skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also read the book, and what he describes is pretty much classic, straightforward bribery of foreign officials. There's a lot of embellishment by the author for the sake of hinting at broader conspiracies he didn't personally witness, and to aggrandize his own role in the matter.
What's the best place to follow news on data warehouse and databases?
I want to be updated on the most updated databases news and data warehouse. also i'm looking for best forums to read discussions and learn from it
I've heard you say that Rocky's Boots was one of your favorite computer games. Please, off the top of your head, what's your top-n list of inspiring games that you think people learning to program should play?

I've been playing Factorio [1] [2], which I think would resonate with your love of Rocky's Boots, cellular automata, queuing theory, visual programming, system dynamics and distributed control systems. It's in the spirit of John von Neumann's 29 state cellular automata [3] and universal constructor. [4]

[1] Factorio: https://www.factorio.com/

[2] HN Factorio discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266471

[3] John von Neumann's 29 state cellular automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton

[4] JvN Universal Constructor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
A nice tech jobs in a cushy air-conditioned office that lets you feed your family: Jobs like these don't grow on trees.
Interviewed at a company called Rakuten Loyalty in Boston a few years ago. At that time it was the exact same thing, a malware / adware browser toolbar company, and they also sold white label toolbars. Took me the entire interview to figure out what they actually did. Their website [0] now has very little information about what they actually do, with a generic contact form. But an archive.org [1] of their old website shows the truth. Funny how they hide what they actually do now.

[0] http://www.rakutenrewards.com/
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121216021038/http://rakutenloy...
Absolutely. It's the only OS where I can be certain that I know where everything is and how everything works. It has few deviations from the Unix architecture and the ports repository enforces adherence to the filesystem layout.

I don't buy into the "increased performance" though. Every well done benchmark I've seen is at least several yaers out of date, and my personal benchmarks usually put linux ahead on any sort of operations that include networking. Not to say FreeBSD doesn't perform well, it does.

Simplicity is key.
Even then, they're not going to install am extension just so you can track them.
The problem is that when some manager asks to work on something unethical, the technical people fall over eachother in trying to implement it first.

Lesson: not everything which can be implemented should. And elegant solutions to unethical problems are still ugly.
I sexually identify as an open floor plan.
Planning a company retreat
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I worked at a web development studio. One of our clients was MannaTech, basically a marketing company that sold snake-oil to parents of sick children, claiming it could "cure" everything from cancer to down syndrome. They were under investigation by the Texas DA at one point.

We tracked our work hourly, so I donated all the money I made from that particular work to St. Jude's hospital, which actually does cure cancer in children, but it still irks me to this day.
The technology looks like it might be able to, though the focus is finger-on-finger interactions so that there is haptic feedback, which "air keyboard" doesn't provide.

OTOH, if it is precise enough, you might be able to make a virtual chorded keyboard / keyer [0] with it using finger-on-finger or finger-on-hand gestures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
What are the best way to get RoR projects?
Ever since Elance merged with UpWork I've found it's been significantly more difficult to source good RoR projects.

What sources have you had success with, recently?

I've personally had some success, believe it or not with Reddit job boards. Please share your success stories!
There was no change in focus per se. The company was an e-commerce site, and the parent company was going to simply be another vendor. They were using our in-house technology to power their external (to us) e-commerce presence, besides the placement of their products on our site.

However, their products started to receive more and more focus on our site. If their highly profitable products had competitors in certain categories, we would eliminate those other products. SEO was optimized for those products. The underlying tech focus did not change. The UI team continued working on UIs, mobile teams on the app, etc.

MLM was/is designed to fail. The barriers of entry for any form of compensation were incredibly high. If you satisfied some requirement of the program, there would be another one that was not achieved, invalidating any profits. I had zero insights on the parent company's network, but I simply do not see how a new person could make any money at all.

Although our location, at least those in tech, had nothing to do with the MLM program, except for putting the products on the site (through the standard vendor process), it was still uneasy to be part of. I was not starving. I had a choice to not be part of it, so I exercised that choice. I should add the MLMs are completely legal under strict federal guidelines. Nothing illegal was happening, it was a bit too immoral for my personal standards.
I want to upgrade my desktop/gaming box from a 5yo but maxed out Gulftown i7-970, but this really isn't terribly compelling. I guess I wait another generation (throw a new GPU in there, but nothing else)?

Dual CPU Xeon seems better (mmm, ECC), although faster RAM is nice, and I'm not sure what a "good" workstation board is. Is there a market for ~silent/water cooled 2P Xeon workstations still? No need to overclock, but something quiet is nice -- big diameter fans at minimum.
U.S. newspapers file FTC complaint against adblockers
Excellent point if anyone can get access to your home directory files.

