skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't recommend courses, because I don't have direct experience of any, but given what you say, my suggestion would be to take a bit of a pause from pragmatic problems, and dedicate some time to learn the foundations of computer science, in particular about algorithms and data structures.
I'd recommend a couple of books: "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steven Skiena if you want something not too theoretical, or "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, if you want a bit more breadth and theory:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-MIT-Press...

As a second suggestion, I'd recommend to learn a language somewhat different from JavaScript-like (or C-like) languages, something that challenges your mind to think a little differently and understand and create higher order abstractions. There are many choices, but to avoid confusion and being my favourite, I'll point to one: read the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman. It teaches Scheme in a gentle and inspiring way but at the same time it teaches how to become a better programmer:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Or if you want made of dead trees:

https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Pro...

I can't recommend it enough. If you read it, do the exercises, don't limit to read through them.

Maybe it's even better if you start with this, and THEN read the books on algorithms and data structures.

Enjoy your journey!
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. Usually people rave about how the free market is the solution to all problems. You can't have a free market in which you can make rational decisions without adequate information. If one actor can lie or hide facts then it ceases to be a free market.
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You cannot prove something is harmless. Thats literally the opposite of science... you can not prove a negative.
While there's plenty of examples of tech companies constantly copying each other instead of genuinely innovating, I think "smart headphones" are a very Google-y idea even if Apple did it first. Fits right in with the original vision of Glass.

Also, it's an example of a fairly obvious technology just waiting for the tech to make it possible, as depicted several years ago in the movie Her.
Yeah, actually I agree. Rust is one of the very few characters I can think of off the top of my head that successfully bridges the gap between romantic cynicism and true nihilism.
Pihole solely works by intercepting dns requests and returning fake ip info for "known ad serving hostnames".

This is a proxy that works as a "man in the middle"

So, for example, it could block ads served from the same domain as the content or even in the content by using a regular expression that matches the <div> with the ad in it. Like the ads embedded in a google search result.
It's also just such a bad idea because they never get to mature their features, add uniqueness or allow 3rd party devs to build the ecosystem. They just build the same thing over and over again while their competitors keep refining, innovating and adding features. Really a bound to fail strategy
I read somewhere the new Iridium sats have less reflective antennas so we will probably miss the majestic flares that we see in sky.
What about the role that private / investment banks have been increasingly playing in fundraising over past 5-10 years?

Things seemed a lot different 10 years ago. I mean, some of us even had to take pay cuts to join pre-series A startups...
By what mechanism does Apples headphones translate speech?
Doesn't it follow, regardless of causality, that if Facebook were just as good as face-to-face social interaction, then there would be no difference in happiness levels between people who use Facebook and those who don't? If Facebook had a positive impact on people's lives, then there would be a similar positive correlation in using Facebook compared to seeing someone in person.

Maybe there isn't enough proof to say "Facebook is toxic", but it certainly seems true that Facebook is not as good as real human interaction.
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Agreed on the third party repos, but EPEL is fine. Fedora/EPEL, while unsupported, is a Red Hat project. It's basically the upstream release for RHEL, and many Red Hat employees contribute. They have a really good QA process too.
I'd imagine, like most companies, they charge their customers based-on willingness to pay related to market forces and the value they deliver.

While the argument you're making is sound, I'd challenge you to think of it this way: gitLab wants the best talent, no matter where they live. If they happen to live in a high cost area, vs someone that lives in a low cost area, both uniquely qualified, would it make sense to make sure two qualified candidates get approximately the same buying power's worth of compensation? Companies already adjust base pay based on your location, Google, for example.

It also takes a bit of the good versus bad negotiator penalty out of the equation, which provides a level of fairness that doesn't exist in most companies.
If you have the csvsimple [1] latex package available this can be done as latex macro. This allows for easy integration with other latex packages (drawing stuff with tikz for example [2]).

Python and a makefile might perform better for larger data sets though.

[1] https://ctan.org/pkg/csvsimple
[2] http://www.godberit.de/2016/01/31/Keeping-documentation-up-t...
you can interpret this as a problem and as a solution too. Yes, ztransactions will could dye your money so no exchange will accept it because you are a terrorist and the US can ban the usage of ztransactions.
In my opinion it's better like this, since the overall goal is to not rely on exchanges and regulatory thirdparties. In a P2P economy (which is this technology is meant to lead us) fungibility problems are not a thing beacuse there is no relative central party to make a standard.
Yeah, but Silicon Valley doesn't need their love. It needs their dollars. And they love giving Silicon Valley the dollars.
"This research has shone a light on some of the ways in which security patch support provided by Apple for 'firmware' is quite different than the security patch support they provide for 'software'."

