skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or be forced to pay for v2 because you upgraded your OS and now v1 doesn't work anymore.
To cacarr: Inkscape is not at its best in Mac. It's clunky because you have to use control instead of command, can't zoom with the trackpad, can't go fullscreen.

I use it and love it and it's one of my favourite programs, but really it's better in Linux.
Author here ... I feel your pain, every day.
NYTimes is not fake news in that sense because there are still editorial standards the paper must adhere to. Taking the most cynical stance possible, NYT news articles are like Cylons-- they mix lies with the truth, where in this case individual truths are situated in a context than implies a larger lie.

Fake news proper are paid-for advertisements masquerading as news, with zero editorial standards. There's no way to verify whether particular statements are true or not.

That difference has consequences. For example, if you read a handful of newspapers you can glean the larger truth by understanding the national/corporate/journalistic biases of each paper. For a simple example, read both Barton Gellman and Glenn Greenwald's articles based on the Snowden leaks.

Comparing/contrasting various Facebook fake news posts is unlikely to reveal any more truth than what you started with.
The title is quite clickbaity: "We analyzed thousands of technical interviews on everything from language to code style. Here’s what we found."

What's wrong with this, I think, is that a (journalistic) title should give an ultra-condensed summary of the main point of the article. This title suggests that the authors gathered a lot of data but didn't find much.

(I find myself quite intrigued by clickbaity titles somehow, sorry for that.)
Rats... do you know the resolution of your phone screen by chance? Good luck with the thesis!
Though I agree that it was an annoying change. hex/fromhex have helped there, though a 3.4 codebase retains stupid helpers like bin_to_hex.
Scaling engineering efforts in software (organization benefits of microservices)
Lloyd's Register Announces New Code to Certify Unmanned Ships
I don't directly disagree with what your saying, my point is there is more than one type of scratch resistance. Because not all scratches are created equal. If you look at say :https://omnexus.specialchem.com/polymer-properties/propertie...

You find it's good relative to other plastics at preventing penetration which is also why it's good at preventing deep scratches. So, yes if you want a crystal clear optical element then it's not scratch resistant and look for something high on the Mos scale. But, if you want a coating that protects from deeper scratches it's quite good. In that context it's good material to protect CD's from scratches that matter.

Which again is why I find the word resistance tricky because it's always resistant in some context.
For the first time ever, the comments on the article actually captured every thought I had - even the problem with contrast! I'm more impressed by the readers of that article than the article itself.
probably whatsapp web version? it adds some kind of description if you send an url: https://i.imgur.com/Rkl2cZJ.png
To quote you above[1]:

> That's a matter of opinion.

To be clear, I am not one who is in favor of rolling back gay marriage. But you cannot logically say

> Oppressing others isn't something that should be allowed to happen, period

while in the same breath calling for the oppression of those you disagree with. It's an inconsistent position using the same argument you're railing against.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14555374
Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 was a similar mess for a shorter period of time, and not because it was handled better, but because there was less diverse entrenched code and subcommunities to deal with: when Rails and popular Rails libraries worked, most of the community could move; Python had a whole lot more that had to be addressed, the curse of it's broader success.

(Also, being already expression-oriented, Ruby didn't have to deal with running into problems where a core feature was a statement that couldn't be used in contexts limited to expressions; fixing that is inherently painful.)
...in the real world, they're one and the same.
You lock into (become entangled with) a random selection from a superposition of states, according to the probability described by the wavefunction at the time. What the deal is with the other states you don't see is a matter of interpretation, e.g., Many Worlds hypothesis.
companies pay for photoshop licenses, not people, and few hundreds companies can easily put together way more than $400k - if only "cooperation" wasn't such a taboo concept.
This reminds me of the terminology surrounding IDE cables (master/slave versus primary/secondary).

Then again kill is a command built into every operating system.

Even Windows has taskkill.

At some point you have to ask. Are people just too sensitive?
Repurposing a smartphone
Can I take an old smartphone, wipe out whatever programming it has on it and turn it into something like raspberry pi with a screen? If that is hypothetically possible, what skills you need to do the trick?
>It's not weird, it's a drive created by a billion years of evolution.

Sure it is, but I always thought we humans differentiate ourselves from other animals by not being motivated merely on instinct/drive, aren't we rational beings after all?

>When all is said and done, what matters is passing on your genes.

I don't consider my gene stock to be especially outstanding, it's actually quite flawed, so I see no point in "passing it along".

There's also no shortage of able-bodied and smart humans on this planet, we already don't know what to do with all those we already got, so why would I want to add even more?

>what more exactly do you think you need?

