skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense to me. I had the exact opposite experience. Growing up in Florida, everyone went to waffle houses on the weekends, and the only whataburger closed down and turned into some other chain restaurant. After living in Texas for a few years, the locals are fiercely loyal to whataburger, but I still don't share the enthusiasm. I assume it's more about being a part of your personal identity and childhood memories than it is really about food quality.
I’m moving into my later 50s and have been an IC basically my whole career. I’m at a company with a lot of people my age.

I was on the job market a few years ago and the only issue I encountered was salary. I think the problem is when you’ve been at a place a long time, if they appreciate your work, your annual salary increases will quickly bring you to the top of the market. As time goes on you’ll get a few percentages over the basic cost of living which over time really adds up. After 10 years your base pay can be pretty far above the market.
The talk of luck and how sometimes games fake it to make it seems fairer to the player reminds me of how certain games tweak their mechanics to make things easier on the player or feel more cinematic.

For example, in Bioshock 1, the enemies will always miss their first shot, whereas Assassin's Creed and Doom have the last part of the health bar actually take more shots/attacks to deplete to make it feel like players are winning by the skin of their teeth.

There's a whole list of examples here:

https://twitter.com/gaohmee/status/903510060197744640
> Other consumer electronics devices aren't built in factories that are any different or better than those of Foxconn. While it doesn't absolve Apple from taking some responsibility, RMS should have called for avoiding mobile devices altogether if he's so worried about personnel abuse.

And Apple seems to be the only company to be quite open about this and taking active steps to improve working conditions throughout the entire supply chain.
This is called whataboutism. This article is not about Amazon or Google. He likely has a similar opinion about those companies. But this is about Apple and the tax avoidance point is valid. (At least according to https://itep.org/fact-sheet-apple-and-tax-avoidance/ )
Technology carry its own intrinsic political and ethical weight.

Choosing a tech over another tech for technical reasons and ignoring other aspects is a political choice.
In the newer Mario Cart games, a person in last place has like an 80% chance to get a bullet bill power up which helps them catch up.
So

sort ≡ head ∘ sort ∘ permutations

I wonder if there is some neat (and totally useless) algorithm for sort using that info.
Blackmail is the contagion of corruption. It stretches the corruption like a fungi web through society- until it becomes to large to maintain or gets cut off from its food supply.

Its corruption growth that reveals most corruption. Thats why the sums usually grow so fast. Because the silence of the many, in this graph is so costly.
Could be an interesting project to collect & archive these case studies as they’re published...
Indeed, there's a whole list of them right at the start of the headlined article.
I've been talking about this for fans for quite some time. Battery-powered fans could be smaller, and thus achieve better runtime on the same battery, if they'd point right at the overheated worker.
Knoppix was instrumental to lower the barrier to entry for those curious about that whole new linux thing but scared to screw their windows installation.
Nice. For complex operations with reasonably sized data pypy would be a good choice.
+1 Richard

Sure, he is cherry picking examples, but there are a lot of examples to choose from.

I used mostly Linux at home for about 15 years, then switched to a decade of MacOS. My new laptop is a Linux laptop and I think I will go back to Linux as my main driver.

I am really conflicted about cellphones. I was unhappy with the crap ware preloaded on my Verizon Android phones. I am happier with a Verizon iPhone, as far as not having a lot of junk preinstalled. I am reading Cal Newport’s new book Digital Minimalism that is making me realize that I need to be more focused in how I spend any screen time.

I really like the iWatch and if/when it becomes possible to use one independently of an iPhone (now my iWatch with a data plan needs the phone for app installation and configuration) I would like to either ditch the phone or mostly keep it turned off.

Still, I differ from Richards opinions in that I think that Apple and Google do have some good privacy policies in place. I feel fairly OK using a personal G Suite account and Apple has a fairly good track record for privacy.
Choosing to have rivers exist is a separate choice. In a drought California could stop that flow to preserve reserves.

Instead they choose to spend some water having a river.
All ARPG's are massively relying on randomization for both map layouts, enemies and rewards. Weapons in FPS games have random accuracy. Same in RTS games. How about the random generated worlds of minecraft? Also sandbox games like SimCity and The Sims are full of random events.

You're massively overgeneralizing.
It's cool see these hashing algorithms coming out and excitement about building new libraries and adding them to existing ones, but we also need people gravitating them into an organized and useful project space.
After he murdered his wife they dropped it
Depends on the game.

In competitive multiplayer games, then sure, randomness is almost always disliked, and any form of luck mechanics are usually loathed by the fanbase. See for example how unpopular tripping was in Smash Bros Brawl, or how items tend not to be enabled in tournament play.

