skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being the "IT" person amongst my friends and families, I routinely get asked how to fix a computer that has been hacked. In every single case the problem isn't that the computer got hacked, it was them clicking an ad that stated they had a virus, or they downloaded something random because they couldn't see through the noise. See my CNet link below in another response.

Savvy users can tune these things out, and/or know sites to avoid, but for the lay-person it is hazardous.
I see this constantly in engineers. My theory is that we're trained to see life as pass/fail and that starts to become a general theory of life. I found this guy to be quite helpful.

http://yourcharismacoach.com

He's got some great videos like how to warm up to conversations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZUx6VLoY0

His stuff was so helpful to me I went to a seminar and then hired him and my social skills went through the roof. I got better clients (I run a consulting company), my marriage improved, and I just feel all the more outgoing despite a lifetime of being introverted.
It really can't be emphasized how much better this version is over the last version.

It's like going from IE Dev Tools in IE7 to Chrome Dev Tools. Night and Day.
I used this new logo and turned (rotated) it into a new Google Scholar logo: http://i.imgur.com/j7L0goJ.png
> Actually if you read the comments from the developers in that thread they won't support it until there is documentation on the firmware "blobs" you need to have in order to even boot.

How exactly is that different to an undocumented or—forbid it—an unflashable BIOS? Don't even get me started on EFI...

Aside from coreboot, I don't really see anybody drawing the ideological-line-in-the-sand there when it comes to running their PC.
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Central London now has residential prices per sq foot from about £1K-£5k+ ($1.5K-$7.6K+) - roof space is often the most expensive (read penthouse) and suitable roofs sparse (at least in London).

How are you planning to find suitable space / scale in such conditions?
Gambling is widely legal in Britain.
What's wrong with that?
It going to vary from state to state, and country to country, but usually it's a combination of reduced labor rights and decreased liability. Contractors often don't have union or collective bargaining rights, they aren't entitled to healthcare or superannuation (for countries with such a thing), and often have to handle all of their own personal liability insurance and payroll tax. They also have no sick, parental or annual leave entitlements (again, for countries with such things), overtime/weekend/award rates or other kinds of employment protection. The cost of a labor force the size of Uber's would be huge if they did it on an employee basis.
Employers have too much power in the asymmetrical employer/employee relationship. In order to counteract this and level the playing field, there must be minimum labor standards enforced by the state.

I know that a lot of right-leaning Americans think that government should stay out of private contracts, but they'd be dead wrong. If the employee was just as powerful as the employer, then the situation would be different.
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Since the upgrade, I'm just getting "Connecting to react...If this is React Native, you need to interact with the app (just tap the screen) in order to establish the bridge." when I try to load the dev tools.

EDIT: Apparently the tools don't work for local dev. Just hosted the files behind a python simple httpserver.
No really. What could go wrong? Tell me.

A lottery is just gambling. We already have frameworks for regulating private gambling. Vegas is fine. The world hasn't ended.

So tell me. What would go wrong if lotteries were privatized and regulated to a similar degree as Las Vegas?
It depends on how tech savvy the managers are.

Part of doing the job as a programmer is research and design. You don't just sit down all day and write code, you have to write documentation, you have to do research to find ways around bugs, you have to design the UI and data structures.

For example I would write Pseudo code on paper to work out design flaws before I entered it into the computer. I would write Flow Charts and other things. I even developed my own method of developing data structures and database tables on paper as well.

When I got stuck I'd research things in a book, or I'd search for the answer on the Internet. Companies paid for a MSDN subscription and have to make it pay off by searching the knowledge base esp when dealing with API calls that change with each service pack. In using Visual BASIC 6.0 sometimes I'd have to ask a developer at Microsoft via MSDN when I found a bug in Windows or Visual BASIC itself that killed my project and find a way around it. Crystal Reports we used and talking to Seagate Software at the time was the only way to fix CR issues. We had an issue where if the user wasn't an Admin on a Windows PC it would show duplicate rows, and Seagate got a service pack out to fix that issue.

Everything I did on the Internet, on the phone, or reading books was job related and going towards solving problems and using resources. But my managers didn't always see that as work because they wanted me to solve the problems by myself, which would have taken a lot longer and impossible without a service pack to fix bugs.

I never read a book, used the Internet, or made phone calls for personal things, they were all work related.

Yet a service pack is like the size of a CD-ROM and takes five hours to download, so they noticed I was using 5 hours of Internet when that happened. (This was in the late 1990s when the Corporate Internet was slow).

Other programmers who didn't do the same things I did to solve problems, could not solve them and the projects got reassigned to me to fix them, because I was able to fix problems.

No matter how good you are, you will get stuck on some problem and need someone else's help to solve it. If it is a bug in the language or OS, you'll need a service pack or a way to get around it.

