skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on this.

As a cleared professional with military experience, he has more intellectually fulfilling options than being a SWE 2/3/4 at Google. He can also go and get a CS PhD (he's shown the work ethic and ability) and that's a pre-requisite for most of the good software jobs in any case.

Google isn't that special unless you're going to Google to say "I work at Google!"

Google also pays very well for low-level roles. It's easy to get misled by economic signals. ("I'm going to make $200k, so the job must be important.") Almost no one in academia or government or research is making what a Sr. SWE (which isn't that senior) makes. On the other hand, unless you land in a research division (which is next-to-impossible without a PhD) you are largely being paid for your own intellectual depreciation.

My guess is that he'll want to have his own business by his 40s, and not necessary for money. He's going to move farther in that direction by staying with research than if he gets seduced by the GoogleBucks.
Since you know the local situation, could you tell me if it's common to see people use foreign currency for local products? I remember that when eastern Europe economy was isolated / currency unstable, people sometimes either did small scale barter, or used US dollars for large transactions (if they could get any, that is...)
I think once the transition to more rust components and parts of the servo project is complete the bloat will actually reduce significantly because Servo and all these libraries are built from the ground up without all the bandaids that have gone into decades of gecko development.
Theoretically point 1 is true but theory and practice can be very far apart. At the end of the day you're hired by a hiring manager to make him look good. Sometimes that involves solving business problems, sometimes that involves working 60 hours a week on a death march so that when the project inevitably fails the hiring manager can say the problem was impossible. Look how hard his team was working and still weren't able to accomplish it.
How's this any different than Stripe's Atlas?
Precisely. It will also depend on how well you've grown to know and become friends with the people in question.

Myself and my close friends curse, insult and tease each other in a manner that we find entertaining; however if I had this same type of interaction with someone I've only known for a couple of months it would be insulting and I'd avoid that person.
Assuming that the OS APIs used by malloc() do tell the application about OOM.
FWIW, the "ads on the lock screen" thing is a wee overblown. Microsoft is the single-party provider of any of their so called "suggested content". Aka, you saw Tomb Raider not because Square Enix paid to be on the lock screen, but because Microsoft was trying to push that you can get AAA games in the Windows Store. The Surface has been up there, I think they put a movie-related one up once or twice, again, referring you to their own Movies app. And they have no animations, moving bits, or arbitrary code.

They're not targeted ads, so they're not using a data profile on you to power them or anything like that. I wouldn't be surprised if they know how many screens displayed them, but there's not a lot of interaction tracking you can really do with a static lockscreen. So it doesn't have the sort of privacy implications of normal advertising either.

So, while you may not like their choice of wallpaper because it is related to a product they are releasing, it's not really much more egregious than the fact that it downloads daily wallpapers on the lockscreen to begin with: It's all stuff selected specifically by Microsoft. And as others have pointed out, it's really easy to shut off.
This is the IBM that has enjoyed 18 consecutive quarterly declines in revenues, including the most recent 21% fall in hardware revenues? ;-)

It has bought more than 100 companies to try to reverse its decline (including Softlayer), so maybe it won't get much worse. However, this is a company that used to be a titan when Microsoft was a midge on its PC division's backside...
I completely agree. My wording was a bit strong and I can see from the downvotes that it was unacceptable. I wasn't trying to be ignorant about Edison. I apologize for that. I'm definitely seeing this from a biased view because of my admiration for Tesla. I'm going to read these books about Edison that everyone is posting. I should probably admire Edison alot more than I do. I carry small notebooks around and do the same thing he did, my flaw is that I 'think' more than I 'do'. Regardless of his method or personality, it really is incredible that Edison created so much. If Tesla had been more like Edison and played the social game more than he did, the world might be a different place but it was it is. I'd love to learn more about Edison and would love some recommendations. Thanks
This is useless without sorting by popularity and seeing the popularity numbers.

I don't see how "keyword length" or "word count" are of any importance.
So, we now have an official Mario game on mobile phones. Which of these predictions came true?

- There is indeed a tutorial explaining in surprisingly tedious detail how to jump.

- There are social/sharing features. (And even requires an internet connection to play).

- There are rewards for grinding out kills of specific enemy types.

- There are no micro-transactions for consumable items; just a single payment to unlock the full game.

(Also, discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320668)
I really don't like this article. It makes me think that I might have been very wrong in my judgement of GWB. More and more I have been finding out how much of life is a mirage of perceptions, many of them far from reality.
Not true. Bowing down symbolically to avoid an arbitrary fight and resulting loss of face is right at home in the playbook of somebody with real work to do elsewhere.

