skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the longterm effects? And how long is longterm? You didn't have them after a decade? It is a helluva drug though.
In the US you're generally charged for every minute of a call on the phone regardless of whether it was incoming or outgoing. Most postpaid plans now include unlimited minutes, but prepaid are limited.

I believe European carriers were traditionally caller pays, not sure if that's still the case.
Most people live in cities, and the share is continuously growing.
That was in Freakonomics. http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what...
Don’t we already have that in some respects?

a) Most people’s git workflow might as well be linear.

b) rebasing a development branch onto master literally linearizes it

Where git shines though of course is where you can’t get away witha linear model
This. I find that the advice I easily dole out to other people is the same advice I struggle with following. It just seems so easy to do when you're telling someone else how to do it.
Don't give them any more ideas!
Samsung, LG, and others can make phones with both headphone jacks and water resistance, but that's obviously not the real reason that Apple removed it. (The iPad Pro is huge, not water resistant, and doesn't have one either.)
I installed BetterTouchTool on mine, and you can configure an action to run when sliding anywhere on the touchbar with 2, 3 or 4 fingers. I set 2 fingers to volume control and 4 fingers to brightness and that works pretty well, no need to look. I also make it display the time and battery percentage at all times, which is nice to have when an app is running full screen. BTT isn't free, but it's pretty cheap, worth it IMO.
Git was not first, and it arguably didn't achieve its dominance based on technical superiority. It almost certainly didn't achieve that dominance based on offering a better learning curve or a bizarre interface choice, even though I might personally understand and appreciate the relative tightness to its underlying systems. I also don't think we should defend a technology or tool by portraying it as a sort of null-hypothesis, a default automatically suitable for anyone except in special circumstances.

I'm currently making source control recommendations for my new client. No one there is a full-time programmer, and they mostly do engineering and PLC work, but more recently they have to work with higher level languages from time to time. They absolutely need something they won't have to fight to learn. Other times I've recommended source control during my career include tutoring first-year/some second-year university students, who are often still only becoming familiar with programming and CLIs, and for whom Git seems both arcane and stress-inducing, two things you absolutely don't want from a source-control system.

I am adamant that in neither of these above cases would git be the right choice. I'm also not convinced its the right choice for many development companies, which often have staff of a range of skill levels. I'm lucky in that I've nearly always been working with passionate programmers, where we can and do happily make the choice to adopt git without a second thought.
Evacuees need to carry their infants, pets, and enough luggage to live for a few days... there’s nowhere near crush-load commute capacity. There is no point to a little town in the woods if it’s going to be urban enough for transit coverage. It really looks like humans just shouldn’t live in places like this.
There is a dispute in NZ between telcos and the government over Huawei at the moment.

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

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
Which American industries are most in danger of monopoly?
You've probably seen them post and just not realised they were mods. They don't come in swinging their weight around all HURR DURR I'M A MOD, they tend to just politely remind people to be civil and constructive.
Yeah, and if his skin is dark and he has a hoodie, he's probably a criminal. This "if I think they are guilty it means they are" will never work.

That's the problem with prejudices, the people who have them can never see beyond them.
The proper way to react is to sanction them. You all have the means - just stop buying from any collaborators ever again. They will get the message.
There are few cars that don't fit the list. Like F40s, 997 gen
RS 4.0 which have shot up in value recently.
Sprawl simply grows until the ample capacity is tight again.
UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (2016) [pdf]
has anyone experienced Linode or DO doing any such throttling?
Riot is a Matrix client. Signal is not.
I’m my last work we had a few smiley face stickers, we loved it. It didn’t motivate us, but it was fun.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One example fitting GP description would be Cloud SQL maintenance windows. Unavoidable downtime as far as I know (even with HA)
Yes, I've lived through (and seen in other countries) far more cases of demonetization (USA is a general exception in this regard) than prolonged large-scale (city-wide or larger) internet outages, which pretty much never happen - they're even more rare than prolonged large-scale electricity outages.

