skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most old-school shutdown init scripts called the following at some point before shutting down or rebooting:

kill -TERM -1 # sending all processes the TERM signal...
# ...
sleep $SOME_SECS
# ...
kill -9 -1 # sending all processes the KILL signal...
# ...
sleep $SOME_MORE_SECS

Also old-school local DoS from root:

# used to be very bad
rm -rf / ; kill -9 -1

Another classic:

# bash fork bomb
:(){ :|:& };:
# creates a function : and calls it
# spawns a background process that pipes to itself, which creates another process... effectively two recursive calls per call.
Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company
She'd be fine with half a brain:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-...
What happens when life support is discontinued for someone who has a normal sized brain? Are steps taken to make the end quick, or do they also starve? If the latter, then I'm not sure that it being provably not potentially horrible for Schiavo has any relevance to the underlying ethical question.

Also, brains are overrated [1]. :-)

[1] https://www.iflscience.com/brain/man-tiny-brain-lived-normal...
These rules of thumb are humorous, but they indicate an appalling lack of ability to both estimate and manage a project.

I've been a self-employed software engineer for more than a decade and I've worked on 100+ projects. Very few of them got done on the original timeline, but none of them were overdue to anything close to this degree.

If I tell a client it'll take 3 weeks and it takes 6 months, there will be a mountain of shit raining down on me (and them), starting with them never working with me again, and possibly ending with them refusing to pay at all or legal action.

Not to mention that you'll never win the project in the first place if you start quoting your estimates this way: "Hmm, that $4,000 site that I think will take 20 hours at $200 / hr to build? I'll just quote it at $64,000 to be on the safe side."

(Note: just an example, you shouldn't price projects this way anyway)

These naive rules of thumb are always so arbitrary too. Why bother with the doubling and changing of units, just multiply by 1000 and call it a day.

A much better rule of thumb is 1.5x to 3x, depending on how conservative and experienced you are, how many risk factors the project has, how much you'll be depending on the client, etc.

Software is really hard to estimate properly, and cost and timeline overruns are a fact of life. But if you regularly find yourself 10x overdue, you should probably revisit the way you're doing this.

Major IT projects are almost double over on timeline on average, but not 8-10x: https://www.economist.com/business/2005/06/09/overdue-and-ov...
Precision. That’s exactly why I need mouse support. I do not find relying on touch alone an acceptable experience when using an iPad full time as a productivity device.
If you home brew, all beer bottles are recyclable
Here's another reply so you can vote me down again.
This is about clinicians who are getting paid to deal with the person though.

They should expect to have their efforts to "help" be sabotaged for seemingly no reason, be betrayed as a means to get self esteem, constant testing of boundaries, etc. Then they should make the decision of whether to take the project before ever needing to interact with the person.
And another. Why would I care.
I am curious, does people uploading pirated versions of your app to third party stores really impact you? I imagine most of your users would only be on the Play Store. From my understanding, piracy isn't a much of a problem so long as it's not happening on main platform. Is there something I am missing?
when my employer at the time asked for a research on ad blockers, I concluded we could 1 offer better content with a community focus, or 2 provide the browser with the best ad blocker, that could still show some of our ads.

we did the cost analysis of the later and decided it was too expensive at the time. a few months later google dropped firefox support and invested heavily on chrome.

I guess someone there did the same analysis. because everything to this point is right on the plan. they block auto play video ads, just not theirs. they block flash ads, just not theirs. they will implement tracking protection like firefox rolled out last month, but before they will keep you logged on their ad systems forever.
But hopefully at some point you'll engage with the argument?
My ex-grilfriend married herself in one day, after I accompanied her to a hospital for her "severe insomnia" problem, without even telling me.

Out of sadness and anger, I cut off all of our contacts. A month later, she emailed me saying her psychiatrist said she had suicidal thoughts, and she wanted to see me. I went to see her immediately out of worries. That's the first time for the past 3 years I felt that she was not normal. For example, she was extremely talkative and she jumped between different topics that don't even have any connections. I knew that she had a history of depression for 10 years. But I don't know if it was a mis-diagnosis or her depression had developed into bipolar. She said her marriage decision was made during her maniac episode. She only loved me. But she decided to stay in the wrong marriage, because she couldn't punish her husband for her wrong decision. After making sure she didn't have the suicidal thoughts, I left.

I started to read about bipolar and learnt that during its maniac episode, a patient trends to make high risky decisions that he/she would regret afterwards, including spending lots of money, and having affairs.

And then after a month, she wanted to see me again, for a farewell, because she had to leave the country. She told me she had an affair with another guy and got pregnant. Again, she said she only had loved me, but she made wrong decisions during her maniac episodes. She said I could forget about her because she had turned into a different person, not the same girlfriend I ever had. Even I had read wikipedia and even a website about bipolar infidelity, it was really hard for me to accept everything. Again, out of anger, I told her I despised her and would never trust her. This time she blocked my contacts.

