skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The international community may not pay much attention to a conflict unless there is media focus on the issue, and the news media are unlikely to pay attention unless there is violence and havoc. [...] The problem of the entertainment-centered media strategies is thus rooted not in ethical flaws of individual editors, but in the fundamental economic structure of the media industry. It is therefore necessary to establish alternative non-profit news organizations to focus on dangerous conflicts and to offset the imbalance caused by the unequal access of the two parts to international news media and to remedy the problem that biased reporting is more profitable than balanced reporting.

I think too much is pinned on the door of the media when reporting on stories when:

(a) they are very far away and of little interest to people

(b) have very difficult solutions and enough nuances to make peoples eyes glaze over

(c) there is alternative coverage of other news that is more interesting

I take something like climate change which has had plenty of media attention, but until the first city sinks underwater there isn't going to be enough impetus for people to take the truly difficult actions. That moves it into the national spotlight and makes it a priority, similar to how terrorism on US soil changes "standard problems in the Middle East" into an important US issue.

> Another reason why the use of terrorism turns out to be counterproductive is that it weakens the ideological standing of the weak part. The ideological condemnation of terrorism for harming innocents is hard to argue against. The use of terrorism thus ruins the only truly efficient weapon that the weak part has: ideological warfare.

The resistance/terrorist/freedom fighter organisation's reputation is pretty worthless to begin with. Even if they're saints, no one is going to know about them or care. On the other hand, the powerful country/organization/political has an incredibly important reputation. It is absolutely worth it for the terrorist organisation to let their own reputation sink into the mud, if in doing so they can draw a response from the target that will tarnish its own reputation. It's like the relationship between politican and heckler; the heckler can say all kinds of things and people barely care, but if the politican really lets loose and responds in kind that can damage their image.
Steam, like Caesar's Gaul and Half-Life, is divided into three parts.

There's the in-game section: overlay, matchmaking, DRM checking. This actually works very well because people hardly ever notice it. Starting a game with your friends nearly always works. Achievements work.

There's the thing you get if you click on "Steam". The store and library. This is pretty terrible, especially the store; everything is so slow because it's running in an embedded bad browser of some sort. "Big picture" mode seems to be OK, but I've not used it much.

Then there's the company and business model. Everyone else in this space has focused on using DRM to squeeze customers by preventing them from doing reasonable things. Steam is DRM with very reasonable portability, a backup feature, and (very important) regular big discounts. Without the Steam sales, people would still hate it.
Sidenote, that is indeed a pretty app! If i was sure i was staying on OSX (probably migrating to Linux), i'd purchase this! Shame i never found it sooner. I use a combination of Todoist and a Pomodoro timer on my phone.
With austerity feeding on itself as it has been for many years in Greece, the rental market seems to have become flooded with properties. If your citizens have no money, and your economy is shrinking in the double digits every year for years on end, how does anyone do anything economically?
I don't know if it's a "plan", but it's definitely a rigidity and "it's our way or the highway", because they can afford it.

The current measures are beyond stupid. They've crippled the country's economy, shut down a large majority of businesses, made the climate hostile to new businesses, and generally ensured that the country doesn't recover.

I don't think we've still seen the worst of it, because the economy has shut down almost completely, and it's still getting worse. The effect of this much deterioration on such a large system will take years to show, and what we're seeing now are the results of policies five years ago.

I'm pretty confident it will get even worse in the next half-decade. Very much to blame for this is the leftist mindset of the average Greek, who thinks "bosses are the devil" and that making the country friendlier to entrepreneurship and investments is anathema.
It's not about Greece or the people of Greece or its economy, it is about existing creditors of Greek assets having time to limit exposure and fallout to the broader financial system, as well as provide a framework of deterrents for other large European countries that are practically insolvent
Meanwhile, Apple is vertically integrating the whole semiconductor industry for production of iPhones. If this continues, I'm guessing the price for non-Apple hardware will go up. What will this mean for general purpose computing?
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I agree 100% on bias. But I think "viewpoint" is even broader/softer than "opinion". As somebody born and raised in America, I have an American viewpoint. As somebody who's been writing code for a long time, I'll always have the viewpoint of a programmer. You can't escape who you are.

But as you say, that doesn't mean you have to twist the facts.
eating apple's lunch how?

