skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, look at Microsoft's $150M investment in Apple in 1997:

https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/20/what-ever-became-of-micr...

By 2001, MSFT had 18 million shares of Apple, sold by 2003. Later a 2:1 and then a 7:1 stock split, would give them a value of $36 billion today (if my math and the article's math are correct), but was sold for a relatively small profit instead.

It's harder than you think to hold onto a massive amount of shares in a growing company.
So: store the files in a database, expose them via FUSE, bypass FUSE and access the database?
But what about the millions of people with poor family/friends? Are they supposed to just roll over and die if they get sick?

And don't say 'but charity', we already know charity is massively insufficient.
Wouldnt, also, in certain cases, the ash mix with the soil and make a more hardened clay-like mix which would harden and prevent a certain amount of erosion?
Ouch I did some research and found

"Mammals, for instance, have an average species "lifespan" from origination to extinction of about 1 million years, although some species persist for as long as 10 million years."

Evolution: Library: The Current Mass Extinction - PBS
www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/2/l_032_04.html

So yeah, it would be a shame if space aliens visited and encoded a message to us in saber toothed tigers or trilobites.

Also I have no religious hangups, I'm a direct descendant of the ancestor of amoebas or whatever exactly, and if the message were encoded into whatever makes an amoeba an amoeba, well, its definitely gone now.

I think it would be hard to "infect" a species with stored data. They'd have to burn more protein to replicate that extra DNA material, which would provide a competitive advantage to any individual not carrying the data, so its not going to last long. Even thinking outside the box with a virus, wouldn't smaller ones have better odds of survival?
ext4 uses btrees for the directory index, so accessing files by name is just as fast as manually splitting it into a prefix-based directory tree.

Searching by filename on the other hand can be much faster with a prefix tree because directories only allow linear scans, not range-based ones.
This may not make much difference to these benchmarks, but these commands and the nearly-equivalent:

$ time python2 -c exit

cause Python to execute the following script:

exit

This will look up the exit function, and then do nothing with it before the script exits due to reaching the end of the file. Interestingly, the representation of this function is set to generate the message that reminds you how to get out of the interactive interpreter if you type "exit".

You can get the results you want with:

$ time python -c ''

meaning: Load Python, run a completely empty script, and clean up.
Why do you speak of unencrypted HTTP? Who cares? Only AES-256 encrypted data is sent and it's decoded locally. You could publish it on the front page of the New York Times (if anybody reads that anymore) and be secure, because you are publishing encrypted content.

It's really unclear what your point is here.
Friedman, the Blockchain, and the Coming Monetary Revolution
No. You own it in a business way.
Thing is if you're solving a problem you know actually exists and isn't some imagined problem gleaned from a brainstorming activity people will pay for it. Far too often what I've seen is people pitching solutions to problems they imagine I have.
Egypt's parliament approves Red Sea islands transfer to Saudi Arabia
Sooo....sounds like you're about to become a school that takes money? Are you worried about regulation now?
> and if you're building on Gimp you're WAY past "from scratch". The bulk of it is already there.

This could be a good thing or a bad thing if major changes are needed.
A project of GIMP's size is a big ship to steer.
This is interesting, but what's wrong with "Track Changes"? (a feature Word had for at least 10+ years now).
I believe for most people that is more than enough for version control purposes.
For tech people that actually know what Git is and how to use it, I bet they'd want real Git integration, or they'd choose to store the document in a different (more easily managed by Git) format such as .md or .html.
It won't stop the army of fact-checkers debunking articles for having no reliable sources, and denouncing them on social media. Social being both the main distribution for fake news, and also the platform where articles are routinely ridiculed and mocked. Something like Wales' WikiTribune[1] are a response to fake news and propagandists, and are a welcome step to try and address the issue. Facebook are also up in arms about this and are trying to spot fake news either algorithmically or using a paid taskforce of highly trained fact checkers (the mechanical turk approach). Reddit also warns users of posts which are regarded as fake news and warns users to take them with a pinch of salt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitribune
Well it's in response to your rebuttal.

