skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there is going to be a fair amount of cognitive dissonance at play here for the people who have given up many many hours for free. That is to say, if you decide to share these ideas with your boss, be careful. It will cause him/her to introspect, and then likely decide that all their time invested playing the "sucker" game was not a waste, and that you are, in fact, just lazy.
I have seen sites using captchas which ask such visual questions thinking that only a human can answer them. This project really makes me doubt the effectiveness of such techniques.
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Make sure that the initial answer is from a human, though. Your customers need to know you've received and understood their requests. An automatic reply doesn't help much.
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I wrote someone in prison a letter and included a greeting to the prison warden. It's very tempting somehow.
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The author isn't implying that the NSA intentionally injected the word "PRISM" into the header of every HTTP/2 connection. Rather, that the members of the IETF that collaborated on the standard chose to change the existing dummy text to match those initials once the existence of the program was leaked to the public, presumably as a sort of inside joke/protest.

^ I figure I'd clarify that in case anyone else gets as confused as I did about what possible political or technical objectives the NSA might achieve by including a reference to a top-secret spy program in every HTTP/2 message (although it does seem like the sort of thing a comic-book evil intelligence organization would do :P).
Wikipedia and Mozilla are great products so I donate once a year for both projects.
How about this?

for f in $(cat a.txt); do basename "$f"; done
Or, "No one ever got fired for picking Microsoft or IBM."
When you have an encrypted file (or a stream for that matter) and you know the first N bytes of the decrypted data, it might be easier to compute the encryption key if algorithm uses blocks smaller than N.
> They care a lot about being around people that care about dress, and turning up in a suit is a very reliable indicator that a person cares about dress.

I disagree with this.

Showing up in "a suit", in most cases, isn't caring about dress, it's thinking that a required formality of dress is necessary. People that care about clothes, and are fashion enthusiasts, will show up in Thom Browne, CdG, Engineered Garments, etc. - or even just basic Club Monaco-type stuff if they're don't have a giant amount of disposable income.

While adherence to arbitrary fashion formality levels may be an indicator of unawareness, an interest in fashion seems incredibly unrelated to programming skill, unless the programmer is expected to be solely interested in programming - in which case, they should also rule out runners, rock climbers, guitarists, etc.
The relevance is that this text could ostensibly be used as the known plaintext to aid in breaking encryption, however, it's not going help much anyway.

For example, with HTTP 1.1, it is pretty much likely that an HTTP response would start with HTTP/1.1 200 OK, or that it would contain strings such as "Content-Type" or "Content-Length". 24 more known bytes won't make it much worse.
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Tongue-in-cheek-aside, I was going for "I can google this person and see their background." At least with Hans Reisers, I would have hopefully been able to see the court case :)
>> If something really is unnecessarily complex, better alternatives are likely to arise, perhaps suddenly.

I suspect that a good majority of corporate code assets trend toward becoming unnecessarily complex. After a certain level of complexity is reached, a company will often look for that better alternative and decide to rewrite from scratch. But in many/most cases of this that I know of, this attempt to recreate/rebuild is found to be intractable.

What seems to happen is that more and more developers are hired to maintain the complexity and I wonder if that's what most developers out there are doing, maintaining complexity, which always makes me think the same thing:

>> That sounds like an unpleasant way to earn a living.
Choose what you want to learn, when you want to learn it, with educators and employers competing for you.

I'm curious, what do you think this service is about? What's compelling and what's different? Does that difference matter?
> Its format, called "18650," indicates that it is presented in the form of a cylinder, with a diameter of 1.8 centimeters and a height of 6.5 centimeters.

What a strange way to say express it. Why not say 18 millimeters and 65 millimeters?
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What do you do with an hour at home?
I just picked up my fairly dog eared K&R for that reference it's 226 pages (first edition). Yes, the C spec grew over the years, but the Java docs were huge right when it started out. I remember buying the full set and it weighed more than I could easily lift up the stairs to my office. All in all it amounted to a few thousand pages. This included the docs on the VM and a bunch of other stuff that you might not need (but which I did need).

The C standard library was a relatively small affair reflective of the way UNIX was built, a couple of well thought out interfaces combined with a lot of freedom (and enough rope to hang yourself several times over).

The Java standard library was absolutely huge and extremely hard to make headway in because each and every part of it seemed to be designed by a committee rather than by an individual (or two).
My guess would be that the $349 price at Best Buy and Samsung was actually $349.99.
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Strictly anecdotal, but I'll mention it anyway:

My grandfather was bilingual, but his native tongue was Arabic. He held off dementia until his 90's, but when it finally set in, it hit hard. It got to the point where he often gave up trying to speak because he couldn't finish the sentence without forgetting a word he wanted and getting frustrated.

