skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They really need to make their promoted tweets cheaper. I attached a credit card with $100.00 to spend on ADs and Twitter burned through it in a week for a few paltry 'promoted tweets' that had very little engagement or views.
Not one word about what I consider the most toxic aspect of working at Google: blind allocation.

Unless one absolutely does not care what one wishes to work on, joining Google is throwing your future into the Hogwarts hat of an ill-defined cabal of billionaires to pick your job at Google. Sometimes that works out, but most of the time you are allocated to whatever mission-critical project is currently leaking buttcheeks.

In my brief time there, I was placed on a 7-person team that lost one person per month. That is the single worst retention rate I have ever seen. I left after 4 months for that and the realization that the powers-that-be were in denial about the coming impact of an emerging technology that they have since embraced a year or so after my departure.

That said, the SCCS and the build process were top-notch.

But there are good reasons why despite all the perks and smart people, Google's overall retention rate is barely a month longer than Amazon's.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/07/28/turno...
A good alternative is Algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
That is what Google Contributor once did, but was shut down recently to be completely re-thought from the ground up (and hopefully will be relaunching in the next few months) because:

1. Nobody used it

2. It didn't block ALL ads, just most (based on if you won or lost the bid)

3. There was a LOT of backlash against it because it was google and even though you can opt out of tracking nobody believes them.

4. The old "adblock is free" argument.

It used to be that you'd pay an amount between $1 and $15 per month and it would use that money to "bid" on ad spots like a normal advertiser would. If you won the bid, you'd see a picture, a pattern, or anything else you wanted in that spot. If you lost, you'd see another ad.

The fee split worked identically to a regular ad, so Google would take their cut, the site would take the rest. And any money not spent at the end of the month was refunded back to you (not rolled over, actually put back in your bank account).
Analytics code solved that problem long ago.
I'd probably make the argument that it's an overemphasis on the principles of supply and demand (capitalism) that make one potentially worthless.

If there are enough geographers with graduate degrees applying for the gig even at minimum wage pay, you pay them minimum wage.

In the US (and let's be real, most of the world), capitalism trumps altruism (paying someone more than their market value because you're nice).

We exploit our own kind - it's always been that way, and there have always been a sufficient number of justifications (whether you agree with them or not) to keep up the practice.
Here's a few more:

https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

https://github.com/ttlequals0/autovpn

https://github.com/robbintt/popup-openvpn

https://github.com/jlund/streisand
From the linked Daydream manual:

NOTE: SCSI is the nightmare of many computer users and system administrators. In most cases, the reason
for improper operation are bad cables and incorrect termination. For proper termination rules,
turn to the manuals that come with System 7 or your NeXT Computer. Also, please note that with SCSI, Cables
and Devices can't be separated into 'good' and 'bad', as many bad cables and devices work fine under most
Linked circumstances. It's the combination that makes the difference.

It's fun to find official documentation that actually tells it like it is :)
Apache uses the Apache Portable Runtime:

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

That's one of the competitors to POSIX for application portability. Unlike POSIX, it was totally open as well vs people telling me The Open Group will sell me a copy of full standard.
Thanks, I found this article which says that you can actually make a profit: http://blog.storj.io/post/110416906278/how-much-will-i-make-...
The structure of discussion threads can be used to achieve repetition:

-- early false statements are seen by many

-- later corrections down-thread are seen by few

-- popular promoted, true but unpopular hidden

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5queq5/how_high_perfo...
It's like I started a conversation about haircuts and you're bringing up dismemberment.
Relevant to your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613551.

--

For a rigorous learning plan: http://web.archive.org/web/20101102120728/http://measuringme..., don't forget to read the section "Straight into the Deep End".
See related discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187237 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055042.

I am taking a middle of the path approach. Working through the following in order: 1. Linear Algebra 2. Calculus 3. Probability & Stats 4. Optimization Theory. For 1 and 2, using Manga Guides. Working through Manga guide for LA now. Note that I have a 3D graphics background and learning ML just to add to my skill set, so my plan is very specific to my use case. YMMV. Hope this helps a bit. Thanks.
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Having recently worked on a few projects written in C++11 for embedded systems (again, no standard library), I must concur with your comment. C++11 brings a lot of the same features (minus the functional coding components) to embedded systems making program flow a breeze.
I usually use Angristan's (improves on Nyr's):

https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install
I wonder if this would help me switch from Ubuntu Desktop to Ubuntu Server on my laptop that has a broken screen.
The only 4 languages I known. Awesome!
What does "socialised medicine" mean? Many European countries have mandatory health insurance premiums on top of normal taxation (for example: Netherlands, Switzerland).

