skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will let Boing pay for it in form of regular fees. Boing is essentially asking for approval.
> Why not invest in the poor/less fortunate and give them as much as we can give them?

It's hard to tell "less fortunate but a kind person that will be independent if given the chance" from "doesn't give a fuck and will take advantage of anything free/helpful in a destructive manner without any respect to others including those equally less fortunate or generous to him/her"

Society definitely creates the second type of people but I can't fault anyone for not wanting to put themselves in a position of vulnerability for the greater good of someone who won't appreciate it.
It sounds like they played every card right, and that's probably not by accident. I'd be fascinated to see a case study made out of this - especially with a breakdown of how they performed against their CSIRP - because there's no way they didn't tabletop that plan at some point, and it paid off in the end. Sort of like insurance, eh?
Concrete example:

I know gradle, and pretty well at that. I had to learn the basics of maven to develop a Jenkins plugin (at work). Developing jenkins plugins for a long time required using maven. Now there's the option for using gradle, but my recollection was that it was a sub-par experience.
I also want to mention that I didn't attribute the success of the US economy during the 19th century to the US Customary system (which is different than the Imperial System, btw). I said that the standard that was in place in America when the Industrial Revolution began was the US Customary system because the metric system was still in its infancy at the time and not widespread. By the time the metric system was established, widespread milling, machining, and lathing in the United States was all built around the US Customary system. There was already too much infrastructure to throw out over a marginal improvement. It's a simple economic problem. Does the cost of throwing out all the old machinery, equipment, fasteners, drawings, and tools justify the marginal benefits of switching to a decimal-based measurement system? So far, the market's answer has been no.
I find that the Etsy "Vintage" filter still works pretty well to show only true old/authentic items.

I love that it is a prominent, top-level control. eBay has nothing like it except for "new/used" Condition, which doesn't work nearly as well.

I still think that the filter I want the most is some AI to determine if product photos are "real". Fake backgrounds and generated images are sure signs of a mass-produced item that I'm NOT searching for. Even shots in a light-box are a bad sign. This could be done in a browser extension and I think would produce great results.
You didn't exactly say this, but Pizzagate was not a big joke. Like the Flat Earth Society, many of its originators may have thought of it as a joke or rhetorical exercise, but a lot of people got genuinely pulled into it.
Out of three, severance is not a government guaranteed thing. If he signed a contract before he was hired guaranteeing severance (which usually doesn’t happen) he could file a suit.

If he had his status changed from fired with cause to without cause, it would have made a difference in his unemployment. I do not believe that they could deny Cobra. Why would they? He would have to pay the full cost with no subsidy from the employer.
My experience as a past student and ta has been that courses with TAs have less dependence on the book, and problem sets are more likely written by the professor. A TA saves a prof vastly more work than using a book with canned problems, and the cost of writing problems is amortized in large classes. Smaller classes without TAs (which should ostensibly have better instruction) tend to fall into the textbook trap more often.
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Ironically Google behaves differently on their own products.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/andro...

Waiting for the patch to come to my devices...
EA certainly deserves their reputation, perhaps several times over.

That said, I also suspect they don't care. They make money off their properties, and as long as that is working for them, they can continue to have their jobs.
How long does it takes to get a O-1 Visa?
I think this is often overlooked.

In decades past single room occupancy housing was far more common. However they were seen as a blight to the city since it was mostly occupied by drug addicts and the poor. So cities and neighborhoods didn't complain once real estate started to take off and they began to be converted into more lucrative forms of housing.

Eliminating the cheapest of the cheap eliminated the lesser of two evils.
> Downloading an app should never be considered reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

Really?

1) You want to buy something illegal from me, I send you a play store link to an app that costs $800 and is a picture of a cat. You buy the app, I send you the illegal thing. If the feds find this out, and Alice and Bob and Carol also bought the app, don't you think that's probable cause?

2) Someone eventually figures out that an app seemed to have one purpose, but is covertly child porn.

3) An app is found to be a private communication mechanism for a terrorist cell.

Can you not imagine scenarios like this?
The first Linux distribution I remember using was Slackware on floppy disks, at a time when building a kernel was pretty much necessary to get a working system. A great learning experience, all in all.

However, the point I'd like to make is that it was clear back then just how much was contributed directly by the GNU project, and also how favored GNU's GPL was by developers who wanted to contribute their work.

