prompt
stringlengths 0
90
| completion
stringlengths 1
26.3k
|
|---|---|
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)
|
Video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5FrZl04JY
|
Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
|
Well, at least we still have SciHub access through Tor
|
Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
|
Or users could, you know, use an extension to block all of them. For their own security and peace of mind.
|
My daughter's disabled. Please don't look away from her
|
All I do when I see someone who seems different: smile, maybe say hello. Try it, it's easy!
|
Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing
|
Why not use something else then?
|
Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler
|
It would be great if they could make something like a Bluespec Verilog[0], but open source. This HDL is far better than traditional ones, IMHO.[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluespec
|
How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
|
Lol, always jenkins (CI).
|
First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
|
Not to mention even a study that didn't pan out still has a lot of data that may be used for something else in the future.Even a failed creation has parts that can be re used in other projects after all.
|
Now 2.0
|
All of this serverless stuff looks great in theory, but I'm struggling to understand what the development environment looks like. Does every change in testing get deployed to zeit? That seems cumbersome. Otherwise, is there a nice way to test this stuff locally? (Also, how would one set up a database? On a separate service?)
|
‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks
|
> Nosrat’s work to diversify the kinds of faces quite literally seen as culinary experts is directly connected to her view of foodCan there be anything on the internet WITHOUT injecting social justice talking points into it? What the fuck does the quality of food have to do with my skin color?
|
25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
|
OP here. Perhaps I should have clarified what I meant by "having nothing to show for it". I meant in the sense of my portfolio. If you asked me to see what I've built, I'd have nothing to show you other than corporate websites.
|
A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla
|
Since Inbox is often brought up as a textbook example, I'll give my two cents and some history. This is my post-mortem perspective, and the opinion of my former team members may be different.I worked on Inbox from inception (as a former member of the GWT team), at the time Google was moving towards 'mobile first' (notice how there's no still Web version of the new Google Calendar), so the new generation of apps prioritized architecture and design for native-mobile and material design over desktop. Inbox was mostly written in a shared Java codebase transpiled with GWT (later J2CL) and J2ObjC (for iOS), so it could run natively on mobile from a single codebase. It obtained >75% code reuse between platforms, but a result of that however was a rather large SPA on the Web.Because of its design as an installable material-design mobile app, it forced bleeding edge technology on the Web version to maintain a shared codebase. So for example, because it includes an entire compiled datastore/synchronization engine that is too heavyweight to run on the browser UI thread, it made early use intensive of WebWorkers to simulate multithreading (at a time when there were lots of browser implementation bugs in Workers). For most of the time that I worked on it, Firefox Dev Tools couldn't even debug web workers well, and often Firefox dev tools would just fail with huge size of SPAs like Inbox.Getting material-design style animations compositing at 60fps cross browser was also fraught with peril because the different browser renderers had very different ways they scheduled GPU texture uploads for compositing, different hazards when they fall back to software rasterization, and very poor devtools visibility into what would cause anomalous painting problems (excessive repaints, layouts, or straight up freezes waiting for the GPU). Yes, today that is all much better, but in 2012 it wasn't, and short of getting ahold of browser engineers and asking them to hook up C++ debuggers or instrumentation to tell Web engineers why rendering was failing, debugging performance jank was hard. When we ran into a rendering problem with Chrome, we'd file bugs against Blink, and when we encountered problems with Firefox, we'd contact the engineers there. Perhaps because of heavy work on Firefox OS at the time, the Blink engineers would respond with help faster, so that obviously had an effect on performance differentials and delays, especially when the problems are mystifying to a Web Dev without browser internals knowledge.Even something as simple as Javascript arrays were fraught with peril. Inbox made heavy use of protobuffers. Protobuffers compiled to JS exist as sparse arrays in Javascript due to proto-number extensions having huge gaps. Well, on Firefox at the time, if you did something like var a = [], a[100000000]=1, and then Object.keys(a), it would return an array with 100 million elements IIRC, but Chrome/Safari/Edge would return an array of 1 element. When you tried to debug this, Firefox Dev Tools would just freeze. It took me a week of inserting console.logs and bisecting until I figured it out.(see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045391 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088189)Now you could say argue one of the following:
1) Google could have held up shipping Inbox until Firefox and Edge fixed all of their bugs that were blocking it
2) They could have just shipped the Android/iOS versions and held up the Web versions
3) They could have chose a different architecture (no shared code with mobile, rewrite a custom 100% web version from scratch)
4) Avoided excessive use of WebWorkers or SPAs
5) Not required a UI design/DOM structure that would require complex layout and painting stressing rendering pipelinesBut no where in there was any active attempt to try and disadvantage other browsers. They sat out with an ambitious design for a Web app that they wanted to be 100% in parity with native mobile versions, and then found out that the Web platform itself wasn't up to handling it. Chrome could barely handle Inbox in 2012.
