skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can be offended at anything. People saying "bless you" offends me... does that mean there should be a law against it? No! I support your right to offend me! Please, feel free to say offensive things, and if I am offended, it's my problem, and I'm willing to own that. We all need to grow up.

If we live in a society where anything offensive can be legislated, then one group will seize the power to dictate what is considered offensive.

Each person should have their own freedom to decide what offends them or not. But they shouldn't be protected from being offended... that would be impossible, ultimately, and society would no longer be free.
Slightly easier to read: https://blog.qualys.com/securitylabs/2017/06/19/the-stack-cl...

"The Stack Clash is a vulnerability in the memory management of several operating systems. (...) It can be exploited by attackers to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code."

"If you are using Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris, on i386 or amd64, you are affected. Other operating systems and architectures may be vulnerable too, but we have not researched any of them yet: please refer to your vendor’s official statement about the Stack Clash for more information."
>I have this theory that the only way regular people will start caring about privacy breaches such as this one is to use that data against them in a malicious way

The other thought experiment is to adopt the opposite point of view that privacy is overrated. You can adopt various worldviews from 'everything is grey' to 'this is good, that is bad" but punishing someone to care about same things you care about is a pretty terrible approach. If you can't convince someone, it doesn't mean they're stupid, it could also mean you just aren't that good at communicating, or that perhaps what you think is important isn't all that important.

>Unless the company involved is sued to bankruptcy and the people involved are prosecuted, sending a strong message to companies dealing with user data, nothing will change.

Or we can give them tools that make it easier to secure data. I've always found that if you make it easy for someone, they almost always end up doing the right thing. As it stands the security products/services domain is a complicated maze where you have to be an expert to evaluate how various products work internally and which services, if any are worth purchasing.
Maybe my view here is somewhat jaded on distro versions since from the time 2.4 was released it was serveral years before major distros actually were shipping it. Some of that was just coincidence that 2.4 was released right after several distros froze for their major versions.

But yes the difference between patch versions is usually quite small.
Well, i am suprised nobody say a word about Pyenv:

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

You can use a lot of python versions, including pypy.
"Trade naked PoCs"... Not sure exactly what it is but it sounds dirty.

;)
I don't think this comparison makes sense - HEVC and HEIF are both industry standards, and will probably see widespread adoption. HEVC (H.265) is already really taking off, especially now most modern Intel CPUs have hardware support for it. Their main predecessor technologies, JPEG and H.264, weren't 'open' formats either.

In the case of HEIF, MacOS/iOS will automatically transcode to JPEG anytime you share a HEIF image - it's solely being used to save storage space on your personal device, so in reality almost no one will even notice the change, save for the upside of having more free disk space. H.265/HEVC is pretty trivial to transcode to H.264 or whatever else you want, but given how wide support is spreading I doubt people will often have to do this.

Metal on the other hand is an entirely Apple in-house technology.
Thanks! Shows how much I know about trading stocks...
My opinion for the article:

Finding a mentor is good, finding multiple mentors is better, just like the article says you don't need someone to be with you at all times, you need to learn from someone, if you have the chance to learn from multiple experienced people around you please do.

Do not involve in the community just because you want to level up, do it because the community helps you and you want to contribute.

Reading should be advice for any human being, not just for leveling up tech skills, you could say the same for soft skills.

Side projects are not obligatory, but if you have the drive to do them you should, it can be a fun and learning experience.
I have not followed Perl web development lately, but 10 years ago people were moving from mod_perl to FastCGI.
Truly. That operator has most of the gravity that pulls me towards coffeescript.

Lodash things, like _.isNil staunch the bleeding, but it's just.. not the same.

I wrote coffeescript for 3 years, and the first 2 or 3 months was a frustrating learning curve. By the end of that job I really drank the koolaid. Coffeescript can be blissful. The complaints about invisible delimiters and stuff resonated with me for the first 2 weeks, but then I just learned it like you learn anything. If you are unsure what's going to happen, add extra parenthesis. I kept a window with js2.coffee on it so I could paste uncanny snippets while I was getting up to speed. After I got over the curve I stopped needing it.

I think it was more frustrating in the beginning than learning most things because I knew JS pretty well prior and it felt like I was throwing my experience out the window. I'm glad I did it though. Writing coffeescript was really quite pleasant. Now regular javascript has jumped forward a bit and has somethings coffeescript doesn't, I still feel like the one true web language exists somewhere between them.

I'm leading a project right now and every couple of days I get that coffeescript itch. Caffeine is hard to put down once you're addicted.
The oldest sense of a term is not necessarily the predominant one; nobody is going to read "moron" or "imbecile" and think of clinical terms today.
Elastic employee here, and this is the first I'm hearing of that. I don't know a single person that has left for Amazon, from any team. Certainly no "key elastic search employees".

