skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we're at it, we can kill that double-byte UCS-2 nonsense that microsoft retconned to be UTF-16.

Microsoft must have thought to themselves in the early 90's: "Gee, we should support unicode... that means we need wider characters, right? Two bytes ought to be enough. Ship it!" Then when it became clear that two bytes wasn't enough, they didn't want to replace all the types for those win32 API calls, so they said "Well, let's just pretend that the two-byte encoding was actually UTF-16 all along", which is both variable width (which has all the problems UTF-8 has with invalid encodings), and it's wasteful in size (all ASCII text is stored with two bytes per character). It's literally the worst of both worlds.
There are many such extensions, but yes, we're working on getting directly integrated into Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and if anyone has a contact at Safari (or one of the other browsers), my email addr is in my profile. Thanks.
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Daemon, criminal DAO. A smart p2p darknet market with trustless admins
Vancouver anecdote; bars are not night life. I visited for two weeks and discovered a local music festival (music waste), befriended random folks at parks (parks were everywhere, and people actually used them!). East Van seemed to have a lively night life on par with SF/LA, people hosting live bands in their loft, avant-garde burlesque theater, house parties etc. It sounded like there was a lively festival scene in BC too, and not just electronic, stuff like the Peppermill Festival http://www.peppermillrecords.com/. Quantity of cultural hubs in Van might not be as expansive as other major cities, but the quality certainly sprouts up. That city seems more suited for people who enjoy nature though.

Really sad to hear that Vancouver and San Francisco are plagued by real estate siphoning out all the potential of what those cities could be. Feudalism seems to be a trend everywhere though.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/millennial...
Why? Which platforms does it rule out?
How does being unreadable work. Isn't it unreadable to the game as well? Or is the problem. That the copy fails?
They probably saw this hazard and determined early-on to cut the product. Most likely, all messaging up until now has been lies.
Roku 4 remote has a dedicated Pandora button, that didn't last long. I'm sure a few TV's had Pandora as a feature.
“Because she’s the only one doing community news, she’s developed sources who trust her to cover the news. One of her sources contacted her, and she was able to confirm it with law enforcement. She knocked on every door, like she’d seen me do with the Daily News. There were no other reporters there.”

Old school journalism. Ask questions, check with sources, get independent confirmation, write it up. Woodward and Bernstein had to get confirmation for three different independent sources before the Washington Post would run their major story that took the President down.
Ted Cruz Is the Most Dangerous Man in America (2014)
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Right, but you can't build those everywhere. There are chunks of the city that are landfill (old ships, gravestones, etc) which are seismically unfit to hold a large building, even with pilings.

As a kid, my wife grew up always wanting to live in the Marina. Now, you couldn't pay her to spend a night there because of the landfill.
It's worlds worse than what is available everywhere else outside the US.
This article doesn't talk enough about spore patterns as an identifier. We usually identify by pattern then return to the same spot after the next rain. Going with someone that's experienced is vital.
I don't know how they could spin this in a positive light.

Here's a story from Joyent from about four years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669

I will bring this up every time someone wants to give Joyent money. Do NOT give Joyent money. They will screw you over.

Edit:

> In an ideal world, Hub owners would be free to point their devices at a different central server, run by a third-party competitor or a trusted friend, or even run such a server on their own. They would likewise be free to collaborate on improved software that would unlock the potential of the Hub hardware or purchase such software from a competitor to Nest.

> We work to improve the law and protect your right to tinker with technology. But there's another way to push back against untrustworthy devices, and that's refusing to buy electronics and software that prioritize the manufacturer's wishes above your own. Certainly Alphabet, which owns both Nest and Google, is going to have trouble selling its hardware in the future if it doesn't provide customers some assurance that they won't be left in the cold like those who rely on the Revolv Hub.

A few years of deprecation warnings alongside a free and open source server that works as a drop in replacement for the server would mitigate much of this bad will. Alphabet cannot isolate this to just Nest.

