skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> needed to be re-written because the source code could not be produced

Is that a diplomatic way of saying someone lost the source code?
The Essays of Montaigne. While it is a massive time, he wrote in so much detail into his own thought process, we are given a peek into his mind. He also digests thousands of aphorisms, maxims, parables and quotes from the classics and the works from antiquity. I have heard people referring to it as a sort of a secular Bible. I recommend the translation by M A Screech.
If you upgrade stack and then do stack build, it's very close to being guaranteed to work.

Stack (and stackage) is the best nicest, most-reliable build-system of any language.
It isn't exactly clear how it's managed from the desktop either. Over the years they've really screwed the whole thing up. It's no longer clear whether someone is online, offline, online but hidden, or just lost in a contact list change reorganization. it also isn't clear whether someone is available to chat, or if the IM I send will be inconveniently received on their mobile phone, something I try to avoid doing when possible.
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Meet though is exclusively Chrome. They have now cut Safari out of the picture as well... https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473
> This is a trade site?

If you're talking about the A/V Club, it's not a trade site; it's a pop culture review/etc. site.
I believe most if not all of the big 4 do algo heavy interviews. So it's my opinion that people know this and then look at their success and say "That's how we need to interview too." Ignoring the fact that probably has little to do with their success.

At a previous company we did the classic algo heavy, big O, technical questions and we suffered for it.
The difference was you'd fire up Pidgin and connect to all of those accounts simultaneously, at which point it really didn't matter which individual network any given contact was on.

Now, in the smartphone era, there's nothing like that. There's a bunch of different completely siloed apps, and I can't talk to people all from one place.
One of the things I love about Google Fi is that I'm still allowed to effectively use Google Talk and SMS still works in Hangouts on my phone. I can do all messaging from the hangouts app with people over SMS or if they use hangouts, the message can go over that. I can text and call with my real phone number through the Gmail interface. Unfortunately, those with Google Fi are the only ones still allowed to use it that way.
I don't think it's fair to say that development programs will just stop after a reasonable advancement on the last known state of the art.

If you (a nation) are working on this, it's fair to assume your peers are as well. If you have improved on the state of the art, it's safe to assume your peers are in a similar position or will soon be.

By making advancements, all you are doing is proving that other nations with a similar level of technical sophistication can do the same. Even if you make strong assumptions that you are indeed the best, you can't assume other nations will never reach where you are now. Maybe you have 5 years on them, because you are clearly superior? Or maybe you take a more conservative stance and assume you're behind - just in case.

Furthermore, I don't think quarantine would be an effective response to an intentional biological attack. Even just quarantining say, New York City, would be a nearly impossible task. And since this is an attack, why wouldn't all major cities be targeted? There would be no way to contain it physically.

Even if you think pure quarantine is the way to go, there is a lot of useful information that can only be gained by doing the weaponization research. What sort of incubation times could show up? How virulent, etc. Knowing these sorts of things would really improve the quarantine situation. There also isn't really a good way to know without doing the research. It doesn't mean it has to be packaged into a weapon, but the hard part is all done.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...
Texas teacher on life support after contracting both strains of flu
I love dress shirts and casual blazers. I give zero shits about anyone not liking it.
I can't speak for everyone, but my interest in Cryonics stems from a love of life, not a fear of death. Preservation will not solve grief, death, or displacement in time. Nor does it necessitate immortality - I want to die, eventually, but if there is a chance at more life, I'll take it. People have spent more on experimental cancer treatments with similar uncertainty and discomfort, so I suppose it's similar to that.

I would gladly revive a non famous person from the 18th century - diversity in thought doesn't seem to be a mess to me. And any future that would revive me would necessarily agree - I'm just betting there are enough people like me when resurrection is possible. And if everyone is like you, I'd gladly opt to be dissected and studied instead.
Continuing the train of thought of the comments bemoaning the state of the instant messaging: can anyone recommend a simple instant messaging / voice call combo like the old-timey Skype?
I can understand not wanting handouts, it's the combination that i don't get: "i don't want handouts, but the coastal elites don't give me enough handouts, so i'm going to vote for the guy who's going to take away all my handouts"
Not just the set of kernel calls but the scope of the calls themselves. A text editor should be able to fopen the file I’m editing but it doesn’t need to be able to access ~/Documents/top-secret.txt. You can do this type of thing with SELinux though I’ve yet to see it done in a user friendly way.
A Mathematical Path to Stable Relationships
Using linux has slight advantages only for devops, and even then why would they need it if they can spin up an ec2/run a docker container/use vagrant. Mac OS offers superior UX to linux (unless you invest heaps of engineering hours into setting it up your window manager & env to a usable state). More modern distributions like Mint or Elementary OS might offer somethnig on par, but even then the simplicity and ubiquity of Macs fade their benefits.

