skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The person you responded to never said that exercise is bad

I never said that they did. Who's jumping to conclusions now? The person I was responding to clearly has an axe to grind with running specifically, and the most likely reason is that they prefer something else. I see that a lot from lifters and cyclists especially. For some reason they feel a need to explain why their choice is as good as running, which is in itself interesting. I don't see swimmers (for example) who feel compelled to explain why their choice is as good as running. Nor do I see anyone trying to impugn exercise in general (because that would be stupid).

I don't know what sport/exercise that person prefers, though, because they didn't say. It would have been nice if they had, to balance out the relentless negativity. When one casually equates "regularly" with "excessive" and then lists only negatives, it implies an overall negative. Identifying a basis for comparison might have been enlightening instead of offensive.
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When receiving cold email, I:

1. Expect phishing, fraud.

2. Recognise this person is intruding on my time. What if everyone with an app to sell did similar? There would be no time in the world for anyone. Blacklist.

Alternative:

Start with leadership. Provide valuable content and input for others to appreciate. Become the go-to team in your niche. Spam the people that like to be spammed, like tech bloggers in your field. Try to provide value.
This is essentially an act of war. Does the US have the courage to actually do anything about it, or do we just let Russia decide who our next President is?
Maybe it's just that a prolongated uneasy physical activity trains people into not quitting and understand early sensations are only transient. Just a thought.
I'm on neo. Sadly optimized german and german keyboards. It features really lovely re-use of the keys for caps-lock and the alt-gr.

hover the layers here: http://neo-layout.org/index_en.html

layer 4 is numpad, arrow keys, backspace, del escape. the layer above I don't use, maybe handy for mathematicians.

Some hidden bonuses too: [caps]+[tab],[U],[C],[1],[+],[2],[=] produces: 1+2=3
Programming languages probably have the worst cost/benefit ratio of anything else you can learn. In the end, much of the work that goes into thinking about an algorithm is the same in all languages, as are the components of the problems (you have functions for sorting, and for writing to files, and for getting the time etc.). Yet you have to learn a lot of details, like the standard libraries and popular libraries and all the tooling. I'm not saying a new language can't teach you valuable things, but those things are usually not worth all that overlapping effort. Moreover -- and perhaps partly because there are so many details -- languages are distracting, because people tend to fall in love with formalisms. They have an appealing aesthetic of an ordered structure, whereas the problems they're actually used for are messy.

Of course, some people love programming languages, and as an intellectual pursuit, studying them is as good as any other. But learning about, say, mechanical sympathy, data structures, concurrency, concepts in distributed programming, compilation or pretty much any CS topic which isn't tied to a specific language would have a greater impact for less cost. It's certainly good to know one language at each "level" -- systems, applications and scripting. Other than that, it's a good idea to spend as little time as possible on new languages.
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There is Partnership too, but yes, getting setup as anything other than a public company is very simple.
Take a look at the chart in the article the other reply here posted. 7-14 clock cycles for 65c02, 8-18 clocks for the 65c816.

Versus the competition at the time: Z80 at 14-19 clocks, 8080 at up to 40 clocks, 68000 at 46 clocks.

Explains in some ways why, despite having abyssmal clock rates in comparison, an 8mhz 68000 machine like the Atari ST or Amiga or Macintosh could actually feel less responsive in some tasks than a classic 6502 home computer. Memory accesses were far slower, interrupt responses far slower, etc. They just made up for it in raw 16/32-bit integer performance, more memory, and a nice wide register set.
I love the way they've rebranded spam as cold email. They even have a page defending it [1]:

Since launching LeadFuze, the single most asked question has been: “What is cold email?”, followed by, “is it SPAM?”

You won’t find the term ‘cold email outreach’ in the dictionary, but this is the basic definition: Cold Email Outreach – Is an ‘outreach’ plan that uses a personalized email to make contact with an individual person/prospect who you have had no prior connection.

There are 5 key differences in Spam vs Cold email. Here they are.....

So sending unsolicited email isn't spam, because it's an "outreach program". Anyone might confuse them with trying to help troubled teens.

Their key argument is that that complying with the CAN-SPAM act makes their spam not spam.

They even suggest that since the law doesn't require an unsubscribe link, don't inlclude one. Instead make people actually reply to your emails asking not to be spammed by you:

You don’t have to use an “unsubscribe” link which takes away some of the personal aspects of the email. Instead, ask them, “Please let me know if you are not the right person to contact for this.” It’s a good alternative that keeps things personal.