I don't know how I should accept and understand her, forgive her and help her. She mentioned that she wanted to leave me, because she knew I loved her, so she can't become my burden. That deeply saddened me.

For the past a few months, I have trapped myself in a loop of thinking about everything happened and feeling being used and then all the nice time we had together. I struggled a lot, not knowing if I should pick up the phone.
I’m not sure you actually understand what a 2ft rise means. Ignore all feedback mechanism (various other commenters have said things about the conservatism of ipcc) let’s look at it basically:

1. Go to a beach at high tide. Look at where the water is and add two feet. For sandy beaches that probably gets you through the dunes.

2. Look at the beaches at low tide. How much further out is it? Measure the distance between low and high tide points and see how far inland you get to see where the ocean gets to.

3. Go to marshlands - add 2ft to low tide and see if they’re still marshlands or if they converted to shallow ocean. Similarly check high tide, what surrounding land would be submerged if you added 2 feet of water.

4. Consider places near the coast that are lower than the high point of the beach. Now “spring tides” could get over that point and essentially turn that land into a swamp.

Finally of course, consider what happens if/when the ocean reaches farm land. The reason “salting the earth” is a phrase is because high salt content (as you might get from even short term flooding) kills most plants unless they’ve specifically evolved for high salt concentrations. Most grains for instance have not.

This of course ignores special cases like the Netherlands, Venice, etc that are already having to engineer solutions to a few inches of sea level increases.
> The Socratic Method requires that each and every student come to class prepared, having at least read all assigned material. "I don't know" isn't an answer; you at least have to be able to say something like, "the material said [insert reference], but I didn't understand how it applies". If you can't do that, you obviously didn't come prepared and some professors will call you out on it. Likewise if you're called in class and can't respond because you've lost the context.

This was the most valuable part for me; it required you to a) have actually done the background material, b) be engaged enough in the classroom to follow the context of the discussion, c) to be able to form an opinion even if you did not have one, and d) to be able to consider the merits of an alternative opinion.

These are fundamental life skills, especially so in the legal profession, and in my opinion form the basis of engaging with other people as people: understand their context, engage with them in discussion, consider what they say, and be willing to share your thoughts.
Would also allow a solution for LMS (learning management system) that employees can actually use on a mobile device.
I tend to agree, but I’m not optimistic. Historically, the sort of liberal, open society we see in “the west” is an aberration. If there is a causal factor between liberal, open societies and prosperity, it doesn’t seem to be particularly critical. People like to point to the fall of the USSR and the endurance of its former enemies as evidence that these societies are inherently more likely to succeed, but looking farther back in history, I’m inclined to think that was an anomaly.

I’d very much like to be wrong, of course.
In case there is some interest in learning hardware

iCEBreaker FPGA

The first open source iCE40 FPGA development board designed for teachers and students.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga

full disclosure:
I will likely get an enthusiastic "Thank you!" for dropping this here.
In India I noticed a lot of coke & sprite bottles were incredibly worn. They were thicker and heavier than those in Australia (which were mostly plastic anyway). And the branding was incorporated into the glass itself, as opposed to a label on the outside.

Based on the wear, I imagine they’d been re-used many times. I thought it was pretty cool that you bought coke in a bottle that would be considered an antique in Australia.

Reusable items such as glass bottles give me a sense of quality & durability. Where as disposable is synonymous with garbage.
Sometimes mental illness turns a person into the moral equivalent of a natural disaster. We don’t exactly blame natural disasters for arriving. They didn’t intend malice towards us. But we don’t therefore let them destroy our homes or kill us because there was no malicious intent behind the disaster. We batten down the hatches, make our homes storm and earthquake proof, we douse fires in water and build protective cellars.

Sometimes when mental illness turns a person into a malicious abuser, we have to protect ourselves regardless of whether we blame them fully for their actions or not. Nature turns the person into a disaster (sometimes, it’s not like EVERY case is like this), and when it does that, we’re justified in doing want it takes protect ourselves, to keep from being abused or harmed - not blaming them doesn’t mean we have to go out and stand in the storm, so to speak.

Here’s wishing you peace and happiness. :)
Unlike reading, I don't think audio can convey the same meaning in a different sensory format. At best, they perceive it but in an alien way to most people. It's like describing a painting in musical notes.
My first reaction was the parallel to Jan Koum's unexpected exit over Facebook's ethics; good to see the article ends with that story.

