skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who complain about turbines killing birds are almost inevitably not interested in any of the other big killers of birds: habitat loss, invasive species, domestic cats, collisions with glass buildings, and so on.
Civilization has done quite a bit. Violence, starvation, even predation used to be far more common issues.

Modern medicine and in many ways hygiene has removed many diseases like cholera, typhoid, smallpox, tuberculosis, and malaria from huge swaths of the global population. By one estimate Malaria alone has killed 50 Billion people throughout human history.
Because it is cheaper and 98% of the users don't think about it and don't care.
I imagine it'd be fairly easy to fuzz as well. Throw strings at it until the C++ and <other language> tools disagree
I used to run a server on Dalnet (then later on Espernet). Good times; nobody knew I was 15 so I learned a ton about programming from some smart people
More info on what that does: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
I'm a native English speaker, and so the reason for names like "if", "while", etc. were clear to me when learning. On the other hand, your experience learning programming was similar to mine learning to use a Unix-like OS. Although I do know their etymology as a bit of useless trivia, for the most part "cat", "grep", "vi", "diff", "sed", "dd", "df", "tar", and so on are just arbitrary symbols to me.
> What if all your search history were leaked? What if all your text messages were leaked? What if all your emails were leaked?

But I can directly go into all those things and delete at least my copies of them. Even with as many problems as Google and Facebook have, it's relatively straightforward to see the entire history of what I have on their sites and delete it.

> As usual, it's not that serious, and there isn't a problem here.

Quoth the article,

> Everything beyond that 10,000-message limit remains on Slack’s servers. So while those messages might seem out of sight and out of mind, they are all still indefinitely available to Slack, law enforcement and third-party hackers.

So I can't go back and check those on any free Slack server I post on.

And if someone decides to pay Slack for one of those servers, blam, any convo that got heated but that I forgot about is now visible to anyone with an axe to grind.

We've seen 10 year old tweets dredged up to go after people of all stripes, so this is certainly a thing that happens.
15 years of classic LAMP stack with specialization in platform optimisation and service architecture. Some years of work in Node. Very interested in Elixir and Go.

I've mostly worked in social network and ticketing industries.

Location: France
Remote: Yes, preferably
Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but everything is possible
Technologies: PHP, JS, MySql, Redis.
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Pardon the interruption ...
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UP42|Senior/Lead Backend Engineer|Berlin, Germany| Full Time|ONSITE|VISA|https://up42.com

We were born from the idea to democratize access to geospatial data.
Our developer platform opens up access to a variety of first-class geospatial data and processing power for the very first time. Here, you can pick and choose from a selection of off-the-shelf data and processing blocks.
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We are looking for a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer (m/f/x) to join our team in Berlin.
About you:
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what's more expensive ? beside the battery ?
Why port something that's working fine?
I've been in disagreements with SEO people quite frequently about a "Noindex" directive for robots.txt. There seem to be a bunch of articles that are sent to me every time I question its existence[0][1]. Google's own documentation says that noindex should be in the meta HTML but the SEO people seem to trust these shady sites more.

I haven't read through all of the code but it assuming this is actually what's running on Google's scrapers this section [2] seems to be pretty conclusive evidence to me that this Noindex thing is bullshit.

[0] https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/robots-txt-noin...

[1]https://www.stonetemple.com/does-google-respect-robots-txt-n...

[2] https://github.com/google/robotstxt/blob/59f3643d3a3ac88f613...
Search Engineer with Expertise in Distributed Search-based Systems Contractor or Full-Time

Description:

$110-140K/year
Fully remote position, hours flexible
Based within United States

We’re looking for a strong technical generalist experienced in building distributed search based systems. This role entails directly developing and deploying client projects as well as providing technical guidance and assistance to other engineers. You can learn more about Lincoln Network here https://joinlincoln.org/

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Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software with 1-2 collaborators.
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4+ years as a backend/full-stack developer (C++, Java, Python, Ruby)
Strong understanding of distributed search systems and their components (data ingestion, indexing, ranking algorithms, processing user queries, serving results)
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Familiar with scaling and load balancing concepts
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Thank You!
My favourite is that cancer and glucose are linked https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16892078 so removing glucose starves the cancer.
That is very funny!
It's a very minor fraud, if a product you purchase says it will do backups, but doesn't do them, then you were defrauded. I think you could sue for actual damages if you had them and be successful if it's in the documentation anywhere, or the system actively informed you that a backup was made. I'm in the UK, fwiw; I'd expect most English law systems to be broadly similar but IANAL.
To some degree? Certainly.

