skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the design of some of these tapes. We used to collect these and the rave flyers back in the day!
If I were to write a trivial implementation from scratch then I would enjoy this type of question. If it is about writing code to interact with some specific Java messaging APIs then it's not a fair question to ask someone who doesn't have the specific skill set.
While I don't love google, I thought I made the claim rediculous enough that everyone would be able to realize it os satire and google could probably do 10x of what any govt could with the money.
thanks. I will keep an eye out for it elsewhere!
Not if you have more than five subdomains, you have to wait for a week, like me.
Funny, forced infix in Perl uses the same syntax and mechanics:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Sub::Infix
That's entirely why I stopped buying Banana Republic and J. Crew. Their quality just plummeted 5-7 years ago. Their cashmere became so thin and pilled even within the first wear or two. It was ridiculous.
I used SML as part of the Programming Languages course taught by University of Washington. It's easily one of my favorite languages and I wish there was more library support for it.
I thought Berkshire-Hathaway had been incredibly successful since Buffett had any share in it. What am missing?
That's exactly what I said in the comment that you replied to:

"Also, even if they didn't restore the broadband at the guy's apartment, couldn't they just take the router and plug it in back at the station, since the login credentials have already been established?"

However, the sibling comment below my original asserts that iOS won't re-connect to WiFi after booting until the pin has been entered (and thus no backup will occur). If that's true, and if the phone had been powered down at any point, then retrieving the router isn't a viable solution anyway.
The German Criminal Code has §202c StGB [1], commonly known as the "hacker section" (or "Hackerparagraph" in German).

While §202a and §202b punish unauthorized access to or interception of data, §202c extends this threat to obtaining passwords or creating tools in preparation of such an act.

Note that this section has only existed for a few years. I am not aware if white-hat hackers have actually been prosecuted for creating hacker tools.

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202c.html
> First attempt. Driver claimed no one was home.

Home Depot does this to me a lot. I think it's because the drivers are lazy and don't feel like getting out to attempt the actual delivery.
True, but ideally the 555 should have a decoupling capacitor too, and the decoupling capacitor is very small and cheap.
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The decline of sears is an interesting subject, but this particular blog post is just blogspam. Better to link to the actual article this blogspam post is inspired by:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2016/02/11/the-5-way...
This is happening more and more in the US with tech companies taking a diversity pledge. I assume there's some loophole that they are getting around.
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> is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title

The wording reminds me of a similar section in the German Copyright Law which outlaws the circumvention of "effective" copy-protection schemes.

How an access control scheme can be effective and circumventable at the same time is completely beyond me. :)
If you can restrict the service to a subdomain, there are alternatives like the SAN extension that allow those third parties to avoid handling your private key at a small extra cost.
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I'd been wondering. The last few months on Twitter for me have felt much less engaging.
We have this for income, why does it not apply for corporations. Then countries make treaties with each other as to who gets what so corporations are not double taxes. The corporations have to declare all their income to all the countries that they operate in and then those countries have to work out a logic on how that is to be taxed.
It's a bit shocking to see Catch-22 mentioned in the same sentence as Atlas Shrugged. One of them is among the most engaging and humorous books ever written that manages to tackle real issues and the other is Atlas Shrugged.
This is important for typical OO chaining

i.e. you should avoid:

serviceX.getServiceY().getServiceZ().getSomeValue();

But for just structured data it's not constructive to write accessor wrappers at each level. And for things like recursive data structures, it's not even possible.
Sorry, I'm not following. Why what? The Long Now Foundation itself? The Rosetta disk in particular? Some other project of theirs?

You can see what the founders say in their own words here: http://longnow.org/about/

But their basic goal as I see it is: "encourag[ing] the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where 'long-term' is measured at least in centuries".

The disk itself is an example of that. The name obviously hearkens back to the Rosetta Stone, which unlocked the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics for us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

With a copy of the Rosetta Disk, as long as some future finder understands any one language spoken today they'll be able to translate any other materials they find from our era.

Will it survive? Will it be useful? Will it even be necessary? More broadly, what does the future mean to us, and what effect do we want to have on it?

Those are all good questions. And my take is that the real purpose of the Long Now is not to answer them, but to get people asking them. So good work, your post helps fulfill the mission.
The luddite fallacy misses the point. Nobody cares about employment rates if the job quality is shrinking. The luddite fallacy is still correct if everyone has to work two minimum wage jobs just to get by.
Silicon Valley won't disappear.

Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/etc have been and will continue competing for talent. 2005 to 2009 was hardly a time of "easy money", yet the big tech companies still had to resort to collusion to combat demand for engineers.
I used to work for a company that sold the majority of their product to sears. As the only one in the company that actually knew anything about technology, it was my job to make sure our products and company information were set up and up to date in sears' systems. Their systems consisted of multiple online management portals where you'd supply everything from product weight and size to your fax number to how you wanted to get paid, and appeared to have not been updated since 1998 or so. One wouldn't work at all unless you were using Internet Explorer 6. Updating product info required changing it in multiple places as well as emailing them a spreadsheet with the exact same info.

~4 years ago they announced that they had partnered with some SaaS provider do modernize their systems. It required re uploading all your product data, but I was excited to finally get rid of IE 6. That is until I discovered that they couldn't bare to replace their legacy systems, and the new one was just a flashy way to manage an arbitrary subset of your product data, but other changes still require using the old system.
Cool! Will it be something on the web?
Dropbox has Rust at the core of their product now. We have a fair amount of production use.
We work with Scala at our company and this is the style we use. I think that it's something that even a new person to Scala can easy understand.
The journalist is the pretentious one. Like the dude saying football instead of soccer was something out of 18th century England... Soccer is how it's called, in the journalist opinion.
Damn Americans...
http://theamericanreader.com/the-sound-of-ted-a-case-for-dis...

> What I ask myself when confronted with any TED talk is this: why do they all sound the same?

...

> TED’s is the language and tone of the pitch. It’s a style that comes from corporate conference rooms, where product ideas are pitched to potential investors. It’s the fundraiser’s speech. You cannot sound needy—you should sound like there is a world out there waiting to buy your work, that you are here only out of a belief in the importance of spreading your idea.

...

> For various reasons, I find myself forced to sit through a TED-talk now and then. I squirm in my seat—feeling humiliated for myself and the speaker. This is a distinctly un-adult feeling.
They will. For our smart socket the chips approach one dollar. Won't take long..
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It's awesome to see that intense hockey-stick growth for sites on the HSTS preload list.

I think soon it will seem weird for a TLS-enabled site to not use HSTS.
"My previous comment wasn't considering that BI would replace the current means-tested welfare programs"

That's exactly what it would do.

If, as in your hypothetical situation, someone spends their basic income too fast, they'll just have to wait until the next week/next month to get their next installment. If they can't manage that, then there are likely to be other contributing factors, such as drug addiction or mental illness, in which case you can offer alternative forms of support.
No one in this thread is arguing about overpaying.

>Why would a US pension fund care about paying tax in France?

As you said, they may have a controlling stake in businesses there.
pardon but what does COL stand for?
Paul Falstad's Java applets were my biggest regret about deciding to uninstall it.
>> Well, that's the overhead of selling closed-source devices.

Closed-source may be a pet-peeve of yours, but it has nothing to do with any of this.
Every non-nuclear state that has attempted to gain nuclear capabilities has declared that they are doing so to protect against aggression by the US/the west (pick one). "We", of course, proclaim that this is nonsense, and that if these states would just turn over their materials and toe the line, they have nothing to worry about...

...except that Iraq did, and they were invaded. Libya did, and their leader was overthrown. Iran didn't, and they eventually got a negotiated settlement that left them with some nuclear capabilities. North Korea thumbed their nose at "us", developed and tested a bomb, and "we" sent them shipments of food and fuel in return.

Soooo...maybe not such a crazy motivation after all? I realize each case is unique (Gaddafi's fall wasn't directly linked to his compliance; Iran has numerous proxies operating on its behalf in the region; nobody wants a hungry, angry North Korea attempting any sort of military action, nuclear or no), but at least in the case of Iraq, "we" really screwed the pooch.

It's going to be at least a few more decades of good behavior before "we" can talk, again, about "minimizing nuclear states" and expect any non-nuclear states to take such talk seriously.
Yes it was incredibly successful because Buffet decided to turn it into his own holding company where he aggregated all his other purchases. But it was the other purchases that were successful, not the Berkshire business itself.

The Berkshire business was a New England textile company that kept suffering as the textile industry was slowly but surely being moved out of the United States. Buffet has said many times that buying Berkshire was a mistake.
>Ford never acknowledged their fault as far as I know.

Yes they did, they sent letters out and and they extended the warranty on the transmission. Twice.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/watchdog/mc-ford-fiesta-tran...

"Ford has acknowledged the potential for transmission problems in letters to owners and dealers. It has extended the warranty but has not recalled the vehicle."
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Move your for-loop in to an algorithm that takes Container by const& and your resize() / iterator invalidation problem becomes a compile error. If you actually need to resize your array while you iterate, then a language like Rust is going to catch your pointer invalidation, but it's not going to make the impossible possible and suddenly make your algorithm do something sensible.

