skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst I've ever seen was a manager who held a morning meeting, one at the end-of-day[1], and then went to each developer and spent 20 minutes in their cube during the day. He didn't get that we actually needed to work on the code, and he never seemed to have time to get our questions answered or get the resources we needed.

Luckily he only lasted 2 months.

1) he even scheduled a 7:30AM and 5:30PM meeting one day
If you were drawn to the article, thinking it is about mysterious rock movements on Mars - you got clickbaited. Nothing like that. Just uncommon material.
The upgrade argument of desktop in the 90s was already borderline as an argument. It was really worthy for people switching parts often. For long term it was clearly impossible to upgrade without changing 2/3 of it. And as you said, prices are only low for current mainstream parts. It may be an improvement to a previous era where nothing was swappable.
Does anyone known if the docker image for Cloud Shell is open source (or parts of it?)
Three Reasons for Those Hefty College Tuition Bills
>E.g. if you have a good language without a community, community can eventually grow, but you can use the language anyway. If you have a bad language with great community - it doesn't reduce your suffering from the language itself.

My experience has been the inverse.

I'd rather use a bad, or usually mediocre language WITH community, tooling, libs, books, programmers etc, than a better one where I'll be burdened by the lack of all of
these.

So, in a sense, community tramps inherent language qualities.

After all that's the very basic message from Lisp and Smalltalk.
Practically nothing in this case. In the case of a phone like the S6, Samsung detects if the fuse is blown, indicating modification by the user, and will disable certain features, fingerprint reader, Samsung Pay, etc..
If you read the article at the end the author says it's legality is questionable due to FCC changes that include kicking somebody off the wireless as jamming them
Like everyone else, CNN covered CISA aggressively when it passed the Senate in October; they even called it "historic".

They're not covering it now because this is boring procedural stuff. There's no story this week. Obama has been on record all year saying he'd sign it. The one dramatic thing that could have happened --- a showdown between the House and Senate over whether the language would be closer to the (bad) PCNA bill --- didn't happen.

All you're noticing is that CNN isn't covering a nonstory.
Farms are more than just crops. livestock grazing covers vast stretches grassland land. Out of 3.7 million square miles.

"An estimated 544,784 km² of land were irrigated in 2004. 42.9% of total land area was used as pasture, and 17.5% was forest." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_China

Of note, irrigation allows you to use pastre to grow crops, so they can expand area under cultivation significantly.
on windows also check out this: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow

git bash + gow + conemu makes windows not so bad.
ADHD is a cognitive disorder of executing functioning. Its original name was "minimal brain dysfunction". It has little to do with how you feel, and most to do with how you function. It is easy to demonstrate with cognitive tests. It is now getting easy to demonstrate with brain scans.

Do you doubt the existence of autism? Dyslexia?

Probably not.

Sorry that it can't play the role in your polemic that you were hoping for.
This happens in the U.S. and has for years.
The only trouble there is that what if a company wants to (for instance) invest in EVs anyway? Now the incentive is to first make a quick buck cheating and lying, and then when they get caught the punishment is to do the same thing they were planning to eventually do anyway.
The smartphone can also be its own WiFi network that beams an IP camera's output to the owner. No way to stop that with this script.
A lot of the time with depression there is no logical "reason" for it, and no negative thoughts at the time. For example:

- running multiple ultramarathons with too little rest can cause depression, even if you love it.
- working very hard in a job you like with too little sleep for a long time can cause depression.

In both cases it's likely your brain it just telling you that you're pushing too hard.

Some people -- like me -- find it easier to get into these mental overdrive situations, and some people might be more likely to suffer depression from the same stressors, but ultimately it seems to be the same factors at work.
For those who don't own an iOS device, or don't feel it is the best tool to do this kind of analysis: The standard tool on OS X or Linux appears to be Kismet[1], which, while I haven't actually used it and so can't vouch for it firsthand, appears to be quite capable. I don't know what, if any, equivalent tool exists for Windows, and since I don't own a Windows laptop, I also don't really care.

Edit: Having now installed Fing and looked at what it does, it seems to basically just look at its assigned IP and netmask to determine the address space of the local network, and then perform an nmap-style ping scan to see what doesn't time out. When it gets a packet back, it uses the MAC address to identify the type of device, and a PTR lookup with the DHCP-provided DNS server to obtain a hostname. These are pretty cool capabilities to have on a handheld device, of course, but if you can't or won't install Fing, you can do pretty much everything it does with a 15-line Perl script on any device that can connect to the wireless network.

[1] http://www.kismetwireless.net/
> Haskell is excellently suited for solving extremely complex problems and why it's so desirable for concurrency and parallelism tasks.

