skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you have addressed all the concerns in the article. You say

>4. This law will allow some kids to have a normal metabolism and a normal life. Nothing more. Nothing less.

But the objection of Dr. Morrow is that the procedure may have risks for the children involved (and their children also). Whenever there are risks as well as benefits, there needs to be a discussion as to what is ethical.
If you have 3D data instead of 2D rasters, you can not only apply the same filtering techniques but also use the Fourier transform to do volume rendering! https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fourier/Levoy_GI92_Volu...
The concern is more to do with other apps reading the Barclays app's private data on the phone, which is possible if the other app has root permissions. Without root permissions, the Barclays app data is safe and only readable by itself. In its app data, it is storing some sort of token that can be used to perform actions as the user, and it's only protected by a 5-digit PIN. So, if other apps were able to extract this data, they could brute-force the PIN offline and gain access to the user's account.
The point in the article was to remove as many apps as possible, particularly the cat picture ones.
Consider that many organizational structures are designed to get maximum benefit from most employees - and, almost by definition, most employees are average. HR, for example, exists partly if not primarily to 1) identify those in the bottom fraction (whatever that fraction is) and make them harmless as painlessly as possible (this might mean getting them out the door or it might mean shunting to a position where the {harm, value, cost} equation works out adequately well; 2) identifying those in the middle and retaining them as cheaply as possible, possibly with non-financial incentives appealing to affiliation motives, sloganeering, etc.; and 3) to identify the crème-de-la-crème, the wolves, the going-places-and-will-rock-it-along-the-way, etc., and tailoring incentives, including compensation, for these.

I'd go so far as to say that most managers (not all, and not the best ones, but most) will attempt to game HR into forcing their misfits into the bottom fraction (these could be potentially stellar performers who don't fit with the manager) and will attempt to convince everyone that they have stars when they don't, because it makes them look good.

The managers and executives who want the top percentile players recognize that they have to fight HR to make the right things happen, because often HR, like all other organizations, is filled with average players who recognize those whose performance is below theirs and cannot fathom those whose performance is above - they see only the bared teeth, the feral eyes, and assume the wolf must be culled.

They do not recognize its value.

(Yeah, OK, this meandered a bit. Honestly, I'm too lazy to write it well, so I'm going for metaphorical effect. But you might know what I mean....)
The reason I'm writing is that I'm helping to put together a conference on [a particular topic].

Really does need the personal pronoun, and the usage in subsequent sentences may just be the author continuing to write in the same "style".
If a "higher status" person and sees problems, they're going to tend to be direct and say "There are problems here."

If a "lower status" person has to tell someone there are problems, using "I think" softens it and sounds less like an order, which would be weird coming from low-to-high status.
The Good Samaritans law, which is enacted in varying forms across Europe and North America seems to be making it's way into Chinese provinces, Shenzhen being the first this year.
So is creating ransomware.
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Good point. However, those are simply examples of the researchers own email. They were not the basis of the study.
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I think a lot of the simpler filtering is understood just fine in spatial domain. It's just that a lot of the filtering isn't even taught in that context either.

Hell, a lot of what is called 'filtering' in the instagram sense doesn't even touch frequency domain - they're global manipulation of color balance, contrast and levels.

There's certainly space for improvement - it would certainly be nice to expose the underlying frequency domain components when manipulating filters, but I really think that you've overstated the level of lack of cohesion in Photoshop terminology, especially as a case for major UI changes.

And certainly, anyone who -has- knowledge of Fourier methods will also understand that by its very nature, spatial formulations of filters are every bit as legitimate as frequency domain formulations. Which one you should use should be based on whatever is more convenient. A nice box/circle blur is certainly easier to reason about than its frequency domain counterpart.
I can see that being the first question any dev would ask.

Also who offers support for a 1 usd app?
Hey Niklas.

Interesting service. I can see this being useful for people who use public transportation every day. But I drive to work. So I guess it's not for me then.
> ... as usual ...

