skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little fish can't bully a big fish. The government is the biggest fish so we have to be careful about it.

A game developer can bully its employees, but not it's distributor (oculus). Oculus can bully its developers, but not its competitors. The government can bully all of them.

These are all generalizations of course--the devil in the details. But the point is it's not just behavior that matters, it also matters who has power over who.
Ok, after this Pull Request is merged into Cygfuse, anyone will be able to compile MP3FS on Cygwin.

https://github.com/mgeisert/cygfuse/pull/2
Update Galaxy J7 to Official Marshmallow 6.0.1
Unfortunately, in practice, Agile almost always devolves into a cargo cult: perform the ritual of the Standup at the appointed time, etc. and all will be well. Any actual personality management is papered over with appeals to authority.

I think teams that succeed do so despite using Agile (or any other management fad). A cohesive team that communicates well can succeed using Agile, sure, but the process is incidental; they would succeed using most any methodology. Survivorship bias leads people to believe that Agile (or whatever methodology-of-the-week is in play) is causative, when it is actually epiphenomenal.
The application says "We will send an email to each founder to fill out additional information about themselves."

Could someone post what those additional questions are? It would be super helpful because we are trying to prepare everything offline first.
The problem is in the sort function. It expects the comparison to be deterministic and thus does not give the fully randomized list.

Instead giving each name a distinct value (between 0 and 1) and sort based on those values.
The random return used in the comparison passed into an Array.sort() function would depend on the sort algorithm used by the JavaScript engine, since the comparisons being returned aren't "honest". Is it a merge sort, for example? Plus, it's kinda broken because if X > Y for one permutation, it should follow that Y < X if those same values are passed back in, and in this case, they' really not.

MS took advantage of this when selecting a random browser for the browser ballot years ago.

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser...
I checked my system - Firefox wasn't writing much and what it is writing is going to my user directory on the hard drive instead of the program directory on the SSD, so that's nice. But still, I don't want my browser cluttering up my drive with unnecessary junk - history, persistent caching from previous sessions, old tracking cookies, nevermind a constant backup of the state of everything. I try to turn all that off, but there's always one more hidden thing like this.

If I want to save something, I'll download it. If I want to come back, I'll bookmark it. Other than those two cases and settings changes, all of which are triggered by my explicit choice & action, it really shouldn't be writing/saving/storing anything. Would be nice if there were a lightweight/portable/'clean' option or version.

When I tried Spotify, it was pretty bad about that too - created many gigabytes of junk in the background and never cleaned up after itself. I made a scheduled task to delete it all daily, but eventually just stopped using spotify.
People quickly forget that Palmer is a private citizen. He is free to have what ever political views he wants. I could some what understand if it was Oculus, but it is not. Oculus has nothing to do with Palmers political views.
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One of the best ways to resolve issues in a project is simplifying. You don't need so many if you are going to simplify. Though, anecdotally, I haven't had any issues with the site or service for a few years now. So I can't imagine they have many production issues that affect all the users.
This implicitly assumes that Array.sort is stable: that is, if the comparison function returns 0 then sorting leaves the array elements in their original relative positions. That's not guaranteed by the JavaScript specification, see e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=90

It just so happens that in V8, the built-in sort uses an unstable quicksort for large arrays but a stable insertion sort for small ones, so the rest of your analysis is correct.
Yep. After several years of pointing out that feudalism was the natural outcome of his political sympathies, I finally convinced a friend that he wasn't a libertarian a while back.

I say this as someone who is very sympathetic in principle to a lot of libertarian thought. In practice, that's just not how humans work.
So, now you just need to build a highly-optimizing, C++ compiler instead of a browser? That's another project that few got right over a period of a decade or so. Of course, one could use a C++ to C compiler or extend existing C++ compiler with OS-specific backend. Might still be plenty work but easier than clean-slate browser.
The strut which failed in 2015 was outsourced. A tiny fraction of the struts from the factory failed at well under the specificed maximum load, and one of them ended up in that rocket.
> dulce et decorum est pro libertas mori

Should be "pro libertate" ("pro" governs the ablative case).

Edit: the reason you may not notice the difference in the original is that the ablative of "patria" is "patriā" (just with a long a, which isn't explicitly marked in all texts).
FWIW, Microsoft has a different string and yes, order matters IIRC.
I'd love to hear more from the perspective of Hong Kong residents and natives. In the us we get relatively little coverage of the situation in Hong Kong.
Huh. That helps explain one I found from the 19th C.: https://www.flickr.com/photos/abecedarius/3054204291/ a little below middle: "... philosophy in small :)"
Think Like a Software Developer
I like ripgrep quite a bit from trying it today, and am hoping to find time to work on a Vim plugin this weekend. No promises, but I'll share as soon as I have something usable.
The self-absorption displayed in that piece is a symptom of the success of the middle class in the 20th century. To put it bluntly, some people have become weak. Millennials cannot shoulder all the blame, either - it is also a failure of the people and institutions that raised them.
I'm a big fan of FoldingText / TaskPaper (the underlying engine is the same).

http://www.foldingtext.com/

You can tag and add contexts arbitrarily.

