skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better answer is, that you get to decouple the functionality of your application's business logic from the web portion. This is achieved trivially purely by applying disciplined coding standards. Removing the web dependency makes the code much much easier to write automated tests for, and it gives a sane development path when making minor or major changes to feature sets.
Can't confirm here on latest chrome.
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> However, in at least a few cases, Boladian assigned the copyrights to Bridgeport by writing a contract and then faking Clinton's signature (as described here).

If that is what happened, couldn't Clinton sue Boladian and Bridgeport for signature forgery? Otherwise, what would stop someone from faking Boladian's signature on an agreement to transfer ownership to another entity?
So what you mean to say is that the EU politicians will show backbone, respect their principles and reject a potential of new power over a new state in order to safeguard European law ?

That'll be a first.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitut...

These are the people that have not even mentioned the situation in Turkey. Hell, they haven't even stopped treaty negotiations about Turkey joining the EU.
Consider alternatives such as e.g. Mark Shuttleworth unilaterally commanding technology no-one else ends up using.
Has anyone else tried duplicating some simple tests?

Ping google and netflix while connected to a verizon network.
Repeat on a network with a different provider, see if the speeds are proportional, or if there is a larger % decrease for netflix than for google when on the verizon network.

I know this doesn't explicitly prove anything, but if several people all get this result that starts to compile more evidence.
Fighting Closed with Open
I don't understand this also. Isn't CORS a server thing? I have used CORS, but still don't understand this.
A quote: "As described by psychologist Don Hamachek in a 1978 study, there are two strains of perfectionism: normal and neurotic."

Who doesn't see that this is the usual psychology bullshit, "disease-mongering" as the British say, and worse, that it burdens the very personality type it describes.

First, there is no such thing as abnormal behavior -- this psychological falsehood contradicts evolution by natural selection, a scientific theory in which all behavior is normal. Second, by labeling perfectionism abnormal, psychologists hope to attract perfectionists, who self-evidently care whether their behavior is or is not normal.

But only a particular kind of perfectionist -- the kind who know nothing about science, who think psychology is a science, and who lack the insight to understand which aspect of their personality psychologists are exploiting.
It's actually the opposite of the "bus nonsense" and actually the concerns are valid.

In SV, poor(er) people complain about too many rich(er) people coming in.

When it comes to immigration, rich(er) people are afraid of too many poor(er) people coming in.

Also they are not removing freedom of movement, they put a limit on rate.

Which is something U.S. has been doing for decades and nothing bad really happened because of that.

In addition, the math for Switzerland is much different.

It's hard to change demographics of 300 million country by letting in a few hundred thousand immigrants.

According to the article, already 25% of 8 million Swiss are foreigners. That would be a pretty alarming number if you were native Swiss. If the current trend continues (80 thousand immigrants per year), that would be 50% in ~25 years.

Let's also not ignore the real danger of ethnic-based or religious-based conflict, like Bosnian War.
Can confirm, is thoroughly addictive. Well done.
Where I work everyone gets a desktop in the office and a laptop to keep at home. I can literally throw on a jacket and go to work - no bags, not even anything in my pockets.

It's glorious. I've done the whole "schlepping the laptop everywhere" thing before. It sucks, the author is right. It's not just the weight, it's the unplugging, plugging in, oh-no-the-monitor-didnt-quite-detect-right bullshit dance.

Where is the fulfillment of the cloud dream? I can leave the office, come home, open my work laptop, and pick up right where I left off. This is the promise of the cloud, but very few people seem to be able to enjoy it.
I'm ignorant as to how BTC exchanges work. Is there a market maker providing liquidity or do the exchanges take inventory themselves? Any info for this would be appreciated. Insofar as uneducated guesses go, I suspect they are facing a "bank run" liquidity crisis based on them taking inventory and not having the capital to accommodate withdrawals.
Don't do that, do something no one has ever done.
It's great realizing, when reading a 35 year old polemic, that the chief issue with its criticisms was that it allocated WAY too little probability space to the outcome "worse than even we think it will be." For example, the debate in the article is between optimists who think the shuttle will hit 70 flights a year and pessimists who said 20. Nobody had their money on "four."

The article also describes Challenger and Columbia in chilling detail in advance. Quote: "The plan is, you die."
Please, could someone who can fix up titles correct the capitalization? Not "Tex" but "TeX".

