skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the fathers of UNIX, it's true; I think the way they think, and over the course of the last 30 years of using computers, I've discovered that my experience with computers matches their experience. I can see why they came up with the tenets they did. It all makes sense.

As for XML in SMF, that is a sad part of history: at the time, Sun Microsystems had the guy who invented XML (Tim Bray, was it?) on the payroll, and suddenly, XML started forcefully infiltrating everywhere into UNIX, whether it was appropriate or not. I don't know anyone who's happy about having XML SMF manifests. All of us from the Solaris / illumos community would rather we never speak of that embarrassment again, I think.

On LISP: I would love to use it, except getting it to run on Solaris / illumos sucks ass, and when one does get it to run, it's only 32-bit, and it likes to coredump a lot. And I'm not going back to GNU/Linux just to be able to run LISP. Other than that, I find LISP cool. I think that reentrant functional programming with no state machine is the way to go, and I like the fact that one can run LISP both interpreted and compiled into a binary executable.

I've no idea what "sexprs" is.
I don't believe in or support copyright or Orson Scott Card's commercial success in any line of business.
The author said exactly this, in the paragraph right before the one you quoted:

> Some communication systems, like Signal, allow users to compare key fingerprints in order to verify that each received the right public key.
The difference is that this data structure defines who's rich and who isn't (literally). There is a whole lot more incentive to tamper with such a data structure than basically any other data structure in existence.
Big data will become a key basis of competition
This gives me a neat idea though: curated corkpages. Basically, I tag people in from twitter and facebook, and they can only post on certain pages.
I enjoyed the article, but I really, really want to hear more about the Foxes
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html?... also echoes what you say:

I don't know what you guys changed under the hood, but I'm
experiencing the exact opposite of your first paragraph claims:
most videos don't work, and it's draining my macbook's battery
at an unprecedented rate. I can live with my flash videos not
working, but the reduced battery life is making chrome
unusable.﻿
Your example translated to Python is also lazily generated (it uses the lazy equivalent of list comprehensions, called generator expressions):

source = count(1)
elevensies = (x * 11 for x in source)
odd_elevensies = (x for x in elevensies if x%2)
root_of_odd_elevensies = (math.sqrt(x) for x in odd_elevensies)

To me, the examples seem fairly equivalent, with the exception that Python's is, in my opinion, more readable for a newbie, since it doesn't require knowing map() or grep() - just for loops and ifs.
So a blind person would never be able to understand the different categories of color (other than that they are placeholders for distinct categories of something).

Now we are just speculating. We believe a computer might be able to understand things for which it doesn't have the sense - but that is speculation and totally untested, and certainly can no longer be justified by using human minds as an example.
> I never quite grokked rainbow holograms,

If you made a scratch hologram, but your compass-point had a small cluster of fifty tiny needles instead of a single big needle, that comes close to the fringe-structure of Benton white-light holograms.

:)

> But it's unfair to say all white-light holograms aren't holograms

True. By "white light" I was referring to Rainbow / credit-card / Benton holograms.
0db definitely sounds like an audio brand. I don't recommend it.
"(2007)" in the title, please.
Firefox plans to make Flash "click-to-play" by default sometime in 2017. This is similar to Chrome's plan.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-...

Meanwhile, it's pretty easy to force Firefox to apply this policy right now. Just go to the Plugins screen and select "Ask to activate" for Flash. I've been using Firefox like this for over two years, and have never been happier with my web experience.
People just happen to carry their desktops on their pockets and use this thing called apps on them.

Also I don't see anything here on these APIs,

https://developer.android.com/guide/index.html

https://developer.apple.com/reference/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element

That relate to these ones:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
The Arab world continued to have great mathematicians and doctors. Advances in science aplenty.

But the current world is dominated by Christian societies, so we paint history through our eyes.
Michael Phelps vs. Himself
A variation on this and the first rung of he Dyson swarm would be a space station that follows the earth's orbit rather than orbits it. you could call it a dyson tile or fly or something like that.
All bitcoins are created equal.
A list of 51648 spammy/DAE/temporary email domains to block
Acronis Disk Director 12 Keygen Crack with Serial Key Download
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949559
Uber didn't exist before 2009. They got a bunch of people in a room and wrote some code, and now they're successful. Greenfield development at it's best.

