skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit that the >= and <= looked quite more readable, but i don't see how = and == wouldnt get more easily confused. Also i do spend a lot more than 1/10th of time in different environments.

I don't understand why ppl upvoted my comment. You should try it first and report back.

Also, http://www.pallier.org/papers/Chang.Reading.2015.pdf
Hey thanks for this - I didn't realise the "default" was so weak for ZIP.

It's almost worth a HN post in itself, but I can't find a good reference to link to.

1: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.2... (PDF maybe available via FTP?)

2: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5447/how-secure...
MIT for example calls it CS even though it's part of the engineering school - agreed, but it's not an engineering discipline. The school just manages it, because it's closer to engineering than it is math. However, many math departments control computer science programs still - but it's a general classification in order to put it some place for administration.
Yup, Marx is unscientific. Always was.
So portable that even several of these games were ported to Ubuntu Phone (R.I.P.).

Edit: https://uappexplorer.com/apps?q=tatham&sort=relevance
DioLinux website
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I fear that because math research I did in K-12 math education research is being used as next-generation code breaking and encryption technology, I can no longer travel outside the country. The reason is that I am a target. Even our "NATO allies" are not safe for me because they are a bunch of worthless traitors :( who will happily torture me until they feel they know everything I know.

It seems that fear of math and fear of inability to break codes and fear of being deprived of access to encryption technology has led to a crisis mentality.

The answer, I think, is to force the empire to operate in a way that reduces the material, military value of code breaking and encryption technology.

You don't need cryptographic codes if MITM attacks are prevented by something other than encryption like physical barriers.

This is important because the first amendment is damaged when a national security concern makes speech difficult and dangerous. When the lives of American soldiers depend on my silence, it is a sad day in heaven AND hell because The Show Cannot Go On.
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I went to school for software engineering and they cautioned us that we weren't really engineers without a licence. However it isn't offered in my state. So some people went to Canada to take the test for fun, simply to be able too call themselves legally professional engineers.
In what way does the German democracy derive from the UK? You are oversimplifying. I get what you are trying to say, but it's not just tradition and institutions. There is a lot more to it.
Check out the rc2014:
http://rc2014.co.uk/
whaaa...
Can you remind me when Germany was a UK colony?
> It's pointless to compare the U.S. system to an Eastern European or Asian country where the people see broadband, technology, and computers, as a way to close the wealth gap with the US/UK/Germany/France.

Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul are very wealthy and have quality internet options. There are pockets of wealth and poverty all over the world.

Are you saying the US isn't trying to be competitive any more and doesn't need to worry about knowledge workers? If so, that is absurd. We import tons of talent, not because it's cheap, but because we need it. We aren't churning out enough students in high tech and MD roles to satisfy our country's demands.

> If you tried to build a municipal network in Baltimore, the conversation would not be about how it's going to bring in knowledge workers and enhance economic competitiveness. It's going to be about why public money is being spent on wealthy knowledge workers when schools in low income communities are crumbling.

I think we're getting off topic. The question is whether net neutrality is worth supporting, and what we can do to further that discussion among non-techies who might be looking for a better understanding of this topic.

> The countries I picked for comparison are just the 5 largest EU countries, which contain more than 2/3 of the population.

Even a majority doesn't prove it isn't possible. Everything starts small.
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Google implicit patent grant. Turns out it does. Just doesn't use the word. Re patents, how would you have James Watt raise money for his steam engine? It took long enough with the patent he got.
If this comment gets more popular, the Philly and Pittsburgh tech scenes are gonna suddenly explode with devs who are sick of both SV interview practices and rent prices.
ShareLatex and TeX in general is awesome. I use it for the Biblatex and I have dabbled with Beamer.

Two issues that I have run into are live word counts for assignments for profs who refuse to give page counts, and having to maintain multiple document versions manually (one in TeX, one in Word) because my field (Nursing) is full of non-tech savvy older profs who will look at you funny if you provide them with something outside their comfort zone.
Thanks so much. Fascinating. I've made many of these types of app but never to "web scale". Bioinformatics apps are a bit niche, and we take the view that our non-paying academic "customers" can wait however long it takes to finish the query, in the unlikely event that there is high load.

Just to make sure I understand correctly, that's about $1-2K of one time cost per 10qps (w/o SSD, and not counting power and maintenance, etc)? When I first saw "cloud server", I thought that was a per-month rental cost, but the link is for actual in-house hardware. If this is even close to correct, my suspicions seem confirmed.

