skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As compared to Apples ecosystem, or Android, or? I simply don't get it. All of it is there to improve the experience for most users, and possible to turn the chatter of such that it shares next to nothing. What more could you ask for, in a system that aims to make is simple and feature rich for the average person?
Why no one talks about agile testing
An Indian City Is Getting Inundated by Creeping Toxic Foam
16 lenses on one camera
>And most people don't believe in hanging out with people they don't like.

Then they shouldn't do that.
AP financial stories written and published by an automated system
I might've confused the gender of your name further down in the comments (not a native English speaker). Sorry for that. :)
You are confusing communism with state capitalism.
Nope it really wasn't. There was massive chaos during the economic upheavals of Mao. But the reduction in poverty is still an impressive achievement subsequently to that. Compared to countries like Brazil, South Africa etc which also had the oppurtunities to reduce poverty but it has increased and the economic disparity is worse than ever. Even the USA has increasing poverty.
This blog post might resonate better without the obvious biased tone.

Better to refute the arguments without snide remarks and name-calling, which actually does the reverse of the desired effect and lends credence to her argument about a respectful forum.
Well i think it will take some time for libraries and components to be updated. For me currently at least react router should provide a compatible build with react 0.14
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Keys won't be sentenced to anything resembling 25 years. Even his prosecutors have said so.

He's also far more responsible for his actions than Andrew Aurenheimer was. Keys, while working as a social media editor at Reuters, used his access from a previous job at a Tribune subsidiary to let anonymous Internet hackers break into the LA Times, one of the largest newspapers in the world; the attackers used it to modify stories. His "hack" was a straightforward abuse of the trust misplaced with him.

Keys defense fixates on the rapidity with which those stories were taken down. But of course, that's not the whole story. The Tribune Corporation, like every major corporation, usually must follow a complex process after a breach. The cost far exceeds that of simply taking a story down.

Keys has, by all accounts, fantastic attorneys. The sentencing phase of this trial is just now starting, right? How can they possibly be letting a freshly convicted felon talk like this? Isn't he harming his case here?

Edit: my comment originally claimed, incorrectly, that Keys had used Reuters access to compromise the Tribune Company; he did not; rather: he used his access from a previous job at a Tribune subsidiary to do it.
"But for journalist Matthew Keys, who prosecutors said illegally leaked the username and password needed to make the changes to the hacking group Anonymous, the end result may mean 25 years in prison." Probably not going to, but there's apparently a possibility or a precedent somewhere for that number to pop up.
That works everywhere except the Southeastern US, where people will be offended by it.
>"Be careful when you think you've got a lesson from history. It probably says more about you than the Romans."

This is one of those times I read something that I know I'll find myself quoting for a long time to come. Thanks for that.
Yes, the story is wrong. It also contradicts itself on this point within a few grafs.

https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...
A friend of mine said that placebo is very effective in Romania (our country) too. I may mistake it, but she said that it can reach something like 70-80%. Maybe it's a developing countries problem. :)
My thought as well.

As far as I understand, these intrinsics map to SSE instructions (they are 128-bit). One could use the later AVX (256-bit, found in server chips since 2011). Probably they decided to start with the lowest common denomintor of SSE, because they don't have AVX in all of their servers? The term SIMD is generic.
How about the start of my sentence: "Absolutely agree". Would that imply it is an expression of my opinion, in your view?

Standards? I think you are being a bit too hard on yourself and us. These are just comments on a web forum.
> It can be mitigated if your backup service provides two accounts for the same backup: an "append only" account and an "administrator" account.

That's how Tarnsap[1] works (I think the author is the user cperciva)

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/
This is basically a reboot of Marx's 19th century ideas with a trendy fresh look. In fact, he predicted this stage (which he called the "dictatorship of the proletariat") in the evolution of "Political Economy" that will, in his mind, eventually lead inexorably to "True Communism." [0]

His "theory of alienation"[1] pretty accurately describes the angst that motivates the "workers" to want to move away from the Capitalist system of production and explore ideas such as libcom.org.

For those with an interest, you should read Das Kapital...Marx was a true intellectual powerhouse and his chops were both deep and wide.

IMO, It all sounds very good in theory, but always seems to always fail during implementation, like a bad software project,

The history of attempts with Communism shows little in the way of success as far as providing "the masses" with an increased standard of living and overall happiness, so I'll always be wary of such proposals.

Personally, I believe Sartre's Existentialism better describes the human condition, although even he eventually adopted Marx. in lieu of Capitalism, which will, I believe, always be hated by the intellectuals.

