skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not a monopoly, and they're not forcing anyone to use software they don't want. There's a bunch of different options if you don't like Skype. I've used GoToMeeting in the recent past, and it worked fine. The problem is that people are just too stupid to look for alternatives to Microsoft products, and would rather complain than do something about it.
If you go into any execs office starting a presentation with - “I’ve got this great idea for a Windows application!” you will probably be kicked out. If not then, definitely when you tell them it’s for a messaging app that you want to charge money for.
I thought the story would be about an actual billion dollar bank job, not a potential billion dollar bank job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_bank_fraud_scandal
Do you have examples? I've not experienced that. The worst offenders I've seen on their support email was bug reports not getting fixed. I email their support very regularly.
See my note. I don't ask the question in interviews. I think it is useless, they don't need it for their job. I do ask a variant of fizz buzz that requires using modulus. They don't get hired if they can't answer that one. So this subset of people I'm talking about are ones who do know modulus.
Truly relational systems support relation-valued attributes and those are the perfect means to support Optional<anything> in a database.
Sure, or throw in a quick response gas fired generator.

It’s a very effective combination, especially pumped hydro.
Maybe? There is wording in the C standard (since C03 TC3 I think) that allow reading accessing from non active members of the union, but the wording is unclear and implementations have taken a very narrow interpretation of it (i.e. the access path need to be explicitly through an union type and the actual object needs to be an union). See the GCC documentation on union and aliasing for example.
Well, there is the "Personal Massager" precedent.
As a longtime C and goto user, defending the practice many times, I discovered something interesting.

My uses of goto can be replaced with nested functions! The code is nicer, cleaner, and the equivalent code is generated (the nested functions get inlined).

Of course, nested functions aren't part of Standard C, but they are part of D-as-BetterC. (D has goto's too, but I don't need them anymore.)
Neural Cache: Bit-Serial In-Cache Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks
In fact, newer gcc versions are unable to optimize (x & 1) == 0 at level -O1, and require -O2. I assume that the code emitted at -O2 and -O3 for both constructs is the more efficient version than the literal translation, even though they are the same number of instructions.
Groovy will replace the Java language as dominant language
No In Australia it’s for the benefit of the tram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_turn the article seems to imply it’s otherwise for traffic flow and 1 country for the benefit of cyclists
They're using live ones, all right. Their latest tactic is to use random numbers in the same prefix as your phone, or use prefixes in nearby rate centers.
If, as the article states, the cost for reducing an early death for a minuscule number of children is depression and anxiety for a much larger percentage of them when they become adults, is it still worth it?
Parallel Programming for FPGAs
This is a question I give people who were already hired out of curiosity and I explicitly say not to use modulus. I ask a similar question in interviews but don't exclude modulus and most answer using modulus.
If theoretically a developer chose to develop something in Python in my company that would be an automatic no. There are multiple reasons:

You would add an another language to support from the development to the operational support like monthly security updates. And that's a major risk and most companies won't take it.

If you leave the company then the company may have potentially unsupported app with noone capable of supporting it.

And seriously why would you pick python? Why not perl? Why not ruby?
No clear solution to nationwide shortage of computer science professors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_1100/2200_series#Archit...

"I'm not dead yet!"
https://www.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward/clearpath...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

> Enabling the path for a true convergence device, capable to work as a phone, making video and audio calls, encrypted messaging, email, web browser, that can also become a full desktop computer with an option for a compatible keyboard, mouse, and monitor. It can be a desktop computer and phone all-in-one.
RowClone: Accelerating Data Movement and Initialization Using DRAM
EE Fix Portal Which Was Secured with 'Admin' Password
I modernized a public-domain translation of Epictetus and had a nice printing done for my nephew's graduation. It's an amazing book on how to live.

