skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the need to validate games as art coming from? I don't hear Kasparow insisting chess is art (at least continuously). Since we lack a conclusicve definition of art I can't for the life of me fathom why it would be important to get this label.

There is stuff people do on the higher steps of Maslow's hierarchy of needs (i.e. spending time on other things than survival). Some of it is about creative self actualization and self improvement, other stuff is just about enjoying one self.

The best non-survival stuff improves the individual and provides epiphanies. The worst kind creates repetitive non-value adding habits which people are compelled to do.

Video games are a medium which provide both. Modern video games are packed with industrial art and design. Some provide a playground for creativity. Others provide incredible unforgettable scenes. And others are just slot machines. Is a slot machine art? What's the Venn diagram of the sets 'art' and slot machines like? Which one is truthier statement - "All video games are art" or "some video games are art".

I have no answers. All I know is that claiming "video games are/are not art" is silly. Maybe it's about being jealous of the fame and meager stipends artists get. Or creating a defence againsr nasty relatives who conside video games a waste of time?
Those 15 minutes are 5 songs you could have listened to if your headphones did not need charging.
> post-Soviet military establishments were more willing to sell surplus aircraft to private buyers

Completely agree. Some people in Russia in 1990-s were pretty inventive.

Another reason could be the number of MiG-25 produced.
People working on Excel at Microsoft don't even know of him, like never heard of his name before? That can't be possible can it?
A former employer, that I will decline to mention by name, stored a hash of the password AND the plaintext in the database so it could be sent to people via email when they forgot it.

I tried to explain to my boss why this was such a terrible idea and he was not hearing any of it.
That was my first thought as well.
I agree, with two specific exclusions: notations for IP addresses in square brackets, and comments. Just removing those two never-encountered-in-real-life syntaxes reduces the RFC regex down to nothing. Comments are not a real thing, RFC be damned. And square bracketed IP addresses are never encountered in the real world, especially with the requirements for PTR records to pass all the major providers' spam filters.

Anyone trying to provide an email address with a square bracketed IP or a comment is specifically trying to find an excuse to cause drama when their email is rejected. Those exceptions aside, fuck anyone who validates email addresses that don't permit perfectly valid real-world characters like '+', or who whitelist specific TLDs (.com, .org, .net et al).
Is that really true though? As far as I know ESRI is still alive and doing quite well.
> PCRE, which is what most programmers are talking about

I wish that were the case. http://www.regular-expressions.info/refunicode.html

(They used to have a much more useful and concise comparison table but I can't for the life of me find it.)
Though ELB SNI is nowhere to be seen :(
Diesel generators?
AFAIK ss was not meant to be a complete replacement of netstat. The ss utility (part of iproute2) uses netlink to monitor sockets only. The netstat utility (part of net-tools) uses old school ioctls to do things like manage routing tables, multicast membership, interface stats...long story short, iproute2 replaces net-tools.
F-104 doesn't look particularly similar to MiG-25. Things like take-off weight, maximum speed... At least Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter doesn't list MiG-25 as comparable to F-104.
Today I sold my $278,987 worth of Apple Stock
But then some companies won't play ball with their own storage services e.g. iCloud.
Anyone else feel that ending the first section with the well-known "science progresses one funeral at a time" quote is rather too sharply pointed, given Chomsky's age?
There's a web version of Keynote, though.
I guess my question is ...what exactly makes Tor any different than a bulletproof hosting provider? They could not care less about the abusive traffic they route, and when you confront them on dealing with that abusive traffic they just turn around and say "nothing we can do, it's anonymous by design." No wonder they are blocked all over the place -- they want the best of both worlds: anonymity without any of the consequences of dealing with the abuses of their platform. Doesn't work that way guys.

Clean up your network or you get what you deserve -- which is to be blocked, or forced to prove you're not malicious. Cry me a river if you need to jump through some hoops ...it's the price that hipster should pay so that he can use Tor just to feel cool while he's at a coffee shop in SF. The hipsters who complain on Twitter are not the actual journalists or activists who should be using Tor.
I do this too. Unfortunately some spammers decided that they'd use <random>@<mydomain>.com as their reply address and I have to filter out all of their bounces.
My problem with this is vendor lock-in. What if I want to seamlessly move from an iPad to an Android phone to a Windows PC?

