skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What changes to Neovim are you referring to?

We are generally very careful about "cleanup" patches in Neovim. Some examples:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/2418

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/1788

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/1340

At least one tangible benefit to some of these changes is that it allows us to enable -Wconversion.

We've also rejected dozens of cleanup patches for quality reasons.
So Apple is putting user freedom ahead of advertiser freedom in this case, whereas Google is siding with the advertisers for obvious reasons.
Sigh.

I live in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. And our local grocer (Kroger) has Jackfruit. It's $5/lb and the pod is around 6-10 lbs.

They had one on sale, and I bought it, only knowing the name. The thing was pretty good, given I knew very little about preparation.

One thing though, is use olive oil liberally. The latex it gives off is sticky as hell. Not even soap will get it to release.
Can someone explain the math here? 2012 they received 3M in seed funding. 2014 they received 14M USD. The picture on that boat shows 26 (?) people. So let's assume 26 people were always in the company just for kicks.

Between 2012 October and 2015 September they ran out of 17M USD. That's a burn rate of 5.67M USD per year.

For 26 employees, if we stupidly assumed no other costs, that nearly 218k USD salary per year.

Obviously that's not right. Let's assume they paid an average of 100k USD per year to each employee. That's 2.6M USD burnt for salaries. Which means that infrastructure, ad spend, and administrative costs and taxes (?) came to just over 3M USD per year.

And that's assuming they received ZERO money while they were running. Which is of course a load of tosh.

I'm unaware of the US market's costs in running a business but those numbers seem abnormal. Am I missing something here or does this seem plausible?
You can't use a treasury ETF as a proxy for the whole bond market.
This is fascinating. It doesn't look like it's designed for bitcoin miners. It looks like it's the start of a future where computing power is traded for digital goods and services.
The alternative is a brick-and-mortar library system, where high demand books have six-month-long waitlists. But at least those high demand books are available.
He also had another webpage, the name escapes me, that ran for quite a while. And if I am not super-mistaken, a similar app. While it/they failed in the end, it definitely shows additional drive coming from him.

Does the "horrible" stuff _really_ matter though? Do you think the admins/creators of reddit should deserve less credit/respect because of the many horrible subreddits? I really don't see why the bad stuff would lower the achievement/respect towards moot, he has always been against it, cooperated with law and police and he has 'staff' that are dedicated to remove the bad stuff. Why aren't those things considered?
Fukushima
Same here. This is very popular in Kerala. I think it is unfair to say Jackfruit is not popular in India, Kerala is in India. Pulled pork? That's news ... It is a fruit that needs getting used to. To those who love it, there is nothing as great as the jackfruit!
I know, it is a shock, but tech companies are allowed to exist outside of California. Case in point: "© 2015 OYSTER - BUILT IN NEW YORK"
I never understood Oyster business model.

My 81 year old father figured out years ago how to connect is Kindle to his local public library.

He literally checks out nearly any book, all FOR FREE and reads it on his kindle.

Maybe this is a US centric thing and Oyster was targeting international users. But local libraries have been offering this service of digitally checking out books (even current books) for free for nearly 10 years.

Don't get me wrong. I never like reading about businesses shutting down because that implies people will be losing their job. I just never understood this business to begin with, maybe someone could shed some light on what I'm missing
Not sure I agree with that. I like, for example, the Java applet that goes with FreeMind for viewing mindmaps.
I've heard that when you factor in office space, desks, computers, benefits, etc.; the cost of hiring an employee to the company is roughly 2x their gross salary. (As for income tax, at that bracket, it's something like 40-50%?)
TORI KELLY – EXPENSIVE
I'm not sure that follows. On the kind of wifi router that the FCC wants to ban, you can install new firmware because it's designed to allow you to to that. You could have accessible firmware whose signals have to pass through a non-accessible ROM.
The Death of eBay
Hm, both viraptor and I were downvoted without significant commentary. While I don't mind downvotes for being wrong, is anyone interested in actually claiming that we're wrong? As far as I'm aware, viraptor is completely technically accurate: the Chrome team is the reason that Linux's seccomp mode 2 is so good today. (In 2010-11 I was working on a project that assumed that the seccomp mode 2 rumors were never going to amount to anything, which was the consensus of the time.)

