skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You do know that the ad won't necessarily be relevant to you, right?

Perhaps, but I don't really see the difference in the end. Anecdotally, I see ads for IntelliJ IDEA because I look up a lot of coding-related things. So does it matter that I'm getting this ad because Google's ad network has decided I like coding, or because IntelliJ selected some parameters and said "send this ad to coders"?

The goal of either operator would be to send me an ad they think I'm most likely to click on, and so from the user perspective it's indistinguishable where the ad is actually directed from.

>Regarding that "minor event": it is minor in isolation, but the point is that you are generating a large amount of those events that are being aggregated into databases where they are unlikely to be deleted.

Alright, here's the thing. I don't love the idea of tracking but I'm not repulsed by it either. I always see "tracking is evil!" as if it's the final say on the matter, especially on this website. But I've yet to see a convincing argument that it's something which I should be actively concerned about, or that it's something making my life worse in any way.

Often what I see is people using emotional words like "surveillance", when really we're talking about a computer algorithm that matches ads with interests groups. It inspires imagery of somebody watching you through your computer which I suspect is the point. This sort of language strikes me as hyperbolic, and in some cases dishonest.

I realize this is outside the scope of your original comment, but understand that when making claims like "tracking is evil", or some variation of that view, unless there's something tangible to point to and say "this is how it makes your life worse", it just doesn't register on my radar.

It might be easy to dismiss that view as short-sighted, but ultimately I consider it more pragmatic than placing ethical stances on what seems to be largely speculative concerns. Why would an ad company sell user data when that's their entire competitive advantage? In the case of Google (and I suspect most others), their privacy policy explicitly prohibit them from selling user data.

Ultimately I find that technology improves my life in many ways, and I try not to fear it unless I see a real cause for concern. And on this particular issue I haven't seen that yet.
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Well, it rains more in the Netherlands...
I absolutely experienced that feeling when road racing motorcycles this past year. When you're on track, the only thing that occupies your mind is the next turn. I'd call it a poor man's meditation if it wasn't so damn expensive..
Very, but sadly it looks like I'm not the right kind of programmer for them. :(
You can also `start /b cmd` for some very interesting results. I still have not understood why this works this way.
All those little things you listed are precisely what's interesting about relocating. The broad strokes of life are defined by income level everywhere, the details not. The details are interesting (to me).
Your too late. I live 3 minutes walk from a tourist destination so my airbnb business is good. 9/10 locals don't hang out there despite good prices and tons of bars.

Only a few of my guests hit up places locals go to...if they're decent they get tons of tourist anyway.

>Why not just go out and have your own experience and be guided by your own sense of adventure? Rent a bike and just explore. Stumbling upon new things without an app or a guide book is one of the greatest joys of traveling.

I'd say nearly all my guest do that. I feel like I have to pull teeth to give them a quick 15 minute walking orientation tour to save them time.
> The part about university is counterintuitive. In the US companies have to compete for talent, not vice-versa.

To perhaps resolve this contradiction: In Germany you typically are not considered as "talent" if you are self-learnt, only if you have a formal degree (also for blue-collar jobs you do apprenticeship for 2 to 3 years). The mentality really is "if the person is not even able to get a degree/do an apprenticeship" how can he/she an able person. The only exception of this rule if you are self-employed - then it's your problem to find customers. If you are successful as a self-employed person or founder (even though you have no formal degree), you will still be accepted.

One reason (beside tradition) might be that in Germany there are strong dismissal protection laws. This means that after a probation period of typically a half year it becomes complicated to fire you. Thus as an employer you really want to go the safe way: It is not sufficient that you are currently good, but also that you are able to learn new things on your own. A university degree is a strong sign that you are able to learn new, complicated things on your own in the future: It is my impression that to get a degree at a typical German university in some STEM subject you are a lot more on your own in terms of learning etc. than at a typical US university.
Yay... Isnt everyone using jTDS anyway because it is reliably faster?

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/36e7b9cf-5bc5...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7848213/why-is-jtds-faste...

Edit: seems like they fixed their abysmal performance after 5years in jan 2016; see stackoverflow comment.
Thanks for effectively killing my productivity with that cookie clicker game.
Theresa May, is that you?
So what happens when the NYT prints a story that ends up being fabricated, or uses false (or fake) data to support an op-ed?

In this brave, new world where "fake news" is filtered out, will the "truthy" organizations be given a free pass?

That's my biggest concern. As it stands now, publications often do their best to bury retractions and corrections.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-... should help.
I have seen this quite often in legacy devices. 20 years ago there wasn't ida-pro, and the designers probably felt more secure about leaving all the pieces of the puzzle in the hands of the enduser. Real cryptography was more difficult on 8 bit hardware, as well as being export-controlled.

