skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to say it has to do with keeping each "idea" as a separate program, but the fact that apt-get can install, uninstall, list packages, etc. seems to go against that idea
> if you have Uber, you’re probably single.

Really? That's the indication? Not Tinder? You sure Uber doesn't just mean I live in a city? Really sure?

The guess was right though. That was kind of nifty, but my answers would change if the question wasn't do I have the app, but do I use it.
The trouble is that the meritocracy is a lie. If you have connected and rich parents you can practice many forms of "achievement laundering" that make it look like you did itself, in fact you might believe you did do it yourself thus have a sense of entitlement, no sense of empathy for others, etc.

There is not just one way of keeping score. My in-laws had neighbors who were filthy rich but the wife rolled her escalade while driving drunk and used connections to avoid prosecution. When it all fell apart they did massive damage to their luxury house (poured concrete down the drains, etc.) To spite the bank.

At one time some people might think they were winners but somebody else would say they are a sorry excuse for human beings.

When it comes to code or other creative works, same thing. I don't know who is a better programmer. I know a guy who writes optimization code in C++ put have him make a front end app and he will actively resist doing anything right because he buys into faddish ideas in a cargo cult way and won't listen to anybody else.

Similarly some people are better at claiming credit for what their team does than others. When I look at a good team I don't think one person is necessarily better than the others but rather they have different skills, attitudes and strengths so the whole can accomplish more than they can on their own.

And there is luck.

The success of sv for instance has a lot to do with the world having places where people can afford to have and educate children, something only mark zuckerberg can do in Palo alto. If the whole world was like sv there would be no young people to provide a labor force, etc.

Look how some people think don trump is a great businessman and others think he sucks. Or how a book or other creative work can be viewed in an entirely different way decades after it comes out.

The best sysadmin I ever worked with had mediocre technical skills but she knew how to get help from the team and vendors, was tenacious and protective and had a skill set which was complimentary to myself or the rest of the team. You could not honestly say that she was better than me or I was better than her but I learned a huge amount working with here and I am better today for working with here.
FTA

First, CDCR said its rules prohibit inmates from accessing Internet-connected devices or computers. So, if an inmate used a contraband device to go on Facebook, that means the prison can get that content taken down.

By that logic, if an inmate gets a tattoo with a contraband tattoo needle, the prison would believe it had the authority to have the tattoo removed. Or, if an inmate had a letter smuggled out to a newspaper, the prison could ask the newspaper to delete a story citing the letter. Take the CDCR’s argument to an even further extreme: if a non-incarcerated person steals a computer, writes a novel on it, gets the novel published, law enforcement could ask bookstores to pull it from their shelves.

To reiterate—the CDCR is not claiming that inmates’ speech isn’t First Amendment-protected activity. But amazingly, CDCR is claiming the right to censor protected speech because of the manner in which it was transmitted. While possessing a contraband phone should be a punishable offense, we believe that must be separate from any speech created with that device.

CDCR’s other claim relates to how an inmate may have a family or friend post to Facebook on their behalf. CDCR claims that this amounts to illegal computer hacking, because an inmate is causing computer services to be used without authorization.

It is unclear from the letter what unauthorized access CDCR is referring to. CDCR could be saying that by using a third party to access Facebook—which is a violation of Facebook’s terms of service—the offender is committing a criminal offense. If that’s CDCR’s argument, it’s plainly wrong: in United States v. Nosal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that violating terms of service is not unauthorized access.

It’s even worse if CDCR is arguing that an inmate is breaking prison regulations or engaging in illegal hacking by having someone access the Internet on their behalf. Under that scenario, any inmate who asks a family member to do Internet legal research would be criminally liable.

That's a horrifying precedent, especially if it has no real legal basis. They decided to censor inmates because they can, no justification.
completely wrong
Gettting started with the many ways to Docker
And if my theory is right, the fact that I forgot about %PATHEXT% could mean the Cygwin devs did too when they coded this "feature". But, I'm probably wrong.
For what it's worth, I got nailed for a single guy in his twenties over $52k/year.
Our focus is on careers with social impact. That's obvious if you come in from the main site, and we mention it on the first page of the tool, but it's easy to miss if you click straight through to the tool.
"You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year"

When actually I am a co-habiting (good as married tbh) man who is 31 and makes £120,000/year. So not the greatest guess hah.
I think this article leaves out a major question of whether or not people feel like being social. Some people like talking to people when they have a problem or question, some people have a strong resistance to explaining their problem on the spot to a stranger.
"You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year
You're either a married, middle-aged lady ... or you use your phone like one."

