skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we need to suspect the RAR encryption is broken. By default, at least on Linux, even if an archive is encrypted a 'rar l <file>' will show a file list though. So if the files had relevant filenames like mybitcoins.txt then it made searching the harddrive for money easier. At least I suspect crackers look for files called creditcards.txt, passwords.txt etc.

If the crackers knows the archive contains coins, then bruteforcing is worth it.
Redirecting a rock in space or even firing some metal rods from space toward your target would be sufficient to fuck things up for the recipient of said projectile. No need to mess around developing a nuke when an asteroid will do a more complete job. Now that would be MAD.
Except it was not leaked by Postmates. Full stop.

On the broader subject, even if numbers are quite good, there are many reasons why private companies do not want this data to be out in public. Any investor who needs to see the data on Postmates will be seeing it as they fundraise, as that is a relatively small pool of people.
It's quite a stretch to portrait Leicester as a "moneyball" club. If you actually looked at the statistical data, they should be losing. A lot. Cherry-picking a few statistics and building a narrative around them is just silly. Leicester's season has been the most amazing Cinderella story in football that I can remember (Greece winning EURO 2004 is the closest, but I did not enjoy their style that much). And that's why we watch football, no matter what the statistics tell you, at the end it's 11 vs 11 and the game must be played.
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How is it compared to Zstandard https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd ?
The current Outlook app allows you to insert availability into an email, and let someone on another domain pick one of those times that works for them (and it auto-creates the meeting at that chosen time, too). I think this came from Sunrise, which also did this.
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http://www.theplayerstribune.com/claudio-ranieri-leicester-c...

Here's a nice editorial(?) written by the manager, Claudio Ranieri.

>Now, we are fighting for a title. The Leicester fans I meet in the street tell me they are dreaming. But I say to them, “Okay, you dream for us. We do not dream. We simply work hard.”
Yeah, but how do you measure it objectively?
Seems like a false choice. Plenty of people make a living doing things that help the world.
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more code - more bugs, that's the idea
> death tax

I'm guessing you vote Republican? Trust funds and charitable organizations are a time honored way for the superrich for avoiding the estate tax, regardless of political leanings but "death tax" is a kind of a charged language.

Besides, they are still young, they may also actually want to do something positive with the money, not just offload it to protect it from the government. Unless you think he's about to kick the bucket soon?
Overlapping windows are wonderful in X-mouse style mode.

When your soul interaction with a normally large window is just a tiny strip on the bottom, it's like you've divided a single display in to something normally thin and wide (a console for example), and another thing on top that is slightly smaller but otherwise that you want to interact with.

The nice part about this layout over a purely tiling window one is that the console is entirely ready for you to switch to it being the full screen when you want to read the backlog or do more complex work with it.
I'm kinda torn on this. On one hand it's noble and nice to see a rich guy who's interested in things like this as opposed to kickin it on his yacht with models all the time. On the other hand, I hate saying this but the use of the word "responsibility" with regards to "cure all diseases" reeks of egotism and a guy who's kinda living on a different planet. "Haha, only I can remedy what you mere mortals stand no hope of ever doing!" I realize I'm being hyperbolic about it...I really shouldn't criticize I guess.
Documentable, reasonable, compliance costs should be a tax credit.

(Yes, "reasonable" is quantifiable. Think about courts awarding reasonable attorney's fees. There are decades of history around this concept.)
Ghost is an elegant and minimal blogging platform that focus on simplicity. One of its most attractive features is its Markdown editor. It's also fully hackable running on Node.js with the Handlebars view-engine.

I've put together three Dockerfiles for Raspberry PI 2/3, PI B/B+/Zero and regular PCs (x86_64). Get your blog up and running in 5 minutes by pulling a pre-built Docker image straight from the Docker Hub.
Putting yourself first isn't a bad thing, especially where bread and butter is involved. Might I suggest dual licensing with a provision for free-to-use in non-commercial projects? Something similar to QT.
Except no one can see you did it, so it doesn't make you look like a jerk. A random downvote here and there shouldn't bother anyone. It's probably better off if we just realise this and never talk about it.
This won't work. iOS has disk and file encryption, and you cannot access this kind of data without being unlocking. Forcing someone to provide a PIN has been ruled against the first amendment.
When akk they have to do is fire a few rocks or boulders back at earth it doesn't seem like a good idea. Of course earth could do the same but hitting a smallish base on mars would be problematic, for Mars they could just redirect a few decent sized rocks toward earth and because it is so densely populated wherever they struck would cause global pandemonium at best.
I vote Bernie but I'm against estate taxes. I'm for capita gains being taxed as normal income and so many other things (I'm an in-theory fan of FairTax.org), but strongly against estate taxes.
Sorry, I was referring to the spec for the program, not the spec for the language.

