skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's a useful pattern, that people were using heavily. Not sure why you're trying to suggest some kind of ill-intent.

A nice thing about prototypal inhericance is that classical inheritance can be implemented in it. People were doing that commonly enough that it made sense to add sugar to do it more directly, and signal intent more clearly to the reader.
I'm aware.
Apple does not care one tiny bit where you are when making purchases. All you need is an account with a valid payment method in that country. Your account is linked to one country, regardless of where you are or what SIM card is in your phone.
The thing about the IP blocking is that you need to know all these companies in the first place. It's quite a bothersome work, considering that people may not just want to use US proxies.
Their videos are worth checking out. http://rationality.org/videos/

That said, I am not sure it is rationale to pay $3,900 for four days of training. At least give me a celebrity like Tony Robbins.
The django project is one of the last big trac users. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to use trac. They should definitely move issues to github, or at least to a better issue tracking platform.

"I am sure github.com will take ages to do such thing" I have no idea what you're on about. I handled the migration of a massive bugzilla database to Github. Wrote this[1] in the process. The github team was super friendly and helpful in assisting me in the process with zero delays (shout out to Ivan!).

[1] https://github.com/jleclanche/bugzilla-to-github/
The TV advertising value of college and pro football relative to everything else on TV has gone through the roof ever since skipping commercials became the norm.

If you can identify another reason why TV contracts for the SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12 and PAC 12 suddenly skyrocketed in the last 15 years I would love to hear it.
> buying a farm is a huge huge risk tho, isn't it? in a scenario where society truly collapse, at least, it makes you a prime target.

Not really - you can always walk away, so at worst you're no worse off than you were without it.
Ok, never mind, found it under Wikipedia link for AppArmor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control
Nor:

http://oswatch.org/
Can you post a link to these people vocal about wanting contribution and what type of content they are submitting?

Stackoverflow is basically documentation. You don't attribute the documentation every time you use an api.
I stayed in The City during the holidays and at one point walked close by the Police hq. After continuing on I enabled gps for a moment and even though I was half a mile a way my gps was showing me smack dab in the center of the police hq for about 15 minutes... I realized then what was happening and that I should have known better, but I had forgotten to ask a friend to take his faraday cage laptop bag and phone bag... I knew better and am still kicking myself for it.

The UK's level of surveillance is extremely unsetteling to me, and quite frankly I think a lot of Americans have forgotten all the reasons why the UK might not be as good of an ally as everyone thinks since the 47 USUK agreement. Thr point being that I really hope our politicians dont start adopting That level of surveillance just because they do it to.

It seems we have quietly been in a surveillance arms race, which isnt good for the population at all.
Has anyone done a proof of principle though. You only need to test one of the combinations. I don't think anyone has been able to do this.
If you think visa,MasterCard and PayPal do shit all you are probably super ignorant of the payments space.

Again you thinking banks don't make much from credit cards reenforces that you are just ignorant of the space.

Remittance only saves money with Bitcoin if almost no one does it because the end country can absorb the inflow of Bitcoin without needing to worry about selling it back the other way. If it ever got popular the costs would go back to where they are with traditional services only with the addition of an extra currency exchange in the middle. That said it doesn't matter though because they aren't popular and don't have traction.

As for the discounts same thing it only works while it's rarely used and it continues to work because it is.
low power devices now exist that can live of small traces of power. Even with the battery removed, how can you be sure it's still not listening?...
Thanks for the constructive criticism, it's a good suggestion - I've been contemplating the same myself. I'll look into how I can obtain official original links (currently the information is fed via email).
It can't DMA. It's not that it chooses not to.
its always mystified me why there are not more standardised, simple things. when i load an image i want width, height and rgba in a buffer. complicated extras shouldn't be necessary to load an image.

this is why i use stb_image.c - even though it doesn't cover everything - it has a sane interface instead of a nightmare like libpng or libjpeg.

most image formats and the 'standard' libraries for using them look like a great reason to never employ anyone who had anything to do with them. this one looks like an engineer, competent at the most basic levels, did the most obvious thing.

good work.

given that most modern app formats do compression anyway i'm not sure there is any need to care about that. pngs don't shrink much inside an ipa or apk but raw data shrinks to about the same size as png in my experience.
I think you could do that in a passive way as well, where the act of pressing the button powers up a circuit that holds the power on.
Agreed. That's why I invited him on the JavaScript Air show. The live video broadcast podcast all about JavaScript and the web platform. He'll be on live on March 2nd: http://jsair.io/lodash
I think age has to do something with this too. I'm in my twenties and I do both have groups of friends who are working and who are student. Obviously maturity and responsibility comes with age and experience.
> where a Netflix created show "Better Call Saul" isn't available to Australian Netflix users because Netflix sold the show's rights to a local competitor before they had a presence in Australia.

