skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Religions are like political parties, you say?
The regular old swap is slightly technologically behind today's needs. It is supposed to be replaced by things like zram and zswap, that don't kill the machine.
Yeah, I would be all over that if my home was newer and had wiring to support it. Right now I don't think there are many options with the way older homes were wired.
Siri buffers your speech as soon as you hit the button or say, “Hey Siri.” You don’t need to wait for the screen to load.
I like the article of the zeit.

http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexua...
Had to install libsdl1.2-dev, but otherwise compiled fine. Unfortunately I get a seg fault just as it starts loading (right after it measures frame rate)
To me, this is the equivalent of blaming a person when a fanatic kills in response to some perceived offense to their belief system written by that person.

There's absolutely no way that an anonymous call alone should lead to a death except in a freak, extremely rare accident.
which is why they should build release more often.
I had considered trying something like this with Hellaphone (Inferno as a replacement for Android's Java components). Because the Inferno VM is so lightweight (startup took less than a second once you were out of the bootloader), you could easily run one whole VM per application. Then just make some sort of multiplexer to swap between which VM has screen access at any one time. 9P would make a rather straightforward way to provide services for applications, too.
UNSTUCK Ep9: Developers stuck in waterfall thinking
The cloud is not immune from failure. Moving to the cloud just moves the line of responsibility for who manages a service, but it does not remove the risks.

Hardware and software fail. Amazon does a better job mitigating the damage from failures than me, but their still still fails.

I'm sorry for your data loss. I hope the recovery isn't too painful. Live and learn.
Igor Skochinsky is great. He explains it so anyone can understand (something becoming rarer these days), he is very helpful on Github too.
When I was young living in South Carolina there were the trashy trailer parks, but there were also nice tidy trailer parks for working class families.

It was probably a bit nicer than this 30 years ago

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.897915,-82.4379351,3a,68y,28...
Agreed. At a previous (small) job the IT department was VERY overworked. They tried to hire to fix it and it didn’t work. Because it wasn’t the problem.

The problem was unsustainable methods of doing everything. Every job was unique for no good reason. It was all managed by hand, monitoring monitored the wrong things.

Each existing thing generated a ton of work due to how it was setup and required constant tweaking. Any new thing just piled additional work on, often causing issues with what already existed.

Because of the lack of any kind of system or useful documentation new employees only made things worse as they tried to understand what existed, had to ask constant questions, or failed to take into account hidden gotchas that they had no way to watch out for.

Until they started standardizing and stabalizing the base things couldn’t be improved.

Yes there are times you have 10 developers worth of work and 5 developers. But there are times you have 4 developers worth of work and 6 developers worth of mess they have to tip-toe around, but only 5 people.
> Or would that threaten too many womens' bargaining chip?

Can you clarify what you mean by this please?
>I think a great deal of them would still choose to play despite knowing the risks.

They would still play even if we took steps to minimize the risks.
I thought "coaching" was the answer to. I came in as a tech lead where one "developer" hired by a previous regime didn't know how to write a JavaScript function and just couldn't logically figure out how to debug an issue and the other just couldn't focus on a problem and went way out in left field on the simplest tasks.

We got rid of both of them as part of a "restructuring". I've had to cut a few contractors short because they just couldn't handle what for all intents and purposes was a startup environment where everything was up in the air and we needed people who could adapt, figure things out, and learn fast without holding their hands.

In a place like Netflix, everything is brand new. No one in history has ever had to deal with the scale that they have to.
So why take on additional money if you plan on going public soon?
Yahoo had a hundred other problems.
It says "department policy is to give the officer paid leave".

Maybe a reward for murder isn't the best solution.
That looks interesting. I am painfully aware of how much dumber and slower I am than other people, profiling is what I choose to do because it's easier. Stone me if you want, I don't have long to live anyway.
Apple Store designers appear to have forgotten about Chicago winters
All it takes is for that person to reach in its pockets or to carry a long black stick for such an accident to happen. SWAT isn't regular police, they are trained to deal with active shooters. If such a situation happen, you are to exit with your hands in the air (when asked) and then get on the ground without resisting as they restrain you. Anything else will put your life in danger.

They came in with the following information: "a call that someone had an argument with their mother, that the father had been shot in the head and the shooter was holding his mother, brother and sister hostage."

It is my belief that those officers did nothing wrong. It was not a trigger happy cop reacting badly to a traffic stop. It was officers that acted on information that were planted by a malicious individual. The prankster is the one that needs to go to jail for this.

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Edit:

Yes, the situation wasn't right. That doesn't mean that the officers on the ground were in the wrong.

There is a more systematic issue going on, you can't put all the blame on the door kickers.

