skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if decompilers are able to do something about it, but there's a "neat" technique where your machine code can be interpreted as two different sequences of instructions depending where you start instruction decoding. For a simple but artificial example of what I mean:

The following sequence of bytes:

b8 50 83 ec 10

Decodes as:

mov $0x10ec8350, %eax

if you start at the first byte, and, if you start at the second byte, as:

push %eax
sub $0x10, %esp

Here I essentially hid an instruction in the mov'ed data, because that's the easiest way to create something like that, but I've seen mind blowing examples of this technique. I unfortunately don't remember where.
Property taxes are based on assessed value, not sale price.
I find something unsettling about the idea of a social network for children. But social media is not going away. There should be a way to introduce people to it in a way that maximizes the value to the entire network.

It would be cool if there were a network where children can interact only with people close by IRL (school, neighborhood, etc.) Other participants are either simulated or are a filtered sample of the wider internet. Privilege to interact with a wider group and content is based on achievement in gamified lessons specific to understanding social media:

etiquette / discourse

politeness
avoiding negativity
supporting others
how to communicate for respect
how not to argue a point

critical thinking

determining the credibility of content
political and commercial motivations for fake content
recognizing specific trolling techniques

being aware of dangers

bullying
brigading
doxing
herd mentality
to name a few

... would it be possible to also gamify teaching the difference between your and you're, or TO versus TOO, etc. I mean, what does it take.
Me too. But you know what they say about the pen and the sword?

Maybe we need to update the saying: “the keyboard and a content database can be mightier than the predator drone”

?
Google does not want to become an arms dealer
How did you make zoom.us work on Linux? It always seems to make try and download an .exe file. Zoom is one of the ever-decreasing uses for my emergency mac.
Not the OP but to me a non-annoying philosopher would be someone like Russell, Quine or Dennett.

A good philosopher takes the time to define terms, explain the problem clearly, explain other possible views on the matter in a fair and accurate way, then explain their own view as clearly as possible, and then ideally pre-emptively discuss several possible objections or misunderstandings. A good philosopher understands that the subject matter at hand is already very difficult, and therefore the philosopher has an obligation to be clear.
Oopsie then, "Southwest Monkey" does look like a trademark issue on top of the scraping issue. Certainly doesn't help.

That said, the guy with the skiplagged website (same idea: use publicly available flight pricing to produce tickets that the airlines see as undesirable) prevailed against the pressure from the airlines, so the situation doesn't look too bleak.
I'd be interested in something better as well. I was testing SQuirrel SQL the other day (have used it before for MSSQL), but the Oracle plugins for it seem to have succumb to bitrot over the past couple of years. UI can hang for minutes on new connections, CTE's aren't recognized as valid syntax, searching Objects is slow and cumbersome.

I know a few people who just use Intellij for it.
Consider The Onion's 2013 Point/Counterpoint article on the Iraq War:

* Point: This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism

* Counterpoint: No it won't. It just won't. None of that will happen. You're getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You're really overreacting.

https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir...
> the fact that the OS has never really been implemented in a serious capacity

I don't think that's true. It was briefly used as the OS for Lucent routers, wasn't it?

I think it was meant to be a serious OS, and I rather wish that it had taken off. Many of the problems of modern server systems simply don't exist with it.
The difference is that broadcast spectrum is limited in a geographic area and licensed for the benefit of the local community, not as a propaganda mouthpiece of a single politically-motivated organization who doesn’t even have a presence in that community.
I think you just summed up the political plan laid by Newt Gingrich in the 1980's when he brought the religious movements into the GOP and executed his 'Contract with America'. It was a plan of domination by all means necessary.
Indeed, which is why it was a terrible idea to go ahead with this doomed compromise.
Are the consequences significantly different than having private repos on Github to begin with?

I realize this is one more Github service with access to metadata about your code, so the attack surface is technically larger, but is the probability of leak that much greater from this service than it already is by having your code on their servers (which, I assume, are protected by the same security team)?

Maybe it's an oversimplification but my expectation is that any project with such sensitivity wouldn't be hosted on an external service at all.
On the other hand, option #1 requires neither effort nor consent from GitHub to onboard new languages/dependency managers.
Smaller homes. Seems like you can buy a tiny home, or a mcmansion and nothing in between. 600-800 sq ft home on a regular foundation would be a good start.
Walmart's brilliant strategy: betting against the middle class
I used to do this every morning... just take a normal hot shower, then at the end crank it full cold and endure until normalized.

It's a free high, great way to start a day. I presumed endorphins are being released.

