skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I heard it, an agent came and found them. The same agent represents Lil Bub and another pet. I'm not sure if this is accurate.

The owners of Kabosu, the original Doge, also let someone commercialize it, but they weren't nearly as savvy as Grumpy Cat's owner, and their mediocre Doge merchandise was on clearance racks at Hot Topic not long after it came out. Despite it not being successful, they managed to get under the skin of Doge/Dogecoin fans with trademark and copyright claims. https://www.dailydot.com/business/doge-trademark-ultra-pro/
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
If you want climate change to be taken seriously don't use half-hearted language. Otherwise it's too easy for the problem to be called insignificant and nothing will happen.

Unfortunately no matter what strategy is taken, someone will complain at how the message is phrased.
'Monkey Selfie' Lawsuit Ends with Settlement Between PETA, Photographer
In 2009, I bought a bottle of Barack Obama hot sauce I discovered at the local grocery store, just for the sheer novelty of it. I have no idea if it’s any good, as I never opened it. I keep it as a memento.

Grumpy Cat is a big enough phenomenon that they could probably make back the fee just on purchases like that. Let alone people who would actually drink the stuff.
You may also be interested in the Monkey Selfie case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16228390
When the data is in transit between devices, what encryption is being used? I mean I could speculate a manner in which it’s possible to restrict this between two devices and their respective secure enclaves, but is Apple doing that?

This would mean that when backed up in Apple’s servers l, they’d have to backup per device... maybe they do?
More likely that someone is going bankrupt than someone is getting paid.
Grumpy Cat's company has a whole lot of merchandise[1] including Grumpy Cat books and even a Grumpy Cat film[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Grumpy-Cat/e/B00E952UMS/ref=dp_byline...

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3801438/
I’ve been doing it since ~2006. Contrast was not an issue back then, and my very young eyes wouldn’t have (and still don’t) cared.

I think maybe it was a manifestation of ADHD. Highlighting what I read helped me keep track of where I was if I got distracted (e.g. by a thought, which happens a lot). It also helps me if I get distracted or fail to parse a sentence - I can easily go back to the last known good state and restart reading.

Websites doing weird things on highlight (or preventing highlighting) piss me off to no end.

Another tick possibly due to ADD: I consistently close my browser tabs. I’ve met a lot of people who need special extensions so they can have 100+ tabs open, and that drives me absolutely nuts. If I’m done using it, I close it and if I need to come back later I google(DuckDuckGo really) it.
Now--when they are fat & happy.

What will happen when people, like myself, refuse to buy their pricy products.

Yes--today they are trustworthy, or that's the image they cultivate.

Who know what tomorrow will bring.

(Personally--we need strict government regulations on our data. I don't think those in charge can even comprehend what safeguards we need. And yes--Europe is going in the right direction, while the all might America just listens to the Gods of tech, or our oblivious? I'm not picking on Apple. We have just let them all do to much with Our data.)
It's like whack a mole. The economy is a global system, and so is the atmosphere. Shifting production of carbon between the parts isn't per se useful.

We can no more blame other countries for increasing CO2 output than we can blame a grocery store down the block from opening when another closes (or, refuses to cater to new demand, to make a better analogy).

We'll only stop if we come up with an unambiguously better alternative, or something forces us. A acute problem is that if we stopped using carbon, people would die. (And the economy would contract, of course, but death is a stronger motivator).

We're above our carrying capacity without carbon use. But if we keep using it, we die, later.

I think the most no brainer approach is to push for a global carbon tax to prod development of renewables. Income taxes could be cut to offset, so at a low level this wouldn't hurt a country. This seems not very popular however, and no one has pushed for an international agreement on this point, instead pushing for whack a mole emissions reductions in single countries.

My most optimistic scenario is we do figure out an unambiguously better alternative, switch to it, and then also figure out some way to use the energy to suck carbon from the atmosphere (which has its own challenges).
First Light Table then Eve. 2 for 2 :)
Good point, here. As is often said, when the documentation says "undefined behavior", it means the compiler can do whatever it wants, including "work just fine"; and sometimes it'll cause time travel[0]. Hence the "nasal demons" lore. Often, it'll cause optimizations to be applied that would have otherwise been avoided resulting in a bug that appears to occur somewhere else and a programmer to look at the result of execution and ... if it actually continues executing ... swear a lot. These are especially fun because the problem frequently won't appear in debug builds.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=... - worth a read for some entertainment - basically what happens when the compiler assumes "undefined behavior" can't happen and optimizes accordingly.
And lots of business people who have nothing to do but make meetings. Meetings get boring when they are only meeting with themselves, since they have nothing to talk about but there other meetings.
What's innovative about Google Home? Every component of it, Home itself (Echo), the Home mini (Echo Tap), etc. are all clones of products that already existed. It doesn't do anything particularly better than it's competitors, and in many cases performs worse, including issues like embarrassingly incorrect answers, killing Wi-Fi networks, accidentally recording all voice even when it's not supposed to...

