skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guideline for unguessability in that TR just says to use a UUID. UUIDs are ugly, and quite long for the amount of randomness they contain. I prefer Slack's new 10*base36 solution.
I disagree with the change being a bad thing. It makes more sense to like a tweet than favorite it. Both imply some sort of agreement with the tweet, but favoriting always seemed to imply something more to me. If your goal is to get more user interaction, "like" seems like the better option.

As to user backlash, this happens with every change to a social media site and it almost always blows over. There's nothing out there to threaten Twitter's place and I doubt this has or is causing people to leave the platform. No one's going to drop it because there are now hearts instead of stars.
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for clarity: I didn't flag that thread.
> I spent about two weeks putting together the application
> I received $48k.
> I don't think I'll try and apply for it again next year

This doesn't compute.
I'm not saying the GPL is an invalid contract; I agree that it is a valid contract. I gave reasons why it may not be considered "commercially negotiated". If they just meant any valid contract, they would've just said "contract" instead of "commercially negotiated contract".
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They always seemed so smug about themselves and their lackluster product. I'm not the least bit surprised. I wish them the best though.
Lovely. Remember Microsoft s*cks.
.@ggreenwald: "What bothered Snowden the most was not the spying itself but the fact that it was all carried out in secrecy" #newsnight

https://twitter.com/iankatz1000/status/662041192541089792

Snowden really doesn't know as much as he claims to. Not to mention he's careless and the he exposed legitimate intelligence operations on foreign countries
Yes. And many languages had ASCII-only stuff for a long time, so "real" APIs seem much, much more complex. Of course, that complexity was always there, but us English speakers could mostly just ignore it...
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It kinda looks like he somehow made $31M selling "mystery boxes"....
No surprise here. I've tried both of these online services, and Google Apps way more usable than its Microsoft counterpart.
The fact that my rather legitimate and rational and fundamentally American point is being down-voted kind of makes my point. To be honest, I really don't think that no matter how repugnant that I may think one or the other organization or movement may be that it be smothered, banned, or hidden, let alone controlled. Unfortunately, and this is something that many in the liberal mob don't quite comprehend about themselves, is that they are quite a bit more like the very things and people they wish to shame than not. Just because you have the power and dominance to control the issue, doesn't mean you should abuse that power to stifle other people's beliefs and freedom of speech and expression.

What is the difference between lynch-mobbing someone because they don't support {fill in your individual preferences or proclivities} and lynch-mobbing someone because they do support {fill in your individual preferences or proclivities}. There is absolutely nothing different than the perspective. Everyone should have the right to express their opinions, even if you don't like them and they are not your favorite thing (to invoke Louis CK) and then a conversation may lead to a debate and that is how better ideas come about.

The process that society is going through right now is really nothing but a hardening of positions, a "liberal" form of tyranny if you will; the overbearing imposition of a particular perspective upon others. Ironically, that is the very thing the "liberal" side claims is done by the "right/conservatives".

What the current state of civilization in the west shares is an apparent inherent stupidity and irrationality that is quite stunning. Up is right, left is forward, down is blue, billion dollar valuations for what is essentially marketing middle-ware, people maintain their own personal state surveillance dossiers on themselves. It's like the world has gone god damn ape shit mad.
Exactly. I understand where pilif and Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 are coming from when they say that indexOf, length, and substring actually get a little ill-defined when Unicode is involved, but I can't see the logical leap from that to it being a good idea to exclude them entirely. The motto of a good API/SDK is "Make the easy case easy, and the hard case possible"; Swift seems to fail the first condition. Surely there are default assumptions for these methods that work most of the time, with the option for more complicated functionality if you need it.

Maybe all this complexity is necessary when you're writing huge i18n'd apps, but the point is that if it's too much bother to even do Hello World, I'm never going to get to the huge i18n'ed apps.
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Yup. There's even a link in the article to another article mentioning how those states have seen little to no increase of use amongst teens.

NIMBYism is a cancerous tumor on America. It's only with time that things will change. Some things will change as boomers die off, others will be revealed as time goes on with millienials acquiring political power and such.
The robustness of a sample min or max for a continuous distribution is basically proportional to the density of the distribution at that extremum. A steep or vertical drop-off at the edge of the distribution is the ideal case.

