skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respond with something along the line of "I'm not looking right now but thanks for thinking of me." if it's a recruiter I know or if they sending me a targeted email. I ignore the spammers.

I never add recruiters to my Linked network for the simple reason is that it would give me a lot of 2nd level connections with people I have nothing in common except that we both were contacted by the same recruiter once.
Normally a lurker, but I created an account specifically to reply to you.

> “(2) may not impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management.

look at the very end.

"subject to reasonable network management"

I think that is an extremely broad term to be put in place; recalling the argument ISP had for throttling was to maintain network quality.
Was wondering when I'd see a post like this...

https://github.com/nbclark/hqcheat/

Interestingly, we seemed to end up with all 3 of the same approaches. Was fun while it lasted
And in that hypothetical reality no one ever needs recourse to a legal system for contractual disputes. I've been through lawsuits, specifically for fraudulent representations made by a vendor. (We won, easily. Good record keeping and contracts saved the day) In that example and this one, it doesnt appear that additional research on the vendor would have revealed a show stopping issue ahead of time. Of course the victim could have avoided the issue with either perfect foreknowledge or private investigators rifling through a small business's financials. In the real world though, due diligence follows practicality, and uses best effort up front and contracts and lawyers just in case. Your interpretation belies the viewpoint of "someone was able to attack them therefore its their fault they got attacked"
The comment didn't even mention immigration, let alone go anywhere near claiming immigration is bad. You shouldn't assume that everyone in favour of brexit is bigoted.

FWIW, I'm in favour of brexit, and I'm also in favour of freedom of movement. In fact, I advocate total freedom of movement: no passports, no visas, no checks. Let free people move freely. If I can travel to Manchester without having to justify myself, why can't I cross borders in the same way? I am in favour of brexit for totally unrelated reasons.

Just because you may have heard that some brexit supporters want to impose stricter border controls doesn't mean all brexit supporters want that.
The fourth one always reminds me of Explorers We, written by Philip K. Dick in 1959:

https://d3gxp3iknbs7bs.cloudfront.net/attachments/42055afc4c...
There is no link, implied or otherwise, between allowing a harmless, off-by-default, accidentally visible extension and "spyware in my browser". This extension wasn't just harmless for your privacy, but it was intentionally, specifically harmless.

Yes, it does highlight that Mozilla isn't a perfect, flawless entity that never makes mistakes, but the process protected your interests exactly the way it was designed to do and you already knew that anyway.

If the issue is that Mozilla sometimes pushes imperfect code, why is everyone harping about this absolutely harmless instance and not, say, one of the hundreds of actually meaningful security vulnerabilities? Why are people fixated on this totally arbitrary and counterproductive metric of the fact it showed up under the "extensions" header, rather than a metric of whether it has literally anything to do with the interest you're trying to protect?

If you only want to run code written by perfect entities, fine, go ahead. But you shouldn't have been using Firefox in the first place, and you certainly shouldn't be making unsupported moral claims about them for not hitting impossible standards.
I do a lot of consulting, so I'm always looking for short contracts, especially if they are mostly remote.

I respond to almost every recruiter (even the generic emails) with something like:

"Hey _____, I would like to discuss this project further. A little about myself: I own a small consulting firm with 2 employees and depending on the work load 1-10 contractors. When you hire me, you are actually hiring my firm. We bill at $100 per hour plus T&E. If you would like to discuss this possibility further, you can schedule an appointment with my assistant (her email). Shoot over a few times, and she will get back with you if it works."

It gets rid of most of the riffraff and I don't have to put much thought into proposals. I've only gotten 3 gigs this way, but I have grown my network of contacts a bit.

BTW - My "assistant" is my sister-in-law who edits books and stories for a side business of mine, and the only other W-2 employee beside myself (2 employees).
Internet, pull yourself together, I want a printf statement inside a single Brainfuck interpreter! NOW!
I did the Mars demo at a conference a while back - the first couple of minutes I was underwhelmed, but at some point, my brain "bought-in" - I noticed this when I crouched down to look under a virtual rock outcropping without a second thought.
Look at the context of the post. The site has an angle.
The author of this piece really hates C. The funny thing is, both the GUI design pattern and the framework vaguely sounds like iOS development in Cocoa and Objective-C, except terrible.
Some history of the Haas Act here: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2013/0.... One thing to note is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. This was happening at a time when the government regulated things in ways it wouldn't dream of doing today. If you wanted to build a new telephone line, operate a new freight trucking or airline route, or build a new railway, you'd have to ask a government agency for permission, and also get approval for the prices you wanted to charge. The agency would decide "oh, there is no need for a route from here to there" and could deny permission on that basis, or decide "oh, this price is too high, you can't charge that much."

