skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why anglo cultures are so obsessed with cutting the cord with their families? where I come from parents giving help to their children is the norm, everybody helps everybody else, whether within the family or broader community. I see so many lonely people where I live now, they don't have friends and family. I got the feeling that in the west they want to break those ties, the same way the communists did in order for the government to be able to control everything. When you don't have family and community you need to rely on the government, then they control you and screw you up and it all becomes corrupt and bloody.
Very cool! If you want to do this in a 100% on-device and private-by-design way, you can take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)

Someone actually already did a Voice controlled drone with the platform https://github.com/trancept/snips_bebop/ :)

It runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, or any Linux, osX, iOS, Android device, and it works in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and more coming soon!

We'd love to show what you are building on our blog if you want to use it :)
I've seen them for sale on Amazon and elsewhere. I always thought they'd be neat to throw in a supplemental kit bag for a second display on the go. I think some of the smaller ones were even bus powered.
Many organizations function just fine with salary transparency- professional sports, governments, military, etc.
Is it only me or at first glance this VentureBeat article looks like popup-ridden page from late 90s?

https://imgur.com/a/vjGuFKs

(yes, I know it's off topic)
of individuals talented at negotiating*

not necesarily talented at doing the job
Relatedly, the valley still does not have a good story for first employees. Given the economics of stock options, there is currently no good economical reason to go working for a startup when the option of working for an already IPOd & liquid Corp exists.
>...when some people at a company (outside of C-level) are making 300k and others are making 32k there is a good reason to be aggressive about fixing pay disparity.

You're completely throwing context out of the window, though, and that's a dangerous precedent. Is the person making 300k in sales? Is the person making 32k merely the frontline helpdesk?

To try to "even it out, to decrease the dispairity, and - thus - the inequality" would mean the sales person and the helpdesk person making around 150k but only one of them is performing highly skilled, desired, sought-after work and the other is a generalist whom can easily be replaced. You intentionally devalue the sales person to add unwarranted value to the frontline helpdesk person.

So, your sales person leaves and your helpdesk person stays with your company until they either die or company runs under or what-have-you. They could improve themselves to move up the ranks but where's the onus for that, if they're already making gold bars, without having had to have done anything to actually earn that value?

The entire premise is wrought with problems because it doesn't address the principal fact that the desparities probably exist for a reason...
It's a little disingenuous to equate prioritizing family over others as patriarchal anarchism. I grew up in a supportive family that looked out for each other, and I can only hope to create a similar environment for my children when I have them.

For me, it is very natural that family will always be a priority over greater society. This by no means insinuates that I have no loyalty to the people in my community, or my country-- I think that's too extreme of a conclusion to come to. If there's (God forbid) some natural disaster, a fire, a shooter on the loose, etc. I am always going to first check on and ensure the well being of my immediate family before that of others.
Thanks for your reply. I fully agree.
I really like the Bail Project - https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_steinberg_what_if_we_ended_t...
USB-A/B for USB2.0 lacked the pin-count to provide compatibility with other connector standards by using a passive adaptor (except a few like PS/2). It also lacked the data bandwidth to encapsulate many other connector electrical protocols when using an active adapter except a few like RS-232 and 100mbps Ethernet. It also couldn’t deliver much power either - 500mA at 12V is only 2.5W - enough for a mouse or webcam.
One of the new Deloreans.
I got a YubiKey a year or so back and looked at this. It seems like Safari's holding out on a confirmed spec because before then it was a bit too Chrome-specific.
But it's the same thing in the other direction. Countless people claim that they've done their best and were just unlucky - or even that no one could have succeeded in their particular situation. Yet, I often encounter people not making efforts/decisions/sacrifices I consider basic. And they also discount all the help and good fortune they are getting.

Strictly speaking, both "I got no help" and "I've done my best" are hyperbole, delusion, or lies. Both are tiring and frustrating. They are also a fairly natural, though crude, way to direct a conversation: "I think you are making excuses" and "I think you are underestimating the challenges".
If you're looking to prove who has a better "culture of safety", shouldn't you be looking at accident statistics, not some random basic kinematics without context? There are places that drive slower but have more accidents.
I support this question. Any comments ?

NB: That's easy to downvote without commenting...
Show HN: Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index
I can sorta understand him - at a certain level of income and value (monetary or otherwise) of the furniture your increased wage might have been trivial compared to even a slight reduction in the risk of damage.
I think compatibility issues are massively overstated. As someone who typically uses Safari and Firefox (depending on platform), it’s rare that I run into a site that doesn’t work because of the browser I’m using. Far for often it’s because I’m running adblockers and don’t give Javascript free reign to do as it pleases.