The last one I encountered was an s-box, where the s-box material was included in the update file. The only secret was the initial substitution ('seed' if you will.) They kept it in firmware until the very last product to use this scheme, whose windows app decrypted the update to learn some details about the update before it was loaded into the embedded device.
I was curious about Dell's response when contacted about the defect with your computer because my experience with Dell's technical support for products under warranty has been good and for products outside of warranty has been better than it might have been.

Caveat: my assumption was that the first stop for a new broken Precision would be Dell support based on how I would proceed.
No, we'll block your account if you never wanted to own the phone, but ordered it directly to a reseller to make money. We block the account because it's a violation of the ToS you agreed to.

However, we reinstate the account after a few days. [1]

[1] http://www.slashgear.com/pixel-phone-flipping-scheme-googles...
A lot of countries have a live/work visa for people under 30.
On a somewhat related note, one of PowerShell's biggest weaknesses is memory utilization. And since they make it so simple to pass around hefty object collections it tends to bite you in the ass early on. Particularly when you're using cmdlets. When doing real scripting that actually needs to be run as a job I am surprised when I can get away with cmdlets and don't need to manage .net APIs/objects directly. Especially third party cmdlets.

One performance tip I picked up early on: If you're passing around large object sets you need to operate on try to keep them in a pipeline. Populating a variable and interacting with it is arguably more readable and maintainable, especially for junior people, but it has a heavy cost in terms of memory.

That said every version of posh is better than the last so I may be wrong or overestimating the impact for the newest versions. YMMV, don't believe everything you read on the internet, etc.
That's roughly the equivalent of trading a diet of donuts for a diet of cocaine. One's not healthy, the other will make you crazy.
My main thrust is that the other issues are very endemic and structural and need to be addressed. Most of the I see is about "fake news". It's almost like "fake news" is now meta fake news.

They lost to a very weak, inexperienced opposition candidate with a bad ground game and roughly half the political advertising, compared to the Dems' machine --that shows that Dems miscalculated badly. This should be their focus, not Romanian's and Balkan's fake news endevours --that's a curio, for sure but it should not be among the main topics of discussion as to why the Dems imploded (House, Senate, Governorships and Presidency -all, everything!)
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As a host who offers tours, its been the complete opposite and most don't really want to be guided.

The only folks who wanted to be heavily guided lacked English or wanted a wingman in bars.

I feel like I'm getting annoying whenever I make suggestions and my guests are like 'umm, okay'
You only think you´re being sarcastic. A small note here on Swedish history.

Back in the day (1600´s or so), Sweden was one of the great military powers of Europe, occupied Norway and Finland, and had armies and mercenaries fighting down as far as Munich in Germany. They were actually one of the leaders of the Protestant Revolution.

Back in the day...
As a person just starting to explore ip cameras, can anyone suggest any resources to tell if my cameras are already infected? If so, what to do? If they are only accessible locally, within the home's local intranet, it that safer?
Sounds like something to tell your manager.
Erdogan is concerned about "fake news" in Turkey as well. /s
Powershell is very insecure and is heavily abused by potential attackers as it's more flexible than CMD.exe. Of course, arguing about CMD.exe vs PS.exe is pointless, but it still needs to be argued.

There has been a recent spate of talks in Blackhat conf. and other confs, about the versatility of PS.exe, how it is used to perform persistence in comparably little characters, or lines of script than CMD.exe

Some of my Win10 deployments even contain a script which silently disables PS.exe in the installation, and removes every reference to that executable in the registry. There are a few cases where I caught PS.exe re-spawning itself when a Win10 update arrives, so a PS-free deployment is hard to enforce.
You've veered off into conspiracy theory and name calling. Nice.
I'd like to think it was 3, just because the design has just enough of a PITA factor that it's just plain easier to pay Honeywell for updates so long as the program exists. But as soon as the program doesn't exist, at the least the hardware isn't a brick.

Another possibility is that they designed it as just a thin brick wall for the consumer, never suspecting or caring if they'd reverse engineer it one day, while making it easy for them to do these updates by mail. By making a system easy for Honeywell to provide mail-in updates, they unwittingly made it easyish to hack 20 years later.
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Thank you good sir.
Finding opals is not the problem, they are everywhere there, finding opals with valuable color traits is the problem. It's highly random is my understanding.
> Not saying you're not paying with both here.

If Facebook's "Open Internet" (Read: "Walled Garden") denied by India is any indication, you're unfortunately paying more for the service with your personal data than you are with any money.
Coddie: An Interpreter for Extended Relational Algebra
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Having spent 15+ years in Europe, mostly in Italy, but also Austria, now I'm familiar with how two places work. I feel I'm better off for it, as it helps me think about what works and what doesn't in different places.
Did they, why?