As is the JVM (and most languages running on it). Not only that, but the JVM has actually a proven track record of being good and performant at it. And you can solve these problems with pretty much the language of your choice.

What makes you think Haskell is well suited for it? Immutability? This is available in a lot of languages (and for languages where it's not enforced, simple programmer discipline and code reviews address it).
Yes. He had to be courted; the House Freedom Caucus had to make concessions for him to accept the job. The modal HN user has either a DailyKos or RedState (mostly Kos) understanding of US politics.
Avoiding “Call Super” with Callbacks
I'm a big fan of Babun; http://babun.github.io/
Obama:“No government has the capacity to read all texts, emails or social media”
> In my university, Programming 101 (mandatory) was (and is) Haskell.

I don't think it's a good idea because it might discourage a lot of students from the get go and they might simply drop out.

It's well established today that the language you start with has little impact on your mastery of the field years later (most of us started with BASIC I bet), so you might as well start with an easy language that will get people hooked.

If the students are curious and talented, they will move on to more complex things with time.
He would have, wouldn't he?
Entrepreneurs Should Not Try to Be Superman
CBSE Books to Be Made Available Online for Free, Says Smriti Irani
Interesting generalization. Do you have any evidence that Americans are more "pro-drug" than average? Do you think Americans actually consume more drugs, or just that they suffer from less drug stigma in their society?
I would hardly call being forced to make EVs a punishment. In ten or twenty years, when EVs really take off, Tesla/Apple/Google/Samsung/etc are going to eat the lunch of anyone left behind.

Investing in electric vehicles could save VW in the long term. I would argue that if they don't want to make EVs of their own accord, then they don't deserve to be saved.

EDIT: I would also worry that if they're only making EVs because they're forced to, then they're only going to put in the minimum effort to make a crappy second-rate electric car. Flooding the market with low-quality, short-range electric cars doesn't seem like it will help push EVs into the mainstream any quicker.
As a Chinese I would say "带电视" or "配有电视", rather than "设有电视".
What if the answer is that humans weren't meant to use computer interfaces, and that this is the slow realization of that fact. What if the rampant increase in computation power and software has outpaced the human mind's ability to adapt (limited) and evolve (takes millions of years, considering these types of attributes don't usually select before breeding age), and this is the end for humans and the beginning for machines?
The golden rule applies to everyone regardless of gender. Think of it like how you would speak to your mother or father (assuming one has a healthy, respectful relationship of course).

If you speak to a female colleague, is it something you can say to your own mother and be taken as appropriate? Same for if it were a male colleague, are the words appropriate to say to your own father?

If the answer is "No" then don't say it, I wish more companies would enforce this in their culture.

I've run into childish inappropriateness more than anything, phrases not indented to harass, but are extremely disrespectful, not funny, and easily taken the wrong way.

An example: 5 of us, one of them a female, were chatting in a breakroom when a male colleague joked about using a "fleshlight" to relieve stress (I am leaving out details to keep this short). He was straight out of college and didn't have much professional experience. The female in the group became visibly uncomfortable and left. Since the conversation was more about to know our colleague's hobbies outside of work, it was an incredibly awkward turn to the conversation. "Pfff, what's with HER?" the offending person asks as the female walks off, not knowing what he did, so another male in the group asked him if he talks to his mom "like that" about his fleshlight habit, it wasn't until then that he realized he was being inappropriate and he then apologized to everyone. He also sought out the female who left the conversation to apologize to her directly. He learned his lesson, but I've seen examples on BOTH sides of inappropriate talk that can alienate a person who's gender is in the minority of the group.
I must disagree. I believe you are overstating things.

Schoolhouse rocks, last I checked, had one bill moving from one house to the other. Citizens could lobby at any point, including the conference committee.

Each of these were passed in isolation, then stuck together, then stuck into a budget bill. Then the only question was whether you wanted the entire bill to pass or not.

It's a fair interpretation to say that some reasonable public feedback -- if nothing else than what kinds of compromises needed to occur between both bills -- was missing from the mash-up we got this past week. Yes, majorities approved of similar bills in both houses. But there was no point in time where the public was informed "Hey, this is your last chance if you want to change what's going to go into the law"

Another way of looking at this is asking this question: if we're going to use the rules for budget bills on everything else that might be controversial, why have conference committees at all? Just pass kinda the same thing in each house and then look for the right political moment and the right combination of things to lump together so that you can do whatever you want to.

