skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the sides sealed with? Alcohol is a good solvent so it may be an adhesive flavor youve tasted.

You could check the density if you think its not actually copper material though.
>I'm using a Nexus 5, which was launched almost 4 years ago, that uses 4G. A reliable, widespread 5G network is at least 2 years distant, probably more. Barring breakage, and changing the battery, the Nexus 5 could almost certainly be used 6 years after launch, and still work well. The barrier for that sort of lifetime is software, not hardware.

My prediction for the communications modules not lasting is also trying to take into account that the rate of developments is likely to speed up - not stay the same or slow down.

>There are a substantial percentage of people that are more worried about the UI changing underneath them than whether or not they're using 3G or 4G.

I'm talking about simply being cut off from the rest of the world. Many Countries have now fully retired 2G networks. In less than 5 years, I can see the same likely to happen for 3G.

>Secondly, even if 10 years is unlikely, the prospect of being able to run a functioning device indefinite ly allows the lifetimes to increase by more realistic but still significant amounts, 10 years is niche but 4 or 5 isn't.

I think phones should at least match laptops - there's no reason why not. I think we should encourage a few things:

* Standardization of battery sizes - why is every LiPo pack completely different? If think this might even be arbitrarily pushing up the market value of the packs.

* Expansion ports - why is there no expansion port on a phone? Something just big enough to plug a small PCB with a standard connector. That way you could add something onto the internal bus to add functionality. For even common users, this could be slightly more battery, secondary processor, increased RAM, additional GPU, AI chip, VR chip, better camera, louder speaker, new communications, etc. Looking at the Intel Edison, if you can put an entire computer into an SD card [1], you surely could add value to your phone, either immediately or in the future.

* Unlocked - you should be able to easily load your own OS onto your phone with no consequences. This is the same with most laptops. Maybe somebody can't make a phone OS to last for 10 years, but I'm sure there will be some OS in the next ten years. Is it unreasonable to be able to swap your OS?

Completely unrelated, but another thing I would like to see is the use of colour e-ink displays for phones [2]. Video is something that needs to still be solved [3], but I think we pay too much energy for viewing static content on a phone display.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/edison

[2] http://www.eink.com/display_products_triton.html

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24srQXX81Oc
This is a fair point but it's worth noting that lots of good writers don't seem to enjoy writing. This where quotes like "writing is easy, you just take a blank page, open a vein, and bleed" come to mind.

David Foster Wallace seemed to use writing as a way to treat his various depressions and ailments - as a way to "continue" almost.
I don't think most upvotes or commentary here are driven by quality of writing. For one, it's a given that there are many non-native English speakers on this forum, and in general critiquing grammar or style is discouraged.
No sarcasm.

I'm talking about employing an independent third party to monitor the stress I'd be putting on myself, and trusting them to tell me if I cross the threshold into lasting damage and/or risking my life.

Is this a requirement for a residency?
Besides some scattered text files and the Linux man pages, there is this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

It's fairly new - started about a year ago, but there's quite a lot of stuff in there already (bootstrapped from the old XML stuff, I believe).
We are already testing the next generation of RevPi which is called "RevPi compact". This series will have a connector with the DCI for the original Raspi camera. We will start selling them at SPS Drives Fair in November.
But there is plenty of really good USB cameras on the market and they work fine with Compute Module 3 (CM3). We have had an exhibit at Hannover Fair where the only sensor was an USB Cam connected to the RevPi Core which controlled pumps and valves to mix oil and water from 2 tanks into a third tank and separate the fluid back in their tanks again using just the color difference of the fluids to detect the fluid levels.
Waterside is absolutely able to accommodate a dev team.
I think you've been down-voted because your humour is too subtle.

>White males are certainly paid too much! They should make half of what minority employees do!

It certainly feels like this won't stop until that's the case.
No .COM file does, because 64-bit Windows does not have the 16-bit NTVDM. 32-bit Windows (even Windows 10) should work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine#NTVDM
Operation PLUTO (Pipe-Lines Under the Ocean) – WWII Allied Project
Aww.. they lost a chance to call it Gollum!
>I get subsidies from the government, one uniform identity that I can use to get important things.

Yes the government is holding your benifits hostage in order to force you to register for aadhar. This is not an inherit advantage of aadhar.
Another path would be to somehow engage community to help. But Apple doesn't have this modus operandi AFAIK.
Yes, they are.

https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-buil...

The better link is probably http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the... but it isn't loading right now.
https://github.com/cvogt/cbt [0] is under very active, heavy development and seems like a potential beacon of hope to SBT-haters (including myself).

The CBT author and community seem determined to genuinely make it a completely viable SBT replacement (it already works pretty well).

