skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends if that server is storing every conversation in a non password protected mongo database. I'm going to stick with expecting the entire world is going to see it until security and privacy is valued much greater then currently.
It be cool to see what parts of the gov. are still running and what ones are working without pay.
I have a 9370 and never had any problems with the WiFi. I've connected it to lots of home networks, coffee chops, etc.

Reception is perfect, even better than the Intel card my previous latptop had.

(running Fedora Linux out-of-the-box btw)
Websites: past and present
Ha.. got a good laugh.
Oh look, a communist magazine rediscovered what's great about capitalism. Companies, in the pursuit of private profit, make the world a better place by subsidizing education. Congrats guys, you did it.
I think a lot of it has to do with consumer expectations. We can all sit here and laugh and act unsurprised, but technology has conditioned users that the response isn't sent until you press "Send". Its bad (and I'd argue harmful) UX.

Imagine this scenario: Copying and pasting a debug log, realizing it contains personal or important information (such as password, SSN, or anything else) and it is sent to the agent before you have a chance to redact that info. Or it could be accidentally pasting the wrong thing. I know that I've accidentally pasted Twitter links into my code before.

EDIT: Just to clarify my point. If you're going to break deeply entrenched user expectations, especially in ways that are often used maliciously: explicitly say you are subverting those expectations.

The same reason there are "This call may be recorded" messages when calling in, it shouldn't hurt much to add a "For quality assurance purposes, your keypresses may be logged in the chat window".

And if it does hurt, then you should realize your subversion is malicious.
very well written. thank you!!
Hmmm. No, I have none of those issues. I sync via WebDAV, automatic sync & full-text content selected. My three computers all have different library paths.

Having never set it up with Google Drive, I'm not sure of anything else that could help your situation. In that sense your original point is quite valid then - this must be a quirk that still needs ironing out.
Unless you want to use your external display as power supply and usb hub at the same time with just one cable.

Some of us do work in actual offices and not in some coffee shops down the street. ;)
Interesting. By coincidence, that's about the proportion of hiring companies that don't have a basic professional environment, a reasonable program of work to be done, and a basic clue of what they need in a tech employee.
Whilst I agree with a lot of the points you made I'm not sure on #3 - I don't see that as a negative when compared with the opposite ( devs who don't care or 'think like a programmer' as much as they should ).

Similarly on point 7 I get very excited about new tech ( or similarly with cool old stuff i've only just
discovered ). Who needs to be paid to be passionate about what benefits new tools may bring for me or the team :)
Mutiny Aboard Skylab 4 – The Stress of Living in Space
It seems every intro to networking goes into the headers of each layer's most common protocol.
Big companies have this thing called “segregation of duties” which protects the company from organized labour. You can organize all you want, but the job has been cut up in to so many pieces, it’s easy to replace whoever forms a union.
Thanks for the reply, here's my late response. I've pasted the output of ps aux here https://gist.github.com/maedoc/1f6e568d44541d7734204d294c98a..., though now it seems to have dropped significantly. The only change I seemed to have made that could account for that is moving from a local disk storage to NFS storage, maybe there's some caching accounting effect..
OTOH, they are a plus if your hair is getting thin.
I've chosen CircleCI over Travis for some projects because CircleCI is free for private repositories (to an extent). Travis is only free for open source, and is slightly more expensive for similar resources.

Of course that doesn't explain why open source projects would switch, but it could just be a mind share thing.
Try more healthy alternatives:

1. Green Tea

2. Raw cacao powder in water

I can especially recommend cacao as alternative to coffee (see also https://michaellustgarten.com/2014/07/22/kuna-cocoa-the-opti...) .
An optometrist friend of mine once told me decades ago about an 'in joke' they had in the industry:

When you hand over a pair of glasses to a customer, you say "That will be $200...".

If the customer doesn't blink, you continue "... for the frame, the lenses cost an extra $200...".

If the customer still doesn't blink, you continue "... each.".
Need to look at TCO.

Managing a database can be pretty expensive and time consuming.
Isn't this like a bicycle company saying no-one cares about walking anymore ?
These are just small trains. If it was built today you could automate the Boston Green Line too - the technology already exists.

The main issue with building tunnels is cost. Tunnels aren't cheap and are hard to scale because soil conditions are extremely local and you have to tailor boring machines to ground conditions. Egress points are expensive, especially in dense urban areas where property values are sky high. You could use elevators instead of stairs, but the problem is that elevators are low-throughput and unusable in the event of unreliability.