This is just leadership writing laws. If they want to do things like that, fine. I believe the logical conclusion is that we should start having direct election of house and senate leadership.
Exactly. Breasts are the original and ultimate click bait for a large segment of human population.

http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html
And don't forget to report those cameras to the authorities, since in many countries it is completely illegal to film people without their consent (in private places).
This is basically how the entire company I work for operates. The biggest problem is wishful thinking when scheduling brand new features, as in "you have a week to write a robust one-dimensional edge-detection and comparison algorithm, but the hardware the data is sampled from won't be ready for another four weeks."

We're currently in the Death March phase, because our wishful thinking has caused so much stuff to slip that our milestones are slipping.

I'm currently working on my resume.
In the past I used inSSIDer to view nearby networks, checking to see how capable it is led here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/3fyjbm/now_that...

Which points to (pdf):

http://www.xirrus.com/cdn/pdf/Xirrus-Wi-Fi-inspectorguide-1-...
> your uncommon definition of sexism

My definition of sexism really is the common academic definition (although by "definition" I mean "definition plus corollaries", but it's a good enough approximation for people unfamiliar with research).

> Why would I trade actual predictable present-day happiness for unpredictable changes in future behavior that might theoretically be somewhat better?

Why wouldn't you? The question of what you should do is a philosophical question (perhaps the ultimate philosophical question) and depends largely on your values. I am not trying to dictate what you should or shouldn't do, simply show that your "optimal" decisions are not neutral ones based on "data" but ultimately a result of your assumptions and your (valued) goals. Achieving similar power distribution between men and women is a value of mine and it may not be yours, but you cannot justify your actions by anything other than another value.

> If you disagree with me that influence on future preferences is unpredictable, and think you can predict social dynamics better than random chance, offer me a basket of bets at favorable odds.

Well, my views of social dynamics are a result of years of study. I cannot say that my predictions are better than random because historians don't even try to make predictions (and I wouldn't dare call myself a historian), but we do know one thing for a fact: social action does indeed create social change. When it comes to complex systems, a familiarity with the dynamics does not translate to good predictions -- I'm sorry, but that's a direct result of the math. Non-linear, multivariate differential equations are very hard to predict (and we don't even have the right coefficients). But I know enough to recognize terrible reasoning that ignores what we do know, and denies its own assumptions.
Since it's not particularly awesome, friendly or powerful, it would be a bit of a stretch to name it in such a fashion IMHO. It is in fact free though, and I never wondered about the "libre" part, but then again, I'm from Europe...
In the US is legal to monitor babysitters / house cleaners with hidden cameras. Just don't record bathrooms etc.
Cool but some questions on the command line args:

Call be dumb but I have no idea what my wireless NIC is called and that's the first arg to the script.

How do I find out the handle for my wireless network card (I didn't even know it had a name), but also does anyone know why the script can't self detect that? Don't most people only have one?

Ditto for the SSID, couldn't the script just figure out what SSID I'm connected to?

Asking as much for self education as anything else...
When do I remember hearing that before.... back in 2008. Everyone was saying the exact same thing. If you really expect Sanders will be any different if he gets in power, you are kidding yourself.

If anything he is being undermined by the DNC, not the media. The DNC should be ashamed of themselves for thier blatant support of one candidate over the other(s) .
Nah, you can do 100mph safely on the 407 all night. It's just straight, smooth, half-empty toll road.
Do You Actually Need More Stress?
Just a quick note that 'lawnchair_larry has me dead to rights on this one.

I conceded awhile ago that Dual EC was a crypto backdoor (before BULLRUN and the antics that were uncovered with RSA and with the European standards, I had suggested, as some other crypto people had, that Dual EC was too hamfisted and obvious to be a crypto backdoor).

But I've maintained since then that virtually nobody uses Dual EC, so its impact --- while clearly malign! --- is probably limited.

Nope. ScreenOS apparently (I'm not 100% sure, but that seems to be the way the wind is blowing) uses it to key VPN connections!

FULLY CONCEDED. The immediate known practical impact of Dual EC is, if that's true, enormous.

The weird thing about this particular backdoor is that the adversary seems to have modified the Dual EC parameters. Dual EC is an RNG with an embedded public key, where an adversary with the private key can "decrypt" the random bytes it generates to recover its state and rewind/fast forward it. This backdoor appears to swap out the public key, which is something NSA has no interest in doing.

My money is that this is the work of GCHQ, the world's most unhinged signals intelligence agency, and our partners in peace.
>How could you possibly know what had a deep emotional impact on anyone other than yourself or possibly the people you interact with most closely in life?

By being a human, involved with culture, and plain being able to see and place cultural artifacts upon certain contexts.

How do we know that a war has left "deep emotional impact" to lots of people other than ourselves or "possibly the people we interact with most closely in life"? Because we do, we know what war is, we know what it does to people, etc.

