skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reality allows more complicated trade-offs than we'll let no-one look at any data/we'll let everyone look at as much data as they want.

Law enforcement agencies are generally (though not always) interested in domestic matters, so there isn't usually any real conflict here; China primarily wants data on their own citizens; some people take issue with a US company being complicit in Chinese surveillance, but this should not bring US citizens interests being affected by Chinese requests.

In practice, it's really not an all or nothing proposition, companies do decide how to respond on a case by case basis, sometimes even pulling out of countries, e.g. Google from China.
You're right

Spying on citizen and companies of competing countries, including allied countries and their leaders, is highly profitable

I'm sure mob profits all over the world sky rocketed during the crisis, should we ask them for advices?
Art of Atari
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1524101036/
I did stop discussing, especially with you but here you are again. You just can't resist, which shows how you are. You're welcome to disagree, but you didn't just disagree, you said we were trying to force our will on others. That's called intellectual dishonesty and someone not worth spending time on. Meaning, you just want to argue. Go look through your post history and check the downvotes, not good. I'll leave you to it, good luck bud.
The biggest pain for me was that it felt like there was no good way to create a library with some internal structure in the form of packages without exposing parts of your internal implementation as public.

When Jigsaw was delayed I was playing with the idea to create a project called shitty-jigsaw, which would just merge all of the packages in a module and change the access modifiers to be more restrictive according to some module definition.
How the web distorts reality (2014)
Your entity has a presence where the warrant is served. Your entity where the warrant is served can get at the data. You probably will be forced to comply.

If you genuinely want to avoid this issue, your foreign entity needs to be distinct and independent. That way Le Google could say "Serve the warrant. We have no ability to comply. What do you expect us to do?"

Of course, this means that you don't get the nice benefits of putting ALL your data into one gigantic maw to be chewed up by the machine.
Interesting didn't know they formed a partnership with Amazon to have their AIs work together.

Microsoft can't really stand by and let others take the lead in AI research and implementation. So it makes for them to grow their R&D team.
Just because you changed things doesn't mean you changed them for the better. You could have changed from hitting yourself in the head to hitting yourself in the crotch. Not really an improvement.
> They've come under some criticism for apparent lack of transparency around how donations are spent, and for allegedly having very high overheads.

They are also borderline abusive with how often they will call you and harass you if you miss an opportunity to donate blood. They apparently have unlimited funds to pay phone operators.
Docker works great to glue the pieces together.
I keep the habit of deferring immediately so I don’t forget later if the fucnction gets long. But I see what you mean, on this case, inside the loop, is really bad idea.

Will try with Exec and without the defer and see if it makes a noticeable difference.

The driver is the MySQL one for what’s worth it. Postgres was a bit slower.
"The Matrix’s value is chiefly as a synthesis of all that. But there the set-up is cruder and does not truly evoke the problem. The actors are in the matrix, that is, in the digitized system of things; or, they are radically outside it, such as in Zion, the city of resistors. But what would be interesting is to show what happens when these two worlds collide."

This happens in the sequels, and it doesn't make for as compelling a story.
Not computer related, but I really enjoyed flipping through

The New Age of Ceramics, 2016

https://www.amazon.com/New-Age-Ceramics-Hannah-Stouffer/dp/1...
I will buy X. I’m interested in developing facial AR app.
That's not how it works with New Story as they are not putting their own operating funds towards funding houses. It'd be odd and a question in the auditing process if a non-profit operated the way you described.
That's a good point --- and one that's easily countered with "what prevents something eventually called from a global constructor from even modifying the code and calling arbitrary functions?"

In other words, programs do not exist in a void and a compiler can never predict what other things will happen in the runtime environment, especially in the not-uncommon situation of modules written in other languages, so compilers should not be making risky assumptions with this partial information.
> There are entire separate tax codes for you filing individually vs. jointly.

This is not true. The tax brackets are different but essentially everything else is the same. The same things are counted as income. You have the same deductions. You use the same forms.

Some other ways that corporations are different from people (just off the top of my head):

- A corporation can't get a driver's license.

- A corporation can't get federal loans to go to college

- A corporation isn't expected to register for the draft at a certain age (does that make a corporation a woman? Hah!).

- A corporation cannot "take the 5th" and refuse to testify against itself.

- A corporation cannot be sentenced to a prison term as punishment

- Corporate free speech rights are more limited than individuals

I think you might be confused by the idea of "corporate personhood." This idea doesn't mean that a corporation is a person, it means that corporations have some (but not all!) aspects of being a person.
Then people started using Desk Accessories for things far beyond what was originally intended, then they became Desk Excessories.

