skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree, but I note that we're reading the BBC's retelling of a story told to them, so we don't really have a good handle on how the transaction went down with the owner.

I have related experience with finding items to add to my DEC VAX collection. I've found equipment that would sell for a premium to one of the folks who maintain old computers for companies, and the owner has offered it up to me for a few dollars. I always tell people in that situation what we're looking at and often they are just glad to see it going to a good home rather than wasting away in their closet/basement/storereoom. Sometimes they will decide to try to sell it for more elsewhere.

In this particular case, the historical value is high, but the number of people who would pay more than 9.5 pounds for it is probably in the single digits. Remember it's only a part of a larger artifact. Further, they found it on ebay so others had the opportunity to see it and bid on it. In the past I've found that things really do find their "market" price on ebay and sometimes that is very different from what either the seller or the buyer thinks should be the market price.

Finally there is the question of "value." It would be fun and cool to have an ancient encryption device, but what is that "worth" to you? So many times I've met people who kept old computers when they were enjoying them (high value) and then discarding them after the excitement/fun has worn off. Cleaning out and disposing an in-law or relative's estate after a long life is also really useful for internalizing cash value vs sentimental value.

Really the best you can hope for is that both parties are satisfied with the transaction. This person in the story might be looking forward to visiting the artifact in a museum some day.

I'm not trying to argue that there aren't people who would exploit an imbalance of information in a market to profit at the expense of others. Hedge funds are full of people like that. I'm just saying that from what we've heard in this story, both parties seem happy with the transaction. The BBC could always follow up with a phone call to the owner and say "If you knew what it was would you have asked the museum for more money?" Only then do we have enough information to consider whether or not the museum was being exploitive.
Because (imho):
-You need some starting money to live outside your country(beeing nearly poor can't get you an airplane ticket )
-Not everyone is prepared to live in another country
-They really DONT want to live in another country just because previous govs did a shitty job.
-living abroad is not everyone's heart(and mood)
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IME foods will state values per 100g as well as values per typical serving.
People like fancy food. That doesn't make non-fancy food extreme crap.
The article is just a really short recommendation to check out Karpov's full book at this page: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0391/

So, I'd say it would probably be a good idea to change the submission directly to that URL. The information at the viva64 link looks really good, but the visualstudiomagazine article doesn't really add any additional information besides "Check out this link, it's great"
I've never quite understood this.

I bought a music box at a garage sale for bout $10. It seemed like a good deal at the time. A few months later I noticed a label on the bottom so I did some research and discovered that the same item was selling for around $1,000 on eBay. Should I now go track the owner down and tell her that she should have asked for more money?

Counter that with the time I found a Coach trinket at another garage sale for $1.50 and I pointed out to the homeowner that an old gf had bought the same thing from the Coach store for $35. Her answer was "well, I guess you're getting a good deal then."

In the end, once the seller and buyer agrees on a price, it's hard for me to see how that's screwing someone over.
If it comes to it, I think a prorated minimum guaranteed income is more likely. Given some of the payday crap, I would hope its paid out every weekday morning.

I doubt robots and AI can do every in the next 50 years, so someone is going to be doing something even its art or crafts.

[edit] who exactly owns these companies? Aren't people making money off the company?
A lot of people are selling their Gear VR on Ebay.

The Gear VR was a really cool device despite The Oculus software being crap. (Forcing online connectivity for offline app)

The device made me sick for hours after I used it personally.

Worth it!

It seems like people commenting don't want to take in the point of view that VR is just too early at this point.

VR is very cool but you don't want to develop for the hype train unless you have the dedication to get over

the hurdles and can take a a financial upset.
Note well that my remarks here and on islisp.info are my personal remarks, and funding likewise. As discussed in Untold Story, we created a mechanism to do personal things disjoint from what ISO did. Hence islisp.ifo dispenses the public domain version of ISLISP and is in some legal and logical way disjoint from the ISLISP standards process, though with obvious and deliberate parallels. So it's not surprising this funding/sponsorship thing is confusing. When I get back from traveling, maybe I can clarify that on the islisp.info site, at least.
Are these Chinese companies getting rich, or just getting by? Quality food is expense.
Honestly, most of them were great. Probably the most captivating one was Ben Tyler's fun exercise in using Riak Core to build a stateful, distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time, impress your cat application.

Chris McCord's keynote was also really interesting, he explained how he implemented Phoenix Presence using a certain kind of CRDT.

