skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take an accounting course. It's the most useful course I took other than writing. The further you advance in your career the more you'll need it, and if you work on any systems that involve money it will be especially important.
Alaska, Guam, and Hawaii usually don't come up in my consersations. Don't the Dutch/UK and other countries still own some islands?

You are correct. I was speaking only to continental Euro/US.
Yes, and you'll be a constituent of one of them, which is the argument for organizing.
Also relevant recent news:

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/up-gang-that-hacked-aadhaar-s...
Sort of disagree.. HTTP (and HTTPS by extension) have become the veritable Swiss Army knife of the internet. It's not just for hypertext anymore.
If you have a memory-constrained system, yes. There's a surprising amount of stuff that sits untouched in RAM for very long periods of time. I generally run fairly low-end systems, so it's not unusual for me to have a few GB in swap. (Though I just found out last week that I could buy another 4GB for $26 and free shipping, and I have to admit that was a worthwhile investment.)
The price of bitcoin is an index of the bitcoin economy.
Yeah, the USA did do some good for the world. 80 years ago.

But what it is doing today is a terrible, atrocious tragedy, and its far beyond the point where the means justify the ends.

I mean that as someone who follows closely the cost of American warfare, and as someone who refuses to ignore the human tragedy it is bringing to current generations of people who really, really do not deserve to have had their infrastructure utterly destroyed, their lives ruined, their children left in rubble, on a daily basis, because some smart American decided it had to be so.
People trafficking is an entirely different matter because that involves the use of force. The employees can go to another employer if that employer treats them better. That is the main protector against bad employers, NOT regulation. Most of the advances in labour protection have been a result of a general increase in wealth and better alternatives. Take child labour for example. It used to be that almost every child from the age of 10 worked. That that isn't the case any more is not a result of laws, it's a result of increased productivity which meant that a family could survive without the children working.
All MMOs are not suitable for most adults because their content is calibrated towards teenagers who can play over 8 hours a day.
You can smelt it in remote places. Iceland has a lot of Aluminium smelting because energy is so cheap. Doesn't mean that you need to produce the aluminium products there.
it's clearly listed under "- pain points" with "still in its beginnings" so be gentle.
I believe you just have to scroll down far enough.
That monitor I bought on Overstock with BTC was an illegal purchase?! Why didn't you warn me!
The NLRA broadly protects any concerted action involving two or more employees to improve any workplace condition or term of employment. You do not have to be in a "union" with "shop rules" and collective wage bargaining to take advantage of it.
I talked about this before, and most people instantly wrote this off.

The typical response was 'If X bans the cryptocurrency, we will just trade in another country. That's the whole point!'.

Can somebody explain what will happen if U.S starts to feel the pressure from Bitcoin and kills it at the point of exchange? Sure, you will still have your Bitcoins, but they will drop in value and become useless.

Furthermore, what will happen to the market if 1%'s attempt to convert a couple of billions to USD at the same time? Who will honor that transaction? The banks will not touch it.

This will end up just like the banking crisis sans a bailout. People can't get the 'money' out because the exchange rate is not going to be honored, and the value of their money will drop over night.
And CIA under Obama administration killed Andrew Breitbart when he started talking about Podesta's closet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBvPx4CvhI). But of course he died of a "heart attack" just like Russian journalists seem to do.
Handy if you are a bit stuck
Far-right Twitter users in Germany launched an attack on Der Spiegel magazine
One big obstacle to established players was the fact that a lot of existing booster stages had been optimized in such a way that they simply could not survive atmospheric reentry, lateral stress, and could not land. Both major operational US rockets, Delta IV and Atlas V, have exterior insulation (which would burn away upon reentry), relatively thin walls (meaning they're not very strong against aerodynamic buffeting or fin torque), and single engines (meaning that it's very hard to throttle down to land). Adapting these rockets for reusability testing would have meant basically redesigning them from the ground up.
Yes, if you have 8GB of RAM which is enough for me 99% of the time, but you'd rather your computer slow down 1% of the time rather than crash and have to start over.
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Jesus, it makes it super horrible on mobile... enough to drive me away.
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Can't believe we're to the point of debating whether a private educational institution can base an admissions decision, in part, on a past murder conviction.

This isn't about redemption or rehabilitation. No one is suggesting she's going to beat, starve, abandon and murder another 4-year-old. That's very unlikely.

But, what we are suggesting is that a private institution should be able to consider a person's entire story in their admissions decision.

Crimes have consequences beyond the government imposed sentence. But maybe the issue here is that the woman's punishment was much less than what most people would consider full justice, so they feel compelled to mete out slightly more to compensate.

