skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

thanks for commenting!

I had cronjobs in mind, but as you said, they are not writeable.

I also thought about uploading a .py file with an import's name, but wouldn't that require a __init__.py (in a subdirectory?) to be regarded as a valid module/import by python?
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>It's standard security practice to serve user submitted content on a separate domain, so I'm a little surprised that Google isn't following it.

But it is being served under googleusercontent.com?
They didn't. Google predates Baidu by two years. It's possible they could be talking about a specific technology, but not likely. Google had a Chinese subsidiary at one point in time, but stopped bothering as the government got in their way and assisted Baidu at every turn. Like with most situations where a foreign company competes with a Chinese one.

And that's before you get into the fact that China really doesn't want any foreign info-based companies operating in its borders, given their heavy propaganda machine. They'll tolerate it only until they can clone it and expel it.
the problem is not in insurance itself, then, but taxation
They have freedom! They have "access" to books and reading in that they can pay for it if they can afford to do so. Not reading, whether due to disinterest or lack of financies, is simply a life choice.

Hm, It sounds similar to a contemporary debate, I just can't place it... /s
Interesting. Somebody lobby employers to provide this setup.

Though my original point was about kids.
Especially when, if you're in a position of any authority, there's a good chance you'll be negotiating in their behalf. So they want you to make good deals on their behalf while making a poor one on your own behalf...I guess they're hoping you have really poor self-esteem?
That's one of the qualities of having integrity - a lack of integrity in others does not change your behavior.
I completely agree and I've taken issue with this as well. This is something that is hugely susceptible to confirmation bias for the exact reason you stated: mere exposure to the concept will allow people to rationalize performing the behavior even if they wouldn't before.

Not only that, but think of all the cultures/jobs where it is normal for people to work much more than the typical 40 hour work week we are accustomed to. Do 18 year old Vietnamese fishermen working 80 hour weeks suffer from "ego depletion" the same way 18 year old college students do in the US? Probably not. It may be an element of our culture / upbringing that we put more emphasis on leisure, and not some psychological or neurological "need".
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Your whole mindset is wrong. Think of it from the perspective of people you are cold calling. They arent engineers, all they see is the finished app or website. They just want somwthing that works. When you buy laundry detergent, do you care about the active ingredient or how it was produced? All you care about is does it clean your clothes. These are small companies not looking to scale, so good engineering doesnt lead to greater sales. It doesnt add value

Also I'm going to assume English isn't your first language. If you are to English speakers you really need to work on your language skills

I'm also going to be brutally honest if you have 12 plus years experience and you don't understand the nature of business then perhaps you should have someone help you on that end because understanding why people don't need great engineering
I believe you should accept that you are doing sales and practice for that. What you are perceiving as lack of regard for your good engineering skills might be only your own lack of regard for acquiring sales skills.

And if you are selling at anexo English speaking market, I also agree a lot with teovall's comment that you must improve your writing skills. I am not a native english speaker and Grammarly helps me a lot. I highly recommend this software for improving your writing in english.
Played fine in Safari on my iPad mini 2. Fully upgraded OS.
Pew Research Center says ~77% US adults own smartphones. [1] The director at Pew also tweeted a breakdown by country which shows a lot of variance. [2] Thus, this script won't work at all in a lot of places.

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/

[2] https://twitter.com/conradhackett/status/701798230619590656
Similarly Alexa does not detect the wake word if it's playing music all the way up and I'm more than a couple feet away from the Echo.
This Handbrake outbreak could have been easily avoided. For instance, Handbrake could create a separate server on say, Amazon EC2 and have it download the file from their website every 30min or so, and check the checksum. If it's not right, then it flips a kill switch on the website.

Doesn't fix the root cause, but could have caught it much sooner.
So Yahoo took the code and did all sorts of stuff to it.
I've got the code pre-yahoo and that's the stuff that is
fast.

It's part of BitKeeper which is open source.
Is "don't put down flooring for our competition during this job" really going to prevent that?
Because of the funding mandate
> We can't even get clean water to all of the citizens

Of course you can. Americans simply choose not to.

"You get the politicians you deserve" - Barack Obama.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic about how users feel or about that kind of configuration for UAC, but personally it's one of the many things I dislike when I'm on a Windows computer.

For power users it's annoying and disruptive. For users that might benefit the most from it they quickly learn to press ok always whenever they are prompted for something, no matter what it's asking.

