skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, fair point. At the moment, "verified" means you are the real Donald Trump, or whoever, not a parody account. What would you be verifying if it wasn't an identifiable name (real name, stage name, etc)?

Under what I was suggesting, you would still be able to follow whoever you liked, whether verified or not. However, you would be able to block all the unverified users....
That was him during an interview, not writing. Furthermore it's important to distinguish his satire from his viewpoints.

Of course the comment is a tad tongue-in-cheek. It is speaking more that he is against much of the LGBT movement in which he should be a part of. Falling under the "G" and by not conforming to the widely held beliefs he is homophobic. I fall under the "T" but I'm disgusted with half of what the LGBT movement pushes for and have on many occasions been called a transphobe. Especially in regards to my usage of "tranny", as I stated.

A bit tongue-in-cheek myself: If I weren't a transexual I'd be one of the largest transphobes I know. Largely because I refuse to let people police my speech.
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Don’t you think it a problem that 2 billion people don’t even own 50 cents of net assets?

Jerome is far from the poorest person in the world since he is not starving - hundred of millions of people would swap places with him in an instant if they could.
I imagine Kyoto has some kinda large park like Tokyo has in Harujuku or like NYC has Central Park? I can only imagine that's what they refer to.
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There's a third kind of person: people who work on products that rely on Linux being secure. Kees Cook is one of them, being a Google employee who works on ChromeOS security.
Hearing a wrestler say "you dereferenced a null pointer" made my day.
This is debatable.

Cheap Chinese labor is used because it is cheap. In terms of prices, we would be better off if things were more integrated and automated.

We rely on gigantic volumes to drive prices down. There is no reason why automation couldn't drive the prices down in the same way on much lower volumes.
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I don't know, but I'm mostly concerned that "distribution" is included, because Universities certainly can impose restrictions on that, through copyright law.
That sounds a lot like the securelevel [1] features the BSDs have. A coarse-grained system that locks a system down with progressively stronger and stronger controls. There have been occasional discussions on the kernel mailing list on adding such a feature, but at the moment, Linus prefers the capabilities system. A shame, really, because having something to disable activities that people wouldn't do in a production system would be useful in a lot of circumstances.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/...
North Korea seems periodically dependent on food aid for its population precisely because of the inability to sustain or develop adequate internal capacity.
corporate developers (and their tools) can work with a DB on Big Iron - it is basically an appliance to them with SQL interface. The distributed/horizontally scaled systems are far from being an appliance and require Google, FB, etc.. type of employees to work with it, and there aren't that many of those employees around. This is why companies who make the horizontally scaled systems accessible to typical corp are going that well.
Why would they be desperately trying to get rid of it? It's immensely good.
Not really easily in general sense, given that it's JS and not, say, Haskell or BitC.

But true enough, you can spend some time and check that it's unlikely to be executed, unless there's some hidden malicious obfuscated code sneaked under the hood. And discovery of such code would be a giant scandal, so it's unlikely there'd be some - it just won't worth it. Anyway, such analysis would take some time and skill. It's not really possible to just open Firefox source code and immediately understand what's going on. And I was commenting on the general nature of Firefox, not this particular button.

To be precise, though, static analysis can only confirm that there are no obvious direct references to the specific code parts outside of certain areas. Given that in a language like JS such references are surely not the only way how execution can get there, the task is not really trivial.
You can usually get all the control you like through Enterprise Configuration Management (e.g. deployment profiles, Group Policy, etc.) Bigcorps have real, business-level needs for doing their own update rollouts, and they're willing to pay to get that feature—and many others—included.

Really, the way to be a "power-user" in the modern era is to set yourself up on your device as an "Enterprise" of one. Otherwise you're basically part of the default "Enterprise" controlled by the manufacturer.
Please write that post!!! I would LOVE to read it! I am sure thousands of other people would too!
Look at 6:48 seconds into the first video to see the work of Nell Tenhaaf. That is a precursor to the interactive HTML5 media we have today!
Yep! I did that for awhile, and still do it quite often for purchases while I'm out and about at target, grocery stores, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. But for me, importing dumps from my banks and going through each transaction to "accept" them is plenty enough for that mental jolt. The tedium of entering names, categories, and prices might be a bit more powerful, but just seeing every transaction is (for me) a 99% achievement of the same goal.
Hey now, don't forget the view from Kiyomizu! :P

As far as the "old trope" they aren't entirely wrong. From top floor of HQ you should be able to see the hills and temples above the city.