And you say, but look at all she's contributed to society with her research! And I say we'll never know what her son may have contributed and she took him from the world.
Never knew about readlink for files, but I use

pwd -P

all the time to get the real full path (no symlinks) of the current directory. Really easy to remember as well, Print Working Directory.
Posting our president's SSN on your blog after obtaining it from a darknet page... priceless.
It's common behavior of most operating systems, tasks are not kept scheduled on the same CPU (unless configured).
Am I missing something? Why does FirefoxOS, for instance, not count as a "truly free smartphone"? Were there blob drivers or something? Or are we just forgetting them for the sake of the headline?
With US electricity prices.

German electricity prices are north of 40¢/kWh. This is significantly more expensive.
Your point is unclear: Are you saying she isn't or can't be rehabilitated or her rehabilitation isn't complete?
She absolutely is and should not have any impediments from the state in moving on with her life. Private individuals and institutions are under no such obligation, though.
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Get a degree in CS.

Join an academic club that does a lot of sysadmin stuff (if there's a security club then they're probably a good bet) or get a job in the networking side of campus IT. Do what you need to do to pass your classes. Focus on the sysadmin stuff.

If a HR person or recruiter asks your about your GPA the answer is "around 3.0 depending on how thinly spread my time resources are any given semester".
I would agree except I think studying physics is perhaps even better than math because it lets you get more practice modeling real-world scenarios and math gets more abstract and less relevant to CS at the later levels. But studying CS itself is something I would not recommend for those who know how to code already.
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China not loving bitcoin and not being onboard isn't news. A communist government not agreeing with a decentralized currency shouldn't come as a surprise. Speculators who invest should understand that clearly, and not go into panic when China makes decisions that are very China-like. The good news is that it's a perfect time to buy more bitcoin and ether at a discounted price.
I took a bunch of advanced classes at a top five school (physics minor, for example). Even my grad research was in a related field. I learned that what I was taught was historic and that most people don't get to work with equations anyways.

I wish I had instead spent the time hanging out with friends...
The problem of figuring out whether someone is the real person or an imposter (problem of identity) is a completely different problem from verifying a person's circumstances.
In my experience, it makes a big difference. My swap is on a hard drive, which can handle the sequential reading of the swap quite quickly. Whereas the random accessing of it in normal use is much slower per byte.
You say that as if its a bad thing.
A credit score is a signal to potential _new_ creditors about how likely you are to be able to pay back _new_ debts. A factor in credit FairISAAC is the proportion of your outstanding revolving credit you are currently using (more being worse, above about 30%). It could be a sign that your income is unable to pay down your debt (becoming a runaway debt problem).

All to say that just because you've been able to convince creditors to loan you $53 million doesn't necessarily mean your credit is good.
As a father of three, the heinous crime against a small child, in the way described, in my mind, is unforgivable. I couldn't care less about here PHD - and that smug look in that picture makes her worse in my eyes, not "redeemed"

You don't beat a four year old child then leave them locked in an apartment to die.

Fuck her.
If you take into account inflation, there is an argument for previous heists being larger... IIRC.

Check out http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/2017/09/did-judge-really-pull-...
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abs has been deprecated, yes. But asp has been promoted to [extra]
I believe that the $1 billion figure is for the entire development cost of the Falcon 9 vehicle (stages 1 and 2.)
Modern XBase clones like Flagship (Clipper clone, sort of), Harbour project (ditto), and many others come close. You still have to do some programming, but it is not too difficult for an IT-savvy non-programmer to pick up. Clipper apps still run many small businesses in India (I know for sure) and likely many other countries too. Data entry in such apps is extremely fast once the operator gets used to the app. They did have a few useful features like drop-down lists, incremental search in that (programmed), etc.

Some of these clones will have a DB CRUD language similar to the original dBASE, some of them might have SQL support too. I know that some years ago, many of the dBASE competitors (and dBASE IV or V itself, plus Foxpro) had somewhat decent SQL support (though not with all the features of a full-fledged RDBMS).

Some medium to large LOB apps have been built with XBASE tech too, in the past. I worked on a somewhat big one several years ago, for a switchgear products company. It was like parts of an ERP. It was in Foxpro for Windows on Novell Netware, and we used the SQL in it heavily. I remember writing tons of SQL reports near the end of the project (after the other CRUD work was done), and getting a bit bored with that at first, until I worked out that there were some patterns of permutations / combinations in the kinds of reports needed (by country, by region, by product category, by product accessory, by date, by order's commercial terms, etc. etc.), and then enjoyed the work a bit more, by working out how to do it systematically, changing one parameter at a time, so as to reuse as much of the previous report's SQL code as possible :)
> The NLRA broadly protects any concerted action involving two or more employees to improve any workplace condition or term of employment. You do not have to be in a "union" with "shop rules" and collective wage bargaining to take advantage of it.

