skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fascinating. I'd lumped IDA in with e.g. Photoshop. Was wrong.

Did they ever retract their public freaking out?
Morte by itself also doesn't support arithmetics.
So then I presume you will agree that there is nothing inherently abusive with contracting, and the problem stems from misclassification, and the behavior is already illegal, right?

If contractors willingly sign on for the micromanagement that you mention, and are free to quit at any time, why exactly is this a problem that needs solving? No one is forcing foreign nationals to work for American companies. Clearly this "abusive" relationship is favorable to both parties, otherwise the outsourced employees would leave.

When someone has freedom of association, and is made aware of working conditions prior to making major life changes to start a new job, or the job is explicitly billed as temporary contract work, who are you to decide on someone's behalf what is and is not abusive, so long as payment is made as agreed?
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I guess we should have been listening to Terry all of this time!
I like how the Swiss National Bank gives dividends to the cantons.

Its shares are also publicly traded.

I really like that kind of interaction with the government and could support something like that in the United States, more so than illiquid municipal bonds or boring treasuries.

The Federal Reserve makes a great profit with its unprecedented position and influence in the global markets, and should be able to do this with greater efficacy than the Swiss National Bank. It could result in an avenue to accomplish universal basic income at state or municipal levels or through a variety of other programs that are recipients of FRB payouts.
Why not only require an account to save access? So people can get started, and sign up later?
Nonsense. Union printers do fine. Ditto hotels and restaurants.
> want to rename something? it's mv

There is a rename command as well. But apart from the first time I tried to rename a file I've never had trouble remembering it. There is a good reason for it to, internally it is a move operation.

> want to tell the time? it's date

Is this different in powershell? Some quick googling indicates the Get-Date is the method you want and being .net based everything deals with DateTime objects.

> why is the command to download something curl/wget?

I find this easier to remember than Invoke-WebRequest, or is it Invoke-RestMethod?

If they were so hard to remember that could be aliased to something similar, but I've never seen anyone bother.

Edit - I mean I've never heard anyone going the other way and suggest doing "alias Invoke-WebRequest=\"curl\"" in bash.
I'm not even saying people don't want to see ad, I'm saying that users don't want you tracking them across other sites.

A user doesn't want site A knowing that they went to site B, and that is what tracking based ads appear to be to the user. In reality it's even worse because while sites A & B, which the user does trust, don't know it is in fact a separate business they've never seen or heard of that know about you visiting A and B. and also C, D, E....
> I trust its disassembler (especially for mainstream languages) more than almost any other disassembler

Might I suggest Christopher Domas' Black Hat talk "Breaking the x86 ISA", along the way of which he demonstrates the limitations of all disassemblers out there, including IDA's :)

Talk: https://youtu.be/KrksBdWcZgQ

Slides: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Domas-Bre...

Paper: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Domas-Bre...
Mike from craftcoffee.com here. I love 3rd wave style coffee but that statement from the article is very misleading. This is a common trick that 3rd wave proponents pull all the time. They conflate "3rd wave" and "specialty", as Oliver did here, and then pretend that "specialty coffee" metrics are referring to only 3rd wave coffee. In actual fact, 3rd wave != specialty coffee. In reality, 3rd wave coffee is just a tiny fraction of specialty coffee. Specialty coffee includes Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Peet's, and many others like that. All those companies sell "specialty grade" coffee, which is a technical term that more or less means the beans score above a certain level when evaluated for defects. So when people quote the size or growth of specialty coffee, that's the pool of companies they are actually talking about. And in fact, depending on the source it's often unclear if those numbers include things like frapuccinos. There's very little data on the niche because it's so small that it doesn't make the top 25 or 30 sources of revenue or consumption in industry reports, but 3rd wave coffee certainly accounts for less than 1% of coffee consumed in the US. Blue Bottle has 25 cafes, Starbucks has 24,000.[1] Starbucks is worth $80B today. In aggregate, Blue Bottle + Stumptown + Intelligentsia + [any other locals you can think of] are likely worth less than $1B. So yeah, 3rd wave coffee is delicious and fun, but unfortunately it simply does not account for that level of consumption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
If us-east and us-west regions are only relevant to you because of the relative reliability, then I envy your situation because latency doesn't exist in your world.
This reminds me of the time that the disk got filled up on my Mac Mini (running Windows) because "click-to-run" generated 20GB of log messages...
True in 2009, true today... http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/understanding-and-...
It's certainly more than 1%. Top tech companies alone employ more than 1% of developers.

