skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that google presents you with a false choice.

They COULD contribute their changes to AOSP, AND include them in a separate app, but choose not to.
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Nice hidden feature! Cheers.
Most students get taught cutting edge technology and approach and that is always a few years ahead (less than it used too be) and with that are completely lost once they go into the real World. A system that exposes the student with reality so that they can understand the good reasons for bad choices with all that go with it then they have less attitude.

Thus you avoid, new people fresh out of education telling people they need to drop there old system and redo it and bookabibble-C as it is just the greatest for things that in reality are never used in the company.

I left edication as a COBOL programmer and could code lovely Jackson Structured Programs, totaly unaware of the GO TO verb even existed in COBOL, could do lovely variable writes with PIC X OCCURS DEPENDING and yet reality was use GO TO it is the site standard and faster code. Luckly I was young enough to not argue and learned the reasons behind it, though I only did a intense 2 year corse at college and no univercity. Had I went further before I entered employment then my attitude would of been more of an issue for me.

With that you can look at education as a drug, if left without any grounding work experience then the reality of what they see and what is needed can go adrift. That and a 5 minute fix could be charged as many thousands of income and a 5 hours fix can be charged at pennies, customer perception and with that another aspect we all learn. With that the best engineers can and do often make the worst people to put a value upon their work. Though that is another level.
U of T is equally brutal.
I'm not sure how you can conclude it doesn't place the network at risk. If you have computer on a secure network, then simultaneously attach it to a non-secure network... well, that's pretty much the definition of a compromised node that can't be trusted any more. You have no way of knowing what kinds of data may be getting leaked in or out based on author's assertion of browsing facebook. For that matter, neither you nor the admins have any way of knowing if the USB device itself is infected.

We also don't know the author's competence and ability to use sane judgement.

And that's really the point of those kinds of policies. The admins don't know the author's ability to use sane judgement. In some environments this ok (my current job places no such restrictions). In other environments it is not - you wouldn't believe how locked down we were when I worked in financial services.

So the rules are designed for lowest common denominator. Of course if you ask any individual if he should be exempted from the rules, he will say yes - of course! And will have a perfectly valid reason.

In a similar fashion if you ask any person if he is a good driver, he will also say yes, of course!
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That's really interesting. I learned something - thanks!
"... #12 [does] not make sense. Shouldn't a subtraction sentence have a subtraction symbol in it?"

I have a kid who went through this curriculum, and yes, a subtraction sentence needs a "-" sign in it. The idea of a "related subtraction sentence" is a standard thing in this curriculum. I think #12 is the worst question on the test, because it is flat-out wrong.

Like I wrote elsewhere, I'm ok with "number sentence" because of the parallel with regular sentences. It gets the kids familiar with the idea that the math is making assertions.

I TA'd several undergrad engineering classes (at a top-10 engineering school) and you'd be surprised how many students did not use the equal sign in their work. They would write one expression down, and then another under it, and another beside that one, etc., but without equal signs, it's just babbling.
Alligator clip.
Ouch sorry too hear that, what would be a more realistic price for the States with sales TAX etc on average?
You apparently have no fucking clue why some people come to the U.S. The overprivileged assumptions so many Americans make are just completely out of touch with what goes on in many parts of the world. There are plenty of people not eating who would be happy to work hard so they live better than that.
That can't be true. I used to run OpenBSD on a netbook and I'm pretty you can just dd the cdrom image onto a usb stick and boot that.
Competition is good but for app development it's becoming too much. Android and iOS and WP and maybe Firefox OS? Who can handle developing four versions of an app? There's been a lot of debate on native vs web based on performance. But web may become the only reasonable way to release an app on all platforms.
Yes. If we're talking Roman numerals, MM would be 2000, just like XX is 20 -- not 100. This notation makes no sense to me either.
I don't want a service, I want a protocol.
> Common core curriculum (in CA, not NY, but they seem to be similar), but not Pearson tests.

Yeah, the whole point is that if both states are implementing common core they should be the same. If you look at the NY Common Core standard it's a word for word match with what is posted on achievethecore.org and commoncore.org. Where the differences lie is in the curriculums that each state, and even each school district within a state, choose to buy and then how the schools implement it. I'm seeing some schools being extremely strict and enforcing scripted curriculum on teachers such as that provided by Success for All and other schools allowing teachers leeway to teach how they feel is best for their class each year so long as it's consistent across the grade level (all teachers teaching the same concepts at the same times).

