skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hardware is ostensibly supported, but I often have to killall pulseaudio or restart the machine to get audio playing on Flash in Chrome.

Part of my point, though, is it's not a question of the competence of free software developers.

It's a question of the capacity of free software developers in the long-standing market / legal ecosystem to deliver a reliable solution at all. The roadblock may be entirely structural and completely unfair; doesn't matter. As the end-user (speaking with the Queen's "end-user"), we don't care why it doesn't work; we care that if we buy this computer / OS it works, and if we install that OS on that computer it doesn't. So of course we buy this computer / OS; we have work to do, and "Make the ecosystem fair for hackers to implement a working and reliable pulseaudio" isn't that work.

Knuth, when faced with a world where he didn't have a typesetting solution to print his book, wrote TeX. Most people just put up with the crappy existing solution, because their goal is to write a book.
Also note that atlasobscura is a site which tries hard to make a content which is dangerously close to the blogspam (the supposed topic of the site is still according to their about page "the definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places" and according to their tags "Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.") and that user rshrsh only exists here to post the links to the atlasobscura articles.

And privong notes here: "the mentions of Pao seemed very out of place" and 300bps also explains: "The Art of Blogspam: Put sort-of related recent news item in first paragraph to seem timely." I think the conclusion is obvious.
Street Burban – At It Again – NEW 2015
Ellen Pao was one of the examples. There are many other examples mentioned which the author uses to support their argument which is not whether Ellen Pao quit to pursue other interests but

Everyone should quit something that really matters to them, at
least once. We all need to feel what it’s like on the other side
of a big success story. Only then will we all understand that
quitting isn’t "giving up," but setting the stage for something
else.
Since there IS water on Mars, then it's a lot more likely those future textbooks will be written there.

Edit: corrections.
I'll be back with a "Show HN" once I get the beta running. I took several months last year to work on it full-time and got an alpha version working, which taught me a ton of things I didn't know I didn't know about the problem I'm tackling. Now, I'm working on a beta based on lessons learned from the alpha.

The product is a way to answer the simple yet awful question, "What changed?" Configuration change is the primary cause of failure in complex software systems. But the part that breaks isn't necessarily the part that changes. For example, a database schema change can break apps that rely on the database. But in large organizations, where the database is administrated by an entirely different team from app development and developers may not even be allowed to look at the production environment, it's a huge pain point.

Detecting configuration change and finding the relationships and impact is a really difficult and challenging problem. The biggest takeaway from the alpha for me was that "noise shaping" is a hard problem. For example, Wordpress alters the schema of its MySQL database several times a day. It's a tiny thing (an autoincrement value on a single column), but it makes sorting important changes like upgrades that only happen weekly or monthly or yearly from unimportant changes that happen daily.

The trick now is to get a product out of it good enough to make money, so I can afford to quit dayjobbing and live off my own creation, rather than sitting at someone else's desk and counting the number of times a day I wish I had my own product here to help solve the problems I deal with over and over, every damned day.
If you're going to cheat, expect to be caught. If your search for sex involves putting any personal information online, definitely expect to be caught. If you don't want to be caught, be careful, use pseudonyms, and protect yourself from tracking.

Or just ask for a divorce.
What a blow for this company. What is the more ethical decision for a company in an ethically questionable business: shutting down the site and letting the hackers have their way, or allowing the hackers to release tons of private data?

I feel a class action law suit on its way...
> In Icelandic, [..] a microscope a small-watcher.

So, just like English, then?
https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/623095490226159616
5 Incredibly Random London Pubs You Must Try This Summer
And the linked article isn't paywalled.
clang 3.7 has a warning when std::move prevents it from using return value optimization:

foo.cpp:44:25: error: moving a temporary object prevents copy elision [-Werror,-Wpessimizing-move]
auto result = std::move(worker.run());

foo.cpp:44:25: note: remove std::move call here
auto result = std::move(worker.run());
The business model sounds deeply flawed. The fact that they've been burning cash like crazy (like building a fancy HQ before even getting any revenue) isn't a great sign. I wish them luck but things are going to get real ugly real quick if they don't figure this thing out fast.
Windows 10 and the plan that may affect your business
Take a look at Elm packages. Solves all the issues with current semvar without inventing a new solution.
The only fallacy here is the idea that workers always make rational choices. While some workers may be willing to work for less than the cost of staying alive -- or otherwise compromise on their needs (not wants) -- in order to compete for jobs, we (as a society) should not allow them to work for that rate because it creates downward pressure on wages (forcing more rational workers to compete at an unsustainable price), and otherwise undermines the stability of the economy.