> There are plenty of talented people, even in these "top" tech companies, who do not have 6-7 offers thrown at them

That doesn't match my experience at all. Every Google/Facebook/Amazon employee I know constantly has interview requests and people trying to recruit them.
I highly suggest checking out the a16z podcast. There's an incredible episode called "Cars and Cities, The Autonomy Edition." The podcast is pretty interesting generally, but this one reshaped my entire understanding of autonomous vehicles and their societal impact.

https://a16z.com/2017/02/08/transportation-as-service-autono...

Edit: The podcast is a conversation with Taggart Matthiesen, director of product at Lyft.
Rubber duck debugging chat and search engine
I just created website where you may ask any question that you googled but haven't found at first page.

I will post your questions at stackoverflow, quora, etc if I can't find it inside search engines.
I can look for complicated requests like parsing websites data and returning you results as json or GraphQL API. I have access to Builtwith data and list of 400 mln domains. So I can look for code inside html/js of websites.
I can try to be your assistant for Rubber duck debugging.
If you are interested to help me answer questions I will add you as a manager to chat app.
I will try to answer any question you give and find results for you. It may take up to 1 week to answer some complicated question. So it will ask you for email.
In future it will have it's own cryptocurrency with platform like mturk. Currency will be digged and distributed similar to clam.
http://fehu.live
At first I just want to be helpful as much as possible and attract as much attention. Than I will automate most requested features. And build platform like mturk to automate tasks that hard for machine.
At this moment it's just chat with me. One person. I want to figure out how much traffic and workload I can handle chatting. I am not perfect.
I am excited with future of conversational marketing. At this moment this idea may seem bizzare. But in 10 years AI will get much better. So I want to get attention and user base as early as possible.

http://fehu.live/about.html
Hey irrelevant but can I ask how did you enter the tech industry without college? If self taught can I ask how did you teach yourself and what (why), and with what resources?
The impressive part is the pace. There are multiple launches a year, and constant incremental increase in capability. At this rate, they will have the ability to strike anywhere in the world in just a few years.
I wonder if anyone in Beijing has thought through the idea that someday maybe a nuclear armed NK deciding it doesn't want to play nice with them anymore.

Like, if Saddam had nukes he'd probably still be alive.
I think it's the opposite in most cases, you are correct in HN-context.

Yes, we ( HN readers), don't want them tracking us. So that is what you think it is. But we are only a "small" percentage.

Non-HN readers ( mostly non-technical readers), just don't want to see ads and don't want to pay. They also don't know how the tracking works and mostly don't care ( in my experience)
> Lyft/Uber have no special sauce.

So are you saying a new player can easily beat them?
A couple clarifications:

- My understanding is that the Blink fork happened because Google was the primary contributor to WebKit prior to the fork, and Google engineers were spending a significant amount of time trying to make Apple engineers happy. Additionally, there was a lot of code needed to support both Apple's and Google's JavaScript engines and multi-process implementations, which was no longer needed after the fork. WebKit2 and the Chromium multi-process architecture did exist for some time before the fork.

- WebKit2 is a layer on top of WebCore, which is the part Blink forked. So both WebKit and Chrome implement multi-process in another layer on top of the renderer. I'm not familiar with WebKit2, but in Chrome, this is done in the content layer, which provides most of the core rendering code (including the multi-process stuff), but without all the browser-specific features (e.g. autofill, extensions, spell check, etc.). I believe Opera is currently built on top of the Chromium content layer.
That's the argument of a boss in version of the prisoners dilemma.

The reality is that you are a widget, you probably make less several people whom you consider a less able and "ambitious" than you, and your salary is only loosely associated with your value, if at all.
Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15252124
It's not people who have previously pirated it - it's people who have intentionally leaked their copy to crackers.
this one looks nice, https://elementary.io/

but I haven't tried.
You're absolutely right. I'm working on a redesign to make each section easier to explore, and, yeah, specially the mobile version needs a lot of work. As for my vision, I would like to make it more collaborative and generate more engagement in the future. Thank you very much for taking the time to give me feedback!
> One site ( a non profit, where donators also complain about how much money they spend on servers and wages), can't be a reference for an online business. The chance to duplicate this is minimal + it has thousands of free employees / volunteers that don't need to be paid.

It was one example, not every single free thing on the Internet that I find highly valuable. Open source would be another, which is mostly supported by volunteers and straight-up paying customers.

> If you only need a encyclopedia, then you don't need to pay anywhere or "free payment through ads". If you sometimes scroll HN and read content for free, then i'm not sure if the content, that you want to read, is only available on Wikipedia.

HN is mostly a replacement for playing Minesweeper or is displacing doing something actually valuable. Or hanging out on IRC. If I actually need news I'd be fine with paying for it (I mostly don't, though).

> I think a lot of that content is actually produced by paid journalists, that work for big media companies.

