skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like hackuser's analogy of "Building quality into the process" vs. playing whack-a-bug.

I don't have any idea how to fix the process but here's some stories that we can throw in the backlog:

- As a homeless individual, I'd like stable shelter
- As a low income individual, I'd like higher quality housing opportunities
- As a mentally ill individual, I'd like support and treatment to manage my illness
- As an unemployed individual, I'd like a job where I can earn enough income to support myself and family
- As a member of a victimized population, I'd like my peers to refrain from perpetuating a cycle of violence among ourselves
- As a parent with limited means, I'd like my child to attend a high quality school
- As a working parent with limited means, I'd like quality child care
- As an hourly wage-earner, I'd like consistent full time hours so I can better plan my schedule, finances, and future
- As a working individual, I'd like affordable, reliable, and timely transportation options to travel between my home, work, and school
for which purpose?

assuming which software load?
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For years there was no Yekaterinburg zone in the clock. No alternative. But you could select it in the system settings. Wtf Google.
> What you should really look into (and I had to do this as well, though not moving from Russia) is what countries you can easily get a visa to without a degree

I did not think of that option, thank you.
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Yeah, in Lisbon one of those "modern" coffee shops has celebrated its 230th anniversary.
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My surge protector comes with a $10,000 mini-insurance policy if it fails to protect against a surge. It seems like something similar could be done for any market: Buy up 10,000 USB chargers for cheap, have them all inspected, underwrite an insurance policy that reimburses the customer for manufacturing defects, and charge more. Have a backup policy with a big insurance company for the sole purpose of assuring customers that they have someone to file a claim with in the event that you're bankrupt.

You don't even need a standards consortium to do it.
Always makes me wonder whether these people know what the radiation is doing to them and they're doing it out of some heroic duty, or whether they have no idea whatsoever ... I can't stop looking.
Not down for me.
Yes it means exactly that. Otherwise it fails as a user friendly connecting standard.
And yet the guy with "a PhD in coffee shops" in the original article says he thinks they contributed to political stability in 18th Century England because they give people a place to rant and feel better afterwards...

(I never was convinced that you feel better after a rant, though. Rather, you have just worked out your "angry muscles".)
And the same networks could fuel spam filters, eventually leading to: https://xkcd.com/810/.
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I assume you mostly talk to expatriates - the sentiment in Russia is generally strongly nostalgic, and the majority are buying into Putin's promise to "make Russia great again" (I transliterate but you get my point).

I was in volgograd not long ago, the locals now exclusively call is stalingrad once more, they were playing the communist international up by rossiya-matushka, people were crying and singing along, young and old.

In astrakhan they're flying the hammer and sickle above government buildings, along with the tricolor.

Did it ever even go away?
You don't demand prepayment for the water, you already got it (through taxes).
>offering him $100k

you're kidding? i mean it can't be real. It is like an insult on top of the original insult. When i first read sama's post mentioning the offer without the actual number, i was making bets with myself whether they offered $10M, and was guessing whether the guy was right walking away from money like this. $100k never even crossed my mind :) That is the kind of greed that really kills luck (and getting $1B or just $990M for the Cruise is a Vegas scale luck)

Edit: read in the other comments that from original $100k the offer has now reached $4.5M. That is one "hockey stick"! Giving such low insulting start, my bet would be that instead of $10M - originally reasonable offer - the thing, with all the court filings, lawyers and emotions, will reach closure close to $100M, definitely crossing the $50M. Btw, where is my popcorn, this Cruise story is basically episode 0 of the season 3 of "SV" :)
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You mean a life-work balance? Because life should always come first.
Once https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14711 is merged, the images might also be binary deterministic (depending on what packages you use).
Quite interesting that people could only see barbarism outside, only the straw in the eyes of others:
How is that possible than an North American entity talking about barbarism totally ignores the extermination of native Americans?

Is there any better year 0 than after almost all Indians have been killed and their land stolen?

And yet, totally ignored by the author. History is written by the winners. Goering used to say that they only wanted to do in Eastern Europe what (North)Americans had already accomplished.

If you go to Mexico most people is Indian or mixed blood, you can see in their faces. On the US less than 1% of the population is Indian.

So you go to latin America and you hear about all the abuses of Spain, the Spain that forbid slavery in 1512. They care because they are the descendants of the Indians.

The same happened in Australia, they exterminated the native population and now nobody cares.
The old file formats which get to be unreadable just because they are "old" and the newer programs don't support them anymore is much more serious issue than many people think.

I hazily remember having the Outlook PST files as the mail archives and then later not being able to recover most of the metadata of the mails, not even programmatically, as the PST was designed even before the "internet standards" were something they'd worry.

