skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand it, but look at it from this point of view. PrestaShop 1.7 requires everyone to purchase new themes and modules. The code base is extremely messed up.

We are taking the PrestaShop 1.6 codebase that has 10k modules and 2k themes as a fork. If we go changing the database handling off the bat we are going to lose the compatibility that might make us successful. We aren't a project starting from scratch with unencumbered code. We need to maintain compatibility to be successful in the beginning. We are springboarding basically. You are wanting us to take the springboard away and just jump.
Not just two states but causality. Something causes something else to happen. Although Sean Carroll says causality is an illusion, everything is "pre-defined". This just happen to flow one direction at a macro scale.
Are the any big vulnerabilities you're thinking of?
Try spacemacs everyone, it's incredible, and the cider repl for clojure is the real deal. I was a long time vim user who tried to switch to emacs for a month but abandoned it for intelli j, and then atom for while. The spacebar mechanism to trigger the top level navigation that you drill into is an amazing mechanism for memorizing key short cuts (or not remembering and being able to use the menu to get what you need). spc p f inside a project has changed my life, I can't go back to a tree directory for navigation. Frees a lot of my working memory up.

Kind of a rant and off topic, but I think it's the bees knees and it's ace for clojure / common lisp / javascript / flow / anything else.
The commoditization of this equipment means that any company doing things well would quickly be outmanuevered by those who do not care enough to do the same.
Facebook Hacker Cup (Qualification Round 6-9 January)
Out of luck with Nvidia proprietary driver and latest Fedora:

RuntimeError: OpenGL is missing the required ARB_copy_image extension

ARB_copy_image is OpenGL 4.3 extension. Is it supported by NVIDA driver at Linux? Or it's hardware problem? (I have GF106M [GeForce GTX 460M] (rev a1) installed ).
Either use a three fund plan (Google "bogleheads three fund") or a target date fund, either of which you'd do at Vanguard. This is the cheapest, most efficient passive investment method.
Pinterest on its 2016 diversity goals
Thank you. Stephen was quite deaf (60dB loss) so we emailed each other all day, even though we were sitting together. When I noticed he was straining to hear during a conference call, I started summarising what each speaker had said. He thanked me afterwards. When he looked confused about something I said, I made sure to repeat it using the exact words I had used as he hadn't heard one or more of them. I noticed that other people thought he hadn't understood, not that he hadn't heard, and repeated what they had said using different words, which confused him even more.

Stephen's deafness did not affect his work, of course, until management made him a quality engineer for our voice over IP project. With that kind of thinking, the company wasn't making any money and owed all of us six months wages. You learn a lot about motivating your team under those circumstances. I did it by emphasising the importance of what we were doing. Of the ten software and five hardware engineers, we were the only ones joining the software to the hardware.

Apart from not being paid, it was a great place to work and I'm glad it gave me an opportunity to develop my management and people skills. Until then, I had been much better at programming computers than working with people and I was feeling a bit lopsided.
I would go into manufacturing. My dad has a stake in a steel mill. Heavy industries and robots fascinate me.

But right now even though I'm in tech, I can't afford my rent or be able to afford a house. I feel very unsuccessful hitting 30s.
Thanks! I'm using a shitty markov chain generator with real fake and real real news for training data, and using that for most of the articles. For the comments, I either wrote them or took them from real fake news websites.
The qualification round is easy and any programmer should be able to solve one of the first two problems. There is no time limit except for the three day running time of the round. Any correct solution for any of the three problems qualifies for the first timed round of play.

Then the problems start to get challenging.

You can even write your solutions in any language you like. Or experiment with something new.

So come on over to the Hacker Cup and let's have a fun time programming.
You weren't joking, it is a story. Isn't it kind of unfortunate that all this information is in a commit message, that 1) needs to be discovered through git blame, 2) at risk of requiring code archeology if enough lines change, e.g. by moving code around, and 3) is immutable so parts of it cannot be edited in the future?

