skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GOOG has to buy TWTR or its real-time web ambitions are dead. FB has to buy TWTR to prevent GOOG real-time entry. AAPL has to buy TWTR or be cut out from social media. MSFT too. The bidding war that is going on behind the scenes must be unreal. This acquistion may be the biggest ever.
Off-topic, but I find it strange that money in the order of $1B can change hands between two mega-corporations without anyone outside having an inkling, while I could find websites saying exactly how much a low-level government worker earns in a social services center in my county. (Spoiler: much less than I used to earn as developer.)

Shouldn't the structure of accountability be in the other direction?
You're lucky... mine died after the original 1 year warranty (a few days over, it detected as 10MB drive or some such), I replaced it before they had a fix for the issue... that said, every drive I've had since has been very solid, mostly using Samsung drives these days.
"In Australia, where I spoke, Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to do or say anything likely to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate,” providing alarming latitude in the restriction of free speech."

I really find it shocking that there are laws regarding supposed hate speech with such subjective terms as "likely to offend".

As a registered democrat, this author really captured my feelings about the left. It used to make so much sense, let everyone do what they want, that's being liberal. Now the radical minority is getting louder and more persuasive to younger generations as they dress up these ideas in comedy and media.
The 18C provision of the Australian Racial Discrimination Act he mentions was brought in in 1995, a little early for the "millennials" he wants to decry. Nor does someone walking out of a speech strike me as even tangentially linked to censorship--it seems quite the opposite, yielding a space to someone else because you don't want to either be there silently or interrupt and argue. Yeah, maybe the left would be better off if the young had a more nuanced view of privilege and controversy, but we'd sure as hell be better off if the older generation could contain themselves when making any criticism and stick to reasonable, evidence-based discourse, not a condescending string of random criticisms towards them dang kids.
A self-washing brush with a paint-injection system coupled to a digital paints mixer? Add a system to only harden the paint when a special wavelength UV light is shined on it (maybe include the "hardening lamp" in brush's head?). Add away to switch between jet-mode (spray can paint) and brush mode, and you get a graffitty artist's wet dream.

Joke aside, with paint and anything physical you got constraints of physics and chemistry. And anything too sophisticated will be expensive and prone to breaking so nobody will use it. Try to make it reliable and it will have the cost of a piece from an F-35.

None of these constraints exist for software, so you don't really have any excuse to not do UX/I right.
Have you read this letter of note?

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
BCE has the advantage of pleasing everyone.

Before Christ Era

Before Common Era

Before Current Era
Hybrid disks are likely a much bigger issue, given the really small amount of SSD space and its' use as scratch cache.
I'm surprised this hasn't been done for math where papers actually can be completely accurate.
Just because the people who do these things are the loudest doesn't mean that the HN crowd doesn't do other things.
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I recently questioned if/why parallel mmap might be slower without a satisfactory conclusion. One specific thing I couldn't answer is if reusing the same filesystem buffer and program memory addresses has a less negative effect than reading a wide range of mapped memory addresses.
There's also a UK startup doing similar things, commercially:

https://sanctus.io/

Both seem well-intentioned but make me deeply uncomfortable. I suppose the fundamental reason being that if you want to destigmatize mental health issues, maybe you should destigmatize seeking treatment from mental health professionals first.
No one refers to refers to regular gun owners, let alone murderous individuals, as "2nd amendment people". In the context of judges and laws it's clearly a reference to lawyers and lobbyists. The NRA and ACLU have an impressive history defeating legal challenges to the 2nd amendment, such as the no-fly list gun ban debate that happened in the weeks prior to that comment of his. Jumping to assuming that the forces he intended to describe are assassins who pre-empt the presidential appointments is occam's razor territory.
If you scroll down, Part 2 appears as "BIG PLAYERS, LITTLE STOCKS, AND NAKED SHORTS"

Direct link: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/big-players-little-stock...
Nothing's wrong with it as an analogy; I would have found "this is like blurting out Coca-Cola's secret formula!" extremely apt, not least for the reason that you mention. However, the judge's wording

> If she had had the recipe for Coca-Cola she could have blurted it out in this court right now.

seemed less like a comparison than a description of the dire consequences of this sort of behaviour, and it struck me as funny: surely anyone who's unconvinced of the seriousness of blurting out one business's proprierary information won't be convinced about the seriousness of blurting out another's?
OTOH SSD lifetime is rather safety-critical for many users...
Not all open source art production tools, though - Krita seems to have carved out a niche community of happy artistic users, probably because there's room for tools that take a different approach to Photoshop.
All it takes for you to start smoking is a scarcity argument?

I'm not making fun of you, just saying, loss aversion is powerful.
> The way every standing army out there does it by just being there and having guns?

And how is that, exactly?