I never claimed C++ statically enforced memory safety. Clearly that can't happen while its a superset of C. I just claim that it's steadily reaching the point where the most concise and elegant code with the best API is the safest.

And I'd argue that's the problem with C. The language is too weak to write safe code concisely, so you end up with too much cognitive load, get lazy, and then end up with sprawling unauditable messes like we see in glibc lately.
Coercion is most effective when it goes unnoticed.

Why does the plumber need to purchase carrots? Why can't this individual avail themselves of existing carrots of their own will?

Ah, because someone decided there is this thing called "property rights", which are violently protected. The person growing the carrots purchased a piece of paper that says they "own" the land, and the legal system supports the notion that they also own the carrots they grow on the land. Never mind where the land originally came from.

I wonder, is the enforcement of this artificial notion of property rights a form of coercion? If it didn't exist, would the plumber still choose to fix pipes all day?
If you have not recovered in two years then there is something wrong. Even manual penalties should fall off around then. You may have to get a new domain name. Your content can be moved over to it.
dupe, posted about 20 times already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
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Let's say that you're an irc network operator trying to make the channel's entire history searchable (e.g. botbot.me type thing).

For absolute correctness, you'd want to record per-leaf and merge.

However, the last time I needed log-merging functionality was much more boring; some of my log-files were corrupted, and someone else had logfiles that weren't as extensive, thus I needed to munge the two together. The timings were subtly different (because that's how irc works), so I wrote custom code to munge them together, preferring his for the range of corruption.

So yes, I've needed that functionality, though it wasn't actually done due to a netsplit. I can foresee it being useful in the case of a netsplit if your logging is at the ircd level or you run one bot per leaf.
This happens because psychiatric units will not take patients who are not "medically cleared". Meaning that, if a patient has any evidence of injury or medical illness (or they think that the symptoms may be caused by something physiologic that has gone wrong -- leaving aside the fact that mental illness is physiologic at some level, you know what I mean) the psychiatric units want nothing to do with them.
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Just out of curiosity what kind of reusable monad libraries are out there for Scala/Haskell? Given the scope of everything between Maybe and IO, I've never understood what one could make that would be useful to "monads" in general (beyond the sugar for do-notation).
Console.WriteLine(article?.Author?.Address?.City?.ToUpper());

That is actually a bit different than the first piece of code, since it calls Console.WriteLine.
I've always thought, if I was rich, I would hire one or more developers who's job was to educate me on software (empowering me), and write and run software I was interested in. Wonder why I haven't heard of any rich people doing that?
Isn't securing the scene the job of the local police? How far away was the nearest FBI office?
"It took almost a hundred years, and a lot of bloodshed for quality of life to return to where it was prior to the industrial revolution. "

Sorry, that is simply not true.

According to one study, real wages almost doubled in England between 1780 and 1850. An attempted rebuttal claimed that they "only" went up 30%.

Like many people, you seem to have an overly-rosy idea of what life is actually like as a subsistence-level, stoop-labor, agricultural peasant. Workers flocked to the new factories because those jobs were an improvement over what they had before (the exact same process is going on in China as we speak).

Were those jobs pretty nasty and horrible by modern standards? Of course they were. But not by the standards of the time.
interesting, that book was one of my favourite when I first read it, but one of the parts I loved was the illustrations[0].
Just listening to the text should make up for such a different experience!

[0] I don't even know who did them in that edition, but they were in the style of gustave dore
Uh, it is this way for corporations.

This is why Google can pretend it made most of its european money in Bermuda and not pay taxes on it.
What you're suggesting is a territorial tax system, versus the a worldwide tax system such as the one the US currently has. Using a worldwide system is actually very rare--only six OECD countries implement worldwide taxation rather than territorial. Part of the reason America-based companies seem to be trying so hard to avoid American taxes is because they are, compared to the other nations they operate in, much worse.
Google has been trying to put a damper on linking from your website to another one for years now. My first website in 1996 I developed the first thing I did was go to websites that had similar customers and we would exchange links so our customers would find out about our complimentary services. Now that freaks google out because they prefer everyone to see Google ads when searching so finding websites must be done inside of Google otherwise they threaten you to take you out of Google search.
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Yeah, and this is weird. Most countries do not do this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134766
What's your evidence that a person's decomposing body is particularly more toxic to the environment than, say, their bodily effluents?