On the other hand, less competitive multiplayer games and single players can have randomness work well. Few complain about randomly generated levels in single player games (at least on a 'this is unpredictable' level, roguelikes are basically entirely random, many sandbox games have random systems of events that could happen at any time and party games tend to be heavily based on random mechanics overall.
I think this is more true for highly competitive games. Speedrunners are often found lamenting "RNG". Even in the physical world, the most contentious moments in sports arise from "bad calls" by the ref.
I wonder if we as tech creators can utilize these techniques to actually do good for the person, their life, and humanity as a whole, instead of begging for their attention in the virtual/simulated, could we help them with their real life goals?
I still routinely use Nomad-BSD for poking about of machines... and my FreeNAS boots from a USB stick.
YouTube actually agreed not to editorialize user uploaded content in exchange for protection from copyright laws.

So YouTube actually voluntarily surrendered the right many of you suppose it has in exchange for a privilege — if YouTube removed content that way, it becomes liable for any acts of commercial copyright infringement.
This advice may be the “right thing” to do by the team but may not be legally sound, depending on the OP’s contract with their employer. In fact it may not be legally sound even in the absence of a contract, depending on how a court interprets the implicit obligations between employer and employee. (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, of course. Just consult one before doing anything like this.)
That’s a self-refuting assertion. If lobbying works, why would it be so cheap? The economy has tons of competing interests—if they could get their way through lobbying, that should bid up the cost of “buying” politicians.

For example, Grover Norquist has no personal stake in keeping tax filing complicated (he doesn’t own stock in Intuit or H&R Block as far as I know). But he spends a lot of time on the issue for ideological reasons. You’re telling me that there’s not a billionaire Democrat who could throw $5 million a year at the tax issue for funsies? Or public unions who would benefit from simpler tax filing allowing taxes to be raised more easily? If it was just a matter of outspending Intuit and H&R Block, someone would do it. But I could give you $10 million a year (double what the tax companies spend) for this issue, and you would not be able to lobby tax simplification into law.
At first I thought this story was about Nethack.
In 1968, I enjoyed taking a physics course at Harvard Summer School that was taught by Dr. Albert Baez. He had a home in Cambridge and graciously invited the entire class over for a party after the course ended. The highlight of the evening was an impromptu performance by his daughter Joan.
I'm currently reading "The little prover". A really good book that explains this.

http://the-little-prover.github.io/
Except you’re forgetting public unions, which lobby extensively and would benefit if tax filing were simplified (allowing taxes to be raised more easily). If spending the money would get the result, they’d do it.
You seem to be simplifying things a bit too much. Apple doesn’t keep track of where your device has been. Your iPhone knows but it’s not being sent to Apple. Google has been shown to know this data even when you disable as many location services as you can.
>I’m not sure it’s fair to single out Apple specifically for this.

This article was about Apple, go on the top of the page and you can navigate to other companies complains.
I cant help comparing it to ancient stateful Java web apps which were a pain to use. What is different this time so that it can outdo the hard-won victory of stateless servers over stateful servers?

The apps I know were:

1. Freezes and needing a refresh/logout after the server-side "actor" or connection fails.

2. Refresh won't actually work, you need to login again.

3. Neither does back/forward, hence the big warnings not to hit back button, for example in a paginated list. Hitting back makes it freeze.

4. Extreme latency.

5. No shareable urls or hyperlinks possible, two tabs in same browser will sync with each other.
Many a PhD was rescued with Knoppix. So many people never made backups and so many shitty Dells died during the lifetime of so many of my cohort’s studies. Fortunately I was able to get their data back but nobody seemed to learn. This was around the time that external hard drives dropped to €1/GB and well before Dropbox.
Very impressive.

Does anybody use Prolog scripting engine as part of their applications? For example, to write a solution lookup function for some specific problem that would be a nightmare to solve otherwise.

As a side note, I found that Lisp (the Scheme flavor) is essential in many applications. First of all, as a small and capable templating engine. Secondly, as a sophisticated NLP (natural language processing) engine.
The Danish system is only super simple if you are a salaried employee. Once you run your own business it’s generally as difficult as the American system.
How many of them did you gave your private secrets?
Find out who the owner is and approach them outside of business hours (this one doesn't just apply to German businesses).

Businesses with foot traffic can become very busy during business hours. Therefore, employees won't have the time and patience for vendors trying to sell them something, even if that something potentially is tremendously helpful to them.

Finding out who the owner is usually is particularly easy with German businesses: If the business has a website just have a look at the company details (the legally required "Impressum"). If it doesn't - which unfortunately still is the case with some companies in those industries you mentioned - you can try looking up the company at the company register ("Handelsregister", https://www.handelsregister.de ). Only incorporated companies are listed there, however.

Many businesses of these kinds are branches of larger chains or franchise businesses. In that case, contacting procurement or ideally trying to reach the managing director / CEO of the mother company probably is a more conducive approach.