This leaves a bad mark for unrelated projects including on hub https://on.google.com/hub/

> OnHub keeps getting better.

> Future friendly

> OnHub is designed to support a growing number of "smart devices" over time because it includes Bluetooth® Smart Ready, 802.15.4 and Weave.

> Always improving

> OnHub often updates its router software with newly released features without any interruptions to your Wi-Fi.

> Stays secure

> OnHub's software includes advanced and always-evolving security features to keep your network safe.
Zero. The New Yorker labels its fiction as fiction.
exactly. I have a side project that is doing well and growing, and I feel pressure like I should hire people and try to make it hockey stick growth.. But I love that it is just my thing - more than making it as big as possible. I don't want to create a giant company - I just like making a great product and I don't want the pressure or have to deal with the other stuff.
Handyman – A Multiuser Puppeteering System for Motion Control (1991)
But no one wants to live in the Sunset. You can build out there all you want. The weather is crummy and it takes an hour to get downtown on the bus.

That's why it's mostly brothels and growhouses (exaggeration).
It is amazing that so many are so desperate for shiny new tech that they're willing to put up with this kind of stuff. I used to consider myself an early-adopter, but its clear they're being played for fools...
Theoretical peak flops rate is useless for indicating performance nowadays. There are new benchmarks that take memory and network performance into account such as HPCG and HPGMG. On these benchmarks, throughput-oriented machines such as the ones Nvidia sells do not look good at all.
Sadly, the fermosan termites will take out the French Quarter before any flood does.
Nvidia's DGX-1 supercomputer packs the horsepower of 250 servers
Where are you going?
Seriously. Put a little effort in.
Pascal: Nvidia ’s Newest Computing Platform
> In an ideal world, Hub owners would be free to point their devices at a different central server, run by a third-party competitor or a trusted friend, or even run such a server on their own. They would likewise be free to collaborate on improved software that would unlock the potential of the Hub hardware or purchase such software from a competitor to Nest.

This ideal world exists, and it is glorious. I somewhat recently set up a Raspberry Pi 2 with https://home-assistant.io and a cheap z-wave USB stick. The interface is through a webpage (not an app), and I access it remotely using a OpenVPN server on my router.

It's interfacing with door sensors, motion sensors, wall switches, cameras, my stereo, HUE lights, etc. It can email me or send me SMS for notifications. When I wake up and walk past a motion sensor, the lights come on in a dim scene. When I come home and open the door, the lights turn on. I have tons of rules and it's super fun. Totally self-hosted, and the main server is completely open-source (written in Python3).

I haven't set it up with a thermostat but lots of other people have.
You can always drink on the ferries.
That was my point... He had ownership in a company that lost money and net worth (if I'm reading that correctly).

I can't find the illegal or the immoral part.
I’m a juuuuge GitHub supporter, but let me provide a different perspective: In business, there is product innovation and there is also business innovation.

Sometimes, you provide exactly the same product, but the way in which you do business around that product is the innovation. For example, a 100% open-source implementation of the JVM needn’t provide any technical innovation whatsoever: The innovations are in how it’s developed and how it’s licensed.

I won’t speak to whether GitLab is providing any business innovation or not, I’m just pointing out that if they are, that’s something of value in its own right.
The touchpad dims in the dark, and the haptic controls are on the steering wheel.
I've always liked the idea of https://home.idonethis.com/. It's good to know there's an alternative, not to say that it is the same thing, but has something of that, right?

Much better to say what you did than to just hear what you must do.
Macminicolo merging with MacStadium
What a victory for rule of law. The Treasury decided it was legal, but they didn't LIKE it, so they decided to make it so burdensome they wouldn't go through with it.

Maybe, fix an idiotic corporate income tax so it's not a constant game avoiding it. Companies are going to stop incorporating in the US; the golden goose is going to die sooner or later.
I feel there is something deeply wrong with this sort of over-statistically/analytically focused thought chain, allow me to try to elaborate.

