skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cirque du Soleil was designed as a circus without animals. Notwithstanding the points others have made about animal rights and such, it's pretty clear that they have flourished as Ringling has declined. At the end of the day, just because something has been around for a long time is not justification of its existence. All organizations need to adapt to changing circumstances.
0.2 degrees is the global average temperature change over the last year. What matters to the arctic is the temperature in the arctic, which has gone up a lot more than that.

More importantly, the graph shows area. It doesn't show thickness, which has been steadily decreasing for decades. Now the ice is quite thin, so it doesn't have to thin much more for the area to drop rapidly.

If you want to read about the physical processes in detail, and find out why a large sudden drop in ice area due to global warming isn't surprising at all, read A Farewell to Ice by arctic researcher Peter Wadham.
Let me be more clear: What would be the impact of 1 million people switching to using bikes from cars to go to work for a year, in terms of, hmm, well-being of polar bears (animals for which I care deeply, like other animals)?

Everyone is telling me to do this and that, and that it's important. No one seems to be talking about the impact.

Being a software-developer, I know there is a limit to how much you can dumb-down the things. I probably wouldn't be able to explain two's complement to a five-year-old. But, I see the importance of the issue and we need to begin somewhere.
They should be targeting OEMs and telcos as their primary customers and a first class dev environment is key to that. The reason Android AOSP is so widely available is it's free, is trivial to port to new hardware and is easy to customise. Since ORMS and telcos are the gatekeepers to anything reaching customers, appealing to them has to come first. Fail to attract them and it doesn't matter how popular you might have been with customers, because they'll never even get to see your product.
Signs you need to leave your startup
Well, we assume it was a long time but maybe sandglasses were really inaccurate.
And I suppose that's also the origin of measuring speed in "knots" (?)
Because if Atherton doesn't build housing, Oaklanders will burn down Atherton for exporting the problem eastward as gentrification.
Emoji may have helped popularize support for Unicode characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (The first 2¹⁶ code points in Unicode), because all but a few fall outside of it. Before emoji any code point outside of the BMP tended to have a niche audience. When I wrote my master's thesis in 2009, support for non-BMP characters was still sketchy (although XeLaTeX and PDF-viewer Evince could handle them neatly on the Linux desktop).

I doubt that emoji helped further popularize Unicode in Europe, because in my experience (anecdotal of course) developers were already well aware of the benefits of Unicode (and UTF-8 in particular for the web) before emoji got adopted from Japanese telephones and embraced en-masse. I suspect that in Europe the need for Unicode arose sooner. For Dutch for example; with the introduction of ISO-8859-15 in 1999 (subtly different from ISO-8859-1) you now often had two character encoding standards in mixed use for a single language, and when you had to render documents with names of people from various countries, things just got confusing (in the US diacritics tend to get dropped instead). UTF-8 offered a clean break from this.

It seems plausible that emoji may have helped Americans break the remnants of the ASCII barrier though.
Likewise; but one thing I've noticed is that most of the people in these videos support families. The reality is, the new lower middle class cannot support families with a single provider anymore.
It's interesting most Americans don't seem to be aware of how much good tech work goes on in Quebec (say kay-bec not kwa-bec). I went a few years to work on SoftImage3D and it was the same with computer graphics, lots of talent and innovation I was not aware of.

It may not be the "Silicon Valley of AI" but the point is they are a hotbed.

I would recommend it if you have an interest. People are very friendly, tons of good restaurants, night life, and culture. You get a bit of European flavor without leaving the continent. It is advisable to commit to a crash course in French. Yes a lot of people speak english but for a variety of reasons it makes a big difference in what you'll get out of being an expat.
How likely is it that a successful model involves _sizable_ losses?
I find it very distressful that you are assuming that everyone in society has to identify themselves with being male or female. That was clearly spoken from the top of your binary privilege and you should be ashamed of what you wrote.
You should re-read Hobbes. Outside the social contract we live in the natural state of man, where our rights are to do whatever we think necessary to ensure our well-being, no matter the consequences to anyone else. Without a state, from where do you derive the right not to be murdered? The strength of your own limbs, and little else.
This whole WoT was an eye openner. Silly naive younger me, for example, was shocked to find out Geneva Conventions only apply to soldiers in uniforms. (I had assumed earlier it was because of human rights.) Turns out it is a gentlemen's agreement in context of playing war with their cannon fodder.
That's wonderful!
Tiny Suspender is almost similar with The Great Suspender extension: it "suspends" background tabs to reduce Chrome's resource consumption. But it has slightly different feature set and different implementation, as well as focused on being as tiny as possible.

