skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes. I'm not skeptical that fax is safer than email. I'm skeptical that it's safe.

Nothing is 100% safe. It is just a matter of being safer than the effort the attacker is willing to spend gaining hold of the data (or that it will take so long that the data is no longer worth having).
Should We Have Homework or Not? (Elementary School Student Opinion)
At one point, I heard Apple used to require you to fax a certified copy of legal documents relating to your company in order to open an App Store developer account.

Also, fax is still used for a lot of financial and legal stuff generally, especially in countries with less developed Internet infrastructure.
BBC Two's disastrous launch remembered (2014)
Like/Dislike is black and white by nature -> it will naturally divide people into red camp and blue camp. And those who don't vote are not heard.
Never checked but somehow got me surprised: aren't all chess engines deterministic? The same program, given the same input, should give the same output unless it is specifically programed to try to avoid it (and then we have PRNGs).
Increasingly in the U.K. I've noticed it's significantly cheaper to buy an unlocked phone and get a SIM only plan. Surely it's a bad idea for networks to make their own phone even less attractive?
KSA meeting focuses on digital globalization, emerging technologies
My daughters have watched almost all Falcon 9 launches with me, and we still cheer when they land and stay upright. Some fathers watch basketball with their kids who then grow up and aspire to be a basketball star. I hope that your daughter meets my children in the engineering lab!
You're right when it comes to publishers, but this article most resonated to me about why I stopped sharing on facebook, which does not involve money. I found that getting few or zero likes on a post was a negative signal and it really shaped the content that I was willing to share.

I've felt for a while that I liked facebook when it was weirder and there was more diversity in the types of content, but that has really declined in their pursuit for optimizing engagement. Twitter still has this so I appreciate that network quite a bit more for it.
Potentially, if you have knowledge of their intended use for the weapons. You likely won't know, or can put yourself in a position where you can plead ignorance (meet at least the legal standards for sales with background checks and such).

You have no obligation to sell in the first place. If a man comes in talking about their intent to shoot up a place, and then comes to you at the counter and asks to buy a gun, you can always turn him away. That's not likely to happen, but that's essentially what happened on the forums. People discussed how to (with malicious intent) hack other computers, and then purchased this guy's software (or pirated it). Now, again per the article, he tried to prevent that use (which is why I say in this case he seems to be just dumb), but it's still a highly questionable group of people to sell and advertise to.
Thank you for illustrating my point by conflating the political spectrum with the epistemological spectrum. :)

As for "self-congratulatory", I was responding to the old chestnut that mainstream media is too far to the left. Next time we talk about GMOs and anti-vaxxers, I'll have a chance to chastise the people who are more likely to be on my side of the political spectrum.
rijrjrgyg says: "Russia lost 20 million people in WWII."

While rudely stated, The factual content of rijrjrgyg's post is an undeniable outrage of history "Losing statehood" would, in comparison, be a walk in the park.

"World War II casualties of the Soviet Union":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the...
> For some reason the fax is legally sounder than email.

I suspect that faxes have been around for so long, and tested in court so many times, that by this time they are as good as holding the original if a lawsuit were to happen.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Fix hibernation with entire hd LUKS encryption

- DESCRIPTION: I know this is an issue on a grander scale, but as we all know hibernation isn't possible when you have your whole disk encrypted. If this can be fixed that would be great, or at least remove the option to hibernate then.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Senior Developer at Clevertech
The Critical Differences Between Major Machine Learning Service Providers
I hope you understand they where 3rd party external plugins, not created by Huddleston.
I had the /boot filling up problem but had thought it was fixed, I'm on 16.04+. I'm pretty sure the last two kernel updates I did removed older kernels leaving me with the current one and previous one ... ?
"Rent extraction" is a much more banal but also evil class of explanations.
What would your software run on? A PC? Who is going to keep it up and running, make sure it is connected to the Internet, etc.

It requires a lot less employee training to maintain and operate a fax machine. Can you build a better mousetrap?
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I think that's what HBM tries to do, with stacking memory dies on top of each other, along with locating them next to its associated processor.
This is the primary reason I've recently​ replaced​ Ubuntu as the OS on my home server/NAS. I'd be happy to come back!
> This sort of shit is why.

This sort of shit is why I only get phones I can root (except for my current iPhone, which was Buy One, Get One).

Root gives you access to tools that can disable/backup/uninstall stuff you otherwise couldn't - as well as access to more powerful adblockers and other goodies.

