skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe you should hold off on the praise until there's some results to show for it. making a press statement is not the same thing as curing a disease.
The article does NOT say to call yourself an engineer instead, it's not nearly that pedantic. It says to say you increase revenues and/or decrease cost, not that you sling code.
Also this one if interested in more analysis http://www.defensivesecurity.org/
A surgeon I know recommends at least 20 seconds and he does this 100x a day. I'm amazing his hands don't fall off.
It doesn't. They dropped the X. It's 'macOS Sierra' now.
I called the Wells Fargo ethics line and was fired
Both are for kids :)
> I believe eChronos is just targeted for embedded devices with more constrained hardware.

I guess it all depends on which meaning of IoT and embedded you are using.
We ask that you don't do this. Anonymity is fine, but HN is a community and members should have some sort of consistent identity that others can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames at all, and that would be a totally different site.
Right, I mean there is something dubious too all this. Both Microsoft and Facebook did and are actually practicing enough shady business tactics. Internet explorer, tax evasion, privacy issues, you name it, they are all guilty of this kind of stuff. But then now, we should glorify them once they give away the money they earned this way.
> As it is, poorer areas have less money for schools when it could be pooled statewide and distributed fairly instead. Property-tax funded schools don't save us from this underfunding, and neither will other district-based taxation.

I'm very much in favor of redistributing school funding, but that's not a tax decision -- it's a spending decision. If something like that ever happens, the money is likely to come from property taxes, as it currently does -- it will just be distributed in a different way.
Windows only supports it if you use the Intel storage driver - even Microsoft don't ship a driver that supports it.
I think that means they were working on it weren't they? I doubt the Ebola outbreak timeline was enough to warrant the research to figure it out. They probably already had projects going but suddenly they got a lot more attention through regulations to get it to market faster.
I go back and forth on this, but ultimately, anyone using "password" or "123456" as their password should expect their account to get broken into at some point. Honestly, I've never met anyone that uses passwords that weak for anything they actually care about, even completely non-technical folks.
That statement is not by a "Lenovo rep" but by a "Lenovo Product Expert" at Best Buy. If I am not mistaken, those "experts" work for Best Buy, not the company whose products they are experts in.
I suppose there are cases where someone got the dropbox password hashes and didn't own dropbox enough to have access to your dropbox account without reversing your hash. However, in most cases where plaintext passwords are exposed, the attacker will own your account at the service that was attacked because they are already inside that system.

If the DropBox passwords are leaked I am going to change my DropBox password whether it was hashed properly or not. The difference is that I won't have to change my password on dozens of other sites.
As you can see here: http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/

The engineering profession is about 2:1 Democrat to Republican, and software engineering in particular is about 3:1.
Food workers at the grocery story have all 3 of those (maybe weak on accountability other than losing their job), and they aren't engineers.
What about the part where some of us have engineering degrees and certifications for things like network engineering? Or just various certifications at all for technology specific areas?

I hate being called a programmer, am okay with developer, and call(ed) myself a software engineer, and that's why my title said as well. I wasn't the director of programming, and I wasn't running a team of programmers. I ran the software engineering team and I hired software engineers.

In my mind, they're not interchangeable terms and have specific meanings. A programmer is someone who can write code, cobble together applications in a generally slapdash fashion, and does not apply a lot of creativity or thought to the how's and why's of what they are doing. They are the front end web dev who can't write pure JavaScript and have to use jQuery and a bajillion other includes just because they don't know how or care about the implications.

A developer pays some attention and care, has a reason why they may have made certain decisions, and is generally thoughtful about their core areas of knowledge. Maybe they're not as thorough, have a more narrow window of experience, or generally don't care about 'those other things' like networking, operating systems, protocols, etc.

A software engineer knows about OSI, the types of protocols in use by their application, the pros and cons of various libraries, and has a reason that can be backed up with at least some empirical evidence for any of the choices they make. They step back and look at the problem they're solving as a whole instead of piecemeal, and they're generally not shortsighted. They apply rigor, experience, and research to all phases of what they're working on.

We were all programmers and developers, some of us get to software engineers if we want- but it's really about the rigor and discipline you apply to your craft.

I agree that the fundamental aspect is the accountability, however unions don't mean anything for the quality of your work, and there are ways to certify specific areas of knowledge already.
It would make you an ignoramus in all things Latin, I assume? Given that "viri" means "(a plurality of) human males"...
I agree the Court can often be wrong in the long run, but that's the way our system works at the moment.
> "RAID" mode is typically just changing the PCI IDs so that the normal drivers won't bind, ensuring that drivers that support the software RAID mode are used.