When I do run into sites that don’t work in Safari or Firefox it’s usually either shoddily engineered or a google product.
Consider going back to school and taking some rhetorics classes. Introductory level should do.
Then another solution is to make illegal for both parents to work at the same time. The child will then benefit from the company of one of them.
Yeah, I know it's a big step towards it. But it's not tab isolation — what I want is a container for every tab by default. In other words, if you can think of containerising a website as a blacklist, I don't want a blacklist, I want a whitelist, everything should be containerised by default on every tab.
Due to the cultural hegemony of America, which we've enjoyed for almost a century at this point.
Probably more like "better tolerances" or something like that. The labor/time put into a cable is the most pricey part, raw materials are probably only a few cents, even if you double the copper into it.
Yes, it very obviously is a joke, so why go to the lengths of pretending it is not?
Can randoms purchase a Kg of CNTs from you to experiment with?
A Conversation about Tech Ethics with The New York Times Chief Data Scientist
It's not being down-voted because it's not a valid discussion point, but instead probably just because HN has a very liberal audience.

Even the most educated are still capable of bias, and many here do not like the opinion that it is possible that women differ from men in any significant ways.

Don't take the down-votes too personally. As long as you are posting constructive feedback with some evidence to your hypothesizes they will be appreciated by many even if the vote count doesn't make it appear to be so.
Same experiment, same result in Australia:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-...

In a bid to eliminate sexism, thousands of public servants have been told to pick recruits who have had all mention of their gender and ethnic background stripped from their CVs

The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview.

Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door.

...

Leaders of the Australian public service will today be told to "hit pause" on blind recruitment trials.
Neither. It gets to be USB 3.2 Gen -1 Plus.
+1 for the book! Just finished it a couple of weeks ago. And if you liked that, consider The Tangled Tree by David Quammen.
You don’t have to be a FAANG. You can be a B2B startup with one or two major clients who if they see you aren’t highly available will jump ship taking a lot of your revenue with them.

I’ve been in enough meetings working for small startups where our clients grilled us about our resiliency, availability, redundancy etc. and where they forced us to put our code in escrow as part of our contract.
Is... is this waterfall?
It has desireable weather, beaches, mountains, deserts, forests, national parks, fresh produce, industries, higher education system, decent laws for worker protection, so it’s a pretty good piece of land.
If all salaries are transparent, you get even more heavy incentives for wage-stagnation.
Don't use the `comments` table: it was last updated December 2017.

On the full table:

#standardSQL
SELECT
`by`,
COUNT(DISTINCT id) as `num_comments`
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE id IS NOT NULL AND `by` != ''
AND type='comment'
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY num_comments DESC
LIMIT 100

tptacek is in first place with 47283 comments.
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So they're Gen X, in other words? Needs work.
Just went to facebook.com and saw this notification
Could that just be the feeling of being outdoors, and away from distractions for a while?
If it indeed increases the health and safety of those around you, why is this not a valid argument?
>I discovered the value of compile time type checks when I worked on large codebases in dynamic languages where every change was stressful. In comparison having the compiler tell you that you missed a spot was life changing.

Sounds like me in reverse: I discovered that value when I had to do work in a dynamic language after working only in C and C++. It's like that old saying but not knowing the value of something you have until you lose it.
Intellectual capacity- programming requires a certain ability towards abstract thinking and logic that a minority of the population is comfortable with.

I actually believe a greater percentage of the population, by far, is CAPABLE of this, but very few choose a path that gives them a self idealization that they believe they can or want to be a computer expert of any sort.
"For a long time he stood gazing at the owl, who dozed on its perch. A thousand thoughts came
into his mind, thoughts about the war, about the days when owls had fallen from the sky; he
remembered how in his childhood it had been discovered that species upon species had become
extinct and how the 'papes had reported it each day - foxes one morning, badgers the next, until
people had stopped reading the perpetual animal obits." ---Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Honestly, I'm waiting for old USB(USB A, USB B) to be deprecated and USB C become the new universal USB. As in ATM machine, you get the drill. Current USB cable situation is a mess - my phone is USB C, but it came with a USB A to USB C cable. Good thing I can connect it to my 2017 MacbookPro using it's original USB C charging cable! However then I can't charge. Sometimes I use a USB C to female USB A dongle to use my phone's USB A male to USB C. And the whole thing has become expensive, good USB C cables seem to be made out of gold. Life would become so much easier if everything was USB C to USB C
Decriminalization is not a pipe dream. It happened in 2018 in Ca.
Dimensions? Master model? Assemblies? Or is this only for pretty pictures?
Oddly, DisplayPort had no royalties and the later revisions had chaining support. So HDMI won over the PC world but DisplayPort and DVI didn't win over the TV world, possibly due to not having DRM by default, afaik.

