skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The reality is, we choose the society we want to have, and how we treat the people at the bottom shows us what we have chosen. Whenever talk of the absence of a real social safety net in the U.S. comes up the response is rhetoric about how people's expectations are off and how this kind of social safety net equates to socialism, which is a poison ideology that rots away the motivation to work hard. But when I look at the reality of contemporary America what I see are people at the ends of their ropes, working multiple jobs just to barely stay afloat, being taxed for being poor through fees and fines, and wealth accruing to people who already have the resources to do well.

Well, if you look at the rhetoric, the ideology that's been propagated among the people, what you find is that it's all about how working hard is the true good in life. No limit is stated past which it becomes overwork, nor are any guidelines stated for actually compensating work -- only for ensuring that there is work. Even today we still hear talk about "job creation", or in other words, making more work happen.

America let the neoliberal genie out of the bottle: if you make a wish for hard work, don't be surprised to find yourself a peon. Neoliberalism is doing exactly what it has always said it does.
Welsh occasionally does things similar to German, where things end up squished together to make a new thing. Other examples would be Aberystwyth (aber - river mouth, Ystwyth - the river in question), rhagddodiad and olddodiad (prefix and suffix), trosgais (a converted try in rugby) and so on. So yes, it's a compounding of two other words, but that's kinda how it's done. Not entirely sure if that makes it an argument for or against what you're saying though.
Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones
Maybe not relevant to check in an actual emergency, but I would certainly check just for the sake of checking to get an idea of the best ER's to go to should there in fact be an emergency.

While I don't use Yelp a lot at home, I find it indispensable when traveling.
Just a heads up, your DNS took a long time to resolve for me. You appear to have an invalid nameserver (ns3.gridhost.co.uk) listed at the root.

https://r1dns.com/dnscheck.cgi?domain=expirify.com
Am i the only one around here who thinks that grammatical gender is dependent on the linguistical context, rather than the gender of the referenced person/object?
> After that, Stagefright essentially gives the attacker control over the victim's Android device.

Taking into account that this is not true because it still have to bypass ASLR

> It also highlights the biggest problem with Android: Fragmentation.

2015 and still with this?
> In order to sell high after wrecking the long term future of a company, you've got to fool a lot of sophisticated investors. This seems implausible to me.

When you put it that way, it does sound implausible. But it demonstrably happens, so lets consider how that explanation may be wrong.

You don't necessarily have to fool a lot of sophisticated investors, you have to fool people/firms with sufficient funds available to invest, who can be talked into the belief that they are taking advantage of opportunity the rest of the market is missing, perhaps one which is uniquely available to them because of synergies.

Often this can be one person or firm rather than a lot of investors (sophisticated or not) -- its not as if acquisitions where the acquirer pays above market price and ends up a few years later taking a huge charge when its expectations fail to pan out are unheard of.

And this makes sense. If firms can make foolish decisions in running their business which negatively impact the future of the company, one form this can take is buying some other business at an unjustified price where someone else had already made a foolish decisions that negatively impacted the future value of that business.
same here - it's been tough breaking the 'buy a new book' habit. If there's something I find that I want to save, I will either save the complete page, or just copy/paste the relevant text.
> songs purchased through Apple’s iTunes music store—which restricts playback to a handful of computers

This is not true. If you download songs through Apple Music, then they are protected m4p, but if you purchase music, the files are unprotected m4a and play in other software like Traktor or in CDJ's without any problem.
Anyone know if Skylake comes with SGX extensions?
Yeah, but when they confiscate food in poor countries it's to maintain the elite in their luxury, regardless of how much everyone else is starving.
This oddly reminds me of how YTMND was back in the day. Now it's mostly a niche site, but when it was semi-popular among certain segments Internet users it had some conflicts erupt between users such as atheists vs Christians being a classic spat on the site. Reddit seems to exhibit some of that coarse nature in its user base at least from my own experiences.