Netflix had nothing to do with creating Better Call Saul, and Netflix definitely was aware of it's plans to expand to Australia during the same timeframe as Better Call Saul being developed and sold to Stan.
Reading the blog post, it definitely does not 'debunk' the Washington Post report. All it does is take issue with Snowden's blanket claim that all mobiles are vulnerable (which is a good point and is one I'm inclined to agree with).
Very nice! Can you do the same for Google Drive, please? I would love to be able to play all the music I have in it; I am sure I am not alone.
The site is build on the Lobsters Rails Project (https://github.com/jcs/lobsters)
You'll be interested to know that Dan Abramov is on the JavaScript Air panel. This is relevant because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909199 :-)
Thanks! Actually the implementation is based on https://lobste.rs code at https://github.com/jcs/lobsters but yes, the plan is to open source this fork quite soon.
Weightlifters have known about this a long time.
Do you see a better way of doing distributed (maybe anonymous) markets? I don't have much faith in OpenBazaar since their reliance on trusted 3rd parties mean that they are wide open to collusion between party and arbiter.
How on earth would that not put them right back into a monopoly position and square in the sights of regulators?
There's a gold etf that's easy to own.
C is the only language that will run on certain strange systems, and that is the only reason that most of these quibbles even matter. It's more of an argument of "What is the most portable way to write C?"

C is a very small and elegant language that never lies to you. There aren't any useless functions that are specific to one use case, and things that you don't really, really need are simply left out of the language. This means that instead of spending hours learning the language and all of its quirks, you get to focus on the problem that you're trying to solve, and come up with the most efficient solution possible (there's a reason why almost all performance tests use C as 1). You don't have any language quirks like those that are discussed in this article, unless you are running an architecture that has similar quirks, in which case you're going to have quirks no matter what you do. Edge use cases, as with everything, may cause a bit of quirkiness.

That being said, don't be scared off from C just because of these pedantic arguments.
What is the use-case of this?
> You can complain all you want, but why waste your breath complaining to someone when, knowing the background, you know it's outside their powers to do anything about it?

I'm sure Netflix could get more/better content if they like, as evidenced by the US site. They just choose not to in most countries. Additionally, translated content for local audiences is often only regionally available. So if your family immigrated from another part of the would, Netflix will soon become less valuable. Torrenting or other options will become more valuable.
A repos wiki pages are stored in another publicly accessible git repo.

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPOSITORY.wiki.git

Shame that issues/PRs aren't as accessible as the wiki is.
Reading this as someone who neither loves not loathes C, I would not have written this as a series of rebuttals. It makes the essay seem defensive and nit picky. I get more of a sense of emotional attachment to a particular way than any sort of reasoning.
We the west, or America?
Zoho has been great for me for a long time, but they recently had some major problems (coupled with hugely adverse external factors like a brutal flood), hopefully they've learned from their mistakes, I really want to keep using them and pay them eventually when my startup grows :) .

They're much better at support than Google (which isn't saying much, but at least you have someone that answers).
People around the world break the law all the time by using Uber and Airbnb. There are many alternatives to Netflix, and yes, torrenting is one of them.
So, a Brazilian citizen living in the US would pay the Netflix account using his Brazilian Credit card. And that would block him into Netflix Brazil content? The origin of the CC is the issue? What about 'generic' CC you can buy at stores?
Ugh, there's a lot of argument about that in the cfar alumni community. Some folks take it for granted (why??? Take things for granted about such an uncertain subject???) that we're just doomed unless you Give Miri Money(tm). Those folks tend to be pretty good about actually carrying out what is reasonable behaviour in most other ways if only they were right about that one thing - if it really were such a big deal, you'd want to not ignore it.

Meanwhile, another part of the alumni community actually understands the theory behind ai and machine learning, and those folks end up in arguments frequently with the first category about the topic.

The reason you hear about it is the first category is a pretty panicked and hopeless group - for the people who actually believe yudkowsky's "recursive algorithmic improvement" to be able to give large improvements, they generally think that humanity "loses by default" if they do nothing. So they tend to be very, very into recruiting. Thankfully they're not so nuts about it that they'll never change their minds, the problem is it takes a lot of explaining to get the theoretical basis for why the recursive self improvement thing isn't actually as scary as they think it is. No, it's not going to take an hour as soon as an ai is built, learning is hard, and humans are freakishly good at it.

