skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying we should give up, but only saying that the truth doesn't matter unless the conditions for it to be useful exist. A Russian bureaucrat kicks your dog? It doesn't matter what the truth is if nothing can come of it.
The C Programming Language -- Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

Comprehensive, concise, and beautifully written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language)
SDF also has some fairly active Gopher holes: gopher://sdf.org

(or via the floodgap[1] http<->gopher proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/1 )

--

[1] http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
I'm just curious, people. I know​nothing about this.
Not a lawyer here either but I'd say you're safe if your visa has already been granted. By grandfathering of the existing visas, they probably mean that there will be a path for existing 457s to move on to another visa when their term expires so usually either a residency or citizenship. They did this with other visas before(family visas) where existing(and in progress) ones remained until expiry but newer ones were not granted.

The 457 system, similar to the student visa before it, was being abused by companies. So the government has been working on fixing the loopholes in the system for quite a while now.
Misleading title. The war about the theatre window is still ongoing, and even advancing than declining. Netflix just got two major movies into Cannes, Amazon didn't even try with their hit Manchester by the sea.
Theatre chains are already beating the drum against the Cannes directors, who are supposedly helping killing quality movies by selecting Netflix movies.
Looks like Netflix won this fight, and the more publicity it gets the better for them. The parallel movie start is just good promotion for their streaming services, which generates revenue without all the high costs involved in theatres.

Amazon might rethink it's strategy also, and then the studios are really fucked because then they missed the boat.
It does more then substitution

$ git pull
There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.
See git-pull(1) for details.

git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> test

$ fuck
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/test test && git pull [enter/↑/↓/ctrl+c]
If you go by that approach then everyone in the society indirectly works for the govt in some way or the other.
I think it's optimistic to think that data will sway political opinion in America
The core of this paper's claim seems to be that 0-mixin transactions leave user's exposed, however Monero has since prohibited these types of transactions. So yes, these types of transactions going backwards are exposed, but moving forward they will not be.

This appears to be the Monero's team main response. Am I missing any other substantive arguments from the paper?
While amusing, this is bound to quite bad since the function basis is restricted to a single axis.
> federal, state, and local levels

(don't forget the counties!)

The reason that cannot work is that when you get below the state level, you're dealing with governments that might or might not have enough money and motivation to do proper accounting, staffed by people who might or might not have actually gone to college.

Mandating they contribute to the "national spreadsheet" would represent an unprecedented imposition on local governments. Not that it's necessarily a bad idea, but I'm guessing it's unconstitutional if it comes from the federal government.
I get what you're saying but for me it hasn't been an issue. I see conversations on twitter highly disposable. I usually read the top level replies only and in some rare occasion I dig deeper.

Not saying it is good but it kinda works for my purpose on the site anyway.
4 Reasons Why ABM Fails, According to Megan Heuer of SiriusDecisions
"Doing this is cheaper than paying GitHub, and it will give you the satisfaction of being a True Hacker."

Or I could work on problems that really matter and leave the sysadmin job to someone who gets paid to do it. ;)

More seriously, when I was in college, I spent a lot of time doing things like running my own mailserver, selfhosting various projects, etc. I learned a lot. But in the Real World, I don't want to be responsible for more than I have to be; off the shelf products are just better for me, most of the time.

The fact that Bitbucket and Github will pay a guy to run a git server for me is amazing (even if it is evidence of some sort of irrational enthusiasm on part of VC firms). Why would I not want to take advantage?
Tangential but does he really need 10 hours of sleep a day? The article says from 10 till 8.

I know that some people need that amount to be well rested but that's unusual and often it turns out that they also need exercise and a change to a healthier diet and once those happen, they need less sleep.
You have to both be prepared to take advantage of a lucky opportunity and be ready to work hard to maximize it. Doing neither means failure.
Is there any way they can survive the lawsuit?!
predicts but refuses to explain anything
Why Do Shoelaces Come Untied? Science Explain
Ask HN: How do you, personally, keep a work journal?
Assuming you keep one. For a long time, I've kept a paper journal for work - usually just 2 lines each day - the day and date, and a line or two of what I did. Helps with standup meetings the next day and has also been helpful to look back and find out when I worked on something.

I'm quite partial to paper but I occasionally would like to search, so I'm thinking of an electronic format - text file, google doc, or something else.

