skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my original thought. Zuckerberg hired people to scale facebook to what it has become today.
The Little Letter with the Big Mouth
Office comes with a spreadsheet diff tool since 2013 and I think there might be something like that for Word too.
I think we underestimate the importance of a starry sky for the development of intelligence. A species looking up at complete blackness will probably never develop higher reasoning or curiosity.
Algolia:  from Impossible to Inevitable
Thanks, they're on my reading list!
I worked for a company that did studies to get FDA approval for a medical device. The company was very professional and well managed. But THIS is what they were lacking. I always thought they need something like github and Version control for the constantly changing documents.
Concentration spans drop when online ads pop up
Could you elaborate why predicting stock prices is an invalid example?
Well, you certainly could, but that wasn't the argument presented or responded to. The argument you put forth was Technology's advancement was due to IT businesses, and what would the world be like if there were more Unions; but this is not really a sensible proposition because major technological advances, indeed the majority of which are driving the backbone of the world economy and technology as we know it, were developed without any of the incentives provided by a business structure. Union or not is irrelevant to such forces because they operate outside the realm of business.

The idea that FOSS would be quashed under a mandatory unionized economy is not what was being discussed, and I'm not sure of the relevance of such a theoretical world in the context of what was said. It's tangential at best.

What was being discussed, the advancement of technology as we've seen it, has happened independent of how employees are organized and employed. As long as there are inventive persons looking to try something new, there will be technological advancements.
> Is that hypocritical though? Sounds more like calling something bad bad, and something good good, even if it comes from the same entity. Which is something we should strive for maybe?

I can answer that with simply: not if the good is reinforcing the bad.

Because then it is hypocritical by definition.
When I was a child, I sketched a pager with a keyboard and a front screen; at the time I'd seen nothing like it - I think I invented Text Messaging!

Thats my story and immm stickin' to it. Wish I kept that sketch though...

Great article, btw, quite detailed
The problem is what birds look like is very well defined compared to text. As in, there are many types of birds, but each type has a "consistent image" but there are infinite variations of text
> Am I the exception? Can't be so, if most linux distros have adopted systemd.

By that logic why use Linux in the first place when Windows is so much more popular?

If it's anything like other projects from the same source systemd is great when it works and impossible to debug when it doesn't. Which is exactly what I came to OSS to get away from.
>It was very frustrating to try reasoning about performance in Haskell due to its laziness.

Conversely, I find it hard to achieve the same performance with strict code. I think it's likely a matter of familiarity.

>Haskell is notorious in my mind for being quite easy to write obscenely slow code in.

The standard prelude is flawed in many ways. Haskell 2020 will hopefully fix this. In the meantime: the recursion-schemes library might be of great use.
These "computers" are just experiments in a lab right now. The qubits are prepared and read out by highly specialized equipment that differs depending on the substrate being pursued (e.g., lasers for trapped ions, cryogenic amplifiers for SQUIDs, etc.). To make an analogy with classical computation, imagine wiring the very first transistors together by hand and computing 2+2 using a voltage supply and an oscilloscope.
Sure, but it becomes troublesome when they stop bothering to look.
Patents were originally created to protect inventers with little capital from large companies with more capital pushing them out of the market before they could become established. It's really sad how far the paten system has come.
British Columbia is also 92% hydro but more expensive at 0.08$CAD/kWh to 0.12$CAD/kWh
I forgot about the Atoms completely, are they even 64bit now?
Look at every other venue for black bars... sports, military, flags at half mast... they never have a person's name on them. That just isn't how it's done.
This looks very, very cool. Thanks for posting.
Viharo has been described as pedoish and a stalker because he's doxed and stalked Wikipedia editors who are far younger than him, including teenagers. He's 50 years old, but his website stalks editors in their teens. Viharo has whole sections on his website following these editors, recording everything about them, even their taste in computer games. Its creepy. He should just move on and stop stalking wikipedians he holds responsible for his ban. Why take Wikipedia so seriously?
http://icewater.io/ has about 250m malware samples clustered using using something similar. My talk about it from Shmoocon in 2016 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXzzbr4lqw
There will definitely be fees, but they will be set through competition, as opposed to defined by VISA/Mastercard at will.
This is a shallow equals, though. I can guarantee that we will differ in implementation specifics.

This sounds like a good idea on paper, but the reality is that most of the value of a project is in the implementation details. There are countless meetings for each individual feature.

I'm pretty sure the above description is how a lot of the end users (clients) are seeing this. Their contribution amounts are also insanely low (orders of magnitude lower than I would dare to value some of their projects).

I don't know how contracts or SLAs (if any) apply here, but this just seems like a good way to get yourself on the hook for getting paid (I'm guessing) a tenth of minimum wage.

