skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want people to elaborate on the concept that standups "keep people aligned on the work"

Like you want a bunch of examples? How do you have some much patience for that if a standup interrupts your work?

Maybe you have them at the wrong time. We have one at 9:30 and it works. People who arrive early are pretty much cranking and the standup is a break from that. People who arrive later (me) show up and it's the first thing of the day goes with a cup of coffee or tea.

Any breakouts can happen right after, have those discussions at somebody's desk while you're already interrupted and THEN jump into the long stretch till lunch. I don't really see the interruption there.

Even if I get bored and dont' know what people are talking about some of the time, I'd say it'd be pretty selfish of me to claim that they are a waste of time. And it would also be stupid of me to think that something sent in an email or commmented on slack or lync is enough. I mean if you could send a message and everyone got it the first time, I think there wouldn't be a concept of marketing or advertising in the world. Sometimes people need to hear things twice.

I guess I'm just not big on keeping work in a black box. And I think it's comical and sad that we go to jobs and stare at screens all day. face to face interaction and having to express yourself to a group for a measly 30 seconds a day is a positive. It might even force a few of us to consider our appearance too. And frankly, I think I'm paid to answer questions and be available to people as needed, so a standup is meant to be an efficient way to do that and it's supposed to encourage brevity. If it's not, start communicating push it in that direction.
I wasn't so much disputing the reasonable-ness of the profit margins as much as the policies of the providers. How are you supposed to keep track of how much profit is actually earned? Balance sheets etc. are notoriously easy to manipulate. By letting the refugees vote with their money we need not be concerned with profit margins as the market would(ideally) take care of itself. Win-win for both parties if this kind of system could be made to work. It would essentially be removing the government as an intermediary.
Insufficient adaptability to extinction events. ;)

But seriously, I must be missing something. The phrase seems overly generic.
If consumers cared enough, they would switch from the closed platforms. Not enough people value it, and that's the hard fact.
> My goals have been simplified down to making sure that I do right by my children

You know, I don't have kids and I'm not you, so I truly have no opinion about that. It's your call and I'm sure you've made it carefully and are doing what's right for you and your life.

However, I just want to say that when this attitude is repeated over and over, with a whole population of people using their children as their contribution to society, and then the children make the grandchildren their contribution to society, and it repeats generation after generation, you can end up with essentially a bunch of families who are taking care of themselves, and sort of punting social responsibility down the line perpetually to later generations.

When I look out at the world I see a lot of people trying to make sure their kids are better off than they were... which is great. It's like bubbles in a glass of water that are all slowly rising. But it also seems like with everyone looking upward, we stop noticing that down below there are people whose bubbles are sinking down. Or maybe you're actually closer to that reality and you're fighting like hell not to fall below that line. And again, I would never question that choice.

But as a group what it adds up to is that there are families that are just trapped below that line. And we can focus on helping our kids rise, and they can help our grandkids rise, but at some point I think as a group we need to look beyond our families and realize that there are kids—and grown ups–out there who aren't our blood but are just as deserving of our support.

And I do see people make that choice, to really try to support someone beyond their immediate family, and it's amazing. But sometimes I worry that the attitude you describe is a little too easily accepted.
Aww crap. I wonder if this applies to former customers / how far back. We were Time Warner until about 2005 when Comcast took over our area. Our service actually significantly improved under Comcast.
I noted it was unfair because when the employees leave, the cash-out happens at the employee's final salary (which may be larger (even 2x!) the salary at the time of accrual)
A standard cable used on more than one brands devices. A standard that hundreds of thousands of devices are likely to adopt.
Well it would require a pretty massive shift in economic systems. It's against the interests of employers in the current system as I understand it.

You should read the book, it has a lot more context and gives a much fuller explanation than I can right now :)
Watching people use PHP is like someone grabbing a rock and bashing nails with it. Sure it's a tool, but you still look stupid using it to hammer things.
Sounds like an article written about cell phones in 2005 :).
Generally no, you gotta do some job.

The caveats being people who are sick or handicapped and people who are retired. I believe the author also said retirement age was something like 45.

Also, he went to some lengths to explain the importance of reinforcement through cultural values.
Yeah by natively I meant without installing 3rd party apps, which is what the GP complained about.
operationally, i'm not sure if there is. it's certainly a lot prettier, though. i'd be curious if there's a deeper difference, too. it feels like there is, at least to me...
> Anyone raping anyone is horrendous and a tragic atrocity. It should never be allowed to happen!

