skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. From what I recall, the traffic was going to telemetry servers not time sync. Next time I play with Windows I'll holdon to the capture logs for proof.

I think the other side effect from all those regedit hacks was issues with Windows updates. In the end, my machine got stuck at installing October patches, rebooting then failing at 99% applying the patch, rebooting again, rolling back the patch, rebooting, trying to install the patch again. The non-stop CPU usage and reboots made me quit Windows for awhile.
Warning: i tried turning Cortana off by following some powershell scripts (not this one though). ended up she's still on, but now my search functionality is broken. Nothing I did could fix it. Guess I need to reinstall windows if I ever want to get that back.
For some things, sure. But if I just want batteries or something? It's fine, and saves me some time.
A UFO releasing plumes of material in the atmosphere?

Just wait 'till the contrails community gets a whiff of this.
I would hypothesize abductive reasoning works better for collectives which accept mistakes as one means of learning. For today's AI, it might be better to ask for a bit of context from your observers before making conclusions.

"Am I in the United States around the first part of the 21st century?"

"Yes."

"Oh, how unfortunate - now I have to ask another question or you may think I'm not sentient."
So basically: we don't do secure by default. It's your own damn fault you didn't read all the documentation...
Of course it's biased, I thought that was pretty implicit in it being his book. Primary sources are always interesting.
Sounds like a good question for https://reddit.com/r/sysadmin

I don't mind the discussion here, I just feel like you might reach a more specific and bigger audience there.
yeah i thought the simulation hypothesis is mainly coming from a probabilistic argument
It might just be as simple as $200 being a lot of money to the attacker.
It would be really hard to run an A/B test of any meaning since the value asked and the data would both vary; to do a true A/B test there may only be one variable, the populous must be very similar, etc.
What use would aliens who can conquer planets have for slaves?

The good thing is that, if you become history's worst villain, it's most likely history will not last much longer.
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/
The italian lessons in particular are, unfortunately, utter garbage. Peek at the French for an example of good lessons.
There's another category. Those of us who were so aggravated by it we ended up starting an entire open source project and now have 12k users.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript
Yes, BOOPSI was the model for the OOP used in AROS.

> One problem on AmigaOS was(/is?)

Is, sort-of. Package managers didn't enter the scene until much later, but Commodore did release Installer, which while not a package manager provides a s-expression based mechanism for describing installation flow.

It's alleviated because Amiga libraries tends to very strictly insist on backwards compatibility, so you should generally be able to drop a newer version of a library over an older version and things will keep working (and the libraries and all compliant binaries contains version numbers).

But of course the community today is very small, and was smallish originally too, and so it's gotten easier and easier to deal with.

If there was to be a resurgence (there is new hardware but it's expensive niche PPC hardware; AROS runs on pretty much "anything", but is incomplete), it'd need a lot of big overhauls - in particular memory protection (some work is ongoing but it's hard due to AmigaOS APIs relying a lot on pointer passing) and SMP, but also lots of tooling we take for granted today like package management.

I'm not holding my breath for that, but I do wish more AmigaOS ideas will get picked up elsewhere. Linux still feels like a hodge-podge in comparison.
I probably won't use this because a) privacy (not your end, but mine! I use gmail for this sort of thing and they don't need to know my secrets) b) I don't struggle to journal

HOWEVER I really like the idea of the halving fees, and replying by email makes life so easy. Best of luck with it.
I'd be interested to know why any smaller orgs / teams might consider moving since I see this as Microsoft's way of cashing in the on the Enterprise market who are loosely aware of Slack but entirely comfortable with having it blocked.
Right. One should ensure that simply re-invoking the script will not break anything by itself. The end result between invocations may be different if scripts are modified between invocations, as getting configuration right is a tricky business.
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/
This is maybe a little out of bounds, but I was a violin, music theory, philosophy student.

When I got burnt out of being a violinist, I found it pretty easy to transition to technology. But I will add the caveat that I had an insanely good violin teacher who taught me everything in terms of solving problems. I had an ear for what seemed artistically "right" for various pieces of music since I was a kid. Thanks to being the youngest in a family of professional musicians. I grew up with that stuff.

Software is about solving problems. I think there's a link to almost any artistic endeavor that solves problems. In my case, it was the problem of how to communicate what I wanted to for the audience in front of me.

It's different for everyone. I will say this, however: being a good software developer is thousands of miles easier than being a good artist. If you've done the hard work it takes to be good at being an artist, you can succeed as a developer. And it pays better as well.

email me if you'd like to talk more.
I think your opinion is about half-way right.

To be clear, Putin isn't a great guy and Russia is very far from perfect. But they're not out to completely screw over the entire world right now like the warmongers in power in the US for the last few decades. I'm a bit more skeptical of China's motives.