Resolution, and apology, are not the same as submission.
Looks cool. Is it open source?
You doing all of the auth work manually?
Yes, and () isn't void; the poster above me is wrong. Void is...the absence of a type? It's awkward.

However, () and Unit are.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/...

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St...

Try "historical benefits of unions".
Medium has been great for us
First, I would ask an impartial third party if you're right or being over sensitive. Not that I'm suggestion you are... you just want that sanity check before you move forward.

I would not be afraid. I would have a direct, civil (but still with a "I'm not fucking around here" tone) and tell them you don't appreciate it. Have a list of examples, ideally with dates, you can point to.

If at the end of that conversation you feel things are not going to improve, I would immediately start A) looking for employment elsewhere and B) getting materials together to burn her. Will she get fired? From your story, probably not. Can you make her life and those above her painful for a while? Yes, and you should. Set that fire on your way out the door. From my stance, everyone impacted will deserve what's coming even if it's just some extra stress.

You'll be doing nothing wrong. It's a standard grievance that, at least in the states, is potentially legally actionable. Even if a company has the money and lawyers to deal with EO complaints and alike, they do not want to deal with that! And, again in the US, they put themselves in another potentially actionable place by communicating with potential future employers.

As long as your complaints are valid, what do you have to worry about? Just tell prospective employers that you gave the position 6 months but wasn't happy there and are looking for opportunities to continue learning.
Got any ideas?
From the comments he didn't know either.
> It's all motivation. Addictions are a way to deal with deep-seated and excessive shame, guilt, fears, hopelessness, despair, and loneliness. If that's why you take a drug, you're only hurting yourself by not seeking help for the aforementioned problems.

What if these emotional issues are caused by a chemical imbalance that the drug alleviates?
There's already a language called Max: https://cycling74.com/products/max/#.WFRNp-wWVpg

Your SLIST sounds similar to data structures which go by various names in different languages, e.g. list in Python or ArrayList in Java. Common Lisp vectors support that functionality too.

Your VCHAR presumably works in a similar way? I agree ASCIZ is a very inefficient way of representing strings, unless they're guaranteed to be very short.
https://github.com/este/este is what you want

Just git clone and start playing around with it. Great docs as well.
What?

In the above post, I used foul language (sorry) - but I didn't call anyone names. ? I was describing a situation in which my ex-girlfriend was given special treatment by some unscrupulous people. When I was referring that people should 'shut the F up and behave' I was in no way referring to the person making claims, I was referring to people who are would-be harassers in general (i.e. 'they should behave').

I didn't call anyone names, I don't think in any of my comments ...

I referred to two comments as 'bigoted' - because in my opinion they were. We can't go saying "white men are misogynists" - that's really not fair, I think it's within my right to assert that such comment is bigoted, and I was careful not to refer to the commenter as a bigot - but rather to indicate that the statement itself was.

... in fact, I was provoked ad-hominem quite a few times through this thread. I was told all sorts of things 'about myself' which is I think unfair. I have nothing to say at all about other commenters, or about the people involved in this situation.

Anyhow, I'll get off the thread.
It's not tricky, it's basically impossible. It's the holy grail for some: being able to remotely attest to the exact bits of software being run on trusted hardware.
Patent problems are not with hinting, but with RGBA filtering (Microsoft calls it Cleartype). Hinting is fine in Fedora.
I personally don't think it's racially stereotypical, so no. As far as I know, the stereotype came from the southern USA, is that not correct?

You call it semantics, I call it calling bullshit on moral busybodies who think they are bringing people together when actually they're driving them further apart.

Do you watch much stand up comedy?
The statement says Ellard had "previously retaliated" against a whistleblower - but no timeframe is given. Unless other information is given out[1], who's to say that that activity didn't happen before Snowden's actions, and that Snowden could look at that retaliation and decide not to report anything to Ellard?

Even if not, Thomas Drake is a prime example of what happened to whistleblowers at the NSA - and Drake was an employee, who (theoretically) had access to greater whistleblower protections than Snowden would have had as a contractor[2].

So yes, I'm saying that it's very easy to believe that Snowden took a look at what happened to NSA whistleblowers and took a different path.

[1]: from the POGO story: "POGO has been told that mention of the finding will appear in a semiannual report (SAR) of the Intelligence Community IG (ICIG) that should be released in the near future. It makes brief mention of the case without citing Ellard by name." So we may get some more information about timeframes at some point.

[2]: From TechDirt (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161215/16354636293/snowd...) today: "The new directive created better protections but would have done nothing to aid Snowden in taking his complaints to the proper channels because he was only a government contractor, not an actual government employee."
One reason might be you have a team of Java developers.

