skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Passing -Pw without a prompt at least gets that down to "... (interrupt to abort)"
Asynchronous interaction in VR
Virtually none of the commercial work is thinly-veiled NSA work.

I know literally none of the people behind "Reversing Labs", your comment is the first I've heard of that company, and, examining what their product does, I can't understand how what appears to be an email antivirus product is somehow helping NSA.
But for ages, you'll just have to follow orders and do the bad stuff, otherwise get fired. Hell, someone else in the thread talked about a friend who didn't even know what he was working on. For good people to have a good effect, they have to be at the top, and getting there without doing bad things seems hard.

No idea what the solution here is, but I agree the feedback issue is important.
Someone is going to have bad analytics for this link.
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came expecting a funny story about a great basketball player, leave disappointed.
There is no mortgage deduction in Canada. This is a big difference in the finances of many middle class families.
I was just looking at the SSL labs rating on the web site. It only gets 'C'.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=picnichealth....

Considering how private the information is, I would expect security to be a top priority. I would require at least an 'A-' on the rating. I realize that this does not indicate what is on the back end.
There are 5 iPad models. What have the 3 iPhone models got to do with buying an iPad?
It would be based on the number itself. Obviously with local number portability this is not super accurate, but we do have some customers that find the data useful nevertheless.
I value my time more than I value not experiencing the pathetically infinitesimal trauma of the occasional bruised apple (something I experienced not once in the 6 years I lived in Santa Clara and had 100% of my groceries delivered).
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Pretty sure Chromebooks dominated amazon.co.uk for a while too...
It would be really nice if this provided CNAM info, too.
I've been working on a watch app(Gaia GPS https://www.gaiagps.com/) and went to one of the labs to test it a few weeks ago. I dont't think I could have shipped a really useable app without testing on actual hardware. There was nothing majorly different from the simulator, just lots of minor things.

I found the API easy to use, it made for quick development due to the limited scope of what can be done. It seemed like if there isn't an obvious way to do something Apple doesn't want it done.
Yes. Yes we will. :'(
It was most certainly the organizational stuff that was the main problem. But if, as the poster I replied to suggested, the small team and simply started to submit Java code instead of their Node code, that organizational stuff wouldn't have changed.

Much like a change of location can help break someone's self-destructive habits, the change of platform helped break a lot of the toxic organizational habits that had built up over the years. The shift could have been to many other platforms. And if the platform had been something other than Java, a shift to Java could have improved the situation as well. The important part was that the new mindset and practices around more frequent/frictionless development and delivery.

I do think that it's easier to have that mindset when you use Node rather than Java, but Java has gotten better in this regard over the past few years.
Let's step back for a second and realize there's nothing magical about college. We can make the same arguments about the validity of a high school education. In fact, I can take your argument and say that providing everyone a high school education lowers every high school graduate's wages. We can then apply the same argument to middle school or any even providing any education at all. If we teach everyone to read and write, under your model, it devalues reading and writing. Because fundamentally, your model is one where there is a fixed pool of demand for educated people and beyond that any additional education add little additional value. And that is a completely wrong assumption.

The reason why education works is that it makes all parts of society function better. Having an educated population produces a higher functioning society. That's a society that, more often than not, is able to produce more wealth faster. In fact, it's in the enlightened self interest of society to have a broadly educated population. Basic research winds up driving GDP growth as science goes from the lab to products. Having more engineers and scientists is important, but so is having musicians, writers, nurses, and so on. All these types of education are important in a modern society. What's going on in the United States is that we are slowly short changing ourselves by making it harder and harder for people to get that additional education.

But in the process we're also creating a more stratified society. A lot of social mobility comes from the "first generation to go to college." By making college education less affordable, we keep people in the lower and lower middle classes that could have a transition up the income ladder from lower skilled, lower paying jobs to white collar professions. That's just one way we're becoming a society with little social mobility. American has moved away from the meritocratic American ideal. Now, even if you're an idiot, if you start out rich you'll probably stay rich. If you're poor, even if you're smart and capable, you'll probably stay poor.
So now Twitch is the only HTML5 holdout that I use on a regular basis... and the only reason I still use Chrome for anything.
Wasn't the Pioneer anomaly explained as light pressure from the infrared coming from their own power supply?
I like assembling my own stuff as in micro-controllers and breadboards and things where complexity can be removed by looking at a wiring schematic. I absolutely hate assembling my own stuff as in plugging in an AMD R9 270 and fitting an Intel Core i7 and finding RAM that's compatible with your motherboard and plugging in SATA cables and making sure your case fans are blowing the right way to get proper airflow and figuring out how much of a power supply you need. The only challenge that offers is in selecting compatible parts, and the only reward is having something exactly the same as the person next to you who bought his pre-built.