[0] http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/marxs_vision.php

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
I'm not well versed in this part of history, but a quick Google search yielded Tito's Yugoslavia.
Funny fact, any commercial for a drug, here in Romania, is ending with a very fast auction-style warning that last less than 5 seconds. In US you have like 5 minutes of country music and elder people having a picknic while all the possible dangers in the world are softly planted in your mind. :)
A license per machine. How is that wierd? The entire industry of commercial software works that way, one way or another. Either you pay per user, or pay per machine. Note you can run several VMs with Windows without paying for a licens. Honestly, I believe it's a matter of time before Windows is free anyway.
Personally, I'll never forgive them for their practices. They deliberately stifled competition, shafted developers, abused their position, and rubbed it in our faces.

There's no coming back from that, and I'll gladly educate newcomers to IT on their ways.

Let them die. The new CEO could be the second coming, you can't fix that cancerous attitude that is entrenched.

They deserve to become obsolete, at the very least.
Wow, this guy sounds like a tool

He'd be smart to lose the attitude before sentencing. It all depends on the judge, but a lot of judges really really love to see groveling, remorse, repentance, contrition, etc.

As others have said, he probably won't get 25 years. But maybe he does 3 years instead of 2 years. We'll see if he still thinks it's "bullshit" after he reports to prison.
It's getting harder to move beyond a minimum wage job
Would they, when speaking English, self identify as "Americans"?

I feel like the ambiguity exists only in some pedantic formal sense, that in colloquial usage it's clear enough what is meant.
Facebook does have an internal solution for push updates, I believe they use long http requests. There were some talk of relay adding support for updates via websockets, anyone have any information?
From one independent to another, send me an e-mail [0] about your work sometime, toomin.

[0] In my profile.
The same laws don't apply for monopolists as for others in the USA. (I wish it was more similar in my native country.)
To distribute sound over long distances 'wirelessly' you need to make it loud. That typically means cranking up the power. And ultrasound can be harmful at high power [1].

[1]

"Occupational exposure to ultrasound in excess of 120 dB may lead to hearing loss. Exposure in excess of 155 dB may produce heating effects that are harmful to the human body..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound
Testing without QA
It is weird to have the article call Adobe and Autodesk mid-size companies. In Europe they would be considered giants.
"you ess ians"?

I am a European and I used that term because the article declared that USA demonstrated such results. For me, USians more clearly distinguishes different types of American. Since I have not read the scientific paper, I was not sure whether, say, Canadians had also displayed similar results. If not, I suspect there is possibly a political / legal / societal cause implied.

Amongst other ways, USA is unique in that it is, perhaps more than any other country, populated by people whose ancestors had an ideological reason for living there. It is highly speculative, but it would be really interesting if it could be shown that such an historical filter were somehow behind these results.
I see no contradiction - keep necessary labour well paid but aim for abolishing all labour in the end.
I considered myself a communist when I was younger, and would say I'm politically agnostic now. I don't think you can reconcile it with a pure labor valuation, you have to reject it. Tech people see crazy amounts of money concentrated into the hands of a small number of organizations, and at the same time pretty horrible poverty in the global south. It seems natural to connect the two, tech sweatshops producing the devices software we write runs on, and see global redistribution of wealth as a healthy productive way to even those things out and technology as the means to do so. With that being said, I think drawing on failed Marxist experiments is not the way to get people to jump on board.
I don't recall that, not even allegations to the effect (there were such for Office competitors), plus I probably would have learned of such while working with a guy who had previous interned at Microsoft on IE of that era.

More directly, I'm not aware of any public Windows APIs that handed out data that tricked your code into doing a general protection fault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_protection_fault), or in the case of WordPerfect, compel programmers to use their own printer drivers, and write code that regularly drops your tables, figures, etc. to the bottom of your document (unlike the other companies I cited, WordPerfect actually managed to ship a Windows version that didn't GP fault, but that was late, terribly buggy, and prompted all the WP fans I knew to reluctantly switch to MS Word).
Classical libertarianism is libertarian communism. The term libertarianism originates with the French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacques back in the 19th century, and was championed by groups like the Socialist League in the UK (which was supported by Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx amongst others).

Modern-day right-wing libertarianism is the new kid on the block.

Basically in the late 1800's the main split between anarchists and communists in the First International was not predominantly their end goal.

E.g. consider the famous concept of the "whithering away of the state" (coined by Friedrich Engels, but Engels attributed the idea to Marx): that given that according to Marxism the state is predominantly a tool of class rule, and that communism by their definition is the stage of society where there no longer are any classes, the state will cease to have a political purpose and will "whither away". So anarchists and communists agreed the state was a tool of oppression and that this oppression must be removed, and that the state will eventually disappear.

