skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 23 I was about to begin my final year of a Software Engineering degree and my classmates and I loved this movie.

I worked for Defense Science and Tech for a year, and completely lost it when I actually heard someone standing at the printer say "What the hell does PC LOAD LETTER mean?"
> Maybe 12 angry men has had a real influence on juries in some unseen way

At least one highly visible influence:

"Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that seeing 12 Angry Men while she was in college influenced her decision to pursue a career in law."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)
No comment on the internal management issues, but why is drug use considered an issue unless it is in the work environment? I'm really sick of people thinking that "drugs" are bad, while alcohol/tobacco are not.

If someone's substance use is affecting their work, then that's a legit issue. Otherwise it's as irrelevant as which (if any) football team they support.
New Messenger Feature Gives You Ability to Remove Messages for Everyone
Mipsdis: a MIPS disassembler that runs in the browser
Big Gulps are very disturbing. I mean, why would you not just spend the extra 10 cents for a Super Big Gulp?
If Office Space were remade today it would be all about hyper-sensitivity, worship of popular developers by name, walk outs, and Dunning-Kruger people. Unfortunately, a key target audience would likely take this as a serious personal attack.
Out of curiosity, for those that have done the van life for an extended period of time (say a year or more), how has it affected the relationships you had before?

A part of me fantasizes about trying this someday, but the thought of not seeing my friends on a regular basis sounds quite lonely in practice.
Reddit definitely had that problem in the past. As an example they had a “jailbait” forum which they only took down when CNN ran a long story about it at primetime.
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, "To Have or to Be?" and "Sane Society" by Erich Fromm, "Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt, and before that several books by Sebastian Haffner about the Nazis, who also had a very keen eye for the things that truly mattered, as unflattering as they are.
For reading, I like the English Standard Version ['ESV']. Kind of splits the difference between erudition and enjoyability.

KJV is cool for the Cormac McCarthy-esque prose [strike that, reverse it], sounds great when declaimed, but it is kind of a chore to machete through as a reader.

There are so many variants these days, it's not unlike choosing a Linux distro
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If it were both my wife and I home with the infant for six months, yes I would call that a vacation. Home alone? Abso-freaking-lutely not a vacation haha.
A wired quantum node
Interesting tidbit: Free Pascal, used by Lazarus, has no garbage collector nor automatic destructors for dynamic memory.

This makes it one of the few modern languages where you have to manually free all child pointers (like in C).
Allow me to offer a different anecdata.

My friend is a lawyer and works for a small, but somewhat successful canadian firm (which I will not name for obvious reasons).

His boss had hired 4 women in a row.

3 of them went on maternity leave within a short amount of time.
2 out of 3 didn't even bother coming back.
The other one came back and quit shortly after.

All the files got dumped on my friend and the boss had to hire 3 new lawyers, had them all go through training and learning the logistics of how the office runs (first as a temp, and then once again as full time employees).

So basically a total of 6 staff rotation within a years time.

Needless to say this was a major nightmare.

My friend told me his boss rather let slip that he will think twice before bringing women onboard..

I was obviously shocked to hear these as I myself am strongly against discrimination but I can't help but to at least sympathise with his boss to a certain degree.
As a non-businessperson, I don't really like learning to use a program if it can't run on a Raspberry Pi/Chromebook/etc.

It seems too fragile to be worth investing too much time in; what are the chances I'll still be able to use it in a decade or two?

Web apps are a blessing in that regard, but OSS is still better and some companies do actually build their products for architectures other than x86.

While I'm on the subject, Eclipse versions later than 4.0 aren't built for ARM cores. What's up with that?
Maybe not a good idea in general, but it seems perfectly reasonable for naming your restaurant.
Gentoo!

I love that distribution. The package management is ideal. Not so much because of the fact one compiles everything, but more so because of fine grained control of that which is installed and how it is installed.
Amazon support is the best there is. They always go above and beyond to help someone.
Your last sentence diminished the value of first sentence. The countries your mentioned are just different not authoritarian and probably are so because of too-much-fingering by imperialist countries.
Petascale used to be a buzzword 10 years ago. I think it's outdated for many years now.

Case in point. A gaming GPU from a few years ago, GTX 1080 Ti, easily does more than 10 TeraFlops. So you only need 100 such GPUs (about $70k worth in January 2019) to do PetaFlop computation. This doesn't even include high-end GPUs especially upsized for deep-learning computation. Furthermore, those DL GPUs are dwarfed by what ASICs like Google TPU, and nVidia's DL ASIC can do (more than 100 TeraFlops a board I think, though arguably those ASICs are mainly for inference not learning).

