skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To flesh out and challenge the writer's portrait of Thomas Mann as a "great respecter of authority" who rolled over for the Nazis (a basically unfair portrait, as the comments below develop), I will submit one of my favorite sentences from The Magic Mountain:

Als ob Stillgelegen nicht ein ebenso
gutes Kommando wäre wie Stillgestanden!

John Woods's translation:

As if "At ease!" were not just as
good a command as "Attention!"

But Stillgelegen does not literally mean "At ease!" It's a play on words contrasting with Stillgestanden, the military command to stand at attention; literally it means something like "lie there peacefully." So the line could be rendered as something like,

As if "Lie there peacefully!" were not just
as good a command as "Stand at attention!"

A delightful and curiously German sentiment. ...

Edit: Before I revised it, the first line of this post originally read, "To flesh out the the writer's portrait of Thomas Mann as a 'great respecter of authority' and a Nazi flunky ...", which is what mturmon's post below refers to.
If you have any exposure to the business side of things (which in a small[ish] company just about everyone does no matter the role unless the management is proactively hiding these things which then is a pretty clear symptom in and of itself), the impending doom is typically pretty evident.

Things like not being close to breaking even in the foreseable future, investors getting cold feet, having to pivot to appease the VCs etc etc.

On this last point - you really see the true colors of upper management when pivoting kicks in. If there are concrete actions taking place aimed at getting shit done to keep the company afloat - there might be a chance there. If, however, it's just posturing and paper-ware BS to fool the investors into thinking there's a fundamental change of direction - that would be a major sign of things being REALLY bad.
If you own a large amount of value or wealth that you did not create, I would say that is undeserved.

Founders and early employees contribute work and are hopefully rewarded for that work with ownership stakes in the company. Rightly so. But as the company grows, and to the degree that it necessarily hires additional employees, the proportion of ownership held by these early employees becomes undeserved (in the simple above sense of the word). Their large ownership positions remain, even as it becomes clearer and clearer that the value of the company is created by its hundreds/tens of thousands of employees.

So if you start a business and make a profit (a hard thing to do!), that is not undeserved. But if business grows and eventually the value is created by 15,000 people all together, you don't deserve 25% of it.
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What he's saying is that we don't know. Innocent until proven guilty, maybe?
Same old tired racist rhetoric. Yawn.
Those commercials have been weird from the start. They make the parents / relatives / friends seem dumb to the point of parody and the "developer" very condescending.
Z3py (Z3 bindings for Python) is a much better interface for Z3 IMO.

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~msagiv/courses/asv/z3py/guide-examp...
Competitor pivoted and got funding
If only there were hardware to run it on.
When people ask me about LSD, I always make a point of telling them you can have the shit scared out of you with LSD because it exposes something, something hollow. Let’s say you have been getting on your knees and bowing and worshiping; suddenly, you take LSD and you look and there’s just a hole, there’s nothing there. The Catholic Church fills this hole with candles and flowers and litanies and opulence. The Protestant Church fills it with hand-wringing and pumped-up squeezing emotions because they can’t afford the flowers and the candles. The Jews fill this hole with weeping and browbeating and beseeching of the sky: How long, how long are you gonna treat us like this? The Muslims fill it with rigidity and guns and a militant ethos. But all of us know that’s not what is supposed to be in that hole. After I had been at Stanford two years, I was into LSD. I began to see that the books I thought were the true accounting books — my grades, how I’d done in other schools, how I’d performed at jobs, whether I had paid off my car or not — were not at all the true books. There were other books that were being kept, real books. In those real books is the real accounting of your life.

--Ken Kesey, in "Ken Kesey, The Art of Fiction No. 136" by Robert Faggen, in The Paris Review No. 130 (Spring 1994)
Many Nobel prize winners have been Chinese, only one was a citizen of the PRC when they did the work/received the award. China's problem isn't it's people, but it's crazily dysfunctional government that wastes it's tremendous human capital.
That usually works for me (frequently getting me to a different AP news site), but not with this particular article. I have access to it now, but I thought I'd pass on the FYI.
I agree, but the problem is that usually the representation of the data comes before the logic you need around it, which can accumulate over a period of months or years. Depending on the application, depending on the programmer(s), that logic can turn into a real mess since there's no obvious place for it to live. This reduces code reuse, which leads to bugs.

It's not always appropriate, but building some language-idiomatic encapsulation around data from the very start makes it much less likely that the inevitable addition of hundreds or thousands of lines of logic will descend into incomprehensible spaghetti hell. This doesn't have to be OOP; it could just as easily be e.g. a module in a purely functional language.
Probably not for MOV, given x86 uses it a heck of a lot anyway, so surely processors are already equipped to handle it.
You said it's feature rich, therefore has lower performance over slow connections.

