skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep.

Also in addition to tarring autistic people I read the original post more or less as: because they behave in an autistic way I won't feel sorry for them, thus adding insult to injury.
This show is amazing IMO. It's like a love letter to all those late nights when I was 15 and glued to my freebsd box until unhealthly late hours!
The graphs show an interesting quirk of RFI. In figure 2-1, the theoretical USB 3.0 emission spectrum has a zero at 5.0 GHz (equal to its signaling rate). In figure 2-2 the measurement has a significant narrowband spike at 5.0 GHz. Never believe zeros in spectra, there's usually something lurking under them. 2nd harmonic distortion probably causes it here.
They are arbitrary code, they just have to be written in GLSL. One of the vectors is the fact that less effort has been put into isolating and securing GPU memory, since previously, it was not considered sensitive. This is compounded by the fact that WebGL shader code and API calls are often processed by a layer with escalated privileges, written in C or C++, completely opaque, with lots of unknown bugs.

http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/carl/webgl-e...

http://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/webgl-more-webgl-sec...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/227438/dangerous_webgl_flaw_p...
Nearly everything in this post is FUD.

The only accurate part is that Cloudflare is indeed a MitM no matter what SSL mode you have enabled. An intelligence agency that thoroughly compromises Cloudflare's interception points would be able to ignore SSL for a lot of large websites.

That's just a trade-off you have to decide is worth it or not before signing up.
It's frankly stunning that Nintendo never attempted this in the mid 2000's when MMO's were the hot thing. I've seen the idea floated so often of the past decade.
I can't remember a story like this without horrible data: numbers without much context from which no good conclusions can be drawn.
6 Ways Other Than a Job to Make Money Programming
Likes this https://github.com/balidani/gcnasm?
Or like this http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/872477/Assembler-for-AMD...?
It really depends on the game. I've had consistent success playing StarCraft and Warcraft III multiplayer with Wine. Morrowind and Oblivion also work well in my experience.
This is a gestalt response, but leonroy, I hope you don't mind if I put it here. You are talking about what I want to talk about: solving a problem. ...

Someday, maybe today, we have to ask ourselves if email (Gmail) is a public utility.

Suppose Dennis Cooper forgets his online banking password today. Does Google have a responsibility to somehow deliver the forgot password email?

Did not the initial Gmail marketing say something like "This will be free forever! Don't delete your old mail, archive it! Use search on the records of your own life!"

Sounds like a utility to me.

The law isn't always right. Times change, for example.

I believe that 1. the majority of individuals aren't TOS savvy and 2. the majority of individuals believe that they have a right to a persistent email account.

If property laws and corporate policies and user habits tend to visit tragedy on users... Well, something should change!

The USAmerican Congress does have a history of designing rules to serve the common good and forcing tech giants to play by those rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934

One rule could be that service providers must make a reasonable effort to give users their data in a functional, useful form in the event of account termination. For the good of society.

Another might be that critical services (online banking password recovery) cannot be revoked without due process.

Oh, does that one cause a big effing problem for Gmail, Outlook.com, etc? Well so be it. Online service providers made that problem for themselves when they fought tooth and nail to become important parts of everyone's lives.

This kind of thing is what Government is FOR.

Title II of the 1934 Comms Act required interoperability between networks. In modern times, that might mean implementing a open format, or open protocol. Maybe another rule would prohibit offering a message delivery service to consumers if said service doesn't implement an open protocol.
Try that today and CPS will show up.
Weekly Top 10: Questioning DevOps?
The fact that every single comment in this thread amounts to "should have backed up" makes me a little sad.
Is this really what we want to expect from companies like Google? Is this acceptable? Is it just a "force of nature" that I should consider beyond the ken of man?

What happened here is the abrogation of human responsibility onto algorithms, TOS, with no apparent human oversight. A very disturbing trend, and I think worth having a conversation about.
It's only existed for 5 years. Technology moves very swiftly and with new capabilities comes new apps, something will replace it and so I call them fads, maybe I'm wrong to do so, but let's see if it still exists in 20 years.

Someone else deserves the credit for saying this, but the only things that survive on the internet are protocols. E-mail, FTP, HTTP, and as it relates to messaging, Jabber. These things are not fads and the only reason I've seen them fail is when the technology does not live up to the needs of people. If Jabber didn't have a number of important issues, perhaps all chat apps would still be using Jabber and none of these "SMS Replacements" would exist.

I think I might be biased, because none of the popular chat apps in recent years has been truly open. I hate proprietary messaging apps. I hate when progress takes a back door to profiteering, especially when the profit model is selling stupid, un-exportable .gifs for $1 each. Talk about preying on the weak.
I only meant "renting" a reachable IP from some third party. I think that's realistic.

