skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use H3G on a tablet: every time I reconnect (after the connection drops, when I reboot or switch from wifi to cellular network) the first http request is somehow redirected to a shitty H3G website full of ads.

This is not only annoying but also manages to break everything using an internet connect. For example it overwrites bookmarks, reading list entries, applications fail to load.

Anyway injecting scripts is crazy. Are they still doing it?
Don't get ahead of yourself, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 needs to come out first. :P
> The man who pushes the button doesn't know if he's going to kill civilians and how many of them in that particular case, but the average number of civilans killed per bomb is well known. He knows that his actions will cause the death of a certain amount of innocents, and still he pushes the button in order to advance the political or military objectives of the entity he belongs to.

This is exactly my original point: his "military objective" is usually to prevent far more civilians from dying in the end.

> Would that make them better?

Attacking officials of opposing force in high-precision strikes instead of civilians? Yes. It actually would make them better, yes. May be not "good", but definitely better. How is this not obvious?
There's a tutorial on the AWS Labs GitHub that goes through this exact scenario: https://github.com/awslabs/api-gateway-secure-pet-store.
This is probably one of the best unintended things to ever happen. Using other languages is the equivalent of world travel for a human. All the worst code I've ever seen is written by one language programmers, and perl is among the top of that category for a variety of reasons. I have seen maintainable, performant perl5, but the barrier is high.
I agree. I feel partly responsible for their frustrations on K's team and ultimately, their departure. Sometimes I wonder if things would be better had I not made that suggestion.

And no, I did not.
The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life (2014)
They may not be directly comparable with Persona, but such things are widely deployed in academic/research communities: https://shibboleth.net/ (web-specific), https://www.eduroam.org/ (roaming wifi-specific in practice?), and "e-science certificates" in the UK (specifically horrible -- definitely not a beautiful thing) which I think come under https://www.igtf.net/.

The recent generalized effort is Moonshot/ABFAB (https://jisc.ac.uk/assent), which I think has made disappointingly slow progress.
Clearly, your exgf was a gold digger and she assessed (probably correctly) that you bank account was now worthless, and that your startup employer won't be the next unicorn.

The anxiety you got from your job is probably also a sign of the same thing, unconscious in your case.

Probably not entirely your fault, I guess there are more people involved in your startup employer.

I would say, share the pain: resign from your job, and find a better one.
Crowd translating the web is another interesting project.
I could craft you unreadable code in any language. Someone removing all of the whitespace between their operators is not going to be producing code that I want to be responsible for maintaining... in any language.
Thank you. I agree. There is not a doubt in my mind that I could have done certain things better, and I certainly do not deny that. I still have a lot to learn.
What does "performance orientated" mean?
Germany. Prepaid Mastercards require the shop owner to photocopy your ID card.
This is a correct and under-appreciated point, but it's going to be very tough to convince people of this when they continue to hear stories about how certain "top" companies only want people from certain schools(https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-millions-recruitin...) and are actually looking at college / SAT / ACT grades(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/jobs/31gpa.html?pagewanted...) in their hiring decisions.
One of the things that I thought would be neat is an open source CloudFormation that could work for multiple cloud vendors, possibly using a driver pattern.

Also, you might want to update your HN profile with contact info.
I meant moz: we're discussing Rand and Moz. And sometimes it's enough to have a bunch of interested parties linking to your content.
...or you could just put whitespace around - when you mean subtract.
Those Low Grades in College May Haunt Your Job Search (2006)
Any different than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs?
As someone that has spend significant time in Perl5, why would they use something like `$=pod`? I get that the name starts with '=' just like the pod syntax, but that doesn't mean it needs to be in the variable name. I would almost just rather that they have some sort of namespace just for 'special' variables like Python with their 'dunder' variables (i.e. double-underscore like __doc__).
I do not see this as you kicking me while I'm down. I appreciate all of the advice in this thread. I've figured I need to leave (bit hard now that's it the holiday season though), but the HN community has always been tremendously insightful and supportive throughout my years here.

I'm certain there are many things I could have done differently for a better outcome, and I may not be able to identify all of them, but even taking to heart a couple of these will help a lot.

Thanks again!
Virtu cannot front run; they are not a brokerage.

Folks like E-Trade are the ones who could potentially front-run. Do you have any evidence that they are?
That has to be loud as hell.
> The targets are often not combatants; in fact, many of the targets have no known identity at all.

I'm genuinly curious — do you honestly think that the fact that attack X killed civilians means that it was supposed to killed civilians? That people who make this kind of decision had reasons to believe that they actually made the right choice?

We're all very wise in hindsight — but I find it very hard to believe that military officers in this situation often have access to 100% solid intelligence. You could argue that they should increase their standards for given intelligence, but that brings us to the second point.

