skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12312791 and marked it off-topic.
I'm absolutely useless if given excessive amounts of freedom. So there's that.
Good, if this is something that the UK will take notice of. We picked up this practice from the US some time ago and the performance has always been controversial.
I've always thought it should be possible using a short video of the camera orbiting the page from different angles. (Assuming a static scene of course.)
> Well how do you know that Facebook and Google doesn't have what you made? Companies keep things secret until they properly develop it maybe these companies are already up to it.

Because it is detectable. Although I admit that although I cannot find prior art, it could be out there.
On a related note, why doesn't steam install into android?
It seems to me like there are hundreds of dozens of android games on steam(literal ports from android to PC/MAC) but there is no way for the player to install the android version on their phones, unless if they also buy from Playstore the games they already have on Steam.
Nice! :)

I write a lot of my stuff in guile when it's more formalized, but scsh's run syntax is just the bees knees. Can't get rid of it.
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Margaret Hamilton, whose team built it & co-invented software engineering, described the process they used to build that in "Apollo Beginnings:"

http://htius.com/Articles/r12ham.pdf

It had little to do with assembly language. They did what most don't by trying to understand root cause of every issue they encountered in software development. Then, they modified their tooling and methodology to systematically eliminate it. They also designed a multi-process, fail-safe OS whose properties are similar to Erlang. They also invented a form of Design-by-Contract to catch errors at interfaces, which are majority.

By the time assembly was ready, they had done an amazing amount of specification, analysis, and testing on both individual functions and groups of them. They also had fail-safe and recovery built-in to everything to anticipate inevitable failures, which did show up. There were also 400, highly-motivated individuals working at it for a good chunk of time. The result was this pile of software [1] got people to the moon safely despite multiple failures outside of it. Quite amazing but says almost nothing about safety assembly in regular development.

[1] https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Margaret_Ha...
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Thanks :)

This reminded me of the Spectacular Time by Larry Law
Piggybacking on this thread, I wonder if there's a robust PowerShell profiler out there.
But that's pretty much exactly what HOAS is avoiding ;)
>and I'll bet that "open source" doesn't mean to MS what it means to the open source world

The github repo use the MIT licence, so I don't see what you're talking about.

If you want it in your distribution repos, ask your distribution maintainers (and I bet Microsoft is going to do so anyway for the big ones)
Hey, don't forget cut and xargs!
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Yes, having read "The Theory That Would Not Die" [0] I too soon came to the conclusion that this seems to be what is behind the Wisdom of Crowds.

Aircraft searches are a big thing, and there's a book on how it has been applied to MH370...

[0] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die-ebook/dp/...
There is an extremely long lag time between research, development, product, and having that reflect in the financial numbers. I'd say it's on the scale of 6 or 8 years. So whatever dire straights or whatever recovery that you see now, was in the works since the early 2010's.

Whatever is happening in the company now is what you will be seeing in 2021 or 2023. Whether they will make it depends on how well the managing team handles that long lead time - for their leaders to give the engineers and product people as much time as possible to keep the company alive until each product comes into being.
I'm a software developer working 20 hours per week as a contractor. I'm also living in Thailand. So in my case, my wages have gone up, and life has gotten much cheaper.

And I'm still tempted to go back to working 40 or 60 hour weeks. There's always... more. I could be saving up to buy a new car, virtual reality gear and a new PC, or investment properties. I could go on longer and more expensive vacations between jobs.

But for now, I've decided that I value my free time more than money.
Huh, they finally nuked the convicted ISIS preacher's account.[1][2]

Took long enough - that account's been spewing hate since at least last April. It's almost like their priorities are backwards...

[1]: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/anjem-choudary-ve...

[2]: https://twitter.com/anjemchoudary?lang=en
I take a super utilitarian view. At the end of the day, PowerShell on Linux is another tool in the toolchest.

PowerShell has a POV about abstracting gorp into high level task oriented abstractions, object pipelines, structured data, and the workflow from interactive shells to ad hoc scripts to formal scripts to production scripting.

That is what a number of people are looking for in their tools and that is why they like PowerShell.

We are constantly looking for ways to improve PowerShell and make it more useful so I'd encourage you to suspend disbelieve long enough to kick the tires. If you see some stuff you don't like, I would be very interested in hearing the details. You don't need to be polite in your feedback but I'd ask you to be specific so that I can identify potential changes.

If you are happy with your existing tools - happy days!