This is not true. Mobile app performance over slow connections is determined by app/server architecture, payload efficiency, caching strategy, etc.

There are many examples of feature rich apps performing well on slow connections, and many simple apps performing poorly over a normal connection.
If you look at turing machines they're pretty minimal, just a state machine reading/writing state on a tape

Repo includes a good set of slides: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/blob/master/slid...

Indirect memory accesses serve for conditional execution

Here's the macro for boolean and: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/blob/master/poc/...
Same old American rhetoric. "Oh, the chinese are only good at copying. They can never create". Yawn.
We're closer than we used to be. I think Apple is the only remaining major holdout that doesn't handle name-constraints.
A four-billion-year old, incredibly intricate, non-linear (replicator!) system, the only one in the known Universe, that we all depend on utterly, and that we are only beginning to understand, should not be tinkered with willy-nilly.

This is a very scientific viewpoint. I'm not superstitious nor am I ignorant.

Research should proceed apace, but deploying GMOs into the world should be the tool of last resort, used only when we are desperate and can't do anything else. Synthetic biology is Pandora's Box, not a toy chest. We should have a moratorium on GMOs (outside the research lab) for at least several centuries. It will take us at least that long to get anything like the necessary knowledge to do so responsibly.

The folks that want to proceed with GMOs and synthetic biology (outside of the research lab) have no real basis for their insistence on safety. It's a kind of faith. Usually not stated, these folks have faith that their GMOs are safe, and further that most GMOs in the future will be safe and any that aren't will be dealt with...

"It's fine. It will be fine."

That's what disturbs me most about the arguments against a cautious approach to GMO deployment, that it's fundamentally a faith-based position but they are shrouded in scientific-ist trappings.
Any item missing online or in stores that you wanted to buy the most?
Actually most hotel chains do not own the hotel real estate, they are management companies.
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In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub
> he didn't feel like they wrote enough lines of code.

Say what you want about Steve Balmer but he had the right attitude towards that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0&feature=youtu.be

As to the rest, I get the feeling that a lot of players in the market that now need software have the exact same tales being told about them. It is going to be a wonderment to me if I will be about to get through a day in 10 years without a IoT failure.
It would be reasonable to say a small percentage is employable or are globally competitive. Many tier 3 schools have CS programs that are completely bogus.
One of the problems here was that they were back-dating certificates...
Sometimes its environmental. One way to figure this out might be to try changing some parameters and see if you still enjoy things. Its hard for me to say without any context but I hope you find your purpose!
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Business: Til death do you part
> Anyone engaging in investigations for this kind of profit clearly has given up their claim to ordinary journalism

News organizations and journalists are desperate for viable funding models. Many have already violated long-standing ethics, such as by eliminating the 'firewall' between advertising and editorial, native advertising, etc.
A volcano caused global cooling in 1816
You don't need 4 tires to get traction. Just need a 2 cylinder John Deere! https://youtu.be/sZBjNKhcWtY
that's a really insightful and well written response.

except for the ad hominum at the end. that felt distasteful.
Absolutely. Have owned a Prius and a Subaru. The Prius with good snow tires was phenomenal in the snow, better than the Subaru with all-seasons.
All this talk of traction and moving forward is great but one of the most important things to remember about 4WD or AWD especially in snow and ice is that is doesn't enhance your ability to brake. It is easy to feel fearless being able to accelerate on a slippery road but a bummer to discover you can't stop (yes, I get that engine braking plays a role...).
And we have yet to see how they plan to: deal with an aging population(due to the 1 kid rule), deal with the health effects of all the air pollution, and clean up their environment.
And as their population becomes more tech savvy, and presumably figures out how to bypass the firewall and thus the censorship and propaganda, they might very well have to figure out a democratic and open society.
Those adds seemed weird to me. I program in the oil/gas space I couldn't imagine thinking working to built some app would be better that actually contributing to real world production. My den at my place is full of aerial shots of all the facilities I programmed. Every time I look at them I am filled with tons of pride.
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I should clarify on my above comment, in rollup the semantics don't matter as much but if you're using Bublé instead of Babel, the semantics may very well come into play. In either case, I didn't have luck on a project until I moved fully to webpack+Babel.
It also depends a lot on the company's strategy. If you are building a complex product then a small, highly qualified team makes sense. If your product is basic and requires a lot of customer success, you might want to hire junior devs or non-devs to do basic work (thus growing your team, but saving the senior dev time for more complex tasks).
This is the first I've heard about SPKI being an Internet-scale answer to the problem of X.509. The problem with the CA system isn't technical (even though X.509 truly does suck), but institutional: you can't have a single central authority handling all of Internet trust (it doesn't scale well, and it [rightfully!] alarms people), but if you have more then one, a market forms and generates a race to the bottom.

