skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So 'we' can block it. NLP for ads detection would be disastrous as a problem to tackle. And if users need to spend considerable effort to distinguish ads from actual content, the tech-platform will soon die due to angry mobs.
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And yet BT is pretty much the definition of anti-competitive now anyway, and it's that monopoly which is killing progress today.
Natural night - ten hours real darkness (no light) starting and ending at the same time (red light is okay.) Many immune and detoxification processes are left to your nightly melatonin cycle, when you don't need energy to do other things.

Other than that: strictly avoiding any supplement that's touted to "boost the immune system." I'm not joking at all, putting your immune system into high gear for no reason repeatedly is a bad idea, and all that crying wolf will leave it less able to respond when really needed.
Not all busses, but greyhound - yes..
The London Underground has more miles of track which go in all directions, not just north and south. In fact cross rail which is the latest large expansion goes East to West. New York however has more stations and along with that 36 lines compared with London's 11
Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
It's pretty clear it hasn't done Amazon's reputation any favours. And there's no reason to think government officials won't go above and beyond in offering incentives behind closed doors.
I think most of us are narcissists, but just don't realize it. Evolution made us selfish and egotistical, and hid that fact from ourselves. Objectivity regarding self is probably not the optimum survival strategy.
It's amazing to me that these studies (and the people who look at them and comment) rarely ever consider the difference between eggs from sick factory farmed chickens on a nasty grain diet, vs. pasture raised chickens fed on grass and forage.

People are just that clueless.
I did something similar back in 1997 or so. Instead of switching keyboards or input programs, I switched keyboard layouts. I switched to dvorak, and (after a month or two where I couldn't type well in either layout) the pain went away and hasn't come back. I use qwerty at work and dvorak at home now.
Awesomeness?
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The original GameMaker was written in Delphi, iirc!
Keep in mind this was in response to the US basically blocking all non-European immigration for quite a long time.

And yes, not basing it on population side means you are screwed if you come from a big country, but at a huge benefit if from a small country.
Also, using HQL (or equiv) defeats the purpose of using an ORM. Just use SQL.

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Imagine you're troubleshooting your query, mapping. It's got some modest joins. So you capture the emitted SQL. Then you fuss with that SQL to make it something reasonable. Once that SQL is working, you then wrestle with the ORM to try to coerce it to re-emit your desired SQL.

This is also called reverse engineering, pushing rope, fighting the 800lb angry gorilla sitting between you and your work.

Eventually you'll figure out you should just use SQL, whatever dialect your backend supports.
An age verification system with an attitude:
True, but having a distinctive look is part of creating mind share. When you walk into a all-Apple office, you'll see very unique-looking laptops and desktops. That's part of what makes the brand valuable.

Raptor could derive some extra points from a unique enough case. Deepcool, Lian Li and Corsair (the ones I found in less than 5 minutes) sll make some that, with a change in highlight color to match Raptor's logo, would exude the aura of quiet power you want from a professional workstation and, hopefully, make people want to put it on top of the desk instead of hidden under it. ;-)
maybe I wasn't making it clear. I didn't mean they should be different. I'm merely saying their customer facing staff don't seem to be as brilliant in customer service as their engineers in engineering. But reading it twice, i realise it can be interpreted either way. I don't disagree with you.
Wow:

"We are a local media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. We have detected that you are in one of the member countries of the European Union, which is now subject to the General Data Protection Regulation.

...
Until we are able to ensure our full compliance with the rigorous GDPR requirements, we are blocking access from EU countries to our websites, which include wral.com, wralsportsfan.com, highschoolot.com and wraltechwire.com. We take the GDPR seriously."
That story is so embellished. There's no way a university-aged guy is "so humiliated" by the censored word that he "couldn't even eat it after that". Get real.
An especially safe way to go help about this is to not clean your cookware too well; since this gives you regular exposure to dead bacteria, etc. that's been heated and killed.
Maybe there's some practical use for this: it looks like 3B computers are still used in some AT&T POTS telephone switches:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5ESS_Switching_System#Administ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._4_Electronic_Switching_Sys...
I have concerns over misuse but I’m glad to see this is available to the public.
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I suspect Apple will get the same results when they finally talk to the locals about a HQ had they made a big public deal about it vs. somewhat quieter search (relative to Amazon).
Comments may drift if the code is not maintained properly, but commit messages will also drift. The more you edit/move/refactor, the harder it will be to connect the code in question with the relevant commit message. I don't believe good tools will save you here - the more changes happen to the code, the harder it will be to find the relevant commit message which explains the code.

Comments you can at least make an effort to keep up to date. Especially if have a policy that all comments should actually be relevant.

