skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what people continue to say and it was true in the early days 5+ years ago but I'm a skeptic on this point today. Unless you're talking about one of the ultra moderated places like AskHistory you can count on the toxic bullshit constantly seeping in around the edges of just about every discussion. Sometimes it's shut down and voted into oblivion, sometimes the wind is right and your innocuous discussion is suddenly derailed into alt-right land.
Its true that powershell being a new tech probably doesn't have the large library of "known ways" to do things that the UNIX world has. And BTW I'm not even a powershell person. I write embedded software in C++ for a living ! Having said that, I'd imagine you would parameterize something like

Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query "SELECT ..." and write it out to a file?

or avoid it and just use BCP "select blah" queryout "c:\file.jpg" etc etc
Yeah, that looks like part of what I want. I'll have to take a look, thanks.
Hell, it's likely that the US had first strike plans on her allies too.

The world can be an unpredictable place, it's better to plan for the worst but hope for the best.
Cool - will check it out!
You don't seem to understand the definitions of "convicted" and "community".
I honestly don't like this burden of trolling to be placed on the right

What are you talking about? Your quotes demonstrate that both sides do it. Are you suggesting liberals are to blame for trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos?
What do you mean by accountability in this context?
I am pretty neighbors have always been like that, with gossip and shit talking. It just was never in a place where you could see it all at once, and where as before people would only say those things to people in their confidence, now they can say it to everyone anonymously on a forum.
flaws I described in central planning are pretty universal.

Nobody can say any one thing that will apply to all things all the time.
Being a lawyer is like being a hacker.

Some hackers create problems and other hackers (aka security consultants) sell the solutions.

When it comes to lawyers; some laywers create problems by launching legal action and then other lawyers sell the solution by offering defence.

One set of lawyers gets hired by a company to sue another company which, in response, is forced to hire a different, equally large and equally expensive set of lawyers to defend itself.

Then you have a judge who sits in the middle and who has a tendency to be sympathetic towards the lawyers (judges are often former lawyers themselves).

It's not surprising that lawyers get such massive payouts.

I think this case should have been thrown out of court because it is idiotic. The judge just saw an opportunity to allow his lawyer friends make some money - Maybe they will return the favor some day.

The worst part is that the judge and the lawyers probably feel all warm and fuzzy about what they did... The lawyers probably think of themselves as being "The heroes who moved the happy birthday song into the public domain" - Whereas in reality, they are "Hackers who manipulated the legal system to make money for themselves".

Regardless of the outcome of this case, people would still have continued to sing happy birthday - Everybody in the world knows this. The plaintiff didn't have much of a case.
From the article:

> At first glance adjustments totaling trillions may seem impossible. The amounts dwarf the
> Defense Department’s entire budget. Making changes to one account also require making
> changes to multiple levels of sub-accounts, however. That created a domino effect where,
> essentially, falsifications kept falling down the line. In many instances this daisy-chain
> was repeated multiple times for the same accounting item.
Blurring product labels isn't about censorship; it's usually because shows that go to syndication don't want to violate any promotional clauses. Like, if I'm a television station and one of my primary sponsors is Coca Cola, I probably can't (or at least shouldn't) buy a show that shows a person conspicuously drinking a Pepsi.
I think it's hard to say that Trolls are ruining the internet. They have been a part of the internet since the first BBS.

Sensitivity to them is what's causing this current push back (and emboldening them). I'm not defending them as some of them go way out of line, but I feel like language policing is a large step in the wrong direction.
So many smart devices these days.

I assume there is little to no security on these things. So keeping all the smart devices on a separate home network would probably be a good idea.
It took me a long time to understand that "oink" is a sound that a pig makes, and it's not related in any way to the sound that Tigger makes when jumping around on his tail.

And "ewww" (expression of disgust) in Cantonese sounds _very_ different... (I'm not an expert in "ewww" but the Cantonese version is the best I've heard :-) )
Report: Battery concerns will keep LTE out of the next Apple Watch
No Man's Sky Proves Games Don't Have to Be About Winning
That probably depends on your neighbors (in particular, the ones that are active on Nextdoor). My neighborhood's space is fairly pleasant. While there are occasional busybodies ("I just noticed some kids walking down the street—should I call the police?"), everyone is respectful and cordial.
And they took out all the genes that would prevent an easy fall-back to working without this amino acid ? As well as the code/DNA required to steal genes from other bacteria ?
Another word that had an intelligent meaning and now just means "bad behavior or something ...".

