skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noticed the other evening that Amazon no longer streams HD to my ThinkPad. I'm guessing because I took the recommended steps a few months ago to cripple its Management Engine functionality as a work-around to the severe ME exploit (you know, runs its own web server whose password is trivially and unavoidably bypassed).

At this point, I'm going to say "Fuck it." I've never pirated. (Well, there was that time in the 90's when I used, as an experiment, Napster, to download a French music album I couldn't even buy in the States, at that time. Oh, and, by the way, it's on Spotify, now... And I also now a bought and paid for physical copy, courtesy of a visit to Montreal or Germany (I forget which), not too long after my Napster experience.)

Anyway... fuck it. I'm willing to pay, but it's going from hassle to outright security risk. I'll taking pirating over this.
In all seriousness though, I'm unsure why an Apple or Amazon hasn't raised their own private army by now.
Wouldn't it be obvious if you constantly switch your account back and forth between public and private?
There are safe interfaces for this stuff too. The byteorder crate (not in the standard library, but widely used) has:

let i = NativeEndian::read_i64(...);

Or if you're literally parsing a string of digits:

let i: Option<i64> = digits.parse();

The `parse` method on strings is a particularly smooth piece of trait system magic.
> The delay between the sacrifice and the gratification ... in real life is often on the order of years or even decades.

> In video games the delay is often on the order of minutes or hours.

Regarding the education component of the original comment, there can be just as much immediate gratification in education as there can be in games (note that the topic here is gratification, not how long it takes to really learn some topic). E.g. solving a problem that takes a minute to solve - whether there's the intrinsic gratification, or some sort of gamified element like getting points that will work towards you leveling up in some sort of scheme.
Sometimes, you just gotta work with what you got.

Like today. What is the ubiquitous Energy Unit? There are flat batteries out to like 2500mAh, but for most applications, it's gotta be the 18650 cell.

And accordingly, ho-lee shit. 2600mAh is around what you can rely on a factory-fresh authorized 3.7V cell having. But let's look at Amazon. 3000mAh abound. 5800mAh and above are available as well! And ebay? 6,800-9,900Mah! Ten fucking amp-hours! 'Optimistic' is one word...'Advertising' is another.

Lying.
Webassembly run on VM for portability.
I think this is a good example of what has become standard thinking for much of general programming. That the way to write a complex application is an "agile" approach of hack it 'till it works. The result too often is that slowly over time, the result increasingly approaches being a big ball of mud as seen here.

I find in interviews that nearly all programmers only have an approach for two types of applications. The first being a run-to-completion program that produces an output based on inputs. The second being a program where concepts are modeled as data entities, manipulated by behavior (typically just add/edit/delete) in an application/service/controller layer organized using functional decomposition. For problems that don't fit these two, all that is left is that agile hack-it approach.

My hope is that some additional lessons were learned about how to apply appropriate program design to produce a result that won't just result in a different mess next time.
This is an excellent article. It's not easy to manage, but if you get OAuth 2 right, you should be secure.
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Nope. I hope they don't stomp on the little guys though/ don't get too crazy with tricky TOS and similar haha - your use of this software now allows us to copy your brain and upload / duplicate you to our matrix without further ado (hidden in line 32352 of itunes TOS v 20 ) /s
The latest SC is kind of a tech experiment in how it works with per-Sim management. Older SimCity iterations are fine on new machines.
To be honest this is pretty normal for any modern medium. There's a period where nobody bothers to do any kind of archiving.

TV shows didn't get routinely archived until quite some time after things like "video tape" existed. Now and then early episodes of something important being discovered is news.

Most of the early history of comic strips and comic books has been lost. Original art was thrown away; modern restorers have gone through some heroic efforts to piece together archives from whatever copies of the stuff they can find.

Games? Hell, there's a not-insignificant chance nobody was even using source control until the time when video game budgets started to match feature film budgets. Companies die, and if you're lucky then someone takes home source archives. before all the drives are wiped.

History repeats itself.
"RE" is reverse engineering, maybe?
Inexpensive IKEA furniture means I have no compunction e.g. cutting legs to get the correct typing/working height.

That said, a lot of IKEA furniture does not have the most dense/durable wood. Hacking's one thing. Big bucks for the finished hacks, is likely still getting you something that's not that durable, especially if exposed to any considerable wear and tear.
I worked with a testimonial expert in his 80s, and he was getting ~1000 USD/hr.
it's not 6 figure, but you can go from 5 figure to 5 figure jobs with no hassle.
Some WebExtensions will work in all browsers. Other WebExtensions will only work in certain browsers that offer a capability that the extension needs. Kind of like webstandards have always worked.