In the days that your Mac-power-user-penis-length was measured every time you boot by how many extension icons plopped out along the bottom of the screen (and wrapped up to the next line), there was actually a coveted viagra-like meta-penis-extension that you could paste a bunch of ICON's into with ResEdit.

When you booted, it would sequentially plop all those icons out one by one, so it looked like you had as many extensions as you wanted, whatever you wanted them to look like! It would slow down your boot a bit, but it sure was worth it.
I don’t know about this. I think the trait system is so powerful of a concept for genetics and such that I find that I practice OO pretty regularly. I avoid dynamic polymorphism, but most OO practices translate really well into Rust.
Right, except the specific claim here as I understand it is that companies should be able to refuse to comply with warrants if the responsive data is stored in another country even if the company can access said data and that the lack of ability to do so exists in the US but not in the EU.
When I left there a year ago there was not much innovation going on, just kowtowing to marketing/design.
SourceForge and Slashdot are both owned by BIZX. They bought them both from DHI (Dice) back in the start of 2016. The sale was announced in January of 2016. BIZX is pronounced like 'physics' but with a B. As near as I can tell, BIZX is an advertising company.
Right – "fixed the bug that ate my files" isn't good enough. I need to feel confident that the next version of the software won't introduce another similar bug.

The best "protection" I've seen in this space is to log all changes to the edited document, through a simple (and therefore easy to prove correct) code path. The only editor I've ever seen do this was a Xilinx schematic editor. The editor crashed all the time, but I never lost work, since on restart, the editor simply replayed what it had in its log. (This was fun to watch!) Of course this method isn't foolproof, but it went a long way making me feel confident my work wouldn't be lost.
And at the same time it seems that Chrome is also the new IE in that developers write applications that only work in Chrome. Not so different than web apps using ActiveX back in day.
Fowler was part of the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation system project that was the programming disaster that all the XP people spawned from--thus proving yet again "It's better to fail loudly than succeed quietly".

Fowler seems to have gotten better over the years, but I don't put him in the A-List with people like Rich Hickey or Cliff Click.
Down the Rabbit Hole: How I Taught Myself to Code and Became an Engineer
You didn't actually list things that someone could do to be an "A player", you just mentioned some people you already think are A players. You could easily judge the people you mentioned on the same rubric you bring up and find them wanting.

Patrick for instance (who I pick precisely because I respect him so much) could be crucified by your model ('charge more' is the best bumper sticker ever, he endlessly tells you to add people to your newsletter, lessons learned are his core competency, etc)
Humans are likely the first hominids to occupy the Americas.

There's some speculation of earlier migrations:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-evidence-hu...

In any case, humans had been living here for several thousand years before Columbus arrived 500 years ago. Is it so difficult to see a distinction between millions of people with hundreds of years of history and thousands of people arriving on ships?

(Estimates of the total population vary quite a lot; millions is quite a safe claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigeno... )
That's why we have such massive forced redistribution of those resources (e.g. progressive income taxes), yes.

There is a limit in either case. Nobody would say one person should be allowed to control all global wealth, or that one person should be assigned all of North America. It's just a matter how where you draw your line.
3 Ways to Remove Noise from Data/Signal
How is this relevant? The article includes a discussion of "McNamara and Kissinger’s capacity to convey confidence about the rightness of America’s Vietnam policies are major reasons for the tragic deaths of nearly 60,000 Americans and approximately 2 to 3 million Vietnamese."

This took place before the 26th amendment, in 1971.

The new voting rights for 18-20 year olds also does not affect Spitzer's role in DSM-3.

Biederman got his MD in Argentina in 1971, so he too wasn't affected by the change in the US voting age.
Study suggests psychedelic drugs increase people's sense of connectedness
Ask: What are the mechanics of how Coinbase moves its Bitcoin?
Do several executives meet in a special room at a certain hour, with their keys on paper/usb, and type them into an air-gapped machine one-by-one?

How do they handle a lost key, do they have to move $1 billion+ of Bitcoin to a new wallet?
Don't forget the spinning, humming & clicking rust they use rather than an SSD. One errant kid hits it too quickly and shatter goes those platters!
READER: I didn't like your story at all.

JAMES THURBER: Did you read the French translation?

READER: No, I read it in English.

THURBER: That explains it. It suffers greatly in the original.

[This was told me by my father. I can't find a published source, and a web search doesn't turn up anything similar. My father interviewed Thurber once, but this isn't from the version that was published, and it doesn't sound like something Thurber would have told about himself. Epistemic status: probably apocryphal.]
The problem is that this exists already and doesn't work. The fundamental problem is that "suspect" is based on assumption of guilt first and not on assumption of "innocence" first.