What exactly do I gain? Except for a whole lot of long-term responsibilities, at least if I want to be a decent parent. I realize this might sound egoistic to some degree, but the same could be said about "passing on genes for the sake of passing on genes".
I think also it's possible that by chance you already have something that is a solve and this connects you to people looking...
Preview sure, but why every character?
This is a stupid and crappy implementation of a helpful feature, but how is it creepy?
Motivated reasoning guarantees that rationality is always colored with opinion and bias. Like look at the flat earth society for an ridiculous example of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
The contributor notes that the term "suicide" is technically not appropriate; he also calls it offensive.

If it is technically not the correct term, then change/remove it. But when did the term become offensive?
"Half the people don't even tell me what they are thinking."

Maybe they are introverted or simply need to think before they talk. Around 50% of people are introverted (less in usa). Many people are like that and simultaneously quite skilled. Moreover, some environments punish errors, so people who worked/studied there tend to be conditioned to think before talking.

"And no matter how many times I try to work with them, act like their buddy, or w.e. they just kind of shut down."

You are not buddies, you are interviewer about to decide whether they get hired. Many people shutting down might mean that they are not comfortable juggling "buddy" social role and expectations and "serious job interview" social expectations simultaneously.
True, but if there's one shared key for each page, the chances of that key getting loose are higher. There are alsomethods of encrypting a message where you can specify multiple recipients (i.e. multiple keys), letting you remove one key without affecting the viewership of the page for people with the other keys.

It's a hard problem, and this is certainly a novel solution to that problem, but I still don't really see myself using it.
That's an easy algorithm to do on the fly. Take two d6s that can be distinguished (different color, for example). Call them A and B.

Roll A and B. If A is a 6, reroll A until it is not 6. If B is even, take A as your result. If B is odd, take A+5 as your result. (I changed to use B odd/even instead of B <= 3 because that might be easier for people).

That gives you a number from 1 to 10. Subtract 1 if you need 0 to 9.

If your two d6s cannot be distinguished, take the one that lands leftmost to be A.
I just played (and lost) 0.25 bitcoin on a decentralized blackjack app. My losses got split up between the nodes hosting the network. If you don't see the huge opportunity for new applications you have your eyes closed.
They're probably trying to prefetch the URLs so they're loaded by the time you want it, just not a nice way of doing it.
Definitely. My high school's school district made a similar mistake with enabling directory listings, enumerating hundreds of documents with words like "Confidential" and "Audit Report" in the file names. Tried to report it at the time but I got the runaround from the school office; years later I'm glad I didn't manage to get any further with it.
I find it interesting that they showed the Photos app on OSX. Seems like at least one of this updates goals is to challenge iCloud desktop users.
Professional firms that produce contracts and reports generally have document format guidelines and standard templates. They may also have approved typefaces, up to and including brand-custom typefaces. And while these things could be applied by document editors or tools later based on a simple set of text documents (I'd be in favor of that), in reality everyone works in Word, and the working Word documents are what will eventually become signed legal documents or stamped and sealed engineering studies, or similar. Styling does matter.
On the roadmap is a "shape search" similar to what Visio has. Is that the sort of templating you're thinking of?
> I don't understand what's wrong about using this information against crime?

Because demanding fingerprints from refugees but not Germans prejudices against refugees by branding them all as potential future criminals.

> Also I can imagine how difficult registering people who run from was is, surely there are cases with no documents, documents lost, abusive gangs registering people several times and claiming "borrowed cousins" as children they get more money for etc.

These are a negligible amount of cases. And especially not worth to destroy the right to privacy of the other 99.9999% of the population.
First E3 open to the public places strong emphasis on gaming communities
>It seems to be best to restrict the math operators to math.

Ken Iverson would probably disagree.
You're mixing concepts:

* Profits = Revenue - Expenses

* Assets + Liabilities = Equity

New asset purchases are expenses and not profits. Equity (total market cap) is an estimate of the value of the company, including assets and outstanding liabilities.
Skype scans messages for URLs and downloads them. Microsoft claims is that they are checking for malware, still creepy.
> Whether a function for which an operator is overloaded is “cute” or “fundamental to clarity” depends on the context in which it is used.

The fact that it requires context other than the language spec is where the problem resides. The cognitive overhead of reading code is high enough without having to alias common operators.
I would as well.
Governments spend a lot of this money on job creation. So the question is, what are those jobs? Are they creating value-adding infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels that accelerate movement between commercial centres? Or are they doing the equivalent of paying people to dig holes and fill them in again, such as employing huge bureaucracies to shuffle paper around and sit in meetings eating biscuits?

