skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ROM is their copyright, so this is the same thing as someone at Universal records 'torrenting one of their artist's discographies and selling it on a DVD instead of using their own archives (though this analogy holds true only if Nintendo acquired an originally unauthorized ROM dump made by an unaffiliated third-party and simply repackaged it in the Virtual Console - it could also just be the case that Nintendo made their own ROM dump but used the same tools as the scurvy pirates, that way it would still have the same ROM file header).

I'm far more interested to learn if the Virtual Console itself uses any open-source code to power the emulator - and if it means there's a potential GPL or other copyleft license violation going on - because that would be deliciously ironic for their very strong anti-(unauthorized)-emulation stance - what better endorsement than to have your own open-source emulator repurposed by Nintendo themselves?
those CRM etc software might suffice for the majority of SMB already? they're also relatively affordable comparing to hiring developers.
I agree, i thought of rethink as a ssd product too and I only started using it when I read the postmortem
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why the down-vote, I'm indeed curious about the difference?
I've never tried it but I'd bet you could use instead use a key derived from the master somehow to salt a hash for all the stems too. I think that'd let you still do the search and possibly have a good index for it still but it'd add some hurdles to the whole thing so that you couldn't make a lot of good guesses about the actual contents of the emails. It would still leak information a out related emails (say there's a thread discussing a unique term in it), but it'd still be better than otherwise.
It depends how crappy the Internet becomes. If ISPs are allowed to deliberately crappify the Internet [1] then medical devices may need either need a fast lane or a separate network. And then ISPs will argue that the fast lane is the cheaper option.

[1] If you think this is hyperbole, consult the Comcast Backdoor Santa leaks.
It seems like a slightly modified static site generator (like hugo, hexo, or jekyll) fits this description perfectly.
Source: https://twitter.com/kingladar/status/822583975067713536
If I may, as long as lawyers charge by the hour, there will be little incentive to improve efficiency.
That's exactly the issue. The way we learn them is through world experience, which is sometimes hard to figure out how to transfer into a computer.

Example:

"I dropped the egg on my glass living room table and it broke!"

"I dropped my hammer on my glass living room table and it broke!"

These are both ill-defined semantically, but if you asked most native English speakers "what broke" for each sentence, they'd probably say "egg" for the first and "table" for the second. It could be the other, but it would be surprising.
So, to solve just the "Dropped X on Y, Z broke" problem, we'd need to teach the computer to understand the effect of the relative 'fragility scores' of each object. Personally, I never sat down and memorized a chart of these as a human. You could perhaps use machine learning to derive the data by analyzing a large corpus of text[1], and match humans most of the time, but then that's just one sentence type solved, out of any number of other tricky constructions. So the long tail of semantic understanding quickly becomes a very fun set of problems to solve, for certain definitions of fun. :)

A few more examples to consider how you would teach a computer to understand, from a Winograd Schema corpus[2]:

John couldn't see the stage with Billy in front of him because he is so [short/tall]. Who is so [short/tall]?

The sculpture rolled off the shelf because it wasn't [anchored/level]. What wasn't [anchored/level]?

The older students were bullying the younger ones, so we [rescued/punished] them. Whom did we [rescue/punish]?

I tried to paint a picture of an orchard, with lemons in the lemon trees, but they came out looking more like [light bulbs / telephone poles]. What looked like [light bulbs / telephone poles]?

[1] e.g. http://cs.rochester.edu/research/lore/

[2] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/faculty/davise/papers/WinogradSchemas/...
I can't believe the word "curated" is used here.
The thing is, Emacs can have amazing, if not best support for any language, but if you install it, set it up and tweak it until molecule level. Which is great, but it kinda tires me, you know...

Now, how you manage using separate terminal and Sublime, I mean is there any communication between REPL and Sublime, or you just copy/paste code from editor to REPL? Since in Emacs you can evaluate snippets, functions and do all that nifty stuff... Actually I am afraid maybe to jump and give Sublime a shot, but now it looks like I got nothing to lose. If I manage to cope with REPL in separate terminal app I think I am sold. Magit was nice, but I am fairly proficient in terminal git so it's not a deal breaker, and I never used org-mode (I love paper notebooks for that), so I might be able to adopt to certain extent.
[Edit: nevermind, I think I misread]
I don't actually disagree with that post-mortem. Databases (and similarly, SDKs, widget libraries, and all other sorts of code-only deliverables) are rough to monetize, precisely for the reason that the RethinkDB founders believe. In addition, if you need some capability to build your product, purchasing it always means buying more capability than you need and doing more integration work than you thought you would have to.

