skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the distinction is Google has specifically said they won't correlate Google Public DNS data for targeting advertising [1], while Comcast is specifically saying that's exactly what they do want the option to do.

If you don't trust either company, that distinction won't matter. But if you take their statements at face value, there is a difference.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Public_DNS#Privacy
I remember doing plans of something similar to this with PIC 16Fxxx to have some machines on some kind of cheap small LAN. I remember even writing the protocol on paper...
One common criterion for a 'bad password' is a password that is already contained in a rainbow table or is easily generated upon creation of a new rainbow table.

If the current password is in the table, how long it has been in use doesn't matter.

Rotating passwords mostly addresses an internal workplace issue of sharing passwords between coworkers. That's a symptom of security culture problems and probably more deeply operational organization problems => why don't people have access to the tools they need when they need them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845832
> "Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores."

Well, that was a good reason why we initially liked them, but the last few millennia of genetic modification through selective breeding to alter their behavior and appearance for our benefit hasn't hurt either...
I'd be surprised that teachers in advanced programs would actually stop to focus on state exams or NCLB type tests? Back when I went through IB (over 20 years ago, granted), the state test was almost an afterthought. Most of the people in those programs if I recall breezed through those tests in no time, and had the remainder half a day or so to leisurely do what they want. (Obviously instead a lot more time was spent preparing for the IB and AP exams).

Half-baked measures like NCLB (eg, make schools "accountable" and they will somehow improve magically) does nothing to resolve the "environment gap", which in my opinion is probably one of the most critical factors in academic performance these days.
As long as they're not cheating, what's the problem? Is providing great incentives to students who excel academically somehow a bad thing?
...but above ground, they're killing
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It's much more efficient to work on an audio buffer than to do it one sample at a time, and the larger the buffer the more efficient. An analogy would be sending 500 POST requests with a single JSON object as the body, or a single POST request containing an JSON array of 500 objects.

Higan does allow you to reduce the application latency. But they make the point many times in the webpage that doing so can cause audio glitches, pops and distortion due to buffer underruns. My guess is they want to settle on the best default settings. Something that won't have a noticeable latency to most players, but also won't provide audio glitching when played on, say, an older laptop.
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Unity vs. Chaos, with a preference for the former, is a common and recurring them in American film and television which has not infrequently featured in the Star Trek franchise. Freedom vs. authority/conformity, with the preference for the former, is also a common and recurring theme in American film and TV which has not infrequently featured in the Star Trek franchise, and, yes, the two themes do have tension with each other (a tension which is, itself, another common and recurring theme in American film and television which has not infrequently featured in the Star Trek franchise.)
When I first took linear algebra, the class bored me to tears. It was presented in a dry, unimaginative way. I got an A, but basically rote-memorized everything and then promptly forgot it after the final exam.

Later on, when I started learning quantum mechanics, optimization, and machine learning, linear algebra suddenly became fascinating, and I signed up for a bunch of courses in it. The abstraction isn't what made me dislike the field the first time around; it was the unenthusiastic manner in which it was taught (largely by TAs).
I'd argue that Go is much closer to Javascript than it is to C/C++.
The Boehm collector (http://www.hboehm.info/gc/) appears to offer what you're describing. In fact, it looks like it's what Crystal added in 2013 to implement its original garbage collection:

https://crystal-lang.org/2013/12/05/garbage-collector.html
Perhaps, somewhat...? It does claim to additionally spoof fonts, OS and browser metrics. It has not been updated since April and that came after a long maintenance drought preceding it. In the past it did well on the various browser fingerprint detection sites. Today, I am unique with the only difference between Blender enabled and disabled on Panopticlick[1] is the OS & Browser are indeed spoofed in the results and too many fonts to audit... w/ AB+ disabled, NS disabled(all/globally).

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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HTTPS Everywhere has an option called "Block all unencrypted requests" now, which does the same thing.
Extra: The Sinclair ZX Net was some kind of cheap like RS-232 on a single wire plus ground (using audio wire!). Take a look to the schemes of Sinclair Interface 1
There are many, many broken links on the web and it seems like this feature could get a lot of use.
Pirating AVs to Bypass Exploit Mitigations [pdf]
It's already happening in countries like Japan. I agree with the author that the age of sex is coming to an end.
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That's actually why most financial advisers will tell you not to rent long term if at all possible. Purchasing a home (on average) will cost you nothing in the long term because you can refinance later in life or use it as an asset for other investments.