Going for natural decomposition doesn't seem much worse to me than cremation and ash-scattering, and it seems way better than pickling them and burying them in a coffin.
Why does Google get to decide this? I mean what's the logic for this. For people it's wherever you spent most of your time. For a corporation it should be where and how and from whom you derived most of your revenue.
It might mean we would have a bus system on the peninsula available to everyone, instead of just Google employees.
I failed to express myself: I meant that I setup a lot of accounts but I am not using them actively, so mostly they are just setup with random stuff, yet the sort of things that comes out is quite homogeneous.
Still, losing those functions is an issue. When it rains, my old Town & Country's power steering stops working and turns become difficult. I would hate to be driving and suddenly have it cut out on me, say, when I'm making a turn, or even just switching a few lanes.
https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz

Monad Transformers for one. Traverse/Sequence are another super common (amazing) pattern that requires abstracting over types.

http://eed3si9n.com/learning-scalaz-day12

is a nice tutorial series on it.
Chris Anderson was not TED's founder. That was Richard Saul Wurman. He sold it to Anderson in 2002: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/history-of-ted
Have you tried the hal daemon? I'm running Firefox on Linux and after setting it up, DRM content with Flash works.
That was an amazing read.

"In 1993, Sears had the most extensive and sophisticated mail-order retail operation on the planet and they closed it. Two years later, Amazon.com launched"

That's got to go down in history.
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South Africa? Israel?
This seems like a very useful concept. Are there any plans to implement it?
The risk footprint is rather limited at this point, that much I trust. Each step in the sequence required to arrive at a compromised version of iOS that behaves the way FBI wants, is a step that increases the risk footprint for Apple and everyone with an iOS device. We could argue the size of this expansion, but we can all agree it is non-zero. And by definition trust is lost in proportion to that increased risk footprint.

I think that's an unreasonable burden on any company, but including users. This isn't just limited to Apple. Any company signing code is at risk of being asked to apply digital signatures to the code equivalent of malware, and to the free speech equivalent of falsehood. No.
CloudFlare does that. You could run a self-signed certificate on your server, relying on the wildcard certificate CloudFlare generated to do its proxying of your domain.
> Nobody is printing 40 year old news - people are still watching 40 year old movies.

Because news operate at a different scale than movies. People are still reading 40-year-old books.

A 40-year-old news article is not relevant anymore because it only fits within the momentary context in which it was created, whereas a non-fiction book or even an essay can span a broader context and thus stay as informative for future readers.
Trivial to implement but not compatible if we both implemented. That's the main benefit of Scala Optional, its baked-in -- I don't have to worry about writing adapter to use your library.
Google tried that. It doesn't work. Driver's don't pay enough attention to be able to resume control in the event of a problem, so the decision was that cars need to be fully autonomous. I believe Astro Teller mentioned this in his youtube talk about moonshots, if you're curious for the source.

As for airplanes - there's a lot more time to deal with issues than there is in a car.
Excitingly enough, UNESCO and IDA are helping fund cameras for 3D scanning of cultural heritage sites in Syria to preserve them in the event ISIS/ISIL destroys them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...

"After the Palmyra temple's destruction in August 2015, the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) announced plans to establish a digital record of historical sites and artifacts threatened by ISIL advance.[56][57][58][59] To accomplish this goal, the IDA, in collaboration with UNESCO, will deploy 5,000 3D cameras to partners in the Middle East.[60] The cameras will be used to capture 3D scans of local ruins and relics.[61][62][63]"

Million Image Database: http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/projects/

Mapillary is also performing photogrammetry on a massive scale with crowdsourced photos (Mapillary allows for the use of their photo database for contribution to OSM as well: https://www.mapillary.com/osm.html).

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/11/10/pointclouds.html

The future is very bright for recreating 3D objects as well as map data programatically.

EDIT: Apologies this comment isn't formatted better, was super excited to get all of this information into a comment quickly. It intersects right between my archival and photogrammetry interests.
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Could you imagine that we could be concerned for both?
My power steering went out once. The car was drivable, but just barely. Likewise if you've ever pumped the brakes while the engine is off, you know that braking power drops to almost nothing.

If that happened suddenly on the road 'loss of steering and brakes' is exactly how I would describe it. Sure it might not be completely accurate, but it is definitely a dangerous situation whatever you call it.
Simple.

The way Google gets away by paying little corporate tax in USA is by loading up their US entity with tax-deductible expenses.

What is stopping IRS to say.... "Hold on. These tax-deductible expenses are bullshit, we don't accept them. Here is new tax assessment the way we see it"

IRS does this to small businesses all the time.
Ex IndyCar Driver and Quadriplegic Sam Schmidt Races iRacing Event Using New Tech
I don't think this is a new phenomenon, or that there's any reason to suspect it's getting worse. As long as charisma works people will use it, even if they have nothing useful to say.
Since it took me far to long to find actual code, here's the hello world equivalent getting started code.

https://docs.mbed.com/docs/getting-started-mbed-os/en/latest...