|
Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
|
So when does this begin? I'm about to go to Berlin for ICFP and would love to stand in a car-free street and imagine all cities were like this.
|
Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion
|
There is one more anime that comes to mind if we're talking about typography - Bakemonogatari. Throughout the series still images are shown containing vital information about the thoughts of characters, events' second meaning, puns, etc. Sometimes split second only, sometimes in a fast slides. Really novel and interesting take on animation.Example: https://youtu.be/-jm-xrO2c_0 (first 30 seconds shows one of the still images and there's much more)
|
Pure CSS – Lace
|
Wow impressive
|
TypeScript 3.7
|
Now I know how people felt when they told me C# was adding features so quickly they couldn't keep up.
|
Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]
|
Andrej Karpathy is such a treasure.He is an excellent presenter who really has a passion for teaching.Im not really involved with the industry, so I cant really speak to how he holds up to other experts. However he is by far the most digestable resource I have found for learning about NN and science behind them.If you are just discovering him now, google his name and just start reading. His work is truly binge worthy in the most meaningful way.
|
AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
|
I was able to get it working without downloading files by mounting Google Drive, although once the shared folder is rate-limited you need to make a copy in your own Google drive:https://colab.research.google.com/github/Akababa/AIDungeon/b...
|
Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019
|
Gary was a wonderful person, an engineer's engineer, with an inquisitive scientific bent and warm sense of humor about and love of invention.His move from Rochester to Xerox Parc in its earliest days was his "last chance" according to Xerox management. There he found kindred spirits who welcomed him and would up quickly loving him for his fearless approach to invention, no matter how difficult.He was a great guy to work with and be with (one of the raft of things I did in the early days of Parc was to experiment with the design and making of high quality display fonts using an allout video system* that could reach the limits of video). We realized that it could barely do the much larger characters needed for the first laser printing system and rigged a coax from "the old character generator room" down the hall to Gary's lab to provide test pages for Gary's early experiments.The story below about the use of Edmund Scientific "hobby" reflecting telescopes is more or less the way it happened -- except that the front part that says he was "annoyed" is not. That was not Gary's style; he just moved forward, and what happened is very similar in spirit to the computer researchers at Parc building their own simulated mainframe (MAXC) also in the first year because Xerox wouldn't allow us to buy a PDP-10 which was made by a competing company.I also object to him being called "a badass" (I realize it is suppose to be a compliment, but it quite misses what really top talents are like in its attempt to suggest some kind of pop-culture teenage aggressiveness. Gary was an artist who simply transcended difficulties put in his way.)He now joins another great engineer's engineer at Parc -- Chuck Thacker -- in our memories of truly great people who could do truly great things.---------
* designed by Butler Lampson, Bill English and Roger Bates, and mostly built by Roger, with an excellent interactive font design program made by Ben Laws.
|
The Era of the Trident Engine
|
Every now and then I daydream about what it would take to totally re-invent the frontend stack with today's knowledge that the web is a place for applications, not just documents. There are over 40 years' of legacy and backwards-compatible baggage in HTML+CSS+JS and it's basically impossible for a small entity with little funding to build their own browser engine now. What would a new spec for a platform for delivering applications look like?
|
Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
|
100 years ago the average adult (who dealt with information as we do today) probably spent 25 years of their life staring at paper.It’s the content, not the medium, that matters.
|
A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web
|
I foresee a familiar cycle playing out:1. Gemini is great, no spam and commercial crap2. Someone realises it would be great to have simple inline images, and makes a cool client that supports “gemini+img” syntax that they make up. The syntax gracefully degrades, so you can use it in your docs even if your users aren’t using the new browser!3. Protocol is technically text-only but in reality everyone uses img-enabled browser4. Repeat with basic styling, then simple scripts. Eventually authors rely on more and more “optional” features and syntax extensions, and we end up with a similar feature set to what we have today.5. Advertisers move in as Gemini gains mainstream adoption, and we’re back to www
|
Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
|
It's a little worrying that the UK already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, even though it hasn't passed trials yet.I understand that tons of resources are being poured into making a vaccine, which will make developing this vaccine a lot faster.However, this still makes me worry that the media ( and the UK government in part ) is showing false potential false hopes to people that read this article. Yes, we might get a vaccine next year, but we might never get a vaccine either.
