skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends what you mean by illusion. A heat mirage, which is a shiny patch floating just above the ground, is not an illusion -- in the sense that your eyes are really receiving light from a weird floaty shiny area just above the ground, and we can describe the physics that causes them to occur.

On the other hand, a heat mirage is an illusion in the sense that, if you go over and look for a reflective object, say a pool of water, at the location of the mirage, you'll find there's nothing there.

The moon illusion, unlike a mirage, is an illusion in that first, stronger, sense, but it didn't have to be. The image of the moon can change size in reality (for example, when viewed through a lens) without affecting the size of the actual moon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pus...

> ... beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing.
I wish they would pick a clearer term that's not already in use, like (as I think they mean in this case) "provider-obscured". Heck, even "homomorphic" would be better, as that signifies "does stuff you want with your data, without knowing the content of said data".
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And all of them weren't launched in last 3 years.
I'm starting to form a different model from the standard (gross managerial incompetence / systemic failures of the Communist model) for why the USSR failed, though I'm largely in the information-gathering stage.

On Samuelson, I'm increasingly less impressed with him over time. I studied with his book (~17th edition or so, mid/late 1980s), and have compared later editions with the first (1948 IIRC). I'm not sure how much the economics improves, if any, but the tone and style of the earlier edition is much higher than the later books, which read as very nearly childish.

That said: if you've any narratives on the fall of the USSR you'd like to suggest, I'm all ears.
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Cool! Not at all what I want but also a neat thing in and of itself
I note that the helium tank is inside the oxygen tank. I'm sure there is a reason, but there have got to be some major downsides.
I suspected that -j wouldn't do anything on a single file. For three large (6.5GB in total) files I'm getting good performance, about 1.6x of what GNU Grep does, best case.
The AI starts getting mad.

You: I don't understand
AI:. What is so difficult about quantum mechanics! I can solve this question in 0.00076 of a second!

Judgment day happens.
> The unspoken message is "Don't you want this to just go away? You could settle with us. If you don't, we can continue to make it hurt."

To continue down this Machiavellian rabbit-hole; this then is Google saying to all lawyers who might agree to cooperate with Oracle in similarly murky shenanigans in the future "We will come after you"
OH hai! Maybe this is it. Checking it out

Edit: no gambling data. Maybe that's ok, but I'd want that too. Still looks pretty interesting thanks!
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Can you give some examples of "project management styles" that try to fix this?
So these high pressure tanks must be an incredibly hard/complex problem?
Uhh, yeah, I never said it was easy or simple. It's gonna take a lot of hard work to get people adjusted, and I don't believe we even can adjust everyone. But that approach is more realistic and successful than "don't commit crimes"

> Your otherwise cool idea has no real implementations (communism doesn't count).

Other than the fact that it has completely real and provable implementations:

http://www.alltreatment.com/drug-rehab-infographic

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/18/prison-could...
It CAN'T be implemented, that's the point
The network stack was totally rewritten and optimized, in kernel mode, about halfway through the BeOS lifetime.

The kernel did a better job at heavy threading and SMP than Linux or NT or NextStep at the time.

The interrupt model and thus latencies led to much better soft real time performance than the other OSes at the time.

I think it was more than half baked, but Linux took over the enthusiast market (with zero dollar cost) and Microsoft asserted their OEM monopoly (as determined in court, way too late to matter) and it wasn't to be.
I've been working remote for over 6 years :(
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What other work? Is there a company out there that actually has 3,000 employees-worth of work to get done, but nobody to do it? I thought we were in general facing the opposite problem: Lots of bodies but not enough work, leading to under-employment.
Why is hacking into EVERY THEME you wish to use better than hacking into a single plugin?
- A legitimate successor to the original FJ40 Toyota Landcruiser, possibly electric

- A version of this watch (maybe even a smart watch) that didn't cost $25,000: https://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-3
Something web or smartphone based that can automate the process of examining various health/exercise/diet event data points over time, and learn from them until it can highlight patterns and events that may be related.
What does "unlawful, but not a criminal offense" mean?
Sounds interesting. Would you mind sharing the names of those books?
Layer violations are fine if they give you value. ZFS is very layer "violating" as well. However, the layers are concepts put in place by humans to help, not God given laws of nature.
> you login, use your apps and they stay there, for you to access at-will

Sounds like https://sandstorm.io/
Maintaining foreign rule - by any empire - requires the use of informants, secret police, and suppression of political activity.

The Birtish didn't station thousands of soldiers in Hong Kong so they could have an exotic vacation. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Forces_Overseas_Hong_K...
iOS silently installs updates too all apps from the App Store.

There is no meaningful distinction between Javascript being served from the server and an App being served from the App Store.
AFAIK mdfind heavily depends on file system events in macOS, it would be painful or impossible to implement such system in cross platform way with support for file systems like FAT etc.
Sports (and events) Netflix/live streaming. That would kill cable for sure.