Got a source?
> I think I'm slowly coming to the realization though that the news really isn't all that valuable to me, and I read way too much of it, and far too few books.

Keeping up with the news has about as much value as watching soap operas. Maybe it's fun for you and that's fine, but the notion that it's making one a better person or allowing one to contribute meaningfully to society is mostly BS.

Blah, blah, informed electorate. Meanwhile most people have little or no grasp of the basics of political philosophy and economics, the history of both, are terrible critical readers, know little about the actual structure and functions of their government, and so on, so if your concern is being able to evaluate policy so you can make better choices in the voting booth start with those things. Which... means reading books and journals, not the newspaper or Twitter or whatever.

Wading in day-to-day news is useless or harmful without that foundational knowledge—again, except as shallow entertainment, which if that's what you're into and you enjoy it that's fine but don't subject yourself to it because you think it's making your life or anyone else's better. Even with a good understanding of the relevant topics it's mostly a waste of time unless your job is writing about it (as it is for some of the people in TFA).
Sorry, but wheres the rest of the article? I feel like this ended abruptly without really telling much - and fails to answer the title of what 'Get the App' really does mean for big data and AI.
If Intel is under any mortal threat and it is, it isn't from AMD. It's from ARM.
Who orgasms most and least, and why
On Linux and most Unices (at least on ix86), the heap starts at the bottom of the address space, and the upper bound grows up as you allocate more memory, while the stack starts at the top of the memory space and grows downward as you allocate more stack (stack allocation : mostly function calls and the odd alloca()). malloc() who manages the heap as no idea of where the stack currently ends, and thus can allocate memory at an adress that is also claimed by the stack. When writing to this address, this permit to smash the stack without needing an actual buffer overflow in the attacked code.

There is good news, this looks way harder to attack on 64 bit systems (all the CVE are on 32 bit OS), possibly because the adress space is so huge, and standard OS counter measure like ASLR, stack gap etc all help protecting against the attack.
>I'm lumping that in under "studies" about health effects.

Then the blame is on you, Not me.
Guilty at charged

^ as
This would replace html5lib in BeautifulSoup nicely :)
A graph with the members first, next, and endpoints is not exactly self explanatory, something better than a "A compact graph representation" comment would be nice.

Especially since the ownership model of rust makes the classic graph representation of edges owning nodes impossible.
But it is not about what they can share, it is about what they or anyone can collect, store and use.

What you can share lets companies store and make decisions based on data they shouldn't have and couldn't share as long as their inputs and outputs look clean.

I,e. Facebook or Google could help you intentionally run a race biased campaign across all their assets as long as they don't tell you any specifics and include a little noise so you can't be sure of any one user's race. All thanks to what they can collect, use, but refuse to share.
I'm sure some SV companies will be more than happy to comb over this leak to fire employees for wrongthink.
The Redskins thing is hardly a regional issue unknown to the rest of the country (not that I disagree with your point).
But think of the children.
Help Me Find This Computer Genius from 1979
Steve Jobs wanted the original iPhone to have a back button a'la Android
The problem is that instead of having to check every single one of my dozens of muted channels once or twice a day, I'd like them to be highlighted in the sidebar (but not badged!) when unread. Plus it'd be nice to still get notifications of mentions and highlight words in said channels.
1. In pass everything is encrypted but you have to give names to each gpg encrypted password file.

2. Right. I use rofi-pass on Linux which fills in the selected password or other login data without any clipboard action.

3. True. Never thought about this but sounds clever.

4. Same answer as in 2.

Plus I have a good password history through the git commits. Of course I push it just in my local network.

And I use more then just one password store. And inside you can folder based decide who can decrypt the passwords and who not.
To me it seems like whether it should be possible to trademark that team name and whether it's a name the team should feel proud sticking with in 2017 are two pretty different questions.

I am happy with this legal decision because I don't want the government to be in charge deciding what is offensive and what's not. I also think it's long past time for them to pick a new name. Just because they can legally have that name doesn't mean they should keep it.
I feel like we are not gaining anything from this discussion. Here are some references to back my point:

"Intuitively, the state of a system describes enough about the system to determine its future behaviour in the absence of any external forces affecting the system."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_variable

"State functions do not depend on the path by which the system arrived at its present state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_function

MIT lecture on state representation of linear systems: http://web.mit.edu/2.14/www/Handouts/StateSpace.pdf - see Section 1.1.

I got my "Linear Systems and Signals" B.P. Lathi 2nd ed from my shelf and found similar information. See section 10.1 if you have access to that book.