|
Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”
|
Try telling that to Daft Punk
|
The UX of Lego Interface Panels
|
Dang, stole my thunder. I was just pondering doing a blog post series on these exact panels as I have finally started sorting my collection after 40 years and found at least 10 of these that I have.I may still do a series based on the real-world tech that these were modeled after in their time periods. Some of them are super-fun retro.
|
Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR
|
Question: How does the AGPLv3 work when it's describing/programming hardware? I have a good idea how it works on software, but less than a good idea on hardware.
|
Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
|
Oh so they're finally preparing for the Linux switch. Good guy Satya
|
Y Combinator Failed Startups
|
Shameless plug: I research exactly this, but from a different perspective - namely the personality traits behind productive/unproductive decisions that ultimately lead to failure or success. If anyone interested: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w31inj3xf4aiu66/Successful%20Start...
|
How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges
|
I'm just going to say it....Inkjet printers are one of those technologies that just has to die (for general printing usage). Same with HP Consumer. I don't mind HPE.
|
“You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation
|
With Canada being a part of FVEY, I'm curious if any Canadians are surprised or shocked at this?I would assume that their surveillance goes much. much further than this, considering they're basically watching and learning from the U.S.A.
|
Semgrep: Semantic grep for code
|
Nice looking tool.Is there a way to search for functions in C (other than printf!) whose return value is ignored at the call site?
|
Cycles X
|
Yay, Blender: Nvidia edition! Not blaming the Blender devs, this is largely AMD's fault, but still... I guess I'll need to get a Threadripper because there's no way I'm dealing with Nvidia on Linux again
|
World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years
|
Here are some (generally U.S. centric) suggestions to move away from fossil fuels as fast as possible for a reasonable cost with current technology and with the least economic disruption:Expand EV tax credits and allow EV conversions to qualify, not just new vehicles.Electrify the interstate highway system so that EVs can charge while they're moving. This reduces the necessity of hauling around massive and expensive battery packs. Provide the electricity for free for small passenger vehicles that meet a minimum efficiency standard.Build more battery factories. Especially for lithium iron phosphate cells (or any technology that replaces it), since LFP doesn't depend on cobalt or nickel and is much safer than most other lithium ion chemistries.Install more domestic wind and solar power generation.Invest in transcontinental power transmission lines and solar capacity in place like Africa, so we can power North America at night without relying on batteries.Shut down fossil fuel power plants, but keep some of them operational as emergency backup.Make an EV charge port required building code for new houses and apartments with parking.
|
Grafana 8.0
|
I love using grafana however I abhor creating dashboards and trying to pull data, but that’s mostly because of a lack of documentation.
|
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)
|
Past performance is indicative, it’s just not exclusively or completely indicative.
|
You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)
|
Explains why people do stuff like Math PhDs assuming they'll continue to be rewarded by society for this sort of thing before finishing, and then face the grim reality that no one* really cares unless it makes them money.*Except in truly exceptional circumstances that are too rare to consider.
|
More Casio Watch Mods
|
I once found a Casio F-91W at an opshop but then lost it at a festival. Didn't realise it had such a following online.I then bought a DW-5600E on special, it's great. Hoping to hold onto it for a bit longer!
|
The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen
|
Ok so I get that it could be quiet
difficult to write sentences which
must be of a fixed length. However
hyperbolically calling it the most
scarily/stunningly linguistic feat
is ridiculous in the extreme. I am
certain that a person sufficiently
motivated, could produce a similar
document. Comparing something like
this to the work of Mozart is just
nonsense. I mean, I couldn't write
a piece of music like Mozart if my
life depended on it.
|
Offline-First Database Comparison
|
Surprised not to see Realm included (www.realm.io)
|
Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language
|
This is nerdy and probably superfluous but I actually love it! The .cook extension is such a cute touch. I actually do already store all of my recipes in .txt files, so maybe I'll convert them to this and create some shortcut scripts for quickly search my recipes while I'm at it :)
|
U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google
|
Where’s the link to the amended filing?
|
Deno Joins TC39
|
Just adding some interesting info: There is an ECMAScript Optional Static Typing Proposal.https://github.com/sirisian/ecmascript-types
|
A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner
|
What is the SNR they are getting ? Can't seem to find this info in the paper.
I am also working on a low-field MRi prototype, but at a much lower field (1mT) and using SQUID-based detection. This approach, in theory, allows to have much better T1 contrast, which is an issue raised in this paper. Also, at these levels of field you can use a low-consumption resistive magnet which permits much better field homogeneity.