We had those (journalists, big media companies) before spying ads were a thing. We'd have them after. You think that, for some reason, if no one can use spying ads anymore, that'll mean the end of online media? Or even just online news? Or that Internet advertising would even do more than hiccup for a moment and keep going? Think about it: you're responsible for advertising at Coca Cola. Tracking ads go away, everywhere, for everyone. Do you stop spending ad dollars online? No, obviously not.

My guess is the result would be a concentration of ad dollars on bigger sites, with little or no reduction in total spending. Probably more shitty "native advertising" too, especially for smaller players, which sucks, but we already have tons of that so oh well. Point is, we've all been pining for the days when news orgs had actual money to spend on reporters, and I'd not be a bit surprised if eliminating tracking gave bigger players enough of an advantage that those days came back.
IMO the point is using the ecosystem without sacrificing your privacy -- and you have to go through a lot of hoops on Android to achieve it. Hoops the normal non tech-savvy people won't go through.
I really wish I could do a good bit of my work on his OS. I'd much rather a Kawasaki than an aircraft carrier that is half sinking.

Charles Moore of Forth fame has an amazing interview where he argues that the OS is really not necessary on modern hardware. Of course this man built his own language, CAD software, and chips...some of which are in outer space. Impressive man.
Mondo 2000 – Issue 4
> look like heroes

No one is gonna fall for that. Especially since most of its neighbors are aware of China's belligerence, and are hostile to China (India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia) or are skeptics of China (Australia, New Zealand)
North Korea has limited directional options if they want a realistic missle test.

Having one overfly Japan may just be the least politically bad option they have.

Other paths would be toward China, Russia, Taiwan, Phillipines, etc.
Can someone elaborate. I always thought that the compiler was optimized for the architecture, not the other way around. Why would an architecture be optimized for a specific compiler?
Alphabet by putting its fingers in every possible pie is begging for split-up.
On React and WordPress
Announcing the first ImageSharp beta
I disagree. CMD can't even do simple things. Sure it can list the files in a directory and write that to a text file, but not much more. I'm exaggerating some, but CMD is so underpowered compared to what you get in any Linux terminal that this isn't a fair comparison.
Shouldn't it be `max(sizeof(size_t), sizeof(std::string)) + sizeof(discriminant)`? At least in other languages, that's how sum types work
I'm pretty sure you can define commutive and associative relations in Coq.
want to rename something? it's Rename-Item, unless you also want to put it somewhere else, in which case you need Move-Item (it won't figure it out for you.)

want to tell the time? it's Get-Date ("time" won't work, neither will "get-time")

why is the command to download something Invoke-WebRequest?

what does '&"C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:about' do?

and if you want to complain about ridiculous syntax, why the hell is ` the escape character instead of \ like every other language?
I, and some others, posted stuff about him further down this thread, for those who might be interested -- you can click the link [0] to get there directly or just keep scrolling through this thread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246021
I hope someone will combine decentralized currency with ride-sharing, such that the car owner gets a much higher percentage of the profits and the rider pays less. A small amount can also go to the app writer, who would be using the shared decentralized backend(such that multiple apps could share the same decentralized data store).

Once self-driving arrives each transaction could be a barter based on source and destination locations, along with the self-driving car's specific schedule. An intelligent network may emerge, where specific rides are cheaper for a car that needs to go to the specified area of town.

You could further augment costs by allowing the self-driving car to manage it's own energy supply.

I realize there are downsides to be thought through and the technology is nowhere near ready for this idea.
There was a great podcast on NYTimes' The Daily about new advancements in the rocket engines used – their conclusion is that with Ukraine in flux, the source of Russia's missile engines (which Russia has recently stopped buying) are selling them off to North Korea, or an intermediary.
Finland is smaller than Los Angeles.

Neither it, nor even Germany/UK/France have a critical mass of tech people or early adopters.

There isn't very strong 'startup culture' anywhere in Europe, unfortnately.

You listed basically all of the notable startups to come out of Europe in one sentence, which is not good.

I've lived all over Europe as well as the US, I'm aware of the differences.

There just isn't a strong cluster of tech-types, nor strong movements of early adopters for most things in Europe.

I will give you Skype though - Skype was a huge hit in Europe in 2004, especially because calling/long-distance rates were so crazy expensive - that's actually a pretty good example of a Euro-based startup hitting the local market well - i.e. 'in their pocket books' where it matters, in a way that kind of transcends national boundaries.

A startup that conquers fast/easy/cheap currency exchange, I think will likely do well in Europe as well.

But it's hard to build early adopters there, unless you hit it right.
NNs will still be beat by svms on simple datasets, even big ones. Where NNs shine is when the data has an underlying structure that can be exploited. Like how convolutions take advantage of the 2 dimensional nature of images, or RNNs take advantage of sequential data. Algorithmic improvements like dropout and proper weight initialization have also made them bunch better than they used to be.
I'll have to check it out, but usually for the easy stuff, the standard commands like grep + Awk is more than enough.
> It's not the position of the FSF who actually wrote the license.