[1] https://www.leadfuze.com/what-is-cold-email-and-is-it-spam/
That's why they're jacking up prices in the UK (only); otherwise for the same amount of pounds the customer pays they would get less euros.
Started to use org-mode recently after seeing its features. Do you have guides you'd recommend for someone learning emacs and org-mode?
> I'm against new worthless implementations

could it be you haven't yet realized it's actually not worthless?

> only capable to parasite on other platforms

would you elaborate what exactly makes clojure a parasite on jvm?
That's not smart - that's pattern matching.
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Amusingly, not the first CMPXCHG8B-related bug.
Fair enough, I understand the desire not to bump the major version in this case. It does still kind of suck for users of the library though.

The case I was talking about was the OpenVR library, which changed the names for some of its enum values in the upgrade from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. The change was documented in the release notes and it was straightforward to fix our code, but now we have to document that we require at least v1.0.5 and everyone building our code has to update their copy of OpenVR and so on. There are knock-on effects, is what I'm trying to say.
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Yahoo is so frustrating

I got the email this morning regarding the hack, I've not used Yahoo for a long, long, long time, so figured I would go and delete my account.

So I log in, password in 1password is incorrect, no big deal I go to reset it. They send me an email, I reset the password then go through the account deletion process. It tells me my account is "deactivated" and will be deleted in 90 days

...Once that was done I just so happened to look through my emails to see what Yahoo had sent me in the past and I saw that I had undergone the exact same procedure (deleting my Yahoo account, presumably after news about another hack) about 3 months ago but completely forgotten about it.

So what I must have done today was relogged into my 'deactivated' account that I 'deactivated' back in September, which caused it to become active again, then issued a 'deactivate' request again, so now I have to wait ANOTHER 90 days for it to be deleted.

I've made a note of this fact this time to avoid relogging into Yahoo again...
I don't know how the author can draw this conclusion. He seems to say that employees engaging in shady practices is the inevitable conclusion of requiring a certain amount of accounts to be opened, and then blames the employees for doing it instead of those who wrote the policy.

The article quotes:

"Wells Fargo has strict quotas regulating the number of daily "solutions" that its bankers must reach; these "solutions" include the opening of all new banking and credit card accounts. Managers constantly hound, berate, demean and threaten employees to meet these unreachable quotas. Managers often tell employees to do whatever it takes to reach their quotas. Employees who do not reach their quotas are often required to work hours beyond their typical work schedule without being compensated for that extra work time, and/or are threatened with termination.

"The quotas imposed by Wells Fargo on its employees are often not attainable because there simply are not enough customers who enter a branch on a daily basis for employees to meet their quotas through traditional means."

This reads to me like damning culpability. Then he says, "But obviously no one in senior management wanted this." Well of course they don't, now that they've been caught! But it was a pretty good scheme at the time raking in millions of dollars.
Ask HN: How do you do 1on1/checkin at your startup?
From what i have gathered, every startup has a different way of doing 1 on 1 and check in.

How do you practice it at your organization?

Has it been useful?

Do you use any online tools to facilitate that?
> You think that's useless voodoo?

No, but I also think it's just not worth the effort for 99.99% of software. It's neat that it can be done when absolutely necessary, but that's not where most of the benefit of formal methods can be had. Also, you don't need many certified compilers, so the techniques used to construct them need not be scalable.

> SCADE is great, and it's "formal methods" in the sense that you write your program as a formal model with clear semantics that can be reasoned about. But it's not the kind of proof the OP asked about, I think.

Well, they wrote "I would image that certain languages are easier to prove (haskell vs C)", and SCADE is easier to formally reason about -- be it with a model checker, static analysis or deductive proofs -- than Haskell. Usually, languages with very simple semantics are easier to reason about either automatically, manually or semi-automatically, and the languages that are used in the industry in formal methods (except static analysis) -- even if the formal methods used aren't deductive because that's just too costly -- are those that really are "easiest to prove".
Yes, that's worse than Facebook, which does the same thing, but for 30 days.
http://tourismbasem.blogspot.com/2016/12/messi-news-today.ht...
I want to leave WF solely on this issue but it is so hard to actually change banks. They have better to me then other national banks as a customer but I find this to be beyond repair.
> This is a gross misrepresentation of what happened. Thousands of WF employees engaged in fraud that harmed Wells Fargo in order to make themselves appear more productive than they actually were and take money from WF. WF explicitly instructed employees not to do this.