Delta started off flying planes, and has been around longer than computers existed. Like many established businesses, they have a mix of new and legacy technologies, and can't just copy everything up to AWS. They'd have to dedicate years of time and effort over many employees to rewrite some of their systems, while still maintaining their existing ones in parallel until it's safe to migrate off. All the while they have an actual business to run, with real revenues, real expenditures, and IT is just (an important, but costly) piece in the big picture.

These companies are neither incompetent, nor malicious. They just have to find the money and time to get done the enhancements they'd like to their systems, and change doesn't happen overnight. Likely, with this awkward generator fire, they'll try to hasten their efforts.
There can be beauty in simplicity --whether a green grass lawn or a sand/rock garden --they're only soul crushing if you're doing them while you would otherwise not.

That said, I prefer maintaining shrubs and other decorative plants in the tiny garden I have --yes, it's a time suck _but_ that's the whole point of it. You get to connect and care and semi meditate, or in the least take your mind away from preoccupation (it's a kind of therapy through futility). So, really whether you enjoy them or not depends on how you use them in your life.
Back in the old "Circuit Cellar" magazine era, they made a printer-hologram by photographing it onto film transparency.

I recall that it was a "binary hologram" 300dpi covering a full 11" page, then reduced to a few-mms-wide patch on monochrome slide film. Obviously the main challenge would be in getting the darned thing in focus, so the fine pattern doesn't blur out into gray.

Then, print out a feet-wide paper copy, so the pattern ends up as a few-cm hologram on your slide film.
It didn’t load for me either.

Inspecting the iframe source of the “white space” shows it contains a Facebook video:
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%...
Maybe you can shed some light on who plays (or what sample is) the sax "solo" in "ring ring ring".. nothing on the web, nothing on the booklet; not the same album, but maybe you heard things ...
I'm not saying it isn't possible to ever hit 1Gbps (or whatever speed), I'm simply saying it is not in Netflix's best interests to make sure this is possible 24/7 365.

I have 1Gbps CondoInternet/WaveG at home, right now at 11PM PST I get ~400Mbps from Fast.com and 800Mbps+ from DSLReports and the Comcast/Xfinity speedtest.
And then there would be a bunch of unqualified and inexperienced people working for the government.
True, but Apple Pay is also at least as or more convenient than tapping a card. You (theoretically) don't ever have to enter PINs, you get a transaction confirmation on your own device, and if you have an Apple Watch you don't even have to pull anything out of your pocket.
I have noticed a particular relationship between Windows, Java, and XML: all Java programmers nowadays seem to come from Windows (and then I end up with ^M CR characters in all the text files, even shell scripts!), use Java, and write configuration in XML.

YAML doesn't need any special tools - it's ASCII and can easily be processed with AWK, for example.

I don't know about you, but the last thing I want is to have to have a whole new set of specialized tools, just so somebody could masturbate in XML and JSON.

XML is a markup language. That means it's for documents, possibly for documents with pictures, perhaps even with audio. It's not and never was meant for storing configuration or data inside of it. XML is designed to be used in tandem with XSLT, and XSLT's purpose is to transform the source XML document into (multiple) target(s): ASCII, ISO 9660, audio, image, PDF, HTML, whatever one writes as the transformation rules in the XSLT file. XML was never meant to be used standalone.

If you really want to put the configuration into an XML file, fine, but then write an XSLT stylesheet which generates a plain ASCII .cf or .conf file, so its processing and parsing can be simple afterwards. XML goes against the core UNIX tenet: keep it simple.

Do you like complex things? I do not, and life is too short.
I'm getting frequent graphics glitches on my MbP
You can advertise it without using the exact same format as job listing.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around DigitalOcean emailing me the root password to my new instances.
Matt Cutts answers questions about his role at USDS/DDS
It's hard to imagine big IT contracts isn't a part of it. Bear in mind, Google Cloud Platform is Google's big push these days, and they're currently in a distant third place. Now, with all those Google employees who are then also going back to Google after their USDS stint... how many of them do you think will recommend or even consider Azure or AWS when they recommend a cloud platform for the government project they're working on? Google Apps for Government is a thing too.

And at the end of the day, basically all Google wants is... all your data. Good way to accomplish that is getting your employees to write the software too.
Last time they sold 30k at once. 2k is really nothing, they will probably get close to market price.
John Green made this amazing video a while back: https://youtu.be/-enGOMQgdvg

Note that this was before he became a famous author (not that that really matters).
>>I am confused: they talk about terrorists & critically etc. And they have only 1 site holding their entire system with no backup ?