"You can be software 'secure' but firmware vulnerable."

"The release QA on the FirmwareUpdate bundles is concerning."

https://duo.com/assets/ebooks/Duo-Labs-The-Apple-of-Your-EFI...

"The advent of UEFI brought with it a far more 'modern' pre-boot environment and 'finally' put an end to the many years of legacy workarounds that had to be applied to the aging IBM BIOS 'standard', providing a common, uniform and higher-level platform to 'innovate' on."

"However, that uniformity and accessibility also opened the door to far more generic and useful pre-boot environment attack opportunities."
Memristor-Driven Analog Compute Engine Would Use Chaos to Compute Efficiently
>I strongly disagree especially in the case of social networks. First movers in such spaces have incredible advantages and one of them is a lock-in effect. Countless follow-up social sites have come and gone that either had feature parity or better offerings than Facebook, but failed to get a foothold because of the fact that everyone already had Facebook. Why switch when everyone can already talk and plan?

Sure, and that applied to Friendster and Myspace and others as well, until Facebook came along.
I'm not thinking wages. I'm thinking corporate jets, M&A that feeds ego while costing shareholders ($) and employees (jobs), and pet R&D projects that go nowhere due to corporate bureaucracy.

From personal experience, let's add: rewriting a memo a dozen times because the corporate VP had to approve a fax machine that wasn't on the "Deployable Technology List." (This from a company currently in a high profile proxy fight)
Interesting that you come along with a hopeful vision for the future where there's interesting and lucrative work for people to do, and your comment is turning grayer and grayer.
I'd completely forgotten that Microsoft had actually bought LinkedIn. Even though now I recall seeing the news, until you mentioned it I was thinking they just had a partnership or something going on.
> Hormones: I guess we should ban birth control as well, correct? Because that's all it is...

We don't usually give birth control hormones to male humans. I don't know if they are bad when they are given to animals (it's forbidden here in Europe) but female hormones are definitely not good to developing children or adult males.

They're just good/neutral (well, not functionally neutral of course, but not causing unplanned disruption) to adult females because they're part of their normal physiology.
The affidavit doesn't lay out the case for wire fraud or several of the other mentioned offenses. They are only mentioned as a passing reference to all the crimes for which the FBI is investigating Lin. Only the cyber-stalking count is discussed in full.
I think the point I was trying to make was: If they don't even check for rudimentary things like coding style, can we expect them to check for more sophisticated sources of issues (e.g. memory corruption).
How to Unlock the Bootloader on Motorola Devices?
Those "quick surveys" that we all either skip (if possible) or just enter random bullshit into so that we can just download the damn file and get on with our work?

Those blog posts that 95%+ of customers never read or, if they do, won't bother commenting on?

Good luck.
I haven't owned any other Bluetooth headphones that can charge as fast as the AirPods, sense when they are in your ear and pause your music if you take one out, or are as small and light as the AirPods. What headphones did Apple copy?
I'm a bit older than most people here. I mention that because it may be relevant.

I'm entirely unfamiliar with the work you mentioned. So, I'm going to use just your description of events and work with that.

I'd say that their work was currently under review. After people have reviewed it and written about it, I'd say it was peer reviewed. Once it had been heavily reviewed, I'd probably say it had been formally peer reviewed.

Had it gone through a journal, I'd simply say it was reviewed prior to publication. After publication would be where I'd call it peer reviewed, after it has been published and commented on. Pre-publication review isn't very rigorous. I really don't put much emphasis on that.

To me, peer review happens post publication. Formal peer review would be when there is enough interest for people to make a concerted effort to replicate and dig deep into the findings to seek flaws. General Relativity would be formally peer reviewed. The paper you mention would be undergoing peer review.

I am not asserting that my thinking is correct. I am mentioning this because I see a difference and I think your use of 'currently' may be very important in understanding this.

In 1970, I would attend a reputable prep school. I would not complete my doctorate until 1991.

So, I suspect you're onto something with your use of 'currently.' If I understand your comment about the proof of the Poincare Theorem correctly, I'd say that it is (likely) being currently peer reviewed.

To try to sum this word salad up, I don't see prepublication review as peer review in the scientific sense. To my mind, that happens after publication and with varied levels of formality.

So, I suspect you're onto something when you mention current usage. Sorry for the novella and rambling nature of my post.
> I can't see why you would be skeptical about bias given studies (not relying on IAT) showing that -- all else being equal -- people with minority names on their resume get significantly less callbacks

Studies like that generally tend not to replicate, including at least one specifically about race and names on resumes.
Lots of credit cards automatically add accidental damage warranty to purchases.
the full title of the article is "Google's A.I. has nearly twice the IQ of Siri, study says — but a six-year-old child is smarter than both."
What was the last Linux laptop you installed a Windows on? (edit: removed unnecessary remark.)

