skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet if you measured contentment levels then and now you would not find much of a difference! In fact you might find people are less content now than shitting in a ditch 2000 years ago.

But I did not mean this as an excuse for “non-progress”. Humans will “progress”, it’s their natural instinct and drive. It makes more sense to make our lives easier than to make it harder.

But the shining city doesn’t exist, and there’s nothing that will significantly increase our internal contentment but winning the internal battle of acceptance.
So same question: why did you go away, or how did you loose your work visa?

For me it's a cool job in Auckland. What worries us is the distance and the logistics of bringing over our entire family... I can see myself working there, bringing over the family, and then loosing my job e.g. because of some recession and not find another job in the grace period.
Good point, bad article. He never gets to the "why".
Well, none? To install GCC, Homebrew wanted me to install XCode first. That’s when I gave up because nothing was installed there by default except for an outdated Bash.
They probably reused jtag and serial from different projects, which makes sense for a V1. If it is popular, I am sure they would implement the changes you list.
It's not a one-off deal, support in Linux for example means you either need an unconstrained spec and third party maintainers, or having some person support it full time forever (or as long as the devices exist). Unmaintained code gets thrown out, that is why so few companies and projects do it; they are almost always a one-off with a short lifespan.
Starbucks should be investing all our into chargers! They’d be the perfect place to hang out for an hour. Or Barnes and noble.
I'm not sure what "perks" there are from being classified as a 1099 contractor from the contractor's POV. The government is generally interested in people being W2 because then the company is obligated to withhold taxes, which makes the government much more likely to be paid as opposed to relying on individuals to pay their "self-employment tax", i.e., the portion of payroll tax that the company would bear if the individual were classified as W2.

Since this simplifies the individual's tax paperwork and transfers some of that burden to the employer, this can frequently be framed as some kind of "fighting for the little guy" thing, but it's really just about the government getting paid more reliably.
IMO both of these are the wrong way to go about having a git web ui, a simple hook could generate html partials and with a bit of javascript stream the fragments when required. Bugs/todos should also be under source control and would be handled better again by a hook.
There are a lot of cheap linux dev boards out there now, to the point where I had trouble finding a list of boards that met my requirements[1]. There is almost certainly a sub-$20 board out there with what I need, but I ended up using an RPi just because it was "cheap enough" and had what I needed.

1: In this case, analog audio out, 1 host-side USB port, and 6 GPIOs.
Yes, that is the nice theory and also the nice real world. And yes, I've been on and managed dozens of projects at 10+ companies over the last decade so I feel confident saying that. Sounds to me like your company's leadership just sucks. That's not a problem with the methodology.
You can have example.com and *.example.com on the same certificate.
He has two fans help him out.
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Space colonization cannot and will never relieve overpopulation, and it's time for that notion to die. The USA alone sees roughly 4 million births per year. That's 11 _thousand_ births per day. It is completely delusional to expect our species to lift enough people out of our gravity well to put a dent in population growth.
It's actually very understated for a C64 game. The smooth scrolling is easy (hardware support coupled with custom character means you're effectively operating on a tiled display where the tiles only need to be moved every few frames).

The parallax (e.g. trees) and enemies requires just some sprites to do smoothly, and tall and narrow is ideal for the sprites (you can manipulate the sprite registers with the raster interrupt to make them arbitrary tall; creating wider sprites is the hard bit)

I think on the contrary this is a type of game that was hard to envision at the time because it doesn't really push the limits of what the machine can do. It's an aesthetic for a game that did not seem appealing because people were still predominantly focused on stretching the machine to its limits.

If you look at C64 games of the era, there was a race to to cram as big enemies as possible and as many enemies as possible onto each screen, and using as much colour as possible. The evolution year by year was staggering, and few people at the time would "go back" to something simple.

The crazy thing is I suspect this would have been slaughtered in reviews of the time for that reason.

A lot of these type of games are possible for these platforms now because we're no longer stuck in a race for fitting as many effects as possible in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Hunt
Making it possible for the worker to document their “preference” would defeat the entire purpose of these regulations. Companies would simply fire anyone who doesn’t have a contractor preference
Here is the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-1-1-1-faster-internet/id14...

Can you not access it?
If he is not able to finish, I think Joe Abercrombie would be the perfect candidate. Though since GRRM has most of the plot figured out already, I wonder if Joe would be interested.
I work at Cloudflare, but regardless think this is awesome for security. Being more resilient to coffee shop type attacks and other DNS issues is great. It's a really user friendly and simple step in the right direction.
I am a meteorologist on TV. I work in front of a chroma key wall. I would love to have a simulator like this where I could swap in the background image... well, you get the idea.

