skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling that naming a course "home economics" and including subjects like how to cook and clean and run a household is "too lame" for students these days. A better name might be something along the lines of "how to not end up in a van down by the river." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o
Embed any HTML into tpc.Googlesyndication.com
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"Blood in the Water"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42uIBcjviU
We were looking for statisticians.

Still not a great question, maybe. But you grab whatever is in your bag.
I'm sure they were, and I'm sure they were looking at Yahoo! as their benevolent employer when they did so and never for a second thought that some patent troll might end up owning their work and suing others - more like themselves - in order to make back their 'investment'.
> it's not an irrational position for them to take.

It's about as rational as decreeing that it must not rain on Fridays, and then proceeding to fire the nearest person every time it does.

They do have some very good and rational reasons why they wish programming was not a creative job. When they assume they can change reality by wishing it, they completely destroy their people's (outsourced or not) productivity, throwing the cost of everything into the stratosphere, and the quality way under the floor.
However, the majority of foreigners entering both the UK and US do so without a visa, as far as I'm aware. In the UK case, typically no fingerprints are taken, whereas in the US they are.
> If I try to spoof my email to make it look like I'm sending it from @facebook.com, your webmail provider will tell you this email might be fraudulent (and likely place it straight in the spam folder)

I'm looking at the headers of an automated message sent by Facebook (so-and-so shared a post), received by Gmail:

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) XXX@facebookmail.com;
spf=fail (google.com: domain of XXX@facebookmail.com does not designate ### as permitted sender)

This suggests to me DKIM and SPF are not weighted heavily to determine the legitimacy of a message from Facebook (or "Facebook") and filtering would be based more on the body of the message, as it often is, including the URL you specify. I don't see how Facebook email is less secure than email in general, email in general is not secure.
> compelled, coerced, or bullied

A warrant?
So let this be a lesson in ROI

4.7m to 21B is more impressive
I see no scandal. Not using an escort is surprisingly easy (- I am flattered, madam, but I will pass tonight). And I guess using one could be surprisingly pleasant (we need to invent an act called the full Spitzer). The women were also dressed to the nines and gorgeous - so they were definitely not an eyesore or brought down the level of the party.

And 100 women taken charge of their sexuality, turned it into profitable business, invited by a female founder - it will be hard to create outrage.
For various values of "works". I can read it, but the map doesn't work, the survey doesn't work, and I can't see any results.
What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?
What would you suggest instead that would decrease the false negatives without allowing the false positives to explode? The parent poster named a couple of different things s/he tried that didn't work.

Sometimes the best available option is mediocre. ("It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.")
It seems to me that sometimes it's not even about what the company is or does (like being a car company or supplier/whatever Amazon calls itself now) but just purely motivated by the market prices. Like the motivation is to affect the stock price, everything else is just tangential.
What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
The front-end community is responsible for forcing it to be used on most sites even for basic functionality like reading an article.
Botched Steve McCurry Print Leads to Photoshop Scandal
Tough Times Don’t Last but Tough Startups Do
If you're not caught flouting their laws or being rude then, in my experience, they're all fine. The US is the most intrusive - fingerprints and photo every time you enter, but it's only a problem if you find it a problem (if you see what I mean).

What probably didn't help this lady is that she was being really quite rude. I don't know any country where low level officials take kindly to that. You REALLY don't want to be rude to US border agents. I mean, they have signs that say not to make jokes as they won't take kindly to that sort of behaviour.

For some reason my spellchecker thinks I've spelt behaviour incorrectly (and spelt). How colonial.
Stupid DevOps Tricks: Executable IT Docs with Ansible
If the engine is still operating, you might be able to steer:

https://www.cirruspilots.org/copa/safety_programs/b/pull_ear...

(although obviously most of the times you would want to use the chute is because the engine has died!)
Don't follow your passion–but bring it with you
I hate that one because I think Scala basically gets it right, and so I can't really give a good answer to least favourite feature in it. It's my favourite language precisely because I don't think there's anything massively wrong with it!
I think it was more the lead trying to be a Steve jobs figuere (and mostly failing at creating actually good products)... The first season culminates in him seeing a Mac for the first time, and realizing everything he's done so far is not even in the same ball park. But it was a good show - and got much better in the second season if you stuck with it.
This reads like something a freshman college student would write.

You're not going to scale to an 80 million pics per day service[0] on a $10,000.00 backend.

[0] Instagram is not an app, but a service.
Actually, the questions discussed in Ronald Coase's "Theory of the Firm" are alive and well

Central planning and command economies work really well inside corporations, such as Apple or Google. They don't make internal decisions by hosting mini-markets and pitting their workers against each other, they have departments who study demographics and departments that study research and logistics and so on.