The original poster says claims Ireland doesn't and whilst I'd assume they know more than I do, http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/Find_a_Service/eligibility.ht... makes it sound substantially free or heavily subsidised ("comprehensive, government funded public healthcare system").
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You Own Devices Act (YODA) Is Reintroduced to Congress
Yup. You'd be surprised how much functionality people can wring out of an ATTiny85 or an ATMega328p.
I'm new to rust. Can someone explain what is the issue with following code?

pub fn as_mut_slice(&self) -> &mut [T] {
unsafe {
slice::from_raw_parts_mut(self.ptr as *mut T, self.len())
}
}
Here's a cool one: Much early (1985) development of Mac software was done on the Mac XL, which had a 10 MB HDD and 1 MB of RAM, vs the original Mac which famously had 128k RAM and no HDD. But, the Mac XL was really just a Lisa 2 running a Mac emulator!
>But I think most peoples reaction is just to say "Yeah! that's totally what those other people do that our side never does because we're right.".

to guard against this, as soon as i am aware of a catchphrase or common talking point, i mentally deconstruct it and find the truth. frighteningly, the most commonly repeated verbiages are, should we say, misleading.

but lean a little closer, stranger, and i'll whisper the truth into your ear: the "two sides" are unequal in their abilities for evaluative thought, self righteous zealotry, and dogmatism. an honest attempt at critical evaluation will go nowhere if your evaluating apparatus is garbage.
Actually, this paper is outdated. What it states about kdbus and its prospects is wrong, for example.
Government workers unions will not allow anyone to be laid off.

Since the dawn of modern governance at about the turn of the last century, governments everywhere have been going in one direction: expansion.

So they'll find other things for cops to do :)

On day, about 2030, a Scandinavian country will 'ban human driving' citing safety risks. Then California, and NYC.

In 2070, you'll sneak your grandchildren into an old Buick in and take them for a spin around some old parking lot - and your daughter in law will freak right out and get seriously pissed at you, threatening to call the police. 'Those crazy old people who actually think they can drive' ...
Yeah, if you're willing to read a single source, it's not expensive.
So how do propose we pick "the truth"? This is the problem we now face: Truth has been labeled relative.
I had an Outbound laptop[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbound_laptop] when I was in 6th-8th grade. While not a clone it was an interesting machine that used a ROM from a donor Mac. It's actually in my closet right now. Every now and then I try and get it to boot up to no avail. :(
>and wishing to harness violent force (government rules)

aaaaand I can safely ignore everything you say.
This is not the case in most countries in the world.

Given that you work on your own time and don't use company's resources.
Because you're using an unreasonably narrow definition of theft that doesn't include intangibles.
I've been using this procedure to remotely replace operating systems for years. The most common scenario is a VPS provider that doesn't give you the choice of OS you want.

Infact, I will be using it later today, to replace a Debian system with Gentoo, no less. The README in OPs link is spot-on here (the last few paragraphs).
Infosys, Dust Off Slogan “Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values”?
Illogical. Please show your working.
There's another native JS emulator with lots of disk images built-in: https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/#asteroid
Some religious books are extremely repetitive. So repetitive that it seemed to me to be a form of intellectual violence against the reader.
> POSIX was supposed to be popular to the point

If you read up on why companies such as Microsoft make it their point to break and avoid standards, you would understand why your comments regarding "popularity" are moot.

Business strategies don't make or break technical merits.
It's annoying, but I wouldn't consider it unfair. In the end, nobody forces you to pay more than you are prepared to pay.
Have a look at O'Reilly's resources (links below). They give fairly good overviews and surveys of the field without going deep technically.

[1]: http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/archive.html

[2]: https://www.oreilly.com/topics/ai
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Funnily enough, I'm also a subscriber of the FT! The app has the full newspaper ordered in the same way (Lex, The Big Read etc) and provides a pretty great experience for a digital consumer. It's not quite the same as having a hard copy in your hands, but for ease of access and portability - I can read it wherever I am in the world - it really is a fantastic product.
Let me know when you can pay rent or buy groceries with retweets.
> A natural image is formed when a collection of objects is illuminated by incoming light, and the resulting image is projected onto the retina.

But that's sort of the point no? The incoming information is not an unstructured white noise of photons striking our retina. There is a sort of structure to the information that can be modelled. One such model of this structured information is as a "grammar tree" (really just a tree, we're coders here.) The example in the article is that the arm occludes the teepee, which occludes the background trees. Any visual system needs to break this hierarchy down.
Particularly striking the idea among some smart military leaders that the post WW2 order is clearly breaking down, and its disintegration is unstoppable.

Do you have any cites?