Strictly, the letters are tau-epsilon-chi. And, as Knuth puts it, "when you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist". (Like the "ch" in "loch".) See, e.g., the currently-highest-rated answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-cor... .
Range voting is also vulnerable to strategic voting.
I see these from some co-workers as well, but honestly, I carry my car keys, my wallet and a cell phone (a stupid dumbphone even). I leave my work at work, and at home I have my machine for whatever.

I see +90% of the people on my commute (I drive but then cycle for 5 miles) carrying huge backpacks or messenger bags and for the life of me, I don't understand why they do it.
What do you mean? People are still writing sample-based music.
Well but... we all know that.
With that I mean that we know what EU treat are before we sign it. Once signed, obviously, we must not trash it expecting that nothing will happen.

And, in this specific case, we can not trash a part of a treat hoping the rest will be still accepted without problems, that is not the way contracts work.
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1) Bad social economic factors arise from bringing in a lot of immigrants and paying them "below water level".

Also leaving them to their own devices.

I don't know if that is the case with Switzerland but there is just so much immigrants you can integrate and so much discount work you can get from them before you begin to rip the social fabric of the country; And this is happening in some countries, they push too hard.

So, limiting immigration to some realistic amount seems to be the right thing. Of course this applies less to educated professionals from similar cultures and more to cheap labor.
Another idea: preload all links of every page.
The point of bringing up Arrow's theorem is to debunk people who claim that certain voting systems are "more democratic" or "better" in some objective sense. What they should be saying is that they prefer a certain voting system because they value certain attributes of voting systems over others.
BTW, weight is also the enemy of airplanes, which is why you don't see airliners ever flying around without a full load of passengers or freight (i.e. PAYload) on them. Only governments can afford to fly them empty.

But it's a hundred, a thousand times worse with rockets.
They don't have to explicitly promote this.

Honestly, getting people fed up with Netflix (not realizing that Verizon is at fault) and then deciding to go with an actually TV package (with a discount for bundling it with internet, no less) might be the goal here.

That, or the goal is simply to hurt Netflix, which approaches the same end from the side of the provider, not the consumer.
This is excellent. In my opinion, computer science oriented people interested in AI should study brains as well - it's a totally different approach to the problem.
I think her point was that we can't magically transform random person x, at the age of 22, into a hacker. Not that it can't happen at all, but also that it can't be forced. At least, that's how I chose to take the paragraph. Rarely when someone says "this doesn't happen", they mean it is impossible. Just unlikely.

If I've spent the last 10 years being interested in computers, it is unlikely that at the age of 22 I'm going to walk into a mechanic and decide then and there that I'm going to work on cars for the rest of my life. Does it happen though? Definitely. Is it common? Doubt it.
Back when I worked for a company that supplied crapware for preinstallation, I was given the impression that Dell and the other hardware supplies do lots of testing of their hardware/software configuration but in the most dumb-shit kind of way. The whole configuration is more or less treated like bucket chemistry - if you can get the desired combination to work, that's what you specify and exactly why it works or doesn't work won't be investigated.

The thing about this is that such behavior makes sense when the suppliers are integrators of the product of twenty or fifty or however many suppliers spread around the globe all relentless trying to cut costs (including cutting corners in implementing whatever spec their chips are supposed to satisfy). The integration itself naturally involves putting together the cheapest stuff and seeing-if/hoping-that it will work. So when you have such a fragile chain of elements, just blank-refusing to allow substitutes makes sense in this rather twisted view. Maybe Windows Media Player fails to call the parts of the API that are "bad" and not documented as bad.

Obviously, I'm not saying this approach is justified, simply that sometimes the irrationality is "sincere".
You seem to be missing the point.

The point is that sample-based music can (and should) still be an original work.

This "sample troll" (nothing to do with patents, btw) is unethically stifling creativity in the music industry. That's bad for everyone.
I have a problem with all the apps/sites that promise you that you can learn a new language: They are mostly vocabulary trainers, not language trainers.