However what you describe -- building out your own infrastructure -- still remains a lofty but worthy endeavor for anyone with the skills and determination.
The road to hell is paved with great web search results.
70,000 ATMs to support cardless cash withdrawal via Touch ID
I've seen a correlation in working mode between pairing on a competition-style programming problem (to evaluate a job candidate) and pairing in real work.

I'm not looking for leaps of insight though (I explain the insight required), and we're both in front of the IDE and can search the web to clarify simple questions. It's more communicating a problem and the outline of a solution, and seeing if someone is able to understand what you say and is fluent in turning ideas into code in their chosen language.

I personally despise gotcha questions that rely on you either having seen the problem before, or getting lucky enough to spot the insight in a pressure situation.
That actually looks like some really nice work there my bruh-thuh.
> a new release every year or so and they're NEVER equipped to handle it

Which is 100% untrue for Overwatch. They've clearly learned their lessons.
The Unlucky Billionaire – Gotta catch em’ all
>Enough for what? Why not?

Let me throw out some made up numbers as an example.

Company X hires 100 people out of 500 applicants.

If only 30% of them perform well, you might argue the interview process is rubbish.

However, if you can test and show that of the "un-hired" 400 only 5% would perform well, then clearly the interview process is better than picking at random.

This is why just looking at hired performance is not indicative of whether the process works - because the task was not just to predict good performers but to predict a better rate of good performers than a random sample of applicants.
Love this show bc it's like Fight Club meets Hackers. Can't wait to watch the full season
So can I clarify - will this be like an "add on" to the Material Kit that is posted here? i.e. can I use the Material Dashboard + Material Kit together?

Or will it be it's own standalone product?

i.e. can I start developing the Material Kit now, and add the dashboard on later?
What people say is no guarantee for what they may end up doing. Doubly so for politicians. Brexit was a stark and recent example.
The effing rotating TLS keys. You missed that?
Hyperloop One cofounders are suing each other
Steemit’s Users Get Money Back After Cyber Attack: Will the Steem Price Go Up?
No. That is not the situation here. Pretending like somebody using a 'free' service is equivalent to them being far behind on payments to a storage service is a ridiculous analogy. Google advertises their reliability and nowhere do they tell you to make your own backups or move out. You are not generally in an adversarial relationship with google like you would be to a company you're in debt to.

EDIT: This post isn't as well written as I'd like it to be, but parent is bullshit and I think the core argument of "This is not an analogous situation" holds. I need to leave in a few minutes though so I don't have time to write a better argument, sorry.

As a short version though, if this was an analogous situation where google had tried to contact this person to take down whatever was objectionable, and warned them that they should back up their stuff immediately since they could decide to take it down on any business day, I bet this guy would have been right on that.

They didn't though. Giving them social credit like they did is ridiculous.
That hasn't been my experience, but I have heard that from other people. I personally like most of the API's that I've used.
Which is, maybe, the reason nobody knows or cares about Richard Stallman and his ideas beyond us tech folk.
When my brother died in 2010, I posted to that effect on Facebook. Many friends (majority of them "real life," pre-Facebook/outside of Facebook friends) gave their condolences. Others called me. A few messaged me, etc. You get the picture.

That correspondence was, and remains, important to me.

Does Facebook own it? Can they delete it if they want to? Can they block me from accessing it?

The answer, at least as far as current law stands, is yes they can. I imagine the ToS that I signed up to indemnify them from any claims I may have.

But should they have these rights? If people had written me snail mail condolences, I'd keep that archive for as long as I want.

From where I'm standing, Facebook, Gmail, etc, are like the post office, as far communication between people is concerned. It just happens whereas the post office sells postage stamps to senders, and rents post office boxes to recipients, Gmail puts adverts in my inbox. In return, they deliver my mail, and agree to store my archive for me.

That shouldn't give them unilateral rights to my stuff, any more rights than a post office or FedEx or DHL would have (Oh look, DHL is actually a post office off-shoot). Because although it is on their servers, it's my stuff, in every sense of ownership.

The law currently favors them, but the law, I feel, will have to change. Even if the ToS says they own my stuff, that will have to change.
AutoMicroFarm is now open-source
Maybe I wasn't clear, they were prototypes. The final factory that ended up building them at scale was next to an airbase that has the physical security that you'd expect. But they still use web browsers there.
I also vouch for Quiver. Works really well.
Namecoin isn't used in production anywhere, is it?
I am probably going to wait for the season to complete so I can binge watch. Am I the only one?