Whether your certificates are sexprs or ASN.1, and no matter how many new features you bake into them, you're still going to have to solve the Internet trust distribution problem.

The last thing in the universe you want is for Internet trust to somehow back out into the DNS.

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Calling Thomas Mann a Nazi flunky is shamefully ignorant of his history.

He was in exile from 1933 on. He worked against Nazi Germany during the war. The only part of that assertion that is true is that there were others who were more outspokenly anti-Nazi, earlier than he was. But, given Mann's personality, that's not surprising.
When the business office people leave work 15 minutes early, then the rumor spreads and you have a parking lot of people driving like Mad Max to the bank the company uses[1], it does get pretty bad. I was an observer since I worked for someone else.

It was in the 90's and there were "personal adjustments" that occurred later on.

1) cannot drive to your bank because then the check would bounce and really do some extra fun damage - plus this was before direct deposit was available at that company
Programmer, interrupted (2013)
GDC = Global Development Centre
Do you have a mobile phone OS based on OpenBSD to share?
For southern countries, there is also an aspirational element. Knowing you are guaranteed the same rights and privileges as people living in Paris, Berlin or Stockholm is a powerful motivator -- if anything because you know that, should things become completely unsalvageable back home, you can always up sticks and leave to better-run countries.
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John Graham-Cumming: Is Udemy Latin for “cesspool of ripped off content”?
I appreciate the well thought our response.

I offer a counter on one point:

"If you want numbers that can't be faked, inbound container counts at the port of Los Angeles are up."

There is a world wide glut of shipping capacity. http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/31/news/economy/china-shipping-...

port of LA could still be up but perhaps it isn't really an adequate example to generalize.

otherwise, I am in the same place. Sure, countries where production left due to labor costs will be able to compete again, and will enjoy some advantages around strong research institutions and being close to their markets, but its silly to think that China won't now have a strong consumer market to provide for, that they can't innovate, and that they can't have top tier research. I have lived in the US and China and I always get this feeling that Westerns think they have a monopoly on ideas and China has a monopoly on cheating/cloning/cheap. They are all wrong.
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I will suggest that you fail when you give up and no company is ever completely free of the threat of failing, no matter how long they have been around. If you hit challenges that the C level staff cannot overcome, then you are likely to die. But C level staff are often able to do "the impossible."

It is going to be nigh impossible to determine that something is certain to fail. Paul Graham suggests that startups need to just "not die" to eventually make it. I will suggest that this continues to be true, even after they are worth billions of dollars.
From the article:

"Android Open Source Project-based Maru provides you Android Lollipop for your smartphone and includes a Debian Linux within an LXC Linux Container for the desktop environment"
Yeah, it's a lot of manual entering of data (eg finding abundance of certain species of lichens, and lat/long, then manually entering all data and exporting this as a csv either for heatmaps with GIS or for more stats analysis and the same with animal species abundance) so it's good to know I'm not missing something fairly obvious!
I don't understand. What would a competitor do with a flaw in someone else's product? Exploit it? Release it? Having a hard time imagining they would pay more than the company itself.
We're living in William Gibson's world.
There just less neon than he imagined!
it seems similar to securityheaders.io
That's what I included "for the obvious issue": even in the backdated certificates they still have "reasonable" notAfter dates, and we (will) have a list of every certificate they've issued in the relevant time span.

Some people are also calling for every certificate they've ever issued to be added to the CT logs, but I doubt that'll happen.
"They could price gouge us at any moment and they know it. And when they do it will take us forever to build these mines / plants."

They tried. It didn't work. Molycorp got the Mountain Pass rare earth mine in California going again, with pollution controls that satisfied even the Sierra Club. Another company got a mine going in Australia. Techniques were developed to reduce rare earth consumption for motors. Rare earth demand dropped. Price crashed. China gave up on restricting exports. Molycorp went bankrupt, but the Mountain Pass mine is still there, although not running.

It's for sale. Want to buy the world's most advanced rare earths mine?
> I'd be concerned that taking any action with securities could be construed as insider trading (the SEC has been expanding the definition recently).

One, the courts have been narrowing - not expanding - the definition of insider trading [1].

Two, you are correct. Don't short a stock before tweeting a vulnerability. If you want to do this, retain a securities and investments lawyer. Vet your plan, trades and disclosure language carefully.

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/salman-v-united-s...
Interesting. I don't do front end stuff or web development, so I've never hit that scenario. Lots of files open and whatnot, but never an issue. I also dumped Resharper a while back due to it generally slowing everything down.
also, I would love to offer some interesting numbers

I manufacturer in china (https://flair.co) and just recently got some quotes from Bay Area Metal shops.

A tool for metal stamping that costs me 5KUSD in China was quoted to me for 55KUSD in the East Bay. And, the 5K cost gets refunded to me after 40K pieces are bought...