Essentially, not a single dollar paid to a landlord comes back to you. At least a percentage of every dollar will come back to you with a mortgage. Not to mention if you buy a home, you'll often pay less than you would renting. This makes perfect sense if you think about it, the landlord is trying to make money.

Point being, buying a home is a "nest egg" which is why 0-5% down was and is a thing.

If you don't like landlords move, and buy your own home. It's really that easy and will benefit you in the long run.
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We used it several years ago at FNAL CMS Tier-1 for monitoring ~5K physical compute workers, as well as a handful of persistent servers; works very well.
First of all, the vast majority of us are not John Carmack. Second, his comment discusses the merits of working short versus long hours. That's a world apart from spending every waking hour on work, which is what Mayer advocates here (especially with the mention of all-nighters). Either way, I would've appreciated if you wrote your own reply.
You seem to be constructing a definition of altruism that isn't just practically impossible, but /theoretically/ impossible for anyone to meet, since you can always say "Oh, but they're /actually/ doing it for their own benefit!" Such a definition is unfalsifiable (akin to conspiracy theories) and thus not terribly useful.
The "how often you go to the bathroom" line is a pretty big hint that there's some amount of bombast in here. How long does it take to go to the bathroom?

Nobody's ever failed because they pee too often.
> a private, encrypted browser with built-in 256bit encryption and OpenVPN

Can it be used to bypass censorship with the built-in tools? (VPN is not enough for bypassing censorship in China though.)
Probably scratching a large number of itches it developed while stuck in the net. But, it's a win for everyone either way.
Read to the bottom and you find out what this article is really about:

"This all adds to the urgency of overhauling both the private and public pension systems to encourage later retirement, by shifting benefits to favor later retirement and reducing tax penalties on earnings for those who are already collecting Social Security. The payoff: a more solvent pension system and a more productive economy."
Well - of course there has to be some charge somewhere in your brain build up before you do anything. But your reasoning is essentially just playing with words - b/c of course if you do something for somebody b/c you love them, then you do what you do B/C you love them ... well.
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Apple sell them because people buy them. No one outside of that relationship should be dictating that sale shouldn't happen. If I buy one it's got nothing to do with you.
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This policy of having the strict title on the page is a bit much. The original title provided context as to what this link was about; the current title, the title on the page, is meaningless. It also makes the current top comment, mherdeg's "There is no "Subscribe" link anywhere in the text of this article.." make little sense
It will be interesting. I'd call that about one and a half generations, if 10nm ships in 2017 like Intel says. Of course, it is anyone's guess whether SMIC will ship 14nm on time, or whether Intel will ship 10nm on time.
If I fall on a grenade, I'm not doing it for my country or some idea of "patriotism". I'm doing it to save my friends.
And who even knows how many Arthurs there were.
As other people have said in this thread, the interpretation of AND and OR as MIN and MAX respectively _is_ a useful one, and it sees applications in fuzzy logic.

Given that, looking at decimal digit-wise AND under that lens isn't about introducing a new abstraction, it's about applying an existing abstraction to a new domain.
The fact that an already hugely successful SF market is growing ~37% is astounding. 45% growth for a much smaller footprint is not nearly as impressive as the sustained growth of a large market.
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Your sarcasm detector failed. Is that you, Sheldon Cooper? :-)
vpn is enough to bypass censorship in china. How do you think international corporations do it?
Are the sources for the browser available?
The upsetting thing about DiffEq is that the way it is taught has nothing to do with the way it is practiced or used, either by mathematicians or engineers. Separable equations, for example, are the highest order of bullshit. Almost no interesting problems are separable. (Like, there are infinitely more inseparable than separable ones.)

The track that should really take over should be one where the student develops the intuition about what related rates of change mean, and then abandon the chicanery of these special-case tricks in favor of the numerical solution of DiffEqs and the evaluation of the quality of the solutions.
The legislature approved funding but also passed $60M in tax breaks without matching spending cuts. Nixon then cut this (and 130 other) budget line items in an attempt to balance the now-much-smaller budget [1].

The legislature is just as complicit in the current situation as Nixon. You don't get to slash taxes and then complain that it's someone else's fault that there's no money for critical programs.