You have to be careful to try and get "trusted" apps (I don't download "cracked" ZOMG!FREE! games... anymore cough) but it's not like you control what's on your phone 100% anyways...
> not installed by default

They are installed if you click the box during install to "Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, MP3 and other media"
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Allow monitor modelines to be manually added using the control panel

DESCRIPTION: When autodetection fails (running through a KVM for example) it is difficult to add the correct modelines for the monitor. Add an advanced menu to the configuration that allows the user to easily specify what modes are available. Since most people are on flat panel displays you can use generic values for the timings.
I don't care about what google or facebook do. I worry about this going into legislation. You have no idea how dangerous this is.
Unfortunately, no one seems to be able to run it.
> Drop [Canonical-specific] & collaborate with [leading variant]

That would be great in general. Linux Mint is known as "Ubuntu minus Canonical" for a reason.
I read it as a joke, where Ferriss is the prophet of some modern religion.
People can really easily abuse the Makefile ecosystem and write complicated, difficult to read, spaghetti builds. If something fails somewhere in the m4 macro forest while building on your specific machine, you're hosed for potentially hours or days while trying to figure it out so you can just build the damn project. The whole point of this kind of tooling should be to take some of the heavy lifting out of getting source code built, not add extra complexity to a project.

I've been working on and off with Make, C, autoconf, etc for ten years. Maybe if I were a full-time C or C++ person I'd have less trouble with this, but it seems rather excessive. The thing that most discourages me from contributing to certain open source projects is when I clone the repository and the build fails and I can't get the project to build in an hour or less of build-debugging time (and I'm not on a weird setup, I'm on a modern Lenovo with Debian).
Wait, you were willing to take 75% of the discussed salary so you could still work 40 hour weeks, just in less days?

Wow. I can't even believe it would require that much of a cut (and clearly even that still wasn't enough for those people). Damn.
Almost sounds like rocket science
Nope. Power density is simply not there.
"And please don't say iOS. It's closed source, which means we really don't know what's going on under the hood. We may trust it today, but one secret court order + an overnight update is all we need to lose everything with iOS. Apple execs may not even be made aware of such an update if the order was delivered to the engineers directly."

So Android is "open source" even though most of what makes Android Android to most users -- Google Play Services and all of the Google apps and third party OEM apps are closed.

But iOS is closed source even though parts of it are also open source?
Yet another: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/how-the-mo...

Give that a read and try to work out when and why Honduras became the most dangerous place on Earth. The entire piece overlooks the fact that the danger is a recent issue, and the American role in propping up the government that made it happen. It's less clear-cut than bad stats, but it got them called out by a bunch of neutral groups for white-washing a major coup.
At the end of the day, it comes from one's own motivations and I do feel your sentiments regarding the 3 powers you mentioned.

1. Excitement/involvement is tough to manage but at the end of the day, if you're burned out, the excitement dies down. At least that's what happened to me. And as mentioned, there are times when I didn't think of how to solve a problem that the solution came to me.

2. I had to overcome the obstacle of money and the fear of being fired. In the past, it used to affect me greatly but I've learned how to deal with it over the years through chanting (meditation), philosophy and other activities.
Thanks! Changed from https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN.
The context is that companies that continue to push fax could, and should, do something better. The manufacturers I mentioned, for example, could implement paypal or stripe payments with very little effort. Aside from security issues (fax to email gateways, cc info sitting on a shared fax machine for everyone to see), it would reduce costs.
How do you mean?

So for prepare, imagine you have a class whose entire job is to be serialized to some external format. I'll use json, but it could be csv, yaml, whatever. Heck, maybe you're doing code generation and its a group of functions that will be placed into another file.

Say I have an instance of this class:

class JsonObject(Serializable):
key = "value"
second_key = "second_value"

This gets serialized to

{
JsonObject:
{
key: "value",
second_key: "second_value"
}
}

Except that sometimes what you get is

{
JsonObject:
{
second_key: "second_value",
key: "value"
}
}

Minor, but important, difference. Python stores object attributes in a dict. Python's dicts are unordered, and so when serializing, the order that things are printed in is undefined behavior. That means that now instead of just using a normal diffing module, you need to write some json-differ that parses and compares the json, and you lose the ability to do side-by-side comparisons. So you want deterministic, ordered, output generation.

Now, to be clear, you could model your api like this:

output = JsonObject()
output.append(key="value")
output.append(second_key="second_value")

And that works well for this simple example, but as soon as you start nesting things, it gets confusing, so just assume that for reasons you want this DSL for code generation.

You have 3 options:

1. Create some determinism: your serialize function looks something like this (pseudopython):

def serialize(self):
for k, v in self.attrs:
write(jsonify(k, v))

A fix is really easy:

def serialize(self):
for k in sorted(self.attrs.keys):
write(jsonify(k, self.attrs[k]))

Not bad, but a few problems, you can't customize the output order, everything now needs to be comparable, and its a smidge slower, especially for really big objects (remember: you're writing a DSL for generating large serializable things, there's a good chance you'll want to have some way to autogenerate large quantities of data to be serialized).