This would especially be good for me as I do the weather in Nebraska from a studio I built at home in SoCal. As far as I know I'm the only regularly scheduled TV news anchor to work from home in the US and possibly the world.
You sidestepped it, rather than really solved it: you got rid of the CNAME issue by trading it for a proxy availability issue. It works--of course it works, it's literally why cloudflare exists--but now your service availability is directly tied to cloudflare's availability. And cloudflare glitches often enough that plenty of people run into their 5xx pages on a daily basis across the web.

So you traded an intermittent problem (only relevant when an IP change occurs) for 24/7 guaranteed service outages for a (probably very) low percentage of your intended demographic.
New York City Raids Condo Building in Crackdown on Airbnb Rentals
One layer is a surprise to me, I thought xor needed two?
I think that was just for 'The World of Ice and Fire'
That book is one of the best things ever.

" And if you, gentle reader, have never seen a nervous rocket mechanic, complete with monkey suit, being buzzed by nine thousand demented bats and trying to beat them off with a shovel, there is
something missing from your experience."
i think your concern should be relative to your value as a target of a hack. there's a reason billionaires have private bodyguards and we don't, and there's a reason high value systems are built from scratch in tightly controlled environments and use things like hardware based security
I've pushed Twisted on a 100M US company about 7 years ago and it has continued to work for us big time. The code - tens of thousands of lines in 20+ servers - survived Twisted upgrades for all these years without any changes (OK, there was one related to import, had to add PYTHONPATH=. to env).

Kudos to Twisted team!
They wanted to also do that for M'era Luna in 2016 and I wasn't very much looking forward to that, hearing it in 2015 - might be because I read about them tracking your movement and having your payment history at the festival. Suddenly cash was really convenient again to me.
> Am I the only one that sees an irony with the deep blue states with this article?

There’s a vast chasm between the government being used as a tool for collective action (like when forcing human-friendly business regulations) and government being used as a tool for control.
Videoconferencing is still drastically higher friction than circling in front of a whiteboard. Heads-down coding is only part of the job; it’s also to work through ideas with other people.

More realistically, tech workers will be able to live in cheaper cities a couple hours away (ie Sacramento) and commute only 1-2 days a week
How many full time musicians in each of those years, though?
I can't help but wonder if there are some interesting applications for electrically pumped rocket engines beyond just the small satellite market. For example, could you attach 3 or 4 Electron-derived boosters to an Atlas V first stage and use them to land it like a Falcon 9?
Fascinating. How’d you land that gig?
I think now they are starting to use air exchangers to bring in outside air while not losing as much heat/cold.
The wisdom that comes from running things in production makes open-ended questions about those gotchas useful interview questions.

'looks like you used kubernetes for a major project recently. What were some of the unexpected warts?'

Someone with experience running a service on k8s will have at least a few stories, and how someone describes their own responses to those hurdles can shed light on their personality.
That would be a lot of extra launch weight just to return the first stage, not to mention the danger of having filled boosters on the rocket the whole launch.
> https://taler.net/en/index.html

Firefox reports today (11nov18, 10:55am, PST):

> taler.net uses an invalid security certificate.

> The certificate expired on November 11, 2018, 2:13:27 PM GMT. The current time is November 11, 2018, 6:55 PM.

> This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely.
It's not just cheap boards, there aren't that many embedded platforms with mainline support at any price level (and many of the ones that are are community-driven, not by the OEM). Part of it is a deeply ingrained culture of industrial secrecy, but a lot of it is perceived lack of incentive. Companies perceive little benefit to investing the effort required to submit their patches upstream, and there is also pervasive FUD about hackers examining the code for exploits, other companies stealing their IP etc.

It sucks and many people are trying to change it, but progress is very slow. FPGAs are generally in an even worse position.
WebGL is pretty amazing.
BTW, when writing in Twisted use @inlineCallbacks with yields for async code. The code reads as if it was synchronous then.

@inlineCallbacks
def get_index_status(self, index_id):
uri = "{}/index-status?id={}".format(self.SERVER, index_id) #yes, no escaping, as this is silly test only
r = yield self.get(uri)
returnValue(r.text)

Using raw Deferreds is a big more difficult.
That sounds really cool actually!

How did you end up building such a studio at home etc? Sounds like a lot of work to me!