The only reason to use Linux is for extra op security, but that's not what programmers main concern usually is.
Older Entrepreneurs Do It Better
> The Bible

> edit: For those of you down voting me for whatever reason, can you at least contribute to the discussion and explain how my answer was a poor one?

> The bible is one of the greatest stories ever told containing a myriad of different ways at looking at life.

By itself, it wasn’t a very compelling comment. You made no effort to support your position. Given that the Christian bible is considered to be a religious text first and philosophy second (if at all), you should have made a case for why it was relevant in this context.
I'm genuinely curious, what's the methodology behind categorizing palettes by country? Just for fun? Or is there something more interesting here.

I'm from the states, but I think I might like that Dutch palette more.
https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/blob/master/snmake.exe - standalone build of GNU Make 3.80. Has a couple of hacks in it to better support Windows-style paths with colons in it. I think this came from the SN Systems Playstation2 SDK. Thanks to the GPL, you can have it too.

(I have no idea whether this will successfully run a C compiler for you on Windows, though. I mostly use it to run Makefiles with phony targets as a cross-platform replacement for shell scripts.)
So, the western version of Maranasati?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati
I did every problem in the K&R C book and wrote a small program like a unit test demonstrating every function in the standard lib. The biggest gain I got was learning how to use Make to compile and run my suite of examples.
I just wish the reflex maintainers would push new changes to Hackage once in awhile. From GitHub I gather that reflex 0.5 was finished over a year ago but that version is not available on Hackage.
Great piece. I used to use GT a lot, then it changed to Hangouts and I used it less, then people were saying 'it's better to use Ello for encrypted chat' and I thought 'why bother'?

I've had this experience with quite a few Google products - they just keep getting larger and cheesier with no discernible user benefit. Everything just keeps getting bigger and worse, even search.
You could do both: organ donation is compatible with brain preservation.

Perhaps some are motivated by narcissism, but I'd like to think my fellow cryonicists are motivated by hope, and a belief that the future will be a warm and welcoming place. If the future is narcissistic, I wouldn't want to be revived anyways.
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I think you’re misrepresenting the way AI acts in the Culture. They’re really just depicted as hyper-competent humans, essentially, with their own goals, quirks, and personalities. The reason The Culture works is because they’re self-policing: Banks depicts the AIs as having their own moral compasses, which do occasionally come into conflict, and in stories like Excession you see how the AIs form coalitions and deal with these conflicts. You also see AIs who don’t conform to their roles and are refitted, etc. Banks seems to believe in essentially universal moral principles that any sufficiently intelligent entity will have the capacity to reason out, and that there is a semi-inevitable progression towards a better understanding of and adherence to these principles as cultures develop (because cultures that don’t will destroy themselves). Or, at least, he believes that humans will successfully pass their own arbitrary moral principles on to AI; they are raised in our culture with our values, after all.

The one thing that Banks does that I really like is that he highlights the fact that sufficiently advanced AI is not just a tool or machine the way we traditionally think of them in relation to ourselves; as thinking beings they are every bit as deserving of dignity as ourselves. Actually, the truth regarding the Culture is that the humans are more or less pets, in the sense that it’s the AI’s benevolence that allows the Culture to function at all. What makes this notion uplifting rather than depressing is that Banks sees a society of super-intelligences as inevitably benevolent, but not trivially so.
If you know low level, there's Blocknet https://github.com/BlocknetDX/BlockDX

This is a trustless blockchain interoperability protocol which enables the transfer of data and value across different blockchains. If interested, you can reach out to contact@blocknet.co
AIM handled presence quite well- custom "away" messages, easily editable "profiles" which were like a .plan file to include a note about where you were logged in, idle timers, icon to tell if an IM was forwarded to a cell phone. Finally while it lacked anything like Slack has to store your messages centrally and persistently, AIM would notify a user when you logged on to more than one location and allow remote logoff of your other sessions to ensure subsequent messages only went to your current session.

I'm glad you've been blessed with whatever Apple Magic lets iMessage work across devices for you but between my iPad iPhone and MacBook all I can say is I follow up important messages with a phone call because it's one of the more unreliable and indecipherable systems I've never been able to figure out.
A fictional version is 'about a boy' by Nick Hornby. Kinda.
Counter-example: Geoffrey Hinton (who developed backpropagation), has a self-proclaimed phobia of mathematics. There's plenty more to innovation than solving those IMO problems, Google Code Jams, etc, because they involve very specific practice (and over-fit the needed skillsets).

It's instead the encouraging atmosphere and resultant inflows of capital (intellectual and otherwise) that may put China ahead in the future.
I'm curious what other arguments you have, personally. I'm not sure you've expressed it fully yet.
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> One has to learn how to deal with cabal anyway

With *.cabal project files yes, for sure.

