skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, Harry Potter ISN'T banned:

> Arabic copies of Harry Potter (which features a hellish Island prison of its very own) are very popular amongst detainees. Ironically, Harry Potter novels often top US Library’s “Most Banned Books” list.
If you clicked the first link given by GP, you would have seen that BlackRocks investment platform is called Aladdin, who of course has a strong link to the jinn (genie). Thus the connection.
I think that's an unduly personal comment.
Thanks for telling me about mechaphilia. That stuff is amazing!
In terms of virtual memory, there's a somewhat dated book that explains the linux implementation:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/pdf/understand.pdf

And there are some maintained text files in the kernel source tree itself:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/

Of particular interest is the pagemap.txt file.

There's also a really neat utility in the kernel source called page-types and you can learn a lot by compiling it and playing around, and of course reading the source (there are lots of tricks in there):

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/tools/vm/page-types.c

Finally, you could also read the source to vmtouch or my vmprobe utilities, or ask questions in the vmtouch github repo -- we can probably point you in the right direction.
You are somehow mistyping % as ℅.
Twitter has discussed the idea of banning Donald Trump: report
Maybe a much longer window in the equity would be a better idea.

Instead of vest over 4 years - vest over 10 years, with the bulk of them later.

This way they know they have to create long term value.
Hi! I've also been working on another program called vmprobe which does some neat things vmtouch doesn't:

https://vmprobe.com/
Indeed. I wrote that before there was a backup tool built into Ubuntu Phone. I saw a demo of the backup tool a few months back, but don't know if it landed yet.
With the new Android versions, it is far more difficult to get tools like xposed to reclaim some of the privacy and control back.
Having a usable alternative is essential.
Good old traditional taxi service makes money. They even have apps now.
Honestly, once you know either pinyin or zhuyin, learning the other is trivial. It took under a day for me to get it 95% down and then with some regular usage it was done. But one effect was I found I had a much easier time keeping sounds straight than my fellow learners who often confused sounds that had less straight-forward mappings in the system they learned.

Learning IPA on top is an extreme but still useful third point of attack and again, it's trivial compared to the difficulty of actually learning to hear the sounds clearly. It must have been a year before I realized how different the d in pinyin and the d in English were.
> As someone in late 30's, I look at this thread and shake my head.

That comes across a bit smug and also a bit presumptuous about the other people in the thread.
Looks interesting, thanks. (The average Joe however will require a solution similar to iTunes's backup feature.)
My bad, I misread the quiz.
Yup, that's a big part of the "getting things done" (GTD) mindset. Write down small, actionable tasks that can be completed. Not fluffy goals.
On an unrelated topic, will TruffleRuby have all the OpenJDK's GC algorithms available?

I'm thinking of Shenandoah specifically.

I understand they depend on inserting barriers with JVMCI, so I'm hopeful for compatibility. How is SubstrateVM build? It is made out of using the OpenJDK code base in a specific manner?
One of these days I may finally understand what was the problem we were trying to solve with all these increasingly complicated financial thingamajigs. And what exactly is the benefit we derive from them.

Not betting on it, though.

P.S. Looking for something simple, e.g. "If you have derivative trading, your GDP will be 5% larger, and the gain is spread across the population in proportion to income." The kind of things you have for engine efficiency, or compiler optimization ...
I applaud the OP's bravery, but after a long, long time in the telco business and having seen many attempts from multiple platforms towards gaining a foothold (Symbian, Maemo, LiMo - including Vodafone's own version - Bada, etc.), I have to point out that Ubuntu Phone, despite the vision and values behind it, is at a massively overwhelming disadvantage in terms of both telco appeal (what I and my former colleagues still in the device procurement part of the telco business have seen so far has no compelling advantage over Android) and ecosystem.

Even if selling off-telco worked, the one problem I see is the lack of that ecosystem, or a way to bootstrap it, because if it ran Android apps (and therefore fracture the user experience) that would not ensure developer adoption... And most people only want a "good enough" phone that lets them run apps and a few games, which further compounds the problem -- the value of Ubuntu Phone Just isn't apparent to them, which is sad.
I didn't say they didn't respect the law. I said they don't respect the rule of law. Rule of law is the idea that justice is not arbitrary, it does not stem from the whims of divine kings or power itself.

Authority must be legitimate, emanating from a constitution that was voted on by the people and exercised by representatives of the people. Not an unelected monarch or tyrant or oligarchy.

The English invented the concept and were the first to practice it. It's so infused in Anglo culture that violations of the principle are considered so beyond the pale that we call for, and often get, prison sentences for violators.

The book to read here is:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BATKSIO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Other nations have laws, but only Anglo nations are really ruled by them. Western Europe is an interesting case. The French constitution grants the President near-dictatorial emergency powers, which is how democracy and rule of law is commonly subverted in less-affluent nations. That the French are on their Fifth Republic should tell you how fragile the political institutions really are there.

