skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Whenever I real long-form books, my mind will occasionally wander into other areas, while my eyes keep reading on. I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read."

When that happens to me while reading a book often enough I decide the text is not for me and move to another book.

"The difference is with a website, you can go investigate your immediate thoughts rather than committing to the re-read. "

Funny, I would describe my most engaging readings of a book precisely by this sort of associative experience (unless it's fiction... which I don't actually read that much anymore).
How is that different from the already existing "Reader" mode in mobile Safari?

Or Instapaper et al.
Yes it is, and AWS already supports unikernels.
If I remember, Julia has a type system that lets specialized types override general functions. Speaking of performance, can this be used to, say, implement a faster "drop" for something like an array or slice (or a mapping of one)?
Yes, exactly. Any CEO worth his salt would know to hedge his bets and stay on a platform till its already dead. That is what Stephen Elop taught everyone.

I do think that some amount of bad architecture is involved, but flipkart does have a lot of money, and a lot of good engineers. They even have cool stuff on github [0], which needs good people. They have likely fixed their architecture issues by now.

Flipkart has money, and lots of it (current valuation is $11 billion). There is absolutely no way that they are considering this on a cost-analysis basis.
Creator here, feel free to hit me with any questions.
Yea, but they also help with better color rendition, finer details and deeper blacks.The "anti-glare" technology used on non glossy screens is basically reducing their optical capabilities...
If you install form source, you lose all the advantages of a package manager (updating, clean uninstallation, dependency management, etc).

pacman (and makepkg) make creating your own package stupidly simple. (not to mention that the official repos + AUR have an immense amount of packages present already).
I came in 3rd place at the last MiniQuad race I went to in Oakland. Only because Charpu was not there lol otherwise would have been 4th for sure.
can you add more details I don't know what that is?
The Arch Wiki is a bit of a mix. Part documentation, part how-to guide, but it's still one of the best references to understand how stuff works (and how to use it) in *nix in general.

I do agree though, that OpenBSD has by far the best documentation out there.
Even in cases where you have a Credit Card, there are many hoops to fly through before you can make an in-app purchase:

- It must be an international credit card
- It must never have 3d-secure enabled

International Credit Cards are costlier, and it just takes one payment on an Indian gateway to enable 3dsecure accidentally. And then, you can't use your card again on any international purchase because no international gateway supports 3dsecure.
This is where the real fun is in RC these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxyV-kgfio

Miniquads FTW.
The way it usually works is that the guest OS gets a certain allocation of RAM and if it doesn't want to use it all it can inform the hypervisor of which ranges don't need physical backing at the moment. From the guest's perspective this is often implemented using a "balloon" process/driver that reserves a large chunk of guest memory in order to return it to the hypervisor. It can also be handled by the guest having a more general memory hotplug capability.
It's systemd based, so it'll be bringing udev along for the ride.
> If someone made an Arch installer that automatically set up networking and persisted the setup, as well as partitioning/mounting, I would be on board.

But then, it wouldn't be Arch any more. There'll inevitably come a user that wants a different partition scheme not contemplated (nfs /home? LUKS? LVM across all present drives? etc).

As far a networking: it's even worse. There's several choices of what you can use to manage your network (wicd, NetworkManager, netctl etc). An installer that supports all those, with all possible network configurations, would be a huge pain. It's just easier if the user picks a tool, installs it, and configures it.

It'll also help you greatly in future when you need to reconfigure it, fiddle around, of break it.

> Maybe if you're a full-time sysadmin you're familiar enough with ifconfig, fstab etc.

No need for ifconfig, you do have a lot of helpers, as mentioned above.
If you use multiple sub domain for different environment (development, staging, production) you can also choose wildcard SSL so you can use one certificate for *.yourdomain.com

SSL Labs' SSL test (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/) does not use certificate type (domain validated, org, EV) as criteria to get higher score.
I'm not familiar with CA law, so I can't comment on whether your employer could lay claim to the intellectual property you create on their hardware. You can probably find that information on the web.

However, there's another obvious risk: if your employer fires you for any reason, they'll demand your laptop back immediately, and you may not get the chance to retrieve anything that's on it (e.g., you may be immediately escorted from the building by security). Anything that's stored on the laptop may fall into your employer's hands at that point.