Unfortunately pg was one of the first who started this when throwing the t-word at arc critics. Really sad.
True, I've added it as the article somewhat started with that, then continued to rant on the "alt-right" only. I got the impression that it's not balanced at all.
The answer to your second question, unfortunately, is a combination of "We're scared", "We're number one!" and "Who cares?"
A language allowing high performance code doesn't mean it automatically guarantees high performance code. The latter is essentially impossible.

One common pitfall is not turning the optimiser on (with --release for cargo) i.e. benchmarking a debug build rather than a release one, and from a quick glance this code looks like it may be doing a system call to read each and every byte of the file due to the use of .bytes() on an unbuffered file, whereas it would be better to use, say, read_to_end to read many bytes of the file at once.
> I still can't get over the term "data science", though. Not only is it ridiculously meaningless - what sort of science doesn't involve data, and how often would data be useful to something that isn't scientific at some level

All (empirical) science involves data, but not all of the work of science is the domain-neutral skill of analyzing data. I think "data science" is a bit of a misnomer -- or at least, uses an older and less specific definition of "science" than is now typical -- ("Data in science" would be more accurate under the narrower definition of science, and "Data analytics" probably more direct and clear), but its not *that bad (its no worse than, e.g., "computer science".)
1. Nobody

2. Because it allows us to project force globally which is what actually allows us to be the one true global super power.
Dropbox’s CFO is departing for health reasons, with a key deputy taking over
Back when internet was really slow here in Spain I used to send CD's and DVD's filled with music, comics, films,etc to an internet friend I had from Greece(can't remember now how we met, maybe soulseek?), and he'd send me back his own curation of contents. This article reminded me a bit of those times. Too bad we are not in contact, we could have a laugh about it :)
This is a great article in a lot of ways, but tells lies by omission about Andrew Aurenheimer (who is, by the way, a neo-nazi asshole).

> He served just over a year in prison for identity fraud and conspiracy.

This refers to his sentence for revealing AT&T's ridiculously lax security practices to a journalist. This sentence was overturned.

Using this as some sort of anecdote to illustrate weev's untrustworthiness without mentioning what it was for, or that it was overturned is the epitome of lazy and dishonest reporting.
Agreed, while HN does attract more intelligent discussions, there needs to be more ruling with an iron fist. Warning the first time, ban the second.
I think that's the idea behind some people's wanting European nations to foot more of their own Nato monies... Asking Japan et al. to rely less on the U.S.... etc.
> $90,000 starting salary for a javascript bootcamp grad

That is not a realistic expectation in Seattle.
> These company sponsored trolls are like poison for the great HN community.

Care to explain?
Military plans such as these are rarely intended to be acted upon. They're plans from a strategic perspective. A question is posed: What if we executed a first strike? Related questions come up: When should we do it, what would be the retaliation, what would be the economic impact, etc. These get put together into a report, and it's set aside.

Military plans are not statements of intent on their own.
Facebook and Unity teaming up to create desktop gaming platform
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320681 and marked it off-topic.
>And on a related note, "better than humans", "comparable to human intelligence", and phrases like these since the early days of AI have always been a red herring

Well, I agree that it is not definitive, but it definitely gives us some insight on where AI techniques are, comparing with the 'average human'. Now I know even the term average human doesn't have a strict definition, but the scale of intelligence[0] is so vast compared to the dumbest and smartest human, all that we need to know from that is if the technology is better than humans or not. If it is not, then I'll not care much, but if it is, then you've got my attention.

>Let's say that was software that ran on post-VLSI hardware (1+ million transistors). Now, we have deep learning deployed on multiple GPUs each with a 15+ billion transistor count.

I think the problem lies with how we emulate intelligence. Will you be able to emulate me perfectly if you had not billions, but trillions of transistors? I'm assuming the answer is no, because, although we have all the power that the human brain (abstracting the neurons and other 'mechanical parts') has, we cannot simulate even a child's intelligence (now here I'm referring the ability to learn new things and communication, etc other abstract things etc, not computational ability). We need to know the technique just like we know have deep learning and are able to analyze pictures near-perfectly.

>True AI is starting to look philosophically like a mirage

Well, of course definitions vary. I think most people's (including mine) definition is that 'AI' (AGI, if you want to remove ambiguity) is surpassing human intelligence in the optimization area, like large scale optimizations like designing a spaceship, or curing cancer using techniques unknown to us right now.

I remember reading that and considering his view very interesting. With our (normal) perspective we don't really see AI like people see it centuries ago.

[0]: http://kruel.co/scale_of_intelligence.png - I apologize for the poor quality picture; it was a quick google image search
This is an odd bit of false equivalence. Santorum got what he had coming, because he's a galactic-scale asshole. Making up a funny joke about an ignorant reactionary seeking to impose theocracy in America makes perfect sense when that person has been elevated to a position of rare power.