On a tangent, I did see a ~2004 DVI projection-screen tv at a thrift shop once but I couldn't figure out how to get it to output audio. Then it hit me, it uses regular old RCA cables!
> With USB 3.0 they added 4 more signals for separate transmit/receive

So is it not actually serial any more?
I use the Simple Tab Groups plugin for this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

It allows you to move tabs into named groups. Only tabs from the active group are shown in the tab bar, and you can switch between groups using an icon in the toolbar.
it was interesting to read about the "line of death": https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/

the chrome doing weird things in the viewport will make users trust unsafe actions by bad actors, so don't do that.
> It felt slow, heavy, bloated, unnecessarily Enterprise.

You can avoid the "unnecessarily Enterprise" by not writing code in the Enterprise fashion.

Not every class needs to be an extension of an abstract class that implements an interface. Not every class needs a factory class. Not every operation needs to be abstracted. If you have a class that has just a constructor and a single function, you probably don't need a class and can just write a function.

Most complaints about Java are really complaints about some idiotic Java paradigms that seem to have been invented by someone that measures productivity in LoC written or classes implemented.
Kernel Newbies has a much more accessible summary than a git log. :)

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.0
I think this is an issue of 2FA in general. If you can only have one second factor (and some backup codes), then you're going to be out of luck if something changes.
With the 1.21 gigawatts packs.
Oh man I hate receiving spam from these people. They don't provide an unsubscribe link, and when I ask them to stop sending me these e-mails, they say they won't and that I should manually log in to their website and delete my account. I don't have time to deal with this but I hope someone takes them to task for that.
Wrt the "My Homepage" idea: one of the ideas driving IPFS is just this [1]. A barrier to IPFS is that they (necessarily) reject HTTP in favour of something in some ways like Bittorent.

Les Orchard wonders if some sort of profit system could bootstrap the system. The IPFS folk have proposed an interesting cryptocurrency, Filecoin [2], allowing people who want their content hosted can pay people who offer hosting services; the core idea is that proof-of-work can be replaced by proof-of-replication, which I think is a nice idea.

[1]: https://ipfs.io/#why
[2]: https://filecoin.io/
> ... it will not be exactly Thunderbolt 3 as its functionality will likely be different.

I don't understand how this isn't simply ratifying/renaming current TB3-on-Type-C-connectors and this cryptic sentence in the page doesn't help. Anybody know?

This isn't to say that such a renaming might not be a good idea! But it would be nice to know if my current Type C ports with TB and DB support were in fact already "USB 4.0."

Also: speaking of nomenclature: notice that according to the press kit slide show, USB 3.1 Gen 2, USB 3.2
Gen 2x2, and USB4 all have the same "Alternative Branding": "Super Speed+". Madness!
All the talk of discrimination against women requires that they be helpless damsels in distress in all this, when their dominance of college graduation suggests the opposite.

Biology is not "preventing" women, it's directing their inclination. Women have a ton of opportunities, and it's just as likely that as CS blew up they decided they didn't want to and didn't need to take on the long hours and relative social isolation that professional engineering entails.
The government has a lot of people to keep track of in Minneapolis just in case they may want to "collect" data in the future.
So how are you guys and the rest of the industry going to manage the possible toxicity of carbon nanotubes?[1] It seems they get into people's lungs and then they never leave and cause mechanical damage much like asbestos presumably leading to difficult to treat cancers. Are you going to wait for these things to be in just about everything and then spend the next 50 years getting sued?

[1]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-d...
The bus factor of Elm is pretty bad compared to more "open" projects with RFCs, a dozen or so contributors, etc. In some ways it still feels like someone's private project.

The problem with having a bus factor of 1 is that no one sees it as a problem until it becomes one.
I'm not sure. If you really want an answer, I'd post the question to Avvo and see what responses you get. I've found that you typically get written responses from real lawyers within 24 hours, and for generic questions like this, they don't ask for a paid consultation. IANAL and not related to Avvo in any way.
I see a lot of parallels between this alternative certification route and a bootcamp: yes, the route is shorter, but you're at a huge disadvantage when applying for entry-level positions.

The teachers I know personally obtained traditional four-plus-year bachelors degrees before applying for jobs. In most cases, they had to do a year or more of subbing before finding a permanent position.

(edit to add: education degrees are very hard to get done in four years, especially with the aiding, student teaching, etc.)
Ask HN: Are you having issues with Google Cloud?
We're experiencing some major issues with GCE creating VMs in a few different regions/zones, as well as massive latency issues on GCS.

Anyone else seeing the same thing?

I'm getting a ~20% rate of 500's on VM creation and ~2-3 second response times for some of our GCS calls.
Let PDF readers find their own DES library. Or at lest make its non-default part of the build.

But even having it there as optional is risky and adds to an already huge maintenance burden. You know the distro packagers will enable every feature just like they did with DTLS support (which is what made Heartbleed pervasive).