Comments shouldn't be obvious and unnecessary. They should explain things which cannot be inferred from the code itself, eg,

// have to call reset() twice here because the XZW API has a bug which restarts the server if reset is not called twice. See ...
In some places, at certain times of the year, the sun is not a good source. Also dermatologists don't suggest using the sun to get vitamin D due to skin damage. Everything in moderation of course. I imagine the sun has other benefits than just vitamin d.

Also getting sun through glass does not give vitamin D.
Will the hash take into account that some body parts may change shape compared to the sample photo Facebook asks us ?
Does it matter though? If the ISP is responsible for the "last mile", does it matter if they screw up the last meter of it?

It's one thing if customer supplied boxes are causing problems in the last meter, but if the last mile is end to end controlled by the ISP, and they still screw it up, does it matter what meter is the problem?

The only benefit I see here is that a confident/educated customer could implement the fix themselves as you suggest. However that's sort of dodging the issue, rather than acknowledging that the ISP isn't holding up their end of the agreement (in loose terms at least).
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Can someone copy and paste the whole article into a comment?
Not thinking it's common, but not so rare as to be viewed as freakish.

I assume it's similar to the US where it's more common in certain segments of the population (ex-military, rural, etc).
Latency is way more important. My last company gave me 100down but it took 3 seconds to load google. I couldn't play any games or even talk online with friends. I switched over to another company for similar price, no speed change, and everything works fantastically. If I had incredible ping/routing I would take 20 down, I'd love to see what the most I use is, probably less than 10.
http://archive.is/QXUkq
Do you have any additional links on this? I'm curious to read more.
My experience was definitely different. Just switching my keyboard layout to Dvorak was enough to slay my RSI. It's been 15 years with no pain since. I've done all the others on this list, they didn't seem to have an impact for me.
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Yeah, you're probably right on the mental overhead. I guess it is just best to use a linter and whatever style guide you prefer (most argue for semicolons.)

Using semicolons to stay in rhythm with similar languages that mandate them might be the worst reason, but it is a reason none the less (I literally spend equal amounts of time coding in C++/C#/Java/Javascript, so there is no need to 'think' in my case.)

I too like to do things out of spite.
You'd have to be insane to keep any of your sensitive IP in China, honestly. But mostly I assume they stick to the U.S. because that's where the talent is (and that's the government they need to have the closest relationship with, too)
Not so easy when there are predators about, then it becomes somewhat of an arms race with depressing bouts of dead chickens to deal with.
I was actually wondering what the data considers "immigration". This shows no African countries light up until around the 90s but that's somewhat incorrectly categorizing influx of people into the US as it ignores "forced immigration" (kidnapping for slavery).
I think that's great.
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You can also see them spending some time getting into position and locking their boot in, there are dancers in front so the audience will be distracted for much of it. The perils of rewindable video!
India has diversity(and population) comparable to the average continent. Of course, Indians who have the means and motivation to apply to emigrate to the US are a significantly less diverse group.
Isn't it great that they're taking it seriously, and ensuring that your privacy is protected?
I OPT OUT.
Most Asimov robots get stuck when they need to compare two different violations of the first law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(short_story)
Reap what you sow, Europer.

Seriously though, is GDPR compliance that difficult? What does a news site have to do to comply?
I think a useful question to ask candidates to help preserve my sanity would be:

Which word means "moving towards the state of no longer having?"

[ ] peacing out
[ ] lossing
[ ] losing
[ ] loosing

I'd probably accept #1 and #3.
Just to trade anecdote for anecdote: I’ve ridden lots of greyhound buses, and never once been asked for my passport in the US (or any form of ID by a police officer; since I’m a US citizen, it’s not like I would have had a passport to present).

But, as it happens, I have been asked for my passport by British authorities on a train ride once in the early 2000s. Presumably if I’d had a British accent they wouldn’t have expected me to have a passport on my person.

I suspect both of us experienced relatively rare events!
Lying about foreign contacts is a big deal. It is very much an important thing and you are required to list them when applying for a security clearance. He didn't just mistakenly forget about them.
of all of the modern grad books this one has always struck me as the most mathematically rigorous. an heir to trevor's esl.
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If you're on a desktop/laptop computer and have a FB account, use the "fullwsj" hack: Edit the URL to say "fullwsj.com" instead of "wsj.com", and click on the link from Facebook.

If on a mobile device, you can do it, but have to copy the URL and then paste into a private browsing window (at least on Safari/iOS.)
You can't be all that surprised, right? EU users are now a liability, so it makes sense to block them until you can be absolutely sure you can comply with their laws.
Bogons[0] are involved in a great project to do something about this - check out Balquhidder Community Broadband[1]. Bogons' Twitter[2] also has some fantastic updates about their work to lay fibre and provide connectivity to a few of these remote Scottish areas.

