skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without that financing, and without the logo, the financing itself is a good reason to not trust them as a source.

I'm sure there are other news sources that should be de-legitimized due to their funding, and it would be nice if they too go away. Due to the current nature of how people consume their news it creates echo-chamber bubbles that only reenforce misinformation or misleading perspectives.
“Any smartphone shall be decryptable by its manufacturer or OS provider”
Since node.js is backed by V8, optimization decisions that the V8 team have made end up in developer code that runs in node.js. For example, Bluebird has a list of "optimization killers"[0] that many developers that I know use as a reference when making node.js libraries. However, these optimizations are V8 only, and so "edge-case of an implementation makes its way into programmers' habits". A quick example is "5.1. The key is not a local variable:", which ends up with having to jump through some hoops in a for-in loop, not because it's easy or because the language forces it, but just because V8 is the engine.

[0] - https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
Great stuff. I've worked professionally in the .NET development ecosystem for almost a decade and I've never been so enthusiastic about the direction that Microsoft is taking. Their embracing of open source practices is very positive and will help to retain and maybe even attract developers. You just don't have to worry about licensing any more this way. You can actually sit an MCP exam in MS product licensing, it's that complicated.

This announcement is probably timed to coincide with NDC. There were lots of similar open source announcements at a previous MS conference I was at. Although it was a bit weird due to the time difference on the embargo.
>“Most Americans associate Al Jazeera with Al Qaeda”[0]

[0] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/americans-associate-al-j...
Is never-updated proprietary microcode somehow better than updated proprietary microcode?
libmill offers a channels(FIFO queues) abstraction. This is a fibers/coroutines framework. They solve different problems. See go-lang channels for what libmill is providing.
This is too bad. They were one of two sources of serious news on cable TV [1] and their global breath of coverage, including many important, original stories I didn't see elsewhere, was exceptional.

I always held my breath a little, expecting some propaganda because Al Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar, but I never noticed any even in Middle East coverage. That doesn't mean it wasn't there - the point of propaganda is to convince the audience that it's legitimate.

[1] IMHO: The other serious news on cable is Bloomberg. Some of their content is obvious shilling or advertorial (bring on the CEO and give them a platform and t-ball questions), much is over-stylized, and their priority obviously is business and not other news. However, at least they address serious topics, and provide sophisticated analysis and valuable knowledge. Fox, CNN, MSNBC are a complete waste of my time - all I learn is various political groups' talking points. BBC's analysis is too superficial and too many stories are not hard news, for my taste. As always, print/text news are by far the best sources.
You don't have to be paranoid about it, it's not like they sneak around when they do it. From my experience it's very common.
Well, if The New York Daily News says so...
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Ah, yes, but cultnews.com is the bastion of truth
It's a question of ownership. Property rights and such.

If the company owns the infrastructure, the subscription, the accounts, whatever, they can decide what to do with it.

In contrast, an employer can't, say, search your car without your consent.
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Try KolibriOS[1]. It does have a media player AFAIK.

Also, it comes on a single floppy.

[1] http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Main_Page
Attitudes like:

> if you don't like that, don't build your business on the API.

Are an impediment to progress when applied unilaterally as you are doing.
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Yeah, it is interesting, as the other big RE listings player in Australia also has a tech blog: http://tech.domain.com.au/

realestate.com.au is Murdoch, in fact, but was a Melbourne startup many years ago.
Behavior like this (from the employer/manager) is only acceptable because we let it be acceptable.

I hear examples like this a lot but it simply hasn't been my experience, and I haven't always worked in developer-run (or even developer-friendly) industries or companies.

I 100% accept that I might just have been lucky in my previous and current employment, but any time I've had a doctor's appointment or had to run to the vet or anything like that, I've either made the time up that evening or the next day (one time for a long Wednesday AM appointment, over the next two days).

I say this not to discredit the very real fact that employers like this exist, but only to suggest that this is on the same level as poverty wages and forcing someone to buy their own office supplies. If you work in an environment like this, moving on (either simply by employment or geographically) should be among your top priorities.
Furthermore are cable customers really Al Jazeera's target audience? Those folks sticking with cable are probably older, more traditional people - do they regard Al Jazeera as legitimate news source or is it "that terrorist news channel" in their eyes? Honest question, I've always enjoyed Al Jazeera, but as a european I don't know if they are mainstream enough to succeed in US cable networks.
> the most accurate, informed, respectable news source in the world...

