skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC Micro, one of the most popular 8-bit micros in the UK, contained a teletext decoder chip, the Mullard SAA5050. (There was an addon available that would let you display Ceefax pages displayed over the air with it; for a while they even broadcast programs using the Ceefax system, which you could download.)

It was mainly used as a cheap and cheerful display mode, as it consumed a mere 1kB of video memory and got you fast, colourful, chunky graphics, and at the same time gave an entire generation detailed knowledge of the innards of the teletext system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzkGkIrbd8

It was a pig to program for: it was (mostly) just a simple 40x25 array of bytes, one for each character. Special effects were done by using command bytes, which showed up (mostly) as a space. So, to change the foreground colour to red, you used a 129 byte. But that used up a character. Getting good effects took skill. Notice the way in that game the colours are separated by line? That's because there'll be two control bytes at the beginning of each line, one to set the colour and one to set block graphics mode, and the visible portion occupies the other 38 characters...
I, too, have run into this. One email setup was moved to Google Apps, and it flagged JIRA email as spam. Once that was fixed, I figured I was good, but more recently it flagged a document share request... from Google Docs... originating from within the same organization (i.e. same Google Apps account). Left hand, meet right hand.
Also an interesting question: given a kernel K, how do you derive the inverse of that kernel?
Yes.

That's why, if you have to work with and/or manage a scrum team, making velocity not the focus of the sprint is step 1 for a sane process. We count points, but it's not a contract. We try to reach the points, but it's not a contract.

In my parent comment:

_First of all, you have to remove velocity as a goal for your team. It's easy to game, and it de-incentivizes finding a _predictable_ velocity, which is the goal of that tool._
It's very wrong and often echoed here unfortunately.

Here is a graph is US energy intensity:

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10191

The US uses less than half the amount of energy per unit of GDP than it did in 1950.
Satire.
maybe if the website this is hosted on wasn't so broken, I would be able to make an informed comment!
It can get weirder, when you are talking third party conversations. Alice considers Bob a friend, Bob tells Charles that he dislikes Alice because he needs something from Charles and Charles has expressed dislike for Alice.

Charles then tells Alice that Bob dislikes her which surprises Alice. (and is not actually the truth)

I got an opportunity to research workplace relations in depth and one of the courses cautioned about third party information for exactly this reason. They had surveyed several people and their supervisors about whether they "approved" or "disapproved" of one of their peers. When the survey was completely anonymous they got one answer but when the survey was said to be for their supervisor, the results skewed toward the supervisor's biases. The inference was that if a person's supervisor dislikes someone, the people they supervise are more likely to say they dislike that person to, regardless of their actual feelings. It can be seen as a loyalty reflex, or kissing up, it doesn't really matter, but if some supervisor tells you the people that work for them dislike you, the only information that offers is that the supervisor person dislikes you.
How's the binary security on NixOS these days? The official information I find are... worrying. Specifically: a) security updates are the same as all the other updates and may take days to get to you, do runtime replacements manually yourself (https://nixos.org/wiki/Security_Updates) and b) next to no hardening during compilation (https://nixos.org/wiki/Hardened_NixOS)
I have thought about that for years, but it was not an arc. It was above the powerlines. Whatever it was I can't reproduce it in order to figure out what it was. :)
It was vapourware.
It became real.
It turns into a scam.
You centralize administration, not the control plane itself.

You're still out of luck when the centralized admin center goes down, though. That's the place that is the source of all the humans performing the coordination and dispatching work. Having a bunch of extra data centers and backup generators around the country will not cause those humans to become accessible.

And building out full redundant continuity of everything, including the humans, is not something that tends to happen outside of major governments.
There was another submission with a link to Jalopnik

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12250494

http://jalopnik.com/is-the-chinese-traffic-straddling-bus-a-...
I don't doubt that lightning launches electrons at high speed. I doubt that those electrons can pass through a metal sheet at high speed and then immediately come to a stop on the other side before travelling the dozen or two feet across the plane and out the other side.
This is nearly a completely different story. Ace reporting.
Mathematica uses GMP and Linpack for example and those might be used by R or Python also.
A home edition without support is $95, for the record

Correction: that is the upgrade price, my mistake
I see this typically in enterprise technology markets because sales relationships are a prerequisite for success. The idea of a long term growth strategy with strong technicals scaling later on with b2b sales is popular but most businesses outside tech view technology as something like a sales channel rather than an integral part of the business development process.
It seems you're pointing out the obvious: that no investment 100% guarantees any sort of return. Surely "the math" discussed internally at Walmart includes both:

1) A calculation of risk/reward on this investment

2) Determining whether result of 1 appropriately reflects Walmart's risk profile.