Some Project.todo
- my task #foo @due(2017-01-01) @blocked
- another
This is what I set in my .vimrc today, and it seems to be working pretty well:

if executable('rg')
set grepprg=rg\ --no-heading\ --vimgrep
set grepformat=%f:%l:%c:%m
endif

Then you can just :grep yourquery (or :grep yourquery path), and the results will show in a quickfix window.
RUD is at least used ironically. I don't get the impression that "anomaly" has the same tone.
It's because Google and other mapping companies use the BSSID (MAC) which doesn't change if you just change the SSID.
Which brings us to the http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org ?
If you've ever been to the Las Vegas strip and thought, 'it won't take long to walk from Mandalay Bay to NYNY," you can make the same mistake on Earth, too.

:)

It's an interesting read, though, and I've also read the point you've made. I wonder if there's any mathematical approach that can solve this, or if it's one of those "only affects humans" sort of things.
Very cool Article! For all the political discord going on in this day and age, reading this transcript really does make me feel proud to be an American.
It does. The soft modens were partly a lockin technique to decrease odds you'd be able to use something like Linux without buying new hardware. The strategy apparently worked. It's why I push for standards-compliant hardware that requires no funny business to use in new ways.
I am well aware that that's exactly what you're saying. It's sad that you can come up with a valid premise but can't take the comparatively dull step of following it to its logical conclusion.
Nasa doesn't have publish-or-perish.
Is it a realtime OS like BeOS?
The official Twitter said to expect a "PC rollback solution soon".[1]

1. https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/779415276399931392?...
Might be good to mention what programming languages do you work with, as security is quite coupled with application code...
I don't have a problem with company requiring a python developer. Nor am I super offended if someone doesn't call back. But I do have a problem when they waste a month of my time in a long, unnecessarily dragged out process for a position they know I'm not qualified for, and then not bothering to take a few seconds to shoot me an email saying I wasn't a good fit so that I could get some closure and move on.

Irrelevant, but I probably shouldn't have said "all" of Django. Anything I needed to learn for them I could have learned within a few short weeks of working for them. They needed someone who understood good coding practices in general, and could pick things up quickly.
>On Friday, the news organization revealed that Chris Ziegler, a founding member of The Verge, had been working for Apple since July, but didn't tell anyone about his dual employment.

then:

>During Ziegler's time at The Verge, he wrote primarily about cutting-edge car technology, including rumors about the Apple Car. His last post on the site overall is dated July 1: http://www.theverge.com/users/chrisziegler/posts*

So, he started working for Apple on July, and he didn't wrote articles on Apple tech anyway before, but about cars, the last of which was published before he started with Apple.

Furthermore, as they say "Chris did not attempt to steer any coverage towards or away from Apple, and any particular decisions he helped make had the same outcomes they would have had absent his involvement," the editor's note reads.".

Not only that, but he just disappeared from the blog, to the point that the people there were "in the dark and concerned for Chris".

For actual shills we probably need to look elsewhere...
In the first case, it's searching in parallel, so I bet the order of results is different each time.

In the second case, rg each > foo2 found results in foo1 and put them in foo2. Then rg each > foo3 found results in foo1 and foo2, and put them in foo3. Etc. That's why the file size increases so quickly.
poorly.
This. Also, not only does Twitter have great brand recognition but also individual tweets can have far greater reach than Twitter's user numbers might suggest. A lot of non-users see Tweets - embedded in news stories, shared around the internet, or shown on TV. And lots of non-users hear about things that happen on Twitter.

That said, while that brand recognition and reach is scarce and hard to reproduce, it's not necessarily something anyone would want to pay a lot of money for. How would anyone monetize it? Twitter can't really control how many non-users see a tweet.
Throw this in your favorites, and have fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
dmraid is pretty cool. My desktop has 4 disks configured in a "fakeraid" RAID 10 setup. My desktop dual boots Debian and Windows. I can use/share that RAID 10 volume under both Debian and Windows just as easily as I could a single disk. I use half of the volume for my Windows Steam library and the other half for my Linux Steam library. I didn't have to do anything special under Linux. dmraid just made it magically work.
The Oracle bias is strong in this article
That sounds like the Levenger Circa system. I never tried them myself (thought they were too pricy), but they are popular in the GTD crowd.

http://www.levenger.com/circa-notebooks-339.aspx

I did Hipster PDA for a while, which you could kind of consider a poor man's version.

http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-...
Oh no they don't use that alone, the amount of data they receive from the sensors and how it factors into everything also varies, if you got that impression it's my bad, I thought I was clear that when you enable the "location services" in Android it works all the time in the background regardless of what you have explicitly enabled or not they even state that when you turn it on.
Pretty much the IMU data is used to prevent jumps, enable them to use better path predicting algorithms and to provide coverage in doors, if you don't want them tracking you disable the background location services, or well sadly don't take the phone with you.