I have switch to xfce4-terminal for a while in all my system....
> I was just a child of 5 when we were forced at gunpoint from our home and sent first to live in a horse stable at a local race track, a family of five crammed into a single smelly stall.

> After several weeks, they sent us much farther away, 1,000 miles to the east by rail car, the blinds of our train cars pulled for our own protection, they said.

> Armed guards looked down upon us from sentry towers; their guns pointed inward at us; searchlights lit pathways at night. We understood. We were not to leave.

> And it was normal to stand each day in our makeshift classroom, reciting the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, “With liberty and justice for all,” as I looked past the U.S. flag out the window, the barbed wire of the camp just visible behind it.

Reading this description from someone who actually lived it is shattering.
Inspired by the simplicity and elegance of both the Scheme programming language, and the relational algebra formal system, Coddie is an interpreter with Lisp-like syntax that presents in a succinct way a tool to study and explore relational algebra, as defined by E.F. Codd in his famous paper A relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, but extended in order to provide lightweight manipulation of data and data presentation.
Author here. The plan is to get spinnaker setup on the cluster. It's a collection of around 8 microservices. Kubernetes should handle HA just fine. 20 cores and 10GB of memory for the cluster. I can build another one of these and put it in a separate room for multi-region ;)
Thanks for the offer, but I'm not very enthusiastic about online debating anymore. One of the reasons I engage on Hacker News is that I try avoid flame wars for the benefit of spectators. It's been even longer since I enjoyed watching other people go low.

Anyway, I prefer text to video as means of expression for reasons I described elsewhere.
> For the latter: its kind of sad that these people at yahoo – being incredibly more employable than average – still couldn't muster the courage to say no. Could've done it quietly and found a job somewhere else.

For this tactic to achieve its goal (that the software doesn't get written), you'd have to ensure that literally zero developers now and in the future would be willing to write the code. As was discussed in a previous thread [1], when faced with the prospect of writing "unethical code" the consensus seems to be even if a few developers take an ethical stand, there will always be some other developer out there without such strong convictions willing to write the code instead.

I'd also like to point out that being employable does not necessarily mean you're in the position where you can put your job on the line for something. I consider myself an "employable" software guy but I've got bills to pay, and 3 months of unemployment while I find my next job is not exactly compatible with that.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589
Even accepting the science, there is plenty of room for controversy over what actions should be taken as a result.
Token ring in 1995? I guess a lot changes in 20 years. Networking was very different then, ethernet cards were like $600 in '93

https://books.google.com/books?id=mhAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=et...
If it helps others, Duolingo is obviously a good starting point for this (and free), but I also liked LingQ because you can import articles from the web and learn to read them word by word, building up your own personal dictionary in the process. So instead of pre-defined lessons, I learned by reading German song lyrics. (Unheilig is now my favorite band.)

Speaking / conversation is really important though, and I haven't solved that yet. iTalki looks good, but I've not yet tried any of the Skype sessions yet.

[0] https://duolingo.com/

[1] https://www.lingq.com/

[2] https://www.italki.com/
I consider it a feature, more times than not. Google's anticipating my search, flash heavy eye-candy/media and numerous unaffiliated servers baked into web pages all clog my 1mb connection and make my browser run like molasses. How many Targetimg cdn's does it take to display a single product page? Last I checked it was 4, plus a half-dozen or more other presumably ad servers. I choose not to use many big retailers' sites b/c of it. Again, for me, that is a feature to keep them at bay from anything beyond our potential transactional relationship.
(Not OP) but I agree with him. I think it is a matter of degree. Overall I would have expected less blame on Fake News, less "let's try to influence electoral college voters", "Russians, Russians, Russians" and more introspective discussions.

The situation under which a country elects a TV star and the most experienced politician around has the worst electoral failure in 28 years for their party is very serious. There should be a lot more serious introspective discussions.

Mind you, typically (and I am using dangerous stereotypes here) liberals have considered themselves more intellectual, logical, better educated. I was expecting a lot more from them. Instead I see irrational lashing out, blaming, and finger pointing.
Get with the program... Airbnb your place and move....???? Profit
I have noticed this with echo too. In specific, the bash echo built in does not drop support for -n and -e when bash is forced into standards compliance mode as /bin/sh. That causes breakage on systems that use more strictly compliant shells when code was written against bash as sh under the assumption that either -n or -e work. I spotted a regression in Linus' tree a while back where this very thing happened in the build system for perf. Sadly, my patch to fix it was ignored:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2218440
My general rule is no appearance of impropriety now that I'm married. That means I will usually not go to lunch alone with a female coworker we always go in groups. I don't talk about my personal life outside of pleasantries, only social network connection I will have is on linkedIn. Even if physical infidelity is avoided, it's too easy to get involved in an emotional affair with someone you spend one third of your waking weekday hours with and since you are in the same industry, by definition you have a lot of the same interest.

