skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy USB flash drives for $2. People don't refrain from handing over flash drives because they're expensive, they do it because they have a reasonable expectation that you're able to immediately copy the data, or that you can receive it over a network.

The death of the floppy didn't kill sneakernet, the rise of portable networked computing did.
How does that work? Dont they do a background check based on your social or something?
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Pine trees smell good. They do not taste good.
> Invite women you work with for coffee

No chance of this being misinterpreted.

Invite women you work with for coffee and
ask what they like or dislike about their
day-to-day. If they mention concerns or
problems they’re having, ask if there’s
any way you could help make it better.
Try rather with: "ask a male nurse".

That is more comparable, i.e.: both are perfectly normal, but both are not too common for historical and possibly other reasons.
Where are the consequences for discriminating hosts? This feels like lip service.
Considering that old people are more likely to vote for Trump or Hillary, yes it is. CNN doesn't even include ages 18-34 on their polls anymore because those people are trying to vote for actual sane 3rd party candidates.
Thank you, now I can enjoy thinking about the tournament all over again.
I'm personally sick of keeping my skills up to date (ie. learning whatever the trendy tech of the week happens to be), and I'm kind of burnt out on the whole tech scene in general.. actually burnt out on it long ago, but I keep working in the field because I don't have the training in anything else, and really don't have much motivation to put in the enormous amount of effort it will take to switch careers at this point.

Genuine enthusiasm is what I think a lot of younger people have over older people. After getting enough experience, I just really can't get very excited over the whole mobile craze, or IoT, or yet another f'ing scripting language, or automation, or what have you. I do admit I got excited about VR for a few months, but that wore off fast, and would probably have worn off even faster if I had worked in VR and was immersed in it 12 hours a day, every day for years on end.

Some people can somehow keep their enthusiasm for tech their whole lives, and it never gets old for them. I envy those people, but I have many other interests, and my interests tend to change relatively frequently, and I just can't keep a single-minded focus on just tech (or anything else) for very long. That's why working in tech is just a job for me. If I wasn't paid, and paid very well for it, I'd just keep it as a hobby.

I don't think it's just tech for me either. I think I'd feel about any profession the exact same way. After a while, I just get bored and want to move on to something else, something completely new and different.
Flavored? It makes you wonder what those slices are actually made of.
Ah, now I googled and saw the box. It says "made with pork, chicken, beef". In no particular order and in variable proportions, I guess.
Cars are one of the worst environments for analog electronics due to massive interference from spark plugs (basically wide band RF emitters), along with bad power from the alternator and high currents through the chassis ground.
If it's just a log then you can "merge on write" (nosql) instead of "merge on read" (join),
I'm a male that worked with a feminist group about a decade ago. What I learned is that there are spaces/initiatives where men are welcome and, ones where they are not. As in any human relationship - respect of boundaries is key.

Like alaithea said, if you're not welcome in one space - you may be in another. You could also start your own initiative but, remember that top down decision making in the name of helping a group has alienated groups and stifled progress many times before.
Why? It looks pretty standard to me. It uses named variables for options, instead of argument position, and has reasonable defaults, so you don't have to specify every option.

This is the standard, modern way of added options to a function.
I would like to ask a female engineer some things.

1) do you think there are more men in engineering exclusively as a result of men being prejudiced against women?

2) do you think your male co-workers are less qualified to be engineers because they were hired for their gender?

3) one of the engineers in this article said she felt uncomfortable being aware of being the only female. Can anyone explain what causes the discomfort?
I do think. Probably the same unconscious ageism in action: if you are having trouble getting hired and you're over 40, it's obviously because your skills are out of date.

Hiring involves a lot of "People Like Us" evaluation, consciously in many cases. And if you're over 40, you're probably not like "Us" in SV.
> How would you transfer ownership of big linked data structures?

Very carefully?

More seriously, I think with guilds, what you absolutely don't want to do is build yourself into a position where you ever want to move a big linked data structure (that is, unless you know you are only going to use it in one guild, you never want to build a big linked data structure of mutable objects.)

Big structures of mutable objects should be guild local (or external, in a store that has its own controls for concurrent access.)
I hope the two organizations will work together in more ways than this, but it's a good example.
Directional antenna (e.g. satellite dish) broadcasts power in some specific directions (space angles) around the antenna (which are called main-lobes). This is to increase the chance of picking up the signals at the receiver (which is also pointed at the transmitter antenna).

Omnidirectional antenna on the other hand, transmits information in all directions (kind of like a sphere around the antenna). The transmitted power per surface is identical at a certain distance, and for the same input power, power density of an omnidirectional antenna is less than that of a directional one.