The split was over methods. How to get there. The anarchists generally favoured a quicker, more immediate, dismantling of the state (whether by taking control and orderly dismantling it, or by rising up and destroying it), while communists generally favoured an intermediate transitional stage. In Marxism the intermediate stage is socialism: A phase where the proletariat is meant to take control of the state (hence the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in contrast with Marx description of capitalist democracies as the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie"), and for the first time wield it as a weapon of the majority against the minority, and use it to remove the class differences. So communists traditionally saw the state as a tool for the working class.

Eventually this lead to the split of the First International, where Marx came out victorious, and most of the anarchists left when Bakunin was thrown out. Not long after, new libertarian socialist/communist tendencies started "filling the gap" in the International left by the anarchists.

The extent of support for a strong state varied greatly amongst people who called themselves communists, leading to screeds like Lenins "Left Communism: An Infantile Disorder", which targeted exactly libertarian Communists which opposed his ideas of a vanguard.
Powershell really is powerful. It's just an entirely different paradigm. The unix philosophy is "Everything is a textfile and pipes" - Powershell on the other hand is "Everything is an object and calls", and it's equally powerful, albeit not as simple.
> This is the weirdest thing about the dichotomy of Communism's popular resurgence in tech circles.

The weirdest thing to me is that it's pretty hard to produce and maintain software systems in the face of limited resources, interactions with the real world, bosses that don't know what's going on, etc. But somehow it seems not just possible but optimal to top-down design the ways billions of people live their lives. It really doesn't matter if the designer is one person or a committee of the proletariat. That's an NP-ridiculous problem.

In the fact of that, I'd rather individuals make decisions about their own lives.
Actually he might. The way law is written, hackers are the closest thing to a terrorist. If Aaron Swartz is any indication, I expect an unfair ruling.
Your theory is absolutely correct but in practice the corporations and government represent a very substantial concentration of power and resources in the control of very few, plus they are allied with each other. Government often helps large corporation via bailouts, tax breaks, subsidies etc. and large corporations inform government and even fill it's ranks. Essentially we have a system of state capitalism not laissez-faire capitalism. This makes it very difficult for small companies to compete freely in an open market.
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The 25-year "offer" from the prosecution is nothing but a scare tactic to make a defendant have to sit and think about all that time for awhile while they work on the other cases they have in the pipeline.

It's a very standard practice and in no way indicates what the prosecution really wants to give him.

In my recent experience, it works very well as it is no fun sitting around for months thinking about the possibility of doing all that time.
He is conflating right wing libertarianism with the libertarianism referred to, and stalinism/leninism with the communism referred to.
Huh? Aaron Swartz never saw a ruling.
As long as European intelligence agencies continue to cooperate with the NSA expect all change to be decorative.
Dell to buy EMC in $50bn deal?
They can only innovate, and have no control over what "hits". The above are good products.
Can I have some data on this?

From what I know it was the collectivisations of farmlands that caused great famines.

When land rights were re-established, poverty was reduced. People had an incentive improve the land.
A lot was started before he took over, but there's still been a dramatic change since it happened.

When SSH was announced, the team said they tried twice before and were shot down. This time, they got executive support. I bet there were many great, open ideas that Ballmer shot down that Nadella would approve of. My point being- of course good things were in progress before he took over, but they seem more likely to make it out the door now.
Exercise/Workout
>Let them die.

I wouldn't hold my breath.
So it's only five years in prison. Do you genuinely think that's appropriate punishment for some minor vandalism?

Five years. I know American prison sentences are insane in general, but consider what that sentence actually means.
There are several implementations. There's a reference in javascript based on express, sangria for scala, and I read on a blog post about people working on a ruby server. See: http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/09/14/community-ro...

You basically define the schema, and for each method you want to support you implement pulling the data from your datastore.

Authentication is up to you - stick a bearer header on your requests and implement checks in your server and you have secure backends, etc.
https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js

Just implement resolve.
It will be a full system for an online store for weapons.
So I have to choose a DB, back-end which will be Java and front-end which I have no idea yet. Angular,React...
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> according to Marxism the state is predominantly a tool of class rule, and that communism by their definition is the stage of society where there no longer are any classes, the state will cease to have a political purpose and will "whither away"

So who runs the justice system, commands the military, and protects the rights of the citizens?
But you can't blame this on capitalism, on stuff that isn't capitalism.
There's been some mention of supporting subscriptions, but I haven't heard anything about implementation. I think it's on their roadmap.
What3Words – 3 word addresses for a world divided into 57 trillion 3mx3m squares
Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
But not likely because of Ballmer.
I'm not entirely sure about that. Some trial designs do indeed have an arm of "no intervention" or "usual care" or "waiting". Sometimes these groups may be given the active therapy after the trial ends, since withholding a potentially effective and efficacious therapy may be considered unethical. There are many trial designs, not all of them are lab-based - - "pragmatic" trials in particular don't tend to follow typical masked, randomised, placebo-controlled designs.
We have no idea how long the sentence will be. Prosecutors said under 5 years. If I had to guess, it'll be closer to two years.

