skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those surprised tend to measure success by intent rather than consequences.
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/59378...

This is really missing a MIDI export! I'm actually kinda digging this little groove I came up with. I will probably take the time to draw this back into Ableton and see where that leads.
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In the same way that I'm "free" to not go into work, I suppose. But that's ignoring the reality that one is forced to work in order to survive.
Nope, that doesn't work. I have it at one (default) and it's still spawning too many processes. I guess it's part of how things work now with FF. You get a snappier experience in exchange of higher memory usage because it's multitasking. If only we could turn that thing off.
Interpreting Privacy Policies with Artificial Intelligence
A big config struct is great, but it comes with a big downside: You have to rely on Go's zero value semantics to provide defaults. It's not always clear that 0 or an empty string means "no value".

It means that sometimes you'll have to use dummy values (-1 for "no value", for example) or pointers (nil means optional). It means that any boolean has to be phrased in such a way that false is the default (so if it feels natural to call the option UseKeychain and it should default to true, you have to invert it and call it DontUseKeychain).

Config structs also means it's easier for a caller to construct invalid configs:

type Config struct {
// Either stream or channel can be set, but not both
OutputStream io.Writer
OutputChan chan Event
}
// ...
pipelines.New(pipelines.Config{
OutputStream: myFile,
OutputChan: myChan,
})

The semantics cannot be guaranteed by the type system, so won't be caught until runtime. Neither will this, of course:

// ...
pipelines.New(
pipelines.OutputStream(myFile),
pipelines.OutputChan(myChan))

...but in this case we can quite sensibly mandate that the following option overrides the previous one, flipping the internal switch over to the setting you specify. With the Config struct, there's no way for pipelines.New() to know which one should have precedence.

(In this particular case, you can work around it by having a single Output field that uses an interface, but there are other situations where mutually incompatible fields can occur.)
>> If teachers can’t be expected to support their family off their income,

Why the f*ck should teachers not be paid enough to support themselves and have a life? Wow.
Exactly. Neither that comment nor its parent said degrees are necessary for education. Both were defending the value of education that extends beyond it's signal to the job market.

The only extent to which people are conflating degrees and education is the empirically obvious observation that most people don't get much actionable education beyond their time in degree programs, individual counterexamples notwithstanding.
The joke is the implication that the Iraq War was a bigger disaster than WW2 and the Holocaust.
Getting down to around 6 MB on modern ARM kernel + minimal userspace is doable at least.
National cybersecurity specialist agency selected PSSC Labs to combat cybersecurity threats.PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High Performance Computing and Big Data computing solutions, announced yesterday it was selected by CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) to help facilitate, manage, securely store and access massive amounts of cyber forensic data by building a custom turn-key cluster server. Read more details at https://latechnews.org/pssc-labs-cybersecurity-malaysia-team...
I can't believe this. Develop a worldwide distributed network. List fast and cheap international transfers as a major selling point. Say that the most effective way of entering or leaving this network requires physically meeting somebody and exchanging cash.

How is this not seen as an outrageous problem?
I understand that. My point is, after years of shoving must-fear-the-Commies down the minds of the American (/West) people, the prefixed was dropped because it didn't fit the narrative; because now there was money to be made. Which goes back to my original point. The only ppl who got it wrong were the politicians, and they're idiots anyway. No surprise.

Yeah, they're still communist. But you'd never know it.
Tamagotchi Tech Specs Collection
And the worst part is that with the removal of the language barrier, people also all start to consume the same media.

And that means US culture starts to affect more and more people.

Already today people that primarily watch english media have significantly different views on driving children to school, or social safety than those who watch primarily media in the local language, even correcting for age, gender, education, etc.

It’s scary to see because it’s means more and more of the broken parts of US culture end up here in Europe as well.
Stop doing this. It is a factor - no one denies that, but it is only one of many factors.

You're trying to elevate one factor above others and derailing the higher conversation people are trying to have here. It's just not productive.
Hi Hacker News,

Author here. I was very recently inspired by this 29C3 talk [0] by Natalie Silvanovich about Reverse Engineering Tamagotchis (which was shared here back in the day [1]), so I decided to create a website to document how Tamagotchis work, from a technical point of view. It is still on an early stage, I'm happily accepting contributions.

Admittedly I'd have never thought this subject would've been that interesting, I'm finding out many projects out there that fascinate me [2].

