skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is your assertion that lawsuits are decided fairly regardless of the amount of money each side is able to invest?

Obviously not, or Bollea wouldn't have sought Thiel's funding. Are you sure you that's the argument you intended to make? :)

>You should read about the history of champerty and maintenance in common law.

As a matter of fact, I have. I'd be very concerned about both champerty and maintenance ... if I were a wealthy British nobleman living several centuries ago. Those laws were deemed unnecessary in the modern era and repealed. It's just plain silly to bring up stale history.
Oh true forgot about mainframe things. It also looks like VMS has other languages than C:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

I don't really know where the major/minor cutoff is myself. :)

Pretty much every OS I can think of is in C - Windows, *nix, RTEMS, INTEGRITY, VxWorks
Ah. Thanks for clarification. Sorry I was just confused. I assumed that but it seemed many took it as your story.
You're asking me why I use a tool instead of parsing a binary format manually? Does that really need explanation?

If that is your attitude, why use any command-line tools ever? Why use "ls" when you can call readdir()? Why use "ps" when you can parse /proc?

You just pointed me to Kernighan and Pike a second ago. I didn't expect I would need to justify why piping standard tools together is better than programming everything manually.
Windows revenue has been shrinking for a few years now. The growth is in Azure and related cloud technologies.

Sure Windows probably won't ever go away (until a massive paradigm shift as you mention) but businesses are not upgrading like they once were. You have a mixture of reasons for this, BYOD has chipped away at some of it and forced companies to allow non-Microsoft (i.e. Apple) systems to connect to the network for remote and onsite.

With more and more work being done in the browser it makes specialised software that forces upgrades to Windows out of the picture.

I have worked for a number of large companies and recently the reduction of annual spend on Windows clients is pretty staggering. With almost all "managers" going BYOD with their (mostly) MacBook Pro's and onsite machines lasting a good few years longer than they used to it means we just don't need to buy as much from Microsoft.

You can see Microsoft know whats up as well. Windows Enterprise subscriptions and Azure are the future for Windows in business. For home users Windows is already "dead" from a revenue perspective with the exception of charging via the OEM at first sale. Android, macOS, iOS, tvOS, all the operating systems home users are aware of are free upgrades on supported devices. This is where Microsoft has a problem as obviously they support everything so they can't lock out some users with a "2011 Dell XPS". However going forward I expect we will see them do something along these lines with limitations around what minimum hardware is supported so you will only get upgraded to the latest Windows if you have AVX2 or such based hardware.
It's listed in Downloads https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/downloads.html That's how I found it. Didn't know rustup.rs was affiliated domain, so I didn't want.
There was one in December. They paused because Brexit actually happened.
Why would taxpayer subsidies cause them to go out of business?
I've always thought the redundant encoding allowed for variations in stability. Some encodings of a protein can be subjected to more mutations than others without affecting the resulting protein. The different variations may (I haven't looked) allow a higher number of "neighbor" proteins that can be reached through a single mutation if we consider a codon variation not to be a mutation if the resulting protein is identical. These are things that may have effects on evolution, but not the individual.
I agree that money plays a part, but in terms of wrestling, it'll still do fine without the Olympics because of MMA. And as MMA becomes more mainstream, it will be more influential than a sporting event that's broadcasted once every four years.

Also, high school wrestling enrollment has been holding steady.

http://www.nwcaonline.com/nwcawebsite/savingwrestlinghome/fa... (click on the male participation pdf)
But why would you want to do that? If you want to limit your notifications then you're free to do that, but doing it to your outgoing mail wouldn't help them (they still get almost as much mail anyway) and would just make it take longer for you to get a reply.
I thought Windows shipped with .NET which includes a command line C# compiler, csc.exe.
Idle but half-dead TCP connections will eventually time out. It can take hours, though, on some systems.[1] Early thinking was that if you have a Telnet session open, TCP itself should not time out. The Telnet server might have a timeout, but it wasn't TCP's job to decide how long you get for lunch.

Today most servers have shorter timeouts, mostly as a defense against denial of service attacks. But it's often the HTTP server, not the TCP level, that times out first.

[1] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nettracer/2010/06/03/thi...
Yeah, I was one of those early C++ developers being bashed for using a bloated language (vs C), just like C# devs are nowadays.

Regarding GC and consoles, how do the UE 4 developers approach it, just disable the GC related features then?
If I'm in a shady neighborhood and a drunk or threatening guy or whatever starts meandering towards me, if I'm driving I have the power to turn/drive around him/accelerate or whatever. If I'm sitting in the backseat of a driverless car, I don't have that option.
"take steps" kind of sugar coats it, from the film it sounds like the banks strongarmed the ratings companies to lie about the quality of the derivatives as the ARMs folded.
How can I get a job in a startup?
Hello peeps, well the title says it all. Please someone answer it. I'm a recent college graduate.
But then you somehow need to encode that belief into law in a way that doesn't trample on the constitution.

