skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe OSC isn't a good example of an author being destroyed, but it IS a good example of being unable to separate the person from their work.

If you really need examples of how a public identity can impact how your work is viewed, see every famous person who has been named in the #MeToo movement.

(Please don't attack me for that statement. I'm implying neither support nor opposition to #MeToo in this post. That's not the point.)

So in the case of Ender's Game, I first read it without any knowledge of who OSC was or what his views were. And I came away from reading it as being about the underdog, about how complicated power and morality can be, about trying to do the right thing. I thought it was a wonderfully complex story because almost every character sees themselves as trying to do the right thing, yet are seen as villains by others.

Then I read about OSC and think: Did I miss the point? Did he? How can the person who wrote this wonderful story not see that they are in turn bullying others? It complicates the whole relationship to the story.

Of course, you may argue that I'm the one who is mistaken. That's fine. But we have to at least agree that the more we know about the artist the more we think about their art differently, and vice versa.
Verizon DSL and Verizon FiOS are entirely different beasts. Your parents are likely right on the edge of DSL availability, where it starts to get really flaky.
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"there’s a trained black box evaluator that selects candidate moves, which you then select from via chess theory"

You're missing my point. There is no "trained black box evaluator." There is indeed a trained evaluator, but it is not a black box. It is fully understandable. If I gave you private chess lessons, I could teach you my heuristics. And eventually you would understand them enough to be able to teach them to others. This would not be possible if it were truly a black box.
Yes, but those ranges have a high level of personal involvement and brand coherency, and are generally better quality. This is a lot more of a cheap opportunistic item.
You just use bleach and then autoclave:

>"combining autoclaving (even at 121 degrees C) with a sodium hydroxide treatment is extremely effective."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10658760
How much of a lag is there in the data transmission? I guess that should correspond to how many light years it is away? How does the probe know which direction to send the data? I have so many questions! I gotta watch that documentary and listen to the podcast people are suggesting here!
I think you're seeing the influence of math on programming conventions. If I think of something like (!a && !b), I can immediately start doing boolean algebra in my head. I can manipulate it like an algebraic expression and get the job done 10x faster than if I had to work through the "real" meaning.

Anyone's productivity in programming can be enhanced by taking a mathematical outlook, although I suppose the beauty of programming is that you don't have to.

To throw in a Dijkstra, "The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise." What do you do when certain semantic levels require some mathematical background - do you choose a less precise abstraction or do you just require that background? I'm not sure what the answer should be for this kind of blog post, but at least intro-to-programming materials should be as accessible as possible.
Thanks. It's not that bad. I think it's just a personality trait. I don't think I'll ever get rid of this.
How My Little Medium Post Just Got 24k Views and 11k Reads
How containers enable passive patching
Thanks, I'll add to the "prior work" section.

On one hand, forcing users to click a button to see content is kind-of user-hostile, IMO. It's appropriate for a homepage, though. I don't like it when a homepage shows the full content of each post because it forces me to do a lot of scrolling if I'm not interested in a post. So my first impression is that Axios is doing it well and thoughtfully.

But on the other hand, the interaction enables me to track what percentage of users actually care about the content, which is really useful data to me as a documentation author. I'm not saying we should do it --- I'm firmly on the "put the user first" side of the debate --- but I just wanted to point out that the current state of documentation is kind of a dark age. We have no idea what our readers actually care about.
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Would you share the ones you found worthwhile? Our business wants PowerBI, but the sys admin side sounds like a pain : it seems we need:
1) a consultant to setup the visualisations
2) either a vm running windows server or create a db on azure to update manually because powerbi doesn't allow aws databases
3) the api automation capabilities are unclear says the expert (eg: create a new dashboard for a new customer ? Update all the visualisations through a script? Etc)

PowerBI feels so Microsoftish, I'm really on the market for something else
As I understand it(as of last year)...T-Mobile's "5G" is radically different than ATT/Verizons. The former using low band for coverage and penetration, and the latter using high band cell sites. So one has greater reach at the risk of congestion, and the other will have much less congestion but little reach. Which is better is to be seen...
HN is not a monolith.
Why do you say this? And why phrase it so tersely?