Yet it can be somewhat prevented with background checks.
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Fair point actually. But I think we can prevent money being poured in those kinds of "services" by implementing some kind of voucher system or one where the money flows directly from the government to the providers, while the refugees still get to decide.
Assuming the source of the credentials (malware, other breaches, etc) is correct, 320k isn't outlandish by any means.

My Twitter bot, @dumpmon, comes across thousands of leaked creds per day, and that's only on pastebin.

This, combined with "checker" services that can verify credentials to services like TWC make things like leaked credentials be correlated into "from these x unique dumps, we have a group of creds that all work with TWC as well".

My guess is that TWC was alerted to a file someone was trying to sell that took leaks from other public/private dumps or malware infections, checked them against TWC, and verified that they all happened to work. This would be why TWC wouldn't be able to pin down an exact source - there absolutely doesn't have to be just one source.

It happens more than you think.
"worker as a "contractor" instead of an employee"

Gotta agree this is scumbag move on companies behalf. This post/article give some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10855666
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Per my understanding, what's so exciting about this is precisely that you're wrong - it does not need to be known at compile time, but can prove symbolically that the resulting length will be X + Y. And of course, given that, it's not statically creating a distinct instantiation of the Vect type for every N at compile time!
Is this better than Facebook's notify? (Which I actually love - relevant stuff waiting for me on my lock screen without any audio notifications)
Warning: highly biased opinion incoming.

I came from Python to Erlang / Scheme / Haskell and at this point I would answer your question,

> What kind of things can I build with Haskell?

With: Everything.

We use Haskell in production at Plum for our REST APIs, job schedulers, web applications, AWS service interfaces, a static site compiler, DB modeling, command line utilities, etc...

We also use it for two CLI utilities that are cross-compiled for the ARM9 on our IoT product.

I consider Haskell to be superior to any of the dynamically typed languages when writing production-level code, it's cleaner, safer, easier to maintain, easier to refactor, and much more fun IMHO.

[EDIT] I neglected the other part of your question, "What is the learning flow like?"

Definitely a bit rougher than Python or Ruby, I will not lie, but don't be discouraged. It simply means you need to do a bit more studying up-front first before you can tinker without being caught at every turn by the straight-jacket.

I would first go through Learn You a Haskell because it is pretty accessible and introduces the language basics well enough. Then study the type system. You must learn Haskell's type system and terminology before you can understand more advanced code.
yep, I ditched Facebook app and I am using web version on the phone. Experience is bad, bordering just tolerable.
Working in Haskell, I don't feel like it's "saving me from myself" so much as giving me tools I can use to save myself.
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I would suggest to use Python or some other mainstream language instead of Haskell in example to contrast to Idris. People who know Haskell most likely be already familiar with dependent types and for people not familiar with Haskell syntax could be confusing (as some comments indicate).
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As per http://githut.info/, PHP is still third most used language on Github. Code produced in it is, not as buggy as it is in Python (if issues mostly contributes to bug reports, and not feature requests), the second most used language.
You're very naughty ;)
Have you seen the capabilities enabled by the PowerShell Gallery[1] (script and module repository) and the PowerShellGet cmdlets[2] (for interacting with repositories like PowerShell Gallery)? It looks like a useful approach to solving this particular issue.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn807169.aspx
[2] https://www.powershellgallery.com/
I had some very similar, very troubling PHP code.

var_export($var) // 18
json_encode($var) // 18
serialize($var) // 18i:18;
var_export($var == 18) // false
var_export(floor($var)) // 17

Ends up PHP floats have a configurable precision and an actual physical 32/62 bit (depending on the system) in memory value who are separate and some operations use one and some the other. It was particularly troubling because I'd hope to be able to serialize and unserialize numbers losslessly but that was not the case.
Well, such an article would have been largely correct. :)
Almost arbitrarily - they must be computable... ;)
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Other interesting ones to look at are F* (a joint effort from Microsoft Research and INRIA to create an ML-like dependently typed language) and ATS (a low-level, fast dependently typed language meant to replace C). What's cool about both of these is that they put emphasis on allowing imperative programming despite being dependently typed and seeming very functional.
And thus as a researcher working on the technology, it may make sense now to go join a company that is intent on providing the full stack for automated driving, as James Kuffner has done.

http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/googles_james_kuffner_...
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Great news!
I just hope Ruby community won't be as recalcitrant as the Python community about the 2-to-3 transition ;).
I am very much the same way. What I eventually did to get a foothold on the language was power through the first few chapters of 'learn you a haskell', and read 'haskell the hard way' and then sat down and typed out a tutorial implementing the Kaleidoscope teaching language in Haskell [2].

