skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, these can get some use, but if you're doing a serious volume of enterprise sales they are mainly through other means. In particular:

* Outbound cold calls and emails (annoying and boring but it works once you nail the pitch)

* Ad campaigns leading to targeted landing pages (i.e. How MegaBank saved $50M on Ledger Compliance using FooTech -- fill out this form to download whitepaper, and also we'll call you)

* Content marketing (now that you've learned about X, see how X would work in your organization)
Pretty normal here. Getting an appointment for anything physical takes 1 day for the usual stuff, cardiologist between 1-3 months, psychologist 9 months to a year. So good luck with your mental health, your professional appointment is only a year away!
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That's not typical suburbia. I completely understand wanting to get out and into nature where you can't see your neighbors. Makes sense, not for me, but it's totally logical and easy to understand different strokes for different folks.

The cookie-cutter typical suburbs of most mid-tier US cities though? I cannot imagine a worse combination of all the bad things from rural living, combined with all the bad things from urban living. Utterly soulless, and I feel actively depressed if I must spend more than a day or two stuck in one.

My personal theory is that the social strife we are increasingly seeing in the US is due to the breakdown in the sense of community nationwide. I posit that suburbinification was by far the largest driver of this. This is bad enough, but when you realize 90% of the suburbs in the US are unsustainable subsidies for middle class folks it gets even harder to swallow.
They're probably referring to particular breeds that are known for chronic health issues.

Dogs with extremely flat faces (think pugs)? They have a lot of trouble breathing. Also, their eye sockets are shallow and so their eyes will pop out of the socket sometimes. There's a litany of health issues related to chasing the breed standard for dogs, sometimes related to how the standard has been taken to an extreme that deform the dog and sometimes related to the massive inbreeding that's happened as a result of chasing the breed standard.

There are certainly some dogs that can live in the wild, and there are certainly some breeders who try hard to be responsible about how they breed for the standard and how they breed their lines together, but the average purebred dog is not one you can just drop in the woods and it'll go find its own food and survive.
This is not a good conversation to be having; it's a necessary one, made necessary by people breaking this site's rules and endangering it.

You're talking to someone who has been doing this same thing for so many years that I basically do it in my sleep, with about as much interest. If that's a backward slide, then (as Voltaire said when someone told him coffee was a slow poison) it must be very slow.
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It's amazing how performance can be much improved by profiling and fixing little things, such as optimizing a Java hashCode() method.

I had a similar experience helping with the H2 database engine.
The PBX usually chunks the send, Watson returns a % for each chunk it processes and then the overall average upon completion.
Hehe, or something like "Miantang" which would mean "noodle soup" :)
Google deserves absolutely no kudos for this. Their customer service is well-known for being a nigh-impenetrable monolithic black box, the only reason this got taken care of so quickly and personally is because they want to avoid negative press of the Home being a literal surveillance box. If you have a problem that won't hurt their PR, good luck getting any assistance from them.
It reads like a script right out of Silicon Valley.
But this same issue is present on non-mac laptops too, right? Except some niche gaming/VR laptops that use desktop GPUs. It's waiting for GPU and laptop chipset vendors whto get their acts together (and hope they care about VR).

Meanwhile eGPUs seem the way to go, and Apple is already shpping it: https://www.imore.com/apples-vr-dev-kit-egpu-enclosure-ultim...
Separate commits is sufficient.
They already do? Last I checked the bus wasn't free . . .
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> the media and their consumers are as usual scoring style points

Zuckerberg's stunt was tacky as hell. He clearly demonstrated how laughably out-of-touch he is with the reality other people live in. You may care more about the tech, but it was like watching a spray-paint salesman hawk wares by spraying over masterpieces, except worse because we're talking about humans.

Also, calling criticizing an out of touch goofball for being tacky a 'lynching expedition' is ludicrous. It isn't even a VR lynching.

> VR is a useful tool, for various parties including for planners to really "see" the devastation in 3D.