I'm not surprised to see PC building going away. It's a high risk, low reward enterprise, especially considering that modern games haven't push the minimum spec envelope much further than what you can play on a Macbook Air. Building a PC is like Lego, where the pieces only fit together in one specific way, and each piece costs $250. The good part doesn't start until the building is done and you get into the software.

But there will always be a place for actual hardware tinkerers, the ones who need multimeters and solder and flux. Even if it is a niche.
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We don't protect investors from penny stocks, which are far riskier. We "protect" investors from damn near nothing. There are some limits on day trading and options trading sure, but those start to get lifted at around $25k.

Investing in a private company that's about to go IPO is actually not that risky when compared to multitude of other investment instruments that are available.

The secondary market is private market for the 1%. That's literally what it is. Maybe that's not how it started or how it was originally sold, but that's what it is. And it's now institutionalized and part of the law.

The idea that it's about protection is just absurd. It's absurd. Are you telling me you are glad that the 1% is out there making sure that you can't invest in Facebook for $20/share? Protection? Really?
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> Can Mozilla even make a Firefox browser for ChromeOS?

Sure, Native Client's there and should have all the functionality you need. It'll technically be running inside Chrome, but so is everything else like the settings dialog.
Mmmm - great feedback. We do provide this service for our phone numbers to do a CNAM lookup on inbound communications - can see how it would be useful for Twilio Lookup as well.
This thread is being totally astroturfed by Googlers, or people actually like the specs of that thing? I don't get it. People, you can buy machines that have a proper os AND a browser ... but you're ready to spend money on a glorified browser?
Confusing to people actually buying MacBooks, or just to those writing about them?

Also even if the current lineup is not perfectly orthogonal because the purpose of the Air is less clear than it used to be, this has happened before when new lines are introduced. What leads you to assert that they are 'rapidly falling away' from anything, rather than just in a transition period with the new line?
In the same way as Link from the Legend of Zelda, I'm kind of glad Gordon doesn't have a voice actor. Too often the disembodied narration in first person games comes off as hammy.
> Can Mozilla even make a Firefox browser for ChromeOS?

Apparently they can: https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html
Out of clothes today,

out of detergent, as well.

Hi UPS man.
Baller hack. fistbump
Designing “flow” in your projects
Architecture is about organizing space. Then if needed we build some walls to achieve this goal. The architect still needs to define corridors, toilets, meeting areas, etc, etc. The only difference is that he doesn't need to project many walls.
https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html
> There are no native apps on ChromeOS—the correct question is not "Can Mozilla write a browser for ChromeOS", its "Can Mozilla write an app for ChromeOS"

Exactly - ChromeOS is a browser. "Can Mozilla write a browser for ChromeOS" makes about as much sense as "Can Mozilla write a browser for Chrome" or "Can Google write a browser for Internet Explorer".

...or it would have made that little sense before Mozilla wrote a browser in html: https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html
Its fantastic. Simple on the one hand, but pretty sophisticated on the other.

A UI suggestion: When I am "in" a box, there should be a clear indicator of how to go back to the top level. The "x" for closing the box is a little too subtle, and possibly overoaded with "delete". I'd rather see a back arrow utilized. Hovertips helped of course.

I also think when your view is with the box open, then adding a note should by default add that new note to be a child of the box.
I graduated from Harvard, and like chris_b said with Yale, a not insignificant number of people went into some sort of engineering. It's not the plurality career choice, but it's not like the field is some sort of pariah at Ivy League schools.
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Scientific journals don't always contain articles, or papers.

My understanding is being published on arxiv.org does not mean it is currently in a scientific journal. Being in a scientific journal does not mean it is on arxiv.org.

But, being published on arxiv.org is usually a precursor to the journal publication, passing peer review and the journal 's standards.
The U.S. media has nothing on Russian state television, they are quite consciously part of the government propaganda machine. They don't hesitate to use material like photoshopped 'satelite pictures' of Ukrainian fighter jets shooting down that Malaysian airliner and present it as validated evidence. They have presented 'proof' that American soldiers are fighting in the Ukrainian army, and debate outrageous conspiracy theories straight faced. Fox News has absolutely nothing on those guys.
> it seems impossible to have both macros and a type system on par with Haskell

You should check out the work being done on typed template Haskell then.
I'm not saying an advantage isn't given to the wealthy, I'm just challenging the idea that that was the driver for the regulation.

