skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made this mistake and I'm 1/4 of the way into the book. Can't tell yet how big of a mistake it was.
Another reason to use Firefox is to resist the monoculture of just one dominating browser, that's also made by the same company that makes the most common mobile OS and a lot of dominating web services, like Youtube. Allo for the web still only works in Chrome, because Google know they can get away with it.
Who cares? What makes ICOs good in and of themselves? The % of people who actually need to raise tens of millions of dollars before they've built anything is almost nil. It incentivises empty promises and bullshit marketing and idea guys who have never built anything real in their life.

Those are bad incentives for those businesses and for consumers, because they're the ones who ultimately pay for bad products.
Currently you have to upload them manually, so there is a manual selection process by the user.
In the future I want to be able to group documents by their type (as most documents follow some template).

In e.g. Dropbox you might also have your family photos or even your downloads folder. This makes finding the really important things harder.
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>What do you think would be the reason that it wouldn't fly?

As I said: intent, which would definitely be scrutinized in a case where you're up in front of a judge. There's some interestingness in determining whether the ToS is actionable or not (and in some countries it isn't), but I find it really hard to argue legally or morally that Youtube can't mandate that you don't hit their service with a tool whose only purpose it is to copy videos.

It's a bit more murky when dealing with a tool like youtube-dl which is a program you run on your own machine, but pretty cut and dry for a web service you're providing to others.

>why wouldn't authorization be implied when the server responds, regardless even of what the TOS says? Also the TOS seems a bit ambiguous, but my main defense against that would be to send my own TOS to the server on every request.

They're providing the service, you are not. If you don't like their service's requirements, you are free to not use it. The logical conclusion of this hypothetical world is that anyone sending the X-User-TOS header would simply be met with a 403. Most other companies would follow suit, since it's absurd for a service that serves millions of users daily to comply with the legal demands of all of them.

Worse, nothing has been gained in this world. Just as YouTube is free to demand you use the website or not at all, they are free to reject clients who demand extra obligations. Their back yard, their rules at the end of the day.
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This is a difficult topic to discuss because the "right" answer is very dependent on context.

Sometimes it makes sense to rapidly spew out brittle code. Other times it makes sense to delay until you get it right.

What's important is being in control of the situation. Know what you're doing and why. Know the tradeoffs and commit to them.
The tests appear to be at https://github.com/reactos/reactos/tree/master/rostests
No because other people have raised children. As of 2000, nobody knew what a mature social network looked like.
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Found a partial answer here (doesn't go into pip and easy_install, those handle installation, the others handle environment isolation) - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41573587/what-is-the-dif...
I really enjoyed your framing of some common issues. Most people don't think there are actually two sides to any political argument and spend the majority of their time laughing at strawmen rather than learning about someone else's perspective.

Also I think lowered emotional connection to the issues can actually be a huge benefit to understanding them rather than just "feeling" what side to pick.
So what problems does this 247x gap cause for someone earning a median income?
Why Goms?

Goms was to help build faster, more capable APIs over your data that worked across for all types of frontend.

While Goms primarily targeted Web apps, the emergence of Android and iOS Apps as a rapidly growing target for developers demanded a different approach for building the backend. With developers classic use of traditional frameworks and bundling techniques, we struggle to invest enough time in the business and frontend demands for all sorts of Apps that provide consistent and predictable APIs which perform equally well on fast and slow load, across a diversity of platforms and devices.

Additionally, framework fragmentation had created a APIs development interoperability nightmare, where backend built for one purpose needs a lot of boilerplate and integration with the rest of the system, in a consistent way.

A component system around JSON APIs offered a solution to both problems, allowing more time available to be invested into frontend and business building, and targeting a standards-based JSON/Entity models that all frontends can use.

However, JSON APIs for data manipulation by themselves weren't enough. Building apps required a lot of custom actions, workflows, data integrity, event subscription, integration with external services that were previously locked up inside of traditional web frameworks. Goms was built to pull these features out of traditional frameworks and bring them to the fast emerging JSON API standard in an automated way.
Because they've focused on a different set of priorities from the ones he wants, thus they're incompetent and sadistic?