It's my impression that the biggest threat to peace currently is the Middle East and Russia, but neither are new. Russia is acting out because it has a GDP the size of California and is isolated and the Middle East is...the Middle East. There's a lot of flexing but that's always happened and the US is a hegemon that really can't be challenged save a land war in Asia (hopefully we aren't that stupid).

The Soviets were invading Afghanistan in the 1980s. It's foolish to say war can't happen, but things look ok from a geopolitical standpoint and historically.

What countries really want to engage in war and disrupt the global economy?
It's raining H1b reform bills in congress. Highlights of the proposed bills
I always grab a print copy when they're available somewhere free but they're really unpleasant to navigate. Especially when you get into the inner pages and have to unfold the whole paper. Unless you're sprawled out on the floor or have a giant table, it's practically impossible.

Interestingly, a real impenetrable paywall makes me respect the print edition more. FT is a good example. I also like their format, layout and paper quality. But they are a financial paper so the economics are better.
Why do you say that? Their political coverage and some of their deep-dive investigative pieces have been top drawer IMO.
I would say there's not 1 small minority, when there is multiple small minorities even within small communities that are (or feel they are) "suffering". Some groups are just imagining persecution as a proxy. A desire to control one aspect of their environment in contrast to their lack of control in other areas (e.g. biological constraints or economic position, etc).
To me, and I think many other outsiders, putting a lot of emphasis on the equivalent of grammars-language-automata looks like mathematical naivety. I don't say this to be rude but because you (and Chomsky) claim to be able to interpret the implications of these mathematical results, but I don't think you are doing so correctly. Grammars look like a human (mathematical) invention and not some deep mathematical structure, and these results appear shallow. In the broader context, lots of mechanisms are able to do Turing complete computation.

This doesn't just apply to grammars. There is a huge array of formalisms (e.g. logics, type systems) out there and most just look like the result of someone saying "what if I did this?".
Be careful what you wish for. In the US, small-town cops use speeding tickets as a way to get funding that simply won't appear from its tax base. It's extremely common to see police cars at speed changes to catch people who dont see or slow down in time.
An interesting history lesson, but irrelevant to the current discussion.
If you think that this is something limited to what evil Trump is doing, you are a fool and you don't understand yourself or the world around you at all.
Tell that to the SCOTUS:

interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.

By the way, the infringer was acquitted, since the court agreed he hadn't "stolen, converted or taken by fraud", despite even making money from his infringing activities.
Another example is Ronald Reagan. I can't remember who said it, but one of the people around him was asked how he managed to become president and known as the great communicator, and the reply was along the lines of, "he made the same speech [1] every week for 25 years."

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
So much snark and negativity on this thread, when the paper is just a factual description of a pretty impressive feat of software engineering (still way better than most companies I have seen the inside of).
Another alternative (specific to the pi): http://www.pivpn.io
See the means test here:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/medical_cards_an...

Sounds comprehensive to you?

The income threshold is so low that only unemployed people qualify.
> there bottom line isn't quite captured by any of the above, though. the modern dystopia is defined by individual paralysis as a result of being overwhelmed the engineered political spectacle. it isn't that people are too happy to want change, nor are they too scared of death, nor are they immersed in paperwork, nor are they lost in cyberspace. they're too addled to envision a better world as anything other than a fantasy.

I don't think this is the case at all in most of the west. In the US in particular, the Left's primary limiting factor is "how do we make a transition to better socioeconomic systems without further endangering the people that the current system hurts." This is a challenge that may not have an answer. And as for the Right, well, their principle limitation as we have seen is setting up an environment where they can obtain enough unilateral power to enact policies that benefit the minority they're interested in.

And of course, we see elements of less strictly aligned ideology rippling around the US (it is a complicated place).

> south korea recently dumped their government via swarming the streets with millions of people until their demands were met. a similar strategy is unlikely to be executed in the US,

The last 8 years suggest that large scale protest action is becoming more common, not less. The mistake that big governments have given is allowing unlimited, virtual assembly of the masses as they see fit via the internet. The net result of this is that there's no practical break on internal cultural drift, and it's extremely easy to organize (or passively synchronize) efforts for maximum presence.

The interesting feature of all these dystopias is a carefully mandated isolation and compartmentalization of the populace. That's precisely what we do not have. Tech, while contributing to a lot of economic problems around the world, has at least broken every social expectation and put us in a place that doesn't really fit these dystopian predictions. Which means we probably need a new one, but I don't think yours is it.
for those who're seeking something else I would recommend Frank Herbert's Dune -which doesn't get much love on HN but fits perfectly in an AI post truth dystopia
That top image makes a mistake when it says "degrees K". It's just 3K. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(temperature)?wprov=sfsi...
I think you've got some good insights there...a lot of it rings true for me, anyhow. Not sure why the downvotes. They're just some thoughts, and it's the type of article that invites whimsical musing moreso than rigorous debate.
Except no, I saw stuff like that too when I was there along with childish crap like throwing gum in the urinals and googlers acting like entitled jerks towards the cleaning staff.

