skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that people deserved what they earned. Then I worked for Steve Jobs and I realized that no human being can really earn the incredible sums of money that they are receiving. I remember the day that a big semi-truck mistakenly drove up to the company front desk. It was completely filled with perhaps a thousand custom shirts for Steve. Why would Steve need that many shirts? Well, during one meeting I had with Steve he looked at the time and said he had another meeting. Then he closed the blinds, took off his shirt and threw it in the trash, took off his pants and threw them in the trash, and went to the closets in his office and pulled out new clothes. Steve would often change clothes more than once per day (and these were custom clothes.) When Steve wore clothes that were "used" and "washed" it was safe to predict that the press was around since Steve was in his "costume" as a real human being.

I could go on with many other stories. Basically, Steve treated millions like you or I would treat pennies. In a world with so many people who are suffering, that is immoral.
Love it.

I'm very bad at website design and at 25$ this is a no brainer . Can see myself using this for small websites
I have a different interpretation. Most of the muscles that a parent gives to a child are the structured muscles to prevent one from failing. College, grad school are in some sense insurance. Therefore most of the upper middle class upbringing is guaranteeing insurance of a person's middle life or retirement.

Whereas the muscles that you learn from being independent are the muscles from conceptualizing, taking risks, creating, and learning from the experience. This is a completely different muscle than previous set of muscles.

It's not really about letting go or being too controlling. It's about building the right set of mental models so that someone can guide and create their own lives.
Apparently it's been finalized for a while, they're just waiting for the green light from legal:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/khronos-group-vulkan-delay,new...

But I agree these shallow slide decks aren't contributing anything. Anyone who needs to know Vulkan exists knows at this point.
No, see 31 US 5330 and related code sections.
There's these very nice swiss wooden blocks that have pathways for marbles carved into them.They're a lot of fun, and dead simple to put together, but also quite expensive, at about 150EUR for a set of 50. I had some of them as a kid, and now I'm a competitive minecraft player, so there's that.

http://www.cuboro.ch/en/Info/Products
It can be very messy to upgrade for a sizeable chunk of developers. Linked libraries, lost compatibility. If the system gets unstable you lose years of installed dependencies. I mean some of the unix apps take literally hours to install, and a faulty upgrade can lose tens of them. You forget how you resolved conflicts, gotten stuff to work.
Things like this add to my impression that UEFI is a solution looking for a problem. The fragility caused by all this extra complexity is extremely undesirable for a system component whose only job should be to test and setup the hardware minimally, then leave the rest to the OS.

Then again, there's also the question of why removing EFI configuration variables would make the machine unbootable; you would think that in the absence of any explicit configuration, the firmware should just choose a sane default. That would be like making an rm -rf / also reset your BIOS settings, which is probably surprising but easily recoverable behaviour. This seem as crazy as mounting the whole flash ROM as a filesystem, so deleting it erases the firmware. The symptoms described do sound like what happens if you try to boot a motherboard with a completely blank BIOS chip (from personal experience...) --- the system will power on and just stay on, but nothing else will happen, not even a POST beep.

Edit: given that the majority of users have probably never touched BIOS/UEFI settings so that they remain at defaults, resetting them would not be noticed by them either. It's likely the advanced users, the overclockers and so forth, which will be running non-defaults.
Definitely interested on keeping tabs on it. Thanks for the heads up.

In a perfect world, it wouldn't be a port, but something that meshes really well with real world use cases while taking advantage of what Rust has to offer.

I don't mind change (I embrace it), but it needs to be for a REALLY good reason.
I hate to ask, but is BlitzMax similar to DarkBasic? Which it seems is in the processing of OpenSourcing their programming engine at the moment as well.

- https://www.thegamecreators.com/product/dark-basic-pro-open-...
It's not illegal to operate a money transfer business. Paypal, Venmo, Stripe, Square, etc. are all money transfer businesses.