Windows killed its mobile phone offering
Google has not proven it can manifactire a phone
Part of the work Igalia did in 2016 was to improve compatibility and performance of native Promise. It's a constantly moving target. If you single out v8, they're constantly improving the JIT, evolving the architecture, while individual features (e.g. generators, Promise) continually get optimized on top of those underlying engine changes. Lots of people talk about performance in absolute terms, but what is really needed is a proper performance test suite for individual features and a kangax style[1] browser/engine version perf chart (edit: like the link you posted, duh!) to track it over time similar to the more general AWFY[2]. I guess the main issue is that the test suite needs to be more accepted by the browser teams as a de-facto standard?

[1]: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

[2]: https://arewefastyet.com/
Basic science is doing fine. The issue is the glut of PhD's.

See graph here: http://futureoflife.org/2015/11/05/90-of-all-the-scientists-...
Spotify acquires customer service and retention software company Preact
Ads on websites are usually pretty clearly recognisable as ads though (except for sponsored content, which I totally agree is unethical).
Right. And corporations are actually driven not by profit, but by ideas.

Having TTIP, CETA and all those globalization pacts make this article reality in an EU country. It's not about Greek people waking up after a blissful dream, it's about nation facing reality of capitalism and bankers.
One nice thing though is that the "Pro" market for developers is mainly centered around Unix, not OSX. Sure, some devs might like OSX specific tools like a GUI for Git or some such.. but at its heart, most tools are Unix oriented, with plenty of crossover between OSX and Linux.
tldr; Apple and Microsoft want to use the high-powered variants, which have yet to be released, whilst other manufactures are happy to use the low powered variants.

Sticking with the more powerful, but power hungry CPUs is one of the few things that allow the MacBook Pro to keep the "Pro".
Mint is much more polished than Elementary, I've never had a problem in my (limited) experience with it.
At banks I worked at, they did it once a year, HARD. Lots of loss of morale for two weeks after that...after which things stabilized again.

During crises, it hit in waves. That was another kind of drawn out hell: people wondering "am I next?" aren't terribly productive.
You're the Delenda Carthago guy ?
It's just Twitter. The new grad hiring at pretty much everywhere else is full throttle (or more accurately, pretty much done now).
Advantages of outsourcing a software product
Cash flow is king.
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Article is bad article.

It does not filter through inheritances that may not be worth the money to pursue.
As far as I remember, Stacker was a marvelous software that compressed disks in a transparent manner. Everybody was using it (often pirated). Then Microsoft has provided DoubleSpace for free with its new release of DOS. It was slightly inferior (more bugs) but had basically the same functionalities. This was the murder of Stacker by the infamous Microsoft.
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I think this is not going to change, basically the industry is going back to the whole package concept that was common when the PC took off.

Think about Atari, Acorn, Amiga and such. While there were a few Pro like models, the majority of the home users were using the full packaged ones, with connection ports for external extensions.

Apple was the last one with this mindset, and thanks to their survival and success, that is the trend the industry is now returning to.

Specially given that computers have reached a plateau for 90% of the users out there.
This field is almost entirely composed of scams and buzzword surfers. Don't get your hopes up about learning any terribly scientific here. This South African Reserve Bank will give this project up when they realize this smart contract offers no efficiency over incumbent systems
"Fun fact: Radars control/ signal processing are now software."

Well some of it. I'd call base-band processing in FPGA as hardware, as RADAR bandwidths are generally still too high to allow real-time processing in software; i.e a true software defined radar on a CPU. The software is always playing catch-up as bandwidths and array density increase.

Even 2G wireless comms still are not fully software; it take an FPGA implementation due to latency. Never mind 5G comms.

I suppose it's a point of contention, but I don't consider HDL to be software, as it's easier to go from (an HDL synthesized to) FPGA to an ASIC than HDL to software on a general purpose CPU.
I'm not complaining, I don't have any more property on my name and I think it's reasonable.
I have 3. When I first started working from home, we set some ground rules, which mostly amount to "Be quiet in here." and "I might boot you out of my office, just say OK and go.", and "If my headset is on, and I am talking, do not interrupt."

It actually has been great. Taking a break to talk to a child is refreshing. Being able to be a parent more than just after dinner is good for everyone involved. And they get to see what I do.

