skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judge Denies Lawsuit Shield for Gawker's Nick Denton
There are those of us who can't grow beards in the first place, with any sad attempt at it looking like a miserable display of masculinity. And I'm sure there are millions of us out there. So we prefer to shave it to save us from our friends and girlfriends having to remind us to.
The mistake was putting so much money in one untested contract.

It was a big mistake.

But Ethereum is still the leader in terms of a lot of technical aspects and also the ability to pull people together.

To try to give people a perspective: say you and your friends took out second mortgages on your houses and came up with 5 million to invest. Then you invented some tool, and someone found a back door or bug in this tool that allowed them to steal 1 million dollars.

So most of the group would like to undo this 1 million dollar theft with a patch.

Now, most outsiders are condemning you for trying to work around the bug and recover your million dollars with a patch.

I think that the mob is fickle. Quick to pile onto a bandwagon, and quick to burn it.

So, I hope Vitalik and the other group of hard working, intelligent and ethical people involved do not take the mob's response to heart.
I work with a guy who has done ground-breaking linear algebra work, spent most of career at Shell. The systems have been too complex to model for a long time. I can imagine an AI instructed to optimize a parameter could be a huge gain.
Another win for the Los Angeles startup scene!
He had hundreds of thousands of followers and has been implicated in sending them after people he doesn't like/agree with and encouraging harassment numerous times.
Well in absolute everything is ad hoc but think about it this way:

You are pretty much guaranteed that, modulo some events, any US president from any party will honor their predecessors' decisions, pacts, treaties, etc. And you can be assured that the whole nation will follow them, because of of the Rule of Law!

What you've just witnessed in Ethereum is a bunch of rich, moderately intelligent, technocratic and very technologically literate (but not necessarily well educated ("who would want a government when you have code bah!")) visionaries and mostly speculators crying to get their money back by abandoning the very characteristic (immutability) that distinguished them from traditional systems of governance! They had a modus operandi that "Code is Law", and they've now turned against it. "Code is Law unless X". Why have that when you can just have plain and simple "Law"?
Twitter desperately needs this. There are far too many garbage (spam/bot) accounts on their service. I think this will help people filter out such noise a lot easier - looking forward to it!
NYU professor calls Tumblr the worst acquisition of the decade
He's responsible for mobilizing lots of trolls to harass women and POC. Not a great human being.
To be fair, I also have unfavorable reactions when faced with mask-wearing people holding dead crows. ;)
I hate that way of looking at it because I think it's totally wrong.

C (this view is usually presented as only about c) isn't fundamental or bedrock in any way. Most of our current stacks just happen to be written in it.

The original Mac OS for instance was written in Pascal and C. The most popular open source compilers are written in c++. Most browsers are written in c++ not in c.

And there's no reason these days you couldn't rewrite llvm (a set of compiler libraries and compilers mostly written in c++, not that rust compiler uses llvm for code generation but the frontend is in rust) in haskell or java or javascript(they'd be slower but they would work). Haskell has useful features for writing compilers and a lot of language analysis libraries already. If you re-wrote in in rust it'd be just as fast.

Hell this guy (https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode) wrote a rust-c source-to-source compiler in literate haskell. Also in a few years servo will be a full browser in rust and Firefox is already adding components written in rust.

Other then os interface & c binary api linking there is nothing special about c or c++.
https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/media

A barrage of pictures comparing Leslie Jones to apes and orangutans is not hate? It's a debate?
It's amazing to me that anybody could read these stories and still want to be a beta-tester for Tesla's immature autopilot features.

I think I'm the only person around who actually enjoys driving my car.
Investing in Augmented Reality and Pokémon Go
Do they? Do they have an obligation to protect the speech of all the people calling Leslie Jones an ape on Monday? What about the speech of those that are silenced because they know that the racist trolls will come out of the woodwork whenever they say anything?

Further, I can't believe that the discourse that is 'stifled' by hate speech terms and conditions on platforms like Twitter was ever valuable in the first place. I can't believe it's more valuable than the discourse of those who are silenced by harassment.
By that measure, you earn about $2.7 a month, and that is sufficient for you to use Bing over Google!?
Free speech is vitally important, but this decision has nothing to do with it. Yiannopoulos can still speak and write in many other public places, including any public part of the US, his own personal blog, and any other unrestricted platform (such as Facebook).

Twitter is selling a product, and they have a right to decide what kind of product it is. They have a right to decide what their brand is connected to. If you argue that free speech requires private companies to be neutral toward everyone who wants to use them as a medium, you're also arguing that newspapers must publish any editorials that are sent to them. You're arguing that TV networks accept all ads, no matter how repugnant, and that phone carriers allow stalkers to contact anyone they wish.