Given that during the earlier part of my career starting a new SBT project would involve 1 - 2 days of wrangling every time (there's always something simple that needs changing, that's inevitably harder than it need be in SBT), I can't wait to see CBT mature.

[0]: In their own words: 'fun, fast, intuitive, compositional, statically checked builds written in Scala'
Tumblr always felt like an odd place for anything academic or serious. Am I alone in that thought?
SNAP is the stock symbol for Snapchat.
> as long as it seems the electorate wants

Given that 3 million more people voted for Hillary, I don't think you can make claims like 'the electorate wants anti-political leadership'.
A friend once asked me to translate a letter he had written to a US company about some equipment of his that needed maintenance. I quickly realized the main difference between Portuguese and English: in Portuguese, you write in a very roundabout way and in English you are straight to the point.

So, if I had translated that letter word by word, it would go something like this:

Dear Sir,

I bring to you, by way of this letter, knowledge of the defects that have befallen the equipment I purchased in...

Sounds a bit medieval.
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"The internet is a copy machine."

This truth is often hidden by some given abstraction.

(file, save, download, streaming, etc.)

Businesses have been built on such abstractions. Success stories.

On the flipside, existing businesses that were built before the internet who do not know the truth have been fed these abstractions. These businesses may stand nothing to gain from participating in the copy machine. Whomever is feeding these businesses with abstractions that hide the truth are not helping these businesses. They are helping themselves and watching these businesses being destroyed by a copy machine.
Getting rich has more to do with luck than talent
PirateBattle.io
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zkms 10 hours ago | parent | on: Performance notes

If I typo the card number and there's no JS code to tell me that, I need to submit the form, wait for it to error out, have to re-enter all the billing address information, re-enter the card number, and try this whole process again. I've resorted to re-typing the card number in the "find" box and making sure that it matches the number in the form's field, just to avoid this crap.

That doesn't necessarily have to be the case. If done correctly, the page could come back with errors and the form already filled out. If the connection is secure enough to fill out the form - it must be secure enough to return your data you entered.
Amazon is located in Seattle, not Silicon Valley. But I also know from a friend and others that they also treat engineers like crap so I'd never work there.
There are inherent differences between men and women, not only in biology but also in the brain/psychology.

In general, Men have a higher diversity in IQ and Risk Taking.

The TL;DR is that Men will have a tendency to take higher risks than women, which is then rewarded more, if it succeeds, however, it is punished more severely when one fails. Punishment generally involved poverty and unemployment.

This doesn't mean women cannot take risks, just that they have a lesser inclination to.

Negotiation for a wage on your job is a form of risk taking, in case of failure you can certainly sour your work relationships which ruins your long-term income projection.
I've read "On Writing Well". Then I discovered "The Elements of Style". On Writing Well opens your eyes to what bad writing is, "The Elements of Style" explains how to write clearly.

"The Elements of Style" belongs to that 1% of books that are truly able to change the way you think (and write).

I tried to apply what I learned in "The Element of Styles" and "On Writing Well" to my company blog: https://medium.com/plainflow/how-we-write-at-plainflow-7e994...
Best thing to come out of my high school English education. I was introduced to it by my sophomore year English composition teacher.

It does have its critics but I think it's a very useful guide for most writers, and being a small book it is easily referenced and has remained useful to me to this day, much like K&R was when I did "C" programming.
That's the PalmOS I remember too, but I wasn't sure if "Garnet" was something different or not.
Unless you're an idiot and outsourcing critical operations to India or China, it's more like ~4 for 1.

Third world countries are developing, you should keep up with that.
I am suspicious of numbers like 99% especially given that the aadhaar scheme is only a few years old. Such statistics are always...messy and look at how hard it is to get other such statistics (vaccination numbers for example). India has an unusually good (by international standards) ability to get some of these mass efforts implemented (again, I'm thinking of vaccination push) but never this quickly.

In addition, such programs do well in areas of good communication, and are weaker in more remote areas and those with weaker educational systems. Which is not an India-specific issue. And it is those hard-to-count people who need the program the most. Also those people are in areas where the local officials are typically the most mendacious (which is why they are hard to reach)... you see the problem.

Sure, all my family in Mumbai and Pune have cards, no problem. A few out in the countryside....likely but it's not like I am close to them.

That was one of my points about it being mandatory: the very people it needs to help are the ones who will be last to get it.

BTW the other problem I mention, the instrument of control, is not addressed by your comment.

(Speaking of you comment: someone downvoted it, which (the down voting) doesn't make sense. Your comment was factual and non-inflammatory. I gave it an upvote because I don't like people down voting something just because they disagree with it)
America doesn't have this. EU doesn't have this. AFAIK only UAE has such a comprehensive system. What countries are you talking about that takes mandatory 10-finger + retina scans of its citizens and compiles it into a single database?