However, in the US it is illegal to operate a money transfer business without getting the proper licenses and registrations at the federal, state, and local levels.

It's even more illegal to operate a money transfer business that's being used for laundering, know or be told of these laundering uses, and then not do anything about it.
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You are writing it as comment to article, where demonstrated commercial usage of Rust and explained benefits of this usage. I do it not because Rust is a new shiny thing, but because I LOVE key ideas of errors handling, results returning and memory safety (RAII is awesome thing). I use it not because "oh, I can finally play with it", but because "finally I see language where things are done right so I can write code effectively, customers will be served without failures and I will not spend so many time in debugging stage anymore" - time is the most valuable resource. In usage Rust is not so cute and shiny (in first month). It's only pragmatic decision. And I'm glad I was able to convince my employer.
our little project support ldap for the login part: http://lavagna.io/ .
The problem is the Linux based boot loader that circumvents Windows Activation Technology. I am convinced that -- and that alone -- is why we live with UEFI.
Pretty much different UIs for the same graph at this point, surely?

The actual Facebook platform isn't the bunch of notifications end users are variously served, pushed and aggregated through different clients - the FB platform is their graph, and that thing is pretty impressive.
It is both terrifying and amusing that rm'ing files in /sys can brick my Linux machine.

I find it even more worrisome that some compare this mistake to accidental clobbering of /dev/sd?.
Of course Berkeley has some monitoring, but it's done intelligently by campus IT. UCOP rammed in this new hardware and won't even let campus IT touch it.
I too think you're a very good parent because you are engaging with the goal of arriving af empathy, no matter how hard may be. That's the key I suppose, not how hard or easy it is. Thanks.
You may need to explain more about your work flow and data types.

Like if you were preparing a paper (you presumably aren't) Zotero is a super cool set of tools for citation and bibliography management.

If you are doing data science, Ipython for python and RCloud for R.

Command line geek? Both vim and Emacs have relevant tools.

A lot of code and large data files? A git repo and git annex may be what you are looking for.
Depends on your system. Linux had SELinux / AppArmor / general LSM for years. Android uses different user for each app. Windows is just starting to catch up with sandboxes in the latest version.
Wow. Thanks for teaching me that. Yeah, yours is better, I'll lay it on github with a thank you and maybe "embrace and extend" it.

Or learn python and port it to python, I could swing it that way.. Cheers.
> No it does not. I don't understand why people believe this to be true.

I'm looking at it from the point of view of a landlord / property manager (something I am not). If this law was enacted, I could most positively think that I could raise rents a fair amount knowing that so many more people could now afford my property.

I could also assume the market would get flooded with new renters (demand up), driving prices up.

I don't see how that wouldn't happen in other markets too.
Don't know about simple, but we're using Puppet with Vagrant.

Our Vagrant box uses the exact same setup as production, with minor local tweaks (for example, our internal tool also sets up local DNS resolution so that every app can be invoked from a .dev host name, and we also mount apps from the host machine so you can work on the code and hot-reload it). We use the same tools to deploy apps, inspect status and generally interact with the environment.

Once the developer has downloaded the box, keeping it updated is a manner of running an update command which performs the Puppet magic. The developer doesn't need to know what's going on exactly.

It's not perfect, but it's fairly pain-free, and means we have the exact same software locally as what's on the server.
“Mini-Bush in action” is a ridiculous summary of Napolitano’s career. Both Democratic Governor of AZ and Secretary of Homeland Security are quite politically constrained positions in US politics. Arizona is a state with a radical Republican majority in both houses of the state legislature which has been in control for decades. There’s really only so much a Democrat can do as governor. I personally think the structure and many of the activities of the DHS are ridiculous, but that’s the fault of Congress, not of the person appointed to be its executive.

