skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that doesn't sound good at all. Think of all those providers (e.g. DigitalOcean) who offer "one-click" installers for applications like GitLab. Now think about the users who never (or rarely, if they're lucky) update those machines. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of compromised VPSes and such running GitLab later this week.

And since one of the big reasons for running your own instance is to protect your private stuff -- things like source code, secrets, credentials, API keys -- it seems to me that this has the potential to be pretty wide-reaching and damaging.

So, who here gets to be one of the lucky ones that get to work late Tuesday? :)
I was just thinking about something like this from the above comments. It reminds me of the cup washers they use at bars that moves cups under hot water and then to a place to dry. Both would be an interesting piece in a home kitchen.
> Exactly. Who with any technical experience in this day and age doesn't understand that

You're on a site infamous for the comment "I switch to Node when I want to be close to the metal".
"nerd dream-girl" whatever you mean by that has little to do with it. She's a woman on the Internet so she is sexually harassed. She's a woman in the world so she is sexually harassed on the street.

And even though the parent comment attempted to steer the discussion away from sexualizing her by directly quoting her desire to do so, you brought it back with a pointless comment about some ill-defined nerd-girl fantasy.
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No I apply the actual definition of theft....

I never said that copyright infringement or copying and publishing personal data is OK morally or legally. I just said that they are different crimes.
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Thanks for the long response! Brings back memories. I now know for sure I was using JED precisely because I was a teenager who wouldn't consider paying for JKEdit.

I also remember fiddling with surfaces to get nicer lighting, and being happy that I didn't have to do that for UT editing.

> Actually it made things harder for people since it added the requirement to use an external tool to create the assets - this was always (even today) was seen as a major drawback when it comes to modding.

Yeah, it was exactly why I stopped modding. I was more interested in level design than fiddling in a 'proper' 3D editor and I never got around to understanding 'skins'. Was a bit saddened by that and didn't like the idea of relying on other people to provide models for my levels.
"1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically."

This is a mostly solved problem - get 2 (or 3) dishwashers. Only requires some occasional reshuffling of less often used things. Like 90% of what's in your dishwasher is what you use time and time again. Highly recommended.
As other commenters alluded, interviewing and coding are indeed two different skills. However, contrary to some of the comments, I don't think there is anything wrong with preparing for an interview or even taking an entire course for that matter. If it helps you shine and showcase your real skills to an employer then why not? I’ve seen many brilliant software engineers get rejected for positions cut out for them only because they were so nervous at interviews that they had trouble even understanding simple questions until right after the interview ended. I know that because I'm a co-founder at Pramp.com, a free p2p mock interviewing platform for software engineers. It's incredible to see the improvement in one's confidence even after a single practice interview.
Most European countries require a 4 year degree for nurses, where the first two years are kind of shared with medical degree.
> Except once the common needs were satisfied, the system ran into stagnation.

You are vastly understating the magnitude of the USSR's problems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921–22
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932–33
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946–47
32GB of SSD isn't that cheap!
Internet technologies have been constantly disrupting the rule of law for individual interests.

I have no political statement to make about it, but there are so many issues between the internet and the law: content copyright, airbnb, uber, money laundering with bitcoin... If you're a technologist, I can clearly see how a libertarian agenda fits perfectly.

Governments are not following on technologies to take advantage of them, or at least not quickly enough...
> I guess this is why Apple insists on owning the whole stack. The compatibility matrix becomes tractable.

This is how everyone used to build computers, PCs just became the outliers due to way things went with IBM/Microsoft.

Now with the all-in-one models, it seems even PCs are getting back to those days.
I wish they added a feature: left half of the page original text, right half translation. I tried to read the pre-Han Chinese Medicine and wished this was in.

Pretty neat job overall!
"...If your router vendor has not released an update for the issue..."

Ah good, I feared Google needed to update their devices to stop DDOS-ing my home network, luckily for them they don't get blamed and we think that the router vendors should add more robust DDOS-protection.
You can't do very much without Apple's permission with a non-stolen iOS device either.
Perseus is priceless! They usually have a translation or two to help you and maybe a commentary thrown in. Their word tools have helped me a lot.
Ford plans $11B investment, 40 electrified vehicles by 2022
I'm just like you, I prefer a good keyboard, mouse and screen over lightness and thinness. That's why I went with the T25 instead of waiting for the 8th gen Intel's last year. Good keyboard, a minimal window manager and I'm the most efficient. But I think we're in minority.
Aside from political and economic stability, I'm not sure why Chinese miners would move to Quebec (or another Canadian province). If miners are worried about the Chinese government, why not choose a closer location in Asia to relocate to like Malaysia or Indonesia? Wouldn't electricity, labor, and equipment transportation be cheaper that way?
I, a recruiter, do it to see if you are suitable for a job.

