skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a debit card just seems like throwing away what should easily be 1%+ in terms of possible rewards value by using a credit card instead? Not to mention stronger protections.
An interesting question indeed, but too broad to make much progress on. If you have ideas for a) an incremental change to the PhD process that would improve this or b) an alternative that might work better then please do pursue them. (Remember that the credential aspect is important as well as the actual learning).
It's still purposely designed to (i) look like a tabloid (ii) make the horrible Taboola "promoted content" spam look indistinguishable from the actual journalism and (iii) promote fluff pieces from the blog of its sister tabloid more prominently than substantial content from the actual broadsheet.

It's difficult to conclude the people behind their online strategy had any love for the broadsheet newspaper or any desire to position it as editorially weighty.
> (I can't believe we're still having this conversation but...)

Like I finished my comment with: This is how I see things. But I'm not going to assume that applies to everyone everywhere, like the author of the linked article does. My comment was meant as a contrasting view just to illustrate how wrong broad generalizations like the author made can go.

Anyway, bad generalizations are bad generalizations no matter who makes them and no matter what they are about. The plural of anecdote is not data. Etc etc.

But if people instead wish to discuss how I see things and how those views are somewhat wrong... They should be free to do so, even though they're obviously also going to be doing the exact same "mistakes" they accuse me of.
Been using it for a while, glad 1.0 is out! This is an amazing replacement for Java on Android and hope it gets more public recognition now that it's officially out.
How did the costs compare with this setup?

I work on a project where ET isn't flexible enough (MPEG-DASH), and wondered whether Lambda would make for a good alternative to EC2 + SQS + Scaling Groups.
mpv has a nice (and opinionated, which is good) guide for the things that matter to them: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav
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Office 365 has this weird thing that when I log out I have to close my browser before I can re-login with another account. Google and apple both offer services that don't require you to do this. But what other services require you to close the web browser when you log out?
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Leslie Lamport wrote a paper on this subject over 20 years ago.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/l...

As far as I can tell, nobody has really adopted any of his proposals yet, and most papers continue to be written in pseudo-prose. Remember, mathematics used to be written in full prose (e.g. "the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides") and it took hundreds of years for us to realise that "x^2 + y^2 = z^2" was a better notation.

While mathematics may be "genuinely very difficult to understand", so is any complex piece of software. Software engineering techniques might be useful to mathematicians, even if they are all new-fangled and modern.
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The value will drop to almost zero, which is all part of the fun. The opposite scenario will see a large increase in value. The game, as ever, is assessing the probability of these events and judging the value (or lack thereof) of the bet.
> libav [...] promoted as a concerted effort to create a better API

True, but that was biased and unfair. Some developers leveraged their Debian influence to get Debian to switch from ffmpeg to libav, but the technical merits were debatable. In the end, they came back to ffmpeg.

This is mostly a political issue. Software-wise AFAIK ffmpeg has been integrating many changes from libav but the opposite is not true, making IMHO ffmpeg the right choice.

Good article (2012) with in-depth history: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

More recent (2015) short take on the matter, seems pretty biased though: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav#Fork_from_FFmpeg

The github link is on mpv wiki. mpv is a descendant of mplayer and mplayer2 (the latter being mostly dead). IMHO mpv is the best media player for any OS (lightweight, snappy, reads everything, better options and CLI than mplayer*, etc.).
Why I cannot bring myself to support Bernie Sanders – by a Scandinavian-American
Why do you have such little sympathy?
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> It's also pretty disingenuous to suggest that one of the few independents in the Senate can't work with both sides.

If you actually read my comment, you'll notice that I not only don't mention Sanders, I don't mention US at all. I specifically construct my arguments to be abstract, because it's easier to reason about abstract model that approximate some certain aspects of reality, than trying to argue about a complex situation as a whole.
I'm always suspicious of "breakthrough" announcements when it comes to fusion, especially ones that originate from a college's PR office. Can someone put this in context for us? Is it a big deal?
Pick up Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course (classic version) and start trying some of the recipes. You'll pick this book up for next to nothing second hand (if someone is foolhardy enough to part with it in the first place).

I grew up in a household where everyone cooked, it was (and still is) a massive part of our family. This book was the cornerstone of my 'education' even before I was a teenager. My Mum always had her nose in it. I cannot recommend it enough. It's also worth seeking out some of Delia's cooking shows, there are probably a ton of them on YouTube.

Follow her instruction and you will not go wrong. I guarantee it.
To me the answer is "Yes".

What is the "end result"? Is it just a text file containing characters in the desired order? Is the journey at all important or is all that matters reaching the goal?