> Where is the revolution? A common thread among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is that the revolution is coming... except it never does.

A technology doesn't need to have all of its potential realized in the first few years of its existence.

> Where is the disruption? Bitcoin is a smidgeon of a fraction of the commerce activity happening on the internet

The Internet was a fraction of the commerce activity happening relative to Sears / JC Penney / Walmart. Yet clearly only a few decades later all of these are disrupted by the Internet.

> bitcoin remains difficult and relatively unsafe to use (for the non-technical masses) and provides zero benefits for most people.

...as was the Internet for the first few decades.

> Contrast these facts on the ground with the never-ending blockchain hype and the result is overall disillusionment with blockchains in general.

This compares directly to, "Have you ever heard of radio?"

Literally every dismissal of cryptocurrencies you made would have applied exactly to the Internet in the early '90s or prior. There are far more similarities than "people were skeptical of both." It's totally fine to take your position but it's unrealistic to claim these as reasons it can't succeed.
browser? any blockers/extensions?
How is it more regressive than the status quo where you have to move to a different country? Moving states is less difficult, moving counties is even less difficult, moving cities is even less difficult, etc. The smaller you go, the less difficult it becomes.
OK, so use any other example.

What if Florida decides to roll back gay marriage?

What if Alabama rescinds the Civil Rights Act?

Are those who can't afford to move supposed to just deal with it?
I'm somewhat disappointed that they just used a feature in a consumer program to do this. I expected it to be some "collaboration", ala " ferrero x hp ".
>Oh well come on now. Don't be too dramatic.

Maybe a little but we have reached an impasse. I just don't see the world like you do, and I know you can't provide evidence for the kind of generalizations you made.

>I work with and under plenty of great men and a few awesome women, as I've stated previously in this thread that you have chosen to ignore

I didn't ignore it. There was simply nothing I could add to that. Of course you work with good men and good women. You work in tech, one of the most progressive industries around.
it's basically storing in memory vs storing on a disk

it's not sqlite vs filesystem it's memory storage vs disk storage
This is what I'm afraid of. By far the most reacted/responded to messages are the Happy Birthday/Anniversary shoutouts, the @channel letting everyone know the coffee machine is working again or donuts in the kitchen, memes, etc.

When our DB is being updated, or our staging instance is gonna be down briefly, or "Here's an article about security updates just released for x," there isn't huge engagement. You know, stuff that actually affects my work as a dev.

I really don't want to see highlights of "@channel can someone dog sit for the weekend? here are pictures!" or similar things that aren't pertinent to work.
You don't even have to produce fake news. If you want to drive discussion on a topic, how much would it cost to hire people to sit at home and comment/upvote/downvote in various portals? Those are chokepoints for information; control them, and you can control the flow.

Correct the Record got 10 million dollars in funding last year. That goes a looong way. It wouldn't be surprising if disinformation campaigns were rampant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
I agree about that specific example, but I think a lot of people are missing the point.

> Developers own the products they build for customers, and charge a monthly fee for access.

So, what you're seeing is what a single user is expecting to pay. This is not like a contracting / free-lance website where someone hires you under contract to do some development work.

Instead, you create the SaaS or whatever, and then you have at least x number of people that are willing to pay $y/month for said service; your market is not limited to the people who use this website, too.

I think it's really just a way for people to find what projects people want, and what a select few are willing to pay for it.
The freebsd foundation gets over a million dollars a year. That isn't enough to beat out Windows or even linux. (I know linux has a foundation as well and I presume has a larger budget, I just don't know the numbers off hand)
Germany plans to fingerprint children, spy on personal messaging
Well... that was fast. After the absolute disaster that was 10.0, I think they should have really reconnected with the community to restore their direction. Then, give themselves enough time to implement those changes.

