skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I have had a ton of Apps I use every day just up and disappear from the App Store to the point that I am actively avoiding the App Store.
I too never heard of him until his final tweet showed up on HN, but his Stallmanism religion ( http://stallmanism.wikidot.com/ ) religion page is great. I'm going to read much more of his stuff.
> Talk about a statement without substance.

The substance is in several bug reports and general trouble that are available in google for all to search

But I'm curious at what problems you did have with init
> your commentary is limited to "well shucks maybe imprisoning women for driving is just their twist on not allowing people to go to church in bikinis!"

Again, I didn't say that, you did. Perhaps quote something I did say. Regarding your statement, I'll repeat what I said above: It's a pretty inflammatory statement, so could you be specific about who does that and how often?
> If you ask developers about equivalence class or boundary testing, I bet you you half of the programmers have absolutely no clue what those are and the half that have heard of it cannot use it to save their lives.

On the other hand, if I asked a random tester about AST or vector clock, he
wouldn't google his way out of a paper bag. Why would one expect people to
understand something from only barely related field?
I still have the flatbed plotter. I don't see it in that catalog; maybe it came out a little later.
I don't think it's too much to demand a scientifically verified "proof of concept" before investing. There's still a very long road from that to a real functioning business.

What Theranos had was merely the hope of developing such a process, with many reasons to believe that it's simply impossible. That's insanely risky.
My ex-boss used to sell Tandy computers (offered under collaboration with a domestic computer company here in India, called DCM Data Products) in the 1980s and I think he still has a few TRS-80 Model IV (running CP/M) and Tandy 1000 (their first IBM PC clone, 8088/4.77Mhz) stashed away somewhere.
I don't see why a blockchain or "currency" would be needed. It adds a large administrative overhead (the blockchain, a diverse pool of peers, etc.), is exclusionary as you say, and causes (a weak form of) centralisation. The benefit of a blockchain is having arbitrary adversarial agents reach a global consensus (such as who owns what); but that's much stronger than what's required for blocking spam.

You can make spam expensive by using a proof-of-work system like HashCash ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash ), which is the idea that inspired mining. HashCash adds proof-of-work to a message, which is specific to that message. The receiver verifies the proof then discards it. There's no datastructure to maintain, no consensus required, no need to involve anyone other than the sender and receiver, etc.

HashCash didn't catch on for email, since its 'fire and forget' nature prevented senders and receivers from negotiating a non-zero amount of work. Such problems can be avoided in this kind of real-time protocol: just add an extra step to ask the receiver how much work it requires, then do the work, then send the message.

With such a negotiation layer, there's no need for every message to require the same amount of work. You could receive the message without hashcash, and reply with a cost based on how spammy it looks.

Everyone would be free to implement this however they like: give a high cost to everyone; check senders against public blacklists; give a whitelist of 'friends' a lower cost; reduce the cost if we've previously 'liked'/'followed'/etc. the sender; look up the sender in a pagerank/web-of-trust/friend-of-a-friend/etc. database; use a spam filter to score the message content; etc.
Very true, this is why they are going after the mature businesses where 250K investment has a huge return by having the advantages of KDB+.
In the Dark about Dark Matter
Obviously laws about clothing are wrong.

Do you have any evidence that women are raped for not wearing the hijab? And is that happening any more than in the "enlightened Christian" countries, such as the US where people are also raped and murdered for the who they are?

http://www.rrsonline.org/?page_id=944

eg

>> Most studies reveal that approximately 50% of transgender people experience sexual violence at some point in their lifetime.48

>> The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reports that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people were three times more likely to report sexual violence and/or harassment compared to heterosexual people who reported to NCAVP in 2010.49

Surveys regularly show that people think the victims of violent sexual crime are partly to blame if they didn't fight back, or if they were in "the wrong place", or if they were intoxicated.
This seems like a great set of resources, but getting as keen as [0,1] just seems like the author setting himself up for disappointment.

[0]: https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university#get-i...

[1]: https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university#follo...
Saddest title I have read in a while. I don't think being a disposable screw in a corporation X is anything great.
Something that can be handled on any sane config by ulimit, enforced by the kernel.
"The world over, the joy of learning is being sucked out and education reduced to a dry, soulless process of ‘delivery’ dictated by the demands of standardised tests"

Heh, a few word changes and this applies to programming too :-)
That sounds like an investment in recruitment, like an SV startup having free sodas. It doesn't necessarily imply respect, only business sense and a fairly "flexible" approach to laws and customs.
Yeah I'm glad to see the reopened it, because it was kind of a dick move to mark it as working as designed - https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17975?focusedCommentI...
Leaked Mirai Source Code for Research/IoC Development Purposes
Former NSA staffer demonstrates Mac malware that can tap into live webcam feeds
The global economy did just take a nosedive, and the modern U.S. economy handled it just fine.