We already have enough evidence that the "haystacks" are far too big. Law enforcement should required very highly trained individuals that have extremely high standards of protecting the citizenry without requiring exceptions to obeying the law. Yet, what we see is LEO's of all description who are self-entitled, above the law and are only concerned about what they want, they kill, they steal, they destroy with the courts (in many cases) just giving them a free pass.

Society at large, doesn't trust them and these non-trusted groups are not interested (on the whole) to change to gain that trust back. So, until they change there is no logical reason for giving them any leeway.

In terms of your exceptional cases, there are laws already on the books that handle this. There is no need for additional specialised law to cover these cases.

The problem of "crime prevention" is that this is not an add-on feature. "Crime prevention" is a fundamental feature of a society that is responsible. Yes, there will be instances of a crime happening and you need to deal with this after the event with the appropriate action. Unfortunately, in today's society, many things that are "crimes" only because a section of society think they should be are treated as more serious than things that are really crimes. So copying a film is more punishable than taking a life. Go on from there.

[edits to correct spelling]
I don't know what editor the GP is talking about, but I would love an editor which had some sort of persistent edit-buffer. So, my work is always saved somewhere, and simply committed to the file I'm working on when I click "save".
Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly - a must own if you're interested in making things.

https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Tools-Possibilities-Kevin-Kelly/...
Stranger Things pop-up bar asked to shut down with humorous cease-and-desist
Engineering-wise, data dup and replication is worldwide for guaranteed access times, availability and DR. This particular legal advantage is a bonus of good design :)
Could it be Fran Allen, the one with the Turing award? But I can't find the comment with google, so maybe not.
Yeah, it was a translation (my French is not nearly good enough to tackle philosophy). I found my copy, it's the umich press one, translated by Glaser. Though I don't think it's the translation per se, it really was the writing. I agree that it might be a cultural thing, but I've read Montaigne, for example, and it's much clearer even though he predates Baudrillard by 350 years. :-)

I'm looking through this again, and there were just so many places where he makes dubious but absolute statements without backing it up at all, and we're to take him at his word. "It is simulation that is effective, and never the real". OK, man. Or the way he throws in vague sentences for effect. I mean, I can't start a chapter with the sentence "The apotheosis of simulation: the nuclear" while keeping a straight face.

Anyway, like I said, I think eventually it builds into something cool and tangible it you stick through it, but it takes a lot of digging.
Interesting. Microsoft is fairly good at bringing things into a consumer space.

Might be nice to have a future version of Windows see me doing a repetitive task, and just say, "Hey, I can take over this for you if you'd like".
As lobster_johnson stated, Prometheus storage retention is a command line launch option.

Prometheus is not intentionally designed as a long term cold storage option for metrics. You _can_ store metrics for as long as your storage allows, but Prometheus is not going to replicate or manage that data to prevent long term degradation. Depending on your long term needs, the preferred pattern is to roll data off Prometheus into a metrics store that better handles data over the scope of months. Rolling data off of Prometheus is done with an exporter and documented [here](https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...).

In most use operational use cases I've come across, we've only needed about a month of data, so keeping it in Prometheus was kosher. YMMV.
> I wonder if it would be possible to have a pool of VM processes that are already running and ready to accept an application code

This was tried with Drip and the earlier Nailgun. The idea doesn't work as well as you'd think for several practical reasons (the JVM is very lazy, so a JVM that does nothing until it has user code to run does just that - nothing).
While not bad (I have it) this is not Marshall Mcluhan's work. It is some other guy's. The text is ripped from Marshall Mcluhan's work of the same name which is a for more exploratory work and not fit for a 2017 coffee table.
PHP has some unique design considerations that make it better suited for web. PHP's main significant weaknesses for that domain would be the lack of a strong type system, lack of strong event based server ecosystem (what reactphp does, nodejs, golang, etc.), and it's slower than Java. It has multiple popular long supported rails alternatives. Python and Ruby have nothing over PHP for web development. PHP has the absolute best first class support for isolated http request handling, live updating only challenged by erlang, standard library designed entirely around webdev, great tooling for building c extensions, widespread cpanel hosting, and composer (pip is garbage compared to composer).

So while you might like ruby/python because it's prettier or because PHP 4 was awful, the idea that one of them is a better web language is totally laughable. If you asked me to define a language better than PHP for web applications, I would have you a long list not even considering python and ruby.
I've heard the number $100,000 thrown around [1] as possibly Russian ad-spend on Facebook for "political" ads. I've read a story about a pretty corny Facebook group [2] promoting Texas succession and possibly also links to CA succession rallies as well.

What I haven't heard is a reasonable argument on whether this mattered in the slightest. This is an election where over a billion dollars was spent by the major parties. The amount of hand-wringing over some astroturf seems over the top.