They did have backup systems. Except those were located at the same place as the production systems and the fire destroyed them too.
First I should caution this was obviously a long time ago, and my memory could be suspect. I did maybe 4 sessions, lasting several (6-10) hours each, starting late and extending to morning. These were among maybe 500 sessions I did with various artists during the years 1987-1990 at that studio and others.

I recall they had their own (rather beat-up looking) AKAI S900 sampler (http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s900.php), and a box of 3.5" floppies with samples and S900 programs on them. We also did create some new samples, usually layered over existing tracks. I don't think I was present for any fresh tracks that weren't already in production.

Mase (as he was always called) did have a turntable set up, and he would play along DJ style with the tracks, but when it came time to lay down a track with the new sample, they would record him on the S900, then fiddle with the program to get it to sync just right with the existing rhythms. I don't recall them using any sort of sequencer or drum machine, so I suspect someone (it could have been me, someone in the group, or Prince Paul) must have manually pressed the play button on the S900, or alternatively we may have set it up to trigger off a MIDI keyboard.

As for the horseplay, there was a lot of it whether the mics were hot or not. Their work style was to say the least very informal and spontaneous. I think we did some vocals where they were all in the booth around a single mic, with one member (I mostly remember recording Pos) nominally doing his vocal track, but with "inspiration" from the others, which often seemed intended to make the vocalist trip up, after which hilarity would ensue. I vaguely recall Pos eventually getting irate, making comments such as "damn this shit costs money" and "shit I gotta finish this take for real" etc.

One strong recollection I have is a woman who worked for the label (Tommy Boy Records) during at least one session calling repeatedly to ask "Are they in the fucking bathroom again?" or to say "Tell Pos this is the last session we're paying for before the mix!" and then demanding I get Pos or Paul on the phone.

As stated before, I was not expecting this particular group or these sessions to end up having such a legacy. As an engineer, you see so many artists come and go that you start to get a bit hardened, learning not to get too emotionally invested in any one act, as the odds of lasting success are so low.
> we've had better alternatives all along

We've had better alternatives on the desktop for over six years now, since Apple said "No Flash for iOS" in April 2010, when content creators panicked to capture that market and started conversion to HTML5 video. That already was a long time coming.

Chrome finally saying farewell to Flash in this manner forces the market to recognize that Flash is no longer an option even on the desktop.

As for my security argument: using the link above, if we start with vulnerabilities found in Flash Player after April 2010, that's still 830 of them.
It wouldn't be that hard to make a chrome extension for that....
I don't see how that applies here though. How much variation is there among broadband users that matters?
Common misconception.

Direction is more important than speed. If you are running in the wrong direction it doesn't matter how fast, or if you come in on the weekend.
If you are headed in the rigt direction then speed and velocity can be important.
It's easy to want to believe that success is repeatable and due to an observable formula...
That's not really correct. It can be blocked both by extensions (ABP and uBlock), and by CSS (just hide <video> or other containing element).
A lightweight MVC framework based on JDK 8
Unicode search
But regulation is supposed to provide an impartial set of rules that defines how people go about their buisness fairly.

One of the great criticisms of regulation is that incumbents with access to government can influence the rules to favour themselves and avoid competition. Having employees of particular large companies work as beaurocrats encourages this, especially if they return to those companies.

In it's early phase -- such as with these googlers in the US gov, the revolving door brings dynamism. But over time it brings stagnation because parties have an interest in making current practice the only thing allowed.
What if the government sends someone with fake IDs to your key signing party? Not sure if this actually happens, but they're the ones who are issuing all those government IDs in the first place so why not?

This is a world where some guy can claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto and fool a bunch of Bitcoin experts in an offline demonstration. What chance would we stand against a real-life Jason Bourne?
Glitch Cities: Buildings Mysteriously Deleted from Chinese ‘Street View’
Sounds impressive - is this a publicly available ide?
It's really hard for me to imagine regular Google software engineers doing stints in government just to procure IT contracts. Do you really think that's how things work? It amazes me that people will look for corruption in anything. Is it really that implausible that people might not just feel a civic duty to help improve government?