Tankies claiming the fall of communism is just around the corner are in the same bucket of "bad" as free market libertarians who adore corporations.
How did you find react native? Did you learn on the job? Wanting to take the dive but some articles seem to mention RN's teething pains
Stanford rape victim's statement read in full by New York Daily News staffers
When Madison Avenue Met Broadway: The World of Industrial Musicals
Enough has been said about bad treatment by border guards about every country on earth so don't need to repeat it but I had the following exchange with a Canadian visa officer.

Visa Officer:Your Name? How can I help you
Me: Dr XYZ. I would like to apply for a visitor visa to Canada
Visa Officer: Why would you like to go to Canada
Me: I have been invited to speak at a conference
Visa Officer: Hmm I see.
Me: Is there a problem?
Visa Officer: You see, you are not allowed to do public speaking on a visitor visa. You will have to apply a visa for public speaking which takes longer and requires additional formalities and checks.
Me: Oh, I see. I am surprised that is the case, I go around the world to conferences and it seems unusual in Canada.
Visa Officer: Can I ask you a question
Me: Sure
Visa Officer (with a smile): Would you say that your main purpose of applying the visa is to attend the conference and you will be sharing your professional and not political views.
Me: Yes. Absolutely!
Visa Officer: You should then get a visitor visa which will be ready tomorrow after 4. Remember, when asked say that you are attending the conference. Enjoy Canada
Doesn't that risk hiring someone who says the right high-level things (maybe they've read some books) but can't actually do anything at the concrete implementation level?
Been to both countries a couple of times (I'm Dutch). Fingerprints got taken every time at the US, never happened to me at the UK border.
Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications
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That s right but it s not new Old Chinese texts never used punctuation marks and Chinese people read them just fine

Why putting a useless dot when you can just start a new sentence with an upper case letter We don t need question mark in English either Why use it

It s already been happening in programming languages too Some arcane languages use parenthesis and some arcane languages use semicolon Hey new languages use white spaces and that s enough

One last point from the article All those punctuation marks should be used for useful meanings

Be gone.
I'm very interested in this area, and for me it's a couple of different factors.

From the engineering side:

1. There is a model that is built of what is a valid screenplay, and that can grow and be enhanced over a time. What gets generated is an 'acceptable' output.

2. Lots of extraction of storytelling and adding all the features and constructs to the model (through algorithm or manually).

3. Representing that knowledge in a form that makes sense, in English.

4. You really get to play with the pieces of what makes language and the composition of language work rather than just consuming it, which is sort of the same as authoring under your own power.

5. The act of carrying a tune. Lots of AI's right now are building a model with a look at the next step which is great- but combining that with building a structure with a beginning middle and an end is much harder.

From the output/end result side:

1. Lack of culture preconceptions- an AI doesn't know what the last Marvel movie was, an AI never saw Back to the Future, an AI can't quote Star Trek or Gilmore Girls references off the top of their head (unless they were informed), an AI doesn't know about WWII, the Crusades, or other historical events, lots of things like that.

2. Lack of social norms- developing a morality system for the end output is very difficult so the AI author doesn't know what is appropriate or isn't.

3. The act of serendipity. Just like doing a materials science or engineering optimization through computers you can have a sequence of events that come together in an unexpected way. Instead of getting a interesting new material or alloy, you end up getting something that is a valid output of the model with all of the warts for and against.

4. It fits the form of a 'single room/closed room' movie such as 12 Angry Men. The entire universe as it is known by an AI is considered when it constructs a script.

This ends up forming for me at least the same kind of intrigue as watching sports or a well written mystery. It is a story told within in a certain framework and there is always a chance for something truly special to come from it.
I had an "economics" class in school that was mostly a personal finance class. It boiled down to "credit cards will destroy you", which isn't a bad lesson.
>Page reloads increases wait times, and depending on use case, drastically increases page size.

Considering the sizes of the javascript libraries loaded by all of the websites, I find it unlikely that the page size for a static page will be larger.

The average size of a single page is larger than a doom install now. That's not because of orders of magnitude more of HTML. It's because of the 15 different tracking JS libs, analytics libs, effects libs, etc that are piled into every site.
"We change font size on Chrome and now all you can see on Firefox is the letter F."

They're doing something funky. They can call it a "2016 website" but the problems described in the article don't really make sense to me as anything but design-related. Now, I know that you can't design your way out of every problem, but if they're going to use IE6 as a hellmouth and not IE8, they may be using a greater number of bad practices than necessary.
You'd have to ask the government if the conference is a qualifying arts activity (maybe they consider it something else).

The requirements don't make a lot of sense to me, but it is clear enough that obtaining the visa beforehand, just to be sure, is the path of least resistance (and the conference should probably take the lead in figuring it out).
It's cool to be a "nerd" if you're attractive with quirky yet charming social skills.