And maybe this is a bug in the system, but trying to fix it has some truly scary question marks attached.
What happens if youtube switches even the content servers to HTTPS? How will they be able to cap that?
Also in general: If a mp4-file is directly hosted on a webpage which is served over HTTPS: How will they detect this?
Over the course of Rust's history, we have tried a number of times to get a trait hierarchy for numerics working, and it's always had problems. It's still a general open question.
I personally find that the term "IT" has become a bit of a code word for "Enterprise Wintel", and that anyone working outside of the gravitational pull of Microsoft prefers to describe themselves as working in "tech"
I do F# full-time at work, and I program with it for fun too. I'm a big fan of the language, and I think this site helped me make the full switch from C#. I've long been hoping for an ebook version--I must've printed out half of this site the last time I went on an international flight!
If all that happens is that my portfolio is a few points below what it would otherwise be, that's not much of a point.

> Does your mind frequently attempt to lessen the blow by noticing the blow does in fact exist but is small?

All the time? Otherwise you'd constantly be overwhelmed by small but ultimately inconsequential stresses.
> Hilarious, GHz+ processors and they can toggle a GPIO pin at 2.8MHz with millisecond jitter (so, not really 2.8MHz).

Um, allow me to flip your statement around "GHz+ processors so CHEAP that you can use them to toggle a GPIO pin."

However, that's not generally how I use a BeagleBone. The BeagleBone provides the user interface (USB, Ethernet, etc.) while a cheap cape provides the hardware specific part. BeagleBone's have absolutely proliferated around me once the started being able to run mainline Debian instead of weird things like Angstrom.

That having been said--I have bit-banged the bone. The annoyance isn't the speed so much but you have to be in Supervisor mode to change the direction of the pin. That's really annoying and is a limitation of the TI Sitara SoC. The RaspberryPi does not seem to have that limitation. So, if you're gonna bit-bang, an RPi is probably a better choice.

As for why it's so slow, there are two parts.

1) mmap() marks the writes as strongly-ordered and slows things down

You can actually get to 12.5MHz.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard...

2) The system seems to have internal packetized transfer buses that gate the speed

The bus frequency determines the ultimate speed. This is no different from the much smaller microcontrollers, except that the smaller microcontrollers tend to run their bus frequencies at the same speed as the internal frequency since they are running much slower.
It's exactly the former, not sure why you say it isn't since you went on to explain the former and say that's what the car does.
It says right on it that "rustup is an official Rust project. ", though I can see why you might not trust that. If you ask in IRC, most people will point you to it first these days.
It's even more than that: text formatting allows the use of generic filtering and text processing tools. Whereas if you are using objects, you will tend to use less on-the-fly command line composition, and write or reuse more tools dedicated to one particular object or the other. In the end I'm not sure keeping the structuring as the default use case yields an usage so much improved in the real world, because if you work on a broad number of types you will tend to need to know more specialised tools, instead of generic ones, and have less higher-order composition tools at your disposal.

Now of course you can always format to text from your structured object, but this does not matter. What matters is what is convenient in the proposed UI, and what is mainly practiced in the real world because of such convenience and the amplification loop it creates between tools authors and users.

Also some objects are originally handled in text form, and their structured decomposition is extremely complex compared to an informal description and the naturally refinable heuristic which comes with it. For example you can grep into a source code in any language (with more or less efficiency depending on the language, but at least if there is a unique symbol you will find it), whereas trying to get and handle it in a structured way basically means you would need half of a (modular) compiler, and a huge manual to describe the structure, and possibly a non trivial amount of code to actually do the lookup.

The PowerShell approach is not all-bad, though, and obviously there are some usages where it superior to text based shells. But for a day to day usage as a general purpose shell, and a programmer shell, I'll stick to the Unix approach.
Directions to a BBQ at someone's country house, phone number included. I bet they made a pretty penny selling that domain.

MY GOD. The bbq was in 2002, and they kept the site up and running through 2015 before selling it. This is like a piece of history or something.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150709120858/http://ot.to/
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If you are "designing hardware", you can use the same underlying components as the Pi Zero, and we already know the cost at scale is comically low.
I don't think it's an oversight; the implementation calls `checked_add` and `checked_mul` explicitly -- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1744c46e47434d8c0b63a...
There seem to be a few tools to do it for you automatically. ctrl+shift+a if you're using powershell studio for example. Or https://gist.github.com/DBremen/9db6632423d673ff18f6
What wallet was that? :) Genuinely curious.
Go usa
olympics are good
I just got a bunch of papers on first-order verification, implementation, compilers, and so on as the simplicity & tractability part peaked my interest. I'm keeping them in case I run into some students or hobbyists that want to try that on top of some "verify the verifier" kind of issues. Then I see these suggestions...