Except for one thing. I have no idea how many qps a site like Academia would have. 100qps was completely out of my ass, but it seemed hard to imagine it being any more than 1-2 orders of magnitude higher, at most. Any guess on that?
How do you move money among the accounts? I like the idea of using multiple bank accounts as financial firewalls for my money, but it seems difficult or expensive to move the funds, especially if the accounts are not all at the same institution.
Well, good luck with that. Back when I was in the oil business, there were even mud engineers--or mud salesmen as the toolpushers called them.

I certainly don't favor the idea that every software engineer/consulting engineer/etc. should have to get a PE before they can call themselves by that title.

You're welcome to feel differently but don't expect a lot of support.
True, but you don't write merge sorts anymore. A lot of the fundamentals are valuable to know but not actually used in most situations. It's good you know how TLS works, but you really ought not be writing a TLS library yourself.
Ubiquitous surveillance state doesn't exclude militant theocracy.

We could have both if you don't work hard enough to prevent that happening.
Mill has had some their patents issued and their applications published which means there's something to read rather than listen to Godard's talks.

http://patents.justia.com/assignee/mill-computing-inc

I'm impressed at their doing something completely different and do wish them well. I know someone on the team but I'm impatient.
A tool for developing responsive React Native apps crazy-fast
Anyone have problems with the touch screen on iOS? I've been thinking about contacting the author and describe the issues.
Are things better now?
I don't even think they add much to readability. If i could choose, the only ligatures i 'd like would be >= and !=
Or if you contribute to it. So you're right, plain use is without imposition.
One of the key questions after the first pass is "is this well-written enough to keep reading?"
Well the title of the HN post is changed already. Before it is changed on the blog post as well (in which case my comment would look very misplaced), here it is:

"Sure, we have imperative and functional. But what about Cartesian programming?"

> The author doesn't claim those are the one two paradigms.

I never said the author made that claim (I said it shows the state of his knowledge). But for any statement along the lines "Sure we have imperative and functional. But what about X?"

Well what about X? There are plently of X's around. If you look at the right sidebar on the page I linked, the number of X's are probably 30 to 40. Has the author studied and understood those 30 to 40 before asking "what about X"?

What does the reader learn about X if the author doesn't put in the effort to study at least half of the 30 to 40 paradigms and then put his own thoughts in proper context? Well I guess the author might realize what he/she is thinking of is so well-known under another name that his way of presenting the content is simply causing more unnecessary terminology and bloat on the internet.

Just my two cents.
At least on Google's own phones, Android is improving continuously. When they get to the point where they're comparably secure, the guide will be updated. As you can see: it's not anti-Google bias producing that recommendation: the guide also says to use Chrome, and Chromebooks if possible.
> Shows limited knowledge of the author

Visit the website again and check out who the author is, and you'll be embarrassed for the rest of the day :)

Here's what it says on the first line of his home page: "Website of Martin Sústrik, creator of ZeroMQ, nanomsg, libdill, libmill and ribosome."

Even aside from the "limited knowledge" issue, he doesn't say anything you're accusing him of saying. Chill out and be nice man.
Western Germany was ruled for a short period by both the UK and the United States after World War II, where they spent a great deal of effort to setup a functional and self sufficient government. Prior to that they did have a short lived democratic government but Hitler saw to its demise rather quickly.
I don't do my calculations/scratchwork in latex, but I know people who do, and take notes with it, etc. It's definitely got a learning curve, but once you've got it down it can be faster than writing by hand for a lot of things in mathematics (at least, according to some people I know).
Files stored on cloud services have less legal protection in the US than files stored locally. Not "no" protection, but less.
Regarding antivirus, I can only suggest - talk to someone who has worked at an MSP for a while.

Companies with minimally or ad-hoc supported environments are nearly always dealing with various outbreaks (I mean literally daily), and yet the one thing they are always doing for security is buying McAfee or SEP because it's the one thing an auditor from an accounting firm told them to do.

Have a look at actual detection logs across several thousand machines. You'll see silly things like "tracking cookies" show up ("glad we bought that antivirus!!"), but blocked malware will be far more rare than actual outbreaks.

This will leave you with the view that they are not effective.

Then, talk to the sales team there. Often the only thing they can tell you about AV is that, aside from Office 365, it's the only guaranteed subscription service a client will sign up to. So now you know why having AV is a big deal.

Then look at how many hours get burned on things like "slow servers", where you find your Linux PostgreSQL server is configured with its database being scanned on write. And politically, it's easier to upgrade RAM and CPU than to try and exclude the database. So now you're just totally jaded on AV wish the whole industry didn't exist.

I've never seen a bad Defender update nuke a running Windows installation, which I cannot say for any popular product. Look at last week's Webroot meltdown.
You'd be surprised how often tricks used in implementing those fundamental algorithms can be useful in day to day work.