GPG also removed the support for the old encrypted files and the old keys since 2.1:
https://www.gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#nopgp2 which signifies the dangers of using it in archival contexts. The disk encryption tools can be even more problematic, being dependent on the particular OS versions.
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Similiar to Java stype NullPointerException, but with a much worse effect in this case.

When will people stop making things nullable by default?
Thanks for the links! This info is kinda hard to find if you're not in the loop.

But it looks like low level optimization is a low priority for the Rust project at the moment.

(prefetch is rejected b/c of insufficient testing and branch hinting might get hampered b/c Rust developers aren't trusted to use them correctly)

Maybe I'll revisit it in the future! Appreciate the help =)
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This article from a few years ago is quite interesting regarding the literary history of London's coffee houses:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united...
Those hipsters.
Those precedents don't seem to include e.g. My Lai or any other act of barbarism committed by western countries.
Theoretically you could, but I don't want to be the one designing a PID controller for that...
Well, it is certainly fun.

I never bothered to count exact numbers, but from my experience, close to two thirds of all people, when presented with root shell and no consequences, will run rm -rf in some way.

Humble ones issue "rm -rf /usr" or "rm -rf /lib", others go straight to "/bin/rm -rf /". I've seen one person do "rm -rf /* ", immediately followed by "find / -delete". I'd really like to take a peek on his/her thought process at that moment, looked like the desire of destruction was really strong in that one particular brain ;-)

So yeah, while its not particularly useful one, there's indeed a situation where one definitely want to run it.

disclaimer: I run SELinux playbox with free root access and session recording, and peeking into what others do is also fun.

Edit: rm minus rf slash asterisk formatting.
For me it does, depending on the project. (Using emacs/magit, having a dedicated buffer just for magit.)

I want to keep on top of my current branch, what is untracked, what is unstaged and staged, quick diffing, etc. It actually helps a lot with productivity since I don't have to actively query for this information when it's all in one screen.

If I used another editor, I would like to have similar features. Maybe it can be done, but I am quite fluent in magit already, and one major thing keeping me from moving to another text editor for my current projects (if it actually mattered.)
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Maybe Walgreens or Safeway should simply open a cheap unbranded store down the road that sells the typical thief goods in a no name version at competitive street prices, catering to the people who need that stuff but can't afford it at store price. That would dry up the stolen goods market. Their normal customers wouldn't buy there anyway, if the store is sufficiently awkward.
Why are you all criticizing? I explained in my project that its just for fun "Project was made just for fun and the number of commits is never the window to who is doing more and who is doing less." Not to show who is doing less work or more.
Here's a previous HN discussion on Hjson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8432678
Yeah this is exactly how I feel. This was already possible and it's not like companies aren't doing it. Apple is the most notable offender, every iPhone Lightning cable sold comes with a security chip; if the chip's not there, the phone won't charge. Normally this would be a problem for counterfeit cable sellers, but Chinese manufacturers have reverse engineered the chip hence customers don't notice a problem.

http://www.cultofmac.com/246236/ios-7-killed-off-unlicensed-...
Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, EU / USA / Australia / ..

Technologies: Binary analysis, Vuln detection, Exploit, C, Ocaml, ..

Résumé/CV: http://www.j-feist.com/ (with my CV here: http://j-feist.com/FEIST-CV.pdf)

Github: https://github.com/montyly

Email: josselin.feist AT gmail.com

Ph.D student. I will defense my thesis by the end of this year, but I'm already looking for a position.

In short, I'm looking for a job in R&D where I could do research on vuln detection, exploit, ...
eh, it's a comic, all the nuances of security problem are hard to fit in a two panel punchline - but highlights the same thing, that the threat model is not the same for everyone.
I find rdiff-backup is great as a drop-in replacement.
I wouldn't confuse work being done with publicly talking about work being done.
I wonder if the "shunning" might have been caused by civil defence training which might have taught people to avoid people from fall-out contaminated areas unless they had been decontaminated?

Obviously not directly applicable but in a crisis it might be the kind of mistake people would make.
Shouldn't the proper fix be implying -i on -rf /
At least in some fork of the coreutils.
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Amazon doesn't do this, and ship their own store. What do you think would happen if Samsung forked Android and didn't ship the Play Store? Now app developers would just upload their apps to both stores and Google's power over Android as a whole would be entirely eroded.

So no, they definitely don't get to boss the OEMs around. Unlike Microsoft with Windows they don't get to just say "you can't ship Windows^HAndroid anymore".