Anyway the results this team is getting are very impressive and gives me hope that portable MRI is not science fiction. Would love to see some clinical diagnosis data with a bigger sample and more doctors. Will definitely try out their EMI cancellation algorithm on my experiment !
|
Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole
|
I'll finally install pi-hole because of this particular list. Never realized how good it could be to specifictly target bad software on a mostly hardware product.
|
CEO Shadow Program
|
I really like this idea and want to see if it is possible to come t live as an online service where CEO finds the right CEO shadow.Couple of years ago the idea of CEO Shadowing was mentioned on Kernal. https://kern.al/idea/shadow-a-ceo-lessons-courses-programs
Since then no one picked it up, not sure why. But I'm interested and want to make a real living application for CEO and who want to be CEO Shadow.Is it worth it?
|
Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode
|
portal in the distance on a wheat field
|
Zen4's AVX512 Teardown
|
He posted benchmarks on a separate thread: https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=28107
|
Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
|
This sounds ok. But what does the META terms say about this business setup? There are many platforms you can't do this on including the major mobile app stores.
|
Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
|
Considering that America is such an advanced country mainly because of science and engineering, why is the american population so gullible as to believe the rantings of a madman. Even with a cursory glance one can easily say that Alex Jones is lying. This is so sad.
|
Kanye West is buying Parler
|
In other words, isn't it Kanye is paying a lot of money to the husband of one his "advisors" (Candace Owens)?
|
U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology
|
Google never coerced anyone into buying their ads ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
|
LEGO Building Instructions
|
As a proud Lego collector, I'm happy to say that I have not built any of these things. All my Legos are still in the box (sunglasses).
|
ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
|
Does protonmail has a canary page?I know it's swiss etc, but the honeypot tactic is not new. Protonmail could totally be infiltrated or controlled by an intelligence agency under the guise of "we offer you privacy".I don't like conspiracy theories, but when it comes to escaping government electronic surveillance, Snowden made me realize that tinfoil hats are not so ridiculous.
|
Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
|
Just as food for thought, the two big problems I see with every single Salesforce deployment are:1. Excessive customization. Ever seen a Lead record with fewer than 300 custom fields? I haven't! I have no idea what you do about this from a tool design standpoint but... think about it. It's a huge problem.2. Synchronization. If you have Your System, and then you adopt a CRM, now you have state in two places. And commonly that state is allowed to mutate in both places, and now you inhabit a permanent nightmare hellscape. Figure out how to discourage this. Think about ways of modeling relationships to outside systems (ala NetSuite's externalId) and enforcing unique connections. Make it easy to request supplementary data "live" so that there's less reason to copy it in.Good luck!
|
“Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free Internet
|
As if verifying that we are all using Google's browser somehow makes us safer. Because they are such perfect coders over there. The level of arrogance at these big tech firms is astounding, and irritating.
|
New IDE: code bubbles
|
This is very interesting. To me it looks like it creates a hybrid interface experience in between traditional programming and visual programming languages such as Prograph.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph
|
Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers
|
LIKE ITS HARVARD MODEL, PRINCETON'S OPEN ACCESS POLICY NEEDS TO ADD AN IMMEDIATE-DEPOSIT REQUIREMENT, WITH NO WAIVER OPTIONhttp://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/844-guid.h...1. First, congratulations to Princeton University (my graduate alma mater!) for adopting an open access mandate: a copyright-reservation policy, adopted by unanimous faculty vote.2. Princeton is following in the footsteps of Harvard in adopting the copyright-reservation policy pioneered by Stuart Shieber and Peter Suber.4. I hope that Princeton will now also follow in the footsteps of Harvard by adding an immediate-deposit requirement with no waiver option to its copyright-reservation mandate, as Harvard has done.5. The Princeton copyright-reservation policy, like the Harvard copyright-reservation policy, can be waived if the author wishes: This is to allow authors to retain the freedom to choose where to publish, even if the journal does not agree to the copyright-reservation.6. Adding an immediate-deposit clause, with no opt-out waiver option, retains all the properties and benefits of the copyright-reservation policy while ensuring that all articles are nevertheless deposited in the institutional repository upon publication, with no exceptions: Access to the deposited article can be embargoed, but deposit itself cannot; access is a copyright matter, deposit is not.7. Depositing all articles upon publication, without exception, is crucial to reaching 100% open access with certainty, and as soon as possible; hence it is the right example to set for the many other universities worldwide that are now contemplating emulating Harvard and Princeton by adopting open access policies of their own; copyright reservation alone, with opt-out, is not.8. The reason it is imperative that the deposit clause must be immediate and without a waiver option is that, without that, both when and whether articles are deposited at all is indeterminate: With the added deposit requirement the policy is a mandate; without it, it is just a gentleman/scholar's agreement.[Footnote: Princeton's open access policy is also unusual in having been adopted before Princeton has created an open access repository for its authors to deposit in: It might be a good idea to create the repository as soon as possible so Princeton authors can get into the habit of practising what they pledge from the outset...]Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship
|
Python and Django on Heroku
|
Does anyone know if the stack will only support WSGI or could I also run a Tornado instance on the cedar stack? I know when I tried dotcloud several months ago it only supported WSGI.
