skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its funny how stupid smart people get when they're chasing big IPO dreams.
Neither does AdBlock Plus!
They use the term abandoned when really, it sounds like the more correct description is that the client decided to go with a different service. In that case, it would be akin to G+ reviving your profile page after you moved to Facebook, and populating it with your Facebook posts without your permission. That doesn't seem ok
It's crazy how quickly newspapers became just an old relic. I live in the East Bay and the Contra Costa Times started delivering us a free paper for awhile to get us to sign up. I read it one Sunday, but in the end, it just became a thing that sat in my driveway until I threw it in my recycle bin. I called them after a week and asked them to stop the free delivery.
There really is no good answer to your question. You'd have to go down that path and experience it for yourself. Or you could trust someone else who is sensitive to these things... but you'll be in the same boat.
>Considering the terrible tax / spending policy and massive amounts of money being printed at the time I have my doubts the energy crisis was nearly as important as you suggest.

The inflation spikes that happened all around the world at that time in other countries that also experienced the 1970s oil crisis should clue you in.

That's not to say that the hyperinflation might have been avoided if the Brazilian military dictatorship spent a little less at the time. But this was still mainly cost push inflation, not demand pull inflation.
When a major security flaw in FB exposes all your private data to the world;
My company hired two bootcamp developers.

One stepped up, and the other was fired. They were great for basic web development, but really crashed and burned for anything more than that.
They had some issues understanding basic system administration, data modeling, basic algorithms, web architecture, and systems modeling.
Our lead developers didn't have time to give them a two year education on these issues. We were all busy building stuff.
The one bootcamp developer who survived, from what I found out was basically eat sleep breathing itunes computer science courses. But she eventually resigned from massive burnout.

I personally think there should be a better median between a 10-20wks bootcamp and four year degree.

I think the first 2 1/2 years of my computer science b.s. really really helped me learn the basic mental model for computers, and how to learn new concepts from that model.
Github is only a solution for software without meaningful binary assets where the user is expected to build the software himself and no community interaction beyond pull requests and issue reports is desired.

I have no experience with them, but I've seen some projects using Bintray:

https://bintray.com/

Apparently, they have some integration with GitHub as well.
One of the problems is that if a story has multiple URLs, this dilutes the traffic. In this case, many people hesitate to link to a PDF, so that scattered the pointers. If multiple people submit the same URL, they get redirected to the original post that they can then vote up, increasing the story's velocity.
what does "improperly downloaded" mean here?

They didn't have permission to download? or weren't supposed to be downloaded by employees who are leaving?
The theory is that humans have not always noticed that "me" is different from the surroundings.
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I think the point is regardless of whether you need to decrypt it to read it or not, you should be verifying the content against a signature. Otherwise the content could be forged.
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A family member has suffered for a long time with a mental disorder that included major depression and even a serious suicide attempt. For a large part of her life therapy was drug-focused. It was very difficult to achieve consistency, both for the patient and for the care-givers (medicine changes, hope of better optimizing medications, changing insurance coverage, etc). Only since she has also been receiving talk therapy (including CBT) in addition to some drugs has she seen serious improvement and a better ability to rely on herself and make good decisions when it gets difficult. Talk therapy is expensive, but the cost of medications can also be extremely high, and the cost to the family and society when things goes wrong can also be huge.

In many cases medicine works wonders... but there are a lot of disorders (e.g. personality disorders like borderline) where medicine has far less of an impact (none or only treat some very specific symptoms).

