jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Facebook tracks your movement across every page with a Facebook asset? Does Google do
something like this as well?
Validation is not validation unless money and pricing is brought up. I don't think she mentioned pricing anywhere in her surveys. I would "use" anything. Paying for something, on the other hand, would have put me in a completely different state of mind.
Can you paste the Graphics section on the about:support page?
You should probably disable some of those Apache modules and trim it up a bit
Seems like a win to me. The government had to physically go to their house and arrest them to get to their funds, whereas normally all they had to do was call up their bank and had their money frozen. Not to mention, this threat could have been easily mitigated by keeping your funds in a multsig wallet, with the keys distributed in multiple redundant locations.
Would it be fair to approximate it as, "if you can lift it, it's not big data"?
The sorts of bugs people experience with Java mostly result in a crashed/stalled/hung process. Bash bugs erase your entire file system. The thing about Bash is that it is trivially easy to make these sorts of mistakes- the language just isn't suitable to general purpose scripting.
To be fair, there were other issues involved in the Sony hack that are not present in NSA spying.

- The North Koreans attempted to impose a heckler's veto on speech by private citizens of the United States.

- The Sony hack had direct and very visible consequences for Americans (economic consequences, release of personal data like salaries and health information, embarrassment of people by releasing private communications).

It's entirely possible to take the position that countries are going to engage in espionage, but that there should be norms about how intelligence services behave. Right now we're all trying to figure out what those norms are.
Common Lisp, just seemed like any other programming language except that I was restricted to a functional style, and library support was super spotty. Admittedly though I didn't use it for very long.
> Isn't MTProto proprietary as well?

Clients are open-source, so you can see the code for e2e encryption.

> That said, there is no way you can verify that copies are not retained on the servers in either case (WhatsApp or Telegram) so there's not much to argue there.

This is exactly true, so I actually prefer Matrix.
Check the reviews on YouTube for the Dell UltraSharp U4320Q.
I mean, as we saw yesterday the USCP doesn't seem to be doing much good with their $460 million budget.
I've never used Signal so forgive me if I am mistaken but is it possible to self-host Signal servers?
What are the chances of Trump enabling an obscure social service? His existence alone should be able to draw a lot of app installs.
"Armed" does not necessarily mean gun-carrying. I saw footage of an individual smashing AP camera gear with a baseball bat, for example. They didn't break those windows with their bare hands.
Definite lower bound, indefinite upper bound.
Last I read, there is potential for the M1 to get eGPU support. Other USB-C to PCIe cards have worked so it seems to be a driver issue and not a hardware limitation. Now whether Apple can work nicely with Nvidia & AMD to get drivers, that is a big question.
I fundamentally disagree with this, and its implementation seems to be a significant attack on dual income, middle class families who are doing well for themselves.

This doesn't hit the rich, it hits the middle earner and it hits them extremely hard. It's frankly pathetic but I suppose what can you expect in an era of hard pressed populist socialism.
It doesn't seem worse than reading the paper, which my family seems to think is ok in polite company. Ipad/tablet = digital newspaper.
For me it was a discipline thing. Then a mentor of mine convinced me that not writing tests was actually okay when you're exploring something. He suggested I only write tests for "production" code - something I would deploy.

So I routinely would whip something up, see that it works, then start a new project with tests and rewrite my experimental code.

You can imagine what ended up happening - I realized how much time this was wasting, so I started writing tests to test my experimental code so I didn't have to throw it away.

I got my brain hacked. Maybe that story will help someone else. :)
they should get paid for every prisoner they rehabilitate instead of incarcerate
More that there is no ONE single perfect AI, or even two or three or n<infinity.
Or maybe -- just maybe -- his problem domain might be harder to write tests for than yours is.

Look, as one of the Rakudo Perl 6 developers, I love our extensive test suite. It's an absolutely terrific development tool. Writing tests for it is usually quite easy, helps make sure we're getting the subtle details and interactions correct, and benefits not just Rakudo but every Perl 6 project. It's a huge win.

But I'm also working on a ABC music notation to sheet music program, using Perl 6 and Lilypond as tools. And I don't see how I could fully test the results of that without using some sort of optical sheet music recognition software -- and even if I could get that up and running, it would still only be testing that the musical symbols were correct, and not that the sheet music actually looked good. If you can tell me how to set up an automatic test for those things that will take me less time to setup than the 40 or so hours that writing the actual program took, I'm all ears.
Richard Benson (master printer, MacArthur genius grant winner, former dean of Yale School of Art) has a saying (approx.), "Smart people are a dime a dozen. Show me someone who can make something and I'll be impressed."

