skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but how do you define helpful? Sickle cell (as cited up-thread) is a selected-for mutation.
Wow that's an amazingly stupid and short sighted decision. Why would they tie their app to a legacy numbering system which doesn't even serve to accurately identify people?
> And you are in a privileged position to discern these?

Yes, as privileged as everyone else. We can and must make judgments - open-mindedness is important, but to withhold judgment indefinitely is foolishness and reckless endangerment of our responsibilities. That includes judging against absurd and evil ideas and not allowing them unlimited leeway to delay or distract us (again, that would be aiding in their propaganda strategy) from acting against them. And while my judgment isn't perfect, I'm pretty confident in this one.
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I don't think we read the same article; "higher end of the scale" is not going to be bothered by RTTI and exceptions which TFA suggests disabling. Overhead of C++ without those vs C is pretty minimal.
As a chemist this headline makes me actually angry.
Re writing and drawing materials, I love Kunst & Papier's minimalist sketch/notebooks [1].

Aside from having great paper quality, they have a rigid cardboard cover, and the spine is fabric and flexible, so you can open the book completely flat over and over without destroying it.

They come in all sorts of sizes, from small to absolutely huge, and the minimalist design makes them look very clean on a shelf.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3...
Wow. To assume that I am sexist from that comment is beyond ignorant. I typed as I normally do and in 90% of America it is the norm to type girl in that sentence. Maybe this is shifting but it is not sexist to type commonly used terms in certain contexts.

Do you genuinely think we should assume guilt on someone because their feelings are hurt? That's a dangerous path to go down and we have to rely on hard evidence or else witch hunts have real consequences.

It's not hard to imagine the tides turning and false acquisitions becoming as big as a problem as sexism.

PS. I am a firm believer in removing sexism from all cultures.
But none of those are fun to use, let's throw telegram/slack into the mix!

Wire is doing a pretty good job of making a fun to use chat interface, but it has its own problems in privacy and speed.
There is software where a single yearly license costs more than someone's salary.

The problems with these servers though is typically isolated to hobby users who don't have the money to hire people to keep the ancient software working for them.
> What you're saying is a bit like pointing out that every homeless man has the right to spend as much money as Donald Trump or Bill Gates do. In theory, yes.

I don't know what this means. Rights are not the same thing as opportunity.

Getting access to DRM content under legal rights is the same as getting access to any other protected content, through legal means. Licensing a copy, writing a subpoena, or numerous other options. While it may not be convenient, I still don't see where freedoms are being harmed.
First hand 5-year experience with embedded and C++ here.

I used to work with a big C++ codebase which implemented ISDN/R2/SIP stacks (and a few more protocols), running inside an embedded ARM. Now I mostly work with a C codebase that does similar things.

I can say with good confidence that most of what was written on the article about compiler flags, etc, can be regarded as premature optimization - ie, you just need to start from this point if you know your environment is really constrained and exceptions are too much of a cost - which is usually not the case in modern embedded ARM systems.

About the advantages, I completely agree with the safety issue. Reuse is also much easier - using generic programming concepts to better encapsulate your abstractions, including functions acting on different types (templates), you can rely on sizeof and/or properties of the types themselves to specialize the proper behaviour. All without having a single virtual/dynamic dispatch. And modern C++ is making this much easier to use.

TBH I never used a single virtual in any of my code, though we used to have that in a few places in the whole stack away from the performance-sensitive code paths.

Comparing to C, there's a lot of repeated patterns in the code I work nowadays, and it's a bit frustrating as I can't really abstract them sometimes, and there's some repetition of similar algorithms in different places. You can start doing callbacks, some ugly acrobatics with macros, and some other alternatives, but the code then becomes unreadable, a minefield, or both.
The idea of parallel universes is entirely natural in Indian traditions
Since the alternative would often be a "deer in headlights" situation, I bet that's even the right thing to do. Reacting in group beats reacting by yourself, even if the resulting reactions are less intelligent.
I assume that in HR-101 they learn the paper trail skills, and have it explained to them that it is as much for their protection as for anyone else's.
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Do you happen to know of any of the bots' names?
The second that happens they will remove it in the following release.
Creative office space design considerations
I'm going to say I believe in Ms. Flower's statement. It can't just be some make up story if so many people echo on the culture at Uber (it would be big conspiracy to organize).

I'd look forward a criminal case opened on this, but it's up to Ms. Flowers. I am very aggressive person, I don't let people get away easily if they offend me like this.

Anyway, when the investigation is concluded, and when the investigation result matches the victim's statement, I expect no less from the CEO but a public meeting with reporters, bow to the TV audience like how one does in Japan. I expect no less. Leader who is "misled" and "misinformed" by his or her workers should feel scared. Think about the whole national adviser talking to Russia scandal.