GNU really did seem like it was everything that made the Linux kernel act and feel like a Unix system, though I had no proper appreciation of that at the time.
I wasn't really being specific, I was simply addressing the statement that housing prices are a 'free' market, which they aren't.

There are probably good zoning type regulations (things like controls on industrial activities) and there are certainly excessive building regulations. The classic problem of regulation is doing it right, not the question of doing it vs not doing it.
No idea, but here are some Android write-ups I grabbed:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/09/return-to-lib...

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/03/android-messa...

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-h...

Here's some about Chrome:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/11/breaking-chai...

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/10/did-man-with-...

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/04/virtually-unl...
Last time I wandered into an IKEA I wished there was a real escape rope item, like from the Pokemon games, to escape quickly.
By now, many of us have experienced an oddly targeted ad delivered to them after having a conversation. Facebook and Instagram deny it very publicly. Coincidentally there's an exploit that allows audio access to iOS devices after someone hits an infected webpage. I can imagine an ad company trying to use this kind of exploit.

But Apple PR says it's all okay. It must be true so don't even think about it. Those Google security researchers are probably just jealous.
That's a fantastic idea, and I haven't really heard of people who do bootcamp then CS. It would serve as a good motivator and also a way to weed out the people who really have no idea what they're getting into (as long as some good expectations can be set during the bootcamp).

Several people in my program wanted to do fun stuff like work with video games, which is totally fine! But they were not prepared for the not-so-fun linear algebra, Unix gruntwork, UML modeling and algorithm analysis involved in the course study. Sadly some people washed out, others cheated their way through it (neither of which is exclusive to CS students, to be sure). Seems like doing bootcamp first would give them a chance to decide not to go with CS and just start their career from there, or do something else altogether. Or like your cohort, discover that they just want to know more.

And yeah, nothing taught me how to work with people like working for tips–your livelihood literally depends on your figuring out how to make them happy! Or at least making them think they're happy :)
Delusions of grandeur? If you work your whole life doing all the things people tell you to, and do them well, and you expect some reward beyond a pat on the back, is this a delusion or a reasonable expectation? The one that wants to be a leader, but never will, because leadership character traits were conditioned out of him (or her) by a long process of socialization towards following and away from questioning, disobedience, independent observation and inquiry, in short all the attributes of leadership ... this one suffers from a delusion? Perhaps, but then can we blame him if every person in authority in his life has always told him he is doing everything well? How can this delusion be dissolved if the entire cultural heritage in which he is shaped encourages following rules as a chief virtue?
But can you post a profit next quarter, without gambling children?
Who would you say is an example of a "person who claims to have all of the answers"?
I don't understand where the confusion is with scp. It's just like cp, except you have a syntax for making some of the arguments remote. It doesn't change the order, it always does semantically the same thing of moving something(s) somewhere.

This is not to criticize - we all have places our mental models break down unexpectedly. I'm just interested in how that's happening.
It's trivially easy. You almost certainly have the stuff around your home. Take a piece of rope, spin it above your head. If the angle of the rope to the ground is less than 30 degrees you have at least 1g at the end of it.

There is a size limit, though--the required material strength scales linearly with the radius. Note that if you'll accept some fancy engineering this can be avoided: Instead of making it self-supporting you surround your station with a non-rotating ring. You can make it as thick as you need to provide the required strength. Wheels can't take the speeds involved, the connection will have to be magnetic levitation. Yes, this means maintenance but so long as you have an adequate safety margin you can power down and take apart any given piece for upkeep or even replacement. Just don't take apart too many at once.
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I have never seen a rental property where this was the standard. What you've actually just described is one of the best reasons to buy: As long as you pay your mortgage and property taxes and don't have an HOA, basically nobody is going to bother you.
For me the absence of coverage, or low coverage, is a useful piece of information. It's not the whole story but it is a smell, and it should be taken into consideration with the other smells/signals

Conversely perfect or high coverage is not a positive signal per se, but rather just the absence of a negative signal
It is enumerable, but I think what you may have missed is that negative numbers are included. i.e.,

> 42 = (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
My memory aid is "link file as linkname".
This is great but the premise seems kind of straw man. I don’t know a single developer that thinks “googling stuff means you’re not a proper engineer.”