I'm aware - but again, that wasn't the original question of this thread.
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It's obvious and readable, and therefore maintainable, which is one of the most important parts of software engineering.

Again, as an example for exploring the concepts, this is a great article, as long as the overengineering isn't taken as a good thing in itself.
If you check the CNBC mobile app for the last 2 days the bitcoin story/s have been prioritized to the top position or second to the top. Given the frequency of news and the relevance to the cnbc audience it seems to me there is certainly some additional boosting for these to be constantly at the top.

As I write this reply. The bitcoin article is at the top. There are at least 15 more articles more recent than the bitcoin one from 3 hours ago.

Just interesting
EDIT: see philipodonnell's reply to this post for an alternative explanation. I may have jumped the gun.

As far as I know credit scores are not part of credit reports as they do not show up when you request your credit report. If they were storing "credit score" as part of your credit report but withholding that information when you request a copy that would seem to violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

It wouldn't really make sense to store a credit score with the report anyways, it would only make sense to generate it on the fly only when a lender requests it. I'm assuming that different creditors report credit information on different days so it would be changing every time a creditor submitted information on that person which would be multiple times a month for someone with multiple accounts. And if the credit score algorithm was updated they would have to recalculate the "credit score" field on the entire database! This wouldn't really make sense from a technical perspective.

Furthermore, there's not just one "credit score," there's different algorithms for coming up with a credit score. One creditor may request FICO 8 and another one may request VantageScore 3.0 on the same day. Then another comes by and wants FICO 5. So even if they saving a credit score in the database I wouldn't think that they would have a field labeled as a generic "credit score" without any qualifier. It would be "FICO 8 score" or whatever algorithm was used to generate the score.

There's also other problems, I don't have my Equifax report in front of me right now but credit bureaus store alternative/former names which aren't included here. Like for me my reported names are FirstName LastName; FirstName MiddleInital LastName; and FirstName MiddleName LastName. All because different creditors reported my name slightly differently. If you change your name (like Kim Kardashian did - she's Kim Kardashian West now) it would report both your former name(s) and current name(s). I don't see any indication that this sort of information is included.

Therefore I very seriously doubt the authenticity.

(From a technical perspective "pdf" is not a MIME type, the MIME type of PDF files is "application/pdf")
I like this line:

> Lattice, a Portland-based company with around 1,000 employees, argued that the Trump administration had nothing to worry about. Lattice said it outsourced chip manufacturing to other companies, so there wasn't a risk of manufacturing facilities being infiltrated. Lattice also offered to transfer key intellectual property to the US government to ensure that it didn't fall into Chinese hands.

If I'm parsing this correctly, they're arguing that risk of hacking of the manufacturing process won't increase because they already don't have control of chip supply chain due to outsourcing.
Isn't Skype pretty much Snapchat these days?
What's the security issue in play here?
Ok, if that actually works, that's amazing. Wow.
Does this mean they won't be using GNOME, or will this simply be another user interface option? The Purism fundraiser has mockups of a GNOME interface, and there was a recent [1] mailing list thread about starting a GNOME Mobile effort. I'm a GNOME user on my laptop, mainly because the design feels more polished than Plasma, so I would have liked to see a mobile initiative for GNOME.

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-Sept...
Another advantage of leaving the EU. We can ditch the silly VAT system.
> 1. How is this attempt different from HashCash, aside from using Monero?

I've never heard of either service, so I checked out both. One big difference between the two is that I knew pretty quickly what Coinhive was and how to use it, but I could never figure out what the heck HashCash does. I suspect if I clicked on one of their many "buy access to the API" links I may get more info, but that's not very cool.
I should add that it would only be possible to require a company to have a local subsidiary if it has a physical presence in the country. Someone like Amazon will because they have warehouses.

Someone like Google could probably get away with doing business remotely, but then any business that buys from them would not be able to deduct that as a cost when calculating tax which would effectively mean that they pay the tax, making a local rival more competitive.
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I'm calling it that Touch ID will make a comeback: https://twitter.com/ernsheong/status/908018119595003904

How bout: Touch ID + Face ID. Hahaa
The point is, Russian military action in Ukraine was for the purpose of protecting its sovereign borders and access to the Black Sea. While I agree that it was a heinous action, it is more justifiable than any military action the USA has projected, if but for the simple fact that it was close to home - literally on Russias' doorstep.

America, however, projects power around the globe - not for its own protection of sovereign assets, and certainly not as a consequence of needing to defend its sovereign border. Rather, American power projection is done in order to interfere with nations that the USA has decided, for some other reason, mostly psychology, is its enemy.