To be honest, the gov't is kind of stuck here. Let people make their own choices and they blame someone else. "I didn't know the mortgage rate was only a teaser!!"

At least with the credited investor regulations, if they lose money, nobody has sympathy for them.
Good list of people to follow while you're learning React
The crash was widely construed to be because of the ignorant public essentially betting on the stock market, with resulting instability. Wise, rich investors would invest and leave their money for years at a time.

The resulting rules changes can be revisionist-history interpreted as protecting the 99%. But remember at the time, the gilded age had passed; labor reforms were in place etc (Teddy Roosevelt, 1910s) and laws such as these were under fierce scrutiny for favoritism.

Still, today it does what it does regardless of the initial impetus. And what it does is prevent most people from playing most games.
Some people seem to be missing the point and I don't blame you because brands are given a lot of protagonism in their announcement.
But I think the presence of renowned/popular brands in their announcement is just marketing collateral as part of a bit more complex marketing strategy that involved partnerships, and that might be confusing for anyone if deeper thought is not involved.

IMHO the essence of this product is neither about enforcing brand loyalty nor saving time.

1- Brand loyalty benefits well established brands, yes, so amazon probably got big companies on board by offering brand placement on their marketing material among other benefits.

2- Saving time (and cognitive flow/energy) benefits consumers, yes. There is some risk to follow brand reputation instead of product quality, agree, but that is a manageable risk, so amazon can potentially get consumers on board.

The essence and reason of why this product/service came to be, answers to one question only; 'How does amazon benefit?' and it is brilliant.

From my POV this little button is not just a way to introduce an enhanced experience to an existing and growing consumer behavior[1] that would result in greater sales for amazon; more than a product they introduced a service/platform[2] that can be seamlessly integrated to new home appliances, so amazon is effectively expanding its presence into a diverse and conveniently positioned custom/customizable 'points of sale' inside people's homes, making itself more and more ubiquitous as time goes by and more companies and individual innovators adopt their new service/platform, and their investment to accomplish this was little compared to the alternative of investing in manufacturing their own home appliances, but that's not brilliant, that's only natural and expected from a company like amazon.

It also places amazon's brand on not all but many people's minds as a high-tech high-quality home appliances brand by association to the actual home appliances brands, and amazon is not really manufacturing that kind of hardware (...yet), that's the brilliant part (an opportunity that they may or may never exploit, either because non-compete agreements or because it wouldn't make sense for their business plans or because Jeff Bezos decides not to because reasons, an opportunity nonetheless).

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-future-of-food-delivery-1/...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-replenishment-service
I'm a single dad working full time. Time is hard to come by, I'll post the damn link when I have time to find it.
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Yes, having a faster specialized way to implement Foo<X> is great. But the reason it's great is "the specific performance aspect". If the cost of using the faster specialized way is, say, massive interpretive overhead, then it may not actually be faster, and then there's no reason to use it.

GADTs actually seem to go in the other direction, though — they seem to enable the compiler to prove more at compile-time and thus generate code with less run-time tag checking.

But some hard performance numbers would go a long way toward proving that.
Love it or hate it, it's a huge factor in how people make decisions. If you want to shape their behavior, you have to consider how they think and what they care about.
And hopefully they land it on Azure quickly as well.
Photo evidence: http://i.imgur.com/7xzpTas.jpg
Am I missing something or this is just a REST front-end for Google´s libphonenumber[1] ?

[1] https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber
Oh man, have I. Just starting to get out of this phase. Here's what's helped me out:

1.) Disconnect the tech stuff. The more I sat around doing technical things, the more it still felt like I was at work.
2.) Take time off. Really, take time off. You likely get it as part of your benefits if you're with a company, so do it.
3.) Get a hobby--a non-technical one. For me, it's brewing.
4.) Don't spend a lot of time around other burnt out people--this is where the inevitable burnout feedback loop starts.
5.) Scale it back--I realize this isn't always possible, but when you can, take it easy. Continuing to push won't help you out in the long run.

Also, pop over to burnout.io. They've got some good things to say on the matter.
An author can choose to post their paper on the arxiv or not, as they see fit (policies of the journal they wish to publish in aside). The papers on the arxiv are not peer reviewed, but many are of high quality. The idea is for researchers to have a faster mechanism than standard journals to share results.
I apparently need to read up a lot on this, because I understand very little of what you write.
I have to say that Crystal Dynamics just killed it with the latest Tomb Raider reboot. I had written off the whole series as a cash cow churning out title after title of boring sequel.

But I tried the 2013 reboot and it hit all the right notes with me. I rarely play games to full 100% completion, but I played Tomb Raider 2013 until I had found everything (all collectables, etc). It's really a great game.
You can have a language which has to be parsed top down, then you can have both complete type info, and arbitrary macros.
Works really well.