In my opinion, an ideal OS would have absolutly no confirmation dialogs what so ever, but instead it would have unlimited systemwide undo for any action. Look at Gmail vs Microsoft 360 webmail. One is a pleasure to use, the other a pain in the but. Some of that difference comes from dialogs and extra steps in 360 where GMail instead lets you undo.

Add powerful application isolation like in iOS, but make it as simple for the user to pass data between programs as it conceptually is to pipe text from one command to another in Unix, except that you shouldn't have to set up the pipeline first, instead you open a program work on something, pass it to another program work on it and so on. Each program also has an isolated location in the fs for persisting user data but since the only way for one program to access data from another program by the user explicitly sending it over, no application can access something it shouldn't have without the users interaction. So like iOS in that respect also. Of course the user can still be socially engineered into giving some data to a program that shouldn't have it but I don't think it could possibly be worse than what we have today.

There are a bunch of other problems and challenges also that I've not gotten around to consider, but I feel that an operating system like the one I described, if open source under an acceptable license (ISC, BSD, MIT or similar preferably) existed, I'd gladly throw away the portability advantages of POSIX in change for it.
Much frustrate reading this article.

"The most common reason cited for this conclusion is, of course, financing: though its costs have not been quantified, it is certain that they would be high. Just how income and wealth should be taxed to pay for it remains an open question."

The author whips this gem out in the third paragraph....questioning...something that the author had already answered.

"Instead of providing social benefits in an emergency, during unemployment, or in old age, the government would pay every adult the same lump sum ... This would be in place of all other entitlements, including unemployment benefits, and would most likely eliminate pensions as well."

He answered his own question that he poses in the third paragraph in the first paragraph...like wtf?

The rest of the article is fairly average attempts at predicting social outcomes as a result of macro economic policy.
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Motherfuckers need package management (2015)
This extreme case of sending the modified application back is the perfect countermove!
wget -mrnp https://www.example.com
TIL. That's really cool. Now I'm wondering if there are any small fully-paravirtualized hypervisors and guests I can play with. I guess Linux's support for various forms of I/O acceleration is more or less it.

I didn't know Drawbridge was that amazing - that's incredible.

And now I'm starting to understand Microsoft's vision: they have WSL to get Linux infrastructure onto Windows, and Dk to get selected Windows infrastructure onto Linux. Impressive.

But now I think about it that way, I know Dk will only ever be an internal framework - if that got released we'd basically have "perfect Wine" and it would allow quite a few too many applications to move off of NT.
Reading the article it also seems the author has a rather sensationalist approach to interpreting research. Some of the studies he refers to do not seem to make the claims that he extracts from them, nor have a sample which resembles the general public.

The idea that you should intertwine focused thinking with unfocused thinking (and/or relaxation) was the subject of Daniel Kahneman's excellent book Thinking Fast and Slow.
Google declined to provide a breakdown of the exact details the company collects from student use of its services. Bram Bout, director of Google’s education unit, pointed to a Google privacy notice listing the categories of information that the company’s education services collect, like location data and “details of how a user used our service.

Mr. Rochelle, the Google executive, said that it was important for the company to have large, diverse sets of educational users giving feedback — otherwise it might develop products that worked for only a few of them.

Why would they fail to provide that breakdown?

Because then they would have to admit they're building a profile of that child from the minute they start early school, and how strange that would be.
Maybe because Asia has recently entered this phase while USA (and Europe) did their explosive growth long ago and now have to deal with maintenance and migration rather than exciting new developments ?
That's interesting. As a contractor I saw them whenever subcontracting, but they were always willing to clarify to the point that they didn't want me contracting with any of their customers directly (and usually only ones that I met through the parent contractor).

As an employee, every company I've ever worked for has given me one. Few have been negotiable, but pretty much all have openly stated/agreed they weren't enforceable in CA when I raised concerns.
And the retirement plan: ex-presidents get the same salary as the current president. Not bad at all.
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The problem here is that the file is being scanned without the user even attempting to run it. A similar vector would be file previews (thumbnails) or indexing.

If the user is about to execute a malicious file anyway, then scanning it before only adds protection.
> but the OP is correct in that almost everything is a PDF nowadays.