I personally acknowledge that C# is a nicer language, but on Macs and Linux machines I have not had a great experience using it so far. I think if you try it today, you're basically an early adopter. If you're going to be an early adopter, the barn doors are wide open and I'm going to make serious consideration of Python, Haskell or Go.
Polymorphic Encryption Algorithms
Not all of those states have failed equally. North Korea is a lot more problematic to approach than Venezuela.
You Wouldn't Base64 a Password - Cryptography Terms and Concepts for Developers
At very low temperatures an air source heat pump does not have an advantage over simple resistance heating. But -7 F is not too cold for leading edge ASHP technology (or rather, this was about the leading edge 5 years ago):
http://www.franklinenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Air...

"Independent research has verified the ability of air source heat pumps to maintain energy efficiency well above other electric heating systems, with coefficients of performance (COP) of between 2 to 3, in temperatures as low as -15⁰ F. Multiple manufacturers have developed ASHPs designed for cold climate operation, incorporating features such as two-stage compressors and advanced defrost capabilities.

Where data is available to evaluate the energy savings impacts of [Western Minnesota] customers moving from less efficient electric heating systems, the energy savings associated with the heating demand served by the hybrid ASHP systems is found to be in the range from 10% to more than 40%, with median savings of around 22%."

It looks like the Western Minnesota region where they ran this trial has colder winters than Denver, so Denver-area results would be even better. The best air source heat pumps should be able to save energy over resistance heating for the vast majority of American households. They will also save energy over direct combustion of natural gas in a household furnace if the natural gas is instead burned in a combined cycle electrical plant. They will not reduce energy consumption or emissions vs. a home natural gas furnace if your winter-time grid electricity mix has a substantial coal component.
Even that analogy doesn't really work though. This would be the equivalent to personally handing out your belongings, for free, at the market down the street where you know ill-gotten gains are often sold. Then you turn around and threaten to sue each and ever person you GAVE your stuff to for "stealing" it. Because some of the items you gave away would be embarrassing for the receiver to have broadcast (really, why is that 50-year-old single guy taking your little boys used underwear??) - some of them are willing to pay just to make you go away.

You can't STEAL something the rightful owner of a piece of property willfully and knowingly gives you for free.
For anyone on Windows willing to switch to OpenJDK, there are builds from

- Azul: http://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/

- RedHat: https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview/

- JetBrains: https://bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-jdk
I recently bought an USB controller shaped like the snes one. Having recently sold my ps4 for lack of playing it, I can say for sure at least for me, and this is probably because I grew up playing these games, that the snes and Sega Genesis generation of games are much more playable for me

Sure graphics processing is miles ahead now, but I always seem to get bored.
I missed that he was a philosopher. Still underwhelmed by the article. He's raising the question, but doesn't even attempt to answer it.

And he doesn't even demonstrate that we even feel a "need" to do this to feel compassion. That's why it feels like a non-sequitur. The article is more quip than demonstration.
she wants to have sex with you...
'Kills off dark matter" is probably overstating the case, but I love this theory because it ties together a lot of big ideas.

Verlinde's paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02269
If prefer, imagine this is alike a hostage situation, where terrorist are close to kill a bunch of toddlers and his puppies.

And you are the hostage negotiator

And that not preclude the swat team behind you ;)

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If wanna a good perspective of this more martial oriented, take a look at "The Art of War":

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3200649

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

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Also, some ideas of

http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/negotiation.htm

Point to this.
There is a small market in USD for larger transactions like real estate, cars,etc. But not for day to day stuff like food.

Some people might have some savings in dollars or euros which they exchange at the black market rate to get bolivares and live off that. $100 could be used for a family of 2 or 3 to live for a month.
By all accounts, both big tech companies and big investment banks are good places to be, with some variance per team.
I agree. What some people don't understand is that conflict resolution has nothing to do with being right. In fact because of human obstinacy, often times a dichotomy of either being in the right, or resolving the conflict are the only choices present. If you wan't the problem to go away, you have to be the bigger person as much as that sucks. Remember bullies are mainly seeking a reaction but not a conciliatory one, it ruins the effect they were after.
Talos Secure Workstation – Campaign Extension – Crowd Supply
The Prenda principals has a lot of success before their fall, too, due to an insufficient numbers of people in the right positions penetrating their layers of protective B.S.
Cap table management
Well, I agree with them not being innovators but they definitely made a marketable product. It's the same thing for which business circles praise Apple. Apple turn already known things into a marketable package which is not so different from what Microsoft did here. That's what being a device manufacturer is about.