In terms of business culture both conversations in general and business practices in particular can appear to be more direct and formal than one might be used to from other cultures.

These resources might help with familiarising yourself with some cultural aspects of communication in a business context in Germany. I just had a cursory glimpse at them but from what I've read the information stated there seems to be correct. Keep in mind, though, that due to the influence from other cultures, particularly from the English-speaking world, conventions and practices today tend to be much more relaxed, especially with younger people:

https://businessculture.org/western-europe/business-culture-...

https://businessculture.org/western-europe/business-culture-...
People have been talking about gamifying productivity stuff for years now — Duolingo is one example.
It's foldr, not fold. That's what makes it consume absurd stack space, creating a stack of thunks of length (n-factorial-iterated-k-times, including the nested towers of folders inside each element) before it can use any laziness to shortcut the actual comparisons applied by `insert`.

It creates the whole monolithic expression
with all the parenthesis in pessimal positions, forcing all the comparisons in the wrong order (back to front, aka least-significant-bits first), which makes it impossible to use the short circuiting of lexicographical comparisons.
There are free public restrooms (at least in my country), which are equivalent of the soup kitchens in your example. What he's proposing though is to NEVER pay for the restroom, even if you can afford it - you should always look for free one instead. He hopes that this form of boycott, if it becomes popular enough, will convince toilet owners to not charge for the use. In the food context, it would mean always eating in soup kitchens in the hopes that food producers will give out food for free (or it will be 100% subsidized by government).

The only difference between universal food and universal toilets seems to be the cost - i.e. it would be much more affordable for government to supply free toilets than free food for everyone. In this view his argument makes sense - both the need to eat and the need to pee when in public are fundamental, so if we can take care of at least one of them (toilets), then it's still better than nothing.
I’ve worked in industrial production in the semiconductor industry and have friends who work building large housing projects, and I have to say that their example of “wouldn’t it be stupid if bidgebuilding was like software!?” Is a bad one. You get the exact same stupidities and inefficiencies everywhere else. People bikesheading over trivial design elements, forcing their specialties into each project and so on. It’s not a software specific thing.
As an outsider, I have absolutely no way to verify what you're saying is true. I'd like to think that they're not spying on me, but I have no evidence about anything they do because Apple is not transparent about anything they do.
How can you see this has been heavily flagged?
1. It does, but do you know what's easier? Not collecting that data unnecessarily in the first place.

2. He does call against mobile devices altogether (see the Cellular Phones section [1]).

3. A company can choose where to conduct business. RMS's opinion is that companies should not conduct business where the laws impose said company to routinely act in ways that are harmful to society.

4. "I know better than them (so I choose what to censor)" and "I do it because otherwise someone else will" are poor defenses from a moral standpoint. RMS is all about morality, not pragmatism. His stance is that bit by bit, slight compromises become landslides.

5. You are free to do as you please, just like RMS is free to disapprove of your support to apple ;)

[1] https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
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The essential question is "why do we think that every skilled job requires a four-year college degree?". It would be a peculiar coincidence if the vast majority of jobs required exactly the same amount of academic education. Why do so many people go on to do work that has little or nothing to do with their major?

Here in the UK, a large proportion of healthcare is delivered by healthcare professionals other than doctors. If I go to my GP (family doctor) with a minor ailment, I'm likely to be treated by a Nurse Practitioner, who may have a Master's degree in nursing or may have never attended college at all. If I have a minor surgery, the surgery might be performed by a Surgical Care Practitioner working under the supervision of a consultant surgeon.

Lambda School have conclusively shown that it doesn't take four years to make someone into an employable software developer. How many other job skills could be taught through a short bootcamp programme, intensive vocational training or on-the-job training?
Are you aware of the limitations of the methods you describe? If yes it is very dishonest to not mention them, if not you should get the details right(find out how can you share an iOS native app you made with your friends)
Chain Bear F1 on YouTube has great video from an incident last season which helps explain the floor setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUC2gDPiHEc
Depends on where you live etc.

Around here the branding is "økologisk" and based on what I read here I think it is quite a bit stricter than the US (but I only grew up on a farm, worked on farms and spent a few months in farming school. I haven't practiced farming for 20 years and I didn't specialize in ecologic farming.)
Why ClojureScript [lightning talk]
I recommend it. I don’t recommend following its system to the letter. But it teaches some techniques that are useful for making sure you’re focusing on the right things and for making sure important things don’t fall through the cracks.
327b React Hook that notifies you when GA or GTM is loaded in your Component
I haven’t tried compiling this myself, but gcc does different things with a -march=x flag compared to specifying -mavx2, directly, mostly because -march implies -mtune.