What's so immutable about a PDF? I'm thinking about my most recent job where when the contract arrived in my inbox it had a salary 10% lower than I expected. I was disappointed and anxious about how to continue. It was a good job, but I didn't want to take a pay cut. I sent off a quick email clarify it, unsure how it was received. An hour later I got a short apology and a new contract.

Asking is free. It's as they say - you never know if you never go. If they still resist, then you've done the hardest part of starting the conversation, and it's up to you to see if you want to continue with the negotiations.
I'm sure this is already being done at a massive scale. It seems like disabling all connectivity when you are not using it would be good for privacy.
Here's another good one about self driving cars and the right to modify its code - "Car Wars" by Cory Doctorow : http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars
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Thought I'd share my own work in progress: http://mrgris.com:10011/summits/ (definitely not ready for primetime)

To me the most fascinating aspect of prominence is how it identifies the relationships between mountains-- prominence naturally evokes the concept of a 'parent peak', and you can extend that concept to create a global hierarchy of every mountain and hill on earth.

The linked viewer (once you select a mountain) shows the key saddle (lowpoint on path to higher ground), ridgeline, 1st higher ground and parent peak, as well as all child peaks (peaks whose parent is the current peak) ranked by their own prominence.

The demo is limited to North America, but computes all peaks down to a prominence of 20m (about ~2.1M). Only the top 5,000 are indexed on the overview page due to memory constraints of my web server.
Notch cancelled it. https://notch.tumblr.com/post/58707926941/so-thats-what-im-g... is the cancellation post. He wanted to work on smaller games that could fail rather than massively hyped games where every off hand design decision comment becomes a major news cycle item in the gaming world. The attempt for a community driven game appears to have stalled out ( https://www.reddit.com/r/trillek/ ).
If we count trees as people, there is no difference
Brown hat hackers have an incentive to create non-functional ransomware, to spread FUD on the legitimate ransomware. If news spreads that some ransomware does not actually decrypt the files after payment, then potential victims would have a stronger incentive to secure their systems, and a weaker incentive to stockpile ransom funds (wt actual f!)

Then, the onus would once again be on the legitimate ransomware developers to prove their ability to do business, and some sort of Ethereum based automated contract might be an ideal tool for that.
I misinterpreted that then. Cheers.
Keep in mind that sometimes a company will hire you into an unrelated job role (evangelist, account manager, etc) until your lockup runs out.
Very useful, I really liked that design. (If anything, I wish there had've been a little "notch" cut above the right edge, so that once you move the slider over and the top and bottom parts animate out the edges of the screen, it would look like the slider was moving through the notch. Hopefully that made sense. I do realize that such a visual design would have been just confusing enough that it would never have been approved, though.)

This is sort of what I was getting at - I just found this article, but it's quite balanced. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/...
This lady died just around the time that South Africa's nuclear program started to weaponize. She died in November 1970, Wikipedia says that South Africa started nuclear testing in 1971. Norway would be a good place to meet Russians, for instance.
the guys explains that the ransomware does this check to defend itself from being observed in a vm
Ask HN: Does anyone hire average developers?
Obviously most companies do by definition.
Far more commonly known as the Collatz conjecture.

Several prominent mathematicians have said something along the lines of "we would need a much different math to solve this".

And this is despite it being simpler than every problem being actively worked on in mathematics (e.g. Riemann hypothesis).
Places that cut the IT budget first are also places that raise the IT budget last.
Personally the Nords seem to have their heads screwed on correctly to me, from what I can tell. Sweden or Iceland need any developers?

Australia has gone down the same path, both parties are in agreement on this stripping back of privacy, metadata collection and (what feels like to me) moving to a totalitarian regime. I don't think this can be fixed.
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Glad the community and remixing got you engaged with Scratch! Those two things were the focus of my PhD dissertation at the Media Lab. Do you mind sharing what you do now? What was your Scratch handle? Scratch on!
1) to prevent you from working somewhere else at the same time, which can create all sorts of conflicts of interest, or 2) because it'll keep you from looking for a new job, and they think you're too naive to argue.

Actually there is a third reason: An employee leaves and takes proprietary tech to a competitor.

The standard answer is: Well that's what an NDA/Confidentiality clause is for so you don't need to worry about that.

Unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. You can't just purge your brain of something you've been working on for months or years. On top of that it's nearly impossible to prove that a confidentiality infringement was made unless code or hardware was straight up exported/copied and implemented.

