skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is a cousin to the other HN favorite, that building roads just creates more demand (which is suggested to make building roads seem futile). Both seem to miss the point that personal vehicular travel maximizes many individuals’ utility functions. It requires less time waiting for public options, it’s point-to-point, and generally more comfortable and private. Why is it assumed that less personal vehicle travel is objectively superior?
If I were looking to leave my job, I'd not sign with another employer if I wasn't quite sure I'd want to stay with them, trial period or not.

Is it different outside of western Europe in terms of trial periods? We (afaik) always have a trial period: in the Netherlands it's typically 1-2 months, in Germany it's typically 3-6 months; either way, there is always a period where both parties can fire the other with zero to two weeks notice. It is not the norm to be fired in that time, but it happens (from my limited anecdotal evidence, I'd estimate one in 10-30 hires, and most of the time both parties agree it's not a good fit).
> boy, how I hate this type of comments

And I'm not a fan of this kind, either.

Yes, it might be unfair to poke holes in a standard from the 80s from a 2019 perspective, but it was GP's assertion that the MIDI standard was unsuitable to last as long as it did without an update. _That_ is what is being criticised as pretty terrible, and that's fairly clear from what GP wrote.
Yep. Video quality may be lower and hardware encoders don't support as many features as x264/5 though.
Excellent. Thank you. Do you think there is any hope of finding intact DNA from something as old as Triassic period for example?
Isn't reddit open source?
What's so great about Lisp?
Why do PhD must learn coursework, they are same level with master degree course?
Why do PhD must learn coursework, they are same level with master degree course?
I'm not sure I understand the wins of this over just using the standard multiprocessing module.

You can trivially define a worker pool or arbitrary size and pipe a stream of values through your function using multiple cores, avoiding GIL issues.

If you have something which scales to multiple machines just use celery or redis streams.
Automate notarizing macOS apps
Size. Great for one-hand operations. Easily fits on pockets or anywhere. Apple Pay & Touch ID. A9 chip. Relatively disposable. Got it for $99 at Walmart, 32 GB version. Screen size is not as important for me.

Been very happy with it for about 2 years.
Damn. Not available in Germany. I was going to grab two for my two kids. If Apple price them to below 100$ price point, it would kill the low to mid level phone market.
No. There have been examples of same sex behavior in animals as dominance displays but no gay animals the way it is with humans who are exclusive ly attracted to the same sex. That sort of thing would be selected against by natural selection.

BBC has a great article on this topic

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150206-are-there-any-homose...
It doesn't need to, assuming you're using something like rclone [1], where the encryption is done on the "client," which in this case would be the GP's home server. The client does the encryption, treating the disk attached to the Raspberry Pi as an untrusted third-party disk. As long as you keep the decryption key safe (e.g., on a USB stick stored off-site), you should be good to go in the event that you need to pull data and decrypt it.

[1] https://rclone.org/
cant really compare global edition prices to us phones, since the global editions don't pay qualcomm.
An other method to get a budget passed is to allow any representative to submit a budget and let which ever budget has most votes pass. That is what Sweden use.
There are two axioms in my previous post:

1. Minorites are just as valuable as white workers

2. Relatively economically efficient companies tend to prosper compared to inefficient ones

Which theory/axiom do you disagree with?
What java doc do I need read to learn Java except Java tutorial/API reference?
What java doc do I need read to learn Java except Java tutorial/API reference?
sounds like VBA
It's meaningless to compare realized returns; it's only interesting to compare expected returns. Like if you say you're better than me at poker, it's pointless to play one round and compare our winnings, since randomness of a single round of poker far exceeds any difference in our skills.

Going with the poker example, your skill is higher than mine if your expected return per round is greater than mine.

One way to get a decent estimate is to repeat the experiment many times, while keeping external factors roughly similar. With poker, it's relatively easy: let's go to the same casino, spend a whole night playing at different tables (to avoid the luck of playing versus all noobs or versus all pros at a given table). Then compare our winnings. Better yet, repeat it over a few days, to get even more data points.

But in the case of a single large decision, such as Dell's investment, it's incredibly hard to estimate the expected returns. Maybe Dell's investment was an amazing decision, and he was all but certain to make $50B from it - and only due to an unusually unlucky random events, he only made ~$12B. Or maybe his investment was really bad, and he was likely to lose all his money, except through sheer dumb luck things actually worked out to a $12B profit.

If Dell went into the turnaround business, like Buffett, we could at least average out his performance over a dozen companies he tried it on. It would be still a very very rough estimate (e.g., due to survivor bias: Dell wouldn't turn around a dozen companies if he was losing a few billion per attempt: he would stop after 1 or 2). But at least it would be something.