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations reads like the daily thoughts of someone attempting to live according to Epictetus's handbook. (Obviously, they're both Stoic works, but they make a better pairing than that alone would make you expect.)
Would it not be possible to code either an add on or even a proxy server that "accepts" the ads, but sends them to /dev/null while serving up a "clean" rendering of a page? I'm sure this can be done.
Axioms accepted by creature Y.
Agreed completely.

I'm a cyclist. I race mountain bikes, used to race on pavement, and still avidly train several days/week on local roads and bike paths.

I wear a helmet when I'm training or traveling a long distance at speed. On roads with cars, higher speeds = higher risk for major accident.

I don't wear a helmet when I'm cruising to the pub for a drink. Yeah, I can still fall. But, I'm on the mountain bike (relatively easy to hop off, compared to a road race bike), at slower speeds, and generally not on roads with cars.

I do wonder if part of the problem is the type of bikes popular in some counties. The US has a large number of road race bikes relative to townie/dutch-style bikes. The townie/dutch bike is slower, lower to the ground, has a step through, and more upright seated position (better visibility). All should lead to fewer major accidents.
Exploiting and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in MLC NAND Flash Memory Programming
Unisys apparently ships some emulators of a old system that still use one's complement... much as I hesitate to ever link to any ESR material, there's a good article here:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7413
Point of Discussion: CyberSec Is Janitorial
Read Disturb Errors in MLC NAND Flash Memory
We treat the US like it's a tiny country and require the population to live in small areas around the coasts. It's the craziest thing.

https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/
Why linux cannot produce a great UI?
Ecclesiastes. (and the other Wisdom books)

Kierkegaard’s Either/Or

Thoreau’s Walden

William Stringfellow’s Impostors of God: Inquiries into Favorite Idols

... and any good poetry.
SoftMC: Practical DRAM Characterization Using an FPGA-Based Infrastructure
Unstructured and unrestricted equivalent of goto then is a method call in OOP. Where method is basically a label and object is a shared state it randomly messes with.
The most important book I have read currently is “The Anatomy of Peace” by the arbinger institute. This book teaches me how to stay out of interpersonal conflicts and become a person pthers want to be together with.

“Crucial Conversations” is another really important book that teaches how to safely deal with very hard conversations.

For my own personal development/relationship with women I must say that “No more mister nice guy” and “the way of the superior man” has both helped me.

Lastly the letting go e-book by Leo Babauta from zenhabits also is really good.
LISA: Increasing Connectivity in DRAM for Fast Data Movement and Low Latency
I have a Ninebot One S2 that I used to commute about 2km daily, but now that I live right next to my office I only ride it recreationally. It has quite a steep learning curve, but it's so much fun once you get good, it feels like magic riding on a single wheel. It's about the most compact powered transportation device you could make
Voltron:Trade-Offs in DRAM Chips to Improve Energy Eciency
If I could convince my wife, I'd be right there, too.
Wanted to say this, ppl get sweaty with all the humidity and effort biking in Singapore.

Also, during my time in Singapore about 3 years ago, I found the scooters were used as the 'last mile' option by ppl using public transport, which I thought more practical than doing the same with one's bike.

Scooters were just taking off in Singapore when I left and I remember reading that the SG government were seriously considering dedicated lanes for scooters then.
Are you agreeing they are undervalued or are are you saying that they are "easy to replace" and therefore of less value?
whenever I work from home i spend more time with my family and alphabetize my socks and disinfect the lightbulbs.

