skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Waiting a month for an expense you actually have the money now for is just plain poor manners on the billing agency.

Perhaps, but I also don't necessarily think of Comcast as a design we should follow. If I understand

>Think about that statement in the light of a non-ad supported web.

correctly, your implication is that this will cut people who can't pay out of services (ie. things become subscription based and then non-payers are excluded). That at least can be solved by freemium models (which is what Patreon does), although Mz goes further and states that even that can be alienating to people who want to pay but can't.

FWIW, as someone who is a consumer of a lot of things that I don't subscribe or pay for (including some patreon based groups), who I probably should start supporting, because I can and I'd prefer that they continue existing, I've never felt like I don't have access to media I want (note that this is different than "do I feel like I'm unable to support something I enjoy"). I'm relying on the morality of creators to continue producing (good) free content, and only producing special content at the price, but so far at least that's been a good assumption.
Or lack of documentation/communication within the company.

When key information regarding how you're supposed to do this thing or where that thing is located or how you're supposed to test Y, or how should this particular bit that wasn't communicated in the user story but was talked about in a meeting you weren't at be tackled, or whatever is locked inside people's heads you need to consult with them to get that information out of there.

And yes having information locked inside of senior employees is a bad idea for the company overall, but that's been the case to some extent at pretty much every company I've worked for.
Not sure what rock you lived under:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2934504/why-you-should-avoid-...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bioshock-...

Again:
Today however, it's genuinely refreshing to see AMD's driver efforts and overall offering as a company.
Here's the actual Harvard Study that the article references => "Research: The Best Strategy for Paying Off Credit Card Debt" : https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-the-best-strategy-for-payin...
Tries can be memory hogs and the techniques for level and path compression can add significant overhead. It would have been interesting to see memory usage.

I've of the more interesting data structures for things like this are Ternary Search Trees after each subtree starts with a common prefix. That would have been an interesting comparison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_search_tree
I completely disagree about him becoming 10x more valuable. That only works if he's actually evaluated on these things. He probably isn't, nor are most technical workers. Now, if he were a manager/team leader, this would be very different: those are absolutely core aspects of the job and things to be evaluated on in your performance review.
I'd regard Nexus and Pixel phones to be the equivalent of iPhones for something like this - they get updates directly from the "manufacturer"/Google, much as iPhones get updates from Apple.

Samsung-branded devices sold primarily through carriers on the other hand get updates when they finish passing through the system of Google->handset maker->carrier and often both the handset makers and carriers are big delay points.
Is that the one that they've been updating with the changing politician names and situations. I seem to remember a version that was a bit different.
This is a great idea, the better the Bootcamp, the more likely you are to get a job. Think of it as a way to buy into a network. The good Bootcamps will also set time aside for whiteboarding, how to interview, creating a compelling portfolio etc.

Not all Bootcamps are created equal. https://www.switchup.org/locations/nyc-coding-bootcamp
If you put a phone booth on the street in front of your house or business, like a free phone booth, are you liable for the contents of the calls placed on it? What if there were two phones? A hundred?

What if it wasn't a phone but a mailbox? A big chalk board? A bulletin board?

What if it weren't a mailbox but a free parking lot? Bob could put a thumb drive in his glove compartment, park his car, and then have Alice pick it up. Am I liable for what's on that drive because I provided free parking that was used as a medium for illegal information?

That why I think sharing things with strangers cannot logically make you liable for their speech and information.

Having a free-to-use shotgun and a box of shells in front of your house is an entirely different question. That's why I said the analogy was a poor one.
Can you get the nice, boldly colored ones in packs? I have some really cool purple, orange, and green ones that look like fancy mall retail shop shirts.
Not really. A criminal offense would only apply if the smart device can be construed as a 'protected computer' involved in interstate commerce; a civil complaint is only possible if the plaintiff suffers one or more of an enumerated list of 'loss' [1], neither of which appears to be a good fit for the interaction without a serious stretch.

[1] https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_(...
Sorry for overreacting, your comment was so outlandish I was really taken aback. (detecting tone on the internet can be quite difficult, especially if you don't know anything about the commentator) The thing about moral judgments I was saying is that the people in jail are there because they did something their society considers morally wrong. For some people these things are not considered bad. My solution would be to not jail them for these things at all. Inviting them into my house is neither here nor there, but I would gladly try to befriend them and as in any relationship eventually they'd be invited into my home as well. My issue isn't with moral judgements, I feel littering is morally wrong and I would gladly see people be fined for it, it's that people don't see that jailing people is a result of these moral judgements rather than some inherent evil.
I'm sure you think you're trying to prove some point, but really you're just being a jerk. If someone I'd invited into my home did this kind of thing, they'd be un-invited pretty fast.
That would set a terrible precedent. The courts should not be in the business of striking down bad laws, only unconstitutional laws.
> At least with C you get the power to do things the way you want to

C++ gives you the same level of control over your program that C does, but also comes with nice low-cost (in many cases zero-cost) abstractions for when you need them.
> We could also lower the number of people incarnated if we had public lashings instead, as Iran does.