Complete omnidirectional antenna doesn't exist in practice, but sources like the Sun and wireless modems (some of them) come close to this definition. BTS towers on the other hand, make use of directivity methods to further cover the area, which is why you see something called SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) on your smartphone's box. In layman's term, SAR measures how much EM power your body-flesh absorbs because of your phone, and as you might guess, the less SAR, the better.
The phrase "increasingly ubiquitous" doesn't make sense. Something is either ubiquitous or not. There's no such thing as increasingly infinite, for example.

It's best to avoid passive voice, but sometimes that requires difficult thinking about who is taking action. In this case, who is causing Python to be deployed in more computing environments? How about this revision:

"With increasing frequency, software engineers and system administrators are choosing Python, because the language is easy to learn and productive for developing large, complex applications."

I'm not sure that's how I'd explain Python's popularity.
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Yap. There are already implicit assumptions made before the question is even discussed.

It is a bit like say telling women: "Don't dress as sexy, don't wear too much makeup, it will help you slip under the radar. Maybe you won't be propositioned as much, etc."
The Ocean is a very different place, we can't see into it as well, corpses and bones disappear, there is no physical evidence to be left etc. The Tasmanian tiger is on land, it dwells on the ground, and is an apex predator. This is exactly the kind of species that would be easy to find compared to a mouse, a fish, or an ape.
I haven't seen a persuasive analysis of whether and how one should vote; most analyses I've seen ignore the electoral college and all the issues it brings. In brief:

My vote is statistically extremely unlikely to affect the outcome of the election. This is counter-balanced by the extremely large impact affecting the outcome would have. I'm inclined to believe that the two roughly cancel, so that a (say) one-in-several-million chance of affecting the outcome is worth the effort of voting. But I live in California, where my vote is roughly 100x less likely than the average vote to affect the outcome (FiveThirtyEight has done this analysis, though the precise number fluctuates and has considerable uncertainty).

So then what are the effects of my vote? It nudges the statistics a little. It increases turnout, which probably increases confidence in our democracy. It increases turnout among 18-29 year-olds, probably increasing their political clout and furthering causes they support. Do I agree with them on the whole, or in particular on issues where their political clout is likely to tip the scales? I don't know. Say I vote for Clinton, it also increases her popular vote total. If she wins, it slightly improves her electoral mandate. If she loses, it slightly deprives Trump's mandate. It also increases the chance that Trump wins the election but loses the popular vote--a potentially very unpleasant scenario.

How do I measure and balance these? How is a consequentialist to vote?
Do they say how much time is the generation taking?

Is this insanely slow to train but extremely fast to do generation?
No, Kaspersky Labs is using correct terminology.

Some rootkits install a backdoor. Not all rootkits install a backdoor -- some merely conceal themselves and operate locally. The famous Sony Rootkit is one such example of a rootkit which did not add a backdoor.

The defining characteristic of a rootkit is that it conceals its presence from the rest of the system. Backdoor.OSX.Mokes.a doesn't really do this -- it's only a backdoor. Not a rootkit.
Sure it is - but it's universal to citizens participating in that society. if you're outside the system, YOU'RE OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM, including UBI. Doesn't mean you have to pick one candidate - you can abstain, as long as you show up to record your abstention.
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That list of directories is really weird. On my machine, none of them exists, neither in ~/Library nor /Library. And I do run most of that software (Dropbox, Skype, Firefox, Chrome in the past...).

Either the malware targeted very old versions of such software and/or OSX, or somebody between the malware author and the blog writer f###ed up.
You make a good point. Usually when somebody attempts to slander someone by saying they are alt right, they are exploiting our lack of awareness of equivocation fallacy.

There's a tiny group of terrible people who happen to also be alt right. We are supposed to associate any person who is labelled "alt right" with that tiny group even if they have nothing significant in common with them.
I agree. This is bad advice. If the whole team is going, sure, but as a woman this sounds like the setup to a date.

Really hope guys reading this article, understand a lot of women are different, and to take what they are saying with a grain of salt.
You're right, performance is a reason to upgrade. I'm satisfied with mine, but it could be better. Whenever I use my wife's 6s+ I'm mildly shocked at how much smoother and more responsive it is. I don't think it's enough to get me to pay $769+ to upgrade, but it's still a potential reason to.

The headphone thing annoys me enormously, but it probably won't be a factor here.
Isn't manufacturing also dominated by PLCs and ladder logic? Not sure that's much better for my sanity!
Point: missed.
Ever? For when you need to make your (already encrypted) SSH traffic look like HTTPS because of overly restrictive firewalls. Of course, that's not what the linked script is doing.
Googling "west coast beer style" has this[0] as the first result. You could argue that this isn't a canonical source or that things have changed since the thread in 2011--but the stigma is still around.

