skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone explain the concept where a foreign person can commit an act on foreign soil and be considered that the U.S. has jurisdiction to charge them with a crime? How is that possible?
National Microwave, still going strong after 30+ years
Metaphors of software
Let's be honest: Node.js couldn't kill PHP
Reddit response to that: the software started development in the 80s, but gradually acquired features including remote authentication.
pls buy my kindle books
There seems to be a bit of a double-standard here. It's true that by a strict reading of the constitution, it is not unconstitutional for the president to "attack" the independence and authority of the judicial branch, only to deny them the powers enumerated in the Constitution. And similarly, it's not unconstitutional to "attack" the media, only for Congress to pass a law abridging their freedom to publish.

But by the same strict reading of the Constitution, it is also not treason for intelligence officers to leak information to the press. Treason is narrowly defined within the Constitution as "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

If seeking to discredit the media or control its access to information is just all in the game, then seeking to deliver that information to media is also just all in the game.

I think much of the article's point was that there are established norms & institutions by which the President usually interacts with the rest of the government. If the President ignores them, then it's highly likely that other power centers will also say "Well, if they're going to come after me with all the resources available to them, I'm going to go after them with all the resources available to me." And the end result of that is often multiple competing power centers in open warfare with each other, much like what happened in Syria. That would be bad for everyone in America (and a good many people outside of it), and so we should be wary of all parties that seek to ignore the norms of peaceful democratic society.
recent nasa images have detected the fungal mass generally associated with a whole foods franchise
"NZ should offer the US to sue Doctcom in New Zealand or wherever his company resided in."

The US already seized all his assets, and even denied him funds to defend himself, claiming he was a fugitive from justice (even though he hadn't gone anywhere). They also suggested that if funds were used to pay legal expenses, then those reimbursed (even US legal experts) could be considered part of the "criminal conspiracy". Moreover, they seized all the servers the business used to operate their business, not just infringing content, and then refused to maintain those servers, even for the purpose of preserving evidence Dotcom and co could use to defend themselves in the US. They don't want to sue him, because they already have everything. They want him, in a US prison, probably for the rest of his life.
I think it's a fundamental difference between how men and women treat relationships and sexuality.
9 Weeks with CodeKit 3
Interesting. What do you mean by self-conscious ?
+1
tips are just a result of ppl being brainwashed by capitalists who are not willing to pay WAGE instead.
I believe it could be a solvable problem? Imagine that the macro expands every parameter x to some language construct f( x ) where f( x ) has access to the type of x and the type of its result is different depending of the type of x, returning a value for for int and float-like variables, and the reference for others.
Thanks for clarifying. It appears some other people in this thread ran to conclusions. Although the situation is still bad, just not immediately disastrous.
The "media" has a major problem. Its main driver is its entertainment value. News is more entertaining when sensationalised and heavily biased. I don't think there is a conspiracy or negligence causing this. Just simple economic drivers. It's the same thing we see with fast food. Yeah it's bad, but it's exactly what the market demands.
Did daedalus really get far enough to run Lylat Wars at a playable framerate? Before I left the PSP scene it was barely getting double digits in the most basic of games.
>I wonder if there is an opportunity to provide a service/servers for legacy games so that every time the nostalgia hits a gamer he can come play online.

I think it is what GameRanger does. I played Age Of Empires games and Rise Of Nations with it, it works quite well.
> It is, of course, possible to create libraries that don't follow the idiom.

Yeah. Thing is though, there are these libraries who access pointers (especially in Go where lots of stuff are implicit pointers, like maps and interfaces). Or, may God strike them down where they stand, people who use division. Or allocate. Or cast. Or use interface{}. All such code has implicit (non-visible) panics in them.

What I mean to say is: in practice, Go code is not fundamentally different from Java/C++ code : everything can throw. Everything. Yes even that thing that you're thinking of right now that couldn't possibly ever think about throwing. There's just people who admit this and people who don't.

That the Go authors come up with idioms that are so incredibly shortsighted is emblematic of everything else about the language.

This is how Go works. They claim they are perfection, and know better than anyone.

For instance, compare:

https://blog.golang.org/go15gc

with

https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd...

(just to put up something other than the generics discussion. But everything about go suffers from both massive deficiencies and an extremely arrogant development defending deficiencies ...)
Decision 1 BvR 357/05 (https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheid...):

>The armed forces’ authorisation pursuant to § 14.3 of the Aviation Security Act (Luftsicherheitsgesetz – LuftSiG) to shoot down by the direct use of armed force an aircraft that is intended to be used against human lives is incompatible with the right to life under Article 2.2 sentence 1 of the Basic Law in conjunction with the guarantee of human dignity under Article 1.1 of the Basic Law to the extent that it affects persons on board the aircraft who are not participants in the crime.
>Indie developers now have a affordable, interesting platform with relatively open tools.