The article gives a formula for the statistical power of the hypothesis test derived from the sample min. It depends on the function h(x), whose purpose is to establish a lower bound on the density of the distribution at the min, and hence a lower bound on the robustness of the sample min as an estimator.
I think they are just designing for a different market. That is part of why Apple ditched PowerPC I think.
Right, stupid me, emoji are still a single code point. Put a flag in the box, and the count decreases by two.
I realize this only applies to the US, since we have the 5th amendment, but watch the video (as mentioned above) --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

There are very good reasons to have something like our 5th amendment that apply to people who are indeed not guilty according to the law. It's not about telling lies, it's about not providing truthful information that can be used against you in ways designed to make you look guilty even when you are not.

The founders of our country who made sure we had a 5th amendment knew the importance of this -- they didn't put it in there to protect the guilty.
Famo.us founder was a Powerset co-founder, which had an highly successful exit to Microsoft. This pattern often explains generous funding of outlandish ideas.
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The article mentions private network, is this still the case? Did they run network lines directly to terminal locations?
It's not an improvement to exclude functions that you know everyone wants from the API. It's just going to result in more mess, because we all know most people are going to search for "swift string length function" and copy and paste direct from Stack Overflow without more than skimming it. In practice, it just makes the behavior messy and non-standard, ultimately meaning Swift applications are more difficult and/or annoying to debug and maintain.

The correct way to solve this would be to design the API so that the distinction between what you're getting and what you want is clear, and the place to go to get what you actually want is also clear. Including nothing is an admission that they couldn't do this.
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> I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.

Both are useful, but Twitter is sticking to its domain, while Facebook tries to lure the user into dependency on as many levels as possible.
that's extremely naive. btw the same still happens with cars. car manufacturers are very profitable to corrupt people in the government, so importing a car is pretty much impossible. taxes are absurd and the law is so insane that nobody can follow it. most importers already included a bribe fee. and i am taking about Brazil today, not in the 60s
I've view Snowden has a hero in a time where it is very hard to stand up and cast a light on national wrongdoing. I often struggle when I return to the US Midwest and my family and others complain that Snowden is a traitor. I wonder why they can't see the obvious wrongdoing by our leadership and how it erodes our values.

Since its the Bible belt I often find myself reminding people of the story of David [1] who hid with the Philistines when his nation and leader of Israel and turned on him. The irony is almost overwhelming to them since Snowden so closely fits the exact profile of the story.

Some nights in my darker moments I worry that we and by extension myself, have become the bad guys in that story, more akin to the egotistical and delusional King Saul than David.

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2027

[2] My relevant history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444512
There isn't a company that knows better what I am really interested in than Twitter, and yet they seem unable to recommend me anything even remotely interesting.

It wouldn't even need to be particularly evil stuff: I'm convinced that my public profile would be enough to sell me e.g. half a dozen good books per year.
its a vast topic by itself, but its usually based around the idea that violating unwaivable rights would be grossly unfair or abusive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability is a closely related concept.

Unfortunately for the people that like to think about the law in terms of hard logical equation evaluations, this is one area that is quite "fuzzy", simply because of the massive amount of circumstance surronding individual issues.
This article is much better then some rants about jobs and recruiters I've read. He actually spells out some of the issues he has other than sheer volume or quality.

That being said if any of you think you get too many job offers please send them my way.
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He's in the one that uses proper grammar and usage on respected forums.

If all the browsers supported a real programming language in their runtime, JS would die like Flash is doing.
Reminds me of http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/2227243/grading-soft...
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Anybody trying to compete with Facebook now is setting themselves up for failure. Even Google could not make a dent. We need to wait for fb to make a blunder. Right now, they are at the top of their game.
3D GUIs are a lot like graphical programming. Just a giant black hole that has been sucking up research and investment money for 30 years without much to show.