The cold war, where much greater threats than the threat of standing armies were at play, exhibited itself in violence all over the world.

It shouldn't require explanation that the threat of violence doesn't prevent violence.
They make everything else better. If there was a battery that lasted for such a long time then phone would have them and we would just swap from one handset to another when we switch phones. Plus, people are really good at breaking phone screens yet they are trying to come up with one that is shatterproof. If you could use "lifetime" battery it would make someone very rich even if for a short while...somebody would definitely work that business angle.
Looking at the sister Wikipedia link it appears that it did stop them from expanding their business several times in an audio/musical direction, until they coughed up some cash.
Very nice. Not only fast, but feels modern.

Tried it out on a 3.5GB JSON file:

# rg
rg erzg4 k.json > /dev/null 1.80s user 2.54s system 53% cpu 8.053 total

# rg with 4 threads
rg -j4 erzg4 k.json > /dev/null 1.76s user 1.29s system 99% cpu 3.059 total

# OS X grep
grep erzg4 k.json > /dev/null 60.62s user 0.96s system 99% cpu 1:01.75 total

# GNU Grep
ggrep erzg4 k.json > /dev/null 1.96s user 1.43s system 88% cpu 2.691 total

GNU Grep wins, but it's pretty crusty, especially with regards to its output (even with colourization).
Ask HN: How do you get the initial traction for your web side-project?
You had the idea and you've built it. You share your project with your friends on Twitter and Facebook for some feedback. But what's next, how do you make your side-project be accessible for a larger audience?
I'm the author of ag. That was a really good comparison of the different code searching tools. The author did a great job of showing how each tool misbehaved or performed poorly in certain circumstances. He's also totally right about defaults mattering.

It looks like ripgrep gets most of its speedup on ag by:

1. Only supporting DFA-able Rust regexes. I'd love to use a lighter-weight regex library in ag, but users are accustomed to full PCRE support. Switching would cause me to receive a lot of angry emails. Maybe I'll do it anyway. PCRE has some annoying limitations. (For example, it can only search up to 2GB at a time.)

2. Not counting line numbers by default. The blog post addresses this, but I think results without line numbers are far less useful; so much so that I've traded away performance in ag. (Note that even if you tell ag not to print line numbers, it still wastes time counting them. The printing code is the result of me merging a lot of PRs that I really shouldn't have.)

3. Not using mmap(). This is a big one, and I'm not sure what the deal is here. I just added a --nommap option to ag in master.[1] It's a naive implementation, but it benchmarks comparably to the default mmap() behavior. I'm really hoping there's a flag I can pass to mmap() or madvise() that says, "Don't worry about all that synchronization stuff. I just want to read these bytes sequentially. I'm OK with undefined behavior if something else changes the file while I'm reading it."

The author also points out correctness issues with ag. Ag doesn't fully support .gitiginore. It doesn't support unicode. Inverse matching (-v) can be crazy slow. These shortcomings are mostly because I originally wrote ag for myself. If I didn't use certain gitignore rules or non-ASCII encodings, I didn't write the code to support them.

Some expectation management: If you try out ripgrep, don't get your hopes up. Unless you're searching some really big codebases, you won't notice the speed difference. What you will notice, however, are the feature differences. Take a look at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues to get a taste of what's missing or broken. It will be some time before all those little details are ironed-out.

That said, may the best code searching tool win. :)

1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/commit/bd65e26...
Yes, I think the same about deep sea exploration.
Yes, I do it, but honestly, it is a pain. I didn't look too hard, but at first glance it seems there is no way to get a persistent token to work. Everytime you don't renew your token after 1800 seconds, you have to open the google developer web page and get a new one.
Yes, the entire pattern of behavior is relevant, though I would note that judges are highly reluctant to ascribe bad motives to distinguished litigators (and the lawyer involved here fits in that category) and so I would be surprised if the judge took a super-harsh approach in spite of being upset over this. But, again, who knows?
That would make sense but I don't think it's true based on the last paragraph:

> Whatever the case, Google is probably right that sealing the transcript faster would have stopped the news story from ever breaking. But the cat’s out of the bag now, and Google’s private information is out there for everyone to see, on Google. Maybe it should try using the right to be forgotten?

The other seems to fully understand that the statements in court led to the information being publicly available but somehow doesn't understand why that would lead to google's reaction. Truly bizarre.
I certainly did not expect a response like yours. (Yes I would have totally taken this sarcastically!) I am glad I helped you learn something :)
I think this is a great question. I don't think there is a definitive description for a mentor. It could mean many things to different people.

To me a mentor is someone who is interested in helping me, I have a good relationship with and cares about my growth.