And hanging people from cranes in public squares...
Pa11y
Freely available speech to text is garbage compared to what the big players are doing. Additionally their activation words usually trigger a special microcontroller extensively trained to listen for such a phrase, and then the more expensive processing kicks in.
I'm not really a lawyer, but you could try to figure it out by reading this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
I've had more luck (i.e. more usable performance) with the NoMachine remote desktop product (basically X11 forwarding).

For a while I was also using GNU Screen over SSH too.
Interesting side story is that Gadjusek did a year in prison for child molestation (which he think is a natural/good thing).

There is a documentary on him on BBC called the Genius and the boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxppDxzSww
Yeah, I can imagine him turning this into something similar to the "What's Inside" Family" where the goal isn't so much cost-saving vs exploring how things are made.
Based on experience I'm going to form an educated guess (hypothesize) and say that both std::map and author's trie container are primarily bound by pointer chasing. Obviously one should test this.

If that's the case, use a C++ btree_map implementation.
He writes on he's blog that he thinks a lot of parts are recycled

You might wonder why I chose to make an iPhone 6s and not an iPhone 7. I had two reasons...

However, the other reason, which turned out to be far more important, is that iPhone 7 parts are pretty hard to come by in the markets. It’s not totally clear why this is, but I have some ideas. A lot of the parts come from recycled/broken phones, and so it would make sense that there just isn’t that much supply yet.

https://strangeparts.com/how-i-made-my-own-iphone-in-china/
They probably got tired of FF & Edge beating them in their own benchmark. Can you imagine the conversation with some middle level manager when you were asked to explain that?
Or just activate it from known/trained voices?
I guess I'm the only person who thinks this is hilarious, and not particularly worse than any other advertising.
> If someone uses my phone to make a threatening phone call, I'm probably first in line to be investigated.

Sure. There are practical consequences. But if it's a working phone booth on the sidewalk out front, the prosecutor can't prove much with "it was your phone". Of course, you could be put through the wringer or even convicted based on really flimsy evidence.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
I said in the past. In America, they were called Jim Crow laws. Though this has happened all over the world.
> You get only so much with "ngx_http_stub_status_module" that you have to compile in yourself, as distros don't compile it in

Debian compiles it in, so a lot of things that base of Debian would have it as well.
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After a few seconds I was redirected to an ad site that made my mobile vibrate and that “locked me in“ by some redirect trickery which blocked the back button.

Not really what I'd expect from a HN link with so many upvotes. Did no one else experience this?
I think they've done a few different versions. The differences seem to be mostly in the TV trimmings at the start and end, and a few versions have US or Canadian civil-defence warnings at the end.

Skimming through, the content seems to be largely the same, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were making small changes too.

[EDIT] Actually, you're right, some of the older versions have different (to my ear, worse) voice work. I'm glad the iterated on the idea and polished it up.
I know a lot of companies where the executive puts the expenses on their own card and then files an expense report at the end of each week.

In fact, even as a non-executive I'd have no problem putting SaaS on my points earning personal card if I trusted that my expenses would be reimbursed in a timely manner.

I've gotten multiple free flights and hotel rooms this way.

I might get down voted a bit because people could argue that the company should reap the rewards from any points but I don't personally see an issue with it.
It is already happening in the US, just slightly differently. Befitting our "national character", as the Chinese term it, our great wall is made of advertising.

Deep packet inspection is here today for Comcast and other ISP customers. The nominal reason for the surveillance is typical adtech panty-sniffing, but of course the data is also available for subpoena, assuming ISPs actually ask for one, or just freely given out (that's more of an ATT thing).

And given that we know the FBI recruits Geek Squad techs to become informants and collaborators[1], who really thinks the FBI, DEA or another TLA won't do the same/hasn't already started doing the same with, say, network techs at Comcast? The same come-ons that worked for the Stasi work just fine elsewhere.

The people down-voting this comment, if they're doing so out of the belief that "it won't happen here", are simply wrong.

The surveillance-entertainment complex was born in the US, and the tools are massively attractive to anyone who covets power. Anyone who doesn't think the world-empire of the day will use them is deluding themselves.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/if-a-best...
I disagree - I think the one vendor open source thing works well, consider Node, Scala, VS Code, etc.
No, you're describing a cart that is pulling its horse. The "certification", in whatever form it takes, must follow the professionalization of the field.