I work around the security issues by not backing up history and having encrypted file systems on all of my Linux laptops. I don't save history on my servers.
Full vendor list:

Preordering has started.

'For delivery in July'

CPC Farnell for bulk (school etc.) orders: http://cpc.farnell.com/bbc-microbit

Other stockists:

Kitronik: https://kitronik.co.uk/microbitpreorder

Pimoroni: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/microbit

The Pi Hut: https://thepihut.com/collections/microbit

Technology Will Save Us: https://www.techwillsaveus.com/shop/microbit/

Sciencescope: https://sciencescope.uk/product/bbc-microbit
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Your setup must be near perfect then. There was an unacceptable level of noise and disappearing fingers once you rotated past 30 degrees of level in the original versions.

Orion is almost magically better.
Yes, definitely. One thing that I have found to be very comic-positive, is finding the archives and having the archives. Seriously, just knowing that you have the complete set of the comic/serial format, makes all the difference in the world.

I'm a fan of HEAVY METAL and METAL HURLANT magazines, myself. I just love the fantasy genre. I could stare at the lines of Moebius for hours. It is delightful to realize the effort put into the works.

But you have to find your niche. Not everyone is down with DEN. For some, HM/MH magazines are little more than titty-magz. (Not so, btw. Is Fantasy.)

Anyway, when you've got the full series, the experiences become really complete. Serialization is broken. Route around it.
OP here: really worth watching the embedded video on this topic. Viridis is born out of an awesome, intense deep-dive into research on human vision and perception.
So far, so good for NASA's inflatable module
From a therapist’s office wall
Fibonacci: You’re Also Doing It Wrong
U.S. Developing Technology to Identify and Track Hackers Worldwide
Nobody really understands Southeast Asia
Sorry for that Sir_carma, I just liked your work and didn't think I'd cause that trouble. I'd suggest you look into CloudFlare [1].

[1] : http://cloudflare.com
letting politicians keep all the money has not worked either
I'd say that speeding up learning times for image related "AI" technology are important as well. Think of it..my nephew (1.5 year old) sees a cat just two times and is able to identify cats, whereas these neural nets needs huge training sets + performant machines and gpus.
Do you feel better after trying to be passive aggressively insulting? Let me guess, you have no comprehension for the fact that your comment is precisely the kind of infantile tantrum I was referring to; in the absence of argument or fact, you resort to flaccid attempts at insult to make yourself feel better in an attempt at abating the discomfort that comes from the cognitive dissonance of reality penetrating the artificial boundaries of your self-delusion.

Don't worry, I don't expect you to understand that and very much expect the same kind of defensive reaction you just exhibited. Don't worry, you can continue fooling yourself into believing you are correct.
You definitely can watch tv in a more active way and see underlying themes in most shows, even if they're unintentional.
Might as well say "because I watch Netflix, what I make would not turn out so pretty".
> need to be multiprocess, which it cannot as an embedded library

It actually can, it's just not ideal and leads to a lot of lock contention.
If you find yourself doing a series of `cd` and `ls` commands frequently, I feel like you might be using `cd` and tab completion ineffectively.

Instead of doing:

ls
cd foo/
ls
cd bar/
ls
cd baz/

You can do:

ls
cd foo/<tab><tab>bar/<tab><tab>baz/

This isn't what it will look like, it's just the key sequence (if this doesn't make sense let me know and I'll try to explain better). <tab><tab> will list all the possible completions, which is equivalent to an ls, without having to type in an ls and then another cd.

You can frequently avoid even more `cd`/`ls` shenanigans by judiciously using `pushd`.
> If using the API is fair use, how does this affect programs using libraries licensed under the GPL?

If you use the library, you're using - executing - the implementation, not just the interface. That's not covered by this case, and you can't ignore the GPL's restriction on linking.

The analogy of this case would be if you kept the same function signatures of the library, but re-implemented it. Can you do that without violating the GPL? This case says "yes".
Comments like this are exactly why people are afraid to release projects to the public and contribute to open source.
Burlington - 40 minutes from toronto
Jr Web dev - Started at 40k. After 1 year, now I get 43k. I have 1.5 year experience.
"... I knew and had friendships with people who were far richer than I was: whose net worth was $10M or $30M or more, who could retire today and have a very comfortable life anywhere in the world. But they continued to work. I can only guess that they found more enjoyment in work than I did..."

I love hiking. But sometimes you end up on a freaking grueling hike. It's hot, the weather's going south, you're above the treeline, and so on.

Ever stop and wonder why you're doing it? Why not just turn around? Heck, going downhill is a lot easier.

Sometimes when you get emotionally wrapped up in the middle of doing something tough, it becomes extremely important to stay with it, simply because it's tough. The pain and misery of the thing becomes its own reward.
But for those three months you had no idea whether what they were doing was moral or not, and you didn't check.
"is wether or not you ask me any questions"

wether.

