skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it is with IE and Edge on Windows phone, funnily enough.
+1 to this. "Impactful" is not just clunky, it's corporate wankspeak. "Impacted" is bad enough -- only teeth, fractures and faeces can be impacted -- but that appears already to be a lost battle, unfortunately.
You should try plotting ease of recall vs the size of password. You will quickly realize there is a long tail beyond 16 characters.
That sounds like it'd require a huge overhaul to the phone system. At which point... why do the telcos even need to be involved here? VoIP is common enough now that you could just have a menu system before the call and trigger a VoIP call to the right department automatically.

And heck, let's get rid of phone queues while we're at it - just have the agent trigger a callback rather than making them listen to an awful hold music loop for potentially upwards of 15 minutes.
Hi! Thank you for the kind words!
How to handle worrying work requests
Quarantine.
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+the+fuck+did+I+just+rea...
Wow, this is literally thoughtcrime.
> The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor.

And it's only "legal" on the minority of models made by a single vendor. That doesn't make it any less relevant that for the intended environment for it to be installed on, it's far easier.
I have watched ISIS recruitment videos. They have pretty catchy music and are well produced, actually.

I've watched GPY stuff, older Taliban stuff, all that.

I'm not even religious and it wasn't even scholarly. I was just curious about the debate and like to see things for myself.

I'm not sure I'm going to do well in a dystopian future.p

Anyhow, freedom is not something given once. It's something constantly defended. How you do that is up to you, I suppose.
So, how do you like enterprise sales?
FEMA removes — then restores — statistics about drinking water access and electricity in Puerto Rico from website

What's with the title change for clickbait?

— then restores —
What about Willy Beamish?
Earlier implementation explained here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuumnjJWFO4#t=2m07s
Suggested reading: Zero to One by Peter Thiel. It's a great book and it goes over this topic.
The real experience is using the tools in the image for a couple of days... only then you'll have eureka moment
I don't think I have any fondness for either. Kind of missed the train when they were still hip, and only use them because I have to.

But I'm already writing a eulogy for Skype. Skype is a zombie. The current offering is wearing the skin of Skype, the real deal was P2P.

I still use Skype heavily for group chat with friends (we have a chat thread that's not missed a day since 2010, and has people joining and leaving every year) and videocalls (my family is spread across the continent). But I fear that a stray update could take the functionality I need away. With how MS kills their products, it can just happen one day.
Isn't the main point that no one dials anymore on touch screen phones? You can most of the time even click on a number in an email/website, you have all contacts in your address book. Why would someone optimise a problem that is on a past curve of technology? I would love to see this research put into text input though...
"Just because a classification is invented doesn't mean it is meaningless or useless."

In the case of "assault weapons", though, the classification does indeed happen to be meaningless and useless. With the possible exceptions of silencers/suppressors and maybe bayonet/equipment mounts, the vast majority of what constitutes an "assault weapon" has effectively zero real effect on that weapon's lethality (either to an individual or to a large group).
they probably changed the title, no need for accusations
What are K tables?
I think this is fine for excusing the social quirks of individual contributors. If you're talking co-founders, though, I'd consider this "caveat" a red flag. If a person can't bring himself to make a positive impression to other human beings because he's too enamored of the "idea and doesn't care for the looks," he probably doesn't have the requisite maturity to co-found a business that will employ people.

Of course, some people really are all talk and no action. But I suspect you're assuming too strong a correlation with social skills. The fact is that there are plenty of brilliantly social people who can and do execute, and plenty of smart introverts who can't. I'm not saying, "go into business with your friends!" I'm saying go into business with people you trust and respect.

The corollary is to become someone who is trusted and respected by people who don't share the same skills and biases you have. Good places to start: seriously consider whether "the looks" have merit, and practice carrying friendly conversations.
Jihad or Nationalism. The centrists (e.g. May/Macron/Merkel) fear and yet benefit from both - they can sacrifice freedoms to sell corporatist agendas.

Meanwhile populists across the spectrum are tarred and feathered as helping the extremists (or "not being strong enough against them").
If you can, drop me a line (email in profile) - if nothing else I may be able to hook you up with an old but functional laptop or two.
Two Io9 Staffers Watch Blade Runner for the First Time,  What They Thought
thx for the suggestions - not quite what i was looking for. it's not so much bookmarking for later reading as a background process that dumps an archive file onto my hard drive. i'm especially not interested in someone else's side project since the risk is that they'll fold in x years. my usr scenario is being able to re-read a web page i know i saw even if i forgot to bookmark it ie, just about anything to do with climate change on a US govt site. a kind of distributed collection of 'truthy-ish' references (a large number of people have the same hash of the original page on their personal archive -> truthy-ish).
> So Bell System decided to conduct their own research, and after testing many different layouts, decided to choose the one that we all use now.

