skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. Still, chances of spreading it will be higher if we don't kill ourselves first or drown in our own garbage - that's where things are going so far sadly.

I don't believe that fixing self-destruction and pollution is that much harder than finding a way to travel to distant stars. Why are people assuming that that's the case and putting all their hopes on space travel?
but it was completely not novel at the time of the patent
Ubuntu 17.04 on Thinkpad x260. Monitor mode is supported.
I'd much rather pollute Mars, a dead rock, than the Earth.
If it was expensive enough to hire a PI, seems like you could litigate civilly?
We could still have elections, of course ;)
And it's way more marketable to say you did it with paint
Interesting for context:

https://twitter.com/marksteward/status/863747839117201409

New domains are just trivial modifications of the old one. Still hardcoded. That's unlikely to be a new version, but rather people playing around.
This is basically just an advertisement for pseudoscientific nonsense by a medical doctor that should know better.

How can the Harvard Business Review publish this kind of hocum without flagging it as an advert?
You are right. Common strategy for Russian user is to get some simple Russian word and type it with english layout, so word "Москва" would turn into "Vjcrdf" which looks like rubbish, but is easy to crack if attacker is aware about this strategy.
Who can blame any country the USA is hostile towards, for wanting to build a nuclear deterrent? They've seen what happens when you're not able to fight back.

https://stiobhart.net/2017-03-18-north-korea-threat/
eBay always, always sides with buyers. If there has been a case of eBay successfully handling buyer fraud, I haven't heard about it. You just have to accept it as a cost of doing business.
Thanks for the detailed response. You mentioned:

>"AACS 2.0 is a DRM standard used in UHD/4K Blu-Ray disks."

How does this relate to the context of streaming from HBO/Netflix? Are these companies offering 4K streams on their services?
I never seen how exactly did he get the Amazon job offer, though. The article cut really important parts of the story.
For traditional smalltalk systems (ie. anything except GNU Smalltalk), that textual representation is generated by serializing the object graph. And the traditional text format is not exactly designed to be human editable, also it does not describe classes as self-contained concept, it is stream of expressions interspersed with strings that get magically processed by something that was setup by previous expressions (eg. Behavior>>#methodsFor: switches the deserializer state into this second mode).

The problem with Smalltalk is that you lose all it's power when you stop using the IDE. The idea that Smalltalk's runtime metaobject system is somehow equivalent to Lisp's macros is completely wrong, but the system as a whole is powerful enough to make it look like that it does not need macros, because:

1) the IDE automates many things away (but often by doing textual transformations on the source code)
2) the general ST programming culture builds heavily on monkey patching (which is also usually somehow automated by the IDE)

Even with this, ST is also where the whole idea of design patterns started, with half of the patterns being workarounds around insufficiently expressive language (ie. no macros and multiple different "callable" types/syntax categories).
Thats called windows 10 s
It was a $500 purchase. Buyer was out of state, 1000+ miles away. The PI charged $120 to take the pictures.

This was more of a principal thing. You can imagine these days I just shrug and move on.
It isn't $936M for computers, it is for "computer system upgrades". I would guess that includes software upgrades and licenses and, possibly, programming.

Also: PII (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_info...), definitely when combined with 'government' makes for expensive systems, partly rightfully so.
Looks roughly like WinSplit Revolution, which afaik was first released in 2009, but I don't know which features existed back then.
You really answered the whole question.

Dentists saw what happened to doctors and want no part of it. Dentistry is a simpler business.

My dentist has an outsourced biller and a secretary/clerk.

My GP has 3 clerks, a shared IT guy and two people who argue with insurance companies. His practice had to hire 3 NPs to bring in more revenue.
My main beef with patents (from a layperson's perspective) is that due consideration isn't adequately given to the effort taken by the patent owner to provide some sort of value to society in general.

What use is a novel invention if the patent owner does nothing with it. I would argue that Moom or other apps have provided more value to society at-large as compared to the patent owner.
Why cyber warfare isn’t
>"I cancelled my Netflix account after all that no-VPN bullshit."

I guess I missed this story. You can no longer access Netflix via a VPN? I would be curious to know how they are detecting this. Does this mean you can not access your Netflix content when you take a trip abroad?
> I don't think there is a threat, but it does ignore the fact that men and women are different. For example, men tend to be more competitive, negotiate harder for pay rises. Women tend to like more flexibility in their work.