Hopefully some of you enjoyed the talk too and will find tamagotch.org useful. Feedback is a gift, I'd appreciate hearing your comments!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PkcZScBV8

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4989961

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684482
That's not completely fair. In his latest interview with Gad Saad, he makes the critical distinction between the danger of Salafism/Wahhabism and the relative benign nature of Shiite Islam. He takes offense at "BS vendors" like Sam Harris who lump all of Islam into a fearmongering category.
Ah makes sense. They could have been Uber Black drivers who decided to take a regular Uber fare. That happens sometimes when there are no Uber Black requests active.

I think I'll start asking those with dingy cars how long they've been driving. And I'll ask those with nice cars if they are also Uber Black drivers.
848 ft/sq Home in Sunnyvale Sells for $2MM, setting new price ft/sq record
Quitting to start your own business is lauded in the annals of Americana because it positively reinforces certain tenets capitalism that are valued by the ruling class.

Organizing a labor union however is vilified in American society as it directly challenges the inherent class structure of capitalism. Workers in the past have been beaten, murdered, and imprisoned not because they sought better pay and more amicable working hours, but because they dared to challenge the success and profit of the classes above them.
I added some content making it more useful, thanks for the feedback :)
My sister had the great fortune to work at Wendy's when she was a teenager, and I remember picking her up from work and her absolutely reeking of raw onions, from having to place them on all the burgers. The smell would not dissipate for hours even with intense hand washing.
They can only be biased if they know race/gender/etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_experiment
They don't anymore. That's my point. Now that the big money has rolled in, it doesn't want to be perceived as collaborating with the reds. Ao the media drops the prefix and the money keeps piling up.

The language is no accident.
So.... 'Star Citizen'. I'm a game-maker and I've been following the development of star citizen since its 1st public announcement, before any crowdfunding even.

Even from the very beginning it has looked like an unmitigated clusterfuck. (I decided to hold off funding it, I'm so happy I did) For the initial demo videos it looked like Roberts used his own money to hire artists to make lots of assets for the demo videos in Cry-engine.. Which is grand, makes sense + it worked, they got funded.

But then they continued developing that demo-video project into the full game!!! Which is baffling. The main thing is that Cry-engine is one of the worst engines I could imagine for this type of game, I imagined they'd be fighting it every step of the way and they have been. Another practice theyve had from the start is building the game backwards, Creating (extremely labour intensive) final AAA polished art assets before they've even decided what the mechanics are let alone built and tried them, god only knows how may assets they've had to scrap.
I could go on and on, eg. completely retooling cry-engine to use 64 bit floats. Which must have been a gargantuan task + also completely unnecessary if you plan out your game right. (eg. look at Kerbal space program)
> I think this is emblematic of how tyrannical some of the people subscribing to the prevailing Silicon Valley viewpoint are.

Why invoke the "tyrannical" rhetoric in respect to clicking a "flag" link on a website? It's not that big of a deal. Not everything is an attack by the Silicon Valley elite, all sorts of interesting topics get booted off the front page and there is always someone with a particularly strong opinion in the comments who has to exclaim why their personal issue is the bane of the HN hivemind (a hivemind that underpins a decentralized conspiracy to destroy free speech in order to avoid confronting the unavoidable conclusions of your air-tight argument). Sometimes stuff just gets flagged, it happens on both sides of every controversial topic ranging from blockchains to booth babes.
my favorite space sim game was Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994).

I think they got the graphics just right in that game (lol, "Gouraud shading"!).

It was minimal yet expressive, and felt immersive & real.

* note - I wish development had been completed on 0x10c - I think that would've been a good spiritual successor to TIE Fighter, aesthetic-wise
WebKit exploit write-up
I don’t think that justifies the industry as a whole, but I believe that for the right person at the right time, these books can be of some use. I suspect that the people, such as yourself, who get something out of them would have found what they were looking for anyway however. The commonalities in people who benefit from occasional self help seem to be committed to change, to improvement, and I think that more than anything else is the active ingredient.
>I believe the distributed ledger is public, so anyone (incl. Govt.) can see which wallet address has how much coins / funds in it.

Not only is the wallet address public you can see entire transaction history of each address. Keeping a Bitcoin address separate from your true name is exceedingly difficult.

1. When you trade Bitcoins into fiat money with an exchange you reveal your true name.

2. When you purchase something with Bitcoin you reveal the mapping between your Bitcoin address and your mailing address.

3. Unless you are using TOR when you announce a transaction on the network you reveal the mapping from IP address to Bitcoin address.