A curated "channel-like" experience for Netflix/YouTube shows. There's a LOT of good content out there, but it's hard to filter. And the "channel" experience of surfing and switching between programs has been kind of lost.

A different kind of smartphone, with actual buttons. Or maybe even what one manufacturer (Samsung?) tried to do, splitting the phone experience from the smart experience, with one ergonomically good device for calls, and another for messages and browsing. I also very often want to be looking at my screen while on a call (check mail, google stuff, look at maps).

I also miss the experience of the slide-to-answer on my old Nokia n86, or flip-to-answer like the Motorola Razr. I could also make calls without looking.
> regress startup performance

No, for example, LZ4 is unbelievably fast:

https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4

almost 2 GB per second in decompression!

I've just tried compressing some backupXX.session file (the biggest I've managed to find, just around 2 MB) and it compressed to 70% of the original, probably not enough to implement the compression -- and I suspect the reason is that the file contains too much base64 encode image files which can't be much compressed?

So the answer to having sane session files can be first to stop storing the favicons (and other images(?)) there? I still believe somebody should analyze the big files carefully to get the most relevant facts. For the start, somebody should make a tool that extracts all the pictures from the .session file (should be easy with python or Perl, for example), just that we know what's inside.
Right, but consider the reason that an empty Android project is 38mb large with 1000+ files. How much does it have to do with the fact that Android uses the Linux kernel? I was under the impression that the (hand-wavy, two-second) explanation for that was "Java nonsense", not "Linux nonsense".
I'm sure you could get decent power from the rear lamps.
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No word of a lie, I do that all the time in Kerbal Space Program. I didn't crash, the mission terminated due to unscheduled lithobraking. My rocket design didn't explode, it had a excessive surplus oxidisation.
Precision, people. Precision with language is the mark of a clear mind.

<snark>
Have an up-vote. That's the big problem isn't it? It's no longer acceptable to simply get control of costs, make the ink black instead of red, and milk your product for a nice steady profit--then, once that happens, figure out if it's appropriate to grow from there.
Link to relevant solutions on previous Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623777
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I most definitely saw a Trump ad in my twitter feed.

I marked it as offensive ;)
> What does "unlawful, but not a criminal offense" mean?

Generally, that phrasing would describe civil wrongs. Criminal law isn't the whole of the law.
Yep, i have sync enabled.

Grabbing a adb log may be a bit out of my league though.
Don't take down-votes on any internet forum seriously. Your comment is on-topic and relevant.
I'm not familiar with Sonicwall specifically, but a packet-inspecting web app firewall can indeed do something about SQL injections, obvious ones anyway.
You don't understand these arguments because you came from such an extreme place of class privilege that you already had the education in high school to get paid "programming" jobs. People coming from poverty don't have family that can make up the 10% that you didn't cover out of pocket. Even then, you are probably being disingenuous with that 90% figure and if you want it to stand as valid evidence that all of these dirty poors should just suck it up because, "BOOTSTRAPS!!!", you should share your financial records for the years that you were in college rather than throwing out a few general links.

You created something that, at first glance, seems like a reasonable argument, but when exposed to a cursory examination, collapses under the weight of it's own bullshit.

D-
A product whose primary appeal is to people who make and consume news is, ultimately, a niche product. The majority of people who Twitter might ever reach have seen it and realized it's not for them.

Twitter could absolutely be a valuable property, but it's never going to have the scale/reach of Google Search or Facebook.
Cloudflare realizes that the status quo makes it hard to prove standing to sue, and that's a large part of what allows them to get away with it. But if you go to Google right now and search (https://www.google.com/#q=ddos+booter), you will find that basically all of them are behind Cloudflare. They have spent an enormous amount of time brainwashing Silicon Valley into thinking that this is a free speech argument (as evidenced by some of the absolutely ridiculous comments in here comparing DDoS attackers to unpopular speech protection or making absolutely shameless comparisons to whistleblowers like Aaron Swartz).

DDoS-for-sale sites are not "free speech sites", they are for-profit criminal organizations engaging in the violent censorship of people that are too poor to afford proper DDoS mitigation or that want to control the privacy of their users by managing the SSL certs.

The booters aren't usually as powerful as these 600Gbps+ monsters, but they're quite adequate to wreck almost any network for a long time (most IP transit hookups for racks are 10Gbps or less, these attacks can be well in excess of 100Gbps), requiring you to spend exorbitant amounts of money to protect your site against what are essentially bored high schoolers with a spare $20, your competitors, or whomever. That money is then dumped back into the system, allowing the attackers to build even more sophisticated and powerful infrastructure, leading to worse attacks like the ones we're now starting to see. Krebs was one of the people to document this trend, and now his site has been censored off the net by the same people he was writing about. Why is it so surprising to everyone that he's avoiding Cloudflare?
I also remember a string of commercials from IBM about how they help out police with predictive algorithms, historical analysis, etc.