I agree that Wells Fargo ULTIMATELY didn't benefit much from this mess. Your linked article explains this situation thusly:

> fraud is sometimes an emergent property of complex institutions, and that there can be widespread misbehavior at a bank without senior management approving it, or knowing about it, or wanting it.

Fair enough, good metrics are difficult to find and the managers of huge organizations are basically playing a billion dollar version of the blind men and the elephant.

However, I think this explanation ignores two critical things:

1) Wells Fargo DID benefit from the wide-scale fraud in the short run, because juicing the metrics boosted the stock price and generally made senior management look good.

2) Many employees claim that they reported the fraud to internal ethics watchdogs, who should have nothing to gain by perpetuating the scam, only to be ignored or retaliated against for doing so.

I think these facts totally discredit the "lazy employees cheating their employer" narrative and set up an "assholes or idiots" situation for senior management.
If I remember correctly, the first time you run Firefox with a new profile you get a message about data gathering with an option to opt out.
As long as you use private IP addresses, AWS-AWS traffic is free[0]. However: Lightsail instances don't show up as EC2 instances nor can you add them to a VPC. Meaning that your AWS resources need to be in EC2 classic in order to have free transfer between them. And even then, you would need to do it with VPN tunnels to get there. Still, could be worth it.

[0]https://amazonlightsail.com/docs/#faq (How does my data transfer allowance work?)
I just use qBitorrent's search functionality. It's a life-changer. I don't have to deal with the crap of any of those sites and I get to search all trackers at once... for Linux ditros, of course.
They're out of the country and their country's currency is unstable.
I've never been to Columbus, but I went to college in Ohio and it seems people tended to move to Columbus and Pittsburgh, but obviously anecdotes aren't really data.
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Might be a mix between rose-tinted glasses and acknowledging that games these days aren’t always made with the same intent[1] that studios from years or decades ago had.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13165780
Listening to it on the radio, the guy just seemed so apathetic. That it seemed almost like a Satire skit.

He bought several expensive cars, spent time in Thailand, and started buying celebrity memorabilia and art?

I wonder if people like this get caught because of their blatant disregard for consequences. And that there's lots of people who fall into similar mistakes/loop holes but are just very reserved and try to fly low.
I'm not sure I understood the story.

Is it that he would transfer money from his account, and it always succeeded even if there was no funds???
Hah, nice. Sounds like you guys are pretty on top of things :)
Afraid I'm not nearly caught up on webpack best practices to take a good whack at it, hah
Yes, If you have never been around Silicon Valley culture do experience it. The culture and knowledge sharing is invaluable.

If you have a family do not go to Silicon Valley.

Loved living in the Bay Area.

Hated the commute. Hated the prices of everything.

Loved the culture. Loved the crazy you can only find in SF ( altho much of that is moving to places like that warehouse which burned in Oakland ) Loved the beautiful ocean beaches.

Rent prices... well... you will lose money moving to the bay unless you get a ludicrous salary.

Single.. I wouldnt hesitate. Married with kids. Stay away from The Bay.
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That's more of a query builder than an ORM: it doesn't actually use objects and only allows for expressing SQL queries in Go.

In that it is similar to LINQ or HQL or SQLAlchemy Core — at an even lower level really since things like conditions are provided as parameterised strings.
Out of curiosity, what is the reason, you don't want to pay?
Is it your financial restriction or that there is something philosophical about sticking with free stuff whenever possible?

Once you figure that if anything makes your days better by spending $10 or so a month, not choosing the best tool for the job sounds simply dumb.

I have a friend who sticks with plain vim uncustomized because he doesn't want to deviate from the default in fear of not being able to seamlessly use other environment sounds utterly stupid wasting productivity for 99% of the time being on his own machine.
Would be interested to hear a legal opinion on this. In the US, you do have a constitutional right to counsel (Assistance of Counsel clause of the Sixth Amendment), generally of your choice.

From my reading of the case law, the crux would be that right to counsel can only be invoked "at or after the time that judicial proceedings have been initiated against him, whether by formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment."

Does an NSL constitute adversarial proceedings? Also, how does right to counsel work with other legal gag orders (e.g. if I'm cooperating to provide information on a criminal case but have been ordered not to inform the targets)?
Prices tend to be pegged to the dollar not the Euro even tho OVH is a French company.
A good example for this is that AMD actually beats NVidia in graphics market share in the Firefox survey. Of course, Intel beats them both, which is clearly a result of laptops and low-end form factors.