They do have a bit of hold over the OEMs in the form of it being a PITA to fork, access to Google's own apps etc. So I'm not saying they have no leverage, but it's a lot less than what Microsoft has, and definitely not enough to say "my way or the highway".
I think it's the fact that it's a training for shortcuts and the training in itself is a shortcut (i.e. short, concise etc.)
I'm not sure how Android development works but as a open source project, how come noone implemented simple things like "Add setting to disable all Heads-Up (POP UP) Notifications" yet? Is it the Android team rejecting patches or just lack of interest in getting involved?
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Thanks!
Cloud you open an issue on Github repo here:
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According to a comment in the ServerFault website, he actually managed to recover the data [1]. He consulted a company for data recovery and they gave him a list with the files that they could manage to save [2].

1 : http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm...

2 : http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm...
My uncle was a driver in Chernobyl cleanup works. There was no question asked if he agreed or not, the soldiers simply came in the middle of a night, told him to pack things, took him having no clue what's going on or where he's going and left a wife with two young children in panic. Only the next day his wife received a message that he's ok and "somewhere in Ukraine". Thanks to his driver's profession, he avoided going inside the reactor building, what probably saved his health/life. Also, there was no official announcement of disaster until after few days later.
This is their best effort at making government transparent!
Anyway, the trend to have include some green plants in buildings is very positive to me. Not everything has to be made just from steel, concrete and glass.
Did you consider using OneDrive or Google Drive ? Something like http://www.duplicati.com/
Report on the Pew Poll: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/01...

Majorities of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan support the death penalty for leaving Islam

Not "other Muslim Nations" as the blog author claims.

And:

Pew notes that many respondents said sharia should apply only to Muslims and, just as importantly, that "Muslims differ widely in how they interpret certain aspects of sharia, including whether divorce and family planning are morally acceptable."
I find Visual Studio Code much better with plugins than Atom. Atom died after installing the Nuclide plugin suite and would not work until I uninstalled those plugins. Code on the other hand runs plugins in a separate thread meaning it does not tend to dies so easily. VS Code rocks!
About "displacing" people, honest question: why people who already live somewhere (but rent and don't own) should be privileged compared to people who have the same financial ability, but didn't live at said place before? Why is being "priced out" of same place you already live at perceived as something worse than not being able to afford to move into some neighborhood to begin with?

BTW, apartment that I live in right now is already below the market, and if the landlord decides to adjust the price next year when my contract expires, I'll have to move. I don't feel that I'm privileged to some special treatment just because I already live here though: free market is what it is.
I don't think this is going to solve the problems of poor quality chargers. Recalling the Google engineer testing large numbers of USB3.0 cables, his Chromebook was damaged because a bad cable reversed the wiring of the power and data lines. Just because your phone asks the charger for its signature doesn't mean it won't get max continuous voltage to its DATA_RETURN channel instead. This is an unnecessary complication that isn't going to solve any problems, just add new ones.
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Cursor keys support in Visual mode will just be a few lines of code to implement.
Cloud you open an issue so we can track them easily?
https://github.com/aioutecism/amVim-for-VSCode

Oh. ex-mode is not something I'm planing to implement.
They are often a lot easier to do with Cmd+Shift+P.
"Beyond that token tree, however, extensive green coverage (a thinner layer supporting mosses, succulents, herbs and grasses) is much more practical than intensive (roofs or balconies with shrubs and trees)."
Commenting on this post while I'm at a coffee shop myself.

If I had to pick one city for having the best coffee shops, it would probably be Tel Aviv.
The coffee is great, all coffee shops are laptop friendly (and gladly provide you with the wifi password), and people are very open to social interaction with strangers.
At any given moment you'll find a designer working on a logo, an architecture student reading a post blasting gentrification, entrepreneurs discussing their new startup, or freelancers looking for a break from working at home.
Tel Aviv coffee shops are also very dog friendly, and that's always a great conversation starter.

I often find that "could you watch my laptop while i go to the bathroom?" followed by "hey, what are you working on?" is usually the best way to get to know new people.

I even find that I'm a lot more productive when I work at a coffee shop instead of an office. A coffee shop provides with just enough distraction and people watching when you need to take a break, but not enough that you completely lose concentration and focus.
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They didn't do very well on HN until about a year and a half ago, as I noted in this essay: https://www.jboy.space/log/ssrc-digital-media-reflection.htm...
My father used to blast me for years for being on my laptop all the time. Today he actually spends more time with his laptop at coffee shops than I do.
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> Thieves can sell items for around a third of their retail value, according to the report, or for roughly half their value if they sell them to second hand shops.

I think even with no name brands, they'd still have to sell at a loss to be competitive with that kind of markdown. Hard to compete when the other guy's cost is $0.
This thread is full of nasty comments about sama and his blog post.