Trying -march=haswell might give closer results.

On the other hand, if using an older gcc and it can’t identify your processor, march=native will result in mtune=generic and much head scratching with results.
I have two questions about licenses that require distribution of source code (like GPL & AGPL).

1. Do they limit the freedom of the developer to keep source code private?

2. Do they make it harder to sustain a living wage through the labor of writing software?

I’m fully supportive of “attribution” licenses like MIT, BSD, Apache 2. But, I don’t think Stallman considers those “free software”.
Until one day you agree to an update....
In the early 2000 it was THE "tool" of choice for my IT support job.
I bought a laptop from System76 last fall and love it. I have been using Linux since Slackware was first available for download, and I have to say that buying hardware with Linux installed and tuned is great.
HAHAHA stop spreading lies.

Google uses chrome to spy on people.

Here's just a latest example (as with Stallman, you could say that I cherry pick examples, but I assure you I have many many examples like this)

At work, completely new computer, new OS. They gave me chrome by default.

One night late at the office I go on chrome, go on youtube to listen to ONE single song. Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfied. 40 minutes or something.

Fast forward a few weeks, same situation, I go on youtube, and all recommendations is Mike Oldfield stuff and other stuff from the same era. So far, all normal, yes? What's not normal, is the fact that I've since asked chrome to

- delete everything ever stored

- including all cookies

- I've enabled all privacy settings, including incognito,

- youtube no longer shows that I'm logged in (since I have no cookies),

and despite all this, whenever I go to youtube its recommendations are the same things: Tubular Bells and related. So it's still tracking me, even though I've asked it not to.

Now yes, I'm sure if I make a large enough effort I can fool youtube on chrome. But my point is that the fact that _they give you a "private" option that isn't really private to google is proof of dishonest intentions_.

Compare with Firefox. No one tracks anything with my special sauce settings (block ALL cookies, even first-party, and NoScript). If I temporarily disable NoScript for youtube, youtube doesn't show me Tubular Bells. But whenever I try "private" chrome, there it is.

How does chrome do it? To be honest I'm way past caring "how". Google has shown over and over again what they care about, and that's all I need to know. So PLEASE don't tell me google cares about privacy.

EDIT: Here's another one showing bad intentions. I just learned this this morning from my girlfriend's phone. She uses chrome on mobile. I told her to install ublock origin. She said she tried but didn't work. Guess what. I go to the store, where you'd normally find a green "installed" button with a big tick mark, you find "installed on desktop". Ok thanks google, but I don't want to install it on desktop, I want to install it ON THIS DEVICE I'M USING, and the fact that you show me a green button which is has clearly crafted to make me believe that ublock origin has been installed, is again proof of bad _intentions_. You're intentionally misleading, again.

EDIT2: on the front page right now: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2019/03/googles...

EDIT3: Mods could you clarify exactly what this post has wrong that it got flagged?
The biggest surprise for me is that there still exists german magazines that distribute dvd's with their print editions.
What Is XFN? Link Relationship (XFN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqhkDm2_Tw running on AMD Vega 56
Security/exploit resistence.
My edge 42 also can't handle it (freezes). Had to use ff (67, fine there)
Does that make teaching in groups fundamentally flawed (from perspective of anxiety) then, or how can we reduce this effect?
The last update to Telegram on iOS was two weeks ago. Is the rest of it worth reading if point #1 is wrong?

edit: This last page update was 2018 according to the copyright. The OP didn't put (2018) in the title.
Fox & Fake News. He's calling Fox fake news by association though.

Seems likely he's equally critical of MSNBC & Fox?

P.s. the tweets that I listed were the first bunch that showed up for me, didn't see a tweet above them (such as the one you mentioned).
Yeah, something I feel people (particularly who aren't in my normal tech-industry sphere) I hear discussing data privacy seem to think is that the data itself is being sold/shared with third parties. To be fair though, the concept of any sense of privacy from a service built on seemingly invading your privacy is a complex one to digest
RMS is an extremist, openly and unashamedly. He doesn't try to hide it, he tries to argue that his extremist position is the morally correct and long-term best for society though.

> from a personal bias he has against Apple. Many of the points he is specifically isolating for Apple are quite true of most of the big tech firms.

He bashes all big techs for most of those points too. See the links at the top where he complains about Airbnb, Amazon, Amtrak, Ancestry, Apple, Discord, Ebooks, Eventbrite, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Intel, LinkedIn, Lyft, Meetup, Microsoft, Netflix, Patreon, Pay Toilets, Skype, Slack, Spotify, Twitter, Uber and Wendy's.

If there are missing companies there it is probably because he didn't have the time, not because he does't want to complain about something regarding that specific company ;)
> But, I don’t think Stallman considers those “free software”.

He does, though they arent copyleft.