skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have only one functioning eye, and can attest to this. Going to a 3D movie is horrible, especially when you pay so much more for the ticket.

About the only other negative I've hit is I realized in my 30s that I can't seem to put a baseball hat on straight.
Why didn't they just keep doubling the offer for volunteers? Surely by $1600 or $3200 someone would bite. Then everyone is happy, it all gets finished quickly, and there's no chance of this sort of PR disaster (even docile removees can end up in the news if they then, say, miss the death of a hospitalized family member due to the delay).
I can't talk about the specifics of the software design.

But if you take into account how the Blender project is handled with consideration of how to sustain itself via the Blender Foundation, and all the related projects, you can observe how an outlier it is compared to all similar ambitious projects that are not doing so well.

This is a bad and a good sign: it makes evident how little FOSS projects take in account it's sustainability over time, on the other hand it presents an opportunity for huge improvements in this area.
Just bad academic research. I ran into it all the time as a Theology Student. People from other Academic Disciplines would repeat something without a reference and it would become its own self referencing statement that after further investigation just proved to be some lazy scholarship by people not in the field. Like a historian making chemistry statements.
the original article, I felt, made that point. It provided several examples of people learning on their own and provided those as an argument for why certifications were unecessary.

So not my dichotomy.
If you're using Vim / Emacs, people should consider giving an equal amount that you'd pay for a ST licence to Vim / Emacs instead. Even better, if you're a company then pay the equivalent of what Visual Studio costs.
I just use the XFCE terminal connected to VcXsrv in WSL. :)
In the US, these kinds of reactions are often called "moral panics" (according to Wikipedia, the term has a slightly different meaning in Britain). It's much easier to identify them when you aren't involved. I don't know any way to avoid them, but I believe a good first step is to acknowledge that you may not be immune to overreaction, even if you are open minded and hold all the correct political positions.
Read more on what lead to banishment of Armenians. If you attack unprotected Turkish villages with the help of foreign powers and betray your neighbours, you face the consequences, this is war.
Also there was no such thing as hating Armenians til aforementioned betrayal. At the time there were even couple of high ranking statesman like Gabriel Noradunkyan
from Armenians.
There was a ton of competition even with mobile messaging before WeChat launched. And the competitors were other Chinese apps.
There are a variety of situations for which direct face-to-face communication, or two people huddling in front of the same computer, is the best low-latency, high-bandwidth mode of communication. I use email all the time, but it's not always the optimal mode of communication. Just yesterday I spent an hour mentoring the most junior member of my team through our tricky dependency injection setup by sitting in front of the same computer with him. It would have been harder remotely.

I don't find your slippery slope argument compelling.
Evidence of that assertion?
This has the potential to have two, maybe even three times as many users as VRML.

Seriously though, has everybody forgotten VRML? It's weird to see the last VR hype cycle repeating itself in such detail.
There are a lot of regulations for airlines like American, but considering, for example, that there's nothing you can do at 35,000 feet in a giant metal machine if there's a mechanical failure, I'm much happier that there are a lot of regulations than not enough, in this case. There are a lot of things that suck about air travel in the states, but the FAA isn't one of them.

As far as the companies being bad investments, it's most likely due to their extremely low margins and ROI.
AWSLambdaFace: Serverless Face Recognition
it can, it's called websites and you open them in browser, not sure why would I want wrapper app like Wechat to harvest all my data

you can do pretty much all user car scenarios of what by opening google.com and gmail let's say (and i am saying this as someone who doesn't like Google ecosystem)

the thing is meant if things which wechat does are pain in the ass to do in China, not so much in West, so there is no need for us to integrate it, for instance card payments are widespread in West, not do much in China so they came with online payments with QR codes, same goes for paying utilities, just open internet banking of your Bank and pay, it will be probably faster than paying within wechat

i am telling you this as someone who lived in China for years and used all these services

heck even within China i was pretty much using only for chatting, wall and small money transfers

for sure not for buying plane tickets, Cinema tickets, paying utilities, etc., even for most of those there are cheaper options than their promoted partner, but yeah if you are dumb or lazy and dunno how to use internet them i can see how is wechat appealling
Yes. It's a tradesman hack to buy a 115mm grinder (it's cheap), take off the guard and fit 125mm disks. People have been killed here recently by broken bits firing out. Cutting disks are so thin that a minor course correction can easily break them. Someone I know had a labourer use a grinder with a broken on off switch. One day the guy put it under his arm and plugged it in, and it cut through artery, vein and nerve. A year later and he is just starting part time work.
The problem is one of trust, methinks. Most certs require only that you "know" the material well enough to pass a test that uses your memory. If the tests were empirical, say like the Red Hat tests or the Cisco CCIE, then the trust that someone actually has skills might be more believable.

