skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds very smooth but the assumption that lawyers, escrow service providers or anyone else would allow you to pay them less because you are using a new technology runs counter to my personal experience.
Why not just treat the assigned parking a standard perk (considered in the overhead cost of an employee) and offer a cash bonus to those who elect to not have a spot? That would maintain the perception of the parking being free, while allowing for a reduction in usage based on the same value assessment described in the article.
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True. But that will only make sense when the rewarded Sudokoin are worth more than the transaction fee.
Back in the day I used to run the exe through and get them even smaller: https://upx.github.io/
http://go.instartlogic.com/AppShield-Ad-Integrity-Data-Sheet...

"Web publishers make simple DNS changes to flow the network domains that carry their HTML through the Instart Logic system. This allows our system to inject a small piece of JavaScript that can detect the presence of ad blockers. When an ad blocker is detected, the JavaScript-based virtualization layer Nanovisor, together with our intelligent cloud-based, machine learning platform, encrypts and delivers all the elements of the page using the customer’s existing delivery services.

As a result, each resource on the page, and any signals and actions such as measurement beacons or user clicks, will have its URL encrypted and obscured. This renders ad blockers ineffective, as they can no longer search for patterns which would indicate a resource is related to advertising.

The result is simply the experience that the web publisher intended on delivering to the end user with no changes to the ad delivery or measurement systems; end users have no need to be aware the technology is even being used."
The OP used the term "qualified" and not "capable". I also find the OP's writing effective as they demonstrate their own conflict and lack of clarity on the topic.

Previously in the thread my response is in protest of the reduction both of the OPs related writing and the topic.
How do your arguments apply differently to any other profession?

If no family means:
> motivation/drive/desire to put in hours
> low cost
> flexibility
> more likely to bond with other young employees, and participate in company culture (instead of having a family they need to spend time with).

This will be truer for professions that require no expertise than for technical ones. The myth of young computer hackers comes from the fact that most developers were as young as the profession itself. So the typical software company was made of young people. As the profession gets older, this will disappear.

For the last one:
> creativity/fresh ideas

I'm that guy that was the smart young developer that was innovating and getting new ideas (I started as a developer at 17, and I was helping people twice my age). Nowadays I'm still him, just I got 25 more years of professional and life experience. And I got a lot better at understanding problems (technical and human) and how to solve them.

The same people that think when they are young that their ideas are "fresher" are the ones that complain about "nowadays young" when getting older. It is just lack of empathy and understanding.

Trying to justify discrimination by age, gender, country of origin, etc. doesn't help anyone.
Oh, gotcha. Thanks.
You could have a decentralized social app, like secure scuttlebutt.
Would you name a project the same as your username?
> But at some point in the food chain, software developers need to put food on the table and send their kids to school. How does that happen if all software is free?

Please note "free" has nothing to do with price, but with end-user freedom (to use/study/modify/share).

(example answer to your question: custom/internal software).
'pytest --lf' reruns only tests that have failed during the previous run. Helps a lot when your test suite is not very fast.
Still, things didn't get any more Rapid than they were in 1998 and that's a bit sad. In terms of productivity, C# with WPF/XAML is at best equally good IMO.
I find your comment unduly harsh and disrespectful, both toward Stallman and his crew. And I don't even like the guy.
Why will the future change the level of inefficiency?
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I've always found PDF.js (i.e. Firefox) to be a nicer experience than Chrome's PDFium, which makes me wonder what this adds.
What does this have to do with being "progressive"? It's against American law to discriminate on the basis of age. Is it a "progressive" notion to follow federal and state law now?
I've actually been fine with to-do lines in files. Have a metric for the number you have, and don't abuse it, but they are easy to find and literally next to the code they relate to.
I mean, given the recent and continuing rash of hardware backdoors, wouldn't that just make your premises their premises?
I haven't tried Swift yet but that is my buddy's first impression when he tried it.
The problem is it makes it unfair for the other gender.
"Helping" women get into tech means easier interviews, which is unfair - it is harder for you if you are a man.
This is what sexism is all about.
It's unfortunate that it's reached the front page given the quality but you don't need to thank him for a poorly written review.
I'll repeat this again here: it's very likely he wasn't fired for trying to have a discussion. It is more likely he was fired because he did so by propagating gender stereotypes and doubling-down on those stereotypes (his suggestions for how to improve diversity essentially were just context-specific extensions of these stereotypes), which both almost certainly reduced his credibility as a coworker to the point that he could not be effectively managed or productive when assigned to work with others. The author glides right past the point in her article when she notes his improper application of findings about averages.

It's possible to have a discussion about these issues today. It's not rational to give special preference and excessive leeway to discussion that isn't actually fact based (and is in many ways based on nothing related to facts).
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They have.