You do get some neat demos, but not a lot else.
You can definitely assume that :-) The IBM kit linked above is on loan from IBM and is publicly accessible - you just have to fill in the form for an account. It runs Linux (Fedora or RHEL IIRC).
Or build a drone that takes down other drones.
I'm half hoping pumpkin canon drone hunter becomes a thing, this video[0] is beautiful.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC89KRV7l9M
Looks like a dubious correlation. Geographic language distribution patterns are subject to the vicissitudes of migration, conquest, and technological and environmental change. A lot of the features discussed are driven by outliers, like the consonant-heaviness of the Caucasian or Salishan languages.
While Twitter consistently makes product decisions these days that sum up with SMH, Ello keeps proving to me why it's the best social network around! What other social platform would be so open and detailed in communicating the results of its postmortem?

I'm telling you guys, the team at Ello never ceases to amaze me. They are responsive and transparent from community managers and devs right up to the CEO. I know some knock Ello's design (I think it matches its marching to a different drummer ttude), but look beyond that to the bigger picture. Read their manifesto. Ello stands against ad tech and selling user data. The platform supports Markdown. The team is transparent and quick to respond. Although it can't replace Twitter's in-the-moment value, I think it certainly deserves our support.
I am not a lawyer and I'm trying to wrap my head around this. For me the main issue (with respect to the GPL) is that the GPL does not compel you to distribute source code. It is simply a condition of the the granting of the license. The GPL is quite specific about it. It states that you do not have to accept the license. However, if you do not accept the license, there is nothing that will allow you to distribute the software (under copyright law).

In order to distribute software for which you do not own the copyright, you need to have a license. If you do not agree to the license, then it doesn't even get to the stage we are talking about. You can't distribute it anywhere (under international copyright law). If you agree to distribute the source code in order to get a license, then you have agreed to do that. Is that not what is meant by a commercially negotiated contract? There is consideration on both sides (one party gets to use the software, the other party ensures that the source code is available to users of the software).

Either way, I think this wording is terrible and it worries me greatly. However, my layman's view seems to fall on the side of the GPL being OK. I would be grateful for explanations on what I may have misunderstood.
I think Tk is entirely reasonable for the types of "utility" applications that people are primarily using it for; nobody is going to start writing a flashy new cutting edge app in it today.

For those with legacy code or other constraints where it makes sense, the TkDocs site is all about getting the most out of Tk by documenting the newer pieces that people likely haven't seen.

IDLE itself is in that category of using Tk by constraint. There have been multiple forks of it, sometimes using alternate GUI toolkits. But for it to stay as part of the Python standard library, it has to only depend on other things that are part of the standard library. Which for GUI stuff, means Tkinter. And having it built into Python is a very big deal for a lot of people teaching Python, which is the main target audience.
Sure, but .String() wouldn't be a good method for uuid_generator to use to generate a new UUID--String() should be a string representation of the thing; it says "this is a string of me". Which is where the confusion would come from.
What kills me is that this seems like such an unforced error. Just make 256-bit random tokens. They're private URLs. Who cares how ugly they are?
drugs and software IP were the driving force behind TPP. and India following Brazil was probably what set the urgent timing for it.
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This is a very misleading headline. As one commenter on the /r/linguistics discussion[1] notes,

>"Although the findings remain purely correlational, and not based on any experimental evidence", they use 10% of the world's languages, and the ecological factors all taken together amount to 25% of the factors influencing vowel/consonant distribution. Not very convincing.

The paper was given at a conference, so the findings are preliminary at best. The connection between geography and characteristics of language is still very poorly understood. For a similar idea, cf. Daniel Everett [of Pirahã fame]'s son's paper claiming that ejectives are correlated with altitude[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3rluhy/human_l...

[2] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4685
"I can't believe that people are throwing money at someone with a pitch like that".

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That's the problem I have with many of these articles, the journalists try to make use of their philosophy degrees and make nothing into something.
"I have no idea how they could have raised $31M on that."
At the high-end, the power-costs of ISA are negligible. Even at laptop levels of power consumption it's barely noticeable. Once an Intel chip has decoded the instructions to uOps, it is mostly on an even playing-field with RISC chips.

Also, to be pedantic, POWER is very much not RISC; the only thing it really has in common with RISC is fixed-length instruction encoding (though simpler instruction decoding is an advantage at really low powers).
Sounds not hard to sell to the technically-unsavvy at all. Their new product actually seems much smarter than the old.
But the definition of "character" is not generalized, therefore the use case cannot be generalized.
I would argue it's better if children had more access—under the condition they're using it as a substitute for alcohol.