But `stack` has completely replaced `cabal` command for me. I don't even have it installed.
But Google+. Do you not realize the value of Google+??
FYI, we know what the theoretical physical bounds are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
Here's An Idea: Hold the Olympics in Multiple Cities at Once
Diversity of thought, novelty. In the same way it never gets old to watch a child experience "I am your father!" for the first time, I'm sure humans of the future will enjoy entertaining humans of the past.
I opened it on Firefox Focus on iOS, and I just see a heading about 280 colors and a list of other products below. Looks like the main content has been blocked by the ad/script filters in the browser.
How Elon Musk Does It
> Is the editor really a problem to solve for Markdown?

I don't think it's a "problem to solve" i think it's an opportunity to grasp.

I love markdown and can read it just fine without an editor like this, but I, and many others, find it useful to have headings actually be darker and bigger. There's value to those typographical changes. There's value to links being a different color. Having an editor that can provide your eyes with helpful things.... helps.
Making tunnels the way you make spaceships
Galois Field in Cryptography (2012) [pdf]
Thanks! Do you know any good (Udemy?) course in Elm that won't take too much time and gets into important parts quickly and thoroughly?
This is not true for monopolistic markets, such as those created by "drug free workplace" incentives. Until enough of them stop there can't be any meaningful competition.
I have a folder on my iPhone for all the various google chat apps, allo, duo, hangouts, meet and the list goes on and on.

Not an application, but a whole folder filled with chat applications!

All my friend have moved onto slack.
It also had smooth (and more comfortable, due to love handles and buttons) realtime gaming with graphics a cut above the PS1.

https://youtu.be/s3xsSwjQ1oA
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Sure but the web interface for hangouts ruins the whole experience. How search functionality can be ignored in a Google product is beyond me.
> they don't do modern encryption standards, and web servers don't like that at all

Yes, and come July 1st, many websites will only allow TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 to be PCI compliant, which will knock out a bunch of old clients.

> I bet part of what made Gmaps clients so compatible is because the legacy clients didn't do HTTPS, and Google's servers don't require HTTPS.

That's my hunch too.
> Should I instead divorce her so I can spend more time balancing binary trees?

It takes a lot of sacrifice to make it to the top.

Should I be allowed to study while you enjoy your Valentines Day? Then I might just get ahead of you.

Luckily for us in tech you can make good money without being in the top 5-10%.
I interpreted it to refer to the sort of momentary lapse in mental coherence that might occur as you fall asleep. You're listing all this stuff you're saying "goodnight" to and then your mind blanks for a second- no one else is in the room with you in that moment. After a moment you remember the mush and the old lady saying "hush".
Is being gay something you are or that you do? If drinking alcohol off the job is protected other recreational chemicals should be just as protected. And a significant portion of Marijuana use is medical regardless of opinion to the contrary.
> Voice/Hangouts has felt like an abandoned application for many years, even though it's potentially one of the best products Google has ever made.

That's probably WHY Google Voice was one of the best products Google put out.
Let's say you need zip lib functionality in your project.
If it will be available as set of .h files you would include it by one line `#include zip.h` in your .c file.

But libzip is made of .c files. How you would include it in your multiplatform project ? Visual Studio, XCode, etc...

In general it would be great if C has `#include source "some.c"` feature.

So you would add single file zip-lib.c that will contain `#include source ...` references to all needed .c files.

But C/C++ has no modules as other languages so we need palliatives like make files, etc.
Any love ?
I just realized that Google+ isn't dead yet. Guess someone at Google is still hopeful about its future?

P.S. Also the amount of shit Google+ has fucked wrt to Google services in amazing. It also killed the "+" sign in Google's search results too.
It was an interesting read... that I couldn’t finish because the page kept crashing until my browser (Safari, iOS 11.2.5, iPhone 8) finally gave up on reloading it. Even made my phone warm up at one point.

Happens too often on Gizmodo Media Group sites (I’m on Jalopnik almost daily.)
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The link was unbelievably informative. Thank you.
Hahah, apparently this is a controversial suggestion. Never realized HN is so right-wing.
I'm guessing they're keeping it going because I bet there's still a decent amount of traffic.
You essentially just linked me a document that admits they have to fudge the data to get the result they are looking for because the actual readings don't support their conclusion. It also makes no mention of the fact that Every 25 to 30 years the oceans undergo a natural cycle where the colder water below churns to replace the warmer water.
My thought exactly. I was like yes of course!

How does he think that desktop app can do many different things?

Now, sandbox is a different issue. But of course, yes it have access to the screen.

If apps on desktop is going to be as restrictive on mobile, why use desktop at all?
> I would recommend Typescript then.