Although there is research that people perform measurably better on attractive gear. Aside from that, I believe around a third of all GitHub commits originate from macOS. Perhaps form and function often go hand in hand :)
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For mobile, I had a bouncer setup that would keep me up to date whenever someone would message or mention me. I could pull up AndChat and connect right up to all of my channels, I was never actually offline. I had an icon on my taskbar that would connect me to my VPN and pull up irssi. I see now that there is a cloud client for mobile called "IRC Cloud", it sounds like a one step setup kind of bouncer for someone that doesn't have an always online machine to run a bouncer on.

I really do miss using IRC all the time. My favorite server got taken down and I never bothered to find out where everyone ran off to.
In my country the government subsidies for electric vehicles are setup just the way other subsidies are, with the same effect in the end. Making the underlying product more expensive.

If the subsidy is amount X, sellers raise the price by X.
What I don’t get is that Minkes are not endangered (least concern), so I might go along with that, so why do they also target Brydes and Sei which don’t have healthy populations? That’s a bad move that will serve to embolden (rightly) people who are against whaling.
"airfare-level prices"? In Germany and Austria my experience was that flying was generally cheaper than the train, and sleeper trains more expensive still.

I'm on a (day) train between Berlin and Vienna this very minute and it costed me €99 (one way!) where as a flight would have been about €50.

You can get cheaper tickets if booking well in advance (months) but the same applies to budget airlines.
I always liked:

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws -- always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won’t be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" -- not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.
Honestly that statement is the nail on the head for me. There's a huge distinction between an output and an outcome and a huge distinction between a project plan and a road map.
I bet he can do that more effectively on his DIY build than a top of the line Mac Pro can. Hell, he can put a faster Xeon in for half of the price and already beat it on whatever the Xeon would beat an I7 in.
This may be a taboo take on systems like Slack and I know this will not be popular given the number of developers here, but I had to explain this to HR and it was not easy to convey these concepts in plain terms.

Slack itself is just a chat system. Ok, what's the risk? By design, people (the user base, or admins, up to each company) can integrate third party applications. The permissions system allows chat data to flow to these third parties without any logging or visibility by the Slack business customer. So in effect, each employee (depending on perms) may on behalf of their company, relay all chat messages to third parties that their company does not have a legally binding agreement and NDA with. This is the actual risk with Slack (the product, not the company).

So by design, employees can leak all the chats for all of the #public channels they are a member of and they won't even see it happening. Some companies choose to have admins review the third party applications and integration. "But they are #public, right?". People in a company don't assume that the public channels are really public in the sense that third parties outside of their company can see these messages. Employees may discuss very sensitive topics about their own customers that may not be appropriate to relay to extended parties that their company does not have mutually binding agreements and NDA's with.

When you run your own servers such as IRC, Mattermost, etc.., the chat admins know what third party servers (if any) they are linking to. This does not preclude an employee from relaying their own data through their workstation, but that can be addressed by edge DLP devices for monitoring or mitigation. Even then, the employee knows exactly what they are relaying.

When the chat system itself is a third party, and that third party allows relaying of user data, chat data to fourth parties, then by design, the system will always leak data. Slack does not alert members in a channel which bots are reading their messages real time and where that data is being stored and who is reading it and for what purpose. This also becomes a problem for data retention policies. The parties external to Slack may retain and use the data for as long as they wish, even if Slack purge data from a channel after a period of time. I see this as a legal quagmire.

