skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where should I go with my dog in 7 days can be argued that more complex.

Where should I go now - not so much.
You're just like me. Except for I don't drive, I take a bus, then subway and then bus again.

I do read HN, Medium, twitter (all IT-related) and other resources. Though sometimes it's really pretty hard to concentrate and read articles carefully. I also use headphones to not get distracted by the engine noice.
Even in short functions, "declare it when it's needed" makes your program follow a data-flow style and enables you to use const more, since in many cases the initialization is the only assignment that you do to that variable.
In the world of opinion pieces in the run-up to the election.

Sorry that last bit was absolutely not aimed at you, but at the media that, as you said, looked at models showing Trump having a 15-25% chance of winning and saying first "according to the models Trump cannot win" and then "Boy did those models get it completely wrong".
The question adds confusion to it, should have put the whole macro to give it context.
nothing motivates people like having their exact hours monitored
Well... yea. Pardoning Snowden seems a great way to send the intelligence community into an upheaval and spark mass resignation and protest, much less the political ammo it would give Republicans.
Is the next financial crisis on its way?
the best you can do is to use a static site generator plugin and serve the generated html. This is the only secure way to use wordpress. The wordpress software should be installed in a not public network from where you can edit (e.g. home computer, vpn).
Not sure if you have any experience, but Cordova and Xamarin are not the same kind of thing. In Xamarin you (and I would recommend that in most cases) get to use the native APIs of your platform of choice. Aka when targetting iOS you will be using UIView and when Android View. And all methods on those objects are the same ones you would use in Swift and Objective C for iOS and in Java for Android but then under a thin wrapper of C# or F#. Cordova is very much not that. I am not sure where the confusion under devs comes from but Xamarin generally is not used to run the same GUI codebase on two platforms like one would do with Cordova.
For me, the biggest Wordpress fail, is a file called xmlrpc.php. This file is just a menace and should not exist in the default installation.

My first two things I do when I install a new wordpress server is add this to `.htaccess` :

Redirect 301 /xmlrpc.php http://127.0.0.1

Otherwise you will have a very easy DDoS vector that can bring your website down, immediately after some bot finds out this file exists on your host.
It's only worthwhile as collateral if the consequence of defaulting is expensive enough, and that's culturally variable.

To achieve the same level existential anxiety for someone living in the US, you would probably have to take out one of your kidneys and put it in storage with the risk of having it sold or destroyed.
I've been thinking about the 4D visualization problem and I am becoming increasingly convinced we can develop some cool tools to help wrap our mind around it using VR goggles.

There are two ways to draw a 3D object in 2D. One is to draw slices, or projections. The other is to use tricks of "perspective" (points of infinity and shading) It is very hard to visualize a 3D object simply from the slices model.

When we try to draw 4D objects in 3D, we often simply construct models that are slices of the 4D objects and then try to extrapolate back in our minds what the 4D object "looks like". This is even more difficult to wrap our brains around.

I postulate that we can develop similar tricks of perspective and shading that will help use see a 4D object if we draw on a 3D canvas. I don't think we can do so on a 2D canvas and make any sense of it. However, I'm hopeful that using VR goggles and drawing in 3D might be the trick.

I've only really just started thinking about this idea. I have a ton of books on constructing perspective for 3D objects on 2D surfaces. Much has been written about it since the Renaissance. It is only in the last couple of years that we've had an effective and accessible 3D canvas to work with. (constructing hundreds of sculptures is not really practical)

I don't think a lot of work has been done with VR goggles yet for 4D visualizations.
Maybe it doesn't have to work for you? It's a team sport.
Norway does have a lot of community oriented activities especially if you have children. There are ski-clubs everywhere for cross country skiing, and those clubs often have "lys-løype" (lit tracks) and a man who drives a tracked vehicle that makes the line-tracks in the snow. This means there are clearly designated areas where skiiers can park and ski on a course. The ski-club where I live also produce a map of a nearby forest with all the winter trails marked out. The tourist board of Norway have "get outside days" for children and organised clubs all year around to encourage use of the countryside. Ski-clubs also arrange for garage-sale type events where almost new and used gear can be gotten cheaply. There is no stigma around this in Norway even among the more well off. Buying new gear for growing children is OK, but getting it cheap is more OK (a lot of Norway is wealthy because people are frugal, I think they remember times before the oil boom!).

It's almost impossible to avoid being harassed into going cross country skiing in Norway. Accept and assimilate.
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Im also using XFCE running on Fedora.

I usually only have Thunderbird, Firefox and terminal(zsh) open.

