skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many seconds of taxpayer money would be wasted just changing the font themselves? They might need to ask for a Word document instead of a pdf but so what? I agree this sounds petty considering how much work apparently goes into such an application. If they're trying to screen out spammers, the way employers do with CVs, then maybe this is a practical test though.
I saw (wsj.com), clicked the "web" link under the title, then clicked the first link on Google to successfully view the article. Are you disabling sending of HTTP referrers?
Android is really getting bloated these days, my nexus7 becomes nearly unusable these days(the launcher is not responding, etc), haven't used chromeOS.

I recently bought a netbook(ACER) for $190 that I loaded with Linux and does everything I need, really why do I need ChromeOS?

Both ChromeOS and Android are OSes, it's like two Linux distributions, I don't know why they should "merge", what's the benefit for doing that? is it merge-able considering Android is such a JVM-hack?
That's where I thought they were heading when ChromeOS got support for running Android apks.
If a share barely gives you voting rights, and the company does not, and does in the foreseeable future plan to, issue dividends, then what is the inherent value of the stock? Is it just my portion of the proceeds in case of a firesale?
I prefer the NHK style of presentation. Just plain matter of factly. "These are the things that happened today." not the "These are the things that happened today and they are terrible, if you are any kind of responsible human being you will feel empathetic and take action"

I mean, it's as if every human story on NPR has an implicit call to action. I don't want your propaganda (nor Fox's or MSNBC's etc.) I just want you to present news and I can maker up my mind if it's terrible good, indifferent or somewhere in between.
Fortuitously, The Information published an article about multi class voting structures today. You can read it at http://go.theinformation.com/9e6aa6 (I think this should work for non subscribers).
Ha, they did cancel the orders ?

The fun of seeing a lisp book on amazon's best sellers all of a sudden.

ps: Highly valuable book, it's dense, theoretical but not too much, opens on a lot of other papers, and covers a large space about languages.
NK92 is another cell line that is similar to HeLa but fights cancer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-92
"If you have a non-internet way for my computer illiterate parents to see photos of their grandchildren on different continents, please let me know"

It's called "mail".
No, eugenics really should be tainted forever. Cystic fibrosis can be heritably cured without eugenics, e.g. hopefully within a few decades via gene editing something like CRISPR. Let us not use specious arguments about curing rare Mendelian diseases as a Trojan horse to usher eugenics back into mainstream acceptability.

As a sibling comment notes, eugenics is conventionally understood to be gene selection via people selection, i.e. differential all-or-nothing biological reproduction of whole humans. And it was that sense of the idea I was critiquing.

And it is in that sense of the word that people shooting from the hip with talk of "licensing" the basic human right to reproduce are engaging in shocking historical naivety -- or worse, with facepalm-worthy apologetics like those corners of the commentariat that defend misogyny, slavery and other social aberrations that have rightfully been interred to the dustbin of history.
"Like someone mentioned above, when you get big enough you start to have responsibilities. When your actions affect and your voice is heard by billions of people, you're no longer "some random privately-owned website"... you're a supergiant with the ability to affect the entire world."

Facebook should be nationalized.
He didn't say he built it.
That's an intriguing possibility. Given their relative marketshares, even if the plan were to kill Android in favor of ChromeOS, they'd probably say exactly what they're saying now.
This is pretty funny considering Windows is the cause for nearly all of the security exploits that occur. The horror stories of people being infected with viruses, malware and ransomware all have one thing in common - Windows. You only need to look at the thousands of security patches this OS has had applied to it over the years and the new ones applied every month to truly grasp what a sieve it really is. BTW, where are all of the horror stories concerning the Stagefright exploit that so many "pundits/idiots" predicted would be a disaster for Android? I'm still waiting for that.

Also, was there a reason you started referring to specific versions of OS's like Windows 10 and BB OS 10 and then disrespectfully mentioned Android without a version number? Don't you think that was a bit disingenuous, and lame, of you to start mentioning specific OS versions and leave out Android? If you're going to use version numbers then shouldn't you have applied them to all of the OS's you mentioned instead of cherry picking OS versions and then shitting out the line "And then there's Android" at the end?
So is what we know of as "async" and "non-blocking". The point is that instead of spinning up many blocking threads, a single select/poll/epoll() call triggers a set of callbacks.
I think the two ideas are conflated a lot, because it's so rare to have a secret system that is actually secure. In practice, a secret design or implementation is probably insecure, even if theoretically it doesn't have to be.