[0] http://youinjapan.net/kyoto/higashiyama/kiyomizudera_night_h...
What exactly are they lying about?

$.01 is the cost of the book and Amazon charges the customer $3.99 to cover shipping and handling?
Ads on the web want to track that you saw it, clicked on it, on which website you saw it, when, with which browser, which OS, which was the previous page you visited, what site you are used to browsing, what you purchased, where you live, what is your sexual preference, ... and nowadays they can and they do :/
There are many sites that I like and would happily unblock their ads to support them, but I often don't because they use ad systems that want to spy on me.
The main problem with ads on the web is not that they are annoying (like on TV for example), it is that they are spying on you.
Yeah, as I looked at that project more, I suspected that I had been wrong in assuming it was your work. In any case, I hadn't seen it, and appreciated the link.
Does shojin conflict with a modern office job in which you have many tasks and many responsibilities?

I can instinctively understand the idea if I were cutting wood or doing some other manual task, but I am having trouble picturing myself at work being able to get in to the right mindset if I have multiple moving pieces in every hour of the day.
I wish Nintendo and similar companies would release the specs of their old platforms under an open license. I think creating an emulator is a great learning experience. I haven't embarked on emulating hardware yet, but have learned a great deal from the work of others in reverse engineering other interesting projects. I still would buy my old SNES games for the Wii U if Nintendo would make their old SNES games freely available and their old specs.
There's plenty of room for both models. Lifestyle businesses are awesome. 100% great. But we wouldn't have society-level upgrades like Uber, Twitter or Apple without venture capital. They just don't work any other way.
I don't think Hydrogen cars will take off. I worked on an industrial site where Hydrogen was decanted from large trucks into smaller cylinders. On the same site we produced Acetylene. The Acetylene reaction is very volatile, and even after it is in the cylinders a hard knock is enough to create a run-away exothermic reaction.

I was once in a toilet, doing my business, when I heard a fire alarm go off. I stood up, pants still round my ankles, and looked out towards the acetylene filling plant. Nobody was running away, so I knew I had time to sit back down and wipe.

The last major accident on our site was an acetylene cylinder exploding, which immediately amputated a man's leg.

With all that in mind, all the workers on the site were STILL more afraid of doing Hydrogen filling than acetylene, due to its inherent volatility.
Without commenting on the content of this comment, the framing of that last sentence reminded me of hacker koans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan

See also git koans:
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511863
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>YC’s partners seem surprisingly uninterested in money, or competitive threats. There are hundreds of other “accelerators” worldwide that have replicated YC’s investment and training philosophy, but none with its brand or its record
Don't forget Little Bobby Tables:

https://xkcd.com/327/
Bamboo can grow in North America but I don't believe it's native, I imagine it's largely grown as an ornamental, possibly with some farmed?
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> Now you argue that killing another human being for philosophical reasons is always collectivist according to your [asgard1024's] definition. That does nothing whatsoever to make the quoted statement true.

What I said is true of (almost) any definition of "collectivist", including ctlby's.

> You dismiss any possibility that such a person is following an inexpressed philosophy.

Yes, because any inexpressed philosophies were not subject of the discussion; we can't assign killings due to inexpressed philosophies to any philosophy, since we don't know which one.

I mean, show me one non-collectivist philosophy according to which is OK to kill human (except in unavoidable self-defense). There is no such thing - all of them are collectivist.
Yep, I finally uninstalled flash a couple of months ago and will open up a chrome window for the rare website I need that still requires flash.
I've run into the Google Analytics issue multiple times. It may be just because usage is so prevalent, so it's more visible, but it's bad when your website breaks because a third party script doesn't load.

In the situations I've seen, the issue was using GA without first checking it loaded correctly. Defensively coding third party requests, let alone all requests, should be second nature.

It raises two questions for me:

1. Is there some code out there being copied everywhere which assumes GA will always load?

2. How do I make sure this is never an issue in my projects?

I don't think (1) is an actual problem, and I don't know of any options for (2).

Bandwidth throttling doesn't directly help, although it may make it obvious which third-party scripts block the render of the page (which often seems related).

Ideally you would have good test coverage on the loaded page, and then randomly block requests to see what breaks. Mark resources as either hard or soft dependencies, make sure soft dependencies never break the page/functionality of the app, and make sure loss of a hard dependency degrades nicely.