Portlandia did a good bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EMXRAWWiBw
Safeguards Privacy - "Firefox is made under the principle that security and privacy are fundamental and must not be treated as optional."

Mozilla is certainly treating the cookie management dialog box, which has been broken for years, as optional. Same with accepting Mike Perry's patches and various other examples.

If Mozilla could actually do better in terms of privacy and security features than a handful of Tor Browser Bundle devs, they wouldn't need efforts like this and their work would speak for itself. I still use Mozilla code every day and am grateful for their work, but this sort of rhetoric is unimpressive.
Note: I'm not an advocate of central planning. However, I do believe that technology could make it viable. Our purchases in markets are used as inputs to companies so they can plan and allocate resources. I don't see any reason this sort of interaction couldn't be emulated by people giving input as to what they desire. We also have to admit that the USSR and China saw possibly unprecidented growth with centralized economic planning, although I wouldn't really argue that's necessarily a good thing and came at great costs. Personally I believe in more of a transitional approach by converting all corporations to cooperatives and allowing communities to democratically manage property, and seeing where that leads us.
HR06 grad here, went from making 25k at a restaurant to 110k at my first job out of HR. Obviously if you're working in the field beforehand the increase won't be as much, but far from horseshit for most grads.
I'm Scottish, and I absolutely detest traveling through Heathrow. The security and border controls there are some of the most oppressive I've ever encountered.

Depending on where you're flying, that could include multiple baggage searches and multiple biometric photos (flying OUT of the UK, I counted three - security, a secondary queue before entering the terminal concourse, and at the gate). Questioning why you're being photographed (let alone asking about data retention policies) just invites further scrutiny and questioning.

Recently I had my bag emptied (I wasn't allowed to unpack it carefully) and was questioned very rigorously as to why I was carrying so many cables (I had a micro-USB cable to charge my phone, a laptop charger, and an HDMI cable to watch some Netflix at the hotel). I had to justify each item in my bag.

The attitude is the worst part. I feel like I'm being treated like a criminal and have to prove that I'm not. Every time I travel in or out, I feel the anxiety rise. It's difficult to explain.

That's not to suggest Glasgow Intl Airport is much better. Flying to the US last month, I check-in queues for AA were enormous. Some staff (I assumed they were customer service agents trying to keep the queuing travellers happy) were walking up and down, chatting with people.

They cheerily asked "Where are you going?". "Oh that's exciting. Have you been before? I love that city! Did you have to save up much spending money for an 8 day trip? What are you planning to do when you're there?"

As the questions went on, I got more suspicious.

"What do you do for a living? Oh that sounds exciting. Did you grow up in Glasgow? What about your fiancée, what does she do? Oh, you got engaged in the US? How long was that trip and what did you see when you were there?"

At the end, the guy asked for my passport and attached a "Security cleared" sticker to it.

I'd been surreptitiously interviewed and subject to behavioural profiling by staff from a contractor named ICTS [1]. It wasn't a good feeling. I felt deceived. It felt like they were putting a friendly face on trying to catch me out.

This only seemed to be happening in the AA line, and I've never been subject to this sort of interview in the past.

Does this actually work? I'd assume that any determined terrorist or trouble-maker would have a big smile and a well-rehearsed story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICTS_International
Netscape at that time was very buggy I couldn't print to a HP laser jet on windows via a netware print queue. It's why I gave up on it.
"The main design idea behind Unix is composition. Uniformity enables composition, which means the overall system is smaller and doesn't collapse under its own weight. That means it survives, which we have observed empirically."

The main design idea behind UNIX was trimming MULTICS to fit into a PDP-11 with a new architecture. More effective composition was already demonstrated by Dijkstra's THE, Burroughs B5000, and even MULTICS. Their method, an unsafe language + heavyweight composition, led to a system that was both enabled for composition and quite unreliable/insecure. Later, Wirth pulled on pre-UNIX work to show how much better it could be done with Modula-2 etc. Nastiness of system hid away, type/interface checks, and otherwise just programming modules calling functions in modules. That's composition done right.

It's no surprise that best technologies around improving reliability, maintenance, throughput, etc always involved working around rather than with UNIX model.

" That means it survives, which we have observed empirically."

Empirically, we've observed COBOL on System/360 survived with other mainframe systems. As did Windows monolithic kernels and apps. DOS was all over the place. What survived tells you more about economics and sociology than whether an approach is technically superior.

