skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that I value one over the other. It's that I observe a dynamic that has persisted throughout human history and see people trying to fight it. Why is right now the time that we should "freeze" language adaptation to save culture? If that's the perspective, why aren't we also trying resurrect Ancient Egyptian language to preserve that culture as well?

Growing up in an area with rip tides, it was always drilled into my head that if I got caught in one and started getting dragged out to sea, I shouldn't fight it. Instead, I should swim parallel to shore until I'm out of the current and can more easily swim back to shore. Just like a rip current, language adaptation due to power dynamics is a reality. You can either accept that and try to make the best of that situation or you can put up a futile resistance.

There's no value system at play just like there's no value system in gravity or rip currents. They're just facts that you accept and integrate into whatever plan you're making.
Hell, us Brits even get to apologise to the US for selling them the TV-show format that got their president elected ;-)
There something enjoyable about all the bad homepages of the 90s. Pictures of people still seem "old" because the frequency you'd get to see how you looked was so stretched out. Even rpeden's first picture is an example of the general "hey, I'm here" pose. Good times, I can only imagine screenshots of square Minecraft houses will be what child of the 10's will look back at as their first dives into Computer-dom.
Sometimes people go on a rant and are shadowbanned, but are otherwise reasonable.
What you're describing is a selflessness, almost the exact opposite, which doesn't get you promoted to that position in the first place
> Make no effort, and your odds of failure are 100%.

That's not true. There are plenty of trust fund kids shopping at Prada.

> Your odds get better and better as you make smarter choices

That is true, of course, but better relative to what? There is enormous variance in the baselines, starting with, for example, whether you live in the U.S. or, say, Bangladesh.
> Wouldn't I then be lucky that we were both in this forum at this time?

As I stated earlier, every detail of one's life is luck, but one chooses to position oneself in situations where one is likely to get lucky.

As for our interactions, I'm not saying anything unique that you cannot find in plenty of other places if you choose to look. If you are out looking, it's highly unlikely you won't run across my views.

In my life, I see people choosing to fail all the time, and they always claim to be victims. I also know many who take responsibility for things that happen to them, the good and the bad. It's empowering for them, as when bad things happen they pick themselves up, figure out what they did wrong, and try to choose better next time.

Do you have a plan for success? Are you executing that plan? If you don't have a plan, or don't execute your plan, how do you expect to succeed?
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The Bill of Rights only restricted the Federal government, until 1897 when SCOTUS began the process of so-called incorporation. It's non-sensical to try to use it as a template for individual rights because that wasn't its primary design. It obviously reflected such notions, but only indirectly and distantly. The Bill of Rights very clearly changed because it's now applied in ways that were not only unforeseen, but presumed to have been impossible given how the Founders understood and designed separation of powers.

That's why debate about the meaning of the text of the Bill of Rights often borders on the absurd. The 2nd Amendment was never about the individual right to own personal firearms because the Federal government never had the power to regulate personal gun ownership until the re-interpretation of its Commerce Clause powers in the 1930s. (Well, in the case of guns sooner with the passage of Prohibition.) But the Federal government did have the very controversial power to control state militias as part of its enhanced (relative to Articles of Confederation) national defense powers, which is why the 2nd Amendment talks about militias and "arms" (i.e. military weapons--see Samuel Johnson's dictionary from the 18th century).

The whole original meaning debate about the 2nd Amendment is ridiculous; for this and a million other reasons--like the fact that conservatives like Scalia and Thomas relied on incorporation doctrines that they previously had despised. That said, the courts have spoken and as a matter of law it creates a personal right. Which is fine by me because the one thing this whole debate should make abundantly clear to people is that we have courts and judges for a reason--people will always disagree about the meaning of a written law; at the end of the day you need a court to, effectively, lay down the law and decide exactly what it means in real situations, and that's the only law that counts. Whether they read the text wrong or right is in a very real sense irrelevant, as long they adhere to consistent principles of justice that are substantially divorced from the politics du jour. It'd be a stretch to say that the recent 2nd Amendment decisions were apolitical or entirely consistent with the conservative justices' legal jurisprudence, but it's not beyond the pale. For someone like me who defends liberal notions like substantive due process, it's hard to complain about the judicial overreach regarding the 2nd Amendment. (What irks me isn't the outcome, but the intellectually hypocritical--nay, dishonest--way the conservative justices got there.)
It is even worse: He will get reelected. :-)
How is it that people are so convinced that guns serve no purpose other than murder of innocent children? This isn't just about obstinately maintaining some "status quo" out of spite for one political party. Guns are tools, and the vast majority of gun owners use them responsibly and more often to positive effect.

