skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would still make a big difference where I live, where most phones are taken at gunpoint, and later sold for their screen, battery and shell if nothing else, unless you were walking down a particularly deserted neighborhood, in which case the muggers will make you unlock the phone and remove the passcode/fingerprint.

However, many don't know about iCloud/Find My Phone yet, and it requires an internet connection to disable anyway, which most people don't have outdoors, here.

Some kind of "fake mode," filled with random data, would also help with government coercion in, ahem, the more civilized countries.
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I just don't understand all the guess work in the article.

Based on the historical record to date, the first written records appeared in Mesopotamia, and it has long been understood writing developed out of economic need.

Further, we have a vast records on the people and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. We know it was a patriarchal society. Their religious texts specifically define the stages of a women's life as: "I am daughter, I am bride, I am spouse, I am housekeeper". Therefore, I don't think it makes one sexist to look at this particular society through a sexist lens.

That said, the historical record includes literary works written by women in ancient Mesopotamia, though to my knowledge none of these women were merchants or traders, but royalty and high priestesses. Further, there is no shortage of women authors from other ancient societies either, but we know they came later.

Since looking beyond the historical record is all guess work anyway, because the record points to the first writings being for contracts/receipts/economic necessity, it could be that marriages may have likely been the first "transactions" to be recorded (this would include probably both the bride and grooms names, as well as the brides price and the bride-groom price). My thought is these transactions simply would have been considered the most important in that society and applied to the greatest number of people. Going full circle to the sexist thing, many of the marriage contracts we do have from Mesopotamia include clauses guaranteeing the bride was a virgin and we know if that was question the women had to appear before the courts (though these are later in time too, after Hammurabi's Law was written).

And although humor is frowned upon here, since everyone is taking a jab at the historical inaccuracies of the cartoons, why has no one questioned why our good friend Kushim is looking at an iPhone in the last picture?
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Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook. Back from when him and Mark was at Harvard.
If you would have substituted coq (or even ACL2 with guards checking enabled...) in the place of haskell I would agree.

hindley-milner style type checking is nice, but once you admit that things like arrays exist (rather than just algebraic data types or cons cells), the power of languages like haskell is in design patterns like map() and reduce() rather than the type checker, IMO.

Having worked in functional languages with an imperative bent (esp. ACL2 in the context of modeling microprocessors), you can get an awful lot of mileage out of a good static proof strategy that can be instantiated over a known design pattern (equivalence relations, map, reduce, etc) even when you pass a single, huge, state object to all your top level functions.
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My favorite: "I’d call for all the chemists who’ve ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio."

from: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2011/11/11/thi...
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I too am here to signal my virtue!
Fluorine is in almost every chemistry joke. That's not a good sign if you need to handle it.
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Eggs in commercial products either come from free-range, barn, or cage chickens. The vast majority are from caged chickens, although this is slowly changing. Caged chickens are locked in a tiny cramped cage, sometimes strapped down with their beaks removed, and are usually pumped full of chemicals.

That's pretty fucked up, the only way this could not reasonably be considered cruelty is if you assert animals have no emotions and science seems to disagree with that notion. Free range is much better, the chooks can roam around in the open doing chicken stuff. I eat free range eggs.

Environmental damage from increased farming is only a major factor where specific habitats are being destroyed, eg Palm Oil in Indonesia. Even then, it's a lesser evil than directly harming individual creatures.
You misread that a little. It says 3200 BCE (which is about 5000 years ago), not 5000 BCE.
google is terrible. they have 20 different versions of the same docs as they apply to different projects that integrate shared features... but when the "beta" tools get breaking changes introduced, the docs don't all get updated.

i find problems with google's documentation on a daily basis. it is not good. it is very bad.
I should also mention that the people at MIT CSAIL news are very good. They put a lot more attention into fact checking and making sure things are accurate than your average reporter. They set a pretty good example.

To the advantage of being at MIT, they are very good about preparing a press release and contacting other news outlets to get exposure. But as a broader point, when it comes to reporting on science, I think the MIT/CSAIL set a good example.
It's also interesting that this coincides with a lot of other government regimes - Clintonism, Blairism, Putinism, etc.

The general structure of the world has been pretty similar since the 1990s, and as the years wear on we are finding out more and more how bankrupt both intellectually and morally it has been.
> _What kind of coups is done with ample defense opportunity and full validation of the Supreme Court?_

Ermmm.. defense opportunity? A totally partisan-biased Supreme Court does not leave much for a defense strategy. That's like putting Benghazi to be judged by the GOP.