Perhaps this is a reference to the interviewing process. Tests are a different thing, though. I’ve been on practical technical screens where you can google, because the test was about building a larger system, and they don’t care if you don’t remember this or that API syntax. But at the same time I get if you’re trying to assess someone’s aptitude for devising novel algorithms, sometimes a closed book test makes sense.

I think there are many devs (myself included earlier in my career) that push back in the algorithm tests because, well, it’s really hard. How often do you have to derive novel algos? A lot of our work is kind of UI frontends to DBs or gluing things and most of the sort of hard scalable algorithm problems someone else has implemented in a library. So why go through 6 months of really hard study, just to get that kind of job?

Well, I think here should be “maker” roles where you can bypass the hard CS stuff and just crank code, if you have an impressive portfolio of work. But having a deep understanding of data structures (not just arrays and maps) and algorithms really gives you a mastery of your craft, especially around performance and scalability.

Nobody should be screened out because they didn’t remember a particular bit of syntax though. (But it should be noted most algo tests don’t require anything but the language basics.)
The FAA and EASA have very different operating models, so budgets are not comparable. FAA certification efforts are tax-payer funded, whereas EASA’s efforts are funded by industry in a pay-for-service model.
> I believe apps don't fall under ITAR.

Looks like they do.

The scopes this app works for are digital scopes, and don't use traditional intensifier tubes. I'm not sure enough of the technical specs to know if the night vision component meets the ITAR requirements, but the ballistic calculator certainly does: https://www.atncorp.com/x-sight2-hd-day-night-rifle-scope-3-...

Find what I believe to be the relevant ITAR sections that would classify the app as a "munition" below this line:

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Category XII:

(c) Imaging systems or end items, as follows:

[...]

(c)(2) Weapon sights (i.e., with a reticle) or aiming or imaging systems (e.g., clip-on), specially designed to mount to a weapon or to withstand weapon shock or recoil, with or without an integrated viewer or display, and also incorporating or specially designed to incorporate any of the following:

[...]

(c)(2)(iii) Ballistic computing electronics for adjusting the aim point display; or

[...]

(x) Commodities, software, and technology subject to the EAR (see §120.42 of this subchapter) used in or with defense articles controlled in this category.
You mean let go NASA scientists?
Good point. Completely for many eyes reasons. Nearly everything in a plane has a backup. Why not do 2 independent analyses of the systems?

The timeline for a new plane is already measured in years. Another 6 months can't be that bad, right?
> When Google approached us, we were already in the process of fixing the exploited bugs.

If Apple already knew about the flaw, then why did they never notify those affected?
Right, probably. No one knows who else might have used it, though.

What's kind of sad is that this story was not used to enlighten the general population on how exactly the modern information security works (which can be reduced to "nothing is secure").
Is this a recent policy? "Thoughts on Flash" was undersigned by Steve Jobs himself.
Pity that they miss Android bugs.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/andro...
That's not how copyright works. All unauthorized copies are infringing. In the US the only exceptions are "fair use" and home audio recordings. Neither of which apply when selling things owned by another party.
*202 never to be executed
Unless you want it restored in which case they'll undelete it for you. It's good design to provide an undo option after all.
I had a friend who was super excited to have his second child, because he'd be able to reuse the knowledge he had picked up with the first one. Then he discovered that his kids were polar opposites - he had to start over from square one.
I'm biased, but found these to be interesting reads. We'll see as the cases play out though.
https://fitsmallbusiness.com/how-much-does-facebook-advertis...

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/7/17087468/facebook-ad-prices-inc...
FWIW, it's free.
Good question.

The answer to that is almost certainly "it depends on your DB". Most query planners should be smart enough to not try to write anything, but some are smarter than others. For example, SQL Server (if I'm understanding right) does perform a log write even if it should be obvious that the value won't change: https://www.sql.kiwi/2010/08/the-impact-of-non-updating-upda...

That being said, I'd skeptical of the performance impact (if any) being all that significant; even in a worst-case scenario of "yeah, it's going to stupidly write every field every time", the columns for each row should be pretty close together both in-memory and on-disk, so unless you're writing a whole bunch of giant strings or something at once (and even then) there shouldn't be a whole lot of seeking happening.

tl;dr: assuming there's a minor performance impact is reasonable, but it should probably be measured before trying to optimize it away.
Height? Are you sure that if you control for height you can explain away the entire effect? I think there might be a little more to it than that.
And yet, UI menus are one of the things that always break, and break right in front of the user ("I can't click this button. This is greyed out and it shouldn't be.") Menus should definitely be tested, and I think testing them in an automated way is fine. Without a working UI, you have no control.

