skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> true sandboxing if implemented correctly could prevent cheats in the first place

Absolutely not: Sandboxes keep things in, not out, and cheaters are typically the lawful root-administrators of their machine.

So they just run the games sandboxed and launch their cheats in a more-privileged mode. For example, a cheat can read the game-memory and provide a "radar" overlay to help the user locate hidden enemies. More advanced versions can could replace game-code (from the outside) or even tinker with the network-stream.

The game, meanwhile, would have no recourse, since it would (correctly) be unable to see or influence anything outside of its sandbox.
This situation strangely reminds me of MSN Messenger for anyone old enough to remember that. It ended in failure. Most blamed Microsoft's management for it.
Right, I understood the intended abstraction, after the 2nd or 3rd skim.

Just that even analytical people tend to think "associationally" when they see certain keywords -- and one has to keep in mind that not too long ago, people in many of the countries that software development is frequently outsourced to were, in fact, thought of as monkeys, pretty much (or something on the human-monkey spectrum).

So whenever I see associations like that creeping into my own writing, I try to dial it down.
> If you aren't attractive to a life partner, you don't get a life partner. Why should a work partner or an employer be different?

Because you don't necessarily die of starvation or become a burden to the state if you don't get a life partner, unlike what happens if you don't have any source of income?
I was not uncivil. This kind of belittling of family has to stop. Software development has a major problem hiring women, older people, and minorities. People in the sector belittling things like children and families by using terms like 'lifestyle choices' ARE part of the problem, and the industry has a very serious one. These people need to be called out for the poisonous garbage that they're spouting, and that calling out rarely happens.

The gender gap is not going to get better while these attitudes are accepted. Women avoid tech to a large degree because it is rational to do so. The entire sector is so immersed in brogrammer culture that half the participants aren't even aware of it.
Yep. Mid-to-late 1990s. Delphi vs Java. :)
I couldn't copy a line of text on Lync without it randomly grabbing other random lines from earlier in the conversation. Not the line above it, or the last thing I said. Just completely random things that either person had said, that may have been 2 or 3 messages ago, or maybe 2 or 3 hundred messages ago.

This was on Windows 7.

The problem seems to have been solved when we upgraded to Skype for Business a few months ago. There were a lot of other weird nonsensical bugs like this too, but that one was the one that caused me the most grief. Lync was been by far the worst piece of chat software I've ever used.
Why a downvote ?
Is Linux is about choice?
Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future
That's the confusion. That page is selling two completely different products, which some brainiac in Marketing decided to lump under the same banner.
Applying the Saga Pattern
I don't believe in the system, I just don't see how the NSA's program suppresses dissent. There's no punishment for dissent, so how would it be suppressed? I'm sure they can and do listen in on people who want to overturn Citizens United or replace the government with a monarchy or whatever, but if there's no punishment that follows, then how does anything get suppressed?
The word "trained" does seem dubious as if the bees were taught to obey commands!

More likely the bees were "persuaded" to use cannabis by either proximity of the plants and/or treating the plants in some way to attract the bees.
And there we go again. 'optional activity'. And people wonder why there are few women in tech and the situation is not improving. The post above is your answer.

Have a family, it's the end of your career, because you engaged in productivity limiting 'optional activities'. Yes, the tech sector IS that toxic.
John McAfee Challenges Reddit to a Coding Duel
Thanks :) Things are mostly stable. Sway doesn't quite have all the features of i3, but it's getting there, and for bonus points it reads your i3 config file and interprets it correctly. I have trouble with floating windows, but if I wanted those I'd be using a different WM.

Probably my biggest complaint is that pretty much all of the graphical applications I use behave a bit oddly under Wayland because they're actually X applications running in XWayland. I spend most of my time in terminal emulators anyway, so it's not a huge deal.
Smallest positive m such that 77 divides m^2+7m+89 is greatly simplified by realizing (mod 77) m^2+7m+89=m^2+7m+12=(m+3)(m+4).
Some might suggest more frugality on the coffee expense as well. ;)

There's nothing wrong with leasing, particularly if you prefer (and have the means to readily afford) to always drive a car 0-3 years old. If you have that preference, leasing is often the best choice.