Source: I do this sort of contract work for a living.
Will Money, Gods, Nations, Companies Pass the Test of Time?
YC-backed Py is a Duolingo style learn-to-code app
Many others have said it already, but I'll say it again:

1. You have a fantastic product

2. Many potential users won't accept to have their documents stored "in the cloud" (even though those same users share those same documents by email with zero security, all the time)

3. Offer a stand alone version and sell a licence (or a rent, think the former Google Search Appliance)

4. Charge an arm and a leg for it -- think Oracle pricing

5. Get rich!
On the other hand, the probability of life arising in the middle of a void seems relatively small. We are made of dead stars.
I agree about the parallelism but you have to understand the design methodology.

Your example is somewhat pointless. The code is written to create the HW not the other way around. I can't feed it just any crap.

You want parallelism you have to code it.

Zynq would actually be what I use! You start with SW. The ARM core is not that quick. You will use the FPGA to accelerate the tough parts. You may think you will have throughput issues but you have options via the high performance AXI ports. Your FPGA modules access the data in memory via DMAs.

KNOWING what part of the algorithm you need to accelerate actually suits FPGAs, you grab the HLS and start coding.

You have to look at some of the libraries to understand what abstraction level you are working at:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado/integrat...

Video, matrices, linear algebra, encoders/decoders. Etc.
I can string them together in the same way I would string HDL IP.

The advantage is I can run the algorithm in C++ first and test it all, under the assumption that the HLS library has the equivalent HW version for synthesis.

There is still a lot of HW work involved. For instance in your example with A used twice. One module would calculate B_out by reading A prior to changing its value then you would have to start the C_out module. You would need a way to coordinate the two modules to share the same memory at A. But they would be running in parallel, just not started at the same time.
because of the hidden magic. Linus has a great message on a mailing list somewhere on this. Basically it boils down to: don't have hidden magic in important OS parts, it's bad and helps nobody except for people that explicitly want to use c++.
I'm with Ayyadurai. He did invent "email". BTW I invented "The Steam Engine" (c) 2017 [1]. James Watt? Pssh, never heard of him!

[1] https://github.com/androm3da/the-steam-engine
Yeah it's a little confusing, I agree. "Your next side project" out of context sounds like you get to pick the project. Might be better to explain it as: "looking for a side project to work on that's worth money?"
An excellent summary. To me it flies in the face of UNIX' killer feature, it's simplicity. That it seems to be one guy pushing this barrow is worrying.
Yeah, I've personally been wanting something like that as well, but I wouldn't want to implement it. It would be something like 10% actually writing the system and 90% dealing with news outlets to actually get them on board.
I'm not sure there's a non-annoying way to bridge the problem. The semantics are just so different that there's a lot of friction that needs to be handled somewhere. (What does O_DIRECT mean in this context? What happens when someone decides to store files that are never normally closed?)

In some ways, the problem mirrors OR mappers. A lot of common cases can be handled, but there are always situations where you're confronted with the fact that relational logic just doesn't map cleanly to OO (or hierarchic storage).
Shame that they had to shut down.
I found the video linked at the bottom interesting too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo

I'd never heard of Laniakea before.
Granted, the DNS resolver is mainly to support networkd, because apparently some units might need to resolve a name.
Note that all of these links appear to concentrate on abstract computation principles analogous to learning about computation in a CS course. I don't think they actually describe the physical inner workings of a quantum computer.
Also research NAC [0] supplements. They work as a precursor to glutathione in the liver which is typically depleted during the course of alcohol consumption. Might only be effective for acute effects of alcohol though.

Edit: Also, make sure your friend is consuming coffee [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine

[1] http://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(17)30...
Question for those who know more than I do about this. According to [0] the sun will be about 97% obscured at my house. Is it worth traveling for that last 3%?

0: http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017...
This Filmmaker Installed a Video Camera into His Right Eye Socket
These threads wouldn’t happen if there were enough information carried in the bar itself (e.g. text, linking, hovering, etc.).

I feel weird that this thread is marked "[flagged]”. I’d read the post about Chuck’s passing yesterday, noticed the bar today, and still didn’t realize that’s what it was for. This thread is what answered that question for me.
I have have a hard time seeing what there is to mock about your opinion of shells. I absolutely consider them languages - better at some things, worse at others.
Ah last I saw the acm post it was around 14ish - meh
I just signed up to 'solve this problem' as it's something I'm currently working on.