4. When someone sends you Bitcoins they can track how those Bitcoins and spent and what Bitcoin addresses they are moved to.

5. Companies have large databases of known identity to Bitcoin address mappings allowing process of elimination or guilt by association privacy attacks.

"Bitcoin offers privacy—as long as you don't cash out or spend it" - PC World

Disclaimer: I do Bitcoin privacy research.
It depends if you're trying to make your UI consistent with other apps on the platform, or consistent across platforms.
Very good comment! Social media companies present themselves as better (technical solutions for) commons. Their identities show this: face book, (bird) tweets...

I don't want to be mean, but the actual situation makes me think that they are sort of new parasites for the commons (seen as an organism), sort of a cymothoa exigua [0] of public speech.

Since a comment like yours is so rare, I tweeted it :) [1] and I plus it with a post [2] I wrote after looking for laws concerning cultural genocide. Because, dramatic or not, that's the reality of the phenomenon, sadly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
[1] https://twitter.com/mbuliga/status/969646621981138946
[2] https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/genocide-as...
The Tech Worker's Coalition organized a protest outside Lanetix's office this morning; it had good turnout.

Edit: Check out https://techworkerscoalition.org/ if you're interested in joining future actions.
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It’s not so simple. In a perfect market, the market value of the company will go down when company buys back stock. Why? Because the value of the cash is now gone. So in your example, each stockholder just owns a slightly larger piece of a slightly smaller pie.

Of course markets are not perfect, and nobody knows for sure if the market value of the company is fair or not. When a company engages in stock buybacks, it’s essentially saying that it believes its stock to be undervalued, which is why stock buybacks sometimes have the surprising effect of elevating the stock price, at least in the short run. After all, who has better information about the company and its prospects than itself?

But as they say, the market is a voting machine in the short run, but a weighing machine in the long run. If it turns out that the market value of the company is higher than its intrinsic value, then stock buybacks are actually destroying shareholder value. The cash would have been better spent buying shares in an index fund.
The iPhone X notch is spreading for no good reason: MWC 2018
Pointing out that satire is, in fact, not a correct recounting of events makes them less credible?
It's interesting... there's an anecdote floating around out there somewhere about a famous wrestling coach (quite likely Dan Gable[1]) talking to a group of young wrestlers and telling them something approximately like:

"Most of you have the genetics to be an Olympic wrestler. But most of you don't have the work ethic".

Of course that's just an amusing anecdote and there's no reason to think that Dan Gable is an expert on genetics. But it's something to think about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gable
Just an FYI, FastText's default implementation handles OOV words via word n-grams and character n-grams. (see switches -minn, -maxn, and -wordNgram)

https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/options.html
why was the title editorialized? I think it's quite important that the results are in the title.
I think that the point was that everyone can make conscious choices that will lead to millionaire status. Avoidable mistakes can derail that, but cautious living can eliminate the luck factor.

Anyone born in the US, regardless of social status or ability, can become educated as an electrician, gain work experience up to master status, then incorporate as a subcontractor business to employ both less-experienced and less-ambitious electricians. Between the value of the business and index fund investments, and judicious use of insurance, that person will be a millionaire (by net worth) by the time they reach age 65.

If you choose to work at McDonald's when you graduate high school instead of the journeyman program of IBEW Local X, or even choose a less valuable skill in the building trades, the path is more difficult, more competitive, and less forgiving, but is still theoretically possible. If you go to college and get an engineering degree, the path is easier, but requires more up-front investment. If you go to college and get a degree in art history, that might be one of those avoidable mistakes that I mentioned earlier.

One of the decisions that must be made is "how many children will I support?" If you want to be a millionaire, the correct answer is zero. If you abandon completely the idea of raising children, you can certainly be a millionaire by the time you retire. The process will usually include establishing yourself as a small-business owner with near-guaranteed local demand. Most professions simply do not earn enough to provide sufficient margins for savings and investment unless you also employ the labor of someone besides yourself.
<insert comment about the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq, or any other thing>
Seems to be working out well for MOMA for years, and it's a much smaller museum.
Yep! It was probably overstepping on my part to say that the entire benefit depends on that argument. I should instead have said that the tradeoff does not seem good to me.
> Mugging is an easy one, meet in public.