Let's put it this way: how many incidents of violence did you NOT hear about because simply brandishing a gun was enough to diffuse a situation or deter a would be criminal?

Please do not presume that this is some black and white issue where simply banning guns would solve all problems with gun violence. The implication that 2A supporters are all psychotic "gun nuts" who choose guns over innocent lives is a slanderous , oversimplified strawman, which only serves to further entrench divisiveness.
Yes. They would arguably have standing to bring a declaratory judgment action, asking a court to invalidate the patent. They should also look for (now relatively common) state law provisions that provide damages for bad faith demand letters.
Everybody holding BTC over the past few months has probably heard about the projects that fork the chain to give everyone 'free money'. However, all these projects are confusing among other things, so a lot of people have put off getting up to speed on the topic. We created a directory that makes it easier to check up on the current state of affairs. We put together a table presentation and maintain dataset see which new coins are most relevant and have the markers of some legitimacy and value by also tracking the exchanges they trade on and some of the technical specifics of individual projects. AMA
That's awesome, but to me it is an example of retro design -- that is, a site made to look as if it was built back then, not something that would actually have been built back then. Still very cool though.
Neither eggs nor apples come in bunches!
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I agree with the 'make your own little kernel' for embedded. supporting those parts of workalike posix for the parts you need and including lwip is really much easier than trying to surgically remove the bulk of linux
Consumer protection isn't just about prices, and antitrust isn't just about consumer protection.

In United States v. Microsoft [0], Microsoft was found to have abused its dominance as the maker of Windows to compete unfairly against Netscape, which was free (as was IE), among others. The "browser wars" was Microsoft blocking entry into a market where the price was already zero.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
A lost opportunity to call this CloudCloud!
If we already have "may contain peanuts" written on a package of peanuts, sure, why not.
> get out and try, and your odds increase enormously.

That is true, of course, but increase relative to what? There is huge variance in the baselines, starting with, for example, whether you live in the U.S. or, say, Bangladesh.
I just updated it with a guestbook that works. :)

First update the site has seen in 19 years.
> the proof is in the housing prices.

I feel like this statement gives more backing to the arguments on luck. Those lucky enough to by an apartment in the peninsula in the 80s, who are gaining the most off of soaring housing costs, are now reaping remarkable 'success' with no proof they predicted, with skill, foresight, or intellect, the housing market of 2018.
I miss the silly 90s microsoft hate, it actually made me look outside the MS bubble and learn other platforms.
Yawzda! I found mine too :O

http://web.archive.org/web/19981205183936/http://www.shadow....
Downvoted.
Yeah, this one's actually in use, which makes it even more interesting. Not sure when it was built though.
Twitter is deeply depressing. Their best feature, lists is lost and goes completely unnoticed. Meanwhile we get moments plus hashtags which link us to literally every minor iteration of the exact same story. A measure of madness?
It’s “surprising” because—assuming the company is correctly valued by the market—the company should become less valuable when the cash is spent. The company doesn’t “get” anything for the money, because the shares it buys, get retired.

Edit: Sorry, I got myself confused and mixed up the total market cap (which should go down) with the share price (which should stay the same, because there are now fewer of them).
> nonsense

I'm happy to tell you the good news that the overwhelming majority young adults in American are not suffering from debilitating health problems nor have their lives been saved by incredible emergency care.
HN user kyledrake started https://neocities.org/ in 2013 and it is going strong.
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perhaps they're storing search results where a user didn't click on anything (ie they didn't find the answer to what they were looking for) so they then investigated what the query "cnn industrial washer" or whatever was about and then fact checked it? Metrics are a pretty normal thing to capture.
Yes, I was referring to market cap.
Mathematical Foundations of Computing by Keith Schwarz:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs103/notes/Mathematical%20Fo...
Clicked "surprise me" and it took me to DopeROMs, a website that I still use periodically.
Once they get some precedent under their belt. They have to do this via small-time operators first because porn people have money.
The Metal and Vulkan APIs are pretty similar. I can imagine a wrapper around the two that doesn't degrade the perf much.

MS does support Vulkan AFAIK.
What they're considering a conversation is entirely too limited then, because the feature appears to do very little.
MoltenVK implements the Vulkan API on Metal: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-...

And as stated in that article, work is also being made to implement Vulkan on DirectX, allowing Vulkan apps to be distributed through the Windows Store (which requires DirectX).

Nintendo Switch supports Vulkan. I expect we'll see Vulkan support quite strongly in the next generation of consoles (besides maybe Microsoft's)
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Yes, indeed you are! You should be buying me a beer in gratitude! And I should leave this forum and work on my plans!
I guess you mean illness as opposed to malicious behaviour. But what human behaviour is not conditioned by biological and environmental factors? There's nobody we can point at and say "this person is evil, not sick, and should actually be held responsible for their behaviour".
Everyone used to use those in their forum signature. Was it flaming text or something? I can’t remember the site we all used!