If the design or implementation is fixed in stone, then keeping it secret can only help, certainly. Most aren't, though, especially while they're still being developed. At that stage, if you can get smart people interested in helping, then openness will help far more than it hurts because you're far more likely to discover problems before the bad guys do.
not yet in brainfuck though, I see
It's not broken. Sometimes real newspapers that hire real reporters and do real reporting charge for their content. Not everything has to be free.
That's not what's being suggested in this article, nobody is injecting beacons into traffic that passes through a VPN server, however most providers are advertising themselves as more than just a pipe that you funnel your data through, which gives you a different IP on the other end. They market themselves as complete solutions to being private and anonymous online by using words like "total privacy", "complete privacy", "fully protected" when promoting their products. You being a more tech savvy users knows that this is not the case, however a less knowledgeable person will mistake these services for what they claim to be, which they are not. They make these claims, while exposing their own users to the same trackers they claim to protect against.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9830212
Nonsense. The attacker must expend significant effort to identify both the product- and user-specific obfuscations. That by itself does two things: (a) reduce number that can afford to attack you; (b) possibly force individual attacks instead of one size fits all. On top of this, there's a range of monitoring and tamper-resistance measures that can be employed.

So, the result of such obfuscations plus strong, proven methods stops most attackers outright, helps catch some, and at least slows/limits others.

Compare that to a situation where every detail is known and TCB (esp hardware & kernel) are same for all users. Find flaw easily, compromise any. That's your model. See the NSA TAO catalog and any reporting of mass hacks to see where that led. Your method simply doesnt work and is defeated even by average attackers. Whereas mine has held off many in practice with the few failures due to over-privileged, malicious insiders. Learn from the evidence. Apply strong methods, obfuscation, diversity, and detection in combination. Or High Strength Attackers own you without breaking a sweat.
> The fact that this cluster of comments is discussing "licensing" the fundamental right of humans to reproduce is in itself a triumph of dystopian rhetoric.

We're discussing limits on reproduction because this "fundamental right" is most likely going to fuck up the planet. Don't confuse basic capability with a "right".

> Also, excluding Nazis from arguments against eugenics is like excluding Bolsheviks from arguments against communism. Spare me your precious Godwin's Law, Nazism is eminently relevant here.

Yeah, I'd like to exclude Bolsheviks from arguments against communism too. It's not about Godwin's Law, but about having an actual argument other than "somebody tried that before once and it didn't work". How about exploring why it didn't work and how we can avoid that particular failure mode while reaping the rewards, without throwing the entire concept out?

Nazis are
So basically, anything that looks like a real patch should be merged? This is a terrifying idea. Human review is necessary to determine if a change is semantically sound and technically/politically desirable. No amount of automation could ever address these concerns.

Lint checking is handled by basic CI integration (e.g. Travis). Having tests is something a reviewer can trivially check (and many changes don't necessarily warrant test changes anyway).
Men do it too, Lots of presenters. Even some of the ones on NPR. One of them sounds like he has dry spit (phlegm) in his throat. The speaker of the house was wont to do it on occasion too, so does Obama. May be known as "croak" in some circles.
There's two ways to go with this. One: delete the account altogether. Two: hand over control of the account to the deceased's estate.

The third option Facebook takes is to control it themselves. That's just not right.
I'm not sure I would call herpes a benign virus. There are strains that will kill you.
Calibri is not hard to read. Your point is correct but it does not apply here.
You're assuming that the hard part is finding optimizable patterns and transforming them, and not deciding whether applying the transformation will actually be an optimization.
Better yet, their account should just be closed and the content be taken down permanently.

If someone else wants to "memorialize" them, they should just do so on their own active account, using whatever content they deem fit.
How to Rip and Convert DVD to Whatever You Like
that is on desktop. It is currently not possible to autoplay video on an iphone, and that is in fact the topic of this thread, and (partially) the purpose of this library.

Beyond autoplaying, I can't imagine what you mean about adding "hooks" to low level decoding. What does that actually gain you over the current situation?
It reports im included. I think the account was really old, im going to migrate to a new host this weekend. Shit.

Anyone got a good host they use? Lol. There goes my weekend. Daaaaamnit!
In my workplace code review were done mostly during debug sessions, when people ask their peers for helping. If code went through smoothly, then no code review were done.

In this specific case, I believe well written tests/good coverage would be more prioritized than code review.

Besides, most codes we wrote are merely prototypes that won't be used again.
Steve Wozniak: walking billboard
That's great. How many decades before we start paying attention to what's going on there now?
Similar: Exploring Programming Languages In Perl by Bill Hails, where he builds an implementation of Scheme

http://billhails.net/Book/
What makes it a story is the imbalance between the sexes. These women aren't married despite having a pretty unbalanced sex ratio to their advantage.
Three years later, this is still an amazing story. It has less to do with wine than with the ease with which certain types of people can be separated from their money.

