skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thesis advisor (when speaking of a fellow department member):

I use people in our lab to proofread and polish our manuscripts. He uses the peer-review process.
Grocery Store Tactics: Easter Simulator Edition.
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Or just push it on git hub once and be done with it for good.
That's really funny.
Most of the time, by "REST" people understand just randomly slapped together
protocol that aspires to be RPC, which is too underdeveloped and loosely
defined to be proper RPC.
Warrants are really only a defence against mass, dragnet style surveillance since with enough will, anybody can become subject of a warrant if those who are investigating them have enough will to get one.
You might give KeeperFX a try. It's a mod that reuses the existing exe file but builds around it. IIRC it allows higher resolutions, adds more maps/campaigns and makes it possible to run Dungeon Keeper on newer Windows versions without problems.
Besides cmrx64's answer: Have you considered the possibility that 8bitpimp comes from a country where programmers are paid much worse or has a job that is paid badly but one still has good reasons to take it (say, graduate student)?
my anecdote: I have seen a huge difference in ability (of developers). I think it's more due to geopolitical differences though, not just education.
"Danielle drinks only tee, has two kids and the marriage is not really happy........ People would be directed to relevant produce."

What's the relevant produce for an unhappy marriage? Whiskey?

I'd actually talk to a few people before I'd say "everyone benefited" because many didn't and absolutely hate it. I've seen people rearrange their schedule and go way out of the way just so they can run an errand in peace and with some privacy and dignity. Myself? I know I've avoided places specifically because I'd be likely to see someone I know there.

Having a conversation once in a while with the person selling you cheese (which is choice!!) isn't the same thing as being tracked.

Not everyone wants personalized recommendations either. Or recommendations at all, most people know what they want and are creatures of habit.

I don't want recommendations at all from anyone who is selling me something! The incentives are misaligned to say the least. What if you found out the cheese salesman got commission from certain brands? You'd think she'd suddenly recommend them?
Yes - I have substantial experience with both. The differences from those are wider (and the advantages - or what others may see as disadvantages - clearer) - I felt it was more useful to compare against more similar languages where people would be more likely to be choosing between them.
I'm working on an alternative to Google's URL Builder.

It helps marketing teams with tracking clicks in Google Analytics by making the link building process a lot easier and less error prone.

Check it out: http://utmtag.com
Very celver and I applaud sharing this kind of innovative thinking. And for free. Also I'd like to give some credit in that the site doesn't try and dress up the material as "life hacks" or some other kind of puffery. It's not the easiest to look at unfortunately. I do like simple and this is close to basic, just probably not a personal fan of the color scheme. That's kind of a nitpick which thankfully I do believe is overcome by the usefulness potential of the content and time spent on the site. The About page is a nicely done example I can appreciate too.
That data ownership is enshrined in law in the EU. Not that anybody cares.
Find slow processes by annotating console logging with timestamps
Yes it's terrible for both sets of students. You don't mean to suggest that equal-opportunity educational failure is in some sense better than only failing one group, do you?
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After reading this article, news about this scares me. What happens when we leave a governments power unchecked? There have been too many times throughout history where unchecked power can lead to disastrous consequences. We need our voices to be heard, not silenced by the government.
Because insurance is a hassle? Who wants to go through the process of being righted after being wronged? Getting wronged to be reimbursed is not the business model most renters are seeking when they put up a property on AB&B.
GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)
A colon?! A COLON?! Are you sure that should be there?
"Oh, and I think in webdev, there is a lot of... err... modern creative and innovative guys and gals out there who are always happy to rewrite the world again, because the last week's tech isn't cool anymore."

well said
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>They all started from a similar position, JS wasn't a standard from day one, there's a reason why it's emcascript today.

No, Javascript had the huge advantage of being first; it's the only one on your list that both wasn't a plugin and was supported by IE and Netscape. And yes, modern Javascript is a better technology than any of those, although that's really damning with faint praise.

If Netscape Navigator 2 had shipped with, say, a Perl VM in addition to the Javascript VM, then I can guarantee you that everybody would've written their scripts in Perl instead of Javascript.

>That's laughable, what percentage of the web ran on Flash in 2007, 1%?

Back in the day, the only ways you could write a web app of any complexity/performance were to either use Flash or do it serverside (remember – not long ago! – when the new hot web technology was Ruby on Rails? Remember when it was PHP?). Flash was the only option if you wanted video (well, it or something truly evil like RealPlayer) or if you wanted a consistent and appealing look for your site.

Flash was on 56% of all websites as of 2010: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2011/04/05/http-archive-url...

