skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll reiterate like almost everyone - I think you're doing extremely important work.

The bigger question is - is it what you want to do? You might be really good at what you do right now, but you may actually want to code - for various reasons that are yours.

If that's what you want, I'd first suggest - don't try to take it all at once. It's a hard task even for experienced developers. From the top of my head - a good way to get in might be writing tests. Maybe you could partner with a current developer to write tests for him and that way get a glimpse into a specific module.

If you're not into actually writing code, I'd try to understand why you feel you're not at the same level. If it's because of other people's attitudes, well, that's not good!
Plug for the mutt replacement I'm working on:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/aerc
"When these animals dive down to 300 meters, holding their breath for 12 minutes or more, they had better be sure it’s worth the cost..."

I wonder what a 300 meter dive "costs" in terms of energy for such a massive animal, and how amazing it is that they can manage 12 minutes on one breath.
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Have about ten plugins, no issues here. It's worth actually having a browser that doesn't consume all available resource.
> Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism.

Criticism, or a media wide "witch hunt" about his weight etc.? Oh, those memes and jokes don't count ? So far I've checked, he's still a legitimate presidential candidate. What the mainstream media doesn't obsess about is the Clinton business, not to mention censoring the whole health issue as a "conspiracy theory".

> Why does anything associated with Trump often lead to some relation to something Putin is doing, however, indirect?

I have no clue, because only one obsessing with Putin are the regressive left Americans. The boogeyman mantra apparently still stands and can be used effectively.

*Disclaimer: I'm a EU citizen and don't even believe in "left" or "right", because those are idiotic terms to frame political belief. The world isn't "left" or "right", or "white" or "black", or "blue" and "red". This is a very simplistic view of the world and I'm afraid very typical for US. I also believe a very simple life rule, the answers to "cui bono" (who benefits) and "who pays the check" ? Because those answers are at the end the only ones who have some weight, everything else is based on emotions.

I want less involvement of USA in the world affairs and the boosting of the empire, so I agree with Trumps words of minding your own business and cleaning crap at home first. Not to mention that Clinton is pro-war with Russia, Trump is not and that's fine with me.
Haha that's actually exactly how I noticed: a friend was driving and wanted to see how fast the thing would go. Naturally I grab for the handle and – it's just not there. :o)
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Sorry, I misunderstood your statement. I thought you were comparing it to 2FA elsewhere. Now I see that you were just comparing it to the second factor elsewhere (not the whole 2FA0).
Of those ~100 billion, you'd be hard pressed to say that a billion died at the hands of another human, never mind that religion was the primary reason for the violence.

You're just pulling a number out of the air unless you have something factual to back it up with.
the article raises some interesting points. big tech corporations could do a lot more to diversify their workforces, especially in California.

i wonder what would happen if Apple pulled a couple billion out of its Irish cash hoard and used it to train a representative cross section of the California population to actually work in Apple's California operations.

my guess is that it would work well enough. people would do their jobs about as well as the current set of employees.
There's always RethinkDB as probably a better example... I don't really dislike MongoDB, I've used it, aware of its' issues, and liked it. I just find RethinkDB's approach much more sane.
> How about this: 29 out of 30 times, save only a diff to the previous data. 1 out of 30 times, save the complete data in compressed form.
>
> (I'm guessing there must already be functionality to diff a bunch of JSON somewhere in the millions of lines of code).

That is actually a good idea we haven't considered yet. A bit too brute force for my tastes, but relatively easy to implement. We would need to determine how much CPU is needed for a diff between two 300Mb JSON files, though (yes, some users have these).

Of course, we're back to the issue of manpower, but definitely worth trying out.

> Though I'm sure this doesn't make usually make a dent in a SSD's lifetime. But there are still people running Firefox on low end Android phones with meager flash, and Raspberry Pis with SD cards.

