skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually had a rather lengthy debate about clothing with my fiance. It comes down to perspectives and social norms which may need to change to have equality.

Disclaimer: I do understand that this is sociologically complex topic

A woman may choose to wear what someone might consider a revealing piece of clothing for no other reason than she wants to and finds it "cute" (omitting why she has gotten to that conclusion e.g. marketing, etc). To that woman, she chose to wear something that make her happy. She is NOT responsible for the actions of the people around her based on how they view that article of clothing. This ends up always with either victim blaming or claims of "common sense" when really she should be able to go around topless if she so chooses without having to fear others' actions.

In your case, you are already assuming reactions from others which is a whole other route in this conversation. When all is said and done, I find this to be a terribly interesting and complex topic.
Pretty sure no one complained about this.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/burgundy-lion-oqlf-1....

Also, as soon as my friend's company who does most of her business to the States got to a certain amount of employees, they had their agents come in to switch out all of the keyboards and software into French, and advised to make internal emails communications in French as well.
It seems most Adblock users are not especially proud of using adblock, nor do they support anti-advertising activism.

I believe they use ad-blocker for practical reasons, not ideological.

On too many sites, the invasion of pop-up windows and heavily animated ad has became an annoyance. Not only a visual one, but also a technical one. When a page loads, code sends a request to an ad server (+ sometimes third-party plug-in) to render the animated ads. Most of the time, these ads are poorly optimized. As a consequence, the computer’s CPU is heavily taxed.

Consumer is always right. If he can't stand ads for practical reasons then it might be the time to re-think how we operate.
Yes, continue to ignore feedback from the community and enjoy your market lead because once you have that users will never leave for another product.
Also similar to 1995: a nigh-unlimited supply of people who are 100% certain their pet technology will be the Next Big Thing that Changes Everything.

http://www.businessweek.com/1995/24/b3428001.htm
Swirl is pretty freaking cool. I've gone through a bunch of swirl modules lately and find it a very handy and useful mechanism for learning R. Definitely give it a look if you're starting out with R.
Yeah it's a pretty neat system though using Dropbox and if anything it can give you some tips about sharing just on your own (Save All, Uploading in proper folders). There are lots of remix contests and the like if you feel up for a challenge.
Yeah.. Poor github. I'm playing a tiny violin made of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Interesting. That could explain the disparity of experiences being discussed here. I have all my emails in LinkedIn to be discoverable by colleagues, so that means LinkedIn also knows they are specifically me and I'm signed up.
Its a very good, trustworthy company. But its also one of the 800lb gorillas of investing.

I wouldn't be too worried if someone decides to take a swing at Vanguard. I do consider Vanguard to be "good guys" but they're also so huge that its hard to imagine them getting hurt from a few feeble media attacks.
Oops I probably should have been clearer.

Hardware verification IS performed. For various reasons, the nic never itself drips packets that are corrupt, packets are instead marked by HW as either verified or unverified. When a packet is marked as unverified, the kernel should verify and potentially reject the packet before delivery to the application. The bug in the veth driver causes the kernel to treat packets marked unverified as "verified"
a cache drive is l2arc. Brendan Gregg's post[0] explains it well, but the TLDR is that l2arc is very much like an l2 cache in a cpu. Recent and relevant items are held on a fast drive in case it will be needed in the near future. It is really an L2 cache: L1 is called ARC and is held in dram.

If I recall correctly, the extra indexes and tags mean l2arc requires more memory to work efficiently.

[0]: https://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/test
Running a local dnsmasq server is effectively the same thing.
There has been a MASSIVE exodus to Quebec by Vancouver game developers. When the recession hit, it hit game development hard, and tons of companies shuttered, downsized, or disappeared overnight. Due to the stupid generous tax incentives to tech companies in Quebec, a lot of game studios remained open there, and developers followed.

The industry in Vancouver has since recovered, but with long-term stressor's like the housing issue; another jerk of the economic chain might catalyze another exodus.
The hardware does do checksumming at the link layer (usually). This is talking about the TCP checksum, which is an essentially redundant (and 16 bit!) sum higher up the protocol stack. Honestly it's mostly useless as an error detection mechanism. But it's required per spec to be validated, and the veth devices apparently didn't.
Many organizations use RHEL, and individual workers cannot just spin up Ubuntu for their bank database servers.
When I discuss the issue of mass surveillance with older people, it's in the context of phone conversations. A lot of times they bring up the idea of a "click" on the line. If only.
I actually wanted to know how marvel_boy knows that consumers usually deal with EAN13 barcode instead of code128. As he or she states, EAN13 barcodes would make this kind of attack impossible so I wanted to know if this is a real everyday problem concerning most of the stores or only a minority of them.
imputed rent makes no sense to me. So every time I drive my car, I'm denying a taxi driver some income and so I should be taxed on the profit I am making as my own taxi driver?

