jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
True. I didn't actually realise the Nimrod implementation was garbage collected, I just assumed for some reason it managed memory in a hidden manual way like the C++ implementation. Note that garbage collection may not actually occur in this benchmark; for the single threaded benchmark at least, the Go runtime didn't make a single call to the GC, so D and Nimrod might be similar.
Not sure I understand your comment.

Like sed, all UNIX systems provide ssh. It's not "extra software". There's no need to use telnet.

On the other hand, not all UNIX systems have Python pre-installed. Moreover, as in the case of embedded products, not all systems may have the space for it.
Ok, but that's classical behaviour. Modern *nix behaviour is treating the environment as private data.

I don't get the reason for all that disagreement. Both methos have clear practival advantages and problems, and both are nearly as secure as the other. Use whatever fits better your problem.
Eh? IE9 isn't the latest version available for any version of Windows.

8 is the latest for XP/Vista

11 is the latest for 7/8/8.1

9 is still popular because not everybody upgrades browsers, but giving users who don't upgrade browsers a new option is unlikely to be helpful.

Communicating to them that IE is going away and that they should upgrade to a modern browser, "Spartan" or otherwise, would possibly help this situation, as the author suggests.
Didn't OKC try a new service called "Crazy Blind Date"? I remember signing up for it. It used geo proximity to match up people. The system wouldn't show you pics of each other until you both agreed on a date at a nearby place. Had a little chat with some woman nearby. When the system finally showed pics to us, she mysteriously had some "emergency" and couldn't make it.... :-D
While the notion that "stand and loose" was important in war seems sensible to me, the implication that mobility and shooting speed were irrelevant does not. Being able too shoot fast seems like an immensely useful skill when confronting a mass of enemies that move, have armor and actively try to avoid getting shot. More shots per minute would mean more chance to actually inflict damage.

Also, what about smaller confrontations that did not involve a wall of charging cavalry/footmen?

While the acrobatics is silly, what this guy is doing is impressive and indicate skills that could be applied more broadly.
Using a whole laptop seems insane.

I would pay for someone to build an xbee-based wireless temperature network, though. Any hardware hackers around?
Google has a critical dependence on a few very slow moving manufacturers before they can do each update. And their vendors aren't nearly as capable or incentived as Intel or Nvidia to release updates quickly - since their arrangement is a fixed-hardware deal with particular phones. Not for supporting x operating system on a variety of hardware, with competitors at their throats.
thanks! while we can't afford the big national conferences there is a regional one in the fall we are thinking about attending. we'll take a look at magazine advertising.
I think the point is that if you accidentally leave your door unlocked, you can’t truthfully say “well, if I didn’t do that the burglars couldn’t have gotten in” while you also have ground floor windows.
Not quite. Rather, they argue that it's theoretically possible (though not necessarily realistic) to have good enough security to resist targeted hacking by the KGB, but this requires vastly more than just better password hygiene.
Google is hiring just fine.
(Source: I'm hiring. I work for Google. Also careers.google.com.)
None of the code/design/architecture I wrote this year will help convince an interviewer I can program. Can’t even show it to them because it breaks the apples to apples system they are trying to do with their robotic standardized questions. Still have to play the game: leetcode drills, whiteboard practice, learning to talk and make jokes while white boarding, re-learning Java for the sole reason of needing it for interviews, picking a good “biggest flaw” ahead of time, etc. I wish I got to write algorithms all day but if you actually want to learn to contribute to a project, design and just reading code trumps algorithms, especially since the algorithms can just be looked up the once-per-year they are needed

There are (edit:almost) zero programmers who can’t write a while loop. There are just 199/200 people who are stressed out by the bizzaro interview process that was designed by aliens to promote leetcode. There are however millions of programmers who can’t write maintainable or readable code
We should take tips on morality from the spies and their contractors. If only we could have a more authoritarian government!