Merriam-Webster at least (the only one I've checked) says that "deep-seated" is the only correct version:

Definition of deep-seated
1 : situated far below the surface
2 : firmly established
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep-seated

“deep-seeded”
The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep-seeded
It's overwhelmingly clear what he was insinuating. He's made no attempt to prove otherwise in his response to me or others.
Ubiq (YC S17) Is Hiring a Back-End Engineer in Kitchener/Waterloo
A bit off-topic, but is 5G really the deadly killer that the conspiracy boards are bantering about?
Why don’t we go about this problem another way: instead of blocking the ads let’s just extract the content? Hash it. Put it on a modern-day Pirate Bay & load the content from a cache, skipping the ad bs altogether.
The first round of cuts (of deadweight that avoided egregious screwups) work so well that managers get addicted and pretty soon they're cutting the actual workers and they kill the company.
> I can't come up with any problems
> that I couldn't solve with a
> relational database (postgres) and
> a data transformation step.

Congratulations, you have seen through the hype! Most "machine learning" claims you see are solvable just with linear regressions on slightly cleaned up data.
I’m currently reading ”The Power Broker” by Robert Caro, which also makes me think about Aaron, since he wrote about the book. Glad to know that the site is up again.
The PCB + sensor, while effectively are the 90% of device value, can still be justifiably declared to American customs at 110% of their cost in China, and many companies vying for coveted "made in USA" stamp do exactly that.

What comes after is easy to imagine, they are being put into a very expensive casing, and stamped with their new place of "origin."

You can research yourself how "made in USA" Google Pixels were made
The difference is that those products are actually new things created for those brands, and are (relatively) high quality. This is a cheap emulator box being drop shipped from Aliexpress that already existed before Soulja Boi slapped his name on it. (Not to mention that it's almost certainly violating copyright laws with all the roms bundled with it).
Political points lost by allowing a single point of failure < political points gained by talking big about how requiring easily auditable electronic records will reduce prescription drug abuse.

I'm still salty about having to get refills every 30 days (down from 90) and having to see my doctor every four months (up from a year).
It's a playful title -- using a term from the field in a new way.
*Always until the backer goes bankrupt
They didn't call them "democratic norms" or "progressives and reactionaries", sure, but that's what they were. These are descriptive terms, not proper nouns.

"democratic norms" are behaviors in the public sphere that are expected under the assumption that politicians are interested in the good of everyone and that the popular will has political meaning.

"progressives" are politicians who want to improve society through reform and the redistribution of wealth and power.

"reactionaries" are politicians who want to return things back to the way they were before progressives existed.

These terms are perfectly appropriate to describe the political climate in the late republic.

You keep asserting that there was a "ruling oligarchy" when this is simply not true. If Rome was ruled by an oligarchy, then the Gracchi never would have got off the ground.
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any info on a port of Pix to Mac OS? Looks great?
This type of behavior is common in the watch industry. Many newer movements are needlessly inefficient to prevent patent infringement. In practice this rarely matters, the efficiency/performance, size and cost to service are all relatively unimportant. A more complicated movement is often preferable.
Tableau is the best at getting non-technical users to be instantly productive, and is completely unmatched in pure analytical abilities and visualizations. They aren't standing still here either.

However Tableau has absolutely screwed up their evolution into a cloud-based service. The current single-user desktop software with client/server design is painful and archaic, and the Tableau cloud is just a hosted server run on undersized hardware. They are losing a lot of business renewals because of this, even if the consultancy and enterprise deals will keep going for awhile.
It's good to see attention paid to the day-to-day challenges hospital IT folks face when grappling with medical devices. These folks deserve better.

As an industry of thing-makers, we've done a pretty poor job of supporting use cases involving big diverse populations of devices that aren't centrally managed. Devices don't identify themselves in any consistent way; device makers don't allocate MAC addresses predictably from their assigned ranges; security folks often don't have link-layer visibility into their own networks; and so on.

Result: hospitals are desperate to "secure" their medical devices, yet they don't know what those devices are, what patch levels they're at, or what their "baseline" behavior is supposed to be, among other things that are crucial for security.

The security industry has decided that medical devices are a special case of IoT, and you can now choose from a wide variety of AI blinky boxes to send you anomaly alerts. That has been going about as well as it does in other domains.

Two things that may help hospital tech workers in the coming years are: efforts like IETF's MUD [1] to make devices state their purpose clearly; and efforts like the NTIA's software transparency initiative [2] that are aiming to make manufacturers say what's in their devices. The FDA is also cracking the whip on medical device makers to incorporate security into their development processes, and they love comments from nerds who can help.

</soapbox>

(I am one of the academic researchers behind the defibrillator hacking [3] that inspired the Homeland episode mentioned in this article, and I've been cutting my fingers on innumerable sharp corners in hospital wiring closets on and off since then.)

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-mud/

[2] https://www.ntia.doc.gov/SoftwareTransparency

[3] https://www.secure-medicine.org/hubfs/public/publications/ic...
I think the fact that so many accepted the package means that it wasn't as bad as this.
> Annoyingly enough, when we asked MediaTek if we could buy use their chipset, they would only sell it to us with their OS running on top.