The government back then generally viewed competition as a pernicious thing. So they imposed entry requirements to limit competition. That necessitated also bringing prices under government control, to curb monopoly abuses. The Haas Act followed the same basic logic. Limit pernicious competition by limiting licenses, but curb potential abuses by controlling rates.
> Although seemingly insignificant, the right-side UI is actually harder for the Tesseract OCR Engine to parse, since the colors are less distinct.

shrug, all the while making it harder for humans to see, too. All of these suggestions move the goal posts a bit and set things up for a cat-and-mouse game.

I applaud Cognetta's effort but sadly I think we are heading for a future where artificially intelligent agents will ruin fun things like this.
Hmm. I was hoping for a list of strategies, rather than a list of software platforms. To me, this seems more like a business problem than a software problem.
I bought a Performa 6360 (the lowest-end Mac that could run the BeOS at the time) so I could run the BeOS. Even the installer blew me away (you could move the dialog around while it was installing, and it was updating live on the screen). I was like, "You can do that with this hardware?!" This was 1997. I really loved that OS.
Yes, your wallet/exchange needs to change because it's giving you incorrect suggestions.
Yes I agree - perhaps in 20-50 years (and maybe earlier) but not anytime soon.
It is important to note that trying to hide from OCR systems is not the right approach here. The text displayed in the game is coming from the network, and I highly doubt it's hard to MiTM from your own device.

The other mitigations are more reasonable.
No difference — we are using Kubernetes's native cronjob support. This post is about how we migrated to that system.
Yep. On paper we have a LOT of different browsers.

In reality everything relies more or less on Chrome and Firefox.
My approach (see below) cropped the screenshot before running OCR to remove mistranslations.
bitcoin?
"The level of detail was impressive. I wouldn't mistake her for a real person"

"I noticed that when I moved or looked around, her eyes tracked mine. The cameras inside the Lightwear were feeding her data so she could maintain eye contact." Yes it is possible that the demo changes behavior based on eye movement alone but that's not what the author said.

Lightwear is the headset component. It is not functional without another, separate computer. The author says he only clearly saw the full, multi-piece ensemble of the advertised prototype Magic Leap hardware later, in a different room from the demos. My information comes from the literal words in and structure of the article. To make the point you are trying to make, one must add words and meaning that are not in the article. Continue insulting my literacy.

edit: You are right about one thing; my assertion that the demo in question was reliant on -camera motion- may not be correct. Eye-tracking on commodity hardware using a single camera has been a solved problem for years.
You can get this working with Tokio if you know what you are doing.

However, I personally advise against it as I have found that deferring to the OS for scheduling results in poor thread affinity (your state gets bounced around threads unnecessarily).

You generally get better throughput by either running multiple fully isolated reactors (the seastar approach) or running a single reactor which only flags tasks as ready to be executed, and then use a work stealing thread pool to do the actual execution.

Both of these structures are easy to achieve with Tokio.
A rather shortsighted way to look at things. How do you know this isn't just the tip of the iceberg? How do you know that they won't use that savings to further invest in the company which in turn could create thousands of new jobs? (EDIT: I just re-read the article, and it says in addition to the bonus, they'll be investing an additional $1B in the US in 2018, and that "Every $1 billion in capital invested in the telecom industry creates about 7,000 jobs for American workers, research shows.")

Also, what's with the negative outlook? I'll bet all 200K of those employees are pretty happy about that $1K bonus (on top of saving another $2K/yr in taxes, totaling an extra $3K+ in their pockets, over 10 years = $30K+).

The tax bill just passed and companies are already proving the naysayers wrong, and it seems like people are just trying to find every excuse as to why it's supposedly not actually a good thing that people are going to be able to keep thousands of bucks more every year. Talk about bah humbug!
That's a great perspective and a great question to ask yourself: "do I want to have a board seat, with everything that comes with that".

If you don't know what a board seat entails, well then you know what research you have to do.
A currency that discourages consumerism - interesting idea!
You're discriminating against accounts just for being new, to the extent of flagging totally unprovocative comments, and you claim they're the bigoted ones?

Maybe now you see why people create throwaway accounts when stating these "things you can't say".
Ask HN: Good books on societal technological challenges for English majors
I've been asked by a friend (a philsophy professor at a small liberal arts school) for recommendations for books on “technology and society” for an undergraduate honors colloquium he is teaching next semester. I'm sort of at a loss, since my favorite technology book is “On Lisp”... which doesn't seem to fit the bill. Any recommendations?
Go IO is implemented with green threads using a scheduler underneath.

Rust had green threading in the initial phases but this was voted out.
My original comment was only referring to devaluation of speech. But lets take the three examples that I used:

Trying to repeal health care provisions as your most pressing piece of legislation but not bothering to have an alternative plan to present to the population as a replacement.

Passing legislation which gives permanent tax breaks to corporations but then only temporary breaks to regular people(expires after 8 years.)