Google Home is the exact embodiment of a "me too" product. And it's not even a good one.
What are your criteria? I moved to Bandizip a few months back and it covers all of my requirements quite well.
> It's interesting to note, that when Obama used the platform to get elected, no one minded. But, when the opposing party does it, everyone judges it negatively.

When history sandwiches you between two world leaders with an apparently combined IQ of 2, people might let some questionable things slip.
That author has a coding blog.. he might as well switch to something real like https://gohugo.io.
They also had some real life events. There was one at Macy's in SF at around Christmas 2015 and one in Berkeley which was named Grumpytown U. S. A. in summer 2016.
It's open source; feel free to fork.
As a side note, and as someone else working in this space, you do yourself a disservice by telling yourself work in this space is stagnant since SmallTalk.

It’s not that programming ergonomics are stagnant, it’s that all of the gains have been made by professionals. And the tooling is nearly impossible to leverage for a beginner environment because all of the assumptions of a pro developer are built in to their design.

The innovations are there, Heroku, Git, CSS, Markdown... these are all triumphs of programming ergonomics. They’re just all inevitably coopted by professional “Foundations” and amended to the maximum level a Pro developer can handle. JavaScript is almost useless for beginners now because the tooling is so complex, but full time front end devs can crank out HTTP packets like no ones business.

So you will need to watch those developments and lean on their ideas and some of the low level tooling if you ever hope to build a beginner environment. But you can’t use the tools themselves.

Still, if you start with SmallTalk you will fail. If Chris Granger and Bret Victor started their and failed, you will fail too, because those guys are rockstars.

You need to take the ideas being tested in the Pro tools and use them, without adopting the Pro implementations or even the interfaces. It’s or easy.
The cold reality of copyright law is having a chilling effect, causing me to not share content for fear of being sued.

Case in point: bilingual songs.

all of the italic items are illegal

I go to a prayer room in Taiwan, and the musicians there have translated many famous Christian songs into Chinese. I got their lyrics as PDFs and converted those to TXT so I can use it with my http://pingtype.github.io translator app.

They stream their 2-hour sets on YouTube and Facebook. I downloaded those and cut out the MP3s. I want to combine the audio with the lyrics to make lyrics videos to put on YouTube (I already made some, actually, and a few more that I didn't upload).

I got the lyrics from someone in another prayer room in another city, followed by a message saying basically "Oh no! I shouldn't have sent it to you! It's copyright and we don't have the license to share those songs so don't ever share this to anybody!" The reason is that the original English author didn't authorise the translation, so what they're doing is breaking copyright and they're afraid that if they become famous, they'll get caught.

I've procrastinated uploading more lyrics to Pingtype because of these issues. Meanwhile I use my personal copy in church, and it's great to sing along with everyone else and learn Chinese while doing so.

I tried contacting CCLI to get a license from the original authors of the songs, but they don't operate in Taiwan. I'm seriously considering just posting my painstakingly-clipped MP3s and the lyrics files on some pirate sites and letting the Internet do what it does best.
Front is probably doing 7MM ARR (I highly doubt more than that)
The Word hover toolbar was one of the innovations in office 2007 (along with the Ribbon, live preview, and contextual grammar) and it’s one of my favorite features for the reasons you specify. A truly awesome feature that does not get nearly enough attention and is missing in places like google docs.

Often, I find that I have no need to actually use the ribbon, because what I need pops up near my cursor when I select the text I want to edit.
I noticed you mentioned the southeastern states. I have actually seen quite a few postings in Baton Rouge and Charleston recently, as well as other cities in the southeast.

Is there a reason why security is a focus there?
I would imagine it looks exactly the same. Only smaller and younger.
I’m wary about where I source my turmeric from, because of Lead Chromate contamination:
https://www.bu.edu/sph/2017/04/04/high-levels-of-lead-detect...
Communities like social networks heavily depend on their celebrities/engagers to get people regularly participating. Google+'s own UI was easily overwhelmed by the dreaded "99+ notifications", and the lack of competent content management features. With APIs, these "big" users would have an easier time working with the network. Similarly, third party apps and tools are key in bringing multi-network entities into engaging on your network.

Note that Facebook massively profited from people integrating with their platform both internally and externally, bringing games in (Google did try this... poorly) and bringing Facebook right into their own websites.
As you correctly point out, it's not computable, so we can't use it for measuring anything in practice. But let's ignore that.

