skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give me a break, I am not complaining about advertising period. Ars has always had advertising and it used to be fine. But over time the ads have gotten more and more intrusive. There's more and more auto play ads with sound, and ads that take over part of the screen, etc.

The lack of subscriptions are probably a symptom of the editorial quality going down. You can say there's no evidence of it, but when lots of people complain about it that is evidence of it. I was a long time Ars reader and the b.s. finally got too thick that I have stopped going to the site regularly in the last year.

It used to be a site for intelligent, balanced articles about tech. Now it's got shills like DrPizza who basically just reprint whatever Microsoft's PR department emails him.
I'm just curious: are you arguing from that it's a stupid law from a moral perspective or a pragmatic one? I might disagree with these policies philosophically, but I've never seen evidence that they were anything but ruthlessly efficient at achieving their desired ends.
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My imperfect understanding would be that, at best, you could convey your frustration to someone well removed from your work environment.

Frustration is rarely a constructive thing to convey. It may seem okay at times, but even if it's objectively justifiable, it's going to leave an impression on people.

Too many of those, and everything you say is viewed through that lens.
I was contributing to more popular projects, between 2.5k to 4k stars on GH, I just gave up and stopped doing it for free when users just open issues like 'I requested this feature 5 months ago and it's still not implemented. what are you waiting for?', after reading 8th of such issues in 3 projects I just left all of them the same day and started working on my commercial project. Working on OSS where every idiot can open an issue for free and complain or think we're their slaves if waste of time and energy. Never. again. The worst were users or forkers who asked me to change license of a project from MIT to GPL because they would like it more... eh.
After learning about a few aspects of Japanese real estate (depreciating houses, near abandoned properties in the countryside), I wonder what it would take for a foreign hacker commune to basically buy up an empty village in a remote part of Japan (cheap!) and get going there?
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I (and I think we all) have worked with crappy open source and good proprietary, as well as good open source and unusable proprietary software. But one thing you said stays true: "at least I can fix a problem or implement a feature that is lacking". And I think that is the main reason people stick to open source.
I think this is awesome. We need more communities built around people. Suburban development has lost its human connection. We sit secluded in our big homes and barely converse with nor know who our neighbors are.
You and I both know they're doing a lot more than just "profiling".
As a highly skilled IT person living in London with a European passport, I have to disagree with you.

First, there is this uncertainty of what is going to happen in the next 2-5 years. I can't build a future for my small family based on what may or may not happen regarding VISA or Emmigration laws. Will I be able to change my job easily? will the new employee request "UK only passport holders"? will I have restriction on changing jobs? Will I have the same freedom I had before?. Will I be covered by NHS or do I have to pay?.

Secondly, people who are not already in the UK are getting a bad vibe from what is happening. A lot of people are considering to emigrate to Canada or the US, because the UK "doesn't want foreigners". Racist incidents are on the rise, against Muslims, east Europeans and foreigners in general. It might be similar to other countries in Europe, but its the perception that count in this case.

Lastly, the divide that this referendum did between "Remainers" and "Brexiter" will have a social and political impact. Tories and Labour is in a meltdown at the moment. The next 5 years will be hard for the UK, and I hope things will stabilize soon. But this is not a place it used to be before the referendum. I'm thinking of leaving, probably in a few years. Hell, I'm even considering Dubai, because I'm uncertain of what will happen here.
In that kind of environment all bets are off already and recovering security is hopeless, no?
Building a user's password dictionary?
Depending on software... Eclipse is shitter than IDEA, but Linux/BSD beat Windows and Mac on servers in every aspect. OpenJDK gets updates and security patches more frequently than OracleJDK...
There are definitely vacuum chambers that form, but I'd be hesitant to generalize the overall effect.

Does the increased access to points of view override the insular effect of seeking out like-minded thinkers?

Additionally, is it all bad that some people find support on the Internet that allows them to become firmer in their beliefs? If a homosexual boy finds support on the Internet for his feelings that he otherwise doesn't get in his real-life social environment - is that a bad thing?
In paid jobs? In full-time paid jobs?
It's likely that eBay's internal infrastructure has compensated for this, but it also seems like a potentially overlooked aspect of their system. Even if there are no server logs per se (unlikely), they might be sending request logging information to some sort of analytics server. Since these requests are internal, it's also possible that it's not SSL-protected meaning that people internally could eavesdrop on the requests.
It's an overly generally statement. What I believe the author really meant is that open source, given sufficient and equal time and resources, will generally produce better software than a closed source equivalent.
There apparently is one: http://www.hackerfarm.jp/about-us/ I don't know anything about it. Someone mentioned it to me a while ago. I'm hoping to wander down there and chat to them sometime. They seem interesting.
Already done, sort of. See http://www.hackerfarm.jp/ these are "hackers" who bought a farm in rural Japan.