The implementation of Session Restore for Android is largely independent, so I'm not sure how it works these days.
The comments here are overselling the situation. Yes possession of certain child porn images is a crime regardless of intent. However prosecutions are no different from any other crime: they must prove the crime before a jury of your peers beyond a reasonable doubt. There's nothing automatic about it.

This topic always drives hyperbole here on HN and I'm not sure why. Investigators and prosecutors don't waste time trying to entrap innocent web developers. They are kept plenty busy by people who are actually making or distributing child porn. Source for that: I know someone who prosecutes child porn cases. He is kept incredibly busy with obvious scumbag criminals.

Law enforcement's ultimate goal is always to walk the chain of possession back to find the folks who are actually making the imagery--who are actually abusing kids. That is why there is strict liability for possession. It gives investigators a lever to flip distributors to help find the sources.
Right, but in this case, it does not require a password. So it is not two-factor.
I don't have that option under "Advanced Wi-Fi" but under Settings -> Location -> Scanning I have "Wi-Fi Scanning Improve location by allowing system apps and services to detect Wi-Fi networks at any time". Is that the same thing?

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So I can go around with a telezoom lens attached to a drone and photograph into every backyard, into every window, photograph people naked in the shower, children changing clothes on 21st floor thinking no one will look, etc – and publish that?

Or maybe we as society do already have reasonable limits where "publicly available" is not equivalent to "publicly indexable".
Oh my god. You are trying to build the exact thing I am trying to build. Albeit you've made much more progress.

I'm still soldering wires into the motors. You should take off the paper from acrylic. The transparent effect makes it look awesome.

My goal is to make a raspberry pi bot that plays indoor fetch. I would love to have a chat with you.
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Completely agree on this for small websites!
I use "oldschool" HTML, CSS and simple PHP includes for stuff like navigation, footer, etc. It's easy to maintain and fast.
My workflow looks like this:
Buying template/theme at e.g. Wrapbootstrap.com and then moving reuseable stuff like navigation, breadcrumbs, footer into PHP snippets and include them.
Finally using mod_rewrite via .htaccess for nice links.
Deployment / syncing is done by a simple BASH script which uses rsync command.
Firefox does generally assume that the filesystem is reliable (as long as you use fsync properly etc). Witness eg its reliance on SQLite for data storage.
Read the first 3 points, saw they had nothing to do with the headline, and bounced.
His argument was that you can reasonably expect people to know how to handle such technologies safely, not that he expects people to know how to build a WiFi Router from electronic parts themselves.

Using your analogy it would be sufficient for a person to know how to handle electricity coming from your wall or the plumbing under your house safely. And generally people do know how to do that.

Everyone who is regularly using WiFi networks knows that he/she can see the names of other WiFi networks in their vicinity. Therefore people using WiFi generally do know that this information is publicly broadcasted and available to be collected by anyone interested in doing so.

No one believes that he is the only person being able to somehow magically see the name of his neighbours WiFi.
Thanks for the helpful answer. Do you need a lawyer or accountant when using one of those sites or is it all pretty standardized?
If my memory serves correctly, Session Restore doesn't use sync()/fsync() at all.

Edit Double-checked in the code: I'm right, it doesn't.

Edit If you're interested in how Session Restore improves the safety of its writes without using sync()/fsync(), the details are on my blog: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/06/2...
Those applications have the benefit that they know exactly what the user data is, what their own state is, and how much of that is due to user input. The browser doesn't have that advantage. For one, state is coming off of the network all the time.
Everyone seems to be addressing the finance part of it without the "growing intellectually" part of it. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by economists my whole life. Economists are also tremendous historians; reading a lot of history and recasting what you know about history into economic frameworks will greatly sharpen your intellectual abilities. As with most things involving learning, having and seeking out intellectual peers is a valuable way to challenge all your ideas.
A (somewhat less significant) number of people use Twitter and not Facebook.