Source code is available here: https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender
It is a legitimate distinction at macro level, because the dynamics for these two asset classes are different. Otherwise, not necessarily.
It's easier to embrace the Unix philosophy when your text editor doesn't take a half hour to start.
The necessity of lifelong learning
Is Silicon Valley Truly Libertarian? Is Politics Society's OS, Being Disrupted?
Well, easiest way is to collect enough signatures for proposition and then to vote for it. The problem is is that people don't vote. Also Trump hijacked the republican infrastructure which through gerrymandering and the fact that a lot of people don't vote gave him the votes he needed to win.
Auschwitz is not in function anymore.
I have an E-2 visa, valid for 5 years. The way it works is exactly as you read on www.uscis.gov: upon entry in the US there is a 2 year reentry permission: it is renewed each time the border is crossed. In practice it means that I need to go out of the US at least once every two years to keep the ability to travel freely. Conclusion: the E-2 visa is great if you intend to travel abroad often, otherwise another visa is probably better.

The durations may vary depending on the country the visa is issued from (due to the underlying treaty), and the status associated to it: in my case France as an essential employee (NOT as an investor).
It's not "Latin" culture, it's "Latino" culture.

"Latin" culture is what people have in Italy, Spain, Portugal and, to a degree, France.
> changing the effective|nominal tax rate by 50%

10% to 20% is a 100% increase not a 50% increase. Now sure, paperwork changes, but the price of your widget or the layout of the factory etc don't really care about the taxes outside of extreme cases.

Anyway, profitable companies like GM can issue stock to raise capital or buy back stock. Buybacks don't really depend on the stock price as it's not an investment it's another form of dividend. Issuing stock is an inefficient way to raise capital better to issue bonds or not issue dividends.

Now sure, there are second order effects of stock price such as stock options. But again +/- 10% to stock price on a given day does not do much.

PS: Consider Microsoft if the tax rate where to increase to say 40% what would they change?
The early mechanical calculators are beautiful.

http://history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/Pioneers/M...
Zoos really differ in their treatment of animals too btw.
Adding a stoploss is common practice. It prevents bugs, over-fitting, and adverse selection from ruining you.

You'll have a bad time if you think your model is infallible.
I work at a startup with large amounts of JavaScript and Ruby, but no existing investment in a compiled language prior to Rust.

Adding C++ to our toolchain would result in a nasty culture shock. Ruby and JavaScript have modern dependency managers (bundler and npm/yarn). They're easy to get working cross-platform. They almost never segfault.

C++ would bring a whole host of issues (build systems, dependency management, pointers, segfaults, etc.). I didn't want to go there, and neither did my management. But Rust feels more like a modern scripting language (except with a steeper learning curve): It has cargo to handle dependencies and builds, it works cross-platform with minimal fuss, and it provides excellent protection against shooting yourself in the foot.

It turns out that I can use Rust for CLI tools, server applications and Node.js add-ons, and it's great at all of these things.

Plus, every time I write something in Rust, my coworkers are happy, because it's fast, it's easy to install, and it's "solid."

It does take a little while to bring people up to speed on Rust. It really helps to pair program and explain what's going on when they hit a speed bump.
I'm sorry, can you explain how to use this?
Yes

Update: my original answer was short because, well, I'm a sailor. But for more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(unit)
>They exist in a legal grey area between POWs and war criminals.

Yeah, it is pretty normal for a repressive regime to come up with a legal theory for why it is perfectly OK to hold people indefinitely without trial. Normally such theories are only accepted by that particular regime...
> You mean their Intel's switch from RAM to CPUs?

Yes, and, like you, I think Uber & Lyft are wasting money in the wrong problem while the innovation landscape is quickly changing towards self-driving things.
Very? That's Vanguard's entire business model. Buy and hold.
While I agree with regards to being productive and I also agree that 'finishing' things feels good, I still doubt that 'being productive' should always be the goal.

I have discarded many 'side projects', but the lessons learned from those projects have made me a lot more productive in my job. For most projects I don't even feel bad about the time I spent doing them since I had fun figuring out how to implement some of those things.

Take playing sports for example. I like to play football, the kind played with my feet and a ball, not the one played with one's hands and a oval leather air container. This is never 'finished', but doing so I exercise my body, clear my mind and most importantly, I have fun. I see a parallel for one game of football with figuring out how to test some external API in a side project. After discarding the side project (a few games of football) I still know how to test external APIs. Just as playing 1 game of football won't get me any closer to winning the champions league, my condition (skills) are better and I had fun (fun) along the way.

Stop being so hard on yourself.

If you DO want to create a serious company out of your side project it probably IS a good idea not to let yourself get distracted by other fun projects along the way though. Especially if you are juggling a full-time job along side of it.
"What I find most interesting thing about this discussion is that it is the original reason that Google bought Android. They were concerned that with Apple controlling the smartphone market they’d be in a position to damage Google’s ability to compete in services"

Google bought android in 2005.
Apple release iPhone in 2007.

