://missingmiddlehousing.com/
I'm also thinking about ditching android, for a completely different reason.

I want a premium phone. I like good cameras, and big fat CPUs. So I've been using Samsung phones for a while. I currently have an S6, which I have been pretty happy with. But it has come to my attention that it has received its last update about 6 months ago. Samsung only sends updates for two years.

Having an internet-connected device that no longer gets patches? Seems like a terrible idea to me.

Apple supports their phones for 5 years. So that's the direction I'm currently looking.
So these experiments are about to be ready to run just as their feeding accelerators will be shut down for two years? That timing certainly sucks for all the PhD students involved.
Maybe because for every one purchased they plant a tree?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good thing that there are other options - for those of us who are not thrilled about such Metro-esque futures where everything is either a tablet, or ignored. Just as "old=good" is a fallacy, so is "new=good".

(Tbh I don't give a damn about transparency or fancy effects, either)
Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, Angular.
> I'd expect to see one DE for mainstream users, one DE for business, and a plethora of less well maintained options for power users.

Well, I’ve got good news for you...
Many agencies do that, e.g. ERC requires it. However it hasn't changed anything, because these publishers charge (a lot) for open access, and ERC just ends up subsidizing them even more.
Funny.

I never used Flock & would get spammed notifications (via SMS) from them.

My 2012 Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/wdr1/status/255454270160244736

It later which switched to email wherein the justification was "growth strategy."
I appreciate having the pull requests linked. I did read through a couple of the discussions on those.
Oh, so like python. Explains the poor performance. I did not know that. thanks.
As the article says, they have also blocked Elsevier's website :)
I would say yes. What's the worst that can happen, you learning something good and interesting? It's always good to have people in this field that know how to design distributed systems.
Crazy. It’s not like they’re hurting for a budget either.

> The project has also been searching for a chief scientist, with a pay package of $1.2 million, since late 2017. The post is open to qualified astronomers from any country
Which formula are you talking about? The arithmetic is literally exactly the same.

“Slerp” just means follow a path on a circle at uniform speed (i.e. “use trigonometry”). In this case, we are talking about a circle on the conceptual unit 4-sphere. It doesn’t really matter what names we call the basis elements.
Anything to worry about as far as attack vectors when running something like this? eg, could someone hack my computer more easily than they could from just running Facebook in a browser, etc?
Since Aether is a peer-to-peer network, the client syncs content and becomes a node itself to scale up the network's capacity. It also allows the user to perform actions without letting a backend track your navigation history, etc. I don't think there is encryption done on the content, only signing and verifying with keys, as there is no concept of private messages in the Aether network at the moment.
Yes, but if the hospital ever needs to replace you they are SOL
> The truth is that tariffs and similar restrictions have been used by every major economic power

...because it's politically expedient, not because it makes economic sense.

> after all economists always belong to the 10% and cater to that crowd

Oh, 10%. Why not 5% or 15%? What happened to the 1%? How do you even know that is true? I mean, you don't, but throwing around percentages and ascribing motivations to that is somewhat hard to falsify.

Seriously, let's say I'm an economist and belong to "the 10%". Why should I cater to them? Why not cater to the 1%? Why not cater to the 90%? What's so great about the 10%?

> ...let the middle class and the bottom 30% be damned.

So, the middle class starts at 90% and goes down to 30%, therefore they make up 60%. None of them are economists and no economist is catering to their interests either. Just to get a broad picture here.

> Everyone needs to be "poorer" when it comes to affording consumerism anyway (from smartphones to the tons of clothes [2]), and "richer" in affording rent, healthcare, education, job, and other such necessities, that is, the opposite of the trends for the last 30+ years.

Got it, poor people shouldn't be able to afford smartphones and tons of clothes. But how exactly does protectionism help them afford these other things you mention? Presumably these people are going to all have jobs making smartphones and sewing clothes (which are now so expensive they themselves cannot afford them). But why would their wages be higher? Remember, as prices go up, demand goes down. Without demand, jobs get eliminated.

> The same could be said for child labor (better than the kids/families starving), and yet we outlawed that (at least in theory).

Child labor becomes illegal only as soon as that is feasible, it requires a certain amount of economic development. Indeed, it is better for a child to work than starve, don't you think? Child labor (depending on how you define it) is still par for the course in underdeveloped countries, even when it may not always be legal.
Just ask around what great experience it is to use new os/apps on a 5 year old phone.
I always thought distributed systems weren’t necessarily decentralized systems. Is my understanding of the terminology wrong?