For the exceptionally curious, the message board thread referenced in the article is still up: http://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6117...
Based on the dozen or so tweets on the author's Twitter starting 15 hours ago, I think it was published yesterday. It references Bernard Isaac's death in 2014, so at the very least no older than that.
It also makes an appearance in V.
Yes it's interesting to note that this is all coming from non-tech media interpreting the CEO's comments. The CEO is never gonna say "Android is dead and replaced by ChromeOS", just because of relative market shares. No need to piss off customers and partners. In two years when we realize what's going on, he'll just say that we misunderstood him. In the meantime, if no one closer to the coalface fleshes out the details of this supposed transition, the story will seem less and less likely.
Well if you are the first to introduce something then I think it is fair to say you are being innovative. They were both critically important to the success of Facebook so I think we have to give credit where credit is due.
Thank you for the feedbacks! Sorry if the website didn't explain clearly. The problem we are solving is the overwhelming amount of photos people took vs limited time to organize, create content from them, and share the the creation on time. Our solution, in one sentence is to automate the whole process. You only need to take photos and you see creations done right after you launch the app. We can almost do it in real time. So, in terms of "Intelligence", our app can understand your photos, detect when you take them, and make them into creations by event so that you can immediately share or further edit.
This article needs a graphic that compares the two competing maps side by side.
Thank you! Very helpful. Sorry that we were mostly focusing on the product building, didn't spend enough time craft these marketing materials. I am kind of realizing that this is what blocked us now. I need to balance a bit. Thanks for pointing this out.
Additionally, the energy required (relevant to total mass) to generate lift is a lot smaller at this scale thanks to the Square-cube law[0], and it's a lot more efficient to flap a wing on an as-needed basis than to run a rotor at a continual and steady rotation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law
Speaking about wines from the 1960s, I have cool story. My dad is a refrigeration engineer for large installations. Many years ago when I was around my teens, he did a job for a winery. The winery was left from the times of the Soviets (it was in one of the republics). Well, as a thank you they gave him a bottle of wine from the 1960s.

The bottle looked like crap on the outside, it was covered in dust and grime. We kept it for a bit, then at a birthday or some other occasion, maybe New Years, we opened it. And it was, well ... different. It did not taste like wine. It wasn't spoiled or bad. It wasn't vinegar. It was rather smooth and "velvety". Had very good and distinctive taste. I have tried other wines since then, but nothing like it. Didn't try any vintage since then, because it is too expensive, and I am not that much into it (A $10 bottle is good enough for me). But I always remember that as a fun story, how growing up as a family barely able to scrape by, got to taste vintage 1960s wine.
I imagine Prof. Wirth must have thought that 32032 wasn't going anywhere soon 20 years ago.

As I see it, the ARM instruction sets (note the use of plural) are a moving target (look at Cortex chips with Thumb2 only). They are far from RISC if you count them, and the instruction encoding is horrendulous.

It's like saying "why not target Windows? I doubt that's going anywhere soon"

With FPGAs, your only risk is that the manufacturer discontinues the chip you targeted, and you can then target another brand with the same (or nearly the same) HDL code.
The law could always be changed to make them run it another way.
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One problem is that English departments often don't focus on efficient and succinct communication of ideas. Occasionally it seems as if they are focused on encouraging willful misinterpretation of another person's writing. I've had the experience of telling a teacher that I wanted to get better at writing technical documentation and being laughed at and told that was boring. Of course, these experiences aren't universal and certainly my memory of them suffers from selection bias. But so do the memories of other folks, leading them to be highly skeptical of the argument that the English department is a valuable way to provide students with skill in communicating clearly.
"Besides, most codes we wrote are merely prototypes that won't be used again."

I used to work with scientists that said pretty much the same thing. Once their stuff started working we had to deal with a huge pile of very badly written code and make this into a product quickly.
Not everyone, but yes absolutely. Sure, they won't die if facebook disappears tomorrow, but their social life would - and haven't we learned by now that social life is a core component for a healthy mind? Or did we stop caring about healthy minds at all? (After all, in the US, mental health is a taboo and anything that isn't "work" or "country" is massively belittled).

So yeah - telling people to "just stop using facebook" is akin to telling smokers to "just stop smoking", and will net the same results.

I find it incredibly sociopathic that some people around here simply can't picture a world in which others care about Facebook more than they do. And like I said, I don't have a facebook account - but I also am ready to admit I'm not the main demographic for that site. I dislike the site and have no use for most of what it offers. I'm less social than the average, and I don't have grandparents or family in general using it.