> your previous friendly third world manufactures give you the finger

Countries are not kids on a playground. If a country's economy does a lot of trade with the U.S., cutting off that trade is the last thing they are going to want to do, especially in the midst of a downturn.

Think the government of Venezuela has liked the U.S. over the past 2 decades? But they haven't disliked us enough to stop selling us their oil, or buying our planes and construction equipment.

And, of course, the U.S. today remains one of the top manufacturers in the world. To the extent we are growing services, it is on top of manufacturing, not displacing it.

That said, manufacturing jobs have disappeared--and that's why politicians are obsessed with it. Because they get elected by people who want good jobs, and no one has yet discovered a new industry that will pay millions of high school graduates enough to buy a car and a single-family home, the way manufacturing used to.
It's useful for gaining a foothold over the potential customers who would be scared off at the need to upgrade all their equipment in order to watch the films they can already watch. Give it time.
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Is there a product roadmap? Would be interested only if/when some sort of iLogic-like implementation is present. Otherwise, keep up the great work.
Calling Statcheck a "gotcha algorithm" descends into self-parody. It reads like outrage at the idea that anyone might expect you to be accurate about facts.
Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
And still useful. I use it to control a water pump to push water to sprinklers on my roof for the hot Atlanta summer months. 1 Gal of water evap from the roof is ~8000BTU's (I'm told - someone correct me if that's wrong).
Alexa, Talk Some Sense, Will You?
Maybe the easiest solution is to give the man a Nobel price.
Technically it's a breakthrough, and adjusting the method for more viruses is just a matter of funding, which the Nobel price committee is responsible for.
Totally pedantic, but no HashMap.get function is O(1). In order do a look-up, you have to compute the hash, whose size is at least log2(n).
> Vimscript

I'd go so far as to say that if you _don't_ feel comfortable using vi "out of the box", you probably should steer toward something else - vi is just not customizable like other editors/IDEs are.
On the hunt for Burma's mystical wizards-saints
The problem is both, and it's really tiring seeing each side deride the other without getting the hypocrisy.

You have Iran saying they have to wear the Hijab, and France saying they can't wear the Burqa/Niqab.

How about both governments and religions let women make their own damned choices?
you were 'too good' in english class? so what you're saying is you were proabably garbage at math?
I've never heard of a connection between consuming animal products and diabetes. Perhaps you can expand on this.
I don't get it. Why is the solicitation a problem?

It's a different thing if he says that you must STAR before you can access the repo.
I was illustrating another situation where the only viable path forward was an acquisition in response to the parent comment. I was not suggesting that there would be comparable hardware cost savings at Twitter. The comparison which I did make to Twitter was regarding advertising delivery where I said "Google could also leverage its advertising infrastructure to increase revenues. Given how other commenters are highlighting the massive employee bloat at Twitter, especially in the advertising department, I can see this being the case here too (and am somewhat surprised at the report based on anonymous sources that Google are out of the bidding)."
Sony PlayStation VR Review: The Best of an Early Crop
"Systemd is far more than an init system: it is becoming a secondary operating system kernel, providing a log server, a device manager, a container manager, a login manager, a DHCP client, a DNS resolver, and an NTP client. These services are largely interdependent and provide non-standard interfaces for other applications to use. This makes any one component of systemd hard to replace, which will prevent more secure alternatives from gaining adoption in the future." [1]

"There will be better alternatives in the future that are more secure than what we have now. But adopting them will only be possible if systemd has not destroyed the modularity and standards-compliance that make innovation possible" [1]

[1] https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_...
Amazon Adds Free Books to the Ever-Growing List of Prime Benefits
Why I write plain JavaScript modules
Indeed, I have no degree but have been working for +7 years in the field. Recently I decided to start searching for new challenges but thanks to ATS [1] my resume has been rejected 90% of the time, the other 10% has been invested in interviews in fairly popular companies including Amazon and Booking.com. After having studied CtCI [2] and practiced on LeetCode [3] for two weeks (yes, just two weeks) I was able to pass most of the technical interviews, so I can testify that using this repository as a way to improve your skills actually works.