Sometimes I get annoyed by lack of "Just works" with certain things. I havn't really done much configuration changes from out of the box. Its been great though. Clean and simple.
that early is fine if you don't have kids... or have kids who start school at some stupid time like 7am.... my kids don't start school until 8:50... so starting before 9 is completely unrealistic unless i get a massive pay rise to cover child care for 2 kids before school 5 days a week
Well, fortunately this man got help, but this is the customer service of automate everything -- win the lottery of creating enough buzz for the media/Reddit to pick it up, or you're fucked. Suddenly, having your call forwarded for help to Asian calling-center doesn't sound such a bad idea...
I'm in a lead role now, and I tried my best to do away with meetings keeping in line the general resentment for meetings among the devs. But, I often see that it's counter productive for the team as a whole in the long run. Without meetings, cross functional discussions screeched to an almost halt, most guys would get deep into their silos not caring about the big picture etc etc. Also, it was a huge pain keeping track of open tickets/tasks as most fail to update progress on a regular basis. In short, I feel, having periodical meetings is far better in the long run for the health of the team as a whole, at-least in practice.
Stock image... Do a reverse google image search on it and you'll find lots of articles using it.
It's Steve Jobs, for anyone who doesn't want to look it up.
I don't get it. Markdown is text markup language. Slides shouldn't have much text (best: none), but should be visually appealing.

I don't think a text editor is the right interface for that.
Complete nonsense.

A large(r) "shithole" requires more money for:

# Maintenance in general - things like water heaters, furnaces, roofs and kitchen appliances are not cheap.

# Heating. Older buildings have crap insulation, you're going to pay through the nose for that if you live anywhere cold.

# Property Tax. Depending on where you live it's a function of the square footage of the house.

# Things to fill it with. The bigger the living space, the more stuff you have.
Almost everyone knows what to do with an www address, enter it in google search! (smilie)
Really the only retort to "put your money where your mouth is" talk.
It's really cool.

I wonder how online scrum boards I've seen so far don't seem to visually integrate User Stories. On our physical Scrum board, we have big stickers for user stories, and tasks are written next to them. I've yet to see this implementation on a virtual board.
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Vancouver is very expensive, yes. Vancouver Island is an island off the mainland, and is completely different. It's still not "cheap" by Canadian standards because it's oceanfront, supremely beautiful and probably has the most temperate weather in Canada, but it's also not "expensive" by Canadian standards either.
This is not related to OP's question in stackoverflow. Your function fails at runtime while running, but C code above fails while compiling
Of course not. Please think again:

If you pay 10 dollars and get a car while someone else pays 100000 and get the same car you're on the receiving side.
I'm afraid I don't get it… Is it supposed to do anything besides these (really nice) background animations?
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Hello everyone,

I am the author of this library. I'd like to say before anything else, thanks for all the attention the community here gave the project.

I went from 60 stars to 200+ overnight. I only found out it was from here when I looked at the traffic data for the project. That is motivating and rewarding as a newer developer who started during C# 6.0.

I intend to review the rules and general rules of thumb over here and contribute where possible.

Second, yes it will be under MIT in its current form. You have my word you are safe to use it under MIT conditions. If you would like to use it before I add the license.I can not guarantee all versions in the future will, but any release out and for the next foreseeable release MIT it shall be.

I intend to fix the NuGet and bugs that exist this week and get a stable version, a NuGet, and license up. From there I will improve what I can and add in stable d3d support with an easy way to load your dll and the clr into another process (using this https://github.com/lolp1/DomainWrapper).

From there you will be able to detour Present or EndScene in both x64/32 d3d11/9.

Thanks again!
"...should be visually appealing"

I would claim that's highly context sensitive. If the goal is to share information in an environment that has keen interest on the content of the presentation the visual appeal is of a tertiary concern at most.
Google has horrible customer support. That is well known fact for almost a decade.

I workaround most of those issues by using VPN. Google always thinks I am sitting in datacenter in Germany.
It's always a challenge when I travel for pleasure to other European countries (I'm from SE-Europe) and when Google tells me I cannot log-in into my email account when using my phone. Luckily most of the times I also carry a laptop, which surprisingly enough does not have the same limitations, but it still sucks.
Not familiar to me, no. I have a desktop for desktop-style use, and guess what, I don't have to worry about it being limited to 16GB of RAM because it doesn't have to consider size, power consumption, or anything else that a laptop has to consider.

On the other hand, I also have a 13" 2015 MBP[1]. It is only ever plugged in when it needs charging. I bought it specifically for it's size and battery life, because, as ludicrous as this might sound, I want my laptop to be as portable as possible. I don't _want_ it to be plugged in and I don't want to feel like I've been working out when I've been carrying it.

I know, this is crazy talk, but might I suggest that many of the people complaining are doing so simply because they bought the wrong tool for the job? It sounds to me like an awful lot of the complainers would have been better served by an actual desktop computer.

