skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only "fake" in that the real Handbrake doesn't need to install extra codecs—it's a real authentication dialog. They are just hoping to catch the user off guard and unaware so they can install the persistent malware agent.
I was more amazed at how many ads they could fit on my screen.
The real problem is replicating our olfactory system. It can detect millions of compounds (even undiscovered and new) and we still have competing theories on how it works. One involves quantum mechanics[1], which is very hard to replicate with our current level of manufacturing.

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12827893
BTW - today I tried your idea of posting the text on IG. Thanks for the idea :-) I also changed the website based on your suggestions. Hopefully its better than before
They have published standard financial reports back to 2006-07, so you can check all the numbers yourself.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports
Nope - not just you. I opened it thinking it'd be about how the WMF was preying on other organizations, but what I got was...very different.
$5,000 no-strings-attached grant
Python 3:

In this case print(a) calls a.__str__() which happens to default to calling a.__repr__() because a doesn't have an __str__ attribute.

a[0] is equivalent to a.__getitem__(0)

That's because the __repr__ of a bytes object instance formats the result into a human readable representation of the data which should ideally be identical to the syntax needed to create the instance, whereas the __getitem__ method returns a "real" and machine usable representation.

Try it...

>>> a
b'abc'
>>> a.__str__()
"b'abc'"
>>> a.__repr__()
"b'abc'"
>>> a.__getitem__(0)
97
> "Real estate in a place like the Bay Area is the best investment because of the location"

How do you know this? What you're saying sounds just like all the bankers and mortgage salesmen in 2007 promising that real estate prices will never fall. If you want to bet on SV real estate being the best investment, go ahead. But call it what it is: a speculative bet.

For those who would prefer not to speculate on their retirement savings, professionals have already put together very sophisticated calculators that tell you whether it's better to buy-or-rent. Check it out and run the numbers yourself, before trusting uncited blanket recommendations given in a HN comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
Did you read the article? It says that the population of Tokyo has been growing (despite the country's population slightly decreasing), and also, the Japanese tend to prefer new construction.
As someone who's recovering from cancer, this is a horrible title.
An interesting comment on studying pirates, from /r/AskHistorians:

"Pirate questions are often difficult, because pirates as a group have been so heavily fictionalized -- and were often fictionalized even in the "golden age" of piracy (or shortly thereafter) -- that it becomes hard to separate reality from fiction. Indeed, there is evidence that later sailing crews, including pirates, took on behaviors that they may have read or heard that "pirates" did -- even if these accounts were fictional, meaning that fictional accounts of pirate activities actually became reality due to people acting out what they'd seen in fiction." https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/60deda/how_h...
Which (apart from agriculture and fishery) regularly incorporates the EU acquis as an integral part of how it's set up. I would more accurately describe the purpose of the EEA as "provide a way of EU membership without calling it such".
idrosen is pretty clear these numbers aren't that scary, though.
> He didn't say that what happened to other people and not him long before he was even born was worse than what happened during the Blitz, he said British people "never really got to experience the horrors" of WWII, which is simply a denial of fact, offensive and the words of someone who doesn't know even basic history.

I know my basic history, thank you very much. I moved office recently and in my way to work I'm passing on a street which used to have a Jewish cemetery until 1942 (or 1943). At that point all the tombstones were taken way, the buried taken who knows where and some garden was built in that place. On my way to my previous office I used to pass on the street where 2 Jewish synagogues had been burned in 1941, by the members of a right wing party which was all powerful back then.

> "never really got to experience the horrors" of WWII, which is simply a denial of fact, offensive and the words of someone who doesn't know even basic history.

Have the British experienced the horrors of communism, which was brought to us directly by WW2? No, they have not.

> Not everywhere in Eastern Europe was Stalingrad or Warsaw, particularly in fascist, anti-Semitic states like Romania, which eagerly invaded the USSR alongside its Nazi ally, and was second only to Nazi Germany in murdering Jews.

We invaded USSR because of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, which saw the Soviets take part of our country (I'll let you search on wikipedia which part exactly). I, for myself, do not think that was the best decision for us to take, but saying that we invaded USSR like we were the Golden Horde searching for things to loot then you're utterly mistaken.

> offensive and the words of someone who doesn't know even basic history.

I don't care if people get so easily offended by things that are very close to the truth (as in we can't never know the historical truth 100%). To put it more bluntly, I was always asking myself as a kid, in my head: "Has my grand-mother been raped by the Russians as they entered our country?". Answer: she was probably not, or, if she was, it doesn't matter, now, as she's dead, but that question was put by a lot of kids and grand-kids after WW2 all the way from Berlin to the gates of Moscow (you can replace "Russian soldiers" with "German soldiers" as you go East). What I'm trying to say is that things on the Continent have been fucking bleak, and what happened in Britain, as a comparison, is kids' play. I don't care if you find that offensive or not.
But the ECB is printing money, see: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/Leading_business_...

