skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Light doesn't change speed, so this statement confuses me.

Practically speaking, it does change speed. The speed of light in a vacuum is fixed, but it varies based on what it's traveling through.

The propagation velocity of an EM signal in RG coax cable is 80% of c*, PCB traces can be as low as 50% and somewhat surprisingly both fiber optic cable and cat6 cable are about the same, ~60-70%. I don't know if there is any good public information about the velocity factor with modern CPU transmission lines.
this is what people are thinking about when they refer to 'American exceptionalism'.

You can't seriously believe this?
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Oh? A lot of them are on Wikipedia. Is there some special arrangement for a subset of the images?
When I select HTML tag there is "Design Patterns" gang of four on first place.
Criminal courts are no place for regulating copyright infringement much like combating drug use. It is just as likely to worsen the problem, be more expensive than the alternative, or cause a variety of harmful externalities neutralizing the net benefit (for ex: slowing R&D).
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this is generic to hassle any kind of call centre: PPI claims, accident claims etc..
Here's their official blog post on the announcement: https://www.hackerone.com/blog/The-best-security-initiative-...
I'm pretty sure it skews old by not correcting for publication age. That's how "heads up design patterns" from 2004 beats almost everything since, simply by being older. In 2030 something newer will have higher numbers, but an old classic will have even larger numbers, so ...

Eventually old stuff tails off. I learned C from K+R edition one in the 80s, and the ANSI edition two has now displaced it.
This is really elegant. It's always fun to find something artsy in code. We often forget how important creativity is in software engineering.
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That sounds like open source to me.
Not very convincing. They often used excuses of good reasons to do sinister stuff, so, they'd need to work much harder to fix their ruined reputation.
I think focusing one one high level language like Haskell/OCaml/F# and one low level language like C is the truth path to enlightenment.
Anybody know what CLI the Microsoft git users use on Windows? The few times I've tried using GitBash it's been very slow. Not unworkable, but painfully slow.
"There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
My experience in the past year is attendants being much more strict on the "no standing in line for the bathroom" thing.

Honestly, I don't understand how this is supposed to work. If we can't get in line, then we have to watch carefully, and as soon as someone leaves the bathroom, jump up and run down the aisle to it. But everyone else who wants to go is doing the same, which means that the person whose seat is closest to the bathroom wins, and everyone else needs to got back to their seats. So people farther away don't get to go, while those sitting near them also grow increasingly frustrated.
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It's scary for everyone.

The original "lump of labor" economic argument was that every level of automation lead to more abstract and higher productivity/value work, blue collar labor "just" had to get white collar jobs.

Now that automation has deeply infiltrated the entire manufacturing/retail process, it's starting to eat auxiliary "white collar" jobs.

We're running out of room for people.
I really like this stance, I think this argument needs a little more sharpening so that it generates action from people who not in our bubble outside of the tech scene.
> an ex-Stasi person drafting rules proposing rules about what you can and can't say, which seems pretty specific.

But what's the actual content of the rules?

> Hate speech is often used to defend ideas, eg, religion, from legitimate criticism.

I'm guessing you mean "hate speech law", because hate speech certainly turns up when defending religious homophobia, for example? But do you have an example of legitimate criticism of religion being shut down by hate speech law?

The German position on this is rather different to the American; Germany is used to bans on Swastikas and other symbols of the far-right, simply because they're not legitimate competitors in the marketplace of ideas but the kind of viral hatred that can lead to genocide.
you could add voice recognition to cue up responses and also launch a vm for them to take control of.
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That's debatable; one of the biggest challenges facing a consumer ISP business is literally called the "last mile" problem because that last mile is surprisingly difficult! (Not that the "other" miles are easy, mind you.)
Yes, when I'm utterly engrossed in a problem, like when my routine is basically eat, sleep, work and repeat. I dream about it as well.

It isn't limited to code, when I was a kid I used to wake up dreaming of Tiberium Sun, and Red Alert 2. It's lately been code though.
I've thought that marketplaces should have some kind of democratic component to them. I kind of envisioned an "affiliate" that earns residual money for bringing customers and vendors to the system. And improvements are voted on and put out to bid. And loyalty programs so fees go down the more you use the system. All decisions and votes would be transparent.
Having a 1.5-2h commute 5 days a week is soul crushing, having a 1.5-2h commute 2 days a week is not. There is cheap housing within 2h of most locations.

