skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it "curious"? It's a direct consequence of attempting to emulate how non-rigid bodies (including people) move in the real world.

For a contrast of what happens when there's no squash and stretch in animation, take a look at pretty much everything ever made by Hanna-Barbera before 1990. Everything remains almost pathologically on-model all the time to reduce animation costs.
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I'm on Gentoo and remember the switch to OpenRC. I was nervous. But all the old stuff worked! And my custom init scripts? Changed only one or two lines to make them work and a few more edits to make them fully OpenRC like. Backwards compatible FTW!

And, now with OpenRC it still "just works". Fast, predictable boot with logs in normal places that I can easily debug, manage and modify.
Where do you specify laziness, failure policy etc ?
Google announced Fiber in several bay area cities at least three years ago. Last year there was a news article that the project has been suspended as they can't access the existing utility poles to lay the fiber optic line.
Do you mean YouTube red? I can't find any reference to YouTube Music on the iOS App Store.
The author of that article follows with "The source of [Everett's] confusion seems to be the term recursion, which is the central concept of modern Generative linguistics... Any expression larger than two words, then, requires recursion, regardless of whether there is embedding in that expression." This seems to make UG look like trivial feature of language - something like "we find it to be universally true that human languages use statements of more than one word"?

I'm not knocking generative linguistics, but I get the impression that this author has done it a disservice in his eagerness to put down Everett.
iTunes has match and local music; Spotify allows playing local music. What is the amazon story for combining previously owned music with streaming music?
Hardware isn't subject to copyright. There are places in China that can reverse engineer boards from hardware back to design files, so GPLing board designs is pretty pointless.

There are patents, but they don't protect designs or individual physical items, just processes.

There is IC mask protection, but that doesn't protect modified versions of the IC masks (if I understand it correctly):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...
such an abnormally productive employee

It's not ab-normal. Source: Dilbert.com (seriously, the cartoons are based on real work life and not fiction), countless surveys (just two examples: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/fashion/25busy.html and http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/20/most-ameri...), and each time the topic comes up (on reddit for example) the thread explodes and it's almost all negative and "Me too!" when somebody says their job is just like that. I've seen it all over my own career too which let me spend most of my time in other companies and not in one and the same office (I'm an IT freelancer, but it was true even when I was employed).

b) give them more work to do

There were several Dilbert cartoons about exactly this sometime during the last few months. Examples for fun:

1) http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-12-21 -- 2) http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-05-17 -- 3) http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-01 -- 4) http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-08-14
It's useful, but very laggy. And the raw(?) data in the popups don't have any units or any comparison values/indicators. "DieselPM 97.57" - could be awesome, average or awful, e.g. lowest/worst percentile would be good.
Well there have always been contractors but the ACA health exchanges had to work.. the first attempt did not, why because they were contractors and as one could surmise not actually effective at scale. So bring in the digital service who did things as they should have been done... This can be as simple as code to spec vs take ownership and go above and beyond. And it worked. It had to.

In the next administration Palantir is going to clean up.. why b/c of Thiel and because of current contractor ineffectiveness. The Digital 18F will survive but it's not clear that the agencies they serve will.
I was confused when I first visited: the initial view (tried Chrome and Firefox) makes it look like the only hazardous areas of the US are around Los Angeles and... Idaho/Montana?? If you zoom in a lot of other hazard-blobs start rendering.
IMHO it's way more worth it to just get an HBO subscription; the quality there is much, much higher, and you can play it on many platforms. Certainly more than amazon video....
The worst part is that you can't choose to load the non-amp version. On iOS, since AMP links to Reddit are 100% broken, I need to URL hack in mobile safari to remove the AMP bullshit to even load the page.

Christ, I tried to visit https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/webmasters/_O8kJMSDpO... from a Google SERP to link to their forums about this issue, and there's an unavoidable Google login prompt gating it...and I use 2FA. Why in the hell do I need to log in to view a forum thread?

Hopefully the push their product cycle up a year or two and deprecate AMP in the next few months.
> What was the deal before this? Just free electricity?

Yes.
Except even most modern theologians do not take the Bible literally.
They are completely wrong, there will be proprietary RISC-V chips. The early ones are more open though.
Yup. Today the main reason to pay for Netflix is the content, lack of ads, and universal device support.
My point is that you didn't say "it's not the way most people use a browser", you said that normal people don't "ever" use that many tabs. You made an overly absolute statement and I'm refuting it.
First: In case you felt that way, I did not write this to criticize you. I'm not saying you're wrong or you're trying to manipulate people. I'm highlighting the persuasion tactic you used.

>I thought it was self evident that Kim Jong-un wouldn't listen to reason once he had nukes, but perhaps you know better.

Thing is, I don't know better! Tell me how you know better.