> If anybody strains to minimize civilian casualties, they're doing a piss-poor job of it.

All analysis I've seen on the matter only looks at casualties from the airstrikes. Where's the other side of the equation: where's the same analysis about completed military objectives in campaign as a whole, and where's analysis about lives that were saved as a result?

> In fact, often it looks as if non-combatants and civilian structures were deliberately targeted.

I have heard such claims, but I never saw them being backed up with data that would suggest that decision-maker in this particular place actually had solid reasons to believe that he was targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. Once more: we're all wise in hindsight.

I honestly feel that people who are making this kind of arguments aren't even trying to imagine what's war is, with lack of information and awful choices that you have to make. Do you honestly believe that there are ways to solve this kind of situation without innocent people dying in suffering?
How does it overwrite bookmarks?
As many as capitalism does?
The core tech was developed by me around 5 years ago. I co-founded a startup 4 years ago which I'm pivoting into this new product (if my market research is positive). For the past 4 years I been making and selling other products and making my company profitable.
I think that the parent to your post is referring to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793029

which already made the front-page.
Ah, well that's just bad phrasing. It's not "settling" because we'd prefer to kill more people, it's "settling" because we want to avoid counter-revolutions later.
I definitely do need some leads. The situation is getting increasingly taxing on me both mentally and technically despite my attempts to keep calm. How do I reach out to you?
Some organizations that connect startups with investors, run pitching events, etc, asked for a video, so, I thought, I might as well publish it. I'll re-think it.
I imagine if you had that kind of Star Trek replicator technology it would be more feasible to use existing matter and rearrange it as desired.
Ugh, good catch. Looks like someone fixed it up already, thanks.
I only login in Google for searches when searching IT and comp sci type questions.
I can't take that video seriously. It's like a parody of itself...
I can vouch that that there was plenty of Christmas left in my timezone when I uploaded the tarballs and posted the release notice. :)
If P/K was blog owner, he or she was definitely an NSA fanboy due to constant, disinfo-using defence of them plus a blog originally containing their gear. It changed after I called that person out to point that it seems legit now. That's either genuine improvement or bait to get readers' guard down on future comments. Not sure yet as he or she comments rarely now.
Some HFTs stopped supplying liquidity during flash crashes, others didn't. The ones who didn't were actually the ones to end the flash crash; they see great bargains and buy them up.

The main reason HFTs pull out of markets during flash crashes and similar events is regulatory (broken trades). The only HFTs who can stay in the market during a flash crash are the ones who believe they can predict the retroactive actions of human regulators. Obviously this will only be a small subset of HFTs.

If you want to change this, eliminate the breaking of "clearly erroneous trades". (Japan doesn't have this rule and they do fine.)
Test results for Broadwell and Skylake
How can you be successful if you don't make a couple million?
Two problems: ① Android 5 only, and ② for some reason it doesn't seem to be on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=csound&fdpag...
Xmas Message From Ghana
http://nanabkay.blogspot.com/2015/12/pretty-esi-dorinda-shar...
In about half of the countries in Europe, Christmas is generally taken to mean the Christmas Eve, i.e. the 24th.
Appreciate the tip. Ill check. You have a guess on why moving a Save File dialog messes with window for application itself? That's a new bug to me for Linux in general.
This is one of the weirdest articles I have ever seen on WSJ
Xmas Message from Ghana
http://nanabkay.blogspot.com/2015/12/pretty-esi-dorinda-shar...
Moore's law hits the roof
Posse of Mathematicians Bridges Number Theory and Geometry
I installed rakudo and played with it a little. However, the repl was horrible. Is there a repl that accepts multiline subroutines and if possible readline support?
Honestly it matters very little to me who gets credit, and I definitely do have people that I enjoy working with.

Sadly with the direction this project is heading, with K's role in this project, and with the lack of positive change from upper management after so feedback from many parties has really taken its toll/disheartened me. I do agree I need to find another job, it's just a bit hard now during holiday seasons and where I'm located.

Definitely working on it though, thank you.
Don't quite agree, most recent works produce 3D models of very decent quality. Have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XySrhZpODYs for example, but there are others based on volumetric data-structures that give fine results as well.
The mathematician who set this up also wrote a popular maths book called "Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension". It is by Matt Parker.
I should write about this. I never realized that it might be useful to someone. Thank you for opening my eyes to this. I'm hip deep in contract work right now (3 due diligences back-to-back, totally crazy, working over Christmas on one of the reports) but I promise that as soon as I have my hands free I'll try to expand on these comments in a blog post.