> I do have a problem with the attention her district pays to testing, but not really with the curriculum per se.

Has California, or specifically your school district, implemented performance based pay or bonuses? That's in a trial run here and there have already been complaints about increases in test focus at the schools in the trial. A big part of the performance evaluation is based on test scores.

edit: I should note that there's the common core standards and then common core curriculums. The curriculums should be compliant with the standards but aren't the same thing. So NY and CA should both be adhering to the same standard while they are free to use different curriculum (and almost certainly do from district to district).
ETS also makes students do a co-op after only one term and considering that 90%+ of the students there come from a CEGEP degree (technical degree) and have already completed 2 co-op terms, I can safely say that UW isn't alone.
I love hotels (specifically, Starwood and Inter-Continental, especially in Asia), and spend about 50-100 nights/year in hotels.

I infrequently use VRBO to rent a house somewhere without great hotels (and have tried AirBnB but outside SF, never worked out really well), but otherwise, the hotel experience is basically awesome for me. There is one set of tweaks I'd like to do (maybe to make a brand-within-a-brand for Westin or something), where guests get a standard network config in any room once they sign in, with MFC device in-room, VoIP phone, their own wifi settings, etc.), but otherwise it's awesome.

Being able to basically trust an international 5-star hotel to have a certain level of physical security and functionality (or to be able to add it) even in a place like Myanmar or Pakistan is great.

Being able to show up at 0200 and reliably know there will be people to check me in, that my stuff won't get stolen, that I can leave luggage and equipment, that a meeting with ~16 people won't be a problem with short notice, that the building meets basic fire safety, ...

The crappy hotels like Motel 6 or Super 8, sure, suck, but I avoid those.
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Eloquent Javascript <http://eloquentjavascript.net>.

These two are a great start.
Unless pg is right, and this will actually hurt aap's share price. And pg is not always wrong.
It's inevitable to link to this now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

It's Tom Lehrer, about 50 years ago, explaining subtraction in the context of the "new" math (the base-8 stuff starts at 2:40). Worth a listen.
Oh, don't pretend you haven't become fabulously wealthy with all those 4chan passes.

How many of those do you sell, anyway (if you don't mind me asking)?
I don't want to be cynical but when I read small token of appreciation, I thought it would be something more than just branded stuff from the company. You could argue that all they could send was LinkedIn marketing material but it just rubs me the wrong way when companies put out their branded trinkets as "gifts".

Please just give me the money. I'll decide which companies I will do free advertising for.
Thanks for the tip. I updated the instructions.
The Montreal office is on Ste-Catherine, near Place Ville-Marie. Afaik they work on Chrome.
Must have had your console set to base 19 :)
A. We are not all conservative, we are risk managers. That is not the same. In this case, the risk is low.
As for "allow a client", i think you are confused. Lawyers analyze and assess risk and legal implications. We tell this to the client. The client gets the final say, and makes business decisions. If you live in a world where you need a lawyer's permission to "expose yourself like this", i suggest you run :)

B. Yes. A lot, at least in the US (other countries, more questionable). The general principle you are looking for is "legal estoppel". You don't get to promise people they can use something, and then try to stop them legally when they do.
This is true whether it's patents or contracts.
While most deals of the patent cases deal with sales, the case law is fairly clear on this exact point (IE that unless you explicitly disclaim an implied license, you won't get to give something to someone to use and then claim using it violates your patents). It just would be legal estoppel for a different reason other than sale.
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I'm not sure why he assumes the entire virus would be implemented in BIOS, as opposed to injecting code into the OS when it loads code of the disk during boot. Still kinda out there, though.
ChromeOS is owned by the public, Gmail is not, Gmail is a ChromeOS app. Android AOSP != Gmail. It doesn't make any sense for apps that have deep ties into server-side Google infrastructure to be part of the OS, they are apps.

Do you consider Chromium browser open source even if the majority of the apps you use on the Web everyday aren't?

Android being open source has obviously benefited the public. Just ask Cyanogen.
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While I can sympathize, the Nexus line's promise has always been shifting... Vanilla Android and timely updates were what Google were pushing for the GNex, but these days it seems to mostly be serving as vague mid-range price pressure? The only real common thread for the phones seem to be that they were primarily Google dev devices.

And while it might have been an implicit promise, sadly, I don't think long-term support (or any customer support, really) was ever much in the cards.