I think the major problem with CFAA is the way in which sentences scale with damages. I generally think all criminal sentences are far too long.

At the same time, this is a really unsympathetic defendant.

It's not "minor vandalism" when the cleanup involves a $50,000 outside forensics investigation. I don't know if that's what Trib had to do, but much smaller companies than the Trib have had to pay much more in cleanup from otherwise innocuous breakins.
> cancerous attitude

seriously?
Exchange isn't popular in Enterprise just because of email and to say "just use IMAP/POP" is showing that you're out of touch.
Why not US American?
>it's when you sell influence.

Which is exactly what the University executives did...sold influence to the Koch's. Hence, their money peddled influence.
How to Run an Effective Engineering Organization, from my favorite tech manager
> I understand that it must be trying to extract some extra "useful" information from those large files, but the keys is that it shouldnt block your UI from showing the basic stuff.

That's weird, all the file-io operations in windows store apps are async for the very reason of not blocking the UI thread. How big was that folder? I'm geniuly curious.
I doubt that anyone would be running space heaters or ovens off the DC part of the system. The idea is more to prevent having to do a zillion high voltage AC to low voltage DC conversions.
Sadly, if you use such rules there are not many big tech companies left that haven't done such things...
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What "offer"? 25 years is the statutory maximum. Nobody "offered" it.
There are a bunch of illnesses that have real pain and suffering as a symptom, but don't have any identifiable cause.

Pain is sometimes one of these. The pain the person reports is real pain - you can do scans and see it - but it doesn't have a physical cause.

It's likely that these people experience strong place o responses.

But the. We know that cognitive behaviour therapy is used for cancer patients, and we wouldn't normally describe their pain as psychological.

So, pain is complex and fascinating and difficult.
Not to mention with 'SIP' (aka 'rootless'), Apple even has unrestricted control to part of your filesystem.

They promote it as a security feature, but it only protects their own interests. It does very little to protect actual user data (which is what the user cares about), and all to protect their eco-system (and therefore, their finances).
Pleasantly surprised by powershell? I don't know what to say. I have to essentially copy and paste fragments of things that work, it's so arcane. Its like writing 90's Java on a command line. Its revolting.

Still to this day I can't even fscking grep.
> So for people with a few machines that might be 3 licenses you have to pay for - it's just crazy.

The idea that one wouldn't have to purchase 3 licenses is crazy.
Popehat said "That's consistent with my calculation of 53-61 months guideline range."

Two years is also a really, really long time.

Who cares in the slightest if the defendant is or isn't an asshole? No, seriously. Empathy and basic humanity do not work that way.
You assume that the slaughtering was based on class. I don't think this is true. A lot of the killing was just about maintaining political power, just like in any dictatorship, whatever the official ideology.

You also need to consider what class means. It's basically behaviour: you are upper class if you exploit others. In that lens, it becomes ok to hate the upper class, but the upper class can change, it's not hated based on something inherent to the people that make it up, like "race".
Any time someone starts off with a review of when scientists were wrong, you know snake oil will follow. In the section on bats they specifically mention how quickly ultrasound power drops off, but never discuss how that same bit of physics affects their main value proposition (hint: a lot). The irony of them going on to say "it's terrible that companies sell these devices because they're ripping people off" is pretty thick.
Sputnik orbited, it didn't reach escape velocity to leave the influence of Earth's gravity.
> the vast number of SKUs

In their defence, we did that to them. They had to make all the N versions of Windows to appease EU courts. What's troubling is that no such restriction is placed on Apple or Google
I've never read her but I assume this is where you start:

http://lib.ru/NEWPROZA/ALEKSIEWICH/zhensk.txt
I'm currently traveling and backup to an external hard drive and photos to Google Drive. What's the best way to keep encrypted backups of important files in the cloud?

I was thinking about using duplicity and S3
To be fair the Tribune subsidiary should have revoked that access a LONG TIME AGO. The million dollars spent after the attack was to fix their security I bet.

Don't think what he did was right and he did have someone illegally attack the LA Times but it does seem strange that this case is so big and the charges against him so large.
Does this mean that it is now possible to create a circular data structure in git? :)