It helps if your entire company is remote - then everyone understands the balancing that happens between family and work.At my company, it is common to step away from your desk to go to a child's activity, help them with something, or just go play with your kids. And when babies cry or toddlers interrupt conference calls, people just laugh. We all understand what it is like to work remotely, and our leadership care about the work getting done, not the schedule you keep.

I will admit that it would be harder to work for the kind of place where remote worker are still expected to sit in their desks from 9-5, lurking on some always-on hangout/slack/whatever. If kids are involved, I would skip that kind of team and look for people who value full flexibility in remote work, not just in location.
Check out Linux Mint... Cinnamon version... it's a pretty happy middle ground between windows and osx.
What you just described is what I always describe as the ideal web deployment system. Most of my dev is in C++, but I couldn't believe the inefficiency found in sniffing everything at runtime versus using what already exists to serve up different pre-compiled targets specifically optimized for all the major browser versions active in the field. It seems that products like this that span the dev workflow (compilation) / operational (sniffing server) gap are hard to get off the ground since many devs can't touch the ops side.
I've been doing a lot of Duolinguo and it works like wonders to start picking a new language but then, at some point, it becomes repetitive and boring.

How do you deal with it?
I've been really impressed with Open Whisper's focus on usability and functionality. So many privacy products take the stance of "if you care about privacy, you won't want to do this", and it seriously harms uptake.
I wouldn't go as far as the OP: I think Heinlein's razor comes into effect here. There is a clear solution to the problem, which is debt forgiveness. The troika has known this since the crisis began. The problem is that it's politically untenable. So instead they kick the can down the road, do nothing, and hope everything gets better on its own. They've caused a depression in Greece. They've also turned me into a euroskeptic.
Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
How many people here have ACTUALLY gotten a job through the monthly post?

Provide what information you can (company, job title, post (if it's still alive)).
Downvoted it for you.

Greeks didn't scam anybody, on the contrary, they were scammed by EU leaders and bankers. After signing the EU pacts, there was little their politicians could do to avert the catastrophe (and what little they could, they still didn't.)
So overvalued property in the current economic context combined with unprecedented (for Greece) property taxes is making home ownership a burden? Plus the maintenance costs wipe out what remains of the value.
Factors to keep in mind:

1. are you comfortable with remapping keys? I use AHK in Windows and Karabiner in mac.

2. mac/pc? I use the context menu key next to AltGr in Winodws for correcting spelling mistakes without reaching for mouse.

3. are you a touch typist? In that case avoid back lit. This really adds for unnecessary expense.

4. Is numpad important? Das Keyboard without numpad are on sell. I prefer this to enter lot of data in Excel and also it can be used for remapping using AHK for various task.

5. switches? Would you like to annoy your coworkers with blue switch?

6. do you want to carry your keyboard wherever you go? Das also sell keyboard as heavy as 3 kg.

7. are multimedia keys important?

8. Wire/Wireless?

9. Das ultimate keyboard also act as USB 3.0 hub along with normal keyboard. If your laptop does not have enough UBS ports for your need then you may want to go with it.

10. Would you Touch pad in your keyboard instead of numpad? I have seen such Logitech keyboard.
The most exciting thing for mobile robotics is that soon LIDAR will be solid state (like RADAR is today). See Quanergy.

This will bring the cost and size of precision proximity/ranging/mapping sensors down by an incredible amount.
Fwiw, i sort of like that. I understand it really sucks not being able to replace chips, especially something as simple as adding RAM, but i've not really seen a super compact laptop also allow me to replace RAM easily. My Macbook Pro Retina is quite compact, and it's proven to be a really important trait.

If someone makes them as compact and replaceable i'm on board, i just haven't seen it. Not saying it's not possible of course :)
You sound like you're joking but it's true. There are a shockingly small number of people who are really capable of being a CEO of a large (or even medium sized company) and doing it well. It's an insanely hard job.

And two of the biggest tech CEOs (Sundar Pichai of Google & Satya Nadella of Microsoft) are immigrants.
A feature like this doesn't really matter in the context of competing with mainstream messaging services because their value is to a large extent in things like brand and network effect. The notion that you're just one feature away from mainstream adaptation is often a misconception. In reality there's limited potential in living in the shadow of something else.
I don't know, this is why I'm asking. I don't know if the issue even really exists or if there are workarounds.