My big concern is all of the media and spoilers that surround these popular shows. Why do I know who died in Orange is the New Black? Why does Google think I need this as part of my news feed that I check only once or twice a day because I just need the most important news items.
"I looked into it and it seems even after all these years the best way to get into Microsoft’s internship program is if your school is on the list of schools the company formally recruits from."

This isn't unusual for technology companies. It isn't even unusual for research labs[1]. So, basically, the company has delegated its hiring diversity to a university admissions department. Worse, many universities only accept people into their graduate program from certain other universities. I've never heard of a recruiter from any of these golden schools visiting anywhere near me[4]

Add to this ageism that is prevalent in technology and you have a the makings of lip service.

Why is ageism problematic? Many minorities, particularly enrolled members of Native American tribes, go to school later than their white or Asian[2] counterparts. Many go into the military or need the extra time to sort themselves out. They typically go to a community college first (different path from average), then go to a university[3].

The school I went to was on Microsoft's list to hire only support people from. IBM didn't have that hangup and got one of the best developers I've ever known and it worked out fine for them.

I would love to see these companies be a little wider with the hiring net, but I don't believe it will happen. They'll wring their hands and talk and release reports[5], but it won't change a thing because they don't get the basic problems.

1) in my youth I was refused for a summer internship because my high school and college were in the same area code....

2) seems Asian isn't considered much except in the reverse of requirements - see the lawsuits against the California university system by Asian students

3) I'll leave the discussion on scholarships and students lying to get scholarships directed at certain minorities for a different time

4) hell, when I was applying in 1987, I had to travel to get the applications, pay the fees with money I really could have used, and never get a reply. Someone told me it was because, like everyone on the reservation I was from, I had used a post office box for my address. That seemed a bit far fetched to me.

5) I'll believe something might change when I see "enrolled tribal members" listed on their reports and a list of schools that includes ones that actually care about recruiting in diverse areas.
Analyzing PostgreSQL logs using pgBadger
One major one is not yet available. There's still Hyper-V+ System Center, + Azure Pack which makes running your own private cloud relatively easy.
"Decent living" doesn't mean that you're under or overpaid for your skill set, position and responsibilities. It usually means based on your geographic area as a whole (or objectively whether or not you can sustain yourself).

The median household income in the US is a "decent living" in almost the entire country, even some urban centers. Saying that 2x+ is a "decent living" is completely tone deaf.
we also did a far less sophisticated HTTP/2 reality check: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/http2-reality-check

about the same result: real world performance boost was not soooo big.
> there's art that's basically indistinguishable from trash.

Indistinguishable from trash to you maybe. This [0] was an piece at Ai Weiwei exhibit I saw in Berlin last year (I don't much care for his work, but that's beside the point). This is mostly indistinguishable from this [1]. One is a pile of crabs intentionally placed in in order to make a pun in Chinese (if I remember right). One is a pile of crabs. One is art. The other is not.

I'm saying the Ai Weiwei piece is art because 1) he did it on purpose, 2a) he calls it art, and 2b) other people call it art. If I sculpted an exact replica of a trash can in the house I grew up with to symbolize {the passage of time, childhood, whatever, no symbolism at all}, then that's art even if it is literally made of trash and nobody but me ever called it art.

At the risk of sounding like a children's show with a shallow message: anything can be art if you want it to be.

[0] - https://d1lfxha3ugu3d4.cloudfront.net/exhibitions/images/201...
[1] - http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/a-pil...
Add Git Auto-Completion in Terminal on Mac
This looks interesting
If you click "details" you can see the format each service is exported as
How Voice Commands Are Changing the Way We Search
Why Turtles Evolved Shells
I watch live for that reason. There aren't many shows that I do that for, but this is one, and Game of Thrones is the big other one. But I agree that the media spoils too much, though it's not unexpected - spoilers and discussions get big clicks these days.
If Outlook Web Access worked or even looked at all like Outlook, it would be less confusing. Features and UI are completely different, and switching between the two if needed is a huge pain.
> "They should decide on POSIX kernel and completely rewrite most of it."

What features do you want from POSIX that Windows doesn't already provide?
>AdobeTracking.showSiteFeature = 'Mr. Robot : S2 Easter Egg Sites';

[view-source:http://www.evil-corp-usa.com/]

Sites

I get the feeling this will be ongoing...makes the show more fun and a little interactive
I think some folks overdo the white boarding. But I believe it is needed - may be one or two problems on the whiteboard with the rest of the interview focusing on design & software engineering (metrics, resiliency, etc.).

I've seen folks who have a lot of coding skill on their resume fumble simple white board problems. I have fumbled simple white board problems when I have also interviewed (It was for a s/w engg position but I had spent the past several years in architecture and away from any real code - so it was expected).

