skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the same time martial arts in the age of firearms has become relegated to the fringe, and running in the age of automobiles (probably even starting with the age of horses) is also kind of silly to take too seriously, and few people care outside of a couple days every four years, if even.

It's kind of like what happened to painting when the era of photography began.

Machines taking over human disciplines still kills the disciplines, some may just not be aware how this type of death works.

That said, I disagree with most here in that I don't think machines are anywhere close to taking over creative human disciplines that don't follow incredibly specific rules, like boardgames.
But go ir != llvm ir. The idea is you can leave behind optimizations passes and backend, simply maintaining a frontend, when you adopt the llvm ir and toolchain.
No, I'm suggesting perhaps Google's attorneys understand the general principal of the undesirability of apparent weakness while being cash rich.
Decades? We are talking here about 2-3 years lag due to conservatist approach. You seem to know nothing about what you write.
So the Indians screwed it up, but the Polish are taking the blame? How wonderful of you brits !!!
Silly me, he actually treats this question (towards the end of the article using his dog as an example)
Work ethic and the ability to say 'No'. Have you ever worked with the Indians, dude ??
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Why? It's just a different level of detail than you're used to. It's not magic.
Yeah, Google Maps in Japan knows a lot more, e.g. it shows actual road widths with delimited sidewalks or it tells you about train platforms and elevators when switching lines. The data is from a third party (ZENRIN, check the bottom of the screen) that provides an insane level of detail. Yahoo uses them, too, but Apple doesn't.
“Wormable” code-execute bug existed in *nix Samba for 7 years
But the problem is that factors like security and reliability are often invisible in outsourcing contracts, as it's very hard to specify things like security exactly in a bid contract, and very hard for customers to tell the difference between an organisation with higher security and one with poorer security practices.

Everyone will say they take security seriously, but the cost of actually doing a good job on security is much higher than paying lipservice to it, so it doesn't really make commercial sense to do it well.

In general in fact I'd say that a lot of IT outsourcing contracts tend to lead to a market for lemons. It's very hard for customer to assess the quality of a companies staff for example, so the company with the cheaper staff can afford a cheaper bid, which looks just as good as a company with more expensive staff...
You are right, but they all do it because outsourcing is a signal that corporate management has lost faith in its ability to manage IT and now has but one method of judging value - price.
According to the article, Weiss did not seek a license agreement or royalties from Apple or Visa after the release of Apple Pay because his law firm advised him to file the suit first. Why litigate without requesting an agreement first? Seems fishy.
> As an example a person in a tech leader role at a major company in the UK who I thought may be interested in hearing about a product was quite rude about me never contacting them again ...

You didn't spam them did you?

Your description of their behaviour sounds a lot like the standard response to spammers. eg FOAD
Or maybe because .COM format was invented before .EXE format (since .COM is simpler)? Just guessing.
Can a mod maybe edit the title to ".kkrieger — (...)"? :)

I'm fairly certain that Farbrausch made it a point to have many of their releases begin with a lowercase 'k' (for no other reason than style, afaik). You can choose to omit the dot if you really don't like it, but it's just not spelled with an uppercase 'k'.

And these people are German, where nouns are always capitalized. So when they do not, it's very much on purpose.
If street corner pay phones and phone books were introduced today someone would sue because of the anonymous harassment they enable. It's hard to see where we are now as societal progress.
If the employee didn't have any other good options, and the company could survive it, then certainly.

Of course this is easy for me to say.. In Norway unemployment benefits are good an unemployment rate low, so it's quite likely that the person would be fine. But even so, it is less likely that someone would be fired for 'underperforming' compared to say the US.
Loosely speaking, I've seen Bayesian inference described as a way to update your knowledge when you receive new evidence. In that sense, it's been re-invented since the time of the ancient Greeks.
Really minimalistic q&a discussion forum
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Google Analytics is not accurate (its sampled), or realtime (48 hour turn around).
Why is it "clearly virtual reality related"?
I know it is useless to you if you are stuck on an old OS version but IMO Nougat did this right :

- changing the font size is a mess .. I work on UI on a large Android app and it is not trivial to make a design adapt to very large font sizes without sacrificing performances. Most apps don't bother though .. so you end up with mangled text fields.

-Nougat still support font size changes but has also added what I think is a better implementation : variable density.
The OS can 'lie' to the framework and the running apps and declare a pixel density different than its natural one.

That way the whole interface gets scaled (since interfaces are designed in density independent pixels).

Works like a charm and won't have any UI glitch because of it.
You're right, there has been a disturbing trend in the US of creating safe spaces for racists [1], like in the White House [2] [3], college campuses [4], fraternities [5], Trump rallies [6], and even Broadway [7], to enumerate a few examples.