Quoting @matt_wulfeck's comment on another comment thread as he made the same point as I did but with better wording:

"Adrenaline and poor training lead to situations like this.

The department should be held responsible even though it was an individual who made the fatal mistake.

As for the person who called in the swat team, it’s clearly murder."
It was moved because the old building was demolished. Not sure if the rooms are bigger, it looks similar actually. Maybe a bit.

A guide would be good though. I'll suggest it further.
Best way to get rich is to be rich. They can buy their way to success.
> On the other hand, if you feel you are a top performer and want to work with other top performers, you wouldn't want to work at a place with mediocre developers.

This could just be because I'm a mediocre developer (1X) but:

1) Mediocre developers have the ability to consistently produce all the basic non-architectural grunt work in a reasonable amount of time with a reasonable level of quality. Frankly, the "top performers" tend to want to work on high impact/high visibility projects and tend to shirk any grunt work they are given. (i.e. Even something as simple as a combo box that handles shipping I've seen "top performers" repeatedly f up despite me warning them and having to completely scrap their implementations. It isn't that the developer isn't a top performer, they just are not willing to do boring CRUD work and literally every "top performer" I've worked with does that. Management doesn't care because they deliver high quality results on other "new" things but basic maintenance work is simply beneath them both in attitude and the time they commit to the task.)

2) Places that tend to focus on "just hiring top performers" tend to have trouble holding on to top performers as they are usually bribed into leaving if they bother to look around. Mediocre performers might take 12-18 months to get bribed away when interviewing while working. Top performers tend to land a better offer in less than 3 months of interviewing. Places that hire mediocre developers can frequently throw $40k/year + a week of PTO to get them to stay. (i.e A top performer at my last job that I'm friends with got a $40k/year raise in cash, a week of PTO to guarantee they'd stay indefinitely.)

3) Top performers are very good at being an architect, breaking new ground, and/or working on novel problems. They also tend to naturally prioritize high impact/high visibility projects. However, that often comes at the expense of doing routine work correctly and the long term maintainability/stability (as they frequently move on). I've found "Top Performer" is really code for "Person who focuses on getting involved on the highest impact project they can at any given time." And then end up resenting grunt work when such projects are not available to them.
This seems to be a general theme at Apple lately: they are much more concerned with how their products look than whether or not they are actually functional.
As someone who's built a few sites that relied on "buying traffic" to increase user growth, we always called it "buying traffic" and I don't really think it sounds all that bad.

The problem is when you're paying per impression in advertising, as that's the easiest to game - the number of shitty impressions I've seen coming from small, not-well-known data centers has taught me that cost per impression is so prone to advertising fraud as to not be worth it.
> All these anti-Bolshevik treatises of late merely profit from the decay and ruin of Left-wing consciousness and culture that has taken place in the last century

I don't think so; Bolshevism itself was the decay and ruin in left-wing consciousness. The emphatic rejection of Leninism and it's descendants by many on the left, even many who remain committed to Marxism and non-Leninist derivatives thereof, is a renaissance in left-wing consciousness and thought, and an escape from the swamp in which much of it was mired for much of the twentieth century.
The punishment comes after the investigation, not before.
One of the things I find interesting is how they treat bookings like revenue.

In reality Uber is just like Visa. They are a transaction processor.

Visa does not report revenue of trillions of dollars per year.

For Uber actual revenue is somewhere between "Gross Profit" (865M) and "Net Revenue" (2B) and then their actual operating expenses are between 2B and 3.2B depending on what you call revenue and cost of revenue.

The bottom line is that they are taking huge losses for relatively small amounts of revenue.

Reporting your transaction volume as revenue is really infantile and should get you laughed out of the room, but here we are.
Old packs tended to be partially transparent if held “just the right way”, which also puts a slight damper on their prices.
Apple battled a fashion brand called “Steve Jobs”–and lost
In some cases there may be replacements, but they would require newer hardware as well (think expensive lab equipment, not just workstations), which brings the cost much higher than simply replacing the software. My father's environmental testing lab is currently in this predicament, but they finally got rid of their last Windows 3.11 (and older) machines a couple of years ago so it's not like they aren't trying, it just needs to happen incrementally.
Your belief is the sort of total idiocy that apologizes and sanctions every completely idiotic murderous police action that happens in the country that has, by far, the highest rate of police killings per capita on the planet.
It's the competing incentives of a company that provides data services to end-user customers and a company that mines as much information about people to sell advertising to companies.

Without strong controls about what they can do, we are always at the whim of what they might do. Google feels like a fairly bipolar company from the outside, because they present two faces depending on who they are dealing with, end-users or companies looking to advertise.

