skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative ?

You could start out removing the autocrap checks for <sys/stat.h> and <stdlib.h>.

Then you could eliminate all the other autocrap checks which come out one and the same way on every single OS in existence.

And in all likelyhood, you would find out that you don't actually need autocrap at all, because the remaining two checks can be done with an #ifdef instead.
Are you on a dynamic IP? I used to run a mail server on a dynamic IP, and many people will be butt-hurt about it and block you on sight.
Like Feynman said in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM, when trying to explain how magnate works to the reporter.

I think it's hard for someone else to actually understand the problem when you two are not in the same knowledge framework. Cause then she/he will be perpetually asking the why and how question and being not satisfied.

edited.
yes. Is anyone who wants to buy an "android" and a "chromium" be confused by andromium? That's the question for establishing trademark infringement.

And I mentioned my Panashiba stereo because it was an obvious mix of Panasonic and Toshiba, but was not a trademark infringement of either.
It turns out HP has the Tandem manuals online (or at least 790 of them) and is still somewhat actively developing the platform. http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/pu... has the manuals.
That fixed it, thanks. You already provide a way to subscribe at the bottom of the page though, and I would expect users only to consider subscribing after reading the article and finding it interesting; why not dispense with the dialog altogether? It is the kind of trick used by scam websites and annoys most users.
Tutorial: Simple moving objects database with PostgreSQL
Your mails are as private as the mail servers of the other people you are communicating with.
Integrating AngularJS into Laravel 5.1 – Codementor
Wizards of the Coast Left “Bacon Ipsum” in a Webpage
What browsing history? For me, it goes when Firefox closes :)
I hope the following is helpful rather than confusing - feel free to ask any clarifying questions. Also, I will preface this with the fact that I am an engineer and not a finance person. I may be subtly wrong on some points and I am happy to be corrected by those with more knowledge on these topics.

Liquidity preferences - Also described in the article as "investors escape safely on Preference stacks", investors usually have terms which state that when the company is sold, they get paid first so that they can at least recoup their investment before anyone else gets paid. Usually they get paid again with everyone else, resulting in a "double dip" into the sale proceeds.

Reverse-merger IPO - this is a rare (for tech companies) deal structure where private company A merges with public company B. The resulting merged company is now publicly listed because company B has already gone through the IPO process.

Dilution - described in the article as "over-dilution" and "dilutive financing", if there are X shares of a company and you own Y shares, then you own Y/X % of the company. If the company then creates Z shares to sell to investors, you own Y/(X + Z) % of the company. The difference between these percentages is dilution. Often, existing investors have anti-dilution provisions. They are able to buy additional shares in the round up to their existing percentage. Founders and employees usually have no such luck.

Ratchet in a down round - Admittedly, I don't know what a ratchet is. I would guess that it is a protection of some sort for investors from a down round and thus bad for founders and employees.

Non-liquid - (nearly) impossible to sell

Highly volatile - a plot of price over time looks like a rollercoaster

Anti-dilution provision - see the latter part of "dilution" above

IPO protections - Also have no idea what these could be. I would guess at something to protect investors who invest at a high valuation where the public valuation is lower.

409-A pricing - How the shares are assigned a value for tax purposes
Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture (1994) [pdf]
Would you be interested in a service where you buy your own server (metal/VPS/whatever) and through an API/web interface select which profile to run? E.g. webserver (apache, nginx, ...), mail server (postfix, exim, ...), load balancer, database (mysql, pgsql, ...), or "app" (ownCloud (has CalDAV support), Wordpress, etc.)?

The idea is that the server is yours, and yours only. We manage the setup, monitoring, alarms and all the boring stuff. If you need any assistance, we have sysadmins that can help for a fee, and depending on how critical it is for you, we'd offer multiple levels of subscription with different service levels and response times.
>> Yes, there is MESA - so if software rendering suffices one can use more open options.
>Mesa has hardware accelerated implementation of OpenGL. You don't need "big org" to do it. But it surely helps if they put resources into that work.

The hardware specific driver is the more laborious thing to get correct. Well, OpenGL as well, but the driver is what I was after, not the specific API on top of it, and if the driver is buggy the OpenGL implementation on top can only try to patch things only so much.

>> of which Microsoft is one, and not worse as the others (
> It's worse than many others because their goal is not to improve the graphics stack, but to lock everyone into using MS systems.