Stop and think about this for a minute. If you can get sufficiently detailed data for logistics planning (say, by driving Google Cars around), you're past the planning stage.
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If you're not using HMAC signatures and are a significant or paid user of intercom, get your shit together!
It sounds like having it as a slider you can enable at-will is the perfect compromise for this particular feature, no?
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I have a bit of hobby experience. One of the reasons i picked haxe as a platform/language is that it's cross-platform, but easy to delve down into native, since it's a source to source compiler. This means you write most of your code in cross-platform ways, but when shit hits the fan, you can always fight your way out by going native (which is quite seamless - such as externs, or even embedding raw native calls directly into the haxe source, useful as a last resort).

Haxe as a language, is very similar to java/c# in style (or actionscript - if you know that language). It is superficially similar to javascript too, but has a bit of semantic differences (it's not a prototypical language). The best language feature is its macro system. It is only 1 step below the LISP macro system, since macros are actual code, and you get to modify AST at compile time.

as for the library ecosystem, there's plenty of existing libraries in both pure haxe, as well as haxe externs into target native platforms. Quality vary, but you can say the same about any language's library ecosystem. Haxe's library ecosystem is mainly targeted at games - lime, openfl, haxeflixel, haxepunk, kha, babylonhx, and many many other engine/frameworks for games exist. Most of them are relatively easy to use, but as with all open source projects not backed by a large corp, there are warts, and you often have to either workaround them, or fix it (and in the process contribute!).

I haven't written any web-server/web-app using haxe, but i think it's also a popular type of app to write in haxe.

IDE integration is great with visual studio code (and intellij too).

Over all, i can't find any faults that i can't live with or fix, and am happy to continue playing with haxe. It can only improve in time.
Just follow the money, its the ultimate control mechanism which money cant buy!

Even monkey studies have shown when monkey's have been taught the concept of money they will engage in behaviour that is selfish and manipulative.

Propaganda & control has been around for thousands of years in the form of religion keeping the uneducated in fear of chosen gods of the group they are born into, whilst today methods have evolved, become more fine tuned especially when considering what can be hidden by SSL https websites targeting individuals in plain site to further some people's agenda by using wording & images that are provactive in much the same way headline writers of newspaper's have been using since newspapers were invented.

The internet is the first large scale scientific experiment monitoring human behaviour which military's love as they can gain new insights into human behaviour which helps them learn new methods or evolve methods to target their enemies.

And what country outspends the rest of the world in military spend? The same one's who gave you the internet. If military planners didnt plan, they wouldnt be doing their job now, would they? Its all about how you sell it to the populace.
At best you are using an esoteric definition of gaslighting there, I think you are probably misusing it.

People mostly treat their dogs in a straightforward way.
Coreboot does run on their laptops, but it has too many blobs to make the Libre crowd happy.

Purism has mentioned they may take interest in porting the rest of the way to libreboot someday.

The real issue too is that a lot of naysayers dislike Purism because they provide modern competition to people selling Librebooted laptops.
I think Zuckerberg and everyone involved with VR at Facebook have been overly effected by Chris Milk's TED Talk about how VR can be the "Ultimate Empathy Machine".

The arguments in that talk are compelling, and they probably felt they were doing a great humanitarian service. I don't think they are bad people at all, but they are definitely in a bubble where a certain awareness of the humanitarian potential for VR has made them blind to the perception of the average person.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_milk_how_virtual_reality_can...
> Curve25519 allows for much simpler code (for instance, there is no need for validation, since all sequences of 32 bytes are by definition valid), and the “natural” Montgomery ladder is constant-time.

It's worth noting that no validation is strictly necessary, but some iinputs can force the output to be all-0[1]. That should be checked.

[1] RFC 7748 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7748.txt), p. 14
>Which has cost companies and investors billions and is the most accident prone.

Since it handles untold trillions (almost every company processes their financial data through Excel at multiple points) the "billions" it might have cost is a drop in the bucket.

There's a reason why it's used nonetheless.

>No Version control no way to audit your code. These also come with visual programs.

There's nothing about visual programs that say "no version control" (and of course auditing the code is even easier with visual programs). You either add visual-nodes aware version control, or with a text serialization and back, you use git or whatever.
This is so far off topic, but are you a farmer? I am sort of a farmer, blueberries and trees. I do have a tractor. It's an L6060, I'm kind of pampered in that area.

Technically, I don't harvest most of the trees or blueberries personally. My tractor doesn't see much serious work. It is mostly used to move snow or soil and splitting wood.

