skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This model has some problems - for ex. it has prevented some genuine innovation in providing broadband

Until the conservatives got into power it was going to advance broadband considerably. Now it's just a multibillion dollar gift to their political mates.

20 years from now when we still have slow internet I'm still going to be telling everyone it's the Liberal parties fault.
That's a big assumption .
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It's not like medallion cabs were the only game in town before Uber came along. Black car services have been popular as taxi alternatives for decades.
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This isn't an ordinary debt from a 3rd party; it's a contract with the company - they can put whatever terms and restrictions they like on that contract, including no other recourse for the debt other than proceeds of the sale of that stock, or it's forfeiture.
That seems too granular, as an additional 'uh' or 'and' would cause a sentence to be seen as different.

It might work well if you can first pair up the similar sentences from A and B, using word-level edit distance, or mapping to a lower-dimensional space using sentence embedding?
are you actually trying to say that being a pedophile is a legitimate sexuality?

or even that it's anything like being gay?
I suppose all algorithms will be trained on all available data, making the results pretty similar.
>Well, the rig utility can help, it creates a random identity. For some reason rig will never generate an identity that lives in Utah.

Heh, I was curious why that is. Was the author from UT? Afraid of breaking some laws? After looking at the source, the author has a list of 60 or so cities and they're spread across 25 states: SC, AZ, TX, OH, KS, IA, WI, MI, NJ, NY, PA, IN, VA, NC, RI, TN, WA, MS, CA, IL, CO, FL, GA, MN, NE. So UT was not the only one omitted.

Oh well, at least my curiosity was satisfied.
> Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did.

That's a bit presumptuous isn't it? While many people have heard of rsync I've only heard of you because of HackerNews, and not everyone reads this site. When I first saw the URL "rsync.net" I didn't think of "backups", I thought that you maintained rsync or provided some sort of support for rsync.

> But now I'm not so sure ... I have a feeling that somehow the redhat ecosystem and the people that use it are quite a bit differently focused than the HN crowd and people that are UNIX enthusiasts for the sake of UNIX.

I work for SUSE, not RedHat, but our culture is incredibly similar (and I collaborate with people from RedHat every day). The makeup of companies like us is incredibly varied, and it's not really fair to make generalisations like that.

I know quite a few people who work for RedHat and SUSE who are super obsessive about Unix and have hobbies that are massively tied to programming. But that doesn't suddenly mean that they will automatically know every startup that does cloud storage.
I would like something that is semi-managed. In other words, I could have the option for a console with sudo access, but there are scripts I can click that install things for me.

I'm currently looking for a solution a step up from shared hosting, but my host is all managed and offers no sudo access for their VPS.

I've also looked into the cloud which I'm still in the process of learning. It's a few steps forwards, and a few steps back. I've figured out how to actually get it working, but the SSH access is iffy -- sometimes it connects, sometimes it says it cannot. Then I tried CyberDuck and SFTP, and while I can see the files and folders, I cannot actually access, update, delete, or do anything. Getting there, slowly!

If the cloud servers could offer some preloaded instances with preloaded software, that'd be pretty nice too. I want it all.. and total control! Muhahahahaha.
I was thinking of the fact that transparent is supposedly an alias for rgba(0,0,0,0), but this doesn't seem to cause an issue when I try it out, in Firefox at least.
I did this once with a msi to exe converter idea (was getting a lot of traffic on a free page I set up). So I set up a form and after 2 months I got a $20 sale. So I decided to refund him and not to build it.
> don't know where this guy stands on the political spectrum

(N/W-European here) Is that really a thing that US citizens pay attention to?
Unfortunately I wasn't selected, which is why I've asked here. I know I had some poor focuses in the past (e.g. trying to do a collaboration with an offline business in my industry to bootstrap an online one) and I'm trying to get some advice here on HN.

I have a free product launched (and then pulled because my API provider dramatically increased prices). I'm about 3/4 of the way to building a paid content-based product to ideally fund development of the free one.

So basically my most promising avenues I see are to

1) focus 100% on the paid product
2) eliminate the API provider as a dependency and go all out on the primary free product (risking running out of cash in a couple of months)
3) try to raise 12k in funding so the runway extends to the end of the year.

My current choice is to focus 100% on the paid product. It's not clear how to put that into a growth goal though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14048063
It will be available from our update center soon and the next month or so via our verified program. The CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise team are hard at work on this as we speak :)
just curious: are you comparing being gay with being a fucking pedo?
That is science and tech for knowledge's sake, not a plan to make a profit. Certainly there are some things that will benefit from being manufactured in a low or zero gravity environment but so far nothing that will turn a profit off of setup costs that I'm aware off.

It's not that I don't admire the ambition. I do. But I really don't think that unfettered commercialization of even low missiles into space is a good idea.