Napolitano seems to me like a competent mainstream (“centrist Democrat”) politician, not unlike most of the people who would be considered for a post like UC President. She’s not my personal favorite, and I disagree with her about many policy topics, but in a lineup of US ex-governors, she’s easily in the top quarter. By contrast, Bush was an absolute disaster in every way.
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Somalia has taxes. Both income and sales taxes. Perhaps other types of taxes as well.
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If you need state you typically use JS + XHR and can set your own headers. Cookies are just header values with some predefined behaviour wrapped around them.
Vignette StoryServer Forever! Had some fun times writing Tcl in that system.
au contraire, the problem is windows thinks it owns the machine I bought for the sole purpose of running linux.
Yes indeed we are: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2016/01/EDRS-A_launc...

(I take partial credit for this as a European.)
At my last company we rolled our own little interface in NodeJS. Simple enojgh and worked really well!
Simplenote has tags, a desktop and iOS app, and a "good enough" feature set.

http://simplenote.com/
So how are BlitzBasic, BlitzMax, DarkBasic and MonkeyX related?

Just trying to figure out the differences.
> some desktop motherboard allow to reinstall a corrupted firmware by putting a special named file on a usb key

This sounds fun and dangerous.
Orgmode is really good for this kind of stuff.
There's a lot of PDF files, clippings from websites or applications, reports from databases, as well as plain text.

A big part of my workflow is annotation of the source data and tagging it with various categories.

Honestly, my perfect tool would probably be OneNote's engine with evernote's tagging bolted on.
CMake and GNU Make have only the word 'Make' in common, CMake is an automatic build tool while the GNU Make is just a GNU version of plain old make tool. CMake is there to prepare a proper Makefile for the "GNU Make" to consume.
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Dunning Kruger Effect
Are you confusing WAT with SecureBoot?
Do you have an API or vagrant provider? Maybe I can add this to my tutorial here https://amfarrell.com/saltstack-from-scratch/step-10-digital...
That's Zilla, not Godzilla.
LR was based in Costa Rica.
Don’t worry Uber/Lyft drivers
Apparently it's too hard to type "Home Page".
I'd be surprised if there was a large contingent of unemployed machine learning specialist sitting idle in Germany waiting for Apples investment dollars to unleash them. A billion dollars or even ten billion won't materilize the required skills in the requisite time.

An economist suggests this is an example of a skills mismatch.
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Or, speaking of Sun, something akin to NeWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
i second org-mode, criteria mentioned in request is available on org-mode. the only negative note to be mentioned is that it has steep learning curve
> I don't like OneNote.

It might help to be a little more specific here.
I think there would be quite a bit of controversy as with Edward Snowden if someone leaked that key somehow. That someone would be considered a hero by many, and also a traitor by others.

Alternatively, someone leaks an SGX exploit that bypasses it all, and we wonder whether it was a mistake like so many other vulnerabilities, or if someone deliberately put it there because they didn't believe in Intel having that amount of control... "I wish for the insecurity that brings us freedom."
Isnt the tax rate 40% ish? That would push 3570 francs a month ( 42840 a year ) to 60k francs/year. Still not 80k, but pretty crazy.
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A top professional reviews some elements of the five-game series, and explains that in the engine's state as of when the games were played there is little chance the engine could take a single game against Lee Sedol in March.

Who knows what will happen with the extra half a year of preparatory time with this engine: but to make so much progress in 2015 starting from scratch leaves the match to happen in March one to look forward to.
CMake is just another automatic build tool like the Autotools but without the Bourne shell requirement and the one which easily produces XCode / Visual Studio project files like the QMake. So as far as the CMake is concerned, it's not particularly useful nor more time saving than Autotools really.
It's very funny until they drop BIOS compatibility mode from new machines.
Why would you figure out how to install something, and then not automate it so you didn't have to do it again? I think if you can't recreate your system in an afternoon with just a backup of your user files, then you're already on borrowed time.
Turn San Jose into a mega city and build good transit and let SF be the culture center it is.
> it has nothing to do with this situation in particular.