Also, use of company equipment for personal use may violate your company's own policies, and may give them grounds for firing you. You said you work for a "big corp" - they frequently have rules like that in their employee handbook.

Do yourself a favor and get your own machine to do your personal stuff on.
It baffles the mind how little the government seems to understand technology. Yes let's create a universal key but to make sure it's not abused or falls into the wrong hands we'll just split it up over agencies or setup an escrow. Never mind the fact that this undermines the security of every single piece of American data if we're compelled to use it.

If you're up to not good you're just going to download a non-backdoored encryption toolkit from somewhere else.
> “I think that people and companies need to be convinced that everything we do in the cyber domain is lawful and appropriate and necessary,” Mr. Carter told students and faculty at Stanford.

Good luck with the convincing. Quite a few of us can read, so it will be rather impossible.

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

> Shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush secretly told the N.S.A. that it could wiretap Americans’ international phone calls and collect bulk data about their phone calls and emails without obeying the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/us/politics/value-of-nsa-w...

> On July 9, 2012, when asked by a member of the press if a large data center in Utah was used to store data on American citizens, Alexander stated, "No. While I can't go into all the details on the Utah data center, we don't hold data on U.S. citizens."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_B._Alexander#Statements_t...

Why are these people not in prison for violating the constitution on a mass scale? Their only defense can be that they were simply "following orders."

The USA PATRIOT Act will be viewed by historians as something akin to the Reichstag Fire Decree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree#Backgroun...
I read about 2 books per week on the Kindle, more if I have to wait on Trend Micro (thanks Security!!).
You have summarized most of my experiences and observations of my reading habits.

I have tried reading long novels and I have rarely been able to read them efficiently with concentration the whole way, at first I would well up with a lot of self hatred when my friends could read the same books in lesser amounts of time, remembering a lot of interesting details and hold very insightful discussions about it later. I blamed myself for not having better concentration, for feigning interest in books and hundred other accusation that were only partly true.

But, I persevered and found that I could read short texts, remember them pretty well, think about them for some days and largely absorb the idea. I changed my reading habits. I started reading short stories, essays, academic papers and smaller technical books, but providing a lot of to time to reflect upon the material just read.

I stopped focusing on the book count and purely on maximizing the amount of impact produced by reading something.
Entirely possible to do almost all The Little Schemer using Dr Racket, and I'd recommend that
Start looking for a new job now.
Well, the nice thing about Rust is that it's at least theoretically possible to swap out C with Rust without affecting very many things (at least not negatively, other than the duplicate allocators IIRC), so a Rusty Unix is at least plausible.
Almost all the exercises can be done in Haskell with a small amount of syntactic adjustment
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But it isn't a clone.

Every clone I see try to reproduce vim usage, but none really try to run vimfiles. I think running vimfiles is a must have for a clone to get real users.
Out of curiosity:

How's connman working for you? Do you have a GUI for it, or just CLI?

Does isync support IDLE? offlineimap has quite a few bugs and I can't wait to change it (I've a very similar mutt+offlineimap+notmuch+opensmtpd setup).
CDC bs about vaping seems desperate
Your password reset email might or might not travel over SMTPS. As an end user you have no way of knowing in advance or forcing its use, so it's not very trustworthy.

I have no doubt you can memorize several very strong passwords, but there is a limit to how much randomness anyone can memorize. I've got over 100 passwords in my manager, counting both personal and professional accounts I need to keep track of.
Do you mean the book on T by Stephen Slade? If Jonathan Rees did indeed write a book about it then can you share a pointer about it?
Well, the article is full of other issues too. If you look at the grass behind the plane at the beginning of the video you'll see only one streak of the exhaust, so I'm inclined to believe the GP.
It's not that simple. Ubuntu has a lot of patches to make stuff interact nicely, and installing a diferent DE/WM is not as trivial as you'd think.

The opposite is true in Arch: it's extremely simple to change de WM, and chances of breaking anything else are minimal. This is especially due to the fact that you build the system yourself, so you know exactly what changing the WM affects.
So when I find a bug in say Paypal which allows complete account takeover and could sell it to an organized hacker group for say $100,000 or report it to Paypal "because I'm invested in seeing it fixed" and receive nothing - that is only an easy decision for the whitest of white hat hacker.

Properly designed bug bounty programs are a cornerstone to any company who remotely cares about the security of their product, period.