[0] http://www.bogons.net

[1] http://balquhidder.net

[2] https://twitter.com/BogonsNet
Someone fix the title plz. “Talent” is both singular and plural when referring to employees.
Yeah, I've never injured myself doing squats either. I don't squat more than a few-hundred pounds and I warm up and stretch before lifting. The only injuries I've ever sustained were from lifting heavy without a warm-up set and some stretches first.

Squats actually require a lot of hamstring flexibility to perform correctly, and most people don't have that. The basic compound lifts are generally very technically challenging and can take years to master. If you approach it like a meathead, don't be surprised when you get meathead injuries.
It's an interesting visualization but gives only one side of the picture. Emigration away from the US happens increasingly as well.
It’s a densely populated city. Lots of people using the same transport routes, all of which are close enough in one place to where they live and to where they work at another that the doors at each end can be pedestrian rather than motor.

Can’t do that when the population is spread out. (Or the workplaces, but IDK if that happens).
Some readers might enjoy looking at code -- I came across this repo:

https://github.com/akelleh/causality
Thanks! That page took like 45 seconds to load, haha.
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Didn't know about that. Thanks.
That's a pretty great first year as a freelancer, maybe even an amazing first year. I'm in my 17th year and am tempted to think that if I started out like that, I'd be retired by now ;-)

My first year was like: "Client bought me a computer! That was amazing. Man these eMachines boxes are a steal. Got some software from school, too, and a former employer gave me Photoshop 4.5 on a CD. [Update a month later] Oh, I get it. People give you free stuff hoping not to have to pay you later."
I don't really see a big problem with a little bit of gaming on the benchmark-code side; with a few implementations to compare, it might even give some hints for idiomatic efficient code.

Gaming from the compiler/runtime side would be uglier - but I guess it is somewhat mitigated by real languages running the "general release" version.

No harm in "fastest way to list first 1000 prime numbers" being "print static list of first 1000 prime numbers".

Hand there's some value in having a standard benchmark harness that works easily across languages - as a helpful tool with "running your own benchmarks". Assuming the harness is any good, that is.
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Why can't you just remove the VPN and resubmit? It doesn't seem totally necessary.
IMO, you can't master one language / instrument/ conceptual framework without a familiarity of several.

To be honest, I just try to build a couple of toy projects in whatever seems useful, and then I will try and build something professionally if I can a) get a client project and b) think its a useful/good fit.

As to the process, you're always better off with 30min a day rather than 2 hours on a Saturday. That's true for most things I've learned.

Specifically, I'd probably try and pick up Javascript, Ruby, or Python, as those seem to be the most portable to me. They also seem to be more widely adopted.
More accurately, it's down to the regulator being clear that it would not permit a return on the investment to roll it out. The competition is a joke. Virgin Liberty Global managed 100k passed prem for project lightning this year, talk talk and co are talk asked nothing else. How many times will companies like cityfibre have to go bust before investors realize early how hawkish Ofcom has got. Also what will people pay for? When they realize that g.fast will deliver 120 to 330 the glamor of fiber will fade. How many commenters have 50+ and suffer? I've got 330 fttp having moved from 12mbs vdsl, honestly I only notice once a week.
Nothing of value was lost.
I'm literally going through a purchase of a home on 5 acres, riverfront, workshop and pole barn for ~$300k, within commuting distance to a large midwest metro area.

$300 is the purchase price, not the mortgage.

Salaries around here for skilled software engineers are typically $100-150k, depending on years of experience and field.

A friend of mine in the same area is working remotely for a major SV company making $175k.

For the love of whatever you consider to be holy, don't think that the SV lifestyle and cost of living are representative of the country as a whole.
That's actually the worry. What are they doing with your data that they don't to be transparent about?
This was last summer. What time line do you expect?
No such thing as a free lunch I guess.
Right because glass filters most harmful spectrums of UV light which is what stimulates vitamin D production.
Absolutely, FTTC for us made using high-throughout Internet services feasible. We're not far from an exchange but the copper overhead cables pass several RF-noisy facilities and ADSL was constantly dropping-out. Even Andrews & Arnold couldn't do anything to improve it and we changed ISP after they lost interest ( no point paying their hefty charges for a flakey service ).

With the change to FTTC all that interference is gone and dropouts are very rare. FTTH doesn't really tempt us for any reasons.
I know right? These buzzwords really don't say anything, I guess it tells us something about the quality of the thought process of the people with a load of money who buy into them!