As things stand, I doubt anyone can make a convincing case about whether Dell's investment was a good or bad idea.

By the way, even for S&P 500, it's not easy to estimate expected returns. But perhaps, over the 5 year period, they are around 30-60% -- depending on your opinion about various economic and financial models and assumptions. So I guess they were a bit better than expected over the period in question.
Check out blockpad.net. It’s getting there.
The TDD Undoer
In episode 20, a motivated developer hits a speed bump in getting his team to do Test Driven Development.

https://agilenoir.biz/series/agile-thoughts/

This one episode of an ongoing series that starts with episode 14.
A game recommender engine like Akinator
In my experience when people claim to be innovating, it tends to follow the 90% rule - i.e. 90% of it is crap.
Blockpad (blockpad.net) has this and more.
lon ingram
I am assuming that you are doing something for the community and that you will definitely get contributors. The project can have more impact if so. Look at this open-source app to have an idea of what kind of project I am talking about : https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
Looks like the OP got it from the <title /> text instead of the actual headline of the article (which you quoted). Confused me for a minute, I thought "mark" was slang for a hitman's target.
They are out of stock now.
An application of the probabilistic question-asking system is now available as a website: http://probqa.com/ . Here users can find the next game to play without knowing its name or keywords. The users only need to answer questions, and the program lists the top recommendations for each user.

The engine that powers the website is supposed to work similarly to a popular game Akinator, where the user thinks of a character, and the program asks questions to guess about the user's secret character.

In ProbQA there is no secret: the user simply doesn't know exactly what he/she wants. So the program asks questions to come up with something suitable for the user.

Please, let me know your thoughts about the website and the engine.
People will probably deride me for saying this, but there's a legitimate criticism to be made of the ability for reasonable people to question global warming alarmism.

In my mind, I dont believe people have changed. People are still religious, our priests are just getting smarter at it by making more sensible crusades (and one that has legitimate environmental and especially world-security implications with respect to Russia standing to gain enormous competitive advantage). The politicians and Leonardo DiCaprio's flying around the world on private jets on one day flights to pick up participation trophies (yes, for global warming) see you as cattle, just as always. If they cared, the state of governance: corporatism and cronyism would be the exception.
Lisette Sutherland's book is very practical and very thorough
https://www.amazon.com/Work-Together-Anywhere-Remotely-Succe...
Oh, yeah, it is. I used to love npm and then didn’t use it for several years. I’ve gone back to it lately and find myself screaming “what have you people done?!” on a regular basis now.

And while we’re on the subject of package managers; do we really need so many? I know npm is terrible but it seems like everyone has decided to create their own now. I swear to god I had to use a package manager to install a package manager the other day.
Worth to see:

http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html
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The thing is that you don't have control over your data, but everyday.app owner do !
The problem is that your software does not run on top of Excel. Nowadays it is not as much of a problem, but in the past, Excel was often the only software you could use to do something like this - enterprise computers used to be incredibly locked down.
Even if it was, that doesn't guarantee it. In the US, you also can't vote for a candidate running in another state.

It's stupid, but not every democratic system uses proportional representation.
Top-Performing College Grads Fall into the ‘Prestige Career’ Trap
> The issue appears to be that while VLC does in fact verify the authenticity of a downloaded update, it also allows it to be signed with a key that it doesn't yet know, in which case it will retrieve this key from the VLC servers _via HTTP_. If that's true, it is a perfectly valid issue that needs to be resolved.

That is absolutely untrue. The commenter failed to read 10 lines under the verification of the new key against the old key.

Everything is checked against a public key that is inside the binary.
>No ad agency in their right mind will run a French ad on a webpage written in German, or show an Italian ad in an app where the default language is set to Swedish. None of this requires tracking individual users across websites and apps.

Tell that to all of the ads I used to get and sometimes still get that are in Russian on sites that are in English or apps that are in English.

>your European agency will be in a perfect position to grab market share there.

They will be long dead by that point. Even if they weren't they would be in no place to grab market share, because every region is going to have their own unique rules which means that the biggest companies will profit the most.
Hmm don't think I buy this, at least in Apple's case.

They have a monopoly on the operating system, which is what people really want with both the iPhone and the Mac.

People will still spend $3000 on a 15" MacBook Pro that they hate (because of the ridiculous touchbar) because it's the only high spec'd laptop available with macOS.

There's no way for consumers to tell Apple "we prefer no touchbar" purely with sales data because they aren't given the choice.

