skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> spyware

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teleca.sam...

> The more you share, the more you earn. Yearly rewards could add up to over $300 a year.
MI Mobile allows you to share your preferences without saying a word.

> Our mission is simple—to understand how people view, use and share today's media, including digital, internet, mobile, TV and social media.

> You help us, we reward you! It is like taking a survey without tying up your time.

It's not spyware if it's advertised this way. It's the same as being Nielsen family, basically.
Most of the time, it's because of opportunity cost: The time you're spending building a server, learning how to manage repos, setting up redundancy and just trying to get the thing working, you could've spent on whatever product you were trying to produce, and would likely be much further along with if you hadn't done everything the hard way.

That's not to say there isn't educational value, but a common piece of advice I've gotten is "Don't optimize for anything but your life." Or more easily explained: Don't optimize for things you don't need to.
Writing something like this for Python 2 is like throwing a urine filled water balloons at all the progressive developers working hard to get the Python community transitioned to Python 3.

Don't have enough reasons to stick with shitty old Python 2, well then here's another anchor for your boat!

Edit: The first pull request was for Python 3 support, hooray.
Is this the same as Swype? That's already on Android, iOS 8, Symbian, Windows 7, MeeGo, and Windows Phone. Is Microsoft "Word Flow" better? I find Swype to be pretty good.

http://www.swype.com/
Thanks, it seems I need to fix my stance on it.
Hi Mike. I met you at San Jose conference in 2013. I remember very clearly- you were the most dashing, handsome, well spoken and charismatic person at the entire conference, a very rare find in the developer community. I was just finding my bearings in this technology at the time, I was a long way from home, and remember the confidence it instilled in me, knowing that someone like yourself was involved in this. But as I followed your contributions to the effort in the months after the conference, it was so confusing- nothing you did really seemed to help, your suggestions were widely panned by most of the best technical minds, and you seemed to devote your energy to platforms that are largely made up of newbies.

If I was a handler for an organization that wanted to insert an asset into the bitcoin community, someone like you would be the ideal candidate. Someone that young people, new to the community, naturally respect and will listen to. Strange how you've spent so much time cultivating your standing with people like that, while your reputation plummeted among the people that understood the network (and had far more skin in the game than you did, because if I remember correctly you never foresaw the spectacular growth of the bitcoin network, never thought it would work, and therefore did not really have that many coins yourself). I have a long history of having a keenly skeptical eye, I have solid critical thinking skills, and I bat away wacky theories all day long. I have NEVER, in any forum, posted any comment of any type in regards to bitcoin, this is my first one- I believe in speaking humbly, thinking deeply and acting bravely. While the evidence that your motives in the bitcoin network may not be what you say they are is only circumstantial, it has been accumulating for some time now. And the strongest allegations have come from the people who have the best reputations for clear thinking and scam calling. I mean you no ill will Mike, regardless of your intentions. But the forces at play and the implications of our technologies' reach is so spectacular that it is quite reasonable now for us to assume that smart and highly motivated people will appear who will use great cunning to harm the network. Every spidey sense I possess has been going off about you for a long time now. I can remain silent no longer.

J'accuse Mike, J'accuse.
The language should poll all the time since it has great numbers (performance). Event based is for liberals.
Thanks, I get that you don't want to be on proprietary code. I'm look forward to your email. And we're open to discussing open sourcing features if that is needed.
At least the barge looks like it should be reusable.
If you want to add it, feel free to just copy and paste :)
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why would Netflix need viewer ratings? They know exactly what you are watching but most importantly they are a paid service where each of their customers voluntarily chooses to pay for Netflix's content. If anything ratings for individual shows would only serve Netflix's interest so as to know if one show is worth producing over another.

They aren't in the same business as traditional TV/Cable where the customer doesn't get a choice but instead has to take whats in the bundle. If anything they are closer to HBO
1. Most of those can be avoided with enough coordination and planning. If you know thing X has a dependency, you need to plan for it (and make sure any other team knows about it). Weekly scrum-of-scrums, leadership meetings, etc.

2. No, we don't usually encounter that.

That said, when we do run into long-running problems, we do need to escalate. One of our systems had some serious performance problems and it did take VP involvement (daily 15 minute standup with the players involved) to keep things moving towards a resolution. It's annoying when it happens, but I'm not sure it's completely avoidable in a large org. Perhaps I've been lucky, but management has always had my back - we def have a culture of servant-leadership, at least in my division.
> Evolve the idea of what a home is.

I see what you did there... Now lets try that on my wife.
Apparently I am the one wrong here, given the 1964 paper link provided by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd.