DeepMind routinely utilizes a few PetaFlops for its cutting edge DRL systems (AlphaGo, AlphaStar, etc).

IMO, In the next 5 years or so, and somewhere between 0.1 and 1 ExaFlop, we'll probability hit human-level AI.
Or, perhaps, the reason for the decline of history is because it is written by the "winners", and has, for the most part, failed to shed outdated, colonial modes of thought. History is progressing very fast, exponentially faster than it ever has. Do the old, tenured professors of today have what it takes to see this progress and give up their outdated modes of thinking?

The fact that philosophy is not seeing a similar decline (http://dailynous.com/2018/11/30/sharp-decline-philosophy-maj...) should be reason enough to believe that people today, even less privileged ones, desire to know who and where they are. Not that philosophy is unaffected by outdated modes of thought - but its raison d'etre is to lay bare those modes, which allow students to engage with the modes themselves, rather than the misguided content (bad history) generated by misguided modes.
When would you want the graph to exist due to some leaf more being retained but you wouldn’t know about it enough to maintain a ref to the root mode?
> I could start a construction company with my knowledge

> when I visit newly renovated homes, I see so much corner cutting

You could do construction with your knowledge. But starting a construction company means deeply understanding the economics of every little thing, which leads to corner cutting.

There are people who will pay you to build a good house, but most people just want it cheap and looks like the magazines.
Amazon path:

Customer Service > Contact Us > Call Customer Service > Something Else > Issue with Items from a 3rd Party Seller

Or, Toll free: 1-888-280-4331
What’s not solved with weak refs?
I live in Austin area and I've been researching some spots in this area. Most of the campsites that are reasonable commute to downtown can run $600-$800 a month for a large pad to park in and typically you'll pay electric on top of this, but I believe in most cases water/sewage is included.

In other cities, it can be much cheaper.
I prefer Nix/Guix for this type of application, but I'm glad more solutions are coming to fill a critical need.
Digital Nomaded for a while.

I agree with you. It's pretty lonely 'after a while'. Everything starts to be kind of the same just with a different aesthetic.

People fetishize travel but there's immense joy in the day to day things. Community, family, good food, etc.

My preference is it's better to have a home base with a community and take trips.

My preference would be to take month long trips once or twice a year and come home to a home base.

That being said...I need to travel and get out of my head space and try to do it often.
I'd argue that's hard to measure.

Can you convince a subset of doctors to go anti-vaxx as easily as you can a randomly sampled subset of laymen?

I suspect much of the readership of HN isn't only aware of dark patterns, but actively primed to recoil from them.
Russians are probably the least luckiest people in the world.

* they bore the brunt of Mongol invasion which utterly wiped the aristocracy at the time and set back the countries development by generations and depopulating the land. Luckily, the Mongols stopped there and didn't move further west, saving the populace of Western Europe

* Without warmwater ports, Russia lacked the capacity to participate in maritime trade that bolstered the economy of Western Europe

* Brutal and absolute monarchical rule suppressed any kind of representative government; Serfdom (essentially, slavery) was abolished only in the late 19th century

* Once it got its act together and started Industrializing in good stead... now comes the Crimean War, depleting morale, resources and will of the people

* Oh... was that not bad enough? World War 1, which strains the country so bad, that Germans successfully foment unrest and ultimately Revolution. The Revolution itself ends up being the best strategic decision by the Germans, and the Communist Government signs a treaty essentially ceding large parts of the country to the Central Powers

* But wait! That didn't mean the end of troubles for Russians, and they endure a prolonged Civil War fought not just on the Western theater, but also on their Eastern provinces. Red and White Russians fight each other constantly, appropriate resources from the peasants by force.

* The Country has barely recovered from all of this, Stalin comes to power. The madman purges experienced officers and intelligentsia leading to a very ineffective State and Military; he signs a pact leading to (temporary) peace as they know they can't fight the Germans

* Whoops, nope, the Germans invade anyways, reach as far as Moscow. Millions of Russians perish. St. Petersburg is besieged in one of the most destructive sieges ever, period

* At the end of the war, Russia has lost millions of its population, resulting in a demographic catastrophe that will affect it forever

* Once again, Stalin foolishly throws away a chance for friendship, and instead of working in good faith, we end up in the Cold War. The Soviet Union makes tremendous progress, but is no match for the economic and military might that comes with the vast (and now booming) population of the West. The Soviet Union was _offered_ aid as part of the Marshall Plan, and could have possibly used it for kickstarting their economy and supercharging economic growth but no

* Despite having a highly educated workforce, Soviets fail to capitalize on it, instead becoming the same repressive state they replaced. They fail to take advantage of the technological improvements and ultimately fall far behind

* the final kick: right after the fall of Soviet Union, when the people finally hope to be free and pursue and obtain the benefits of modernity, they're hit by an economic and social collapse. Again, the result is depopulation; crimes are high, lives are wasted by alcohol and tobacco.