Uber recruiter, you can take my name off your recruitment list.
It's not hyperbole to say that's an impossible leap of speculation: You know what someone's actions were in a particular situation based solely on their age?
Why do you need new pairs of jeans every year? I don't think I've ever had to discard jeans except from growing out of them. They are made of tough material.
Imagine my surprise when I came across the full C++ source code of UEFA Soccer 96 for DOS on a demos CD that shipped with a magazine!

I never saw that leak mentioned anywhere. I think I still have the code. Should I share it, and how?
Procedural Due Process [0]:

"Procedural due process is a legal doctrine in the United States that requires government officials to follow fair procedures before depriving a person of life, liberty, or property. When the government seeks to deprive a person of one of those interests, procedural due process minimally requires for the government to afford the person notice, an opportunity to be heard, and a decision made by a neutral decisionmaker. Procedural due process is required by the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution."

They deprived him of his life and did not afford him notice, the opportunity to be heard, or a decision made by a neutral decisionmaker.

That's why people are skeptical when Holder said his death met the requirements for due process.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_due_process
Even if it hasn't degraded, or got meticulously backed up: Who wants to deal with the potential legal ramifications? For many now-defunct gaming shops, "who owns the assets" might be an interesting question for a JD thesis, but not something many people would like to spend time on.

That's the real issue. I'd be very surprised if much of the source code didn't still exist, but the entities owning it have been sold, bankrupted, chopped into pieces, and resold so often that it's impossible to legally release.
I have dozens of game CDs from that era and they're still playable.
I did something similar* with CKEditor and the id+key after the "#" like 3-4 years back when I was learning about real time and cryptography.

There were few practical problems that could not be easily resolved, the main one being that the server could send a different javascript payload (by modifying the HTML src) that leaks everything for specific clients and they wouldn't even know.

The most reasonable solution would be a plugin of sorts that freezes the front-end code and checks that the html+javascript has not been modified since last time, but this wouldn't be practical and has a totally different set of problems.

This scenario could happen if we consider real-world scenarios (imperfect/bad actors):

- Rogue hosting or admin: someone who controls the server decides to change the javascript. They are smart enough to change the checksum in the <script> so things still validate.

- Cracked ("Hacked"): there is a vulnerability in some part of the stack and the javascript gets changed unknowingly by the server admins.

- MITM for a badly configured server that accepts "http:" instead of "https:" and the user connects through a public network. Actually, the fact that it redirects http to https has its own set of problems for the people who might need this: http://security.stackexchange.com/q/44849/9161

Did you solve this? If so, how?

*I did the proof of concept mixing front with back-end and never fully ported it to front-end for the problems explained above.
I might be a bit late to the party with this one but I just found https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati and it seems to be a very nice solution for encrypted cloud backups.

There's also https://github.com/ncw/rclone if you would rather do it more like rsync.
My favorite part is the section at the bottom that says,

> A version of this op-ed appears in print on July 19, 2015, on Page SR9 of the New York edition with the headline: Did Reddit Boss Coverage Cross a Line?

I wonder if the Times even modified this Op-Ed between print and web!
Yes, chat needs to not be just basic texting or no one will use it.

iOS users get iMessage which is great, but there's no cross platform version.

Telegram + Encrypted by default and in groups would be best, but they have some (invalid) reason for keeping it unencrypted.
MD Anderson Fires IBM Watson in Setback for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Workspaces that move people
Not nationwide, but Uber pulled out of Austin, for one.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-capital-city-votes-to-kee...
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I get the feeling they are trying to cater to the Electron generation and hence focusing on QML and related technology.

Many new APIs are indeed QML only, like support for device and mobile UIs.
The usability implications of not being able to access information if you lose track of the link will be enough to ensure this never takes off, let alone the vast security holes.
The leak appears to be mentioned here: http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/1997-fifa-partial-source...

But all the links are dead.
Thinkpad W520. Works fine; it's heavy, but I don't need to carry it very much since it lives on my desk most of the time.
Find the 1 or 2 things that each person on your team wants to do in 2-3 years, and find a way to give it to them. Follow up with weekly 1 on 1 meetings, where they control 70% of the agenda.

This is free.
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Training isn't entirely useless, but it's a pretty small part of preventing problems like this. It's not like her manager didn't know that hitting on his employees was wrong. He didn't do it out of ignorance. He did it because he could get away with it.
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Sure, downvote me on tone, not on fact.

He is scum. anyone defending that guy....