Apple's design secures millions of US Americans devices and the help the FBI requested would irreparably harm that security.
And this tells me that there is a need for another step up for this app - to not only poison the contacts, but to temporarily 1) backup => 2) delete => 2a) share poisoned list => 3) restore contacts.

So we can share the list, but they'll never get our real contacts, only trash data. Enough use it, maybe they'll stop
Fortunately, I think the pendulum has already passed its highest mark, and is already picking up momentum in the other direction.

And this time around, it will be even better!
Looks interesting, but where do I find the 5cm thick rigid hepa filters? The ones I see aren't strong enough to hold that shape.

Also, any good way to protect the fan blades from kids/pets or drunk roommates?
I suppose this is subjective. But listening to the short samples, I found the 6kbps Opus audio easier on the ears than Lyra. In the first sample ("pot of gold"), Lyra made the speaker sound like they had a condition which was disrupting their ability to naturally form sounds (incl. a slight slurs). Granted, it sounded a lot better than Speex which sucks.
How about the possibility that perfect VR is invented, every person can live inside their own perfect universe, and the whole species just doesn't give a fuck about exploring the (real) universe?

That would stop a civilisation from exporting any spacecraft or signals outside its homeworld.
Just in case somebody didn't watch the talk and thinks you actually got a point. She asked somebody to take a picture of her in a bikini lying in a puddle next to a road somewhere. The caption on the picture reads: "WAT" — which might just be the right question to ask in that situation. I take it you're upset that he made fun of two dudes and only one girl during his talk? Is that what we're upset about? Or do you want the asian guy to put on a bikini next time he takes his pig-themed scooter on a cruise? For what it's worth: I have it on good authority that most of the camels depicted in this talk are female. Take it easy.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wat
I'm in the UK and have travelled to the US a number of times for work. Being British and white, I guess I don't attract much attention. I will be travelling again in January so will be interesting to see what it's like.

Pesonally I love the electronic visa waiver. I no longer have to fill out paper work on the plane.

I personally don't care about them having my fingerprint. I'm just one of millions transiting through the Usa everyday and I can't see much is going to be done with it other than sitting on a hard disk somewhere.

I see the attitude in the TSA but it doesn't really bother me. They work in an environment which is always busy, full of noise and obviously I am always in international terminals so they have a lot of complex visa and immigration situations to deal with.

The immigration line can be seriously annoying. I wish they would have separate lines for people on the visa waiver and also for people on connecting flights. The fact there is no priority for people on tight connections is annoying.

I'm not fussed about a full pat down, doesn't bother me.

I love coming to the US and don't find the security hassles that big of a deal. I love airports so I love to get to the airport early. After a 10 hour flight, an extra hour is nothing to get annoyed over and I just stand in the line with a book or magazine to read.

People should watch ck louis on flying. Most of us in the west are incredibly privileged compared to lots of other parts of the world and I for one choose to worry about more important things than a quick pat down and immigration check. Flying is enjoyable if you just chill out, relax and have a sense of humour with delays etc
all the ones mentioned by the panel(io, rebol, factor, forth, ...

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1...

I'm not actually going to learn any of them, i'm going to find some URLs that say why they're different from the ruby/python/java/c* maelstrom
Hm, I've recently restored my Osborne 1 to working order, but without the games of other 8-bit computers of the 80's(though the Space Invaders knock off ain't half bad, especially for a computer that doesn't have a graphic mode), I can't really think of much to do with it as the bundled Wordstar and Supercalc aren't quite the draw they were nearly 40 years ago. Helping out with a port of this might be a neat way to make it useful one last time(assuming somebody made it useful with that tiny 5" screen in its first life).
Sometimes it introduces you to new people though that are interesting to follow (usually because people in your network liked their post or something). I find this generally valuable.

If you want to be extreme about it, you can put everyone in lists and then this won't happen. You can also use a third party client that doesn't do this.