But I don't think Russia's interest in doing this is for noble means like protecting Russians' privacy: most likely they want this data in country for easy collection of data on people for their own spying programs as well or other not-so-good purposes. Anybody who is concerned about internet freedom shouldn't support governments mandating where servers need to be located.

If the US had some moral authority here right now, they might be able to call them out over some of these issues. But here's the thing: the US has been the boy that cried wolf for the last year. We've been trying to demonize them and discredit them and accuse them of interfering with elections just so a bunch of butt-hurt political operatives can fulfill their own political goals (overturn Trump, discredit Trump, and find somebody else to blame other than their own corrupt party). If the US made an official protest or something and tried to tell Russia what they're doing is wrong, everybody over there would just laugh.
PhD History of Art, BA Typography, art school degree graphics
Everyone in the USA is rich to "most people", but context is important.

A small to mid sized startup manager is not (usually) rich enough to not need his job or care about job performance.
I used Ubuntu prior to Fedora and I never experienced a single clean upgrade. I can't speak for recent versions of Ubuntu though.
All in, about ~1.8bn annual budget in SF.

The Proposed Operating Budget for FY 2017 totals to $1,154.7 million[0]

The Proposed MTA FY 2015 and FY 2016 Capital Budget includes an appropriation of $562.9 million
in FY 2015 and $669.0 million in FY 2016. [1]

Is that underfunded? SFMTA has massive basic accountability and prioritization problems, tons of more money wouldn't make those better.

[0] - https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/2016/4...

[1] - https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/4-15-1...
"Fake news" was news before Trump won the election
> you understand every single command in this, you don't need it.

Just because I understand/know how to verify them doesn't mean I can write them down myself in the same time, so no, I don't "need" it, but it is useful to have and to compare to what I'm usually doing.
> If you get behind with upgrades you are screwed.

Why? You shouldn't rely on system files for development... you probably want a proper dev environment that can later be replicated into production or staging (eg. containerization, VMs, virtualenv, etc). Just stick with Ubuntu LTS releases, and enjoy the consistent updates (eg. security) and the massive support benefits (eg. forums) associated with running one of the most popular distros.

Personally, I love the consistent Ubuntu updates. Granted... I always switch to xfce for the desktop environment.
> If you get behind with upgrades you are screwed.

Why? You shouldn't rely on system files for development... you probably want a proper dev environment that can later be replicated into production or staging (eg. containerization, VMs, virtualenv, etc.)

Personally, I love the consistent Ubuntu updates. Granted... I always switch to xfce for the desktop environment.
New Alzheimer’s Treatment Improves Patients’ Cognitive Abilities
> The taxman can verify that you bought your coins five years ago and sold them this year.

How? The public block chain only contains records of how coins moved from one wallet to another. It doesn't have any information about who those wallets belonged to, or what the terms of the transaction were. Maybe the coins were sold for fiat currency, or maybe they were compensation for goods and services. There's no way to know just from the information in the blockchain.

[EDIT] Let me make this more clear: it is easy to anonymize BTC. It is so easy that the technique even has a name (bitcoin tumbling) and companies that will do it for you as a service (e.g. https://bitlaunder.com). (I thought this was common knowledge around here.) In the face of these facts, how is the IRS going to enforce the tax code against a someone who tumbles their coins?
In fairness, the Riemann hypothesis is one of the most famous mathematical open problems, alongside the twin prime conjecture and P vs NP.
I figure a reflection from other planes just further off, water vapor can do some tricks. however they claim the IR gives them a temperature
A glimpse into the early days of Telecommunications in the Caribbean
"it'd"?
according to wikipedia, the SFMTA (the agency that runs MUNI) has a 35% farebox recovery ratio [0] (fares only cover 35% the cost of running the system).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
Since I use KDE as my desktop, I don't think it would do me any good.
In general I've found that Fedora's spins(https://spins.fedoraproject.org/) are actually pretty good. So I am not exactly sure how someone would benefit from moving into a considerably more obscure distro.

It may be excellent as a distro, I really don't know. I am just thinking out loud here.
Because of the naming convention i'm using for namespaces, if I ever decide to convert to modules, adding the import statements will be straightforward and nothing will even be renamed. The namespaces would simply 'become' modules, without any editing of the implementation. This was not an accident. I designed it that way.
>if they actually got to that level of intelligence the tech would have been "acquired" by military/other companies/whoever

I don't doubt that that would be a very real consideration, a pressure out there in the world that anyone developing AI would have to contend with.

I think the problem is with treating this like an inevitability. You are always going to deal with the idiosyncracies of the world: personalities, motivations, contingent world circumstances.