For example a system that uses distributed algorithms for performance improvements, or a system that is distributed by design and necessity to retain the benefits of redundancy, could be considered both centralized and distributed.
That’s confusing. Wouldn’t it be better if everyone maximised their window? If you have a random window size you have a much higher chance of it being unique.
Apple's been doing it for some time in "Others" category (Apple TV, Watch, Beats, Airpods) - it's mere extending of its policy. Furthermore, Apple's been increasing prices of iPhones - which will probably lead to worse numbers - but may lead to greater sales numbers - which Apple feels are much more relevant for investors and for them. It doesn't necessarily have to be a bad sign for Apple, as they always have focused on greater average-selling-price instead of of sold iPhones.
You can talk in hand-wavey sound bites about civil liberties that's not the world we've chosen to create, and it's hard to understand how you can earnestly compare racism and homosexuality. Are violent racists oppressed when they're not permitted to deny the rights of minorities, in the same way minorities are oppressed when they're not permitted to exercise their rights? Perhaps when you're philosophising in comments on the internet about civil liberties they're the same but in the real world they are not.

You cannot effectively allow people to individually "filter out" toxic behaviour within a community because toxic behaviour permeates all aspects of participation in a community. The views we hold are fundamental to all aspects of our lives: our lives are built upon our views. A violent anti-semite's beliefs are present in their views on politics, religion, video games, food, housing, travel, science, technology... you cannot effectively "filter out" the fundamentals of someone's view points without neutering their speech -- which is no different from de-platforming them.

A community is a group of people and a group of people is a collection of beliefs, a community is not a bunch of people who use the same website but are intentionally siloed because their beliefs are incompatible. People who favour the PlayStation 4 over the Xbox One can be part of a community with people who favour the Xbox One over the Playstation 4, but can people who wish death upon all jews be a part of a community with jewish people?
They may also not be interested in publicity. Dave Cutler is reported to have had it written into his contract at microsoft that he didn’t have to deal with the press, and he pretty much never did.
Candid Bill Gates off the record discussing MSFT strategy (1996) [video]
...just the gatekeepers?
Sounds like a pretty significant violation of net neutrality to be blocking companies that they don't "like" out of spite. Doesn't Sweden have NN laws?
>> Twitter, reddit, facebook, hacker news aren't the public street.

I'd say these are the online equivalents of pseudo-public spaces[0], "[spaces] that seem public but are actually owned by corporations"

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseu...
Elena Ferrante and the “My Brilliant Friend” Adaptation for HBO
Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal
#ItsOKToBeWhite

#DamoreWasRight

Truly, and sadly, the Marxists have won.
For me, I try to educate myself and continue to open my heart and mind to the suffering and problems of the world. This is painful and only recommended in small doses. I see a lot of suffering, and not just human suffering, and I am a white male human in Colorado, so I probably don't see the majority of suffering due to my privileges and luxurious life. The only other option is to turn away from it all, and I don't want to. I don't want to be part of the problem and live with so much blood on my hands. I try to cope with it by waking up each day and trying to make a positive difference in any small way that I can. Learning, sharing what I learn, talking with others, learning the problems of others, volunteering social services, voting, and brainstorming economic, social and political solutions. I find happiness daily in the beauty of the sky or animals or plants. This is truly an incredible world and I must be blessed to have had the chance to experience it, even if things are not going so great for the community of Earth.
Weather in an SSID
I read CVs all the time. 15 pages is far too long, he needs to condense it down to 2 pages max, and get a github account demonstrating his achievements. :)
That’s not what a distributed system is. I think OP was talking about distributed systems in the computer science sense, and the theory around it, e.g. lamport clocks, distributed synchronization mechanisms... You could argue that blockchains are also distributed systems, but only in a very limited sense.

To OP: I think it’s absolutely worth it. Any car is a distributed system, even smartphones (by themselves, not just as part of a network!) have so many independent devices with full-blown CPU cores in them that you can call them distributed systems, and as you probably know by now, it’s absolutely a non-trivial topic. So if it’s something that deeply interests you, there is a market.

Given your full stack background (by which I assume you mean web development?), you might first need to look for work on distributed systems that are strongly associated with the web, web services etc.
How to implement strings
I know there are scenarios where rentals do get improved. But insulation, efficiency & comfort is really hard to value, and so I've not really seen it happen. This is specifically called out by government & eco groups as a major challenge going forward to improving energy efficiency of the housing stock.
There are billions of people on the planet and there's no way to stop some of them from being hysterical. It would be a shame to fail as a species because we didn't like the way the message was delivered.
Crypto and Micro Video Are Joining Forces
Google Colaboratory is a promising machine learning research platform
A coworker of mine had this clever idea after being inspired by https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html. Enjoy!
TensorFlow Probability (TensorFlow  O’Reilly AI Conference, San Francisco '18)
Thanks for the feedback! I've added a tidbit about syspatch, and also warned users about the (somewhat unusual) state of updates for third-party packages on OpenBSD:

https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/#updates