FWIW my Google devices (from G1 on) have all eventually migrated to CyanogenMod, where they've run better than they ever did on stock. While CM isn't rushing to 4.4 (the plan is to land 10.2/4.3 before starting work on 10.3/4.4), updates have always lasted longer than I've wanted to keep using the devices. (if you have a GNex, give CM10.2 a try. It blew my hair back. Felt like a brand new phone.)

To me, having unlocked bootloaders is a bigger selling point than stock updates...

I won't be upgrading to the Nexus 5 mainly because I don't really see much improvement over my Nexus 4 w/ CM 10.2 - I have unlocked LTE that works great w/ T-Mobile where I am, it runs quick/smoothly enough, and well, the camera apparently is still bad on the Nexus 5... (that's what the 5s is for)
Cupertino already is fairly high-density, at least downtown. And I don't think anyone suggested bulldozing anything, just allowing people to build what they want, which they currently have a very hard time doing.
And to this day, most FPUs I've worked with don't support gradual underflow in hardware. They can only get 754 compliance with OS assistance.
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There are lots of ways to bribe, and most of them are legal.
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Usually its been my experience that when a company is looking at letting you go, any excuse will do.

In terms of the Director of IT position, there isn't much that can be done when outside management comes in. It's usually at the top that people bring their own team in.

With the second position and the USB wireless incident, I would say that you need to look at what led to the firing. I find it very hard to believe that a company would just fire someone without their already being an agenda for it. Did you do this before? Did you try to circumvent security before this in other ways? Were you getting along with the team? Were there issues of fit? Did you feel you were being productive? All these questions exist and should be answered.

It's very likely that you were on the chopping block and the company was waiting to get you out the door. It may have worked very nicely for them that you give them a nice easy rational for firing you without having them to pull the trigger.

It's been my experience that when a company is ready to fire you or lay you off, the time you come in the morning, when you leave, how long your lunch breaks are, etc. all become sticking points. When they find their "reason" the official company policy is used to do the deed.

So I would suggest some deep introspection to see outside yourself. If you can't do this, try to find someone in the company that will talk to you.
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How to be a wolf.
"I want to believe"
It's probably not as big of a deal as you think. If you're piloting an app, you're probably going to stick to just Android for rapid development or perhaps iOS for the larger market share in certain categories. Eventually if you get big enough to justify supporting multiple platforms, you should be able to get enough staff to support them all individually.

If you're building for all platforms with no indication that your product is of high value, then this might be even beneficial for developer focus on finding product market fit.
> It seems like the issue you're referring to is specific to the 30" models.

I never said any differently.
Why do people always want to quit their jobs BEFORE starting their own business?
what languages do you guys use primarily?
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Here is a recent Firefox crash which, after some heroic debugging, appears to be an AMD CPU bug involving a CPU race condition "after a not-taken branch that ends on the last byte of an aligned quad-word"! The gory debugging details:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772330#c21
Would you hire someone who learned to code on Codecademy?

I'm interested to hear what everyone thinks. Will Codecademy be able to "connect people learning on the site with opportunities that fit their skill sets?"
And if you want to have a lengthy conversation with CS majors at Waterloo, bring up Jobmine. Jobmine is healthcare.gov of UW.
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And here's my pet peeve:

"He called me and, in his broken English and my (extremely) broken Japanese, we argued. I finally said, "just let me send you a 30-line test program that makes it happen when you wiggle the controller." He relented. This would be a waste of time, he assured me, and he was extremely busy with a new project, but he would oblige because we were a very important developer for Sony. I cleaned up my little test program and sent it over."

Really? Being humble doesn't hurt.

At the same time I love when a smug face melts with a concrete proof and "I told you so". Save face and be a little more humble.
That is correct on both counts.
It's a great idea, but it faces the small problem of solving nothing if all the participants get trolled, which they likely will.
Xamarin or competitors might be a good way to handle different platforms for your app.
Because I'm selfish. I'm an American, my countrymen are hungry, homeless, and cant find jobs, in a country that is not well accommodating for the poor. I hardly think I can be blamed for wanted to help my countrymen first.
Honestly speaking I've used the website a lot, but only recently I started thinking why doesn't the founder take it to the next level? It's an amazing website!
personally I think the only way of stopping the trolls is to insist that the only litigant who has standing to bring suit on a patent is someone who:

a. Has the relevant patent

b. Is producing a product based on that patent which would be harmed by the alleged infringement

This would continue to protect actual inventors who actually make something (and the drug companies for whom the patent system really does work) but stop the trolls.
Unfortunately, you appear to be a minority.

