skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its because you should never burn a bridge no matter how bad you want to. Unfortunately something that is rarely talked about in our society is how companies burn bridges all the time in layoffs etc. So its a double standard.

Nobody ever talks about this side of the coin when it comes to layoffs and how companies behave. Everyone thinks oh its legal for them to just throw you out with no severance so its fine that they did that.

Then sadly anyone complaining about being laid off in that way is labeled a "bitter former employee", and quitting without giving 2 weeks notice is considered you slapping them in face.
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Thanks for the feedback - that's a good point. The sensitivity should reduce the closer you are. I'll add it to the list.
In Pascal, you could just declare a structure as "packed", and this packing happened automatically. "packed array [0..n] of Boolean" is an array of bits. That feature has not been copied in more recent languages.
It's absolutely not monochromatic. It's full of colours that we cannot see, we have to use fake colours to visualize objects from space in all their diversity.
Isn't what you just describe about automating other peoples jobs away a huge part of IT to begin with... we take paper forms that have long review chains and turn them into electronic forms (more effective data entry, fewer needed) with mostly automated review chains (cut middle management)... yeilding higher returns.

This is why IT is considered White Collar (especially software developers and engineers)... It's our job to automate people out of jobs... which then churns the need for jobs developing ever more complex systems that aren't human. Often badly written.

We'll never reach greater than say 60% unemployment... there's just to much crap to shovel (even in automation).
What interests reddit? Casual racism and misogyny. Also cats.

Seriously though, it's interesting how interconnected some things can be in this view. I'm not sure what sense I can make of those interconnections, though. Mousing around, while being a very frequent redditor (so my own neural network is making connections based on experience), I can kinda infer order out of things like the "government->state" topics connected to "force" and "property" among others (hints at the libertarian-leaning general population), and the "women" topic connecting to a whole host of stuff...the cyan colored section off to the top right might even kinda hint at the casual misogyny thing (which was a "ha ha only serious" kind of joke), with words like "bullshit", "logic", "proof", "assumption", "reasoning", and "evidence", being connected to "women" but not to "men".

But, without having spent years on reddit, and without my particular flavor of reddit (the subs I'm subscribed to), maybe I'd interpret the data very differently. I never quite know how to interpret network graphs like this, honestly, short of for things that are networks. i.e. a computer network topology on a graph shows useful data...the hops from one machine to the next. When connecting up one word to the next, it seems difficult to draw meaningful conclusions. Like my interpretation of the meaning of "government->state->property" as being a hint at the libertarian leanings of many subreddits, or the connection of "women->reasoning->evidence" as being a hint of many redditors belief that women are illogical liars (which is the impression many of my female friends have of reddit, in general, particularly when topics like date rape or the "friend zone" come up). Is that actually the context in which these connections are made? I wouldn't really know how to check. It'd be cool to be able to drill down to conversations in which the connections where made, but presenting that in a coherent UI seems challenging.
Actually the high end fights now are, in general, far more technical than they were in vanilla WoW (BWL, AQ40, Nax). They just offer dumbed down versions ("LFR") for the masses -- which is fair enough. Everyone pays for the content, why shouldn't they get to see it? It's no different from "please don't hurt me" difficulty levels in FPSs.

My big problem with WoW is the reduction of classes to three roles (tank, healer, DPS) where class is really just a skin on the role, and the reliance on repetition. (We must have cleared some 40-man raid zones over fifty times.) Scripted technical boss fights are, in my opinion, the equivalent of shooters where you need to memorize where every enemy will appear -- it's "challenging" but it's not interesting.
A previous company adopted OpenOffice for all internal uses, and our employees quickly came to love it. We had a customer once who sent us particularly tricky documents, and eventually we gave up and started using Word to manage their stuff. They still complained at broken formatting after we'd edited their docs and mailed them back, though. The conversation went like:

Us: That's really strange. We were using a different word processor, but you're still seeing the same problems even after we went back to Word.

Them: Um, what word processor would that be?

Us: You probably haven't heard of it, but OpenOffice.

Them: Us too! Can we just send you ODT files directly?

The workflow on both ends had been to work natively in Writer, then export to .doc for passing files around. All problems immediately went away once we dropped the middle step.
Why is that unprofessional?
GP didn't ask for full disk encryption, only "mountable disk images" which are far more flexible to deal with in heterogeneous environments.
There's a big difference between just storing and routing it, and processing every line and generating personal profiles off of it. o_o
The EFF seems to recommend using DiskCryptor for Windows [1]. What are HN's opinions on this?