Who cares there are plenty of places that will hire you without all this "super smart and get things done" cliché.

More trust should be given to younger employees just starting out. They might still provide lots of value but not need to tick off a certain % of clichés valued by a senior dev who think they know the correct way.

“I use this test on all levels of developers, but my criteria is stricter the more senior I expect you to be.”

Who would really want to work for someone who treats you in such a subordinate way.

A lot of the time the personality issues are with the super arrogant hiring developers at companies. I had this issue trying to get jobs out of uni, being able to code but not knowing the trends.

If you answer the correct questions (led by what is fashionable according to top developers/industry figures) and fit into their view of what a great developer is then you will get the job.

It’s almost like you could come up with a stock set of answers about subjects to pass (clean code, unit tests, maintainability, logging).

What about the project which provides your pay check, isn't getting to grips with that just as important?
whenever I am looking at a company, I google it, I scrape Glassdoor, I look for news articles about it. "How do you make money" is usually on the menu of "things I specifically care about". I'd advise others do do the same. Learn well what the company you're talking to does to earn a buck and who they are beholden to.

I avoid adtech, myself.
I'm just making an observation -- that's all. Looks like I hit it right on the mark.
I'm shocked at how low that seems given the wealth of your city...but then I looked at the T.O. market in general and pay doesn't look that great.

Beautiful place though -- I miss it.
I think "the cloud" is making people forget how simple some common features actually are. The default assumption seems to be that it needs to be in the cloud because it's too hard to do locally.
Hah, wow. I went to JS meetups at their office without realizing that.
What do you think of the solution?
Would you give out your dashboard url and wifi config in exchange for a fast solution to get your dashboard displayed on a Full HD screen?
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> Guardian of the GPL

Heh
Common Core Is the New Black
Looking inside the MySQL 5.7 document store
Seven Scientists Describe Seven Kinds of Aging
Has anything happened on this since it was announce a year ago?
I love the indentation. Much easier to read than a bunch of nested ifs and whiles and good to see a lack of outdated comments inside the method body. So a line-by-line read of that code seemed quite enjoyable to me.
>>>>slavery is fine, rape is fine, beating your wife is fine

>>Jesus in Matthew 5:21-22 explains that calling someone a 'fool' is equivalent to murder relative to the /actual standard/ so slavery, rape, beating, &c. are going to be hard to explain. For more on this type of perspective you can look into Anabaptist theology.

This does nothing to resolve the simple questions: is slavery, rape, beating your wife wrong? It's a simple societal question these days, but when the bible was being written, the authors went to great lengths to describe the systems and rules around which all of those were indeed acceptable. To our eyes and ears that is ridiculous! There is no system or rules for owning people; it's just wrong. Doesn't matter if you marry the person you rape, it's still wrong.

So, again, religion, in this particular case Christianity, regardless if we ever get to the question of objective v subjective morality, has a problem. It has clear and demonstrated instances where it is on the wrong side of the moral debate which inherently makes the religion objectively wrong. Any purported religion designed by a higher power whose purpose is to set guiding principles and rules by which our lives are to be lived, governed and judged has to be, by definition, never worse/lower than the society. It always has to outpace the moral landscape of society. By definition and, you know, common sense.

>>>>Making a claim about what is good/bad is something we can judge, particularly as society advances.

>>What is moral doesn't change, or you would have Relativism.

So, stating it another way. Is slavery ok, objectively? You have a problem if it isn't. It means Christianity is wrong. If you say it is, you have an entirely different problem because we as a society have moved beyond this concept.

>>>>Our modern moral code, subjective or objective, is "better"

>>This society did not spring from a vacuum. Then Wesleyan theologians led Abolitionist efforts; now we "know" slavery is wrong. Like the Personalist Project puts it "Those who repudiate God cannot preserve the personalist affirmation of the incomparable worth of each person, though they may for a time live by the light of a setting sun."

Skirts the issue entirely. Is slavery wrong? Has it always been wrong?

>>>>We know this. It's undisputed fact that owning people is wrong.

>>Indeed. This type of knowledge falls under self-evident truth, the same way we know that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That we universally, inherently are positive about these natural revelations either points to something or they are collective delusions.

Again, skirts the issue. Is slavery wrong? Has it always been wrong?
It's interesting how for decades, the story of Saudi Arabia recycling US petrodollars, i.e., funding the US deficit by buying US Treasuries with proceeds of its crude oil sales (mostly to the US), while the US sweetened the deal by providing the Saudis with military equipment and supplies, remained entirely in the conspiracy realm, and how with this fascinating Bloomberg story this "theory" now becomes fact.
Flowcharts are code. Pseudocode is a code.
105,000k (before taxes) + bonus at a bank.