On the other hand, workflow tools, especially if hosted, do really well and get to charge money. Jira, Github, New Relic, PagerDuty, and if you stretch it far enough, AWS do a rocking business selling to developers, because (imho) they are tied to the business process of delivering a product, not the developer need to build things.

The market for selling to developers is huge, because the market for things created by developers is huge and developers are expensive to hire. You can't sell just anything because of the supply problems cited above, and I think Trello's user base is the big story here that RethinkDB didn't have.
I think most if not all the resources existed and just spread everywhere, just need a nice checklist and write down for non-techie SMB owners to follow, instead of developing yet another solution.
From their 2016 Annual report ( https://s2.q4cdn.com/141359120/files/doc_financials/2016/Q4/... )

Employees = 1760 (page 43)

Revenue = 457 Million (page 48)

Revenue per employee ≈ 260k
Not like Wheeler/Obama didn't back-peddle on the "open-source" cablebox (which was originally proposed in the 1970s).

Everyone can make an app instead.
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He gave up the cert, there was no PFS-only configuration, plus, presumably the FBI got to do their surveillance except instead of the target's email, they could read everyone's. So no, you are not right.
I both agree with this comment, and want to say I'm not sure it fits OP.

You can live very, very cheaply. I was almost 30 before I made 20k+/year. I never felt put out or hungry. I always had a place--usually a room in a house with other people. I paid rent every month of my life starting when I was 16, so I wasn't just bumming around, eitehr. I did feel I was "behind" my peers, sometimes.

Anyway, you will find that a majority of people, particularly in places like HN where income is high, vastly overestimate the amount of money required for a single, obligation-free adult with few bad/expensive habits.

During all of the above time, I didn't eat out, I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, I didn't do any drugs. I also didn't visit any doctors, buy anything new at all, etc.

There are many, many tradeoffs to consider, but the point is a barebones existence to develop a website involves a safe place to sit, sleep, shower, and have internet. That can be had for a very, very small price if you are willing to, for instance, rent a room from a stranger. You can subsist on relatively healthy foods without access to a stove or refrigerator, etc.

The problem typically is occupying your non-work time. For most people living in similar conditions, that's where the bulk of their money goes.

As for OP: I'm not sure you're prepared to live this cheaply. If you were, it seems like you'd have mentioned it already. For a more-normal person, like renting an apartment and eating out sometimes and owning a car and tv and all--a few thousand dollars (as in singluar-thousands) is not much runway.
They used a spreadsheet.
It's a good question. I mostly know it from that context, but a disproportionate number of my acquaintances are developers.
Lawyers are faster than mathematicians? In fact, that's probably right, but I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance right now...
What's the difference between Standard and Premier?
The very next sentence in that paragraph goes on to say: " I have cut the ROM content out of the Wii file you sent me and it indeed matches the .NES file found online"
By beating people to market with self driving cars. That's the reason Uber is pushing it.
Well done! Scraper here too ;)
Will you open-source it?
Much of the focus on this release is continuing to support Kubernetes with the best possible consistency database. Xiang Li, one of the leads of etcd, included a couple of notes in his email to Kubernetes dev:

etcd v3.1 improves the read performance by a factor of 10 for Kuberentes use cases (unless quorum read is disabled).

etcd's v3 API will be the default backend in Kubernetes 1.6 release. But now you can also run Kuberentes 1.5 with etcd3 by providing `--storage-backend=etcd3` to the API server.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-dev/wgYXb...
Fwiw search that way is (I think) patented by Proofpoint. So it might be hard to implement.
The reason people seem to be in this thread is because of the tidbit of information about Trello, not because Atlassian's had a "solid Q2". The new title is not very discussion worthy.

I appreciate HN has policies around editorialization but it seems titles that better tell the story HNers would be interested in are changed to more opaque ones on a frequent basis. (Admittedly I'd have dropped the "only".)
People dressed up in suits lose accountability to me. It's like they are over-compensating for something.
The problem with monopolies in critical utilities is that screwing over customers does not hurt the bottom line. My only choice for ISP (excluding 4g cell, dsl) is twc they flat out lied to me when I was signing up, the service while fast most of the time suffers random spikes frequently. The only other choice I have is forego the Internet but let's be honest thats not an option at all.
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I'm not missing it, though it is something to consider along the way for sure. One must collaborate rather closely with people who have active track records of trying to, pardon the phrasing, fuck people over in order to do what Pai et al. do.