If you wonder why people don't listen to you, phrasing like this comes across as condescending, and that you have some sort of belief that Richard Stallman is infallible.
One user of my website, a girl that one morning decided that it was very clever to undress on cam got a guy that kept on mailing her bosses, her family and so on. It caused no end of trouble. Your bosses are essentially blaming the victim, it's a real pity that understanding of these matters is limited until you are typically hit by it yourself.

The fact that they assign any value to this at all is certainly worrisome.

If you send me an email privately (jacques@mattheij.com) with what information you currently have on the guy then I may be able to give you a hand (no promises though).
So? The world of GATTACA seemed pretty awesome. Everyone was smart and fit and healthy and good-looking.

In fact, life was so perfect that the writers had to postulate the existence of non-genetically-engineered people in order to have any drama at all. "Wouldn't it suck if you were born into this society without any genetic enhancement?" the movie asks. And the answer is: yeah, so you should genetically engineer your children.
A countries citizens concerned with what happens their own country? Shocking!
That's great fun.

Back in the day, I got my hands on an old B&W workstation monitor. At the time, it was comparatively large, and very sharp, but it only had a single coax connection on the back, which accepted a signal with embedded timing information. I had to make an adapter with a couple of transistors (to do a timing pulldown) and resistors (to mix the colour channels) and write a custom X display mode line, but it enabled a random old second graphics card to drive it as a second monitor.
In practice it hasn't really been much of a manageability problem at any of the (reasonably large) companies whose servers I've maintained. There are perhaps five or six mission-critical packages that need to be kept up, and since we only support two target distributions, the order of complexity is quite small.

The key is to define your constraints clearly and not to deviate from them unless you have to.
I love minimalism, but I see having self-control as a better option than spending 500$ in a device you are not going to allow yourself to use.
I remember the same thing happening to me in France - an homeless man, inebriated, but not conscious, that can not be awakened, and with an open wound, in the stairways of a subway station.

Just like you, the ambulance personnel was angry at me for calling them on what was obviously a drunk bum.

I was so disgusted I left after making sure they would take care of the patient (and not just leave).

I am a MD, and unlike them I would not pretend I can make an accurate diagnosis just by look and smell.

Saying the loss of consciousness is due to alcohol just because of the smell is a wild guess - if you have a seizure while drinking some hard liquor, you may end up soaked in it, and smelling like a drunk.

The clothing of the person can be used as a Bayesian prior, and indicated that it is likely to be alcohol intoxication, but even then, the open wound could have been sustained during the fall (and indicate other potential damages, like broken bones?) or could mean something else (aggression?).

Even if we are 100% sure it's "just a drunken bum" without any other injury, acute alcohol poisoning is a medical emergency and can be fatal. When the person can not be awaked, how do you exclude that diagnosis???

Obviously some people don't want to do their job and think they are so clever they figured everything out.

The place of that person was in a hospital, to at least be under visual surveillance until some basic test are run - at least blood alcohol level.
"One IPv6 /64 per customer" works just as well, no?
Ah, great!
Don't get me wrong--learning to code is a great intellectual exercise.

But the cynic in me questions whether a lot of the push to integrate coding into school/society is about diluting the software programmer field.

It's no secret that programmers command extremely high salaries, relative to their level of education. By increasing the number of people who can code, the value of the (average) programmer goes down.
Use of words on AngelList, with frequency counts
It would, unfortunately, tie package management to a particular filesystem.

As an optional item, I like it; letting it connect to zfs, btrfs, LVM, or what-have-you on a plugin basis seems plausible.
I agree that mitoTALENs look promising, as does some early work on delivering RNA to mitochondria so that the necessary proteins get made even in the absence of genes. That said, I'd have said the same about exploiting mechanisms in leishmania [1] to deliver useful molecules to mitochondria if you'd asked me five years ago. That line of work seems to be in the doldrums too at this point, not much progress to be seen.