Edit: I should also add, my most memorable run in with this bug was with a very well known application, and they were very quick to fix it once reported. I was surprised none of the internal devs had run into the problem, as I assumed most would run a blocker, but it may have been an early access release...
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...what do they do?
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> Never heard of Kyocera being anywhere nesr tge top of Best Places to Work surveys

I've never seen one of those surveys that were actually legit, though. They use completely subjective factors to measure & determine happiness or "best". To me, the whole thing is a lot like the Academy Awards where it's basically a fake award without any scientific rigor.

I remember one year, I think it was 2005 or 06? Verizon Wireless was one of the "happiest" places to work. The reason they were rated so high? Because the researchers weighted one factor more than any of the others. That factor was how the company treats mothers, and expectant mothers (maternity leave). They weighed that particular metric insanely heavy. Basically, if you weren't catering to mothers even slightly during that particular year, the survey would have completely ignored your company even if you had the happiest workers.

It's all nonsense. As far as I know, there hasn't been a single, actual scientific study to determine "happiest/best company". It's all hogwash. I think this piece has more scientific rigor behind it than those "best places to work" surveys because his results are actually measurable and quantifiable. On the other hand, you can't quantify something as subjective as happiness anyways, by definition. Everyone has their own opinion of what happiness is....
"This coordinated assault on key infrastructure eventually managed to bring down both the datacenter and the ISP, which impacted hundreds of other companies, not just ProtonMail.

At this point, we were placed under a lot of pressure by third parties to just pay the ransom, which we grudgingly agreed to do at 3:30PM Geneva time to the bitcoin address 1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaSuN1T2y. We hoped that by paying, we could spare the other companies impacted by the attack against us, but the attacks continued nevertheless."

I understand the reasons but I'd prefer to not have access to my mail for a day than to give into these criminals. That said the damage probably easily exceeds $6000, I can understand other companies trying to pressure Protonmail.
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Much of this sounds like speculation. How exactly, do you know what religious beliefs the slaves in Rome had, and why they chose not to talk about particular aspects of their beliefs?
Range, a little. Current hydrogen cars offer 300ish miles of range.

Recharging speed depends on how you're using it. On a road trip, hydrogen wins (if the stations ever get built out). For daily driving, electric wins, because the effective recharging time for plugging in overnight is zero, since you're not waiting for it.

Both are likely to improve for batteries much more that for hydrogen, too.
It's great to see light scaffolding like this. A lot of times you just want a nice foundation instead of the kitchen sink. Good work!
Here's a nice summary of their advantages:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Advantages-and-Disadvantages-of-Ma...

Hard to toss out a trouble- and hacker-free system that has handled everything thrown at it for 30+ years, can run any workload, maintains backward compatibility, and supports new stuff. Channel I/O is also frigging awesome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_channel

Note: I wrote in Ganssle's Embedded Muse that real-time could benefit from a beefy CPU and low-end one for I/O interrupts. He agreed and one of us found a SOC that did something like that with quite some results. :)

Virtualization, pay for what you use, hardware accelerators, I/O offloading... all these "new" things have been in mainframes since the 70's. Unlike the modern stuff, the people coding them focus on making them boring, predictable, and reliable. Plus your old software is future-proof and you can do new stuff. So, risk-adverse businesses think they're worth the HUGE amount they spend on them.

That said, there is a negative reason many companies stay: lock-in. The older companies invested decades worth of money in mainframe-specific software and libraries/tools from companies that no longer exist. Porting all that over to modern architectures would cost way more than a mainframe plus have risk of catastrophic failure. So, they just pay the bill each year and accept any improvements they get.
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Curious, what's your hardware configuration for that?
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Uses GNU AFFERO Version 3 license - noted to save someone else from going from happily excited to disappointment.
I personally have never used a programming language where it's possible to confuse null (pointer) with "null" (string). Can anyone provide an example?
What is a Buddhist "priest"? It certainly isn't a Buddhist monk. While Buddhism may be a big part of his life, using some made up title like that seems like just an attempt to make him seem somehow larger.
I went there the day they opened and was blown away. 10x better than any bookstore I've ever been in before. I loved it.
So I don't think Kyocera is one of the top "black companies".

At the very least, anecdotally, they haven't made the lists mentioned by some of my friends. Generally I found that the "black"est companies in Japan happen to be the ones that pay the most (that aren't foreign held).

IMHO, most "pure-bred" Japanese companies vary from a shade of gray to black. A lot of the things that are part of work life there would be probably pretty off-putting to us, starting from recruitment (during college).
How about "brew install octave" .
I think there might me a simple explanation for this.