How you two go about doing those things will be entirely up to you. For example, maybe you two have some frequency of checkins or interact on a need basis. This could be over plain old chatting, code review, or playing a game. As long as there are thought out topics to discuss and a medium that makes people comfortable.
Connecting Kinesis Analytics with AWS IoT
It would be interesting to see the modern "handmade" movement (Casey Muratori of handmade hero fame) join the project. It would be so cool if it could, for example, replace Ubuntu as the basis for Steam OS. Seems like it's the perfect fit for something that requires high performance and low latency.
No, a restraining order is issued when someone is performing actions that, taken individually, are legal - recording a link between an SSID and a street address, knocking on an ex-girlfriends door to ask them to talk to you, photographing a child - but when carried out systematically, constitute a pattern of behaviour that is undesirable, and by virtue of the order becomes illegal. Sometimes the pattern itself is also illegal, if it falls under harassment or stalking laws. Generally restraining orders prevent you from doing things that are otherwise legal, such as being within 50m of some person, or within 300m of a particular place or type of place, or sending a message, e-mail or similar to someone.
I would argue that the surveillance isn't in how the data is used, but rather in the fact that NYC has that data at all.

Limits on acceptable data collection are more straightforward, enforceable, and fair than limits on acceptable data analysis. What would you say if a human had reached the same conclusion as Palantir by analyzing the same data?
Ask HN: How 000webhost.com makes money
I wish to understand how does 000webhost.com makes money? How are they affording 99.99% uptime with no ads? It looks like a scam to me.
yes.

you can't.

and yes.
That's not the case. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567245.

That sentence in the HN guidelines got put there because at one point people were using HN as a kind of customer support, which got irritating. Since that's not really common anymore, we can probably just take it out. We're about to add a bunch more guidelines so it would be nice to remove a few anyhow.

Actually I wonder if "Please don't make claims about HN moderation without links to the specific threads you're talking about" should be one of the new guidelines. We're happy to answer specific questions—and if we've done something bad, apologize and fix it—but the dark sinister stuff is always too vague to address directly.

Edit: btw we get that people sometimes arrive at the wrong conclusion in a completely well-intentioned way. In most cases it really is easy to clear up.
You can start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Good grief. The issue with Trump isn't left or right, as he doesn't appear to have any core ideological values. The issue with Trump is that he's

1) a bad manager and executive, bully, narcissist
2) apparently has a low attention span and no appetite for work
3) a thin skin that is prone to retaliate
4) a fraud who uses the tactics of a salesman and appeals to the devils of peoples nature, namely: bigotry, xenophobia

You think Trump is an isolationist who will reduce America's empire footprint? In 2000, George Bush, running against Bill Clinton, claimed he would be a President with a "humble" foreign policy, as opposed to Bill Clinton's interventionist ways (referring to Serbia/Bosnia). He would not engage in "nation building" or attempts to spread democracy by force. He appointed Donald Rumsfeld as SecDef, and had Cheney as Vice President. What do you think happened?

Trump has said the following:
1) he wants to outsource the functions of the Presidency, that means foreign policy will be delegated mostly to beltway neo-cons
2) he called for bombing libya
3) he has called for carpet bombing syria, killing the families of terrorists, and doing "a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding"
4) he's talked about using nuclear weapons not as retaliation for a WMD first strike.

You can find ample saber rattling from Trump, and given his past inability to stay the course on any stated policy, and his inability to even run his own businesses without delegating, what on gods green earth makes you think his Presidency would be less aggressive and militaristic than Hillary? It's a complete unknown. Hillary's a known quantity, yes, she is hawkish to a degree, but most US Presidential candidates have been. But it's a predictable quantity.

Trump's level of retaliatory involvement is unknown. If another 9/11 happens, who is going to show more restraint, Hillary or Trump?

The mere fact that the man actively courts openly racist supporters and won't disavow them (even a few days ago, Mike Pence wouldn't disavow David Duke), is bad for the fabric of American society and threatens the rise of neo-nazi politics here, and is enough IMHO to completely disqualify him.

Ergo, any techbro billionaire in SV, who presumably should be smart enough to evaluate these issues, and supports Trump, IMHO, deserts heavy criticism. This is not a normal election between left-wing socialist/progressives/liberal ideology and right-wing/free-market/conservative ideology, and Trump is not the torch bearer of the latter, he's something far worse.
I am directly addressing these particular memes... Which are trolling... Shitposting... The name says it all.
Google's actions are illegal though. It's not a government coverup, but Google is using misinformation as 'proof' they aren't guilty.

It's also noteworthy that this court case first revealed to the public the Android MADA agreement, a secret contract which has been at the center of a large number of antitrust suits around the globe. Had it not been revealed, it's unlikely many government entities would've started to look into it.
Does firefox sync() the data? If not, these continuous overwrites of the same file may not even hit the disk at all, as it could all end up being cached.