It sounds like the kernel just needs to learn about the new PCI ID.
the virtue in doing is that it's a lot harder than not doing.
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Will Software Engineering become a valid engineering discipline?
Nice strawman.

What's happening is Microsoft broke the law, again. And some folks are playing devil's advocate. So be it, I hope y'all enjoy burning in hell. That's the only story here.
"Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…"

Jonathan Swift (1710)
Security is not free (as in beer); there exists some level of security that costs $X. If the value of the thing you are protecting behind that security is $Y, then for every X such that X > Y, your security level is a luxury.

Furthermore, there is another number Z, that represents your total operational costs $Z. You could argue that for every X/Z > 0.1^T, where T is an arbitrary threashold, X is a significant cost to the organization and you cannot affort to take that luxury without risking bankrupcy.

So, yeah, Drobox stores loads of personal files... but people with real secrets to keep should know not to rely on freemium services.
> only even more sadistic

Remember Florence ADX.
I would rather see 'ask an engineer'. Gender doesn't matter and does not reflect engineering ability or experience.

If we want gender equality (or any equality for that matter), we really should stop self-segregating and focus on merit and ability.

The problem is that identity politics gives certain groups power over the rest and most people won't ever give their power away willingly.
The essence of the answer is that correlation doesn't imply causation (true).

The essence of the comment is that the correlation in a quantum case may be stronger than in a classical case such as the case with gloves (also true).

The comment doesn't invalidate the answer unless you think it does imply causation (non-locality). It just says that the answer is not the whole truth: that would be the complete mathematical description of QT with corresponding procedures to connect the math with observations.

The glove analogy obviously has its limits. It doesn't make it wrong. Otherwise, the accepted quantum theory is also wrong because it doesn't describe all known phenomena (consider gravity).

> "Particles behave like wave until observed"

Consider photon: it is neither wave nor particle in a classical sense. The math is such that in some cases it is easier to describe it as wave (interference pattern), in others—as particle (photoelectric effect).

It is surprising that the familiar concepts from a human scale (such as wave, particle) are useful in such a wide range of physical phenomena. Though only because they are more familiar does not make them more real than e.g., the concepts produced by the equations of the quantum theory.

All models are wrong—some are useful. (In a sense that there is no territory under a map, only more complete or different maps)
Or engineer it into future Mars colonists.
+1 for PHP

/usr/bin/php -v

PHP 5.5.36 (cli) (built: May 29 2016 01:07:06) (10/11)

-1 for ruby (2.3.1 is the recommended now)

ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin15] (10/11)
Not to take the wind out of anyone's sails, but there is a concern to be raised about relying more and more on charities to fund the public good. When a democratically elected government funds the public good, at least in theory, the public at large has a small say in choosing what counts as "public good". When you leave it to charity, you're relying on the morals of individual wealthy donors to decide what counts as a "public good". I don't claim to know which method is more risky in terms of mis-allocation of resources, but it's something to think about.
Sad day. That being said, good luck kicking ass and building things on the side, haha.
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Interesting read. But I don't get how the author's (or anyone else's) idea falls outside solipsism. His conclusion is also a product of his mind. Why is it not susceptible to be considered a magic spell ?

> What I’m saying is that the old good magic of small-l liberalism and technological innovation in the service of man rather than the replacement of man is pretty darn powerful itself, and the stories still inspire
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> Why doesn't the same principle apply to food?

It does, as well as access to water and shelter. Did you think universal health care was the "final boss"?
I downvoted him for expressing the factually incorrect and IMO dangerous notion that knowledge has to be inborn or learned by means of formal organized schooling. And for ignoring the obvious fact that the reason why modern women are clueless around children and men clueless around women (especially in certain circles :p) is that they spend their youth locked up with other clueless children and discouraged from expressing their gender (because equality and whatnot) instead of hanging out with experienced adults and learning from them. My $.02.
From Michael and Joyce Heusemann, Techno-Fix (mentioned in a prior comment):

"In addition to cost-effectiveness, efficiency and marketability, a wide range of other values are commonly embedded in many modern technologies. These are, for example, power, control, exploitation and violence, with respect to both people and nature (Chapter 3), profit-maximization, speed, mass-production, uniformity, repetitiveness, quantification, precision, standardization, dependency, materialism, consumerism and individualism.854 In general, the more specifically a technology has been designed for a particular use, the more completely it will embody the values of the designers, and the less it will be of use for purposes reflecting different values. Thus, the more specific the design, the less human choice and control there will be regarding the final use of the respective technology."

