skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I ask what you use for a cellphone? It blows me away sometimes how much information I give to Google via my Android phone (I turn off location services and use fastmail, otherwise I just use the phone and services as-is).

I have tried to get my friends and family interested in using private systems that I have set up like Apache Wave and Diaspora but there aren't many takers.
This is just begging the question--why does she need to be able to point us out in all future ages in the first place? What use does that have?
The potential trouble is if the function pointer goes through a void* wormhole. (All of these types will be lost... like...)

In C you can cast a pointer, okay anything really, to a function pointer and then call it.

int foo(int a, int b){return a+b; }
void *vptr = foo;
int (*yolo)(int a) = vptr;
int c = yolo(10); // Cthulhu come

This sort of thing can happen when you pass a function pointer into some sort of callback mechanism+. When you get it back you have to cast it to the right type and then call it. So there is a disconnect between the cast and the function definition, unless you tie both together with a typedef.

+ Often helpful for an api that takes a callback to also record, who the caller was and some arbitrary bit of data. The arbitary bit of data might be a function pointer.
My favorite is similar thing, but in C++ and much more confusing:

class Bar {};

class Foo {
public:
Foo(const Bar &c) { }
void method() { }
};

int main() {
Foo foo(Bar());
foo.method();
return 0;
}

"foo.method();" doesn't compile because:

error: request for member ‘method’ in ‘foo’, which is of non-class type ‘Foo(Bar (*)())’

That's right: "foo" is a declared function that returns instance of Foo and takes one argument - a function that returns instance of Bar :) But when you add additional parentheses in a line above:

Foo foo((Bar()));

then "foo" is an instance of Foo created by passing a new instance of Bar to its constructor, which is more like what you'd expect by reading the code, and the code compiles. Fun!
Rousey’s total cage time after 12 pro fights is 25 minutes and 36 seconds. She’s ended eight of her pro victories in less than one minute each.

http://mmajunkie.com/2015/08/ufc-190-post-fight-facts-ronda-...
When you give it up, you give up religion _and_ community. So maybe we need the Church of Morality ?
Not disagreeing with you at all, but I just want to throw in the caveat that at least in the more mental games, we have no idea how the competitive landscape would look if we had a culture that encouraged as many girls to put as much into competition as we do boys.

Humans are cultural creatures, cultural thinkers and movers, and in everything from chess to MMA we benefit greatly from growing up in a culture that is tooled to support our specific strengths. Not everyone gets that chance, and not all groups equally.
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How would you call that? [1]

[1] http://www.rt.com/news/224395-muslim-incidents-rise-france/
Perhaps the perceived homoeroticism is modern?

The passage linked-to above doesn't appear sexual to me, but rather a reflection of the affection a person can feel for his fellows, and the (non-sexual) sensual joys that exist in this world.
> Perhaps the biggest problem artists face today is that lack of transparency. I’ve asked basic questions of both the digital services and the music labels and been stonewalled. For example, I asked YouTube how ad revenue from videos that contain music is shared (which should be an incredibly basic question). They responded that they didn’t share exact numbers, but said that YouTube’s cut was “less than half.”

Transparency is the problem not only with music labels. It is also a problem with services like Uber, and with the App Store. The sad thing is: people think they can make a decent amount of money on these services, but that might just turn out to be an expensive mistake on average (there will always be outliers, and those cases will hit the news, but they are not the norm).

I think the government should step in and demand complete disclosure on these services.
I spent so much time when I was younger playing Armegatron Advanced. I installed it on a networked drive in highschool so me and my friends could play it anytime we were on the computers.
You are missing a close brace.

I liked a lot how you switch on count and loop on j. If gcc didn't comply, I would never notice it.
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It's not. While her skill level might be as high as an elite male fighter's of the same weight, her strength isn't.

Sexual dimorphism is real and it wouldn't be entertaining to see her pounded into the ground by an amateur thaiboxer -- same as it isn't fun seeing both Serena and Venus Williams being effortlessly beaten by a thirty-something nobody male tennis player
The labels take most of the money because artists have agreed to very one-sided contracts. Then the artists proceed to complain how spotify is screwing them when in fact they screwed themselves signing on major labels.

MAFIAA et al do suck but you should read what you sign.
Or in socialist circles it signifies state fraternal ties ala Brezhnev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_fraternal_kiss
The energy absorbed by interstellar gas and dust doesn't just disappear, it's re-emitted at (mostly) infrared wavelengths. If there really were infinite stars in an eternal universe, everything would be heated to the same white-hot temperature, including the interstellar medium.
Of course, so that's where typedefed declaration may be handy - since compiler doesn't know what is going to be dlsymed, it won't tell you when the signature won't match.
Ah, debugging games... It screams desperation when you see code that is sprinkled with "int 3" 'cos no one knows where or why it's crashing.
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Depends on how complex is your code.

