skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Canada, a cold part even. I live in a city, it's still cold. I haven't bought anything from Canada Goose but have spent similar money on layered clothing for similar (or better) performance.

Why?

Because I don't drive. I don't live with a driver. There's a very large assumption in your comment; the kind that an Alberta shouldn't make because ending up in a ditch for an hour could kill you.
Because there are no details beyond vague promises, and it entails serious restructuring and UX trade-offs that may affect revenue. At the moment, skepticism makes much more sense.
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Why do we need to go to Mars?

Edit: I realize it’s an unpopular question here, but other than it being cool - why do we need a Mars colony?
My $0.02:

- try applying for an internship. One of our swe has a PhD in chemical engineering. They pivoted their career but started as an intern.

- are you looking for a job in the US? Are you a US Person (citizen or perm resident)? if so, be sure to explictly state that. Don’t just say authorized for work in US. That could mean OPT and many companies won’t bother with that and won’t bother to investigate. In general US companies are not allowed to require us citizens but they are allowed to require “perminant legal right to work in US”. That means citizen or green card.
You mean like GDPR?
I wonder how this works with encrypted Backblaze backups.
Interesting comparison to the food industry's race to the bottom, only to be supplanted at the top by retails such as Trader Joe's. Could Facebook's addictive algorithms eventually be supplanted by something more wholesome? The difference between the food industry and social media is that a single person can switch grocery stores on a whim, but social media platform migration requires a crowd.
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Blocking advertisements is never stealing, it's self defence.
For those who don't know, this is by Marijn Haverbeke, developer of the great CodeMirror (in-browser code editor), and author of the even greater Eloquent JavaScript.

https://codemirror.net/

https://eloquentjavascript.net/
As of this moment, there are 8,521:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100d.html

(The RFC Editor site is the official source for RFCs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/ )
I've started to migrate 18 years of email history to Fastmail, after running my own mail infra for almost 2 decades.

I am not impressed. Folders moved in the webinterface show up unmoved in Thunderbird. And vice versa.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. They're investigating the problem at the moment, but the updates they've given me don't give me much hope.

I'm looking at migrating away to another provider that just does plain old imap.
i am very impressed that, although it's designed for the mbed ecosystem, this code is obviously written so that it can be used in any embedded project (especially those that use a single, statically-compiled binary for the entire firmware) with virtually no changes. i could have this working on my project's bespoke hardware in a couple hours.

* zero dependencies, no assumptions about libc, doesn't use timers or heap, fully synchronous, and it's passive when you're not interacting with it.

* variables, constants, and functions are well-prefixed (without being too verbose) to avoid collisions.

* BSD license is friendly for single-binary firmwares.

* the Makefile doesn't assume anything, it just outputs a .a file which you can link however you want.

* the Makefile is simple and doesn't require cmake or autotools. it's easy to point it at your cross-compile toolchain.

it has other hallmarks of a well-planned and well-maintained project too:

* the readme shows exactly why i might want this (or might not), and how to use it. the separate design doc shows exactly how it works.

* functionality is cleanly separated by file.

* consistent style (could specify which style guide they're using, though).

* the tests serve their usual purpose but also serve as examples. they're well encapsulated and the code was obviously written to be tested.

these authors have absolutely nailed everything i strive for at my embedded firmware development job.
Apparently plants put out half the CO2 again over the night that they took in. I'm just thinking that either way they aren't that big of deal as far as oxygen/carbon dioxide production/consumption. Air filtration, possibly.
FB messenger is absolutely dominant in Australia.
Higher end Mercs and BMWs have had a "dechrome" in the options list for years. That's paying for removing all model badges.
`await` is essentially syntactic sugar that means "wrap everything after this in a callback to be executed after this function does something asynchronously."
It's almost entirely ineffective. Each phone book upload probably nets them something like ~100 contacts, multiply that by 1.74 billion and the war is entirely lost. A bit like how self-driving cars may shortly redefine the meaning of 'public space'.
Well, that's easy to fix - copy your array into a linked list so you an insert elements at the head efficiently. ;-)
For sure if you are using any app or OS over which you don't have complete knowledge and control, and which isn't entirely unhackable, you are trusting someone somewhere.

Application companies will always be able to backdoor their apps.

What e2e encryption does do is make messages nearly impossible to be intercepted in transit or on a massive scale by anyone without the cooperation of the company.
Yes, really. It is essentially downside protection. If you find yourself in a uncertain situation, it is a reasonable strategy. She now already know that Amazon can handle a refund, what to look for when buying and got a recommendation from a friend for a jacket. Could she have walked into a physical store instead? Probably, but at this point she probably didn't want to buy an expensive jacket anymore which is also reasonable. You are the one not thinking.

