skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blue jays around my yard make a particular toot when a human gets too close. It's reliable enough that I know someone is walking by the house whenever I hear it. (There is not a lot of foot traffic here.) They don't seem to make the same noise for dogs and cats. The squirrels are better dog and cat alarms.

I've pondered whether the toot might mean "human" or "oh shit" or something else. Supposing it is denotational like "human", I'm also very curious if different populations of blue jays use vocalizations differently in places with different threats. That would imply the sounds are taught and learned, which I'd say is a stronger indicator of language than, say, sounds that are instinctively understood but happen to be compositional.
> It could indeed be just a blip, but would you agree that there exist reasonable incentives for usage of DLTs in unstable economies?

tl;dr no. Cryptocurrencies (we're not talking about the general euphemism "DLT", your question is about cryptocurrencies and specifically Bitcoin) don't solve any of the problems people have in that situation. When every story about "Bitcoin in [troubled country]" has turned out to be made-up rubbish, this leads me to consider all such claims wishful thinking on the part of holders.
> they could choose to pay for firefighters and have them come out to douse my house in defense of their own.

Good to see you support others taking on your risk. This is the essence of universal healthcare.
Complex numbers aren't strictly necessary. You could even expand every complex dimension to a pair or real dimensions and get the same results (roughly speaking). However this is a bit unwieldy, so the question becomes "why do complex numbers provide such a convenient representation of quantum theory"?

There is work being done on this sort of thing. If essentially all you care about are the probabilities of certain observations occurring, then you surely can represent any theory with real numbers. The field of "generalised probabilistic/physical theories" attempts to analyse quantum theory without assuming the baggage of Hilbert spaces etc... [0]. Chris Fuchs also has done a lot of work on representing quantum state spaces in terms of outcome distributions over special types of measurements called sic-povms[1,2].

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508211

1. http://perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/cfuchs/

2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIC-POVM
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I'd love it if some more people could vouch for these sources. The both look very interesting.
> Powershell is nearly always a better choice

Not if I want resemblance with Bash-like shells. I guess that's also the point of this: Most people already know sudo from Linux and cmd.exe, now they can use both together.
> The main point of sudo is that it eliminates the need to enter the password for a while.

I disagree, that's just an additional feature of it. The main point is that you can carry out admin tasks from an otherwise more restricted environment, so you only elevate your power when necessary. Otherwise, users might be tempted to always run whole sessions as an admin/root for convenience.
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As said, I have now clue about things in Japan, but in Germany, a court can definitely order the company to rehire you if the reason for firing was unlawful. In smaller companies coming back to that job usually isn't fun (as your boss usually was directly involved in the case), thus in these cases you usually get compensation of about a year's worth of wages.

Bigger companies are usually pretty professional about these things. (Completely different domain, but just look at Apple and Samsung being in court while Samsung still being a supplier for Apple.)
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> forced to help others

It's good to know that you're against your tax money being used for the most expensive military in the world.
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Oh, and it becomes painfully obvious why MySQL cannot use more than one index while executing the query.
Huh, I wonder why my comment above was downvoted. It seems like a very strange comment to downvote.
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> it's good to reinvent the wheel to know how it works

Very true :-)
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People sometimes do a background check on themselves to see what the employer says if they're suspicous about it. Other than that, I'd imagine the chances are pretty slim that some other prospective employer would spill the beans.
Somewhat related, I recently started trying to reverse-engineer the MySQL wire protocol. My idea is that if this is better documented then it will be easier for people to make databases that interoperate with MySQL clients but aren't MySQL that much easier (personally I want a custom Shard-Query-ish thing).

This is obstinately documented (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-server/latest/PAGE_PROTOC...), but I can't find a nice cheat-sheet saying "to send a query, you send this packet and you receive these packets" etc. I've taken to looking at e.g. the pure-Python PyMySQL package source-code https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/blob/master/pymysql/conne...

Here's my progress so far: https://gist.github.com/williame/ebf003dd85d5949f551a72331ae...

Anyone know what commands you can send, and what the expected responses are?
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> A number of unique characteristics in the note indicate it was written by a fluent Chinese speaker. A typo in the note, “帮组” (bang zu) instead of “帮助” (bang zhu) meaning “help,” strongly indicates the note was written using a Chinese-language input system rather than being translated from a different version. More generally, the note makes use of proper grammar, punctuation, syntax, and character choice, indicating the writer was likely native or at least fluent. There is, however, at least one minor grammatical error which may be explained by autocomplete, or a copy-editing error.