The author of a license is not the person with the legal authority to interpret its meaning.
You've just moved the goalposts. Your original comment said:

> I'm running out of things that the progressives want the government to pay for without any logic and mathematics behind it

The logic behind the first three as presented is "most countries already do this," along with the implication (justified, in my opinion) that it works out well for their citizens.

So why wouldn't it be the same in the USA? Is our government uniquely incapable of this? Is it that the model of these other countries is unsustainable? Is it that we have a huge propaganda machine in place that is convincing many of our citizens to conclude without serious and informed consideration that it shouldn't be the role of our government to provide these things? Or is it some other option?
The death toll from soviet communism was pretty steep: they killed millions and committed genocide and ethnic cleansing on many opinions. stop spreading this stupid whataboutism
What does the decentralized currency add to it? Why/how would drivers get a larger percentage of the fare, in combination with the rider paying less? Right now ridesharing is cheap because it's partially subsidized; prices would go up if you stop doing that.
Nokia had a massive eco-system of suppliers, tech providers, distributors, service providers.

For every one person working at Nokia, there was another, in a company, somewhere else selling to them, buying from the, distributing for them.

The same thing happened at BlackBerry.

I'm not talking about 'apps' - I'm talking about a 'business' eco-system and value chain.
Try becoming a freelancer opening a company in Spain. Orders of magnitude harder than in the US, so for many recent grads is not a viable option at all.
One-Third of Your Video Ads Aren’t Being Seen, Says Google
Build a Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
Cheers. Both share the same Latin root, homo (man), correct?
I thought this was going to be about things like Dynix
Chuck and Terry's work prove that most kernels are just really terrible compiler systems
> I hope someone will combine decentralized currency with ride-sharing

That would be ideal, but I'd be happy if one can call a ride-share in an anonymous way (just like a regular taxi) and pay by cash, without tons of cameras spying on you during your trip. Somehow I guess this not going to happen like that, and tracking where you go is going to be another ad-selling business in itself as well as new tactics for privacy invasion. Oh, and there's a good chance it will be calling home to Google, again.
... why a question I asked 4 years ago is on the first page of Hacker News?
I'm guessing one reason is that going high rather then far keeps the rocket in line of site for telemetry.
I don't think anybody is using istio quite yet..
I think that you can make wires and gates in Life without metapixel, that sounds like overkill. Can probably share 2 orders of magnitude whule keeping most things intact.
That's the class warfare paradigm that boils the world down to two monolithic blocs: employers and employees.

He is not a widget. A workforce is made up people with diverse and varying skills.

It's in the interest of society to incentivise individual skills development and promotion of people with more skill into positions of greater authority and responsibility, by allowing employers to base compensation and promotion offers on skills.
I'd love to see some scatter plots of CPU-time and energu-time, I expected a fairly linear correlation but there looks to be quite a lot of outliers, some but not all are explained with parallelism. Memory seems all over the place too.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be thinking things through but we aren't often blessed, as developers, with working with actual rocket scientists who will provide perfect models of the product such that it won't literally crash into another planet 1.2 billion kilometers away.

Sometimes you have to do the work and build something that isn't fully specified. Or when management says they want a Facebook clone and then walks away, you have to be willing to say "no, you have to come back the table on that one".
Except "Scaramouche" and "fandango" are both in the dictionary.
Fish is not 100% bash compatible so that would break scripts everywhere
I have just started looking into Ada and it is cool to see up there with C. Does anyone know a good resource for writing fast Ada?
But why should it's memory utilization be so much lower?

Pascal and C give the programmer basically the same control over memory layout, no?
> It's certainly more than 1%. Top tech companies alone employ more than 1% of developers.

That would be true only if you assumed around a huge number of top tech company hires were those prime developers. I've worked at all kinds of companies, including one you would undoubtedly consider "top." They all employ the full distribution. The mean will be higher in the top companies, but that's it.

> That doesn't match my experience at all. Every Google/Facebook/Amazon employee I know constantly has interview requests and people trying to recruit them.

Obviously it doesn't match your personal experience--we've already established that you're one of those "prime" developers. Likely your co-worker/acquaintance bubble is full of them too. Our perception of normal is often clouded by what we encounter every day. You see this all the time here on HN, where commenters tend to be smarter than the average bear. In that respect, I am open to applying that same reasoning to myself: I see talented people underemployed, struggling to get recognized, and at the mercy of their employer; and therefore I am potentially extrapolating this as normal. I think the numbers bear me out, but I admit I have not done more than casual Internet-research.