The issue I have with it is that it theoretically measures the lossless compressibility of some sequence of bits, instead of the kind of "hierarchical decomposition that is robust to data loss" that I'm talking about here.

Think about this way: we can randomly zero out half the pixels in a cat photo, and a human being can still see it's the same cat, because it's composed of cat parts that "approximately look like" cat parts (pointy ears, whiskers, etc.), and those parts look like cat parts because they are in turn composed of things that "approximately look like" cat part parts, all the way down to pixels.

AFAIK, there's no way of measuring whether cat photos have more or less of this kind of robust-to-loss hierarchical structure than, say, dog photos, or fruit photos.
Hmm .. seems things have changed quite a bit since I last read up on this. It seems to vary by state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_drawn_pornogra...
I might argue that building a bridge is harder now taking the whole process into account (just the metallurgy is vastly more complex); but they don't fall down as often. Which they often did in early railroad days thanks to hidden cracks in the metal that were both frequent and undetectable back then. But ordering a bridge to be built might be easier, now.

Specifying routines completely disambiguously will always be hard, but I do think techniques will come along to provide the equivalent of railings and safety nets while you do this; such as AI to query you about what you really want to happen, and to draw your attention to edge cases and unusual combinations of circumstances that you need to make a clear decision about.
It's the same regime, obviously not the same effect. Very far from any situation where you need anything like
the effective field theory of GR. The title's claim that this is a unification of gravity and quantum physics is quite
overblown.
An electric company charging a different rate based of the brand of devices you use (e.g. higher rate for companies that didn't made deal with them), and outright blocking battery packs and solar panels.
> To summarise, I still don't see how these two sentences are different: ...

To "observe unsafe behavior" means I can write a program that does something safe, e.g., a data race or invalid memory access. It's possible to write library X and Y in such a way that I can observe unsafe behavior using both X and Y in my program, without putting "unsafe" blocks in my program. This is possible even if I can't do the same thing with either X or Y alone.

This is surprising, because it means that the naive definition of "safe interface" is not actually safe enough!
I think that there is a swarming aspect to humanity, in the sense of locusts or passenger pigeons.

Here's what I mean by that: For some species the survivability rate is inverse to the population density- the habitat fills up and a natural equilibrium results. But for other species there is a range of population densities where the survivability rate is positively correlated with population- so the more you have, the better they survive. Any species that moves in large herds is like that- the predators get full, they can't eat any more, and the dent the predators can make on the population is negligible. We are like that too; the more of us there are, the more we can specialize tasks and support each other, and the faster our population increases. (Up to some limit).

Swarming species are more delicate than they look though- passenger pigeons are a good example. Once some external force pushes the population below a certain level, the remainder have a much much harder time surviving. I don't know if people appreciate how easily a good nuclear war could cause the total extinction of humanity- once we lose the big interconnected economy, with all the easy to find resources gone, we could really be f*ed.
Supported on Btrfs since kernel 4.14. Like other compression options, it's a mount time option.

Edit: Also in squashfs. Here's the git pull request which includes some benchmarks.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/11/369
You need to learn some quantum field theory. You're trying to reason with a popsci level understanding and failing miserably.
> Just the words I want to hear when I upgrade my programming language by one minor version.

Would you prefer hearing "We didn't fix anything in this update"?
I think that's an old wives' tale. There's probably a better article somewhere, but I found this one: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170421-should-you-avoid-ic...
what I find even weirder is people not being turned off the fact that cat is a living genetic dumpster.
The Great API Masher
>we've made it to the point of profiting off of a cat. For looking humorously pissed off by cat standards.

We profit off of cow, chickens, etc. because we enjoy sutffing them in our mouths after torturing and slaughtering them.
This is really just not accurate. You can say that AVs are crap, but please don't put all of your eggs in the 'proactive security' basket. At one point that was actually the prevailing attitude, and it just failed absolutely miserably.

Instead, today, we see more companies invest in what's called "incident response". Part of a healthy incidence response program is signature detection - AV plays a role in this.

If you don't have good detection capabilities you're missing a huge portion of what makes an organization secure.

Relying on proactive users is also a recipe for disaster and not a realistic goal at all, nor should it be.
I really like the concept of USDS. It's a shame you have to live in DC to help. I think the pay cut I could maybe handle but not DC.
> see GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, which is considered unsafe even though it used to be safe

This is wrong. GND plus TypeFamilies or some other extension in that vein used to be unsound when combined. It has since been fixed via the introduction of type roles.

> Composed atomic operations are not atomic.