Works out to taking home 5200 CAD per month.
Billionaire Branding Mistakes
I visited Limewire's offices, once. Three story office in Tribeca, with giant kitchens that were bigger than my apartment, game rooms, the works.

It seems to me that the more ambiguous your business strategy is, the more you have to show off to convince others that it isn't.
But again, who draw the line ? I don't feel threaten by somebody saying that to me on the net. I don't censor it even on my comments. Maybe somebody will feel threaten by something about going to "see what've done with your shitty new restaurant". Are you going to remove that too ?

And are you really sure the sure the line will not be moved after ? Because this is such an opportunity for politics. But also just for any entities with a moral or economic agenda.

And will the censorship be done by humans ? Or will machine will stop a quotation from a book or a movie containing it ?
You can install owntracks (http://owntracks.org/) on your phone, and configure it to publish the battery level (as well as your location) to an mqtt broker.
Interesting conflation of "hate speech" with "supporting terror" in the article.
Whenever I work on this side project, my relationship ends shortly after
Pretty much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14
I'm excited that they're now based on a Firefox branch that supports Subresource-Integrity. This allows websites to add hashes of externally called resources, like JS or CSS files, to let the browser determine if they've been modified.
US State Department Issues European Travel Alert
Grokking Algorithms Is Out
When I was young and first dialed up to the budding Internet I somehow found myself making modding tools for games, including voxel editors for Tiberian Sun. A few years back I found some exes and they still ran in Wine: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/69583927490/i-was...

Thanks got reawakening fond memories :D
I'd love to hear more. Where you married? What was it like for you spouse? If not, what was the dating scene like in 82?

Did you travel around any? What are the most interesting parts of the country? Did you ever make it to Mecca?

How good are you at recognizing family names and power connections? Did that come with time?

How did people in different parts of the country view each other?

I just returned from a week in Jeddah and Riyadh. Here are some photos from a fancy jail. Housing some of the 5000 terrorist/jihadists in a re-integration program. Think about that, the jihadists get the nice jail, because they are rehabilitatable:
http://www.daviddegner.com/albums/terrorist-rehab-in-saudi-a...
As an ex-Muslim, I am concerned they're gonna classify criticism of Islam as hate speech or "racism" and remove it. :(
How many years experience ?
> In other words, even in a conforming implementation, the same pointer might cast to two different integer values.

If you're porting to that type of system, you will be keenly aware of this. The problem can be solved.

On the Intel 8086, every address has 4096 ways of referring to it by some combination of segment:offset. A segment is 64 kilobytes wide, and the segment: part of the address is "paragraph" (16 byte block) aligned. 65536/16 = 4096. For instance address 0x1234 can be referenced as 0123:0004, or 0122:0014 and so on.

However, there is a unique underlying address.

A pointer value can be normalized (using nonportable code, of course) to use, say, the largest possible segment value and the smallest possible offset. The resulting value can then be hashed.

Another way to deal with it on 8086 might be to use a "far" pointer, and calculate its offset from a "far" null pointer:

(far char *) ptr - (far char *) 0;

This should produce the physical address as an integer.

So that is to say, the concept of hashing an address is sound; only using "pointer" to mean "address" is not maximally portable. An implementation of pointer hashing can be ported to such architectures by some nonportable code, if necessary.

If you care about such portability, wrap the "pointer to integer address" logic in a function and implement that function as necessary.
Yeah, this jumped out at me too. I'm not very reassured about such morally dubious characters working for companies that control most of our digital lives.
I interviewed three times at a company once which didn't seem to have a clear business model. Only in the last interview with the CEO did I realize he was running a ponzi scheme.
Why would it have to be wording already in the standard? Does each phrasing in the standard have to appear more than once?
> There could also be a simpler causal link: books and lucrative jobs could both caused by higher family socio-economic status.

ISTR in the last few years seeing similar research that controlled for most typical measures of SES that are associated with positive outcomes (parents income, parents educational attainment, etc.) which found that growing up with more books in the home had a positive impact on a number of outcome measures (leveling off once at about 100 books.)

I suspect that there is some degree in which it is serving as a proxy for as-yet-unidentified socio-economic, genetic, and parenting style and parental personality traits, but I also suspect even once all those were identified and taken into account, simply having books handy has some positive effects.
Why? Every time KDE (or even GNOME) undergoes major changes, so many tweaks are also broken. One of the reasons the OS X UI/Ux is so consistent and reliable and mature is because its developers aren't saying "f it, start over" every few years.

And there are bugs and annoying aspects to Aqua, it's not perfect, but it is stable.
Interesting point. How can anybody know? If I have a penis, under today's standards I can claim to be female. If I have caucasian ancestry, can I claim to be black? Why not?