India hasn't banned DDT which has been banned for decades in every other country. We have crippled infrastructure, severe poverty. Yet India has time and money to implement one of the most ambitious Universal ID systems in the world.
No company is trying to sell Scala on its own. Several startups emerged around major open source Scala projects and are doing fine. Lightbend employs core contributors to the compiler and stdlib. There are also very successful consulting shops around Scala technologies that are contributing where they can. The language and its ecosystem haven't seen anything but growth, I'm not worried.
Yes, that's all I've ever heard. However: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002106...

http://www.burnsjournal.com/article/S0305-4179(16)30056-0/fu...
Totally agree. Vengeance sounds great until you get it - and you realize you still have the same problems, and maybe a few new ones.

Perhaps like rehabilitating offenders, we also need to rehabilitate victims as well. Being a victim can be as troubling than being an offender because it's not really in your control. This can really be hard on people, especially mental health, PTSD, anxiety, fear of people, etc.

I'm not even sure such a system exists - it seems like the victim would be on their own for finding care and help with that?
FYI, I'm playing devil's advocate here a bit to see how far you can push this.

I think javascript is a nice addition to client side validation of forms, but it must not impact how they use the system. Having a piece of JS run and not allow me to submit a form is really terrible design, especially when the validation it is doing is running incorrectly.
> Second, lets talk about privacy. Fine there is a new card. Why do they need iris scans and finger prints? What is the need? That too in a government infrastructure which is surely not protecting it properly - http://www.livemint.com/Industry/73F92SKvUKxyngjfx7O0aJ/UIDA....

For the same reason a bank requires your signature. To authenticate you. But in India because we still have some illiteracy signatures won't do. That's why it uses Biometrics. This didn't come to your mind? Does it not reflect poorly on you?

> So it is a system which can be compromised by a motivated employee? What was the benefit again? Oh right stamping out corruption. Lets see how long that lasts.

Mister, in the alternative system - signature/xerox - there's no audit trail. So anyone with a pen paper can forge you signature for example. With Aadhaar you at least get notification anytime authentication happens.

You seem to believe that those who have built Aadhaar, haven't thought through all this, while you can. Classic case of arm chair analyst I may assume from you arguments.

> People praising direct benefits, was it not possible using raashan card? If your answer is well they could be fakes? Then wake up to the fact that there can be fake Aadhar cards too.

How exactly would you fake BM to get an extra Aadhaar card? Make an fake eye in a lab, and get someone at enrollment center to register that?

The problem with ration cards was that not only fakes, but also that they were not well organized sructured at all. Have you every walked into a tehsildar's office?
I can't see how one would ponder either of these things before the much simpler 'is this a good platform on which to distribute my research on a highly sensitive topic' and then somehow arrive at 'yes, yes Tumblr is'.
What makes Krakow inherently better than say, Bangalore?

Not snark, just asking.
I was raped once, long ago. So I have read quite a great deal on the subject, among other things that to my mind are pertinent but not worth going into here.

Without knowing anything more about the two countries than what you have said, my assumption would be that rape is much more underreported in Singapore rather than being less common. The definition of rape hinges on the detail of consent. An awful lot of people are raped in a non-violent way by people they know. This often occurs after consuming alcohol or other drugs. For example, date rape on college campuses (U.S.) almost always involves alcohol. In such cases, the victims may feel confused as to whether or not it really was rape. There is also the detail that people will cover up crimes if they don't agree with the law or they feel that the punishment is excessive for the crime involved. Victims also will cover up that they were raped and not report it in order to protect their own reputation. The victims of rape often feel ashamed, are often accused of "asking for it" based on how they were dressed, etc.

What you describe (as punishment for even minor crimes in Singapore) is basically psychological and physical torture. I seriously doubt that a culture that officially embraces that is one where people all get along so beautifully that rape has practically gone extinct. An atmosphere of fear and loathing is highly unlikely to foster some sort of Utopian outcome.
> I had failed to understand that I needed to run the program via cmd.exe because of course Hello World exits immediately when it's printed the text.

And till this day, people writing command-line programs in an IDE like Visual Studio stumble on this fact, and the workaround is still the same: adding an stdin read or something like system("PAUSE") at the end, pausing the execution until the user hits Enter.
> And, Godhra Train was burned by 2000 Muslims surrounding a train and burning people with nothing to escape.

> Next time before mentioning Godhra and Muslims in same sentence don't forget to mention what 2000 Muslims did to unarmed people in train by locking the train compartment.

None of these things matter. Lets say that 10 people committed a crime in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people, then they hid in some houses, and goons who have the backing of the govt then used the Adhaar database to single out all the community members of the same community as the culprits, found them and lynched them.

Even then, nothing changes the fact that dilution of civil liberties happened by the Adhaar card, as article linked claims.

