skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting that Agile movement has in general enshrined idea of time boxed team meetings for software teams. And in general - we engineers are wary of long meetings.

And yet - most of us measure ourselves, how we are performing in a team by things that happen in team meetings(according to the article anyway):

1. Is idea my ideas heard and debated before being accepted/rejected?

2. Do I get opportunity to present my idea at all.

A time boxed meeting does not by nature leave room for idle chit-chat or from my experience even opportunity to hear everyone's thoughts. Part of the problem of course is, meeting rooms in lot of companies are a scarce resource, so you better clear out after time is out.

This is really curious because we hate meetings and yet we have adopted them in a sort of haphazard way which creates more problems than solves.
Sounds suspiciously like this hardware quirk[0] that was only supposed to affect Hawaii/Bonaire... Guess it's a little more widespread. Easily fixed, I guess[1].

Then again Nvidia cards have their own set of horrible problems too, although theirs are somewhat on the side of malicious intent rather than incompetence.

[0] - https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/hw/vfio/pci-quirks....

[1] - https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/hw/vfio/pci-quirks....
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Duckduckgo has a safe filter that blocks porn and a few other things from showing up in the search results that works pretty well, you can decide to take it off at any time too. They have the same kind of filter for looking for country specific results.
Very nice. Does it work with animated GIFs? I'd love to upload a motion graphic to it and have it in the placeholder.
This looks really cool. I'll definitely try it again, but there is an error in the images I download.

http://imgur.com/AdXVBDs

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I think we can take banking to mean those particularly wicked fruits of the City of London... things like AIG's collapse, LIBOR and FX rigging, HSBC's drug money laundering, the seemlingly endless scandals of UK retail banking like PPIs, etc etc that have completely eroded the general public's trust of our pinstriped friends. Nobody's complaining about banking. We're worried about banking.
Maybe if your fridge has a touchscreen that will work. But how on earth can the user configure a client light bulb? (More realistically, a client light fixture, but TFA seems focused on bulbs...) Don't tell me that the bulb will just connect to the bulb company's server, because then I have to choose between buying bulbs from only one company or having to deal with nine different light bulb servers. My choice will be bulbs from a different light bulb company.
Plus, devices like that are almost guaranteed to become garbage very rapidly when the vendor decides to stop operating that central command server, wherever it is. And unless you're paying a maintenance fee, they're going to cut that off pretty quickly once they stop selling new units of that particular model.

It's the biggest reason why I'm skeptical about all things IoT: too much "cloud" without an SLA or any guarantee of longevity on the service side.
$175k is actually becoming fairly common for Senior Engineers at funded startups (post Series B usually). $160k is already pretty normal.

I tell people that a Senior Engineer should expect $225k in total comp. That's a reasonable base line at any of the big companies (Google/Facebook/Netflix/etc). You can take less than that, but you should be able to roughly itemize the reasons for discount. ("Startup stock options have an expected value of $X per year.", "Leadership opportunities are worth $Y per year.", " Being able to use a certain technology is worth $Z per year.", etc.)
Well although we are currently english only, we like to think of ourselves as an international service. We have tons of content focusing on other cultures and countries. Feel free to preview some of our content and let me know if anything strikes your interest.

https://app.curiositystream.com/browse/category/society/1?ti...
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Fully agree. When I have 15 minutes, I'd love to get the gist of maybe 10 articles or so. Wall Of Text = I'll be skipping that one. A TL;DR summary is always appreciated!
Swift String, Array, etc. are not part of Foundation, they are part of the swift runtime library. They have mechanisms for converting to and from NSArray/NSString representations, though (and because of that, their internal structure is quite similar). But that mechanism is disabled in Linux (and obviously I assume Android).
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Not a single mention of G.Fast? WTF

BT is leading companies around the world testing out G.Fast, the next generation of DSL technology. Which should give you 500Mbps over 250M of cooper cables.

Because there are no upgrade done on users part other then a modem. This could be quickly rolled out many UK citizens, while others will wait for cabinet to move a little closer to them. Both will be much cheaper and quicker to deploy then FTTH.
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> For instance if you make an x86-64 assembler in Lisp, it will be just as restricted as any other assembler; it will diagnose unrecognized opcodes, bad addressing modes, etc.

I've written one such assembler in Common Lisp. It was rather straight-forward and generated nice code. Debugger came practically free.

