skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gimp is great if you're not a designer or exclusively a web designer. Otherwise, CMYK is a huge deal as it is the only way to go if you want to print something at a professional printer (not sure about the term).
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YMMV obviously, but I think the Google assistant has been mostly accurate (in my case).

I follow NBA, and have a few friends in a Facebook group chat where we just talk about NBA.

I tried to move the group to Allo, because the assistant is actually very relevant. When we have a debate about a player, being able to write "@google How many rebounds per game did Dwight Howard have last season?" And get results right away is actually really perfect for us.

Here was the problem, the group didn't want to download another chat app. A few folks wanted us to switch to iMessage, some folks to GroupMe. We ended up switching to GroupMe.

The problem as I see it is that it is hard to move people to use new chat apps because, as the article mentions, there are just so many chat apps (add GroupMe to the list).

I think what will end up happening is that Slack will dominate for businesses, WhatsApp for messages with international members, iMessage for iOS families and friends, Facebook chat for the one off messages to folks that don't have the other apps. A prediction at least...
> Having used GIMP and Photoshop, the practical point of GIMP development, in my view, is to provide a baseline for other graphic editing software: i.e. your product's quality cannot drop below what GIMP offers.

I think that this is one of the important things that Open Source software does, generally - it provides a steadily rising baseline of functionality that is freely available to everyone.

LibreOffice is another product that's often considered not as good as the leading proprietary product, but as long as it exists and gets better with every release, it will benefit everybody, including Microsoft Office users.
Yeah, I hope my click will add to their success and growth :) I also don't get how can they have 6 people working on this full time with no investment and marginal revenue.
Given most employees at "startups" are actually later employees when the companies are larger and less likely to fail, it may actually be that most of them get some sort of payday, even if it's not huge.
How wise God is! Had He made it anisotropic, everybody would be gathering to the same place! (Apart from a few excentrics who would go the opposite direction).
I think lack of basic supplies, and wages, now isn't really remedied by getting a share of monies from a sale at some point in the far future.

1: "I need water"

2: "Don't worry, next year you'll (probably) have enough money to buy some"

Surely there are international agreements with remedies for such situations? When do the coastguard step in and save the crew from dehydration/starvation?
From what I see he didn't "lose" $1M. He invested $100K which at one point was worth $1M.
I'm just here for the popcorn :)
"Because I can" is of course a valid reason, but having a better goal is more motivating, especially if it's a team instead of a single person.

I believe GIMP does have a better goal than "just because", and in my mind it is achieving it. I'm not a graphics designer and therefore I have the luxury of not being locked-in with Photoshop's advanced features; therefore all my image manipulations are done using GIMP, Krita and/or Inkscape. I congratulate all those teams on a job well done.
A democracy while casts are still very much alive ? Democracy means nothing in India.
Does Washington D.C. make a 53rd? And though income taxes are managed by the state, I suppose each county collects its own property taxes.
It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph.

I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened.

Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.
>> To me, the disturbing thing is the FBI took over the Tor node, moved the content to a FBI server, and ran it for two weeks.

Yeah, why don't they just run a porn site full time? Is the limited duration an admission that they shouldn't use that method? Why not continue if it's so effective?
>the police are considering peaceful activism as hostile

Exactly. Police are willfully misinterpreting participation in a conversation intended to raise awareness about police misconduct in an attempt to intimidate activists into remaining silent.

Using social media as a surveillance apparatus to manage their public image through intimidation is essentially cyber bullying.
The sponsorship model requires identifying editorially relevant advertisers and pitching them the benefits of associating with your site. By choosing editorially relevant sponsors, the presence of their content on the main page can support rather than undermine user experience. Appearing on the main page is a more attractive option to potential sponsors because the value proposition is that the site connects them with its visitors.

All that said, the amount of work to acquire sponsors for a small project is about the same as for a larger one...maybe more work since a small project is less attractive to sponsors...and it might be more efficient to pursue professional work and use the cash to support the site.

Good luck.
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409A isn't an arbitrary number the board makes up. Private co's pay external firms to do market research and sift through internal financial/key metrics to derive that number.

Your scenario of an immediate $.30 tax liability because of an arbitrary discount also isn't correct. 409A is recalculated on some interval (quarterly generally) and those price changes determine your stock's new value and subsequent tax liability, but only when you exercise options/sell shares.

The common stock discount you're referring to is when there are preferred shares granted to an investor, but common is still determined by an external firm.