The notion that there aren't significant cost differences now is also misrepresented in the article. Sure, I would love to produce parts next to my apartment both because of convenience and proximity to my market (not because of bruhaha made in america nationalism nonsense) but it simply doesn't make financial sense.
This is one of those ideas that sounds like common sense when you hear or think about it the first time, but falls apart on scrutiny. Ryan Sleevi has done a much better job picking it apart than I can here, but among the numerous problems with it:

* The most important TLDs are transnational, and their trust hierarchies back into corporations (corporations, I will cheerfully and without irony point out, who are subject to the whims of the FVEY IC).

* It's jingoistic, suggesting we should base trust decisions not on technology or even, really, on policy, but rather on nationalism.

* It consigns residents of countries with oppressive governments to total control by their governments, while at the same time making usage constraints based on those TLDs (such as local mandates to use services whose names end in .XX for XX in $bad_countries) much more powerful.

* It further promotes the idea that security should somehow be tied to the DNS, despite the fact that the DNS is itself not transparently managed, and is often managed at odds with the interests of Internet users as a whole.

* By factionalizing Internet trust, it harms interoperability and also makes it harder to introduce further constraints into the certificate system by essentially declaring up front that we're conceding Internet trust policy to individual nations.

* It greatly complicates the security stories of companies that have adopted vanity domain names in random countries, which, whatever you think of those companies (koff! Pinboard), is an unforced error.

Of all the things we can spend time on to improve Internet security, this is not one of the better ones.
A bit pedantic: The rendering with caption "Maru OS brings Linux to an HDMI screen using the power of your Android smartphone" is very clearly an Apple Thunderbolt display, which doesn't support HDMI, let alone have a way for an Android phone to connect directly.
Opera warns Opera Sync users of possible security breach
wrongtroversial. great term. great explanation of it. thanks.

But -- I don't seem to be able to find Paul Graham's creation of this word thru a google search. Any pointers?
I know that this type of functionality is useful, but please consider the performance implications before doing anything like this. Non-native implementations (i.e. not IntersectionObserver) _always_ use properties and methods that cause style and layout calculations which have a significant performance impact on low-powered devices.

A more comprehensive list is here[1], but the main culprits are HTMLElement.offset{Width,Height}, Element.client{Width,Height}, and Window.getComputedStyle(). Avoid these, _especially_ on events like scroll. You will ruin the experience for many of your users.

[1] https://gist.github.com/paulirish/5d52fb081b3570c81e3a
I don't think I have ever before heard the expression healthily cynical. I have heard of healthy skepticism, but not of healthy cynicism.
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> third-world

Agree strongly, just a small note: UAE is quite wealthy. Higher PPP-adjusted per capita income than Sweden.
It's 2016. There's just no excuse anymore not to do TLS.
Tried it out, after I hit finish it just said "job megoing..." over and over and never spit out a result.
Japan to invest $30B in Africa
IMO, you do since you created the company and navigated it through the difficult early waters. If you were able to do so and maintain a 25% ownership share (astoundingly unlikely/uncommon IME), then you "deserve" it partly as a founder and partly as an ongoing investor (by virtue of not selling your shares).

There's a genuine argument that the investors and risk-takers "created" a portion of the wealth by virtue of bankrolling and hiring those 15K employees and paying them a risk-free salary.

I'm not especially interested in whether or not it's cosmically fair when deciding whether or not it's deserved. Warren Buffett "deserves" every bit of Berkshire Hathaway that he owns; Bill Gates every bit of Microsoft, Mark Z every bit of Facebook, etc. (Again, all in my opinion. I'm sure there are others who disagree, but even among them probably differ on how [or whether] to correct the "undeserved" ownership.)
You're going backwards. We already did the "per capita" thing, now you're pretending that you didn't understand what "large" meant in the first place?

I see that you have some kind of problem with what's been said about the production of great mathematical minds in Russia, so why don't you offer something contrary to the assertions made so far? Rhetorical gaming is really not an effective tool to make your point.
Haha, no. I get the impression from his post history that he works for an ASR/NLU team. They tend to have a more reasonable workload than some of the other teams.
Have been a driver for only 2 years but I can confirm that. I live in Eastern Europe where we tend to have at least one or two snow storms per winter, and, indeed, having winter tires and ABS makes a ton of difference, even on a 1.4-liter FWD vehicle like mine.

And, even more important, you have to keep a level head when you see that there's snow on the road and not try to do anything crazy, like making sudden left or right wheel movements. Also try to keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front of you, and, before you venture on a trip outside of the city, just check the weather forecasts: if there's a "red code" storm announced you'd better postpone your journey, only a tank can get you out from something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frf2lV77fl0
A 'golden' aphorism which may apply:

Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.