skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you can tell, I didn't research the history that far back. Thanks for the corrections.

Looking now into the history of the Chinese calendar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars#China says:

> Before the Spring and Autumn period (before 770 BC), the Chinese Calendars were solar calendars. In the so-called five-phase calendar, the year consists of 10 months and a transition, each month being 36 days long, and the transitions 5 or 6 days. During the Warring States period (~475-220 BC), the primitive lunisolar calendars were established under the Zhou Dynasty,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar#Earlier_Chine... elaborates:

> Before the Zhou dynasty, the Chinese calendars used a solar calendar.

> According to Ancient Chinese literature, the first version was the five-phases calendar (traditional Chinese: 五行曆; simplified Chinese: 五行历), which came from the tying knots culture. ... The second version is the four-seasons calendar ... The third version is the balanced calendar ..

> In Zhou dynasty, the authority issued the official calendar, which is a primitive lunisolar calendar.

The Shang dynasty came before the Zhou dynasty, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script says that "The vertical columns of text in Chinese writing are traditionally ordered from right to left; this pattern is found on bronze inscriptions from the Shang dynasty onward."

This would seem to mean that the Chinese calendar had a right-to-left writing system and a solar calendar, before switching to a solilunar calendar, yes?

Does that not invalidate your thesis?

In any case, I don't see why there should be any connection. If there are only a few data points, then it's very easy to get coincidental correlations.

What difference does it make?
Because PHP is objectively a worse tool for its designed purpose than other alternatives.
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I wasn't aware that people doubted the intelligence or acumen of Steve Jobs.
How popular is Kik really? Snapchat for all its hype has had growth slowed like crazy and is in the lower hundred millions.
Now mozilla totally lost it.

I realized a few months ago that mozilla is run by google drones, so it no longer surprises me that mozilla kills itself.

But the level of stupidity is amazing. I think the people who work there are deliberately recruited in regards to who is the better one at killing off mozilla.
I had 2 instances of this sort of thing back in ... 99 or 2000. One in particular was a pretty explicit disclosure in Ameritech's online phone bill viewer. (I think this was 2000?)

ameritech.net/viewmybill.do?foo=bar&x=y&sessionid=xpq82947wrwd&billid=8394810

Change billid to 8394811... you're seeing someone else's bill.

Tried to contact Ameritech for a couple of days... got nowhere. Had a friend with connections at a major news network, and sent some example links (should have sent screenshots?), but he waited too long to click and the session id had timed out, and he wrote back and said to stop wasting his time.

I ended up connecting with some consumer advocate with a passion against ameritech - he owned 'fuckameritech.com' and he posted details of my exploit (although... without naming me as the reporter - still not sure if I should have pressed for that or not), and he contacted a bunch of Chicago-area media... and... something like 45 minutes after he posted that day their entire 'customer portal' was down for about 4 days. When it came back up, the new URL was something like

ameritech.net/viewmybill.do?foo=bar&x=y&sessionid=xpq82947wrwd&billid=8628AWIEQIUASDASPDQKLMCLKALMCNMQWEOUGI8761238762139ewrdsfEIURHFDSKJBDOSIDSKJBFNBOIKJDNSFKJNSDFISODSOFU8321270r75123670124sfsdhlbhfuasbyrlewcbhrdkjsfhdsfer78984y32hrfdj....etc

The bill ID was now something like 500+ characters long - probably a hash of something, but not as easily randomly guessable. IIRC, some versions of either netscape or IE had troubles with URLs that were that long, so whatever I was using I needed to switch to a different browser.

If you're the guy who ran fuckameritech, thanks for helping get that out. :)
> I could literally throw ten ideas at you right now of fixable things of various complexity in my domain (academic bioengineering).

Let us have it! And please add your email in profile
> Bitcoin is global at this point. No one jurisdiction is going to shut it down.

Especially as countries like Japan are embracing cryptocurrencies. That must make other countries wonder whether trying to attack cryptocurrencies will end up leaving them at a competitive disadvantage.
PHP has historically sucked.

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/128/PHP-PHP.html?vendor_id...

I have gotten out of the consulting world a bit, but for a while a php codebase meant I would double my estimated time on any quote I sent out. There is terrible php out there and most of it is vulnerable to every one of the OWASP top 10.
... or by having a shared-memory account database in a tmpfs at /run/systemd/dynamic-uid/ . (-:

That idea, by the way, was invented more fully and more generally about a decade and a half ago by Daniel Rench, who named it "userdir".
I assume they were talking about in the past. Like a decade ago or earlier. Though 6 digit ones selling for thousands still seems a bit much unless they were appealing rounded numbers. 5 digits for thousands of dollars was def a thing in the mid 00s.
>within 6-9 months timeframe