You can even do model based testing.

For example, you're testing a word processor. You know that your state is no document. Then you click the open file button. Press some other buttons, and knowing what button it is, you should expect some change.

That being said, usually you can "press" the buttons virtually, for example sending window messages or calling the same functions as the buttons wire up to, rather than knowing the pixel layout.

People have been doing these things for years.
I would probably organize it like a big game of infection tag. You start with one or a few people who are tagged, but each person who's found becomes tagged as well, and becomes a searcher. When you find somebody, you scan a QR code on their phone (or on a race bib that everybody pins to their clothes). A trivial database on your phone tells you who was found last, how many are left, etc.
This is such a meme comment, some white dude on the internet thinks he knows better than everybody, what gives?

I'm curious how white people reacted when this song dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
Your H1B is your work authorization. You can keep your place in the green card line if you switch after your i140 is approved. If yo switch before that you apply for PERM and i140 again.
@proberts could you share some resources on visa/immigration (and related gotchas) that would be helpful for folks on H1B planning to start their own startup.
This is why we have tools like coveralls.

Also, this method doesn't show when you remove excluded code or add coverage for it. In a perfect world you should have no excluded code, and in a perfect world you should have 100% coverage.

World isn't perfect though, and a good working product with critical features is better than one lacking important features but with '100%' coverage.
I just assume that already goes on. I find the amount of money going into advertising quite amazing. What part of that is just government(s) collecting data?
Interesting to hear, thank you for the information.
Near side[1]. Specifically south polar region of the moon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2#cite_ref-Rishito...
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100% of what? Oh... line coverage, in Python.

Well, with Python, the compiler doesn't do type checking, so 100% coverage (or close) is very important. One of his cases of "what do you not need to check" is error-handling. Yet, having something in production that should raise an exception that gets handled versus having the exception blow up and crash the system is a critical system stability defect. And in fact, in my personal code, since I tend to try to create exception messages that are as specific as possible, I must admit with chagrin that screwing up a ''.join() to create the exception message is one of my most common errors. I at least touch-test my exception code, without exception.

And then... line coverage? Oh my, that is just the beginning. I pretty much always use the hypothesis package so that everything get exercised with a large variety of inputs. Inputs that I didn't have to think up, and avoid my pre-existing biases of what might get thrown at the function.

Line coverage does do much to really ensure that you have reached "interesting conditions". I wish Python had a good tool for that kind of instrumentation. Line coverage is really only a "touch-test" and mainly useful as a check-in gate, not as production testing.
There are some clever tips here how to remember. Ages ago I struggled too so for half a day I just kept repeating the words "ln target linkname" in my head. Anyone else?
You only need to enumerate pairs of integers, the 3rd is then forced (quickly check if it's a cube).
A bunch of childish young adults inconvenience a bunch of shoppers and employees at a big box store and the police for no good reason.
It’s a shame, used to read so much on medium but now I just read the hackernews comments.
Plausible, but then the bit about the cart is superfluous information. Might as well say, "Someone dropped a box an inch from my foot."

I don't know the story-telling skills of GGP so your guess is as good as mine.
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So they got the police to play as well? /s
Have maintain physical presence since ~1990.

There are no record of my crossing to the best of my knowledge.

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How does a person without a facebook account accomplish this though? Even without an account it’s likely that fb has several dozens of photos of me via other people’s posts.
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My mistake. I jumped to a bad conclusion. Your statement made sense in context.
> The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community

Is this new information or did we already know this? If it's new, this is very interesting. It's well known that China is doing everything it can to harm the Uighur community, which would imply a state sponsored attack.

Making a slight logical leap, it makes me think that China took some iPhones that were in various states of construction so they could discover these exploits. Given that the iPhones are made in China, it is not much of a leap to assume they have effectively unfettered access to the same things that the factories do.

I wonder, is there iOs source code access from the Chinese factories? Does this mean the Chinese government has access to "test" iPhones? Lots of interesting questions here.