Wise people are also, of course, impressive.
I really enjoyed the humor in this article. It makes it accessible enough that I will probably send it to a few if my newbie-programmer friends.

After discovering functional programming myself I figure everyone who doesn't love it must not know what is is. It's the best thing since 640k of ram, after all. But there are people who have heard of it, maybe tried it, and just gone right back to their Java and forgetting that the strategy pattern even exists. After talking with some programmers at work I find that they think it isn't necessary and, more than that, isn't approachable.

I personally love the mathematic approach. It is more natural for me after my time in math and physics. Most people don't like math, and we need more articles explaining how FP simplifies programming they are already doing. I liked that this introduction was very approachable in that respect.
Absolutely. Unit testing is just one gun in your automated testing arsenal. When I was working as a web dev and I saw Selenium for the first time, my jaw dropped. I totted up all the hours I'd wasted of my life hitting refresh buttons, because "you can't run automated tests for a browser". How wrong I was!

Once you get into those subjective bits, you're in new waters. I think/hope there is some research going on here, using AI-based "critics". A lot of AI uses a generate/test paradigm, where a result is generated and then tested for fitness in some manner. One could imagine that testing in some of these fuzzier fields, like graphics, would be improved by independent AI critics. I had the opportunity to head into AI, and the inability to automatically test my algorithms and say "this really works" versus "oh no, it's broken" drove me crazy. However, this uncertainty is what the AI guys loved :)
Continue to downvote me but please at least reply with a comment as to why you disagree.
State leadership stepped up while conservative media was echoing the president's narrative that that response was a liberal hoax. There's a stark difference between the standard response and how the president acted.
I think that's rather bold to say "people are done with passwords." Personally, I find them rather annoying. I don't like bouncing between apps. The email login link often opens a new tab/window, too. When the email doesn't show up immediately I question what one of five things could have gone wrong? Is it my fault or their's?

I also can't see how this would be more secure (outside of knowing they reuse the same password everywhere). If they hijack your e-mail they login without warning since that's the normal flow. If they use your email to reset your password, both the service and the user get informed there was abnormal access.
You are right, I should have written that the stupid lady was involved in an accident.
We always include a backup code in the email you can manually paste in.

Do you need to login to things repeatedly? I mean, sure your bank... but what else do you log out of?

You and I use a password manager... but are they mainstream? My parents sure dont
This would be really incredible! Could maybe be a way to quickly make video game assets for testing and such. Although to make the meshes performant in a game engine you'd need to decimate them quite a bit as the marching cubes I used here produces really dense meshes.
Does https://jitsi.org/ solve these problems?
I'm in Philly, my wife travels through phl (intl airport) quite often for work and we have a sizable Asian population. I was just naive to think we had a handle on this thing.
I was clearly too terse; the point I had in mind was that those Popular Science handwavings about the glories of the imminent personal-aviation future were actually more realistic than the current crop of handwavings about the glories of the imminent robot car future, because working commercially-available helicopters actually existed during the '50s-era personal-aviation hype. The engineering problems had been solved, so the leap of imagination only had to cross the safety issues and regulatory challenges - which, of course, ultimately proved intractable.

With robot cars, in the year 2015, the imagination must jump even further, because there is no robot car industry yet; all we have are prototypes. Maybe those prototypes will become real products and maybe they won't; maybe those products will make it through all the non-technical hurdles necessary to make them a success, and maybe they won't.

In any case, the people expecting robot cars to have a significant effect on our transportation infrastructure in a mere ten or fifteen years are being wildly optimistic, and the people who claim that we can stop investing in trains and buses because ubiquitous googlemobiles are just around the corner are... well, I'll be polite and stop talking about them.
"Replacing ugly but works with beautiful but fails is not good engineering."

Now as to marketing....
Alan Kay was inspired by the real world, mostly biology back when psychotropic substances were rather popular.
That's were the problems start.
The real world systems are:
1) unpredictable - except for those who can forecast the future.
2) Unreliable
3) Slow
4) Uncoordinated - except if you believe someone runs the world.
5) Unmaintainable - just ask someone on human maintenance (drug research etc).
6) Naturally autonomous

Point 6 is very critical, because in von-neumann architectures you will end up having a shared memory and trying to give an autonomous memory to each agent, will end up very suboptimal, and no zipper, COW of any other FP trick can change that.

You just cannot afford to write your software like the real world, and you don't even have intelligent agents of human ability as building blocks...
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To not appear on this list, just set a password.