I have.

How you take funds for your campaign is configurable. The projects which took USD raised millions more than the projects which took various cryptocurrencies at the time of funding. The upside of having a smart contract 'guarantee' your funds was outweighed by the downside of drop-off in getting your potential customers to acquire and pay you using an obscure financial instrument.

This looks to be changing.
By participating you're agreeing with whatever mechanism has been coded into the contract (which you can read for yourself). Obviously, you'd be stupid to participate in a contract that relies solely on twitter for resolution.

But, for sports scores the contract could be coded to check all three of espn.com, nfl.com and abcsports.com (just for example).

Same with the election results: usa.gov, cnn.com, foxnews.com, bbcnews.com

You make a valid point I think, but the examples you gave are pretty trivial. More complex ones are another matter.
FWIW, they did pose a competitive threat to Facebook, forcing FB to add features like choosing which groups of "friends" to show a particular post and letting people see public posts of people who aren't bidirectionally connected. If Facebook had refused to adapt at all, G+ might have grown more significant.
How is paying with money any more fair than paying with time?

I'd personally prefer random distribution over selling to the highest bidder. Does every single thing really have to be for sale?
> If tolerance is a peace treaty, then it's easy to argue that the slightest breach of the peace merits the severest response

Certainly some will act that way, but I don't think it necessarily follows. The definition he provides of tolerance rather matches my own intuition when it comes to the mundane form of "tolerance" that neighbors show to one another when putting up with each others quirks.

But in any case, my point is that Zunger's character is irrelevant to whether any particular idea he happens to espouse is good or not. We must judge the idea on its own merits. To judge the idea based on what we think of Zunger himself is to engage in an fallacy.
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It used to be common knowledge that men and women were different, and that they generally were inclined towards different kinds of pursuits and had different interests, in general. Then the radical left showed up with a bunch of unintelligible post modern theories that as far anyone can tell never proved much of anything, whose basis in scientific truth was non existent and whom nevertheless had the temerity to make wild, socially revolutionary claims. And here we are now, in Bizarro world, where the burden of proof has been shifted onto the status quo to justify itself without the usurping ideology ever having met even a minimum proof of viability, let alone the higher standard of superiority over the status quo required of a proposed replacement way of life. A large part of the population seems not to see any problem with this. They are ready to toss the whole thing out on the authority of some academics, whose work they could barely remember from freshman sociology class.
I'm still looking for a reliable provider that would support openconnect and / or wireguard. Alas, here in China OpenVPN-based VPNs are getting more and more flaky, with talks of shutting down completely soon (not talking about the fake Bloomberg article). IPSec and Socks5 never really worked. Streisand only really works on AWS and having an AWS public IP means no Google most of the time (they block whole IP ranges), annoying Cloudflare captchas and other quirks.
Side question, where are you using U2F?

I love the principle, but I can't use it with AWS, I can't use it with my bank, I can't use it with my domain registrar, and I can't use it with Office 365.

That's 0/4 of the high priority targets for me.
I'm interested - what type of app can you run on 64mb of ram? What languages are suitable for building these types of microservices?
I'd prefer to spend it learning AI or Ethereum...those are both rabbit holes in and of themselves. How many hours to become experts in either? 1000-2000?
but then why build a ride sharing service for Cruise if Lyft has already done it?
If someone is inconsiderate enough to make excessive noise on a sustained basis, why would they respond well to being confronted about it?

Remember, community and interaction among neighbors is maximized the countryside, high in sprawl, and barely existent in mid-rises, and zero in high-rises. The more your neighbors influence your quality of life, the less socially acceptable it is to interact with them (and the less likely you are to see them, since the primary means of interacting with neighbors is to spend time in your yard). There's not going to be a basis of mutual respect in a noisy urban apartment building like there would be on a block of single-family homes.
The only time I was ever asked about politics by a potential employer I noped out of that situation.

Workplace = Professional, Personal Shit Stays Home.

Rest of Life = Do whatever the fuck you want as long as its legal and you don't mention your day job.

I'm not sure why this separation isn't standard practice for everyone.
How ironic, FB uses its data to squash competitors from an app Onavo (a company FB bought) that promotes itself to protect its user's privacy.
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mmm, if they got a decent advertising model on videos people upload to Watch and have a better policy that the new one Youtube made to stop right-wingers from earning money, it might work out better. Even libertarians and some liberals lost their Youtube adsense revenue.
My responses to your points in order:

- I don't think you should dismiss Aadhar too quickly on technological grounds.

- You mis-represent what I said. I never said Aadhar is citizenship etc., only that biometrics help identify people within the border at any given time.