After Google's recent Dragonfly resignations, this might be the new standard for tech companies.
I believe it's pretty close to death. I was subscribed to a few of the Google alert RSS feeds and they completely stopped updating. OK OK, so Google doesn't like RSS, I get that. I guess that means I don't like Google alerts much anymore.
Tried it, not a fan. I use the 10 pin ARM JTAG pinout on all my boards with a 0.050" 2x5 ribbon header. Works great, very small.

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.faqs/attach...
They have quite a few jobs open: https://telltale.com/jobs/
Aha! I was wondering when someone would say this!
This is a good time to employ some Occam's Razor: if we've already accounted for the shittiness via mental illness, what is our reason for introducing an additional explanation? Are certain extreme mental illnesses not enough to account for the most shitty of behaviors?
You're missing nothing - this is the intended behavior. People are falsely reporting that you are automatically signed in to chrome sync, which isn't true.
Stephen Colbert drives NASA's Mars Rover with Neil DeGrasse Tyson [video]
Best approach is probably to be a multimillionaire...
I would no longer be bit by mosquitoes and OFF! would probably go out of business.
By disable do you mean use the temporary flag that is already removed in Chrome Canary?

Incognito windows are not a realistic alternative, because that adds more limitations.
i didnt mean to offend you either, it just seemed like more of a xenophobic than technical argument.

apple is lauded for the security and privacy of the iphone but it is manufactured in china. could china have their hands in that "cooking pot"?

if there were some kind of subterfuge occurring with opera at the hands of the chinese government, it would be newsworthy indeed.
Because sometimes people were shitty even before they became mentally ill ...
Outside in the car park playing hackey sack
> Sirius and Onstar are two of the worst things about my car purchase

I'd say your car purchase was an awesome experience.
I'd venture that they're extremely wealthy, still friends, and decided it's time to go have fun rather than prescribe this to Facebook's ethical challenges like the article would have you believe.
And the "some" to that "most" are those with synesthesia
We share different views of the world...

First, Infocom was arguably supplanted by Sierra and other graphical games. They died during an oncoming boom. Sierra's reign [and LucasArts earlier titles] in the late 80's to mid-to-late 90s were very much the golden age of adventure games.

Second, LucasArts went on for about 15 years after they stopped creating / releasing adventure games. Their last Adventure game was Grim Fandango in 1998, and the closed in 2013. I can't see how LucasArts closure is unrelated to boom or bust cycles in adventure games.

Third, there are a huge number of adventure games coming out all the time. It surprises me honestly. While a few companies--like Wadjet Eye Games and Daedalic--seem to be doing okay, the bulk of them close up shop after one or two games. To me--as a lover of these type of games and a reviewer for JustAdventure--The market seems overly saturated for such a niche audience. There is the occasional big event such as the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter, but the community doesn't seem to change size.
I've never gotten a notification from CreditKarma that a lender has checked my report but maybe I don't have it set up correctly. I was thinking more that the agencies would handle.
Articles like this give me a better understanding of computers and how they fundamentally work. Thank you.
Who the fuck writes a blog in monospaced font. This is an abomination on web design :-)
They are 5 years late. Growlers are replacing beer bottles here, and are reused 100s of times. Only the caps are disposed of, and even they could likely be sanitized.

The problems faced in the article could easily be remedied by having uniform mouth height and shoulder width, so bottling/washing machines can stay brand/style agnostic while allowing some distinction.
No, I would counter argue that those in charge of bringing in laws should at least understand the basic principles of what those laws contain.

Much as they shouldn't ban a chemical additive to our foods without first understanding the nature and effects of that chemical (based on scientific research and evidence), then they shouldn't enact laws around privacy and data without understanding what that data itself contains. (He doesn't have to make the chemicals in a lab, he just needs to understand what it is/does).

The fact that the AG has no clear definition of what 'meta data' is, or cannot explain that to a reporter or the public really shakes my confidence that his limited understanding of 'meta data' includes elements that can personally identify someone (e.g. Does he think a phone number is 'meta data' or straight up 'personal data'? Because a phone number can be owned by more than one person, or is transferrable, does he think that is 'meta'?).

The AG should at least be able to give a broad definition of the scope of the laws that he is going to be responsible for upholding.
As a non VC, non founder, the only surprise to me is that anyone stays beyond contracted minima. The first, assuming you had taken a role as a VC, you'd want out to go do the VC thing somewhere else. The second, you would be watching your baby pimped out and sold for drugs on the streets, as things you had no desire to see were done, in the name of profit.
Instagram often seemed to have its own way of doing things and its own aesthetic within Facebook, one that the founders championed. Recently, however, the winning strategy for Instagram seems to be copying features from Snapchat, and abandoning the style that got it to its first 100 million users. I can imagine that being frustrating.
that's a huge silly fallacy.

if you are operating something as complex and dangerous, you need the Comercial airliner cockpit! it's that way for a reason! or would you rather board a 747 with a huge colorful button "fly" and another "land"?