The same is true of the rest of W Europe. They're heads and tails over the rest of the world including Russia and China. But you can't call yourselves a stable democracy if 70 years ago, you let fascists destroy your legislative systems so as to put your country to war, as Germany, Spain, and Italy did. How can you have rule of law if you let dictators decide what the law is?

The European Union is a grand experiment in finding Europe a babysitter so that doesn't happen again.
I also learned this the hard way recently. I have always been extremely busy. But finishing a large project, such as a PhD, forced me to learn that one needs to check at least 1 or 2 of these boxes on the todo list in the evening. Otherwise there has been no progress and, even worse, I will go home frustrated and have burned a lot of energy.
Oh yeah, and ask a doctor about ADD.
Google uses lossy compression on it's unlimited free "high quality" image storage[0].

Storing original uncompressed images eats into the 15GB free storage budget, and uses paid storage upgrades after that.

Unless you have a Pixel phone (free unlimited original uncompressed image storage).

[0] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
Excellent site which brings us to an obvious question: At what point should we as developers consider a site good enough? There's an infinite tail of worse and worse speeds and latencies. At some point it makes business sense to stop optimising, and for businesses with lots of users that point is inevitably before supporting 100% of users. So how do I prove to the business where the 90th and 99th percentiles are, within some reasonably scientific measure of uncertainty?

Aside: I just checked the site I'm working on. When throttling Chromium to GPRS speeds (500 ms, 50/20 kb/s) the main page has all the text on it by 16 seconds after a hard refresh.
What is your process for browsing for content then, do you still browse the YouTube website?
> don't know if it landed yet.

How can the consumer know about all currently available features in Ubuntu phones? A dedicated page for that would allow one to check "if Ubuntu is ready for me".
What's so bad about the UI? People often complain about the confusing multi-window mode, bug gimp actually have a single window mode for a while now, which make the layout looks somewhat like photoshop's.
Please be aware that security fixes for Debian testing may lag behind [1].

[1] https://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#testing
I've soft-launched my service which allows Instagrammers to sell their photos to brands as authentic marketing material.

It's done ok so far, and I'm planning a more formal launch very shortly pending feedback from beta users!

https://brandfox.io
Trump is the most free advertising they'll receive in the next 4 years. Companies tend to like free advertising.
Everything will flow
Having a .dotfiles/ repo makes life so much easier. Seriously.
Apparently Thales is involved in the construction of the iridium sats.
Would quite risky for the DoD to expect secrecy when construction is made by a european, mostly french, defense contractor.

US does not share its intelligence data openly with european countries, the only exception being UK.
As far as I know Loop quantum gravity is an alternative to string theory and says nothing about how to interprete quantum mechanics (though it better should reproduce its predictions). But convince me to be wrong.
> It only took an hour for this criticism of a column which happened to be written by a woman to produce an accusation of misogyny as well as another ad hominem.

Please reply to the comment you write about. You're climbing on a moral high horse that is invisible to the rest of us.

In fact, I read through the entire subthread and can't find anyone accusing you of misogyny.
>So somebody who hasn't been caught lying yet can't possibly lie?

Is, as you are well aware, not what I said.

>I'm not really believing much of what the NSA or CIA said about him.

...except the accusation that he's a Russian spy which you are very attached to.

>I also don't believe the intended travel itinerary. Wouldn't it be easier to make a vacation in Venezuela

If he booked a flight to Venezuela and didn't tell anybody he would have been detained at the airport. If he told somebody he would have been investigated and then game over. This was explained at the time. There were certain places people like him could fly to which wouldn't set off any trip wires. Hong Kong was the only one he could fly to where he wasn't just going to be detained and sent home (I mean, he could ahve gone to the UK too but probably not so wise).

The NSA did not dispute this part of the story.

>How did he know China wouldn't detain/deport him?

He didn't. They probably just seemed like the least likely to detain him of all the places he could fly to unmonitored.
Regulated taxis are ponzis alright, it's just rigged by governments and investment is forced upon citizens. Absolutely no reason why an extremely commoditized good like transportation should have fixed rates set by a central planner. Uber/Lyft et al may not be perfect, but we will get there. It's tough to deregulate industries.
"He also pointed to the group's longer-term track record of outperformance. [...] The firm doesn't disclose the peer groups or benchmarks it uses for comparison."

My track record is much much better!!! Honest!!!
There's excessively polite people with a hidden agenda, and those without. I don't think the ratio is strong enough in favor of evil to warrant too much effort. If you think the evil density is higher, I suggest testing to find out, rather than just wondering. Borrow some money off them, or ask them to help you move, and see how it goes.