The real problem is that preference is a very expensive preference and is being opted into by many people who probably should be being more frugal.
Not using dbus for its ipc is a feature of i3 for me. What it has works perfectly compared to every interaction I've ever had with dbus, which is always pain.
It seems that trying to distill the activity of 7+ billion people into a line graph that you can extend naively to make predictions is a bankrupt exercise. Calling lower-than-predicted growth a slowdown is more than a bit disingenuous.
post in the "who wants to be hired" threads, last one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11202956
I'm not sure about your age or background... but having lived through "D&D or Heavy Metal Music == Satanism" moral panic myself, I'm not sure that such a phenomenon is even possible in an Internet-enabled world.

If you were into any kind of nerd subculture, or really just any subculture to begin with, then it's really hard to describe the sense of social isolation that you would have felt prior to online communities (especially if you didn't live in a major city).

The Internet has ushered in an era of social fragmentation, but before then there an immense pressure toward social cohesion and conformity. Today, no matter what you're into, there's a subreddit and 1,000 other websites dedicated to that. There is community, social connection. Conventions and other gatherings emerge from that.

Back in the 80's, there was just... nothing. You were a freak, and completely socially isolated, just for being into non-pop musical genres... or having hobbies and interests other than those deemed mainstream (e.g. sports, hunting and fishing, etc).

Yes, there are still moral crusaders today. There are still assholes in Kentucky that don't want to give marriage licenses to gay people, and so on. I don't mean to make light of that. But it's just... not... the... same... as it was a generation ago, when any deviation from the norm placed you in complete social isolation without even an online escape.
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> "I think there is a rough consensus of what "great" means in "a great X" and that it means something like: generally accepted to be significantly better than the vast majority of their peers."

You've not really solved the problem by stating that, all you've done is swap one subjective term (great) for another (better).

FWIW, I don't think everyone is naturally suited to programming, but I do know I've met a number of people, with a diverse range of backgrounds, who I am confident would be employable as programmers with the right guidance. The two biggest traits they all share is attention to detail and an openness to learn. I'd argue that's all you really need, everything else is just a matter of effort and experience.
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> It's all bad, and all needs to be stopped.

Look, I'm not a fan of Big Brother either (I don't think any of us are). But unqualified black-white statements like this (combined with Good Intentions™) are largely what got us into this mess in the first place.
Ah, yeah - too late to edit! Please accept my apologies.
And all the slack users breathed a sigh of relief.
Their most beloved tool wasn't destroyed by an accident prone behemoth.
You might be interested in the following article:

To stream everywhere, Netflix encodes each movie 120 times (gigaom.com) [2012] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946275
Simple versus Easy
LATCH became essentially standard in fall of 2002, so is probably no longer a factor in a leasing decision.

Modern cars are wildly more reliable than even 20 years ago, IMO. The 10-year old piece of crap I drove 15 years ago is not the same as the same as the 11-year old car my wife drives everyday.
I wonder why Discord isn't more popular, it's basically Slack with voice chat baked in that works really well. All of your favorite Slack shortcuts work exactly the same. Even pressing the Up arrow key to edit your last message.

I guess the 'gamer' branding hurts it's potential use in the workplace.
Lync actually starts for you? Mine just segfaults on startup. I've given up on it entirely.
The middle class never got any money for being more productive in the 90s and aughts. Maybe they're wising up.

Also, virtually every market is dominated by cartel, duopoly, or monopoly conditions, and companies are often satisfied with that position, so investment is down.
That's precisely how the article explains it.
The Fair Source License
slack needs to sell asap.

edit: to expand. Slack has 0 technology moat. The reason Github has been so successful and has gone many years without significant competition, is that it is an open platform in the sense that I have my personal, work, and private repos there. Many open source stuff is up there, and the platform allows me to contribute to my private repos, public repos and quickly download software.

To some extent slack has this idea where you can have 3 or 4 organizations in the app, but user to user seems to not be implemented, or at least non-obvious. Everything is siloed in an org.

lots of companies and apps are working on chat and are substitutes for pieces. It was not obvioius Github could make money or was significant for a long time. Professional chat is the opposite.

* Low barrier to entry

* high competition

* limited revenue/margin

* open source alternatives

* largely based on users/social proof. e.g. could get myspaced.

* competing in a space that is "hot" and many larger companies are moving in, already poised to take this.
FoxDB stores many things, but HedgehogDB stores one big thing
The claims establish the legal bounds of a patent, however, they must be read in light of what is disclosed in the specifications. The enforceable scope of this patent is fairly limited.
I looked through the list a little bit, but it seems a bit haphazard. It would be nice if it were organized hierarchically, and there were some indications as to how many people concurred or disputed various recommendations.