Thanks!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
I think the comment is referring to the fact that one can write CDS on top of an underlying instrument. So, if I have $100 million in MBS, other parties, or even myself, can write CDS contracts that reference my $100 million MBS.

What I have just done is to create more exposure than the underlying MBS. The MBS is still only $100 million, but the total outstanding contracts on the pool (MBS + CDS) is now much larger.

What you are talking about is related to offsetting contracts, which is different.

AIG was left holding the bag for most of these. They are one of the few who did not offset like you are saying.
I guess? I don't think that's why private prisons are wrong, though. Private prisons have an incentive to keep you incarcerated as long as possible, because that's how they make money. The government, on the other hand, has little incentive to keep you in prison; they'd rather you get back into society so you can start paying taxes again.
That doesn't sound hard at all. AWK, anyone?
Apple have an image to maintain. They don't want old people using iphones for web browsing.
> 500k 800 sq ft bungalows

For what it's worth, this describes a significant portion of the single-family housing stock in Seattle.
This article is from 2009, and the judge is currently serving a nearly 3-decade sentence for his numerous crimes.
Uh, okay?
This is a ridiculous question, but could quantum mechanical uncertainty be interpreted as a rounding error?

Say the universe only stores a certain number of bits of information for each particle...
Thanks kevinstubbs!
Agree 100%. A small step in the right direction. Our criminal justice system needs serious overhauls on SO many levels. Unfortunately, it is not only the fault of law enforcement, politicians, and judges. They are simply representing the will of the people. The heart of American citizens need to change. We live in such an unforgiving society. Despite what anyone says, America and Americans don't believe in 2nd chances. Anyone that survives our legal system and incarceration will NEVER have a true 2nd chance because we as Americans cannot and will not collectively forgive. I blame the media to be honest for perpetuating fear in the hearts of the masses. We live in a sad country filled with sad, fearful, unforgiving people. Maybe a blanket statement, but one that I believe to be true.
Uhm, first of all, I don't have anything in particular against fighting piracy, at least not commercial piracy.

Unfortunately, the US has used the domain name system to fight piracy without due process in other countries rather than acting within their own jurisdiction and closing illegal servers within their own jurisdiction. That's an (a) abuse of the domain name system, which is (b) technically inefficient -- just use an alternative root server --, and (c) hitting the wrong people such as people who merely put links on their web server rather than those who actually infringe copyright.

Because of this documented and patently stupid abuse of the DNS system the US ought not control the root servers, not because of US laws or anything else related to piracy. I couldn't give a shit about piracy, but I do give a shit when some server that is perfectly legal in Spain suddenly becomes inaccessible and replaced by an FBI logo, just because some technically inept dumbass judge in East Texas thinks so.

Whether other countries would do better than the US is debatable. I'm glad you like the laws of the US so much, but have a hard time sharing your opinion about them and can think of various more worthy candidate countries for the label "best laws".
Solution: pay drivers a bonus for the number of 'accidents avoided', or the amount of times they need to grab the wheel after the car sounds the 'take-the-wheel' ping. Drivers will be incentivized to pick-up passengers in more complex areas, which then improves the data and the car learns how to drive better in complex area.
...and one that would have released a cover of Humble Pie's "30 Days in the Hole", at that.
Very nice nixie tubes, now if only he made DHT tubes for my amps with bases like that...
I would like both of those things, but I would also like to stay living in a country that is not the US, while being employed by a US company. If, instead of remote work, they had a branch-office in my city, that'd be just as well.
Indeed, text messaging is still a thing. And Twitter, which shortened that a bit to 140 chars (versus the typical SMS limit for English speakers) is very popular.
Is there anything preventing Microsoft from putting a Linux shell natively on Windows? I'm sure PowerShell is awesome, but the DevOps person in me is not excited at all.
Pretty sure the section in the `ps` man page called OBSOLETE SORT KEYS indicates that even the `ps` on very old redhat machines could do this out of box... see the field `start_time`.

Failing that, consider the `etimes` field (seconds since process was started) used in conjunction with the -o feature (control output format) so you can put `etimes` up front then simple pipe the output to `sort`.

Those things being said, the situation you describe is indeed hairy. `ps` output was designed for human consumption, that's why the process age field format varies (1w vs 10:15) and that's presumably why you wanted to bring python into the mix!

...You might have had an easier time looking in /proc...

Indeed, this looks promising:

cat /proc/[0-9]*/stat|sort -n|less -S

EDIT: hm, I don't know how old /proc is!