Surprisingly, however, he often remembered the word in English and started speaking that instead. To use a computer analogy, it is as though the sector of his brain where the Arabic was stored had become corrupted, while the English sector was still readable.
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Thanks for elaborating.

What do you mean by them "fixing their product"? Make it self-hosted/server-side?
Another way:

while read line ; do basename "$line" ; done < a.txt
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I remember an anecdote where the New York City mayor called up the Chief of Police Department asking him to stop any Japanese guy carrying NYC real estate with him to Japan :)
I don't think I make any assumptions about A,B other than that they're on the real line. Regardless, as the puzzle stands, there is no way to show that P[A < R < B] > 0. Since you can't show that, you can't claim that the strategy ever yields performance > 50%.
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The benchmarks seem to revolve around the invoking of the collector. I am very curious as to how common it would be to do that often enough for it to matter in terms of overall speed?
Google tells me the average human walks 3.1 miles per hour. So I'm guessing it would take at least 55 minutes, no less.
Casual Friday seems like an absurd concept to me. Either you're capable of getting the job done in denim, or you're not. If you cannot, why would you be allowed to wear them on Friday? If you can, why wouldn't you be able to wear them on Monday through Thursday?
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If DTAG asked for 1 EUR/Gigabyte, would you still maintain that position? 10 EUR? 100 EUR? Is there any point where you would consider the behaviour of DTAG inappropriate/unfair?

BTW, nobody is denying that they in fact are an important ISP, where "important" means "lots of customers", which in turn means "lots of power". Someone holding a gun to your head also has a lot of power and thus is important to you - but power in neither case automatically implies that any offer the powerful party is making is a fair offer, be it that they ask you to give them all your money to avoid being killed, or that they ask you to pay massively above-market rates to avoid being unreachable for their customer base.
As it stands currently, it's quite far off from cracking captchas. :-)
You also had that with military radio coms during the cold war, both sides would include messages to the other in their "internal" communications.
I'm seeing 3.9 MB for audio and 7.8 MB for the video.
So... US airports are too big and national to be considered small and local, but also too small and local to be considered big and national?
Would that be your mission to copy Chrome as much as possible?
That's interesting, it's a pity none of those will likely ever see the light of day.

And that in turn reminds me of this:

http://www.wjpbr.com/wwixmas.html

Pity they didn't just pack up and go home after that.
That's true. The immediate-term impact is probably minimal, for the reasons you mention. However, this is a major accomplishment. As this work is built upon, its longer-term impact has the potential to be very significant.
"Chariot is Alexis Van Lines with an app" would also be a fair phrasing.

Alexis Van Lines is a longstanding NYC dollar van operator that has also agilely branches out into new routes:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/34/all_rockawaybuswa...
I'm just using that description because the article did. In Dutch, shirt and t-shirt are synonymous, while a shirt with buttons is called "overhemd" or "bloes"/"blouse".

I suspect that literally speaking, "hemd" would be the Dutch translation of "shirt".
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Do you have data on inequality across the EU? I would wager it is much larger than in the US, as you have very wealthy states like Norway and very poor states like Bulgaria.

If you only look at inequality PER COUNTRY it will look lower than the US. Of course, the same would be true if you broke up Connecticut and Mississippi in your income statistics.

Cuba is a totally different story, they have a maximum income law that says you cannot legally make more than $20 USD per month (except for doctors, who are allowed to make $30 USD per month). Can't really compare incomes in a country which artificially sets the legal income.
or /r/MapPorn
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I listen to podcasts. Recently got into Welcome to Night Vale, but would also recommend anything by Gimlet.
I totally disagree with you, but I think this is an important point and you shouldn't be getting downvotes for it. I ride a city bus pretty routinely, although I don't live in SF. I would still ride the city bus if Chariot came to town, but I think "busses without the poor people" might be a good way to get the snobs you're sneering at onto transit and out of their private vehicles.
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Both. “They” (and by they I do not necessarily imply a large number of engineers at Airbus, but some people who are engineers at Airbus) use CompCert and “they” also use Coq in order to finish up the correctness arguments for part of the properties that part of the software is supposed to have:

https://www.lri.fr/~marche/M2-TIP-Airbus.pdf
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> Surprisingly, correctly describing the set of programs that have undefined behavior in a formal manner is the hardest part of formalizing C.