Recent example I can think of was using GLPK to implement a dynamic allocation strategy for some spot instances for a pool of heterogeneous servers. I did not implement my own solver for the integer linear constraints but just knowing that allocation problems can be expressed as integer linear programs helped me tackle the problem in a way that others did not think of.

So I don't really buy the argument that knowing merge sort is useless knowledge because you never get to implement it. The value goes beyond just knowing the implementation. Same goes for other kinds of fundamental and timeless concepts and results.
After WWII West Germany was created from the US, UK, and French partitions. At end of cold war East Germany absorbed into West Germany keeping the West Germany institutions.
If employers can get away with the bullshit that they do, it's a buyers market.

In my personal experience, I've rarely had problems hiring qualified candidates, and my employer doesn't pay particularly well, and isn't located in a particularly large market. A company like Google who does pay very generously needs to narrow the funnel just to get the pool down to an actionable number.
Monitoring Memcached in cloud native applications
What you've quoted does not describe anything that a member of the general public should not be allowed to do. Making informed proposals to your government is not something that requires a professional license. It would behoove the government to get a relevantly licensed professional to evaluate proposals before they are enacted, but that's the responsibility of the governing body, not the citizen making a proposal.

The only thing that would make his traffic analysis and proposal fall under any sensible purview for the engineering licensing board would be if in presenting his proposal to the government and the public, he had misrepresented his qualifications. Paragraph 14 does not allege any such misrepresentation; it cites him for doing math and science.
Really? I have the exact opposite experience, I feel much more free to study and work on whatever I want now that I graduated. I would always feel bad for working my own stuff instead of just working on the class project or homework.
PG 9.6 has phrase search now which is nice. And multi-word synonyms beats most search servers. Lack of BM25 or TFIDF (see the `smlar` extension) is the main issue
Is it possible to explain Noether's principle for momentum (translation invariance) or energy (time invariance) without going into Lagrangian/Hamiltonian mechanics?

I really like Noether's principle, but every time I try to explain the symmetry --> conserved quantity implication using only Newtonian principles I fail to get anywhere. I'd love to hear an explanation from first principles that would work for high school students.
this was in the 1940s during ww2
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it doesn't unless you use a different font for strings. But it seems that would be fine in your example
I don't think Fira Code recognizes context. It just parses the characters and renders multi-character glyphs into a single one.

So the inequality inside the string will be afforded the same treatment as an inequality anywhere else in the code.
Cyberpunk is "high tech" + "low life". In a sense, the app-driven gig economy is to me the embodiment of that combination, but that's still boring and not really news at this point.

Now if you want more drama, you could talk about more sensational stuff such as how drones are making their way into organized crime, for example how the Japanese police and the Yakuza are starting some sort of evolutionary arms race around drones that transport illegal goods. Also how 3d printing is making into lockpicking and weapon manufacturing... stuff like that.
The iPad is an iPhone XL.
Before Kim Jong Un took power, people were protesting the government. These days they fear him, while proclaiming "‘What has he done for us?". According to Tao Te Ching, verse 17, Kim Jong Un is more capable than his father:

With the greatest leader above them,

people barely know one exists.

Next comes one whom they love and praise.

Next comes one whom they fear. <-- Kim Jong Un

Next comes one whom they despise and defy. <-- His father

When a leader trusts no one,

no one trusts him.

The great leader speaks little.

He never speaks carelessly.

He works without self-interest

and leaves no trace.

When all is finished, the people say

“We did it ourselves.” <-- North Korean people
> separate to his email about traffic lights, his website offers his services as an engineering consultant. that's a major no-no.

If the state board has a legitimate complaint about the language used on his web site, they shouldn't undermine their own authority by also bringing up bullshit complaints about doing math without a license. It makes the state board look like they've got a vendetta against the guy.
It depends on what you're storing. I completely trust Dropbox with the screenshots I'm about to post to Twitter. If your financials aren't especially sensitive, Freshbook is probably fine. I'm not a fan of Evernote w/r/t privacy and security.
Dieter Rams’ classic design principles updated for the tech industry
Any luck doing this on a live website? Instead of locally? This is pretty serious stuff.
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> The laws are supposed to be made in service of the people. If they're not, they're to be countered. That's why courts can reinterpret or nullify law in the first place.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of judges.

Judges don't nullify laws that don't satisfy people. They can strike down a law as unconstitutional

> That's why courts can reinterpret or nullify law in the first place

That's completely untrue. They cannot reinterpret law according to the population's wishes.

What you are saying is straight out of an alt-right playbook.
I worked at a bank and saw that pattern used in market connection middleware as well. It's really common, but since that stuff is all closed source it's hard to point to a concrete example.