Now I prefer to run a bunch of miles and immediately jump into the (cold) ocean while still all hot and amped up from the run. The water doesn't even seem cold, it's great. Normally people wear wet-suits in the ocean here.
"shrinkage" ?
>How in the hell is monopoly ownership of the press still considered a free press?

https://vine.co/v/hMiITBPJUlw
Although I don't agree with all the negative identities the parent posted on the different regions, you twisted the parent's comment. "a lack of the other negative identities of the regions" doesn't mean they're xenophobic.
The thin end of the wedge here is advertising. It is deliberately manipulating people using psychological insights, often targeting weaknesses to create a recurrent cash flow.

Yet the entertainment and content-creating side of the internet relies very explicitly on ad revenue.

Are creators that rely on revenue generated by manipulating human psychology morally bankrupt?
> I've been manipulated into liking broadband because it provides the internet faster than dialup.

You weren't manipulated. Manipulating you into buying broadband would entail creating the artificial perception that broadband is faster. If a company produces a product that performs as it is supposed to, and it solves a problem you have that was not artificially created, then you're not being manipulated. Same for umbrellas. Not the same for cars: the auto industry has pretty clearly lobbied for policies that ensure sustained demand for cars as opposed to public transit.
Currently extracting the 16819 files in the archive.. ;-)

That said, the screenshots look decent and I've been looking for an alternative to the SQL Server Management Studio a couple times already. So I already applaud the effort.
He hates it but didn't stop selling it. I understand though--I've had hard times myself and at one point almost considered doing stuff like this, or worse (go read up on lead generation, affiliate marketing--you'll need a shower afterward). But, one would hope that once enough income was made to get back on his feet he'd make the right ethical decision, end it, and move on to something else.
When you think about technology critics none seems more relevant today than Aldous Huxley.

The traditional Hollywood criticism on technology goes along the lines of Frankenstein, Metropolis, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Terminator and Matrix: technology will control us. I find it dumb, frankly.

Then there is the political criticism along the lines of George Orwell and some Luddites: technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists. It is not totally wrong (e.g.: China, Turkey) but not the exact true sometimes.

But the Huxley criticism is, for me, the most interesting: technology will entertain us to stupidity, apathy and alienation. This seems to be very much the case in here.
> GOP tax plan is shockingly not that bad.

Why does this surprise you, like what circumstances made you think it wouldn't be predictably good, except for balancing the budget?
UV != MAU
An airline pilot doing it is much different than 9/11. 9/11 was easily preventable by locking cabin doors. A rogue pilot cant be effectively prevented.

Though one wonders that if Bin Laden had “only” targeted the US Congress like in the book, whether he would have become an American hero instead.
It's hard to believe you care about advancing the conversation when you respond with straw men and ad hominems. Of course, I'm used to it because I challenge positions like yours a lot. Still, the constant need to redirect these bad faith rebuttals is exhausting.

To be clear, I don't care much for "my honor". Like I said, I care about making good outcomes politically tenable. As for conspiracy theories, that's literally what "systemic racism" is. And we could talk about it if it weren't for all of the weasel words and slander.

If you cared about the conversation, you'd be trying to get rid of the weasel words instead of attacking the people who call them out.
They are subject to tax.

You're supposed to pay "use tax" for things you buy from outside of your tax jurisdiction and didn't pay sales tax on. That's absolutely everything, technically.

For my state you're supposed to report all your out of state purchases on your income tax return.

The reason is because a given jurisdiction has no power to tax a business in another jurisdiction. They can tax you though,you are in their jurisdiction.
An Update on Star Wars Battlefront II
Yes they are completely morally bankrupt
Remote Internship at Zidisha (YC W14 Nonprofit)
Take a look at Mike Kestemont, Vincent Christlein, Dominique Stutzmann, Artificial Paleography: Computational Approaches to Identifying Script Types in Medieval Manuscripts (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/694112)
Amazon has the default "Featured" sort (I'm not sure what is behind this, but it intuitively seems like some combination of popularity + availability + rating). If this default doesn't fit your needs, your only option is to change to sort by "Avg. Customer Review", which gets you a list that is sorted by average rating regardless of the number of reviews. Evan called out nearly 10 years ago in the post that OP's article mentioned - http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating..... The root problem is that one random obscure product with a single 5-star rating out-ranks something with 499 5-star ratings and 1 4-star rating.

I'm often looking for what is the best/highest-quality item in a category, meaning I want not just a high average, but a high average that is statistically meaningful. I'm just surprised Amazon hasn't offered a way to do that (and have read umpteen threads on HN in the past years expressing the same frustration).
Even hiring a remote team is incredibly difficult. Want to hire someone in a new city? OK, register with the secretary of state, complete the business licensing, depending on state you may need a registered agent for the area they live in, and your tax paperwork will be there in 21 days. Hope they don't need payroll until then!
Another vote for Uberconference. Call quality is consistently good, it's nice to get the visuals of callers along with the LinkedIn data (though that's only right maybe half the time) and the controls are easy to use.