As an end-user, Google knowing all the little details about everything I do and many places I go (because analytics JS, G+ button inclusion, etc) is disconcerting. For a company looking to advertise, them not doing this all of a sudden would be disconcerting, and they would probably look to some other company that is doing so. It isn't just Google. Facebook knows a startlingly large amount about you too.

I'm increasingly convinced this is one of those places where the market is failing us because the negative externalities are mostly hidden. Those are good places for targeted regulation. I wouldn't be entirely appeased, but a law about the ability to review all information collected about you from a company and strong controls about the access, sale and use of this information would go a long way towards making me less worried about Google (or whoever) changing quite a bit in the next decade and selling off the information.[1]

Because think about it, how far away are Google, Facebook and the umpteen other ad agencies with complex profiles of you from usurping the credit bureaus?

1: Maybe what we need is an interesting billionaire to buy a lot of personal information on all the U.S. politicians from one of the less public agencies and publish it. I'm sure we would get a law passed in record time.
How'd you get to the $49.99/month pricetag?
I'm not too familiar with comparable tools but this seems a little steep to me...
The actual 1989 quote by Bill Gates is this:

"I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn’t – it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."
Rails doesn't get as much attention than it used to, but it remains a fantastic framework, that kept adapting to new technologies over time.

More importantly, it remains one of the best, if not the best framework to get things done in a minimum amount of time.

As long as I love Angular, React and Vue for the front-end, I think that Javascript is a fragile and ugly mess for writing backends.

If speed is not a major concern, using Rails for the backend is a great alternative, that works really well.

Rails 5.2 is round the corner and brings exciting new features such as ActiveStorage.

Rails is not the new fad, but it's still something solid you can rely on, and that will automatically apply some of the best practices for you. This is especially important for new developers.

Also, as a new developer, Rails conventions forces you to structure your project in a specific way. Which can be annoying at first, but this will eventually help you understand how to structure all your projects in a clean and consistent way, in all programming languages.

The same can be said for other frameworks, but Rails remains one of the most comprehensive one, while touching all possible areas of application development.

Also, as a beginning developer, you want to have fun. Enjoy what you do. Type 2 lines of code and immediately see the difference. Quickly build applications that do what you had in mind.
The last thing you want is fight with tools, dependencies and random breakages.

And Rails delivers that.
Personally, I'd reasonably trust Xen or KVM or something else with hardware-based virtualization and the like to protect me in an multi-tenancy scenario. Much less so in the case of Docker. Sharing a full kernel with potentially malicious actors is more risky than sharing a hypervisor, much more surface area for attack.
Business often is, though.
I'm not sure that colonialism, taken as a whole, has a worse record than Bolshevism (or even Communism), taken as a whole.
Ages ago when I'd see something like this, I'd grab their affiliate code from the URL, then email the advertiser the site and offending affiliate code to them as an FYI.

No idea if anyone ever bothered to look, I just moved on.
In the long run, worse medicine can only lead to fewer funerals (at least, until the life extension singularity).
Doesn't Android for Work also handle this without being tied to Samsung?
CRI-O is bleeding edge. I'm not sure it's ready for production usage. But it looks very promising. The sooner we can all dump docker in kubernetes the better.
My dad had cancer in a lymph node that spread to the lungs, significantly reducing his lung capacity. After a few years of steady decline, he caught pneumonia.

After a day of treatment, he knew it was all downhill from there. Doctors said further treatment would likely make him recover from the pneumonia, but that could take months, and scar tissue from the pneumonia would reduce his lung capacity further. Even before the pneumonia he was reliant on oxygen supply at home just to sit in a chair.

So in the early hours of the second day, he requested they turn off the oxygen supply. A doctor got called in to ensure he knew what the consequences could be, which he did, and then they turned off the oxygen.

He passed away peacefully a few hours later.

Painful as it was to lose him, I'm so glad they respected his decision.
Groupon did something similar. It’s silly and anyone with two brain cells firing sees right though the BS.

Also they want to claim their drivers are not employees but then want to count the full fare as “revenue.” Sigh.
In what way has the Ruby on Rails ship sailed? It is still extremely viable, and there are significant new features being added all the time.
> But the truth is that all the infrastructure for surveillance is going to be built anyway, if not by us then by our enemies or private industry. It's better to accept that it is going to be built and use our resources as best we can to protect the world.

Of course. And then you attack _their_ surveillance infrastructure and take the fruit of their investments periodically.

Attacking surveillance infrastructure (tbh) seems more productive than building it.
Related: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/

It's a podcast from the excellent 99% Invisible that talks about Douglas Engelbert's (of Mother of all Demos fame) vision for computing that expanded human capabilities through systems that required mastery, and how that vision has been replaced by things this "principle of no learning."
One made a prank, misleading dangerous and fraudulent phone call.