That doesn't quite solve the problem. Who is holding the cash when the "send" button is pressed? If it's the bitcoin seller, then he can run away instead of hitting "send".
And if it's the buyer, then he can run away the moment it's pressed. Sure, you may shout "stop the thief", but they're experienced in making a quick get-away...
Only among those who are invested in them being discredited. To everyone else, their work is as accurate and credible as it always has been.
Which the company now has to prove in court. What is your point?
Has the Phone Industry Hit a Roadbump?
So a ruse is ok? Given the blah blah blah about freedom, liberty, democracy, etc. I don't think so. At least the communists are honest.

Regardless, the point isn't what some other gov does or doesn't do. The point is the US is being sold snake oil. That doesn't need any comparison. BS is alway BS. Lip stick doesn't make it any less so.
Why on Earth would software engineers want to unionize? These people should be chased out of the industry. They just don’t get it.
It's correlation. The cause is rationed access to the cultural - never mind the economic - resources needed to get into a graduate program.

Success after the program is an effect - and partly down to luck, as the SA article suggests.

Of course you'll have problems if you don't have a high school diploma. But by the time you've failed to get your diploma, the chances are excellent that your access to resources will have been severely constrained and rationed for your entire life, even if you start off with exceptional talents.
Back in the 90's, we used to scoff at the idea that the internet would be subject to widespread censorship - "the internet detects censorship as damage and routes around it" was what we used to say. It's starting to look like not only were we wrong, but that the internet is shaping up to be the ultimate censorship tool.
Sorry about the paywalled link. Here is one that should be freely accessible. http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/keith.chen/papers...

I agree that the mean and median could in principal be this far apart, but it would require a lot of skew in the data (small number of very high value trips -- seems possible).
Mostly his blanket dismissal that anyone who is not from his particular background could have anything meaningful to say about risk/statistics/trading. All academics are ivory tower intellectuals, all politicians are corrupt flunkies, everyone else not ruthlessly optimizing for optionality and/or skin in the game is stupid or incompetent or both.

What really ruined Antifragility for me was his apparent inability to make his point without insulting the intelligence of some central banker and/or professor literally every other paragraph.
What's special about the second 20 hours that they make no difference? Does the 39th hour make a difference? The 41st?
Well, they wouldn't come out and say that it was due to illegal reasons.

Now, we can't prove intent, but we can look for evidence that supports their statements. Such as, if other non-engineers were laid off, if these engineers are eligible for rehire, if only people who signed the petition were let go, or if there are open positions for engineers on their website, etc.
Venus all by itself is minimal. These planets would be closer and there'd be a lot more of them. If they're supposed to be Earth-like they'd also have clouds, making them reflect more like than airless worlds like the Moon does. I bet there would be a measurable effect.
Facebook was threatening putative actions against the satire site domain on the basis of the "False" Snopes rating, and Facebook was reducing the reach of the satire article in question and showing warning popups before users could click to the article.

So it was more than just a marking.

As of a few minutes ago, a Facebook spooksperson said "This was a mistake and should not have been rated false in our system. It’s since been corrected and won’t count against the domain in any way"
The only thing that's "Pretty crazy" is this idea that giving free reign to the Nazis and the trolls represents an "embrace of free speech." Americans really don't understand their own history. Free speech has nothing to do with letting the most vile elements of society and hostile foreign nations deploy bots to spread as much hate and fear as possible.

I think the key change here is how completely radicalized even the mainstream has become. This popular defense of actual neo-Nazis would be unthinkable even just 20 years ago. But now we see the power of common interests (ending all immigration) and the terminal logic of "the enemy of my enemy."
Fake not-plastic trees: Lego switches some parts to plant-based polyethylene
Many people deny this, so I think it is an important part of the higher conversation and inherently productive to discuss.

People tend to think luck is heavily about positioning yourself to succeed.

I think that's true, but I also believe that the most important factors to putting you in those lucky positions are not in your control.

Someone who is not already born into a lucky position has to get even more lucky to succeed.

You telling me to simply stop talking about something that I believe is an important point to make is very strange.
takes a serious turn quickly:

"Where do people like Kenneth Eng come from, and where do they go after their virality pops like a soap bubble? Surely they differ. But Kenneth Eng came from mental illness, to which he returned. How many other people we gawk at are like him?"
It could be Softbank forcing it -- they're known to overfund a round as a take-it-or-we'll-go-to-your-competitor tactic.
I expect you are correct in that. I wonder if a similar mechanism inside academia could be an explanation for the very phenomenon I was wondering about. Thanks for pointing that out!
Are you suggesting the borrow checker adds instructions? I feel the meaning of my comment was pretty clear to mean “strictly compile time”.