And beyond that, I think we have to keep in mind that this is, after all, fiction. The writers may arbitrarily structure their world in a manner that puts a spotlight on things they feel are interesting. And, within the limits of that spotlight, they may consider things like artificial intelligence in a way that is sincere to the subset of futurist considerations they are interested in investigating. And perhaps that involves suppressing plausible forces we would expect to see, such as military and corporate interest in advanced AI tech.
That was the main thing since SMS became big in the late 90's. Did Social network apps ever out-compete messaging if we count SMS as messaging?

Taking about messaging on phones without even mentioning SMS, seems uninformed to me.
You can pickle yourself in cocain for all I care, but what is the big attraction to drugs? Are you bored? I would ask the same question to a smoker. Not to be a hypocrite, I do like to get drunk every other year.
I don't need money to motivate me to write code, I need money to motivate me to write code for you.
When it's time to reconsider using C++, it's time to consider using something else :-)
It's been the golden age for script kiddies ever since fuzzing and injection became the most effective blind attacks. Who needs a database password when you have %27 ?

It used to be you had to actually break into a system to exfiltrate all its data. Now you just make an HTTP query. Owning a big system was really important because bandwidth and server space was expensive. Now you rent some VPS space with bitcoin you made from spam or DDoS-for-hire using someone else's botnet that had been sitting around with a default password, and use it to distribute pirated media like it's text files. Mass-scan for SQL injections, inject some malware you found on a forum, and amass a botnet to play with. What a time to be a script kiddie.

I'm not sure about the modern age, but to me the golden age of blackhats was pre-2003, when nobody was really watching their networks or systems and advanced techniques were everywhere with zero defenses. Metasploit and the age of shitty webapps and packaged malware ushered in the dumbing-down of blackhats as a general concept.

(Get off my lawn!)
No. We don't. There's nothing in the world like standing up on stage in front of thousands of people and having a mistake creep into your work and having people write about it in every newspaper there is.

Code review is absolutely nothing compared to what it takes to put yourself out there as a musician or a scientist and have it shot down. Absolutely not even close.
Nice article, especially the section on downsides at the end.

A lot of VM design is at the expense of memory consumption over speed. Not just the JVM, but I think v8 memory usage got out of control recently and they had to go back to an interpreter in some cases.

VMs in the future should probably be optimized for power. More memory usage means more power usage. It matters both on mobile devices and in data centers.

The startup time issue is annoying as well. I like the general idea, but making startup time even worse than the JVM itself makes it unattractive.
Put another way: RMS is a hardliner/purist about privacy and intellectual freedom. As far as I’ve read, he considers it unacceptable to compromise his privacy/freedom in basically all contexts. His conclusions are reached soundly, assuming you started from his first-principles. But if you, like so many of us, are willing to trade some privacy/freedom for some convenience, then his conclusions won’t make any sense. It’d be awesome if we had higher expectations of privacy/freedom from our technology. But I just don’t think boycotting Netflix is an effective strategy for getting there.
My opinion(1), after playing a while with MS Teams:

The pros : the product is quite good, let say it is good enough and much better than the status quo of relying on emails or Whatsapp. It is integrated with the Office suite, and if I understand correctly, will be free for pro Office users. It has a handful of very interesting product decisions, like threaded replies and iframe apps.

The cons : MS Teams is not as polished as Slack, the UI (especially of the chat area) is not as clear. The installation/onboarding is not as fluid. They have less apps and integrations (obviously, this is just the beginning).

My guess : MS Teams will not even begin to make a dent in the almost 100% market share of Slack among startups, agencies and similar small, agile groups. The whole Office ecosystem is simply to heavy, the UX is not as great, and some integrations might be missing. On the other hand, it might win big in the entreprise segment, where Slack is less present, and where being in the Office family is not seen as a drawback but actually an sign of solidity

(1) I am an independent dev, working on an app for their platform, so this is an educated guess based on my testing. I will enable Teams to connect with each other or with Slack teams through shared chat (www.smooz.io/microsoft).
Not true - automation is great! I understand the script and would use it.
The Transit app should pay Muni drivers to use the app. Maybe $5 to $10 a shift would be enough motivation. That would be an extra $100 to $200 a month income
Given SF is more and more the center of the US

It isn't. And Muni has been awful forever, admirably steadfast in awfulness through multiple booms and busts.
It's certainly a point of contention, but I think it's the general tenor of comments by other players. Though in hindsight, I wouldn't call it inhuman per se. Humans do play strange moves. It's just a big deviation from pro orthodoxy.

In this games described here, the floating reduction of the wall looks very odd to me: http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13929&p=21.... I also thought the first game against kiss88 featured a lot of very unorthodox moves: the double tenuki in the top right and the shoulder hit against the 44 + knight's move in the lower left especially seemed novel to me. The two space extension from the 34 point is also uncommon, but less surprising.

Another move that didn't seem familiar to me was the shoulder hit and large knight's reduction in the lower right, but that may just be a tactical variation that's unfamiliar.