2. add an `_order` attribute to your class, then your serialize method becomes

def serialize(self):
for k in self._order:
write(jsonify(k, self.attrs[k]))

Well, now you have to forward declare everything, which is kinda annoying, you're populating your namespace with crap (what if your generated json/python/whatever needs a `_order` attribute!), and if you ever forget to update your order attribute, your stuff doesn't work write.

3. Replace your class's dict with an OrderedDict. Now, you've done some dark magic to do this, but you don't need to forward declare, your users control the output order naturally in a way they expect, and you don't have to sort a bunch of things every time you want to serialize any data. (admittedly python 3.6 I think voids this issue by making the class dict and OrderedDict anyway, but that's technically an implementation detail)

Does that make sense?
Good alternatives exist too, like the light and fast connman. I use it on a thinkpad running NixOS and it works beautifully.
> plenty public figures endorsed hilary and none received the level of backlash

No? You don't recall the decrying of "Hollywood elites" by right wing media and supporters?

> uniquely singling out endorsements on one side regardless of wealth doesn't seem like a good way to generate effective discourse

I am only obligated to commentate on endorsements that I agree or disagree with. I have no "fair time doctrine", and nor should I have to.
Thanks everyone and this is great advice. Most of the thoughts here are about standing up to a manager.

In my case I am the manager. A big part of my urge to stay is I feel I do not want to leave before employees. I arrive early and on schedule. But my staff has flex time and they can get here whenever. So basically I am working a shift and a half.

The sad reality is that people don't work nearly as hard when I am not around. So that is the thing that is motivating me.

Also employees ask me these stupid questions at 5pm. Usually I really want to answer because I feel my role is to help them under any circumstance.
I'm very sensitive to blue light and been using flux for few years. After trying nigth shift for few days I'm back to flux which actually works
I think you should be able to put those settings into your X11 configuration so you don't have to re-configure every time you boot, unless xinput on Ubuntu is different from Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput#Common_options (Although debugging xorg config files is not a terribly fun exercise :/)
Wisdom teeth removal can be very harsh. It depends greatly on how they've grown in. My wisdom teeth, for example, were a simple tooth extraction under local anesthetic.
They count for experience in business.
Okay, now do the Zebra one.
Electronic signing is a thing however. Faxes are successful because they are the technology "lowest common denominator" for business
You are preaching to the choir.

They have been working on Mir for years now.

I would vote for the contrary. First finish Mir and make sure that when the change happens, everything works as expected.
" If batteries don’t get dramatically better in the next decade, we design our plane as a hybrid with electric motors, like a Volt. It still has great cost savings as compared to today’s planes, and it doesn’t require massive battery advances.
If batteries do get a lot better in the next decade, our plane is fully-electric and has fantastic cost savings. See chart #2 below; a near-future jump to a chemistry like Li-Metal doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility." - https://weflywright.com/blog/

I'm glad to see they have a contingency plan for not being fully electric.
How Online Payments Providers Screw You
I am glad that I found this article. When I search for podcasts, I predominantly see listings from America and Britain. Unfortunately, I could not relate to most of them as I grew up in and lived in India. There is cultural/historical tight coupling with west except some of the BBC ones.

In my opinion, the radio never took off in India. I see old Hollywood films and realise that in the pre-mobile internet era radio was a major way to be entertained and communicate while in the road. I can visualise family road trips (Playing empty roads .. west Virginia on FM) on a deserted free way. Same for a truck driver and amateurs having ham radio conversation.

On the contrary India Railways have been the primary inter city commute. People talk to each other instead, as there are always many people around (Its kind of true everywhere in India :)). However, with cheap mobile internet, this is changing. co-passengers may get busy on their own smartphone even in a 24 hours long journey. I think we directly jumped from Television to moile internet never bothered abour radio. There was a rise of world space radio in mid 2000s but turned out to be costly. With no restriction on pirated mp3s from the internet and burning them on CD/ putting them in USB sticks and now side-loading on smart phones, we never bothered about or dependent on music on radio. This is one of the reason services like Flipkart flyte who offered paid mp3 download never succeeded. While countries like Norway switching off FM some of the cities in India are just coming up with their first channels, that to full of commercial. Its too late for radio I think. With Google installing free WIFIs in all railway stations and Reliance Jio giving dirt cheap 4G internet on mobile (as a result all cell companies matching their offers) having internet enabled phones will be soon a hous hold thing even in a poorest hoise.