I'm really optimistic about our developing knowledge about brain chemistry and developing newer and better treatments, but it is very naive to think that they can solve problems with drugs that are fundamentally interpersonal issues. It's very difficult to resist the sexiness of replacing hours with a therapist with a pill, especially in a profit based health system.
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I actually did a (rough mvp) hackathon project with a friend that implemented this idea pretty literally: https://github.com/dominodes/dominodes
'pm' is a password magician, useful when you just typed your password in front of someone. I'm looking for more features to add based on your reviews. Thanks! :)
At this point matter is almost a supersition and it's exciting.
I'm sure we only hear about "easy to decline/opt-out/remove" software when it is something nobody ever wants. If the first feature of your software is that it's easy to decline, maybe it's time to pack up shop.
Am I stealing if I pick out the nice apples from the bin at the grocery store, and leave behind the ones with rotten spots?
I'd say the lack of actual consciousness is something we aspire too - we want to get in the zone for that game or for the work task - we want to perform automatically where time flies by. We want to be untroubled by conscious thought which causes worry and fear and escape via entertainment, or yoga, or sex etc.
My company has hired 4 bootcamp graduates (myself included). 2 of them were a year before me and no longer work in the industry. I'm very confident they would hire me again. They even hired another student I recommended. The major difference between the two of us and the two of them were personality traits, not course material. It always comes back down to the human factor.
A somewhat similar pricing mechanism seems to be developing today for payments in Bitcoin. Very few things you can buy in Bitcoin are actually price denominated in Bitcoin. You'll see things selling for $25 worth of Bitcoin, rather than 0.1 BTC, considering the historic volatility. Almost all merchants accepting Bitcoin use the USD as a base pricing denomination.
Smacktive app with automatic notifications
Smacktive now has an automatic notification system built into the app for finding people who have the same activity likes you do. Simply choose which activities you want to be notified about that are going on in your area and the app will send you a notification when someone is nearby. Once you tap on the notification you can chat with that person in real time to meet up OFFLINE.

Thoughts on getting alerts from people you do not know in real time to chat and then meet for activities like soccer, tennis, board games, anything in person. Can download on the app store or feel free to ask us anything here. Appreciate your insight very much.
Why can't someone make a hosting site with a no crapware rule? I understand monetization is a big issue, but I'd be willing to sit through a 10-15 second forced ad to get a nice FOSS product. This mentality of installing random "utilities" and search hijackers on PC's needs to end. I can't imagine these things outpaying video ads directed right at our demographic.

In the age of cheap bandwidth and cheap servers, how is this not massively profitable?
It's actually the other way around. These employers are basically subsidizing the social services. If the best job Jimmy can get pays minimum wage, then logically, if Jimmy couldn't even get that job, he wouldn't earn a living wage; he'd earn nothing. If Jimmy had the opportunity to earn a living wage, after all, he would go get the job that pays that living wage and quit Wal-Mart. But, since Wal-Mart is the best job Jimmy can get, the net effect of Jimmy earning minimum wage at Wal-Mart is that he costs the state less money in social services than he would with no job at all. Wal-Mart, therefore, is the one subsidizing the state and not the other way around.
I like the part on the trends in China, mainly 150-163. They are the largest part of the InterNet now. They are starting to do innovate projects. In contrast India is still in the copy-America stage, but could become more innovative at some time.
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They show their true colors in the last paragraph:

We welcome further discussion about how SourceForge can best serve the GIMP-Win author.

Just stop. How disingenuous can you be? What a disgrace.

Do we really need to go there? Ok, how about: "completely suspend and remove the project, and don't let the name be reclaimed."

Source Forge is trying to convince us they never thought of that. Really? Give me a break. You knew. You just don't care. Fine, you don't. But don't try to play that off as ignorance. "Oh, yeah, please enlighten us with further discussion!" Get out of here, stop wasting our time.

They could just as well have done away with the blog post and put up an image of a giant middle finger, instead. At least that would have been honest.
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Microsoft is now correctly marking "adware" as the malware it is:

https://threatpost.com/microsoft-to-detect-search-protection...
Nice math but what pg said was probably just in the moment arrogance.

Disclaimer: IANAPG either.
- No e-commerce sites charge money on any app stores for users to download their apps since they want the largest audience possible shopping them.

- Google Play only takes a cut of in-app purchases of digital goods and not physical things. Most e-commerce companies would not survive if Google took a 30% cut of everything sold since margins in many industries are in single digits (electronics/computer parts for example are generally less than 5%).
>how did you miss the two other comments that repeated this information nearly an hour before yours?

Honestly. I respond as I read. I tend not to keep reading and then go back to respond.

>Not-with-standing that being technically correct is not what anecdotes are about in the first place.

This is more than a mere technicality. The whole issue of mens rea is that one's state of mind is a factor is how someone is judged for their actions.

Your point, even without the analogy issue, is that the reason is irrelevant. That is simply not the case. Putting a security flaw in place to give the FBI a backdoor is vastly different than putting a security flaw in place due to poor coding. You may say they are both the same in that they both compromised security, but only one of these is backdooring and the damage to one's reputation is going to be different.