PS: Just to clarify, I haven't been hired by any of the "Big 4" yet, but that is because — again — I have been studying for only two weeks, if I invest more time on this, maybe in 5-6 months I can guarantee an offer in one of those popular companies that appear featured on HN all the time. And as the parent comment says, even if you have no intention to work for Google or any other of the big corporations, this still is a good list of resources to improve your skillset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system

[2] https://www.amazon.com/a/dp/0984782850

[3] https://leetcode.com/
Are GCC and Clang parsers really handwritten?
I'm getting a strong impression that the article wanted to talk about hard work, growth mindset, and participation trophies, and not actually analyze why writers put off writing.

I believe things like this can only be properly understood through empathy, and all the talk about millennials and hard work and procrastination, being blame behavior, is already putting one in the wrong mindset.

Perhaps the author should try writing some heavy books, herself.
American elites are intentionally trying to drive a wedge between boomers and millenials in order to disenfranchise both demographics.

This manifests as whingy articles in the mainstream media which leads to whingy people who enjoy both agreeing and disagreeing with them.
There is a very direct link between the mandatory headscarf law and Islam. It was not mandatory in Iran before Khomeini came to power.
No, not very similar. With abortion you're terminating the life of a child. Do homicide laws "control women", too?
>jobs that pay well but don't require college degrees or a ton of specialized training.

This is my thinking as well because this demographic is most likely a swing voter. College educated white collar types most likely have a lifelong party affiliation and don't swing their vote, but this demographic often doesn't as they aren't typically political.

Its easier to blame cheap manufacturing overseas than to admit that our own homegrown automation is to blame here. Everyone pretending automation isn't eating the world is something every politician and every party world-wide seems to have in common, at least or now.

Lastly, there's a puritan ethic at work here. Manufacturing, as well as farming, is hard work that brings tangible and easy to understand results. Politicians can talk about those jobs and farmers with no controversy compared to praising a hedge fund manager or an investment group that created vast amounts of wealth and jobs. Its politically incorrect to praise the wealthier people in society, even though they're the ones responsible for much of the economy. Election season tends to bring out the myth that the economy is run by hard working men in overalls sweating to produce value, when its really run in swanky offices by people engaging in fairly technical disciples.

One of the big problems with democracy or at least the demagogy needed to win an election is that you often can't talk about how things really work as its seen as too elitist, technical, or just confusing. So certain classes of people are seen a virtuous like teachers, farmers, or line workers and anything having to do with big business or finance is instantly vilified. So we have these elaborate lies and strange incentives (fight for manufacturing? why?) to make sure no one gets offended or feels inferior.
Some say 'knowledge is power'.
Knowledge is great.
But it is not 'wisdom', which tends to come from shared thoughts and experience.
The future of digital home entertainment: NHK develops a 4K/8K set-top box
This is a bit meta, but it bothers me sometimes how much virtual ink is spilled on how to pass algorithmic interviews. Especially considering how little of your career will actually depend on the knowledge being presented.

I'm slowly learning that despite how much more money I've earned by skipping between companies, skipping is not a path to knowledge. It provides better earning opportunities (to a point), it provides new challenges on a regular basis, but I've lost the ability to go deep into a topic. The depth that can't be achieved in two or three years.

I guess I'd really like to see a bit more ink spilled on "congratulations, you got a job; now what?" What interpersonal skills are most important? What are good resources for continued learning? What do C level people actually do? How can I help the company succeed? What career opportunities are possible for me without having to skip jobs? What can I learn from this company before I go to create my own?

That would be much more valuable, IMO, than a primer on how to pass an interview process.
TIL there's a word for that strange political idea that I like very much. Thanks!
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> signalfd gets this bit right.

I'd be careful saying that any API based around signals is "right". In general, signals are just horrible and I really wish that the UNIX history had played out differently.
P.H.P
In my view your initial post is an attempt to distract from how bad it is in Iran by heavily implying that the West is just as bad.

It's not.
As seen over at BSD...
Ten Simple (Empirical) Rules for Writing Science
"Dan Shapero, LinkedIn’s Careers product lead, told me that if you turn on Open Candidates, the “looking for new work” signal will only be beamed out to recruiters who are not in any way connected to the place where you currently work. That means that even if you are looking, you won’t jeapordize your current job in the process."
I'm sure a similar question was asked by/of VCs back in the day for ads-supported webmail platforms - a la hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail, etc. I'm sure VCs at the time asked why should these platforms be built if email is an open standard, and if everyone has their own desktop email client. And yet, so many users have prospered by some users using these "free" webmail platforms and others using the conventional desktop email clients. Email is decentralized and for all its warts has allowed collaboration between users of different silos.