Is there a particular reason why you're looking for an InDinero replacement?
Revoking JWTs
We can do both. You log the large valuable trees, and burn the underbrush. A healthy tree will survive a small forest file without problems and it makes it easier for the loggers to get in to cut the valuable trees they want. This assumes you are doing selective logging and not clear cutting.
Sorry, I didn't think about the arrow functions being used in class property syntax too. :) So yes, they do help with event handlers, I stand corrected.
> Apple Pay Cash is US-only

Thank you, I missed that point. I guess it's understandable given the environment but still I wish Apple would have gone for something more ambitious like the original Apple Pay.
Stubbing and Mocking in Java with the Spock Testing Framework
I wonder why there is no bigger adoption of launchd. It's open source and works fine. Plenty of BSD's have it available for PID1 usage, and it doesn't have the feature creep most init replacements seem to grow on.
It is like a modern car engine which is just a sealed black box under the hood, full of electronics.

One of those fully open source sealed black boxes?

I mean, for my simple uses, what is wrong with `sudo service nginx restart`, or `sudo killall nginx`?

How is 'systemctl restart nginx' any harder? service is specified as 'Run System V Init Script' specifically in the man page, and there was a transition period where some scripts still were in /etc/init.d before all of them had been converted to systemd units, so at times both service and systemctl would have been present and doing slightly different things. So it makes a lot of sense that they didn't give systemctl the same name (see https://linux.die.net/man/8/service).

Why do you think killall wouldn't work? It's present by default on my Fedora machine here...
HIDDEN COBRA – North Korea’s DDoS Botnet Infrastructure
Some stake in Alibaba was required to be sold off during be IPO. The person she hired to be the liaison with Alibaba was able to keep over 100 million extra shares. And the deal to sell a huge stake was before she came on board. So that's not her fault at all.
Shadow raises $57M for its cloud computing service for gamers
You don't pay your doctor $75 for sticking a needle in your arm, you pay him for his knowledge not to stick the needle in the wrong place.

Looks like we've got full circle considering this same logic was applied to devs for ages.
>GHC honcho Simon-Peyton Jones saying the next Haskell will be strict,

I think all he meant that strictness was an interesting paradigm that would differentiate a language enough to justify its existence alongside Haskell.

>Following on and presumably related to that PureScript is strict

Partly also to distinguish from GHCJS. Laziness in a strict language is really hard and PureScript generates semi-readable JavaScript.
Become Your Teammates' Rubber Duck
Sure, that's the law. But we were talking philosophy. Should a comatose person vote? How about someone who hasn't the wits to draw the 'x' on the ballot? There's a whole spectrum. At some point, the potential for abuse of such people is as large as the harm in preventing them from voting.

See how complicated it is? A bunch of legal citations doesn't come near the issue.
Ask HN: Am I experiencing wage collusion, or otherwise illegal behavior?
I work for a ~200k person global firm that employs external recruiters. The two biggest recruiting firms in the area, Veredus and TekSystems, won't work with me because my firm employs them.

If these were internal recruiters at two companies and they agreed not to hire each other's workers, that would obviously be wage collusion - it would be an agreement that limits employee mobility within the market. Having third party recruiters that won't recruit your people de facto creates these same conditions between all parties working with this recruiter. Recruiters, rather than being information brokers that improve function operation of the market, become representatives of a cartel - the collusion is just one party removed.

This has directly adversely affected my employment opportunities and thus negotiating power, where I have been denied an interview for two (software dev) jobs explicitly because of my employer.

Is this legal? If so, wtf? If not, anybody want to start a class action lawsuit?
I honestly was not trolling. Maybe naive, maybe posting without thinking about it much, but not trolling
The OP isn't surprised they don't use E2E encryption - that's mostly reserved for the most security-conscious use cases, because as you say, there's a lot of usability to gain from having read access from the server. However, at-rest encryption is a total no-brainer.
If You Are in Business with Others, You Should Have a Good ‘Prenup’ in Place
Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
Yes for sure. I'm much more interested in the former as well. I have read and commented on a number of Yahoo and Mayer comments but yeah seems like I'm always only interested in the failing ship part
Now what alt tags are for and won't work on mobile.
I wonder if they worry about their Climate Change denial impacting their credibility in other areas. If they'll happily take money from fossil fuel interests to try to undermine the scienctific community, who won't they attack for pay?
There are many defensible arguments against government programs from across the social and political spectrums, but they don't come from the Heritage Foundation. They have a severe beyond reason bias against government.
For some great beginner/advanced beginner level stuff, check out the Veritaseum channel on youtube (search 'quantum computing' within the videos list). The interviews with Andrea Morello of UNSW are especially good.

And PBS Infinite Series, also on youtube, has some good mathematical explanations of quantum computation and relevant algorithms.
260M is ridiculous. But other employees shouldn't be bothered. Her money doesn't come from some pool of employee money. It's straight from the bottom line of the shareholders.
If you were here in a space suit, would you be able to see anything at all? I would think not, but am not sure.
> Also, the only reason you find boolean operators and normal arithmetic operators easy to understand intuitively is due to exposure.

I'm not so sure about this. A small child can easily understand "this candy AND that candy" vs "this candy OR that candy".