Also while I'm here, a certain [dead]-and-proud account linked this bug which is somewhat relevant (but only somewhat, in my eyes):
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477424
> as soon as I begin broadcasting, I'm not just living my life any more, I'm affecting yours, too

Do you have a wifi router? If so, you are already broadcasting. Have your neighbors complained that they can't use their wifi because of your broadcasting?

The huge missing piece in this whole discussion, to me, is: how much of a problem actually exists? How many people actually have problems using wifi because someone else is violating the FCC rules? My sense is that the number is very small.

> Pre-emptive regulation of the sort the FCC engages in is annoying

I think it's much worse than annoying. Perhaps you don't do any hacking on any device that has a wifi radio; if so, it might only be annoying to you. But if even a small number of people who want to innovate (and won't be doing anything that would break the rules anyway) are prevented from doing so because of pre-emptive regulation, that is a big price to pay. Particularly if, as I suggested above, the magnitude of the actual problem is small.

> what other mechanism is proposed to prevent spectrum abuse?

The article suggests two: social norms, and aggressive enforcement against actual offenders--as in the Marriott case.
The broader point is a legitimate one, however Samsung is a bigger user of lithium batteries than Apple.

Samsung has 21% of the smart phone market globally. Apple is at 14%. Samsung also sells a lot of feature phones using lithium batteries.
An alternative approach is to use XPath-inspired DSLs that work on JS or JSON object structures. These tend to work on strings, rather than declarative query objects. Examples:

JSPath: https://github.com/dfilatov/jspath

JSONPath: https://github.com/s3u/JSONPath

(Since you don't have type safety in JS, I don't think you lose much by using strings, unless you want to wrap it in TypeScript.)
Wages are at most 70% of the cost of an employee to a business, and possibly as low as 50% of the fully burdened cost. For an employee to gross $100k on their paystub (before their own taxes), a competitive employer in NYC is likely paying a full burden (with payroll taxes, insurance, other benefits, admin overhead, office space, and supplies) not too far from $218k.
So killing off XUL is great and all, but two of my favorite add-ons [1] [2] are already planning to call it quits because the Web Extension API likely won't be powerful enough. Tree Style Tab isn't far behind, I'll bet. These add-ons are the reason I use Firefox.

It seems like Firefox is going to become just another browser.

[1] http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/ [2] https://github.com/sparhami/BeQuiet/issues/2
Maybe avoid issues with non-competes or claims of "stolen" IP later.

Or maybe, if the founders negotiated a deal for the team to stay together an investor might argue that that they are acting against the best interest of the company and might try to hold them liable for that.
When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk
He's no different from the other Wall Street thugs. Though he being an outsider may stand out more and make an easier target for NYT compared to his other colleagues.
Show HN: Appventa - Beautiful shopping app builder
I'm pretty sure I saw them around in 2011 so I don't understand why report wrong age of the company here? Note they did a seed round of $3 million in 2012.
Agreed. I would use latex for everything but I need to work with collaborators who are only used to writing in Word with track changes. Something that would allow me to write in latex then still share for editing with less tech savvy people would be wonderful.
I'm surprised about the drug trial bit. I thought generics didn't need to have new trials .. they just need to have the exact same formulation. The oddness is that they need to "reverse engineer" the formulation themselves. The pill's color, shape and markings couldn't be copied though.