Funny, all people using Typescript I know use it in functional way (computer vision/AR in a browser).
Yes for over a decade I was able used Gaim/Pidgin as my one stop instant messenger. In the early days, I used it for MSN,AIM, and ICQ. And when Google Talk took off that worked too. Could even talk to my coworkers in China over the QQ network. And when I joined a company that used Skype, there was a plugin for that too. Life was good.

The consumer really has been the loser now that Apple, Google, and Facebook have walled off their messengers.
What do you think about this?
(from part of my other comment)

* 9 out of the top 10 algorithms for the Stanford Question Answering Dataset are by Chinese teams, backed by HIT & iFlLYTEK, Alibaba, Microsoft Research Asia (in Beijing), NUDT & Fudan University, and others. They beat out teams by Samsung, Salesforce, CMU, and Facebook, for example.

https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/

It is not like others do not try. This is a highly commercializable area of research and there is no requirement to publish the technical details of the submitted solution.

* Based on publications from 2015 onward, Peking and Tsinghua University are ranked in the world's top 5 for published papers in top AI conferences (at #3 and #5).

http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2015/toyear/2018/index?ai&v...

See my previous comment for more info & counterpoints about talent and pollution.
Reminds me of the space balls movie.
Google Talk was like the “cool” version of AIM to me when I was using it between 2010 and 2013. I could access Talk from my browser or from a desktop client (Pidgin, and I believe there used to be an official Talk desktop client).

For some like me, I didn’t mind to have my messages/conversations stored like an email (I am aware of some people’s privacy cocnerns). Even today I can go back to my Gmail and look up my conversations with friends and family. I own the conversation history, and I can export them at any given time! I can search them and sort them directly in Gmail.

Now I use WhatsApp, Messenger, text messeage, and Wechat (for different groups of people), I don’t know any mechanism to export my conversations. For WhatsApp and Messenger, I know search is only available on their desktop client... and IRRC only text search (can’t do date/time search alone) is supported and is on per contact basis. No global search...

Communication used to be, hmm, simple communication: no snap, no video, no crazy emojis and stickers :)

Google, what happened? :<

Orz

Edit: The only thing still usable is the free phone call from and to U.S. I use it all the time since carrier signal is so unreliable and uneven (and subject to surrounding environment) so I just hop on Wifi to make calls, esp at work. PLEASE DON’T KILL IT .
> > How can I protect myself as a user?
> To my knowledge there is no way to protect yourself as of now.

That is the most FUD bit of this. There's a very easy way for a user to protect themselves: don't download any untrusted applications. Only run code you trust. Don't trust the sandbox that much.

Vulnerabilities like the android MMS one where anyone could send any number an image and pwn it were "as a user you can't protect yourself".

Local roots and things like this require a user to opt-in to being exploited by running a malicious app. That's significantly different and less scary.
My understanding is that 50-60VDC is approximately the voltage at which electricity will arc through a person's chest (i.e. pass through their heart) if they hold a wire in each hand. That makes it unsafe to handle without special insulating equipment. That doesn't mean that 48V is safe necessarily though. If your hand is wet or even just a little sweaty, you can arc from pinky to thumb at ~48V.
Why @taf2 ? setTimeout is asynchronous, code after it will be executed before the function...requestAnimationFrame is for animations.
There's a difference between locked-down-by-Apple and locked-by-you according to your own choices (e.g. Qubes). Being able to run software from others without being completely vulnerable to them is essential to that open ecosystem we want. A free-for-all OS is like a meatspace without private property -- it can work at a small scale.
I've been unemployed (due to illness) for the last few years. Not having the resources to truly take advantage of unlimited free time, whilst also lacking the structure etc. that employment provides, can get _really_ tedious after a while.
I think it would be nice to have an Olympic city. No one could ever agree to it I am sure. But one spot where you could just have the olympics. It could have museums... training facilities... maybe it could generate enough revenue to keep it open all the time.
Wow, not even Firefox support? Hasn't Google heard of something called the open web?
I love it because I can write applications for iOS macOS android windows and have most of the code identical. There is no need of resources to make that easy. Almost too good to be true.
Awesome, thanks for the clarification.

Here's what I'm trying to reconcile: if the idea is to break off the awesome subset of multimedia web tech, because it would be easier to implement than a full browser -- I 100% agree! -- then why is there a need for a new mimetype/format?

Many things could be done better than the current HTML-as-laundry-list approach, but if we invent a new format, that adds the extremely difficult problem of getting everyone on board, rewriting things for it. The brilliance of asm.js (which gave birth to WASM) was that everyone had already implemented it before it existed.
HR does a few things, but mostly they hire and fire. It's unlikely my second experience with HR will be a positive one.
If you've used Chrome, you've used a properly sandboxed app on both. I believe Firefox also now uses the Chrome sandbox on Windows. And this is definitely not routine to accomplish on iOS or Android.