Facebook seems to have a reputation of being more ubiquitous, yet creepier than Twitter.
Thanks! the link is fixed now... I actually did just this thing the other day but didn't know if other people would want it. I will update the addon with it.
the beneficiary would be whereever facebook users go. I doubt that would be twitter. Twitter is a replacement for the rss/followjournalist/commentsection of newspapers, and a megaphone for celebrities and athletes. People go to twitter because the journalist/athlete/celebrity they desire to follow is a twitter user.
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I think I'm just going to start using a hiden wifi network.
Tragically the news that LLVM is switching to a non-Copyfree license (see copyfree.org/standard/rejected) has ruined everything... Nothing written in Rust can be called Free Software. :(
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Be careful conflating "never made a profit" with not having a business. They made $710M in revenue last quarter, up 48% yoy. Their expenses might be high, but they can address that. Companies like Amazon didn't make a profit for years, and are rightfully quite valuable in the eyes of the market.

A $29 valuation per MAU is low if anything. Facebook is almost 10x that (and deserves to be). Early stage startups often get 50x that or higher.
I have fixed this issue forever. I got a Thinkpad P50 with 64 gigs of ram. So, I just mount a tmpfs over ~/.cache.

I actually use a tmpfs for a few things:

$ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab
tmpfs	/tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid,mode=1777,noatime	0 0
tmpfs	/var/tmp/portage	tmpfs	noatime	0 0
tmpfs	/home/zx2c4/.cache	tmpfs	noatime,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,mode=0755	0 0
Sounds like function foo(f: function<T1, T2>(T1 x, T2 y), bindY: T2) { return (x) => f(x, bindY); }

This will be type safe and return a function<T1>(T1 x).

(Disclaimer to typos and erros for typing on my phone)
It's a cheeky statement---there's no definitive data---but I'll stand by it. MIT's the runaway leader in the large language repositories.

Incidentally, there are at least three GPL licenses, plus hackneyed variations. Not all permit "upgrading" to the latest GPL from FSF.

No dig on GPL. Important license. Keeps plenty of lawyers busy ;-P
It will only be a matter of time before someone rewrites xmonad in Rust.
> No evolution of a new feature, just a shift in the distribution of existing genes under changing selection pressure.

Which is exactly evolution. Why the high standards?
It needs to save enough state to give you the same view.
I'm arguing that it's a more complicated statistical problem than "we see more criminal 'events' in this neighborhood, so we should send more cops there."
What's the difference between so-called micro and macro evolution?
Considering your condition it would obviously have to via oral. A CBD tincture would probably be the best path so you could titrate in more controlled manner. It should help with the pain as well (and keep your mental clarity).

Your writing is delightful, thank you for sharing it with us.
pretty sure nobody asked you
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Fwiw, Session Restore doesn't hit ~/.cache at all. (Afaict, I'm the last person who changed how Session Restore writes its files).
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And follow-up, why is it so hard (for volunteer contributors) to implement those missing features and functionality?
So you're saying we shouldn't have operating systems, browsers, video games and all that good stuff?

Most actual engineering is very far from writing a dumb server for yet another CRUD app :)
There is a reasonable case that 'value' (low beta) stocks exhibit excess returns in equity markets. See Fama & French

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.459...

M&M says there shouldn't be 1st order implications for a firm's dividend payout ratio on its stock price (there are potential effects caused by taxes, agency and signalling that they assume away for simplicity).

However, other popular value metrics such as low price to earnings, market cap to book value, historic beta or past/future earnings growth are not affected by M&M. The efficient market hypothesis is an assumption rather than an implication of the theorem and there is a good empirical case for the combination of value investing and leverage.
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I'm not so sure it's cheaper. The business cost can be enormous. See the Target breach, which led to FIRING the CEO. And Yahoo, which may have their deal with Verizon at risk now due to the latest breach.
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This isn't using a "pedometer" this is fusing the input from multiple sensors like gyro, accelerometer, magnetometer, barometer etc. as well as other location data (wifi/gps/cellular/beacons etc.) and extrapolating the location using a path prediction algorithm.