It was slow at first, and there was a lot of "now what's this arrow doing here?", but I would go back to the books when I had questions and eventually things started making sense. That won't work for everyone, but maybe it will work for you too?

The folks in #haskell are generally pretty helpful, and delightfully easy to troll.

[2]: http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
[1]: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way...
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Same thing happened between populations. Competition of hunter gatherers with farmers. People suck :-/
Algebraic data types and pattern matching are great for compilers, interpreters, static analyzers, and basically anything dealing with implementation of programming languages. That said, Haskell can pretty much do anything that other languages can these days, so it might be fun doing something you're already familiar with (say, IRC bot) and reimplementing it in a new way.
I love Shostakovich's music. At first I found his music weird and even ugly, but I persevered and never gave up. In time, I realized he created some of the darkest and other times most joyful music I ever listened to. His music is ironic and full of jokes. I'm wondering how his music would have changed had he not lived under Stalin and Soviet Russia.
Thanks! I like YouTube for the simplicity of having a single watch later playlist I can queue it on and forget about it until later.
Yes, that can be a serious problem for high assurance software. The best explanation comes from Steve Lipner at Microsoft here:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/cybertrust/2007/08/23/the-ethics...

The system he refers to is here:

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse543-f06/papers/vax_vmm.pdf

The seL4 team certainly built tools to make the job easier. However, their work takes even more effort than the development of some early designs. Lipner and others indicated it took several quarters to turn a major change on a product. Schell's company usually quoted 2 years per new design based on their highly-assured GEMSOS kernel. The STOP OS, INTEGRITY-178B, and VxWorks MILS similarly moved slowly in new features due to assurance requirements. Now, most of these were evaluated against all kinds of security and functional criteria whereas seL4 just did development assurance: other stuff for seL4 is ongoing research at NICTA while finished for alternatives. So, in some ways it's less work and others it's a lot of work.

So, rule of thumb is that you will have these issues: less features, slower development, slower time-to-market (critical weakness), slower maintenance, less HW support, possibly worse interface/management, and performance hits potentially. Also, worst part is that anything you apply high assurance to that hasn't been dealt with in CompSci requires fresh R&D then the actual work. That with time-to-market and feature gap were huge, deal-breakers in the past.

So, all that might be fine depending on the nature of the problem. It might not even all show up in the project. Yet, you should assume it because it showed up in many projects and products before. Still does. It's just that high assurance systems are precise, labor-intensive, custom developments that also require uncommon to rare expertise. No wonder seL4 is still behind even ancient QNX in what it can pull off and is actually behind the separation kernels in functionality. Assurance target just makes it that much harder. Maybe labor available, too.
Easy, easy. There are other tests after that one. Gotta keep reading.
I find evolution terminology funny.

Aren't the terms 'something going extinct' and 'inability to adapt' essentially same. They are symmetrically causal to one another. It has inability to adapt, hence it went extinct; it went extinct hence we say it didn't have the ability to adapt. What new unit of knowledge do we gain by saying something like the OP's title?

In short, the 'ability to adopt' is itself measured in terms of whether 'something is extinct or not'
" For them, the time you spend in your car is a critical node to fill in the remaining blanks. It’s a kill-or-be-killed opportunity to develop or dominate the networks that control automated cars and in-car infotainment."

Relevant for the US only ?
Well, we do support full-HTTPS, it just isn't required.

If it were, PS would have been unusable to anyone with Firefox and Avast/BitDefender/etc.

It also allows image embeds. Users often share HTTP images in the chatrooms, which browsers using the HTTPS site complain about.

For some weird reason, Google Chrome doesn't support data-URIs in HTTPS when using HTML5 drag-and-drop to drag files from a website to the desktop, which requires an annoying workaround.