Y combinator is a real game changer in many ways, and one of those ways is that founders now find themselves with a support group of others who have been in similar situations and who have a lot of knowledge about subjects like these. But there is a large group of founders currently not in YC and for those especially it might be advantageous. As a small time investor I'm sometimes in the role of the procedural jerk who makes sure that from the founders perspective all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. Usually this is not without friction but I've yet to hear a founder not express (sometimes many years later) that they're happy we went that route. Experience - even a little bit - can be worth gold if there is a power asymmetry and such asymmetries are more the rule than the exception where founders meet capital.
Good work!

Microsoft was/is working on something similar[1]

I tried the app on a chair and an object on table. It's far from what kinect can do. I am optimistic about it though.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive...
Colloquially, sure. More properly, that's 'Christmas Eve', 'Heiligabend', ..., ie the day before Christmas; the 'first day of Chrismas' ('erster Weihnachtsfeiertag') is the 25th.

So there :p
I've never seriously used any BSD, but I do have to admit I like that things don't change for the sake of change, as seems to happen on Linux every couple of years. With OpenBSD, docs from 10 years ago are generally workable, because nothing on the user side has changed. That's got some definite benefits. I've been using Linux as my primary OS for 20 years, as of this year (which is, coincidentally about as long as OpenBSD has been around), and I don't feel significantly more "on top of" the OS than I did 10 or even 15 years ago. On many fronts, I'm further behind, because I have so much less free time, and there's so much more to a Linux system. And, so much has changed.

That said, there's a bunch of trade-offs. Virtualization on OpenBSD is, as far as I can tell, effectively a non-starter for any major project (i.e. those with many VMs, a virtual network, virtual disks, etc.). Containers seem to not exist, at all, though I found some historic mentions of jail-based options.

It seems like a perfect candidate for a VM or container guest OS, due to security focus, small size, simple deployment, etc. But, you then have to have two sets of skills: Managing your guest operating system, and managing your host operating system. Since Linux is the strongest container or VM hosting OS on the server (this was once debatable when Solaris Zones was new and Linux was still somewhat immature on the container front, but I don't think anyone would make the case that Linux isn't the obvious choice for hosting VMs or containers in most deployments today), and Linux is pretty far away from OpenBSD, you've got two pretty widely divergent skill sets needed.

Nonetheless, every time I read about OpenBSD, I feel a strong urge to give it a try. It seems extremely elegant in the way old UNIX systems were elegant. It appeals to me on a lot of fronts. Also, the code and documentation are extremely readable, in ways I've rarely seen elsewhere (FreeBSD also meets this description, but it's so much bigger it can still be daunting).

I wonder if anyone is working on a Zones port to any BSD? OpenBSD with a convincing container or virtualization story would be a tipping point for me, in terms of being willing to put in the effort to learn it and use it.
Pretty sure the vagueness was intentional so as not to identify him.
I recently stumbled upon a good video showing some old delay line memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9cUbYII5RY
They had a current leak in the demo
An event with >10% probability that will cut your quality of life by at least half forever, and guarantee that extended unemployment carries a prison sentence, is a pretty big deal.

We generally carry home/car/life/health insurance to manage risks that are drastically lower probability and consequence, yet no one calls that jaded.
I found dashes are by far easier to type than underscores and I'd certainly have whitespace between operators in my code, so I'd never run into the problem you describe. It is possible to have variables without sigils and in that case, your first example would be a parse error about undeclared users-churn-rate. Also, apostrophes are valid in variable names as well.
My first thought for Perl 6 killerapp: a html5/js build replacement for grunt, gulp and other such monstrosities.
> These days, an investment banker may marry another investment banker rather than a high school sweetheart, or a lawyer will marry another lawyer, or a prestigious client, rather than a secretary.

I'm all for reducing income inequality, but I find the complaints about assortive marriage to be, frankly, sexist. Sandra Day O'Connor graduated third in her class at Stanford Law, and was only offered jobs as a legal secretary in private law firms. Back then, a lot of smart, ambitious women were relegated to jobs that didn't maximize their intellectual potential because of sexism in the workplace. Now that sexism is subsiding, and women are free to pursue traditionally male jobs, of course you're seeing more couples marrying within their educational and economic class.
I wasn't describing the totality of actions a strong AI might take, just one. A strong AI doesn't just self-improve its own algorithm; it also runs that algorithm.

If an AI could arbitrarily "rethink" its value function, then what would it use to decide if the change was a good one?

As for the rest, sure, if those actions serve its purpose. That said, there's a reason I suggested that an AI need not necessarily have any agency of its own. Much safer to build one that doesn't.
I'm working on an app now that started from a similar boilerplate. The React+Redux ecosystem is very exciting right now. Both of those libraries are brilliant in their elegance,and the ecosystem is a testament to that.

On the other hand, the fact that apps end up being a stack of loosely integrated libraries can make the process of developing in the ecosystem rather overwhelming. It's hard to keep up with the progression of microlibraries and features.