Can anyone knowledgeable on this critique what I wrote? I got my info during a tour of a generic drug manufacturer's plant a looooong time ago.
Hyperloop’s intro video claims the future is now
Yes, being nearly frozen is an exception to the rule, but since there was no mention of a glacier or extensive snow in the report, I thought it reasonable to ignore that possibility.
Capitalism requires no further justification than individuals acting to dispose of their time and property in ways that they see fit. I absolutely guarantee you that when I trade my labor and expertise with an employer or client for cash, I have no other objective that maximizing the return I get on that effort. I do not ask if my engaging in such a trade has some greater social good and I need no justification other than the trade being in my self interest. If I go to the store, I don't first ask who needs me to spend money on their products, I first ask, 'What do I need?', 'What do I want?'. I don't consume on anyone else's behave nor do I need some external justification for my own existence. Period.

Capitalism does not converge on monopoly, central planning, or deception any more than any other system, and in fact it does so a lot less. Again the assertion that capitalism is broken is just false; that it doesn't meet your non-capitalist goals is correct. My cable company has monopoly-like powers not because it's run by evil capitalists, but because there's a government agency that gives them a monopoly in my area. That's not capitalism. Microsoft, "a monopoly", wasn't defeated by the government regulators, ultimately, but by better alternatives appearing on the market and their own self-inflicted irrelevance. Same arguably with IBM. That was capitalism dealing with outmoded incumbents. I see a lot of crying in these threads about how VCs or corporations seem like central planners, yet the answer being proposed seems to be engage real central planners with the legal use of force in their tool box. Indeed, the only part that I seem people really dislike about capitalism is that it's voluntary engagement... when they'd really rather force someone to act against their best interests.
Are you sure they ran out of cash? I haven't read that anywhere. It's possible they found the problem intractable and decided to return the remaining investor cash.
It always feels like we keep reinventing Lisp. You could do something like:

['contains?', ['list', 1, 2, 3], 1]

Instead of:

{
$contain: {
foo: 1
}
}, {
foo: [ 1, 2, 3 ]
}
Nor can you integrate with the local filesystem, or call native APIs. With a hidden Java applet, it was pretty easy to make a full-fledged application that just happened to have a web-based API. That's getting a lot harder.

Chrome extensions have an API called Native Messaging which is roughly the postMessage API over stdin/stdout. It works, but isn't cross-browser. Alternatively, you can start up a local server and make XHR or WebSocket calls to localhost. However, both of those require the user going through an external install process. Maybe, in the current security landscape, that's the way it has to be, but it's kind of annoying.
> I think you're conflating hurting women and fighting feminism. They are not the same thing.

Kappa.
> At least focus on making it possible to do secure communications inside a browser, where for instance you may not want to trust the service provider and want to do the crypto locally. I know for instance that Nadim Kobeissi was in the past praising Chrome for its packaged apps and how they allow better security for Cryptocat than Firefox does.

When talking about secure communication it's probably best to avoid using joke software like cryptocat as an example.
The Facebook ad auction doesn’t maximize short-term revenue
How Zuck's Old TA Helped Facebook Master Mobile Ads
> None of this would have come to light without GamerGate.

Including the stuff in his comment that happened before GamerGate and was widely known about and reported on before GamerGate?

"None of this" indeed.

Oh, and Totilo doesn't describe any kind of compromising relationship between Quinn and any of his writers, which merely underscores the fundamentally dishonest basis of the entire "movement". "ethics in games journalism" was always a pretext for "attack Zoe Quinn", which is why you idiots continue to bitch about "oh gosh someone in the games industry knows someone else" and not, you know, "major games publishers won't deal with critical outlets" or "major games publishers try to break through the Chinese wall between editorial and advertising by holding outlets hostage" or "non-disclosure of advertising funded by major publishers is routine on YouTube" or "the games industry is fundamentally corrupted by the widespread use of pre-orders rendering titles immune to reviews or even basic quality control" or "major publishers routinely use death marches, even though this is detrimental to both game quality and programmer wellbeing" or all sorts of other issues that actually matter worth a damn.

But no, you keep harping on about the utterly fucking trivial indie games industry, if it can even be called that.
> this rules doesn't apply to anything except SDR and modular systems that are also consumer devices - which are not most consumer devices.