The article glosses over the fact that the layout we use now was not not the best in the Bell study. As you can see from the image in the article [1] the traditional circular layout was the only one that had both significantly shorter keying time and significantly lower error rate. The other source they link to [2] says that "Performance and preference differences, though, were deemed to be fairly small overall across the five finalists, so for engineering reasons Bell went with the layout we know today."

[1] https://archive.org/stream/bstj39-4-995#page/n3/mode/2up

[2] https://99percentinvisible.org/article/squaring-circle-seven...
I vehemently disagree.

If you abandon reason, then you can only be right by pure coincidence.

If you vanquish ideas using means other than reason, then you have only vanquished bad ideas by pure coincidence.
the x compact was a downgrade from the z5c in many ways. i'm not certain i'll be upgrading my z5c to the xz1 either since they finally got a mostly bug-free Lineage build for it [1] - though i suspect much of this work will carry over into the xz1, too.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-compact/development/rom-...
To give a little context, 99% of the US has clean drinking water[1] and 100% access to electricity[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/03/access...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?year_hig...
To be fair, "reason, discussion and facts" have always been malleable in the hands of the powerful. "The Divine Right of Kings" was based on them. So was "scientific racism".

You need to be careful because it's hard to define what shaming and ostracism mean. I think James Watson is a both misogynist and racist and I don't want to be part of a meeting where he is involved.

Am I shaming or ostracizing him, or am I practicing my rights of free speech and association?

In general, by what reason and what facts do you determine that my actions are no longer acceptable? If that happens, what can you do about it which won't, in turn, be labeled "shaming, ostracizing, and censoring"?
I'm going to guess that, seeing as the update was made this afternoon, the story was posted before the story was updated. Not everything is a malicious act.
An Ajax UX Pattern for Creating, Updating, and Ordering Items
Right -- they changed it when FEMA fixed the issue.
Actually yes please...

I would love to see that math worked out with someone who has written a popular program/website.
Dongles are the future.
I make a few bucks here and there editing resumes, sometimes for surprisingly statusy people. If you are doing your own resume without help, check for typos and for formatting consistency. All dates should be the same format. Look for stray commas, periods, etc.

This is one of the single biggest things I do. I sometimes spend far more time on reformatting such things than on rewording anything.

(Pro tip: Try reading it backwards. Humans are really bad about mentally filling in what they meant to say instead of seeing what they actually wrote when reading through their own work.)
I don't think it's a waste of time, it's bringing to the table a potential future that we need to begin to digest as a society immediately. Star Trek, for example, showed us an "obvious future" in which humanity was perfectly united, and then drew the scope in - what would your average office (or, naval vessel I guess) look like in this world? How would the people interact?

(I say obvious future because I don't see a future in which humanity has spread amongst the stars happening before it unites across cultural lines)

So this story says: "One day, we will have to deal with someone making a multi-purpose AI. This is one of the scenarios it might happen in - secretly, and for profit. Here's some speculation about how that would go down. How do you feel about this? What are the sort of preparations you think society should make, if this were to happen?"

If the only step is "AI happens," that's not nearly so bad or infeasible as "FTL happens" or "Time Travel happens."

I guess I am very stuck on your line "as science fiction, it's kind of a waste of time." How else can we imagine and design our futures but through things that don't currently exist (fiction)? Our entire world is literally science fiction in the eyes of Jules Verne - flying vehicles, submarines, traveling to the moon, etc.
Violent threats are already illegal and I haven't seen anyone here arguing to make them legal. What is your point?
For anyone who can't be bothered to click through, the "evidence" is a report from El Pais which says:

1. RT reported on Catalonia in ways which El Pais didn't like.

2. Julian Assange is guilty of tweeting "opinions" and "half truths". The idea that Assange has something to do with Russia is taken as given, although it's about as credible as the rest of it.

3. "Bots" which re-tweeted the famously Russian American Edward Snowden. No evidence that any such bots exist is provided, nor that anyone in Catalonia cares what Snowden thinks.

4. "Pro Kremlin websites" spread "biased news".

In other words, there's absolutely fuck all evidence of the Russian government doing anything in Catalonia. Rather, El Pais was disgusted to discover that there are people in the world - like Australians and Americans - who don't agree with what Spain is doing. And once more, instead of accepting that the world is full of people who disagree with them, they invented a Russian conspiracy!

