skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 24 and have experienced people complaining about this.

And don't get me wrong: I understand the struggle. I share the point of view.

But let's just not live in the past :)
Does anyone know the significance of the date 9-11-1961? The password list has 10,444 matches for "9-11-1961" and 10,231 for "9111961".

From Wikipedia, I see that Hurricane Carla hit Texas that day but that doesn't seem noteworthy enough to warrant two instances of the date in the top 20, It would be surprising if it was only due to date of birth too, given I can't spot any other date-like entries.
My rooftop is full of HVAC equipment and my building is 28 stories high. Even if it was engineered to hold that much weight and redone to make it safe for landing a vtol plane, we're looking at what? 3 or 4 spaces at most in a building that holds over 2,000 people.
Andy Stewart, A.k.a Airblade – Interview on How I Vim
Weekly Vim tips and tricks thread #13
Could have been a single person mass-creating accounts
Cool Names for Games: How to Pick the Best Title
A site specific constant is often called a "Pepper" as an aside. Just helps people google it if they want more information.

Several implementations utilise a Salt + Papper (unique per user value and single per site value). A Pepper is particularly useful when it is NOT stored in the database (e.g. stored in an environmental variable or even code). That way if someone steals your database via SQL Injection or a database backup file, they'd have to break the Pepper to recover passwords.

Peppers only make sense when they're almost "free" to implement. A slow hashing scheme is the most important thing, then unique salting, and finally a pepper last (since a pepper adds the least security wise).
BlackBerry hands over user data to help police 'kick ass'
Vim Tmux Navigator: Seamless navigation between tmux panes and vim splits
In a nutshell, if your thesis was true, it would be true. If Celery was the solution to the GIL, nobody would still be talking about the GIL. Celery may be slick and well-developed, but sharing stuff out to processes has been well-established tech for a long time. If that were all people wanted, the problem would be solved. Since it's not, people must want different things.

It's great that you solved your problems with it. Many other people have too. Many others have problems that are less amenable to this approach.
"Produces money"? "Payment information"? I think we misunderstood each other. If you want a way to receive donations, you can publish Bitcoin address. If you want an elaborate way to enforce payment and produce money out of voluntary but unconscious decision - yes, Patreon is the way.

I know that the best thing you can do from SaaS perspective is to get customer's credit card and permission to bill small non-defined amount indefinitely, but I find it morally wrong.

Still, I don't think that WinRAR would have many paying fans on Patreon.
Python doesn't have a GIL "problem". Just stahp.
My AdBlocker must have blocked that because I never saw it either.
> I mean, there are no more of the Sam Goody / Tower Records / etc. stores that used to be everywhere.

There also remain chain entertainment media stores of that type, though those particular chains are now gone (Sam Goody having been purchased by fye, which is one of the surviving chains.)
"If you want a way to receive donations, you can publish Bitcoin address."

Yes. If you want payments, you can publish a Bitcoin address, or anything else you'd like (my point here is not about Bitcoin specifically). To a first approximation, you won't actually get any payments, though.

That's the difference.

We don't live in a world where people haven't ever tried this brand new donation idea. We live in a world where a lot of people have. Their reports are almost uniform... they literally write blog posts when they receive enough money to pay for a meal in a month or a year, because that's how rarely it happens. It's not a functional mechanism for making money. It doesn't even rise to the level of paying for a hobby; it tends to run at donation rates roughly comparable to what the author could get walking down a busy street every day and keeping their eye out for loose change, and well below the rate of "collecting bottles out of the trash" in any state with a bottle deposit.
Ease of use is a big one. I tried used Automator for simple tasks in the past, and it's got a complicated syntax and a steeper learning curve compared to AHK which meant I gave up. Look at the list of keyboard commands for an example of what I mean: https://autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm#Keyboard

Another example, this is a macro to jump to the end of a file name in windows explorer and append today's date, then jump to the next item in the list (F3 is the trigger):

F3::
Macro1:
Send, {Alt}{f}{m}{End}	; shortcut to rename, jump to end of filename
SetKeyDelay, 0
SendRaw, _09-06-2016	; this is what is sent
Send, {Enter}{Down}	; jump to next file
Return

This is extremely readable and easy to understand.