For example, Opera and Firefox support the Sidebar API, which allows essentially arbitrary HTML pages to be placed in, you guessed it, a sidebar. Chrome does not support this, because they supposedly just don't want to have sidebars in their browser (it's not exactly an unsolvable task to implement).

Overall, Firefox will support the most extension APIs, but even there not all extensions will work, because there's always going to be some APIs that only make sense in one specific browser.

Lastly, it is necessary for the extension authors to port their extension. The work they have to do for porting might often be as minimal as just repackaging, testing and then uploading to the other browser's extension webpage, but they do have to do it.

So, this is going to cut off many extensions, too. If they're unmaintained, no one's going to port them. And Mozilla has much stricter policies for telemetry, ads etc. in extensions, too, so another chunk of extensions won't get ported for that reason.

If there is a specific Chrome extensions that you care for getting ported and it's unmaintained, then you can try it with Chrome Store Foxified [1], which will do the repackaging automatically. The testing you'll have to do yourself and then the fixing of potentially broken things and uploading, that depends on the license of the extension, if you're allowed to do that.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
This is a better pointer (not necessarily a good one, but it makes it easier to google for):
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39735802
(The article was linked from Hacker News).

From the article:
'''The boom in air conditioning is good news for many reasons.

Studies show that it lowers mortality during heat waves. Heat makes prison inmates fractious - air conditioning pays for itself by reducing fights.

When the temperature exceeds 21C or 22C in exam halls, students start to score lower in maths tests.

In offices, air conditioning makes us more productive: according to one early study, it made US government typists do 24% more work.

Economists have since confirmed that relationship between productivity and keeping cool.'''
I don’t think creating new community cryptocoins is creating a replica of bitcoin (that’s like saying bitcoin was a replica of earlier cryptocurrencies right?). Obviously I’m not suggesting I’m creating a greater supply of bitcoin, just separate coins entirely with idenical practical functions (stores of value on blockchain traceable on exchanges). But you’ve given me an idea, I think I will create a bitcoin replica (called bitcoin, with 21 million coins) and deploy them on the Ethereum blockchain. People either forget or just don’t know bitcoin itself was given away for free to start, the first recorded purchase was a publicity stunt of 2 papa John pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin, that’s just under $60M today...I think it’s ok to ask why there is such a jump in value, when the functionality is reproducible for nearly nothing right?

As to your point, I agree any of the coins I mentioned would gain value if adopted by the websites, but that’s the beauty of decentralizing, users don’t need permission. And if there was any doubt about the underlying concept I believe Kik just launched its own community cryptocoin, creating 10 trillion and raised $100M on an ICO selling roughly 40%.
Because the government buys stuff with them and you can pay your taxes with them.
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One of the biggest causes for the lack of water is the Yemeni use of khat (or qat), a stimulant that requires lots of water.[1]

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/yemen/2013-07-23/how...
If you don't have encapsulation, then you're not just using messages to talk between objects. If you are, then you have encapsulation.
I didn’t realise there were any! I just checked: it’s 3 expansion packs with I assume more rides and campaigns.

The game already comes with 95 campaigns that you have to unlock gradually. They’re quite varied in terms of style and goals. I’ve completed 17 so far. I bought the game last December, so I still have lots of content to play with…
> That's the thing about Hyperloop. It's not technologically impossible. It's just not economically viable.

That's probably why this is an idea from Elon, not from the industry. The guy has a habit of forcing the market itself to accept beneficial ideas, and in the process they become viable.
Nope, its good. It may reduce wages, but prices will be much lower, so who cares?
If they're viewed as threats to soverenty I'm confident the company will disappear
Reading into the Qualcomm dispute, I suspect it's not for performance reasons but instead shaving off features/paying licenses for hardware that they don't use.

Plus you probably don't want to be handing over large wads of cash to a SoC/baseband chip manufacturer that serves your competition in the phone space.
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Ah. I guess I read his comment as

>> "I wish I could pay them more for that 1tb storage.

And not his intended:

>> "I wish I could pay them more for more than 1tb storage."

(His mis-spelling of that/than was kinda confusing)
What you said is contradictory. Jumping in and contributing and improving things happens when everyone is encouraged to change the code anytime. When individuals get territorial is when it rots because people are afraid to touch that "other person's code."
Could UPX put something in the header that said something akin to, 'I am not a signifier of malware, perform your check on the internal contents instead.'

Then AV companies could see that and not flag it as malware unless they had additional reason to think it was.

That doesn't seem like it'd be terribly difficult but there's a good chance I'm missing something.
/me wishes there was an equivalent open source project for Chris Sawyer's game Locomotion.