In terms of leaking private messages, those are also stored so that an admin in a company may review them by request. This is only an issue if Slack's servers were compromised. That risk applies to both self hosted and third party chat servers, though Slack becomes a much more juicy target by having the private chats of many companies. This is similar to the risk of routing non-static content through Akamai. Akamai had employees caught selling sensitive data to other nations which highlights the risk of aggregating private data through one transit provider that can decrypt your data or see your data in plain text. This risk could be mitigated by having short data retention policies, however that is the opposite of what users expect. They expect their messages to be around forever.
Madwire | Software Engineer | Fort Collins, Colorado | ONSITE | https://madwire-1.workable.com/

We provides world-class digital marketing software and highly skilled professional marketing services through a single, powerful platform. We're currently building out version three of our flagship product, Marketing 360® and with that, looking to expand our software team.

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The mobile department strives to write clean code. We are currently looking to hire someone to take our existing iOS application, written in Swift, and own the process of converting it to Android with feature parity. We have designers to assist with UI/UX, perform code reviews for all code changes and expect tests for your work.

We're hiring for a lot of positions, two specific roles are:

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Don't get the downvote. I thought this was midly funny.
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Polly is one of the original Slack-first companies (started in 2014). We're well on our way to turning surveys from an HR tool to a productivity tool. Automation & integrations, combined with a unique set of features allow us to extend beyond HR and reach other parts of the organization. We support hundreds of paying organizations and close to a million users.

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This. The moratorium was supposed to be about not allowing the species to be driven to extinction. If that's not a risk anymore, exactly what is the problem?

Did these conservationists lie when they told us that this was all about protecting the existence of the species? It sure seems like it's really about eradicating a culture. We all know how well that has gone in the past. Maybe we should interpret future statements from these types of conservationists in light of this.
You can scroll your thumb along the spacebar to "aim" the cursor on android. I do like the knobs of android better than the zoom-and-select that iPhone does.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/27/elephant-smo...
Thanks to eneveu's googling a copy of the comment by the original GP is here :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046753
The problem is that if the developer gives an estimate, the manager might hold him accountable to it. If the developer can't even meet his own estimate, that proves to the manager that he's a bad developer. (He's not; he's just bad at estimating development time, as is everybody else.)

And that's what Scrum and story points are for: to help you make long term estimates once part of the work has been done. You use the feedback on how abstract story points turn out in practice, to get a rough long term estimate of how long the work is actually going to take. Without being so explicit that anyone can be held accountable to them.
I'm all for raising density, but cheap electric cars will happen a LOT faster than rebuilding all of America with higher density housing and infrastructure, besides the carbon emission that that refactoring entails. Cement and steel emit way more co2 than individual transport.
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In the UK corporate tax is payable on profits before dividends, so Apple (UK) paid corporate tax at a rate of 19% on that £13m dividend. That's about £2.5m.

The trick is that taxable profit is a quantity that can be 'optimised'.

A large international company like Apple is in fact many companies incorporated in many countries and as such they can 'move' profits to low tax jurisdictions by, e.g. having their Irish subsidiary provide services/goods to their subsidiary in the UK. That creates a cost for the UK company, whereby decreasing its profit and creates an income to the Irish company, whereby increasing its profit.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a great example of FUD.
Had integers wrapped in a class, yes.

> that overflow is as severe as memory bug in C/C++

In practice, it isn't. In many traditional compilers it has predictable behavior (two's complement wrapping), if we're not talking about floating-point overflow.

Some programs explicitly rely on it. Compiler support can be provided for those programs.

It's simply not in the same category as memory corruption bugs.

Of course, ISO C and C++ have just one category for undefined! However, note that "undefined behavior" is a formal term which extends over beneficial areas such as documented extensions and the use of third-party libraries and headers.
Heuristical keyword extraction for training GPT-2 to generate texts on keywords
'Semi-detached' can be used about the end unit of a long chain of terraced houses, so while a semi-detached can be part of a duplex, it might also not be.