And "self-evident" is really code for "everyone knows..."

If I said "Sure, I think he can listen to reason just like all the other nuclear leaders", what is your response?
Still a good domain name. MS might be interested.
When I visit that in mobile safari, it prompts me to install some Google app. It's like they're seriously trying to piss people off.
I'm writing this on a 21:9 monitor. Code on one side, documentation on the other.
I agree. Out of all the messenger interfaces I've used, Telegram sucks the least. It's got the most features, which keep me around. The security isn't something I trust, but even as a non-secured messenger it beats all the rest just in terms of features, continuous updates, and native clients on many platforms.
PrivateUsers= is documented in the manual page for systemd.exec [1]. I hope the section I linked will answer your question, but for the sake of simplicity I edited my comment to use PrivateDevices= as the example instead.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...
I also use Google Music. The stuff they added in since the Songza acquisition makes it (IMO) a better "Pandora" than Pandora ever was for me.
Reader view in mobile safari solves these things client-side. There are others. It's a rendering decision which should be left to the client vs forcing a decision on users in a way which breaks some configurations for people (since there's no way to disable AMP).
Yep, they are. Shell is lingua franca for system administrators for whole history of UNIX.
No, see LCOE. (which can be calculated with or without accounting for externalities)

Not surprisingly all current technology is relatively competitive with the others. If it wasn't the case, we would have a clear winner and there would be nothing interesting to discuss!

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f25/LCOE.pdf
A surreal synchronised wave of light
The official github repo is probably a better link: https://github.com/alibaba/rax
A billion-dollar pharma startup that Silicon Valley has missed
Shadow Brokers Quits, Release Windows Hacking Tools for FREE
App.net from what I understand wasn't so much trying to sell to content creators as it was trying to create a Social-Graph-As-A-Service thing. I thought the original pitch was essentially two fold:

build your network with App.net and users can basically just opt-in automagically importing their data from other App.net networks thereby reducing the friction and hopefully making it easier to over come the ghost-town problem.

build your network with App.net and tool makers (including you) automatically get a well defined/robust/tested API to write apps against to interact with your network.
Most people have not forgotten the Apple TV.
As a freelancer I have some jobs that are like that, fixed cost and my problem how long it takes me, but most clients prefer if I'm onsite and that means I get paid to spend 8 hours a days in their office. I have the exact same problem, I spend half the time looking busy. Or I could go home and only get half the money.
Use `set -x` or `bash -x script.sh` to trace shell script execution. Shell scripts are easy to debug.
Headspace is the leading app in this space and supposedly has revenues of about 50m a year.
Most rigid things do not snap and stretch. Phones, paper, books.

People will act that way. Some things will compress. Certainly not all things, though. So, is curious if it is always seen as better.
I'm kind of surprised that they're so adamant that the pricing should be hWk based. It seems to me that time-based pricing would have made sense - Superchargers are a limited resource, so a time-based approach would have encouraged people to only charge for as long as they needed it. Above 80% a Tesla charges much slower, so it uses much less electricity, but it still takes up a stall.

It would have also dovetailed nicely with the per-minute fee they will be charging Tesla owners for leaving their vehicles plugged in after they're done charging at busy Superchargers.
Hey, just like they did with G+...and look how that went. Something something making the same mistakes over and over again.
So... who gets the domain?
Agreed. The best resumes I've seen were one or two pages. The worst were three or more. Many of the bullets in those resumes are useless filler ("I ran some commands", "I wrote reports", ...)
I've always wondered if Tesla tracks the use of the Superchargers to the vehicle mileage. As an example, if I setup a bunch of bit-coin miners in the trunk, tapped into the vehicle battery and continually visited a supercharger to power the rig would Tesla know something was up?
I believe it's Android-only?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Payola 2.0
Why would I specify those in an init script? openssh has been doing The Right Thing(TM) for about two decades.

Also, openssh has protocol-specific (and secure by default) configuration options around connection lifecycle, etc. that no general purpose init system should try to replicate and then blindly apply to unrelated services.
I said that the iPhone was better.. modular is worse I agree.
Debian related FAQ lists
Yes it is to skip the long line, although there are semi-secret invite codes that can be used infinitely.
Static stuff is static at either end, and doesn't add to rendering time.
As if this system didn't exist within the US. Credit and bank account spending records have long been a treasure trove of analytics on how people go about their day to day. Social media extends on this even further since there are many people who post EVERYTHING about them on these platforms.
I don't like how they begin it with an attack on GPG
For reference using a Prius ~52 mpg combined (advertised) and current gas price in SF, for the drive from SF to LA:

383 / 52 * $2.61 = $19.22

Or a Honda Civic:

383 / 34 * $2.61 = $29.40

(Assuming their definition is one way not roundtrip.)
I feel like I had the opposite experience with Pandora. Back in the day, just playing Pandora through my browser, I'd up or down-vote most songs and I'd get these great playlists where I'd discover lots of music. It was great.