People should be willing to die to defend free speech, but let's also be clear on what is and isn't actually an attack on free speech. Yiannopoulos is a troll, and Twitter (in the interest of their shareholders) should have started banning people like him a long time ago.
And what part of that debate was calling Leslie Jones an ape?
It is funny how every time someone talks about Dollar Shave Club as a brand/business model, most of the comments are about Dorco. Lifestyle brand focuses on a man, that is something really hard to archive.

Gillette spends 600 million years on marketing to try to archive this. BTW, PG has bought Gillette for 57 billion 10 years ago.
Well, yes, then shave. But if you can grow one at all, remember it grows in better as you age. I had holes in mine in my early 20s, but they were gone when I tried again in my early 30s.
Numerical Recipes in C, Second Edition (1992)
I built this electron microscope. Let me know if you have any questions.
naturally evolved cooperation - if you let me run a piece of my neural network for awhile in your rack, your rack will get additional cold allocated, or otherwise...
Correct, my photo was taken in the French Concession.
3 weeks on, 3 weeks off: How I remote work (11 years on)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12125401
Roger Ailes Is Negotiating His Departure as Chairman of Fox News
One way to find out why things are done a certain way, is to try not doing them that way...

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338493?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
I recently wasn't able to find an image on Google Image Search and tried Bing, and to my surprise, found the image in question. Still use Google, but I know that Bing is a good back up option.
Minimalist Cocoa programming
I haven't finished the decision yet, but from what I have read it seems the Wired reporter might have gotten a little eager to conclude that world is a quiet place for whales.

The HN submitter definitely got too excited when they paraphrased the article title. The ruling does not bar the use of LFA when there is an active military conflict. SECNAV is not going to get spend a lot of time at Woods Hole polishing an environmental impact study while the pacific fleet wonders where a couple of nuclear armed enemy subs are located.

But don't take my word or the reporters word for it. The decision is here:

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/07/15/1...

For those wondering,yes, this is the latest development in the string of cases described in War of the Whales. The APA sounds kind of boring if you read the Wikipedia summary. But when you consider cases like this or what to do with DoC and ICANN it is actually pretty interesting, especially for technology or science questions.
this is not reddit, please comment as such.
I would say it's faster since with 2Y you have to lift your finger off the 2 before you can press the Y, but with ^L you leave your finger on the ^ while you press the L so it doesn't even really count as 2 full key strokes. (not to mention you have to press ESC half the time in Vim to even get to the mode where "2" is what you want to do)
For #2,you can try them out head-to-head via BingItOn [0]. For a clean and fair benchmark, try it in a private/anonymous mode.

[0]: http://www.bingiton.com
Perhaps the problem boils down to putting all of your eggs in one basket?
Here's one way we're using ES6 proxies at Slack:

https://github.com/paulcbetts/electron-remote

Create a proxy for an ES6 module that actually creates a separate process in a task pool and executes the method there.
What is "not quite" referring to?
> They're in the business of facilitating discourse and giving people a platform to speak

Facebook started as a way to connect with classmates. Instagram started as picture sharing. Twitter started as a way to message friends.

At what point were those companies suddenly "in the business" of facilitating discourse? Who decides when they are? Why should we have laws that force a company to behave a certain way just because it's popular?

Thankfully, the US has clear laws about this, and private corporations can permit or reject users as they please, as long as they don't do it solely on the basis of gender, race, or religion.
For the past 8 years, I have used 2 Lenovo Thinkpad models (the current one is E series, don't remember the exact model of the previous one). Used both of them with a Linux OS. I have had no issues with either of these over the past 8 years and their performance too has been excellent - I use these just for development activities which involves working on IDEs, running multiple servers (for coding and testing with them) and for the usual browsing and other things. I am not a video/gaming user.

The only issue that I sometimes have with them is that they heat up really quick, so using them on your laps is a problem. It's not a problem for me, because, most of the times, I use them connected to an external monitor, keyboard and a mouse - it's pretty much on my table with its lid closed down.
No, it doesn't. No one should be forced to see your hate and harassment.

Why should I protect someone calling Leslie Jones an ape? And do NOT say to simply "ignore it" or to "log off". None of that works. It doesn't stop it, and asking someone in the public eye to not use social media is basically telling them to not have a career.
What a disgusting website (fortune.com).

Autoplays a video in the article below the one I'm reading, makes me think I'm crazy to hear Paul Ryan discussing politics from my speakers.

Try to hit my mouse button to go back to HN and it won't release me from my captivitiy.

All while running uBlock Origin. Just disgusting. Congrats to Dollar Shave Club.
$30 for a handle? they are 2-5 on aliexpress
Really, who has Milo threatened?
What if I like following trends?
Do you have any problems with ambient vibrations e.g. truck driving by?
Feathers are okay, but I somehow have way better results with Gillete 7'O Clock's (the sort in the yellow boxes). Cleaner shaves and more comfortable during use.
Global Temperatures Are on Course for Another Record This Year
I'd be curious to know what those same folks think regular security staff should be paid.