If you try to cast a pointer into your function type, you'll get a runtime error, not a compile time one.
Exactly. First establish near or total monopoly, then profit!

See also: http://zerotoonebook.com
Perhaps this is nitpicking, but the Bible does not mention three wise men anywhere. It does state that wise men gave Jesus three gifts.

"And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh." - Matthew Chapter 2

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-Chapter-2/

Scholars think that there were actually hundreds of wise men who brought the gifts.
because that is in line with all that is holy and proper in america?
Will do it as soon as possible. It is part of our launch strategy related to one tech event.
The battery backup initialization hack from NBA JAM TE is random and hilarious

http://www.ign.com/cheats/games/nba-jam-tournament-edition-g...
Sorry it was a bit snarky.

I was making a serious point which is a phd does not make you an expert in an area outside your area of study. I have a phd and I know I don't have the expertise to judge the physics involved.
All companies should be legally required to make those invasive privacy settings opt-in and not opt-out... and maybe attach some jail time consequences for CEOs for violating these new laws.
Which ISPs enable native IPv6 but ship a router with a permissive IPv6 firewall?
To be fair, the UFC began with no weight classes, and only started implementing weight classes as capitulation to the regulatory bodies who were trying to shut them down.

In brief, the sport was being banned and outlawed in various sates for being too dangerous, and in order to attain "legal" status, the UFC negotiated with gaming boards to determine rules. Some of those rules are stupid, some are undoubtedly prudent, but the rules largely exist because without them, the state of Nevada (and others) wouldn't have allowed the UFC to continue.

I don't have any special insight as to whether or not those gaming commissions mandate a separate women's class or not, and the UFC head honcho Dana White had previously stated that he'd never allow women's MMA in the UFC at all, but I suspect that his opinion has been changed by how competitive the women's division actually is.
The "like-minded individuals" thing always bothers me. I'd hate to live with a bunch of people who think just like me. How about a co-living space with "unlike-minded" individuals (who still get along)?
Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman have investigated this question by teasing out correlations like this. Their conclusion, as discussed in [1] and [2] is that three factors correlate well with a drop in religiosity: (a) egalitarianism (i.e. not being in a rat race against the Joneses and also not suffering the lifelong indignity of being substantially less well off than others), (b) freedom from financial and other catastrophes (as provided by a socialistic-leaning society) which does away with the need for a Big Brother to help you out and correct the injustices, and (c) education as you suggest. Education is helpful but the other two factors apparently rank above it.

[1] http://www.epjournal.net/articles/the-chronic-dependence-of-...

[2] http://edge.org/3rd_culture/paul07/paul07_index.html
> if several hundred white Christian men had raped and via organised trafficking abused several thousand Muslim girls it wouldn't have been left by the authorities to fester

Isn't that exactly what just happened? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_explo...

> In our efforts to appear tolerant we tolerate the intolerable, multiculturalism has failed.

I wouldn't ask you to tolerate it, but I might suggest you ignore it if there are similar things happening closer to home in your life, and put your focus on those things. It's not racist to fight against a brown rapist but it is racist to fight against brown rapists while ignoring white rapists in your community.
I think he did: you don't need real numbers to formulate classical physics. Everything measurable has finite precision so you can always get away without postulating that your limits actually converge to something.

Of course, the reality is that then you would wind up with awkward limit-taking machinery in your answers. Real numbers encapsulate that complexity so you might as well use them to simplify both the notation and manipulation of limits. But you don't need to.
Yeah, but these well intentioned networks also often do packet inspection to block simple workarounds.
The idea of curating people is nauseating to me.

It speaks to one of the largest failures of technology, which is that the techno utopians from Gen X believed the Internet would herald a new age of informed democracy and rational debate. Instead what we got is a balkanization of ideas where no one has to ever hear anything vaguely uncomfortable and we can all stay ensconced in our little tribes.
If you are implementing a software updater, you should use The Update Framework[0]. In this case, the compromise happened because a file server was hacked. A simple offline cryptographic signature (with proper verification) would have prevented this incident, but it would not allow key rotation and revocation or prevent rollback, freeze, mix-and-match, etc. attacks.[1]

[0] http://theupdateframework.com

[1] https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/blob/620fa6e95375c...
When I see fix, foldl, etc. as an imperative programmer I get uneasy and think 'what is the computer actually doing?!'. I need to see example thunks.
advocating taking property lawfully obtained and giving it to someone else?

Yes. Obtaining property "technically lawfully" but actually illegally is not going to survive.