Screen sharing is very slick as well, so long as the sharer is using Chrome. The only thing I find missing is the ability to share mouse/keyboard control, but in typical conference settings that's usually not a frequently used feature.
Guess which side can afford robots and which one can't
LibreOffice mascot survey: The progress so far
why use this over Nix or Guix?
CNC videos.
Or perhaps he didn't predict it, but created it by writing about it. Life often imitates art.
Idris (programming language).
Grr paywalled!
How public-keyencryption works. Infographic via fsf
Re ATS, http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/... says that "By default, the constraint-solver implemented for ATS/Postiats makes use of the standard arithmetic of infinite precision. For the sake of efficiency, one may also choose to use machine-level arithmetic for solving integer constraints. Due to potential arithmetic overflow, results returned by the constraint-solver that uses machine-level arithmetic can be incorrect".

Puffs does not use infinite precision integers (aka "big ints"), for performance. But Puffs still checks for arithmetic overflow.

Re dependent types, I made a comment elsewhere on this page that "dependent types are one way to prove bounds safety, but they're not the only way".
Linux has evolved considerably in design since the 1970s!
> I've just never understood why tar can't have sane defaults like zip.

Because tar means "tape archiver", and back when it was created, most of the time, you only needed one option: c, t or x (create, test, extract). You didn't need to pass f (file) because you actually piped tar to something that would append to a tape device (or read from it). And back then, compression (z, j, J, a) wasn't common place for tapes.
When in doubt, check Arch Linux's AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zoom/

There's a link to the linux client download under "Sources"
I was raised in Mitchell, South Dakota, a midwest town of about 15,000.

The vast majority were white, a small number of Native Americans (we all called them Indians back then) and just one black family. The black family's father was elected mayor, he was popular.

There was some racism, not as much as people seem to think. IMHO, I've seen more racism in bigger cities.
We already allowed hundreds of millions of refugees, and the US prospered. Almost all of people willing to uproot themselves and family to move half way across the world for a better life aren’t here to cause trouble.

To reject immigration over terrorism that kills fewer Americans than either sharp objects or animal attacks is pure cowardice. And I say this as someone whose sister was murdered by an illegal immigrant.
Racism is a set of beliefs. Tornados, door knobs, planets, these things can't have beliefs - only people can - which is why the argument makes no sense.

I really hope you read this CNN article in full but here is a quote that I believe directly applies to your argument:

> "When some whites talk about racism, they think it's only personal -- what one person says or does to another. But many minorities and people who study race say racism can be impersonal, calculating, devoid of malice..."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-racism-or-racial-b...
And that comes with a performance penalty. Maybe it won't, in a future version of Rust, but it does for now.
Attempting to rhetorically preclude logical discussion is not even remotely new in politics.
Like itamarst said, it wasn't a technology for me either. Instead I got a 33% raise for applying my existing C++ skills to some finance knowledge I learned over a year.

Basically, I learned a key part of our industry, built some software that helps the business operate, and got a raise after it was successfully running in production. It certainly helped that the software increased the company's profits and I was the only engineer in the company with that industry knowledge.

It actually pretty easy to figure out what skills will help you earn more money. Go on Glassdoor or Indeed and look at technology jobs in your industry. Then see which departments pay what salaries. Try to learn the skills for the high paying departments so you can build the technology for that department: http://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-know-if-youre-paid-wh....
It's a very important argument for NN though. One of the biggest problems with removing NN is that it will stifle competition by allowing pipes to interfere with normal market forces of supply/demand for the flow.

I admit that it requires actually thinking for a moment to see how regulation in this case can actually promote competition, and you'll have trouble getting many politicians to admit that or even understand it (when, as someone or other said, their paychecks depend on not understanding it).
But does it work well? If so, you're in the minority. I cannot tell you how many times I've had to kill Chrome because Hangouts caused it to crash, or how many times core functionality in Hangouts straight up didn't work, or how many times I've been interrupted in a group call by somebody else's Hangouts doing the same ("Wait for Joe...he's gotta restart Hangouts").

And on top of all of that, Hangouts does not work at all on the new version of Firefox.
DataGrip by JetBrains is cross-platform and supports a large variety of database servers.
No, but a butler could.

I can't afford a butler, but if I could, then I'd get one. He'd live in my house and know all about me and my personal life; knowing about my personal life would help him do his job better. I wouldn't worry that my butler knew I was in a relationship, or pregnant, and that he changed his behaviour accordingly.