> The state of a bouncing basketball is not described by the position and velocity of the basketball, it's described in classical mechanics by the position and velocity of every elementary particle that the basketball comprises

I'm no physicist, but I think you might run into problems with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle when you try to determine the state of your system. Even if you are just mentioning that as a mental exercise and we assume that we can in fact determine everything there is to know about every particle in a basketball, your theory still won't hold. When your system reaches an equilibrium state (i.e., minimal energy state) it will rest there forever and you will lose the ability to reverse it. In other words:

"The science of thermodynamics is able to capture these generalizations as consequences of its claim that systems spontaneously evolve to future equilibrium states but do not spontaneously evolve away from equilibrium states."

Obtained from the first paragraph of the original article.
Oh. My. God. Fearmongering is everywhere.

We also might conclude that "meh, teens getting drunk occasionally" or "meh, people actually having a sex life" is pretty goddamn normal and get over a bunch of nonsense.

No matter what goes on around us, we still have a choice in how we interpret things and what kind of world we choose to build. There is zero inevitability here.

When Demi Moore posed naked on the cover of a magazine while pregnant, this was some sort of shocking dramatic thing. Now, it seems like every pregnant celebrity does the exact same pose and posts it somewhere. It has become prosaic.

Seriously, we can choose to be more humane to people. Things going to hell is not some inevitability.

Edit: Maybe a better example is that when 24 hour news channels became a thing, it changed the news. Before that, people were very straight laced and serious for the 30 minutes that they reported the news. This was not sustainable when reporters had to talk live all day, every day. They became less stiff and formal, more able to crack a joke and be human. They still had to treat some subjects with appropriate respect, but 24/7 news channels caused news to lighten up some.
Geez.
> It's not a free speech question

The Supreme Court unanimously disagreed with your perspective.

e: c.f. the article

> "The disparagement clause violates the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his opinion for the court. Contrary to the Government's contention, trademarks are private, not government speech."
Loosing the master password (or key or whatever) that is used to generate the passwords for a deterministic password generator is fairly similar to loosing the password database.

One is really not that much more secure than the other particularly when dealing with online websites.

But yeah if the site gets hacked you have to pick and remember an iterated password (ie a next iteration) or regenerate a new master password.

Of course if you are really paranoid you can always generate a password with dice and write that password down somewhere in safe place (ie offline password generation).
I get that the point of the article is to point out the flaws of technical interviews, but I see a lot of people griping and quite frankly circle jerking about how bad recruiters are.

I am definitely "mid career" at this point and a manager and I consider my "recruiter bench" to be a huge asset, both for when I am hiring, and also looking. The thing is, yes absolutely 80% of them are garbage- they are mere regex's and will likely be out of the industry in a few years.

The other 20%, that really know their shit, and have deep connections in the industry are gold though. What you need to do is find those guys and build relationships with them over time, so when you have an open head, or decide its time, you already have a half dozen people you can call that you have a long relationship that you trust to help get you a job. These guys can also just give you good intelligence- what is hot right now, what is not, who is paying well, which companies despite their darling status at the moment can't seem to keep an engineer in their seats more than a year.

To get that kind of info though, you have to build a relationship. If I see someone that writes a well informed, grammatically correct email to me, I will look them up on LinkedIn. If they have been around awhile, have some shared connections with me, maybe shared some posts that are interesting, I will usually give them a call back and say "hey I am not interested, but lets keep in touch- here are some things that might interest me in a new role, you are welcome to bounce stuff that fits this off me any time." They will inevitably continue to call you over time- and that's when you can start asking them stuff- who is good/bad, etc. Even offer to get drinks (they will almost always pay)- that's when you can get the really good gossip.

If you keep that bench warm, you will likely find that the quality of potential positions thrown your way improves dramatically, as well as the quality of potential candidates. At least that's been my experience.
My first townhouse had a carpeted bathroom. It was built in the 80s. A week after we moved in we found a mushroom growing out of the carpet. We ended up replacing it with tile which looked much nicer.
Same shit as with Hacking Team..

They're Israeli's who also sell to the UAE. Lol.
My remark about it being irrelevant is due to the fact that for IoT applications, one doesn't care for backwards compatibility of existing applications.

IoT deployments are usually software developed for a special use case.

Then if the target platform is powerful enough to allow C, C++, Rust, Java, Lua, MicroPython, Pascal, Basic, <whatever language with rich library>, then the actual OS is also kind of irrelevant.

I am not thinking of boards to run GNU/Linux or Windows, mimicking a desktop experience.

