skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A PR person would bristle at the idea of denying to unlock the phone of a terrorist.

Why exactly? If Apple wants to make privacy and security its unique selling point, it has to deny an FBI request to unlock one of their phones. Anything else would be a PR debacle.
Ooh, awesome. I've never run Chump Car but I've got about 10 24 Hours of LeMons races under my belt. There IS something about driving a not-yours (or at least not-expensive) car wheel-to-wheel vs a trackday.
CJK stands for Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese, and Korean. Adding Emoji would make it:

Japanese, Oriental, Korean, and Emoji.

It's a bad JOKE.
I forgot to mention launchd. It was open source then was closed and split into launchd/libxpc. It has always been a critical security component of macOS/iOS. Many CVEs have been written about it even after it was closed via binary reversing and fuzzing. Having the source again would be nice.
GNU requires contributors (and maintainers) to assign copyright for non-trivial contributions. Benno doesn't want to do this, thus in GNU's eyes, he can't be the maintainer.

You can argue (and it has been, to death) whether copyright assignment is right or wrong. When it comes to GNU projects, it's the rule of law. Based on mailing list posts and contribution history, it seems like the project had probably been in questionable GNU territory for awhile, given Benno's strong role and his unwillingness to assign copyright. I'm curious to see how the GNU project will respond.
It does not work on Firefox with noScript. (And as a matter of fact, prohibiting random blog posts from rendering unicode, executing complex numerical calculations on my graphics card or delivering exploits is kind of the purpose of noScript...)
Do you know what GNU's rationale is for requiring copyright assignment?
> the short widow of opportunity

Interesting misspelling.
I use https://usersnap.com. The screen capture + browser annotations are super easy for my clients to use. And the dashboard is pretty slick too.
> Of course I can start a hex editor, get the utf-8 encoding and then look up the code point

Tip: a quicker way is to copy the unrendered box and Google it.
Read the whole thing. Great work!
Yep. So far, they've committed to publishing "the APFS volume format" [1]. It'll be interesting if they fold it back (into the kernel proper) as part of making APFS bootable.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum...
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There are multiple reasons for that, one of which is compatibility with previous encodings and standards. If a previous encoding Unicode wanted to be compatible with encoded these as different characters, Unicode needs these to have separate code points for them too.
There are some, and I have tried to make one myself [1] to learn OpenType and scripts. It is hard and takes much time and effort to get a good one (Noto fonts [2] are probably the closest font that covers the entire Unicode and looks great). I admit that it is still hard even when you don't have the looks-good requirement.

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/unison

[2] https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Thanks, had no idea "goodbye" came from "God be with you" [1].

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye
One number I've heard cited is that one track mile equals three street miles. So an engine that you might expect to last perhaps 300k miles before it was a bit tired would only last 100k track miles.

Actual racecar engines are rebuilt very frequently (same for dirtbike motors, etc).

"sports cars" (Miata, Corvette, whatever) are going to be like any other street car in terms of longevity, but something like a Ferrari or Lamborghini will probably need some work before it reaches a few hundred thousand miles.
I don't know how we got to talking about this, but Honda makes a road legal MotoGP replica* bike for $184k.

*Minus the pneumatic valves and probably a few other things.
As to proving it to yourself - start tracking who you (don't) hire, and the outcomes. You can do this as an employee.
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I wouldn't be too surprised if you were right. In an advanced comp sci class I took recently I was surprised to find that when we had to ssh into the university's supercomputer and edit some code something liked 75% of students used nano and only a quarter used vim. These are people early in their career using a low latency connection but it still surprised me.
This reminds me of the irony of when the US invaded Iraq, because "Saddam has Weapons of Mass Destruction"[1]... while bragging that the US was going to use the MOAB, the Mother of All Bombs, the largest conventional bomb ever. The US has always had trouble with the internal consistency of it's propaganda :)

[1] Which weren't nuclear, and required a redefinition of the phrase to suit.
How many track days can he run with his F1 car before he needs the engine to be rebuilt from parts that no longer exist?
How did the Unicode Consortium turn around. I remember 10 years ago they were refusing to add standard media icons because

>The scope of the Unicode Standard (and ISO/IEC 10646) does
not extend to encoding every symbol or sign that bears
meaning in the world.

>This list has been round and round and round on this -- regular as clockwork, about once a year, the topic comes up again. And I see no indication that the UTC or WG2 are any closer to concluding that bunches of icons should start being included in the character encoding standards simply on the basis of their being widespread and recognizable icons.

>Where is the defensible line between "Fast Forward" and
"Women's Restroom" or "Right Lane Merge Ahead" or
"Danger Crocodiles No Swimming"?

(http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2005-m08/0371.h...)