This trope about the evils of regulation ignores that it is possible for the market equilibrium to exist below the cost of survival. Modern society has acknowledged that "survival" includes a number of things that haven't traditionally been included like healthcare, retirement, and more. Wages don't scale on a continuum, and there is a floor beneath which a worker cannot survive in a given economy. When these benefits aren't provided by an employer, they end up being subsidized by the government (particularly in the US).

It is reasonable, as a society, to require that the businesses that participate (and benefit) in our economy uphold a minimum level of compensation for their employees in order to increase social stability and reduce overall reliance on government support.
Would it be better if the extortion were in Euros or Yen?
>“(overconfidence)is built so deeply into the structure of the mind that you couldn’t change it without changing many other things”.

Based on his book and other books similar I think he is referring to people using incomplete data to prove a fact and have absolute confidence in it despite a cognitive bias being at play. Just think about all the political issues we are so aure about or the anecdotal evidence we trusted about a new feature or the results of a split test.

There is a case study with horse handicappers in "the psychology of intelligence analysis" that shows the accuracy of handicapper predictions were the same whether they had 5 data points or 40...but when they had 40 their confidence in their predictions skyrocketed.

He is warning us to second guess those facts (not self esteem related) that we feel so confident in...
I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much
I like this analysis.

And if you're clever, you can place your campaigns so that you minimize exposure to fraud, such that you pay for X and get X, while at the same time your banner ads are cheap because the market in general is wary of fraud.

Of course, this lunch isn't totally free in that it costs time and money to avoid fraudulent placements and sites known to have low bot rates have ad space that trades at higher CPMs.
Right, and this is precisely what entrepreneurship means in the general case.

Doing a 'startup' is a different thing entirely, and has a far more bimodal outcome curve than what you or I describe.

I think language is helpful, especially because younger HN readers may not know to distinguish the two, and think that advice or statistics about entrepreneurs applies to them when they are aiming at a fast-growth startup.
Silicon Valley white-Asian divide: Why families self-segregate; how to fix it
Yeah, right. Like a normal person will pay that much for a lamp.
Actually, I have noticed that this story has mostly been picked up by people like you, who want to rant about how terrible and wrong it is. We get it.
Who would be so stupid to try and extort people using those currencies?
Is it just me, or does this completely fail to mention the amount of lumens it produces, the wattage of the lamp, or the incandescent-equivalent rating? Basically, all the fundamental parameters you'd normally expect when buying a lamp aren't there.
Sounds like a "specification bug" that RVO is not allowed when std::move is used. Or is there a deeper reason for this?
> Do you think the rest of the Eurozone would be better of without the Euro?

No, rest of the countries would be better without being at the expenses of what is good just for Germany
That Time the Internet Sent a SWAT Team to My Mom’s House
Hire assassins to kill the hackers.
Well built does not mean "not underpowered". It means it will last long and has higher quality components.
Y Milner, S Hawking $100M Breakthrough Initiative to Search for Intelligent Life
It seems like a recurring theme in these types of posts is that people leave high-paying jobs and that we should applaud them for "giving up" their salaries to do what makes them happy.

Not that this is a bad thing (I applaud anyone who does something difficult in the pursuit of long-term happiness), but the fact that many people enter into unfulfilling job situations because they're drawn to the high profile and/or salary probably plays a large part in why they feel unfulfilled after working there for a while.
I don't like the conflating of implementations and languages, since it removes legitimacy of the alternate implementations. Please specify the runtimes.

> Whenever an object’s reference count reaches zero, Python immediately frees it, returning its memory to the operating system

CPython has its own allocator that steals memory into locally owned pools, so freeing memory won't normally actually free the memory. Plus, there's no guarantee the OS would get it back anyway.
The 2013 ones work if you go hack the VSIX. It's just a version change in the manifest.
And that's how you end up with Java...
How can it be illegal to see the evidence for a crime?

Should we just trust the government to prosecute who they say committed a crime when you and I cannot verify that the government is in the right in arresting that person?

How do we know a crime was committed if it's illegal to examine the evidence?

Would you like to be accused of a crime where no one can examine the evidence and help prove you innocent? Should your whole family just trust that the government isn't lying while the judge assures people he's seen the evidence and it's true you're a criminal, but no one else can see it?

Governments love this stuff.
Extortion predates Bitcoin
I always understood it as intentional on Mel's part.
I've been using tenreads on the web for almost 6 months now - great way to get my morning news fix. Only complaint is sometimes the articles don't pick up the best cover image... Hope it's fixed with the iOS update.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three do!
Speak like a human: 12 ways tech companies can write less-corporate blog posts
How do you speak American? Mostly, just make up words
Though in this case, it's a crazy performance hack from Vyacheslav Egorov. Check out the graph: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/934293/6550014/d3...
UK’s Cameron unveils anti-extremism plan, urges Internet firms to help
"Eight LEDs provide 587lx of warm, white light for 37 years"

But that's the only reference on the page.
Well, the tall one will go well with an Eames chair [0]. Point being there is a niche market for practical lifestyle product which may go against conventional wisdom.

