skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had twice-daily reboots for anyone in our marketing department that worked with Photoshop or Quark. After upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000, all the problems were solved and I looked like a hero.
Voting Is Essential. It Is Also Overrated
You're not wrong that congress should fix things too. But I don't think they're trying to redefine the word.

From the impression I got (and I only read the outline of the decision), the most important part seems to be:

> A statutory violation occurs if an employer intentionally relies in part on an individual employee’s sex when deciding to discharge the employee. Because discrimination on the basis of homosexuality or transgender status requires an employer to intentionally treat individual employees differently because of their sex, an employer who intentionally penalizes an employee for being homosexual or transgender also violates Title VII.

I feel like that's more an interpretation of the law than redefinition of it
As another commenter suggested, it's common for projectors to have a movable/adjustable lens (also called lens shift) to move the projected image without altering focus too much.

There are also ultra short throw projectors that can be mounted a few feet away from their target, designed for classrooms. They probably don't have the blackest black levels though.
Strip QI as well as increase criminal prosecution- both, at minimum
Yup, the advent of Flash animations was the one time that almost all of my friends and I were able to produce _some_ kind of animation. We all had silly little things we put on Newgrounds, when none of us (well, except me) had any prior animation experience. It was a pretty empowering experience and I remember the relative ease with which we could produce some pretty nice-looking stuff. Of course, that's about all I miss about Flash, but it was a really great time while it lasted. :)
> I have to admit that I am not sure what ICE is doing wrong

ICE is pretty bad at following US law and pretty good at being cruel to everyone in their path

- ICE routinely detains and deports citizens and legal residents (guess their skin color) [1]

- ICE routinely abuses those placed in their care and doesn't punish known abusers [2] [3] [4] [7]

- ICE is happy to hurt its law enforcement practices to round up more immigrants [5]

- under Obama ICE was actively ignoring court orders [6] this is much worse under Trump

- ICE asylum officers (i.e. lawyers and experts) have reported extensive cruel and illegal practices [8]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/10/11/adelanto-ice-detention-c...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/sexual-assault-ice-det...

[4] https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/im...

[5] https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-hsi-letter-kirstjen-nielse...

[6] https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-p...

[7] https://www.aclusandiego.org/cbp-child-abuse-foia/

[8] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-15/asylum-off...
And Hertz of all companies. My experiences with them have been uniformly awful; they always try to charge me for insurance or services which I explicitly decline, and their customer support is openly hostile. I'm sure they were a competent company at one point in time, but betting your life savings on a company that is apparently surviving on fraud is bold.
Note that just because you cannot manage a lot of jars through guix you can still maintain a java project that includes steps to build its source outside of guix.

Also for clojure heads the Nonguix[1] repository includes a leiningen package.

I think as time goes on and guix matures we will start to see more third party repositories that provide convenient builds of things. For instance I run guix system on a 2015 Chromebook Pixel and to do that I used the installation image provided at Nonguix to make sure I had all of the nonfree drivers I needed.

[1] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
> They can't seize fiat if they don't know where I buried it either. Bitcoin is no more secure than that.

They don't need to seize fiat because they can just print it. They can't print Bitcoin.

And you are right in regards to users being the weak point. Anybody who genuinely cares for the security of their money will use a brain wallet, or at least a 24-word seed phrase coupled with a brain-passphrase.

The latter technique can be used to create "decoys". You can use the same 24-word seed with multiple passphrases, with each being a distinct wallet. If you keep a small amount in the wallet with no passphrase, it may appear to anybody who seizes your 24-words that you only have a small amount of money - but unless they can torture all of your passphrases out of you, they will not necessarily be able to seize all of your money. And since they cannot know how many copies of your 24-word phrase you have made, they cannot know for sure that seizing the copies they find will prevent you from accessing your coins.
Nice as an exercise in Pandas and the whole Python data analysis tool chain, the graphics are awesome. As an exercise on football analysis is pretty useless and feeble, and even worst, judging by the author's name (most probably Brazilian or Portuguese) it led his dislike of Argentina to cloud his judgement.

You can perorate all you want about possession and passes completion but if I am a manager and you offer me a first half (who according the author was a Germany slaughter fest) as the Argentinians had it, I will take it every single time. Absent from the analysis are also the clear cut chances of Higuain and Messi (far better from anything than Germany had, despite all the possession) and the controversial disputed ball between Neuer and Higuain. Anyway, it was nice to see the exercise.
Playing the Market Has a Whole New Meaning
Is there a typo in the title? Right now it says "Intial Bankruptcy Offering", but should it say "Initial Bankruptcy Offering"?
Let's not get carried away - that's for earthquake / nuclear shockwave protection, not information security.
That was a big deal at the time, but Flash was on the decline well before then and it was obvious where things were headed. You could technically run Flash on early Android phones, but it was horribly slow and barely functional. Too processor intensive, too hard to make responsive content, and that's on top of all the security and other concerns. Flash was never going to survive the shift to mobile.