Lisp is a language for symbolic computing. Values are not so valuable as computations and trees. If the level you're working at is too restrictive you're free to invent a new algebra for symbols at a higher level in terms of the lower-level primitive symbols. It's the same power one gets from manually calculating sums to inventing a language for expressing all sums. How you choose to represent things has great power in your ability to reason about them.
Maxima and pgloader

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

http://pgloader.io/
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It's a fascinating point that you brought up there at the end. The self-help/positive psychology industry has indeed been accused of reinforcing status quo morality, that simply by urging people to make themselves fit in the world instead of urging them to change the world to fit their needs, those writers are complicit in the immoral aspects of the system. I don't see why habits necessarily have to favor the entrenched cultural norms, though. From what I glean, radical terrorist groups utilize habit formation in the form of literature, military training, etc. These same tools are used by legitimate militaries throughout the world. By that token, what exactly holds moral value in these two examples? I say the moral aspect is separate from habitual behavior. An interesting thing here then is that any truly effective political movement would take advantage of habit formation in support of it's ends. It's a powerful, cheap tool, and one that to me is completely amoral in the abstract. On that note, subcultures could push certain moralities by covertly reinforcing specific beliefs and behaviors.
> Maybe in that scenario, it would be the author who writes that code who would be protected but the person who executes the deadly code who is breaking the law?

How is that not the only sensible outcome?

Telling people about vulnerabilities is the only way they can defend against them. Defenders need actual exploit code to test their countermeasures against.

The person who uses the exploit to kill someone is the person who uses the exploit to kill someone.
the IMO only strong case that cryptome makes is that sites like the Intercept get the success and are able to ride the wave as long as possible and hence it is therefore in their interest to keep the leaks trickling in rather than releasing the cache like a flash-flood.

While I understand that this creates a conflict of interest consider the benefits: if all would have been leaked all cards would be on the table. And Snowden would have been out of the news by autumn 2013. This selective publishing (in the name of keeping innocent people out of harms way) ensures the discussion is ongoing. I can live with that as long as what gets published doesn't get published out of context.

Also Cryptome confuses the Intercept with Wikileaks / Assange when they say that the Intercept receives massive salaries yet those who do the work go to jail (I believe this was a jib at how Assange handled the Manning leaks).
It is mostly the later - phantom "investment" in real estate, where people store wealth and own empty property rather than buy precious metals or actually invest it.

But as we trend towards automation, more and more jobs are disappearing. In many areas, there is not enough density of both people and work to be able to regularly switch jobs as your current one is obsoleted or downsized. People trend towards cities if you want reliable income - jobs everywhere are going away, and the more you are paid the greater the pressure to eliminate your position. You need to be somewhere where, while the unemployment figures / workforce participation figures aren't great in cities, the density means there are more chances to get a job there than elsewhere when your current one inevitably discards you.

The other thing is that mobility is a luxury. You can be rich enough to relocate - paying down payments on houses and apartments, moving or buying furniture, going through the incredible amount of state bureaucracy involving changing address and all necessary documents, and for those who are working poor you don't have the time or savings to do it. The other option is abandon everything, damn the state bureaucracy, and just jump on a bus and go somewhere you think work is plentiful, and then find out nobody will hire you without paperwork and proof of residence.

It is not a solvable problem where you just tell the working poor how to succeed, because everything is systemically rigged to exploit them and keep them in the condition they are in now.
Scientists track down the source of mysterious radio bursts
Oh please. Old Microsoft!?
Sure, we all know there have been changes in management but you think that everything got changed just because they did OSS some technologies?
Second, since when OSS is such a big deal? That's only a big deal to MS because world has changed a lot while MS hold still for a long time.
Agile standups are designed to give everyone a minute to share info, not debate or reject anything. Debate is for targeted follow-up meetings.
Agreed, I'm not even convinced you need anything async here. In that sense you could probably write this with OS threads and you language of choice.
It really does not have any moral issues attached to moving into a given community and paying rent or buying property so long as you're not engaging in illegal behavior like forced evictions, etc.

It's like saying the poor moving into an affluent or apartments built in an affluent area have moral considerations because riff raff have a tendency to drive down prices of the real estate of homeowners.

It cuts both ways and neither makes sense.
> Thankfully this nonsense is on its way out

Do you mean Shockwave, or ads? ;)
So can you tell me with some proper arguments why what I said doesn't work? I'd be more likely to believe you if you said more than "this is not how the real world works". Thanks.
Most law are written after years of public debates in parliaments (for those countries which has one), by a larger number of public inquiries and studies, and by appointed politicians talking about it in public speeches, conferences, personal website, news papers, social media and so on. The process is so connected to bureaucracy that we recognize it as the definition for it, with the majority of time spent in public discussions or waiting for the next report to finish.