Hey there its Andrew Stuart here, I have a job on at the moment that looks like it might be a fit for what you're doing, are you considering new jobs at the moment?
No? OK thanks for taking the call.

I honestly cannot imagine what recruiter under any circumstances, has the time or motivation to call people up for any other reason.

The plain and simple reason that we don't use email to drive the recruiting process is that it's a stupid way to operate - no one gets back to you iof you send an email, whether or not they are in fact looking for work. If you need to get the job done you call people.

There's no sinister ulterior motivate. Sheesh.

""Hey there, filthy recruiter here. Heh heh heh. Tell me now....... what religion are you!!!!! Hmmmmm..... what sex are you!!!???? Ohhhh!!!! Well, I'll file that VERY useful piece of information away thanks you, glad you gave it up so easily.. Hee hee hee.""

Doesn't happen.
I'm actually not sure I saw anything in the article that actually provides that figure - but it looks like it is meant to be the quantity.
Pretty much the same amount of text as the gz article then. I find her video's rather inspiring showing what is possible with robots and also how they are incomprehensibly useless in most ways for tasks that are not laid out perfectly for them.
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Maybe he could repurpose this to fold origami or something.
Universities exist to search for truth and to train future generations in the methods and results of the ongoing search for truth. We give these institutions donations and tax money so that they can be independent of the economy, and work on what the market won't. You could look at the National Science Foundation and other federal grant programs as a form of basic income, providing grad students with a minimal standard of living so that they can do the important intellectual work that private capital doesn't want to buy.

Job preparedness training is looked down upon within universities because it's the banal economy poking its nose where it doesn't belong. The industry or a professional association can and should develop job-preparedness-focused training programs to augment (as in law and medicine) or even replace (as in HVAC repair and precision machining) CS undergrad. Nothing wrong with that. They just don't belong in academic departments. Those are for something else, and industry's training needs shouldn't be subsidized.

An employer should value a relevant trade school degree more than it values a Bachelor's, unless it turns out that well-rounded intellectuals with exposure to the underlying discipline perform better than those with direct training in the relevant activities.
You completely miss the point lamacase is making. He finds it strange that people get defensive about the article, just like you did. He isn't saying that dolphins are smarter than humans.
I'm sure your heart is in the right place, and I admire your optimism, but I just don't think what you're suggesting will be a society I'd want to live in.

The thing is, I used to think along similar limes to you. When I was in my 20s I saw the Zeitgeist films and found the ideas behind the resource-based economy to be compelling. A way to meet everyone's needs without relying on money. However, as time went on and I thought more about what living in such a society would be like, I saw that it wasn't the answer I was looking for.

To give you some idea of what changed my mind, I'd suggest we look at variety. As the phrase goes, variety is the spice of life. Centrally planned economies, whether resource-based or otherwise, would see variety as inefficient and attempt to cut down on variety. You gave an example of it earlier when I asked about the PS4 and Xbox One. Whilst it's true we don't "need" variety, it is something we collectively want.

For all its flaws, money gives people the chance to make choices based on what's best for them, with far fewer restrictions on what's possible. These days, I'd much rather see something along the lines of universal basic income than a resource-based economy, though I recognise UBI has its flaws too.
Funny how he talks about TiVo well before the advent of GPLv3, but as a victim:

> From the stance of a commercial vendor creating a commercial product, the open source world holds other barbs. For example, if components of your system link against libraries that fall under the GPL, you may be forced to release your own system -- or parts of it -- back to the community as open source software. In other words, building a proprietary solution on top of Linux may mean being required to expose the company jewels to the competition. Witness TiVo, who manufacture a time-shifting hardware/software solution for television consumers. Because TiVo is based on Linux, the company's modifications to the kernel are available for anyone to download -- any competitor can emerge at any time, packaging up and selling a variant of Tivo's hard work.

One could almost forgive him to say something like that in 99, but the ones who are still repeating the exact same reasoning today should probably think twice...
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I, too, wash dishes right after use. No accumulating piles and it takes about 10 seconds to do that. Nowadays I actually have a dishwasher in my new apartment but I have used it zero times!
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I would recommend http://zenkit.com. We have been using Trello for a while in the office a few years back but the tool wasn't really flexible enough for us. Why organize different projects with the same tool in the same way? That is when we came up with Zenkit. Zenkit offers many different views on your data, which can be switched between with one mouse-click. Also it inhabits some handy delegation features. Feel free to check it out! Here´s an article about us from TNW https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/01/22/trello-refugee-moved-...
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Just like the GP, I routinely get e-mails asking to schedule a call with a recruiter. If these recruiters did not use e-mail like you, then neither of us would be getting these e-mails, right?