[0] http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/lounge-seating/...
Well to start with, the Italian mafia and the Yakuza, respectively.
I feel another rant about terrible marketing practices coming on after a minute on that site. No, I don't want to sign up for yet another email list for a site that I've read zero content on so far. No, I don't want to like you on FaceTwitInstaLinked yet. Let me read a few things in peace, and maybe if they're good, I'll like your stuff then. You're already starting off in a bad hole asking me for that stuff in a way that interrupts what I'm trying to do before I've read one word of your content.
There is a third option which is don't cheat.

I've never done it but my last long term relationship ended with her doing it, things hadn't been good for a while.

Ironically a year out I think her cheating made things easier for me (knowing there was zero way back makes a clean break simpler).

I'd never cheat on anyone, I'd end things first no matter the circumstances.
Apropos of nothing, Muji's USB desktop fan has contra-rotating blades and is amazingly quiet for the amount of air it can shift.
John Carmack is a really great guy. He's been supportive of hacking and opensource from the start seems like. I suspect that iD's support for modification of its games is in big part his initiative.
Yeah, it's getting hard to find a fan that I can run at night to cover the noise of the city. Every time I buy a fan, it's quieter and quieter, but I like loud fans to help me sleep.
Or, perhaps planets able to support civilization are relatively rare, and the few civilizations dumb enough to loudly broadcast their presence soon get exterminated when their planets are colonized.
Didn't the story go that Paul Allen wrote a loader for Altair Basic this way on pen and paper on an airplane?
the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to take down ALM’s intellectual property.

I don't think the CEO understands how extortion works on the internet. If anything, their failure to protect it's users will result in a lot of divorces and sad kids. Even people who probably signed up out of curiosity is going to have a tough time explaining it to their spouses. The only option here is to shut down AM, but that seems unlikely given their history.

CEO thinks it's an inside job boy we've heard this line over and over after a massive leak. Hacking Team used it. Sony used it. It's not even taken seriously anymore. If a former employer is being scapegoated, he's about to make serious bank by suing his employer. There's no way to prove or even attempting to question him would immediately be liable for defamation.

If it is true that "powerful and rich people" are now going to have to divorce, give up have of their wealth to their spouse, I think ALM has bigger things to worry about in the form of class action lawsuits. The only outcome that makes sense is for AM to shut down.
When You Need a Website
> I think sites like this are despicable and people using them should expect that a site that caters to helping you "get away with things" is not a trustworthy place to do business.

How do you feel about a site such as https://www.unblock-us.com/ ?
Control and manage Android devices from your browser
Punch holes in the blades with a drill.

That and (perhaps) making the pattern asymmetric should restore the noise.
My failing meatware recollection said 2001-ish, maybe earlier, but it seems I'm wrong according to this:

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/SAX.htm

>"SAX was invented by Eamonn Keogh and Jessica Lin in 2002, using funding from NSF Career Award 0237918."
I am finding the explanation distracts from the prose of the original and is a jarring contrast. Perhaps this would be better as footnotes.
Or an open relationship. There are many options people may choose.
You missed the currency joke.
Hah. I suppose it depends how you classify "Artificial Intelligence". It was my understanding that Hawking was concerned about humans creating skynet-style AI ourselves, rather than discovering AI created by an Extra-terrestrial.
The Code Behind Building a FiveThirtyEight Post
Pay inequality in Google?
It get's me that so many people are basically saying it serves these people right for using the service.

I don't think that it matters that this is a "cheating" site, your privacy should still be guarded and it's not fair that all these people are being exposed.

Secondly, I'd wager that many of the users sign up to use Ashley Madison for the thrill of the idea and probably aren't actually cheaters themselves or hooking up with other cheaters. A lot of the users are probably into the idea of roll playing or something similar.

It's just too bad because I think due to the nature of the site a lot of people's private information is going to be leaked because this hacking group thinks they are doing something righteous and justified.
A tool to make creating and maintaining style guides easy
They offer a detailed comparison matrix here...
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/compare-visual-s...
Three lefts do.
This is how engineers make money in an environment where most people do not understand how engineering works.

Dyson is just something of a rarity in that he's selling consumer devices to the public, rather than defense hardware to governments.

Everyone in on the "design" scam relies very heavily on the assumption that the more expensive goods work better than cheaper ones. As previously mentioned, there is no rational case to be made for buying one of these.