How much of that is that we (1) socialize women to be that way; and (2) impose disproportionate parenting obligations on them to begin with, which causes them to seek more flexibility?
Greasemonkey[0] is fairly handy for scraping. You can even include remote resources like jQuery if you're targeting specific DOM elements in the page. For storing the data, you can just use LocalStorage (for example if you're paginating)

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
Show HN: An online photo editing application
Right, and one of the engravers interviewed in the article says as much:

> “I’m just really surprised that anyone would say that this is the most automated industry,” says Rader. If someone orders a plaque from his company, a machine engraves it. But a human lays out the appropriate design using a computer, selects the materials, lays the metal in the machine, assembles the plaque, and packages the plaque when it’s done.
I wasn't that impressed with Berlins transportation, Prague on the other hand has one of the most enchanting public transport systems (as is the whole city).
I don't think there are any MS obstacles to running instances of Postgresql and Redis at the backend while developing on VS2017.
Why bother with content that is difficult to access, when you can watch one of the billions of other videos and streams available on YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, or any other website.

If a content owner wants to make access to their content difficult, why should their content be relevant?
Almost nothing to which you're responding is anything I've actually said.

Too, you contradict yourself. You decry the sense of superiority you imagine my words to express, while two paragraphs later favoring one of your own - and, more crucially, you fail to recognize the inherent contradiction between your apparent desire that we act in ways which make us "morally and spiritually superior" (to whom? by whose measure?), and your dissatisfaction with my point that we're in a position to act at all, and might do well to value even the less apparently savory of the traits which got us here.

Your arguments revolve around a preference for a particular sort of destiny which we might choose to make for ourselves. I'm talking about how we've put ourselves in a position to make any such choice to begin with. They're not at all the same thing. And, in general, I'm less concerned with the particular sort of future we choose - I don't even think that's something we're within millennia of being able to do, on the level of our species as a whole - than that we choose our more immediate actions with an eye toward the more immediate goal of maximizing the chance that we reach a point where we're able effectively even to contemplate such lofty purpose.
Everybody’s got their own priorities. In terms of improving the state of humanity, I don’t see the direct connection. I guess it’s fun, because you shoot rockets up in the air. But it’s not an area that I’ll be putting money into

That' the beauty of it, a lot of rich people with their own ideas and priorities. The world problems existed even before the rich started spending on space exploration, and likely we'll have problems for millions of years.

This quote from Interstellar is thought provoking: "we're not meant to save to earth, we're meant to leave it"
> We measure a model’s quality in two ways. First, we evaluate the model using a well-defined accuracy metric we compute during model training. This measure tells us how well the model performs its task – specifically, giving engaging Tweets a high score.

Very curious to know what this metric would be. Maybe some combination of likes, retweets, and viewing time? Or maybe including a general liking term (i.e. liking a person's tweet gives a small boost to all their tweets).
> can not be fixed by the owner as it could be with any other product

I think this is nice in theory, but impractical with our current level of technology. If your toaster broke, would you be able to fix it? How many owners have the analog circuit knowledge to fix even a toaster from the pre-IC world? Would you be willing to invest the tens of hours and dollars required to fix it? Or would you just go buy a new one for $20?

Aside from people who train to do so, even your above-average owner can not maintain or repair a modern car drivetrain. Or an IC which has, thorough the laws of physics, formed whiskers that have caused it to short out. Most people couldn't even replace such an IC, even if given all the fairly specialized tools.

Nor could they realistically learn enough about programming to realistically find and repair defects in a 45 million LOC codebase.

Hell, as a (as called by peers in the past) above-average programmer, I couldn't grok 45M lines of code in anything resembling a reasonable timeframe.

Just opening the source is not enough. And just as car maintenance costs money (sometimes more than the car cost originally), if you want software patches past a reasonable span of time, those are going to cost money.
>I won't say that your definition of a free society is wrong, but I think it's worth pointing out that it doesn't exactly rule out a feudal system.

I didn't provide a "definition" of a free society.
Space exploration and protecting the environment are not mutually exclusive. In fact, like you mentioned, they complement each other nicely.

What I'm pointing at is that space exploration is not as big of an achievement as fixing "bad human tendencies", however, strangely almost nobody is talking about that. Instead space travel for many people is becoming some kind of silver bullet for humanity's future.
If anyone get compiling errors with 'timeval tv' being undefined
add this to headers
#include <sys/time.h>
How does the social ownership of means of production even relate to what we are talking about? Or are you referring to social policies in general? In which case there are multiple models of market-based socialism, in which social benefits (public healthcare, public education, public transport, government-subsidized housing) are used to boost individuals' purchasing power (they are healthy, they can work better jobs, they can be more flexible with where they live) and inject that money into the economy by keeping a happy, healthy and educated population.
Not all Intel CPUs have AMT. Most consumer machines won't have it enabled, it's an enterprise targeted feature.