Innovations come in small bursts. Take the Surface Hub as an example.
Let's not forget that most design is done for a client, so you need to work with that client on their needs and wants. Pro designers usually have a set process that leads clients along the designer's journey into why we make decisions that we do. It helps support our decisions, and leads to less surprise moves by the client. I think this is relationship is forgotten when developers learn design.
Does anyone know if the KDE spin will also be using Wayland by default?
>> So, empty water bottles don't exist? Or do you object to saying "this bottle contains 0 ml of water"? Why?

They exist conceptually, because a water bottle could be empty of anything that fits inside. We say it has 0 ml of water and not coke or sand because we've designated it to be a water bottle, but nature obviously doesn't care what goes in the bottle, as long as it fits. It's just a useful idea we have to say there is zero something to designate a lack of something. But there isn't zero water in nature, anymore than there are zero unicorns, or zero Kings of France.

>> And what about someone who has no car? Are there no people who don't have cars? Or do you object to saying "this person has zero cars"? Why? Or do you think that no garage is the same as a garage with no car in it? <<

Are there no people who don't have dinosaurs or time machines? The things we have zero of are infinite. But you don't actually have zero pink elephants in your backyard.

>> No, it wouldn't. Unless you arbitrarily decided to label it as such. It would be the first. That's an ordinal number. Also, you would have 1 car. That's a cardinal number.

So if we were to label to cars in increasing numeric order from one end to the other, we would start with 0 instead of 1 at the first car? We don't do that with building levels. You enter on the first floor, go to the elevator, and you push a button for the floor level. The first floor is 1. 0 Would be the basement level.
I agree with the first part that India does not handle mental issues well, but I disagree with the latter part. The US as some have pointed out here is quite exceptionalist in that it's unforgiving to those who are not the highest achievers. This is certainly not the case to the same extent in India, where in my (limited) experience an average honest middle-class lifestyle is more admirable in and of itself. This leads the US to have an entrepreneurial spirit at the cost of some other aspects of life.
I would argue that if the repeated joke is agreed upon by all involved, it doesn't have to be bullying. Friends have inside jokes that only they enjoy and get repeated constantly. Why can't an inside joke be about someone?

I'm the worst dresser on my team and i commonly (not daily, but monthly) get "hey nice clothes!" comments. We all laugh and move on. if the comments bothered me, i could say something, or dress like an adult. The issue only occurs if it truly bothers me and im too afraid to say anything. it's pretty easy to say "are people saying things because they dont like me or because we're friends bantering".

I think the real difference is mutual fun with the subject also being involved. The repeated subject matter shouldnt matter. If someone can't tell that the subject isn't involved, the problem isn't their bullying/teasing, it's the fact that the person is a jerk. it's all subjective and some people can read it better than others.
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Why make it political? Is Trump just living rent-free in your head like he is with so many journalists?

Also, re: "sexually assaulted many women by his own words." I assume you're referring to comments about grabbing women by the pussy, just kissing them without waiting, etc. Whenever people try to turn those unfortunate comments into an admission, they conveniently forget what seems to me to be the most important part: "And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

If they let you do it, it isn't assault.
I don't care how smart he is when is actions were profoundly stupid.
> Just that rather than manually configure it, it will be automatically

That's the point. It'already automatic.

I haven't even mistakenly opened xorg.conf in at least five years.

And quite franky, I see no need for another thing like Wayland to add entropy to the GNU/Linux desktop.

> by combo of systemd, polkit and your DE of "choice"

eh...
Exactly. Trying to address addiction as a substance issue is extremely limiting. It is very important to look at the causes/environment and address them. Otherwise it's blaming the victim.

The rat park experiment is a good read: http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/
Using that strategy, it is clearly harder to vote in approval voting then in plurality. You first have to figure out how you'd vote in plurality and then do something more.

The question I was answering was: is there any way in which plurality is better then approval? Yes, it is easier to vote in plurality.
And how is that implemented under the hood?
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
They made several million dollars seeking settlements generally in the single-digit thousands, so it obviously took them on the order of a thousand opponents till they hit a good enough one.
I understand the impulse, but you can put the tabs back with a blob of CSS and leave the menus turned on and it's about the same. No need to use a fork for that.
> didn't have a product, wasn't solving any problem

Since when has that stopped startups? /s
Seconded on iStat Menus. Despite its cost, it shows a ton of useful statistics, including moving graphs of CPU activity, network IO, storage IO, etc.. It's easy to customize the display so you see just what you care about.
> I really don't like this article. It makes me think that I might have been very wrong

Did you intend to draw a connection between these two statements?
Afrotechmods, GreatScott and old army electronics videos on Youtube. I also got some courses on Udemy when they were on sale. I didn't find one perfect source but after a while, I think I finally got it.

What really made a difference was getting an Oscilloscope and Function Generator. I'm looking to add a bench power supply too.