skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think it isn't privately owned? It's true that the domain can't be bought, but you still hit a Verizon server when you go there.

And if you're using an iDevice, you might as well go to http://captive.apple.com, which was designed for the purpose of authenticating to hotspots and Apple already knows who you are anyway. :)
Not just that - some of the features are assigned to the same guy, who is probably also assigned to 50 other subsystems since he's "the laptop guy".

The problem with many of these things are not that they don't work, but that they are half-assed (bluetooth, battery etc). You can improve that sort of problem only with very focused teams.
I'm curious how many of the Chinese forks label themselves as "Android" and if the Chinese have a different mental model of what "Android" means.

Without any first hand knowledge, I'd assume that the balance of things towards WeChat and away from Play Store/Play Services in China might mean that "Android" really does mean something different in Chinese markets? It's easier to sell an "Android" device if the benchmark is "runs WeChat" rather than "runs the apps I see advertised everywhere" (given the near ubiquity of Play Store emblems on American ads) and "runs the collection of apps I've bought over the last few years from the Play Store".
My work doesn't like most URLs with xyz TLDs.
Minor nit: where I live, we have freedom of the press. We do not have a special class of people called journalists.

You have the right to publish anything you like without fear of retribution from the government or anybody else. This, along with the freedom to assemble, allows minority opinions to flourish through peaceful persuasion. It also allows sunlight into actions of criminals and the government.

The crime against humanity here is that these folks do not feel safe to publish. Not that there are journalists being threatened. That's just the current method being used to shut the presses down. There are plenty of other methods that outside organizations use to shut down publishing -- burning buildings, violence against readers, blackmailing editors, having the government buy the presses, and so on. For every Mexico, there are several other countries where the presses have effectively been shut down -- only not so dramatically as this. That's actually a much worse situation.
I'm curious; what don't you like about Aubrey De Grey? I haven't yet seen an interview or conversation with him where he doesn't seem extremely knowledgeable about his field, or lacks an understanding of anything relevant that he's queried on. He also seems to have a fairly significant number of credible people on his side in the biotech/medical fields.
http://rea.tech/how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-probl...
One wonders how many "real journalists" in USA will see this sad event as an occasion to bask in the reflected glory of those who really have spoken truth to power, and how many will instead call out the actual reason that gangsters have power: USA's foolish and evil drug prohibition.
Seems you both agree but are talking about modern management practices vs the concept of having someone "manage". The workplace class of "Management" is much more than just the act of managing you describe.

What you describe is how I've seen software dev management properly work, managers are a support structure for the workers, like Admin. They have important and useful skills, but don't get the position of metaphorical aristocracy.

When you have MBA style dated general management they operate by putting the devs subordinate to their management "expertise" and then they don't "triage work effectively, help engineers unblock their work, help identify people in the org that contain the domain knowledge necessary to help one of their direct reports, etc etc." because it's not really in their interest to do so.

It's not just incentives either, there is a huge cultural component, which is why it's so easy to parody "tech management" and have the caricature be recognizable around the world.
I agree it isn't perfect, but services that phone home to google servers can't realistically be open source. Google is pushing them insofar as it is trying to make them better.

I think it's still a far cry from the state of affairs on iOS or MacOS, and the fact that you can fork it if you are willing to replicate those apis is still reassuring.
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I truly love the country of México - I have spent a large periods of time there for the climate, as a place to work and have a wonderful life, away from the chills of winter. I often thought about making a permanent relocation, but this terror is too real and I found myself living in constant anxiety of my friends and colleagues being in danger, and the fear of speaking your mind weighs on you after a while. I am saddened because the people, the food, the weather, the architecture (particularly D.F.) makes for a crazy, exciting mix where the wealth and treasure of history and (deserved) national pride contrasts with poverty and the political and social conservatism that goes alongside. México: may things improve for you, though I really have no idea how that will happen.
Everything @rlpb just said here is spot on ;-) Definitive +1.
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I think GP was talking about winning autonomous cars. While it might be the case Musk isn't concerned, that's a bad result for 30,000 other employees who are more invested than Musk in the success of their company.
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I've heard a Trump presidency described as a "productive apocalypse" which honestly I wish we could have avoided entirely but maybe just maybe we'll get some progress out of it in certain areas in the end.
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The paper is almost entirely focused on incremental learning. It then throws a very brief outline about debugging at the end. What is outlined is pretty much step 5 in my list. I feel that it's twisting the actual content of the article to assert that it naturally follows that "your first tangible goal is to be reproducing because that's how a hypothesis is tested". If that was the belief, why not mention it? It really is lacking a tangible framework for entering a debugging mindset.