You managers might not always understand that you need to seek help by reading a book, looking in a knowdlgebase, or talking to a developer on the phone to solve things.

Your programs work on the old OS with the old service pack, but as soon as new ones come out they break compatibility and trying to figure out what changed without contacting the company that made the updates is really really hard to do.
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Yeah, Uber criticism seems to be an example of the old "perfect being the enemy of good" problem. Uber is extremely far away from being even remotely perfect, but the old system was built on a system of corruption, cruft, and abuse, it was mostly horrid for everyone except a tiny few. The fact that only now old taxi companies are scrambling to change and improve dramatically is a stunning indictment of the existing complacency and lack of competitive market forces.
They can simply declare alternative lotteries illegal. Then nobody will touch it because any winnings will have to be laundered like drug money.
Any chance you can file an issue with a link to your site so I can look into it?
I'm positive a 35k electric car made by tesla will not disappoint. 35k is quite a bit of money
I guess that makes sense. I let my mom use my computer a few weeks ago and I ended up with 20 different "coupon printers".
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Sounds like we are just talking semantics.

When you buy liquor, you pay the market price (call it $10) plus an excise tax that the government adds on (let's say $2).

Imagine the government nationalizes the liquor business. The buy up every liquor company, and continue operating them the same way as before ($10 price + $2 tax). I think anyone would agree that this $2 would still be considered a tax.

Now let's say the government gets rid of the $2 tax, but bumps the price of liquor up to $12. The tax is still there, it's just implicit now.
Asking service workers how much they like their employer is a less-than-perfect surveying tool. Why would they trash-talk Uber and risk getting a lower rating from you?
Same here, trying to isolate the issue in my project, since it seems to work fine on fb.com
If you are going to enter a lottery, it makes sense to buy the cheapest possible ticket and enter as infrequently as possible.

Why? Because there's no rational basis for entering a lottery. It relies entirely on magical thinking. You are effectively polling for the existence of a personal luck deity. There is no need to use a complicated, expensive system for this.

A single $1 ticket, purchased annually, will suffice (this is available in Australia).

In the infinitesimal chance that the magical thinkers are correct, this single purchase will be sufficient for your personal luck deity to respond with the appropriate riches.
Not addressed to you, rather to a sibling commenter. Hellbanned users cannot be directly replied to.

ngoldbaum, you should check a user's comment history before alerting them to the fact that they're hellbanned. If there's a clear reason then don't. In this case, he was hellbanned because he called someone an idiot on his very first post.
Off-topic, but if you want to see a great talk about working with Voronoi in Clojure, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=627&v=hzLAX_pr-Wc
I did read them. Now and a few months back. Janne raises concerns about running a blob on the CPU (which does not happen), while Stuart explains the boot stages correctly in detail and compares it to very similar issues on newer x86 technology.
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The fundamental strategy of Tesla is to start with high end cars while costs are high, drive down costs through volume, and gradually get to the point that low cost cars are possible. That's why they built the Gigafactory, they want to drive volumes.

This is in stark contrast with the electric cars attempted by the traditional car companies. They would build an ugly and expensive econobox.

Starting out elite, and gradually growing the market worked great for Facebook. First they were Harvard only, then Ivy League, then gradually all colleges. Existing users didn't like the changes, but if Facebook had stayed elite they wouldnt be worth $250B.
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That is not economics in the macro/micro sense, that is more financial/ financial markets theory. It really is a different branch of thinking than what economists deal with.

Finance != Economics
Except that Tesla is notorious for not meeting deadlines.
What is ProseMirror? I don't want to download it before i see it.
Been wearing all black every day for a few years now. Knowing I don't have to fiddle with the world of clothing at all ever is comforting.
Are liquor taxes not taxes?

You can absolutely avoid paying them by not drinking, and millions of people indeed do just that, but the fact that a tax is easily avoidable does not make it any less of a tax.
An enormous improvement over the old dev tools! Good work FB team.
If `foo` doesn't own `buf`, it should be declared `char * const` (or `char const * const`). If `foo` takes owner ship of `buf` (and is intended to free it), it should take a pointer to the pointer to clear it for the caller. This is one way to write it:

void foo(char **const bufptr) {
...
free(*bufptr); *bufptr = NULL;
}

You can dereference `bufptr` at the top of the function to make the code more readable. This is how (almost) every object freeing function works in my project.
It is a mischaracterization to say they have issues with the firmware, they clearly say they don't have the same objections to firmware running on the peripherals themselves.