Ok.
Not really. It all depends under what reason you have decided you are collecting the data in the first place in your Data Protection Impact Assessment (e.g your lawful basis). Consent is only one of them. Consent is problematic because it can be withdrawn.
Don't compare actual products with hypothetical products. Who's to say ML won't also severely underwhelm when/if they release, especially given all they have promised
I could not agree more on the "it is closer to religion" point. I have been saying this for a decade now. National politics has replaced religion, community, and family for many people. Political parties and political virtues are how one defines themselves and how they fit into the world. Due to moving frequently (even within a 2 hour radius), more dispersed families, lack of long term involvement in a truly local community (be it a club/lodge or a church), and politics becoming a replacement for relgion in defining what is "right" and what is "wrong" people on both sides are looking at political opposition in manners similar to the Crusades or Protestants vs Catholics.

Politics has become a singular (or at minimum, the dominant) identifier for so many people, that seeing someone who opposes your views means that they are not part of your community. I think re-establishing communities that bring meaning to people's lives would go a long way to helping get through this rough patch. These can be clubs, churches, sports, etc. People need something that they are passionate about that connects them to other people and let's them focus on something local. I think shifting eveyone's attention back toward their local politics and community (where most of the governing that actually impacts you is done) would do wonders.
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ICO is a distribution service on-top of a blockchain system. That's not all that interesting in this conversation.

What is interesting is the same thing that has been interesting from the beginning of the blockchain discussion. Namely that these "coins" purportedly offer an alternative currency to sovereign national currency.

I have always held the view that, the fundamental utility of doing commerce through a currency that is outside of sovereign national control/purview is a hard ceiling for any of these systems. Probably the biggest lever a government has on their nation is monetary policy. There is no way that a government would allow the subversion of that.

At the point in which any alternative currency based market becomes big enough to matter within the boundaries of an existing currency based market, then all a sovereign nation needs to do to kill it is make convertibility to the local currency illegal.

China is basically saying, "look we don't even want to come close to this type of alternative currency possibly getting huge" - and the ICO method allows pretty much anyone to convert Yuan to "coin." So they went ahead and did what I have been suggesting would happen, but much earlier than I suspected.

The only way that wouldn't work is if nearly all necessary services, retail, logistics etc... uses the alternative currency. In which case the native currency has effectively failed and thus the government has failed as well.

So I don't see what the real upside here is, outside of very tiny, niche marketplaces that require this kind of currency.

I haven't heard anyone actually respond to this line of criticism of Blockchain.

Blockchain is a perfect solution for many things, but as a currency it's dead on arrival IMO.
If everyone earns an extra $10k, prices in the most basic consumption items will rise, including housing.
Gotta love the cute examples they use, such as placing an order with the local baker... WhatsApp will become incredibly powerful if this is executed properly.

I wonder how this might affect people's perception of the app generally though? I use it to chat with friends, not businesses. I suppose Facebook underwent a similar transition and survived.
I actually would very much appreciate that. I was just reading Nakamoto's whitepaper on Bitcoin [1] and I understand the hashing. However, the coinebase transaction is still a bit confusing to me. Specifically, to get at precisely this issue - what does the bitcoin itself consist of? It is just the summation of the history of transactions to and from an address? Or is there a numerical value or token that is actually issued during a coinbase transaction, and, if so, how is it generated? This is not apparent to me. I understand that during a coinbase transaction, there is a transaction registered that is issued to the miner and the 'from' address is null - but it is still not clear to me, other than the balance of that transaction, if there is an actual token associated with those coins.

Any explanation would be greatly appreciated!

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
There seems to be a lot of odd nostalgia for Solaris in the comments here and on twitter.

There is nothing odd in that: contrary to the Linux party line and all the Linux hype, before illumos and SmartOS, Solaris was the most advanced operating system on the planet. As others have very accurately described and pointed out in the comments on the other reduction in force thread, this was sadly lost on the Linux generation which "grew up on the PC in their parents' basement".
Ah, yes, AT&T, of Room 641a fame[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Another thing that might make it easier for you to get along with people of other political persuasions is that you will personally be less affected by whatever policy decisions are made. If you were a pregnant teenager or a poor person who just lost their job to an illegal immigrant you would likely care more.

So maybe you aren't a sociopath. :)
> will rapidly develop AR/VR that is indistinguishable from reality

Wow you sound like me from the 90s. You severely overestimate GPUs and underestimate the human eye.
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I most recently converted my investments into a house deposit. In effect, I propped up inflated house prices. It'll take a while before I have a significant investment position again.