But with Pandora on various user-surly devices (car stereo, Roku, etc) I just don't have that interaction and it seems like playlists just drift off into nonsense or repeat endlessly.
Not exactly, Neanderthal admixture of 1-4% of the genome is present in all populations except sub-Saharan Africans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_human_admixture_with_m...
Having lived in both San Antonio and Austin, I wouldn't actually mind much if San Antonio's tech scene caught up. I'm at the point I'm contemplating home ownership, and the fact that a decent house in Austin is starting to hit the $400k market while San Antonio's is literally half of that makes San Antonio very attractive nowadays, especially if they ever get shit together and build a rail between the cities. But my employment prospects are severely diminished there, particularly companies that offer the standard tech work environment and benefits.

And yes, before anyone says anything, I know that Austin is still relatively affordable compared to some of the other tech hubs, but its still its expense is still growing quickly.
But that would make them just like Spotify, and several other services. I think it would be hard to compete that way.

And I have nothing to confirm this, but I doubt preserving playlists is a common reason to keep paying for a music service. If you really want it, you can find a way to export it, or copy it by hand. Otherwise you just make a new playlist from scratch.
I used to "measure" productivity as part of expert witness testimony in U.S public utility rate cases, so I'm not ignorant of the difficulty of doing so (as you expand on). It's precisely that difficulty in calculation that I see as one clue among many that the optimization task the Fed attempts is not better than the market for money.
It is not secure: it doesn't provide authentication (integrity protection) and it isn't nonce-reuse-resistant.
Can we clone a Neanderthal yet?
Philosophy of Mathematics
I remember emailing Pandora in what must have been 2008 realizing about the fact that I could not use the service from Sweden (I had been a foreign exchange student in high school in the US). I got a reply from Tim Westergren which felt huge.

I would not be as much into 80's synth pop without Pandora, that's for sure.
It seems he didn't learn much from the experience. Gibaltrar conflicts with Spain are not exclusively about the territorial aspect but rather it being a prominent haven for human and drug trafficking. Their locals are a constant embarrassment source for the U.K. government and for the most part treated like corsairs, tolerated in public but rather frown upon in private. Possible the worst of both Spanish and British 'maritime' traditions.

The coastal towns in the area are splendid though, and worth visiting indeed.
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Not exactly. Ask.com is in Oakland! Makes my date everytime I see the logo on that high rise off of 880.
First, you are equating a blanket 'hey guys' with assuming everyone is a guy which is nonsense. It is a generic greeting, and you decide it is worth flexing authority over another adult, not to mention it is the definition of bike-shedding.

Then, you are attributing people's hard work of being helpful with a 'code of conduct' which is unfair to their efforts. The people helping build up rust aren't doing it because someone decided to dictate the greetings they can use.
But how's the lag?
That's a pretty negative attitude.

It's open source. Why don't you contribute?

https://github.com/gobuffalo/gobuffalo
Agreed with adequate winter clothes having a quality coat, gloves, and possibly boots are all you need.

If it's snowing I almost never drive (if I don't have to) but I have absolutely no problem walking to the store, or to pick up food, or even just to get out of the house in the snow.
> We’ve always classified Neanderthals, technically, as human — part of the genus Homo.

I feel uncomfortable letting scientists decide whether an organism is 'human' or not.

Shouldn't that designation be the province of a great human, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, someone like Mikail Gorbachev, Henry Kissinger or Yasser Arafat?
"Who said the Unix philosophy was the be-all, end-all?"
I didn't and I don't know anyone that has. I was comparing systemd and SysV.

"Unix is just a collection of random decisions made by various people over the years."

"Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run." - Theo de Raadt

"The layout of /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin"
I don't agree with you. Having base in a directory and having user installed bins in another makes sense. I don't understand why most modern Linux distros install on only one partition by default. You lose the ability to mount with flags ie noexec,nosuid,nodev.

NFS is horrible. Unix/Linux is a multi-user operating system why would you not want to have groups?

KISS
Most of the statements aren't really conducive to rebuttals because they are lacking substance.

But I can imagine what xenadu02 might have meant, if you like, and provide some counter arguments.

Signals aren't "garbage" (whatever that means).

Signals can call APIs (the set of async-signal-safe APIs). They can't call non-async-signal-safe APIs not because of threads, but because signals can interrupt a routine at any point (necessary for asynchronous notification of certain events which must be handled before the normal instruction control flow can be resumed) and that interrupted routine may not have been written to be reentrant.

This is true even without threads in the picture.

