skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without the ability to future-proof being inherent in the format (like XML, which is self-describing), the sad reality of development practices in programming shops mean that one day, someone will make an undocumented change or take a shortcut that will tightly couple the binary format to the specific version of the code used to produce & read it. Which is fine, as long as you know that that coupling will happen when you're planing things. Not so fun when you have to go back and read a 3-year old file, only to discover that you can't.

Something that comes to mind is the old COM formats that MS-Office used to use. Eventually they had to abandon it (and not just because of the EU lawsuit) because it was unmaintainable, and no one understood how they worked well enough to not-break backwards compatibility for the next release.
To elaborate, it's Satan's MO as described by a person. Since ipso facto, Satan, conceptually described by a person, acts solely against each individual's well-being, the poem is meant to describe this reasoning as detrimental to the individual.

So to respond to your question, I do disagree with "Satan's" point.

It is clearly in the interest of an individual to keep all of what they are given, rather than to spend a portion simply to lower the portion given to another.

Along the same train of thought, I would say, "The least of us can achieve greater heights when lifting each other up, than the greatest of us can by pushing each other down."
>How did you come to the conclusion that the Atlantic has fallen on hard times?

I haven't. I'm simply pointing out that their venerability doesn't guarantee that everything they put out is of the highest caliber. The bevy of think (or whine) pieces it has published about millennials and safe spaces speaks to that, I feel.

>There is nothing sensational in the article, it is simply discussing findings in a study.

Which is sufficient as a rebuttal to the claim that it is clickbait.
There are other reasons to use C++ besides performance, and other reasons to not use Python besides performance.
Look at how much publicity it's getting them. The New York times is just now running a free ad for Burger King. Magic.
I agree that an equally qualified woman should be compensated the same as a man. What I fail to understand is why anyone cares that the tech industry has more males than females. If more males are interested in working with technology than females are then of course there will be more males in the industry. Why do people see this as some kind of problem that needs to be fixed? I understand that having a diverse team brings different viewpoints that might allow for solutions to be found that may not have been found without that other viewpoint. Is that all that this is about? (besides pay differences)
And it will stay that way without more people working on the freely available stuff...
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> I don't think this is the differentiating factor.

Good for you. Multiple studies and the FBI's own crime statistics prove you wrong.

> Plus, the US is extremely individualistic, while European countries tend to be more communal.

Irrelevant. Not all European countries are communal and some of the highest crime rate countries in the world are communal.

> Finally, the US has far higher gun ownership, so law enforcement in the US has to deal with gun violence while Europe does not.

Czech republic has just as high a gun ownership rate as the US, but much lower crime. The reason? Homogeneous population.

Do you want to make any other arguments that have been debunked to hell? I haven't heard you use the word 'racism' yet.
According to this article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6305599

there is a 1 in 100K chance of serious complications for modern LASIX requiring corneal transplant. That's a higher incidence than the chance of getting AK if you wear contact lenses.

Both are terrible complications but I don't see the rationale of avoiding AK by getting LASIX. I couldn't find any literature but it seems to me that the fact that LASIX damages the cornea for a time would also leave one open to an infection in addition to the complications.
What would be great is if this put a serious dent in people's excitement about creepy always-listening internet-connected devices. Instead, I predict it will result in some new FCC rules about broadcast advertising.
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I’ve had something on my mind for quite some time now. It got really frustrating after a while…

Don’t you guys have trouble with knowing what the hell to improve in your pre-launched app’s UI/UX?

I mean, at a certain point I just prayed for some miracle dude with a camera to just go next to the users and just record everything they did.

BAM! No more back-and-forth discussions to understand what the hell did the users do :)

Recently I got sick and tired of this, so I rolled up my sleeves, gathered other frustrated people around me and started building something to address this annoying, time-consuming problem.

I just want your honest feedback. Nothing more.

Here’s what we came up with: https://uxrecord.com/

We thought the most helpful things we could create were:

Recorded user feedback from the phone’s front-facing camera with both audio & video
Your app’s screen recording and finger movement synchronized with the user’s face recording
Design improvements with screenshot submissions in a collaboration environment (tags, comments, assign to, etc.)
Heatmaps with all interactions on your app’s screens
Relevant Analytics

All this happens in a cross-roles collaborative dashboard.