What are your suggestions for keeping an electronic journal?
The Linux kernel seems to have a centisecond obsession too. Probably from way back when HZ was 100 and your computer woke up once every centiseecond to make sure it still had nothing to do.
Laser Processing Market Analysis and Forecasts, 2014 – 2025
Would this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds.

for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE
I quit fb in 2013. It's a pesky habit to kick. I was an early adopter, early 2005. In fact, as soon as I got my .edu email I signed up. I tried giving it up several times. I could go without saying how much easier it is to leave fb when someone else does it with you; Finally, my future wife and I gave it up together at the same time. Present day, the unfortunate thing is certain apps only use fb auth and if you want all access to work with fb for developers, your only option is to login through a fb acct. I imagine if you wanted to work for fb one might need a fb account too.
Global warming means there is more energy in the system. It's like turning up the volume. Imagine a driven pendulum, it's just adding a bigger kick so the whole thing swings farther and faster. Of course I'm a layman, but I think experts would generally agree with my simplistic metaphors.

And, yeah, this is pretty much what was forecast [1]. The risks are coping with the long dry spells, and the heavy rain. 5 inches of rain in a day can be ugly if you're not ready.

[1]http://news.stanford.edu/2017/03/21/heavy-california-rains-p...
If they can't track their basic budget how can they be fiscally responsible? Small govt's don't have the luxury of just printing more money.
Isn't that what commit logs are for?
This is from 3 days ago. I wish the camera could capture what my eyes could see.

http://imgur.com/a/yJ6oD
> There should be one (huge) annual spreadsheet published showing how much money came in (federal, state, and local levels), with a detailed accounting of where every penny went, just like I am required to do for my business to claim deductions.

Except for some things like certain national security parts that are specifically protected by law from detailed disclosure, federal, state, and most local governments make and publish those, though they aren't in the form of spreadsheets, and they aren't consolidated into a single national combined publication.
I have a lifetime account at SDF, and I've set it up as an emergency email address of last resort. If I ever let my domains and all other freemail accounts expire (perhaps I'll get hit by a bus and stay in a coma for 10 years), I'll try to use my SDF account to regain control of my online presence.

Well, I'll actually have to do a few more things in order to make that possible, but at least I think SDF will last longer than most other services of its kind.
>And isn't GitHub basically like everyone's resume these days?

GitHub is not, and never will be, a good CV.
i think the progress could be done with pv. | pv -s $( somehowgetinputsize ) > tmp_audio_out.u8
This is not necessarily a bad thing.

I think most Australians would be aghast that 'foreign nationals' are taking the places of Australians on competitive fellowship grants like the ARC DECRA. Out of 200 fellowships 60 are given to foreign nationals, i.e., 30%.

Personally, I think it is a bad idea to give this type of grant to a foreign national as the researcher will most likely leave Australia once the fellowship is finished as they have little to keep them in the country (extended family, etc). I've seen it so many times...

http://www.arc.gov.au/selection-report-discovery-early-caree...
FAS Russia reaches $8M settlement with Google on exclusivity of GApps
Sorry guys. I was mistaken. It always said so. All the best.
Amazon breaks dozens of laws all over the world every day just by existing (illegal anti-competitive activities, probable tax evasion, definite illegal tax avoidance, etc.). So I don't think that breaking a few more laws bothers them.
Perhaps I should say 'work journal'. It's not necessarily code related. I've updated the title to clarify. Thanks!
> The reason that cannot work is that when you get below the state level, you're dealing with governments that might or might not have enough money and motivation to do proper accounting, staffed by people who might or might not have actually gone to college.

Because of state and federal funding rules, local governments are generally not only already providing detailed public accountings in documents that nobody bothers to read, but also providing detailed reports of their spending and revenue to state and federal authorities (who periodically audit parts of them) as a condition of basic funding. They absolutely can and do track income and expenses at very fine levels, and report them with very fine breakdowns (often different breakdowns of the same spending representing different control agencies demands.)
This looks awesome. Great to see more folks adopting this. We're using the language server protocol (LSP) pretty heavily over at Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/), and we're loving it.

We wrote up a couple of blog posts with general info about LSP and how we use it for other languages:

https://text.sourcegraph.com/how-sourcegraph-scales-with-the...

https://text.sourcegraph.com/part-2-how-sourcegraph-scales-w...

We also maintain an unofficial listing of language servers with a matrix of supported features: http://langserver.org/.
Russian debian developer arrested
Because the belief has nothing to do with your arbitrary test. And even if it did, the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’
From the paper:

Applicability to current and future transactions using RingCT. The weakness studied in this section is pri- marily a concern for transactions made in the past, as transactions using the new RingCT transaction option are generally immune.
I'm a on/off twitter user -I go through bursts of using it, and then I ignore it for months.

When there's a news event I'm interested in, I tend to search twitter for keywords, or the relevant #hashtag - as a news consumption service, using it in this manner works quite well. However as others have said, unless you are in the 1% that have millions of followers, you are basically tweeting into a vacuum; it's effectively an anti-social network.