Incidentally, Haskell also has this figured out via the STM monad.
Good catch, I guess it's theoretically impossible to announce a Ponzi scheme then. Queue someone launching PyramidCoin.
The shortage is huge if you are smart and have IT background many companies will train you.
ppmd will get you better compression on text (better than zstd and even better than lzma), but it is slow to compress and decompress. Use `7z a -m0=PPMd demo.7z demo.txt`
I was prescribed tetracycline for my acne when I was in my late teens as well. It gave me a terrible sore throat (sharp stabbing kind of pain) so I stopped taking it. I've always told doctors since then that I'm allergic to it, because I'd really rather not repeat that.
I'd love to purchase the Pro but I can't see the price anywhere. Nothing in the App Store or even when I click "upgrade to Pro" in the app itself no information on how much it's about to charge me.
...what is this estimate based on?
I have to admit, the dig with the oversized Reese's coffee cup at the end made me LOL.
> However, you have the benefit of being able to narrow your search scope to the parts of your code marked `unsafe` instead of the entire project.

I may be missing some context, but this is certainly not true in Rust. In order to understand whether an individual piece of code marked `unsafe` is actually correct, you need to examine the context in which it is run and in general you could have to examine a large section of "safe" code in order to figure out whether the "unsafe" block is correct. Usually you will have to examine the entire module.
It's also true that there's no DEFINITIVE ABSOLUTE PROOF that pressing the nuclear launch button will clause a MAD-style nuclear escalation.

But still, there's good reason to believe it would, so it'd be irresponsible to push the button given other reasonable alternatives.

"You can't ever know FOR SURE that this destroy life as we know it!" has to be the least logical form and most confusing of climate change skepticism out there. The fact that anyone would consider this argument, on its own, even remotely compelling, is... oy.
I am out of the loop, are there any "real" quantum computers yet? I was under the impression that no one was really making actual quantum computers yet, but some sort of annealing machine like d-wave. Are these IBM machines finally "real" quantum computers?
In the future envisioned back in the 90s manga Ghost in the Shell there's several discussions about this. For example, a random person posting video evidence of a crime is useless since it's impossible to determine if the video is real or a complete fabrication. Only video from widely trusted sources like major news outlets has any weight behind it.
You should really meet someone who works at NSA. Snowden worked there before he left. It’s generally a group of ridiculously smart people. Policy is where stuff gets bungled.
I'm getting a 404 here: https://blot.im/guides
Evolution for sure, heck, they even has the same author. But fasttext is the same idea as word2vec, the objective is identical.
If every study on tumeric, tea, chocolate, and coffee was fully accurate we'd all be immortal by now.
Nuster v1.7.9.3 is released(A web caching proxy server based on HAProxy)
That's because with new developments that do get achieved in predicted timelines, the predictions don't get mention because it's only unsurprising ordinary news. Whereas with tantalizing but out of reach technologies, we get repeated "are we there yet" articles, and skepticism makes for more popular journalism. It's a combination of selection bias and the availability heuristic.
Yes, that makes sense to me: we don't have a formal, precise way of discussing (measuring) information content when faced with the kind of "hierarchical structure that is robust to loss" that is prevalent in natural high dimensional data.

(FWIW, I don't like the term "hierarchical structure" that much, but cannot think of a more appropriate term. It's as if there's no good terminology for discussing these issues, at least not yet.)
That's pretty crazy and definitely brilliant in that it solved a client problem entirely to their satisfaction.
I just looked for "atmel brushless motor control" and got this, which looks similar to the document I read before, but it's for the atmega32 instead of the atmega8:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed_Mourad_Lafifi/p...

I can also see a ton of PID controller projects on various microcontrollers searching for pid and brushless controller and esc and motor controller and things like that.
Nested Ternaries are Great
It’s $5. I’m going to make it more clear in the next update.
I really want to like this, but it's really not much more impressive than this, once you take into account the fact that the author clearly memorized the exact demo steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZO1TKPlzY
Yea but this is a living creature. I don't mind the branding but traveling all over the world is very stressful for animals.
> We need to have a conversation about the possible paths to make programming more widely accessible.

We've been doing this for as long as computers have existed and have made virtually no progress (pun intended) since 3GL languages. No other industry has ever tried as hard as ours has to make itself redundant. Programming is about as simple now as it will be for the foreseeable future, any simplification sacrifices the versatility.

If you want to make programming more accessible then you need to work on peoples abstract reasoning skills.
Actually the more relevant proof in this specific case is that the defendant signed a contract and paid money to use that cat. The copyright angle here was never at issue except as a creative defense. Clearly the coffee company recognized the IP owner and saw value.

This was a contract suit.