[1] http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/less-ne...
> My husband [the venture capital investor Zachary Bogue] runs a co-working office in San Francisco. He runs his company out of there and other startups cycle through. And if you go in on a Saturday afternoon, I can tell you which startups will succeed, without even knowing what they do. Being there on the weekend is a huge indicator of success, mostly because these companies just don’t happen. They happen because of really hard work.

I bet if you tell me only these three things, I'll have a more accurate prediction of which startups will succeed:

* Founder's parents' income

* Founder's parents' education level

* Number of people with over $1M liquid assets that founder knows or has "social access" to
The study showed that the problem is not in performance, but in confidence levels. So the strategies that you mentioned won't solve the problem.
I'm familiar with it but it's not at all what I'm looking for. It's a library to "retrofit" GC into a C or other native program.

I'm looking for something to plug into LLVM's GC mechanisms to be used for new languages.
Attempting to download the app from the Play Store leads me to a broken link [1]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tenta.andr...
Wow, isn't that the submarine thesis. When the real solution is to remove the cap on social security taxable wages on income.

EDIT:

TL;DR Removing the cap at ~$118K/year on social security taxes (any income above that is not taxed for SS purposes) causes Social Security to become immediately solvent in perpetuity.

But heh, the highway trust fund is broke too [1], so why would I expect Congress to fix anything else related to tax collection for public services.

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/highway-trust-fund-ticker
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What they're saying is that there will be just as many cars on the road as before and therefore not reducing the environmental impact of the road.

I imagined it to be something like this:

Old:

- Road: 1000 users

- Train tunnel: 1000 users

New:

- Road: 1000 users

- Train: 2000 users

Although the train is more environmentally friendly than the road, I think the article is saying the impact of adding it is just that more people make the trip rather than the same number of people doing it in a more environmentally friendly way. This is basically the concept of induced demand i.e. build it and they will come.
I don't see the behavior you describe. A lot of the content references external sites, to provide additional information and context, but that's a good thing: it means more people in more places are having knowledgeable discussions that are worth referring to. I don't think it has turned LWN into a content-free link farm.

Don't be afraid of hyperlinking; it's the reason the Web was created, after all.
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Its crazy how the liberal media is anti-Erdogan for understandable reasons (not being a Euro-style liberal), but the Gulen movement is a straight up theocracy. Erdogan has a religiosity of a George Bush. Gulen wants to be like the Iranian Ayotollah but seen as a living prophet as well.

I think liberals and the liberal media are picking sides here, and they shouldn't be. Erdogan's vision of Turkey is far more secular and liberal than what the Gulenist movement wants. Turkey seems in better hands with the current leadership, which wins elections and is a strong NATO partner, compared building another middle-east theocracy. Like most politics, its a case of the lesser evil. I'm not exactly sure what liberals think is possible in Turkey, but migrating to a UK or French level of liberalism in what's a highly religious and conservative country isn't realistic. Even if it was, guys like Gulen aren't going to get you there.

This is a bit like leaving Catholicism to become a Scientologist. You're better off staying Catholic and trying to reform the church from within.
> I just argued that this only exists on a philosophical level

That definition of altruism doesn't even work on a philosophical level, since one can always level an unfalsifiable charge that /some/ part of the brain is perceiving the altruistic action as a reward.
Ah primary sources, my good men (edit: and of course women, though I used the phrase in the gender neutral, genitive case) - here's the actual paper[1] (31 pages). RAND is a think-tank, not quite Koch's Americans for Prosperity or the Cato Institute but caveat lector, and all.

Here are some brief assertions claimed:

>> Our analysis leverages this substantial variation in the rate at which states are aging
to estimate the effect of aging on the rate of state growth in per capita Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) ... "

One has to reject the null hypothesis that the aging out demographic are even related in part. (I could just as easily hypothesize that most of these retirees are those who were economically positioned to work until that late age and those who were comfortable enough to retire beforehand did so (if you buy the assumption that those who were highly-salaried throughout their career generated a proportional amount of value to said salary. I don't claim this, but it's an easy refutation.))