I hit the same thing with Freescale too. I think it's that they don't want to deal with support calls for unsupported software.

It was surreal hearing their rep tell us that the chip was specifically designed for only FreeRTOS, Linux, & WinCE and physically could not run anything else. Like, we just want to run our in house RTOS; we're quite used to having to write our own BSP.
What are some good alternatives to Google+? I mean microblogs with subscribers/followers instead of friends, without a strict message length limit, with first-class comments, letting you to edit your posts and comments after you submit them and to limit access to particular post to a specific group of people?
I fire it up for a couple hours every patch, but you're right it's not much of a game yet. There's a certain sense of awe from the scale that other space games don't give me though, so I'm still excited about what it might become. And from a tech perspective, watching all their engine work has been really interesting to me.

Have you checked it out since they added Hurston?
Or they scavange the ruins of it ...
A prion can't arbitrary replicate from "food" or "host", its replication is more like a damaged version of protein X that can damage that same protein X if it encounters it. In many aspects it stays the same protein - the exact same DNA, the exact same sequence, just folded differently.

A virus can overtake a cell and mobilize its resources to create a bajillion copies of that virus. A prion can transform only as much copies of that protein as that cell has made in its normal processes.
https://d.tube is probably the best open example of ipfs thats fairly easy to use.

Otherwise, its first and foremost for geeks, then other geeks implement apps for the normals using the technology.
On the other hand, what teenagers are used to watching, they can take to their adult life.

The same way languages and idioms CS students learn in college influence what happens in the enterprise later on.

A generation back everybody just watched TV -- kids AND parents. So this is new-ish.
Another like this: http://autopsy.io/
How do I download all the discussions (posts with comments) I have participated in?
>So, in other words, it's not enough to meet GPs threshold of not work for anybody and support a family of four.

I have a co-worker that supports a family of four, with a mortgage, on not much more than I make.

Do they take fancy vacations? No.

Do they drive new cars? No, in fact they have 1 car.

Do they eat out, buy convenience foods, buy fast food? No, they make their meals and enjoy them together.

Do they have the latest gaming consoles? No but his kids are both teens and are still happy with 2-3 generation old consoles.

Do they wear new clothes? No, most of their clothing comes from second hand stores, often barely warn.

You don't have to spend gobs of money to have a family. Loo at any number of Christian denominations and you'll find people living quite happily with not a lot of money going out, if you want to really see it look at many families that are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints (colloquially known as Mormons) and you'll see families larger than 4 that do are quite healthy and happy, in the US, on household incomes well under 6-figures.

Simply buying food in bulk, buying used cars and buying clothing on sale and/or second hand (and passing it down when it comes to children) stretches money considerably:

- 50lbs of rice $17.98 29,550 kcals

- 25lbs steelcut oats $32.98 42,500 kcals

- 15lbs potatoes $6.98 5,205 kcals

- 5lb bag instant mashed potatoes $6.98 9,600 kcals

- 25lbs flour $6.98 41,275 kcals

And for meat, if you buy as little as 1/4 of a cow at a time you get rather steep savings. A quarter beef is anywhere from 80-100lbs of meat (a lot of steak but mostly roast, chuck roast, 3-5lbs of short ribs and the bulk being ground beef) for 6-8$ a pound. Buy a whole beef and you're talking 350lbs~ of butchered weight at 8-9$ a pound.
I disagree.

I think it is absolutely immoral (and dumb from an IP risk point of view) for companies to try to get interviewees to solve real problems for free.

This is different though: this is about potential candidates finding creative ways to demonstrate their skills.

The companies didn't even ask people to do this: these people chose to take on projects that would demonstrate their skills in a new space in which which they did no yet have commercial experience. I think that's commendable and a very smart strategy.
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Jaguar I-PACE electric SUV caught on fire, automaker is investigating the cause
This is not reddit guys. Please refrain and skedaddle.
Better (less clickbaity) headline:

Looker raises 103 million in a series E to compete in enterprise BI.
According to my taste and requirements Google+ is (or was before they started adding unnecessary complexity to its model) by far the best social network I've ever seen. In fact "It amazes me that a company with all the resources that Google has repeatedly…" behaved like "the president of Madagascar" shutting down everything...[1]

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything
wpo and bloomberg should be axed long before sa.... imho

At least semiaccurate is fun to read.
I think the definition of viable isn’t really up for debate. But I do agree with your sentiment:

There may have been a need and you may have created value but perhaps the need/value wasn’t viable at the target size set for the business by the founders and investors.
I just replaced all the lighting in my House a few months back with Hyperikon LED lighting, and really felt like it was an improvement over the previous CFL lighting.