Let's not oversell it here. They have biases, just different biases. And last I checked, network news providers ratings are on the decline and more and more Americans are getting their news from online outlets (and as many people here have already commented, the cable offerings of Al Jazeera came at the expense of their online offerings).
Maybe it's legal, but after learning all this would you still apply for a job there?
It's everything but AOP
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Don't waste your time. This article is deeply confused. Even if consciousness is just a brain-created illusion, who is experiencing the illusion? That experience is what we mean by consciousness in the first place, so this explains nothing.
> They could and should have named it anything, but they really seemed to think their brand would carry any weight at all.

I also wondered at the branding, but if they tried to hide their origins they would rightfully be accused of deception in a business, journalism, where credibility is paramount.
Caveat emptor. The license only gives you permission to use the code, not any patents covering it. So while you can read the code, to use it you need to either get a separate patent license or convince yourself that MS holds no patents on the code. I'm not going to do a patent search, nor do I want to know, but I would be surprised if they haven't patented aggressively.
Wow, that article is like a magnum opus on this. Since it's so much more informative, we changed the URL to that from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/business/media/chris-hughe....
How is it clear exactly? Obviously they won't be trawling literally everything literally all the time, but being able to access anything they choose at any time they choose seems indistinguishable from the employee's perspective, and that is apparently allowed?
Yup. You don't get software freedom if not only you but everyone else also has the freedom to control what your machine runs. Giving everyone control of your machine is as much of a non-solution as giving only your hardware manufacturer control of your machine; it's simply that one is a better short-term compromise.
For me the solution is a Netflix like. (Newsflicks?) You subscribe to Newsflicks and can then access all the articles from journalism sites that partner with Newsflicks.
Al Jazeera was nothing but a Salafist network in Liberal Suite. As much critical they were about imperfections of liberal democracies they were not even half that about Islamic Republics, blasphemy laws in ME or Gender/ LGBT rights in muslim majority nations.
I don't have a strong opinion about your larger point. It might be correct, I'm still thinking it through. But the Chevy Nova thing is an urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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They are, now. That was the point of the comment. Apple's weaknesses are now their biggest strengths.
Looks to me like a very long blog post about why you should use clojure.

I.e., use map and comp and avoid objects (to add 'extensions' the way you want).

The category theory + Java part certainly helps selling this to big enterprises though.
At this point, Hughes has damaged TNR's brand equity irreparably. And the fact of that matter is that their current stable of young writers aren't as talented and don't rise to the high standards that they used to inculcate under, say, Leon Wieseltier. Many of them would be better off writing listicles for Buzzfeed.

There's not a whole lot of differentiation between the transcript of a Reggie Watts TED talk and a young TNR staffer's latest hot take.
Works great unless None is a valid value for the thing, in which case you'll recalculate it every time. If that was the case you should just use hasattr().
It's interesting that two of the six things that the author suggests negatively effect mental health are social media. I think that a better understanding of the impact of habits driven by social media will be a great step forward. Of course, they've hardly been such a pervasive force for very long, so the long-term effects could not be well understood at this point. I see this generally negative sentiment increasingly often, though, and I definitely think there's a lot of truth to it.
Al Jazeera proper however spins this as increasing their direct (online) presence in the U.S: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/al-jazeera-16011315172...

It always did seem weird to me how much Al Jazeera America focused on very local issues, when the entire point of going outside of U.S. media, to me, was to get a more balanced view on global issues (by aggregation, not saying AJ doesn't have its own biases). So maybe, for those of us who get our news online, this might actually be a good news. On the other hand, it makes cable TV news in the U.S. even more homogeneous than it already is...
> Anyone who spends a few minutes in a Tesla gets that it’s different from other cars — more a delightful digital device than a cabin pulled by belching engine — and even those who aren’t “car people” experience object-lust.

Is there any car listing for $75,000 that doesn't inspire "object-lust"?
Nova failing in Latin America is a bit of a myth, though a good apocryphal story to get the point across. http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
They promote freedom but specifically forbid the use of Windows. Not everyone has the choice to not use Windows at certain points in the day, VMs aren't perfect. Forbidding the bare-metal usage of Windows is ridiculous.
It wouldn't have mattered. CurrentTV was nowhere in the ratings, too. There just isn't a market for yet another cable news channel in the US. We're saturated with them.
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) summarized Al Jazeera's collapse very succinctly:

"Al Jazeera America execs chose early on to try to be a voice-less, diluted version of CNN rather than embracing its global identity & brand."

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/687352891372339200
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I think you should repost this with the link instead of the text.

