skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding 1) thing I could do in my sleep and still amaze people.

It is a bit dangerous to be unconsciously good (ie in my sleep) at something and think that you can make money with it.

Let's take something like chess. Unless you are a TOP 10 player, you are not going to be making a good living from chess unless you go into secondary sources of income: teaching,writing, coaching. Source: as a master I know many poor grandmasters.

So there has to be a market demand for the skill that you have deliberately practiced to be unconsciously good at.

Like that guy who can skip a stone 88 times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0_hEvNOqGM

He certainly enjoys it and people are amazed by it. However there is a very limited demand for experienced stone skippers.
I thought the same when I went to my country, but after a longer while a heatmap pops up. My wifi isn't in it though.
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If I read his stuff correctly, this may not be possible before a PC release of the RDR2. Fingers crossed! :)
And don't see why in a) you couldn't manage to have time for your passions, i.e. leave at 5. For me it meant lowering my ambitions and not trying to be fulfilled only by me work, but instead make time for unproductive activities (hobbies/friends/family). Even if I have less money in the end I feel way better.
What kind of customer service requests are you thinking of? As I've used booking services quite extensively, but never actually had any need to contact customer service.
Me neither, but I think the whole point of this article was to promote wigle.net.
Machine translation from Chinese I suppose.
The Brexit promise was to leave the EU and open better trading options with the rest of the world. Outside of the EU, there is no issue reducing VAT, customs fees etc. In fact, WTO rules even allow more competitive options between countries if the UK chooses to lower associated fees in the WTO. Additional the UK is able to negotiate trade deals for it's own interests rather than concerns about protectionism for the EU. None of this can be done by the UK in the EU.
Wow, this sounds like the alcohol industry funding research publications which emphasize that consumption of 2 glasses of wine daily is beneficial to health.

Thanks for pointing it out.
So you want to personally go to the door of a person who already committed a serious crime? A crime against your workplace even, not against your person. That is a highly questionable action, to say the least.
Knowing this from an Opsec perspective, it would also be better to use generic SSIDs for any wifi networks you're setting up. Something with a name like 'internet' or 'wifi' would be so generic that it would be impossible to pin down.

I tried to check numbers on WiGLE but it's being painfully slow for me.
I'm kinda hesitant to do this as it's not really what you expect to happen on a device that is stable? Where on mobile it responds to the tiniest twist or turn of your hand which results in familiar reflection behavior.
Does anyone know if there's folks working to build a better mousetrap where search is a protocol that anyone could use, not a company service?
Thanks! Indeed it does use the gyroscope. Unfortunately (as always on the web) the implementation apparently differs a lot per device so I'm now gathering test devices to make it respond the same on iOS and Android.
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Thanks, this is a lot of things to ponder on, and I actually agree with you on much of this. Your feedback is much appreciated and really made me feel better!

I actually have an almost empty blog, but having ideas and writing them down in a coherent way (especially in a non-native language) is two different things. I should try to write more.

Thank you again.
I hadn't either. Also what is the deal of random people contributing to the database at https://wigle.net/, why don't you mind your own business? There is a big difference between broadcasting the SSID in a 20-50m radius and effectively broadcasting it world-wide.
Those are not the same things. Each country still governs itself. The UK should work on that first.
I didn't see that assumption anywhere in the article. He just followed the leads, collected the evidence and connected the dots. The device was set up in the gifted kid's home, and used a webservice paid for by the gifted kid's company. The device clearly comes from the gifted kid. Was he also the one who wanted the device in the closet? That's the one thing we don't know. That, and the relationship between the gifted kid and the ex-employee.

Further legal investigation will no doubt follow. Maybe gifted kid is involved in something illegal, maybe not. Hopefully we'll hear more about this in the future.
That term generally means "it's not my decision to make," it does not necessarily have to do with how much anyone gets paid. In this context he's saying that he did his part, discovering the device, and from that point forward the decision to pursue legal action (or something else) is not his to make.
Ever spoken to a user?
This sounds like a great way to get into a dangerous situation.
The WTO provides a loose foundation for trade without agreements, and guidance on how agreements can be reached.

Trade without agreements is subject to tariffs and major restrictions severe enough to cause serious economic damage.

Agreeing FTAs can take years, hence the need for a transition period until one is agreed between UK & EU.