On the other hand making up a name for people who fail to hate women doesn't have quite the same logic.
Most of the commands have PS "native" aliases which also follow a more consistent pattern, e.g., get-childitem->gci, invoke-webrequest->iwr.
Yes, people do want pre-computed word embeddings
> Are you suggesting liberals are to blame for trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos?

There are liberals and there are liberals, this is what I believe: http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-4/Newt...
There were knuckleheads on both sides who thought they could get away with a first strike. During the Russian-Georgian war, the Bush administration actually toyed with the idea of striking Russia. Bush was given the option, but he declined.

Edit: The option was not nuclear, though.
We had this going at UBC as well. Since it was all internal LAN traffic, it didn't count against the 7 GB / day upload / download quota which was really tight if you like HD content.
Both presidential candidates have called for increasing defense spending amid current global tension.

FFS, I despite this kind of lazy reporting. Hello, there are not two candidates for President!!! So the phrase "both presidential candidates" is meaningless. I suppose you mean Gary Johnson and Jill Stein right?
Hey Nikhil, I am interested in what you are using drones for in agriuculture. I was using drones about 2 years ago for farming and helping farmers optimize different things and am curious how far it's come since then.

Back then, we were just beginning to see the possibilities. Of course we'd do drainage mapping, NDVI maps (as a yield-correlate), we found success mapping field trials and monitoring field trials.

There were alot of possiblities we could've gotten into, but we found it hard to totally commercialize. For example, trying to map chlorophyll content, or water content. Water content was an easier sell, but I got the feeling that drone-assisted precision agriculture was very much still in its infancy at that point, more hype than substance. I am wondering what you think now? What are you actually using your drones for, commercially, but with specific regards to the actual agriculture decision-making.

Thanks eh.
I finally understand what the IoT is! :)
> Much of computer science is a science.

AFAICT, its mostly a subdomain of math, not science in the empirical sense.
Most managers, especially in Europe don't get it. They need to see you that:

- you are working at least 9-3 (or pretending it)

- you are talking to your colleague in the kitchen (in manager terminology: knowledge sharing, my favorite one)

- you are present at unproductive meetings

- you are hitting you keyboard

- you have opened excel sheet, sharepoint, and other required tools major of working time.

I spent almost 6 years in corporate open office plans. Last year was working from home. Now, I am not able to go back to the standard 8 hours open office.
Reminds me of my college days. I studied at a college in India that was located in the mountains (in Sikkim). While there was decent Internet for all academic work, access for fun stuff was very limited. So our solution was to download as much stuff (games, movies, series, books, etc.) as we could during vacations at home, bring them back and share them on a organically grown LAN. The downloads were sometimes pre-planned: one person downloads this and the other person downloads that.

The take is that people always find a way to access stuff from the Internet.
in math, yes

in computers, yes and no.

read: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-...
Cubans would benefit from infrastructure in Cuba.
Ask HN: Should all devops know how to fizzbuzz
I believe fizzbuzz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz#Programming_interviews) should be dead simple to anyone who claims proficiency in coding or "scripting." Should it be a deal-breaker if a devops candidate struggles?

By devops I'm talking about someone who does things like automation (chef or puppet), cloud administration (AWS), configuring software (db, webserver), and troubleshooting some networking issues.
Not sure about VR, but AR/MR will be huge.
And yet most of the time I see bash being used for the same kind of automation that you think is good for perl/python.

And not because bash is good, but because it is what people know (since they use it interactively) and because it is installed everywhere.

So if someone had a tool that was installed everywhere, and used interactively, that could also be used to create more robust automation tasks, that seems like a win to me.
> I've never heard of software companies paying you more because you stayed late.

I don't think they do directly; but, there are a lot of bad managers out there to value hard work and firefighting above all else. So it's very common to see the distribution of rewards slanting heavily towards the "24/7 available people."
Thanks for your input, this is a really interesting parallel. Although, you didn't have to worry about censorship and a repressive government in Canada, you're probably right that it will disappear.

Do you remember what kinds of software was available at the bookstore? Was it only media like games/simulations/etc or did they have business/productivity software and operating systems?
This effort was made possible by the earlier work by Isaacs and Church groups on reclaiming the UAG stop codon by removing all instances of it genome wide [1]. Today the Church group published a followup on progress on removing six more codons [2]. If they can finish this, they should be able to make an organism dependent on not one but 4 different synthetic amino acids. Yes, life might evolve away from needing one, but with proper design all four would make an organism that would be exceedingly unlikely to escape.