Isn't this undecidable?
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Do you have more resources for team maturity models? This is the first time I've been introduced to that concept but it seems interesting.
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Poor immigrant communities also have long histories of filling gaps in public transit services with dollar vans— this is just a dollar van from a rich neighborhood with a publicist:
http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/10/if-mta-doesnt-want-t...
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Great marketing tool though, and taught to many budding entrepreneurs practicing their 40 second pitch as a way to get their meaning across super fast. Uber for banking means 'crowd-sourced' banking or banking provided by the masses -- was informative for me.
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I am not quite sure what your question is.

Is it what you need to do to write native extensions for Node.js? In that case https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html might get you started. Would there be a particular reason for a C implementation though?
The BBC isn't biased, they're just British, and the UK has a known liberal bias (along with all of Europe). In the same way that the BBC tells things from a Western-European perspective, that isn't an organisational bias, that is a national one.

Even the US's left wing party (Democrats) would be considered right wing in the UK (and you can compare/contrast the UK Conservative Party with the US Democratic party). Although Sanders/Warren would fit right in.

US news by contrast (CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly) to me sound like a Cold War era propaganda machine. Constantly drum-beating the drums of potential war, singing songs about patriotism and bravery, and telling the audience the several things they should be "scared" of tonight (daily moral panic, typically foreigners, but sometimes hackers, terrorists, new fangled technology, photographers, et al).
> and they were like "sure cosider it done"?

no. they tried to find a way with us. but after that it didn't worked they changed the routing and it worked.
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It depends on which languages you know. For native English speakers there is for example this ranking of language difficulty

http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.go...
Never let it be said that HN nitpicks minor issues in articles.
I always had high respect for google maps.
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I would also add that it's pushing risk on those who would avoid it if they could. As GP said, even if the company owners are the ones who would usually shoulder the risk - at least they signed up for it, and are possibly better suited to deal with it. They know what they walked into, they may have less attachments/dependents, they may get a thrill out of it.

Not many humans thrive under high-stakes insecurity. We'll have a pathological (and cruel) society if it's built on the pretense that everyone's an entrepreneurial whirlwind who gets a kick out of doing it without a safety net.
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Thanks for that. Are you trying to boost your ego or something?
New York based isochronic map:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/abl7462.0001.001/390?view...
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When I am done working on something, I jot down what I got done and any notes to help me get started quickly next time. This lets me juggle multiple things a little easier.

I actually created an iOS app this summer to handle this. http://getbalanceapp.com
I agree on the negative impact to the society - just want to point out that there are not too many 'traditional full-time jobs' left. Most people I know in high tech -and increasingly other industries- change jobs every 2-3 years (not always voluntarily). These jobs are, in fact, gigs, just longer.
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Less common to see someone in t-shirt and jeans on the street? I'd be surprised to see a street where nobody wore t-shirt and jeans. They're a lot more common than suits.

Sweatpants are indeed a lot less common here. My (very sporty) sister wore mostly sweatpants during her teens and student days, but she's an exception, and she switched to nicer clothes (including jeans) when she got married.
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Next up: a FOIA request for documents relating to the NSA's MOZILLA program in the mid 1990s.
Google Maps indicates an hour walk. MapMyWalk show a 186 elevation gain, which I suppose is not too terrible considering it gradually increases until about the halfway point, and then gradually decreases. Add a laptop and hefty book into the mix, and you've got yourself an equation for one sweaty commuter.

I've also used Scoot which gets me to work a little faster than Chariot, but depends on there being scooters available and is more of a commitment than Chariot given Scoot's subscription (Scoot is awesome though!). Quite a few of my coworkers gave up on any sort of shared transit, and drive to work pretty regularly.

As a comparison, it took me a little over an hour to get to work using the CalTrain when I lived in Palo Alto and had a 35mile commute.

Another example would be going from Chelsea to the Lower East Side in NYC (about the same distance as Marina to SOMA). Takes between 25-30min using the subway on Google Maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Chelsea,+New+York,+NY/Lower+...

The Marina to SOMA takes closer to 40min, but that's assuming you can get on the bus, which during rush hour is surprisingly difficult (like the article refers, you might wait 3-5 buses to find one with space).

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Marina+District,+San+Francis...
Wow, it wasn't even the RAM, it was the packaging, that had in turn made the RAM chips also radioactive!
The three-at-a-time version is frequently unbeatable. However, there's an option in the settings to let you flip through the deck one-at-a-time, which makes it always beatable.