What May did was entirely consistent with trying to achieve the Brexit that was voted for.
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I think the comment was on the wrong parent, most likely intended for the video game part of the conversation.
You can follow it on Steam and they will tell you when it is available, no?

A real question. I don't use Steam.
There really is a point where it's better to let legal take over if you're not a legal expert yourself. I assume the police is going to have a chat with the ex-employee and the gifted kid.
Which is why Android restricts getting the current wifi SSID (WifiManager.getConnectionInfo()) or the nearby wifi SSIDs (WifiManager.getScanResults()) to apps with the ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permissions. If an application doesn't have permission to know your location, it's also not allowed to know your wifi network's name.
Free software must be free for all its users. The most common example of this is a license that restrict fields of endeavor.

E.g. I could make a license exactly like the GPL except with a clause saying fuzzy2 on HN can't use my software without paying me.

Even though RedHat and Debian aren't fuzzy2 on HN, and 99.99...% (or 100%) of their users aren't that user either, they'd still refuse to distribute it. That license would be non-free.
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Sounds like a fairly accurate description of Charlie Brown to be honest.

The wiki link for non-Americans who are unfamiliar with the character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown
The industry is obsessed with getting 100% unit test code coverage even though it doesn't mean anything to the project.
The purpose of unit tests is to lock down the project's source code once it's essentially completed; to avoid regressions when making minor changes.

If you start writing unit tests too early in the project, you're effecively locking down units of code which haven't yet proved themseves to be useful to your project.
If you build square wheels for example, you may not realize that they're not designed correctly until you attach them to the car and realize that the car doesn't function well with them.
It makes no sense to preemtively write unit tests for a component which has a very high likelihood of not being in its final desired state; you're just giving yourself more work to refactor the unit tests over and over; or worse, you're afraid of refactoring the tests and so you lie to yourself thinking that square wheels are fine.

Integration tests are by far the most useful tests to have at the beginning and middle stages of the project; integration tests allow you to keep your focus on the real goals of the project and not get stuck on designing the perfect square wheel.
"The UK contributes more to the EU budget than it receives back. Ceteris paribus, the UK could fund all the same programmes, and have huge buckets of cash left over."

Yeah. Right. Problem: They are going to lose the 1 trillion euro claring. Tax income from that was likely already higher than the UKs EU budget contributions.
Good to know, thanks for reporting that.
You ignore that individual humans will change their political opinion as they age: Every year more and more remainers become leavers. This isn't the sort of thing where you can just wait for the leavers to die and then you win.

Someday, you too will be old. Guess how you will vote. :-) Some young person, much like yourself today, will be thinking that your death would make the voting turn out better and will be eagerly awaiting it. Eventually, they too will be old... and so it continues on forever.
The Brexit Proposal was defeated by an unholy alliance of Remainers and Brexit supporters. Both parties are happy today though the onus will be on the former if they wish to remain in that state. As described by a lawyer (of sufficient status to attract an overnight detailed rebuttal from the Prime Minister's office - followed though, by a similarly detailed overnight rebuttal of a rebuttal (Spectator, December Issues) writing that the Prime Minister May Proposal was "atrocious" - a betrayal of what the Brexit decision should have resulted in, irrespective of the opinions of either remainers or leavers. In other words, in factual terms, the Brexit Proposal was not Brexit as envisaged.
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It's wherever a contributor has been.

Our home SSID isn't there, but a neighbour's network is visible on the street outside and is listed.
So, I was one of (or I suppose the only...) person in the linked issue arguing that competition is useful, and that it makes sense for Facebook's products to be tied into the same ecosystem.

As others have mentioned, when Flow was first launched, TS had an extremely limited type system (e.g. no null checking, no union types). Of course this has improved a lot over time, as the two have converged, but there's still a long way to go for either project to allow JS reach the level of correctness and expressiveness of, say, OCaml or Haskell.

Flow has consistently for the past few years been bringing new ideas to the table from this algebraic data types background, which often have ended up proving to be good ideas, and are in various stages of trickling down to TS.

I worry that if the ecosystem becomes completely dominated by TS, the overall focus will end up back where TS started: rudimentary OOP inspired types, without the underlying goal of overall correctness, which Flow strives for, while TS openly eschews in favour of "pragmatism".
We'd love to, but I think it would be too much engineering work to do properly to put on our short term priority list, since it would require reworking a lot of the auth + websocket system and would likely be buggy for a while.