Simply learning some vocabularies doesn't cut it, a language consists of much more. For example in duolingo: While I learned some vocabularies, I have no idea how to create a sentence or if there are rules for the accents in spanish etc.
Comcast has rolled out IPv6 en-masse. I have IPv6 using their service.
I don't know, a week of lost sleep seems like a pretty cheap price to pay for not growing up into the average "TV shows gory pictures of terrorists blowing up something? I now have PTSD and will vote for any measure that you say will make it less likely that my sensitive eyes are exposed to such revolting material again" member of the American electorate.

I was left to roam the internet freely starting around age 10, saw my fair share of liveleak-style material, lost some sleep over it and grew up into what I like to believe to be a fairly well-adjusted adult who can only shake his head at the sort of things people in his generation experience irrationality-inducing terror over.
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> The debate is around "benefit tourism" - people travelling to other countries to claim welfare benefits.

No it's not. It's about North African immigrants creating completely exclusive communities using violence. Or at least, it is in Brussels. It is about the creation of oppressive communities fraught with crime, sexual inequality, enormous hatred of anyone not entirely like them in the middle of nearly all European countries.

Visit Brussels. Make sure to arrive through the "gare du nord", and walk around the building (warning: quite a walk, don't take too much money with you). You will understand in 30 minutes what's going on.
Given the location of this particular business, in the middle a neighborhood densely populated by hip and wealthy show-business professionals, it's quite possible that the whoever is running it knows exactly what they're doing legally.

Odds are quite heavy it's some sort of art project / prank.
"Any course on crypto needs to address both algorithms in the abstract and the particularities of how they're implemented in the real world."

I disagree. There is a rich theory of cryptography that is entirely abstract, for which the low-level details are an irrelevant distraction. Even the AES finalists, which were designed with low-level concerns in mind, are described abstractly and can be implemented at a high level (I have an implementation of Serpent in Common Lisp, for example -- no messing around with low-level details, just a functionally correct block cipher). Within the crypto research community there are people who work on high-level languages suitable for cryptography implementation:

http://www.charm-crypto.com/Main.html

To be fair, there is also an enormous body of work on implementing cryptosystems in the real world -- at least enough to have an entire course dedicated to the topic. If anything, we should really have two courses: an introductory course that covers the theory of cryptography, and a cryptography engineering course that deals with real-world implementations.
While it is likely true that most laptop speakers are crap, overdriving the power amp or any condition that causes clipping even at lower volumes can lead to cracked voicecoils which in turn produce distorted sound. In the old days we just used to push in on a driver and you could easily feel the broken voicecoil. clipping = death
Hi Kettle, meet Pot.
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Not if they never find out that there exist things called "barbies". We never introduced our girls to barbies or anything -- only cars, legos, etc. etc. and they're more than happy with them.

I think barbies dolls should be outright banned. Why're we teaching our children to worry about their looks at such a young age? That's what barbie dolls are -- "pretty woman", woman with obnoxiously pretty dresses, lipsticks, etc. etc. Why're we normalizing that kind of behavior for children?
Given that (in aggregate) startups are phenomenally successful, looks like the Swiss made the right decision.
"So you’re not going to take a cow or a sheep or a probably not a silk worm or a tree to Mars."

Even though we'll have 3D printers that generate wood, I still want to plant trees on Mars.
@cdman Just a heads up - you're email isn't in your profile
Not to mention that the original authors of the sampled music will not receive any money from this. This is simply an abuse of the copyright system.
How do I actually send a contact request?
Why didn't you use the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method method? I'm not grokking the essential difference with yours.
Oh please.

Here we have yet another brogrammer crying his mantears whilst trying to attempt satire (which he failed).

It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you're misogynistic and you are misogynistic. It's that simple.
Debunking falsehoods especially on the internet requires quite a bit more work than the initial (shallow) statements. It's basically a losing battle.

But mind you, I wasn't the one who downvoted him.
It is not false in the context of the web being built on free software. The GPL is meant to prevent a situation where free software is used to create proprietary software that denies its users their freedom. In the case of web companies modifying free software and presenting their modified software to users as a web app, that is exactly what happens, and it is only because of a loophole that it does happen. The Affero GPL was created to address this particular loophole.
The upstream is GPL + CLA. From a Debian perspective that's something of a non-starter. You could fork it, but then you're in the same position as you would be with systemd.