But there's a lot of people who aren't in this situation. For some, facebook is a social/family requirement; for some others, it's even a prerequisite to getting a job. And I actually see people saying "Just don't get that job"... yes, well, that's easy for you to say, what with your skills being in demand and your parent's house and massive cushion of money in the bank to catch you if you fall.

Get some perspective, please.
You're not thinking long-term enough. You should be asking, "why would one need a PC when you can just stick your phone in a dock?".

Instead, ask why you'll need a phone when UI devices become invisible, ubiquitous, and networked.

Eventually, our children (grandchildren?) will laugh at our phone obsession. I'm imagining a silent reel of a Charlie Chaplin figure repeatedly patting all his pockets searching for his phone, dropping it when he does find it, pecking the wrong portion of the screen, and then when he finally answers the call discovering that the battery is dead. In other words, me, every day.
It's not foolish if one understands high assurance security well enough that his recommendations preempted or predicted many specific things in TAO catalog. And most other stuff they did. It's easy once you understand nature of INFOSEC plus their nature.

No they don't have my methodology: I never put it into digital form. Use paper is rule No 1 in high security. The only people I talked go were ideological who I vetted. It's mostly in my head and on paper hidden well in areas with tamper-evidence. They're watching my comms but no black bag jobs. So the method is safe for now.

And what are you going to do with it? All of us high security engineers who arent in defense, sell-outs, etc are typically ignored by mainstream INFOSEC. People don't do shit even when we have evidence. People do less than that on open HW even with cheap FPGA's. You really think one of us is gonna burn our own security just to publish an obfuscation people won't use or give us anything for? Like hell...

You want write-ups and design details on high security I got plenty of that. Keep master copies on Schneier's blog. Will send them. Not giving away something this big that you cant even afford to use. Not till I have a replacement...
Beware of using vim-mode in 1.1; there are bugs related to paging!
There is no mention of, or stated process for, secession of states in the Constitution. In Texas v. White:

"Chase, [Chief Justice], ruled in favor of Texas on the ground that the Confederate state government in Texas had no legal existence on the basis that the secession of Texas from the United States was illegal. The critical finding underpinning the ruling that Texas could not secede from the United States was that, following its admission to the United States in 1845, Texas had become part of "an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible states." In practical terms, this meant that Texas has never seceded from the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White
Shit, do you block Mustache/Handlebars too because it's using your resources to render a template? That's quite a reductive argument - you get to the point where you don't turn the computer on because it's using your electricity.
A real name policy cannot possibly be an innovation, or if it were it predates all modern technology. FWIW, Usenet culture was overwhelmingly based on people communicating under their real names. Ergo, not the first to do so. The second - initially limiting your userbase to an exclusive demographic, is but a restriction or marketing maneuver at best, and again hardly the first to do such a thing.

You have to be intensely desperate to list these two trivialities as innovations.
Ah, I understand better now. Though this wouldn't be a problem if timezone names weren't reused, right? eg. "2050-10-30 17:00:00 Pyongyang" would correspond to "2050-10-30 17:00:00 Pyongyang2" just fine.
Every part of the curve faces that sort of instability. The number of crops actually growing isn't particularly higher than the number needed to sustain the population, and we can't just spin up enough food for billions of people even if we do have plenty of land to do it on.

With humanity, "carrying capacity" is unlikely to be food-limited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
> What would happen to your website (or millions of websites) if one of the CDN's that you rely on started quietly issuing evil code to a few, targeted users? Would you notice? Would your users?

Most of ours would. Subresource Integrity means that all of our Firefox and Chrome users would get mostly blank pages if our CDN tried to pull anything. It's really hard to justify dropping our CDN when they do so much for our load times for people outside of the US (where our servers are located).

> Ask yourself; what's the profit model?

Well, we pay them, so I kinda thought it was obvious. I suppose they could be selling data as well, but it doesn't seem like a great strategy to endanger so much of their userbase when there's already a clear and profitable monetization model.
> by declaring today's version of tzdata immutable and final

It doesn't have to be immutable and final, it can simply be versioned then :) cf what I said in my other reply, if you create a new timezone every time you change it, it seems you don't have that problem.
Apple’s Secrecy Hurts Its AI Software Development
how did you handle the ambiguous syntax, i'm writing a logo interpreter right now? having a lot of problems with the inline command syntax.
Yes, I know. Paul was talking about the application. Our website is a marketing platform and mean to talk in marketing ways. I am sorry it's not clear enough for you. Anyway, we thought we were not launched yet and therefore didn't work much on crafting the wording here. Probably a mistake here.