Google trends for Flash vs. Javascript in the SF Bay Area: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F02p97%2C%20%2...
Maybe the media was forcing things to change by exposing the key, deliberately, rather than being ignorant of what their exposure was doing.
They have been doing it for a long time, but we know the game now. Most people haven't figured out they are being digitally tracked, but when that happens, I have a feeling consumers will get proactive, and really begin to withhold, or make it difficult for entities to track buying habits.

As to eggs in the back of the store, yes milk and eggs are always in the back of every store I can recall. We all know the game. Why piss off your loyal customers? Too many MBA's? I don't know, but it's obviously not working. I don't like shopping anymore. I don't think I'm alone.

I can't think of any brink and morter store that's doing well. And they always blame the Internet?

Whole foods was doing great for years. Now with uniformed security guards roaming around, tired workers, sneaky product placement; their quarterlies are the chits. They blame competition. It's not competition. Your stores became like everyone else. By the way, the CEO did promise to make staples affordable and he delivered. Milk, eggs, butter, and bread are cheaper than Safeway, along with their brand of product. There 365 products are reasonably priced.

I am very respectful to pretty much every store I shop in.

By respectful, I treat the store like I live there. I put away items of I didn't need. I don't just leave the item in the cart, or in another area of the store. I don't mess up shelved items, like books, etc. I treat the employees with respect, and try to make their horrid jobs easier.

That said, when I walk into a store like Home Depot. A store that is tracking my movements throughout the store with CCTV, and takes a picture of my mug at every isle, checkout, bathroom entrance, point of sale, etc.; I could care less about how I treat the store. Do I care that every one of my transactions is transferred to some server in Richmond Virginia--yes!

It's funny, I used to like the company. I was glad when they opened up near me. The employees seemed like they liked/respected their employer. I used to go to their stores just to browse. I usually ended up buying something.

Jump foreward to today. I only shop there if I absolutely have to. I walk into that chit box, and can't get out quick enough. If I don't need a product in my hand it goes anywhere except where it was located. My mood changes once I walk through those doors and look into those cameras. I don't think I'm the only one who dislikes being monitored, tracked, and manipulation with product placement.

Their employees seem like they are working in a correctional facility. literally every employee seems misserable.

Home Depot is a perfect example of too much tracking(I don't know all their digital tracking tools--I just feel like I'm being watched. I don't like showing my ID when returning an item with a receipt.), bad security, and general useless advice from MBA's who should have at least one year of grunt level retail work before being promoted to screwing up a store.

I have a feeling tides will turn eventually.
A world without humans would be necessary to fulfill their goals of the environment being unmolested by humans. We cannot live in perfect harmony. That's not a thing.

At best, we can establish areas that look roughly like they used to look before humans, but this is no less deliberate design than the styrofoam rocks at the zoo, it's just on a different scale. Many such areas are, in fact, better seen as zoos, because of their small size or limited variety. Most of the productive arable land is predictably already being used for something by somebody.

Personally, I'm a humanist. The worst things environmental devastation can do to us are disrupt some of our services, like agricultural collapses; After that environmentalism is mostly a romantic or novelty-based aesthetic, albeit an attractive one. Pit it against human lives and human profit, and groups of humans will nearly always make the same decision.

EDIT: Worth tacking on, for some perspective:
https://xkcd.com/1338/
I find it infuriating how much traction this whole anti ad/tracking war is getting.

People mention there's no choice anymore. Wrong! It's still there, just like it was 10 or 15 years ago. Stop sharing your personal information online and the whole tracking thing doesn't matter anymore.

This analogy seems completely flawed imho. Nobody can get inside my home, or force my door or any of that nonsense, unless I specifically allow them when they ask!

I fail to understand how all these trackers can read my browsing history without me installing <popular plugin> and allowing it access to my browser? Or how are they going to read my contact list from my Android phone, or the one from my Thunderbird? Through thin air?

Nobody took the choice from us, we just happened to open wide our front and back doors, and then complain that random people come in and look through our stuff.
But tracking is more pernicious than this.

I hope you realize that major political parties now buy this data and use it to target their campaign pitches to people in close elections. Do you buy diapers? You're probably interested in family issues. Do you buy gun parts? Let's classify you as leaning republican...

It goes way beyond uses that you would imagine. (PS: this is why if you ever sign up for a membership card at a retailer you should just use a fake name / address...)
Seems that the site has been slashdotted (or is that Hacker Newsed) - "Error establishing a database connection".
Awesome stuff to see
The robot problem is simply a lack of imagination. Just set up a long drill, like an oil rig, aimed sideways into the reactor. Drill six inch hole with cutting torch drill head, then insert equally long periscope. No rad hard electronics needed.
Encrypted internship offer, more or less
> children

> work

Yes, child labor.
The saddest part is that this kind of 'feedback' isn't out of the ordinary, but is actually pretty common. I've found in my own reviewer feedback a striking tendency towards pedanticism that would put Internet grammar nazis to shame, not to mention completely asinine comments that give no clue as to any objections the reviewer had ("You aimed for the bare minimum, and missed!").