And for some laughs I recommend watching Gary Rennie's funny story about achieving 2 million clients simultaneously connected to a single Phoenix server.
As an addition to your transcription, here is the last letter transcribed:

to John Backus
91 Saint Germain Avenue
SAN FRANCISCO, California 94114
U.S.A.
12th July 1979

Dear John,
My schedule is very tight, and I am afraid that I
must disappoint John Williams; Monday 20 or Tuesday 21
August seem the only two slots that are really available.
I shall arrive in the USA on Sunday 29th July, and
had already committed myself for the week of Monday
30 July to Burroughs in Mission Viejo. My wife and
the two youngest children will join me for the first
three weeks of the trip, and the week of 6th August
was planned as "the real holiday." Since then Bill
McKeenan has twisted my arm: the programming
course to be given that week was so heavily over-
booked that he asked me to give a second course,
in parallel to David's. Under those circumstances
I would like to avoid further commitments in
the week starting on Monday 13: it is their last
week in the USA, and I have then been working
almost all the time!
Immediately after WG2.3 I shall go to Austin,
Texas (Burroughs and University), and then home!
If I have a completely free choice, I think I
would prefer Monday 20 slightly over Tuesday 21.

New title and abstract:

Title: Termination Detection for Diffusing Computations

Abstract: The activity of a finite computation may
propagate over a network of machines, when machines
may delegate (repeatedly) subtasks to their
neighbours; when such a computation is fired
from a single machine, we call it "a diffusing
computation." We present a signalling scheme
--to be superimposed on the diffusing computation--
enabling the machine that fired it to detect its
termination. Our signalling scheme is perfectly
general in the sense that, independently of the
topology of the network, it is applicable to
any diffusing computation. (End of abstract.)

Please give my regards to John Williams and tell
him how sorry I am that I shall miss him. I
am not familiar with distance and transport facilities
between Santa Cruz and San Jose. If it is better
when I come to San Jose the day before that
is fine with me; may I leave the logistics to
you? (Wife and children leave on Friday 17th of August.)
With my greetings and best wishes,
yours ever
_Edsger_
UEFI support in bhyve suggests that we can now run a Solaris guest in a FreeBSD bhyve.

This is a big deal for rsync.net, since our ZFS send/receive feature only works with other FreeBSD/FreeNAS/TrueNAS clients and not with Solaris clients that have a different ZFS version.

We've been waiting a while for this and can't wait to offer ZFS send/receive to Solaris customers.
What about systems that don't have or need libdubs. Tmux does not depend on dbus.
I would add that nobody gives a shit about behemonth dynamic CMSs anymore.

It never made sense to use an 18-wheeler to move a small box. Static site generators combined with APIs/SAAS that do the dynamic part (like user managment, blogs, comments, etc) are just much easier to setup and maintain. Every week one reads about a new security flaw found in one of the 3 big dynamic CMS. Now imagine a junior dev charged $500 for a small site that has zero or small chunks of dynamic content. Is it worth to use a big dynamic CMS knowing that your clients will not be paying you an SLA that justifies keeping the code patched and updated?

Furthermore, plugins are now SAAS with an API while themes are decoupled from the CMS. Also, private hosting of a small/medium static site is almost free.
Did you mean "vehemently disagree"?
It may be useful to distinguish between things that are not true and never will be, and things that are not true but could eventually be true. If one were to try to present the former as though it were true, what they'd be presenting is bullshit, whereas I would say that the latter is merely (note the air quotes) "bullshit." To those who need everything to be true now, the latter will be seen as bullshit, but it is not actual bullshit, as it may yet become true.
Would be bikeshedding, but...

I think there is some good intent in systemd's change. But they should have approached tmux/screen/community before making the change and a release which broke things. They should have asked for feedback and such and see if tmux is willing to do what they propose. Simply hammering over things as if you hold powers over other's codebases doesn't come off as very positive.

But oh well...
> tmux IMHO is important enough that talking to them beforehand would have been the decent thing to do

five years ago:

http://tmux-users.narkive.com/LXp72CHV/pam-support-in-tmux
From [1]: “We saw the swastika and then we noticed one of the keys was devoted to the double lightning bolt symbol of the SS.”

Now that's a Baudot/ITA2 character set variation I haven't seen. There's already USTTY, ITA2, weather symbols, fractions (⅛, ¼, ⅜, etc., for stocks), versions with £ instead of #, and versions with a pilcrow. (¶). But I've never heard of a double lightning bolt symbol.

Unicode has a single lightning bolt (Stack Overflow cannot handle this) up in the astral planes with the new emoji. But no double lightning bolt. I suppose a request for that now has to go into the Unicode consortium.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/29/hitlers-top-secre...
I personally found Backus to be way more of a dick in these letters, though I did gloss over some parts. It's strange how different people can get very different things from these letters. Maybe they just didn't have personalities that meshed well. I don't think it's cultural: I'm American and I find Dijkstra's demeanor to be perfectly acceptable, if a little a colorful. Although, in the same vein, people often don't like Linus Torvalds for many of the same reasons.
IMHO this is the root cause: Systemd developers trying to use corporate environment persuading techniques in the open source community.