I'd also strive for minimum employees -- not because I am cheap but because more people means more problems. Even adding 3rd person in a team of 2 upsets the balance quite a lot.

Every person comes with their own baggage of emotions, prejudice, way of doing things, and bad habits. Accounting for an increasing amount of those is emotionally so draining that managers have been known to commit suicide many times in the past.

As for why supposedly very smart people buy into crap like "30x Fortune 500 clients" and "we have 250 employees!", I can only theorize that most businessmen are followers (and not leaders) and to them such numbers are something to strive for to prove success and that's why they finance people who toot their own horn in such a lame way.

That, plus filter bubble. When you start having dinners with people like that you definitely can change and become one of them. From then on, you start using their lingo, dress like them and think like them.
If only that were true.

The Thatcher Government stopped BT's already running rollout of FTTH in 1990. That gave us cable competition from Blueyonder who did bugger all and a BT regulated against playing in that space any more.

Hell Hastings and around Martlesham Heath (OK that doesn't really count) had FTTH in the mid 80s.

If BT had been allowed their way it'd be all FTTH by now. Regulation pushed a lot of the subsequent ADSL/VDSL product as it was all they were allowed to do.

It's only now, with broken infrastructure, and the regulator pushing for removal of those restrictions that BT got permitted to do fibre again, but this time around it's FTTC.
Wow, I forgot all about that; different times!
In the 80s we were going to get investment in fibre, to every home - building factories to get economies of scale.

This was stopped, and everything sold to South Korea, and we know how good their internet has been for years.

https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...
I am a Photoshop engineer. Many years ago it was transpiled to C++ that looked very much like Object Pascal. Much of that original legacy survives to this day.
Not for us who can break. How many 360's did any of you get on a headspin or helicopter?
I'm sure that alien contact will go really well. Because nothing but good things can come of that, right?

The state of willful self-delusion about reality among people is mind boggling to me. It's such a contradictory state that the most "educated" are also the most foolish at many times. In spite of all the calamities that are all caused by "experts" and the most "educated", no one ever seems to even question letting the most psychopathic of our species run things and make potentially and ever more existentially and terminally risky choices for everyone.

As Stephen Hawking said in paraphrase, "You may not want to draw alien life to Earth by broadcasting our location into space". There is approaching zero chance that an advanced alien life form will in any way be as psychopathically altruistic as the current state of western liberal self-destructively suicidal types.

It really won't matter when the mentally deranged have lured a pillaging alien life form to Earth, but what are the ethics of doing so while we still have time to prevent them from leading to the total erasure of humanity through the acts of an alien life form that does not care about humans?
"ATF: Alcohol Tobacco and Fire Arms. Rednecks with a license
to kill. Never, ever, ever ask for their help on anything."

Wow. I always had a feeling they were useless, and this makes it really clear.
Interestingly, Virgin Media now advertises slightly faster speeds than it did before this came into effect. Where it's fastest package was previously 350Mbps, it now advertises the same package as giving "Average download speeds of 362Mbps". "Average" still leaves a wide range of speeds, and as far as I can tell they don't quote different speeds for different locations.

I don't think quoting the average speed of all users in the country for each package is going to give much more of an accurate picture than maximum speeds. Especially since the abundance of FTTC here means your speeds are much more dependant on local infrastructure.
It doesn't harm the development, indeed. However it does harm the developer's freedom in choosing his tools, for example Vim will try to fold regions delimited by brackets in C files. Nothing unbearable in the end.
THE official language? Or an official language?

Isn't Java still the primary official language on Android?
Probably errors / transmission or a vlan issue
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What film have I watched with that in?!!!! It's going to be on my mind all night now... (aargh!)
Whatever version is in the documentation people read is the default. If it's not compatible to use v2 when expecting results from v1, you can't change the behavior for no version specified anyway.

More important for an API is building in a way to signal users that the version they're using will be or has been discontinued, and a way for the users to test that.
On the one hand I think this is a great sign that the GDPR is being taken seriously. On the other, I see this as corporate speak for "We're not sure if ensuring compliance makes business sense for us and this notice may actually be permanent. You're from a region where anyone interested in our content is probably a long-tail outlier that won't make us much money, so ensuring access for you is not a priority."

I really hope that data privacy regulations don't have the unintended side-effect of significantly increasing the geographic balkanization of the web.
you completely missed his point
Not just images. They can be animations too!
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Thanks that's good to know. Since I'm selling personalized things I'd probably keep all of the abondoned carts around so they're still there when people return. My current database stores all the abandoned carts in serialized blobs with Java objects so anything is better than that for maintenance!
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