Given a known starting point, or a known point in general this increases both the speed and accuracy of identifying your location considerably even outdoors.
Apple uses wifi for positioning but only while wifi is turned on. It does not use it while wifi is turned off. It sounds like in android there is a separate setting that allows wifi scanning to happen in the background for positioning even while wifi is turned off. Not sure if that's better or worse.
> It seems that the courtroom is not the arena for adjudication of medical right or wrong.

we need another mechanism for improving the skills and practices of sub-standard MDs. lawsuits don't seem to work that well.
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Yes, that would be one of many possible corrective measures.
Haven't seen this one posted yet: http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/

I prefer the 2007 version, it's more mathy.
The link in question was to an Ubuntu PPA on Launchpad, but Launcpad is by no means Ubuntu-only.

See eg https://launchpad.net/openstack, https://launchpad.net/inkscape, https://launchpad.net/shutter etc
Since I alternate between the smile and winking smile about evenly, you're making me reconsider my past text conversations. ;)
Try the Society of Actuaries / Casualty Actuarial Society study resources [0] for exams P (probability) [1], FM (financial mathematics) [2], MFE (models for financial economics) [3] or S (statistics and probabilistic models) [4]. Look at the PDF syllabus documents, and there will be a section on "suggested texts".

Looking up the suggested texts for previous test years (or for obsolete tests) may also reveal texts that may be cheaper now or available as used copies.

You could probably get something like Price Theory and Applications (Landsburg) or Principles of Corporate Finance (Brealey, Myers, Allen) for cheap.

[0] http://beanactuary.org/exams/preliminary/?fa=preliminary-com...
[1] https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-exam-p-detail.asp...
[2] https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-exam-fm-detail.as...
[3] https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-exam-mfe-detail.a...
[4] https://www.casact.org/admissions/syllabus/index.cfm?fa=Ssyl...
Sounds a problem with your mailcap.
> For example (short) -1 (0xffff) becomes 2^32-1 (0xffffffff) when casted to uint32_t.

Ideally the compiler would do a check during a conversion from a negative signed integer to unsigned integer, and set a flag or throw some sort of exception. Hopefully future languages (e.g. Rust) learn from this.
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Smaller block sizes caused large performance issues. SQLite isn't very good at keeping its data unfragmented, and not everyone has SSDs.
You're "sorry to hear" that he got a great job doing something he's excited and passionate about? Wow.
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Galbraith could be more of polar opposite (than Keynes); if one is pressed to have the balance.
Try sending a code snippet in any modern chat
Mine uses the following with firefox:

overlaid 2.0G 128M 1.9G 7% /run/user/1000/codemac-firefox-3ckuo4v7.default
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Yep, mostly Lombok (especially @Data for immutable typed objects with automatic constructors without boilerplate), streams, and lambdas.
As to #3, MS-SQL is actually a really nice DB to work with, it's better than most out of the box, the admin functionality is nicely baked, and the replication story is easy enough to understand and configure for a dev-admin role.

No, it doesn't have every feature that pgsql has, but I'd rather work with it mainly because out of the box configuration and replication support is so good. The licensing costs are also pretty damned good compared to EnterpriseDB support contracts, and much less than equivalent for Oracle.

I've always found too many WTF moments with mysql for my liking, and Firebird simply isn't popular enough (though a very cool dbms option). On the flip side, for certain roles, I'd probably reach for RethinkDB (similar to MS-SQL in terms of admin ux, and a really nice db option). If you need pure scale in terms of read/write Cassandra (C*) is probably the best option.

YMMV of course, and on personal projects I'm very frugal, I really like Azure's Storage Tables for some instances. I think that if Azure had a good keygen service, that combined with Azure Storage Tables would be awesome.
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That's fair and the extension is not for everyone. It's not really meant for saving sessions or anything like that it's more for finding lost tabs in a sea of windows like I typically have. This is more for tabs that are not worth saving to bookmarks but that you have open for a long time as a transient bookmark.