And, replying to your edit, most people can actually tell if they are speaking to a man or a woman and some can even detect accents so they don't need to ask (like they would have to if they were using text communication).
The article does not mention that Chile received a lot of investment from Norwegian fish farm industry. After strict regulation and enforcement in Norway started to affect profits the industry looked for other countries where local laws are not that strict or can be ignored.
Don't skimp om dishwasher quality. You'd think 'hiw different can they be', but a cheap dishwasher is only slightly better than none at all (having to rinse, redoing things that weren't cleaned well, frequent breakage/blockage) whereas a good one is a life changer.
Can’t wait to see big crypto-payment aggregator (bitpay, coinpayments) to implement this.
Bitcoin is unusable due to fees, Ethereum fees raising quickly - simple contract interaction costs $5-$10.
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..and create whole areas like Capitol Hill which are mostly tech people moving in, pushing out others .. or what's going on in Freemont where homes that people bought for $120k now go for $800k (and you see low-to-middle income workers like cashiers, nurses, hair-stylists, cash out on their houses and move way out).

This is a good start, but I hope they don't stop building and complete all the existing projects. The prices are still high. ST3 will help make it easier to live where you want, with a lower income, and still be able to commute reasonably, by train, to work.
The "store of value" thing is such bullshit. People only started saying that after the fees made it even more impractical than it was.
Maybe it will end up as "digital gold", but until recently everyone was talking about how it would be a currency.
Maintaining existing roads is certainly not beyond the economic capacity of the United States. It just costs more than you're willing to pay. That's valid, but the alternatives don't appear to be cheaper. New York also finds maintaining its subways in working order, something that's certainly physically possible, to cost more than it's willing to pay.

High density and high transportation demand are prerequisites for having a public transit system at all. And what dense US city's government isn't corrupt or incompetent?
There is a lot to it, but Geography is not a hierarchical system. In this case, it seems Yugoslavia, as with much of Europe, is great for agriculture. Despite the poverty, that is a luxury. Similar subsistence strategies have been used all over the world for thousands of years (only about 12000). There are places where farming is either not feasible, less energy efficient, or where exclusively plant-based diets aren't feasible. Knowledge about how to replace every component of what you'd get from meat being a component of your diet is also a luxury. If its not already a cultural norm to rely on what has been tested to work, then you need knowledge, a luxury many people don't have. Lastly, you need the intent to drop meat from your diet. In your case this was no option and it worked out. Great. Otherwise its more or less a luxury to be able to experiment with your diet. I'm not so well versed as to know exactly where this occurs, but Papa new Guinea comes to mind, and a wealth of curiosity abounds with regard to the geography of the agricultural revolution and evolution of humans which would provide some indicators.
"Are there any errors? No (0) there are no errors."

Not necessarily. It's just a (mostly POSIX and Linux kernel) convention to use 0 as "no error" result, but there are plenty of code that returns 0 as an error and >0 for success. It has nothing to do with C language itself, as C functions let you return pretty much anything or nothing at all (void functions).
So, I've also been told that rich Chinese people were buying up condos and letting them sit empty.

That's the thing, though, I kinda don't believe it. I mean, sure, people from China buying US real estate; I can totally believe that one (and that would increase demand and thus put upwards pressure on sale prices)

The part I have a hard time swallowing is the idea that they'd let them sit empty. The real estate agent they bought from would be super happy to hook them up with a full service property mangement company that could deal with renting the things out; I'm sure said agent could (for a hefty cut, of course) set it up so the owner need not be bothered at all.

I mean... I guess there could be something I'm missing, but the idea of people buying up some of the most valuable realestate in the world and then letting it sit empty (and supposedly paying somene to come by and check on it, etc...) just seems really unlikely vs. buying and renting it out.
ok, you've partially convinced me :)

i mean, if the code is 90% I/O bound i agree: micro-optimisations can be a waste of time. But tight, nested loops that are only memory bound i think is worth the effort.. so for me, if i need need to do a lot of field comparisons for 300k accounts or groups from AD, i will download the ad data into memory and use foreach(), hashtables and generic collections wherever possible..
i actually think were making the same point anyway. I now reach for C# before powershell for situations like above where performance matters, but powershell does have advantages for smashing out some quick work. But i honestly cringe when i hear people talk about powershell scripts that take minutes to execute for tasks that should be reasonably quick.
I knew someone in Seattle who worked closely with some of the big housing agencies (like Pillar and the like). He tried to tell me a lot of these larger property managers were held by Chinese companies, and they intentionally kept a lot of completed or renovated units empty to drive up the price.

