skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are confused. xz does not provide the ability to find individual files inside of the format: it is not at all comparable to zip files, and like the other formats mentioned it compresses one file. The "seekable" property is that it lets you somewhat efficiently decompress arbitrary byte ranges inside of the file, which is why a compressed disk image (as used by your parent commenter) benefits from this property but the industry-standard usage of compressing a tar file (which is a file format which inherently makes it impossible to find individual files without reading the whole thing) totally throws away this benefit.
Thanks

Is this analogy accurate?

I have one road to get home. It got blocked so I create 2 more roads.

I now have 3 Roads to get home. All 3 become blocked. So now I have to make another road.

More roads is redundancy and requires capital.

The roads become unblocked but I now must expect future road blocks.
And how many of them are seriously interested in going to Mars as early colonists? Maybe a handful at most. Consider how they got to be high net worth in the first place. A lot of work, a lot of risk. What for? I'd say for status and luxury. Things that they will lose if they go to Mars - living in cramped pressurized stations with a few dozen other colonists.
Does this release also support rendering Jupyter notebooks like github does?
To be honest, Category Theory is the last thing a software developer ("working hacker") should worry about learning. It is indeed a fun subject, it has grown into a large branch of algebra, it has connections with functional programming (lambda calculus) etc. But if one wants to be a good programmer, there is so much of really useful and important (and difficult) stuff to learn before you can even come to appreciate what, if anything, knowing Category Theory can do to improve your software engineering skills, that I would dare to characterize it just as an obscure subject that in all likelihood is not worth spending your time on.
There's a lot of bitching and complaining in this post. Unfortunately, I seem to have missed the part where the author offered up his solution and explained how he was getting started on it.
Inside Microsoft’s quest for a topological quantum computer
Not even as a contractor? So I would send an invoice and they pay it. I deal with the tax stuff.
which a lot of my Investment trusts have done for several decades
Not to get all wiseacre but the real culture clash is when primary education amounts to almost nothing.

I've taught in inner-city high schools and I'm positive that a single person (parent or otherwise) with the right motivation and tools can better educate a child than a failing system.
The legal system is less brain-dead than you imagine. :-) This is not the first time in history that a plague of imported items causes a problem.

Etsy and eBay will survive. Ford survived the Exploding Pinto. Firestone survived its tire debacle. And we are all the safer for it.
I find your comment a mystery. The fact that something is communicated via the Internet doesn't magically make it dismissible. Ideas that make people mad can be communicated in all sorts of ways, the medium is irrelevant.

So I read your comment as dismissing the concept that words actually have meaning. It seems like a very nihilistic point of view.
I'm not a JavaScript expert but I believe most serious JavaScript implementations can represent sparse arrays, or arrays with holes in the range of indices, for this reason.
Any good reading on how to determine your allocation strategy? I read up on Bogleheads but there isn't always much on the "why" that is backed by data.
I agree with you about fractories often being stupid replacements for free-functions. I am thinking of more dynamic things: e.g. a handle to a network connection should be passed around instead of singletoned.

But even if dependency injection has all the costs you claim for it. Those costs are at their smallest when the system is small. So I still say xypud is wrong: you should do injection by default and when it gets too cumbersome then you think about how to streamline the interfaces.
"When telecom corporations begin to throttle content between fast or slow lanes, at their discretion, they begin to control exactly what we see and hear."

This is actually good for corporations. Instead of having a less-expensive plan and a more-expensive plan, they now are forced to only have the expensive one. Not so good if you want lower prices.

"This is no more a plan to regulate the Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech. They both stand for the same concepts: openness, expression, and an absence of gatekeepers telling people what they can do, where they can go, and what they can think."

We also should be more concerned with popular websites and mainstream news sites allowing equality of political opinion. Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube all censor dissenting political opinions.
See also BBCP:

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/bbcp.git/
Ok the proxy vote is good—I guess the real problem when everyone's investments are so diverse, it's impossible to be an educated voter in all cases.
I'm curious, what should come before as a far as a mathematical subject ? Graph theory ? Number theory ?
I think he's saying the criticizing of stigmatizing Jews back then by the media and a political party would have been met with the same "shut up and stop being politically correct" dismissals that are echoed today in certain circles. Basically, large scale trolling isn't something that can be shrugged off, it may be signaling something that requires serious thought.
They are creating managed funds that make money, you can't access them. The problem with index funds is that a lot of the active capital is moving to closed markets.

So when the bogleheads endlessly debate the perfect portfolio mix, they miss the point that they have zero exposure to private equity and other markets.

Index funds are better than managed funds, and are mostly better than individual equities. That doesn't mean that 100% of your money should be in them.
This submission is a ploy by the NSA and advertisers to further refine their demographic slot of "old hackers".