Can’t wait to hear your honest opinion.
It's part of the game I suppose. Few vouchers get used. Heck, I had to waste $90 of it buying a ticket I didn't use to extend it for another year.
Makes me wish you could buy a kit and assemble your own phone. We need someone like Arduino to come along for this kind of tech. Would be awesome to just pick up my old and faithful Hakko and solder some sensor to a phone.
Microsoft buries critical Hyper-V, WordPad, Office, Outlook security patches
While our (and presumably Russia's) counterforce capability has improved, a lot of likely counterforce targets are still near major population centers. An all out counterforce exchange would result in tens of millions of civilian casualties. Such an event would probably end our way of life (speaking as an American).
The benchmark is kind of dodgy.

- It looks up the same key on every iteration, so every level of the trie stays in the cache, no matter how large the nominal data set size is.

- The setup appears to be such that even though the key is 128 bytes, it's probably not going to share a prefix longer than 4-5 bytes.

- The code is constructing a temporary string of the 128 byte key for every lookup in the hash table (by going from a string to char-pointer to string), but not for the trie.

So it first eliminates the problems of a trie (especially the cache inefficiency) by an unrealistic test setup, and then has a bug introducing probably a factor of 2 unnecessary overhead to the hash table.
Then by definition you don't have any expectations for "a CISSP to be an expert in 'tech ninja' stuff", as I was saying... ;-) I'll agree with you that, to an extent, all certifications are a scam, especially those with artificially high sit-down fees. My point is that, CISSP does not claim to be a gauge for whether you are a crypto expert, just that you should know the difference between basic types of encryption and when it makes sense to encrypt your company's data, so that an accountant in one of those Fortune 500 companies you mentioned doesn't make a costly mistake. In short, it's not about "how to trigger an RCE", but, if you're in an Ops role, about "how can I ensure my users are patched without delay, so that I can minimize the impact of an RCE". Does that make sense?
Ouch, trying to simplify and help, but I can see how it could come off wrong. Thanks for the note.
I'm not so sure. Taking care that you're only exposed to ugly code won't really increase the chance that it's any good.
Not to my knowledge, I just buy the packs of grey and/or black crew/v necks. But yeah I love Hanes... outstanding quality and cheap. The x-temp products are great by the way, albeit more expensive.
He said that some of the parts are refurbished.

So $300 is not really the cost of making them right?

Apple made a phone from scratch, sold it, someone got the parts and refurbished them to on sell them.

So you'd expect the price to be much lower? What's the original cost?
Link to his Reddit AMA yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/64sark/i_bought_a_hou...
>This is, however, put forth as a story. A history. In most ways OT is no more aggressive than a book detailing any serious amount of history containing a war. It is cruel, sure, but no more than other books from that long ago or even more recent (Cicero, for instance, contains quite a few gruesome passages).

A history in which a divine being, ostensibly the only divine being, and the most powerful, knowing, and moral being in existence is a primary character. One who calls for wars and even participates in them. And who doesn't indicate if this state of war will ever end, or whether one is to behave differently if it does.

>I guess what I'm saying is that in the OT's case, especially when viewed through the interpretation the NT provides, requires quite a bit of roundabout reasoning to get it to say to make war.

I think the opposite is true. It takes minimal effort to find God commanding the Israelites to engage their enemies.

As to Islam's violent tenets and history, I don't deny its existence, but the only historical documents we have about Judaism's early days suggest that it, too, was the same at the outset. Also, as I argue below, Christianity has its share of skeletons in its closet.

>Christianity spread because it convinced the population to convert and help eachother. For the poor to work together to make life better and provide a large-scale improvement of the life of the poor in the Roman Empire.

This is a hypothesis that explains its survival during the first two centuries of its existence - one among several that is suggested by historians. It's hardly the only answer, though, and a survey of later Roman and all of Byzantine history indicates strongly that there are myriad political reasons for Christianity's subsequent survival.

One consequence of the Christianization of the Empire and the various post-Roman kingdoms is forced conversion, particularly of Jews (who also experienced plenty of systemic discrimination, violence, and social stigmatization). All of this with plenty of ecclesiastic support.

>You might want to look up once, for instance, exactly why Nero was fiddling when Rome burnt.