I think that same factor is huge with the iPhone. I have bought multiple 4.7" iPhones now, all of which I hate because of the size, but it is the smallest (correction: smallest premium) phone Apple makes/made. So looking at the data, it looks like I love the new iPhone size because I bought it, but the reality is I had no choice if I wanted to keep using iOS and didn't want to deal with a horrible experience performance-wise from aging hardware.
It's usually part time work for social issues. It's focused on the UK at least from what I saw, but there are other opportunities available. Might be revamping some php software or writing something from scratch.

And this might range from consulting on software architecture to systems administration work. I haven't found my combination yet. But there were some pretty interesting things on there.
> Right now, your social media might be mined to classify you as an "anarchist"

If police want to classify you as that, that's fine. It's meaningless.

> after which you may be pulled over and arrested when you are driving close to an anti-war protest

Arrested for what? Police would only be able to arrest if they have a reason, and being an anarchist / going to a protest is not a reason (in the US, at least).

Please don't spread fear and misinformation.
The Test Driven Development series continues. Visit and listen to these insightful, easy to understand, and entertaining episodes about TDD. At Agile Thoughts, we work hard to be Portlandia friendly. ;-)

https://agilenoir.biz/series/agile-thoughts/

009 Introducing the Test Driven Development series
010 Agile and TDD Neglect
011 The Old Way isn't Sustainable
012 An Example of doing TDD
013 Developer Intent and the Bible
014 Why Devs don’t TDD
015 The TDD FUD Spreader
016 Driving under the Influence of FUD
017 The Architect Disses TDD
018 TDD gets no Love from the PO
019 A QA Professional Questions Micro Tests and TDD
020 TDD Undoer
This is cheap enough that I might consider buying one just to replace my current SE with a phone that’s less beat up. Is Apple still making any money at this price?
> Like phones with physical keyboards

I disagree with this point. I think other manufactures simply realized it's cheaper to not include a keyboard, and since no one else is anyway, easy enough to get away with it.
Excellent answer - I get it now. Thank you!
Ask them "Would you agree to a car loan before you learn the terms of the loan?"
Thanks for these words!

Although I don't think this tool is perfect, I created Task exactly due my frustration with Make and the lack of decent alternatives.

Let me know if you any feedback after you try it.
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This is brilliant! I think I'll hack something together for this soon...
The only thing that could get me to upgrade from my iPhone 7 would be a premium version of the iPhone SE. I want a smaller phone, not a bigger one, but I want updated specs and possibly an OLED screen.
Surge protection isn't a big thing in the UK these days. You can get arresters but it's really rare now to hear of computer damage as a result of mains spikes.
Interview with other companies.
Thanks, I'm going to buy more than one for backup and use the multi-key approach. Appreciate the long explanation. I've been meaning to set this up for years.

This should be standard practice taught to kids in school! Especially considering their whole life is digital now.

I saw that Linux's full disk encryption supports Yubikey as well as Gnome login screens which is neat.
Hardware lends itself to a vertical business model, Apple has clearly been the best example but even video game console manufacturers write their own games.

With AI assistants seemingly the 'next big thing', which lends itself to a more horizontal model, will Apple change gears to accommodate? Their services division has been growing rapidly.

Apple could leverage it's brand to create an awesome cell phone at a very cheap price. Not a lot of low income people are buying the the XR, my sister has had to replace her iPhone for at least six months but as a college student she's not going to spend a grand on a phone. Maybe it's time for Apple to dial down the luxury brand pricing and make a phone for the common man?
Also this free ebook from Valentina Thörner from the support team at Automattic is helpful for managers creating remote teams.
https://valentinathoerner.com/from-a-distance-book-remote-le...
The iPhone SE was the last stand of a dead philosophy - the one-handed phone.

To Steve Jobs, it was absolutely essential that all of the core functions of the iPhone could be performed with one hand. That requirement dictated large parts of the iPhone's design and the UX principles of iOS. One-handed operation formed a key part of the marketing of the iPhone 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE

The one-handed phone represents the phone as a means to an end rather than an end itself. You make a quick call to your partner while holding the baby, you check your shopping list while pushing a grocery cart, you send a text while holding a beer. The one-handed phone does a job, then gets out of your way. It's never the total focus of your attention.