I don't think there is any way MS can lock everyone into using their system.

I would claim MS has driven innovation in hardware accelerated realtime graphics by providing a stable and tested API at a time when OpenGL implementations were buggy and broken due to the messy work Khronos did with
the standard and the way the implementations were done.
Data/notes retention in journalism has not historically been a natural part of the workflow. Sometimes it's because of logistical reasons, as it appears to be in this case. But there's also the (IMO, justified) mentality that keeping notes for long past stories and interviews can put your sources at risk of being subpoenaed.

How I've heard it explained by various media lawyers is that juries and judges are not pleased when a journalist doesn't destroy notes on a regular basis, but happens to do so in just the specific case that the journalist happens to be under scrutiny for. I guess the technophile equivalent would be using Tor regularly so that if someday you're accused of impropriety in a specific situation, you can't be accused of using Tor that one time to hide your alleged malfeasance.

Again, having a get-rid-of-notes mentality doesn't seem to be the problem here. Just lack of workflow and practice in keeping information around -- in an era before cloud file backup and services such as Github, keeping track of backups on floppies/zip disks/CDs was non-trivial for most people.

If you watched the movie "Spotlight", there's a powerful scene in which the reporters rips a lawyer (Billy Crudup's character) for covering up for the Catholic Church because his willingness to settle the abuse cases privately, and he rips them right back:

> Years ago, after the Porter case. I got plenty of calls, I had 20 priests in Boston alone but I couldn't go after them without the press. So I sent you guys a list of names. And you buried it...Check your goddammn clips, Robby

(The real-life lawyer posted a lengthy Facebook post in which he elaborated on his role and critiqued the way the movie made him complicit in the cover-up: https://www.facebook.com/eric.macleish/posts/922406084502403)

I don't know enough about the people in the real-life case, but it sounds like the reporters on the Spotlight team were unaware of what their colleagues had known and published in the past, or else they would've been less dickish towards the lawyer. Malicious cover-up from the top of the Boston Globe's editorial chain (before the Marty Baron days), or just another case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing, is up to interpretation. This is a tangent to the topic of why can't people keep better track of their old files, but it's just an example of how non-trivial the work of information organization is.
Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues
Console based database editor
If they would actively block good Vulkan implementations on Windows - yes, that would be a dick move. Is that the situation, though?
I'm using https://soverin.net for €29/year (€39 if you don't have your own domain) to limit my google dependence. Added benefit that they are based in EU. Disclaimer: our company works with them so I'm definitely biased.
While GDP/energy ratios have improved in some countries:

1. Total energy usage has increased.

2. There's been significant increased inequality within those nations. Particularly the US, also major industrial countries (G-7, OECD, etc.).

3. Many of these countries are exporting heavy manufacturing, with energy and other resource utilisation, and pollution generation, particularly to China and India.

"The material footprint of nations ", Thomas O. Wiedmanna, Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzenc, Daniel Moranc, Sangwon Suhf, James Westb, and Keiichiro Kanemotoc.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1220362110. PubMed ID24003158.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/28/1220362110

"The true raw material footprint of nations ", September 3, 2013. "The study, involving researchers from UNSW, CSIRO, the University of Sydney, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, was published today in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It reveals that the decoupling of natural resources from economic growth has been exaggerated."

https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/http://newsroom.u...
> with a really really terrible title and a partisan tone.

I was on the fence with regards to that observation, until I reached the very last sentence of the article.

It's a shame that an otherwise interesting analysis would be all thrown out of the window due to the author's inability to stay focused on what matters.
> Maybe we worked in different fields?

Class III devices (pacemakers, deep brain stimulators, insulin pumps)

> Did the FDA actually check your software or just your documentation?

In a submission, occasionally. In an audit, it depended on the nature of an audit. I've been part of one audit that was due to persistent SW failure and yes, they checked code.

> Did you find the process of writing documentation instrumental in ensuring that your software was carefully tested?

No, but that's not really the point of documentation.

> Did you ensure that your tests were reproducible and comprehensive?

Yes, we could kill people if we screwed something up.

> They were more concerned with making sure signatures and dates were correct and that our documentation didn't make us look bad.

This practice is common, I grant. Doesn't mean it's universal or right.