And Haskell does actually have a spec[1], but almost everyone uses GHC extensions so I suppose that's kind of moot.

1. https://wiki.haskell.org/Language_and_library_specification
The moon is a harsh mistress, indeed.
Then why are they marketing it?
Does that mean Trump is the perfect presidential contender? Nobody's going to understand business concerns better than him.
Yes it does, Mark has used it for public letters in the past: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-letter-to-o...

But this is more of an investor relations thing, so that might've had something to do with it.
Absolutely, but this incident is the perfect example of how new technology will always be used by assholes to do asshole things, along with whatever good uses it was designed for. We should always ask "what would 4chan do with this capability?" when inventing new things.
Also, with the new USB standard, its no longer only 5v, you can now use up to 20v @5A [1]. My laptop that has a USB-C port to charge uses the full 20v.

120/240VAC 50/60hz @ ~12A (steady state draw) is pretty much the only thing people agree on when it comes to consumer power.

[1]: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
"Negative opinions" are fine. Heaping on condescending substance-free exclamations of ridicule in the middle of a thread about a specific issue regarding a platform you don't even use is just toxic arrogance.

Your "micropackage" complaint is daft; if you don't like small modules don't use them. Why is the language to blame for free, open-source code that you don't have to use? How is this even a legitimate complaint? You don't need hundreds of packages for anything and you can find examples of this in any language.
From what I understand from this thread, it's worse than that:

The problem wasn't programmer salary, it was that their budget was so big that they wanted to hire extra people and could not find enough Ada programmers. Yup. It got written in C++ because they wanted to spend more money and there are more experienced C++ developers than Ada developers.
>I still fail to see how you need 200 people to run a CRUD app that streams audio.

Have you used SoundCloud? SoundCloud is not a CRUD app. SoundCloud is a full blown social network. Just take a look at their GitHub page: https://github.com/soundcloud?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=+only%3As...

I'm reminded of Roshi, their distributed/crdt Redis solution, they open sourced (https://github.com/soundcloud/roshi) a while back just to deal with problems of their scale. CRDTs and Distrubuted programming is not something they teach at coding bootcamps. You should really take a look at some of their developer talks and get a sense of their scaling pains before you assume that SoundCloud is built by 200 fresh-out-of bootcampers (Also, those 200 aren't exclusively engineers, you need a sizable marketing/community team to manage all that global talent on your platform).

Even a feed, where one user can publish to millions others, is non-trivial at scale. I think you are seriously underestimating the amount of work that goes into building something like SoundCloud.

Ignoring this - it doesn't seem SC has ever been in the green so comparing to relatively simple models of DeviantArt or Craigslist doesn't make sense. DeviantArt doesn't have the target of the MPAA on its back. SoundCloud will never be as cheap as Craigslist to run.

Also, SoundCloud hasn't been acquired - I'm not sure where you are getting this info. The same guys who ran the ship in its "humble beginnings" are running it now.
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I think you're right, and I think it will have to take some obvious loss of life at least once.
Not every.

Right now I'm working on an app where we trust the client. We know that a hacker can compromise a client and send any kind of bogus data, we're just completely OK with it from business perspective.
Uh oh. Sounds like tax dodging and commandeering control of the company. That can't be good.
And it's not just limited to SF. You can go out to Tracy or Fairfield where there's miles and miles of space in every direction and yet, you still see the houses piled on top of each other with less than 5 feet in between each house, all because the greedy government and it's citizens won't allocate more space for residential areas. It's just crazy. Somehow, these democratically controlled areas just feel that everything (traffic, fishes, insects, a river, etc) is more important than basic human needs (shelter). They need to start putting basic human needs first, above all the other petty stuff.
Is this 3x faster than zlib at decompressing on zlib-compressed data, or 3x faster on samples compressed with its own format versus the same samples compressed with zlib?
> Type inference in the presence of OOP-style subtyping was largely considered to be impossible in 2005

Type inference in a OO language is still considered, if not impossible, at least very impractical. Swift, Scala and Rust avoid most algorithmic complexity and ambiguity by mostly supporting only type propagation instead of type inference, and thus require annotations on function parameters.
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Both of you are wrong...
Let's say there are 100 shares, John owns 25 and Mark owns 75.
Stock splits 3:1, there are now 300 shares, John owns 75 and Mark owns 225.
2/3 of 225 is 150, if Mark sold 2/3 of that he would not retain his percentage.

Instead what is happening is a new class of stock will be created that is valued differently and has different voting rights.
> I mean, so did Ghengis. He didn't call his rape + pillage a charity, though. It just so happens Mark is conquering by forcing the world to depend on him by rewriting "the internet" to mean "facebook".

