skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional crafts often had apprentices/journeyman doing the bulk of the work with a master doing the critical portions. So, a policy that says the seller must do something to each piece could be reasonable, but essentially saying you can buy components from someone else, but you can't have assistants is silly.
It's humor. Everything else looks kinda real. The science is bad though, because it lacks all details needed to reproduce and the evaluation is a bit fishy. They also claim it's super fast without mentioning what makes their approach fast.
.+@.+\..+
>ad hoc third-party SSO authentication provider (which may or may not also use the equivalent of 2FA) via a manual token-exhange mechanism

This is a huge step up from a memorized password. Go ahead and implement OpenID too, but don't force people down to the level of memorized passwords needlessly. Expending effort to prevent pasting is a stupid move.
recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335715
Where is your report published?
That's technically true but irrelevant: on the web, SSL came well after the initial wave of adoption and U.S. companies were restricted by law[1] from exporting strong encryption to people outside of the United States. It took awhile to get programs updated and for years it was common to see separate versions (or even third-party patch trees) on download pages.

All of that meant that someone launching a service couldn't assume that their users’ software supported encryption at all or securely for years. Coupled with the previously mentioned horrible user experience and cost of certificates, that really killed the idea since the password experience was both easier and far more familiar.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Though I'm pretty sure I've seen "Your password is too similar to a previous password" before, which suggests some kind of plaintext Levenshtein distance check.

"Is the same as" can be fine with a hash, but "Is too similar" is definitely a red flag.
While developers would love that, kotlin works because its interoperable with java. Swift doesn't have that. Try to add it and you'd shatter the swift ecosystem. Don't add it and people wouldn't adopt it because there's no path for gradual transition.
Aggregate push down to foreign servers seems to overlap with Citus. It's not as transparent, but you could have a dataset sharded across several PG instances, mount them all into a master with foreign data wrappers, and UNION them (for some queries) to aggregate across the set.
Non-paywall link?
Not positive, but I think there are scaling issues w AC induction motors. My understanding is that for smaller applications, they don't make sense.

Anyone have more insight on this?
They are concerned about actual monopolies.

There are hundreds of messenger apps out there that roughly work the same way. If facebook suddenly charged $100/day for whatsapp, people would just use something different. Like Kik or whatever. Its true that those competitors dont really have market share. But thats not the point. They exist and are readily accessible. If facebook wants to shoot itself in the foot in trying to force its customers to use their competitors, thats just healthy competition.

Therefore, there's no real threat of a monopoly here. Facebook bought a network effect, not a monopoly.

Compare that to something like mobile carriers. If At&t buys verizon and spring or whatever they're called, there ARE no other options.

Antitrust laws are mostly about keeping market mechanics in tact. Facebook and Google cant really force anyone to use their products. If their products are too expensive, there are lots of competitors. That's why they want to get rid of net neutrality. Making it expensive to run competing services strengthens their position.
I truly understand your argument, but I'm becoming more under the impression that degreed education isn't necessary to nearly as many people as we think it is.
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The cure when I start getting tempted to "roll my own" is watching that Ted talk about the guy who tried (failed) to build a toaster from raw materials to match the 5 quid discount store equivalent.
The normal trick of opening wsj articles in an incognito window is no longer working for me.

Here's a link that worked for me:
https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-tho...

Both WSJ article and the one I linked to are from March.
One of them is likely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291461
Yeah. Do spike but don't show it to management before minimal cleanup refactoring! They may think it is done.
I see what you mean, but AWS has a similar client list, probably higher risks in that area than a CDN, and manages just fine.
Oct 21, 2016 - "Working from home should be a rare occurrence to accommodate legitimate ... dismay as workers adjusted to the idea that they can no longer work from home. ... Clarifying Honeywell's "remote work policy to employees," Hamel said

Honeywell too... Goodbye work from Home. Many will follow .
The nice thing about that is it's just one site's security token to change! Compromising that single password doesn't compromise all logins, just the one.

Whereas if you reuse a password on multiple sites, and one of those sites is compromised, all of the rest of your logins are compromised.
Hospice recall? When an elderly loved one enters hospice and is unlikely to ever leave, all the family is called back in to gather for their death. Happened with Yahoo a couple years ago. I didn't realize IBM was doing so poorly.
> Yet I'm looking at 5 years of debt with a tech industry salary.

And that's a pretty optimistic observable.
I don't have a problem with slideshows, but a reason is that, in the UX perspective, elements that animate recurringly with previously hidden content (and possibly links) is confusing and not actually used, and then when you find something you want to check you have to use the slideshow pagination, which is cumbersome. Better to properly display the points of interest.
> Work somewhere where software is the main product and not just a cost center.
> Doing elegant things is very difficult...

