skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://lexcognition.com/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%...
Everyone learns different vocab depending on what discipline you learned about stats/ml. Leverage is a very standard stats term, but I've never seen it used in an ml context.
Nobody likes the truth, especially not when presented with some humor.
Let's say tomorrow there was some major catastrophy in which every disk drive or tape drive was wiped, and every computer had reset. How would we fare in rebuilding society?

I guess it would be similar if in 1950, all of books lost their ink or all of scientists/engineers had amnesia. I'm not trying to make a point other than it is interesting to think about it.
> “Never memorize something that you can look up.” - Albert Einstein

Here's the actual [1], and perhaps more meaningful, quote:

"[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
"Does a 50cal really seem like a sport rifle?"

People who have a chance to fly over fly-over country might look down and ask themselves what the possible utility there is to rifles that can shoot that far. It also hits very hard, it's an anti-material round, and that has its own utility, for, you know, non-sporting purposes (no Cape Buffalo in the US, fortunately).

As for sport, long distance shooting including serious competitions is a thing. Your basic medium-big game hunting round is capable of, say, 800-1000 yard use, .338 Lapua Magnum gets you at least half again that distance, beyond that you need something like .50 BMG.
Slack's blog is at slack.engineering. It's called Several People Are Coding. This is not from Slack, as noted by philfreo.
I not only use Google frequently, I use it to search for things I myself have written in the past.

I can't count the number of times I've Googled for a programming question where the answer is found on a Stack Overflow page I've written. If it's a particularly old answer that I've completely forgotten, I've even thought to myself, "Wow this genius sounds just like me!"[1].

[1]: ... as well as "This idiot has no clue what he's talking about!"
I use DuckDuckGo frequently (´꒳`)
I was genuinely not aware that the components are that intertwined that they rely on each other. Which components are problematic?

In terms of Gnome - well, Gnome is Gnome. I'm not going to start defending their decisions, I disagree with quite a few of them myself.
This is spot on. Sometimes it's much quicker to just plug the error into Google than to search. Saves a lot of time and work.
Show HN: WikiMind, visual wikidata explorer
As per HN guidelines, "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait":

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case, the appropriate title would be the subject of the memo, which is "The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement".

Your title is particularly misleading because the use of the present tense implies that something that happened in 1994 is current news.
Variable assignments in Posix make are Turing complete
Commanding Your Tesla with Amazon Echo
>> Writing Google queries to quickly find the correct solutions is a skill on its own.

This is so true, and yet I haven't ever heard of anyone asking about this in an interview. It would be an interesting skill to try and assess, not sure how it would be done though.
And the government can shut down all sales nation wide by shutting down the NICS. Which they do upon occasion because it's a computer system, and it's not always able to handle the load.
Knowing how to search is an extremely useful skill.

I think we have gotten to the stage where an intelligent and determined individual can teach themselves pretty much anything by researching a subject on Google.

Hold key concepts in your head, Google for everything else :-)
Have you ever shot the rifle in the latter video (Kel-Tec Sub 2000)? It's actually very lightweight, ergonomic, and favored in my experience by women and those of smaller stature as opposed to say, a handgun. Everyone I've ever trained to shoot that rifle have had a very easy time hitting what they are aiming at and more importantly not hitting what they are not aiming at. Why do you think it is completely impractical?
This is not a matter of the EFF 'not liking', rather the EFF fears this is overly broad and ripe for abuse.

Not only is rule 41 potential overreach but it is enacted by the backdoor avoiding Congressional oversight.

Your list is too short, the EFF reason well. One could add:

5. They have copies of everything sent over the wire, so they have the contents of C at NSA H.Q. already. Just get a warrant to look at it there.

6. They already have access to all B's meta-data.

7. Conversly E commits a crime using his memory.

8. Or F commits a crime using a pen and paper, which he then hides at a remote location.

This new power purports to address a non-existent problem.

Snowden argues the FBI had the meta-data for the Apple phone, thus they already knew what was on it. So, again, why the big show about cracking it ? [1]

Locative privacy is essential for journalism and many human rights - and malicious actors could gain access to the hacking malware.

For my money the EFF argue with great caution, care and reason and actively defend civil rights against overreach.

[1] From Snowden in debate with Chomsky & Greenwald: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/edward-snowden-noam-chom...
We've had them in Romania for about 15 years or so. They're just great.
We'd be fine. I have a calculator (and have owned one for about 30 years), but I still remember how to do arithmetic.
on Shannon Laboratory (from https://around.com/where-are-they-now-bell-labs/):

[quote]AT&T was always oblivious to Shannon’s role as the father of modern communications, and (with its usual tin ear), couldn’t figure out how to benefit from its own history.