In addition, most people wanting to set up a third-party PS server don't want to go through the hassle of acquiring a certificate. It makes the setup process a lot more complicated than just "clone the repository and run ./pokemon-showdown"
This article seems a bit aggressive about its point. Sure, the "Google Car" was super overhyped, and probably will never be a consumer product. However, there is no doubt that Google's software has pushed the idea of a self-driving car forward, and the car will have an impact on the future of the auto industry.
Whoops, php. I didn't even notice the syntax
I was discussing with someone (nim?) about wanting to set up all of these systems, analyze, and write a survey paper about their properties (Desired, achieved) and about the blank spots needed.

I don't really have time for this, though, although it would be fun.
That's usually because some local player bought the (online) distribution rights for your country for content from major studios before Netflix moved in. Where I live, Netflix has some children's shows and some local stuff. If I want the same choice as Netflix in the US, I'd have to get subscriptions to half a dozen local online video stores. I expect most of those to go out of business in the next few years, and things to consolidate to just one or two players, one of them being Netflix.
Dumb question, but if I install this on OS X does it support VB.Net or just C#?

I have a ton of old CLI apps I wrote in VB.Net 10 years or so ago and it would be interesting to port them. Mono's support for VB.Net last I tested was not good.
Github pages plus mailchimp to do it for free
Yes, basically :(
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein is a good read for those interested in this scene.
"Facebook, despite being the biggest app developer on Android, presents a growing threat to Google."

Shouldn't that be Facebook is the biggest developer of Facebook apps on Android?

Was this article written at Facebook HQ?
I came here to ask the same thing, sort of. Pushover and Pushbullet both work with IFTTT, and IIRC used to be the only way to get IFTTT to send you mobile push notifications.

However, now that IFTTT supports push notifications, why do you still need Pushover or Pushbullet?
Then, please go and insult the editor-in-chief of the New York Times — not me.

What I cherry-picked was how my brother left the US after an arrest in the nearby house involved law-enforcement firing 12,000 rounds at a single crouching suspect, and they had to leave because his wife and two kids couldn’t sleep after that; how the CEO of the start-up I was working for was mugged; how my closest friend was victim of an extreme-rendition at the border after he showed a hand-written letter by the Dean of Harvard inviting him to teach; how my manager had his passport confiscated… I know work with a team that is partially in Chicago: do I need to say more?

The twelve people the closest to me who went to the US all had beyond traumatic experiences. Imagining anything involving a prosecutor like the one portrayed there just sends shivers through my spine.
Yeah, I was going to ask the user for confirmation before falling back to HTTP, when I realized what you did: an active attacker can just change the URL of the iframe.

Anyone who really needs secure pokemon battles can just use the HTTPS site, anyway. (Which does ask the user for confirmation before falling back to HTTP, if an HTTPS connection fails)
I'm not up to date with the Trump stuff but what I thought was particularly disingenuous about the first example was that he said in advance that he was going to write something ambiguous that people would 'misinterpret' and then he made fun of them when it happened.

As far as I'm concerned, if you write something with the goal of communicating a particular idea to a particular audience then that's what you said. It doesn't matter at all what other meanings could be construed and whether they are more logical or not.

If I say something to a few people and I know that one of them will misunderstand it (the reason doesn't really matter) in a way that makes the statement untrue then I've just lied to that person.
First person shooters probably won't make the transition to VR. Not without basically being redesigned from the ground up. The control scheme is just barf city.

(Although expect to see people playing FPSs on virtual IMAX-like screens in VR. A little bit of stable context can mitigate the nausea.)

But why are you counting the titles available today? The Rift hasn't even been released yet. Even if they are planning to adapt those titles,
there's not much incentive for EA and Activision to rush their ports out.
One of the major tenets of this is (from what I can tell) its multiplatform-ness: it would be able to ship as the tooling in the .NET Core release for any platform.

Powershell is certainly a cool shell, but it is a shell, and that makes it much less likely to be ported+packaged everywhere (Pash exists, but I don't know whether it exists as, say, an Ubuntu PPA.) Whereas, when you release a language, you kind of want its tooling to go wherever it goes.
Cost of access would come into picture when they have a medium to access it. Even with low cost Android been available most might not be be to afford it. I see still a good number of middle class people using mobiles which don't access to Internet.
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