skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of fulfillment companies search their employees when they leave. Its only time I've seen metal detectors used when leaving a building.

On the corporate side, I am required to disclose all my financial dealings including non-public equity deals(stock options in startups I work at) to my wife's work. If I don't, she can get fired.
> "No Allocated Vacation"

Of course, they don't call it that, they call it "unlimited vacation."

And yes, it means exactly what you said, whatever name it goes by.
Sounds to me like the antitrust actions were effective.

The world would not be a better place if MS had overwhelming mobile market share or had won the browser wars.
That's horrendous.
Netflix's boss thinks users may add new streamers like Disney+ but won't cancel
What is an example of using volatile that the compiler can conclude is pointless?

I find it hard to imagine non-contrived examples, since the point of volatile is to tell the compiler "don't assume or optimize any access to this variable - entities unknown to you can read/write it at any moment".

If the compiler can't make such assumptions, how can it diagnose whether there's a point or not?
When you put electronics in microwaves sparks seem to come off fairly strait away - here are some guys doing a phone https://youtu.be/7aceV8URLjc?t=4

I'm not quite sure how the physics work but its not just heating
This looks absolutely beautiful (from a computer scientist, mathematician's and aestheticist's perspective)... Future typed programming languages should include this type!
The laggy tiles were much much better than Android at the time, which was complete garbage till v4 or so.
You're gonna have to learn it eventually to work with other code bases and so on. But the point was it doesn't change existing knowledge, just something new to learn.
Apple flagged OpenGL as deprecated in 10.14 so they have plans to drop it altogether.
As a resident, yes this is pretty much it.

For an American firm especially, it's just a odd little place with everything in a different language, it's just not worth the hassle for lawyers and risk, so they just skip it.
Aren't we all guilty of occasionally up-voting based on title only. Anyhow, OP: please fix, we'd like to see the idea.
I guess it didn't age well.
The risk at Costco isn’t them detaining or calling the police, the risk is revoking your membership.
Uhh, I have no clue. But I would assume that every major store that has cameras (all!) probably feed their video output to a ML classifier for facial recog and dwell times/locations in aisles. And if I were constructing such a system (I'M NOT!), I'd also tie it to the cash registers for complete path history and item purchase history, whether you use a 'shopper card' or not.

The only way I think you would have legal standing with a full shorud over your face is if you're a female Muslim adherent. In that case, I think you'd be defended by the 1st amendment protections. Then again, that also sounds like a 2-5 year legal battle assuming SCOTUS would even get involved. But you being in SF, the 9th circuit would likely go in favor of 1st amendment.

Long story short, our freedoms and relative anonymity are probably completely fucked. And those that demand privacy/anonymity are few and far enough between that we would be easily profiled in other ways.
Windows Phone and CE were very different experiences. I agree, CE was something of a dumpster fire.
> Q: I got an error: This browser is not supported or 3rd party cookies and data may be disabled.

> A: Enable 3rd party cookies.

Come on Google, why do you require third party cookies for a competition amongst the most privacy conscience people on the planet?
Just think of all the software infrastructure you rely on is probably running COBOL or very, very old tech, you really don't want those to be re-written today. Also, the industry (think CNC controllers) relies on tried and true interfaces that are just unavailable today (USB is utter rubbish in high electrical noise environment) and there is barely replacement either. Not to mention the cost of training blue-collars operators...

Real world is not the web cocoon, even there, switching front-end every 2 years is not acceptable.

disclamer: I know that for a fact as I'm in the process of replacing a CNC control system with modern parts, trust me it's HARD.
Maybe it would be better for him to amend to his comment that "further discussion on this comment has been moved to here:"
What's worse is they call it "open" vacation leave and sell it as a perk. Sometimes they even do this with paternal leave as well, selling it as a perk.

It really does show there is something sick in the culture when companies sell it and workers accept it.
Freezes in Firefox mobile on a LG G5.
ctftime lists writeups, but in general you can google "whatever ctf challenge name writeup"
> Why would it definitely not get published

Because the journal already made that decision, and that is their right.

> Then they have an obligation to at least facilitate peer-review

Reviewers work for free and are an extremely scarce commodity. Review of a work like this is effectively expending tens of thousands of dollars of people's time. It isn't something we can just indulge in for the fun of it.

Besides that, you might not appreciate exactly how much chaos would break out and how much it would undermine the academic publishing system if any paper rejected had to be reviewed just because the submitter demanded it. The system simply wouldn't work at all.

There are a lot of journals in the world and if the author's work is good, they should be able to get a different journal to publish it.
'[The 64DD's] total disk capacity is 64MBytes, enabling the creation of huge games not possible with just a ROM cartridge.'

Huge games!
I assume you're taking a dig at "unlimited vacation".