Do what now?

I'd love a truly linux-based phone.
Though it's unlikely that you'll ever get "root" on a commercial offering. Mobile phone providers don't like you being able to monkey about with the phone too much.
I'm sorry, "all ones"?
Did they give you copyright and patent licenses allowing you to do whatever you wanted with their tech? Or did a cloner have to hope the company would take no legal action?

Because that's still not equal to an open-source design where the licensing eliminates such risks.
Human Explores Google's Deepmind Lab
Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA
"When you crawl into bed at 10PM"

Amateurs. A good night's sleep begins at 9PM for my wife and I.
That is valuable feedback. It tells you horses are too slow.
I hope you all don't eat meat, eggs, cheese, or milk. The animals that those come from would love to be treated as well as circus animals.

And do you understand that these animals are absolutely vicious and cruel with each other in the wild? A tiger will start picking at your guts while you're still breathing. A male lion will kill all of the existing cubs of its new mate.
Actually it does mean free to redistribute, this is the essence of the BSD or even GPL licenses. And free to redistribute (for free) would be a huge loss for windows. Therefor, not happening.
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You are essentially relying on security through obscurity, it might work but it fails to add security when viewed through Kerckhoffs's principle.
That's amusing, but the linguistics sounds wrong to me. The "patch" tool was written by Larry Wall (of Perl fame) in the early 80's based on the preexisting diff format. Neither had much ancestry in common with paper tape storage, which was never really a Unix thing.
This is true. The program allowing this was active a few years ago, so the Windows research kernel is stuck at NT 5.2 (just before Vista). That makes it a decade old, but it is still a great tool for understanding the unique things about the NT architecture. The downside is that Windows has improved dramatically in ten years, so the old source can be misleading if not taken with proper perspective.

People like to shit on Windows with claims that Linux does it better. Actually seeing the source and reading about the internals (anyone can do that last bit) let's you see in just how many places Linux was and still is playing catch up. Linux may have a better implementation for some use cases, but to claim architectural superiority is just crazy in my eyes.

Anyway, the license for the WRK is actually quite open. Seeing it doesn't prevent you from contributing to open source projects, you can share it with anyone in a university setting, can keep it on your personal devices, and can share snippets of source code in blog posts, papers and the like. If you are eligible, willing to comply with the license, and can find someone who still has it (the hardest of the requirements) it's fair game. In my efforts I asked Microsoft for permission as well, but I didn't get the sense that was necessary (but shouldn't hurt).

You can still build the WRK on modern Windows, or on the included Virtual PC Windows Server 2003 images. The output dll can be installed in place into compatible versions of Windows. The distribution includes a full OS course, the original internal design workbook (straight from Dave Cutler's hand, in the original .DOC!) and labs detailing how to modify/extend the most interesting part of the kernel.

Source: I'm working on a tool/resource to make OS dev more accessible to students at my university (as well as to myself) and made vigorous efforts to procure the Windows Kernel for comparative purposes.
hijacking the browser's back button: not cool.
One new allegation (as far as I know) in this article is this:

"Obama also knows that NSA documents Snowden copied and removed but did not give to those journalists in Hong Kong were used to embarrass America’s allies in NATO well after he arrived in Moscow. For example, the explosive revelation that the NSA targeted the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was released in September [2013]. In June 2015, NSA documents stolen by Snowden on WikiLeaks caused further trouble by revealing that the phones of three presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande—had also been targeted. These embarrassing revelations—made long after Snowden claimed he had no more documents—put Obama in a very bad spot with America’s European allies."

It's an important part of Snowden's history that he gave all the documents he had to Glenn Greenwald, and didn't keep access himself. Bruce Schneier believes that Snowden was not the source of the September 2013 leak,[1] and I can't find anyone (before this article) even suggesting that Snowden was the source of the June 2015 leak. There's no source for the claim in this article, other than "Obama knows."

So that seems significant if true, but it's a pretty nasty smear if not -- I hope it doesn't stand as an unsourced rumor.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...
Why does the USG need global surveillance capability to fabricate damning traffic?
Ask HN: Why do undergrads get intern or job primarily on Algorithmic knowledge?
In interns they spend roughly 3 months working with a team on projects. Now, a guy with more knowledge of development tools and environment with more experience of open source libraries should be more productive and helpful then a guy who can find a palindrome in an array fast. Still, why are the second kind of guy given more preference by the recruiters? Why isn't the CV is looked upon if someone solves only 2 out of the 3 screening problems in a company recruitment ?
Unfortunately running JRuby's Java extensions doesn't look any easier than C extensions, so we've gone with C extensions to begin with.

