skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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A government-issued private key doesn't solve a main problem I'm concerned about. This needs to be something people can roll themselves. If you can't generate your own key, you're not secure.
I believe this is known as the "Special Pleading Fallacy."

Of course, you could play the "Slippery Slope Fallacy" card against my argument... but we're not dealing with logical entities, are we? We're dealing with often-irrational human beings and governments composed of them.
You get Full Subscriber Benefits (https://www.visualstudio.com/products/subscriber-benefits-vs) for paying yearly, you don't get any subscriber benefits if you pay monthly.
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Here are the subscriber benefits: https://www.visualstudio.com/products/subscriber-benefits-vs
Thanks! That's actually awesome and covers both use cases I care about personally. I am going to download it later today and try out - been preparing myself by reading C# code over past few weeks, so this is perfect timing.

I am interested in finding out how it compares right now to Java for building web apps and services - in terms of DB access, various ORM stuff etc.
3 month probation will work great with unemployed or fresh out of college people etc, not with employed people, certainly not with senior candidates.
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There's an iOS app where you can control XBMC from your smart phone. It's pretty awesome.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/official-kodi-remote/id52048...
I'm a big fan of Yarn. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.timmutt...
...and the byline?
One such benefit is $50 per month of Azure credit for dev/test. That pays for the subscription right there.
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>How are you ever going to assess the quality of this software in terms of security?

I am not aware of a single third party that has reviewed all of the code that goes into a Linux distribution. Do you know of one?
I doubt it. Writing systems are not mathematically systematic like computer codes. They're not even internally consistent. The "big problems" with UniCode aren't in its schemas. The "problems" are inherent in the domain Unicode attempts to encode.
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PGP Usabilty:

In the old days (Groupwise?) I found PGP easy to implement and use. Today I find it nearly impossible. Apparently I am not alone.

http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf

I have found S/MIME a bit easier to implement, but still much harder.

Is it a conspiracy to keep people from using crypto?
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This is pretty amazing from the company that was trying to kill Linux just a few years ago and is now adopting that mentality for developing and delivering software.

While I don't want to be negative; this and other recent moves by MS, seem to be an effort to lighten the overladen ship that is the MS super-tanker. Will moves like this prevent them from sinking? Personally, I switched away from MS products in 1996 and have never looked back, and this does make me wonder...
I wonder what he does after school. Impressive accomplishment! That's a lot of focus for a kid.
What if you need to change the password, store gmail.com.1? how do you remember which one you are on?
> The lack of parallelism in PS is the second biggest reason I don't use it.

I've done parallelism in PS, it's not difficult[1][2]. IIRC there were some gotchas, but it's certainly possible.

> For more complex tasks that would require a hash, internet access complex parsing etc., I tend to write a script in a different language, and plug it into a pipeline with bash

Right, you have no other choice in bash. Powershell lets you do all that within the language itself trivially.

1. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849693.aspx
2. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849718.aspx
Thanks, though that's seventeen words. A few people have suggested trying to publish a book, I was planning on looking into it next year. While I am dubious that publishers would be too excited, you never know - the world's a really strange place.
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Well as most dosage is focused, you just increase that area to include the sensor. WIth such focused exposures you have shielding for the patient for the parts you do not wish to radiate and with that just place the sensor upon that and not impacting dosage upon patient at all.

That's how I'd do it from my understanding of the usage practices today.
Apparently you don't deal with much non-ascii data if you don't like python3's string handling. It's literally the reason I first upgraded, because reading in simple text data on Python2 can break completely. Seeing as literally no language on earth can be written entirely in ascii characters (since even English text can contain words with accents or old fashioned things like the long s ſ) this is a pretty big issue.

Yes it is possibly to laboriously add code to check and encode/decode text, that might sometime be text and sometimes binary pretending to be text pretending to be binary. But why go through that pain when you could just use Python3 where things are clear and generally actually work.
Yeah, they copied a lot of the syntax over. To the point that there is an alias for curl by default. Probably a good thing, though.
In the 90's I found PGP fairly easy to use (with old versions of Novell Groupwise)

Today I find it fairly difficult to implement with modern email systems and devices. Apparently I am not alone.

http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf

I have found S/MIME to be barely implementable. What can we do together to make it easier to use email encryption?
If you are looking for an actual solution - I guess you could start Windows 10 in a VM(MS provides free images for testing purposes), install latest iTunes on it so you could upgrade your phone to iOS 9, then continue using your mac and its version of iTunes.

By the way - El Capitan supports mid-2007 iMacs:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/10/04/os-x-el-capitan-on-o...
Somewhat relatedly, I'd be interested to hear if I'm crazy or if trying to use React Native for production quality iOS apps is really, really, soul-crushingly frustrating.