I have a limited reserve of good faith these days. "He might just be a moron!" isn't really worth expending it.
You wouldn't be using a finite state recognize (regular expression) but a finite state transducer (regular expression that emits characters instead of just recognizing).
In theory you could HMAC all the stems, but at that point you really need to ask yourself what threat model you're trying to protect against. E.g. keeping only the stems is more than enough to prevent competitors from learning anything useful about your business if your database gets compromised, but using an HMAC probably isn't going to significantly slow down a state-level actor who has a warrant or zero day for your web servers. So on the balance I think the technical debt that would be introduced would likely make the overall system less secure, at least for most use cases.
I guess I learned at least one new thing today, thanks! :)
sadly he seems MIA.
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Can this please have a more informative title?

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Joxa - Concurrent Distributed Lisp
Women who do not follow the domestic norm are looked down upon in society. Beauvoir is explaining that woman referred as “the other.” She states, “What is a woman?’ […] The fact that I ask it is in itself significant. A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: ‘I am a woman’; on this truth must be based all further discussion. A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. […] It would be out of the question to reply: ‘And you think the contrary because you are a man,’ for it is understood that the fact of being a man is no peculiarity.” (34-5) As for man there is no need to define what is to be a man, there is no reason because they identified themselves as the superior part. Man represents both “the positive and the neutral,” which doesn’t need to be explained or defined, and it is self-explanatory. “Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in relation to herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.” (35) Men are the default setting and women are considered a recessive gender. “He is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other.” (35) It is like an asymmetrical comparison, but masculine and feminine aren’t asymmetrical. De Beauvoir defines women as the “Second sex” because women are defined in relation to men. Aristotle referred that women are “female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities.” De Beauvoir also points out that St. Thomas referred to the woman as the “imperfect man", the "incidental” being.

unification of the symbols from current context with this paragraph are left as an exercise to the reader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir#Existential...
> The Guardian are not the 'bad guys' for trying to inform us of a vulnerability.

This is my ultimate takeaway as well; their intent was good, it was their implementation that fell short. I'm just really bothered that they are unwilling to own their mistake and retract the article, or at the very least allow a counter-editorial to be written and published by them.
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1. Depends on the technology. On Illumina (cheapest tech and highest throughput), you get the first and last 125 bases of smallish DNA molecules with an acceptable error rate. Pacific Biosciences (lower throughput and more expensive) gives you up to 40.000 bases with a rather horrible error rate.

2. They fail epically. There is nothing you can do computationally. With paired end reads (two reads at an approximately known distance), you still can't assemble repetitive regions, but you can get the contigs around the repeat in the right order.

3. Definitely, but I don't know the details. Plants are often more difficult than animals; they have bigger genomes and often have multiple chromosome sets. Assembly of a wheat genome is more difficult than assembly of the human genome---and I'd argue even the latter isn't actually a solved problem.
Because once you defunct the bad argument, and concisely prove that arguments from authorizity are illegitimate the next step is to silence the person with force. His comments are dead and they are entirely reasonable.

Look up the history of the argument from authority, it is explicitly used by those in power to reject those not in power. It has nothing to do with whoever claims whether an expertise is legitimate or not.

Edit:

You're right, only one dead comment, the substantive one is just whited out to illegitibility because he dare has the teremity to challenge the crypto experts.

Look, the people who signed the statement make up like 30% of this thread, it's completely rediculous, they are here to control dissent and flag and down vote those who challenge their authority.HN certainly isn't a place to have an open and free discussion when there's such an obvious gap in power and equality between users.
Thats what Peter Thiel said about CEOs
Finch is also the name of an ncurses chat client.
When VOIP and other communication services started to sprout in the 1990s the FCC let them coast without taxation for about a decade. They then reclassified all such services as common carriers so that they could be taxed as such.
Common carriers must pay into various tax funds such as LNP (which funds citizens' rights to port their phone numbers between carriers), NANPA (which maintains the North American Numbering scheme), and USF (which subsidizes telephony buildout or services to areas that the private market would otherwise ignore). Most consumers see these as various charges as a roughly 20% up-charge on their bill.
You would think so, but then Apple has thousands of engineers yet can't be bothered to regularly update its products, lazily copies parts and construction and even discontinued a bunch of stuff.

(And while Google keeps adding heuristics I wish some of those many developers and researchers would simply occasionally try the product and ban, purge the very obvious content farm and spam sites)
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It honk that they're supposed to be free of that thermal noise because of the way the magnetic and electric fields work to have zero resistance (the whole thing would collapse if they did have thermal noise) but I don't know that I've seen anything studying it either. I suppose it might not be studied or characterized yet because of the fact that so many superconductors have required temperatures cold enough that thermal noise would be nearly impossible to measure in normal materials let alone something with no resistance otherwise.
It's clearer if you add an "either" and a comma:

either violate the rights of the American people and my global customers, or shut down.