Please read the parent's question, asking why it would be necessary to encrypt when using SSL/TLS. I explain why, and yes I do go a little bit further to more general cases, because I am assuming that if they don't understand the need to encrypt in this specific case they could benefit, and hopefully appreciate, to understand the more general cases as well.
If you go near the Super Bowl you will be surveilled hard
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Smart hack, but IMO gives too little for me to be bothered to add a dependency.
Probably not in this case, because affected systems don't give even a slightest sign of life.
I spent most of my early programming years with BlitzMax.
The language itself probably has no future on it's own, but combined with the DX/OpenGL integration and overall straightforwardness, I'd heavily recommend it for interested children.

If you have one or know of one, consider this.
Sure, which again means it's on a web application level rather than working at the HTTP level.

There are lots of uses for cookies without having JS or a full browser available.
github + jupyter notebooks is what I use for my research notes... can put links and pictures and shit in it.
Indeed its only 99 lines of code if you strip out comments etc.
https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/646299844487872512
https://gist.github.com/gaearon/ffd88b0e4f00b22c3159

A truly elegant solution to state management.
By the way, here's the author of the kernel module in question, talking about this issue:

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/693494314941288448
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I've used autotools for >15 years now. My $0.02 is the following:

- autoconf is horrible but useful. It's bloated, slow, obtuse, and hard to use. But it encapsulates a portability layer which was useful 15 years ago... and less so today

- automake is horrible. A few simple rules in GNU Makefile syntax are good enough for the majority of projects. And it's easier to understand than automake

- libtool is horrible. It slows down every build by a factor of ~10. And you'd think that a program dedicated to building C programs would be written in C. You know, for speed. But no... it's written in shell. Horrible, horrible, shell. And it breaks the build. Pass "-L/foo -lbar"? It randomly converts it to an absolute path "/foo/bar.so". Pass in an absolute path so that you can link against the LOCAL build directory for testing? Screw you... it re-writes that to a relative path, and links against the system libraries.

- libltdl should be shot. I got rid of it in my projects 5 years ago, and never looked back. Everything sane has dlopen() these days.

If you want a nice cross-platform replacement for these tools, look at what nginx has done. ~8K lines of code, largely Makefiles split into ~50 lines. Simple, clean, and well organized.
I use Quiver a bunch http://happenapps.com/#quiver
I'm also curious as to Evernote alternatives. One of the features they cut a while back is the ability to have nested notebooks and notes, a feature I loved dearly, but was cut several versions ago. I know some people who are still on the very first versions of Evernote due to this feature. There are other features that try to compensate for this (tags, keywords, etc), but I'm looking for genuine hierarchy of notes.

My main intention is for cataloguing, studying, and understanding many deeper contexts in religious studies.
Read: "refused to cooperate with government ops".

Thank goodness they didn't find Satoshi yet.
> Thing is, HTML is a really fantastic and powerful way of describing documents.

Meh. Postscript (and PDF, for that matter) do a better job describing the appearance of a document: you can place things exactly where you want them on the page. SGML does a better job describing the semantic meaning of the page (though arguably no one does it well): a <p> isn't really very descriptive.

As you mention, HTML is lousy at UIs. HTML tries to do too many things, and ends up doing all of them poorly.
Something to consider is the fact that the vast majority of people who say they're going to go back to school after a break never do [citation needed].
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Lesson learned: if you want to semi-permanently take a system offline, hope they have a bad EFI implementation and rm -rf /sys. The fact that a malicious actor can compromise your hardware via software like that is incredible.

That's an insane design decision and if I replicated that in my professional capacity designing heavy machinery I'd be rightly fired and sued to oblivion because the equivalent result is dead people. This is a basic case of the principle of safety-in-design.
Can't comment on DarkBasic or Monkey, but:

BlitzBasic and BlitzMax are about the same language. What BlitzMax provided over BlitzBasic was a direct integration with DirectX and OpenGL, which allowed you to make 2D games with hardware supported rendering.