And yes, technically countries are not buying bonds, but selling bonds to the ECB. But the ECB is acting on behalf of the countries.

Finally, I expect most immigrants that have a proper education & perhaps money would prefer to e.g. the USA. Increasing immigration as a solution to an aging population is also something that, in the long run, is not sustainable (for many reasons, including ecological). It's time with think of other solutions and perhaps Japan will be able to lead the way in this area, in the future.
What you cite is not the persecution of an individual, but persecution of class'es of people. I totally agree that exists, and with nationalism growing, becomes a greater risk in the world. I was talking individual persecution.
"A History of American Privateers" (1899) https://archive.org/stream/historyofamerica017401mbp/history...

A few blog posts on Baltimore's history as a "nest of pirates" and stories about privateering: https://maryland1812.wordpress.com/category/privateers/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-c...
I don't know much about wikipedia or WMF but the spending growth in that table is not exponential. And surely the correct way to measure the scale of the service provided is page views rather than number of pages.
Its imprecise in that I expected to see a story about the deletionist problem. They are why I refuse to donate, I know I'm not alone.

Its interesting that expenses are out of control, but isn't what I expected.

It is slightly above clickbait titles "top ten reasons you'll never believe ..." but not much better.
Stocks are leveraged too. Our entire economy runs on credit.
True, but my experience is with much older kids (high school), where the problem is more that they have no interest in coding, so throw some blocks together and hope the teacher doesn't know what's going on either.
"This Anatomical Venus at the Josephinum in Vienna is fixed with an expression of trance-like ecstasy"

Could you imagine if all the models in these exhibits wore expressions of horror and agony?

They'd provide virtually the same educational value, but people's reactions to them would probably be radically different.
I'm not afraid of a theoretical article, but this is, even for me, very dry. While it sounds interesting, I'm not sure what universe even means in this context...
It's an interesting read, though to be fair a lot of what popular culture and fiction says about any romanticised group is not true/heavily exaggerated. Most of what people think they know about ninjas isn't true. Most of what people think about the wild west isn't true. Same with everything from medieval times to Roman soldiers to ancient egypt.

And also like mentioned in the article, much of what we think about when we hear those words/terms is based on a subset of these groups/populations as well.
Cancer isnt a predator... why would you expect that?
> it's 2017, and despite all our impressive progress, we still [haven't solved x]

People tend to think that [current year] is super late and advanced in the history of the world, and seem to infer from that impression that things that haven't been solved yet are unlikely to be solved. The germ theory of disease is about 150 years old; practical uses for electricity are just over 100; powered flight is just over 100; not using horses as primary transportation is the same; etc. Now is early in the possible history of discovery. There remain hundreds of thousands of important things we don't understand, or even know about, yet.

Besides which, we are talking about a hypothetical future in which we have solved aging; to suppose that future would exist without comparably revolutionary advances in intimately connected biological problems like cancer and dementia is odd.
I blame https://damnationkane.wordpress.com/ the time-traveling pirate.
Thanks for working on that! Didn't know it was so bad. The following is a possibly stupid idea, but I'd like to hear your thoughts:

What if you just render the content into HTML and then "screen scraped" the text, and then convert into a more useful format (MarkDown, JSON, etc). Is that plausible?
New account - suspicious. I don't doubt that startups like Wealthfront are gaslighting HN and Reddit.
I agree that a lot of tech companies have a much larger staff than they need (especially the mid sized ones) and I agree that Google in particular seems to suffer from severe mismanagement, but this is kind of the best case when you see a company with high enough barriers to entry that they collect rents: they spend on R&D and other "wasteful" stuff. Part of the problem with the thought experiment of the perfect free market (infinite producers/consumers) is that margins are so razor thin that no one can do this kind of stuff, which can be enormously beneficial when well coordinated (see: postwar Japan) so you do want some of it to happen.
K&R is so clearly written that I was able to understand it as a sixth grader. (At least, I felt like I did; subsequent events later proved that I did not understand pointers, but I don't think it was K&R's fault that a sixth grader didn't understand.) That's why it's still being recommended and the much thicker tomes also purporting to teach the C language have been forgotten. It's probably the same reason that your copy is torn and tattered.
I believe the guideline is that in order to enjoy a $X/year retirement income (adjusted annually for inflation), you need a nest egg of $25X. So if you'd like to retire with $100k/year, $2.5M would do it. And even less if you are willing to factor in social security income.