One thing's for sure though: it's a fun time to be a Web developer.
Create the infrastructure manually and then use Cloudformer tool to generate the template based on the already created infrastructure. You can then edit the generated template to make it more maintainable and you have a nice reusable template.
I'm guilty of the nose tap, as well as the forehead-tap and chin-tap to dismiss the screen. Wearables are fun!
The world is not a monoculture, yes. Not sure why that should mean people will start using this new version of a language that has been dormant for fifteen years.
this looks extremely slow and hard to ride
Yes this is why I left Vodafone. They aggressively recompress images so that they look noticably awful, including in phone apps where resources are loaded on demand, and there's nothing you can do about it bar using a VPN. O2 are exactly the same and all the virtual network operators using either network are the same.
CloudAcademy provides several good ones.
Snapchat on Windows Phone (lol)

Real-Life Megaman Battle Network
Logistics is the key in any business dealing with geographical human and material distribution challenges.
My apologies. I had assumed that what you were talking about had something to do with either Perl 6 or Camelia.
Doesn't work for me, would be good to check the time on my bike.
Crecer su negocio siguiendo Estrategias
I'm not sure that any system doesn't need /any/ altruism. It may be the case that systems which do not require much altruism to function work better, because there is a higher chance of the requirement being met, but I think that a good system would also have mechanism by which altruism can provide further benefits.

If what is required for people to act in a way that benefits others is for the people to be motivated to act that way, it seems that people being motivated by the benefit that their actions have for others would be a good motivation for them to act that way, as far as it is an available motivation.

Which, seems compatible with some senses of the word "capitalism". People value their own well-being, and the well-being of others, by some amounts, and based on that, take actions and make agreements with others so as to serve these ends as they see fit.

Of course, in that sense any system could be seen as a sort of capitalism, leading capitalism to be almost like a tautology?

Which doesn't seem to match how people use it, so either I don't understand the intent behind how people use it, or, uh, it's almost kind of empty? Probably the former.
Nose-tap seemed obvious, but I never thought of forehead-tap or chin-tap. (I dismiss the "usual" way ... covering the screen with my other hand.) I'll add those to my repertoire, thanks!
That's a nice way of looking at the brain drain in the Perl community over the last decade. And, you're probably right. If we think in terms of general health of the free and open programming world, it has been remarkably improved by some of the folks who've migrated through different languages over the years. To the point where we have not one, not two, not a dozen, really nice languages with excellent communities, but several dozens of them (and at least two dozen that are large enough and effective enough to build pretty much anything with them). We have an embarrassment of riches, frankly.

There was a time when going into a large project, you could choose between Java, C/C++, or Perl. There were outliers (even some with significant footholds in some industries, like TCL), but those were the options I saw in front of me at every junction. Today, we can choose to work in so many languages, and get good results, find good community, find good library and tooling and cross-platform support, and enjoy all the stuff we found so nice about Perl way back when.
More reasons to encrypt everything and start HSs.
NetHack 3.6 just recently came out too!

http://www.nethack.org/v360/release.html
Google does this and is focused on optimizing their products for 2G. It's the kind of behavior a company will exhibit when they focus on the user first.
The 20-year-old Ruby and Python were brand new at some point in time too. It's a bit silly to declare the current crop of languages to be with us forever. I can already notice where being a brand new language makes Perl 6 address new inventions in the past 20 years much better: superb Unicode support and getting concurrency by simply using .hyper/.race methods, not to mention grammars and autothreaded junctions. This looks pretty revolutionary to me.
A good paper is a great way to get an account started. Appreciate it. Ill add it to the collection.
your first example would be a parse error about undeclared users-churn-rate

What if users is 10 and churn-rate is 3 and i want to substract the churn-rate from users?
Review: Making a Murderer, True Crime on Netflix
Why the U.S. Pays More Than Other Countries for Drugs
I love the stipple picture of the guy nose-tapping his watch

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GU128_Watch_G_2...
So thoughtful means typing more words? How do determine what is thoughtful? Slippery slope to over-mod-ville it seems.
It feels like they put a lot of efforts to make the presentation look like an Apple presentation when their product seems clumsy and not-so-usable... The result is meh. :/
Are there any good tutorials/introductions/blog posts/etc. on using Perl6 for language parsing/implementation?
It's my understanding that there are irons and titanium ores on the moon as well, though I do not know in what quantities.
I think you may want to install the module called Linenoise. If you have panda (Perl 6 module installer), just type panda install Linenoise and you should be all set. https://github.com/hoelzro/p6-linenoise
> If a couple buys "trip insurance", it's more about managing risk and uncertainty so they can sleep at night if their cruise ship is cancelled rather than smoothing over price volatility.

To rephrase, they're definitely paying a small amount of money to avoid maybe losing a large amount of money. That sounds like the definition of decreasing volatility to me.