No native Chinese speaker would unintentionally make such mistakes. Any decent Chinese pinyin input method would have corrected that typo mistake, not to mention handwriting methods. Also, it is highly unlikely to miss a letter when typing Chinese pinyin, unless the person have been pronouncing it wrongly and is unaware of the mistake.

> The text uses certain terms that further narrow down a geographic location. One term, “礼拜” for “week,” is more common in South China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore; although it is occasionally used in other regions of the country. The other “杀毒软件” for “anti-virus” is more common in the Chinese mainland.

No, ＂礼拜＂ is used interchangeably across China and it is one of the standard translations of days of the week. And ＂杀毒软件＂ is the default translation of antivirus in Google translate.

I am not saying that the person behind the note is not Chinese. It's just the poor analysis in this article makes me both want to laugh and cry as a native Chinese speaker. The bottom line is, I would not trust a report on Chinese linguistic analysis by three non-native Chinese speakers.
> PDFs are not considered design files https://www.oshwa.org/definition/

This is a very good point!

BTW, in that sense most Creative Commons work is not "open source", either.

For example, a typical Creative Commons video that is just released as webm or mp4 can only be remixed, but not improved upon - which would require access to the raw video material, raw audio material and the project file of the used video cut program.

Same for CC music distributes just as mp3/flac/opus, you'll need the samples, notes, music cut program file, and so on. One notable exception are tracker files (mod, s3m, it, ...), and in some sense also the MIDI files (as long as you have access to all instruments).
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> But unfortunately ...

You can't get away with:

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Just use it occasionally then.

I deleted my account and was "clean" for a few years, but last year decided to sign up again.

I only use it occasionally, maybe once or twice a week. It's nice to catch up with family and friends, and it's very simple to filter out the cruft that you have no interest in.
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All of this is possible in the current economy – Many companies are founded by employees. However, I'm personally comvinced they are not efficient, neither in decision-making nor in usage of the workforce. So what happens to them, and why aren't they the most common form of employment? Maybe some don't keep their form of cooperative decision-making, maybe others never make it big on the market, maybe creators of such companies don't intend to become AirBnb or Amazon and prefer a lifestyle business – all in all, traditional companies still dominate them.
I share your skepticism as well, but I wouldn't be too dismissive of North Korean Cyber capabilities either. They do have a specialized cyber warfare unit, handpick and train their soldiers extremely intensively (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/02/north-kor...). Their performances in other international competitions, like the International Math Olympiad (https://www.imo-official.org/country_team_r.aspx?code=PRK), also indicates that they have the ability to do so if they wish to.

Developing cyberwarfare capabilities seems like a relatively low cost (compared to developing ballistic missiles at least), low risk investment, with a potentially large payoff, so I would be surprised if they didn't try to develop these skills.

Of course, all evidence tying N.Korea to this specific attack is circumstantial and almost impossible to definitively prove unless they admit it and show proof themselves.
The conviction rates are available in English and Japanese provided by the Ministry of Justice.

Wikipedia in Japanese - Criminal Trial Judgements (判決確定数 - number of judicial decisions, 有罪 - guilty, 無罪 - not guilty)

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E5...

At the bottom of the table it links all the data to

http://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp

Looks pretty unofficial but that is Japan Ministry of Justice website and is linked by the more official looking one

http://www.moj.go.jp/housouken/houso_hakusho2.html

Ministry of Justice White Papers in English

http://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp/en/nendo_nfm.html

Judgement rates 2005-2014 in English

http://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp/en/64/nfm/n_64_2_2_3_1_0.html
Data protection laws set quite tight boundaries on chatting between former and prospective employers, without the employee's consent. Further, I think the general consensus is that such chats are thought to be subject to the same rules as formal references (since otherwise these rules would be entirely pointless).
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They mention "Inside UFO 54-40" but don't have a graph for it :( which is a shame because it would have been the only disconnected graph
Nope: You're missing one.
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You always had that though. And you can't automatically answer it for users from device activity because that would violate someone's privacy.
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Unfortunately, you can't trust Facebook to actually show your posts to other people. Their "algorithm" - a cancerous wart that has infected Instagram too now - means that they show you what they want to show you, not necessarily what your friends post.
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Aaron told me they were shutting down the service shortly before I was due to go on holiday. I looked at the multivac thing and decided it was just to risky to assume they would actually pick it up (especially given their Trusted By section!)