If my laptop computer lasted up to 37 years, I would likely still replace it after no more than 5, with another that cost half as much both in terms of initial investment and operating cost, while still offering greater capabilities.

I'd just take that $600 I might have spent on a lamp, buy Cree stock instead.
sufficiently cool may not be enough to get the stated life.

Like a processor running at 70C vs 35C, 70C is sufficiently cool (it's within spec say at 80C) but heat damage is continuous.
You really need to stop disabling zoom. It's hostile to a wide range of users. This includes far more people than those with a traditional visual impairment.
Cheating Site Ashely Madison Hacked
Not a Linode customer. If you have access to the grub(2) prompt, you can download a OpenBSD ramdisk and boot it directly from there. The whole process boils down to

Download file to /boot (or anywhere accessible from grub)

Reboot / boot OpenBSD installer

Did that on my cloudcost machine to experiment with OpenBSD services.
> If I try to zoom, it is already a demonstration that your design does not work for me on my device.

THIS! This is how I feel exactly! When you load up a site I do it is as well designed as a mobile app. Surely people don't complain about the inability to zoom in their iOS settings app, or in the clocks app. Why would my site be any different?
iOS knows your locale, and it's easy to put in placeholders as well as a default
Of course Basic English cheats by including all the phrasal verbs, without considering that they are usually separate lexical items. "pick on" or "pass for" aren't easily decipherable based purely on their components.
What about people who are single and using the site? People can easily lie to their significant other and cheat on them, people can also just as easily join the site without actually cheating on anyone.

Also what about the people who are in a relationship and they enjoy finding other people to perform sexual acts with? They may be on the site looking for someone else but not necessarily to cheat.

There are still innocent people on the site, and do they deserve to have this exposed? Have everyone, parents, bosses, etc... thinking they are a dirty cheater? No, that really isn't fair.
Nothing you list is a justification for disabling zoom. You can do all of that while allowing users to zoom.
That I'm fine with as long as it's open and honest. Alternatively, there is the Japanese angle of "It's not cheating if I pay for it."
Yes, I think there would be some system of government sponsorship that would more efficiently deliver the same benefits to society. On the other hand, you can probably rely on governments to screw it up, and it's a tricky issue so I'm open to changing my mind (on extremely high cost to develop patents only).
> But I don't think it has anything to do with Pao's resignation.

I agree. When I read the post, the mentions of Pao seemed very out of place, with respect to the flow. The meat of the post was interesting, but the attempt to connect it to Pao's departure felt like a big (and unnecessary) stretch.
Don't meet strangers or cheat on your SO with someone you know or work with, period. Or just break it off and find someone new, why act dishonorably and making others miserable?

All in all, I don't know why people cheat if they are happily married and their spouses are great. Seems to me the risks far outweigh the rewards. Then again, I don't understand why people get married in the first place.
Our product killed 400 people, but we're pretty sure 399 of them deserved it.
How is full name, address, credit card information, and private pictures and messages considered "just metadata"?

Nothing about that is metadata.
It gives you energy very rapidly, as some of its fatty acids are sent directly from the digestive tract to the liver, that is, they do not require digestion. Much like fructose, but I have found that coconut oil gives me more energy than a fructose based breakfast.

I usually don't eat a full meal from 22PM to 14PM (16 hours) and 15ml (one tablespoon) of coconut oil plus some almonds at noon are enough for me.
Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters.

Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?

Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but ... But it might work for us.
Had it not been a friend I would have assumed as he did that the session id wasn't just slapped in the URL. What was great was when I sent him back "f1reball" and nothing else and he didn't believe that I could have possibly gotten that from the link he sent me.
Or, if you want to match the harsh geometry of the lamp, a Rietvald Zig-Zag chair:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rietveld+zigzag+chair
Word "hacker" has become very vague lately, but the definition used 10 years ago, did not include "people who build robots, or the people who built the chips that Unix runs on". Those were called Electric Engineers AFAIR. "Hacker" literally meant a guy involved with cybersecurity and therefore deeply into OS internals. Then the word went through transformation and today may easily mean "an Arduino hacker who made an automated bird feeder", "a RoR hacker who made a homepage with it etc.".
Interesting coincidence. We just went over this paper last month in our white paper group.
Is there a good website that rates fans by power/noise/price? I don't actually care about the price much, I really want a quieter fan that won't make me turn up the music too loud to hear the details and wake anyone up.
As someone who has worked on larger enterprise stuff this would be incredibly (like a salary a year incredibly) useful tool.

It would do in software what a really good reliability engineer with years of knowledge can do "Foo has broken" "Nah foo is fine, someone changed Bar again without reading the wiki" stuff.
People would still buy things without advertising.