Now it looks they add whatever somebody thinks of. I guess it's related to the liberation from the BMP.
Don't disregard arguably the best supercar of them all: the early 1990s Acura NSX. ;) Reliable, gorgeous, powerful, thrilling, and depending on when you bought it over the last couple decades ... A decent investment even.
yep, I have done that too, with a third hand and a lens, as I have a bad eye sight.
I'm a Product Manager (and have, in the past, been a sysadmin) and I fall into that camp. I prefer to use a GUI text editor, but use nano when I'm in a shell.

I have an emacs book on my shelf, and intend one day to learn emacs, but due to the nature of my work and spare time activities, I don't spend enough time in a text editor. It seems like it would take quite some before I was more efficient in emacs than I am with nano and a grep.

I started using nano (although I think I'd type pico to invoke it?) back when I used pine as my only email client. It has the same shortcuts as pine IIRC, so was easy to pick up.
That is, unfortunately, by no means "all the source code" of the kernel-level code that is running on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, or Apple Watch.
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Erlang style "fail noisily and let the supervisor handle it" is quite a solid way to deal with "exception handling bloat" in any paradigm, functional or otherwise... The hard part is finding a way to create effective layers of supervision.
It definitely is and a bunch of small companies are doing an amazing job of it (Seattle has three such companies, for example).

It is also one big reason why I really want municipal fiber. There are a lot more "houses or smaller and/or older apartment buildings" than there are new condo or high-end apartment buildings. It would be nice to have some competition in those dwellings alongside the cable company, usually with caps, and (maybe) the telephone company, usually DSL with very slow speeds.
Impressive that it works correctly across schema changes.

I assume the indexes are laid out like (col, timestamp)? Can you handle an access pattern where keys are continuously inserted with the same value, and then deleted shortly after? Will queries for the value work efficiently, or have to scan all rows inserted with that value for the last 24 hours? Is there a way to tweak GC to run more aggressively on a particular table (knowing that you wouldn't be able to query back in time)?

We have an access pattern like that in our database. Rows are inserted into the table with x=null, then later x is set to some unique value, but we need to query where x is null in order to set the actual value. At one point we had a long running transaction that prevented the database from cleaning up old records, so the query for X is null grew slower and slower to the point where it almost browned us out.
I'm no expert, but I believe the rationale is to simplify relicensing (GPLv2 -> GPLv3, for instance). I also think the papers disallow dual licensing the project with a proprietary license.

There's more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953703
PayPal-only eBay transactions.
Just a quick reply since it is impossible to solve all the world's problems in an HN comment ;-)

1) You need to invest in poorer countries and lobby their governments to improve the condition women (possibly doing both at the same time by essentially bribing governments). This should naturally reduce population. You simply need to push the natural child bearing age out to 30. If you allow women the economic ability to resist getting married until they are in their late 20's this will solve the problem. Like I said, it can't be done quickly. It might take 100 years, so let's make the next doubling of population the last.

2) There is some misinformation about economics out there (from personal experience of being misinformed). I recommend reading some text books on the subject. The main thing to keep in mind is that interest paid is entered into the money supply. Interest is necessary to maintain inflation. Debt as money creation removes barriers to growth. I seriously have no room to explain further than that.

I'll leave you with one more thing. From about 1600 (slightly after I think, but I can't recall when) until the mid 1800's it was illegal for most people to cut down trees in Japan (because by the year 1600 almost the entire country was in danger of deforestation). No wood, no coal, no oil, no electricity, and virtually no animal fats (legally "vegetarian"/pescatarian society) for 250 years. The next 100 years will be dramatically easier than that was and Japanese people still praise Edo society as being one of the most cultured in history.

My point is not that our current rate of consumption is sustainable (it's obviously not). My point is that the alternatives are not necessarily worse.
This is in my opinion the best simple A/B test significance calculator. I like it for two reasons:

1) The multiple testing correction, which many people ignore when testing > 1 variants vs. the control

2) They display not only the p-value, but the confidence interval around the _difference_ between the variants (i.e. the effect size). It's tempting to observe an increase of say 50% that is statistically significant and think that you can be confident about the 50%. This is not the case! You chose your sample size to be confident that the actual effect size is > 0 -- not that you would have a tight confidence interval around whatever difference you observed. Depending on your sample, the lower bound could still be close to 0.
I would predict that this manufacture method, with many small cut-up pieces of carbon, is going to produce relatively weak parts in comparison to equivalent twill prepreg, thus you'll need more carbon to reach the same strength and it will be heavier.