I see this habit in a lot of commit messages and while it is important to convey intent, there are better ways to document your code (either inline, or in this particular case, a wiki page).
Well, the kitty you mention only works on Windows, so what packages on official repos are we talking about?
Amazon ‘Alexa’ Orders Dollhouses for Owners After ‘Hearing’ TV Report
I'll leave it here:

https://youtu.be/v99-S4_IvVg
For Elixir try The Little Elixir OTP Guidebook

https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guid...
From FINRA, Delaware law and the SEC's perpsrictive, no. If you are not lawfully forthcoming the sanctions and fines will come on swiftly and heavily.
Report: Chinese Regulators Exploring Bitcoin Connection to Capital Flight
To give an update on status of project, I'm currently at the point where the policy net alone plays at 2-3kyu with a day or so of training. MCTS is implemented but Python is slow enough that I don't get significant Playouts. As a result I don't have insight into the scalability of my implementation. I'm currently working on code to play batches of games in parallel which should be of use both for RL and parallelized MCTS playouts.
No idea, sorry, I have not used nvidia in many years. I cant tell you that it works with the radeon and intel open source GPU drivers.
Couldn't you say that about SSH? If your application is taking forever reading from the stdout buffer, your application will block when it is trying to write to stdout with say, printf, or fprintf.
Given the amount of effort I had to go to to "literally" bridge a smartphone to my network to give myself Internet access when my fibre connection went down, do you think this is slightly incorrect?

I'm assuming what you mean is that smartphones may be connecting to your internal network and bringing malware with them.

That said, the corporate networks I've seen have a separate network for phones/laptops and you need to VPN in if you want other access.
Much of it is reproduced in the comment in the patch.
The GTX 460 came out six years ago. It goes up to OpenGL 4.1.

Sorry, pal.

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-460...

Edit: I was wrong! My bad.
They listed several ancillary factors that could lead to homelessness, and yet the article fails to mention the very largest reason for homelessness in SF: an egregiously stubborn refusal to increase the supply of housing, for the last 30 years! This problem wasn't created overnight. CA environmentalists, lobbyist, NIMBYs and other progressives(actually highly conservative), have been working hard to create laws that prevent the increased supply of housing. It's just so sad that so many people don't understand the truth and the real reason behind these things. Lack of housing supply affects everyone: the spillover effects are massive: putting a strain on public transportation, the roads, the surrounding housing areas, etc.

SF alone, spends 240 million dollars a year, just on combating homelessness, and yet, it's not going to go very far, as long as housing costs are sky high and the supply is way too low.

the solution: We really need a drastic increase in supply of housing. They need to get rid of all height restrictions and work with developers to eliminate every last law that prevents more supply. Then, provide legal protection against NIMBYs. Then, 1 line item at a time, they need to look at the cost of housing to find out why it's so high and start making cuts, eliminating all the laws that result in such high housing costs. I know it sounds drastic, but, we're in a state of emergency here. No one wants to acknowledge that.
That may be the theory, the practice is that the policy of many companies with regard to integrating *GPL code is "not with a ten-foot stick".
I haven't heard the 'dirty hack' argument before. Perhaps we only see those things as 'dirty hacks' because of the incompleteness and inelegance of our own theories.
"The internet and the platforms that it makes possible allow very small groups of individuals to make enormous profits while employing very few people.

The Internet also makes it cheaper and easier than at any time in history, for an individual (or small group) to start their own business and peddle their wares to billions of people around the globe. Etsy? Ebay? Fulfilled by Amazon? Etc? FedEx/UPS? Contract manufacturing? Not to mention 3D printing other low-cost prototyping and fabrication technologies. Or the ability to hire programmers, or a consultant with India's equivalent of an MBA from Wharton, for far less than it would cost in the US or Europe?