The last laptop I did a clean install of Windows (7) on was a HP netbook. Even though it was a Windows machine, and I used their Windows install disc, it was a miserable experience (because I didn't have the separate driver disc). Not only did not the WLAN work, neither did the Ethernet port: the only way to get online was by using my phone as a Bluetooth dial-up – luckily I had a Symbian device you could do that with. And even then, Windows Update was of no help – I had to navigate to HP's website to download the very separate driver packages for WLAN and Ethernet functionality (and any other packages I can no longer remember).

By the way, with Ubuntu connectivity worked fine out-of-the-box – which is lucky, because although I have used Linux for over a decade as my daily driver, I have never had to install WLAN drivers for one, and probably couldn't. (Nothing could save the slow Atom from offering woeful user experience, though. One of the worst deals I ever had as far as computers go.)

edit: wording and clarification
> LI's value to anyone outside of recruiting agencies is dubious.

This is exactly the reason why LinkedIn needed the acquisition. I agree with you that the $26B price tag makes no sense given that LinkedIn needed this deal more than Microsoft did.

> The software giant will pay $196 a share - a premium of almost 50% to Friday's closing share price.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36519766 https://archive.fo/SoaO6

I think Windows Mobile should have followed through with its bridges, particularly the Android Bridge that it unceremoniously burned.

ref https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-officially-cancels-... https://archive.fo/qtqcK
> That's not to say I disagree with your point about Rick and Morty having nihilist characters; I don't think Rick is a nihilist, but I also don't think nihilism translates well to film and television. It's difficult to maintain compelling character development that can bring in a large viewership if a character is truly nihilist, in my opinion.

How about Marvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? (granted it's a book, but it has been adapted for TV and cinema and Marvin is, in my opinion at least, the best character in those particular adaptations).
It's a bit ironic that SV nerds are dealing with rampant racial/gender issues, while NFL jocks are protesting for racial justice in policing. It's like all those 80's movies flipped the nerd/jock paradigm.
Sure you can, though only probabilistically. That's precisely why fiddling with something as critical as the food supply is a bad idea, as it's likely we'll only discover potential problems when it's too late.
Or - it's that the work-aholics know that they're never going to get ahead.

Middle America thinks they'll get ahead soon. That it's their gumption and attitude that got them to where they are.

Which of course is a load of horse shit, and they're being used and abused as much as any SV work-aholic, if not more because of their lack of compensation.
Rick is more or less presented as someone who is so ashamed of his sentimentality that he is willing to go to great lengths to hide it, deny it, or discredit it, even if it means being abusive to other people. The only time he seems to buckle is when his family's lives are at stake.

The show is not "old-school" episodic. You're not going to get a little bit of everything in every episode. It has wider arcs, like most modern shows do.

So it doesn't make much sense to me that anyone would criticize the show for Rick's abusiveness... That's almost the whole point of him. If he weren't abusive, he'd be a "sitcom superman," but as it is, he gets to play the hero and the villain, which is a pretty compelling dynamic. (See Breaking Bad, for example.)
Canadians are criminally underpaid. I made significantly more than many full-time employees (I'd wager the majority) on more than half of my internships. Adjusted for rent and cost of living.

I do love London, Ontario though. Beautiful place even if it's too homogenous and quiet outside of around Western university.
I just thought of the trailer parks from the Ready Player One book after reading your comment.
It gives you a chance to put yourself on the shrink couch in the privacy of your room. You get to know yourself little bit more. You know how flimsy the safeguards are for you to not do the wrong thing. Laws, religious ethics are flimsy to stop you from doing the wrong thing. You realize that at the end of the day, it is up to you as the individual, to do the right thing in a situation. Playing GTA makes you a better, responsible citizen. If GTA makes someone violent, then GTA is acting as a filter to weed out mental health patients early on, before greater damage is done by them.
The lack of apps was annoying at time, but what made me leave was probably Microsoft Edge. The rendering was clearly better than IE, but Edge would crash my phone, or become non responsive, or both so often (creators update on Lumia 640 LTE). If the browser doesn't work, and there are no apps, it doesn't make sense to have the phone.
Was that because he posted his article _outside_ of Google?
If Facebook is filled with mentally ill people then it would be surprising if it weren't toxic.

It's a vicious cycle, so correlation becomes causation!
I completely understand the acquisition of Skype which was the undisputed king of video chat in its prime. It has since languished for any number of reasons, (probably relating to Microsoft's management but I'm not sure).