Can you name any title that was developed in that timeframe? With yearly release cycles, it's easy to think they're pumping out projects in less than 12 months, but in reality each title takes years to finish, and the yearly releases are accomplished by using multiple studios/teams and pipelining.
things life quantum tunneling and "not existing before measurements" are deep phenomena but might as well be magic until you understand decaying solutions to pdes and superposition, at which point they become very obvious. read a real book that's gentle.
The linked article misrepresents the BBC report it is based on. The article suggests this is already the law. The BBC reports it is a proposal made at the Conservative Party conference.
Admired by whom? Fortune magazine editors? Those aren't one of the relevant categories.
Bye bye Java: It’s time for Indian institutions to let go of outdated languages
Nice! KISS at work :-)
There is not much here to tell a given mentee if they should expect to pay people for their advice or if the mentor expects to be treated like a consultant.
How did this get on the home page?

Bigger companies also do that, Vodafone was compressing all images that went through their 3G service, and a ton of ISP inject / redirect HTTP traffic to tell you to pay the bills
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has been trying a neat approach at their Janelia research center: the researchers they accept are completely funded by them on the condition that they stop getting other grants. The idea is that they should spend all of their time on research, and since HHMI has a somewhat ludicrous amount of money if they need something they make the case internally rather than starting the grant process.
Challenge: look at just the visualization and NAME! THAT! ALGORITHM!
Given the color pallet of the comic shouldn't it be called Tritanopia?
The space is actually really crowded and relationships matter more than they should.

Flex can’t charge a premium and die without the volume. Freight is a cost center. The absolutely largest buyers will use in house or demand lowest rates, small guys cant afford high rates.

Also owning equipment is righ risk low reward.
if only it was original Google idea, and not something stolen by X division like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15422157

https://www.wired.com/story/the-lawsuit-that-could-pop-alpha...
Maybe should have linked here directly: https://www.sifive.com/products/coreplex-risc-v-ip/u54-mc/
I'm not doubting it, but in what way is Truecaller so successful? Never heard of it.
Yes they are, but they are also an ISP here in SA, among many.
It's not "kinda shitty" - it is an act of betrayal by mozilla.

The company once known to care about user privacy, now u-turned and works against you.

The sooner mozilla dies, the better. It has become evil - not as evil as google yet, but on its way towards more and more evilness.
Why do you find the "fairness" not making sense? Seems to make sense to me. Telegram has the same feature for showing how many hours ago someone was active.
Time warner was doing something similar
This is not bad - Mozilla employees can then be put in prison.

It's also one way to do away with mozilla.
Is the proposal publicly available somewhere?
The Ford F150 truck is now aluminum. Somewhat notable since it's their best selling vehicle...not just best selling truck. There's still a fair amount of debate on whether it was a good idea to move to aluminum.
Very unlikely - I am sure you can be identified too.

Either way it is ethically questionable.

Another example of how evil mozilla has become.
Like project Loon?, or ANS? Copying something verbatim and claiming it yours sure doesnt sound clean room to me.
Is it safe to assume that pixels are perfectly square?
That explains nothing at all.

Are you working for Mozilla per chance?
> helping them to find fulfillment in their education

This did not happen to me or my friends until university. I doubt anything would've fooled us into liking school, but learning games at least would have passed the time quicker.
That's how Aim is now for me. The only people logged in for the past couple of years are people who's messages forward to their texts.
One could say the same about the US, but there are large groups of resistance in both countries. The mainstream media doesn’t always cover it. The UK Labour Party is the largest and most radical party in Europe for instance. And there are many protests all over the US.
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I agree. I recommend also another of his videos (that may not be so related to this subject, but is amazing) "BEAKMALLUSION: Free Energy Devices" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT_bTnkwLuE If you watched 'Beakman's World' when you were young, this episode includes Beakman himself.
Yes it’s not a law, but still quite an astonishing proposal.
It used to be more mono-cultural so standards used to be relatively more universal among the population and one authority would be less controversial.
Thank you for sharing. This is the best thing I've seen on HN in a long time.
> British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. However, the threat of prison only covers new story formats that lawmakers think don’t deserve the same kind of protection as old-fashioned books: it’s only people who watch video on the Internet who will be put in prison, and only when they watch something that promotes terrorism, whatever that means this week.

How do they discern intention? What about videos that auto-play? Like, what if a nefarious website wanted to cause others harm or mock the law?

This seems preposterous.
Robohash is fantastic. I have been using its output as my personal avatar for years now. Sad thing is that I can’t remember the input I used to generate the robot I use.

Unlike most of these, the robots are pretty distinctive.
You should join the lawsuit or at least talk with their lawyers, I'm sure they would be very interested in talking with you.
And those horizontal scanlines on all images really bother my eyes.
You didnt get stock options?
http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses

Leonard Susskind's series of courses at Stanford's School of Continuing Education are a treasure. They cover the math required, but the focus is on the pure math necessary so you can move on to the next thing, and not a lot on rote calculation.
I’m surprised, but I like this (I typically don’t like or agree with textbook comparisons, but I think this tour is mostly right). The Sedgewick text, Algorithms should be in there too but the author apparently didn’t read that.