Edit: harryh beat me because I type too slowly.
Ignoring on purpose is fine. The problem is when the only return value is an error which can be ignored simply by not assigning the result to a variable. Forcing the user to do:

_ = f.Close()

... in order to explicitly ignore the error would be nicer, but then, there are many functions which are known to never be checked for their errors, like fmt.Println. That's why the typical advice is to use errcheck, which has filters to avoid "false"-positives (I am not convinced that some function never should be checked for errors).
Virtue signaling much?
Yeah, that sounds like hocus pocus to me.
So do you think this could lead to more people like Bob ponying up $50k to exercise the options considering that he is unlikely to realize a gain?
The basic answer is it uses neither file format but what it does use has similar attributes to both.

RenderMan uses RIB files for its scene description and RIB files contain geometry. This means that one RIB file would typically contain a frame of data and source the shaders and textures from separate file paths.
There is a whole parallel smiley history from Asia that either hasn't been documented as well as the western smileys or simply hasn't been translated.

The notable thing about asian smileys is that they have the same horizon as the text, whereas western smileys needs to be turned 90 degrees. Compare (^.^) with :-)

So given that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is both unicode and horizontal indicates that it is either from Asia or came to be after asian smileys became more prevalent in the west.
Interesting. Thank you for the explanation!
I love archaeology. I love evolutionary science. I love anthropology.

I'm not replying to you directly here. I have a concern about this thread. I felt this was the best place to put it.

Your use of the word "empirical" here may be accurate yet misleading.

Some sciences work with hard data, falsifiable hypothesis, repoducibility, and so forth. In these we can construct mathematical models which eventually we trust explicitly. (Note that in most cases these are not explanatory models, simply sufficient ones.)

Some sciences work with simple observation and correlation, with lots of imaginative community input in place to suppose causation. We can use mathematical models here as well, but there's a huge degree of noise here.

I have no problem with a forum participant coming up with their own speculation. If folks don't like it they can ignore it. Perhaps one day evidence turns up which validates that speculation.

We don't shut down those folks by calling them anti-science. Hell, give these people a book contract. The more imaginative narratives you can create from existing data, the more the scientific community at large will expand what they consider to be the world of alternatives to consider.

What I'm seeing a lot of lately is taking anything with the label "science" on it and telling laymen that they have no business bullshitting in this area. This is not in the best interest of either science or the academy.

ADD: I've seen the flip side of this as well, where really good scientists come up with the most wondrous and dramatic narratives about things where the evidence is thin. That's cool, but many of these folks will use the term "science" as a way of pumping up their speculative fiction. Stringing together a series of what most experts believe is likely while adding your own color commentary is not science. It's entertaining as hell and I love reading it. But it ain't science.
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Mises - 'Theory of Credit and Money': https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit

Adam Smith - 'Wealth of Nations': http://www.ibiblio.org/ml/libri/s/SmithA_WealthNations_p.pdf

Murray Rothbard - 'For a New Liberty': https://mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto

And for those who want to really go deep (some might say, far into the weeds!), I'll add Ludwig von Mises - Human Action: https://fee.org/resources/human-action-by-ludwig-von-mises/

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Are you serious, or trolling? Weird question to ask outright, but I wanted to save time.

Regarding the battery exploding. Yeah, I'd agree that ... no! No, I don't agree at all! First, it exploded, so there's that. A cell in the middle of a multi-cell pack has nowhere to go. Second, it invalidated the experiment; they don't know how much HF would've been released in a real world scenario where the compressed cylinder of reactive metals and gasses is not free to "rapidly disassemble" into the air.

Now, moving on to Samsung's recall. How many failed? Sure, a small fraction. Do you know if yours will fail? How could you possibly know? Wait, I had something for this... oh, yeah. Safely test each cell.

Samsung didn't have that capability, their battery vendor didn't have enough engineers for all those house calls. You don't have that capability (you seem quite cavalier about the whole endeavor, so I'm guessing there). So, yes, since they can't know without testing, they recalled them all. What do you suppose they'll do then?

Probably, get together with the vendor, and test them.