Feel free to hit me up by email. It is uninvolved@outlook.com - if you want. It's probably better than delving too far off-topic in the thread.
"The advent of photography freed painting from the task of verisimilitude, opening the door to a world of abstraction."
Sure, but it's possible that the thing that Google never intended to happen was for the device to fail in such a blatantly obvious way. It does not rule out the possibility that Google intended for the device to (also) be able listen in a less blatantly obvious way.

This story from today's Washington Post is relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15449826
I have spoken directly with a few people who left their southern in town neighborhood (still houses with yards etc) in the early 70's because they did not like the way black people behaved after civil rights in the 60's.

Not sure if that counts for you as racism but there it is.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted.

In terms of bizarre things family members have done to inherit things, this sort of escapade probably wouldn't even breach the top 100.
at least you can check that its not going back to the server.
I see all of this too, this is really well written.

My greatest fear is that there is no escape from this. Our brains just aren't developed to resist this type of gaming. On an individual level, sure, there will be people who turn away from it, shut down Facebook and live a simpler life. But on a mass societal level? I don't know if there's a solution, and things are only getting more extreme - it really frightens me.
I'm really wondering here, how and why do you keep ow about this fire ahead of time
Happy to see this here, been apart of this accelerator for the last 12 weeks, Hacking away at cool things for OurSay.
About manicuring a public image and fake niceness, for some reason, I find the following funny take on his public image quite authentic :)

https://twitter.com/BasedDrWorm/status/913282180280934400
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Not sure how true that is anymore. They seem to by trying hard to squander their reputation. First their MITI officially signaled they now consider themselves a political force, then the whole Cliqz debacle following shortly after showed their willingness to sacrifice their principles.
I am not a data scientist, but this seems like a very obvious solution to me as well so I wonder if there is a reason it's not done this way.
Or, you know, I'm from a country that the "US fair view" has caused untold damage, whereas we never had a particular beef with Russia.

Maybe ask some Chileans who suffered under Pinochet about their opinions on US "facts"?
I'm pretty sure that it never is one thing. However if you have a US president who is knee deep in Russia and several accounts here and there, RT, subreddits, twitter bots who also support Russian policies, doesn't that make you think a bit?

You are taking one (obviously failed) campaign and act like it's all while ignoring the whole picture that is evolving around this presidency. This looks...weird.
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> What happens when the top guy is on the spectrum and over-rides these decisions?

Could go either way; seemed to work well for Jobs and Apple for example. Lots of CEO's seem to be on the sociopath spectrum.

> you just simply fall out of the mainstream and one's judgment on what is appropriate PR simply is off-kilter.

And then they become president. Dun dun dunnnn.
I find that my music tastes can vary too much for Spotify. While working, I mostly listen to Electronic music. But I can also take a hard right turn and listen to Hall and Oates... or Fleetwood Mac, or Steely Dan. Then some form of 80's throwback. But as far as recommendations go, I really only want to expand in that first genre of Electronic Music. I don't want Jethro Tull to be recommended to me. My feed used to be full of really cool stuff, but I find that now I have several lines of "Because you listened to one song by The Pointer Sisters...."
Isn't one explicit goal of these projects to diverge from Firefox's new "Quantum" rewrite of the core browser engine?

Trying to continue to support XUL is going to seriously leave these browsers in the past if there isn't a strong effort to replicate what Mozilla is doing in a way compatible with traditional addons.

I like the idea of an unmozillad-firefox (right now I compile firefox without DRM and pocket) but I don't think these two projects are the answer
It's making its rounds. Accenture is incredibly unorganized though, for example I have no idea which teams use this AWS service. I didn't even know Accenture had AWS services as they tend to push Azure more. My own project uses it's own datacenter which is the case for most clients - Accenture wants to leave them least responsible in these kinds of events.
To be sure the TV stations will be thankful for your money and to reach all the old people?
Potential liability, and/or massive egos.
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I'd highly recommend reading a book like "The Domestic Dog," which was recently updated with a new edition in 2017. It contains all of the latest science and anthropology around the origins of the human/dog relationship.

The tl;dr is that dogs really do identify us as family, and in all likelihood, the first ancestral wolves to become domesticated dogs took as many co-evolutionary steps towards us as we did them.