To those of you attacking him, remember that you're talking about a man who has already proven himself to be one of the most disruptive entrepreneurs SV has ever seen, despite still being relatively young. When Sam was a fresh Stanford dropout, he built Loopt, the very first location aware app, which spawned dozens of imitators, including Foursquare and Gowalla. It also doubled as a dating app popular amongst gay men and easily beat Grindr to market by a decade.

If sama says Jeremy's claim is baseless, then I'm inclined to believe him, on the strength of his reputation and accomplishments alone.

Edit: Could the downvoters at least explain themselves? Is defending YC or sama enough to deserve downvotes now?
Oh yeah, ddrescue rescues my ass once.

My macbook disk crashed, and my timemachine wasn't working for some time.. It was 200GB of data.

What I did was connect the disk to a linux machine, and use ddrescue for a month 24/7 to try and read the bad disk.

I lost 0 bytes.
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False, possibly:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XDBFUD9CTN2R/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...
These days, fucking up seems to be everything the UN peacekeepers are known for, though. The number of sexual assaults committed with impunity is staggering.

I don't recommend googling it, because some of it is so heinous beyond your wildest imagination.
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The real elephant in the room is that we have no right to preserve a game that we are entitled to entering public domain at some time, unless the copyright holder feels like it.
"Our great and noble intentions accidentally wiped out a bunch of people... but we swear we are the good guys!!!!"

I've seen hundreds of marketing types and executives prefer to chase their greed over recognizing the importance of accountability. Now, I'm witnessing altruistic types chase unfalsifiable humanist ideologies over recognizing the importance of accountability.

I can't tell if you assume the downtrodden are so stupid they'll accept any charlatan who spouts beautiful intentions no matter the actual cost or that the noble hearts are so special that they deserve freedom from consequence indefinitely. Without accountability, both conclusions are the foundation of atrocity.
Ahah, superb. I wasn't aware of that. Still good to bring attention to it.
My files from the 1970's were on magtape that was written to by a long-gone drive that was way out of spec. I threw it away. My next oldest files were from 1982 or so, and were on 8" PDP-11 floppies. My 11 was discarded long ago. I contacted an old friend, and he said he still had his, though it hadn't been powered up in years. Amazingly, it powered up, and there wasn't a single bad byte on my 30 year old floppies (!). He was able to recover it all for me.

I have most of the stuff since, though floppy backups were erratic. I copied the 5.25" floppies to CD, and then to hard drives, before discarding the old computers.

I try to save most files as jpg, pdf, mp3, mp4, or plain text, figuring those are the most future proof.
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Yes, if your heap is huge then code size savings don't matter much. I used to work with C++ apps that were routinely hundreds of megabytes in size though (giant servers that were fully statically linked). So code size isn't totally ignorable either.

WRT the theory, that depends what the heap consists of.

Imagine an app where memory usage is composed primarily of std::wstring, for example, because you want fast access to individual characters (in the BMP) and know you'll be handling multiple languages. And so your heap is made up of e.g. some sort of graph structure with many different text labels that all point to each other.

The JVM based app can benefit from three memory optimisations that are hard to do in C++ ... compressed OOPs, string deduplication and on-the-fly string encoding switches. OK, the last one is implemented in Java 9 which isn't released yet, but as we're theorising bear with me :)

Compressed OOPs let you use 32 bit pointers in a 64 bit app. Actually in this mode the pointer values are encoded in a way that let the app point to 4 billion objects not bytes, so you can use this if your heap is less than around 32 gigabytes. So if your graph structure is naturally pointer heavy in any language and, say, 20 gigabytes, you can benefit from this optimisation quite a lot.

String deduplication involves the garbage collector hashing strings and detecting duplicates as it scans the heap. As a String object points to the character array internally, that pointer can be rewritten and the duplicates collected, all in the background. If the labels on your graph structure are frequently duplicated for some reason, this gives you the benefits of a string interning scheme but without the need to code it up.

Finally the on-the-fly character set switching means strings that can be represented as Latin1 in memory are, with 16 bit characters only used if it's actually necessary. If your graph labels are mostly English but with some non-Latin1 text mixed in as well, this optimisation could benefit significantly.

Obviously, as they are both Turing complete, the C++ version of the app could implement all these optimisations itself. It could use 32 bit pointers on a 64 bit build, it could do its own string deduplication, etc. But then you have the same problem as you had with off-heap structures in Java etc: sure, you can write code that way, but it's a lot more pleasant when the compiler and runtime do it for you.
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Why not provide both GMT (whatever it means) and UTC for those who really want it? Doesn't have to be either-or.