The fork/exec model is not "garbage". It is actually a fairly nice alternative to the "provide one API to start a child process and give it a large number of parameters for all possible situations". And you can call plenty of APIs between fork and exec in the child safely, just like from signal handlers.

I haven't dealt with dependency hell ever since shared libraries got sonames.

The rest of the comment doesn't list anything of substance. If you want rebuttals for "the file system layout is a bad design" or "the C compilation is a bad design" or anything else, provide some reasons why those are bad designs; some of those reasons may be valid criticism, and some may not be, but one can't just make vacuous statements like that and expect a reasonable discussion to follow.
Keybase does not need a PGP setup. Keybase has moved on from that and use NaCl to solve the multi-device problem. GPG is just one more node in your trust chain.
It's a function that takes an input of any length and produces an output of the requested length.

From the Keccak (SHA-3) authors [1]: A sponge function is a generalization of both hash functions, which have a fixed output length, and stream ciphers, which have a fixed input length. It operates on a finite state by iteratively applying the inner permutation to it, interleaved with the entry of input or the retrieval of output.

(...)

On top of its original goal as a security reference, we realized that the sponge construction could also be used to build efficient cryptographic primitives. An important aspect is that the cryptographic primitive to be designed is a fixed-length permutation rather than harder-to-build structures such as block ciphers or dedicated compression functions. This is rather good news in itself, as all the symmetric cryptographic services can be realized using only a single primitive: a fixed-length permutation. As opposed to a block cipher, a fixed-length permutation makes no distinction between data and key input and hence can treat all input bits on an equal footing and at the same time can be made simpler.

(...)

With its arbitrarily long input and output sizes, the sponge construction allows building various primitives such as a hash function, a stream cipher or a MAC. In some applications the input is short (e.g., a key and a nonce) while the output is long (e.g., a key stream). In other applications, the opposite occurs, where the input is long (e.g., a message to hash) and the output is short (e.g., a digest or a MAC).

[1] http://sponge.noekeon.org/
Still unrepairable and unupgradable (unlike previous MBP non-Retina), foisting ultimate, overpriced Apple control over a previously much more flexible product. Also, the touchbar and new keyboard aren't very practical.

When there is a Retina model with RAM DIMMs, changable SSDs and superior keyboard, I'd consider looking at MBPs again.
«Foo is garbage» is not a valid criticism.
Probably illegal, but its worth a shot. Let me know how it goes.
I was also locked out of my Yahoo / Flickr account last year (all I use my Yahoo account for is Flickr, so I consider them one and the same). After 10 years of Flickr Pro subscription without a hitch.

Agreed, their support is terrible, and they don't seem to distinguish between free or paying users (and in terms of account access issues, at least, there isn't any dedicated Flickr support, just horrible Yahoo support).

I had access to the email address registered with my account, so at least that wasn't a drama. But still, took about 3 months of assertively-worded support emails before they got me back in and I could upload Flickr photos again.

I think Flickr is a great service, and I've been faithful to it for many years. But that episode jaded my opinion significantly. And with Yahoo now going under, I'm not expecting much re: the future of Flickr. I'm considering moving my primary online photo storage to S3, Github Pages, or some other alternative.
There's a great infographic showing the UX of playing a DVD vs playing a pirated video. Exactly this.
Hilariously, when I try to visit that on mobile, it wants me to log into my Google account, with no way to not do that.
A whole industry was created based on this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade
2005 was dark times. Iraq had become the first war of the 21st century, and had already descended into medieval decapitations.

There were intellectuals that stood as symbols against the abomination of it all. Chomsky was one such personality.

So polarizing were these times, that one had to question whether an academic criticism was based in legitimate intellect, or simply represented a contrived effort to discredit and ruin a politically relevant individual.

With Fox News on the prowl, Chomsky's co-authorship of the book, Manufacturing Consent, made him a valid target for character assassination, and simultaneously a defensible individual to those Fox News would so polarize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Maybe this other scholar's criticisms are academically valid within the context of linguistics, but without considering the cultural relevance and stature Chomsky held during that period to those that despised the premise of Iraq, he had doomed himself to the cold shoulder of many. His writings, after all, would not be published in a vacuum.

This is the context under which the author of this article should come to understand his situation. It was bad timing. Tone deaf to debacles unfolding elsewhere.
The company that fired their mascot?
Pot causes schizophrenia and triggers heart attacks, experts say in study
I agree about music, but completely disagree about video. We watch Amazon Video 10 to 1 compared to Netflix. Amazon's selection works for us.
They couldn't put AdSense on RSS feeds.
Why you can't just toss the clothes in, close the door and walk away is beyond me. Wish I could empty the whole 150oz of Tide into the machine and have it dispense over 96 loads too.