(Always cool to see what kind of people hang around here on HN as well!)
See my edit, with the direct link it works. Through the search on iOS it doesn't show up yet.
Court docket here: https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/38v97us7k/california-centr...
It's very unclear to me what the legality of these hidden cameras is and what our recourse can be.

https://fee.org/articles/thanks-to-wiretapping-laws-your-cel...
Individual US citizens are tightly restricted in what they can record and how they declare those recordings to targets, surely the state (without judicial wire tap authorization warrants about specific targets) should be in the same boat?
> It doesn’t matter if you’re driving down the street or visiting a friend, if government or law enforcement has a reason to set up surveillance, there’s great technology out there to do it.

I think most people understand this concept at some level. This describes the same fundamental pattern as undercover officers and informants: a suspect is identified and assets allocated to the project of going after that person or organization. The scary thing isn't so much that surveillance tech exists, but rather the prospect of law enforcement (or others who can obtain access to their systems by various means) being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost because of indiscriminate surveillance.
This is very cool but where is the context, where is the how this was made?

The realism is so-so. Big raindrops do not accumulate smaller ones well enough when touching. And there is no splash.
Looks good!

On osx mpb performance is stellar in Chrome sadly, while both Safari and Firefox only delivers 2-3 fps.

Weirdly on an iPhone with Safari the performance is smooth as silk.

I would really like to ditch Chrome, but it seems i get full speed fans with Firefox on sites sporadically, and while Safari is much better it's still not on par with any kinds of heavy graphics.

I don't get it. Why can my iPhone 6 run this super smoothly while my 3000 USD mpb struggles? And why can Chrome do it while Safari can't when it should have native access to GPU api's ?
I didn't find docs specific to wildcard + non-wildcard, but LE certs can use multiple subject alternate names. So whatever tool you use, use SAN to request both *.example.com and example.com into one cert.

I imagine you have to setup your stuff to respond to the DNS + web based challenge/response.
How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate of the 21st Century: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-resh...

Here is good article that explains it more clearly:
Genetic Similarities Within and Between Human Populations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/

>The proportion of human genetic variation due to differences between populations is modest, and individuals from different populations can be genetically more similar than individuals from the same population. Yet sufficient genetic data can permit accurate classification of individuals into populations. Both findings can be obtained from the same data set, using the same number of polymorphic loci. This article explains why.

....

>The fact that, given enough genetic data, individuals can be correctly assigned to their populations of origin is compatible with the observation that most human genetic variation is found within populations, not between them. It is also compatible with our finding that, even when the most distinct populations are considered and hundreds of loci are used, individuals are frequently more similar to members of other populations than to members of their own population. Thus, caution should be used when using geographic or genetic ancestry to make inferences about individual phenotypes.
This is a theme in parallelization that I remember from my more senior and upper level Computer Science seminars at RIT. I remember vaguely this coming up in one talk in particular about Manticore and Concurrent ML.

The work splitting algorithm needs to monitor the overall depth of the queue, as well as the number of workers that are online and their propensity for finishing jobs.

It doesn't help to divide a task into 100 chunks instead of only 20, if there are only 8 workers, especially when each split has a marginal cost that will add up again and factor in to overall cost at the point of final integration.

But with a pool of 1000 workers, dividing the work into only 20 or even 100 chunks might still be leaving significant amounts of power on the table undesirably.

You could try to optimize for both, strike a balance between achieving an earliest possible completion time, and minimizing waste. But there are going to be maxima and minima of either on a continuum, may not be practical to find the sweet spot.

One place where this analogy breaks down, is that computers do not care one iota if their work is redundant, or if their work must be thrown away. Human developers care, even if it might save the employers some bit of money or reduce a risk. Humans usually will not produce identical outputs either, when they are assigned redundant workloads. Most humans would probably prefer not to work on a project that is redundant at all. Computers don't care, ML doesn't care. But it would be soul crushing for devs to have to work in an environment like that. I'm sure it happens more than I would have imagined.
> Input power equals output power is a fundamental physical rule, not a "trap"

No shit. The trap is thinking that all output power is thermal (it's not).
I always wondered why there is so little magic in the stories universe?

Why do white walkers have acceess to magic but no one else?
I've been doing this over 35 years and have seven Emmys. They got someone they shouldn't be able to afford and working from home I could afford to accept it. I'm a pancreatic cancer survivor (Whipple) and this flexibility helps.

I am a professional. My job is to forecast their weather and I am diligent in that pursuit. Windows are overrated.
Looks similar to https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
Why the difference between AI and machine learning matters
Control Flow in TensorFlow and XLA's Auto-Clustering
Building a Real-Time Chat Application with Vue.js and Firebase – Part 2
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab

The manufacturing is in New Zealand. I don't know about design, but I understood that design is also done in New Zealand. They received money from the US and they cooperated with NASA, and for that they needed to have facilities in the US, but I don't know how much.