My main problem is how to organise it all. I don't have time to endlessly scroll through a mixed bag of tweets in one stream - I tried tweetdeck, but my preferred usage model would have resulted in 100s of columns, which isn't right either.

Am I missing a feature here? i.e. is there a way to create filtered 'lists' that I haven't found, or do I need a specialist client?
I'd rather work at Uber today than Uber of 2 years ago. (Uber of the first year or two would be better, of course) -- it's a challenge.

The real question to justify Uber's valuation is "will they build something with a real moat" -- I don't think "network of drivers" is that. They did the hard work on breaking open protected taxi mafia markets, and educating the public, but it's too easy for any local city to have a dominant "Uber for our city" which isn't Uber.

Self driving is the one way I think they can differentiate themselves, and the scary thing is a lot of the departures seem to be from there. If those people have lost confidence, they're fucked.

It wouldn't be hard to turn Uber into a solid $5-10b company, but due to how financings work, that wipe out a lot of people. The only winning outcome for most employees and most investors (weighted by $ invested) is the $50-100b+ "global transportation monopoly".
And how much of that is from miners who immediately cash out move it to a transparent address?
For multi-user use probably best solutions are scripts/systems that automate this whole thing like gitosis and gitolite. You get multiple users logging in as same system user which are authenticated by their SSH key and administration of the thing is mostly performed by commiting into special git repository.
LMDB is a fundamentally different design. Basically memory mapped B+ tree.

SILT is more algorithmicly comparable to Rocks/LevelDB. Data ages and is transformed into more and more compacted storage.
oh you mean like the voder! ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo
The lady playing Auld Lang Syne would probably be an excellent QWOP player.
Except running a git server is little more than having a place to store a git repo and giving ssh access to it. There's really no maintenance if you already have the server. What github et al provide isn't repo hosting so much as fancy UI tools on top of that.

Edit: seriously, I wonder how many people who just automatically go to github have ever bothered to try the simple act of creating a git remote on a file server on their own network, or even just to a different host. It's really easy, and it really underscores how simple it is to have your repo distributed without any 3rd party infrastructure. Once you see that, you see that putting a copy on a shell account on your hosted VM is dirt simple and requires almost no administrative burden.
I think Hinton himself was there in the 80s pioneering neural networks, and he stuck with it this whole time. He was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the use of backpropagation to train neural networks.
Can't believe I'm posting something positive about the Irish government but they recently launched this site which is actually pretty decent. Pity other governments don't do the same. http://whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie
Autodraw for Sketch
Dear competitor, we welcome you! :)

Our startup is trying open the information on government spending to the masses:

https://us.wikibudgets.org/w/united-states-budget-2016.
When reading the title I interpreted this as being that scientists show signs of old age earlier. (aging faster). Due to stress or whatever it would have been.

Quite the misinterpretation there :-)
Where is the problem? 16.5% and 17% is almost identical?

Science has been and always will be an international effort, if you shut out foreign researchers you might as well close down science in Australia. It doesn't matter whether a foreign-born researcher gets an ARC DECRA grant as that money goes to an Australian university anyway, funds Australian students etc., it's not like a DECRA grant goes to your own bank account and you can only spend it on yourself.

I've seen the opposite to you, researchers coming from overseas because no-one else has their skills inside Australia, training Australian students here, and then staying on as PR. Scientists who leave Australia still keep on collaborating with Australian researchers and universities, it's not like they burn all bridges. I co-supervise with quite a few overseas-based researchers who left Australia for career opportunities, they're still adjunct here.
How to combat your biggest distractions while working
Long story short for anyone wondering why it's interesting: case was initiated by Yandex. Yandex wanted to have their apps pre-installed on smartphones sold on local market, but Google license agreement for vendors require "all or nothing" so vendors are not allowed to have Google Play, but have competitor software on device as well.

Now vendors that produce smartphones for Russian market able to pre-install any search, maps or other apps by default while keeping rest of Google Apps package.

Google also fined for 438,067,400 roubles (~$7,818,136).
The key phrase being "in this section" - section 3 deals with the older vulnerability while section 4 deals with RingCT transactions.
> it's too easy for any local city to have a dominant "Uber for our city" which isn't Uber

I disagree. By virtue of being in the city, and only in the city, it would be too small to withstand pressure from local interests for long, and would end up like the local taxi monopolies. This will be especially true in countries "with lower GDP per capita".