Unless it's urgent. No direct messages on Slack after work hours.
Same. I have about 500 different IP every month trying to RDP into my servers. I add them automatically to the firewall of my servers.
Agreed. The whole point of morals and ethics is to establish a code of behavior that defines what is or is not ok to do even if it's not against the law.

There isn't a law that forbids people from gossiping about others behind their backs but most of us can generally agree that it's simply something that decent people should not do.
One more option for you (if you speak English fluently): we have an awesome team based in Portugal called Meta. Our two founders—Joana Rafael and Vasco Portugal—are two of the nicest people you will ever meet in additional to being great leaders. We collobrate with partners to launch IoT/M2M products. If the partner is a startup, we support all aspects of the product developement and launch until typically its series B round including ideation & product/market fit, MVP to production hardware & software development, fund raising support, marketing/growth hacking, and international expansion from Europe to the US/Americas. We also spinout our own products based on staff and investor interest like Sensei, a video analytics platform for retail spaces <https://sensei.tech/>. These spinouts are are owned by the team working on them, which we feel is the right thing to do. Where you would probably work is our main R&D innovation office in Lisbon, but we also have a hardware manufacturing and software support team in other locations. Also with Meta's salaries, you will live a nice life in Portugal in addition to a healthy work/life balance. If you never have been to Portugal, its people are nice and happy to speak English with you, and its food and weather are quite remarkable too. It is truly a good life. Check us out, and if you would like to discover more, email me: Randy Carlton <rcarlton@meta-icg.com> and we can Skype/Hangout.

https://www.meta-icg.com
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I wound up in Europe for love. And same here - it is the best decision I've made. Been here for a little over 3 years now and have no regrets.
Generally correct, but Finland was a part of Sweden since hundreds of years earlier than the 1600s (ignoring the question if you can use the concept "nation" about Sweden in e.g. the 1200s).

And Norway never really got into our greedy, grasping Swedish hands until much later... they had a bad time enough with being part of Denmark anyway. :-)

Edit: And I finally got that Vendan's point was about the recent US election. :-)
What happens if someone have batch files for some work flow routines?

Have to re-write all of them?
You can have the same problem with any OS that you install that is connected to the Internet before the updates are applied (ie: getting a compromised computer in a a few minutes, being Windows or Linux)
Good to hear. I think the whole event was a net good for everyone, based on how many HN commenters responded to the news by offloading as much of their data off google servers as possible.

Glad to see google doing good by undoing their own evil.
I'm really confused here. What attack vectors apply to PowerShell, but not to a situation where I can invoke cmd.exe? I can tell PowerShell to only run signed scripts, and specify what signatures to honor, which is more than I can do with either cmd.exe or WSH. You're citing compactness of scripts, but a straight-up binary would be more compact still. I think I'm missing something pretty basic here.
Be aware that if you are looking for a job in a EU country you have a disadvantage against other job candidates from a EU country. Most countries have a quota for non-EU work visa, whereas there is no so thing for employees from an EU country. That means that your employer would have to go through some hassle to sponsor your visa. That usually means you need to have a searched for specialization and senior level work experience.

If you don't have this specialization or not enough work experience you could try to look for jobs in remote areas where employers have problems to find people. The southwest of Germany with those zillions of small to middle sized mechanical engineering companies would be an example for that. Of course the cultural shock will be bigger than the one you get if you go to eg. London. Your salary also will be about 20%-30% lower then those in a city, you could describe those places as boring (or laid back, depending on your point of view) and you would definitely have to learn the language.
Yes. Also, at least With NVDIA cards, you can specify a temperature target to the driver. I think the defaults usually run the chips at ~70C.

I guess the fans are actually mostly 100mm in 2x fan configurations, manufacturers seem to have many custom solutions for blade configuration etc.
1) $1 million doesn't go far to be honest.

2) People on Reddit and elsewhere noted pro-Trump videos with thousands of shares and a couple hundred views repeatedly. The only way that would happen is with bots since to trigger the share link on YouTube would be by viewing the video.
Part of the situation where artists should leave in the meta data the filters, lenses, and other things they applied in an effort to get a photo ready for an article. These photos are gritty, amazingly normal for these type of articles.
I was talking about fresh.

The prices I mentioned are the typical prices for larger packages, not a special or whatever.
this is... genius