Regardless, none of the certificates you've mentioned --- OSCP, CREST, or SANS --- will define information security. None of them have any meaningful credibility to experts.
I like OkCupid's solution to this problem a lot. You pay $5 once and they never serve you an ad again.

If you think about it, $5 is probably more than they could ever hope to make serving ads to a single occasional user.
Windows 10 gets major update as Windows Vista reaches its end of life
You laugh, but it works really well to do this so long as you remember to stand out of the way of the camera.
It's potentially a lot worse for Amazon/Google than it is for Burger King. I bet a lot of people will reconsider purchasing these devices based on just this one incident. Most people might not react as strongly but if this happened to me I'd immediately unplug the device and throw it away. Actually I might just go ahead and smash it to bits too. Just thinking about the possibility of it happening makes me quite angry.
The Illicit Aura of Information
FYI a Burger King marketing exec modified the entry on Wikipedia to be more "Ad-like", initially using the name, "Burger King Corporation" before that was banned for having a promotional name.

Then the ad guy came back using his online screenname, and re-added the promotional introduction before it was reverted several times (along with an author from The Verge editing it, probably the edit that changed the wording to something like "[it] tastes like cyanide", but can't be too sure)

It was then astroturfed by some pro-Burger King sockpuppets (unsure of this but their changes all switch to the wording that the Burger King ad guy used), before finally being locked for disruptive editing.

Furthermore, the Wikipedia article itself now has a section about the attempted astroturfing by Burger King, and another Wikipedia user came back in and cited NPOV problems with the _original_ pre-ad wording (e.g. usage of the word "signature") so now the wording in the article is even more generic and less favorable to the Whopper than when it first started.
Could you not find a better source than the Daily Fail?

It has less credibility than a child's comic.
If you are relying on good will and the spirit of co-operation to ensure that everything that makes sound is OK, you're going to have a bad day.
Yep. In the video comments, he says he spent well over $1000. Justifies the $300 price tag by stating that he didn't need the $700+ worth of parts and tools he purchased.

> Strange Parts 4 hours ago

> Thanks for subscribing! I spent well over $1000, but a lot of that was parts and tools I didn't end up needing. I'd say it's probably around $300 worth of parts in the actual phone.﻿

Source: Direct link to comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&lc=z13bd1eposzxs...
Atatürk was not a beacon of democracy, he never pretended to be. As a military man, he did resort to heavy handed methods at times. The republic he left behind as his legacy is however one when you consider the circumstances. He created a secular, Muslim majority country that was aligned with the Western ideals and was even ahead of Europe in some aspects (women's suffrage). This is truly impressive considering no country in the region has been close to that level in the last century.
Thank you. I'll have to give NoMachine a look.
The new Rickrolling. "OK Google. Sell all Burger King stock."
Distilled down: fast execution with small tight dev teams, ruthless focus on adding direct user value/utility to every new feature (and choosing insightful metrics to validate this), management keeping their greed in check and an overriding culture/philosophy that good product is driven from understanding and respecting your users (don't waste their time, do value their attention, don't overcomplicate, don't needlessly monetise). Oh and incredible discipline and inventiveness in devising viral growth loops that don't break these rules.

Nice & inspiring.
The linked page / disucssion is not for the small percentage of google/fb workers.

You are still a minority.
In theory that's possible true but in practice on an iPhone I highly doubt a DIY can do "the exact same thing". For one there are important ports we can't access, like JTAG testing the SOC. And there is a whole other factory OS which we have no idea what it does and why.
It recognizes the ad now and doesn't respond to it. http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15277278/google-home-burge...
> Wow, that is an explosive conclusion. It's very hard for me to come to terms with. 40 MB per second is the sustained read of a spinning platter hard drive

Parent is talking about random access. So compare with random access to spinning rust :)

40MB/s for random RAM access is totally reasonable. Dynamic RAM (DRAM), the kind of RAM used in computers nowadays, is organized and accessed in "rows" of few kB. If you read random addresses, chances are good that almost every read will miss all CPU caches and hit a DRAM row other than any currently opened row (there is maybe a few dozen rows out of millions opened at any time, depending on the number and internal organization of RAM modules). Opening and closing a new row takes tRP+tRAS which is 13+35ns on some random DDR3 RAM I have laying here. This is 20M individual accesses per second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_RAM
Overhead, fragmentation, pointer chasing, malloc() bound.

It's one of those data structures that makes perfect sense in CS theory but is only applicable in a limited set of real world problems.