But that's my problem, not Apple's.
Are you sure? I thought that was going with the Enterprise Services spin off merger.
Care to expand? As in having a first.last@example versus firstlast@example
Have you tried bringing in with PowerQuery instead? Much more flexible.
What are Apple AirPods and why are they important?
The $10,000 golden Apple Watch is no more
obviously you missed the part where cloudfare uses google recaptcha.
That sucks, but hey, at least you get compensated for it. I think in some states they even have to pay you for a certain amount of time at minimum even if you only work for 10 minutes.
I play a lot of Ingress and Pokemon Go with an external battery. Due to the movement and flexing while walking around, the cable destroys itself.
It's true. They didn't help 1 person. They didn't help 24k people.
Thanks, I was too lazy to look it up while trying to remember Algernon Sidney's name!
YC Continuity now participates in every following round, up to something like a $350m valuation. So they follow on for everyone, to eliminate signaling.
I finally understand what ASMR is.
That's what I was thinking of, too. If any one wants the direct link to the arXiv paper, it's here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938 . One of the authors is Carlos Guestrin, one of the co-founders of Dato/Turi/Graphlabs that was recently acquired by Apple, fwiw.
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Thats a perfect description of what artistic genre it is.
Video games are creating their own virtual worlds, where the world itself a piece of interactive art viewed from various player perspectives(the roles they take).
"Getting lost in" is actually expirience of immersion(the gameplay flow) and belonging(with social circles/engagement with virtual characters and other players). Good games are meta-narratives which engage players as pieces of the world(background) completing the narratives(as the protagonist of quests/events).
Like a grand painting where the main character is you and your virtual "social circle".
Now if only they fixed the forwarding of HSTS Headers over S3: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162252
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Gobsmacked to find this on HN. Thank you. It is worth noting that the critics had little interest at all in Queen during the band's heyday. They loved Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello. Queen, Klaatu, Kansas, Styx, Led Zeppelin, Yes? Not so much. The attitude toward Freddie changed when Freddie was sanctified by virtue his death.

One of the stories that impressed me most was Freddie's innate solidity as a musician. He did the piano parts and many vocal parts in "Bohemian Rhapsody" at night--before the drum part was recorded. So Roger Taylor (who also sang the highest parts in that and other Queen songs) ended up using Freddie's part as a click track.
Therefore we should give up and let Tor users do whatever they damn well please with zero repercussions because stopping them would be too difficult (or impossible as you say)? Great way to end up with all of Tor's IP space blocked.
Yeah, basically this. In theory every time I need a password I can copy and paste.

In reality, sometimes I'm on someone else's computer or something else comes up that I need to open my database up on my phone and type it in by hand.

For instance, I can't imagine trying to enter a 100 character password with a PS3 controller to log myself back into Netflix...

If I'm already at "it's going to take 100 quintillion years to break this hash, even if they're only using MD5", then I really don't see any security benefit to using a longer password... But there's a definite loss of usability.
The lack of discrimination lawsuits towards apple means that they are probably fair in their promotions. And with the cash apple is having - there would be at least a couple of big settlements if there was discrimination at play.
He is presenting in the style of the popular You Suck at Photoshop videos. Check them out they are hilarious.
Ooooh wow. That's a lot of diskspace...
this is a frightening but not unexpected next step in a transformation that north american universities have undertaken to disregard their charters and instead run themselves like cold-blooded businesses.

will these HCL contractors have the opportunity to participate in senate meetings, university committees, etc, like actual staff members do?

were faculty consulted about this decision?

taking a large chunk of an administratrive department and converting it into something exogenous is a dangerous move and makes it clear what the university leaderhip's priorities are. outsourcing the cafeteria management is one thing. but how much of a university can you carve out and hand off to external for-profit entities -- where is the line?

and, of course, the existing staff that are being shafted -- my heart goes out to them.
That doesn't really correspond to the reality of sexual behavior though. The mere presence of a partner and of a sex drive doesn't mean sex will be a desired outcome, since the traits of the partner in question are the determining factor.

Historically, a huge proportion of men have never reproduced and genetic markers imply a strong occurrence of polygyny (it is in fact still widely practiced today) In societies where status is comparatively more important and there exists a surplus of males, this is even more visible.

With basic income, selection would simply shift even more towards physical appearance and charisma than it does today.
Integration of Neural Networks with Knowledge-Based Systems
https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/datenbionik/pdf/pubs/1995/ul...
Very common in investment banking. You're trained to use excel without a mouse or by navigating the menus. All the shortcuts are memorized.
>One other thing I noticed is that stories don't seem to load on my iPhone, but works fine on browser.

I am not sure (I don't have an iPhone around to test this), but it might be because there are no story sources configured in your Phone. The link I provided,

https://sras.me/reform/#/setconfig;reddit=programming,scienc...

was a config url, that included a bunch of story sources to use (subreddit and HN pages).

This config is stored in the local storage. So you don't have to use the config url next time you use the app.

You can also add subreddit and hackernews pages using the settings page. Can you please try it and let me if this is the case?

If it is not, can you please check if the log is showing any network activity (there is a log at the bottom where it shows active requests)
At a company of any size, with compliance and complex sharing requirements, and advanced search and workflow needs, Drive is a non-starter.
>> Later, DASH was developed as a vendor-neutral alternative, and is now the preferred way of doing adaptive streaming via HTTP.