If they pass your test, you need only watch for the long con, and its much less common. Unless they change.
Ask HN: What skills a company expects to have a self-taught web dev?
Being a self-taught web dev myself, I'm curious how a company assess a self-taught candidate versus a CS degree one.
As I understand the article the "robots" would have done more or less ok. It was human intervention that caused more losses.

This is exactly what not should happen when investing longterm: Being driven by emotions rather than rational facts.
It's a bit academic right now as there are no Ubuntu phones on sale, but yes, that would be a great page to make.
meatbags also functions in Bender's lingo in Futurama
Competitive and sustainable? Tell that to the non-owners taxi driver suffering under exploitative commission structures and has to rent their car from an intermediary to even begin to make money.
Great link, thanks. However, it doesn't back up the claim you made. A few quotes:

"In Europe, there is technically no uniform body of “European law” that directly applies between employers and employees"

"Courts and scholars increasingly reference EU law, usually without clarifying whether the existence of a particular civil right protection in the EU Charter actually changed the legal situation as a matter of law, rather than as a matter of public policy."

There's a lot of fuzziness around implementation of a very loosely worded human rights clause, combined with prior national laws. Mostly aimed at protection from Government. Previous tests have mostly been cases where the individual did not consent or some such thing.

More directly, EC data protection directive hinges on: 1) contractual obligation; 2) consent; 3) statutory obligations; 4) balancing test. It seems highly likely that most business can legally MITM me if I sign the contract they want me to sign.

Most - but not all - of the private sector examples given (including Germany and France) hinge on the employer not following the correct process: either not notifying the employees, not gaining consent, or opting to allow private communications at work which are strictly forbidden from being monitored (in some countries).

That said, there is also:

"A number of EC member states, including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, strictly prohibit ongoing monitoring of employee communications and permit electronic monitoring only in very limited circumstances (e.g., where an employer already has concrete suspicions of wrong-doing against particular employees),265 subject to significant restrictions with respect to the duration, mode, and subjects of the monitoring activities"

It's not immediately clear if the applies to specific, targeted monitoring. The footnote says gives an example where informing the employee of valid reasons for investigating is sufficient.
I would love to have a Ubuntu Phone, but my carrier in the US probably doesn't support such phones yet as far as I'm aware. If they can sooner reach the multiple carriers in this side of the globe effectively (and hopefully not AT&T first, kind of sick of everyone going to them first) then that would help the ecosystem currently going on. I am not enjoying the options left.

I loved Android at first because it is based on Linux, but I don't feel like I'm using Linux, I just feel like I'm using the only other option left. I like the few freedoms Android gives me at least, but it takes more effort than if I had Ubuntu installed on a computer to do anything useful on it.

Amazon tried, but why would I want to stop being locked down by one tech giant just to be locked down to the next. A phone should have the essentials, nothing forcefully locked into the phone. I can't uninstall Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger from my phone without rooting. If one day they all shut down that becomes a completely useless set of applications. Years from now I should still be able to text and call though? I should be able to change the apps that do those things too either way! If the manufacturer stops supporting them for example.

I love the freedom of Linux, and Android never feels like it yet. I hope Ubuntu comes to America and becomes highly available everywhere. I also hope competitors are allowed, or Distros. Would be nice to see alternative phones. I don't want to be locked down as much as I love Google, they shouldn't have total control of my phone, neither should Apple, or Canonical.

At least Canonical respects that.
I'm not an expert in the Pilot Wave theory but my understanding is that it does not easily deal with many-particle systems. In the Pilot Wave theory the "wave" is a wave in space-time. In Quantum Mechanics, the wave is a wave in an abstract configuration space.

In the case of multiple distinguishable particles this configuration space is just a product of the configuration spaces of each of the individual particles. When there are non-distingushable particles, one needs to cut down this space in various ways, depending on whether the particles are bosons and fermions. Needless to say, the Quantum Mechanics of multiple particle systems has received overwhelming experimental support.

Actually, I have a question of my own regarding the Pilot Wave theory. Can a quantum computer exist in this theory? Is it just as or less powerful than a quantum/classical computer?
That's indeed one of the reasons I'm sceptical of broad passive investing: you include many companies that are either evil or have a bullshit business model.
> Rolling until you get a word you "like" reduces randomnesss significantly.

Rerolling 32 times loses 5 bits of security... not a big deal.
It's very interesting how people apply very different standards for the in-group and the out-group. A Hackernewser making fun of a blog writer is fine, but a hackernewser making fun of another hackernewser is extremely impolite.

I fully agree that that was the point of that comment.
It's a nice design. But in this particular case, does it matter? What's the threat, that the credentials you enter into a fake basic auth box could be sent to the server? The credentials you enter into a real basic auth box are just sent to the server -- basic auth doesn't do any password hashing clientside. Why would a phishing site (that's pretending to be another site that uses basic auth) fake a basic auth box when they could just send the right header and get a real one?