Every time I masturbate I should be taxed on my profit made as a prostitute.
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I am from NB (Anglo). So I have very rusty French. I am sure it would come back if I used it. Montreal is a great city. My salary doubled for the same industry (programmer with CS) going from Van to TO. Vancouver is beautiful if you like playing in the mountains. I miss the snowboarding and hiking very much. But I was almost homeless I was so poor out there.
Keep in mind that some people also like the climate of places like Vancouver. I would count myself among them. I moved from Dublin to San Diego (supposedly known for nice weather, somehow) and the weather here is awful; I can't do anything outside without becoming a sweaty mess 9 months of the year. Apparently it's been like this the last several years in a row, possibly indicating a substantial change in the norm, but people lie to themselves about how it's always pleasant here even while it's 90F.
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Tricky. I think there's seldom, if ever, such a thing as a purely "technical issue". This is often the downfall of technocratic arguments: sure, we should have experts doing the things that are objectively "the best", but we can't really choose what's "best" without subjective judgement.

Incidentally, it's a shame that you've gotten some negative reactions to this -- I, for one, thank you for offering some more insight into the Bitcoin developers. I'm sure you have your own biases, but I doubt you set out to misrepresent things, as a few commenters grumpily allege.
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Hmm. Possibly. Obviously that's not how I read it, but I don't claim that my way is the only way it could have been read.

I can't say I agree with the choice you've assumed, though, between "language policing" a comment, and appreciating it for its substantive contribution. I think we're all sophisticated enough that we can recognize the substantive value of a comment, as I've tried to do, while also trying to suggest ways to build a more respectful community for everyone. In its best form, "language policing" will usually not be unconditional and vociferous condemnation, but rather a thoughtful sharing of perspectives and suggestion for incremental improvement.

This is the very ethos of this forum in so many other arenas--tech, business, often politics--but I'm often disappointed that the prevailing attitude here is so closed when it comes to issues of gender politics (for lack of a better term). Part of the issue may be that these issues are not always thoughtfully raised, and there can sometimes be an unwelcome tendency towards outrage (in both directions). But I think it would be a shame if we didn't keep trying to improve ourselves, and the tech community at large to make for a more welcoming community.

Edit: As others have pointed out elsewhere, one does not normally describe a relationship as "out of your league." That's a description typically bestowed upon people. I suspect this is why I and others have interpreted the comment they way we have. I don't think this entirely rules out the possibility you raised about the original commenter's intent, but I do think it means that my interpretation is probably correct--or at least eminently defensible.

I'd also add that the original commenter's intent does not matter much to me. I was never here to impugn his or her character in the first place. My point has only ever been that the comment, regardless of its precise intended meaning, reasonably communicates a certain disrespect for women.
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I have lived this many times over. You will always have clients like this, these are the best ways I have found so far.

1: do not give net 30 day terms unless a client has earned them or applied via credit. Some exceptions can be made for large firms, but many small to medium businesses are terrible about paying. Large businesses might be a little slow, but almost always pay consistently the same, unless there is a known issue.

2: If you do give net 30 terms (or anything more then 10 days), provide a discount for payment within 10 days. This makes almost all larger businesses prioritize your invoice and get you paid. You may think it is minor, but many businesses do this over hundreds or sometimes thousands of invoices and they save significant amounts of money doing so.

3: Make payment details clear within your TOS/contract. For my smaller consulting clients, if their invoice was unpaid after 3 days from the due date I stopped all work and they lost their spot in line for services. So essentially most of those clients had 7-10 days to pay me or I halted all work. I also had it up front that if that happened 2 times within a short period (defined in the contract) that all future work (if accepted) would be prepaid. This was part of my non-negotiable contract terms. For my SaaS product, I used similar terms, we billed their credit card for small/mid sized clients (generally under $2k/month) and if their card was denied or we were unable to collect that months service after 5 days we suspend their account until it was brought current. They typically had until the next billing cycle to do so and then their account was disabled and couldn't be reactivated without talking to me. For enterprise clients on the SaaS product we used invoice terms with a built in discount and a time bomb suspension, it was just typically a little longer as I never had an enterprise not pay.

Employing those three strategies fixed most of our cash flow issues and helped stress levels go down drastically. But sadly, it never fixes all the issues so like others said, no client is better then one sucking up resources, dump them.