You mean PC? That they've had for years? And is still the primary platform for indie releases?
That's cool you had them as well. I was blown away when I discovered their cult following.
Thanks for sharding!
+1 for Robert Welch knives, have a few myself. My friend, who's a CDP at a double starred place, said they were comparable to his Globals when he tried them out too.
Does every adblocker block ga by default? Ublock sure does but few years ago adblock (plus?) did not.
So the US Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage is legal is tyranny?!
no point wasting your time on nltk:

cs224d (videos, lecture notes, assignments)

a similar course:
https://github.com/oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures

good paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0398 "Natural Language Processing (almost) from Scratch"
No the eggs I am referring to are from "pastured" chickens. I have seen them go for $5 at a Whole Foods in Northern Virginia as well as the local coop around the corner from me in Syracuse, NY.
lol!!
>They've got an '80s mentality where the most important thing is making sure there are no bad games published in their name - the whole "Nintendo Seal of Quality" thing. It's not about the money, it's about control.

That's a pretty big lie, given the wii's massive library of shovelware shitshows.
What on earth are you talking about? Brexit was a very openly and acrimoniously contested public vote that had nothing to do with "conspiracy to trap politicians in a pedo-honeypot".
Scalable Spark Deployment Using Kubernetes: Compute Abstractions
OK since I'm being down voted for this post, let me clarify: if you read the context which the OP mentions in the blog post, he/she was given a take-home assignment.

I agree, rooting out people who can't do basic things like linked lists is desirable, however, if you're going to send a take home assignment, my point was, you're not going to get a very honest measurement of their capabilities on one that they can google in a few seconds. That's all I meant.
That's a very American thing to say.
You’re joking, but yes, that’s actually a thing.

Watermarks with detection in cameras and scanners, be it the simple EURion constellation[1], ContentArmor[2] or the watermarking techniques developed by Denuvo, these things exist.

Some directly prevent you from photographing the content or filming it, others tell the camera to add identifying information steganographically. Even others are only used for ContentID. All of them work even if the material is going through analog copying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
[2] http://contentarmor.net/
Because flash, silverlight, java applets....
I've been using Sport5 Automatics as general beaters for years, they're generally just nice little uncomplicated watches.

They tend to drift a little, but it's no hardship to +- a minute or two once a week.
Built-in colour management is really quite well done. Corner-to-corner evenness in illumination, true 10bit per colour. You pay for the privilege though.

Beyond the features they're also very nicely built.

Really not cheap though (for the high end ones I'm talking about). For a _lot_ less money if you weren't bothered about perfection then one of the Dell Ultrasharp displays would likely get you 95+% of the way there.
Why would anybody make closed source, freely distributable blob in the first place? Making zero money from it, but assuming responsibility for support (both client and server side) AND legal responsibility when hacked? Plus doing business development, in order to gain acceptance at all?

I'm afraid you are asking for unicorns there.
HAProxy & its documentation especially.

It's a fantastic piece of software.
I think this thread is a fascinating living example of how short term 'our' digital world can be viewed, a mistake in my belief, infrastructure projects can easily take 25 years from beginning to end, I don't imagine that organisation would be keen to switch platforms many times during that period. Are we really all working on digital artefacts confident that they will expire their usefulness in such a short time frame?

Perhaps that is worth considering, compare tidying a room every day instead of putting up some storage...
I prefer the version an old work colleague had on a poster in his office:

If you're early, you're on time.

If you're on time, you're late.

If you're late, you're fired.
> like the netflix model, a fixed affordable fee

if it's affordable, that means they aren't maximizing value extraction! Think of the unpaid dollars the company could've been receiving, if they only can charge as high as the consumer can afford!
> It's not a panacea, and there are several historical examples of union leadership betraying the trust of workers and neglecting the demands of the most marginalized members (such as the UAW in 1941), but a union correctly structured and rooted in worker solidarity is the only proven way to fight management on these kinds of issues.

Thats why the IWW exists, and they desperately need members. They refuse to cooperate with big business and government, and are based on decentralized worker solidarity and principles of direct action, not the capture of state power. If a union derives its power from the state, it is easily corrupted and subverted.

https://iww.org/unions/dept500/iu560

https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/want-to-unionize-developer...
It's all standardized interception behaviour. The flight leader is trying establish contact with the plane on the left side, the other jet is just on standby.