Here's one I was able to dig up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2UjBO22EI

Why is it quiet when IBM does it, but horrific when Palantir/Big Bad Thiel does it?

It's either: a) no one cares about what IBM does anymore, because they're seen as "old school", or b) no one was paying attention before and only now caught wind of it?
> I really find it shocking that there are laws regarding supposed hate speech with such subjective terms

I find it shocking that you're shocked that hate speech is being defined exactly as its proponents meant it to be.
I smoke pipes for the same reason. I enjoy collecting them, and maybe smoke them 2 or 3 times a week (sometimes more, sometimes less). A lot of pipe tobaccos have great flavors and they're much less intense than cigarettes. They can just be a nice way to unwind every now and then.
Could you explain more about why you think so? I think the ordering is pretty much what I want, even if I'm not necessarily happy with the absolute numbers.
I think i have seen NASA use that one before.
In future discoveries involving her firm, this event will be raised by the opposing parties - hell, Judge Aslup said he hopes that happens. I'm sure others will outright refuse to divulge confidential information to her firm and get away with it too. It probably won't end her career, but it will cost her and her firm a lot of business.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't think it could be done in a way that wasn't obvious to investigators.
Good points, though hard disk sizes are orders of magnitude bigger than they were in the day of BeOS.
This is staggeringly odd. I can't believe Apple would sanction this, and don't expect they'll be happy if they're now discovering it. Most contracts would exclude it, too.

Hope all is well with Ziegler and he isn't having personal issues
I am wondering if release of confidential information such that it appears in official court documents carries enough weight as to be able to impact other legal proceedings that may arise totally unrelated to this case. In other words it's one thing for $1 billion to appear in news articles (and be widely know) and another thing for it to appear in a court transcript which could then be cited as proof that the number is correct and used against the party that didn't want it disclosed (in a way that a news article can't).

Often in negotiation there is bluffing. It's easy to bluff around non-official information is what I am thinking.
"Anti-pitch

I’d like to try to convince you why you shouldn’t use ripgrep. Often, this is far more revealing than reasons why I think you should use ripgrep."

Love that he added this
Yes I have donated to HakuOS, ReactOS, https://www.reactos.org/ and other free and open source projects. There is AROS based on AmigaOS for X86 PCs as well. http://aros.sourceforge.net/

There is also OSFree an OS/2 rewrite from scratch: http://www.osfree.org/

I'm not a system level programmer, I always worked with business apps and other apps. If I was a system level programmer I'd donate some time to working on those operating systems. I donate to them every once in a while when I can afford it. I want to see a third choice between MacOS and Windows for the average person who can't figure out Linux. I use Linux Mint for myself, but I can't see the average person using it unless they are trained in it, sometimes you have to use the shell instead of the GUI for Linux.
George Carlin would have a field day with that wording.
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From the HTML source:

<!-- You can't know whether I'm exploiting a bias in the crappy JS -->
<!-- RNG to make my name first more often. Hah-hah. -->
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
var names = ["Erin Ptacek", "Thomas Ptacek", "Jeremy Rauch"].
sort(function(x, y) { return 1 - Math.ceil(Math.random() * 100) % 3; });
for(var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
document.getElementById("n_" + i).textContent = names[i];
}
});

It isn't scientific in the slightest, but I ran the function a hundred million times, and Erin seems to appear first about 60% of the time, in Google Chrome.

Good luck with the company, I hope you can also beat the RNG that makes or breaks a startup :)
Hell, are they even active users? I know I probably signed up for twitter long ago when it started, maybe tweeted once or twice, and never used it again, finding it useless. Do their "user counts" count me?
OK. I should have checked your comment history before accusing you of that.

I get frustrated at the style of the thing (hijacking the topic), not just at one person. So you got dumped on from my frustration at multiple people, which is unfair.

I apologize for dumping on you.
1. tptacek answered this already.

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (read #1)
It's probably to help keep the helium cold. Since you already have to maintain a large reservoir of a cryogenic fluid, why not make it do a little extra work to cool a substance with a lower boiling point.
If you're getting DDoS'd right now, and you want to sue the booter that is doing it, how would you know which one to sue? Cloudflare obscures the origin IP because it's a reverse proxy. But even if you know the origin IP, that's not the IP the DDoS is going to be coming from. So how does one match up an attack with a specific booter website?
Same thing applies to software: you encounter an error, you analyze why it happened. Then ask: what other places could have this error? Can I eliminate this entire class of error by design or other method or do I need to fix them all individually?