Who's happy with it? What's your app like?

I'm about to give up on computers. Fuckkkkk. Maybe 50% of that is just burnout.
Probably the same reason (or at least somewhat related to) that Google App Engine only supports python 2.7. (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/)
Jetbrains really is great. It's like Eclipse, without the bugs and faster. For Python, nothing beats Wings IDE. Both proprietary tho.
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Bit embarrassing isn't it, that a joint venture between two of the US's (and world's) largest aeronautics and defence companies doesn't have their own engines – and has to rely on the Russians?
How does this compare to Brackets? http://brackets.io Anyone has experience?
So this is why what-if hasn't been updated.
The problem with "I can speak intelligently about it" is that many unskilled applicants can also do it. So this shouldn't be the deciding factor.
I agree that the functionality provided is quite basic, there are quite a few libraries out there that provide much more functionality, such as the one you mentioned or http://i18next.com/

I was initially using another tiny library http://airbnb.io/polyglot.js/, but we wanted to support translation fallbacks to allow us to put every widget/component in a separate namespace. Which means we don't have to copy translations over unless they are unique, since that became a bit of a maintenance burden as more things are added.

We already supported dates by using separate other libraries such as http://momentjs.com/
Bravo! A+ for creativity!

This is exactly like the last start up I worked at and any tech meetup i go to.
It is heartwarming to hear your mission. The landing page does not indicate how donations are allocated between direct services and overhead. Having open accounting would be a great feature.

Good luck.
aaand another article about what isis wants. How can they all be so conflicting?

he Atlantic concludes that ISIS = Islam, while The Nation concludes that it's just another group of poor, abused people.
http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-inte...
I usually do exercise immediately after work, but if I'm feeling too tired to do anything productive, and if I want to do something productive, then taking a nap helps. Maybe 30 minutes, maybe an hour.

Your schedule and/or sleep preferences may preclude this from being a useful option, but for me it both works and is sometimes mandatory if I want to, e.g., do more programming or writing work in the evening.
It's hard to deny that he says smart things that make sense, that's probably why. Whatever people may think about what he did, he remains quite an intelligent fellow with a good knowledge of relevant matters.
This was really hard to read. I feel like I'm reading a redacted science text book, with all the important bits removed.
Especially suspicious when accounting for the sorts of technological developments that have taken off since then -- lots of sending packets to screens of various sizes, not very much human exploration. /s
If this really works (well), this could really be an awesome tool. Especially in connection with a notification, an in-app message, or email.

(By the way: The "people" features are an add-on that you have to pay by user, additionally to the engagement data points)
The psafe3 file is encrypted.
First-time parent of a 4-month old, we're thinking the same way. Me and my wife are both engineering types, and do worry about being obsessively goal-oriented.
I've been thinking for a while that what Go needs to become more widely used is an IDE with debugger. I'm numb (with a grin on my face) that it's coming from Microsoft.

I've read they're beta testing Go on Azure. Another good thing for sure.
Just down the page is the opposite statement, "Who cares, VS Code is nothing more than a fancy text editor. Not and [sic] IDE." They missed the point, but you are just factually wrong.
I really don't think that's an accurate characterisation. Space launch isn't a zero-sum game, and SpaceX and ULA aren't sports teams. You don't have to cheer for one at the expense of the other. After all we're all just humans stuck on a rather small planet, painting ULA in any sense as the "bad guys" is extremely silly given a little perspective. If SpaceX pushed ULA entirely out of the commercial launch market it would produce yet another monopoly, and while Elon's motivations are primarily for the betterment of humanity healthy competition is much preferable.

I, for one, am quite excited about ULA's planned Vulcan rocket [0] which incorporates reusability of the engine section, and hope it will be a success. I'm sure you will find that the most active members of /r/spacex feel much the same way.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28rocket%29
You probably don't need a dedicated compiling add-on VS Code has a very simple, but capable, generic task running system. If you hit Ctrl+Shift+B ("Build" shortcut) it will launch and if it is the first time you've run it in that folder it will scaffold for you a sample JSON config file with a bunch of examples of how to configure it (and more examples are online).
Fair enough, but even if pg said it I still disagree with the premise, albeit respectfully. You can have a site with a simple layout which features the content without having ugliness be a conscious design principle. The problem lies in the assumption that plain design will "repel" one kind of user, but attract another, I don't believe it does.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/01/09/24/162236/philip-...

Zimmerman's response to being described as "overwhelmed with feelings of guilt" in article following 9/11 and the possibility that his encryption tools had been used by the plotters.
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Finally! At least I will not have to waste so much RAM when I want more cores. :)
I'd imagine your'd want to bill outside to cover you as roaming contact wise, but that may just be me thinking this thru too much.