Bigger phones are obviously better for intensive use. If you sit an iPhone SE and an iPhone X side-by-side, the iPhone 5 seems comically tiny. It's lousy for web browsing, it's lousy for reading e-books, it's lousy for watching movies. It seems like a relic from a different age. That's because it is - it's a relic from an age when a smartphone was a smart phone, rather than a pocket computer. Rightly or wrongly, there's no turning back from here.
Sounds good. But how will they reach critical mass? How to avoid being popular driving it into trash like most other aggregators?
I mean, it’s the UK. Presumably there is video. Plus witnesses. Plus GPS. Plus he left the country immediately after. Plus he is known hired muscle. Certainly enough to charge someone.
Portugal just uses the budget from the last year unchanged.
The main benefit to owning your own car is instant access. To retain that a significant portion of these cars will be sitting in parking lots just the same as if their owners had drove them.

Queuing theory forms a mathematical basis for analyzing the problem. So far its been heavily analyzed and applied towards dynamic pricing models. But if you want to replace cars people need to feel confident they are going to have a ride available in a short amount of time and not be price gouged.
Ask HN: Working environment with Mac and Linux
I have an MBP with a Linux VM. My monitor is a Thunderbolt display. I would like to change to the following environment:

- Add a Linux laptop (looking seriously at a System 76 Galago Pro).

- Keep the MBP for Mac development, syncing my iPhone, iTunes, etc. (Get rid of the VM.)

- Have ONE keyboard/mouse combination, and use it for both Linux and Mac.

- Keep the Thunderbolt display or replace it with another 27" monitor plugged into the Linux machine, either is fine.

- On the Linux machine, use both the laptop screen and the 27" monitor.

So this seems to present two options: 1) Plug monitor/keyboard/mouse into Mac, VNC to Linux. 2) Plug monitor/keyboard/mouse into Linux, VNC to Mac.

The problem is that I can't get Mac screen sharing or VNC to work in either direction.

I'm looking for advice on how to make this work, or alternatives I hadn't considered.
Clothing should have a certain amount of utility, IMO. Perhaps it's the jeans that need to be updated.

I'm pretty happy with the size of my phone currently, not sure it qualifies as small or large. Largest phone I had was for work, Iphone 6+, that thing was unwieldy, essentially a tablet. I wouldn't own one that big personally.
Zoho.com (it’s free).
That is unnecessary, I don't understand why the Readme includes it. It does nothing.
iOS 12 gave em a new lease of life.
Coincidental timing for this article! I just wrote in my own blog yesterday about the level of importance I had placed upon the data I had stored on my PC [0]. (TLDR - Data I thought was unimportant ended up actually being the opposite right after I lost my external drive).

[0] - http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2019/1/20/the-folly-of-unimpo...
It seems to depend on the person? I've seen some anxiety-prone friends freak out on thc, while others felt better like they never had before. It's weird!
Has anyone realized the wheels on the treadmill are spinning toward the carrot? Shouldn't be tough to keep up.
Right, but learning about the errors without having to run and hit every codepath in your program has a lot of value. So in that way, seeing how many people hit pandas runtime type errors is a useful thing to measure.
I wonder whether they're building it from scratch or leveraging some of the work put into other stores\app centers like Gnome's or Elementary's.
Science Fiction becomes a WORD
Episode 5 of SciFi Thoughts podcast: http://lancerkind.com/podcast/005-science-fiction-becomes-a-word/

Starting with episode 1, SciFi Thoughts covers the origins of the science fiction genre.

https://lancerkind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/
Or maybe an example of the system coming way too close to disaster and that a 'working system' would not have introduced such byzantine legislation in the first place?

And that a 'working' system would involve the implementation of some fairly common sense things?
How many people died from that vs co2+particulates+radiation from burning coal?
This very much depends on the model space in question. If our model space includes “climate continues normally” and “climate gets weird/warm over time” models, then an event that occurs that is an outlier for “normal,” but routine for “warm/weird,” does tip the odds toward “we are in the weird/warm regime, now.” In other words, future weather days, modeled as tokens being drawn from one of two climate bags, are not independent. Each draw of warm/weird makes it more likely that we have switched from the normal bag to the weird one.
Because the update is secured with GPG, not with the HTTP part.
Fastmail.com

They are reliable and I like to know that it'll just work™. I've been a customer for over 3 years or so now.
I've never done it, but if you're used to a Python/JS/etc-like dev cycle and the idea of up-front type errors annoys you, Haskell has a perfect solution.
Recently I opened the /hot feed on r/all and began blocking the subreddit of posts that were non-text.

...I think I blocked 200+ blocked subreddits my feed is still all pictures and videos. Even checking now, there are only two text posts on my r/all: r/AskReddit and r/NoStupidQuestions.

Really frustrating. Also, searching self:yes doesn't seem to work for me, I think it was deprecated?
There is at least one more: 3. the combination of 1 and 2 will overcome everything else and is enough to force racist companies out of business. That is the one I disagree with.