Packagers don’t want to deal with complaints and support tickets because their OpenSSL build doesn’t do 3DES. So they turn on all the things.
In theory, yes. Since driving one 60hz 4k display at 4:4:4 chroma takes roughly 18gbps then daisy chaining 2 displays should be possible.
> I've been working on Progress Dashboard for almost a year now

Which part of it took you a year to write?
>Only way you could do a Saturday delivery and back to work on Monday is if you were a superhero and dropped the baby the classic way early AM Saturday.

Superheroes aren't based in reality. The only way humans could fly is if they weighed 80% less and had big wings.

Seriously have you ever heard of satire? This whole thread seems like a bunch of people just waiting for a chance to tout their in-depth knowledge of c-sections. And that it's flagged now is a shame, considering GP was clearly being hyperbolic to make a point about corporate/work culture.
Yes, definitely. In C or C++, I use my distro's package manager to manage the libraries, not some other tool.
Yeah. One 4k60 screen is between five and six gbps.
Markdown started that in general. There's no way to underline something in Markdown; underlining just isn't supported.
At WWDC 2017 I was in the keynote speech line with two of the Facebook client team devs. According to them the entire client team was trying to get rid of RN, so maybe they succeeded.
So you want to reduce taxes on the wealthy?

I don't really disagree with that. But you'll need to convince democrats of this to make it happen. They are the ones who want really high taxes for wealthy people.
You could almost certainly build this as an extension if you wanted to. It's basically what the "Facebook Container" extension does, except that extension only does it for facebook.com.
I served on a jury where the guy was in jail for 3 days short of six months. He ended up being convicted on a charge which carries a maximum of 6 months. He almost certainly wouldn't have received 6 months (if any time at all), so inability to pay bail was the greater crime.
True. They go straight to the exchange.
> You take a gene from a plant, change the codons to whatever yeast uses

This isn't necessary; codon usage is very basal. The biggest challenge you might face is prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic expression, but that's due to processing of the transcript (e.g. splicing) and the nascent peptide (e.g. all kinds of stuff). Messing with codons is simply optimization.

Expression is indeed the hard part, but not because of regulation. The general strategy is to use inducible promoters: grow the yeast, add chemical, get protein/metabolite.

Because this isn't constitutive, you can get away with a lot; even high levels of expression that will kill the cell will still produce enough of the desired product that it's an effective approach. And even relative gene-product dosage isn't too bad because you can associate the different gene products with particular known promoters and enhancers, etc.

What you have to account for is the general state of the cell; is it producing enough precursors, are intermediate products toxic, do they need to be confined for modification/processing, etc. etc. Doing complicated biochemistry gets messy.

Making simple peptides, e.g. insulin, is easy, and that's why it was the first GM pharmaceutical. Making a whole biochemical processing facility in a cell is .. a bit more of a challenge.
> The important thing though is the people proposing that the wage gap is a problem has a solution. They are pushing equality of outcome.

That's not a solution, that's another problem.
I stopped reading the NY Times for the exact same reason. Day after day all 10 editorial columns were something about Trump.

Yes there is lots to complain about, but there are other things happening in the world.
Yellow IIRC means "provides power even when the computer is sleeping."

It'd be harder to do markings like this on USB-C ports though. They don't have a big visible chunk of plastic in the middle.
Off topic, but neat speedometer trick.

Preconditions:

* You have an analog speedometer which is in both miles and km/h. [1]

* You are on a road trip on a highway, driving at or near 100km/h.

In Canada on the 400 class highways, both are often true.[2]

The trick is simple. It must be, I figured it our when I was a kid looking of my father's shoulder while he drove.

Notice how 100km/h nearly aligns with 60 mph on the speedometer? You can use the mph gauge as the approximate number of minutes required to travel a given distance in km.

Say you just saw a sign saying a rest stop was in 42 km.

To estimate the time to your rest stop, just line up 42 km/h with the corresponding number on the mph scale, which in this case gives about 27 min.

[1] http://www.storiesfromschoolaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...

[2] I drive at 110 because the trucks drive at the same speed, so you don't have to pass as often.
And post-processing for the lens, or to compensate for having twice as many green sensors as red/blue.
> Unless you are a soulless robot, the above statement will probably trigger more emotions and requirements for actions than:

Is that not an appeal to emotion and thus incentivizes customers to embellish their issues with emotional stories to get expedited treatment?
Honestly, most of this addresses that, by opening the spec and getting rid of royalties.
For me the true killer feature of USB-C is charging everything. Finally, a single charger for the laptop, the tablet, the phone, the router etc.
4 Yorkshiremen (from the Monty Python sketch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
Those are USB 3.0-based DisplayLink connectors.

Any supposed USB 2.0-based display connectors (I’ve never seen any, I’m just speculating) would have been some VNC-like contraption involving an emulated frame buffer on the host.