Yeah, the Internet has a dark side. But it unleashes tremendous opportunity for individuals as well. I would posit that one of the largest problems is that too many people simply (aren't aware of | don't care about | are scared to embrace | don't know how | etc.) the potential that could be unleashed.

Now, the question to me is, how do we take the unemployed coal-mine worker from Charleston, WV and give him/her the knowledge and skills needed to truly take advantage of what the Internet can offer?
It's opensource. PuTTY is ported to Linux and is already in Fedora official repo[1], so KiTTY can be ported to Linux too.

[1]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/putty/
> Commercial TV-station were still mostly broadcasting from England, due to the former state monopoly. To many Scandinavians this is the most natural thing in the world

A state monopoly is a restriction on freedom.

I'm fairly libertarian-leaning (on some issues), and what you're saying sounds to me like: "our lack of freedom is the most natural thing in the world".

It's like a slave who's lived in slavery all his life saying that "slavery is the most natural thing in the world". Doesn't matter if the slave master has treated the slave well and given him/her a comfortable life.

A law that prevents private television broadcasters from existing is a violation of the people's freedom to organize and form their own broadcast networks.

I find your acceptance and nonchalance at this honestly quite disturbing.

There's nothing natural in a state monopoly. It's a restriction on individual freedom, and it's as simple as that.

The thing I find unnatural is people not caring about their freedom, and willingly (and happily) surrendering it over to the state.
During any sort of setup, do you do anything out of the ordinary for fun?
More of a just-for-fun rather than a totally serious question.

Whenever I set up an account on a Unix or Unix-like system, I pretty much always set my .plan file to read "I love it when a .plan comes together". I don't think anyone even uses finger anymore.

How about you? Maybe you name your wifi access point "{FBI, NSA, CIA} Van". What else do you do or have you seen?
But that's mean...
Intellectually dishonest? You're the one who started this comment chain with the false dichotomy that anyone asking for concrete evidence is either a Russian shill or Trump supporter.
A real 500fps terminal (with 500Hz display) would be nice, because timing jitter would be very low no matter what keyboard autorepeat rate you used. Autorepeat would appear smooth even when the frame rate isn't an integer multiple of the repeat rate. Although in practice something like 120fps is probably sufficient if used with MPV-style motion interpolation.
You mean life is keeping you from doing what you really want to do? I think most people feel that way.
> The Modern English word religion doesn't mean the same thing as Latin religare, or even Latin religio, or even the original Middle English sense of religion.

If you look at these lists of 'modern' definitions of religion, the plurality (if not the majority) of the ones from academia seem roughly aligned with the (disputed) etymology.

http://web.pdx.edu/~tothm/religion/Definitions.htm

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln101/defi...

E.g. the William James quote: "[Religion is] the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."

That's basically another way of saying what I said, and I don't see any reason not to include scientists under that umbrella. I mean even the phrase from the paper "a quantum state eternally evolving in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space" sounds an awful lot like a conception of "the divine".
I don't really get the appeal of voice prompted ordering. Is there really a big enough market of people for whom this is more than a novelty?

For many products, you want to do at least some research before ordering. For products you order regularly, reordering is usually only a couple of clicks/taps.
Don't they only seem like hacks through our understanding, though? Once it's starts looking like a hack isn't it just as likely we're missing something that isn't necessarily a simulation issue?
Well if you look at the question of why religion is such a prominent trait of the human species, we seem to have an innate bias in favor of the idea that the universe was created to allow for our existence. And it requires a certain amount of mental effort to resist that bias.
I can speak to the GitHub repo and source. Basically a lot of the companies that are forking are agencies that are affiliated with PrestaShop. We are bound under certain contracts (not ones that deal with the OSL though). We basically decided this move this week.

The reason the GH repo is not public yet is because we are changing the licensing (the copyright attribution not the type) and the branding. Also we are going over the code and commenting what is PrestaShop's and ours. On a basic level we are trying to do everything right with the code to cover our asses and not get sued. As for the license we are not experts in licensing, we are developers. It seems easiest for us to keep the same license that is on the code than to try to transfer it to another system. It is going to stay under the OSL 3.0.