From what I've read we do not know the potential effects this could have on the Ozone and upper atmosphere. We seem to be ignoring the precautionary principal with these projects.
...but what about cars left on the parking lot by the drunk ppl? a lot of ppl might choose to drink&drive because they have to go back & get their cars again...

In South Korea they have 'substitute driver service' that drives customer's car (obviously, with customer in it) back to the customer's home.

I'm sure this can be done logistically (have a large bus carry around drivers, etc.)
Thanks, this was the explanation that made sense to me.
The manufacturing itself won't be cheaper. But you can save transport costs. It costs about 22000 USD to send 1 kg into space. SpaceX might improve this to 1000 USD per kg, but that's still quite expensive.
Linux doesn't have to be that inconvenient. You can now buy machines preinstalled with Ubuntu LTS. If you want to keep upgrading to the latest and greatest, yes it can be a rough ride.
Interesting.

I'm not fully convinced by components either, I don't like the idea of the bullet behaviour code having to check if "this entity has 'propeller' and 'rigid_body' components", as if the bullet behaviour code had to re-discover what a bullet was made of (BTW, this feels like a re-implementation of coarse-grained dynamic duck-typing for static languages).

This problem is less visible when the game logic is written in Lua, where dynamic duck-typing is the rule.
I do write my game logic in C++/D, though, and the problem is perfectly visible.

The way you describe how you would do it raises a few questions ; because now it seems you can't process entities in a systematic/opaque way.

This implies that, say, the renderer has to loop over bullets, then to loop over doors, and so on. Each time a new entity type is added, this part of the code has to be modified, even though most entities might share the drawing code (e.g mesh).

This sequence of loops appears in many places, like collision checking, game logic update, save/load, etc. and all of them have to be updated when a new entity type is added.

Something in my understanding must be wrong, because the way you do it obviously works ; maybe the issues I just described isn't so problematic in practise?
At SUSE engineers use a wide variety of distros. There's no company policy against using anything (some of my coworkers even use OSX). But I'd say that a fair few use openSUSE because that's the distribution that we all help maintain.
Hmm thats no good - would you be able to email me [1] your server log? Usually this happens when the network is slow but something else might be up.

If you delete the multibranch project and try again, does it work the second time? It would be good if you could capture a HAR file [2] of your browser session too.

[1] jdumay@cloudbees.com

[2] https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/204498690-Di...
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It looks nice, but it looks like jenkins is doing way to much and locking you into using it.

IMO a build server should only be managing it's triggers (time, checkin) and then calling the build script (make or whatever) with the correct parameters for that build configuration. Instead it seems to be trying to take the role of both.
That's basically giving up, though. It doesn't make running subprocesses better, it makes running shell subprocesses better.
I really like diff-so-fancy [1] highlighter as a pager and to review diffs. Previously discussed here on HN here: [2]

[1]: https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11057421
Jenkins issues all kinds of links to itself via email, Slack, HipChat and Github to refer to runs of pipelines or the homepage of jobs. When we do this, we send you to a well known URL that will redirect you to your preferred UI - Blue Ocean or "Classic" Jenkins. Thats what this preference controls. I hope this helps!
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_certain major destinations_

This is the reason this isn't a public transport, there is no such thing as "certain major destination" when it comes to public transport!
> I used to bevery enthusiastic about continuum in Windows. But now, I've come to realize that the interface better be separate for different usecases - plus, no one want to plugin their phone and use it for work.

You seem to have a misunderstanding of how continuum works in Windows. The interface is separate when you hook up a phone into a dock (it's a desktop interface) and the newer devices can also do it wirelessly.

Windows went with a "similar UI language" for all platforms but still maintained huge differences between each platform because that made sense. It was never the same UI.
It's not so surprising given that if Uber doesn't find anything, Google would have a much better chance at the Prelim. Injunction. Hiring a 3rd party firm isn't needed since Google is ahead either way, and Uber doesn't need a third party firm to search its own system (or at least, hopefully they don't).
Right, supermarkets are necessarily not selling the product as much as their brand. The message here is - 'Come to our store, we have all these products at discounted prices'.
I think that's kind of the point. X shouldn't get paid more just because they have children, sick or not. Y could have equal need for the money, and they oughtn't need to justify their cause against X's cause, for the sole reason that such subjective valuation leads most immediately to discriminatory remuneration.

(As an example, maybe Y needs money because she donates to nonprofits. Probably the kind-hearted boss would also give Y a raise if Y gave the money to curing childhood cancer. But what about if it went to the NAACP? Or an evangelical church? Normalizing subjective need-based remuneration promotes discrimination.)
I think Kilo is a great little project, well-structured and very educational.

Another useful resource I've relied upon in the past, dates back to the 1990s: Freyja, which is Craig Finseth's emacs-like editor written in C.