Still, thought it may be cheaper, which is more messed up and ironically you won't get charged to be able to do 911 calls, or premium for owning a phone that thinks it is smart etc etc.

Crazy but heck, why not offshore your phone provider and teach companies a lesson.
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Why not? Because they have to leave their jobs? Are they committed to my company and the job or not? Sounds like it's a good litmus test.
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I think the point is that like all religions, Islam contains in its holy books rationale and justification for many barbaric acts that most Muslims (such as yourself) don't follow.

There is nothing special about Islam in this regard; however, in the modern world Islam happens to be 'It' right now in that it has a large armed and motivated radicalized branch of followers.

This doesn't indict all Muslims in their crime, nor does it indict Islam any more than in indicts any other religion, for better or for worse. All it means is understanding that we're fighting a religious enemy bent on religiously motivated ends.

In fact, fighting this enemy requires the vocal support of peaceful Muslims whose countries are being taken over by these theocrats, those whose livelihoods in Beirut and Baghdad and Karachi and Jakarta are much more at threat than livelihoods in Paris and Madrid and New York City.

That said, I don't have a solution; I don't think anyone does. You can't fight a religion, only people, and you can't blame all followers of a religion for the actions of a subset of that religion (or, as some would have you believe, a non-subset of that religion). All you can do is name your enemy, and when they declare war on you (which they have--they've declared war on civilization, modernity, Muslims and non-Muslims alike), declare war back.
I think either Sanders or Paul would be better than Obama with respect to all of the issues I care about. That's why I don't expect either to be elected.
It's an interesting idea.. something like fizzbuzz style take-home.
The focus on bulk collection of metadata is based on the assumption that it can be used to stop terrorists and other enemies. This assumption remains unproven. American drones routinely murder people abroad purely because of their metadata, and yet peace is nowhere nearer.

At home, it turns out that it is pretty much impossible to stop a handful of people who have access to weapons, want to do as much damage as possible, and don't fear death. Increasing the surveillance on regular citizens will not change that.
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Inspired by http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html ?
This Der spiegel article has IMO provided the best model to explain ISIS's actions :(http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file... )

I don't agree with the parent article. They are basically parroting the official stance of ISIS which has been covered (in a much better way)before :
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/anne-speckhard/isis-iraq_b_5...

Yes. ISIS has cultivated a doomsday cult through their propaganda machine. ISIS wants to be seen by the world as a doomsday cult, and all their propaganda is aimed at this.

But ISIS's actions in the past have not matched their propaganda. For example why is an organisation that claim's to adhere to Salafist fundamentalist principles, in war with pretty much every Salafist faction in Syria?During 2013 - mid 2014, they were in a truce with Assad's government. At the time they almost exclusively attacked Rebel outfits. Many groups including the Syrian Observatory kept claiming that several major ISIS offensives on rebels, were often preceeded by airstrikes from the Syrian govt indicating coordination and cooperation.

The truth is that ISIS is a purely opportunistic faction that won't allow any moral or even religious considerations from getting in the way of its ambitions.
Many early achievers burn out once they enter an environment where they are no longer the smartest person in the room all of the time.
> You could always just look at the destination IP address of the packet.

For CDN services like cloudflare I'd imagine that it would make more of an impact, since in that case an IP address could potentially match many host names. Of course that has its own downsides - most notably the fact that you'd need to trust them with the server's private key.
Children can do a lot more than they're given credit for. My 4-year-old demanded music lessons when his older brother was playing cello. He started on both cello and piano.

Entering kindergarden, in music class the teacher had a keyboard, asked the children who could play. A little girl banged out chopsticks. Another little boy picked out twinkle,twinkle,little star. My son Andrew raised his hand, and played some Beethoven sonata. The teacher asked him if he knew what that was. He told her.

He's not a prodigy. Has terrible handwriting! The 1st-grade evaluation suggested he had fine-motor issues. Yet he could play 64th-note runs on the piano endlessly. Its all because of regular teaching and fun practicing.

Kids can learn what they put their minds to. But it takes 10,000 hours not only from the pupil but from the tutor. My wife put in the time; Andrew plays wonderfully.
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Don't a lot of advanced folks avoid reliance on "visual paint" style programming?

Do folks like Linus and John Carmack crank up Eclipse and use wizards?

[ EDIT: I've obviously offended some Visual programming fans. I apologize. ]
"They" didn't destroy it; it was destroyed by the Martian atmosphere.