P.S.

I'm pretty sure that iOS has the same thing, I also know that there are a few startups that want to push their own location provider service including sensor based tracking, I've played around with pathsense their location API was faster and considerably* more accurate than Google's https://pathsense.com

*As far as jitter goes, if you are talking about accuracy only to the point of "is jim at the juicebar on the corner of Main St. and 8th.?" they both work pretty much the same.
Or generations, you know? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11951413
I understand. I'm arguing against the original poster's logic, not their conclusion. As I understand it, the argument is that any IP lawyer who believes what is written in that op-ed could not possibly be competent. I'm asserting that this is false, and that the world is full of competent and successful people who believe things that others find to be incomprehensible, and that their beliefs are not evidence that are incompetent.

I don't don't know whether Hurst is a true-believer in this case. I do know that there are many smart and talented people who have convinced themselves of things that seem absurd from the outside. Some humans have an amazing ability to align their beliefs with their self-interests. Even in the face of beliefs that can scientifically be proven to be false, this often has surprisingly little negative effect on their competence in their field.
Do you ever miss the upside of all that persistence? I find my history useful, I find continually re-logging in a pain (obviously excepting the kind of sites where I don't want my login to persist i.e. financial etc).

However I also only close my browser once every couple of weeks as well. System updates etc.
>In the first case, it's searching in parallel, so I bet the order of results is different.

Aha. Thought that needed the -j flag (it says: default threads: 0 in the cli help).

Could it do anything to put them out in order of "depth" (and directory/file sorting order)?

>In the second case, rg each > foo2 found results in foo1 and put them in foo2. Then rg each > foo3 found results in foo1 and foo2, and put them in foo3. Etc. That's why the file size increases so quickly.

LOL, facepalm -- yes.
Yes, they probably do. Crime victimization surveys (e.g. the NCVS) strongly suggest that blacks do, in fact, commit a lot more violent crimes than other groups.

Here's a great blog post that reviews the academic literature: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...

Since you seem to believe there is some confounding factor that causes the census to incorrectly count the number of poor people who work, feel free to expand on it.
This can happen because rg searches files in parallel, so the order in which it finishes the files can be nondeterministic. If you run with -j1 (single-threaded) then it is deterministic.

To get deterministic output in multi-threaded mode, rg could wait and buffer the output until it can print it in sorted order. This might increase memory usage, and possibly time, though I think the increase would be minor.
There are quite a few former SFDC employees who left for Twitter, so maybe it's a grand scheme to get them back...
> While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion

We'll just try to blackmail your company into stifling political thought.

On the other hand, who would want to work with a company lead by a racist?

> "I absolutely support him doing whatever he wants politically if it's legal. To take any other position is against American values."

Also disagree with this. Refusing to work with someone because of their politics may be a nasty thing to do, but it's equally valid speech.

All that said, i don't know if Palmer Lucky is a racist. I do think he's a young man with a high profile and based on things that have happened I think he should probably have someone working with him to help maintain a more professional online presence.

His GF is a trump supporter. Maybe he is too. So is Thiel. I think less of them all because of it, but ultimately who they are politically isn't a big deal to me. I just question what good Luckey thinks can come of funding "shitposters". Throwing a fundraiser, starting a super pac, endorsing trump, etc... those are all pretty standard political process things. This just seems ridiculous.

I'd also be especially careful given what happened to Eich. Yes, he gave money to a cause many view as oppressive (me included). Don't really see a big difference between that and Trump at this point.
I've always been impressed by that, because it's essentially bullet-proof.
Perhaps taken out back and blown up would be more apropos?
Enogh of these anecdotes and you have data. THe problem with the oficial statistics is the colletion methods, tainted by political expediency. Don't automatically discount stories: they are also data. Instead, investigate further. This is how you improve your data.
Mason City :)
While I agree with you that such a law is poorly constructed and should be fixed, that it exists is not worrying to me at all.

Until recently, it was legal in many places to rape your wife. It is still currently legal to release pollution into the atmosphere without paying for its ecological costs. There are a lot of bad laws on the books, and even more that were on the books 50 years ago. And we're ok. We figured it out.

If thousands of people start getting put in jail for offending folks, I'll get a little more worried. And we'll fix it.