>_It's funny because in 92 the same politicians who are now claiming a coup is going on have voted in favor of impeachment_

Maybe because they're being consistent on their stances?
> agriculture led to many inequalities

Given the starkly different physical strengths between the genders, it's hard to believe that gender roles did not exist before agriculture.
a gift horse that describes its style as "minimal", and yet they want to rebrand a massive product.

only an idiot would respond.
You're trying to make some kind of argument about what is likely to happen for a single data point defined only by the exceptional circumstances that surround it. More importantly, it doesn't matter what you think is more likely, because there's no way for you to use that information to make a meaningful decision.
Facebook is pretty good. Between the big three (Google Ads, Twitter, and Fb), Facebook's traffic has lowest bounce rate, highest page views, and time spent.

Traffic through Twitter are mostly spam in my experience (i.e. 0 seconds spent on page). Although if you can get a viral topic going, that is generally a little better.
As tptacek loves to point out, the point of bug bounty programs is not to compete on price with the black market. And in fact, according to the article, the $200k Apple is offering is one of the highest for corporate bug bounty programs already.
I'm guessing, but since in other contexts metals are used as a catalyst to decompose HOOH I suspect that it protects your hands from direct exposure. This would release a lot of heat, but that's likely better for you.
In the 60s, that was a modern masterpiece. Can't blame Niemeyer for living in a time where cars and roads were a priority.
Number one drawback of VSCode, for me, is poor vim keybindings, especially visual mode. If that was fixed I'd use it extensively.
I think robots will be the future in many industries but honestly self driving cars are no where near where they need to be. There are none on the road right now, yeah, none. You cannot trust a single one to be safe in conditions the average driver can drive in. Soon as it rains, snows, or such, these systems start to fail.

Oh sure they brag up the internet but damn, they are doing the easiest driving there is. Throw a few plastic supermarket bags in front on your "self driving" car and you will find it isn't anything more than self tailgating. Really, why are these systems so big on tail gating when its not guaranteed you are tail gating another car with similar equipment? Finally, who is liable when a supposedly self driving car is told to speed?

back to trucks, long haul might get it first but not unless roads are setup to accommodate them because bad weather driving is a lot further off than we suspect
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Your definition sounds like it could be inspired more by pop culture or caricatures rather than by actual human beings.
I code something like this before for personal use, it allows me to evaluate my facebook/twitter status before posting online and classify them according to being "negative, sarcastic, positive, helpful" so that I can be careful on what I'm posting. I use bayesian filtering with trained words I gathered which contains negative, sarcastic, positive and helpful, then I use scoring to filter out what exactly the sentence means.
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Stephen Fry, whose intellect and vocabulary are way beyond mine, on swearing. The bleeping on the second video is so deliciously germane.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0Ny6WhfLU
Again, we don't have unlimited funds. By focusing so much energy on underperforming students you deprive the majority of resources that could be devoted towards making them better.

Yes, it sucks if you have a child with bad behavior or poor learning skills, but why is society expected to sacrifice their own children to attempt to fix yours?

It's similar to suggesting that all doctors only treat patients in the very worst conditions. A bomb goes off and the hospital spends all of their time on victims with no vital signs and ignores the people bleeding out because they still have vital signs.

I'm sorry my post pains you to read, but if you are getting that emotional about it maybe you aren't viewing things objectively?
Educate your surroundings. No pictures by default, if they do make pictures and you're in them no facebook. Tag me on facebook and you're off my IRL friends list and if you're family then you can strike me off the birthday invite list.
As I understand it, the main issue with lead is disposal.
Does it matter? Oftentimes people do things that are socially positive for purely selfish reasons.
> The rich want her out, the poor want her to stay put.

That's so oversimplified, it's laughable.

The middle class want her out and the poor never participated in politics in Brazil, and it's no different now.

The real rich always made money from the government either way, since big companies (banking, construction, telecom, you name it) either get incentives and legislation that help hold monopolies, or have the government as primary clients.

Author is apparently ignorant about Brazil's socio economics and history. Considering the praising of the rich left, artists and Niemeyer (self-proclaimed communist architect of Brasilia, considered today a failure in city planning), his analysis not only lack in depth but also balance.
sorry, I just don't see the "autopilots" or such being that good that soon. they can't even distinguish plastic bags from rocks at times. They certainly aren't doing the driving when its most needed; bad weather like heavy rain at night or similar. I really don't see it happening unless roads have features applied that are guaranteed to be there so the cars can navigate properly.

then comes the next phase, the car knows the speed limit, so who is liable for the speeding ticket? After all we are here for safety so why would we accept "self driving" cars breaking driving laws? Also, motortrend demonstrated that all such current implementations tail gate, some with barely more than a second of difference.