Probably not for everyone, though, there's a lot more to relocating than "cheap real-estate".
Wifi direct had the potential to be a Bluetooth alternative, but they skipped out on defining "profiles" for common use cases.

With Bluetooth you have a list of profiles that define protocols for various use cases.

A car head unit is likely using A2DP and AVRCP to handle the streaming and playback controls respectively. It may also implement HFP to allow it to act as a handsfree.

Wifi direct do not even, last i checked, have a defined protocol for transferring files between devices. This while Bluetooth supports OBEX, that allows you to either push individual files, or browse the storage of a device remotely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles

Thats the list of Bluetooth profiles at present.
I'm using it - (not at google, solo founder of 2 startups)

As a backend to Keras, which has my highly modified version of NEAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting_t...) which is trading Forex.

I have just finished a port of TensorFlow demo app to iOS, which is doing image recognition, I'm focusing on performance at the moment, will probably open source it in a couple of weeks when I'm back from vacation
"there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"

-- this book, about NAT
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The price of the trailers that the article quotes ($30k) is wildly off as well. The _starting_ price for an Airstream of the size pictured is $135k [0] I would be surprised if by time you got done adding options it is approaching the median US home price.

[0] https://www.airstream.com/travel-trailers/classic/
Just use Web Workers and let the OS do the scheduling.
For me personally, liking some of the pro-remain posts on facebook and making it show me what I want to see was one of the ways to deal with the stress of the situation. Seeing positive messages on my feed really made the situation more bearable. I'm really worried about the future and if shaping social media feeds helps with that, what's wrong?
we need to become more aware of the huge biases we are exposed to by living in media bubbles

Before the Internet, we lived in media bubbles manufactured by relatively few voices in the media and political power structure.

Now we still have influences, but they're less centralized.
Can always close as WONTFIX - reopen if you have a pull request in the first case ... and just WONTFIX the license changers.
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I've seen this discussion previously[1] but found it a really interesting read

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266016
I would say it's the same either way you go on the spectrum. Look at the people on the far right supporting Trump.
I think this was my favorite quote of the entire campaign - definitely the one that made me despair for both the political and common classes
From a pragmatic perspective, if the law has enough unintended and undesired consequences, it has failed.
Logitech has a lovely solution for that on one of their more recent keyboards. A big fat knob that you rotate to pick between pairings.

https://secure.logitech.com/en-us/product/multi-device-keybo...
Firebase is a great platform for building chat functionality
That reminds me, I wonder what ever came of the Adria Richards v. Sendgrid issue.
> I'd love to see a product/social network that confront their users with opposite point of views.

Debates tend to polarize people so it wont do much good.
I may have a different skin type, but I've found that switching from sodium-laureth-sulfate-based detergent soaps to castile soaps significantly reduced the dryness I used to get on the skin on my hands. A good castile soap does not have any residual lye in it because the lye is fully consumed in the reaction that produces the soap.
How about, when you perform an action manually it says "by the way, in future you can just tell me to ..."
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Beyond what pyre noted about a time limit, the kind of people who have those highly-important skills and knowledge tend to be the kind of people who are looking for new accomplishments.

I'd expect some would go somewhere different (e.g. leave Intel to work at AWS learning more deeply about what people do with those chips before jumping back), be grossly underpaid helping their favorite charity, take classes/do research, etc.
Really like the ability for a developer to instantly setup a reactive backend without having to first sign up with an API provider, receive credentials and put down a credit card. Might there be a way Jindo applications could send and receive mircopayments making it easier for developers to build towards a machine-payable web?
I lived in a small city on the French Atltantic coast, where I can walk and bike in the city, but I have to drive to go anywhere outside of the city. Having a car is not really an option here; it's mandatory.

I also lived in Paris, where I used public transports exclusively. I hadn't a car.

Honestly, in both cases, there is no free lunch. In Paris, most people don't have a car, but yet they still live far away from their jobs and have hellish commute.

I agree that cars bring a lot of complexity, but stuffing all people in the same area also bring its share of complexity.
...and also cross reference it against companies that have at any point complained of a lack of affordable talent.
At this point it seems it's a new season of a bad tech-oriented series.

Moving to a trailer park? Took his pet alpaca with him? Really?

Tony Hsieh jumped the shark right there
They've apparently created a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
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Neither bot nor copy/paste detection require this. If you're checking keystroke pace/timing you could simply send a keystroke or clipboard event without the actual contents.