[1] I had never even used OSX before, and own no other Apple products, but I bought a MBP based entirely on battery life and size, because it was the best option out there.
"Money wounds are not lethal" as we say. Or they shouldn't be.
We want to subsidize poor people for art because often the best artists are poor. Hell, it's literally a cliche.
It actually says that if a person really is more harmed then they should get a bigger box. The ethical discussion behind that logic is rich and nuanced. As to "being allowed to be more racist", then that's not about that at all. It's about the racial discrimination on their part causing less actual harm. The two views here are 1. the conservative one, in which ethics is best decided from a personal perspective, which depends on the person's feelings and intent, and 2. the liberal one, in which ethics is decided on the amount of harm or good actually done, regardless of the person's personal intentions or feelings (of course, it's always a spectrum rather than two extremes).

What I always find amusing is how conservatives get mad that liberals are so sensitive to "taking offense", when the exact opposite is true. It's just that conservatives apply their own ethical perspective (where intent and feeling matter a lot) on the liberal view, and then think that the conclusion does not follow or is unfair. But the conclusions are a consequence of a completely different ethical framework, where they do make sense precisely because to liberals, the intent to harm and the feeling of being hurt don't matter as much as they do to conservatives, and what matters is the global effect actions have.

To a conservative, being racist means feeling negatively about other races or intending to harm them. To a liberal, being racist means taking any action that increases or perpetuates the actual harm done to certain races regardless of feelings or intentions.

Social scientists use the definition I attributed to liberals, because those of them who study racism are not ethicists and don't attempt to determine which ethical perspective is more "correct"; instead, they care about actual changes in society, and the truth is that the social effect of white people (we're always talking statistics -- again this is social science, not ethics -- so it's white people one average or as a group) discriminating against blacks is far more detrimental than the other way around (because whites possess more power), and therefore more racist. It is more "wrong" if your ethical perspective is not subjective but objective, and judges not intent but outcome.
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Try flipkart.com. Its done decently there. They have an icon that shows Add to home screen instructions. However, a simple api with a confirmation would have been much better.
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Good on ya!
That is why I mentioned the blurring. your lender can easily (or not so easily) screenshot the proof of nudity, but all they get is a blurred out picture that they can confirm face, verify identity, and verify nudity (while bodysuits and pasties are a thing, you can still blur enough to maintain SOME privacy while verifying nudity). While there is still room for abuse, it becomes not much worse than any photoshopped nude.

Same with relying on a third party to delete it and handle transmission. But, again, nothing ever really gets deleted which is where it falls through.
The article also goes into some detail on false memories. There have been some horrific instances of injustices caused by this, particularly false memories of child abuse and sex abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory_syndrome

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/nov/24/false-memori...
The simple answer is don't work there.
Some people suggest it is mostly for "hacks". I disagree. One example I give to people is an overlay I made presents all text messages, skype message, forum private messages, etc in a mid size transparent overlay to toggle on/off and some buttons/input box to reply.

Now while in-game I can quickly reply to things and not juggle browsers, tabs, apps, etc with alt tab.
The fake news meme has been cooked up by the mainstream media to shift blame for Clinton's loss on new media. Nobody cared about fake news on Facebook. Meanwhile the mainstream media lied and manipulated the truth to suit their narrative constantly. These trusted publications took advantage of their reader's trust to lie to them, causing far greater damage than any fake Facebook article. A great example is how the New York Times and the "fact checkers" used a reporter's disability to lie to their readers. As a liberal, Zuckerberg is particularly vulnerable to criticism from the liberal media. He should "do a Trump" and tell them to f off.

[1]http://newslines.org/blog/lets-talk-about-fake-news/
I hope they are going to verify every single news to determine whether it's fake and then fight it!
Basic income. Free tuition. An outright grant, no repayments. Literally zero barriers except ability for anyone, for any level of academic achievement in anything. Result: a culture with a lot more understanding of the real world, and the preservation of human and humane values, rather than a laser focus on the hand-to-mouth of Jobs Right Now.
Missing from the list of handsets appears to be the Fairphone 2: https://www.fairphone.com/
I gather I'm pretty unusual among sf fans in not enjoying the Culture novels, which I find maybe a little sere in their prose and a little too far gone in their post-Singularity space opera to really resonate. I do like the ship names, though.

I also suspect that series plays a heavy role in inspiring Howard Tayler's webcomic Schlock Mercenary, whose very humble beginnings I've had the distinct pleasure of watching it far outgrow over the years. Definitely worth a look for any sf fan, mil-sf fans especially.
Oh, oops. Good thing I never use Google login, then (I don't want services to know my email address).
I am the author and I will be releasing it under MIT - you can take my word for it you can use it freely or wait a week or two for another commit and license add. Sorry for inconvenience.
I think we're pretty close to agreeing. I would agree, for example, to the statement that it is "unlikely" that the polls were systematically biased, for the reasons you've given. If I wanted to, I could of course pick holes in your reasons, but I think to first order you're probably right. However, please recall that the parent comment adopted an almost mocking tone (Seriously? Seriously?), and that's what I wanted to push back against.