Look, it's all well and good to say "I'm 1337! I use Mutt, or I use Links!". But let's be honest, the majority of people are not going to use a text mode web browser or a text mode email client.

And this isn't something you're born with, like a vision impairment, so people need to make a website accessible for you. This is a personal preference.

Hence, as much as some of us neckbeards might like to go back to a works where 256 colours was the bomb =), the rest of the world has moved on.
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An early stage human rights start-up (the founder has just spent five years at another human rights startup which he helped setup and is now a market leader) in East London (still in the fun garage shed stage!), is looking for a mobile app developer or CTO. (Also people with associated skills such as LAMP, UI/UX, HTML5, etc would be great)

The start-up focuses on addressing a significant gap in the security of human rights organisations, journalists and activists - through the use of a web and mobile application. It builds on years of cutting-edge security operations in this field.

With the product features and business plan nearly complete we are looking for the right person to bring us to the next technical stage. Ideally you will be in London but remote working is also a possibility.

Interested? Drop a mail to secfirstmd@gmail.com
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An internet search will give me many different choices of documentation of unknown provenance, authorship, official status, datedness, accuracy, and comprehensibility.

True. But the documentation for GNU programs, both man and info, is often also "of unknown provenance, authorship, datedness, accuracy, and comprehensibility." You even said yourself that the man pages for many of these GNU programs are years out of date on some systems. Official status is not guaranteed either, since anyone can fork an open source program and produce a clone.

Somehow, despite all that, we manage to muddle on. Probably, it's because we're humans, with the ability to filter out bad information and incomprehensible explanations, and find the real information. And in my experience, this is much easier to do with a man page, which usually simply gets to the point, than with a long, meandering info page which treats me like an idiot and yet often fails to mention vital information.

Thank you for the clarification that info pages can support images. Since I have only ever used info in a terminal, I was not aware of this.

In a lot of ways, info reminds me of Microsoft's CHM format, another HTML workalike with limited abilities. CHM can also support images.

Web usage may be monitored, but I suspect that searching for information about open source programs won't reveal anything about me that downloading Linux did not.
s/Mid-Market/Tenderloin

Also, the only reason are the HUGE tax cuts the companies get:

... a city tax incentive that largely exempts them from city payroll taxes if they relocate to the Mid-Market ...
A house for 40,000 usd? Thats cheap...
Can I just say that I love your attitude? A borderline unhealthy sense of self deprecation and just 'doing it' because you can - qualities I wish more tech people had.
> You've clearly got a bit of a nanny mentality about this.

How is espousing that the right to swing a fist ends at another's nose "nanny mentality"? An apartment is in a shared property structure, with rules contracted into voluntarily, and in close proximity to the property of others. Insurance is offered as a contractual arrangement. No-one is forcing you to buy an apartment, but if you do so on the basis of a legal agreement around how you will use it with the co-owners of the building, breaching it justifiably attracts sanctions.
More likely they did it only for financial reasons.
Short answer? Yes.
It has nothing to do with Codecademy though, it has to do with the fact that they were ambitious enough and had the drive to learn to code, and pursue it via some means (in this case, Codecademy). That speaks volumes.
Of course they'd be put through the same screening as anyone else applying for the role, so it's not like you're hiring someone that does not have the appropriate skillset for the job.
so it's optimistic disclosure? assume that the vendor will respond responsibly.
yes, (early 90's for me), I wondered if anyone else remembered this. Also played another variant of this with a subset of C when at varsity.
What happened to all the seedy people?
Not one that does any good when you don't have a house, or food in your belly.
I don't like the "river of news, most current at the top" UI, but I did use iGoogle's "bunch of boxes with headlines, spread around in a bunch of columns" approach, do you guys have that as an option? Looks more like Google Reader replacement than iGoogle.
As Martin points out elsewhere, the only reason KDE supports Windows is because QT does and it therefore requires almost no effort.
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The real problem here IMO is that the focus is on the investors and making a product that will attracted such.

There's something fundamentally wrong with the approach when the major focus is on something else than earning money.

I know, I've been there too.

loop "Build something you can sell. Find a customer. Send a bill. Get money."
They're doing something very similar here in Seattle. I don't know the vacancy rate, but they're moving into the Century Square building, which is at 3rd and Pike, which as any Seattleite knows, is one of the shadier blocks downtown, and has been resistant to being cleaned up.

Street View of the building: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=century+square&data=!...