But OAuth tokens for instance are bound to services, aren't they? If I'm correct, that would make that sort of centralized auth resilient to apps leaking credentials.
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>Does anyone have access to the world government dev environment

The banks with super admin privileges to create money in their databases do.
Do you personally plan to spend time trying to reverse-engineer Admiral's insurance model? If not, multiply that by everyone else and you have your answer.

It's less work to just switch insurance companies.
Not quite like that, or at least the "rigging" part. Yanis Varoufakis, former finance ministers of Greece, has talked about how the finance ministers were pushing for the "failed policies", all through I don't remember what the reasons were.
> In the long term it’s doing the exact opposite: It’s finally setting USB-C/thunderbolt as the standard.

It's not going to set a new standard if it doesn't sell.
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Part of the job of a CEO is to make sure a company is executing in the right market.
> What you are reading in this article is cases where they did not plan for the future.

Weird how that sentence became what it is with the benefit of hindsight. If things had gone the other way, and inheritance was cheaper than parental donation, you'd be saying "those chumps donated when it was more expensive and did not plan for the future".

It's easy to plan for the future when you already know what it will be. In other cases, I wouldn't be so absolute.
Everybody in the FOSS community gets really mad at that decision... I thought it was intuitive.

"How much do you want to pay?"

"0 Dollars."

"Great!"

Why is that so horrible?
First, you seem not to understand how LDAP authentication works. It's not
reading plain text passwords to compare against what user provided. It's not
even reading a hash and comparing user-provided password with that. It's
sending password to LDAP server to ask if it is valid for specified user.

Then, don't underestimate the alternative: a selection of sticky notes with
passwords for each service slapped on monitor, which is still a valid concern
in business setting. And with LDAP you at least have one place to invalidate
credentials and to enforce minimum password complexity (to avoid "password123"
passwords).
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Hyperledger's core value proposition is that you can find efficiencies in your business by putting your transactions into folders, and sending them to your competitors. This isn't a very well thought out project.
> Most just want a window manager for xterms.

Glances at 2nd and 3rd monitors

Well I can't argue there.
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List of awesome university courses for learning Computer Science!

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I'm not sure you've done enough macOS/iOS development to know where that feeling comes from. In every Apple developer conference, in much of the UI API, and in input from the community, the idea of creating beautiful apps is something that gets repeated over and over until it is ingrained in us. It has nothing to do with trying to be better looking than other platforms but rather trying to match the aesthetics and quality of other apps on the same platform. People tend to notice when your one utility app stands out as the ugly duckling on macOS/iOS.
There are some nuances to the terminology. Companies avoid the term "layoff" because it implies that people might be re-hired once the slowdown is over. Growing up near Detroit, I remember layoffs where the status of the laid off workers was specified in the union contract. I have not heard of this kind of layoff in recent times, outside of unionized companies.

Laypeople like me usually reserve "firing" for people who are fired "with cause." When companies fire people "at will," they often use words like "reduction in force."

Perhaps a better way of thinking about it is the consequences of being fired. If you are fired "at will," then you are entitled to things like unemployment compensation, COBRA benefits, etc. If you are fired "with cause," then you lose those benefits.

If an employee is a klunker, they will often wait for business to slow down, fire them "at will," and pay the benefits, to avoid potentially getting sued for false termination.
"non-existent" ?
SonarQube is incredible (and free). We've been using it at work, and it's uncovered bugs in a codebase that's been around for years.
This looks a _lot_ like word2vec applied in large scale to me. [1] I have a feeling Google already does this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec
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I'm curious if you've tried PowerShell. MS has been pushing it as a command prompt replacement since Windows 7. It's a little annoying to have to relearn the syntax, but it seems about a capable as osx terminal.
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For me the GPU (even the 460) is the biggest disappointment. Doesn't look like it's good enough to support the VR hardware by Oculus or HTC. Maybe that was just a pipedream but I seem to recall Apple saying something along the lines of the next MBP will be "VR ready"

I'll probably still get a 15" MBP as my development machine but I'm not pre-ordering as initially planned and waiting on some reviews first.

Edit: I just remembered that the Razer Core external GPU adapter has USB-C so maybe getting one of these to get around this problem could be an option. A pricey option though.
It's in Kallithea, a generic south-European concrete-jungle urban center. Also, I'm not sure it's fair to compare property values between the US and Greece. The average person working on the private sector would be lucky if he made $10000/year at this point in time.