So: would you agree that the proposition of systematically biased is unlikely, while also agreeing that serious people could harbour doubts about the impartiality of said polls?

It would seem to me to be in the interest of everyone (ironically, especially liberals, although it seems they haven't quite gotten the point yet) to seriously investigate these allegations in light of the revelations of Wikileaks, revelations which the mainstream media worked so hard to cover up and discredit.
I also quite like https://twitter.com/cultureshipname, which tries to find texts that could be ship names in real life.
> Fact 2: If you are loaned money to obtain a degree which is not economically valued then you will not be able to pay it back

But for the vast majority of jobs people don't care what degree you have! In technology yes you often want someone with a particular degree. But if you're hiring a civil servant, a advertising executive, a business consultant, or any one of hundreds of other jobs, you can have any degree you like.

I have friends with theology degrees who work in business and earn more than I do in technology with my CS PhD. The companies that hire them value having people with a very wide range of academic backgrounds.
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NYT admitted they were biased against Trump, spreading fake news and putting Trump in bad light, publishing pro-Clinton stories. They were digging into Trumps family more and completely ignored Clintons family, mostly ignored her bribed and Podesta emails - only because blaming Trump was more trendy.
I use these as hostnames. Easy to remember and there are enough so I won't run out any time soon.
Same issue for me. If anyone has found a solution, that would be really nice to share it.
Ah, I wondered why it felt like Perlin noise had been around for way longer than 1997.
Sorry :/ read other replies by me but a week or two is likely, a day is possible :)
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You go very far to ensure I can't download your magazine. Is it even worth
giving you my personal information?

Well, that's what I thought. 8MB of useless advertisements and screenshots,
with very little actual content, which actually can be found elsewhere.
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I wonder if this "hack" can be automated completely. Input a bikini pic and output a fake nude with some magical content aware fill that can stitch boobs on.

It should be good enough to fool the loaner but leave you with a clothed original for plausible deniability to debunk your nudes later.
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Maemo was nice, but setting up the SDK was a nightmare. That coupled with the breaking changes between each major version saw the app pool get smaller and smaller. I left the scene around the time the N810 was about 1 year old as the N900 was going to make all prior hardware obsolete- literally, as in the OS was not targeting it. I still have an N810 in storage somewhere. It was shockingly underpowered when I last used it.

This was a repeating theme in Nokia - get a good technology and fumble it. They did something similar with a cloud enabled RFID based application my company at the time was planning to use. They EOL'd it suddenly just as we'd had all the training and were doing initial R&D to bring it up in our product.
Next version has a form based overlay (not WPF/Directx) .. does that count? :)
Just make sure it isn't lead-based paint that's falling off the walls... actually, I'm not sure about tiny particles of any paint. My grandfather was a painter and I did quite a bit of voluntary painting as a boy, that stuff is as unhealthy as anything. I would not trust paint particles floating around the room with the regular dust.
Well, the BBC is unlike any other news organization, culturally - it is more like a branch of the Civil Service. If you showed up for an interview there as a tech journalist and you actually knew the difference between say Java and C++ because you'd used them both, then you're "just not our sort old chap". But show up wearing the right old school tie, conjugate a few Latin verbs, and spend the interview reminiscing about the good old days punting at Oxford and you're in. So the whole place is stuffed with people who fundamentally can't evaluate whatever they're told by any outsider - not even which outsiders are really experts or not.
I came at the Culture novels after a childhood of (mi)spent cyberpunk reading and enjoyed them immensely. But there are novels enough for all of us to find what works for us. Banks' stuff feels surprisingly similar to Gibson's post-scifi novels to me, though I can't put a finger on the shared characteristic.

Thanks for the recommendation!
It feels like a lot of people are creating an archive of a life they wanted to live, but didn't.

An ex of mine has a young boy who she treated more as a mannequin than anything. She'd get angry if I didn't take a Vogue-level portrait of her posing with an ice cream cone. It was exhausting --- and to what end? To get a higher Klout score?

Big whoop.

Online social apps should be focused on improving the offline world.
I am currently locked out of all paid Google services because I committed the crime of changing countries while holding an active Google Developer Account/Wallet. I've talked to them over the phone, and they were entirely unhelpful.

In contrast, Amazon's phone service is great. Get yourselves sorted google.
That guy 'Billy Scientist' strikes again, taking all the credit for the work of Joe Dorgan and Rob Kinley