Moreover systemd has defined a bunch of stable interfaces; one could choose to expose equivalent interfaces in the HURD rather than port. Upstart seems to be in the "implementation = interface" camp.
I don't often see this opinion, but I think the Impossibility Theorem is over-rated. It doesn't state you can't build a "perfect voting system". It states that you can't build a voting system that will always conform to the different criteria that Arrow chose for the theorem. But it doesn't attempt to prove or justify that those four criteria are absolutely required for a "perfect voting system".

"Independence Of Irrelevant Alternatives" is thought to be particularly problematic. There definitely are thought experiments that demonstrate that IIA is not as desirable a criteria (to rule out a voting system) as you would want. If a voting ballot runs afoul of IIA, it can point more to a confused voting population than a flawed voting method.

For instance, the Condorcet Criterion runs afoul of IIA. The Condorcet Criterion states that if a candidate would beat every other candidate one-on-one, that candidate would be the winner. Apparently it is possible to introduce additional candidates (that don't change the relative rankings between pre-existing candidates) such that a Smith Set is instead produced. However, it is not possible to introduce additional candidates such that a different Condorcet Winner is produced.

But let's think about what that says. A Smith Set is not a problem in itself. It means an indecisive or conflicted voting population. It is interesting that additional candidates can expose a conflicted voting population, a confusion that actually already was there; just covered up by the lack of candidates. In other words, if IIA changes a result from a Condorcet Winner to a Smith Set, it is an indication that the population was not given enough choice in the original ballot.

In that sense, IIA is actually useful, and not a flaw. It does not point out a flaw with the Condorcet voting mechanism; it points out a flaw with the limited choice of candidates (and time to research/understand those candidates) for that vote.

This is part of the problem with voting theory, is that they make unwarranted theoretical assumptions, such that a vote will always offer sufficient choice to a voting population. At any rate, I believe IIA is a flawed criterion, and therefore the Impossibility Theorem, while true, is less useful than it is celebrated to be.
You have a good point. OP was trying to show how to pursue computer science by understanding the meaning behind programming. But he deviated it to the software engineering which is a different scope to chase for.

If you like to pursue computer science, you spend your time on improving algorithms, improving compilers, improving language and improving operating systems. When you like to pursue a different direction to write software applications, you focus more on the latter part OP mentioned.

There is no absolute line between the two. Understanding better in the low level will always help, especially for the new programmers. That's why we had the principle courses in colleges.
Just out of curiosity, how hard is it to create fake coins if a vendor is not checking for confirmations at all?
You're worrying about the wrong things. The problem here is not the pay of heart surgeons and neonatologists, the problem is with insurance companies, our healthcare system, etc. etc. Focus directly on fixing those issues, large salaries for surgeons is only a red herring.

But large incomes for people like Zuck is a problem. That makes no sense to me.
so i lack empathy because i think an article that primarily uses empathy can be manipulative? classy...
When you get to the end it lists keybinds for each contact option.
Sure, if you consider it "fine" that upstart is too broken to reliably run a reasonably standard and fairly important daemon in native mode.
This is great information - and I'd love to know which speaker manufacturers you approve of. I'd rather own an expensive set of desktop speakers that lasts ten years than deal with Dell parts breaking all the time.
It has to be said though that young girls are still significantly discouraged from computers far more often than young boys.

The systematic misogyny starts from the family. But instead of addressing that, the writer of this article just waves it away as if feminism is some straw-boogey-woman who is "taking over" the IT field.
This is touched on in the article, but the problem is that the artists dont benefit from this. It reveals a fundamental problem with the music industry. The creative people are often taken advantage of and have their royalty rights stripped from them when they are "young and naive" about the music business. The top 5-10% of artists usually find a way to renegotiate once they are a proven profit center, but the artists that do just well enough to keep a deal and dont have their publishing rights end up bankrupt and screwed should their work prove to be "classic".
I'd suggest just nuking the entirety of that computer from orbit. "Uninstalling" malware is not worth the risk/effort.
… to learn a bunch of words you mean?

For playful language learning there is https://www.duolingo.com. It's waaaay ahead.

(Edit: up to ~A2 level by only messing about with the app ahead)
The deeper problem with the shuttle is that we need to bring the astronauts back because we sent them to space, and we sent them to space to do a mission, and that mission is to go to space. There is absolutely nothing a human can do in space that a machine can't do better, except die.
Most of the comments here are armchair analytics.