Both types of extensions are hard because they're written against an API which is just the entire internals of their implementations. If you don't use the same internals it's very hard to meet that API.

This explains in depth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtjkP9bD_U
Windows is always pirated distributed for free doesn't mean they don't violate copyright laws and other restrictions.

One can buy an oem or restricted region license for windows for 20$ but legally it's about the same as pirating it.
The ASCII code for DEL is 127, which is 1111111 in binary.
Montreal is the nuts. America won't be singing it's praises mainly because it's quite socialist. Good for Bengio for not going into the private sector, where he would have been forced to put his techniques to utterly pointless work like working out which advertisement can best manipulate someone into buying something they don't need/want. Facebook.

Let's hope that Montreal can capture the value added by their public investment to re-invest back into schools and also that they can keep a lid on land prices / banker parasitic behaviour which has clearly blighted California.

I'd also agree on learning French, I'm not fluent and it pisses me off. Back to Anki.
> From the perspective of Bob, Carol would have traveled backwards, going from Y to X.

So what? It's Bobs problem.

FTL electrons, in medium where speed of light is much less than c, are traveling exactly as you described.
> What about you?

Glad you asked:

I am in the middle of a year (to start) without flying. Most people when I ask the last time they went 365 without flying say decades. That was the case for me. I'm learning that flying and happiness have zero correlation.

Haven't eaten meat since 1999, and maybe a few pounds of animal products in the past decade.

Haven't owned a car since 1988.

I live in Manhattan and take maybe 2 or 3 taxi rides a year. I'm even taking the subway and bus less in favor of walking.

Avoid food with packaging, mostly buying from farmers markets and a CSA, to where I empty my landfill garbage 3 or 4 times per year.

Write about these things, mostly on my blog (for example: http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging or http://joshuaspodek.com/cheetah-extinction-earths-carrying and related links within), and starting to in my Inc. column (for example: http://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-sc...)

Generally avoiding accumulating less stuff.

Developing relations with people at Columbia's earth science departments to see about developing leadership courses there to help the people most knowledgeable about the science to become more influential.
Optimising your application bundle size with webpack
Great example of storing/decrypting passwords on client-side is bad.
I really don't think this view holds any merit. I can't possibly see how this would be Uber's strategy.

Assume that in year 20XX, when autonomous cars finally become a thing, there are two companies. Uber, which has accumulated $X billion in debt while growing it's driver network, and brand new company NewAutonomousCompany, with no debt.

What possible advantages does Uber have in that situation that makes that debt worthwhile? It will have some software and the fact that users already downloaded an app - but will that really be worth the subsidies?
Governments also have access to the source code for many msft products including windows.

Trusted partners that develop for windows and oems can also gain access.
Which, I guess, is ample justification for humans to treat these animals cruelly? Not really following the logic of your argument here. Though I definitely agree with your point about cruelties inherent in the meat and dairy industries.
Thank you for your explanation. It certainly clears a few things up.

With regards to "hoping for the mix to get a special and very recognisable appearance". What happens here concretely? What would 'very recognisable' entail?
If you want to do the basic things that rust wants you to do it doesn't take that long.

However if you want to create any graph like data structures you need to go into unsafe rust.

For example, the std doubly linked list uses unsafe with error handling to do inserts because the compiler cannot be sure that an insert is safe.

In my opinion Rust's safety is overhyped and entirely dependent on good implementation of unsafe code. And judging from the liked list example there is no way for all rust code to be intrinsically safe.
That would be an interesting concept. NT is a powerful operating system, but without the Windows Subsystem, it would be useless except as a drop-in replacement on Windows installations.

This idea is probably more feasible than first glance would suggest, but still, I wouldn't hold your breath.
> When you try to come up with random words to compose a password

That's why you don't. Give a 64ki word dictionary from your native tongue to your computer and let it choose four words uniformly at random out of it. This gives you a password from a distribution with 64 bits of entropy, and is reasonably easy to memorize with moderate effort.

This means an attacker is expected to proceed to 2\\63 hashes to crack such a password. It would take almost 4 year to crack its MD5 digest on the rig used in the demonstration. If you not using a password manager for external sites (which might not use proper KDFs), you can throw in a fifth word, and be safe for the foreseeable future.
Whatever happened in Jul-Nov last year, it seems like ice is trending toward recovering back to within 2 sigma?

Of course "records" will continue to be broken through at least July when we cross over last year's breakaway point.
South African bank tells its tale of battling ransom attacks
I will keep your answer in mind when I get asked this question again. Thank you.
Can you point me to the cryptographic engineer who has ever recommended Threema or Wire over Signal?