Also what does HN think about still using TrueCrypt? Any reason not to?

[1]https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-encrypt-your-windows-devic...
Compare the private health system of US with the state health system in the Scandinavian countries or most of the EU and tell me which runs better and is more efficient?

We could make this argument also for the education, public transport, social security, etc.
How would you have gotten even one HST sized telescope into orbit without a manned mission?

How do we get similar sized spy satellites into orbit without people? http://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-n...

As to lifetime, we don't need a 30 year lifespan. If you average 6 years * 5 satellites you get 30 years and I suspect we could easily average 8-10 years.

As to thinking about this stuff. Clearly, but Hubble was specifically designed to make the Shuttle seem more relevant. Just about all of the major decisions where made for political not technical reasons.
Or even better, if we could systematically measure the brigades, moderator manipulation and psyops.
There's no reason to compare the pay as you go option if you are charging per subscriber and they have an option to pay per subscriber as well. Right on the MailChimp pricing page is a calculator that will tell you straight up it's $75/mo for 10,000 subscribers and unlimited emails. Sure, you are much cheaper but it's not a fair comparison to say you are charging $30 and they are charging $200 when really there's a $75 option that most people would be smart enough to find and take advantage of.
>@cookiecaper, you've basically ignored the argument.

There is no argument. There is only the dogmatic belief that there is some cosmic moral code that states persons must be fired in person. As I've said probably four times now, I accept whole-heartedly there are times when that is the best course of action, and I've acted accordingly and fired these people face-to-face. But I don't believe there is a cosmic moral law violated by considering or performing the firing via alternate, asynchronous means. I believe that circumstances can make this a better option sometimes.

>Oh, but you can't call that a fact, because it fails the verifiability test. I mean, firing is a decision made by management, the same management that placed the company in this position in the first place.

This is nitpicking at semantics. I understand that firing is usually a subjective judgment call, obviously. I guess better phrasing would've been "whoever did or didn't do things... the decision has been made and needs to be executed".

>Truth be told, I would get pretty mad about such things, but fortunately such companies are usually ran by incompetents and so most of them either go out of business or become completely irrelevant and for me that's justice enough.

As I alluded elsewhere, I think it is silly to state that the C-levels at all of these big companies are "incompetents" because they don't meet with every employee individually to fire them. It's a routine way to do mass layoffs and it's easy for employees to say "That guy couldn't look me in the eye", but it's also easy for employees to find all kinds of other things to complain about. Since your employees are going to be unhappy when they're fired anyway, I believe it should be done in the most objectively logical and considerate way, even if it leaves room for petty complaints about the venue, because people who want to complain are going to find something to complain about even if you fire them in the most stately of palaces and most well-pressed of designer suits, with braces that keep your eyelids open so that there is no doubt that you were willing to "look them in the eye" when you fired them.

Sometimes there is no good alternative; like others are saying in this thread, it's often impossible to concoct a graceful firing experience. Saying that people are incompetent for remote firings is ascribing far too much value to what is ultimately a subjective presentation, and ignoring the serious and real logistical issues sometimes involved with a "look-me-in-the-eye" firing.
If you're using a Sharepoint server to manage documents across an organization, MS Office has Check-In & Check-Out capabilities integrated directly into MS Word. You're logged into the server through MS Word and you can manage visibility of your check-ins (ie whether it's a minor edit only visible to your direct collaborators, or a major edit visible to all people with access rights to the document).

If something like that is key to an organization's workflow, competitors will probably be locked out even if they do add support, because it's like using "non-genuine parts". It will probably work 99% of the time, but it's probably less reliable than the general part, and hard to get support for the cases where it does cause problems. Reliability & consistency is often more important than cheaper upfront cost.

(I say this as a long time NeoOffice fan & paid supporter of the project.)
Documentation for Miracast in Android seems very lacking. According to Wikipedia, Google decided not to support Miracast on the Chromecast, probably because it is an open standard that would have made the effect of selling the Chromecast cheaply weaker on their goal of raising Android adoption and locking in customers.
I don't think that all commands are relayed over Google, since if that were true, Android should be clever enough find my Chromecast if I was connected to another WiFi network. The delay would also make it impractical for quite a lot of people. IMO chromecast should have been based on open standards.