The point is white boarding is ok if you have a well defined problem solvable in 45 mins and if it is just geared to assess your familiarity with code. I don't think its a reasonable expectation to come up with new approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems and solve+prove them on a white board in 45 mins.
If it's social services you are after, the UK should be far down the list of places in the EEA to go to. Benefits payments here are laughable compared to large parts of Europe.
Yep. General point. Same goes for external hard drives etc: it is only a backup as long as it also primarily exists somewhere else.
I've had some pretty intense problems there myself. I've found that a particularly good conference to attend to get access to people involved in Azure is put on by a company from England called Oxford Computing. It's identity focused, but touches on other aspects of security. It's also hosted on the MS campus in Redmond. Last time I was there I actually had a sit down with one of the guys working on their provisioning engine.

The tech and engineering people really seem to want to engage with people using their stuff. The sales support people usually just describe features to people. Very, "Ill have to get back to you", kind of stuff. In their defense, though, in our area they do actually get back to you with real info.

It's weird, though.
I find the post strange. DO supports snapshots / creating vms from images. Why would you use a common script to run after boot rather than creating your own image to boot from?
I'll be honest. Google Search is better for certain things. For example it's nice getting those little boxes at the top of the page that answer your question without you even needing to follow a link but I can afford the extra few seconds it takes to click a link every now and then in exchange for better privacy and results that aren't manipulated based on data the search engine holds on me.

As for Gmail that was a recent switch. I'm currently forwarding all mail to my iCloud account and using that. As I rarely use the Gmail web app (I only use desktop/mobile apps to access mail) the switch has been seamless.

For me the final straw was looking at my 'activity' page on Google. Despite having turned it off web history was on. I presume they asked me to click something someday and I wasn't careful enough but that was very annoying. They've also changed the web history interface to make it pretty complicated to figure out how to delete everything. I then noticed they had location tracking on (which I also specifically disabled in the past). I couldn't find a way to delete all of that and had to delete each record individually.

Google wants to do some cool stuff with all this data but it certainly isn't doing anything that makes it worth it for me to give up my privacy.
Agreed. I have the same problem with Google news and now and sports scores... I don't see why they're treated as general news... why can't it be more like books where time shifting has always existed and conversations have always been deferred. And yes I understand the legacy with sports news but we've evolved damnit!
Things get confusing when you deal with Skype for Business, too...
Where in DFW can you purchase a nice home on 40k?
"Email" as it is run today by third parties.

Email dates back to timesharing, when people shared computers, each user having an "email account" on a single computer.

For people today, each with their own computer, it's still possible to do email without store and forward, with each user running SMTP servers that talk directly to each other instead of connecting to "email providers".

This is grassroots. Not meant to leverage existing "email provider" ecosystem.
Why would you want to be forced to rewrite business logic just because you're using a different database provider?
I'm saying that while the technical lead may not be hostile towards IMAP, the "higher ranks" may decide it's not a business priority anymore and ask to get rid of it.
> tech companies shape the ethnic make up of their employees based on what schools & cities they choose to hire from

I wonder if even that is true for California tech companies. California cities feature a diversity which is absent from their local tech companies.

California's tech companies appear to be here for the VC money, not the local labor pool. California's schools, by and large, do not output a globally competitive workforce. The tech workforce is mostly brought in from somewhere else.

And California's government doesn't seem to care about the demographic mismatch.
Google management is neither unobservable nor unobserved.
The point of POSIX is conformity, not extra features. Though I don't see how that fixes Windows either. It can already do many things more than POSIX. In fact most OSs support POSIX for application capture, but certainly don't depend upon it entirely.
I agree, it looks like Hydrogen is a nice replacement for the REPL, whereas notebooks are a completely different workflow.
[0] could be an XKCD joke. Ho wait... it is: http://xkcd.com/1700/

In the last Windows 10 update, if your username contains nadella, the spying services are disabled and your machine gets 10% faster.
> Why does it need to be non-commercial?

We already have a commercial Internet, we don't need a second one. Commercial interests would make the second Internet also a target of control.
I have to disagree with regards to Overwatch, by far Blizzard's biggest IP in recent memory. The launch was perhaps the smoothest I've ever seen in a popular online game. A tiny minority of people had problems, in stark contrast with completely unprepared and utterly botched launches such as Battlefield 4. Blizzard did themselves a huge service with the open beta(which had over 9 million people play over the course of a week!) giving them an idea of where bottlenecks would crop up.
>> Second I have a chip card and I hate it."

Why? A bit more info would be useful.
HubPress looks super useful. How does it handle other non-blog-ish content Jekyll supports, like data files and collections?

I've used Prose.io as well, which has a nice UI and serves a similar purpose. I like that HubPress can just be run from your domain though.