Maybe it shows my 80's background, but for many use cases an Arduino like bare metal development is more than good enough, hence x86 being irrelevant when one has an high level language with a nice abstractions SDK.
I don't think those questions are as separate as you imagine.
I am, and do, talk about AWS. They treat their employees horribly.

Disclaimer: Former AWS
NASA's Kepler mission finds 10 Earth-size exoplanets, 209 others
Matt Mullenweg has admitted hosting tens of thousands of spam articles (2005)
The U.S. Has Made Huge Strides Against Heart Disease – But Not Everywhere
One of the weird effects of the internet is that stuff that used to be considered obvious and self-evident is now treated as very sensitive. For example, no one used to consider their gender or race "private" information; rather, it was nearly impossible to interact with another human without these things being self-evident.

Not many years ago, there used to be a book distributed far and wide with the names, address, and phone number of virtually everyone that lived in your city. This was accepted as normal and routine, and you had to specifically opt out of being included.
> I'm not from the US so i have never been to whole foods, but isn't the point of whole foods is that you get a totally different selection than other retailers ?

In that WF's selection is limited based on certain criteria linked to virtue signalling in some portion of the market; much of the grocery selection at WF is also available at other chain retailers, but much of what is available at other chain retailers is categorically excluded by WF.

> and if so, how could it be a customer for regular grocery products ?

Maybe Amazon is interested in targeting the same market segment as WF, and plans on tailoring their grocery operations appropriately.
I don't really disagree that this is a shitty data breach, but on the consequences, I'll point out that the 5% of society who tends to sociopathy already have much lower-effort means to target minorities:

Hate women? Look for boobs.

Hate muslims? Look for brown skin.

Hate Republicans? Look for MAGA hats.

That these are inaccurate signals is irrelevant: haters gonna hate, and I really don't think they care whether the brown-skinned person they're harassing is actually a Muslim, they just want a target for their anger.

As for ad networks - they already have much more accurate models of age, ethnicity, and religion than the RNC has. There's a lot more money involved in targeting ads, and so they've put a lot more effort into it than political consultancies. Worrying about them is like closing the barn door after the horse is out.
browser benchmarks could test more than javascript execution. dom layout, canvas rendering, scrolling etc.
Some of those things can benefit from multiple threads even if JS is single-threaded.
Allocation-heavy workloads will also benefit from concurrent and parallel GC implementations.
“Media companies are like serfs working Facebook’s land.”

Content companies, really. Anybody can make content now. Look who's mentioned in the article as an example of a "news source" - the CEO of "Thrillist", "NowThis News", and "Dodo". It's owning the pipes, and being able to restrict them, that makes money.

This is a big change. The Internet was supposed to be about disintermediation. Anybody can view CNN, Fox News, Russia Today, or the South China Morning Post at any time. Yet about half of Americans get their news on Facebook. Facebook isn't even a very good news aggregator.

Remember, sharing is spamming. When you "share" a story, you're just helping a spammer spam.
If you don't already have experience / are trying to break into the industry, side projects that have actually shipped are one indicator of potential impact.

"Potential" because some people farm out side projects on upwork etc. That kind of project management is also a valuable skill but it's not the same thing.
Those buttons are privacy-friendly (as stated right above them). They don't load any tracking scripts.
Trademarks are a form of censorship.
> What law did they break, exactly?

That's not how laws work. Laws can be whatever we write them to be. Losing medical and financial records was once not illegal too.
Read back the quote again to yourself.

Phone + iPod + Internet communications device...you are pretty much describing a general purpose computer, no?

And if you go back to the keynote, that was kind of the joke. He started out describing these as if they were separate products being introduced. The punch line was it was just one device. In other words, subtly mocking the idea you needed a separate device for each kind of functionality you wanted.

Lastly, Apple was a computer company from top to bottom. How else would they envision a solution to the problem of crappy phones, but to turn them into computers with really good software? That's just who Apple was.

So the idea of the Apple strategy being replacing the mobile phone with a mobile computer is only obvious in hind sight just isn't true, it was obvious as soon as the iPhone was introduced.
> I look at the picker of sides and their motives to determine the consequences of picking a side.

Taken literally, this suggests that you can't work out the consequences without looking at the supporters. If that's what you mean, I have to say it seems weird to me.

Taken less literally: if you think the consequences of one side winning include "people get harmed", you can just say that. You can point at the consequences instead of the supporters.
If N.W.A could be trademarked, I don't understand how anyone thought it was right to deny The Slants.
The first Mandelbrot generator I played with took more than 3 hours on a BBC Micro to render a 160x256 image. That was 30 years ago and I still try out variations on this from time to time (larger exponents, fractional exponents, complex exponents, animations, etc).

http://alquerubim.blogspot.com.br/search/label/Fractais