Computers will beat us at data efficiency eventually but it's gonna take a while, and current machine learning is better at being data inefficient but getting good results from the large amounts of data. And the best you can do isn't good enough to make miri's monster - unbiased, maximally data-efficient Bayesian inference doesn't actually fit in the universe in either a time or memory sense if you try to build a full ai out of just that one thing. And approximating it is, you guessed it, less data efficient.
> On the flip side, Europe is not a very different market; the buyers are a bit more smug and you can't sell guns, but that's about it - so why aren't we seeing more of the "new" prepper culture cropping up on the other side of the pond?

It is, slowly. We have a lot of gun enthusiasts, even though they're not gun owners. They visit the shooting range regularly instead. ASG is a popular sport too, and that's pretty much as much firearms combat training as you can get without actual firearms. In my country (Poland), there was a visible uptick of survivalist narratives when the war in Ukraine started (after all, we're next-door neighbors). And while HAM radio is not very popular (though my friends are doing some serious work in changing that), a lot of drivers have CB radios (installed primarily to facilitate breaking traffic laws).
Do read again.
Try reading the article next time.
Today we could redo bitcoin, as a centralized perfectly trustworthy system :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#The_2nd...

Simply have 5 servers running that as a network server and you won't need proof of work, nor will you need a blockchain. Homomorphically encrypt a basic ledger with an encrypted backend, and throw away the key. Done/done.

One might say encrypting 52 integers in 36 hours is somewhat less than acceptable performance, but how does it really compare to bitcoin in total effort ? This is certainly good enough that anyone with a decent pc could run it. Hell, you might even reward them for running it just like bitcoin does. And it ought to be a lot cheaper to run than bitcoin.
If a technology exists, and can feasibly be leveraged by a party to its advantage, then you should assume that it is happening.
We’d like issues to gain a first-class voting system,
and for content-less comments like “+1” or “:+1:” or
“me too” to trigger a warning and instructions on how
to use the voting mechanism.

Why bother users with a warning? Turn it into a vote, and then highlight the vote icon so you can see what happened.
I work at a large freight forwarder and we still have a whole department of COBOL developers and several million lines of COBOL code in production.

If Amazon is serious about being an ocean carrier, they would be the first major new competitor to enter this space since before the invention of the internet. All the competition is still mired in 80s technology.

But the technology issue aside, my point was really that Amazon has a more aggressive growth strategy and "become a monopoly" mentality than any incumbent player in this field and would be willing to take a loss in order to take market share. I believe they also have a small army of operations science PhDs who understand logistics network optimization better than anyone else in the field, and they also invest heavily in automation and robotics. They have self-driving forklifts as well as automated systems that feed instructions into the earpieces of their warehouse workers now. If they apply this strategy toward freight forwarding, that industry is going to be shaken up in a big way.
At different remote locations for each backup.
I grew up in the rocky mountians, and even though the snows have been less so, it was the sort of place my grandpa tells stories of blizzards 8ft deep that would get people trapped in for weeks.

The number one thing you want is water or a way to get water.

Number two is food or ways to get food.

Number three is heating/shelter.

You get those three things and learn how to get them (hunting, fishing, foraging, etc) and youll be just fine.

As for food, to give us a comfortable buffer, we had an entire wall dedicated to 5 gallon buckets of freeze dried stuffs like egg, milk, beans, rice, basics such as that.

Water is best to have you own independent well, and a filtration device for us while foraging and a bigger one for local high volume water if there is no well.

These basics are what anyone preparing for almost any disaster or emergency should do.
Any number of phones over the years have/had functionality separate from the main OS (and in some cases backed with a small secondary battery) to trigger the phone to wake up to play alarms etc.. Given that the baseband code is totally closed and has total control over the phone, if the physical capability is there all it takes is a suitable vulnerability.

I would not trust that any modern smartphone is fully off without yanking the battery.
No one forces you to use MS products, a MS OS VM or C#.

So it's not 'necessary', it's a choice you're making.
If I were to prepare for an apocalypse scenario, I would hoard bottled water, canned food, ammunition, and fuel. Roughly prioritised in that order. Possibly also batteries.

I feel like these are the things that will become scarce and valuable. Or at least help survival (food/water + ammunition). This makes them useful to me and also useful for bartering.

Of course, my stash needs to be safe both from the apocalypse scenario itself (will it still be in usable condition after a nuclear explosion, for example?) and from other survivors. It also needs to be somewhere I can actually get to it (safely). This, coupled with the fact that I would need large enough quantities of these items makes it rather difficult.

But, regardless, that is my I haven't done anything about it and likely never will plan to survive the apocalypse.
It sounds vaguely interesting what existing knowledge there is on people working for free for a common cause out of their own volition, and where democracy comes into play.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"
Yes, security is hard.