What we don't have is content. There are millions meaning less whatapp hoaxes being forwarded which most of the people see as interesting and true. Especially my father's generation refuse to disbelieve anything which is on the internet(Whatsapp/facebook). There is no sense of responsibility of the people who spread those messages.

There is no good Indian radio or podcast online now , at least what I think is good. I think we need a "Serial moment" .
Apps such as Titanium Backup * Root ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.... ) ( Or similar )
L'enfer c'est les autres.
Flavor: desktop
Headline: more drivers
Description: we need more drivers for current biz-grade laptops from manufacturers, for example HP.
Role: programmer
Affiliation: merit networks
Here's an article explaining AlphaGo, which I suppose could lead to a better chess implementation, [1].

[1] https://www.tastehit.com/blog/google-deepmind-alphago-how-it...
I thought the main difference with graphical RAM was that the monitor output DAC could read from memory at all times, regardless of what the GPU is doing with it. And GDDRn is not the same generation as DDRn; the last GDDRs (4,5) have been based off DDR3, I think.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/30/stack-overflow-unveils...
Google Optimize A/B testing tool is out of beta and available globally
For charts I use Tradingview.
Same with the "did nuclear fusion in their bedroom" crowd. Although both (planes and fusion) demonstrate a certain level of capability. But the steps to take are already known, doing it takes initiative, ability to understand the steps and the money to pay for it.
LPT: ask for valium. Takes the edge off the craziness.
How about making an official (but opt-in) version of the padoka/oibaf PPAs, instead of going full-out rolling updates?
Don't get defensive.

a primary focus != only focus. But, networking for example is a large part of how MBA programs are setup.

PS: Probably should have explicitly used MBA programs not MBA's for the place you quoted, but it's also a large motivator for many people getting an MBA.
I was looking into homeshare a while ago, and it is a reasonable deal.

They take spacious 2 bedroom apartments and put 3-5 people in them, by converting the living room.

(currently I am living in a 2 bedroom with 3 people in it, via Craigslist . )

It is a moderately better situation than living in a college dorm.

So the article is way overblown with its talk of "giving up privacy".
plain old fashioned MITM with a court order accompanied by a gag order should be sufficient.

Remember WhatsApp is BOTH the PKI infrastructure and the and the message transmitter. It is trivial for them to MITM by sending you and the recipient a different public key that they control and intermediate.

The encryption prevents OTHERS from snooping on you. It doesn't protect you from WhatsApp itself - or the government acting with a warrant.
For years the operating procedure for Seamless/Grubhub/Delivery.com orders was a form that would be faxed to a restaurant, the restaurant would communicate that order to the kitchen (either by it's own POS system, writing the order on a regular order ticket or even giving the kitchen the fax sheet) and then the service would call the restaurant and the employee would enter the confirmation code into the phone.

Some restaurants moved towards having tablets and receiving order via an app, but I'd guess that fax is still an option since it's difficult to integrate with a bunch of different POS systems and there are also a fair amount of restaurants that use hand written tickets to communicate orders to a kitchen.

I wouldn't be surprised if this Fax API is the same technology that those companies use to fax orders to restaurants.
Remove the update notification from the motd:

https://imgur.com/a/6SD97

This message breaks boxes.

I'd also like to see MariaDB in main, not universe.
Not true. I use non-ECC 16GB sticks.

https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820231974
> The right has religion. The left has post-modernism. One says science is false, the other says science does not matter.

Neither does religion in general statement that science is false, not does post-modernism in general say that science doesn't matter. Some religious views may either deny science generally or, more often, deny only that science that conflicts with the religion's axiomatic beliefs (which implies that the religion have axiomatic beliefs in the domain to which science applies, which not all do.)

And while post-modernism may, depending on the particular flavor, deny either the fundamental existence of or the accessibility of an objective root truth, it has no fundamental conflict with the utilitarian argument for empiricism and science (it conflicts essentially with the quasi-religious belief that science extends beyond being a useful means of predicting future experiences to being something that ultimately tells the root truth of the universe, but that belief is not essential to science.)
I think https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/international-students... is plain lying of the most common kind the NYTimes does: selective citing of statistics so you can claim that everything you said is true but you create an impression at odds with reality.

See http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/03/one... for more details.

You are of course correct that omitting details to fit the narrative is what's going on here. This particular case is more egregious that most in that "details" is "two out of the three equally important numbers in the study's results".
Contrast:

> [Weird emails...] I believe there's something to it.

vs.:

> [Guy discharges an actual weapon] actually that smelled like a hoax to me.

Yeah. We're done here.
Sadly, the best workaround is to uninstall the Ubuntu blessed nVidia drivers and use the installer you download from nvidia.com. These even continue to work after you update the kernel, usually. They are also way more recent.
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> I have a gift of getting good grades.

> You're point about ...