…At least, that's the official story. I recall there being a lot of conspiracy theory-like buzz at the time from people who also couldn't believe NASA could make such a stupid error like that. It does make you wonder.
3 months is the standard in the UK. It's not often used, but it certainly can be.
> If you'd like to read how they are misinterpreting islam ... They are interpreting things literally

That is an odd definition of "misinterpreting".

Biblical literalists are generally not accused of "misinterpreting" the Christian Bible. They are commonly accused of being antiquated, crazy, or dumb, but it's hard to accuse someone of "misinterpreting" something because they follow its literal meaning.

It similarly seems incorrect to say ISIS is "misinterpreting Islam" by reading the Koran literally. It may not be the popular interpretation, and it may not be a pleasant interpretation, but that doesn't mean it's an incorrect interpretation.

Christian groups like to accuse each other of misinterpreting the Bible. Church of Christ members say that Catholics have misinterpreted the organization of the church. Catholics say that Baptists have misinterpreted the apocalypse. Etc. These accusations in reality say very little about the validity of the accused's interpretations, and merely serve as a way for the accuser's to assert the correctness of their own interpretations. "Your interpretation of the Bible is wrong" has no more validity than "Your choice of religion is wrong" in general.
The shilling is strong with this one.
Take this as a hard lesson learned. "Trust, but verify" should be modus operandi.

You really should distance yourself from this guy, since he's acting maliciously. Badmouthing him to random people isn't really productive for you either. As a consolation, his lies will eventually catch up to him because people who have been burned before will quickly recognize the signs.

Remove your affiliation from the company. You were a freelance consultant for all the product and technical parts. That's how you should explain the experience. You left a PhD program to pursue a tempting opportunity of increased responsibility in a fast paced environment, with potentially large impact. It didn't turn out as you had hoped. The due diligence in a lot of these places is pretty bad anyways, so you likely will never be questioned about personal conflicts at this startup.
any plans for firefox addon?
That's not what Visual Studio is about.
...why would you assume that? Are there enough server-side games that are Windows-specific for him to make that caveat if he meant server side development?
I have 3 friends from Bangladesh whose parents received their US green cards in 2000, 2002 and 2003. They had all applied for them in the early 1990s. I rarely hear of this happening anymore, so I imagine the process was more straightforward back then.
In France there's a 4 month probation period extensible to up to 7 months. It's too long, 7 months makes very little sense, and some companies abuse it. Basically you can pretty much fire at will during this probation period, but after it's _really_ hard to fire under French employment laws. If you're in a field where it's hard to land a job, it's 7 months of butt clenching.

I've worked in a company where I've been let go after 2 months in the probation period, but it was clear I wasn't a good fit with the company culture. This is what the probation period is for, we didn't need 7 months to figure that out. On the other hand, I worked for a consulting company that automatically extended all the probation periods, and laid off people that were on probation if they didn't have enough consulting contracts to feed everybody on the payroll (and then reshuffle contracts among people post-probation that were unfireable).
1. Encapsulation (arguably the whole purpose of creating such a class in the first place).

2. Would you think it's reasonable for a class to implement equality ==, so it can tell you if it's equal to another instance of the same class? Then why not ordering?

3. Take Python's set type as a useful example. A < B tells you whether A is a subset of B, A | B returns the union, etc. All very handy.
For the love of god don't update an old computer that works perfectly fine on 10.6 on anything starting from Lion. All you'll get is bugs and confusing UXes.
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Most ship python 3.3, but most of the libraries which the distro provides pre-compiled are not Python 3.

e.g.

python-mysql
python-django
python-keyczar
python-pyhsm

> but for node we expect everyone to install/build from source an not use the supplied packages

This is not necessarily an improvement in the state of packaging. Verifying that unsigned source code has not been changed is a hard problem (which NPM has not yet solved). Installing compilation tools and extensive header files on a production machine opens up a new class of security vulnerabilities on that machine (whether a VM, container, or bare metal).
There are companies without probation periods? I've never seen any.

In most companies probation periods are a formality, they're only used for gross incompatibilities. But there are some that use them frequently.
I found it very easy to read (as in understand), but very hard to read (as in finish), because I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment and it was putting me to sleep.

It would be interesting to compare explanations like this[1] to mostly equivalent explanations as they would traditionally be presented for learning on a few topics I'm not familiar with to see if the concepts conveyed came across better.

1: With footnotes for specific terms so the jargon can be linked.
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I think most people have a hometown that, even if they leave, always know they can go back to and make a simple life for themselves.

I can imagine it being hard to grow up in a place where you have a pretty reasonable expectation of never being able to return to and live in on your own terms, unless you manage to stay the top 1% of the 1%.
just a shame the law can't be more flexible so their aren't any legal hoops(risks).