What bothers me is that you are spending energy worrying about a law that may, theoretically, be misused in the future when there are people in prison right now because of bad laws that have been on the books for a long time.

You're lucky that you are in such a comfortable position that you can worry about hypothetical future prosecutions, but I might suggest using that privilege to help people who are already in the position that concerns you.
This definitely feels very spammy.
Forcing it to use one worker (-j1, I think) should give it deterministic output.
This is a really well-informed comment and I wanted to say something else in support of it.

A Caltech scientist who had worked with DOE and NASA labs made an offhand comment about the kind of work that those labs are suited to do that stuck with me - he said they should be trying to solve problems that are "national lab hard" - kind of a play on NP-hard.

What he meant is that these environments are suited to solving complex cross-discipline engineering/science problems ("make the right measurements to understand the climate system", or "find the processes and materials to make air travel safer", or "put a huge infrared telescope in space").

These are not problems that are suited to a university research structure. They don't get solved with $300K/year grants, small collections of discipline-focused PIs, and transient grad students.
And then there is the "Did you turn it off and on again" school of thought. I've had to fight against that so hard before when the correct issue is inducing something to drop core, or fix a leaky program using valgrind.
It's overwriting a few files when the data they contain changes; it's not leaving a huge pile of unused data to clutter up your disk.
How does the expected value of the log of your net worth deal with the possibility of a negative net worth? Any finite probability of zero net worth will weigh infinitely in the log domain, right?
Is this in reference to the whole "OMG Microsoft/Lenovo is locking down your laptop!" scandal?
> ...and has monetized somewhat effectively.

Disagree. They got a massive valuation quickly, never made a profit, and have lost much of that value because of it.

"Twitter has lost $2 billion since in 2011."
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/technology/twitter-10th-anni...
"Please enable JavaScript in your browser!"

That advice was a lot simpler than I thought it would be.
How to Create More Women and Minority Tech Founders
I'm the head of development for a venture capital studio and I've been thinking about how I can use my skills to make more of an impact. I came up with building tech companies for women and minority founders for equity only (i.e. it wouldn't cost any out of pocket money ).

Is this a worthwhile effort? Here are a few of my concerns...

- I'm white. I don't know if this matters but I thought I'd mention it.
- Taking equity. This will be a business. The primary reason for making it a business and not a non profit, is that I think I can raise money for it if I can show how it can make money. This means more companies will be built that otherwise would not have been and it also proves to investors that they have been ignoring a hugely talented group of people. Also, it would be an amazing company to run.

I've built a site and am accepting submissions at www.sturdyfalcon.com ( funny name, I know ) , but really do want help shaping the mission / purpose of this project.

Thanks,

Andrew
Comma Chameleon – A desktop CSV editor for data publishers
"... or Robin Thicke being forced to plunge his own toilet."

Can someone explain me this one??
Running PHP with Caddy Server on Mac OS X – Simone Carletti
From the article:

> “Even assuming it’s a violation of the protective order...” Haag began to say, when Alsup interrupted her with an exasperated noise.

> “Your firm is one of the biggest litigators in America,” said the judge. “Next time you go into a court somewhere and you ask for confidential documents, I hope someone raises this and says, ‘Your firm violated that order, and why should we give your firm access?’”

> “She just blurted out the two numbers that mattered. She just blurted it out,” said Judge Alsup. “If she had had the recipe for Coca-Cola she could have blurted it out in this court right now.”
Operation Avalanche: Conspiracy theorists, this is your Apollo moon landing
The game jam is over, and so is dead.
I suspect you've got Clarke and Asimov mixed up there. The article that you linked ( http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/ ) was written by Arthur C. Clarke.

Clarke was a bit more grounded in the harder science fiction disciplines (Fountains of Paradise with its space elevator) while Asimov tended more to the software side looking at psychology and sociology, empires and the people.
What is COPV
> It's pretty hypocritical to attempt to stop what you think is bigotry and exclusion by doing the exact same thing to the people you don't like.

Fighting bigotry and exclusion by refusing to do business with people and calling them out for it is absolutely reasonable.

That said, it's a grey area. Eich getting forced out still leaves an unpleasant feeling with me. Sure, I think the argument of "marriage is between a man and a woman" is just complete trash, and he advocated for some form of that, but that issue does at least have a spectrum to it (marriage for all!, marriage for men + woman but something equivalent for gays, no marriage for gays, gays are abominations).
> HEISENBERG replied that had they produced and dropped such a bomb they would certainly have been executed as War Criminals having made the "most devilish thing imaginable"

Heh. There's a little piece of truth to how war crimes are prosecuted.
The spotlight needs to be shown on white supremacists. If a tech icon wants to fund racists, that's fine, just make sre everyone knows. https://www.facebook.com/BoycottOculus/