Instead they should take a step back and rethink their proposed solution every time they get strong feedback or face some resistance from the open source community.
> But this still falls short of being truly random. If the mouse is on the left of the screen one moment, it’s less likely to be all the way on the right in the following instant.

Except... that's not how it works... Entropy from input devices is gathered from the timing of interrupts. It's not just looking at the actual values.
There seem to be parallels with academia here. In fact, what she is describing is the academic grant-giving method: Fund a million independent ideas, profit from a few. I suppose that method trickled down from academics to policy, and now it's become the current world economic plan.

The problem is that this model is not guaranteed optimal. In academia, centralized big projects have sometimes reaped great rewards.
And then the viva64 "book" is basically a list of open source projects with bugs in spotted by Karpov's pet static analyser. Very little of excitement to see here, just a grab bag of gotchas - pretty much like C++ itself. /runs for cover
The problem in Oklahoma is that the energy industry is doing poorly, thanks to very low oil and gas prices. Energy is one of the main industries in the state, and a plunge in profits has led directly to the state government's $1.3 billion deficit in the current fiscal year. They have no choice but to cut budgets, which include not just the public schools but also the prisons, health, and other departments. It's a terrible situation, but budgets need to be balanced.

If I would fault the legislature for anything, it's that they never take the surpluses during energy boom years and bank them for a rainy day. Energy is cyclical; we're currently in a downturn, and in a couple or five years it'll be booming again, almost guaranteed. In the good times, you have to save some of the seed corn and not eat it.

Governor Bellmon in 1987-1991 instituted higher education budgets, term limits, and other reforms, and tried to persuade the Legislature to save surpluses rather than spend them, to little avail. This is democracy. The people want their pork barrel projects in their towns and counties, and damn the budget. I believe the current governor has also made an effort to take a long term stance on budgets but she does have to deal with the legislature.

Just a personal nitpick, as someone who grew up there and still has family there: the fellow who wrote the NY Times article clearly doesn't know a whole heck of a lot about Oklahoma but merely cherry-picked this one budget item to paint Oklahomans in general as being unsupportive of education. Well, to some extent it's true and the US News rankings put OK at #30 by certain criteria this past year, not great though not the worst either. But I can testify that Oklahomans do take a lot of pride in their schools (even if sometimes it only seems to manifest itself in support for the football teams). When people put down Oklahoma, the image that always comes back to me is the monster tornado that ripped the roof off that school in Moore in 2013, and some of the teachers literally threw themselves on top of their students to protect them with their bodies. Sure, I'd give these folks a raise; I hope they got one after that storm.
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> One of the effects of ISLISP was to legitimize various dialects of Lisp that did not want or need to be Common Lisp. By being ISLISP compliant, they have some degree of interchange capability with one another.

Which dialects are those? As far as I can tell, the main non-CL influences recognized by the ISLISP spec (EuLisp, Le-Lisp, and Scheme) all pretty much ignored ISLISP entirely (except for perhaps EuLisp, which may or may not have been canceled to make way for ISLISP... I'm still investigating the history of that one... in any case, EuLisp was very different from ISLISP).

At this point in time, the only ISLISP implementation I can seem to find is OpenLisp from Eligis, who was previously a Le-Lisp vendor. Here and there, I've found references to about three other implementations, but they all seem to have been wiped off the Web and no longer exist.

On a tangent, EuLisp was absolutely beautiful, and it's a real shame that it was never finished. It also had some "new" things to offer the world of standardized Lisps, whereas ISLISP really doesn't offer anything that couldn't already be found in Common Lisp.
French finance minister rules out Google tax deal, more firms could be targeted
I'm willing to do at least one, but would like to have some assurance that I'm not working on the same letter as someone else before doing so. I'm more than willing to take on one of the handwritten ones, as I intend to just transcribe it with no effort at OCR anyway.

Edit: I'm going to just do Dijkstra to Backus, 1978–05–29 right now, update when done
> The danger is a state monopoly on information.

While the monopoly makes the situation worse, what you are suggesting depends on the state being subject to some form of universal justice - which isn't the case. States pull that sort of crap all the time and rarely are there any consequences for bald-faced lying to the public.
If someone is holding a bar of gold but thinking it is just foil wrapped chocolate and offers to sell it to you for $10

but you know it is real gold and say "okay here's $10"

is that honest and moral?
> we need a more efficient form of energy compared to Fossil Fuels

Category error, fossil fuels are already 100% efficient.

Any fuel is.
Why is it impossible to find free wi-fi in Germany?
It's weird that even right-thinking engineers will vehemently argue against just being a lemming on any number of issues, but all it takes is a few "move SSH port to clean up your logs and install fail2ban" guides and here we are.

This really hits people who dabble in operations with a personal server or something. It's probably a failure of operations folks like me to properly reach developers and other groups who simply toy with our dark arts in the pursuit of getting something done. Operating on the Internet is capital H Hazardous, and simply buying a guide wholesale without understanding it even more so.