For the record, 18F and USDS both seem to have pushed for multiple cloud solutions, including their own cloud.gov.
The complexity conundrum
> Archimedes wrote his manuscript on a PAPYRUS scroll 2,200 years ago. At an unknown later time, someone COPIED the text from papyrus to ANIMAL-SKIN parchment. Then, 700 years ago, a monk needed parchment for a new prayer book. He pulled THE COPY of Archimedes' book off the shelf...
Shamir's secret-sharing is one of my favourite algorithms, and it would be certainly be useful in an escrow system. But it actually doesn't address the problem brought up by the author, which is the insecurity of having the whole key present in a single location at the moment of encryption. I think it's a fairly minor issue, since the vast majority of users would never have warrants issued for their data and their keys would never be reconstructed (assuming that a critical number of the escrow agencies follows the law).

Far more troubling is the idea that I could be arrested or fined or whatever just for using strong encryption... although I don't think there is an appetite for such unenforceable laws in my country.

EDIT: (from article)

> Threshold crypto refers to a set of techniques for storing secret keys across multiple locations so that decryption can be done in place without recombining the key shares.

Does Shamir's algorithm meet this requirement? My understanding was that the fragments must still be brought together in one place and the key reconstructed, although if there is a way to implement the algorithm without doing this I'd love to know about it.
Google vs. the cable guys: the big fight over the little set-top box in your home
Battle of Cúl Dreimhne
One problem with archive.org is that it retroactively obeys the robots.txt file, even if the files have been spidered and archived [0].

For example, consider the case when a new domain owner attempts to block all bots from spidering their site, by adding something like this to their robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This is actually a fairly common case when domain resellers purchase expired domains.

Now when you try to visit the archived link, because the live robots.txt file disallows bots, you won't be able to access the archived site (which may have been owned by someone completely different).

[0] https://archive.org/post/406632/why-does-the-wayback-machine...
Currently paying $12 USD/hr for ad-hoc. No fixed on that if the quality and timesaving flow back.
The Google Style Guide[0] for HTML recommends omitting all optional tags. That includes <html>, <head>, <body>, <p> and <li>.

[0] https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.xml#Optiona...

For file size optimization and scannability purposes, consider omitting optional tags. The HTML5 specification defines what tags can be omitted.

(This approach may require a grace period to be established as a wider guideline as it’s significantly different from what web developers are typically taught. For consistency and simplicity reasons it’s best served omitting all optional tags, not just a selection.)

<!-- Not recommended -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Spending money, spending bytes</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Sic.</p>
</body>
</html>

<!-- Recommended -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Saving money, saving bytes</title>
<p>Qed.
Thanks @IanDrake for the inputs.

Let me work on them now.
I get that there's a lot of complexity involved in running an airline, but none of those numbers are very big. In fact, they're pretty small. What specific tech challenges do you see that require building your own datacenter?

My guess is that the reason it's set up this way is that it was built a long time ago in its current form and it's not worth the cost to rebuild / not worth the regulatory hurdles of moving to the cloud.
Russian cybercrime group appears to have breached comp systems at Oracle Corp
It'd be nice if you could flip a setting on GitHub so that password-reset emails are encrypted with a GPG key. They already have an interface for uploading GPG keys.
A new tech giant? Why you need to know about China's LeEco
Here's What You Know About Air Purifier
To me it seems like a pretty straightforward application of the categorical imperative ("act as though your principles will become universal law"): if everyone blocked ads, we'd have no free content. I want free content. Hence, I don't block ads. You don't have to agree with me on this, but I don't think I'm coming from nutty principles.
> No, it's not impressive to recognize this misuse.

Actually, it is.

It's a geek pedantry, the best kind there is :)
Parse Cofounder and Y Combinator Partner Ilya Sukhar Joins Matrix Partners
He's referring to the older 2008 paper that did PCA, Statistical Acceleration for Animated Global Illumination: http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ShotRendering/paper.pdf
FYI, the verb for "convolution" is "convolve", not "convolute".

English is a weird arse language
It's a total defecation on the 4th amendment is what it is.

edit:

What I mean is that the concept of civil asset forfeiture is a legal circumvention of the protections the 4th amendment is supposed to provide. The practice itself is probably illegal and should be challenged, and there should be a lot of uproar about the practice.
So - are we going to blame religion for setting us back?

That's not a rhetorical question.
It's the new "material design". You can disable it in chrome://flags to get the non Windows 95 style back. I too hate it. Not sure what the recent design trend of sucking all colour from UIs is hoping to achieve.
only worked on 3 ft, not 'dead' [sorry I see now you realized this - just gave a listen, didn't ring a bell...]
Does anyone know which video the test file is?

Perhaps it's encrypted, or a Netflix promo piece.

Wouldn't there be copyright issues to use their actual streaming licences content?