skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only microphone (and the normal network) access makes sense. The ID management can reside in the app itself, separate from the unsecured phone agenda. Every other mentioned permissions are liabilities from a security point of view. These are valuable only because of convenience, and it's known that the very same convenience is used as a Trojan Horse carrier for means of abuse. To see that they focus on respectable goals like security, decentralization and free software and yet leak data in the phone for other applications or present a spectacular example of suspect feature creep, it's like hearing a sadistic joke.
Correction. Apparently they've changed the models a little bit and this is the actual model with all the adjust-ability that our office loves. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q5XTE8?keywords=lorell&...
"What I think Dawkins has done is brought back a particularly virulent form of original sin. He’s actually a deeply religious thinker – ‘We are born selfish therefore let us try to teach altruism’, 'If your genes are selfish, you are.'"

Both are surely not the quotes from Dawkins but Newman's own and wrong conclusions. Genes != whole animals (or humans). Especially the "interest" of the genes doesn't have to reflect in all aspects of the behavior to eliminate cooperation.
I joke with programmer friends that we should become gardeners instead. I guess the appeal of physical labor is you get to leave work at work.
Well, it's intellectually engaging, and (if you have halfway decent ergonomics) not particularly physically taxing.

Is it what I'd do with my time if I didn't have to make a living? Maybe a few hours a week.

Is it more enjoyable than most of the alternative ways I could imagine making a living? Hell yeah!

Does it have its exhausting, hellish days and political bullshit? Doesn't everything?

Could I stand to do it in a bureaucratic corporate setting, doing nothing but maintaining a small corner of some horrible enterprise monstrosity and filing TPS reports? Probably not.

How happy am I doing it in the small company / startup setting I've been in for the last 15 years, with plenty of autonomy and a decent proportion of green-field work? About as happy as I'm going to be working any "day job".
The "problem" with CF now, is the amount of legacy sites written with it. They will need support and maintenance. To me that is boring work I rather not do (with the exclusion of my own legacy business). Its a stable comfy income, but if you want the excitement and adrenalin (yeah, I'm exaggerating), you might find it in Python, Go, Rust etc.
I'm not sure how accurate the data are, but take a look at opensignal.com.
Microsoft wants to put data centers at the bottom of the sea
It is a gap only if you zoom in, at 100% it appears as a grey line: http://i.imgur.com/6uCb0km.png

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sometimes I wish that all these software-made billionaires instead of buying the n-th yacht or mansion set up a fund where you could apply and get to work on open source projects at reasonable living wages, sort of like a "basic income for coders" basically.

Pipe dream, I know, one can always dream though, I definitely envy artists / craftsmen that can live off their work, but I don't see that possibility for us programmers as it's not like you could open a "virtual shop" with code you worked on on your own because it interested you and people could see and "ohh, this distributed database election system by teatraodonpuffer looks nice, what's the sticker price? sure, I'll buy it"
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I haven't used it yet, but https://github.com/pistondevelopers/visualrust claims to have started MIEngine integration.
FTDI would arguably be justified in having their driver refuse to bind to counterfeit chips. Binding but causing deliberate malfunctions seems, to me, deserving of a lawsuit.
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Designing your test methods using a simple structure such as given-when-then will help you:

- Communicate the purpose of your test more clearly
- Focus your thinking while writing the test
- Make test writing faster
- Make it easier to re-use parts of your test
- Highlight the assumptions you are making about the test preconditions
- Highlight what outcomes you are expecting and testing against.
Sadly MS may well have been the very entity that institutionalized this behavior.

For example, they included an exception in their memory protection code for SimCity. This because said game held a "use after release" memory bug that had gone undetected. And rather than have the game crash on later MS product releases, MS put in said piece of code.
Can it not? Stop eating so much fructose and eat more fiber so you don't absorb as much of what you do eat. Can that guarantee the same results for every single person? I would guess not. It is a good indicator of the first thing to try to be healthier and lose weight? Seems like pretty overwhelming evidence to me and in fact mirrors my own experience with intentionally losing and gaining weight.

Most of the time this type of dismissal is more due to someone not wanting to face the idea of giving up sugar, which I can understand.
LOL! Don't buy from farnell, mouser, or digikey? They've all had issues with fakes getting into the supply. Are we supposed to just up and boycott them all? And, once I've exhausted the top 3 distributors, now where do I go? I'm sure I can just call up FTDI and order 10k chips on a weekly basis right?