In all kinds of countries the chance of demonetization is something like 5% per year i.e. on average every couple decades you have some sort of currency reform where everyone will have some issues with cash, I've lived through three such occurrences myself; and if you don't live in a place with really shitty infrastructure then the risk of your area (as opposed to some rural place where breakdowns affect a tiny number of people) having a total internet breakdown that's not resolved quickly is much lower than 5% per year.
A key difference between Huawei and other Chinese companies like Xiaomi or Alibaba is that they have an opaque shareholding structure with no public investors which makes it hard to know if it is free from the influence of the Chinese government.
Linux user here. I had to use MacOS at work, I felt like it was a penance more than anything else. However Apple hardware is quite good.
The Sheffer Stroke
I have no idea what point you are trying to make, my point is simple, a poorly taught college course is worse for comprehension than reading the source material and coming to your own understanding. As a Sr. Dev, I have mentored many people that are still in college. I have seen the struggle that they have endured in classes such as Discrete Math. I have held their hands through poorly constructed math courses that have bad or misleading information, and not from the same school. Maybe you were privileged enough to go to a good school where they had their shit together but not all colleges are made equal. I learned most of what I know from reading the material myself. I'm not bragging. This is not coming from a position of, look at me, I am so fucking cool because I did it on my own. No, this is a statement that not all educational systems are built the same, that there are faults in our general education system and some people are better off picking it up and running with it, forging their own path, than to have is spoon fed to them by an idiot that doesn't know what he is talking about or by a broken online courseware spewing bad information. So spare me the bullshit of feeling sorry for yourself, or about life not dealing you the fair hand. Because I don't believe that for a fucking moment.
People don't like to hear that, or that they shouldn't live places without natural water sources
People are so consumed with living hand-to-mouth that they don't have the energy to care about current or future tyranny.

So... well played, government.
If a company operates in China then it's under the influence of the Chinese government.
Sure! But note that Google serves different font formats depending on your user-agent, so you'll have to make sure to cover all the different formats and do your own user-agent matching. And keep it updated as user-agent capabilities change over time. It's not quite as easy as it sounds.
The FSF's core message is "users deserve source code." Apple does not give users the iPhone source code. It's as simple as that.
The maturity and quality of discussions on HN. It's not perfect, but far better than many other places online.
I’ve often thought of writing my own emulator for the NES or GB/GBC to learn a little about how emulation works on a more fundamental level.

I understand a lot of it is the process of translating machine code from, say, the GB processor to x86, but I’d love to learn more!
Hey, it's better than Papyrus.
This is awesome. I was literally just trying to figure out how to solve this problem without paying a fortune. I wanted a personal trainer like you get for the gym to keep me accountable in other areas of life.
Let's talk! This is what we're trying to do with the Your Boss app.

We facilitate peer-to-peer "boss" support through phone calls. There's question prompts at the beginning of the call to guide the conversation (ie. "Is there anyone you're forgetting to email?")

The phone always says "Your boss is calling." so you know the app is calling you.

I've been self-employed (without a boss) for 10 years and have thought about this a lot. (Check out Your Boss in the app store! We launched 12 weeks ago. Would love to know what you think.)
I'm 2015 and 2018 and I generally agree... with one exception, the 2018 is a little lighter which I do prefer. But, I'd go back in a heartbeat if that meant I could have the better keyboard and some more universal ports. Yes, I'll use USB-C for a lot of stuff and continue to buy new USB-C devices. But that zero-year transition time was a little short.
I don't find it hard to identify what's so awful about amazon.com even if there's currently no other existing website to do the same job at the same scale:

- I think that Javascript is widely used needlessly forcing lots of unnecessary reflows and repaints; this slows down searching and using the site.

- I find the searches are broken to the point where it is easier for finding stuff using another search engine which indexes amazon.com's webpages.

- I don't like collapsing portions of the webpage (such as long reviews). I'd rather download simple static markup and scroll through reading what I want presented to me in the order I've chosen.

- I don't want to see JS-based image/movie previews; inline images and using a modern browser's built-in video is much better as those can be styled in the way the user wants and obey other user-centric preferences as the web ought to do.

So to me saying 'it works' is putting commercial interests above my user interface interests and interests I deem more important such as how Amazon treats its workers. At best I'd say this puts into perspective how overvalued website development really is for commercial interests and how wildly off the mark website development is at identifying and building on something simple and easy to use. I've also found that Amazon purchases are often misleading (selling used merchandise as new, selling USB keys that hold less than the advertised storage size, and more) which means more time and money spent not really knowing what's on offer and higher chance of returning bad merchandise. All of this taken together means I shop elsewhere.
Database of company drug testing practices
Hackernews and freenode are the best tech communities I've come across. Don't know where I'd be without the tremendous generosity of the persons in these communities. Currently interviewing with multiple companies from the who's hiring thread.

And to be on topic, I'm not as familiar with sctb, but Dan's comments have always been nothing but constructive. They're never disparaging, they seem primarily to be nudges towards decent behavior. Thank you Dan!

I'll keep an eye out for you Scott ;-).