> Does this mean every Intel system built since 2008 can be taken over by hackers?

No. Most Intel systems don't ship with AMT. Most Intel systems with AMT don't have it turned on.

From an FAQ by MJG, the author of the tool we are discussing: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html
There is tons of online tutorials for these things. Kaggle has good tutorials with the test datasets
> Have you found the government trying to control how you think via the long history of the public library system?

I was talking about government controlled education system.

> As for caricaturing a point, there is of course a vast difference between the right to read what one wants and the government taking over the entire publishing industry and controlling what ideas are published.

I was trying to point out the absurdity of caricatures with one of my own
I'm sure it depends heavily on your country, career field, age, income level, etc...

Most people I know were somewhere between surprised and jealous, more or less impressed that we were able to not go bankrupt with just me working and my wife at home.

Mothers especially told me they wished they could have stayed home when their children were young. I was shocked how many people I worked with had to go back to work days or weeks after giving birth.

Then again I'm a guy, so maybe it comes off as being a good provider versus taking the "easy" way.
This sounds horrible, even though I knew about it before. What are the viable options for other manufacturers or architectures which don't come with this sort of thing, either for desktops or for laptops?
Anecdotal experience with twitter's timeline suggests it's viewing time - and that they haven't considered that people are just spending more time finding the tweets they're looking for...
Amen to this. TIS-100 is a puzzle game that happens to use assembly language as its means of expression. The barriers it puts up are wholly unrealistic and therefore it can't really to be said to "teach assembly language" in any particularly meaningful way.
> If your choices are : 1. Starve to death 2. Work in a sweatshop

Then it's not a choice. Therefore there can be no consent, you are not made to work by force but by threat of starvation or homelessness, it is an oppressive situation even if these people don't have literal chains at their feet.
Don't do this. Costs them money and being a CDN is not their business plan.

There are "legit" free CDNs if you can't handle the traffic yourself.

Also note Google will penalize you hard if you keep going offline every time you are linked to.
I'm not giving any assessment of said patent. It appears to be bullshit from other commentors here.

I am approaching this as, "You had better be rich, and prepared to throw 500K at lawyers to defend or attack a patent lawsuit. And even then, has no guarantee of any good results.
Switching to Python from another programming languages
The same government that can't be bothered to update their systems?
Here we are now, entertain us
For example, the EU patent principles (which don't grant software patents at all) would have worked fine in this case and work quite well in other cases as well.

You definitely could argue that for pure software features copyright and trademarks is enough, and granting patents on them doesn't facilitate innovation but likely slows it down.
Honestly, I don't really get it either.

As for tech billionaires dabbling in space, it comes down to what they expect to get out of it.

In Musk's case he's managed to create a company that can launch payloads into orbit (and hopefully beyond one day) at what will hopefully be a fraction of today's launch costs if the promise of reusable first stages holds true. He's also managed to do this on a fraction of the budget that NASA seems to be spending on the SLS. Launching satellites is a commercial enterprise so hopefully self-sustaining. Must hopes to leverage this to one day colonize Mars. Well, good for him.

Not sure what Bezos is up to but superficially it looks like a "me too" SpaceX.

So why send things other than satellites into orbit or probes into deep space? That's really what it comes down.

Some will point to the resources out there. This argument I just don't buy because the economics of any material on earth are many orders of magnitude cheaper than what resources from space could possibly cost. Take iron, for example. You're talking less than $100/ton. How could extraction from space possibly compete with that? Obviously accessible iron on earth is ultimately limited but even at $10,000/ton it'll drastically change human society.

So what about colonization of other planets and moons? Well, first you need to ask why. To me, the only goal that makes sense is to ensure survival of humanity by creating a self-sustaining colony as anything built on the premise of requiring supply from Earth is ultimately just a vanity project.

So what would it take to have a self-sustaining colony on another world? If you think about it, it's a lot and I'm not sure it's feasible with current technology.

Also, where? Other worlds are pretty inhospitable. A lot are attracted to Mars but I'm not sure why. It essentially has no atmosphere (pressure is much closer to a vacuum than Earth's atmospheric pressure), which, incidentally, is one of the problems with the Martian (the movie at least; I haven't read the book). It lacks the Earth's protection against UV rays too.

So what about interstellar travel? Sad as it sounds, I just don't think humans are built for it. We live too short a period. The distances are so vast that how would you ever construct a vessel large enough to make the trip and be self-sustaining or have enough supplies for thousands of years and then also propel it to the necessary speeds?

The conclusion I come to is that there are simply too many of us here on Earth and this will resolve itself if we don't resolve it first.
it would be fascinating to have an update about these ideas, and a look at which signals have changed, what signals are the same, and what new signals might exist.
"Conveniently, China uses a 4' 8.5" track gauge, unlike Russian metric gauge, so they can move freight cars all the way without a gauge change."