I suppose any reason could be posited, since this didn't happen.
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Most people don't even realize that just about the same conditions led Japan to attack during WWII. There comes a time when you keep pushing a guy, and he says, enough! No mas!
That seems hard to believe that an optometrist would recommend rinsing your lenses with anything other than sterile saline.
I agree. Just because two people may both come from a similar religious denomination or donate to the same organization does not mean that organization is privy to potentially nefarious collaboration among parties. In addition, I agree this article appears to draw a conclusion that Chabad-Lubavitch is the nexus of a Trump-Russia connection, but fails to prove anything other than both Trump's family and many with potential ties to Putin all independently support the organization. It is also worth noting that the late Lubavitcher rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, promoted the opening of synagogues to support the diaspora of Jews where they live. In many places, a Chabad synagogue may be the only Jewish organization for miles, and especially in places like Russia. Today, they form the backbone of synagogues in Russia due to them daring to support Judaism dating back to underground work during the Soviet era. For this reason, Chabad is the movement many Russian Jews choose to support.
Mussolini may have sincerely wanted to be a run of the mill leftist.

Head of state is the kind of job that draws narcissists, and when they feel slighted, bad things happen. Checks and balances are important, yo.
CitusDB (not Citus Cloud) is not fully automated: You can have only one master node, if this node fails you have to manually elect a new master node. So it really does not gain anything compared to stock postgresql for HA.
Haven't read it, but I have read Alas, Babylon. Sounds similar but definitely worth checking out.

One book I was thinking of in my post is The Postman by David Brin. In it, the post-apocalypse was triggered by a cascading series of disasters, including (non-nuclear) warfare and disease... but the final societal collapse was caused by domestic militants following a hyper-survivalist, regressive philosophy. In other words, the preppers themselves were behind the fall of America.
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Interesting write up. There was a claim I didn't understand though

> Let’s fix this. An easy way to get our std::vector
implementation in-line with the rest of the containers is we can sort it and utilize an algorithm, std::lower_bound, in order to speed up our lookup times.

Unless I'm missing something, isn't this wrong? The point of the vector is that v[enum_value] gives you the name of enum_value as a string. Once you sort it this relationship no longer holds, unless it so happens that the vector was already sorted (which happens to be the case for "circle", "square", "triangle").
"Roberts isn't ... trying to speak publicly as a Hindu"

I'm not sure this sounds like a reasonable standard to join any religion. "If you're a convert, shut up". Sounds like second class status. This stuff is too complicated for me.
Burger King needs to look at Wendy's to see how to win at marketing:

http://fortune.com/2017/04/11/wendys-chicken-nuggets-teen-tw...

http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-wendy-jokes/

(Although in reality I expect if another company tried to pull this off, it'd backfire horribly.)
frankly, unless you're genuinely willing to pay just for the novelty of the snacks, you'd be getting tremendously low value if you subscribe to most of the current available subscription services for such products. shipping often more than doubles the cost of these snacks due to the large amount of air in the bags.

which is not to say i'm opposed to it. if, indeed, there is a large interest in salty snacks as a box offering, we can definitely do that. as part of our sourcing for candies, we of course also come across salty and savory snack products so we already know where to get them. i'm just very skeptical that customers have such strong preference for novelty over value.
Point free expression in production ANSI C90 code:

Function defined here, stored in xform_listed_quote_f global:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/eval.c?id=6ca6be767f8ac...

Used as a mapping function here:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/eval.c?id=6ca6be767f8ac...
In this ant species, 21% of the colony has major injuries from war
No kidding I didn't see any mining or refining of rare earths here...
Well it doesn't really .. that's what it cost Scotty doing it the way he did. He was making a video to highlight that phones live on after you throw them away. He probably wasn't trying to make a profit, he was trying to make an interesting movie.

If you visit the markets where he's buying you'll find a virtual disassembly line breaking down phones into component parts (to logic boards if they still work, and chips if they don't) followed by an assembly line of people making 'new' phones from those parts. The thing is that there are people in the "dodgy cell phone market" (people call it that) who are making a good living (by local norms) building iPhones, sometimes from scratch with recycled parts
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Duerte and the philippines are Very Catholic Indeed.
Honestly, I'm glad they did it - it proves the risk these types of devices pose. Better people stop using it over shit like this than worse...
> customer service nonexistent.

s/nonexistent/abusive/

Their customer abuse is prolific.
We'll just conveniently ignore the costs of retraining users and of replacing any legacy systems they may use. Ooh look, shiny Linux!
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They're not out of beta. See this comment [0] on the GitHub issue titled "StatefulSets", which was made on February 3, 2017, and says:

>This is beta. May have minor changes in 1.6 but not going GA.