I have a feeling that most people commenting here have not actually read my blog post; or maybe I failed to get my point across. Comparing Emacs with other text editors is a different topic. I hardly even mention text editing in the blog post.

Using Emacs for text editing is what I do because I'm already using Emacs for everything else (or was it the other way around?). It makes a difference for me because I can use the same malleable system for everything that can be mapped to some text representation. Emacs modes enhance that text representation, make it alive (e.g. hyperlinking in man pages, shells in Emacs, REPL interactions, M-x compile, etc).
Aldi to hire 5,000 staff this year
There are 2 major trends going on that seem to be going unnoticed there is a resurgence in search/browser wars where companies are finally beginning to compete with google, and there is a battle for the cars dashboard.

Apple is involved heavily in the ladder. I think Toyota and a few other car makers are still holding out, but Apple and Google are battling to own the entire consumer facing piece of the car. Obviously, this isn't the only reason Apple's ecosystem has gone to shit, but it is one of them. Apple engineers are spread too thin and it is impossible for them to vertically integrate all of the projects they are working on which is how they have managed to be so successful.

* Watch - total piece of shit. Too early and can't stand alone as a payment device/2 factor auth token. No one has solved the google glass problem: peripheral non-keyboard interface.

* iTunes - Used to be central hub, locking this down and dumping what could be 3 applications into one is bad. iCloud is totally shit, and it is actually not only something that is neutral like garageband which I don't use, but I actively hate AOSHeartbeat and bandwith push notifications. Disabling many of these services destabalizes the OS.

* iOS - still pretty good. However, users are beginning to seek out other options after the allure of large screen wears off.

* Mac - Why the fuck are you still making air, macbook and macpro? Pick 2, up the CPU and RAM and get competitive, Windows 10 is too good for you to keep fucking about

Apple really wants to win the car, and I don't blame them. However, if they lose mobile it will be a huge blow. the iPhone and mac synergy is the only piece of the lockin keeping people in the ecosystem and they keep pissing off developers and consumers with bad software, aggressive control and general hostility
This article is BS. Machine translation has been improving but it's still nowhere close to being able to provide real-time translation of spoken languages, and I bet anything it won't be there after another decade. I know for a fact that Baidu is throwing lots of money and people at fundamental R&D in translating Asian languages, and it's no piece of cake.

As for "earpieces whispering nearly simultaneous translations", it would be a cool party trick but I doubt they'll work in real life.

These moonshot projects have been around for decades, and they make for some cool entertainment at conferences and demos in very tightly controlled settings. As for the predictions that "the software in the cloud connected to the earpiece in your ear will re-create the voice of the speaker", the author should take up writing bad science fiction.
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As always in these articles governments are the threat and private entities are just a footnote.

In reality things happened a bit differently. Private entities figured out the potential in exploiting user data and they started collecting it. When they refined the process well enough that it became valuable, governments saw the value in that data and requested access to it.

Do not underestimate the economic incentive of private entities to collect user data.
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Exactly, at least here in Germany iPhone users are just as 'all over the place' as Android users, if you really want to stand out from the crowd you need to get a Windows Phone ;)
Indirectly yes, but it is more focused on ingredients and techniques, rather than cuisines and recipes. For example there will be an episode about butter, which just talks about exactly what butter is, how it behaves in different situations and everything you can do with butter and another episode episode about braising, that just breaks down what braising is and how it works. Once you have all those basics down pat, you can go on and make and adapt recipes from other sources with far greater skill and confidence.
This TechCrunch and the app was presented at a TC disrupt event. You can't expect criticism from them.
A french one too: http://multiboards.net/
It sounds like it touched the homedir, not the root dir.
Competing hypothesis: advertisers irrationally spent money on advertising, because they had beliefs about effectiveness and reach.

Internet advertising comes with much better feedback mechanisms than ever before possible, destroying those irrational beliefs.

Secondarily: advertising quality has generally been correlated to price. Internet advertising reduces the price so far that we don't just get the equivalent of a local used-car dealer in between the national toilet-paper ad and the international fast-food restaurant ad, we get a Nigerian 419 scam and Ed's Fantasy Football League afterwards.
Such devices would be great from the user point of view, but not so great if you want to make money from them. Apple have proven that walled gardens will make you tons of money, while a lot of manufacturers, that provide more open solutions, struggle to survive. It's not so much of a technological problem as that ad-hoc and general purpose computing/networking is notoriously hard to monetize.
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Or `evil-mode`. (I prefer `god-mode` as I have Emacs keybindings in muscle memory and the vim bindings slowly fade from memory.)
Apple Recalls Some Macbook USB-C Cables
I'm really excited about this. I can understand why they've started with iOS, but I've not been able to find anything about their plans for Android, which is a bit disappointing.
FWIW, I saw that ad. Looks very interesting, but I think you may have a challenge getting someone who is a Vuln researcher/pen tester type (who most commonly have CVEs, PoCs to their name) who also has a decent knowledge of banking security, policies etc and also is looking to graduate out of technical work into team management...