Having worked in IT security for many years, I can attest to the fact that IT security is more of a subjective set of processes rather than a specifc product or set of products.

There are skills involved as far as tools and knowledge of how to use tools, but these change depending on the use case.
To be fair the Economist wasn't alone in a such optimistic proclamations surrounding Turkey's democracy in the region. Similar sentiment was coming out of Washington as well:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/obama.turkey/
some are bad certs (rote learning, multiple choice), others are not (they have good practical elements).

One problem is that some of the "bad certs" e.g. CEH, CISSP , are well established.

My feeling is that the answer isn't "don't have certs" but "have better certs"
The thing with infosec is that no matter if you're a consultant pen tester or an in-house member of a blue team, a high proficiency in technical writing is required. And few certs demonstrate that the person is a good technical writer. It's not enough to know the answers to multiple choice questions. It's not even enough to know how to exploit things. If you don't understand something well and can discuss it in technical detail to a number of different audiences, I don't believe you'll get very far in the industry.

There are a couple of exceptions, of course. OSCP is a good certificate to have. To pass the exam, you are required to not only demonstrate proficiency in several areas (i.e SQL injection, buffer overflows), but you must also write and submit a technical report to a review team. The technical report must address vulnerability overview, impact, risk rating, reproduction steps, and more. Of course the exam isn't perfect, but it's probably the biggest test of real technical understanding and ability I've ever seen.
>> Only a very inexperienced developer would actually want to work with people who aren't as good as they are.

> Not true.

Could you explain your position on this?

I feel that perhaps "inexperienced" is the wrong adjective, but rather developers whose ego or lack of desire to progress would want to work with people who aren't as good as them. "Inexperienced" is a decent approximation of that description as experienced developers with no desire to progress would be rare.
With Senate, the simple 50% majority is by design. That's consistent with most other bicameral parliaments out there, which also vote on a simple majority basis. Since the issues they can vote on are restricted by the Constitution, it's not really a big deal. The big deal is amending the Constitution itself, which is extremely difficult (if anything, probably more difficult than it should be).
It's simply replacing Apache that is old and deprecated. Nothing fancy.
I expect the police to police, as in, maintain law and order. As I understand it, neither were broken at said impasse.

Again, I have come to expect very little of American police. The crew should have known better than calling the police. I blame more the crew and probably their textbook for unleashing the dogs, rather than the dogs biting.
I'll just add a comment noting the importance of the quality of the collaboration, not just the quantity of it.

Companies don't want to hear it. I've been quite lauded for my work. After which, I communicate what I need: I'm not asking for more money yadayadayada, just a quiet workplace.

At which point, I am reminded, in one way or another, that I am, however tasty, just veal.

P.S. Pick your home carefully. I ended up with a series of extremely noisy neighbors that left me really between a rock and a hard place.

Friends and family simply saying, 'You'll get used to it.' Until they finally really heard for themselves.

Noise has become an omni-present pollution in U.S. society. I suspect its contribution to overall stress is vastly under-estimated and under-appreciated.
Ah yes, like the holocaust was just war ...

It seems there are sometimes slightly cruel things you just have to do, if there is a war going on ... was that your point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
> [...] you treat a non-flattering language as me being frustrated [...]

You're right; I was being presumptuous about your emotional state. I apologize. -_-

Let me try to clarify: Companies like Slack and Nylas and Spotify understand the performance implications of using Electron and it _is_ a real problem, but the _benefits_ of using something like Electron, at least currently, outweigh the performance troubles.

There's simply a _much_ lower cost to iterate quickly on a web-driven application.

That said, we're all frustrated about the performance implications (users and companies alike), and this this is reflected in the direction the industry is taking.

I predict Electron _will_ become less popular in the next year or two as React Native desktop support becomes proven by one or more major players:

- Linux: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native

- OS X: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos

- Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
Awesome update, I really enjoy the live theme and scheme switching, it's so fast and fluid.

I also appreciate the improved markdown syntax highlighting. This was bugging me slightly.

I like the new icon and I think the shadow could be a bit more pronounced and the grey corners a bit less pointy.