Source? The entire industry as far as I can tell still uses HLS as the only mobile streaming tech, whether within or beyond the Apple ecosystem. HLS won. If DASH is going to take over, I haven't seen any evidence of that yet, and don't expect to in the near future.
It's an accounting decision. Apple can make millions replacing lost and broken genuine Apple Lightning to 3.5 adaptors. Probably at £30 a time. They probably reckon on selling a ton of airpods too.

Memories of all the feature phones I had with adaptors tells me they will break all the damn time. Kids have a happy habit of losing small things - adaptors and bluetooth earbuds.

So that's 3 sales lost here - not buying 7's for the kids. They can put up with the iPhones they have, buy themselves (slim chance), or switch to Android. That's my popularity shot for a few days.
Bringing some form of feature introspection to deep neural networks will probably involve clever ways of visualizing the feature activations of unstructured data https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02518
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I believe this (https://www.hum.com/) is the device in question. Seems like just another horribly insecure IOT device.
> Cheap may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I agree, I used to go through a few pairs of cheap headphones a month when marathon training, but once I stopped buying the $10 variety (wired and bluetooth, you can get OK ones on Amazon for $20) and got closer to the $100 range, I've had those for more than a year. Definitely a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get what you pay for.
> Caring what characters are in the password heavily implies that the site is not hashing the plaintext password in any way, and scarier still, may just be storing the plaintext password as plain text.

I don't think that is true at all.

I may very well want to put a few simple rules I validate serverside, such as

1) No username in password
2) No email in password
3) No list of 100 most common passwords in password

All of which require me to look at the text for your password, none of which mean I am storing it in plaintext.
I wouldn't say Guo had it good, I mean his book is called the PhD grind; that's not a particularly happy sounding title.
Worse, try putting all the user stories and bug reports into Jira or similar tools only to have managers request to duplicate it and have email ping-pong about project status with Excel sheets as attachments.

Or place those Excel sheets on Sharepoint.
You're in the minority. Normal people don't break cables. The latest Apple cables still have the cheap rubber sleeve peel away, but you can rip it off entirely and have the metal-coated cable last years without the wire fraying. If you're actually fraying the wire itself, you are treating your phone extremely poorly. I am not gentle with my equipment, and I've never had an Apple cable fall apart to the point of needing replacement.
Searching against the Finnish naming index (http://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=3) I see that in the past five years there were:

* Less than five girls called Cinderella.

* Less than five boys called Cinderella.

So rare and unusual, but not unique.

(I find it interesting that there are a non-zero number of women called "Steve", because obviously the first thing you do is search for your own forename/surname!)
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I'm sure the Apple iCar will support simultaneous audio and charging via the lightning interface.
Pretty sure that the same applies for academia. It depends on your department culture and lab environment.
I hate it when sites make me type my password in twice like I'm some sort of idiot. What's really bad is when they disable pasting. This is so stupid because it makes sure I cannot copy and paste from my password DB. I will often not use a site for this reason alone.
I think I covered some of that. And yes, it definitely is a continuum, agreed. A semi-superstar could probably have a pretty decent life working very comfortably on an interesting problem, if not necessarily a Hot Problem At The Best Institution.

However, continuum aside, there are a LOT of PhDs produced worldwide, and a LOT of good ones, and very few particularly good academic jobs. A lot of my observations of why things are kind of shitty lie not from my own career (which was largely my fault) but from observing smarter, harder-working, more organized people a couple of rungs up and realizing what a cruddy experience they were having in the middle tier. And also thinking: "man, if I just got my shit together and worked insanely hard for a few years, I could be as unhappy as Professor XYZ".

I wouldn't say "don't do a PhD". Just "know the odds"; i.e. know how many of the positions you could see yourself doing are available vs. PhD students emerging at a similar tier, and ask yourself whether you're going to be in that percentage, and what your plans are if you aren't. I learned a lot from my PhD, even if I sucked, and it turned out my backup plan was really much better than I realized it would be.
Mehhhh... Who cares?
How do you quantify being top 1% of your graduating class in a PhD?

I can potentially see how your advice could work for undergrad, but doing good research is difficult if your peers aren't as good. Your discussions are less interesting, your ambitions are scaled down, and so on.
What the fuck is wrong with people in these comments? You're not the only one ranting about "lost cables". Are there really this many people who are so incompetent in life that they're losing their cables every other week? Feel free to bash the lack of standards; but please stop talking about some theoretical scenario that 99.99% of users never encounter. If you're going to lose your cable, you may as well leave behind your wallet, keys, phone, and the lint that was in your pocket to boot. May as well leave your brain behind on the plane too, if you're so incapable of holding onto your personal property.
Answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12449136
Excel is hugely common. More "code" (simple logic or transformation) is probably done in excel than anything else.