FWIW, Mozilla looks at all extensions before fully approving them and the app is fully open source and fairly easily vetted if people are worried about that sort of thing.

Thanks for the feedback!
> Luckey has “liked” many alt-right memes

Thought crimes will not be tolerated. Extrapolating 'likes' to mean sympathy with racists (which is what Motherboard's article infers) is disgusting, surely.

This culture of witch-hunting people for what they liked on Twitter (which could mean anything from 'I like this' to 'interesting insight' - not that it matters) or who they choose to support is shameful.

Believe it or not, people are allowed to have views that differ from your own.
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I used GIMP in 1996 and it was great! I got it going on a Sun Sparcstation 20 running Red Hat 2.0 Linux.
Is that what is actually being used, though?

I suspect there is no way for the public to know.
I've meant sharing the location of the SSID with $company should be opt-in. Who the fuck do they think they are?
Why writing to disk if firefox is idle and its state doesn't change ? Is it repeatedly rewriting the same data over and over in a storage working like a log database or journal file ?
Evolution is the change of a population's phenotypes (and really, extended phenotypes), over time. This is exactly that.

What you seem to want is a special kind of speciation, which the article did not claim.

And besides, the whole idea of a "species" is dubious at some level, because it's merely a human invented category.
The article is just general YC advices. I was hoping to read more about visa issues, funding issues as international founder, building teams in US and Norway etc.
It is puzzling that they both pleaded guilty. They also both represented themselves in court, so it seems they weren't getting any legal advice at all.

Perhaps they weren't entitled to legal aid? I was under the impression that anyone charged with a criminal offence was entitled but perhaps I'm wrong.

Maybe they just wanted to get the whole thing over with quickly and not face further embarrassment? It's a good example of how these types of charges could easily be used by the authorities to intimidate people. The damage is done whether they are convicted or not.

To answer your question, it seems you can appeal regardless of how you pleaded [0]. But you have to do it within 28 days.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/appeal-against-sentence-conviction/crown-...
I do not think you want to be paying your bills on a browser that's been compromised, no.
I totally agree, but I think in this case they are saying it's cheaper for the company, which is what really matters in this context (since they're comparing it to how much the company would pay for security).

I mean, if the company's website gets hacked and your credit card data is stolen, then your card is charged $1,000, it's not the company that pays for it, right? You either talk to your bank to mark the purchase as fraudulent and get the charges reversed, or pay for it yourself (e.g. if it's a debit card).

Perhaps that's the solution though: a way to directly associate fraudulent purchases with security breaches where credit card data has been stolen, and a law that requires the breached party to pay all expenses related to that fraud. That would get all major retailers scramble to get their shit secured.
Was just about to write a similar reply too. I type "rg" the same way. My left hand very often goes for the YHN column, the right hand won't ever touch TGB though. For typing "lol" I'll very often just move my right hand to the right (or sort of angle it) and press the l with the index and the o with the middle finger.

I've been plateaued at a 110wpm avg (121 top speed) @ 10fastfingers for quite a few months now, so perhaps breaking some of these bad habits would help me get to the desired 140.
So your position is that while the laws were racist in the past it is no longer the case? I think you may be surprised at some of the laws and policies still on the books.

The worst part is that it is a self reinforcing cycle. Communities with high crime have heavy handed enforcement and are targeted with punitive laws. This results in many parents behind bars and a general distrust of the police, which combined with lack of opportunities creates another generation of career criminals. Breaking the cycle takes work from both sides, which is why it is important to address police (and law!) reform even if the community isn't responding. You need to keep the door open if you want to have even a chance, and removing the inherent racism in the laws--like making the penalties for crack cocaine much harsher than powdered because blacks use the former and wall street uses the latter.