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Anyone who works in supply chain, switch to ordering directly from FTDI. They'll soon realize the folly in this decision.
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Why are you assuming the control flow works like that? I'd bet it works exactly the opposite way: there is a "normal" code path, and private mode is a flag that disables certain things.
The major sports are starting to come around. The MLB spun out their streaming product (into MLBAM) and signed a deal with the NHL to stream the game broadcasts and both are actively working on renegotiating the streaming deals with their member clubs to get rid of local blackouts.
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I live and work in NYC. There are about 10 Australians in this office. Pivotal has been ahead of the curve in hiring through the E3 visa.

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Well it could be used to write a spec sheet that then was used on clean room implement a clone. but i guess there was a risk that some terminology or similar could leak through.
Excited to give this a try. Thanks.
Personally I rarely browse at 100% zoom. I magnify each page until I only have ~20px of margin and no whitespace.

Given there are tens of millions of people on the Internet, even if a small amount like 0,01% did it, it would already be "many people".

I would however appreciate some analytics data on it to have a better idea.
If you find something that's significantly slower, please file a bug. We should be in the same order of magnitude: sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but never significantly so.
So much of the high education system is vestigial from the Middle Ages(Why are the degrees in Latin?). I wonder how much of all that has been done away with.
> You could apply the same logic to helping people lose weight.

Indeed you could!

Jail's intention is to correct bad habits, not to punish them.
> there are many more low-frequency channels of a given width than high frequency ones, it's much easier to justify very wide channels at higher frequencies.

Right conclusion, wrong (mis-stated?) premise. There are more high-frequency channels of a given width than low-frequency ones. 700-800 MHz is a whopping 12.5% change, and it gets you 100 MHz to work with, but 5.725-5.875 is only a 2.5% change and gets you 150 MHz to work with.
> a pre-production system that will behave the exact same way

So what if all of your preproduction systems have a genuine FTDI chip in them, and many of your millions of deployed production systems have counterfeits that you don't know about? That'll be exciting.

Quality is a matter of defense in depth. You can't rely on your preproduction system running the exact same way as production. You strive for consistency, but ultimately each chip in each computer is a unique physical object made with different silicon crystals, and being identical is impossible. You want a system that's robust against a variety of subtle differences.

FTDI is just doing their small bit to make everything just a little more fragile and unpredictable where their chips are concerned, and as such their products ought to be shunned.
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Ignoring the financial aspect of it, I actually didn't mind working in a department store all that much. During downtime you got to socialize with coworkers (many of whom were female), during busy times the time just flew by, you got to move around a lot and be active, you weren't expected to know every detail about everything you were responsible for, just be able to answer some basic questions about certain products ("Why is this more expensive? Which one is best for situation X?"). Also your friends could stop by your workplace to chat from time to time.

As for the no guarantee of 40 hour work week... well, again ignoring the financial aspect of it, only working 20 or 30 hours a week was much more enjoyable than 40-55 hours (or even higher at some places) work weeks.
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As gammafactor notes, Racket is not Common Lisp. Nor does it have any other implementations, free or proprietary. That's one of the great advantages of Common Lisp: a single standard, implemented multiple times by multiple people, running on many platforms.

Racket is definitely neat. I don't know for certain, but I hope it learns from some of the same lessons that CL learned from. Still, why not use the standardised, industrial-strength Lisp?
That's very sad - I'm sorry that happened to you.

It makes me curious about one point. It sounds as if the class you took covered what my engineering program called "Communication Theory". We were expected to have two terms of differential equations and one each of linear algebra and statistics under our belts as prerequisites. (I think. This was a long time ago...)

Were you missing, at least, having at strong basis in differential equations? If you didn't, that would have made the class double-tough.
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Google's Loon Project involves having the balloons float over the weather. So cloud cover isn't the issue. Batteries only have to function at night. Furthermore each drone will in software limit itself to N active connections (just like cell towers do), so you just use that N to calculate max battery draw, then size batteries appropriately.
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From the Windows 7 user's perpsective, there's no difference.

It's understood that this article is meant to discuss zero-install applications that require nothing more than the standard C library.

That said, if you're making and marketing software (as I would expect a few visitors of this thread might) and looking to accomplish something functionally similar with your C# or VBScript dev team, my comment can be helpful - which is why I wrote it.

I've shipped a number of sub-5MB applications this way.
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I have a similar tale of woe as you. I bought my Samsung xe303 specifically as a kind of budget Macbook Air to run desktop Linux on (I currently use an EeePC which is roughly half as powerful). I haven't tried Enlightenment, have to give that a go; the only window manager I could find that supported GLES was KWin, which actually runs but is quite unstable. I've also experimented with various OpenGL wrappers, with varying success.

It's a pain because it's a really nice bit of kit but I haven't managed to make it practical as a desktop machine. I also would be interested in what it's possible with Freon.

I am really surprised there isn't a "just works" prebuilt image for ARM Chromebooks. Its absence suggests to me that nobody has figured this out, yet.
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