Repealing internet regulation in a monopolistic environment.

Please help me to understand how any of the above provides benefit to the average person? Where is the grey part of the spectrum I am not able to see. And by grey I mean the average voter being better off because of it.

I am not sure why you are reframing the context as left vs right. It's not about that, its about governments that represent people and not corporations and campaign contributions.
I don't think I understand. The target market for a blog - for content - has nothing to do with the software you use to display that content. Unless you're publishing on a social network like Medium. But that's not Wordpress.
It depends on the distance from the user
They could just have a second badge like LinkedIn does for "influencer" or something of the like, that would convey the current benefits of the verification badge.
"NoSQL" is a meaningless term. Even when strictly taken as either not supporting SQL or not relational, it is a rather useless way to search for options.
Because the complaint isn't about the vulnerability disclosure, it's about Ars knowingly publishing inaccurate information, i.e. libel.
that's the chilling effect
There's (perhaps apocryphal) stories that Gates was terrified of what a Unix with a decent UI might do to upend Windows.
Yes I think of it as an investment vs. a currency. For example I may also sell TSLA stock to buy a house but not to buy groceries if I think it still has lots of room to run.
DevOps Handbook Series Part 3: Exploiting Continuous Delivery
I'm not sure I understand your question. Falcon Heavy has 27 engines because three times nine is twenty-seven. Are you suggesting SpaceX should have developed a bigger engine instead, and do something similar to a delta-IV heavy?
KTH (the Royal Institute of Technology) was running a nuclear reactor[1] in Stockholm from 1954 to 1970. So if it's crazy, it's at least not unprecedented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1_(nuclear_reactor)
Every major ad network has been caught distributing malware at one time or another. How do you weigh the risk of exposing yourself through acceptable ads?
Pay-once apps compete with each other for my wallet only once. I can purchase them all over a given period of time.

Subscription-based apps constantly compete with EVERYTHING else that I have to pay for every month.

If I’m already subscribing to many apps, it reduces the chances of me subscribing to your app, even if it does not directly compete with those apps in the same category. i.e. photo-editing apps start competing with text-editing apps and games and music apps, perpetually, if they all switch to a subscription model. How is that sane?

If my monthly budget needs some breathing room and I [temporarily] cancel a subscription, I lose features or even access to my existing data. It doesn’t matter how long I had been paying for, not even if I had been a subscriber for years before cancelling.

If developers demand a subscription model then users should demand a “loyalty” perk, where you get to retain access to an app for N weeks after cancelling if you had previously subscribed for X months.

Also, you’d think that with the total number of computing users increasing for all platforms across the world, the overall sales of apps, or at least the potential buyers to market to, must be increasing as well, compared to when we didn’t even have subscriptions in the App Store.
We once had a different max resolution and different max harddrive sizes too. I think we also said only 5 computers total once.
He really didn't show how it performs or the actual solution running on a screen. The time you have to answer the question is very short and his solution has to work against 1) Latency of OCR 2) Latency of the Google Query 3) Latency of parsing the result 4) Latency of running the three methods 5) Input of the Answer (which needs to be performed by a human reading reading the output from the computer screen).

Can someone confirm if it's possible to do all these in Python in l second or less?
Probably a mix of specific taste and the abundance of alternatives to do. Tilt Brush and Google Earth is super fun, but it it wears off. And when it comes to games, there are only so many games I'm interested in. Most Vive games feel more like browser/mobile games to me than the epic PC games I love.
That being said, I just realized that Fallout VR and LA Noire just got released. This is the kind of content I was waiting for and in the case of Magic Leap, it will also take time until somebody invests into building good content for it.
Is there a feature to put a semi transparent black rectangle behind the text so that you can read it when the video image is the same colour as the text?
No, I didn't. You misunderstood my comment, and have beaten that straw man to death since then.

I WANTED TO REVIEW THE CHOICE OF INSTALLING AN ADD-ON ON MY COMPUTER, NOT THE DAMN SOURCE CODE!
They are meant to do that, but corporations pay better.
They probably get advertising dollars per subscriber. The people stealing passwords arent counted as subscribers so they dont get revenue for those.
It sure killed a LOT of people in the process though, so I wouldn't say that that's quite so reassuring.
You can get a 4k tv for like $500 which is several huge res montiors and huge. You could easily sue for that
LiteDB is pretty neat. Side note, RavenDB is another .NET document-style full stack database that just hit 4.0 today: https://ravendb.net/
I don't think you're the only one but may be in the minority.
What I loved about BeOS was the multithreaded user interface. Imagine and office with a single computer with dozens of gigs of RAM and 128 cores could do where everyone could collaborate on the same screen (50 feet wide) at once. Kinda like SunRay on steroids.
I used to commute to work by driving car for several years. I now use public transportation.