But don't be surprised, because it's already happened: Germany's Jodel network is much more successful than Yik Yak, with its strict guidelines [8] against racism, discrimination and hate speech, so it isn't a safe space for racists, like Yik Yak was and the White House still is [9].

[1] Trump’s election has created “safe spaces” for racists: Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi Beirich on the wave of hate crimes: http://www.salon.com/2017/03/08/trumps-election-has-created-...

[2] Sean Spicer turns the White House into a safe space for conservative media: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140896/sean-spicer-turns-whi...

[3] I'm tweeting from under my desk because President Obama wiretapped me: http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/capitol-ink-white-house...

[4] On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/political-div...

[5] The Trump Bros Have Found Their Safe Space: https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/the-trump-bros-ha...

[6] Republicans who once mocked ‘safe spaces’ are feeling sensitive over protests
: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-a-campaign-sea...

[7] Trump demands safe space for Mike Pence after he was booed at Hamilton: http://www.avclub.com/article/trump-demands-safe-space-mike-...

[8] Jodel Community Guidelines: https://jodel-app.com/guidelines.html

[9] Mr. President, come out of your safe space: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-trump-med...
>I am confused as to why anyone thinks its the University's duty to protect their students from "cyber harassment."

Yeah it does seem odd that a university wouldn't want its students to be harassed on campus.
I think Yahoo Maps is actually pretty highly regarded there. This is secondhand knowledge though, so take it with a grain of salt
>> It's used as KYC - Know your Customer - for getting the JIO connection

Ok, I am Jio SIM company. So I have your aadhar KYC or a xerox of your aadhar card as well. How as a citizen, can you trust me (a private company) to not pass your web activity to state. eg: say you are an NGO using JIO sim and is working for getting rid of big corruption in state. How will you ensure my company and state will not track your every web activity ? It all sounds familiar when you know privacy concerns of Chinese humanitarians - read great firewall of internet.

>> It's the world's biggest democracy for 70 years now.

How does being biggest in numbers help in democracy ? Democracy is pretty old my friend. 70 years is again a very small age in democracy.
Decentraland – A decentralized virtual world
I miss being able to make small programs in debug on a Dos prompt and just dumping the machine code to a com file. It was a great way to test out and learn assembly language, and you didn't need a compiler or any other programs to make something that executed other than what was built in and a nice printed list of interrupts.

Some simple things I remember playing with in middle school,
might work in a dosbox emulator window?:

pc speaker:

out 61,1

change video mode:

mov ax,0x13
int 0x10

Then there were cool msdos debug scripts, where you had text listings of assembly with debug commands that when piped into debug it wrote out a com file:

https://www.google.com/search?q=dos+debug+script&ie=utf-8&oe...

Some could low level format hard drives, and there were lots of other fun utilities and amusements, much more so than batch files. I'd say the modern analogue is python scripts.
Don't think about what will happen to Bitcoin in that situation, because its hashing algorithm is nothing particularly unique. Think of what will happen to SHA-1, -2, etc. The NSA is likely already thinking well ahead about this possibility.
"There's no silver bullet." --Fred Brooks
Please don't generalize without evidence to back it up.

The first version of the Linux kernel wasn't written by a team, for example, and writing an OS is clearly impressive. Linux didn't ship, get customers, and make money.
>It's function a digital bathroom wall was pretty well executed

But is that an idea worth executing?

$73 million dollars down the tubes on a "digital bathroom wall." I would say I'm amazed that anyone thought this was an idea worth investing in, but sadly, I'm really not amazed at all.
Hey now, no need to resort to name-calling. In fact, the “T” originally stood for “Tom”, but the name was later changed so the “T” stood for “Tab” (referring to its then-default look of window titles as little tabs on top of windows).

Furthermore, it is not terrible. I’ve used TWM for more than 20 years. It worked perfectly fine for me when I started to use it, and it still does so today, so I have not seen a need to switch.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Map_Maker
> Nowadays information is just a Google search away, so knowing a lot doesn't really mean as much as it used to.

You give Google search too much credit. What is a click away is still largely superficial information on any topic and the popular (or specific data set) is often extremely biased or downright incorrect.
DIY Bank balance aggregation
Apache Groovy is also the same.
I believe the idea is the motivate you to contribute further by proving that your edit made a difference. How does your edit being viewed 100 thousand times makes you less interested in contributing? Would you rather contribute to a product nobody uses?

> I thought "why am I contributing to this ad-powered product that they're monetizing for millions, for free?"

You already knew Google Maps was monetized by ads, before making an edit.

I don't think it's fair to see this as free labor for Google. Your edits to Google Maps could be related to your own business. Or you might be helping your favorite local business to get more visibility and customers.

Perhaps it can also be seen as a contribution to your neighborhood.
>For example would you as an IT outsourcer pay for a redundant datacentre if your contract didn't call for it?