Given that Walmart decided to acquire, it is safe to assume this investment's risk of loss falls within Walmart's investment profile.
What the hell is going on here!
You should definitely post it as seperate story, I would have missed it if not for your comment.
Are you including dividends? These aren't the stats on Morningstar.
Did zapping you made it disappear?
The raw format may be. But with a good IDE it's pretty easy. Just like, well, most computer languages actually.
The majority partners of women are men, and the majority of partners of men are women. I think for one-to-one companionship people look for compatibility rather than similarity.
Plus rapidly decelerating electrons produce x-rays.
A favorable poll for Trump seems to have a problem
I love doing that =D

A while ago (when I was in aerospace) there was one senior people who gave us the price of insurance per head.

Given that we're talking about 1M€ per head and that a plane can easily have 200 people. I have a hard time finding a situation where I can expect a Return On Investment by doing things poorly and cheaply. We're talking many millions of payout.

(And yet, I'd love to have such a situation, it's always good to attract the attention of attendees at conference or student classrooms).

Then later I realized that I've made a mistake in my calculation... I'm only accounting for A SINGLE plane failing and killing everyone. In the real world, a bad component would be shipped to a whole batch of planes and they'd fall randomly like flies.

That batch-effect drastically increases the cost of failure. So... I really don't see ANY place where there is a ROI on people dying.

BAZINGA!!! I'm from Europe and people are expensive there. The trick is to manufacture things for the 3rd world market where people get peanuts when they die (sometimes even nothing) :D

But then again... we're back to square one, how could I build parts AND guarantee that they're only shipped to planes in low-cost locations? At that point, it's probably closer to a plane-by-plane targeted sabotage rather than a scheme of doing minimum-shit-to-close-sales. And when doing plane-by-plane there is no economy of scale :(

... Anyway!
Just wanted to say that any analysis would clearly reveal that THE PLANE IS CHEAPER WHEN IT FLIES!!! (and your life is truly expensive) so you're fine. You can keep on using airplanes ;)

Also, people at work do have a conscience.
Once in a while they may forget about the importance of what they do, luckily there is a plane crash happening every few months to remind them that there are lifes at stake, for real (in case it was ever forgotten).
They don't have any margins. When a consumer buys a product on their site - they have employees purchase from retailers or suppliers and ship.

So they've been eating the cost of shipping and overhead with no margins and have zero loyalty because they don't really have a unique value proposition.

They failed with their initial subscription model. They say they can keep costs low with their technology and rewards based shopping but they haven't proven anything.

It gets better with Walmart though - now they have a supplier and distribution hub that has great relationships with countless vendors.
Changes to comments on private videos
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
To illuminate these numbers, the vocabularies of famous English writers range from 15,000 to 30,000 unique words [1].

[1] https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/shakespeare_un...
It makes launching Gtk+ apps from the console a major annoyance since you get the warning spam at random times while you may have been doing something more important. It would be nice if they'd just quiet up and add a verbose warnings option for the devs.
I'm a Mathematica customer for life. I have been using it for the last 6 years, and I've built only one "big" project in it. I don't like it for "software development", but any time I want to hack something together, or do some calculation, whatever the context, I open a Mathematica notebook. The standard library is astounding, and you're up to speed in no time.
I don't need googling I was on active reserve duty during the 2009 strikes.

The strike earlier this year that were reported by an ISIS affiliated group in the Sinai which were attributed to Israel were executed using attack helicopters even ISIS's own media reported as such, drones were used as they are always are for intelligence, tracking and BDA and in many cases for closing the shooter loop.

Israeli AH-64 are also equipped with SPIKE NLOS which has a range of 25KM rather than the 8K (or well 4KM as far as the AGM-114 that Israel is allowed to buy) that the Hellfire can do, this allows Israel to engage targets at a distance sufficient for political cover including over the border when needed.

When longer ranges are required Delilah or potentially the SPICE 1000/ER (SPICE doesn't have terminal AAL capabilities which are currently mandated by the legal guidelines in Israel, but if the target is outside of the territories it can potentially be used) can be used to increasing the range to 100-250KM which allows Israel to engage from international airspace or from within a "friendly nation".

Please stop basing your entire worldview on Google and not to mention wikipedia, neither are particularly a reliable source.
so could this replace docker as distribution format? cgroups and namespaces can be use independently of docker.
For me, it wasn't. But, as other fellow HN users have already enlightened me, apparently there exists some cult of heroic founders who sleep for 2 hours per day and doing everything themselves.

I wouldn't invest in that.
Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)
(Can't comment on much else, but just wanted to say thanks for the link. I just got an SDR and the link you sent looks incredibly useful for learning. Thanks!)
Perhaps the secret of success she has is convincing the people around and under her that THEY need to work 130 hours a week.