Spent so many hours playing it when I was younger. RCT too :)
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Is that because they are using AND instead of OR? I know that both Solr and Elasticsearch will return any document with at least one term if you use OR (the default). You can also use minimum_should_match in ES (don't know Solr equivalent) to control what percentage of terms should match.

If the search engine's only difference is the use of OR or minimum_should_match, that isn't a compelling product because it is not significantly better than existing enterprise search products. In order for your competitor's customers to switch, your product needs to be significantly better.

You also need to add search highlights to the results. There are two components to relevance: actual and perceived. In the product's current form, I have no idea if a result is relevant unless I click the document and read it. In other words, I am unable to perceive a search result's relevance. The highlight helps with that.
I have seen way worse. At least this code is indented, it executes, etc.

I have seen code that is absolutely devoid of reason, logic, formatting, that doesn't even execute... an evented mess with 40 levels of nested callbacks with methods 6000 lines long made by people that just got fired after an incident with comments in some foreign language slang.
I think we have witnessed the inevitable dilution of substance that occurs when the middle of the Bell Curve, so to speak, begins to participate in a social phenomenon.
One thing about places like Maine and Vermont (Sanders' state) is that they're tiny.

The total population of Maine is 1.3 million. The population of Vermont is 0.62 million. These states are smaller than many cities now a days. And you'll see a similar pragmatic politics in many of the other very small states. I think that's because you minimize the degrees of separation between representative and voter. When people know and meet other people it humanizes them and makes it easy to see that a letter beside somebody's name doesn't define them.

Our system was built for a different time, and we can see it's still a pretty reasonable system in the areas where that time is kind of emulated. But for many other parts of the country the system's age is showing. Even if we tried to keep up with how the founding fathers saw it we'd have literally thousands of individuals in the house of representatives which is probably similarly unworkable - and rather comical compared to the unchanging 100 of the senate.
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Are you suggesting that the difference between a.foo(b) and foo(a, b) is analogous to the difference between goto and functions? Functions give structure and restrictions to goto. Method syntax is just a different way to write the exact same thing.
There's a very pertinent historical reference point: Ferdinand de Lesseps. He built the Suez Canal from 1859 to 1869, a task which was considered by many to be impossible or at least impracticable [1]. After achieving resounding success, he then turned to Panama to try building the Panama Canal. In this venture, he turned out to have several very wrong ideas (it's not feasible to build a sea-level canal in Panama), and the French effort failed so hard it actually brought down the French government [2]. He was successful in the first venture but for different reasons than initially assumed (namely, the Suez Canal isn't all that challenging from an engineering perspective; it's just capital-intensive), and his failure in the second venture comes from misunderstanding the problems.

[1] There had been canals in the past that traveled from the Red Sea to the Nile delta, but these invariably silted up rather quickly (the Nile was sediment-heavy, and wind-blown sand is quite common in the region). Thus there was historical evidence favoring the idea that the dredging maintenance fees would exceed the revenue from passing ships.

[2] Of course, this was the Third Republic, which is notorious for having provided series of weak, unstable governments replete with scandals that prompt new governments. Ironically, the Third Republic was the longest-lasting form of government France has had since the Ancien Régime.
He spent all his money on his trio of companies by 2008. He could've relatively speaking for people worth a hundred million to billions, be worth very little today.

I don't think he has ever in his life had a billion in liquid assets. You could argue I guess, but he likely wants to keep a majority stake in SpaceX, and likely doesn't want to go below 20% stake in Tesla.
Could have sworn that is the case with the various Quake 1 engines out there, that are based on the source ID released.
Also: discard experience from over X years ago.
RE 4, there are also two "kinds" of economical viability: the fundamental one, derived straight from physical limits, and the usual "market couldn't be bothered with it" one. Knowing Musk's companies, he cares only about the former, and is willing to push through the latter. Thanks to that, fully electric cars with reasonable range are now not only a possibility, but a desirable product every other car company wants to build too.

The number crunching should tell in which category of viability Hyperloop is.
Props to you man for making a game clone as a way to learn: even if it sucks that’s more than I’ve done to date (making useful utilities in python isn’t as cool as a game). I think it’s good to ever remember the past and learn from it so that you don’t repeat it.
Armies are expensive and difficult to maintain, so you need a pressing reason to have one, such as defending or conquering territory. What would Apple or Amazon need an army for? If you want to see how a company can wield the power of a nation-state sans army, see: Exxon.
Hey, this is an extension of what I'm planning to work on, which is a translator from Scheme enriched with lifetime and type information to Rust. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15286945
Is there a singular specific type of meditation called "Mindfulness Meditation"? There our countless forms of meditation each with different characteristics, effects, and effectiveness.