And this is just the highlights. So... I do feel bad for the Russian people.
Seems like the users should get a cut since they are as much part of the product as the architecture of the site itself.

Is this heresy here?
It doesn't yet. I'd like to integrate Karaoke's techniques into the Vuvuzela client in the coming months.
I wonder if Casino's run their machines, etc on the same network as guests are on at the hotel, etc...

I'd think they'd at least isolate the networks to at least make things a bit harder... Maybe you could be sneaky and unplug an ethernet cable and plug in a device but apparently, the eye in the sky would catch you, and end up in serious trouble.

I know some probably have apps to check your rewards, etc but that probably would run on the public internet with some sort of proxy into their private databases.

I'm not really into gambling, the family took me once when I turned 21 and was kinda boring. I just waited around while everyone else played video pocket. Free Mt. Dew though...

Also, all the woman seem to wear something to show off their breasts more, I guess more tips... So stereotypical like you'd see on television.

At least they banned smoking in casinos, I guess in the old day's people would be smoking right next to you. Oh, Google'd it and it seems like they allow it in Vegas at the casino and bar, just not restaurants. Wow. I believe in my state it's a standard ban inside completely of any public building.

Also, reports of Atlantic City dying now since more and more states have allowed Casino's to open. I seem to associate gambling with Vegas though over any other city.

I wouldn't mind going to just play the slots someday again, but really not into wasting money right now.
If the train is delayed find another way home
LLVM allows direct push to master from its contributor.

If we were to go through pull-requests, we wouldn't need anything as GitHub has this setting built-in: https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-commit-rebasing...
And West ! failed to accept real democracy when they saw that real democracy is very dangerous and unacceptable and not aligned with their interests.
Couldn't disagree more with this sentiment. Do prisoners and slaves exist for their captors' purposes alone?

I can understand an argument to the affirmative, but it is completely contrary to my way of thinking.

To quote Hamlet : "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space"

or Hawking : "In my mind, I am free."
in other words power must turn on and ramp time to operating level must be somewhere between 100 micro seconds and 10 milliseconds. this is accomplished easily with power conditioning between hardware and supply voltage.
My first digital project is still operating in niagara falls ontario up on the wall in 2 of the more popular museums.
the record fastest drumbeat in the world was held by "some guy" and was around 127 beats per minute. the brains of the project was a microcode 16f84, and 17f84. the 16f drove the display and fed alphnumeric while the 17f counted beats on a piezo electric drum pad and compared to the "record" beat.
the skin of the finished project was slick, the inside was a fibreglass bread board. $1500 pricetag at time of release for $150 in parts and some brainwork.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin.

Before I read it, I thought anarchism was just punk-ish people who want to run around Mad Max style with no rules. Reading The Dispossessed helped me to see it's actually a fully fleshed out political system, with many rules, that could work well.
Elizabeth Warren Claimed 'American Indian' Race on Texas State Bar Registration
You found one right here. I work in videogames, I'm a programmer/engineer, I love my standing desk and open plan office. It's a huge game changer in terms of morale and quality of the life for the team and company, since the whole company has moved to open plan and standing desks by default. (and we're not a small game developer).
It's amazing that this weird architecture has endured for so many years. These displays continue to be cheap and handy.
Sex, lies, and hacked BTC wallets. You should read the article, it's really good.
Is this still useful for managed languages? What is a practical use case for this for a Java/python web app?
Please enlighten me.

Which one is worth buying iPhone X or iPhone XS Vs iPhone 8?

- Writing this with an android phone attached to a powerbank in park.
I meant the animated series!
Filbert had a short run as an animated series (cartoon show). I think that was the reference.
You could be a little more precise and say that it's NP-complete. :-)
Getting people in the room
All of Nassim Taleb's books, particularly Antifragile.
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I've never heard about this book. What can you tell us about it?
The important parts of your business are in the backend, and should be accessible in json format.

In my experience the backend of most non-tech and some tech businesses is a database and some trivial validation rules. Everything important is in the design of how the data is displayed on the front end.
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

https://www.amazon.ca/Riding-Waves-Culture-Understanding-Div...

Literally rethought everything following this read.
Thanks for posting this. I am the kind of person to whom many forms of minimalism are seductive, and yet, the books, tchotchkies, and ephemera pile up.
"You are literally the first person I've ever heard of who prefers open plan for development."

Are you really naive enough to think that because in your small sphere of experience, people don't seem to like open plan, there aren't millions of people who love open plan? For an engineer that doesn't seem like logical thinking.

