skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've edited the question to add ease of editing as a consideration since you've answered.

What kind of wiki do you use? I'd argue that something like MediaWiki is too hard to edit to the point that documentation will tend to fall out of date without anyone wanting to update it over time.
You're making a prediction without stating your reasoning.

What makes you think this?
I've found lots of insects in both cornmeal and wheat flour. It has never really been a problem. When I find them I sift them out.
True. Recently I logged into Mint for the first time in a few years, and was quite disturbed to realize they had been importing every debit or credit card transaction, and every student loan payment I made. They know my financial health better than my bank does ...
> The way I would phrase the above situation is:

You're a better diplomat than me. I could've phrased it almost the same, but with me the tone and the wording depends a LOT on my current mood -- I have to work on this, that's for damn sure.

It does however still leave the question "but whose fault that legacy code is?" open, don't you think? With my wording in the above comment I would've aimed at being crystal clear -- and thus somewhat rude in the process, admittedly.

> without making a big political mess that I have to clean up

Could you please clarify on that point? I am curious.
i think it's better than alicx or some others
Alt link: http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/2017040...
Cmon WSJ is expensive
I'm starting to wonder if these articles are driven by a PR firm paid by John Deere's competition. They're always about John Deere and only John Deere. Aside from the Motherboard / Vice article, they never provide any specifics about the maintenance or repair operations that farms are prevented from doing on their own.

With the Vice article, 2 of the 3 things they mention are modifying the tractors to operate in ways the manufacturer did not intend which could result in damage.
Just a thought experiment: what if copyright could only be assigned to individuals and not companies?
And note that both the overt and covert methods of ASICBOOST work on normal blocks, though they make block generation harder and so likely increase the number of empty blocks seen.
Dietary fats make worms live almost 50% longer–no human results yet
I never thought to archive all of Imgur for links from SO, but now I will! Thanks for mentioning this!
I've long wondered how much seagull crap they tolerate in sun dried sea salt. It's got to be greater than zero.
I hear this constantly but it doesn't ring true to me.

Look at the 3D printer inventors from the 1980's who rested on their laurels selling $30,000 3D printers until their patents expired and the open source community started producing them for under $1000. Ten years after the patents expired, you can get a 3D printer for $199 that genuinely rivals the quality of a $30,000 printer just 10 years ago.

There are all manner of incentives for innovation and profit is only one. But locking down ideas in this way prevents others from improving on ideas, and incentivizes one-time innovators to focus on legal battles rather than continued development.
An Interactive History of 42nd St.’s Dramatic Transformation
I switched from MathJax to a middleman + execjs + KaTeX pipeline for my static sites earlier this year, and I'm very happy with it overall. KaTeX isn't 1-1 with MathJax when it comes to syntax support; I was surprised to see that underset and overset - which are ubiquitous - aren't supported. That said, I was able to work around every issue with alternative syntax. It's awesome that the heavy lifting is no longer client side, and it's a significantly easier build pipeline than MathJax if you're trying to generate a single minimized script or use webpack.
Certain miners implementing ASICBOOST in their ASIC also have a FPGA with DRAM that could be used to find the 4 byte collisions extremely quickly. The calculation can be used for the hundreds of ASICs attached to the FPGA board. It's an easy win.
This workaround using Facebook has been posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13621072

I haven't tried it myself, and it may no longer work. Might be worth giving it a try.
Digital-age students fall behind in handwriting skills
I understand you feel personally aggrieved by US wars, and I'm sorry about that. War is tragic.

The views you and I currently have about this are very different. I feel like I'd like to convince you otherwise but I don't think that's going to happen, and also, to some extent, I realize it's not respectful to to try to convince you of something else, given what you've experienced. And also, more generally, I wonder, what's the point of trying to convince others? Everyone is and can have their own view. There's nothing wrong with that. So I don't really see any point in stating the differences.

I just hope that things get better for everybody.
I don't know, but there is an open source tractor design:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac

Primitive but think of Linux when it was released.

It's part of the Global Village Construction Set, open source machines that could make up the technological basis for a civilization:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Constructio...
Rather than adding laws, another good market-driven outcome would removing any laws that inhibit a healthy industry in providing plug-in replacement kits for the brains of the tractor. Yes, official warranties would be voided, so new providers of warranty services would spring up.
It should be an option. 3D hardware is the best way we have to accelerate 2d these days.
Yes, I saw you were talking about the subsystem, but I think this is highly related to the whole picture. The OS/2 subsystem in released NT was neither a critical component, nor was it actually interesting for MS that it became too good. However, it was possible at all, for a lot of reasons, because NT was originally intended to be NT OS/2.
Did any firm that spends $100k/month not realize that they were underpaying for support at $50?
After testing with (larger, but still OLED) LEDs I've got here, it seems to be far higher.