Similarly, you could focus on a particular subset of martial arts practices and find they are ineffective, but then mistakenly label all martial arts as ineffective.
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As an overqualified employee, I think you should simply delete parts of your resume to appear less skilled. A job is better than no job. I wonder why more people don't do that.
The correct solution is "always turn on wi-fi when I get home". The phone knows when this happens, you can set reminders around it.
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That's insane. If you didn't have to switch trains for Philly (30th St) to NYC, an avg ride could take a bit than 100 min if there are only around 7 stops the entire way (normal stops would make the ride like 2 hours). Reducing those numbers by more than half would be incredible. Even if this is just a pipe dream and there isn't a direct train between the two cities right now anyway.
I suspect 1 billion in the hands of a google will go much further than an academic institution.
I think there was just enough content in his reply to escape the accusation that he was merely gainsaying (which would be dictating feelings, as opposed to providing information that might dispel them.)
What is the performance degradation due to decryption of classes at run-time? Decrypting classes at runtime can be a performance challenge for projects involving a lot of classes
The Internet is not a library. It's not an archive. You have no guarantee of content's continued existence -- less so that with respect to old piles of newspaper in your garage.

This concerns me. Absent ensured storage and access (that can't e.g. be retroactively 404-ed via robots.txt), our very history is at risk.

And with walled gardens like Facebook taking over more and more traffic, delivery, viewership... We may never know what happened. Even absent a deliberate, concerted plan to eliminate the evidence.

Such privacy is fine, for private, personal conversations. Is it, for a paid advertising campaign reaching millions?
It's easy to tell on an individual basis if an Instagram account has something screwy going on.

- Check comments to followers ratio.
- Check comment quality (are people tagging friends or leaving generic/spam "great pic" comments?).
- Follow the account and turn on post notifications. By doing this you'll see how many spammy ads they post then delete an hour later. Many of these posts will have fake social proof on them.
Besides even other costs like r&d, marketing, and the retail margin, buyers are getting more than hardware - how much is the cost of OS development and the included apps?
Doesn't bitcoin match that definition? It is not only a store of value but also provides forms of utility that wasn't there before distributed consensus was solved.
The point is that this is an issue of "slipped through the cracks", not "Facebook facilitating anti-semitism for a dollar". I'm no fan of Facebook and they've done sleazy stuff in the past, but this bit of reporting in the NYT is bad journalism.

I mean, seriously, if you ran a forum and someone opened an antisemitic thread in a minor board on it, which one of your others users pointed out and you then removed, do you really think it would be fair to call you antisemitic? After all, your forum allowed the antisemtic thread to exist in the first place and didn't auto-filter it out, and apparently there's no leniency even though you removed it as soon as you knew.
A certificate is one thing.

Expecting your education to make something of you, instead of making something of your education (track record) is another.

Managing to get a certificate does not guarantee one can apply those YouTube videos.
You really can't compare being spied on while using a private social network to being raped in public.
It's not about being right, it's about pure attitude - "why this can't work" vs. "let's talk how can we make this work".
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I would say few universities teach critical thinking or transferable skills in the context you are referring to.

Some programs in universities can be glorified vocational schools. Other programs are excellent, relevant and evolving both for industry, and as innovators.
Missing several others: 5S, 5C, 6S. Not to forget, the 'Plus' models will have more expensive parts.
John Carmack's advice (I don't remember exactly):

"If you don't know which way is better, do it both ways and compare."
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Cooking the books from day one. Who would ever advertise with these guys again when their whole model was revealed to be a scam? What a joke.
I don't know much about market size, but I know that some developers are working on physical releases of new games for old consoles. Written from scratch, with new IP.

I found references to a few on my own, then found this article that mentions most of the ones that I found: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/9/15584416/new-games-retro-c...

It says that the NES game Star Versus has sold about 300 copies since its release (in 2014, I think). So, there's an idea of the market, I suppose. I haven't found much in the way of information about its development, so far. There was a forum post that mentioned that it seems to use a new, undocumented memory mapper chip, which implies that the developer produced their own, rather than use the "donor" method that I suggested earlier.

Just for curiosity's sake, an SNES game that was developed in 2013, and is available for purchase (I've no idea if they have the rights to sell it or not) : https://console5.com/store/piko-super-4-in-1-multicart-super...
As I heard it, Apple boosted VLSI design smarts in the UK to get audio stuff in the iPod era, got really good FPGA and there was a one-two year boost in the british chip smarts IPR. Next cycle round, Apple went to the cheaper foundries and said "do this smart stuff cheaper" and undercut. So the apple model appears to me to be: get good design work, but don't depend on it, leverage scale to get cheaper.

Apple is still hugely exposed to the lack of diversity in touch screen and battery smarts. I expect to see something there, because it must hurt paying Samsung with one hand, while you are suing for a pound of flesh with the other.