Your anecdote isn't data. I'm an engineer, I love my standing desk and open plan space. I know many engineers at our company who feel likewise, it's a huge improvement.
I've only fished once, in a commercially stocked trout lake. The instructions we were given said to net the fish and bring it in, then bash its head against a rock to kill it quickly. I'd always assumed that was standard procedure - strange to find otherwise.
You make really good points about that. The classic things do migrate providers the easiest of all.

I've just found in my experience maintaining a web server or a database server, keeping security in mind, upgrades, scaling, etc. is alot more work than simply spinning up RDS and a Lambda with API gateway. Or even hosting static sites on s3 or Netlify.

Like I said I don't know enough to say one is better.

Also, is your name Jason?
Show HN: Generate release notes from GitHub PRs
For those interested in the lifestyle, check out /r/vanlife on reddit.
I assume the parent is referring to the fact that letters are pronounced differently depending on the context. That said, unless the parent is a native speaker of spanish or esperanto, that doesn't seem like much of a problem. It's at least more consistent than english.
Dim Sum in Chinatown is a revelation. Have the property values in SF destroyed Chinatown yet?
You got your iOS team, iOS backlog, iOS bugs, iOS build / deploy pipeline, Android team, Android backlog, Android bugs, Android build/deploy pipeline, Web team...

And if you do everything right, both app experiences will be mostly the same.
I did 8 months and it had no noticeable affect, but then I only see my best friends at most twice a year.

I enjoy long periods of solitude so it wasn't a big problem for me, but I think most people would probably want to stay in campgrounds and hostels pretty often to get some socialization in.

I picked up hitchhikers a few times, which was usually fun, sometimes smelly, and always interesting.
Our followup Karaoke system [1] can support more users by adding more servers, but we still have more work to do to support billions of users. Regardless, I think it's worth deploying these research prototypes to get a sense of what problems matter to users.

[1] https://vuvuzela.io/static/karaoke.pdf
yes they are dinosaurs of a superior breed, TFT displays are something else too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film-transistor_liquid-cr...

a neat thing about these LCDs is that there is a display buffer that holds the alphanumeric, but no need for the buffer to write to the display. the buffer can be written to and read from as if its memory [bcz it is!]
It's impossible to make a system like you're suggesting. When people try to create a "romanized" spelling of the words in their language, they almost always run into the problem of sounds that aren't part of the alphabet. To make it work, you have to do something like add accent marks, or create some special letter combinations.
I didn't say that we shouldn't strive to be better than animals, but it depends on how far you want to take that.

I don't believe I should rip a fetus out of a pregnant woman's belly and eat the fetus for food, like you will often see in nature. However, I have no qualms in eating another animal for sustenance and even for pleasure. I don't think it's abnormal to think that eating other animals is fine.
you’ve not substantiated any of those criticisms, and frankly they’re so general in nature that they’d apply to practically any executive departure to some degree, so they lack insight.

what she did was increase sales per square foot by over 20% [0], expanded the retail footprint globally, and made the store experience more coherent/consistent. not too shabby but also not what she was hired to do.

her problem was that she was tasked with the very difficult goal of turning apple retail into a luxury experience akin to burberry and turn apple watch into a must-have fashion accessory. she was to lay the groundwork for apple’s thrust into wearables, but she had very little control over the product (ascetic watch bands and ear tampons... i kid, i love my airpods) and no control over strategy or logistics. unlike burberry, where change cycles with the seasons, apple cycles over many years. you just don’t have enough control and urgency to make the changes apple wanted. honestly, i don’t think anyone could have accomplished that goal.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-a...
I love how in open plans everyone is attempting to shut out the rest of the space using headphones. That was the only way I could concentrate. At that point you've isolated yourself that you might as well be in a more isolated workspace.
Not possible yet, but I have some ideas.
Immediately followed by:
“In conclusion, I am not convinced that this paper moves us any further forward in this debate.”
What is pseudoscientific about those words? Read the book to see how they are used, and why the selected language is actually sensible in its given context.

Your criticism is like telling a pharmacist not to use the terminology that distinguishes some kinds of drugs from others. It may be true that the blue pill makes your dick hard and the red pill cures your headache, but if you actually want to go into it and address why and how they do these things you need a more focused vocabulary that is clearly defined in its context of use (which G&D do).
The modern version of hacker just means doing something bad where a computer was somehow involved.
I have some friends who many years ago threatened to make a Chinese restaurant name generator. Take about 20 words and just pick a pair at random. Jade Dragon, Peking Pagoda, Dragon Palace, etc. It was funny because it would have worked.