The linked post makes it pretty clear that this is NOT a production ready release. 9.10 continues to be the workhorse. Did they just want to reach a new milestone for the optics?
50GB of files in the 50KB-inf range can be at most 10e5 files, not 10e7. (10e7 would be 5TB of 50KB files)
In fact, this takes exactly 11/5 rolls on average: 6/5 rolls to get a non-6, and then 1 more.
Private Tech Prices Jump in Secondary Market – The Information
Some additional results on other games in the blog post:

https://www.vicarious.com/general-game-playing-with-schema-n...
You are concerned with a compromised server? If I control your server, I can harvest whatever a user types in, even on an HTTPS page.
That's also a meaningless argument. It's true of any turing-complete language.
Wait you mean you don't like the desktop web view that uses 12 gigs of RAM?
Grimoire Lab-GitHub Stats on Steroids
This is the most useful resource https://metacademy.org/
Drive.AI’s Reiley: Self-Driving Rollout Will Be Gradual – The Information
The question is, under what degradation conditions (time, bacteria, etc), and what other threat vector does the material bring to animal life.
>Like the food, German life is quite bland as well.

American life is bland! I'm not sure we actually know a way to arrange society that allows for most people to have exciting lives instead of bland or miserable ones.
Yes, it's a free rider problem, and yes, you can do it provided you don't surrender your German citizenship.
I find Krita to be a more user-friendly program than The Gimp, though it's more painting-oriented: https://krita.org/
Maybe Broad Institute, Harvard, MIT, shouldn't be tax free "non-profits" while TrainRepair Inc is paying 35% tax rate?
Ask HN: Evolution of websites over time
I’ve always been quite curious on see how sites evolve. I still remember how Yahoo looked like few years ago and it’s super different on how looks like now.

I’m pretty curious to know if I’m the only one who does this kind of things?

Do you think it would be useful to see the history (in snapshots) of a certain webpage to see how it evolved over time? If you don’t know any solution that does it, how do you imagine it?
Coding a Platformer in Under 7 Minutes
Any details available on the processes involved?
I've been successfully using the WeeChat Slack plugin which leverages the native Slack over Websocket vs. an IRC bridge.

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
Could you expand on that any? What's your basis for that belief?
Why bother? Just leave Slack open in a browser tab. Job done.
Note that HackerNews?MoreLikeSlackerNews has much less entropy than j-9yh`qw#j54-JIR$
Yes, but that's the only error it suppresses, and that's because "not existing" isn't really an error for a tool that's trying to delete something. In my example foo/bar existed but I didn't have permissions to delete it, and as you'll see it printed out that error.
AFAIK, for most tasks GNU/Linux is already good enough. Look for example, at a successful project in Munich to replace Windows for public employees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux.

The main problem is people do not want to learn a new interface or have programs running only on Windows.
Just wondering but what should you do if you decide to go with Python 3 and find a library you want to use that isn't compatible and you are short on time?
Using a CDN is only a problem if it's compromised, which is unlikely to be a threat for most applications. You can avoid this entirely by using Subresource Integrity:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

It looks like the developer for this page copied the CDNJS links at some point but didn't do so consistently and later commented out the SRI portion of the jQuery tag:

<!--integrity="sha256-hwg4gsxgFZhOsEEamdOYGBf13FyQuiTwlAQgxVSNgt4="-->
> Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the "social services" offered (or not)?

Because it creates collective action problems. Countries can exercise their sovereign powers to control commerce and the flow of people so as to reinforce their chosen social welfare systems. If they offer universal healthcare, for example, they can control immigration to manage the burden on their system (and keep out people who only move in when they get sick or to retire). U.S. states are precluded by the Constitution from doing that. Say Marylanders decide to pay higher taxes to support generous social services, and Virginians decide to stick to lower taxes and no service. There is nothing Maryland can do about free-loading Virginians who cross the border as soon as they get sick.[1] Likewise, say Virginia decides to reintroduce child labor, which gives Virginia a competitive advantage in producing cheap consumer goods. There is nothing Maryland can do to stop the flow of trinkets from Virginia undermining good Maryland companies whose prices are higher because they don't use child labor.