Please stop suggesting to other readers that these things are perfectly safe when you know they're not. They're not tiny little bombs waiting to go off if you sneeze near one, but anyone using untested lithium-ion cells/batteries in untested configurations without a controller on each cell should be discouraged. We don't need a new category of Darwin award winners.
Also interesting - thank you.
Agreed 100%. The best Open Source products motivate and inspire.
Is there a way to add decent CMYK support to GIMP? Is it technically unfeasible, or is it something the main devs are simply uninterested in?
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Exactly. Essentially, it's an investment into the future of the company and will increase the chances of maintaining your culture and productivity.
They know how. You can just ask them.
If you're going to be reporting on his beat, you have to be at least somewhat fluent.
Great job :)
They have shown who is stronger and probably got some PR for their DDOS services.
What? Nobody said "defund the FDA." My grandparent poster said he expected them not to use dirty tricks and intimidation, and my parent poster said that it was cool to control the press to "maintain order" (<-- seriously, that's a quote!) and intimated that not controlling the press to maintain order was an alt-right position.

A belief in an independent, skeptical, and indeed antagonistic press was a core left-wing value as of, like, the late 20th Century. I think it still is or ought to be.
I'm not sure, I actually enjoy the autoplaying videos on FB. I probably wouldn't click 99% of videos I see but silently autoplaying it I get to see a few seconds without having to interact and then decide if I want to keep scrolling or click on it to get sound.
Affected services are http://status.heroku.com and deploys via git, Dropbox and Github sync. Apps are unaffected and running normally.
You could justifiably argue that the better part of the modern economic syllabus is just a formalist footnote to Smith. So that's a great suggestion.
have you considered just a Paypal donate button and ask up front to support the site with a small donation?
We might. Usually service companies have not led to huge businesses, so you'd need to explain how yours would be the exception.
A key factor in whether that's truly a tax shelter is control. If your not in a position to make or even influence decisions about liquidity, you're not exactly a voluntary participant.
For me, Manifest.db inside the backup is a sqlite3 database containing a table Properties with two rows, salt and passwordHash, satisfying:

passwordHash == SHA256(password || salt)
If you only try the passwords that people are likely to use then... Yes
It very much happens on ships.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/16/world/europe/london-shipyard-s...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28827133

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/02/nyregion/11-stowaways-foun...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93659

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/12/news/mn-53272
Of course, Fahlman is a Lisper, so of course he's going to use parens... ;)
Man, wish I could find the link - I had read something probably 10 years ago that discussed the abnormally high number of independently wealthy people in academia and research. Makes sense given how expensive it is and how infrequently it nets positive ROI.

A big part of science are 'ideas', and ideas are interesting things in Human culture. To be the 'idea person' in a social group requires considerable social status. I see so many people in corporations battling to have their ideas win. I see so many people of higher status claiming ownership of the ideas of those 'beneath' them. I see plenty of great ideas being ignored because of who proposes them. And, it's very rare to see an outsider's idea gain influence.

They say that execution matters much more than ideas - but they go hand-in-hand. The person who gets to execute also gets to choose the idea.

Given the comparitive physical weakness of the Human, 'the idea' is their number one weapon and asset. It enables power. So, there are probably a lot of social reasons why most lower-status (lower income) people are kept out of science and research. It's probably more of a systematic result of Human behavior than just being poor.
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Yes. You seem to be bringing very valuable contributions that few developers are able to dedicate time to.

On the other hand, you also seem to be wanting to explore more depths in software development.

A parser should not scare any programmer, parser theory is well developed and well known. There are a lot of books, and online-lectures to learn about parsing, so you may learn about it and become able to modify or debug the parser or the parsed language.

Just use a search engine to find lectures about scanning (lexical analysers), parsing (syntactic analysers), and compilation in general, since it's usually in the context of compilers that parsing algorithms are studied.

Now the point here may be that for each component of your software, you may have to learn one more technique or one more theory to understand it and be able to contribute to it in a meaningful way. That's how it is: programmers keep learning all the time, we're not finished when we get our diploma, it's only the start.
Using something like adsense, you'd be very unlikely to make up any significant portion of expenses in that way. (You will probably get significantly less from advertising than you do in donations, if you've only had less than two million users.) It might be appropriate, but it wouldn't be useful.

Why not run a patreon in addition to taking one-off donations? That way, people who think your work is worth supporting can pitch in on a repeating basis.
Well yes it kind of does move the problem, but it moves it in an interesting direction, because it pushes it to become a self-solving problem.

The important difference is that with this approach, we could never actually get to understand how powerful AI is "really" made, as we would be isolated from it by too many levels of abstraction.

Same as currently we train deep neural networks, and we get them to work (eg. for image recognition), but we don't really know - nor care - what rules and algorithms they developed for themselves under the hoods.
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No it won't . Stop promoting this stupid claim .
I guess my thought was that if they are moving beyond very limited use cases and into broader ones (e.g. communication, which almost certainly involves very broad allowable inputs) then the existence of provably correct programs for small problems is less relevant.