I dont care about stupid points on HN... -- Eric Holder and his ilk are criminals. If you disagree, prove me wrong. They are all murderers.
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I would share it with Archive.org for preservation. Not 100% sure how to do so, sorry, but here might be a good start:

https://archive.org/create/
Strict doesn't break links, it breaks sites that set "expected" cookies to strict. Those expected cookies won't be available in some situations that might have been expected, such as navigating to the site directly.

So if news.ycombinator.com cookies were set to strict, they will not be sent when I open the site, or indeed at all unless I was navigating from within the site (thus stopping cross origin attacks, but also stopping them being sent on first page load). If these cookies were used to identify a logged in user, the user will not be logged in as the cookie would not be sent. The link still works, but the behaviour is perhaps unexpected.

One solution is to have a trusted, strict cookie, and it is required for any actions that originate from the origin site - upvoting, new posts, comments, etc. You then have a second, untrusted, non-strict cookie that is used to identify a user. As long as this cookie is not used for any trusted operations, you have restricted the potential attack surface a lot.

None of this breaks links, it only breaks user experience expectations if utilised naively (like hacker news using strict cookies for their persistent login tokens).
CryptPad is pretty solid, definitely a step up from Etherpad Lite. Curious how CryptPad's encryption could be leveraged in a replacement for uppit, as another reddit from source install is obviously not a great idea.
> To prevent spam

I suspected that, but have they openly said it? I suspect it's also to deter criminal activity.
Encrypting locally before uploading to the cloud is probably the best solution. That way unencrypted data never leaves your local device.

You can do this with an app like VeraCrypt https://veracrypt.codeplex.com for DropBox or SyncDocs https://syncdocs.com for Google Drive.

Relying on cloud providers to protect your data is not a great idea - just ask Hillary Clinton about Podesta. Adding a separate layer of security and another means of authentication is more secure.
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> t should not be a real phone. i.e., No baseband or actual cellular connection.

Couldn't you use a small tablet?
Uber taxi riders pay double fares as drivers down tools
It's already pretty popular, similar to Mega.co.nz.
Except when they're both required and neither is sufficient, as in this case. In preventative medicine, in order to have quality one must have quantity.
1. Join Industry Association and attend their meetings.

2. Attend and/or exhibit at Tradeshows and events related to the industry.

3. Trade Publications, their mailing lists and advertising.

4. Find contacts through LinkedIn and reach out to them individually.

5. Go to your target audience hangout places.

6. Research publications related to your industry. Find appropriate papers and connect with research groups and authors that get you introduction to industry participants.
"There's no denying that there may be another side"

But.. There probably isn't right? Like, 95% chance there is no other side. With everything that you know about Uber, would any of things mentioned surprise you?
I joined Uber as an engineer last year. Professionally this is the best thing to happen to me. I work with great engineers, i learnt a lot from them. There are people from diverse backgrounds, people for top CS universities to people without any formal CS education but who are 2-3x better than most engineers i have seen. That said, it is not the place for everyone, things move really really fast. Lots of engineers are from Google & FB. Some tooling is inadequate but that is normal for any young company

I like TK, he is honest & anti-burecracy (which is very important for engineers). We have weekly town hall & he answers all sort of questions from employees with honesty that i haven't seen in my previous companies.
I feel Uber is going through growing pains since they grew too fast. They have hired/hiring managers from bigger companies who will help them transitioning into a mature company.
It's funny that to prove your argument you're quoting a paragraph that says exactly otherwise. Not to mention, NetBSD builds are about the OS, that's kernel, tooling, base and so on, and not about packages, as in Debian's case.
Long history of this - experts in physics becoming fools the moment they stray an inch or two from what they do in fact know. Heisenberg wrote a book in the realm of philosophy, which I've read because a Philosophy prof of mine handed it to me along with his yellowed and very negative published review. It was indeed excrement from start to end.
There exist some SF set in Strong Heaven, but it's mostly written in Russian :)
> How would you characterize them?

IMHO: Either an active proponent of or otherwise credulous about Russia's and Trump's propaganda. It takes very little skepticism to see through them.
Please, please get in touch with archive.org
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Are you seriously claiming that ultrahate is just demonstrating healthy skepticism?
How much would you bet? If you were forced to take one side of a bet, with varying odds, what percentage likelyhood do you think that everything is true? 60? 80? 90? 99%?

