skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I honestly looked high and low for anyone calling software "open source" before 1998. Your example is the only one I know of so far. I asked esr, who said there were some stray mentions here and there, but he couldn't recall anyone particularly who used the term. I also asked Bruce Perens and Stallman, but none of them could think of anything that was called "open source" before 1998. So, despite this one-off use of the term in this video, it seems nevertheless true that the term was not at all in widespread use nor widely understood.

It is also true that besides "open source" there were other ways to refer to the software, although it was generally considered mostly unremarkable to have source code available, because it was just the natural state of affairs to be able to look at source code. It was only when this natural state changed that people started to insist on consistent terminology for free software and open source.
Every time a post by Alex St John gets shared I start geeking out. He's one of the principles involved in the creation of DirectX and has written tons about it.

If this piques your interest, I would recommend diving in. He's got great stories.
Obviously it varies depending on requirements, but my experience is that openjdk tends to be a crashfest and/or end up being incompatible with a lot of stuff out there. The Oracle JDK/JRE invariably Just Works. It might be all a cargo-cult phenomenon (i.e. devs still testing only with Oracle builds out of tradition etc etc), it might be that Oracle have fabulous build tools not seen elsewhere, I honestly don't know; this is just what I see.
Recommend this film? Was unaware of it love Wings of Desire
Hey there! Wi-Fi direct and BLE supports are coming to Thunkable. Anything else you would like to see? we are moving fast :)
It's especially overblown since encryption was dropped six months ago and nobody noticed until now.
Many people don't realize this, but its an innovation by the Election Commission in India to have symbols for each political candidate competing in a constituency.

This ensured that a Political Party / Candidate name wouldn't face the localization hurdles in a constituency which has people speaking/knowing 3 to 4 different scripts and languages. Even during the election campaigning, politicians ask people to vote for a symbol, because it breaks the language/script barriers.

The hurdle often is not obvious for many people, because when they think "different languages", they assume its the same script.
The tipping advice for the UK is not remotely true, you'd never tip a taxi driver 10%, at most you'd do a "keep the change". I've even been in taxis here where the taxi driver has rounded down the fare to an easier to exchange amount.

I find mandatory tipping a little bit like encores at gigs, if its expected there's something a little bit phony and hollow about the whole thing, I'd much rather have tipping be a surprise, though I understand in the US it's been used to supplement underpaid workers so is the right thing to do for the time being. Hope the US gets the $15 minimum wage sorted.
Peanut M&Ms might be the best pill regimen I've ever heard of
Why talk with a sense of moral indignation as opposed to the lens of leverage? People aren't paid by what they deserve; they're paid by leverage.

Do engineers in the US have a professional association or union?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230080
> A cockpit is not a suit.

The opposite is true. To fly an airplane with precision, you need to "strap the airplane on."

That means sitting in the position with the best visibility and best reach inside the cockpit, even a Cessna 172.

(In a 172, you should sit high enough to be able to see each of the rivets on top of the cowling.)
Tipping is common in restaurants in Canada.
And cool filmmakers will make cool films. That's what I love about the 1962 ad embedded in the article. You've got the beatnik whistling and polishing the car, you've got cool jazz, crazy car stunts, and can the Tatra outrun the police?

Not much about that shouts "communist" to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMluSU6Frw
Internalizers use both. The give retail the slower price, and buy and sell on their own account at the faster price. Nanex has uncovered a document from the NYSE stating that this is the case.
You are supposed to tip in restaurants in Canada. I'm against the concept of the customer deciding the worker's wage without negotiation and after the fact so I tip 15% of the pre-tax amount regardless of the level of service.
While allergies definitely seem to be about immune system training, there have been similar studies [1] about kids who eat dirt are less likely to have allergies in general, honey is different.

Honey is not an allergic issue, it's about the bodies ability to fend off botulism when the baby is less than a year. Their bodies are just not capable of dealing with that. Similar to kidney and liver development being require before giving kids ibprofrin or tylonol.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
For those interested in the "AI threat" discussion, here's an excellent thread on Quora about it with answers from Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, and Pedro Domingos (along with other random opinions): https://www.quora.com/Is-AI-an-existential-threat-to-humanit...

As a side note, Quora has done some really excellent AMAs with a bunch of machine learning researchers, including Ng, Bengio, researchers at Google, and many more.
seems like advertising will always be ingrained to our culture, no matter how fast the technology is changing
What surprises me more is that we don't hear about these kinds of attacks more often. The value of WordPress is the massive ecosystem--you can find almost any plugin or theme you can imagine. But every plugin and every theme is a potential vector of attack.