Apple made a similar decision in the late 90s when they didn't ship a floppy drive in the iMac. Perhaps they hastened its demise, but not by much.
It's sad that they got rid of it in windows 8 and later.

>the classic theme was a lot leaner on system resources

maybe, but it probably also made things run slower because it forces everything to be done in software rather than hardware.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130327-00/?p=48...

>Starting in Windows Vista, a lot of visual effects were offloaded to the graphics card. Consequently, the impact on system performance for those visual effects is negligible, and sometimes turning off the effect actually makes your system run slower because you disabled hardware acceleration, forcing operations to be performed in software.
Recommended for admin systems class, ended up using it as personal OS for much longer. It was a beast of stability! (Although win98 rev2 was a quite good ironed out OS before win2000 and with less requirements, given you didn’t install/uninstall a lot of apps, prob windows registry messing up)
Supreme Court Strikes Down LGBT Discrimination in the Workplace
Even that weaker proposal can't pass until after the election: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-scott-police-reform-bill-qu...
This, the Hertz management know there's a huge disparity of knowledge/wisdom in the market and taking full advantage. SEC filings/proceedings as the regulation dictates (though it can seem tongue in cheek in the specific language), but on the other end are all the Robinhood accounts ready to 'invest' from the convenience of their respective mobile phones, enabled by a ridiculously low number of clicks/taps to open an account.
I'm not sure if the courts will see it this way. Anyway, in some fields some stuff (e.g. credit scoring in banka in my country) is regulated and it's the humans who have to make the final decisions - algoriths can only provide an input. In practice, the input is "approve/deny", but it's still a human who is making a "decision" based on this "input".
I think this enchanted land ("many developers couldn't find fault with OS X and Mac hardware.") isn't grounded in reality. I only started using Macs around 1999 (though I had an Apple IIc prior.

Apple hardware has always had bugs, flaws, and failures. I had a Mac Pro G5 that leaked (it was liquid cooled). I had the first Intel Mac Pro, and the GPU died several times (and was like $700?). Luckily it was covered under warranty.

Laptop batteries bulged, screens delaminated, cases displayed wear because wrists get sweaty. iTunes on Windows sucked. And obviously keyboards butterflied.

Software has been up and down, sometimes secure, sometimes not. Sometimes fast, sometimes buggy.

But the reason the Mac came back was because despite these perennial flaws and issues, it was WORLDs better than the alternative.
This seems empirically false as for example Bitcoin Cash is gaining more applications and usage compared to Bitcoin to a larger degree than it's 3% hashrate would suggest.

There have even been reorg attempts that have been defended by miners that support the minority chain, making it a bit more difficult to determine how secure a chain really is.
Do we have same time period in mind?

2006-2009: Gnash, hardly anything works, 2010: Youtube introduced html5 video
Based loosely on 1.2 million wheelchair users in the UK for a population of 50 million it's in the right ballpark.

Honestly, I think the claim that the free market would solve this is so outlandish that the burden of proof is on those who believe it.

Maybe, just maybe, in a dense population centre like London their needs would be met by a few specialist 'accessable' stores. But what about some rural town of a few thousand people?
If the topic sounds interesting it‘s not click bait, it’s a good link that OP went of their way to share, we’re not entitled to anything
Regardless of whether you are technically correct in referring to ICE as running concentration camps (IMO you are grossly mistaken), statements like these simply act to shut down debate on a topic and suck the air out of the conversation. They should be avoided entirely, and flagged when they occur.

I've made a similar mistaken before, and been called out on it.
The science doesn't add up here. There are dozens of fluffy "this-will-save-the-world" articles without any substance which eventually led me to a single website that claims to represent a team working on that technology. That site seems to be seeking investors.

Without a miraculous scientific breakthrough the math doesn't add up. We don't know of any way to capture neutrons in a way that would provide meaningful power. For those reasons, I'll suggest this is more likely a scam than a sincere or realistic effort.
> Actually it's pretty easy to generate intense neutrino beams. You just have to accelerate protons and smash them into a lead wall. This produces all kinds of particles, including for instance muons. Since muons are charged, you can filter and focus them into a beam using magnets, and then they rapidly decay in flight, producing a beam of neutrinos going in the same direction.

That's pretty fascinating. When the protons hit the lead wall, are there any other "messy" particles created that are problematic? Filtering and focusing the muons might be relatively easy to handle, but what about the other kinds of particles that will be created?
Yes, here's the official word on this, under "Can I use Plotly for Python offline, without being connected to the internet?" https://plotly.com/python/is-plotly-free/
A nit to pick - MSRPC came from Apollo RPC, but SMB came from IBM: http://ubiqx.org/cifs/SMB.html
Yes, they forgot to mention the fantastic, intuitive, and functional GUI rivaled by Mac OS 9, Nextstep, OS/2, BeOS etc. This era was the pinnacle.