Um, what? Pretty much every device that does wifi has a SDR in it.
Actually, if I remember correctly, when Oyster came out I couldn't use it because I wasn't in the US.
The Exact Location Where the Trump Stops
Given that Google acqui-hired them to work on Play Books, it's something Google Play certainly could be.
One place to discover upcoming releases in music, movies, games, and books
"CA can be vacuously satisfied by a system by simply going unavailable"

That kind of takes the A out of CA.
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I support the EFF with regular donations and definitely don't care for DMCA but this feels like quite a stretch..

Most estimates put the number of lines of code in a new car at near 100 million, it'd be trivial for a company with intent to obfuscate the 'emissions mode' criteria in a manner that would be completely invisible to researchers.
There seems to be some incredibly bizarre idea floating around here that it is illegal to MONITOR using the equipment (id est "listen") and that is simply not true, except for listening to cell frequencies. That is in American law, but here's the thing: They will not be able to determine that you're listening on those frequencies without looking at your equipment. You can possess and operate your equipment in monitor mode without a license. One must simply get a license (in most countries) to transmit using the equipment. Now, the other thing I want to mention is that the parent comment is right that the FCC has dogs of war that will chase you down and put you in jail (or levy heavy fines) for operating without a license. And they do chase people down with location equipment. I'm not advocating operating a station without a license, but if you keep the power very low and use it sparsely for testing, you have a very, very small chance of being caught by the FCCs enforcement arm. And in most of these cases of nerds transmitting without a license, they are satisfied with merely confiscating your equipment.
The Effect of Network and Infrastructural Variables on SPDY’s Performance (2014)
Kousibei.net is down
I didn't check my email until the second gear I used to host the app was disappear. Openshift team sent an email in Sep 20 says they believe my app violates their Services Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy and points out "Violation: proxy server".

The number of the app's page views is 51,123 in Sep 17, burst to 79,430 in Sep 18, peak at 87,830 with 13,154 unique IP addresses in Sep 19.

I track one html page as one page view, ignore other MIME type such as js, css.
Of course you would say that. And of course you don't disclose your own personal history with GG: https://m.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2n0rxz/casey_...

You are one of the unethical journalists in question.
So... you're saying that "rich people can't act morally, because they have fat wallets" isn't a simple case? That's what I'm arguing against. You're projecting this 'vacuum' idea onto me, because I said nothing of the sort.
Please enumerate all my unethical journalistic acts, thanks.
Or you could actually use XPath :)

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9H2Y_7.1.0/...
I wonder what sort of code it is that it's that many lines. Is it lookup tables, or real-deal code?
Planet Labs takes rash of launch failures in stride
Visualizing JavaScript source code as navigable 3D cities
> Windows security is pretty good when running as a normal user and having UAC turned on on its full level and binaries validation.

Do you still need to run anti-virus software in this configuration?

> UNIX does have a better security model configuration out of the box, but is just as unsafe for the regular users that just dump stuff into their PCs

Again, I agree, if a user wants to hose their system, Unix won't prevent them. But anti-virus software won't prevent them either.

My point is, what about the user that doesn't want to hose their system? On Linux, it's very simple: use your package manager to install software, and don't run anything that wasn't installed that way.
hmm… this caught my eye… "Immediately, we see that SPDY is far more adversely affected by packet
loss than HTTPS is. This has been anticipated in other work [29] but never
before tested. It is also contrary to what has been reported in the SPDY
white paper [2], which states that SPDY is better able to deal with loss.”
It seems amazing that supply can be clamped down to such an extent that a competitor literally couldn't obtain some samples for bio-equivalence testing, even under a false pretense if necessary.

Completely agree that if someone is willing to pay the list price, they should be guaranteed availability within some reasonable time-frame for testing purposes.