Here is a list of features:

* deletions are automatically saved into a "kill buffer"
* ability to edit up to 11 files at once
* ability to view two independent windows at once
* integrated help facility
* integrated menu facility, with help on all commands
* can record and play back keyboard macros
* supports file completion and limited directory operations
* includes a fully-integrated RPN type calculator

It was designed for MS-DOS with the Cygwin terminal library.

I found the architecture to be very clean, and it is well explained in Finseth's classic book ("The Craft of Text Editing"). The book is worth reading even if you never touch the code: http://www.finseth.com/craft/

It uses a multi-buffer architecture roughly similar to Walter Bright's text editor (see sibling posting). (I knew about Finseth's editor years ago, but was not aware of Bright's work until now, thanks Walter!)

The Freyja source can be downloaded from: http://www.finseth.com/parts/freyja.php

Look for the link to "freyja30.exe" which turns out to be freyja30.zip (not an executable).
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I think the problem was that they were refusing service regardless of whether a 3rd party fingerprint sensor was installed.
You are right - people come to Jenkins when things go wrong and thats why we've redesigned the result screen so you can easily pinpoint changes without having to endlessly scroll through huge log files. You can see this in the "Pinpoint Troubleshooting" section of the blog.
How did you query such list?
> I lost a lot of faith in Mozilla years ago when the Firefox brand was starting to get really big and the Linux releases for everything Mozilla would lag behind by a few months.

That's the job of the linux distro, not mozilla.
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Yes, rc4 is the same bits as 1.0.0
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Unfortunately, in this particular "market", Google has a complete, and uncontested monopoly. :/
Can SQL do resolution or backtracking similar to Prolog, I wonder.
I've actually never found that to be true, mostly due to a wird cognitive disconnect between the desired outcome and the actions you need to perform.

Either use separate commands for different actions, or distinguish actions with arguments, but don't do both. E.g. apt-get install, apt list, apt-file update.
When new cheaper thing comes to the market, I have heard a lot of sayings along the lines you're saying - they only doing it for now and after they have established themselves they'll jack up the prices. I can't remember any case when it actually happened. I don't mean things like "introductory pricing" when you get short time cheap and then the price rises - you know the deal upfront there. I mean some service company - not protected by some monopoly enforcement from state - jacking up the prices after they decided they have enough market share. Has it happened?
Can shadow DOM be leveraged for better security
I have been going through the shadow DOM specifications and I personally feel that the shadow DOM can be used to provide better security using service workers and encapsulation of DOM elements. What say??
I personally can't see the problem with the concept of consumer protection laws when applied to smartphones or other tech gadgetry. As for when Australia's consumer protection laws, they underwent a fairly comprehensive re-write in 2011. Would you mind expanding on some of the conceptual difficulties you see? Genuine question; not trying to be snarky. I just like playing "king for a day" :)

It's an interesting issue, particularly around how warranties apply to things like firmware updates and security patches. HP have previously run afoul of the ACCC, due to their policy of making customers pay extra for firmware updates after their 1 year warranty period expires (https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/hp-to-pay-3-million-fo...).
Tourism is a multi-billion-dollar industry that employs millions, which involves a lot of going places and staying places for no practical reason.

Vacationing with a view of the Earth's limbe is conceptually not that different from vacationing on a cruise ship around the Caribbean. Sure, the losgistics are a bit tougher; the ship goes Mach 25 and a broken window will boil everyone's blood in a few minutes. But the point is to get out of the house and get some reading done somewhere else.
Another related historical fact: After Ottomans conquered Constantinople they started to copy Hagia Sophia's architecture to build their mosques. Therefore still the architecture of mosques in old Ottoman lands is similar to Byzantine while the architecture in other muslim world (North Africa, Asia etc.) is pretty different. Ottomans positioned themselves basically as the muslim version of Byzantines. Actually the root of Ottoman Classical Music (now called as Turkish Classical Music) goes to Byzantine music.
It isn't okay to use a rough tool to steal. The IRS is stealing from people. They need proof people have this money illegally or they are an outright criminal who is stealing.
But on the other hand they're very friendly when you want to install alternative firmware (eg cyanogenmod). They let you unlock the bootloader and then you can flash at will.
Another solution is to prevent ambiguity and just terminate your statements with a semicolon.
Norton Editor.

Interesting that you mention this. I loved the Norton Editor. I have wanted to for years add a more Norton feel to the text editor that I write.

I wonder if I can still get a copy to play around with and run in a virtual machine. Any idea?
>It has always amazed me how casually people drink and drive in some countries; the US especially springs to mind.

Drinking and driving is still very taboo in the US. It's just that most areas of the country require an automobile to get around and most people have a car.