Android Wear would be just be as heavily "reliant" on Google Now as Android is. Google just decided to give it a proprietary version of Android that is heavily integrated with Google Now.
Android Wear could do quite a lot without access to Google Services. It is actually pretty pleasant to use without talking to your watch.

It seems like we both have different points of view on this, but in my opinion Google has acted in a way that favours their interests over their customers' freedom.
This says yes for Chrome and FF but no such requirement for cURL or IE: http://daniel.haxx.se/http2/

How accurate it is, I'm not sure.
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Pass the disk through to a VMWare/KVM/Xen container (if you can find another machine of the same processor architecture) and then boot the OS in the VM.

Usually it will piss Windows right off to be booted on completely different hardware, but usually it works enough to grab any files you may want from within the FDE.

It's utterly useless if the FDE was using any TPM hardware though, in that case then I'm afraid you're stuck using the original hardware.
This is a fork of 0h n0, not a clone (even if you did use `git clone` to start the fork).
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The idea of 'right to be forgotten' is... ignorant. It is simple to create a web spider (yes, yes, it gets more complicated quickly), and you can be operating your spider quite quietly and privately. The logical outcome is that there will be grey market databank sellers of 'unforgettable' indexes of information.
LaTeX is pretty dead outside of science, and it makes sense that this is the state of things.

Using LaTeX effectively requires the same ways of thinking needed in order to write code. For people who aren't used to doing this, adjusting from Word to LaTeX is not going to be easy.

In the professional publishing fields, editors have overcome the shortcomings of Word in a completely different way - using advanced GUI tools that have hundreds of options and settings that you have to learn, but that let you have instant feedback on your decisions. Admittedly, programs such as InDesign can actually make prettier documents than LaTeX, but the comparative amount of effort you need to invest makes it rather a bad tradeoff for someone who already knows LaTeX.

LaTeX is good at making consistently beautiful documents fast, while professional publishing tools let you invest lots of effort into getting something even more beautiful, or downright ugly. For the scientist, LaTeX wins easily, but for someone whose primary job is to make things as pretty as they can be, it is not so.
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The Avernum games play pretty well on my iPad. If you're having focus troubles, I'd try them there.
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You probably already know this, but another music discovery service called "Songdrop" already exists and has been around for a few years - https://songdrop.com/

Might want to rebrand!
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The answer is a resounding 'no'. Typesetting is something that is nearly completely done by InDesign at large shops — the advantages of LaTeX just aren't appreciable when laying out photo-heavy books that use layouts custom to each book. 99% of the things InDesign can do are definitely replicable in LaTeX, but it'd be a ton of work and would require one hell of a knowledge of LaTeX libraries. Contrast this with the fact that a competent high schooler with some knowledge of design can pump out great looking layouts with InDesign. LaTeX is great for personal documents and publications where layout has been wholly standardized, but those situations are quite rare for publishing firms.
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> Being hand-held from one cutscene to the next is not playing a video game.

Of course it is, and it's tremendously arrogant to claim otherwise. This attempt at reduction via definitionalism is the same disease that infects people who get frothy at Twine. (Which isn't my thing, I don't generally enough visual novels either, but I'm not so arrogant as to project my preferences onto the entire classification of "video game.")
I've switched to using Markdown for almost everything I write. Take your favorite text editor, use a nice preview app (I like Marked 2 for OS X) for tweaking, and enjoy plaintext, grep-able, Git-able, docs that are trivially readable even without a special viewer.

That's obviously not an option for everything, but I've used it for everything from internal documentation to slides to blog posts.
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"In contrast in a capitalist system the capitalists can prosper from the communists desire not to exploit their fellow men"

Why do you give Intellectual or personal superiority to communist?

Part of my family comes from a former communist country. The were slaves of a communist elite that of course wanted to exploit fellow men on a level that a person living on a Western society could not understand(like rapist and murderers controlling the police).

Some of them(people at the party) could barely read and write, let alone sum and substract. Chosen incompetents because they served the party better. Thinking on your own was a bad habit there.