The words recreate or replicate don't appear in the article. Reproduce is used once at the bottom of the article in relation to the actual advice ("so it seems like the bug has been reproduced at this point"), and once tangentially in the discussion about tools. How can there be a discussion about a debugging mindset without those words?

As for step 4 coming before step 1? I feel talking about one month in an entire career is moving the goal posts. The abstract talks about how much time all programmers spend debugging, with no talk about the first month of a programmers career. And it talks about teaching debugging, a mindset to put in place before that first job.

That is what my steps were attempting to describe, a method for teaching how to enter a debugging mindset.
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Sounds like a huge grey area.
My first job was being a field technician for a bank automation supplier.

We had a "test" card that could be insert on the eprom socket. This small card was almost the same size of the original chip but had a few buttons that allowed us to make the mechanism deliver notes in order to fine tune it.

In a particular ATM design used by major banks in Brazil, this location were accessible by removing a front panel, although you would have to be kind of a contortionist in order to plug it.

Why we can find whole ATMs at junkyards is beyond me: there are many easy to spot flaws. They should grind everything when decommissioning this kind of equipment.
We can barely evaluate the effects of genetic changes within a single living organism - probably pretty well with focused pinpointed areas, but with the overall single living organism we can probably evaluate very little. It seems sheer folly to claim that any such system would be 'safe' exposed to a wide range of external parameters of virus, bacteria, immune systems, regular replication errors, irradiance or chemical mutagens, etc.. that we can barely enumerate thoroughly, let alone assess the interactions.
1) I do indeed deny you need to know the exact mechanism of toxicity to model it. In fact, having any kind of quantitative model is better than the qualitative A increases/decreases B stuff that is usual. The reason being that it is too vague and many explanations can account for such an observation.

2) But please, let us skip the philosophy and talk directly about this topic, because that argument is not even necessary. It sounds to me like you do not believe that double strand breaks can lead to cell death and growth arrest? You find this implausible? I am really surprised that this is an objection.
Seems risky for a delivery driver to be walking around with a lot of cash.
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> Levandowski was able to collect more than $120 million in incentive pay from Google, the complaint says, “all while he was breaching his obligations to Google and building a company that would compete with Google.”

Uh.... that's a ridiculous amount of money to try and incentivize someone.
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Those things you listen actually make less work for the manufacturers, and speedy updates make more work - that solves the mystery for me at least.
In theory yes, but just to take one well known example, the HeartBleed SSL bug was introduced in 2012 but wasn't found until 2014.
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Beautiful post by Casey Liss, co-host of ATP:
https://www.caseyliss.com/2017/4/3/my-favorite-prankster
The most eye-catching part of the article was the fact that "Levandowski was able to collect more than $120 million in incentive pay from Google." Wow! I knew that competition was fierce but not hundreds of millions of dollars fierce.

That and his chunk of the $680MM acquisition price for Otto means his venture was well worth it as long as he can avoid jail time.
Very interesting to note:

> However, searching a small sample of firmwares I have present, I've been able to verify the existence of the "ccx" tag in the Galaxy S7 (G930F, G930V), Galaxy S6 Edge (G925V), Galaxy S7 Edge (G935F, G9350), Galaxy Note 4 (N910F) and Galaxy S5 (G900F).

This could mean that not only Apple devices are affected. Broadcom chips are everywhere and bringing out patches and firmware update is a big problem in the Android world.
Well, it's quite obvious to see what went wrong.

void function_79390(void* unk, char* ie, char* buf)

Those are terrible names for functions and variables. Very shoddy development.
Does it make sense too pollute the web history against ISP as lot of pages become available via HTTPS-only transport nowadays? DNS pollution (script) would be enough IMHO as ISPs capture queries in clear text. Mosty they provide their own DNS servers too. Domain names plus timestamps tell a lot about ones online habits.
Of course the better option is to use DNSCrypt, VPN or some DNS tunelling via secure link.
Also you can keep a "queue" of tasks along the bottom/side of the monitor or maybe it ends up representing some sort of pipeline and before you know it you have your own personal kanban setup.
> Why would people of say, central Maine want to encourage tech industry to move there.

Because jobs, obviously.

Talk to any politician or civic leader from a place like central Maine and all they can talk about is "good jobs". In the 21st century, good jobs are tech jobs, at least using an expansive definition of "tech" that encompass modern manufacturing (heavily digitized), modern healthcare (heavily digitized), etc.

> They can look to SoCal, Massaschusetts and see that that sort of society is not compatible with their values.