What's to stop any theme author from inserting an on-page credit card number scraper into an obfuscated javascript file or a modified version of jQuery? Just look for common WooCommerce field names on every page load, and if you find something, wait for the visitor to enter their card information and then phone home by loading an image or something else innocuous. I'm not aware of anything that any of the theme distribution channels would be doing to detect or prevent this kind of thing.

Given how easy it would be to construct this kind of attack, given how hurriedly theme-based WordPress sites are built, and given the budget limitations of people setting up theme-based WordPress sites, I tend to think that the main reason we don't hear more about these kinds of attacks is that no one is seriously looking for them.
The error in your attempt at utilitarianism is to only count deaths of innocent people as meaningful. It doesn't actually matter whether someone is guilty or innocent when executed, the effect on their family will be precisely the same.
I don't know that I agree with your characterization of modern psychology, and I am anyway talking more about psychiatry and its chemical interventions.

But even if I granted your point, you're still demonstrating one aspect of the problem I'm talking about. You suggest that any time there's a mismatch between a person and the society they find themselves in, there's a problem with the person. Rather than with society, or with their expectations or what "functioning" means, or with some other aspect of the situation.

The same thing happened with the pilots. The assumption was that the planes were fine, so any issue must be with the pilots. But the planes were constructed around a mythical "normal" person, and I am suggesting we construct society and our expectations of its participants around a "normal" person.
Interesting, but are there any actual modern GUI frameworks for Lisp?
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Yes, totally!
> Are you seriously doubting the premise that people mature as they get older?

I do. Biologically? Maybe. Mentally? I doubt it a lot. I know lots of people of all ages who use Facebook for the most vapid, shallow, and empty experiences. Socially or not.
I took the in-person course at stanford. I recall the first problem set in cs229 was about as hard as the entirety of the Coursera course combined...
> For example, if the author is a US government employee, then there is no copyright.

Mind-twistingly, it's not covered by copyright _in the U.S._, but probably is in other countries.
The segwit soft fork is not optional, clients that do not upgrade in time will be broken much like a hard fork.
"Ei incumbit probatio qui." I know it's not the case for civilian law in the US. I was only pointing out strategies for change.

Your point about plaintiffs with small budgets is an interesting one. Do you have examples of a David (individual) successfully suing Goliath over patents?

Burdening the system with more lawsuits isn't necessary if you immediately get a yellow card when committing a schwalbe. :-)
Having little or no fees was supposed to be one of the big advantages of bitcoin compared to traditional financial transactions.
Also who tips black cabs? They are extortionists as it is.
Vanguard is talking about electronic trading. Vanguard specifically states the time horizon is 10-15 years. HFT began in U.S. Stock in 2007. The biggest impact Vanguard experienced was from decimalization (going from eights to pennies, well before HFT). More info/proof: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3532.html
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There is a mostly unrelated use of the term in the intelligence community, but I have no idea the timeline.
Optional and backward compatible in the sense that old nodes continue to work and recognize the new block chain as valid.

Core prefers soft forks because they're less risky, and don't require all users to upgrade, only minors.
> old people? Why would any business grow by confusing them?

Eventually they die.
Last post I saw here said they're just wrapping Qt:

http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015/
I suspect we don't hear about this stuff more because the WordPress site and its directories for plugins and themes are moderated and code (generally) checked for possible exploits and stuff. Is it perfect? No, and as the article example shows, updates seem to be checked a whole lot less than new submissions.

But we don't hear about it more because most examples presumably get caught in theme/plugin review shortly after submission. The process isn't perfect, but the moderators do catch most attempts to do stuff like this.

And it's not happening through third party sites, because most people are advised to steer clear of free themes and plugins hosted outside the official directory.
Is that really the case they don't know what they're doing, or more that they drive it all the time, so they know the limitations under normal conditions. (which of course can be fatal if anything unexpected happens, so an accident by definition) People do it all the time in all kind of jobs. They also do it with their own cars. (think how big the parking space had to be the first time you drove a car compared to space after a few years)

Either way, automated lorries will be better. Unless the designers + lawmakers say: hey they don't get into accidents see, now we can improve throughput by letting them go faster...
If the EMH were true, price curves would always display maximum entropy, i.e. randomness, because there would be no spare redundant information that could be used to make predictions about the future. (This is based on Shannon's Communications Theory, but the maximal entropy bound applies to any system that mixes a predictable signal with random noise.)

It doesn't matter if you use an evolutionary explanation for price curves, as in AMH, or claim they're controlled by planetary alignments - because the prediction that price curves show maximum entropy is falsifiable regardless of possible causes.

And when it's tested, it is indeed falsified. See e.g.

http://www.turingfinance.com/hacking-the-random-walk-hypothe...

tl;dr There are standard tools for estimating entropy, and they all agree that markets aren't truly random. Therefore they can't be maximally efficient.