- I agree with your third point. I am also for not dismissing right to privacy. Only said the concept cannot be straight away can be an import from developed nations.

- Lastly, I never said SC delivered judgement and neither gave any piece meal information. I had clearly mentioned SC had only questioned and linked the complete article which also clearly says the judgement is not delivered yet.
That how it works in one of the IT company in Voronezh. All parking lots are sold at internal auction each month. All money from auction goes to charity.

Its a win win for all. People know that they always able to park. Price for lot goes up every month by itself, because there is less and less free space around office. Charity goes up as well.
What do you think is the right number of people to be forced to leave a job they like and are good at, because of harassment?

I tend to think "zero," but you do you, I guess.

Anyway...

https://www.elephantinthevalley.com

http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entre...

Etc.
Do you mean "let me use their space for a week"? There's only 53 parking spaces, and approximately 260 working days per year.
> Chromium-based browsers do not support user styles

Does anyone know what gorhill means by this? Stylish for Chrome seems to work fine: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-the...

Am I missing something? (Probably, but what?)
Google will most likely offer a huge settlement just to avoid the negative publicity and embarrassing disclosures that come out during the discovery process (which in many cases may show further tortious conduct towards third parties). The case doesn't need to be strong, rather just painful enough for Google to defend.
They will need to do the backups while they're over if they aren't also on fiber.
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I think you're completely missing the point. RMS and FSF have never claimed to even create an adequate free-software ecosystem, let alone perfect. They celebrate tons of free software progress since then and maintain a high-priority list for things that are yet to do: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/

Many people confuse this, but being critical of ethical problems with the way technology is built in practice need not have anything to do with being anti-technology in general.
Have you read the parent article?

It is the same link that the parent article is using, at the 3rd to last paragraph with text "and a poll conducted at Google confirms" .
It actually does have to do with price. All free software is one user away from the possibility (likelihood) it is free as in beer.

The parent comment is correct that free software has put magnitudes less food on kids bellies.
The part of Kickstarter you're describing isn't worth any significant fraction of these $500m. If it were, Indiegogo, Gofundme and all others in the space would need to be well on the unicorn track.

A saying goes "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything". That's where this value of $500m comes in. It's in the brand reputation the company has built. In the traffic they generate by people browsing their site and discovering projects they might back. In the UI they've set up, and most of all, it's in the trust that they actually do some amount of quality checking. In the thought that projects on Kickstarter stand a better chance of executing than projects on competitor's sites.

You can get someone to write the necessary code for "if funded send to x, else return funds" on any freelance site for a four-digit amount, whether you want it in Solidity or PHP. That's the easy part. The hard part then is building a better platform, policing the projects on there, ensuring quality and attracting backers.
No. Delphi offers reference counting, but only on interface variables. It's a huge difference really, because if your last interface variable that points to an object goes out of scope, the object is freed from memory. Even if you have raw class pointers to it.

Example:

IMyInterface = interface
procedure Foo;
end;

TMyClass = class(TInterfacedObject, IMyInterface)
procedure Foo;
end;

procedure TMyClass.Foo;
begin
WriteLn('Foo');
end;

procedure DoTheFoo(AObj: IMyInterface);
begin
AObj.Foo;
end;

procedure SomeMethod;
var
LObj: TMyClass;
begin
LObj := TMyClass.Create;
DoTheFoo(LObj);
LObj.Foo; // <-- Will cast nil pointer exception,
// as object was freed when AObj in DoTheFoo went
// out of scope
end;

I work with Delphi in my day job.
I've seen these before! This is what they use in the HAL 9000.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c8N72t7aScY/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N72t7aScY
It’s not really hard to explain: the probability of two people generating the same random 256 bit number is roughly equal to buying four tickets to the national lottery four weeks in a row, and winning the jackpot on all four of them.

No one has ever won the jackpot even two times in a row, so do we really need to worry about someone doing it four times in a row?

(Two people generating the same 256 bit number is a collision, which means the probability is 1/sqrt(2^256))
It’s just an unnecessary, extravagant ligature of the letters "et", from 9th century Latin.
RedHat , Sentry , gitlab elastic.co all take away some pain point while their source code for these projects are available. RedHat provides Enterprise support , Sentry , elastic and gitlab offer hosted services . Even GNU software when Stallman was originally distributing it on physical media had an associated cost of distribution with a profit margin .
I'm sorry I'm not following what you're saying.
The social/biological separation has existed for a while. The social version is called gender, the biological view is called sex.
Yes, it's important to attack the root cause. Might it be that the hyper-male workplace contributes to the perception of technology as a place hostile to women, and by attempting to counter that particular problem (e.g., by having diversity initiatives) it also helps attack the root cause?