Even considering all that, Elon did build a tunnel, but the tunnel was quite short and also quite small. There's not really room for emergency ventilation, or egress walkways with exits or safety points every 300m, or really anything that modern fire codes would require. Once you add all that in the tunnel is not really narrower than a subway train, at which point you might as well build a subway train. And why not? The New York subway has a capacity of 60,000 people per hour per direction using signals from the 1930s. A highway lane only carries about 2,000 people per hour. And all of that's assuming your low-capacity elevator entry can handle all of that.

PRT just combines the inefficiency of the automobile with the cost of actually building transit. There is a reason that PRT experiments have never been replicated elsewhere at large scale.
Interesting you should say that, as it runs against the accepted wisdom[1]...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Couple of the phone systems I've used in call centers when you put someone on hold, they'd hear the hold music but we could still hear what was going on.
Thailand fights Bangkok air pollution with water-spraying drones
Gene therapies only work for some people – so how do we fix this?
Well, as far as I know (I might be wrong) she hasn't done any HEP phenomenology, so maybe at this moment she can't get that electroweak precision tests at a Higgs factory aren't a question of if, but when. She has enough training to understand why, so it'd be an interesting exercise for her to explain why that'd be futile, leaving aside the blogging standards.
Those parents are in jail. That's what detainment is. If people go to jail domestically, then the kids go back to their home or stay with relatives. In the situation ICE has to deal with, those aren't options. This makes me wonder what other countries do in this case. According to the NPR article, there was separation under the Obama administration, but the policy was changed to allow families to stay together.
I think it's unfair to judge Amazon as a monopoly. They have plenty of competition in their two primary businesses. Retail wise they have razor thin margins with traditional grocers on one end and identical copycat tech platforms on the other. And with AWS, Google Cloud is dominating along with Azure.

People are always so quick to call out monopolies when it patently isn't true.
Employers somewhat dislike recruiters because recruiters are incentivised to (a) Tip employees off about the questions and answers to the company's tests, (b) solicit the employee to leave as soon as the recruiter gets paid for placing them, and (c) shop employees around between employers in profit order, so employers that try to reduce fees only get candidates other companies have passed on.

Candidates somewhat dislike recruiters because they're incentivised to (a) post false adverts to gather CVs, (b) cold call aggressively, (c) be careless with candidates' personal details, (d) misrepresent their willingness to negotiate well on the employees' behalf and their knowledge of pay ranges, (e) misrepresent candidates to employers, and (f) apply aggressive hard-sell tactics.

For both employers and candidates to dislike the results of recruiters' incentives is what I mean when I say the incentives are messed up. Firms may pay them, but it's not true to say firms are 100% happy with the deal they get.
Do you think they will have enough money to fix gazillion of RIO bugs? Cause i have a feeling that Delphi is is getting out of tracks and nobody cares about it anymore? But i wish i am wrong since i like it very much.
I enjoy Robert Caro’s biographical writing but his writing about his writing process is a real treat.

This is so fascinating and so readable.
Who cares? EU is already going after American companies.
Amazon spends company record on US lobbying in 2018
I think the bigger issue is that I've never anyone other than conservatives characterize liberals as believing in "equal outcomes". That's a slanted frame from the getgo.

Among democrats and liberals, it's usually "equal opportunity" or "equal starting lines", language like that. That's very different than "equal outcomes" because it still believes in self-reliance, merit, diversity in outcomes, etc - it's just that it requires a level of fairness that applies to everyone.
That should include everyone up through the top. Including their options and bonus etc.
I have a 9370 and no coil whine at all.

(also no problems with WiFi either)
Except there is hard empirical data showing that something is actually going wrong. Like rapidly rising teenage anxiety, depression and suicide rates.
Or is it? Look at cases where SEA countries were pushed to stop using child labor in their factories. It was done more by economic pressure than by law, but the end result was that those children ended up much worse off. To the companies that were pushing the economic pressure, is that a result they were okay with?
Well the author of the article seems to think Philly is a good option, and to be fair, I do know some very smart and ambitious engineers working and living in Philly these days.

Some of it probably depends on the company and the founders, but in general, I would look for signals like good universities, positive inflow of people moving there, and decent cost of living. I like Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte for those things, but I'm from that area am a bit biased because I have a network there and know it's a environment and culture I can operate in. Raising capital is a real issue in those places, but I know tons of talented people around there who feel underutilized working at satellite offices for the big corps (IBM, Cisco, NetApp, etc) and do seek out places with a more startupy culture. Raleigh and Durham are more tech centric (companies founded include RedHat, Ansible, SAS ) while Charlotte is more financially-oriented, but both are growing like crazy and still very affordable. I'd say they're at least worth a visit if you're giving other locations serious consideration.
Regarding piracy, IPTV + PopCorn Time really outplay having to pay for 10 different services.

Steam got it right...
Ugly and for the foreseeable future, LOUD.
There is no moral compass in politics from latin countries, it's all a ruse for power and money.
Of course that's not racist, despite the efforts to frame that as such.