The passage continues to quote Robert Proctor in Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge.

To give another example, virtually the entire infrastrure of the modern Web and information technology system is oriented around the interests of advertisers, and against those of content creators. I'm typing this on a tablet which will faithfully suppor all requests by advertisers to cram their content, and surveillance requests, down my throat, but which routinely discards my own content (I've watched this comment disappear multiple times as I toggle to the book viewer application from which I'm pulling quotes). The tools for organising content of specific interest to me is exceptionally poor.

Even putatively user-oriented systems such as GNU/Linux have been increasingly falling victim to this, a distressing trend that's been accellerating over my 20+ year use of it.
Without the video evidence, yes, it would.

Who's the judge going to believe? Three cops, or one "trouble maker"?
> Always wash your hands after:

> Touching an animal or animal toys, leashes or waste

I guess having a puppy lick your face is right out then?
I'm a tradesman, at my work we always start at 7am for an 8hr day. If we're busy and doing overtime we start at 6am for a 10hr day. Im at a computer for a third to a half of my day, otherwise I'm walking and packing and on a forklift.

I'm at the gym by 5am for an hour or so for weights abd running.

There are no cool white fluoros or CFLs in my house, nor outside.

I find this regime thoroughly exhausts me physically and mentally, and I have no trouble falling asleep and staying alseep unless I get cold.
Very useful resource. Thank you.
It has nothing to do with how easy or hard it is to disable. The problem is that it doesn't ask first, or even tell you what it's doing. OK, now that I know about it, I can turn it off, but how do I know they won't do something similarly ugly in a future version?
No idea who are the dolts^H^H^H^H^H kind people who have downvoted you into light gray, but you are bloody right.

Just look at their complete and utter disregard to everyone's privacy demonstrated by Windows 10. Remember all the shady shit Microsoft pulled to shovel W10 down everyone's throat, including "x", the cancel, being treated as "Yes, upgrade". How short and selective of a memory you should have to then claim with a straight face that NOT assuming that Lenovo lockdown is benign is the lack of critical thinking. WTH is wrong with you, people, really.
My degree is a "Bachelors of Engineering specialising in Software Engineering". Do I win?
It's the patcher part that is untrustable here.

Also, where does Apple make the hash of the legit installer available?
Man I'm sorry but everything you are saying, at least in the US, is completely contradicted by reality.

Some engineering fields have all those things you describe but it is usually because there is a high degree of physical risk to the public, like structural engineers for example.

Mechanical and Electrical engineers, for example, at most companies are hired without any such certifications, unions, oversight, or any of what you've mentioned. I have a degree in EE and CS and have worked in both fields doing everything from IC design to app development and the hiring process, oversight, etc has been the same in almost every case - no membership or union required. I have friends who work as ME, Chemists, physicists, etc and the same is true for all of them except in the exceptional cases where they are working on a medical device or something.

Really all those things you mention at most companies for most fields of engineering come down the the company culture itself and the technical leadership at those companies.

The really funny thing about your take is that in most cases I find that high level software developers have a much stronger cult of engineering excellence that any of those other fields. If you saw the "process" most EE's used to ensure high quality engineering at large companies like Intel you would be horrified. And definitely don't ask those EE guys to write any code, it will almost certainly be terrible.
It's like a well known expression "Love Is One Hell Of A Drug." It's not meant to be taken literally.
Be aware: Sierra breaks Karabiner and Seil. You'll need to use Karabiner-Elements, which has far less functionality than Karabiner. Notably, you can't remap caps lock and you can't assign to more than 2 keys, so caps-lock "hyper" is out.
Here's why:

To achieve what you suggest there would need to be a controlling majority of shareholders that also hold this philanthropic view, otherwise the execs are required to do the normal thing, optimize the returns of their shareholders. (To have this criteria while raising capitol will severely restrict who you can work with / have on your board)

This is often why I feel bad for execs who take flack when their company optimizes / minimizes their tax burdens as its their shareholders who require them to do so and the law that allows it.

For people like Zurkerberg the way they can achieve their philanthropic goals best is to build a massively profitable business with the support of other investors who will share that goal and then take their personal profits and use those to achieve their goals.
I'm comfortable praising someone for giving away 3 billion dollars to fight disease, even before the results are in.
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I dunno about what's reasonably safe, but like a bike helmet, you don't want to use a car seat that has been in an accident. I think it was the manufacturer that recommended not using one manufactured more than 7 years ago (so it could be bogus).