This is, to me, just one example of the perverse incentives in academia. You are constantly pushed to publish, yet the gatekeepers who ultimately decide whether your research sees the light of day rarely give it more than a cursory glance, and many have no interest in giving helpful feedback to actually, you know, make the work better.
I was a failure in public school because of A) poor social interaction B) focus on testing instead of learning and C) not fitting in the mold.

I did private school, independent study, public school in two states (CA and TX), and Homeschool.

Homeschool and public school can be the most easily abused. It's hard to abuse private schools since there is usually more focus on the students.

However, it's clear to me that homeschooling is the winner for most people. You can completely customize the curricula and learning methods to help people learn the best.

The social interactions in homeschool are also far better. Rather than learning how to deal with childish peers only (being locked in a classroom for 8 hours a day), you can actually go explore the world and learn how to interact with every age level. There are thousands of homeschool groups though if you really want to have that peer-pressure stuff.
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I just find it interesting that over a wide range of random hardware that Windows 10 appears to have not been a problematic upgrade for me and this is speaking as a power user that has oddball software/hardware configurations.

Also, my statement wasn't meant to imply that a good upgrade experience was an excuse for Microsoft's behavior in regards to the constant "upgrade now" nagging or ignoring issues that impact its customers.
"the number of self-made billionaires is rising year after year; there really has never been a better time to become a winner."

There is so much wrong with this article, which is reflective of how we in the business world speak about success.

Is there really such a thing as a "self-made" billionaire? Or did those people have advantages like access to food, shelter, education, healthcare, mentors, support from family and friends, freedom from disease, violence and oppression, and so on?

Is amassing wealth really the measure of a "successful person"? Or are a person's actions in the world and toward fellow human beings also important?
That is pure gold!
What’s the face of U.S. innovation?
Frameworks do what the name implies - they provide a consistent base

The consistent base should be provided by the language itself. If your language isn't providing that, it's deficient. Powerful languages discourage frameworks and prefer small libraries. Deficient languages encourage frameworks and tons of repetition because they lack some key features of abstraction.
Yeah, those pesky geographical boundaries make things strange on the internet.
We Are Sorry to Inform You...  by Simone Santini [pdf]
Would it be possible to use a spray rich in these bacteria (and maybe other nutrients?) onto that island of plastic at sea?
The purpose of school is to equip students on how to teach themselves, not to spoon feed them facts. For that reason, philosophy, rhetoric, logic, music, literature, and mathematics should be the priorities. Students who are well-versed in those areas WILL figure out the rest of it a million times faster than some kid who drilled on history, science, or other facts. Teach the kids how to study history, don't feed them names and dates. Teach the kids how to research, don't make them regurgitate someone else's results. Teach kids how to comprehend and analyze a text, don't make them read Homer and then regurgitate the events. Modern education is bullshit.
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That you don't understand how it works even in the abstract is maybe an explanation for why you think it is infuriating that others are more concerned than you.

Being online is no longer optional, giving merchants and authorities your information is in many cases also no longer optional.

If you stop sharing your personal information online you will not be able to participate in a very large chunk of society's functions, some of which are mandatory. Heck I can't even the local tax office website without receiving a bunch of stuff that tracks me.
I've only ever run into that when getting gas, and even then only in high-fraud or very busy areas.
Related useful info - "Replication Prohibited", a talk at the recent 32C3 about 3D printing keys: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7435-replication_prohibited
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Miod's lack of further involvement is related to him joining TrustInSoft, or is there something else happening?
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> I always dream about an RTS where one gets to be the DM ... where computer players fight against each other

There were quite a few of these around when I was learning to program: I and a couple of friends competed in one where you provided a robot that had to kill survive longer than the rest. Each action (movement, shooting at an enemy, using your shield, scanning to see anything) took energy and sources of that were unevenly distributed around the simple landscape (so a robot could camp on a large source for a while as an example tactic). My robots didn't tend to do very well unfortunately.

There must be modern equivalents around, though it sounds like you want to go the other way: providing the challenge to the AIs rather than an AI itself, so perhaps you could create your own.