But as I'm starting to understand, it may be that this is still a very limited case compared to the theoretical general case, even if it is significantly more general than e.g. proving a given program will halt.
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?" - Marie Curie.
Tell that to the judge
What's the benefit of a wholly illiquid "shelter"?
Every time I see a new post from hintjens I think: "oh, he's still alive!" and I feel a strange mix of happiness (about him being still alive) and sadness (about his very probable demise) at the same time.
I tend to agree with you. GIMP is a very important project in my view because it provides legal, cross-platform access to a baseline of image manipulation tools. The above-and-beyond feature set is fantastic, but not the reason why I love it.

I suppose this isn't directly related, but following the theme of OSS alternatives to commercial software... after being ignorant of the OSS desktop application world for a few years, two cross-platform projects have blown my mind recently with their feature sets and level of polish:

Natron - https://natron.fr/ - Node-based video compositor. I've used it to add some dumb special effects to videos.

Godot - https://godotengine.org/ - Unity-like game engine and IDE with export to all non-console platforms. I've used it to make some dumb games.
So not only did he not lose $1M (he invested $100k), the article doesn't tell us how (come back for part 2). Pretty disappointing journalism.
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Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
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Yup, 53. Or maybe 44 if you don't count the state that don't tax ordinary income.
A bit shortsighted that you'd call Italians 'native' to the North End — even if we disregard Native Americans, The North End began with Irish immigrants (who managed to push out a small African community in a section called New Guinea).

The Irish were ultimately pushed out by a mix of Jewish and Italian immigrants (the Jews ultimately shifted to Roxbury and the Italians took hold and established the North End as 'Little Italy').

I don't think gentrification is any more over than it was 100 years ago. It simply cycles.
Every recent Tesla has a built-in LTE connection. (I think some of the earlier models were 3G only)

You don't need to buy your own SIM - it comes with its own international roaming SIM, with free data for 8 years.
OK, well, let's exclude "salt substitutes" from consideration; as the name suggests, that's not really what people generally mean when talking about "salt" in a culinary context.
If I am bored I would at least try to kill 2 birds with one stone and not to reinvent the wheel: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
True, you can discard errors on purpose by assigning them to "_", which is an explicit way of saying "I do not care about this error happening". If you do that and get a panic down the line, you already know where to start debugging. That's much better than having an exception bubble up from deeeeep inside your code with some context-less cryptic message or number, isn't it?
"Fail Safe Investing" by Harry Browne and "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham.

Discussion of the former here:

http://www.gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum
Ok, I got it clearer: somebody at Apple fucked up and left a weak SHA256 Hash and salt inside a db table that shouldn't be there. Probably used in testing for the betas, then nobody remembered to comment it away before the public release.
Some engineer and somebody in QA will get their ass kicked pretty badly. Next iOS public release will solve it, everybody's gonna be happy.
Nothing to see here folks, we can move on :)
Yeah. Title is misleading.
Roughtime is a project that aims to provide secure time synchronisation
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Stock is through the roof right now. About +19%
It's a skirt
I am wondering if there will be additional complexity added to the rule making phase of this if it becomes law.

While this amendment is short in length, it seems to add additional complexity to an already complex tax code. I would have liked to have seen an even simpler proposal.
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These things are sent to journalists for free by university marketing departments/people who want grants. Also the size of the market you are suggesting is not going to be worth pursuing.
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It represents a person (presumably a woman) wearing a dress/skirt.

o>-<|=

o head
> arms raised
- torso
<| skirt
= legs
I vividly remember having the following conversation with a fellow CMU undergrad around this time:

Me: What's with all the :-) in the posts?

Friend: It indicates joking.

Me: Why?

Friend: What's it look like?

Me: A pinball plunger.

Friend: Rotate 90 degrees.

Me: Ohhhhhh.

:-)
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That was 3.5 years ago. CloudFlare's ability to deal with DDoS has changed substantially in that time and we deal with enormous attacks day in day out automatically.
It is not a book, but Matt Levine is the way I get my daily finance news. He is fantastic.
It's not the logical fallacy you think it is when there's an actual authority involved.
If iTunes has a token to get complete access to the device, and this attack requires access to that token, then again it's not an iTunes issue.

The way the article is worded makes me think that you wouldn't normally be able to use the token to get the data without this bug, which means that it can't be an iTunes issue.

Also, the fact that it's only iOS 10 implies the same.
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