These are great! I would also add: be certain that the organization shares your values. If you really care about code quality, elegant solutions, etc, you'll have a frustrating time working at a company that doesn't prioritize those things.
The pricing is based on the value they perceive customers will be receiving and use bandwidth as a proxy for usage.
What's really sad to me is that SPKI (RFCs 2692 & 2693) addressed centralisation, complexity and cost, and was more-or-less completely ignored. If the browser and server vendors had just supported it, I really think that it could have had a chance.

It was even backwards-compatible with X.509!
I love these aphorisms - but strictly speaking chance doesn't favour anything. Things just happen. With preparation you can set yourself to better exploit your luck and circumstances, you can even do things to increase the possibility of good fortune coming your way. But believing you will be lucky if you do the right things is little different from cargo cult philosophy - and is a footnote to the gamblers fallacy.
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But maybe if you didn't see that ad, you would have come across a different product/service which is actually better quality. Maybe your expectations of quality have slowly eroded over time (because of advertising).

For example, in the old days, most items of clothing would last a lifetime. These days most items of clothing tend to fall apart after a few years.
Also, many kinds of food items used to be better quality (I've read many articles about how low the quality of farmed vegetables like Tomatoes have become).

I think that even Mcdonalds' used to be much better quality 20 years ago. At first I thought it was just because my memory was fuzzy but I later found out from someone who worked at McDonalds that one day, they suddenly swapped the buns of the Quarter Pounder burger to smaller buns but no one noticed except the employees.

Also big Pizza chains in some countries have been making the pizzas smaller and smaller over time in order to maintain the low prices.
Advertising allows big companies to keep pulling back on real quality whilst replacing it with an illusion of quality.
You're flabbergasted that we invest time in social sciences at a time when we're making great progress in science? Can't say that's very surprising to me.
You're cherry-picking pretty heavily: there's a lot of cargo-culted password advice but the current push for user-friendlier password management practices and fundamental model changes (e.g. two-factor with U2F) has been lead by security experts who have, for many years, been loudly reminding everyone that usability is a security requirement rather than an inherent conflict.
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Possibly, but talent-based scholarships (supposedly) are not discriminative.
Yeah, they probably stored old hashes, but I find it hard to believe they stored variations of old ones as well. Maybe they did though!
this is also true.

It's a calculated risk: Is the business revenue going to grow faster than the pain from these decisions?
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There are living people whose relatives were brutally killed by Stalin. He was responsible for more deaths than Hitler, if you ignore Hitler's role in initiating the wars.

It's reasonable to distance yourself from a bad name, just as many people have chosen to rename things that were named Isis.
Thanks, good tip. But I still think that my frustration is reasonable.
Yes, it is a chore to carry around two laptops — I'm really not a fan. But then, I don't carry around my personal laptop much: I do most of my personal computing on my desktop, and my work computing on my work laptop. When I travel, I'll chuck my work laptop in my checked baggage (carrying the battery with me, of course) and carry my personal laptop on with me.

It's a chore, but it prevents the sort of cross-domain spillage we see in this article. I think it's worth some minor inconvenience to me in order to prevent major damage to my company and my customers.
I'm ignorant. What is composer?
> They are legitimately useful, but they are also legitimately harmful by creating needs that you didn't have.

> They are categorically not just about informing people.

> And saying you received value from ad-supported stuff strikes me as very backwards. You still pay, but you pay through being manipulated into buying stuff you don't need.

This was the ancestor comment I was responding about. This person is suggesting that an advertiser can make you buy things you wouldn't otherwise want. My point is that it isn't true - you have to want the product at some level to be interested. If you'd read my comment you'd realise that I agree that they can influence your decision, but not if you weren't at least mildly interested in the product in the first place.
No, it's a regular loan and there is no collateral upon default. Additionally, they typically are not able to be thrown out in bankruptcy either. As a last resort, many student loans are federally guaranteed (so imagine if the borrower died, the government will guarantee the loan is repaid). In essence, this is one of the biggest (but not the only) reasons for ever-increasing costs at universities. They add more staff, more administrative people, more student perks, nicer dorms, and charge ever more money because they can. Students get the loans and in all but the most remotest of chance, that loan will always be repaid in due time. It's almost a no-risk loan for lending institutions making it practically like free money to be collected by universities/colleges.
When we bought a place years ago we used an agent. He didn't do much in finding the place for us. We did most of that legwork (using realtor.com, zillow, and trulia). We'd call him up with a short list of places we wanted to see and he opened the doors for us. So not much value add there.