My boss lived 230 miles from the office at my last job. He showed up 1-2 days a week for meetings and that's it.
You can consider copyright infringement wrong and simultaneously believe criminalizing it as theft is a bad idea.

For example jay-walking is wrong because it's dangerous but many people do it anyway and it's not generally villianized. So then is the solution having police patrols in the streets fining/arresting people as a deterance? Will that reduce the problem and legitimately help both pedestrians and drivers? Or will educating people on the risks, creating alternatives such as adding more crossing points, improving cars ability to detect pedestrians, etc, etc, be a better solution?

Not everything is black or white, good or bad.
Get to a level of skill and track record where it's easy to find companies willing to hire you. Then, when negotiating, give up significant salary to reduce your time commitment. It works better with smaller companies (Google, etc are not going to go for this)
> It helps small groups unite and openly and transparently seek legislative changes they want.

This is true, but it benefits the already wealthy a hell of a lot more.
That's great news about parameters, I don't think I used a version with those included. Thanks again for building a quality tool!
How sure are you that more than 25X people will pay for a 1 dollar movie? Because that sounds way high to me.

Do you know anyone would watch 25X more content if it were cheaper? I wouldn't.

And the movie industry taps this demand in other ways. They eventually sell the movie to netflix/amazon/tv station.
The problem exists in America as well; my elderly father was hit by it. Luckily my mom overheard his end of the conversation and put a stop to it. (Turns out, the scammer is very good at crying, but not very good at proving their alleged identity by knowing my mother's name. Hurray impromptu two-factor authentication!)

But I believe that it's illegal to operate cell phone jammers, unless you're the government. And for good reason; it's wonderful that you prevent someone from being scammed, but if I'm attacked by a mugger near an ATM, I'd rather like to call 911.
>Coincidence?

No, but not the conspiracy theory you are imagining. It's my understanding that if Person A searches for Person B they are likely to show on Person B's list of people you may know.

Also just to clarify, how many times have you looked at the people you may now list and not seen someone you recently met?
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Good overview of HackerOne in The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14534738/hackerone-bounty-4...
This is great. Do you have the code you used to scrape and rank the books posted somewhere?
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I had this happen a lot when I first started out but not so much anymore for some reason.

One thing I remember that has always amused me is how I would dream about this amazing code. It was so amazing that I would simply have to wake up so I could write it down. But, the few times I could actually wake myself up, as soon as I thought about it (before it quickly faded away) I said to myself, "WTF was that? There's no way that would work!"
Go to the privacy commissioner.
> Most 'office' jobs _CAN_ be worked remotely. A lot of jobs that do require face to face interaction also involve a lot of travel and _CAN_ therefore be based anywhere near an airport.
Right now 20-25% of the US workforce teleworkers some of the time. And up to 50% of US jobs _COULD_ be worked remotely a significant portion of the time. Further, as people move out of the most in demand city's service jobs will follow.

Quoted with emphasis placed. Can, could, sure I agree 100%. The ability to do this lies with the consent of the employer, not the employee. A lot of people don't have the luxury of cherry-picking their income source, and are beholden to the rules of their employer. I realize that notion isn't really considered here: "we can all get jobs anywhere, we're smart devs!", but in reality is isn't true for large swaths of people.
For what it's worth, I think Chomsky blew Dershowitz out of the water.

As did Norman Finkelstein in his own showdown with Dershowitz.
>Space migration: an obscenely expensive way to sideline earth's environmental problems

If I can soapbox for a moment, I think you might be framing space colonization wrong. The big upside to me is that it will give us powerful new capabilities in space.

If we reach the point where Mars has a worthwhile industrial base, Mars becomes the launch pad for just about everything. The weaker gravity combined with the thinner atmosphere (so you can fly vacuum optimized engines from the surface) makes it a good order of magnitude cheaper to launch mass from. For large structures destined for Earth orbit, it would eventually make sense to build them on Mars and fly them into Earth orbit.

By analogy, colonizing the Americas was a pretty bad deal at first. The colonies took a ton of support and it was really hard to bring any value back. In hindsight though, it was one of the most profitable ventures ever. New technologies created exponential gains from the raw ingredients found in the new world.

Orbital manufacturing is also pretty important. Made in Space is working on producing ZBLAN fiber optic cable in orbit, because gravity causes artifacts which degrade signal quality[0]. This seems like a narrow niche but I think it's not. Think about microchip fabs and turbine blades. There are a lot of high value high tech processes that could likely be improved by either the removal of gravity, or the choice of arbitrary levels of artificial gravity <1g on rotating structures. Interplanetary radiation is an issue now, but it's one that can be solved with a bigger mass budget.