I'm not sure Reddit's owners can herd the users into compliance. For me the most likely outcome will be the slow decline of Reddit because users that aren't even affected by the policy changes and enforcement (even helped and protected with the banning of subreddits like /r/beatingtrannies and /r/fatpeoplehate) will see it as a possible threat to how they can submit content to the site. It's that unintended effect that Reddit's owners need to be aware of because it's what's killed smaller forums and sites.
Everyone gets excited about a journey to Mars (and other manned spaceflight ventures), but NASA's unmanned probes are far and and way the best science its done.
If you only offer it to the original owner and the fee isn't particularly exorbitant, say $10 - $100, it might not even be sinister. Wouldn't you rather pay the slightly inflated renewal than deal with someone who's asking 5 - 6 digits?
Unlock Almost Any Car and Garage Door with This $30 Device
My wife and I just visited Egypt for two weeks. It was quite interesting to walk down a street in Cairo and look at hijab/niqab shops right next to seriously raunchy lingerie shops. We though it might be a cosmopolitan thing, but we noticed it even in the more conservative towns we visited.
Okay, but if you're only talking about SF then that's pretty silly. Because there are parts of the bay area that are much cheaper although I get that even they are expensive. But if you're paying to live in SF proper or Palo Alto proper you're paying a premium for either a low commute or to be around other tech people or both. You can find places that are affordable in plenty of parts of the east bay.
We're getting this soon(ish)! http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/169

Still a few years behind other languages, but its coming...
Yes, that was one of the main points of architecture overhaul.
No, but you can train to remember that eight hours is normal; it's the people who think six hours is normal - or rather, the ideology they've bought into - that's alien.
Fast and Angular Way of Handling Audio
Is there a good alternative idea?
This isn't rare. It doesn't mean you got sent to the minors. It may mean you are a better fit for another team, or that the team you started interviewing with filled the position but didn't want to see a good candidate go away.

I had this happen early in my career when I interviewed for a core developer role and they decided that I would be better as a development consultant. It was an ego hit at first, but I took the job because it sounded interesting. After being there for a while, I talked to the original team lead that I interviewed with and he said yea, I was weaker in a couple of areas but they wanted me still. However, the consulting director also needed a really solid dev that could actually talk to clients without having an allergic reaction. So he fought to get me on his team. So the irony is for 3-4 months I felt kinda like I got sent to the minors as you say, but in reality they were fighting for me in two groups. You never know. BTW -- this happens a lot because many companies will have 1 person, outside the team that is hiring, interview candidates and if they really like you they might pull for you on their side.
If one earns enough to the point that pocket change (coins) has become a burden to carry around and one has the "opportunity" to give it to the homeless, then it's a win-win.
I'm pretty sure every registrar does this. It is in their interest: they remind you to pay so they get your money instead of some other registra getting a poacher's money.

A key problem is people not seeing the reminders. Perhaps they get lost in a sea of spam. Perhaps they get accidently calssifed as spem themselves. Perhaps the contact information for the domain isn't kept up-to-date and the reminders end up in an email account that is no longer monitored.
This is but one of many tactics employers will use to try to decrease their own employees' value on the open labor market.
I can't see myself retiring by i5-3570k since it's not a sufficient bump in performance for me (even with DDR4 quad channel). So, I'll have to wait and see what Intel does with its iGPU technology. If the iGPU technology gets as good as a gtx 970 (or r9 290x) then I might buy one of their next generation CPUs when they come to market. :/
Perminute yes. The cost of producing all music ever has probably been higher than all movies ever just because of volume. TV is less clear would be interesting to see the numbers.
Kudos for being honest!

I have the highest respect for detailing the real reason instead of generic "awesome journey".

Moreover, being acquired by SVB sounds way better than average acquihire. You actually can execute your idea, but as part of other company instead of separate entity.
A fascinating story of JetBrains Way to C++
Care to propose and develop an alternative?
More details in Gawker's article: http://gawker.com/here-are-the-internal-documents-that-prove...
I got an upgrade to Not Found

The requested URL /how-the-internet-sees-us/ was not found on this server.
There is an app for iOS (not sure about Android) called upflix that does a great job of filtering based on reviews from several sources.
It does get a little more difficult when execution flows into code you didn't write, but you can still validate your post/pre-conditions at those boundaries.
Me too. I normally need around 8–9 hours to function normally throughout the whole day – an hour more if I've been exercising regularly. It's highly impractical sometimes, but I've started to accept that I just need more sleep.

I can usually get by with less sleep (7 hours) and function somewhat normally if I go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, but I feel much better if I get a couple of hours more.
GE's building an industrial cloud; critics wonder why
Good Eggs 2.0 – A plan for our future
Excellent plan.

Now we only need to worry about the small matters designing an alternative system that acheives what the domain name system does without those draw-backs, and convincing people to use the new system...
I used to work at BT with a (very good) DBA who's first boss was Dijkstra
This is pretty scary. You just described me to a "T" (except the Evernote part - I use Onenote). I've been lucky enough however, to fall into jobs where I became the "tech lead" and as such, explore all sorts of new technologies and systems every day. But jeez, maybe I'm ADD. Appreciate the post!
Two MiP robots doing a duet dance
Pokemon Color Palettes
Android Fragmentation: 24k devices, 1.2k brands
Also if you run on production scale it is worth investing in log tooling.