Many signals have absolutely nothing to do with wrongdoing whatsoever. Say that hypothetically every drug dealer makes large cash deposits, and this is marked in a database somewhere as a "very reliable indicator". Well what about taxi drivers? Street Vendors? other occupations that deal almost exclusively in cash, should they also be suspected?

What happens if somebody otherwise innocent of anything in particular triggers multiple "flags" like this, do they deserve to be discriminated against?

What if the flags are stuff like being black, being poor, having a friend that has been charged with a crime. What about living in the "wrong" neighbourhood, how about the wrong genetic markers. How about a family history of mental illness, what about if you dont own a cellphone? What if they are angry about the government and have publicly protested? What if you accidentally like ISIS on facebook, or your friend does it as a joke? are these acceptable "black flags" too?

What about if one of your close friends trips one or more of these markers? What if several do? Are you just as untrustworthy?

It gets much choppier when you introduce something like neural net learning into the equation. It will form links between activity that are basically impossible to decipher by a human at all, should we accept these utterly opaque judgments because "on average they are pretty reliable"?, what about the cases where they are 100% dead wrong, should they just be considered collateral damage?

A huge class of people could end up going through life denied basic services like a bank account because of things ENTIRELY beyond their control, or even understanding, all they know is they managed to piss off some equation somewhere.

It gets better, because on average people with bad scores on one system "reliably indicate" they will be bad faith in other contexts too...

Lots of businesses will accept this as an acceptable cost to keep fraud rates/whatever down, I don't find it acceptable, its almost the definition of injustice, and has a grave potential to create a vast underclass of "poor social credit score" people (who being a member of, even by association will assuredly be another hit against your scores)

How happy would you be, if via no fault of your own you were deemed an "unacceptable risk"?

So yes, it is inhuman, and wrong. I guess that -100 Social Credits for me.
If you can't retire comfortably as a programmer where was all your salary going? I enjoy programming, but also realize I'm limited in how much I will make. I'm ok with knowing I won't own a 5000 square foot house or buy the newest laptop every two years because I'm putting money away for retirement.
Excellent point: Tesla is still making sports cars -- sports sedans and sports SUVs. Anyone who's complaining about the interior without being interested in the performance isn't really in the target market.

You probably don't like how Model S handles (it's pretty heavy), but maybe you'll like the eventual 2-seater built on the Model 3 platform.
I'd imagine Zuck is going along with it because WhatsApp announced that they were going to do this before the acquisition closed.

Zuck is way too savvy to publicly reverse that announcement once the deal closed. Imagine how bad that would look...
> There's simply little advantage to living right in the heart of a major city.

This is a very personal opinion, and can vary depending on one's interests and stage of life. Young single people benefit from being "where the action is" as they are near other young people doing the same thing and can pursue various social and romantic interests. People who aren't interested in those things for whatever reason have much less to gain from living in the heart of a major city.
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If you max out your 401k contribution ($18,000 if you're under 50) you can also contribute to an IRA (Roth or traditional) but your contribution will not reduce your taxable income.
We have observed superfluids before, but the goal here is superconductivity.
Name another car, with known problems, where 97% of the owners would buy another? The market is speaking; it doesn't matter what the rhetoric is.
Why do tech people insist on living in luxury, brand-new hotels err high rise buildings in SF? Do they think that's what it is to "make it?" There are much, much nicer places to live in SF rather than SOMA or Market St. Most of the city doesn't live there; you should branch out and see more of the city rather than just living super close to work.

Crazy to think, but these other neighborhoods are nicer and cheaper to live in. Don't fall prey to paying the "tech tax" of SOMA.
Other than a list of names, what did the Panama Papers tell the world that it didn't already know? That the rich use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their money from the government wasn't exactly a secret to anyone. For that matter, not everything revealed in the Panama Papers is necessarily illegal.
Nest says it may offer compensation to Revolv users for disabling smart home hub
Facebook uses object recognition AI technology to describe photos to blind users
It's not new. Just look at printers, keurig, routers and wifi sharing, who controls your car computer,windows 10 shenanigans, iPhone software updates, etc, etc.
We usually take those off URLs. I've done so above.