19 year old male. The only apps that I have on their list are YouTube and Google Maps.
... which is empty as well.
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I would be pretty miffed if I wrote a, say, Pascal compilers with array bounds checks, and the compiler "optimized" the checks away just because accessing a[i] would be undefined behaviour. OTOH, in a loop like

for (i=0; i<16; i++) {
if (i>=0 && i<16)
do something with a[i]
else
report an error;

you can certainly optimize the if to if(1). That's an optimization*.
Reminds me of an article about the Scratch programming language, where the author noted that being based around visual drag-and-drop blocks instead of text strings meant it was trivial to translate any Scratch program on the fly:

> Scratch, albeit visual, is still a language built around sentence fragments. Instead of using punctuation and assorted ascii art to enchant text into code, the structure and action of a Scratch program is almost as clear as prose. By using natural language fragments instead of magic identifiers in text, Scratch is unique in another aspect — Internationalization — Scratch programs can be built up out of German, French, Chinese, Japanese fragments too.

> The look on peoples faces when you change scratch into their native language is worth treasuring, an aha moment where the code becomes readable in an instant. Scratch is so readable that it has come as a surprise to some, one remarking “I understand this. It can’t be programming”.

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/76953953784/programmin...
Pretty neat. It's always fun to look at data and find interesting correlations. It nailed it's estimate of me and I felt like I was just clicking no for almost everything.
This reminds me of what I went through back in ~2004 with a VW wiring harness.

I had a product (a little toy that would give better control over the automatically-deploying spoiler behavior on turbocharged New Beetles) that was built around one specific VW wiring harness.

Apparently not many extras of the harnesses were manufactured, because after we bought ~15 of them (just enough for our first small run), the main distributor for parts in the US ran out of them. We got a few more by having some dealers do nationwide parts searches for us, but we had basically ended up buying out the entire country for this particular harness.

We spent a ton of time trying to figure out how to work around this. We'd really hoped that we would be able to just construct the harnesses ourselves, but the connectors ended up being custom parts that the OEM was unwilling to sell to us. For a while we thought about giving people a discount on the product if they'd send their old harness to us, but we only had a couple left at the time, so that would really end up trashing our throughput. In the end, we just ended up waiting until their was new stock available, almost a year later. It really sucked to have a product that a bunch of people wanted, and not be able to ship it because of a couple of connectors!

Anyhow, yeah ... I feel the author's pain.
Nitpicker is from TU Dresden's group that was doing all kinds of work on L4, secure virtualization, etc. Originally part of their TUD:OS demo here:

http://demo.tudos.org/eng_features.html

Feske, a Nitpicker author, later developed the Genode Framework for constructing systems as part of European research into Dresden-style stuff. He wisely integrated Nitpicker, NOVA, and other best-of-breed tech coming out of CompSci where he could. Plus stuff from OSS that's important for a usable system. Result his people call GenodeOS although many of the pieces, even architecture, are reusable outside of it.

GenodeOS itself is at what I'd call an alpha stage where it's usable enough that people are running desktops on it but more for testing and error reports. ;) They've come quite a way but need more testing and contributions. It's not production by far unless you're backing up data.

Even so, alpha software can cost you productivity with the reinstalls so best to use them alongside another machine with same data that can keep you going during any restores.

GenodeOS Release 16.02 is latest
http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/16.02

Note: They support RISC-V now. That's pretty cool. The combo of RISC-V with separation kernels like Muen and seL4 (both supported) will be important for secure, embedded solutions later.
Who else needs/uses those connectors?
Same result, except apparently I'm a single female. Must be because I don't play Clash of Clans.
So basically the answer is no, they can't really tell.
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What Happened, Miss Simone?
You're really opening a can of worms...

Of course meritocracy is not unfair. And of course it is the best system.

But there is a very strong, powerful group of people who judge fairness not in terms of opportunity -- but in terms of outcome.

Such people cannot accept that the gender/race/etc identities of those who produce the most meritorious work may not match their idea of a fair outcome -- therefore, the game must be rigged.

That if the winners aren't acceptably diverse -- it can only be because of the invisible hand of multiple systems of oppression.

You correctly believe that a person's work should be judged purely on merit with no consideration of the attributes of the person who created it.

The zeitgeist believes that the only things that matter are the attributes of the person -- and that there must always be equal outcomes for every category they can divide people into -- regardless of the content of their character or the value of their works.

I personally believe we should do everything we possibly can to ensure some baseline level of opportunity to everybody -- and accept that what people do with that opportunity is up to them.
He isn't doing this thinking he will become The Rock.

From http://rockingfor30days.com/why-im-eating-and-training-like-...

"I admire that level of discipline. And want to see if I can do it myself, if only for a month. This isn’t about the physical results a schedule like this might deliver. I have no grand plans to become huge or bulk up like The Rock. This is about testing whether I have the will and discipline to spend a month walking in the shoes of “the hardest worker in the room.”"