Companies behave that way to _everyone_, get used to that. When you negotiate your salary, you have your mouth. Use it. You are the only person, who really cares, whether you earn adequately to what you bring to the table.
As a cynical person, I've seen many US discussions of "why invest in public transport when Hyperloop and the Boring Company have the solution coming up in a few years?"

Transport investment is like planting a tree. The best time to build it is twenty years ago, and the second best time to do it is now. Elon has basically given cover to NIMBYs to hide behind a supposedly new amazing future solution that may never come.
I have a 9370 and charge it with a 45 watts phone charger from Inateck, works perfectly :)
As I post this, every comment is "Derp if you're surprised, I mean this is how every site is. GOSH." However, you sure don't see this in the e.g. Munchery shutdown story. "90% (or whatever) of all startups fail, big whoop. Everybody with a decent understanding of business knows this."
Tinder already did that. I think I saw a screenshot once from the olden days of OK Cupid, where men could and were expected to send a message to any woman they found interesting. I think there were hundreds of messages per day or something.
Have they ever addressed the criticisms of rationality, technological rationality and instrumental rationality of the Frankfurt School in the 50s and 60s? Or, more generally, the critique of positivism and the collapse of rationality to facts connected with formal logic? These are fairly big topics in philosophy, so it would seem really naive if they haven't covered them.
Not only is the shop in business, it's one of the most profitable place I've had the pleasure of working at. The policy was actually handed down by the CTO, who started in the company as an entry level developer. Some money was incidentally saved, but, at least to hear him talk about it, it was more about getting people's incentive structures in line: If you want to discourage developers from doing something, the most straightforward way is to make it painful for them to do it. If you want to make creating performance problems painful, you accomplish that much more effectively by making it apparent on their workstations, where their nose will be rubbed in it constantly until they do something about it. Slow performance on an external test environment is much easier to ignore, because people typically don't bother testing there until they think they're basically done with their work, at which point their incentive structures are nudging them toward ignoring any potential problems.

Contrary to some of the criticism I'm seeing here, it wasn't actually hated by the development team, either. The hypothetical "can't get any work done because compiling takes a bazillionty days" scenarios that people are pulling out of thin air here simply didn't happen. At a shop where developers were expected to think carefully about performance and know how to achieve it, they tended to do exactly that.

Someone who was busy making excuses about how they weren't very productive because they only got a 3.4 GHz CPU while the analysts got a 3.6 GHz CPU probably wouldn't have lasted long there.
It seems every few months we hear a story about something which is supposed to be secure not actually being secure or secure as expected.

Someone should make a bug bounty for all the major encryption programs, 7zp, wnzip, etc. Allocate 5 or so encrypted bitcoin private keys (with brute-force resistant passwords) for each program and see how long it lasts, with he public keys made public so people verify the status. if zip's bounty has lasted years, then it's reasonable to assume it's safe.
ICQ had a character-by-character mode they experimented with for a while. It was kinda fun. BBSs too.
What’s next for China in lunar exploration?
They were indeed EL displays.

Fran Blanche attempted a GoFundMe project to recreate these displays. Unfortunately the project stalled.

https://www.gofundme.com/apollo-dsky-display-project

https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/re-creating-the-apollo-dskys...
Ask HN: Decentralizing California city governance
With California as a case study:

1. Would it be correct to say that governance in California is centralized with regional control?

2. Pros/Cons of centralized regional governance vs decentralized local governance

3. Will networked+cooperative decentralized city clusters perform better than how it works currently? Which would be centralized governance and even redistribution of resources.

4. Can decentralized governance be coupled with economic/trade protectionism? Would that be a good thing?
I'd largely echo your sentiment, but luckily our professor had a hands-on attitude. This involved actually coding things that used those concepts. We had to implement a non-recursive DNS resolver and a FTP server. Reading the RFCs and chewing out something that worked (mostly) was real fun.
> they could use my immigration status to pay me less, specifically that they would offer employer sponsored permanent residency application instead of paying me competitive rates, bonuses, promotions.

Offering that sponsorship has very real costs to the company, well into the thousands of dollars per year. It seems perfectly reasonable to me for the employer to deduct that cost relative to what another employee who doesn’t bring those additional costs.
No, it's not and has never been; you have it backwards. Closed-source code is guaranteed[0] to be insecure, open source code may or may not be secure. New open source code is almost certainly insecure for much the same reasons closed code is insecure, but trends toward security over time as more people inspect it and fix security holes.