Back when Lucent split from AT&T and was granted most of Bell Labs (along with bragging rights for the invention of the transistor), I was busy trying to convince AT&T that a services company required an R&D capability. The original divestiture plan did not anticipate a basic research component—only a development lab. Long story, but eventually we managed to slide over around 10% of the scientists into the new AT&T Labs.

However, we couldn’t slide over its long history, mostly rooted in the physical sciences. We had the people, but lacked a well defined “brand.” By odd coincidence, I proposed if Bell Labs was granted computing in the divorce, we should own communications—and claim Shannon as our direct forebear.

AT&T HQ was ambivalent—they were unaware of Shannon’s seminal discoveries, and couldn’t imagine how claiming paternity of the communications revolution could benefit a long distance phone company. But we were given permission to name a lab building after Shannon. Fortunately, one of the lab’s directors (Ron Graham) was a mathematician and juggler and knew Shannon’s widow, and received permission.

But they still barely leverage this connection. Momentum is sometimes more powerful than entropy.[/quote]
It only your money if you own stock in that company.

If you do own stock, then get enough shareholders together to vote on executive compensation.

That's the proper mechanism. If you can't get enough shareholders to change things, then I guess it's not that big of a problem to most.

The other option is just don't own stock. That's your choice.
Yes. Just plug numbers into a paycheck calculator: http://www.paycheckcity.com/calculator/salary/result. Say you make $50k with two dependents (a kid and a wife who doesn't work). Your net pay is over $40k in Virginia. Account for the 6% employer-side payroll contribution, and you're at just under 25% tax rate. If you're eligible for typical middle class deductions like the mortgage interest deduction you're well below 25%.
because there are several thousand desktop linux users, and hundreds of millions of linux servers, embedded and mobile devices.
SpaceX's ambitions to land on Mars are exciting, especially using a thruster system.

Landing things on Mars is harder than landing on Earth in many ways. The atmosphere is so thin that you don't lose a lot of energy during atmospheric entry (which helps since payloads don't need a lot of heat shielding) but it also means that parachutes don't slow you down nearly enough.

That's why the Pathfinder had to land using a complicated airbag system. Even using parachutes and rocket braking, it impacted the surface at over 50mph.

If SpaceX succeeds with their thruster landing system, payloads will be significantly easier to put on the ground and won't have to be engineered to withstand such extreme forces.
Only in anime like Megazone 23 and Macross Plus. In fact, Miku may be so appealing simply because she represents the merger of the real world with the anime world that otaku have long yearned for.
I actually came from FreeBSD to Debian 8 years ago and the funny thing is that I don't remember editing rc scripts anywhere near as often as I edited sysvinit scripts on Debian.

But that could easily be explained by the average complexity of services increasing along with my career path into Linux and Devops.

I don't remember any clear differences between sysvinit and rc, the scripting is still left up to the user which means code style can diverge from whatever the maintainers had in mind.

Systemd, albeit a binary blob, at least eliminates that from the equation and breaks down services into a limited number of types that it handles equally every time.

I actually liked upstart too. :) I might sound mad for saying that but as a user of Linux upstart gave me just what I wanted.

Bottom line is that I think discussions about scripting style have no place in the context of service management. Services should be dealt with in a simple way like upstart or systemd. If you want to add more complexity you can write a start script for the service but that should not be the norm.
He was a Jewish born Neo-Nazi according to the article. That would make for a very awkward conversation indeed.
Why Aren’t There More Scientists? Money
Also handy for bridging in features that the end web server might not have. Like ipv6, or http/2.
Oh, I predict dozens of programmers coming here in the comments section to confess.
I've been involved in interview processes where candidates were presented with a problem, given a computer and asked to solve it. Usually just by searching for an error message.
>> carefully evaluating the results and consciously separating the wheat from the chaff; they don’t blindly follow or copy-paste any solution they come across

As well as writing the correct search query, this is the other important aspect of the skill of using Google. A good programmer can look at an answer on StackOverflow and quickly determine whether or not it looks "about right" and how it can be integrated into their code.
It's not a zero sum game. New wealth can be created.

And yes, if Yahoo decides to pay ridiculous compensation to their CEO, I don't care. I don't own any Yahoo stock.
Google? No.
A search engine? I'd say the vast majority of developers use one for some part of their job, yes
Are helicopters used, useful for CAS? Briefly, if you could, when would you use the warthog over a helicopter (or vice versa). Thanks.
That's the point, that same impractical rational gets applied everywhere. Even in cases where people get hurt.
That's a very general skill though. You'd be stuck if you encountered a cryptic error message in an obscure library.
Don't undercount that you also have the skill to determine whether an answer on stackoverflow (etc.) is actually correct and worthwhile.