|
Steve Jobs's Real Genius
|
----------------------------------------Jobs, we learn, was a bully. "He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe". Jobs gets his girlfriend pregnant, and then denies that the child is his. He parks in handicapped spaces. He screams at subordinates. He cries like a small child when he does not get his way. He sits in a restaurant and sends his food back three times. He arrives at his hotel suite in New York for press interviews and decides, at 10 pm ... the flowers are all wrong: he wanted calla lilies. When his public-relations assistant returns, at midnight, with the right flowers, he tells her that her suit is "disgusting". Machines and robots were painted and repainted as he compulsively revised his color scheme, Isaacson writes, of the factory Jobs built, after founding NeXT, in the late nineteen-eighties. He insisted that the machinery on the 165-foot assembly line be configured to move the circuit boards from right to left as they got built, so that the process would look better to visitors who watched from the viewing gallery. ...when Jobs returns, in the late nineteen-nineties, and our natural expectation is that Jobs will emerge wiser and gentler from his tumultuous journey. He never does. In the hospital at the end of his life, he runs through sixty-seven nurses before he finds three he likes......Even within Apple, Jobs was known for taking credit for other's ideas. Jonathan Ive, the designer behind the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone, tells Isaacson, "He will go through a process of looking at my ideas and say, 'That's no good. That's not very good. I like that one.' And later I will be sitting in the audience and he will be talking about it as if it was his idea."----------------------------------------Was Jobs really such an asshole? If so, I think he was really lucky to have Steve Woz as his co-founder. I know a lot about Woz and hardly anything about Jobs, and I do know that Woz in addition to being a first rate engineer is also a very good guy. Maybe if Woz was even half the asshole that Jobs seems to be, he might have kicked him out before Apple went public and Jobs would have been just another tantrum throwing hippie hanging around some starbucks in Berkeley or wherever angry hippies like to hang around.
|
A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students
|
Quite literally this is why I love climbing mountains alone, particularly 14ers. Every time I climb one I go through a range of emotions over the 5-7 hours it takes to reach the summit and back.When I start there is excitement as I see the peak in the distance. Then as I tire comes doubt and the fight with myself about turning around because no one would know, except me of course. The key is to never stop pushing forward. There often comes a point, especially on a new challenging mountain, where all I want to do is turn around. Instead I just focus on the next step in front of me. Step, breath, step, breath,... Then when I finally reach the top, the view is of course beautiful, but the real reward is looking back at the trail I followed and thinking that's impossible yet here I am.
|
How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community
|
I think it's fair to say the Apple community got exactly what it wanted here. This sort of "trick" wouldn't be playable on any other community, because its rabid fanboys tend to care about other things than screws.Apple fanboys however... They care about the margins of product-announcement papers and reads the future from them like gipsy-queens reads tea-leaves. It's an impressive performance, but still oh so pointless.Because they miss the important thing: A screw is an implementation detail. What you want is open access to the bits which matters: SIM, battery, storage, platform and bootloaders.Provide me with that and I couldn't care less what screws you use.
|
Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
|
I'm 51 and I've been programming since I was 21. I write code every day. I love what I do and I have never been more productive than I am now nor have I ever written better code than I am writing now. I write highly complex multi-threaded algorithmic code that operates on extremely large graphs (up to 3.5 billion nodes). I have no interest in getting into management.I did get "lucky" in that I was a member of the founding team of a publicly traded company and am now a technical co-founder and chief software architect of an up-and-coming engineering software startup. I've written 3 blog posts in career and, except for LinkedIn, I participate in no social media/networking. I've never posted on StackOverflow. Outside of my niche industry, I'm sure that no one has ever heard of me. And, that's exactly how I like it.Just my $0.02
|
Dolphins Call Each Other By Name
|
I wonder, if there is any public repository of dolphin audio recordings.