if you have something like a browser, that is your last line of defense accessing online banking etc, you need to see into the miriad of options. if you just browse facebook, use the default and be happy. Knowing about:config shouldn't be a gate keeper to anything! going to settings then advanced should be more than enough to communicate the concept of advanced options. anything different you are just being an entitled , incompetent UX designer.

about:config is lazy, but get some of the job done. your oh-so-perfect two options google chrome setting page, is lazy and useless.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, but that’s exactly what I’d say too. In terms of day to day life, it feels more free in many ways. Alcohol is sold freely, small merchants set up on the sidewalk, traffic laws might as well not exist, and nobody will hassle you for spitting on the ground. Of course, you have to spend hours screwing around with VPN software just to read the New York Times, and some of this freedom for other people ends up curtailing your own, like when people burn a shitload of dirty coal with no filters and make it hard to breathe outside. But you certainly don’t feel oppressed as a visitor when you’re not online.
Yeah I'm with you. I like to browse with everything logged out, and I clear all content on browser close.

I'm so bloody sick of helping Google train their self driving cars. I swear I'm going to have PTSD about stop signs and store fronts for the rest of my life.
Can it kill sync process?
Oh, fantastic! I'll let my former colleagues know, assuming no one else has reached out to them (this was a pretty specific piece of feedback we had re registrar, so great to hear that it's changed).
> A good doctor who monitors their medications is everything

Even if you have good healthcare most doctors and even most specialists are terrible at dealing with anything that they don't see on a daily basis. Having a spouse with multiple rare chronic ailments has been eye opening.
1. She's blaming the imaginary. She needs Professional help.

2. I understand you can't deal with it.

3. Get her professional help if you can.

4. I understand the poor whom turn their backs. I don't understand when the wealthy play Psychological know-it-all, and without consulting a professional; write the family member off.

5. I understand how the poor block the phone, and move. Yes--we have a terrible system. I understand you can't help her, but you are most likely ignorant to the cause of her psychological problems.
I don't mean to be callous, but the game industry is one where much of the benefit comes from the fact that one gets to work on games as opposed to B2B SAAS apps or other banal businesses. In exchange for getting to work on games, you are taking a lower salary, higher competition, and much less stable working environment.

It's very similar to sports; there are many more people who want to work in sports than there are jobs available, so the ones that do end up with jobs working for a team are overworked and underpaid despite being in the top single-digit percentile of applicants. I imagine the same is true for other entertainment industries, but I don't know enough about them to comment.

There are, of course, people in these industries who do have bargaining power, but it's a very small minority of those with outstanding reputations.
If all the power users leave, the app makers do not care. If all the typical grandmas leave, their margins are significantly impacted.

You can figure out the rest.

That’s not a problem or an indictment. Just an observation of how systems work st scale.
Achieving impossible coding tasks without knowing how to do them
maybe its got an xtrans!
Quick Googling suggests that it's widely understood that starvation isn't, per se, painful. Presumably what might be painful is prolonged malnutrition.

As someone who has fasted for a week, I can attest that much of the physical discomfort disappears rather quickly. Though, I can't speak directly to near-death starvation, nor to dehydration.

I agree that it's ridiculous that doctors (in the U.S., at least) rarely have a way to quickly and legally dispatch people (or the shells of people). It happens informally, though. Being such a high-profile case, advocates for Terry Schiavo's parents all but ensured the doctors would follow the book--starvation.
"Après moi le déluge" (After me, the flood) is also the motto of 617 Squadron RAF, famous for Operation Chastise (the Dambusters raid) during WWII.
They shouldn't sell in the 1st place.
Why didn't Linux Foundation chief Zemlin pull Torvalds into line?
The same is the case in many other places, Mexico comes to mind. The disposable bottle seems a recent thing, only strengthened by semi-ignorant ideas of how recycling works popularized in the 80s. But even modern bottles can be reused many times as homebrewers know. Sam Addams specifically makes theirs sturdier with that im mind.
> this might be the new standard for tech companies.

Unfortunately, I believe this is just hopeful ambition that won’t become a reality. The majority of folks I meet in tech tend to be a paycheck or two away from financial catastrophe and generally shy away from rocking the boat. A small percentage have their house in order, and those are the folks that have the luxury to resign so quickly when they have moral/ethical objections.
This shows why it’s actually quite efficient. The bad PR is part of the whole effect. They don’t want to silently monitor these people, they want to control them, and making it known that they can be stopped at any time and forced to submit is part of the deal.
If it's a public company, there are many indicators you can look at. You can just look at the quarterly reports, for example, to see how they project revenues and headcount. The "C" team being shaken up is probably not the most effective data that you have at your disposal.

What company is it? If it's a public company you are not really revealing your identity by revealing the company.