Although, I believe in the U.S. you can get a free car seat from any fire station (or hospital?)
you can't "communicate", but it would be useful for qubits in one quantum computer to be sent to another quantum computer without physically moving the qubit. that was what I meant by wide-area quantum information networks
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The software engineering PE exam has been offered for the past 3 years.

https://engineers.texas.gov/software.html
"Don't call yourself a programmer" is a very old one; it's why we have titles like "software engineer", "software developer" and so on; those are reactions to "programmer analyst" and old stuffy "IBM-mainframe-ish" titles of that sort. You might have easily heard that advice in 1990.

Do call yourself a programmer to regular people. :)
That is pretty much my point.
Without any comment from Lenovo or Microsoft this guy is speculating the same as everybody else.
What have we lost? In my opinion, a big part of it is the illusion that people are more than just people

With the internet, we've been able to confirm that everyone is, more or less, just like us. You can see this especially in up and coming new media stars. They use self deprecation as a crutch and irony is really funny. The internet released a hall of mirrors on society and now the illusion of authenticity is broken

Why is that that 'Hipsters' reach out for things that they hope are real? Facial hair is real. Single-Speed Bikes are real. I'm talking about a stereotype here, obviously, but I think that a hipster is something who reaches for external authenticity

I hope I don't sound like a cynical person, because I really don't think I am. I don't think this is a terrible thing, but it certainly makes navigating people much harder because the illusion of becoming one of 'The Greats' with a Capital G is something that doesn't seem very possible anymore
metafilter.com has a $5 lifetime fee to sign up. They have an extremely strict moderation policy and fairly frequently ban people who don't interact in positive ways, almost always refunding the sign-up fee. They have one of the most readable comments sections of any site i read, although it has it's own problems.
> why isn't Allo just Hangouts 3?

From what I've read Allo will become the casual messaging app, and Hangouts for work. Google probably wants to compete with Slack and similar offers.

I wouldn't be surprised if at some point Google allows Allo and Hangouts to communicate.
Welp, your alternative is end of life from Apple. Install Little Snitch, monitor usage, scan for viruses. I'm only giving you my anecdotal evidence, as well as 200 pages of responses on Macrumors.
Asking that question puts you in pretty good company[1]. There's a reason that the field of quantum information includes people looking fundamentally at physical systems, not just coming up with algorithms and implementations for quantum computers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics#Wheeler.27s_.2...
I feel the same. I don't think that there is an intent other than education on 19th century history and events. The readers get to draw their own conclusions.
Everything is like this though. Humans can't synthesize their own vitamin C, because, as frugivorous apes, we got enough of it in our diets that evolution decided the energy savings of omitting the vitamin C pathway was worth it. Same thing with cats and taurine.
> So from the first photon being destroyed to the second gaining its state, there must be a speed of light delay as those two classical bits are transmitted.

This is the part where you are potentially wrong. Entanglement is about correlation. In order to derive the original message, you need the local entangled state, along with data from the remote actor. You could then correlate this information to derive the original remote entangled state -- ie, some message. Of course, this is now useless to you, as they could have simply sent the original message and saved you the correlation step.

However, I don't know of any reason that the local quantum state could not be measured prior to the arrival of the data from the remote actor. The math says that the measurable effect should happen instantaneously. But that data alone is not sufficient to derive a message.
People say that a lot. The truth is, if you don't get acquired/ipo it won't matter. If you do, you'll hire an expensive lawyer anyways and they will move it and handle anything related.

Its easier just to do it in your own state. If it ever really matters, you'll have a ton of money and an expensive lawyer to deal with it for you.
Eh, I phrased it badly. Wasn't trying to distinguish between employed and unemployed people, but rather a distinction between those who don't have a job and say "I'm looking for a job" and unemployed people who phrase the same idea in a different way..
The fact that it took a blow up in the media for Lenovo to comment justifies the tactics used by commenters in the forums.
So, is this like http://accountablehq.com/ ?
This is true, but the linguistic difference is too subtle and too technical to be safely relied upon in normal usage. (In this context, indexes are better thought of as sets of "entries" or "references" rather than "indices".)
A low level rep. from a company is very unlikely to be party to something considered "secret" at a corporate level. So given that it wasn't a stated policy, that side of the story just didn't seem likely.

Indeed you can't install linux on that machine, but that's a technical problem and a deficiency in Lenovo's setup, just not a conspiracy by Microsoft.
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Yes, but not only foodstuff and restaurants, but also clothes, tools etc.