Edit: And they picked the left side because that's where the pilot in charge of the plane is supposed to sit.
Not the same brand vacuum, but we have more animals than strictly necessary, and until I'd tried a Miele hover I didn't fully appreciate how terrible most vacuum cleaners are.
Sure. If it's say a web application, I'd invite them to install the framework(s) / libs used and to implement a basic feature that could actually be used in an application they'd be working on. Nothing super complicated, but something that wasn't "reinvent the wheel that's googled easily". I'm not aware of many major programming languages these days that are missing linked lists or similar data structs.

I'd also pay them for their time, regardless if they got the job.
No offence intended, and I realise the detail at the end about picking up the photo seals it for you, but you do realise that sometimes women lie, right? Unless there was written evidence or some other mitigating detail that was unmentioned, it sounds like you wanted the boss to be automatically fired based on nothing more than an accusation from a woman.

I've been in your bosses position, though not in a sex-related situation. A woman accused me of something in a private meeting with me and our manager. It was quite trivial and I can't even remember exactly what it was (this happened years ago), but it was work related - I was her tech lead but not her direct reporting manager and she was accusing me of undermining her, and gave an example of a specific incident that would indeed have been rather bad: if it were true. Which it wasn't.

Fortunately, this woman was an exceptionally bad liar (she lied repeatedly and frequently and had been caught many times but was mysteriously never let go). The conversation she was referring to had happened over email. So our boss asked her to bring it up so he could read it for himself. She proceeded to open her laptop, load the email and read it with the boss sitting next to her. It completely contradicted her account, and the only thing she could find to say was "oh". I remember me and my manager looking at each other with wtf type expressions on our faces.

That woman was eventually promoted into management.

What you described is a classic he-said/she-said situation. Perhaps he did have a crush on her and was a bit creepy, and the girl decided she didn't like that, but he never propositioned her. It sounds like you nor your team really knew the truth, but assumed you did. So why is it surprising to you that nothing happened? You want guilty until proven innocent to apply to you, if one day the tables are turned?
Putting it at the back isn't always a good idea - Ford Pinto anyone?
May be off topic, but I wouldn't call WSJ a quality news source. For example their coverage of PewDiePie wha pretty incorrect and sensationalist.
So much for "but DRM plugins are the better solution, because you can decline to install them."

eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7058004

This is exactly why 'slippery slope' arguments are not as fallacious as people make them out to be. Humans are not rationally acting robots. Spreading out an unacceptable change into a series of gradual and individually acceptable changes does work (even though logically it shouldn't), because it slowly shifts people's baseline expectations.
Let's make an intellectual exercise.

What would happen, if these companies would not get what they are asking for?

- Would the companies go back to distributing disc? Hardly.

- Would they make their own clients? Probably yes.

And the difference wrt today situation would be what?

1) The browsers and standards would remain clean - unlike today.

2) Only supported devices and platforms would be able to play videos - Just like today.

3) If you wanted to play DMRed video, you would have launch separate application. In my eyes, that's acceptable price to pay for 1)
The later model had 2 GB and had playlist functionality. I had both the 1GB 'continuous playlist' model, loved it it was perfect for mix-tapes, it also loaded albums with the songs in order, so yes there was a lot of skipping to get past an album, but not a problem. The 2GB model if you held down the "f-key" on the top read out the names of playlists ,ie albums, and let you press skip to cycle through them.
And i'm positing that if we want diverse workplaces we need to graduate from "just don't bring it up" as the only sensible approach or we'll continue to have professions that aren't diverse. Which is most of them. Which is kinda sad.
University DDoSed by its own vending machines
Also sed can use other characters instead of / for separating fields, like using _ instead for / heavy stuff:

sed -e 's_https://www\.example\.com/_/_g'

I think it's nicer than:

sed -e 's/https:\/\/www\.example\.com\//\//g'
This has been my experience in the Suisse Romande. Maybe you are from the Schweizerdeutsch side?
No. Hire a laywer
That does sound fun! I think figuring out bugs is a good way to find out if someone knows what they're doing at all. My main objection was "implement a LL from scratch in X language!" -> googled in 5 seconds and slightly modified, done as a work-from-home and hand in assignment.

I'd enjoy a good debugging question for sure.
You could always just give the driver a bit of cash on the side, if you have any, like an old fashioned tip.
It's also common in Canada. In Europe? I'm not aware of any country using a similar arrangement.
Relocation to Europe – Easy and trusted steps
multiple active discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683894

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13684439
>Ms. Fowler’s account is another sign of Silicon Valley’s struggle with women’s issues and diversity in a male-dominated engineering environment. In 2015, the venture capital world was put under the microscope when Ellen Pao, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, claimed in a lawsuit that she was discriminated against at the blue-chip venture firm because of her gender — a case she lost.