They now opened a second launch facility in the US, but that is not a large operation compared to design, manufacturing and testing the rockets.

Articles from the past make it sound like a New Zealand company with a corporate structure that is a legal fiction to be legal in the US.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/kiwi_company_rocket...
Her privacy is probably more about her life here in America with her neighbors, than it is about Cuban agents coming to get her.
Really impressed with this. It's something I would never have known I wanted until I saw it. I'm happily scrolling around different countries to get a taste of what they are playing.

I only speak English fluently but I've been learning some French and I can see this helping.
I didn't see anything in the tweetstorm indicating that Mr. Wallace has incorporated. Do you have a link to where you got that impression?

(If Mr. Wallace has his own corporation, that might provide some extra cover, but that also might be a rare/expensive enough situation that even Upwork can't pay Wallace Inc., but has to pay Wallace-individual. In fact, there's an answer at Upwork's support forum suggesting that a corporation can't sign up as a freelancer: https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/Company-account/...)
Try explaining that you're an "idea guy" looking for a programmer to implement your great ideas, and that you'll compensate them in equity when you make it big, because your ideas are worth so much more than anyone's execution.
The company is fairly interesting, if seemingly early, but this article is atrocious. It repeats itself all over, it’s riddled with broken grammar, weird sentence structure, and a few typos, and the “name all our products like people” thing only adds to the confusion.
Read the original post. I pretty clearly articulated what I was asking. You're being disingenuous, now.
Is there any description or attribution for the shader? Are the visuals an improved version of Martijn Steinrucken's "Drive Home" shader [1], or a different approach? This one does seem more dynamic with more detail, it looks pretty good, and I like how the big drops take out the small spray.

[1] shader: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxZ4AZPdOQ

tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtsY7hYTPg
> Saying "Humans suck at estimating" is nonsense. It's a skill that can easily be improved - usually at the cost of some up front planning - and there are plenty of resources to help you with that.

Not sure if we think about different things when saying "estimate", but I rarely was able to estimate more precise than "6 to 12 weeks". Unless I am doing something absolutely straightforward, I never really can give good estimate (and since I am forced to do - I just give some random number with a lot of padding which I "feel" I should be able to fit in)

In my practice so far to give good estimate means doing 80% of actual work and leaving these straightforward bits to finish it off. These last pieces are easy to estimate usually, but not before main work is done.
Old Elbe Tunnel
Because it's just too simple an instrument to use, and viewers instinctively know it.
That's part of what is so interesting about the series. The world is subtly magical, but its inhabitants don't really recognize it and it doesn't really enter their daily lives.

That said, it also does make possible some "cheap shot" plot devices like a certain important someone getting assassinated by a certain priestess in an unlikely way. (Details elided to avoid spoilers).
Observations of a chronic procrastinator
In case you are wondering, the editor used at this talk is called "Mu" and got previously discussed on HN about three months ago [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638067
Not saying it's a good idea but you can fit a two line element orbital data field into a hostname or DNS entry.
How to do business online in Mexico – Part two: Appealing to Mexican consumers
Your advice made sense in the age of rotating platter HDDs, limited to a max of ~120 IOPS. Today's world of NVMe SSDs makes your considerations obsolete.
You can run to anarcho-libertarian-utopian ideals, but you can’t hide from the fact you still live under actual laws against such things, whether or not such laws are just.
The part about these convictions that bugs me is that some of the people getting in trouble were definitely not aware that they were breaking the law. It surprises a lot of people when they find out it's illegal to buy and sell bitcoin for cash to strangers in the US like this (that is, with no license or reporting or discrimination). I hope most of those convicted don't get jail time unless they truly knew that it may have been coming.
Quick estimates that are good magnitude approximations but often somewhat wrong have a way of getting better, whereas estimates whose main purpose is to be within some delta of the actual time are working from the wrong value metric. A reasonably accurate aggregate of estimates doesn't require them all to have been perfected first. Teams that are obsessed with this will be slower to a build.
I beg to differ.
There are already entire countries that started outright banning ice machines from much earlier than 2040:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_banning_fo...
India as an example of a growing market is banning them in 12 years, Germany as an example of the western world “capital of cars” the same.
These pledges were made well before Tesla model 3 was distrupting the market, and as noted there, Tesla may still be just a minority player if China picks up steam.
If things ramp up as fast as it seems we may still have an almost global ban by the 2030s and from there the oil industry is pretty much done.
The only showstopper for this scenario is the lithium availability and the alternative battery technologies viability, obviously.
Yeah, you're right. Perhaps it's one and the same. Some of the textures downloaded here match the textures in that article.
Does it use DoH?
Applying computer science to life productivity