The most promising sign is the metasign - that we can compare and contrast so many different approaches, and complain because some are not getting more attention. Yet overall things are happening.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5798/471
Xamarin Forms is really new. Xamarin Android(Accessing native Apis via C#) is quite stable.
I actually did the exact opposite, I made sure that I'm very easy to connect to the community to deflect all attention from those doing the actual moderation. I'm also known as someone who will happily sue you for every penny you've got and I tend to win so the jerks and jackasses tend to tread a little more careful around me. I wished that extended to the users of the website though, who on occasion do very silly things and make themselves identifieable in many ways.

They don't usually realize the consequences (even if warned) until it is too late.

But as a website operator I'd always make sure to attach both my corporate and personal identity with the service.

Why appear like a scam when you're not?
I don't know how often they fail, but I will say that the failures that I hope I never see again (or at least, I hope I never see again outside of a ZFS system) are not drive failures, but those involving intermittent disk controller or backplane faults. In comparison to the chaos I've seen this cause on NTFS systems, ZFS copes astonishingly well.
Problem is that such "absolute" statements are often frowned upon around here, e.g. people who consider their personal opinions as universal viewpoints.
According to Pennebaker status is negotiated at the beginning of a new interaction when the perceived status of the participants is unclear. The frequency of the filler words mark the status/role that has been adopted by the participants. Which is clearly marked in the email examples given.

The article does not imply that this is a learned skill, since the whole theory is based on function words which are accessible at even the most basic proficiency of a language. It is merely describing what happens to our language when we enter a social interaction.

Note the words used aren't necessarily important but rather the function of the words are, i.e are they referencing social objects ( the role of pronouns) or referencing concrete or abstract non-social objects.
There. Is. No. 11. MB. dependency.

And even if there was, it wouldn't matter because it would be done once and then deployed directly on the development device.

Really, can we just stop making stuff up?
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I was working as on a corporate dev team that hit a goldmine at one point, causing management to freak out and go on a hiring spree. They brought at least three wolves on board within a period of a couple months. One of them reminded me of the portrayal of Kameto Kuroshima in the 1970 film "Tora Tora Tora". He would think and think for hours on end, then he'd emerge from his cubicle (all sweaty and dramatic) with a Plan. At that point everything had to change because everyone knew his experience levels blew us all away. When he attended meetings, it was like he was five steps ahead of everybody else, and later I realized that it was because the meetings were usually called as a result of something he decided should change. I could easily see most of the people above him being fired if this guy ever got pissed.

One of the other wolves was an experienced college professor who was brought in as a team lead, but who for all intents and purposes was an SVP in the organizational hierarchy. He was financially independent at a fairly young age and basically gave inspirational speeches and CS lectures instead of meetings. We were all freshmen to this guy, and he was light years ahead of our experience levels.

I liked these wolves, if that's what they were--they gave me hope that somewhere an executive was really freaked out about making the right call at a critical time.
Adding 30% to the price and selling the thing to 27 countries all having a different tax policy in the name of "languages" (wait, I thought salaries were not at issue) or "taxes" (wait, vat is different in every country, and nowhere it is 30%), do you think it's worth anything more than simplistic analysis? Do you think anything more than simplistic thinking leads to changing the dollar sign to the euro sign?
This.

Nothing will replace my Synology and the amount of services it gives me.

I already have two that backup each other. Best purchase of the year :)
Yep. I've been using it on my desktop for a long time and my laptop for even longer.

The primary reason for my comment to the OP was to remind him that there are at least three Docker storage systems, and that two of them don't have any substantial performance impact.
All good points!

I'm curious why you chose to downvote rather than reply and advise?

I'm not trying to bait you, just trying to understand.