In my personal opinion the code I've seen written by someone who worked 130 hours the previous week is complete crap. Working that much never gives you a moment to clear your mind and see the forest of your problem through the trees.
Ok, submitted it and another of my favorite links on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
French are not more productive per capita, but more productive per capita/hour.

There's a big difference here. Obviously there's diminishing returns after X hours of work in a day or week, but there are still returns.
There is actually an option to Export all your posts

https://medium.com/me/export
I used to love dogs when I was a kid, now I'm definitely a cat person.

I find dogs superficial and too simple-minded. If you feed them often enough, they will like you (guaranteed) - I find this kind of relationship unsatisfying - You are the master and so the dog has no choice but to like you. Kind of like how people are inclined to laugh when their boss makes a not-so-funny joke - That's the kind of dynamic you get.

Cats are more mysterious and complex. Most of the time, when a cat shows affection, their real motives are usually pretty straight forward; like how they start rubbing themselves against you only when you're physically holding their food (they don't try to hide anything). Often you get the feeling that cats don't care about you at all. In fact, they probably don't really need you (they can usually fend for themselves catching mice, lizards, birds, get food from neighbours, etc...)

But sometimes, there are rare moments when a cat will show you affection without any obvious reason; and when they do, it feels a lot more genuine than the kind of affection you would get from a dog.

I like cats because I like to foster relationships between equals. My cat is my friend, not my subordinate - I don't really NEED the cat and the cat doesn't really NEED me - There are no ulterior evolutionary/survival motives between us.

I just don't like relationships where there is a power imbalance (even when I get to be the master). Though I suppose some could argue that it's not so different from a parent-child relationship - But then again, some parents are more strict than others...
Simple really, just not a masculine/feminine thing. Dog people shows are terrible while cat people shows are interesting. (ok except maybe entourage, guilty pleasure)
Let's hope they come with a better answer than "We just remove negative words related to someone" this time (which is still pretty ridiculous on its own as an excuse, let alone when the word is "diazepam" and it's not "negative" on its own).
YouTube are disabling comments on private videos, as of 29 August 2016, and removing them from videos uploaded before 16 August 2016.

The reason is that private comments may become public if the video's status itself is changed.

It's among the types of privacy issues I'd forseen on G+ concerning public or private posts. The approach YouTube are taking isn't the only way this could be resolved (comments could, instead, be removed if the video's mode was switched, say), but it's fairly effective, at least for protecting privacy.

It does tend to disable the prospect of private discussion of videos within the context of YouTube itself, though. Which I find interesting.

Privacy is a hard problem.

More discussion at G+:

https://plus.google.com/+JohnSkeats/posts/8zr1J8pjRem

https://plus.google.com/+PeggyKTC/posts/AvJHgvfNtRv
(1) New ideas are often met with skepticism. I had found a promotional video that showed a better explanation of the tech involved. The rails was clearly there, as were the normal tires. What's seems like it will add the most complexity to is how there's going to be an elevator that rises up into the station and docks with it. There were other parts that look ingenious, such as traffic signals underneath the bus to communicate with the cars driving under there. [This is not the video I originally saw, but it is an English voice-over to a presentation about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8_W2PA0rQ]

(2) I find it ironic that the state-sponsored Chinese media is warning people against it. Given their past history, I actually don't know if that is sincerely a warning to people not to invest in a scam, or yet another example of propoganda.

(3) And then, it isn't as if the Chinese business community have a high standard of ethics. I get that there are probably a lot of great companies in China, but generally, the culture tends to skew towards cutting corners and corruption.

I guess the question is, if we pretend the technology, on it's own merit, was attempted within say, the US, would it work out? There would be a lot of political push-back against adopting it, but I don't know if that necessarily means the technology itself is a bad idea.
I think it's important to distinguish between the supervisor saying that one person dislikes you and could you please change X, Y, and Z behavior to get along with them, vs. them saying that everybody dislikes you and please stay away from their team. The former likely is a problem with either you or that one person (or both). The latter is a problem between you and the supervisor.

Remember that it's a supervisor's job to take the bullet for members of their team, so if someone on their team really does have a problem with you but doesn't like dealing with conflict, it's their duty to raise it with you.

I feel like this also dovetails with the advice that "If somebody hates you, it's probably a problem with them. If everybody hates you, it's probably a problem with you." Not exactly the same situation - in this case, if everybody talking to a person hates you, it's probably a problem with that person - but in both cases, you get very useful information out of the specificity of the complaint.
Yeah, and as browser developers have learned, process isolation is the right way to handle these errors anyway. A process crashing doesn't mean your browser has to crash.
Maybe it's a cliché, but it really seems to me rarely somebody does. Not "mature and adult" people anyway. Except for spouse, maybe. Maybe.