Perhaps it's possible to do pixel searches in Automator (click on certain buttons for example), but AHK + Pulover's Macro creator make this extremely easy - this is why I mentioned both, as these combined make a perfect drop-in replacement for Sikuli - and they're far more stable than Sikuli, which was quite unstable when I tried it at year or two ago.
The comparison to taxes is instructive. But works against TPB.

With taxes, on the other hand, there is, as you say, conclusive evidence that companies bend over backwards to avoid (e.g.) U.S. taxes. This is because those taxes are burdensome to very many (probably all) businesses. Most businesses with the resources to do so will therefore go to great lengths to avoid those taxes.

The evidence of companies' efforts to avoid DMCA obligations, on the other hand, is tellingly different. Unlike taxes, most companies do not go to great lengths to avoid DMCA obligations. This includes foreign companies with large user bases, and sites that facilitate the sharing of media such as YouTube, Flickr, Tumbly, Vimeo, etc. But TPB does. This tells you that DMCA is more of a burden on TPB than on most companies. I wonder why that might be...

I genuinely cannot believe we are still debating whether a primary purpose of The Pirate Bay is to facilitate piracy. Of course it is.
Edit: deleting my comment since it was replied to the wrong one. Moved here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11869653
>>In the meantime try to get new helicopter landing sites approved in your neighborhood.

Which takes us right back to the noise issue which needs to be solved, first. 'Till then, no way.

Helicopters (nicknamed 'choppers' for good reason) buzzing over neighborhoods aren't exactly the average homeowner's dream. The "whapwhapwhapwhap" of a helicopter overhead, reverberating through a home, is just as desirable as open-pipe Harley Davidson motorbikes or roaring hotrods. That is to say, it's not.

Other than a crash, I can't think of a surer way to put people off from air traffic than noise.

(edit: grammatical typo: than->as)
The mentality described in the article, and frankly this describes most startups I've seen in the Bay area is that people can't be trained fast enough to pick up new skills. I call BS on this. The most important thing I learned from a University education is how to learn new stuff, and when coupled with online educational sources, I feel competent enough to delve into completely foreign technologies, platforms and stacks.

The phrase that ticks me off the most is "fire fast". Like seriously? You spent all this time on hiring the best candidate and now are going to get rid of them fast because they don't pass your smell test? I think many experienced/older people in tech have been burned by this at some point, and it makes them vary of working for startups.

But there are exceptions. I have a friend who is fairly senior ... he quit a cushy corp job for a well funded startup. My friend was working like crazy for some interim deadline .. the CEO saw what he was doing and said "this is a marathon, not a sprint. don't burn yourself out". Now, that is the kind of leader you want in a company. Hire self-motivated and technically competent people and realize that employees are humans. Tech is about speed but as an industry, we are letting quality and humanity slip in favor of speed. And that is wrong and foolish IMHO.
If self-flying taxi average flight times are 15 min, does this matter?
Flagged because WSJ op-eds are fancy-looking conservative rage-baiting, rather than serious intellectual discussion about anything
A helicopter pad on a rooftop can generally only hold one helicopter. Where would the other people in the office park? Besides, hardly any of these flying car designs take off & land vertically.
It may be worth taking competitive matches into account over friendly matches, as the purpose of competitive matches is to win at all cost. Friendly matches, on the other hand, tend to be used primarily for match fitness (especially leading up to tournaments), and for trialling new tactics before the competitive games begin.
More likely, depending on the nature of the patent, export controls, which are specifically covered by the Invention Secrecy Act.
So next time I take my watch off for less than a month I shall too write an article. Clearly the author didn't need a watch, but bought one anyway. Then as expected didn't use it. Less then a month of not wearing a watch, doesn't seem like long enough either as the watch doesn't do everything the phone does, so there's no need to wear it frequently unless you like having a watch, which is not the case here.