I suppose my main point is that this isn't space migration, it's colonization, with all the profit-motive and empire building that word usually comes with.

[0]: http://www.madeinspace.us/projects/fiber/
Although not directly development related. The most impressive book I've had the pleasure of reading is "Gödel Escher Bach: An eternal golden braid" (also known as GEB) from Douglas Hofstadter.

It's hard to explain what it is about exactly, but it contains ideas and concepts from mathematics, computer science, philosophy and conscience. All of it is explained in very clear and interesting way. I can recommend it to anyone interested in these topics.

The book won a Pulitzer and to take a quote from the Scientific American about it: "Every few decades, an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event."
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> Because it is stealing. Some people still believe in paying for value.

I'll care about people stealing from an oligopoly when people care about regulating natural monopolies and oligopolies to the point they behave reasonably.
We are in the middle of such an uncomfortable transition.

Every company has their own stupid fucking platform, which you may or may not be able to get on your device, or which may or may not support streaming to your streaming device. I am someone who wants an elegant simple solution to something like this in my house, why the fuck can't I just have one god damn app that can load ALL of my shows/movies/livetv and takes care of payment to whichever company is providing the content or gives them a way to insert ads for free content.

It is no wonder that people use Kodi.
I really like Redash, it’s one of the early tools that introduce this concept of turn SQL into chart to developers, and also teach developers to learn and write better SQL, altogether without any cost. I evaluated Redash during my past company back in 2013 (we were also using Tableau), but due to some Redash’s lack of features (no support for filters, lack of permission control, sporadic performance), we went and build something inhouse with similar approach (turn SQL into charts).

And inspired by the same path Redash founder took, that internal project turned into a startup by itself.

We’re relatively new but getting good momentum. Some of our customers went with us after evaluating both. While we don’t have a self-hosted open-source version, our pricing only starts at 49$/mo for up to 5 users (pretty affordable for startups IMHO).

You can check it out here: https://www.holistics.io
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What's interesting in this case is that the guys who are loading some software are being prosecuted. They haven't stolen anything.

If there's a specific law they're breaking, I'd be surprised.
It's not being used as a bargaining chip, but that doesn't mean it's not a goal.
Most people have a copy of DP and have not read the whole thing. Most people have read it in that they have read a couple pages, the table of contents, and a couple random patterns. To some extent that is how the book should be read: you have a problem that a DP solves and so you read the section on that pattern to get it right.

The problem is most people have a superficial knowledge of the patterns in the book (a list is easy to put together along with a short summary so most people have read one). They then go looking for how to apply the patterns to their domain so they can check the pattern box, without thinking about the large picture. They never consider that patterns exist to solve a specific problem and if you don't have that problem you shouldn't use the pattern.

The classic example is the singleton: it solves a tricky problem that large systems sometimes have. However few people realize that a singleton is a fancy name for a global variable and have all the downsides of a global variable.

There are several patterns that are a specific way of creating a layer of abstraction. Abstraction layers are often very useful, but as the saying goes: "all problems in programing can be solved by adding a layer of abstraction - except too many layers of abstraction". I've seen cases of layers of abstraction that didn't solve any problems.

As such the original point: DP, by giving patterns names has created more harm than good. This is not the fault of the book though: the names were needed and the patterns are very useful when applied correctly. However before the book people would re-invent the patterns (badly) only when they needed the pattern.
Your comment would be far stronger without that Russia bit at the end. You raise excellent points, but the descent into whataboutism overshadows them.
Make sure to separate the eagerness to fight and the support for less working hours. A subjugated workforce with a weak or non-existing labor movement will not fight much. However I'm sure that an overwhelming majority of workers would answer yes to "Would you like to work less hours with the same pay?".

Furthermore, there's basically no historical basis for increased workers rights/benefits coming from business owners.
But not by Microsoft, you can opt to obtain WHQL certification for your driver and have MS sign them - but it's also acceptable to get a code signing cert from any trusted CA.

Apple controls all the keys for macOS, AFAIK there's not even an option to add additional CA's for code-signing trust. To get around this you have to completely disable SIP, and it's rather stupid to tell users they must disable a well-meaning (if somewhat poorly implemented) security feature to install a kext because Apple doesn't like you (no knowledge if this has happened, but it can, and I don't care for that).
The Gitlab database incident and the Backup Checker project
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Counterpoint: Tel Aviv has an active tech economy despite a difficult immigration environment. You probably just need first world infrastructure, capital, and low levels of government corruption.
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> This is a misunderstanding of the DP book.