Edit: found it http://flamingtext.com/
Awesome. Awesome to the max!
Clearly businesses that accept AmEx are considered consumers for that purpose. This is not being debated here.

What is being debated is if there is a two sided market (two separate groups of consumers), should we add a NEW interpretation that requires harm shown for BOTH groups of consumers rather than just ONE group of consumers.

Yes, and this case was showing the price change for businesses that accept AmEx. T
Can american patent trolls equally easy bully companies outside the US?
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The Kickstarter is done, but these guys have an interesting premise in the works:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impellerstudios/starfig...
Probably overpriced given that it's a pretty classic URL. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't snap it up at some point just to tombstone it.
That's about what it costs to draft and file a 12(b)(6) motion to kill the patent at the start of a case for lack of subject matter eligibility under Alice v. CLS Bank.
In case anyone is really bored, I just updated the site for the first time in 19 years and swapped out the broken guestbook for one that works. =)
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Oh my god. This is incredible. The thing that brings me back to the 90s the most is the tiled background on the Links page. I remember agonizing over those textures so hard.
> Though, could a patent troll could get around that by spacing out the trolling? So by the time any company finds another company that's been trolled, they've already paid it up and don't have as much incentive to fight the patent troll after the fact.

That's still a minor win, since it mitigates the amount of damage the trolls can do per unit time.
Your wish is satisfied: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/broca
Thank you! We encourage bad jokes at Cloudrun. Our next project thedarkweb.edu is a site for custom-made blackout curtains.

Our end-users are currently mostly students and those working in academia. For these gals and guys, it can be a PITA to use supercomputers to run weather models. Milan can speak more to this.

However, the potential user is anyone who needs custom weather prediction. Renewable energy, commodities trading, event planning (sports, concerts, etc.) to name a few.

We're hearing about new potential industries all the time! Ideas are welcome!
Transmission is written in c, not python.
Doh! Thanks for the head's-up!
you could get around #1 by using localbitcoins.com, or other private exchange. Though i'm sure the feds are all over it, and I generally view such transactions as a honeypot
There are countries where either persisting in the local language or asking nicely, will meet with a negative response. Take the Netherlands, for example, where 90% of the population is said to speak English now. A foreign novice–intermediate learner trying to practice Dutch in everyday situations is likely to be told “Let’s just speak English and not waste time.” Your attempting to persist with your less-than-fluent command of the local language is interpreted by your interlocutor as disrespect for his time. If you want to learn the local language, you are expected to place the burden on your language teacher, not random shopkeepers etc.
> Germanic and Norman conquests

Whether there was an Anglo–Saxon “conquest” per se is a controversial and fairly interesting historical question. Wikipedia has a summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit...
As someone who lived in NY and went in the late 90s, I paid 5$ for the last couple hours of the day. The person I was with paid a quarter...which I thought was too little.

This forced admission is for out-of-towners, but I feel like its a tragedy of the commons that forced their hand.

I feel like I can only absorb so much art in a day before I have to stop....

edit: Someone noted the admission covers 3 days.
Someone's trying to be GDPR compliant :D
With those caveats in place, absolutely.

In the US, studies have been shown that physicians who own shares in CT (not so much any more, as it becomes almost 'commodity') and MRI (which is a lot, manufacturers approach physicians to form imaging cooperatives) are ordering imaging up at more than 2 standard deviations from expectations.

As noted, MRIs in themselves aren't harmful. But with prices in the four digits in the US... you can easily pay off your $1.5M MRI machine in 18 months and be printing money with your over-imaging.
I periodically experience an existential crisis -- wondering why the hell I'm not spending all my time trying to alleviate climate change.
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@picdescbot is a Twitter bot which uses the same Microsoft Azure Computer Vision API endpoint for image captioning: https://twitter.com/picdescbot

It's more accurate than you'd think, and as this article notes, the mistakes are indeed funny: https://twitter.com/picdescbot/status/968561437126938625
Long, storied history dating back to ... 1977?
I used to say, and believe, such things.

After over 30 years of work, and business, I have become vastly more tolerant and understanding of those who were diligently "out there swinging" until it broke them, and sometimes their families too. There comes a point where anyone will break.

What of those who were swinging improperly due to their year of birth and graduated during a recession? The effect of taking something when jobs are not available can lock them into poorer quality jobs for decades. Earnings for some never catch up over a whole career, at least according to some studies. Potential employers only take interest in your previous role, and current salary, so this isn't unduly surprising.