(I taught intro to CS for the first time last year, and watched people get very hung up by subtly broken things they found on the innertubes. To the point where we simply told them not to - we'd much rather have them asking the course staff, until they've developed the experience to sort out the wheat from the chaff themselves.)
Ironically, the one time that I did not use Google frequently (as a programmer) was when I was working on Google Search. It's hard to Google the answers for how the search engine works, particularly when they're locked up in the heads of only one or two people.

Use it all the time otherwise, for personal projects and startups (really, all of my startup ideas would be complete non-starters if Google didn't exist). Just beware that if you can Google the answers, the skill is a commodity, and that the real economic gains come from knowing things that nobody else knows.
Release of a new framework doesn't render all existing code based on an older framework useless. Nobody mandates moving all existing Angular 1 codebases to Angular 2.
Like others here, I depend heavily on Google searches while programming.

Sometimes it's useful just to see how Google tries to autocomplete a search phrase I've started to type.
Fascinating that a Haskell tool mapped so well to Rust. Might make it easier to do seL4-style developments with Rust given they simultaneously do a Haskell model and C code w/ equivalence proof. A Haskell subset that uses whatever verification & testing tools they have might be extracted to an equivalent Rust program automatically or with manual guidance. The assertions or tests would be extracted for equivalence testing. That might have significant safety and maintenance benefit even without HOL parts.

What do the Rust people think of that idea? And how hard would you guess an AutoCorres-style tool be for it vs C in event we wanted HOL parts?
GDD - Google Driven Development
A well meaning family friend gave my son Sea Monkeys for his birthday years ago. When my wife discovered they were really vermin, they had an unfortunate accident.
It's not really about being able to "afford lawyers and accountants." It's about our system preferentially taxing investment income on purpose. Some of those lawyers and accounts themselves make millions a year and pay 40%+ in income taxes, and there is little they can do to reduce that number because it's labor income.
Have you tried to pat yourself on the back by trying to upvote your own answer in Stack Overflow? I tried once. They didn't let me do it.
Humanity would have to come together to reconstruct Angular and Bootstrap from the ground up.
Perhaps temporarily, yes. You can outlaw cryptography, but the more governments resist it, the faster it will take over.
Are you asking yourself whether theses losses were by chance or by conspiracy to fail?
That and finding a question you've search for, only to find out that question was also posted by you years ago. Bonus for ones with no answers still.
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For programmers that were coding before good search engines: what did you do when you wanted to look up an error, etc back then? Crack open a tome for the language? Just curious as I can't imagine it was easy.
Even better ... I tried to downvote myself to the same result.
Gibson copied the idea from Japanese media. Macross Plus' Sharon Apple, a holographic pop idol, existed for years before Idoru.
Because a rifle isn't practical for close targets. A handgun is much better suited for that.
I learned that YKK was a thing from Outkast
You can also buy baking soda powered fish lures.
The song is just a small part. With human pop stars and Animation you at least get a human's take on some music. But, here the voice is synthesized from several people and effects, the motion are all re-rendered and refined based on feedback from multiple people etc etc.

Yes, it's voice sounds interesting, but it completely lacks emotion. So, the show ends up even more fake than Animation which still relies on traditional voice actors.
wpa_supplicant Just Works. NetworkManager is more like NightmareManager.
Given the popularity of systemd as a discussion topic on HN, I'm surprised there isn't much about OpenRC[0].

Does anyone know if Devuan have given it any consideration?

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/512719/
Voice authentication in Linux using Android in 4 lines
That's an interesting idea. Someone should write a Martianesque scifi-novel about that kind of struggle.
Yeah, but the other hand you have Adblockers selling themselves out with exceptions for partner companies.
I route 90% of my searches through duckduckgo: "%term !g"
I remember reading this when it was first posted. The most interesting section, by far, is "Parallelizing Socket Services". That makes it clear that socket activation isn't really about delaying daemon startup or acting like inetd (though inetd did provide some inspiration), but rather about being able to launch services and their dependencies in parallel by making sockets available before full daemon startup. Without that, any service depending on a socket would need to wait for the complete startup of the service providing that socket.
No, I'm just a bit exhausted from talking about it. Yes, I think government and democracy in general are bad concepts. Yes, i think people would be much better off without both. If you want to explore the idea, you just need to start asking yourself the right questions and if the only answer is "nope, can't be done without government" you're not thinking hard enough.
> I use it to search for things I myself have written in the past.

Heh, me too, especially on Stack Overflow. I wish they'd give us a better way to organise our answers rather than having to rely on tags or bookmarks in our browsers.
What Happened to Worcester?
I guess he means systemd being a compiled binary so how exactly a service file is processed is less clear as say with a sysvinit script
I'm sure the nerds here will find ample opportunities to tear this movie apart, but keep in mind that the "average American" (a) doesn't know much about Snowden, other than "he stole secrets and hid in commie Russia, so he must've been working for them", and (b) just believes what the government says. To counter the powerful voice of the government, you need an equally powerful voice like Hollywood. Maybe this movie will make the average American think more about the issue, and it might even cause some to change their views about Snowden. If it does, this movie has served its purpose, and kudos to Stone.
Hackers’ $81M Sneak Attack on World Banking
Good chefs are obsessed with technique. This transcends cultures--from French to Japanese. Moreover, they actually prepare food.