You should really redirect your anger at your company culture.

We have "unlimited vacation" where I work.

Even a couple years back when things were not looking good most people took about 4wk which in practice is more like 5wk if you utilize the days off we get before/after major holidays. It's common for the H1Bs to pick a random month and use that time to go home to visit family. I took 3wk or so and it came up in my performance review and I was encouraged to take more if I wanted to. It's not just my team that's like this either.

One of the many reasons I prefer to do tech somewhere other than the overpriced west coast meat grinders.
Nice, I use it mostly for finding river frontage in Maine that I can access for fishing. Maine also has a ton of land trusts and conservancies, so I will use it to map out their borders.

Hope you filled that tag!
You'd think that the "What is the Google CTF?" section would answer the question "What is the Google CFT?" rather than sending someone to another page.

All Google would have to do is move the sentence "they consist of a set of computer security puzzles (or challenges) involving reverse-engineering, memory corruption, cryptography, web technologies, and more" from the secondary page into the paragraph that's supposed to answer the question. It would actually be shorter.
Many companies have the same problems, not rewarding people who fix these type of security issues and look at security holistically, and instead the only path to success is to create new features
We're fixing the glitch
Is he a record-setting marathon runner, or a cheater?
it's also telling how Gates' phrasing implies a false dichotomy where there's Apple's platform plus room for only one other competitor. The only reason it's that way now is because of abuse of patent law and other anti-competitive business practices. We could just as easily live in a world where there are 6 proprietary mobile OS vendors plus several open source versions built on easily-interchangeable interfaces (thanks to FTC-mandate) all vying to be #1 among onsumers by offering the best UX and features. To me, his language indicates he can't even comprehend a world where MS has to compete on a level playing field by developing a superior technology that users prefer.
As long as there are no gaseous radioisotopes in amounts that matter.
I'm part of the breach. How is it not about me?
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It's not something I find appealing, personally. Then again I am a python guy, which is about as far from this as you can get.
Thanks!

Work on x64 generation started back in August. I'll publish it very soon. I haven't touched it in a while, and it simply doesn't compile at the moment.
what is most disturbing is how he is utterly certain that Microsoft deserved to have that market

Words you're putting in his mouth. He did not say anything about deserving or certainty; when he says "we did screw up" that's an acknowledgement they had to compete for it, and failed to do that. People who think they deserve things, don't think they have to work hard and compete for them, and they don't reflect on what they did wrong but instead get affronted that the universe didn't simply hand them what the still feel they deserve.
How does this relate to HP’s memristor ?
They are dropping 32-bit app support entirely.
It's essentially a targeted EMP[1]. Other similar systems using targeted microwaves to fry electronics have been developed[2] but this one seems to be relatively low tech in comparison due to much looser constraints on size.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Non-nucl...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electronics_High_Power...
You had to do `git pull` to fix the "V" V binary :) Forgot to mention that, sorry.

It's going to be much, much more stable in the coming days.
This is why I roll my eyes when I see resumes, especially from senior engineers who job hop every year or two. They may have never deployed their system or even they did, have enough support time to learn how supportable their system is, how their system performs, how modular it is when requirements change, etc. Resume looks great, though.
Bill always suffered from "NIH" (Not Invented Here) Syndrome.

Google took something that worked (Linux) and prettied up the User Interface. Apple had pretty much done the same sort of thing earlier with BSD UNIX and OSX. Bill was ideologically opposed to Linux right from the start because it was Open Source.

Consequently, Microsoft had to do 10 times the work to achieve success that Google needed to. Google was up and running while Microsoft was still struggling along to get things to work.

That's probably the main reason that Google dominates smartphones and Microsoft doesn't.
No, I'm not saying that at all. What I am saying is those managing Huawei do not care about updating OpenSSL or other dependencies. Its a corporate culture problem at Huawei IMO
In the 80s, people wanted a desktop with apps, and Microsoft solved for that by just letting everyone make any app they wanted and not playing gatekeeper.

An MS phone using that model would be interesting. No app store. Just go ahead and run any random app you find on the internet. Probably a security nightmare.

But MS used a similar strategy to challenge Apple once before and did really well, security issues notwithstanding. So I'm kind of surprised they didn't make the same play.
> ...you cannot expect developers to update their software for eternity for free

You already know why Apple doesn’t do long backwards compatibility. You were talking about developers of your apps, but Apple is a developer too, and faces the same kind of issues.