Apparently they'd keep enough of these units off that they could keep the 1 bedroom price around $2k, but not too many so the city wouldn't catch on.

I couldn't find anything else though, either in the news or other people in knew in real estate, to corroborate that; so maybe he was blowing smoke or taking tokes.
I enjoy my Chromecast but it does crash about once a week. Then I have to physically unplug it. I haven't experienced any other types of issues as of yet. Ideally I would like to replace this with an Apple TV 4 at some point.
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Apple made it clear that those company would have to iCloud data, too.
Boycotting works through the stubborn minority rule [1]. Sometimes even less than 1% of the total population can enforce their rule for the whole country. This works as long as the rest of population finds the rule does not bother them match.

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Any plans on doing an ICO?
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My expectation would be that getting the laundry into and/or out of the average commodity washer & dryer might be harder than you think. Robotic dexterity is very limited, and clothing can move and morph in all kinds of unexpected ways.

I'm sure a custom industrial-scale solution could be designed, but that still leaves the problem of folding. I suppose a compromise might be partial folding, like having the machine gently 'stack' the clothes in a return basket to minimize wrinkles.
You're not wrong, people are just objecting to your bombast.

Also note, 2008 was unusually dramatic; one of the big projects in downtown sunnyvale went bankrupt and changed hands several times before completion. Yes, declining home prices do sometimes leave long term holes in the ground, but mostly only when prices decline a lot more quickly than expected, as they did in 2008.

I was here in 2001, too, though (or a little up the peninsula) and there was a bigger drop in rent (though not sale prices) then than in 2008. In 2001, sure, you saw 'for rent' signs, but as far as I remember, the 'holes in the ground' as you put it, of buildings who's builders had gone bankrupt partway through were rare.
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Fake news has to be solved through a mechanism other than censorship. Censorship is much more dangerous than ignorance. As long as we have the freedom of speech, all forms of ignorance can be solved. Once we give that up, we lose the mechanism through which society finds solutions to complex multi-factor problems, and disseminates those solutions.
From the description, I got that it was app wakeup on the Android, Cast-enabled apps, not wakeup on the Chromecast.
That portion of labor is lacking, because it is not rewarded. It is not searched for during interview, it is not valued in mythology (what we consider cool when on blogs and forums) and lastly is not rewarded by employers at work. Notably, actually predictably matching timeframe is devalued where people who end up pulin overnights due to bad planing, lack of comunication/negotiation are seen as heroes and rewarded.

Why would culture developed skills that make you rewarded less?

The ability to teach juniors is not searched for nor rewarded either, where social skills are even sometimes treated as something that makes you less good as programmer.
From the article, the employee chose the wrong item from the "drop down menu".

That is just bad UX. Such interfaces should have a confirmation like "You are about to send a REAL alert to millions of cell phones. Please type ENDOFTHEWORLD in ALL CAPS to confirm".

There is no reason to have this as a drop down menu where a slip of a mouse can lead to a false alarm.
All computer should be sold with a small card listing all the unique default passwords and private keys. Maybe a bunch of QR codes may help the type in.
So much animosity.
> Some people must be passing these things otherwise there would be a lot of unfilled positions.

The point is - there are a lot of unfilled positions. Companies notoriously complain for not being able to find "good" software specialists, because... people with minimal clue on how to judge relevant skills introduce increasingly more cut-throat filters and processalize everything.
They seem to have strengthened (maybe even reinvigorated) AMD singificantly during an otherwise financially very uncertain time.
How about font rendering? Would I use freetype/harfbuzz with this? They're such a bitch to build on Windows. Currently I'm using DirectWrite but having portability would be a nice bonus, as it seems that the API of this isn't worse than Direct2D.
Three are a few licenses that allow the copyright reassignement target to do exactly that. This includes sometimes a termination clause.

They are rarely used.
I wouldn't expect there to be a ton of required updates for Windows 7 in the past 16 months.

Apparently there's a "Fix problems with Windows Update" that shows up under "System and Security" if you search the Control Panel for "Troubleshooting."

There are a bunch of updates available for download here. No idea how kosher this is, but I found it via the MSFT website.
http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Faq.aspx

Worst case scenario, you can try reinstalling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

Do you really need the machine to be updated for your purposes? If it ain't broke, don't fix it...
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