My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. I'd much rather have Twitter premium that removes the ads.
This is such an important point. And sadly it appears that they have been successful. The sentiment on GDPR in SV seems to be overwhelmingly negative, for all the wrong reasons I believe.
The “C0” block (U+0000 through U+001F) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes

They’re almost never used in practice however.
Smallcase in India has been doing something similar. You can create your own "smallcase" or use any of the pre defined ones.
Scihub and Napster are "the same thing", in the sense that both are tools that were created to enable the peer to peer sharing of information, one bypasses the journals middlemen, the other the record labels. Information is meant to be free, anything that tries to stop it is going against the nature of info. The way I see it's like trying to stop entropy, good luck trying to create your perpetual motion machine.
Firstly it’s not my article

Secondly I don’t even agree with it

It’s an interesting (and apparently provocative) prediction. I’ve enjoyed reading the responses
Ah, my apologies to the author if they were not trying to pump their own portfolio. I guess I’m a bit jaded by this type of post.
My question is that can they actually force this upon a company that isn't within their borders?
My solution has been to have multiple computers at my desk. Windows for "serious work" (like playing music, youtube videos), and a text-only linux machine (well, a fullscreened terminal emulator, I need the GUI for clipboard functionality).
Holy shit does anyone else see a huge problem with filming a fucking reality show in an E.R? Distracting and intruding upon medical professionals doing their jobs when lives are at stake to make a TV show? Thats absurd!
>the worst I have to do is pay attention

Well, that does kinda destroy the convenience of apt.
Interesting comment.

<Shows in great details Indira Gandhi was a real Ironlady>

Would you hail me as an 'Ironlady' if I were to overwhelm you by force?

<who brought Sikkim into democratic fold removing the monarchy>

What is this category of democracy that you extol? I find it ironical that you would label as a win for the spread of democracy the forceful takeover of an independent kingdom.
The reason why Nouveau got stuck is because Nvidia intentionally changed firmware loading process to break Nouveau and not cooperating on providing firmware. Also part of the problem is that main Nouveau developers are from Red Hat and they are limited in terms of RE of actual Nvidia code. Unfortunately some of Nouveau contributors dropped their efforts once Nvidia began to be actively hostile to the project.

If you look at GPUs like GTX 650 they actually almost have feature-parity and 90% of performance. I personally used GT710 on my PC and while it super-low-end card it's really decent under Nouveau and can drive 3 of 2K displays with 75Hz and lag-free.

As for Apple hardware it's different at least because Marcan isn't as limited in terms of keeping source code purity. After all Apple dont have any Linux drivers so there is no way to RE any code that can be directly applied to Linux graphics stack.
Trump is not educated enough on these matters to take the initiative. The intelligence apparatus is pushing for these, and will continue to do so with the Biden administration.

I can’t envision this Cold War ratcheting down. On the surface, Biden will wipe the slate clean on the trade war stuff, but the tit for tat stuff like this will accelerate.

I don’t know what the end result of it will be, but the movement on this front is almost like day trading for defense departments, there’s enough bullshit here to justify entire agencies and budgets (as in, Palantir is going to find some crap here to monetize).

Prediction - at least a few provisions in the near term stimulus bills, green deals, that will include funding for China containment policy.

Biden has been clear he doesn’t want China setting preconditions for companies (the precondition being we get to copy your IP), and the second bullying sovereign nations economically in it’s sphere of influence. I just don’t know what this will actually look like, but Biden/Obama had way more of a master plan policy than Trump ever did for dealing with China:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of...
You can bet Beijing will retaliate and ban even more US companies.
>> Sure, everyone can have any opinion anywhere.
Still it's mostly an opinion shaped by the environment and mostly prevalent in the US, and to lesser extent, other sparsely populated countries with significant sprawl.

Do you also think that introversion and extraversion are opinions shaped by the environment? Does really bother you so much if so many people intrinsically prefer a different lifestyle than what you believe it to be the best, that you are basically willing to call them brainwashed by the environment?