Most of the pentesters/vuln researchers I know aren't huge fans of writing ISO2700x style policies documents (actually thinking about it there aren't many people who are fans of that kind of thing!)

if you're looking for non-traditional advertising routes for this you might want to post on /r/netsec's hiring thread https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3zfj6v/rnetsecs_q1_...
Can you make this so it can take any RSS feed/twitter feed and show the top N in each tile?
Simple were quite different, they weren't actually a bank, they were essentially a nice front-end on an existing bank (from a regulatory perspective), and onto traditional banking software (from a tech perspective). The Mondo pitch deck available on their investor page explains some of these differences.
I'm a polyglot developer currently working a Scala contract in Canary Wharf. But nice try.
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Yeah, sorry about that. It was indeed done in a hurry.

I think the main highlights are:

- The API/ABI break (implied by the major bump)

- The many improvements in the native AAC encoder making it the recommended one (libaacplus and libvo-aacenc are removed)

- A ton of filters were added

- Many ASM optimizations that weren't mentioned in the Changelog (it will take a while to make highlights on those, I don't remember them)

Hopefully a proper news will be posted soon. Sorry again.
With Simple, the banking services are provided by a third party bank, so Simple provides a usability layer on top of an existing bank's services.

With Mondo, they are looking to actually become a bank.

So on a usability level, you may not actually see much difference, but on another, it would seem like Mondo are fundamentally different as they will have a level of flexibility to decide which banking services to provide to customers. Although that's not so say that Simple couldn't use third party services, they may not have the same level of independence which Mondo wants/will have.
As a programmer, i always have the problem "shit, from where should i have all the time to learn so many things?"

I must select. Funny that people have the opposite problem (or the don't have a family, other projects (house etc.), or other hobbies?).
[I work at Mondo] Yes please! We're currently working out what form that will take exactly.

Why do you ask this? I'm keen to hear what you'd like to see from us :)

During our current alpha test we don't invest your money at all. It's just kept in cash with our partner bank Wirecard.
Thats an old sentiment that apparently never goes away, just like C++ is "hard to use", its only hard to use because you dont know what you are doing, when you are using C++ professionally you get to learn the language and appropriate patterns and after a while your perfectly comfortable, just like you would be with Java, Go, Haskell and Lisp.
Ironically, the only thing Emacs can't seem to do these days is be a browser. ;)
I saw something interesting last week where an upgraded osx to el cap screwed up the adobe fodder permissions lib. Adobe's suggested fix was to give full access to everyone. I don't suggest upgrading to el capitan, clean install only. I also suggest people use standard accounts, and authenticate updates and installs with a separate admin account. I'm eager to see what the real reasoning behind the bug was, interesting programmer error using osx API I imagine.
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Yet another journalist who doesn't understand how languages actually work.

Other languages aren't just "English with different words and syntax". A single word can have dozens of different meanings, the set of different meanings of a word needn't be the same across languages. And even if you know the context the meaning doesn't have to be unambiguous. A perfect translation would need to recognize plausible ambiguities and retain them across languages.

Language is not code. Language is an expression of thoughts in a form that builds upon vaguely defined tokens. It's amazing that human language communication works this well at all given how ambiguous and faulty it actually is in practice.
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The key here is that he is hiring himself, so as he is the employer (of himself), and the liability for hiring an undocumented worker falls on himself.

Anyone can create a Delaware C corporation, even people from other countries who have never been to the US. You do need to be a citizen however to create an LLC or an S corporation.
If the law wasn't so selectively enforced and if the US weren't directly responsible for the political instability south of the border I'd have some sympathy for your view.
I'm not saying those concepts are not difficult. But values, pointers and references are something that relate to memory. You can simulate in a paper how is a value or a pointer managed in a program. Same with scopes and static typing. There are specific examples for all of those.

Some concepts in mathematics are way above the abstraction level that you mention. For example, the projective plane, or nowhere-differentiable functions, or geometry in higher dimensions; those are concepts that not only do not have any physical equivalent, but are also very difficult to grasp and imagine in your head.
Can you please remember the 'dark mode' setting?