For now you're welcome to sign up with a fake email, we don't require email verification.
Interesting, as I find AirBnb's mobile UX somewhat worse than Booking/Hotels. Especially the map view is next to non-functional, always scrolling to wrong places and unintuitive swiping between properties. Could be issue only on Android though, as I haven't tried the iOS app.
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What is an unit? Is it the wheel or the car? When you start to see that the car is the unit the difference between an unit test and an integration test gets blurry.
gifted my ass
The "leavers" you talk to are pretty different from the leavers I talk to.
Considering the first order effect, you are right. But because governments tax only in their currency, they have a vested interest in making their currency valuable. This makes the US dollar more reliable than your friend's IOU for a favor.
This is a cool idea.

The website says it is untested on android and it shows how weird and inconsistent browsers are.

On android firefox it looks like the iPhone example but the light movement is very choppy (maybe hardware acceleration is missing or something like that).

On chrome the movement is smooth but the markup is not rendered correctly.
> which can be extremely advantageous long-term, despite short-term disadvantages

What long term are you talking about? Until you include individuals with trisomy 21 having families and passing on this trait, your line of reasoning makes no sense.
Even though XS4ALL uses the KPN network, XS4ALL uses their own routers, switches, data centers, and can offer better service and privacy. Not a mere label, the brand XS4ALL. I chose to pay the somewhat higher price (set by KPN by the way) for that service.

What I've noticed the past few days is that quite a few people who bemoan XS4ALL going away, actually chose different providers to get lower prices. Seems hypocritical to me, but also in line with what most people seem to prioritize.
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Trade in radiotherapy supplies is currently regulated under the Euratom treaty. When the UK leaves it is required to submit a System of Accountancy and Control for Nuclear Material to the IAEA to continue trading. The current status is "we expect them to be in place to meet international obligations when the UK leaves Euratom" which is perhaps not totally reassuring for cancer patients.
be careful with that "neutral explanation". in the last one we got told that private agents hired by social insurances may only observe clients in public spaces, while the law text actually says "public spaces and what's observable from there". i.e. pretty much any Swiss inhabitant can now be put under surveillance in their private homes without any judge order.
Or he resigned because he believed the leave decision could better be implemented by a leave campaigner, who would approach the matter more earnestly and enthusiastically.
Yeltsin had sunk into bottle before Putin came in his sight in 1996.

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is still separated from FSB/KGB.

edit: wording. Definitely not a russian intelligence agent :)
If you broke apart what brexit might actually mean for the country into its constituent parts, I think most people would feel out of their depth voting on these potential amendments individually. It's interesting that when you package all the details up into a single ill-defined 'brexit' people feel happy to project their own vague meaning onto the term and confidently cast their vote.
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IMHO unit tests are replacements for an interface contract specification language. You encode the requirements for the interface of your unit (whatever that may be) into tests. Writing unit tests early means that you think about the interface early. This way you can find awkward or wrong requirements early. Of course they're no replacement for integration tests, but they're supposed to be much cheaper to write, to run, and to change than integration tests.
Encryption was the first thing I expected when he showed the partition table; so much about the "gifted child" :-)

But even if you don't care, at least DON'T SIGN UP WITH YOUR REAL NAME to that service. What the freaking heck? I really hope they get what they deserve.
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Well of course, after all there are millions of them so I'm sure it's relatively easy to find people from any part of the "leaver" spectrum - from people who knew exactly what WTO is and are happy with it, to people who voted leave because they don't like the Polish shops on their street.

There isn't a single one reason why people voted leave.
I think the parent was commenting that since Red Hat did not offer a service, there is no legal restriction in distributing the code. In other words, if Red Hat decided to change its stance on distributing only free software, they could do so legally. I'm glad they didn't, but I think the parent is correct.

Edit: Usually don't complain about down votes, but I'd be happy to hear why the parent is incorrect if I've got it wrong. Are they not legally able to distribute for some reason?

Re-Edit: I read the initial query incorrectly. Yes, the parent's post is unrelated to the query. Sorry!
One can speculate something along, "the neighbor kid, ABC, is pretty smart, perhaps he can help me set up some way to know if someone is around at work?".
The basic rule I go by is whether or not the test is self-contained. For example if you are making a trip to a database or hitting a 3rd party dll then it’s an integration test. I thought this was pretty widely accepted.
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>The Brexit promise was to leave the EU and open better >trading options with the rest of the world.