"Lisp is not a better Unix."

http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1.htm

Yet, UNIX still can't do all of the above despite matching or exceeding many items on list through labor put in. Those rarely crashed, had OS + apps in same language, took you right to OS code with OS-related error, and let you patch live systems to keep them running. On top of LISP advantages like incremental, per-function compilation. I'm a Linux user that doesn't code LISP. Even I still see that UNIX + C architecture can't touch LISP architectures in flexibility and safety combination. And, no, that's not a simpler problem at all given how many PhD's have tried, failed, or only approximated such results in UNIX + C. It's just a simpler, consistent, designed-in approach to solving hard problems instead of scaling up a platform that chopped down ALGOL and MULTICS to fit on a PDP-11 plus some arbitrary changes.
> Tech people on Windows use Notepad.

Tech people on Windows use Notepad++ when they can.

Vim is rarely used outside of editing config files on appliances.
Lol. The 'Visa Waiver' is a visa. It's just an electronic one.
It's not as widely supported as MySQL (though that is changing over time). Until very recently it lacked UPSERT functionality.
No, I blame the tool because it's a poor tool. And I'm not using them wrong, because I'm not using them. I do native apps, because I care about my user's experience.
You don't have any contact information in your profile, but is there any chance you'd be willing to talk about what the process was like for you to sell this?
I think I have a better solution. How about keeping HTML/JS and lose the bidirectional protocols used to track you.

As a side project I am starting to work on a non-HTTP browser (and non-websocket, non-webrtc, etc). The first "protocol" will be IPFS. Download all of the HTML/JS/images and store all the cookies/localStorage you want, you can't send the information back to any server. Heck, you can't even know you have a page view. Now to make it more powerful, I will offer a JS API to pages that let's them use the mutation features of IPFS, but it is strictly opt-in and the permissions are very narrow and clear to the user (think specific oauth scopes).
I don't think Adobe supports CS6 anymore, but it sure looks like the desktop platform supports it even when the developer doesn't.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Lives in the Future
This is mostly a C library list. OpenSSL, LibreSSL, etc. are all pure C (not C++).
I can appreciate the sentiment here, but have you ever actually befriended a sociopath or psychopath? Do you know how to tell the difference?
I've had three die in the past 3 years: one on a desktop PC, two in phones.

I switched to bluetooth and lived with a muddier sound.
Aegean Yachting – as blue as it gets
This is delusional.
Depending on how open you are to ppssibly over-analyzing things, it is part of a grander discussion of the last century that states, very simply, "robots are people too".

Many people believe that creativity and emotion are the big things that are inherently "human", and cannot be replicated by a computer. This may or may not be true, no one has any strong evidence for either side. What is gaining more traction though is the concept that computers are not human but still have "experiences" and "culture", that while the things produced by an AI may be unintelligible to us, it could make perfect sense to a computer. (A fair assumption, given that a computer made the thing in question.)

In the same way that astronomers who sell books will pose scenarios claiming that intelligent life may exist outside our neighborhood but we would never know because it's so (ahem) "alien" to human intelligence, computers may have an intelligence that is so unlike ours that we may fail to perceive it.

This opens the door however to deeper existential, spiritual, and philosophical debates regarding our roles as creators, what responsibilities that may entail, and what rights a computer should have (if any), as well as what constitutes "life". Those topics, however, are for philosophers and science fiction writers, less so this internet commenter.

The recent post [1] about AI encoded Philip K Dick film adaptations, as well as this Radio Lab episode [2] and this Idea Channel episode [3] should offer more information towards stance I have laid out. You could also synthesize much of the AI centered Sci Fi works of the last 50 years, which between the love stories and laser battles offers a great deal of insight.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766063

[2]: http://www.radiolab.org/story/137407-talking-to-machines/

[3]: https://youtu.be/S5AeqYfcb7w
Then ensure that it can't communicate with the domain it's loaded from.
Why does it take over 40 hours to implement features, which have been implemented for millions of times and have existing solutions and code in the Internet. Authorization (Social and Email) seems to be one or two hours of work with existing solutions.
You can implement it yourself if you forget it. Or use a counter (urgh). Or ask whether there's a library function that does that.
Again, Where Is the AT&T Fiber?
That sounds better than loading megabytes of JS so I can read a news article doesn't it?
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From her screenshot (with pretty different wording) and the footer ("Last updated: 9 June 2016") it's clear that that page has substantially changed since, which is unfortunate (although definitely clearer now!).
>Hey new languages use white spaces and that s enough

Some of those languages also make you "communicate new ideas" on new lines, makes for better organization of ideas than simply depending on capitalization.
Unless you define the tables as unlogged. In that case they'll only be written to disk on a regular shutdown and/or if there's not enough space in shared buffers.
As a personal system, FOIA doesn't apply, that's the complaint about using a personal system at all, yes? She only deleted emails that were personal and not related to her work as Secretary, the problem is she decided what was personal or not as opposed to an impartial third party.
Have you heard of metadata collection? If they are indeed collecting only metadata, then they can't be sure what you have been talking about.