Also, I had clients get super upset when their accounts got suspended or we stopped working their project and they went back into the queue. But in the end, it isn't my problem, it is theirs. I would always try to empathize with them and would work with some to help out where it seemed right, but in the end, fuck you pay me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
> We are, after all, talking about the rules of a currency that was created in part to take away from central bankers, politicians, and the masses

Ah, no we are not. The last part, about "the masses", was tacked on later by the people who fear democracy. That was never a part of the original vision. Quoting the white paper:

"The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making."

Indeed, it'd have been a nonsensical goal to try and stop "the masses" changing Bitcoin, because "the masses" are the only thing that give a currency its value and attempting to produce a currency that literally nobody can change, even if the vast majority of people decide to change it, is simply not possible to do with software. That's why we call it soft-ware.

Unfortunately, the Bitcoin community has been completely wrecked by people who truly, deeply believe that "decentralised" money means "money controlled by a tiny cabal of developers" rather than the more obvious interpretation of "money controlled by its users".
I have no problem telling a customer that something along the same lines as a previous project will be more expensive today, because it was initially underestimated and I ate the additional cost. They realize they got a bargain the first time, and I don't have to eat the same costs to keep the customer. Of course, starting from the first project, I work very hard on building a trustful relationship to support such a claim.
What is the best way to assess the overall computer/cyber security of a company?
I am having a hard time making up the infrastructure of a company to assess the "made up" security and then give recommendations.

I'm not sure if I have over analyzed this, but I could use a jump start to get ideas flowing. Thanks
Why aren't any women or gay men in the support channels hitting on the male support agent?
The US government can backdoor all the products they want. The only thing they will achieve is to destroy the tech sector in the US. That's no big deal right? Who cares if no one outside the US trusts US companies because all their software is backdoored? Of course, the tech sector will be only the first to suffer. The rest will fall like dominoes.

And all for what? So the FBI can catch some people smoking weed and the NSA can perv out to citizens' pics, that's what for.
>where all communications and storage technology is end-to-end encrypted, and no warrant or judicial order of any sort can retrieve evidence from them. That's not a crazy worry: it's what's inevitably going to happen.

Good.
This article is a poster child for what's wrong with modern HW & SW. Cortex-M0+ has no CLZ?!? WTF they thinking? And all the bugfixes around wrappers around enigmas are a joke. Computing shouldn't be this arcane.
Interesting article. It focused on economics, but didn't really factor in the environmental effects of landfilling or recycling. I wonder how that impacts the economic assessment. Still, generating less waste in the first place is always a good goal. I like the thought of shifting responsibility of recycling to the manufacturer. It would encourage less use of wasteful materials that have little recycling value.
> They unhelpfully add a "Source Code" link, which would be great if that is what it was. Instead it is actually just a zip file of the repository at that tag.

Huh, if all the files of the repository at that tag aren't the "source code" of that release what is?
> I disagree. I do not think Kanye/Reuters/Trump/Chipotle/Intel would bat an eye to pay for the privilege to get a message out to millions of users.

Maybe, but it's not like substitutes don't exist. All of the big brands you mentioned maintain Facebook and Instagram pages (some have Snapchat as well) in addition to Twitter, and both of those have more users and a bigger audience than Twitter does.

If Kanye or Beyonce or whoever deactivated their Twitter, it wouldn't be long before others followed suit, which could create a snowballing impact of regular users abandoning Twitter to follow people to "where the action is", so to speak.
Probably second to only SF in North America for the game industry, SFX for the film industry is also big here.
Sounds like they should have negotiated for a base rate with bonus pay out on meeting QC targets. For heavens sake people, align your incentives!
I agree with your point in genera but in my experience as a developer who works in Vancouver, but has also worked in SF and NY, the salaries are about the same in number if not in currency. The CAD has dropped 30% in a couple of years though which does mean we effectively are getting less.

I think Vancouver actually pays tech workers pretty well because there is a high demand, a few big companies and lots of smaller innovative ones.

Vancouver doesn't have the typical jobs that pay for $1m houses and yachts though. Opportunities in finance and corporate HQ positions are minuscule compared to big US cities and Toronto.
Came here to drop this comment -- it's so often ignored!
Sure, but the OPs implication was that this kind of thing is unavoidable because of genetic impulse. It is absolutely avoidable.
I think it's a good thing too, but if you think that technology is going to overturn a foundational principle of our judicial system, you're going to be disappointed. Public policy is going to account for this change, and we may not love the way they solve it.
How would you revive HN in case it were banned?
Thinking about the dangers of NI (natural intelligence). It could be that some power could consider that people with wide knowledge about how computers and the web are problematic and should be keep disconnected, just to be sure they don't interfere with any high level plan.