It's so much easier if you can search what has happened instead of guessing. Also customer experience is much better if you tell them that is fixed instead of asking for details :-).

Disclaimer: I work for log management company (Sumo Logic).
so all I have to do in order for my comment to be on top is to reply to the most voted comment ? :)

(please do not reply, so my comment will stay on top :)
)

edit 1: after few quick downvotes, i am still here, on top :)
Is it me or this is stupid? I mean, this is the digital world, you can make as many copies as you want, so if you give them a licence to whatever they want with it, what are your options after submitting something?
I've been with Gandi for years, absolutely love them
Programming Literacy
living near NYC has taught me to ignore beggars. At a certain point, you lose sympathy because you can't distinguish who genuinely needs it and who's just looking to make an easy buck.
I'm interested in the trade-offs in growing up bilingual - what, if anything is being depressed to make up for the resources devoted to being bi-lingual?
because the connections between those routers are not monitored

A correlation attack[1] doesn't care about the intermediate routers. It only requires packet dumps from the entry and the exit node. Both of which, with very high probability, route through networks that are monitored by the NSA.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/traffic-correlation-using-n...
"""James Erwin, a Reddit moderator of several subreddits including r/history, argues that Reddit’s unwillingness over the years to provide strong, hands-on leadership to the site’s community is at the heart of the company’s lackluster business performance. Without a firm editorial grip, the flourishing of disreputable subreddits opened the door for BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and others, which sift through Reddit content and repackage it to advertisers in more sanitized conditions. “Reddit is watching other people eat its lunch,” Erwin says."""

I think this loses the magical thing Reddit has - extremely strong intent signals from millions of people who are constantly voting on these items.

An interesting route to monetisation for Reddit would be divorcing the hive mind from the more passive viewers. There are probably a sizeable number of people who really don't care about the discussions / community interactivity element within Reddit and don't even possess accounts. What if Reddit created an independent app which used the live data from all of these sub-reddit upvotes, comments, (sentiment analysis?) and the rate at which something got picked up to do their "buzzfeed"-esque curation? Reddit's repackaging would create that neutral advertising-safe space, which could be successfully monetised in different ways.

An example of this would be say a deep-connect with content providers like Netflix and Hulu as well as whatever sub-reddits exist for movies, where they have a curated, passive viewing experience of say short-movies culled from a combination of Youtube, Vimeo, and Netflix to create a unique mix that wouldn't exist anywhere else. This would create a constantly changing, dynamic "TV-like" experience. Some viewers would like to engage around what they've watched and then Reddit could close the loop and get more data. I'm sure there are other interesting things to do with all of the photos they have in their dataset. As well all the articles and user-submitted content. (a better Flipboard type app?)

Reddit the company doesn't have to fight with reddit the chaotic force. They can just harness and use it to achieve a scale of manual curation no one has ever attempted before. It could become something quite special.
Community dynamics is incredibly hard, managing it under growth and after a certain threshold even more so, and radical change is almost impossible.

It's easy to say that someone has been too lax or too firm but it's such a complex issue. It's really hard to force a community in certain direction. It's more about sowing the seeds with tools and ux and less about policies and rules... and then apply a light touch help it develop in the direction you want.

There's also a question of what the ultimate goal is. What's best for the most users? For making the most money? The biggest median satisfaction? To fulfill some aspirational teneth?

I think one of Reddit's fundamental problems at this size is that it is grown on the seeds of anonymity, user moderators and upvotes/downvotes.

It has served them well for a long time but chaos always ensues when a community reaches a certain threshold, and more pressure needs to be applied to keep it in check (if that's what you want)

Upvotes/Downvotes is a blunt tool and threads easily changes into who agrees with whom rather than promoting thoughtful comments.

User anonymity is great, but requires features around it at a certain size. A country has borders to keep criminals away and community needs a way to keep trolls at bay. If you just can create another account what's the problem with being a troll? One remedy might be a smarter karma system where more visibility is given to users that's posted interesting content, kinda lika slashdot.

User moderators are great when it works, like in some channels. But it's also a source of petty power struggles and dictators defending their fiefdoms. Reddit of course benefits tremendously from the work the "power" incentivizes these moderators do for free, but I keep wondering if at a certain size there needs to be more automation and checks and balances to avoid user moderators becoming destructive or slanted and put too much focus on the meta. Then again maybe some subreddits should be biased and let the mods rule as their will. It's a little weird though for big general subreddits for things like news and countries.

Anyway, Reddit is probably too much set in it's way to enact radical change without the users revolting, and there isn't proof that the model doesn't work, just that it has its problem, as all models probably would.