P.S. I'm only 3k AGA, 4k OGS, so take my personal opinion with a grain of salt! I do think I have a decent feeling for what other people are thinking. Ke Jie made a comment about no human having scratched the surface of go.
The Good and Bad Parts of JSX
It's worth noting that the LL history and report are written by a former employee of, and current shareholder of, Phase One, one of Hasselblad's major competitors. It's entirely possible the report is accurate, but failing to discolse that seems very pooor form.

Fingers crossed for less racist discussion of the possible aquisition than on most photography sites!
I'd like to reword it as "Programmers don't code for money. But if they code for other people it better be good money."

I will gladly work on a side project all night and weekends with no expectation of a return. But if it's your idea that I'm working on, I insist on being paid well for it.
Was it https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/the-riemann-hypoth...?
> Edit: Stallman explicitly demands that public toilets should be free to everyone, independent of their financial situation. Using his logic, we should boycot food until food is available to everyone free of charge. Of course I'm not arguing against feeding the needy, or against social nets in general.

Food is something we spend a significant amount of money on, and have wildly different preferences in purchasing. Toilets are something we spend very little on, and all are purchasing something extremely similar. Needing to prove you require hundreds of pounds of assistance for is different from having to prove you require a few quid occasionally to not have to go and shit in an alley.

The key difference here is that to give free basic food to the wealthy would be wasteful (they don't need it and it's not what they might want) as well as expensive. Giving the wealthy access to a public toilet for free is not a huge incidental cost and is likely far cheaper and easier than any kind of tokens or voucher schemes (really, how well is that going to work for the homeless?).

You also cannot boycott food. Boycotting paid for toilets means those who can go somewhere else, such as at home. Boycotting food means you die.

The two are not comparable.
I'd be surprised if they were allowed to use their phones while working.
(Interview) Morepath: A web framework with super powers
Hahahaha, once you live here you realize the incompetence is pervasive. California and SF is a very mismanaged place.
I can't even find their pricing page. Clicking Free Trial and they are already asking me for information when I don't even know what it costs.

I guess it's startup unfriendly and only marketed for enterprise.

What made you want to switch from Slack to Microsoft Teams? How large is your team? Curious to see the responses to this thread.
Maybe I'm wrong, but Pagerduty could be used to ping me, once I do know that the server is not running properly, right? I could use it to ping me if my mail server does not send any logs. This would help in some scenarios.

I thought there might be a service that sends an email to a special account or the answer is forwarded to themselves. If they don't get the forwarded message they send a text message.
PS please note that there is no memset nor any other mean to zero initialize the elements. So the code appears to have a bug anyway.
For as much as Microsoft Teams sucks it has the killer feature of Skype Integration. Since Skype won't open up for Slack integration and I can't convince anyone to pay for Slack while Teams is "free" (as in already paid for as part of our corporate office account) we are moving from Slack to Teams. I think almost all enteprise level corporations who are using Microsoft Office 360 will follow suite. It sucks but it is how Enteprise level software works.
For as much as Microsoft Teams sucks it has the killer feature of Skype Integration. Since Skype won't open up for Slack integration and I can't convince anyone to pay for Slack while teams is "free" (as in already paid for as part of our corporate office account) we are moving from Slack to Teams. I think almost all enteprise level corporations who are using Microsoft will follow suite. It sucks but it is how Enteprise level software works.
I didn't see your message until after I finished posting mine but I was trying to get at the same point. Money may not motivate me to code but that doesn't mean it's not a motivation to get me to code what the company wants me to. I can choose what projects I want to work on. There are no shortages of team that will take good software engineers.
Thank you! I've never seen this before; looks handy.
The "data" (the unknown variables) always varies. That's why you need n >> 1 in A/B tests. And you are only testing one variable: the asking price.
Definitely, thanks. I will try that next time I'm distro-shopping.
Yea. We moved to it in the office. We used ryver for a while, looked at slack, but, given we are on office365 and are a Microsoft shop, it was an easy move. So far, so good.
I think OP meant so that they have data for all transportation vs relying on users crowdsourced. Still crowdsourced but with better paid sourcing :) Note that it's passive - users don't have to do anything I believe aside from having the app.
There's also the argument that especially as a physician you have the obligation to your patients to do the best job you can. It's true for any profession but for physicians it's hard to see why anyone would object the reasoning. The difference between a top-25 school and anything else is like day and night, the students, the faculty, the equipment, the exposure to current research, and it's still true even though it may not be reflected in compensation.
They should do a tit-for-tat data release. Pay 1/10 of the ransom, get 1/10 of the data.
Pascal and SQL on the desktop, C for embedded. I can read most other languages but as long as the Pascal compilers are being updated and actively supported I dont see any reason to move on
At some point the wallet will correlate with meat space.
If people RTFM it would never have been an issue.