I like RockChip ChromeBooks, with no microcode and libreboot support. You can buy them brand new, unlike x200.
How businesses are using live chat to increase customer satisfaction
I guess you are referring to some submission titles containing [Project Name] and at the same time carrying a tag-"button"?
The submission titles for automated submission are taken from the email subject, and kept to make twitter/facebook feeds have proper context. But I'll look into how I can clean it up - especially from the oswatch.net front page itself.
Those are due to programmer error. The fact that C doesn't lie to you means that it takes a bit more experience to program properly; as with all things, with great power comes great responsibility. You don't blame the gun for killing people, you blame the person for shooting it.
The archives are not complete - it's just articles of interest to one particular person. See http://yarchive.net/about.html
Here is what I do: I only use the Google Inbox interface for post-poning stuff. I always read and write emails from the old Gmail interface. So I newer see these pins.
Seriously? Who's coding that doesn't know about SO?

I've done this occasionally (link to the SO post) on tricky code, but I'm not going to paste a link everytime I grab some code from SO.

What if I just rewrote, anyways?

This is unenforceable and therefore, pointless.
I think democracy is almost the worst way to take decisions when it comes to scientific/engineering things. In an open source project, a single expert should be able to overrule the mass of users/contributors if his point is technically more correct. This is very difficult to consistently achieve in a democracy.

I would love to see the results/conclusion of this research. We would finally get some data-backed insight into why/why not democracy is good for a software project.
IS EMPLOYEE ONLINE COMMUNICATION MONITORING LEGAL IN EUROPE? ECHR SAYS YES
We humans?

edit: aside from that utopic reply, what I mean is "any country that has cellphones and want to protect their citizen should implement a legal framework to prevent abuse"
"Software lifecycle tool" is too vague for a product to have focus and open to too many interpretations as to what it should include. Even limiting scope to issue tracking, there are different points of view on how that should work and several widely-used but rather different software alternatives to choose from.

And how many teams spend the first three months of a project building a custom issue tracker because they don't like any of the off-the-shelf options? Trying to get issue-tracking "right" is a black hole for a company like github. Which is probably why they provide the bare minimum free-form issue and that's it.
There is a difference between "possible but hard" and "possible but easy".
Cool! I'll keep an eye out :)
I think people complaining about finding talent ought to think first about how to get more out of the talent they get.

For instance, they pay big money to a recruiter, but then when you get hired you get a hand-me-down laptop from a salesman who couldn't sell anything. They wonder why project A is 6 months late and you show them that you spend 6 months working on project B (a one-off for a delightful customer) and C and D (total loss for business reasons.)

If the talent shortage was legitimate you'd see people applying more controls to the problem rather than bitching about the talent shortage or making up startups to do something about the talent shortage.
Silicon Valley is most definitely an important part of history, regardless what Hacker News and its ilk do. It is named after the primary material input of its name sake first innovation, the integrated circuit. Robert Noyce, the "Mayor or Silicon Valley", Robert Moore, and the rest of the "Traitorous Eight" founded Fairchild Semiconductor and then these two went on to found Intel, a unicorn among unicorns. They accomplished all this by challenging many business norms including "not being company men" and selling their product at a loss until volume was up enough to turn a profit. They didn't just spin off companies, they are the ones that transformed the orchards into the Silicon Valley you take for granted today. They and their progeny laid the social (even the use of venture capital!) and technological foundation that is taken for granted today. Many people I ask have no clue who Robert Noyce is, and know Moore only for Moore's Law. It's like being a publicist and not knowing who Guttenberg is. It's embarrassing really. Silicon valley is already a part of history. I know this and I am young, not someone of an older generation that lived any of this. It's all so rivht there in front of your face, it's hard not to know this stuff. Hacker News, many threads show an ignorance of a lot of this stuff, and I'm just about over it all.
No but that doesn't make this a good way or a safe way.

I don't have much faith in openbazaar either because they offer nothing more than a shopping cart software would get you but require a software download to use.
but you would basically have wasted all the resources spent to purchase the farm pre-apocalypse
I interviewed there in 2008, well before the Holacracy movement. Tony, while clearly brilliant, seemed to have some sort of "reality distortion field" surrounding him.

The interview process is pretty intense, so I talked to a lot of people there. They mostly seemed aligned on their opinions of what was working well, what wasn't, etc. None of their opinions matched what I heard from Tony.

I have to imagine then, that this Holacracy experiment, as implemented at Zappos, must have been even more bizarre than it seems generically.
In principle, one tends to agree with the sentence about experts overruling the mass but in fact we don't accept this behaviour in economy or any other aspect of our lives. So, maybe it's the right to do it but I'd love to have more data (and confidence) on that. Also, it's not only about technical decisions but also regarding who decides what feature should be implemented next