(The thing was also optimized to reuse objects to allocate as little as possible... but a writeup from that team on an internal website said, basically, that Java GC was so efficient nowadays that it may not have been worth the extra maintenance effort and potential for bugs, in retrospect)
As i've discovered, there was an active law against flag desecration thst had not yet been declared unconstitutional in the general case. This may have less to do with the war than you might think.
Meanwhile, a bunch of non-Google companies think that this must be the right way to do it, so they copy it, and teaching people how to game the system like in the original article give them no reason not to, it just acclimates everyone to playing by stupid rules.
I image the states will realize this industry could be licensed eventually, and the extra fees will make the states very happy.

Just imagine having to pass a dubious test, or become certified before calling yourself a Programmer, or Website whatever?

Paying the state for a licence, completing mandatory education, and dubious work experience, carrying a bond, and disclosing where they can sent a suppona.

Fun times ahead?

Those licence fees are getting high too. It's all on the name of consumer safety though? I pay $180 plus $90 if I'm a day late for a inactive contractor's licence. Why does the state charge people for an inactive licence? I can't use it? It's a money grab.

Yes--"Engineer" is a grey area.

The one that really bother me was when the Realtor's Lobbiests made it more difficult to become a broker. I remember Gov. Schwartzeneger saw right through the ploy, and said no to the new changes. After all selling realestate is eight courses, common sence, omission and errors insurance(optional), and a bond. It's not rocket science.

Governor Brown let the Realtors have their way, and there's fewer Brokers in California; reducing competition. Yea!
I reached this point in graduate school, though it took a few years for it to feel that natural.
In that case, I would refer you to Monoid font. I love that one. You can even select from options for e.g. ampersand, dollar, zero...
A portable fMRI machine... that's the stuff of dreams. For sure that would change the world for the better but I really don't see how you would even begin to tackle that.
> the line (for years!) was that China's economic growth and foreign trade would _inevitably_ lead to democratization and widespread human rights improvements. That didn't happen

I don't think you understand what the word inevitably means.
Apparently you haven't had to crack any recently. As an attorney with infosec certification, I can tell you that in my world, AES ZIPs are just as practically impossible to crack as you'd guess.
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This reminds me of a demo a friend once gave me on a Symbolics Lisp Machine. He turned the garbage collector off, then ran a program that allocated memory like mad. After a while, a message popped up saying something like "you are about to run out of memory. Activate GC?" He declined, and the program continued running. After a bit more time, another message popped up saying "you are about to run out of memory, and if you don't start GC now, there will not be enough room to run it when you do. Activate GC?" Again, he declined. After more time, another message popped up saying "you have run out of memory, and it is not possible to start GC now. Would you like to attach an external disk drive?" The idea was that the external drive could serve as additional memory either to continue running without GC or as scratch memory for the GC. I've always found that impressive.
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It makes grading easier, so you get better feedback---and more attention to substance.

Every graduate math class I've taken has asked for typeset problem sets; some have required it.
I thought the Learning to Learn course on Coursera was excellent. It covers some of the things you mentioned but a lot more and also explains why in terms of how your brain works. It only took me a few hours to complete the course.
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Salesmanship does not always equal BS, and I'm not sure that the BS is inverse to importance. Rather, actualized importance and perception of importance are independent and the BS can be useful to magnify one and/or the other. Thus, selling an effective vaccine vs snake oil, both of which may/will not sell itself largely on facts alone.
You're not reading what I wrote carefully enough. I'm not suggesting that AES-encrypted ZIPs are especially easy to crack. I'm saying that on most platforms, AES-encrypted ZIPs aren't what you get: you get ZIP 2.0 encryption.
Recently I found out that my knowledge about probabilistic algorithms was quite lacking, so I decided to a jupyter notebook about them. I think some of you will find them as interesting as I did. And if there are any mistakes, let me know.
Works without self interest?
I don't know Oregon law specifically but I've been an expert witness and don't have a PE.
As the article itself points out more than once, the situation described in the title is strictly related to the US.

I have studied at several educational institutions in Europe, Indonesia and Australia, and I never had anything else than a Windows device (either laptop or desktop PC) (except in cases where the arrangement was BYOD).

EDIT: spelling
Olives are one of those things that seem like an acquired taste to me.

As a mid-20s western guy I hate the flavour, and it's not something I've ever seen young people eat. But older folks seem to love them. Maybe it's a rite of passage when growing up that eventually you come to like olives :)
> "but it's fact, IMHO"

That's not how facts work.
Hah, yeah. ETF, I mean.