To actually be secure: Bind only to localhost, tunnel over SSH, OpenVPN, etc.
When enough people are aware of the meme, and the meme is ingrained in culture enough to have a statistically significant effect on perceived ability. Or when people decide it is meaningless, out of desire to control their expectations of their performance.
> Like many people I went through an "objectify all the things!" phase, but now I find myself moving more and more to stateless service layers,

These are not mutually exclusive.
Can you see gists?

https://gist.github.com/
OpenID has been on its way out for a while. It's being replaced by OpenID Connect [1] so this is not bad news, but a good reminder in any case!

[1]
http://openid.net/connect/
it is a quote from the link, look at the 2nd line of the comment
In large part that relates to the low pay of anyone that still qualifies for Overtime in the US. But also because it's calculated on a week by week basis. Work 60 hours in one week with double over time and you get to take 1 full week off. Change that to a monthly or yearly basis and people are less inclined to work overtime.
TIL - I did not know this about Nomad, but I assumed they weren't using CSI or CNI because they mentioned managing LVM themselves in the article (and in this/previous article they mention bpf for networking so definitely not using CNI), so with full context the question would be "how are you providing the functionality without relying on any of the pre-built ecosystem stuff listed above?".
Yes it is a money grab, but there are industries where every player does this, so you have no choice but to play their game if you want in.
it sounds like audio only version of chatroulette.
Many companies tried and failed since the 90's, because most coampanies' software dev is a core group of skilled people using vague specifications to build a product for their first time.
That and the fees they collect from the merchants.
Maybe, but the PBBS folks don't seem to understand the value of the "hook." They look like they've got a lot of useful bits, but there's not an easy avenue for you to dive in and explore what that means.

I've never even played the "game" part of the CLBG, but there's still a whole nother layer of data porn, voyeuristic comparison wanking that draws you in. Heck, even the divisiveness of showing two numbers is enough to drive interest, cause nobody likes seeing their number worse, and everybody secretly loves knowing their choice was right.
http://www.socialcaddy.com

It supports LinkedIn, Gmail and Facebook.
I find it really useful to catch up on things I miss out on in the streams...
I'm by no way a fan of Assange, I think what he's doing is irresponsible. However, everyone else appears to be wilfully committing wilful violations of any laws, be them civil, criminal or constitutional, that stand in the way of prosecuting him. When he's up for extradition to Sweden to pave the way for an extradition to the US, they might have well performed an extraordinary rendition and disappeared him like the US government made a habit of under Bush.

Incidentally his 'accusers' used a political loop hole in Sweden and never actually accused him, and the Swedish prosecutors sat on it until suddenly (IE very shortly after the US government had leaned on Switzerland for offering Assange and Wikileaks asylum) the charges magically rematerialized.

The Swedish government also issued a red notice (interpol notice seeking extradition) after Assange had already agreed to meet with them to discuss the charges, as they're only seeking him for further information and still aren't pressing formal charges. By Interpol's database he's one of the few (IE .03%) red notices for 'sex crimes' and is one of the few amongst them not wanted for associated violent crimes.

He was initially denied bail in the UK as a flight risk, despite the fact that he hadn't fled nor hid and had offered full cooperation making the denial of bail extremely suspicious and virtually unheard of.

I don't think Assange or his defence lawyer need to fabricate an 'illusion' of foul play, because the US, Swedish and British government are doing a far better job of actually conducting foul play and conspiracy than Assange could ever fabricate.
Great service, used it all the time. Did priority inbox killed it? However, the idea of tracking response to important emails, and contacts you was not in touch with, is great.
tl;dr: normal people don't care about specs, the operating system, etc. manufactures ship shit cos they can and ultimately just need to sell it. as early adopters we are influencers but thats it, manufactures don't care. early adopters pontificating about tech are just chirping to the echo chamber. something about tight pants.

What a load of old bollocks. In his attempt to prove a point he totally over-simplifies the situation.

Sure my mother doesn't care whether her phone has a 900Mhz Targa CPU or a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU. But of course she does care which OS it is. "Why don't the apps I bought on the Apple App Store work on this Android phone I just upgraded to?".

And of course it is not ok for some manufacture to offload some stinky pile of shit tablets to Walgreens, one that have fundamental hardware and software flaws which is why they can't be sold via regular channels, and call them "$99 Android Tablets". Because poor customer who buys said tablet now goes away thinking all Android tablets are crap, perhaps all tablets in general are crap, and goes and tells their friends to boot.

Who else is going to call out the manufacture than the early adopter crowd? Other manufactures can't (it's not the done thing). It makes the space crap for everyone.

And as for saying manufactures don't care about early adopters, most first-gen products are aimed squarely at the early adopter crowd because often on day 0 there isn't the network effect, product development, etc to really bring out a proper fully baked product and so they rely on the early adopter crowd to start the ground swell.