Another example is a person who borrows money and spends it on home improvements. He or she still has to pay back the money and the interest, but if the value of the improvements is greater than the cost, that money can be recovered later by selling the house. Or that person could have spent the money on... nothing. That might have been fun, but it still needs to be paid back...
Ah, I understand your point now. Thanks for clarifying for me.
If the clones of individuals can accrue minor errors until they've diverged enough to become a breeding pair and still be considered the same organism. Why would the result of them melding their DNA together make them a new organism?
I tried to explain that in the last paragraph. Some people might want the features of distributed ledger such as less transaction costs and/or convenience of recording property transfers without requiring without filing papers with the government. Or the decentralized ledger assures public immutable records whereas with the central db, you have to trust there won't be a malicious government employee changing database data to fake ownership records.

Sure, in a limited sense... every distributed ledger use case can be replaced with a centralized database. The reason people would choose a distributed solution is to bypass the controls of the centralized authority. Similar reasons that bitcoin proponents prefer it over centralized fiat government currency.

Whether those distributed reasons are cost-effective or sensible remains to be seen. Who knows, maybe distributed ledgers will become so mainstream that it will be the county governments themselves that seed the real estate blockchain so they don't have to bother administering a central db.

(To be clear, I'm not trying to convince anyone of switching to distributed ledgers but laying out possible use cases.)
Slightly OT but I once had a Japanese vending machine deliver a cardboard can printed with an apology when it was out of the drink I requested.

The can had a plastic lid with coins in it, returning the amount I had deposited, and the cardboard can contained an instant cold pack, presumably to assist me with managing the heat while finding another vending machine.
They don't, they care about `str` being unicode and developers not having to do additional work to support unicode strings.
Because Microsoft owns it now.

All jokes aside, the important parts of the linkedin pages load in under 2 seconds for me. I'm using chrome without any extensions.
Because the preview is displayed as you type, not when you hit Send
AppleID Website Down
If you login to AppleID website shows a blank screen. In the code it appears one resource is 403 and one 404 causing the blank screen. Been happening all day and see people noticing on twitter now.
Root is not worth arguing about this. He is an old time SV Rich Lister who now sees the new thing coming and all he can do is try and shit on it so he can keep his amazing job as long as possible before anyone resizes he is no longer relevant.
True. It is a nice thing for scientific code though. Often in a field α etc etc have a known meaning by convention and being able to write them as α rather than alpha can really make longer formulas more readable.
> News can be false, misleading, disproven, untrustworthy, and many shades in between. In fact there are a lot more angles to information than a False/True boolean.

Ideally this range could be quantified using publisher trust scores where publishers rate the reliability of each other using cardinal utilities and distributed public web of trust.

> sometimes trustworthy news outlets deliver a misleading stories, as in the case of Iraq WMDs or Y2K.

If the conclusions which a rational reader is likely to draw from reading an article are incorrect, then the reliability and trust score of a publisher should decrease, and we should not be able to claim that the news outlet was in fact wholly 'trustworthy'. As you stated, 'shades in between'.

> But since skepticism and logic don't increase readership or viewership, unfortunately those qualities aren't encouraged

News agencies which publish high quality information for an initially small number of readers should in principle still be able to generate profit by generating greater total utility per person. Part of the problem as to why they are not able to do so is that they are not able to implement 'value capture' for this utility using current web browser technologies.

This might be because there is no open one-time payment protocol associated with electronic news reader applications analagous to giving a dollar to the operator of a local newspaper stand on the street, where people used to be able to pay for a 'little bit' of the news on the margin.
Had a similar experience with a remote sysadmin. Interviewing, he seemed to understand everything. He explained how he'd setup networks, details on using SSH for bastion hosts, etc. Seemed to really know stuff.

After hiring him, he was unable to even SSH to a box. As in he didn't know how to give us his private key, or how to configure his SSH client.

Maybe one guy takes interviews under other people's names then lets them mess up the work.
I don't know about other nuclear physics type phenomena, but some reasonably unthinkable things that probably happened include the earth being completely encased in ice[1], all of the continents colliding into a supercontinent[2], a volcano big enough that it was essentially a crack in the earth with basalt lava (>1000°C) pouring out at 4x the flow of the Amazon for a week (in which it flowed hundreds of miles)[3], or (one of my favorites, though it's just kind of neat and not so mind-blowing) ammonite seashells that have had the original calcite shell naturally replaced with pyrite (fool's gold) so there are completely natural metallic fossils[4].