But he really earned his money by giving us advice on places we looked at (ie. "that doesn't look right, or this neighborhood may not be a great fit for you", etc). We looked at a lot of places. He also gave us advice when it came to closing. We walked from the first house we put a bid on after inspection gave us a pit in our stomachs. And he waived our inspection costs (he ate it) so it didn't cost us anything.

When we did buy a place he really made it happen and really helped us through all the paperwork (we didn't have the strongest offer).

When we sold our place several years later we used a different agent and she helped us move it in under 2 weeks. I really think it was her connections in finding a buyer that moved it so quickly as the first weekend she showed it (through private showings) we had multiple offers. She helped us look through all of them explaining and pointing out things we would never have noticed. And she definitely didn't push us in any direction, not even to the largest one (we went with a middle of the pack one passing up on another 15k). And I don't think it was solely the housing market we were in.

A lot of money for both agents there but in our eyes they both earned it.
People ingest a lot of data. Especially when they are young. They touch everything, look at everything in funny ways, chew on things, and so on. Try to interact with everything to gain data.

It's just not textual.
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How the Syrian government brought soccer into campaign of oppression
Indeed, it's portable and part of the standard. Personally I'm a big fan of this implementation: https://github.com/progschj/ThreadPool/
The only comments I saw were one from an unnamed staffer, at the end, and two from software engineers. What about these comments (from people who've just lost their jobs, bear in mind) seems entitled to you? I just see people who agreed with the principles and ideology of the company they worked for.

> Jason Wong, a former engineer, urged his ex-colleagues to “fight” for “all the sellers who rely on you, for the values that Etsy stands for, for all the things you love about working there.”

> “I’m not crying,” wrote Katherine Daniels, a senior engineer. “I’m just allergic to capitalism.”
If you're worried about ad money in a scope of 10 next years, one will be related to the other.
First they took free tea and coffee in the office (http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/apr/15bcrisis-no-more-free-...) now they are taking away WFH.

There are fewer and fewer incentives to work for IBM.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/18/ibm-pioneer-r...
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It was one billboard ad - not really 'massively automated'. Would have been cheap to hire an intern to stand behind the billboard and make notes. Probably cheaper.
I'd disagree with the generalization that Friedman is viewed as the paragon of logical reasoning and empiricism by economists.

This might be a case of where there's a vocal minority who like to quote Friedman when it's convenient for their political position, so I do understand why it is hard to avoid the impression you have.

His academic contributions to the field are recognized when they've held up, but his views and who he sided with is not without criticism.
This bothered me, particularly since the text of the article itself goes on to show examples where the "white male effect" does not exist.

The entire point of the article is that people are not in fact biologically predisposed to risk; the quote is rather misleading for people who are just skimming the article.
If you can remember it that means you need to change it! I refuse to look at any of my generated passwords. For the services that wont let me paste in, I have a macro that will type whats on my clipboard. Just a simple auto IT script with a WAIT (so I can make sure I focus on the input box) and SEND.

My password manager also clears the clipboard if it is equal to the last password copied after a wile (I've never timed it).
IBM is calling its marketing teams back into the offices. Not all remote workers. The marketing teams. At least as far as I, and the people I know who work at IBM, have heard.
> as you can hardly call Rust safe

Care to expand on that? I'm curious.
I wish there were video for each presentation!
Wow, so now in addition to criminal background checks companies should do "banned dev accounts" background checks.
Daryl Bem and the Replication Crisis
5 things:

1. That statistics and metrics collection is incredibly important even if you only ever use it via libraries.

2. That code performance doesn't matter if the code is incorrect or insecure. So much of my life in industry has been tainted with an influence to conform to the cultural norm of "fast is best." This influence and culture is one of the most counterproductive parts of our industry.

3. The industry is actually full of great people, but those people avoid most of the media hubs that projects have access to because a tiny slice of terrible people dominate discourse. These assholes set the tone for the entire industry, and should be ostracized and punished. It's not everyone, it's a thin coating of hate.

4. Corollary to 2 and 3, I wish I learned to ask for help earlier in my career. I wish I could go back to my younger self and take the chip I'd acquired working with government contractors.

5. Corollary to 4, I wish I realized that I should be reading academic papers and that the people writing them weren't wasting time. Much of what's considered modern state of the art is in fact 5-10 year old work out of universities and MSR.
"Companies began offering generous remote work policies because they expected large savings in office and real-estate costs, said Jennifer Glass, a University of Texas professor who studies telecommuting and advises companies on remote-work strategies. Those savings haven't materialized, Ms. Glass said, so workers are being called back to the office."