The issue here is that the rPI requires driver code running inside OpenBSD that is a closed source blob.
Nice work!
You did an excellent job on the instrument. Also very helpful in the development of the React!
I also suggest check out MicroMono: New View of Microservices. Updated documentation is coming out in a few weeks.
https://github.com/lsm/micromono
Anyone who has encountered a bug should know that software can have emergent behaviors. And when you consider the possible emergent behaviors of armed robots using distributed AI and real-time data...well, the guy who wrote this article is an idiot. They should fire him from the NYT and find somebody who understands the complexity of this topic.
It isn't; it just seems like a really shitty thing to do to someone you care about. If indeed she does, but the conditional love of women often works out this way.
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Yeah, I feel like I'm totally on the same page as you. Analytic philosophy always seemed like a bit of fun to me, but seemed to boil down to logic games that have as much application to the real world (as a simulation and explanation of it) as boolean, programmed representations of it do. Which is to say, some.

That doesn't mean I don't have immense respect for analytic philosophers, but I have the type of respect for them that I also have for fiction writers that create immensely consistent and engaging fantasy worlds. Zing!

Continental seemed to me to more generally have the view that all debates and philosophies were necessarily making ontological and epistemological claims. That immensely appeals to me.
The endgame for Uber is replacing their drivers with self-driving cars. The legal distinction of employee/contractor can only matter for what, 15-20 years until that happens?
Looks awesome. Does this still work with JSX that's been precompiled and/or minified? Eg, after a build step involving Babel, Closure Compiler, etc?
Well, for starters, Robert De Niro is getting a bit old to star in the mob movie surrounding the early infancy stage of corrupt privatized lotteries.
Yup! Try it on facebook.com.
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>Probably fair

Really? The following text is coped from them message at the top of the link you provided.

TLDR: block.blockhash() only works for the previous 256 blocks, so EtherPot is broken.

Something strange happened with EtherPot after it launched. There were 3 subpots the first round, but somehow a single player was being reported as the winner of all 3. This single account only had 8% of the tickets, so winning all 3 subpots was pretty unlikely.
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Illinois and New Jersey call it "privatization," but what they really did is outsource the management to a private company.

Those lotteries are not privatized in the sense of opening it up to competition.
Are you me? Though mine lasts for several (many) years and other than exercise (gym 4-5 days/week) I haven't found a something that works or anything resembling a life purpose.
Are you taking 'me time'? When did you last have a decent holiday where you did no programming, turned all your work-related email and phones off, and did something else that you enjoyed and found fulfilling?

It needn't be a home hobby, it might be reading, it might be an activity-club that you enjoy, it might be volunteering - but I've found that I need things outside of work, even work I enjoy, or life's pretty cruddy.

Similarly the stresses of work can really build up, even if the work's quite interesting. There's no amount of money I could be paid to work in a continual six month lump again. That's the sort of thing where you take a holiday and spend the first few days of it just decompressing; eating icecream, sleeping, and reading or watching TV or the like.
Monopolies and taxes are two different things.
But that contradicts the "most people live in big cities"; it is "most people live in cities", but of them most of them live in smaller cities.

And it only deals with the urban/rural distinction, which subsumes suburbia into "urban". This has value for lots of uses, but isn't particularly useful for discussing transit, where suburbia is -- while still very distinct from rural areas -- very different from narrow-sense urban.
If a site's deal is "my content is worth you risking malware", that would suggest it's pretty darn awesome content.
I'm sorry, but that is wrong.

The main blobs are being run on the GPU, as bootloaders, even before the actual operating system is loaded. OpenBSD does not need to run _any_ blob itself.

There used to be a 3d graphics driver blob, but afaik that got open sourced. Also, if you don't do 3d, you wouldn't even need it.
"...the conditional love of women"

...okay
Hi there. Sorry about this, I didn't realize it was 'hijacking scrolling'. I tried a possible fix. Could you let me know if you still see the problem? Thanks.
Didn't return any results. Let me know when to try again.
It’s a pretty common practice from Xavier Niel (founder of Illiad, Free and Online) to cut prices in half to win market shares and reduce prices from the competition. He’s done that multiple times now: Free (ISP), Free mobile (MNO), Online (dedicated servers).

It has worked every time and competitors followed by reducing their prices as well.
It's all local, sorry.
Is there a well-regarded complete translation? I found an introductory translation of selected writings from the 15-volume source, "Maxims Of Chanakya", by V.K. Subramanian,
http://www.amazon.com/Maxims-Chanakya-V-K-Subramanian-ebook/...
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The distinction between monopoly rents from a government-mandated monopoly and a tax on the category of service for which it is a monopoly is very hard to see.
Nah, it doesn't seem crankish to me. Also, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9UJmm_AAAAAJ&hl=en...
I think that chroot predates anything in kernel that would care about canonical paths. OS X manpage (first google hit for "getcwd history") claims that "The getwd() function appeared in 4.0BSD.", which is to this day essentially the only syscall that returns path name.
Completely unusable on my iPad Air. Damn.