Sublime Text is one of my favourite computer programs ever.
No. The fine print does not say that. The fine print says they can deny you boarding, not remove you once already boarded. Your point about the dark pattern is all too true, but United still behaved entirely illegally here.
I suspect they'll beat around the issue. Most of the West's pertinent military conflicts are in the Middle East. Turkey's position makes it an extremely valuable ally and abdicating a significant strategic on moral grounds makes no military sense.
Cool. Now we wait until someone builds this one: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Game_(episode)
Additionally technical certificates supposedly measure competency in a particular technology. That technology is obsolete roughly at the time you're sitting to write the exam. So you've spent time learning material (assuming you didn't already know it) to cover a technology that will be in the process of being replaced as you sit down to write the exam. You may as well have spent the time using the skills productively rather than using it to obtain a piece of paper that says your skills are obsolete...

Plus there's the financial outlay of it; costs to obtain the course material and sit the exam.

These points (including yours) basically amount to my bias against obtaining certificates.

I'm not against the material itself, if it's useful. But I'm not in the habit of paying for or spending time on education for anything other than the value of my interest in the material. A piece of obsolete paper does nothing for me at this point in my career.

YMMV
>The airline played the game, ran too lean and paid the price.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this, they just didn't follow through with the correct way to free up seats, which is increasing the bid.

Some family cleared something like $13,000 in amex gift cards during the delta debacle last week by volunteering their seats multiple times. If you keep increasing the bid, you will find a price at which someone will give up their seat.
This is a perfect example of why the Random Walk Theory is wrong. The value of something is not intrinsic to the item itself but rather is determined by people's assessment of its value. Therefore by human nature, trends influence the market.
The roles of impact and inertia in the failure of a shoelace knot
What kind of turnover do they have at the Economist? The writing seems a lot like a student newspaper staffed by really smart people who have studied a year or two of economics or international relations.
NVIDIA supports CL1.2 and it's intentionally slow so people will use CUDA.
Plain CL2.0 shouldn't bring performance improvements unless the kernels used by Blender perform things like work_group functions. Also CL2.0 will require people to specify if a WG is uniform, otherwise they must assume it's not uniform and that's taxing in some cases.
SPIR-V on the other hand should be interesting to see.
Fun fact: Freddy Mercury was Zoroastrian
Octane benchmark retired
It was 3/5, not 2/3, to break a filibuster, and the use of filibusters had been getting to unprecedented levels. The argument above was that constitutional change should be hard I.e. require a supermajority. The Senate rules as followed recently have been requiring a supermajority for ANY change. That is unhealthy.
Markets are measured in dollars, not usage. The last press release I read from Nginx* says they have barely more than 1,000 paying customers, and shied away from real revenue numbers, but I doubt anyone would place a bet that it is on the order of magnitude of revenues due to e.g. IIS on Windows Server, or even the revenues that Oracle & IBM collect for their rebadged Apache.

* https://www.nginx.com/press/nginx-carries-strong-business-mo...
"Say hi to Anatolia" go read it, always two sides to a story.
The difference was that New York never paid Verizon anything (indeed, Verizon paid New York millions of dollars for the right to enter the market at all).
> Secondly, Java serialization produces very bulky outputs. Each serialization contains all of the data required to deserialize. When you’re writing billions of records at a time, recording the schema in every record massively increases your data size.

Sounds to me like you shouldn't be storing objects in your database.

Why not just write the data into tables, and then create new POJO's when necessary, using the selected data?
My pet peeve with CISSP (and all other ISC^2 certifications) is this: https://www.isc2.org/candidate-background.aspx

It appears to say that if you ever hung out on IRC and tried to keep your handle private, you're ineligible.
Major projects has corporate sponsors or academic sponsors. A lot of open source is done and paid for by companies. For that matter, even free for open source hosting services have bills that needs to be paid - by companies (github, google).

Linux Torwalds and linux maintenners are paid - which is a good thing btwm
Actually, I think your dead wrong. Watch what happens when you defriend Europe as a partner to your economy. We share a lot ( not the only country though), but if you attack us, we don't need to do anything... People just stop being interested in your country and your economy slips away. No outside Western investments and tourism anymore.

I don't know if that's a good thing, but you shouldn't be happy with what Erdogan is doing...

Wasn't the last line in a speech of Erdogan: Come visit Turkey. It means that he's scared for losing the benefit of being our friend.