Humans and dogs have been evolving alongside each other for at least 15,000 years. The sorts of dog breeds that can't survive in the wild (bulldogs, etc.) are a fairly recent innovation in all of that time, dating back to the mid 1800s and the emergence of the modern breeding program.

Dogs like being with us as much as we like having them around. They were the first domesticated species, and they are literally the only mammals we know of who can read human facial expressions and emotions as well as the great apes can. Our relationship with them is a partnership, not an enslavement.

If you want to take issue with the way humans treat animals, there are so many better targets for outrage than our treatment of the dog. Take the cow or the chicken, for instance, most of whom lead a tortured and awful existence and would want nothing to do with us in a state of nature.
It was a decade or more ago; I'm not sure there are links out there. Although legendary internally, there's at least one more recent and more epic MapReduce-based story. In order to fully understand it, though, you'd need to reveal details about search infrastructure.
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Ohh OK! Thank you. Makes more sense now.
That doesn't explain much. I'm currently living in a quite central area of Brussels. Times are on bicycle.

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Reagan was president too though.
I'd imagine it's similar to the arguments at https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
Linux is secure in the sense that nobody can use it.
> but the more I observe human beings today, the less confident I feel about us taking the high road directly.

Oh, we are incredibly diverse and adaptable. It matters very little that almost all of us are wrong, until it becomes "absolutely all".

I just hope that black swan happens before we start directly plugging our brains into the network. If it does, I am confident we will be fine after a few decades.
I've used this once or twice a week since it was announced a month or two back here on HN, and love it. It's my go-to way to send any file that's > 10MB.

I remember doing some mortgage applications last year and being frustrated that the built-in Zip encryption in Windows is weak/broken, and begging them to have a secure file upload feature.

With this, it's all set - as long as the recipient picks it up within 24 hours of course. 48 would be better but I'm not quibbling, I can always resend and if 24 is what they need to keep the service up, 24 it is.

This is simple and awesome and I appreciate everyone who worked on it.
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I would guess it's a product iteration problem - the prototypes probably worked, but the first production batch will have some level of issues that spot checks might not find.
Look, I’d also like this to be open and documented but hyperbole isn’t helping that. If it’s undocumented, say that rather than pretending anyone is locked out of their own hardware — nobody has lost the use of their device due to IME. Similarly, calling it a backdoor and implying that the NSA is behind it without any proof is only going to reflect badly on the person making those claims.

The other thing to remember for effective advocacy is thinking about what normal people experience. If you say Apple shouldn’t have the keys, you’re also saying the average person has to be good at key management; most people are happy to outsource that. Conflating the issues of mass surveillance with control over your own hardware is great if your goal is confusion but I don’t see it producing results.
Because as explained in the article, elementary things like memory access a[i] are not constant time with respect to i?

Because an arbitrary C program will have non-constant branches (so may become exponentially long in your proposed instruction set) and loops (not representable at all in your proposed instruction set)?

If what you are saying is that a language could hypothetically statically verify that the execution of a function was constant time with respect to certain inputs, that sounds like it would work and that the only obstacle is engineering effort. But compiling to such a language doesn't sound very practical to me.
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Which government? The city government is broke. If they merge, the larger city could pay for transitioning costs, but that would be a massive cost (worth it, possibly!) and politically difficult.
I recognize that not everybody does this, but as somebody who owns a pet (my wife and I both have cats), I take the responsibility of ownership very seriously. My cat doesn't have a lot of agency in her own life, so I try to get healthy food that she appears to enjoy, I play with her and try to provide the stimulation she wants, and I try to provide an environment that keeps her happy even if she isn't able to leave it. If she's not feeling well, I take her to the vet and get the care she needs as opposed to the care that is cheap. And at some point, she'll get sick and I'll have to make the choice about her quality of life being low enough that it's better for her to pass.

There are ways to be responsible about pet ownership for animals like dogs and cats. It doesn't need to be this horrific experience you've painted it as.
That is a gr8 article. It's clear he takes Kanban (minimize Work-in-progress) seriously.
Not via Linux, but via the IME that Intel puts on every CPU with full access to all memory and the network cards.