Your last question is silly. The reason why I can simultaneously support higher taxes, yet not voluntarily donate money to the government, is because advocacy of higher taxes can raise far more money for government than my personal donations. Raising money to fund government is a collective action problem; if government relied on donations to run, it would fail because of freeloaders - in essence, a tragedy of the commons. But by collectively enforcing mandatory taxes we can make government work.
> When notified, Estonian authorities immediately took precautionary measures [...]

> We are grateful to the researchers for uncovering this issue and providing us with the opportunity to ensure our digital society can emerge stronger and more secure.

Such a different approach compared with companies following the too usual policy of burying their head in the sand. This increases respect and trust. Taking no actions or communicating no action is detrimental to trust.
Is it really computationally expensive? Containers/jails/zones are essentially chroots "on steroids", isolating things other than the filesystem (networking, hostname, process IDs, users, etc.)
You should check more thoroughly, because that claim is complete bollocks.
That only solves one of the issues listed. It won't help with location, demographics, or what apps you use.
Aeternety website says they are based in Lichenstein, even if their police was corrupt (which I seriously doubt) you could literally run to Switzerland or Austria. The way he talks about his allergies and they would be handled makes it seem he was in a 3rd world country which makes me question the veracity of the whole thing.
Cross out the words SV. Does the post retain its essential meaning? Yes: tech is being used to suppress privacy. It doesn't much matter if it comes from SV, Japan, or the moon.
Thanks for the tip. This is something I was unaware of.
It's cheesy. But the guy does have success in startups

https://belimitless.com/gurbaksh-chahal/
Ah the snake oil merchants want another round of dim investor money I see.
https://en.savefromnet.com
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While I have no desire to read an employees private correspondance, am even less desirous of paying money to store data I will get prosecuted for looking at!
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I'd guess this is only true if you're in favor of policies that are against other, targeted, groups or people. And that sounds okay to me. That's pretty equivalent to being an asshole. It's normal for people not to like you if you sound mean, unpleasant, and appear to be threatening.

If you're being isolated and marginalised for opinions that aren't themselves marginalising, then there's a real problem.
"Not exactly a surprising reaction coming from a VC who's making a curated list of ICOs a business."

Bingo.
This is not true, it's a much smaller percentage, negligible overall.
https://en.savefromnet.com. Thank me later.
Looks like these guys (Tendermint team) actually care about design, testing and scalability in their project compared to Ethereum where people are concentrating on hype rather than product (I am not rude, used Ethereum from the client's perspective) :)

It would be interesting to hear from people who actually use (if there are any) Tendermint:
* How easy/hard is it to create bindings to the blockchain from your own backend application (as I can see there is a GRPC option).
* How many nodes you are running?
* What's the use case?
> I don't see why not. There is such a thing as an implied contract. What do you think would be the reason that it wouldn't fly?

IANAL. You cite a concept from contract law, but forget another: frustration of purpose. Saying there is an implied contract that you get access would frustrate the purpose of the original access contract.
I'm not talking about real time though. Pre-recorded light field videos would already be high enough resolution. It might not be perfect but like the CGI nowadays close enough where there's moments you can't tell
You don't have to get up at two o' clock in the morning to run fsck on a filesystem based on 30 year old concepts, for example. Or when you reboot the system, you don't have to wait 18 hours for fsck to complete because it's been more than 180 days since the last filesystem check. And I've many more examples, if you're truly interested.
It's the preferred method in Python.
> There is a huge population of us that smile and get things done, while others screw around with new, complicated, never-learned-the-past tools.

They get the things done they've been doing all along. But build metadata is very important and very hard to extract from Makefiles, especially as builds increase in complexity.

You need things like search paths accessible to get IDEs, static analyzers, software packaging systems, and other third party tools working with your code base.

So make works great if the only things you're interested in doing are the top-level make commands you define, but it doesn't do you any favors when it comes to other things.
Yes, nuclear advocates in the US love to blame regulators and ignore the incompetency of their own industry too. There's a new report out today highlighting that at the South Carolina project that was just cancelled, there was an internal report highlighting lack of plans, unconstructable plans, low morale, and high turnover. And that the project was likely to fail. Three months after the report, an additional $800M was requested, and then 18 months later it was cancelled.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/newly-released-report-hig...

Such behavior seems to be borderline criminal, particularly covering up the internal audit.

Yet this is par for the course on nuclear these days.
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The problem with filing lawsuits is that "anti-competitive behavior" is typically not treated as illegal by recent US courts unless there's demonstrable consumer harm in the form of higher prices. Which there is not with products that are distributed for free...
I definitely recommend the HBR article as well.

https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-our-company-learned-to-make-bett...

"Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company's prospects. Here, predicting the future is not a theoretical superpower, it's part of the job."
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> Probably won't fix existing infrastructure as it requires to be mixed with concrete when its poured.

Exactly. Using the term "fix" here is disingenuous to the actual research being done.

This is simply research into a fungal addititive which if added to concrete could prevent cracks from worsening.

What is likely to happen if they ever figure out how to add it to concrete is that the life span of concrete structures will be upgraded accordingly and the neglect will stay at it's present level until the new and improved structures start to fail.
> i ran Borland C++ Builder on it without major issues, beyond the GUI glitches i mentioned

To whom does the Borland C++ builder belong. Because I wonder if there will open a market to get old c++/pascal code running in ReactOS?

There is projects like lazarus and free pascal.

But if you can keep your legacy win32 stuff in a self contained ReacOS vm...

This will solve the enterprise problem of keeping legacy applications contained without win related licencing worries.

Also your long term support looks more promising with ReactOS compared to Win XP; But microsoft will still drag the bone along for a little longer if not indefinitely at a enterprise price, ofcourse.
The judgement highlights the balancing of "respect for his private life, on the one hand, and his employer’s right to take measures in order to ensure the smooth running of the company, on the other".

While it is fair to expect that one "follows the rules", breach should not imply that your private life is something that the employer can do with what they wish, Especially, as the court decision notes, when the risks (e.g. damage and liability) are theoretical.

Occasionally my wife will send me an email to my work address, because she thinks I may see it quicker. Does this use of company resources mean that the contents of the email can be used by the company, or is there an expectation that it is still private?

It seems that the judgement is less about the monitoring and notification thereof, but whether or not you have an expectation for private things to remain private at work.
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I mostly disagree—it's quite common to have intellectual interest in technology. It simply requires a lot of sacrifice in terms of social life to fit in with your career.

Also, assuming positive intent will get you far in life, especially on forums like this.
All I can is get used to it. Red states are in decline and the trend will continue into the future. There is a reason tech companies are liberal.
I don't think that removing the headphone jack from a phone is really "evil", no matter how you feel about headphone jacks.
Actually, his most basic, underlying thesis is that it's impossible to determine what their priorities are. To the author, the game is incoherent. If you cleave to that view, then it's impossible to understand why the developers changed what they changed.

His example of Dark Souls is a perfect one. He acknowledges that, while the game isn't his thing, he can at least intellectually grok why Dark Souls is a good game, and how it has been optimized and refined for the specific play style they aimed at.

The author claims the same can't be said for No Man's Sky.

So, no, it's not that it's a different set of priorities. It's that it appears to be an incomprehensible set of priorities. And that's a real problem, if you believe in the thesis (which, I assume, will be explored in subsequent installments).
They run more than just fine; usually an illumos based OS will run circles around Linux on the same hardware, and the real slap is that it won't sacrifice reliability nor correctness of operation to do that.
I cannot imagine they are getting much traction with the current product. It is not that good.

So far as I can tell, they take a frame out of the video every second or so, and perform something like the ImageNet task to tag individual frames. It does not try to put together a story about what happens across or between the frames.

More than 10 years ago there were video analysis competitions and they all used multifaceted approaches that would analyze audio, read closed captions if available, OCR text, put together a story across time, etc.

The image-at-a-time approach would have looked like science fiction 10 years ago but now it is a "fork it on GitHub" kind of thing.

The problem of useful video analysis is complex enough that you can't leave easy things like OCR text on the table. It is complex enough that you do have to take advantage of coherence in time.

One reason why the "commercialization valley of death" is so feared is often entrepreneurs have unrealistic plans like "commercialize a product that analyzes videos a frame at a time" that involve wishful thinking.

The real danger though is that this is the road to "AI Winter" and unfortunately failures of this type are discrediting to everyone in the intelligent systems field. People say "I tried IBM's Text Analysis API and it sucks" and that makes it much harder for people who have a realistic understanding of the problems to make sales.
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> If your server responds to my request and gives a copy to me, how can I be doing anything illegal?

The snarky answer is that a sovereign state can make anything illegal that it chooses to.

But we shouldn't allow anything a server responds to to be legal. After all, just because your server responds to my SQL injection attack doesn't mean it should be legal for me to steal your database.