The idea of misaligned incentives due to poor bug reports being free to submit is ignorant - and worse toxic, because it sounds so true to an executive who has no actual understanding of the issue.

A quality bug report should take no more than 1 minute for a reviewer to look at and know if it's really a bug or not. If it can't, it should be rejected saying provide more clear details. For example a dom based xss attack could be reported with just a target URL and it is quite clear what the problem is. That would take 10 seconds to analyze.

Additionally, most bugs reported to most decent sized companies are reported by someone who has previously reported a bug to the company before. If someone is constantly reporting good bugs or the opposite, its quite easy to prioritize which of those individuals gets their emails read first.
Rule #1 -- don't be a cheapskate on things which matter.
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Why is uniform call syntax a good addition? What is the benefit?

I only ever remember hearing of one programming language supporting it, and I can't even remember what it is. Maybe it was Nim?
If you like learning about how stuff works: Arch
If you want the latest version of everything: Arch
If you value flexibility: Arch

If you value simplicity to get this running ASAP: Debian
If you're not comfortable configuring stuff yourself: Debian
If you want something that won't mutate much over time: Debian
> D has no need for a preprocessor

How does this work, specifically conditional compilation? I have lots of code like this:

#if __APPLE__
/* do things the OS X way */
#else
/* do things the Linux way */
#endif

Where the OS X way calls functions that do not exist on Linux, and vice-versa. How does D handle this?
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Thanks for this insight. I'd not heard of this linking.
I love Arch, but bleeding-edge always intimidates me a bit for a production server. Plus, I've been using OpenBSD for servers since before I knew Arch, so I already have that flexibility (and makepkg is really based on BSD ports).

OTOH, I can't recommend Arch as a desktop OS enough!
I was expecting to be able to record myself in each grid tile.
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> He urged the next generation of software pioneers and entrepreneurs to take a break from developing killer apps and consider a tour of service fending off Chinese, Russian and North Korean hackers, even as he acknowledged that the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor, “showed there was a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing.”

You mean there was a difference in view between what you said you were doing, and what your leaked internal documents SHOWED beyond a shadow of a doubt what you were actually doing and planning on doing.

Do these guys not know their audience?
This isn't really the Arch Way but...

If you have a Mac or MacBook and want to give Arch Linux a shot:
https://github.com/yantis/instant-archlinux-on-mac

Just run one line in Mac OSX and ten minutes later (depending on bandwidth) you will have a fully usable dual boot Arch Linux system.
If you want to just hear it and see the setup without all the preamble, here it is: https://youtu.be/WiFEicJ6grM?t=6m57s

(Starts at 6:57 if that part of the link doesn't work.)
White House Takes Backdoor Insecurity Pitch to Silicon Valley
In many cases you don't need preprocessor for this even in C++. For example you can detect the availability of system functions using function overloading as described in http://zverovich.net/2015/03/13/reliable-detection-of-strerr...
Maybe someone with more D experience can chime in, but D has conditional compilation (ie "static if")

http://dlang.org/version.html
This isn't really news, though it speaks more to the limited use of the current psychiatric doping paradigm than the efficacy of mindfulness.
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Where does science fall on the gun control debate?
If you have a Synology NAS, Surveillance Station works quite well.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/surveillance/7.0
Clearly not, though.
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IME, children (I have 4 of them) have extremely high concentration levels, if they choose the thing they're concentrating on. My 8yo will read for hours, uninterrupted. My 6yo reads for 30min+. Even my 3yo will happily look through picture books for 15-30min.
Everyone here is pretty much saying, get your own laptop. I'm going to add my voice that sentiment. On practical grounds, you don't want to give your employer any reason to put a checkmark about you on the negative ledger. Even if a lot of people there do it as well, you just want to avoid negative marks, especially at a large corp. On another level, it just feels more like your own work and product when done completely with your own resources. Good luck with the startup.
I dunno, I think 4 books per day is do-able if the books are shorter and are an easy read. When I was about 13 I read Red Storm Rising from cover to cover in a day. I checked Amazon just now and it's 830 pages in paperback form.

Years later I spent hours getting through the first few chapters of Godel, Escher, Bach. It was such slow going, and required so much thought, that I ultimately gave up.
> ...even as he acknowledged that the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor, "showed there was a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing."