I'd be surprised to find a normal (non tech, non SV) firm which didn't work on excel.
I think this is the one you are referring to: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

This can be interpreted in a multitude of ways, but I like to have it in the context of this other Bruce Lee quote: "Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick"

My interpretation is that we've all gone through these three phases in one way or another:
1) how do we do this stuff? ok use an editor... who cares if it's emacs (boy is that tough to learn), vi (huh? what's this context thingy), nano (cool, a menu!) etc

2) learn that there's a whole bunch of gee whiz stuff we can use (hey look, I have this special screwdriver designed to fit around the corner). Proceed to OCD over the pros and cons, figure out special cases etc.

3) realise (hopefully not too late), that actually all these specialised tools are just a means to an end. Use the most appropriate one for the situation; and appropriate here might mean that you use that one kick practised 10,000 times ("superfoot" Bill Wallace anybody?), in the right situation, rather than try to remember than wushu butterfly kick that you practised once (it hits, hero points to infinity! but if it misses, oh boy am I in trouble...).

I think step (2) is where we can start to distinguish those who will make it to (3), and those who will not. In order to be really good, if not genius level, it's not sufficient to just practise 10,000 hours (a Gladwell meme which I'm not fond of, although I understand what Gladwell was trying to imply), but to also understand and appreciate these "tools" (whether tangible or not).
Agreed. The video of him actually speaking has elements which are lost in a transcription. OTOH, if this were converted into a small book, it might be able to convey much of the same feeling.
"In Missouri, a state court has ruled", the title makes it sounds like a national thing.
I don't think a normal user can find pipe character. Small "L" is "l", capital "i" is "I" which looks like pipe character and I have a Mac Pro with Turkish keyboard and pipe character is not even printed on the keyboard. Users are accustomed to split things with comma so natural choice would be comma. http://superuser.com/questions/416472/how-do-i-type-the-pipe...
How to destruct all your pain with the mathematics
Indeed. I'm just summarizing what I read. Nothing uncanny about it :)
You don't really.

I guess everyone's needs are different, but for me, hardly anyone reads anything I write. If I have a sudden surge in interest in something I wrote, last thing I want is to cut off access to it. Would rather keep paying the infinitesimal amount per page view to keep people reading it.
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"5 year program" (laughter).

At CMU people were occasionally referred to as 'being on the 4-year plan', which meant you were like a superior alien intelligence (and, more importantly, focused on some good problem rather than, say, beer and girls or whatever you're into). But I think 7 years was typical, especially in "systems" or anything where you'd have to build something. Places that provision for 3 years total for a PhD are doing something fundamentally different, as people doing good quality PhDs at CMU were already casting around for topics quite early in those 6-7 years. I'm sure that in the long run it evens out for good people coming from good places in either system, as of course, the euro-PhD person can do 3 more years of post-doc under similar conditions.
I am all for control of our devices (even though I can see some problems with for example cars) - but it is only a part of the problem. First of all we will never control other people devices - and they will know more and more about us. Second there will be more and more services that will require the devices we control to expose more and more data about us.
BBC iPlayer and the TV licence
The 63 character limit on domain name labels in RFC 1034/1035 isn't arbitrary, it's a limitation in the way DNS packets are encoded. The upper two bits of the label length are used for compression of labels in DNS packets.

Without protocol changes, DNS cannot support labels longer than 63 bytes.

However, I agree that validating it is unnecessary.
Yep - that documentary that I posted on here "Inside the Rhapsody" has Dr. Brian May talking about Freddie being an absolute metronome on the piano - with no click track to play to. Apparently his sense of time and control over the instrument was second to none. That documentary is well worth 27 minutes of anyone's time.
If you hire PhDs for software engineering jobs, then obviously there's a mismatch of skillsets.
.+@.+

FTW?
What happens then is you kick back.

Their motto is "Do no Evil". This is an active act of suppressing views that don't fit their cultural narrative.
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I totally enjoyed that Shkreli video. Didn't watch it all but I think I will.

I always wondered how do you do this horizontal or vertical fill with formula's using the keyboard?

This inspired me to look for more Excel hacking videos on YouTube.
While we're on the topic of simple debugging tools. One I find I use all the time is top. Not classically a debugging tool but it sure solves a debugging problem and I find myself using it very often to check CPU and memory usage.

On the topic of more sophisticated debugging tools I like valgrind and Google's gperftools. These are definitely more difficult to use but I recommend not giving up on them because the pay off is huge. The trick is a) knowing how to run these tools and b) knowing how to read and understand the output. Both can be achieved through practice and RTFM.