This entire episode is truly pathetic.
No but those who ban it gain political capital for "being strong against X" where X the bogeyman of the day.
Tock: An embedded OS written in Rust
> Also, Google has increasingly made it difficult to automate searches

That's an understatement. Doing something as simple as

inurl:"humans.txt"

...and consuming the first three pages showed me CAPTCHA. It was done via a browser, manually. Not all links were clicked.
I used to have a complex formula, but now that I'm older I realize how much of an investment starting any business is. Now it just boils down to the question of if I want to spend the next 10 years of my life on an "idea".
This single line puts the whole article into the realm of
pure science fiction: no technology capable of working
such an ill-defined task like "programming AI systems"
exists,

I'll admit that they're not (currently) very good at it but there are interesting examples that contradict you: look up Genetic Programming; or Alistair Channon's work (15 years ago) on the generative production of neural networks.

In 2003 and based on Channon's work, I built a system for generating and evolving neural networks using genetic algorithms which coded Lindenmeyer System to build the networks. Attached it to the Heat Bugs agent simulation (albeit with a well defined tasks) and it was startlingly effective. Given the current interest in AI, I've been meaning to resurrect and publish that code.

There was a good blog post on here the other day saying: we're doing lots of work and producing interesting results (the equivalent of the "dual slit experiment" for AI), but we haven't yet formalized the results into a framework. We're probably close.
It worked for drugs! /s
The footnote got me curious about Segwit2x replay protection, so I went to find how it works[1].

Essentially, strong replay protection would work automatically but force wallets and other software to upgrade to use the forked chain. Opt-in replay protection allows existing wallets to be used with the fork immediately.

Whether this is good or bad really depends on who you ask, I suppose. From Bitcoin.org's perspective, they see this lack of strong protection as a way for the Segwit2x chain to steal coins from the 'real' chain. From the Segwit2x perspective, they see this as maintaining compatibility under the assumption that they will become the main (essentially only) chain.

Opt-in protection seems like a negative if the chains continue to coexist for a long time, since both chains will be vulnerable. It only makes sense if you think it one chain will die off. And yet, I could see Opt-In replay protection encouraging the chains to merge, as users are slightly incentivized to pick a chain rather than deal with replay protection indefinitely.

The beauty of the blockchain is that we will see this all play out publicly, and learn from the results [citation needed].

[1] https://bitcointechtalk.com/how-segwit2x-replay-protection-w...
Puerto Rico has a website tracking availability by municipality: http://www.status.pr/Maps/MapaAlimentosAgua?lng=en
How feasible is CPU only deep learning? I keep hearing about outrageous training times for GPUs on the order of weeks with something like 4-8 GPUs, is anyone actually using CPUs instead?
I wonder if Steve saw this lecture by Richard Feynman, where Feynman uses a similar metaphor to explain how computers work.
React components in a nut shell
1984, pre-internet! Or at least pre WWW and big internet

>Playboy: Those are arguments for computers in business and in schools, but what about the home?

...

This will change: Computers will be essential in most homes.

Playboy: What will change?

Jobs: The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone
.
Playboy: Specifically, what kind of breakthrough are you talking about?

Jobs: I can only begin to speculate. We see that a lot in our industry: You don’t know exactly what’s going to result, but you know it’s something very big and very good.
Sort of tangentially related:

I recently read a book about ocean-crossing by private boat that turned out to be written by Ken Williams, the cofounder of Sierra (i.e. the husband you mentioned). It turns out that being ultra-rich from founding and selling a major software company can open doors to cool, expensive hobbies.

https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Ocean-Under-Power-Williams/d...
The URL slug has the article's original title.
I don’t know, should it be special to be able to explain things? I think it should actually be normal
Our road to self-driving vehicles
The data behind this is not machine readable anyway, what's the gain here?
I've seen nobody here making that argument, and since it is presented as 'common' but with no concrete examples I am plenty happy calling it a strawman argument.
> forced to use the actual Yahoo Mail website

I left in 2016 and in practice we just didn't use email at all because it was so painful to use.
Eleven 9s of durability is an utterly farcical guarantee from a decade old service. A single big durability event in the next century would irrevocably decimate that record. They really might as well claim 100% durability, because it is no less plausible.

I mean, what are the odds that S3 will even be operating in 100 years? I'll certainly put $1 against $1,000,000,000 that it won't, and that's only one many ways it could fail the standard.
If organic matter can survive (bones and even sometimes tissues), we can be very assured that hardened structures would.

Furthermore, there's nothing in the fossil record suggesting humans were around very^very long ago, so it'd have to have been a different intelligent species.
Stop pretending to like IPAs
I look so forward to humilate all those culture warriors with there unripe opinions on cartoonish over the top humor. If history taught us one thing it's that those without humor are bad company
Found the rubyist who elevates developer happiness to a first class level language feature

Btw, those concerns are not language "paradigms"
There is another definition: what developers mean and understand when they say and hear "open source". It isn't hard to find OSS developers who've never heard of OSD, or DFSG, or _What is free software?_, or once they have, care much about them. "Open Source" is part of their identity. As far as they're concerned, it belongs to them.