There used to be a website, one canonicaltomes.org that did these things: there was an organizational scheme in place, and a voting mechanism, and the number of votes a book received was displayed. Unfortunately it became defunct long ago. You can still browse what they had, back in early 2006, on archive.org [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060214203037/http://www.canoni...
The same study says:

"Animal models have also allowed us to move beyond hormones and to an appreciation of the important role of sex chromosomes. Study of these mice has revealed important roles for chromosome complement on body weight and feeding, aggression and habit formation, to name a few."

And section 8:
"Some argue it is pure folly to study neuroanatomical sex differences with the hope of understanding sex differences in behaviour as the connection between anatomy and behaviour is often weak or even non-existent [50]. Indeed, the most celebrated sex difference in the brain, the SDN, has not been clearly tied to any specific behavioural or physiological endpoint, although see above discussion regarding sexual orientation. While it is true that anatomical or physiological differences in the brain often do not map onto clear differences in behaviour, does this mean they are not important or even, not real? Many studies of sex differences in brain anatomy or neural functioning are perfectly sound, meaning they are fully powered and technically executed using well vetted and accepted approaches, yet a strong correlation between variance in anatomy and variance in behaviour is about the best one can hope for in establishing a causal relationship."
The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov
Why would anything ever be grossed up? Because the purpose of the payment is to give the recipient a particular amount of money, usually related to specific costs, not some amount less taxes.

The costs of sustaining a job search after being fired are a bit different than the costs of living while you have a reliable income stream. The grossing-up part is meant to reflect a nominal amount of money to cover those kinds of costs, not just a virtual continuation of the salary-less-taxes you'd been living on while employed.

In my experience, severance and sign on bonuses are often grossed up, as are payments made for relocation expenses.

But there's no reason to be hung up on that part. It's perfectly fine to just offer a regular severance benefit without grossing it up.
Disclaimer: I run switchup.org

The reason we don't have average salaries and grad rates is because the only org publishing that is the school itself. Can we trust that number? Has it been reviewed/audited by a third-party? Only one school does that and we report their number on the site.

However, we constantly publish data on industry trends and overall placement rates and job stats to help guide the conversation. https://www.switchup.org/research/coding-bootcamp-survey

We do have independent school by school database of job outcomes based on our independent surveys, but sample sizes are generally small and we are not at liberty to disclose school specific info.
> Any individual user can view, download, execute, and modify the code free of charge. Up to a certain number of users from an organization can use the code for free, too. After an organization hits that user limit, it will start paying a licensing fee determined by the software publisher.
i wonder whether the "united information environment" can be a result of to_English(to_Chinese("intelligence fusion"))

https://www.dhs.gov/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-center...
VMs can share host volumes, Cygwin can suddenly become buggy and has no release (it is currently doing shit with ACL on my install, to the point of being unusable, and this seems to have affected other people too), so is not completely suitable for team work, SSD are fast and modern Linux distro really fast to boot, and there is basically nothing to do to maintain a modern mainstream Linux distro (although you have to avoid distro like Mint too much oriented in GUI/UX and not enough in core system engineering and stability, but they would not give you anything critical in a VM anyway, because I your graphical stuff should be done mainly in your host)

You might want Cygwin for some reasons, but for me that would not be those you gave compared to a VM (disclaimer, I use both, at least when Cygwin is working...)
> A special pool for startups would be nice too, with less costs/requirements.

so infosys will start 500 subsidiaries and fund them VC style
He founded the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative, so he must have a pretty good grasp of the domain (http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/04/15/announcing-mit-dci.html). He also held stakes in Blockstream, who favors small blocks (http://joi.ito.com/coi.html).
Under the American rule (as opposed to the English rule) loser pays is very rare. Specifically for patents the law only authorizes them in "exceptional cases". In this case they were ordered for filing numerous frivolous lawsuits. Nothing in the scenario you outlined suggests anything exceptional. Defendants are allowed to defend themselves.

If a court finds a defendant meets this high burden as to the plaintiff's actions, then yes I think the real parties in interest behind the corporate veil should be on the hook. What's the alternative? That defendants who were the victims of frivolous lawsuits have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their own pockets? Who knows what assets had to be sold to raise that money or whose livelihood was destroyed? How is that an equitable outcome?
maybe he is also a pc gamer, so he sees the problem as a pc gamer perspective
I didn't read it as less-than-predicted growth, but rather simply less than previous growth. Regardless, the wording of the article and headline is wrong, and makes me sad that evidently more people didn't learn / don't remember any calculus.