> The FDA doesn't really give a damn about what I really worked on, do they?

FDA heavily triages activity based on risk. If your product is life-sustaining they will definitely be all up in your business.
IDnow takes video and audio while the user shows their face and ID. It's not fully automatic; a person in a call center is involved.[1] The video shows the "wriggling" of the ID.

They claim to be approved by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Agency. Big banks use their services to authenticate account holders.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_WQ0hkq1k
Embrace limits.
This is not true
I agree, but for the bulk of software engineers it's probably on point.

For many of us, it's nothing new, but I do think that it's remarkably easy to just rip code toward a deadline unconsciously without keeping these concepts in mind.

If you do backend, the user doesn't give a shit about your clean code, so sometimes it's a trade-off in deciding your approach knowing the lifetime requirements and maintability needs of a project which only comes from experience.
> All you have to do is decide whether the salary is high enough; the rest is irrelevant.

You mean feign interest in the company for two years longer than every VC that passed them over?

I'm being cynical, but I am baffled how Silicon Valley companies think they are going to be privileged enough to hire engineers that are actually interested in their company's ambiguous mission, amongst the subset of engineers randomly on the market at any given time

How many VCs weren't interested again?
Latest trick: LP albums, rotating scratch-hologram animations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLuvkcV2oi4&t=0m26s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNF9IWmFQE&list=PL60100E8F3...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9gRPtkSOn0

Also gallery artists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ_sjQRYhX4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G36kP8g6SrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reM6XhbkQXM
In practice, "only be doing important things" is a completely unrealistic principle. Administrative tasks and bureaucracy are caused by the mere existence of a business, so having someone that takes care of them is even more urgent than hiring productive employees and doing actual work. Administrative personnel should be treated as a sunken cost: one generic secretary allows many other employees, including the "key people" who would otherwise need to solve problems, to work without trouble and without non-business distractions.
The US Government does provide this service, but only for employers (E-Verify) and gun dealers (Insta-Check).
(Author of the essay here)

It is discussions like this which make me truly admire Douglas Adams for his insights and ability to express them.

For instance, when I read through the debate here, I can't help notice how many of the arguments are really variations of "It's a bypass! You've got to build bypasses! Not really any alternative."
You can also get browser history by misusing CSP violation reports.
Is Usb 2.0 fast enough for this kind of application?
yes, but not in their retarded jobs obviously
Ophuls is a tremendously underappreciated author.

I'd recommend going back to his 1977 Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, which is one of the best distillations of the ecological and limits arguments, and one of the very few extensions of that to political space, I've seen.

I'm still planning on writing a proper review (https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius, eventually), but strongly recommend all his books.

Plato's Revenge updates a few particulars of the argument and extends it toward a solution space. What I appreciate most about him is that he writes not from a prescriptive "here's how to solve this" but an expository "here are the dimensions of the problem and possible frames of resolution".

William R. Catton, Jr.'s Overshoot is also excellent.
Agreed. It's a web app that should be a protocol. The tent.io guys were thinking in the right direction, but they didn't seem to really get much traction.
One of the cases where jwz is spot on : it's a lottery ticket, nothing more.
Would love to leave Google Mail but eventually, the ecosystem around Google Apps got so strong, in particular all the extensions for Google Sheets and Google Mail, it makes switching quite hard.

And you get the Google Apps at a good price.
Theoretically yes, but the problem with obscurity is that it creates moral hazard by lowering visibility of all other measures that are or are not taken to protect the system. It's not unreasonable to decide that such extra layer of protection is not worth of making your decision makers subject to being able to cut corners as there is no feedback loop for them.
If you have read the NASA the you can quite the point where forbids the release of AOSP devices
Your argument that opening up the source code might have prevented her death is facetious.
This is really wrong.

You can very well assume that it's worthless. If you do, chances are you will not do your research on things like early exercise and 83(b) filing (whether, for example, you work at a company that even allows things like that).