You organically end up with a more robust system that way. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Nit: the contention that the world's leaders are shape shifting alien reptiles is an absurd conspiracy theory. This one is just extremely unlikely in the absence of direct evidence.
Google has been supporting this since API version 10, this is the default (and only) location provider if you are using the Google Play Services API.
https://youtu.be/Bte_GHuxUGc?t=400

Then skip https://youtu.be/Bte_GHuxUGc?t=700
to for the deep dive :)

You can still do location "manually" by either using GPS or sensor data using the Android framework.
To be sure, but that's the 'no silver bullet' clause. You can compromise and gently escalate, though. Be nice, yet firm. Or be ostensibly nice but with a subtext of consequences ("speak softly and carry a big stick").

Or perhaps the ideals fail and you just need to bare your teeth at them. But return to civility; no reason to senselessly burn bridges. (What if they're just horrible? Then leave. What if you just can't walk away quietly? Well, just try not to burn bridges as a first resort, at least not while you're standing on it ;)
They tried to push the PR angle in 2013, and no one took notice.

https://gcn.com/articles/2013/10/04/gcn-award-nyc-databridge...
Hard to say here. Federal courts have very broad discretion to impose sanctions for violations of their orders, including those authorized by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and also those based on their inherent powers. We are, after all, dealing with contempt of a court order, which is very serious. I would say it is likely here that the court would refer this to the State Bar with a request that it be investigated and this would pose quite a risk for one or more of the attorneys that ethical sanctions would be imposed (these can range from private to public censure to suspension to disbarment, though here I don't think the more extreme remedies would apply unless evidence surfaced to show that this was somehow deliberate). A standing order to the firm or to one or more of the attorneys that they would have to do a formal filing in future cases (say, for a period of x years) disclosing this misconduct is also something I could envision here. This would cause large reputational harm to the lawyer(s) involved and would be fitting, doable, and probably appropriate for such a serious violation. Monetary awards/fines are also possible, though I cannot imagine an award that could reflect the actual damage caused to Google - such awards are usually limited to attorneys' fees and costs incurred in obtaining the contempt order. Discovery-related sanctions are also often imposed in live cases (e.g., limiting the use of certain evidence or treating some fact as admitted that is adverse to the party causing the violation or some such thing), but I don't think would apply here. Jailing of an offending party is also used in civil contempt but only as needed to compel compliance with an order (e.g., you will stew in jail until you disclose your non-protected sources for the facts in this story as you have been previously ordered to do) - again, these wouldn't apply here. So, I think the main sanctions would likely involve those hitting the reputations of the attorneys, either in future court proceedings or through State Bar sanctions. These, by the way, are not trivial. No matter how good a lawyer or a firm, being seen as tarnished can cost you clients, job opportunities, etc., not to mention public humiliation and embarrassment (no small thing for prominent lawyers).
No ... not really.
I feel similarly baffled. There's no way Apple knew about this.

Just a stunning lack of judgment.
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If the smaller tank is contained within the larger tank, that seems like an impossibly lucky shot.
And Accenture's case study of the same project:

https://www.accenture.com/t20150719T214424__w__/gb-en/_acnme...
There may be particular cases that don't work for you. Just like how up the gaming experience on OS X is still garbage after a decade.

- Citrix = https://wiki.winehq.org/Haiku + https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... [GOLD]

- AnyConnect = OpenConnect

- LibreOffice = This is a good one, there is a port but the general community does not favour porting it because it clashes pretty hard against the BeOS ethos. I would just use google docs. I do almost all my editing including ppts in vim.

- In 5 years I haven't found a need for Java. In the one case it would have been useful for RE work I just wrote a python library to do it instead [https://github.com/tktech/Jawa]

- Same with flash. Haven't run into anything that needed flash in years.

Having apps/suites that only work in one particular environment and aren't available on yours are nothing new. Hasn't stopped the continued development of OS X or Linux that eventually results in ports or alternatives.
The judge has already eviscerated that lawyer.
Some people are unjustifiably worried about SSD endurance.

The reality is that even with fairly heavy use, most of them will far outlive the computers they're in. And their owners for that matter!

I purchased my current SSD in March 2015 - it's a Samsung 850 EVO 512GB. It's done 7332 Power_On_Hours, and 36486573259 Total_LBAs_Written, which works out as just under 17 TB written, or about 31.6 GB/day.

That kind of sounds like a lot. But let's put it in context. Even the previous generation of TLC NAND SSDs were recorded in endurance tests doing around 1 PETABYTE of writes before failing. The 850 EVO, with it's 3D V-NAND, should be capable of at least double that.

For arguments sake, lets assume it will last for 1 Petabyte. I've written 17TB in 1.5 years, or 11.3TB per year. At that rate, this drive is still going to last at least another 90 YEARS.

So is this really something to obsess over?