This article almost seems as clickbait... I could also write about how I bought a $500 coffee maker, and stopped using it after 9 months, because I actually don't drink much coffee. I just thought that having a nice coffee maker would improve my life.
One or a few? Come on. Most articles to day are this way. And programming today is hyperbole induced cargo-cultism if it's anything at all.
Sheldrake's ideas of "morphic resonance" are the worst kind of pseudoscientific garbage. The man literally believes that insulin molecules inherit a collective memory from all insulin molecules that have existed in the past.

He has constructed a New Age world of fantasy based on a fundamentally new type of physical phenomenon that is completely unsupported by physicists.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and he has not delivered such evidence.
Planning Algorithms – Motion Planning
Samsung Starts Releasing Android Wear 1.5 Update for Gear Live
FISHazam: Shazam for Fish Using Infrared Spectroscopy
How to recover push notification opt out
Yeah, but they only have to work like half of every year, and "work" is a term I use loosely here.
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I never thought I'd be one to own a smartwatch. I enjoy wearing traditional mechanical watches for quickly being able to tell the time as well as for the fashion aspect, owning a wearable that would tie to my phone, delivering notifications and giving me access to apps, didn't really appeal to me as I prefer to disconnect rather than hyperconnect to my devices.

Being someone who does a fair amount of outdoor activity (cycling and hiking mostly), and knowing a few people who are crazy about their Fitbits, I ended up looking into some fitness tracker-oriented smartwatches, landing on the Garmin Vivoactive HR with it's HR monitor and built in GPS. It's a very attractive device for $250, especially if fitness tracking and mapping your workout is important to you.

$250 is maybe the upper limit of what I'd want to spend on a smartwatch, but the Garmin has been great for me as a simple intuitive device that knows what it is good at and doesn't try to complicate itself.

Though you can cram a surprising amount of information and interactivity in these devices, it goes against good sustainable user experience to make a wrist-top computer as robust as a smartphone. Smartwatches should be a bundle of sensors and quick intuitive bits of display information, not a surrogate to my smartphone.
Here are some other related links:

1. http://fishazam.com/ (The product)

2. http://www.fishackathon.co/ (The competition driving innovation)
Nordics are Europe's Israelis?
I am so curious about how this Ehang 146 thing will pan out.

If it does really work, I think it is one of the best idea I have ever seen !
Or you can use a language like Erlang which has first-class support for this sort of architecture.
Where did you get player/club data from?
Acetaminophen is added to many prescription opiates in part to prevent abuse. (There's some question as to whether it aids in pain reduction beyond what the opiate would provide, but it certainly has near term implications for severe abuse.)
Hence the recommended method of life exit for people with terminal illness is to use a hood connected to Helium. Of course you need some "assistants" to remove the evidence since most places assisted suicide is illegal.
I enjoy math, but I'm nowhere near experienced enough to follow that paper. There wouldn't happen to be an annotated version or some kind of summary of it, would there? I've always wanted to know what it was about.
The issue is not problems, its earning power.

The same way the problem of famines is not the lack of food - Sen got a noble for pointing out that food was aplenty during the famine, but the poor didn't have the ability to purchase it.

Problems don't necessarily full employment make.
Most books I read come from personal recommendations, a friend tells me they liked a book and think I will like it. If I read it and like it I might read others from the author.

Free books (and on sale <$1.00) are also an incentive and have more often than not resulted in me buying other books from the author.

Serendipity in book stores - not very frequent because bookstores are not close to me. I recently bought 3 books from various bookstores while looking at what was available. One I had been meaning to read for years the other two were by authors I knew of but had never read.