My own experience basically agrees: I’ve read and enjoy Skiena, it’s written in clear style and it’s the “cover to cover” text for a working developer or for interview practice. But I also have TAOCP and CLRS on my shelf, and I haven’t read either of them. I’ve certainly used both of them a lot, but I simply haven’t read all of them because I use them more as reference texts.

Personally I find it bothersome that these textbooks are written with idiosyncratic pseudocode. In my opinion, many of these authors lose their grasp of common implementation difficulties if they don’t provide students with working code that will compile and run. It’s easy to throw down the theory and some okay-ish pseudocode while in effect saying, “...and the rest is just a minor implementation detail, which I leave as an exercise to the reader...”
Absolutely, and Bitcoin sort of had too. That knowledge isn't very helpful for managing changes today unfortunately. Today people actually buy stuff for Bitcoin and it's not very helpful to ask all economic activity to cease until a fork has settled down.

None of this is very relevant to the uptake of segwit transactions however, unless as a what-if scenario had segwit been done as a hard fork instead. That was the original intent of the proposal, if I remember correctly, and there was a lot of discussion at the mailing list exactly how this should best be deployed. Looking back at it, it is quite clear it could have been deployed quicker had another mechanism been chosen.
Not so far as I am aware. Contacting the moderators using the link at the bottom of the page is probably the best way to get accurate information.
Google, how old is the president?
> Why doesn't smart phones now a day come with a stylus (small pen) ?

Some do (the Galaxy Note series). Having used a stylus with a PDA in the past, I can also see the disadvantages: the stylus is easy to lose, and can't be used one-handed.
Bitcoin is NOT infinitely divisible. Each Bitcoin is divisible into 10^8. There were reasons to choose this number and isn't arbitrary [1].

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/31933/why-is-bit...
Well, it wasn't the opinion of the editors, but of business leaders; as for the general public, Google still ranks very high: https://www.thebalance.com/retail-brands-with-the-best-reput... and https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/02/28/the-w...
It's nice that they call it "media forensics", but it would seem that the making of manipulated videos is much more useful from a military standpoint.
As a Brit I think it's caused by the success of Britain's foreign diplomacy and "image" projection reflecting back on the domestic population. The UK gets away with some pretty nasty shit abroad and has done for centuries but is rarely pulled up on it in the same way Russia, China or the US is.

Surprise, the UK also gets away with some pretty nasty shit at home too and is rarely pulled up on it.

For an illustration, you only need to watch Boris Johnson's speech at the Conservative party conference earlier this week where he says the world trusts Britain more than Russia, China and the US (see about 16m10s in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUPuArLSNs).

Whether that's true or not is debatable (I personally think the UK's game is up and any residual "free pass" given by other states/peoples is more due to our growing irrelevance than anything else) but it illustrates how the establishment (and by extension the populace) views itself.

Given the above, it's not surprising that most Brits would never stop to think how totalitarian their country has become. "That's something that happens in other countries, not ours!"
Yes, the number of coins in circulation decreases over time.

But the precision can be increased from the current 8 decimals. Even if all but 1 Satoshi/0.00000001 BTC is lost, it could still be split into smaller units, or used to bootstrap a chain with higher precision. It can be fixed as required.

Volatility decreases as the number of users and therefore liquidity increases.
It should decline further with rising use of the network for payments instead of a pure store of value.

I agree that "viability as a payment system" is where Bitcoin is stuck right now, but scaling the system is the stated goal of all current Bitcoin developer groups. One of them will get it right eventually.
So we shouldn't worry about robots killing us until after we have the proof of the first sentient computer.
Time Travel Debugging
Password Safe is a good one...
The world's oldest scientific satellite is still in orbit
My interpretation of this is that the muon measured radius of the proton is the correct one. This rules out the speculation that the muon measurement was accessing some sort of new physics which caused it to be 4% off. The key quote is here:

"Some researchers speculated that perhaps some previously unknown physics could make muons act differently than electrons. This would have required a revision of the standard model of particle physics, which predicts that muons and electrons should be identical in every way except for their masses — and might have pointed to the existence of yet-to-be-discovered elementary particles."

This is the reason for this precision research: it could give you the hint for where to look for new physics. This
result, far from "deepening the proton-size puzzle", says that muons do not have any new physics. In other words, it's a null result.
Not him, and I adore the geekiness/goofiness of Land of Lisp, but I found Practical Common Lisp much more helpful.
I had a lot of great college professors, but Hany Farid (the subject of this article) was always one of my absolute favorites.