I would be happy if the 3 comes in quantity before 2020 but I doubt even that. I would never bet on it not having a steering wheel or more advanced driving capabilities than the S
LWN covers a lot in userspace as well. Kernel is only one section (though it occasionally expands in to other sections).
This is a way better set of answers to that question: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1tqfef/what_...
You’ve got a nerve
I'm not concerned about the brightest students, I'm concerned more about the middle of the bell curve. The US has to compete globally and if we let the majority languish while focusing on the left tail, the population is worse off on average.

This type of decline is hard to get out of because it's a negative feedback loop (poorly educated parents tend to poorly educate their children).
> the opportunity to be educated or trained in the scholastic, monastic, or financial professions

Isn't the better question who invented those things?

I mean we are looking for the first one, which is likely to be the person who invented it. Males and Females have an equal opportunity here.

> But not necessarily (or even likely) because of the author's claim that males seem to be more prone to be early adopters.

Do Males invent things more often than Females or not? That's the question.

> because of the male-oriented power dynamics

Who created those dynamics? Why was it a male and not a female?

You are arguing about a world where men already "won" and prevent females from doing things.

But the question you should be addressing is an earlier one: Why did men "win" in the first place?
Next they need to offer a bounty program for usability issues. iOS needs a lot of love since Forstall got squeezed out.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions.
I think a better analogy is that Linux is like high-octane premium served up at a gas pump without a card reader. The interface throws people off at first but they quickly get used to not opening their wallet.
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I'm willing to bet you'd put a shoplifter in prison for stealing a computer. This type of fraud is a much bigger theft.
> Even hunter-gatherers have chiefs and elders.

Hunter-gatherer bands do not have chiefs. Looking at the Wikipedia article for "Tribal chief" it says "Historically, tribal societies represent an intermediate stage between the band society of the Paleolithic stage and civilization with centralized, super-regional government based in cities." I couldn't put it better.

Even with regards to Indian chiefs, and it's not hard to see how there are misconceptions about them if they're still referred to as "Indians", modern anthropology acknowledges that European notions about Indian bands and tribes in the 15th and 16th century were often wrong. Europeans saw parallels of European society in the New World which weren't there (of course there were different kinds of societies in the Americas, from Montezuma's Aztec empire, to humter gatherer bands).
That guy did 10 more after the first freebie. Could it be that something else was motivating him?
This seems like basic market economics at work; as a restaurant owner, you have to make a choice - do I make more money back by paying Facebook their fee or by not paying them. If the answer is that I make more by paying them, then obviously they are providing a service that is worth what they are charging. If not, then it is not worth it and you don't pay it.

I am really struggling to see the problem with what you describe; how is it any different that advertising anywhere else? You decide if the cost of the ad is worth the ROI. Part of that decision includes knowing that your competitors might also advertise.

Does Pepsi get mad that Coke spends millions of dollars on Super Bowl commercials so they have to, too?
You'd probably have to make sure that it only activates if the phone is actually stolen, not just lost. I found an iPad in the street once, took it home, found the owner's details and took them to come pick it up (turns out it was some sort of sale team, and one of their staff put it down and forgot to pick it back up).

I'd've been _extremely_ unimpressed if the device suddenly started proclaiming it was stolen.
Valorizing language is silly. I remember in like 5th grade they moved the goal posts on us and made 'sucks' a 'bad word'. I was so thoroughly confused. How did a previously okay word become bad?

They're tools in a box. They aren't inherently good or bad - the intent and meaning created by them are what matters.

I similarly think it should be impossible for a word to offend someone. I think it's possible for meaning to offend and really only if you respect the person enough to provide some weight to that meaning.
People obviously want to read it, because they click on it.
You are both right. French culinary traditions can vary wildly from region to region, town to town, even if they are a few miles apart. If you take a journey through the non-touristy areas you will see a dozen different macro diets (meat vs vegetable vs carb vs sauce heavy styles) and a million variations on the small details like spices.

Claiming that France has one way of proportioning meals is like saying that a Southern American potluck bbq is the same as a posh Michelin star restaurant in Manhattan.
And there are just as many hidden benefits that many people don't seem to realize. I've taken hundreds of Uber rides and always chat with the driver on their experience with it: many of them love the flexibility, extra income (which is really what this is, not a FT job), and it keeps them busy when they otherwise have nothing else to do (lots of retired people).
And how much social upheaval was there? Enough to kill off a good chunk of the working population.
> Pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies were non-patriarchal

We don't know that, and probably will never know. The problem is that those societies left little that we can use to learn about them.