Even if some data is being written, it could still be orders of magnitude lower than the writes executed by the program.

There are legitimate pros/cons of using sync() or not. Missing it out could mean that the file data is lost if your computer crashes. But if firefox crashes by itself, the data will be safe.
Thanks!

I think customs are far more strict in places like Germany where I now live.

Any other tips on getting started? forums / websites to buy from etc? (I enjoy the occasional cigar, but feel quite lost in this world).
Haiku has OpenSSH and a webkit-based browser called WebPositive. All built-in to the base install.

It has a remote desktop, but I've not used it:
https://www.haiku-os.org/tags/remote_desktop
Broadly, it's action, whether intentional or unintentional yet beneficiary, to remove evidence of any difference between two bodies of people by destroying and/or suppressing information, language, practices, methods, or anything that you may want to loop into the word, "culture." Within the context of Hong Kong / China it's difficult to explain, essentially there is a massively different, "feel" to each locale, and completely different systems of laws, language, thinking about the world, ways of communicating and thinking about how to govern and organize society, among other factors.

It may or may not be within China's interest as a whole or in part, or their perceived interest to do away with these artifacts and methods of difference. But individual interests of the largely powerful economic scale within mainland China rather than attempting to decelerate the process, treat Hong Kong like a personal sandbox and pay people to attempt to bring the democratic governmental system down, and this involves all sorts of strategies which help toward that aim. It's not really a, "conspiracy theory," it's kind of just a long, slow out in the open slog that everyone knows about.

If you go to Hong Kong in the year 2047 and then go over to Shenzhen I predict you won't sense much of a difference crossing from one side to another -- I would contest that is not likely good for China as a whole as my other comments on this thread point out.

Further evidence to my point...can you imagine if you saw banners in the US being put up by the Federal Government which said, "Be Civilized...Speak English Everywhere, Including the Airport!"

Or, could you imagine textbooks in school which say, "don't do uncivilized things like spit on the street, or speak Spanish." Horrifying.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cantonese-lan...
My first thought was, this is great.
That's what I'm saying, it's by far not the most secure, and if you don't use Secret Chats it's even more so. Convenient, though, and not owned by Facebook. I'm on the fence about it myself, but it's my go-to alternative to Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, not necessarily to Signal.
This line of reasoning is almost too ridiculous for a shill.

"The planet already had Uranium-238 so Oppenheimer didn't really give us nuclear weapons."
The Western elite hit upon a liberal system which did indeed produce massive economic and technical growth over the last couple of centuries.

This system requires ceaseless indoctrination of the populace - ideological carpet bombing by means of movies, TV, news, music, books, games, toys, whatever - on the supreme value of 'freedom', above and beyond any local cultural norms, or indeed rational evaluation of the benefits. People must just know in their bones that 'dulce et decorum est pro libertas mori', and that whatever came before is now obsolete and irrelevant.

Some people get riled up about that.
Yeah, it turns out I'm bad at convincing myself that I won't remember the thing. And then I forget the thing.
We don't need predictable insults against the community (which includes you) like this on HN.
Here's a good list of sites to submit to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488822
That's actually super handy. I might check them out.
Illumos has a new, default boot loader based on the FreeBSD boot loader
Thats not quiet accurate because there have been a number of trademark violation claims against Apple Computers:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
> I don't know anyone in tech who appreciates cigars

That's because most people don't want cancer
I wouldn't be too quick to cast a positive on Arab Spring. Most of those countries have yet to recover and it is arguable that it was a precursor to the current migrant crisis.

I would agree that the democratic organizing power of twitter is impressive.
From your vantage point, do you see cultural integration (or as you put it, genocide) as anything but inevitable? This article certainly paints a picture that the PRC has every intention of achieving full integration as soon as possible.
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Sorry about that.

I guess my strong reaction came from a deep dislike of the concept of "integration" in this context. To me, "integration" means "to achieve sameness", so perhaps I should briefly explain how mainland China and Hong Kong differs. Apart from the differences in the political, economic and legal systems, culturally Hong Kong is very different from northern China; from the languages we speak, the script we write, to the food we eat, but more importantly, in our different worldviews and different thoughts on how the entire society should be run, like how business relationships should be maintained, how kids should be raised, how success is defined, who should we look up to, and so on. It's not completely different, but different enough to be distinctive.

Which brings us to today. Most primary schools now teach in a non-native tongue. Kickbacks are almost expected in deals because "that's China and we're in China". Infrastructure projects for "integration" are abnormally costly and got to go ahead with doctored projection data to justify them. We must "go north" and look for opportunities in mainland China, the government says -- what happened to the rest of the world?

And then there are 150 new settlers from mainland China every single day, 7 days a week 365 days a year, and our government have no say in who gets to come.
Needs more pony
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