There is also a difference between OSD conformance and OSI approval. That's been made very clear in the license-review thread for the License Zero Reciprocal Public License of late, and in many private conversations besides.

The License Zero Noncommercial Public License was never meant to be "Open Source" as defined by OSI. It may be "open source" as developers use that term today. If the latter, I'm not sure _I'm_ happy about that.

The reciprocal public license will be OSD-conformant. OSI may or may not approve it, on policy grounds. FSF may or may not opine that it's a Free Software license, or an ethical license. It may or may not be "open source" as developers use and understand that term today, or tomorrow.

All of these brands, labels, categories, and border disputes matter so, so much less than the real, underlying problems in lining up support and compensation with contribution in software. If by breaking or smudging these categories, L0 creates a clearer line of sight through to those problems, I think that's great!
We've batted the idea around :P
In case anyone wants to glorify the "good old days": http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
Oh for fuck's sake, I had forgotten about this.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
This was reminiscent of the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour being towed through the streets of L.A. in 2012:

https://www.space.com/18052-space-shuttle-endeavour-toyota-t...
Part of what L0 does is offer a single set of terms for paid licenses, published online, based on Apache-2.0, the enterprise-iest permissive license. The diffs (lawyerspeak: "redlines") are right on the site: https://licensezero.com/licenses/private/diff
Google Fiber is losing interest in old-school TV
I agree.

But given the position they hold I think they need to develop this skill.

It’s very clear that ‘throw an algorithm up without thinking of abuse/negative consequences and fix it later’ works terribly.
Type `about:config` in the address bar.

Then type `privacy` in the search bar that appears.

Look for `privacy.trackingprotection.ui.enabled` and double click it.

I think that will turn it on everywhere.
When you work for 5 years at a place, and unemployment law only recognizes the last 2 years as history, yes, I am getting cheated.

The point of unemployment insurance is to cover things like this. And when the govt's law intentionaly blinds them to your previous payments, there definitely is something wrong.

Did I calculate exactly how much I paid in? No. But do 5 years of being paid reasonably well; I paid in plenty.
No reason this couldn't accept a content type of application/htsl (for hypertext S-expression language, of course). I proposed something like this in a comment of mine a couple of months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14931277
A bit sad that it does not allow for the file to be signed with OpenPGP.
Yeah, that would totally stop terrorists.
tvtropes had a good write-up of the "guess the verb" phenomenon with several Sierra examples including the infamous case of needing to "press" (but not "push") a button

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouCantGetYeFlask
I would assume any Yahoo service is vulnerable. I certainly wouldn’t expect major services like Mail to just go poof overnight, but my working assumption is that they could easily be gone over the next few years.
Open source means anyone can make changes and redistribute them, not just that anyone can use the software.

Let's say Bob writes a little stub of a project. It's kind of useful, and he licenses it with L0. Then someone, let's call her Jane, using the noncommercial rights listed takes her copy, adds features, fixes bugs, and speeds up the performance. Jane's contributions far outweigh the initial contributions from Bob, but she added enhancements one at a time rather than starting from scratch. Then IBM needs 30,000 seat licenses for company desktops. The money for the commercial use of Jane's contributions goes to... Bob?
Hi zeveb, thank you for the kind words!

I have thought about that, and afaik that is the approach of CommonQT, definitely a good solution, but I chose EQL + ECL specifically due to the fantastic support their respective developers provided. They're really smart guys, and I appreciate what they're doing.

Ad-blocking shouldn't be too hard to do in QT, I think I may have to do it in the C++ Layer below though. I believe one has to extend QNetworkManager or some other similarly named class.

Anyways, thank you for your interest, lots of new features in the works :)
Wooooops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ZvZAG_XRg
Probably not. You as a developer could write a Jepsen harness for your system and find the same results seen here. You could also write property-based tests to improve your testing model and input space coverage. You could also use mutation testing to see how good your tests are, etc. etc. etc.

At my last job we held off running a chaos test suite against our platform in the certification environment until _after_ the QA department came back with their report and gave the platform all green checkmarks. This was an exercise in both validating the value of the chaos engineering/testing work as well as partially discrediting the idea that QA is capable of exercising enough of the system in enough ways to expose non-obvious/nuanced edge cases.

I mean I guess there's an argument to be made that QA could be engineering and building their own rich tooling like a chaos testing framework, but that seems extremely unlikely to happen in the current typical formulation of QA.
A forum thread[1] suggests it may be possible to use the profile refresh functionality to recover most of the profile. Only problem is that it does not preserve extensions or settings.

[1]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3032457