Especially in the case where a megacorp hires away someone from a startup, the startup can't reasonably sue megacorp for this type of thing because it would cost too much and be basically a total loss.

Effectively it happens like this:

Employee 1 was implementing a novel computer vision algo for Startup X.

Megacorp approaches Employee 1 with 3x salary offer and stock.

Employee 1 leaves startup to work on a similar project for megacorp.

Startup can't ask what Employee 1 is working on because Employee 1 and Megacorp have an NDA.

Megacorp comes out with a new product that implements the algo, except it was implemented by the team Employee 1 was on which had been working on the same problem for a while and not just Employee 1 themselves.

I've seen this happen first hand, so it's not like it doesn't go on.

There are a million "reasons" why people are ok with this situation and just blame it on the startup not being competitive with salary, but increasingly that's basically impossible.
What is your Scratch handle? I worked on the online community for my dissertation and it's always great to know how the social aspect of Scratch has helped people in their journey.
Noncompetes are very common in finance because employees will gain access to proprietary knowledge (trading algorithms, signals, clients, strategies) that by definition have very high short-term (months to a year) value to a competitor.

Confidentiality doesn't work that well because proving that a former employee disclosed proprietary information is very difficult.

However, the ex-employee is generally paid at full salary for the time that they're unemployed, which seems like a very fair arrangement all around.
We didn't break the build
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this shit should be illegal. even small businesses are doing this now. programmers are a dime a dozen and everyone is using open source. fuck all these tech companies they don't have jack shit TO steal and force you to sign away everything anyway
If they don't all die of lung cancer from the massive pollution they deal with.
Indeed, homoiconicity is a very powerful thing. It doesn't have to be core to the nature of the language, though; as far as I know, any Turing-equivalent language readily admits a metacircular interpreter, and so really a homoiconic language is a language with a compiler in the standard library.

As a thought experiment, imagine Lisp without macros. It's not hard; after all, "The Little Schemer" covers metacircular interpretation without ever mentioning macros. So what's going on? Apparently we don't need macros! But, we could add macros to a Lisp by reifying them in the metacircular interpreter. There's actually a feature in plain sight which makes this possible, and it's the humble (quote) special form. This is what makes code and data intermix so cleanly in Lisp.

This is why languages like Julia and Monte are not shy about using "homoiconic" to describe their language design; a standard library compiler is just as good as a compiler in the core semantics, as long as it's easy to use and meshes well with the rest of the language.
No. You are advocating for a communist/anarchist idea, which has no relevance to this topic.
I've almost always been presented one, and I've always had it removed. It is a certainty I will compete, especially the more I become an "expert" in an industry, it's not a fair expectation. I work for startups, probably tougher at big corps.
Pricing is an endlessly complex problem. If such a pricing strategy brings in more business than it drives away then it is good, otherwise bad. There is also that they want to everyone in the team to use it - by using tiers this stops those at the margins being excluded.

The tier-based pricing is certainly not clear from their website. I think they could do better here.
No one asks to be born into a society that doesn't allow someone to eschew its rules as they wish. There is literally no way to consent to being born. It is not a choice someone makes.

People are being born into a society they can not afford to live in, and have no options to leave it. I personally find that disgusting.
Examples of pro "American" policies that leftist rhetoric has blocked?
Many of the people discussing it do think it is directly relevant, myself included. Consider downvoting and moving along if you find it off-topic?

And by the way, communism isn't exactly a word you have to be afraid of, and accusing someone of opposing capitalism doesn't shut down the conversation nor mean they are incorrect.
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Not my field, but:

* Suicide is one terminal option.

* There's a fair history of people who've suffered burnout, or equivalent earlier terms (nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, possibly also PTSD and its antecedants -- combat fatigue and shell shock), for the rest of their natural lives.

* Others who've taken multi-year / multi-decadal breaks, or transitioned to other careers or professions.

Again: I suspect considerable variance.
Looks like normal L-system stuff?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
Someone has apparently patented the notion of "arranging windows on a grid." This is worth discussing and upvoting -- it could potentially affect a lot more than Moom.
Yeah that doesn't sound like non-compete, that sounds like poaching.
He had a few digs at the audience including saying they were maybe not very interesting as they hadn't sent him good questions. There seems a bit of I/we are so great, everything else is crap. Part of his style I guess.
Thanks for the warning; I went ahead and signed up from my phone so I don't have to wait for the registration later!