I'll give you a different example. Say you are in a foreign city and you use Uber. After a while you have a bad experience. Say, the driver insists you pay something which should have beem included. You contact Uber and you get a refund. So what is the resonable choice now? A. Stay with Uber and be mindful of paying extra fees. B. Take other taxis which might be better, or just scam you without any recourse. For most people it would be A. Large brands win when the market is dysfunctional.
You mean using something like IFTTT?[1]

[1] https://ifttt.com
Signal is the best candidate for what you're asking, but your friends would have to put up with some bad UX at least for the time being.
These papers' reporting biases have been well known for years. But the GP makes it sound like a particular story aired last week that focused specifically on an AGENDA the papers are pursuing.

An agenda is much more than a bias. It's a set of goals and a strategy for pursuing them. A systematic bias can be a big part of that strategy. But the goals and their origin are far more interesting.
Ugh, forgot to share the link:
https://reverb.com/item/6503874-midiman-micromixer-18-18-cha...
I didn't really notice the skin tone, but immediately keyed in on the age and anatomy, since those are the things I've most often noticed being neglected when people depict human beings. No children, no elderly, no genitals seems to be the image of humanity we want.
>At to that the arguably best documentation I've ever had the pleasure to work with in any environment.

Documentation for everything was a lot better in the 70s.
Strange that Toyota were so early with the hybrid cars, the Prius came out over 20 years ago. But they are now behind with full BEV's. Hydrogen just hasn't got the momentum at the moment.
Toyota have traditionally built their reputation of quality by conservativly adopting new technology, especially when it comes to drivetrains.

I'm not aware of any Toyota vehicles sold in the U.K that have a turbocharger, except the Supra which shares the drivetrain, suspension, platform and some interior with the BMW Z4.

Heck, their Yaris GRMN uses the 1.8 supercharged engine that Toyota have been selling to Lotus for years.

I wonder how Toyota plan to transfer this to electric vehicles given how new the technology still is.
South Korean Android delivery apps leaking passwords and financial data
If you want good battery life, there is no alternative to the mobile notifications provided by the platform, because otherwise you have to always keep your own connection open to your server.
Other companies at least have some notion that they should be helping society or something like that, and occasionally they do. Oracle has a long track record of being evil.
you are correct, they seem to misunderstand. GDPR comes into play, any time a EU citizens data is being processed, for storage or identification.

if the server is in america, or France it doesn't matter. your data is protected by the GDPR policies.
For City driving or as a second car. A used Nissan Leaf is an incredible value, I'm saving about 200~250 a month in what I would have used in gas.
What's particular about these sensors? I've been researching technologies to monitor plant growth and haven't yet looked into CO2 sensors, hence my asking. Do they come in an IC package?
All creation has an ultimate source though, does it not? A point of singularity.

This source, or point of singularity, is what religious people refer to as 'God'.
This is how I interpreted it. It doesn't seem to patent a feature in as much as Swift itself.

This actually seems quite legitimate from a 'patentability' standpoint. The precise mix of features coupled with syntax would definitely be patentable under existing law.

This does make it risky to implement a competing compiler however.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/technology/george-soros-f...

They're not allowed to prove it. It's a scandal that they are even asking the question - someone was fired for it.
They're not placebos in all cases. They definitely work in one tall bank building I worked in in Canary Wharf.
I guess make sure you get your exercise in so you can handle a shovel, eh?
Lemonade already knows their l/r for q4. Welcome to software!
I'm also pretty sure I had it in C# before Swift was introduced.
> There are also complaints about Telegram's "weird" cryptography

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-shoul...
> Yes, but what if it's true?

Shorting a company and making public statements bashing it is both legal and common, so the answer there is "uh... nothing?"
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer.

I did try out Forth a little, much earlier, and had read some of the Starting Forth book - had bought the hardcover edition, it looked really good, including the cover - dark brown, either was leather or had a leather effect (more likely the latter). And I liked Leo's writing.
Will check out 8th at some time. The cross-platform GUI thing with tiny EXE's is a pro (Rebol and Red are similar, except not sure if Rebol supported EXEs, except maybe via 3rd-party tools), although not having good I/O and filesystem support is a con, since a lot of the stuff I do involves file I/O.

Still, it may be worth trying 8th out.
What does it mean to be religious? Is it simply belief or belief and action? I would argue that you aren't really religious unless you actually live by the code of the religion. That would mean a very strict sense of how to navigate the world and your interactions with others and yourself. How many people do this? In my experience - not many, and I don't think this is unique to Americans. Perhaps I'm way off but it seems like the world in the majority is often only pretending to be religious.
Getting sub 200ms on something like this benchmark is fairly easy [1]. While waiting for the color to change is different than processing a game like dota2 or sc2 a 200ms limit isn't too unreasonable to me.