Checked a few numbers, only number it didn't get the network provider for was a UK landline. Wish I had a way to make use of this API!
Their products are very useful in a defensive context. Not all of the NSA's work comes under the heading of cyberweapons or intelligence-gathering. They do plenty of defensive development, too.

RL's Titanium Core is one of the best unpackers around, and thus incredibly valuable for anyone doing malware analysis. Couple it with Titanium Cloud (blacklisting/whitelisting of samples) and you have the core of a system that can go interesting places. Try not to cringe at the bill. Toss in a sandbox or three and you're really getting somewhere. Add in a couple of MITRE standards for requisite government headaches, obviously.

From what I've seen, a fair amount of security product companies are selling to the NSA. Doesn't work for SaaS and services, because the NSA tends to require that whatever you're selling run on their network.

It's worth remembering that the NSA isn't afraid to buy from tiny companies and In-Q-Tel exists to enable investment.
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Wow talk about ad-hominem, that's a brass-bound example right there. Just post the link without the running commentary on another contributors character, please.
I'd venture that it would totally depend on what degree you got as well. Some are much more likely to get you a decent paying job, like engineering or medicine.

Usually those jobs have a university degree as a requirement for employment as well, so you're kind of stuck with going to university.
> People making social networks so college freshman could date made tools to help those fighting authoritarian governments connect ...

This is only half the story. Thanks to Snowden, we now know that these same databases are being used by NSA and GCHQ, enabling authoritarian governments to suppress and attack these same people.
Almost anyone can post a paper to arXiv (I believe in practice it requires an affiliation with a University or Insittute, or endorsement from someone who has posted to arXiv previously). In that sense, posting to arXiv is not considered "publishing" a paper, though, for all practical purposes, posting to the arXiv is a good way to make people aware of your results or ideas.

Posting papers to arXiv is up to the discretion of the authors. Undoubtedly, there are papers which are peer reviewed that do not have preprints posted to the arXiv. Often people will post to arXiv as the papers are going through the peer review process. This enables the community to provide feedback in addition to the peer review process. Sometimes people do not post papers to arXiv until they have already completed the peer review process, but before the paper is actually published in a journal. And, less frequently, people will post past manuscripts to the arXiv if they think the community would benefit from having easier access to that piece of work (e.g., a chapter in a book that has gone out of print, for which the author still retains copyright).

I am speaking mostly from personal experience here, based on my interactions with, and postings to the astrophysics portion of arXiv[0]. Norms may differ in other fields using arXiv.

[0] http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph
It's worth noting that the carrier it returns and the brand of network aren't necessarily the same - at least here in the UK.

For example the Giffgaff network is carried by O2, and a UK landline rented through Twilio appears to be carried by Jersey Telecom.
Those statements don't necessarily contradict each other. For example, there are a lot of junior sales development (or business development) reps that have these artificial ceilings put on them where it takes a lot longer to get promoted into a true closing role. Their skillsets are still quite aligned with what you'd want in a closing rep in that they have to prospect, cold-call and drum up business in a similar hunting fashion as that of a true closing rep.

On the other hand, you do have to be wary of those that are extremely used to having inbound flow for their calls or were more of account managers. It's a completely different style of sell- more farming and less hunting. For earlier stage companies, you almost always are looking for hunter-types, and that's what the author is trying to point out.

tl;dr: Hire up-and-coming SDRs/BDRs whose growth pattern is too limited at larger companies but avoid farmers when what you actually need are those with the hunter gene in them.
Some great advice here!
I don't disagree that there is huge room for unethical behavior in these corporations, and we as citizens and employees need to be vigilant about them. I just don't think engineers working on ad-tech because it pays well is necessarily terrible.
If those prices are 1982 prices then you can multiply by about 2.5 to find out what they'd be today.
It is a deeply personal choice. It's also one that doesn't get any easier when people insist on being dicks about it.
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Developing Multi-lingual site
Our company is expanding globally and would like to see what everybodies take is on developing a site to scale globally. We are on wordpress currently and using smartling to translate, but looks like this could get messy when different regions want to change the site outside of content and change layouts or add content only specific to that region. I would like to be able to control how the content is served by using logic such as if domain is .de serve this text || template || block etc.. elseif is .en do something else. I feel like that would give us the most control rather than having a third party fork our site by using classes only to create a dev nightmare when something changes on the original codebase. What do you think?
Don't forget IRQ conflicts and the early days of Plug 'N Pray which somehow managed to make things even WORSE.
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