I would assume that the contract calls for particular service levels and that downing the entire fleet of a large carrier for days is in breach of that contract.

If the contract says "provide service X with 99.999% availability" the service provider cannot come back and say, oh but you forgot to specify that we should run a redundant data center to guarantee that availability.
The gas station scenario has a lot of similarities with the iterated prisoner's dilemma game; "defecting" here means lowering the price. The rational strategy is for the owners to cooperate (and retaliate if someone defects). In that case, the effects of price collusion can happen even without any actual collusion.

In reality, human beings rarely implement a strategy that's game theoretically optimal, but algorithms might.
>There are so few places left in the US where someone can engage in free speech.

What?

Do you mean free speech or free speech free of repercussions?
So, your second statement isn't what I originally stated at all.

This isn't how an "audit" works at all, an "audit" and an accusation are two different things entirely. Your bias has apparently led you into reading things that aren't there. A common fallacy so don't feel bad.

"The government needs information"

I'm not sure it really does to this extent, but assuming you are right, how much legal responsibility does Google have to provide it?

And this is exactly what we are going to find out from the courts. Back to the original point, the attorneys for Google have no duty, and in fact, every duty, to minimize the amount of information provided.
That's still only roughly the size of a single mp3 file or one digital camera picture! :)

And of course, the biggest trick in .kkrieger is that everything is procedural. A choice made because of the goal they set out with. There's assets in Doom that just couldn't have been done with tiny procedural texture descriptions and still represent quite the same thing. For .kkrieger such assets were simply not an option and the game was designed around it.

Also, I always liken the graphics in .kkrieger to Halflife 1, not Doom, which is quite a bit different. Objects in Doom were all billboarded sprites, afaicr.
Why do they need such protection against mustard? If I understand the article correctly it's a liquid that is only dangerous on contact. Why simpler protection akin to what Ebola responders wear (face shield, respirator, apron, gloves and boots) wouldn't do?
Granted, security is difficult to specify. But availabilty isn't. Not on the scale we're seeing right now with BA.
> Given 1000+ subscribers, how much will the newsletter cost (sent daily, provider agnostic)?

You can check MailChimp or Amazon SES pricing for instance:

https://mailchimp.com/

https://aws.amazon.com/ses/

> As subscriber base grows, can I take advantage of economies of scale?

30,000 / month is not enough to get any real advantage, but if you grow large and going to have reputation of your domain then you can certainly start saving. When you already have working solution and send million of emails each month it's easier to setup your own infrastructure that going to be cheaper.

> Can I do it for free, using Python?

Unfortunately 1000 daily emails is way above the line where you can use some public SMTP provider and expect no trouble. You can of course try to set your own server, but that would mean that some of subscribers certainly going to miss your mail for quite some time and it's doesn't scale too well.

Gmail / G Suite have usual limit of 2000 messages per day and you can also try other large providers like russian Yandex, but they also have about 2000 messages limit. I used both GMail and Yandex on multiple small projects for notification / email verification and never had issues, but I only ever sent below 500 messages / day.

If you still decide to try run your own server or use public SMTP make sure to use and follow best practices before you start sending anything: sent from your project public domain, add mandatory unsubscribe link and headers, only add links to trusted domains and avoid link shorteners, make sure that you handle rejected mail and not sent anything to deleted accounts, etc. So it's would take weeks of work at best to setup it properly.
i liked it until i saw the fingerprinting & popup advertising script on the page (a pretty shitty thing to do to your users)

things like this make me even more glad i switched off javascript by default (the site even worked fine without it)
top humans have been improving too; i'd estimate that quackle is stronger than most human players today, but the very best (especially nigel richards! https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-nigel-richar...) can hold their own against it. i'd like to see the top-level-human win rate drop below 25% before i'd call us decisively outmatched, and below 10% before it hits the "don't even expect to win a game unless you're an expert" stage.

also, there's an (afaik) unexplored area of scrabble AI where you take into account the fact that some plays are harder to spot than others, and some words less likely to be in your scrabble vocabulary, so if you're playing a weaker opponent you can play risky moves that might cost you against an expert but will win big against a weaker player. unlike in go, this really matters because tournament scrabble uses spread as a tiebreaker; learning how to not just win but win big against weaker players is an important skill in some tournaments.
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Thanks for sharing that!

Just skimmed through it and seems pretty interesting.
I'll read it more in depth later.
It's hard to find data on the individual cost of Soviet space programs. Wikipedia gives the total cost for the Luna program at 4.5 billion dollars, but that figure is unsourced, and it's unclear whether they're 1969 or 2008 dollars.

In any case, the Apollo program easily wins in kg/dollar. The total cost of the Apollo program was just 22 billion 1969 dollars, so a bit more than 60 million 1969 dollars per kilo and obviously the program did much, much more than just return some rocks. On the other hand, just launching the Proton-K rocket that got the Luna 16 to the moon cost 100 million 1969 dollars, so up to 1 billion dollars per kilo. And that's not counting the development cost of the vehicle etc...