I spent a couple of weeks replacing it with celery, and then later RQ. It was the correct call, but you never know with these things. As far as it goes it was a pretty cheap lesson in not relying on external providers. Having said that, I've spent a fortune on EC2 since because I can't have micro billing like I could with picloud!
Because "the algorithm" might decide your family don't get to see that update. Facebook is no point chronological, nor does it show everything your friends post. They pick and choose.
Right. So maybe birdsong is modulated in ways that we haven't yet figured out.
Your situation sounds much worse. There is no need to apologize for making a useful comparison which brings perspective to the discussion.

No offense but most of the sob stories that make HN front page sound like whining from a spoiled brat. Your case sounds like proper bad/tough.

I guess at least you've gained some skills from all this.
Then you should know better than to make sweeping generalisations and talking in absolutes, I can show you many scientific books from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's that are filled with untrue assumptions, to state that no animal is capable of language when we still no so little about 'brain capacity' seems, premature.
Well, or you as employer could be fully aware that Konami gives fake bad reviews, and then you can get a whole bunch of awesome game developers for cheap!

You, as an ex-konami employee, could even let potential employers know about this ahead of time, and back it up with evidence.
In other news: West funds oppressive Arab states. Really, if we didn't want them spying on people, we shouldn't be giving them all that oil money. Funding terrorists is illegal, why is funding oppressive governments OK and then it's suddenly not OK when they spend that money to oppress people?
I mean, I'd definitely take the money.
Is the latency so bad to Singapore?
That doesn't seem to support IPv6 at all. And doesn't let you do much with a parsed address either.
Any specialized reason for Mumbai data center? Latency?
Exactly. Smoke and mirrors. They want to shift the embarrassment away from their own fuckup.
Mostly a style preference, but for one thing it emphasizes that A is a flip-flop. Keeping them separate this way makes it easier if one should change a flip flop to a wire later.
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Can you give an example of what you're talking about here by omitting certain words?
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> I have admin access to my work PC, but not the Administrator password

I am not sure if I understand this. Does the machine have two different admin accounts, once of which you have access to?
I am often both requesting and receiving verbal problems related to the software I maintain (an Engineering simulation and analysis tool). When receiving a problem verbally is to slow the other person down by challenging any assumptions they may be making. By asking them to clarify it allows me to build a mental model of the problem before at a sustainable pace and also helps them identify a bad assumption they may be making.

When I am asking someone else to be the rubber duck I strive to highlight any assumptions I am making at each step of defining the problem. If I don't do this the other person will usually struggle to keep up.
This is cool! To really make the overhead tiny, include an inplace implementation of XTEA (under 1KB decryption).

XTEA is not a military grade algo (but there's only been a partial attack on reduced rounds). All in all the overhead can come in under 2KB in all.
There was a small discussion about it on the Rust reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6h5mht/system_program...
Funnily enough drag and drop was also introduced by Apple for iOS 11 (at least on iPad) - needless to say I'd prefer the native solution.
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(Sorry for being pedantic)
All sound advise. Much of this is covered by Jan Grey's great blog [1].

However I'm disappointed seeing the ancient Cyclone IV compared to a the current seven series. A fairer comparison would refer to Cyclone V, which uses the ALM, kind of a LUT6+ (that is, can sometimes even be a LUT7 or 8). This has an important impact on the optimization considered.

[1] http://fpgacpu.org
Walking away is a bug if you consider a single deal - it's always better to get something rather than nothing.

However, if you zoom out and consider the optimal deal-making strategy over multiple deals, then walking away can be a good strategy. For example, a used car salesman would rationally walk away from a deal if they believed it's likely they can sell a car later for a better price.

If you consider multiple deals then you can also consider the concept of your reputation. This is information that other parties may have about you when they enter a negotiation in the future. You may rationally wish to make a sacrifice on a present deal in order to alter your reputation, to improve your outcomes in future detals.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
> You can call 'runas' via an API at code level that allows you to specify a password.

Wait, then where does the whole UAC thing comes from??
Having not really used Discord, what about it is better to you?
There are good points to keeping Pulitzers for full time investigative reporters. But I'm not comfortable reserving the word "journalist" for a professional caste. The U.S. Constitution recognizes that written speech is an inalienable right. I think language and culture should as well. That is, a journalist is someone who decides to write about topical things.