I am identifying a need.
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>I'm not sure exactly which tables you're referring to here,

These

http://www.bk.com/pdfs/nutrition.pdf

nutrition information tables. The Burger King one actually looks quite reasonable. Compare this to the German Starbucks one:

http://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/4145371584DF4F75A9E...

I doubt a lot of people would reconsider their choice to order a frappuccino if they knew it contains as much calories as a Big Mac.

It's good that it's so detailed, but a tl;dr version on the board would be good. It's not like the average joe opens this on their phone to compare how many calories each product has.

>Being able to look up how many grams of carbohydrate they're consuming is a incredibly important for type 1 diabetics.

Valid point
Thank you for going to the trouble of sharing this amazing material! I'd also like to hear about the historical paper you're working on.

We've taken the "arrogance" quote out of the HN title and replaced it with a neutral description of the letters—perhaps a bit too neutral, given how fabulous the post is. But HN readers can figure that out for themselves, especially once a post gets so high on the front page.
Reducing the number of slot machines
This is indeed a rust failing. There are no untagged unions.

There should be. Obviously, unions with pointers are special. Some code might need to be marked unsafe. I suspect there is a subset of pointer-in-union operations that could be made safe, possibly either changing or using the pointer but not both.

Another thing missing is bifields. I'd love to see this done right, with adjustable packing so that one can use them to write an emulator or file parser.
The only way that would make sense is if your hash function is random. That's typically not how hash functions are built, since it would largely render them useless. A cryptographically strong hash function only tries to guarantee that there is no predictable order to the hashes, not that the hashes are random.
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But reviewing and approving a modification to the contract may be time consuming and expensive. Not to mention the difficulty of having different variations on the same contract and needing to figure out which one applies to which situation.

I don't really see how making changes to standard contracts is going to work for most people. The "it's standard and I don't have authority to change it" is a very strong negotiation position. Unless you're really OK with walking away unless the change is made you have no leverage.
I want to know as well
Thanks tptacek, I'm really glad to hear that! (The first part, not the second!) That's really enough? I find it hard to believe, as that is not at all what I see in job ads, and everyone I follow and read and learn from seems to know so much. I was even going to hold off trying Jailbreak until I'd done more learning and practising. But will take heart from what you said and see what I can find. Thanks again (and for Microcorruption) - looking forward to Jailbreak!
Corporations exist mostly because of consumerism, though. Once those "humans" are not able to work and in turn, spend their money buying crap from corporations, then...?
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I think he's saying that by attacking California schools, the University of Texas was more likely to take Dijkstra in.
I don't see how it's reasonable. If you're going to demand a collared shirt, you may as well demand a suit.
Getting Pushed Down Lol
Are you talking about all 575 school districts in Oklahoma, or some specific ones that you know about? Do you live there or are you basing all this on a NY Times article or two? As for "pray for another dust bowl", I don't see how that's going to solve anything. Pray for higher oil prices, maybe; that would reverse the budget shortfall and hopefully get the cuts restored.
Liquid Types for Haskell
Especially with irobot down the street and hiring all the time
Ok, we've changed to that from https://stactivist.com/.
Could anybody explain why this comment by "internaut" was downvoted so heavily?

I found internaut's comment to be insightful, well-conceived and on-topic. What's wrong with this comment?

EDIT: Moreover, who downvoted me so quickly for asking this question? This happened almost immediately after I posted this. Are there some nasty bots at place here?
Bitfields are in a crate, untagged unions are in the RFC process.
Local man rediscovers the profit motive
It's a great point, but I think corporations have shown they're willing to sacrifice long-term benefit for next quarter's numbers.
It will break mosh-server as well.

* https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/src/fronten...
What is BF?
From the wiki:

Speeds in excess of 1 GB/s have been reported to be possible for long messages on 16-core CPU architecture

It uses a Merkle tree-like structure to allow for immense parallel computation of hashes for very long inputs
I've never had any nausea issues with "room-scale" games where you move around by physically walking and maybe using an instant teleporter wand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7dVaembmgc). Everything OP mentions about momentum is a total non-issue in games like this. Can't say I've had any particular problems with judging distances of objects either.

I've tried a few different games with controller locomotion (hold the joystick up to move your avatar that you see from forward, etc) and I definitely had some trouble. Part of the trouble was mostly about constantly mixing up whether I should try to use the controller or real movements to move in-game, but also a bit of nausea at times too.

>The Google Cardboard VR folks seem to know this and basically suggest that applications make it seem like we’re basically standing still and just turning our heads around (which we really are - so no nausea). That’ll work - but it’s not going to get you an immersive 1st person shooter game…or a car racing game…or…well, pretty much anything immersive.

Sure, not all currently-existing game genres will translate well to VR, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing VR is good for.