> 95% of the stats are made on the spot, like you made above.

That's not a 'stat', it's my confidence level on my ability to judge these things.
In one way the CTO gets the 'purchase' of insurance here. Not against the company having issues but for their job because they can say, "Well I hired the best company to do this. If they couldn't do this, then we definitely couldn't!"
A Practical Theory of Programming [pdf]
> hires the IT staff of the firm it is taking over operations from

How can they do that and save the client money at the same time?
Writing is also thinking.
Sherpas trek up and down various parts of the climb dozens of times for each group that hires them setting up the next camps, routes, etc. There are people paid for cleanup who also do similar.

The tourists/climbers could do it but aren't as acclimated to the environment. Paying someone else to do it is probably the best way to ensure reliable cleanup and safety of the tourists/climbers.
Relax, it's better if everyone thinks Krakow (and Poland) is a "third world shithole". Nobody's worried about it until it's too late :D
Interestingly this is also apparently why a copper IUD works - the copper kills sperm cells.

https://www.bustle.com/articles/144818-the-one-thing-nobody-...
1. You need to write in a way that addresses your goals within the context of a particular situation. I review a good book on the subject here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/06/15/writing-book/

2. You need to understand the idea of style: there are multiple styles, each with its own set of assumptions about how you address the reader, what "truth" is, etc.. "Clear and Simple as the Truth" is a great book about the idea of multiple styles, and one particular style (the classic one).

3. Learn the practical style, which is suitable for many business writing situations. "Style: basics of clarity and grace" by Williams and Colomb is great book on the topic.
Direct experience leads to relevance. Have you ever read a piece of fiction or journalism and been like 'this person lived this and is sharing the experience'? Half of the creative process is identifying familiar, personal things you take for granted that others will find useful.

Effective writers (from farm-content buzzfeed to copywriter bill bernbach to pulitzer-winning journalist bill dedman) distill the most relevant events they've personally seen into a structure that coneveys the experience in order.

The delightful parody version of this is 'write what you know' in george lucas in love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0olm8478DE (and every writing manual). But the reason this line shows up everywhere is that it's a good first step.

Also, spend only 30% of your time on the first draft. It's seldom any good. Cultivate editors you trust who can work with you and meet you at the right stage. Writer Julian Fellowes talks about 'editing stages' in the first minute of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSYT2gQFlQ.
If you have respect for others who wish to experience the environment as close to "natural" as possible, then you clean up after yourself or pay for someone else to.
I think the typical warranty is 25 years? With all the lawsuits the EIFS people faced, one would expect most manufacturers to be very sure about this sort of thing...
When I was in college a decade ago there were multiple sites like this. Juicy Campus was one of them, but I can't remember others.

You could find some really abhorrent things on there, but no one ever got into trouble. It's a shitty message board and some people get their feelings hurts. We're all adults though, people just moved on.
Does not look like it.

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/tree/master/vcl

But I can see clear lines for confusion.
Correction, our alphabet is base56 -- basically base58 minus 1 and o...
The key is incentives. An IT outsourcer's goal is generally to fulfill their contractual obligations (to the letter not the spirit) for as little money as possible.

So if something like security or reliability isn't clearly stated in contracts (and it's extremely difficult to do that well) it is disregarded.

An outsourcing company is not going to spend money it doesn't have to, simple as that.

SAAS like gsuite is an entirely different prospect. you're buying a service from Google not outsourcing your IT to them. If google's service was insecure or unreliable no one would buy it.
There are some simple tricks that allow you to measure correlation between separate sets of evidence.

This you can then adjust for.
I personally also think that the VSCode vim plugin is even better than the atom one, and it's currently in a very active state of development. We recently added neovim integration for Ex-commands, which means that practically every Ex-command is now supported.

Check out our changelog: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/releases/tag/v0.8.0

Disclosure: I am one of the developers for VSCodeVim, but I am legitimately excited about all the features we've been adding recently.
Sometimes you are very certain prior to updating your beliefs (in the form of a posterior), which can lead to very sharp predictions from (and possibly in spite of) your data.
I have done this for C code. I will sometimes print off sections of a call tree and make notes on it to keep track of what I have found about what updates what as I work backwards from the point of failure.

I have also used the 'call hierarchy' and 'find usages' features in IntelliJ to help me navigate around Java code.

I appreciate your point that more dynamic and feature-rich languages are much more difficult (if not impossible) to analyze statically.
At https://trackingco.de/ we store events on Redis and compile them daily into a reduced string format, storing these on CouchDB.
This is refreshing to hear. I've been a successful developer for years working for a few different clients but don't have this portfolio of things I've done after work.

What I do have is a bunch of great reviews from my managers in the past years. Do those carry any weight in an interview?