Page 6 is just aggregate analysis of population trends amongst certain ages binned by state, using Wyoming as their prime example. I'm not sure how much of the GDP/GNP Wyoming contributes to as a percent but I'd wager the trend is not indicative of the U.S. economy on the whole (in fact, you really can't make generalizations like this paper is trying to do correlating age against value lost -- whether it's in institutional knowledge delivered from master to apprentice in trade or actual quantifiable value. {Started skimming here due to the weak arguments.}

They use the US census as their data source in section III (Empirical Strategy), which, again, isn't granular enough to make any sort of trend assertion with a high confidence factor.

Section IV (Results) doesn't even try to normalize economic growth against any other market metric, domestic or international. {Stopped reading entirely at that point and went back to reading journal articles based on reproducible results rather than vague social theory and whatever these overpaid analysts remember from their 100 level stats class. Sigma summation, greek symbols and subscript don't make you seem smart, unless of course you're typesetting in TeX ;))}

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/WR...
> but doing very well in the major courses that used the same math

My school's EE department offered a few math classes (presumably because the EE professors were exasperated with the low level of understanding students were showing with important math concepts). The math classes I took from my Electrical Engineering professors were infinitely more valuable and interesting to me than the equivalent math classes I took from the Math department.

In my EE department math classes, I was encouraged to use any tools at my disposal to solve the problems (TI-89, Wolfram Alpha, Matlab, etc.), and the problems were always very real, so I knew exactly why I was learning what I was learning and how it applied to solving real problems.

In my Math department classes, we had to solve everything by hand, the professors were overly concerned with semantics, and the problems were often very abstract and hard to wrap your mind around.
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Frankly speaking, one all-nighter a week sadly is quite possible for early google employee.

I know of early days operational people (SREs were not a thing yet) need to stay in campus to resolve production issues. They need to stay all-night or come to office in midnight regularly every week.
Then they found actual evidence. I'm happy to change my mind if there is something convincing beyond "hey this fits our expected timeline"; there are extremely convincing textual clues matching the location of Troy. We don't even have that with King Arthur.

The excavation of Troy also destroyed a lot of evidence in the dude's eagerness to find the "original" Troy, so if anything it's a good argument against eagerly digging around looking for myths.

To be fair, The Bosporus isn't short of possible archaeological digs. I would hate being a developer anywhere around there.
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Implemented especially for cab companies to use Postgres as key-value store.
Nonsense. This directly contradicts over 150 years of research that says working over 40 hours a week doesn't lead to increased productivity (and actually hurts it). [0]

In the 19th century, when organized labor first compelled factory owners to limit workdays to 10 (and then eight) hours, management was surprised to discover that output actually increased – and that expensive mistakes and accidents decreased. This is an experiment that Harvard Business School’s Leslie Perlow and Jessica Porter repeated over a century later with knowledge workers. It still held true. Predictable, required time off (like nights and weekends) actually made teams of consultants more productive. [1]

[0] http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...

[1] https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-research-is-clear-long-hours-bac...
You are certainly right about that, but its not like governments didn't have a choice.... they to choose to listen to the money rather than 'reason'.

Pretty much everyone is to blame, but the people with more power deserve much more blame.
If you're consistent about how you space your infix operators, this will have no impact on your code.

If you put space around some operators and not around others, in a way that doesn't correspond to precedence, you're going to confuse anyone who reads your code, in any language.
Wow, that is awesome! Using it now. Thanks a lot.
>Cutting off the ability to work remotely, which is how most people who cannot afford child care manage small children

I haven't seen anyone who can look after a small child and work at the same time. Either you're working or looking after the child.

On the other hand if your argument is that Yahoo should have offered discounted childcare on onsite that Marissa received, then your argument makes perfect sense.
As TFA says, it is a browser plugin.
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I don't know how you came to that conclusion.

My assumption is that they're selfish assholes who want to successfully launder stolen Bitcoins. Holding on to Bitcoins and laundering them through tumblers gradually would allow them to do that. But it seems like every time a thief steals a large amount of Bitcoin, they try to put it through a tumbler all at once or come up with some other scheme that doesn't work to launder it all at once.
I personally haven't felt any effect on my eyes, but my SO says that it dries her eyes out after a while and makes them burn a bit. I think she's the only person I know who's experienced that though.
>I thought it was the case that Moore's "Law" hasn't held up since ~2012.

I thought it was before that, like 1999. I pretty sure I had an Intel Pentium III 2 GHz processor in 99. The computer I am using to type this comment is 2.5 GHz. More's law is long dead, we aren't going to see 12 GHz machines in the next 6 years.