In my projects, for any frequency above 800Hz flickering wasn't observable, but still created nausea and headaches. Above 8000Hz nausea and headaches were gone.
For HN, the guideline is that submissions that have paywalls should have workarounds.

See "Are paywalls ok?" in the FAQ:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Face of Jeoworld (#Fojw) Contest Season 1 – How to Participate
This is the wild west of information rape I guess. Companies buy companies who buy other companies. As an average customer you just don't know who has what interests and where your info is getting used.

Even companies that started with noble goals like whatsapp ended up selling out to Facebook troves of private info.

The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up because people think they have nothing to hide. I predict the next generation terrorism in the digital form
I'd (of course for those who know me) suggest taking a little time to learn JavaEE (not J2EE).

I have had great success with the examples from TomEE (free) + the (paid) videos from Adam Bien (I normally shun videos but lke his).

The examples from TomEE often come in the form of something you can run with a single maven command.
Would that allow the creation of a profitable MVP?

It's not 'general level 5' but it might be a transport system in cities with appropriate conditions that have been mapped.

Then it gets gradually expanded out to other cities.
But would the innovation that led to the creation of 3D printers have taken place if patent law didn't exist? And since the open source movement is based entirely on those patents (as I understand), would cheap 3D printers exist if the 1980s tech was never developed?

I think these are the questions you should be thinking about when arguing against IP protection laws.

Edit: One thing you failed to mention is that the technology available after the patents expired was orders of magnitude more advanced than what was available in the 1980s. For this reason, it's simply a no-brainer that the cost went from $30k down to $1k.

Then there's the whole "maker" movement that happened to coincide with the development of 3D printers which meant that 3D printers had a decently sized potential market. Go back 5-10 years and people didn't even know what the hell a 3D printer was! So it's only natural that the original inventors didn't invest more in optimizing the design and making it cheaper.
Google are planning to go big with pixel devices current generation they had a lot of supply constraints and have been unable to meet the demand.
That's one way to read it. Another way is: we are OK with a segwit soft-fork sooner so long as we can later clean it up with a hard-fork and re-enable our optimizations by June 2017.

When a hard-fork happens, it can do almost anything, including rewrite a soft fork to be cleaner. Luke Dashjr's hard-fork proposals, fulfilling his end of the HK agreement, did not modify SegWit's commitment, but did modify other annoying parts of the protocol (like version numbers -- breaking compatibility on headers) unrelated to block size. I can't speak for Luke, but if someone had told Luke about ASICBOOST's concern with SegWit, I'm sure he would have made his 3 BIPs address that too.
> Google in particular has shown a willingness to

Google is collecting and analysing data to improve its hiring process... not to improve the hiring process of the industry at large.

There is an effectively limitless supply of great engineers who will jump through hoops to work for Google.

That's just not true for the vast majority of the industry.
Sorry. I'm not very familiar with that term.

That sort of sounds like anything between what a regular developer would do, a build engineer, and a VP Eng.

There's a big difference between someone joining the team with the role being helping the team build better internal tools to someone who is joining to change the way the team works. I was thinking about the latter and it seems your definition includes both?
Well, the worst interview I've ever had was the ones where the interviewer wouldn't deviate from the script, even after he recognized that these questions made no sense for someone with my background (I was self-taught, and had never managed my own memory or written a sort algorithm. They were also irrelevant to the position in question).

It was painfully awkward.

It was also a fantastic way to accidentally discriminate against women and older candidates.

I'm not saying anyone should conduct an interview completely by the seat of their pants, but please don't encourage this foolish consistency.
Except that in most cases that's not how it is done.

Instead, the stackframe is created in one go with a single change to the stack pointer and then the values are filled in in whatever order the compiler / language desires.

Here is a typical example using GCC:

movq %rsp, %rbp
subq $16, %rsp
movl $12, -4(%rbp)
addl $1, -4(%rbp)
movl -4(%rbp), %eax
movl $14, %edx
movl %eax, %esi
movl $12, %edi
call f

Which moves the parameters using registers (subject to availability) as a further optimization. The 'subq' reserves space for the stackframe with addresses relative to rbp being the parameters.
What other part does Apple make?
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Common enough that countermeasures exist:

https://github.com/davisstu/imgur-to-filmot

(Chrome plugin that rewrites imgur links to point at some kind of imgur proxy that sits on a lesser known domain. No idea if this particular one works still.)
I've had the same thought. It's such a niche issue and really it's incredibly standard for any kind of business hardware, which is what tractors are. Also nobody's being forced to buy new tractors, there's tons of old tractors still out and running and working every day.