Aeh, when was the last time you looked at a world map? You realize that the trains all have to go through Russia?
Available in Sweden, however.
We disagree because I find a flawed premise in your argument that undermines the entire rest of your conclusions. Capitalism is not equal access. Those who already have lots of capital have access to the tools of capitalism. Those who do not already have lots of capital have almost no access.
>No, the problem is that sometimes, people are not able to refuse a work agreement.

That statement has absolutely no basis in reality. It gets trotted out time and time again, however.

>There are plenty of cases where a potential employee essentially has a choice between signing and starving.

Again, that is pure BS. No one starves in the US. The number one health problem is obesity.

>If I put a gun to your head, and you then 'consent' to an agreement where you give me money, and I don't shoot you, is that a hallmark of free society?

If you don't know the difference between an armed robbery and a freely entered agreement, I thinking I'm wasting my time arguing with you.
The trouble is that it may make the urgency of hiring and delegating seem more than it is. Plenty of businesses won't need separate people to take on each responsibility for a while, if ever. Other than the really obvious ones, a new business probably won't even know which responsibilities might become large enough to need dedicated people looking after them yet. Hiring is always a fine balancing act, and hiring the wrong people and/or to fill the wrong positions is just as toxic to a new business as not hiring and delegating when the right time comes.
Absolutely. One helps and complements the other quite nicely. Yet currently it feels the focus is very much shifted towards space travel. Sure, it's much more glamorous to fly through space sci-fi style than dig around in the garbage dump. Oh well...
I'm located in Zurich. My use case is in the financial index business as it requires transparency and independence. Smart contract can really help in this kind of business.
An invitation to ReasonML
The Real Magic of Moebius’ Edena
I can give you more details if you want.
FYI they didn't deprecate anything, they just augment new syntax.
You're all over the place here and your arguments make no sense whatsoever when examined.

First, you conflate mass-appeal with some sort of objective "better" criterion which is of course bonkers. To use one of your own examples against you, there are hundreds of thousands of Java monkeys out there that are using glue other people made to tie together rocks to build stonewalls. Which do fail as soon as the weather stops being nice. Security (you should look into Java deserialization bugs), reliability, performance what do they know about any of these things?

Second, you conflate late-binding as present in Lisp and Smalltalk with late-binding present in other dynamic languages. The two are not equivalent, a perfect example of the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Lisp and Smalltalk will never become popular (read my previous comment), but that does not mean that they do not sit on an apex and still have a lot to give. To anyone interested in the "craft of programming", "the Art", there is nothing better period. Here are some references for you,
from the masters themselves:

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKBzIuBY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
This is cool! I read your article about musical faders some time ago as well [1]. It's great that you are thinking about what music can look like on computers in this free way.

[1] http://arthurcarabott.com/mui/
"Greener pastures" doesn't always mean literally greener pastures.

And there are other reasons to go places besides you think it'll be "better" than where you are now: exploration, for example. Scientific curiosity. Adventure.

Not everyone that has set out exploring has done so because they thought they'd find a "better" place (which is thoroughly subjective), rather in hopes they'd find a different place.

Earth may be the best place for you, but you are not everyone.
For the most part a EULA is just a warranty voiding clause. No reverse engineering, no copying since, apart from selling bootleg copies, duplication enables reverse engineering.
I think that's exactly the definition of "cannot".
It's amazing how many bright minds are paid to sort lists in a particular way.
> if properly maintained

That maintenance is not free, in terms of both money and time. Anecdote time: the most maintainable vehicle I had the displeasure to own required a yearly investment of several dozen hours to grease the multitude of bearings via zerks located all throughout the chassis. The seats wore out, the heating system sprung a leak, consumables were consumed... all were fixable, but only when given an appropriate application of money and time.

Sure, that truck is still running to this day, but very rarely used - because it's simply 2-3x less fuel efficient than a newer (but still 5 years old) vehicle, and the cost-benefit ratio of maintaining it is far too high.

How much money are we willing to put into the maintenance of software? Reading through the comments of this thread - very little. If we were interested in paying, you can be fairly sure there would be a player in the industry willing to make those fixes for an appropriately large amount of money - commensurate with the time and effort required to understand and fix a 45M line codebase.
Thanks, I see what the point is now. To show how one there is a similar effect or mechanism in play even when looking at another (and you could say non obvious) field. I was confused as I assumed it indicated The Gender Pay Gap in it's own right but I think it has more accuracy in saying that it shows to be evidence of one of the indicators.