Also, like, if they're sophisticated enough to be doing that, they should probably get the basics right.
> see some of the old Evan Doorbell recordings for good examples; http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/

I have no idea what I'm listening to but I'm strangely compelled. I'm going to chuck a few of these on my (uhh) phone to listen to later.
Hm, i was expecting the "rotate head" to be the way it works - most headsets support that, and it feels natural that way.

I'm not really sure how big the text should be - in the games it looks natural, but there is no sense of scale.
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Interesting how that page has misspelt Spolsky's last name in half the places.
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Exactly. Calling this "a trailer park" is technically correct (the best kind of correct!) but, christ, this place is so far from a real trailer park that it's ridiculous to group them together. The Trailer Park Boys mockumentary is deeply rooted in reality...
Original title: "What Brexit Really Means for Independent Developers"

I would add: "in the UK", since that is what the author is talking about.
If I understand correctly, you say that software as an art form must by default have a conventional and easily usable UI or means of interaction, ("practical considerations of the medium") before considering anything artistic such as the gameplay itself?

But what if, beyond working on the gameplay itslef, it was artistically interesting for someone to play around with the practical necessities of the medium and try to diverge from the norm? Everyone believed in a standard, approachable reading format from left to right until poets and writers started messing around with that (I'm thinking ee cummings and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski). People tried to defy conventional ways to listen to music or watch movies too.

The DF UI is definitely a pain on the practical side and it's made it difficult for me to really get into the game yet, but from an outside perspective I think it's interesting that way too.
Good power to weight ratio and high speed running with low torque would be excellent for Hovercraft racing! (and light aircraft)

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Selection pressure doesn't care about standard deviations, believe it or not. Even a small difference can exert evolutionary pressure over a long period of time.

Minute changes are actually a huge part of evolution. Evolution is much more about minute changes than it is about huge (standard-deviation-level) changes.
Any opensource project has other opensource competitor. This makes OSS more competitive against proprietary software. If you choose to use PS1(proprietary software1) in your project and after 2 years PS1 changes their licensing and requests 3x more money of annual license you either have to switch to COMPATIBLE competitor, which means PS2 must operate on the same protocol/interface that PS1, which nearly never happens. Instead companies try to make their PS more vendor-locked. In opensource world, there are usually converters, importers, and switching from deprecated or slow OSS1 to better alternative OSS2 is easier and cheaper. At least that was my experience when we were considering various frameworks or libraries at work or in my projects. It's now one of the main reasons why I stuck with OSS at all times.
Or, in Chrome, use the Console.download() snippet: https://bgrins.github.io/devtools-snippets/#console-save / https://github.com/bgrins/devtools-snippets/tree/master/snip...
This would be the social media equivalent to eating your vegetables, while many people know they should, they probably wont, confronting your users is a simple way to get them to leave for more comfortable surroundings.
Did it once. Closed an issue I couldn't reproduce and author didn't want to show me their code. I got blamed for not helping them and not fixing problems in my code :) I stopped responding to such issues at all.
Pinning doesn't work against the "corporate CA" scenario, at least if the user is using Chrome:

Chrome does not perform pin validation when the certificate chain chains up to a private trust anchor. A key result of this policy is that private trust anchors can be used to proxy (or MITM) connections, even to pinned sites. “Data loss prevention” appliances, firewalls, content filters, and malware can use this feature to defeat the protections of key pinning.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq...
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I hear this a lot, often in the for "Good code doesn't need comments", but I'm more than a little skeptical of this view.

I need actual examples to get on board, and not just the usual "idiot" programmer strawmen - actual examples that aren't obviously unreasonable.

My main reason for skepticism - Full, proper English sentences are capable of a lot more nuance, and precise semantics than whatever the programming-language syntax might support. I agree code can be written with more clarity, but it cannot substitute actual text, i.e. Code is not documentation.
Google Docs/Spreadsheets are amazing.
We addressed this use case during the preview. Could you try it again now?
I have worked a bit with Strang and I love the intiution that his lectures provide but I did not finish the full course :)

I initially wanted to suggest Linear Algebra from Foundation to Frontiers [1] as it had an accompanying book [2] from Edx, but I had no experience in that, so checked up a bit online and outside their course website, they had not so good reviews [3]. So I am providing the links for you to decide yourself. Another answer on quora [4] suggests Coding the Matrix from Coursera, which is supposed to be rigorous in algorithms with excellent assignments in real world applications. So may be that is your cup of tea.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/linear-algebra-foundations-fronti...

[2] http://ulaff.net/

[3] https://www.quora.com/Which-online-course-for-linear-algebra...