So why do these articles appear with such regularity?

(To be clear I think that all software should be open source and vendors should charge for support, but that's beside the point here.)
Interesting, Goldman Sachs bought this off a private equity firm that recently bought (2 years ago) my previous employer.
$880M is a huge number, isn't it? Can this number suggest how many phones Google is aiming for? Or is this number too big for just phones and suggest google has some other product up its sleeve?
Isn't this confusing the map for the terrain? The mathematical formalism doesn't have an answer to the questions this essay is asking. If you model reality with wave functions and compute then you get certain results. That's pretty much all the mathematics says. Material things are entirely absent in the mathematical formalism.

In math people learn to not ask questions like "what is a set?". The answer is always whatever is consistent with the axioms of set theory. That question is a non-question in the mathematical formalism of set theory. I think it's the same thing in physics. Asking what is an electron when all you have are some axioms about wave functions will lead to equally nonsensical answers.
Medical helicopters usually have a firing bolt/cuter that the pilot controls.

In the event there is a risk to the helicopter due to the winch operation (such as the line becoming stuck in some tress below) - the pilot has the ability to cut the cable to ensure the helicopter is not compromised.
Ya, it seems like the last place! But the need is strong, the will is there. Baidu and many other Chinese companies are making big self drive car investments.

Self driving cars are just a toy in the USA, but in china they could optimize infrastructure that is extremely limited and unable to grow to meet demand. They are also not above changing the rules as needed (like when they put up fences in our office so we couldn't easily cross the street to our other building, all in the name of keeping pedistrians off what was otherwise a very untrafficed road.
What a huge mess.

- Only 1 month to re-route 70TB of content. I wonder if even over 10% will be re-routed, with all the other sites broken.

- Cloudflare notice could have beem some months in. Hopefully now that this got some traction they will provide some more time.

- There are a lot of situations where devs cannot change the CDN any longer. I for one won't trust CDNs (including CDNJS) for anything durable any longer, which seems a big loss for Cloudflare.
Do NOT use Lambda for production at scale. [pic]

https://twitter.com/JamiesonBecker/status/802185522139582464
I've already learnt some things from these.
An overlooked statistical concept shows why it’s so hard to beat a benchmark
> I've had lots of classes that worked like this, particularly my Calculus I/II classes where there was a textbook but homework from it was just suggested, not collected, and the lectures were entirely sufficient to understand the material and do well on the exams.

I'm guessing the exams were easy but you didn't learn much calculus.
Interviewing is hard. I wonder if a number of great candidates just refuse to interview with Google because it's too cumbersome? I know a couple of great folks who just dropped half way because they couldn't be bothered with Google's lack of organization and their lengthy process.

Its not like Google pays the best or still has the best workplace. It's a large company with large company politics and red tape.
John Deere has a crazy high market share overall...Close to 80%. And it goes up as you move up market to larger, more expensive models.

I think it's just the same reason Google bashing is more prevalent than Bing bashing.
Citation needed. America sucks, and has done the most, except china, to counter the ideals of the internet. That aside, in all areas of life, Russia may be more obvious, but the US policies and practices are insidious and equally twisted.
Personally I wouldn't mind a global $20-25 newspaper subscription where my views are paid to the newspaper like it is done for music with Spotify.
> In farm equipment it's John Deere and Caterpillar

Caterpillar? In agriculture? Do you mean Challenger (AGCO) or CLAAS, both of whom have used Caterpillar branding at points in the past? Although neither of them have recently.

Curiously, you're the second person to have mentioned Caterpillar being involved in agriculture in this discussion. Which surprises me. They are not a player at all, outside of some overlap use of their industrial products (skidsteers, payloaders, etc.)
Try making friends with a musician. Make sure they're a local act or play in a local band. Often they have mouths to feed and mortgages to pay, and would love to do so with their art but can't because the economics don't support it. Almost invariably, they talk about how it used to be better, back when people bought physical phonograph albums; among the musicians I know the politics are uniform: strong copyright helps them make money, digital (including Napster and streaming) has destroyed much of the value of their work, and some form of unobtrusive DRM would be a boon to struggling artists.

Just because you don't think copyright protects your interests, doesn't mean it doesn't protect someone's.
Does anyone know what font is used in the main code in the following image?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corkami/pics/master/binary...
Based on some poking around, it appears that the focus is mainly on John Deere because it's mainly John Deere imposing these software restrictions.

Relevant thread on The Combine Forum (because that's a thing, apparently):

http://www.thecombineforum.com/forums/31-technology/239314-w...
Don't some Navy and Coast Guard helicopters land by getting winched down onto a rolling deck?
>I have no idea why there is such a backlash against interviews. What's so hard about studying for a job you want?