If/when social platforms begin to use more universal/interchangable/inter-communicational standards, the various silos can still compete - including private/self-hosted, community-hosted, for-profit silos, etc. - though the competition won't be on limiting communication, but rather can this silo/site provide better uptime/availability, or can that silo/site develop better mobile/desktop/web clients, or can a silo/site offer better discoverability, or even (for the for-profit silos) can this silo/site offer more relevant ads, etc.
The local RS is what got me into computing in 1981. They let me sit down and type in BASIC programs as long as I wanted, and they didn't need it to show customers. Spent hours there. My first programming "ah hah!" was: let T = T + 1, to count how many times that section of code had been hit.

I've been a software developer professionally since not long after that.
> symbol for fear of a religion
> clothing is alien > a religion that's alien to them
> representation of fear of the unknown

Maybe. Maybe people dislike it due to fear, fear of terrorism, and the alien, unknown religion.

But it's also a sign of oppression. I don't fear the religion that oppresses women (I'm not oppressed myself), but that doesn't i don't care. It it "alien"? yes, sort of, but also no - women were oppressed in the west too.

Does this matter? Unless by "alien" you mean either, I reject Islam only because I am not familiar with it, or if I was familiar with it I may tolerate it more I'd have to disagree; Are victims of abuse more tolerant of abuse?

> Women in the west must cover their breasts

Not true, there are places in the west this isn't the case, and if it's changing it can be in either direction. Also the reasoning is usually different, which is why mixed nude beaches still exit even in places you cannot be nude in public, i.e. you can do it with other consenting adults, just not in public where we cannot assume to have the consent of everyone - Does Islam allow this? No.

> ...other serious places women must cover more of their bodies...

And in a nightclub, you might have to dress smart and wear clothes, and why would you wear a bikini in a church?; These aren't public spaces. And since when were religions the voices of reason? You can opt out of any religion in the west, big differences.

> In India

that once (as still) has a strong caste system, acid attacks and terrible sexual violence against women (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape among others)

> And in the West, every woman's clothing is apparently fair game for everyone else's opinions

Uh, yes, freedom of speech/expression; You are also free to ignore those opinions, and have you own. Where is the problem?

> Note how everyone likes to tell women what they can wear.

By everyone, you mean the handful of examples above, most of which are contextual, not restricted to clothing, and not restricted to women. Wearing a mankini to church may also be "frowned upon".
> Want undefined behaviour? C

Can be solved by not doing stuff that are considered as undefined. Think of them as the standard's say of saying "don't do that". It's quite easy to do in most cases.

> Want segfaults? C
> Want memory corruption? C
> Want to write insecure code? C

There is absolutely nothing in C that makes it more prone to these in comparison to other languages. Moreover you can easily solve these by using an implementation that protects you. (such as one of the multiple C compilers that guarantee to produce safe code without UB or the sanitisers in gcc and clang)

> Want memory leaks? C

Can be easily avoided by avoiding dynamic memory allocation. Moreover nothing stops an implementation from using a GC.

> Want to write your own containers? C

This applies to all the languages as none of them happen to have an implementation of every container in their standard library. It is true that C lacks that in comparison to some other languages, however implementing the common ones (or using a library) is an extremely trivial thing to do.

> Want to spend 3x as much time writing code as a comparable C++ solution (not to mention more productive languages)? C

You must be quite the shitty C programmer to need 3 times less time to write something in C++.
Hi! Thanks for your kind words. It's been fairly difficult to pack everything we needed on such small PCB indeed. However we made it with 4-layered PCB and of-the-shelf BT module, IMU with gyroscope and accelerometer and other standard components.
After debian switched to systemd I indeed started to check BSDs again for servers, but have yet to migrate.
Maybe?

But that assumes there is a ready supply of people that can fix a certain part, and want to take contracting work. For example, let's say I have an ATI XYZ in my laptop. It has a driver bug and won't work. ATI driver is open source. Who do I hire to fix it?
Beating, raping and abusing is opression hijab is not.
I come from a Muslim country that acquired it freedom lately (Tunisia) and was oppressed the other way (wearing hijab was getting women to jail ...) guess what after we acquired our freedom the number of women wearing hijab multiplied , not because someone want them to wear it but because they want it. A lot of Muslim women living in france for example decide to wear hijab but each day a new law stop them from doing it in the name of women freedom, it's opression!!

In my family my mother in law is wearing hijab and if I really need to point out an oppressed in my family I would say it's my father in law ;-)
The History of the SaaS “Gold Rush”
> There are a lot of promising preclinical results, and the vast majority never turns into any medical treatment.

There are a lot of promising startups and the vast majority fail.

Science needs to take a lot more risks, not less, and be willing to fail. If science is now unwilling to take risks or fail, science is over as anything other than a cargo cult built around the science of previous generations.
Peer-Programming ou Pair-Programming?