I've considered it - it is one of the many projects on my "when I win the lottery or otherwise have a lot of spare time all of a sudden" project list. There are two main options: run the AIs on your platform in which case one of the constraints is processing resource (which you somehow need to hand out fairly) or just provide an API through which the AIs can submit moves (in which case you can't govern how much processing resource each AI can throw at the problem, but the game service would be very resource efficient to run. Of course with the latter option if there are limits to what the AI can see (fog of war or similar) then you have to play the whole game out before letting spectators see it otherwise an AI could abuse the spectator interface to gain advantage, if the AIs are hosted on your resources you can constrain such visibility much more readily.
Personally I get more annoyed when reporters cover stories about "cyber attacks" but don't actually go into the details of what's going on -- because a DDoS is a completely different story from a SQL Injection.
“Deciphering the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign in the Twitter Sphere”
If you have the time and the interest, start with Standard ML. It is one of (or just?) the simplest languages in the ML family (which also include OCaml, Haskell, Scala, etc.).

You'll see yourself wanting a number of features you'd expect in a modern language, and end up discovering the motivation and approach behind how Scala or Haskell work. Operator overloading (ad-hoc polymorphism) and modular implicits are two of the ones I come across the most.

I have always felt that Haskell and Scala (and OCaml sorta) are way too complicated. However, spending time learning Standard ML and the foundations of this family have been really illuminating - you'll discover how powerful Haskell and Scala really are. For an analogy, you can think of switching to FreeBSD from Linux to get closer to Unix roots so you can understand Linux (the historic decisions and reasons) better.

Take a look at the /r/sml wiki [0] if you need help getting started.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sml/wiki
Link: https://wftogame.com/
I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think
But it is of critical importance to have the sensors located at the right height!

At my school, I had to jump up quite a bit (and I am 6' tall) to get them to read the card.

In many installations of both hardware and software, the actual usage of the system is quite different from what was imagined by the designers. Prox card installers imagine people holding up cards on lanyards. They mandate it not be carried in a wallet, because "the magnetic fields of a credit card can erase it" and it might break if it's bent. In real life, only freshmen carry lanyards, credit cards use high-coercivity stripes and aren't damaged by the prox readers or cards, and wallets with IDs and credit cards are stiff enough.

Talk to your users about how they use your product and what they need! You will learn something!
Why Gold?
I think what some folks may be missing is that highly-opinionated frameworks are extremely useful for less-capable programmers. I think most resistance to large frameworks comes from experienced developers who don't agree with all of the choices made by that framework. This is fine, and they shouldn't use it.

However, for someone who doesn't understand why they shouldn't pipe user input into a SQL statement, a framework can keep them out of a lot of trouble. Even though a more experienced developer may view it as "non-optimal."
Most likely it was http://www.aibn.no/rapport-07-1996-pdf but don't bother: It's in Norwegian. The Wikipedia article for most/all aircraft accidents link to the relevant report, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wider%C3%B8e_Flight_744 links to that PDF, so finding one you can read isn't too difficult.
In this case Adobe is mentioning only the "registration number" of the vulnerability to avoid revealing publically what the actual vulnerability is. Don't you feel safer already?
I am not sure if it is a ripoff but it is quite close to protection racket - either you are available one of such sites or your object never gets any tourists. Looks like another industry that naturally goes in monopoly/oligopoly direction.
True, but we aren't really given much choice either. Even if I buy for a service or buy a product from a company, I'm not going to be excluded from tracking.

Amazon isn't going to not data-mine the shit out of my purchases, even though I paid for a product.

I do question the value of all that data collection though. Sure it's interesting, but I don't really believe that data collection and analysis at the current scale translate directly to more sales. Honestly what's the value of tracking me around the net, how is knowing what sites I visit going to translate to a sale of some product?
var isn't a dynamic type. var is a compiler-inferred static type. `var fooDao;` will refuse to compile because the compiler can't infer the type. `var fooDao = new FooDao()` will still have the type FooDao for fooDao, it is just inferred by the compiler instead of being explicitly declared by the programmer.
This doesn't exist:

error: value :++= is not a member of sbt.TaskKey[Seq[sbt.ModuleID]]
Has anyone ever studied the history of the "school system"? It was invented in Germany to help standardize away individualism and help promote "patriotism".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPnDZ1Txlo
Airbnb does the same thing, and charges fees from both the guest and host.
Sunshine, now lets users train it to their temperature tastes
Bikeshedding isn't just for programmers. We just have a jargon term for it.

(And remember, "bikeshedding" isn't just "arguing forever": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding It's about arguing about the things that are easy to understand, to the exclusion of the probably-more-important, but more difficult, issues.)
Sad to see this go. `meteor deploy' and having your project online was a part of the bewilderment that Meteor gave me when I was first introduced to it.