|
The New Google Maps
|
A couple use cases that I'm still waiting for on mapping applications:- I have a bike, and a pass that gets me on any local bus or light rail car. Busses and light rail cars can carry people with bikes. What are the best two or three route options from point A to B using some combination of bike routes and public transit?- I am already following a route to get somewhere. Suddenly I decide I want/need to stop at a (gas station | cafe | restaurant | other). Make it easy to find such a place (optimizing for not taking me too far off my route, and doing it soon if it's a long route), add it to the route, and don't forget the original destination.Google Maps on Android seemed farther along than iOS last I used it, but neither really handled these use cases well, last I tried.
|
Teacher under fire for informing kids of their Fifth Amendment rights
|
The origins of this survey need to be audited and investigated. Some school districts are notoriously greedy and only care about their bottom-line: test scores. The higher scores, the more money (for the district and for their salaries). I'm sure they correlated drug habits with low test scores, and sought to extradite delinquents from their schools. Perhaps even a precursor to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
|
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
|
I would rather see them challenge FISA requests on the basis of tax law. These requests are, in addition to everything else, a form of taxation.
|
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
|
Why don't they (potential competitors) write an open source app based on openstreetmap? Their mapping data is usually on par, often even superior to that of Google. Plus, its free (in both senses of the word).
|
Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free
|
May be a silly question. But did they put some any "lawyer" language to prevent hackintoshes from running maverick?
|
Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search
|
it is really a good lesson to learn.
|
Maze Tree
|
I'd like to see the tree starting from the other end of the maze too.
|
Exploding Offers Suck
|
I used an exploding offer effectively once. I was buying a house in 2002, during the crazy bull market on housing. Houses in the neighborhoods we were shopping regularly went for more than list, with competing bids. We finally found a house, at the very top of our price range, and put an offer in for it just a few hours after it first listed - for list price. The seller's agent was furious! She really wanted to drag it out to the weekend and get a bidding war, which we absolutely could not afford. But what were they going to do... turn down a list price offer? Why not just sell it at a higher price, then?We still have that house, 12 years later. It's finally worth what we paid for it again. Sigh.
|
India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars
|
As usual, action speaks louder than words. This co-operation would probably not take place if India's mission did not take place or very few would listen their Indian counter parts if such agreement were signed without the mission.
|
The Art of Not Working at Work
|
This is an interesting article in light of patio11's about doing business in Japan: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
reply
|
How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management
|
Err... Money???Most people will (rightfully) settle for money. Because people need love, and to demonstrate love you need to show that you care, that you're willing to give something up in a hard situation. And the only thing a company cares for is money. So, I want said company to give me money. More money than the 'manager'. Because I can do their job just as badly as they are doing it, but they can't do mine at all.I don't want your stupid titles and shit - those are cheap. Cash is what will hurt you. Pay up if you care!And when people realise they have to pay you or lose you, then you get respect. Priceless!!!
|
So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission
|
Many people here believe a necessary and legitimate role of law is to provide specific methods for creators of intellectual goods to earn income, and are willing to encroach on people's freedoms in order to archive this goal. Other's don't view this as a necessary or legitimate role of law (and many aren't even convinced that intellectual property law actually provides a net benefit from a utilitarian standpoint).I believe it is specifically the creator's responsibility (and in general, the market's role) to figure out how the creator can make money.I am reminded of a rather blunt slogan found in cat-v (http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/) and in the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom's page (http://c4sif.org/): "Your failed business model is not my problem."
|
Early vs. Beginning Coders
|
Zed points to a very real problem - it's easy for us to forget what we know. But there's another problem with targeting beginners. They are all over the place in terms of experience.Computing is so tightly woven into our world not that it's hard to find people who have more than a passing interest in it who have not find some way to try to code as kids. Even with those who haven't, there's a gulf between people who have tried to do a little HTML editing (and know what a file is) and people who haven't. There's no one place to start. From Zed's description it looks like he's starting from the lowest possible point, but what are the demographics like there? How many people are in that space and are they mostly adults or children?I think this is one of the main reasons why you don't see much beginner's material.
|
32C3 – Chaos Communication Congress – Streams Online
|
The list of presentations is looong. Any recommendations?
|
Text Summarization with TensorFlow
|
The following appears in the README.md # Run the eval. Try to avoid running on the same matchine as training.
Why should one avoid that?https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/textsum
|
Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?
|
I set a goal to read 30 books this year and somehow achieved it: https://jonbake.com/blog/30-books-2016/
|
Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey
|
Unfortunately the author begins by citing the fraud Taleb. After that I have to doubly examine everything he writes for signs of subtle nonsense, and its just necessary to close the tab.
|
We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
|
Web becoming much like the economy where there are big players who control the web and others who are shouting for equality. There is another group, largest amongst these three, almost 90% of general population, who don't bother/understand and go with the wind.