But I agree, a decent acquisition strategy could have done wonders for their ecosystem. Instead of constantly making and shutting down competitors to popular products, buy the popular ones. There was a time before now when Evernote would have been a nifty target, before they collapsed under their need to make money. There are plenty of amazing music platforms that people care about which aren't Groove.
Debian policy.

Package selection and packaging quality. The Debian aarchive is about 10x the size of CentOS / RHEL: 60k+ packages vs about 7k or so, as of a few years ago. I've not done a recent RHEL count.
And Web2py works well with Intercooler JS so you can get quite far without having to write any JS code.
Using TypeScript's type checking in vanilla JavaScript without transpiling
It all depends on who's allowed to evolve/reproduce, I guess.

All those goals you mentioned, a lot of people are uninterested, and surplus for it anyway. There's no problem allowing them to vegitate happily until their death, if that ever comes, because the costs of production for those people are approximately 0 in a short enough amount of time.

Already most of the west is mostly just wasting it's time as a ways of rationalising what's effectively basic income.

(also, a basic income is not the same as a shitty income, or a shitty lifestyle, for almost everyone it will only mean being more free in choosing your lifestyle and less worried about crime)
I'm struggling to find the exact article I read (and Wikipedia is light on info about him for some reason) but it was an interview with Thompson himself about where he is and what he is doing now.

He is teaching prisoners civics in Florida now after suffering major stress/depression and marriage problems resulting from his crusade. He went into how the whole thing started because stores were selling violent games to under-age kids and even parents were buying them and that's what he took issue with.

Based on his medical background and knowledge of how entertainment affects the brain he believed that kids that young and also the mentally disabled should not have access to violent games, but because he was beaten in court (multiple times) he began to make tenuous links everywhere between violence and games, music and movies and began behaving very legally dubious in pursuing his cases like a fanatic to the point where he was calling for all-out bans and ridiculous punishments.

He was eventually disbarred and went through a few years of trying not to be such an angry asshole.

From the way the article ended it seemed like he had gone through a positive transformation.
Morty seems to represent our inner scared timid self while Rick seems to represent our inner projected/desired self. Nerdy introverts can relate to this duality I think. The science and pop references are just frosting on top of the themes we can relate to, like a broken family struggling to hold itself together, struggling to understand your kids, struggling to connect with your parents, and so on.

Similar to Futurama, the science reference where great, but when I think of the show I remember the dog sitting in front of the pizza shop waiting for fry before the science gags.
Why are Microsoft killing Windows Phone, when they have Continuum and x86-on-ARM?
Microsoft have x86-on-ARM emulation tech that they're developing so Windows 10 laptops can have ARM processors.

Microsoft also have a Windows 10 Mobile feature called “Continuum” that lets you connect a phone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard, and use it as a Windows desktop.

Why have they not noticed how these ideas can be combined, and why are they killing off the platform?
Here's another view of the problem: the "average Joe" American is starting to hate all the centralized and monolithic institutions in the country, because he sees them as being corrupt, privileged, and primarily concerned with cementing their own power. It used to be that SV was a rebel and outsider going against Washington and Wall Street, but increasingly SV is just another pillar of the power structure.
> All that walled garden nonsense they are trying to impose is not going to work

It seems to "work" for Apple, unfortunately. I can't see any business giving up on the prospect of having a 30% cut of everyone else's software ...
Traditionally, the great people who have seen infinite possibility and understand the world for what it really is have been guiding figures.

IE: Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or the original "Doc" Brown from Back to the Future... or Dr. Who. Basically characters who have grown to understand the world and guides the other characters through the craziness of the world.

I recognize that Rick is purposefully inverted from the standard and typical trope here... and perhaps there really is too many Gandalf / Dr Who / Dr. Brown types in media. But still, I find the standard Gandalf / Dr. Who / Dr. Brown type to be more enjoyable to watch than the incarnation brought about in Rick and Morty.
Fairness isn’t that simply defined.

As is tought in any philosophy class in middle or high school, there’s multiple needs.

Give everyone according to their needs? Everyone the same? Fairness isn’t that simple.

Gitlab is trying to find a solution that is fair in their opinion, and if you disagree with that, you are free to choose a different employer.
I agree with this statement - as a cybersecurity professional, I feel this. "Your ideas are only as good as the people in the room. And your door is shut to most people."
And how would SV (outwith funding a civil war) solve the problems cased by an devolved and outdated political system that is more appropriate for serving the needs of 18th century rich landowners?
>and eight men control half the world’s wealth.

This is wrong. Eight men control as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the world's population.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/w...