We have had close to nothing of those things regarding this treaty and the changes it propose, so the process for TTIP is completely different from how most laws are made. If we compared its process to the recent work done in EU to draft network neutrality laws, we see almost no comparable aspects at all.
Psychological safety is the modern euphemism for what used to be called "culture fit".
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When I use VPN and hit CloudFlare I get the easy "I'm a human" captcha that tracks mouse movement and timing. Are you seeing different?
We're working on ways to try to tailor and customize the browse page a bit more. If you're a member once you start watching some videos a recommended for you slide will be added to the home page based on your history. And thanks for the feedback on the popover. Just curious what information is most important to you as a user when picking a video? Just the description?
Perhaps the NSA is savvy enough to know that a heroic effort isn't needed, and that the FBI is mostly looking to set precedent rather than find anything worth the cost and risk of chip-hacking.
Although I don't deny that tanker trucks are pretty amazing feats of engineering, sometimes I just want a glass of water. Instead of figuring out how to purchase one, drive it, and park in my back yard, it's pretty nice if I can just turn on a tap, fill a glass, and turn the tap off again. The tanker truck isn't "wrong", but it sure is a lot to deal with.
> wall of text

There used to be thing called `literature`. Not everything has to be a 10-second sound-byte #TLDR.
I fully agree, and thank you for taking the time to comment on what's now a very old thread. I'll put it even more bluntly:

Cavemen had "the essentials of life." That's not what I'm going for, and not what most people are going for. Every little bit extra helps.
Wow, so accepting a high paying engineering job with a consumer tech company is now immoral?

It's not like they're building weapons like the majority of tech on the east coast.
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This isn't really the case. Some libraries are all macros, some libraries have no macros, but most have a few macros that quickly fall into general patterns: some macros for setting up and tearing down context safely (with-thing macros), others for iterating some data structure without revealing its internals (do-thing macros), generally simple stuff.
It's because y combinator is an incubator for startup companies. Anyone who owns a startup doesn't want a union in their own company.
We actually have a wine piece we're going to be adding in the near future that we made in house that looks amazing. But if you haven't already checked it out we have a good bit on food to start.

https://app.curiositystream.com/search/Food/1?title=Society
https://weworkremotely.com/ is a job board specifically for positions that are remote.
I'm not sure if you're trying to be ironic but just in case you are, I'm sad to report that everything you've written, the majority of the time is true. Most people in America that ride around on dilapidated bikes, hang out at bus stops, etc., are the dregs. The truth isn't politically correct.
Google DeepMind works with NHS doctors on life-saving app
It's actually $30/mo minimum with Mailchimp's new pricing. $10/mo for the Mailchimp account + $20/mo for up to 25,000 monthly emails via Mandrill
> This is all just theatre. The real motivation is to control the platform: to ship a piece of hardware that dictates who can install stuff on it, instead of the traditional hardware that lets you completely overwrite everything in it if you have physical access.

This is already the case. Right now, only firmware signed by Apple can be installed. The next logical step is to build a system where the unit that deals with PINs cannot be updated at all, or at least not without wiping all keys. This would prevent any non-invasive attempts of bypassing the rate-limiting of PIN attempts or auto-wipe.

> There is nothing wrong with that situation, and on such equipment, you can secure your data just fine.

Again, this is also true for an iPhone with a sufficiently complex passphrase, Because Crypto™. Secure Enclave is just an additional layer that protects against everyone not in a position to get custom firmware signed by Apple.

> No machine can be trusted if it fell under someone's physical access. Here is a proof: if I get my hands on your device, I can replace it with a physically identical device which looks exactly like yours, but is actually a man-in-the-middle (MITM). (I can put the fake device's board into your original plastic and glass, so it will have the same scratches, wear, grime pattern and whatever other markings that distinguish the device as yours.) My fake device will collect the credentials which you enter. Those are immediately sent to me and I play them against the real device to get in.

The scenario here isn't an Evil Maid Attack. It's about protecting locked devices while someone else has physical access to them. Right now, you're fairly safe from most attackers in this scenario. In the future, with a read-only Secure Enclave, you're also safe from Apple and anyone who could force Apple to sign firmware. The fact that Evil Maid Attacks are harder to pull off because of this is just a nice extra.

> Apple are trying to portray themselves as a champion of security, making clueless users believe that the security of a device rests in the manufacturer's hands. This could all be in collaboration with the FBI, for all we know. Two versions of Big Brother are playing the "good guy/bad guy" routine, so you would trust the good guy, who is basically just one of the faces of the same thing.