I do think "diversity initiatives" are like voting in that it's the least amount of effort to put to the issue. I agree with your comment in this sense: I'd like very much for companies to go much further to address the root issues.
>>The idea that you've got to be some sort of obsessive wretch with no life outside of tech in order to successfully fill a role at a tech company is nothing but a pernicious myth.

Right. But being good in this world is you vs your-peer-group. And if others in your peer group are too awesome, putting in insane hours and time getting ahead, sooner or later the top spots will be taken. And nobody likes to be stuck being ranked average despite the best they can do.

>>So is the idea that you've got to be some ridiculous super-genius.

Reminds me of this movie - "The Gambler"- A literature professor tells his students the difference between somebody who can write good stuff and being the next William Shakespeare. Everybody has to face this fact sooner or later. Special things happen only when you are ready to put in special effort. While reminding them, there is absolutely nothing wrong in being a electrician or a plumber.

>>All you have to do is be reasonably smart and capable of learning on the job.

Being good and not good enough will only take you that far. Of course, you can still do your job and get paid. But remember other people will likely take the top spots.

>>When interviewers at tech companies mistakenly believe that every successful candidate has to be building atom smashers in their spare time

Tech and especially fast changing ecosystem in Tech have seen large concentration of Nerds. Kind of people who've wanted to build video games, or win science fairs at school. When too many people of same type arrive at a place it becomes a culture.

>>But this isn't natural or normal or a product of biology - it's just bias perpetuating itself.

This is the most important part.

I had a friend who quit programming to do MBA and built a career there. He realized there is no way he would like to spend weekends exploring new tools that keep launching every few months and endless push to use bleeding edge stuff, work insane hours, weekends and with the overall fast paced, failure ridden culture of tech.

He is doing pretty well with managing business now.
This would definitely help. Although I think SOX (my compliance days are long gone) is mostly concerned about controls to change data, it might be relevant to access production data. Not sure about PCI and HIPAA.
No, parking is a terrible use of land and encourages bad practices like commuting in a personal vehicle using 1/5th of available seating.

If you choose to view that as a masochistic world view, that is entirely your choice. However, i would hate to live near you.
When will it ever be efficient?

All blockchains rely on re-computing the same transaction across many different entities due to mistrust. However, despite the common sentiment that computers are cheap; at scale, the are definitely not. Every additional computation to validate something increases the cost of business and 99% of businesses are cutthroat when it comes to cost.

Add in the other downsides/costs of crypto.* (my insights on the downsides of blockchain specifically: hard to use, one way transactions, high transfer costs due to low block size, super easy to get hacked and lose all your money...) and it's no wonder they are all failing.

99.999% of the time, the costs outway the benefits.
I’m pretty sure most languages, even interpreted, can run at least small programs in 64MB. If you want to minimize memory usage at all costs, I think you’d want a non-GC compiled language (C(++), Swift and Rust come to mind).
He's intimately aware of the problems real people face and spends lots of his time discussing them. If he's a king with servants, he's one who knows the value he receives and thinks constantly about how to achieve a world in which everyone can easily get the results he has (e.g. not worry about installing their OS but still having fully-free/libre software)
There was a platform called Lighthouse, made by Mike Hearn (developer of Bitcoinj and Bitcoin XT).

It wasn't very popular or very user friendly, I think the development stopped one year ago
You just pasted a conversation full of people saying that there are rogue base stations. And I don't see anyone reporting arrests!
> It's possible to have a discussion about these issues today. It's not rational to give special preference and excessive leeway to discussion that isn't actually fact based (and is in many ways based on nothing related to facts).

Well, that's great, because his points on gender differences are actually extensively backed by research. When he's talking about that, he isn't talking about what should be or what can be, he's talking about what is.

Even after clarifying to the poor-intended reader about what is, he still states that more diversity is what should be. He just doesn't agree with the present method.
This thinking is a common mistake I see from teams that think only about tech.

User acquisition is critical in the success of marketplaces. Usability is often ignored too.

Even today, if you create an eBay (granted, a much stickier marketplace than Kickstarter) with no fees, it's not as simple as throwing the doors open and expecting everyone to switch.

You can read more here, in a different example I dig into (Slack vs IRC): https://www.nemil.com/musings/oss-and-slack.html

If you ever want, I'm happy to have the debate with you (email in profile). If you really want to compete, you're going to need to be aware of what it'll really take to win, not just decentralized/blockchain and no fees.

(And as a nit, I can also build a website in a week that takes 2% credit card vig without blockchain - sure I know you'll argue that I can raise the price later, but I'm still not going to win against Kickstarter without something more than just a cheaper price)