Random Internet reference, I read Stanger in a Strange Land because of the SO answer "You don't grok vi" - I wanted to grok grok.

Travel inspired, I read some Hemingway because I was going to Spain.

edit: Online reviews are like social media comments, bring some popcorn. If I want to read criticism about a book, it will be from a more reputable source. But, that is not to say I won't read a book with bad reviews from a more reputable source. Their negative spin might make me more curious.
CarSumo in Beta the “Kayak of Car Classifieds”
That one can write elite in elisp is why one can write gnus, eww, CEDET, slack-mode, magit and thousands of other packages yet unwritten in elisp.
> This doesn't solve the parking problem. Sure, you get to work a bit faster but now you need to put that thing down. In a downtown area where there's a major price premium for parking.

What I envision instead is an extension of the office park concept, but suddenly there's no traffic congestion. You could have massive suburban/exurban growth and still have incredibly short commutes -- employees fly to their offices and park on the grounds.

Folks who work downtown should probably live in the city/commuter suburbs and would be better served by other types of transit such as rail. I doubt this type of vehicle would even be allowed in a dense urban area. Flying cars in Manhattan sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
> An accident by one or two aircraft doesn't need to inhibit the travel of all other crafts flying in the general vicinity

lol, an accident by one or two aircraft might not immediately inhibit the travel of nearby crafts, but it will certainly cause a legal storm that will eventually inhibit it!
Sure, that's when the term was coined, but no one talked about having blogs in 1999. Words I did hear it called back then are "personal website", "finger", or "zine".
Sure, you could do plenty with old 486's. But not hosting thousands of weblogs generating dynamic content. Not without load shooting up to 100, anyway. For a paltry few visitors, not so bad, but the more users and higher the traffic the worse it'd get.

I should add that I completely forgot (has it been that long?) about the hacks we'd use to speed up dynamic content. Since there were no competent threading models for PHP and Perl at the time, we would use either FastCGI, or mod_php or mod_perl. The former would allow you to build app servers to handle multiple requests without terminating, to speed up initialization and share/cache memory. The latter would embed a PHP or Perl interpreter in the Apache process, eliminating lots of overhead, enabling better communication, and of course allowing you to prefork multiple Apache processes and execute scripts as soon as a request came in, and optionally stay resident in memory. But that's just execution speed; if you're reading from flat-files and spitting them out one by one, that's still a very i/o-bound operation and eats up more CPU than necessary.

And ultimately, very few web hosts allowed using mod_perl or mod_php, and no weblog maintainer ever wrote FastCGI (nor were the servers configured for it). So everything was forked at run-time, leading to very slow page loads for any CGI script - unless you ran your own server, of course. It wasn't until later that LAMP development became more common and people started putting the kitchen sink into MySQL and PHP.
Meanwhile, Windows is still pretty much the only desktop OS for 99% of people, Nvidia has stolen large-scale compute with a holistically proprietary CUDA, and Google has hijacked the ecosystem and culture with Android and ChromeOS (the former by having vendors use the incredibly destructive model of forking the kernel and stuffing it with binary blobs rendering it stuck to that version on whatever device you have, and the later replacing userspace with Google's web properties exclusively).

> So it's hard for a generative OS to support whole stacks of hardware below and software above.

Is only true because of how Google broke Linux. If we had gotten all these garbage phone vendors to upstream open drivers rather than shove proprietary bullshit into every Android handset, Cyanogenmod would not be the only group even remotely capable of keeping up with legions of arbitrary kernels with tons of broken proprietary bits littering the market.

This post is more about the mindshare effect Facebook and Google properties have on people, but there is actually and honestly nothing we can do about that at this point. No killer feature or guarantee of privacy or distributed solution is going to break the network effect of Facebook or Twitter now. As long as we keep the social network alternatives like ostatus and diaspora alive and we can claw long and hard to pull some users there just to keep them afloat we can't really expect to do more.