[1]. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/357

[2]. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6301/819

EDIT COI: I am a former member of the Church lab.
You're missing the point. I could do all of that in a similar (or likely smaller) number of lines with bash compared to the ruby tool, only mine would be much faster and wouldn't depend on the enormous ruby runtime.
Do you think it's right that the good standing users, have to go out of their way to find alternative routes to use the product? Start at the source, and clean up the problem. All you're doing is letting the trash take over, and the current system encourages it.

The Meetup scenario is depressing. Thankfully the one Tech Meetup I attend every so often is positive.
I'm not confused. The article states that they had 2.8T in adjustments on a ~500B budget. That is totally insane. That the aggregate averages of all those adjustments are 500% of each and every adjustment is inconceivable. Even the most incompetent organizations are not off by that kind of percentage over ALL of their adjustments.
Many smart people have made studies about online communities since the Internet became mainstream. It's just that publishers, and maybe developers especially, don't understand or value these types of problems.
Assuming 2 is true, shouldn't Americans then be more concerned with spending those hundreds of billions of dollars a year more efficiently, so USA's power could be 2x, 4x (just by cutting the waste/corruption alone), or even 10x bigger (by using the money buy smarter/more effective technology than say...more tanks, or F-35's)?!

People who keep supporting more military spending aren't patriots. Quite the opposite. Those that want their army to run well and effectively are the true patriots.
Oh boy we did!

https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Soviet-San-...

Why do you think during the Cold War we made these nice high-detail maps of US cities? To promote Soviet-American tourism?

Wired article on these: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/
The logic may well be the same. The moral axioms on which that logic applies obviously differs between the people who support one and oppose the other and those who either see them as equivalent or who have the reverse support/oppose position.
Even if printing and parsing is computationally cheap, memory allocation is less so.

If you expose JSON, each serialize/deserialize will produce another instances of objects, with the same data.

The architecture of PowerShell implies commands in the pipeline can process the same instances, without duplicating them.

Another good thing about passing raw objects instead of JSON — live objects can contain stuff expensive or impossible to serialize.
Like an OS handle to an open file.
Sure, with JSON you can pass file names instead, but this means commands in your pipeline need to open/close those files.
Not only this is slower (opening a file requires kernel call, which in turn does various security checks for user’s group membership and file system’s inherited permissions), but can even cause sharing violations errors when two commands in the pipeline try accessing the same file.
Yeah, the way it works is that the court implements and enforces the agreement between the parties, using those fun legal powers -- that's why the judge had to approve the agreement. So a more accurate statement would have been "Warner agreed to have it placed in the public domain".

Again, "apparently false registration" is something that the agreement carefully avoids making a determination on. There's a bunch of "this is not an admission of guilt" language in there, which is how settlements normally work.
Absolutely.

The difference between default and not is 4 million users... It doesn't matter how good the mod team: its just not tenable with the hordes.

Anyways, I have ecletic interests, where the communities are small and well behaved. The worst I see is a spammer or 2. And they are reported and deleted rather quickly.
Those are just different faces of the same coin.
That actually makes a lot of sense. There's not a particularly good reason for OEMs to make specifically Cuban machines without Ethernet ports or WiFi adapters.
I've long thought that an internal deployment of Quora would be great for this. Too bad they don't sell that.
It's how the empire sustains itself, until it's no longer able to sustain itself.

Let's hope the transition to another empire does not happen by force.
Yes, obviously it's everyone else that's at fault, not the vocal toxic minority.
I mean everything is getting more expensive because wages are not outpacing inflation, all while we're heading towards negative interest rates.
How do you ensure that they're answering it honestly, though? Or, less maliciously, that they're answering it with something in line with what you'd think is a decent work life balance?
It would probably be better to focus on the number of adjustments that were made rather than the dollar tally (the number of adjustments will give some sense of the scope of the problem without counting the same dollars over and over again).
There's a lot I don't agree with Aitel about and we do not generally think alike. However, a pretty useful rule of thumb for me has been, unless I have strong evidence to the contrary, if Aitel says something about zero-days, and particular about how they're used by governments, what he says is probably the way you should bet.
It looks like the things that are increasing the most in cost have government programs to give people money to pay for them. Maybe that's the problem! The free market has made TVs and even cars cheaper and better than ever.
As the CEO of Atlassian, I'm obviously biased, but you should really check out Confluence. With 10s of thousands of companies using it for this exact purpose we have deep experience solving this type of problem.

Confluence provides templates for things like retros. It allows embedding of files, videos. Concurrent editing currently being rolled out.

Big thing with collaboration is ensuring things are public by default, which is not the case with Google docs and others.

You need it to be WYSIWYG for non-technical people to use, which rules out GitHub Wiki and others of that ilk.

Happy to answer any other questions about usage if you try it out.

Scott