Derivative of productivity != productivity, NYT.
Cleanly exiting is bad, but your crash reporting should catch abort().
Thanks for spreading the ideas, gonzo. Good to meet you now, these many years later.
Tokenadult isn't around to chime in here, so I'll take his place today. Hunter and Schmit did a meta-study of 70 years of research on hiring criteria. [1]

There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

- General mental ability (Are they generally smart)

- Work sample test (NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing).

- Integrity (The first two won't matter if the candidate is a sociopath).

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate.
[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...
> He also held stakes in Blockstream,

Aaah, that explains it.
I think Skype suffered from their first acquisition and Microsoft never got it back on to its original trajectory when they bought it.

Skype still has a lot of consumer good will and a strong brand. Amongst my peers online video calling is called Skype notater what platform we use.
It's all about integrations. We have all sorts of server messages and errors in a couple of our Slack engineering channels. Slack provides almost no way to visually distinguish these messages based on importance. In Hipchat, we had red/yellow/green background colors that worked great.

To be clear, I'm not dead set on having background colors. I just really miss having a good visual distinction between messages.
That isolation was also a blanket of security. If you exhibit any attributes that today's moral panic is against, you could find yourself facing down a horde of harassers. They'll find all your friends and family on Facebook and try to get them to turn against you. They'll look up your employer online and tell them you're sexist or that you're sharing child pornography online. If you're in university, they'll convince the school to expel or otherwise ostracize you.

There are a lot of similarities between this generation of moral panic and the past, but the differences are not at all an improvement.
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I am pretty much just starting out. I took a few classes in high school and I've done some really minor projects since then, but I'd definitely still call myself a complete noobie.

I've been considering trying out Learn Python the Hard Way, it comes up in pretty much every "I want to learn programming" thread on /g/.
But since I didn't know in advance that the solution would be one of the smaller possible answers it was faster in expectation to solve the problem using the given method.
Interesting... That tweet is the first I ever heard of UWP apps being distributable through 3rd party stores, and I don't see anything in the link that he provided that supports his claim - its all in reference to the Windows Store.

It is interesting if true, but the devil is in the details, and Sweeney points out the similarities to Android, where you can technically side-load applications, but it is a pain in the ass, and I'm sure 99% of users couldn't be bothered to do so. Look at how much trouble Amazon has had getting people to use their app store on anything but 'Fire' devices.
Another way to say this is that the normally-presumed cause/effect relationship is actually backwards here. I.e. If you aggregate the outputs of industry over a long enough period, higher wages cause higher productivity and not visa versa.

This is a fun thought-experiment.
How much more productive does the middle need to be!? Good grief, nobody is allowed to "turn off" any more. We're ALWAYS working.

Edit: And please don't kill me with semantics of "working" vs "productivity".
I prefer ArnoldC:
https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
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Wow -- I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the size of the study is only 14 subjects. This seems incredibly small!
If it was $50k or $100k, they might onto something. There's just not much any team can do on $20k, especially in Silicon Valley.

So far, they've rejected every single startup except one, which they gave just $5k to.

http://www.seedramp.com/history.html
You don't but I do: you don't want to replace all your exec of e.g. "cp" with "cp.exe", .exe are not very often handled in real Unix environments, results of build without .exe under a real Unix would already clash with a .exe-less entry, Cygwin/MSys/MSys2 are there mainly for compat, and in this context the most compat you achieve (both way) is to handle .exe the way they do -- and there should be no exception.

This leads to odd behaviors, which is unfortunate, but alternatives would lead to even more and/or worse ones.
>There's no punishment for dissent, so how would it be suppressed?

Surely you're joking. The United States government is eager to punish dissent to a lethal degree.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
Yes. And yet ... there's a trade off to consider.

e.g. for asbestos, occasionally the best choice (depending on the location of the asbestos containing material and its current condition) is to leave it in place and secure it / envelop it.

In some cases, removing the asbestos bearing material entirely would increase the chance of it entering someone's lungs.

I believe this kind of tradeoff can be applied to lead bearing materials too.

Of course, there's also the peace of mind factor. And that's valued differently by people. Given a high enough budget, removal can probably always be done safely. But sometimes the required budget is awfully high.
We aren't?

Look up shipping indices. Baltic Dry Index, etc. All massively down since mid-2015.
When I read teen's comment I thought they were implying that Skype is used by gamers and leaks info.
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There is no skills gap. That is just propaganda put out by tech companies so they can lobby for more H-1Bs. A great article on this: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...