Still the word sounds strange.
Common, Davydenko incident is already in betting folklore and have been excessively documented. Where are the other names in top 50?
That most of us have times we dedicate to thinking about the things that make us money and times we dedicate to thinking about other things? I'm not sure what's wrong with that. Obviously we don't have the strict control to turn our thoughts completely on or off so this doesn't preclude what might be considered "background processing". Still, surely it is reasonable to dedicate some times to some things and other times to other things, even if the things in question are creative processes. For most people, deciding "I'll just work through this new research topic whenever I spontaneously happen to be thinking about it" is probably not their best way to contribute to the field.
If you put a spark inside a full gas/petrol can, not much happens. Not enough oxygen. Half full? Still not such a big deal.

But empty the can, leaving behind just the fumes and the oxygen, and you have yourself a bomb.

My understanding is that the rocket here is a similar problem. It's a giant tube of explosive material. I wouldn't want to tap it with a hammer. And they've got it falling to earth at supersonic speeds, then calmly setting itself down on a barge at sea in 3m waves.
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Food replicators a-la Star Trek TNG. Make them public and free.

Food problem solved, (in time) end of all wars as we know them.
Wars on new problems/needs could arise, but still.
The REAL problem here is C's garbage way of dealing with errors. NULL is overloaded both to be a valid pointer and an error signal. In the author's ideal world, how would a malloc failure be communicated?
Yeah, I have a friend who is a "research scientist" - he just does research, no teaching, and gets a decent salary. Good gig, except it's soft money so there's a little less security than your converse.
This is entirely conjecture as written by a philosophy professor.
Here's a couple of examples of what it looks like when a rocket explodes when it's still full of fuel:

https://youtu.be/NCWunnJXdm0?t=180

https://youtu.be/Zl12dXYcUTo?t=32

Then compare to this dinky little explosion.
Time isn't free and maintaining Gitlab, for instance, eats up maybe 30 minutes a month.

Maintaining the 10x SaaS services you use in a similar vein suddenly starts eating up close to whole days.
You need to have people smart enough to interpret the standards and answer questions when audited.
Does having 76,000 people vote for the best projects improve the chances of good projects being funded?
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Nobody should really be surprised by this. People all over tech have been arguing about the bubble for some time. I see this as an early stage harbinger of things to come though.

With the Fed raising rates, VC's already starting to hedge their bets, and friends of mine leaving startups to go back to stable corporate gigs, I see a shuffling of the deck, but nothing too major.

I feel like this is the normal eight year tech cycle that is just coming back around again:

- 1992 recession and crash

- 2000 recession and crash

- 2008 recession and crash
An ex-mayor, and not a Lord Mayor. Really small search space here. :-)
Was anyone else disappointed that this wasn't an article about the engineering behind the tennis racket?
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Higher-level code is just an abstraction layer over the lower-level workings, and if that abstraction layer doesn't clear memory properly there may be no way to fix that without bypassing it altogether.
+1 for being well put, but I find the talk of "how much inequality should we tolerate", or "where the multiplier should be", or if it's "necessary that they have that much" to be much more bothersome than inequality itself, as though we should have a right to decide how much someone can earn.

I don't think we do (and by "we", I include government).
It fills with helium as it empties out the fuel.
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This is a classic example of a DOS attack, the kind of thing 4chan'ers take delight in unleashing on unsuspecting visitors to a web page. Why do it? For the simple joy of screwing with people.
I thought he was a biochemist and taught at a med school. Wikipedia says he started writing scifi at 11, and I doubt even he was eligible for med school at that age.
It did exactly what it was supposed to do: deliver the second stage to the right place and velocity, and attempt a landing.

The landing failed, but it's part of a test program, failures are supposed to happen.

They got paid ~$90 million for this flight, and the customer is happy because they got exactly what they paid for.
Could someone explain to me why they attempt this? Wouldn't inflating a set of floating devices when it goes down the ocean an easier way of retrieving it? Or something other than this REALLY HARD TO PULL OFF maneuver? Genuinely interested.
How does this project differ from ipfs?
Also, only commits to a master branch, for some very odd reason.
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There was an article back in 2014 that examined the same thing. I dare to venture Grantland's reporting is bit better than the click bait Buzzfeed is:

http://grantland.com/features/tennis-gambling-match-fixing-i...
> we need to make sure that those at the top don't capture the government

We should do this by reforming (limiting and distributing) the government, not by destroying wealth.
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I wouldn't say these things. I'd like more blindness with regards to gender and race when it comes to government policies but I'm optimistic overall. I get that the candidates need to pander to minorities. That is OK. As the honorable mayor of new york will learn in a hard way, even a 90% approval rating among minorities is not enough to carry an election without support from whites.