that is a productivity boost, but perhaps not what the study had in mind.
Agreed. I've worked at two places now that have undergone the switch and it was worse in both cases. Not only the software being worse than its 2007 predecessor, but the upgrade itself broke all sorts of internal tools and functionality, thanks to unnecessary changes to the registry and SFB's desire to put add-ins in everything (IE, Outlook, Firefox, etc).
Here is a very scathing and informative commentary on the Navy's "risk assessment" and "mitigation" procedures:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15120369
Ya I don’t think I’ve ever been in a “corporate culture” that wasn’t a facade.
You can hit numbers (or letters) on most dropdowns to skip entries; home/end key shortcuts also tend to work.
You bringing up a very important distinction here. When hiring someone to lead it is extremely important for that person to naturally fall into that role. When hiring someone to do the work that needs to be done, you want them to be able to understand what they are supposed to do, offer alternatives if they think there's something wrong, but ultimately do what needs to be done. Taking control in that second situation isn't necessarily a good thing.
And don't forget to fax a signed copy of the NDA!
Red Alert for Net Neutrality: Tell Congress to Save the Open Internet Order
Do you see that there was more to my comment than what you quoted in yours?
You miss the point. I learned all these tricks in school as well. I loved them. I felt "smart". After working for so many years, I only remember the basic ones. If you ask me the "smart" tricks, I can't get them right out of my head. I can sit down with a piece of paper and may get them after trials and errors after a while. Guess what, the important thing is I know these "smart" tricks exist. If I need them in real work, I can google them out easily. Why need I remember them? In my real work, what I need to get right out of my mind are how our systems work, how MySQL/Postgres/Hadoop/HBase/Kafka/Spark/Linux/AWS/... work, etc.
We don't have compilation units, all code is compiled at once in Crystal. It's a little painful in terms of compile times with large codebases but nowhere near C++ compile times yet :) We're thinking about caching and various modifications to the crystal compiler to make compilation faster.

I'm confused by your example too. If you mean replacing matching None with testing for nil, then you'd have to replace Some(T) with an `else`, then the compiler absolutely can prove that if you take one branch you take the other - given that x is not assigned to (not sure why the compiler would want to prove that though). And after all that I'm not sure how your example relates to, or what you even mean by "noncompositional".
Ask HN: What are some interesting problems (tech/nontech) people are working on?
This is a very broad question, but I am interested in learning more about the interesting work being done in fields that aren't usually discussed here (education, agriculture, biotechnology, chemistry, geriatric care, etc )
gorgeous. functional. art.
Fourth Circuit Rules That Suspicionless Searches of Devices Are Unconstitutional
Flexible-Latency DRAM: Exploiting Latency Variation in Modern DRAM Chips
Lost both of my parents within a short timespan and underwent the same process when cleaning out their house. Now I'm sitting here saddened by the thought I may never encounter those memories again.
True, but I wouldn't really expect someone like him to be pushed out of his industry for his views precisely because he's black. But if someone who is considered to have privilege said the exact same things he did, they'd have bigger problems.

> You're implying that Denzel Washington should be free to say whatever he wants, but that no one should be free to criticise what he says.

Not at all.
Tiered-Latency DRAM: Enabling Low-Latency Main Memory at Low Cost
How to Properly Navigate in React Native
Ask HN: How to find volunteer developers for non-profits
Are there any resources where developers can pair up with non-profits to help them with technical problems?
Nigelthorn Malware Abuses Chrome Extensions to Cryptomine and Steal Data
Adaptive-Latency DRAM: Reducing DRAM Latency by Exploiting Timing Margins
Man Who Hacked West Point and Government Websites Is Charged
I've been working from home once a week in the past couple of months, and noticed that I spend more time working at home than I do in the office. For example, if I work from home, I'd be working from 8am to 6pm (with a few short breaks for lunch and etc.). If I go to work, I clock in at 8:30am (commute) and checks out at 5:30pm sharp.

In a way, my employer is getting an extra 30-60 mins out of me for the days I work from home (assuming that I'm as productive working from home as I am at the office, which I believe is to be the case).
10 Best IoT Platforms in 2018. IoT Technology Forecast
Our Intuition Says… Instead, Try…
> First we don't start from zero.

There is strong evidence that humans, and most animals are born with built in knowledge and expectations about the world.
Ask HN: What are the some of the best general programming videos you've watched?
> Fair enough, but what's wrong with criticism?