Are you seriously comparing MZ pledging to spend millions on fighting disease and poverty around the world to the (actual) rape, murder and conquest of thousands of people?
Why are you against estate tax?
If it is time we, human being should imprint some logic laws into all AI projects which are intent to create unsupervised AI?
A dedicated user account... wow (https://www.exploit-db.com/local/).

In this amount of software people build and considering that really 90% of it is total crap, we'll never be secure unless we really be picky with what we use. But that does not work with our lazy nature and all that things about bicycles you hear (like not to invent one; why would I do something by myself if I can just use someone's else solution... duhhh).

We need better quality in our software, so we can trust it.
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B5 was CGI and literally decades after Space 1999 and BSG (the original series). The latter two would have used models like how Star Trek TNG did.
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Nice to hear definitely. That's the vibe I was going for, but it feels a bit clumsy. Maybe I should have use QueryThingie instead:)
Not a guru, but:

1. As with any multithreaded application, if your OS scheduler is heavily loaded by other applications, you can experience issues. Erlang is designed to degrade fairly slowly and fairly gracefully before it has to give up. From a complexity standpoint, the programmer doesn't worry about schedulers of either type except in rare cases.

2. Sending to a larger mailbox doesn't take more resources, it takes more reductions. So if a process has a large mailbox, it costs the sender more to add yet another message into the mailbox. This is a form of backpressure and helps slow down the system in a gentle(r) way when a single process is bottlenecking.

3. You can get Erlang style concurrency out of pony (natively), JVM languages (scala/akka; quasar), but I doubt you could get it out of Python unless you reimplemented Python on the BEAM or Java VM. Generally I find personally that working directly in Erlang is fine and I don't need to combine in any ruby/python/perl, which are all slightly less expressive than Erlang.

Calling C code works two ways; you can call it out-of-process via what's called a port, which is basically a unix pipe to your C process; or in-process via a NIF, which is more dangerous because the scheduler has no control or understanding inside your C code. Carefully written NIFs, and NIFs written to take advantage of the dirty scheduling system, can thrive, but it's both an art and a science.
Whack is making an argument about "what should be", not "what is".
"finding" will need to be precisely defined: do you need a actual human to set foot on a celestial body before you can claim it, or is crashing a 'micro-probe' or even a ball-bearing be sufficient?
> If I were working at HP, I would have quit the second they decided to cut my pay just so they could avoid needed firings.

I sympathize with your viewpoint, but I think it depends on whether you see dead weight. If you are on a great team with no dead weight, a pay cut to keep everyone together would be far more palatable.
I'm pretty happy with Bend from that point of view. It has a real downtown:

https://goo.gl/maps/5om22cePPYy

It could go up a story or two in places, and grow some, but it seems to have come through the worst of the 20th century car era in decent shape.

Not too bad for a place that only officially became a city in the early 1900s.
Seriously, why? Doesn't estate taxes only apply to large large large estates, and wouldn't apply to the majority of homeowners in America?
native code can tell the schedulers how many reductions to take, but the schedulers are actually cooperative and not literally preemptive, so poorly written native code can lie, crash, consume a scheduler, etc.
At which point they'd trot out some parallel construction claims and make the 3rd party stuff admissible.
So this passed unanimously in the House, and is supported by more than 25% of Senators.

But it might not pass the senate because Grassley doesn't want to discuss it "during an election year"? WTF?!? Where's the controversy? This sounds more like an opportunity for a big bi-partisan win that everyone in both parties could brag about.
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Google documentation is cloudy in this regard, as they only say sitelinks will be generated only when you "properly organize your content", whatever that means. Any suggestions?
Hello?? Mark?? Mark Zuckerberg? Bill Gates??? Hello???
That's a horrible generalization of conservatives.
To be completely fair, most Americans can fill out either the 1040A or 1040EZ, which are short (the 1040A is two pages, the 1040EZ is one page). And while they don't come pre-filled, these forms are extremely simple ("look at the form your employer gave you; fill in the value from this box"-type instructions).

The complexity doesn't kick in unless you hit higher income brackets, need to declare income from a business you run, or want to itemize rather than take the standard deduction.
To reply to the people below as to why @themartorana might be against estate taxes: if the tax system does its job properly, death shouldn't be a taxable event. Treating capital gains as normal income, closing shitty loopholes etc - people are paying their fair share that way. Taxing at death would be double dipping. Instead, it's used as a way to claw back failed capital gains tax and it's an awful way to do it (making people sell property, etc)
Ha, I didn't say "no marketing", just that you don't have to work as hard at it. Maybe "rely on" was a bad choice of wording.
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The whole idea of writing your code on a whiteboard.
Maybe his kids are thick?
Trying to figure out why the menu is borked on the iPhone. If you reload the article in landscape it works. Sorry!
You're right. I should not have said, "rely on". I should've said "work hard at".
If you'd like to know more about the libertarian blogger who wrote this piece, check out her profile on the S.H.A.M.E (Shame the Hacks who Abuse Media Ethics) page: http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/
Once you get a lot of money it's a lot easier to keep it and let it grow and grow. Estate taxes keep this from going on for generations like it did in the past.
Couldn't the same be said for a breathalyzer? Forcing someone to breathe into a machine could be seen as forced "speech" in the same way giving up a password is. That seems to be allowed since the only penalty for refusing is losing your license (as opposed to some kind of criminal charge).