EDIT #2: But try doing ANY of this on an ancient Windows machine! The "peer" of your old Redhat machine would be what, a Win2k3 machine, or a Win2k? How old is PowerShell? :)
Now if we can only bring down the scourge know as for-profit schools!
It worked beautiful on my Intel HD 4000, though setting the "quality" to 1 or 0.5 did slow things down quite a bit.
You're not entirely wrong, but not for the reasons you think :) I hope this post raises the profile of the book a but, but I'm much, much more interested in getting the book into the hands of more people, than in selling more copies. In other words, I want more readers, not more customers.

I can't just post a link to the book because of Amazon's terms, but as I offered at the bottom of the post, I'm giving free copies to anyone who sends me an email.
Interesting. Seems to be non-deterministic. Each time the ball falls to a different side.
The market is performance-driven because it is task-driven. Performance as a requirement, in other words, is a byproduct of the mission. If your task requires software that someone else holds the keys to, you have no choice but to mold the rest of your environment to fit that software.

Thankfully this sort of situation is becoming less common over time, but we're not all the way done yet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12312803
I imagine it could be a myriad of things: legal reasons having to do with uploading an Android game to the Play store as well as another marketplace, Valve not wanting to fragment their product/software, Valve not wanting to have to support an entirely new OS, etc.
I have a github pages blog, but I seem to find it psychologically easier to write directly into a browser window.
I mean if you believe they will continue to exist and make a profit, it makes financial sense to invest in them.
ICANN, despite its imperfection, is infinitely better than having control of the DNS by the UN or the ITU who are exceptionally self-serving and controlled by corporate interests.

Thought of course I'd have preferred it stay with DoC under its benevolent and almost entirely hands-off stewardship.
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Python and ruby for the big stuff, bash and the Holy Trinity (sed, grep, and find) for the small stuff. AWK for anything in between.
Pretty much everyone is saying that interest rates are going up in the US and are going to go up soon. Alan Greenspan just came out today saying people are going to be surprised how quickly they go up.
They want ICANN to revoke domains they don't like.
> but hedge funds are measured absolutely (profit is good, loss is bad) and get paid peanuts if they don't make a profit.

I wouldn't call a guaranteed 2% shave every year 'peanuts'. That's more than any index fund would ever imagine charging.
The claim of the article is more that current government policy has not correctly priced in the externalities caused by most mortgage funds ultimately being available through bonds rather than through bank deposits. "The public would have to foot the bill, of around $400 billion, making explicit the contingent liability for future losses that it already bears. The cost of mortgages, at a record low today, would also rise. But that would eliminate the ongoing hidden subsidy and create a level playing field so that private firms were able to do more mortgage lending. If that bill was too big to swallow, a second-best would be to impose the new rules on new mortgages, leaving the stock of subsidised existing loans to run down over the coming decades." Thanks, by the way, for linking to the Bloomberg article, about a different issue, but a good source in general for comments about economic policy.
*gulp* I've heard people say that, but I haven't delved into them!! :-S
Don't worry, eventually the monopolists will figure out how to make you pay up or suffer, as well.
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CCA is spending about a million dollars on lobbying per year lately. That's down from a few years back when they were at 2-4M. If you're up for it, you can dig around and try to figure out what/who they're buying here: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021940...
I thought it would be useful to post a link to a list of all the private prisons in the United States, but I can't seem to find one online anywhere. Is anyone aware of such a list?
Aren't we reading, in part, for recall of insights (during conversations, brainstorming, or otherwise)?

If we take notes, our eyes are away from the text itself, practicing a simple exercise in recall. In a sense, you are "chunking" the concept.

In addition, the commonplace book become your second brain, an accumulation of cues that will trigger the chunks. A semi-permanent digital repository of knowledge that you can tap into on need-basis.

Whizzing through a book without necessary stops for chunking seems to put to question why we read in the first place.
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Justice Department planning to end use of private prisons
> The undefined behavior is there primarily to account for the variation in platforms. Higher-level languages avoid this by hiding it in a platform-specific compiler or VM, which in turn limits the number of platforms the code can actually be run on.

It may have started this way in the committee (though that isn't true for e.g. type based alias rules), but nowadays it's depended on for performance. You lose a lot of ability to reason about loop trip count if signed overflow is defined, for example.

> Citation needed. I get that undefined behavior is hard to spot, but having spent years writing cross-platform C I cannot accept that every large program depends on it without some evidence.