Quants make a living by mining the signal from the randomness. There's a lot of debate about the best way to do this, but there's no serious disagreement among quants that it's possible - and the people who make money by employing them tend to agree.
Take a look at allicin and ajoene.
Your argument is absurd. You're implying the job market for university educated workers is perfectly inelastic and each successive degree holder produces no extra value on the margin. Moreover, you make the baseless assumption that competition amongst more candidates for skilled work produces no further value-- in other words, every worker is just as skilled.

There are many more plausible reasons that don't have to invoke such strong assumptions on the education and skilled workforce markets.

Cultural, social and political differences, a lower population density et al.
You don't have to do it through youtube. Just use FFMpeg. At 10 min per encoding you can be done in 7 days, completely automatically.
And the author is even strangely confused about the cars themselves:

"The vague resemblance to the VW bug is no coincidence."

Come now. Not the VW "bug", it doesn't look much like that. Has the writer never heard of the VW Type 3? That's the one that looks like the Tatra 603:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/VW_Typ_3...
What if the effects are not based on one active compound, but on a complex mix which could be rather chaotic, but an experienced practitioner could devise a treatment, but a drug company can't easily pinpoint a one size fits all formulae?
They are. Coinbase has several bitcoin devs on their payroll, and they have thrown their support behind a scaling plan that includes bigger blocks.
Hooking users in 3 steps: an intro to Habit Testing
Lipidleggin'

https://web.archive.org/web/20150224140101/http://www.billst...
You somehow disgust me.
Let me be more clear -- if internalizers are regulated to use anything, why aren't they regulated to use the direct feeds specifically? If the regulation specifically allows them to use the SIP, that seems to be a failure of the regulation itself.
I don't see robots taking away flatbed trucking work. The most important part of the job is in the securement of irregular loads (and the adjustment of said securement, as needed, during the trip).
I started reading it, and put it down almost immediately. The 'technical' aspects of the book are half-understood gibberish. I would expect it would just annoy or even enrage any hacker with its inaccuracies, misconceptions and general dumbing-down to meaningless of the subject matter.

0/5 - would not recommend to anyone.
It's crazy how expensive science journals are. Philosophy journals are much more reasonable, typically 35-50 dollars a year for an individual subscription. That gives you some idea of what it actually costs to produce a journal.

Unrelated point: with 50 million articles, I wonder if Sci-Hub is looking into ipfs. That would solve the danger of getting knocked off-line by legal action.
Another reason to laugh at the judical system.
Depends upon the part of the UK, I suppose. I'll tip the driver of a black cab in Edinburgh or Glasgow, if they've been helpful and friendly (ie, most of the time).
Did the speed change recently? I remember most big trucks doing precisely 70mph on M4. (everyday commute)
This looks very cool, but maybe too complicated to implement.
That's actually a EU standard. Modern lorries are limited to 90 km/h (55 mph) today, to comply with EU standards.

In most European countries, lorries are limited to 80 km/h on motorways, with a few (including the UK) going fully to the limiter. Technically, the speed limit for lorries is 96 km/h on UK motorways, but newer lorries won't be able to drive that fast because of their limiter.
Developmental biology: Gene lets animals tell left from right
>> Those concerns seem really mundane compared to the problem of a vehicle that can safely drive itself.

Not specifically. Those concerns are to do with a driver-free truck, not necessarily one that is just driving itself. Autopilots still have pilots. I'd be all for an autopilot unit for a car/truck/plane alongside the driver. The difference is that these trucks seem to rely on the autopilot, at least to the extent that they are very distant from any human supervision. So the only real issue between autopilot+driver and autopilot solo is cost.
If the fork is successful, then the longer chain will always be the segwit one. The only problem is if the longer chain is non-segwit, but that means either

1. There isn't a segwit supermajority or

2. It's longer by very few blocks, perhaps only one

In the first, nobody should be using segwit to send money and therefore there's no breakage, and in the second the threat isn't increased that the threat of any orphan block, which happen occasionally. If you're accepting single-conf then you're accepting the risk of orphan blocks, so this isn't worse.
The ideal scenario is that all the active development and community has moved to some other fork; in that case, just put a big notice at the top of your README saying your repo is deprecated, with a pointer to the new central repo.

However, the usual case is that there's a dozen forks, all with one extra change or fix, all equally stale since their authors happened to fix their particular itch. Perhaps you could contact each of them (or at least, the biggest and most popular ones) and see if any were willing to be nominated Official Maintainer. If there's exactly one, they win. If there's more than one, put them in contact with one another and let them sort it out (much better than having them find one another by accident and letting them fight it out later). If there's zero volunteers, I guess you just have to post an 'abandoned' notice with no forwarding address.
Dunning-Kruger effect to some degree. A lot of people well versed in at least one field tend to end up thinking they're also well versed in everything else as well, so you get a fair few scientists who think they also know everything about the humanities and social sciences. Or people well renowned in one field of science thinking they know a ton about a completely unrelated one (see, many 'Intelligent Design' advocates).