Honest question btw.
I agree on the point, especially with how easy those taxes are to avoid but I'm calling out the divisive dog whistle language.

Also, while it would be great if the tax system was reformed, in the short term it wouldn't be too bad if the existing taxes weren't avoided.
Somehow constitutional protections don't apply to things they arbitrarily deem to be privileges. Try and refuse a Breathalyzer and see what happens.
Nice summary. I like it. I will bookmark it for future reference as it is more concise than the Wikipedia article that I usually refer to.

A quick mention about closures would be a good idea.

I often see the Lambda Calculus introduced with "oh look only 3 constructs and you can do all this stuff..."

However closures are also necessary because if the inner `x` in

\x.(\x.x)

doesn't come from the correct abstraction the whole thing doesn't work.
or they already learned it because they worked hard during school and they work hard to keep themselves current.

I think the concerns people have about the efficacy of this interview style is valid, but extending it to the point where you start to make claims about how people who can pass them aren't as good is ridiculous.
tl;dr: A few members of the Pennsylvania Senate have pushed a bill—Senate Bill 874—that changes how cemeteries handle funeral merchandise (caskets, vaults, bronze markers, etc.) ... One of the senators sponsoring the bill happens to own a large funeral home near Philadelphia. With cemeteries not selling merchandise, people would have no choice but to go to the funeral director. ... Philly funeral directors came up with this bill as a means of fighting back, and the rest of the state’s funeral directors went along with it because it would benefit them significantly.
At the very least, it’s a massive conflict of interest and a classic example of political corruption for private gain.
TIL people who claim to be 'smart' on this site (of all sites) thing regulations == solutions. Too cute.
Is that really necessary under the assumed condition "if the outcome is loss of our habitat" ?
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OCaml is a great language. I'm so glad I was forced to learn at in university. Apart from the language itself, the ecosystem surrounding it is very mature as well.

- OCamlbuild is the bee's knees. Configuring complex projects requires just one line in the Makefile

- OPAM works wonderfully. No configuration required. Everything just works.

- Merlin (https://github.com/the-lambda-church/merlin) is incredible. If you use Vim / Emacs, you owe it to yourself to set it up and have better syntax highlighting, indentation and type information right within your editor.

- Approachable online guides to get started. RWO[1] is a fantastic resource and teaches you the good parts right from the start.

- Utop (https://github.com/diml/utop) is a very modern, fully-featured REPL (almost as good as IPython)

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If you've been thinking of learning OCaml, here are a few useful resources -

- Real World OCaml [RWO] - https://realworldocaml.org/

- Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language - http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/u3-ocaml/index.html

- Developing applications with OCaml - http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html

- System programming in OCaml - https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/ocamlunix.html

Lastly, if you are out of ideas on what to build with OCaml, try out these courses for some challenging programming assignments

- Functional Programming (Princeton) : http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/courses/cos326-12/info.php

- Programming Languages and Compilers (UIUC): https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs421/fa2014/
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"Art History" is a discipline of study for a reason.
It's not useful for them for any specific investigation, but it certainly can tell them where they might stick their fingers next.
> "As an investor I care only about returns and nothing else."
This is the attitude that gets us slave labor, environmental damage, and stronger unions.
I've always tried to think of a way that people could include offers they got but didn't take on their resumes. Too often, people take jobs for the brand sparkle in the hopes that it'll up their employability in lieu of working on stuff they actually want. So if you ended up with an offer from Google or whatever but didn't take it, it might be cool to share that to still get the stamp-on-your-forehead effect.

P.S. I hate how things work.
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Presumably the idea is Swedish taxes are simpler, but also reasonably fair, such that how many ink cartridges you bought doesn't matter.

Like itemizing vs the standard deduction in the USA.
In what sense is SpaceX profoundly important to you? It's profoundly exciting for sure... Mars will be the best reality tv show ever.

It's hard for me to see it as important though, except as marketing for science education. Is that what you're thinking of?

I guess I'm asking because sometimes people seem to act like SpaceX is of humanitarian importance and I just can't see that. Not compared to like 10 other immediate existential threats to humanity anyway.
LA Times is pretty conservative too. I have friends and family in LA who are, fairly liberal, and they pay for the New York Times rather than get local bias.
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