Personal charity does not make you communist or contrary to capitalism. Communist forces OTHERS to work for free for the community(and specially for those who control the community).
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And for the appropriate meta: Folks who downvote anyone who points out they're downvoting people for criticizing Google. ;)
You can install the preview:

npm install angular-new-router

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No, it assumes that developers clean up their branch history as necessary before submitting it for code review.
It's not just pressure. They outright cut you off. You cannot ship Google Androids and non-Google Androids. It's part of the MARA.
Yup. "Doom Doors" is even a page on TVTropes.
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VeraCrypt seems a successful fork, cross platform and supporting truecrypt containers.
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Not trying to troll but Google usually works just fine for that kind of thing. However I do accept that it would be nice to have a utility designed specifically for that kind of question.
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Incredible! I could leave this open and stare at it, if it didn't make my laptop scream like a banshee. My office deals with primarily with airlines, and everyone found this really cool.
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It's what I usually do, but it's still annoying as hell when more than a dozen packages are involved in the build chain :(.
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if you set tag coloring to "% answered", an interesting pattern emerges

http://i.imgur.com/ZLmWHrq.png

responsiveness of the community in order of most to least

- oldschool hacker (c/c++,bash,perl,regex)

- web dev (jquery, javascript, html, css)

- app dev (ios, objectivec, android, java)
To be honest, I'm not going to bother. It's going to be another couple of centuries before compatibilists are finally argued into submission; and the grounds of their "you can't logically rule it out" are going to shift another three or four times before they run out of hiding places.

To me, the physics is pretty convincing. I don't care that philosophers object "but you can't totally rule it out!". There's lots of things I can't totally rule out. That doesn't mean that they should be seriously considered.
Good point! Not sure if my average friend knows what a fork is, though...

I'd also like to stress that I simply changed a few lines of code, all kudos go to the original author -- similarly as I did with 2048->8192 (but again, yours is a good point, maybe "clone" suggests that I re-wrote it entirely making it looks the same).
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This reminds me of a recent survey where more people claimed to use facebook than the internet.

It also makes me think of an alternate reality where Hitler burned the card catalog and left the books alone.
> they can spot the music majors in the first day of class just by noticing how much better at pronunciation they are than the other students

It makes sense. I can see at least two explanations. First musicians are used to listening to sounds in order to reproduce them accurately. Second, less obvious reason, is that they are less shy to "perform". Maybe I'm wrong and generalizing my own case, but I think that sometimes people are just too shy to work on their accent. As kids, we used to make fun of those that were trying to have a correct accent.
I'm thinking misanthropy is more accurate
The article itself mentions that the start is too small to cause any such thin.
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This is something the compiler can't optimize very well. For one thing, the spec requires that they appear in the given order.

If this wasn't the case, a significant amount of code would break. I've seen a good bit of code where there's a struct A, and then struct B begins with the same fields as in struct A. This allows you to treat either of them as a struct A, a kind of polymorphism. The compiler doesn't know whether you're going to do that, so it can't arbitrarily rearrange the members of the structs.
Indeed, I didn't comment on multi or dual classing because that just changes everything. I haven't played any of the 3rd/4th/5th edition games, so I am unfamiliar with those rule sets. But I wouldn't be surprised if multi and dual classing were heavily nerfed. They really are just too much...unless your character is actually a demigod.

But again, the fact that they allow you so much freedom in creating your character is incredible. You can even triple class! I sincerely miss this kind of freedom combined with the incredible depth of the AD&D 2nd ed rules.

I'm looking forward to Pillars of Eternity, but I'm quite sure that mechanically it won't be nearly as fun as BG2. Those developers just know better than to implement such insane mechanics again. Which is why it won't be nearly as entertaining.
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It will take a few thousand years for the Voyager, the fastest spacecraft we have ever built, to reach that distance.
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Not only is this super amazing, it has probably the best sub-header I’ve ever read in a science article: “Grand theft Oort-o?”
Yeah but you kinda need a guide like that with the Hadoop ecosystem. There are so many projects in common usage, each with their own niche but with some overlap, vendor spin, etc... and it can all change so quickly. Newcomers really need a "field guide" to just explain what's what at a high level.
Its important to note that this is as much a telecom vs Google issue, as it is a privacy issue.
Apple has no competitors in this category. There is no other app store you can use with an Apple product. All they have to do is achieve the bare minimum functioning product.
If any of you are interested in games with a hacking theme, check out Uplink. It's an oldie but a goodie. There's some surprising tricks you can pull once you figure them out by yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_%28video_game%29
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Everything exists on a continuum of accessibility. People hold conversations in public all the time, but they don't expect anyone to be recording and publishing that information. The issue of the right to privacy becomes a bit more sticky on the web where information is easy to transmit and store, but I wouldn't call it ignorant. It's people trying to apply an older philosophy on privacy to the Internet.