One would think that the EU would be in a better position to get better deals than a single country.
...seems likely to hurt government efficiency.

Poe's law strikes again.
Unit tests should test individual subcomponents of your system in isolation. If your project is to build a car from scratch, then the unit cannot be the car.
If your project is to build an autonomous fleet of self-driving cars, then from your project's perspective, the car could be a unit; the project to build the autonomous car would have different units from the project which manages the fleet of cars.
That's very dangerous what you are saying right there. It is more then obvious that your freedom to walk in my street's block, to exist(your freedom), depend directly on the limitation and curtail of my freedom to shoot you with my shotgun. Your freedom is killing my Total and Absolute freedom. Do you want to give me Total freedom?
Why is ajuc's comment being downvoted?
It was confirmed that the kid set it up, and that the kid never had access to the network.

An investigation will have to see if the kid has anything to do with the attack at all.
If I understood that message correctly, it seems that Debian decided to remove MongoDB from its main repository as well: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915537#15
Upvoted big, because I was planning to get my SSID name for some sort of Chromecast wifi synchronisation for the devices.
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Eventually it probably will (brexiters seem to think in 25 / 50 years time, which is apparently a good price to pay for Brexit...).

However, the UK will lose the huge amount of influence it has at the moment on the world stage, will be pressured by bigger economies to accept unfavorable trade deals and deregulation (US food standards, VISAs, etc) and its manufacturing will be severely damaged; it could possibly collapse entirely. The irony is that this will likely create a wave of unemployment in the very regions that voted in favour of Brexit.

But regardless of the consequences, if you think people voted for a "no deal" when they voted Brexit, you are deluded. Let's illustrate my point with a few quotes:

"The free trade agreement that we will ahve to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history" - Liam Fox - 2017

"Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy - the UK holds most of the cards in any negotiation" - John Redwood - 2016

"Within minutes of a vote for Brexit, CEO's would be knocking down Chancellor Merkel's door demanding access to the British market" - David Davis 2016

“It is also true that the single market is of considerable value to many UK companies and consumers, and that leaving would cause at least some business uncertainty, while embroiling the Government for several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country – low skills, low social mobility, low investment etc – that have nothing to do with Europe.” - Boris Johnson 2016

As you can see, no deal is far from the position that was pushed to the people, even after the vote had occurred. Saying people voted for a "no deal" because they voted for Brexit is disingenuous. Long gone is the time of "Having our cake and eat it"
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Funny might be interpreted in both good and bad way.
Indeed. What you are describing is p-hacking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
I have been a customer with Xs4all since I think 1993. When the uni decided it it might be a good idea to have at least some security policy on their network. Nowadays it just is small stuff I keep around for historical/sentimental reasons.
It is to the credit of the good people at Xs4all that they kept their relative independence for so long after being bought.
I won't be signing any petitions to keep the label. I would like the experience of a knowledgeable, innovating and activist ISP back which has been slowly deteriorating since the buy-out. I don't care about labels. Keeping the label around for service that is going to be far less is actually not a compliment. Like Ben and Jerry's made by Unilever.

So thanks for all the help, discussions and service. It was fun while it lasted.
I often bring a small wifi router with me, hook it up to Ethernet (often taking the TV or phone ethernet connection), then set up a local wifi that I can connect a Chromecast to. That in turn sits in the tv, of course.

That gives me internet and streamability/casting to the tv :)
For someone so pro-freedom he had plenty of nice things to say about mass-murdering Augusto Pinochet and his fascist Chile. Seemed he was pro-tyrant as long as it was a pro-free-market tyrant.

Friedman and Hayek are two idealogues that I believe civilisation will look back very unkindly on.
To the ex-employee.

There was no conclusion drawn as to the involvement of the gifted kid other than the pi initially being set up by them.
The thing that people were upset about was that Google Street View cars didn't only scan the public SSIDs, but also recorded all (open) network traffic.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-ad...
True but there's also the MAC address...
Freakin awesome!
The gifted kid site was from 2001 no? So the gifted kid is an adult now.
Having taught git several times within a data science course I find two concepts especially worth extra time: WHY there is a staging area, and what is the difference between “git” and “github”.
Exactly. Going through this thread and voting people back up. From my multiple accounts. An excess of clueless remainers babbling in here.
And to mess up legal cases.
For fun I guess, been around since the beginning of Wi-Fi access points. I guess a similar kind of fun to geocaching, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
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