Unless you're alluding to some impropriety on Levinson's part that I'm unaware of.
Reminds me of John Urschel: PhD candidate in mathematics (MIT) and offensive lineman for Ravens. Wrote six papers while playing in NFL. https://math.mit.edu/~urschel/
Here's some data that indicates that this "law" is generally not valid:

https://github.com/matslina/matslina.github.com/blob/master/...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419
I want to know why wouldn't Nintendo put the effort into doing their own ROM dumps?
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Everybody can do that stuff in Clojure too, and it does not suffer from the same thing CL does. It seems to me that it is a culture/ecosystem problem more then anything else.
I wonder what the Yahoo! dismantling will do to all of the Geocities content. Hopefully they lay dormant in archive somewhere, clearly labelled.
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It's a little more than the torrenting analogy. The ROM is in a format that was developed by and for emulators that they claim should not exist. They relied on the work put in by emulator creators that they tried to fight into nonexistence.

Your last paragraph is pertinent question. But even if not an infringement, it is surely hypocrisy of the highest order.
What are they switching into?
He has one dead comment which just complains about downvoting and contains no argument. I'm not sure what you mean by 'defunct'.
Trying to apply a technology is enough to publish ?
The person bearing overall responsibility to appoint the right people to build a system of internal controls that can audit whatever volume of trade they are doing. In this case it seems that the top people knew all about this trade and it is clear that the accounting treatment of a trade that spreads a loss into the future would be 'fair value'. IE 0. So if the courts find that this actually happened then of course the execs are culpable.
Stay away from SharePoint. It sucks in every dimension you may want to use it.

Thumbs up for FileMaker though.
You've left out the context of that quote to invert what the sentence actually said. Fayzullin's entire statement was:

"[...] If you see that your .NES file DOES NOT match any
of the ones found online, it is likely to be their own ROM dump.
I have cut the ROM content out of the Wii file
you sent me and it indeed matches the .NES file found online."

> it does not appear that they downloaded a Mario ROM

That is literally the opposite of what Fayzullin said.
And neither was this case. It was about one single dodgy trade
Are you able to read comments from people at other companies? My understanding was that if be limited to just interacting with people at my own company.
Let me understand: introduce an increasingly complex 'solution' to the symptoms rather than fixing the root cause: dynamic garbage collection is, by its name and nature GARBAGE.

This strikes me as a strong motivation to stop using 'transparent' garbage collection as seen in so many dynamic languages. IT DOES NOT WORK. Period. Get over yourselves.
IBM Health Insurance must love how excited all the sedentary people are about getting a free Apple Watch from their wellness program.
Well that seems like an easily applied solution to the problem of GC in javascript.
The fuck are you even talking about?

1) scaling is easy . . . oh casandra. Where you can't have C and don't care about P.

2) Let me tell you about banks. I used to work for banks. Banks do not use systems that are eventually consistent. Banks use systems--however old and outmoded--that are strongly consistent. Banks do not use systems that are eventually consistent except for ACH transfers. And that's not a database. That's a flat file

3) There is no cassandra world that you speak of. This is utter bullshit.

4) No it's not untrue. Cow--as we call it on me team--absolutely sucks at C when you're talking about scaling horizontally.

Make up your mind. Is this good at single node guarantees or is it good at sharded guarantees?

Pick one.

We know for a fact that if you want CAP, you can't have all three. You can have AP or CP, but you can't have all of them. If you're arguing that you can have C and A, you have failed at P.

Maybe that's a thing you're willing to trade-off. But it doesn't in any way relate to my point.

My point, if you missed it, was this: if you want strong consistency, you need a relational database, and you need transactional guarantees.

That is hard to do, and no one does it well yet. You're just lying to people if you say otherwise.
I was not aware he gave up the cert in the end. Thought he just closed website without disclosing TLS cert. Now it looks way worse than I imagined.

Anyway, I really hope that it leads to adoption of backward-compatible and secure email protocols. Server encryption can't be trusted anymore anyway, we need end-to-end encryption.
Is it possible to get the plaintext of comments from GitHub or the other platforms you prefer?
Does Elixir have step through debugging (breakpoints, etc) with accurate referral back to source code? Once one gets used to a modern, civilized debugging environment it is very difficult to go back into the wild.
I'm ignoring that for now because it is overwhelming. Luckily we have a team of community advocates who respond to that.
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you forgot mellifluous
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Fair enough. I should have said "fails to emphasize" not "fails to mention".
There are remote monitoring services that track the status of various medical devices geared towards detecting anomalies in things like heart rate or heart rhythm. The ones that I've heard about use the cell network to report updates back to the monitoring company.
I bought an Aeron a couple of months ago after asking here on HN and I couldn't be happier.

2nd hand I paid barely £300 for it. Worth every cent, like when a good CRT monitor made a difference.