>>Some of them aren't even used to do groceries by foot, for a large chunk of the US population that involves driving to a Walmart.

It's the same everywhere across Europe outside of strict city centers, just replace Walmart with a local shopping center (Spar, Aldi, Leclerc,...). If you'll ever visit one, you're guaranteed to find them packed with people.
Looks like India banned it as well.

https://www.india.com/viral/it-has-been-banned-delhi-judge-o...
What makes this an academic paper and not a blog post?
thomasbachem noted german laws and regulations are already there at https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze, with an amazing org avatar: https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1994383

A quick github search indicates that Taiwan's laws might also be there at https://github.com/victorhsieh/tw-law-corpus using the https://github.com/g0v/twlaw exporter, Japanese laws seem to have been uploaded at https://github.com/riywo/law.e-gov.go.jp but just be a crawl/dump of law.e-gov.go.jp
I like how u can't do anything except reload the page after clicking on the preview image. fade to black - deal with it.
Note that the opinion just says that it's a search within the fourth amendment context. The court did not make any determination on whether it was a reasonable search and/or seizure since the state court never even considered that aspect of the case.

So yes, it's good that it's considered a search and/or seizure, but the case could still come back that it is reasonable, and thus legal.
There are two ways to privatise: to create a competitive market (liberalisation) or simply to outsource the execution of what is essentially still public policy (to provide quality public transport).

Japan is an example of the latter, the UK is a strongly ideologically (Thatcherite) driven attempt at the former. And those almost almost fail when it comes to infrastructure.

Not so much a matter of culture but ideology.

The whole private versus public debate is a red herring: in the end, these services depend completely on a functioning government taking full responsibility for the outcome, regardless of how the outcome is achieved.
I'd like a word with the person who thought that regular ( ) parentheses for grouping were a good idea in the find syntax, requiring them to be backslash-escaped in shell scripts.

The obviously right choice would have been [ ]. You know, like in

if [ $foo ... ]
I always think that this idea of "losing fat quickly" is kind of interesting. If you think about it, one year of your life is, on average, barely over a percent of your entire lifespan.

If you lifted weights or ran ~5 days a week for a year and ate appropriately, most people would probably end up looking like models. And that's just one year. To me, that's pretty darn quick. Basically, anything else of value takes like way longer: playing an instrument, getting good at a sport, getting an education. If you really think about it, the time investment is actually pretty minimal.
The author's thesis isnt that Elon Musk is flawed, though. Its that his vision of the future is.

The idea that there isnt any comparison of the magnitude of the two mens' impact on humanity is untrue, but so is the idea that we should take an impactful person's worldview and vision for the future as gospel.

In fact, the instinct to take it with a grain of salt is probably the right one, as great wealth and power have rarely been correlated with magnanimity in history.
I need docker in docker. I’ve already virtualized at the bios and I’m running xen within xen. The only thing left is to run virtual box and then dosbox.
Happens to me every time I go camping. Not through deliberate choice or anything. I just... don't go.

Most convenient psychosomatic issue ever. Though it's a little rough on day 5.

I imagine that if I went camping, and didn't eat anything, Camping Mode would last longer.
Yes, was thinking the same thing when read title. I prefere to have my Dostojevski the same after compression/decompression.

But seriously, is loosy text compression a thing (useful)?
There was a debate back in the 80s/90s about how the "beringia standstill population" got into the Americas south of the ice walls. It became a bit of a pressing issue once Monte Verde was accepted as unambiguous evidence of the pre-clovis hypothesis. There were basically two main, competing theories to explain it:

1) the "ice-free corridor" / inland route, where people simply walked from Alaska to the continental US/Canada and then on to South America and

2) the pacific coastal route, where people migrated along the coast. There's a variant of this involving boats, but they're practically the same in that they post-date the first boats by a huge margin and it only changes the chronology a little bit.