Actually there used to be code to do that in some cases, which we deleted in an overzealous bit of deletion, and have been meaning to restore.
Why is that? Where does that incentive come from?
>Companies can't be supporting ten generations of gadgets.

Yes they can. Car companies support ten model years and more just fine, and keeping servers alive is a lot easier than constantly replacing mechanical parts.
Sort of. While ed was scriptable, it was by sending the commands to stdin, which doesn't lend itself to being composed in a pipeline, where you'd more intuitively expect the text it's modifying to be on stdin. We can do it without problem now, because shells have process substitution, but ed predates that shell feature by a couple of decades. Instead, to use ed in pipelines, we ended up with a modified ed to work on streams: `sed`, the Stream ED.
Ah yeah, Google never ditches or turns off products.
maybe 80% of vim + ??% of Sam + ??% things vim doesn't support?
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Openx and Google AMP
Tech companies in downtown, cambridge pay pretty well. If your talking about metro west then I'm not sure. Twice would be too much, I highly doubt bay area pays 200k base on average.
The world needs more stupid security researchers
Embracing Change
The Replicant wiki is a good place for devices that have evaluated, click the links on here:

https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Replica...
By default, only admins have push access to all the repo's for an organization.

Everyone else, by default, has read-only access to the entire organizations private repos.

Each product team is allowed to specify how their own teams can access repos.

We also have 3rd party contractors and vendors work on portions, and they don't have push access.
*dyslexic
Just a hobby at the moment. Working on a 300 mm mirror right now.
> It's not too big a deal to deactivate something that isn't supported anymore.

Imagine if you applied that attitude to your clothes or furniture. Buy a t-shirt and it explodes into shreds 90 days later.

99% of things continue to work just fine without official support.
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Yup iDoneThis definitely crossed my mind. I used to be a customer of them at my last startup.

We do offer public and private feedback on a specific update as well as skills tags to refer back to complete work by skill.

We wanted to add some additional features but we did not want to overdo it at launch. We have more plans in the future but we would like some small teams to try it out and see what they like and dislike. Give it a try and let me know what you think. dana@sity.io
Even at idle the turbo is spinning. Engine RPM at highway speeds isn't vastly different than engine RPM at city speeds (perhaps a few hundred RPM in the average car). Therefore turbo lag also isn't vastly different.

Variable vein enables turbos to match engine speeds more quickly. Greatly reducing turbo lag.
It seems insane that US corporate tax law isn't a bigger issue in this upcoming presidential election cycle.

Companies like Google and Apple constantly take advantage of US/EU/wherever tax laws to pay the least amount they have. I don't particularly blame the companies because they are taking advantage of laws that currently exist, but something needs to be done to simplify the tax code to avoid loopholes like this.
Steven Strogatz: Einstein’s First Proof
Out of curiosity, what are some problems/solutions that require FP64?
And my wife is still on iOS 6 on her 4s just fine, so what? Noone is releasing patches for either.
I was curious so I ran git in a debugger and found the buffer it is actually signing, it looks like this in case anyone else is wondering:

"tree 33191145e9a307b7ca5c6e4aa6e74a4904426cba\nparent a2c6664cf085720cba3f92e4a7348c46369a869e\nauthor Greg Morenz <morenzg@gmail.com> 1459911016 -0400\ncommitter Greg Morenz <morenzg@gmail.com> 1459911016 -0400\n\nthe commit message\n"
It's not that they had dialup, or that they couldn't send an entire screen at once (though I'm sure these factors later helped keep ed around). The devices they were using were much more like a typewriter than you seem to think, they literally printed the text out on paper! The programmer didn't need to remember the text in their head, they had the paper right there to look at!
I'd be surprised if all of the published vectors are genuine, too, for the same reason :)
The irony is, the US has the highest corporate income tax of anywhere in the world. Maybe if we eliminated corporate income tax (like most economists suggest[1]), foreign companies would be inverting here instead of the other way around.