As rural counties continue to sink further into social decay, this excuse is wearing thin. There's practically no measure of social health where they aren't worse than wealthy liberal cities -- divorce, suicide, crime, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, lifespan, welfare dependency.
This is really brilliant. It's the first step in serving the unbanked or underbanked. The next step after this is to allow people to mail their checks to Amazon and have the full amount show up as a balance in their Amazon Cash account, thereby skipping the fees check cashing places charge.
The Fedora crowd/Red Hat also happens to be where lots of (most?) Gnome development work takes place.

They have been the driving force behind many recent kernel/power management and graphics stack improvements.

Latest Fedora ships Wayland by default and screens with multiple DPI already work for native Wayland applications.
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No offense (really), but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you're a guy, because ...

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* http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/07/29/femini...

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Similary to St. Petersburg paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox).

The expectation is a stranger and more dangerous beast than would be easily expected.
I don't think you can follow any one thread or theme in Hitler's decision making like you can for his lust for power.

For example, he found himself in the National Socialist party for nearly no other reason than they welcomed him for his charisma and he saw a weak leadership he could exploit.

The exposed nationalist & socialist ideologies, economic principles & race discrimination were things he quickly pushed aside time and time again when he felt they didn't align with power gain.

Some things like socialist and economic principles were ignored more often than nationalism and race discrimination which centralised his power.

I don't think anyone could ever accuse Hitler of being an ideologue or zealot for any cause other than his personal interest.

Then again, listening to half of an audiobook on the matter isn't really the same thing as living or properly studying it, so kindly tell me what's what if you're in a better position to speculate.
What research is being done in functional programming/category theory in the academic world? This interest me quite a bit.
which is useful for testing delivery to gmail, but ideally you want to have a really mixed bag of receiving smtp daemons with different spam/abuse filtering profiles (all of which are pretty much opaque these days for anti spam reasons) and different services to test reliable delivery.
Ah yes, good catch. We are working on making the "System Restart Required" message more "Livepatch" aware. Good suggestion! We'll try to get an update out to 14.04/16.04 LTS and into 18.04 LTS.
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Maybe "fast updates" is a standard clause in the contracts and device manufacturers are simply doing a bad job and Google doesn't want to piss off all its partners by litigating this.
Sure, I can understand being detained the first time he enters the US, but each and every time?
once you acknowledge this as inevitable it frees you to engineer systems that have failure modes

dollars are stablecoins
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Indeed. I think the "real journalist" should be dropped: everyone needs to have the right and the protection to be able to do that job.

Then, the "real journalist" could be just a matter of having capability, devotion and determination, not a class of people with special status.

Unfortunately too much of "journalism" is nowadays just activism, using their position to try to influence others (end even shut down the voice of other people because they think this is even more effective influencing).
This is probably decompiled code. Many functions loose their names if code gets optimized or obfuscated. function_XYZ is probably a placeholder used by the decompiler.
Even with jail time it will be worth it for him personally.
Apparently not enough to incentivize him to not steal.
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The first mentions of Hitler in the Simplicissimus, a fairly widely read and well-regarded contemporary Munich-based journal, appear in 1922, and this picks up the following year. Since the Simplicissimus is mostly satirical in its gesture, this suggests that Hitler was already established enough to become the target of ridicule. More specifically, they are poking fun at him being seen by some as a saviour of sorts, and criticise the handling of his attempted coup by the (Bavarian) authorities.

"Was quasseln denn die Krittler\\vom bayerischen "Schorf"?\\ Hier gibt es keinen Hitler\\und keinen Ludendorff.

Was unken denn die Käuze\\vom Monarchistenputsch?\\Kein Mensch malt Hakenkreuze.\\Was futsch ist, gilt für futsch.

Ihr hört die Konstatierung\\nur zweifelnden Gesich's?\\So fragt halt die Regierung:\\die weiß von allem nichts.

Fragt nur den Herrn von Knilling,\\der wiederum Minist-\\er und sein eigner Zwilling\\von anno achtzehn ist."

(cf. Ratatöskr: Zur Beruhigung, in: Simplicissimus, vol. 27, München: Simplicissimus-Verlag, 1922--1923, p. 500)
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Weird, I don't see why a whole TLD would be blocked. Even Alphabet uses it!

I chose it because .io was way too expensive for my student budget and xyz looked cool.
Sure, but they don't lose their advantages with chassis design (crashworthy design and testing is hard), manufacturing at scale, logistics, etc. It's not like there's a ton of serious EV competitors out there anyway; there's only Tesla (which can't manufacture at huge volumes), and a few other traditional automakers that have also dipped their toes into EV production.
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No lives were actually at risk in the linked stories, though: lives are at risk in Mexico.

Some twit threatening you does mean that your life is at risk; a drug lord trying to kill you does.