It's a free market system

Except, corrupt foreign millionaires and billionaires are buying up in-demand US real estate (SF, LA, NYC) as safe houses (see: russian and arab mobsters/politicians/princes buying condos with 3 bulletproof safe rooms) and long term investments (see: chinese family buying Palo Alto homes for their newborn daughter because they know she will go to stanford in 20 years) without living there. They either let the houses sit idle or rent them out at a profit, taking more money out of the local economy. We do not welcome our new foreign non-productive overlords.

the answer to that is not to take property away from lawful owners.

We need to track down all these "optimistic investment" purchases and safe house purchases then just imminent domain them back to the public who actually participate in the local economy. When people on salary are competing with millionaires and billionaires for rent, they can't win.

Entire living centers are being built as "ghost towers." Real estate developers travel overseas and sell every unit in a tower to Chinese buyers 5 years before even breaking ground on the building. Then when the building is complete, it sits 90% empty. The developers get their money and the buyers get to ride on tax breaks, but it does nothing to help the local population.

Then, all of that isn't getting into when all this fancy housing is purchased by illegal foreign money.

There's a spectrum here. We need to audit all purchase records, pierce the veil of every LLC, and determine if real estate purchases in tight markets are made as an attempt at laundering money. If so, the property is forfeit.
Flexport is hiring engineers who like ships and planes
In the old days you REALLY needed the record companies. But with digital distribution for sales. And the possibility to accurately log each play of a song on streaming services, and compensate the artists for that. Why are they still used ?

The biggest problems will occur from artists want a$ per play, but the streaming services only has b$/(month*plays).
Ummmm from Philly friends... I'm sorry we let this happen :(
Based on the pictures of what was taken and left leads to one thing - scrappers. Leave any valuable metal or copper wiring laying around providers a quick $ to scrappers.
The lymphatic system is a return (drainage) system. What is more interesting is that it has been recently found that ultrasounds can make the blood brain barrier leaky allowing you to get drugs into the brain that normally are blocked.
I agree. I don't understand why you think fighting against affection and care is "social justice". Sounds like the opposite to me.
Coolmaster site hacked
Appears that the US Coolmaster website http://us.coolermaster.com has been hacked.

If you Google "xMr.Goreman404_IDx" you'll see a bunch of websites have been hit by the same person(s).

Does anyone have any clue what exploit was used, and how to patch it, if it's a common vulnerability?
Yeah who cares about saving humanity from extinction. Let's just stay here with out families and our 4x4's until we drown. Real heroes.
"you will eventually be thrown away as an unhappy and unenthusiastic employee and be given a bad review, no matter what your achievements or sacrifices were."

This is a very important point. The company's founders have absolutely no loyalty to him - they'd throw him out like trash (without the slightest regrets) as soon as it becomes convenient for them. Thus, he should not have any more loyalty to them than they have to him, and should not feel guilty about leaving to pursue better opportunities.
If you want to go by authority, instead of by the fact that const just makes sense, there's this guy who claims to be a complete const nazi who you might have heard of. His name is John Carmack.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3NDQ
'const' in C and C++ is broken. Not only is it like a Chinese word that varies wildly in meaning depending on where you use it and how it is inflected, but in C-family languages, 'const' modifies type, making objects that benefit from the compiler hints 'const' implies type-incompatible with objects that do not. This results in the problem of some know-it-all deciding that a core API needs to be const-correct, and checks in changes making it so, only to find that the entire fucking code base is now broken.

Note that I'm not saying "don't use 'const'" with the above (and I'm CERTAINLY not saying "using '#define const' in your code base is a good idea"); only that 'const' in C-family languages has significant drawbacks which may affect the engineering tradeoffs you make when you decide whether to use it.

By contrast, languages such as Ada have explicit and implicit constantness restrictions ('in' parameters, for instance, cannot be modified), but these do not modify the type of the object, allowing objects with these restrictions to be type-compatible with objects without them.
How is profit "fucking people over"?

They aren't profitable now. Clearly that's unsustainable. To become profitable they need more revenue than expense. There are not many ways that this can happen, and one given is that the fare charged must be higher than what the driver is paid for that trip.
They only have their name brand, and Uber has to be aggressive because they're operating in a space with little barriers to entry. They cannot raise their prices - people do not depend on Uber and can switch at zero costs.
It's almost as if they've rebranded feudalism as "sharing."

Proper sharing would be a fully connected graph topology. Modern "sharing" is hub-and-spoke where the hub extracts rent on all transactions because they either made a website (lol, "tech company") or have absconded capital and sell it back to you (time limited) at a profit.
Huh? We definitely know that that doesn't describe the universe. If two points are so far apart that the expansion of space inflates the distance between them faster than light can cross it, then no light can ever reach from one to the other, even if it travels for an infinitely long time.
Frankly, it makes me think the parent poster is not looking at this realistically.