That being said, that is why we have the mailing list sign up. We are shooting to have everything cleaned by early in the week where we can release the public repo and a road map of what needs to be worked on. This is going to be a totally open source project, we are just trying to do it in a way that will not end up in us getting sued for some minor violation of the license.

As for a community platform, that is what I am going for. I own an agency that manages around 800 PrestaShop websites. I see my clients leaving. I see them leaving for stupid reasons
(not on their part, stupid reason on PrestaShop's part). I am trying to stop the bloodletting in my company and give my clients what I hear them asking for.

Transparency is what we are going for. I want users to suggest features. I look at other platforms often and say things like 'damn that would make a nice core feature'. Its part of the reason we are breaking off. There is nothing more demoralizing than spending a day or two working on a feature for an open source platform then they reject it. Not only do they reject it, the company (PrestaShop) takes the idea and sells it as a paid module. This happened to one of our developers.

tldr: We are going to be totally open source under the same OSL 3.0 license we just need to properly deal with and attribute the code before we release it to try to prevent a lawsuit.
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Start there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#History

There are various sites that had article about early IE history. And I suggest you to install Mosaic browser on Win7 32bit and try it out yourself - you will see how familiar almost everything is, if you know IE from everyday usage. Not just familiar, but also little things, traits and glitches are still in todays IE and Edge.
For a really long time, my wireless router had an SSID of "NSA Surveillance Van 13". I didn't stick with it last time I set up a new one though. I don't even really remember why.
It would be cool if they could integrate it with a service like peapod (grocery shopping brought to your door). "Alexa, add to list x" and eventually "alexa order list x"

Other than that is pretty much novelty like you said.
Well, Alexa will only actually buy something if you've already purchased it (EDIT: Seems this isn't true anymore!). The use-case of this is something lie "Alexa, buy more toilet paper" or "Alexa, we're out of salt." Saying it from across the room while cooking is much easier than washing your hands, grabbing your phone, loading the app, searching for the product, and hitting "buy".

It's definitely meant more as a replacement for a shopping list than it is a way to, say, do your Christmas shopping.
I moved onto a Surface after a few years of being on Macs. While there are some minor, yet key, areas that the Surface, and Windows, are behind in (touchpad, power consumption), I think that the gap between them is closing very quickly. Windows has Ubuntu built into it. The kernel goes through a Windows subsystem, so there is a thin layer of syscall translation involved, but it's more or less complete and is highly usable. I use it daily, and between native sshd and PuTTY, I have a "real" terminal that closely resembles the setup I had going on my Macs. Being able to use the screen as a notebook or tablet is HIGHLY convenient for my meetings and research materials. The Touch Bar is convenient, but very lacking in this regard, and the macOS team is very steadfast in avoiding the development of something similar (that we know of).
What do we want? Time Travel.

When do we want it? Doesn't matter.
Rake’s Progress: A Look at the Well-Traveled Casanova
Ah yeah, forgot about that, sorry. jwz really does not like hn at all. He's clearly a really smart guy, and all of us on hn benefit from what he's done. But at the same time I wish he'd take maciej's approach to criticizing the bad parts of HN (with snarky tweets and great writing, two things HN loves) as opposed to a redirect to a picture of testicles.

Are there a lot of "finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers" here? Yeah. But this is also one of a few places on the open Internet where there are a lot of really interesting, really smart people in one place, and rejecting it wholesale would be sad.
From https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2016/12/19.html (copy and paste link into address bar):

> I know that with this level of transparency and vulnerability I'm setting myself up for a bunch of wisecracks from people who are all too eager to tell me what I did wrong and how they totally would have done it differently, having created nothing of lasting value themselves. How this situation [could have been avoided] or that was "obvious" [that it would happen]. Haters gonna hate, I know how it goes.