That's a really good question and I had to think about why I don't like interviews.

1. It's an interrogation and the stakes are extremely high. There are so many aspects of it you don't control. Some guy had a shitty morning, or just doesn't like you, dropped your resume on the way back to his office, etc.

2. It's completely phony and it starts with the first question, "So why do you want to work at generic company X?" "I need money," is not an acceptable answer. Now I have to be phony and tell them why their company is awesome (it's not) which makes be feel like a kiss ass. I have to pretend to be excited about working at a boring ass company. Just shoot me.

3. We have to do it, unless we have rich parents that died young like Batman.

4. The person or people that are interviewing you have no notion of what you've accomplished aside from skimming your resume. All the hard work I've done to produce miracles in the last 20 or so years means, really nothing.

5. Companies only reward tenure at that company. It signals the start of something new but that's typically a bad thing when it comes to work. Less vacation, less credibility, less influence, etc.

6. You really don't know if the person or people you are interviewing are bozos or not. It doesn't matter, they cut the checks, they have the power.

7. As the article insinuates, they're fairly pointless.
I had not. Looks like it requires 9.5 or later? We're running 9.4 so we'll have to upgrade to use it. Thanks!
That is a very unfortunate name. It reads as 'liv(e)rporn' to me. See tumbl(e)r, grind(e)r, etc.
The problem with testing algorithms is that it in no way tests intelligence. I would think that 9 out of 10 programmers that know an algorithm would not be able to derive the algorithm from first principles. So you are just testing esoteric knowledge - it's qualitatively no different that asking someone questions about a specific framework / API.

You could make the argument that algorithms tend to be studied more by smarter people, but if that's what you're going for you may as well ask them about their hobbies, and hire the person that is into playing chess, or doing astronomy (or whatever intellectual pursuit you care to name).

If on the other hand you are interested in a person's ability to code, ask them to do so. The last time I had to hire someone, I wrote a small application with one module that was deliberately written in an obfuscated style. I asked candidates to bring that module under control - rewrite it in a readable code style. To do this, successful candidates needed to identify what the current code was doing by examining the public interfaces in a debugger, documenting what the calls seemed to do, prepare unit tests, and then rewrite the module in a readable style. It took about a day for most candidates to do.

At the end of that, you get to see a candidate's ability to read code, use a debugger, write unit tests, write documentation, and write well structured code, which is a pretty good coverage of the typical tasks in a developer's day. I feel this gives a much more realistic assessment of a candidate's capabilities that asking questions about a more or less randomly chosen algorithm.
Don't know if I agree with this assertion, but food for thought:

“…as far as power is concerned, the streets are dead capital! Nothing of value to the power elite can be found on the streets, nor does this class need control of the streets to efficiently run and maintain state institutions. For [civil disobedience] to have any meaningful effect, the resisters must appropriate something of value to the state. Once they have an object of value, the resisters have a platform from which they may bargain for (or perhaps demand) change.” http://www.critical-art.net/books/ecd/ecd2.pdf
> pursue a model by which their software is more or less SaSS

A tractor isn't a service. Fixing problems in goods after they were sold doesn't make the purchased product (the tractor) a service either.

<side note>

In general, "SaSS" (and "SaaS") is a useless buzzword. If you provide an application on a webpage that people can subscribe to, you're offering "service". If you're selling a tractor with automatic software updates, you're selling a good that may include software internally and access to service that provides software updates.

Adding "Software as ..." is useless. Like the people that rushed to prefix everything with "Internet ..." in the dot-com era indicates the speaker incorrectly believes that goods and services suddenly lose some of their usual properties and become something fundamentally new when "Software" (or "Internet") is added. No, it's still mostly the same good or service. Maybe adding the unnecessary term "Software" may contribute to this confusion that mistakes goods for services?

</side note>

> Why is it that these farmers believe they have a right to modify that software?

The same reason everyone else believes they have the right to modify the goods they purchase. This is a fundamental feature of what it means to own property. Yes, they do not have the right to copy the internal software, but that isn't what the farmers are trying to do. They just want to fix the tractor they purchased. If someone else retains the power to forbid you from modifying your own property, you don't actually own it.

Why does John Deere think it has the right to undermine the concept of property rights? Why do so many people accept that reinterpretation and defend tying[1] a service and/or software license to the purchase of a good, which is forbidden by the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts?
I'm not sure people are worried about the warranties - if you mod your gear the warranty is no longer valid - no great problem. The problem is they don't want you to modify your equipment ever regardless of whether it's under warranty or not.
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