[0] https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic...
Sir, btw, I need a rule that I can use intuitively when deciding on wether to concatenate two words and when to put a dash between them. Do you have one?
I had a surprisingly hard time reading this; but I don't subvocalize, and words are 'things' to me (for example, your/you're is read differently in my head and makes me very sensitive to that mistake).
Thank you for that; this has been eyeopening.

The possibility of having a valid email address where the second-level domain component can't actually be registered as a domain, to the best of my understanding, eg "bar!.com", is interesting.
The rest of the phone is "good enough" so that people don't take the risk to jump to a different OS environment on the next iteration.

Plus, Apple always promises the new iPhone will fix everything you didn't like about the previous one and people eat that up.
Heck, I just want him to get into the debates. Having only two parties debate things they care about without a third voice means most of the TV-watching American public won't ever realize that there are better alternatives.
http://www.sqasolar.org.uk/solar/material/IS01CGCD/page_19.h...

A rootkit can implement backdoor functionality, but not all rootkits are backdoors, and not all backdoors are rootkits.
And name-mangling is less about privacy than about preventing accidental overrides.
you show up, take your ballot which registers a receipt, and abstain on that particular office/issue. but at least showing up to register your abstention IS your vote.
This sort of remark reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWeoxrhbE8 (or perhaps https://youtu.be/ZjibEkDoXQc?t=19)

It doesn't add much value to the conversation and whether some tech is really a rehash or not rarely matters. It also makes you sound cynical.
Not only that but you need to have smart people cleaning the data,

Which are difficult to find when you think of them as "janitors", and treat them accordingly.
It's also serving as a good signal to Nintendo that this path is indeed what people want. The price will probably correct, good chance to short.
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> The only freedom the ideal of USA is supposed to grant you is freedom from too much government meddling.

Really? Which amendment is that one?

There are a few prominent restrictions on particular kinds of government meddling in the US. This by no means generalizes to the rest of it.
I think its mostly a west coast thing - here in the midwest we get plenty of malty beers!
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I don't know whether it has accelerated compositing, but in my experience compositing is relatively cheap compared to painting the layers or especially layout. That may be an artifact of the app I work on being poorly composited, however.
Bang on. Discrimination by sex is not socially acceptable. Discrimination by other protected factors is sometimes socially ok. (not that it should be).

Edit to add: At a former company i became a bit of an outsider when I noted at a diversity meeting that diversity meant more than the big 3 that tend to get pushed around Gender, Orientation, Race. I noted that our office was young, had no parents, no ex convicts, no disabled people, few people who had not attended a top university (or no university for that matter) and few or no religious people... people basically said "Why you against <women, colored...>?" as though it was some kind of zero sum fight.
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why the attack?

the fact that he didn't put in enough safety in complicated apartment is the reason for you to attack him? Well maybe it technically challenging, would make the place ugly or is near impossible given the layout of the place or materials used to build it. You cannot just drill anywhere you want in buildings that are few hundred years old for example.

there is a distinction between sharing an apt and going to hotel. Latter is vastly more regulated, former is a bit wild west and exactly the reason why people are using it (because with this comes usually lower price if more people will be accommodated, more homely feel with more equipment ala full kitchen etc.).

Let's not try to make private apartments hotels, because then we end up with... just more fugly hotels.
The aim is to look legitimate, but not clobber applications - merely to look like something the user shouldn't delete.
Why not flavor with malts? I haven't looked into the history of American beer, but many styles seem to come from the price of local ingredients and qualities of local water. That makes me things hops were cheap and plentiful and caused the IPA trend.
The implication of an MIT license is that anyone can use or sell your work with attribution. If the contributor was not happy with that, or unhappy with getting a free db worked on by other people, they simply wouldn't contribute. Since they did contribute on those terms, we have no reason to think they want to be paid.

https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/blob/master/LICENSE
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> to take what they are saying with a grain of salt.

funnily, that would beat the purpose entirely.
I think this is most indicative of poor management. The "real" problem is the not the tech providers, but the tech managers.

What I've experienced is that many of the tech managers either 1) couldn't hack it to begin with, so they pivoted (this pivot may have been in college, or in the workforce), or 2) haven't stayed relevant themselves.
>That's why the need for assertions to check that invariants hold.
>No, you need proof.

You might need proof, but it doesn't mean you'll get it. In most languages in common use (e.g. not Coq and co) and for any larger than trivial program "proof" is impossible.