I hate this fear you've succumbed to because I'm afraid it will be a self-fulfilling prophesy. We are destroying ourselves. Fear hurts us because it makes us follow lunatics and insincere people like Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush.

We need to take a step back and stop listening to fear mongerers. Of course, our work never ends. Of course, we need to push back to defend our rights. However, I don't see us pushing back. When we support antics like occupying a park office, we are not reaching out. We are withdrawing further. We are showing that we are afraid. Some dude not getting to graze his cattle in federal land is not a constitutional crisis much less a moral or religious one.

I equate it to me going to the NSA and demanding them that I be given a free vps on their servers. I mean clearly my taxes paid for the data centers...

I guess my point is if we stopped fearing and withdrawing into ourselves but rather tries to reach out then we will find a lot of the others will see what we really want isn't bad. However, we must discard the craziness and the insincerity. I think it will be a little easier to do that if we stop being afraid.
I investigated a bit this list for the officially banned players, but didn't do the sha256 matching yet for the rumored players. Should be easy though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/41fpeq/tennis_match...

Cracking the sha256 hashes like this, but still haven't confirmed anyone new:
https://gist.github.com/rurban/2f1eabc751ebdc3cd056
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They don't have much in the way of competition to keep 'trade secrets' from
... the first stage of Falcon 9 v1.1 is
capable of holding 119,100 Kilograms of
Rocket Propellant 1 and 276,600 kg of
Liquid Oxygen.

(From http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-v1-1-f9r/ )

So even if it's 99.9% empty, it still can have 120 kgs of rocket fuel. That'll go with a bang.

And it's unlikely to land with only 0.1% of its fuel left - that margin is too small to be attempting a soft landing, so I'd expect it to be a lot more. Then compare with just 5 gallons (probably US gallons, about 19 liters, close to 17 or 19 kgs) of ordinary gasoline:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C72bv2YhZ6A

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924521
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People write their own toy kernels or malloc()s all the time, and there's never the assumption that they would actually try to use them for real, and the security implications are just as real there as for toy crypto.
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GUID == UUID. Annoys me to this day that MS uses the term GUID. Windows includes API functions using both names (e.g. CoCreateGuid and UuidCreate).
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Only to undesirables. Entry exams at mechmath are composed of written and oral stages; these are the questions asked by examiners at oral stage of examination, one on one with potential student.
No, since you'll have to maintain a proportion of local employees in order to keep your business there. Most companies I had dealings with ran up against this limit all the time.
Making test questions more difficult won't help. More people will make simple stupid mistakes, so it's going to be more like a lottery. If you forgive simple stupid mistakes, the test is becoming subjective again.

Here's an example of a bad question: what is the area of the right triangle with hypotenuse 10 and height 6 (height is measured from the vertex opposite to the hypotenuse)? It does not test understanding. The optimal algorithm for the student is to parse the question looking for keywords - "triangle", "area", "height", recalling the formula, and plugging the numbers into it to get the answer 30.

The question is from the real test, and by the way, this answer is incorrect. Why it is incorrect is a better question.

Here's an example of a good question: prove the Pythagorean Theorem. You can't answer it by picking the right answer from the multiple choice list. You have to explain your line of reasoning to the examiner and be able to answer question like "why you say these two triangles are congruent". Such interactive process is much better at determining student's skill level, and you can't prepare for it by simply memorizing stuff without understanding.

The student might not like the proof in the textbook and prefer another proof. It take a human to understand whether this other proof holds water.
Oh good lord... I thought my Drupal sites were fine until for one of them it required a small amount of logged-in users. Performance was terrible so I enabled some dev module to see what was going on. I was faced with a ridiculous amount of queries, each of full of joins.

I now don't use Drupal anymore, although I might occasionally whip it out for a site that only requires a few admins to log in...
It has been known for awhile that many companies are using your phone to spy on you for a variety of purposes like that.

Your smartphone is being used to observe and record your actions.

Normally not a huge deal but sensitive conversations, etc. you don't even want it in the room with you.
If I'm not mistaken your handle jgalt212 is a reference to John Galt from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

If Apple hatred is so strong that it makes Objectivists consider the obligation to pay taxes to be of crucial importance beyond a CEO's right to run their corporation as they see fit ... wow
Looking at the symbols using something like `nm` should make it clear. Swift mangles symbol names to include the module name and allow for nesting, and ObjC does not.
If the intended effect was merely to balance its overwhelming predominance, sabotage in the exams is the most problematic way to do so, because of the way that it can efface the best talent in the group; diversity-quotas of some sort would damage the field less.