[4] https://www.quora.com/If-linear-algebra-is-so-important-for-...
Much better article. WAPO trying to cash in on the clicks.
So be it. I can just copy-paste a previous comment of mine.

The EU is a horrible, undemocratic, wasteful bureaucracy. If Britain can trigger its collapse then good. It is a shame that Greece didn't manage this economically (yet).

The cookie law. Farm subsidies to produce and then dispose of product. All languages being tolerated in the parliament requiring a full 2D matrix of translators. Their civil servants getting paid ridiculous salaries, tax free. The fact they shift between Brussels and Strasburg every other week.

Oh, I say this as a Brit expat living elsewhere in the EU. I fully expect to get deported when we/it/they leave. I just wish I had a vote.
I don't, but they do exist. The "gnuk" firmware/applet supports it from what I can can tell.
How is this different then a phone? Are you liable for the conversations others have on your phone?
I was actually hoping it was an article about a CEO who lived in a bona fide trailer park because he really didn't give a shit about luxury. How disappointed I was.
Well said. Lots of us chasing after few apartments is a recipe for crisis (paid dearly by the financial weakest).

Sadly enough I don't see telecommuting catching on in the big companies. Too few ads for 100% remote jobs (i.e. crazy competition) and almost always from small start ups. Telecommuting once per week does not cut it (you still need to live close to work).
Their product pitch is (I quote from their website);

> Start multi-tasking with your virtual reality headset
I was an engineering major and switched to Creative Writing because of noted 'creative draw'. Loved the courses. Useless degree. Now I am a software engineer wish I had only minored in a creative field.

After all, college is just a place to pay for a degree, right? Might as well pay for something that will get you past HR.
I said it because their product pitch (from the website) is;

> Start multi-tasking with your virtual reality headset
No. Physicists just take a lot more math classes (including statistics and data analysis) during their undergrad/graduate studies than biologists or psychologists do.
If someone thinks they're better than you because they use the ASCII graphics rather than a graphics pack, then they are being a jackass. It's about the game, not about what it looks like.

That being said, I play it regularly and I found its learning curve incredibly similar to learning Vim. Videos really help in this regard - plus reddit's dorf fort community is really welcoming. Watch videos, pause a lot, and practice. A huge part of the game is !!FUN!!, which can be directly translated to "you will lose quite often". And that's okay!
One of the reasons for toxic behaviour in IT is, in my limited experiences, the 'well, actually' mindset and everything that comes along with it. There is great blog post that I made mandatory read for all new employees joining company.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
> Multiple regions often comes with a lot of challenges

As an almost-customer of Layer (before their massive price increase), they led me to believe that this was one of the problems they would be solving for me. Nowhere on their website does it say, "We save money by not following best practices, so plan accordingly for occasional outages!"
I mean...if your desired end is to prevent free wifi availability nationwide (and the various benefits that provides, access to information and job listings and community and such), regardless of socio-economic strata, and to ensure that any security issue (weak passwords, out of date firmware, a zero day) makes an end user legally culpable, all to help protect a content industry predominantly located outside your nation, then sure, chalk that up as a success?
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Thanks for that. I had no idea. I wish there was a way to grab the certificate in Js. Just so you could alert the user that they are MITMed. As it stands I will have to instruct them to check manually.
IMHO you are not really toxic. Toxic people have not enough empathy to ask themselves about that.
That, and there would be the need for an additional chip and antenna.
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Maybe the solution is to use an issue tracker outside of GitHub. It seems like a lot of these problems come from how easy it is to make drive-by comments without really being involved in the project's community.
But there is a good chance that these GET parameters are logged by the webserver. Even if these servers are very secure and strictly monitored, one bad employee can cause a lot of trouble.
The perfect example being USB cables that managed to get 4 wires so crossed they fried a tablet.
Yes that's interesting isn't it. I wrote an analysis of what's going on with that:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/how-is-the-remain-campaign-lo...
Dwarf Fortress has never been about its usability and user interface - it's 100% focused on the background processes that drive the game.
I have good friends at Grab and use it frequently in Singapore. Mainly because of the auto-pay functionality. I.e. pay with credit card.
Yeah, I gave up relying on type inferencing; at minimum I add type annotations to every exported function in a module, and every function that calls out to an external resource (i.e., a function that reads from an external database, I'd declare what is returned).
I'm in a similar boat. I have a CS background but only took one "Computer Organization" class which wasn't even that good but it gave me a starting point. I wish I'd at least minored in EE. What resources have you found especially useful? I'm using All About Circuits[1] to learn fundamentals of electricity in addition to whatever tutorials I read for particular projects.

[1]: http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/