The ice-free corridor was the primary hypothesis for a bit because it matched the behavior of the Siberian populations they were descended from better, but it was basically defunct by the mid 00s because the timelines on plausible ice-free corridors were too late to explain Monte Verde. Since then, PCR has been the dominant theory for pre-clovis migrations and it just took undergrad textbooks awhile to catch up. I wouldn't be surprised if even lower level classes like AP World were still teaching the inland hypothesis.
Are you thinking bootleg neuralinks from the local ripper doc?
It's by Ken Thompson, who invented Unix, so it's ok.
My wife's radio show on this topic exactly: http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/38318922/48746461.htm... (shameful plug). Your points are all valid, but there is more to the "culture of innovation" in Russia than meets the eye.
What I meant by the .textile is that on the site you shouldn't say 'push a .textile", you should say "push a *.textile such as foo.textile" I read it such that the file name had to be ".textile" which made me wonder how you would have more than one post.

"I find Blogger and the other online wysiwyg style systems to be too much of a hazzle to work with" Can you be more specific? blogger lets you go to plain text editor and not use the wysiwyg so that is a moot point. I have issues with blogger, but that isn't what I would pick on.
Your first sentence has been true for the better part of a century, now. And - while the American government is undoubtedly less corrupt and more liberal than the Russian one - I don't really see the odds of America using nukes being significantly lower than the odds of Russia using them.

(Also: I'm not entirely clear on what you mean by "out of control" - plenty of countries engage in extrajudicial killings: Russia, obviously, but also Israel, Syria, America...)
> Suppose that there is a network that is never partitioned, and machines connected to that network that never fail. In that case consistency and availability should be perfect.

You mean, in that case tolerance to partition and availability should be perfect.

> Perhaps someday we may be able to say that the odds of enough partitions or machine failures to make the system unavailable are lower than the odds of you getting struck by lightning, at which point you will have for practical purposes defeated the constraints of the CAP theorem.

So this is the really interesting question. All the CAP theorem says is that (C,A,P) != (1.0,1.0,1.0). How close to (1.0,1.0,1.0) could we make (C,A,P)? If infinitely close, then we have achieved perfection by the limit, and the CAP theorem is rather pointless. If not, then what is the numeric limit?

As you speculate, maybe the numeric limit on C x A x P is so close to 1.0 that the odds of seeing a consistency, availability, or partitioning problem are much smaller than getting hit by lightning.

Then again, maybe not. Who knows? ;)

To avoid sounding like a total crackpot, here is an interesting paper that explores the physical limits of computation:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043v3
"Cultural memory" - is an invasion from around 800 years ago really that devastating on a daily basis to the people of today?

I'd also beg to differ on your point that Canadians have no ancestry of invasion - Canadians descend primarily from France and the UK (with a little German as well), and it would be a tad outrageous to pretend these nations haven't endured bloody and violent invasions throughout history.
I loved the Grooveshark interview. These interviews feel really personal.
I'm very happy that SASS and HAML are finally separated, and I don't think I'm alone in that. But I'm not a fan of this mini-language that's gradually creeping into SASS.

I do understand the need for SASS not simply to be a declarative language. (Its dynamic nature is why I started using it in the first place.) However, growing a language ad-hoc around CSS doesn't seem like the best way to go. Instead, I would recommend preprocessing SASS through an existing interpreter (like a Ruby implementation) and not come up with language features "on the fly".

Long-term, it's clear to me that CSS would be much more useful if it were written in a homoiconic Turing-complete language. That way, we could code configuration succinctly (via macros) but have access to all the power of the full language when necessary.

What I'm saying is: right now this feels like a hack.
They can't. They already used up the name 'Apple TV' for another of their products (which oddly enough doesn't actually seem to be a TV at all).
Not working for me. Do they need more donations for servers?
I don't quite follow the problems with having bluetooth support. Could you please elaborate?