With big data come into the scene, things get out of hands as these "big guns" are on a spree to collect more and more of our personal details. IOT is another thing that will surely make situation much worse, as they are meant to be our personal assistance, we are allowing them to learn our behavior and act accordingly.
When we see an advertisement related to our 3days earlier search, it's not the ad that is get promoted instead we are getting sold.
|
Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe
|
Here's a link to the video interview from CISO Susan Mauldin in 2016 that was erased from YouTube a few days ago, on September 10 after it was first reported:http://evilrouters.net/media/susan_mauldin_cazena_interview_...The HN thread that found another copy:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262026The first story that I saw breaking this interview, drawing attention to this story before it was wiped out by "user":https://hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-officer/I'm reposting this information, there's nothing earth shattering for me in the interview but I smell a coverup (I hope it doesn't sound controversial when I say this, it appears to be that material information has been wiped off the public record during an investigation, and that's a coverup! Not mincing words.) This has hardly been covered at all, so I'm going to mention it again. I figure the story probably isn't going away anytime soon.I think it's criminal (possibly quite literally) that this information is being suppressed by whoever has taken the original interviews down. It should be a case study, we should all watch it. I want to hear more from Susan Mauldin, but the appearance is they want her to disappear.I am interested in the stock sales too, but I would like it to be a thing, where we all can learn from what has happened and fix our issues to be better at this kind of thing. There are obviously technical and greedological issues that own some blame, but let's not be hasty and sweep the cultural issues under the rug. (There was a second interview from that day, which to my knowledge has not been recovered yet.)I'd like to be charitable and say that CISO Susan Mauldin did nothing wrong, but it's hard for me to make that argument seriously without more data and I don't hear anyone calling for her to testify in front of Congress yet. Maybe they'd like us to forget she was ever involved in the company, that just makes me want to know more and it should you too, if you've been following the story (but who could blame you for not knowing, just look what they're doing!)
|
Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS
|
it can't get any simpler than this .> Case 2: taxes. BTC is an asset. If you buy at price X and sell at price Y, guess what, you owe taxes on Y-X. I don't understand how this is news to anyone.
|
Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
|
How do you get to this level of expertise? What are the resources people like these use to learn about this type of scalable systems? Any good books that start from the ground up on these topics?
|
PeerTube: A decentralized video hosting network, based on free software
|
It looks like it would be (as with Mastodon) more accurate to call this federated instead of decentralized.
|
Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health
|
Mental health issues are everywhere, not just postgrads. Every week it's a new article about some easy to label sub-segment of the population.It's time to talk about why so many (Americans) have poor mental health.It's time to talk about the "hidden" costs (i.e., effects on physical health) of poor mental health.It's time to talk about this symptom and what it says about the broader culture / society.
|
I Got Catfished by a Candidate
|
Isn't this the plot of Mad Men?
|
DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities
|
If I were the Russians, Chinese, or North Koreans, I would heavily invest in offensive hacking capability. Oh wait, they're already doing that.
|
Python gets a new governance model
|
OP posted a subscriber link to LWN... if you like the content then subscribing to support LWN is well worth it! They are one of (if not THE) highest quality Linux news sites out there.
|
Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
|
I game on Windows because of the momentum behind it but Linux support is a selling point that goes into every purchase, because the day I migrate I will still have my purchases.
|
Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
|
The Airbus 380 is the only passenger aircraft for which I have a strong preference. I dislike the toy aircraft (regional jets) that have become standard which are too small and constrained for modern adults. In contrast, at least in the Air France configuration, the A380 is roomy and comfortable. I am sad that Airbus has decided to deprecate the model.
|
Strava cuts off Relive
|
Reminds me of Twitter back in the day, with their terrible and inconsistent developer policies. It took them quite a while to recover from the impact those had, despite the fact that they're an enormous platform that can provide a ton of value to developers. Strava's not close to Twitter's level of utility/value, so if they keep this up it's tough to see how they'll ever maintain a developer ecosystem.
|
FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook
|
I think an important detail is that as part of the settlement Facebook is exonerated from all past 'mistakes'. This is actually really good for Facebook and was the wrong move by the FTC. This will encourage future privacy abuses as now they know they can 'get away' with it.