These days (unlike the old days) MacOS gets regular, free updates. There’s going to be a cost to that somewhere. Macs and iPhones are probably expensive enough as it is (those hardware sales are what’s paying for OS and platform development).
I guess THPMOR didn't quite roll off the tongue, but dropping the PM makes no sense whatsoever.
You're right of course. With Mel I know he's very forthright about his career in the NSA, so I figured it would be alright. I just confirmed with him too, just to make sure.
Hard to gauge. Air pollution has definitely been shown to blunt some benefits of exercise, but I don't think we're at a point where anyone is even close to having the numbers to sum up the overall effect.
In the process of deprecation they broke it, for old time's sake: https://twitter.com/icculus/status/1054634481812992000
I've filled out a few applications this year. I find a bit of irony in that they cannot ask you your age but require you fill in the dates and location of your education.

I never did any higher education but was in High School in the `70s. Hard to get around that one.
Yes, like https://vlang.io/compare says, V is somewhere in between Go and Rust.
And yet, housing prices in Montreal are much more affordable. And it has much better transportation options (separated bike lanes) despite significantly harsher winters. And Montreal is significantly happier [1] than Toronto or Vancouver. In other words, population growth (or money, or property values, whatever) isn't everything.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/a...
What in particular stops you from learning and fully exploiting the C programming language?
See Cisco's handling of their low-end routers as a great example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225

It is rotten corporate culture that is starving critical maintenance work at these companies, creating the internet of vulnerable shit.
The stated prize amount spells ELEET, so that might support your theory. Although it also supports the theory that there's no prize money whatsoever.

I'm getting all introspective and seriously struggling trying to figure out why I have such a viscerally negative reaction to this. Like not just bafflement or indifference or boredom, I actively hate it. Can't really explain it. But it's apparent that I'm not their target demographic.
Perhaps he means this: "The WebKit project was started within Apple by Don Melton on June 25, 2001"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

Amusingly, the Wikipedia article begins with the line "WebKit is a browser engine used in Apple's Safari browser and other products."

But the DDG preview starts with the line "WebKit is a browser engine used in Google's Chrome browser and other products."

I wonder if there's an edit war going on in that article.
As someone who owned a windows phone and switched to Android, the reason was simple - no apps. Everyone would advertise the latest thing as on iPhone and Droid, windows phone literally wasn't mentioned. I can't speak to the bigger picture but as far as I could see there was little reason to further spend money on a platform no one cared for.
That wasn't Gates, it was Steve Ballmer. In an interview a decade later after this one he acknowledged to an interviewer that it might have been a mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

One error Gates later admitted making was not buying Allaire Corp because he thought the price was too high. His own staff members argued with him on that one. But after Allaire was sold to Macromedia J.J. Allaire started the company Onfolio with some friends from Allaire. Gates insisted after launch that Ballmer purchase it, primarily to acquire the services of J.J. Allaire.

During his time at Microsoft he created Windows LiveWriter and I've been told also worked on the creation of Azure. He left Microsoft and founded RStudio.
In around 2012 we had a couple of smart phones at work for evaluation. The Windows phone made the most rounds because everyone was amazed at how bad it was. We would hand it to colleagues who hadn't seen it yet and watch them struggle and curse while trying to do even the most basic tasks. The platform was Windows 7, I think.
> However I recently started to repair random things, mostly those which have a reputation for being the building blocks of our welfare,

This is something I'd love to be good at. Any tips on where to start?
'Doom 3', 'Quake 4', 'Star Wars: Jedi Academy', 'Bioshock: Infinite'...this reads like a list of my favorite MacOS games. I know I won't be upgrading, between this and the way it will kill some of my favorite legacy audio plugins.
Ah, I actually followed that link trying to find out. All i see on my browser is a bit of text with a big blue button that says "will you capture the flag?", which isn't really helpful, which takes me back to...the original website.

Now on the one hand I'd say, ok, its not google's responsibility to try to have websites/non-standard browser configs set ups actually work with their web pages...

On the other hand, I'm sure the kind of security people google is looking for all surf the web with standard browser configs and permissions enabled...

And as the other commenter has pointed out, I know its radical of me, but I would have thought the "What is the google CTF" section should contain text which answers "What is the google CTF".
Video: CO2 processing cost: "$94-232 per ton".

"According to <i>The Economist</i>, a single round trip flight from New York to San Fransisco produces two to three tons of carbon dioxide per person; an American who takes no flights emits roughly 19 tons of carbon in a year." - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jp54zb/nasa-wants-to-fly-...

"On average, one acre of new forest can sequester about 2.5 tons of carbon annually." - http://urbanforestrynetwork.org/benefits/air%20quality.htm
If good crypto really boils down to math, and therefore either everyone can be secure or noone, then I'd rather everyone be secure. There are more ways to stop terrorists than wanton collection of communication.
It depends on which radioactive material.