"(0) Have dependent types, but restrict them to be first-order. This is good enough for programming purposes: invariants of data structures can almost always be expressed as first-order formulas.

(1) Use known and proven type inference technology: generate a system of type-level equations, and solve them via first-order unification, which is known to be decidable and tractable in practice."

I'll add those to the list given that sounds worth a good try. Especially if combined with automated approaches to generating & solving for common attributes like in SPARK and AutoCorres. Maybe something will come of it.
I think you are assuming the worst without any information. It's not surprising in the least if you take a minute to find the back story:

The founder started a company called 510 systems which was sold to Google, and years later he left Google to create another company focused on self-driving trucks. They obviously have deep experience in the area, and Uber obviously wants that expertise.
Ok, so let's keep going from there. I mean, it ought to be intuitive, with everyone having a favorite personal example, that groups of people seem pretty able to sustain very flagrantly wrong, and even downright stupid, beliefs over long periods of time. So a theory of socially distributed cognition should ideally either explain how this happens, or explain it away as an unfortunate side-effect of rational thinking in ambiguous situations (like certain optical illusions and the Bayesian brain theory).

One mechanism I've heard posited (by Friston's neurosci lab) for how humans deal with noisy environments is to weight our sensory inputs by their expected precision. I might look at the ocean's surface and expect to see a froth of sea-foam, particulate matter, and water, so I won't pay enough attention to see a camouflaged fish. I'll still notice if Godzilla walks up out of it, though.

Would a similar precision-weighting mechanism help to model social trust, and to thus give us an idea of how groups can fixate on incorrect group-beliefs? Are people treating outgroup members or "opponents", so to speak, as uselessly noisy, and thus down-weighting any need to update based on what those persons say or do? Could this contribute to people's (supposed) occasional failures to accurately model their outgroups, since they're intuitively modelling those outgroups precisely as mostly outputting random noise rather than precise information?
Did you try this reference:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/dyuax541...

I found it quite invaluable for understanding how to write a kernel driver for things like the RaspberryPi or the BeagleBone.

The fact that so many things about embedded hardware are so poorly documented is a real problem. Unfortunately, there just aren't that many of us hacking these at a kernel level.
Honestly, if my data is being used or sold I want something in return.

A service, a product, a bribe. Something of tangible value.

If my data is being taken and I'm not interested in the service being provided in return, I feel like I'm being ripped off.
The cheap way out for me is to say those people are no longer employees :)

Being honest though, yeah businesses will do shitty thing to employees when their interests don't align with the employees. That said, I've worked for healthy companies and sick companies, and I promise there's a world of difference there. Layoffs, outsourcing and training replacements are usually signs of sickness. The brand of medicine practiced by businesses is triage.
> because of much longer guaranteed support/supply life

The underlying components in the Pi Zero also have a long "guaranteed" support/supply life. You don't have to rely on the Pi foundation for your components, or the board itself (as I pointed out in another reply in this thread).

My primary point is that the cost of a GPU these days is very close to zero, so I see little benefit in picking a platform that doesn't have one if you need that capability.
People seem forget that the Friends/Community feature on Steam didn't really work at all for _YEARS_ when the platform launched.

I'd love to take the same bet you do, but if you have a killer product that requires the platform, people will use it. Half Life 2 and Counter Strike 1.6 were the killer products for Steam. Mass Effect 3 and The Old Republic are mostly the only reasons anyone I know installed Origin at first (and I'm sure other games now).

If Facebook finds that app, it won't matter how terrible their platform is.
> Dude, come on. Embedded youtube video that doesn't exist anymore, 2000s-era site -- you really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find that page.

It was an ad on the same google search as that first article.

Look, these products exist. You can live in denial if you'd like.
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In fairness, bad weather is a big challenge for human drivers as well. Largely because we don't realize how much more difficult it is to drive with limited visibility/traction and don't slow down enough.
> You seem to still be confusing the concept of free speech with the legal enshrinement as such.

I don't think so. I focused on the legal side because I thought others were too, but that doesn't mean I'm confused.

The comments in this thread basically said "twitter is infringing on my right to free speech".

I don't believe that's the case, morally or otherwise.

I think if twitter came to my house and held their hand over my mouth, or put up barriers to stop people from coming within earshot of me, or petitioning my ISP to take away my network connection so I can't post my opinions anywhere, then morally that's wrong.

But twitter refusing to let me post on their site? I don't think that's morally wrong at all.

If you publish a newsletter for your family, is it morally wrong to exclude what I want to tell your family from it? What if it's for your school? What if it's for the whole country?