This paragraph is indicative of how terrible the NYTimes is with editorializing. They couldn't just report on one case with objective facts. Instead they decided to make it sound like this level of harassment is endemic to Silicon Valley (this behavior doesn't match the 6 companies I've worked at) and the only evidence they provided was the Ellen Pao case where a jury decided she was wrong.

This completely devalues the entire article and puts it on par with political commentary.
One of the quiet principles of leadership they apply in the military is: only give an order if your men will follow it. The reality is that leaders only really have power due to their followers. A few dissenters you can deal with, but if most of your followers are deeply opposed to your orders, then the limitations of your power will be exposed.
A good leather messenger bag is worth every penny. The harder you treat them the better they look.
Ok, this may work for drivers, but what about the kitchen staff at restaurants, don't they deserve more? Do you think the waiters share the tip? This is a horrible way to solve problems, everyone should receive a fair pay directly, by their employer.
The UK had its own disaster with pedophile politicians requiring a coverup due to "national security interests" .. what I'm saying is, this could be whats happening in the US as well.
I recall getting a letter from megaupload a couple of years ago after I downloaded Firefox through their services "for free", asking me to pay some bullshit amount of money. Somehow they got their download link on top of all the others in Google. Did not pay because it was clearly a fraud. Many paid though. Later they busted the operation. In Germany that was.
That's my share on Kim Dotcom.
Filesharing is fine but the dude is a criminal trying to rationalize his deeds to evade punishment.
I'm sure at the time this watch was released, it felt like your latest iPhone!
Interesting. But Do Amazon actually do much Logistics? I thought they are much more Warehouse and outsourced delivery to DHL and UPS.
I think consistent focus might be a bit overrated, and bouncing between topics can be a nice way to learn for some people. For example, yesterday I looked at the type signature of runST in Haskell and it was completely obvious how it works and how to implement my own. I had stumbled on that weird type signature a few times before, filed it away as incomprehensible and moved on to other things. But I guess my mind was processing it in the background somehow.

That happens to me a lot with other topics as well. I get intrigued by something, play with it enough to memorize a few details without really understanding them, then forget about the whole thing for awhile, and then come back to find a deeper understanding without apparent effort. Does anyone else feel that way?
Back in university days I often wrote assignments while tipsy and then edited them when sober. Cider was just perfect for silencing the inner critic to get some thoughts to paper.
That was because they were being taxed without representation. The problem here is that agencies of the government are undermining the representatives. It's almost the opposite action.

Treason against tyranny looks like it turns out for the better; but treason against democracy seems pretty sick to me.
> For some reason you left out Microsoft who was also part of that gang who lobbied for EME.

I left them out seeing as at the time they had less than 1% market-share. They did not represent the muscle or deciding-factor which caused Netflix to proceed as they did.

And I did clearly not isolate Google as the sole responsible party. I said they were "one of" the enablers.

All in all, I think my comment holds up well.

> next time you boot windows and load up Edge

Which is why I don't use Edge either. That was easy.
Our Miserable 21st Century
The policies of ramming stuff down the throat in order to please a mythical user (and failing) are still at full swing at Mozilla.

Now they are removing their strong advantage (extensions) in order to improve their weakness (perceived speed) at full speed. I fully expect them to succeed at first and fail at the second, bleeding users in the process.
Yes. Some apps without sensitive info can do it, but that's it.
> (this behavior doesn't match the 6 companies I've worked at)

Why do you think women would tell you about their experiences? I've read your comments on HN, and you'd be the last person I'd tell if it had happened to me.
I think this kind of thing is uncalled for when all the commenter just pointed out that we should wait for some kind of evaluation of evidence before pitchforking. The entire justice system in the US is founded on "innocent until proven guilty". In pitchfork-heavy threads like this, pointing that out should not result in an implication that you make women feel unsafe.

You are implying that women should feel unsafe around someone who suggests waiting for a legal resolution to a very serious problem before jumping to conclusions.
The KDE text editor, Kate, has this. It is absolutely wonderful, and Kate is full of such gems.
I find it completely unusable. The first thing I do after installing Ubuntu is installing XFCE or Cinnamon. Just the fact that you had to sacrifice a newborn to start two instances of the same application, an extremely common user action (I don't know if it's still the case now) shows that whoever designed it is incompetent.
Well clearly anyone who suggests taking a reasoned response to an accusation is clearly someone who would assault women.