It's better to post the text as a comment.
In Europe, you do have the right to request any files that HR/personnel hold on you. (In the UK, it's called a data subject request). I've certainly seen it used multiple times as part of the recruitment process, where an unsuccessful candidate has requested the notes made on them.
There are areas in the world that don't have the necessary infrastructure for traditional toilets. Given the funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the goal is probably deployment in those areas.
After thinking about it a bit more, the only reasonable conclusion I can come to is the following:

It's the number of times users actually typed

bower install lodash

i.e. adding it to a project that didn't already have it, as opposed to just running bower install on a package which uses lodash.

Would also explain why despite bower itself being installed 37000 times in the last 7 days, the most installed package is only listed as 100 or so times.
I wrote a networking daemon (SMTP greylisting proxy; now unmaintained, but <plug> http://spey.sf.net </plug>) using coroutines once.

Non-preemptive multitasking made reasoning about the problem way easier, because I had no concurrency to worry about, while still allowing inversion of control flow which meant that the SMTP state machines were small and simple. It worked really well.

...until I started getting bug reports from users about weird irreproducable crashes. After a very, very long time I eventually figured out that if spey was built on a system where sqlite had been compiled with pthread support, then it automatically linked in a thread-safe malloc, which tried to fetch the current thread ID, which on some versions of pthreads on some Linux architectures on some glibc versions with some kernel versions, was stored at the top of the stack. It used alignment tricks to find this.

So, every time something called malloc(), the libc was doing the equivalent of:

threadid = *(int*) (alignup(sp, 16MB) - sizeof(int))

Except my stacks weren't allocated through pthreads, so threadid ended up being garbage. Hilarity ensued.

I eventually rebuild the coroutine library to be a wrapper around pthreads with a big lock to ensure that only one would run at a time. Which was kind of evil, but much more reliable. (Previously I was using my own coroutine implementation based on getcontext/setcontext.)

So, uh. I can't remember if I had a point any more; but the pain remains.
But Samsung is still making profit. Samsung smartphone market share has been growing and Apple going down. No wonder you get fat profits for a while, if you overprice your products. But customers seem to be catching up.
There's a really good podcast over at 99% invisible called Children of the Magenta that deals with this. IIRC, he (Roman Mars) also did a follow-on show about what it means for driverless cars.
Let's not conflate the ideas of a legal right and an ethical right. Especially where privacy is concerned, they are often in tension or even direct conflict.
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I agree with you that it wouldn't be perfectly symmetric and a number of difficult follow-on issues would arise.

But, I see a lot of emphasis being placed on the fact that it was a company-owned machine and that it was ostensibly being used for company purposes. These two facts seem to underpin a lot of what everyone says.

But ownership and mode of use are not the only kinds of resources or properties to think of. For example, at least in the US we have the concept of "company time" which covers the time periods during which you are performing an action sanctioned by a company. Could this be used to demand the ability to monitor employees during time periods when they are on company time?

Likewise, there are a lot of gray areas going in the reverse direction -- from employee to employer. For example, it is true that HR records (say, for example, performance reviews written by my boss about solely me) are electronic files that are the property of the company, just like a computer workstation is property of the company.

But, just as a computer workstation could be misused for personal use, and thus needs to be inspectable for compliance, so also the HR files could be misused for personal use (making jokes, talking about non-professional aspects of me, conspiring to deny a promotion simply due to personal preference, etc.) -- so why aren't such files open for inspection?

Yet another interesting aspect of all of this is why we believe that not only must the workstation be made available for inspection, but further that it is the employer who gets to perform the inspection.

Why isn't such inspection required to be handled by a third-party arbiter, much the way that tax and official records are required to be kept by a certified firm specializing in it. We don't trust companies to say, "Yep, these are my taxes and records, I swear I didn't lie or hide any money." We at least require some third-party to attest to that and stake a reputation on it (subverted though it may be).

Yet with issues of inspection, we just sort of capitulate to this idea that the employer not only gets to raise the issue of suspicion about misuse, but also gets to be the authority on the investigation of whether or not misuse occurred, and to what extent employee privacy must be invaded to get all the relevant info.
This is a very good resource. Not technically being part of an ECMA standard, I can understanding leaving out streams. That being said, it would be awesome if there were also a section on streams, and possibly even event listeners?
I can't believe it's possible to waive your right to appeal. That seems unconscionable.
Why not? Would silently returning the wrong thing be better?
Al Jazeera US was anything but a respectable news source the past several years.
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> Russia Today (Though that's state sponsored so it might not be the best comparison)

Al Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar. However, I agree with you that it's not a good comparision. BBC also is state sponsored, but generally considered to be trustworthy.