Now, I hope you like tourism being partially replaced with 'friendly' Russians :)

+ Exploiting Turkey? Got real proof?
I know for sure Turkey had good economic growth because of the EU, not despite of the EU.
Then again, we will know for sure in the coming 5 years of I'm right or wrong. Already Turkey is beginning to slip in negative economic growt and that's not our fault. Erdogan is alienating European civilians
That's why I prefer open space office, because if I want privacy I can just work at home or somewhere else. What's the point going to an office where i will be in my own private space.
I think Erdogan, the dictator, and 'moderate Islamism' as you quote, are two different things and we shouldn't conflate the two. If anything, his arch-nemesis, the US based Fethullah Gulen, is also an Islamist though of a different shade. Now, if this Gulen (if it is true he was behind the recently failed coup, or, otherwise) did manage to lead Turkey and ended up being different from Erdogan, when it comes to the dictatorial tendencies being overtly exhibited currently, Islamism, I think, wouldn't be the problem here but Erdogan, the individual.
Did he, or did he really just want to seem wanting to, to those who liked the idea? I could well imagine the EU question to be one of those topics where one group is fiercely convinced of their answer whereas the other is mostly close to undecided. In a situation like that the opportunistic course of action would be pretty clear.
While he had influences...at the end of the day... you went to the show to see JIMI FUCKING HENDRIX.
also
THE ARMENIAN ALLEGATİONS AND FACTS
Agreed. You could not import QQ contacts and in fact you could only add QQ contacts who were already on WeChat as "friends". So you had to discover WeChat on your own and could not invite a QQ user who had not yet discovered WeChat to join as a friend. WeChat did not ever push import all contacts from QQ to WeChat.
Almost certainly nothing. NATO has had plenty of dictatorships as members, including Turkey during its various military takeovers.
Banishment? You mean genocide, right?
Why mavens sucks? What are its weakness?
But that is explicitly not true, that is what the article is about. You cannot be forcibly removed if the flight is oversold. That's the whole point.
> You let such people participate by designing systems where content producers can make money without getting money from every individual.

> Monthly commitments are a serious burden for poor people.

A lot of people don't want charity and are fine with paying their own share. What I am trying to say is simple, the timing of payment is often critical for people. $10 on day 1 of a month is not the same as $10 in the third week. Most utilities get this. It would be nice if people planning the future of paying for website, news, etc. get this through their head before they leave out part of the population.

> This is really about 67 cents for me, but I don't want to treat other poor people like charity cases. I think that actively creates problems.)

That is a good attitude because treating other poor people as charity cases often leads to contempt even if its subtle. A lot of poor people won't be that way later, but they will still have the memories.
As long as the monument is not vandalized, they can do whatever they want with it. It serves them better as a museum, testament to the universal glory of the city, but it's not like it hasn't been used as a mosque before. Of course Edrogan uses the situation to raise tensions between greece and turkey (and possibly russia), which gives him extra machismo points.
Citing Wikipedia...yea sure go ahead with that. lol
It would be awesome to have a Chrome version with GearVR integration.
> Transforming an arbitrary computational task to a perfectly balanced ...

I think that's halting problem level difficulty there. We can probably do neat things for special cases, but i seriously doubt it's generally solvable.
Yes, passengers don't know their rights but pilots and other administrators should. So United personal should have known they are in a legal grey area when removing a passenger who had boarded.

I found the argument interesting that United should have lied and just invented a plane swap with a smaller body. Would have left the affected passengers is a weak position.

There is so much wrong on all levels including the reaction of the CEO. This will be a case study for long time.
Are you talking about most websites worldwide, or most websites in US specifically, or the West in general?

Because if it's the latter, then your sample suffers from rather extreme selection bias.
Back when he was first elected in 2004, Erdogan was not the huge asshole that he is today. His party actually conducted a lot of useful reforms that were beneficial for the country.

Over time though he slid into authoritarianism, and started jailing or exiling people who disagreed with him. Some people believe this was him showing his true colors, while others think it's a combination of his narcissism and severe paranoia getting the better of him.

Don't get me wrong: Turkey was never the pinnacle of freedom and the fair treatment of minorities. But, for people who care about liberal democracy and the separation of religion and state, things are inarguably in a much worse shape today than they were a decade ago.
FWIW I maintain multiple open source projects and a free CDN service for developers that use Bootstrap & Font Awesome. To me, a contribution is not limited to code and never should be. If it makes the FOSS community thrive, then that is a contribution.
how many customers do you need to cover your expenses? how much does it cost get a paying customer? or how many word of mouth customers are getting each month?

I would come up with an actual plan to break even, first.
The subtext here is that customers don't have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation.

The problem is that people now believe that. In fact, lawsuits against big companies often are settled on very favorable terms for the customer. As the article points out, United violated their own contract of carriage and FAA regulations. This is going to cost them.
Why would what happened to United being more competitive practices? I don't see the connection.
i have a 25 minute bike commute and a gym at the office, so i am actually get at least a good hour of workout for free everyday which i really enjoy as its quality thinking time too.
The subtext here is that customers don't have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation.

Well, no -- they just don't have much bargaining power. Which is different.