What do feminists have to do with this? A typical feminist position is that our society expects dads to be cold and distant and leave parenting to the women, and that this is a bad and sexist assumption. Feminists explicitly call for men to be more involved in parenting and childcare.

It would make just as much sense if he'd blamed this problem on communists.
Correct. She beat Carano and eventually the league (Strikeforce) went out of business and got bought by the UFC. The UFC absorbed all fighter contracts. There is no 145 womens division so she had to cut to 135 or leave. She decided to leave. Now she is the 145 champion of Invicta (an all womens league) that is basically owned by the UFC now as well.

If shes smart and wants a massive payday she will cut to 135 for the Rousey fight.
Why is HN increasingly turning into the front page of gender studies.
Because of you. Cf: Lewis's law.
Interesting read, two things stand out for me, one is that the ship breaking in India/Pakistan/Bangledesh is not cost competitive given what seems like no, or very little (note the comment about cementing an area) investment in the facilities.

And the second is the huge export boosts from China in iron and steel. (alleged in the article to be below cost but there wasn't really any support for that argument.)

Any insights on why companies doing ship breaking wouldn't invest at least some of the returns into their own facilities? I could understand if it was a sort of "one and done" thing where you never expected to break a second ship, but since they suggest there is 30 years of experience here, what is the process whereby people don't figure out ways to do it better/more efficiently/safer? I would expect that eventually this would be an ideal robotics sort of application (assuming you are ok with a mobile robot carrying around a plasma torch :-)

As for China, their behavior has been consistent over the last 50 years at least, which is that acquiring foreign currency reserves are more important than profits. They still import a lot of "stuff" so that is going to be critical to economic growth. There is a long tradition of exporting natural resources to fund those reserves, whether it is Russian's oil, or South Africa's mineral wealth. But if they are being forced to cut prices to keep those reserves flowing, that's an interesting data point on their economic health.
> "Other people are data-thieves too!" and "We've been stealing data from for a long time" are not justifications for MS's current bad behavior.

I never said it was, I was simply pointing out that this week it's Microsoft in the media crosshairs over practices that are not unique to them. Next week it may indeed be Google under the microscope, though they tend to be media darlings most of the time. My point is, this is nothing new so why are we acting like it is?

> A big part of the problem is the creeping-normalization of these practices

I agree 100% with this; see Gmail again as a great example of privacy erosion being pushed upon us a little bit at a time, until we don't notice or care anymore.
If Ronda tries to stand and fight TJ, like she fought last night, he would defeat her extremely quickly. Compare their movement and footwork in recent fights -- it's not remotely comparable. It might not be quite as one-sided if she can bring it to the ground, but I'd still expect his strength to dominate before long.

It's disappointing that we'll probably never see Ronda realize her full potential because she doesn't face enough competitive pressure.
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Maybe some joint effort with rotaries and young professionals networks? There are quite a few YPNs, and while their interests are aligned, the YPNs I don't think really talk much in terms of codes of honor or social engineering (political, not hacking).
>It also has ambitious plans to turn Windows 10 into a funnel that will guide users towards paying Microsoft for revenue-driving subscription services and microtransactions.

This right here is why I won't be upgrading past windows 7. I'll keep 7 on my systems until it goes EOL and stops getting security updates, and then I'll either get a Mac or migrate fully to Linux.

Ads on the start menu and the lock screen? There's just no fucking way I'm ever giving Microsoft another dime.
What people like him don't get is that const is not only about security. It also documents the intents behind the code and thus makes writing new code around it easier. Const really helped me thinking about better designs when I started coding in C++.
Great points, you hit the nail on the head.
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Looks like OCR reads some commas as periods.
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Well in Belgium it's because they arrest them. The cops put down their information at the station, and they are out 3 hours later. MAYBE later they are summoned for trial, months later. But good luck by then.
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Do you recognize that someone needs to develop the sites that you consume?

The web server that comes with Windows 10 - IIS 10 is the first version of IIS to support HTTP/2.
I've been wondering the same thing for a while. I don't know why it just disappeared out of nowhere.
> How is profit "fucking people over"?

There is a line of thinking that says that profit is by definition fucking people over.

I am not telling you that you ought to agree with that line of thinking, but I think you should at least familiarise yourself with it instead of dismissing the idea as if it came from another planet.
That may be, but at the same time I would think there are only a limited amount of things that would affect your performance in the ring, at least to a significant effect.
For increased accuracy, each page was keyed by two different typists in order to identify and correct discrepancies

This was a common practice used for systems that took data entry via punch cards as well (during the punch-card era).
Testing Windows 10 apps
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> the anti-gay law in India (Article 377) is an 1860 law that was brought over by the British

How unsurprising. And sad.