While we've been thrown a few bones like start menu search, most of the gratuitous changes have been for the worse. Sleeker but harder to use for professionals. Gnome 2 was approaching Win2k but then made a hard turn into tablet/novice land. XFCE is in the neighborhood but never got to the level of Win2k.

I didn't care for skinz in the 90's and instead of going away, every app now is a unpredictable skinned mess.
Yes but it is a complete server, not useful for a custom build. But otherwise, yes I agree, have an old trusty n54l myself. If I found a case in similar form factor I might upgrade though.
I studied thousands of logos. Here’s where branding is headed next
I don't think chess grandmasters should be necessarily named differently, though having a gender-neutral term would be better.
Not sure about the master used in the music industry.

Do you know where 'master' originates from in the context of Git?
Newgrounds has done a lot of work on preserving old Flash content. Some standouts are their own Flash player and an SWF to MP4 converter, but what I find most interesting is Ruffle.

Ruffle is a Flash emulator written in Rust that can be used as a browser extension, a desktop client, or a website polyfill. It's still a work in progress, but eventually websites with heavy use of Flash content (like many late-2000s webcomics, or even Newgrounds itself) could use the polyfill to replace Flash content with WASM blobs.

The roadmap was updated recently, and provides a good overview of Ruffle's current capabilities. There's also a demo instance that can run arbitary SWFs, with a few examples available.

https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player

https://github.com/Herschel/Swivel

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

Roadmap: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Roadmap

Demo: http://ruffle-rs.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/builds/w...
Sounds like the content the couple published about eBay really struck a nerve. I would like to see that content gain more widespread attention as a result, since it may be something worth looking into more closely.

Does anyone have original sources of the content? If it was linked in the article I missed it.

EDIT: another commentor posted a link to their website, but there are many articles involving eBay. Makes me wonder which ones specifically caused the most friction?

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/
Exactly. One of my annoyances with Microsoft's post-Windows 2000 design philosophy is its penchant for consuming large amounts of vertical space. This started with the large title bars used in the Windows XP Luna theme. I wasn't impressed with this "Fischer-Price" theme and always switched to the Windows Classic theme, which I continued to do even during the Windows 7 days. Next, Microsoft introduced the ribbon in Office 2007. I've since gotten used to the ribbon (which has spread to Mac versions of Office, albeit with traditional menus still existing), but I still prefer toolbars and traditional menus. Finally, Windows 10's interface is just gaudy to me, with its oversized title bars and its liberal use of whitespace. It's acceptable on a high-resolution display, but on a 1366x768 display (common on corporate laptops) Windows 10 just looks downright ugly to me.

I find it interesting that during the past 15 years the industry has switched away from 4:3 displays to 16:9 displays (which seem to provide more horizontal space at the expense of vertical space), yet Microsoft's designs seem to consume more vertical space as opposed to horizontal space. Instead of ribbons, I prefer the horizontal inspectors that are found in macOS applications.

On Hacker News I'm seeing more interest lately in the desktop UIs from the 1990s and 2000s. For example, the latest beta release of Haiku, an operating system inspired by BeOS, garnered a lot of attention. What I like about Windows 2000, macOS (both the classic Mac OS and Mac OS X), BeOS, GNOME 2, and other classic desktops is their utilitarian focus on design, where form and function are intertwined. UI design isn't about "the bling"; it's about providing a good experience to the user. Mac OS X's Aqua interface did a good job providing a compelling interface to users that was also beautiful. Unfortunately, some people only saw the "bling" and not the functionality behind the Aqua theming, and thus we've been suffering from fashion-driven UIs for nearly 20 years, a trend that has been made worse by the advent of mobile computing. Hopefully the pendulum will swing back to how things were in the 1990s; we can learn a lot from the human interface guidelines Microsoft and Apple published in that era.
The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds
@9214 pointed you to Linux GTK builds of Red. My example was tested in macOS so haven't tried it on Linux but you'll need GTK & 32bit compatibility libraries installed for it to work.

Rebol/View as always worked on Linux though you will also need 32bit compat + Freetype libraries - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34524169/rebol-2-stopped...

And there's a 64-bit Rebol 3 with R3-GUI from Atronix, which should only need Freetype library installed - https://www.atronixengineering.com/downloads

The VID has changed a little bit over time. Here's the example in Rebol2 View...

Rebol []

view layout compose [
across
text (rejoin [{The sum of } figs: [1 2 3 4] { is: }])
answer: text {......}
return
button "Push me to calculate" 200x20 [
answer/text: to-string sum figs
show answer
]
]

And here it is in Rebol 3 / R3-GUI...

load-gui

view compose [
hgroup [
text (rejoin [{The sum of } figs: [1 2 3 4] { is: }])
answer: text {......}
return
button "Push me to calculate" on-click [
set-face answer to-string sum figs
]
]
]

Both scripts above worked fine on my Ubuntu 18 Linux.