There's also a certain amount of disdain towards it from scientists who seem to think philosophy has been replaced by science in general. Which is perhaps true in some things, but not so much in a lot of others.
Actually, I was asking how you would design an ideal SIP. I have no opinions on the current law, but find the technical challenges of the SIP terribly interesting.

I'd still love to hear you discuss it...
Someone creates the user interface and someone creates each of the backend APIs that powers it.

Prototyping the user interface can be done by any number of people any number of times, since the goal is to experiment with different ideas. The backend APIs are usually mandated by what the user interface requires.
Japan very nearly lost Tokyo
No, if a lorry is doing more than 96 km/h (older) or 90 km/h (newer), then they are messing with the limiter and basically putting it out of function.

A lot of lorry companies do this, unfortunately, to "comply" with the driving hours (or beat competition). So to ensure their drivers get further, they install magnets on their transmissions to prevent the Tachograph (and thus the limiter) from correctly reading the lorry's speed.

Indeed, this tactic is also used to trick the Tachograph into thinking the driver is taking a rest while he is actually driving. The driving hours are strictly enforced by police across Europe, and if the printout doesn't match the law, the driver and his employer stands to pay a huge fine. And both may also stand to lose their licence, depending on the scope of the crime.

(If they find magnets on the lorry, you can bet they are losing their livelihood.)
The argument is that automating peoples' jobs will make them unemployed. Clearly, unemployment is not efficient. If you have 40% of the population sitting around twiddling their thumbs, then you're not being very efficient at all, even if the jobs those people used to do are automated.
>> I chose McDonald's and Coke as brands as they are two good examples of previously invincible global brands that are now showing significant decline.

Not sure about Coke but McDonald's is doing pretty well these days. Its stock recently hit an all-time high and is one of the best performers this year, following their success with all-day breakfast.
Not mentioned was Brazil, so I'll add that Brazil is wonderfully simple: You don't tip.

http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Tipping,_fraud,_and_s...
> X11 is inherently insecure.

That depends on your perspective. Why are you accepting connections from malicious X clients?

> Network transparency is mostly irrelevant on modern desktop system

For you, maybe. That's an opinion that many of us do not share.

> X11 is almost pure cruft

It's only cruft if you limit your use cases to stuff like GTK+ that decided to only use X as a dumb framebuffer.

> The good parts are what was kept in Wayland.

Except for a long list of features, such network transparency, support for copying PRIMARY selections in addition to CLIPBOARD, or overriding input events of arbitrary programs. Until Wayland supports these, it isn't compatible with a lot of my tools.

Just because something is "old" or has features that you personally don't mean they are "bad" features that should be removed. There are more use cases than those in you definition of "desktop".
Yeah exactly. People could be 'external factors', once you challenge the assumption that Bitcoin is decentralized enough to be free of their influence.
I'm not sure what story you want me to back up is? If you are claiming that the current law requires the SIP to be consistent in the CAP sense, I'll defer to you and ask that you point out why you think so?

If you are asking about evidence that some people have claimed that the SIP being non-consistent is a problem for audit and regulatory compliance, is that not what you yourself are arguing in this post? http://www.nanex.net/Research/IsNBBOIgnored.html

I think maybe you are reading into my comment something that isn't there?
I do wish these cleaner-type programs paid more attention to what they're deleting, and whether it's worth trading off 100K of disk space to lose out on fresh log data that may be helpful. I also wish they'd understand that not all .log files are text logs...it'd be nice if they concentrated on quality, not quantity.
I guess the new way for a company to make money is to be fiercely disinterested in anyone who might ever have any? :)

Anyway, it seems like a great thing for making memes on worldstarhiphop but as far as having the kind of economic impact that companies like Coca Cola have .... well I guess it's fun for the valley community to think this way.
Every market has rules and a platform, that constrain what's possible.
The Nature article actually just summarizes the original article, which is open access and can be found here: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(1.... Unfortunately I cannot change the URL.
>> With software, the company is liable.

Check the fine print on your windows license. Then check the fine print on any aerospace autopilot. They disclaim everything. It's always the operators responsibility, never the manufacturers unless of a serious defect.

>> no way the contents of a truck are going to be worth more than the cost of paying out $x millions in the case of killing a human.

If that were true all sorts of other safety devices would already be on trucks, starting with gps-enabled speed regulators. There is always a cost-benefit analysis. That includes tradeoffs between utility and safety.
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