From another thread here, the author talking about the time involved:

>Two to three hours discovering and writing the initial report, couple more hours (unsuccessfully) trying to escalate it using pre-approved apps.

I'll round his estimate up to 6-8 hours, or basically a normal work day:

$5000 / 8 = $625 an hour

$625 * 40(hour work-week) * 50(weeks) = $1,250,000 annually

Let's say it took an entire week's worth of time (comes out at $125/hour):

$5000 * 50 = $250,000

Is that range wildly out of line for what Facebook would potentially be paying for a full-time employee? The actual salary number would probably be lower, this would be including the cost taxes/insurance/perks/etc.

Even as a contractor, where the "expect to bill ~1000 hours a year" rule of thumb is/was common, puts the range at $125,000-$625,000.

Seems as though if you can reliably find organizations willing to pay these amounts and have the skill/luck/grit to grind out vulnerabilities at those companies you'll make a decent living. Or, put another way, these company's are paying bounties comparable to what the same research would have cost coming from a staff member.
> Maybe Twitter will implement some system to hide new/anonymous/unvouched users from messaging more popular users.

So basically do a split between users known enough to not be abused and everyone else? Not a great solution. They've already got policies to deal with abuse (https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311), but they don't act on it very often. They should just decide if they want to go "full free speech" like reddit, or actually have some rules and enforce them. Right now they fail both sides.
Theres a youtube clip of a crow solving a puzzle that little children struggle with - cant find it now as at work but dont think it would be hard to find for anyone interested
That's not true. The market it very illiquid, but you can sell it. Sharespost is one place.
Already trying it out on my project http://beta.raspchat.com/ seems like its slow some times and ?d= parameter causes cache busting causing image to be downloaded everytime I open it up
this is waay better than the fluff piece posted. thank you !

edit-1: actually, the pdf in the article (http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...), contains slightly more details. and this is _old_, circa 2014 stuff.
Better with respect to whom? (Comparative adjectives require something to compare)

Since Shanghai has somewhere around 24 million people [1] and is ranked 10th in population density [2] in the world, I would expect it to have a "better" system regardless of who you compare it with. By contrast, the first US city in the top 125 cities is San Francisco at 104th, and a population density 5 times smaller than Shanghai.

However, "better" is more than just how big the system is. Beijing has a huge subway system, but using it to go across the city takes an hour (e.g. from Sihui to Zhongguancun). In fact, it seems like every mode of transport in Beijing travels at the speed of a bike. A cab gets stuck on the ring roads; the bus requires waiting and has lots of stops plus traffic lights; the subway requires a walk to/from the station, plus waiting, plus a likely 5 min transfer walk, plus waiting, not to mention that you'll be standing up that whole time, and squished if during rush hour. (On the plus side, when I was there it was practically free at 33 cents a ride.) Unfortunately, biking in Beijing is like swimming with sharks (cars) in muddy waters (air). So... Beijing has a huge system, but is it "better"? Well, yes and no...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai

[2] http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-...
Yiannopoulos can still be hateful and abhorrent on Breitbart.com and many other widely-read outlets. He can hold an anti-Leslie Jones rally on a major street in the US, and police will protect him (including black police).

This isn't a blow to free speech. It's Twitter deciding not to let someone use its service and its resources for the purposes of rallying racists to berate an innocent woman who acted in a movie.
Customs are going to love this, seems like it's going to be an easy way of attempting to bypass import duties until people would start getting caught and fined heavily.
You might like Fez and Antichember. Both are available on steam.
I use a lot of devices, on some of them when I type my search into the address bar I get directed to something stupid like Yahoo. So now I've trained myself to always navigate to my desired search engine (usually Google) before performing my search. If it makes you feel better though, I do type out the "http://".
I always wonder how saving a few dollars in RAM pays off for the effort game developers have to make to ship games.
I mean the consoles sales are tens of millions, but I guess games titles are in the thousands and they spend a lot of money to cope with these limitations.