Of course you have to be "in the game", but the effects of your swings, regardless of how many, are often outwith your control.
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I did slip in "judicious use of insurance". Insuring against bad luck precludes making some additional investments that could take advantage of good luck.

But even so, ancestor post was not referring to people who failed to become millionaires due to bad luck, but the level of wealth one can attain without good luck. For those wealthier, someone can always come along, point to a spot in their life story and say, "here is where you got lucky". It might just be at t=0, when they were born to a statistically unlikely set of parents, but there will be something.

Perhaps Mark Cuban's dog liked the smell of your butt. Maybe you were assigned to be Martha Stewart's cellie in the clink. You wore a particularly ugly sweater during a nationally televised political forum. You lost a lot of weight eating sandwiches from one chain, just as that brand needed a new ad campaign, and they forgot to ask around among your former classmates about your non-dietary habits.

For every lucky break, there are plenty more people who toil away their whole lives and never get ahead. The ceiling for those who never catch a break is far, far below those who got lucky at least once.
Standing strong under HN load.

Which scaleable node js javascript react framework did you build this with?
One of the most important takeaways from this article, is not what the title suggests, but the consequence of it being true for society. It is buried in the middle of the article and if true, is must-reading for everyone who determines public policy or funds startups:

"[I]f the goal is to reward the most talented person (thus increasing their final level of success), it is much more convenient to distribute periodically (even small) equal amounts of capital to all individuals rather than to give a greater capital only to a small percentage of them, selected through their level of success - already reached - at the moment of the distribution."
Nope. And you know I wasn't saying that. The bit I quoted says "public scrutiny".
> these days imagining running linux in 4MB makes me sniggers.

Did you read the article?

> Here it is! Not exactly our target of 512KB of RAM but 768KB is getting pretty close. Some microcontrollers already have more than that amount of available on-chip SRAM.

768 KB of RAM, plus a MB or two for the text sections which are in flash, is not bad. Not quite at the target, a system with 512 KB of ram and 2 MB of flash, but it's close.
Oh no, not another save-the-language story. As with all of them, it takes for granted the assumption that it needs saving but doesn't explain why beyond "cultural heritage". Why do people need to persist the same culture as their parents and grandparents? Whatever good that does should be more than the cost of learning it and using it everywhere. Does anyone know what the good of maintaining a little-used language is?

In my country we have a similar issue except the local language was artificially revived from dead so there's no or almost no unbroken chain of native speakers. There's still debate about how some (English) letters are supposed to be pronounced. They've added useful words, then changed them to sound more authentic. Eg days of the week used to be transliterations from English but now they're references to various native Gods and things. The whole concept of a week didn't exist in the original culture so how can authentic day names exist at all?! It's a big effort with no justification.

It leads to things like this gem of nonsense in an code of practice for electrical work:

"From a Maori perspective, the term “earth” or Papatuanuku translates as Earth Mother – the source of all energy. When aligning this concept to the flow of electricity, a useful parallel can be made to the 3-pin plug."
What about ICOs?
for those who are curious, a teeny bit of googling reveals this to be a hosted version of https://github.com/NCAR/WRFV3, which is a super duper open source numerical computing code base (and the license grant is roughly "this is public domain" but with more words).

i've always wanted to learn about weather simulation models so happy to stumble into this domain
> How many German productions have you seen? How many French?

Quite a few French, actually.
So it's casino chips, but on a computer?
a lot of people think governments are doing these hacks. perhaps they haven't cashed out yet?
>I get that. But how are the hackers who stole / continue to steal from exchanges like in the Mt Gox hack -- and more recently, the CoinCheck[1] -- hack, able to get away with it? See CoinCheck link and quote below. Important takeaway is

It is a good question and I don't have an answer as I don't know many of the details of the Mt. Gox hack. Many details on these hacks are not public. There have been arrests in Mt. Gox BTW.

My favorite quote on this subject is:

1. One possible answer is that the attackers just sit on the coins and don't attempt cash them out see "Bitcoin offers privacy — as long as you don't cash out or spend it".

2. Another possibility is the thieves either live or cashed out in jurisdictions which won't cooperate with investigations.

3. Or as your article states the thieves could attempt to move the coins through privacy coins such as zCash or Monero to hide the final destinations of the coins. However that is a fairly risky proposition, if they make a mistake they are cooked and there are so many mistakes they could make. I don't believe either zCash or Monero offer network level privacy other than TOR and TOR is problematic as it was not designed for cryptocurrencies. Monero is planning I2P support [0].

Then again it could be the case that law enforcement organizations investigating some of these cases don't have the expertise to understand the highly technical evidence they have.

[0]: https://github.com/monero-project/kovri