I don't see how any amount of explication will make a small child understand intuitively a Hadamard rotation.
Modi’s DeMo Gambit Failed: Costs Exceed Gains
The study doesn't differentiate between blowing through a stop sign and a rolling stop. You're drawing the conclusion you want, not what the data says.
That statistic (more trees than 100 years ago) is less impressive when you consider the baseline (1920's) had already clear-cut most of the old/ancient forests in the USA (hence the conservationist movement decades prior) during the gilded age. This is why almost all of the Appalachian Mountains and east coast are only newer-growth forests.

A better measure would be comparing current forest size to pre-European colonization of Americas, if it were possible.
I really like how Perl's Quantum::Entanglement [0] looks/feels/works. Said package's documentation also has some nifty examples of how it (and actual quantum programming) could be used. In particular:

$gas = entangle(1, 'bottled', 1, 'released');
# gas now in states |bottled> + |released>

$cat_health = p_op($gas, 'eq', 'released',
sub {'Dead'},
sub {'Alive'});
# cat,gas now in states |Alive, bottled> + |Dead, released>

if ($cat_health eq 'Dead') {# again, outcome is probabilistic
# thus gas = |released>
}
else {
# thus gas = |bottled>
}

I don't know if this is "real" quantum programming, but it's pretty cool regardless.

[0]: http://search.cpan.org/~ajgough/Quantum-Entanglement-0.32/En...
Maybe, maybe not. Trees release moisture into the air (their roots gather this moisture from deep in the ground) which condenses into rain. So long as you get enough water from outside trees will increase the recycling of that water in the local area resulting in more rainfall than no trees.

This only works in specific situations though. I don't know if applies to the climate in India.
The basic summary is basically: Developers love systemd, it's much more "developer friendly" and the way it's laid out makes sense to them (e.g. your love of journalctl, which is bizzaro-world for me). No more thinking about ugly operating systems and those silly details!

Old school sysadmins and those who actually get their hands dirty with Linux systems under the hood despise it for what it is. It's the windowsfication of Linux, in my - and many others - opinions. A giant PID 1 that controls everything, re-implementing such basics as ntp and rm, is imo entirely anti-unix-like.

Systemd is great until it breaks. Once it breaks though, good luck. They've re-invented the wheel multiple times over, and as time goes on more and more things become part of monolithic systemd. If you do happen to find a weird bug, prepare to get yelled at and be forced to vigorously defend your bug report. The joke in the office is when Pulseaudio support gets added.
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That's a good point, I wasn't thinking of physical systems details. In that case, better resources would be ACM Communications' A Blueprint for Building a Quantum Computer[1] or D-Wave's Introduction to D-Wave Quantum Hardware article[2].

(I don't have a stance on D-Wave's legitimacy, but the article is illustrative either way).

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1. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/10/168172-a-blueprint-fo...

2. https://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series...
The difference between her and others is that she runs a silicon valley tech company - so of course you're going to see her name on HN and not the CEO of McKesson. Yahoo is a recurring, popular topic on this forum. So what is your point exactly?
Review: Best Case for 15“ Touch Bar MacBook Pro
I'm no expert, but YES!! Drive the miles to get to 100%. There is absolutely no comparison between 99% and 100%. They're just totally different beasts.
Show HN: How we access information is what makes it valuable or not
‘tipping’ controversy in China highlights gap in Apple’s cultural understanding
You've identified who suffers and who benefits from the reversing of value positions caused by deflation vs inflation.

But you haven't explained why its "worse"? So borrowers are disadvantaged compared to lenders (savers).

And wage earners are in a better position relative to wage payers.. ? That's what I take away from your statement.

But, one's ability to buy things seems to be improved...

Should we want an inflationary economy more college-tuition, healthcare-cost-like... or computing & software-like? Continually falling prices for all things computing related have done wonders for that industry no?

Would consumers be better or worse off having to spend less on food clothing housing energy? Would they have more or less disposable income with flat or falling prices?

Ok now assume increases in those costs... better or worse off? More or less disposable income?
Project Calico: What Is It and Where Does It Fit?
Hehe, one of those painless migrations ;)

At least you found the cause.
Don't act oblivious. The impetus for Eric Holder's hiring to investigate Uber's workplace environment was sexual harassment. The wording is intentionally vague to try and soften the allegations which are damning. The fact that Holder is paid by Uber means he won't slam the company, but clearly the advice is meant to prevent them from getting their asses sued in the future.

And to my point "diversity and inclusion at Uber more broadly" can directly discourage sexual harassment, which was the critical issue in the investigation.

If you don't give a shit about the allegations, why read the report?
T-Track: The Smart-Tracking and Anti-Theft Backpack
>One man's assets are another man's liabilities.

Exactly. National debt is a liability for the nation. It's an asset for the central bank which created it. Ipso facto the central bank owns the nation.