He always placed a strong emphasis on strong mathematical fundamentals, once joking in class that we only think AI is hard because we're "bad at math." And to prove it, he showed us endless examples of how the right math makes problems far easier. For example, I remember one time when he showed us how correctly understanding something like the sinc function would improve directional derivatives of sampled data, and then turned this into a better video motion tracker.

He loved working with colleagues in other departments, solving all kinds of fun problems and publishing joint papers. At one point, I think the campus magazine was writing articles on him several times a year, because he always had something cool going on.
"Edit": come to think of it, FF didn't exist in 2000. But I've known it since it was hailed for being some kind of improvement for those people who didn't know Opera. I became a somewhat of a fan even after resenting it for getting the attention Opera would have deserved tenfold. But all this marketing fluff speak, and playing cute while ignoring valid questions or points... "you might win some, but you just lost one".
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Turning a crappy old Windows PC into a full-fledged Chromebook
Dude is 29 years old and already this timeless bullshit that in my day kids were idealistic and now they just care about money. (Although, maybe there are fluctuations about the mean and 1985 was an extreme.)
Not sure why you are being downvoted. That's essentially how things work.

That's what FED and interest rates exist to do. Create and pop bubbles.

As the FED raises interest rates, money will start trickling out of "riskier" assets. The quicker the FED raises interest rates, the more quickly money will leave. Then we get a recession and when the FED feels they've sopped up enough money from the economy, then they will lower interest rates to get more money into the system, get more economic activity and re-inflate asset prices.
Personally, as an OSX user I use KeePassXC[1]. It's a fork of the original KeePass better designed to be cross platform.

If you want to sync across multiple computers, you can throw it in whatever file sharing service (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) you use. Personally, I prefer Spideroak[2] due to their strong privacy policy.

[1] https://keepassxc.org
[2] https://spideroak.com/one/
As someone who works at a large company, $10k is in no way "a drop in the bucket". Sales teams might have a budget to wine-and-dine clients, but as a developer I have pretty much zero budget and every expense has to be justified.

This is probably true of any publicly traded company (as mine is) which has a legal obligation to shareholders to be careful that all expenses are worth it.

My understanding is that licensezero is essentially doing what you propose, but also addresses practicalities such as how/where to send payments, tools (for licensees) to aid auditing, flexibility in pricing (and changing the pricing as time goes by).
This is a terrible click-bait title. It is, as far as I can tell, completely factually inaccurate.

"Amber Rudd set out her intention to change the law to increase the maximum penalty from 10 years."

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-41479620

Someone in the British government has proposed increasing the penalty for what seems to be streaming terroristic material online. That's the story.
Keep in mind that the list linked is specifically for investors, with criteria like "Long-term investment value" and "Ability to attract and retain talented people". Also the data collection was complete by January, which makes it almost a year old at this point.

Google has had four lawsuits which look bad for them make Hacker news or the reddit front page in the last year, which I can't imagine is good for their PR. Anecdotally, I also see a lot of people in tech where I work growing a disdain for them, including myself. I went so far as to buy a new phone to put LineageOS on a few weeks ago because I don't like the direction the company is heading.
Oh, this, this is a great idea. Do it!
2015 - #10
2014 - #14
2013 - #4
2012 - #2
2011 - #1

This looks like a collapsing reputation to me. Perhaps it hasn't fully collapsed yet, but you can see how big a hit it took recently.
I did really like the Haskell comments...gave me a good chuckle!
It's most likely because 99.9% of Britons do not experience anything they feel particularly oppressive or totalitarian in their daily lives. Or rather nothing noteworthy or above the level experienced by most of the rest of the civilised World.

How do you get these people to concern themselves with the 0.1% of people who do have these experiences? That is a question which no Western country has answered, not just the UK.
While bitcoin is no longer a good currency, it's still the best store of wealth - the crypto version of gold, due to massive PoW mining infrastructure.

While other cryptocurrencies may give you near perfect anonymity or sub-second transaction times with no fees, none of them are so secure and dependable.
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Also, you have to design for performance. There are plenty of ways to architect code that lock you out from future optimizations. I agree that small optimizations such as different referencing techniques should be measured, but you should be able try both out, and "premature optimization is evil" often keeps you from optimizing ever.
There is a large body of php hating literature. Here's an example: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Not AMP link: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/arrow-of-time
"The road to reality" by Roger Penrose is the only book I can think of that contains stuff like that without calculations etc. It contains a huge amount of content, and becomes better and better the more of the physics you read about in detail elsewhere.
Ye, I too have been searching someone knowledgeable about blockchains.
I just went down what I called the "YouTube Blackhole", watching video after video produced by Alan Melikdjanian. Although I spend a considerable amount (for a 30 year old) of time watching YouTube, I find myself absolutely floored with the quality of his content.