As I said, community dynamics are complicated. Will be interesting to follow Reddit going forward.
Which is a good argument for taking employment law away from the states having 52 slightly different sets of laws is not efficient.

Of course this would probably reduce the number of HR roles but hey you cant make an omelet without breaking some eggs :-)
hey bemmu, here's the Payondelivery return process:
The buyer has to return the package 'as is' through their Payondelivery account, they print a return label on their Payondelivery account and ship it back to the seller (hence no need to provide proof of return).
When the seller receives the package and it's a brick, they raise a dispute with Payondelivery (seller has 24 hours to do this). Because we have shipment data on both the outgoing and return package we can quickly decipher if something else was shipped in the return package to the seller. Once this process is concluded and we determine the seller's original product was not returned, seller gets paid.
Google photos - http://photos.google.com . Browsing via automatically tagged people and places is unbelievably good.
I don't know about, and probably can't defend the idea that CEOs can produce outsized benefits compared to rank-and-file employees.

However a poor CEO can easily waste more money than 300 salaries just by choosing the wrong product direction, or keeping a strategy going long after its not beneficial.

So perhaps pay is so high just to find a CEO whom isn't a bad hire.
Learn from Someone Else's Mistakes: 6 Common Epic Fails in Project Management
Are 64% of Features Really Rarely or Never Used?
Conversely, what I thought was pretty cool is seeing the reflection of the sun off the oceans, roughly in the middle of the earth 'disc'. You can see a fuzzy bright spot that stays in the middle of the disc as the earth spins.
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Silver Blackberry Passport
Did Fear in Supernatural Punishment Build Complex Societies?
That agencies' powers are "unchecked" is an odd conclusion to draw from an article announcing that Cato's position won and the Supreme Court has concluded that farmer's must be paid for their confiscated raisins.
Yes, but I think the larger point is, if Reddit pisses off the people creating interesting content, they will leave.

Reddit's user agreement doesn't mean jack if nobody is submitting anything.
Also zero. I just did clustering and then insertion sort. It seemed obvious where each color belonged.
My wife accidentally pushed the lock button on the garage door this last weekend (and we don't have a side door).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMz1tXBVT1s

Watched this video.

Took me a half hour to get in, including the drive to Home Depot to get some heavy gauge wire for $10 for the roll and a constant, push the wire / hook into the garage, run around to the side of the garage, look through the window, see where the hook was in relationship to the release, adjust the hook and repeat.

Fun times!
As a techie in the banking industry, I have to say I am very disappointed. I wish they had persevered with their initial product and expanded on that instead of trying to become a bank. There is a huge market for banking software -- for skilled sales teams and they certainly proved their mettle judging by their sales success . There are several companies that have done very well by staying focused and selling solutions to the banking sector.
edit - typo
My disappointment with Wii force feedback came with the very first game I played for it: Legend of Zelda. Happened when I swung the wiimote to swing the sword, got blocked, and my arm kept moving. Then it just became the gimmick waggle.

Pointing/shooting controls were all right, couldn't really complain about a mechanic that Nintendo's had since NES Duck Hunt.
What's funny is that it can go exactly the other way with iOS: "Apple's latest vulnerability also highlights the biggest problem with iOS: It's a monoculture."
“I have already used the name for my programming language” (2009)
Then the responsible directors should have been banned for life as not fit and proper persons to be directors of a company.
Upbrining without punishment definitely is definitely possible and practiced semi widely (google around). Punishment is a pretty bad way to address misbehaviour.
Hack your C++ with LLVM
Introducing Sidekiq Enterprise
For some people, there's a bunch of dental things you can wear at night, some are kind of like a retainer.

http://www.sleepapnea.org/treat/treatment-options/oral-appli...
Just try out the Wii U version, it can be worse.
Can the headline be changed to reflect the fact that it expired and wasn't "poached"?
> From this point of view, testing will show an absence of bugs - not categorically all bugs, but all bugs I care about.

I'd say not even this. Testing will show the absence of some of the bugs you thought you cared about. In practice it will fail to find bugs you thought you were testing for, and then it will fail to show bugs that, when they happen in production, will have you thinking "oh, right! I hadn't thought of that! Obviously I don't want X to happen."

This is not theoretical. I've seen both kinds of undetected bugs happen in almost every job I've had. Getting your test scenarios correctly partitioned is hard. Thinking about what to test is hard. And a lot of programmers aren't even aware of Dijkstra's assertion -- how many times have you heard one of your fellow co-workers claim "but this cannot fail! I tested it!"?