Our main source of information of our hunter-gatherer ancestors is often modern hunter-gatherers, but they are very likely to be different than the ancient ones. Two major differences are (1) the modern ones are in contact with modern societies, and (2) the land they live on is not random, it's land agriculturalists didn't decide to occupy, and has some specific characteristics (mainly that it is poor).

It's also very possible that there isn't a single truth. Hunter-gatherers existed for a long time across a great many locations. They may have had a large variety of cultures.

In support of that, we do have evidence of the opposite of your claim, too: hunter-gatherers that fight wars to capture women, for example.
Vyatta has limited their web gui to their paying subscribers for years now. Probably negates any cost savings from using Pfsense.
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I just answered this question above. check out my response to user niij.
If you have further questions though, let me know.
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The car was rear-ended while waiting at an intersection, which could have happened to any car. This is not news, it's clickbait.
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Soooo... did they do it?
Is this comment considered as sarcastic or ironic? To be specific, the "inarticulate m*" bit.
Dr Lowe moved everything from Corante to Science including the archives. Not too long ago. Corante was having too many technical problems.
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> Our main source of information of our hunter-gatherer ancestors is often modern hunter-gatherers, but they are very likely to be different than the ancient ones. Two major differences are (1) the modern ones are in contact with modern societies, and (2) the land they live on is not random, it's land agriculturalists didn't decide to occupy, and has some specific characteristics (mainly that it is poor).

There are also a whole bunch we've run into that were largely isolated until recently in Australia and the pacific. How many of them are matriarchal?
The ironic thing about OSDs causing input lag is that the very systems we emulate prove that video overlays are trivial to implement without buffering.
Thank you. I can totally see why that kind of behavior should be prohibited.
Extensive discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707
bspwm tiling window manager

sxhkd managing keyboard shortcuts

xmobar statusbar

Gnome/GTK 3.x with built-in dark theme

Rofi app launcher and window switcher (like Alfred on OSX)

Termite terminal with ZSH

Not using a display manager like GDM or XDM, I just run startx via .zlogin
I've extensively used WebStorm, VS2015, and VS Code for writing JavaScript and TypeScript (both server-side and client-side). VS2015 was the worst of the three. When it worked properly, it was pretty good, but it was incredibly bloated and buggy. It installs GBs of extras onto your machine that you have to painstakingly remove and hope they don't mess anything up. I dealt with a bug that required me to remove some packages and not others. It was a nightmare.

WebStorm is the best, but it's absolutely loaded with features that most people won't use. VS Code supports most of these same features, but they must be implemented manually via config files and scripts. A lot of people will prefer the latter approach because it leads to a leaner starting configuration.

I found the debuggers of all three to be fairly similar, although VS Code's was very slightly less usable.

Edit: To clarify, I used VS Code and VS 2015 at the same time. After getting frustrated with both, I switched to WebStorm and haven't looked back. Every time I think up a "nice to have" feature, I find out that it already exists and is configurable via GUI.
It's a quote, although I don't know where from.
That's neat, I've bookmarked it for now, and will have to find some print to run through it.
I read that as: if you find a bug and report it, you may get invited into the formal bug bounty program (but may not get a payout on the first one).

No idea if that's right though.
> But not necessarily (or even likely) because of the author's claim that males seem to be more prone to be early adopters.

You are making up BS to make a SJW argument.

He was obviously referring to the fact pre-societies were male dominated, which you repeat.

So obviously they will adopt things first.

Please don't twist his words to fit your world view.

Normal people knew exactly what he meant. Please stop this trolling.
Languages:

If you're not using it already check out the Laravel (php) framework.

It's growing fast, similar to Rails, easy to use, lots of great tools and the hourly rate on Laravel projects is comparable to the rate on Rails projects.

Check out Vue.js as well.

You'll be integrating in to a great community of developers and leveling up your skills, opening up yourself to new opportunities.

Laracasts.com will get you started.

Niches:

Web Applications for businesses is a good niche, higher rates, more interesting projects, longer term development + maintenance.
Managing Postgres query performance using \timing and EXPLAIN
Getting sick of the Apple-bashing. Sad to see it has reached HN, I thought it was bad enough on Reddit.
> I know I saw a few devices (like gloves) at SIGGRAPH that attempted to reverse engineer tracking with the base stations

I'm attempting to do the same thing at the moment: https://github.com/jb55/libvive. I got basic stuff like buttons and gyros working. Right now I'm wrapping my head around some of the trigonometry that makes the lighthouse tracking work. Hopefully I'll have an open source reference implementation soon.