I like this thinking, it's good to challenge yourself sometimes, even in ways that might seem a bit crazy.
Nope, everyone knows that landing the first stage is an incredibly difficult problem to solve, right? I was simply saying that they have a lot of time and money to solve it because they have a profitable business that doesn't depend on them solving it. Lots of startups are VC backed long shots. Most startups fail because they run out of money. It seems to be the way the market is played these days. SpaceX is kept private, for example, so it doesn't have to be held hostage by public markets. That's rare for most companies.
also don't forget apt-file (very useful to find out which package contains the library/binary you want to install) and dpkg -L to figure out what a particular package installed on your system.

I switched to debian some time ago and it's interesting so many different commands are used for package management, this said I personally have an alias ap=sudo aptitude -t jessie-backports alias and use that as a command line interface for search/install, and run the full aptitude gui only when doing updates
I see no evidence that they used machine learning. If they had, this thread might be less full of people saying it did worse than random.
I don't think the bitcoin development community acknowledges bitcoin can not scale to Visa levels. Perhaps one of them has a crystal ball, but I do not think anyone can say how far bitcoin scales as technology improves.

I mean bill gates said 64kb is enough for everyone, now some bitcoin developers are saying 1mb is enough for everyone. History proved Bill Gates wrong. I'm sure it will prove whoever wishes to speculate as if they have a crystal ball wrong too.
That's why we have the courts to rule exactly what is and isn't protected (versus having a big long list needing constant revision [like the DMCA exception list]). Granted, flipping switches isn't the best example, but if Free Speech Flags are protected, I can't see why flipping a set of switches is any different.

Now, IANAL, but the act of writing the AACS encryption key to your RAM (I would assume) is protected (websites listing it place it in your RAM). But if you were to actually use that key in ways not allowed by the DMCA, then you're not protected.

> Setting the state of physical switches being considered an expression of an opinion/idea (speech) also seems like a slippery slope toward all other physical actions being speech if "my reason" agrees.

I can't imagine why setting those switches as an act of defiance would be illegal, but if the number "7" was the encryption key for a DVD, actually using those switches as the encryption key would be illegal.

Again, IANAL, and this is just speculation based on my understanding of the law
Huh? It got everything except your gender correct.
Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours
Same here, some of the apps (like Pandora) don't even work in my country.
what a dumb law
I got that too. Lot of people seem to be saying that here.
> If I find myself shelling out to grep with pcre flags, I am using unix pipes as intended

Fixed that for you.
Google Experimenting with Local Business Cards in Search Results
> .docx is a plain text xml based format that has an Open published standard.

With binary blobs in it. And nearly any document created in a MS product is unlikely to validate under it's published schema.
Inflation is not healthy for an economy - consumer spending is. Governments can encourage consumer spending by expiring parts of money supply, instead of using negative interest rates.

>>As we begin seeing more viable altcoin systems with practical improvements, "investors" and processing power will jump ship to the improved cryptocoin protocols. Bitcoin and the bandwaggon of investing in a BTC

All cryptocoins today encourage hoarding and speculation.
It's not so much that I trust Valve or any other company, their interests are often orthogonal to mine. They are an entity that can be held accountable, however.
Missing the age by a generation and the income by multiples is not 'correct' IMHO.
NASA explores “magic island” on Saturn's moon
Nailed me but goofed on gender!
If you'd like to try this right away (not have to wait) on any version of Debian/Ubuntu (just need pip) try this script I wrote several years ago:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apt-wrapper/

No prog bar but it handles all common tasks, ppa's, and elevates with sudo automatically. For example:

> pip install apt-wrapper
> apt in foobar
I wonder if investors consider it a negative to be a top company in another accelerator then.

"Did you apply to and get rejected by YC?" must be a common question many investors now ask of companies that aren't YC alumni.
There was a set of modules just for solo play from TSR. Sometimes people are not available and computers were not universal.
A paper was just released that showed this paper was wrong. Humorously the authors say they are now waiting for someone to show they are wrong.
"Either you're a single, middle-aged dude... or you use your phone like one."

I guess the latter is true, for their definition of single, middle-aged dude.
So, why don't you guys band together with him and cut the mold?

$10,000 isn't that much spread over 3 different communities. (Apple, NeXT, Atari ST).

Yet, nobody is stepping up to cut a check. Perhaps I should call you all a bunch of cheap bastards.

$109 for the board, bill of materials, and software work that has gone into it is CHEAP. If he were charging $150, he could probably cut the mold himself.

However, he knows his business. Presumably, if he could charge more, he would.
For example, you have an AST node for 'x + 2', encoded as 'apply(apply(var("+"), var("x")), const("2"))' (we're talking about ML, so it is curried here).

Firstly, all the expression nodes must be annotated with type tags: 'A1:apply(A2:apply(A3:var("plus"),A4:var("x")), A5:const("2"))'.