For now we're beholden to implementation of our architectures, their quirks and side effects.
If you want a sour vision of post-apocalyptic America that puts the lie to the prepper dream, I recommend the 1984 novel Warday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warday).

Warday is set five years after a "limited" nuclear war between the US and USSR, in which only one salvo of nukes was fired by each side before their governments collapsed. In the US only two cities (Washington and San Antonio) are hit directly, with one more (NYC) taking a "near miss" when its missiles go off course and explode offshore. Beyond those urban areas, only the sparsely populated areas around the US' western missile silos are hit. So in that respect, it's very much an optimistic scenario, much more so than the one laid out in Threads.

But the book's argument is that even an optimistic scenario like that would be devastating in real life. Warday's America has been thoroughly hobbled, not so much by the bombs themselves as by knock-on effects the bombs caused. Fallout from the strikes on the missile fields has irradiated the nation's farm fields, leading to persistent famine and turning the Midwest into a radioactive Dust Bowl. Malnutrition means reduced resistance to disease, leading to a range of exciting new ways to die that include a horrific strain of flu that kills three times as many people as the bombs did. Even five years after the war medical care is still being triaged, the price of food is subject to wild fluctuations, and with the federal government mostly dissolved the states are starting to pull apart into their own regional fiefdoms; Texas is gearing up to go to war with Mexico, and relatively unscathed California is gradually descending into a police state in order to keep from having to share what they still have with refugees from the rest of America.

It's a great, grim story, one that's stuck with me decades now after I first read it as a kid in Cold War America.
Moral of the story is not how cheap YOU can build YOUR phone by $300, but how cheap Chinese electronic parts could mean to the competition and innovation in the whole electronic industry.

My personal opinion (not necessarily correct): it means that electronic industry could no longer only compete on low prices but newer designs and newer technologies, for better or worse, because Shenzhen, China can always catch up with your price fast with its astonishingly cheap parts.
The times of politkovskaya exit nodes are past times, it is so problematic surfing with russian exitnodes, {ru} must go directly to ExcludeNodes because surfing is insupportable.

But not only russian also a lot off countries are insufferably.

It is terrible that they arrest one foss activist and no all the others.

It sound as winds of change in the perestroika days, or one inverted version of it.
Top10/OWASP Top - 2017 RC1 [pdf]
that is fair, not everyone enjoys candy on a regular basis.

i can see the appeal of offering a savory snack box, like many other of our competitors, because there are just so many interesting snacks in asia but the value just won't be there. we did attempt to put together a salty snacks box, but it was very difficult to put together one that not only contained a reasonable quantity of snacks, but could fit inside standard sized packaging and fit within shipping weight brackets. we found that majority of the boxes we could put together to ship out had such low commercial value that the price point simply didn't make sense for us. i'm confident that most of our competitors shipping out salty snacks are laughing to the bank that their customers are paying so much for shipping air. candy, on the other hand, are typically far denser so shipping cost-wise, it is far more economical.

this is certainly not a subscription service for those looking to cut sugar from their diet. we hope to aim at people who order these things for their families to try together, or people who bring these boxes to office for their colleagues, or even people who simply enjoy candy so much they'd like a regular supply of delicious and interesting candy.
I've been thinking recently that we need a similar movie today to give us a stark picture of the reality of a world facing severe climate change.
I assume that's a rhetorical question. But in case not, then the GDevice will talk over those things. If they really wanted to be safe, those other things could start by saying "OK google, stop talking" or something.
Absolutely. You should apply to any job 1) you want and 2) you have some chance of getting. Of course it's likely this job is already "wired" for someone who already works there, and they're only posting it because their hiring process says they have to. But even if that's the case, it's not impossible the proverbial lightening will strike and you'll get it anyway.

We had a job opening that was opened specifically for a contractor we wanted to hire. But the guy messed something up (drug test, interview, background check, etc) and someone from the outside got the job.
The video should have included the costs for the components as he purchased them as it constantly left me wondering.
Other posts here suggest that WeChat actively censors posts, including in private chat, at the behest of the government, so no.
That fake BBC video would be a great video to troll people with.

Playing it loudly in a Starbucks or at the office for example.

Quite a brilliant piece of art.
Never reason based on meaningless aphorisms.

This particular one leaves you completely vulnerable to trivial deception. Want to get away with something evil? Just pretend to be dumb, make it look like you don't know what you're doing, then people on the Internet will defend you as "merely incompetent, not evil."

Besides, did you even read the article? Burger King is doing this on purpose! Says so in the first paragraphs!
You also cherry picked, figuratively speaking. More literally, you didn't pick the cherries at an index of 22. There are a lot of fruits in the 20s to 40s. I tend to stay away from both pineapple and watermelon.