(Full disclosure: I think this is another flaw in the whole downvote concept - it provides us a way to make us feel we have registered a contrary opinion without requiring that we take the time to offer - and, if necessarily, defend - the counter thought. There have been quite a few times I've started a reply only to abandon it when I realized what I was signing on for. My thoughts are not so important I feel the need to register them at any cost. Of course, there have been a few times when I have blazed along righteously only to regret a few minutes later, and have been noticeable in my absence from subsequent discussion. But those aren't quite as frequent. I hope.)
How dangerous this prediction can be? I can't stop thinking of java-backended real money, poorly written, gaming websites.
I was left wondering if, in an inception kind of way, she made the story about that happening in her personal life up as a hook to get a lot of readers to read the vice article. After all she talks in the story about how incorporating a thread of pain or humanity helps the students who she ghostwrites for to get the reader of their applications to like them. Couldn't she be using the same tactic with a made-up story about the laundromat incident in Korea to get us to like her article?

PS - I liked the article :)
Stalkers typically use their own computer and do so through a variety of layers of deception. Recall that 'push to allow people from TOR on websites' earlier today right here on HN? That's what you get for your troubles.

As for the GGP comment, he advised to get the help of a 'hacker to hunt him down' not to hack him back. That's a world of a difference.
Hah, funny! I recently did the same to circumvent CSRF-protection based on java.util.Random. Here's my solver in JS: https://peks.as/experiments/random/
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>nature intends to replace the parents with their offspring, using rules crafted by natural selection, not the parents' tastes.

In fairness, sex was invented at least 1.2 billion years before parents could have possibly had "tastes". The reason we reproduce sexually rather than just churning out clones of ourselves appears to be that we're more resistant to parasites/diseases if our genes keep constantly shifting into new combinations rather than hanging around for too long looking exactly the same.

This wouldn't necessarily be impacted by the parents' deliberate choice of a few specific alleles.
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Yeah...

Some people are homeless by choice. Not much you can do about it... They may have a problem in their head and are out of reach.
After a minimum objective criteria (grades etc), just make admissions random, all this gaming stuff is silly
Never ever do this. It will simply let people know that if you press buttons 'x, y and z' simultaneously that the owner of this forum will roll over and you can then kiss that forum goodbye as a venue for any kind of productive conversation.

Better to completely ignore the guy. And to tell your bosses and family about it and to tell them to ignore it too. That's the least effort for the most return.
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In my experience they mostly hate management, thinking they make poor decisions and don't understand the tech. They only want to talk to other very good technical people, which effectively means not communicating very few people. They probably are making good technical descisions that benefit the company, but never communicate this, so don't get the credit. They probably have an internal advocate (e.g. their boss) which communicates what they are doing and defends them.
Things that don't help:

- When people want to point out that "Stallman predicted this X years ago," they phase it as, "Richard Stallman was right, as usual." Richard Stallman is not infallible. Overstating one's case doesn't win any new friends.

- There are many of Stallman's "followers" that are very aggressive at promoting the GPLv3 over all other open source licenses. While this might not be Stallman's personal position on the matter, if definitely doesn't win many people over (and probably pushes many away).

- Richard Stallman isn't necessarily the most lovable and charismatic figure. While people shouldn't factor that in to things when evaluating his message, they do.
> Does anyone know any reliable ways of telling the difference? Beforehand I mean; it's easy to tell in hindsight.

Sure, here are some:

* Ask the opinion of people who have worked with the candidate.

* Arrange for the candidate to explain some of his recent code and its workings to someone unfamiliar with his specialty. +1 if the listener comes away understanding the code.

* Ask the candidate to write a short algorithm that solves an uncommon problem, see what kinds of methods and variable names he uses, and whether there are enough comments (not too many, not too few) and structural clarity that the code could be maintained by a third party.

Most programmers don't want to be replaced, but the dangerous ones are those who think they can't possibly be replaced. Some of the latter group code in such a way that their personal belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It has only adopted Java 7 features which are either syntactic sugar or library extensions. (E. g. everything where the Java class file version wouldn't have mattered anyway).

Java 8 (and Java 9 and Java 10) are completely different, with huge, mandatory changes to the class file format and the virtual machine.
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You've submitted this daily for the last few days. While interesting, there's no need to submit it so frequently.
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Reminded me an interesting Java Random issue with small seeds and power of two intervals:

for(int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
System.out.println(new Random(i).nextInt(8));
}

It returns same number for all seeds.