[1]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/8/25/1324505/-Eliminate-c...
We really don't need most news orgs like we don't need 1000 versions of Wikipedia.

The AP and my regions local press version of it are good enough and I'll be happy to fund them. If I need something deeper I pay. Like Bloomberg for example.

The rest of it is all entertainment and opinion which like the content of the porn industry/facebook/youtube/reddit (thanks to advertising) will always come for free.
Extensively discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400112

This article has nothing to add but speculation - the BBC couldn't possibly know why Reddit removed its warrant canary.
Hmm, actually it isn't as good as I thought. I guess I was remembering IRC discussions. IIRC, the Replicant folks found Qualcomm based devices pretty commonly have this issue.
In my view, we're better off now than 10-15 years ago. We have developed both software and hardware to do many more incredible things and nobody is suffering from human rights issues due to it. Even if some hardware is unfairly locked down, we still have lots of open platforms in both hardware and software and it's still a reasonably free market where if enough people want something, they can acquire it.

All I'm offering is a bit of optimism. Things don't necessarily have to go south. Noboey's redefining ownership, it's just a bad apple disabling some hardware. NOTE: you still own whatever hardware you buy. It's just that some hardware sucks and gets disabled by its manufacturer! Many items that we buy have huge defects, many of which are even worse than this! A Ferrari 458 can catch on fire and kill you, for example. It doesn't affect "ownership".

I'd make a bet with you if I could that in a few years we'll still be fine and have even more and better hardware and software innovation.
Can you implement OpenPGP-signed pushes?
They call it machine learning, so did they apply unsupervised learning to determine these factors? How did they determine these factors were relevant?
At one side I am happy to see this new kind of journalism where people would get news from genuine sources instead of some _madeup_ stories while on other hand I am sad for this kid who got into such things in the age where she should get involved in things that help her to enjoy life.
Also, please don't display keyids, always fingerprints:

https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp...
Does that mean Pascal release is just around the corner?!?

-unreformed box builder
I remember hearing about a startup that tried to crowd fund the news. I don't think it worked but it's a cool idea.
Yeah, that would suck. But it wouldn't be a slippery slope toward the end of clothing as we know it. I would simply avoid that manufacturer of shirts and be optimistic that shirts wouldn't explode again.

Also, my point isn't that it specifically wouldn't work without support. It's just to say that we haven't yet gotten a reason for why they're doing this, and we can't know for sure it's a bad reason.

Come on guys, do you really thing these guys have malicious intent to screw you over?
Yes, that's how work works. It may not happen every time, but it's going to happen often.

I know of one gentleman who, though no fault of his own, had nothing to show for more than four years of work. Projects were shelved, reshuffled, cancelled outright, or he was laid off before he finished. But he still got paid.

I've had this happen to myself. The last two years, nothing really to show for it. Maybe next year.

Our employers are under no obligation to meet our expectations of quality or our need for education or fun.

In some industries people can lose their lives or limbs. We just have our egos to lose. And for that it's better sooner than later. So, the analogy of death or dismemberment falls apart, but you get what I'm saying.

And in the end remember Sturgeon's Law "90% of everything is crap."
I thought the GP comment was talking about reviewing the code changes rather than verifying the hash chain.
Almost every single working person who deals with URLs or buys things online...or uses facebook has typed a file path styled URL.
STAT212b: Topics Course on Deep Learning by UC Berkeley Statistics Department

https://github.com/joanbruna/stat212b
Vitriol and harassment hit developers of new Baldur's Gate expansion
One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems (2010) [pdf]