TFA is about Cs-137, which melts at 28.5 °C, and boils at 671 °C. So filters should capture it, as long as the flue gas is cooled first. I-125 boils at 184.3 °C, so more will go through particle filters. But activated charcoal will absorb it.
We need a cultural shift, security should not be a whimsical dream. A company running vulnerable websites should be culpable for their neglect, and likely shouldn't be administering their own IT affairs if they are repeatedly negligent.

This is an anti-China move, but we do know Huawei builds vulnerable LTE basestations and products, and refuses to do the bare minimum to secure them, despite promising $20 billion in investment in software security (see the article I linked to earlier).
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and yeah, you should be suspicious of doing anything that you don't understand. this is all knowledge work, and there's some implicit notion that when you make a decision you have some level of understanding. the bigger the potential impact, the more understanding you should have.
The description of the scheduler[1] explains why:

“The RSP executes both graphics and audio processes. A graphics process sometimes extends over one frame, but an audio process must be provided in each frame to prevent inappropriate pausing. Therefore, in each frame, if the graphics task is executing, the Scheduler suspends it and saves the task state. Then it starts the audio task executing and prepares the RSP for the restart of the graphics task execution when the audio task finishes.”

[1] http://n64.icequake.net/doc/n64intro/kantan/step2/1-7.html
Early devices (Windows Phone 7) were CE and .NET Compact based, but Windows Phone 8 was NT based and used an early form of CoreCLR (and WinRT)
> The stated prize amount spells ELEET, so that might support your theory. Although it also supports the theory that there's no prize money whatsoever.

Prize amounts for CTFs are frequently variations of “leet”; I see nothing strange with this.
Nah. You could just define an inline function that'd do volatile read or write of a particular type. You don't have to hit assembly all the time.
There is a fundamental difference between anti-vaxxers and the Falun Dafa (Falun Gong is the same thing, I'm referring to it as Falun Dafa because that't their preferred name). The Falun Dafa take active steps to avoid needing Western medicine (you aren't as likely to go into depression if you exercise and do stuff every day, and thus not need anti-depressants) whilst most anti-vaxxers are only united in not giving their children Western medicine. It's one thing to say "I don't like that option, so I won't take it", and another to say "I don't like that option, so I'll do something else".

Do I agree with all of Falun Dafa's beliefs? No, I do not.

Should they be chopped up and their organs harvested? NO.
Shielding costs money and will not be implemented on consumer drones. That means the cheapest/simplest options for would-be bad guys can be stopped by it. Also, if you shield a GPS antenna your simplest means of navigation won't work.
What, precisely, do you find unappealing? Is it unappealing to have to write so little code to accomplish the task? Is it aesthetically unappealing to you? How much of that comes from it looking unfamiliar? If you spent a few days working with code like this, would it seem less strange? A month?
Small nitpick: dual core devices were most certainly WP8 devices, since WP7 did not support multicore devices
Interesting to contrast this with the current HN article link to the Washingtonian about Amazon choosing Virginia for the HQ2 location. That article references Moretti’s “The New Geography of Jobs” - companies now seek human capital rather than accumulating physical capital.
Only because the nation states force this on the corporations. Do you really think the corporation would let you choose anything if they were let unchecked?

You'd have to pick your allegiance and then face the consequences. Or they'd pick you before you had a chance to choose yourself. Do you think the lords of old let the serfs have a say in whether they wanted to leave or stay? No. It would be the same for us. Going to digital lords and barons and no states to rein them in would be regressing.
> lots of really difficult to understand views that are self-joining (on JSON fields no less!)

HOLY TAMOLE! You might have my story beat there. That's one level I didn't have to deal with. My sympathies!
Back in the 90's, I thought about small computers, maybe even handhelds. But I never connected that thought with a phone.

It just seems so thunderingly obvious today.

Makes me wonder what connection I'm not making today.

It's like when Henry Ford said if he'd asked what people wanted, they'd want "a faster horse". We're all constrained by what we're used to thinking about, and simply improving what we're already used to.
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18701267/us-air-force-tho..., which points to, and quotes from, this.
Scarily, much of the regions marked in that map as suitable for food-growing is mountainous or tundra. I wouldn’t be optimistic about its fertility and suitability for agriculture – even with optimal climatic conditions.
This is utterly brilliant! (The generalized pattern is that you have two devices, one which trades off feature X for feature Y, the other which trades off feature Y for feature X... now find (or create!) the currently non-existent device in the middle of the spectra, which balances features X and Y...) This article makes a LOT of sense if you understand how DRAM and FLASH implement memory, but with different underlying phenomena of physics -- well this could be looked at as a quest to find a harmonious point between both sets of different physical phenomena (using both, or some third derived law for the end product)... I wish you a lot of luck in that quest!
I think successfully doing this could be a good way, but I don’t think just carrying the pager would teach you much. I think unless you are able to understand and debug the system and handle alerts effectively, this experience would just leave you frustrated.