What am I missing?
Indeed. The same argument applies to other exotic tooling, interesting vim plugins with many dependencies, etc.

It's one reason to keep one's environment relatively standard and boring. Otherwise, one comes to be dependent -- psychologically, at least -- on one's meticulously configured custom environment, and either chafes at its absence elsewhere or spends a great deal of time copying it everywhere.
Perhaps we should, but what does have to do with the topic at hand?
Do you make the same argument for the death penalty? If it's legally sanctioned for the state to terminate a prisoners life, then it is morally OK too
Except that it does good. To go out and catch idiots driving is a good thing.
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Can both of you, give an example where classic taxi-drivers are in a particulary bad position and being helped by lyft & uber and an example where it's the other way round?
I use fish too but I'm thinking about switching back to zsh. Mostly due to incompatible software here and there (like nvm) and lack of completions for a lot of cli tools.
Bill Burr on risk taking: http://imgur.com/0Y2u4Xb Couldn't find it in text format :(

The point being what seems like risk to many people, is actually avoidance of a different risk by the protagonist.
FOSS software running phones/tablets is currently at roughly the same place FOSS software on the PC was at the turn of the millenium, and now reports indicate that Linux on the PC/laptop is gaining more and more notice from vendors each year, something no one could've dreamnt of during the monopolistic haydays of MS. So whether or not it gains traction from telcos and the average consumer, a functioning alternative to closed ecosystems is justified by its very existence and the ever-present possibility that a combination of factors can at any moment cause it to rise to the forefront. But it can win only if it's still in the ring right?
I think the biggest thing that could probably help the Ubuntu Phone is an approachable development environment. If the road to developing apps for a phone is short enough, that people on their weekend make apps for it, it will expand rapidly with apps. This requires great tooling, and documentation. Potentially even adoption of a programming language that either comes with a powerful SDK or is tailored from the ground up for this purpose, or forked. We've seen this type of boom with Go. Go has a LOT of out of the box functionality, and Python does too, it is what makes people stick to them once they like them in my opinion. However, tooling and documentation are key. I know Ubuntu has Ubuntu Make, but it still has a long way to go. If they can make a great development ecosystem, they can bring in a number of developers.
It's funny how people say that the social contract is the price we pay for an ordered society... But no one says, you know, it's okay to choke an unarmed man to death for selling loose cigarettes because that's part of the social contract and necessary for 'keeping order'.
I would say that cirque markets itself to both adults and families, while Ringling Bros. and traditional circuses market themselves solely to families. We took our 3 year old to Cirque and he was talking about it for days. There's plenty of packages / concessions / etc. when you go to a Cirque show that are obviously targeted at kids.
Yes, you might as well complain that you never asked to be born.
Getting names right is very hard: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
That's a pretty loose definition of consent. If the group say votes that we can have sex with someone against their will, can we argue "collective consent"?
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Does experience slow you down? (2014)
Presumably that simple rule has some kind of exception for when your car is stolen?
I'm not a native speaker. What does "devil's own leverage" mean in this context? I don't think it's an idiom. Do you mean that their behaviour is what drives everybody else's?
There is no autonomous car that has been certified to be without someone who can drive it inside - and it's likely that such certification is still a few years away. I would guess it will take 2-3 years of cars driving on their own with hardly ever any need for a person to intervene before such certification is given.

In my city there are many small streets with bad traffic and environment, that at least once a week I need to verbally negotiate with other drivers who goes first and who goes back. If all cars are autonomous, they may negotiate that; But if only half are, I don't see how this will work.

Most US cities have the benefit of being built for cars; But most European cities do not; and even in the NYC, there are weird small streets that often require negotiation among drivers.
Yup. It is possible that your service is buffering output before actually writing it to the standard error stream. Try attaching to it with strace -e write PID and observe whether it is actually calling write(2, "some message"..., somenumberofbytes).

To approach this from the other direction, try this program:

import sys, time

while True:
print('test out', flush=True)
print('test error', file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
time.sleep(5)

With this service:

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /tmp/test.py
She's explaining what romance is after ten years from her perspective.

She can't say what her husband finds is romantic because she isn't her husband.

She knows she's not doing a lot of things she should as a wife, but then she writes about how she appreciates how he falls in line.

Exactly.

Isn't it interesting that the things she could do better are minor things like greeting her husband before her dogs, and he indulges these foibles.

Perhaps he has no foibles she has to indulge. Or perhaps she is wise enough not to air them in a public forum?

It sounds like he's a way better husband than she is a wife.

It sounds to me like she appreciates her husband a lot.