I really hope this will work out for the proprietor. They're asking for $110,000 recurring donation per month to meet monthly payroll, San Fransisco rent, utilities and unpaid bills (without offering a tangible reward).

While that amount of money ($1.32 million annually) arguably could be better spent on more worthy causes, it will be incredible if the recurring donation business model turns out to successfully fund relatively niche content of this magnitude.
Came to the party after the post was edited. Does anybody have a mirror?
I see this as a sad day for the once-great Sears. Even though the quality of Craftsman tools had been slipping as of late, to see Sears sell off the brand entirely is another step in picking clean the bones of the Sears Roebuck & Company.
As you get used to and comfortable talking to your alexa, you find that you actually start doing it for a lot of things.

It's also a great way to practice your speaking ability. Really trains your enunciation.

Amazon needs to develop a biz model for skills that makes sense though.
This could be mostly solved by allowing people to rename their digital assistants.
Tox Considered Harmful
Comedic short film combines 8 bit animation and live action
Why is it not possible to generate an explicit formula for Newton's method?
How is Vivaldi's power consumption and memory footprint? Those were the biggest motivators to switch from Chrome to Safari on macOS for most browsing (I still use Chrome for some front-end dev stuff). I can browse the web forever with Safari on my 2012 MacBook Air, Chrome not so much (haven't tried FF as a daily driver in ages so would love to hear about it too).

Off-topic aside: is power consumption even a concern for engineers these days? Looking at what's possible with technologies that are somewhat fringe, it's hard not to think about how much power we're gobbling up that we really don't need.
Google Patches Android ‘Custom Boot Mode’ Vulnerability
You should worry about it, and fast, as every professional and actually usable and maintainable setup uses one, and your refusal to use one, thus relying upon a patchwork of unknown stuff from unknown sources, is one of your biggest exploitable (as in I do it to clients while testing their network every day,) vulnerabilities.

So far, I've moved a lot of people, including my own online auction company, off of your platform because getting AJAX code to work reliably with it is near impossible due to lack of object-relational mapping.

I could go on and on, but quite frankly, you need to start from scratch. Right now you're just trying to slap a lot of icing on a poorly-made cake.
Do any of the theories that have evidence pose answers that spawn fewer questions?
What the heck did I just read? Lovecraft would be proud.
I agree with your bigger point, but it seems like what's at play here is the asymmetry. Low-impact to WSJ/NYT could potentially be very high-impact (positively or negatively) to the subject of the quote.

I can imagine a lot of scenarios where people feel burned.

Let's say a journalist is doing a piece on topical topic X. They get a bunch of mundane talking points from the usual sources in favor of X. Then they interview a more nuanced founder who is generally in favor of X, but offers a choice quote offering caution. When the story is constructed, the narrative sets up how X is this big trend, but the outspoken-yet-balanced founder--who happens to have a quote or two on the anti-X side of the spectrum--suddenly is found to be the opposition (despite being in the business of promoting X).

It's easy to see how the journalist feels like they got a good quote (founder of X-related company breaks news by not parroting blub-founders!), while the founder feels betrayed (95% of my discussion was blub in favor of X, and you chose my nuanced 5% to paint me as outside the mainstream!)

So from the WSJ/NYT point of view--jeez, here's another obligatory story on tech X, but at least one person gave us an edgy quote. And from the nuanced founder point of view--damn, those slimy journos took me out of context and painted me outside the X herd.
> I feel like I ought to have a side project that uses my HN favorites, pinboard links, comments, etc to seed a recommendation engine of 'other stuff you should probably read'.

I would totally use it. I considered writing something myself, but I have too many on-going side projects as it is unfortunately.
Title needs a (2028)?
Save me some Googling and time, is this a documentary with information or is it a bunch of people with doctorates in angel therapy like What the bleep do we know?