Nonreligious children tend to be richer and come from richer countries. Having more wealth means they do not attach as much value to material goods, so they are more "altruistic". Likewise, wealth shields them from the consequences of negative actions, so they are less "punitive".
I worked at a small startup (3 founders plus me) and the only reason I was hired was because of a Mitacs grant (the company puts up half and Mitacs puts up the other half) and SR&ED. I researched a number of topics related to NLP. I'm not working there any more because they had funding issues and couldn't pay for another half of a (longer) Mitacs grant.
> Basically, I think that Lisp and Scheme have a reputation for being unapproachable.

I don't think Lisp itself has that problem any more. Everyone knows that Clojure exists and is an approachable Lisp.

The question has now become, "why should I pay attention to any Lisp that's not Clojure?"
I'm sure the MPAA would appreciate your show of faith.

Fundamentally its tiny individuals vs giant ISPs and media conglomerates. Justice matters not in such proceedings, only the amount of money you have to fight it out in court.
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> Regarding DHH, I'll just point at [1], with the comment that Facebook made $891 profit last quarter. It's also currently valued at ~$300B.
> [1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33....

To be fair that blog post was written in 2010 when Facebook was still a private company and had nowhere near the level of advertising, reach, etc. that it has today. In particular they had barely scratched the surface of mobile and were only making money off Farmville and other ephemeral apps.
New? They have been around for several centuries now. Its just a see-saw of personal liberty and corporate control, and we are very much rapidly descending upon their side of the swing now.
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Generalizations are risky as always. I don't think it's clear that splitting employees into small, self-sufficient groups correlates to a dip in productivity regardless of whether any/all of the employees have "integrity" or not (if I understood you correctly, you're stating that splitting into small groups may not work if "integrity" is not present).

I put integrity in quotes because the very concept is pretty nebulous, especially when crossing country boundaries. But, I can concede there's at least a general understanding of the word, and I can't say that's what motivates people to do good work/be productive.

At the very least, it's not the only carrot, and you're completely forgetting the stick (which of course, is discouraged these days, but it definitely has it's uses).
The minor furor over the elimination of free "statements of accomplishment" seemed rather angsty to me; it's not like they had much real value. However, withdrawing access to grading basically eliminates any free value to Coursera over and above the many videos that are already available on any given subject.
The ads in Tiles specifically don't track you in the way that regular ads do. It's an experiment in ways to do advertising without being creepy.

More info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles-new-tab?red...
talking about software engineering:

"Negative sides include, above all, that the field is so terribly new and undeveloped... time tables seem to be far to optimistic"

That problem has not been solved over the last 40 years! :)
I feared that Mars was doomed as soon as I heard the ominous, solemn music.
sounds like the ravings of an egomaniac
They're not lying. $3.99 is what they charge for shipping and handling.
How amazing that the first person to be in a photograph was there simply off of the chance event that he decided to have his shoes shined. If it had been something else, he would have moved off the plate by the time it was developed. The fact that it was an event that, for the most part, required him to stay put has put him into history forever. /mind blown
Honestly, the Guile site reminds me variously of:

• the illustrations on O'Reilly book covers

• the doodles in Learn You A Haskell and Learn You Some Erlang

• _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby

• Le Petit Prince

None of which are "childish" per se, in content or in form—but which all-save-one happen to try to include children in their target audience.
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New editing environment + lack of screenshot = lack of interest.
How can a script running in a VM be less secure than the ability to run unchecked gets() & friends?!
My buddy took this picture of his trip to Kyoto:

https://tokyokawaiietc.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kyoto-sce...

I would assume Kyoto is just like any city. However, my buddy did say he was amazed by the cleanliness of the city, so I think your picture is slightly exaggerating what Kyoto actually looks like.
> which can create quite the pickle when the President decides to violate the Constitution

The oath states outright

> will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice

Going against the constitution would be an unlawful order wouldn't it? Which means it should not be obeyed?
There's really no way around it, if Quicken is going to login to your bank account for you, it needs your password in cleartext somewhere on its server.
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That said, there are cases where it would make sense in a multicore environment to pin one core to storage polling, and another to network polling.

You will then, of course, have contention in transitioning data between the two, but there are existing and useful models for eliding much of the locking load there.
This has been partly done several times with Lua (one by myself). One problem is that JUCE is not a C framework, it relies heavily on C++ features (notably, using it means deriving lots of parent classes and interfaces). This makes language bindings a bit more tedious, especially if you want your binding to keep up with JUCE's non-stop development.

So it would take a really strong incentive for someone to create and maintain a full-featured binding to another language.
I've got "dozens of GB of ram" in my desktop, and you can get a 64GB stick on amazon for under $400.