I assume if the only drug line is effectively "shut down" then there's no way to run bio-equivalence and to bring on a new manufacturer they must test some other way? I guess whatever that procedure is, should take effect if the pills can't be ordered for testing.
What are the most ridiculous things VCs have said to you?
This is called XSS. see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting#Persisten...
Partitions being "almost impossible" would be fine for running Facebook or HN. Not so much if you're a payment processor or investment brokerage. If you want your distributed system to be consistent then your application code needs to be able to handle partitions, end of story. The CAP theorem hasn't changed.
CA means you are giving up both consistency and availability if a partition happens (otherwise you'd be CP or AP). How is that at all useful in a distributed system?
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I feel exactly the opposite. I think the poor quality of code in this industry across all manufacturers would benefit greatly from a little sunlight. Some of the researchers I know are clever people, they might get lucky. /s
Great acquisition! I'm jealous.

Symbolics stuff isn't as rare as the post claims; you can still buy the Symbolics OpenGenera LISP environment for running on top of DEC's UNIX on an Alpha. [0]

In addition there's a port to x86-64 Linux floating around that lets you run it on top of a 2007-era Ubuntu in a VM [1]. There was also the MacIvory series of expansion boards that were a LSI-based Symbolics machine that you could fit in a Mac and run OpenGenera in a window.

Dave Schmidt at Symbolics was still selling hardware (a complete system could be had for under a couple grand) up until a couple of years ago; last time I contacted him he said hardware sales were now stopped so that what's remaining can be used for service/support contracts.

I bought a Symbolics keyboard from him before that happened and wired up an adapter using a Teensy to give it a USB interface.

I know of a company in College Station, TX that used a number of Symbolics systems when they were new, and the owner refuses to get rid of them because they cost so much new. A friend that worked there until recently ranted one day that they were using one of the chassis as a stand for the coffee machine, and I wanted to cry.

(disclaimer: I own/run http://www.lispmachine.net)

[0] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/

[1] http://www.cliki.net/VLM_on_Linux [2]

[2] http://weblog.mrbill.net/archives/2008/05/18/finally-got-ope...
Additional context needed: is there something new in iOS 9 that makes ad blocking possible?
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Kindle Unlimited has a killer feature Oyster never had -- Kindles. Reading books on phones is awful. Reading them on Kindles is the closest screens can come to reading on books.
I suspect that this company will probably go down in history, but probably not for the reasons they think...
This article breaks it down a little better.

http://www.redbend.com/data/upl/whitepapers/red_bend_update_...

The biggest chunk is obviously the radio/nav system.
I have been enjoying https://linqjs.codeplex.com/
Do you have a reference for this?

The EEPROMs I've seen in relatively modern stuff top out around 2MB of mostly maps.

Someone below points out it's mostly entertainment systems.
Artificial Creativity with Markov Constraints (F. Pachet, Director of Sony CSL)
OK, sure, no need to side track.

> Capitalism maximizes human capital: no

Actually, it economises on that kind of capital, too.
It is inherently racy. Noone is disputing that. But, remember that the author said:

> One cannot size-cap the log file; one cannot rotate the log file; one cannot shrink the log file. It grows, as one file, forever until the dæmon is shut down. [0]

Anyone with even the most basic understanding of how star-nix [1] systems handle files understands this to be an untrue statement.

Take particular care to note that the author's statement was unqualified. If he had mentioned anywhere that you cannot do those things without some risk of data loss, there would be no controversy. Instead, he said -flat out- that rotating and size-capping a cat-std-whatever-to-log-file style log file is impossible.

[0] http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sys...

[1] star-nix rather than $ASTERISKnix because I can't figure out how to escape a literal asterisk. :/
I've been working on library that creates a queryable structure for trees like this. I prefer writing normal JS than to having some query language for it.

var obj = minim.toElement({
a: 1,
b: [
{
c: 1,
d: 2,
e: [ { f: 5 } ],
f: 6
}
]
});

// Results are [5, 6]
var results = obj.find(function(value, key) {
return key.equals('f');
});

See https://github.com/refractproject/minim