This comment alleviated some of creeping anxiety from the above posts that I maybe hadn't done enough research (I hadn't, I just got lucky).
Yeah... that was a facetious reference to net neutrality.
Sooooo it doesn't appeal to your taste? I like it. There, your point has been countered.
Journalism already has a mechanism for this. In a news story (as opposed to longer, narrative stories), the important news is up top, followed by background in order of importance.

The interface thus becomes: stop reading when it stops being new or interesting.
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> Kanye interned at Fendi about 12 years ago

I guess that makes him an expert.

He's in politics too. Amazing man of many talents.
"I can't come up with any problems that I couldn't solve with a relational database (postgres) and a data transformation step"

do it anyway with Machine Learning and see how it goes. at least you will know the expected results.
And "the full Apple" is still someone else makes the product (Apple purchases iPhones from Foxconn):

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/iphone-china-a...
D Tube actually runs on top of Steem Blockchain and uses IPFS as a Filesystem.

This is similar to how Tron will work.
Check notebookcheck's reviews to find AMOLED phones that eiter don't use PWM (I think it's only about 2 of them) or only use it above a certain brightness level. For example, the Axon 7 Mini. It seems those displays started to show up at around 2016.
A small 60 Hz flicker will remain though, similar to as seen on OLED TVs.
Start somewhere simple - like using ML to make search easier. Try using a collaborative filter to improve search for your company - even by doing something as simple as updating the placeholder text.
https://achainofblocks.com/2018/08/22/explaining-steem-block...
How can they add so many employees and have costs decline? Are employees not their majority cost?
BitTorrent started out without a DHT, and so requires metadata and a torrent file to start downloading.

IPFS has a unique, global DHT as a matter of principle, and so, only requires the hash of the file to start downloading. Everyone gets the same bootstrap nodes, and then is part of the same DHT, with a common lookup mechanism relying on Kademlia.

On the other hand, I feel like IPFS is not as advanced as dat in relevant ways. IPFS is not good for file edition, while dat has systems that simplify modification of even large files and merging of structured files.
I imagine you were downvoted because you posted shallow dismissals and flamebait, both of which break the site guidelines. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when posting here.
> So you felt free, because you could not get money?

No, of course not. Don't be daft. At that moment I didn't feel free, I felt trapped. But I got through it, had the time of my life, and learned that I could get by on less money than I thought I needed. I don't think I would ever have learned that lesson if circumstances hadn't forced me to.

Some people think freedom is access to unlimited resources. It's not. Freedom is the ability to achieve your goals with the resources you have at your disposal, whatever they might be.

> there are still plenty of adventures waiting outside

Yes, that's true. But nowadays you have to seek them out much more actively then you used to. Simply being far from home is not enough any more.

It's kind of like free climbing versus climbing with a rope and harness. Knowing that you might actually die (or have to sleep on the street) focuses the mind in ways that simply being on a rock (or being far from home) does not. Nowadays you have to work a lot harder to shed the harness.
> If you aren't working for your subsistence, what else are you doing with your life but finding distractions until your time is up?

Of course, it's dependent on the person. I perosnally believe that our time should be spend trying to make the world a tiny better place - even through seemingly mundane actions like open source contributions, involvement in local politics or just personal development - trying to be a more genuine, thoughtful and warm person. The opposite, i.e. concentrating on yourself only, leads to the said distraction threadmill and is not pretty.
>
Money can directly buy you good looks and a healthy body through plastic surgery, more fashionable clothes/accessories, as well as the free time and ability to hire a personal trainer and equipment necessary to get fit. World class doctors are now available as well to help extend your healthy life as long as possible.

These are still relatively marginal improvements though. An ugly, small, disproportionate 60 year old man with a bland personality will not be able to turn himself into someone who gives women a faster heart rate, no matter how much he spends on various improvements. The sad reality of the hedonistic lifestyle is that money does not give you a good place on the lader - you can buy gadgets like a yacht with a submarine, but girls in the club would still much rather sleep with a beautiful 20-year old broke guy than with the old billionaire.
Right, but an inspector visiting would just see that the pub doesn't pay for a subscription and yet they are showing the game. You don't need to check anything else.
The main issue is that New Yorkers are extremely cynical and detached from the elections process, particularly on state and local elections which tend to take place on non-presidential years. Ocasio-Cortez and Gounardes showed that it is possible to turn things around if voters are motivated enough, but for the most part they aren't, and party machine politicians on both sides would like to keep it that way.