Then your typing pass walking over this segment of AST would generate the following (mostly trivial) equations

A5=integer // from constant type
A4=Vx

A3=Vplus
A3=fun(integer, fun(integer, integer)) // from environment lookup
A3=fun(V1, A2) // application rule
A2=fun(V2, A1) // application rule

Then this long Prolog query (all equations are comma separated) is executed and you'll get all An type values to attach to your AST, as well as variable x type.

> Prolog could handle dependent types

It's Turing-complete. You can encode anything you want in it.
Your post contains a number of allegations with no proof whatever. Can you provide evidence of any "fake" campaign, of "sockpuppets" of "voting bots".

I mean, your post is psyop, otherwise called a "mind fuck", just a number of statements with zero evidence to discredit valid opinions by not in any way engaging them.

While you of course use outright censorship, banning, ddosing of nodes, secret conferences, and other dark black hat social engineering techniques you should be ashamed of.
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Sounds like your auth system needs some work... Or at least some logging and detection so you can reach out to frustrated users preemptively. They are literally calling you at all hours asking you to help fix this part of your system - sounds like great user feedback.
RE: #2, it's an optional feature which is not enabled by default. And you have to dig for it. I'm inclined to think that the people who dig for encryption on a book-themed tablet are more likely to understand the potential performance ramifications themselves.
> You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year

Good to know that married ladies have older than 32 have squeakymail and keychain on their phones. See - pgp is not that hard after all.
Got me 100% right, which is weird because I figured the lack of apps on my phone would be a problem (I have a windows phone so there's a lot missing). Sounds like it wasn't too accurate for the rest of you though.
The stock emacs that ships with osx is not smart enough to dig into a docx file, but the version from here: http://emacsformacosx.com is.
Bitcoin's Here to Stay: Here's Why (What Is Dead May Never Die)
Apparently I'm a single lady under 32 (wrong on both counts).
Building an accurate mental model of a typical web request is important and sometimes tricky. You mention both PHP and Java. I'm not sure how you're planning on teaching both of these, but using each to build a web app has different implications from the other regarding how/when/by what your code gets called. Adding JavaScript makes it even more complex.
If I'm not mistaken, iOS apps aren't allowed to see what other apps are installed, is that correct?
Show HN: ComputationalHealthcare Search aggregated stats on millions of visits
I got a refund 2 weeks later. Just file a complaint with Google and say the app sucks. Try it now if you don't believe me.
Filesystems are trees. VOX could have read access to a particular tree (~/Videos) and no access to everything else, including but not limited to ~/Documents/Finance
Argument from authority or appeal to authority aren't fallacies by definition, but only when a premise therein is flawed.

The "rocket scientist" that is responsible for landing the craft previously worked on NASA's SMAP satellite, on the control team. One challenge faced with controlling that satellite was that several systems had to share an antenna for different purposes, and the hardware needed to be steered as part of its scanning duties. Dr. Lars Blackmore (said rocket scientist) has authored many papers on control systems, several of which discuss communications as part of it.

I would submit as my "argument from authority" (appealing to Dr. Blackmore's authority) that this particular rocket scientist is likely to have ruled out the ideas posited by any given armchair quarterback engineer, a role I know many of us like to play. The premises behind the argument are not in danger of being flawed, that I can tell; my conclusion may be, but that would just be an everyday incorrect conclusion and not an outcome from a logical fallacy.
That's what my current company did with me. Works really well. Some people are not okay with becoming a contractor first but sometimes that's the way things go.
I'm going to say that this is naive open source zealot bullshit.

Code signing is what is keeping the FBI out of the iPhone. It's how we will keep malicious trojans and other kinds of advanced persistent threats out of the ecosystem in the future.

If you think code signing is a bad idea, then you aren't thinking about the post Snowden security landscape.

Now, what most code signing systems fail on today is the ability to control which keys you trust. Ideally you should be able to manage trust delegation.

But, in the future, we will think of running unsigned code like we currently think of protocols like FTP, telnet and rsh - built for a simpler, more trusting era.
Haha I'm married (wrong), over 32 (wrong by about ten years), and make more than 52,000/year (wrong by more than I'd like to admit as an intern :D)
Yes.

Cross-compilation of existing packets has proven to be a nightmare with cmake. I have to override manually CMAKE_C_COMPILER, CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER ...

Have a look at zenbuild, which is a toy-project of mine trying to homogeneize the build interface of many FOSS projects.
Each packet get its script (ala PKGBUILD), it can be seen as a list of hacks around the quirks of each project's build system.

Projects using autoconf are a breeze to build:
https://github.com/Ace17/zenbuild/blob/master/zen-libxau.sh

But projects using cmake are another story:
https://github.com/Ace17/zenbuild/blob/master/zen-x265.sh