A cookie or localStorage flag would be really easy to do.
>No on countries where 500 euros is around the average salary and consumers have to pay full price for their devices.

Point taken.

I guess I am guilty of having another cultural bias; I assumed pretty much everyone is getting their mobile device through a 24 month+ contract with their network. At least this is how I got my first mobile phone, over 15 years ago.
Would it be possible to port it to the erlang-vm?
> the first mobile device manufacturer to commit to making ad-hoc and mesh networking fully available to developers in a functionally secure fashion will profit immensely

Ironically, Apple did this in iOS 7, and this resulted in chat apps that could work even in the absence of a phone signal (e.g. FireChat, which now works on Android too). I think a big blocker from getting these to work on TVs is that TVs had non-standard OSes. With more TVs running Android, and Apple pushing SDKs for tvOS, I'll be surprised if these apps don't become more popular.
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As a software developer, living in London, who was in the process of finding a new flat until 2 days ago, this was not marketed particularly well! I'm right in the middle of the target market and have never heard of this.
What quantity has two SI units such that one is 8 times the other, and are kilo-, mega-, etc used for both?
Does it hold good while updating to new OS on an old Mac book pro. The last 2 OS updates made my mac book very slow. I had to tinker some setting to bring it up some respectable performance. I used to do those on Ubuntu. Now Ubuntu is just install and use mostly. But i couldn't get the touch working properly on Ubuntu else it would have been default OS on mac book pro.
To be fair, having not tried Siri for a year or two, it has gotten much better at dealing with the Glasgow accent ; )

I recall around 2000 having to fake a US accent in order to get an airline's voice response system to put me through to a human.
This demonstrates a tragedy that happens all too often. How many talented people out there have their talents wasted because of barriers like this. How many people can't fulfil their potential because they're born into a poor family or on the wrong side of an arbitrary border?
You can go to 'Manage sources' and set it. It will remember next time you open a tab
It reflects on the abysmal quality of Adobe's software
and their QA. [...] I hope the people responsible for
this disaster, their managers and the QA team were fired.

Eh, I can kind of see how it might happen myself. Remember that time Valve had a bug in Steam for Linux that would wipe the user's hard drive? [1]

It's easy to imagine how this sort of thing would happen - manual test guys don't have hidden folders in their root directories because their boxes are locked down by corporate IT and they can't create any folders in the root directory. Developers don't have them because they understand the unix way and know they shouldn't be putting files there. CI servers don't have such folders because, well, why would they? None of the test environments include the specific condition needed to trigger this bug - a hidden folder in the root directory - so the bug never appears in testing.

Is it bad and serious? Absolutely. But I don't think the fact testing missed this is a sign of testing incompetence - you could have cutting edge testing following every industry best practice and still miss this bug.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
"it’s not currently possible to actually rent a property through the Movebubble app"

So this is just another aggregator like Rightmove? They're promising real-time availability information, but why would a letting agent update the availability on Movebubble and not Rightmove? What makes it more likely to be real-time than any other aggregator?
"...in ten years time." To quote XKCD's translation (sic!), "we haven't finished inventing it yet, but when we do, it'll be awesome." https://xkcd.com/678/

This is the same tired old story that keeps on making rounds for the sixth decade now - "machine translation kind of sucks now, but it will be solved within the next decade!!!!!!!!1!" This is still very much a current paper - note the publication date: http://www.mt-archive.info/Bar-Hillel-1951.pdf
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Stop, stop!

Don't learn anything new. Go build something substantial. Write a compiler, build a database, create a browser renderer, make a game engine. Build something that is not CRUD, and is over ten thousand lines of code, something that takes you years - a Forever Project. Keep at it, hone the fundamentals. Go deep, and learn to enjoy the pursuit.

Everyday you'll learn something new about how you like to think. You'll develop a voice so to speak. You may realize that language doesn't matter, or you may find a language perfect for you, maybe you'll itch to build one. Our tastes are as unique as us, there is no perfect answer, and no technology that will improve our craft magically. The only way is to write, deliberate, read, and rewrite, and keep doing it for a long time.
Upgrades to the port of Essaouira, underway
also http://hackurls.com
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Thanks a lot for the link :)

I'd rather hire a CISO that understands security and teach them how to think like a regulator than vice versa! Heck, I have long hair myself and didn't have any contact with policy documents until just over a year ago. And both our CTO and CEO like to write code.

Basically, we're looking for our Alex Stamos. Any more ideas you have how we might find somebody like that and avoid the stigma of the "Bank CISO" job would be much appreciated.
ok will add that to the todo list :)