The latest release of k8s is 1.6, made on March 28, 2017, about two weeks ago. [1]

Furthermore, the issue still bears the "stage/beta" tag.

[0] https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/137#issuecomme...

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/tag/v1.6.0
I was a manager at magicJack when it was starting up. We used the owners personal black AMEX card :)
Im really not a fan of this guys writing. I admire his trolling abilities in the Dvorak style, but he does write a lot of articles that are button pushers.

Side note...I started evaluating elementary OS last night.
You forgot climate control too. Office buildings always seem to have their HVAC poorly calibrated and controlled by some mysterious ghost.

There are so many reasons... I think you either get it, or you don't.
is it bad that i got excited by the thought of high adoption rates of weechat (www.weechat.org) in china?
I haven't watched the video - but I'm curious where and how he got a 4G LTE module cheaply. I've never found one via Ali Express or TaoBao, but maybe I didn't use the right keywords (or maybe they aren't available as modules?). The best I've been able to find are 3G modules; the 4G ones I have found (from one or two US suppliers) tended to be extremely expensive.

EDIT: NVM all - downthread it was explained what this guy did, and how he didn't go true DIY on the whole thing. So no special 4G module needed.
I've read Alas, Babylon and The Postman too, and IMHO Warday is far superior to them both. If you found those books interesting, you will eat it up with a spoon.

Amazon has it on Kindle for $3.99: https://www.amazon.com/Warday-Whitley-Strieber-ebook/dp/B00X...
Risk of buying a useless or counterfeit part that doesn't end up working in his build.
I don't understand how that's your go-to suggestion. It just makes a lot of assumptions, it's anecdotal, and I'm just surprised there's this kind of armchair tech support on HN. And then others go on the forum and read it.

Everybody on the below thread is having a tertiary argument thinking I have something to say about GPUs and their drivers. I could not care less.
Thats why i like Amex, their fraud detections systems quite advanced. Even when my card had fraud on it and they issued a new card #. All vendors still worked with the old card number.
> Every CORS pre-flight request uses the OPTIONS method.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8685678/cors-how-do-pref...

Neat, thanks :) didn't know that
> I understand that having a diverse team brings different viewpoints that might allow for solutions to be found that may not have been found without that other viewpoint. Is that all that this is about?

That is an ostensible reason. Another is to correct the inequality caused by societal pressures discouraging women from pursuing careers in tech. The other possible reasons are not allowed to be discussed here.
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Paradoxically it's harder to tell when you have your lenses on. They're a barrier between the surface of the cornea and the inner eye lid so they actually mask the pain you might feel without them.

Although I wear extended wear lenses which are FDA approved to stay in for 30 continuous days my optometrist has emphasized that they need to come out every week for an evening so that you can evaluate the condition of your eyes and how your cornea is feeling. It only takes a few days to develop an abrasion that as folks have noted is very painful.

As long as I can wear lenses overnight I'm never going to try LASIX. Just too many people that run into issues with dry eyes, halos and poor night vision. Since I'd still have to wear reading glasses I don't even see the point - with my multifocal lenses I almost never wear glasses anymore for reading even.
Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man.
And I can take my ~4pm quick nap to recharge and reset.
Their door only gets kicked in if the intelligence analyst or counterterrorism agent reviewing the material isn't able to tell it's an obvious joke, which I find unlikely.
This is why lots of people like to work at coffee shops. You get to be around other people, but it's generally pretty quiet: there's no loud conversations about some stupid sports game the night before; any conversations are usually between two people sitting quietly together, not groups; the people there are total strangers and not coworkers or bosses so it's easy to tune them out mentally and concentrate. In addition, you can go buy yourself a tasty drink or snack and eat it (I can't easily make myself a chai latte at work). The lighting and ambiance are far, FAR more relaxing than any office I've been in.
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