But we can do a lot more on the hardware front. We are still crippled by proprietary firmwares everywhere[1], rampant with backdoors, and there is no mindshare there to worry about - all it takes is a concerted effort and focus and within several hardware generations we can reverse this dire course, and the consumers do not even need to notice it happening. But if we can get at least some viable computing platform without any trade secreted proprietary freedom-crippled bits that could be spying on you, stealing your info, or just not operating how you want, we could at least sit in our silo and preach from a hardened rather than rickety tower of ethics.

[1] http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-April/01...

PS: Considering this is about the Linux anniversary on Linux Journal, it is worth mentioning the gross negligence in enforcing the GPL with Linux has contributed a lot to the ability for corporate market dominators to seize control. All those Nvidia CUDA servers depend on the passivity in addressing Nvidia's proprietary kernel modules, and all those Android phones depend on the apathy of Linux developers to ever go after the hardware manufacturers for obviously and blatantly violating the GPL on almost every Android handset by forking the kernel, integrating proprietary driver software, and then going so far as to modify the free parts in some ways incompatible with upstream to make it work with the proprietary parts. The day Linux GPL enforcement is a thing is one step closer to curtailing the power abuses by many of these large enterprises over their users because that is actually a straightforward way to do it.
Great base for future development of the idea.

Some things to take into account though:

- Friendly games are sometimes about fitness rather than winning at all costs

- Weather greatly effects results. For example, in heavy rain and high wind, the likelihood of the game yielding more than 2.5 goals reduces massively.

- How does the algorithm take into account substitutions?

- If a team in the group has already won 2 games, they may have already won. In that case they may rest many players or try new tactics

- Not all leagues (and levels of those leagues) are taken into account

Very much looking forward to seeing where this goes!
cloudamqp? I guess, not terribly cheap though.
Open source and virtualization provide powerful combination for wireless routers
> Unique and never changes can be two things concatenated,

No, for a good primary key, the "unique" parts can be due to concatenation, but the whole key (and thus all the elements) needs to be unchanging. [0]

[0] Modern databases can actually deal with changeable PKs, though with a potentially serious performance hit, but in many use cases where data travels outside the database for some kind of interaction where the results need to get reentered into the database, this is still a problem, since you can't (in any general way) cascade updates to things (which may not even be online systems, e.g., paper records feeding human processes) outside of the DB.
I think this is a great idea. I would love to build it, but don't think I have the breadth of knowledge necessary. Does anything already exist like the CLI tool to determine what OS packages are in your project?
Good, mediocre, and bad p-values
Kind of odd how, with all the little schematics of flying cars on that page, Terrafugia is nowhere to be found.
We're also a lot older now and many realize the "us versus them" thing wasn't helpful. Shame the article opens with such a flattering retelling of a wonky strategy.

It was always the data, not the code. Try and find an open dataset for any interesting machine learning problem and you'll realize that while "freedom" was busy doing things like setting back the use of precompiled headers in GCC a decade and making it virtually impossible for an artist to get a copy of ffmpeg that handles all the file formats she needs, the real value remains the data.

We don't need 15 open source PDF viewers. We need open access to the papers. And even hippie scientists at Berkeley seem unwilling to share those for some reason. So odd given the heritage.

I don't care much about Google's half-baked machine learning library. Give me the 128k neural output from the 250TB of voice queries if you wanna be "open" and advance machine learning. Unsurprisingly they've got that locked up tight. But culturally you can make the argument that's very much "ours" just like government-funded research papers are.

Given interesting data, nerds will ALWAYS find a way to read it. Focusing on code was a bit of a mistake; that's cheap and you get it for free. And the gap between open software licenses and Creative Commons licensing always seemed odd.
> Can't we still be hunters/gatherers?

Sure! Now then, whose land will you be hunting/gathering on? You'll most likely have to pay for access to someone's land, and they probably won't barter access for chickens/goats.