One more thing, no one should be surprised that people drink and drive anywhere. People make all sorts of terrible decisions when they're intoxicated, they're drunk after all.
Oh, but I do have vision. I'm looking for more than a few wealthy joyriders poking holes in the atmosphere here for nothing more than shits and giggles and questioning how that might affect our planet.
>ML outclasses it
you people are why nobody will
take haskell or ocaml seriously.
as a developer who works primarily with haskell: it is not a panacea, stop being so snobbish
Whether or not GG has much merit to it separate from this, I am fairly strongly under the impression that there are a substantial number of people such that the main interaction they have had with GG/"GG" is from people searching through a topic and sending aggressive(?) messages to people who expressed disapproval of the group, in a way that isn't particularly helpful.

So, even if GG has substantial merits to it, it seems reasonable that someone with such experiences would continue to have a negative viewpoint of the group, even if the people sending the messages ' arent GG proper '/'aren't true GGers' by whatever standard you want to use for what a GGer is.

I think that even if GG is/were "overall" good, it doesn't seem unreasonable that a person would think it bad. If the article was about GG in particular, then investigating it in particular would be important, but as just an example in a sentence, I don't think having a negative opinion towards GG is enough to discredit whatever journalism?
>I appreciate the tech very much, but the visions of "Millions of people working in space"?

"The billionaire tech entrepreneur also laid out a vision for space commercialization that stretches out for hundreds of years, leading to an era when millions of people would be living and working in space."[1]

This is hundreds of years in the future, at which point Bezos believes the population of the earth will be in the tens or hundreds of billions. He thinks the surface of the earth will be "zoned strictly for 'residential and light industrial'", probably for a combination of pollution, land quality, and resource scarcity. In that scenario (which seems unlikely) millions of people would be like .001% of the population, which makes... some sense?

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2016/jeff-bezos-lifts-curtain-blue-o...
How did you do marketing?
I dunno, IBM and the likes (sun, oracle) seems to make a fortune off consulting, to the point where they've just about removed themselves from actually making stuff.
While I agree that there are, in fact, way too many distros and desktops in the Linux space, I disagree with the sense that Ubuntu did damage towards a goal of fewer choices. Just because Gnome is there doesn't mean it's ultimately the best software for the job and sure they likely could have driven a lot of improvements to it but sometimes there needs to be experimentation. If Unity was more popular and found its way to more distros then maybe we'd even seen it go the other way and Gnome would die thus still working towards the goal of fewer choices.

I think it's important for experimentation to occur. Don't contribute to the incumbents only because you want the fewest opinions available.
This violates our constitution and our rights. The government is out right stealing. They are criminals for stealing. We can't excuse it.
That's completely orthogonal. GNU bash has nothing to do with what arguments you can pass to GNU ls. You could use bash to run notepad.exe just as you could use Powershell to run GNU ls.

If that's not the case, if Powershell actually does integrate most of what are on Unix-like systems separate commands, then that's terrible.

>Meanwhile, Unix commands are shorter, yes, but it's a lot more difficult for me to remember, e.g. that if I want to run a command across a number of files, I have to pass the command to find.

You don't have to do anything of the sort. If you want to run things across a number of files, you need a list of those files, and you need to know what you want to run across them. That list of files can come from anywhere. Does it come from a text file? A script? Or find? Doesn't matter.

If you do get them from find, you run things on them in precisely the same way you run things on any other list of files: a for loop.

for file in $(find ...); do
rm $file
done

Yeah you can also do

find ... -exec rm {} \;

or

find ... -print0 | xargs -0 rm

or any other number of other ways of doing it. But you don't have to. I'd probably use xargs to delete those files, honestly.
Yeah well - there are others who can compete on price as well.

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6838079/india-mars-mangalyaan

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/15/india-launch...
aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font.

Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.
The situation sounds remarkably similar to auto-manufacturers building cars that can only be services by 'licensed technicians' (usually their dealer network). I wonder if that is the bigger issue the ACCC has in mind (and is trying to discourage): manufacturers who sell a product that creates a subsequent and artificial 'captive market'.
And you can easily switch between Blue Ocean and the Classic UI at will. Just look for the exit button at the top of the screen to get back to the equivalent page in classic then click "Open Blue Ocean" in classic to go to the equivalent place in Blue Ocean [1]

[1] https://jenkins.io/doc/book/blueocean/getting-started/#switc...
In today's market, I think Microsoft would rather give a competitor a royalty free permanent license to all their patents than let Google continue to just own the industry. Mobile is only one of the many markets they compete in, but Google is using their mobile dominance to help lead and push their expansion elsewhere. Microsoft needs a new mobile OS option out there, even if it isn't theirs.
Visionary pioneer "on space exploration".

Earth is complex enough for any person to be visionary. Please do not let your own interests overshadow others.