That may be, but it's a very common misunderstanding of the book by junior developers who read the book as a list of recipes to use anywhere they might be applicable.

Is it the book's fault that it's understood this way? I don't know. Regardless, the book + this persistent understanding and use of it are, as grabcocque says, "responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted, unreadable, hard to maintain Java code than anything else before or since."
Any recommendations for something more up to date?
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> Has Russia paid anything to the families of the Malaysian airliner shoot-down?

If you want to compare situations, the Malaysian airliner flew over an active warzone, along the same path as Ukrainian military planes that were targeting the rebels.

Surely you can see the situations aren't quite the same.
I was saying my own comment was beside the point.
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I have done this from time to time, when I was really stressed, and working too many hours.

Once my life went back to a sane pace, where I could enjoy some personal free time, the problem went away.

Now I have a baby and I dream of diapers.
> Maybe drugs are not as awesome as I thought.

I suspect this to be the case. It seems to me that the a key feature with psychedelic drug users and proponents is that they end up discontent with life [1] (and to a degree, with reality). They're often talking about how these drugs helped them see some sort of truths, but as far as I can tell, these truths don't help them interact with reality.

[1] There's a good chance they actually just started out this way and I'm seeing a selection bias.
Have you considered using Gogs - Go git service https://gogs.io/
Or Gitlab?
Still, the original architecture "Design Patterns" book by Alexander (which this book is supposed to be the software analogy of) discusses "good practices", emphatically recommended for architects, city planners, etc. So it is maybe not that far-fetched to interpret these patterns as recommendations too.
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Any source on the clock rate jump? That's more than I had heard.
I'm curious on how well it would work in real-life. I mean, celebrity faces were used in the tests, how well it would perform with normal-people faces?
The Windows Kernel already does this automatically, at a period of around 10-100ms. If you look at a single threaded program it will actually utilise all cores not one, by default its not locked affinity and the thread skips around.
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successors a nonexclusive, worldwide, transferable,
fully-paid and royalty-free license to use, reproduce,
display, modify, adapt, distribute, and perform the
Content in connection with rendering the Website and
providing the Service.

This appears to let Github take any software repository hosted there, and use it under this license to provide features to the github website. So they could take AGPL licensed software and modify and use it without complying with the source disclosure requirements of the AGPL because they have been provided this other more permissive license. It's essentially a free BSD license to everything on Github, for Github alone.

Also, "the Service" is defined as any product or service Github provides, so this could be expanded into any business.

The "transferable" in that also might let Gihub contract with some other company to provide part of "the Service" -- perhaps in an entirely unrelated business than the current Github website, and transfer the license to any free software they like to that other company.

I don't know if it was intended to be used this way, and I am not a lawyer so I could be misinterpeting it, but I will not be hosting any software on Github if they adopt this TOS, without consulting a lawyer.

(The current TOS has nothing like this in it.)
Ageism, if your wrists are toast by age 40, but no one gets hired over 30, or whatever the exact numbers are, it doesn't matter much as long as A is higher than B.
Not for European drug companies (and there are quite a few of them) who must negociate price in Europe, yet still cover all their R&D.

Those same comapnies then sell the same drug with pure profit (minus marketing & regulatory cost) in the US, for 4x the price because they have a monopily on it.
The green-card omission was a mistake, fortunately corrected relatively quickly. The majority of this action, while disheartening and inconvenient for some, is temporary. That which remains and is being declared permanent will not be so. If you haven't learned by now, look closer (and check out Scott Adams recent blog posts). He consistently starts at an extreme and works back to the position he really wants. We are only at the very beginning of this process.
I agree. I was fairly interesting, but not as good as it is made out to be.
I don't think theaters make much, if anything at all, from ticket receipts. That's why concession are so overprice. Some theaters even flat-out tell you this.

I think the "a la carte" model is much more realistic than the "all you can eat" model but I don't think that model solves what the parent comment was saying. The a la carte model doesn't really work that well for movies either. I still think people would complain and go to torrents. "Why should I pay $15 a month to watch Game of Thrones when I can torrent it?" will still be a question but that's already better than things were two years ago when it was "Why do I have to pay a $70 cable subscription PLUS $15 a month to watch Game of Thrones?"