0: In the same sense that the hash of a arbitrary string is guaranteed to not be all-bits-zero or that a fair coin is guaranteed not to come up heads 100 times in a row.
>they had finally moved the camera to the top,

Now I know where to put the tape! ;)

For the rest of the specs, seems to make the MBA look like a pretty fair deal so long as you like the Apple ecosystem.
Another thing people don't realize is that if your browser/extension prefills/autofills certain fields (say, name, email, address, etc), those things can be easily sent to the website even if you don't press the submit button.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/10/browser-a...
What is bad about that
It is an issue no doubt because parents just honestly don't have the confidence to let their kids go.

They are paranoid not just about kidnappers or child molesters, but they are worried about not preparing their kids for school and "getting ahead", thus the over planned childhoods.

I really wish parents would just let go a little.

1) Read to your kids at night. Do it as old as they want you to do it.

2) Give them unstructured play time with friends consistently. After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around.

3) Younger kids should experience a variety of things well through middle school. The more things they do, the better. Sure, they should get good grades (A's and B's), but obsessing over all A's in middle school isn't worth it.

4) High school is when structure starts to be more important IF they want to get into a competitive school. And forcing a high school kid to get a perfect score on his SAT is a recipe for disaster. It should be the kids choice.

Way too many parents are obsessed about making sure their son or daughter get into THE college they want. It's more about the parent than the student.

I wish I could tell more parents to let fucking go. Teenagers go to war, they start businesses, they do all sorts of grown up things.

Keep them away from drugs and help them find a passion. That's about it.
The original argument I read was that slowdowns or waits past a certain time affect mental flow. The flow is basically you being in the zone coding optimally. Interruptions like phones can jolt a person out of flow. So can long wait times.

If person is in flow, you want them cranking out as much output as they can with no slowdowns. That was an advantage of Smalltalk and LISP. Any language with REPL or IDE supporting something like it will let one do this.
> Most managers within tech companies today don't have a clue

In my role as tech manager, I've been called incompetent, stupid, short-sighted, biased, insane, greedy, vindictive, just about every epithet in the book.

This is normal. If you're ever promoted into management, you'll be, too.
I grew up in the 80s and some seasons, I spent every waking hour I could in front of computers and video game consoles, starting with a C64 and an Atari. Perhaps children obsessing over a video games has become more widespread, but it’s not new. If someone threatened to take away my Sega Master system in 1987, I would have seen that as very dire.
So ActiveX (or its offspring) in the browser is apparently back :-)

On a positive note, as I watch the assemblies load, Angular sites with 50k or so npm packages doesn't seem so heavy :-)
Cli reference
The problem is that in many cases (especially with deep learning), "the algorithm" is essentially a black box. There often isn't a straightforward way to determine exactly what the algorithm is actually learning.
> Iirc there are even physical reasons why it is more difficult to identify black faces than white faces. Is that then racist, if an algorithm struggles more with identifying black faces?

Unless there is some physics based reason it is orders of magnitude more difficult to do feature detection against black skin, then yes something racist is going on. The tools/cameras that we've designed have historically been metered and measured on their ability to detect white features/skin. This was a holdover from film that translated to digital photography. (Some info from an NPR interview https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/16/303721251...). The tools that perform this feature detection contain this same biases and reproduce it in the data that they collect. If an algorithm struggles more with identifying black skin, it's because the data that was used to the produce the algorithm contained unexamined racial bias that was never corrected for in a serious way.
I think meaning isn't really separable from structure. But assuming you're talking about semantics vs. syntax, then continuous representations can certainly do a lot more than just syntax.

They can model how words change in meaning over time [1], they can identify words that mean the same in different languages [2] and use that to translate whole sentences [3] without ever seeing a direct translation.

Of course none of those tasks are solved to perfection yet, but some kind of meaning is definitely being captured.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00607

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04087

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11041
I don't know how to identify them ahead of time, but there are definitely pockets that are densely populated with children, and I lucked into one. My kids have loads of neighborhood kids to play with. The place we moved from across town has no kids to speak of. I'd draw the same conclusion as you, if I still lived on the other side of town.
Computational periscopy with an ordinary digital camera
Because there's not much space left with a bezel-less design.

I never actually use the webcam, so I don't mind for example and appreciate the thinner top bezel instead.
Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure
Immutable Dev Environment
They want people to be paid what they are worth to them in that role regardless how well they negotiate - it’s an investment in the culture.

The incentive is to create an actual loving and supportive culture which they believe pays off. They also feel like it’s the right thing to do given their values.

They are one of the top rated corporate cultures in the world and recently valued at around $2B 10 years in.
No, you can. For running VirtualBox you only need Intel VT-x.
I get that same error in Firefox, but in Chrome it works. Sigh.
Thanks for #3. Writing code is my profession. I don't love it, in the same way that a plumber doesn't love unclogging your toilet. He has to do it because he needs to buy food.