Kermit, zmodem, bbs, baud.

South Park's Member Berries are in full force here.

CoCo forever!
The equivalent Swedish "Proof of Person" is handled by the tax office.
Um, AliExpress, heard of it?
+1 for usinf dc.js type examples. I wished many times "Rust by example" could follow this type of detailed explanations and complex examples.
To be fair, he didn't say he was proud of it, he said he enjoyed it.
> New Issue from the Issue Board

Finally. I missed this so much. Loving the work GitLab is putting in to their product.

Now, if only I could rearrange backlog items.
So say You ensure people have the opportunity isn't actually happening. How do you fix it while avoiding topics of gender, race, etc.?
Do those Go programs use explicit SIMD ?

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
You have no idea.

/v8 hacker
> I think you may be underestimating the "language barrier" for more junior devs.

I know people like that. Once junior devs, too back in the heyday of Enterprise Java in the late 90s they couldn't be bothered to learn this ugly upstart language known as JavaScript because "serious developers don't use a toy language like that". In part, who can blame them? CS professors at that time floated ideas like object-orientation and code generation being the be-all and end-all.

These developers sometimes went at great lengths to avoid writing the tiniest bit of JavaScript at all (when it 'finally' became obvious that this newfangled web thing wasn't a passing fad ...) and invented convoluted frameworks that generated JavaScript from Java code. These frameworks inevitably couldn't keep up with the pace of change in the web development community at large, which is why nowadays they often are a huge technical debt to the projects they're used in.

The developers themselves, now not so junior anymore, often have a hard time finding a job today because learning something besides Enterprise Java was too much of a hassle.

So, while the idea of "easing in" junior developers by having a consistent language in all layers might have some merit, in the long run it might very well be doing them a disservice and also leave behind a huge pile of technical debt in the end.
Yup, I've written a brief primer to accompany my will: https://github.com/nickgieschen/investingguidelines
Maybe put it this way:

Imagine a lake of piss, next to it, a mountain of shit.

Now I dump a whole bunch of garbage onto one of them.

Which am I supporting?

Or maybe you can explain this bit from the article that really mystified me: "[Russian hackers did something] with the aim of undermining the US democratic process". We've all seen what this democratic process looks like on TV, so what does it actually still mean, to undermine this democratic process?

Most Americans, do not really want to support Clinton over Trump or vice versa, they're angry and disappointed that from a nation of several hundred million people, apparently these two are the choices given to them by "the democratic process".

And apparently this is the way it is, because the election system makes it that way. It's probably the same causes that make just about every US election for as long as I remember end up just about this close to 50/50. Which, if you know anything about voting systems theory, is the number one failure mode of majority voting. But nobody finds this cultural either/or winner/loser fixation alarming at all, apparently. So again, what's left to undermine, really?

It's just like accusing someone of trying to undermine freedom of speech in China.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12763365
And by "the majority's values" you mean "my wallet".
just saying USB is a bit misleading- it uses thunderbolt 3 with usb c.
Ah - I presumed that the debian xz-based packages were using it as an archive, instead of the old 'ar'. But I just looked and you are right, the xz support is for the data.tar.xz that itself is still inside the 'ar' archive format. That is odd. I guess they chose this way for simplicity - far less code needs changing in all the .deb file processing utilities.
Right, but if you keep your gun under your mattress, someone steals it, and then uses it to shoot someone halfway across the world it's not you're fault.

It's like door locks -- we use them because thieves exist and we would rather manage keys than go though the effort of recovering our stolen goods, but even if someone doesn't have one, it's still always the fault of the thief.
That's why I got an Asus RT-AC5300 router. It's got a beautiful traffic analyzer.

I could've built something but honestly I don't have time for that anymore.
Fuses (circuit breakers actually) are required by code.
Just turn off the "VPN" proxying if that makes you uncomfortable.

Personally I am less concerned about the Boogiemen from China/Russia than about the pervasive ruin of privacy by US companies.
Could U.S. Economy Grow as Fast as India's or China's?
Ahh, the BBS days. 513 represent!
Very cool ideas!
Last month a woman of arab origins went to speak with far (extreme~) right people at their party meeting. Reactions would be the usual rant about immigration, reflex anger. She didn't debate the arguments, mostly asked about them, calmly. 3 minutes later they were in an understanding discussion, almost friendly.

My reaction was that we should find a way to handle social gathering, political parties. It's so easy to turn into an echo chamber based distortion field.