Now, in this particular case, the reason isn't sufficient to warrant a different judgment. But that is because of the details of this case.
> What systems are in place to prevent this from happening with package manager systems like apt-get, yum, or even npm? How often do we just blindly "sudo apt-get install blah-blah blah"? I know I don't read the dependencies.

Distributions don't typically package and distribute malware. And everything packaged in a distribution should be removable via the same package manager that installed it. So, while you might get a package you don't want, that package won't start showing you ads or harming your system, and you can always trivially remove it.
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Perhaps your response was meant for some other comment. I asked mmf for links that show Italian salaries, I didn't ask for free book links :-)
There are only two hard problems in economics: cash invalidation and naming things.
The only reason UTF-16 was so widely used is as a backwards-compatibility measure. All these systems originated in the UCS-2 era, or had to be compatible with ones which did. Then UTF-16 came along, and slotted in where UCS-2 was. This is why you have such sloppiness about treating surrogate pairs as two characters, for instance: the systems were made for UCS-2 and only poorly updated to the UTF-16 reality.

Any modern system would use UTF-8.
I'd recommend getting a native English speaker to proof-read your text. 'More faster' was used repeatedly on the page and should be simply 'faster'. There were a few other typos, (e.g. 'A bug fixed will be released ASAP.') and very non-idiomatic sentence constructions. It might be a solid undercarriage, but now's the time to polish the hood.

Also, I'd def. remove the movie screenshots. You could still use imagery that evokes the film but isn't trademarked or under copyright - like an image (not from the film) of flaming tire tracks for example.
Can it teach you enough to be an entry level dev? Probably. Professional devs come from on the job experience not classrooms. Not that there isn't some value from class learning but experience is the most important from what I see. Disclaimer: I don't have college experience. I just went to a 2 year tech school that you all would laugh at. If I could go back I still think I would prefer a 4 year program but I've also been working steady for almost 10 years now. Some of my B.S. degree friends aren't.
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In this case, the maintainer was still maintaining the page - he found out when he was locked out of his account.
Since Apple has gone the route of presenting themselves as the protectors of privacy I struggle to see how they will have the ability to be half as useful as Google Now.

I just read apple.com/privacy/ statement again. Many felt it was a shot against Google. It just says selling your information to marketers and no back doors for government ever. So it looks like Apple's privacy statements are not broken by Google Now's actions.
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I live in New Orleans. Black male unemployment (excluding those jailed) is hovering around 50%.
MySpace made many mistakes, the worst of which is that they would do absolutely anything to increase short term revenue regardless of the effect on the experience. The result was a messy, user-hostile product that was bleeding users to anything that offered a better social experience.

Zuckerberg is smarter than that. Facebook may (probably will, at some point) lose its dominance, but it won't be a repeat of the MySpace debacle. Perhaps people will gradually realize that "Facebooking" is not the same as real socializing, it's a low-effort, low-value pseudo-social entertainment activity.
It would seem to be increasingly similar to each of those things in turn, not "none of the above".
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I do not feel that I am over exaggerating.

* Battery life, privacy invasion are real issues.

* the over the top clutter of ads on many sites is a really problem. I try to avoid such sites, but it is not always possible.

* I have been on the Internet since 1991. I am expecting to be on it for another 30 or more years. I am weighing a life time of risk, not a single page visit.

This last point is key. One bad actor, using one Zero Day exploit could cause a huge amount of personal pain for me. As a web developer for 20 years, I learned long ago to do everything in my power to prepare and to the extent possible prevent being hit by a Zero Day.

You may feel differently, but I personally see huge risk over the course of a lifetime.
That's not how copyright works.

You don't have a license for those images, so you can't use them. Period.

Fair use only applies under certain circumstances where using copyrighted materials is necessary (e.g. satire or discussion). Even if you don't use them commercially, you can't just use them like that.
> What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was

I worry about the same thing, and not just policymakers but the public too. I hypothesize that a few behaviors are connected to it:

* The disregard for the importance of the multilateral international institutions built after WWII: The UN, the EU, the WTO, the Geneva Conventions, and the general rules-based international order. Many conservatives seem to describe these as naive, idealistic and unrealistic, but these institutions were built by the survivors of WWI and WWII. They knew far more of war than we do; if anyone is naive, it's us.

* The war-mongering: Within a large segment of U.S. political arena, people compete to show who is most aggressive with the use of the military, as if to prove that they are not 'liberal'. War is not a last resort for them, but almost a first choice.