If you adopt a buy-and-hold investment strategy over the course of 20-30 years, with a good mix of index funds, the above should be easily within reach.
Bizarre Physics Law Is Making Superfluid Helium Behave Like an Actual Black Hole
Administrator since 2003 here. I have contributed to Wikipedia in various languages, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc. Three core points, particularly on Wikipedia:

(1) Bad experiences for new and established contributors mean less motivated contributors. This is due to factors such as too much bureaucracy, too many subjective guidelines, too much content being deleted (exclusionism), and an overwhelming mess of projects and policies.

(2) Not enough focus. By starting many projects the foundation has muddied its mission and public identity. In addition, it has broad and potentially mutually conflicting goals such as educating the public about various issues, educating the public about how to work with others to contribute to projects, asking the public for money, agitating governments and corporations for policy change and support, monitoring public behavior looking for evidence of wrongdoing, and engaging with education. Why not leave education to the educationalists, politics to the politicians, spying to the government and motivated contributors and fundraising to donors?

(3) Non-free academic media is hurting the project. Given that only a small number of editors have true access to major academic databases, it is often hard for contributors to equally and fairly balance an article.

Having said that, I still have tremendous respect for the project and comparing its costs to those of the prior systems necessarily incorporating manual preparation, editing, production and distribution of printed matter by 'experts', the opportunity costs for access alone justify the full expenditure. It's not a lot of money in global terms.
That's my favorite store-bought brand too, but it still pales in comparison to fresh ramen at a good shop.

> Theoretically there's no reason why a quality broth can't be reduced to powder form and used with instant ramen.

I mean .. there really are. There are all sorts of aromatics and fats that can't be properly powderized. Note that, e.g., coffee is way better in fresh form than powder form, as are a huge multitude of foods.
Right. Immortality is impossible without indestructibility. The mean time from birth to a fatal accident is probably around 200 years. But indestructibility is worse than mortality - imagine yourself stuck forever in a situation you can't get out of, like being accidentally buried inside a slab of concrete. What a boring life that would be!
I could agree if it were used as an insult but now it is quite clearly a descriptive analogy on the danger of unrestrained growth.
That would allow a basic UI change on Wikipedia to break your code. Sometimes it is necessary, but not usually the best option in my experience, and it's pretty annoying to do.
Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission
> the person [..] that hasn't in fact grown up yet.

One of the greatest accomplishments an adult can achieve.
I honestly cannot make any sense of your "translations" of these "laws" (which sound more like assertions to me).

Also, what scenario are you talking about when yo usay "after wikipedia"? There's plenty of copies of it on the internet, so the data won't suddently vanish, and wikis don't suddenly stop existing if the Wikipedia foundation implodes.
> Exceptions don't need RTTI and have only runtime cost when thrown.

No, they add extra control flow edges, which inhibit optimizations, affecting runtime performance. This is a lot of the reason why unwinding is optional in Rust.
We aren't talking about "perfect efficiency". We're talking about not blowing up your costs. A website that serves seventeen billion pageviews per month of mostly cacheable and edge-serviced data is, while certainly a technical challenge, a very surmountable one. And a lot of the harder parts are blunted through Wikipedia's situation. Search, for example, is a difficult problem in those situations--but I'd bet money that most of those searches are coming from Google, which mitigates a large chunk of the demands on in-house search that a different kind of website might see. (I've used Wikipedia's internal search once this year, according to my browser history.)

Point to the diseconomies of scale and we can talk about them, but everybody else has figured out how to leverage economies of scale when building out a large technical system.
I don't dispute man-made climate change, it's obvious by now.

I also don't dispute man-made climate change bringing about more extreme weather and raising sea levels, which are catastrophic things by themselves.

However, it's when you wrote about the "end of human civilization" that I got skeptical. There is no scientific consensus for that, and no compeling reason to believe such exaggerated claims, even if "rich people" took precautions against it, or some lone climate researcher claims it in a blogspot post.

Do not plan your retirement thinking that human civilization will end before you retire, because much more likely than not, it won't. This is so absurd that you're setting yourself up to have your end-of-life tragedy be in the future a pretty good joke about taking conspiracy theories seriously.
Yeah, I'm sure even your weather is worse than anything ever encountered anywhere else. Cry me a river.

None of this even has anything to do with you. Communist rule disappeared more than a quarter of a century ago, and that wasn't because of any brave rebellion (after Gorbachev okayed it) on your part; WWII occurred generations ago and likewise has nothing to do with you.

So instead of trying to claim the bravery and misery of other people for yourself, why not say what's the hardest thing you've ever had to endure in your life. Paying for that beer?
This idea is being used in the UK in quality improvement projects. One such is from the Q community who call theirs "Randomised Coffee Trials".