You don't have any proof that the moon isn't made of cheese, but do you go around saying "Uhh, have you ever been to the moon? You still don't know".
Social anecdotal evidence from the United States: according to TV commercials the most pressing female health problem is breast cancer, while the most pressing male health problem is Erectile dysfunction.
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Is this actually a setback? While AI will undoubtedly have an impact in medicine, Watson is an NLP system-cum-amalgamated marketing machine that from what I have seen has done little more than to undermine the promise of properly implemented AI technologies with a lot of marketing gibberish and half-delivered results.
At first look some questions may seem tricky but with some thought I was able to refresh my memory. I think a few hours of studying would make this no problem for most people who've graduated and haven't touched the content in awhile.
If you want some visuals, here is something I made a few months ago: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kmill/math54fa16/roots/roots.html (it accepts polynomials in any reasonable format, factored or not, and gives both the domain coloring and the circle image). I thought I had implemented a visualization for Gauss's original proof, but I only did that for the reverse problem of giving the roots (and poles) and seeing the zero curves for the real and imaginary parts: http://www.kylem.net/stuff/homsim/homsim2.html (hit tab a few times).

For dealing with non-polynomials, I made https://math.berkeley.edu/~kmill/tools/zgraph/zgraph.html shortly after. It handles most complex functions, like polynomials, quotients, exponentiation, the exponential function, logarithms, and trigonometric functions (though possibly not inverse trigonometric functions). This gives the domain coloring along with the Riemann sphere. One day I'll add the ability to define functions so that one may, for instance, explore Moebius transformations.

This second program works by compiling the input complex function into a shader program (which is output to the Javascript console, and it might be more interesting than the complex analysis itself to some people here).
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What in the hell are you talking about? The energy needed to recycle almost anything is usually orders of magnitude less than that needed to mine it and refine it in the first place, not to mention not having to transport it halfway across the planet from some remote place in Bolivia or wherever.

And why would Lithium no longer be required? In some hypothetical future that doesn't exist? It's needed now, and that's all that's important. Moreover, its great performance in batteries is directly related to fundamental physics and the position of Li on the periodic table, and that's not going to change.

>But hey, let's not get that get in the way of a great response, right?

Let what get in the way of a great response? Your nonsensical predictions?
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That's some automatically generated text footer, it's common on NYT.
And for even divisors you can separate the divisor into a power of two, and an odd part. The odd part is checked as before, and the power of two is checked with an and mask.
I am a longtime WSJ and Economist subscriber. My parents have been subscribers for decades (we used to also subscribe to SJ Mercury back in the day, and get the local town papers as well).

I read about 5 articles a day on the WSJ app and website, every day. It's one of the first and last things I do each day. But honestly the frequency of "big news must know" news items is pretty low, and there's a decent amount of news recycling or articles on a subject covered the day before but with minor updates.

In terms of value, I can totally understand if people balk at $400/yr.

Personally I think in terms of "news around the world affairs you can't miss", the Economist is much better than the Journal.
http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/a-lean-fabless-semicond...
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So they built a game engine?
Flipkart switches to Microsoft to power its cloud as Nadella woos startups
Cycling in 25F temperatures is one thing; cycling in -40(F or C) temperatures is another thing entirely. I completely object to the idea that cycling in -40 is feasible for the vast majority of the population. -40 isn't that abnormal in places like Minnesota or Edmonton.
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Is Hacker News somehow now part of the legal system?

Assuming not, then invoking its protections here is ridiculous. We have a robust legal system because it has great power, power we must use fairly as we create a stable society.

But people are welcome to form opinions on whatever basis they please. And that can include things like Uber's history of terrible behavior and the history of sexist incidents at other tech companies.
I started adding serifs to my writing back in engineering school to help me decipher my own equations. I some moments where I couldn't figure out if I had written "+t" or "t+", or "is that a 2 or a z?!", and realized I had to create a script for myself and slow down a bit when writing.

Particularly troublesome characters that I remember were:

t vs +

u vs v

2 vs z

s vs 5

i (imaginary vs subscript marker)

g vs q (might seem silly, but prior to that, my handwriting didn't distinguish between them much)

o/O vs 0 (zero gets a slash, but never had situations where I was dealing with upper and lowercase o at the same time)

d vs ∂
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Create a new user on github, `git push`.
I think a world where I could use cloud services for pictures/documents/driving/social/etc. without being tracked and exploited for either profit or manipulation would be wonderful. However, what would be the economic incentive to provide such a service at Google- or Facebook-scale, free of charge (via up-front subscription fees, of course)? Is there a business model that is able to ignore the advertising and marketing value of your data, yet still provides enough value to fuel the growth that Google, Facebook, and others have experienced? Asked another way, would these cloud/social services still be able to exist as we know them if their providers were not allowed to collect and exploit this data?
Also relevant is Google's Courgette algorithm which is used to update Google Chrome - https://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar... which is stated to be much better than bsdiff which is what itch's is using here.
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