So I think writing a topical piece does make you a journalist, though perhaps not one qualified for prestigious awards.
What do you think about France? It looks like a good, first approximation of your proposal, many people defend worker-owned businesses here, "service public citoyen" (public benefit corporations), it's difficult to amass wealth (the only rich are from inheritance) and would unionize the hell against powerful corporations if Apple were born here. Drawback: We don't have Apple, we have DailyMotion and people don't aim to become huge enough to compete against Silicon Valley startups.

I don't like being entrepreneur in this context personally, but the startup ecosystem is thriving in Paris and Lyon and I sure hope the current generation is about to issue some major players. I personally fail to see how they can be profitable with our tax levels, social obligations and regulations, but it may happen.

List of hot startups in France: http://www.eu-startups.com/2017/02/10-french-startups-to-loo...
> He no longer controls Oculus, and hence can't impact the world

That makes absolutely no sense. Palmer Luckey has a vast fortune thanks to selling, he can easily impact the world depending on what he chooses to do with it.
Do you have examples of key guys getting poached in the Japanese market? From my experience here most people tend to stay a long time or move on their own will (not as often as US IMO though)
Complete nonsense. That you actually believe this instead of the much more plausible explanations are beyond me.
He didn't make any of those assumptions. The latter is probably the most common misapprehension about what he said, in fact.
There is also CPAU where you can store the elevated command as a sort of batch file
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Just making it clickable to link to the relevant post would be enough IMO. I never knew the black bar principle myself.
Assuming knowledge is not the way to go.
I would be interesting to know if this is due to their
Kramer-vs-Kramer situation or it is simply their new policy.
>You could just as well say, "You don't have to be employed to be in a business office, ergo a workplace cannot be a workplace under all conditions."

False equivalency, the vast majority of people in a business office on a day to day basis are employees of that business office.

LinkedIn is a /recruiting website/. Unemployed people are a key part of it's core demographic.
Because mobile internet is slow and that'd be the difference between 300ms and 600ms.
20 year bash user and recent Powershell convert here. Powershell has proper things like profiles and aliases, cool stuff like being able to cd and rm the Environment and Registry keys like files. cmd has none of those.

(Plus powershells structured output so you can use 'where' and 'select' and 'get-member' rather than scraping with regexs. )
>then you better believe you'd get busted the same way this guy did.

Yep, I /totally/ agree with you. Still doesn't make LinkedIn an extension of the workplace.

Please think about what that means for at least one second. For most software engineers, if LinkedIn is an extension of the workplace, then by the wording of their employment contract (which invariably includes IP ownership clauses for everything done in their capacity as an employee), their employer owns all their content on LinkedIn, and could request it any time.

That potentially makes it very hard for software engineers to use LinkedIn on a private account to look for a new job without their boss knowing.
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>Sure, fine, if you don't like doing those things, then you are free to join your own private organization and decide for yourself on how to do collective bargaining, and all that.

I'm struggling to see what your problem is. If you don't like the idea of democratic control over your workplace and the commensurately higher pay that goes with it you've always been free to go and work somewhere else where they let you "wear many hats".

It seems more like that you want to prevent others from doing it:

>Forcing people to join unions is, thankfully, illegal in many states.

i.e. you're thankful groups of people who negotiate with other groups of people and form voluntary agreements are prevented from doing so.
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Yeah, there are formal reference letters in Germany. According to law, you can write anything truthful, but according to court descisions, you have to do it "benevolently" and without "creating obstacles" for the employee to find a new job. There are frequently lawsuits about this.

One way to say something negative is to omit certain words, as you said. If your praise is less than exuberant, it is also a warning sign. Some years ago, employers used to mark that someone is in a union by ending their signature with a hook to the left. If you wrote someone is sociable, that was code for being alcoholic.

The funny thing is, the law states explicitly that the letter of reference must be unambiguous, and must not contain any hidden meaning.

I think this whole system is ridiculous and ripe for reform, but I don't think this will happen.
Sorry actually - I think it's been buried because I didn't advertise it as "Show HN".

I think you should probably repost it as an actual Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html), it's totally worth it & a massive game changer IMO.
The Conservatives did so poorly because they had a lacklustre campaign, robotic leader, ill thought out policies and some brexit backlash.

I find it hard to believe the Labour left has shifted the public zeitgeist as they didn't win in a situation that could have been a walkover for a more moderate Labour.
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