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/randomised-cof...
Thatcher only convinces me Manchester would have been better off as a city-state, setting it's own monetary policy instead of Thatcherism.
> the foundation's main goal is still to host a centrally maintained site

Wikimedia universe is way bigger than one site. There's Wikidata, Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks and so on. And there's a lot of language versions too - English is not the only way to store knowledge, you know.

> The goal of Wikipedia should be to spread the content as far & wide as possible

The requires a) creating the content and b) presenting the content in the form consumable by the users. Creating tools for this is far from trivial, especially if you want it to be consumable and not just unpalatable infodump accessible only to the most determined.

> Instead it's still run as one massive monolithic website

This is not accurate. A lot has changed since 2004. It's not one monolithic website, it's a constellation of dozens, if not hundreds, of communities. They are using common technical infrastructure (datacenters, operations, etc.) and common software (Mediawiki, plus myriad of extensions for specific projects), but they are separate sites and separate communities, united by common goal of making knowledge available to everyone.

> it's still hard to get any sort of machine readable data out of it

Please check out Wikidata. This is literally the goal of the project. You can also be interested in "structured Commons" and "structured Wiktionary" projects, both in active development as we speak.

> This IMO should have been the main focus of Wikimedia's development efforts.

It is. One of focuses - for a project of this size, there's always several directions. BTW, right now Wikimedia is in the process of formulating movement strategy, with active community participation. You are welcome to contribute: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/...

Disclosure: working for WMF, not speaking for anybody but myself.
What is the point of having a third party browser on iOS when you can't change the default from Safari?
tl;dr Satire
The Road to Perfect AWS Reserved Instance Planning and Management in a Nutshell
> However Go benefits from the Garbage Collector here - I totally understand why Rust libraries don't want to return heap allocated errors.

This doesn't have to do with the GC or lack thereof. Instead it's part of the philosophy of zero-cost abstractions: idiomatic C libraries don't require heap allocations to return errors, so neither does Rust.
How do you know it was violent? We don't know for sure about a genocide, but we do know that the distinctive click consonants in some of the bigger South African Bantu languages were borrowed from Khoisan languages. If there was a genocide of Khoisan by Bantu speakers, how would these unusual sounds have permeated into the Bantu languages, along with the genes?

Of course, there is no written history, but it is an interesting contrast that Afrikaans-which recorded history unequivocally shows spreading in lockstep with violent dispossession-hasn't got any click consonants, despite developing in an area where click languages predominated (SW Cape), and despite having a fair amount of Khoisan stock in a big chunk of its native speaking population (Cape Coloureds).
From an engineering point of view, would changing any part of their stack reduce the hosting burden? I did some tinkering with MediaWiki in late 2006, it was a bit convoluted at the time. I imagine it is a gigantic project now.
Two questions that might help in framing a response:

1) are they already already using the code you developed?

2) if so, in what manner? Is it an in-house tool for them? A platform they are using to provide services? Some sort of code that's further distributed or sublicensed?

Thanks.
A sizeable portion of the modern Left definitely say that believing in the concept of borders and controlled immigration is intolerance – and thus unacceptable – but fail to see that it is an opinion, not a fact. This is one area where the modern Left nears actual fascists, by (conveniently for them) labelling some arbitrary opinions as “invalid”.

Another opinion is to call it intolerance to have doors and locks in homes. What, you don't tolerate trespassers there? Should that intolerance be tolerated?
Is this a response suggesting that anarchy is the only way to defeat institutional inertia? Or a link to something that actually addresses the subject constructively and realistically?

I ask because it's a large work, but I'd read it if it was the latter.
I've done con.py on a Linux system a few times for net code in different projects and then realised I couldn't clone it on windows. It comes up infrequently enough that you can forget
These are the exact same complaints of students learning to program for the first time.

Have you tried functional programmng? Lisp? Ocaml?
The complaints of newbie functional programmers are also nearly the same.

The "struggle" is necessary. If there is no struggle, there is no learning of fundamentally new approaches you are not yet comfortable with.

See it as part of the training regimen that lets people emerge as stronger programmers on the other side.
Expenses (2016/2015) [1]

Salaries and wages 31,713,961 26,049,224

Awards and grants 11,354,612 4,522,689

Internet hosting 2,069,572 1,997,521

In-kind service expenses 1,065,523 235,570

Donations processing expenses 3,604,682 2,484,765

Professional service expenses 6,033,172 7,645,105

Other operating expenses 4,777,203 4,449,764

Travel and conferences 2,296,592 2,289,489

Depreciation and amortization 2,720,835 2,656,103

Special event expense, net 311,313 266,552

Total expenses 65,947,465 52,596,782

[1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikim...)
It's hilarious. It has only existed as a thing to critcize, and the term itself actually originates in a paper describing why it's broken. No one has ever advocated for the "waterfall" approach.

The ultimate straw man indeed :)