|
Toni Morrison Has Died
|
I met Toni Morrison when I was 12. She was kinda rude to me, I wonder if it’s because I didn’t see her as anything but an accomplished author. I’ve always wondered about that moment if she intentionally was rude or was just anxious from being in the spotlight at the time. I don’t know why I thought during all these years that I would get to meet her again.. I was planning to be more adept at conversation with her. Correlate coding to historic writings.. but this post is a sobering wake up call.Phone your mum, tell her you love her. My mom was inspired by Toni Morrison.
|
Linux Kernel Fastboot [pdf]
|
Site seems Not Found, is there any backup?
|
Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game
|
So I downloaded this last night, thinking I'd give it a quick go.Ended up blowing eight hours building spinning laser death platforms. 10/10
|
SSH Handshake Explained
|
This is quite poor article, which you can grasp after reading it. Few examples:* quote: "generates ___something___ referred to as the exchange hash H" - in article which tries to sound technical and in fact in some parts goes into much details, this ___something___ is really funny :)* copy pasta description of forward secrecy, wrongly explaining why it is forwardly secure* wrong chain of events with lack of important diagram, while adding boilerplate :(p.s. amount of upvotes shows these days a lot of us click up before reading _whole_ article.
|
Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city
|
I showed this to my dad, who used to do model railroads. He said just the first photo looked like it cost about $10,000.
|
An opinionated approach to GNU Make
|
I think I have decided that I'm done with Makefiles. They are very tempting, because they follow naturally from interactive exploration. You see yourself writing a command a lot, and think "I'll just paste that into a Makefile". Now you don't have to remember the command anymore.But the problem is that building software is a lot more than just running a bunch of commands. The commands represent solutions to problems, but if the solutions aren't good enough, you just make more problems for yourself.The biggest problems I've had with Makefile-based builds are getting everyone using the repository the right version of dependencies, and incrementality. A project I did at work involved protos, and it was great when I was the only person working on it. I had a Makefile that generated them for Go and Typescript (gRPC-Web) and usually an incremental edit to a proto file and a re-run of the Makefile resulted in an incremental update to the generated protos. Perfect. Then other people started working on the project, and sometimes a simple proto change would regenerate the entire proto. Sometimes the protos would compile, but not actually work. The problem was that there is a hidden dependency of the proto compiler, protoc-gen-(go|ts), and the language-specific proto API version that controls the output of the proto compilation process. Make has no real way to say "when I say protoc, I mean protoc from this .tar.gz file with SHA256:abc123def456..." You just kind of yolo it. Yolo-ing it works fine for one person; even if your dev machine gets destroyed, you'll probably get it working again in a day or two. As soon as you have four people working on it, every hidden dependency destroys a day of productivity. I just don't think it's a good idea.Meanwhile, you can see how well automated dependency management systems work. Things like npm and go modules pretty much always deliver the right version of dependencies to you. With go, the compiler even updates the project definition for you, so you don't even have to manage files. It just works. This is what we should be aiming for for everything.I have also not had much luck with incremental builds in make. Some projects have a really good set of Makefiles that usually results in an edit resulting in a changed binary. Some don't! You make a change, try out your binary, and see that it decided to cache something that isn't cacheable. How do you debug it? Blow away the cache and wait 20 minutes for a full build. Correctness or speed, choose any 1. I had this problem all the time when I worked on a buildroot project, probably because I never understood what the build system was doing. "Oh yeah, just clean out those dep files." What even are the dep files? I never understood how to make it work for me, even after asking questions and getting little pieces of wisdom that seemed a lot like cargo-culting or religion. Nobody could ever point to "here's the function that computes the dependency graph" and "here's the function that schedules commands to use all your CPUs". The reason is... because it lives in many different modules that don't know about each other. (Some in make itself, some in makefiles, some in the jobs make runs... it's a mess.)Meanwhile, I've also worked on projects that use a full build system that tracks every dependency required to build every input. You start it up, and it uses 300M of RAM to build a full graph. When it's done it maxes out all your CPUs until you have a binary. You change one file, and 100% of the time, it just builds what depended on that file. You run it in your CI environment and it builds and the tests pass, the first time.I am really tired of not having that. I started using Bazel for all my personal projects that involve protocol buffers or have files in more than one language. The setup is intense, watching your CPU stress the neighborhood power grid as it builds the proto compiler from scratch is surprising, but once it starts working, it keeps working. There are no magic incantations. The SHA256 of everything you depend on is versioned in the repository. It works with traditional go tools like goimports and gopls. Someone can join your project and contribute code by only installing one piece of software and cloning your repository. It's the way of the future. Makefiles got us far, but I'm done. I am tired of debugging builds. I am tired of helping people install software. "bazel build ..." and get your work done.
|
You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
|
one man's trash is another man's treasure. It is just supply and demand.
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.