So, we'll continue to need all the tools we can realistically use, including assertions, unit tests and others.

>So you're saying humans are fundamentally incapable of establishing the logical validity of what they assert by themselves? This contradicts historical evidence that people have done this for well over 2 millennia, using various methods and tools.

This particular question is not even wrong in the context of the discussion. I don't usually throw around the term "troll", but you're either trolling or being alternatively naive on principle / too pedantic.

I any case, whether people are "capable of establishing the logical validity of what they assert by themselves" for trivial things or for narrow domains, the absolutely have not been able to manually do it, or do it fast enough to be practical, for software programs, especially any non trivial one. Even the best programmers introduce bugs and have behavior in their program that they didn't expect.

Which is also why even the best programmers use assertions. It's not some obscure feature relegated to newbies or bad programmers. It's a standard practice, even in the most demanding and hardcore programming environments, from the Linux kernel (which uses the BUG_ON assertion macro) to NASA rocket code.

Or I could turn "troll mode" on an answer on the same vein as the question: if "people have done this for well over 2 millennia, using various methods and tools" then they haven't been doing it "by themselves" any more so than when using assertions (which is also one of such "tools").

And of course, I haven't anywhere stated that "humans are fundamentally incapable of establishing the logical validity of what they assert by themselves".

The gist of my comment would be merely that humans are bad at establishing the logical validity of their computer programs by themselves -- for which there is ample "historical evidence".

>Some errors might be easier to fix or have less disastrous consequences than others, but a correct program is one that has no errors, so I don't see where the spectrum is.

The spectrum is obviously in that correctness is not black and white, and all non trivial programs have bugs in practice. Those programs with few and far between bugs are more correct than others.

Or, in other words: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
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A great, solutions-oriented piece about building a sustainable child welfare system in Uganda from the ground up.
Going to be honest, they can try but since these are private homes they wont get far.
So true. The question is, how do you avoid that place. Only so many can become managers. Only so many can start own business and keep it running.
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Some CBS news affiliate brought him on to talk about the Epipen situation.

Honestly, he's very candid, and he says things people don't want to hear. Sometimes he says things that are just wrong and inconsiderate, but other times he says things that are simply inconvenient truths.

For example, he brings up the Epipen situation in a different light: He says $300 ($600 for 2) is significantly cheaper than the alternative (a trip to the ER, which can be thousands of dollars). He goes on to say it's a relative bargain, and that insurance companies should be more than willing to pay for Epipens because of the potential cost savings. To him the problem isn't Mylan (which has become the target of everyone's ire) but the insurance companies or medicaid.

Whether that's true or not it's a different perspective, and as a society we need to hear things that the masses don't necessarily agree with. The US system of healthcare is highly flawed, it's not a good idea to just make a boogeyman who will hide the real issues.
The issue is not the capital investment on hardware. You can get an equally powerful modern server to replace your old AS/400 machine for a few thousand dollars. The issue is the risk to move away from that is not worth it.
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Frivolously? Just because you don't know why they made a change doesn't make it frivolous. Other people have said it's because people tend to store their phones in their pocket upside-down (I know I do) and so it's nicer that way. This may be the reason, or they may have wanted to put other stuff at the top of the phone and the headphone jack was in the way. If it was just because of the phone being upside-down in your pocket, they've still put other stuff where the jack was (there's no empty space in the phone), and whatever they put there may or may not be able to be relocated (for example, it's possible that the extra space there is used for camera-related hardware).
Is that asking a bit much from an open source project?
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Golly, and how do you think your neighbors felt about the house party? Something you'd like going on in your quiet neighborhood, or on the floor above your apartment?

Much like how cryptocurrency is a high-speed re-enactment of how and why we developed modern financial institutions and regulations, Airbnb is a high-speed re-enactment of how and why we developed regulations on and protections for transient lodging establishments.

Having some sailors come to town and trashing the hotel is nothing new, and neither are the hoteliers thinking that excluding "certain folk" is a good way to limit the damage.
> locks will still be needed within multithreaded guilds

It seems to me that is the intent; that is, any Ruby code that exists now is single-guild Ruby 3 code -- if its multithreaded, it needs locks, for the same reason it does now.

> It would seem like the intention would be to replace usages of Thread with Guild to avoid the concurrency issues inherent with threaded code

I think that'll be a common use case, though running what amount to multiple "legacy" Ruby 2 multithreaded systems in separate Guilds in the same Ruby 3 process seems also to be an intended supported use case.

> Will there be API support to create a Guild that only allows a single thread?

It certainly sounds like a good idea.
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