I will take the stress of getting sweated on by strangers over the stress of driving in rush hour traffic any time.

Not to mention that in rush hour traffic there's always the one, and only one if you're lucky, selfish asshole who is hellbent on killing you with speeding, aggressive or distracted driving. There's a much higher chance of being killed in traffic than by imaginary serial killers on a subway car.
How to manage old, unmotivated, change resisting programmers?
I think about that sometimes.

I do not believe that it is really a technical problem. While there are arguments to be made (not safe by default, garbage collection, lacking IDE support, ...) these are not killer arguments. In many cases, D has more advantages than disadvantages.

Lack of manpower is a problem. Only Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu work full-time on D. The rest is volunteers. This means development proceeds very slowly compared to Go or Rust. On the other hand, maybe it is more a symptom than the problem.

Perception is a big part. Even in this discussion you can see people remember the "dual standard library problem" which was solved a decade ago. Maybe D just needs a good PR team.
Well, I'm talking about mobile, so the Electron model isn't quite applicable. But sort of, yes. Except without the overhead of each app bundling it's own entire browser runtime.
Yes, yes and again yes. I am missing it on other platforms so much.
I didn't say you have to protect them. I did say you might want to not spread ideas you disagree with.

It's one thing to debate with friends at a bar. It's another to retweet something to your 6,000 followers and adding "lol dumb". At least some of those followers will disregard your comment and just absorb the message.

Just like my maths professor in high school would say. I'd show you how most of you do this wrong, but then you're just going to remember the wrong way. Let me just show you how to do it right.

Then there's the argument that any signal of approval (share, comment, retweet, engage) tells algorithmic timelines that this message gets much engagement and sharing it to a broader audience.

A key tenet of human cognition is that we agree more with things we hear more often. You can convince people of pretty much anything through sheer bruteforce of Being Everywhere. Doesn't matter if those who share agree or disagree, just that they shared.
Ah, finally someone did this! I've had this same idea for forever but never got around to implementing it.
Lots of .Net jobs in Australia, I think it was on the curriculum on the CS degrees here for a while.
Here, Wiki got you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_chemical_weapon...
It's a long-term short on the value cryptocurrencies hold.

They're betting on their 'service fees' eventually overtaking mining returns, while customers are betting on the opposite.

Customers have to trust that HashFlare is going to keep it's mining systems state-of-the-art. But I don't see how the service has any incentive to do so: that's hard work and cuts into their profits.

A counterargument is that HashFlare might also be taking the lion's share of the cryptocurrencies they mine. Well, if they were that confident in cryptocurrency, why wouldn't they just use their hardware in a normal mining pool?
On-change: Watch a JavaScript object or array for changes
That's odd that coinsapp claims to be "one of the first apps built on Blockstack ever" but Blockstack does not even mention coinsapp in the "Featured Apps on Blockstack" section on the main page.
I forgot about that. Windows NT 3.5 and I think 4.0 were ported to the DEC Alpha CPU architecture and shipped on a number of (very expensive) DEC workstations at the time. So it is not totally nuts to possibly port it to the then-current Apple/Motorola PowerPC architecture as well.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dec+alpha+windows+nt&ie=utf-...
I graduated from Ohio State in 2011 and moved away in 2012, so much more recently than that actually. A woman that I dated in high school is now a teacher at the school we graduated from, and she told me that she sees pretty vile behavior from her students (particularly after the election). So we are not talking about a long time ago, nor are we talking about one or two isolated incidents.
Once/if Dr. Seuss enters public domain you're going to see that everywhere. The entire world will turn into a Seuss wonderland. Or at least I can dream it will.
well, to me, making 5x what someone else makes is alot more, and it becomes embarrassing when it means that im able to eat and sleep comfortably and get healthcare when someone else cant. so that kind of bums me out. but hey, i guess we dont all agree on that.
I thought I knew printf format strings, but I suppose not because I have no idea what %1$.*1$d %2$hn does. Can anyone explain why that increments the value behind a pointer?
Intentions do matter though, it's not about the money to some people. Some people understand how revolutionary a decentralized economy would be and want to take part in trying to implement something they believe in. If it's all about making a quick buck then yes, it's gambling. Don't assume money is everything to everyone.

I don't feel comfortable losing any money at a casino, that money goes to an industry that I don't care to support; But I'd be fine losing money in crypto because It's something I want to support.
Basically, the KYC regulations?
I still have no idea what his point was.
Interesting. However, AFAIK, the regional block lists are not enabled by default (not sure about ABP, but it's definitely the case with UBO), which makes it pretty useless without further setup for a sizeable part of the userbase, so I'd expect that most people who are capable of installing the extension are also capable of at least basic set up.
Your article about philosophy enrollment is from 2008. The trend has reversed, though both the increase and decrease in humanities majors were relatively minor (12.5% vs 15%)

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/05/analysis-find...