Interesting reading: How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737156
It's an uncapitalized recursive acronym ("Bing Is Not Google.")
Dorco's top of the line blade (Pace 6) is almost identical to Harry's blades, but are around 50 US cents cheaper per blade.
I seem to have found a video of a magpie funeral. They're also corvids, like crows and ravens.

https://youtu.be/60Zg9sGnQf8
This is a great article. Proxies really have gotten lost in the hype around ES6. Surely it's in part because JS developers have obvious pain points with async control flow and clumsy syntax, so things like generators and generous helpings of syntactic sugar are the most visible changes. However, I'm inclined to think that the level of abstraction and the complex API make it difficult for many developers to recognize their use cases or even play around with them.
>begging for it to be open-sourced. This thread effectively reads as "pics or it didn't happen"

Likely because it won't be open sources and because there are almost no details at all compared to how this would have worked with other ML techniques. It's nothing but a fluff piece to feed to investors wondering about the large purchase.
That's what she said
finally a comprehensive list of vim shortcuts
The naïve "all speech is sacred and any censorship is wrong" does not work in the real world. for example, if you yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, you will be prosecuted. Now that we've established that there can (and indeed must) be limits on speech, it's up to a mature society to devise limits which protect speech but also respect others rights.

Banning someone from Twitter is one of the least effective ways to censor an author who has multiple venues which pay them to write. As the linked comic says (I can't believe nobody has linked to it yet, so the obligatory XKCD is below) this is not censorship. This is signaling that his speech was inappropriate and harassment. Being banned from Twitter doesn't stop him from posting on e.g. Facebook. His speech can still be heard by any who want to hear it, this ban merely prevents him from harassing her further.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
I didn't know that one, since I use Google search without JavaScript enabled.

Show me how to do that search qualification ahead of time, e.g. from the Firefox search box, and not as a post processing step after a search is completed. Or how to do that without JavaScript enabled. That kind of thing was easily possible before.

A long time ago I bought a book called Google Hacks[1]. It had all sorts of good tips on how to search better. E.g there were Perl and Python scripts to interface with Google. Now, running scripts like that will probably get your IP address banned (I don't know for sure, I haven't tried lately).

My point remains, Google used to be easy to use for advanced searches, without JavaScript. Not any more. There's a lot missing now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hacks
Then do it! With gusto!
1) GP said "they've threatened", which referred to the followers, rather than Yiannopoulos himself.

2) It's possible to inspire your followers to threaten people without making a threat yourself. Yiannopoulos has painted groups he dislikes (feminists, Muslims, etc.) as threatening and dangerous to his followers, which is a tacit justification of violence and threats against them.
What C# and Java developers need to know about JavaScript
If you're going to correct people, at least specify the correction unambiguously. Pedantry is uhpaulleng.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/track%20record
Were any of those pics from Milo?

Twitter has been going after Milo for a while. What twitter did was not just about his tweets related to her.
"...Afterward the birds ignored the harmless Cheneys" No such a thing as a harmless Dick Cheney.
Corvids (crows, ravens, magpies, jackdaws) are pretty bright. Some of them also have quite a bit of voice control. Like parrots, they can speak human words if trained.

https://youtu.be/rIX_6TBeph0
They don't, but homophobia, denial that sexuality is mutable, denial that homosexuality exists, and racism are all driven by conservatives.

There have been times when liberals were racist (e.g. some, but not most, eugenicists), but generally speaking, conservatives want to preserve the past, and the past is incredibly racist.

Conservatives fought the abolition of slavery, and to this day they support laws that marginalize or infringe upon the rights of homosexuals. A gay conservative is someone acting against his/her interests, and a pro-equality conservative is an oxymoron.
See the video, the most of Iraq oil was taken over by western petrol companies and physically sold to Europe. And that's why you won't see much in the chart you quote.

The video is much more nuanced than you imagine, as the goal was never to "steal the oil to bring it directly to the US" but merely to "control" the oil.
Cool!

The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you also added (1) a feature so that writes can be redirected to another instance, and (2) a feature so that I can direct SOME of my reads to a master (reads where I care about consistency), then you'd have a not too difficulty to implement - but also very powerful - distributed version of minio. Maybe something along those lines is what you are planning.

Many instances of minio makes a lot of sense to me, and it seems light weight enough (i.e. resources like memory) that it would work. The only deal-breaker feature which looked like it was missing was the ability to set a disk quota. In multi-tenant environments it's important to have resource limits for reliability reasons. I considered putting each minio instance in it's own ZFS volume to handle disk quotas, but I would have had to write a lot of glue code to make that work from a deployment perspective.

Great work on minio - it's the least painful to use S3 server implementation I've run across so far.
How to Build and Use a Gene Gun
This heist a nice demonstration of the usefulness of politics. So much so that the zealots are willing to forgo actual money and let that injustice stand rather than admitting defeat. Well, some of them are.
Yes, that is a more accurate description. The Ethereum community was very quick to call the guy a thief, without due process.
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I imagine it's bad for the energy minimization (or uptime maximization) function if the environmental control system goes down.
You're right. It was a bit of a knee jerk response to what I was reading in the comments.
Yeah but in reality letting half the DAO be siphoned off is vastly worse for the promise of smart contract cyptocurrency. So the 'messy' solution is the better one for what you want, but that'll never stop nerd culture seeing things as black and white.