On the other hand, I suppose I wouldn't want a butler who sold information about me to third parties, or used the information to advertise to me for kickbacks. "You have been down recently, sir... perhaps a new Bentley would cheer you up?"
Yep I regularly use both standard windows RDP and TeamViewer for various reasons including maintaining bitcoin mining rigs and even using multiple systems on a single monitor (I prefer it to a KVM setup)

I also use a lot of various usbip solutions at work
Does anyone know what breakthroughs in control systems have gone into making this possible ?
Are there any papers describing how Boston Dynamics is programming this ? are they hardcoding the backflip from human data and then overlaying some stability code ? or is the backflip entirely generated by the underlying controls ?
It’s hard to imagine why they found this shocking. Many startups with questionable business models end up bankrupt, no matter how well funded.
The Sinclair move to dominate airwaves and include media-agenda-framed-as-individual-opinion-pieces on TV news is very concerning to me. It's disappointing that this rule change will only help them continue their domination.

But I wonder if this might incidentally happen to be the right move for the government to make? The flow of information and news is very different today from the landscape that existed in the 1970s. Maybe letting investment flow into some of these businesses makes sense.
I also don't like that the Pi is not fully open, but it is also extremely available and cheap, so an ideal system for people starting out. And ARM assembly is a much nicer first assembly language than x86. A microcontroller is a possibility, but has its own barriers to entry (not a standalone computer in itself, can't be attached easily to display, etc.).

Maybe someday the lowrisc project will become a reality, and they can use that, and teach RISC-V instead.
> than it's something completely out the league of current AIs

I beg to differ[1]. The average human isn't autistic, but there is still significant value in using AI to tell us what we are doing wrong (and wrap the product up so it doesn't make us fell like crap while we are doing it).

Behavior modification bots would be incredibly useful for helping people see their own shortcomings (cognitive science research shows us that we frequently see the flaws in others but are systematically blind to our own).

[1] http://autismglass.stanford.edu/

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609142/andrew-ng-has-a-ch...
It's great for large organisations, but do you use it often for cross-organisational calls?

I remember having all kinds of issues, but it was a year ago.
Not sure about the systems you maintain, but mine page for false positives all the time. They're annoying, sometimes they wake me up, but in general they're not a big deal.

A false positive from a medical test is much more costly, both in money for a doctor (or doctor's staff member's) time, and anxiety for the patient.

That said, your brother's case makes some sense. It's targeted, and I imagine the action you want to take after getting an alert would be pretty well defined.
I guess it's nice to think about, but that would be insubordinate to their management/ownership. Individuals who execute plans like that lose out big time and get quickly replaced.
I don’t think this would be possible even with a fair coin.
Take any Udemy course for 10 bucks until 28 nov
This looks like a superbly designed curriculum.
Fuel cells seem like a good mix of quiet yet high energy density. Also, human style walking does not take much energy when done efficiently. But, wheels are even more efficient and equally effective in the vast majority of urban settings.
This list sucks
After reading a variety of the parent's comments, I agree with you.
Yeah, it'd be unfortunate, but not unprecedented. For example, Debian has both epiphany and epiphany-browser, which are two separate things.
FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances
It's also a place where unfortunately people feel that criminals morally deserve whatever happens to them there, including rape.
Thanks. It works on any webpages. The result looks nice to export to Excel. :)
FreePBX is not great, but I'm not saying that you should use it. I'm saying that you should use Asterisk, which is what FreePBX is built on top of.

Asterisk is really, really solid, and will handle a lot of things for you that you shouldn't have to care about handling - lower level stuff.

Check this out: http://www.igorescobar.com/blog/2014/08/13/working-with-aste...

If you're going through the SIP RFCs for what you want, you're attacking the problem at the wrong layer of the stack. It's just not necessary to write your own SIP stack. It'd be like writing SSL negotiation logic for a web app: totally pointless. Just use what already works and extend it with the fancy UI and dev experience that you want. It's totally possible.
Was it really half? I have seen figures around 30%. Are there any accurate records in every country at the time?
I agree. The attitude of foregoing comfort up front for the greater reward of a cold shower (in my opinion). Delayed gratification.

It requires me to immediately face harsh conditions until I adjust to the cold and then it is awesome.
As I see it, these guys took US$60 million from VCs and used it to donate 350000 perfectly robust bicycles to some parts of the world most in need of modern transportation (SF).

They are goddamn heroes. If you gave the same money to the SFCTA they would probably build a mile of highway facsimile.
Interact with your clock with touch, gestures, or via wifi
You might be interested in developing for iOS but don’t have an iOS device? Not even an AppleTV or Mac, both of which play itunesU content?

Apple wants to still promote iTunesU, which offers a better user experience for learning content than Vimeo or YouTube. I don’t think they do, or should, worry about the 1% who want to watch and don’t have iOS devices.