It's amazing how fast computers are. And it's amazing how slow we make them with layers and layers of cruft built atop more layers and layers of cruft.
Not useful enough to be able to acquire a bank account, which requires a drivers license or social security number, which then requires a birth certificate.

And as it turns out, it seem acquiring any of these things for purposes of a false identity is illegal. So much for remaining anonymous online just because I'd like to be, not because I need to be.
Lotteries are a sucker game because, as in California (for example), the players put their money into the pot, the house takes one-third off the top (administrative expenses), the house takes another one-third for a good cause (education or whatever), and the players take their chances against one another playing for the remaining one-third.

I don't care how normal odds of winning are calculated. The above is a shell game in which the only certain losers (from a financial standpoint) are the players.

That is what a typical lottery system boils down to, in essence. It may be possible to justify them for the social causes they promote but they clearly take advantage of the players and particularly those who do not focus on the obviously horrible odds against them when they play in such a stacked game.

This may or may not be a "tax" in the technical sense but it sure is a case of the government rationalizing a system by which it (in my view) takes advantage of its citizens in the name of advancing its social agenda on other fronts.
The difference is that the rPi blobs actually run on the GPU, the CPU is unharmed.

Still, both have access to the same memory. But that's a similar issue on the PC.
Digital currencies would pose a worse problem for addicts as there is less of a wait time between playing and getting the result, which may result in more frequent playing and more money spent.

Also when you win $1m in bitcoin, cashing it out is probably a bit of a challenge, and you probably need to pay tax on the winnings.
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Using your personal im for work business is a world away from

1 - incidental use of your cellphone for work, even things such as securing work email via 2fa;
2 - using your phone to answer work email via remotely revokable gmail access;
3 - using your personal laptop to answer work email, again via gmail

none of 1-3 mean an employer should get the rights to view my personal email which is also on my phone, or to look inside my phone at all
Am I the only one distracted by the blogger's blatant misuse of the semicolon?
John Oliver had a segment on the lottery [1]. It may be difficult to wean states off lottery income in the short-term. A ban - or severe limitations - on their advertising would be a good, realistic first step.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
It's interesting that a $35K price point even makes sense for a car that could conceivably be designed to last 400K miles.
Hey Sprocket!

We can do any homogeneous product made in batches - so cheese may be a good fit!

We've done some yogurt and cheese reviews in the past to test the system but nothing extensive.

Send me an email at JasonCEO [at] Gastrograph [dot] com and we'll see what we can do?

Cheers!
- Jason
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That actually may be part of the issue... I just spun up a server behind mine and it works now.
But seriously theres no need to wear the animal if your not living like the Inuits.

I mostly agree with you, but there a few exceptions (clubbing baby seals not being one of them). If one rides a motorcycle and cares about keeping body parts in their original condition, there just isn't a good substitute for at least some leather use. I'm a vegetarian who is so in order to reduce the killing of animals, but there's no substitute for boots that have at least a bit of leather in them. I mean no substitute. Sidi makes some leather-free ones, but they don't work for me for other reasons. Gloves are one item that one might get away with synthetics. In the case of jacket and pants, I prefer my synthetics as their better in all weather.

And then there's goose/duck down. With that, it's more a case of synthetic being an adequate substitute, but an inferior one. If you're tight on space, down sleeping bags and jackets have superior insulation for their smooshed-down size. I've got a Patagonia down vest (cruelty-free! I'm off the hook, right?) that's loads warmer than any of the synthetic vests I've spent a fair bit of money on, and it packs to just a little rolled up ball.

But clubbing baby harp seals in the head? Yeah, not much of an excuse for that.
Funny, I hacked something like this together too recently, although it did take me a bit longer. Nice job!
The reality is that public transport will always be the superior solution. No matter how big you make the highway some trains are always going to beat traffic. Combine that with some Park&Ride places on the outskirts and bus/subway/tram in the city.
No it was another family who tried to hook up the XBox 360. I didn't think to tell them to ask the front desk to unblock the ports. It was years ago, and my son is in high school now and left the middle school behind.

Next time I encounter that situation I will advise them to call the front desk to unblock the ports.
I've considered this problem before. If I remember my research, I'd investigate using bash's built-in echo or printf, and paste encoded versions of binaries into the terminal. To speed up the terminal work, get uudecode, base64, or iconv working. Maybe wget or curl, to fetch base packages and unpack them. Then, say, ssh, and rsync, and selectively restore from backups.
quote "..as a species have a propensity to anthropomorphize almost anything we interact with" this. And a part from this, bugs. I mean, bugs are there even if you use nasa best practices for safety-critical software
Consider the fact that ad blockers and the Internet culture of ignoring ads has led us to this point.

I suppose it's a good parallel to the drug laws: you push people to the illegal market when it becomes impossible to get what you want through the ethical/legal route.
See also: http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/