There's something about our minds and how we interact that creates walls. We should approach things a bit like buddhism, with new eyes and not prejudice. And ability to amort people which are already walled up so they can climb it down themselves and go back to relaxed open minded, honest interactions.
Really the only thing you have to do is rebalance. I do it every half year, but some people even do it every two years. And it takes all of, maybe, 20 minutes. Of course, you need to grasp the principles, which takes reading a book or two, so that's, say, 10 more hours. With compounding over the next forty of fifty years, saving those 25 basis points or whatever it is that betterment charges over Vanguard's fees is not insignificant. It's not a ton, but totally worth an hour a year to me.
Yeah, you sound like the usual person who wants to sweep away a strong history of oppression by pretending that being equal is all that's necessary, and uses that as a tool to suppress dissent from populations experiencing significant active oppression that you don't see because of your privileged position.

We say "black lives matter" not because white lives don't, but because it is a defacto truth of our system that black lives are treated as mattering much less. What you're doing is suppressing dissent in a way that maintains the status quo.
There were a bunch of different something-Modems around that time that fiddled around with window sizes, retransmission approaches, batch transmission, and so forth. In case anyone is wondering, there was a YModem (also developed by Forsberg) in addition to XModem and ZModem along with various variants.

I even interned for a small company one summer that implemented one of these for a timesharing service using Prime minis.
Really? I thought that's what the page was telling me when it said .xz was a container format. In that case, its file format is extra odd!
I see. I just check mine and luckily DD-WRT disabled it by default.
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Worth noting that even of stories such as these (new media, tech heavy) coverage by traditional media end up on the home page of HN. Beyond this observation, it seems that this election cycle brought home the importance of journalism for many people.
Given a 1 in 10 ratio of blacks in the USA, I expect a similar ratio in porn. It might be different in South America. The algorithmic preference for maximal differences from another comment sounds like a good argument, anyhow.
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Completely unreadable on mobile because of a overlaid menu with position:fixed.
OK, I'll bite. This article is overblown in its criticisms and has some issues of its own.

1. The article itself recommends that "a tool is supposed to do one thing and do it well". Well, xz is for compression, nothing else. If you want to check integrity, use a hashing tool such as sha256sum. If you want to recover from errors, generate parity files using par2 or zfec.

2. The article claims xz was chosen by prominent open source projects due to hype. No, it was chosen because of its favorable size/speed tradeoffs.

3. It's not clear what the author means by "long-term archiving". Archives professionals (as in, people who are actually employed by memory institutions) will tell you of many factors (all unmentioned here) that have a bearing on whether a file format (particularly a compressed one) is suitable for use in data preservation.

4. The section on trailing data is particularly bizarre. By claiming that xz is "telling you what you can't do with your files", it seems that the author considers it perfectly reasonable to append arbitrary data to the end of a file and expect it to continue functioning. Is my normality detector off today or is this just a wacky thing to want to do?

5. The article is written by the author of lzip (which it compares favorably to xz), but does not disclose this. Admittedly it is hosted on the lzip site, but overall the article comes across as an opinionated hit-piece designed to sow doubt in a competitor.
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> Respectfully, that's absolutely ridiculous. As you can see, even now those with degrees are only 30% of the population. The unemployment rate is nowhere near 70%, I can assure you.

Yes, people are employed without a college degree, and they're working at McDonalds at or near minimum wage. I should have been specific: if you want a good job you need a college degree.

It still comes down to supply and demand, and cities tend to be land-locked, leaving up the only way to expand. But as most people still desire detached homes, up is not an option to help with that market. Not to mention zoning issues, financial issues, etc. that can add considerable time to making upward growth available to those who are interested. Outside of that, the only thing that can give is on the demand side, but these cities continue to grow by leaps and bounds regardless.

Sorry I still don't see how this means that urbanization is the issue.

> Which clearly dispels any myths that more education leads to higher incomes, so that isn't a justification for being there either, in case you were thinking it (many do, sadly).

A college degree absolutely leads to higher incomes. This has been studied and is a fact.

> Now, the median income in Vancouver is about $20,000 USD per year lower than in SF, but $20K isn't anywhere near enough to cover an additional $560,000 on a mortgage. Not even close. So, in reality, the issue is far more apparent in SF than it is in Vancouver.

I think the difference is that the reason home prices are what they are in San Francisco is because you have an accumulation of the most powerful companies in the most powerful industry on the planet. People are making a lot of money in San Francisco and there are a lot of jobs. There is some foreign investment, but people can also Why are home prices high in Vancouver?

So I'm not 100% sure how accurate this is... but it looks like more than 40% of residents in San Francisco are earning $100k +. What's that statistic for Vancouver? The median is misleading. Look at the distributions.
I remember when we did our own zmodem implementation so we could bypass download limits. Large BBS' at the time had restrictions on how many KB you could download in a day, but they only counted completed file transfers. ZModem had a provision for restarting failed transfers, so it was normal for a transfer to fail before completion (call waiting!) and the user to come back later to finish it. Our implementation could receive the last packet successfully, then push the transfer back a few blocks (retries) and fail.