It's helpful to view the Constitution's Commerce Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause as a two-pronged economic construct. One prong says that the U.S. is a totally free market internally for goods and labor. The other says that the federal government can intervene to address any collective problem actions that creates. To the extent that the provision of social services has knock-on economic effects (and it has major knock-on effects), it comports with the Constitution's design for those things to get kicked up to the Federal government.

[1] See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supco....
https://sci-hub.io/10.1039/C7PY00236J
https://sci-hub.io/10.1039/C7PY00118E
https://sci-hub.io/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01492
And probably less than some others.
Fossil suggests ancient mammals migrated from Florida to California
They use sampling to "preserve a fixed ratio of positive to negative examples." I wonder what the ratio is... isn't the technique w/ class imbalances to up-sample/subsample to get a 50/50 ratio so your classifier generalizes?

On the topic of feature engineering: I think the use of those inline-emojis on a message are a good indicator of importance. That could be another feature for the logistic regression.

Overall seems like a fun modeling challenge. It's nice to see people not just throw deep learning at the problem...
So you object to the terms 'dot' and 'cross' product? They signify nothing beyond the notation itself.

Also, I use 'bool' everywhere in various langauges to denote a value that is 'true or false'. Should we change all usages of it to 'bit' or 'flag' or 'TwoValues'? It's an operator in all respects, and calling it 'bool' creates no confusion.
I agree that "the west" has a moral obligation to ensure people in other parts of the world are not starving to death. But: a 20-year old from Tunesia or Morocco is not starving to death in his home country, nope.
Let me rephrase less aggressively:

If you pick a "zero" tolerance, that's saying your measurement can actually be zero and there's no need to improve from that point. If you pick a measurement that can only asymptotically approach zero, then you are recognizing that improvement is always possible.
Google Will Buy Modular Homes to Address Housing Crunch
> First I'll say this isn't easy to answer in concrete terms. But someone will one day.

This is not unreasonable, but you have to admit that it is a far cry from imminent revolution and a key reason why people are skeptical of this technology especially considering the bottomless pit of grandiose hype that accompanies it.

> One concept would be to raise funds that can allow you arbitrage at a scalable level. Request funds (ICO) and have the smart contract enable a certain subset of those funds for your organization to use to arbitrage other crypto's. Profits are spread across stakeholders based on their investment, represented as the tokens they generated in the ICO.

Ok, but all you've really described here is a higher level abstraction for playing the cryptomarkets rather than a useful product or service that is enabled by the technology itself. If you aren't interested in gambling your money on the cryptomarkets then this idea is useless.
Yeah, the first thing Highlights brought up for me this morning was some image posted in our company's #random channel. Uh, thanks?
how much would we all have to spend to reverse the re-annexation of crimea? clearly its not enough yet. or lets shoot for a resolution of the whole syria/iraq/israel/lebannon/etc thing. how much would that cost?

does that get paid to the US directly or do we all fund our own militaries that work...under US control? or based on our own ideas?

i'm just trying to figure out how this is supposed to work.
Stack Overflow is riddled with questions from people asking how to do incredibly basic things "in jQuery."
Many filesystems are logged and provide atomic operations. You can build multi-step transactions on top of them with various operations. And with CoW filesystems you can even get read consistency. Oh, and optimistic locking also is an option.
I guess it is my turn to be that guy.

None of those graphs should be line graphs. There is no continuous X variable.
How to reduce churn: unknown practical tips to retain SaaS clients
Is that fair though? If something is only worth 5 to me and 40 to you, and the cost of development is 45 - neither of us along can afford the feature, but if we put aside out different contributions the total is enough to make both of us happy, or neither of are. Your model both of use get nothing when we both could be happy on a different model.
A static website on S3.
> and the other fancier dice didn't pan out in practice.