That one boggles my mind. On 2013, Mar 12, Clapper lied to congress about NSA spying. The purpose of a lie is so that people perceive something different from reality. So they achieved their goal, they're just sorry they got caught.
but maybe you do have a better memory! which is why it is so difficult to forget things that feel bad. Leaving aside the question of intelligence, which is so many things that it isn't worth judging any individual by it, I would say your statement supports both the idea that memory is related to depression, and that focusing on the art of creation of new, positive memories, is a path to happiness, for people like you and me. As a person with a damn good memory, who once felt like you do, cheers!
Nikola Tesla May Be Dead, but He’s Still Providing Wi-Fi to Silicon Valley
I was working on a similar article just a couple of weeks ago for the D wiki, but I wanted to focus on the really big things, and I want to include more examples:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From/C_Plus_Plus_WIP_article
Referrals save money in a few ways. External recruiting agencies can cost somewhere in the range of 15-25% of the candidate's first year's salary. You can see how referrals would make a lot of sense from just a financial standpoint. There are other benefits though - for one, referrals have a higher likelihood of responding to outreach, making it through the interview process, fitting in, and sticking around. I'm sure the referrer doesn't mind the extra dough either :)

In terms of referral bonus amounts, my company (PagerDuty, YC S10) offers between $5K and $20K depending on the role and priority. This includes engineering roles as well. The cool thing is we pay out for external referrals. Anyone can send a referral our way and if a hire is made, you'll get paid the full amount. Not too many companies do that :)
I'd never heard of "WHERE NOT EXISTS", but my first approach would be to make the pair (user_id, cupon_code) unique together, so that only one insertion can be made and
only do any further processing if that transaction does not fail.
Yup, I'm going to upgrade. After a little while when most of the glaring bugs will be ironed out of course. I find that's the best approach to living on the bleeding edge.
sharding is what confuses me the most. How would you avoid these race conditions with a distributed database?
Summarization of Article: A person writing about a professional, the professional who, based on this article, lacks emotional empathy because: Let's face it. Companies will ruin your life if you trust them with your time, energy, and interest. They are only looking out for themselves, and by the looks of things this specific company decided to write and Article just to make themselves look better.

Management's skill levels are typically lower than expected, and beyond disappointing. The person who was hired clearly took the direct approach, and is now moving on to a different job.

The sad part of this story is the "Resume" or Curriculum Vitae only shows the negative part of the situation, and not the positive part, such as a great individual leaving what seems to be an amateur company/business.

This is just some random person being, as usual, disappointed by the actions of the generation that should be labeled as child-like.
Maybe there are legal implications or company policies, but seriously, how would your employer ever even find out you were using that laptop? Just don't go around advertising it if you do use it, backup your data and wipe it before you return it, you'll be fine.

Of course it might be nicer to have your own laptop that is setup just right for what you're building, but if money is scarce then i would just use the work laptop and keep quiet about it.
OK, not arguing with the premise of the article, but is anyone out there boggled by the sheer lunacy of the situation, in which we are attempting to create a machine that can print food in 3 dimensions!?!

Imagine that, 3 dimensional food. I swear the world has gone mad from a certain perspective. haha, where will it end.
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Joel Spolsky gives a good summary here:

http://www.brightjourney.com/q/working-company-intellectual-...

The key phrase seems to be this one: "These state legislatures usually passed laws that said something like this: Anything you do on your own time, with your own equipment, that is not related to your employer's line of work is yours, even if the contract you signed says otherwise." (emphasis mine)

This suggests doing external work on company equipment might be a bad idea.
Unfortunately they've already managed to convince Apple that its zero-day sharing program is "lawful" and that Apple is doing a good thing there.

Or Apple just conveniently ignored the fact that those zero-days are given to the NSA on a silver platter, so the company can get its Apple Pay integrated with federal services (funny how that deal was announced at the same time Apple agreed to share its zero-days with the government - no? Yet, virtually all the Apple-loving media seemed to conveniently ignore what that meant).

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-federal-government-accept-apple-pa...

Either way, the deed is done, and now the government thinks that if it could convince Apple, then it can convince other weaker-minded people and companies as well. And it's just a matter of putting enough pressure on them (through the new DHS office in Silicon Valley). After all, their deals made with the telecom companies many decades ago worked pretty well - so why not tech companies, too, especially if they promise them immunity from ever having to worry about legal repercussions for their relationship with the NSA.