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Google does, but DDG has done it earlier as far as I remember.
Do they offer anything over zero fee robos like Schwab? What about vanguard's robo offering?
I tend to use petgraph[1] when I need a graph-like data structure (the only time I've needed cycles). Super fast, distinguishes `Node`s from `Edge`s, lots of useful items for different kinds of traversal.

[1]: https://github.com/bluss/petgraph
D-Wave does that with supposedly quantum version of 'spin glass' model, a generalization of the Ising model.
(also, sorry, the speech stuff was using HMM+GMM models, and now mostly use HMM+DNN models [so, we replaced the gaussian mixture model with a DNN, but kept the HMM], although some people are moving over to RNN models which doesn't use HMMs (connectionist temporal classification))

This is a great course, about NLP generally:

http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

A typical NLU system might be:

an intent classifier to predict intent (e.g., "play music"). This can be pretty much anything (SVM, logistic regression, RNN, I don't care, try stuff and see what works for you)

a segmentation model or slot-filling model (so label every word as either junk or "album name" or "song name" or whatever). This requires a sequence model, e.g., HMMs, CRFs, LSTM-RNNs.

Here's a nice example:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Certainly not the carriers or vendors.

Sadly, it seems "the public" just doesn't care all that much. (If they're even aware of the implications of their complacency, which seems doubtful.)
Who remembers IceZmodem? A backwards compatible protocol that allowed you to play Tetris or listen to .MOD files while downloading... and if you were downloading from an IceZmodem capable host, you'd even get increased download speeds!

http://textfiles.com/computers/DOCUMENTATION/izm-q&a.txt
How's it not a parody? Seems like it's parodying of a pseudo-Japanese Free Software enthusiast, likely by a 4channer, that just happens to have some real content.

Also: <!DOCTYPE QTML>
Honestly, it seems floating point computations are, by some measure, possibly pretty old at this point in the formal methods world! Intel has been investing in formal verification of its floating point units since at least the 90s when FDIV hit them, and this was when the tech was way worse than what we have today!

Hell, CompCert -- which you can download today -- already has a proven adherence to IEEE-754 floating point, implemented by specifying IEEE-754 semantics in Coq, then using that to create a proof the compiler correctly preserves the semantics of IEEE-754 during the compilation process.
Vaguely relevant/example: http://imgur.com/7Bf3hLZ
> if you assign to an index that's way past the end of your the elements array, V8 may downgrade the elements to dictionary mode... avoid copying from the back

Sublime I think still has the snippet for "optimized for loop" that runs in reverse. I have never seen that improve performance, and I didn't know that it could actually be harmful if used to initialize an array.
Why do you think feminists like Emma Watson glorify prejudice? She does no such thing. To the contrary: she is painfully nice to everybody.

Why do you equate the meanness of Trump and Clinton? In what world are their personal faults comparable? Donald Trump is petty and vindictive to an unusual degree. Clinton is a normal politician.

You cannot change society without criticizing it. Social justice activists spend a lot of time pointing out injustice in society, in the hope to persuade people to become less discriminatory. This doesn't make them mean or bullies. The problem is that any time sexist, racist or otherwise nasty behavior is pointed out people tend to get angry, and they want to lash out at person who criticized their behavior instead of reflecting on the merits of the accusation.

It's embarrassing to see your post at the top of this thread. And people wonder why there aren't more women and minorities in tech...
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I assume that they're better about generating it implicitly. That is, it's about why Rust is slow, not about why Go is fast.
The purely mathematical subjects that are deemed important for programmers are parts of the so-called Discrete Mathematics. The Wikipedia article on it lists what is included. It is a vast collection of topics, but discerning what would be more important (or interesting) for you should not be hard.
Your response is still completely ignoring the problem of identifying the offending devices. When all you have to go on is a spoof-able possibly dynamic IP address, and the device is probably behind NAT anyway, good luck tracking it down or knowing what it is, in enough cases to prevent you from making more than a small dent in the problem. Then even once you know what it is, that doesn't tell you who the owner is. Then even if you find the owner, that doesn't tell you the retailer or the distributor. By the time you find the distributor, the device will be obsolete anyway and replaced by the next generation of bad devices.

Your way may have worked in the past when the harm was felt directly by the consumer who knew who the retailer was. But now, the harm is inflicted on remote parties who have no inkling about the source of the harmful devices. So your argument has a huge hole in it.
I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure Schwab and Vanguard don't tax loss harvest.