Cheers all, and happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating today.
Pretty much this. Fortunately the command you need is usually a quick Google search away, and a sequence of basic invocations of branch, checkout, merge, rebase and commit are usually enough to transform the DAG however you want, even if there are simpler ways to do it.
I don't think he does. It's a laptop (i.e., a mature consumer product, not something new like the Apple Watch) and the entire point of "MacBook Pro" is that it's supposed to be for pro users who do engineering on a laptop. That market is a subset of MBP users, but it's a significant one.
Odious though PR can be, in the USA it falls squarely under a unique legal doctrine known as “freedom of speech”, a privilege afforded even to commercial entities.
> jackboot regimes of US foreign and copyright policy

protecting people's IP is now a "jackboot regime"?
Ask HN: What are you buying this BlackFriday – Physical or Software or SAAS?
Central planners don’t get to define value... that’s the point.
>when SSL becomes mandatory by browsers, it can be used for censorship.

Can someone explain how that works? I thought SSL would make censorship less practical.
My ideal laptop would be a 2015 Macbook Pro with Thinkpad keyboard (the older one before Lenovo moved all the keys around) and trackpoint. Preferably without the trackpad at all like was an option on older Thinkpads. On my last Thinkpad you could customise the trackpad to activate differently and do entirely different things to the trackpoint. Useful for a select few apps. I ultimately disabled the trackpad as I didn't use those few often enough.

Middle click scroll whilst still typing, as your fingers stay on the home keys. Precision and acceleration that's leagues ahead of every trackpad, including Apple, and faster than moving hand to a mouse. OK, I know quite a few seem to struggle with a trackpoint when first using by using actions that worked on their trackpad and other oddities. It's so long ago I forget my first encounters and learning curve.

I carry a small mouse around with the Macbook. When I have used Thinkpads I never carried a mouse and often didn't use the mouse at my desk either.
Adobe runs better on macOS than Linux :P
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID
Totally. When I'm a "boss", I often give someone advice that I haven't done yet. Then after I say it, I actually (finally) go do the thing I said. It's like, I just needed to say it out loud to someone else in order to go do it.
GCP turns out to be more expensive for stuff like databases because they don't give out committed use and yearly pricing.
https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/a...
I would think survivable shelters should not be too hard to build if you also place oxygen tanks with breathing masks there as well. After all some properties already have swimming pools, which together with breathing masks should do the trick.
Why to stop writing negative code
Git, the version control system, is pretty simple. Git, the command line tool that helps manage repositories, is not.
I'm a personal trainer and I'm building data analysis tools that I believe will allow me to effectively scale an online training service using common fitness apps of your choosing.

If I can look at your Apple Health export and Strong/Fitbod/Fitnotes weightlifting data there is a tremendous amount of things I can tell you about how to optimize your training and lifestyle to get you closer to your goals.

Is this something you'd be interested in?
So this service the same as life coaching, but remotely through emails?
You can always use the stash for changes like this.
Mt.Gox manipulated the price upwards then insiders stole the coins in the last bubble. Now the fraud is more distributed, but it's pretty much the same story. There's a lot more scrutiny this time around. "Fool me twice" and all that. Let's watch it all unfold and not make too many predictions.
I'll do it for 500 :) executive coach / trainer as a service! And for 1 hour each month we wouldn't be wasting each other's time either
FWIW if you're depending on something to be up in a single availability zone, you're already doing cloud wrong.
Did you get to tell them that?
Designing your own Diffractive Optics
You do know CCP cronies and sons of party high officials hold stock in Alibaba right?

Basically if you are a big enough company in China, you aren't gonna get away from this, either by introducing red capital yourself, or the red capital is gonna force their way in when you want to go public(you need to apply for it in China and the quota is very limited).

One of the least shady example:
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/alibabas-i-p-o-could...
Probably something to do with testosterone replacement therapy.
Okay, let's have a discussion. I said that I have never worried about this but my relatives in India did and I provided a link.

Provide some links or describe what happened and then we can have a discussion.
Yeah when you say "life coach", people get what it is, but it's boring. But there's a certain weirdness to the term "boss as a service" that make it seem interesting and people want to find out what it is, I think.
The video is quite good. It's interesting how many trivial decisions lined up to make an iconic photo
The implementation is quite interesting :) https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
They recently migrated everything away from Oracle and have tools for others now.

The problems were mostly associated with Oracle specific syntax or implementations, nothing else
I am thankful that something distracted me in the few seconds it took me to start making a left turn, and slowed me down enough that the semi that ran the red light missed my car by a couple of feet instead of ripping the car apart and killing me Monday afternoon. I'm trying not to be cliche about it, but my priorities are a bit clearer now.
Took me a minute to realise you were talking about 8080 emulation - not Atari emulation: https://github.com/superzazu/invaders
> "My previous phone had some GPS issues, which was leading to my location being shown in Arizona, USA"

Sounds more like your gmail account was compromised
Not a Stephen King fan, but I really enjoyed reading "Quitters, Inc." years ago. I certainly hope this service doesn't branch out in that direction :-)
Others have mentioned why iOS is not on the FSF's list of good holiday gifts. However, I did find their "Proprietary surveillance" page to be hilariously bad: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html. There are a couple of good things on there, but the majority of it seems like it was written by a 12-year-old who searched Google for "[thing] is spying on me" and took bullet points on what showed up.
Googled it and saw 35% at the peak declining by 25% which would be around 26%.