Android G1, current line of Google TVs, First DVD/HD-DVD/Bluray players are all examples of products manufactures built for early-adoptors. Even Apple, usually very good at being totally consumer-focused, has openly been courting he early adopter crowd with the AppleTV while it R&D's in public what the sweet spot is in that space.

Yes, us early adoptors != general public buyers, but this article completely discounts and discredits a still significant and important part of the technology market and ecosystem.
Here you go: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
A bit OT, but how do you guys handle database changes between multiple branches? Say I added some fields in branch A through multiple apps and then I need to go back to the master to do a fix. How do you revert the changes before checkout master?
Maybe I never learned the secret handshake* or something, because I was a homemaker for eons, but I find all job postings pretty opaque. So I don't see what the big deal is (that some specific piece of info is being left out).

* From what I have read, I am not so sure it's "just me". For example, I've read plenty of anecdotes where someone went in to some field with grand visions only to discover that their visions don't remotely match the day-to-day details of their actual work.
TL:DR - Don't trick your users.
IIRC, Andrew Carnegie was largely self-taught at a time when free libraries were basically unheard of. He donated a lot of his wealth to make sure there were free libraries available so that other people (like him) starting from a lower socio-economic class who wanted to get ahead would have the opportunity to be self-taught as well. So perhaps one issue is that "open education" already exists to some degree and is not actually a new thing.

As others here have said, colleges also serve the purpose of certification or accreditation, not just education. If you want a job, a degree is still useful and can be essential for climbing the corporate ladder. There are circumstances under which knowing how to do something has inherent value and where convincing others of your ability is largely irrelevant. Getting a job is not one of those circumstances. Getting a job is all about convincing others you have the know-how and skills, at which point a degree is a short-hand proof of some qualification. That isn't likely to change much.
This looks really good. My wife and I only have one smart phone (a HTC Desire) between us - would we be able to run 2 wakemates off one phone or would we need two phones?
It's a troll-ish question, not a "simple question". Sorry. Flagged.
Sure, niche is good. But if you want to start a new design firm, this is just not very good advice. I would say that 99% of new design firms that succeed go where the work is, not try to convince a bakery they need a 100$ website.
Bugs have been found in all of these packages. How much are you willing to gamble that there are no more bugs in them?
You know what - I just did it. I know my productivity yesterday was shot - let's see what today brings. Thanks for that little verbal push - I may have actually needed that.
Until the battery packs can be built by robots or robotic assembly machines.

Which cannot be too far away for that kind of volume.
>Except apparently they do the opposite.

Welcome to every debate on nutrition, supplements, and pharmaceuticals in history.

Regardless, the study you linked says they reduce the effectiveness of SSRIs, not that they exacerbate depression.
I think it's part of the TechStars tactic to ask for the bare minimum, and hope for more. It makes your company look leaner, which signals to investors that their money is working hard.

For instance this video has been cited as a "perfect pitch" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKJcWYAvW4

Percentages always sound more impressive than numbers. For instance if you ask for 300,000 and get 500,000; you can say we were 167% over our goal amount or whatever. I've seen it done on kickstarter funding, and I've done it myself.
Very thorough answer, thank you :]
Going to sleep at 3AM and waking up at 9AM for work. Yep. :/
We need more of that! Wow they had everything back then ... down to the traps and pitfalls and utilizes the minimum resources for working engineer. Funny thing they couldn't express the parentage and origins of vi text editor which derived indirectly from the ed source via fork called em which was used to implement ex.
In addition to virmundi's suggestions, find your state and/or federal representative and talk to them about it. While it's not likely to make a big impact, these are the people who have the most sway in this regard, and you never know what might 'take' with them.
For theoretical FP64 flops, it should be closer to 128GFLOPs. Assuming 10W TDP, that would put it at 12.8GFLOP/Watt, putting it right there at the (Double precision) GFLOP/Watt ratio for pretty much all the top chips for 2015 (coming from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, etc). I guess it is nice that it is an SoC, but I'm not super impressed (then again, I am biased).

Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/show/8811/nvidia-tegra-x1-preview) is reporting that it is a Big.little A57/A53 combo...I'm not completely surprised that they went with off the shelf ARM cores instead of Denver, but it makes me think they are putting Denver off to the pasture (especially since they say they are not going to be going after the HPC or Server markets with it). Denver has some interesting code morphing (a la Transmeta) tech, but has in order instruction pipelining. This saves a lot of complexity for the chip, but decreases performance in most usecases (but NVIDIA claims that it is more efficient 80% of the time for the average mobile user). Maybe NVIDIA determined that out of order execution that the ARM reference A57/A53 cores provide is better for the applications they seem to be targeting with the X1 (automotive).
It was a pun on "What's cracking?"