Alcohol is a more damaging drug.

Making less harmful drugs illegal, and the more harmful drugs legal is backwards.

Ideally, no children would have access to recreational drugs under any circumstances. However, we don't live in that world. We live in the real world.
Whoa, tell me more about your mystery boxes, I'm intrigued. Are they disruptive?
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This is a well-known legend, but very unlikely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanis...
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But that's clearly inferred by this:

In the United States alone, the Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma estimates there are over 200 fraudulent
groups claiming to be Cherokee. Visit websites
devoted to genealogy, and one will find scores of
Americans expressing their disappointment when DNA
testing contradicts family legnds about great,
great grandma being Cherokee.

So, first of all, there are groups that outright make fraudulent claims about Cherokee ancestry. Secondly, there are lots of people who have believed — and claimed — to be descendants of Cherokee who discover that they have in fact been mislead.

You could argue that he doesn't provide the evidence (who are these 200 groups, and where do we find these "scores of Americans expressing their disappointment"?), but that's par for the course in a fluffy article like this. I don't see any bushes being beaten around, however.
Interesting I didn't know that. Thanks.
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Proper leading of the target is also required, and with birds crossing in front of you that's pretty hard in my experience (you have to aim your gun at where the target will be when the shot gets that far out; shooting birds you've just flushed into the air, traveling away from you is lots easier, e.g. turtledove vs. quail).
Could be just a case of run of the mill depression. What else has been going on in your life the past 6 months? First job? Recent move? Girls?

What kind of personal projects do you have going?
> POWER, OS/2, and The Thinkpad has convinced me that IBM just doesn't make the most of what they create.

They are all kind of different.

I used to use Thinkpads and I hated IBM for selling it. But from their point of view it was the absolute right thing to do. High end consumer laptops are dominated by Apple (heck IBM is buying Apple and giving them to all their workers, something like 300K Mac Book Pro's). Everything else is racing to the bottom with thinner and thinner margins. Windows running laptops have to compete with Asus and friends and the money just wasn't there.

Not sure about OS/2 much, don't remember the history. But with POWER, IBM has kind of started to turn around in the last few years.

At some point in the past they have made an explicit choice to not play in the consumer market. Heck, there used to be IBM stores, you'd walk in and buy IBM products like you go to an Apple store now. But they decided they don't want to play in that market (or better or for worse). We'll still see how it ends up working out.

So far it still stays in business after hundreds of years, maybe it just luck or there is something to its business approach. (Fun fact, it used to sell cheese slicers and time tracking devices as well at some point).
Exactly the target audience. I'm not a hardcore Python guy, but got involved because I had reason to try IDLE again recently, and after the initial "oh my $DEITY this is embarrassing" realized that not much effort would be needed to bring it up to the "entirely reasonable" level.
The "help" button is very cool. Back when I worked at Bloomberg, I knew a few engineers who actually ended up on a customer support call because a customer found a bug. That's pretty cool; very few large companies will let people chat directly with engineers for bug diagnosis.
Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps.

Yikes. If ever I wanted a paragraph printed on a poster to scare me into working harder, this is probably the one.
Online.net still offers a Power8 server; 1500€ monthly though: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-power8
Can someone please explain what an "app engine" is? Is it 4-stroke or straight 6? Does it come with a cat back exhaust?

In all seriousness, to me a framework is just an opinoited way of doing things that makes a bunch of decisions for you so you have less to think about. It hinges on the fact someone has uncovered some useful abstractions that make the act of coding less tedious.

I checked out their demo and while it looked fancy, I didn't see any compeling reason to use it over plain html/css or three.js if you need fancy 3d stuff.

Also, calling your product "shitty" isn't the best strategy. Geeks see self-deprecation as a sign of weakness.
Because you're making mistakes in those other languages? Because the world is not just English anymore, and "going through an i18n library" is all well and good until you need to accept literally any form of user input, which is kind of the point of programming.

> No default indexOf, length, and substring methods?

This makes me think you didn't read the post. There is no lack of those methods. There isn't a one size fits all version, because the problem space isn't generalizable.
I'm more referring to the people that might look at this and say, "Oh, this looks great. Let me run this." If you have that much of a problem with Windows (as I do) just don't run it--not just a general comment on Windows.
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