Klondike Solitaire, or at least Microsoft's implementation of it, is fatally flawed. A shame, it can be fun sometimes.
I think the legal definition of "manipulation" might differ from the "ethical" definition. What I think has happened here is that the court didn't find any "illegal manipulation." The question of "unethical manipulation" may still be up in the air. The problem for Yelp is that it seems to serve as a psychological outlet for a large number of people. They're angry about something, it builds up, and they then take immense satisfaction in channeling it into a business review.
Discussed at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-01/msg00080...

Summary of that is you can filter using xargs like:

get_file_paths | xargs basename -a

No point having two ways to do something,
especially when there are caveats about enabling stdin processing
All credit bureaus have an API, depending their age you can find from COBOL CICS Sockets to JSON interfaces.

Should we be that much surprised about this?

How to you think businesses ensure that you can afford this revolving credit application?
...meaning a diameter of almost half a kilometer, or over a quarter mile-- more than four times the longest part of the current ISS, which took over 12 years and 150 billion dollars (and is essentially flat when compared to the cylinder shape needed for AG).

I can see why this might be a bit of a challenge, the time and costs involved would be enormous.
Also, this should be labeled [2010]
once you 'other' someone, you can justify anything including torture, death camps.

Kant did a pretty good job with this stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
1. What's the logic here? Because a business is trying to reduce its expenses, it's wrong on any matter by default?

2. You are aware that DTAG does not peer at DE-CIX, so whether "peering is most dense" there has exactly no influence on whether Hetzner gets good connectivity to DTAG?

3. You are aware that Hetzner does peer at DE-CIX with 200 Gbit/s, with an open peering policy?

4. You are aware that Hetzner even peers at AMS-IX in Amsterdam with 100 Gbit/s? That link almost certainly is even more expensive than the one to DE-CIX.

see also, peering list close to the end: http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Rechenzentren_und_Anbindung...
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Yeah, I think I prefer yours. Probably more robust wrt filenames-with-whitespace too.
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OK, out of scope for what happens in San Francisco, but to put them on the map a little in China and certainly related to bus startups:

pandabus.cn are a small startup that provide real-time bus mapping (i.e., where is my next bus going to arrive - public busses) and private busses (either their own, or owned by someone else) for some cities in China. While privately shared busses are an old thing, they're consolidating everything together quite well and making it much more transparent.

I have no affiliation, other than being a user of their app, and while I've not met them, I understand they're a small team of around 20 people based in a technology building not far from me. Support your neighbours, etc.
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Hopefully.

A few days ago my wife received a letter from OPM saying that some of her data was mixed up in their recent snafu. She received three years of free identity fraud monitoring. I believe she now has two of these monitoring services running as a result of data breaches. I also have two from different companies.

I'd love to see more serious penalties/compensation for these sorts of breaches.
A radius of 224 meters is 1 g acceleration at 2 revolutions per minute. It is directly proportional, so half the acceleration is half the radius. 0.5g or less might be good enough.

Now this is a pretty huge space craft, but compare that with the ISS which is already 108 meters wide by 73 meters long. It's a huge undertaking but in the realm of possible. Of course, there's still the issue with mass and thrust required to propel a huge craft to an interplanetary trajectory.

The question is whether artificial gravity is a requirement for interplanetary human expeditions.
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LTS makes sense for an operating system. LTS doesn't make sense for utility. Actually, there is an LTS version of Firefox known as ESR [1]. You typically see this on university computers or some corporate machines. Personally, I don't see the value of ESR, because internal applications should be constantly improving, more and more machines are equipped with Chrome which AFAIK doesn't have ESR, and more and more corporate are giving out machines or allowing workers to tunnel in with VPN from personal workstation, the argument to actually continue to use ESR is diminishing IMO.

Anyway, I think you can create a thread to ask people to donate to other causes. That's fine.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
Cheaper than paying for the gym.
My manager usually wears a dress shirt and corresponding pants, but no tie or jacket. But maybe he puts those on when he meets higher ups. I think I've also seen him in jeans, but not often.

But at a different department, the manager of the same level always wears a hoodie, and probably either jeans or cargo pants. I can't really imagine him in anything else.
I saw it in action and it is very useful project!
I long for the day PDF is finally expunged from the technical environment, in the meantime people still like to generate documents with it; and even with the variety of toolkits, frameworks and APIs, there's still a bit of knowledge needed to work with them efficiently.

I don't sell myself as a PDF expert, but my level of knowledge and experience is high enough that I can maintain and improve systems and workflows tightly bound to them. I keep it on my resume, but have no desire to mine that resource for fear of being the canary.
None of them make sense. "Crowdsourced via GPS" is the common function.
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