Good news for the future though, China is planning to send a sample-return mission in November[0] and they plan to return at least 2 kilograms. If they succeed, I guess you don't need humans for that either

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_5
An image classifier built with Tensorflow
Reddit allows you to save threads to revisit and you can sort by latest replies.
drop me a line at gmail, if you have the time.
Somewhat related: pcapy is a useful Python library for network packet handling. We used it recently in a project after evaluating it and a few others (not very thoroughly, though). dpkt is useful too.

pcapy can read from a live stream or from a packet capture file (.pcap format).
It uses sampling to generate reports AFAIK.
Note that lots of other extensions can be interpreted as executable: https://superuser.com/questions/228680/on-windows-what-filen...

(and you can also run code out of DLL and CPL files)
Well, accrording to the same article and the complaint (See Paragraph 32-35):

"... In the suit and in an interview, Mr. Weiss said he had extensive meetings in 2010 with Visa officials, including its chief executive at the time, to discuss working together on the technology. In the interview, he said that Visa had signed a 10-year nondisclosure agreement to gain access to the technology, assigned engineers to fully understand the details, but then dropped further communication without securing a license.

Mr. Weiss said he also wrote to Apple at the same time seeking to license his technology, but the iPhone maker never responded to his inquiries. ..."

so clearly Visa had some working relationship with Weiss and was aware of Weiss's work in that area. Apple pretty much ignored Weiss. Considering Apple's past problems with suppliers, it's not surprising that they ignored him as well, knowing well that the technology was patented.

Apple has had legal problems with wireless SEP (Standard Essential Patent) holders like Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson every time contral renewal is up. Apple believes that while their frivolous patents (eg, slide-to-unlock, rounded corners) are worth almost $8 per devices, SEPs held by those companies are worth $0.0000000x. QE, the law firm representing Weiss, probably made the right call in suing Apple first.
> Anders Breivik isn't the best case for setting a precedence, as far as I could read the ruling was grounded in the fact that he was dangerous and that other prisoners would be a danger to him.

Norway has civil law rather than common law - doesn't this mean that this decision doesn't work as precedent, as that's only really seen in common law?
Copper pots are used for cooking because of the superior heat transfer, but you are not cooking with copper directly. They are "tinned", and this coating needs upkeep. You can't really cook with it directly because it's too reactive with acidic foods.
I've managed enterprise IT applications shift support to India. I have to say when its done right, it can work well sometimes.

But my experience has taught me this. The vast majority of time its a fragile egg shell waiting to crack. When it fails, it fails miraculously. An IT support team on this scale is one of those things you should keep close to your product or customer.

Occasions like this I guarantee a bunch of execs somewhere in BA will pay ANYTHING to have some of their loyal IT staff back to take control of the situation.
> It all sounds familiar when you know privacy concerns of Chinese humanitarians - read great firewall of internet.

That has nothing to do wit Aadhaar or India. All European nations require an ID to get a mobile connection. That risk would exist in any country Aadhaar or no Aadhaar. What's your point?

> How does being biggest in numbers help in democracy ? Democracy is pretty old my friend. 70 years is again a very small age in democracy.

Mister because it show the strength of democratic institutions and freedom in a country. Even when compared to richer european nations like Spain/Portugal. Please look at freedom house rating for asian nations before being so condescending.
That's a big problem in translation: The writer imbues the script with cultural influence from their native language, and the translator has to compensate for that and adapt it to the target language. For example, the literal Greek, "I told him to bring me some water" would be translated in English as "I asked him to bring me some water", as the Greek "told" is much less strong than what it sounds in English, and is more like "ask" in meaning.
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tl;dr: Reasons why people will still pay for digital content even though it can be reproduced at no cost: immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, embodiment, patronage and findability. Advertising is notably absent from the list. Quoting:

> Careful readers will note one conspicuous absence so far. I have said nothing about advertising. Ads are widely regarded as the solution, almost the ONLY solution, to the paradox of the free. Most of the suggested solutions I’ve seen for overcoming the free involve some measure of advertising. I think ads are only one of the paths that attention takes, and in the long-run, they will only be part of the new ways money is made selling the free. But that’s another story.

Since this is (2008), does anyone know if that blog covered that "other story" at some point? I'm currently digging through a Google search for

advertisement site:kk.org inurl:thetechnium

...but cannot see anything useful so far.
At some point that's just going to become a subreddit with a very, very loose sense of geography built into it that's more of a hindrance than an asset. For this type of thing, you either go all in like yik yak did with the geo or you go all in with the idea of the community and non-geo (reddit).
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Yik Yak on ethereum?