Your average BlitzBasic "Hello World" would usually take up 50% of the CPU.
Their biggest issue (besides being a centralized service thus easy targeting) was not encrypting internal communications and allowing comments to accompany transfers which were typically "For 200 dumps of CCs" or something similarly illegal. They tried to avoid KYC regulations by just providing the internal ledger, you had to go through 3rd party exchangers in order to buy in or cash out of the system and these parties were supposed to do KYC.

Pecunix and C-gold are other centralized, closed book-entry systems still around though Pecunix changing to a voucher system.
Uhm... Usually I'm buying games on steam for 5-15 euros. There is a lot cheap special offers...
Former Evernote user here. I use http://tiddlywiki.com/ and its quite amazing. Self-hosted, small, fast, tons of features, superb tagging support. There is no mobile app, I use Dropbox and view it in Safari. Highly recommended!
OneNote is powerful, but it's way of organizing things just doesn't work for me. I end up with a sprawl that I can't find anything in.
Wow. That's one hell of a story (long one, but it was worth it). Glad to see you turned out okay, and was fortunate enough to have the financial capabilities to fight it off. Most people don't. Especially the whole appear-20-times-in-court, a lot of people (especially lower class working people), would probably get fired.

When people see prosecutors rack up huge bogus charges that can get you sentenced to years if not life in prison, they fold.

I agree completely on the body cam issue. I think constant monitoring of public servants is the best way to move us from them from "escalation of force to compliance" stage to the "protect and serve".
No need! A LinkedIn account with a recruiter-visible email address will result in these sorts of unsolicited emails with no subscription fees at all.
Self-fulfilling prophecy: "Real people" are using web applications at higher rates because of programmers inevitably using the web as their main platform, creating a self-sustaining feedback loop. But, what the herd can adopt, it can also destroy.

FWIW I'm sure people who live in jurisdictions with subpar connectivity would appreciate a renaissance of desktop applications.
Cython is the same speed as a carefully tuned C/C++ program; carefully tuned, Cython maps directly to C/C++. I've done many benchmarks of low level numerical code when implementing SageMath (which uses Cython for several 100K lines of code).
Why is it nice to think about? It'd be a move as pointless and self-destructive as GCC refusing to implement a usable IR because of Stallman's belief that it'd hurt free software. End result: LLVM is now replacing GCC as the de-facto compiler toolchain of choice.

SGX is an optional feature. It doesn't magically run software against your will and it is not "immoral". Ascribing moral positions to CPU features seems ridiculous to me, sort of like describing a pickaxe as "immoral". If you don't want to use it, then don't execute software that includes SGX instructions. If you do want to use it, then all Linux getting in your way will do is convince you that maybe you should be using a different kernel whilst you wait for Intel's own driver to compile and install.
well .. all this come as pretty smug with a tad of superiority complex.

Not surprised here, I'm French and saw that quite a lot from a crowd who think because they learned programming "the scientific way", anyone else is a hack or an amateur at best.

Man got so much disdain ...

"I had to deal with poorly coded rewrite of ..."

"Because of hype and stupid sysadmins ..."

"because in the 2000 good coders were hard to find"

"You cannot self teach it yourself."

"one man armies self taught and not software engineers"

"less expensive to hire self taught programmers than students that had loans to pay"

Do I understand all that right ?

best innovation on the web come from the porn industry ?
self taught programming is bad, java engineers are bad, sysadmins are stupids
and everyone should move to TCL/TK ?

some people really do have an enormous ego :)
That doesn't contradict anything stated.
The UK model is the most painful plug to stand on, due to it's propensity to lie 'prongs up' and the particular arrangement of said prongs.

This is a deliberate and oft misunderstood feature of this plug.

In the event of an invasion standing orders are for every British citizen to cut the plugs off their appliances and scatter them in the streets as makeshift caltrops, delaying the enemy advance and crippling any soldier unfortunate enough to have removed his shoes.