I would love to see these AIs get handicapped even more like a full second and really force them to out think humans.

[1] https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
Judges don't typically fall for stuff like that. Just because you created something by using the fork process, the end result after your giant purge isn't recognizable as a fork of Swift.
>It likely exists because other candidates have got through the process but were not effective.

No, just someday someone decided to add this to interview process.
Very cool :)

On a much smaller scale, VPRI made part of their TCP stack by parsing ASCII diagrams of packet contents (e.g. see the STEPS reports at http://vpri.org/writings.php )

Edit: Ah, I see user nradov has already mentioned this in a sibling comment :)
Tip: If you feel the need to memorise these algorithms in order to get a job, then perhaps you'll struggle if they hired you.
This whole piece, and to be honest most of the comments here come from such a dark, authoritarian, arrogant perspective.

"lying to the plebs modifies their behavior very slightly in a good way or is it in a bad way?"

It's irrelevant, treat your fellow humans with some modicum of respect and dignity. Terry Pratchett's first rule of morality "don't treat people as if they're objects".

Anyone caught casually deceiving people for some tiny perceived benefit to either themselves or the people deserves a severe lesson in how "irrationally" angry people get when they're lied to.

You can save this page and the comments as an example to future generations of how the elites of this century had become morally bankrupt.
That does not work over arbitrary connections, especially not mobile ones: in many cases, long-running connections are terminated (either because a moving phone moved in the network and received a new address, or because a middlebox threw away state about a connection it hasn't seen traffic for in x minutes). If you shut the modem down, you also can not receive messages, so you can only use polling patterns anyways (at which point the benefit of e.g. Websockets is largely lost).

So in practice, you have to regularly send traffic down the connection, fully powering up the modem, and ideally that shouldn't happen for each app individually. Now one could imagine a system where the OS coordinates this and signals to apps that the system is going to transmit now, and that they should trigger their own requests, bundling them in the process, but that's not how the platforms work. Instead, the choosen method is to have central push services, which the phone OS polls and then distributes the messages to the apps.
I guess it's fair to assume that when we say "the conversation's participants" we explicitly mean everyone except the broker. I think it's important in this day and age to accept that the broker is now a conversation participant as well. Maybe we should look more into P2P messaging software.
If they did it for iMessage and Facetime they'd capture all chat traffic in America in a week. They'd risk losing the premium status of the iphone, but I think the real risk is they'd start a war with facebook and google. They'd be betting that google and facebook would keep their apps on the iphone if they invaded the android ecosystem. At least that's what I think. I'm not sure if Apple is ready to say all their applications are better then Google's yet.
> 640,000 patent applications were filed in fiscal 2018
> The agency had 12,579 employees -- including 8,185 patent examiners and 579 trademark examining lawyers

The number of patents filed is kind of mindboggling. I suppose that's still only 78 patents per examiner per year which doesn't sound so bad. But I can see why they're so backed up.
I think its worth goes beyond a mere interchange between the student and the education center. And I think the long-term benefits it brings to the places where it is heavily or completely provided by the state should trump the short-term benefits brought to those who speculate with it.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted, this sounds a like perfectly reasonable comment.
Nah, there's a simple explanation. Humaaans uses an artistic style of solid patches of color against a white background. Very light skin tones work terribly in this style because they disappear into the background.
Exactly. Metabolic changes take time.
Do people scroll past page one on YouTube results?
It's actually the least accurate light, and a straw man argument fabricated by you alone. The criticisms about the lack of diversity have nothing to do with race, neither explicitly nor implied.
If I had to guess it's probably not the $5/month as much as that it's an incremental offsite backup service designed and marketed for ease of use and high availability... not an Amazon Glacier competitor.

If you didn't plug a removable drive in for a month then this really isn't the market they're looking for.

I could be wrong but it seems at least as likely as the suggestion that they're just out to get you somehow.
with the GDPR, if you are a citizen of the EU then it doesn't matter if the server is in america.

"Do you process EU residents’ personal data? If you do, then the GDPR probably applies to you.

It doesn’t matter whether you are based in an EU state or not – if your company processes, stores or transmits personal data belonging to EU residents, then you will almost certainly be required to comply with it."

https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/does-the-gdpr-apply-to-m...

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this is air's GDPR's page, the fact that your account was able to be made on the america site is their fault and doesn't invalidate your data protection.

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/help/article/2273/i-am-an-airbnb-us...
Traditionally governments used to be responsible for such projects.
> All creation has an ultimate source though, does it not? A point of singularity.

This is an unsupported assertion. The current answer to "what came before the Big Bang" is "we're not sure, and we're not sure that's even the right terminology".