Carbon is good in tension because you're pulling a whole bunch of atomically perfect lightweight strings, but when you have chopped up fragments like this you're really only casting resin with reinforced mashed bits. Additionally, in real carbon parts you orientate the fabrics to get perfect tension/compression in the direction of the loads, or use multiple orientations bonded together for good all-round strength, but this manufacture method would have randomly oriented fiber directions.
Text files growing by 8x would be a non-starter. It would be nice to standardize on something but what do you have against UTF8?
This is dogmatism. The FBI situation clearly demonstrates that Apple does not only act in the interest of the bottom line.
Wikipedia does not note the real reason for the Soviet rejection of genetics. Darwin's theory of evolution, being based on random mutation and natural selection was seen as contradicting the theory of dialectical materialism which assumed a deterministic ontogeny culminating in a fixed and inevitable end point.

The rejection was nothing to do with Nazis and priests.
> How Hacker News saved an innocent man from life in prison

The original thread title.

So they were right to flag you, you lied as you now admit?
We fixed it in the title above. Don't forget that we're fortunate enough to have a great many non-native English speakers here.
I checked email with pine for ten years before succumbing to gmail. Once something's in your muscle memory, there's no reason to shift out.

I use Sublime or Spacemacs for Real Editing, Writeroom for distraction free writing. Ten second config file tweak? Doing something to J. Random Remote Server? nano's got my back.
In some buildings, our (MonkeyBrains') pricing is less. Higher density = lower rates. The base rate covers hardware, wages, 100% employee health care, other infrastructure, and support. I imagine the costs between the two companies are similar.
That's what I can't figure out. It is what it is. What a few men decide to call it, doesn't change what it is. It's mass, radius and composition are not in debate. Those are the things that matter (no pun intended).
> Documentation and code is scattered all around

Vim and Emacs both have excellent built-in manuals.
Original title: "How Hacker News could help save an innocent man from life in prison"

> Today, I sent the District Attorney this comprehensive refutation of the State's case: http://docdro.id/Qr6auC7

> I'm posting it on Hacker News because I want to crowdsource ideas for how to make the arguments even more persuasive. Which parts did you find convincing? Can you think of any arguments I should add?

> Please do not post the link elsewhere, because right now a huge outcry on social media would be counterproductive. The better way to express your support is to actually send a message to Ray in his cell using Letterquick.com.

I can't even comprehend how you feel the original thread was a lie.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

Because it makes it easier for them, as owner, to deal with copyright violations.
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But all mathematical symbols, except for styled math letters (which would have been equally well served by simply rendering them in italics or in a special math font), were already in the original 16-bit Unicode, as are any characters humans normally associate with "text" (all alphabets except for Egyptian hieroglyphics and other extinct alphabets). How useful is it to standardize hieroglyphics, ancient greek musical notation, and emojis as standard text characters esp. without standardizing their screen representation?
Aha, interesting, I'd never heard of Veblen goods before this. I'd also never thought about it in this manner before, making it a better product would make it actually worth the money, and hence less desirable.

The world is such a weird place.
It's popular because it's a text editor that you don't have to learn how to use. You just use it. I don't understand why, after all these years, people still think they can fool others into believing that they don't understand why others would choose nano over vim.
Sorry, I wasn't totally clear. I was talking about shifting functionality _from_the_kernel_ into kernel extensions, not functionality from user space.
A lot of the core code (and dissapointingly, btrfs) is GPLv2-only. So rewrites are unlikely, you'd have to ask contributors to update the license.

Just do a grep for "at your option", since that's the wording in the copyright header to specify that it's released under GPLv2-or-later, tells me that it isn't that great. It's around 10000 files (Linux has ~50000 files) so it's ~20% of files. This doesn't account for documentation or files that don't specify that they are under GPLv2-or-later.
Hey Delaney, I thought the US allowed companies to be founded with foreign ownership?
As I said that was not the title.

it was -

"How Hacker News saved an innocent man from life in prison"

Please read the original thread.

And now OP's telling us all how HN didn't save him... he did. HN was correct to flag. QED
Ugh, I can only imagine the creepy drunk male passengers you'd get at night as a female driver.
I fall in this category, I use neither Vim nor Emacs because I never had a need to learn them and I'm happy with lightweight GUI editors like Geany and Notepad++. Nano on the other hand was the default command line editor in the university computer lab, so I had to learn the basics to get around and still use it today.
I have one and I like it but I too am probably going to switch to Android with the next phone I buy (which may be sooner rather than later, since the USB charger seems flaky now!)

The app selection is really, really surprisingly bad. Not just for the popular missing apps (snapchat, etc) but just about anything has a ton of dreck, and if you're lucky one or two functional ones.

I'm pretty surprised at how badly Microsoft has courted app developers on this platform.
TIL that the SI units all have Unicode symbols.
http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/categories/So/Other_...

If people actually used these, it would make searching text for formulae much easier. Wikipedia editors and academic publishers, please note.