* The embrace of ideology and nationalism: It seems to me that a lesson of the World Wars is that nationalism and dogmatic ideology leads inexorably to war, and integration with your neighbors and pluralism prevents it. But now xenophobic nationalism and extreme ideologues, unmoderated by skepticism, are mainstream, from the U.S. to Europe to East Asia to the Middle East. We all know where that ends.

* The civilian-military divide and the glorification of the military: Also a product of the move to an all-volunteer force, few Americans have experience in the military or know someone who does, a far remove from the days of WWII or the draft. The results (based on what is written about more and more): Civilians that recklessly send people to the horrors of war (see "war-mongering", above); a military that resents the burden they carry for the civilians; and a highly partisan military. Another result is the recent glorification of the military: Around WWII (and other wars during the draft era), when a large portion of the public had military experience, the military was associated with terms like SNAFU and Catch-22, a bureaucratic disaster that soldiers had to overcome. Now, from a distance, with so few having familiarity with its realities, the military is glorified by civilians. It's almost unpatriotic to criticize it (which incidentally creates a lack of accountability that endangers the personnel we claim to care so much about).
Those are the things you pay to get you to the station. Those don't pay for the train (i.e. server cost of your traffic).
Facebook has something MySpace never achieved and something that could easily set it's place firmly where it's at, given they don't make any major changes to mess it up: The Geriatric Crowd.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time in history that anyone in the tech industry captured this crowd in a major way. Those in my family over 70, on both sides, can barely make a phone call on a cell phone and don't even really know what texting is... but they sure know how to use Facebook. That's how they see their grandbabbies, of course they know how.
Switzerland is 'world's happiest' country in new poll
How is this different from Myth (http://www.myth.io/)?
This applies to any VPN service. They'll all fall to the legal demand to log, for a specific user at least, sooner or later.

If you want anonymity, a VPN service is not the way to go.
"Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers, and the original downloads are always available."

Well, there's your problem.
Excellent news, particularly removing global state and improving Dependency Injection support.
Maybe it was just me, but I found the data to be a bit depressing. I'm a GenXer and there are days when the tech industry seems to be run by a generation I have trouble identifying with. The data in this reports suggests I'm not just being paranoid (more millennials in workforce than other named generations).

I was also shocked by the % of people who think they can get a new online gig in < 24 hours. The slides pointed at Upwork and ThumbTack. The first seems to be a renaming of oDesk. It seems to be dominated by workers from outside North America (at least for tech work).

This also raises the larger issue of career for GenXers. I was at a conference recently and spoke to some other people my age. The collective feeling I got was there is no defined career track anymore. Apparently, you just move from one interesting gig to another. While this is something millennials may be totally comfortable with, this particular GenXer is not. I'm also reading a book (interesting and depressing) called "Company of One" that seems to suggest that the overall trend is not restricted to millennials but the economy as a whole.
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Copying internal private documents for the explicit purpose of sharing them with your new employer, who happens to be a competitor.
For me, it was very easy to use coming from Matlab, and the bult-in console allowed for the same "exploratory programming" that Matlab is praised for. I never feel like Pycharm is in the way like a lot of IDEs can be (and the reason why I usually prefer command-line).
It is up to you but if 100% of people did exactly what you did where would we be? Pay walls?
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> "Another obvious "consciousness" bit is the Code of Hammurabi. Dated to 1754 BC (or roughly 4000 years ago), it demonstrates that the ancient Babylonians did in fact have law."

I recommend you read Jaynes' book, because it specifically addresses this. There is an entire chapter devoted to Hammurabi and his laws. If I remember correctly, he argues quite convincingly that Babylonians were indeed bicameral (surprisingly, in Jaynes' theory you don't need conscience to have laws, and the hallucinated words of your chieftain were the first "laws", which later gave way to the "voices of the gods"). I think according to Jaynes, Babylonia was already stretching it and bicameralism was starting to break down when meeting other civilizations. War is possible and even likely between smallish bicameral cultures; complex trade relations are way more difficult.

Jaynes' definition of "conscience" is quite technical, mind you. To him it's a relatively sparse act of "narrative introspection". I totally buy that you don't need conscience at all for the most part of your life! You don't need conscience to act, or even learn in some cases!

I think Jaynes was a crackpot. But his theory is a fascinating read nonetheless.