[1]: www.snowballearth.org
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Basalt_Group
[4]: https://www.google.it/search?q=ammonites+replaced+with+pyrit...
The Assault on Privacy (1970)
>which they wouldn't if government stopped intervening.

That's a very strong assumption, and I see no reason to believe its true.
Child labor is complex subject that we should avoid getting into here. The reason I added my disclaimer is because my argument is about cheaper goods, not any particular way they happen to be produced.
I estimate paying $25 each breaking OS update would be better than paying a subscription, that should be no more than every couple years? Unless the subscription is less than a dollar a month.
I completely agree that it was not right for the sexual misconduct to happen in the first place. Not debating that at all. That is wrong on all levels. But...

>LinkedIn is an extension of the workplace, similar to going into the office or attending a corporate networking event, the theory of the case goes.

I don't get how that could ever be legally enforced? Wouldn't a lawsuit like this would forever change LinkedIn if they won? Not even related to this sexual misconduct that started this, I could easily see so many people bailing from LinkedIn if it was somehow considered an extension of your workplace directly. This will be really interesting to see what happens next with this.
As an independent contractor maintaining large Python 2 codebases, your comments really hit home for me. I only have a portion of my time each month to maintain and develop features for them. If the Python 2 floodgate ever breaks, I am more likely to rewrite the system in a statically typed language. Even today, I am tempted.

I know that a sibling mentions the ridiculousness of the situation, but a forced depreciation of the Python 2 runtime (see also, Windows) is a billable, justifiable, reason to do the work of refactoring parts of the system. I do not expect those billable hours to happen in the next decade, however.
Right now probably not. However, Etherum has sharding, as well as other features to help scale, as a feature for the future. It isn't like we are stuck with the current implementations.
The battle against online advertising pollution is being fought by web browsers
I'm missing something. What difference do you see between "accessing files by name" and "searching by filename"?
When I found a way to bypass the login process back in university and thereby gain access to the previous users' network storage in university, I reported it anonymously for that very reason.
for one thing, you can't get partial credit for ideas/work that only exists in your head. (Similar to why it's a good idea to show work on homework assignments and tests)

If they sat there for a bit thinking about the problem and then provided a solution, I'm sure that would be fine. But that's not the situation he was describing.
I actually posted the port on the Code Review SE, where (after almost a month of silence), someone stepped up and offered a CFFI solution.

https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/157118/a-port...
> Given the high rate of incidents that Europe is having with immigrants, the alternative is to close the borders.

"high rate of incidents"? Next to all recent terrorist attacks in the last years involved people who were born in Europe. According to Sascha Lobo and other media reports, all of them were known to police for being violent and dangerous, one of the London terrorists actually was on a TV show "the jihadist next door".

And the (real) problems, e.g. overcrowding refugee camps, could be solved by solidarity in Europe, but right now it's Italy and Greece picking up the brunt of the load, then Germany - and then, with a vast distance, every other country in Europe. Despite especially the Eastern European (Visegrad) countries having profited massively by financial solidarity from the rest of Europe (which is mainly DE, FR, UK).

> however seeing lots of immigrants misbehave in my trips to the UK and Germany, I'm beginning to understand nationalism and why people have a periodic tendency towards populism (e.g. Trump, Brexit, etc).

They have a tendency to nationalism/populism because populism does not work with evidence and facts but rather with emotions and propaganda.

> The whole purpose of fingerprinting is crime fighting. Nothing else.

Well, let's take the immigration discussion out of the view for one moment: for now, for example, protests are legal. But what prevents a future government from using fingerprint data or especially biometric photo data to prosecute people for protesting against government?

Nothing. And this is why such movements must be stopped before a future government turns against its citizens.
There are news sources that try to report an accurate account of events by enforcing simple journalistic standards (e.g., multiple sources) and after-the-fact corrections and retractions. They're easy to spot -- look for links to their corrections on their front pages.

Everything else is, or might as well be considered, fake news.
I don't see a problem here
>This is just silly. It will take at least 100x more effort to rewrite the project in Java than it would to upgrade to Python 3.

Yes, but in return it will bring a 10x performance improvement in lots of areas, and the option of a whole lot more sturdy statically checked code.
What the hell are they doing over there! Why was that even a consideration!
Which doesn't invalidate what the parent comment in any way, because we're talking about the aggregate costs.

So what was your point?
Where are you from man?
dropbox + dokuwiki is a nice combination
~sproutlings
If true, this is confusing because the placeholder text on the page is literally "<html><head>…" so they are encouraging a feature they don't support.
Static site on CloudFront?
What a digital organisation looks like
And even if you don't use those, denounce takes about 4 lines to write.