I met some great people at Google, but I'd be remiss not to mention I also met too many #IAmGoogle sorts (who were all dudes BTW).
Houston is getting taller, though. 3-4 story townhomes, 4-8 per former single family home lot are taking over lots of old, rundown neighborhoods.

Maybe that's not your optimal amazing perfect development. But it doesn't count as not going up.

Of course, it's also growing out at a tremendous rate as well.
While it is off topic, the other point is interesting
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The bad thing with Nativescript is that it is developed by a company who sells components, so free Nativescript will always be a second class, will lack functionalities, etc... Basically it is a first bait for subsequently converting you into their clientele.
sendmail is dead at this point though.
Yeah. I considered this critique, which is why I added the performance caveat. The thing is, libraries of other languages are being written abstractly over the native eventing systems on the OSes.

For example, the MIO library in Rust, is an abstraction over epoll, kqueue, and the MS primative. Not one over the POSIX standard. This means that if you use that in a Rust library, you get that platform independence for free.
>"Every output is based on IPC and calls to the event logger."

What does that even mean?

I think you're painting an incorrect picture of the design goals of NT. The original NT was designed by a group of people (e.g. Cutler) with VMS background and they sure as hell didn't have any GUI in mind. In fact, Windows came to the picture much later. Whether NT is administered by a GUI or CLI is totally irrelevant to NT design. Today all the NT derivatives (Windows Server) can be administered with a rich variety of command line tools.

Stdout exists because the original subsystems (OS/2, Windows, MS-DOS) required that. Same applies TODAY. Where is the NT bias to GUIs exactly?
If it was a valuable mind then surely the owner of it would opt to do a more valuable activity than drive a car around? Google is just providing an option. Should they be binning applications for the position that include degrees?
If I remember correctly EE had the real answers waaaaaay down on the page. They were banking on people not scrolling.
Western society is built around making other societies and the minorities within somewhat miserable. And the only way to escape this label is to make everyone better off, starting with the most unfairly treated.
I wonder what will be the equivalent a hundred years down the line.

In other words - do we do something today which will seem as hare-brained to our descendants as irradiating one's genitals does to us? (We probably do - but what will it be...)
I was going from memory, and looks like my memory has some holes.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-04-16/business/9101190...

In the early 90s, Carnival bought Premier Cruise Lines (or most them, at least). They were supposed to assumed Premier's role as provider of "Disney" cruises, though I can't confirm that happened.

Disney started running its own cruise line in 1998. TIL
While I do think that drivers that speed should be ticketed, I have to note that it is a really expensive and ineffective way to reduce speed. A simpler and more effective solution is to alter the roads in such a way that people simply do not drive faster than x k∕h. You can do it by narrowing the road, adding a roundabout, elevated crosswalks, a bike-lane separated with pretty flower pots, etc.
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The employee worked over 75 hours a week, but routinely had his timesheets rewritten to show 40. When he complained, he had some of his works taken away. When he was seriously injured in his job, his injury was laughed off as a lie and he was sent back to work anyway. I think it's fair to say that this person has a unique set of extremely challenging circumstances different than what you described. I'm not sure what we have to gain by dismissing these henious labor violations. Even if it was just as bad for you (I doubt it), would that invalidate this person's experience, or mean we shouldn't investigate these crimes?
The Solar Industry Now Employs Twice as Many People as Coal
This works mostly/only for the undecided.
I would not if the goal of a standard is uptake by OS and application developers. Wide usage of a product = popularity. It didn't achieve the popularity it sought. This is independent of what businesses like Microsoft were doing.

Microsoft's strategy was to create a permanent dependence on them for long-term profitability. They had too many tactics for that to cover here. Once open standards proliferated, they subverted them too with proprietary extensions under "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy. Companies buying into their solutions and using non-standard features paid the price.

Regardless, people still created apps that worked on such proprietary platforms and UNIXen via portability frameworks or libraries. Some products using them became quite popular (eg Apache, Netscape/Firefox) with some of the frameworks themselves becoming popular (eg Qt, GTK, wxWindows, Tk). POSIX's got into enough stuff that it was a default many picked up. Whereas, these others people went to willingly even when POSIX was available with even more portability. That's why they were objectively more successful on portability.