One shot an unarmed man in the face/body.

One of those scenarios is not like the other in terms of magnitude.
At least back when you couldn't even make the album without being picked by a record company

Though I get what you’re driving at, there have been companies that will press your basement demo onto a vinyl LP almost as long as vinyl records have been made (and later cassettes and CDs, of course). They’d do the artwork, too, from “we’ll have an in-house artist do it for lots of money” to “we’ll put your camera-ready art on it for a little extra”. But pre-internet, that meant selling the hard copies at shows and maybe the local indie record store. What one is missing, of course, is the promotion from a label. But the production of hard copies of music hasn’t been a barrier for a long time.
It is also unclear how much the big guys needed bailouts.
http://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2009/05/15/first...
Quoting: " If the model is trained for more than an epoch, the weights of the RNN Estimator Block
also need to be stored, and would count in the compression size (MDL Principle [14])"
And by restricting how far away somebody can get credit you limit the market, which pushes prices up.

What these people need to do is shift to a) online banking (where the entire US is one market) and b) start paying their employees in direct deposit.

That is one side though: the other is that small-town USA is dying. No amount of banks can solve that problem, because it is a problem of opportunity and because declining opportunity is a spiral that keeps going down.

Unless you enact some version of the old British poor-laws or limit movement to the cities like China (neither would be legal in the US) you can't stop that.
This project has nothing to do with Steam, other than perhaps (optionally) using the assets from the steam version of AOE2 HD, but it doesn't interface or interact with Steam at all AFAIK.
My hope is in the Halium Project https://halium.org/

Now I'm running UBPorts in my Nexus 5 https://ubports.com/

Edit: if you are downvoting this comment, please explain why at least. It improves the conversation. Thank you.
People here are reacting to the headline. The point doesn't seem to be that the best idea does win, but that the best idea should win. It's about listening to other people's ideas.

>As Charlie Munger once said, “I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

It really is a discipline to hear and prioritize other people's ideas. Our egos are big and we have our own ideas going. Putting ourselves aside when we hear a better idea is hard. Fostering environments where that happens is even harder.
Three Letter Agencies?
"Despertar del cemetario", that's the one...
Don't knock sham procedures; they're at least as effective as more than half of current medical procedures, and at lower risk. I'm thinking of getting one done.
I'll add another example, which I heard about in the context of charter schools. I'm quoting from http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2016/07/for-hrc-profit-vs... :

> I set up my non-profit school-- and then I hire a profitable management company to run the school for me. The examples of this dodge are nearly endless, but let's consider a classic. There's the White Hat management company that was being dragged into court way back in 2011. This particular type of arrangement was known as a "sweeps contract,' in which the school turns over close to all of its public tax dollars and the company operates the school with that money-- and keeps whatever they don't spend. The White Hat story is particularly impressive, because the court decided that White Hat got to keep all of the materials and resources that it bought with the public tax dollars.

> Or consider North Carolina businessman Baker Mitchell, who set up some non-profit charter schools and promptly had them buy and lease everything-- from desks to computers to teacher training to the buildings and the land-- from companies belonging to Baker Mitchell. ...
I didn't take him to mean only Ivy League schools, but rather universities broadly.
If you buy into the idea that they are just a middle man connecting independent drivers with customers, then yeah.

If you see them as a cab company, then their reporting makes sense.
Some of us using Copperhead OS never enable unknown sources. Yes, the author is a doofus for the reasons you specified, but sticking with "default Android" (whatever that is.. you mean AOSP?) is arguably worse than running Copperhead OS.
Agreed for their current model. However Uber is very different to Visa.

What's the endgame for Uber? Surely that's operating an autonomous fleet. No drivers. Visa will always have merchants, but Uber will not always have drivers.
Automating API security testing with a DevSecOps approach
It's crazy that as a citizenry we allow our police to operate in this manner. Kansas is a constitutional carry state, in which all adult citizens are legally allowed to carry a pistol on their person without a permit.

Why should the presence of a firearm, or the reach for a pocket or "long black stick", be a death sentence for a citizen? Why do we allow state actors to behave in this way at all?
According to the article, allegedly two Call of Duty players were threatening each other over a $2 bet. One call of duty member gives the other a fake address when the other threatens to SWAT him. Police go to the fake address and shoot somebody. Guy who got shot couldn't have possibly prevented the situation and is ironically the least at fault of anybody involved.
What if the person exiting the house was a released/escaping hostage? Should the cops just shoot everyone they see in the house?