But that is not the important metric. When an article goes viral the traffic is essentially free.
I believe the EU’s demand for a universal charging connector is why magsafe disappeared...
I wonder if you could create some kind of domain-specific language that would be easier for a translator to interact with, without said translator needing to understand the nuances of the underlying programming language, or deal with anything more complicated than non-nested if/case statements.
Australian here. Australia has different wild/bushfires in that the morning is always safe (at least as far as we know for the last 100 years) and easy to evacuate, the danger is in the afternoon. So there is a simple strategy that will always work, let's call it the "Westfield" strategy. If there is elevated risk, grab your irreplaceable and head to your nearest Westfield shopping centre for lunch in the food court. Then see a movie. Then attempt to go home. If your house didn't burn down then I hope you enjoyed your day out. If it did you are still alive. The problem though with this strategy is that chances are, and indeed amply demonstrated by the Victorian 2009 bushfires is that a large number of homes were threatened but only a very small proportion of towns and homes under threat were actually destroyed. Australia being inhabited by happy go-lucky gambler types brings out the worst in us, so people will chance it. (and add to that those without insurance who will stay to protect their asset as they are in a bind)

As to the US, no-one has ever died in traffic save for one single example I found in one canyon fire in California where a police cruiser assisting with evacuations crashed into a tree and blocked the road [You should expect once one person crashes, the next person will crash into them due to poor visibility] and the other end of the road was blocked by the fire and I think some roadworks, I'd need to look it up. That aside evacuation is much safer than "stay in place" particularly as the latter requires a great deal of mental fortitude to remain focussed in dense smoke and loud noise [people fail to do simple things and die], little own having a structure that will provide survivable conditions.

Roads can move a huge number of people even in cars. The only exception to this is to my understanding, again in California where there is a valley with a freeway through it but too many residences and I think limited capacity getting on to the freeway to evacuate everyone quickly.

Takeaway - evacuate early, nobody ever died from evacuating needlessly. Remember its just "stuff", possessions are not worth risking your life.
Working on this. What sort of life stuff would you want a personal trainer for?
I upgraded from a 2017 13" MacBook Pro touch bar to 2018 15" MacBook Pro touch bar, and noticed a huge improvement.

- 6 cores (12 threads) was absolutely noticeable
- NVme disk performance is much faster
- 2nd generation butterfly keyboard is much improved
- Speakers are way louder, bassy, and crisp
- 15" screen is much better in terms of real-estate than 13"
For me personally, I believe it would be most effective if I payed more (or only) when I completed tasks.

At the end of the day, that's what's happening anyway. As in, why continue the service if it's not working.

The incentives are already set so I am willing to pay (more) for successful management, and they will get paid (more) for successful management.

You get what you pay for. Why pay for failure?
Could you elaborate on your experience? I’ve heard a lot about how well google got into schools with gdocs and chrome books but I’ve never heard much more.
I time box 1 hour before watching YouTube/playing games etc. You can do a lot over the long term just spending one hour a day.
> You do know CCP cronies and sons of party high officials hold stock in Alibaba right?

Since Alibaba is a publicly traded company, can't anyone hold stock in it?
Sorry, no matter how much you want to defend such behavior, having preconceptions about people who host platforms that are welcoming to pedophiles isn't the same thing as having preconceptions about people based on their race. The former is a prejudice against someone based on their chosen behavior and the latter based on inherent qualities they are born with.

Also, I wasn't aware that "people who engage in or support child exploitation" were a protected class.

You're still trying to put words in my mouth, but by all means keep defending the despicable.
"the results speak for themselves" :)
> is there any hard evidence that huawei is a legitimate security concern?

Yes, quite a bit [1]. Here’s an apolitical example:

“In July 2012, Felix Lindner and Gregor Kopf gave a conference at Defcon to announce that they uncovered several critical vulnerabilities in Huawei routers (models AR18 and AR29)which could be used to get remote access to the device. The researchers said that Huawei ‘doesn't have a security contact for reporting vulnerabilities, doesn't put out security advisories and doesn't say what bugs have been fixed in its firmware updates’, and as a result, the vulnerabilities have not been publicly disclosed.”

In summary, the best case is Huawei is incompetent.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Controversies