How is that possible? For large companies in really expensive areas especially.

"Relocating offices or asking employees to move can sometimes be read as layoffs in disguise, since a certain percentage of workers won't be able to relocate."

That seems more likely to be the one of the biggest real reasons why they're doing this.
The xkcd comic has all the math right there in it. They are already assuming word by word guesses not character by character guesses.
> Also Jacques Loussier has some nice Bach interpretations.

Now that's a name I really never expected here. Seconded!
Also there are differences in further employment perspectives.

I mean if you have a problem to solve and you have a choice to use some old tech that you already know, but it is going out fashion, and some new one, then the choice of the newer one improves your employability in the future. For example, I guess in 2000 there was not that much people with 5 years of experience of using Java in production, but those who had it, had to have pretty good chances to easily find decent job.

Of course there is a risk to bet on wrong technology, but at least you keep learning instead of just using ageing tools and becoming more and more disconnected from the current state of the art. It can be as scary as this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886753, a story of a guy who successfully solved business problems and delivered products with jQuery for a long time and then eventually found that he was out of demand because businesses started looking for people with experience of using React and he didn't have it.
Facebook and Google are also not anywhere close to monopolies--in fact, they are behemoth competitors against each other for online advertising dollars, because media companies sell to advertisers, not free end users.
I feel like this feature replaces almost all of Mongo's use cases!
They're letting their partners work on it.
pattern matching: swift has switf and kotlin has when, both are very similar

recursive data structures: I don't get this one, kotlin has all the java api available and all the third party libraries. As java has been here for much longer than swift I guess that swift is lacking more here than kotlin.

Tail call optimization: kotlin has the special word tailrec for this

Yes, kotlin has a lot of things. It also has co-routines like in go, it also compiles to java script and much more.

The reason Google is supporting kotlin and not swift or scaala is because they have to do nothing to support it. Kotlin compiles to bytecode, so it doesnt matter your code is written in java or kotlin because when you compile it it is bytecode at the end. Scala needs to add a runtime when compiling to bytecode, it takes much longer to compile than kotlin and it is not fully compatible with java as kotlin. And Swift it is just something completely different, they should change the virtual machine in order to support it.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, since you have an interesting opinion, but in this case Etsy decided to play the game. They could have stayed private and done whatever they wanted without worrying about 'shareholder value'. They chose to IPO, they are now owned by the market. If you can't play the shareholder game then don't go public.
iPhone 7 in Apple ad has a strange camera
My speculation is this is a way to make cuts without firing anyone
And it's not as though my reaction would be to open a door and yell "Run! You're free!".

My first reaction would be to confront the friend about the situation. Next steps would happen next. Ignoring it because it's challenging, awkward or complicated is wrong. It just is.
I agree with you entirely. Basing everyone's college major on ROI is why public universities should be free, so that people can pursue knowledge regardless of cost or ROI. Otherwise we wouldn't have artists, musicians, journalists, authors, and dozens of other essential careers that help make life worth living.
I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab.com is slow and we're working on improving that, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947

Self hosted GitLab should be fast. GitLab.com has an export to move all your project metadata to a self hosted instance.
Oh. I see, so the binary blobs that are not exactly user space, but not exactly non-userspace either.

That's why XDA is full of ROMs that "just need to get GPS working and camera sometimes crashes" :(

How come Google doesn't try to source better hardware for their phones? Also, is this the cause of why Apple in-housed a lot of things?

Also, how come there isn't an isolation layer for these blobs, something like docker for the phone? (So they get their runtime dependencies, and communicate with them via a socket-shim?)
With IBM, one can't help but feel this is a tactic to force layoffs without having to actually do a layoff. I believe they tried similar tactics in their Global Business Services division in the mid-2000s.
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Indeed, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (the crowdsourced one) said they'd use Inductrack technology for their version of Hyperloop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductrack

This uses permanent magnets arranged in a Halbach Array for levitation.

This method of levitating a pod is incredibly efficient and gets more efficient at higher speeds (in a vacuum). You can actually exceed typical rail efficiency (rolling resistance of 1:1000, i.e. an effective coefficient of friction of 0.001 or a lift-to-drag ratio of 1000) at 300m/s since levitation power remains basically constant above a certain speed (as opposed to increasing linearly in the case of friction or rolling-resistance). And because you're in a vacuum, you're far exceeding what could be possible in a non-hyperloop/vactrain design:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20100064929