Similarly, just look at the absolute dominance of 2-core systems on the Firefox survey!
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can't speak for all CS students but we certainly have an ethics course. Unfortunately a lot of people see it as an insult to their intelligence yet need reminding of many of their professional obligations and that their 'cool hackathon idea' might be illegal
Old man De Gaulle may have been on the right track after all...
I'm not sure I want another listening device in my home. Seems like a direct pipe to the NSA to me.

It's bad enough everything is top 3-5 results in search advertising. Now everything is winner take all.

Me: Google, I'd like some Chinese...

Google: No Problem, I'll order some shitty food from the place that paid me the most...
Title should be "Dedicated Server Price Increase in the UK".
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> According to several studies runners, even those who have run competitively for many years, do not have an increased prevalence of osteoarthritis.

That smells like survivorship bias to me. ;)
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If Snapdragon SoCs have support, could galileo support be enabled by a software update in phones that have them?
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It sounds like you are trying to sell lack of a debugger as a feature that forces devs to to be more aware and more precise. Then we should maybe go back to writing code on paper first, create punch cards, submit to the mainframe and get the result next day? Then you have an even better idea of what your program does.

Debuggers are a valuable tool that nowadays should be standard.
And the government has the power to ban open source and encrypted communications. It's not really all that difficult, if you eliminate any concern for the constitution. If all else fails, rubber hoses and bullets work well.
No, because those ideas can be tracked down to Miranda or even early probably, when digging into enough SIGPLAN papers.

What might be revolutionary is making more "common programmers" aware of them.
Here is the paper: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6596-dimensionality-reduction-o...
The buyer was from Eastern Europe and american address was a mail forwarder. By the way mail forwarders usually make photos of items sent through them so eBay could concact them and ask for photo (and see that the item was sent properly) if only it was interested to find out the truth.
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But these are not cheap cars. They are not competing with Toyotas, they are in the same price range as BMW Series 7 and Mercedes S-Class, executive-type limousine. So they need to be in the same range as the interior comfort.

People are happy paying now limousine-class prices for £20-30,000 range quality and comfort, just because of the novelty and image that a Tesla projects. But how much longer can they sell in the image without reinforcing the image with the styling, comfort and quality that is to be expected of a £60,000 car ?
Awesome, good to know! I'll be diving into this tonight!
That's no real increase and just fair. At the moment servers in the UK were cheap compared to paying in Eur (if you can pay in both). Although I don't really understand why they price in £ anyway. They could just base it on € and convert the other currencies every month. With the current weak € this would be nice for nearly everyone else.
Motif and FVWM definitely benefit from GPU acceleration, even if it's just 2D acceleration in the X server.
"We’re all making it up as we go along."

This is rubbish. Most regular people are not :). Entrepreneurs - maybe.

Just because you're 'faking it until you make it' does not necessarily mean that it's 'ok'.

Most businesses are well established, and there are long running norms and practices.

Working for a bank, usually you need a very specific education, then several years of learning the ropes, and there's no way around it, unless you want an embarrassing hole in your knowledge.

So yes, it's good advice for some, but there's a reason you might feel like an 'impostor' and it could be because you are. There is a reason that most CEO's are 40-50 something and not 23. Heyzeus.
There's no ethics requirement in Australia for lawyers? Wouldn't it be tough to get admitted to the bar in the US after a stunt like this?
The second example makes sense: rdi stores the first subroutine argument in amd64 calling conventions and rax stores the return value. I imagine it's easy for the compiler to infer that the loop is just counting 1 bits, which popcnt does. I imagine if you called functions or initialized local variables in the loop, it would be much more messy
Unfortunately we don't live in a world where it's possible to know one language and still get hired in a job where a different language is used. To future proof our careers, we quite often have to dedicate ourselves to learning not just the qualities of a language, but also the syntax itself. We need to be able show some evidence that we can hit the ground running.

I also think that if you work in a non-opinionated language, it can be very informative studying some of the concepts used in opinionated languages. Perhaps you could say the language is a medium used for learning higher-order concepts that would be hard to understand in isolation. Quite often those concepts are very useful and can change your thought processes. An example of this is the rise of functional programming techniques in JavaScript.

I agree with the point of not limiting ourselves to just purely technical programming knowledge. It's surely about finding the right blend.
I guess the ephemerides have their numbers truncated or noised in the clear version and more decimals in the encrypted version?
It might be deeper: if one has poor understanding of a subject, one will do a poor job of explaining it. I find that usually manifests in more complex explanations than otherwise, if only because I haven't yet figured out the general cases (and so must compensate with more exceptions).
so isnt that extraction of value from the company? the company lost money paying out bonuses for sales it didnt make.