Clearly any idea for sparking into life a dead project is not realistic since it could be prevented ahead of time. The only think that I can think of is a kind of culture that allow people to think in a way that can't be followed or tracked, but uncharted territories always can be mapped so there will be always a race against time.
Users might not, even if GitHub does. I would hate to get 50 emails because I don't want digests and I watch a certain project.
Ask HN: Why do Bitcoin people write stuff in “White Paper” instead of HTML?
I've been wondering about this for quite some time. I know Satoshi Nakamoto the founder posted his first Bitcoin document as a PDF, but I am not sure what the reason for continuing this tradition is. HTML documents are much easier to share, more portable, etc. Is there some reason I'm not aware of?
Yeah, this doesn't look like something I'd want to have to debug if it breaks.
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Ideologies are rarely presented as such. I have seen places where they wrote databases from scratch, and rewrote Windows scrolling bars. Always 100 good reasons why using something else wasn't good enough. Other times I've seen people always want to buy the shiny nice toy rather than write a few lines of code themselves.
> Maybe you think C/C++ are fine languages

C and C++ are two separate things.

> manual memory management is terrible and error prone,

The choice isn't between C style malloc and GC, it is a matter of how a language handles ownership. Look at move semantics or Rust's ownership. These are deterministic and controllable methods of memory allocation that aren't terrible or error prone.

> I think you are underestimating the advances in compiler design.

I would love to see an example like I said before, but you aren't giving any hard information to back up what you are saying.
They finally added task bar on multiple screens, which was in the wings for a very long time.
Great advice, bookmarking this one.
Yes and no. Some feature requests were years old and hugely popular. For example, displaying tab-spaces code (such as Go) properly was something that took years to implement, despite the enormous feature request thread and extremely simple implementation. It became obvious github had dedicated zero resources to building new features the community had longed-for
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Lxc itself is a bit hobbled on distros other than Ubuntu if you want unprivileged containers or containers running systemd based distros.

https://www.flockport.com/lxc-and-lxd-support-across-distrib...

LXD is more often associated with a VPS style container, versus docker style containers. So, at the moment, it does have a distinctly "only runs right on Ubuntu" feel.
Manhattan is very atypical of mass transit systems just about anywhere and, even in New York, not all service is 24 hour.
I can't revolt as long as I have don't have the toools .... bouhouhouh.

You don't lack tools to achieve more freedom ; you just need willpower to fight for your freedom you gutless geek tarded.

What do you think is the problem at hand?

Words do not jump from books or internet in the head of the reader. The magical natural efficient media is .... something that internet obviously FAIL to provide.

Else you would have heard of one of the most famous writer of history talking about privacy. Geektarded.
Yes absolutely, I think self hosted conted and hash addressed binares would be a great thing to investigate!
"Something" doesn't necessarily refer to a woman. Could refer to a relationship, ala:

I want something that will make my heart race, something that feels real
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That's absolutely the case, and although I might daydream about this reverse baby/bathwater scenario r.e. the judicial system and encryption - we well know that always on e2ee will be circumvented, by hook or by crook.

I mean, Bluffdale didn't get built for nothing.
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A "White Paper" is like a report, whereas PDF and HTML are just technologies used to display it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper
Pressing a keystroke is all it takes to save a file.

Also if you are selectively executing parts of files, how is it that you are editing the live running source code?
An interesting visualization of the Swift repo on GitHub
I don't think that's a good answer; in general governments get even more latitude to screw up than businesses do.

I think it's just that groups with diffused responsibility get more latitude, because for a given act, who are you going to put in jail exactly? That turns out to be a hard question, especially when you consider not just the local consequences but the global ones. For instance, take a hard line "I'm putting the CEO/Secretary of X/Whatever the highest plausible person is in jail" stance and you just created an extraordinary incentive for pervasive, total micromanagement, and probably in the end worse results for society than even what we have now. It's a hard problem.
My apologies for the lack of public responsiveness. Thanks, chris_wot, for jumpstarting the discussion.

As outlined in Brandon's post linked here, we have been taking some time to really delve into the core of these issues and explore what the best solutions are. This has involved some internal discussion as well as reaching out to various parts of our community to gather feedback and perspectives. We take these concerns really seriously and want to ensure we can explore the best long and short-term solutions. As you can probably understand, we want to have some of our ducks in a row before sharing some next steps.

Rest assured that even though there has not been much publicly shared yet, we are definitely exploring ways to address these issues.