In contrast, enthusiasts spend six months obsessing about different types of knives. And then write a blog post detailing their thought process. Which, like this post, is often meaningless because it's a guy writing about knives who's never cut into anything.
Yes. It's all synthesized, and mostly by fans. The Vocaloid software is for sale, for about $100.[1]

Creating a new Vocaloid voice still requires a live singer, who must sing a long list of phrases. It's not a direct voice synthesis. Full singing synthesizers exist, but as yet are not as good.

[1] http://sonicwire.com/product/vocaloid/special/mikuv3e
It's amazing how much productivity is killed when you have to work in an environment, such as a SCIF, where you have zero internet access nor can you use any devices that could connect to the internet. It's certainly made me more resourceful but I don't think it's something a developer should put themselves through if they don't have to.

I must use Google dozens of times a day :)
No. We use DuckDuckGo. !sp if we want to see Google results.
If you commit a felony and are as a result never again allowed to purchase a firearm, your rights are being perpetually limited, and I and a lot of other people object to that, and it's arguably a violation of the 8th ammendment.

If background checks were more limited in the kind of background they checked for, say only restricting people who had injured someone using a firearm, then there might be fewer objections.

And felons who want to buy a gun for nefarious purposes are either smart enough to pay up and get an unregistered one on the black market (so you're not targeting them with background checks) or dumb enough to get one at a local gun store. But the dumb ones are still felons, which means they likely have criminal connections, and if they need a gun they probably can find another way to get one. So by stopping them from buying a firearm legally, they're more likely to end up with unregistered weapon, which makes the DoJ's job harder. I concede that a fair number of them might be inconvenienced enough to just not buy a gun, but then many of them will just go on to stab people instead of shooting them. The number of actual lives saved by background checks is probably much lower than people think.

Further, background checks are notoriously unreliable, turning up plenty of hard-to-resolve false-positives and dangerous false-negatives.

And then there's restrictions on mental health conditions. The problem with these is that people like guns, and if someone who likes guns thinks they might have a mental health disorder like bipolar or schizophrenia that would perclude them from owning one, they won't see a doctor. The result is that they won't get treatment and are more likely to hurt themselves, and indeed, others. Shootings and violent crime have been declining for decades, but the lives of the mentally ill have not been improving. I find the mental health problem much more important than the gun control issues to the proper functioning of our society, it's just that gun violence is more visible. This is a hard problem, and there will have to be compromises but it has to be part of the debate.

I don't know why the NRA opposes background checks, but there are good reasons to.
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system - http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/auug-2003/
Cool. In many cases that sounds like a much more realistic test than a whiteboard exercise.
"We learn to automatically color grayscale images with a deep network. Our network learns both local features and global features jointly in a single framework. Our approach can then be used on images of any resolution. By incorporating global features we are able to obtain realistic colorings with our model."

This is so cool. I'm bandwidth constrained at the moment, but I'm looking forward to try it. Machine learning applied to colorization. I wonder how the past century photos will look. Congratulations to the authors and thank you for releasing it in the wild.

Color me impressed :-))
if you search "1. netty tutorial" i think you arent a experienced programmer, you are a experienced googler
I really dislike Google as a company and I like that DDG allegedly encrypts my searches and gets the data instead.
The article says that the original variety of brine shrimp grows full sized more quickly and survives longer, giving you a slightly enhanced possibility that you would indeed "amaze all your friends".
Extra bonus, if closed as "not a real question", heavily upvoted, at the top of the Google's 1st page of search results, and actually containing a (heavily upvoted as well) solution.

P.S. Recursive bonus: closed with a comment ("you should just google it") and now actually the top result in search output (happens quite frequently) :)
20 years ago they would have taken it over, now they really don't care.
the paper, which isn't named in the wapo article, is 'cereals appropriability and hierarchy' here http://economics.mit.edu/files/10771.

The 'anthropological database' the wapo article describes is murdock's ethnographic atlas from 1967 and a geocoded 2013 derivative by fenske.
This is a great look at stagnating American cities and economic mobility in the US. The author parses out the economics that gradually chip away at a city, and the culture that dies with it.

My sister went to college in Worcester and seeing it now vs 15 years ago is eye-opening. So many cities on the eastern side of the US look like this now- empty streets, too many bars, garbage filled lots, and an entire generation which still doesn't understand that the jobs are gone and not coming back.