Nothing, that's exactly what I want. I want criticism rather than blind outrage that leads to event organizers, colleges, etc caving to their demands.
FlashAbacus: A Self-Governing Flash-Based Accelerator for Low-Power Systems
Ask HN: What cities are set to become the next global startup Hubs?
I'm based in the EU as a developper and I've been on an European Tour recently, I've been staying and working in Amsterdam and Berlin and the tech startup scene there is exploding, quickly reshaping the nature of jobs and even the urban environment. A friend of mine from "Station F" in Paris drew similar conclusions when we met, albeit I haven't gone there yet. Of course my only experience is Western Europe,and I can't compare it with the startup activity of other hubs such as China or Argentina, but in light of this, based on your experience,I'm curious to get your opinion on what international cities you think will form the next global startup hubs in the next 5 years?
Google to Warn When Humans Chat with Convincing Bots
A couple related suggestions:
- https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-God-Way-St-Benedict/dp/081461... - If you're religious, this book is great. If you're not, I think you can still take away from it the values of balance in life, being open to life's changes, and doing daily routines with love.
- https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton/d... - It's meant by the author as a sort of confessions for the 20th century. Also, Merton lived a pretty interesting life, so it's an entertaining story from that stand point.

Generally, what I've found is that most helpful introspection books say a lot about getting out of one's own head and focusing on one's relationship with others (and, for the religious, one's relationship with God).
Yeah, the one thing I kept thinking about when I was reading Ryan's essay was, "yeah this won't work in a real meat grinder, audacity isn't the right choice for every situation." Of course, knowing Ryan, the answer to that situation is going to be, "don't put yourself through a meat grinder."
Yes, I agree.

Anyway, the device looks nice and is a step in the right direction to overcome the fear of the parents.

Good luck with your business.
you're competing against a market that is determined that it's going to keep costs high for the consumer. In some countries people use 4g routers at home instead of wired connections because of how cheap it is, whereas in the UK it's almost $20 for a 4gb plan with most data providers. If the result is that data providers reduce prices, thats a major win for accessibilty.
New mobile games
I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me (2015)
How often is this doing work that the compiler is going to do for you anyway?
This is because certain coding standards are designed to be idiot-proof. Unfortunately, that can result in tasteless code and sometimes undesirable workarounds (e.g. using "goto" have one exit path for errors is a perfectly valid use).

When Dijkstra wrote his famous essay "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" (1968), it was a manifesto against unstructured programming i.e. the spaghetti code. However, the use of "goto" per se does not imply unstructured programming. Donald Knuth wrote a wonderful essay "Structured Programming with go to Statements" (1974) to make this point.

Availability of "goto" in C merely gives us more flexibility, but it does not mean that we should start writing unstructured code.
Not only that, but they also charge for Caller ID name lookups.
“Registered Mail” in the US does not require any form of verification of identity. All it does is provide extra insurance and delivery confirmation. “Certified Mail” doesn’t require identity verification either, so I’m not sure what service you are thinking of, but I’m near positive nothing of that sort exists with USPS.

https://www.usps.com/ship/insurance-extra-services.htm
Just some questions. Niw the purpose of all these questions are to get ur viewpoint on certain issues. Thanks.
Do u encounter obnoxiousads 100% of the time? I mean Taboola ads sure, bad.
Also, if you were running website or were any other content creator making money through ads, thrn would you want 100% of visitors to use adblockers?
Also, do u think whole world should block ads, because reality is most people cannot pay for content. I mean how many subscriptions are you gonna buy, so that's why ads became the de facto way for earning revenue.
Also, a slightly different question. Not sure how to frame this. The ad revenue has enabled Alphabet to do various stuff like Verily life sciences, project loon, self driving cars. Make products like Google Maps which power transportation and are indispensable ( i know about Openstreetmap). So, is that all justifiable?
Also, do you regard Youtube ads as bad also?
Also, many people say ads are annoying. Sure, i have also felt that way sometimes. But with Youtube most of the times, i get to know about a new product/movie etc. Personally, as a student I use youtube a lot, can't imagine life without it.
Publii hotfix 0.26.2 released
Big 5 was in reference to the technology companies FAANG - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google. I have no idea why people include Netflix and not Microsoft.
Other significant modern luthiers:

Ken Parker: http://www.kenparkerarchtops.com/

Michihiro Matsuda: http://www.matsudaguitars.com/gallery.htm

Ola Strandberg: https://strandbergguitars.com/

Linda Mantzer: http://www.manzer.com/guitars/

Last but not least, the Stradivarius of the steel-string guitar, Ervin Somogyi: http://www.esomogyi.com/
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#Priorities
Interesting - those are the books that the "Master and Commander" movie is based on. I liked that movie, is it close to the books?
I highly recommend you read the Bible, it teaches a lot about love and faith in a higher being who is looking out for you. I suggest you start reading from the new testament because we can relate more with it. It changed my life.
From your link:

Restricted Delivery

Specify the person who can sign for and receive your item. Must be purchased in combination with another extra service as follows: Certified Mail, COD, Insured Mail (over $500), Registered Mail, or Signature Confirmation.
How to recycle your fabric poster (as a skirt) (2017)
You are right, there are different metrics that should be considered.

Yes, there is the risk of long-term damage to the environment. But we've also learned a lot from failures and really make sure we can minimize the impact so that failure modes don't condemn an area like at Chernobyl. The stakes are very high, so the precautions aren't half-arsed.

But if we're going to have an honest conversation, we also need to consider the secondary impact of other energy sources. Windfarms kill large birds[1]. Also watch for flying ice [2]. Hydro power disrupts fish migration and affects silt patterns. Most importantly of all, oil continues to cause many wars in addition to health issues.

All means of energy production carry risks and impact both nature and human lives. Some forms spread the risk out, some just shift it to less fortunate populations. Nuclear addresses the risk head-on and contains it. That requires every control system in triplicate; an insane amount of regulation, inspection, safety checks; and of course it requires a level of transparency so that the population can remained informed about the risks and issues.

In the end, there must be a basket of methods used for energy production, to balance the electrical needs of an area.

- Nuclear makes a good baseline for high levels of output. But it doesn't scale up/down very fast to match needs.

- Wind and solar are great if the environment permits it but are vulnerable to weather, and produce several ordrer of magnitude less than nuclear.

- Hydro is free except for the ecological (and sometimes human) disruption it causes when whole areas are lost to the water, and is dependent on weather (at a longer timeline).

- Gas is a great on-demand source to complement the ones above but of course is a net producer of CO₂ and has it's own high ecological & geopolitical impact.

- Coal... well that one needs to be discontinued for the reasons mentioned in the article.

[1] http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-...

[2] https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/ice-tossing-turbi...
if (False)
goto error;

vs.

if (False)
throw ExceptionE;
I definitely remember it being in PostScript (back in the days when that was much more prevalent in Linux and I actually used jwz' scripts to print CD cases).

It might be this http://ftp.math.utah.edu/u/ma/hohn/linux/misc/quickscript/di...

If so, that appears to be a regular vector font, too, no random deviations or letter variants to make it appear more handwritten.
I'm not going to prescribe any feeling to them. I don't think they 'should' do anything. Just found it curious to be concerned about other people having different opinions.
How often are bloggers really aware of what we MUST know or do?
At least in C++, wouldn't you just write these "hacks" only once, in inline methods of a BitField class? It's much more likely to mistype

state = state & ~BIT7;

than to mistype

state = state.without(BIT7);
I was recently meeting with the Head of Security for a large firm. He had a pretty decent explanation of the process to implementing security that I thought was very apt. The way he put it, there’s two over arching milestones, “liability” and “actually secure”. “Liability” is where you have checked all the right boxes to be able to aptly defend yourself in court and is the achievable goal. “Actually secure” is the pipe dream you will always strive for, but never obtain.
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