This doesn't make sense. There's no crypto backdoor. The worst case scenario for their current security architecture is that it falls back to how FDE works on a desktop system - i.e., it's completely dependent on your passphrase complexity.
> As a Londoner visiting San Jose - I was appalled at how difficult it was to simply cross the street to go from one section of strip malls to the other.

The problem is that the strip malls are designed for access by car. That means being close to multi-laned expressways, at least in most of the suburbs. San Jose proper actually has a decent (for the US) public transit system, including Caltrain, the VTA light rail, and a bunch of buses. They're optimized for commuter service, though, and will only take you few interesting places.

The downtown area of San Jose, though, is pretty walkable and isn't too dull (sure, it's no San Francisco or London, but what is?) San Pedro Square has some nice restaurants, and you can head from there to the park and then up Paseo de San Antonio to the university and cute coffeeshops. If you're up for more of a trek (or a few more stops on the light rail) there's a decent little Japantown a little ways to the north as well.
Yahoo brings deep learning framework to Spark
The funny thing about this is, that technologically an MRI is much simpler compared to an ultrasonic imager:

- Field coil
- Gradient coils + coil driver
- RF transceiver (essentially n SDR)

The single most expensive part is the cryostat for the field coil. If there were high temperature superconductors that would retain their properties within strong magnetic fields you could build and operate MRI scanners much cheaper.

A few years ago I did build a very crude and simplistic MRI scanner in my shack; it had a piss poor resolution of about 10mm³ took "ages" to scan a single plane and would dissipate huge amounts of heat in the (normal conducting) field coil; the gradient coils were driven by a regular HiFi audio amplifier. But it is definitely possible to build such a thing DIY and have it produce images (of poor quality).
I didn't mean standups as meetings. I think standup is a good idea as it is and for most teams it lasts hardly more than 5-7 minutes (and some teams have moved it to emails).

I meant 20-30 minute meetings that teams typically have, like retrospective or something.

But I was not talking about Agile per-se. I meant in general most meetings of software teams are time boxed nowadays- no matter which development methodology they are following. I am also not criticizing time boxed meetings since I have no data to back that claim.

But I am just curious, what if as a rule - teams decided to have fewer meetings but meeting last as long as they have to not because someone is knocking on the door for next slot. Will it make things easier?
You are so close to understanding that what Google is doing is the same thing the safe space movement is doing, but now it's cool because a hot company does it.

It's interesting how you choose to represent the safe space culture by its most annoying examples, but chose to represent tech company management culture by it's most positive examples.
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Corporations do the same shit from an opposite angle. You need opposing groups to form a balance; unfortunately in our society, things are heavily weighted towards corporate power.
sharing info typically equates to status updates, not exploratory ideation
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Man, I remember the GamesDomain website.
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I know, I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. :)
As far as I can tell, after using this: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate I haven't been getting any youtube ads.
If a company is not going to pay you a living wage either way, the union did not mean anything. I often decry compromise because it means settling for worse - in the case of Michigan, while it is awful how rampant poverty and unemployment are there now that the union jobs dried up, the alternative was the slow gradual death of reasonable wages like is happening everywhere else. The union bought their workers as much time as they could but nobody will stop the trends of globalization and automation, and as a society we need to do a lot more to handle rampant unemployability than we are now.

Unions can only protect the living wage employable in the long term.
If you think you built a team with A players and B players, you probably already lost.
Another interesting bit of etymology: the article mentions the field of statistics arising with the need for governments to manage information on their citizens. The word "statistics" literally comes from "state", a fun factoid for anti-statists to chew on.
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Just don't route packets from the bulbs to your other devices.
I'm confused at the nay sayers. There are two ways I interpret it.

1. People are telling the truth, but theres selection bias. Remember the software world is very broad. A software engineer at Logitech doesn't make nearly as much as one at Google.

2. People are liars. It's really rare for an engineer at Google to make over $200k.

I can sympathize with the first point (which I think is what you are saying), but I have also seen the second point. People get angry when they realize they are underpaid. The truth is that startups take advantage of people. Most engineers don't realize this. If talented engineers in the valley all realized what the opportunity cost of working for a startup is, then startups would have to start paying closer to what BigCos pay. And that's a good thing. It means those of us trapped by golden handcuffs at BigCos (mortgage, kids, whatever) have alternatives.
It's not clear that it IS a short-term benefit. Poll results are mixed (although the wording has a significant impact on the results) and a leading presidential candidate is calling for a boycott of their products. Marketing campaigns tend to be less polarizing. Also, I would imagine that losing the case would negatively impact sales more than if they had quietly complied.