If everything needs a creator, that "singularity" has to have one, and its creator, and its creator, and so on and so forth for infinity.
Not sure I understand. Why can’t he short a stock and then talk about how bad the company is? Isn’t that the whole premise of short selling?
> It is not rational to "believe" that an object, a thing, a complex structure, can come into existence without being intelligently designed in some manner.

Would you describe a dolphin as a complex structure? It wasn't designed, it evolved through natural selection.

I suggest reading a short book titled "Why evolution is true", or "The blind watchmaker".
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> Nobody in the US is going to censor your email so that if you say something about Trump it gets magically deleted.

FaceBook does this sort of thing, except instead of deleting the post, they omit it from feeds, and immediately bury it in the historical archive part of the UI.

Example: A friend of mine’s brother died, and his only updates were about a scone or something. After hearing about the death through other channels, I had to click around for about five minutes (I don’t use Facebook much...) to find the touching post he wrote, and link to the / funeral arrangements.
I know all this, but this API doesn't meet that definition. As cruegge has linked the JMAP developers themselves don't consider their API REST. From the description it seems more like an RPC that's transaction oriented and for very good reasons.

The fact that this is a discussion though makes my point. By REST being only an achitecture style with very loose definitions makes it arguably fit for all different kinds of APIs which in turn has made the term useless over time. Maybe we could use a set of technical standards (like SOAP) for different common API implementation solutions within the bigger REST idea. Discussions like REST vs SOAP are like comparing OO and Haskell, one is a concept/pattern, another is a specific technology.
> I have met religious people that quite simply could not get out of bed without it, and as long as they don't become too dogmatic I see no issue with it.

Are you not concerned that these people might one day come to the conclusion that their religion isn't real and be left with no reason to get out of bed?
Ignoring efficiency concerns, modern mobile oses don't allow applications to keep connections open for long. If you want notifications to work, you need to use the platform notification system.

The platform argument is roughly that if they hold open one connection, it's cheaper than each app holding open their own connection. And maybe, if you're optimistic, the platform will be better at figuring out ping intervals for that connection that adapt to broken Nat devices per network (ie: on some networks, wake up once a minute to keep the connection active, and on reasonable networks wake up once every 30 minutes)
> The Deepmind team knows the challenge isn’t to beat humans at Starcraft. That is trivially easy with the advantages you mentioned.

It's not trivially easy at all. No one had come close before. It took an entire team of ML experts at Google to pull it off. These hard-coded micro bots you're referring to didn't holistically play the entire game and win at it. They're more akin to an aimbot in FPSes, not a self-learning general game-playing AI.

This is yet another in a long string of impressive AI achievements being minimized through moving the goalposts. It's facile and it's boring.
He died months ago, the OP is dated Sept 2018.
My understanding is, that the point is to make sure the users of the code don't have to care about patents. It's a license for the code, not for the patents.
Quaid told us to.
Don't know about grocery stores, but nearly all of the banks and credit unions that are most commonly used by govt workers offer zero or low-interest loans. Some will just automatically keep putting the normal direct deposit amount in the accounts, with the agreement that when the pay gets turned back on they get the money they advanced back. The article even mentions some of this.

It's been a relatively common thing for more than a decade that I know of.
Amazon Can’t Fix Facial Recognition
It looks like there is an unintended consequence of the Apache License 2.0 of allowing a company to patent some functionality, and the only way to acquire that patent is to keep your implementation as a close fork of the original derived work. The question is, whether or not the patent grant for just using swift (downloading and running it), can cover other development work that is not associated with swift. If not then Apache License 2.0 actually seems to paradoxically reinforce the situation it is trying to avoid by tying implementation and copyright directly to patents, thereby boosting patents as a way to squash other open source projects. Any comment by an Apache person would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds good to me. We're getting the government we deserve. If we're so incompetent we can't even choose a government that can keep the lights on, then we don't deserve to be able to compete with companies in other nations.
> I don't see any future where your gmails or SMSs are going to be sold to arbitrary 3rd parties so your 'future employers' can read them.

Doesn't Google read gmails? Doesn't Google have agreements with 3rd parties related to using information from those gmails? Is it hard to imagine that, as with Facebook, Google making that information directly available?
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How about Apple switching to a different patent holder friendly license for a future version of Swift? Older versions would be safe, but they could ask money to use the new ones. And maybe they decide who to go after first.
Move to XMPP. It's been around long enough to see it's not going anywhere, unlike the rest, and the modern server-client combos have all the needs - e2e encyption, message sync, etc - covered. It's also federated and you can run your own, but you don't have to.

You can start at, for example:

- https://account.conversations.im/ (8€/year)

- https://quicksy.im/ (free account)