Why? Well, understanding implies there is something to understand, that implies feelings, generally. Big thoughts, sincere troubles. And "mature and adult" people are not about feelings, they are about business. They don't show their feelings and don't put their nose into others'. Especially in western, "civilized" countries: you are supposed to smile, you are supposed to be happy…ish. Everybody knows that "we don't need toxic people in our company", right? If you don't sport bright fake smile that's already "gloom", maybe impolitely so.

And now, with facebook and stuff everybody you need to speak occasionally to is a "friend". And I don't really mean it in a bad way (well, maybe a little I do): "friend" is just a word, it means what people mean by it, not what some psychologist (or even a dictionary) defines it to be.

So maybe you just need to use another word to suit this definition. I mean, if you say you don't have a "soulmate" it doesn't sound as surprising, right? Maybe sad, but not surprising, really.
> French are not more productive per capita, but more productive per capita/hour.

So they're more efficient, while Americans are more productive because they work longer hours with less holiday.

> There's a big difference here. Obviously there's diminishing returns after X hours of work in a day or week, but there are still returns.

But where those returns are going are most important for this discussion. And they are not going to workers.
Sounds like the CEO at my work. I was working 75+ hours a week, no breaks (got a warning for taking them), using my own equipment just to keep up with the increased demands on me. Not paid for anything over 40 hours, minimum wage was almost double what I was paid.

When I complained about it, I was told that I could do the work or quit, because the CEO goes to bed at 2am and gets up at 6am, works all his other hours, and it's my problem if I can't keep up with the workload.

(It's worth noting that, in the end, he got his way and drove me to resign. Years later, I found out that what he does is illegal, but of course you don't mess with millionaires if you ever want to work again. Still have a couple of tricks up my sleeve, though.)
3 industries blockchain and smart contracts are likely to disrupt
That's the upgrade price.
The home version is $295 (for the record.)

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica-home-edition/
I feel like there's a standard blog post that can be posted in response to opinion pieces like this, and it would be titled "x is not a panacea".
Quite a flattering lead-in for the subject. I can sense the slant right out, but I stuck with the article for content. I follow the Safe Harbors argument closely and have several opinions on the matter, but I'll just point out something to keep in mind:

>"It involves continuously finding more ways to save and downsizing. And trying to keep ahead of the decline basically," Rosenthal says. "I had 11 people working for me in the '90s and now I have two part-time people working for me."

Rosenthal is describing the absolute zenith of the profit making in recorded music that coincided with the CD becoming the dominant - and EXTREMELY PROFITABLE - format. Pining for that is like saying it's hard to make a decent living in the horse-carriage and buggy whip business. Time moves on, being disingenuous doesn't make me feel sympathetic to him. Rather, it sounds like the same old same old "We're getting ripped off, rather than doing the ripping off!" which is the earned reputation of "music business" in the grand scheme of things.

Granted, I think YouTube is garbage for having a 3rd party that - apparently - I have to pay $14.99 per release to have the Content ID system work for me. I'm still looking around and knocking on doors, but it makes me mad outright just thinking about such a strong-arming of "Pay us a larger sum than you could possibly hope to recoup from our system, which is, you know, able to identify your stuff but we won't until you pay us."

That's a different issue than Safe Harbor. I like Safe Harbor. I think, practically speaking, both sides are simply arguing the most extreme perspectives, which leaves a lot of middle ground. I prefer a reasonable middle-ground with the DMCA et al, and with DRM over regarding the bunniestudios case.

I know I'm in the minority, because I seem to dislike both parties' tactics and rhetoric equally.
I don't think that is true universally (that men prefer cats). I think it's a cultural thing.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/republicans-dog-people-dem...

Where I live, it's definitely not true... or men at least don't admit to preferring cats.

If you did an a survey of men in Dearborn, Michigan you would probably find the opposite, with significantly more men preferring cats (due to religious or cultural reasons)
I live in the U.S.. Why did I never know about this and why was it not more popular here? Is it totally gone now that analog signals are gone?

And now reading how it's popular in other countries, it makes me so angry!
The founder, Sridhar, is on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu

Very talented and humble guy.
Breaks for me using Safari: TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'style.overflow') — works on Chrome.
It is a political question for the organization that wants to maintain power in a certain area. Assad's ability to control Raqqa is a political question. Google's ability to identify who is in control of Raqqa, much less so.

If Google negotiates the border location with the governments, according to the governments political needs, that is Google's choice -- Google can do this to try to maximally satisfy the governments. This is politically complicated.

If Google wants to maximally satisfy the practical needs of the people who are actually going to the locations on the map -- all they need to do is identify the sovereign power. Exerting control is politically complicated, but this is not what Google needs to do, Google only needs to identify.