Both campaigns spent heavily to influence social media. I remember reading specifically about Clinton PAC Correct the Record spending $1 million [3] to basically troll for her on social media.

There is absolutely no reason, absent extraordinary evidence, to believe any of this influenced the election. It's not enough to just not want to believe people freely voted the way they did because the "wrong" candidate won.

Take for example the "hacking" of 21 states election systems. Washington Post reports [4] that actually this was basically port scanning. Some states said the attack amounted to about one minute of scanning in an environment where they are being probed millions of times per day. It just seems rather breathless to me to single out "Russia" (actually Russian IPs) when scans are coming from IPs all over the world.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/07/a-...

[2] - http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-facebook-group-ads-tex...

[3] - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/correct...

[4] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/23/wh...
Off topic, but you should get this if you see it for cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/City-Darkness-Life-Kowloon-Walled/dp/...

It's amazing.
It's a nontechnical post.

For technical posts, see https://danielmiessler.com/study/

For several topics, the guy's blog is high on Google and provides detailed, plain introductions.

Anyway, A player is relative to the league and specific to the skill. Tough to judge from a random blogpost. I guess that should be a platitude, but it's worth repeating.
Wage growth for who? Citation please.
This is awesome. I've never really understood group theory before, but this helps a lot
I like this, write a book pls
I'm skeptical of the idea that the tragedy of the unintended epidemic resulted, fairly, in property rights for the invaders. It means that either:

- "collective pre-existing rights became held in abeyance because so many rightsholders died" -- This assumes the living natives were not the owners of what was still there, either because they were propertyless, or the dead rightsholders didn't have a way to transfer property rights - which they would necessarily, historically have had for rights to have been a pre-existing Native American cultural notion - at the very instant they met the explorers.

- "the natives didn't have a notion of property rights, but the explorers did. the explorers were able to respect property rights, so it was best and fair that they acquired as much as they could" -- If anything this suggests that the explorers had great disrespect or didn't even understand property themselves. It was peak hypocrisy to violate the Native American population's property rights -- that were still their rights even if they were unaware of them. You cannot steal something from someone else if you think they don't know it is theirs. I have a suspicion that this idea I keep hearing "natives didn't have the concept of property" is really just false and veiled racism.

- "even if natives did have property rights nevertheless the invading explorers had a different concept of property rights" -- yes, the explorers had the same idea of fair property rights as someone going into a convenience store and shouting "nobody move, this is a stickup!"
Since NeverCalled is visible to other translation units, it can be called, for instance, by a global constructor before main is called.

The compiler is also doing the linking in this case, being given the complete command line, and it very much knows all the "translation units" which will be present, and none of them call that function.

Consider eliminating a branch predicated on `w < w + c`: this expression can be, a check for signed-integer-overflow, coming from a macro-expansion and expected by the programmer to be eliminated, a result of constant-progagation, or a result of other optimizations.

A bit of range analysis, like what an intelligent human would do, suffices to determine whether that expression will be a constant. If all the terms of the expression are constant, then so will the result be; and the sane thing to do, in the face of incomplete information, is to assume that a variable can take on any value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_range_analysis
stone age people to the south? Didn't Spaniards and Englishmen had the same technology?
This is one of the things I see on HN where all I can think is "how the flying f..k does this even work" and "what a madness of assets, that must have taken months to record".

For what its worth, the simulator even does physics (try not pressing right on a hill, for example - the tram will roll backwards, and brake much faster than on plain level)... awesome.
Similar but simpler markup is Muse: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs-muse/

Wiki engine based on this markup: https://amusewiki.org/
Not just Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero III. Guitar Hero is almost 12 years old.
So bending over backwards and making companies not follow the law is "stifling technology companies". As others have pointed out Uber could play by the rules if they wanted to.
Just remember, such correlations work until they don’t. If you’re trading and not investing, price is all that matters.

Will you be uncomfortable if the market tops in 2017? Being comforted solely by a headline suggests that you intend on taking action if you believe the market has topped — or that you will suffer some discomfort. May I ask which, if either or both?
MBP2015 here, with Intel GPU, and Chrome with 100+ open tabs - no problems here. I even noticed that you're playing a cat avatar. Just how awesome is this.
"Correct the record" should go down in infamy but I'm afraid it will instead become the norm. Where you simply cannot hold a meaningful political conversation over public channels in the lead-up to a presidential election.
I don't think that's what 'straw man' means.
The British stole the president's dinner and burned the White House during the war of 1812:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington#White_Ho...

A storm intervened on behalf of USA.
Shuttleworth and Stallman on whether Windows 10 is free software's friend