NB. Rebol doesn't come with a SUM function so here's one defined...

sum: func [s /local total] [
total: 0
forall s [total: total + s/1]
total
]
how did you get the job without really knowing how you were going to fulfill the requirements?
The market structure is pretty different. Restaurants have geographic barriers to entry - your restaurant is probably only serving customers within a ~20 mile radius. And the economics and business model are well-known: you know exactly how much rent is going to cost, how much labor is going to cost, how much food is going to cost, and how many tables you can turn over a night, and so you can build reasonable financial models for how much you might make.

Software is global, and is fundamentally an innovation business. Once you've written a piece of software that does something useful, you can sell additional copies at zero marginal cost. This tends to make software into a winner-take-all market: there is realistically only one Google, only one Facebook, only one Salesforce, one Amazon, etc. If you try to get into a known market, you are almost certain to fail, because you have to pay all the R&D costs that your competitor has already paid and they can just sell to the customers you would otherwise have gotten at close to zero cost. That means that successful software businesses are almost always doing something fundamentally new - either selling into a new market, or selling a new and different product into an existing market that has changed in some way. Banks are really bad at forecasting the success of new business models that have no financial data to go on - their whole core competency is evaluating financials, so if a company has no revenue but lots of expenses and an uncertain prospect of ever making money, it looks like a universally bad bet for a bank loan. The venture capital industry is all based around answering "How do we finance businesses where success is binary and information about whether the company will be successful is scarce?"
>Is the US the only country on _earth_ where the media is so hellbent on propaganda for opening the borders?

Canada is on-par or perhaps worse. France feels pretty similar.

From my observations, this happens in countries with high immigrant populations and an absent shared identity.
Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks so much for sharing!
> I'm still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP, it looked like a toy for toddlers

Agreed, yet somehow its Start menu is still better than what you get on Windows 10 these days: https://i.stack.imgur.com/rwZqf.jpg

> ...installing the Zune theme was the first thing I did after a fresh install to try and tone it down.

Everyone knows the best XP theme was Royale Noir! https://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/
We still don’t have an easy way to make Flash-like games that work in the browser across platform.

Shame on Adobe for killing all Macromedia products. Fireworks, Macromedia, and Flash.
I don’t think Musescore falls in the “move fast” category at all. They were simply naive (and underestimating how much pop music would be transcribed and uploaded). In any case, I found their communication very clear.
Mmmm, alternative: GitLab.com?

https://about.gitlab.com/company/
Not to mention Trustwave, which requires a Flash plugin to load their PCI compliance interface. The irony is deafening.
> There was nothing in the justice department ruling

Between that and the EU ruling that forced them to implement the somewhat-silly browser-choice system, it was a "hostile environment" where the political message was fairly clear. Combined with a situation where IE was effectively dominant, it sapped any appetite to take it forward or take risks with it.

> Is [the console market] even as profitable as the AirPods now?

That is not the point, the point is that they pivoted just fine when they wanted to. They even had something genuinely novel with the gesture-tracking system. And how could they not? Windows and Office are a license to print money, even today.

> Failing at the Newton didn’t exactly hurt Apple

That was 1 device. Microsoft and their partners tried tons of different iterations of formats, some that didn't even exist at the time (kindles, book-like, palm-like - I had an HP that, without a stylus, looks now like a thick iPhone, but was produced in 2003)... but screen tech and cellular bandwidth simply were not good enough at the time.

I'm not talking of exhaustion because of financial losses (Microsoft was printing money, they could have done the same 10 times over), but of a shared weariness for the effort. At one point they basically gave up. I believe the famous Ballmer snark on the iPhone announcement was sincere, in the typically-disdainous way of his: Ballmer thought he had seen it all and this was just one more, nothing to write home about. They had failed so many times in the space that they had lost faith in the possibility of success.
The scope of the law is probably commensurate the scope of the employment policy in question — i.e. for a nationwide company, the scope might be applied nationally. For a local mom-and-pop shop, it might apply locally.

All that being said, I'm pretty sure there is no locality on the planet where half the population is LGBTQ (not sure where you found that Palm Springs claim). As of 2015, the metropolitan area with the highest rate of LGBTQ residents was San Francisco, at 6.2% [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/upshot/the-metro-areas-wi...
Completely agree! Qualified Immunity only frustrates civil suits and does not impact criminal prosecutions, and IMO it is more important that cops who break the law or take away rights be criminally prosecuted for it. Ending Qualified Immunity only unlocks what should be a last resort for accountability; the larger problems is that cops don't generally face criminal charges or convictions when they violate the law or others' rights.