The probability that a program depends on any of (nonexhaustive list) (a) inspecting the value of a dangling pointer; (b) taking the offset from NULL; (c) type-punning through a union; (d) type-punning through any type other than char; (e) signed overflow; (f) order of operations between sequence points quickly approaches 1.

Here's a very interesting survey investigating this: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes50-survey-disc...
Not a great example since that's a jail (for short terms stays awaiting trial) not a prison (for long term stays to serve the sentence)
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I do not see myself moving away from steam anytime soon.
Its easy and works.
Oh yes, ashinn's irregex is so good, I just include it in my home directory.
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I greatly respect the Go community for subscribing to the language and ecosystem's opinionatedness, and resisting attempts to relax these rules and conventions. It's not for everyone, I know, but that's the banner they champion, and it works for them.

But, I can't support the attitude voiced in this blog post, that uses the technical realities of Go's broken out-of-the-box package management to justify a culture of NIH [1][2]. This is warped logic.

Are outside dependencies a liability? Yes! You weigh your risks before you rely on someone else's code. Does Go provide sub-par support for reproducible builds and dependency management out-of-the-box? Yes! But others in the community [3][4] have stepped up to bring Go packaging up to the standards that other languages' developers have come to expect.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NotInventedHere
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/18tNd8r5DV0yluCR7tPvkMTsW...
[4] https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
You already have two wonderful smart drugs at your disposal, they are called "walk" and "rest".

Walk rises blood level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, growing neurons and synapses. Rest allows other important parts of brain to be heard, making you sharp and creative.

Walking can help you with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer [1]. Show me "smart drug" that can do that.

[1] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/279085.php
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp ?
It's a view about why people get education, not what education's potential is. If I felt I had the luxury to go to college and spend 4 years and thousands of dollars broadening my horizons, I know what I would study, what classes I would take, what professors I would talk to. But I don't feel that secure and so I am doing something completely different.

I enjoy learning, I really do. I spend my freetime reading texts about what I love and talking to other more educated people who've studied it. It's not why I went to college, and not why people told me to go to college ever since I was old enough to understand arguments about my future life prospects and career and etc. It's not why my aunt who's been a nanny for 20 years is going to com-college, It's not why my mom is becoming a CPA, it's not why my dad went to engineering school, etc.
Interesting paper. I do like that it addresses that many prison wins could be had through prosecutorial reforms. While the War on Drugs may have little secondary effect, it was in the same timeframe as "tough on crime" rhetoric as a whole, and with it came prosecutorial aggressiveness.

Also the decline of the middle class began around this time period as well...

The paper also notes how incredibly difficult prosecutorial reforms would be to come by, which seems both true and depressing.
Cook County lockup is a jail, and prison is not jail.
I'm no graphics programmer but I was under the impression path-tracing is a subset of ray tracing that came out of this paper: http://artis.inrialpes.fr/Enseignement/TRSA/CookDistributed8...

Is this not correct?
You may be surprised to learn that investment vehicles act like normal goods, too. They respond directly to supply and demand.
As much as I hate gawker.com, I hate the way they were destroyed even more.
FTA: "Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope."

So the options are 1) decline to renew the contract, 2) renew the contract or 3) reduce the scope of the contract...when the contract is up for renewal, within the next 5 years?

So, what's the incentive for any federal official to select Option 1...or, barring explicit resources to make up the difference, Option 3 for that matter?

This is a "feel good" move. I predict little, if anything, will be changed as a result of this in 5 years' time.
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If we follow that argument out wouldn't that mean that you would have the right to control what anyone said or wore in public? If I'm wearing a purple shirt in the park and you go to the park you don't have the right to stop me from wearing my purple shirt just because it annoys you.

Btw, since comment sections make it hard for the reader to discern tone I'm simply trying to explore this argument, please don't take offense to the continued questioning.
You can do this on any e-mail client by just using "offline mode".

Now, I don't like the concept. It opens the possibilities to a world of excuses and lack of accountability.
After thinking about it over the years, I don't think social media is as influential as people think. Look at the UK's past election and referendum to see. A bubble of opinion with a huge disconnect from reality.

All I will say is: stay away from these sorts of services if you value your mental health.
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Not a ton different than military contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or General Dynamics. They actively root for war so they can make money.
Hearthstone? One of the most played Blizzard game, 50 million players
Rust conversion of Pinterest C program results in roughly 2x speedup