In the same way, we know what novelty pop hits are. As opposed to regular pop hits that mostly capture some teens attention for a few years (e.g. Bieber or NKOTB back in the day) and more involved pop that goes deeper.

>Here's an alternate proposal for you: You've grown as a person, and all the deep emotional impacts that music might be able to make on you have been made. To those still growing, you aren't able to assess the impact, because you now view the world through the eyes of an adult.

I'm quite atypical in this regard, as despite being mid-late-30s, I follow lots of music and still have deep emotional impact from all kinds of stuff, from techno to regular chart pop to some obscure garage-psychedelic or jazz record (I really like from The Residents to Westbam, Deep Freeze Mice and Mingus, and can even hum something like Redfoo's songs).

But even as a teenager, I can tell you that there were lots of novelty hits I went for that meant really nothing for me (or anyone else that forgot about them after their peak) and stuff that had deeper impact, which was of a different kind (could still be pop: it just wasn't a novelty track like, say, Cotton Eye Joe or The Scatman).
One thing was rather amusing: the corrections below the article. One of them said that a photo of a bust of Octavian had been used in the original version of the article. The other was that Julius Caesar was called a Roman emperor in the earlier version. It would be unthinkable for a literate person of my generation to make either mistake. Today I suppose this would be like meeting somebody who thinks iPhones are made by Sony!
I interviewed for a position at FedEx's main office few years back, and I was asked "Why should FedEx avoid a shipping-rate pricing war with UPS?" Their answer: we don't want to shrink the value of the overnight shipping market. That sounded reasonable at the time, albeit collusion-y, until I learned about market elasticity. Now it just sounds lazy and protectionist.
One advantage of a modular PC is that fixing a broken one can be much cheaper if you can pinpoint which component is broken.

It also helps a lot if the performance and requirements change at different speeds for different components. For a gaming PC you'll upgrade the GPU more often than you actually need to upgrade the CPU and the rest of the system. My 4 year old CPU is still fast enough (i2500k), but I upgraded the GPU in the meantime and added an SSD.

Reusing old parts can be pretty cheap, but probably doesn't make all that much sense if you need parts that aren't in common use anymore like the DDR2 in your case.
Can someone clear up two questions for those of us more familiar with EC2:

Does "temporary" instance imply volatility or limited uptime?

Web preview sounds like I might be able to run cron jobs or small web apps just for myself with SSL included. Does this seem plausible?
Intent is where lawyers and engineers take a whole different paths. It's that "what color are your bits" question.

To a lawyer, the details don't matter much at all as long as there's enough evidence to prove the intent.

To an engineer, only the details do matter because otherwise the world as organised by engineering will become completely chaotic, i.e. why is this number illegal and another number not, and if X holds for this thing then X should hold for all similar things.

One thing that underlines this is that hackers don't see laws as an authority, they actually tend to question laws by default.

As far as I can see, the majority of hacker-type people see no legal/moral issue in copying music and films. Copying is just bits, bits are a convenient format to distribute and store content, and they'll surely buy a certain album or film not because they couldn't somehow get it for free but because it's so good that they want to own it themselves. This is completely in opposition how MAFIAA thinks people behave, and lawyers work for MAFIAA.

So, hackers and engineers are placed in the whole legal game by putting them in the position of the defendant. Instead of MAFIAA having to think why would they be allowed to sue someone for copying their own bits, the hackers are forced to come up with reasons why something of an ordinary activity (in their world) such as copying wouldn't be illegal. That's where the common outcry originates from: the kind of story how I was just driving taxi, took a guy to the bank, he asked to wait outside, and he came back in a hurry to the docklands, so I did as requested and he paid with a hundred dollar bill.

The events are unusual, mechanistic, machines connect and exchange bits, taxis take rides from the bank to the outskirts of the city, because it's mechanisms that engineers work with. Mechanisms can always be used for good or bad similar to science, and it's not the engineers' job to consider one method illegal and another legal, nor the scientists job to consider one field illegal and another legal. For an engineer, rights and wrongs are universal while legal opinions aren't.

Moreover, throw a libertarian mindset in the mix and you've got a hacker both working with these mechanisms and also living by the idea that his activities are innately private, bits can't be owned, and everybody should play by the rules spelled out by the objective truths and laws of physics rather than the arbitrary laws made up by the society made of non-experts.

Then bring in a lawyer telling them that not all file checksums come equal and they'll tell him he's full of bullshit. At the point where the two paths――the engineering path and the lawyer path――meet there is absolutely no conversation left because the paths come from completely different worlds.