Then, in the very small chance that your equity is actually worth something, you will be kicking yourself really hard because if you'd only prepared, you could've been paying LTCG on the whole spread, rather than dealing with AMT and trying to find a private buyer for your illiquid stock to pay off the IRS and the CA FTB.
The thing is, the entire standard library is in the default namespace. I personally dislike that, but then again, I was raised on python.
Universities are tracking their students. Is it clever or creepy?
considering the video uses only a match.
definately nothing to do with the wax.

you get an electrical arc inside the flame then it spits out balls of plasma.

if you time it just right so it doesnt hit the sides the plasma can last for quite a while after the microwave is shut off.

pulling a mocrowave to bits and doing it uncontained is still on my todo list.
> The main reason: the GPU. There is very little value in having an open specification, if the implementation sucks

I don't know, maybe we should try. Currently the implementations suck, because there's no specification, not the other way around.

> And the complexity of the graphics stack is such that nobody but huge monoliths that can focus lots of paid personnel to implement the GPU, implement the drivers, fix the drivers, fix the drivers, fix the drivers...

Substitute GPU / graphics stack with general purpose OS. Sounds plausible, yet there are lots of people working on that huge monolith for free and getting paid.
127 million people, in an advanced industrialised country.

I was shocked to see that Japan has a net out-migration:

http://metrocosm.com/global-immigration-map/

(Metrocosm -- a/k/a Max Galka -- is an absolutely amazing data resource.)
Winning the Gold Medal for Olympic Marketing
And it's full of bugs and vulnerabilities our adversaries of all kinds are actively using.

On the good side, bugs are fixed and vulnerabilities closed eventually. But the process is so slow... It spans numerous minor releases.
I wonder if there's any chance this could be successfully challenged in the courts, under the argument that it effectively deprives most defendants of the right to a jury trial, as amply demonstrated by the statistics. I'm not sure what actual law would be challenged; maybe the mandatory minimum sentences. I googled it and found Brady v. United States, an old Supreme Court case along these lines from 1970 that failed - but the ruling contains this quote:

> We would have serious doubts about this case if the encouragement of guilty pleas by offers of leniency substantially increased the likelihood that defendants, advised by competent counsel, would falsely condemn themselves. But our view is to the contrary, and is based on our expectations that courts will satisfy themselves that pleas of guilty are voluntarily and intelligently made by competent defendants with adequate advice of counsel, and that there is nothing to question the accuracy and reliability of the defendants' admissions that they committed the crimes with which they are charged.

I think it'd be pretty hard to argue today that offers of leniency have not "substantially increased" the likelihood, indeed the occurrence, of false guilty pleas. For example, here is another recent New York Times article about low quality drug tests leading to guilty pleas, which describes one county discovering, in an unchecked email inbox, hundreds of old lab notices failing to confirm those tests, ultimately leading to convictions being overturned - all guilty pleas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside-...
Replicant 6.0 early work, upstream work and F-Droid issue
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_modifier
By experience, the answer is quite easy: when both have the same occupation it gets boring very fast. It's much more enriching having the opportunity to learn about a different field than coming home and continue to listen about the same.

Rationally I would never pick somebody from the same field as me.
An even better example would probably be Minecraft, which was released in 2011 and is still getting new features, biomes and blocks 5 years after hitting 1.0
I hope I'm understanding the question correctly. If I don't answer fully, go ahead and comment again...

Mostly, the answer is that the algorithm doesn't need tweaking between different sites. It's even a bit more generic than that: It mostly needs possible actions to take (in our case - products it can show), information sources (in our case - indications of interest), and a goal function to maximize (in our case - something like revenue).

We're playing around a bit with slightly different weights to different verticals - but definitely now for specific stores.
Music || Building Software System
Our FDA inspector hung around the QA manager and staff, didn't go into R&D much at all, and spent some time on the factory floor checking processes.

I guess that they function as regular police do - the actual experience is less than ideal and leaves a lot to be desired, but without any at all, the world would be horrible.
Love seeing articles like this, attempts at being objective or analyzing the hyped technology. Blockchain land is very peculiar in the way that information amongst market participants exists, where investment is largely necessary to understand the functions available but naturally creates a mental conflict for objective thought. All the while everyone self-segregated from the blockchain arena largely dismisses the mere concept of the available functions.
Its only a moral hazard if you don't trust the people who are certifying the system and therefore aren't subject to the obscurity.

The trust question is the problem with obscurity. Do you trust the people making it obscure?

In this particular case, where safety-critical standards are relatively well known (within the industry) and not themselves obscured, they deserve to be trusted.
Any Tor Browser user would be clearing their history constantly with the "New Identity" feature.
What of complementary hobbies?

Digital signal processing and music for example.