For wargaming I think what happened is that “special dice and more detailed simulation” moved into “computerized simulation” (which allows a lot more depth with less player-managed overhead) in the late 1980s through the 1990s, and most of that whole end of the hobby left the tabletop world.
This seems intuitive. Fake news relies on people's fears, assumptions and misconceptions, so it's not like creators need to spend time actually researching or reporting, which doubtless makes it cheaper.

This is not to say this article isn't useful—it's good to get some confirmation. My only qualm is that someone selling a service to create fake content is by definition untrustworthy, so the prices they list might be unrealistically low.
Karpeles may or may not be criminally liable for his actions, so maybe not "exactly as much."
Discovery of otter fossil in Mexico reconciles a palaeozoogeographic mystery
Wikipedia page of Brazil Nuts tree says this:

In Brazil, it is illegal to cut down a Brazil nut tree. As a result, they can be found outside production areas, in the backyards of homes and near roads and streets. The fruit containing nuts are very heavy and rigid, and they pose a serious threat to vehicles and people passing under the tree. Brazil nuts sink in fresh water, which can cause clogging of waterways in riparian areas.
XCoins.io allows users to buy Bitcoin instantly
Sure it's a way to control the flow of bullshit, but the folk at YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will never do it until everything is burning. In that sense, they are as robotic as the people who buy into the fake news.
They're on Sci-Hub, for the desperate. But, just glancing at them, they look legitimate. ACS especially doesn't accept low quality stuff (including some of my own work..)
It's very different from a bank, primarily because consumers/payers don't deposit anything, they keep their bitcoins on their device.

Only merchants, who want to receive extremely cheap Bitcoin payments -- the fees are set by the market, but a thousandth of a cent is completely reasonable -- can choose to trust one or more issuers. They may redeem/"cash in" the payments they've received at any time; the more often they do this the less the risk but the higher the fees, but they choose their own risk profile. And if the worst comes to the worst, merchants lose a week/month of income (if they choose to redeem every week/month), the issuers dies, and the merchants will probably survive (assuming the lost income is not fatal to their business). So the bad issuers are flushed very quickly, and merchants can adjust their risk/fee ratio as they desire.
Scientists make waves with black hole research: Water bath simulation
Wikipedia page for Brazil Nuts tree says this:

In Brazil, it is illegal to cut down a Brazil nut tree. As a result, they can be found outside production areas, in the backyards of homes and near roads and streets. The fruit containing nuts are very heavy and rigid, and they pose a serious threat to vehicles and people passing under the tree. Brazil nuts sink in fresh water, which can cause clogging of waterways in riparian areas.
Baking delicious cloud instances
Right so as I said, do a hostname lookup: if you get a result (ie not nxdomain) then it's ok, if not, it isn't registered, is a non existent tld, or has no records, all of which mean mail will fail.
You mean like a Sybil Attack? You might be right about a certain culture of sockpuppetry on places like Reddit where it's actually trivial to setup multiple accounts under different IPs and then upvote all your stuff. It's no secret you can pay for services where people do this for you and 'astroturf' your chosen topic and make it seem more popular than it actually is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

https://np.reddit.com/r/shills/comments/4kdq7n/astroturfing_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M
For most purposes I think that's basically academic.
Oh but it is? Do you use the GIMP?

Photoshop's content-aware fill first appeared as a third-party open-source plugin for the GIMP.

While one certainly can't equate the two I have found GIMP works well for a broad array of digital imagery tasks... just like Photoshop.

Much of Photoshop's dominance has to do with the network effects of Adobe's ubiquitous ecosystem as much as the comprehensiveness of their tooling.
> tailored allergenic effect on one particular ethnic group

Happily, this is impossible.
Here's a link to the paper as well (ICML 2017 preprint)

https://www.vicarious.com/img/icml2017-schemas.pdf
JavaScript Debugging Tips Part III – Advanced Google Chrome Developer Tools