>"The USA has invaded, and destroyed, far, far more territory, resulting in 100x more human suffering and misery." is grossly untrue.

Sorry, but a lot of the world see it as being very, very true.

Perhaps you should pay more attention to the refugee children walking across Europe to get away from American wars.
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It seems silly to confine the question to Teamster-style unions. You want the answer to that? No, tech workers are not going to create the Tech Teamsters.

That's not the important question. The important question is, will tech workers organize, and, when they do, what will that organization look like? That's a question we can speculate productively about.
How is murdering a 4 year old child a "fairly minor" felony??
> This is quite arguable, as most people plug in a router, or even more commonly, have Comcast do it for them.

So replace router with Apple TV.
Going against the herd here and going to say that people are losing their minds. If I intentionally, over days and weeks, repeatedly beat, tortured and murdered a defenseless child? I would do the honor of killing myself so someone else wouldn't be burdened with it. It is simply horrendous and unacceptable.

The amount of degeneracy we're being taught to accept, and even appreciate, is starting to be awful. Her research was even along those same lines: a meta project on the value created by incarcerated researchers.

I'm not saying she shouldn't still have her civil and constitutional rights. She certainly shouldn't ever be subject to abuse or cruel and unusual punishment. But should she be represented at our most esteemed institutions? Come on.

What about Ross Ulbricht? Snowden? Aaron Swartz? There are countless people who have done nothing but go to great lengths to give people liberties, and yet effectively serve life sentences for doing nothing wrong? Why focus so much energy on promoting legitimate child murderers? It makes absolutely no sense to me.

If anything, the energy spent here could be better spent elsewhere.
"...("supervise command" - his words). That is bad terminology."

"Examples of actual supervisors are..."

1999-2001

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/supervise.html

runit and s6 are copies of daemontools.

Otherwise I liked your comment about use of yes.
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> Cool, this is good news as it means I might actually be able to find out my credit score.

Hahaha
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My guess would be no. Unions work when labor is fungible. And while a business might view many tech employees that way, we've largely resisted seeing ourselves that way. We mythologize the 10x programmer and openly acknowledge that there is a large but hard-to-measure productivity difference between high performers and low performers.

So why would a group that believes that put organizations in place that force businesses to treat and pay employees equally? Why would that group start to accept that years of service is a proxy for useful experience and ability? Fear of lawsuits mean that it's already too difficult to get rid of disruptive elements in an engineering team...are we really willing to make that process harder? Will the actual 10x programmers--the ones that have the data and recommendations on their CV to prove it--be willing to cede their individual negotiating power?
The thing is, you can get a Windows laptop with a bigger SSD, more RAM and ports for the same price as a decent Chromebook. Instead of jumping through hoops to run linux on chromeos, you can just install the distro of your choice as a windows replacement. My opinion: Developing on a chromebook is like typing with a hand behind your back; You can do it... but it doesn't make a lot of objective sense unless you have bizarre constraints that force you to make such concessions.
In my experience this is no longer the case, anecdotal of course.
I've been using it here and there in place of named tuples and data-only classes. It is very convenient.

I had a project where I had to connect to a data source and serialize some data.
When I needed to add an attribute all I had to do was add it to two places: the class itself, and the @classmethod constructor.
So in this case I got the serialization for free, but that's all I was using. In reality I also got __repr__, __cmp__, etc, etc for free too, I just wasn't using it.
Serialization was free because attr.asdict() knows which attributes are attr.ib() attributes.

@attr.s()
class Foo:
bar = attr.ib()
spam = attr.ib()
eggs = attr.ib() # added this line

@classmethod
def from_something_else(cls, x):
return cls(
bar=x.bar.name,
spam=x.spam,
eggs=x.get_eggs().blah(), # and this line
)

with open('blah.json', 'w') as fout:
json.dump(fout, attr.asdict(o)) # got serialization for free
Well, cellular automata are grid-based, so maybe something that makes use of that spatial aspect? The only thing I can think of right now is Chuck Moore's greenarrays, which is a grid of dedicated Forth chips wired together:

> Chuck Moore discusses what it takes to program a 144-core asynchronous chip that consumes only 7 pJ/inst, the idle cores taking just 100 nW while the active ones need 4mW running at 666 Mips: tight coding to minimize the number of instructions executed, reducing instruction fetches, transistor switching, and duty cycle.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip

I don't think that in itself is a good fit, but maybe a good starting point to think about it alternative approaches?

As an aside, what you're saying about it being easier to build anything we understand well applies even more when working in groups, since it's a lot harder to find a solution to a problem without a shared baseline. So it makes a lot of sense that this approach was taken here.