Uber's international nature with its HQ in a country where corruption is relatively low, clearly enormous political and financial connections, track record in neighbouring countries or cities with clear and visible benefits to the customers (aka electorate), and willingness to fight (which is public knowledge, thus becoming signalling) allow it to scare off such pressure. Uber has more to fear from Apple than from Paris' UberX clones.
I know, I've been following the cemu project now. Waiting for the point where I don't need to spend hours on tweaking to get that steady 30 fps (or, gasp, 60 fps) with my Steam Controller. But Zelda reminded me again, that sometimes slow framerate doesn't really matter that much when the game is this good.
Sorry for not being clear. I am referring to the period when he is earning money at a job, not the retirement earnings.

Compound how much more you would have if the income taxes could be deferred or avoided. For someone working and raising kids etc. it is like "eating your seed corn" as the saying goes.
Twitter's prime flaw is that it is fundamentally narcissistic in a way that, say Facebook, isn't.

Of course you can be narcissistic on Facebook, but you can just add your friends and react on their shit, and occasionally post a photo of your weekend.

On Twitter, if you're not capital I interesting or flailing for attention, you'll just get ignored. Hence the other comments that Twitter isn't social at all.

Twitter is great if you like to sell yourself (and are at least mildly good at it). Otherwise it's a stymied feed reader for random thoughts.
You have a very low chance of getting to prof status in academia after a decade away post PhD. Only your academic contributions are considered.
Reinventing Prolog?
Spoofing is trivially easy for gmail and yahoo. Here's me spoofing an email from fakeaddress@ycombinator.com to my gmail address:

mike@blob:~$ telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 66.102.1.26...
Connected to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.google.com ESMTP 19si14686133wmr.1 - gsmtp
EHLO whatever
250-mx.google.com at your service, [164.132.228.175]
250-SIZE 157286400
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-CHUNKING
250 SMTPUTF8
MAIL FROM:<fakeaddress@ycombinator.com>
250 2.1.0 OK 19si14686133wmr.1 - gsmtp
RCPT TO:<*****@gmail.com>
250 2.1.5 OK 19si14686133wmr.1 - gsmtp
DATA
354 Go ahead 19si14686133wmr.1 - gsmtp
From: "Fake Address" <fakeaddress@ycombinator.com>
To: *****@gmail.com
Subject: This is a spoofed email

Spoof spoof spoof

--
Spoofy McSpoof
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250 2.0.0 OK 1492497764 19si14686133wmr.1 - gsmtp

Email was delivered fine. Straight into the Inbox (not the spam folder). Even though ycombinator.com has strict SPF records which don't include my IP.

The only clue is, in the web interface Google displays a grey octagon with a red question mark inside it next to the sender address. And when you hover over that a tooltip says:

"Gmail couldn't verify that ycombinator.com actually sent this message (and not a spammer)"

So yeah. I would dispute "Spoofing isnt so easy for gmail and yahoo inboxes" - They're as shit as everyone else.
I probably used the wrong word. I meant it took me two days in order to really understand the algorithm, to understand different implementations and find all the little details, to get some kind of intution that makes me able to code the algorithm just from my head in an efficient way.
DIY thermal vision shoots 360° panoramas
I know this is wishful thinking, but as a fan of the Python Flask (the Python web server) [1], I really hope that somehow this ends up in their hands.

[1] http://flask.pocoo.org/
I gave some examples in my comment at the bottom of this thread. If you're asking for specific ways I'm using CT in the context, it's mostly as a way to model my experiences and find bits of insight here & there, so specifics are a little hard to come by.

Heh...and as I typed that, I came by some:

The concept of opposite categories is surprisingly useful & gives me comfort when worrying about messing with my mind. If my brain is simply one big personalized category, then anything it can learn can be unlearned.

The concept CT constructions have duals is also really helpful. One thing it suggests to me is anything learned accidentally (and/or temporarily) can be learned intentionally. A specific way this works: synesthesia (cross-wiring of senses, eg. seeing colors in response to hearing music) occurring accidentally, synesthesia temporarily occurring from drugs, and intentionally learning synesthesia. Dualism is a predictive tool in this case.

A way dualism helps me explain some things I've experienced is it suggests mental mechanisms (such as the creation of very different identities beyond the core identity) can fire in functional & dysfunctional ways. I accidentally spawned second & third identities, one of whom is female. It happened through a joyful process, though, and not trauma. The dissociation used is fairly superficial and the goal of creating more is as a continuous process of integrating all of them into a core identity. CT also helps me think about our relationships & how I'm growing through them.

One last example would be the law of composition in CT: if there exists A->B (an arrow from A to B) and B->C, then there exists A->C. Specifically, there exists a way to get from one mental state A to mental state Z that goes through B->...->Y and by experiencing that path, we can learn to shorten it til we can go straight from A to Z. I went through a bit of a path to accidentally create the second identity. The third one was a bit more intentional & took less time to pull off.

If that doesn't answer your question, would you be willing to ask a more specific question in terms of what you'd like to hear examples of?