RT is propaganda run by a government that has propaganda as its modus operendi; I wouldn't trust their weather reports.
Thanks for pulling such a great excerpt. SV culture is about innovation, find solutions <i>in spite of</i> constraints. If the infrastructure is lacking, a combination of hardware & software can work around it to still accomplish the goals. It's funny but the auto industry, specifically Ford with the Model T, created the demand for cars arguably spurring the development of the network of roads required to take full advantage.

What makes this time exciting is that there is an intersection of some amazing technologies, business models, and objectives for transportation: on-demand, renewables & energy, self-driving/autonomous, environment, etc. The best part is that multiple companies, new and old, are involved and want a piece of the increasingly bigger pie.
> This is almost as bad as the Latin American failure of the Chevy Nova (Spanish: no go)

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
...if you fail to appeal to people's simple desires, fears, and impulses, you will fail entirely.

I would argue that in that case the failure is not with the ones trying to make change, but the ones who won't accept it.
I thought the coverage was pretty crummy, back when it had just launched which was the last time I looked at it. Hopefully we'll get access to Al Jazeera English videos back when AJA goes away!

Edit: Why is this off the front page already?
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And yet Netflix is still riding the novelty wave. Few consumers have yet seen through their ruse of more accurately being the digital bargain bin equivalent of the DVD store.

Meanwhile, 93 of Spike Lee's Top 100 essential movies are unavailable on Netflix.
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Are you asserting that AJA was accurate and informed?
Having watched it with some regularity, I disagree. Did you watch it? Or do you have some data to back it up? (I have no evidence other than my experience.)
Same with the Australian ABC. Pretty much only rusted on supporters of the Liberal and National parties are the only ones who don't support it, and even they watch it over the commerical networks.

That said, I really want to see what Netflix can do with the news cycle.
Co-author of the Twitter post here.

I don't necessarily disagree with you! Though I hope you are not calling Twitter a fly-by-night marketing startup :).

As a company, we've found A/B testing very valuable, but it certainly has limitations, and pitfalls that one must be fairly experienced to avoid. You can see some descriptions of what we do to achieve that in other posts in that series. But it's fair to say that this takes some work (like the work described in the "second control" post) to avoid badness, and it's fair to question if other methods can get us to the same end result -- ability to evaluate impact of proposed product changes -- cheaper, or more accurately.
A lot of apps can't effectively be side-loaded and retain their features. Most of these problems stem from not having the real developer's certificates to sign the app with.

For example, you can't get the source for an AppStore app, side-load it, and have it get notifications meant for the original app.

The same applies to IAP purchases made with the original app (they won't be available to the re-created app).

So, in the very least, even if, generally, LGPL with side-loading is ok, there are definitely some apps where it would still be not.
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That story always sounded off. I have to admit I mostly listen to European Spanish, but "Nova" doesn't really read like "no va", the intonation is very different.
Yes, TNR is no longer a special snowflake. Much of the shine has come off, and their brand equity has taken an enormous hit. I hear Buzzfeed is hiring "writers", so TNR staffers shouldn't feel too despondent.
That said, I'm totally not surprised by your observation about Facebook events. It's more natural to meet people like that, without prior obligations. People tend to be more open, and conversations more genuine. Especially if this is a topical event, you automatically have people pre-selected for interest compatibility. Just like money can be detrimental to the projects of passion, on-line dating seems like "trying too hard", compared to casual meetup. I tried using a dating service once, and such dates actually felt to me more like a business transaction than a meeting of strangers. But then again, I'm shy, I prefer going the roundabout way :).

Honestly, I'm starting to think this is just true of dating in general. "First dates" are awkward. The original article is not wrong about blind dates. It's hard to really get comfortable with someone when you're just thrust into this 1-on-1 scenario with nothing to go on and all manner of confusing social expectations.

Really, I think it's just important to keep your options open, meet plenty of people in social situations when you can, and learn to find that balance when you do meet someone who strikes you of seeing where it can lead in a natural way.

Because for me, at least, all I really am looking for is someone compatible and fun to spend time with, and that part's a lot easier to establish and find out before you start putting labels on things and everyone gets spooked.
Are you seriously suggesting that the music system should be considered part of an automobile's core feature set?

Personally, I'll swap a radio out in a heartbeat. A transmission, not so much.
Isn't that setting up TNR to meet a standard that no journalistic entity (or entity, period) can meet? (that is, being unanimously beloved)