Also, there's no Unicode for screwdriver. Perhaps iFixit would like to campaign for that?

Congratulations on getting the power symbols in! When @edent writes "Will update ... when I stop dancing", was it "I got the power"?
>The FBI situation clearly demonstrates that Apple does not only act in the interest of the bottom line.

I don't think it does as I've explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11959074
And here I was thinking it's about a practice of returning & accepting a tuple of ( primary-result xor dead-already-cuz ) and morphing the (primary) result type as the "f * g * h of x" pipeline cascades.
Truly amamzing man!

I was actually wondering about the electrical symbols for logic gates, such as AND, OR, NOR, XOR, NOT, etc. I would hope they were universally accepted by now and would help when writing books or describing logic. A quick Duck Duck search revealed nothing...?
>The scope of the Unicode Standard (and ISO/IEC 10646) does not extend to encoding every symbol or sign that bears meaning in the world.

Until Unicode has a half-star character, it won't even be able to encode the average newspaper.
The author makes an attempt with a persuasive title and that makes them a liar? This is someone's life!

This thread title should be, "I freed an innocent man from prison despite reaching out to Hacker News for help."

Please leave the social causes that could use intelligent contributors with technical backgrounds unflagged and head back to the "microservice framework of the week-which compiler is faster-that one growth hacking trick you need to know" threads. There's enough HN for all of us.
> ask them to accomplish something, leaders will emerge, because the alternative is disorganized, undirected, and wasted energy

There are studies that indicate that the "natural leaders" will be predominantly men, because of intervention from both sexes (both sexes see by default dominant women as worse than dominant men). And I don't think alternative is necessarily wasted energy, for example democracy is a pretty good alternative. It's hard to say what would happen if we were asexual, but maybe we would all readily agree on having democracy.
If you sorted your customers by the amount of revenue they generate? How much revenue comes from the individual at the bottom of the top 50% of revenue?
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I'm in the same boat... Spent a couple years looking for a wifi thermostat that didn't require a cloud service. Actually I purchased a couple and hacked on them, but never hooked any of them up to my AC unit. Granted I had some pretty specific requirements (long list having to do with multiple zones/etc).

Not to long ago I settled for a couple of the venstar T7900's. They aren't perfect by any means, but they are light years ahead of anything else I could find. In fact they have a whole bunch of options that harken back to some of the early programmable thermostats. For example, out of the box you can control the max cycles/hour, or the number of degrees of variance from the setpoints. Buried in the menus are a wealth of options, including a few for limiting features available to "unprivileged" users. Funny enough, they can be subscribed to the power companies remote kill features, but the user is still in control and can disable the feature, which is probably why they are excluded from my power companies list of "smart" thermostats that qualify for rebates.

So, the cloud service can do a lot of things that aren't available from the published API, but running a local deamon and polling runtimes, setpoints, etc is all very straightforward, as is forcing a thermostat on/off from a server on the local network.

Anyway, that is my .02 for a thermostat that isn't owned by $megacorp/etc and can be disabled at the wim of a company that decides paying for a bunch of cloud servers is no longer in their interest.
Here it is at 10pt and you know it actually looks decent. Maybe bad font hinting in PDF viewers has biased me against Computer Modern.

https://frammish.org/cmu_serif-10pt.png
It's not accidental. See "The Tastemakers"[1], about food trends and how they're manipulated. Then there's the woman who introduced and named kiwi fruit.[2] Also passionfruit, spaghetti squash, starfruit, rambutan, tamarind, cherimoya and sunchokes. She runs a big produce distributor.

For fashion, this clip from The Devil Wears Prada says it best.[3]

The Color Association of the United States doesn't have the clout it used to, because brands have moved to China, but for years, they orchestrated the consumer electronics cycle from grey to black to white to off-white and back to grey again.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHGVS5U
[2] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/248222
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5WWy_0VLS4
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“The kernel cache doesn’t contain any user info, and by unencrypting it we’re able to optimize the operating system’s performance without compromising security,”

This is probably the only true part of the article, it means that they disabled a kernel feature of cache encryption to speed-up performances.

It has nothing to do with source code nor binaries of the kernel.
>A PR person would bristle at the idea of denying to unlock the phone of a terrorist

Not if they were any good at their job. Very publicly standing up against what many would see as heavy handed government and being seen to defend the rights of the little guy (who happen to be their customers and potential customers) got them an enormous amount of very positive press not just in the US but in many countries. It would have cost them a small fortune to pay for that kind of advertising.

I am not saying that it wasn't a good thing for them to do but I really doubt it was some sort of selfless act that happened over protests from PR.
"probably almost half of its 60,000 headcount are engineers"
I suppose I have been distracted by media reports, but certainly everything you've written here is reasonable.
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