More broadly, though, if you think that this was "merely" about balance and that there was no anti-Semitic sentiment in academia in Soviet Lithuania in the 1950s, shortly after the "Rootless Cosmopolitan" campaign and squarely in the era of the "Doctors' Plot", then I may have a bridge to sell you.
When I was at Apple way back in 2003, most of the applications were in C++. Understandably so, because Objective-C was deeply flawed (hence Swift!). But publicly, Jobs would tout Objective-C
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The problem is that the levels of bureaucracy are so high, that we spent a lot of time just managing research, which is not creative at all. And this management of research requires a lot of time, unfortunately.

I would not mind to spend hours during my weekends thinking about scientific problems. The problem is that we must write proposals during the weekends, time that we should spend with our family and friends.

This bureaucratic work hinders creativity.

So, the question is: should scientists do science during our free time and do project management during working hours, as we do now? Or should we try to change how the system works in order to diminish the management workload in order to allow for more time for thinking about scientific problems?
I know a professor who has written articles for Parade magazine about how to improve your lawn.

This guy is going in every direction at once and he regularly runs out of gas when driving to rural locations. Definitely he has so much going on that he doesn't think straight all the time.
The differences are mostly aesthetic then.
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This is way too hyperbolic. I don't know what specific "once upon a time" period is being described. However malloc(0), realloc(NULL, x), and realloc(y, 0) has been a portability headache for as long as I have been writing C. None of this is all that surprising.
They want to use this tech to eventually land rockets on other planets so the rocket needs to be able to land upright. Short term it might be easier to land on inflatables but they're looking at the bigger picture.
Straw man? I've never heard it claimed that speed reading can give the same level of understanding as normal reading. Just that it's a way to quickly get a sense or gist of a work.
Phabricator has so many "strange" naming and after some basic reading I never found it's interesting/easy enough for me to get started, sigh.

redmine, gitlab, bitbucket, github are what I am using for various things.
The landing could be made safer by something like cushioned walls that deploy towards the rocket after touchdown, to avoid such explosions. Think of a giant Christmas Tree stand like this: http://www.christmastreeland.co.uk/product_images/v/428/761_.... but with cushioned hooks on the barge. You can't always hope for all 4 legs to be in perfect condition, or that there aren't high waves in the ocean. That rocket is huge and seems to fall too easily, while a stand with hooks can't be too expensive, unlike a complete new rocket...
Ah. Then it makes sense. I thought first it was a set of carefully selected problems, created for the purpose of letting one group fail and another pass. Which would have been very interesting (i.e. are there problems which one group solves better than another, or problems that one group must refuse to solve for religious reasons etc).

Giving a set of hard problems to an unwanted group and a separate set of problems (or no problems at all) to another is just simple discrimination. They could just as well have had a sign that told the unwanted group not to apply and it would have been no less discriminating.
I would not be surprised if the percentage of Apple's code that is in Swift is more or less the same percentage of Google's code using Golang (with Golang having a slight advantage maturity wise). I'm sure Dart is even less. Of course this is just anecdotal from talking with a few people from Google so I'm probably off. That being said C++ has a huge advantage in that it keeps improving where as Objective C from my ignorant understanding has little plans of being improved (google has a large C++ codebase).
Yeah, I don't understand why they won't keep landing them on the ground like everyone else does. It's not like there's not enough space on Earth.
How do you expect it to be able to land on an inflatable raft? The point of landing the rocket is to reuse it, which is not possible if it falls over or gets wet.

Landing in the ocean is only done for certain types of missions, where its not possible to carry enough fuel to turn the first stand around a fly it all the way back to the launch site. Instead, they can carry just enough fuel to land wherever they are finished boosting the 2nd stage, to put it simply.
A lot of it was actually startups with no customers to speak of at all.
There's some similar things out there:

http://codekata.com/

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You don't want to carry heavy landing-maneuver gear to space and back. Thus the skeletal landing struts that were not-quite-strong-enough for rough seas.

Further, the ocean platform it was landing on was built to sustain heavy seas and stay relatively flat. Recovering a rocket bobbing in the waves could be much harder than this. Also a challenge: quenching a very hot engine in cold ocean water.

No, this platform-landing is probably one of the simplest, safest ways to recover/reuse a stage.
FWIW, at my office for the small projects we have tracked, we use a similar method.

type-label

Types:
b - bug
f - feature
p - priority
t - team

So we might have issues tagged "p-med b-confirmed t-group1"

Once there is a method to the madness, it's not bad, and it's more flexible on Gitlab's part I'm sure, to have people tag instead of supporting custom drop-down attributes.
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Ironic considering the mid 2000's had some of the most Russian born players on the tour. If you're the Russian mob, you're seeing nothing but dollar signs everywhere.
Keeping it out of the sea water is a key part of reusability.