Until twitter (or any non-governmental entity) is bought and owned by the public, it has no moral obligation to give every single person air time who wants it (in my opinion).
It's quite simple to get a mortgage in other countries where banks don't securitize. And if you get into trouble they will work with you rather than immediately foreclose.

Fixed rate mortgages for 30 years are a scam. How can a consumer predict interest rates over 30 years? If they go down they have to spend money on fees to refinance which benefits the Lenders. Adjustable rate mortgages are far better and allow for quick stimulation to consumers when rates are cut.
Check out the language I wrote for that exact use case: http://tkatchev.bitbucket.org/tab/
Unturned: 16-year-old's zombie survival game with 24M downloads
Airbnb testing app that recommends local restaurants and events
And soon Windows VM's will be able to run inside of other Windows VM's so..... VM's all the way down.
You're right. I should have said, "You're not doing anything to help lower the price of housing."
Note that, while there is a common perception among athletes that the middle lanes are advantageous (or at the least, preferable), there is not backed up by any scientific evidence:

http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/1326/in-swimming-i...

Of course, the prestige conferred by the established allocation system should also be considered as a factor explaining preferences as well...
The latest update to VS2015 fixes a lot of the performance issues for C#.
> CPU software rendering seems like a step backwards for performance.

In my real-world benchmarks -- no, CPU rendering for the purely 2D case is vastly more efficient than trying to shoehorn it into OpenGL.
No, but it also doesn't mean it won't react better. Are you presenting an argument here?
Please don't conflate lobbying with bribes. We all have the right to lobby (petition) our government.

Various Supremes expanded the notion that corporations are people, that money equals speech, and so forth. So many ways to rig the game in favor of capital (over democracy).

As an optimist, I predict the plutocrats will demand public financing of campaigns when they realized they're wasting their money. The money chase is an arms race with ever diminishing returns.
Or you could say, nearly everyone else was wrong as a result of him being wrong.
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By the way, you've helped me multiple times in multiple mediums - it appears you're both very active and very productive. It is very appreciated, thank you.

(I'm sure some random strangers thank you doesn't mean much, but it's hard to not notice your work. And i just wanted to make sure i expressed my appreciation.)
As far as I'm aware, none of iBooks, Google Play Books, Kindle Direct Publishing, nor CreateSpace are open source either for that matter.
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> Controlling what others say is, by definition, infringing on free speech.

But they aren't controlling what you say. They just aren't broadcasting it.

You can say hate all you want (within the law). Set up your own web site. Buy a plane and fly a banner over the beach. Go set up in a public place and start talking out loud.

Twitter isn't stopping you from speaking or sharing your ideas. Calling it "infringement" because a commercial entity refuses to broadcast your message is, in my opinion, incorrect.
Oh me too, was fun and surprisingly not difficult. Still remember learning cool tricks from the Hugi demoscene diskmag.
These are truly awesome news. Obviously there is the broken system itself that gets improved (let's not pretend that it will be fixed instantly). But aside from that, showing that politics can actually fix something, which everybody sees is so obviously broken, is really important. That is how politicians can regain trust and bring a society back together. Because what happens when a society has lost trust and is anxious can be watched right now all over Europe and America: populism, hatred and extremism.
Wrong. Appeal to authority (argumentum ad vericundiam) says that: because Ms. X is an expert on Y, this statement she made about Y must be true.

There's no condition requiring the subject matter to be outside her area of expertise, in fact it wouldn't make sense there - since she's not an authority on areas not her expertise, it can't be an appeal to authority in that instance.
I have Office on my Mac.

Plus I really don't use Word/Outlook for home stuff, though sometimes LibreOffice doesn't cut it for spreadsheet stuff.
the 1st amendment of the U.S. Constitution puts very strict limitations on what kind of speech/expression can be limited by legislation.
It's not betting (gambling), it's insurance. Is insurance insane?
Windows did ship with VBScript (and probably does still). You can also install languages via a package manager; an example:

- https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=python
I'm not suggesting a trait hierarchy for numerics, or a numerical tower. I'm purely suggesting putting individual methods or families of related methods into independent traits that each numeric type can implement. For instance:

trait AngleConversion {
fn to_degrees(&self) -> Self;
fn to_radians(&self) -> Self;
}

impl AngleConversion for f32 {
...
}

impl AngleConversion for f64 {
...
}

Operators like + and / already live in traits; why not put methods like these into traits as well, so that users can implement them for their own types (variable-precision floats, decimal floating point, etc)?

(As a side note, can a trait accept an AsRef<Self> in place of &self or self, so that register-sized objects implementing Copy don't need to use &self?)
<3

No, it helps a lot, and I appreciate it. Thanks.
I am really, really glad to hear it. Thank you :)
> They are one of the few who did not offset like you are saying.

Which just goes to show important the offsets actually are in practice.